Choose well,
your choice is brief,
but endless!"
Carlyle.
FOR CHRISTMAS.
What shall I give HER or HIM?
GO TO
WATSON'S
there in all departments you will find articles and goods in great variety that will make
USEFUL,
ELEGANT and
DESIRABLE
GIFTS
that will please the giver and delight the recipient.
JUST
RECEIVED
The December
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PROTECT YOUR CAR.dox presents "Itsolf.
of action.
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"PYREND" Ex tinguisher is small in size, tight in weight and easy to handle.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
LOVE CAN SUN THE REALMS OF
Mr. David Gow and family re- turned from the States by the President Taft.
In the by installing cotton trade, the majority of the "PYRENE" Firo employers have been striving to Extinguisher. adapt their trade to a restricted NIGHT.-Schiller. "PYRENE" will scale of output, while the churgo | killfire withon of "defeatism" has been hurled at
to damage the them from the operatives aide. engine, woodwork There is no serious challenge to or upholstery wages or boure, while, the opera-. Water spreads atives have long been fond of at- A Reuter's telegram states that petrol fire; sand.is inofficient and will tributing the troubles of the in-Captain W. G. Lalor continues to
make satisfactory progress. put the engine.out dustry to a skeleton in the employ- ors' cupboard-the inflated capital
The P. and O. ss. Kashgar is so many mills expected to arrive here from Yalues at which changed hands in the mill-buying Shanghai at 7 a.m. on Friday. boom eight years ago. Wring out
Efrem Zimbalist, the famous this water, they have said in effect, write down your capital to a ren-violinist, is passing through by the President Garfield for Singapore. "PYRENE" does sonable figure, and the cotton trade
\ But not deteriorate and will go ahead once more. is always ready the prices at which the cotton | for #180.
trade has recently been selling its Koep a PYR-goods have not been remunerative ENE" handy on on a modest basis of capitaliza- car and in garage. tion. Desirable as it no doubt is to write down inflated capital, it is not easy to see how this can materially affect the situation. Int the long run, the logic of selling
Mr. C. II. Bay. Diplomatic cheap enough to secure a big re- Secretary of the U.S. Legation at covery of trade must lead, in Bangkok, arrived here by the President Garfield from America. cotton as in coal, to an attack on wages and hours; a point on which the operatives would do wisely to refleet.
Mustard & Co., Ltd.
Incorporated under the Companies
Ordinances Bangkong. "Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central 7
BIRTH.
DE KANT.-On December 20th.. at Zutphen, Holland, to Mr. and Mrs. P. J. de Kant, a daughter.
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MYRIADS OF OTHER THINGS-COME IN!
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
"THE STORE FULL OF GIFTS" OPEN TILL 6'p.m. this week.
It has been seriously asked whether Lancashire's loss of trade is not due to the fact that Britain "has been undercut
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Amongst the passengers who left for Manila by the President Taft were Col. Eaves, Mr. P. M. Hodgson and Mr. C. B. Brooke.
Mr W. W. Hornell Vice Chan- gellor of the Hongkong University, left on a pleasure trip to the North by the President Jackson.
We have received from Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Company, a use- Cu: diary, for 1928, issued by the Westinghouse Electric Interna tional Company.
HOTEL
PENINSULA
THEFTS.
MUCH TELEPHONE WIRE STOLEN.
WORKMAN CHARGED TO-DAY,
The Very Idea!
The waiter had been very slow in serving dinner, and the diner had grown restless. "Now, wait- er," he said "bring me a coffee," will you, and while you're away you might send me a post-card now and then!"
Since the evacuation of the Pen-
quantities of telephone wire, to the An optimist is a man who goen insula Hotel by the nilitary, large value of thousands of dollars, have fishing and takes. a frying-pan been reported to have been stolen with him. from the premises and, with the appearance of an employee of the Telephone Company on a charge of. theft, Mr. D. Tollan, at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning, in- timated that the Company took a serious view of the case.
The coolie was charged before Mr. W. Schofield with larceny of, a quantity of wire from the Penin- sula Hotel.
