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far more satisfactory had a Joint Bettlement been reached. The fact that the Nanking. Government has
TAKE NOTES ON THE SPOT; now negotiated a separate agree
NOTE IS WORTIT A CARTLOAD. OF ment with America smacks too RECOLLECTIONS Emerson. much of a return to the old
The P. and O. s.s. Kalyan, from policy of playing off one nation Shanghai, is duo here at 6 am, on against another. In the long run, Friday. It will surely pay the Powers to
The B. 1. 8.8, Talamba, from keen together. Any process of Singapore, la due here on the 7th aplitting up on fundamental issues instant. Is likely to delny rather than ex-
Six further cages of small-pox pedito a general settlement, And were notified yesterday. All were the force of that point is all the Chinese. stronger when, as, in the case of the Nanking affair, the issue tonis cerns more than one of the Powers. There is, of course, nothing new. in Mr. Kellogg's latest statement, which is a repetition of a pledge given more than a year ago. It coincides, also, with the declaration
The B. I. s.. Santhia, from Kobe, due here on the morning of the 8th instant,
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""THE SAP" SCORES BIG SUCCESS.
WILBUR PLAYERS AT STAR THEATRE.
The Very Idea!
A man went into a public-housO and ordered a whisky and soda. On receiving the drink, ho was just. It was a happy idea on the part raising it to his lips when he of the Wilbur Players to com- glanced upwards, whereupon he im monco their return programme mediately set down the glass of here with "The Sap," a first-rate fiquor, still untouched, and hurried comedy in three acts, which out of the bar. attracted an extremely large audi- A few minutes after, a painter: ence at the Star Theatre last night who was decorating the colling The Wilbur Players, whose visits came down from the scaffolding and to the Colony are always eagerly asked the bartender if he could, looked forward to, have set a stan- have the whisky, as the gentleman dard for wholesome fun which who had paid for it would not re- has contributed largely to their turn, undoubted popularity. "The Sap"How do you know he won't come was just the type of comedy that back?" asked the bartender, one would expect the Wilbur There was a pause, during which Players to offer, being a remark the painter drank the whisky, and ably good story told in an extreme- then he replied, "Well, you see, we're both in the same Rechabito ly funny manner.
Lodge.".
Mr. N. Anthony Baker "na Bill Small, the sap, had the audience In fine humour immediately ho Acting
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hla part with a drollness that pro- voked outbursts of laughter near- when a willingness was expressed
The 8.8. Kum Sang, arriving every time he opened his mouth, to negotiate not only on Treaty re from Calcutta and Singapore with the man with big ideas but who he took his part to perfection as vision, but also on all other out- 676 deck passengers, reports the did not get a job because the There is a township in Australia standing queaticus, as soon as the death of one mate Chineso on
could not be bothered with small whero every dwelling, shop, and route from beri-beri, Chinese constituted a Government
dotails." As his wife, Betty place of business is underground. with whom negotiations could be It is advertised that the annual Small, Miss Verna Merserau ful. The residents make their purchases carried out. That policy has been general meeting of the Institution filled with distinct success a part in subterranean shops, and - oven The the banks, which usually attach that was by no means easy. reiterated on many occasions since of Engineers and Shipbuilders of part of Edward Mason, a bank em great importance to ground floor Hongkong will be held in the ployee was well enacted by Mr. positions, are reached by shallow then, and it still epitomises Bri-Roams of the Institution on Wed-Michol Dupre, and that of James tunnels. This township of cata.
tain's attitude towards China. Onnesday, April 4, at 6 pm.. the larger issues, we are awaiting
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Boldon, cashier of the bank, by combs is called Cupapedy, and is Mr. Earle Hodgkins: Miss Tove situated in the Stuart Range, In A feki employed by the Tai Lindan took the part of Mason's Northern South Australia. It is the emergence of some really re-Hing, firewood shop, of 119, wife, while Miss Florence Undor. fold, as ages go in Australia, and presentative authority with whom Second Street, is reported to have will filled the role of an unmarried was made by a bygone generation of men, who burrowed in the we can deal. On other points, we obtained, by means of a false chop, sister,
kaolin' soil for opals. The Stuart are prepared to negotiate even now customers and to have absconded. manner with the "Sup" as the butt shine, and the diggers found reller
a sum of $60 from the firm's
The story opens in a laughable Range is over-blessed with sun- with regional authorities. Not The police have been notified. of the rest of the family, and is from the glare, the heat, and the only by words, but by deeds, have
full of amusing incidents. For flies, in the pits they had dug for we demonstrated our sincerity-drawn to the fact that there will be it must be seen how the bankors ago it was a rich field, and tales The attention of thentre-goers is the full humour to be appreciated themselves. Thirty or forty years witness the modifications of the no performance by the Wilbur get into trouble by taking money are told of men who went there for municipal administrations in the Players in the Star Theatre on Fri- from the bank and how "Bill" gola a three months holiday, and re- former British Concessionant day night. The big London comedy, them out of the trouble and in turned with £20,000 worth of the
"Three Live Ghosts," will be pre-cidentally makes his fortune.. Hankow and Kiuklang. Unhappily,sented as a matinee on Monday
precious stones. It appears that "Tho Sap" is one of the during the war soldiers fought shy, we have not been given full credit, afternoon.
