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Britain going to war as a measure |of defence in the event of such 'n qutlaw need, Academically to war does not abolish it, for war will only be abolished when all nations have totally disarmed and have welded themselves into a grent international, family bound together with ties of common wel-
fare. So long thero are arma- Iments to ensure "security,"
long must there-be-the-corollary-
DAY BY DAY.
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IT; AND THE MORE MONEY YOU HAVE MR. R. H. SMITH SAILING ON THE HARDER IT 18—Ernest Kemp,
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
row.
SATURDAY.
The Very Idea!
With a stormy look on his face the master of, the house waylaide. the servant in the kitchen.
"Look here," he began angrily,
The Irish girl eyed him steadily "Shure an' Of didn't, she replied calmly. "She naked phwat toime. you came in,-an' Oi tould her that Oi was too busy gettin' the break- fast ready to look at the clock."
A well-known resident of the Colony, in the person of Mr. R.how dare you tell my wife what Melville Smith, is leaving for Home time I came home this morning The P. and O. s.s. Morea, which by the P. and O. liner Mores en after I had told you not to ??? left Shanghai at 4. p.ni. on Tues-Saturday. Mr. Smith is resigning so day, is due here at 6 am. to-mor his position with Messrs. Dodwel!
and Co. in order to take up a pesi ton with Messrs. Lucas and Com- pany in England. Smith has resided in Hongkong For the past eight years Mr.
and during that time he has made:
large circle of friends, who, whilst regretting his departure, will wish him well in his new ap pointment During his stay bere, he has been in charge of the ma- chinery department of Messrs. Dowell and Co.
of a threat, and in the presence of Sir Elly Kadoorie was among that threat (however real or those who assembled at Victoria Station on Dec. 5 to bid good-bye imaginary it might be) there can-to King Foisul of Iraq. not be a binding undertaking by
The s.s. Bintang, arriving from any nation navor to have re-
Bangkok and Swatow, reports course to war to defend itself.
sighting an overturned junk at 10 At the recent Geneva Disarma- an on December 28 in Latitude ment Conference the Soviet dele-22.07 North, Longitude 115.54. gato made the sweeping sugges-
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The engagement is announced between Ralph Colley Smith, MC, Writer to the Signet, and Jessie Elizabeth only daughter of Philip B. Cousland, M.B., C.M., LL.D., Shanghai.
of
"Beer drinkers pay £84,000,000 yearly and the burden demands re lief," said Colonel Winch chairman of the Brewers' Society, regarding the farmers' effort to secure an im- port duty on malting barley.
"Twenty-five per cent. of barley grown in sunshine must be used with 75 per cent. of British barley In order to produce the best beers."
It is in connexion with the Volunteer movement that Mr. Smith has figured most prominently. in the life of the Colony. He was Mr. Registrar Friend to two instrumental in the formation of weeping women at Clerkenwell the Engineer Company of the De County Court: Don't weep, fence Corps, of which he is com- Laugh, and the world laughs with The late Mr. Samuel Scruton manding officer, and his enthus-you; cry, and you cry alone. You Robert (52), of Cranford, Russell-astic work in this regard has re- never get anything by crying.
sulted in the present high stand- Willesden magistrate to the road, Clacton-on-Sea, Inte
ard of efficiency attained by this mother of a boy: Has he any. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, section of the Volunteers. His moral restraint? Mother: None Shanghai, left £8,846 (net person-war service, especially in connex-whatever, sir. He is a very good ion with wireless research, for boy. He would not even go to the which he was awarded the 0.B.E. pictures without taking ħla Kittle stood him in good stead in this sister.. work. Two years ago, Mr. Smith Man at Kingston County Court: was promoted to the rank of Major The courtyard of the pig-sty was and became second-in-command of left uncovered. the Corps, acting as Commandant for a time.
ed thercat should totally disarm, arguing that they would thereby usher in work-wide peace. At some future date, perhaps, the nations of the world will reach n stare in their relationships one with another at which they can, more or less, disarm and leave the "policing of the world" to aalty £8,084). relatively small international
After 37 years in the Pheific force operating for the benefit of service (says a Home paper) the mankind as a whole, but that day Canadian Pacific liner Empress of seems a long way off. In pursu-Japan has gone into the hands of
the shipbreakers and is being ship ance of the desirability of taking ned piecemeal to Japan.. one step at a time, we would welcome an international treaty
by the leading Powers in which they solemnly subscribed to the principle that war was not a part The wedding of Mr. Leonard of their respective national poli- James Cave and Miss Georgina cies. They have all said as much May Hughes will take place at the various recent conferences, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, January. 14th, at St. Andrew's Church, but are all affected by fears and Kowloon. No formal invita-suspicions which lead them to
friends will be cordially in- vited.
tions will be issued, but provide for their defence and "accurity." The United States has just launched the U.S.A. Saratoga A huge floating aerodrome of fabulous cost-and Britain has her
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1928.
