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PROTECT YOUR CAR for a re-commencement of busi- by installing aness, and it might appeal to him to "PYRENE" Firò speak about not guaranteeing the Extinguisher.
integrity of foreign premises in "PYRENE" will Hankow which are occupied by kill fire without their lawful owners, but there are
of action.
damaga to the some obvious things first to be engine, woodwork done by him and his colleagues in or upholstery the Hankow. Government. It is Wator spreader a
through no fault of their own that petrol fire; sand is incllicient and will the foreign firms and banks have put the engine out been forced to close down; the business men
have hung on in "PYRENE" Ex-face of intolerable hardships and tinguisher is small at much personal risk. It is only in size, ight in fair to ask that there shall be re- weight and easy to stored that confidence of protec- handle.
tion and that fair and just deal- "PYRENE" docs in which is the right of men in not deterioratu anda eivilised age before the foreign is always ready merchants of Hankow are entrent- for use.
ed to resume trading. Of course,
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SATURDAY,
APRIL 23,
DAY BY DAY.
NOT SOCILISM, ON ANY OTHER "ISM," CAN PERMANENTLY EQUALISE THE FORTUNES OF MEN. THE STRONG WILL DOMINATE, THE WEAK
MUST SUCCUMB-John Burroughs. There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
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A thief entered Mr. Custodis' at at No. 44 Nathan Road last night, and stole a sum of $95.
1927.
THE CAPTAIN
His Home on the Welsh Border.
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The village of S-les at the foot! Those taciturn holly bushos! of a long metalled hill on the bor- It is a place as formidable as a der of England and North Wales. dreadnought with the house per- You see its half-dozon elfish cot-ched up top like an ow)---if such The name of Mr. F. Munford hastages through the bare branches a combination is possible. All been added to the List of Authoriz-of the elms and oaks which stand this the village can understand, about firmly weaving and shut for he lops and prunea in the sea- ed Architects.
tling the Welsh gales na coarsely son and builds when it is best to and tangled they blow the border, build. But-Why is he alone? T-, the next village on the main Why does he see so few people? road, ia red and solid and as Eng-The blinds are not drawn today. Ish as brick can be; but at S-Or the blinds are drawn! Now, It is notified that, at the expira- the little windows of the odd cot- what do you make of that?
The Even the dogs of the village na tion of three months, the Tal tages shine like birds eyes. Yuen Hotel Company, Limited will, hends of the cottages nod this they pass the gato roll their curi- unleas cause is shown to the conway and that like a covey of parous mongrel oyes. It is beyond trary, be struck off the register and tridges half hidden in long grasses their easy-going fashions, The and sunlight, and you discorn iron gato is closed and the cap- the company will be dissolved.
them only just in time.
tain's dog barka through the bars,
H. E. the Governor häs appointed Dr. William Leslie Thomas to be a member of the Advisory Committee of the Peak Hospital, during the absence on leave of Dr. Stuart Seguin Strahan, M.B., B.Ch., or until further notice.
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Keep a "PYR. it might be that the split between ENE handy on the Hankow party and Marshal car and in garage. |Chiang Kai-shek, and the very un- certain help which Canton might be prepared to render Hankow, plus the fact that the Fengtien
Monday being Anzac Day, mem- forces are making a fresh offen-bers of the Ex-Active Service sive on the Nationslist front to men's Association and others in the north of liankow, make soterested will be present at 9.30 a.m. on 25th April, at the Cenotaph, powerful a combination of adverse when a wreath will be laid in circumstances that whatever ac-memory of the Australians' and New Zealanders who gave their sion the foreign merchants of
lives in the Great War, Hankow take would be of little favail at, the present time. It is certain that Hankow's plight is a parlous one, and it is also certain that the authorities there have largely brought their trials upon themselves by their failure to govern aright.
Hongkong Gelegraph.
SATURDAY, APREL
23 1927.
THE HANKOW CRISIS.
Portuguese Volunteers.
Portuguese in the Volunteer Defence
At St. Andrews' Church, Kowloon to-morrow morning the dedication the colours to be dedicated being of Girl Guide colours takes place, the King's Colour and the Com- pany Colour of the 2nd. Kowloon Guide Company, (Diocesan Girls' School). This is the first ceremony of the kind over to take place in the Colony.
