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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER
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will be sufficient to state that out rages have occurred in Shasi, Kweichow, Hunan, Hupeh, Kiang- st, Shantung, Kwangtung, Fukien and Kansu. Not only have mis- slonaries figured in the Hat, but more than one case has occurred in which foreign business men have been the vietiis. Women and children have not even been spared. It is true, of course, that
most of the incidents can be traced either to bandits "or disbanded soldiery, but in some Instances, even regular troops have been the offenders. No doubt it will be argued on behalf of China that these things are to be expected so long as the country do not free from civil warfare, and until such time sa a really widespread effort can be made to disperse the Bandit, gangs, which infest the
SUSUL ADA countryside Precisely. But when will civil strife end, and when will the country, be freed of bandits. For more years than care to remember we have been told to await these better days, But they seem never, to daw
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MORRISON-On October 8, 1929, at the French Hospital, Mr. George Morrison of Taikoo Docks, age 52.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. J. Kempton, on behalf of his sister Mrs. G. Morrison, wishes to thank all friends and members of the Taikoo Recreation Club, for their con- dolences, floral tributes and attendance at the funeral.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY OOT. 4, 1929,
THE DAILY STORY.
China.
:
with
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Colony's Noeda,
UNT ROW
(To The Editor of Hongkong
Telegraph.] ---
Sir, Following up my letter of last week, may I beg of you to publish a few additional remarks in regard to the recent Budget Debates ?
particular points in the speeches Before commenting on one or two so eloquently delivered by H. E. the Governor and the Hon. Colonial dwell briefly on your leading article Secretary, I would Just like to of Wednesday, 2nd October, The information which you have acquired relative to the operations of a Municipal Council in Ceylan are most enlightening and the fact that such a body functions there, and, apparently, with such un- qualified success, surely justifies our claim for the inauguration of It is certainly most, interesting in- aimllar Council in this "Colony. deed to observe, Sir, the pains and trouble which you must undoubted-
take in gathering such par ticulars for this community, and should, as we all hope for, the near future full our desires, then it can be largely attributed the interests of this somewhat to your untiring efforts to advance
backward Colony. Would that the same keen spirit be equally as pronounced amongst the leading officials!
In the first place, it would be interesting to ascertain exactly what items are included in "work
All this brings us back to the old point that in conaldering the Coming now to the speech of the question of extrality abolition we Hon. Colonial Secretary, there is one predominating feature which, have to take the situation as it in my opinion, is amply demonstra- is, and not as China's leaders tive of the fact that a fundamen- and her friends wish it to be lacking. The speech in
tally sound business knowledge is In this matter, the facts speak reads, "The work of administra part
for themselves. It is precisely tion has to be provided for before because of the persistence of money can be found for Public
Works.. banditry and civil war that the charge."
...reply to the
Treaty Powers are unwilling to, surrender their extrality rights. Nanking promises adequate pro- tection for foreign life and pro- perty if those rights are linquished, but Nanking knows full well that the promise can- not be made good. When the Central Government is" in position to say that its writ runs throughout the country and that It is able to keep the lawless in check, then no-one will be more gratified than the Powers. Then, but only then, extrality rights can be given up without fear of the
consequences.
Dr. Stresemann.'
re-
DAY BY DAY.
YOUTH IS EVER CONFIDING, AND WE CAN ALMOST FORGIVE. ITS DIE- INCLINATION TO FOLLOW THE COUN SEL" OF "ACE, FOR THE SAKE OF THE GENEROUS DISDAIN WITH WHICH IT REJECTS SUSPICION. Harrison.
A Chinese case of typhoid was notified yesterday.
Four Chinese students wore Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy cautioned by Mr. T. 5. Whyte this morning, for playing football on the footpath of Laichikok Road, Shamshufpo.
The Very Idea!
Whan a wor
-charged at Clerkenwell with causing, bodily him on the face with a plate, the harm to her husba by striking
prosecutor said that there had been a difference between them wil the week because his wife supplied potatoes, but no greet
On a recent Saturday he said have to put up with was "fed up, and she Bald hê“ then threw a plate at
The woman said her took up a knife Krat. The man, Who denied this, asked for leniency Wood) is leaving Hongkong on Mr. Metcalfe (the magistrate)
The Pulsna. Judge (Mr. Justice for his wife, ed Tuesday next for Shanghai where I should probably go mad if I did he is spending a short holiday not have a change of foodi during vacation. He will return The woman was bound over on October 16.
keep the peace for ale months,
Wife, reading in
.
THE "TELEGRAPH!” ART. SUPPLEMENT
Many Sporting Pictures To-morrow,
Sporting pictures will pre- dominate in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supple ment.
Of lawn bowls events," thore will be pictures of the match between Craigengower and Kowloon Dock, and of the game between the Police and P.W.D. In the. Inter-depart- ment competition. There will also be a group of the Shang- hai Interport team,
Other sporting events illus* trated will be the Defence Carps athletic sports, the Chinese harbour race, the Ambulance and Queen's College aquatics, the Gunners' teams at polo, and the finalista.. in the Hongkong Area Tennis League.
