HOTELS
THE
HONGKONGĐPT
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTELĮ PEAK HOTEL Telegrapblo Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Addreas: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modera and Central Hotel in the Colony,all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Tolephone,
Hotol launch meets all steamers.
($25. for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office
of the above Hotel.)
Tol. Add. Victoria.
HOTELS OF
MOTEL MET
Telephono C. 373.
J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager..
DISTINCTION
The Kowloon Hotel.
Kowloon.
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveni- encos. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all " steamers.
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Daily Rates from
Monthly Rates from .....
$5.00. $130.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
MR. & MRS. H. J., WHITE.
Tel. No. K.008 &, K.609. Cables. "Kowlotel" Kowloon.
Tel. Kowloon No. 8.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tol. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Farry and Railway Station. Entirely, andor English Management Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Cnrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress Arma moderate. Special tarmos to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H OXBERRY, Proprietreat
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables:
"EUROPE":
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odall Manazing. Direnker.
'KING 'EDWARD HOTEL CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL DINNER DANCE,
p.m. to 12 pmn.
with real peppy"
Start the Year
right by
driving away your blues.
The Footwarmers
&
We'll show
you how
Red Hot JAZZ
Tea Dances Monday to Friday Dinner Dance Saturdays
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
8 p.m. to 12 min.
MASSAGE HALL
"MRS, 8. UZUNOYE Export Masseuse
37, Queen' Road, C 2nd, floor
Tunes
Mrs. MOTONO
Hand and Electrics -
MASSAGE
No. 31B, Top Floor Wyndham 81,
Hongkong
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Flatoria, Hongkong.
THE, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SMUGGLING MAIL MATTER.
MANILA POSTAL, WORKERS ACCUSED.
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.
HANKOW FEARS.
MARSHAL CHIANG MAY ATTACK.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
FOUR REASONS WHY CHILD”,
TELLS LIÉS. 2004
ERROR OF HARSHNESS
MUCH MILITARY ACTIVITY. SHANGHAI CONSUL'S NOTE.
Yesterday sai considerable *Mr. Edwin S. Canningham, speeding up of military activities A recent investigation of the American Consul General
in the Wuhan cities, says the Han reasons for lying by children indi- Shanghai,, in a communication to kow Central China Port of Saturday cates that the greatest cause is the State Department, charges last, drafts being rushed forward to fear; second, a lively imagination; Manila postal employees with be the Hunan front and preparations third, fantasy and the desire for ing in connivance with Chinese in full swing for the forwardlag mimicry; fourth, weakness of will residents in Manila in smuggling of all remaining troops here of A parent who is interested in controlling lying in a child must mall. between Philippine and Chin the 7th Army:
be able to distinguish from con- ese ports, causing a loss of revenue
to the insular Government est-The apparent reason for the audacious and deliberate deception for mated at several thousand dollars den activity seemed to be a report a definite purpose and the lie that, that had been received which iris merely told as a form of play.
a month.
Punishment."
The American Consul in Shanghaidheated that the 13th Army had Parents should remember that urges the taking of steps to stop met with a defent but Tungshan and preventien la better than eure and Pingkianga Although no great that they always should be careful. this practice, pointing out the need anxiety wakanifest in military to be truthful themselves before for co-operation, between Manila sirales it who evident that precau- the child. postal officials and consular offices tions were being taken to in China..
strengthen the lines between here It la stated that ships plying and the Hunan border, as the ob-
It is not wise to exaggerate the between China and the Philippines Jective of the 7th Army was re-importance of lying in the child's have been found to be carrying ported to be. Puchi.
Imagination by too severe a punish- packages containing hundreds of
ment or by excessive questioning unatamped letters. Several such
to get at the truth. The child will under such circumstances attach far too much seriousness to the possibilities of what may be ac complished by variation from the truth.
Plans For Conference.
ordinarily imaginative, since every The child is likely to be extra-
day brings to it new and not well understood experiences.
cases are cited, among them that A large number of reports and of the .a. Susana II last Novem-conclusions are prevalent in of ber, aboard which Amoy postal ficial circles with regard to the officials discovered more than 800 forthcoming conference, and the unstamped letters.
present position of the party seems Mr. Jose. Topacio, Director of to be commonly attributed to the Posts, admits the existence of mail ninchinations of Marshal Chiang smuggling between Manila and Kai-shek. Chinese ports and cites the seizure
It is generally believed that in recently of 800 anstamped letters on the s.8. Tang Shang from Amoy the potential resistance to his as child is repressed because of social order to sweep away as much of
Too often the imagination of the which enlla at Manila. He said however that steps have already shal Chiang has been negotiating of the child is to develop a secret sumption of office as possible, Mar- taboos er customs. The response been taken to suppresa, this prac-with all military leaders known to life of fantasy and through this to Lice in co-operation with customs be hostile to the military oficials, but mentions the difficulty
develop mental habits that may be of wholly stamping it out.
harmful,
Mr. Topacio further states that the attention of the Chinese Con- sul in Manila has already been called to this practice..
