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FRIDAY, JANUARY. . 4, 1929.
DẠY BY DAY
Ing the past few years Germany has made remarkable progress in- dustrially and commorelally there
A DONE TO THE DÓG IS NOT CHAR- can bo no shadow of doubt, and itTTY. CHARITY IS THE DONE SHARED has been conceded by Mr. Parker | WITH THE DOG, WHEN YOU ARE JUST Gilbert that this has been achieved AS HUNGRY AS THE DOG-Jack Lon
dan. primarily through the industry and energy of the German peoplo, but It must be stressed that the people of other countries have also operated by making their savings availablo in liberal measure for the rebuilding of German economy. Indeed, one commentator has do clared that it fe doubtful whether Germany has really paid any re parations at all, otherwise than out of money borrowed abroad.
The P. and O. u.s. Kidderpore; from Singapore, is due hore, at d co-a.m. on the 10th instant.
Thero wore 19 further cases of small-pox notified yesterday. All were Chinese, and 12 were from Kowloon districts.
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21 YEARS AGO:
SOME. EXTRACTS FROM THE
TELEGRAPH” FILES. ·'
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the wook ended January 3rd, 1908.
The rate of the dollar on demand was la. 9.1/16d,
5
Mr. A. G. Coppin (Hongkong) and Mr. F. C: Butcher (Swatow) were authorised to sign per pro- curation for Messrs Bradley and Company,
The only rain that fell during the month of December, according pointed Secretary of the Union In-
Mr. C. Montague Ede was ap to the records of the Botanicsurance Society of Canton and of Gardens, was .02 ini, on December
11.
Whilst it is quite natural that Germany should desire to ́lo lot of
It is announced that, owing to as lightly as possible, we have no lack of entries, the L.R.C. Tourna doubt that the Committee of Ex-ments have been postponed to: perts which is to determine what February 1st., entries closing on
January 26th, she can afford to pay, 'will tako ne count of all the essential facts, The mail from Europe via cluding Germany's own, Internal Siberia, dated London December
18-14, by the 8.8. Mantua, consist policies. In asking that repara-ed of 400 bags. It was distribut tions be finidly fixed, Germany is ed this morning.
On being convicted of larceny of a bucket from a matahed in Po Kwong Road, Kowloon City, a Chinese was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magi. stracy this morning. The defen- dant had three previous convictions.
only wishing what Mr. Parker Gilbert himself has declared to be reasonable. He has asserted that this problem can never be solved until Germany has been given a de finite lask to perform, on her owi responsibility, without foreign supervision. "The failure to fix the total amount of the reparation We have received a copy of the Babilities," he says, "tends every catalogue of the New Territories Agricultural Show, which is to be where in Germany to diminish n held to-morrow and Sunday. There
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. normal incentive to do all things are in all over a hundred classes, and carry through reforms that these including vegetables, fruits, rice, sugar-cane, poultry and eggs. would clearly be in the country's The Show gives promise of being a own interest." It is to that task big success. that the Committee of Experts will address itself. There is mutual agreement on the end to bo at tained; but the real problem is how much Germany can reasonably be expected to pay.
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JAN. 4. 1929.,
REPARATIONS.
¿
Serious Prospect..
An unconfirmed report reaching Mr. Parker Gilbert, the Agent the British naval authorities at General for Reparations, has ap- Hankow opens up a very serious parently annoyed the Berlin news-prospect. It is stated that Mar- papers by the conclusion reached st.al Feng Yu-hsiang's troops are in his report on the fourth year of even now marching on the Wuhan
the working of the Dawes Plan that
Germany is perfectly well able to provide the full amount under the acheme for the current year. That
sum, it should be noted,
is the
An Interesting and Informative Hongkong Handbook and Guido, which should be welcomed by ro sidents and tourists alike,, has just been issued locally. It sells at one dollar and contains a wealth of readable information. Canton and Macao are also included in the book, which comprises over a hundred pagen.
NUORISON OR
THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.
New Year Gatherings Illustrated.
A fenturo óf to-morrow'B fasuo of the Telegraph Art Supplement will be the illus- tration of numerous Jocal Now Year celebrations.
There will be an interesting batch of pictures taken at the K.C.O. children's sports, the Police Recreation Club calo- bration and the fancy dress football match at Kowloon. In addition, groups of tho stais of the M.B.K. and N.Y.K., taken during Now Year parties, will be included.
Of sporting events, thero will be a group of the H.K.C.C. and Army cricket teams, and a pleture of the German rowing. erow which has this season won the International Fours and other events.
Weddings illustrated will be those of Mr. S. Q. Phoon and Miss Lucy Ng, and Dr. Phoom Seck-foo and Miss Kwok Lai- sim.
