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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928.
said to have been adroitly exploit- ed by dangerous radicals. Their trentiment by the authorities; SAYB one journal, will largely determino whether they will be brought back into the right path or be en- couraged to become even more radical in their Ideas. Some steps
should therefore be taken to con-
DAY BY DAY.
GREAT SORROW MAXKS SACRED THE SUFFERRR-Meredith,
..
There was a clean bill of health In the Colony 'yesterday.
The second of the series of ticles on Men's Wear appears on the Sports Page.
Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd., are now showing an ex- elderdown quilts. ceptionaly attractive range
of
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GARDEN FETE,
NEW CHURCH FOR ST. PETER'S.
The second annual gården fete, of St. Peter's Church, West Point is to be held ou Through, the courtesy of Captain November 3rd. F. Bayliss, the Fate of this year will be held on the premises of the Sailors' Home.
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vort them into the cultivation of a better outlook, although the roal ringleaders, should be soverely This stand is backed punished. up by the Chief Procurator of the Osaka Court of Appeal, who Mr. C. A. Smith, manager of Messrs. Whitenway, Laidlaw & Co., ardently appeals to men of learn-Ltd., Iras returned to the Colony Ing and moderation to co-operate from a holiday tour in Australia. with the authorities in leading tão
Delayed as a result of the strike misguided youths into the right in Australia, the E, and A. Com paths. In other words, reformpany's a.s. Arafura is due here rather than the imposition of the with the Australian mails on Sunyoung men in the Colony. Among
day.
soverest penalties of the law is advocated.
This problem of curbing the extremist tendencies of young radicals is one which is exercising
NO PERIODIC REFILLING the authorities of most countries
CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE
NON-CONDUOTOR
of ELECTRICITT
these days. In Japan, where deep devotion to the Throne and the State is a characteristic of the bulk of the people, Communist
RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE plots arouse the greatest possible
Types for Motor Cara, & Ele.
KELLER KERN & Co., 16/19, CONNAUGHT ROAD, 0.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
This morning's Harbour Office reports gave 18 arrivals and 15 do- partures, with British five and seven respectively, leaving 58 yes mage was fair, but freight inward were again low, British being less
sela in harbour, British 15. Ton-
than 800 tons.
There is a proposal afoot to promote a yacht, motorboat, and Penang, Colonel acno club In Prior, who is moving in the matter,
is receiving strong support ball
from the European and Chinese communities towards the ostablish- ment of such a club.
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Mr. C. M. McDonald, of the Hongkong Amusements, Ltd., is leaving on Saturday for a trip to Australia. He leaves by the P. and 0, as, Moren for Singapore, where he will take steamer for Western Australia, and hopes to return to the East in a few months' time.
Indignation, and popular opinion ahowa little sympathy towards those who become embroiled in intrighe directed against the na- tion. Industrial and social con- ditions, however, plus the stern suppression of ideas which are regarded as an abuse of Ilberiy, make it inevitable that the dis- contented should be attracted by the glib talk of the profesalonn
The members of the Hongkong THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1928. agitator. It may however o Branch of the Navy League, fol- questioned whether the polley of Towing their usual custom, will seeking to stifle the diffusion of place wreaths on the Cenotaph and subsequently on the Kanchai liberal ideas is the best method of Monument, on the eve of Trafal- dealing with the situation, Ingar Day (Saturday, October 20th), England, the hot-hends are given The ceremony at the Cenotaph will a fair measure of freedom to "let take place at 11.30 a.m. off steam," and the policy has been justified by results. But we realise, of course, that Japan is
JAPAN'S COMMUNISTS.
Japanese Labourites, we see, are demanding the abrogation of the Law for the Maintenance of Law and Order under which several
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The Very Idea!
