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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, AUGUST
12, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
MOMENT THROWS AWAY ALL HE HAS, HE WHO NEGLECTS THE PRESENT Schiller.
Fil
RESTRICTIONS ON HANDCARTS.
LABOURERS SEEK ALTERATION.
The Very Idea!
A Continental gentleman not quite. accustomed to the eccen-," tricities of the English language,...
Yesterday's health return gives pross that the Government has de- to buy a pair of boots. The first It is stated in the vernacular went into a shoe store in Liverpool one Chinese case of enteric fever.cided to decrease the number of pair he tried on he said were street handcarts, from about 2,000 "ferry goot poots," but ho to about 1,825, in Hongkong, while "wouldn't half dem because dey there will not be any changes in vas droonk." "Drunk, sir" the shopman exclaimod in a surprised tone. "I really don't understand you,"
No,
The Ben Line s.s. Benalder from Home is due to arrive here on 16th instant.
YOU? One has to remember that as a MUST | result of the war Germany lost over OWN IT27,000 square miles of her territory and over 6,000,000 of her popula- tion, and that she la, under the Dawes scheme, making very large annual payments in the way of re- parations. It is with regard to the last named matter that Ger- many is to-day rapidly approaching. the serious phase of her post-war problem. Hitherto, the Dawes scheme payments (apart from pay ments in kind) have very largely been paid out of loans raised The local weather forecast issu- abroad, and,'as' they are an a gra-ed by the Royal Observatory, up to duated scale, they become larger noon to-morrow, is: S.W, winds. next year than they are this. We moderate-cloudy, occasional rain. have not the actual figures at hand but the payments to fall due are not only very much larger than those for this year but, what is more important they will have to be met largely out of the coun-
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DEATH.
ISMAIL-Passed away at 5.15 p.m., yesterday, at his resid- ence Mr. S. E. Ismail after a fortnight's illness. Funeral will take place at 8 am to day (sharp), from his resid- ence 159, Wong Nei-Chung Road.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1927.
GERMANY TO-DAY.
try's revenue, instead of out of bor- rowed money. There have already been doubts expressed in some quarters as to whether the Finance Minister will be able to manipulate things so as to avoid default, and it is known that a very great bud- getting task awaits accomplishment if plain sailing is to be assured. A quickoning of Germany's foreign trade, a decrease in her internal spendings, and an increase in the revenue of her Exchequer are necessary, and it is to be hoped, for the sake of, Europeau concord, that no effort will be spared to ac
Germany complish these things.
is tackling a very big task and there are many who wish her well in it, because Germany's rehabilitation and welfare is indissolubly bound up with the peace and prosperity of all Burape.
Russian Ramblings.
with the old commentator, "If that
The official police report issued this morning in connexion with the death of Mr. John Ibbetson, Chief Officer of the 8.3. Tai Lee, states that the Chief Officer was found dead on board, apparently having been poisoned.
Kowloon.
Those carts, pulled by Chinese coolies with long ropes, sometimes prove great obstacles to the stream of moving vehicles in the busy parts of the city,
result.
"Ya, ya; doy vos droonk. dat is nodt de vord. I mean dey yas dipsy. No, not vrong agat;
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With regard to these carts it mean, mein friendt, dese poots is also learned that the Police was ferry ferry poosed." At this have issued. new regulations that moment the manager appeared and each cart will not be allowed to wanted to know what was the. During the absence of the occu-carry cargo which is heavier than matter. "Dese poots," replied the
a tou. Formerly, one of those customer, "vas von of dese trec pier, a married woman, a thier en handcarts carried goods as heavy droonk, dipsy or poosed—vich von tened A room at the Meechow
you call idt I know nedt." as two tons.
