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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1927.
THE GREAT FAILURE.
MONDAY,
wrong has beón- their method of procedure, and try to profit there- by? Personally, we are among the optimists, insofar as we be- love that at heart the Chinese people, of all shades of opinion, and all classes, have sufficient patriotic spirit to feel the need for a centralised and stable adminis- tration. If their patriotism needs cultivating to a higher plane than it has so far exhibited, It may be that we are now witnessing the passage through the fire which is destined to refine and temper that dawning common feeling, and leave a better appreciation of what Arue Nationalism, means. Thero must be real patriots in China to- day, who are, feeling bitterly dis- appointed
NOVEMBER
DAY BY DAY.
14, 1927.
TRADE UNIONS MAY BE USEFUL IF THEY WILL NOT DEFART FROM SOUND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES, AND IF THEY WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE IN-' DIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF THEIR MEM- BERS ON THE FREEDOM OF THOSE WHO HAVE THE EMPLOYMENT OF CAPITAL
John Bright,
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The B.I. 3.9. Santhia is due here from Shanghai. to-morrow, about
noon.
A MOTOR CYCLE DEAL.
THIRD PARTY SPENDS THE SALE MONEY.
The Very Idea!
In connection with the gift to a Scottish town of the painting.. "The Return from Flodden,” it is. A claim in respect of the sale of rumoured that the following con- a motor cycle was heard by Mr.versation took place between two Justice R. Wood in the Summary visitors looking at the pieture:- Court this morning, the plaintiff being Mr. A. B. Hamson, of Leigh-I mind that scene in the Pageant." "Man it's a grant picture. Weel
ton Road, and the defendant Mr. "But hoo could that be in the H. Kong, of 23, Whitfield. The Pageant? It comes frae the Biblo, claim was for $70, being the ba- doesna it?")
ed in port from Amoy on Wednes-had sold the motor-cycle, on henboots in the Bible?""
The B.I. as. Talamba is expect lance due from the defondant, who "Frae the Bible? And whaur day afternoon.
The local weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is: E. winds, moderate; fine.
A sale of poppies in aid of Earl Fund on board the Hakusan Maru whilst on the trip out East
ed at the failure of all al-realised over £12.
| half of the plaintiff, for $100, of "Och, ye ken fine," was the re-
which sum ha had paid $80. Mr.joinder. "About Floddan D. McCallum was for the plaintiff,
The plaintiff stated that he had owned a Royal Enfield motor cycle, number 89, and delivered it to the | defendant on December 26, last year, for him to sell on his (plain- tiff's) hehalf. On or about the end of February this year, the defen- dant sold the cycle for $75, and to- tempts at unification. If only the The British 'ressel Carnarvonwards the end of May, paid $30 on militarists, by means of futile ahire, from Hamburg and Sings account, but had paid nothing warring, can come to the same pore, reports, one case of lover of | conclusion—that they have follow-unknown origin. „e
ed the wrong course and seek better means to the common end, there will still be hope for the country, and the sacrifices of the past two years may not have boon in vain. "
A Tariff Point.
This journal has often expressed the opinion that the imposition of tariffs and trade barriers is one of the greatest causes of international" friction and also an uneconomic drag on the free and profitable flow of commerce, and it is eminently worthy of note that a remarkable
The President Lincoln, from Seattle and Shanghai, reports carrying Wong Ping, a Chinese leper, deported from Seattle.
Dr. P. S. Wu, residing at 212, Temple Street, reports that "at 11 a.m. yesterday some person entered his house by the back door, and stole clothing to the value of $119.
since.
Gomorrah."
•
Little drops in petrol,
Varying in size,
Go to make the motor
Owner's spirits rise.
und
One of the last wishes of John Armstrong, a ninety-seven-year- old beggar, who amassed a for- tune of £13,000 in the equivalent of When asked about the money, the practice of his profession, will threepenny and sixpenny places in Kong had said he had sold the ma-be fulfilled in a decision made by chine to a man on credit, and he Judge O'Brien. could not pay until the buyer paid. With his, (plaintiff's), per- mission, Kong bad detached, the generator and sold it separately for $25.-
In reply to the defendant, plain- tiff agreed that he told him (de- fondart) to put the cycle in run- ning order before selling it, but when Kong handed in a bill, plain-
fore the bequest could be incor- Armstrong, although he died be-
porated in his will wished to leave. 2,000 to Mrs. Ella W. Sloane because she had befriended him for twenty years and because she had promised to care for him until his death.
He told her of his intention in
March 1927, but on April 3 he died, tiff objected to charges for ator-bufore he could revise his will, age and commission."
which left his estate to fifteen diá- tant relatives in England, most of whom he had never seen.
the first item on the bill? No.
His Lordship: Do you object to
Then that reduces your clair by
There will be at Children's after- non at the Helena May Institute n Friday, 18th November at
p.m. (Stories and songs.)—|$107—Yes. Advt.
