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THURSDAY, SEPT. 15 1927..
THE KUOMINTANG CONGRESS.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
What the Kuomintang will be able to do after it becomes again a single force, is a mutter for speculation at presont. If it is re- prosentative. of the whole of China south of the Yangtze, it will naturally claim a big voice in the country's affairs, and its claims cannot be denied. Better a body with which one can treat as unity, possessing a defined policy, than a arattered nonentity of clashing interests, which on the
DAY BY DAY.
15, 1927.
OBITUARY, -
PATIENCE IS THE ART OF HOPING. ----Vauvenargues.
One Chinese case of enteric (imported) was reported yester- day.
The P. and 0.8.3. Devanha is due here from Shanghai to-morrow evening.
day next.
A FAMOUS BRITISH ACTOR- MANAGER.
The Very Idea!
In the club they were talking
of men who, though famous and
Johannesburg, Sept. 14. The death has occurred of the wealthy, were at the same time actor. Mr. Arthur Bourchieraid Butler. "who, was so econ- very mean. "I once knew a man,"
his ink-well between dips in case omical that he used to cover up
any should be lost by evapora
Reuter.
Arthur Bourchier, the actor manager was born at Speen, Berk- shire, in June, 1863, and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: Hitherto no theatre had
tion." "But I knew a man,' ob- clock every night to prevent the served Cutler, who stopped his
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Tho s.s. Empress of Canada is boen allowed there. A "rag" was works wearing while everybody morrow may be out of oft duc here from the north on Tues-organised to call attention to the was asleep!" "I knew a man situation and the participants meaner than either of those," were haléd
before Jowett said Butler. "He gave up read- Bourchier was spokesman and ing newspapers in public libraries instead of being "sent down" was in order to save his spectacles." of his arguments was that "a invited to breakfast. The result
theatre was built and that under- This morning's Harbour Office | graduates were permitted to form reports gave 13 arrivals and 16 de-a dramatic society..
Thus Bouchier partures, of which three and six
became the respectively were British, leaving founder of the famous. O.U.D.S. 59 vessels in harbour, British 22.. whose productions, however, were restricted to Shakespeare and the classics.
members
Her husband trumped her ace
c spades,
Which got him in a jam.
She reached across the table,
and
He got a little alam.
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through an overnight coup. The policy of the new Kuomintang, re- The local weather forecast up generated and purged of the re-variable winds; fair to showery ito noon to-morrow is: Light, calcitrant elements, is likely to be decidedly anti-Communist. The original break between. Mar- shal Chinng and the Wuhan party came about through this clash of outlook. It is very significant that immediately prior to the im- The following ships were expect-
After playing many Strange reasons are given by portant Nanking conference, and ed to be in wireless communication parts at Oxford he first appeared parents who refuse free dental
with Hongkong to-day:-Empress
on the professional stage with.Mrs. treatment for their sons and following the anti-"Red" campaign of Asia, Laisang, Solviken, Svale, Langtry at Wolverhampton in daughters in the London County in Hankew, certain prominent Devanha, Talma, Van Heutsz, debut took place in February, 1890,
His London Council schools. One mother wrote: September, 1889.
"His father has had toothache of the
Kwangtung, Calchas, Hanoi, Tean, Kuomintang
Namsang, Tiisaroes, Seistan, Ton at the St. James's as Jaques in all his life, so the child will have should have left Wuhan for Mos-kin, Carmartheshire, Tiimanook, "As You Like It." In the same to put up with it."
Other reasons given by parents cow, to acek spiritual, if not more Menado Maru, Taikwa Maru, Kal-year he was lessee of the theatre aubstantial, support
gan, Emil Kirdort.
for a time. Having thus begun at include: from the
the top of the tree, he felt the "Bal teeth run in the family." Soviet. It rather lends colour to
need for training and experience. "He won't go, and I can't make the suggestion that the Communisted while attempting suicide yester-stock company on the Margate cir-
A Chinese woman was interrupt- He therefore joined Sarah Thorne's him." element is to be finally barred day afternoon. Friends who call-cuit for a time. Then after tour- from the present Nationalist Gov. ed on her at her home, No. 385ing with Miss Fortescue he joined Queen's Road West, found she was Wyndham at the "Criterion" und ernment of China which is a endeavouring to strangle herself later acted with George Alexander. hopeful sign for the country and with a piece of string, and prompt-In 1892 he joined Augustin Daly's its people.
ly rushed her to hospital, where she company playing in New York. but is recovering. To the pollee, the returned to London in 1893. Next woman stated that she had lost all year he married the well-known her money and property through actress. Violet Vanbrugh. gambling, and that was the reason she sought to take her life,
"What was our teeth given ua but to eat with, and you want to draw them."
tist when her teeth ache."