The Hotel, 226, Des Voeux Road Cen- tral, the night before Inet, and
When the news of the enforce-manager smiled, and said, "You stole jewellery to the value of ment of this new regulation reach-mean the boots are tight, I sup-
ed the ears of the Chinesec pose?" "Ya, ya, dat's der vord." $780.
labourers belonging to the Tung Tak Labour Union, there were com- There is a village in Somerset" plaints among them, as they are which may be said to be very mostly pullers of handcarts. The much divided against Itself. The labourers do not own these carts village of Porlock is situated half themselves, but they are hired by in the parish of Porleck and half the labourers,
belonging to Luccombe, which is The labourers sent some of three miles away, and the dividing their representatives to see the line btween the two runs down the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe concern- middle of the main street of Por ing the new regulation, the verna-lock. Only the other day it was" cular press adds, but without decided to make Porlock an urban district, but before this was done While riding a push bicycle. yesterday at Wuhu Street, Hung restriction
It is believed that the new a Porlock policeman could not will oblige the arrest a man who was on the other hom, a Japanese steward of the labourers to increase their side of the main street, and if he Chinese boy, who was seriously cargo. Taiyuen Maru knocked down a charges on the transportation of was anywhere near the middle of injured in the stomach. The vic-
the street the officer was obliged to have a tape measure handy to tim was removed to the Kowloon
make sure that he was not Hospital.
trespassing on the wrong side of the boundary and that his arrest was legal. Presumably If the Sir Francis Aglen, whose marri-
arrested man had one foot in each age at Brompton Parish Church to
parish the constable would only be Miss Anna Moore Ritchie is an-
entitled to arrest half of him. nounced, is the Inspector-General
What he would be able to do with of the Chinese Maritime Customs. The new Lady Agien is the second morning, a boatman and a boat- Porlock saves water by being At the Kowloon Magistracy this ture. In summer time, of course, the other half is merely conjec- daughter of the late Mr. Murray woman were charged before Mr. obliged only to water one side of Pringle Ritchie, of Liverpool and W. Schofield with being in unlaw-the Chill Sir Francis, who is 57 fui possession of 221 gallons of when they bury their dead, have street. The Porlockians, years of age, married" in 1006
Chinese wine on which the duty to use the cemetery in Luccombe Senga Marion, daughter of the late had not been paid. Professor Sir Bayley Balfour. She
parish, and their grievance is that Both defendants admitted the they have to pay double fees. and two daughters. died in 1925, He has three sons presence of the wine on board but There are different rates for each
said that they were merely half of the village: employees, the master having gone ashore.
Rio
EXCHANGE RATES.
Silver (forward)
BIG WINE SEIZURE.
TWO BOAT PEOPLE HEAVILY FINED
It was stated that the defend ants were the only two persons on board and the boat license was in the possession of the woman. 124.08 In imposing fines of $200 onch. .25.22 his Worship said that they being 20.44 fokle he would not inflict as heavy 18.78 a 'penalty as in the case of 2 192% master.
The junk,
however, 876 would be confiscated together with .47.27/32 the wine.
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OBITUARY.
MR. S. E. ISMAIL.
age
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had only one black eye in three Poplar woman: His wife has months, so he is not so bad.
Willesden man: I am, guilty and at the same time innocent.
Man at Willesden: At the pre- sent moment I am away at the seaside.
Hackney lodger: When I went thought she had the monopoly of to my landlady's house she
the language, but she had not.
London policeman; The accused man was coming along the subway over the railway line..
..
Robert Rolfe was fined forty shillings at Woolwich for playing "Crown and anchor" at police sports.
If one of your girls gets a prize. don't sniff at another girl who doesn't, because the other girl may be Home Secretary one of these days, and Sir William Joynson- Hicks, diatributing prizes at the Southern Provincial Police School at Redhill.
The death occurred at his resid- ence at Wong Net-chong Road on Thursday evening of Mr. S. E. .2.7/10 lamail. .6.27/32 The decensed was 44 years of
2/6 and had been in indifferent health .29.16/10 for some time. It is learned that 28.1/16 he died of pneumonia, which follow. -British Wireless. ed a minor operation on the throat.
