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Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1928.
A COALITION?
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1928.
"One definite fact which emorgos from Mr. Lloyd George's speech is that the Liberals are not prepared to repeat the experiment of four | years ago, when they kept the La- bour Party in office with their vote and got small thanks in re turn. But there is ono deduction which can be drawn from his re marka-namely, that, under satis- factory conditions, the Liberals might be prepared to join hands with any other party in a Coalition Government in the event of no one faction having a clear majority over the other two combined. That is
DAY BY DAY.
A" TENDER CONSCIENCE STRONGER OBLIGATION TIAN - A PRISON,
There was a clonn bill of health In the Colony over the week-end.
The Empress of Russia is due morning. here from Shanghai on Tuesday
The P. and O. 8.3. Jeypore, from Singapore, is dus here at 8 am to
morrow..
sumed her usual run to Kongmoon last evening,
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SCHOOL COOLIE SENTENCED.
STOLE PORTUGUESE GIRL'S-H
UMBRELLA.
The Very Idea!
The historian who seeks to make sure of Lord Banbury's "ipsissima verba" at the philanthropic but A young Portuguese, girl, named obstrepoross meeting of recently Natalla Gabriel, prosecuted a will and a confession of testimony.. coolle employed at the St. Mary's Alternative versions of one sen School, before Mr. W. Schofield at tence are: the Kowloon Magistracy this morn ing, on a charge of Jarcony of an umbrella.
in the negative.
Yesterday afternoon, a Chinese detective saw the defendant climb-
"I do not know who the hell you are."-Telegraph.
Who the hell are you, sir?"- Morning Post.
Who the devil are you?-Mow- chester Guardian. :
"Who are you, sirt-Birmingham
Post.
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The defendant said he found the umbrella In the dower garden.
Sergeant Humphreys told his Worship that the defendant was Viscount Uramatsu and Prince employed as a coolto at the school, a fair interpretation of the Liberal Ichijo were amongst the passeng-whore it was tho custom for the Express.
"I don't know who you are," Icador's observation that if a Li-era who left here by the Haruna students to hang their umbrellas "Who the
and hats on a stand outside the Herald.
are you?-Daily beral Government is not attainable Maru for Japan to-day.
main building. The complainant in the next Parliament, there is a
The Daily News reports that vaat and fertile territory common to Macao and return, on Saturday, The defendant was asked if he Times, with equal scrupulosity, ways The trial trip of the 6.6. Taf Leo discovered that her umbrella was Lord Banbury "was understood to missing and reported the mattor. use the word 'Hell," while The to men of progressive minds in all proved satisfactory, and she had seen anything of it, but replied "Mr. Grain told the meeting that Partites which they can agree to
Lord Banbury swore at him, saying, cultivate. "But the conditions of
'Who the hell are you? co-operation must be honourable to all and humiliating to none," de clares Mr. Lloyd George. Coali- tione, however, dre satisfactory, but, In the event of an indecisive result at the General Election, such a Government may bo inevitable for a time. We cer tainly cannot blame the Liberals for refusing to again be the stalking horse for Labour, for, although kept in power by Liberal support, Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues treat- ed their helpers with scant respect,
seldom
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There will be a public Lecture at the Helena May Institute on Monday 22nd October when Mr. Crook will speak on "Sex Life in About Hong Kong. Plants,"-Advt.
The as. Wisconsin, arriving from Portland, Oregon, for the death of the ship's carpenter on Columbia Pacife Co., reports the
route from heart failure.
The 6.8. Charles Hardouin was berthed at her wharf yesterday the actual date of her resumption morning after a long lay-up, but
on the river run has not yet been announced,
["If business men continue to be Kaunistkassen | depressed," says Professor Gregory,
"they will depress industries."] Cheer up, ya business men! If things look black, what then? Away, I say, with peeviah melan-
choly,
Do you know that-
Victoria Gaol known as "Douglas. Hotel?"
WOR onco
In 1863, many, prisonera made their евере through drains of the Gaol, this re- sulting in a Commission boing appointed to investigato mat- tera..
