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Payr, Lieut. A. C. Dickson has been appointed to HMS, Kent,
Suggestions regarding the ob servance of a Health Week úroʻto come before the Sanitary Board: at its meeting to-morrow.
POLICE RESERVE.
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WEEK.
Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Acting Cap- tain Superintendent of Police,
étate:
Chinese Company. Strength.-Constable R86 Ho Lum is struck off the strength of the Chinese Company with effect from September 30th, 1929.
on the heads of the missionaries. This is done by asserting that when these missionaries Informed the magistrate of the district of their intention to spend their SELVES-Abrakam Lincoln, summer holidays in the Ching Liang mountains, they were adyls ed not to go, as the place was infested with robbers. The mis- slonaries did not, however, pay hood to his advice," says the Agency quoted, with the result that they were subsequently captured by the robbery
The third annual garden fete of Squad Drill-All recruits of the Whether the facts are as stated | St. Peter's Church will be held at Chinese Company will attend at does not greatly matter, excepting 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, October 12, Central Police Station on Thurs- at St. Pator's Club, Bonham Road.day, October 3rd. at 5.30 p.m. sharp for squad drill under F/Sergeant that we accept the version
P. Condon. Dress-Mufti. given, it is candidly admitted that
Among the passengers leaving the authorities are unable to on the Mantua on Saturday were Indian Company, guarantee the safety of foreign | Mr. D. F. 0. Cleland, Mr. and Mrs. life in the region concernet. This W. E. Douglas, Mrs. F. P. Frank is all-important in view of Nan-lin, Mr. E. W Gaubert, Mr. A. McWhirter, Lieut. I. Quinn and king's oft-repeated assurances Mr. and Mrs. A. Robertson. that if extrality is abolished the Central Government will under- take protection of foreign life and property. It is also to be noted that the region concerned is quite close to a big city with its own magistrate and troops.
It is advertised that the eighth ordinary yearly meeting of share holders of the Hongkong and Can ton Ioe Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will be held at the offices of the General Managers, 2, Lower Albert Road, at 11a.m. on October 15.
Recruits Drill-All recruits of the Indian Company will, attend Police Headquarters for squad drill under P/Sergeant P. Condon on Tuesday, October 1st, and 8th: at 6.30 pm sharp Dress-Mufti,
Flytrig Squad.
The fortnightly patrol of the Hongkang Section will take place on Thursday, October 3rd. Fall in at the Central Police Station at 5.15 pm sharp. Dress-Khaki Uniform.
The Very Idea!
That it should be rande compul- sory to retire at the age of sixty five was pressed by Mr Lawis C Ord, vice-chairman of Meaзra, Ltd of Glasgow when speaking William Beardmore and Company. nt the conference on co-partner- ship in Jndustry whichwan resumed at Somerville Collexe Oxford, under the napices of the Industrial Co-partnership Auso- ciation."
"It is a fact” salú M. Ord, "that when a man who has been. all his life in one stondy occupa tion suddenly retires and drops out of everything, he often just fades out and dies as a result of losing all interest in life.
This is especially the case with men in outdoor occupations, It is essential, therefore, to work up any and every outside occupation in life for these men so that they will have something to live for und occupy their minds when they re- tire. 1901 am in favour of compulsory retiring at the age of sixty-five, that is before they become too old to work up other interests."
"When I came into the room 'last: night did I hear someone say to you. Is that the beautiful Miss Rose?" "
"Yes, with the accent on the
may .be
The next fortnightly patrol of Another point which
the Kowloon Section will taken A Chinese passenger from Can-place on Tuesday, October 8th. that mentioned in the case of these
ton who was arrested on the train Fall in at the Tsim-tea-tsui Eire missionaries is the statement that with 60 taels of raw opium conceal Brigade Station at 5.80 p.m. sharp, when informed of the unfortunate ed in a specially-made jacket was Dress-Khakl Uniform, position of the captives, the Pra-fined $1,800, or seven months hard labour, by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith vincial Commissiouer of Foreign at the Kowloon Magistracy, this Affairs requested the civil and morning.
Hongkong Eelegraph. military authorities to order the
MONDAY SEPT. 30, 1929,
DISTORTION.
(Sd.) W, KENT, A. S. P.
Adjutant.
MAJESTIC THEATRE.
SHOW.