Accused said he was informed
When Jane rejected me, as I have
written (Jane was the blonde one),
I sighed, but took my wounds that
were love-smitten,
And sought a fond one For consolation in my sorry pass:
You were the lass.
And now, it seems,
body fellow.
Rome busy.
Who lately met you, lins said with meaning that I like
hair yellow,
that certain wires had been cut in the Hotel and he had gone there to inspect the premises. He found coils of wire lying on the floor and was taking them buck to the Com-You pany when arrested.
And so upset you,
hint you'd dye for v 1: I know -but hark,
Please keep it dark
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Mr. D. Tullan, engineer of the Hongkong Telephong, Company, said that he received 'n telephone Strong opposition to the pro-.. message from Mr. Field, of the posal that professional juries- Peninsula Hotel, yesterday, inform should be set up was made by the ing him of the arrest of one of the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) Witness in an interview. "I have," he Company's employees. went to the Hotel and saw the 'de } said, “heard Lord Justice Pick- fendant and two colls of wire. ford say that in his opinion juries, Witness asked the defendant as juries, were never wrong. He where the wires Bad come from and meant that if the verdict of a was taken to the second floor, where jury needed to be reviewed, that however, there had been no wires was not the fault of the jury, but installed. Defendant then took was the fault of those who had not witness to the third floor and point suficiently discharged the task of ed out where the wires had been
had been cut and stolen.
Mr. Tollan explained that when
the military took over the Penin-
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cut. On examining the place, wit-laying before the jury all the The President Taft brought Eastness found that a. number of coils relevant evidence and the tru 150 U.S. naval ratings. Of these, of wire similar to those in Court considerations arising from it.
I agree with that." by competitors, whose trade is 62 disembarked at Shanghai and
Midland woman: When a we expanding, while ours is declining:30 here. The remainder are pro- and if this is so, does it not follow evading to the Cavite station:
sula Hotel, the work of installing man has been hard at work all the telephone wires was immediately week she is entitled to a night that it is perfectly feasible for us
A coolie has been arrested in stopped and on the request of the out and a drink at the week-end.
at Shoreditch: It to recover our trade by selling
military, wires were bamboo poles in the service room dren to be nolgy." on each floor,
:
Hongkong Telegraph. cheap enough? But the reductions conrexion, with the theft of a cuflet on and secured to the end of is, healthy and natural, for chit-
WEDNESDAY, DEC 21 1937.
LANCASHIRE'S COTTON CRISIS.
To those who have been follow- ing the fortunes of the Lancashire
An
Gif cost required to put us on property of a Chinese living at really competitive terms, as re- 620. Shanghai Street, Yaumati.
ard the commoner varieties of cotton goods, with countries which
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Forthcoming weddings announ- ced include that of Mr. R. M. Woods, accountant, 5. Aimai Villas, Austin Road, Kowloon, to Miss D. M. Treavish, & Rue du Barrage,
employ very low-paid labour, may he beyond the limits of practicable attainment. Our "loss of cotton trade is, in a sense, a matter of Heliopolis, Cairo. price: and.
inevitable it is
Amongst the passengers who that such
an industry should left for Shanghai by the President tend naturally to pass more Jackson were Mr. W. A. Dowley and more to countries with a lower and Mr. C. S. Gubbay. Mr. R. F. standard of life than our
C. Hedgeland, Castoms Commis- own.sioner at Canton, left for Home on The tendency has been a work for leave by the same boat. many years, it has operated very
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cotton spinning industry of late it has come as no surprise to read the Beuter telegram which came to hand yesterday telling of the lavor which has been caused by gradually, as all such tendencies Mr. Wang Ching-wei passed Barestrained competition.
do; but, now that it has gathered aboard the a.s. Paul Lecat.
through Hongkong yesterday urgent appeal is now being made momentum it is not likely to be told a reporter that he hoped to by the Cotton: Yarn Association reversed. The true way of meet-proceed to Southern Germany, and, to all companies engaged in the ing it is to turn more and more, East in about three months' time. if his health improved, to return American section to come under a' as of course' Lancashire has always new agreement of curtailment, for been doing, to the finer qualities of at present prices only result in goods, in which British advantages losses "no matter how favourably still count for most.