As a result, a new Superin- tendent (Mr. F. Douglas) was appointed, and the Gaol henceforth became known as "Douglas Hotel."
MINIBUNERALSTATENTEINERICOLTURACIONS IN TEHNICE
.
Rail not at eric fate. And England's hapless state But rather ba demontratively.
folly..
I prithee drop, good Jones, Those sad, lugubricua tones, Buck up and give us something
bright and witty,
Look not ao glum, dear Brown, When you arrive in town. But show a smile to brighton ny
the City,
Yet if perchance may be Ye have, unknown to me,.
Sorrowa which far outweigh the
ones I wot of,
The Konsu. Massacres.
Said to have been probably the While only the barest details of both people's and vicar's church- only woman in England who was the terrible massacres in remote warden, Miss Mary Brook, of ing over the wall of the school Kansu have filtered through, it is Ottershaw, Chertsey, had a fatal with the umbrella, When he saw evident that another Moslem
re seizure in a bus.
the police officer, he tried to bellion, such as has on several
escape, but was arrested. Tho occasions in the past century laid
The forthcoming wedding is an- defendant, said Sergeant Hum- waste to the province and decimat-nounced of Mr. E. Autenrieth, mis-phroys, was not allowed out of the the ed its population, lo behind the sionary, of Moilim, Swatow, to precincts of the school, as grim disaster. Apparently, the
Miss M. Fritz, of Goppingen gates at the time had been locked. (Wurttemberg), travelling to His Worship remarked that the outbreak commenced as long ago Hongkong by the s.a. Saarbrucken, defendant's plea amounted to one And feeling just a miserable
A black chow dog belonging to
was
опе
Besides your business cares And slumps in British wares There may be other things you
think a lot of.
Yet though with grief and shame You own you're off your game,
duffer,
Mr. Brown sat in his armchair of eight months' hand labour and reading his paper, when his wife. the other in 1927 when, for lar-returned home from her club. Her ceny, he was fined $25; or four lips were set, and a red glow was
weeks.
of six weeks' hard labour.
His Worship passed sentence
CORRESPONDENCE.
Sir,
A. D. C. COURTESY.
on har countenance,.
"I was outspoken in my son- timents at the club to-night,” she said.
Brown dropped his paper and opened his eyes wide.
"I can scarcely belleve It," he declared. "Who outspoke you?”
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There are many ways of keeping one's clothes dry when it rains, but the most original of all was described recently by an Exmoor farmer.
Mr. Lloyd George, in his speech prisal to the inhuman murder by as April, and was a fearful re-
of guilty to a charge of receiving. at the Liberal.Conference, reminds Chineso authorities of Moslem de McKnight, of the ICO.S.B., was
charge
Smile hard the errant pill, The case in which Private James Tho
accordingly amended.
Win back your vanished skill, as of a man whistling to keep his legates who were conveying a charged with assaulting an amaḥ
The defendant's record showed And our commercial future will courage up. He
..not suffer. convictions, grim petition against the imposition of at Spring Garden Lane was con- two previous electoral battle ahead, tells the new heavy taxca. The number of cluded on Saturday. The defen-under the Oplum Ordinance in country that his Party fears no Chinese murdered in sald to ex- dant was fined $7 and ordered to 1921 when he received a sentence body, but yet suggests that if the ceed 200,000,, a figure of such pay $3 compensation. Liberals are not returned with auf- magnitude that without past re- ficient power to take over the cords of the savage ferocity of the
fanatica responsible for the das Road, has been sent to the slaugh
Mrs. Ainslie, of No. 14, Broadwood Government they may, find men of
tardly outrages, it would be progressive ideala to co-operate almost unbelievable. The greatest servation. The animal bit Mrs. ter house at Kennedy Town for ob- with them. Having, however, de horrors were seen at Titaochow, a Ainslie's son, William, aged 7 clared that the Liberals regard large city to the south of Lan-years, who is now at the Victoria both the Conservative and Labour chow, the capital of the atricken Hospital. Parties as their foes, it must be ad- province. The whole city has
The fret Chamber Concert of mitted that his speech is hardly béen plundered and burned, over likely to cultivate that spirit of death, those who have escaped October at 5.30 pm. Gilbert and 100,000 tortured and done to the season will be given at the Helena May on Thursday, 25th friendship which is essential to any with their lives being without food Sullivan. Organised by Mrs. Har-
[To The Editor of Hongkong understanding with another faction, and clothing.
