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us to believe is another matter, but there can be no question that ho does not overpaint, the picture of hardship, poverty and cruelty which results from the widespread wis- rule of the warlords. It in to these latter that Sonator Goff pays much deserved attention, und he truly as- serta that to their personal greed; jealousies and usurpation of the
people's rights can be traced prac tically all the sorrows of China. He believes that it will not be without outside help that Chinn will set her house in order, and he pleads for a benoficient intervention. We think he pleads in vain, though if ideal intervention were possible it would doubtless work wonders for the good of the country, China would not be tolerant of it, and there is no Power able openly to advocate it. It is one of those suggestions
OCTOBER 11, 1927
DAY BY DAY.
'FOR'
THERE IS NO SUDSTITUTE THOROUGH-GOING, ARDENT, AND SINCERE EARNESTNESS, ---Dickens.'
The P. and O. 8.8. Delta, is due in port from Singaporë' about 8. 4.m. next Saturday.
The P and O. a,s, Macedonia is due here from Singapore at 6 am next Thursday, with the outward English mails.
During the past three days, one Chinese case of typhoid fever was the only incidence of notifiable dis ease reported.
CORRESPONDENCE.
OUR DESCENT FROM APES.
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir,May I trespass on your space to reply to just one or two Mr. V. Hughes touching upon my remarks of your correspondent
letter of the 6th, Instant?
The Very Idea!
A motorist had run over and idl- ed a gont The owner. stood with arms akimbo, demanding to know what the motorist intended to do about it.
"Madam," said the motorist, "I will replace the animal." owner of the goat.
"You flatter yourself," said the
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ambiguity of the constable's signal Motorist at Lowestoft: "The.
was blatant.".
To begin with ho says: "It is definitely proved, from a study. of common evolution, that such a Man at Yarmouth: "He had a dual existence of closely allied pillion rider but I could not say if species, is impossible in näture." it was a girl; it's so difficult to tell Attacked and bitten in the leg by May I as a simple reply, be to-day. a dog belonging to Lieut. Leo. allowed to quote Prof. Bateson, a
Nottingham woman: I put Healy, of the U.S.S. Asheville, a former President of the British some produce in the garden, and coolie was yesterday removed from Association, and well known in grow some seeds. Midland man: the Taikoo Dock to the Government all scientific circles, in his presl-excited, more so than if the had. Civil Hospital for treatment.
dential address delivered in Mel-been "ineberated." bourne? "We should be greatly
Motorist fired at Willesden for A Chinese was removed ashore, helped by some indication as to exceeding the speed limit in his to hospital from the steamer Chin- whether the origin of life has own car: It is always we poor And meanwhile, Chinsan yesterday, following an accident been single or multiple. Modern working men who suffer."
in which he was injured through opinion is, perhaps, inclining to
which must forever, we fear, remain
academic. will
the
go. on struggling against ill effects of her Iack of the Government system and the The injured man is the store- It is interesting to recall that feebleness of her people to withkeeper of the steamer. stand the machinations of schem ing Warlords and the disasters
being hit by a bag of beans which the multiple theory, but we have was being hauled up from the hold, no real evidence.”
The woman was
Willesden wife: My husband gives me a little money at night,
and takes it away in the morning,
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Among the passengers who tological Institute of the Berlin chase some of the articles." In arrived to-day by the s.s. Empress University who, in answer to the other cases borrowers are required Major C. J. and the Hon. Mrs. tells us nothing of the subject-it of Russia from the north were, question: "Who was the ancestor to pay insurance for the evening. of man?" replied "Palaeontology I am a modern woman-Mrs. Balfour, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Monag- knows no ancestors of man.” Mrs. D. Tollan, Mr. R. R. Rox- han, Mr. R. C. Tredwell, Mr. and burgh, Capt. D. R. Wahl, and Mr. H. C. Shrubsole.
Begant.
The good that women do lives after them.--Mrs. Baldwin.
Prof. Bateson in his
Many hostesses of London are work "Materials for the Study of Varia- hiring, the entire decorations of In a fall which occurred while tion &c." quoted in the beginning their homes from dealers. They he was working on board the stea-of his introduction the text: "All do this to give tone to their social mer Daviken, a Taikoo Dock coolie Lesh is not the same flesh; but fairs, Included in these effects of bad politicians. Of cours received injuries to his spine after there is one kind of flesh of men, are priceless art works, tapestries, China is not devoid of well-dropping a distance of 20 feet. another flesh of beasts, another beautiful old furniture and orna-
was lying in meaning, educated and sincere The Daviken
dock of fishes, and another of birds." ments. Sometimes dealers lend. when the accident occurred. The
their decorative pieces without young men, trying to get a
injured man was taken to hospital. I may also quote Branco, Direc-charge in the hope that the wealthy place in politics and to make.;
tor of the Geological and Palacon- guests will make inquiries and pur- them work, but the grip of the militarists is still so great that one fears it must be many years yes before politicians are able to wrest the governing power from the hands of those who happen to have troops at their command. The Republic of China goes on in name only, for China to-day is a coun- try of multiple de facto Govern ments, mostly at loggerheads with It was perhaps a little unfortun-each other and all of them exist ate yesterday's anniversary of the ing by the gracious permission of establishment of the Chinese Re- one or other of the militarists.. public should have clashed with the news that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has left the Shanai leader in the lurch and exposed him, single- handed, to the full fury of the Manchurian War Lerd-Chang
TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 11 1927.
