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DAY BY DAY.
GONE, WE DOUBLY FEEL OURSELVES WHEN MUSING ON COMPANIONS ALONE-Scott.
Fresh monsoon is expected to continue over the China Sea. - The observatory forecast 13: North east winds, fresh; fine."
A small matshed fire occurred at Cheung Chau yesterday morning, the extent of the damage being as sessed at $25.
LATE MR. C. STUART.
AN ACTIVE BUSINESS CAREER.
A reader, writing in regard to the late Mr. Charles Stuart; who died recently in Vancouver, states that
The Sun Nam Hol was swung any friends in Edinburgh for compass adjustment this morning after annual overhaul and refit, and will resume on the Kongmoon run on Monday.
The Very Idea!
As the beaters came out of the. covert one of the guns said to the keeper "Have you got all your benters out?"
"Aye," said the man in astonish- ment.
ed them?"
"Are you sure? Have you count
went on the other earnestly,
"Counted them," keeper. "Aye, they're all right.” --
echoed the
"Ah," said the shooter, with a sigh of relief, then I have shot
a roe."
Benny Lee, the world's profès-
roller champion, skated from Big Ben, sionat half-mile
skating
had been an enthusiastic worker Brighton. in 4 hours 5 minutes who regretted his departura as he Westminster, to the Aquarium, in connection with Shopkeepers 8 seconds. At times he reach- Association of which he was short- ed a speed of thirty miles an hand reporter and Secretary for hour. Lee was helped by being paced by a motor cycle combina- many years.
he was born in Rothes and obtain- ed his education first in Elgin and later in Aberdeen and spoke Gaelic and German fluently. His business career began in Elgin and later Connected with the matter of
he went to Edinburgh where he joined a thon lending firm in Leith, world disarmament is the work
Mesars, Taylor & Mairn, where he done by League committees to
There were three cases of ty-gained his shipping experience. wards making war less likely Inphold favor reported yesterday one On this firm being dissolved, he the future. The recent sugges-belug Norwegian (imported) and joined Messrs. J. & R. Allen and tion from Poland towards the two being Chinese.
later Messrs. Robert Maule & Son, from which he resigned prior to abolition of war, has had a rendy
proceeding to Canada in 1906. He response from most of the coun- tries represented at the League. We observe that the question of what constitutes a war of aggres- sion has come up in a question-
The Yuan On, from Hoihow and aire in the House of Commons, Swatow, reports the death of one On his arrival in Canada hetion. After covering the first 26 and Sir Austen Chamberlain re deck passenger en route, no de- joined the Robert Simpson Com miles in two hours 9 minutes 5 plied that this matter had pur-tails being given in the ship's pany of Toronto where he further seconds, he finished the remaining
Harbour Office reports...
extended his business experience in 26 miles in well under two hours. posely been left as it stands,
catering for mining, prospecting During the run he stopped thres with no definition of "aggression,"
and camp equipment with marked times, but stumbled only once, at it being thought boat that the
employers and their regret when he time record for the journey is d success, gaining the respect of his Brixton Hill. Tho best unpaced proper interests should decide the
resigned in 1915 to come East. hours 56 seconds, recorded by Mr. question if and when It arises.
He joined Messrs. William A. E. Harmer, an amateur from This, a very correct attitude in
Powell, Ltd., on his arrival here the All-Black Club, Brixton. The and continued in their employment first professional to cover the 52 our opinion, is also, incidentally,
The Blue Funnel liner Patro-for over nine years. He also miles between London and Brighton a tacit adherence to the principle clus, with the mails from Europe served during the late War in the
Was E. Burridge, who took 5 hours of arbitration by co-members of dated October 20, berthed at an Canadian and Hongkong Defence 36 minutes, unpaced, the League. Britain's disarma early hour this morning, and let-Corps. He returned to Canada in ters are now being distributed. 1925 where ho was for some time ment policy may, then, be dis-
connected with lumber camps and The late Mr. Charles Ford, 1.5.0. later was Accountant and Store BERG-On November 17th, 1927, cerned to be broadly as follows (83), of Lindoth, Stanmore, Middle-keeper of the Bella Bella Hospital,
at the Peak Hospital to Co-to avoid all war, not to arm stance, wife of Mr. Sverre
sex. retired superintendent of the Vancouver Island. In all he was Berg, a daughter (stiliborn). excessively, and to make no pacta Botanical and Afforestation De- 21 years abroad without returning
which might draw. us into a con.partment, Hongkong, left estate to his native land..
valued at £1,826.
