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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MAY 24. 1927.
EMPIRE DAY.
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927.
it evident to the world that thero is reality and substance behind the claim that the British Empire Is composed of asparate nations held together by ties of affection and blood. There is even now taking place in London a Colonial Conference at which representa- tives of Crown Colonies and the lessor Dependencies are meeting under the Presidency of the Da minions Secretary to discuss com- mon problems, and it is a confer. ence which promises to be fruitful in future co-operation. Plenty of evidence is to be found that those
at the helm of Britain's affairs are ever mindful of the democratic. nature of the structure of that Empire and are for ever seeking to widen the liberties and scope of cach and every part.
DAY BY DAY,
I FANCY THE PROPER. MEANS OF INCREASING THE LOVE WE BEAR QUE NATIVE COUNTRY 13 TO RESIDE SOME TIME IN A FOREIGN ONE-Shen- stone:
the
FREIGHT MARKET.
EFFECT OF CHINESE UNREST.
In their fortnightly report on frolght market, Mosers
There were two cases of anteric Whoolock and Co., Shanghai, fever over the week-end.
write under date May 12th:-
To United Kingdom and Contin- ent:-Our local export market has been rather quiet during past fort
The P. and O. 8.5. Dévanha, from Hongkong, arrived at London on May 21,
night, there being only a limited Llout-Colonel R. F. Lewis of number of steamers to keep up the Military Hospital, and Mrs. the trade with Hankow-but the Lewis, are leaving for Home to-export market at Hanow seems
morrow.
The motor Vessel Benares (Swedish East Asiatic Co.) left Antwerp on Friday and is expected here on June 28th.
The P. and O. as. Mantuh, with
as the first ocean very active steamer to load thera direct for Europa received very good support and in the meanwhile two more ocean steamers have proceeded Hankow where they expect to los about. 5,000 tons of cargo each.
The Tea season is reported to
The Very Idea!
A native African principal, in the presence of his inspector, was opening the session with prayer. He meant no disrespect when be began "O Lord, have morey upon us this day, for Satan is with us again!"
The feathered tribes on pinions cleave the air.
Net so the mackerel; and still less the bour.
Sir Alfred E. Pease, Bt., who is in his seventieth year, lung down a challenge to youth when ho rode third in the members' race at the Cleveland Hunt point-to-point meeting at Redear. The four- mile course included more than twenty jumps, but Sir Alfred flu- ished fresh after out distancing five youthful.competitors.
Sir Alfred was for sonic years. member of Parliament for the that time, won the House of Com importance will take place before mons Steeplechase. He is still a
regular rider, to hounds. the middle of June.
For us in Hongkong and for the outward English mails is due be rather late this year and it is Cleveland Division, and during
to arrive here from Singapore on not expected that shipments of any Thursday afternoon.
Britishers in China generally, there is at this time and has been of late special cause to be grateful that we are members of the Bri- tish Empire, for, in spite of all the undeserved calumny that has been heaped on the British by the extremist section of the Chinese Nationalists, there has been in Britain's recent policy in China much of which we can be justly proud. The manner in which the Mother Country has shouldered the responsibility of affording prɔ-
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Passengers arriving by President Harrison from 'the U. S. and Shanghai, include Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McBain and Mr. N. McClelland.
Miss Davey, residing at the Hongkong Hotel, reports that on the 21st instant, between 3 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, some person entered her room and stole therefrom jewellery to the extent of $500.