brightest places that the Wilbur of the opal, on account of its re- in some quarters, for what we
Players have presented to Hong-putation of bad luck. The demand kong audiences and we advise for the stones has never reached have accomplished, but that has not
those who like to spend a couple its pre-war level, and to this cause, deflected the British Government
of hours of good humour to pay added to the fact that the likeliest. from what it considers to be the
visit to the Star Theatre bo-night strata have been worked out, the de WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1928 right policy. At the moment, our
when the play is being staged for cadence of Cupapedy is due. negotiations over the Nanking affair have not terminated in the THE POWERS & CHINA. conclusion of an agreement, but we entertain the hope that they shortly will, and, what is more, that the course of events will not be pre-
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
· If it be tlie case, as is suggested by a Shanghai comment on thejudiced by the settlement concluded United States settlement of the between Washington and the Nan- Nanking incident, that somewhat
Iting Nationalists.. undue haste has been made to reach Chinese an agreement with the Nationalist Government because of the pending U. S. Presidential election, then we cannot help think-
un-
"Hermes" Tragedy.
A Chinese woman, sixty-two years of age, was killed yesterday at 4.30 p.m. by the light railway at Cheung Sha Wan. She was about knocked the line, when the engine over her body. The remains were later removed to the Public Mor- tuary,
to cross
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NEW COMMISSIONER FOR CANTON,
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SERVICE.
NEW DIRECTOR FOR HONGKONG.
Woman at Bow County Court: My husband was at work yester- day, and is in bed to-day for a rost.
There's something wrong. This gear-shift doesn't work."
"That isn't the gear-shift, Jack It's-er-it's my knee.
The first leap year proposal to. appear as an advertisement in a New York newspaper was printed.
recently by the New York Evening
Post us follows:
"Wanted, a husband. Attrac- tive young woman of personality. and cultivation, lacking opportunity for desirable social contacts, would correspond with men of breeding and education with view to marriage. Must bo thirty-five to fly-five, and have social and financial position.” -
Company's Repertoire, The company will repent "The
Willesden magistrate to a boy:- Sap" to-night, when this excellent comedy is aure to draw another Where did you buy the cigarettes? large house."The Sap" will be Boy: Sixpence In the slot, sir, followed by "Handcuffed," to Magistrate: I suppose we cannot morrow night; "Her, Wedding summon an automatie mitchine. Night" on Saturday: "Charley's Mr. Clarke Hall, Old-street. Aunt," on Sunday, with song, magistrate: The insane jealousy, dance and music specialities; and prevalent in this part of London is for a grand farewell performance, as great a social evil as the drink. Solicitor, to a man at Bow County "The Family Upstairs," on Mon- In view of the decision of Mr. day night. Besides the perform Court: Speak up, man; imagino Hsu Sung-ching to resign from his ance on Sunday night, "Charley's you are having a row with your
wifo. post as Commissioner of Educa- | Aunt" will be presented as - B The deepest sympathy will be tion, the Government has (says matinee at 5.30 on Sunday after ing that a big tactical error has felt with the relatives of the
the Canton Gazette) resolved to ap noon, when children will be ad point Mr. Huang Chich as his mitted at half price. Admission been committed. According to the three victims of the shocking air successor. Mr. Huang, it is now is at the popular prices of $8, 12 North Chine, Daily News, Mr. Mac-disaster in Hongkong Harbour heard, has accepted the offer, and and $1, and booking is at Moutrio's Murray entered the negotiations yesterday, and with their com- has started from Peking on his and the Star Theatre. with his hands tied, it being "a rades on the mother-ship, H.M.S.
way to Canton by way of Shang-
fairly open secret that Washington Hermes.
The big Fairey three- Mr. Huang is a native of the had intimated plainly that the pros-scater reconnaisance
Shuntak district, and has been seaplane pects of the Presidential election which crashed was so badly smash-in Peking for over ten years. He Professor in various universities must not be clouded by any
ed in the collision with the flying was Chief Secretary to the Head- solved question of foreign affairs, deck of aircraft-carrier, and burnt quarters of the Generallesimo, and least of all in China." What effect so furiously after it toppled into his work was greatly admired by that circumstance had on the actual the water, that it is doubtful whethe late Director, Dr. Sun Yat- settlement terms has not been re-ther the real cause will ever be definitely established, and a'mea- vealed, although it is now disclos-sure of consolation may be deriv- ed that the matter of the firing oned from the fact that death in Socony Hill, as well as the qucation each ease must have been instan- taneous, The unfortunate air- af Trenty revisión, did figure in men had been aloft for two hours the documents. These two issues, carrying out a series of remark- as we remarked yesterday, ure en-able aerobatic evolutions and the
TAKÓRADI OPENED BY MR. militarists, and to bring it under plane had behaved perfectly nor
the control of the Provincial Gov-.. tirely distinct from the Naukingmally, showing no sign of defect,
Recruit "Well, I didn't hold the ernment.
