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SHEER HYPOCRISY,
It la evident from the news' to correspondent
hand from our.
he
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928.
boycott
This anti-Japanese movement, Ike tlint directed agafrigt the British some threo years ago, is described by its do fenders as a display of "patriot- iam." But we all know that it is nothing but a mere cloak to hide Illegal extortion. We have recently had an example of how the boycott works in Shanghai. There, we are told, most of the
goods seized is stored by the Anti- Japanese Society until each case
DAY BY DAY.
ANGER IS THE MOST IMPOTENT
THE POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT
WEEK
PASSION THAT ACCOMPANIES THE MIND OF MAN; IT EFFECTS NOTHING IT GOES ABOUT; AND HURTS THE MAN WHO IS POSSESSED BY IT MORE THAN by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Hongkong Police Reserve Orders ANY OTHER AGAINST WHOM IT IS DIC.M.G., Captain Superintendent of RECTED. Clarendon,
Police, stabo:
The Very Rev. John Fitz Simon Symons, Dean of Shanghai, who died on January 19 last, left pro-
perty in England valued at 4389.
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Grand Tattoo
The Very Idea!
Because he considers the vestry so dilapidated that it is not at to to be too small and the vicarage occupy, the Rev. TV. H. Barber,
vicar of London Colney, writes his sermons. in a stable near the church. ".
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The following Memo is publish-
Ho spenda. Jarge part of the ed for information of all ranks: day in this stable, which he has The C.S.P. wishes to convey his furnished with a table and a chair. hearty appreciation and grateful His wife and daughter live at Stroud-green, London, and he thanks for the most excellent work, travels from there daily, a dis- on the three nights of the per tanch of about thirty miles. AB
of all ranks of the
there are no suitable facilities Hongkong Police Reserve engaged
A list of Debentures drawn at is "disposed of." The most comthe Hongkong Cricket Club Pavi- mon way of disposing" of the in an advertisement in this issue.formances,
lion on Friday, October 12, is given case la to fine the merchant to whom the goods bolong, and as The decomposed body of ajon special duty In connexion with for obtaining refreshments in the sron as the fine is paid, the mer-Chinese male has been found by the Tattoo. "As a member of the village, he has to rely upon the chants gets his goods back. He hillside of Mount Davis.
Detective Sergeant Kinnear on the Tattoo Working Committe and xir generosity of his parishioners for
his daily monls. The Bcularly 16 Chairman of the can then do with them just what body had a string round its neck General Services Committee, the "This appalling etato of affairs he likes, so it becomes annarent and there were other algns In C.S.P. wishes further to thank all will go on for ever unless come
dicative of suicide.
Police Reserves officers on duty at one is aroused," the vicar told a that the main object of the Society
the entrance to the Tattoo Ground reporter. The vicarage is stated is not so much to keep Japanese Mr. F. Sutton, Superintendent for their most valuable assistance to be considerably older than the church, which was built in 1825 goods out, as it is to indulge in the Surveyor of the P.W.D., made a in checking tickets." (Sgd.) E. D. by the third Earl of Hardwicke. gentle art of ""squeeze." The in-report to the police yesterday to C. Wolfe, CS,P., 9th October. It was at one time the... George.
the effect that a coolie, who was 1928." | former, it is anid, gata most of the engaged on the work of surveying, fines, but we imagine that the So-was washed off a rock at Waglan. ciety's officials see to it that they is body has not yet been recover- are not altogether left out in the cold. It is when we analyse the
A revolver and fifty, rounds of 36 ammunition were yesterday working of these boycott me taken to the Police Station Mr. ments that we see the utter hypo-B. Pasco, of Messrs. Brewer and crisy of the whole business. And Company. The arms and ammuni
All recruits of the Chinese and it is certainly not to the credit of ton were found by Mr. Pasco in a
parcel left at the shop by a Eur-Indian Companies, and of the Fly Chinese authorities that they ac-
ing Squad will parade at Central tually sanction and condone these
Police Station on Thursday, Octo- ber 18th at 5.30 pm. sharp for Illegal interferences with trade.
