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SATURDAY,
JULY 16, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
A MAN EXERCISING NO. FORD- THOUGHT, WILL SOON EXPERIENCE PRESENT BORROW.-Confucius.
There was ono British caso of typhoid fever reported yesterday.
A tender for repairs to Steam- launch No, 6 Police, is being call- ed for in the Government Gazclic. The Chairman of the Chinese Mission to Lepers (Hongkeng Branch) acknowledges a donation of $100 received from the Hong kong Football Association.
11
SOMALILAND SNAPSHOTS.
Observations From a Quarter-Deck.
I was stationed at Aden, attach- for a journey into the interior and ed to a unit of the Royal Air wandered later through the village. Force, and secured a week's leave built on sand; saw the children quarter-deck visit to acampering around like black Somaliland. Strange boat, grasshoppers; bought a cúrio or atrange people stranire country, two from a stall of shields and but all in certain aspects attrac-knives; noted the sticky candies tive enough.
for sale on stands by the way;
but it is fairly clear that thers la one faction which (without necès- sarly abating one jet or tittle of its Marxian creed) is convinced that it is folly for Russia to wage a perpetual "holy war against the foreign capitalist" unbelievers in the present form of Russian Ortho- doxy. This party realizes that The Ben Line s.. Benledi is due Soviet
for and Capitalist here, on her outward-voyage, "on Russia
Wednesday. Europe may be constrained, for.on Indefinite time to come, to live side by side in the same world, and that it is therefore more com- fortable for both sides to live and" let live, and to exchange their rea- pective wares, without prejudice to neir respective belief. It is to be mferred from Monsieur Litvinov's notes that this Russian party of common sense has receivod e çon siderable setback from recent events, and that the fanatical party is in the ascendant, not, hap. pily, to the extent of actuelly muk-
During the early hours of this Ing war, but to the extent of reus-morning some person or persons sorting its cherished. thesis that broke into the Kwong Man Hing the U. S. S. R. and the Capitalist knitting factory of Pei Ha Street, system cannot permanently co-chines valued at $340.
Shamshuipo and stole three ma
exist. This doctrine may involve war to-morrow; but if it is estab- lished, or re-established, it will hang like a cloud of meance over the peace of the world. Militant fanaticism "always thrives on the sense of being persecuted and it should be the task of European statesmanship to see to it that Rus LIGORES-On July 16th, 1927, ian fanaticism is starved of this
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The steamer had a fonnage, as found a sandal booth, and went by ẹ I recall, of scarcely more than a without entering the ono-room hundred. The skipper had once mud dwellings, commanded a larger ship, which
Wo welghod anchor about sunset no had had the misfortune to run and took our course about east ground on a shoal in the Red Sea northeast. It is eight years ago He had, therefore, transferred his since this happened and someone 'services to a boat which made his may correct my spelling of that position among seafaring men less last village oùstward on .the During the week ending Saturdignified but which gained him a British Somaliland coust for which day last 2,842 persons arrived in larger Income. His increased in-we were heading: Las Khoral. It Shanghai, from inland towns and crement was due to the fact that does not much matter, for it is cities, viu steam launches on Soo-he was master in more than one not marked on the map I have chow Creek, and 2,048 persons sense of his small craft and could to-day and, to tell the truth, be- left by the same route.
dictate to the natives of either tween two full moons the village. shore of the Gulf of Aden the rates could have been removed and put for their passage and for that of up elsewhere. their sheep.
in former days his salary remained within prescribed It was a lazy day, the next one. limits
Soft breeze, a camp chair, brown, We shipped little cargo and few bare Islands drifting by to port, Arabst on our sontherly course. and to starboard a curious pano- Magnificent noon of a white-heat rama unrolling. Far in the back-
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II. E. the Governor has appoint-day as we cleared Aden harbour ground was a thin, strictly ruled, cd Mr. Robert Baker to act as and, left the Java Banks of the pencil line in the sky, unbroken Like and parallel to the shore.. It was Manager of the Kowloon-Canton brown mountain astern. Railway, in addition to his other polished chips of lapis lazuli was the filed summit of the 7000-foot duties with effect from 7th July Cooling breeze. The quarter-deck and base melted in the heat and
the kea. Blue
unfathomable. crest of mountains, whose face- 1927, and until further notice.
room, distance to one with the scarcely
treatment
cue.
