THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
ELECTION.
FIGHTING SPEECH "CHILDREN'S HELL” IN COMING GENERAL
BY POINCARE.
RUSSIA.
DESIRE TO STAY FOR THE NO HOPE FOR MILLIONS NOW MINERS' FEDERATION READY
· REPARATIONS ISSUE,
DICTUM REITERATED.
Paris, Jan. 12, M. Poincare scored a great oratorical access this afternoon when the debate to decide the fate of the Government was resumed. The Premier spoke for three hours with scarcely a pauso, and he took the reparations problem os his
HOMELESS.
Count Kokovtzoff, former Fin-
FOR CAMPAIGN.
ance and Prime Minister of WILL RUN CANDIDATES. Russia, has contributed a striking
articlo to the "Revue, des Deux Mondes" on the homeless children of his country under the rule of the Soviet,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.
ADVENTURE ON HIGH SEAS.
RUM RUNNERS USE OF BRITISH FLAG.
Vancouver, Dec. '16. Captain S. 8. Stone, Master of the Aquila, arrived here yesterday and told his story of the shelling of the steamship and hor raco for London, Jan, 11.
sanctuary in Mexican waters. As a result of the depression in
The Aquila aniled with liquor the coal-mining industry, the from European port, under tem- Most of the statistics quoted by Miners' Federation has been faced porary British registration bound him come from official Bolshevist with the question of providing ostensibly for Bhanghal. When 121 sources. Since 1925, when the adequate funds to enable it to miles from the American coast. In ર sufficient number of the Pacific the American coast world learned to Ita horrer that have there were in Russia millions of Parliamentary candidates at the guard catter Tamaron approached main theme.
and ordered her to heave to for a childron homeless, uncared for, coming General Election. M. Poincara pointed out that it the prey to every form of diecase,
boarding party. Captain Stone would
The Federation, at a meeting refused" and also nothing short of vice, and criminal tendency, the
refused the disastrous if the reparations nego- official figures have been reduced to-day, however, decided to run the Tamaroa's request that she should tlations were Interrupted by, a to some 300,000 Count Kokovt-aame number of candidates as last come and examide the ship's papers. French Cabinet crisia,
zoff gives reasons for thinking that year, and, in order to meet the Thereupon the cutter opened fire His sole reason for seeking to the diminution is on paper mere expenditure, adopted a scheme with six shells, four hitting Aquila romain in power was to carry ly, and that this almost incredible whereby the Political Fund is to just forward of the rudder above through the reparations and inter social plague continues with its bo readjusted so that the richer the waterline. Captain Stone then alliod debts negotiatious.
full force to blight a once flourish districts will contribute to the hove to for the protection of his M.ing land.
support of the poorer districts. crew, and in reply to another do- mand agreed that if the Tamaros Members of Parliament repre-fired across his bows he would per- seating minors have agreed on amit a boarding party aboard. voluntary reduction of their allow-
Forced to Leave Ship. the from ance
'Federation.- new British Wireless,
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was no real
MACDONA PLAYERS.
WARREN'S PROFESSION.” ·
The cutter'a boarding crew came aboard and Captain Stone, at the |point of a gun and in the presence | of his men, was forced to leave his ship and go aboard the captor.' A prize crew then took charge and, despite protests, hauled down the British flag.
Roferring to the former, Poincare reiterated his dictum
Commissar's Admission. that France must receive during the period of hor payments to It was Lunacharsky himself, Britain and the United States, a the Commissar for Education, who sufficient som from Germany to said, speaking to a conference in cover such expenditure, plus an November, 1927, "We have adequate sum for reparations, cadres of homeless children erent-
If the French proposal was ed by the social conditions of life| ' accepted, he said, France'a posi-to-day." This admission effective- tion towards her creditors would ly disposes of the ordinary Soviet be materially improved.
