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TUESDAY,
JULY 19, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
A TIDE AND GENUINE IMPUDENCE IS EVER THE EFFECT OF IGNORANCE, WITHOUT THE LEAST BENSE OF IT.--- Steele.
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STEALING ELECTRIC
CURRENT.
OFFENCE MUST BE PROVED
AGAINST A PERSON. At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Mr. W. Schofield deliver- ed judgment in the case wherein
Ï¡consec..
under, the
under
The Very Idea!
"John," said the manager se-
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"I have only 2s. 6d. a day. I was married last Saturday, and I have to help to keep my mother- in-law," and Willinze George Bert- ley, aged twenty-one, a porter, who was accused at the Mansion House Police Court of atenting forks and spoons from a cafe,
YOU pletely abolished throughout Tan- MUST ganyika without any compensation tor owners.. Next in order is OWN IT
Nepal, where the Maharaja carried
The foreign gentleman burat. through, in record time, the com-
Into the hotel manager's office in a pleto emancipation of 53,000
rage.
"What does it mean?" ha cried. slaves. More recently the work of
It has now been decided to des- Sir Harcourt Butler in the Burma patch the Empress of Canada from
"You have put in my room a pan "Triangle" has resulted in setting hore to Manila at 4 p.m. on Wed-a partner of the Chun Kwong of water and some dog biscuita!
Restaurant of Woosung Street, was It is insult to me!"
The manager was surprised and free something over 5,000 slaves,nesday.
charged with the larceny of elec at a total cost to the Government
The are informed that Mrs. tric current by tampering with sent for his man. of £15,000, but, unfortunately, not A. T. Hamilton's concert will be three meters installed at the pre-verely, why have you put water without the cost of the lives of given at the "Cheer O" Y.M.C.Amises of the restaurant.
His Worship said that he had and dog biscuits for this gentle-
man's meal?” a consultation with the Crown courageous white and Indian of- on Friday evening as usual.
"Well, sir," said the man, "you cials. Thus it is clear that in
The local weather forecast up Solicitor on the legal questions clearly said 'Get room No. 9 ready
The prosecution argued for an Alsatian!" States more or less within the Brito noon to-morrow, issued by the raised. tish sphere of influence the last Royal Observatory, is: S.E. winds, that this case came
same ruling as an offence against the Oplum or Liquor Ordinances, five years have witnessed a libera moderate; cloudy, some rain. tfop movement as extensive and
Falling from a ladder on which where special provision was mado beneficial as bay similar period in he was working, a Chinese shop placing all responsiflity on the foki employed at 108, Wing Lok In the case under review, The work of emancipation in Street) hus been sent to the Gov- however, the offence came
ernment Civil Hospital suffering the Larceny Ordinance and the China has not yet begun. Chinu from injuries to his legs and arms.theft, like that of a jacket, had to
The magistrate, Alderman Sir C. be brought home to the offender, Johnston, appealed to the proba is still a member of the League of
Conductor Cotton, of the In this case the prosecution had tion officer to help Bentley. Nations, and is under obligation
R.A.O.C., has reported to the failed to prove larceny against the "Goodness knows," he said, "our to report the progress of abolition police that some person stole from defendant and he was accordingly - gaols are full enough, and I cannot ind it in my heart to send this boy to the Assembly in September of his bedroom, yesterday, a wallet discharged.
His Worship intimated to Mr. to prisom". each year, but of one thing we containing $95 in money. He re-
sides at the General Sergeant's Armstrong, who appeared for the | Bentley was placed on proba can be quite confident, namely, Mess in Wellington Barracks.
prosecution, that his remedy aption, peared to be in the Civil Court. that the Assembly will require
Mr.Hughes, an engineer of the Mr. G. R. Hayward conducted something much more satisfactory: than the reported decision to call.. Sanfield, now lying at No. 2 the defence.
Wharf, Kowloon Godowns, reports slaves, in future, "adopted the loss from his cabin of a Web- and fifteen ley-Scott revolver children."
Abyssinia
The re- rounds of ammunition. situation appoars to be getting volver was lying in an unlocked worse rather than better for the drawer. Regent is credibly reported to have suggested hiring out slaves to con- cessionaire plantera, the payment for whose labour was to go to the day night, the station was struck the current week has been" ar- The family of the late Mr. Jose
wires were fused. A live wine YM.C.A.s at Hongkong and Kow-is Luiz de Selavisa Alves, beg owners, as a kind of compensation by lightning and all the electric ranged in connexion with the working h
em-fell on one of the desks in the loon. to thank their many friends for liberating the slaves so
At the "Cheer O" there is to be and relatives for the kind inployed at the end of five years, building, but fortunately no seri- "quiries and expressions of There is nothing, inherently im- ous damage was done and no one a concert to-night, a whist drive
was injured,
to-morrow night and an informal probable in this proposal for a
dance on Thursday, whilst at the massed leasing of slaves, because
Peking Rend establishment there is a whist drive for to-night, a con- cert tomorrow night and a sing song with singing competition on Thursday.
