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༨.:,. ILLEGAL STRIKES.
sistent in that attitude.
BAY BY DAY.
HOW IMMENSE APPEAR TO US THE sING WE HAVE NOT COMMITTED. Madame Necker,
The local weather forecast, issued by the Royal Observatory, up to noon to-morrow, is: E. S. winds, moderate; fair to showery.
THROUGH A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.
A GLOOMY PROSFECT.
The Very Sites!
Dennis turned up at his work one Saturday morning with a more A whit more depressing than a than usually ugly face. His nose. person taking himself deadly was twice lis usual size, one of his seriously with the subsequent eyes was blackened, and several ridicule his efforts favariably of his front teeth were missing. provoke is a Government organi- "Hallo, Dianis! hailed his fore The British vessel Kalgan, arrivation labouring under a similarman. "What's the matter?" ing from Baugkok and Swatow, re handicap. Wherefore it is "Sure it was all over that wed- ports the death of one male pussen-markable that the Dean Inge din Ol wint to last noight!" re-
plied, Dennis.M ger en route, cause of death not School of Thought has not claim- ed me ere this, for I am deeply distressed.
known.
is now sought to be laid down that a strike must be in furtherance of a.trade.dispute within the trade or industry in which the strikers are engaged, and that it must not be designed or calculated to coerce the Government either directly or by in Acting hardship upon the com munity. That should be welcomed by all loyal servants, many of whom have in the past been intimidated into abstention when they would fain, have continued employment. There is a now definition of intimi- dation-a somewhat wide and pm- biguous one, we think which will give to workmen who do not want to go out on strike a greater sense of protection than they had hither- io. In order to maintain essential public services it is laid down that any person engaged by firms supplying electric current or gas to the public, or engaged in maintain-
This morning's Harbour Offec ing a public tramway, bus service reports, gave 19 arrivals and 17 de or public ferry, or engaged in main-partures, of which five and even respectively were British, leaving taining any telephone or sanitary 68 vessels in harbour, British 25. service, shall not wilfully break his contrnet. of service if he
Silk forwarded from Hongkong by the Empress of Canada on 1st June, reached New York on the 23rd., having thus boon only 22 days in transit.
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As the result of a whist drive held at the Police Recreation Club last Friday, the sum of $100 has been raised in the aid of the Minis tering Children's League.
How's that?" queried the fore man.
"Well," replied Dennis, "whin Ol turned up there was a chap struttin' up an' down the room as if the haul place.belonged to him, bowin' to this man, an' shakin'
That blinking red light at the Post Office corner, the care with which the padestrian is porsunded into the straight and narrow path (between white lines) should tend to koop alive a sense of wonder In the Colony, but I baulk when hands wide the other, an' says to the amazement degenerates into him, 'An who may you be?" an amusement. Cannot we keep one he says, Oi'm the bost man,and thousand square yards of Dos begorra he wur Voeux Road Central sacred from. ribald shafts as well as from pedestrians 7.
"Which senle do you charge for King's Counsel?" asked Mr. Really, if things go on like this, Justice M'Cardie in the King's 1 shall feel it my bounden duty to Bench Division when Mr. J. B. advise our worthy C.S. P. to drop Matthews, K.C., was cross-examin- a curtain on "The Experiment." ing a dental surgeon concerning Of course, the thought of Mr. the feen he charged patients. Wolfe with a lighthouse on his Witness, who is the plaintiff in knows or has reason to believe that been sent to the Government Civil hands, possibly with a non-stop the action, replied, "It is what
be harboured for more than aries me, my Lord." the consequences would, in the ab. Hospital suffering from injuries to blink, while intriguing, la not to counsel are charging me that wor his right leg, sustained while riding moment, and then the problem of sence of some extraordinary mea-motor cycle No 168 sures, be to deprive inhabitants of skidded whilst taking the turn at its future place of decoration
the junction. of Stub"Road and would have to be faced.. Morrison Gap Rond,
Lance Sergeant Humphreys has
The officer
In this connexion, I seem to re- member one night coming aCTOBS &. well-known Civil Servant some where in the rough about the eighth hole at Happy Valley Parted," I think, he was singing. Now if we had had something. to steer by
Sour Grapes.
A protest against the Russian reprisals following the Voikov assassination has been forwarded
through the word "impossible,"
(b) Arcos House has made the
President of the TU. C., the gift of a lemon," appropriately in scribed,
1
Near the top of the Ginting Simpah Pass, says the Malay Mail, two motorists found a relatively
(c) British Communists RFA immense land tortoise, weighing about 50 pounds und apparently of considering inserting the Union very great age, which was making Jack in the middle of the Red its way up the hill-road, then al Flag, and
(d) Mr. Irving Berlin, seized most Booded by unusually heavy rain. Having been given a lift to with inspiration, is feverishly the summit. the tortoise later engaged in a new song bit, en
astray, but you must be nice." evinced his appreciation of fruit titled "Lead me away, lead mo
Benevolent Autocracy.
