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THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 13, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
سن
JOYFUL TRANSPORT TO THE LIGHT.--
THE VERY PLANTS TURN WITH A INTERVENTION NOW OR WAR,
Schiller.
The total number of free,' through and assisted emigrants passing through the colony in 1926 was 182,040 on 211 ships.
The annual general meeting of the Ladles Section of the Royal Hong kong Golf Club will be held at the Helena May Institute on Monday, October 17, at 10.30 a.m.
The community singing advertis. ed by the St. Peters Church Young Men's Club to take place at Cathedral Hall to-night, has been the postponed to a later date.
YOU the Chinese bourgeoisle and its MUST fear of the growing proletariat rising to full.class-consciousness." IT
We have quoted the above be- cause we wonder if the writers of such vapourings hope to achievo
There were two Chinese cases any solid or lasting results by of typhoid fever reported yester- such ridiculously extreme expres-day. sions. We are left to marvel at, the mentality of men who really here from Shanghal early to- The P. and O. a.s. Malwa is due and truly believe that they are morrow morning. doing good in the world by arous- ing the worst class hatreds and passions, and who can write, as they do in the Number now lying before us: The workers of the world swear their class vengeance which knows no mercy." It is 43 well to realise that here in China has been transplanted some of that mad political frenzy which, born in Russia, knows only violence and destruction, and that from Hankow (and possibly other cen trea) there is being disseminated.
The silk forwarded from here among ignorant men the most
by the 9.8. Empress of Asia on pernicious ideas of the century. 14th September, arriived in New None can hope more ardently than York (St. John's Park) on the 7th we for the amelioration of the October having been 23 days in lot of China's struggling millions, |:| but we foresee one of the greateat tragedies of the world if the mass of Chinese people ever become blind dupes of these hate-crazed agents of Moscow. There
are better and surer
to im- provement than could ever come by the route of violence, and we should like to think that there were some efforts being made to counteract by propaganda this hate-breeding propaganda emanat- ing from Hankow. It is a serious question on which the Powers would do well to ponder.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 13, 1927.
BREEDING HATE.
are
ways
The Irish Regime,
grave Government, although with almost a bare working majority.
transit.
The community singing of St. Feter's Club was announced this morning as to be held in the Cathedral Hall to-night. This is incorrect. The venue, is else- where.
.
The Headquarters Wing of the 1st Battalion the Cameronians (Scottish Riflea) are giving & fare well dance at the Kowloon Dock reading room to-morrow evening at 8.30 to which friends of the regi- ment are cordially invited.
The Royal Observatory weather report to-day states: A strong anti-cyclone is central over the Yangtze Valley. A strong mon-
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(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir,What will the result" be when Senator Guy D. Golf presents facts of the situation in China?" to Congress the so-called "true Intervention or hands off China"?
I am not a student of politics, but cannot help saying a few words after reading through the state- ments made by Senator Goff.
The Very Idea!
The young man had had no ex- perience in collecting debts, but he was desperately in need of a job.
The merchant to whom he ap- ability, and more to get rid of him plied hadn't much faith in his than anything else gave him an old account against a man who had till he had to. the reputation of paying nothing
said, "I'll give you a regular job." "If you collect this money," he
To the merchant's astonishment. hour with the money. the young man returned in half an
A strong request for intervention is couched in the following words: "These nations (Great Britain,
"How did you do it?" he gasped. Japan, France, Holland, Italy and "I told him," said the other, "that the United States) are confronted if he didn't pay me I would tell all with the necessity of choosing be his other creditors that he had tween friendly, immediate, inexpen-dono so!" sive intervention or a future costly, devastating, horrible war."
Nottingham
solicitor: Where Senator Goff suggests thut fail- did he kick you?-Man: On the is inevitable, but will it be avoid- of you?-Man: On the ground. ing immediate intervention a war road. Solicitor: But what part. able if the Powers intervene now? Ejected tenant at Willesden: I Throughout his statement Senator want, the landlady to return my God has adroitly avoided the sug-pet. Landlady: She can have it. gestion of the form of intervention and welcome. I don't want the that the Power's should take, which, smelly thing. in point of fact, is ultimately the monkey. "The magistrate: Send it It's a nasty big core of the whole matter. Current to Sir Arthur Keith, or, better still, events and history indiente as the Zoo. That is the proper place clearly as the sundial that inter- for monkeys. vention is only practicable in one form-force; all the more so when the "malicious, malignant, sinister, perfidious, growling, snarling, undomestitated Best" is a party concerned.
