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maturity, But it is gradually getting a broader and more rea»' soned appreciation of actualities,
DAY BY DAY.
GOD BE THANKED THAT THERE ARE
SWATOW COMMUNISTS EXECUTED,
BE FACED.
and is it gains fresh experiencesOME IN THE WORLD TO WHOSE PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE TO we may expect to see it sobered HEARTS, THE BARNACLES WILL NOT down to realities To-day Labour CLING.-J. G. Holland. provides the official Opposition in the House of Commons, and it can
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The Very Idea!
The Long Arm of Coincidence.— A Littlèport reader sends to a Homo
Our Swalow correspondent paper this tale of two purses. On During the wook-ond, one Chin-writes that there have been daily her way to the butelier's a friend eae tuae of smail-pox was notified. exccutions of Communist since of his saw a purse lying in the the discovery of the Guy Fawkes midst of the traffic. On opening at The P. and O. es. Kidderpore, plot against the Executive Con- she found four one pound notes, and since to trace the ownership from Singapore, is due here at 6ference. One of the last was of would have been dikult she took a.m. on Friday.
a soldier who was found guilty her and to the police station; where. of causing disaffection among she was told that if the purse were The Ben Lines.s. Benrinnes, the troops and leading some ten not claimed within a mentioned from Home and Straits ports, la men to desert. It is probable that period it would become her pro- duo hero to-morrow.
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perty.
there is material for Communists to work among in the Army at
She had forgotten the Incident present in occupation. 8.8,
when, again on her way to the "In his closing address to the butcher's, she lost her own purso
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be taken as certain that in the years ahead It will alternate with other Parties in assuming the reins of government. To regard the present-day Labour Party as a Socialist Party is to Ignore the facts. There are admittedly come Socialists in its ranks-meof the It is understood that the stamp of Mr. Cook and Mr. Max-Kong Ning will resume service to
Wuchow on Wednesday after Conference, General Hsu en-containing four one-pound notes. len-but they do not dominate the overhaul.
phasised the Importance of com- After vain search aho siarted off Parly nor exercise any marked |
munications. On this hangs the next morning to inform the police, effect on its policies. The bulk of News has been received in the ablution of the other problems but before she could make her loss which face the Administration. known the officer in chargé inform- the Labourities are constitution- Colony by cable to the effect that These are the rooting out of the ed her that as no one had been ablis Mr. T. C. Nixon, of Messrs. Dod Communist remnants, economy in to substantiate their claim to the aliste, who believe that they can well and Co., Shanghai, died sud-the use of troops, and the question purse she had previously found he best achieve their aims by working denly, to-day.
of finance. If, Bald the Gentral, | could hand it over to her. within the existing social system
Among passénrers leavi for with the military forces they ask- the districts were, all supplied and not, as the out-an-out Soome by the R.M.S. Empress obed for, it would be necessary to
Gentle-voiced stage lovers aged cialists desire, by disrupling it. Asia on July 18, is Mr. D. Neilson have some twenty brigades in the between 40 and 50 are the vogue, The new move towards the preser-of the Hongkong and Whampoa Eastern Aren instead of the live Away with criminals and orooks
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for six available, and the cost would be prohibitive. But if, on Amongst the passengers who ar-the one hand, the development of rived here by the Empress of As the local militla were carried on, Loday were Mr. and Mrs. Aand, on the olhor, roads securing Brearley, Mrs. Goldring, Mr. E.speedy communication with the Des Voeux and Mr. S. J. Hicks.
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denly at Shanghai, on 9th after all." July.
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At the moment, British party politics are undergoing perceptible SEQUEIRA-At 4.30 am. Jaly changes, and it would appear in- th, at her residence No. 2, evitable that we shall see new Granville Road, Kowlooh, ANA MARIA, beloved wife of Mr.alignments in the future. Now Gumelpindo Jesus Sequeira. that the Labourites are avowed College will pass the Monu- constitutionalists, there is really ment at 5.30 p.m. to-day.ittle that divides them from the Shanghai and Macao, papers
Liberals in please copy.
political doctrine. The tendency, therefore, will most likely be in the direction either of complete absorption of Liberalism
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MONDAY, JULY 9, 1928-
points of danger wore constructed, then both the military problem The s.s. Kochow, which recently and the financial, would be solved. turned turtle in the West River, was For the construction it is proposed towed down to Hongkong on Satur-to use soldiers as labourers. One day morning. She now lies off the would wish overy Chung Sha Wan
success to Kwong Fook Cheong shipyard at these projects of constructive
Li-Com Hurst, residing at 612, The Penk, has reported to tho police that a silver watch and $9 in money, was stolen from his bed- room between 10 p.m. on Saturday and 6 am, on Sunday.
M. Jean Hund, partner in the Acme Trading Company of Shang- hal, and Manager of the Internn- timal Country Club, arrived in the Colony this morning by the as. Em press of Asia, on a business trip.