The chief engineer of the 8.8.
time
banknotes Was stolen from
: MARINES PARADE.
tection to British life and pro- Clara Jebsen mace a report to the perty has been the theme of many police yesterday that some appreciative references. There between two and four o'clock in the afternoon, the sum of $500 in can be little doubt but that Bri- tain's generous policy in China his cabin. The money was lock will in time bear the fruit it de-ed in a drawer, which was forced
open by the thief. serves. And meanwhile, we can, gratefully remember the forces out here amongst us and try to re- move from their minds any ideas To-day's local observance of of forgetfulness. As Britishers Empire Day has followed the we ought, on this Empire Day, to asual form that of holding spe- resolve to do all possible to help cial services for the children. our soldier and sailor sons of Em- There has been little other out-pirc feel that they are among ward show in this Colony to mark preciative kith and kin the day na one which has been specially set aside for the remem- brance of our wonderful inherit-
ance
as Britishers a day on which we ought to reaffirm our purpose to do everything possible to uphold the honour and integrits of the British Empire, which is the world's greatest common wealth of nations. The birthday of the late Queen Victoria was up propriately chosen as Empire Day, for it was during her reign that so
Mr Chen's Reply.
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The Dalny export market con- tinues active and rates are firm.
To United States, via Pacific and Canals: The situation on this berth remains much the same ns, when last writing, this being sort of "betwixt and between". seasons, as far as silk and tea are concerned; there is some wood oil and general cargo coming down from Hankow, but very little offering locally.
Coastwise:-Conditions are be- coming more serious at Hankow, Merchants, being unable to obtuli
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Hampshire tramp: I ara a handy man, sir; can do anything from poisonin' a cat to weedin' a gard- ing..
Durham magistrate to a sailor: Do you know this woman? Sallor: Not particularly well, sir, although sho. is my wife.
Willesden man: What ean I do with my wife? She knocks mo about: Magistrate: Kiss her and make her love you.
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Tearful young wife at Willes- cash for their goods, are sending them down to Shanghai to await den: My husband scarcely gives the market here! once they have me any money. He offered me 84. succeeded in effecting a clearance on Sunday and said that he could of their goods from Hankow, in-not make it a shilling unless I dications are that the entire ex-made him a cup of tea.. port trade of the Yangtze Valley will come to a standstilli
Considerable demand still exists for space to Northern Ports; this
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It appears that New Zealande,.. can better London's claim to the.. smallest baby, if a statement made by the nurse who cared for
is accentuated to a large extent by the child is accurate, says a Reuter the refusal of the Southern mill-message from Wellington, New tar authorities to allow Chinese Zealand. The nurse states that owned craft to proceed North of Martha M'Ginty, who was born in Shanghai,
Auckland Hospital in 1912, woigh- "I did not
THIS MORNING'S MARCH. A large detachment of Royal As mentioned in our last issue,ed only 14% ounces. Marines paraded at Murray. Bartha weak under-current has dove feed it with a canary feather," she cargo to the said, "I fed it with an eye drop- ap-racks this morning, in connexion leped further and
with practice for the King's Birth-Southern Ports has fallen off very per, and the child thrived," day Parade.
Headed by the Marine Band, the contingent afterwards engaged in a route march through the central di ricts.
Eugene Chen lost no time in re As was to be expected, Mr. plying to the note sent him by Mr. Basil Newton, the British repre- GERMANY STUBBORN. sentative who has.departed from
Hankow. The latest effusion of Mr. Chen's follows the lines of his previous essays-there is a great deal of verbiage, but little oleo. There is a polished phrase or two, but if anything, the style is im paired. It is less like the old stuff, that recked throughout of care- fully-selected
REFUSES FRONTIER
INSPECTION,
considerably.
KING'S BIRTHDAY.
TORCHLIGHT TATTOO FOR SHANGHAI.
If Hongkong is going to have a big military parade on the morn- ing of June 3rd., in honour of the birthday of His Majesty the King, Londoh, May 23. Shanghai is going to have ite The British, French and Ameri-torchlight tattoo. can Ambassadors have made friend- journalese. 3tly representations to Germany con- which she undertook to destroy, but, since the withdrawal of the inter Allied commission of control, she has declined to allow Allied military experts to visit the sites, to verify
this, destruction.
DOWNPOUR EFFECTS.
PART OF OLD HOUSE COLLAPSES.
