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troops from the occupied terri- tories. Reading yesterday's cables, however, we are left with the im- pression that, even at this stage, Germany may be prepared to make some concessions, provided she can get definite guarantees on the Rhineland and Saar problems. What is rather strange, however, is that there should appear to be some difference of outlook between one of the German. delegates and the Berlin Government. This de- legate is credited with saying that Germany might compromise on the French proposal for a Committee of Verification and Conciliation in the Rhineland, provided the Com-houses since Sunday, mittee was not imposed beyond 1935. No sooner had the utter-
ance been made, however, than there came a statement from
CORRESPONDENCE.
"Maskee" Kangkong.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
Omnibus conduclors are some- times credited with greater re- sourcefulness even than police. man. The conductor of an omni- |bus told a friend of mine (saya a The Ben Line 8.a. Ronlawers is due here from Europe on the 15th waken up the public of Hongkong. previous week two foreign womon Sir-Can nothing be done to writer in a Home paper) that the instant.
A spirit of Inertia acenta to per entered it and asked to be put vade everybody. Now and again down at a certain private house. someone writes to the papers and When they were asked where it ventilates his views or his way situgied they said they had grievances over the way certain forgotten the address, but handed things are managed or misman-him a piece of paper with a telo, aged by the Government services phone number on it.
"You can and suggests a public meeting he easily find it out from that," said called with a view to the forma one of them in excellent English. there it. ends. tion of a Municipal Council, but
The B. 1. 8.8, Dalgoma, with let- ters from London via Neganatam, is due here on Friday morning.
Finni showings take place to-day at the Queen's Theatre of Univer- which has been drawing crowded sal's big film, "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
Amongst the passengers who left by the s.s. Taiyo Maru were the Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Knight Anstey, Mr. D. J. Lewis, Mr. and official circles. In Berlin to the Mrs. W. J. Jones, and Miss Any
Stonham.
|
Since the past 12 days the Castle Penk Rond at the 15% mile has been blocked owing to a fandslide. If
was anywhere else except in Hongkong the rocks would have been blasted and the debris re- moved in a few days.
across
On Sunday, the 28th ult. I had occasion to take my car the harbour to Kowloon and on Among the many passengers arriving at the 15%1⁄2 mile saw three leaving on the 8.8. Taiyo Maru to-women, and a man working at the and Mrs. F. X. ramoval of the block in the rond- day are Mr.
Almada, Jr., and Mina D'Almada, way. An automatic drilling ma- en route for California on i sight-chine was on the roadway, obvious. seeing tour.
ly for show, as if it had been used for the purpose it was intended the rocks ought to have been blasted away in a few days.
When the conductor explained that he did not carry either a tole phone book or a Post Offlec direc- tory or a wireless telephone, and Was naturally unable to help them, one of them replied: "Any gen tleman would take the trouble"
Polite Shop Assistant-"Will one collar be enough, madam?”
Middle-aged. Customer-"Of" course it will. D'you think I've get several husbands 7"
Old Mother Hubbard went to the
receptacle for nourishment
To get her poor canine an osseque
tidbit.
When she got there the cupboard was entirely denuded of its contents,
And so the poor doggio got the
opposite of any.