Stratford magistrato: The possession of a motor car
is no evidence of wealth. A quarter of the motor-cars running about are not paid for.
Some may argue that if either
If you are not thinking of enter- immediate intervention or non-ining the Civil Service you might find tervention would lead to war, then this useful as a diverting substitute
for crossword puzzles.
are we
80 sure
Only
Then, there is this most vital question for all would-be clerks:-
There is a flavour about this of
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Two beggars, one blind, re- lady. They decided to eat them to- gether, taking one at a time.
After a whilo,the blind man cried
Four Chinese who arrived in the Colony from Swatow yesterday were sent to the Government Civilt would be infinitely better to swal- Hosital, suffering from bullet low the bitter pill now instead of suffering in a long anticipatory wounds. It is believed that the men were ex-soldiers,
agony. But Senator Goff that a future costly, parts you would most like to play: Say which one of the following
the necessary result in the absence Beatrice, Miranda, Ophelia. By devastating, horrible war will be Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Cordelia, of inmediate intervention? the most irrational and visionary which you would appear, say what considering the principal scenes in politicians can answer this in the impression you would wish to give affirmative. Things are changing the audience. Quote aptly from daily and the Chinese situation to your important speeches, if possible. day will no wise be alike to-morrow. Just take his statement of the Chithe northern firm who advertised: nese situation for example. His It must come with a great deal
observations were made some three "Wanted, good cornet player with of relief to all Irishmen the world
months ago.
What vast changes
knowledge of bricklaying.. over, who desire to see their
have developed during this short in- There exists at Hankow a country continue peaceful and un- 90on may be expected along the terval? Surely Russia does not ceived a basket of cherries from der stable government, that the S.E. coast of China. The forecast wield such a magical "controlling rather wonderful and
unique recent elections in the Free State up to noon to-morrow is: N.B. interest in China now as she did body, styling itself the "Pan-resulted in the return of the Cos-winds, fresh; cloudy.
three months ago. Can we then Pacific Union Secretariat" and al-
predict that, failing immediate in- though we know nothing about A cable yesterday stated that Mr.from a shop at No. 24 Pottinger
By cutting away a pane of glass tervention, a war there will be, by Here! Stop it! You're tok-
judging merely from currenting three at a time?" its right or authority so to grandi- Cosgrave, despite strong opposi Street, some person stole from a
"How d'ye know? You can't events?
see!" loquently describe itself we'
tion, has been re-elected the pre-show window last
The Asquithian advice"wait night, eight sident of the Dail and executive of Eats, nine telescopes, eight watch-and see is perhaps after all the and you haven't said anything "No: but I've been taking two more than a little interested in the Irish Free State. It is aps and two pipes valued at soundest policy for the Powers to about It, so I know!" what is contained in its official parent from the voting that cer- $850. The police have been noti- adopt at present. organ-The Pan-Pacific Work. tain elements who are not of fied by the master of the shop.
