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TUESDAY, APRIL 19. 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
A FOOL ALWAYS FINDS ONE STILL
Boileau.
静静
VALEDICTORY.
COLONY BIDS MR. BIRD
FAREWELL.、
One of the Colony's oldest and The P. and O. steamer Kashgar, most prominent residents, and one from Hongkong, arrived at Lon-who has served its interests well, don on April 16, at p.m.
leaves to-morrow on the Empross of Russia on retirement, and the community generally will lose a valued member. We refer to the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird, one of the heads of the well-known firm of Palmer and Turner, architects, and a member for some years of the Legislative Council."
a loyal and faithful" disciple of Sun Yat-sen than those with whom he has broken and we think it would be wrong to expect him to be otherwise. He, has purged MORE FOOLISH TO ADMIRE HIM. tho territory under him of what he thinks is the canker and is doubtless hoping that something will happen up at Hankow whereby the Communist element there will also be eliminated. Of course, the North remains where it did, Aghting against the inroads of the South, and, apparently, with a fair measure of success at the moment. Peking must be looking on with a lot of secret satisfaction at the Southern split-a split behind which there is a very genuine hate between certain of the leading It is said that personalities. Marshal Chiang and M. Borodin are the central chemies.
As from yesterday members of the Hongkong Police will be dressed in summer uniform during daylight hours.
Among those returning to the the s.s.. President Taft were Mr. Colony yesterday from Manila by George Hogg and Mr. M. M. Maas.
The weather forecast for the 21 hours ending at noon to-morrow la: N.E. winds, moderate: overcast, with drizzle er mist at first, finer
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During the five days covered by the Easter holidays, there were But, what of the general posi-four Chinese cases of typhoid Tever reported. Otherwise, there tion of China vis-a-vis the Powera? was a clean bill of health. Against whom are sanctions to be taken for non-satisfaction over the Nanking affair? Will Mar shal Chiang consider himself out
The Very Idea!
An aged Scotsman was on his death-bed. His parish clergyman urged, upon him the necessity of preparing for the future life, and spoke of the near approach of the time when he would have to appear before the "King of Terrors."
"Weol, week,” replied the old Scot, "an' what for should I be afraid to moot. the King of Terrors? Hae I no lived with the queen of them for the lust thirty years?"
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Suggested verse for bookdenders; If thou art borrowed by d'
friend
Right welcome shall he bo To read, to study, 'not to lend
But to return to me.
Mr. Bird's family has, indeed, done more for Hongkong than is perhaps realised, for its connexion with the Colony goes back to the carly days. In 1857 an uncle of Mr. Bird, who was in the Royal
The Shanghai House of a well Engineers, arrived here, and later occupied the post of Surveyor Gen-known firm of manufacturing chem eral, in 1865, in which year he was ists received the following cuble joined by another uncle who will from the London Office after the recent fighting."Hope you Aro no doubt be remembered by some of the older residents. Mr. H. W. safe and well" The reply cabled Bird came out when that uncle left, back was-Johnny Walker"! and was afterwards joined by his
That's the spirit! brother, Lt. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., who remains to carry on the family tradition.
It is a bit of old history to reenil that Mr. Bird's two uncles were the
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That delightful custom of seren" ading which has always been regarded as a particular attribute of the Mexican-happily appears to be experiencing a revival in Mexico,
side the scope of any diplomacy will take the saluto at His Majesty first to survey the City of Victoria or at least in the National Capital
and the Kowloon Peninsula. They' lived together in a matshed on the of the Republic.
