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DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE
MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
YOUR LAZY MAN, IN A WORLD OF WORKERS, USUALLY FINDS, IN THE END, THAT HE HAS TO WORK HARDER THAN ANYONE ELSE-Tom Gallon,
authority, and It therefore be comes necessary to cite the nature of the offence, the validity of the treaty, and the rightful status of the demanding Státe, as well as to show that the act with which the fugitivo la charged amounts to the alleged offenco according to the lavs of both Governments con-noon. cerned.
The B.I, B.S. Tilawn, from Singa- pore, is due here-to-morrow after-
The E. and A. Company's 8.8. Tanda, from Moji, is due here on the 30th instant.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PEAKY KNEES,
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
An American, after spending some time examining the front, gazing at the windows, touching the famous brass knocker and Sir, I thought so. I was only taking a snapshot or two," dis- saying that what with this in-covered a defect in No. 10, Down- fernal row all day long, and the ing-street, the official home of the heat, and the fog, and these long|Prime. Minister. hours, it's a yonder to me how He walked over to a policeman. "Where is the garage?" he people stand it. It really is. And
asked. there you are.
There's "Femina" going of the A Committee meeting of the deep end. Of course, anyone can Hongkong Automobile Association see what her trouble is. It's nerves, not knees. What she, will be held in the Board Room, wants is two hours for tiffin, and Messrs. Jurdine, Matheson and half an hour off in the afternoon for a nice cup of tea. Then she'd Co., Ltd., to-morrow ovening at 5.15 p.m.
be able to face a nice, strong, There is no garage, because the manly, hairy knee without blench Premier's official house, like that.
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer "After all, what could be nicer next door, was built in the reign nice knee? (Two njce | of Charles II, whon garages were And anyhow, not thought of, and the throo
"There isn't one, sir,” replied the constable.
"Then where does your Mr. Baldwin keep his automobile?).
"I do not know, sir."
"Well, I pity your poor Primo, Minister."
The rule of refusing extradition of political offenders has always been maintained by Britain, and, as is well known, Governinents and 'jurists often find it difficult to fix the limits within, which the power of extradition ought to be exercised. Again and again this point of the rights of A political refugee in raised in extradition
A recently dismissed Chineseing. proceedings as between Canton foki has absconded with goods to and Hongkong, and, whilst it is the value of $210 according to a than
undesirable that report to the police by the owner knees, of course).
of No. 36, first floor, Queen's Road if aho can't stand them, she builders of No. 10-Sir George manifestly
needn't look at men's knees. I Downing, Sir John Soanb and Sir criminals should be permitted Central, on Saturday.
never do.
Christopher Wren-did not foresee " to abuse such rights, the utmost
And as for the dogs and the the day when not only the Premier worry, dearie? himself, but his family would want While walking along Lyndhurst
pipes. Why care must be taken to political offenders are not denied Terrace on Friday night a Chinese. There'll be a tunnel to Kowloon motor-cars of their own.
thief who
Mr. Baldwin, therefore, is worse before you know where you are, was accosted by
times and asylum. We are all for the sim-struck him several
and then we shall all live out at off than the occupant of many a 340, The
Kowloon Tong at $50 a month, small two-aloried villa, and when plification of the process of ex-relieved
lown in our own Rolls Royces. motor-car in a mows not far from. What ho! Or p'raps there'll be & Downing-stroot. tram through it, and the lights sentials, for it is obviously to our Among the passengers who sail will go out, and then, oh boy, knee to knee with "Femina." In the Interest that Ilongkong should noted by F. and O. 8.8. Malwa, was become the refuge of dangerous Me. A. D. Lalchand, the managing dark! Bogey-bogey. I think I'll Good-night, Gagandas. Mr. Lalchand is ex-to write more now. KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. characters. But the rights of the moprietor of Messra, Lalchand and shave mine. It's getting too hot
K. K. K. individual are as great as those of pected back with his family on the General.-Yours, etc.,
be 15th June by the B. I. liner s..
Jongkong, May 26th, 1928. the State, and they must
Talamba, adequately safeguarded.
NO PERIODIC REFILLING.
