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THURSDAY, APRIL 28 1927.
by
THURSDAY,
APRIL 28.
DAY BY DAY.
Yet the unmasking of the Soviet Chang Tso-Un has given technical cause for Russian protest, and the rather mild reception of events by Moscow must Have caused FEEL-Emily Post. some surprise in quarters where
greater indignation was expected. It s fateresting to speculate just how far the Soviet would have pro- ceeded had there not been a sudden reaction against Communism in the South as well. Probably that was the final deciding factor in curbing Moscow bellicosity, Nevertheless, we find reports of war preparations by the Soviet, and hints of coming active moves against the anti-"Red" combine. It may be that, finding the tide turning definitely" against its former influence in China, the Soviet is about to throw all into a
last gamble for dominance: Obvious- ly, the recent events in the country have revived the matter of Moa- cow's bid for control to a pitch of
the highest importere; and, taking everything into consideration, it is impossible to overlook the fact that Bolshevist Russin still plays. ni im portant part in political calculations throughout the Far East.
The Nanking Note,
It appears as if the relief felt at signs that the lowers were in close agreement on the question of the Nanking reparations demands,
LIFE IS A COMEDY TO THOSE WHO THINK; A TRAGEDY TO THOSE WHO
due to-morrow at 8 am, having The Empresa of Aalo, which is been delayed by fog, will borth at Pier No. 5, Kowloon Wharf.
In addition to the booking at the Lee Theatre, seats may be reserved at Montrie's for the forthcoming demonstrations by Professor Harry Pister.
1927.
AIR CONVENTION.
NEW DISTRESS CALL 'ADOPTED.
The Very Idea!
A party of tourists recently looking through the Louvre had one among their number who by catalogue, mischance carried a Luxemburg
London, April 17. world's code of air signals was A now distress sign for the considered and adopted by the In- On arriving at Manet's "Olyin- ternational Commission for Air | pia"-a nude, in which a black cat Navigation, which ended its sit appears in the background, he tings in London to-day,
turned to the corresponding num- bor, In this catalogue, and mechanically informed the amazed group, "Whistler's Mother!"
In future, any aircraft which is in difficulties not serious enough to warrant the 5.0.S. will send out an international signal of P.A.N., which is the abbreviation of the Yesterday's health return shows French word for n breakdown. that there wore three fresh caser Medical qualifications for male|ponny), of typhoid fewer (all Chinese) and pilots were also examined by the also one Chinese case of cerebro-conference, and a complete chart spinal fever..
of the qualities physical and men- suppose?" tal, which constitute a perfect pilot, was drawn up.
The weather forecast up till
noon
to-morrow, issued by the
Royal Observatory, atates; Light, variable winds; fine to cloudy, fog in morning."
"This" morning's "Harbour Office~
Reports gave 10 arrivals and 15 de- partures, of which six and seven respectively were British, leaving G1 vessels in harbour, British 22.
4.
An earth woolie was killed at Ngaushiwen vesterday by a slide of earth down the hillside, where he was at work. The body was removed to the Kowloon Mortuary,
A while dog, which is still at large, attacked and bit Mr. L huggett in the right hand at Na- Mr. Hug- than Road yesterday,
A chle Rebaux-frock by Jenny (Must have cost her a pretty Slender ankles, sheerest hose.., "You typewrite decently,
At Shoreditch County Court: A decision that in future we-He has worshipped a motor-car, men can qualify for certificates in and it has brought him to penury. aviation was also reached. This means that even the heaviest Man at Shoreditch County class of machines are thrown open Court: He says I show a collar. to women pilots, the only provision I have never worn one. Plaintif
be re-examined medically once in being that wonen aviators shall said that when I saw him three months, instead of six, as in the case of men.
showed choler.
A Hackney woman who describ- To navigate an air liner, a woed her neighbour as a "fetcher man would not only have to be a and carrier," explained that "she fetches and carries all the scand of the street."
bonamemman
There are 14 Pages in to-day's issue of the "Tele- graph."
What
Willesden magistrate: day, did your husband assault you? Wife: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday, Saturday, and Sun- day.
will have to be modified in view of welt went into the Kowloon Ho first class pilot, but her muscular Court: Does he disturb your rest
there is no agreement as
pital for treatment.
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Barrister at Clerkenwell County development and general strength by playing the piano at 2 a.m. ?--- would have to be much above the Woman: "He does not play it; he average, and this decision, al-sits on it. though it removes any grievance that may be entertained by women pilots, makes it unlikely that many will be employed except on small machines.
