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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927,
BRITISH LABOUR AND RUSSIA.
The Trade Unions Congress; at Edinburgh has decided, by a very large majority, that British La- Lour should break off negotiations: with the Russian trade union This significant conclusion to the discussion marks the culmination
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,
As one speaker put it, Moscow has wanted all along to choose tho drama, and set the s stage, and call the tune. The working classos the world over were merely to be cbedient puppets. That policy is doomed to failure wherever commonsense prevails, and there. can be no doubt now in the minde
DAY BY DAY.
TIME 18 THE CHRYSALIS OF ETERN- ITY-Richter.
Among the passengers leaving to-day by the 8.8. "Taiping" was Mr. J, H. Brister.
The as. Yatshing, arriving from of the Russian Bolshevists who Shanghai this morning, reports the hoped to control the British in-discovery of one stowaway on
|board. dustrial movement that they will nover succeed in the British Isles.
In Russia the labour movement is essentially a Communist one: In Britain It is not.. There is the fundamental difference, and so long as the Labour Party at Home retains its programme of obtaining its desires by con- stitutional means; that difference will remain. There is an admis-
1927.
LATE CANTON ITEMS.
REPEAL OF RENT TAX.
(A Special Correspondent.)
Canton, Sept. 12, Gen. Fung Chuk-man, the New Provincial Treasurer, is fast be coming a popular figure withe peo- ple and merchants. This official has been directly responsible for the cancellation of the rent tax re- contly imposed on all stores in the city. All the merchants aver that this is likely to create a much bottor feeling between the people and government. Ifowover, the tax in respect of dwelling houses is not to be done away with, and when paid by the owners of houses, is being ppt to the use of
arms moderate; purchasing now.
for the Police Department,
The new bowling green at the Peak Club is now opon for play, and will be doformally opened to morrow evening at 5.15.
A continuance of the present fine weather is promised. To-day's Royal Observatory forecast is: "North-east winds, fair."
woman was
will be held by the Macao Race An Unofficial Race Meeting Club on Sunday, September 18th., the track not being yet quite suitable for a main fixture. The 4th. Extra Race Meeting will be held on Sunday, October 2.
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to have to state that, but it carries its lesson "of avoidance of such htercourse in the future. At the congress of the International Federation of Trade Unions, a month ago, Mr. Purcell, the Bri- tish president of the Federation, was ousted from his post owing to his desire to get the organisation to effect a rapprochement with the All-Russian trade unions. There was n definite body of Continental opposition apparent. Perhaps we Home. see in the Edinburgh decision a
The Very Idea!
On one occasion. Isaac had a theological argument with a stu dent from Marischal College. The young fellow denied the existence of the lower regions,
"Vat you say?" exclaimed Isane, "no holl? Then vair has pizness gont to?"
With fishing pole and bait in
hand
Out on the deck he strolled. He sat out in the wind all day, And caught-a lovely cold.
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Len. Nettlefold was beaten in the final of the Swiss amateur golf championship by 5 and 4 in a match over 36 holes,
The contest apparently took place on the famous Gruyere course, which has more holes to. the square inch than any other
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many
Reform of Calendar: Another dog was removed, yes.
Conferences are again being terday, to the depot at Kennedy sion in one utterance at the Edin Town following an attack it made held in Canton to discuss another links in the world. In a country burgh congress,
completo 18-hol thni British on a Chinese woman at No. 8 Cat- attempt to reform the Chinese which abounds with ao
holes, when a calendar.' In previous years
la available on every unions have been humiliated chick Street. The
similar projects have been put for course given treatment at the Govern-ward, bat up to the present very wayside cheese, it is surprising the course of their negotiationsment Civil Hospital."
little has come of the attempt. The that the Swiss have not made the r with Moscow. It is. humiliati g
people desirous of the reformation presence felt before this in the revised in some respects, and in prottier Alpine sights than the are anxious that the calendar be world of golf. There are few other cases to be worked on a spectacle of a hardy Swiss cheese- similar system to the calendar in farmer leaping from hole to holo use by foreign nations. It is An advantage like this, combined thought that it would improve all with a contemptuous familiarity business methods and that all with holes, should assist any
to golfer reduce his merchants keeping and running Swiss The troopship Herminius was their accounts in accordance with handicap. due to arrive in Hongkong this the foreign calendar are likely to afternoon from Shanghai having be more up-to-date and inspire "Because people use bad langu- on board the Devons for Malta, confidence with the people with age in a restaurant it does pot and other units. The vessel will also shown that they should keep tera," said Mr. Gilbert St. John
whom they deal. Landlords are mean that they are bad charac embark, here about 500 "A"
McDonald, a barrister, yesterday.' tish Rifles) who are being sent will be put into opération in Can- servists of the Cameronians (Scottheir rent books in this way.
