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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1928.
bellove that that is their attitude. The same could be said of the Chinese of Hongkong and the New
DAY BY DAY,
THEY ARE AS SICK THAT SURFEIT Territories, who have long since WITH TOO MUCH AS THEY THAT come to realise the security which | STARVE WETH NOTHING -Shake- they can count upon under the apcare. British flag.
Thoso attending the Dinner Dance at the Peninsula Hotel on Friday next may leave their cars at the rear of the Hotel, where patrol will be in attendance.
THE POLICE RESERVE.
ÖRDERS FOR THE CURRENT
WEEK.
'
The Very Idea!
That beekooping is not all honey Hongkong Police Reserve orders 16mado plalu by the decision of by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, tion to insure its members nyainst
the Pinner Beokoopora' Associa CM.G., Captain Suparintendent of third party risks. Much has been Police, state:
done to breed better bees which Police Training School. will produco moro honey, but a
really satisfactory atingless be "Classes for Police Reservists has not been evolved the bee- will be held as usual on Tuesday, koopers say. In that lies the main December 11th and 18th at drawback of beekeeping. A mom- bor of the Surrby Beekeepers' As-
A warrant has been issued for 6.00 p.m.
On the same dates at 5.30 p.m.sociation, who discussed this often the arrest of Mok Kin, an employee of Chan Sao-vin, at No. 2 Smith-sharp, instruction will be given in painful problem, explained that field, Kennedy Town, on a charge the handling and aiming of robbing his employer of a sum revolver. of $78.
Squad Drill.
of the majority of beekeepers na
Boefations insured their members. The expert said that the best way to avoid being stung by a boo or
Wo stress these points not in any spirit of boasting, but as mera statements of fact which it is well to bear in mind at this juncture in the history of China. Is recent years we have heard so much mis- Ihformed and malicious talk of the ovils of foreign "Imperialism" and "oppression" in China, that it is well that the object-lesson pro-! vided by British rule in such a territory as Welhalwe should not bo overlooked. We make bold to any that nowhere in China has Britain played the role of the
"Amidst a crowd shooting 'Down, oppressor; indeed, that Chinese
with shrd! cmfwy cmiwy cmfwy m cahrdi ahrdl emfwy shrdl shrdl under British rule know that they
Forthcoming weddings announc.
Chinese Company.
Tim traitoral' and general can count on fair play and ed include that of Mr. L. Meltae, The Signalling Squad will attend were compelled to seek refugo."--- Iaughter, Trotsky's adherents justice and on, equality of treat master mariner, of the 3.5.. nt the Company's Headquarters Tokyo Advertiser. ment before the law. In spite of Kumsang, to Mrs. M.H. Hurley, for instruction In morse and the admitted progress which China neo Goldenberg, No, 2,. Obser- semaphore under Mr. R. G. Wilson "What other weapon has a wo-
valory Villas, Kowloon
has made, it is still true Lo Bay that the measure of individual liberty and freedom enjoyed by Chinese is far greater in those parts of the country which are
This morning's Harbour Office All recruits of the Chinese and a wasp was to get into the sinde, Reports gave 14 arrivals and 23 de-Indian Companies and of the "Go under a tree or into a shady" partures, British holding top place Flying Squad will attend at Cep-room," he alde. "Neither insect with six and seven respectively, tral for Squad Drill etc. on Thurs ever stings in the shade."
day, December 13th at 0.45 pm, and Tuesday, December 18ti ati 6.00 p.m.
leaving 68 vessels in' port of which
30 were British.
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* DENON SANFTER TENTA PENELITI ATANINEN Orchid-lovers should
see the specimens now being shown at the About Hong Kong Clover Flower Shop. There are also some beautiful pot plants and ferns on show. This new shop is
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. foreign-governed than in any pure-proving most popular, and a out-
BIRTH.
ly Chinese administrative area. We cessful future appears to be as maké mention of these things for Bured. two reasons--ONO to dispel the mary mis-statements which have gained currency, and the other to ber, 1928, at Shamcen, Canton, show what it is possible for China lesson to to Mr. and Mrs. Powys Drum-herself to do. The mond, of the Asiatic Petro-China's lenders is obvious; it leum Co., i dughter.
DRUMMOND.-On the 9th Decem-
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY DEC. 11 1928
AN OBJECT-LESSON.
At the Marine Court this morn- ing before Commur. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., Li Ho, mistress of a trading junk, was charged with mouring her eraft inside the Aber- deen Cable Area. Pleading guilty, she was fined $10 with the usuni
needs no labouring; and If the Na-alternative. Gional Government will but profit by it, the future of the country should be all the brighter and ull the better for everybody in it.
