SOUTHWELL'S
LEMON & ORANGE SQUASHES.
Impart the delicious flavour
essential to every good
COCKTAIL.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
JUST OUT
The
Latest.
VICTOR RECORD RELEASES
Including Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor by
Fritz Kreisler and the State Opera
Orchestra (Berlin)
(Complete
with
Album)
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
(Vicron, DISTRIBUTOR)
Oakmore
HONGKONG.
A SHOE
of
QUALITY
WEAR STYLISH SHOES
IN
COMFORT
THE MOMENT YOU SLIP YOUR FEET INTO THESE
PERFECTLY MOULDED SHOES YOU WILL DE CON- SCIOUS OF A CORRECTNESS IN FIT YOU NEVER BE- FORE DREAMED OFAN EASY SUPPORT THAT MAKES YOUR FEET FEEL AS DELIGHTFUL AS THEY LOOK. ONCE YOU HAVE WORN OAKMORE YOU WILL REALISE HOW UNNECESSARY IT IS TO HAVE YOUR FEET RUINED BY ILL-FITTING SIDES,
OAKMORE WILL GIVE YOU SMART SHOES WITH- OUT AN ACHE OR THE SLIGHTEST FOOT ANNOYANCE.
No. 3669
Tan Willow Lace Shoes
1750
pair
10% Discount for Cash
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Men's Footwear Stylists.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CUT DOWN EXPENSES
in your kitchen by using a Pansy or Ideal Cooking Stove, which have hoon specially adapted to meet the requirements of the honso- holder in China.
Economy in fuel is ensured. by the use of the cheapest grade of coal which will give results unsurpassed by stoves requiring the host grade of 'coal.
Pansy and Ideal Stoves are made to last long. »
Wo have a stove for overy рахрово..
Mustard & Co., Ltd, Incorporated under the Companies
Ordinances Hongkong.
'Alexandra Buildings,
Des Voeux Road Contral?
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,
DAY. BY DAY.
THE MORE ANY ONE SPEAKS OF
“Institutional religion;" it la not the people but the Churches who are to blame: Even the Bishop of Durham, who has assumed the HIMSELF, THE LESS HE LIKES TO role of pessimist, practically HEAR ANOTHER TALKED OF.-Lava- admits that many of the so-called "ar. aymptoms of irreligion are, In The P. and 0. s.s. Khiva left fact, over-emphasised resetion Singapore at 4 pm. yesterday and is due here at 6 am. on Monday from irrational moral conven- next. tlons." We have not the space at.
the moment to consider the Kobe this morning at 6 o'clock, and The Empress of Canada left questions of the freer relations of is due at Shanghai on Saturday at the sexes and the greater unre- 9 a.m. serve claimed by modern literature (aspects of a wider issue which have been given much prominence of late), but we may ask in pass- ing whether these developments do not connote more of a change of convention and manners than of anything more fundamental?
The fear has been expressed that the rift between Civilisation and Christianity is widening into
abreach which threatens to be-
1927.
DEATH OF POLISH ARISTOCRAT.
JOHN SOBIESKI THE ADVENTURER,
Los Angeles, Nov. 16.
The Very Idea!
Manager, to, Smith, who has`ar- rived very late at the office-"What do you mean by this?"
Smith-Very sorry, sir; but my " lanet Sobieski. He was a descen- that's an everyday occurrence, isn't
The death is announced of Co-wife has had a baby.
Manager-"Had a baby! Well, dant of the Polish King, John the it?" secret agent during the Civil War, wife, sir."
Smith, angrily-"Not with my President,
Lator he served the. Mexican Juarez, Against the Emperor Maximilian. Reuter's American Service.
third, and was Lincoln's valuable
!
Remarkable Career.
The Greek class for colliers at Rhos
Llanerchrugog, Denbigh- shire, the Welsh mining contre, has reopened under the auspices of North Wales University, Emrys
The health return for yesterday shows one. Portuguesa case of diphtheria and one Chinese caso of puerperal fever.
The Into Colonel John Sobieski Jenking, one of the miners, is about was born at Warsaw, in 1842, the to leave the pits for Bangor Uni- The Blue Funnel liner Talthy-son of a direct descendant of the Heries have already attained distinc- versity. Miners from these col- states that, boisterous weather was median invasion after it had got bachelors of arts, musical bachelors, bius, from Tacoma and Milke, King who turned back the Moharation as Greek scholars, professors, encountered in the Pacific Ocean. as far as Vienna, in the Seven-bards, playwrights, and novelists.
