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may be relieved from the intoler ablo burdens of the past. His strong action in the direction of controlling the Labour Unions, both
DAY BY DAY.
LEISURE FOR MEN OF BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS FOR MEN OF LEISURE,
Afre. Thrale.
Yesterday's health return shows two Chinese cases of small-pox" /
The Chartered Bank has opened a branch at Harbin, North Man- churia.
The P. and O. 3.8. Kashmir, from Shanghai, is due here at 6 am. to morrow.
in Canton and in adjacent districts, | WOULD CURE MANY COMPLAINTS.—~ has deeply impressed the people. In the realm of provincial matters, Marshal Lí has organised big achemes for the suppression of pirates and bandita, some of which are already taking effect, to say nothing of the campaign initiated ngainst the Lakfung "Reds." He has also promised commerce relief from excessivo taxation. These are only a few of the matters to which Marshal Li has been and is still giving attention. It will there- fore readily be understood that if he is now called away on military affairs, there must be a distinct break in the work of reconstruction to which he and his colleagues are
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The B. I. 8.a. Talma is to leave Amoy on Saturday, and is due here on the following day.
The B. I. 8.8. Santhia, which left Singapore on Tuesday, is due here on the 19th instant.
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A Singapore paper states that Sir Henry Gompertz is proceeding on leave by the P. and O, liner Mantua on April 6th.
Mr. D. Buchanan, son of Mr. G. Buchanan, Chief Engineer of 6.8. Sul Tal, has now been appointed to a vessel of the China Navigation Company.
CORRESPONDENCE.
"PAYING OFF PENNANTS,
· [To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.J
The Very Idea!
With the approach of Leap Year Day, preparations were made all ovor England to make February 20 a topsy-turvey festival.
Sir, With reference to your
At the West End hotels and re- interesting explanation in Tues-staurants Leap Year Night was to day's paper regarding the length provide a series of comic and un of paying off" pennants on His usual happeninga.
The revels were to be enlivened Majesty's ships, I would like to by the birthday parties of those state, as an ex-seagoing officer. unfortunates whose birthdays: DC- that I was always under the im- cur on February 20 pression that the length of the For the Leap Year Night Feto. pennant depended upon the length at the Savoy some of the dinner of time the ship had been in com-party givers arranged that: mission. I understood that for cach day the ship had been in com- mission, an inch was, added to the length of the ponnant, and I and many others are still under that impression.
··
Perhaps some authority could enlighten us on that subject.- Yours, etc.,
H. N. Hongkong, Mar. 16th., 1928.
"LITTLE TICH.”
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1
MURRAY.
of
The dinner and the wines would be ordered by the women.
The men would be served first. The women would ask the men to dance.
The bills would be taken to the women-who would pay them.
The men would apparently have nothing to do but to be looked after and amused.
Mid cities and villages,
Tho' we may room, When the pocketbook's empty There's no place like homel
*
Where is Christopher Columbus buried? That is the question... Historians have been telling the world that his ashes are buried in Seville, Spain. But Senor M. A. Cocco, who attended the Pan- American road convention, takes issue by asserting the remains are buried in America-specifically un der the great cathedral in Santo Domingo City.
Senor Cocco says that the wife
The attache case lost by Mr. Lee, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in the wireless operator of the 8.8. Lung course of an interview in Shanghai shan, has been recovered through
Sir-Some short time ago the last week, asserted that on thethe agency of the police, with the death of Little Tich" was an-
contents intact. question of the military`expedition,
nounced. There has been an argu- against the North there were no The stall holder of No. 17 fruitment amongst us regarding his proper name. No-one seems to differences of opinion within the stall in the Central Market reports know and even the papers when he to the police that a foki of his, died did not mention it. Could ranks of the Kuominatng. He add-named Chow Hing-loong, collect-you please tell us?-Yours, etc., ed that both Canton and Hankow od $423.36 from various shops, on would support the campaign. It is his behalf, and absconded.
of Diego Columbus, son of the dis Hongkong, Mar. 16th, 1928.
coverer, petitioned Charles V to re- doubtless in accordance with this
Holders of tickets for the ortho- ["Little Tich," was ono
move the ashes of the discoverer idea of preserving Kuomintang phonie gramophone, being raffled the last of the old come from Valladolid, Spain, to. Santo
belonged to unity that the Nanking Government by the Misses Alleen and Doris dians who
the Domingo. Permission was grant- KEW-HO-On March the 14th,
Woods, are informed that the draw-days when lodgers and land-ed for the remains to be moved to at the Union Church, by the has now ordered Marshal Li Chaling will take place on Saturday ladies were the stock jokes of the Hispania America, according to his Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, Al-aum to the North. All the same, morning, the 31st of March.