Telegraph.] The movement greaves-Browne Tickets may be When he forecasts an "enormous appears to have spread like wild. Bgoked at the Secretary's office.
One day he was rounding up' should be very grateful sheep on the moor, not so many necession of strength" to the fire following this revolting open-Ten tickets must be booked in ad-If you could kindly afford space miles from Minehead, when a Liberals, it is evident that the wishing of the Moslem campaign, and vance.-Advt.
in your paper for the publication heavy thunder shower began. is father to the thought, for wo hundreds of villages have been
of this letter.
Disregarding the rain, he con- sea no evidence in the bye-elections destroyed and the inhabitants Ning are to the effect that inter-ing Children's League wish to hollow caught his eye. He went Reports made by the 8.8, Kong Women's Guild and the Minister and soon something white. In a The Committee of the Hongkong tinued to scan the moor for sheep, of the voters turning wholesale to alain. Marshal Fong Yu-hsiang's ference by the anti-Japanese boy-express publicly their great appre- to investigate, and discovered two- Liberalism. Even in the Tavistock offorts have apparently restored cott pickets at Gamahui have coas clation of, and thanks for, the girls, entirely contest there was a shrinkage in
some semblance of order in theed, but other ships appear to be courteous consideration extended rain was streaming down their unclothed. The the Liberal vote.
province in the past week or two, still affected. The reason for this to them by the Committee of the bodies, but they did not seem to and the Insurrection has petered is probably to be found in the ac- Amateur Dramatic Club in regard mind a scrap. The Liberal resolve to fight the out, leaving behind the terrors of tion taken by Captain Mac Carthy to the change of date the Club next election as an Independent famine and further and perhaps on the occasion of the last visit..
Curiosity overcoming bashful- Party, entering into no working China seeks her place among the
have made for their opening per ness, the farmer, whom the girls more dreadful, tragedy. Withal,
formance of the season.
had not soon, retired to a discreet arrangement with either of the civilised nations of the world, fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn-original date, Saturday, November
Three Chinese were brought be- The A.D.C., upon realising their distance and watched. other two factions, will doubtless while incapable of preventing ing for playing mah jongg until 17th, would clash with
"Soon," he said, "the rain stop- theped and the sun came out. Its give joy to the Conservatives, who sech appalling occurrences within the small hours of the morning, H.K.W.G. and M.C.L. annual feta hot rays quickly dried the two are likely to profit from the split-habitants of Kansu, the Hul-hui- His Worship discharged the men 17th) have very generously given
thus disturbing their neighbours. (already advertised for November | dripping girls. ting of what may be termed the fe, representing approximately a with a caution, and added that if way to the M.C.L. Committee and them pulled out a bundle wrapped "Then, kneeling down, one Of progressive vota. The Tavistock third of the population, have
always been rather ungovernable, the complainants desired, they have fixed "The Sport of Kings" in newpaper from a little over bye-election provided an example but in no other country in the could proceed against the defen- for Friday, November 16th. hung gully, She unwrapped the jof what happens in three-cornered world could such maasneros have dants by summons. contests. The Conservative can-king have been told the story of occurred. If the leaders at Nan-i didate headed the poll, but the fact horror, there is still no sign that remains that he went fa on a min-they are other than satisfied with arity vote, the combined Liberal their progress in the unification and Labour poll being more than and stabilisation of the country, two thousand in excess of the Con- servative total. With the three Parties in separate camps at the General Election, we may expect to see this experience repeated In Paris many. constituencies, Nothing Brussels - could suit the Conservatives better. -Amsterdam
Berlin It was doubtless this possibility that Copenhagen Mr. Lloyd George had in mind when
Vienna he denounced the "anomalous, un- Lisbon
Helsingfors Just and grotesque electoral system, Bucharest which is a fraud and a mockery of Buenos Aires
Shanghai democracy, taking government a Yokohama gamble." There is point in his New York.
