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control exhibit continuous dis ruptive Influences at work, and the tendoney has of late been for a reversion to the restiveness of old.
A
DAY BY DAY,
8.*** 1927.
CONTEMPT PUTTETH AN EDGE UFON ANGER MORE THAN THE HURT ITSELF-Bacon.
The P. und O... Mantua is English mail early on Friday due here from Singapore with the
morning.
Mr. F. C. Blissing, third engineer of the 8.s. Halying, which is now at the Cosmopolitan Dock, reporta that some person stole from his cabin between Sunday afternoon and yesterday morning, three reefer
ARMISTICE DAY.
THE AFTERMATH OF WAR.
The Very Idea!
"Ah!" remarked the fascinated by-
About four years ago, at the stander, after listening for a time urgent appeal of bereaved father, I visited the devastated to the moving man who had drop remains of his son whom I had think of yesterday on the links," area of France to search for theThat's the phrase I was trying to a" grand piano on his foot.
buried behind a line of trenches in 1917. With my mind's eye I could see the grave as it was then and the landmarks which should
ped
A porcupine sat on an egg An ant hopped by in glee A lobster flow on silvery wings With a crab upon her knee. A tom-tit punched an elephant's
пове
Then boxed a kangaroo Osaka Scotch does surely work When you take a peg or two!
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German
When I reached the particular sector in which I was to search 1 looked to the right for the flat ruins of the village of F-, but where they should have been was a village with upstanding houses, Three thousand yards atraight in front on the crest of ʼn slope, I
Henry Grimm, a looked for the jagged half of a mechanie, who has extracted con- church tower black against the aiderable sums of money from the skyline, but, instead of a half, a peasantry by styling himself "Eur
Francis whale tower defiantly crowned the peror
Joseph II. of slope. The trench-line which Austria-Hungary," WAK arrested sought had run through fields so in Vienna and returned to Ger- ravaged by shell-fire that the holes many as an undesirable alien. ay literally lip to lip in many parts. But that trench-line and those shell-holes were now level fields, some ploughed, some under root crops.
One of his bogus documents de- clared him to be the son of the late Crown Prince Rudolf and the Baroness' Vetaera, who were found dend together in the Crown Prince's shooting box at Mayerling, in the Another document, alleged to be Vienna Forest, in 1889,
It appears, then, as if the general leaning is towards the previous disruption which has hampered the Chinese in their commerce with the outside world. The big "drive" of the South'
Commander R. W. Blacklock, against the North, the so-called
D.S.C., who began duty on Oct. dawn of liberty, fraternity, and 7, with the Director of Naval In-lead me to it. equality on an oriental pattern, telligence at the Admiralty, serv has signally failed.
"Are
weed in 1923-26 with the Submarino therefore about to
Flotilla in China. witness
reaction, as disastrous as any
A Chinese woman, twenty years which has visited China of yore? of age, was sent to the Kowloon We read of anti-foreignism, re- Hospital after having been bitten by two dogs belonging to Mr. A. C. vived, of numerous outrages, of Gomes, of 492 Nathan Road. The authority fouted without any re-animals have been sent to Ma Tau prisal.There is another anti- Kok for observation. British boycott at Canton. The return of Mr. Wang Ching-wei is variously intérpreted, and the opinion in some quarters appears to be unfavourable, so far as this gentlemen's peacable intentionsjackets valued at £19. are concerned. Time alone will
The following appointments were
I was lost. There was nothing show what is to transpire by the made by the Admiralty on Oct. re-shuffling of posts on the main-11-Engr. Lieut.-Commr. P. H. for it but to go back to that yearn-
failure. with submarines (on relief). of terrorism renewed. In Swabue Commr. Engr. F. Young, to Titania,
On the return journey by road Rudolf, executed the same night,
declared that "Francis Joseph II one reads of fresh outrages, "Red" and for duty class 1 with sub-to Amiens, it was generally speak should be educated in a monastery.
Ing the same Wt. Engr.
overywhere. VIL
and a codiell from "Francis Joseph" troops" getting quite out of hand, marines (on relief).