THE WORLD' PEACE PROPOSAL.
Mr. Smith has been a very keen golfer whilst in Hongkong. In 1921 he won the championship of the Colony at Fanling, whilst this year he succeeded in reaching the
The marriage arranged between Capt. Philip Jermy Gwyn and Miss Elisabeth Tilley, elder daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Tilley, G.C.M.G., and Lady Tilley, will final. take place at Tokyo on Jan. 7.
Conditions on the West River are quiet, according to latest re- ponts, with heavy cargoes coming down. Fog is still impeding navi- gation and there have been number of groundings without serious consequences.
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The successor of Paymaster- O.B.E, in the office of the First Lieut.-Commander F., R. J. Mack, Sea Lord, Admiralty, is Paymas- ter-Lient-Commander E. D. T. Coarse, and in 1924-26 Secretary Churcher, from the Secretaries" them greater strength to argue to the Commodore-in-Charge at against the wastefulness of big Hongkong. expenditures upon "national "de-
fence."
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FAREWELL PARTY.
AT REVENUE OFFICERS' MESS.
An enjoyable farewell party was held at the European Revenue Officerst mess last evening, to do honour to Mr. and Mrs. Powell, who leave for Home by e.s. Morea on Saturday.
Mr. S. J. Clarke, Chief Preven- tive Officer, spoke in eulogistic terms of his subordinate, while Mr. Ward also made a characteristically humourous speech in his happiest vein.
On behalf of the Revenue Officers, Mrs. Powell was then presented with a jade brooch as a token of the esteem in which she and her husband were held by all with whom they had come in contact.
ately and was, in turn presented Mr. Powell reaponded appropri- with an envelope, the contents of which were not divulged. fashion with a concert and dance.
The evening wound up in lively
CORRESPONDENCE.
EARL HAIG'S THANKS.
Magistrate at Willesden Get a "notice to quit” at the stationer's. Man: Is that the police station because I have already been there? Magistrate: No, it is a shop.
"Hello, old man, where have you. been?" "Just got back from a camping trip."
"Roughing it, eh?" -
"You bet. Why, one day our portable dynamo went on the bum and" wo had no hot watog, heat, electric lights, ice, or radio for al- most two hours."
The shores of philanthropic endeavour are strewn with the wrecks of sentimental schemes. The Bishop of Lichfield;"
I have no doubt that the modern
boy is a better fellow than his...
father was in 1897-—Mr. W. AJ Barron (Brighton Headmaster).....
If women had not shortened their skirits an inch or two we should. never have heard of the term flapper."The Duchess of Athell. Drive as if you expect a bigger fool than yourself to come out of the next turning Superintendent Macleod (Wellingborough.)
When counsel at West London County Court recently protested
sworn against a Jewish witness being with his hat on, Judge Sturges said: "I hope to bring in legislation abolishing the cath are going to tell-lies they will do It is pure waste of time. If people.
80 whether the oath is taken of not.
Jolly and seasonable news for Aberdonians is contained in the remarks of Dr. Donald Winnicott, who, lecturing on "Nursery Pro- bleths," sald:
M
A Chinese workman, employed as a belt repairer and oiler in the sawmill of the Kowloon Docks, was yesterday removed to 'hospital H.M.S. Nelson and H.M.S.suffering from interual injuries Rodney. America's proposal to and a broken wrist, caused by his falling off a tresale while at work. embark upon a big five years? building programme in order to Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon bring her Navy into more equal Magistracy this morning, ordered the confiscation of one revolver, relationship with that of Britain
one Mauser pistol and 500 rounds is in pursuance of this striving of ammunition which were found after "security" just as is the ex-unclaimed in the steerage quarters of the President Jackson by a re- pensive military, naval and aerial venue officer. policy of France. It would be all Once again a peace movement to the good of the countries con- of great promise has been initia-cerned and to the benefit of their ted by the United States of taxpayers' pockets if this latest America, for se must be described proposal of the United States were the formal invitation which has put through because it would give been issued to France to join in proposing to all the principal Powers of the world a comprehen-
A small fire broke out this sive treaty containing a declara-
morning at No. 22, Cochrane tion renouncing "war as an in-
Street, which is occupied by a strument of national policy. This
medicine dealer. The inmates of Mr. C. C. Wu's Future. is the first concrete step that
the house managed to put out the The appointment of Mr. T. V. fire soon after the outbreak and has been taken to put into effect Soong as Finance Minister in the the fire engine, which turned up the oft-heard suggestion that the Nationalist Government, in place promptly on the scene, was not re- nations should "outlaw" war, and of Mr. Sun Fo who recently required. The damage was slight.
signed and has been assigned to a it would seem to be a suggestionnewly-created post, tends to show The command of the aircraft- of great value. The present the predominating influence at carrier Hermes changed hands on present exercised at Nanking by Dec. 2, Captain Ralph Eliot, Treaty of Arbitration between the Left Wing of the Kuomintang C.B.E., being succeeded by Cap France and America expires next Party. For that reason, the tain Geoffrey Hopwood, C.B.E., month, and America, in submit- change is to be regretted.