Now, quite contrary to the very sito of the present railway station. romantic but very unfaithful con- Of Mr. Bird's work for the ception of the Anglo-Saxon, seron-
C.B.E., will arrive in Singapore on G.C.M.G., Sir Hugh Clifford, the morning of the 3rd June. Aftor being sworn in, Sir Hugh Clifford
the Klug's Birthday parade. which may be achieved in Bunkow, and how can Mr. Eugene Chen Motor cycle, No. 877 ridden by A. and the Hankow party now claim Hamid, knocked down a Chinesc to speak in the name of "Nation-boy in Queen's Road East yester Colony the best monuments are theading docs not take place In
day. The boy, who was injured alist" China when so large a part in his head and leg, was sent to of the country is cut of their the Government Civil Hospital. hands? They hayo, temporarily It is now announced at least, even fest Canton, their Chinese Post Office in Shanghai And so, it would he has resumed the parcels and
muter.
that the
many buildings which he designed.
a moondrenched garden, with the It will be recalled that this was mentioned in the eulogistic refer-lad softly strumming his guitar ences made to the departing citizen while the fair one sits on the bal- and member of Council at the last cery and listens enraptured.
least it doesn't in Mexico. Council meeting on March 31. Ad- dressing the gathering, H. E. the
At
For him who would serenade,
there are four requisites: first, o
Zhongkong Telegraph.ossible to go on asking urgent heavy printed matter service. It calling some of the buildings Mr. "novia" (the girl); second, com-
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1927.
NEW PROBLEMS.
Governor said in the course of de-
panions similarly inclined and Bird had been responsible for: and vital questions arising out of service to ports, on the Yangtsze.
similarly possessed of "nevias"; The monuments of Mr. Bird's third, someone who can play the the Nationalist split-questions which must be seriously exercising the Helena May Institute, on Mon-seen as we look around us.
There will be a public Lecture at activities in Hongkong may be guitar; and forth, a permit from
Hethe Inspector General of Police. the minds of the Powers and all day, 25th April, at 5.30 pm. Rev. is a Fellow of the Royal Institute This last requirement, while ob- others who hope for a speedy WT. Featherstone will speak on of British Architects and during viously militating against roman- restoration of peace and good "Some social and Industrial changes 36 years he has been engaged in ticism is of prime necessity.
19th and 20th Centuries." building up this Colony....I men
A typical permit reads: "This order in China. For the moment Advt.
tion only some of the principal office concedes permission to Senor works on which Mr. Bird has been to sing, songs in this precinct complicated
His record is one off from 1 am. to 5 am, to-day, sub-... Chinese situation has now arisen. at any rate, they must be left in
The band of the 1st. Cameroni-engaged. because of the division into two question form until the latest
ans will, by kind permission of which any man may well be proud ject to all police regulations." of the hitherto united Nationalists, grientation of forces and personalLieut.-Col. E. B. Ferrers, D.S.0. and of which we in this Colony are
and officers, play at the Star proud." Theatre to-night, and, with a còm- plete change of programme, to- morrow. The big film features Viola Dana in Her Fatal Mil- lions."
An
more even
ties settles into definite shape.
Mr. MacDonald and Labour. There is more than general in-
at
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A motorist who was summoned at Weadstone wrote that he could not attend the court as he was married now,
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Womun at Barigor: He came for me just like a lion from its cage.
County Court judge at Mansfield:
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It may be added that Mr. Bird was also the architect who designed and supervised the erection of the Hongkong section at Wembley.
The concluding portion of His found on Excellency's remarks say MacDonald has been banned Over the holiday period thero echo in the hearts of Council mem- as treasurer for the International were 82 arrivals and 79 dapar-bers present, and they will be en- Labour Party. This decision was tures, the British contribution be- dorsed by all who realise the ser- upheld by
majority of ing 34 and 28 respectively. This vice Mr. Bird has done to the Co- go to law. * 'three to one
morning's returns gave 18 arrivals lony and the community. and 10 departures, of which six readers will join us in wishing him conference Leicester. It Indientes clearly his and three respectively were Bri- the best of everything in his re-Willesden: loss of "popularity in a section of tish, leaving 78 vessels in harbour politics where he was once upon of which 33 were British. a time the idol, of whom, great things were expected. It revives For plucking flowers in the the old question as to Mr. Mac-Botanical Gardens yesterday, INTER-AMERICAN LAW Donald's bona fider so far as La bree Chinese were fined $25 each bour interests. are concerned, or one month's hard labour. Mr. When he was appointed Premier H. Green, of the Botanical and
the I. L. P.
