The Very Idia!
It was the young barrister's first case, and he was bubbling over with pride and enthusiasın na ho stood in the Court...
"Now," said he, addressing the defondant, "you say you came from Liverpool London merely to look for work? I put it to you thore was another, a stronger, mo- tive that brought you all this dis tanjca?"
Well, hesitated the defendant, "there was
barrister
"Ah!! cried the
triumphantly. "And what was
ELT"
"A locomotive!" was the quiet reply:
Mademoiselle Zenia Aanasye-a vitch has been elected Professor of Philosophy at the Univeralty of Belgrade.
She is the Arst, woman to hold a Chair in a Jugoslav University,
•
UNRULY CANTON
STUDENTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
CHIT SYSTEM IS CONDEMNED.
A POINTED SHANGHAI COMMENT.
SATURDAY; APRIL 21, 1928.
ST GEORGE'S DAY.
BAND PROGRAMME FOR MONDAY EVENING,
WARNED NOT TO MEDDLE IN SCHOOL AFFAIRS. Through the cherts Df Mr. Lam Wan-kai, Mayor of Canton, a re- solution was passed at the 07th STRONG PLEA FOR ABOLITION. on the Cricket Club ground on
INDIAN PRINCES'. DEMANDS.
DESIRE FEDERAL SYSTEM FOR STATES.
CHAIRMAN'S SCHEME.
Dombay, Apr. 20.
To mark St. George's Day, the Band and Drum of the 1st Battn. the Queen's Royal Regiment is to play a speelal programme of misle Monday evening, cominiencing at meeting of the Branch Political Council dealing with anruly behayl-
In the course of a leading 5.30 pm, weather permitting.
The Chamber of Princes has N. C. Dully News (Shanghai) says: 1. Combined.. "Aldershot," presented Sir Harcourt Butler, the our by students. The Bureau of article on the chit system, the The programme will be as follows:
Chairman of the Indian States: Education was, as i result, in-There was once a popular story March.
a Memorandum structed to keep students under in Shanghal, of a firm that could
2. Brum "I wonder how I took Committee, with strict restraint.
not trace which of their customers when I'm asleep, Song; and Moon embodying a scheme drawn up by of the mountains," Marches. the ruling princes and chiefs in
India." The following Instructions have owned for a saddle that had been
Band-Charmaine," Bolec- been forwarded to the Muniel-bought; so they charged it up f
The Indian States Committee pality, in accordance with this seven accounts and six of them:
were paid. Probably the story tion. decision
a libel. At any rate, if people are 4. Combined. "Song at Twi-has just arrived at Bombay and is to consider the relations of the "According to your report on the so careless over their bills, they light," The Risings.
States and the Government of In- Drums Retreat. Municipal Fine Arts School, when have no one to blame but them-
dia. Combined "I passed by your change was made in the director-selves.
window," The Risings, ship of the school, the students
5. Comblued. - first threatened to strike is a body; then throw the
The Real Mischief.
March.
It is learned in. authoritative "Hallelujah," circles that the Princes in their Memorandum make many demands Mac-on behalf of the States, Including some form of Federal scheme in which States have representations and which decide matters affect- Ing States Individually and in their political relations with Bri tish India.-Renter.
whole The real mischief with chits, of
ឆ. Cámbined."Wee school into confusion; and lastly, course, is that they cause people to disregarding repeated warnings, lose sight of what they are spend Kave free rein to their wild actions ing and to spend cheerfully what Gregor," Patrol.
7. Combined.-"The when they were treated with res-they have not got. Shangani was
always a bad place for running Slow March: and "Georgia," traint and indulgence.
into debt, but there can be no March.
uestion that in recent years it has grown very much, worse. employer of labear will bear wil fare told that the number of men ess to that, we believe, and we
"We were asked to enquire Tala and consider his matter,
Woman, acensed of drunkenness at Willesden, I remember nothing about it: 1am very deaf.
