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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927.
India have no more than a transient interest in the question of their ad- ministration, so long as it be im partial and efficient. But there has grown up a very large clement of pseudo-reformers who are some times agitators of the worst type Now, with the spread of Bolshevist doctrines to the country, it beloves
DAY BY DAY.
RISK-Alexander Smith.
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A 16-years old Chinese girl fall Street, Yaumati, to the street from the roof of. No. 279 Portland yesterday; and received Injuries which necessitated her removal to
the Kwong. Wah Hospital.
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This is not a new epithet, but
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In response to the appeal of re-
Wo suppose that this is very ers and merchants, on Tuesdayed plan of leaving your hair to be the authorities not in any way to
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the Canton Government has slow cut, and calling for it in a day "Felix" the cat is to be soen in bankers in connexion with the
its willingness to assist native or two. loyalists, who are willing co-opera-the new programme at the Queen's prevailing unfavourable money aro Important factors in
tors in the attempt gradually to Theatre to-day in an amusing new market conditions in the city. Typewriter Ribbons, Firms
carton, "Felix Busta Into Bust- introduce reforms, and to advance ness," which will be greatly enjoy- During the past two often judged by the
by degrees towards the self-governed by those who enjoy the antica bankruptcy, with liabilities totall one of the instructive remarks of appearance of their lattors and whore Remtico Ribbons are used the cleanout im- pressions are such that give A letter the stamp of quality. Our Coupon system will cut your Ribbon Expenses by one third.
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ment which has become the main of this quaint creature. plank of nearly every Indian poli- Items in the topical gazette show-dollars, have been declared at phonovisor, at the Model Engineers' ing from three of four million Professor John Logie Baird, who
explained tical platforma.
Invention, In the discussion. ing at the Queen's Theatre to-day Canton among importers and ex-Exhibition at the Horticultural of Indian affairs of such magnitude are the winning of the Cesarewitch, parters who deal with districts Hall, and importance, it seems reasonable the opening of the Law Courts in (The West, East, and North like a gramophone, but, in addition the annual procession of judges for along the three principal rivers. The phonoviser is an instrument to suppose that Indian representa London, and the launching of an Rivers). . tion would be a valuable assistance Indian liner at Glasgow.
The insolvency of these enter-volce, there is a screen on which to the record which reproduces the to the Commission. It may be that
prises, The cutting of the new road ton
according to 1 Can the speaker is seen talking, the dimeulty has been to choose which has been, driven through the to
report, is due mainly certain
the issue
The first part of the process of persons without seeming to waste land behind King's Terrace, Governmental
of $10,000,000 making the records la to turn the Treasury connecting Nathan Road and Cox's which native bankers and give any particular section of the Road Kowloon, was practically com-chants were forced to buy during own sound, and the sounds of the Boads face into sound. Every face, ex- communities special attention: yet ploted yesterday. The cut is now the bank note troubles which se face, which change every time the mer-plained Professor Baird, has its that is a matter which the Ruj itself available for pedestrian traffic. should be capable of deciding. Per-
curred in Canton a few months face moves, are played into a re- haps the storm of protest which
cording, machine. They are then has followed the appointment of a Commission without a single Indian representative, will influence the British Government towards early reconsideration of this exclusive policy:
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As the Yaumati ferry, Man Yee, ago. was making a journey from Depositors in native banks, be-i turned back into their original Yaumati to Hongkong yesterday living that the banks suffered image by means of the phonoviser. board, but was rescued by a mem- these treasury bonds and could morning, a Chinese jumped over-heavily for being forced to buy ber of the crew who dived in after not continue in business for any £1, and he didn't have the audacity Woman at Lambeth: Ilcnt him him. He was taken to the Gov-length of time, drew back their to pay it back. ernment Civil Hospital.
money from the banks; Subse- quently not a few of the native Court: You say that your nerves Barrister at Shoreditch County, All departments of Messrs. A. S. banks had to close their doors be- have gone, and, that you have no Watson & Co., will be closed to-eauso of this
feeling, but you jumped when test- morrow, the 11th inst. The Hong- Since then money In the cityed by the doctor. Man: So would kong Dispensary. Dispensing De- has been tight and bankers have you jump if you had a pin stuck Chinese. Stalemate.
partment will be open for the pur-been cautious in advancing money in your back; try it. assembled, there is opportunity p.m. to 7 p.m.
Now that Parliament has again from 10 am to 1 p.m. and from quently, the importers and expor- Court: Tell your husband he must pose of dispensing prescriptions for trade transactions. Conse Solicitor at Shoreditch County provided for the putting of ques
tors whose usual practice la to pay this. Woman: And I should. tions which will lead to declara-
borrow from the banks loans for have to put up with the black- Sister Carati, of the Italian short period transactions have guarding-I should say 60. tions by the Home Government on Convent, St. Francis! Yard, Wan-been seriously affected. the subject of China, and we are chai, has reported to the police
Mr. Clarke Hall. Old-street pleased to note that on the very that burglars effected an entrance
magistrate: Horsekeepers spend. first day of the new session, Sir into the chapel at about four
Wang Ching-wai Interviewed. their lives among horeca; yet, ac- Austen Chamberlain gave a review o'clock yesterday afternoon. They wai, the new chairman of the Can-they are lame or not.