Although his parents are dead flict with which we should, other-
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Among those to arrive by the s.s. Suwa Maru from the North to-day were Mr. Ho Ki, Mr. Ho Leung, Mr. W, S. King and and Mrs. H. H. Priestley.
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Mr.
A Japanese named II. Yato, äged ; to mourn his loss. He also leaves obvious for a long time that dis- twenty-six, and described as an en- wife and daughter in the Colony,
gineer, yesterday fell over the, ver- also a afster and brother-in-law. armament, to be entirely success-andah of a house in Tai Yuen Street ful, must be complete. Partial and received very severe injuries. which was to have taken place disarmament, enabling the nation. He died on his way to Hospital.
The Wedding of Mr. G. W. Davis
Lo Miss Margaret
Grant,
on Saturday, November 19th.. will now take place on Wed to retain weapons even to a limit-, uesday, November 23rd, ated degree, makes aggression at St. John's Cathedral at noon.
The
"Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, NOV. 18 1927.
THE SAFEGUARDS OF
PEACE.
ternational disarmament con-
Two Chinese were yesterday, ar rested in a public car No. 250, near the junction of Shanghai Street and. Prince Edward Rond. In their at-possession were found revolvers and
ways possible. One-sided dis- arming would merely invite tack. In view of the practical impossibility of mutual agreement to disarm completely, the best policy appears to be the one our Government has decided to follow, whereby the means for war are lessened-p5ife at the same time taxpayers are relleved of much
of armament
certain quantity of ammunition.
Opium valued at $88,000 was seized by preventive officers at Singapore last week on board the
Ilaftor, in the inner reads on her way back to China ports from Bangkok. The drug was found in the tanks under the boiler, in the course of a search of the vessel, by Supervisor G. Hide,
a
KOWLOON UNION CHURCH.
SUNDAY'S THANKSGIVING
Solicitor at Willesden: I aug- gest that you chased your husband with a poker? Wife: So you say, but the fact remains that we use gas fires, and possess no poker. Man at Wood Green: Can I have time in which to pay the fine? Lingistrate: No, you can have time instead of paying.
Policeman at Wood Green of a
man accused of drunkenness: He suid, "Can't I pay the fine and go. I know I um drunk.'
Man at Willesden: He is tiv- ing in the lap of luxury with a motor-cycle and sidecar.
A telegram from Dubbo, Sydney, states that George Wheatley had a fortunate escape. He had just lit his pipe, and had removed it from The annual services of thanks-bowl was. shattered by the explo his mouth to call a dog, when the
SERVICES.
giving and rededication in con-ion of a cartridge: How "the nection with the Union Church, cartridge got into the pipe is a Kowloon, are to be held on Sunday.mystery.
At the morning service, the minister, the Rev. J. Horace John- ston, will be assisted by the Rev. Frank-Short
Ireland is a mother country. Professor Smiddy.
of
be your
Parson--"Only a little shaken, thank you."
At the evening service, there will Mystics are the aristocrats of of the burden
The special music by a Male Voice all religions.-Mr. B. L. Manning. This morning's Harbour Office Party conducted by Mr. Frank · Women are getting a little tired upkeep-and the mutual ugree-
reports gave 18 arrivals and 20 White, the Items being: "The of reading about the achievement Mrs. single women.-Hon. ment of the nations to try and departures, leaving 56 vessels in Little Church," Male Voice Party; With the approach of the in-war cannot, at
patch up any dispute is fostered. harbour, British 17. Tonnago solo; "Babylon, Mr. Frank White: Franklin.