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Prospective mother-in-law.
I offered my son-in- tirement, and many years of enjoy-law-to-be the money for the wed- ment of his well-earned leisure. ding, but he said that it was not
convenient just then.
CONFERENCE.
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Solicitor at Clerkenwell County Court: My suit is marked with the date on which it was supplied. Registrar Friend: Thank good- ness mine is not. I should have a fright.
and it is difficult at the moment to forecast the trend of events for the immediate future. While the South remained united against the North there were definite | Lerest in the report that Mr. Ram- factors always ful sight-the cam- paign against foreign influence and the "Warlords" of the North, but now that the South has sub-nearly divided, the line-up is" not only different in parties but also different in purpose. The Nation- alists, or the Kuomintang, have always been staunch supporters of the "labour" movement the so-called democratie left wing of the country. The fact that there in the experimental Labour Gov- Forestry Department, informed has never been any democratic ernment, he showed a good deal his Worship that recently there of ability, and gained the appro-have been quite a good few in- political machinery has
Here is an unconventional view never bation even of those who did not stances of Chinese plucking dow
of religion, as quoted from a pros- deterred the Cantonese from wear-agree with him politically
This ers.
Rio de Janeiro, April 18.
perous squatter by an Australian. ing the label of labour liberators. I was due chiefly to his moderation,
Thirty delegates representing correspondent of the Scotsman:-
"I subscribe to all the churches," And in the fight for democracy, the and admitted hostility to extre-
mism of all kinds. Inevitably, sinner of Defence in Shanghai, the United States, Central and
"After all, one Southerners have chosen to pro- perhaps, it led to accusations that has issued instructions to South American States, are attend he told me once. [eced against the autocratic war- he was not genuinely a Labour ordinates to hold memorial
Bering the cougress of jurists for the of them's pretty sure to be right, Jorda, foreign "imperialists" and man at heart, and instances of his vices for the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen condification of American inter- but I never know which, and per- alleged leanings towards the up-every Monday at the Lunghan national law, under the presidency haps the right one'll put in a good all labour-employing persons and per classes were brought forth. ramen. The ceremonies will con
of the Foreign Minister Manga-word for me some day."
There are some who take the institutions. They early on em- Unfortunately, the Liberal and sist of the reading of the will of heira.
Kingdom of Heaven by storm, but braced with almost loving arms Conservative press to a certain the deceased leader and bowing t
The items on the agenda include many, I think, succeed on the pri extent played up to this belief. his photograph.
the preparation of a code of inter- mitive principle of throwing mud the Communists sent from Mos-The most damaging blow to Mr.
national and private civil law, theat'a wall. Besides, what about the cow and they have in many things
organisation of a Pan-American rich man and the eye of the needle? Union, the declaration of interna- copied the Communist form of
tional legal rights and duties both procedure. But now the deminant
personal and natural, and of the military personality in the South- a well-known capitalist. Since his
principle of responsibility of the American Republics with regard
MacDonald's wining popularity with his following was the revela- tion of an arrangement whereby, he was given the use of a car by
brief Premiership; this Labour
Gen. Pei Chung-hsi, the Commis-
TRIED TO DEFRAUD.
CHINESE WOMAN'S TRICK. A Chinese woman was sentenced
UNIFYING INTERNATIONAL
CODE.
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Four more "howlers."
ern ranks has fallen out with leader has shown constant solici- to three month's hard labour br to foreigners; also measures for of his epistles.
GOLD "CHARMS.”
SENTENCE FOR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.
We know that St. Peter was crucified with his head downwards because he mentions it in several The word sermon comes from the too late, and Latin "serro," "monio," I warn, being a warning coming too late.
The Mediterranean and the Red Sea are joined by the Sewilgo Canal.
People are vaccinated by being articulated with lint.