The B.1. s.s. Talamba, arriving educated, Soblesky became a well- Century. Largely self- from Yokohama and Amoy, regis-known lecturer when he grew up. tored "one coffin with corpse" in
Constable: Did you use obscene language?
teenth
her Harbour Office report this of four, the elder Sobiesky being deaf.
He lost his father at the age
morning.
An
Cheong Arm, sack dealers, of No. accountant of the Sul 16, Sun Hing Lane, is reported to have adsconded with a sum of $274. The manager of the firm has notified the pollee.
executed by the Russians for lead-
#
Female Defendant: Oh nó: I'm Sergeant: Drink was due to his Defendant (to brother, a wit- from Po-ness): Don't answer questions
come total. and that the modern To-day's Observatory reporting the Polish Insurrection in lapse. trend is all in the direction of states that fresh monsoon may be 1846, and left with his mother,
expected along the China Const. who was exiled making man as standardised as The
forecast is: "North-east land, for England, where she died that might insinuate you. his industry. But this point has winds, fresh; fine."
when he was 12 years old. He been well answered by the submis
then found his way to America, The boys and girls were invited sion that such tendencies will
United States army, in and enlisted as a bugler in the by their teacher to write their own 1855, personal rules of life.. The collec- have the effect of driving man
When the Civil War broke out, tion included the following:- back to religion as the only escape
he joined the army of Potomac,
You must always be obedient, and fought to the end of the cam-clean your neck, stand erect, and from mechanisation and as the
paign.
swallow good fresh hair, only means of helping him to. satisfy the deeper yearnings of his inner soul. In any event, the in- tense interest which people are BERG--On November 17th, at the taking in current religious discus- Peak Hospital, to Mrs. Sverresions is, we believe, all to the good, Berg, a daughter (stillborn). fand, as one commentator has 30 aptly put it, the best reassurance against gloomy doubt is a remem- brance of the fact that religion is, even more than morality. "The nature of things."
BIRTH.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mr. C. H. Getz of Alex. Ross and Co Ltd.,) and Mrs. Gotz have left for a short holiday in Java, and will return to Hong- kong on December, 17th,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, Nov. 17. 1927.
Nationalist Peace. There is something particularly significant in the latest moves that are taking place in the Kuomintang camp. On the eve of the complete subjugation of the Wuhan party, with the fall of Ilankow to the Nanking invaders imminent, we have Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the very, influential Na- tionalist leader, of a previously pro- Hankow tendency, going with Gen-
| THE PEOPLE AND THE eral Li Chai-sun, a pro-Nanking
CHURCH.
+
While working in the Kowloon Godowns yesterday, a Chinese coalie was injured in the left eye. The man stumbled in the course of removing some heavy cargo, and as he fell als head struck a
cargo hook.
His love for adventure led So bleski to onlist in the army of the Emperor Maximilian, and became Mexican revolutionists against the
chief-of-staff of General Escobedo,
being present at the execution of Maximilian in 1867.- Later, So bieski returned to the United According to a police report, a States, and settled in Minnesota, warrant has been issued for the marrying an American lady in arrest of a former Chinese em-1879, ployee of Meaars, Caldbeck, Mac- Gregor and Co., Ltd., who is alleged to have embezzled the sum of $1,800 on or about October 28.
Sobieski soon identified himself
with cross eyes, because it gives Don't get nosey or hit anybody you bad hick.
or you'll have no pants.
Never try to steal a dog's bone,
your father or uncle for money Always live fair, and never ask when they are drunk.
Don't steal, and if you hit a girl you are a coward.
Every week you must have a bath, and don't do no murderin'.
*
*
*
make peace than to make war.-Y. It is a far, far" harder thing to Baldwin.
with the domestic affairs of his adopted land. He entered politics, and became a member of the
tive, and individuality. Mr. George To-day we should place stress on Minnesota House of Representa- the three I's; imagination, initia-
Hindle.
My wealth has become an
A. Chinesó boy living at No.tives in 1868, and was frequently Mallory Street was sent to the Government Civil Hospital vester- candidate for the Governorship day suffering frem severe burns to and other offices. He started the his leg as a result of playing with practice of Law in 1870, being foss sticks. It is believed that admitted to plead in the Supreme the joss sticka set the lad's Court of Nebraska in 1881. Since trousers' on fire,
1869 he had been a platform lee- turer. It is interesting to observe that Sobieski, a Baptist, was one of the founders of the Prohibition Party, and was its first nominee for office in the United States.
