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ENGAGEMENT.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927.
by Mr. Mellon as regards Britain wha decidedly inaccurate, and could not have been based on any
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The enragement is announced of M. Henry Angele, of Moller & Com pany, of Hongkong, Shanghai and Indo China, to M, Marcelle Roze, daughter of M. Roze, advo- cate General at Hanoi, and Mme
Reze.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927.
THE NOTE TO US.
DAY BY DAY.
intimate knowledge of facts. It NEITHER THE INTELLECTUAL NOR
THE MORAL CHARACTER OF ANY -STANDS „STOCK-STILL. ---
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the
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shippers at the Peak Church will
The Annual Meeting of Wor-week ended May 5th, 1906. be held in the Cathedral Hall on Friday, May 6, at 5.30 p.m.
required a categorical, official PERSON denial, and the British Govern- | Charles Reade. ment has rightly issued one to the public, both of the Empire and of America, in the form of a Note to the Government of the United States. The very full report we were able to publish yesterday, contains figures that tell their own story of heavy burdens borne, and, be it noted, forne more or less cheerfully, by the British tax-
All warships in Harbour dress- cd ship this morning, to-day being the anniversary of the accession saluto was fired at con. of His Majesty the King. A
The First Cruiser Squadron, less, H.M.S. Dahl, H.M.S. Dragon, ILMS. Frobisher, H.M.S. Daunt- and H.M.S. Danae, have returned to Harbour from exercises,
Chinese
payer. If it was unfortunate that Mr. Mellon should have revived controversy, on a sore point like war indebtedness, it was particu- larly unfortunate that he should working in the Hang Fung rice
It is reported that a bave included the one country firm, at 116, Connaught Road West, that has been meeling its warting recently disappeared. It has bee
discovered that his account was obligations to the full, unflrich-$95,000 short. ingly, and hitherto very success- fully, despite receiving only 11 fraction of what is duo from other
sources.
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Seme time between 11 p.m. on the 4th instant and 6 o'clock this morning thieves entered No. 38, Bawlin Street, Yaumati, and stole cigarettes, clothing and money to the value of $180.50.
of
The Very Idea!
A doctor who had been called in to see a patient strongly impress ing hot water with his whisky. ed upon him the necessity of drink- "Otherwise," he said, "you mustn't take it at all."
The rate of the doliar on de- I water?" plaintively inquired the But how shall I get the hot mand was 2. 1.1/8d.
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patient. My wife won't let me gave a performance of "A Coun- shave," answered the doctor, us ha
have it for the whisky." The Amateur Dramatic try Mouse."
"Well, tell her you want to
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Club'
took his departure.
The next day the doctor called The C.P.R. ss. Monteagle arriv- uguin, and when the wife opened" ed from England to take her place the door he asked how his patient kong and Vancouver. on the Pacific run between Hong-was.
The Com- "I'm awfully worried, docter," pany entertained a party to tiltin, was the reply, "I'm afraid he's and Mr. Craddock proposed the gone
Ite health of Mr. Richardson, Superin-every ten minutes." raving mad.
shaves
which he had looked after the al- tendent of the Company, and re- ferred to the untiring manner in terations to suit the boat to her new conditions.
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There were 58 cases of plague reported.
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The Pacific Mail s.s. Company resumed its regular service, which had been suspended owing to the San Francisco earthquake..
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"I'll have my hair cut short,"
guid she.
"Oh, gosh, but I'll look
strange."
And then sno quickly changed
her mind,
'Cause she was short of ·
change.
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Wylda Green, near Birmingham, Four years ago a ludy living at
asked the Prince of Wales to give her six penny stamps as capital to start a business on behalf of The Prince,
after having been for 16 years the the Life-bont Service. of Mr. W. Keswick, M.P., retired Chairman of the Committee of the China Association.