music-hall. In private life he was story, and in 1642 burial was effect bert Edward Kew, third, son we cannot but regret the develop-
Harry Relph, the youngest of four-ed under the altar of the cathedral Amongst the passengers who ar- teen brothers and sisters, to whom, in Santo Domingo City, of Mr. Charles Herbert White-
ment, We all know what transpir-rived by the Empress of Asia to-in his days of affluence, he was very ed once before when Marshal Liday were Mr. and Mrs. P. W: left Canton, and we do not hesitate Parker, Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Gray- burn, Mr. P. W. Massey, Mr. D. to say that, in the present circum- Timmins and Mr. N. M. Currie, stances, his departure would not only be bad for South China, but would also wenken, rather than strengthen, Kuomintang moderato influence. There is, moreover, no call for Canton to participate actively in the Northern expedition. The Southern armies have had quite enough of warfare to last them for a long time, and they could not now
1 Kew, to Nancy Joyce, daughter of Mrs, Ho Fook and the late Mr. Ho Fook,
BIRTH.
HARRIS-On March 13th, at "Beaulieu" Kingsway, Hove, to Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Harris, n daughter.
The
hongkong Telegraph. be better employed than in preserv
THURSDAY, MARCH 15; 1928.
A BIG MISTAKE.
generous-Ed. H.K.T]
ADMIRALTY COAL
Bad weather, with heavy gales and high sens, are reported by all vessels arriving from the south. CASE AGAINST JUNK' WOMAN To the North, conditions, are some what better, but generally stormy weather bas been experienced.
FAILS.
of
An unsuccessful charge larceny of 050 pounds of Welsh The s.s. Apooy returned from sea coal, the property of the Admiral this morning, after clearing for ty, was brought against the mis- Swatow in ballast, reporting engino treas of a cargo junk, before Mr. and steering gear trouble when off W. Schofield at the Kowloon Single Island. She has been taken Magistracy this morning. in hand at Taikoo Dock for repairs.
• The as. Sui Tai, running between Hongkong and Macao, is to bo takon
"That's the American who caused
a sensation on the golf course, to- day."
"Why, what did he do?””.
"Ho played a hole in one drink."
骨髓
"There is a remarkable change in
the girls of to-day compared with those of twenty-five years ago, says Miss Bacon, chief superinten. dent of the teashop department of Lyons, who has just completed twenty-five years of interviewing prospective Nipples.
Miss Bacon estimated that sha has interviewed no fewer than 300,000 would-be waitresses.
"They have become shorter and allmmer. They have adapted them-.. Stoker Petty Omeer W. Mselves to the dictates of fashion." Lynan, H.M.S. Magnolia, stated that the vessel had given an order for the delivery of 220 tons of in hand at Talkoo Dock for bottom coal from the Kowloon Naval cleaning this afternoon, and in Yard. The coal was placed on consequence there is no late sailing board four junks on Tuesday even to-day. Full service will be re-ing and the craft then anchored sumed to-morrow.
off the Naval Depot for the night, discharging. the coal the next morning.
"Many well-educated girls are becoming waitresses today with the aim of becoming nageressos or superintendents," she said.
Metal suita may perhaps solve
ing stability here in the South. Even within the past few months, Chinese and foreigners alike have seen the practical results of sound rule in Kwangtung. But there is still much to be done. That being the case, the leaders of the Kuomin- A Chinese appeared before Mr. tang in South China would do well. E. Lindsell this morning in con- At about 2 o'clock yesterday some of our (tailoring) troubles In One of the most Interesting items to represent to the Nanking Goy-nexion with the stabbing affray in afternoon, after the junks had the future, but that does not mean a teahouse In Wanchai. He was discharged the coal, witness wenta return to the days of mail of news to come over the cables ernment that it would be a first- charged with stabbing a walter em-on board and examined them armour. A young Lett has invent yesterday was the report, from class error were Marshal Li to be ployed at No. 237,. Queen's Road before they left. In a front com- ed a process by which fabrica of East. The police informed his Wor-partment of the defendant's boat, most kinds, wood or glass, may be Chinese sources, that the Nation called from the scenes of his la-ship that the wafter was still in witness found a large quantity of penetrated" or covered by metal alist Government has ordered Mar-bours at this critical juncture. hospital, and applied for a week's
to such an extent as to render the formal remand, which was granted, The defendant claimed that she articles' strong and durable, and had engaged two coolics on Tues- many times more serviceable than of the The Helena May Institute will day and it was possible that they before. The thickness
be controlled, give its final Musicale of the had stolen the coal. She was not "metalisation" can Season on Thursday 22nd March aware that, there was a quantity and metal can be deposited on a Glover and Mr. Gardner will sing, accupied a cabin at the rear of the inventor says there is no limit to at 5.30 p.m. Mrs.. Womack, Br. in the front compartment. She great variety of other metals. The
Mrs. Hargreaves Browne and
junk with three olderly daughters the variety of ways in which Concerto will be played by Mratwo male fokis slept above the Cashman and Mr. Bowes-Smith on foreward compartment.
| shal Li Chai-gum to proceed to Nan- king to assume the office of Chief of Staff, to which he has been re-' appointed. This is the past which Marshal Li formerly held, but since
The Hunan Massacres..
coal.
his return to the South it has been a foreign settlement on the vergers. Griggs will accompany, Aland'a baby eleven days old. The mictalisation can be adopted.
