HAIPHONG CHINESE
CHARGED.
EXTRADITION POINT COMES UP IN COURT.
AWAITING ORDERS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE CRAFTSMAN.
ART AND THE MACHINE.
By Hugh Walpole.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1928.
PARAGUAY ACCEPTS THE BLUE DUNGAREE
CONCILIATION.
BUT SUGGESTS MODIFICATION OF PROTOCOL.
THE RECENT CLASH.
Vashington, Dạc. Bộ.
TROUSERS.
By Sir Nigel Playfair.
I am not, I shame myself to say it publicly, familiar with the writ I heard someone near me in the
ings of the Great Philosophers. I Tube yesterday say: "It's all this
live my life, so far as i know, un damned machinery.
I had
disturbed by the thunders of Hegel, an hour or two before read an essay
and though that life has been real Chan Hong-chuen, who was by I. B. Priestley on the mechanism
sonably pure and fairly reasonable, romanded in police custody from of modern life, on the electric en
The Paraguayan Legation has rowo little to Kant for le guidance. Friday last on a charge of unlaw gines, the moving stairs, the under announced that Paraguay he Nor
an I very certain fully having in his possession ground passages, towering build accepted, "In Its main lines," the where and when Monsieur Bergeon 1,293 plastres, appeared this mornings, thus clanging hammers, and the Pan-American Conference's Con lived, and even whether he is still ing before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. shining cars. A mechanical age ciliation Protocol which was relecturing,
Mr. F. H. Loseby was for the de- and ourselves hopelessly in flacently adopted by the Pan-Ameri
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can Arbitration Conference Com mitteo and submitted to Paraguay and Bolivia for approval,
tion Conference.
THE KUOMINTANG CONGRESS.
DECISIONS REGARDING CHOICE OF DELEGATES.
COMMITTEE RULING.
Nanking, Dec. 31. The Nanking Kuomintang Cen tral Executive Committee mot on Saturday and renebed the follow
ng decisions in connexion with the coming Third Kuomintang. National Congress:
(1)From Municipal and Dia- trict Kuomintangs having a mem- bership of 100 or more, two dele. gates will be chosen for the Con- press.
(2) From those with more than two hundred but less than four hundred members, three delegates
will be selected.
(3) From those with 400 to 500 members, four delegates will bo chosen.
(4) From those with more than
be chosen. 400 members, five delegates will
I say all this merely because this night
morning I suspect that I may have hopelessly? Last Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., prosecut-
beon indulging in a little philosophy ing, informed his Worship that he someone put into my hand a little would like to apply for a further book, "The Hidden Orchis," by
Paraguay, however, would like myself, and, like Monsieur Jourdain remand. The complainants in the Gertrude Bone, and after reading
the fact. Also: I, may have been case, he said, had received a tele it I thought that it was the most to suggest alight modifications in with his prose, quite unconscious of The Protocol proposes the crea-anticipated in my instances and my gram from their arm in Haiphong comforting thing read by me for the wording of the Protocol,
many a day, comforting because informing them that Messrs. Dea within the texture and colour of its tion of a panel of ning judges to conclusions. If so, I apologise to cons had been cabled in connexion beautiful and sensitive prose all the determine the cause and respon the philosophers dead or alive, with the case and that the sollel- glory of the craftsman's spirit was sibilities in connexion with the And if anything that can be call- tors have been instructed to ask enclosed. Very simply and without recent dispute between the two ed philosophy has been awakened in for a romand. The telegram furany ostentation or poss of precious countries. Two members of the my mind it is all due to a pair of ther stated that witnesses were on now it prints the picture of an panel will be appointed by each blue Dungaree trousers which I the way to Hongkong.
etcher who takes the Orchis and im
(plus 1a, for certain alterations to Mr. Murphy said that in view mortalises its benuty with his to disputant and five by the Arbitra-bought for seven and sixpence
The well-known Kuomintang of the telegram, bis Worship and over all of it you feel the worke
The panel will be allowed for at suit the uniqueness of my figure)
leader, Mr. Sun Fo, Interviewed, near the docks the other evening. should grant a remand. The firm licnuty of the artist who
1 bought them for the purpose of add that great altention was bo- ware deing all they could to get with his hands, who, whether he least six months to study the con- the evidence as quickly as possible. bungles his art or no, is perhaps introversy and suggest an amicable certain before-breakfast exercises ing paid to the Third Kuomintang In which I'm in the habit of in- National Congress, which would Mr. H. C. Macnamara, of Messrs. that very bungling recording the means of solution.