The lanange heard was have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to Institute radi- what we call "lockology,"
cal reforma 'wid measures for the Hackney wife: You cannot ex-
Docks orial, at Um Thames Court:
Every
1/
Colour,"
Quick
Tine
8. Combined."War ¡Songs,"
9. Band--"Abide With Me,” Evening Hymn. Regimental
Marches;
peet a ban to give up all his beeCorvartion of the manners of thecho are posted at clabs for non-Prince of Wales;" "God Save the BIG GUNS FOR-PANAMA.
full of corpses.
|King."
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BATHING SEASON.
PUBLIC BEACHES TO OPEN ON MAY 1ST.
:
SEA DEFENCE OF THE CANAL.
Washington, Mar 23..
students concerned, to enable the payment of their monthly bills has just to pay his rent.
preservation of Rehool discipline. inervased alarmingly.. *Willeriden muistater la dis-Acordingly, ad our 97th enn-i
Night Life. Charging a man: Don't come back fermer, a resolution was passed te again. Man: I did not cons of the effert that the Bureau of Not a few casos have er me to
To strengthen the defences of my own accord this time.
Education he instructed to keep our notice latterly of employees,
the Panama Canal Zone and, make North London policeman: I saw such students under strict cese of excellent character, who
IL impregnable against attack from him using bad language Magis-talai, to prevent ignorant students have had to be shipped home,
the sea, the War Department is in- trate: 11 must have been bad. From creating, disturbances and simply because they had gone to
Estalling at Förl Amador,' at the Pacific entrance of the Canal, a Shoreditch County Court wit-meddling with the excentive affairs pieces from night life and easy Conceptions of how to
The Gazette contains the follow-n. gun with a range of about different ness: 3lay I never leave the box of the school. Any student found credit,
respects spend spare time are alive i am selling an untruth.datbedient in these
the should be instantly dismissed to now, all the world over, from what ing particulars of the opening of 22 miles, carrying an armour- piercing propectile which weighs Jude Cler: If that were fate of penile Who commit per emphasise the seriousness of these they were. There is a more gen-public bathing beaches: jury here this place would be offences. This resolution being eral demand for distractions that Bathing Beach at Tai Wan Bay, weighs 1.560 pounds, and has a pro- And when a man can Kowloon-This bench will be open pellent charge of 470 pounds of on record, a copy is being sent to cost money. you for your information and et motop-cars, dinners, drinks and for the we of the general public powder.
dancing every night for the were from Tuesday, May 1st, inclusive. A similar gun is now being com- was taking the An exander
Upon receipt of these instruc- signing of his name, it is not won-A fee of 10 cents per person will pleted, at Watertown Arsenal and English lesson, and Sling the elass very, dull, he asked in den-tions, Afr. Kam Wan-kai gave derful that reckonings mount be charged. peration. "Well, can any one tell special instructions to the Burcas heavily at the end of the month, of Education to issue a warning to me a collective noun?"
"Yes, sir, said one bright, hoy the students of the school to re- sume their attendance within one "Dastman."
week's Lime, otherwise they would be strictly dealt with accord KA-sübárban householder, driven ing to the instructions of the
distracted by the hordes of hawk-Branch Political Council. ers, canvassers, beggars, and pests of that sort who call at his door every hour of the day has hit upon a profective measure which, he says, is beginning to have good) effects.
He has bought a Înendile of small religions tracts, of the Burl that one gets at the Fate of a hundred for eighleenpence, and every time one of the importunate appears, be is solemnly presented with one of the tracts, No refusing, arguing, or protesting; not a word need be spoken; surprise disarma the
assailant.
prare reign.
Aetion."
AIRMEN DEPART.
CAMERON ROAD SECTION
EN ROUTE HOME.
