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THURSDAY.
APRIL 21,
DAY BY DAY.
HEAVEN SENDS US GOOD MEAT, COOKS.-- BUT THE DEVIL SENDS
YOUcutive and directing its policy MUST stand the trade unions, Mr. Mit- OWN IT chell, true to the tradition of free- dom in which he was bred, refuses to answer for himself to anybody | Garrick. but his constituents, and the Exe- cutive has told him that if he persists, another candidate will be put in Puisley. A similar pros pect, though for a different reason. threatens another independent Labour member, Mr. Frank Rose, the member for Aberdeen.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21 1987,
TRADE UNION TYRANNY.
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The B.I. steamer Santhia; which here to-morrow evening. left Singapore on Sunday is due
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ST. GEORGE'S DAY CELEBRATIONS.
The Very Idea!
AT HOME TO SERVICE MEN.
It was Children's Day in a small country community in The varied suggestions for the|Oregon. The very young and in- celebration of St. George's Day experienced minister seemed to bo put forward at the annual meet somewhat disconcerted by the row ing of the St. George's. Society, of little boys and girl in their. The 8.5. Empress of Asia left have been fully discussed by the starched best who sat in front
new committee, we were informed him. After several starts, which Yokohama to-day and is due to by Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., the facemed to get him nowhere, he reach Hongkong on Thursday Bext.president of the Society, this suddenly stopped, clasped his morning, and it has been decided bands, raised his eyes to heaven, There were two fresh cases of that the best interests of the fand with a beatitic smilo said: small-pox reported yesterday (one Society enn be served by enter-["And what is so sweet as the face
of a little upturned childr imported), both the sufferers be-taining service men.
There was also one ing Chinese., Japanese ease of typhoid fever.
grows This morning's Tinrbour Office Reports gave 11 arrivals and 19 departures, of which four and 12 respectively were British; leaving
62 vessels in harbour, of which 29 were British.
provided.
honour of the English patron saint On Sunday a special service in
will be held at St. John's Cathedral
at eleven o'clock.
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"I'm in the dark about this bill," She told the gas man, plain.
"I haven't got the money." Now
She's in the dark again.
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William Wright, ¿ wealthy
gone a disquieting experience in consequence of a mistake made by himself.
He discovered, as he thought, a deficit of £12,000 in his books, and, being afraid of bankruptcy and, perhaps, arrest, he led to Halifax, Canada.
There are unmistakable signs that Labour members of character
The President and Committee and Individuality are becoming
will ny a wreath at the Cenotaph growingly restive under the intoler-
From 2.15 p... till 7 at 9 a.m. ant rule of the party "bosses." His Excellency the rotiring Highp.m. the commitees and members Commissioner, Sir L.N. Guillemard, will be "At Home" to sailors and The situation is becoming intoler-was the guest of members of the soldiers in uniform at the Queen's able, remarks a Home jougrial, as Malayan Civil Servico at a farewell Theatre, where films will be the persecuting Intolerance of dinner in Kuala Lumpur last night.shown, and other entertainment tradeaman, of Borne, has under- politien! trade unionism more marked. Labour members are being robbed of their mental freedom, and it will be a very bad thing indeed for Labour if the party
Parliament becomes in nothing more than a pack of well- drilled monentitles. That was the curse of the old Irish Parliamentary Party, and it is something of a blight on the rank and file of the Conservative Party. But it is the Twenty fishermen's nets, valued last kind of thing desired for a at $80, which were left in the water at Deep Water Bay, were stolen party of liberal thought and pro-overnight, according to a report gressive ideas. If this tyranny of received at the Aberdeen Iplice the trade unions persists, the party
Station.
will inevitably lose some of its very ablest nien. Indeed, it might be said that the exodus has already begun.
Earthquakes.
A boatman was drowned in Shau- kiwan harbour yesterday, while diving to examine his boat, which was submerged under seven feet of water. The body has not been recovered.
Hotel.