REPULSE BAY CASE.
JUDGMENT RESERVED AFTER
COUNSEL'S ADDRESS.
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We left the same evening and
..our
The driver of a Sanitary Depart-lounge, promenade, and after two rumpled sand plain which flatten- ment lorry has reported to
bella in the evening, bedroom. but these twenty miles to the the For nearly seven days the cap-} sea, With our glasses we could Police that whilst driving his vehicle in Li Tung Street, the tain allowed me to study the see low clumps of shrub and every left mad guard struck a Chinese charts with him on this quarter- couple of hours pick out a few deck and absorb his sea-knowledgoj huts which corresponded to the who received an injury to his leg of these parts, while sonic swarthy name on the chart of a village. He was taken to Hospital for Lascar steered at the wheel behind At Las Khoral on the following The Naval Conference.
us. The nights were black about day canoes came off and took us If only because it is a prelude
the ship, save where the phos-nshore. Over the last few yards to a general disarmament confer His Majesty the King has been sides, or where the skies glowed sand we were carried on
It is notified in the Gazette that phorescence peeled off along the where the waves met the shelving ence at Geneva later, the naval pleased to approve the appointment with staro, the wind sweet and the shoulders of Sepoys. parley should be a success. It of the Hon. Mr. D. G. M, Bernardes-song music.
It was a would be difficult to build up any
ragged little village and we wore to be an Unofficial Member of the future agreement as to reduction Executive Council for a period of
welcome enough, for except when The morning after the first this steamer called every two of arma, on land, at sea or in the
five years, with effect from 4th night we were at Berbera, which months the village, and the Sepoy air without a basis of definite un-April, 1927. derstanding, such as is being
was found divided much as the outpost with two English officers, sought by the delegates of the
roats and the sheep. On the left, was cut off from the rest of the.. RUSSIAN FANATICISM, three Powers represented at the by a Chinese girl in Queen's sandbar, was the gray village. On and a new record for the officers' Slight injuries were sustained pushed back a bit from a spit of world. We brought food, mail, naval conference. Yet the latest Road, East yesterday by reports, even, if they were based knocked down by a motor cycle den the white house of the British entry into New York the first time being the right rose from a walled gar- gramophone. The Leviathan's on scarcity of facts, have not in- We have been reading in the dieated a very bright outlook for combination which was driven by Commissioner, who in his own could hardly have been more im | latest newspapers from Home much the rest of the time that is in be Mr. C. Greenwood, the Police parts wielded a power second only portant. or impressive, relatively comment on the subject of the gen- taken up in the discussions. It is Armourer. The girl's parents re-to the authority of my captain on speaking, than the anchoring of
as well that there has been a de-fused to send her to hospital. his ship. A wharf of sorts start our boat off Las Khorni. ern relations existing to-day befinite declaration of policy by the
ed a sund, road off on its way to tween “Communist" Russia and the chief British representative, whose Rescued from an attempt to com- the 7000-foot mountains twenty "Capitalist" World and there is no example was followed by the other mit suicide, a Chinese woman who miles to the south, parting, as it put in again on our way back at doult about the existence of wide- delegates, to some extent. The jumped into the harbour near the passed, the village from the Berbern, where we took on save, at We anchored at hundred sheep and more than a Japanese, it may be noted, are still Kowloon Ferry yesterday,
was residency. spread opinion that these two cautious almost to a point of all-taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital. respectful distance from the shore hundred Semalis, men, women and systems cannot go on living side byence, but the Americans are will-Kwong Fat, coxswain of a motor and made the wharf over the children. Our craft was loaded ing to state their case as it appears boat which was moored near the emerald waters Intervening into the gunwales and few there. side indefinitely.. Fellowing on the to them. The very full report of wharf, effected the woman's res-boats.