Lugano Conversations. Interest In the League Council' meeting at Lugano is entirely sub- ordinate to the private conversa- tions between Sir Austen Cham- berlain, M. Briand, and Dr. Stresc-
Do you know that————
Military officers were once appointed Justices
of the Pence for Hongkong?
This was in 1867, when the names of three officers were gazetted, including that of Culonol Dunlop, the Officer Commanding the Troops.
Their names remained on the Commission for four months, when they wore removed by the Government on the ground that their services were longer necessary.
no
Colonel Dunlop accepted the resignation, but the two olbers did not, and one of theny wrote an indignant let- ter to the Governor on the gratuitous insult which he considered had been offered him by being summarily "dis- missed."
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Powys Drummond, of the A. P. C., at Shamoen on Sunday. It is interesting to note that the infant is the great-grand-daughter of Mrs. W. V. Drummond, Dennarit state, Shanghai, and the grand- daughter of Mr. H. J. Sharples (re- Commissioner of cently retired Chinese Customs) and Mrs. H. J. Sharples, of Port St. Mary, Isle of manascondinoumnos Man.
on Thursday, December 19th at 6.46 p.m. and Tuesday, December 18th at 0.00 p.m.
The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific
Indian Company. Company of Manila will be award- ed the contract for the construe tion of a reinforced concrete pler,
Parade. All ranks of the Indian and marginal wharf at Cebu, if the recommendation made by Mr. A. D. Company will parade at Police Headquarters on Tuesday, Decem- Williams, Director of the Bureau ber 18th for drill under Sergeant Condon. Fall 30 at 6.30 p.m. of Table Works, is followed by the Secretary of Commerce and sharp. Dress Blue Uniform, belt Communications. The amount in-and can without cover. No mem- volved is approximately Pesos 1 ber may be absent from this 144,000.
parade without leave from the Compuy Commander.
Chinese
Flying Squad,
Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress -Winter Uniform.
(Sgd.) 'D. L. KING, D.S.P. (R).
STOLE WATERPIPE LEAD.
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man but her tongue?"-A wife at | Highgate.
"The police were like angela from heaven sent to help her in trouble."-A witness at a Croy- don inquest,
Willesden witness: There was a round hole in the wall fully a foot aquaro.
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"My wife is mutton dressed up like lamb."-Man at Marylebone."
Judge Thompson at Bow County Court: What is a trinket sel?
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[It is said that women are re- turning to the fashion of long hair.] O not again. Say not the locka
Of matron and of mafd Soon will abhor the shingling
shears,
For have heard that tale for
years,
And I am not afraid
That aught our women will
beguile
To dron that sweet, convenleût
style.
I must admit I freely wept When first that mode arrived,
And I beheld our winsomio
girls
Robbed of their long and
beauteous curls. But somehow I survived,
And, though perhaps it may
Heem strange, To-day I would not have them
change..
Nar have I noticed any urge
Towards that, former stato Of long and somewhat tiresome
locks,
Or equally extended frocks, Victorian and sedate.
The joys of freedom will not
be
Relinquished, for what I can
БЕС
Let barbers urge 0 total
change;
In vain their souls they vex.
The bob and shingle were not
made
The ruling fashion by the trade,
But by the ruling sex, And these it will not lightly
other mode a
To give somo
boom.
A young man at a dance observed a young woman standing alone, and, thinking he recognised her, went up to her and said:-
"Pardon me, you look like Helen |Black."
It is in no sense of self-glorifier-man, and the pessimists regard- tion that the Colonial Once, in its In the outcome appear to be in annual report
the majority. The International on Weihniwet,
politicat atmosphere just now is points out Home striking facts
not particularly favourable; it showing the peace and security might almost be said to be tense; enjoyed by Chinese living there but we are Inclined to be hopeful, under British rule. To the aver-belleving: that the "antagonism" age person, the name Waikaiwet arises largely from misunder- conjures up little more than the standing. Germany Is a little at vision of a small station where fault in being too readily per- British naval men assemble every nanded that public statements While being escorted from Yau- year to escape some of the oppres. concerning the Rhineland. evacun-mail to Victoria Gaol, n
The weekly instructional patrol sive heat in Hongkong, but in tion and reparations questions are woman who was being held as a point of fact the territory of an affront to her dignity, or mean remanded prisoner, attempted to of the Kowloon Section will take escape by jumping overboard from place on Tuesday, December 11th. which Britain enjoys a lease that the Allies require her to pur- the launch on which she was being Fall in at the Taim-tsa-tauí Fire chase the freedom of the Rhine- taken across, the harbour with Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. covers approximately 250 square
land, Sir Austen Chamberlain seven other prisoners. The launch Dress-Winter Uniform.