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the "Reds," there is, in place of tude for his party's interests, but Mr. R. E. Lindsell; this morning, maintenance of peace and the solu one party, two parties with head-always as an opponent of Com- for trying to pass off a hair pin astion of inter-American differences. quarters at Hankow and Nanking munism. His reputation as a La-gold in a pawnshop in Shaukivan,Reuters American Service.
bourite heart and soul has never when the article offered was in respectively.The party at Ilan-recovered from the undermining fact white lead with a thin gold kow is definitely of the same influences that have been at work.coating. She was also charged colour and complexion as the old Nevertheless, it is doubtful whe-with the possession of another ther he need care. Moderate La-similar pin with intent to defraud. Canton clique; avowedly Com-bour is likely to prevail in the Evidence was given by Sergeant munistic, anti-foreign, anti-North. long run, and with the rank and Meadows to the effect that one of
A dear old Indy made it her buaf- Headed by Borodin, the personali-file of the less extreme element the pawnshops in Shaukiwan was
nega to visit the poor patients in Mr. MacDonald will always hold actually victimised by ́ ́a 'similar tles there make a powerful array his premier position. In any case. article some days ago. On that
the hospital. On one occasion she party which makes use of ac-occasion $7 was advanced against unlawful possession of two gold vidual who was sitting up in bed, Two Chinese were charged with approached in much-bandaged indi- knowledged aristocrats and capi- the pin.
charms (one was described ud af and after a little preliminary tall, The defendant was arrested solid gold Indian Rhudda) before she said to him very sympathetical- complain of a man because he kept pin in a different shop. It appears Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning... ris bead and had the strength of that the shop was willing to mind to say nay to the call of the immoderaten. Britain has still plenty of use for men such as he
of well-known men, who for years have been foremost in the Canton
994 3 targe† Parliament, has little rozson to when she tried to pawn another ferment. And there
military forces under their con- trol in the central portion of China, and It remains to be been what their next action will be.
talists to advance. It cause in
The first man said that he was suppose your wife must miss advance 80 on the pin but the de- asked by the second defendant to you a good deal?"
"No, mum," came the prompt re- fendant's anxiety to obtain the take the charms to a pawnshop. money led the pawnshop attendant and the second defendant inform- ply; "she's got a wonderful aim for to test the pin which was founded his Worship that he found the to be made of white lead.
charms on the beach in Telegraph The woman's story was that the Bay.
a woman,
As regards Marahal Chiang Kai-shek and his loyal military subordinates in Shanghai, Canton
The principal tenant of No. 17,. A message from Harbin, dated Apr 10th says that Contrade pins were given to her by another Aaked by His Worship why he and the coast ports, we think it Learn, the Soviet Consul-General woman who owed her money. Net did not take it to the Pawnshop Square Street, second floor, was would be wrong to assume that is now conferring with other men being familiar with the ways of a himself the second defendant said this morning ned 850 or four they are much less "Nationalist" bers of the staff of the Consulate Pawnshop she received some in- that when he picked it up he weeks' hard labour for keeping u
on questions relating to China. It structions as to how she should
of Sam than the Hankow party, excepting fa expected that the Russian em- pawal the pins. She was to call thought it was brass but his friend gaming house. When police off-
his: friend to men engaged in games that they will suffer no Com- ployees of the Chinese Eastern at different shops and to accept insisted that it was gold. He cers raldod the place they found take it to a pawnshop to find outing and Ma Cheuk Six other men were charged. In connexion munism, no "Red" labour tyranny Rallway will go on a general strike anything between $6 and $7 for therefore allowed
inthe event of diplomatic tach pl and no armed civilian forces relations between Rusdin andis Worship, asked if that whether his conviction was cor with the raid Major C. Willaon imposed fines of $3 on each of Russians and Russian influenco China' being severed. The situa- friend could be produced but was
The first man was sentenced to them-excepting-one- who satisfied are hated and have been dethroned. tion is tense, and Russians resid-informed that she had just gone
ing in Harbin are making pre- tos Canton. He passed sentence two week's hard labour and the His Worship that he was not gam
bling. second man three weeks. 'But Chiang claims to be no lesa parations for evacuation.
as stated above.
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rect.