In the Colony of such services. other words, persons in such, ser-
The prospects are considered vices cannot be left free to hold up the community, and we think there good for a spectacular display
meteors on the nights of June 26, will be approval of that provision. 27 and 28, when the Pons- The Bill also makes an attempt to Winnceke comet in its intersection prevent Unions with head offices and of the earth's orbit will make a comparatively close approach to effective control outside the Colonyour planet, says a writer in dominating the action of workmen Malayan contemporary. in the Colony, and, in view of the
"A Chinese wom in was sent to the recent experience in which men in Kwong Wah Hospital suffering Although we have deplored the Canton have pulled the strings of from scalp wounds, caused by pel-by British Labourites, under the introduction at Home of the Trades labour in this Colony with disasiets skimming her head in the Pak guidance of the Trades Union (a) On reading the news, the Territories. A building contractor. Union Bill, and still do so, especial-trous effect to us, we view this Yuen Valley, Au Tau district, New Congress, reports Router. ly in view of the highly-tenised provision as being one of the most was yesterday out shooting game, compiler of the New Oxford class feeling it has engendered, we timely in the whole Bill. If there and discharged his gun into a Dictionary, showing few signs of
woman was working there. welcome the Hongkong Govern- had been any attempt on the part swamp without noticing that the agitation, calmly struck his pen ment's intention to introduce an of the Government to deprive work Illegal Strikes Ordinance, an ad- men in this Colony of the right to vance copy of which was published organise in defence of their own of to improve their in the Gazette circulated on-Satur- interests day last. There is nothing incon-economic status, we should have We have entered a most emphatic protest, always admitted that the law of but we have examined the proposed England relating to Trade Unions measure: very carefully and fail to and trade disputes was anomalous find anything in it which can be and full of obvious inequalities and held to be inimical to a workman's The right to strike inequitable immunities. Some of just rights.. the Trade Unions have themselves remains--provided the strike is in confessed as much. Our quarrel furtherance of a workman's dispute with the Government.at Home is with his employer, To strike for that it has chosen this year of 1927, any other purpose is clearly against the year following the great indus- the public interests, and must be trial upheavals, of 1926, to throw at made illegal, the heads of the Labour movement this challenge. Instead of letting the animositics of last year die
There have recently not been down in a period of quiet work, in a year in which there is no threat wanting signs of attempts at a close of grave industrial disputes, it has approchement between Canton and Hongkong, and these are, of course, introduced a. Bill that by its uns welcomed here, where for a long timeliness more than by its pro- time there has been a genuine de- visions has aroused all the old susaire, fostered by the newspapers, to picions and distrust which organic ed Labour has so long entertained against the Conservative party That complaint cannot be made here in Hongkong, where a totally differ- ent ret of circumstances exists and where the Government is official and non-party, uninfluenced by party politics.
Canton And Hongkong.
for tea.
Mr. Matthews, to witness--You
charge your clients according to their rank and position in the. world? Yes.
I have alway understood that when a man is knighted the
tradesmen put on a shilling in the pound, declared Mr. Matthews, amid laughter.
Willesden magistrate: We all- have to resist the temptation to pick up things that do not belong to us.
Magistrate at Willesden to a coal man accused of gambling: I will make the fine 3s. 6d., about the price of a hundred-weight of
coal.
Mun at Clerkenwell County Court: I am here to tell the truth, Judge Bairstow: You are here to talk. I am here to say whether
or not you are telling the truth.
Midland poacher: 1 did not know that a policeman was in the the fatal shot at the rabbit. wi wood, or I would not have fired
Creditor, at Shoreditch;
Judge Cluer: Almost a certainty he is never out of a public-house. that he has nothing left.
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Prisoner at Marylebone: I am apprenticed to a saxophone maker. Mr. Hay Halkett (the magistrate): Oh, dear! I don't know that you ought not to be suppressed alto- gether,
Our aim is to make, the world analler and the British Empire We have the very best goods in larger-Sir Samuel Instone, the world, but it is no use unless we tell the world. Mr. F. C. Good- enough.
