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MONDAY, DEC. 12, 1927.
BRITISH LABOUR AND
CHINA.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12," 1927.
DAY BY DAY."
FREEDOM EXISTS ONLY WHERE THE PEOPLE TAKE CARE OF THE GOVERN
PILLS CONTAINING
HEROIN...
CHINESE DEFENDANT GETS
burden of his contentions is that Britain should watch for every! opportunity to give a practical! welcome to the new China that is struggling Into life. We should, MENT-Woodrow Wilson. argues Mr. MacDonald, make it plain to the Chinese that past from Hongkong, arrived at Marof 56 pills containing heroin, was Treaties belong to an old order, scilles on 9th December at 7 a.m.
and show, by our language and our attitude, that we are willing to negotiate new relationships on the basis of complete independence
The P. and O. s.. Macedonia,
NOMINAL FINE.
The Very Idea!
Company · Officer-"Sergeant- major, there is a lot of gambling going on in the barrack-rooms A charge of being in possession and I am determined to put a des finito stop to it. You might look preferred against Kwong Man-fu, into it."
of the Yee Wah Porcelain Company, Two days later six men appeur- The B.I. 8.5. Garmula is due, to 118 Jervois Street, ground floor be leave here early next Wednesday,fore Me. R. E. Lindsell at the Cened before the company officer for for Shanghai and Japan,
tral Magistracy this morning. Mr. gambling and got seven days' C.B. A. E. Hail, who defended, pleaded each.
Sergeant-Major "What about guilty to a technical offence. Re vonue Officer Grimmett prosecuted. the money I collected off the table,
sir?"
"Oh, return it to the men to whom it belongs."
"But I don't know to whom it bolongs, sir.".
The Empress of Canada left Shanghal on Saturday at 1 pm., and is due at Kobe on Tuesday at 5 a.m.
and freedom of will. With that policy, few sane-minded people will quarrel; indeed, it can be said that that is precisely the line on
The Empress of Russia is due which Britain has proceeded dur-here from Manila this afternoon ing the past two or three yours.and will berth at a buoy off Kow
loon Dock," Britishers generally will also find themsolves in complete agreement | An Organ Recital will be given in with Mr. MacDonald when he saya | St. John's Cathedral to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at 5.45, by Mr. that "nothing would be a more Frederick Mason—Advt.
To-day's "Observatory report states that moderate monsoon may be expected over the. China Sea. The forecast up to coon to-morrow
F. winds, is:-"N,
generally cloudy."
moderate"
Mr. II. A. Taylor, of the Impore and Export Department, said, the pils contained a small quantity of heroin, being 8/10ths. of one per cent. of their weight. The total amount of heroin in the 56 pills was about 1.7 grains. It was a very small amount, he said.. The maxi- mum was 1/10th. of one per cent.
His Worship: There is no ques- tion of attempting to sell under this section.
Ravenue Officer Grimmett replied. there was no such suggestion. The pills, he continued, were found on the defendant's desk in his room. He was not there when they were found. They were not concealed.
Mr. Lindsell: The presumption is that they were merely for his own
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"Oh, all right, give it to one of them and let them toss for it."
..
Oh, ma cutie wuz à sure-fire
beauty,
But it came on tow rain; And that gosh-darn fella he
had a numbrella, And I hadn't one again, · Well!
I'll tell the world!
Hell!
י,
Ma luck jest gives me a pain.
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Lady Findlay, who was elected
as the first woman president of the Scottish Conservative Association,
"rouse
At Sunday's public meeting of consumption?--Possibly,
Mr. Hall, in asking for the offence the Hongkong. Lodge of the Theo sophical Society, at Lane, Craw- to be dealt with as a technical one, ford's Restaurant, Mr. David Gub-aid that there were eight coolles said that she had been looking, by gave an interesting address on working under the direction of the up the origin of the world "flap-
defondant, four being Shanghai | per.".
"The classical uac of the word," men and a similar number of Can- "The Religion of the Sikhs."
tonese. The defendant suspected she said, "is in 'Gulliver's Travels,' that one of the Shanghai fokis, who where it is recorded that flappers was dismissed shortly before the are persons employed to police raid, was the owner of the the attention and jog the memories. consumption. The defendant had other interests pay insuficient ills, which he used for his own of people who from absorption in decided that it was best to plead heed to what is going on around gulity because he realised the pills them." were found on premises belonging Miss Alice Johnson observed to him, and on a desk which he fre- that if a woman were given the quently used.
vote at twenty-one she would be impressed, because it would come as a sign of responsibility, but if it came at thirty she would be depressed, because it would come It was a sign of the times that as a sign, of advancing age. the majority of the delegates, at the conference wero women. They cheered the, passing of a re-
MONEY OBTAINED BY solution in favour of votes for
TRICK.
women at twenty-one.