Squad Drill under Sergeant Con- don. Dress:-Mufti
renched her
an
ed.
openn.
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Two cases of small-pox, and one each of typhoid and paratyphold (all Chinese) were reported to the M.0.11. yesterday. The health re- port for last week shows four Chin- ese cases of small pox, a Germann case of diphtheria and two Chin- esa cases of typhoid.
Glover.
Cap Inn. In the time of the
· Police Training School. former vicar, the Rev. Markland Barnard, it served as n stablo, The weekly classes for Police | coach-house, and dwelling for the Reservlets at the Police Training coachman, one room being used School, Kowloon, will be held as by the vicar as a study. usual on Tuesday, October 16th and 28rd at 6.00 p.m. sharp.
Squad Drill
Chinese Company,
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A successful meeting had Just been concluded at a race-courss. At 2 o'clock next morning the secretary of the course was called out of bed by the telephone. A somewhat hazy volen asked, "Is that the shecretary of the courshe?" "'Yes."
mbo-
"Woll, can you tell me when coursho will be oponed agala?".
Said the official with some heat Commendation. Constable R76"What do you mean by waking Frank S. Y. Wong is highly com-mne to ask that? The next meet- mended by the C. S. P. for the ing is in January." prompt action taken by him on
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About Hong Kong.
Do you know that————
The first Hotel to operate in Hongkong opened its door in the first year of British Occupation?
This was Lane's Hotel,. which remained in business from 1841 to 1843,
Other early Hotels were the the Waterloo (Mr. Lopes); in 1884; and the Commercial (Mr. Maclehost), in the samo
year.
JAIMING, INTISANAL230118#0: (21972:ACIJA TRISTARSKI CENTAURERIN
"Next January?"
"Yes, next Janusty."
"I'm that's awkward for me frightfully awkward. You sec, I've just wakened up in the bar."
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The president of, the Drapera" Chamber of Trade protests against the miserable jargon of the typical business letter.
Perish the wretched,
tional jargon,
conven-
"Favour to hand" and "En-.
closure herewith;"
Hasten the day when such stuff'
shall be far gone
Into the limbo of out-of-date
myth;
Scrap the monstrosity, "Beg to
acknowledge;" "Ult," "inst,"
and "prox. are deplorably' lame; Toach to young mind, in the
schoolroom or college, Nothing can warrant indul-
gence in "same."
L N *
September 28th, which led to the arrest of a thief, who had snatch- ed a purse from a European lady
Witness (a lady, giving evidenco on Caine Rond; the snatcher was in a case of alleged stealing with subsequently sentenced to G
actual violence)-Defendant put months II. L. and 12 strokes. his hand in complainant's trouser
What
Zeppelin's Success, Though naturally we should TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928. have preferred to have seen Great
Britain fulfilling her promise of The 8.8. Hakuho Maru, which was Initiating such a venture, we do recently ashore In Hainan Straits not hesitate to congratulate the and suffered considerable damage, Germans on the successful complc- has been surveyed at Taikoo and tion of the ploneer. commercial granted a clearance. She will now airship flight across the Atlantic. proceed to Shanghai, her original The journey was a great adven- port of destination, with a heavy ture, the passengers undergoing cargo of cont, and, after discharge, at Swalow that the anti-Japanese battle with the elements. It was
Reveral exciting experiences in the will effect repairs at the northern
port. hoycott there still continues to be four daya after ascending at
Described as a donkeyman on pursued with the utmost vigour. Friedrichshafen that the giant board the s.8. Changte, a Chinese What is more agilficant still, Graf Zeppelin crossed the Ameri- however, is the fact that the moves before the air-liner
can coast, and several hours more appeared before Mr. W. Schofield, n the Kowloon Magistracy this ment has the sanction of those in destination. The nature of the morning, on a charge of being in possession of 24 taels of prepared authority. Só much is demon- test appears to have been more oplum on the s.3. Anhui. The de- strated by the case in which the Eckner, contemplated, and the Zeptor, was remanded till Thursday severe then her designer, Dr fendant, who had engaged a solici- Chinese servant of an English mis- pelin did not emerge from an ex-the 25th inst. sion hospital was seized by tremely rough passage unscathed.