An Evening Pastoral," Male Voice The slogan for industrial pros- the present was comparatively low, with
Party.
perity is "Partnership in work, stage of world policy, be made no single cargo of more than 3,000ed for and the sum of at least Mond.
poor Freight returns, there being
A special offertory is to be ask-pay, and profits."-Sir Alfred ference at Geneva, the attitude of impossible, it can at least be tons. Japanese held the highest 3200 is required in order to close the Great Powers towards the
rendered most unlikely.
figures with Chinese second best.
the financial year, on November maintenance of peace is perforce
30th, without a
Old Lady (to parson of Devon- Among the passengers arriving sum of $800 is reached, a member daughter, after her cycle accident,
defcit. If theshire village)-"How of much interest. To us of the
here by the s.5. Patroclus to-day has promised a British Empire, the position which
further $300 to parson?" Britain intends to take up becomes of paramount importance. The long-awaited pronouncement. on the subject has been made, but it is evident that these who desire im- mediate steps towards disarming are going to be disappointed. In the outline cabled yesterday, it appears that the British official spokesmen, in the House of Lorda debate, have again thrown cold water on the suggestion that the British Government should enter into a definite agreement as to siding with countries who may be victims of aggression. That was
i,'
will bring models and objects ill- ustrating Bible Lessons, and the attendance. prizes for last session will be distributed..
FATAL FALL.
CHINESE LAD'S DEATH.
* **
The Chater Statue,
in addition to the Malaya inter-enable the congregation to start The suggested erection in the port cricket team, were Mr. and the year with funds in hand. Paul Chater has provided the E. Hamilton, Mrs. S. J. Jordain, 11 am., there will be Colony of a statue to the Inte Sir Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith, Miss F. On Sunday November, 27th, at Old Lady Only,, a littlo occasion for the Committee of the Mrs. and Miss Owen Hughes, Schoel rally to which the Children busted her inner tubes."
Sunday shaken? They told me she had Kowloon Resident's Association Lady Stuart Taylor and Mr. and to come forward with a strong Mrs. H. Watling. claim that Kowloon should be selected as the site therefor.
The Paris police have succeeded The following ships are expected
In arresting a band of pickpocketa From many standpoints, the claim to be in wireless communication
who went about their business in would appear to be reasonably with Hongkong to-day: Chinhua,
4 methodical fashion and had had grounded, and we cannot but com- President Polk, President Lincoln, mend the public spirit of the President Cleveland, Talamba,
4 wonderfully long inninga. Known as the "Courants d'Air,” K.R.A. in putting forward so Tjikarang, Khiva, Fuldo, Linan,
they were led by an old woman, true that the late Sir Paul Chater More, Dell Maru, Kairyo Mary, timely a proposal. Whilst it is Tango Maru, Talkwa Maru, Times
Louise Michel, who had often been was keenly devoted to the progress Mausang, Ramses, Glaciere, Krop-
before the Courts. The periods during which she was forbidden toTM and expansion of the whole viken, Santhin, Namsang, New-The body of n Chinese boy, aged remain in the country amounted Colony, he always had a special chwang.
eight years, was removed to the to
Michel 180 years. Louise regard for Kowloon, much of the early development of which was
Kowloon Mortuary yesterday. gloried in her record. She con- Several of the more important The boy was the son of the master fessed to the police that in six due to his enterprise and fore-posts in the Chaplaing Branch of of a sumpan No. 3280 and had a years she had stolen on an aver- a policy which no-one who looked sight. The K.R.A. communique the Royal Navy are now changing nasty fall into the hold of the boat age two pocket-books a day. Act on the subject refers to Kowloon hands. In the seagoing Fleet, the when the latter collided in the ing under her orders were four ahead in international relation as "the place he loved go well chaplains of the two principal flag- harbour with cargo boat No. 2532 Italians and a young woman, at ships could sanction. The Domi-a happy expression which cor- ships in China, the Hawkina and which was being towed by a whose House the members of the nions were against it. for it in-rectly reflects the late Sir Paul's Frobisher, are exchanging the Rev. launch.