Genova criticism, bub wo have heard of no Man Liberal scheme, which would re.Stockholm move the anomalies of which their Prague
Dato leader complains. Proportional Ro Madrid presentation, or the Alternative Athens Vote, would solve the problem, but Bombay
Bio It is doubtful whether fla complicHongkong ations would be fully understood by Silver (forwardu)
Silver: (Spot) the majority of the electorate,
her borders. The Moslem in-
EXCHANGE RATES.
London, Oct 14.
of the London branch of the New Having been appointed manager Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd., Mr. C. E. Maligny, for the past six years manager In Shanghai, will shortly leave the Far East for good. Mr. Maligny first came out to the Far East 29 years ago, in 1899, and was, for some time stationed in Hongkong.
124.22 In connexion. "with the recent .84.90 decorated motor car parado, at 12.10 8/16 the Grand Tattoo, Miss: Joyco
20.8.
Crouch this morning presented Mrs. Southorn at Government
It is sincerely hoped that this helpful gesture on the part of the greatly onhance the success of A.D.C, In the cause of charity will their performance, Yours, etc.,
KATHARINE CREABY, President, H.K.W.G. and M.C.L. Hongkong, Oct. 15th, 1928.
DISEASED MEAT.
A COMMON PRACTICE AT CHEUNG SHA WAN,
Charges of being' In possession 192.724 House with a basket of flowers of the carcases of three pigs and
from the Hongkong Automobile, of preparing them for sale, in a 10703 Association
matshed at Cheung Sha Wan, were
newspapers, and out tumbled their clothes, as dry as a bone,”" -
the farmer thought it time to The girls began to dress, and
move. Later they passed him, dry and happy. They holiday-makera tramping the
moor.
were
A man in plus-fours dropped into a barber's chair and - asked for a haircut.
"How do you like it cut, air?” "Mow down the rough" a bit,” said the golfer.
After the barber had complied he said, “And now, sir, can I re- commend you an excellent little tonic for the fairway?"
The health bulletin of Eastern
47.5/10 lates with ribbons In Italian cobrought against three Chinese bo ports for the week ended October Mac: 2/1 loura from the local Flat Agoney.
1/10/21/82
fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning.
6, issnod by the Director of Medi- 4.85 1/16
cal and Sanitary Services, gives 25.20%
The defendants sald they had the following cases, the figures in The total number of shipping 02.02 arrivals and departures over the been employed to dress the car-parenthesis indicating deaths 18.13 week-end were 27 and 85 respec Санев.... 18.19% tively, with British nine and 17 Assistant Colonial Veterinary (9), Madras (25), Tuticorta 1, Plague, Rangoon (1), Tunglino According to Mr. M. J. Reidy 63; Cholera, Bombay (8), Calcutta .168.11/16 respectively. This
..29.30
morning's Surgeon, the pigs died of intense figures were 12 and nine, with Brl inflammation of the stomach and Bangkok 2, Shanghai (1) Small- 874 tlah four and dix, leaving 61 ves intestines. ,5,59/84
por, Basrah 1, Bombay 2, Caleytta, 1/8.1/82 cela in port, of which 16 were Bri- Remarking, that such offences 4 (8), Madras 21 (5), Negapatam 2/0 tish. This morning's tonnage was seemed rather a common occupa 2 (1), Pondicherry (3), Singapore 26% good, but inward treights dropped, tion for the villagers of Cheung 1, Delawan Dell 8 (8), Sourabata 20.15/18 with British and Japanese carry- Sha Wan, his Worship fined the 1, Prom Penk 8 (5), Saigon 1, Dai- -British Wireless, ing the only four-figure cargoes. defendants 326 on each charge. ren"(1), Port Darwin 1,