"I'll take her to a proper den-
"Shock was so great in another child that it brought on scarlet fever."
"Is the child mine or the Lon: don County Council's?"
In 1896 he became lessee of the Royalty and in 1896-7. toured
Dalston landlord: The trouble in America. In 1910 he and his is that my wife dislikes the lodger wife joined Tree at His Majesty's but he makes up a hand at where Bourchier scored a notable Isoto. : success as Henry VIII. At the Mr. W. B. Luke, Willesden Shakespeare Tercentenary perfor-magistrate: Bad language used mance at Drury Lane on May 2, constantly to a wife may amu..t star cast of "Julius Caesar." Inly comes within the purview of 1916, he played Brutus in the all- to moral cruelty, but that source-
figures do not include Expenditure and in the latter year began to 14 from the previons year. There 1916-7 he toured variety theatres this court.
In the annual report of the Director of Education for 1926. it is stated that the revenue (from school fees) amounted to $103,464.75 as against $04,416.00 $910,063.09 a decrease of $109,842 in 1925. The Expenditure was
Judge Cluer at Shur ditch:
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Budget Discussion. To-day has witnessed a full- dress debate in the Council Cham- ber on the merits of the Govern- ment's Budget proposals for 1928, the Unofficial speeches being found elsewhere In this issue. All eyes in the Far East, so to Owing to the hour at which the speak, will be turned to Nanking for us to-day to give the official meeting is held it is not possible
to-day, where the Kuomintang is replies, but we imagine that the holding one of the most important task of the Government spokesmen which are debited to Public Works. which had a run of 800 perfor-liable we are to be impetuous.
on School Buildings or Furnitureplay Old Bill in the "Better 'Ole" The older we become, the more must have been an exceptionally The decrease was mainly due to less mances. His first marriage hav- conferences in its existence. easy one this year, for there was expenditure under Building Grants. ing been dissolved, he married in
Midland solicitor: Phe police- There has arisen in the past few very little in the way of criticism
man adopted that gentle, persua- months a schism in the party There was, on the contrary, un- in the speeches of the Unofficials.
1918 the actress Kyrle Bellew with sive method of inserting his fin- The Forbes Russell Comedy whom he appeared in modern ́me-gers between the man's collar and founded by the late Dr. Sun Yat-animous support for the Govern- Company, who are opening a sen-
lodrama.
his neck and tugging firmly. Both as a tragedian and a come- sen, the most apparent break being ment's policy of economy, the son at the Theatre Royal to mor-
Why the English language is that between Hankow's regime Senior Unofficial Member (Sir row night, arrived from Singapore | dian Bourchier took high rank on and the Nanking elique, of which phasising the wisdom of retrench-through India, Ceylon and the able for the production of a num-A sleeper is that on which the
by the s.s. "Malwa" this morning. the London stage and his career despair of the foreigners Sheuson Chow) particularly em- The present tour which has been as an actor-manager was remark- A sleeper is one who sleeps. the late Generalissimo, Marshal ment. The Hon. Mr. W. E. Straits, has proved most succes- her of successful modern plays by sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that
Shenton also urged that it would Chiang Kai-shek, was the head. be unwise to add to the Govern sful, and it is expected that the. Sutro and others. He was also on which the sleeper runs while There has also been a third party, ment's proposals, so far as loan reception in Hongkong will be responsible for several adapta- the sleeper sleeps. Therefore, not taken much note of, but ap-raising is concerned, and it would with a good reputation, and a most
equally good. The Company comes tions.
while the sleeper sleeps in the parently wielding considerable disagreement with, our own con-being "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, managers in 1926 he and his wife the sleeper jumps the sleeper and seem that there was very general attractive repertoire, the first play between the actors' union and the sleeper over the sleeper under In connexion with the dispute sleeper, the sleepor carries the
power, formed at Shanghai. This tention that the Government is which had a long run at St. James took the side of the former and wake the sleeper in the sleeper, ably inclined towards Nanking development. Far be it frem us to
in consequence, to inspire local Moutrie's as usual.
their theatre for political rallies, steeper, so that there is no longer, and antagonistic to Hankow. urge the Government to embark
notably during the general strike. any sleeper sleeping in the sleepor Some time ago it was reported In Feb. 1927, they set cut on a on the alceper. Now. however, the three sections upon a policy of spending just for in the vernacular newspapers' theatrical tour embracing South are meeting, in the endeavour to the sake of it, but we are not con- that a Chinese living in the, Lai-Africa and Australia.
vinced that the present time is in-chikok opportune in which to display alleged by his wife to have been Road, Samshuipo, was
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. last-named unit has been favour-playing over-cautious and failing. Theatre, London. Bcolting is at joined the Labour party, lending by striking the sleeper.
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A GIRL'S THEFT OF CIGARETTES.