CAPITAL REDUCED.
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Account for the current year and that it is proposed to meet this also by a transfer from general
reserve.
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Fully Paid Shares.
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mand, at Hankow, chief among these being Gen. Yang Sen, Li Ping hsien and Liu Hsin of Hunan.
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Controlling Mental Life. Efforts seemed to have been The policy of many parents to made for the formation of a con- let the child's mental life go bination of forces strong enough with little, if any, control, is a se- to attack those in the Wuhan cities.rious matter since such lack of This in part explains the rapidly control seems to be the basis of executed moves against Gen. Yang twists in the personality. Sen in west Hupak. The know- ledge of the plains thus gleaned in It is the view of some physicians advance gave an opportunity to that a healthy emotional life for n those in command here, with the child is based on security in his result that the move against Yang parents affections and satisfaction Sen has been successful to such an in his own activities. A child who extent that it will separate him is generally well from a physical from any possibility of joining point of view and whose emotions forces with the Hunan generals, of fear, rage and love do not do- and has forced him to move his velop excessively is on the right base to a distance too great for road to a normal type of mental- him to be a cause of sudden eurity in adult life..
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THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
The Company's shares are, as you know, fully paid up and; therefore, as the proposed reduc-prise, tion of capital does not involve
Yang Sen Recognises Defeat. any reduction of assets, except In bock value, no objection by the Acording to information received Company's creditors is anticipat- from military circles the move. ed. This will facilitate the Court ments have been a complete suc- in granting the necessary order, ceas, and General Yang Sen has confirming the resolution which is notified the Wuhan authorities' we that he is withdrawing his troops to-day put before you and
At this wook's public meeting of expect that this formality will have as fast as he possibly can and is bear. complied with in time to perfectly willing to obey their inthe Hongkong Lodge of the Theosophical Society, held "on" enable us to put before you at the structions.
Sunday evening at Lane, Craw- next annual general meeting a
ford's Restaurant, Mr. H. E. Lane- sound balance sheet showing the
part gave an address on "The capital of the Company at a figure
Constitution of Man. more in relation to the market value of its asseta...
Although there has been no fight ing this may certainly be regard ed as a victory, as it has removed a powerful menace and left only the force of the recently, retired Gen-Mr.
I now formally move the extra-eral Tang Seng-chi to deal with, ordinary resolution,
The resolution was seconded by Mr. C. Bernard Brown.
Mr. Woall-Before putting to the meeting the resolution proposed by myself and seconded by Mr. C.. Bernard Brown which, in order to have effect must be passed by a majority of three-fourths of those present at this meeting, I shall be pleased to answer any questions which you may wish to put to me.
No Questions.
and it is generally considered that the forces under the command of General Pei Chung-hsi are quite sufficient for this urpose.
In the course, of his address, Laneport said man lives through on earth what we call his life, and at its end, when the physical body is worn out. he re verses the process of descent and lays aside one by one the temporal vehicles he has assumed. The Tang Seng-ch's. Return,
first to go is the physical body: Strong rumours were current after a brief period, of same 20 yesterday to the effect that General years or leas in purgatory, the Tang Seng-chi had returned from after death state of consciousness, Japan and had landed at Canton. the astral body (or body of par inquiries in official quarters how sions, desires, and emotions) is ever failed to elicit confirmatior also dropped, having exhausted of this. According to some pro- itself. The personality ands fessing to know that the general itself then living in the conscious- resolution was carried unanimous-co-ordinating of the force in the stay usually is a long one of had returned, his object was theness of the mental body, in which The Chairman thanked share-Kwangtung and a return through several centuries, At last it holders for their attendance and Human province to this centre. comes to an end, and the per- announced that the confirmatory
sonality casts aside also the men- Should this prove to be the case tal body and is once more the Ego meeting would be held on January and his old armies remain loyal to in his own world. Owing to lack him he will have as a weapon of development, he is as yet but Those present were.Mr. T. G. very powerful force in the 35th, partially conscious in that world. Weall, (Chairman), Hon. Mr. W. E. 36th, and the 8th armies which are the vibrations of its matter' are L. Shenton. Mr. Chan Tong, Mr. E. still intact and have defied all ef- too rapid to make any impression
ty.
