Dewar's
WHITE TABEL
White
Dew
DISTILLERS.
THE 'WHISKY OF DISTINCTION
Money can't buy
Better
Music
IF YOU were a king, you could not command better talent than is brought to you by the Orthophonic Victrolu and Victor records Yes Orthophonic Victrolas do not cost a mini of money. Indeed, you can even purchase thera by paying so much down and so much a mouth. Plan to come in our store some day soon and som what fine-looking Orthophanlo Victrolas we bary and how reasonable they are in price..
Visit us soon
9. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
VICTOR DISTRIBUTORS.
FOR
CHATER ROAD,
GIRLS
Cotton Dresses
$4.50 to $8.50
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."
THE LARGE
NUMBER OF
WAYGOOD-OTIS LIFTS
INSTALLED
IN LOCAL BUILDINGS IS PROOF OF THEIR SUPERLATIVE MERIT.
THE MAJORITY OF
LIFTS YOU USE –
ARE
WAYGOOD-OTIS
IRECTED & MAINTAINED
BY
DODWELL & CO., LTD. BÓLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA
The
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.
ing abandoned the percentages agreed upon by the Finance Minis ters in 1925. This needs clarify- Ing, but it is to be assumed that the arrangement rasched has been on a basis of compromise in order to effect a final settlement. Ger- many has gained some points, the chief one of which is that she can, by giving ninety days' notice, sus- pond the major part of the annuity for two years If grave economic difficulties arise. It is, to be pre- Eumed, however, that Germany will not be the sole judge on the point as to whether mich a situs tlon fe reached.
DAY BY DAY.
APART FROM TEMPTATION THERE a NO VINȚUE-Henry Drummond,
"Bath Lover."Your letter will. appear tomorrow,
THE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL.
HOW IT WAS OBSERVED IN CANTON,
The Very Idea!
The family of Mr. Brownjohв, of Palmwoods Queensland, had a lucky escape when the car he was Cantón, June 11. driving cepsized on the Maroochy. Glorious weather marked the dore road, on a recent Sunday. Chinese case of typhold was occasion of the Dragon Boat afternoon. Some crabs crawled notined yasterday.
Festival in Canton to-day. The out of the bag which had been whole city, including the foreign placed in the front of the car, Concessions of Shameen, served when one closed its claws on one the day as a holiday end all the of the feet of Mr. Brown'jakn offices and banks were closed. and, taken by surprise, he mo- Civil wars and revolutions may | mentarityTM lost control, and tho come and go, but year after your car swerved and toppled over the the 5th day of the 5th moon of side of a drain. Passcro-by ren- the Chinese calendur is observed in dered asplatance to extricate the Canton and throughout the whole occupants, some of China. This festival dates back now over 8,000 years, as a patriotic festival."
The P. and O. ss. Jeypore from Shanghai, is due here at 7 am on the 15th lust.
The P. and O. 8.s. Alipore, from Singapore, is due here at 4 P. on the 17th Inet.
who
Amongst the passengers left by the ss. Tenyo Maru to-day were Mr. H. A. Pearson, Mra. F. E. Cameron, Mrs. Brewer, and Mr. F, Strahan.
Amongst the passengers who departed by the Blue Funnel llaer Apneas were Commdr. J. B. Newlll; Mr. F. G. Herridge, and Dr. and
Mrs. T. P. Lee.
were
of whom children. No member of the party was injured. The mud- guards and hood of the car wera prokon, but no other damage was caused, for within a few minutes after being righted Mr. Brown- john was
the
ablo to journey homewards,
resume
The German Press comments on
To-day the course marked for the settlement are none too gen-
the Dragon Boat races out beyond crously-worded, although there
Tung Shan, near Yih Sha Tau, was crowded with craft of all sizes seems fairly general agreement
Amongst others there wore a large that the new plan is a move in the
number of foreign motor boats and There were also right direction.. Anyone studying
launches.
