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cause of such developments that we have board much of lato con- cerning the desirability of Increas-
WE LOSE VICOUR THROUGH. THINK- Ing the mobility of labour by ING CONTINUALLY THE SAME SET OF establishing training centres, of THOUGHTS-Prentice Mulford, the importance of pressing for ward with work of national de velopment, and the urgency of re- construction in depressed Indus tries. In the case of the cotton in- dustry, the Nation, in commenting)
The P. and O, 's.a. Lahore, from Singapore, is due here at 6 am. on the 25th instant.
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Mr. Wong Kam-fuk, wife and
Mr. K. L. Dugan arrived here by the s.s. President Lincoln to join the staff of the National City Bank of New York.
PUBLIC DRIVER'S
- RECKLESSNESS.
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The Very Idea!
A woman was talking with a friend about the athletic achlovo- monts of the latter's son...
FOLLOW LORRY.
When the Chinese driver of pub-
"Your boy must be an exception- He car No. 68 was summoned, beally fast runner: 1 see the morn fore Major C. Wilson at the Cen- ing's paper States that ho falxly tral Polico Court this morning, for burned up the track under his re reckless driving, Mr. Gould who cord-breaking speed. I suppose you,
sheer recklessness.
Mr. Gould aaid he was proceeding to town from Repulse Bay when, at the lower end of Stubbs Road, ho
encountered a lorry coming round
the bendi
Behind the lorry there was n string of ears containing tourists from the a... Calendonia, one of which the defendant's car-endea
"No, I didn't see him do it," re- plied the boy's mother. "But I Baw the track this morning, and there was nothing but cinders there."
on the dangers of the situation, as daughter arrived here from a trin appeared as the complainant, de saw him do it?" serts that "we must reckon within Japan by the 8.8. President Lin-scribed the man's offence as being the desperation of the Master coln. Spinners, losing money steadily week after week, seeing no end to It, conscious that a stoppage would at least stop their losses and en, able them to reap a profit on their stocks. Such conditions put men in d'mood to plunge recklessly," says this journal, which adds that "the Master Spinners cannot be
custodians of the permanent in- terests of their industry." These are strong words; their use by reputable publication only atrves to illustrate the seriousness of the crisis,
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Among the passengers arriving in Hongkong yesterday on the 5.5. President Grant were the Rev. John Fitzgerald and Mr. and Mrs.voured to pass the lorry.
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Mr. Gould expressed the opinion that in nosing towards the right the defendant must have seen wit
Imitation of the sun as a MEANS for heating, churches or rooms ceilings has been with high
Amsterdam (says the "Christian originally and successfully applied Science Monitor). Dr. Willem Lulofs, director of the municipal electricity works in that city, has invented such a system, which is now in use in a new synagogue. Two electricnl hent reflectors have been placed on the lower part of The 8.3. President Lincoln, ar- riving from U. S. ports and Shang-ness's car which was in full view, the coiling of the building, enabling hai this morning with 124 Asiatic but notwithstanding, the danger of the heat rays to reach everybody in the auditorium. The results are deck passengers, reports a suspect the manoeuvre, persisted. ·
surprising. As soon as the in- ed ease of uprosy.
Had it not been for a sharp apstallation is turned on one feels an plication of the emergency brake, agreeable sunbeam-like heat as on coupled with presence of mind on
fresh spring day,warming one the part of his own driver, who zig- through and through without giv zagged and was able to get through, ing any sense of suffocation
so often apparent in there would have been a collision. humidity It was sheer recklessness on the rooms heated with water or steam part of the defendant, added Mr. pipes. Gould.
Amongst the arrivals by the s.. President Lincoln to-day were Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lester and family, Mr. H. W. Ray, Mr. C. S. Gulbay and Mr. J. S. Gubbny.
The forthcoming marriage is announced of the Rev. H. A. Wit- tenbach, of St. Stephen's College, and Miss Hannah Gertrude Blan- chet, C.M.S. Home, Canton.
One opinion which appears to be -gaining favour at Home is that the time has come when the Govern- ment should step in and lend its weight to the attempts which are being made to save the industry. In this connexion, it is urged that official Intervention should even go- so far as to insist on the effective reorganisation of the industry. THORNHILL-On March the 19th, at St. John's There appears to be no lack of con-
The motor Vossel Malnyan Cathedral, Hongkong, by the structive minds or constructive Very Rev: Alfred Swann, who schames in Lancashire, but the Prince, from New York, sailed from Shanghal on Sunday after- Ulyat, of II.MS. Argus, Lieut. difficulty is to secure sufficient un-noot and is expected to arrive Richard Anthony Peyton R.N. [animity to carry out any scheme here to-morrow at daylight. of II.M.S. Argus, youngest on a purely voluntary basis. The son of Mr.
and Mrs. LA establishment of a new Cotton Cón- Peyton, of Pluner, England, and Iris McCoan, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Thornhill, of Hongkong,
PEYTON
was assisted by the Rev. E. S.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1928. |
THE COTTON CRISIS.