When a Devonshire defendant, charged with having an ineficient gilencer on his motorcycle, was...⠀ fined half-a-crown, he had some- thing to say. That something'. was: "Excuse me, but you haven't asked if there are any previous convictions,"
"Are there any 7 "Yes; a regular string of them." Away went the Bench to examine the motorcycle; and on their retura the chairman announced that de fendant would be fired pound Nothing like the surging pound-instead of half-a-crown. ing drama and wholesome, delight- ful comedy which go to make." up
capture of the bandits and the On a charge of larceny of a foot release of the missionaries. Yet ruler from a contractor in Shang- hai Street, a fifteen-year-old Chin- six weeks have passed and these was sentenced to four months' unfortunate foreigners are. ap-hard labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte at A STIRRING FILM NOW ON parently still held captive. By the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- Ing. The defendant had two pre- way of explanation. It is added vious convictions. by the Agency named that
On charges of keeping a common The Isle of Retribution" now play "Hm," the optician murmured, The tendency shown by certain "although Kwangtung military Chinese newspapers, and news affairs have just commenced to gaming house in Portland Street aing at the Majestic Theatre, Kow-you say these glasses I gave you minimise incidents settle down, banditry has not map and his wife who were seen loon have been seen in a picture of have not improved: your sight? agencies to
actively conducting a game of pai
All devotees of the motion picture before the eyes?” adversely affecting foreigners in been entirely suppressed.". It kau, were each fined 360 by Mr. the Northland for quite a long time. You still see what you call spots China is much to be regretted. certainly has not, nor do we ex-T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon will delight in this stirring story; That's right, sir," his client Magistracy this morning. Eleven not alone those who delight in replied, "although I must admit In all such matters, nothing is to pect that it will be for many years others were each fined $3 for play "now" pctures. N
that since I wore the glasses, I to come. We do not in any way ing-
The hair-raising character of can see em much clearer than be gained in the long run by a
Doomsdorf, as drawn by Edison before!" policy of distorting the facts; for wish to belittle the attempts which
Madame Lino Chung-kol, the Marshall in his original novel and everybody concerned, it is far are being made to free the pro- better to face the actualities. vince of brigands, for the problem well-known Leftist, arrived in adapted to the screen by Fred My- Manila aboard the s.a. President ton is in itself such a masterpiece Our Canton correspondent sent is a huge one, with many factors Polk last week for a fortnight's as has not been written since Wolf write better letters than Bachelors à comment on Saturday into be taken into account. But its stay. She is then proceeding on a Larsen in Jack London's Sea of Ant, because they have been
08
sort,
regard to the case of Mr. Ander very magnitude only serves to a Russian subject in the show that; much as China would service of the Maritime Customs, like the facts to be otherwise, the who has been sentenced to two evil is so deep-rooted that it will take a very long time to remedy. years' imprisonment in. Klukiang
Which is equivalent to saying that for alleged acceptance of bribes
China is not yet in a position to from opium smugglers. In that
guarantee protection of foreign comment, two diametrically oppos life and property in the interior.
#
Surrender to Moscow?
the
Bachelors of Science invariably
world tour via Singapore. There Wolf first stalked majestically taught to write what they have to greet her, and various functions Silver Sheet. And what a fight for Showan. were 400 Chinese, on the wharf to truss the printed page and the say and then leave off. Mr. P. B. in her honour have been arranged & in Manila.
finish; The huge, hairy vein. If you want simply to get "fup,” powerful as a bear and like the latter caught in the great steel hard heart and a good digestion jaws of a trap by the lag, pitted will help you more than all the The maternity home attached to against the swift, revengeful flush cardinal virtues.-Dean' Inge." - the Kwong Wah Hospital, at Yau- of a younger and slighter man, who Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and mati was formally opened by the dares not let him get a hold as he Signor, Mussolini are virtually two Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Secretary shoots in and out with short sharp peas from the same pod-Mr. for Chinese Affairs, on Saturday. punches. Veritably this is a bat George Young, M.V.O. Mr. M. K. Lo, the Chairman of the tle between a Grizzly and a wolf- Tung Wah Hospital, the Directors butween crushing power and savage of the Tung Wah and the Kwong speed. This is the sort of climax Wah and a number of leading to which "The Isle of Retribution" Chinese residents were present.works in a smooth relentless flow of
big melodrama.
BANGLE SNATCHER PUNISHED.
AND BIRCHING.
I claim to be descended from the Thane of Fife-Macduft, the gentleman who killed Macbeth. Mr. G. B. Shaw.
An old lady stepped up to the captain, and asked why the ship had stoppel.Can't get along on account of the fog, he replied. "But I can see the stars overhead," Bald the old tady
"Yes," replied the captain, "but
the boilers bust.
the Tory Press would not seed, after making the necessary MAGISTRATE ORDERS GAOL we are not going that way, unless
adily have placed the worst eon-arrangements for the Inaugura- struction on communique tron at Haiphong, where the issued from the Foreign Office on Chinese community numbers Friday afternoon, and jumped to about 50,000. the conclusion that the Foreign
Six months' hard labour and 15 METER IDENT strokes of the birch were imposed by Mr. TS. Whyte Smith at the WHO WAS Kowloon Magistracy this morning
TARTUFFE. on a Chinese who pleaded gulity to a charge of larceny of a rattan
Market, bangle from a child in the Yaumati
versions of the trial of the accused are referred to. One, emanating from a foreign source, says Mr. Anderson was sentenced
It is rather unfortunate that the without the calling of any wit-Conservative Party cannot "And it within themselves to believe that
A branch will shortly be open- nesses or any statement by the Mr. Arthur Henderson and Mr. accused: the other, circulated by Ramsay MacDonald have little ed in Haiphong, French Indo- more patience with the doctrines China, by the Bank of East Asia, Chinese official news agency, preached by Moscow than Mr. H. Ltd. the head office of which is asserts that he was sentenced only A. Gwynne, the editor of the true in Hongkong Mr. Kan Tong-po, Otherwise, the Chief Manager has return after a lengthy trial, in the course blue Morning Post. of which he admitted his offence. With all due respect to the agency concerned, we are constrained to accept the foreign version, for obviously if Mr. Anderson pleaded Secretary had surrendered uncon- The body of an aged coolle was ditionally to the Soviet For cur. guilty there would be no necessity part, we should require a much taken to the Kowloon Mortuary for a "lengthy al Morcover, more comprehensive statement 10 from a house In Cooke Street, the fact must not be lost sight of garding the position reached in the Hungham, where it was discover Anglo-Soviet negotiations before ed, with the throat cut open, yes-
It was stated by Sergeant Bright that, being a Russian subject,accepting the inference that Mr. terday. The man had been out of Mr. Anderson would have no-one Henderson has broken the pledge employment for some time, and is that the child was being carried to have committed by its mother when the parent felt given to the House of Commons believed to intervene on his behalf and that there would be no resumption suicide through destitute circuma tug. On looking around, she would be entirely at the mercy of of relations without adequate stancos. A blood-stained razor saw that the defendant had taken his prosecutors." It is significant, safeguards and guarantees regard was found beside the body.
