"RED" THURSDAY IN CANTON.
DAY PASSES OFF QUITE NORMALLY.
SHAMEEN NOT NERVY.
. Canton, Aug. 2. The very strong prenutions taken by the, Canton City Police seem to have had the desired effect of preventing any Com munist demonstrations the occasion of the celebration of "Red Thürsday."
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The day passed off quite normal- ly here, there being nothing to indiente any difference.from any other day except that there were
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
KIDNAPPING LAWS TIGHTENED.
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ROSS INSTITUTE.
HONGKONG'S INTEREST MUCH
APPRECIATED,
In the annual report of the Ross Chinese Affairs, and (b) that no- thing in the sub-section in question Institute and Hospital for Tropical shift vo construed as conferring diseases it is stated that the or | Executive Committee of the Institute is most grateful to Mrs. T. Southern, representative of the Institute in
on Any
adoptive parent employer ang right of retaining possession of a child as against the child's parent or guardian or as against the child.
Two Amendments.
The opportunity is taken making two other amendments of the Pate section. One of these two amendments is affected by paragraph (a) of section 2 of this Ordinance. Section 45 of the ስሩ present principal Ordinance reads "Every person who unlaw: takes away any child."
Hongkong,
SATURDAY. AUGUST 3, 1929."',
THE TRANSATLANTIC. MAILS.
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Mauretania; a bluff, 'goodnatured, British, officer called out: "I guess that'll be all," the lines were cast off, and the Presidunt atarted up the bay.
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The Very Idea! POWELLS
Mr. M. H. Ellis, in his "Express to Hindustan," tells the following. story of an unexpected encounter:
It was thus that a swarthy Arab, potentate greeted him:
"Well, young feller me lad, and] what can we do for you?" sold the sternest and youngest of the black beards, a man about 46 years old. "What can we do for you, eh?”
"Great Snakes 1" -
strong police patrols in various fully, either by force or fraud, very kindly made an appeal to the destinations, Within the pier How's the old Regent Palace?!
parts of the city.
During the few days preceding the 1st August there had been a certain tension, owing to rumours of intended Communist agitation, but on the day itself everyone went about business as usual, feeling entirely safe,,
The Shameen Police of the two Concessions co-operated with the Cauton City Police in
their for maintaining arrangements order and preventing meetings or parades.
of
Some little difficulty has some times been felt about the words italicised above in the case very young children where it can hardly be said that either force or
for the kid fraud is necessary napping.
Accordingly paragraph (a) of section 2 of this Ordinance deletes or the words "either by force fraud and substitutes the words "by any means,"
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"Was your garden any good this year?!
"Rather. It enabled our next- door neighbour's chickens to take first prize at the poultry show,”
Mrs. Tho. President, with its lower Southern made an appeal and gave deck piled high with mail, eased an entertainment on behalf of the into Pier 72, and almost before its Institute i:1 Hongkong. Sirlines were made fast, a conveyor "I thought that would fetch you. Robert Ho Tung, Lady Ho Tung, had been holsted from the dock to I've just been betting old Achmed Mr. He Kom Tong and Mrs. He the bow of the ship, and over an here that you were. British. 1 Kon Tong have become Life Asso-endless chain, the bags of mail knew it the moment 1 spotted you The total sum received began to speed ashore, direct to coming up the hill. You're worth cintes."
the tailbords of waiting mill a new pony to me—if the old bligh. from the above sources is £140.
Mrs. H. T. Creasy, President of trucka, which would carry them ter pays up." the Hongkong Women's Guild and on to city stations or to the Pont "You've been in England, I see?" League Office for resorting for foreign "I have. Balliol. Inner Temple, Ministering Children's Committee of the aforesaid Guild stood a string of mail care await-Squallez-vous and tell me all about and League for a donation from ing the two steam lighters which it, and have a wee drappie."
behalf of the the funds on Institute, in view of the work were carrying mails for interior which the Russ Institute is doing points and which had followed us to assist disenses prevention work up the bay.