An easy way to capture elephant has been discovered by calf Mr. G. F. Wilkinson, a railway. problem of how to dispose of one. guard. He is now faced with the While in charge of a goods train running between Delt and Bula wayo, Mr. Wilkinson sceurod his The aim of this. Fete is to raiso prize. The train was held up by money towards the general funds a herd of elephants. The animals of the Church and its organisa- rushed to the buah, but a young tions, including the Young Men's one remained, surveying the train Club, which in its brief existence with interest. The mother rush- of two years, has been extensive-ed back and unceremoniously lift ly used as the Parochial Hall ofed her calf from the permanent the Church for meetings and socials way. of various guilds, Sunday School, Its curiosity still unsatisfied, the and choir practices, as well as young elephant returned to the serving as a contre of influence train, and was quite easily In for a group of very energetic duced to get into the van. There it consumed 12 pints of milk. At. other benefactors will be the 5th Bulawayo it followed Mr. Wilkin Troop of the Hongkong Boy Scout, son to his home and slept quite contentedly on the doorstep. On awakening it romped with 'n Great Drue which was kept in the house, Mr. Wilkinson, fearing that the animal's daily rations were likely to be expensive, offered it to the Town Council for the local Zoo The offer was declined, so Mr. Wilkinson set off for the town. with Malindi, as the elephant has bech named, following behind in the friendliest fashion. The Ingistrate was consulted; and on his suggestion Malindi has been offered to the Matoppos Agricul- turni School, some miles out of Bulawayo.
mmmerTET
About Hong Kong.
Do you know that~~
It was so long ago as 1848 that the P. & 0. Company com- menced a regular steamer sor vice between Hongkong and Shanghai?
The first boat employed was the 8.8. Lady Mary Wood.
The Rame Company in 1853 established a regular monthly, mail service between Hongkong and Calcutta, thereby giving the Colony the advantage of fo gular communication with Eng- land.
A middle-aged woman and her Httle son, a lad of six or sevon years, entered the car, and as soon As they were seated the woman took a worn half-crown out of her ner pocket and handed it to the-
youngster to pay the fare with.
the St. Peter's Branch of the VicThe boy held the coin in his toria Diocesan Association which small, fat hand, and examined
ties in planning a scheme to pro- fares, and the youngster gave him
As a heavy programme of activi-
it closely. #
The conductor appeared for the vide shelters for the street-sleep the half-crown with great golom ers in the winter months, the Blind Home, etc.
are two prossing demands, viz.
With regard to the Church there the building of a new church and the support of a permanent chap-
lain.
nity.
As soon as he got the change the boy laughed, wriggled in his ina, he's taken your bad half- sedt, and shouted gleefully:-"Oh,
crown.",
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The patrons of the Garden Fete A girl costermonger, finod at. include the Right Rev. Bishop of Willesden for "pressing down the Victoria, the lion. Dr. R. II. Kote- goods pan when weighing fruit," wall, Mrs. W. T. Southern, the pleaded: "It is a habit I have got. W. L. Pattenden, Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, and others.
hundred Communists were round rather differently situated, and M. Arnott, Captain A. C. S. Ken-Very Rev. Dean A. Swann, Mr. I into,"
ed up in March last following the discovery of extensive Bolshevik plots. At the time, the most rigorous consorship was enforced in regard to the details of the
plots, and although the embargo has since been lifted, actual nowa of the affair is still rather limited. From what we can gather, how ever, the plans laid by the plotters were comprehensive in character, and it is stated that the chief objectives were the Army, the universities and schools, impor- tant State departments and big
Industrial
that what suits ua may not sult her.
Naval Document Aflair.'
Among the passengers due by the Haruna Maru on Sunday are: Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Andrews, Mr nedy, Mr. H. W. B. Muskett, Mrs. H. L. Syme Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Clarke, Mr. H. G. Fletcher," ·Mr. The tentative programme con- and Mr. J. E. Harvey, Mrs. M. sists of the opening of the Fate by Herman, Miss M Herman, Mrs. Mrs. R. H. Kotowall, an open alr M. E. Hindle, Mr. Hindle, Mr. and concert organised by Misa Capell, French indignation at the apMrs. W. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Tea dansant, supper, carnival pearance in an American WG. Main, Mr and Mrs. R. 1. Mit dance and various side shows paper of an ofheial document, chell, Mr. C. J. Oake, Mr. J., Park, There will be many stalls with at stolen from the archives of the Mr. S. Shirvington and Mr. and active prizes mostly donated by Foreign Office has been defined Mrs. P, A. Travera Smith. by Mr. Hearst, who took a strange- y prominent part in the affair, as a lot of unnecessary fuss. As the
MOTOR SHIPS NEW
TO PORT.
