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HARRIMAN.-At Ilford, Essex, on 10th April, 1928, to Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Harriman, a son, (Paul).
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928.
COMMUNIST PLOTS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1928.
organisations have openly declared that the Soviet representative has been supplying funds for the stir- ring up of trouble in the country. On the other hand, the spirit or loyalty to the Empire and tho Royal House is nowhere stronger than it is in Japan, and; that being the case, we can well imagine the chagrin of the Government and the people alike at the discovery of this widespread plot against the whole foundation of Japan's social and politic. 1 system,
For ourselves, we have not the slightest doubt that Russia is at the bottom of this trouble, just as she is involved in the attempt by extremists to establish an inde-
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with the widespread ramifications of the movement. The time has come, in our opinion, for something more than representations to
Russia by individual States; all who have suffered by reason of Soviet plotting, should join in a united protest, at the same time calling on Russia to cease her sub-
versive policies. Mere diplomatic Notes of the usual type are of little avail, for they only call forth quibbling replies which ignore the real points at Issue. Sterner methods are needed if the evil is to be suppressed..
DAY BY DAY.
REPEAT ITSELF INDEFINITELY AND SIN HAS THE DREADFUL POWER TO
INFINITELY THROUGH THE MIND,-- Maz Adeler.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
Manila, is duo here at 6 am. on The Empress of Canada, from Monday and will berth at Pier No. 5, Kowloon Wharf.
Beautiful glimpses of Liverpool and the River Mersey in colour are included in the topical gazette at the Queen'd being screened Theatre from to-day to Saturday.
Corporal E. Arnold, of II.MS. Hermes, Secretary of the Fund for the widow of the late Telegraphist Jackson, gratefully acknowledges an anonymous donation of $10 to wards the Fund.
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Police Reservists are notifed by the Captain Superintendent of Police that owing to certain slight alterations, they are required to fall in for another general parado at 3.30 to-morrow afternoon at the Central Police Station.
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Way to Tal Mo Shan.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
Jemima, at the zoo, saw a zebra for the first time, "Raatus," she said, "what kind uv a animal am dat?"
Rastus also gazed in much per
He had never
"Why,
Sir,-A few days ago a corres- Mo Shan. He may have contem-seen one before, either. pondont enquired the way up Tai plexity and awe. plated a climb during the Easter Jem, dat ere are a sport model holidays, in which case I fear my
jackass!"* Information will be rather belated
but it may be of service to others when the next climbing season
comes round,
•
I never beat a rotten egg. I never hope to beat one, But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather beat than eat one.
* •
tisements in 1796:--
How they wrote "want" adver-
From "The Farmers Museum,"
March 12, 1796.
Solicitor. at Bow: You any the lodger's wife is constantly giving her husband the length of her tongue Landlord: Har tongue-- I can't any the length.
In the olden days before the rail- way and motor roads, the usual plan was to take a launch to Tsun Wan; from there hill climbing An annoucement by the Ilar begins at the village of Pak Tin bour Authorities is to the effect Pal.. This is the most westerly
Wanted for a sober family a mani pendent Federated State of India that the Naval Ordnance will de village of the Taun Wan group and
of light weight, who fears the Lord by armed revolution. Preaching stroy a quantity of unservicable is eastward of the large stream and can drive a pair of horses. Ho must wait occasionally at table, join universal peace, the Soviet is to cordite at Stonecutters leland which comes, down from Chun
Lung. The path goes behind and in the family prayer, look after the day the most potent disturber during the forenoon of Friday.
above this village and when once horses, and read a chapter in the of world-amity, and highly Captain Innes, Marine Superin- reached there is little dificulty in Bible. He must, God willing, riso organised have its platis become tendent of Messrs. Butterfield and following it to the summit provid-t seven in the morning and obey his master and the mistresses in all that it is extremely difficult to cope Swire, is due to leave for Saned eare is taken to keep to the Jawfal commands; if he can dress. Francisco Saturday, where he ridges and not to be beguiled into her hair, sing psalms, and play at will live in retirement with Mra. the easier road to the left which cribbage, the more agreeable. Innes and daughter.