It will den only with the m-dulging-because they looked roomy mark a great advance working for Deacons, who was in Court; in devotion of his separate individual-
medinte causes of the recent dis- and would cover, as, Indeed, they the solidity and consolidation of formed his Worship that his firm ity.
To keep flowers for ever alive? pute and will not touch the larger do successfully, which my more or
the Party on the one band, and, 07 had received a wire from their agents in Haiphong telling them to auid the craftsman, "they must be problem of boundary relations.dinary grey flannel pair did not, the other, the extermination of all my undiscarded pyjamas-using reactionary elements, which aro represent the prosecution and to given a new life, transformed into Reuter's American Service.
pyjamas in the sense of a certain detrimental to the Party and the oppose buil. He said further that art. Only so do they become im-
housekeeper Lonce knew who said,country. To accomplish this end, the instructing solicitors in Hal-perishable," The porcelain pakeite
"I can't find your pyjamas any the sincere co-operation of all phong Indieated that they would under the cherry tree, the supple brushes, the pencils, these were the
where, sir-only the pyjacket."
Kuomintang leaders will be need- forward the evidenec as soon as happy and lofty ways of immortal- possible.
ity.
tion matter.
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CYCLIST KILLED.
TRAGIC COLLISION ON SHAMSHUIPO ROAD.
A colision occurred. between! motor cycle. No. 39 and a China Motor Bus Company's vehicle, No. 666 Thornycroft.
A GIANT FLYING MACHINE.
They are successful-they are ed. colourful-attractive even, 1 should have said, but for some curious res- san-and this is where my alleged philosophical discovery comes in- they excite definitely something which might almost be called deri- son among the early morning work-
AND AIRSHIP. men, who are the only people that A LINK BETWEEN AEROPLANE they meet.
Mr. Lindsell pointed out that the defendant
The only ways of immortality! VHS charged with
I realised with a sudden perception having in his possession piastres. He understood, also, that the machinery that has now for
A Chinese motor eyellat was that the defendant has got away ang time been weighing upon the with $80,000 from Haiphong, which spirit of so many of us was itself killed and another rider was slight. nly the material, just as the Hid-ly injured on Saturday morning latter appeared to be an extradi-den Orchis for the artist's handi- shortly before 8.30 at the junction work. The subject of Art and not of the Prince Edward Road and Mir. Macnamara dd he under the disstroyer of it! Back to the Latchikok Road. stand the muse to be one of extra craftsmen of the monasteries and
A giant aeroplane of the Rohr- dition, whereupon s Worship how short a time intervenes,
And this is the point I want to bach Romar type has recently auc- pointed out that the local pollee the
having craftsman
to-day
put to M. Bergaon, alive or lately cessfully concluded its flying trials had had no communication from the sleel girders of this
lamented, for, after all, I have just in Travemunde and we now hear the Halphons police, and, as far modern world for his handiwork The bas was travelling on the this elementary glimmer of what from the Dornier Works in Al- as his Worship knew, the Govern- just as then he had his Minsal Laichikok Road on its way from his main lessons were--they excite tenrhein near Friedrichshafen that ment had no instr SouES.
"Quills of colour and malleable Shamshuipo to To Kwa Wan, derision not because they are un- something new has again assumed Mr. Murphy stated the come gold: sheepskin and stylos and carrying two mechanios of the usual, since at that hour of the practical form, this time a glant plainants had sent a wet Hal- tablets of ink.. walks in the same Company and only one Chin-morning they are the almost uni- lying machine of a novel type which there wands for simples and berries for ese passenger. According to an veraal wear- meet scarcely anyone represents to a certain extent the phony to get their utenak, to instruct the puller to take parple wind wines... all day to eye-witness, the conductor of the who has not got a pair on just like link between the aeroplane and the the miller.
airship h an onk-lent initial, or the bus, the motor cycle was going at me.