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a mil might be Snanced." I
that
Combating Piracy.
The forthcoming marriage of Mr. Sin Chouk Man, formerly on the staff of the Tutorial Institute and now munager of Messrs. Banker and Co., Wuchow, ship- owners and agents, and. Miss Rosalind Wei, of Kowinon, is announced to take place during Christmas Week.
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While on his way to a house at Shek Tong Tsui, West Point, with three boxes of clothing, the value of which is not known at present, Company was accosted by two a coolie employed by the Wing On
In order to take the coils of wire away it was necessary to cut them from the wall. By this method the wires leading into the rooms were entirely destroyed, the theft of one coil causing some 200 or 300 feet
of wire to become 'useless.
Solicitor, at Shoreditch County. Court: What are your husband's All I know of is assets? Wife: an unpaid for motor-car.
Magistrate at Willesden: How living there? many of you are
including my Woman: Throe,
5011, daughter in service, and my who has work in Wales.
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A young Aberdonian and his anxiously dis- sweetheart were cussing their plans for the future. "What church will we be married in?" asked the young woman of her betrothed.
"Well," he replied, "I think oʻ tryin' that kirk whaur they've a board outside saying United
When questioned by Mr. Tollan, the defendant had said that he was told by a Chinese outside the Hotel" that the wires had been cut, Ile. however, did not know the man who had given him the information..
Witness then asked the defendant if he had ever done work before without the authority either of him self or the chief Chinese inspector; and the accused replied that this was the first time.
Addressing his Worship, Mr. Tel-Free." lan said that not only had the two coils in Court been stolen, but there had been about a dozen others taken away and it would cost the dollars to replace them. Telephone Company thousands of
fondant, added Mr. Tollan, was a member of the gang which had in stalled the wires and he knew how essential it was that these wires had to be all in one piece from the rooms to the terminus.
Continuing, Mr. Tollan said the defendant had no authority to take the wires away. Yesterday he was engaged in painting the Kowloon Exchange in Cameron Rond.
The de-
The defendant, when asked if he had any questions to put to the witness, replied that he found the wire cut and was taking it back to the Company.
trate, said that if defendant had
Witness, in reply to the Magie found loose wire lying about, he should have reported to witness through the chief Chinese inspec tor
Witness added that no employee of the Telephone Company could enter the Hotel without first obtain- ing permission.,
The case was adjourned till to- morrow morning for the defendant to call a Chinese whom he said he had asked to accompany him to the Company to make a report:
EXCHANGE RATES.
will be remembered that six weeks ago the scheme of control which had previously been in force for The activities of pirates and a short time was abandoned on haĥdits on the Upper Yangtsze necount of the lack of ananimity. have been so marked of late that Two reports were made to the and that, in effect, the industry the British naval authorities have police yesterday with regard to ruverted to its policy of laisseze decided to commence operations goods being stolen from show fair. It was then argued by many patrol is now being maintained one instance, goods to the value against these outlaws. A regular cases outside Chinese shops., In that it would not be a bad thing and already a bandit.craft has of $104 were stolen from outside fur prices to tumble for such would been, soized. The time has cer- No. 229. Des Voeux Road Central, have the effect of driving out ofainly come for the taking of and in another case two sets of strong and well-organised netion animal horns, worth $200, were existence many mills which were against these freebooters, especial taken from a case at No. 35, Wing over-capitalised and thereforely in the region of Shasi, where Lok Street. running on an uneconomical basis. many incidents have been report- ed of late. Only yesterday we The plea then was that it would reported the attack made by be best for some mills to go bank-pirates on a Butterfield and Swire rupt as soon as possible, but the tug, possibly by the same gang of bandits which took Captain Lator present plea is that losses are beinto captivity. Of that occasion. ing incurred all round by every British naval aetion was taken men who asked him to change body. And, of course, it would against the attackers, the majority tark notes for them and leave the of whom, however, managed to get not help much if the mills away. It is quite clear that the boxes as security. This the coolle close are sold at break-up prices Chinese authorities either will not agreed to do, but when he arrived at the money, changer's shop he or cannot deal with this evil, and, to purchasers who then compete that being the case, the only after found that the parcel of alleged Paris with the advantage of neligible native left is foreign action of a "notes" only contained ordinary Geneva standing charges. The whole crux punitive character. We have the paper. On returning to the spot Amsterdam
Berlin' same trouble down here in the Bias where he was accosted, the coolle
Copenhagen of the matter has been the per-Bay region, where the Chinese found that the men had vanished
Vienna sistence of the wrong idea that by authorities appear powerless to do and the boxes as well.