new
The foundation stones of the Wesleyan Sailors' and commander and the military head Soldiers' Home, ou the Praya East, of the important point in South are to be laid at 3-p.m. on Wednes- Chinese Nationalism, to Shanghal day next. Stones will be laid by for a rapprochment with Marshal H. E. the Officer Administering the We are living in an age when sime in the field of the combined Santhorn), H. E. Major General Chiang Kai-shek, late Generalis Government (Hon. Mr. W. T. religion, as interpreted by the Kuomintang forces. The friendli- C. C. Luard and Commodore J. L. Churches, is coming in for a con-ness presaged in the report (con Pearson.
firmed in the interview granted to siderable measure of criticism.
our representative yesterday) This morning's Harbour Office Not only is "the man-in-the-street" that. Wang Ching-wei and Chiang Reports gave heavy arrivals with to be found amongst the critics, press intention of co-ordinating ish vessels holding top place. Kai-shek are to meet with the ex-comparatively good tonnage, Brit- but even many prominent Church their future efforts in the cause leaders have begun to feel that the of Chinese Nationalism, suggests time has come for outspoken mintang politics. Mr. Wang
most important trend in Kuo- utterance, even though this should few days ago specially referred have the effect of calling forth attitude towards the moderate to what he termed his mistaken reproof from their theological Nationalists, and his" utterance colleagues and from a 'consider was made at a gathering at able section of Church members. associated with the Cadets train- Whampao, which will always be The recent declarations of Dr. ed and led to victory by Chiang.
to make a concession to the ma
CX-
Tonnage showed a reduction how- ever, but British freights were generally high, with the highest registry under both headings. There were 17 arrivals and seven harbour, of which 20 were British. departures, leaving 58 vessels in
AN ENGINE-ROOM EXPLOSION.
the ss. Sinking."
FORMER GOVERNOR- OF KWANGTUNG.
SAID TO HAVE DIED,
PENNILESS...
em-
barrassment to me, and instead of envying the rich I now pity them.- Mr. W. Kilpatrick (won this year's Calcutta sweepstake.)
"What is more awful to contem- plate," said the lecturer glaring.. about him; "than the relentless power of the maelstrom?"
And a henpecked man in the rear of the building softly replied, "Femalestrom."
*
Recently several photos of coun try golfers were sent by a Queens- land resident to a Southern journal that features golf notes. The golfers, had been photographed in their "every-day" long trousers, "in To those who believe that most which they happened to be playing Chinese Government officials
in an important match, and the mass great wealth at the expense thing was wrong, was surprised to photographer, not suspecting any of the people, facts revealed on receive his pictures back with the the death of the former Civil Gov- following note: "The Editorial Kam-fong will be somewhat surable rule that they will not make ernor of Kwangtung, Mr. Cheung Department have made an invari-
blocks of players who do not wear According to vernacular reports, plus fours. The reason is that the late Mr. Cheung Kam-fong almost in overy case the players died at Kowloon recently, and was eventually adopt the plus-fours penniless, for, shortly after his costume, and then the blocks which death, it was revealed by some of we have made of them in longuns,* the deceased's friends that he had are absolutely useless, and the play- not a single cent left. Consequenters themselves object to the use of ly, about $100 was collected to pay.of-date costume."
the blocks which show them in out-
prising.
The deceased was the Civil
The happy alliance of wealth and Governor of Kwangtung about six beauty with birth and brains was the Kwangti-Ites, headed by Mok ences were being exchanged. ur seven years ago, at a time when on Ita honeymoon trip, and confid- Wing-sun, were rulers of Kwang- tung and Mr. Cheung was one of young aristocrat, with a dash of "One of my ancestors," said the their colleagues. Those who were hauteur, "as a page-boy, held up a acquainted with the deceased state train at the marriage of Charles the that while be was governing First." Kwangtung he received no other "Geel that's a long way back," income than his salary as Gov replied the unblushing bride. "Why," my grandfather, One-Shot Pete, ornor of the Province.
held up two trains in one day in Arizona."
Barnes (the Bishop of Birming- It means that Mr. Wang is willing ham, and Dr. Hensley Henson (the jority opinion of the Nationalist
TWO MEN INJURED AT · Bishop of Durham) have received, ranks to-day, and with his bury-
NOTAIKOO. as they have deserved, more than ing of the hatchet, there will be
Two Chinese firemen were yes-the funeral expenses.. perfunctory attention,, whilst the disunion in the party. The
very little excuse for any other
terday sent to the Government trenchant comments contained in tremists have evidently lost the Civil Hospital from Tuikoo, suffer- the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard's new day. Where they have actually a result of an explosion on board ing from the effects of burns as put up a serious opposition, 23 book (some extracts from which at Hankow, they have been worst- According to a. police report, we reprint elsewhere) have also ed. It were well if they now
followed the lend of the less the injuries were caused by the aroused considerable discussion radical elements and made pesce bursting of the auxiliary con- both in religious and lay circles with their co-workers in the denser's forward door in the at Home.
