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A LEGAL POINT.
The public will, we feel sure,
TUESDAY
MA
the apoken word to the same effect
is not. That, however, is by tho way. We do suggest, however,
WON
1928
DAY BY DAY:
THEY PASS BEST OVER THE WORLD that persons caught addressing who THIP OVER IT QUICKLY, FOR IT crowds in terms which advocato is HUT A DOG-IF WE STOP, WE SINK. a boycott of Japanese goods mightQueen Elizabeth
The P. and O. 8.8. Moren from Hongkong, arrived at Marsellles on 26th May at 7 p.m.
The Empress of Russia, which left Hongkong on the 9th May. arrived at Vancouver on the 27th May.
well bä proceeded against under ]. A Chinese case of typhoid was Section 23 of the Summary notified yesterday. Offences Ordinance, by which it ls an offence to make use of threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour "whereby n breach of the pence may be occa- sioned." It may be true that thesa e boycott orators do not directly incite their hearers to commit a breach of the peace, but it is surdly conceivable that, at the present juncture, their re marks might easily inflame their hearers to the extent that they might, for example, indulgo in window-smashing. Boycott speeches, without a shadow of a doubt,
Owing to the Indisposition of Mr. W. Schofield, the Kowloon agistrate, Major C. Willeon sat at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day.
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The death of Mr. Theodoro D'Silva, who recently retired from the post of court baill, Singapore, occurred on Friday at the age of 54. He leaves a widow but no
e...
family,
might occasion such a breach of the poace-and to admit that is The new Portuguese Consul-Gen- all that is necessary to bring themeral for Malaya, Senhor Rodrigo within the provisions of the Or-Singapore by the M. M. liner Gen- Guillermo Alves Guerra, arrived in dinance named. By another, Or-eral Metzinger, succeeding Senhor [dinance, that pertaining to the A. A. Ferreira.
regulation of Chinese, meetings are not allowed without per- mission from the authorities, and under this law also it might be found possible to take netlon where large crowds are gathered to hear these professional agila-
tors..
The Misses "Aileen" and Doris Words will make their last ap pearance at the YM.C.A., City Hall, to-night in an-entertainment for the Services. They sail to- morrow for Vancouver.
According to a police report, junk No. 133211 left Kowloon City al 6 pm, on Wednesday last from One anomaly which will strike Tokwawan for Capsulmun with our renders is that whereas the seven men and twenty women zon board, who were on a trip to Cap- two orators got scol-free yester-suimoon to cut grass. So far, the day, another Chinese who was junk has not been sighted at Cap- carrying a banner bearing anti-suimun and nothing has been heard of it since its departure from To- Japanese sentiments was given a
Jewawan nine months' term of imprison- ment. In this connexion, we can. not refrain from remarking on the unusual procedure
The application of the Philippine filed before the public service com- Telephone and Telegraph Company
Homewhat
mission in Mania asking authority. adopted by the Magistrate in mak- to adopt an additional schedule rate to be based upon the number of ing the defendant hostage for the calls, ten centavos per call has been good behaviour of others by in-refused by Jigo Roman A. Cruz, share with us some measure of timating that if defendant's ns-associate public service commission- er, declaring that the proposed mea- surprise at the announcement sociates refrained from carryinsured rate is unreasonable and dia- made in the Magistracy yesterday on unlawful propaganda during criminatory. that the law officers of the Crown the next three months. he (the
Four new stained glass windows are unable to discover any Or- Magistrale) might, at the end of have just been installed in the dinance under which Chinese de- that period,' advise the proper Roman Catholic Cathedral, being livering anti-Japanese apceches authority to commute the
re-situated to the left of the main can be prosecuted. A statement mainder of the sentence. In our altar. Two of the windows were erected in memory of the deceased to this effect was made by the opinion, that is a bad prece-wives of two well-known members Chief Detective Inspector, on the dent to not. The punishment, of the congregation, a third was authority of the Attorney General, whatever the charge, should fit whilst the other was subscribed presented by Mr. Samuel Burchill, when two "soap-box orators" were the crime, and we cannot approve for by members of the Cathole. before the Court, and, on the ap-any method whereby a 'convicted community. plication of the pollee, the charges man's term of imprisonment is against them were withdrawn and made contingent on what others they were hath discharged. The either may or may not do. Magistrate, Lieut.-Col. Eaves, wna evidently loth to acquiesce in the police request, for he hazarded the opinion that the mon were doing an net which might have caused a breach of the peace, but, In the circumstances, he could not pro- ceed with charges which the police definitely asked to be withdrawn.