goes to Chun Lung village. This
N.B. He must not be familiar same route is of course now avail- with the maid-servants leat the able by private car or Castle Pankesh should rebel against the spirit bus from Kowloon. There is also and he should be induced to walk in. regular ferry service from West the thorny paths of the wicked, Point to Taun Wan. The Railway wages 1b guineas a year. Territory make other routes avall and the motor road round the
able. Tai Po is the starling place for several... Your correspondent cannot do better than obtain a copy of the War Office two and a half inch map from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. With its help he should be able to find his way up the Wan Yu Valley to Lead Mino pass; there he must turn to the right and make for the tittle vi- lage of Nam Fong To, one of the highest in the Territory, and from there upwards the path is easy to find. Another way is by Lin Au village, called Lung Ora on the War Office map; from there oné may either turn to the left joining the route last mentioned at about 2500 feet or go down into the Lam Tsun valley and climb one of the ridges on the northern slope of the mountain,
"Many of his experiences have Your correspondent only askssued by a panther one
been most interesting. He was pur- for Information about the way up, while he was riding along a jungle morning and it may be thought a simple road in India. matter to follow any of these alighting on his back he bent over With visions of it routes down. But it should be the handle-bars and put on speed, remembered that while all its distancing the beast, which had ridgen converge to the summit of a
been bounding along beside him. mountain they diverge to its base,
Another 'exciting moment occurȚ- and if care is not taken in choosinged when he was approached by a the right ridge it starting one band of Arabs on camels. Ho soon finds oricaelf parted by a deep charged into their midst, relying valley, from the route one had in- on the noise from his engines to tended following and eventually scare them into flight. · It did. lands at the base at a very dif- ferent place from that arranged for.Yours, etc.,
L. GIBBS. Hongkong, Apr. 10th, 1928.
Automatic Telephones"
The Chairman's announcement at the annual meeting, yesterday,
Mr. Kenneth Toft, B.A. (Hong Kong), who returned recently to Malaya after completing his course, has joined the staff of the Government English School, Ser- emban, says a Straits contemper
ary.
A Chinese woman leaped into of the Hongkong Telephone Com-the harbour from Blake Pier yes pany, Ltd., that conversion to the terday in an attempt to commit automatic system will most likely suicide. A prompt rescue was be completed within two years is effected by boatmen in the vicinity. | important indsmuch as it demons-The woman was taken to the Gov- trates orice again the progressive ernment Civil Hospital. spirit which characterises local enterprise, and also because it A report has been made to the marks another important develop-police by Mr. II. K. Wong, Mana- ment in bringing the Colony into ger of the Chinese Dispensary, 82, line with the many cities which Queen's Road Central, to the have proved the effectiveness of effect that a Chinese salesman is the system. The installation of missing from his post. The re- From the fact that something like automatic telephones in Shanghai port adds that a sum of 3870, a thousand "Red" Auspects have has been followed by extremely, which was to have been paid into been arrested in Japan during the satisfactory results, giving au im the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
proved and quicker service than by the missing man, past few weeks, and that the au- was possible by the older method. traced.
cannot be thorities have deemed it wise to It was revealed at yesterday's suppress three extremist political meeting that Iome experts have To-morrow night at 9.15 in the been consulted on the system for Star Theatre the Banvard Musical organisations, it is fairly obvious Hongkong and we think the Com-Comedy Company, which is paying hnt Communism has been gaining pany can be relied upon to give a flying visit to the Colony on its a dangerous hold on the country, the Colony the best possible method return tour, will give a farewell Indeed, we have it on the word of recent years the existing service
known at the present time." In performance, presenting an entire the Procurator-General that the ro. has been considerably improved 'Oeuvres," which scored a grent ly new revue called Hors volutionary spirit is "pretty well and the Company has made diffused." So much has been disita desire to give good service to clared to be the company's best numerous gestures indicative of hit in Shanghai, where it was de- closed by the action taken by the the public. The
show. Booking is at Moutrie's
march of.
| Government against the extensive progress demands that the old and the Star Theatre.
was
....