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unfortunate service to these new movements than to encourage them in the belief that by force, or rot, or active enmity they can wipe out all that is past, and bring ns, or anybody else, to our knees as suppliants for their favours." Another phrase used by the Labour leadet would appear to show that, he has the right out look on some aspects of the China situation. It is: "If you negotiate. We have received from the you have got to negotiate with Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd, somebody, and that somebody's and the Cantor. Insurance Office Limited, very attractive and signature must mean something." practical desk calendar. From the But where Mr. MacDonald lets Queen's Dispensary comes a wall his political bias run away with calendar in which the picture is Nature's Lamp," by Alec Maclean him is when he says that a Labour an extremely charming wood have less land study. Government would
In reply to His Worship, Revenue difliculty in gaining the goodwill
The driver of public car No. Officer Grimmett said they were not of the Chinese authorities than 3:0 reports that while he was suggesting that the defendant was
Wan rond engaged in the traffic. has. driving on the Chin the present Government
A nominal fine of $10 was im Were such a Government to come near Chung Shan Wan, yesterday
afternoon, a boy aged seven, crass-posed, and an order made for the into power, he says, the concentra-ed the road in front of the car and confiscation of the pills. tion of attack against Britain was knocked down, receiving seri would cease, and our good inten- ous injuries which necessitated his removal jo the Kwong Wah Hos of tions would have a chance
pital. affecting the relations between In this
The following ships are expect China and ourselves."
ed to be in wireless communica connexion, it would be interesting tion with Hongkong. to-day- There are many people who bete know whether Mr. MacDonald President Pierce, Dlomed, Kalyar..
bave Alleged to
represented stract for persistent ergelty, lieve that whilst much good might would have Britain, adopt a more Cyclops, Chenan, Lancaster Castle, Mantua, Siberia Maru, Karuna be done in social legislation If a conciliatory policy than that which Maru, Gleniffer, Ikomasan Maru, himself to be an employee of the after hearing his wife's evidence: into led the Baldwin Government to Kaijo Maru, Kamakura, Maru. Hongkong Electric Company and I will defend the case with every Labour Government camo
Cremer, Benderan, by this means to have obtained the word she has just uttered.
Woman at Tottenham: This power at lipme, it is extremely surrender our rights in. Hankow. Yingchow,
we fear Labour "would Asama Maru, Vogtland, Helikon, sum of $4.60 from the Ying Hang
Chinhua, Norviken.
pawnshop, of 84, Des Voeux Road doubtful whether correspondingly If so,
that
Central, ground floor, on Decem-young man is practically an or-
phan. Magistrate: Soon discover beneficial results would be nt-
Whiteaway's Christmas Avenueber 2, a Chinese named Wong What do you mean? Woman: He tained in the foreign and colonial good intentions were regarded
contains a novel attraction this year Hang was charged before Major C. Chinese extremists by
in the form of an electric fountain. Willson, at the Central Police has no father or mother. policies of the Empire: It is true,
A toy arrow shot by a boy named Herold Deards was reapon- course, that "responsibility a sign of weakness, and," so far This has been installed during the Court this morning. Mr. L. R.
The fountain is half of the. Company. chanting scene. always has a sobering effect on from our troubles coming to an week-end, and produces a truly en-Andrews watched the case on be
It appears that the defendantsible for Frederick Hatchwell n political leaders, and that, when end, they would only really begin. situated in the centre of a minia- we come to regard, the "British It is precisely because "somebody's ture lake, and whilst working, sends went to the shop and told them Leatherhead postman, being thrown streams of multi-coloured water that certain work would have to over the handlebars of his bicycle meant nothing that
into the air, which, illuminated by
hill, Oxshott. Labour Party, there are men of signature"
The arrow caught between the education and ability in its ranks, chaos still persists in Hankow. electric light, achieve a fairglike be carried out soon and he took it while he was cycling down Bear-
goldfish, while toy boats, sub-pairs which were not necessary,
for which he obtained the money spokes and fork of the front
wheel. The point naturally occurs, how As we remarked a few days ago, effect. The lake itself contains upon himself to make various re Britain has given ample evidence marines and other water toys float One of the jobs he did was to open
Mr. Hatchwell received a cut as to whether these men
This innovation should prove immensely popular some wooden casing, housing some
wire, cut out a piece of good wire car the loft eye and the third would dominate the Party once it of her willingness to revise exist on the surface."
whethering Treaties, but before that can with the "kiddies."
