The Very Idea!
The little girl had just been reelting at a mother's meeting. "How clever your little girl is," said a lady present to the mother.
"Yes, mum," proudly answered the woman, folka do зау
aho's good recitin But, 13 my *usband anys, she wanty to finish her off is a bit of electrocution."
that
all
at
East Ham husband: 1
never
CHIANG'S REASON.
EXTRACTS FROM HIS SWAN SONG.
TAKES ALL THE BLAME.
(Our Own Corresamdent.)
Canton, Aug. 19.
The long statement issued by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek; explain. quarrel with my wife. His landing why he resigned his post as lady: He can't. She never gives Commander-in-Chief, him a chance to speak.
Man" at Boy County: Thore are more lies told over a dog deal than anything else I know.
Woman at Willesden:" I spoke to a costermonger, about kicking his horse. and he and his wife eat on me and tore off my dress.
Willesden woman: My friend won five prizes, running at darts on the fair ground, and the stall- holder said, "Get our, you are too hot for us," and hit him, on the
nose.
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reached Canton.
has just
The Nanking Marshal confesses that he gave up the post in order that Wu-han, and Ninking could unit and continue the Northern Expedition. against Marshal Chang Tso-lin.
The important extracts are us follows:-"I claim no credit us ! deserve none, as the secret of my successes (in the Northern Expedition) hos in the undivided authority vested in me by the Central Executive. Committee tu Woman at Highgate: My enable me to co-ordinate the daughter has been too good efforts of my team workers. But woman to her husband. Magis- the communists, getting jealous of trate: Can a woman be that. the rapid progress of the people's revolution and acting under the For powers of imagination who secret instigations of M. Borodin, took advantage of my absence in can beat the modern boy?
"My Maiden Air Flight" is the Nanchang and manufactured for title of an essay by a youth in the the Wu-han district a number of third senior class in The Herioter.slogans seeking to over throw me Here are
a few sentences: directly and to undermine the was successful in securing a pilot's people's revolution indirectly, commission at Croydon"--the is engaged with another to fly) from Croydon to Delhi, carrying mails to Rome, Constantinople, Teheran, and Kabul, the whole. journey being 4500 miles. at 100 miles per hour.
From the beginning to the last all that I have demanded is:
(1) the expulsion of Borodin
from China and
(2) non-co-operation with the
Communists.
As Borodin has since been "At Rome we saw Colonel the expelled from China and since the Marquis de Pinedo, an Italian air- Wuban authorities, as, well m man flying from there to Brazil. those in Klangsi and Hunan, have While passing over Albania we ex- undertaken on their own accord to perienced engine trouble, and al-oust the Communists, there need most collided with the highest be no further proof that the peak of the Pindus · mountains, execution of my views is vital to 9000 feet high.
the existence of our party and nution.
"While flying over the Khyber } Pass we were surprised by con cealed Afghanistan tribesmen fr ing at and seriously damaging our petrol tank, which, fortunately did not become ignited. Julius released a bomb, scuffering the raiders. We proceeded unmolest- ed, while Julius gallantly "climbed
Reports have reached me that I have been the target of critical comments in Wokan, but since no- complaint has come to me direct- ly, it is rather difficult for me to clear myself of their charges.
There is, however, only myself to be blamed. It is only due to
fidenes of the party members that they lend their ears to ill words. litherto I have been ignoring eriticismas about myself because 1 thought they were generated by the Communists,
to the wheels suspended under themy inability to gain the full con carriages and repaired the leak.
"anticipate attempting a world flight'in the near future.”
:
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1 am Trade Unionist before
I am a politician.Mr. W. G. Cove, M.F.
Being a soldier myself, I will
I treat the Bible as I cat fisis-willingly accept any punishment
I leave the bones and eat theor reprimand. All that request
flesh-Dr. Parkes Ondman.
The day when the boot was thrown at a soldier who dared to kneel at his bedside has passed.-- Rev, R. H. Spence.
By the machinations of modern builders, we are making Entland uglier every day--The Bishop of Peterborough.
"The industriad workers, toodag are cleaner, valer, and allgrether more comoly citizens than those of a few generations, ugo. Sig, W. Joynson-Hicks.
A young girl came to the late Father Healy, of Dublin, and con fessed that she fareil she had in- curred the sin of vanity. What makes you think that?" asked ber father confessor;
"Because every morning when 1 lock into the mirror I think How beautiful 1 am."
of my follow party members. 'is that they should present a united front and accomplish the aims of the Revolution.