HUNG-CHU.
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Socialism does not mean that everyone will have a motor car. --Mr. R. C, Wallhead, M.P.
There is no reason why we
times from the "Monday-morning. feeling. Sir Charles Wakefield.
Suicide is the only enterprise in which, if you are successful, you are labelled as of 'unsound- mind. -Dr. Edwin Smith.
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Queen's Road who smokes, and the girl who
drinks cocktails and cuts her hair
reunite
as a party representative of the Nationalists of Cainn. little courage in the matter of missing, and later the case was The portents
fostering indipstrial and other de-reported to the police. Added to FUNERAL OF MRS. KAN should suffer as we all do at seemingly velopment. The Colony's, trade the mystery is the fact that the favourabic, for at preliminary and commercial activity has heen man drew out all his money from conferences the leaders of the in the doldrums long enough, and the bank, without saying anything various factions have come more content to wait, with folded armsdenly made himself scarce.
if we are going to sit by placidly beforehand to his wife and sud-
BIG PROCESSION THROUGH or less to an agreement. The sim until the happening of
It is some also known that the man is a re-
THE TOWN. special circumstance which will turned merchant from America act as a is primarily the appointment of a false one, as experienced in 1923) acquired abroad. The vernacular Hongkong for, some time, took engaged to a widower who played fillip (and possibly awith a small fortune which he funerals that has been
One of the largest Chinese Two young Indies. were talking Special Executive Committee, ful- to our domestic expansion, we press now states that the wife of place this morning, when the re-the cornet and had four chil scen in about a third who had just becomé ly representative of all interests, shall doubtless have to wait a long the mun recently received a tele-mains of Mrs. Kan Hung-chiu were dren. which is to function as the foun- would like to see the Government in America stating that he was the town for interment at Pokfued one, than four children and a time. As we said before, we gram from her husband, who is conveyed through the centre of tain-head of the Kuomintang in actively exploring possilities and swindled of a sum of $28,000 some um cemetery. She was the wife cornet?"
"What could be worse," exclaim- future. If all goes well, and assisting others to do so. But time ago, when he was still in of Mr. Kan Hung-chiu, who is a
when it is announced that the Hongkong. It is not stated in the well-known figure in Chinese busi- quietly, "excepting perhaps, six "Nothing," said the other of the Nationalists will be greatly move to help any private enter-stances the swindlers obtained his the Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Com-
Government can make no financial telegram under. what circum- ness circles, being a director of children and a trombone."" strengthened, and the reform of prise, "no matter how deserving" money, or why he should have to pany and a partner of the Ming Everybody knows the woman the party, including the discarding and when that announcement is go back to the States so precipitate Tai Bank, 161 of the reactionary elements foster-not commented upon by our Unly. Altogether a very intriguing Central.
official Members, who eñorus their affair. ed by Moscow, should be an early praises of the Government's wis- accomplishment... Despite thedom, we find it difficult not to wish somewhat pessimistic feeling in
for a more virile expression of opinion. eertuin quarters, we are, inelined to think that the Nanking con- gross will have important results, und lead to a reunion in the ranks of the Nationalists. The fact that prominent men like Tan Yen-kai, C. C. Wu, Li Lish-chun, and others, New York
Paris
are prepared to meet at a round- Geneva
Brussels table conference and discuss the Amsterdam return to a united Kuomintang Milan party, augurs well.,
Berlin General Li
Stockholm Chai-sum, at Canton, also appears Copenhagen most favourable to a rapproche-Vienna ment. There is a possibility of Prague some opposition coming from the
Helsingfors Madrid Nanking commander, General Ho Lisbon Ying-chin, who apparently finds it Athens
Bucharest difficult to forgive the Wuhan Rio clique for their previous antagon-Buenos Aires
Bombay iam, but it is likely that better Hongkong counsels will prevail, and the Shanghai
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The length of the funeral pro-like her brother is not uncommon. cession was unusual, stretching Now the girl who shaves has made from the Central Market past the her appearance. City Hall, Murray Parade Ground, Two of these very modern young. Wellington Barracks, as far as Wanchai Road. All the employees women, staying at a house in. West Somerset, sent ទ request to a of the factory, numbering some Minehead hairdresser, to call at 3,000, followed the coffin. In,addi- the house to shave, two people. tion, 2,000 coolies were employed The hairdresser, who frequently to carry the attendant para-goes to private houses to shave phernalia.
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A Chinese girl employed at the sent a tokens of sympathy, this two old gentlemen requiring his Nanyang Tobacco Factory was 4.8951 charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell being the Chinese equivalent of 34.02 this morning, with the larceny of the custom of sending wreaths. 12.134 329 cigarettes from a bonded ware-side the Ming Tai Bank. Outside when he found two girls awaiting
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