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that
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him of
RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE. tradition as between this Colony assailant made good his escape and be able to go to and from he is in town has to garage his
before the victim could raise an and Canton, so far as that is pos-alarm. Typer for Motor Cars, & Etc. APPROVED by BOARD of TRADE,sible without the sacrifice of es-
LONDON.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928.
EXTRADITION.
Signs of Progress. The natural relationship
"I am rather glad people do use. the word woman.' It is a very good word and in these days. everybody is a lady, remarked
Mr. Justice Horridge in the King's Bench Division, when a witness was rebuked by counsel for per-, sistently referring to a woman in the case as a "woman," instead of ti "Indy."
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Stratford magistrato: How long will eggs keep before they
A' TRIBUTE. Subsequent to the detention of a
Sir, It seems to be the habit Chinese, believed to be an anti- Japanese agitator, in the vicinity when writing to the newspapers to the sling mud at some unfortunate who be-of the Wing Lok Whare on
Connaught Road Contral; on. Fri-mostly doesn't care to retaliate, but ly? Caight the police raided the boarding house on Jubilee Street where he lived, but without result,
I don't propose to throw bricks this Wife at Willesden applying for time but rather a few bouquets in-sunions for assault against her stend, to add, if possible, to the husband: We have been married justly-earned laurels of a very ten years, and I have tried one great institution, the Y. M. C. A. separation, but it was no good.
tween peace and prosperity prompts us to link the apparently ill-assorted themes, on the one hand, of the new hawking regulations,"!
Formerly I had a great aversion Young man at Willesden: and, on the other, the status now With nine previous convictions conferred on the Colony's foreign-on his record, a Chinese who ap- for these sort of places, which were Father knocked me and mother on going passenger steamer certif-peared before Major C. Willson on presided over by gushing old ladies the floor, and "paid" us there.
boy who stolo the
You won't be.. Whether the South China Review, cales. It is not ditipult to under- Saturday on a charge of unlawful who made one feel the Magistrate: I suppose you must
stand that an extension of the ly frequenting Connaught Road little
and whose happy till you get it. in its comments on the extradition area prohibited to hawkers will Central for the purpose of commit jam but is going to be good have a summons.
Hackney woman: My husband ting a felony, was sentenced by ever afterwards" question which we reprinted on mean an era of increased peace his Worship to six months' hard sole conversation kept gyrating Saturday, merely speaks for itmanity, while it is hoped, and be-labour and two years' police found prayer meetings, very stimu- is a baby with money. I look after "
it for him.
for a large section of the com- sell, or whether its viewpoint can lieved that the right of Hongkong supervision. be taken to be that of the Canton to issue certificates to passenger
The Chinese Recreation Club Administration, its observations steamers, neither modified nor con-
ditional, will give a desirable im-held their Annual general meeting raise painta upon which it is de-petus to ship-construction in the yesterday at their Club house in sirable that something should be Colony's well-equipped yards, and Causeway Bay, Mr. Ng Sze-kwong, sald. The fact that the journal is thus add to the general prosperity, the president of the Club, taking Both notifications, we may say, the chair. The report and balance published by the Canton branch of mark definitely progressive strides, sheet were duly confirmed and the the Central Political Council gives however widely divergent their election of officers to serve for the
ceedings.
On general grounds,'
We
ourselves at one with the Revice
Passengers
leaving On the
The health bulletin of Eastern
lating things no doubt but not at all helpful to a fellow whose job is just one dumn thing after an other with Sargeant Major's and what-nots at the helm.
SOLDIER.
PARIS HIT AT US. FILMS.
Nottingham witness: It was impossible for the omnibus to pasa the tramcar, but it did pass.
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Salmon scales,
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Aeroplanes flying over Great Britain are subject to the licensing lawa. "No drinks may be served in an aeroplane flying over British territory during hours when' public houses are closed," states "Airways."
"Although special provision is made in the licensing law for ships, and trains, commercial air- craft were not included, as they did not exist when the law was
OPPORTUNITY FOR MUSICframed.
HALLS.