and put in another piece of wire, finger of his left hand was broken. came into power, or politicians of lesser experience be done there must be some
Late this morning, two sumcovering the joins with insulation
Sunday has become.to be regard.. tape. monses were called at the Kowloon and more unbalanced ideas would evidence that China is fit and
Mr. V. Sorby, of the Electric ed in this country increasingly as. not dictate the Government's willing to assume her full respon Magistracy against a representa-
cealed in the casing.and the de-creation.-Viscount Grey,
We may take it that the British policies. It may be argued that assibilities. We assume that even tive of the Chuen Lee Minging Company, said the wire was con- an opportunity for leisure and re-
Company, of Canton, who
fondant could not have known Britain has already had one Labour Government would need to charged with being in possession there was anything wrong with it foreign policy is peaco; to keep Labour Government and that as have some responsible authority of twenty cases of dynamite and that would cause him to cut it out. and improve upon what we have
Milne, the Empire's prestige did not with whom to negotiate. And the 16,000 detonators without a per- The cut out wire, was, as far as already got.-General Sir George Give me the British Empire, as a
of
ever,
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DISMISSED EMPLOYEE'S
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What Willesden magistrates: relation is this
to you Woman: He is my back-yard tenant,
A husband summoned at Old-
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suffer in consequence, no fears dilemma which Mr. MacDonald mit, and with removing the same he could sec, perfectly good.
goods from Green Island to No. Evidence was given that the de- territory, and I will mass produce
such
ever dreamt of Sir Alfred Mond.
I recognise that none of the post-war years has given us either the happiness or the security for which we had looked.--Lord Birkenhead.
the would find himself in if he hap-22, Wai Ching Street, without an fendant was formerly employed by more than the American people. need be entertained over
The defen-the Company and was dismissed possibility of Labour once morepened to come into power do-appropriate permit.
dunt failed to answer the sum- on November 30th last year.. would be that no coming inte office. Against that, morrow
mons, which was put over until a The defendant said he was ask- later hour while a message wased to do the work and he cut out however, must be set the fact that authority exists.
sent to the Company urging the the piece of wire because it was the last Labour Government had a
attendance of a representative.
defective.
Defendant's record showed that
It was a small informal party, he had been previously convicted, and, after dinner. when all the his Inst offence being in connexion guests were gathered in the with the tampering of a meter in drawing-room, it was suggested that, as a diversion, each woman "Sentence of six wecke hard should state the gift she most labour was imposed...
very brief apall of life, and that,
In the circumstances, it was quite
to attempt any big programme of reform in foreign or colonial policy.
Britain and Russia.
content to feel its way rather than has been no concrete result It is not surprising to read that following the meeting of Sir Austen Chamberlain and M. Litvinoff at Geneva. Neither went with. the intention of arranging an Anglo- We are moved to comment on Russian rapprochement, and so this question of the possible effects far as the Soviet representative
was concerned, there cannot have of
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antions half-way, an' article recently contributed to late plans for a removal of the before any trust can be reposed fundamental differences between in its projects or promises. Sir the Daily Herald by Mr. Ramsay two countries, differences Austen Chamberlain must have Paris MacDonald in which he, if we may which the whole world is aware of met the Soviet delegate with his Geneva
Celo so express it, lifts the vell some-by now. It was proved, by the In-mind similarly made up, and ean-Berlin
mediate action of the Russian de- not have viewed any conversations what. His article deals at some legation, that they had no intention as being likely to lead to any re- Helsingfors
Athens length with what he terms the of doing more, at Geneva, than stir sult. With mutual suspicion, wit awakening sense of national self-un trouble for the other nations, Russia still committed to her un- Hongkong and seize the opportunity to derhand methods of attacking New York respect amongst what have been launch more propaganda of the those countries with whose polier Amsterdam known as the backward peoples of well-known foscow brand. Their her rulers do not agree,as only Stockholm the Empire, and he admits that impossible suggestion for almost the other day disclosed in the Vienna instantaneous disarmament,, so Legation scandal in Sweden--with Madrid this will prove' one of the most absurd that it was laughed to scorn all these and other obstacles to Bucharest troublesome questions that will nearly everywhere, was an in- an amicable sunderstanding, it was Bombay
stance of what the Soviet is eap-not to be expected that Britain and Yokohama face the Foreign and Colonial [able. It was a proposition that Russia could arrange anything at Brussels.... Omees under Labour control rang hollow throughout. No-one such short notice. The Soviet Milan
Prague The main interest for us in the would have been more surprised will have to go a long way on the Copenhagen
than M. Litvinoff himself had any road of reform before Britain will Labour Leader's observations lies one taken the matter seriously, feel it safe to resume any of the in his references to China. We The Bolshevik Russian Govern friendly relations which were tenta Shanghal
ment will have to change its tively attempted, and which ended Silver (spot) have not the space to quote his tactics entirely, and give proof, so disastrously for Bolshevik - Silver reforences in full, but the main over. a period of some years, chinations.
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