A further contingent of troops sent to China during the recent political upheaval in the North, are returning to England by the Blue, Funnel Liner Bellerishen which sailed for Liverpool yester day evening,
The Remedy,
A
will be installed at Fort Randolph, 'Bathing Beach adjoining the proat the. Atlantic end of the Canal. Imises of the Royal Hongkong Yacht ClubThis beach will be open for The obvious remedy is that the use of the general public from people should be made to pay for Tuesday, May 1st, inclusive.
cash. fee of 10 cents per person will be what they have in bard Nobody can go dining and dane-charged.
in London ing in public rooms
Bathing Beach at Kennedy without money in his pocket. J Town. This beach will be open his club he must pay for his drinks for the use of the general public as he orders them, And shops from Tuesday, May 1st, inclusive. must know you fairly well before A fee of 5 cents per person will be
get anything like extended charged.
YOU
credit. Even so, it is curious to bote how much more when it is! paper they are handing about, than with gold or silver.
J
"Only Five Dollars,” The phrase "oh, it's only five dollars" would not have the eun- temptuous meaning it
has
These huge guns will be mounted in emplacements, two of which are being built at each end of the Canal, but they can also be fired from n specially designed mount, consist- ing of four railway car tracks, which will enable the two guns to be concentrated at either end of the Canal or be used as mobile field artillery in case of necessity. It is intended that the trucks shall be hauled by a locomotive, but they are so constructed that they can be Bathing Beach at Repulse Bay.moved! under their own power by a und gasoline This beach will be open for the use combined dynamo of the general public from Tues-motor. day, May 1st, inclusive. A fee of 20 cunts per person will be charged.
Lesson of Gallipoli.
The Panama guns are naval guns, of which the United States had a large surplus stock at the end of the
Shanghai in there were no lotes CAR GOES OVER BANK., this stock being further added
more
for any but really big amounts The owner fondly believe that the party going home' by the and we had a pay up in odd hard Bet pirt from such his house has now been marked Bellerophon consists of the entire ctal
considerations, .. B, down as one to be avullied. And [engine repair section of the Rogalychological
All Porn and six men from the every five dollars' worth of Kai Tak Aerraleone. There an amusement, we had to put down
ould probably remember Alter reducing met of his con-about 7 toen altogether and they on the spot a five-dollar note, we few of gregation to tears, the Rev. He sailing under the command vividly than we de how
dem there are in a tarehanded Neep, Vieur of the Church of St. Felit. Oficer Jones,, who is the
Baltara salary and what a lot of Genre the Martyr, Southwark, only officer among the party.
The engine repair section is the claims are made upon them at S.P., wan sa severely heckled in a sermon he gave there recently that entire company which was station-fie end of the mouth, he had to abandon the attempted at the Cameron Rond "Camp." to make himself heard.
TWO PROMINENT CHINESE KILLED.
to when the Washington Treaty | serapped several battleships, built and projected. Some of these guns have already been mounted the defences covering New York and Boston, and attack by sea on these Ipoh, Apr. 14.
cities, military authorities say, Towkay Leong Seung Ting, pre-would be impossible, remembering sident of the Chinese cemetery, the lesson of Gallipoli.
In fact, so convinced are they Kuala Lumpur, and Towkay Bool
Cheong were instantly killed that no enemy would venture to their car dashing over a sixty send ships aginst the forls, but feet Bank on their way to Ipoh. would attempt to destroy the Canal The accident occurred near Slim from the air in the Panama Canal Zone, that extraordinary reliance in Possibly entertainment houses
placed on anti-aircraft artillery, would object to the change: and River The towkays' wives and ure his heard of store managers girls were seriously injured. I understand that the Ordinance 03 A blazing traction engine rushed saying that they dare not refue The ear was found overturned at Department of the War Depart ment has developed a now anti-air- "Mothering Sunday," he and asked driverless down High-street, Finchereditar
be tot onger to take the bottom of a diteù..