pretence that the problem was a To-day will decide the fate of heritage of the war. Indeed, any PACKED HOUSE: FOR "MRS. the Government which is once one who was, like the present again called on to stand its writer, in Russia in 1919 can
The next day Captain Stone was trial in the Chamber, M. Poincare testify that there
transferred to the Cahokia and that. is demanding an immediate ver class of homeless children then at Mrs. Warren's Profession" was Two days later the Cahokia came A remarkable presentation of night was returned to the Aquila. dict. The Socialists and the Radi- all. cal Socialists spent the whole What Lunacharsky said is borna given by the Macdona Players alongside, and the commander snid afternoon fulminating against the out by the "Trud," the official or before a packed house at the he had orders to seize the ship's Government's policy. Provoked by
gan of the Bolshevist Trado Theatre Royal last night, and the papers and to take her to port. the Socialist taunt that he was Unions, which in an article on final curtain was greeted by long Then the race, recorded in my a "prisoner of the Right" and the April 23, 1927, attributes the ma sustained applause.
message to the Morning Post, dated Radical Socialist accusation that jority of cases of homeless chil
November 11, followed Aquila Of all Shavian plays, it la pro- he allowed the reactionaries to dren to the children having desert-bably the most criticised and the reaching aanctuary at Ensenada flatter him and meantime combated parents who were unable most difficult to portray effective said Captain Stone, "hung around harbour."Several coastguards," the Republican regime, M. Poln-to give them food. Parents y. For once, Shaw's sharp wit is the Mexican port like terriera be care angrily shouted, "It in a ques-hnd no food to give on ac secondary to the action, and while fore a badger hole, frequently tion of knowing whether the Gov- ernment exists. We intend to exist ut fae famines that, ravaged there is much humour, centred broaching
Russia in 1921, 1922. 1923, 1924. largely round
Mexican territorial Frank (Arnold waters by running into port to and "persist,"
and were the direct result of the Walsh), the play chiefly consists make sure the Aquila was safely Old parliamentarians forecast Soviet economie system. a majority of about forty.---Neuter,
of a very human problem offering inside." This is, in Count Kokoviszoff's After a long, debate, during view also, the chief explanation of Macdona Players handle it with up, and Captain Stone, his three great dramatic possibilities. The The Aquila was eventually laid which the Socialists and Radical-the existence of the hordes of Socialists were particularly bitter, homeless children. The famine great care, the result being a very officers and the crew salled for Van- M. Pohreare obtained a vote of of 1921 resulted in between 14 pleasing and convincing produc-couver, which they reached after confidence by 325 votes to 201 and 3 million deaths, and caused
tion. Reuter,
a startling outbreak of cannibalism, The famines of subsequent years affected severally from eight to 20 million. Partial famine has. re eurred again since.
SALVATION ARMY CRISIS..
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The extremely difficult part of Mrs. Warren was safe in the hands of Jonn Hopgood, while the hardly less onerous role, that of Vivie, of the very modern school of feminism, is capably interpreted by Daphne Carr,
eight months at sea..
BRITISH POSITION,'
Acquila Without Right to Fly the Flag.
The Very Idea!
South Mimms, the vicar of which recently deplored the dearth of marriages, is now objecting to courting couples.
At a mooting of the Rural Coun
cil recently a letter was read from Mr. S. H. Wall asking the council to provide street lamps to stop the nuisance of courting couples stand- ing about in the dark in certain lanca.
Mr. Tilbury. The matter is ono for the polica.
The Chairman: The police can- not stop couples courting.
Mr. Tibury: They can stop loftering.
The surveyor was instructed to ascertain, the cost of street lamps.
We have lost the Bible-reading habit, or it would not have been left to Sir Lawrence Weaver to dig out the varao from the First Book of Kings as a comment on Grosvenor House:-
"And at this house, which is high, everyone that passeth by shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, "Why hath the. Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house""
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And It is really a very difficult question to answer.
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Geary swings and swings away,
Swings across the wicket; Geary makes the batsmen play,
All the day and every day, Till they fail and flick It.
Geury is himself a slip, Holds them very neatly,
Well he knows the extra "nip" That will break a partnership
Quickly and completely.
He will go on laying plots, Never stale or weary, Tying, batsmed into knots....
