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TUESDAY, APRIL 26 1927.
TUESDAY,
APRIL
26, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
WHOEVER SINCERELY ENDEAVOURS
CORRESPONDENCE.
TO DO ALL THE GOOD HE CAN, WILL RAMBLERS CLUB SUGGESTED. IMAGINES OR WILL EVER KNOW.- PROBABLY DO MUCH MORE THAN HE
Miss Bowdler.
Passengers who arrived. In Hongkong yesterday from Shang
ni by the Shinyo Maru included Mr. W. A. Hyde.
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together
Sir, For bringing young men and women of similar interests and temperament there is nothing more favourable than a Ramblers Club.
The Very Idea!
A lady who had heard that an omnibus strike was impending, got into a No. 11 the other day. When the conductor had given hor ticket she loant towards him and said in a low, confidential tone of voice:
"Are you coming out to-night?".. "Afraid I can't, mum," said the old woman," conductor, "I'm going out with my
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A Tutor who taught on the
flute Tried to teach two young
tooters to toot,
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or To tutor, two tooters to toat?”
sweep through the country. But if wo hate Communism, we also hate murder, especially when it is! murder by a "Government" of the supporters of a previous "Govern- ment" for no other reason than that the murdered had learned the lessons previously set them. We blame the Government of Canton for ever having allowed Moscow to breed the extremist opinions held by the workers and students' Sokiiers of the 26th Army, under That no such body exists in this Unions. Ignorant workers and the Command of Gon, Chow Feng Colony is a solid argument in chi, raided a Communist rendezv-favour of those who would assert young scholars have been much oua in Paotung on Thursday last that the young people of Hong- more sinned against than sinners, | and arrested 16 Chinese.
long are unappreciative of the in this mattor, and if there is a
facilities afforded by Nature for This morning's Harbour Office the enjoyment of such clean, dangerous' "Red" element which is
reports gave 16 arrivals und 18 de health-giving sport as is do be inimical to the present powers-partures of which five and four res found in rambling. Many there that-be then the fault and the guilt pectively were British. There are are who are not slow to take full lies at the door of those who not at present 71 vessels in harbour, of advantage of the many fine walks
which 21 are British.
abounding here, but those who do only permitted its growth but actively encouraged and fostered it. We could go back to the begin ning of the Hongkong strike, and following up all the incidents siner, such as the closing of hospitals and
who would argue that such a Club schools, the exercise of tyranny
could only function during the winter months I would point cut of human life-Lord Hugh Cecil. Self-expression means the ruin over those who wanted to work
that the sun is a health-giving peaceably, and the open and
agent the full benefits to butime. Rev. P. Hartill.
Miracles take place in our own unchecked interference with the
obtained from which are only now being fully realised-and, grant-less careful to-day than she was I believe the housewife is much ordinary liberty of the subject,
ed sensible precautions are taken make out a strong indictment of
in the way of clothing and head-in pre-war days.-Lord Bradbury. the Canton authorities for breeding
The English are really very A Chinese passenger of the Pre-gear, rambling could be safely and the politicoes who are new "beyond sident Jefferson, from America, pleasantly conducted the whole musical, but they want every- the pule" and who are fugitive and was fined $75 by Mr. W. Schofield year round. What could be more thing brought to their armchairs. hunted. Our correspondent said: at the Kowloon Magistracy this invigorating than a day's steady-Sir Henry Wood. "I have just witnessed a very sadmorning, for having in his posses with a cooling swim in one of the
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After, two men were sentenced so are usually solitary ramblers or at Manchester for forging Tren- A Chinese residing at the Saare met with in packs of two or sury notes, which defted experts, Chuen On Boarding House, com three. I am inclined to the view the judge ordered the costs of the mitted suicide yesterday by out that a Ramblers Club should be prosecution to be paid out of the ting his throat with a razor. is instituted and I am also certain money found on the prisoners. body was removed to the public that it would meet with Å They would not have taken this mortuary at West Point.
gratifying response. To those risk in a Scottish court.