•
Prisoner: My fee, your honor, is ten guiness for the full course of six lessons.
his wife reach the sanctuary of When a German engineer and
filled by General Ho Ying-ching, direct result of horrifying experi- of a nervous breakdown as the who is, apparently, again to be onces in the hands of Chinese
Judge: How is it you managed mande subsidiary to Li Chai-sum. desperadoes, the seriousness of the two planos. Violinists - Mrs. After hearing the evidence, his to extract this man's watch from Yesterday's message added, on the situation in South Hunan and the Balean, Mrs. Aubrey and Miss Worship sald that the two fokishia pocket without him knowing word of a prominent Nanking lead- extreme north of Kwangtung must Acheson, Tables for ten must be certainly knew something about anything about it?
Assume a different aspect in the booked by Wednesday afternoon the theft, and in view of the de er, thol Marshal Li would eyes of the European population at the latest.-Adví.
fendant'e statement that she had shortly be leaving for the Nation-of China. It is regrettable that
a child only eleven days ago, it alist enpital, together with General unrestrained Chinese hordes aro
was possible that she did not know always so prone to terrible exces-miles of a powerful military of the concealment of the coal. Chan Ming-ahiu, so it would seem ses that, beyond a passing word leader, is the most conclusive Also there was the fact that the that all arrangements have been of criticism, scanty attention is illustration of China's unprepared-defendant, being a woman, would paid, as a general rule, to such ness for tranty revision. If Pél be reluctant to go to the fokis Opinion here in the South will, we through daily. From the Leiyang of ending the terrorism once and
murmurings are coming Chung-hsi was sincere in his task cabins during the night.
There was a doubt in the case, are sure, be definitely one of regret district of the ghastly orgy of for all, we might look upon the and the defendant must be given if it eo happens that Marshal Lislaughter and destruction carried matter sympathetically. If Chinese the benefit of that doubt, added does leave Canton. Since his re-out by so-called Communists. The leaders are not in a position to, his Worship, in discharging the cont return, Li Chal-sum has creat, terday from Hankow telling of their own nationals from such hor
telegram which we published yes-or are not prepared to protect accused.
made for the transfer.
`EXCHANGE RATES.
ed an altogether admirable Impres the brutality to which two forrible excesses, what possible guar sion by the manner in which he has eigners, one a lady, were subject-antee can there be for the safety been dealing with the many prob- cd, and the evidence that they too. of foreigners in the hinterland? would have been murdered but for The murderous hordes loose in Jema facing the Canton Administra- knowledge of medical matters,Hunan have been termed Commun tion. In talk with Chinese of all brings the situation home to usate, but we are not even pro- Paris shades of opinion, we have found more effectively than anythingpared to accept this definition at New York a consensus of view that he is prov- the moment we cannot see what some extent a question of an after. Geneva
else could have done, though at its face value. There may be to Brussels ing himself the "strong man" so redress is securable for the out-math of Bolshevik propaganda and Amsterdam long needed in the Bouth. We have rago, Marshal Pet Chung-hat was Moscow's malignant influence, but Milani only to cast our minds over the supposed to have been engaged in China's haphazard militariam Berlin nature of the Canton news during it is deplorable to note that his doubt at the moment if the bitter
ending the reign of terror, and must be held largely to blame: We Stockholm
Copenhagen? the past few weeks to realise that offerta have been relaxed. It is lesson will be learned. The rom-
Vienna Marshal L has the correct impress the only inference which can be nants of broken armies, Tang Prague sion of what is required here in the but it seems fairly clear that his "Ironsides" from the South, form Madrid
drawn. He "captured" Ealyang, Seng-ch's from the North and the Helsingfors South. He has been dealing with efforts began and ended with en- the majority of the desperadoes: Lisbon Canton's many problema in a man- tering the city of blackened ruins, and serious mischief by Soviet Athens ner which has won him increasing and permitting the fiends to pass agents has little to do, with the Bucharest
Rio on to continue their dreadful cam- terrible massacres which have confidence. He has succeeded in paign elsewhere. That such a taken place. It is the first duty Bombay
Buenos Airos stopping the rot in the depreciation situation can exist in the heart of Nationalist China thoroughly Shanghai of Canton's banknotes,, he is now of China, that u rabble can fa to satisfy foreign observers that Hongkong engaged on the reorganisation of organised disorganisation be per- an end will be put to such a Tokohama
mitted unchallenged to wreak ghustly state of affairs, and in Silver (spot) the Mint, and he is busy devising such haves, butcher thousands of such a way that a recurrence is Silver (forward) means whereby trade and commerce innocent persons, within forty impossible.
Canon Lillingston, speaking at a dinner. at Durham choristers Cathedral, said the following ad- vortisement recently, appeared in a provincial newspaper:
"Wanted, etendy man to look after garden to milk cow who has sing in choir." good voice and is accustomed to
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