E. A. Waterson, to Titania, forage, outlying farms and chu- declared that the arrested man was On the coast pirates flourish as service in submarines (on relief); once had lain under the hideous monarchical principle in Austria- teaux, cross-roads, trenches, which the "sole representative of the never before, and inland bandits and Wt. Engr. T. G. Nicholas (ac) light of war were now either be Hungary," and a "will of the late are a law unto themselves-in to Titania, and for
ing or had been rebuilt or repair-ex-Emperor Karl" appointed him. Yunnan, for instance, they run the submarines (Nov. 1).
ed. New life was springing up"Vice-Emperor of Austria.". province apparently on a demar
out of the ashes of the dead. Among the recent events de-Only here, and there cemeteries, cation basis. The chancelleries picted in the topical gazette being with serried rows of severely sim- Judge Crawford, at Southend The relatives of the late Mr. of Europe are paying less atten- screened at the Queen's Theatre ple crosses, reminded one, if need What will happen to this country Frank Lammert desire totion to China, if one can judge by to-day and to-morrow along with there was for reminder, that for when it is entirely governed by thank their numerous friends the falling-off of references in Goddess," is the visit of the Duke could be no new life in this world.hension of ordinary men,
the mystery drama "The Blind countless gallant warriors there women I do not know.
of women are beyond the coppre for their expressions of sym-
Britain had no devastated aren Willesden wife: It in not that pathy in their recent loss, and public debate, than they did a few and Duchess to Glasgow for the also for their floral offerings months ago. It looks as if every latter to receive the freedom of such as France had. But she had my husband actually ill-trants me, and attendance at the funeral one, outside immediate contact zette are Levine's start for Indis, and repairing to do after the war. Through the washhouse window.
the city. Other items in the ganevertheless plenty of rebuilding as men go, but once he put my head with the situation, is getting "Ted Compston beating Braid at golf; For she had hundreds of thou- up" with things as they are. The Dempsey and Tunney training for sands of human ruins to restore policy of the Powers is definitely the big fight, and Irish historien broken bodies and shattered ner- ves to rebuild: mangled limbs and to let matters. take care of them-
mutilated senses to repair. And selves. One sees something of
The Department of Overseas when the task of rebuilding and this reflected, perhaps, in the re-Trade announces that Mr. H. H.repairing was done, there remain
Fox, C...G., the Commercial | ed, and there remains to this day, trograde events of recent times. Counsellor to the British Legation the need of maintaining the Perhaps the Chinese themselves in China, has arrived in Britain owners of those bodies and nerves are becoming "fed, up""; with, the for for the purpose of leave and and limbs and sensex.
Moreover, for each little cross unification campaign, owing to its business. Mr. Fox will commence
a series of visits to some of the that marked a Brilon's grave over- obvious failure. Certainly the
principal commercial centres of seas, someone in Britain was left story of the past year's warring is the United Kingdom towards the to bear a heavier cross of Sorrow one of further cleavage, and the end of October, and will subse- or suffering or need. To enable day of unity never was more re-quently be available at the office the burden of that heavier cross of the Department for the purpose to be more easy borne, the mote- It is retrogression, with a
of interviewing representatives of strength and spirit of aged vengeance.
United Kingdom firms interested parents and grief-atunned wives in the export of British goods to and hungering children had and China,
still has to be shored up and sup- ported.
land. In Pakhoi we have a reige/McCurten, tö Titania, and for duteing old father and report my the will of the Crown Prince
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1927.
RETROGRESSION.
been
America's Tragedy.
of a
pageant in Dublin,
service in
TRICKED OUT OF $600.
BOGUS LETTER FROM CANTON.
+
The habits
Mr. Luke, Willesden magistrate: Mothers-in-law are much maligned race, and often the subject of an- just comment.
Midland witness: I spoke to him about thrashing his wife with a strap and bad language,
They had never seen a train in their.
Two. Irishmen lived on a farm.
them to the station for a box. lives. One day the farmer gent
As they arrived at the station,
a train came down the line, through. the station, and into the tunnel, One of the Irishmen fainted.