The Foreign Ministers in Peking jointly complained to the Chinge Government that the works of the delayed. Huangpo Conservancy were unduly
Voens Road Central, has reported Mr. N. 1. Brewer, of 25, Des to the police that between 8.30a.m. on the 4th and 8.30 a.m. yesterday, one electric fan and two desk tele-ers throughout the country on ac- some person stole from his office recalling all the Literary Examin- An Imperial Edict was issued
phones, valued at $52.
As the Home Government reiterates, our policy has always been to expect no more from our
Two further Chinese cases debtors than is required to meet typhold were reported yesterday, American obligations, and both cases coming from Victoria. this means that, in the event of other infectious diseases reported
were LWO Casey reccipis ever overtaking disburse- (both Chinese) and one Chinese diphtheria ments, we shall reduce the Allied | case of small-rox. obligations in exact proportion. In the end, America's claims will | be satisfied, and we shall he very lucky if we get from others a fair portion of what we shall have paid out in the course of the next generation or all. It is not the time to raise again the ethics of all-round debt cancellation for Those who fought side by side in the Great War--that is an ever- green topic on the Continent, and already the source of much an- fortunate ill-feeling-but the Bri- tish Government has done right te step in and mail an inaccuracy, at a time when, as the Note states. "It views with great misgiving the divergence
opinion, ani estrangement of sentiment, which
growing up regarding these An Indian watchman was sent war obligations." That strange-te the Government Civil Hospital
yesterday suering from enl ment of sentiment could, We Woods. He is alleged to have think, be avoided were, men
been assaulted by two frdians em- official positions more careful ployed by Messys, A. S. Watson & L., Lu, in their branch office in Connaught Road Central.
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in
as
the 21 hours ended 9
The Harbour Office reports for morning gave 11 arrivals and 17 a.m. this departures, leaving 66 vessels in harbour of which 21 were British. British arrivals numbered four and departures eight, the highest figures of the day.
as President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, sent the stamps, and a business, known as up from them. the "Little Acorn," -has been built It started with the making of rosettes Luter it developed into woollen soeks and gloves, although
the making
of
the original rosette industry is still continued, and it now has also
cally sends and owner of the business periodi- a doll department. The founder
balance-sheet and the count of the modification in the profits to the Institution, and in. ese schools to conform to those of presented to her by the Prince, she methods of teaching in the Chin-iour years, out of the six stamps western schools.
has made i 10s. for the Lile-bout Service.
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Messrs, Wilks and Jack Kavo fees to Victoria Building from notification of the removal of their
Beaconsfield Arcade.
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Licut. Commdr. . F. Hole, Harbour Master, was admitted to played at the King Edward Hotel 'The Band of the 119th Infantry
an
County Court that this year wo
A bootmaker predicted at Bow
men would have shoes of a colour to match their eyes.
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Man summoned at Willesden for hospital last evening to undergo for dinner, and the Band of the keeping two dogs without licunces: During his absence the duties of ed at the Hongkong Hotel.
operation for
appendicitis, Royal West Kent Regiment play-One was an old friend, and. I took Harbour Master will be carried out by his deputy, Lieut. Commdr. J. B. Newill, R.N., D.S.O,
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pity on the other when his mother died.
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Mr. J. Reidie, Senior Inspector
Wife at Kingston: When I ask- of the Sanitary Department, was
ed my husband if he wanted a Club with a gold card case on his time of the year! I do not have presented at the Corinthian Yacht bath he exclaimed, "What, at this departure on Home leave.