craft gun, which is claimed to be mothers to bring to a special sur-leg recently and dashed into a rereetings when debts are slow But surely the
superior to that posssessed by any vice all babies who had beenteer's shop. The goods in the in being paid.
other Army. christract at the church during shop were set on fire. The flames hangers, from their point of view,
Several of these guns are now in the last 18 years. Four hundred were quickly subdued by a fire en-of abolishing the chit system are
Panuma. babies under 2 years of age and ghe. The driver of the engine had exaggerated. They must have a a good many more not much older dung himself outs of the vehicle great many bad debts and the in came, bringing their mothers with when it caught fire, but was not terest on money they "cannot
seriously injured. Prayers and lessons were quite inaudible, but the hymns greatly enjoyed-especially
The Virar bad invited the de nonement, for, in honour
them.
Were
the
Old Boys, parents and those in- created in St. Stephen's College, whether personal invitations have
collect must be a heavy considera-1 tian.
Mr. Chu Shue-sing, son of Mr.
of the new Canton on Thursday.
BILLIARDS.
FINAL IN PALACE HOTEL TOURNAMENT.
.
The Anal in the Palace Hotel HOW MUCH DO YOU
billiard tournament was played last night between F. E. Silva and Mr. Lewis. The result was Silva 250,
Lewis 106.
The cere(2), 21 (2) and 20. Lewis' were 14
last, "There's a Friend for Little Children" Mothers all sang, and reached them or not, are particular-Chu Chao-hsin, the Commissioner Silva's best breaks were 40, 23, 22 babies "made
y requested to attend the laying off Foreign Affairs, was married in | a joyful noise," Some beat time to the music-so the foundation stone their mothers said.
building by H. E. the Governor at mony was a very quiet one. A re-(2), 12 and 11 (2).
At the end of the tournament the But there were loud objections Stanley Peninsula on Friday, April ception was held at the Hotel. Asia,
prizes were distributed. Half the children |27th, at 3.30 p.m. to the sermon. wept when it began, but they recovered and were heckling so strongly by the time the Vicar reached his "secondly" that his words were inaudible half-way down the aisle. When he said:! "As soon as the children are able to speak warn them of the devil within them," there was evidence' that the children were quite aware of a devil within them, and 'were quite able to speak about it.
The Vicar closed his sermon abruptly, amid the excited ex- clamations of the juvenile mem- bers of his congregation.
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Gambling is one of the mistakes of life. The Bishop of Willesden. The public who go racing aro very intelligent people-Major R. Glyn, M.P.
A woman can do anything with her husband if sho tries.-Mr. R. V. Somers Smith.
I am not sura that some
cata
and dogs have not attained a porsonality of such permanence as call it soul.Canon Peter Green.
to
RECENT WEDDING AT KOWLOON UNION CHURCH:
Group taken at the wedding, at Kowloon. Union Church, of Mr. J. C. Ferguson, of Taikoo Dock, and Miss Lillian Ferguson. Many Talkoo residents were present to witness
the ceremony. (Photo; Ming Yuon).
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Bapress.
Answers, for those who need them will be found on Page 16 of this issue.
Into zohat sub-divisions is English Gothic architecture usually divid Ved?
-8 When did a Prince of Wales speak as a member of the House of Lords!
Where in London are there statues
which are not of Englishmen!
4 What addition is shortly to be made to Westminster Abbeyl
Parliament
5 May à member of
resign his seat?
Where in London are the follow- ing buried: Gay, Milton, Papyst 7 What English Sovereign was mar
ried to a powerful Continental ruler!
8 What stations of importance does one pass travelling from London to Birmingham?
• What painters are aanpelated with these towns-Antwerp, Bruges, Norwich?
10 Where dose the quotation, "This
dim, vast v
i vale of tears, vacant and desolate, come from?
11 Should the final "i" be pronounced in "valet" and "restaurant F
13. Of whom was it said: "Apo gun- mot silther her, nor custom stale kár infinite variety".)
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