Dick Whittington never had a cat The Lord Mayor of London. The Trade Union Bill is tho charter of liberty of Trade Union- ists.--Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
Cocktail drinking among young girls is becoming a national me- race. Hon. Mrs. Forrester Paton. Though we may think too much of Victorian poets, modern poeta think too much of themselves. Mr. G. K. Chesterton."
The late Mr. Joseph Harker, once doyen of scene-painters, in his book of reminiscences, gives "A northern contemporary re- an instance of Sir Henry Irving's
One of the scenes in "Coriolan- to be staged by the British Shang- ¦ us" showed a fishmonger's shop in swing for the Torchlight Tattoo hai Defence Force at the Publica Roman thoroughfare. Anxious Recreation Ground on the evening to achieve the necessary degree of of June 3rd in colebration of the realism, I painted outside the shop birthday of His Majesty King a lifelike representation of a tur- George V, under orders of Major bot. General Sir J. Duncan, CB, The scene, it must be under- C.M.G. C.V.O., D.S.O.
stood, had to be shown twice in the The arrangements for the play once in the opening stages. Tatttoo are in the hands of aand again towards the final fall of most capable committee composed the curtain.
Irving was down on that turbot of Colonel W. D. S. Brownrigg, D.S.O., The Sherwood Foresters, as soon as he set eyes on it.
"Take that fish out, my boys!". (President), Messrs. N. L. Sparke, T. H. U. Aldridge, Col. M. H. was his command. "I'm going to Logan, Capt. R. M. J. Martin, the wars in the play, and it won't
C.B.E..keep till I get back!" Major F. V. B. Witta D.S.O., M.C., R.E., and Major C.
More glennings from the class- B. Mansergh M.C., Rayal Corps of Signals. Captain B. O: Hutchi-room son. 7th Q. O. Hussars is acting. The leopard can change his. in the capasity of Secretary and spots because when he's tired of.
one spot he goes to another.
An abstract noun is the name of Any profits accruing form the. Tattoo will be distributed in equal something that has no existence, proportion to the Union Jack Club such as goodness.
Some fractions are "simple" and Others are vul- of Shanghai and to the General Officer Commanding the Shanghai "compound." Defence Force, for the benefit of gar" and very "improper. There the troops under his command. is also a double fraction where Rehearsals for the Tattoo will two or more bones are broken, but this kind is only used by doctors. commence almost immediately,
Pat-"Why are you looking so
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much was done to consolidate the would seem now that the author cerning the castern fortifications I ports that preparations are in full attention to scenic detail. Empire and base its administra-is tired of the task of trying to tion on sound principles. It was
make points out of nothing. His note of the week-end proves this. back in the days of Palmerston is a mere stringing together of that this Crown Colony of Hong-phrases; a series of claims, with kong was added to the Imperial nothing to substantiate them; a denial serialim, and a retort utter- possessions and the subsequently weak in logic. Obviously, the history of Hongkong has amply description of the Hankow Gov- justified the work of those who grnment as a body lacking the frst essentials of an organised, made the cession absolute. And.
authority, civilised
Yankled. the same can be said of all the Otherwise, he merely brings up the other parts of our far-flung Em-old Getion about the presence of pire, that they stand for good, the Shanghai Force being respon
The heavy downpour in the early sible for all the trouble,on the honest administration, incorrupt Yangtszo. That, as will be pre-hours of yesterday morning result government and democratic liber-gently shown, is a futile accusa-ed in a landslide in a new road be- ty. As a civilising and progres- tion, carefully stored in the arm- tween Robinson and Conduit Roads, oury of Hankow for use whenever which brought about the collapse sive force there have been few some outrage requires explana- of the rear portion of an old house factors in the world of more pot- tion. In the same breath, almost, in Robinson Road.
Mr. Chen admits that the Hankow This part of the house was used ence than the British Empire agreement with Britain has not as a garage, and the collapse caused And we have a right to be proud been carried out; but he offers no extensive damage to an expensive of it, not in a vain-glorious or apology, no justification: forget-car.