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The defendant, in giving er dence, stated that the plaintiff Heavy mail was carried by wanted the machine sold for $100, the s.s. President Lincoln, from figure so he sold it complete for but he could not sell it at that the U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai, 1975. consisting of 1,046 bags. distributed this morning,
It was
sign of the growing uneasiness in Australia at the results of high Protection is to be fatind in the
He denied that he sold the report of the Australian Tariff
generator for $25, but said that Board which has just been laid be-
when the machine was sold the fore
generator was not attached, as it the Federal Parliament. Adolphe Menjou's comedy-drama, was not in working order. The That report declares among other A Social Celebrity," is being buyer had been found by a third things, that secondary manufac-screened at the World Theatre for party, who had received the money tures, are sheltering obsolete plant the last time this evening. The from the buyer and spent it. and methods behind duties; that picture relates the adventures of Kong stated that the $30 he had the high cost of production and the young country barber. who goes to paid was paid out of his own ever-rising cost of living are be the city and is there induced to pose pocket. coming a serious menace; and that
as a court with unexpected results. His Lordship gave judgment for thing but disaster lies ahead un-Louise Brooks and Chester Conklin the plaintiff, with costs. less all parties give the matter their head the supporting cast," serious attention. The worst of Protection's that when once it has been adopted as a policy it becomes an octopus fastening its tentacles about the neck of the State
get rid almost impossible to of; und in Australia there is
whole net-Work of
vested
Speaking at Oxford during the week-end. Professor Sonthill, one 16.00 of the most observant experts on 19 25 Chinese questions, declared that 15.40
"China awaits sterling. friendship, Even the warlords are
open to 11.55
patriotic appeal, and the best, 21.00
Nationalists are sick with grief at the disappointment of patriotic desire." In saying that, he voiced I a the thoughts of many close follow ers of the situation out here, par ticularly during the past few months. If we turn to the news of the day on things Chinese we find that the war in China, from a defined campaign between two directly antagonistic factions, has deteriorated into series of smaller contests, with little in- divation of the policies or aims of their protagonists. The drive against Hankow is the final act in the split of the Kuomintang ranks, but in so viewing it we have to assess finality at its due worth in
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For the second time within a
short period apather pane of glass in the Supreme Court building was smashed by a cricket ball, bit from the Hongkong, Cricket Club
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YOUTHFUL THIEF WHIPPED.
"You are a' known thief," said
ground, on
Saturday afternoon. WHAT A GUNNER OBSERVED There were no clerks, working at interests ready Co resist ro-
the time, and. Mr. C. D. Melbourne, has been proved there over and over by the crash, entered the room and duction of tariffs to the utmost. It who was in another office, startled again that the full amount of the retrieved the ball. duties is handed un tu the con- leads to
The rising cost of living constant demands for
This morning's Harbour Office higher wages and so to industrial reports gave 15 arrival and seven disputes. duction means that payment at the three respectively were British; The higher cost of pro- departures of which four and world price for exports is becoming, leaving 66 vessels in harbour of for them, less and less remunera- which 20 were British. Tonnage tive, If that is the experience in was good, but inward cargoes Australia, what would it mean to were low, with British carrying an exporting country like Great second best Through Treights Britain? For if Britain's costs showed an increase, with British should go up, there is no means by registering the highest. which we can compel the foreigner to pay more.
The following ships were ex- pected to be in wireless communi- cation with Hongkong to-day: President Polk, Benvorlick, Norvi
Chinese quarrels, and, this may AN UNUSUAL VOYAGE, ken, Helikon, Kiangsu, Santhia,
י
A YOUNG AMERICAN ADVENTURER.
Hirundo, Empress of Asia, Mace donia, Deli Maru. Korez Maru, Karachi Maru, Hakusan Maru, Calehas, Tinhow, Linan, Dessau, Hopsang, Kutsang, Taikoo Wan Yi, Carnarvonshire, Gorjlstan, Trier and Patroclus..
West Ham Woman: I call my husband perfect he has no money to be inperfect.
Debtor at Shoreditch County children, but I suppose I have not Court: I have a wife and threa
to apologise for getting married.
Solleitor at Shoreditch: You want time to pay 7-Debtor: Yes
time and the money:
Nottinghamshire magistrate: Have you anything to say?-Man: No, I am speechless when am guilty.
Shoreditch: I have supplied you Judge Cluer to a solicitor at
with an illustration, but, as Dr.. Johnson said, I cannot supply you" with the 'intollect to understand
it.
Mr. W. Schridde, of Brisbane, is in possession of a giant prawn, which was caught at Alligator Crock on October 2. It measures 20 inches from the tips of the feel- body is Sin. long, and 3in. in ers to the tip of the tail. The
girth.
to a young Chinese who Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning To sing this year "All is Safely. was Gathered In" sounds like a cruel charged with the theft of a jucktravesty of facts-Bishop Frods- knife and a razor, the property of ham. Günner 3. E. J. L. Kinsella, at I wish those who declaim against Lyeemun Barracks yesterday. our present civilisations would His Worship referred to the spend six months among the defendant's previous record, which savages. Bishop Welldon. showed that three years ago, he. Though the countryman may be was sentenced to he whipped for less quick and clever than the picking the pocket of a pedestrian. townsman, he is often wiser in the was led to show that the defendant Inge.