The weekly instructional patrol miles and contains no fewer than has said that it is not sufficient was stopped and the woman WEB 300 villages. Situated in Shan that Germany should be carrying the Government Civil Hospital guf-place on Thursday, December 13th, doom
rescued, being eventually taken to of the Ilongkong Section will take tung Province, it han during the out her current reparations un-foring from the effects of the im-Fall in at the Central Police i past year been in uncomfortable dertakings to entitle her to claim mersion. proximity to an area torn by civil immediate evacuation of the Oc- and military strife, but it has cupied Area, and he has also said
Further difficulties have arisen suffered none of the evils of that Britain would welcome a com- with regard to the granting of a banditry, misgovernment er war-plete retirement of the Allied passenger certificate to 8.8. Kochow, which vessel has been running on fare, which have been the common forces regardless of legal rights. the West River for the past month lot of the bulk of the Chinese The French view is much the in cargo only. Berthed for survey people in the province,
Germany, however, has at Shamshuipq over the week-end, Britain has now been in occupa- not only put another construction certain proceedings eventuated, but CASUAL LABOURER SENT TO
the balinating to Government re-
The ownership rights of a poem, tion of Weihaiwei for thirty years, on the Peace Treaty, but has ap-quirements has not yet been com-
supposed to have been written by and the benefits of its rule have parently been toying with the idea picted and it is highly probable that
A coolic in the employ of the spirit, have been awarded by a to the medium long since become apparent. When that the Allies hope to use the the ship will have to do another
Rhineland to force reparation con- trip before the negotiations in con- Water Authority, engaged in lay- Berlin Court
nexion with the certificate are ing pipes in Nathan Rond, was through whom it was received. the territory was taken over, it cessions. We think Bir Auster
charged before Mr. E. W. Hamil-Several people claimed a manus- was a roadless, desolate tract in-and M. Briand will be able to con
finally concluded.
ton, at the Kowloon Magistracycript which the spirit of the poet habited Try a poverty-stricken vinee Dr. Stresemann that nothing
this morning, with larceny of 24 Ludwig Uhland was declared by peasantry who earned a bare sub is farther from our minds, and
About 5 o'clock yesterday after-pounds of lead. An alternative the medium, Fraulein Arnhelm, to hand-writing was identical with sistence by fishing and tilling the that the reparations meetings next noon; the Fire Brigade received charge of receiving was also pre-have written during a scance. The
a call from the Bay View police ferred against the defendant, soil. Striking changes" have fol- month may proceed in the same station to attend to an outbreak Sergeant Brittain said he was that of the poet, whose work the lowed British rule. Unhampered conciliptory spirit as they were be- which had occurred in that, dis- in Chan Kuk Village on Sunday Spiritualists stoutly maintained it by excessive taxation, the people gun.. An atmosphere of confid-trict. A fire engine was sent from when he saw the defendant, carry- to be. have risen from poverty to prosence and peace can only be in-both the Central Station and the ing a parcel under his arm, The Sub-Station at Wanchal, but on defendant was stopped and when perity, agricultural pursuits have stalled in Europe when the re-arrival at the scene it was not asked what he had in the parcel been developed, waste land has parations question has been aut-found necessary to bring them he tried to pass the officer. Ho was prevented and the parcel, been reclaimed and put into tled once and for all. A with- into operation. A pool of oil
Paris cultivation, good roads have been drawal from the Rhineland as a which had, accumulated on a which he was carrying was open-
sign of good faith would be annullah running close to the A.P.C.d
petroleum Installation, and adja- constructed in place of the former empty gesture at this time; the cent to the police station, and Sergeant, enfd that the lead, which Brusse
The defendant, in reply to the New York mule-tracks, and industry and favourable opportunity passed caught fire. All that was done by was found in the parcel, had been
Amsterdam commerce have greatly prospered. many months ago, and is not likely the firemen was to apply a chemical bought, but after the police had an to recur. In any case, Britain is fire-extinguisher. This was com found a Government badge, ho Berlin Best of all, the blessing of peace powerless to act on her own initin-pletely effective, the flames. being admitted ho had stolen the lead Stockholm has been vouchsafed. The Intent live in this matter, which all stifled within a few seconds. The from Nathan Road, where pipes Copenhagen report speaks of a big influx of things considered, in just as well. engines returned to their respec are being laid. Chinese from Eastern Shantung The Lugano conversations are un- tive stations shortly afterwards. likely to carry the "Big Three"
Rame.
and from other centres as well, far; their importance Has in with the consequence that the clarifying and perhaps in modify. wealth and population of Port ing points of view. If the Com Edward have doubled within the miiice of Experts, to be appointed
to decide Germany's capacity to
FAIR WEATHER.
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"Yes," was the reply, "I know I do, but I'd look far worse in white."
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