For he knows their weakest
ahots
More than they know Geary,
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The normal and healthy reaction of youth against ago has been in- tensified by the killing off, in the war, of an intermediate generation. --Prof. Gübørt Murray.
All that the Soviet Government
It is understood that no steps will be taken by the British Govorn-
The man who has done most, for has done to cope with the evil is to abolish two excellent private Terence O'Brien demonstrated ment regarding the steamer Aquila, civilisation was he who discovered driving power.➡ societies for the help of children his wonderful versatility, by a At the time of her capture by the conscience as a that were already in existence and real Sir George Crofts, the cynical United States constguard steamer Mr. J. D. Kershaw,
The Englishman seems to have that if he had been asked to re- to open a number of Children's ( man-about-town, while Arnold she had no right to be flying the sign by a council convoked with Houses in different places that, Walsh: enhanced his reputationRed Ensign. It appears that on learned restraint and leadership the obvious intention of depriving according to Lenin's
in very considerably. Mr. Drew the application of an unimportant while boys in other countries were British syndicate, the Aquila re-learning Latin and arithmetic.- him of power and appointing a 1923, were sheltering at the moat in another parsonic role was not coived a provisional British certif-King George of the Hellenes. Buccessor it would have been a 800,000 out of seven million home-likely to fail.
cate on March 1 at Antwerp. This English history is a masterpiece very different matter, and person- less children. Worse still, these The same plece la being given certificate was only good for six of absentmindedness.-Prof.
houses, by the testimony of Bol-to-night.
months and expired on September Madariaga. shevist papers themselves, are hot- beds of disease, crime, and viec, and are a very emblem of misery.
widow
WANHISIEN OUTLOOK.
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ally he would not have regretted the request. A fow months must elapse before he will be able to return to his post, ko "will you
It is almost equally horrible to give me time?" Ho proceeds to propose the appointment of the hear these conditions exalted as a council mentioned yesterday, and virtue by Soviel writera. Count
A naval wireless message froin was prepared to appoint a com- Kokovtazoff quotes from the work mission to inquire into destrable of Professor Zalkind, "Childhood Wanshien says it is confirmed that changes in the constitution, as Abandoned," published at Moscow Yang Sen and his troops have now left the vicinity. It is hoped that requested in Miss Eva Booth's In 1926, the following:
trade will be opened at Wanshten memorandum of October, 1927.
Immediately. which had engaged his constant
attention until he was taken ill.
The "War Cry" Called In
Seil for Communism.......
"The middle and lower middle class family brings to the surface
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1. It is known that the ship has "Know thyself" is really the sum been working for a well-known of wisdom; for he who knows him bootlegging concern in Vancouver. self knows also God-Dean Inge.
The only British ship with a namo like that of Aquila is the Aquilla To-day's Dog Story: "After (450 tons), owned by the Zillah lunch one day my brother sat smok- Shipping and Carrying Co., Livering and talking with us longer than pool, who deny any knowledge of usual, evidently causing his dog, a Captain Stone's ship. The only fox-terrier named Monkey, uncas!- Aquila in Lloyd's list is a Nor nese, and fear of losing his early wegian vessel of 1,998 tonnage,. afternoon walk. Ho barked, ran backwards and forwards to the open Excellent progress is being mode door; and tried every blandishment in all directions in connection with In vain.
It appears that 20,000 copies of in the child unwholesome, indivi. diseases show 16 further cases of telephone network to automatic and hastily left the room, our Yesterday's return of notfiable the change-over of the Hongkong "Suddenly he bethought himself the War Cry, containing General dualist, sexual, and fantastic Booth's letter to the Council, were characteristics. Famine, cold, the small-pox, all Chinese, of which 18 working and it is confidently ex-conversation was continued, and in There was pected that such change-over will a few minutes a bumping delse, printed before the Council were absence of toys, comrades, and were from Kowloon, aware of it, and the Council im the street are what attract the also a British ease of typhoid fever be carried out by the date origin- growing louder and louder,
reported."
ally fixed, namely January 1930.. heard, and in burat Monkey carry. mediately took steps to stop the child, organise it, create social
ing one of my brother's heavy bogta, printing and ordered the destrac-bonds, and proserve it from exces-
which he laid on the hearthrug at tion of all copies run off.
sive egocentrism, and unwhole-
bis fect.