In connexion with the motor lorry accident in Shaukiwan, it is officially reported that the lorry is owned by Ng Nai Hung of Sal There was one death Wan Ho. and eight others were injured.
sion, 27 rounds of ammunition.
sight on the East Parade Ground, the execution of three young men and two girls of the student class..ing, The two girls whimpered just be
THOUGHTS ON CANTON. fore they were shot."
མ་་'ན
Road Improvements.
It is interesting to observe in a report which was reproduced by us yesterday, from Manila paper, that the Philippines Government is planning a read improvement cam-
At the Marine Court this morn
the mistress of a coolie boat charged with carrying seven passengers in excess, and pleading gulity, was fined $4, with the alter- native of four days' imprisonment.
A Chinese was yesterday sent to the Kowloon Hospital, suffering from chopper wounds said to have
since decamped.
been inflicted by a man who has
Street.
The wounded, at 586, Reclamation
ramble in the Summer rounded off
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Joseph Morrison, owner of a revue, numerous bays-and a cup of tea, claimed damages at Manchester I should be pleased to get into Assizes from Thomas Bell, a saxo- touch with other enthusiasts with phone player, for alleged breach a vlow to making a definite move of contract. in the matter. Yours, etc.,
RAMBLER
Hongkong, April 25, 1927.
THOUGHT READING.
Mr. Lustgarten, for the plaintiff, said the defendant signed aä agreement to appear in a revue called "Jazz Land" as long as it
ran.
The name was later changed That the people of China gener-
to "Still Jazzing," and subsequent- ally suffer more from than they
ly Bell left. He submitted the chango of name did not nullify tho benefit by their rulers is being
PROFESSOR H. PISLER'S agreement. He mentioned that vividly demonstrated all over the
Bell DEMONSTRATION.
was a B flat tenor saxo- country to-day, and with this paign designed to make the high-man lived
phonist." Professor H. Pisler gave a very Mr. Jackson, K.C. (for the de- thought in mind we would, for a ways there more efficient for the
interesting. demonstration of fendant)--I thought they were all moment or two, look at the position in the East, the use of motor use of motor traffic. As elsewhere
thought reading, hypnotism and that. The French mail steamer, catalepsy, before a gathering of in Canton, There is now taking vehicles in the Philippines is rapid. Amazone, outward bound from pressmen in the S. C. Morning Post said he knew nothing about music. The manager of “Still Jazzing" place a great "comb-out" of so-ly on the increase, and the question Marseilles, arrived this morn-building yesterday afternoon. It Mr. Jackson-We are not talk- called "Reds" or Communists, and of adequate roadways has become ing, but was unable to berth was a successful effort in alling about music. while we cannot resist joining in The problems of had surfaces, mar-heavy draught.
eate in the less developed areas. at the Kowloon wharf owing to respects, some of the things Mr. Justice Greer-We are talk-
She was later accomplished being really verying about a saxophone. the general feeling of satisfaction row culverts, and so ferth, are allocated A.1 buoy.
clever. similar to those which have arisen at the breakup of the power of the in Hongkong, and their solution lies Moscow influence we also cannot along the same, lines of gradual resist the conviction that the budgeting and steady improvement, "Reds" there have, during the past Islands will agree, the American On the whole, as any visitor to the week, been paying over much for regime has instituted highways of their transgressions. We are a really high-class nature in the thinking of the hundreds of men
populous districts and towns, and in Manila, for example, there are who have been arrested and Im-roadways second to none. Yet the A Chinese, who had the misfor-powers was provided by the re- was swiftly taken home in an am-
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Judgment was given for the de First, after he had been blind- fendant with costs. yesterday "crushed
The body of a Chinese, who was folded, the Professor discovered a twen two earth trucks in Kowloon three
to death be hidden article, and later found English papers report that a Mortuary. The deceased lived in persons of three members of his round the scene of an accident numbered slips of paper Finchley residerit, walking home, Teng, was taken to the Kowloon which had been secreted on the joined a crowd which hovered an unnumbered house in Hoi Fu audience, as well as read
the A young woman was lying on the numbers written thereon, blind-ground, and the man, to his horror, Street, Kowloon City.