I don't know exactly why 'I went Flowers made from fish scales “ to the opening ceremony at the City are the newest fashion novelty for Hail ns-I never previously ventured dress decorations. near the place where I thought un- Silver scales of herrings are wary, sinners were caught and con- verted into missionaries for the dried, dyed and made up into benefit of the common weal; maybe bunches of lilliputian violets or
forget-me-nots. I thought it would be amusing, but the article at any rate a semi-application. The Government, of present year followed. With one official complexion. The burden course, is a long way behind the or two exceptions practically the 1 wasn't there five minutes until exquisitely cut and tinted, are public in realising the necessity whole of the committee for the wondered-every-one seemed so made into gay clusters of roses Eof the submissions is that as the for curtailing the aphere of ac-past year was re-elected.
sincere and not long afterwards I and anemones. discovered that there were ladies The great advantage of these Hongkong law at present stands, tivity of the hawker. The area newly embodied in the regulations
who didn't guah, who were really fish-flowers is their ability to there is much room for legal arguis almost entirely residential, and
intimate friend.
damp," said the manager of the ment, with the result that extradi-one in which raucous street cries Malwa on Saturday for Home in charming and made one feel like an withstand the effects of rain and There and then I became convert-West London firm responsible for. tion is nude the subject of lengthy have been regarded as highly un-cluded Mr. and Mrs. Frank Austin,
of Mr. W. Bell, Mrs. A. S. Bevan, Mr.ed to the cause and the girle (such their output to a Press represen- desirable. The purveyor and expensive. litigation, and it is
"No costume or monkey-nats, dried vegetables or D. E. Brown, Rev. and Mrs. W. W. pretty girls) did much to make metative recently. hinted that further amendments salt-fish was never encouraged; Clayson, Mr. J. H. Crocker, Mr. become enslaved to it. They were frock is complete without its but might be made to the appropriate his visits while frequent enough E. B. Cubey, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ekind and more than a little patient tonhole, and it becomes increasing- Davidson, Mrs. C. 1. E. Fleming, with fellows, whoso dancing had ly difficult to find materials for Ordinance so as to avoid delay and to be annoying, were sheurly ira, H. A. H. Glen, Capt. H. C. been learned in a pretty rough buttonholes which will be both
speculative, and we doubt if he Goodfellow, Mr. B. R. Mahtani, school. I couldn't help but think novel and practical.” unnecessarily protracted legal pro-will have much complaint on the Comdr. B. P. McMahon, Mr. and then that "Alls for the best in the
score of depleted business. We, Mrs. C. II. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. best possible world.”
Will the Y. M. C. A. pleane accept find as residents of Wyndham Street, J. M. Ramsay, Mr. J. Handle, Ligut,
can readily join in atisfaction at 1. F. 31. Robertson, Mr. J. Cameron, this somewhat tardy appreciation the new restrictions. As regards (and Mr. M. H. Roffey.
but none the less grateful for their in. Its suggestion that, within the Hongkong's right to issue fully
splendid effori?-Yours, etc., limits of the law, there should be credited passenger certificates to ocean-going vessels, this may be willing co-operation between regard as one of the most imports for the week ended May 19, States having extradition agree-portant advances in recent years. issued by the Director of Medical ments and that the process of ex-We have been so long one of the and Sanitary Services, wives the tradition should not be unduly long have housed within our plague, Suez 1 (1), Aden 1 (1). first parts of the world, and equal-following cases, the figures in parenthesis indicating deaths: encumbered by technical con-boundaries a ship-building indus- siderations. The very fact, how-try of ne mean order, that perhaps Bassein (1). Bombay (14), Ran-
"It is possible that a special ever, that the offences for which it might be said that this, too, was 3, Colombo 2 (1), Amoy 1; Cholera, Bassein (16), Calcutta
clause providing for aircraft will overdue. It is an open secret that (102), Moulmein (1), Bangkok. 14 |- extradition is permissible are of a the urgency of the matter was for (9), Sabzon 17 (12), Halphong 1
An extraordinary situation haashortly be passed, but meanwhile serious character, makes it néces cibly brought to the attention of (1) Small-pox, Basrah 1 (1), arisen in the American film indus- acroplane must be three miles sary that every requirement of the authorities by the Australian Bombay 37 (22), Calcutta 29 (26), try in France.