In grey flannels, In white flannels, This is the type Do X, now in Ilis Worship renolol e de
atan'w robe in glory, to transplant a high speed, as evidenced by the
This nero- fendant until Saturday at 19: Coblacions In the convent garden cycle's speedometer, which stop-I pass unnoticed-but in these I am, course of construction. rated that if by the time the the enertial pastures..." ped after the incident. The cycle it is no uso denying it, an object of plang weighs 25,000 kilogrammes, the body la 40 metres long and is was no intimation from iturf as i closed the little book, thank- itself was a complete wreck and good-natured laughter. phong authorities, he would vote in the Media Society for their its front wheel was so twisted Perhaps, however, my Philoso-provided with six 500-HP. motor sider the question of barka Use] own craftsmanship in producing it, that it was out of shape. 11 is phers will tell
me, and perhaps engines, which allow for a radius of charge of unlawful possessionar The Hidden Orchis seemed to be stated that the cycle dashed right after all that is what Bergson did average speed of 185 kilometres per The maximum speed is 240 everywhere in the heart of the at the bus and the force was susay (two great minds thought of hour.
· DISASTROUS FIRE. clanging of the steel hammers the terrific that both the driver and the same thing, and he made useilometres per hour. The aero- eratonin 5, embroidering his Min- the pillion rider were catapulted. of its first, that's all), that it is the plane can carry an effective load of VILLAGERS AT SHAMSHUIPO | sat.
The head of the cyclist strick the usual in unexpected surroundings 26,500 kilogrammes which is more side of the bus and the man was that excites laughter, and blue than its own weight. Trallic from BURNED OUT.
Billed instantly.
dungares, trousera never can go Europe to America and back would with hornrimmed spectacles..
be quite a possible matter with this Yes, that must be it, and I will; giant flyer, if intermediate land- I think, return to grey flannel, ing places were constructed, for in- And the workmen's kindly instance on the Azores and Bermuda terest, which makes them turn aside for a moment from their tasks, is on a par with the attitude of a small son of mine whom once I took for diversion to the Zoo. Unfortunate ly, in the tiresome way of some children (outside the pages of Mr. Milne), he refused to be diverted or even Impressed.
.
A destructive fire wiped out !! small brick houses at Sham-hut- po on Saturday morning, caused erious injury to a small Chinese
boy and barned over 20 piga.
HONOUR AMONG SOLDIERS.
The outbreak caused, great ex-DIVORCE PRESIDENT AND ITS
citement in the district and re- sulted in over 100 Chinese farmers being rendered homeless.
SURVIVAL.
London, Dec. 5.
11 Is understood that the deseas ed was a mechanic working at Shamehuipo and was named Chen Sang.
GREYHOUND RACING.
SUBSTANTIAL PROFIT FOR YEAR IS ANNOUNCED,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghal, Dec. 20.
The first alarm was given at: Lord Merrivale, after hearing a amatised on Tin Liu Streel, petition. In the Divorce Court yes- Shamshulpo, shortly before mid-terday, remarked: "There used to night on Saturday morning. A be thought to be some sort of hon
He showed, indeed, no signs of strong north-east wind, added to aur between military men, but per-
vitality or interest at all until we the intensity of the flames and the haps that does not survive in
enme to the pen of the Hippotamus. fire spread with alarming rapidity quarters in these times."
Then suddenly he gripped my hand, and at one stage almost defied the The case before the President
one in which Mr. Jumes A profit amounting to $146,000 was ecstasy and terror shaking his strenuous efforts of the large was number of firemen, who rushed in Archibald Morrison, of The While announced at the second annual meet-small frame, and he cried, pointing the scene in three fire engines. House, Lower Basklon, Goring-on-ing of the Greyhound Racing Associato a far corner of the strawed floor, n This is expected to react.Look, Daddy, look, there's tion, Two machines went from the Flumes, sed for a divorce from Kowloon Station and one from the his wife, Mrs. Edith Dorothy Mur favourably on the Association's shares, mouse!"
rison, on the ground of her adultery Mongkok Sub Station.