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effect that this view does not gecord with that of the Govern- ment, which holds that the evacua tion of the Rhineland is no longer a matter for argument, and which says the demand for a Conciliation Committee must be dropped. I is pertinent to recall, however, |that in a recent globale on foreign At yesterday's meeting of the Chairman affairs in the Reichstag, Herr Sanitary Board the
mentioned that Mr. Wong Kwong machine had been removed and al On Monday, the 5th inst, the Stresemann, whilst definitely
tin had pointed out certain dis though the number of workmen stating that his Government would quieting figures in the report from had increased, two were boring not consent to any form of per- the Government Bacteriologist reholes in the rocks by hand, whilst manent unilateral' control, left lative to the water supplies for a dozen were breaking the rocké July. The Chairman promised to ht the side of the road into road ambiguous is attitude towardɛ n obtain an explanation of the metal. No cars were allowed to temporary control ceasing in 1935. | figures. In its main fentures, that declara. tion corresponds with the views Two Chinese married women' expressed by the delegate to The appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte would have been no risk of the Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy vibration from a passing car dis therefore, that it represents the apping a five-year-old boy from result the long week-end has been real viewpoint of the German No. 172. Parkes Street. The second spoilt for those of the public of A HISTORIC MEETING. Government. If so, the delegate barbouring the lad. The case was
defendant was also charged with Hongkong who spend their holi- days at Castle Peak, due to some may have been merely a trifle pre- | adjourned until: to-morrow for body taking his time over remov mature in disclosing the extent to hearing.
ing the landslide and not having which Germany is prepared to go
the gumption or being too cussed to clear the. ron sufciently to allow cara to pass through the Thirly years ago, the late Mr. Justice Grantham acted as counsel cutting.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
pass, although it was quite safe, and there was sufficient room and with ordinary precautions there
cently filled the role of counsel for A barrister at the Old Bailey re- the prosecution and counsel for the defence.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, 1929. Hague Conference, It may well be, this morning, charged with kid-lodging further boulders. As a Justice Swift asked him, in the ab.
in order to reách a definite mettle-
ment. Be that as it may, there can be no doubting the paint that the continued presence of foreign troops in Germany is a sore point with the German people, and that it is likely to cause irritation ra-
ther than to conduce to universal eancoril. We shall be surprised, therefore, If the Conference does not result in early evacuation.,
Mr. S. Souffert appeared to de- fend a woman on an Indictment for manslaughter, when Mr. ence of prosecuting counsel, if he would like to open the prosecu- tion. Mr. Seuffert agreed and pro- jury. He had not gone far, how- ceeded to lay the facts before the ever, when counsel for the prose- cution arrived and took over the opening...
The appeal of Carl, Gunther is a sentence of two years imprisonment for trafficking in In 1926 there were several land-for the prosecution in a case ef drearms was dismissed, and the slides on the Castle Peak road malaughter tried before him at sentence of the lower court affirm-which was under repair for two
the Old Bailey. ed in the Criminal Appeat Division
of the Provisional Court at Shang- months when suddenly one of the P.W.D. oficials decided to have n
Lambeth Wife-I want to take
hai, Gunther. a German of more bathing party at Castle Peak out a summons for peace in the MP, N. Ivanow. than 00 years, was represented by the road was of course ready for home.
..
traffle on the appointed day! 1 Woman at Bow County Court-
With the opening of the Con- ference of the Powers at The Hague, there are good prospects of a great forward step being made in the settlement of outstanding problems of the Great War. Not enly in the Young reparations plan to be dealt with, but the Rhineland and the Suar bccupations are also to be tackled. In very truth .cam it he said that history will be made by this Conference, which must rank as the most important since the signing of the Peace Trenty, We say that because so much de- pends on the decisions reached. In all, there are thirteen nations
proved beyond doubt in this world. represented, and whilst it will not
rung up and one of the senior of except the multiplication table. be an easy matter to secure un-
cinia informed that If the roadway Woman applying for a summons animity of viewpoint on all the
Sentence of two months' hard was not immediately rolled the for threats at Lambeth--She said issues raised, there should be to the wishes of the Chinese constabaur, In addition to a fine of.W.D. would be sued in the event she would give me what I WAB Magistrate-What sufficient goodwill shown to enable munity is the matter of a supply $10, with the alternative of two of damage to the tyros caused by asking for? a just and equitable settlement of through the rider mains. As we months, was imposed by Mr. T. S. the loose metal on the roadway were you asking for? Woman- all mailers which are to come ur-have persistently urged since the Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon which led to a garage. The roller Nothing.