The stationmaster appeared, greatly perturbed. "Has
your friend fainted?" he asked.
The second Irishmen replied→→ "You would have fainted yourself if you had seen a tar barrel push- ing half a dozen houses up a close."
*
Women's clothes made of steel, yet soft as muslin..
This is one of the possibilities of the future, judging by the marvellous mechanical progress in Great Britain as reflected in the Shipping, Engineering and Mechanical Exhibition, which was held recently.
The exhibits range from glant generating plants to steel wires one-
Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G., "was "Peace hath her victories no It was We are sure that the keennest the subject of a recent "F.N." por-less fenowned than war."
trait in the Financial News, Sir fitting then, that to these gigantic, the League makes war more dif- Every year every meeting of sympathy will have gone out to the victims of the latest great disaster Charles, a director of the Bank tasks of Peace come the man who ficult. Sir Austen Chamberlaiti. to visit America-the devastating of England, was an ardent advo-had brought to British arms the I cannot see Hamlet smoking. There is something particularly floods in New England. The cate of the resumption of our Gold victory In War-Field Marshal
cigarettes and drinking whiskles ότι the Earl Haig For nine long years and sodas.-Mr. Gerald Lawrence, disquieting in the news messages magnitude of the tragedy which Standard. Has served
Currency has swept over Montpellier, the Cunliffe
Committee, of Pence he has carried on his
Leather scientists will no doubt which have been coming to hand capital of Vermont, can be gauged 1918-19: Indian Currency, 1920; wonderful campaign of rebuilding at some time make more use of these last few days regarding when it is remembered that the and was British representative on Britain's human ruins of the War banana and potato skins.-Mr. China. It appears as if the coin-death roll resulting from the the Dawes Committee. In addi- Just as in the War he needed am- Harry Holder. try is not only in an almost hape-over
collapse
reservoir istion to being chairman of the Lon-munition, so now in Peace he Publication of divorce details 200, and that many don Committee of the Hongkong needs-building material. He only does more to stop the dissolution less state of chaos, but the various towns in food districts have and Shanghai Banking Corpora- calls for fresh supplies on one day of marriage than anything clae.- parties, into which the contending factories and bridges swept away. directorships of companies trad- 11th month, Remembrance Day.
rendered desolate, with tion, he holds several important every year-the 11th day of the Mr. Justice Sabath (Chicago.) forces have split are following a When we remember the terrible ing with the East, including ship-It is up to each of us to give our policy of retrogression and Mississippi floods of earlier in the ping and telegraphy.
share on that day.—Contributed. anarchy. There is still a fairly destruction that was wrought by Having spent most his time year and the great amount of stable Government at Nanking and the St. Louis tornado we realise since returning from China in another one at Canton, otherwise that the year 1927 has indeed been France, Lieutenant Prince George the South is faced with a wide a disastrous one for the United R.N., the King's fourth son, will States, Britishers are sometimes receive 1s. 6d. a day additional area requiring "cleaning-up," and tempted to, envy the American
pay as a qualified interpreter in numeruas reforms, before any people the immensity of the natur: French from Oct. 21, when he thing can be done to restore con-it is only fitting that all should ex- Royal Marine, officer, Major C. last by the manager of the Kwong in the light this wire is almost in
al resources at their command, but
joins the battleship Nelson. fidence, both at home and abroad, tend a very real sympathy to those E. S. Wright, seems to be the Fan Loong firm of 213 Queen's visible, yet it will stand a strain of- and subsequent prosperity, In who are exposed to the ravages of
natural forces of which the people champlon linguist of the Navy. He Road Central, of a trick worked on the North, the only authority with at Home can hardly form an is a qualified interpreter in Dan- him, as a result, of which he was Fabout eight ounces. something of a claim to continuity adequate idea. True it is that there ish, Dutch, French, German, Ita victimised to the extent of $600,
At present it is used for filtering- of rule is the Fengtien party, has been a most unusual and and Swedish. Major Wright join that the manager received a letter
llan, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish From the report it would appear finest powder made.