Straight walking is not a criter the Allied attitude on the ques-
numerous gaily-decorated Chine launches, flower boats, houseboats, lon as to whether a man is drunk tion in an uhbiassed manner-must
sampans and junke. A large num- or not doctor at Wood Green.. concede that a large measure of
For stealing eight tins, a Chi- bar of dragon bouts were assembled, Mr. Luke, the Willesden Magls- reasonability has been displayed. nose was sentenced to two weeks' some of the larger ones containing trate: There are two sorts of It is now essential that all parties hard labour by Mr. E. W. Ham. as many as eighty men. Many of education, the first good that you ilton this morning. A police them were well decorated and
learn at school; the second bad painted to resemble dragona er concerned should, as the experts officer said the man was engaged other ferocious legendary beasts. that you get in the streets,
Wife at Tottenham-I always rlead, help in the obliteration of by a woman to fetch water.
There were many humorous the atmosphere left by the war tho tine, which had not been in the bonts all around; One old husband when he comes home,
parently he did nothing but steal incidents and side shows going on do the right thing and kiss my man delighted the crowd by very Costermonger at Willesden- ably paddling himself along sitting The police summoned me in the in a deck chair placed on a flat morning, then again in the after- board, with only a bamboo pole for toon, and at night I am bothered a paddle. Although many fast if they did not arrest me. launches causing considerable wash Man at Tottenham-I always passed quite close to him, he main- give my wife my wages. Wife tained his procarious position Yes, and then "eub" them back without difficulty.
again,
The best results to everybody con- cerned can only be reached by goodwill and co-operation, and an arnest desire to abide by the spirit as well no the letter of the settlement. Germany now knows her obligations. That in thing gained. And the whole world will look to her to discharge WEDNESDAY JUNE 12, 1929 them and so, remove any further
cause for uncertainty,
Hongkong Telegraph.
REPARATIONS.
Some
covered.'
Ap-
I
Before Mr. Justies Deane in the Supreme Court at Singapore last week, Donald Phillip Bain, a shop assistant, sued Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co., Ltd., for $6,300 damages for wrongful dismissal, $350, being one month's salary in lieu of notice, $600 for passage money paid from London to Singapore, and a steam altip ticket from Singapore to Lon- don, or money in lieu thereof..
The body of a. Chinese child, sged six months, was found by Police Sergeant May dumped on the hillside above Mount Parker Road, yesterday. A Chinese My- ing at No. 8, East Street, Quarry of dumping the body. No suspl- Bay, has been arrested on a charge cious circumstances are attached to the discovery, the child, having apparently died
from natural
causes. The arrested man was this morning fined $25, or one month's hard labour.
To-day is the principal day of the Dragon Boat Festival, but in the country around Canton and throughout different parts of the delta there will still be considerable activity right through the sixth, seventh and eighth day of the moon-Our Own Correspondent.
KOWLOON UNION CHURCH.
TO-NIGHT'S INTERESTING
GATHERING.
Trouble Brewing in Zagreb. King Alexander will be guilty There will be worldwide satis-
of a grave tactical error if he fnction felt over the final settic- chooses to press at all severely ment of the Reparations problem. the prosecution of the Zagreb For many weeks, the Committee of lawyers, whose crime is allegiance Experts has wrestled with the to the cause of democracy. They thorný task, and more than once have come under the ban of the it reached a deadlock which ap-military dictatorship as the result
A congregational meeting is to be held at the Union Church, Kow- peared insoluble, but throughout of a resolution in which they
to night to consider the Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at loon, the members have contrived to urged the despatch of a telegram avert a breakdown by agreeing to to the King demanding the the Central Police Court this church and mouse buliding scherme morning, a Chinese was summon proposed by the Joint Baliding restoration of civil liberty, and Ited for owning two dogs without Committee of the Hongkong and explore some new Buggestion.
Churches. The op- Is reported that they arn'to be licences. In explaining the post-Kowloon The part played by the British tried by a special tribunal under tion, defendant said they belonged portunity will also be taken to bid delegation has been moderating, the Defence of the Renim Act. It to someone else who left them the Rev. J. Horace Johnston bon away. Following the Inspection of plans patient and resourceful. In the may be quite true that King with him when he went attempts to bridge the gulf be-Alexander is more firmly establish They were intended for export and drawings of the church and tween the demands of the creditored in his Dictatorship than ever, States and the offers of Germany, and also that he is already a long the influence of Britain has been way on the road to the achieve east on the side of accommodation. ¡ment of the purpose he set him. for each dog, bút as the defen- and that of "Bon Voyage to Mr.