As reported yesterday, there were boastful way, but because the Briting that two wrongs cannot make
In right, be attempts to draw a red several other minor landslides all tish race has, through the Empire, herring across the trail of the Bri- over the Colony, one in Aberdeen been permitted to render a great tish argument. As for the British resulting in the back portion of a forces in China, it is mererly re-number of huts being carried away. service to humanity.
peating the obvious to insist that Fortunately there were no fatal Since the last Empire Day, there their presence, far from aggravat- ties here. have been very important meeting the disturbances in the coun- ings in London of all the Premierstry, has prevented worse outrages. Force alone checked the Nanking of the various Dominions, and as orgy of slaughter, rapine and loot. a result of that Imperial Confér- The Defence Force alone has en- ence the Empire is bound even abled Shanghai to continue to be Shanghai as of old. And the closer together than ever. In Yangtsze outrages are merely a London inst November there were reflection, and continuation, of the intense, Moscow-sown, Canton-en-
THEFTS FROM CLUB.
GOLDSMITH TRICKED.
AN OLD SCHEME
SUCCEEDS..
The accountant of the Tin Sang
Treasurer.
"ABIE'S IRISH ROSE."gloomy, Mick?"
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Mick "Sure. my dog was run- ning over the railway and get his tall run ever."
Pat Och, now, that'll spoll his carriage."
Mick "Spoil his carriagel Bedad, it's fair ruined his waggin'.
OPIUM HAUL.
SEIZED ON BOAT FROM CHINA.
formulated very definita-ideas of couraged, campaign of anti-for- goldsmith's shop, of Queen's Road, crowded fast evening when the inter-Imperial co-operation on al-eign, and particularly anti-British, West. is the latest victim of what most every conceivable subject, hatred and calumny, which began seems to be a tommon confidence
with the boycott of Hongkong,trick. Including the important matters and has gone on unchecked from of defence and.trade. A new.con-bad to worse. ception of the political relation- ship existing between the Mother Country and the Dominions was, evolved around the central figure of His Majesty the King, and the
-FANLING VISITOR'S LOSS, full status of a self-governing
Mrs. Drevard has reported to the country was reaffirmed. for South Africa, Australia, Canada and polled that the sum of $0.70 has been stolen from her room in the The King's title ladies' club-house at Fanling. New Zealand. has been changed to fit the change Another report made to the in status of South Ireland, and police, from the same place, is to there have been other acts to make the effect that blankets to the value
of $125 have been stolen,
WILBUR PLAYERS' SUCCESS AT THE STAR. The Star Theatre, Kowloon, was Wilbur Players presented "Ahio's Irish Rose," which met with signal success. The popularity of these From a roport made to the police, players is rapidly increasing and it is learned that shortly after noon when the piece is again présented yesterday a Chinese went into the to-night it is doubtful whether shop and ordered a gold chain and there will be a vacant seat.. three gold pendants, with instruc The humorous difficulties of re tions to deliver the goods to the Tai conciling Jewish and Trish fathers. Saa boarding house, where pay-to the marriage of their respective Hong Peng from China via Sin ment would be made.
aon and daughter are of an gapore the vessel was boarded by extremely funny nature, and any Mr. Byrne, head of the Preventive one in need of a good laugh should Service, and a posse of revenue
org gear they dat On the concluding two days of During a search they discover not fall to see this production.
"Able's ed 1,200 takils of non-Government their visit, to-morrow Irish Rose" will be played and on opium and 750 dollars in Chinese
been found in either case. will be presented. Thursday, The Divorce Question" 10-cent pieces. No claimant has
The accountant took the goods along, in due course, and a man purporting to be a foki of the cus tomer said he would take delivery Of the jewellery and pay for it. He took the chain and the pendants, and went into the next room, os- but was never seen again. tensibly in order to fetch the money,
Penang, May 16.
On the arrival of the steamor
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