ARRIVED IN HONGKONG
YESTERDAY,
Two vessels now to the port
arrived yesterday, both being
motor ships under foreign fings.
friends.
ALLEGED MURDER AT GOLF COURSE.
COURT STORY OF YOUNG
WIFE'S DOUBLE LIFE.
organiser of the biggest chain of newspapers in the United States, Mr. Hearst should, and probably does, know better. The incident tie profession as a whole, though reflects discredit on the journals-TWO
concerns. Indeed, we would plend that it la nn iso- some of the documents discovered Inted case, occasioned by an ex- are said to have emanated from cess of zent, and an anxiety to en-
motiam Charles Benson, aged 20, a motor-car body builder, of Suther gineer a "scoop" on a question of the Third Internationale, one of considerable international import- The as. Nordvard, owned by the Croydon County Police Court re- land-place, Bayswater, appeared at these setting forth the best once. As the Quai D'Orsay points Kloster Rederci A/S, for whom cently charged with the murder of methods for the Bolshevisalh a of out, the publication was an un-Messr. Karsten Larsen are agente, Mrs. Charlotte Alice Harber, aged the world. Special emphasis was fessional ethics, towards the by the Kockums M. V. Aktieb, of near Coulsdon Court golf course.
ecemly and serious breach of pro-was one of these. Built in 1926 26, of Malden-road, Kentish Town, apparently laid on the necessity French authoritica, who can hard-Malmo, and engined by the
Mr. Vincent Evans (for the pro- of currying. the Communist enm- paign into realms where greatest
| hostility is shown to the Red movement. The main object of the plot is said to have been an attempt to undermine the founda- tions of the country and to vin- dicate the poliev of Soviet Russia. As to the punishment of those who were arrested, little has been that examinations have been conducted at various centres and the names of the accused have been published in batches as having been committed
tcard, save
for trial.
Bat If there is little actual news
ย
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ly be blamed for the swift action builders to 439 N.H.P. she has a secution) said that Benson had not taken in the matter. Mr. Horace gross tonnage of 4,111 and not been living with his wife for some Horan, who was arrested and or- tonnage 2,356, with a length of time. In 1925 Mrs. Harber's hus- dered to leave France for his $77.6 feet, benm 64 feet, and band made his acquaintance and share in the affair, was, it is ob- depth 220 feet. Entering with a took him as a lodger out of friend- vious, a victim of circumstances, heavy cargo of oil from U.S. ports ship. All three appeared to have Since he received the document on a draft of 19 feet 6 inches, she occupied the same room. About from the hands of a man nominalis commanded by Captain Svar Afteen months ago Harber turned ly bis employer, his own judg-Strand, with
of 29 Benson out because he suspected familiarity between him and his ment was probably afforded little Europeana.
The Burgenlund, the other boat, wife.. opportunity of functioning. At the same time, as a journalist, and is on of the new fast freighters of "For some time," said Mr. Evans, judging from his position, one of the Hamburg Ameriin Line, for she had apparently been living a whom Mesara. Jebsen and Co. are double life. She had taken a room some distinction, he must appre-the local agents. She is a motor for herself and Benson at Suther ciate the ethics of his profession vessel of 5,000 H.P, with a net land-place, Bayswater, and had a trifle more thoroughly than a
tonnage of 4,321. Captain J. been living thore during the day newspaper proprietor, and cannot really complain If the French aut-Orgel is the master, with a crew and returning to her husband at thorlifes, now reconsidering, still entered on a draft of 24 fept 10 went up to Police-constablo Har- of 57 Europeans, and the vessel night, On September 6 Benson regard his presence in Paris as inches, carrying a cargo of 7,800 rington, in Coulsdon-road, and sald, by some unknown persen contain- tong..
undesirable. The document stolen
of developments, there is no lacked a substantially correct outline
EXCHANGE RATES.