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It is perhaps unfortunate that Britz has had to revive discus- sion on the matter of war dehta, and particularly the British pay-
ere until summer."
ments to the United States of
Regarding riots which had taken Woman at Bow County Court: America. We say as had to
place earlier at Nanchang, the I do not mind a blackguard, but I advisedly, for whatever officials ut.
negotiations of the French Minis- cannot pat ip with swearing. ter af Peking resulted in the Chin- Washington may say about the
ese Government paying an indem- Solicitor at Lambeth: Your wor- etter by Mr. Mellon being merely
A Chinese suffering from frasandertaking that the gentry in streets which has fallen from coal nity of 100,000 Tls, and giving an ship has no doubt seen coal in the a domestic affair, it was from the
tured ribs and a fractured spine. volved in the riots would be waggons. Mr. Rooth (magistrate): Serrefary of the U. S. Treasury, in Conference now being held at The man is said to have jump: 4
The International
was admitted to, the Governmieni punished. Ecefomic Civil Hospital yesterday afternoon,
Yes, and I have often felt tempt- official who is directly concerned Geneva strikes us as being both into the road from the first floor:
ed to pick it up. with the albt papnants by Britain. very hopeful and, at and was addressed to the head of aim to achieve very much that is
time, just a little too idealistic died about midnight last night.
the game of a house in Cleverly Street. It Princeton University in reply to concrete. We agree with the
World Economics.
The Local Chinese Administra-
that the repairing Qi
Lieut. R. M. Crosse, R.G.A., Was
transferred to Hongkong to take up the duties of instructor in gun- nery.
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new
The Blue Funnel
疖
twin-
The death of Mr. Dan Corcoran
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Barrister at Kingston County Court: These two round circles represent street island...
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Fraulein Lily Schmidt lost her for the Prevention of Suicide at Budapest.
She attempted to kill herself the
an appeal made by scholastic President of the gathering that tion at Tsingtas have issued the bodies that the question of the inter-dependent as regards econo"Referring to Harbour Notificationed at Glasgow.
the nations of the world are following the led the seren steaner Cyclops was launch position as secretary of the Society cancellation of war debts, allmic needs and that it would be a No. 2 of 1927, notice is hereby round, arain
be considered. very good thing if there could be given This came just after Mr. Winston will recover.
organised world-wide co-operation Yunuisan Fog Horn is finished took place at Singapore. He was following day by taking poison, but Churchill, in the House of Com-Great War proved how disastrous mons, had informnied a quesioner is a stoppage in the natural flow that Britain's receipts from the of commerce and products, and we all know how the supplies of raw Allied countries in respect of wormaterials from overses are
debts amounted, to date, to essential to over-crowded and in 210,000,000, whereas the total dustrialised countries. But that interchange of goods in part of paid up to then to America, on the ordinary trade of the world
horn is to begin from this date on Corcoran, late of the Honkong (March 291
Police Forte. - '#f
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According to a report made to the Government Civil Hospital yes- Board, vice Mr. L. C. Rees, the Police, a Chinese, was sent toed Secretary
Mr. A. J. Darby was appoint- of the Squatters terday suffering from a fractured leave of absence. leg, after having been run over by Motor Truck No. 2216 belonging
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Mr. M. H. Logan was appoint-:
The Health Committee of the Carnarvonshire County Council offer prizes every year for the best essays by school children on public health, and the following are extracts from some of the essays!
Every man should have a bath
account of our war-time borrow-and we do not think that it needs to the Hang On Transportalized District Engineer of the Can-9ce a month and every ings from across the Atlantic. special economic conference to Company, of No. 10, Tai Yunon-Kowloon Railway construction twice a month.
many
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tendance
who
TO-MORROW'S PICTURES.
A SPECIAL SELECTION.
woman
If you wear tight clothes your joints won't work,
You must remember to wash yourself or you will die before your time.
We should control our bad tem per, because fit of bad temper are no good for digesting food.
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"What are those three old "fel- lows having such a solemn consul- tation outside the pub for?"
"What for? My
man, wi'
their debts to the United States." rivalry in largely at the back of thoroughly appreciated the excel-tain a specially large number of price it is, ye need tae hae solemn
To-morrow's Telegraph will interesting local pictures. The Intest issue of the "Silver Exclusive photographs of
con-whusky at the daylight robbery consultations before ye gang into
the
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a pub, mind, I'm tellin' ye."