The Mauretania was still in the in the East. This appeal met with approval, and a donation of £30 stream, opposite her Fourteenth The interest Street pier, we had passed her has been received, taken in the institute in Hongkong again as she was being shoved in is much appreciated by the by a fect of tugs. The United States mails were on their way to Committee,
destination throughout the world; The ether amendment is made
Uncle Sam had saved his nephews and nieces and his cousins over- by paragraph (b) of section 2 of
seas a few hours by sending down ❘ this Ordinance. Section 45 of the
to Quarantine to get their letters Reports of Shameen residents principal Ordinance at present
All those who read the fore-ashore earlier than would have being nervous in the day itself provides that "no person who has are incorect. On the contrary, claimed any right to the posses going report must realize the value been possible had they remained
to the Empire of research work on the his liner. everything was quite normal, busi-sion" of the child and no person
And this smooth machinery, this bens being curried on as usual. who has claimed to be the father the prevention and treatment
tropieni disenses.
Among time-saving device, this daily, and Foreignera who had business in of an, illegHimate child", shall be of
the tropical diseases, malaria is prob- almost hourly, performance ou the city did not hesitate to leave liable to prosecution on
ably one of the greatest causes of days when several mail ships-When did your husband make mortality, and in certainly the arrive, is the result of constant his last payment to you? Wife greatest rause of sickness general-supervision, of efficient planningWhen he made the first.
and management, of co-operation | Mr, W. R. Lake, Willesden the Malaria Department is createtween R. P. Williams, superin Magistrate-The second wife often that really belongs to the previous comes in for a heritage of trouble one.
the island, whilst many golfers went as gaunt in the afternoon to
the course at Tungshan,
ground of having taken the child out of the lawful charge of some
ather person.
|- 50-year-pld_Problem.
Section 3 of this Ordinance
No doubt these words refer to Regarding the reported dis hoe fide claims but it has been covery of a large number of Com- thought better to provide express munist circulars, actually they what the claims must be bona Shameen authorities have heard fide, of only two copies of this ejrcular, one fond in the entrance of the Andersen, Meyer building and one In the entrance of Jarding's mess, about 8 pm on the evening of the 31st July. These circulars were evidently the work of some illi- terate angleur Communist, writ ten in vers poor English, a large part being practically unintelli- gible-Our Dim Correspondent,
MOSCOW WARNING TO MUKDEN.
an attempt to legislate for a nuttis which has been discussed of and and om for fifty years. The see- tion makes it an offence to take any part in any transaéllun the object of which is to transfer the possession of any minor under eighteen for any valuable con- sideration, unless the accused can prove that the transaction was bona fide and solely for a purpose of a proposed marriage of adop- tion in accordance with Chinese custom.
"The section also makes it 29 | offence to be in possession, with Continued from Page 1)
-out lawful authority or excuse, of morning, and he is conferring any such minor who has been so with Chang Hseul-liang this after-dealt with after the commence- noon, leaving to-morrow for Harment of this Ordinance, whether bin to meet Mr. Tsai Yun-hsiung. such minor was so deal with with
in or without the Colony. Serious Aldir.
An offender against the section may be sentenced to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not excreding one year, or to, both
Lady Pollock and Lady Birdwood have become Life Associates of the Tustitute.
An appeat included with the report says:
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The Ross Institute in extending
ing a very valuable centre to fight
this disease,
Tropical diseases affect the life and prosperity of the Empire in a measure beyond calculation, and'
it is hoped that this fact will be remembered when general appeals are made for charitable purposes,
tendent of the mails in New York,
and J. 3. Crocker, manager of mail and express traffic of the New York Central.
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Nor does "snow, nor rain nor
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Nottingham man-I have been out of work a year and twelve month,
Wood Green witness, taking the oath. The evidence I give above will be the truth,
Woman, giving evidence nt Wood Green-It was on a Tuesday before a Wednesday.