Sir Edward Erabrook, in the course of some compliments to the present-day girl, mentioned that Lady Jane Grey read and wrote Greek at 13, and at 16 knew half a dozen other languages,
L.O.N. Machines. Another interesting decision is
Seeing that Lady Jane was be- that in future all machines engag od cr. League of Nations work, hended at 17, she is an awful warn- or otherwise, will haveing of the danger of erudition in the urgent
female. pointed across them lettering in a broad life which will ensure every facility wherever they go. If a
Sing the loudest when things crisis arose in Europe, the League look blankest-Sir Henry Coward.
of Nations would be able, if neces- aury, to send out a fleet of nero- The Hospital Comforts Commit-planes so marked. tee begs to acknowledge with Regulations which will make fur thanks, receipt of the sum of still greater safety of airways $200.37 from the Hon. Treasurer were passed and approved. Pilots of St. John's Cathedral, being the following a railway or canal will amount collected at the morning keep to the left, and will only service at the Cathedral on Sun-cross at right angles. day last.
A new chapter concerning atan- dard minimum requirements for airworthiness coftificates was also adopted. British Wireless.
Not all artists have a tendency
to improve like good wine, with are.-Mr. Augustus John,
A beautiful country, God's own
food, and the devil's cooking. Mr. Thomas Marlowe on America.
the
With all its faults and defects British Empire is the best Empire, in the world-The Rev. Herbert Dunnico, M.P.
The time is coming when tho Soviet must stop wiping its feet on the Union Jack-Commander Locker-Lampson, M.P.
recent developments. When the first Note was despatched, after con- siderable discussion and aume Captain Grant, of the s.s. Iling amount of delay, it was observed sang, has reported to the police that there were no definite'sunctions that he gave his boatswain $800 mentioned, and no time limit for to pay the avages of the crew and compliance, These points were to buy provisions, and the man THE SOVIET POSITION. evidently left over for a subsequent has not been seen since.
conference, and offered, as we them communical evidence of molific-
A large gathering was present Lion, through one or other of the at the Town Hall Kuala Lumpu, Several questions arise in con- Powers being reluctant to under-
en April 20 to bid farewell to Mr. nexion with the recent anti-"Red" take definite punitive measures. It
was expected at the time that the A. II. de R. Fonseka. of the moves in China, which, strangely most likely Government to hesitate Malayan Civil Service, who enough, occurred almost simultane-in this nutter of enforcement of shortly retiring on persion after ously both in the North, at Peking, demands was the United States, 27 years of public service.
whose policy had all along been one and in plures controlled by the
of the utmost conciliation. That South, at Shanghai and Canton. A surmise has proved correct, for the megsagt published the other day latest news is to the effect that to a [ announced that the European Com-second Note on the Nanking allaie, mittee of the Kuomintang, appar- owing to American opposition to the ently inspired officially, while prais proposed sanctions. Thus, the whole matter is held up indefinitely. ing Marshal Chiang Kai-shek for There is a suggestion that the for his move against Communism, lock eign Governments, in view of recent
In uccession to Paymaster Com care to emphasise that this does events whereby the Koonintang awunder L.K. Barker, who is going camp has become divided on the to the Tower at Hongkong, Pay- not necessarily mean a cessation of question of extremism, should "wait | master Commander RS. Thursfield,
It caused some sensation when hostilities against Makden. So the and see." This is an old counsel, C.M.G., is joining the battleship
the first dance club with a glass prime factor in these campaigns but is the policy of weakness, and Honbow, Atlantic Fleet. In 1999
tour was opened in London; but agains. Balshevism in the fact thats a fuge in diplomats who he was Secretary to Admiral Leve
are not willing to face inpleasant son in China.
now, having become accustomed “o' dancing on glass, we are apparent- they are directed towards eliminat- farts. Unfortunately, the Chinese
The coxswain of the steam launch Hundreds of Shanghai residentsy to eat, sleep and have ing the Russiar intuence which are not slow either to see these
on glass floors in the signs of vacillation or to prot has for so long been suffered thereby. Granted the Nationalist Norge, charged at the Marine Court will have read with regret in the being"
AL a dwarf house which has | pernais "affairs Chinese. We pre-split requires a re-shaping of this morning with fring crackers Municipal Gazette to-day, anys last houses in which we live.
from his boat without first having Friday's Shanghai Mereary, a
lately, the dieted long ago that the day was policies to some extent, and offers obtained permission to do so, plead-notice of the retirement of Mr. W. been reconstructed
many difficulties in the way of ob- coming when even the Nationalists tairing a proper perspective of guilty and was fined $10, with Armstrong. Director of Criminal floor of the hall is glass instead How far the would readise liat The Soviet was Chinese events, there get renuntius the alternative of 10 days im Intelligetice in the Shanghai Mun-of parquet, and the effect is ex-
ripal Police, avho retires ou Martremely good.
the af with a pension, after thirty-fashion will spread only obtaining a strenyl-hold on the the paramount necessity to take pristament.
can decide; action along seme definite line, and
A pruty w bling took place in four years' service with the Muni-farnishing addists country, which would have to be it is becoming increasingly import-
but it is one with points to re- relieved if great vil, and cotireant that the Powers should be in Penang on Monday, last month, cipality.
Mr. Armstrong is 56 years of commend it, although there is a Puble opinion in the when M. J. C, Horn, of Glasgow, chos, were not to follow.
