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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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· EXTINGUISHER |
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1928.
Clementi's - visit to Canton. In this connexion, Marshal Ld struck a very happy note when he stated on Friday that Lady Clement! had promised to again go up to Can- |ton, taking her children with her. The friendship which this be tokens will certainly havo. the effect of removing any idea that the new relations are merely of a formal character. This Colony is certainly most fortunato, in hav- ing as its Governor a man so thoroughly conversant with China. and the Chinese tongue. As Mar-
DAY BY DAY.
MINISTERS SHOULD FIRST PREACH
TO THEMSELVES, THEN AFTERWARDS TO OTHERS.-Cardinal Pole.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony over the week-end.
The P. and O. s., Nagpere, from Singapore, is due here at noon on Friday.
THE MOTOR-CYCLE TRIAL.
י-ו
BIG SUCCESS IN COLONY'S
FIRST EVENT.
The Very Idea!
A group of schoolboys were chat tering, loudly on a car, and uncon The first motor-cycle reliability gers. Amusement, however, changed sciously amusing the other passen test to be held in the Colony took to alarm when the conversation place yesterday, the event being developed thus:- organised by the Motor-Cycle Sec- "Have you got that dagger, tion of the Hongkong Volunteer Snookey?" The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow competitors took part, the start but it'll do.
Defence Corps. Altogether, fifty | "Yes. It wouldn't out buttor and the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall being from the Volunteer Head-
Who kills the other "And leave on the road?"! returned from Canton by the Fat-quarters at 2,80 p.m.
"Ginger and Dick and I. Wo shan last night.
knife him."
The P. and O. liner Mantua, which left Singapore at 5 pm. on Saturs day with the English mails, is due here at 6 a.m. on Thursday.
shal Li so aptly put it in his speech at Friday's banquet, His Excel- lency's great knowledge of the
Madame Barbosa, wife of His Chinese language is helping to Excellency the Governor of Macao, bridge the gulf between Eastern and Mile. Barbosa are on a visit and Western elvilisations. Sir to Hongkong. Mmo, and Mlte. Barbosa arrived by the excursion Cecil's speech in Chinese, we are steamer Taishan last evening.
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"And leave on the road?" "No, chuck him in a ditch, bleed- "What do you do, Tubby?!! ·
The details of the course have already been published, and it only remains to be said, concerning all over ing it, that it was admirably chosen from the standpoint of testing the ability of the contest- tante and the qualities of the machinos.
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"Oh, I keep the gate of hell". the dumbfounded passengora ro At this point they left the car and covered their breath, and did marvel The Peak Road and the Dairy greatly. If they had mentioned Farm Hill, as well as some of the who was playing Macbeth, the title- stoop hillside paths, proved some-role, all would have been well, bat what difficult to negotiate, but the they didn't. And so the passengora competitors mastered ali The went marvelling greatly. obstacles and came through tho trial splendidly.
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Among recent appointments by his. Isteners, and he was certainly the Secretary of State for the
Airplanes are being used by soy happy in his choice of theme, em- Colonies were those of Mr. Q. A. A. phasising the great affection which Macfadyen, Cadet, and Lieut. N. The final lap, around the island oral sportsmen in Texas vicinity in ho feels for the Liang Kwang Pro-ment Marine Surveyor, both for and it is believed that well over cattle that ranchmen are threaten- Garland, B.Sc., Assistant Govern the contestants still participating, resulted in the death of so many in xlarkness, saw practically all hunting deer. But the practice na
vinces, of which he has happy Hongkong, memories of days gone by,
ninety per cent, completed the ing to use anti-aircraft guns to stop whole course.
it Whether the hunters mistake With His Excellency the Gov-sident Jefferson from Manila this Passengers' arriving by e.s. Pre-
From every standpoint, the the cattle for deer or whether they ernor, we believe that the unhappy morning included Mrs. 11. B. Ross, event was a great success, there are just practicing has not been
ago were landing here; Mr. C. H. Benson, not a slugle serious casualty was
being no bitch whatever, whilst discovered. bound for Shanghai, and Bishop recorded. merely an artificial semblance of and Mrs. C. B. Mitchell, for Los enmity between Canton and Hong-Angeles. kong. Unfortunately, the Kwang-
events of two years
Following a fracas in Saigon
The success registered whs in large measure due to the tremen- dous amount of preliminary work
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Derby policeman: The man was so drunk that he thought that he was taking me to the police station,
Stratford magistrate: You aro
Only when the police come along. cannot run much. Magistrate: have married the man if our two Willeaden wife: I ahould never
tung Government of that time was Street between two Chinese, ane carried out by the organisers, whoa bookmaker's runner? Man; I man was sent to the Kwong Wah are to be complimented on the Hospital yesterday, suffering from made. In this connexion, a special
under Russian domination, with the result that the move against
thoroughness of the arrangements
SILVA.-On March 5, 1928, at the Hongkong was purely political in His assnilunt is now in the custody tribute is also due to the checkers, mothers had not forced us into it.
Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Basto da Silva, a son (still-
born).
