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Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone. All Trams pass in front of Hótel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony. Hotel launch meets all steamera.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
PROF. C. THERESES
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TUESDAY & FRIDAY
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HOTEL METROPOLE, HOTEL BOA VISTA.
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UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
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HANKOW REDS CONCENTRATE.
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$121,466, and May $1,172,700, making a total of $4,654,460,
Military expenditure at the rear-Llang Kwang-was follows: January $3,292,659, Fob ruary $3,074,094, March $2,853,201, April $2,854,830, and May, $3,466,
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607, totalling $15,541,293.
Special military expenditure was: January $949,785, February $625,163, March ́ $624,025, April $705,447, and May $525,003 total ling $3,250,327.
The total amount of expenditure for different items during the past five months is $23,326,086 leaving a balance of about $280,- 000 in hand.
A Cavalry Unit,
In view of the fact that in the coming war with the Fengtien army in North China a cavalry force will be necessary, all the Whampao cadets studying the cavalry course have been ordered to Nanking to render service at the front.
One hundred atudents are pre- pared to take the first ship to Shanghai.
KUANGSI LOOTERS
Riffraff Active in Kingyuan.
WEDNESDAY, JULY
CURE FOR CHINA. NOTICE TO MARINERS.
WANTED: A MOTOR-CAR
CIVILISATION.......
DR. HU SHIH'S REMEDY.
the Father of China's Literary Hu Shih is usually referred to as Revolution,, It is always a ques- the spoken language of China a tlon whether his work in making
LOCAL DREDGING OPERATIONS. The following Notice to Mariners has been issued by the local authorities under date July 16:
It la hereby notified for the vessels that on and after 15th. information of Masters of all
July, 1927 and until further notice carrried out in the vicinity of dredging operationa will be
Belcher Ridge and Rambler Shoal.
literary medlum and bringing the literature to an increasingly large Three timber dolphins marked number of Chinese, did not actual by red flags by day and red fixed all the principles and slogans to the southward of Rambler ly accomplish more for China than lights by night will be constructed laboriously worked out of the tiny Shoal and will form a danger to brains of secondary politicians. navigation. His revolution teams with life, while the politicians have brought ed to proceed dead slow when
Masters of all vessels are warn to their land only destructive pro-approaching and passing this area. cesses. His suggestions are the and must pass well to the north- spark of hope in an otherwise ward of the most northly point of Belcher Ridge or to the south- ward of the dolphins aforemen- tioned. They are asked parti- cularly to refrain from attempting to cross between those dolphins.
black age..
This notice in no way cancels that issued on the 27th May, 1927 regarding dredging at Penquin Shoal. Masters of vessels are again cautioned to observe and comply with that warning and to refrain from crossing between the dolphins now created on Fonquin Shoals.”
But now Hu Shih finds that: too many thinkers In China deal only with words: with literature and poetry and philosophy, with the relationship of western to eastern thought. But. thought, without action is as nothing at all. He visited the United States and Europe and Japan and saw a vast materialistic civiliantion bringing to the people a spiritual awaken- ing. Not the rare Mozart and the raver Leonardo da Vinci, but the masses, the plain people, the Bab- bitts think and read and know and have comforts and society which kings and philosophers and the WOMEN UNDERGRADS. choice of the earth could not have
VIGOROUS PROTEST TO OXFORD CONGREGATION.
General Chien Ta-chunt has telegraphed to Canton that he has completed. arrangements with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek for the coming expedition against Kiangsi, and therefore will be able to re-imagined a century ago. He finds turn to Canton in the next few a Lindbergh hopping off to Paris days.Nam Chung Pro.