Willesden father-That giri 'of! mine has been a thoroughly wicked woman ever since she was born.
Magistrate's clerk, at Tottenham
A correspondent, quoting as his heat, nor gloom of night stay these authority a Romany romance en- couriers from the swift comple-titled "Roving Royston," in which tion of their appointed rounds," the hero is a Diddikai, suggests. so that a proportion of the huge although our guide added that a that this is the origin of the sums given for general charities couple of new men, just appoint corrupted Diddykies. A Diddikai may be earmarked to help worked to the postal service, and seelag is a half-breed between Romany being done to improve health in the insription on the General Post and Gorglo. the tropical areas of the Empire. Offer Building, agreed that the The Ros Tustitute is supported man who write the slogan had entirely by voluntary contribu- misspelled "carriers." tions, and so far is in no way P. S. in the Christian Science endowed.. Consequently it is in Meuftar, very urgent need of generous)
nancial support. £250,000 is and required for endownient 230,000 for hospital and laboratory extension.
EPSTEIN DRAWINGS BANNED IN U.S.A.
This is confirmed by a Bristol lady solicitor. An old Sonterset woman spelt. "Diddikni". La her, but when pressed for its exact meaning replied:
thee cassn't call "Weil, Miss, they Gypsies, exactly; they be more what I do call going-about bodies."
The enth bulletin of Enalern ports for the week ended Saturday last. issued by the Director of This same lady asked an old Medical and Sanitary Services, Gloucestershire mun, of over 8t gives the following cases, the if he knew the word. He Raid figures in parenthesis indicating that he had known the word since deaths: Plague, Tamiatave 1, Al- he was "grasshopper-high." exandria 2 (1), Port Said 1, Bassein 6. Rangoon (4), Pnom Penh (3), Saigon 1 (1), Phillipe-carruption, Diddykics, is exten- ville 3, Tunglino Mongolia) 13;sively used still in rural Mon-
nouthshire. Cholera, Calcutta (28), Bangkok 2, Pnom Penh (1), Saigon 2 (L), nude Shanghai (2); Small-pox, Aden 22
NUDE STUDIES "UNFIT
FOR CIRCULATION."
I am also informed that the
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It was a poor sort of hotel, nid
Tokyo, Aug. 2. From Harbin it is reported that the outrageous conduct of the local Chizzese police and soldiers has each the and such imprisonment, A book of drawings of come a daily happening in Harbin. Se prosecution can be instituted women by Jacob Epstein, the (17), Bombay 21 (36), Calcutta 5 the irate visitor dashed down to Kot infrequently foreigners are the without the consent. the famous sculptor, has been banned. Karachi 34, Moulmein 6 (1), the office. "Here, I say," he said victims.
Attorney General.
The latest case wherein a for- eigner was subjected to physical violence at the hands of the Chinese police occurred on Tuesday after- ion in broad daylight in the street. The victim was the American vice- consul who was violently treated when he tried to remonstrate
against the bratal handling of an 'American girl who had roused their ire.
American consul_lodged The a protest with the Chinese author ties while it is reported that the Consular Body are seriously con cerned over the increasing violence on the part of the police. Reuter.
! A Bank Employee.
Tokyo, later.
lows:--
Subsidiary Points.
T
tion."
in America as "unfit for ciresla-Pondicherry 9 (1), Macasser 6 (2), to the man there, "are you the Relawan Doli 1 (1), Suigon 1, Can manager of this confounded ton 1, Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, establishment?" "Yes, sir-1 am," Balikpapan (1), Shanghai (4), was the reply. "Well, then," the have visitor stormed, "I would you know 1 have a very serious complaint" "You have, sir?" the manager said, "then, by heaven, don't come near me, it may be eatching!"