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Hongkong Telegraph..
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1927.
THE CRY OF THE SLAVES.
In
the
TROOP ENTERTAIN- MENTS.
The officer in charge of CheungA FULL WEEK'S PROGRAMME. Chau police station states that A very attractive programme for during the thunder storm on Sun-
it is almost identical with pro-British official contention that posals said to have been made to "slave-trading" is a crime, lovely French concessionaires same two ing criminal penalties, and that years ago, for the purpose of slaves discovered in transit should
instantly be set at liberty. railway construction-in that case
undertaking was given to provide 25,000 slaves.
The one ray of hope for the slaves is the extent to which State members of the League have sign-tic.
China-To-day,
"Cheer O" and "Better
'Ole"
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Willesden woman; She said to me "Come and have a fight," and, naturally, enough, I went as any woman would.
Man at a London court: Sho says things I dare not repeat. • Magistrate: As. for instanco?- Man: Woll, she said, "You're a gentleman, but she down-right sneered.
Solicitor at Bow County Court: Where is your husband?-Wo- man: Trying his hand at a little
Magistrate at Willesden: What his employment?-Witness: Liquid air.
Woman fined for drunkenness at
Stratford: I always plead guilty if I am in the wrong.
A man summoned at a London court for the non-payment of in- come-tax said that he was assessed as unmarried, but he had a wife and two sons-Collector: one son is forty-seven.
And
On Friday there is to be a grand concert given in the City Hall by
Recently while a governess was the "-Pans" party, assisted by the Band of the Cameroniuns, and on reclining on the beach at Cada- Saturday afternoon there is to beques, 30 miles from Gerona, road- lag a book, a gigantic octopus sud- a launch picnic..
denly emerged from the sand and. fung its tentacles around her. A terrific battle ensued between the woman and the monster, and it was only after a long struggle that she managed to extricate her- self from her cont, with which the octopus tore off to sch, while the women fell fainting on the beach.
FOUR BRITISH CASES OF
ENTERIC FEVER.
The average commentator on China usually tries to be optimis
There is always hope for a THE HEALTH RETURN country so long as nothing actually
FOR LAST WEEK. ed the Anti-Slavery Convention. disastrous has taken possession of
There i Admittedly, this instrument fits entire "administration,
has always uppenrëd to be hope for The position of a slave is in any defective; admittedly, the test of China, and R great deal of case a tragic one-a recent For- success is not in the signing, but importance has been attached to the
The persistence of enteric fever possibilities of a unified govern- eign Office White Book" calls it in the observance of its obligament. Du looking back over the is observed in the return of noti- "Hell." But the masa misery and tions, but the fact that.n larger past five years, during which one fiable discuses for last week in degradation of the 4,000,000 to number of nations have signed has commented from time to time Hongkong. It also suggests
on the China situation as it appear extension among the European 5,000,000 chattel slaves is, says this Convention, than any."othered, striving to penetrate the kalei- community. Mr. John H. Harris, in an article Convention prepared by the Leadoscopic scenes reach the There were six cases of onteric of these being recently contributed to the Nation,
gue, is distinctly encouraging. core of the matter, it is revealed reported, four
Three that this has always been the cen-British and two Chinese. a tragedy of human woe that
Nor is this all, for, owing to the tral motif-the great day, to which deaths from this disease also oc- should erlist the energies of every foresight of Dr. Nansen, the clause all looked forward, when Chincurred during the week. The liberty loving man and woman in
would have a Central Government, cases reported came from the
and
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The lady was waiting to buy a ticket at the cinema palace, when
a stranger bumped her.
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She glared at him, feeling it was done intentionally.
"Well," he growled, "don't eat me up."
"You are in no danger. she said, "I am a Jewess."
Broadcasting will not oust the
Great fortunes demand great deede. Mr. T. P: O'Connor.
I am not very much in love with democracy at present.-Mrs. Annie Besant.
the great work of redemption. It inserted in the Convention which and be stabilised as a world entity. city district (four), from Kowloon printed word-Lord Riddell
exact number of slaves "owned as
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Men have not touched the fringe of the psychology of selling to wo- men.Mrs. C. A. Hog..