There were no questions and the
31st.
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M. Raymond, Mr. R. L. Bridger Mr.forts to dislodge them from Ilunan. upon him, just as the ultra-violet FM. Crawford (Directors), Mr. S.J.
Jordain, (Secretary) and Messrs. W. Macfarlane, A. Stevenson, D.M.
rays are too rapid to make any impression upon our eyes on earth,
Goodall, J. D. Thomson, C. Bernard PRESENTATION TO MR. After a rest in the higher world
Brown, A.W. Brówn and Stokes, shareholders.
JAPAN'S POLITICS.
T.G.
COMBINATION OF TENANT FARMERS.
Osaka, Jan. 16. The conference of the Central Executive Commit- tee of the Union of Tenant
HO IU
CHINESE EXCHANGE FIRMS' APPRECIATION.
the Ego feels the desire to descend to a level where the uridulations are more perceptible to him, in: order that he may feel himself! fully alive. So he repeats the process of descent into denser matter, and assumes once more a A
mental, an astral and a physical pleasant ceremony took
body. As his previous bodles place on Saturday afternoon
At have all disintegrated, each In its the Chinese Gold and Silver Ex- turn, these new vehicles are en- change where the members met tirely distinct from them, and thus to express their appreciation of it happens that in this physical the services of Mr. Ho Iu.
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life as a rule man has no recol-
Mr. Ho lu has been adviser to lection of other similar lives which Farmers has approved the the Association, and was recently have proceeded it on earth. amalgamation with the Federation mediator in the impasse that
of Tenant Farmers preparatory to arose out of a corner, in gold coln.
the General Election which is ex- The Association's appreciation Mr. Justice Bateson, in the peoted to decur in February. took the form of the presentation Divorce Court recently, granted a Joint conference of the two to Mr. Ho lu öf a nicely executed decree nisi to Mr. Arthur Lawrance bodies is to be held shortly-portrait of himself.
Win- Bowker, of Hyde-street, Reuter
The spokesmen of the Associa cheater, a solicitor, because of the wife, Jullana adultery of his tion voiced their gratitude and Wilhelmina Scott Bowker, with Mr. Ho lu' modestly replied, re-. marking that this services had de Dr. C. Thacker. There was no de pended upon the co-operation of fence...
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the repiles to
to-day's questions:-
1.
i Island. 2. The General Balke in the Association. Great Britain. 3. Noribern, »4) ZEthelwoft
(father) thelbald. Athelber Elbaired
(brother). 5. The Angle of 'England.
4.
Fine Rye, oats, potatoes, avent-boet. 9.
Byron Liam. 9. A unit of heat, the amount
The Kiangau was taken in hand
required to raise one ramme of water ona at the Taikoo Dock this morning degree Centigrade, 10. Gulliver Travels., 11. for overhaul and relt.
Athens, Greece. 12 Carlon dioxide.
Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, a former Lord Mayor of London. and head of the papermaking-firm of W. V. Bowater and Sons, Ltd., has just retired after 45 years in business.
Entertainments
Love, thrills and comedy in a capital adventure story by the author of "Cappy Ricks"
PETER B. KYNE'S
WAR PAINT
Feats of skill and daring, stirring fights hairbreadth escapes, and a charming love
story.
starring TIM MCCOY
with.
PAULINE STARKE
KARL DANE
Metro- Goldwyn
Mayer
PICTURE.
Presenting a new screen star, a popular leading lady, and "Slim" of "The Big Parade." A picture which sets a new standard for action films.
AT THE
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY®
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.
W.C. FIELDS
The leading man of
Sally of the Sawdust” · in a comedy made by the producer of "Behind the Froa ani "We'ro in the Navy Now.
an
EDWARD SUTHERLAND Production
A LOUISE BROOKS
ADOLPH ZUROJ
Just a
:{Garamount). Fidwe
IT'S THE OLD ARMY
GAME
AT THE
WORLD FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 5.15 and 9.20 only
At 2.30 & 7.15-Chinese Drama, "Wong Tin Ba
WILLIAM S.
HART
TUMBLEWEEDS
AT THE
STAR FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
Continuous 2.30 to 8:30-
At 9.15 THE GLOBE TROTTERS In "PLEASURELAND'