A step further, a moment later, inaccessible. Uncomprehending, you think, and they would have they lift a doubling paw and gape lifted their clattering wings and then wisely they scoot away into whirred heavily into the coppices the fields and chase friends whose
ways are theirs, over the flat fields. '
All except one. There is one house in S-which (even if other. houses could be off flapping their Isn't it a strange thing the cap- Kables and dropping their tiles (tain's house is perched on a hill like feathers) would never fy. and can see everything that goes At least it would never fly by day. on in the village? At Son This is the house on the side of bright mornings the sun throws the steep and naked lump of hill ta bucket of eastern light over under which the village shelters. the trees and over the roofs; and It is a narrow gray house, with the wind from the Welsh moun- French windows and two turrets tains, if there is one, sends the like ears, and it is perched on top sky running like a mun scampering of a terrace of lawns. It is like after his hat. There is a house an owl. Even the pointed white with a white gate there, and up- porch between the windows is like stairs in the bedrooms a house- maid goes twittering. As she tneks in the blankets and smooths an owl's sharp benk
down the sheets she sings:
Land of hope and glory, mother of the free,
sparrow. Down
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When men go to work in the quarry behind the hill they see the iron-spiked gates of the house are closed and its drive as bare as a bone. The blinda, too, are drawn; as high as as though the stern and lonely stairs in the kitchen she counts the bird is asleep. In the middle of ery that have been laid that The Health Bulletin of Eastern the night, when I hear an owl's morning and fills the lamps, sing ports for the week ending April 16, signal (Hoiceoo! Hoieooo! like aing still. "Always merry and reveals four cases of plague at train feeling its way in the dark) bright," she sings, and her shrill Rangoon and one at Singapore. I cannot help thinking of the houses" are as sharp and as high as It is not surprising that the part platoons of
The recent Formation of two With regard to cholera there were and saying to myself. "The cap- sicet on the window. In the after- noon she can see the postman ge of the Nationalist Government Hongkong
16 cases at Saigon, eight at Hai-tain!"
Then, is there a mystery up the captain's drive."
At the builder's, where the piles which is left in Hankow is finding Corps, and the announcement yes-phong, 19 at Bangkok and one at
stacked against growing diffentfies, Leray that a brass band of For-Rangoon. The incidence of small-about the house and this captain?
I tell? the walnut tree, a young man who tuguese musicians is being erotis was as follows: Rangoon 66, you ask. How do I know if there and planks are From the standpoint of supplies, led, revives the interest in the work Tuticorin 4, Bangkok 3, Macao 1, is a mystery? How can
Dairen 3, and Hakodate 1.
Row can I judge a man if I have has been a soldier is sawing up not been in his house? The fact logs. Two mun with hobnailed Hankow is very much dependent which this community has donu on the trade of the Yangisge--for the Colony in times of need.
The Hospital Comforts Commit- is, nobody in the village knows as voices go up the long hill with a As we remarked editorally at the
that pours down to the manor. Mr. A. II. Crook, Queen's College. gift of 22 gramophone records from know about the captain.
He has retired from the navy.
Up the blue macadam hill the down the hill they spin with their hundred-weights of coal behind
itself in
trale which the Chinese them-time of the Canton boycott, in tee acknowledges with thanks the much as they think they ought to ladder on their shouldors to a lane
selves have brought to an abso-1920, the authorities, were very
residents for their assistance in
PRINCES IN SPAIN,
A BRITISH ROYAL VISIT.
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But
The
The chimneys of the
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At five or six the men crunch
about by meddlesonte, politicians calls the old Police Reserve band terior, and many members of the till they are as low as bulwarks. back from the quarry, where the
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A large crowd cheered the royal visitors as they drove to the palace. -British Wireless.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Again, he ents back his shrubs Ile clears his decks, so to speak. stone crusher has stopped turning He has lopped the trees. There and bellowing, and the foreman is not an inch of wood too much has gone home on his thin bicycle in his grounds, and in the winter with a prick of red light behind it. the bare, hull of the hill looms As they pass the captain's trim and blackly through a scanty rigging warlike grounds, lopped branches raised like cannons to the sky, the of branches.