On Tuesday, Mr. Wang Ching- they often do not
cording to their own accounts, of the general China aituation.
know whether
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the
to
The most serious aspect of the stole two carpets and two brass ton Political Conncil, in an inter- present situation is the turmoil on candle sticks, the total value being view with Mr. Kong Hung-yan, a 27 00 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 1927, the Yangtsze, which is responsible $57.
dislocation of trade,
prominent Canton' merchant, who for, the
Clara. Blackman, aged sixty- We are informed that on though it is gratifying to learni
represented the native bankers, ninė, a street-singer, of Clifton- that at such places as Changsha last voyage from Hongkong
regarding the Government Trea-borough-street Police Court on a place, S.W., who appeared at Mari- THE INDIAN REFORMS. |and Chungking,' where there was Sydney, the s.3. "St. Albans" was sury Bonds, declared that, in re-charge of placing herself for alms-
such bitter anti-foreign feeling in in collision with an American the critical days of last year, there steamer the 5.8. "Crown City" is such an improvement in feeling The latter vessel was reported to It appears as if much of the good that the re-start of British trade be leaking and proceeded to Athol
a gang of "squeezers," and is has proved itself to be the work of dropped anchor.
already so much on the wane that
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pose to the request of the bark- gathering at Oxford-strent, called he would deliberate with his Mrs. Bradley, wife of the secretary colleagues on the matter, at the of Messrs. Watney, Combe, and
rst opportunity, adding that if Reid, for her defenda possible the Government would re-
Mrs. Bradley stated that she was or two million dollars' worth of sweet voice and her appearance. Treasury Bonds within a few day's She knew her to be perfectly honest, time.
and had helped her whenever she could.
Mr. Mead bound Blackman over,
the MR. P. M. HODGSON IN COURT.
Mr. P. M. Hodgson, well-known
......
I happen, unfortunately, to be a politician. Mr. Ramsay, Donald,
MAC- Marriage is an increasing cause
Jellicoo.
Constitution.--Lord
Child audiences
feeling, one delightful, with none of that ley are altogether
gets." with adult audiences. Dr. Malcolm Sargent,
gramine in India these past few years, may be undone should the
A coolie employed by the Fa controversy that is rising in that it need scarce be taken serious Ki knitting factory, country be permitted to develop. note of at this stage. The defent Street, Yaumati, has absconded of General Yen Hsi-ahan, of with singlets worth $200, accord- There seems to be much bitterness. Shansi, confirms what was the ing to a report made to the police RETURNS TO PRACTICE, owing to the absence of any Indian early official British view, namely, by the master of the factory. It representative from the commission North Is too strong to be forcibly to
that Chang Tao-lin's grip on the appears that the coolie was told
deliver the singlets to which has been, appointed by the upset, and it indicates still further Kwong Sang Ha, in Queen's Road British Government to investigate how wise the British Government Central, but he did not do so. the working of the reforms, and tions with the North and the was in opening separate negotia-
of human unhappiness. Mr. Booth One of the Kowloon Magistracycircles, made an appearance as a Bays are apt to think music is make suggestions thereon. Ap- South. In the light of all that coolies prosecuted a Chinese girl solicitor in the Summary Court something which exists just for
in local financial and business Tarkington, parently the Indians fear that the his happened since, we can now before Mr. W. Schofield on a charge this morning after an absence of girls. The Duchess of Atholl. composition of this commission is reflect on how boastful and pre-of larceny of a pair of trousers many years. He appeared to re-greatest possible safeguards of the The British Legion is one of the such as to lay it open to bias, so that Eugene Chen when he demanded defendant was said to have taken ship, action and when the case
sumptious as the stand taken by from the Court compound. The present a plaintiff in a partner the British its findings would be unfavour- that the British
Government the garment after leaving the was called Mr. Justice J. R. Wood able to extended concessions, or should deal exclusively with the Court yesterday. Sentence of Nationalists. According to yes- possibly would comprise recommen-terday's reports, the Nationalists option of a fine of $5, was imposed. "It is a pleasure to see you in this seven days' imprisonment with the welcomed Mr. Hodgson by saying dations for repeal of present men- have suffered a rather serious
Court again.": sures granted towards self-govern- reverse on the northern front, This morning's Harbour Office Mr. Hodgson thanked His Lord- ment. The reforms question is a fighting between themselves on the departures, of which four and five
and the fact, that they are reports gave 12 arrivals and 17 ship for his welcome. wide one, with Indiapisation of the Yangtze,
In and that there is a respectively were British. Ton- solicitor of the Supreme Court of in London.