At length, all parties have renched un agreement, and, thus one of the most difficult and complex of Euro. penn problema. has been disposed
purposes." Mr. Hamilton fined the defendant $6 remarking that he A reduction for was making quantity. His usual fine wan $4 dant had two he would make it $6 instead of $8.
Voyage,
manse, there will be a supper, dur- ing which the toast of "Prosperity to Union Church, Kowloon" will he proposed by Mr. C. O. Hickling Johnston" by the Rev. F. C. Young. aclf, in assuming dictatorial
A business meeting will follow, powers. It may be argued that
at which the recommendation of anti- vigorous suppression of
The Medical Officer of Health's the Joint Committee will be Government agitation is casential return for last week gives only brought forward by Mr. H. J. to the maintenance of the present two casca of small-pox (Chinese), Lamb. Then Mr. A. 9. Mekichan, regime, but a limit has to bo drawn four of diphtheria (one British of Messrs, Leigh and Orange, will Under the settlement, the share somewhere, and we can suggest and three Chinese) and four of explain the plans, whilst the enteric fever (one British and Anancial position will be outlined no better line than persecution of three Chinese). Two of the en- by Mr. D. Gow. An important allotted to Britain is less than the Individual. The "iron heel" teric cases and one of diphtheria statement will also be made by Mr. would have been had the existing of Belgrade has crushed parlia- were imported. There were four J. McPherson regarding ald scheme not been changed, but it lementary government, and has deaths from diphtheria and two from the Three Quarter Century from amall-pox. There were also Fund, after which Mr. D. F. said that there are compensating tried crush all liberty, three deaths from influenza which Warren will speak on the, $10,000 | advantages, one of which is that democratic and journalistic, but is not notifiable. Yesterday's re- scheme.
it is undertaking an turn contained two Chinese cases obviously Britain will receive a fixed pro-
of.
to
portion for her variable debt pay-impossible task in endeavouring of cerebro-spinal fever and one
to prevent the airing of private American of entoric fever. ments in the earlier years of the
opinions. King Alexander should. plan. It will be recalled in this be making a bid for Croatian connexion that Mr. Owen Young's goodwill instead of risking, further
Trimmed Rush Straw Hats original plans, provided for a varie antagonism, and we strongly press
FOR ALL AGES
PARTY FROCKS
FOR TINY TOTS
Boys' White Drill Sailor Suits
And
Panama Hats.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
GROUND FLOOR, }
tlon of the Spa percentages, the view that wrongs are not whereby Britain would suffer and righted, but worsened, by the excessive imposition of a rule of other creditors beneft correspond.
militarist force. The fate of M. ingly. At the time, this proposa}
Pernar and his colleagues will be aroused minch criticism in British followed with the keenest interest cireles, as the Spa percentages outside the Yugo-Slavian frontiers, were regarded as the one fixed and particularly in view of the Mon- settled point in the Reparations arch Dictator's premise to surren question. They were, indeed, left der autocracy when it is no longer untouched by the London Confer- absolutely necessary. ence of 1924, which established
The TG-
BRIDGE MADE EASY by WW.Wentworth
Responses will be made by Mr. W. Forsyth on behalf of the Sun- day School, by Meg M. Bruga on behalf of the choir, Mrs. Gow for the Women's Guild and Mr. A. H. Gardner for the Young People's Society.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
(A judge has admitted that when know which way a pedestrian la go- motoring he sometimes does not' ing to jump.
Of course, pedestrians ought to
know
Which way a motor will pro-
bably go.
•
.
But there dosen't exlet a rule.
of the road,
A really reliable law or code, Which will tell the motorist
anything
Of the way a pedestrian means
to spring.
Ho may leap forward and back
again.
His intention, however, is sel
dom plain.
And the puzzled driver turns
and twists, Which is very
motorists.
annoying for
And if two are crossing the road.
together
Their evolutions won't tell you. whether
They will act as one or if possi-
bly they
Will each of them take his own.
sweet way,
Of course, the motorist. han a chance
Under a law like that of France Where the right of the driver is
well confessed And pedestrians
second best,
come off
But publle opinion over here Isn't quite ripe for the change
it's clear,
And I must confess that I have
not found
The English method is too un-
Bound.
Though pedestrians cause one
much regret,
I haven't run over anyone
yet!
And being oft a pedestrian, too, managed to
I have somehow
worry through. When I'm afoot I curse the cár And vice versa, and-there you
arel."