The fire raged for over an hour, with Mr. Thomas Warner. Mr.. attracting a crowd of sight-seer Morrison was formerly a major in who added much to the confusion, the Grenadier Guards.
The outbreak was so sudden that most of the victima were not able to remove even a email percentage of their belongings, As these pmall one-storey houses and matsheds were built in close proximity to one another, the work of fighting the flames was not easy and it is stated that If a west wind had been blowing a big Chinese factory, the Yau Yu Textile Co., which is near these houses, would certainly have been involved.
The parties were married in No- vember, 1920, at the Register Office, St. George's, Hanover square, and afterwards lived at Basilion Park, Reading, and South street, Park- lane. They met the corespondent, then a cabain in the Scots Guards, at the winter sports at St. Moritz in 1927.
Lord Merrivale, granting a decree nisi, with costs against the co- respondent, said the evidence show- cd that the wife and the co-respon- dent went off to Cornwall together.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Parls
As some of these small houses were used as farm-houses, in which a number of pigs werd kept, there was # Que of the animals for freedom shortly after the fire broke out and, this added New York to the pandemonium. Assisting Brussels the police there were a number Geneva of ambulance officers and hoy Amsterdam scouts, who did goud work in pro- Milan serving order.
London, Dec. 30.
..124.05 .4.85 0/16
..84,97 26.17
.12.075/8
02.7G
Borlin
It is understood that a small Stockholm Chinese boy of about 16, an oe Copenhagen. cupant of the matshed in which lo
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18.17
:18.10
Vienna
.84.45
160%
1921
.20.766
.100%
800
...875
.5.20/82
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11/6.1/32
2/74 .2/0 .1/10.23/32 .28.7/10 .20% British Wireless.
GÍSIR MY HEA SERVICE, ING
the fire started, was badly burn
Prague ed. It is also stated that he made
Helsingfors an effort to extinguish the famos Madrid at, the beginning and his effort 10- Lisbon sulted in his being injured. He Athens was taken subsequently to the Bacharest
Rio Kowloon Hospital."
fire
The No. 1 and No. 2 fire floats Buenos Aires also went to Shamshulpo and used Bombay search lights to help the
Shanghal fighters. The total damage done Hongkong Yokohama is estimated to be very consider Silver (spot) able, running into over ten thou-Silver (forward) sand dollars,
"See the iden, of this bank is to take my money and loan"
it to somebody what needs it.”
Islands.
The Do X can carry 50 to 60 passengers and the pananger ne- model of its commodation Is a kind. Twelve cabins, which can be transformed into comfortable sleep. ing berths at night, le on each side of a central gangway. The body contains a large public room with a ship's restaurant and also, among other things, a splendid electric kitchen which provides for meals during the flight. Above the passenger cabine, in the second storey of the body, are placed the the members of the crew who are sleeping rooms for the crew. Here
not on duty pass their time for. It is evident trat in this aeroplano provision must be made for several shifts for each post.
The advantages of these large ships are firstly, their greater speed, their greater independence of the weather and finally their great- er independence of the incomparably mpro expensive ground arrange- ments fo rafrahips, such as hangers, etc. Airships, or the contrary, have the advantage of greater carry- Ing
the capacity. Perhaps in future freight traits will be dealt": by alrehip and passenger traffe by seroplanos.
MR. GILBERT FRÁNKAU.
MOTION AGAINST DRITISH NEWSPAPERS.
London, Dec. 5.-
Mr. Gobert Frankau, who has been associated with the weekly paper, 'Britannia, as editor and
before director, appeared
Mr. Justice Maugham in the Chancery Division yesterday as plaintiff in an action against the British National Newspapers. Ltd., and the Inveroak Paper Company, Ltd.
Mr. Alexander Grant, K.C., on behalf of Mr. Frankau,' said that he hind a motion in the caso to restrain the British National Newspapers Company from holding a meeting to pass certain resolutions. Mr. Bon- nett, who appeared for the com- peny, had agreed that although the meeting would be held no, business would be done and the meeting would be adjourned for ten days. In these circumstances Mr. Grant naked that the motion should stand for a week.
Mr. Justice Maugham spentod.
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