Since I have taken upon myself all the blame for what has hap poned, it is my duty to resign my jugg in favour of those mure able aad respected. Ir ll Che Nationalist forees are united, the
ethern militarists will wit be our qquals in the field; and when the 'Ontive nation is Imperialism will fail because of it very nature, The overthrow of Militacism and Amperialism has always been my ain, beyond which I have nothing else to seek,
STREET ACCIDENTS.
was the SEVERAL REPORTS MADE TO
"Never fear, my reassuring reply. "That isn'ta sin; it's only a mistake."
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A Paris Divorce Court decision permits a man to administer cor- rection to his wife certain .occasions.
On
A woman sought a divorce on the grounds of the brutality of her husband. The latter admitted thrashing her, but contended that it had been due to his just anger provoked by her conduct with an- other man.
The court ruled that the blows had been justified by the irrita tion which her conduct caused her
husband.
Mr. John Buchań is now one of the Scottish Universities" M.P.a.
While the polling was in progress
a curious fact came to light in the
staffroom of a famous secondary school.
The voter-graduates of Edin burgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews received from their Universities stamped envelopes for the return of their.voting papers. The Aber- deen graduates, on comparing Eotes, found that their Alma Ma- ter had supplied, in every case, the envelope but not the stamp.
But why did they
notes?
compare
THE POLICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FUNERAL OF CAPT. D. C. LOGAN.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1927.
Impressive scenes marked the full military funeral accord- ed the late Capt. Donald C. Logan, M.C., of the Scottish Company, H. K. Volumizer Defence Corps, which" took place at Happy Valley on Thursday evening. The K. O. S, Borderers provided the Tipes, drums and firing party; the deceased oliver's own Company attended in uniform; and, in addition to representatives of all Service and civilian organisations in The Colony, there was an extremely large attendance of personal friends, Photos: Mee Cheung and Ming Yuca).
TOWN UPON TOWN.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIS- COVERVES IN PALESTINE.
AN INTERVIEW WITH GEN. GALENS.
TALES OF DEPARTURE ARE PREMATURE.
AN OVERDUE HOLIDAY.
As Hankow has recently bean trented to a good many sensations in the way of Bolshevik retreats,' flights to Moscow, etc., which later have proved to be false alarms, we thought it better yesterday for the sake of accuracy and the mainten- ance of a reliable news service to investigate a little before commit- ting ourselves to a confirmation of the retirement of General Galena.. reports the Central China Post of August 12, and proceeds:
The account given of this Gen- eral's departure to Moscow was so detailed and vivid that to the or- dinary reader it would appear im- possible that the reporter had not been present to say farewell, As the gentleman referred to had shown no signs of departure on the evening of the night he was so elaborately reported as left, n représentative of this paper called at his residence last evening, for confirmation of his journey to Urga and Moscow.
was
Solid Proofs Of Presence.
On referring to the report which had appeared that morning in the columns of a contemporary, General Galens smiled and said that as he was then in his office talking to a representative of the "C. C. Post," one moreover who well acquainted with his appearance, it was obviously. im- possible for him to be en route to Urga. General Galen then, stated he gave full permission and would be glad if we not only contradicted the statement, but used his own expression which was that the story was a "Pure fabrication from beginning to end."
He had no particular quarrel. with the newspaper which bud produced it, but he thought that when a newspaper went sensation- mongering, it should take care to have a little foundation of fact whereon to base its gensations. Our representative was then in- vited to inspect the belongings of himself and another closely relat ed to him in order that he might be assured that he had not packed up and, ready for flight.
Later Intentions.
General Galens was open and frank in his statement when he informed our rpresentative that It was his intention to leave Han- kow as soon as his duties per- mitted him to do so. A holiday was long overdue, but when he was able to take one there would be no necessity for him to make theatrical exit with a fleet of motor cars Or emulate the pioneers of
49 in any way. -
DEPLORABLE LACK OF
TACT.
اکر
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HOW MUCH DO YOU The International Co-Operative
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
Vienna: Professor Grant, ori the Pennsylvania University, de- The following general know- scribed in a lecture at the Vienna ledge paper has been taken from Several traffic accidents were re-branch of the Society of Friends The Daily Express. ported to the police yesterday.
bis archacologien! excavations. 'in
North of Jerusalem, where the ex- series of
At four o'clock yesterday a Chi-Palestine. nese woman, aged 22, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital
The centre of the excavations was Tellen-Nasbeh, the hills of suffering from injuries received whilst trying to alight from a mov-ruins at Nasbeh, some eight miles ing tramcar on the Praya East.