In the present ease, evidence things that really matter-Dean yesterday entered the guard-room It is quite clear that the main at Lyeemun Barracks, and his arteries to traffle are going to be subsequent actions were partly ob-like great railwaye linea in con- served through an open window by stant use night and day-Lord the complainant, who was then in Montagu of Beaulieu.
lavatory adjoining. Defendant was observed to reach out for something under the window and to leave hurriedly. This led to a chase by the gunner.
in
Gunner Kinsella stated evidence that he saw defendant throw away something but, being pre-occupied with the pursuit, he did not stop to find out what it Later, a comrade brought
was.
to him the jack-knife and the
TO-DAY'S LOCAL WEDDING.
When Jerome K. Jerome, the
famous humorist, reached America there was a crowd of reporters waiting for him, and one said, "Aren't you rather nervous about submitting your particular brand of humour to American in- diences?' "
I have faced a Scots audience on "Young man," was the reply, a damp night, and now I fear no
foc."
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"I was not drunk this time," she declared with vigour. "I only had two glasses of mild ale." But Mr. Mead, the magistrate, fined Re- becca, who has many convictions for drunkenness, one shilling, add- ing, "She can be taken back to the workhouse,"
mean that after Hankow's faction has been subdued, some other re- calcitrant element will raise the banner of revolt. Thus the Kuo- mintang is fighting a battle not
Arriving here by junk yester day, Raymond flauger, a young only against the powerful com- American, visited the Telegraph bination in the North, still,estab- oflice to-day and told how he, with There will be only one movie per- lished at Peking, but against its.
a companion, set out from Newformance in the Star Theatre to- razor, which a short while before York in May last
namely from 6.30 to on a "hike" day,
had been left by witness in the own dissentients. The old story of round the world.
8.30 p.m. (continuous) Mr. Charlesguard-room, but which were now
Rebecca May, aged eighty-three, want of unity applies. The
Chamiers' popular London vaude-found dumped in the grass.
wearing an early Victorian cos- Raymond Hauger, who is 21 ville company, the new Qur country remains faction-ridden, years of age, left New York in Cabaret
In ordering a whipping for the tume, indignantly denied at Marl- presenting the revue defendant, his Worship warned borough-street Police Court EL and with wars within wars. the May with Miss Irene Harris, aged "Hey! Hey!" at 9.15. The chief him that another appearance charge of being drunk and incap militarists are achieving nothing, conventional journey with just Zane Grey's thrilling story of a his sonment.
21, as his companion on an un-picture in the movie programme is would mean a long term of impri-able in Oxford-street. except it be the ruination of the fame of any sort as their goal.torie feud, "To the Last Man," in country and the impoverishment of Hauger had been an bnsuccessful which Richard Dix and. Lois Wil-
short story, writer and Miss Harris son play the leading roles. vast numbers of their fellow had cinema aspirations, and so nationals. Thus have the gran they both set out to find fame and Four charges dealing with the diose plans of Nationalism gone fortune, and also to prove that a alleged misappropriation of $3,000, "platonic" comradeship between the property of the Kwong Man astray, and the high aims, almost two such young people is possible. Lung firm of No. 135, Reclama- appearing as high ideals, which
From New York, the young
|tion Street, were preferred against actunted the party in the early couple set out for Chicago, and the late manager, before Mr. W. months of the campaign, have from there they made their way Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- to San Francisco. Crossing over tracy, this morning. Mr. C. A. S. been shattered on the racks of to Yokohama by a President boat, Buss appeared for the prosecution self-seeking'ambition. It has been the two adventurers were, says and Mr. Horace Lo represented Mr. Hauger, fortunate in finding the defendant. On the applica- indeed a great failure.
a friendly Japanese gentleman tion of Mr. Rusa. the case was And if we look at the magnitude who has helped them on their way, adjourned for one week, bail being of the failure, in terms of the Miss Harris is at present staying allowed in the sum of $5,000. devastation that has followed in back in Yokohama, but Hauger has been adventuring on his own the wake of the warring armies, the ill-feeling aroused, the inter- national complications which have resulted, and the general disap-
Our representative remarked to Mr. Hauger that sailing down the pointment pervading all com~ coast in a junit was not exactly montary on the matter, we may like doing a "hike," to which the son (Shameen) and daughter, Mrs. A reception was afterwards' held Athens. also speculate whether it will young traveller smilingly remark-J. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. L. Vidal, at the Hongkong Hotel, after
ed that China didn't seem to be Mr. A. W. Heron (Wharf and Go which the couple left for Manila. teach a great lesson. Can the
the kind of place where one could down Co.) and daughters, Mieses
Buenos Aires Chinese, the politicians and mill-enjoy a walk just now. He, was C. and V. Crapnell, Mr. F. Mason
Bombay Shanghai tarists alike, if they are, as sick of awaiting mail here from his com (St. John's Cathedral organist), The only case of notifiable disease Hongkong
panion in Yokohama and hoped to Mr. L. Guy (Meagra. A: S. Watson reported to the authorities over the Silver (spot) the non-success of their plans as make arrangements soon for und Co.), and Mr. G. E. Matthews week-end was one of typhoid Silver (forward) we assume they are, realise how voyaging.
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