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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.
BUYING OFF STRIKERS.
FRIDAY, MAY
13.
1927.
number of the reddest of the "Reds." Recent events in Kwang- tung have subdued the disorderly element, but the remnants of the at one time all-powerful Hongkong Strike Committee, and its follow- ing, remain a charge on the public revenues of the province. No
doubt the merchants will be as pleased to see the last of them as the Government itself, and sub- scriptions to the loan should not be difficult to obtain.
DAY BY DAY.
IT WILL COME TO PASS THAT EVERY DRAGOART SHALL BE FOUND. AN ASS-Shakespeare.
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAFH" FILES.
The following items are from There were four cases of enteric the Hongkong Telegraph for the fever reported yesterday, all Chi-week ended May 12th, 1906. neso, two in the city district and two from the mainland.
The rate of the dollar on mand was 28. 1.5/100.
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The Very Idea!
An Irish sailor was about to be rewarded for an act of bravery.
"Now, my lad," said the captain, I am very proud to pin this medal on the breast of Dooley and lodge. five pounds to his credit In the de-bank, as a reward for his great
pluck."
Pat blushingly held his head up, There were 16 arrivals and 1á
The first smoking concert at the then, looking up at his superior departures in this morning's Har- bour Office reports, of which eight new St. George's Club was held.officer, said haltingly, "If It's all and five respectively were British, The artistes included Messrs. the same to you, sir, I'd rather leaving 55 vessols in harbour, Bri-Watson, G. W. C. Burnett, F. C. you'd pin the five pound note on Barton, F. Chapple, G. R. Edwards, mo chest and lodge the medal in tish 18.
P. W. Goldring, Q. C. Diss, E. Hay- the bank." ward, W. W. Jillings, and P. Browner.
Mr. Isbister, master of the 3.R. Kiangsu has reported to the police that some time during the past two days some person entered his cabin and stole therefrom $75 in
bank notes..
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Sir Ernest Satow proceeded to Nanking to visit Viceroy Chou Fu in connexion with the procedure at the Mixed Court at Shanghai.
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He planted many seeds and for
A garden made 'a bid. But, shucks, he didn't gain 'a'-
thing.
The next door chickens did.
This million and a half of dollars is described as "a special fund to dispose of the Canton- Hongkong strikers." When they have been duly disposed of, every- one will probably sigh with relief, but, the monetary obligation ful- filled, what of the mon themselves? They are not likely to be absorbed readily into useful, permanent otcupations. Even
mere nucleus, they will remain to be mischief-makers at any favourable opportunity, and become again a thorn in the side of those who originally fostered their growth. The Canton Government has by encouraging the Strike Committee forged a weapon which has proved an unwieldy instrument to handle and decidedly difficult to get rid or with the alternative of 10 days' the Southern Baptist Mission, com- you moun by that? Man: you are
£5
Speculations.
A
Mrs. Brock, shop assistant at Messrs. William Powell's made & report to the Police yesterday to the effect that four indy's evening dresses, to the value of $429 wore stolen from the shop between Tuesday and yesterday.
At the Marine Court this morn- ing, before Lieut. Commdr. Ne- will, four boat people charged with dumping building material in the harbour without permission, pleaded guilty and were fined $10, imprisonment.
Four months' hard labour and twelve strikes with the birch was
"I do not," said a member of the There was considerable appre-
Council to get their hension in America at the grow. Salford City Council the other day,
burnt with fingers
" white ing strength of the Chinese boy-want the
elephant." He must have been cott of American goods,
Mr. Paddock, the new Consul of confusing the beast with Blake's the United States at Amoy, arrived"tiger, tiger, burning bright.” in Hongkong,
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An appeal was made in Canton for funds for the building of a memorial to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landing of Robert Morrison to begin mia- sion work, Dr. R. H. Graves, of pleted his 60 years of mission work
in Canton.
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An insurrection broke out in the province of Anhui, as the result of an anti-foreign movement.
the punishment handed out by Major C. Willson this morning to a Chinese who pleaded guilty to a charge of snatching a small roll of cloth from a woman in Well-to iagton Street yesterday.
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The new tower on Green Island take the former Cape D'Aguilar Light was completed.
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The death was announced of At an early hour of Thursday Mr. Denny O'Keefe, Sanitary last week the Straits Hejaz Steam- Inspector. ship Company's steamer
Pongi Teng, which ran ashore on Tree. Island the previous morning, float-
and Ben Royal.
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Beggar accused of using abusive language to a pedestrian in Kent: He gave me a farthing and then said that my face was my fortune.
Man at a Midland court: I was What do spooning. Solicitor:
married. You ought to know.
Willesden landlord: I made my tenant sign an agreement to keep neither cat nor dog, but he has evaded it by keeping a puppy...