The collision occurred band met every day and shared deep attachment to, the Peninsula | W. E. Scott, B.A., jolning the Fro- volved commitment of the whole and his great deairn; for its wel bisher, Cat present home at Ports-Wharf and Godown Company,
near the Hongkong and Kowloon the sums stolen, which ranged from
small amounts up to 10,000f.: Empire, and in essentials was not fare. There is one other good mouth to recommission), and the The boy died almost instantane- Thoughtful of the future, the a proper safeguard against war. reason why Kowloon should be Rev. G. St. L. II. Gosselin, M. Aously, as a result of a fractured pickpockets only took sufficient
the chosen Britain continues her policy of statue-namely, that a big town-
location for the taking his place in the Hawkins. skull.
from their shares to enable them to live: the rest was sent to a bank - caution, and we are informed ship has grown up on the main- A Chinese, sixty years of age,
in Italy. It was their intention that the question of instructions land and that it is high time it residing at an unnumbered matahed
to buy a house where they could end their days in comfort. When enjoyed some of the characteris- on Jubilee Road, received scrious in- to the delegates to the forthcom-tics which naturally belong to juries to his head yesterday, in a
their lodginga were senrched not ing disarmament conference is such a big residential district. peculiar manner. The man paid
a single pocket-book or purse was found. Even Loutac Michel had still under consideration. How-Hongkong island is already the a visit to a friend in Catchick Street
home of numerous statues, but at and took fright when a Sanitary Farle
124 not kept one of the 2,000 she con- ever, there is an indication. In present Kowloon is without even Department dust cart suddenly New York
487 7/32 fessed to having stolen. The the replies to the debate in the one. Placed on the site which the came into view at a street junction. Brussels
Génova Losing his presence of mind for a Lords, that the Government is K.R.A. Committee suggesta-
aptly termed the gateway to Kow. moment, the old man fell down and Amsterdam
Milan definitely against any adherence. Joon-it would stand as a lasting received the injuries which neces- Bet
Berlin to the unequivocal, principle that reminder.
sitated his removal to the Hospital. Stockholm thoso coining Britain, under any circumstances ashore, whether from steamer or
Copenhagen The two-year period of Lieuten Ösle of her being involved in a dispute, time did so much in laying the command of H. M. S. Gnat, one of Prague
ferry, of the man who in his life.
ant-Commander J. B. Spurgin in Vienna will submit the matter to arbitra- foundations of the large and tion. At the same time, it is re-growingly important "settlement the 12 river gunboats on the Yang- Helsingfors
taze, expired on Oct. 18. Hor now Madrid peated that we are not opposed
commanding officer will be Lieuten. Lisbon ant-Commander M. W. Noel, Inte Athens.. first lieutenant-commander of the Bucharest. battle-cruiser Tiger, who during the Ro cruiser Warrior, afterwards sunk gor war was sub-lieutenant of the Buenos Aires
Bombay at Jutland, and Heutenant of the battleship Hindustan, while from
dongkong Yokohama April, 1917, he was lleutenant and Silver (spot) second in command of the destroyer, Silver (forward) Legion.
to the arbitration principle of
to
across the harbour.
settling international quarrels. At yesterday's meeting of the That appears to be in accordance by the Colonial Secretary (Hon. Finance Committee, presided over with majority opinion in the Home Mr, E. R. Hallifax, C. M. G., O.B.E.), country and the Empire. While approval was given for the supple montary expenditure of $117,445. we support the League of Na-Details of the votes appeared, in tions, wo cannot commit the State 'yesterday's issue.
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London, Nov. 17.)
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The old woman peered disgusted- ly at the doctor.
"Hoots, man," she said, "I sent for you to cure ma cauld--no' to christen it."