It is rumoured that a scheme at the London Sessions.
"You can hear bad language at ton on the first of October (foreign at golf club-so bad that some- calendar) but it is generally sup-timos even a man like myself part sequel to that international reports gave 18 arrivals and 18 de-this change will not be supported just come from a first-class golf This morning's Harbour Office posed that the officials anxious for blushes at it," he added. "I have discussion. At any rate the Rus-partures, of which four and two by the people. sian Communists have distinct respectively were British, leaving. proof now that all their machina- 63 vessels in harbour, British 29. Tonnage was fair, with Japanese tions with a view to turning the carrying the best inward cargoes British Labour movement into
and American the highest through freights. class revolution have been in vain. The significance of that fact will be realised all over the world.
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The Davis Cup. There will have been much satisfaction throughout the world of sport at the fact that France. has this year won, the Davis Cup, not because one is in any way
re
At 12.45 yesterday afternoon, a Chinese is reported to have de. cided to take his life by jumping from the third floor of No. 83, Third Street, into a lane at the rear of the house. He was fatally injured, and died an hour after admission into the Government Civil Hospital,
Confiscated Money.
club, where you can hear the most awful language at times.
"The grass will not grow on some courses because of it,"
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An inquiry has been made re- cently into the question of the monies seized by the authorities, from mercharts who were sur-
Liberty is the finest teacher in reptitiously trying to take their the world.-Lady Neish.
info. Shameen and wealth
Girls are much more conscien- other places, during the recent tious than boys. Canon W. R. financial trouble.
Dawson.
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Whoever thinks the Russian re-
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"Which won?"
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"I say, how many wives do you think I have?"
The money has been held by the Every city, especially every Police Department, but it has now manufacturing city should have s been proved that in some cases Shakespeare theatre-Miss Lilian merchants caught in this apparent Baylis."
I am no admirer of English com- act against the law were in reality not transgressors, but were only munity-singing. It is magnificest taking the money from the city to but it is not music. Sir Vincent Among those arriving to-day other places in the ordinary course Evans.
of business. However, in cases of a steadily hardening opinioni pleased to see America lose but from Japan and Shanghai by the where it can be definitely proved gime can be impossed in this
because it does such a lot of goods.s. Shinyo Maru were Dr. and against the Soviet methods of co-for these big international sport Mrs. R. E. Tottenham, Lieut. J. Atrary to orders issued by the Gov. country is living in
that merchants were acting con-
B fool's ducting international labour trophies to pass round among the Barthorp, Mr. E. Grimble Mrs.
paradise.-Mr. J. H. Thomas.. ernment the total amount of the affairs. It is characteristic of nations. For several years after T. S. Morrison, Mrs. J. Maitland, money will not be seized, but a the Moscow gang that they shoulil the Davis Cup was started the Mr. A. E. W. Davis, Mrs. S. V heavy fine will be imposed.
"Last night I played poker with. British Isles had a long run of Davis, Miss M. M. Tyrrell, and have expected British trade unions wins and then Australasia had an Miss. 1. D. Mackenzie.
my wife."
to knuckle under to them, in a unbroken sequence for five years form of concurrence to
a fact which did not help to all that
encourage smaller nations to com- the Soviet dictated which was no-pete. For the past seven thing short of abjectness. Some America has appeared to be in kimes one cannot help wondering vincible and with the growing prowess of such men as Tilden, whether the Soviet is sincere in its Johnston and Hunter it seemed as attempts to win the labour or-though the crown was destined to ganiantions of the world to
its remain in America for several years yet. But France, than side. If it thinks that insulting whom no country has made great- messages on the eve of an importer progress in tennis since the The following ships were ex- ant conference are the right way war, was a serious challenger last pected to be in wireless communi- year and now her great players of going about the business of Lacoste and Cochet have set ne cation with Hongkong to-day- breeding goodwill, it has now been seal of success on their efforts byhong, Seistan, Angers, Bintang, Takliwa, Liangchow, Taiping, Hai- we defeating in single-handed con-
President Grant, President Harri- tests Tilden and Johnstone. suspect that the Russian trade Many congratulations will have son, President Lincoln, Tjibodas, unions some time ago realised been extended them on thus gain- Miyo Maru, Aki Maru, Kishu Hangsang, Corona,
disillusioned. Rather
do
In connexion with this, rumours were current some days ago that a well-known foreign bank had been The electric light supply to interfered with by the police, Happy Valley district failed short whilst members of the staff were
local years,y after nine o'clock last night, and importing
silver into Among the "howlers" perpetrat- the service was still out of com- Shameen for the use of the banked by pupils at a Huddersfield mission this morning. The break- But, apparently, it was only a School during a recent examina- down was due to a defect which rumour for nothing seems to beton were the following:- developed in a transformer, but known of the affair by foreigners repairs are being effected, and the connected with the banking busi- U.S.A.? (1) Sir Austen Cham- service will probably be restored ness.