Of from Chatham Barracks. The ting a new draft treaty, has taken more interest, however, is the Hermes is attached to the Flect statement given out regarding the in China, but is at present at opportunity to preface it with a future of Mr. C. C. Wa. It will Chatham for refit and recommis-
This year's Appeal has proved
Mr. Dunlop, K.C., complained special preamble which, if agreed be recalled that Mr. Wa recently sioning. She should be out of very large measure to the excel during the hearing of an Admiralty
an outstanding success, due in d upon, will commit France and handed in his portfolio as Foreign dockyard hands on Jan. 10,
lence of the publicity which has case in the Court of Appeal that a sentence in a towage contract ran Ameriça, to the course of issuing signing being that diplomatic The accountant of a salt shop been given, and with my own to thirty-six lines. joint proposals to all other Great affairs could not very well pro-doing business at 63 Connaught would like to couple the gratitude was just asking Lord Justice grateful thanks for this help, I Lord Justice Atkin said that he gress whilst there was internal Road West made a report to the Powers for a comprehensive antidissension in the Government's police yesterday to the effect that of those for whom I appear.-Scrutton if it was the longest sen war trenty. At the moment, it ranks. It is now explained that Chinese ordered 90 piculs of Yours, very truly,' would appear that France is Mr. Quo Tai-chi has been ap- salt to be delivered on board the pointed to act as Foreign Minister 5.8. Taishan yesterday, promising treating the proposal with justifi-"during the absence of Mr. Wu, to pay for the salt after it had able caution, fog, as M. Briand is who is apparently being sent to been delivered. After the Taishan credited with saying, France has the United States on a special had sailed for Canton, the accoun
mission. The inference to be tant waited in vain for the to-consider-its-position-with-other-drawn from this announcement is customer to turn up and he be nations interested in the League that Mr. Wu has not actually relieves he has been cheated: of Nation's Covenant and has to signed his post, but that pretence can hardly be maintained in view
Minister, his chief reason for re
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Give your children cheap toys, hits or stick, and string. They will get far more out of them than out, of the most complicated model engines." If a child imagines with Sir-I am writing to express pain, or cannot imagine, see the my deep appreciation of the gen-doctor about it. erous way in which the whole of, But why not take the pain for the Prese have, once again co- granted and give the young hope- operated in my Remembrance Day for Christmas, and save the Jul á jolly little Gregory powder Appeal on behalf of distressed ex doctor's fee. service men and their dependants,
HAIG, F.M.
London, Dec. 6th, 1927.
"EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris
make quite sure that existing of the fact that his letter of re- pending break-up. Indeed, there New York treaties are in no wise prejudiced.signation was in the most specific is to-day more dissension in the New
formal terms. Yesterday's message in Nationalist ranks than ever be Geneva That is, more or less, a
timated that Mr. Wu is proceed-fore, and as Mr. Wu himself re- Amsterdam method of gaining time for matare in to the United States for the signed his post as Foreign Minis- Milan consideration, but it is highly purpose of negotiating, a Treaty ter largely on that account, he Berlin
between the Nationalist Govern- will hardly be in the position of Stockholm probable that France will agree
ment and America. No doubt the pretending to the American Copenhagen to the suggestion because, in Nationalist leaders would very people that the Government is Oslo essence, it at present amounts to much like to sce such a conse-securely enthroned. Mr. Wu has Vienne no more than a solemn expression quence resulting from the visit, auch a good command of English Prague
but this hardly appears likely to and sufficiently impressive Helsingfors of opinion.
be realised. In the first place, personality that he will no doubt Madrid The suggestion is that "war the United States does not offi- make a "hit" if he goes to the
Llabon incially recognise the Nationalist States, especially as his father Athens should be renounced as an
Government and there can there was a former Minister to Washing Rio
Bucharest strument of national policy" and fore, so long as that is the case, ton. No doubt he will also make Buenos Aires we imagine that no nation would be no question of Treaty negotia- the most of the opportunity to Bombay
tion. Secondly, the Nationalists indulge in considerable propa-Shanghai refuse to make such an announces are not in a position to speak for ganda, but it is surely rather pre Hongkong ment. War is certainly not a China as a whole whilst the mature to suggest that he will Yokohama part of Britain's national policy, Party to which all its leaders be- conclude a Treaty between his Silver (spot) and to say so would not preclude long is at the moment hopelessly Government and that of the Silver (forward)
split and shows signs of an im- United States,
London,-Jan. 4
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