".
TWO DESTITUTES.
SENT TO THE HOUSE OF DETENTION.
"Non-appearance due to break- down. Please fine me in absence,” telegraphed to the magistrates. a motorist summoned at Coalville They complied with his request.
Woman, at Nottingham: Her language is liko Joseph's coat-of many colours.
Lieutenant S. T. Glanfield sailed from New York in the Olympic upon the final lap of his 17,500 miles motor-cycle journey round the world.
Lleutenant. Glanfield also nor- rates how he uncovered a crocodila while digging for slabs of slate with which to get his machine qut of a bog. In Northern Australia he was the first mun to cross Australia all alone from the Northern Terri- tory to Sydney. He also establish- ed a record by crossing India from Bombay via Agra to Calcutta in six days.
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Counsel (to flustered witness}- "Now, sir, did you, or did you not, on the date in question, or at any other time, say to the defender or anyone else, that the statement im..
puted to you and denied by the Plaintiff, was a matter of no mo- ment or otherwise? Anower me, yes or no."
Bewildered witness-"Yes or no
what?"
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Arto Zanetti, an unemployed plot to undermine the foundation of and however satisfactory the pre-
order shall give way to the new, One of the two schoolboys who foreigner, appeared before Major the Empire from within. This sent service might be, it is emin-was stabbed with a cobbler's tool C. Willson as a destitute, at the scheme, we are told, is regarded as ently desirable that Hongkong during a quarrel in Caine Road, Magistracy to-day
should not be behind the times
discharged from Hospital Sub-Inspector Elston said the even more serious than a threat of in modern communications. The yesterday after a stay of only 24 man claimed to have arrived here armed force from without. · Colony may appear to develop very hours, his injuries not being as from Shanghai on a President Yesterday's cables gave a lengthy slowly, but progress has been ham-serious as first believed. The liner. He also said he had been pered by circumstances too well other boy who admitted using the years in Australia, but his papers summary of the discoveries made by known to need repetition, and now weapon in a moment of anger, was appeared to belie his statement. the Japanese authorities, from that the outlook is considerably charged before Major C. Willson A remand of 24 hours in police Many ingenious yet simple de- which it will have been gathered brighter we may expect both the this morning and was ordered to custody was needed for further vices for the table have been in- vented by Mr. P. C. Simmonds, the Government and local public utili-receive eight strokes of the cane. investigations. that the movement was 'very highlyty companies to see their way clear organised, so much so that it be to forge ahead and bring the
This morning's Harbour Office committing defendant to the House which makes mustard in just the
Major C. Willson made an order head waiter at a Mayfair hotel,
Ore invention fa a machine came a difficult, matter to track Colony into line with those places reports gave 20 arrivals and 16 de-Detention.
Said to be well-educated and right quantities and of just the down the leaders and their fol-which have adopted and found partures, with a good, tonnage re-
right consistency. British successful new methods brought turn.
inward freights belonging to a well-known family lowers. Although there would apto light by painstaking research were just short of 10,000 tons, in India, a British Indian named fixing on the handle and lid of a Other devices are a spring for pear to have been an obvious an- and experiment. In recent years while the through returns showed T. N. Sahib was also charged teapot which makes it impossibile xiety on the part of the authe Colony has, among other Japanese to have a monopoly of before his Worshp with being a for the lid to fall off; a strainer
things, scen marked improvements the higher registerfes. Of the six destitute.
which fits inside the teapot; an at thorities to avoid the definite in transport on sea and land while British arrivals, only two register- Sub-Inspector Elston said the tachment for a soda-water syphon fastoning of blame on to the communications have been im- ed through freight, while one man was already in straftened cir. which controls the flow in such a proved by numerous wireless ser-Chinese from Macao and one Chin- cumstances when he was last in way that, however hard the trigger" Soviet, there is more than a vices. It is fitting, therefore, ese from Canton were in ballast Valparaiso, Chile. There was no is preased, the liquid falls into the suggestion that Russian direc- that telephone communication in only.