fold. A clever instance of his recognised her as his wife, moval of an article from prisoned, of those who have been vast areas still to be opened up surtune to fall out of a bus whilst it
thebulance. Then came the second executed and especially of the two gest vistas of hundreds of miles of was going along Lai Chi Kok Road, placing of it in the hand of downstairs and asked who, the
pocket of one person and
the shock,
The man's wife walked roads, capable of carrying the was taken to the Kwong-Wah Hos-another, all by means of reading young woman was! A little short- young women students-mere heaviest traffic. especially with the pital yesterday. The man recely the thoughts of a third party. girls-who were taken out and shot growth of modern motor transpor- ad injuries to his head, but is not
sighted, tho gentleman from on Saturday morning.
Three dagers, each tied with a Finchley had found his wife's How did tation.
Of particular interest to in"a critical condition. us is the decision to use asphalt
differently-coloured ribbon, were double! these young people become "extro- wherever possible, both as a pre-
placed on a table, and a member mists 7"
What is the measure of ventive of erosion by rains and their guilt that they should be put. to death? And to find an answer
nuisance,
fingers
of the
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created for the F. M. S., namely, placed the point against the back the Thames Court: I was upset A new appointment has been of the audience picked one up and Man accused of drunkenness at a factor in climinating the dust that of Chief Veterinary Surgeon, of another man, marking the spot because my sous will not work. Hongkong has for F. M. S., says the Times of Malaya. with chalk. The Professor, who Mr. Cairns, magistrate: You are number of years heen committed, The headquarters of the office will all the time had been blindfold, by Victorian, an old-fashioned per- it is necessary to go over the his- by the capable heads of our Roads be at Kuala Lumpur and we under-touching the
Department, to the use of asphalt tory of Canton for the past year in proference to ordinary macadam stand that the Secretary of State "assassin", walked successfully up work.
son who expects young people to or two. Communism and "extrem-or other surfacing, and the practice for the Colonies has given the apto the party who had been ism of every kind has been is one which highway engineers the M.R.C.V.S., of Ipoh, who for many of the originally used dagger, Court until she was out of breath. pointment to Mr. P. G. Short. "atabbed", and placed the point A woman talked at Bow County world over are gradually adopting. encouraged by the Government. M. In a way, we can take some credit years has been Veterinary Sur which he had picked out from the Borodin and his Russian friends here for showing other countries geon, Perak South. I have been made as honoured guests, what can be done in the matter of and all Unions, both of workers and both building and maintaining first-
class roadways. students, have been fed and nurtur- ed on "Red" propaganda. It was
to be a suspect, a "reäctionary" and
an enemy to be anything other than a perfervid "Red."
Dr. Chen
others, against the very where it had first been pointed.
spot
my
Judge Snagge: Now is it turn?-Woman, starting again: In conclusion, Professor Pisler When I have finished. Huan-chang, Ph.D.. President of the Confucian Univer- crochet needle through his own High-gate: He writes, "I have gave a demonstration of sticking
Clerk, of a man summoned at sity and the Confucian Associa-throat, and through the arm of a just married, and now I have no tion, Peking, who has been in volunteer, without any pain being. SCHOOLBOY'S CHASE. Kuala Lumpur for the purpose of caused or blood being drawn in appealing for funda for these two either case. He then, by means of institutions, to which he has ren- self-hypnotism, stopped his pulse
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moncy."
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A man who called another man
Unions PRISON FOR CHINESE THE·dered great services, is leaving for from beating for several seconda, "convinced liar" at Bow County have been officially given a power that would never be tolerated in Cesan Boys' School from the ori-was mainly through his efforts state, when he was placed across himself that he is telling the Since the removal of the Dio-Penang, says the Malay Mall. It and also went into a cataleptic Court, was asked what he meant. He replied, "He has convinced any well-ordered country; illegal mises off the Prince Edward Road, was organised. A farewell recep- until brought to.
ginal building to temporary pre-that the Confucian Association two chairs, and remained rigidl
truth." acts and oppressive measures by certain students of the school have tion was given is his honour by labour have been encouraged and been instrumental in effecting the the Selangor Chinese Chamber of the genuineneas of the, feats per was alleged to have bitten a neigh All present were satisfied as to Colchester woman, whose dog applauded; and student bodies have near the school or who had com- in support of his appeal and the
arrests of Chinese found loitering Commerce...Speechos were made formed. been fed on creeds and teachings mitted thefts in the vicinity.