berlain. (2) Mr. Cook, this afternoon.
What is the Grand National?- An anthem.
The Kodak is the Bible of the Mohammedans.
SOVIET CONDEMNS
"SPIES."
Who is the President of the
:
Who had a wart on his nose? John Brown's baby.
Anchimedes was a man who icoked through a telescope at the Spanish Armada and so set it on fire and said: "I have singed the King of Spain's board." And h
that their chances of winning the ing for France her first win in Maru, Taikwa Maru, Westkader, trial of 26 alleged "apies and torived in a tub.
this great series-perhaps the Yuensang, British working-man over to their most attractive of all the inter- Kabinga. idens were small, and that their national sport contests. America efforts to create serious disse has had a big innings in prac- tically all realma-golf, tennis, sion in the British Labour ranks, polo, boxing and track events, but as well as foster discontent as regards the last-named it was pleasing to notice that the two of a
or
WRECKAGE FOUND, BUT NO CREW.
Who invented the railway en- gine?(1) George Washington. (2) Caxton.
Who discovered the South Pole? Robinson Crusoe. Who has the Wizard of the Ramsey MacDonald. (3) The Great Carmo.
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"As a matter of fact," observed
given the company a song, "I'nı sending her abroad to finish her singing lessons."
"I don't blame you," remarked- a guest, sympathetically.
ENGLISHMAN TO BE SHOT.
Leningrad, Sept. 12. Judgment has been given is the
rorists" who were brought to trial. a month ago.
Nine have been sentenced to A notice to marinera states that death, and will be shot. They in- the installation of the new lighting clude an Englishman named apparatus at Chapel Island near Goyer. Thirteen have been con- Amoy, will be completed on
demned to imprisonment for from about the 26th September, 1927. revolutionary description, leading English Universities de- The new lighting apparatus will be/Bix months to eight months. Four North-(1) Lloyd George. (2)"
were acquitted.-Reuter. The were doomed to failure. They feated Yale and Harvard at a dioptric of the first order..
a character of the new light will be tried their best, with the sub-recent meeting. America - is
land where sport is taken very group-flashing, showing one flash scriptions and propaganda they seriously and where has been pro- followed by three flashes every 20 "OLD GLORY" LOCATED.the host, his daughter having just freely distributed, to make of theduced some of the world's finest seconds, and will be visible 22 clear weather. The big coal strike a revolt of labour exponents, and so we are pleased miles in against constituted authority, but to see other countries getting their height of the centre of the light share of victories because it above high water is 227 feet. The signally failed. The strike also shows that the general level of temporary light which is at present falled. The Soviet's chargin at excellence is rising up to a new being exhibited will be discontinu-
It is not so very ed simultaneously with the exhib that failure can be read in the high standard.
many years ago since Britain used tion of the new light. abusive tone of its telegram last to produce a class of athlete and week to the T.U.C., in which cer- games player above the general average, but that day has gone tain leaders of trade unioniam although she continues to hold were tormed traitors to their honourable place among those cause. What
Labour who have come up alongside her.
Paris to go Geneva' thinks of the Russian aspirations It is now someone's turn
after France for the Davis Cup, Berlin is definitely contained in the re-for it is that spirit of friendly Vienna suit of the voting at Edinburgh, rivalry plus the circulation of the Madrid and still more so in the speechos honours that makes sport so great Bucharest
promotion of Bombay a factor in the of prominent leaders in the dif- friendliness among the nations. Zerent forms of industrial nc. tivity.
The body of a British sailor, a Prague "Let us no longer pursue a pre: member of the crew of H.M.S.Lisbon tence of unity which does not Kluwo, who fell overboard just be Rio exist," declared Mr. Clynes. The fore the vessel was due to leave Shanghal
with the commercial delegation Brussels
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