Many local residenta returned pickets, on the ground that he was Over the Inst stages of the trip, a accused of attempting to
speed of not more than 25 miles by the Empress of Russin this buy an hour was possible, and she armorning, these including Mr. and some Japanese brandy, and taken rived at Lakehurst Field more Mrs. Annett, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. to the Police Station, from which than 24 hours overdue. The de Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. E. Potter, lay, however, is the merest detail, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sim, Mr. and was only released after foreign and it would be absurd to accept Mrs. R. C. Burdin, Mrs. C. M. representations had been made the verdict of a provish naval Manners, Mr. C. Gordon Mackle, When the officer in charge of the officer that the time taken is a Mrs. A. W. Davison, Mrs. Beith, station was first approached on favour of dirigibles. From
serious blow at the argument in Mr. H. G. Sheldon, and Mr. H.
the matter, he refused to release aeronautical point of view, the
All advanced men of the Chin-pocket and took something out.
Sub-Inspector:--Well! ese Company will attend at the the man, asserting that "the law value of the test is the greater, by This morning's Harbour Office Central Police Station on Thurs did he take out? Was it a balloon - must take Ita
reason of the weather vagaries.reporta gave 17 arrivals and 15 de course. "What Jaw? It might well be asked, weather a
The Zeppelin proved that she could partures, with British cight and day, October 18th at 5.80 p.m. or a bar of soap?
Witness (tittering) :—Well, it severe squall with-four respectively, leaving 63 ves-sharp for Rifle Exercises, Extend- for we know of no law in the Chi- out Auffering material damas in port, British 19. Tonnago ed Order and Baton Drill under wasn't a balloon and it wasn't a horizontal was showed an increase and freights Sergeant R. J. Hunt. Dress bar of soap. I think it was money. nese Code which makes it an of age; the broken
Later, witness, who SAW the repaired during flight. It may be were considerably better, with the Mufti; Rifle, Belt, Sidearms; and fence
purchase Japanese said that commerce, will not British totals approximating 22,000 Truncheon to be carried.
occurrence, was asked as a mat- ter of form: Did you hit the com- brandy. And it would be interest enthusiastlaally associate itself tons and the two highest inward
Indian Company.
plaint on the head with a bot- ing to learn how the pickets knew with such adventure, and that the and second best through. Three
Strength. Constables Lime saved cannot compensate for of the heavicat regiatries of the
R220le? that it was Japanese liquor that the added comfort and assurance of day were coal, while all vessels mr-Inayatullah and R244 N. N. Zaver! Witness (bridling);—No, in- this hospital servant was intend-safety of the Transatlantic liner.riving carried cargo.
having left the Colony. for good, deed! I did not. Certainly not. It must be remembered, however,
have been struck off the strength. Work has commenced in con-1 of the Indian Company as from that this is not the best time of
The most enthusiastic football The fact is, of course, that the the year for such enterprises.nexion with the scheme of the October 1st.