Professor Pisler, as will be acen hour: I have had a dog for four- Last week, a man who was seen for an enjoyable trip were
best wishes of his many friends from an advertisement in this teen years, and have nevet had a utterly subversive to good order
wandering about the school was ar-
ex-issue, commences his public per-blot on my character before.. and control and wholly ruinous of rested by two of the students, and fundo, It is understood that Mr. Friday.
pressed In connexion with the formances at the Lee Theatre next scholastic study.
Canton itself-handed over to the Police. The cul- p. T. Allen has given $50 and the Kuomintang party which has prit on his appearance before the Towkay Chan Wing $10,000,
Magistrate was sentenced to a term ruled, or mis-ruled-has propagat-of imprisonment.
ed the species of "Red" who
is now being ruthlessly hunted down, even executed without having been given any chance to change his colour like the "Government" by whom he is being victimised. › We hate Communism because it is a foolishly impracticable dream of a mad Socialism and only sets up a pictured but impossible regimo by the proletariat, in the attempt to achieve which the age-long and essential props of civilised human society totter to the ground and precipitate a hideous chaos. We
This morning, another Chinese
EXCHANGE RATES.
arrested by one of the boys on Sun- CANTON INSURANCE. Paris day, appeared Mr. W. field at the Kowloon Magistracy on a larceny charge.
FINAL AND INTERIM DIVIDENDS.
Brussels Amsterdam Bertin Copenhagen Vienna ilcisingfors
brothers, who were charged with The case concerned two Chinesc,
stealing 19 gunny bags, the proper-
We are officially informed that Bucharest ty of the Kowloon Tong Develop ment Company. The allegations the General Agents and Consulting Buenos Aires against the defendants were that Committee of the Canton Insurance Shanghai the first man was seen to take the Office Ltd., will, at the forthcom-Yokohama bags and hand them to the second. ing Meeting of Shareholders to be New York fendants ran from the village and claro a final dividend of $22 per Milan
On being chased, one of the, de held on Tuesday the 17th May, de- Genova attempted to escape by crossing a share in respect of Working Ac- Stockholm vacant piece of ground. On his count 1925, and add the balance of
Oslo pussing the Diocesan Boy's School, $454,362 to Underwriting Sus-TO
Prague G. L. Lindholma say the man and ponse Account; and they will Athens seized him, later handing him over further declare an interim divi-Bombay are glad to think there has been a to the Police.
dend of $18 per share in respect of Hongkong The first defendant was sentenced the Working Account 1926 and Silver (spot) dain thrown across the tide of
to three week) hard labour and the curry forward the sum: of Silver (forward) Communism which had begun to 'second to two weeks.","
$2,171,296.94.
Rio
London, April 25.
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A Shepperton gipsy who lost a hand in the war was fined £5 and £1 6s, costs at Feltham for cruelty to a horse which lost an eye in the
war.
Tho son and heir had just been 124 christened, and the minister was 12.13%
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congratulating the worthy parents on the baby's splendid behaviour.
"Why," said he, "this is the first time in all my experience that I 102% have baptised a child who did not
.70 cry during the ceremony." .47% "Ye Bec, Sir," answered the 2/0proud father, "he's got kind of used His mither ant me has. 4.85 21/32 to it.
25.25 bean practisin' on him for the last 86.46 fortnight wl' à bucket' d' cauld 18.13 watter."
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According to the shipping 5/27/32 figuras, 46,006 people came to
.1/6.20/32
2/04 Hongkong during the week April 28311-17, and only 17,818 left the 25 Colony, an increase in population Wiraloas.of nearly 30,000.