The drawings were exhibited The section also contains three Galleries, Duke-street, St. James, recently at the Godfrey Philips subsidiary, provisiona 35 fol- and have been purchased by the
A firm of exporting booksellers world's leading art collectors. took a copy to New York, where (a) empowers the magistrate
Copies of
the drawings were it was declared to the customs. to "find" the are of the minor printed, and published in book It was immediately seized and whether evidence of age be given form to make a permanent sent to Washington, where the
ban was issued,
Visitors to Wimborne Abbey c) movies that it shall he A limited edition of 220 coplex) When told of the ban Mr. no defence to a charge under the beautifully printed section that the minor consented was issued, and 200 were for sale, silly? Whatever have they done clock which
and bound, Epstein said, "Now, Isn't that are puzzled by the astronomical defies summer time. to the transaction, or that the each copy being signed by the that for? I don't know
It was made by a monk of Glaston- happened, but it is extraordinary, bary six hundred years ago, and
or not.
cord.
minor received the consideration artist. or any part thereof, or that the acensed believed or had rensonable - ground to believe that the minor was not under the age of eighteen. (e) The ́stion also provides that nothing # It is to be con- sidered as reengnising in any way whatsoever the possibility that
A message from Harbin says the Victim of police roughness, report rights of possession, custody or en previously, is not the Vice-Con-contrat over any person cah sul but an American employee of he
transferred
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conferred
the National City Bank of New for valuable consideration. for any York.
The American Consul visited
The Chief of Police and demanded explanation, reserving the
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right to protest if an investigation Justibes it---Renter
JAPAN'S ATTITUDE. Unwilling to Participate in International Commission.
purpose.
DRUGS HIDDEN ON LORD LLOYD'S TRAIN.
HASHSH SMUGGLERS' RUSE FAILS,
Jerusalem, July 8. It is reported here that 24 pack Tokyo, Aug. 2. nges of hashish were found Just There seems lille doubt but that | Friday at Ladd railway station, Japan will be most unwilling to hidden in the specini saloon en participate in the International | provided for Lord Lloyd, the High Commission dealing with Man-Commissioner for Egypt, who has churia, unless possibly in the event been in Palestine on his way back of an unforescen emergency.
to Egypl after visiting Syria.
The hashish was found Just be Even so she would not welcome the participation of the other fore the train was about to leave Powers in the settlement of ques on its way to Egypl. tions affecting Manchuria, where she considers her own interests are paramount and more vital than unr considerations of International.co. operation. Consequently the Gov. ernment is extremely anxious to see the Sino-Soviet negotiations proceed smoothly.-Reuter,
Evidently the smugglers thought that they would profit by the immunity of Lord Lloyd's train, and that their smuggling would in that way.go undetected.
On the following day a search of the enloon car bringing Mr. (Acting Director of Campigli Railways) also revealed several parcels of bashish...
Hashish, an Indian hemp pre-
The engagement is announced beparation, is used in the East to tween Mr. Franola Brimblecombe, induce vialans. It rapidly leads
Prison Department, and Mies Panny
to the drug babit and consequent
Blyth, 45, Wyndham Street, Hong-demoralisation.
kong
TUDOR
PLANS 11919 KEAKERVIKTIG REGAT.OFF.
"I've already had my soda; let's go in and look at some shoes. That's a better way to rest your feet."
what
has been going continuously ever since. It is wound daily. Pos- sibly it would be deemed a sacrilege to alter it according to Parliamentary regulations. The ghost of the ingenious monk might protest. The clock has a curious dial. The earth is re- presented in the centre, the moon revolves around denoting s phases, while the sun 'describes the outer circle and points, to the hour.
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A very little girl was having a lesson in simple spelling, her advance to be made easier by the comparative method,
"What does O X spell?" she was asked,
"Ox" was the renly,
"Quite right," said the teacher encouragingly. "Then what does BOX spell"
"Cow" was the little pupil's unhesitating response,
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The public think of melody too "Home"--Mr. much in terms of Eugene Goossens,
I am one of those who feel that all their manhood disappeara. when their knees are bare--Dr. Alington,
A Scottlah parent nover Has as mach: pride in n son as when that son ceases to cost him money, -Prof. Grierson.
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