dyes and women's face powder, the
present masters of Peking.
vastating gale this autumn off the In.
coast of Ireland, the effects of which ed the Royal Marines when he from Canton purporting to be writ This wire, it was stated, can be. Shansi there is a crisis owing to were felt all over the British Isles, was 18, and is now at Nanking, ten by a very close personal friend, wat women need not predict silk woven into cloth resembling muslin,. the disasters that this province's and this common experience will where he is по doubt making instructing the manager, to pay steel dresses for the moment, as the troops have suffered, through a sympathy. One cannot resist the
make more truly real the bond of efforts to learn Chinese.
blind entry into the Chinese arena, reflection that in nearly all the 1. Elsewhere in the northern parts States of America there has been marvellous progress and develop- of China propor, there is" miarule, ment in recent years, and the ex- disorder, lawlessness almost un-posure to such disasters as have checked, and no immediate pros- sippi valley, the St. Louis district Par
this year overwhelmed the Missie- pect of a change for the better. and the States of New England.
New York Brussels In Central China, there is the enhances the groatness of that
Genova Yangtsze turmoll, with the Wuhan achievement, inasmuch as it has
Amsterdam been accomplished in face of Milon region the centre of contention; nature's threat. And also one can Berlin and the upper reaches of the river not help thinking that America Stockholm see nothing but troop movements, must one day turn in earnest to Copenhagen
building more substantial homes Oslo
EXCHANGE RATES.
so that little time is available for for her people, because so much of Vienna consolidation of ordinary govern the devastation caused by tornados Prague ment. In the South, there is Can-is due to the comparative flimsiness Helsingfors
of wooden-frame houses.
Madrid ton, faction-ridden atill, pre-
Lisbon Athens cariously maintaining a pro-Nan-
Bucharest king policy, and obviously no
A shopkeeper, of 123A Second Ro longer as Important a unit in Street, first floor, reported to the Buenos Aires
police resterday that his accoun- Bombay Nationalism as when the seat of tant collected $1,236 from various Shanghal the Kuomintang was established customers towards the end of Hongkong there. The parts of the country since. He is believed to have ablver Spot.
October and has not been seen Yokoliama over which Canton has nominal sconded.
Silver Forwed
A
A report was made on Fridayfth of the thickness of human hair.
over the sum of $600 to one Llu
Shlu-ting of No. 76 Staunton Street cost would be prohibitive..
In another corner of the exhibi- The money was taken to Staun-tion divers will enter an pleven- ton Street and delivered to the
foot-deep tank in self-contained person named in the letter, Some days later, the managor discovered suite which contain sufficient air that the letter purporting to have been sent by his ........ 124 friend - from Canton, did not
London, Nov.
for two hours.
4.87 1/32 originate from him at all. He TROOPSHIP OVERDUE.
34.94 visited No. 76 Staunton Street but 25.26 no trace of Liu Shiu-ting, who re- .89 8/16ceived the money, could be found.
12,07%
..20.41. .18.10 .18.17
..18.17
104%
1:1984
.28.01%
3073
47.27/32
PAYING OFF LIBERTY: BONDS.
A NEW AMERICAN ISSUE.
Washington, Nov. 7.
SOMERSETSHIRE EXPECTED
TO-MORROW!-
Five daya overdue, the troopship, 3.5. Somersetshire is expected to arrive. in Hongkong to-morrow afternoon; though the definite time is not yet known
The Somersetshire is carrying a, large draft for the Northampton- The Treasury has andounced that shire Regiment, which will go to ft ls offering about G.$400,000,000 | Shanghai, before, the end of the
1/0 15/10 of 3 per cent. corticates of in-week, it is understood. Ma
2/0
a debtedness, maturing in six months' The military authorities are un- 2/04 time, the proceeds to be used to pay able to account for the delay, in: 20/32 off holders of the outstanding arrival, denying this morning a, **28 7/10 | second Liberty Bonds issue, re- rumour to the effect that the vessel
28 5/16.deemable on November 2
had broken a propellor'shaft on the itish Wireless. Reuters American Service,
Journey out.