Before long the delusion of tal- ent will vanish into the limbo of" witchcraft and the devil age.---Dr. A. Adler.
is evidence that many thousands of being heard by civilization at of these slaves are subjected to least once a year. The next stage cruelty. The country which con- in the task of emancipation issociations of his party, Marshal tains the largest number of slaves crucial, namely, to secure an ac- next to Abyssinin is China, where ceptance, somehow, of the conten- the sale of slave childrez has fortion that the slave trade is a crime long been practised on a large of the same category as piracy. seale. These two territories of In the whole category of slavery China and Abyssinia are responsi- literature it is difficult to find ble for at least 1,000,000 slaves, anything upon this feature of but it is interesting to note that slave traffic 'more tersely and con- the League of Nation's Slavery vincingly written than the admir Commisssion reported upon slav-able dispatch from Sir Austen ery as existing in varying degree Chamberlain to Sir Eric Drum in some nineteen countries. A mond in May of last year. The good deal of interest centres just contention of Britain's Foreign now in the Reports, which certain Secretary in that dispatch, and the Governments intend to make to the burden of Lord Cecll's speeches in League of Nations next September. Geneva in September last, was The British Government, it is al- that slave-trading was got a tra- rendy known, intends to give to me, but. "a crime against the the League of Nations a report of human race." It was altogether
is difficult to give figures of the requires the presentation of an- Hope dies hard, and it has taken a and Shackiwan.
There was also one Chinese case nual reports and discussions in long series of disappointments to
suggest the final dashing of all ex-of scarlet fever, with one death. property" but in Abyssinia there the Assembly each year will en-pectations. There were great ex-
One case of diphtheria and one sure that the voice of the miser pectations, and therefore "what of cerebro-spinal fever, both Chi- are said to be two million, even upon a modest estimate, and thereable slave will stand some chance fall is there! Pessimism is in nese, were reported yesterday.
excusable if prolonged, yet most commentators these days may be. forgiven if they strike a note of gloom. Despite the extremist as- POLICE CONFISCATE
TOY PISTOL. Chiang Kai-shek, once he appeared to be winning the country to his side, actually took the place in
at Southend SEQUEL TO AN ARMED Judge Crawford
ROBBERY.:
County Court, refused to accept imagination of the figure that was
the statement of a hairdresser that to appear and unite the country,
There was a sequel at the times were bad for him. binding the various clana and pro-
"I should think," added the vincini races together with the cord Kowloon Magistracy this morning of a common national feeling. One to the trial and subsequent con-judge, "that every woman and girl could hardly liken him to a Crom-viction of three men, at the Crim in England almost has been bob. well, or, to come to more modern inal Sessions yesterday, who were bed or shingled during the last. comparisons, a Mussolini, yet he each sentenced to three years' hard year or so."
The hairdresser replied that he had the makings of a great patriot, labour on a charge of complicity and the only succcus on a large in an armed robbery, committed did not undertake that kind of scale that any commander could at No. 27, Kowloon City Road, in work.
Judge Crawford: Then I should claim since the days of the Chinese May last. Revolution. To give Chiang his -Sub-Inspector Fallon made an advise you to start. You will soon. due, he may still be ambitious of application before Mr. W. Scho-have a queue of these silly women unifying the country under an field this morning for the confis outside your shop. honest, capable regime, but if so eation of the toy pistol which was it is to be feared that he is already used in the robbery. a disappointed man. The new turn
cir-
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Flapper Motor Driver (after the The necessary order was made.ccident)-"It was all your fault. I've been driving carefully, I've had two years' experience."
Old Gent (picking himself up)— "But I've always walked carefully. I've had sixty-eight years, experi- ..124 once."
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tion prevailing throughout the Now York British influence, and if a full accumstances, not surprising, that country as far as most of the lend- Brussels.
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ihilitary, are Genova concerned, makes the effort to Amsterdam given, it will show that over 250,-strongly oppose this view.. Yet
bring the country under one ad-Milan 000 slaves have been set freo since it is useless to ignore the fact, ministration almost superhuman. Berlin. the close of the war, First in or that, until the British contention The tuchunship system, the bitter Stockholm der comes the mandated area of
rivalries, the abandonment to self- Copenhagon is generally accepted, the slave seeking and absolute disregard of Oslo
Vionna Tanganyika, where, according to
trade will continue to flourish, self-sacrifice, are so evident every- oMcial documents, there were,
where, that one may be readily ex- Prague
Helsingfors prior to the war, 185,000 alayes. The door has been left open to cused for despairing of reform.
Madrid Lisbon The German Government found the subject, for Article 3 of the The salt revenues, the supertaxes,
Athens itself unable to act these slaves new Slavery Convention definitely all portend the same thing-a
grasping of the wherewithal to pro- Bucharest
civil atrife, leading Rio free because of the cost, it being provides for another Convention long the estimated that to do ao in 1916 dealing specifically with the "trad-nowhere, continuously re-oriented, Buenos Aires would require £400,000, and in ing" in slaves on the high gens. forming a veritable maze of wars Bombay
within wars, circles within circles, Shanghai never-ending. Hongkong apparently 1920, £270,000, for compensation But whatever Conventions are and to the owners. Under the British passed, it is hoped that public Well might the observer exclaim, Yokohama
Silver (Spot and Forward) Mandato, slavery has been com- opinion will never surrender the "What a land of wasted energy What opportunities thrown away?"
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