exactly the same political opinon er. The Secretariat very kindly as the Irish leader, refrained from The friends of Mr. R. E. H. sends us copies (there have been opposing his further election be-Oliver, of Messrs. Caldbeck, Mac- five issues up to date), doubtless cause they did not desire to com- gregor and Campany, Ltd., who met
plicate matters. It for our edification. Apparently, prior to the recent
was shown with a serious accident recently, election that will be pleased to learn that he this Pan-Pacific Trade Unio many rallied to the side of the has sufficiently recovered to be Secretariat is out for real red the De Valera party given a chance and that he has to-day gone to exlating regime rather than see able to leave the French Hospital blogd every time, for any and to stir up trouble in the land. It his residence on the Fenk. everything that is not avowedly was all very well for Mr. De Valera and his followera to disclaim any Communistic is described as rene deliberate revolutionary policy, and pected to, be in wireless communi- admit, does not represent the true
The following ships were
China, at present, every one will +++++tionary and counter-revolutionary to promise a spell of constitutional
ention with Hongkong to-day: Chinese civilization. We are now Such men aa Wang Ching-wei, government, while seeking their Malwa, Delta, Empress of Russia, in a transitional period, during Sun Fo. Chiang Kai-shek, and Lituinly a very tame police after
republican reforms. It was ear-
Laisang, Suisang, Hosang. Angers, which civilization usually lies dor- Chai-sum are all roundly "slated" all that they were responsible for Tisalak, Menado Maru, Yamagata vails. As we cannot judge the General Metzinger, Diome,mant, and a seeming madness pre- and the present regime in Wuhan a few years ago, an echo of which Maru, Wakasa Maru, Tushimi civilization of France by the Re-Vice-Consul in Nottingham.)
was soon in the dastardly assas Itself is castigated in language sination of Mr. Kevin O'Higgins Maru, Kumsang, Helios, Hellas, valution period as symbolized by like the following:
we cannot The cripple thumped his crutch But underlying that plan of the Anking, Van Heutsz and Beller-the "Guillotine," so "The wave of reaction, and chief opposition party
judge the civilization of China by on the ground as he confronted his is theophon.
its present condition. principle of entire separation of
In fact, lawyer. counter-revolution which
The total number of in-patients what every Chinese regrets to-day "Heavens, man!" he exclaimed, has Ireland from the rest of Britain, swept over the territory
"you are taking four-fifths of my of the and, for that matter, from
admitted to the Kwong Wah is not that the teachings of our Wuhan Government has not yet Empire. Such an idea will not Hospital during 1926 was 6,138 as great philosophers, who, as Senn- damages. I never heard of such
be tolerated by the vast majority compared with 6,695 in 1925. Of tor Goff pointed out, were contem- extortion." receded. On the contrary the of the Irish people, and they have these 4.738 or 77 per cent. as poraries of Aristotle, Socrates and destruction of the mass organisa- their doubts as to the way the against 72 per cent. in 1925 came Plato-have been worshipped and. tions of the workers and pensanta, obtaining the change. The pre-1.400 elected to be treated by
De Valeraites would proceed about under European treatment, while followed, but rather the contrary.
Senator Goff also says that those particularly the disorganisation sent generation has an only too Chinese methods. The
who argue that intervention total conflicts of past years, and within was 99,729 as vivid memory of the disastrous number of out-patients treated impossible.suffer from the fallacy against 74,257 in of reasoning by analogy, and that the short life of the Free State 1925; of these 32,646 elected to China has tired for 16 years to flad has already observed the great receive European treatment. This George Washington in vain. He, Potentialities for advancement and gives a percentage of 33 as against prosperity. They have definitely one of 37 in 1925. shown their preference for the con-
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One conspicuous misrepresenta- Ladies in Vienna
armea with tion is found in Senator Goff's large bunches of nettles attacked: statement: "If the civilization of a party of young, pretty Viennese China is worthy to be copied, wo girls on holiday at Radi shipped and followed in this busy The girls had annoyed the practical-yet altruistic period of women by parading in abbreviated the 20th century-what are its bathing costumes. A passer by res- beneficial effects upon the people cued the girls, some of whom were China; and judging them as who now inhabit the country DI
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I never worry.--Mr. Baldwin. What a wonderful world it would be if women were been born with-
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Americans are not now, and have never been, primarily interested in money. Mr. Homer Brett (U.S.
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The lawyer smiled. "I furnish- ed the skill, the eloquence, and the necessary legal learning for your case," he replied coolly.
"Yes," said the client, "qut I furnished 'the case itself.""
"Poof!" replied the lawyer. Anybody could fall down a coal-
hole."
it would seem, is the one who suf
Maud May Raffan, a married fers from the fallacy of reasoning by_analogy for even if there were woman, of Eastbourne, who wept tinuance of this state of affairs. The following forthcoming wod- a George Washington in China-to- bitterly in court, was remanded on and can heave a sigh of relief at dings are announced: Lieut. day, would it not take him consi-bail by the Eastbourne magistrates the inglorious records of Wu Pei-the small cloud that arose on the Comdr: Conway Beuning Allenderably more than 16 years to dis- 'on a charge of stealing a suitcase
horizon having been dissipated.