A portrait of Vico-Admiral A. K. Walalell, C.B., the now Commander-in-Chief of the China Statlon, and some charming studies of exhibita in the recent Hongkong Uni- versity Photographic Club's display will also appear,
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reports gave 13 nrrivals and 18 This morning's Harbour Office
departures, British seven and five, leaving 58 vessels in port, British the China Tradors Insurance Co., 29. Tonnage was low, as were in in succession to Mr. W. J. Saunders. ward freights, but the throughs were considerably better, with
British recording both high figures and a total of cargo for the day of 20,000 tons.
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and J. D. Lloyd were appointed Messrs. M. Breen, A. E. Wood Cadets in the Hongkong Govern
ment service.
cities, from Honan, and that Gen eral Li Chung-yen's armies are feverishly organising for the de- fence. The story le passed on for what it is worth, but there la
Arranged by Mrs. Hargreaves Mr. H. N. II. Mody, President of to suggest that the threat to Hantho Helena May Institute last of erecting a new pavilion. sufficient circumstantial evidence Brown, a most enjoyable Gilbert the Kowloon Cricket Club, offered a and Sullivan concert was given at donation of $1,000 towards the cost kow is something more than mere night. There was a large atten- fabrication, and that a new war dance, and the varied contributions Over 300 guests attended the an-
were
'EXCHANGE RATES.
London, Jan. 3.·'
joon Docks.
BRIDGE PUZLE
The Very Idea!
What would be the height of a stack of a million now one-pound notes? Five intelligent men sitting round a club fire started, guessing. the correct answer off-hand. The | average result was just over a hun- dred feet. But, according to a ro cont unofficial experiment in the Bank of England, this was less thinn.. an oight of the actual measure monts.A stack of a hundred noten.. is one inch high, sc from this you. can calculate the height of a million.
(Some people are thrown into a state approaching consternation (f an unexpected visitor is announced, says a writer.)
When Jones and his dear wife,
decido,
One day; to take as unawards, My own fair Julia cannot hidé: Her view (which many an-
other shares)
That every uninvited guest
Who catches people on the hop Is something like a social pest,. Whose bold instrusions ought.
to stop.
Poor Julia's tollet's incomplete; There's not a morsel in the
house; The drawing-room is far from.
neat...
J
And so, doar Julia has her
grouso.
As for the crashers, anyhow,
They spend an hour that'a
pretty thin,
For them, as well, it is, I vow,
A bad look out when they look.
in.
The man of aclence has a God fär bigger than the. God that can bo contained within the, four walls of any creed. Sir Borkeley Moyni». kam.
The separation of religion from. Ilfo is responsible for most of our difficulties and misconceptions.to- day.--Miss Shellä Kayo-Smith.
Mr. Bernard Shaw has never been. to school. That is an entirely clinching argument, though I am not sure for which bldo.-Mr. E. M. Lustgarten
Expectations and disappoint montà are the luxuries of idlers.—- Mr. Bernard Shaw,
Literature for literature'a anko in. n silly and an unsocial idea, invent- ed by grumblers and idlera---Mr.. Arnold Bennett,"
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The case camo before the Court
tor was pluming himself on the way he had managed it when his client -interrupted, "Aye, but it was the
bonnie' wee ducks that did it.";
"What?" cried the outraged law yer, "you mean to say you dared to send them after all "Aye," was the reply, "but after what ye sald I pit the defendant's name on them!
The righteous anger of a Judge: of the High Court against the fluence his decision in a case which author of a letter attempting to in he was about to try reminds us of the Scotsman who suggested to his solicitor that a nice pair of ducks sent to the Judge who was to try maximum annual payment due
his action might help in obtaining verdict. The In- a favourable der the plan. The most important
dignant solicitor threatened to throw up the case if such sugges aspect of his report is a renewed
tions were made, and added that complaint in regard to the sweep on the Yangtze would not be the were much enjoyed. Those who nual New Year's Eve dance at Kow-the only effect would be heavily to ing increases in official salaries and limit of the outbreak. At the moMrs. Bellamy, Mrs. Womack, Mrs.
figured in the programme
prejudice, the Judge against the pensions and the continual drainment, till more definite news is Carnegie, Mrs.
giver. Richards, and The New Year children's sporta which this involves of the financial available, It is as well to refrain Messrs. Annis, Richards, Brock at the K.C.C. were a great success. and the Scotsman won. The sclick=" settlement between the Reich and from undue emphasis of the im- and Hargreaves Brown. the States and Communes. In this port and Importance of the alleged connexion. Mr Parker Gilbert sug- move. But, the fact that both gests that by taking practical steps | Feng Yu-halang and Li Chung- to protect its own budget, the Ger-yen, the commanders immediately mån Government could save hun-affected, are in Nanking, is how dreds of millions of, marke. This ever, far from contradictory. It Paris
is, incidentally, stated that Li Geneva Chung-yen will not be permitted to Berlin return to Hankow, though it is Helsingfors not suggested exactly what mea-Athens surea will be taken to prevent this, Buenos Aires In his report last year. Mr.In Hankow, indications that some Now York
Hongkong Parker Gilbert asserted that the thing unusual is afoot are to be Amsterdam States and Communes were draw-gathered from the well-establish- | Stockholm
Vienna ing larger payments from the Relched facts that General Li's forces
Madrid than ever before,,bnd, with its own are swarming into the city, have Ducharest expendituro constantly rising, the occupied foreign properties, and Bombay Reich has found it dificult to in- are drilling in preparation for ar duce the States and Communes to campaign. Even so, we should be Milan Lring their budgets into proper less ready to place.credence in the Copenhagen
Prague order. The result, he stated, was rumour were it not for the receipt of
Lisbon a general lack of effective control sources within the past fortnight
Information from reliable Chinese Ris over public spending and public that some such military activity on borrowing. It was a recognition of the part of the "Christian" Gen- this point which induced the Agent eral was to be expected. Feng General last year to issue a warn-has been gathering in power and
is not the first occasion on which
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TROOPSHIP STABBING
AFFAIR.