1904 Mr. Hodgson was
A new slot machine containing pocket-handkerchiefs has appeared services one of the attendant issues. cleavage between Canton and Nan-nage was extremely low, with Judicature, England and three It is known that the concessions al-
king, makes their prestige rather freights showing a considerable years later a solicitor of the chocolate, cigarettes,
There are now slot machines for low at the moment. Britain's decrease, there being only one four Supreme Court of Hongkong. Mr. clean towels, weight registration, ready made have satisfied few. polley of waiting for someone able figure registry inward and one Hodgson was appointed assistant boot-brush operation, drinking cups, matches, In the case of the radical Nation to speak authoritatively on out-through. At 5 a.m. there were 49 Crown Solicitor in 1911 and was fruits, name-plates, alists, they have been a disappoint standing matters seems likely to be vessels in harbour, of which 19 acting Crown Solicitor from 1913 games, and pocket-handkerchiefs, automatic ment, and the more moderate In- tionalist Government cannot speak
prolonged indefinitely, for the No-were British.
to 1914.
No doubt the time fs at hand dians have merely awaited their for the South as a whole, and is A hawker, who appeared before Service and joined the Union coin in the slot, and, hey presto! Later he left the Government when we will simply have to put a working to observe where they not yet sensible enough to recognise Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Insurance Society of. Canton, and a whisky and soda, a trouser but- Marshal Chang Tso-lia's streng Magistracy this morning, on a afterwards became a share broker, ton, a bootlace, luggage tage, and could be improved and extended. All de facto position, and enter into a charge of selling his wares within Last month he was admitted to other little trifles in life furthest parties have looked to the reforms tripartite agreement.
the limits of the Yaumuti market, partnership by Dr. S. W. Tso, away in the case of an emergency. was stated to have had his license solicitor, of Pedder Building.
There is no shying where it will cancelled last year for repeatedly To-day's appearance in the Sum-stop. The exasperated man who committing this offence. By giv-maty Court was probably Mr: watches, aghast, his trafo filter ing a different name and address Hodgson's first for well over ten have the solace and comfort of the he managed to
forth without him, may perhaps obtain another license this year.. A fine of $5 was interested was on the customa with a book entitled, "Trains and years. The ease in which he was imposed.
automatic machine to provide him weekly list and was adjourned for a date to be fixed for its hearing
how to catch them," by Miss"
as preliminary steps to something more in the way of concessions, The extremists, like the Swarajists, have never felt satisfied by what has been granted. In a way the subject is purely an Indian issue, but the British Government must perforee decide what policy is to be followed. So far as the per-
sonnel of the commission of en-
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE CENOTAPH CEREMONY.
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir,--Please grant me a
few
quiry goes, it is unchallengeable lines to remind the members of the delivered from the Kowloon Godown
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Mr. T. A. Martin.. of Messrs. Caldbeck, McGrogor and Company, yesterday reported to the police that provisions to the value of $540, belonging to the Company, were recently. from the point of view of ability,Mercantile Marine that space is delivery order bearing & forged New York
by means of the presentation of experience, or, fairness. But its reserved for them and that they chop. An employee has been re- lack of the native element lays it are cordially invited to be present ported as absent from duty from Geneva
Brussols open to criticism, and this has not at the Cenotaph at 11.00 a.m. to the office since November 1. It is
morrow, Armistice Day, to assist alleged, in consequence of this Milan
Amsterdam been wanting. It remains for Bri- in laying a wreath to the memory misappropriation. tain to consider whether some con- of their comrades who lost their cession to Indian opinion cannot lives in the War. yet be made...
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Taking advantage of his position Copenhagen stall holder of the Mongkok Market, Vienna as shroff employed by a woman Oslo a young Chinose absconded during
Prague
One can hardly be expected to a9-
the full importance
last week with $183 of his mis- Helsingfors, Indian politics at this distance, but those who can possibly attend at The youth was subsequently' ar-
I shall be pleased to meet all tress's money, which he had Madrid
collected from various debtors.
Lisbon the Government at Home must have the Star Ferry Wharf, Hongkong, rested and on his appearance be- Bucharest a proper knowledge of affairs, with at 10.30 am. sharp, in order that fora Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow-Buenos Aimes
a.m.
Athens
Ria
the advisors of the Indian Govern-we may be in position by 10.45 loon Magistracy this morning, he Bombay ment, in close touch with events, relaying their viowa to London.. Yet It seems that a blundor is about
to be committed. The masses of
W. J. STOKES, Branch Secretary, C.C.O.G. & M.E.G.C,
Hongkong, Nov. 10, 1927,
volunteered to repay the monoy on Shanghai receipt of the pecessary sum from Hongkong his people in the country, His Wor-Yokohama, ship remanded the defendant for Silver (spot). one week pending the arrival of Bliver (forward) news from defendant's parents..
London, Nov. 9.
Emman Swear.
It was stated at an inquest at Leeds, on Eliza Beecher Lamson Hume, (46), of Rockwood-erescent, York-road, that, on the advice of a friend, she had taken a concoction 124.05 of pigs' toes boiled up and ground 4.87 3/32into a powder and taken as a kind 34.04 of tea as a cure for diabetes. A 25,25 verdict was returned that 'death 12.074 was caused by diabetes, hccelerated-
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