Mr. Lamall was a well-known I never used to get any prizes figure in local lawn bowls circles, at school, so they gave me the played for many years for the Home Office. Learning lessons Craigengower Cricket Club and for used to bore me as it does all boys the Indian Recreation Club.
There is a great deal amusing for those who care to read between the lines, in the account of the plenary session of the Soviet party in Moscow. There are references to a policy of peace, to war threats from outside, and to.. friendliness towards capitalist countries. Also, there is evidence of the internal Paris dissension that evidently exists in Geneva large measure. The declaration by Berlin
Valo the chief spokesman that "the in- Yesterday's official
Helsingfors reception ternational policy of the Soviets
Athens given by Dr. Wagner, the German was essentially a policy of peace" Buenos Aires
is the kind of statement that one Hongkong Consul, in celebration of the an-reads with a smile. Is all the pro- New York niversary of the promulgation of paganda, the effort to stir up world Amsterdam the Constitution of Weimar by strife, the intrigue and anarchy Stockholm.
that-is-being-conducted against-all Vienna which Germany adopted the Repub- the democratic countries of the Madrid. lican form of Government, servee globe, the vendetta against non- Bucharest
Bolshevists, the wholesale slaugh- | Bombay to remind us how far removed weter of alleged spies and counter Yokohama are to-day from those dark daye revolutionaries," to be taken as Brussels during which the Allies and the symptomatic of peaceful intent Milan Central Powers were battling in If so, then one is moved to utter Copenhagen
Prague the greatest war of history. After is the Soviet at peace, then spare Lisbon their defeat in November, 1918, us from a Soviet at war!" The Shanghai the German people passed through truth is that the Soviet is constant- Silver (spot)
ly at war with a shadow. The very critical and tumultuous days shadow is the bogey of Imperialism from out of which was evolved a which is supposed to affect every Republican form of Government country that is not Bolshevist. The guilt that is Russia's 'to-day and the drafting of a national Cons- makes its rulers apprehensive of titution which has since held the campaign to"undermine their in-1 nation together in loyalties that fluence on the part of all other:
nations. Hence the "danger, of a have been above deep political counter-revolutionary war against schisins. History will have valu- Soviet Russia." That danger ex- able lessons to learn from the man-
ists mostly in imagination, fired by The band programme for the a sense of fear of the honi soit concert to be held on the Kowloon ner in which the German people qui mal y pense type. The friend Dock Bathing beach on Sunday have retained their national homo-ness towards "capitalist coun- afternoon will be rendered by the geneity and outlook in face of what trics so graciously permitted, is full military band, pipers and drum-. nothing short of a necessary pan-mers of the 2nd. Battalion, K.O.S. they rightly describe as "The dering to nations that have the mers of the 2nd Battalion, Great Catastrophe" and also from wherewithal for Soviet Russia's K.O.S.B., (by kind permission of development. She herself has Lieut.-Col. L. J. Comyn, C.M.G, the way in which they have more frittered away all the capital she D.S.O., and officers, when the fol or less philosophically and with in-had, and has ruined her prospects lowing be rendered:- dustry resigned themselves to the of prosperity during this genera- tion at least. But by courting, to consequences of military defcat.
their faces, the governments that The Constitution of Weimar is have money to advance (while ex- something more than a new form ploiting all opportunities of doing Selection
them an injury behind their backs), of Government for the formerly the Bolshevists probably think they very proud Germanic Empire, for are doing a good stroke of business. its adoption marked the metamor-As an instance of successful double Reel
dealing it is probably unique. But phosis of a Great Power. No-one It exposes the specious claims of Song
BAND CONCERT.
PROGRAMME FOR SUNDAY.
March
Heroique March
"Szubidi." "Bonawe
ders."