A King's Counsel has been re-some phantasies." The Communist tained on General Booth's behalf.
wrlier. Maro-Lovitina, woman maintains that the nature of home. less children provides an admir- able soil for the cultivation of Communists,
The Counsel Engaged.
London, Jan. 11. The eminent counsel, Mr. Jowitt,
Then is there no hope for the K.C., has been retained to act for General Booth, and will address end of what Count Kokovtszoff the High Council of the Salvation truly calla "a children's hell?" Army on his behalf in connexion None, is his conclusion, ao long with the differences which have as the causes of it lust-that is, arlsen regarding the Salvation the conditions imposed by the Army leadership-British Wire Soviet tyranny.
less.
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THE GIFU TROUBLE.
VILLAGERS PRESENT A
LADY NORTHESK WEDS
ONLY FIVE PEOPLE ÅT REGISTER OFFICE CEREMONY. Only five people-four men and a
and bridegroom-were present at the wedding at Princes-row Re- gister Office recently of Lady Nor- thesk and Mr. Vivian Cornelius. Prefectural Office to-day, seventy The bride, wearing a beige fur- of them interviewing the Gover-trimmed coat of chiffon velvet and nor, who gave no assurance that a small felt hat to match, arrived the villagers petition would be with a woman friend dressed In heard.
black.
PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR. | woman-in addition to the bride
Osaka, Jan. 11. Three thousand peasants and their leaders marched to the Gifu
Public procurators have arrest
There was no rlot, the crowd Lady Northesk was formerly Misa waiting outside patiently.
Jessica Brown, of the Ziegfeld Follies. She married Lord Nor thenk in Chicago in 1928, and recently divorced him.
cd eighty persons in connexion
with Tuesday's riots.-Reuter,
of
[The trouble concerns the con Mr. Vivian Cornellus is the son atruction of a river dam which is of Mr. Percy Cornelius, alleged to affect irrigation rights Windlesham, Surrey. of the villagers.]
H.MS. Cumberland will. Kail from Hongkong at 5 p.m. to-day for H.M.8, Kent jeft Batavia for | Shanghai, calling at Santu Inlet and Labuan yesterday and the Cumber-Nimrod Sound en route. "The land arrived at Penang from Singa. cruiser is due at Sliangħal on Janu- pore.
ary 20,
DRUGS. SODA
"O TALK BY NGA SERVICE." mag MQ. Ú, M. PAT, OFF
"I oughts' bawl that guy out for makin' that poor horsó
stand out in the sun on a day like this."
was
"We naturally laughed and ap- plauded him; when he rushed away upstairs, and came down with-the fellow boot? No; alast with one of my brother's slippers!"
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While a lecturer was addressing a meeting of women on "The Duties of the Housewife," he remarked that It was the duty of every woman to mother her husband. Wishing to see what impression this had made on his audience, he asked all those to stand who were willing to mother their better halves. Only one stood up.
"Ah," he said, "I am glad to see that there is at least one of you who lo willing to mother hor hus- band."
"Mother your husband!" cried the woman. "I thought you Bald smother your husband!"
The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended Satur- day list, dasuod by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, given tho, following cases, tho figures in parenthesis indicating deaths: Plague, Cochin
(10), Colombo 2 (2) Bangkok 2 (1), Pnom Penh 2 (2), Baghdad 5 (8);} |Cholera, Calcutta (18), Madras (2), Negapatam (1), Rangoon (1), Tuticorin 27 (16), Pondicherry (1); Bangkok 2 (2), Baigon 1 (1); Small-pox, Baarah 5 (8), Bombay, |10 (6), Cálcutta 2, Madras 86 (4), Moulmein (1), Nogapatam 3, Ran- goon 1. Pondicherry (1), Singa, pare 1, Belawan Deli 8 (3), Prom Penh 6 (8), Shanghal (14), Macao (5), Baghdad 7 (6),»
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