CHINA TO-DAY.
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Night Noises.
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As to the South, Sea islanders and others, I have seen them in
Even in our own country we see the course of my travels and I can the steel helmet feeling.--Lord H. testify to their intellectual deve- Cavendish Bentinck. A Chinese was charged before lopment, when they are afforded It is about 18 years ago that a Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning the opportunity. On the other paraón caught me and made me sign with riding a bicyle without a hand we are all aware that man the pledge-Sir W. Joynson Hicks. eighty cents to the constable who lectual surroundings under un- always looks on the brighter side light, and with offering a bribe of brought up even in most intel- A politician is an optimist... He stapped him. On the first count favourable circumstances degener- of other people's money-Sir he was fined $2, and on the second, ates sadly intellectually, physical. Ernest Benn. he was further mulet in a sum ofly and morally in a degraded $20. Both fines were paid: environment.
David Jones, of Trigel Blaen- pennal Llanilar, Cardiganshire Henri Bergson of the French has proved that there is at least Mr. J. F. Macgregor, senior Gov- Academy, in his book L'Evolution one Welshman who can speak only craing Director of Messrs. Cald-Creatrice," says: "We are pre- Welsh. Jones, brought before the bock, Macgregor and' Co., Ltd., ar- There will be general sympathy rived to-day by the s.s. Empress pared to understand why the most King's Bench Division in London, with the residents of a part of of Russia; en route for Manila. He recent and expert investigators, began giving his testimony in the peninsula who have complain- hopes to return to the Colony by like Jennings and Maupas, reject Welsh, to the confusion of the ed of a noisy dredger working all the same ship to meet Mr. N. the mechanical theory of Proto-court. He failed to understand Tso-lin. We say anfortunate be through the night, in Kowloon Macgregor, who is due in the Colony Zoan behaviours, and why Profes-questions put to him by the judge, cause the news served to em- Bay. We had occasion to refer on the s.a: Mongolia at the end of sor E. B. Wilson, dean of contem- and a Welsh interpreter had to be phasise the fact that China, poli- some few months ago to the mat- the month.
porary cytologists, concludes his called. Of recent years there has book on the cell with the atate- been a concerted revival of the tically, has not progressed very farter of night noises, and also after-
noon pandemonfum, in Kowloon, The following list of ships was ment that, the study of the cell Welsh language throughout Wales, since that fateful day 16 years ago rendering that place one of the expected to be in wireless com- has, ou the whole, seemed to but hitherto Londoners have been when the Republic was ushered in noisiest for residential purposes munication with Hongkong to-day: widen rather than to narrow the unwilling to believe there to work what was going to be a
we have known. The working of Takliwa, Changte, Van Heutsz, enormous gap that separates even Welshmen who know only the lan- a dredger, which we are assured Santhia, Kumsang, Angers, Sul- the lowest forms of life. from the guage of their fathers. wonderful change in her political can be heard nearly a mile off in sang, General Metzinger, Songbo, inorganic world." destinies. The country is not only the still hours of the morning, has Tean, President Fierce, President And everywhere in the world of to learn to cycle, hired a machine Two young chaps who wore eager. still divided against itself, but it is apparently been added to the Wilson, "Sinking, Laisang, Oak-biology one hears of rebellion one evening and betook themselves divided into almost unrecognisable "amenities," and has called forth ridge. Bellerophon, Taikwa Maru, against Darwin. Darwinism means, to a quiet suburb to make their fret cliques and parties whose kaleidosing has been done to abate what
a host of complaints. So far noth- und Hozan Maru.
presumably, the origin of new efforts. organs and functions, new organ- in connexion with yesterday's iams and apocies, by the natural tumbles one of them wobbled off Ater some practice and a few copic changes defy intelligent fol- must be a real nuisance to rest- lowing. From yesterday's news it dents on the water-front area near celebration of the anniversary of selection of favourable variations. and disappeared from view round a would appear that General Yen Hai- Chatham Road, and the question the establishment of the Chinese But this conception, hardly half a corner.