March Strathspey
from
who takes the trouble to transpose Communist perfection and inde- themselves for the purposes of pendence of capitalism. There is
also the fact that a so-called semi- March thought into the position of the defeatist party, with an important Excerpts German people can fail to appre following, exists in the country and ciate either the tremendous task has to be reckoned with. There is no doubt whatever that the Soviet which they are assailing or the leaders are fearful for their posi mental struggle and victory tion, but it is not so much a fear Slow March
of outside foes as a realisation that that their present-day
there is bound to be an internal up- Marel. tion connotes. Whether most heaval unless" the methods
posi-
Reel
of the ill-effects of the of administration directed from Strathsper
Moscow are drastically changed. Selection
March
Great War. have died
away, or whether there is much or little enmity between Germany and her late enemies on the field, is a matter for our individual assessment, but there can be no question that Ger- cyclist, and wants to know whe March many of to-day is a very virile wit-ther it is unusual. So far as we ness to the truth that, fortitude can now, the presence of monkeys in Military
the New Territories in a wild Fantasia state is a well-established fact.
A reader informs ns that a Piccolo Solo monkey, seemingly a wild one, was observed by the roadside at Shafin yesterday evening by a motor- Slow March.
Strathspey Real....
overcome adversity.
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and girls to-day, but now I can A large circle of friends were I say quite truly I am glad that present at the funeral which took they made me learn when I'was at place this morning at the Mahom-school. medan Cemetery, the deceased being' buried in accordance with Mahommedan rites. Many wreaths for the most criticism.--Mr. J. R. The peacemaker often comes in were laid upon the grave,
GEN, LI CHAI-SUM.
SOON TO VISIT WUCHOW.
Clynes,
There is no such powerful explosive in the world as a new idea-Lord Astor.
There is nothing more phari- saical than to suppress newspaper
reports by legislation-Judge Atherley-Jones.
I believe there is a better desire It is reported from Canton that for peace. throughout most of the General. Li Chai-sum will shortly world at. the present moment.- Highlan leave for Wuchow his native home, Mr. G. Locker Lampson, M.P.
and will later visit Nanning, the
Many provincial art galleries capital of Kwangsi. He also plans contain pictures which have long to inspect the Northern front.
since had their day. They will Close friends of the General never make Old Masters.--Mr. J. deny that he is leaving because of A. Charlton Deas. frequent attempts on his life, but
"Romeo e Giulietta," "Devecoat Park." “The ". Marquis of
Huntley."
"Ca' the Eweg Tae
the Knowes." "Berceuse de Jocelyn" (Solist, Musiclan IL Latimer.): The 70th. Farewell to Gibraltar,"
"Morrie England." Interval.
"The Road to the
Isles,"
"MacKay's Farewell
to the 74th." "Munlochy Bridge."
"Tall Toddle." "Yeoman
of
the
Guard." "Daft Donald." "Picaroon." (Soloist, Musician A. Me Kenna.)
*"*My Home."
The Seige of Delhi." "Broochin Castle.".
"Jack Wilson."
"A Sabbath Morning
on Parade."
point out that his mother is sick
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A circular from a Japanese firm in Wuchow and that that is one announces that it guarantees us reason for his 'visit there.
"a "prompt and neat execution." Those to whom the heat has become a burden may perhaps like Excellent entertainment is offer-to avail themselves of this offer, ed to-day and to-morrow by the although the hope that we will Colony's principal cinemas. At make. "frequent uses of our ser the Queen's Theatre the feature vices" seems to imply a survly- film is Adolphe Menjou's latest ability commonly credited to the comedy, "A Kiss in the Dark," with cat.
an added attraction in the shape
of the complete official record of A 45-caliber revolver had been Commander Byrd's flight to the fired at him, the bullet penetrating North Pole. The World Theatre his skull and entering the wood- offers the screen version of work-American. novel by Kathleen Norris, namely Rose of the World," a story of hate and revenge with a notable climax. The principal film in the Announcement is made to-day continuous programme at the Star that Service then will be admitted Theatre is a briskly amusing West- at special prices to the back stalls ern, comedy with Hoat Gibaon as in the Star Theatre during the new the hero, and in the evening the Our Cabaret's' season except of new Our Cabaret is presenting a Saturday and Sunday, when the new revue called "Tally Ho.".
usual prices will be charged,