Bupporter in the world made his members of these boycott organl; The experience of the Graf Zeppe- Hongkong Tramways Limited to Parado-All ranks of the first appearance of the season in sations, whether in Swatow or lin is likely, after protracted trial, join the tramline in Percival to the Indian Company will parade at London last month. The claim- elsewhere, are a law unto them to prove to be the exception rather track on Wong Nei Chong Road. Pailce Headquarters on Tuesday, ant to this title is Mr. Charles When the Government undertakes October 23rd for drill under Ser-Townsend, a Yorkshireman, who selves, and the Chinese authori- accomplished in longer time than the raising that portion of Leigh Koont Condon. Fall in at has walked all the way from Hull, ties either dare not interfere with that of the R34, but we think it to Iill Road between the Polico 6.30 p.m. aharp. Dress White about 200 miles, to see Hull play
and Craigengower Clubs, trams uniform, belt and cap with white | Millwall. them or are disinclined to' do so. โร too soon to deny 18 going round the Valley will enter cover. No member may be absent
practical possibility the pro Indeed, the police condone
When seen by a reporter, Mr. the ject of regular Transatlantic air-through Percival Street and return from this parade without leave Townsend was wearing a lawlessness of the boycott orship services. The British Air to the city via the present route.from the Company Commander. days' growth of beard and a hat ganisations, and apparently the Ministry has nanounced that the existance of a line between Per- In the meantime, however, the
tled with blue and white ribbon. Flying Squad. authorities do not in the feast ob- R100, better equipped and more clval Street and Wong Nel Chong
"I go to every home and
Away powerfully engined than the Graf Road will rolleve congestion of
Strength The following re- Saturday match, walking all the fect to their functions being Zeppelin, will be ready for an At: traffic on Saturday afternoons and fruits have been taken on the way," he said. "The only games usurped by the self-appointed|lantic crossing by Christmas, individuals. Wo need only to while the R101 will come into on special occasions when there strength of the Flying Squad and I miss are those in mid-week, but posted as under Constable and that even jos the longest mention the other case referred to ly they were to have been ready in
R338 Robert Chan to Kowloon journey-gay, to Plymouth-I can service early next year. Original-are crowds at Happy Valley,
Section as from October 10th; get back to Hull in time to sea by our Swatow correspondent to September last year, but- various
Constable R316 Chan Tze Fal to the home match on the following show the kind of thing that goes delays Java, occurred and the
Hongkong Section'as from October Saturday, Germans, enterprising 'as ever,
12th.
"Last season on when these boycutt pickets get forestalled as The Air Ministry
I walked 2800. The weekly instructional patrol miles: I am just getting into busy. In this instance, a Chinese will say that the net result is a
of the Kowloon Section will take walking form again, now that this had committed no further "crime" better British alrship and a much Paris"
124.20 place on Tuesday, October 16th. season is well started. I began.. 4.85 1782 Fall In at the Taim-tea-toul Fire my pligrimage in 1926, after the:" than to have booked a passage on more rollable one, but the average New York
man is rarely sympathetic with Brussola a Japanese steamer; yet he was that aspect of the question, and Genera
.84.89 Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp, coal strike. Normally I am a .25.20 Dress-Khaki Uniform.
miner; but as I could not And sofzed and bound and ignominious will plump for the spectacular ly paraded through the city, with effort of the Zeppelin.. not the least interference on the
to
Ing to buy.
thian
the rule. The flight
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Amsterdain
Madrid
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Milon Berlin Stockholm part of the police. When happen In order that the members might Ora
Gopenlingen Ings like these occur and many appreciate the possibilities.
of Vienna worse cases could be cited-It may wireless and its advancement, Mr. Prague woll be asked what hopes the Chi. Trafford gave an Interesting Helsingfors
treatise on the subject at the St. nese have of justice under their Peter's Church Young Men's Club Lisbon own rulers. The alleged "foreign last night when, with the aid of Bucharest oppression" of Chinese pales into the principles of electricity and Buenos Aires
Alagrams he graphically explained to utter insignificance when corapar-described how wireless transmis-Bombay od with the treatment which they slon and reception was possible. Shanghai receive from their own poople, and ties of wireless the lacturor re- Yokohama Speaking of the futura possibili-Hongkong the abuses which are permitted by marked that in the no distant Silver (spot) those,aunnosed to be in authority, future telephony would be com- Silver (forward)
bined with television,
London, Oct. 16.
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than coal mining
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Adjutant.
*I'm not so sure," said the other.. "There is always a third method."
"What is it?"
Oh, you might be stuffed.