These will be the only activities under the auspices of St. George's Society, but it was pointed out to A warrant for his arrest was
representative our
thut St issued by the Swiss police, and George's Day dances are to be Wethli, on landing in Canada, was on Saturday night at the taken to prison pending an ex- held Peak Club and at the Hongkong tradition order. An expert then examined his books, and found One of the suggestions which that there was 110 deficiency has evoked much comment recent-whatever, and that Wethli had
was that a community singing made a mathematical mistake. concert should be held in the A second cublegram to Halifax open air, and Mr. Alabaster said liberated Wethli, and he is ex- that committee had been think-pected to return home soon to re- ing of using the Cricket Club|join his distracted wife.
Un- purpose. Fround for the The following ships were ex-settled weather recently cast a Totttenham man: I am nearly pected to be in wireless communi- doubt on the prospects, and the guilty. Magistrate: Nearly guilty! cation with Hongkong to-day: Society had therefore thought it What do you mean? Man: Well, Clara Jebsen, Van Houts, Chaks better to entertain the troops at I was going to do what the police- san. Calulu, Janus, Laisang. Bin- the Queen's Theatre in the afterman says I did when he stopped Lame Kwaisang, Empress of noon, rather than run the risk of Russia. Rhexener, Yuensang, the failure of the outdoor fune- Kotso Maru, Honolulu Maru, Kisotion. Alara, Susana No. 2 Hermelin,
From Yaumati it is reported that yesterday, after attacking his concubine with a chopper, a mum living at No. 217 Shanghai Street, turned the weapon on himself and was subsequently removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital in a critical condition. The woman, who was only slightly cut, was not detained at the Hospital,
The recurrence of severe earth- quake shocks at Manila, in which several buildings have been crack- of recalls that the Philippines lie along the volcanic, zone of the Pacific which extends from north of Japan, through the Nipponese islands and Formosa, and down to- wards the Dutch Indies. This line Some little time ago in this is probably equivalent to a crack in the earth's crust, representing a eolum reference was made to the weak or strained part of the sur fact that the Labour party at Home face, similar to the crack which would occur were a loaf of bread was so ruled by the trade unions bent over in the hands,
Earth A very happy gathering of the that it was virtually impossible for tremors occur no definitely within members of the Indian Division. the party, as a political force, to the specific areas of volenie dis-St. John Ambulance Brigade, look turbance, that one can nowadays place yesterday afternoon in the exercise the freedom it should calculate fairly easily what the grounds of the Indian School, Bossess. Labour members of Par-changes are of a certain place es where a ten party was held in pheno- honour of Mr. A. el Arculli, liament are far too much under the caping any such natural
mena. Thus Hongkong, fortun- Division Superintendent, who is power of the unions and we saw ately. is outside the Zone, shortly to proceed on a tour to that in the case of last year's gen-though near enough to be affected India, Europe and U.S.A. Several eral strike and the prolonged coal by unusually big upheavals. In a felicitous speeches were made. strike no Labour M.P. could dare express his personal opinion about. or otherwise of
the worthiness
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It has been decided to revive the annual ball and it will be held on the old date, Twelfth Night, January (th, 1928.
BOOK REVIEW,
AN EXCELLENT FIRST EFFORT.
"SUN AND MOON" BY VINCENT GOWEN DUCKWORTH, LONDON.]
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Willesden magistrate: You have sworn to love, honour, and obey your husband. Wife: The fra wo, yes; but no wives obey nowadays.
Man at Willesden: The doctor told me three years ago that I could not live long, and he gave me some medicine that was no good at all.
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Solicitor at Bow County Court: You saw your landlady; what did she do? Tenant: She talked for ten minutes. Solicitor: And then? Tenant: She went on talking..
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Another little girl, having had.