acconimodation for the man at the gloss without a splash; a drip tion is behind the whole move- the Colony should be thoroughly
Central Police Station, but the catcher for fixing on sauce bottles; modernised. This, once a dream, The Bureau of Education in Can- ment. The Procurator-General re- is now very near to reality.
ton has issued a notification to the Hongkong Government would be and, lastly, a combined, knife and fers to the influence of radical ideas
various companies and establish-assisting the Indian Government fork for one-armed people.
in repatriating him. ments where theatrical from an allen people, and it is de-
per- Meantime, defendant is to stay formances аге given, finitely asserted that the leaders of
hibiting the presentation in the House of Detention, an order the plot received their training
plays mentioning or associ- to that effect being made by his
Worship. from the Third Internationale,
ated with immorality. Such plays which is also suspected of having Paris
are offensive and injurious to pub.... .124 | lle morals and aro strictly prohibit- freely supplied funds to the revo-New York
4.88 9/82 cd. Any person or company who lutionista. If further Investiga. Brussels
...84.95 continues, to present or perform Genova tions bring the guilt more closely Amsterdam
25.33 plays that contain, references or 12.1% hints of immorality will be violating home, we cannot see how Japan can
Milan Berlin
02.55 the prohibitory order, and will he well maintain her present friend-
Hable to severe punishment. ship with Moscow, nor how she can Copenhagen very well refrain from adopting the Vienna course forced on other nations who Prague have suffered from the effect of SoMadrid
Helsingfors viet propaganda—namely, the clos-Lisbon ing down of the Russian Embassy Athens
Bucharest and the expulsion of Soviet officials, Buenos Aires It would appear, however, that the Bombay
Shanghal Japanese authorities have been, for Hongkong Internal political reasons, anxious Tokohama to avoid a break with Russia, de-Silver (forward)
Silver (spot)
spite the fact that anti-Communist
EXCHANGE RATES.
(Stockholm
Oslo
London, Apr. 11.
.20.41 .18.17 .18.20 .18.27 81.705
pro-
of
GILT-EDGED BOOM.
INFLUENCE" OF AMERICAN BUYING SHOWN.
Mr. Simmonds has watched one-
armed people looking most uncom fortable while they had their food cut up for them by a walter, so he has produced this combination, which can be fixed and used, and have fresh knives inserted, entirely · with one hand.
It was the desire for complete table'cfliciency that inspired him to favent these things. He had seen the everyday little flaws which cast their shadow on his patrons' en- joyment, and he could not rest till he had done.his best to put them right.
A signboard___bolonging to Dr.
London, Apr. 11.. 24705 Chan Chung Wah, of No. 318,' British gilt-edged securities are 164% Wyndham Street, was the subject how coming into the orbit of the ..193% of a charge of larceny against a American stock-buying craze fol- Another enjoyablo dance, · 07= 29.045 Chinese at the Central Police lowing the recent Ileting on the ganised in connexion with St. 25 Court this morning. It was stated New York Stock Exchange of two Peters Church Young Men's Club, 808% that the algaboard was locked and premier Government Stocks, name was held at the Hotel Savoy last .782.59/64
41.25/34 otherwise well secured, but despite ly the five per cent. War Loan and evening and attracted a large num
ber of couples, « Music, was pro- 1/2 this, the defendant was able to the four per cent. Funding Loan. .1.531/32
2.6%. take it from its fastenings. He Both have risen rapidly in Lon-vided by the Titania Melodians. ..20 was carrying it off when detected don, particularly Funding Loan Passengers leaving for Manila .1.11 9/16 and arrested by a policeman.
.26.5/16 previous conviction was proved, 20% and defendant was sentenced to
one month's hard labour.
-British Wireless,
which stood at 88% a fortnight on the ss. Empress of Canada in-. ago and to-day reached 93, largely cluded Capt. G. F. Stopford, Mr. on the influence of American buy. F. Eca da Bilva and Mr. O. Sa ing Beuter.
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