There will also be a group of the officers and men of H.M.S. Sandwich, and another taken at the wedding of Mr. Lim Seow-cheong and Miss Chan Wal-fun, as well as a portrait of the Rev. I M. Watkins, just appointed to St. Peter's Church. A group' takan at the opening of the maternity branch of the Kwong Wah Hospital will ... also appear.
newspaper
started playing
in Scotland!!!
Husband-"Oh, I expect
cricket ball's worn gut.
After parting Instructions had been given the young travell picked up his bag and started on his first trip. AN
Good luck to you," said his. chief. Wire us important news." The following day this message Was received: "Reached here. safely. Good room with bath. Feeling fine.",
The manager wired back: So glad. Love and kisses. Good bye."
"You are looking gum this morning, George," said the vicar to the usually cheerful old villa ger. "What's the matter?
"Got a new 'at, zur," was the gruff reply,
A new hat!" exclaimed "the vicar. "Well, now, I should have thought that was a matter for re- joicing"
"Aye," said George, "but it falls off if Oi larf.”
Some more howlers:
"The Pope then excavated King John, which was a very serious thing to happen to a king in those days,"
"Gray said that the villagera | might, with a better education, have become great poets, like Milton; great soldiers, like Crom wall or even government officials like Hampden, who, framed the Navigation Act"
the General Election which caused collis one youth writing of the reight be of King John, to refer to the de
Probably I was the Influence of
"Great Chatter."
The Influence of the cinema "is
Underworld." surely shown in the description of Proserpine as "The Queen of the
of administration". Considering the statement, however, in a gen- eral sense, it seems to me to be cart before the horse". How is it entirely a question of "putting the that the cost of administration can be adequately provided for before one has considered exactly what duties are to be required? One could construs the meaning from. these remarks that, the Goverment an adquate number of men to intended to engage the services of administer the work on the new Pleading guilty to a charge of reservoirs, the construction of the larceny of a brass pot from Kwel ever balance was left over would Lan Street, a Chinese who had Saikung, Road, etc., and then, what, then be utilised for the actual ed to four months hard labour by previous conviction was sentenc work contemplated. Furthermore, Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow- a very large percentage of the loon Magistracy this morning. Colony's revenue is hypothetical and it would be more prudent, I Much interest is being centred think, If a system could be arrang in the pending visit of the War Yesterday, we printed the graphic
The sudden death of Dr. Gustav cash and then budget for the at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, on story told by Captain Haarland, of Stresemann, Germany's Foreign anticipated expenditure. I feel Thursday next with "The Peep when blustering man exclaimed:
ed of creating an actual reserve of wick Revue Company, which opens the Norwegian steamer Botnia, Minister, at a comparatively early quite certain that the
The late Dean Stanley was once travelling-In a railway carriage outlining the terrible experiences, age, is a heavy loss not only to Colonial Treasurer must
Hon. Show." Booking is now open at should like to meet the Dean he underwent whilst in the hands the country whose interests he often find himself in a predica
very Moutrie's and the Star Theatre. of bandits who had ransacked his served so devotedly, but to his "funds which do not actually then Teh-chen were guests of honour
ment of having to pay out of
CR of Westminster. I'd put a ques Minister Sun Fo and General Wution to him that would, puzzle ship. As a Shanghai contempor- friends, the statesmen of other exist".
him" ary remarked, it is difficult to be- Powers, who chared, with him the
at a banquet given on Wednesday "Very well," said a voice out of This automatically brings me to evening at the Government Office the corner, now is your time, for lieve that such happenings could desire for the final pacification of a point in the speech of H.E. the by Chairman Chen Ming-shu and I am the Dean
Europe. A brillant orator, he Governor which reade, relative to General Chan Chai-tong, the Com occur in a country which enjoys rose quickly to eminerice in the the Quarry Bay Road: "It is the mander-in-Chief. A number of but recovered and said: "Well, The man was rather startled, world recognition and which Reichstag and though he was necus-settled policy of the Government to prominent officials were also in- sir, can you tell me the way to claims to be able to protect fored by his political enemies of being very much that it may be possible ing Minister Sun, the Chairman and "Nothing easier, answered the
complete this road, and I hope vited, and in the course of the even heaven?" eigners within its confined. Un- an opportunist, even to the point in the budget for 1931 to provide Commander-in-Chief made appro- Dean, you have only to turn to happily, the incident is not an where it was said of him that he the full sum estimated to be neces- priate speeches, states the Canton the right and go straight for isolated one. Scarcely a day now acted as the barometer of political sary for that work, namely 3355, Newa Agency.