Motor lorry No. 519 attempted to overtake tramcar No. 58, near cities, on above the other Bay View Police Station and ras newly-discovered town scenis to be the fortress of Mizpah in ancient into the fore portion of the car, inflicting damaged it to the extent Canuan; at least the lowest lay of $180. The tram driver received Lers come from the pre-Israelitic age. The plan of the town shows
wrists.
vations discovered s One
Answers for those who need them, will be found on Page 16 of this issue.
1. What is the exact time covered
by a day?
2. Which are the original Cinque
Parts?
4.
Which country has the smallest urmy, and that it its strength? When were medale first issued
in England?
5. How many miles of railroad has
the United Kingdom.
6. What is the Woolacch?
7. What to the length of a mail,
palm, and hand?
RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATION' AT A CONFERENCE.
Stockholm, Aug. 19.
Congress hus rejected Russian proposals favouring co-operation. with the Amsterdam International, ombodying plans for the future policy of the International, Co- Operative Alliance.
The Russians. at the closing session staged an unexpected de- monstration of protest against the opposition to their proposals. The moment the great organ in, the conference hall began to peal out the final march, the Russian dele- gation rose and sang the "Interna tionale" in unison.
All the newspapers comment on the incident as showing "a de- plorable lack of tact."-Reuter
How a man
TC-
was killed in a motoring accident when on his way to the grave of his wife, who was herself killed three weeks ago when returning from a visit to her mother's grave, WAB vealed at an inquest at Brent- wood, Essex. The inquest on Thos. Howard, aged 48, ship's clerk, of Scott-road, Chadwell St. Mary, Essex, who received fatal
was
a few minor cuts on his hands and that it was built in a large rec- In Yaumati a small boy of five tangle; the strong walls from the years of age was knocked down by bronze-age show great skill in motor lorry No. 2307 near Reclama-fortification-they are about tur made by the lorry driver to the the corners must have measured tion Street. According to a report yards high and nine wide, while police, the boy suddenly onerred twice as much. It is the strongest 10. Where is "Never Never Land from the pavement and crossed the fortification throughout Palestine, J. How many playa did Shake-injuries in a collision between
B, Whut the height of cricket
e tumpa?
9. What is a pacan?
Apeare write?
river had no time to pull up, and smaller and even more although he swerved could not town were found. Each new ex-
cavation of various vers
road in front of the lorry. The Below it the remainders of a 10. What in the Doncsday Book?
ancient
Avoid an accident.
ru-
the motor-cycle he was driving and a motor-car, near Brentwood. Howard was proceeding with his 15-years-old daughter on the sulted in the discovery of rem Another link in the great chain pillion of his machine to place A Lutheran pastor who latelynants of shop, wells, cellars, and of electric power stations which is flowers on his wife's grave when
wine-cellars, vessels of clay and. ucro- glass, ornaments, jeutlery, being constructed in Italy has the accident occurred. The cora ner adjourned the inquest for the plane has been unfrocked by the Knives of bronze and stone, just been forged by the inaugura- attendance of the daughter, who Lutheran Consistory says a Ber- lin report. It is considered that jeweller's complete set of weights, tion of Lake Ampolino, in the ts in hospital with slight in- of Calabria. This juries, and requested Press pub- It is not in harmony with the statuettes and other figures of mountains
married two couples in an
builders.
Mr. J. H. Thomas has been in-
sacred character of the marriage goddesses, especially of Astarte, artificial lake, five miles long licity with a view to tracing the rites to have them performed in and many very ancient coins and nearly two miles broad, and near occupants of a blue two-seater A cinema actress went to get a the air, especially when the chief fragments which inscriptions in ly 4,000ft. above sea level, is the car which was at the scene of the licence for her seventh husband.
first of a series of four to be accident. purpose of the ceremony
Old Hebrew. is ad- The clerl: who made out the licence vertising for a company of aero-
When a temple from the early constructed on the same moun- seemed to her to be unwarrant
plane
The weddings Judaic period was exervated under tains. They will furnish water ably inquisitive "Have you
been married be-were those of two members of the layers representing several thou- power for turbo-dynamos. Other vited to visit the Gold Coast early staff of an aeroplane company. sand years, natives and citizens are being made in Central and next year to attend the opening There were no bridesmaids but of all nationalities and religions, Southern Italy, and when all are of the new harbour at Takoradi, whom?"
What is
this?" asked the a phonograph played the wedding assembled and hold a short divine completed Italy, it is claimed, in recognition of his work, in March while the ceremony was service in English, Hebrew, and will have no further use for coal connexion with the scheme when actress sarcastically. "A memory being performed by Pastor Teich-Arabic.
to supply her railways, her in- The was Colonial Secretary in" the! dustries, or her illumination.
fore?" he asked. "And if so, to
test.?"
mann.
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