Woman at Willesden: The
council, have given me notice to turn this tenant nut. Will you please tell me how to do it? Ma- Eistrate: Go and ask the council.
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"Pitten' water in their whusky," came the prompt reply.
Jones: "I see a new play open- ed last night with a small chorus
the audience!" 1.
Bones: "Zat so? What's the name of it?"
Now that General Yang Sen, the notorious Szechuan war-lord, has definitely taken the offensive against the Hankow Communists It is more certain than ever that the doom of the stranded remnant
A Chinese woman, residing in an at the great central Yangtze port unnumbered matshed in Yuumati
Chairman at Kingston: Have is not a long way off, barring near the Po Hing Theatre, has some altogether unexpected Larabeen, robbed by three men who Shares issued for the construc- you had any trouble with your Only. of events. The fall of Iching and forced open the door of the mattion of the Canton-lankow rail-tenant before? Landlord: Shusi marks the beginning of what shed and entered
at 12:30 last way were largely over-subscribed. once before, when he tried to should be a triumphant "descent of night. In a report to the police,
strangle me twice. the Yangtze and Han rivers, for the woman states that she aus- Inspector Macdonald' prosecuted
Believing that unwed park' it must be borne in mind that the pects one of the men to be her on behalf of the Police in the case policemen are apt to be too solicit The body at Canton which has Hankow forces are divided up to own nephew.
of the murder of two coal coolies ous of nursemaids and flappers, come to be generally known as the defend at least three fronts--one
on board a junk in Yaumati Bay, down-stream to the cast, where Mar-
the City Service Commission of Police Lance Sergeant Buckner Hongkong strikers, is still very shal Chiang Kai-shek's forces have has been sent to the Government
In aid of the general funds for Milwaukee has ruled that much in existence, although, so far taken Kiukiang, one to the north Civil Hospital suffering from the furnishing and equipping of "sparrow-cops" must have wives. where the Fengtien troops are multiple injuries to his head and St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, as this Colony in concerned, a
A class in school were having a pushing their way down the Han-arms caused by falling off his which was then nearing comple- speat foret... Of the large number kow-Tientsin-railway and one to motor cycle at the junction-otion, an appant was issued by the history lesson. The teacher was of workmen who left here at the the east, theing the challenge of Lower Albert Road and Ice House Committee in charge. The fabricading to them an account of the Battle of Bamnockburn. "And time of the Canton boycott, some General Yang Sen. There is also Street. It is believed that the had been donated by Sir Paul
when the English saw the army have died, others have found disaffection to the south, although machine skidded while the ser- Chater.
it is reported that Changsha is
on the hill behind," he rend, "their occupation in their native pro-still loyal to Hankow, and remains geant was taking a sharp bend.
spirits became damped."
"Now, what is meant by damping vince, and many others are back interposed between the Wuhan Supposing
their spirits?" he asked of one at their tasks in Hongkong; but cities and Canton.
that Hankow does fall fairly 300
bright lad. a proportion of the strike body, one sees that there is the prospect the notorious pickets and lawless of the union
Apparently there were no Scots of quite powerful
men in the Colony in these days, Tabble of about a year ago,, are forces, for it, in fairly certain thated off the coral bed on which, she for we note that the five ponies to
and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek still at Canton, and without General Yang Sen would agree to rested and came under her own start, in the Hurdle Race of the employment.
Theit support has pool their forces in holding the steam to the East Wharf at Singa-Gymkhana were named: Glenburn, of Scotchmen in kilties who came now become a charge on the Yangtsze. It must be remembered pore where she unloaded her eargo Forward, The Qualeh, Doris Castle on the stage. throwing pennies into
that Marshai Wu Fei-fu has al- of bullocks and goats. The vessel Government there, and, as part of ready joined up with General does not appear to have sustained the bargain struck with them when Yang Sen, and there is thus pre- any damage.
The cruiser Caradoc, Captain the Nationalist regime, called offsented the beginnings of a anion between the forces of the North the boycott, they have to be com- and the South, despite many pre-II. C. Allen, lent from the Third
-Fate threatens to prevent the pyusated by instalments. Their testations by Marshal Chiang that Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean,
The following were among those mariage of Jenny Dolly, ont of the continued dependence 011 the he intends to have nothing to do for duty in China, is about to be
Jenny recently accepted the pro- administration that used them to with, the North. There are said relieved by the Curlew from the present at the annual meeting of two dancing sisters.
to be elaborate preparations in pro- Devonport Reserve. The Curlew Messre. A, S. Watson and Co., some purpose in 1925, has alreadygress for a big offensive by both was here before. She returned Ltd. Mr. Henry Humphreys, Sir pesal of a wealthy Belgian busi- proved an embarrassment, and no the North and the South in the re- last year from the North Ameri Paul Chater, Mr. II. P. White, Mr.ness man, and went with him tu doubt an unpleasant reminder of/gion of the Yangtsze down by ca and West Indies Station, and J. Scott Harston, Mr. J. Jupp, Cap-the town hall in the fashionable since undergone a refit. tain Clarke, Mr. D E. Clarke and sixteenth division of Paris, to ob
tain a marriage certificate. Chinking and Nanking, but it has
The clerk asked her name, and à tragic, inconclusive effort to would not be surprising, after all, if Commander R. T. Down, C.V.O., Mr. J. A. Tarrant (Secretary).