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TO-DAY'S GREAT THOUGHT.
[By "K K. K"]
There's just one other thing, If you will spare me a minute or two. I won't be long. I like to get to the point quickly. "Don't bent about the bush" is my motto. And always.
was..
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The Very Idea!
A fourteen-year-old schoolboy of Dresden, Ontario, extorted moré than $100 from li twelve-year-old schoolboy, in amounts, ranging from 5 cents to $5, over a period of more than a year, bolica allégo in connexion with the younger lad's flight from his home. Chil dish fear and dread of parental punishment are said to have prompted Kenneth Law's. trip to Windsor, where he was found in a hotel under a different name, | with very little money on him) hervous and incoherent. Law's father unearthed the black-mal)~. ing angle when he discovered two threatening notes addressed to his
Well, as I was going to say, my idea is this: The other day, I just went in to have a quick one, and then Etholbert Bald Oh, don't you know Ethelbart? He's a talpan, He lives on the Peak and goes up in the Peak tram (No, no I refuse to discuss any-. body's knees "Femina."")
Well, Ethelbert-he comes of a very good family, by the way he said: "What about the other half?" So we did; and then just a minute, I'm coming to it now-"Well," he said, "pow tell me definitely," (he's great on "definitely," is.Ethelbert) "tell me definite- ly," he said, just like that, "without any hanky-panky" or false delicacy, in plain English, exactly what you are. up to,"
Bon, any further,
1 shid: "Look here, Ethol" (I call him Ethel after we've had one or two) "are you speaking to me as a talpan to an individual, or as man to man?"
"As man to man," he said, "I want to know." That's what I like about him; there's no nonsense about Ethelbert. Well, I'm pretty quick in the uptake myself; mother always did say that about me, and I got his meaning right away, though there's plenty wouldn't, having it sprang on them so suddenly.
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"Well," I said, "mark my words, Ethel, believe me or believe me not, that's just what I want to know myself."
"Ah," he said. He's a'deep. one, is Ethelbert, and when he says "Ah," he means a lot. "Now, what I want to know, Ethel, is what you think about it yourself. Here we all are, there's no gainsaying thut, is there? But the question is: Why are we all here? I grant you some of us aren't all there (that's different),' What but what's the answer? are we all up to, so far from Home? That's what I want to know. There's Ethelbert, he's losing money, and I never had any, and the rest of us never will have. And there's the Army and the Navy and the Government protecting us and keeping order so that we can go on losing more money -and what are we all doing it for? What's the big idea, General?"
WHO IS ZORA THE INVISIBLE?
SCRIBBLED NAME MYSTERY IN NEW SERIAL
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The new Telegraph serial, to fol low "Girl Alone" concluded in this laue, will be from the pen of Mr. Wilmot, the well-knowni writer of mysteries..
A number of motor car toute were brought before Lt. Col. F. Eaves, acting firat Magistrate, this morning for touting for passengers in the Western district, near the Talping Theatre and the Chinese Flare-up in Balkans.