Adjutant A. Harris of the Salva-
rol Board, representative of em-tion Army is giving an address on ployers, operatives and merchants, at the St. Peter's Church Young "With the poor in North China"
armed with" compulsory powers, is Men's Club to-morrow night. one of the suggestions which has been put forward. Obviously, a' policy of drift will lead nowhere, und some definite action will soon have to be taken if the industry is to be saved from complete bank- rupley.
A. Motor-Cycle Club. The Motor-Cycle Reliability Trial may have results not con- templated by the organisers if present enthusiasm does not wane
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Lady Chow Shou-son has kindly consented to distribute the prizes at the Wai Yan College on Monday next Mr. E. Ralphs, the Inspector of English Schools, will preside.
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Defendant pleaded ho found it tedious to follow behind the slower lorry.
Inspector Alexander handed in the man's record, and stated that it was a very bad one. The same man had been involved in two pre- vious. accidents. His Worship in- flicted a fine of $25.
Motorcyclists. Fined.
Mr. D. Thompson, of the Dairy Farm, pleaded guilty to leaving his motor-cycle, No. 166, unattended in Des Voeux Road, and was fined $4.
bott, of the same Company, who
He also appeared for Mr. Ab-
was also summoned for leaving: In motor-cycle unattended. A fine
of $4 was imposed..
HUGE OPIUM HAUL.
STEAMER.
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turned me upside down you would Debtor at Shoreditch: If you
not find a tramcar fare,
Hoxton woman: It was not a real quarrel-at least, no blows were struck.
"
Mr. T. W. Moss, a Southend magistrate, to a youth accused of gaming: What is the game, of pontoon?, Chairman (Sir Frederie Senier): Oh, do not demoralise
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'It was stated at Shoreditch County Court that a doctor to be called as a witness had attended a smallpox case. Judge Chuer: I have nursed children with small- clothes. pox and have not even changed my
Mr. Registrar Friend, at Clerkon- well: Working a thing lewhat we used to call wangling it. Barrister: Swinging the lead? The Registrar: Oh, no; swinging · the lead is a different thing. It a definite art.
Judge "Did the accused give
The body of a Chinese drafts-OVER 3,000 TAÉLS ON CHINESE you the Impression of a drunken man, who was residing temporarily at Dure Garago, Nathan Road, was found dead hanging from a beam in the servants' quarters at the garage yesterday.
A Chinese coolle In an alleged
An attempt to smuggle a large quantity of oplum was frustrated yesterday afternoon when a visit was paid to the s.o. Tai Teze Ma at the Tai Iling Wharf, by Chief Provontive Officer Clarke and Re-
man on the night of the atlair?" Witness"Yes, he was wearing a watch with an imminated dial and was trying to light his cigar by It."
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know drapers, La Samaritaine, has Cognacq, head of the well-
bequeathed 100,000,000 francs to the Acadomie Francaise, the in- come from which is to bo, dovoted
After a long, search among the cargo, they were suspicious of a consignment of cassis in bales to the encouragement of large- marked "Cassia, London." Exam families. Grants to the number of ining the contents, they found 500 to 600 are annually to be. 3,190 taels of raw opium, neatly allotted to French families at home concealed in fifty three parcels and in Algeria. hidden within the bales of cassia as well as 440 taols of prepared epium in largo tins,
Excepting an unconfirmed report of the possibility of a combine of mills in the American section of the as rapidly as it road. The value attempt to commit suicide, jump-venue Officer Ward. spinning trade, no new develop of the trial as a competition has ed into the Harbour at Connaught menta have been disclosed in the given way in importance to the Road West yesterday afternoon. demonstration It gave of the He was rescued by sampans in the cotton industry crisis since the au- amount of sport to be had from vicinity and removed to the Gov. nouncement, a fortnight ago, that motor-cycling distinct from tear-ernment Civil Hospital. there had been a breakdown in the ing round the New Territories in two hours and a bit, or the Island joint conference between the owners in seven minutes better than one's The following Notice to Ma- and operatives. It was on a rela- previous best. Many of the riders riners has been issued by the local tively minor point that that break-came entirely. now to the ex authorities under date of yeater- down. occurred, but the impression perience of a regulated trial, and day, on information given by the it is from among this number master of ea. Tjikarang:-"Strong was created that it would not be chiefly that the ery for more discoloration in Latitude 9.50.15 N., easy to bring masters and men to-comes. Even the wiser heade Longitude 109,03, 45 E., on March gether again, as the latter loft the were impressed by the remark- 10.
ably good response to the first'at- conference with a feeling that the tempt at organisation, and the
The reception to Mr. K. S. owners did not really desire a seri-idea of a Motor-Cycle Club is being ous enquiry into the problems fac-freely mooted. Over 500 motor Chowdhury, the first Indian barrister
C. P. O. Clarke, who prosecuted cycles are in use in this Colony, to be admitted to practice locally, ing the industry, The issues rals-and it is felt that from such a which was postponed from the bo-informed his Worship that the ed are of vital importance to Bri-number it would not require great ginning of the month, will be given two arrested men did not belong tleh industry; they are not to be inducement to secure a member-nt Hotel Savoy at 5.15 p.m. on Frito the ship. They were fokis of treated as a domestic affair of the ship of at least three hundred. Of day next. The hosts are the Khalsa
course, should the Club be taken Diwan cotton trade, concerning no-one up as a concrete proposal, its
else.
economic life.