tricka.
The Solution.
When the villago dramatic society was staging a "thriller," the curate, playing the part of the hero, was allowed, to change one of his lines, "My God, I'm shot!” to “My good- ness, I'm shot!"
On the night of the performance a practical joker pushed a few ripe raspberries down the barrel of the pistol. When the villain fired the shot, the curate clasped his hands to his breast and shouted, "My goodness, I'm shot!" Then seeing and feeling the redness, he exclafm- ed, "My God, I am ohot!"
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From the rallways scheme, a saving of 18. 8d. to 26. a rebates ton on pig iron production costs le expected at Middlesbrough.
Man at Bow County Court-How do you think a man can support a family on 50s. a weak? Judge Thompson-I cannot even guess,
forcing the opponents to lead from
Here the correct play lies in castle.
is now
ing to the effect that unless this influence steadily, it is said, and over-spending and over-borrowing finds the confines of the territory
Built In connexion with the wero checked. these tendencies at present under his control in
North-East Coast Exhibition, the Palace of Arts is to be retained as would lead to a severe economic re-sufficiently remunerative for his
ambitions. But if there is any VICTIM NOW OUT OF DANGER action and depression, a
a permanent structure at New truth in the unconfirmed report. check to German credit at home and its purpose extends far beyond: When Privats James. Boyle, of minor tenace to a major tenace.quito sane when away from home. Official at Willesden-This man is abroad, and would be likely to en-
the individual designs of Feng, the King's Own Scottish Bor- and then a small heart, which East, or when at work, but directly ht
Bouth leads the king of hearts, courage the impression that Ger- For some time, rumour has had it derers, was brought up this morn-wins. East, however,
that a big attempt is to be made ing, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, on forced to lead from his minor drowning, Miss Phyllis Fowler, a gots with his family he goes mad. many/was not acting with dua ro-
In the Spring to break the power a remanded charge of attempted tenace clubs, South discarding a
For rescuing a woman from gard to her reparations obligations. of the Kwangel Clique, of which murder of Sergeant Kerr, on board spade and North winning the Jeamond Girl Gulde, was presented In reply to that criticism, the then Marshal Li Chai-sum is one of the the troopship Somersetshire; on trick. North now wins another with the Royal Humane Society's German Finance Minister promised important leadera. The march on the night of October 20, whilst club trick, South discarding his certificate yesterday at Newcastle. a limitation of Government cx-Hankow may be the opening move, nearing Ceylon, Inspector L. P. Jant spade, North then leads hia Counsel at London Sessions-This penditure,
We are also told that Marshal Lane told the Court that better diamond, South taking, the last bricklayer belongs, if I may Bay seemingly Mr. Chiang Kai-shek will support news had been received from two tricks with the king of dia- so with due respect, to Winston Parker Gilbert is not at all satle Feng Yu-hetang, and that Marshal Colombo, ga
monds, and the remaining heart Churchill's Union. The only dif fled that Germany is following an
Yen Hal-shan will seek a compro- A cable, and the Inspector, was It is interesting to note that if ference is that he knows his trade; improved policy. It is true that mise or ally himself with Canton to hand, stating that Bergeant South had led a low heart at the the other does not
and Hankow. It is not wise to con- Kerr had been removed from the frat trick, East Would have wor Counsel, at Brentwood." County she has made all payments required jecture further at this stage, but a dangerous list and was progress- the trick and returned a heart. Court were arguing the possibility of her, loyally and punctually, but close watch on developmenta is ing well. The local authorities North and South would then have of reaching a town by a certain the really important point is hier needful. Something appears to be have cabled to enquire when the only three of the six tricks. Like-route when Deputy Judge Mullins In the air and we are afraid it Sergeant will be able to proceed wise, if the opening lead is a observed: Of course it is possible, ability to meet the maximum obliga is not calculated to assist in the to Hongkong, but so far no reply spade, only three tricks can be It is possible to go b Brighton vis tions under the scheme. That der preservation of peace in China. has been received..
New Zealand.--
but
won.