Inte standstill by their ridiculous largely indebted to the Portuguese gift or loan of tro sewing-He is a bachelor. He lives alone, methods against the foreign in various essential services. About machines, for the use of the Nur- and he scarcely ever goes out lorries drum like oily bees; and turada operating it. In the mat that time there was a big cho sing Staff at the No. 7, General There is nothing in that.
Hospital, Kowloon, would be greatly Hens lay, cocks crow, cows are ter of rice, Tankow is placed ment of recruits in the Defence appreciated. The machines should milked, and meu clean their boots them, slinging it down from the somewhat similarly to Canton--the Corp, and individuals of this con-be sunt direct to the Hopital or to and go to their barns, their ploughs mines
minhity, who had not joined up loent supply needing reinforcing since the disbandment of the old Mr. E. Ralphs or Mr. A. Morris at and benches, but that does not mines stick out of the tops of the the Education Offices. Mrs. W. T. keep a village from wanting to start Welsh hills like little pis- by imported quantities. In the defence units at the close of the Southern and the key, W. T. Fer know just a little more, from cal-tous.
World War, willingly came for therstone, M.A., have been added to culating this and wondering the maller of coal also, Hankow
At four o'clock the fires are red ward as Volunteers. They were the Hospital Comforts Committed. other. is dependent on supplies from out-enrolled along with other nation-
Many years before, a man had in the parlors of the cottages. on the bought the bare lump of hill by Their window sills are side, and owing to the cessation alities, mostly in the infantry sec
the village and had dug a quarry ground itself and the windows of nearly all normal trade theseion, but as their numbers grow the question of a separate unit
in it. There was a thing the vil peer up like birds at the passing Mun wheels. In the grocer's a woman supplies have stopped. Without was raised, and it was decided
lagers could understand. the How of
from the village worked in this weighing out rice. You can commerce, money that if a sufficient number could
a Portuguese .Com be obtained, largely cases to circulite, and
quarry, Great lunged horses and hear the tap of the scale pan and pany would eventually materialise.
threaty, sniffing lorries pulled and you can see the top of her silver with the stoppage of industries Sonic weeks ago, a recruiting cara
London, April 22. inmped through the muddy lane head. There is a muttering and labour is left unemployed and paign brought in many of the cona-
The Prince of Wales and Prince that led from the village to the popping from a gas engine which soon gets hungry. Thus we have jmunity's young men, and the re-
George, accompanied by Brigadier- quarry, with their full loads and the builder has installed--the salt has been the formation of two
things you can do if you have a presented 'toring the spectacle of special platoous, which are con- General Trotter, arrived in Madrid half loads of broken stone.
That was an done to the lane.
is a clattering of pails when the a great centre like the three Wu-tinually being added to as more this morning on a visit to the King captain complained of the damage gas engine!--and at times there han cities of Hankow, Warhang will yet attain a gure that will
join up. Possibly the numbers and Queen of Spain.
They were met at the station by ordinary, sensible thing to do: the chickens are being fed. You may the British Ambassador, the King villagers could understand that see a woman pegging her washing
to a line. and Hanyang in the grip of justify a full Company being paralysis which has been brought formed. The idea of a brass band and Queen of Spain, General Bet
for the Corps is not new, uni re- Amindo, the Minister of the In-
British colony., and hatredbreeding agitators. of war days, most of whom were Hankow is cut off from Yangtze Portuguese. Jaherently musical they are sure to give a good ne supplies by the fact that Marshal count of themselves. It may be Chiang Kai-shek la sitting astride mentioned that about a year age the river down at Nanking and the nucleus of a drum and fife band was gathered, and probably that no trading vessels are mov-the drummers will be available for ing. It is not possible nor econo-the present musical section. The mically sound to feed and supply addition of a brass band, at the very least, adds to the dignity of Hankow from anywhere south of the Corps, which, with the steady Changsha the point at which growth in strength, the more effi most of the water-borne trade of cient programme of training, and central China ceases. Financial in view of the time through which we are passing, has attained a eredit aid confidence is wavering position of decided importance in in Hankow because of the formid- the Colony's scheme of defence. | able array of enemies surrounding the Nationalist faction there, and it seems inevitable that a serious crisis will eventuate. Just how serious it will be all depends on the success of the Government's
Paris present attempts to restore confid-
New York ence by persunding the foreign Brussels business men to resume tende,
Geneva Amsterdam That is not so easily done no Milan said, for thero evidently much Berlin
Stockholm anti-foreign tension still prevail-Copenhageit Ing. And bofore a man will con- Oslo
Vienna sent to re-commence the business
Prague out of which he was forced to Helsingfors
Madrid withdraw by reason of such thinge
Lisbon na the tyranny of labour, lack of Athens protection from unruly elements! Bucharest
Riu and the absence of law and order Buenos Aires generally, he has to be assured Bombay
Shanghai that he will not again find himself Hongkong up against a similar array of im-Yokohama
Silver (apot) possible circumstances. It is easy Silver (forward) for Mr. Eugene Chen to appeal
EXCHANGE RATES.