The woman lecturing on dress reform was greatly shocked when Two Chinese were arrosted and she read the report as published in appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the paper. The writer had been at the Central Magistracy this innocent enough, for his conclud- morning, charged with the posses-lecturer on dress wore nothing that ing sentence was: The lady sion and importation of the con-
was remarkable." traband. Mr. C. A. S. Russ de- fended.
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a shop in Des Voeux Road West. The hearing of the case is fixed for moon on Thursday,' ·
But the report ran as follow:- "The lady lecturer on dress wore. nothing. That was remarkable."
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Mr. Henry Ford, in an Interview, pictured the future as a boundary- less United States of the World, with interplanet communication, He added: "Women will be freed from household drudgery, cook- ing will not be done at home, great corporations will plow and sow for farmers, and parts of the body, when worn out, will be replaced like machinery. There will be univer- sal prohibilition of liquor and 121 tobacco,
He said that no one now 20,34 smoked in the Ford industries, ,20.40.
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As one journal expressed It ideas must be big from the be- Last week's health return shows recerfly, prolonged labour conflict, ginning if succes is to be assured.
Its activities would be divided five casce of small-pox and one such as would be required to induce into three main branches, social, each of typhoid and cerebro- the operatives to agree to longer mechanical and sporting. Under spinal fever. None of the cases hours, would finally extinguish any the first head, the Club would were fatal, and all the sufferers There were two chance the cotton trade may have plenies, etc. Under the second,
organise occasional social runs, wero Chinese.
Chinse deaths from influenza, Paris Two further Chinese cases of of recovering lost markets, it would the establishment of workshops
Geneva throw back the whole movement where repairs could be effected at small-pox were notified yesterday. Berlin" towards better Industrial relations, cost, is essential even if a Club Garage is not. In the sporting and it would upset most seriously line, the Club has a wide scope. reports gave 13 arrivale and 16 de Buenos Aires
This morning's Harbour Office | Athens the balance of trade, with far-Trials of different kinds, motor- reaching reactions on Britain's cycle football (for those that like partures, with Japanese making Hongkong it) paper chases, hidden treasure the highest return of entries and New York Amsterdam hunts, and so on, would find a British the best of the departures, Stockholm It has been held, and with con-ready response. Motor-cycling as leaving 66 vessels in harbour, of Vienna siderable show of reason, that the a hobby bas possibilities unique to which 21 were British. There was Madrid
this method of locomotion. A heavy tonnage, but inward Bucharest state in which the cotton Industry keen motor cyclist is always a freights were low, while those for Bombay now finds Itself represents un es-motor-cyclist and scorus the driver porta beyond showed an incrense.Yokohama sentially different phenomenon
of the unthrilling four-wheeler. The best freights of the day were Brussels- from an ordinary general trade de-motor-car is taboo and the more British In that order.
He can find a passage where the Japanese, French, American and Milan.... pression, likely soon to pass away. difficult the progress, the greater Support for this argument is found the enjoyment. There are, how-
Mr. Maurice Braddell, who is Shanghai jever, many difficulties to be faced in the fact that most lines of Bri-in the organisation of a Club rapidly making a name for himself Silver (spot)
as a cinema actor, is a brother of Silver (forward) tish economic activity are showing which could only be overcome by Mr. Roland Braddell, of Singapore, considerable expansion and pros- large and representative meeting and son of the late Sir Thomas perity, this proving that there is sponsors would have to decide aloner of the F. M. S. He was of motor-cycle enthusiasts. The Braddell, Chief Judical Commis- no longer a general trade dopres-whether to concentrate their originally destined for the Bar him-
Upon the arrival from Wuchow sion. The problem which has now efforts in Hongkong and lose self, but went on to the stage in-of a Chinese steamer two days ago potential Kowloon members, or atead and from there has gravitated the Hongkong Police offeeted a big arlsen' is that of a serious decline vice versa; It might be possible to the new art of the screen with oplum haul, when, acording to a In an old-established exporting into arrange for both sides to work conspicuous success. British pro- vernacular press report, 440 taels dustry, representing a shifting of jointly, but inevitably section ductions have made great strides of prepared oplum and 3,190 taclsed
alisation would have to figure. recently, and Mr. Maurice Brad-of non-prepared cplum were dis economic life from one sort of The Harbour-crossing is the big dell is one of the new discoveries coyored Two Chinese passengers equilibrium to author. It is be snag at the moment,
among British Juvenile leads, on board have been detained.
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