New has been received by Mr. J. W. Matthews of the Kowloon Dock, that Miss May Matthews, his swimming championship for the younger daughter, has won โช 1927-1928 season at Polam School Darlighton.
Trials of craft recently built at Kowloon Dock were carried out on Saturday with Batisfactory results. These were two motor Fusion of the two schools in which lighters for the A.P.C., twin the leading spirits of both will re-screw craft for the conveyance of tain their political prominence. case oll, and a single screw ship
for fuel in bulk. Be that as it may, Labour must have a big part to play in the days The six-year-old daughter of
Sirdar Khan a well-known ment ber of the Indian community, was knocked down by a tramcar, în Tin Lok Lane yesterday afternoon, escaping serious injury miracul- ously, Caught by the second guard, the child sustained only mild bruises.
The Totalisator,
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About Hong Kong.
Do you know that-----
The Colony at one timo minted. Its own coinage at what was known as the Hong- kong Royal Mint? ~
Whose fraudulent dexterity, Combined with fascinating looks, No more shall their adventures bo Ensured them great prosperity; The lodestone of the stage for me. Nei. Let the world's eternal theme
Resume ita old ascendancy,
For love again shall be supreme In all ita Ano resplendency, Can make a Universe rotate. Aa that which, as the wise relato,
Yet not of Youth's Impassioned voice
And crudo excitability
Would we of modern mould minko
cholcom
We trust not juvenility
To show us what we ought to do To be successful when wo "WOU.
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Two sailors dropped into the bar of a public house in a West African const town, and one said to the barman, "I'll have a going clock."
"I take the samo" said tho other,
-The, Mint was erected dur- #ing 1865 and opened in the fol- lowing year. It was situate
The barman was in a fix.. "I'vo on a site at East Point, where
mixed all kinds of West African £9,000 was spent on reclama-heard of a 'going clock before."
drinks," he said, "but I've never tion works, $3,550 on water supply and $25,000 on build-' inga. The staff was secured from Home,
Up to 1868, however, It had only earned about $20,000 m Reigniorage, and in February of that year it was closed, on instructions from the Home Government. The machinery was sold for $60,000 to the Japanese Government, and the ground disposed of to Mosard. Jardine, Matheson and Ca. fory $65,000. On the site, tlie firm named erected the China Sugar Refining Company's establishment, which has now been shut down.
Hongkong's coins are now, of course, minted in England.
to any-
"Well," said the first man, "give me a bottle of whisky, gin, and Apollinaris, and I mix the drink."
After they had swallowed the drinks the barman said, "Why do you call those drinks a going clock?"
"Because they're on tick" said the mixer of them as both men van- ished through the door.
A prominent Marseille mah; M. Angelvin, has confessed to an at- tempt to defraud an insurance com- steamship "Vinicolo," which he had pany of £40,000 by scuttling the bought for the purpose.
Angelvin made, bia confession after two days' gruelling examina: tion by the Magistrate.
The "Vinicolo" sank off Sint Raphael, on the Riviera, shortly after leaving Marsellics for Greocé, Į to settle the £40,000 claim. but the insurance, company refused
thing. Soldiers were moved in was insured for £13,000, was worth He admits that the cargo which
that direction and took action only £25. against those who were holding up the roads.
Other arrests are expected in the Naval wireless messages received
chise.
THE LABOUR PARTY, to come, and for that reason it will be well if we cast from our minds any misconceptions which we may Those who are inclined to re-be relined to entertain regarding gard all Labourites as irreligious its views and its policies. revolutionists, with few or no
work, and hopes that the province moral principles, must have felt.
A Notice to Marinera states that bo carried through.
may have peace that they may
Angelvin declarea that he planned some measure of surprise at the
the junk "Sun Cheong" has been
the fraud with accomplices, includ- stand taken by prominent mem-,
Conditions up country are, BO ing the captain and mate, and says Our interest in the Totalisator reported wrecked, and floating bot
far AB bers of the Party in the House of Bill, which Parliament has been in Latitude 21.28.5 North, Longit-activity in part of Hal-Luk Fung, share, but failed to get the insur
one hears, improving. he was ruined because he was tom up, with only rudder showing, The recurrence of Communist forced to pay his accomplices their Commons recently on two mea-considering, is a purely innocuousude 113.62.26 East, South Weat though causing considerable local ance money. sures which have come up for dis-one. Our private purse, for what Paint bearing East North (mag-distress, did not come
It is worth, cunnot beleft or suffer enssion. We refer to the Prayer by its acceptance or rejection, and nelle distant 51 cables. Dan Book issue and the debate on the it will make no difference to us if
Kerous to naviration. Totalisator Bill No-one can have the Government déclines to give
Passengers arriving here to-day further facilities for discussion, read in detail the speeches of For these and other reasons we Allan, Miss W. A. Allan, Miss Min Hongkong to-day indicate that
by the a.s. Changte were Mr. G. Labour M. Pa on the former are astonished by Reuter's an- Calder, Mrs. A. Tully, Miss the authorities in Swatow are dis- Walthamstow woman of her wo- measure without becoming im-nouement that the Bill is now Tully, Miss S. Weston, Mr. L. J. playing considerable activity in the man lodger: She has been chris-
generally regarded as dead. Op pressed by the very obvious ain-position could have come only Judd, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Beale, suprcasion of Communists, tened The Admiral" because of cerity of the speakers on the re-from bookmaking interests and Miss J. Hill, Miss C. McVoy, Miss Numerous arrests of "Red" agents her language."