of the terms of the Anglo-French naval compromise, and obviously was a secret, if not a very import- ant, communication. Mr. Henri's Paris comment that the French Govern Brussela ment would not niake such a fuss Amsterdam
of comment on the part of the Japanese newspapers, most of which press for heavy punishment of those concerned. The Asahi, for example, says that the whole
unless the naval agreemont cos- Berlin nation must combine to preclude tained something of which they Copenhagen. the possibility of similar plots in were ashamed, is merely amusing. Vicana the future, and remarks that the He has had the details in his hands Helsingfors
Lisbon and should regard himself as n trenson of the arrested men ls auf well-informed man on the hulkeet. Buenos Aires
Bucharest ficient to bring down the wrath No sign of a secret anderstalig Shanghat of Houven. Some of the papers, has yet appeared and will not up-Yokohama however, think that the great ear, since it clearty Jocs Hot New York
Genova majority of those apprehended
Milan.... Stockholm were mere tools In the hands of
Oslo unscrupulous agitators. Mostly On Sunday morning next,
Prague youths, with a love of indepen Church, Kowloon, the usual 11 Athens October 14, at St. Andrew's Madrid dondo and lacking in experience o'clock service will be alag 4 Rio of life, they are described as being Special Parade Service for Scouts Bombay particularly amonable
and Cubs. The preacher' will be Hongkong the Commissioner, the Rev. G. T. Silver (apót) ideas, whilst their mentality le Waldegrave, M.A.
Silver (forward)
to new
exist
'We want an ambulancé. I have just killed my girl. Later he said, I did it to keep her from going back to her husband.
"That," said Mr. Evans, "so far London, Oct. 10 as I am able to tell the Court, is
.124.20 the only motive for this crime."
34,00 Benson, who pleaded not gufity 12.10 and reserved his defence, was com- .20.39mitted for trial.
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Solicitor, at Willesden: With what did your cat come into colll- sion?-Man: With some small ob struction like an obelisk,
fourteen days: 1 am
Man sentenced at Southend to at liberty, carry out your wishes. It is no gentlemen, and therefore can well that I have nothing more to do. We shall meet again."
Question at Bow County Court: If you cannot afford 358, a week for your wife out of £3 158., what are you doing with the balanco? Husband: Oh, squandering it,
Nottingham wife: My husband is safer than a bank; he never pays out anything,
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If Englishmen are blind to their own problems, they are also singu- larly blind to their own virtues Sinclair Lewis.
We cannot solve our problems,
And seldom try to do it, For anxious thought produces
nought
In those devoted to it; And so we go unseeing
To meet what Fate may bring
us,
Or swallow what-or good or
not-
Blind Chance or Luck may
fing us.
But when we come to virtues It's quite another.matter;
To say that we have some to see.
Is certainly to flatter;
We see our fallings clearly,
And modestly confess them, But Virtues! Oh, too well we
know
How few of us possess them.
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Some boys will never arrive at any life which can be called in- tellectual. Mr. C. H. K. Marten. liberately turns his face inte a
The educated Englishman, do-' mask.-Dean Inge.
The people who have spoiled Sussex are the Londoners who. have retired to Sussex with their Juxurious motora-cara and magni- ficent mansions.-The Rev. E. L. Macassey.
Let those who on a holiday, seek peace and quiet, avoid mo dern Oxford,--Dr. Barnard W. Henderson,
The one form of rost which is unrestful to most of us is the rest of Inactivity-The Rev. Archibald Fleming.
I have seen no masterpieces Tr 1928. Mr. Edward Shanks.
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Into the temperance meating
Holiday NEW SCIENTIFIC “THRILLER" .1/10%
· EVOLVED IN SICK ROOM,
came Sunday, the village reform- ed Berlin, Sept 14.
drunkard. After perfervid exhortations there During his illness, which has followed invitations for convorts
"pussyfoot" 18.10 conipelled him to keep to his room to give their stories. Sandy de- .16344 Professor Einstein has occupied vored himself t18: 20.055 his lefeure hours in accomplishing 375a work which it is said will startle .6.29/82 the scientiae world when it is pub
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Einstein startled scientists some 15/10
.27 ycare
ago by expounding, his -Britisk Wireless, theory of relativity
.1/0ished..
for three months great applause) Friends, I've been teetotal now and I've been able to buy some- thing with it. I've bought myself brand new coffin (rengation), fand if I'm teetotal for anither
three months I'll need it.