Magistracy this morning, on R was back the same afternoon and der consideration. Germany is ob-state of emergency vanished in a widow who pleaded guilty to keep the roadway rolled within a couple series of heavy rainstorms, no ing No. 40, Temple Street as an viously expecting. Anal decisions
system of supply could be regard-illegal house. The defendant had on all issues, for the Berlin Gov-ed as adequate until such a con-one previous conviction for the ernment accepted the Young recession had been made. Houses in
sante offenec.
parations plan as the basis for the the rider, main districts are to be
A end-de-ane roadway in front The only work I do is us house- Coxswains, engineers and men of the launches attached to sometime ago, a steam roller was
Hea of a friend's house was torn upkeeper for my husband,
Mr. Charles Lee, Willesden Ma- the Water Polica, numbering lying idle whilst the operation was gistrate, to a woman applicant about a hundred, attended the in progress but immediately the Pleased to see you again, but I funeral yesterday of Sin So, bosun new metal was laid and ready for scarcely recognised you in your No. 120, who for some time past rolling, some official or the con- new hat. has been attached to No. 2 Police tractor discovered the roller was Inunch. He died suddenly at his required. elsewhere. As the study to the Colony's water prob-teen years'
Those who have given serious home in Shamshuipo after nine-steam roller did not return, after Youshire Assizes-Nothing can be
service with the two days the P.W.D. office hers will not be surprised by the Force."
The Water Supply,
announcement that the Govern
meat has at last decided to accede
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of hours!
This “masked" germ, seems
was
to
Mr. Justice Rowlatt, at Carúar-
An audition was held at the Prince of Wales's Theatre recently. to choose two colonels for touring companies in "Journey's End," the great war play.
Already 250 applicants had pre-
conference, with the proviso that granted, frum to-morrow, a supply of the Colonial Secretary, loft body would supply figures of the viously been seen by the stage
K. M, A.
Hongkong, Aug. 6th, 1929.
director, Mr. Thomas Warner, and» 40 more ware given a trial,
.
"I thought of giving my uncle
Can. a hundred cigars like these: you think of anything he would like 'better?"
flourish unchecked amongst some of our "heave.. born" working a der A benign Government. It Mra. Southorn, the popular' wife would be very interesting if some- "The complete and simultaneous of two consecutive hours daily, last evening on the Patroclus on a personnel of the P.W.D. In Hong- Iquidation of the questions stil) which will afford a considerable brief visit to the Old Country,kong compared with the area of
The prospective colonels were of outstanding from the World War saving in household expenditure to The illness of her mother has been roads or Public Works in compari
amateurs, some were ex-officers hundreds who could ill afford it, responsible for Mrs. Southorn leav-on to some of our other Colonies all types and ages. Many were is an essential corollary."
ing at an earlier date than intended, or, Dependencies. a point which appears to have been During her comparatively short There is a fortune awaiting still looking for a job, while one was a colonel who had commanded But whilst all the questions are entirely overlooked by the pessi-stay in the Cojony, Mrs. Southorn somebody in the Colony who ean related one to the other, it does mistic advoentes of ultra-caution, has made a host of friends, who invent on anti-Masker serum..battalion at the front.