The trial was resumed at the Criminal" Sessions this morning of
Explaining the powers, it pro Leung Sang, who is accused of the murder of a woman at Chuk Un poses to give. itself of increasing village, Kowloon City, on April. 6. taxation without warning, and A statement alleged to have been without waiting the Legislative made by the prisoner was read, in Council's approval; the Govern which he implicated. Ku Tevi, the ment indicates that should ap man formerly charged with the proval not be given by the In this Council subsequently, the extra crime and discharged. statement defendant admitted being duties will be refunded. present when the crime was com-
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States Government cable connect- ing Seattle and Fort Lawton, Washington, at a spot off Cape Flattery, reports that on hauling the broken ends to the surface-a twenty-ton, whale. was found dead; entangled in a mass of twisted wires.
The whale had partially severed the cable in several places, and in' some extraordinary manner caught the broken wires fast in its jaws.
This is the second case on re- cord of a whale breaking a sub- marine cable.
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In HB.M. Supreme Court at Shanghai, last week, before His Grain, 'the Honour Judge Peter ease of Rex. v. the Shanghai Times, tion for an attachment for contempt being the return day on an applica- promote peaceable commerce and of Court, was brought to a speedy general intercourse. If there have conclusion. Mr. Tycho Wing NP- been any rebuff's, they have always peared in behalf of one Gujjan come from Canton, and Hongkong Singh, referred to in the article has merely awaited the dawning of a better understanding of the great complained of: Mr. K. E. Newman appeared for the Shanghai Times. benefit that will accrue, to Kwang- The case was dismissed. tung as much as Hongkong it- self, from a sweeping away of past misunderstandings-misunder- standings that have never been of our seeking. As it happens, there is now nothing to prevent any for- The right to strike has long since cigner going about Canton freely. been admitted, for the act of with The recent round-up of "Reds" has Paris
had the effect of making the city a New York holding one's labour for the pur-place fit for even Britone to walk in. Brussels pose of gaining better conditions One very significant instance of the Genova of labour cannot be held as other new, and welcome, feeling was the Amsterdam
Berlin than a rightful weapon of bargain-recent journey by a British engine
all the way from Kowloon to Can- Stockholm ing. It is in cases where no deton, drawing an express train; and Copenhagen mand is made upon employers, the sentiments expressed at the Oslo where a strike is "sympathetic" or subsequent luncheon were certainly Vienna cordial. Hongkong is always quite Prague political, or where it is aimed at ready to reciprocate any gestures Helsingfors evercing the Government, that it of friendliness that come from our Madrid must be ruled as illegal. The 1922 neighbour city, and it is to be hoped Lisbon that recent moves in the direction Athens and 1925 general strikes here are of friendship are merely signs of Bucharest examples of acts subversive to the further approach to normal inter Rio...
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Scotch afterwards, and completed which ought to be made out evidence of a desire for a proper Bombay understanding, and we have heard Shanghai
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demand for betterment of condi-safely claim for the focal Deeping on Chinese corpses. Such trifle #prejudiced. George is one usual at about nine o'clock. At papers, that, however much they things keep alive the flames of hate, of those lipersons existing, who tions. Workmen, apparently satis- have had occasion at times to find and serve to fan them to fresh con- doesn't smoke, never drinks unless three o'clock this morning I fied with the terms of their employ fault with and be critical of Canton flagrations. Hongkong is willing he's thirsty, and then only some heard, a voice: "Gee! It's hot, can mont, absented themselves in or affairs, they have never descended to play its part in the move towards thing wet, doesn't know a royal you sleep ganised manner, even leaving the to being abusive. There has never rapprochement, The Hongkong flush from ad ace-pot, thinks Low: standard Intelligencet been anything in the local Fress newspapers are willing to Co Manna fell from heaven, and that George knows it now. I explaine Colony in furtherance of a ridicul- which has even approached the scur- oporate, as they have always been, ous political idea of retaliation for rilous attacks on this Colony and But the prospects for real friendli Adam's Apple is something which cd may meaning in a few well everything British which are a ness would be considerably im-sticks in your throat. He's chosen words though I am afraid. Meanwhile, to mollify the incidents which had happened at feature of the Canton newspapers. proved were the Canton Press, almost right about the latter, II repeated myself once or twice. Shanghai and on the Shakee bund. To take a very recent instance, there which has published its scurrilities backed It. There was no trade dispute to be was the date of the Shakee men without the least reproof from the Feeling a craving for excite, generalisation at the beginning, I orial ceremonics, a few days ago. Canton Government, to play its part mant I allowed myself to be might point out that I make no furthered-nothing but the whole One of the features of the day was in the trend towards better rela- caught in the whirl of Hongkong's suggestion of couse and effect,
hectic life last alght, broke my either way-W. JE sale breaking of agreements. In cartoon depicting John Bull tramtions.