After a lapse of some becomes one of apparent apathy on Republic, there was no function century old, is already worm-eaten minutes the other began to grow shan, the Tuchun of Shansi who for the part of authority. It certain- arranged to be held in the Chinese with difficulties. How, on this anxious, and accordingly set off to so many years has been a neutrally should not be necessary for the Chamber of Commerce; as was.in-theory, did the instincts originate?sce what had become of his com
dredging of the harbour, however advertently announced previously. It would be convenient to conceive panion. observer of the fighting that has, urgent, to be carried out between The gathering took place at the them as the inherited accumula Just round the corner he en- intermittently raged around the the hours of, say, éleven at night Chinese Club, and will be found re- tion of acquired habits; but ex-countered an old lady with north Capital, was inveigled or per- and five in the morning. It may ported elsewhere in this issue. pent opinion closes that door to spectacles. "Excuse me, madam,” snaded or bought into making war
our faces, though some day that he said, "but did you see anything short-lived, and as suddenly as the Sentence of three months hard door may be opened.. If only con of a young chap on a bicycle?" on Chang Tso-lia and that General noisy thing started, it will cease Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis transmissible, every instinct must think there's a man along there in
labour Was imposed by Mr. W. genital powers and qualities are
"No," replied the lady, "but I,....... Feng Yu-hsiang, the so-called operations. But meantime real tracy, this morning, on a Chinese "Christian" General, promised him dents whose rest has been disturb who was arrested for picking the have been on its first appearance,
a ditch mending umbrellas!? certain help which has not beened have been kept, and are still pocket of a pedestrian in Public as strong as it natively is now; Edinburgh is going to see Harry
kept, on tenterhooks. forthcoming. Once again there who has not experienced it can fendant was arrested by a detective speak, adult, in full panoply for Council has recently offered the
Nobody Square Street yesterday. The de must have been born so to
Lauder for nothing. Its Town has been an incident of personal fully realise, perhaps, what a con- of the Labour Maintenance Bureau action; else it could not have comedian the freedom of the city. disloyalty similar to those all too tinuous alling of needed slumber and on being searched in the Sta- favoured its possessor in the In order to accept it he will have to can mean. In the life of fret, in tion the $10 he had stolen was found struggle for existence. If, on its appear at the usual ceremony in frequent in modern China, and from
a tropical climate, which we lead in the toe of his shoe.
first appearance, It was weak, itUsher Hall. When his turn comes out of that incident it appears at here most of the time, essential
could have achieved survival he will have to get up and make a the moment as though the Feng-sound sleep alone can build up the
While out motoring on the main value only through that acquired speech, and that, in Edinburgh's system, or repair wastage brought road at Kowloon last night, Mr. strength which (by current opinion, will be the greatest attrac- about by the strain and stress of Frank Lee, an employee of the hypothesis) not inherited. tion its rather solemn City Fathers the daytime. The powers-that-be Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, Every origin is here a Miracle. have over staged. Scots will be have seen fit to legislate against was involved in a serious accident. Mr. Will Druant, Ph.D., in his various noises in certain quarters. An old Chinese was knocked down book "The Story of Philosophy" in In the case of privately-created by Mr. Lee's car near Shamsuipo, criticising Henri Bergaon says: noise there is always a remedy at and received injuries from which
specifically Darwinian features of win has proved effective; the the evolution theory are now generally abandoned."
tien forces are going to emerge even more powerful in their bold
be that the nuisance is only to be
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coming front Riechlachrie, Achnas- hellach and Drumnadrochit to s80 Harry Lauder receive the freedom them a single bawbee.
of Peking and its political fortunes. The province of Shansi may now come under their sway, and the strength of dither the Nationalists law. In this case it appears to he died after admission into hospi."All in all, his criticism of Dar- of Edinburgh. Nor will it cost
or Feng Yu-hsiang to dislodge them
will become lessened,
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be an officially sanctioned nais- tal. The circumstances of the ance, which, in view of the fact accident are under investigation In yesterday's edition also, side that complaints have been made by the police. by side with an account of the cele-out, seemingly, the least thought. against it, is being continued with- bration of "National Day" and the It is to be hoped that this disre- story of Feng Yu-hsiang'e lack of gard for the public is not to be support for Gen. Yen, we published taken as an indication of deliber-
atc unconcern. a fuller context of the very out-
Paris Geneva spoken remarks of Senator Guy D. Max Hermann, Manila mechanic Berlin Goff, of West Virginia, who, afte, employed by the Esco Shoe Com- Dalo a visit to China and study of its puny, fell six Bturies from a window. Helsingfors
on the top floor of the Luneta Hotel Athons political system and military chaos, about 2.30 a.m. iast Wednesday, and Buenos Aires urges that the foreign Powers 15 still alive to tell about it. His Hongkong good fortune, however, in escaping New York should intervene in China and so with his life is attributed to the Stockholm
Amsterdam save themselves from the war which fact that his fall was broken when he thinks will later on become in. he struck and broke the electric
light wires outside the building and Bucharest evitable. Senator Goff's analysis escaped with a fractured leg Her- Bombay of the situation was exceedingly in-mann was picked up a few moments Yokohatan cisive and one which we hoped all after his fall in an unconscious Brussels
condition and was rushed to the Milan readers perused, for it gave the Philippine General Hospital for Copenhagen essentials of China's problem in a treatment. When he regained cons. Prague fresh and vivid light. Whether or ciousness, he said that in trying to Lisbon
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