could have been who were un- assassination of the Soviet Govern- the plenary session which was
Somalis are lean folk, blacker grateful that the sea was calm than ebony, taller than usual across the Gulf of Aden. ment's diplomatic representative at sent out, both by cable and wire- less, yesterday, indicates that Bri-
they wrap themselves in white
From sunrise to ten, or there- Warsaw by "White" Russian tain has been misrepresented, and
winding sheets, carry long spears abouts, of the next day, before we exile, there were two Notes sent to a perfectly clear, and sensible pro-
and smile not unattractively made Aden, I had time to observe They are so built as to be able in the forecastle below Poland by M. Litvinov, on behalf gramme for reduction and limita of the Soviet, which, although along been hers. It appears that
to squat easily on their haunches, quarter-deck some of my fellow- tion of naval armaments has all
which is a favourite occupation passengers. A. colourful body. clearly indicating that Russia was America is shy of adopting the
when they are not distancing the Most of them were on their first not going to precipitate a war, did British suggestion that there be After a lengthy address by Mr.sands in angular movements, excursion to Aden: this would contain the unreasonable and sen-heavily armed cruisers, and that Bay motor case, which was con
a reduction in the number of big, G. K. Hall Brutton in the Repulse all a likable people. I was told.
So, to the commissioner's for apply particularly to the women and children, and great were the sational contention that there is a distinct maximum be laid down. cluded before Mr. R. E. Lindsell lunch. Through a gateway hung sartorial and tensorial prepare- world-wide conspiracy against the in spite of a declaration by the at the Central Magistracy yester- about with bougainvillea blossoms tions. All heads were oiled and U.S. delegate that his Government day afternoon, his Worship in-and up a path bordered with comhed and bare of covering. ..S. S. R. It was alleged that the was the last to initiate the build-timated that he had no intention yellow and red flowering plants. The men wore their spotless white raid on Arcos and the breaking off ing of 16,000 ton cruisers, and to decide the case off-hand as he Within the house of thick stone draperies with one end slung over of diplomatic relations between that there is no contemplated con proposed to give it some considera- walls and high ceilings was ana shoulder a la Roman toga. But Great Britain and Russia is one struction of this type on a large tion and reserved judgment till unintentional museum of the dis- the women were pictures.
senle in the future, there is, to off next Wednesday morning.
I saw a wee bit of a girl being manifestation of it. The similarset this the statement by Mr. Mr. Brutton, addressing the present at the coronation of the dressed for the occasion and when raid on the Soviet Legation at Pek- Brikkeman that the Americans had Bench commented on the various Queen of Abyssinia and had on the operation was ended she was ing, and the surveillance over the made the alarming suggestion discrepancies between the story the Order of Ethiopia, with which The arms and neck were left quite
the occasion been decorated with
a miniature replica of her mother. that they required twenty-five sub for the prosecution and that of the Soviet Consulate-General at Shang-ships, with 8-inch guns. Appar-defence. He submitted that he went a ceremonial costume. Part
manifestations ently the cruiser problem is the spector Grant was not, as he had of the dress and the shield carried free. Around the upper part of drawn, then it began to wind (though these actions were author, snag that threatens to wreck the claimed, driving on the extreme at the same time hung on the wall the body the cloth. was tightly ized, not by the British Gov-however, there is the British sugdants passed his vehicle.
conference in part. At least, left of the road when the defen-
in the living room.
about her. Yard upon yard were":
ernment, but by the diplomalle gestion that, as the delegates have.
Spears, knives, other shields, added and flounce upon flounce The Inspector had drawn in 'to carpets, embroideries, made pat- were arranged in some mysterious body in Peking and by the Shang- agreed most of the way on sub the left and the defendants were
The way. A flower was placed in the terns on the white walls. marines and destroyers, they may justified in passing. If he had so
ata on the floors had interesting hair and a ribbon or two strayed manifestation, according to M. and leave the other matter to it- Litvinov, is the assassination in self. There is a probability of have stopped the other car by ly wicker. The commissioner had effect was complete and a laugh- a fine library and spent his time, ing little face and baby shoulders Poland of Monsieur Voikov. It ising easy of negotiation, and the
the subject of capital ships prov. putting out his hand.