The other night Smith called on Ble old friend Brown and ̈ ̈ dis-- covered him in the act of excis Ing an article from a periodical." The Dollar Liner President
"Storing up some valuable Adams is scheduled to sail from hints?" Smith asked. Shanghai to-day'nfid is due to ar-
"No," replied Brown. "This is rive here at 7.00 a.m, on Saturday, a contribution styled 'How to be June 15th. This steamer will con-
tinue her voyaga Round-the-World come a centenarian, and I'
afraid my mother-in-law migit. on Sunday, June 16th at 8 a.m..
The Dollar Liner President read it. She gets the paper wha Cleveland will sail from Manila on we have finished with it?"", Friday, June 14th at 4 p.m., arriv
ing here at 7 a.m. on Sunday, June Two young men, who had be 16th. She will leave for San having a night out, and had lot Francisco and Los Angeles via the last train bome, turned up t
morning.
Opening Partner's Suit—3. When your partner has declared a suit and opponents have obtained forms carried out the introduc- the contract at no trump you tion of a unified penal code, the should as a rule open the lead by the Dawes plan. Incidentally, the appointment of a financial advisor playing your partner's declared Spa percentage in the case of Bri- to deal with the hopelessly in- suit. As a general guide, your Shanghai and Japan on Tuesday, a hotel in the early hours of the tain was much less than the share volved fiscal system, the re-opening lead against a no tromp Jane 18th at 4 a.m.
declaration should be as follows: The American Mall Liner Pre- "I say," protested the manager, frat claimed. Britain's position opening of the Bulgarian frontier, Holding any four or moresident Madison, from San Fran-pointing dramatically to the 158 until Spa was that the French and the conclusions of treaties with cards in partner's suit, lead fourth cisco on May 24, is due to sail from coherent of the pair, you cat Kobe to-day and will arrive in bring that man in here.. BE British shares should be in the Bulgaria and Greece-have done from top:
2-Holding any two cards fu Shanghai on June 14th, sailing intoxicated, and this is a ten- intle of 5 to 3; which would have much to clear up the mess left by
ten years of incompetence and partner's suit, lead the higher one. for Hongkong and Manila on June perance hotel." meant a British percentage of corruption, and if King Alexander without, an honour in partner's here on Monday, June 17th and other man, soothingly "he's com 8-Holding any three cards 18th. This steamer is expected "S'all right, dlo man," said he something approaching 30. But is elucere in this protestations, the suit, lead the highest, we will sail for Manila. on Tuesday, far gone to notice that."; that is past history. The main time is already ripe for easing 4Holding any three cards with June 18th at 6 p.m.
The Dollar Liner President fact now disclosed is that Britain the rigours of the Dictatorship. an honour as good, is 3 X X in
Pierce, from Seattle June 1st, is small town in Scotland had rech
The oldest Inhabliant on partner's suit, lead the lowest.. has shown her, accommodating
These leads conform to orthodox scheduled to arrive at this port on ed the great age of ene hunded.. spirit by falling in with the
His home was visited by mny News has been received by Mr. C. play and by following this conven- June 21, proposals, which
of his townsmen, who offred means G. Anderson that his younger brotion you will avoid misleading
Cheir congratulations, that abe will receive less thor Henry has obtained the degree your partner and at the same time
assist him in establishing his A young Chinese, who was "I diana suppose ye'll mongo of M. D. from Edinburghi University. than under the Dawes scheme. Dr. IL M. Anderson, who has been longest and strongest suit. banished from Hongkong on Saturanlther hundred, said one vitor
If, however, you hold a solid day last, was arrested on Monday Jocularly mad The messages outlining the settle-in practice in Glamorganshire for suit or only a singleton in the auit and on being brought before Mr. "Oh, ye niver can tell," anerer- ment are not very informative on the past few years in a former pupil named by your partner, it may be TS. Whyte Bmith at the Kowlooned the centenarian pawkily "T of the Diocesan Boys' School. He more advisable to lead from your Magistracy this morning was son feel stronger noo than whn E this particular point, however, served in an Offers Convalescent strongest auft for it may be more tenced to ten months' hard labour began ma first hundred." for they speak of the experts hav. I Hospital during the Wax.
readily established.
and 16 strokes of the birch.
now