E. .have been made recently and masy C. L. Williams, Miss ligious issues involved. Members from those whose moral tradition Bromann, Mr. and Mrs. G. Porte-executions have taken place.
Youth summoned at Willesden for playing football in. the street: It it is lo oppose everything connect- of the Party were found in led with
that universal vice, ous, and Dr. and Mrs. Deamodt,
The general alluation in the dis-was only a golf ball, sir. Magin- opposite camps on this question, gambling. For the bookmakers
trict is quiet although an effective trate, to a policeman: No had there is
This Morning's Harbour Oficeboycolt against Japanese shipping language, I hope? every but whatever side they took it was know full well how seriously their reports gave a total of arrivals and goods is in operation. Anti-
excuse. They
Wife at Willesden: The worst clear that they were deeply moved turnover would be affected by the and departures over the week-end foreign feeling, apart from this, and that they spoke from honest establishment of the Totalisator of 34 and 31 respectively, of appears entirely absent. conviction. Turning to the "Tote" system, and equally they are aware which 10 and 12 were British. Bill, we find the Labourites as a firmly entrench, the licensed turf number
that the rejection of the Bill will The vessels entered this morning
EXCHANGE RATES. 17 British. The→ whole opposed to it, on the ground commission agent. The Parlia-heavy cargoes were in Dutch, mentary Grundies are more Japanese and Chinose abips. At. that is passage would make themcult to understand, since thov a.m. thero were 65 vessels in Paris State a partner to betting. We must have blinded themselves to harbour of which 25 were British. Brussels
Amsterdam cite these two instances for the the altered facts. At one time it purpose of suggesting that, what- might have been justly stated Khyber for Home over, the week: Vienna Passengers leaving by the st Berlin
Copenhagen that belting in Great Britain was and were Lieut-Comdr. ever our political views may be, illegal, and that the Law and the Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. C. ELisbon
A. Helsingfors the time has come when we should moralist looked the other way Bousfield, Mr. G. P. Paton, Mr. D. Bucharest
The imposition of the Betting Tax Reidy, Mr. R. A. Smith, Mr. J. Buenos Aires to give the
has, however, entirely changed Labourites a square deal and this state of affairs, and we fail Williama, Mr. E. D. Steen, Mr. H Shanghai
C. Pratt,' Mr. D. D. O'Sullivan, Yokohamia judge them, not by bitter and un- to see how there can be any Te Mr. W. Foster, Mr. R. T. Genes Now York reasoning prejudice, but by the verting to former things. The one Mr. and Mrs. W. A. MacDonald Gonova
advantage of the "Tote" to the 31 W. W. Maybury, Dr. H. Y. Lám logic of facts.
Milan public. Is that it always gives a and Mr. and Mrs. Y. K. Leong.. Stockholm The point we have to bear in perfectly fair deal. The larger
all endeavour
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mind is that the Labour Party
proportion of its money always
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has come to stay, however much feast, to the more lucky members. cipal charge was that the Bill now Athens aome of us may dislike its policies, The remainder ta used for in-made the State directly responsible Rio
creasing stakes, thereby encour for the machinery established; Bombay and that it is destined to play an aging the breeding of horaes, whereas in the original Bill thers Hongkong
Silver (spot). increasingly important part in while the tax-gatherer would be was nothing to make the Státë a the, political life of the nation and satisfied without the necessity for reply is that the State cannot avold partner in betting. The obvious
Silver (forward), disercot bnquiries into book- the Empire. It may be somewhat keeping mehods, Mr. Ramany that position while it looks pon proscribed and parochial in its MacDonald, pleaded in the House houting as a source of revenue. Licut, Col Charles E. Elliston outlook and given to jumping to of Commons that the measure The Government should consider conclusions rather hastily at times, should be ruled out because fun- the position seriously before de (85), grandson of Elliston, the damental alterations had been initely giving way to the with famous actor and lessee of Drury That is the result of political im-made in Committee, and his prin- nallers.
Lane Theatre has died at Bourne mouth.
Magistrate at Willesden:
You
can come to the court any, morn ing-Woman: Do you not open in the afternoons?! Magistrate: Nat usually. Our hours are generally ten to one.”