ward." passes without a report coming to
tendencies, he was nevertheless 000. There is however, no ad- one of the few German statesmen piecemeal. Once begun it should sion of six taels of raw opium
vantage in doing this work On a charge of being in pos39 hand of foreigners either being of recent years credited with be be finished off, and the full amount which was found in his hat, a murdered or abducted, and in some ing able to see beyond party. necessary shin be made mount Chinese who was arrested at the WHO WAS
Hunghom Ferry Wharf, was sen Locarno Pacts, which earned for Now, Sir, keeping in the fore-tenced to six months hard labour him the Nobel Peace Prize, the front, too, the views of the Gove by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the greatest triumphs of his foresight Road, it does appear
ernment relative to the Saikung The defendant was stated to have Kowloon Magistracy this morning. and endeavours awalt.ratification, views in the one case are a direct been sentenced to three months
as if the Only a few days ago, we gave but he lived long enough to see contradiction of the other. If the imprisonment in 1923 for a breach brief detalls of how no fewer than the pledges given for the complete Government realise it is foolish to serving the term he was banished of the Opium. Ordinance and after. thirteen members of the German evacuation of the Rhineland, the do a job "placemeal,"
then why Dominican Mission had been seiz apex of his ambition and the corto commence work on another
leave Quarry Bay Road unfinished for a period of five years... ed by Communist troops, and al-per-stone of fils conduct of in-which has very little immediate
ternational airs. Not for little did commercial value to the Colony? affairs, combined with experience, though some were later released,
cia he reign as the foremost politician The amount of traffic which daily should be given an entirely tree others are still apparently held in
in Germany when that country travels over the captivity. Yesterday, news came was passing through the greatest Road is rather enormous, and The whole community will Quarry Bar hand to control that Department. to hand of two British mission-crisis in her existance.
certainly parts of the routo in sympathise with Dr. Fawcett in aries being kidnapped in Kwel-ried Germany into the League of grace to the authorities here. Then all sigh for the day when those question are in some ways a dis his views, and I am sure we must chow, whilst another telegram Nations. He silenced the agita- again, why is so much stress laid who know will sink any told of the brutal treatment meted tors whose one idea was vengeance Road"? Beauty is all very well, but tions to honours, be men and speak upon the beautiful Balkung sentimentality, forget any aspira out to a British business man after the defeat in the Great War will it induce extra revenus to the-for the truth and statements right in Peking city, where he was No man in Europe did more than Colony? Furthermore, It would of facts will alone bring the desir dragged into the street from his Dr. Stresemann to dispel the be pertinent to enquire whether ed and badly required Changes As so often happens in the
mutual distrust between nation there is a change in the reasons into effect Yours, etc. office and subjected to consider and nation which followed the which delayed the Shing Mun able indignity and suffering, financial debacle in Germany. Valley scheme and which must
WELL WISHER Judging from the number of out- brought about by official blunder-district?
Hongkong, Oct. Brd, 1929, also apply to the Saikung Road rages in which foreigners have ing or worse. By an attitude of been the victims, the present year conciliation towards the sugges looks like being one of the worst tions by the Allies and others for for some time phat. In looking the extrication of Germany" from cursorily through the cases re-
the morass, financial and general, into which she had been plunged, ported, we find that British, Ameri- can, Belgian, German, French, recovery which has restored Ger he made possible the remarkable Italian and Norwegian subjecte many to her place among the have figured therein, whilst to foremost nations of the world, in force, Instead of having a show that the evil is not confined By his death, Germany sustains Board, one who has a most. In- Cadet as Head of the Sanitary to any one particular locality it an immeasurable loss,"
of the cases the victims have suf- fered atrocious brutality from those into whose hands they have fallen.
...
Omitting the negotiation of the able".
'He car
comment on several other matters; mittee of the Hongkong Benevolent
One could, if time permitted,
Sir An Acknowledgment.
On behal of the Com but I have taken up enough of your Society, I beg to acknowledge, with valuable paper, g
grateful thanks, & cheque for $96, I was just about to bring this to representing the amount subscrib a close, but, as I write, the mosted by some members of the Teikoo illuminating and open speech of Dockyard Staff in memory of the and which surely is a meat glaring etc., Dr, Fawcett has been published, late Mr. George Morrison YourTE, revelation of the present systems
timate knowledge of sanitary
L. 8. GOLDSMITH,
Honorary Becretary,
Hongkong Benevolent
Hongkong, October 4th, 1929,
MR. MERDLE.
Mr. Merdle was one of those financial geniuses whose touch turned everything into gold As Charles Dickens, his cres tor, puts it, he "was in every thing good from banking building a t
Married to a leader of so ciety, and himself a member of Parliament, Herdre everything on a lavish scal to preparing dazzling schemes.. from entertaining his friends
for making money,
So soaringly magnificent were these schemes that great number of families, In- cluding the Dorrite were at- fracted like moths to a flame, and invested the whole of their fortunes in them
erash came, and the families were ruined. Merdle betook himself to a Turkish bath. where he committed suicides and shortly afterwards the real character of this lofty gentleman was revealed.A forger and thief?! robbed the gal merited victim
You will rend
Merdlö in Little Dorrit, and as for prototypes, you will certainly be able to think o v, dozen for yo
such men are none in this gullible old