EXCHANGE RATES.
A detective said that he was
offered the articles for sale. He in
in a shop on Monday when Raffan asked Raffan how she came
R. N., H. M. Submarine L5, of tinguish himself as he did in and its contents, together with a Liscannan, Dernock, County An-America; considering the fact that macintosh and an umbrella, the pro- trim, and Mejorie Brough Warren, in China he would have to fight perty of Mrs. Audrey Collyer, of
the enormous force of Courtfield, Enfield Chase, Westmoreland House, Tunbridge against
It was stated that Mrs. Collyer Wells; A. McAlpine, marine engi- "convention" gathered accumula-lost the suftcast which contained ner of the s.s. Luisang, and Eliza- tively during the past 5,000 years, all her holiday clothes, including 420 while in Amerien he had to deal two tennis frocks and five dresses beth Paterson' Stewart, of Drumfrochar
with an oppression of a short his- Road, Greenock, London, Oct. 12,
-from the omnibus in which she Scotland; Firmino.
Xavier tory only. ..124
In short, the clerk, of 162 Bel-
reasons given by travelled to Eastbourne station on 25.25 Delgado,
her return home, 20.42 chers Street, and, Mercedes File-Senator Goff are not in any sense 18.47 mena Castilho, 1 Cadogan Street. convincing enough to warrant in- tervention, and judging from what .1934 .867/
Industry during the year 1926 he takes the Chinese to be 47.59/64 was dull, and several factories in helpless, fatuous and hopeless" ..1/11% the Colony closed their doors. people it would seem that there session of them, and she said
she obtained them from 4.87 3/32 The others are reported to have could be only two possible motives
friend. 12.18% just managed to carry on. The that prompted Senator Goff to ad- 1909 need for supervision was not so vocate immediate intervention, .84.624 27.07 the Industrial Employment of
urgent, and the inspector under namely: 0785
Children' Ordinance, Mr. Meade, 1/6.15/16 1/10.15/16 acted instead as inspector under to be a "Russian" province.
.34.00 the Protection of Woman
(2)~To crush Russia at the ex- 80% Girls Ordinance. With the New Pense of China. 18.17 Year (1927) Mr. Meade reverts to Chinese or any reasonably sympa Would any reasonably patriotic 16434 his former duties and acts also aathetic, foreigner agree with him if 274 inspector of factories under the such were his real; though veiled, 5.20/32 proposed Factory (Accidents)
fu, San Chuan-fang or Chiang. Kai-shek. Every mass move- ment is prohibited, every wage movement is punished by deaths. ......In place of the duly elected executives of the All-China La- bour Federation and of the vari-
Paris ous other Unions, there have Geneva been placed dictatorially-at the Berlin
Oslo.... head of the labour organisations
Helsingfors military underlings who know and Athens care as much about the welfare
Buenos Aires Hongkong of the toiling masses as a mule New York about the Einstein theory
Amsterdam Stockholm The new "Labour" Ministry of Vienna the Wuhan Government, which Madrid
Bucharest was inaugurated after the resigna-Bombay tion of the first Labour. Miniatar Yokohama Sou Chao Ging (Chairman of the Milan
Brussels
All-China Labour Federation); Copenhagen has started a game of deception Lisbon Prague to blind the workers to the fact Rie that they are being misled and Shanghai
Bliver (spot and forward) betrayed. The treachery of
.2/6
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-British Wireless.
and
Ordinance, says the S. CA's. report for last year..
(1) To make China, an "Interna- tional" instead of what he alleged
alm?Yours, etc., ¦
AN INDIGNANT CHINESEL Hongkong, Oct. 13, 1927.
a girl
In view of the departure of so many of the troops from Kowloon. the Canteen of the St. Andrew's Service Men's Club is being closed. 15, after just acven months' service. down, as from Saturday, October Arrangements are being made for those men who still wish to avait themselves of the Club's premises: to become members of the St. An- drew's Young Men's Club.