restaurants, and in Hill Road. In six, cases, his Worship Imposed The disquieting news from fines of $5 and in the ease of iwa Juge-Slavia will
arouse wider others, who had previously com- public interest than is usual with mitted the same offence, his Wor
Balkang lure-up, for two rea-ship ordered fines of $10. sons. Those who profess to be interpreters of the riddle of the
It is reported that the first prize Great Pyramid have prophecied a In the big sweep at the Singapore If it is the case our own view at this time; and while the great valued at $86,000, was won by a who can, satisfy readers who
great world calamity to take place race meeting, on Saturday week,
He is one of the few authors is that it is not--that such orators majority are sceptics, the serious ticket purchased for twb clerke appreciate the well-constructed cannot be proceeded againat, then incidents at Zarn, Sobenic and and a tamby employed in the office mystery story. While Mr. Wilmot our laws are sadly deficient on a Spalato will at least hesitate the of Paterson, Simons and Co. The has a reputation for maze-like scoffing until developments take a clerks paid $2 each towards the complexity, baffled readers and point of much importance. We definite turn. Attention will also lucky ticket and the tamby the re-compensation for their inability te say so much because the impres-be focussed on Jugo-Stavla be-maining $1, and they accordingly see the denouement, in the charm sion is now likely to get abroad cause It is the third time within a share the proceeds in those pro- of the love interest which he week that high feeling against portions. The tamby's dollar will that Chinese agitators are perfect-Italy and Fascism has expressed have brought him back $17,000.
weaves skilfully into each phase of the story. ly free to make this Colony a cen-itself in hostile demonstrations.
"Zora the Invisible" is one of tre in which they are at liberty Beginning with the outrage at
The usual fortnightly whist. His best serial efforts, and com Buenos Aires where the Italianarive was held at the Kowloon mences to indulge in all manner of poli-Consulate was
in the Telegraph on wrecked, nine Bowling Green Club on Saturday Thursday. tical propaganda, directed against clerks killed, and forty people in-night, when 68 players took part: Briefly stated, "the" story" con- nations with whom Britain is on jured by a bomb planted by anti-The duties of M. C. were discerns the death in mysterious cir terms of amity and friendship, bruck incidents where youths the conclusion of play the prizes Gaynor, a wealthy diamond mer- Fascists, there followed the Inns-charged by Mr. D. Harvey, and at cumstances of Montgomerý No more unfortunate idea could elimbed the Italian Consulate
were distributed by Mrs. G. E. F. chant. possibly be spread abroad here, walls, hauled down the Italian flag Thompson, who was thanked by baffled, but are inclined to the
and insulted it. Of and it does not take much imagina- Jugo-Slavian demonstrations only Mr. C. Bond, the Convener of the belief that it is a case of sulelde: tion to realise the extent to which scanty details. are available, Social Committee. The prize-win Peter Blayne, a young medico, Mr. observes features which the Polled this liberty might be exploited by but it is clear that the evey: 2nd. Mrs, Hall; Hidden miss, and forms his own conclu mischief-makers. So we say that mob got out of hand and at Number, Mrs. Bell; Booby, Mrs, sions. During a survey of the tacked the Consulates at Sebenico Clemo. Gentlemen.-1st Capt, dead man's office, Blayne finds a if our existing laws do not cover and Spalato with stones,, after-Groundwater; 2nd, Mr. J. C. quantity of ash, curiously con- such cases, then it is high time wards racing round the streets Brown; Hidden Number, Mr. T. gealed, along with a half-burned they were amended so as to in and smashing the shop-windows Ferguson, Booby, Mr. R. Dunenn scrap of paper, upon which is
of all Italian business premises. clude them. Strange to say, even Although not attended by the the Emergency Regulations of 1922 terrible casualties of the Buenos
the
were. Ladies-1st.. ners
The authorities are
written, in green ink, the word "Zora."
MORE RAIN PREDICTED.
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Having gleaned many valuable hints from Mr. John Newton's bright little booklet, "Don'ts for Choir boys," we are borrowing some of the author's thunder in drawing up.
Don'ts for He-Elocutionists, Don't recite "Gunga Din" unleas provoked.
Don't make your Adam's apple jut cut when you come to the sob parta.
Don't make your moustache--if you have one-bristle like the quills of the frightful porcupine.
Don't let tears come in your eyas. The weather's damp enough already,
Don't open your mouth so that your gums are exposed. That is Indeliente.
Don't think it necessary when you mention the word "heart" to Lap yourself on the wing rib.
Don't shoot your cuff out when gesticulating.
Don't gesticulate. Don't, reeile.