Twelve were selected for fur- net follow that they will be dealt Incidentally, the majority of the will wish her a pleasant voyage Yours, etc.,
home aud good news at the end of
ther tests. with on that basis. Indeed, the street fountains will now be cut the journey. German Government evidently off, this source of supply being thinks that each issue should be no longer necessary. Even so, the
Among the passengers leaving
A Disgusting Comment, considered separately, witness the new stage of restriction will, of Hongkong yesterday, for the North course, involve a much greater ex- aboard the President Grant were penditude from the island reser- Mr. S. Howard, connected with
Sir-In its comments on our let- to hand yesterday, that the claim voirs, but since the 1,000,000,000 Mesars, John 1. Thornycroft & Co, ter, the Honghong Sunday Herald for the evacuation of the Rhine gallon mark was reached we have Sik-pang, student from Canton, who have only to recall the "Sally" travelling to Shanghai; Mr. Lee has tried to hoodwink its readers, Iand must be settled independently been satisfied, as the Government travelling to U.S., where he will and the letter. of the other problems. This ques- now must be, that there is sum-continue his studies at the Univer: We think they will find that the tion of the Rhineland is perhaps cient water in stoenge to justify ally of Richmond, Richmond, Va: only person who could put such a
Mr. W. L. Ogden, connected with the biggest of any. The altitude the experiment, to put it at its the Standard Oil Co. in Batavia, construction on our protest, as is commented upon, is the commentor of the British Government thereon lowest. We are not advocates of Java, returning to the U. S. on himself. His is the mentality that is well known. It is that there the feast and famine policy, but furlough; Rev. N. G. Dunning, requires the drastic cleaning ad- should be a withdrawal of all for- we see nothing in the prosent missionary worker from Australia,
travelling to England via the vocated. eign troops from Germany with water position to enable us to en-United States; Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Why not admit a piece of putrid out further delay. That, we bevation at the expense of all con- and return.
dorse a policy of stringent conser-P. C. Cheng, travelling to Shanghai journalism?
Mr. Cheng ld the We repeat that a disaster is no lieve; is reflective of the feelings sideration, for the convenience of Traffic Manager of the Canton-subject for a joke.-Yours, etc, ⠀⠀
FOUR DISGUSTED NAVAL MEN. of the bulk of British people on the the public. For instance, if the Kowloon Railway (Chinese Sec-
Hongkong, Aug. 5th, 1929.
statement from Berlin, which came
Evacuation
rider main supply is given until
the beginning of October, a cost to
Lion).
"Yes, fifty,"
A candidate in an examination for the Nottinghamshire county junior scholarship wrote:
"When I grow up I should like
to be a headminster, I think it is a nice easy job. When all the teachers and scholars are at work, you can go in the private room and enjoy the fire and boil the kettle and have a nice hot cup of tea, and then begin to read until you feel. like going into school again.
As a youngster." I wanted the world, but, finding that no one could posнess it, 1 had · the. curiosity to learn all about it, Lord Passfield,
subject. Whether France will be prepared to take up a like stand, irrespective of any endorsement of the reservoirs of 364,000,000 gul- tion, the fact that only 900,000,000
An Explanation.. the Young plan, remains to be seen, lone approximately will be involv-gallons were left would justify a
Sir-With reference to the re-and Mr. C. A, C. Rodrigues, the That Germany wants to see early ed, the figure being based on the rovérsion to the twelve hours Government ealiinate of 6.5 mil-fountain supply, and it would he carried out is quite
Hons daily. That would leave 900 found that this would be suffelent mark made by 'Mr. Insique Brewer | liquidators, on the 2nd May, 1029,! natural. Indeed, some few weeks millions in the island reservoirs, carry us well into April, if not the affairs of the Instone Braking to the preparation of a statement to last for 30 weeks, which would during his public examination into audit the acounts with the view ng the spokesmen of all the Coall. even prezumning that no rain falls longer. But the fallacy in the rea: Corporation. Ltd., the impression of the Bank's affairs. This has llon Parties in the Reichatang de-in the meantime, and the reservoirs soning of the dissenters is that all may have been created that we been our sole connexion with the clared that they would only sup-gain nothing upon present supply calculations have been based on were ucting us Auditors of the Bank-Yours, etc. port ratification of the reparations When the position is reviewed at the assumption that there is to be Company prior to its going into
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, glan conditionally upon the simul- the end of September, in accord.no further rainfall. It Is time liquidation.
We desire to state that we were
Chartered Accounta Hongkong, Aug. 7th. 1929,
taneous withdrawal of foreign ance with the Government notifica.they escaped from a famine com" instructed by Mr. Instone Brewer
plex.