Clive William Thompson, agod
amounted to approximately £125,-athered together might fearn Street, Wauchli. The accident is (British Section), and Mr. R.
support it, except insofar as thoac 500,000. Pigures to conjure with, more intimately of each other's reported to have occurred at Wan Baker was appointed personal as Indeed! Tu face of that, it was needs. The ideal to aim at, sa chai.
sistant to the Chief Resident En- with considerable surprise that is concerned, is the elimination of far as contributing to world peace
Another excellent entertainment
gineer in charge of the railway. sewspaper readers were informed international competition for trade was given at the "Better 'Ole" a few weeks ago, by Mr. Mellon, an altogether impracticable and Y.M.C.A... Pekin Road, Kowloon, in the course of his letter to said with much truth that most the Y.M.C.A. Entertainment Com- idealistic thought It Has been last night under the auspices of Prineston, that "The fact is, ali malern wars have been caused by mittee. The programme was pro- our (America's) principal debtors international commercial competivided by the band of the Came- are already receiving from Ger-avenues,
tion, the seeking after trade ronians and Miss Eileen Wood the jealousies Who sang songs from her reper- more than enough to pay caused by laing them. Economictoire. There was a very large at
of Servicemen After
the foreign policies the nationa referring to Italy and of the world and it in inevitable lent programme ellered." France, he went on to state, that such competition should "From this year, Britain every exist. In many ways it would year will receive from her debtors if it did not, but there is of the Boy Scouts Association of the harbour will be accompanied be a great loss to the world Wolf," which is the official organs.8. Tilebout being towed through a substantial amount more than very little to fear in this re-Hongkong, is full of meat, and of by another, taken after the vessel one year and 11 months, was bit she will pay us, so that her gard a it resta on 0310 of appetising quality. There are the bad been dry-docked at Tnikoo, en by a spider while playing at American payments
the predominant traits of man-customary notices of local interest showing clearly the difficult nature his home in Clifford avenue, Thorn- will not
kim. There must be international to Scouts, as well as reprints of of the task set and accomplished eigh, Australia, and died an hour constitute a drain upon her own economie competition, but, wo the reports on the annual meeting by the salvage, workers. economic resources."
agree that it would be desirable and the Girl Guides, whilst a de- Pictures of the spring festival which did not give rise to friction Shek-O, a contribution on "The and of the competition held on runs this past anason, will be or always to confine it within boundscription of the Rangers' camp at gathering at Quarry Bay School, and ill-feeling. Tif policy of give airy Tenderfoot," and a Chinese Saturday last by the Scottish appeal to sportsmen. and take, upon which commerce section with an illustrated article Company of the Volunteer Corps In addition, there will be 1 figures, must have carried a deal is to be hoped, come to the rescue say is reproduced of the winner make the issue of special interest dinner of the Armoured Car and must aventually proceed, will. it on ants, are other features. The for the Quarry Bay Cup go to flashlight picture taken at the |of conviction, and, if the least bit and avert any future ware for then the competition held recently to Taiko.
Mounted Infantry Companies at. inaccurate, necessitated early re-commercial or economic gain ofed from the Chinese. The winner It is on "Honour," and is translat-
A group photograph of the army Volunteer livadquarters, and two Fany nation. Competition thoro ffutation. As it happens, as all must be, but it should. always be was Scout Yip Fu-to, who receives football team which won the Laf photographs showing the naval who had worked out the actual mindful of the welfare of all of the 20th. Troop, of which he is K.C.C. cricket team, including, Mr. Bassett who was drowned in the $5, another $ going to the funda Wah Cup, and a picture of the funeral of Petty Officer Thomas amounts knew, the assertion'made parties concerned.
member.
W. Brace, who has scored 1,000 harbour
That categorical, sweeping as
sertion, made by a mun apparently
in possession of all the available
Hater.