ing debts and propaganda: What, also, that the
news agency's after all, does the Foreign Office version makes no mention what communique amount to? It says that the conversations have result- ever of the despicable treatmented in an agreement upon the list meted out to the accused by cast of subjects to be settled by nego Ing him into a cell along with tiation on the resumption of full
diplomatic relations, including the Paris ... exchange of Ambassailors. It Brussels three Chinese prisoners
Let us turn now to another case does not say that the preliminary Amsterdam
negotiations have now terminated: Berlin illustrating the same tendency to rather, to our mind, does it sug-
Copenhagen. beliitla Incidents in which gest that there are other subjects Vienna foreigners suffer. We refer to the to be discussed, presumably before
the resumption of diplomatic re- Helsingfors kidnapping and holding to ransom lations. Mr. Henderson sent M. Lisbon of three members of the Essel Dovgalevsky empty away three or Bucharest ... four weeks ago when he put for Buenos Aires Mission. These are referred to, ward the proposition now alleged Shanghai in a Canton News Agency state-by the Tories to have been accept Yokohama ed. There has been boen 1 New York 'ment, as two Germans and one,
suggestion that Mr. Henderson's
Goneyn Swede, and it is stated that their views have undergone a radica)
Milan Stockholm. respective Consula have been change. He does, however, realis
that the breaking off of relations
Qalo taking the case up with the in 1924, however justified, was Chinese authorities. In actual fundamentally a mistake, which Frague fact, however, the third member should be rectified as soon as Madrid feasible. It is, therefore, desire "Athena
EXCHANGE RATES.
of the party is a Swiss, and not able that as few obstacles as pos- filo ......... Swede. But that is neither here sible should be placed in the way Bombay nor there. What is very much to of settlement, provided there is no Hongkong
sacrifice of principle at the outset. Silver (spot): the point, however, is that an That we can judge when we aro | Silver (forward) attempt is made to lay the blame given the whole story.
Londen, Sept. 20.
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the bangle off the child's wrist and was about to discard it. He was seized by a market foki.
In reply to his Worship,. Sergeant Bright Haid the child waa not injured.
34.865 ALLEGED ASSAULT ON 12.09%
CONSTABLE.
20.366
.18.205
..34.50
....193
.108.25
ACCUSED MEN ISSUE A CROSS SUMMONS."
...817 On mention being made at the 47.11/64 Kowloon Magistracy this morning ....2/3 of the case in which four men are 1/11.23/32 alleged to have saulted arid 4.85-13/12 obstructed an Indian constable in Sal Kung Road, Kowloon City, Mr. ;25,105
J. M. Remedios, appearing for .92.695
three of the ten, Intimated that a 18.105
cross-summons for assault against .18.205
the constable had been served. 100% In reply to his Worship, Mr .82.785
Remedios sald both the original 2.376
charge against the four men and the counter-summons, against the 1/6.27/32 constable could be heard at the
(1/10)
same time,
5
226/18 His Worship fixed the cases for
.294%
British Wireless."
Thursday next..
Tartufo is the arch hypo- crite of all time. Under cover of religion he was a self-in- dulgent pleasure-seeker, foul- mouthed, deceitful, and co wardly; a snob and a pedant.
Organ, a wealthy but foolish property-owner, was so far de luded by the smooth-tongued. cleric that he took him into his home, kept him supplied. with money, and oven con sented to his betrothal to big daughter. Luckily for every- body. Tartufe was exposed and his villainies duly punish- edHis outraged benefactor took quick revenge by, having the imposter arrested and im- prisoned.
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The comedy of "Tartuffe". was written by Mollore, many of where characters were but thinly-disguised portraits of actual persons. It is thought that the character of Tartuffe Is drawn from Pere La Chaise, the confessor of Lonie XIV., who had a marked partiality for truffles, the Italian name: for which is tartuffoll."
A hundred years after the appearance of Mollerc's play an English adaptation was produced, in which the prota- gonlat is aptly dubbed" Cantwell."
Dr.