The
character and in ho sense repre- acutative of the feeling of the Cantonese people as a whole. With the expulsion of the Soviet's agents and the dissipation of all the dangerous ideas which they
wounds inflicted with a chopper. of the police.
observers, marshals, etc., who spent a busy time on various parts of the course.
Motorist at Willesden: The lights were there, but they were out,
Kent man accused of assault: went to a Christmas party, and hid a mixed reception.
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Hongkong Telegraph,ucceeded in propagating, they. Their place of residence is by the contestants, but there was the head of the English Church.
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1928.
OLD FRIENDSHIP RESTORED.
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traditional amity, with Hongkong has been restored under the hap- piest of auguries. "All reapon- ponsible elements in both places will re-echo Is Excellency's hope that this friendship may never again, be disturbed. There is no real reason why it should be. On the contrary, we cap, cach and every one of us, do our part in strengthening and consolidating the new Entente, And that is a duty which lies on Britisher and Chinese alike,
Schoolboy "howlera":-- The Archipelago of Canterbury is
A barbarian is a man who cuts Lavá is the stuff a man puts on
Zurlo passed through the Colony, Prince and Princess P. G. Capece
The Committee meets to-night bound for Marseilles, by 4.8. Preto check up the results, full details sident Polk during the week-end. of which may be available to- The Prince is of Italian blood, morrow. while his wife is an American Not only was much akill shown
given as Paris,
also a deal of enthusiasm shown by all associated with the hair. Mrs. George Jardine, of Black- event, which, it is hoped, will ford House, Lockerbie, Dum-prove to be the forerunner of his face when he is going to shave, bereaved by the death of her friesshire, has been suddenly many similar affairs.
mother, the Hon. Mrs. Spenn. Mrs. Spens was the daughter of Archibald, 19th Baron Borthwick de jure (creation, 1452).
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On the grounds of willful absence
This mornings' Harbour Office: reports gave 16 arrivals and 11 H.M.S. CUMBERLAND ARRIVES Mrs. Flora M. Dell New Cumber departures, leaving 81 vessels in harbour, of which British number- ed 30. Tonnage showed a reduc-
IN HONGKONG.
tion, with British cargoes general-replace the Despatch on the China H.M.S. Cumberland, which is to ly poor, Japanese, Norwegian and Station, arrived in Hongkong this German making the highest re- morning. turns,
by
land, Va., recently, obtained a
ed that her husband had died three divorce from her husband, John Dell. The following day she learn- hours before the divorce papers were signed.
In strode an official, who said, "Ye mauna smoke here.”
"Why" said the traveller. "You must obey the regulations," was the reply, pointing to a notice, "No smoking allowed."
"You cannot obey all the regula
Now that His Excelleney the Governor has returned to the Co- lony after his visit to Canton, the official formalities marking the re- sumption of friendly intercourse
The Cumberland is the first of between the two centres have been
the fiye, new cruisers of the A traveller passing through Fife, concluded. As we
Among the passengers arriving 1024-26 programme to be placed who, having to wait at a junction, ponder over The Balkans Dispute. by 8.8. President Jefferson from in full commission. She is in com- went into the waiting-room, pulled the fresh contact thus established,
Manila this morning, were Mrs. G. mand of Captain A. L. Snagge out his pipe, and settled to read a The deplorable scene in the S. Harrell, wife of the passenger and was joined by a crew from paper. we cannot fail to be struck, with Council of the League of Nations agent for the Dollar interests in the Chatham Depot on December the obvious sincerity which has following the refusal of Rumania Manila, accompanied marked the events of the to accept Sir Austen Chamberlain's daughter. Mrs, Harrell was form ship in August, after service as her 15th. Captain Snagge joined the
Rast
suggestion, set the seal on the erly Miss Marsh, of Kowloon, and senior officer of the Reserve Fleet ten daya. Hongkong, numerous blunders committed in is on a visit to her parents. official and unofficial, warmly the name of peace in the course
at the Nore. The executive officer welcomed Marshal
is Commander H. H. Harwood, Li Chal of this five-year-old quarrel which The following vessels are expect formerly Fleet Torpedo Officer in. and his challenges to the Rumania
defies settlement, while ed to be in wireless communication the Mediterranean flagship. En- tione," grumbled the traveller, "look
defies all and saundry. with Hongkong to-day: Sphinx,gineer Commander II. A. Sheridan, Colony, and, if possible, Canton Sir Austen may be excused for Namsang, Hozan Maru, Kiangsu, who last served afloat in
at that one"-"Wear-corsets," has reciprocated with even greater replying curtly to. M. Titulesco, Fulda, Caledonia, West Cajout, cruiser Cambrian, is in charge of throughout, spoke for an hour Lycaon, Sarvistan, President, Grant, who, typical of Rumania's attitude President Polk, Chinhua, Yuensang, the ship's machinery. voicing conditions on which the Taiyo Maru, Mantua, Sade Maru, proposal, merely adding two Ceylon Maru, Yalyann and Taikwa neutrals to the Mixed Arbitral Maru. Tribunal, could be accepted. It could not be more clearly demon- strated that unless the hands of the Tribunal is tied, Rumania want it. What sur-
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It is decided that in the "modern. costume" performance of "Mac cruiser of the County class, her to see what other course could be The new arrival is a 10,000-ton both," Lady Macbeth shall wear a night-dress. It is, indeed, difficult armament consisting of eight 8-inch, four 4-inch anti-aircraft sumed to be addressed to Macbeth); taken in view of her words (pro- and four 3-pounder guns. Sho hasWash your hands, put on your a speed of over 32 knots. The nightgown." You really cannot talk sisters ships Kent, Berwick, Corn-of & husband's nightgown while his wall and Suffolk, are all in process wife wears pyjamas.