Kuomintang cause. The full engine-room of the ship.
The two injured men were on significance of this Wang-Chiang In view of the conflict of ideas rapprochment has probably still to duty in the engine-room at the on these matters, it is perhaps be assessed: for the present we
time, and the noise of the explo- hardly to be wondered at that have in strengthening the Na others to the scene, and arrange- can note the likely effect it will sion brought the Chief Officer and many sincere people are finding it tionalist party, both in material ments were quickly made to re-
move the men to the Hospital. increasingly difficult to know pre- and in spirit, by a combination of
the
The s.s. Sinklang is undergoing opposing elements. Ap- cisely where they stand, andparently the value of a give and repairs, at Taikoo at the moment, possibly the somewhat pessimistic take attitude has not been lost and the incident occurred at altitude of some of the Church sight of
10.45 a.m. yesterday. spokesmen tends to enhance this difficulty rather than to clarify the position. Despite all the jerem- inds that are spoken and written, Parls however, there would appear to be New York
·EXCHANGE RATES.
Brussels
a growing mass of evidence show- Genuva ing that the tendency of the age Amsterdam
Milan is to become not less but more Berlin religious, The tremendous in- Stockholm terest manifested by all classes of Oxio
Copenhagen people nowadays in religious dis- Prague Vienna cussions might well be quoted in Helsingfors
Madrid support of that, contention, for,
Lisbon whatever else may be said, it is Athens quite clear that people are not in- Bucharest
Rio different to religious issues, Quite Buenos Aires the contrary.
As Mr. Sheppard Bombay insists in the series of urticles of Hongkong Shanghai which we have begun publication Yokohama
Silver (spot).
to-day, it is not the religious sense gilver (forward) that is lacking, but the appeal of
London, Nov. 16.
.124 .4.87.17/32 .86.93
.25.27
.12.07
ILLEGAL CARRIAGE. OF PASSENGERS.
JUNK-MASTER FINED AND
WARNED.
Mr.
resignation, After his Cheung came down to Hongkong. He lived in Kowloon during the past few years and as he had no examined in the course of a will An Irishman was being cross- means of earning a livelihood he was always known to be on the the counsel, "In the habit of talking.
case. "Was the deceased," asked verge of want, says the vernacular to himself when alone?" report.
OPIUM POSSESSION.
A FISHERMAN CHARGED.
Lai Kong-fat, a fisherman, was At the Marine Court this morn-charged this morning, before Mr. .8014 20.43ing, before: Commdr. G. F. Hole, R. E. Lindsell, for being in unlaw .18.10 Lam Tuk, master of a trading junk fui possession of 270 taela of raw .18.18 of Hot Fung, was charged with opium on board a fishing boat at 18.30 making a false declaration of Aberdeen. He was defended by
clearalice, as he carried 60 pas-Mr. CA. S. Russ. sengers, who were not allowed by Two other fishermen were license. 28.00
charged in connexion with this 27/04
Defendant ploaded guilty, and optum, it being alleged that they 870 stated that he was a stranger to and Lai were jointly in posses- 785 the port and did not know the re- sion of the drug... 29/32 gulations.
.34.65
་
couldn't any," replied the Irishman. "Come, come,” said the counsel, "you said you were very intimately acquainted with him and yet 'can't say if he was in the habit of talk- ing to to himself. when alone?" "No," answered the Irishman, "I couldn't say that, I never happoned to be with him when he was alone."
RIVER STEAMERS DELAYED.
LOW WATER IN CANTON DELTA.
All river vessels were delayed laat evening on the way down from A further charge was added in Canton, owing to extreme low wa- the case of Mr. Russ client for ter
.47% His Worship, inflicting a fine of .1/5.15/18 800 with the alternative of six allowing his boat to be used for Leaving Canton at 4 p.m. yout
..2/7 weeks imprisonment, expressed the conveyance of the contraband. day, the 8.8. Lungshan was com- 2/04
the opinion that the offence was Mr. Russ applied for a week's pelled to anchor at the Tai Shek .20 11/10 an extremely serious one, and is remand and his Worship accord-| Barrier for one hour.
1/104
.20 0/10 sued a warning against similar oc-ingly fixed the case for hearing at The Lungahan berthed hore 20 British Wireless, currences in the future.
minutes after midnight..
1130 on Thursday next?