More than a hundred eggs have been laid by one'strong, silent hen belonging to A. Turner, Dorset County Council's poultry expert, yet she hasn't clucked before iny- ing hor cacklad afterward. So Turner calls this White Wyandotte the Lost Chord. Another Wyan- dotte was called Charley's Aunt after the owner anw the film. She has distinguished herself by laying twenty-eight eggs in & month, 270 eggs in 280 days.. Lady-in-Waiting, a Ihode Island Red, adheres to her dignified nama by not laying at all, although she has consumed 560 dinners of special food...
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Solicitor at Bow County Court: You respect your mother-in-law? Man: I have reaso¬ to-pho keeps
me,
Tottenham man: 'I'am a'civil servant.. Clerk: That does not help us much. There are so many classes of civil servantă, and some are not civil.
Nottinghamshire - magistrate: Did the driver stop his car? Man: No, a railway bridge stopped it for him..
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Man at Bow County Court: 'If .. you will allow my wife to speak. Wife: Allow me, indead! I am going to speak.
Judge at West London County Court: Have you any witnesses? Man: Yes, sir, two, One is dead and the other is in hospital.
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Travelling by tube is extrémely beneficial, says a dector.
Of lato I've felt a trifle down
(The springtime of the year,
maybe);
Indeed, I've thought of leating
down,
In search of health beside the
'sen..
But now I learn that health
awaltą.
Me in the railway tube, and
180,
Though down, I'll step within
the gates,
And down still further I will
go.
From Belsize Park to Aldgate
East,
* From Manalon House to
Calliers Wood,
I'll hang my cares and know, at
lenst, kat That while Fin down, 'twill
do me good.
No more I'll go by car or hup
When seedy spasms come my
way,
Just go underground, and thus
Prevent my going, there to
stay!
Swiftly the pageboy rán through the hotel ahbuting'à' name" at "the top of his voice. First the lounge was scoured,
"Mr Zeddikowsky! Mr. Zeddi. kowsky?" he called, in this strange.
(the operation of which, so far Aires affair, the incidents in Yugo-ment. A mation in Parliament to The subsequent developments as we can recall, has not yet been Slavin, occurring even in the this end by the Premier, M. Marin- are fascinating and make a yarn
capital, Belgrado, are much more kavitch, drew a storm of dissent, which should not be missed. susponded) do
not embrace serious. The atmosphere is elec and violent anti-Italian agitation apeech-making, although undertrical, and the situation can only was commenced in the Press. It is alleged that the Italians Indicated their provisions it is an offence to be viewed with grave anxiety, their disapproval by insults to the be in possession of placards or formally protested. The tone of and that the outbreak in Jugo- The Italian Minister has already Jugo-Slav flag at Zera, Dalmatia,
Then the lengthy round of persons to Join in boycott move whether or not the conflagration The Injury to the Jugo-Slay consul central to the east of Tokyo. The dining-room, ball-room, and hall. ments, or to do any act calculated will die down as quickly as it at Zara yesterday has further in-northern depression is moving was completed, but no signs of
arose. The political, significanco to cause a breach of the peace or of the outbreaks is curious, since censed public opinion, and tension eastward, The Hainan depression fa Mr. Ziddikowsky were
is running even higher than before.
The forecast, up to coming. Just as the boy, WDB, YO- to interfere with the maintenance Reuter Informaus, they At the moment there is every noon to-morrow is: East winds, turning the telegram to the clerk's of law and order. Seemingly, arose from & peace agree material for the development of a moderate; overcast; rain.
A ment.
desk, a soft voice from a setteo possession of the written word is up at Nettung in 1925 had not been the need for restraint cannot be too ended at 10 am. to-day totalled
first-class International crisis, and
The rainfall for the 24 hours in the lounge asked:---
"What initial, please?" contrary to law, but actual use of ratified by the Jugo-Slav Govern- | strongly urged.
pamphlets calculated to induce the Yugo-Slav, reply will decide Stavia is in the nature of a reply states: The anti-cyclone is NOW
To-day's Observatory report tone peculiar to pageboys.
Convention
drawn
unchanged.
*2.12 inches.
forth-
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