in a mere 32.hours while a Chinese has to wander: 104 days to get from Kansu to Peking: he sees Chamberlin breaking Lindbergh's London, June 14-The Congre- record in a few days, while China Igation at Oxford have decided, by is at trundling in rickshas. He 229 votes to 164, to limit the num Wuchow, Kuangst, June 10. watches American. bricklayers her of women undergraduates at Taking advantage of the pre-float to their day's labour in Mr. f the University to 620 among the vailing conviction that Mission Ford's motor ear civilization, four women's colleges, They properties may be molested at while China's professors still are have further decided that thero leisure without the authorities carried on the backs of sweating shalt henceforth be only taking serious action in. the matter, human beasts, the ricksha coolic, woaran to four male under- or ondeavouring to apprehend the the sedan chair coolie whose eyes graduates." culprits, a few of the lower strutal face the pavement and whose Miss Sara Margery Fry, Princi of soclety recently broke into the neck is turned downward until pal of Somerville College, foreign missionary residence in his brain conses to be human vigorously opposed the proposals. the city of Kingyuan. The build. and becomes that of the animal ing was just as it was left over with whom he compeles for a a year ago when the missionaries livelihood. The spirituality of the returned to America on fur. East! There is no spirituality lough. This just suited the wishes where millions slavo and even the of the marauders who forthwith rich spend most of their days at broke open trunks and boxes and tending to the mere business of ransacked the rooms for anything
living. that suited their fancy, and having obtained a sufficient supply they made off with the loot,
been thdrawn.
Philosophy of Engineering.
And so, Dr. Hu has returned to his country with the philosophy of Conditions generally are peace ful. Robberies occur at various!
engineering. Make mon drive. places throughout the province,
motor cars and they'll stop dream- Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. But these acts of open lawlessness in so much about what Confucius Entirely under English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout. are carried on by insignificent said to his disciples and why. They'll work out accountancy Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rocms.roups rather than by well-or- problems and put an end to Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal súpervision of the proprietress.ganized bands.
the political chaos in China; In telty parades are less fre- they'll spend less time enting Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
quent Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. hoat w ich was stationed here for they have the price, because Rocke- an formerly and the gun over-rich foods to prove that the six weeks" has recently feller does not have to be fat Sol's continue to come down to show that he is rich. It does the Wat River in large numbers, men are judged by their production not matter in n civilization where motor boats and native craft rather than the size of their gowns. being requisitioned for this pur- Keep men at work building huge in- pose. These troops are being dis-dustries and they'll have no time patched by various roles to join to torture concubines and keep the boundary forces on the border their sons and daughters-in-law in of Hunan, and to prevent the Red spiritual bondage. The Materialis- forces from entering the province. tic Age in the West has brought human beings too much personal freedom-byt in the so-called spiritual civilization of Asia there is only slavery, narrowness, waste- fulness, dissipation of human ener- ky and choo9.
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POWELL'S LOSS.
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Balance Sheet, as the draft Balance Sheet initialled by them correctly described the item as a debit balance of Profit and Loss Account.
Better Buying.
"To Work Modernly."
So speaks a sage of China! The small newspapers of the land ridi- cule the iden as coming from one who would be a Confucius, but After all why be a Confucius when to be a Hu Shih is even greater. For bin is the solution which will
He
STOP PRESS.
MORE JAPANESE TROOPS.
Shanghai, July 6."..
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It is reported that the Japanese General Staff has ordered the Eighth Brigade, of approximately 4,000 men, from Dairen to Taingino, Where the garrison at present is 2,000.
Less than 1,000 are proceed- ing to Teinanfu, when the railway is restored, which it is expected to be immediately.
Japanese engineers who were recently investigating this railway (which is heavily morignged to Japanese) re- port that communcations can easily be restored.
Nationalist troops now hold Kaomi, 50 miles from Teing- tap.-Reuter,
IRISERABBOCZAMETRIC SOLUTIONS PERTINCHISE CHICKNET
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ONLY 13 PER CENT, TAKE FREEDOM.
1927.
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The Great Potash, and Perlmutter Farce-Thrill-Comedy
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Calcutta. Calcutta, June 28.
SCHOOLMASTER UPHELD.
make modern China great,
Of over 3,100 slaves in Hukawng Audrey and Esme Tosh, two MAGISTRATE ON RIDICULOUS wants them to use steam and elec-Valley freed, by the Government youthful and talented Calcutta tricity and to manufacture the Burma at a cost of nearly goods they consunie,
He wants
were
My predecessor, in his speech last year, informed you of the change which had been effected in our buying arrangements in Lon- don. I am glad to say that this them to became so free that they £17,500, only 13 per cent. of those change has proved beneficial, not will understand what to do in an liberated took advantage of their
eight-hour working day. He wants freedom. only in reducing first costs, but in the Chinese peasant to become a Those who remained enabling us to buy more up to date farmer with tractors and chemical apathetic regarding supporting goods in a wide market. The fertilizer, with good health and fine themselves. stocks of the Company are ab-products, with bustling railroads solutely clean and have in, every and steamships to bring their pro-
A decree has been issued in ense whore necessary been deducts to the great centres, with Roms for the establishment of a preciated to replacement value. grain elevators and hanks to protect High School of Malurial Diseases Since the close of the financial them against hawk-nosed middle- with a view to promoting the year under review, Mr. A. 3. D. Cousland has resigned from the more so in Chinn than in Kansas or presented and the improvement of Dreams, you say! Why study of the medical problems Directorate on leaving the Colony. Nebrasaka? Why more so in China marsh arcas."... Your Directors are indeed sorry to than in the desert which is now the have lost Mr. Cousland's services, garden-like Imperial Valley of Call- as his advice and counsel was at forniú? all times of great value to the Company.