Government's reception of vessels | Madras 22 (5), Moulmein 6 (1), As a result of the recent adoption be opened." * the law should be satisfied before built in Hongkong: Bevertheless, Negapatam 4 (1), Rangoon 2 (2), of a decree setting up a commission a fugitive is handed over. The the despatch with which the Gov-Pondicherry 1 (1), Belawan Deli 1, of control and restricting the num- importance to a State of being ernment acted to rectify the state Kobe 3, Shimonoseki 2, Dairen 10. ber of foreign (that is, largely American) films to be exhibited in of affairs, was commendable. The able to secure that immunity from privilege was not secured without
France, all trade showing of U. B. films has temporarily ceased. punishment shall not be attained much effort, including the reor
No, fewer than 8,000 French em- by the simple process of the ganisation and augmentation of the staff of the Marine Surveyor's
ployees are thrown out of work. criminal removing himself from Oilite. It was however readily
The decision to shut down amounts to a withdrawal of the fu the jurisdiction of that State, is recognised in offetal circles that
dustry from France. obviotis, and as between Canton, local shipyards were operating un- and Hongkong, situate so close to der a distinct Usadvantage, and nothing was spared to remove the each other as they are, it is most disability, with the happy result Mr. Henry Hardy, 79, a brother desirable that nothing should un-recorded in the Government Gazette of the late Mr. Thomas Hardy, duly hinder the application of the on Saturday. A notable instance the novelist, was injured in agreement has been reached. Boulestridge, who has never been- Jaw. But if the State has to of the Government's willingness, motor accident at Dorchester re-
cry.. "Happy" is where possible, to stimulate the enntly,
Mr. Will Hays, the president of known to rights, só has the fugitive for Colony's industry, we trust that in He was driving his car back the association, who has been con- attracting the widespread atten- whose surrender application is the near future it will be reflect from Weymouth when, his hat ducting the negotiations, will leave ton of baby experts who are con- founded because she is otherwise made. Indeed, it is usually a mated in a termination of the depres- blowing off, he lost control, and for New York this week.
sion which has been affecting the car collided with a tree and Establishment of the "contingent normal and theoretically it is im ter of life or death to the indivi-local ship-building for a long eus overturned.
system," a measure of protection possible for a baby to be normal without crylog occasionally. dual concerned-a eircumstance inined period.
Several people rushed to his aid, for the French film industry, is by- which makes it essential that he
and Dr. E. W. Mann ordered his no means popular here, but the ac- "Happy", laughs a great deal removal to the County Hospital. tion of the American firms is also the time. should be given the fullest oppor
Oxford Corporation proposed to
Mr. Hardy, however, strongly criticised. tunity of answering the allega make a by-law forbidding people objected, and insisted that he was "England, Italy and Germany (an
"The action of the United States tions made. against him. Under to litter the streets with old bus well enough to be taken home, important evening paper says
He was driven to his house at have adopted the "contin- firms is 'bad and maladroit,” English law, no Government has tickets, but the Home Office
Already, it is stated, two big the power to surrender a fugitive fuses sanction on the ground that Talbot Hays, near Dorchester, Hagent system, so why is France not
Paris cinemas are to be transform- it is not advisable to make trivial is suffering from bruises and con- allowed to do so? criminal without express statutory acts into criminal offences.
tusion, but is stated, to be fairly "Docs Hollywood think It caned into music-halls as a result of comfortable.
intimidate us?
decreasing audiences.
MR. THOMAS HARDY'S BROTHER INJURED.
MOTOR-CAR COLLIDES WITH TREE AT DORCHESTER.
over the Channel before the bar
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A certain school inspector, who, after discussing organic and inorganic matter, said: "
"Now, if I should shut my eyes -so-and remain perfectly still, you would say I am a clod. But Then what do I move, I leap. you call me?"
And was paralysed by the astounding reply:"Please, air; a clodhopper!".
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Negotiations have for some time been going on between the Motion Pleture Exhibitors' and Producers' |' Nuneaton claims possession of Association of the United States one of the world's wonders in a and the French Government, but no nine-months-old girl, "Happy"
Hollywood's Trade Tyranny.