Despite the gaudy, pictorial
Nottinghamshire solicitor: Time- "jacket," which utterly belies its purpose, "Sun and Moon" is an pieces do not exist for a loving excellent novel recounting the couple who are absorbed in court- dramatic story of two Englishing. city like this, where there is so
children brought up Chinese fash- much hillside building and erabunk-
Children are a warning to those This we under- Yesterday's Macao sailings were ion in Pekingg. ing a severe earthquake could do disorganised by fog, both the Sui stand, is a first novel, and a re-whose articulation is faulty or who considerable damage. Swatow Tai and Sui An missing a trip.markable one in that she writer do not pronounce distinctly. For may be mentioned, however, as an The Sui An remained at Marno and knows his Chinese, their stoma example, a little girl taken to her hose strikes without running the inlanée of a place which suffered this Sui. Tai at Hongkong, delayed and their characteristics. Grant- first concert heard a well-known risk of being called a "traitor" if, few years ago from a quake, by the thickness of the weathered the somewhat improbable con- song of Burns sung. At the close though fairly outside the prescribed Owing to this temporary suspen- ception of the father of the ohil she asked, "Ma, what did the by any chance, he happened as a area of volcanic disturbance. Onsion, the Sui An reported being fall dren, an ex-Commissioner of Cus gentleman mean about "The Green- free thinking inan to disagree with the whole, no place is really free many hours before sailing time toma, having entirely "gone Chin- grocer's Ashes?"" the unions. We are glad to see in from tremors, some of which, such and loft Maead at noon, instead of ese," yet there remains much in
44 these in Derbyshire a few
2 p.m. according to schedule. She the book really worth while. The the Lord's Prayer repeated to her this connexion a growing “revolt" | years ago, are due to local displace will arrive here during the after-author, has an astounding and in-several times somewhat careless- by Labour members of Parliament-ta of underground layers on a
noon. The Sui Tui left here for timate knowledge of the familyly, surprised a listener to her against the tyranny of the unions and earthquakes habitually occur, service now being resumed.
large scale. Wherever volcano Macao at 2 p.m. to-day, the full life of the Chinese and is thus evening orisons by beginning thus, able to depict in no uncertain "Our Father's white shirt in. Quite recently Dr. Haden Guest the population grows used to peri-
manner the conflict in the mind Heaven." resigned his sent as a Labour mern-odical suffering, and even grim
of the father as to the future of her for the reason that he did not
his children. agree with the party's attitude te- wards the China crisis hut, of a different character and a far more important nature so far as the party is concerned, are the latest differences which some of its more ¡independent members have had with unions in their particular areas. Mr. Rosalyn Mitchell, the Labour Member for Paisley, who has just dared to defy the pressure of trade
caleniate that the world is union opinion and to think for him-increasingly able to volcaniz self, is an able and eloquent man. disturbances year by year,
coincident with the In this dispute with the unions there is a big principle involved, the principle of whether member of Parliament ir ponsible to his constituents for his
This is the first organised visit is the prejudice, not of the nasty to the spot for more than four people, but of the nice people.~ nets and words, or whether he is
Sir-Will you please allow me years, the annual excursions, hav-Lord Balfour of Burleigh. just an automaton whoso strings
to enter a few lines in your daily lug been stopped by order of the are pulled by the party to which he
paper on behalf of the Cameronians authorities, owing to the activity Special permission belongs, which in the case of the LINGNAN LABOURERS. Road on Tuesday night. We were had first to be obtained for a re-
who attended the Y.M.C.A., Peking of pirates. Labour party is a party ruled by trade union tenders.
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Mr. Mitchell first roused the anger of the building unions by his frank approval of steel houses,
tragedy. Old stagers among quake
The President, past President victims are able to predict to a de- and the Committee of St. George't gree of certainty when some Society are attending the 11 m.