men.
Waste of Talents.
dancers, have secured an engage
CASE,
mont in a new production at the
Mr. Tassell, the Tower Bridge Garrick theatre with Miss Betty Balfour as loading lady."
niagistrate, mado zome severe re- Misses Audrey and Esme Toshmarks recently, after hearing were associated with the Calcutta Amateur Theatrical Society in evidence on a summons for, as- several of their recent productions (sault brought against Mr. H. T. and frequently performed on be-Abel, headmaster of St. Olave's half of charitable objects.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?.
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
Grammar School, Tooley-street.. Edward Thos. Atkins, fourteen, of Summer-street, Southwark, said the defendant that he had to take he had been so severely caned by.
1. Portugal. 2. The circumference of any his meals standing for two days, Apure, L. A stone falla 3216. In each second and medical evidence was called or to fall side of Iron. An Indian or his behalf to show that the. indy of royal rank, o. Chak, of limestone ausheted to heat and pressure. 7. British punishment was severe.
tide la not" felt. "Tidnend-town.". 10. A
Chinese 15.
them a chance; turning sour against the foreigner who enslaves their Guinna. 8. Coal & Where the effect of the "I have never heard a more, fes- With these few remarks, I fig
country. That is not work. That our stabilahed by statute in 487. 11. Able or ridiculous case before this formally to propose that the Re- training and education and statis- is a waste of talents and learning. Ella Wheeler Who The brought," said Mr. Tassell. "The But such in civilization requires is doing nothing for China. That tropical ukin diacase 12. The Phoenfetans, Court, and I am sorry it has been port and Accounts, presented, be ties and hard work. adopted, and I shall be glad if China has been sending students to Build roads and force every tuchun For years, Put them to work doing, things.
boy may have good manners and Somo shareholder will kindly the United States to become special to drive his own Dodge and every the making of forged passports has been playing truant, telling Believed to be connected with may be clover, but he admits ho second the proposal.
Mr. Overy seconded, and the re- with nothing to do.
ints. They have returned to China colonel to know how to fix a car for Chinese emigrants who want lies to his parents and school-
Cornell has buretor.
Turn a mechanically-to enter the United States 1-master, and stolen lotters sent to port and accounts were adopted and produced agricultural engineers; minded nation into modern me legally, three Chinese were arrest his father, and by his father to tho passed.
Mr. M. Manuk was re-elected to any one american giver engineering work. There is goed in a Police raid on a shop in school, and for this he gets soven
Pennsylvanis, railway engineers chantes. Make the engineers do the board of directors on the pro- sites turning attican univer much to do in China and the politie Queen's Road Central. last Wed-strokes with the cane. You nak me position of Mr. Seriven, seconded liant Chinese specialists. What are cians are only philosophers and nesday, states the vernacular to convict a schoolmaster of as- by Mr. Ainslie...
'Mr. Ainslie proposed and Mr. ting about the large cities looking This, from the man, whose Historyl the manager of the concern, boy. It is absurd; and you, may...
they doing in this country? Sit-philosophers do nothing but talk. press. Of the three arrested, onesault after such admissions by the for political Jobs; holding down of Chinese Philosophy is a beat while another is his assistant have done the boy more harm by small translators jobs in banks and seller in his own country-George Certain documents were seized in bringing him to this Court and mercantile
E. Sokolsky in the Far Eastern Re-the raid, and these will be tran-getting him to admit he is a little houses complaining against the fate which does not give view
alated in due course.
* [Mar. "The summons is dismissed.""
Smith, Seth and Fleming be re- Qvery seconded that Messrs. Percy elected auditors for the ensuing This was carried.:
year.