Commenting on the incident at when not busy administering this und arms emerged from half of a true that Monsieur Litvinov re-feeling, particularly, after this Repulse Bay, Mr. Brutton and corner of the British Empire, in small shop of crinkled white Thus into Aden harbour and to frains from alleging that either the public airing of policies, should that it was ridiculous to assume studying birds. It was a delicious cotton.
definitely in favour that bad language would be used lunch, and this typical calonia! Polish or the British Government
settlement. It were to a fully dressed Inspector and representative of fiis Majesty the the docks, when for some Somalis instigated this crime; he charges a pity to have the conference added that the remarks were put King had a mass of information at least the butterfly of events the British Government with in-break up without any complete in by the prosecution to justify which could only be scratched in would emerge from its chrysalis- Aden was for them what the New the short hour with him. direct responsibilty on the ground agreement on all the points at in the action of the Inspector.
Mr. Brutton referred to the
Outside, after lunch, we watch. World was for Columbus. sue. We would rather think of
. R. A. C. that its hostile diplomatic action the Geneva naval discussion lead-conflicting evidence of the Indian ed a string of cameis being loaded encouraged the terrorists to make ing, before long, to a compromise guarda, remarking that at least a forward move.
OLD RESIDENT'S Obviously, toon every aspect, brought forward, one was lying, and "probably they and an early treaty satisfactory are both liars" added Mr. Bratton. Mr. Brutton explained that the
DEATH. charge foreign Governments with to all parties.
reason the first defondant did not complielty in a crime of this kind
COLONY'S FIRST SUPER- would be so preposterous that the The Health bulletin of Eastern leave the car was because both his charge would defeat itself. Never- Ports, issued by the Principal hands were held by the Inspector INTENDENT B. AND F. DEPT. Amsterdam
Stockholm A Reuter's telegram from Lon Oalo Civil Medical Officer, for last week, and his foot was on the brakes, theless, Monsieur Litvinov's at contains
There was little evidence against the following cases:
this issue) Prague tempt to find some causal connexion Pingue, Basscin and Bombay, the first defendant except a breach don (olsewhere in between all these events, howover cach, Rangoon 3; Cholera, Bussein of the regulations added Mr. Brut- notifies the death of Mr. Charles Madrid Ford formerly Superintendent. of Athens 13, Calcutta 12, Haiphong 7, Bom- carefully guarded, leaves, and is bay and Tourane 2 each, Rangoon,
With regard to the second de. the Botanical and Forestry De- Rio
Bombay of Hongkong bviously intended to leave, the Bangkok, Saigon and Canton 1 fondant Mr. Brutton Buggested partment.
Only the older generation New York each; Small-pox Bombay (17 that the evidence was more or less impression that Communist Russia deaths) Rangoon 12 l death), "piled on." He did not think local residents will remember the Genova the Church of the Latter-Day Calcutta 11 (10 deaths), Nagagaki there was any doubt that a blow late Mr. Ford, for it was as long Berlin Saints-la being persecuted by "the 17 (4 deaths), Bangkok 3, Vizaga-was struck at him. The only age as December, 1902, when he Copenhagen (1 obstruction on [patam 2 (1 death), Basra
the part of the retired on a pension of $2,450 per Vionna dark forces of world reaction and death),
Hongkong (1 death), second defendant was to ask the annum. It was in 1871 that Mr. Helsingfors the enemies of peace." In short, Colombo, Chang-Chun and Mk-Inspector to dealst in his assault Ford was appointed Superinten- Lisbon it is a a caso, of "the hidden hand. den 1 each. All the plague cases on the first defendant. Was that dent of the Government Gardone Bucharest Shanghai The internal polities of Soylet and all the cholera cases, with the an obstruction? asked Mr. Brut- and it was in 1880, when the Buenos Aires
exception of two-one at Bangkok ton. There was no physical in Botanical and Forestry DeparYokoham Russia aroTM notoriously obscure; and one at Tourane--died.
terference.
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