This is not a story of opium dives and the dregs of a coast port unusually big catastrophe is port service at St. John's Cathedral on ended. Often, this calculation is Sunday, and members of the but one which even the "old China based on previous shocks, and the Society are invited to give their hand" can read and have cause to recurring tremors in the Philip support by being present. The be thoughtful. pipes suggest the possibility of service will be specially adapted more, and perhaps greater, heavals in the near future. It may Day and the offertory will be up to the celebration of St. George's
be noted that largo sections of the given to the local branch of the earth's surface have recently been Red Cross Society for the fund to affected, the earthquakes in South provide home comforts in the America, where widespread dam- Military Hospitals of the Colony. age was done last week, being in- stances in point. Indeed, scientists
progress
of the cooling process that is continually going on deep down below the surface. And with these phenomena they associate the big- ger storms, such as have been oc- curring over North America, the Mediterrancan, and only the other day of the east coast of Australia.
UNIVERSITY MUST SETTLE.
In connexion with the labour dispute at Lingnan University, dispatch was sent by the Canton Department of Peasantry
and
CORRESPONDENCE.
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A SOLDIER'S THANKS.
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.]
CHEKWAN PILGRIMS
EXCURSIONS RESUMED.
In connexion with Chinese cele- brations, it is announced that
John William Briant, aged seventy-one, a taxicab driver, of Tabard-street, Borough, was sen- tenced at Lambeth Police Court to twenty-one days' imprisonment in the second division for being drunk during his employment.
Mr. Rooth, the magistrate, said that the sentenced was intended not only as a punishment to Briant, but as a warning to others. He had to protect the public, and he could not allow even a man of seventy-one to pass unscathed through an ordeal like that.
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Why do men object to women
commencing this morning and con- wearing their hair short?-Miss tinuing until Sunday, excursions | Maude Royden,
will be run to Chekwan, a local I am told that young men are family Mecca situated near Lin little nervous of the modern Tin and about two hours distant woman.--Lord Astor. from Hongkong,
What women, have to overcome
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A Paris Court has decided that man who finds a wife for a
friend, at the latter's "quest, is ontitled to the fee agreed upon.
Also, that there is nothing dis-
gratefully pleased with the concert sumption of this service. which was given by the "Squeak- The vessels engaged, on alter- ettes," Mrs. Russell Brown, also with the Wing On, which sailed this morn3,000 frane to "find a suitable under the direction of nate days are the Tai Lee and honourable in such a transaction. A widower had offered a friend Lyric Orchestra.
ing at 8 a.m., and the San Namife" for him. Hot and On Lee, sailing at 8 a.m.
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I am sure we couldn't have wish-
Ie, exercising his personal judg-Labour on Monday demanding ed for a bettor two hours enjoy- to-morrow, the last trip being ment, thought that steel
and wish them overy success in the return daily at 3 p.m. would be a good thing and help to versity be sent without delay to near future, and last but not least Chelwan is remarkable for a
the Department for settling the we also thank the Y.M.C.A. Enter number of relieve the great housing shortage.dispute with the Labour Unfon tainment Committee for the way shrines, while it is understood that ancient temples and But he was howled down by the representatives, reports the they take an interest in doing their Į builders-obviously an interested | Canton Gazelto
atmost in getting up these jolly large number of lepera are con and far from impartial party. That nan Labour Union bas been re-aur wo appreciate them one and
The dispatch adds: The Ling- evenings for the troops, and I am gregated in the vicinity. quarrel was patched up by the gistered according to the regula- all. Paisley Labour Party, but the Ex-tions set up by the Department, Again thanking them and wish- ecutive of the Scottish Labour Party therefore it is a perfectly legal oring them every successYours etc.,
DOWIE. has now demanded an unconditional contrary to the regulations it may ganisation. Unless it should net
(Cameronians) surrender, And behind that Exe- not be dissolved."
Kowloon, April 21st. 1927.
After the suitable wife had
to pay, declaring that such a been found the widower refused commission was illegal.
The Court decided against him.
The ship's company of H.M.S.: Frobisher hold their first Ball at the Hotel Savoy inat night, danc- The elephant Gaspard, famillaring commencing at 8,80 p.m. and to visitors to the Paris Zoo, not terminating until midnight. recently became so unmanageable The Mystery Dance Band was in that he was destroyed with poison attendance, and a very enjoyable gas. He was 19 years old.. time was spent by all attendin ́s