needle 500 yards away from the affair, and we can see no reason, until she began to hurtle down out
The said telegraph office has thread." why they should have been raised of control. It may even be that
Bekondi, Apr. 3.
now bean resumed through the The former Labour Colonial negotiations made by Dr. Chu with Blind men are employed in many in-connexion therewith.
had the machine atruck the water Minister, the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. H. the British Government in Hong-engineering factories. In one Ger That the United States is anxious of the Hermes, something might Harbour to-day.
instead of crashing into the stern Thomas, opened the new Takoradi kong. As a result of a resolution man electrical concers, says the passed by the Branch Political annual report of the National In- to make the most of the settlement have been done for the unfor-
This new Gold Coast harbour Council, Mr. Kong Shlu-lui has stitute for the Blind, more than tunate sirmen, but it happened coyers an" area of about 200 acres now been appointed as Director of one hundred sightless people aro would appear to be clear from the otherwise, and hundreds of people and cost the Government £4,000, the said telegraph office, and con-employed, while, double that num-.. fact that it has been immediately were in the unhappy position of 000.—Router. followed up by a statement from witnessing the tragedy powerless Mr. Kellogg renewing the American to seaplanea from H.M.S. Hermes to render assistance. Accidents pledge made' on January 1st, 1927, have been an extreme rarity and to the effect that the United States during the many hundreds of Is willing to open negotiations for hours of flying carried out by her new treaties to replace the so-call-never been a similar, disaster, Paris
officers in this Colony there has ed "unequal treaties" whenever a though Flying Officer Phillips was Goneva delegation fairly representative of killed in a plane of a smaller type Berlin.
off Cheung Chau last year. The Oalo
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NEW GOLD COAST HARBOUR.
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all China requests such action: Here accident is one which will be gen- Helsingfors again, whilst there can be no doubterally regretted, but the isolated Athens ing of America's sincority, the in-occurrence may be said to point to New York fluence of the pending Presidential the comparative safety of modern Stockholm
Amsterdam
election seems to be making itself
flying.
Vienna felt. Wo can quito understand and
Madrid Bucharest, appreciate America's desire to come In connexion with the report of. Brussels to terms with China on outstanding the drowning of one of the mem Milan points. Britain Is animated by an bera of the steam launch Taf Lee, Copenhagen
belonging to the Netherlands Har Lisbon Prague equally strong wish. But the point bour Works, the body of the drown- Rio must not be lost sight of, In reed man was recovered yesterday by Buenos Aires gard to the Nanking affair, that the police oppoalte Holt's Wharf Bombay
and removed to, the Mortuary. Shanghaf the Treaty Powers made joint and The deceased lost his balance Hongkong identical demands on the Chinese whilst squatting on the side of Yokohama concerning the outrages, and, that the launch, foll overboard and was ver (spot)
Buver (forward) being the case, It would have been drowned on March 29th.
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Some time ago, instruction was given by General Li Chal-aurn to Dr. Chu Shao-hsin, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, to negotiate with the Hongkong Government Sergeant "Dash it, man, you for the resumption of the Chinese can't even hit the target. Lawd Telegraph Office in Hongkong knows how you was a tailor before from the hands of the Northern you enlisted, How the blazes did
you thread a needle, eh????
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Council has written to the Com- Postman-Bad luck, I'm afraid, cerning this, the Branch Political ber are being trained, missioner of Foreign Affairs, in- forming him of the appointment, Mr. Doolan, Here's a black-edged and asking him to communicate letter for you." with the Hongkong Governnient to the same effect. Canton Gazette.
'AMOY STILL QUIET.
“INSPECTORS" TO REPLACE PICKETS.
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Shanghai, Apr. 3. Following the Instructions of
Doolan It's sure me brother Pat dead. Ol'd know his hand- writin' anywhere."
Magistrate, at Willesden, to a weeping girl All things are pass ing, and so will your present trouble.
Man, fined for drunkenness at Highgato: · Like the blind, I trust- [ed toʻmy dog to lead me home, but he ran between my legs and threw
20.02% the Kuomintang Branch Assoclame down.
7721 ton In Amoy the anti-Japanese .84.97 Society there was re-organised yes- .02.40
18:20terday. The whole of the picketa
A number of Hongkong re
164% have been dom saan anto esidents left the Colony on the Blue
place sixty new "inspectors" have been appointed.
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Funnel 6.8. Aeneas yesterday.
Those included Mr. and Mrs. D. The latest news from. Amoy in G. M. Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. 1/5.81/33 dicates that the city remains quiet Wilkerson, Mrs. C. L. Sandes, Mr. 276% and that on the arrival of Japan- R. E. Maedougal, Mr. and Mrs. W. .2/0% eso pleamers passengers of all na A. Cornell, Mrs. McCall, Mr. and 1/11.9/18 tionality, except Chinese, had been Mrs. W. R. Andrews, Mra. E. W. 26% able to get ashore in Japanese James and Lieut-Comdr. and Mrs. -26% armed motor boats."
H. C. Millett: British Wireless,