Helsingfors Some few weeks ago,
Lisbon lowering prices all round there anything.
we had hopes that, as a result of
Bucharest would be a favourable reaction on the conversations between H. E.
The carnival danees advertised Buenos Aires the export trade so as to create the the Governor of Hongkong and the to take place at Lane, Crawford's
Restaurant on Christmas Eve and Yokohama very flow of trade upon which the foreign Ministers in Peking, some New Year's Eve, promise to be New York
organised plan would be evolved recovery of the industry depends. to deal with the evil, but so far particularly happy events. Book Brussels There has been lots of bad think nothing tangible has transpired ing has already opened briskly, Milon ing, for there is still a large sec from the proposals then put for and those who have not yet re- Oslo
ward. Possibly, some dificulty is served accommodation are advised tion of the cotton trade which be being experienced in getting com- to do so early, especially when it Madr lieves that, given keen competition plete unanimity amongst the is remembered that last year many Athens and a resolute refusal to worry Powers.. If that is the case, then were turned away owing to leav- Rio
we hope that those Powers who ing the reservation of tables until Bombay about over-production, Lancashire, do see the necessity for action will the last moment. No expense in Hongkong by lowering prices all round, get together, and decide on effec-being spared to make both carni- Silver (spot) may still hope to recapture hertive suppressive measures. For all vals in every way enjoyable, and Silver (forward)
too long have these pirates had there will be plenty of toys, hats, matters their own way, and, for crackers, streamers and other Letus.
the protection of their own in- novelties provided. Dancing will for & pause
terests, it is now up to the various continue until 1 a.m., special Peak- ment to note what elements foreign nations to take the matter trams and, ferries having been
arranged. this suction includes. A para- into their own hands.
last trade.
mo-
Shanghai
Stockholm
Prague
If you cannot get up a row.on anything else in this country, you can always fall back on theology-
Mr. Lloyd George.
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Since the Government races" iu August there has been such period of tranquillity in the coun- try as has not been known for a long time.-Mr. Churchill.
The dole induces people to sil by their firesides and think no- thing at all of the great adventure by which their forbears built up the great dominions of which we are so proud-Sir Robert Horne.
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Suggestions for "what's want ed" at the International Exhibition of Inventions includes a chemical process for 'rendering paper fire- documents, bank notes, cheques, proof, to be used for important and so forth. The folding quali ties and durability of the paper
affected. W. D should not be Turner has been awarded £1 16. by the Institute of Patentees for.. this suggestion.
W. D. Wood has been awarded a similar amount by the institute for suggesting a magazine ham- mor which will supply a nail every time the hammer-head strikes, and will drive in the nail with one blow and with the use of one, hand only,
A third recipient of an award of £1 1s, is M. W. P. Davey, who suggests a type of vacuum clean- er for clearing leaves and paper and other rubbish from gordonu .124 and parks. The cleaner would b. .25.27 attached to a dustbin by a late- 12.07% rubber pipe.
London, Det. 20.
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to Be
365 Question What should. B. do .5.20/32 knowing that he has A's ball in .1/6.8/32 his packet?
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-British Wireless.
A grass fire caused considerable alarm on the Peak last evening, the nolan of the fire apparatus rushing to respond to the call The local weather forecast up awakening early sleepers. The to noon to-morrow is :-NE. winds, fire was of small proportions and moderate; fine.
acon extinguished."