United States has recently had manager of the Medan branch of lave. He joined the Shanghai general feeling that many people the lat of I do not look their best reflected in ample opportunity for forming co- Guthrie and Co., Ltd., married Municipal Police on
a gius floor. crete views on the necessity for des Miss Kathleen E. Underwood, of August, 1893, as a constable, com- ing to the foret from the police of The ceremony fending American interests in Ealing, London. China, but apparently the Govern was conducted by the Hov, R. SWigan, Lanes, during service in ment is still hampered to some ex- Stewart at St. Andrew's Presby-which force, although a very young tent by political considerations,terian Church. Mes. Sullivan was man, he received high commenda- Yet the mere holding on to Shaymatron of honour and the duties tions for his work.
Mr. Armstrong has served ander had with hardly be sufficient to main of best man were carried out by Gain foreign rights, and safeguardMr. Danner, the District Manarar no less than seven chiefs in the the property and lives of the dit-in Medan of the Sun Life Assur-Municipal police. He joined ander It bance Co. of Cauda. The bride the regime of Capt. J. P. MeKuen.
agreement.
It is not the time to discuss the ultimate sheress or otherwise or the present efforts to oust Bolsh visar from China for good and all. What we can do is to examine the position the Mbaros Goterns mens now finds itself in as a result of the reaction against Soviet in
ferent foreign nationals, trigue. The ruid on the Soviet comes the more apfortonale that Endusey at Peking was in itself differences should have arisen a
a juncture where auninuity was enough to rouse the bitter anger
never mite called for. The danger of the Moscow plotters, and it was
of this delay in formulating a de- for several days a matter for finite policy on the Nanking el- eigners in China to-day will agree regine would risk active participa-that overlooking the affair alt tion on the side of the South. One gether, as threatens to be the out- step has been taken already in the come of all the deliberations of pret weeks, merely aggravates the trou- severance of diplomatic relationsble and incites similar occurrences | with Peking, and there have been elsewhere. zumoars of the massing of Russian troops at points on the Chinese bor- dey where Chang Tso-lin's posi-
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New York declaration of war has resulted to
Brussels Indeed, the Moscow clique | Geneva were careful to state that they did Amsterdam
Milan not intend to take any action of | Berlin
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a belligerent nature against Peking. Stockholm Shanghai It may be assumed that the Soviet Hongkong realises the folly of pitting its Yokohama
Copenhagen forces against the North, when such Oslo would inevitably mean the draw-Vienna ing in of Japan' and the other Bucharest
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RAMBLERS' CLUB.
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Telegraph.]
31 YEARS' SERVICE.
RETIREMENT OF SHANGHAT'S D.C.1.
our
If a woman's ankles are not of
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A now light from America; on the study of Shakespeare: it coines from a speech before the Cali- fornia Federation of Women's Clubs:--- who was succeeded by P. J. Patti- 'I studied Shakespeare for Capt. MacKenzie, Capt several years but really never Boisragon, Col. Bruce, Capt. K. Jenjoyed him until I purchased Me Kuen, and Capt. Barrett. ... Lamb's. "Tales from Shakespeare,. He has received five decorations and got the stories in a nut-shell. from the Chinese Government, and
Some day or other the Lamb's the presenta from
Japanese Tale was sure to meet its affinity Imperial Government for services in the Sheep's lead. during visits to Shanghai of mem-
kon,
hers of the Imperial Family, and Bridget was given some macar- wears the Police Long Service andoni by her mistress to prepare for the Queen's Jubilee medals.
the table.. but wasn't sure about
Commander A.8. Douglas is due
As a public servant, with his its preparation. intimate knowledge of China-its What's this for mum?" she many problems, its geography, its Like, territory he has won admiration. "Din't you cook macaroni at Sir-Purther to my letter which and often has astonished his
"Cook it, mum. we used them. appeared in your issue of Pues friends with the wealth of detail. your last place?" day's date may, I tike the oppor ed knowledge he has, silently London. April 27. inity of using a little of your garnered during the years he has things to light the was with."
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34.03 their support. The response has the-way towns, touch on perplexi to take over the post of Drafting 26.25 been very gratifying indeed, butties, speak familiarly of men in Commander at Devonport, succeed- 12.13% I feel sure that there must be more high places. He is second to none ing Commander E. J. Shelloy, who has had two years there, and who 021/16 rambling enthusiasts in the Colony in the local police force to-day.
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reserve,
"EXTRALITY.”
PERSIA HOPES FOR ABOLITION.
Teheran, April 27. The Shah, opening the Supreme Court of Justice, said he hoped the extraterritorial privileges would eventually be abolished.-Reuter.
Petty Officer Hindley, who wan on his way to Hongkong to join the fleet, contracted pneumonia on the voyage and had to be taken ushore in Penang from the s.s. Autolycus on Thursday last, says. the Malay Mail of April 19. He was taken to the Hospital where he died on Friday morning and was buried in the afternoon in the Western Road Cemetery.