of fitting out and are all destined for the China Station. By the 124 middle of the year, the 5th Cruiser ried clergymen to the folk who at Hints are being offered by wor- Squadron will consist of a homo- this season seem to go to church geneous group of five of Britain's chiefly to coughr Few preachers, 18.21 most modern and powerful crui-apparently, can endure such annoy- anees as philosophically as did Dean Ainger, who was moved thereby not to anger, but to verse,
warmth. This exchange of visits, the first since the establishment of the Chinese Republic, has had a great moral effect, both here and in Canton, which has extended to all sections of the communities of both places. It has brought us does not closer together than we have been prises us is the strange vacillation for many long years, and we hope the Council unanimously approved Brussels
of the League. The members of Paris and trust that it will be followed Sir Austen Chamberlain's pro- Amsterdam up by frequent renewals of the posal, which we find only puts Berlin contact, both on the part of the into the form of a proposal a right Copenhagen
Vienna of action the League has undor the two Governments and of the vari-Treaty of Trianon. The League Lisbon
Helsingfors ous business and social organisa- can legally impose the appoint-Bucharest tians in each city.
ment of two neutrals if the Shanghal parties, Hungary and Rumania, Buenos Aires Official functions can, of course, fail to agree, but consistent with New York
their attitude through this part-Geneva with Httle inward significance. mediate between the parties in-
Stockholm But we believe that no euch de- stead of recognising the imposal- Oslo scription can be applied to the gary's rights under a Treaty do Athens bility. It does seem that Hun-ague Madrid visit of Marshal Li to Hongkong priving hor of the territory of Yokohama or to that of Sir Cecil Clementi to Transylvania, which had been in Rio Canton. Perhaps of even deeper are being sacrificed to political Bombay
her hands for "over 1,000 years, Hongkong import is the friendly personal exigeney, Hungary was mutilated Silver (spot and forward) contact which has been establish after the war-there is no other
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Two more "howlers:"- "On the death of Arthur, Henry VIII, before marrying his bro ther's wife, applied to the Pops for compensation.”
"James VI, on his way from Puritans with the Milenntura." Scotland, was presented by the Quoted by Holy Cross Academy
ed between the heads" of the two expressly designed to prevent Hun-
captain, were confirmed and it was hard labour?" added that the Chineso gunboat Applicant for Job-"Well, sc Governments, the other officialsgarians in annexed territories offered, and Hungary appealed to Kong Tal had escorted the Hol varal Judges in the country have and the representatives of trade from being singled out for the League for the enforcement Cheong to Canton where Investiga- thought so!.
treatment. This has been syg
of her legal rights. The League tions were to be made. and commerce. It was cepecially tematically. ignored by Rumania, tried to mediate, instead of adopt Members of the crew of the Ko- pleasing to notice low Marshat L1, which persecuted the Hungariana ing the clear course open-the chow add that the Kong Tat cap- in his speech at Friday's banquet, who opted for Hungarian nation appointment of two neutrals to tured two sampans carrying a cargo ality, expelled many of them on the Mixed Tribunal in accordance of rice in the vicinity of Tai Ping stressed this point when he assert- trivial pretexts and seized their with the rights conferred by the Sha, this being believed to be part ed that he and Sir Cecil are now properties. An appeal was made Treaty Those are the only rights of the looted cargo of the Hol becoming very well acquainted and to the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal; the Council has in the matter.It is understood that the Ho! which uphold many of the Hun- The Council cannot over-rule the Choong will return to Hongkong hope to exchange private visits, garlan
Mixed Arbitral Court, and that some time to-morrow, claims, upon which from time to time. Then, too, we Rumanin withdrew her representato when he stressed the impotence was what Sir Auston was referring cannot overlook the value of the tive, and submitted justification on of the Council unless both parties an invalid insistence of the prior innovation created by Madame L'a application of her Agrarian land were agreed. The standing of in-
The Duke of York, though left Inclusion in the Canton party reforms. Subsequently ridiculous tornational arbitration is threaten-handed, in cozuldered the best bil- came here, and by Lady ly inadequate compensation wased if the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal Hard player in the British royal
is not upheld in. Its decisions.
which
Cheong,
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Magazine.
"I understood that the concert will consist of both jazz and classic selections.
"Yes," Bax" of, one and half dozen of the other,”