A Commission of Enquiry was she threw up her hands in despair. Cause this Colony permanent in- there came about a patch-up bet-(D.S.O.,, had been appointed to
my first ween Sun Chuan-fang and Chiang command her in reserve from jury. Until they have been paid Kai-shek. The latter is doubtless April 20, but this appointment is appointed to enquire into whether I have never known
Among the off-the administration of the Sanitary name," the Australian artist re- off they threaten to form a draga keen Nationalist-determined to now cancelled.
"I was one of triplets-all girls on the administration, and a con- carry the best that is in Nation-eers who will turn over irum the and Building Regulations wereplied.
and, if not, where-although Rosic, my sister, has a stant sore on the body politic,alism even to Peking itself, and it Caradoc to the Curlew when the carried out in a satisfactory
might be found, now that he has exchange is made are Lieutenant-manner Their elimination from the scheme given the coup de grass to the Commanders L. E. H. Maund and improvement could be made. The small birthmark to identify her..
element, that the Lancelot King. Lieutenants G.-R.Commission consisted of Mr. T. E. of things has become one of the Communist needs in the Nationalists' present Northern militarists would be pre- Barrow and R. A. Hall, and Sub- Pollock, Mr. E. A. Hewett, Mr. Jenny and Mary. were so alike that pared to accept "Nationalism" and Lieutenant C. N. R. Barham. Fung Wa-chun, Mr. Lau Chu-pal, apart. One of the two died when programme. Just how long it will join up with him. There is cer- Lieutenants Ian Jeffrey and T. K.Mr. Henry Humphreys, Mr. A. Sa baby, and the family never knew take to effect this, however, is tainly much room for interesting Masterman will return home in Hooper and Mr. F. W. Bowen which one it was, but they regis tered the death of Mary. I had speculation regarding the future, the Caradoe, and in their places Rowlands (Secretary).
been given the name of Jenny, but still a matter for conjecture.
and we think that when the Han-Lieutenants R. G. D. Wyndham,
An entertainment took place in I was never really able to find out Some idea of the embarrassment kow influence has been eliminated lato of the Sherborne, and H. V.
Room, given by the young puplis, The marriage clerk then refused that the Hongkong strikera imply there will be some surprising P. McClintock, late of the Voyag the Union Church Sunday School if I was Jenny or Mary."
er, will go out in the Curlew. to the ruling body at Canton may be gathered from the news item we published yesterday concerning a-scheme to meet their require- loan of ments, by means of a $1,500,000, levied from the Can- tonese ferchants and shopkeepers. Levied is the word, for apparently
orientations.
OUR PICTURES.
MUNICIPAL “SPLIT.”
A letter from the Secretary to the Resident was read stating that it was regretted that the recent Committee was not prepared to re- commend the establishment of a Municipality in Kuala Lumpur at
Mr. Amos P. Wilder, WEA appointed Consul General of the United States in the Celony,
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oficial members only. Even even-pictures. compulsory nature. tual repayment of this loan does Among them will be several taken at last Saturday's extra race not do away with the fact that the meeting and showing finishes of
DESERTED SAMPAN BRINGS GOOD HAUL. mercantile community is being races and the leading in of win- called upon, after all they have ning mounts.
Revenue Officers were fortunato Bucharest had to aufter already, to buy off Photographs taken at the funeral a discontented section of the of the late Surgeon Lieut.-Com- the present time. Government ae-in bringing to a successful con- Buenos Aires
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singles Championship (Messrs. S. Government proposer to place the opium was found on board.
The officers acted on informa- Prague Board on a footing similar to that interests. These strikers have taken at the abandoned match of the Rural Boards of the Colony. tion received, but apparently the Madrid The Board will prepare its own principals received warning, and Athens been at the bottom of the greater played on Tuesday, the re-play of
Bombay part of the agitations that have which is due to take place this budget for the approval of Gov- the seizure was limited to the con-Rio
ernment, and Government will traband, no arrests being made. afternoon,
Following the usual procedure, Hongkong from time to time dislocated busi-
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