- AN APPEAL TO BOXERS.
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.]
Sir,-1 wonder whether the Box- ing Association Members or the Boxing Fans of the Colony can carry their memories back to the days of 1913 and 14, at the old Victoria Skating Rink also to the City Hall.
At that time there was a Bantam Weight Champion of the Colony
have man that could
al- 124 ways be depended on to seo that 4.86/19/32 the fans had their money's worth
..34.02
20.10
The top terrace of the lawns is men glance up and see a light in What d'you his bridge, though he is rarely the window of the house. Now seen on it. His lawns are as clean what's he up to? as if they had been scrubbed. make of that? Or perhaps there There is not a leaf on the gravel is no light. No light up at the nor a sign of moss. The outer de-captain's housel What's he do fences of his grounds are armour- with 'imself? ed by thick mounds and on the wasuway. well the glass has been renewed. Umph!
PIRATES CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
BRISK ENGAGMENT ON THE SOUCHOW CREEK.
West
Didn't know, he N'more he ain't.
met by a hall of bullets, which Two of the they returned. pirntes were killed outright, eight others were wounded, and ten On the arrests were made. Volunteers' side, one was severely wounded. Two non-combatants were struck by stray bullets and killed, one of these being a two- year old baby and the other a lad of 14 years.
Fight on Rubicon.
While attempting to plunder a He was number of junks in the 26.26 when he was scrapping. 12.13% always clean and acknowledged to Kiangchiao District, near Jess-
93.05 be one of the best.
field, on Friday last a gang of The man went away to the Phil-about 25 pirates were surprised by i Another fight occurred on the 18.13 lipines, boxed there and always a detachment of Chapel Merchant Rubicon the same night, when a 18.20had the same record.
Volunteers who had received pre-score of robbers tried to break It is now 1927, the man is now at vious notice of their intentions. into a farmer's home. They were .34 5/10 present living in Wanchai, married Few details of the affairs have armed with rifles and fired as they 163% and has a family of six children been forthcoming, but is appears approached but they were met by 192% dependent on him. He has no
18.81
27.785
.47%
on
were
work and what with this trade de- that a trap was laid for the mis-sturdy resistance on the part of the two young farmers who likewise 2/17/22pression not likely to
get any, creants, who appeared
G After armed.
heavy .362 .765 Given the chance I think that lie scene at the appointed time.
Immediately after they had fusillade, the two farmers werd .5/27/32 would make good.
The above man is Iron Bux.boarded one of the junka, they brought to the ground, both being .1/6.19/32 Surely some of the Association were surrounded by the Volunteers wounded very severely. After 2/6% Members or even the fans can do and a severe fight took place looting several houses, the robbers 15 escaped into the country, and the 2/0% something for him. It isn't Charl-which lasted for well over 1/11% ty that he his secking, but just that minutes. Finding that they had two unfortunate men were taken 264 helping hand.-Yours, etc., been trapped, the marauders made to the Red Cross Hospital where a desperate attempt to broak they are now undergoing treat- through the cordon but they were ment. No arrests were made.
.20%
British Wirclesa.
LOOKER ON.
Hongkong, April 23, 1027.