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TRUE LIBERTY CONSISTS IN TI PRIVILEGE OF ENJOYING OUR OWN RIGHTS, NOT IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.-Pinchard.
Nanking leaders have no special reason to get seriously alarmed at the prospect of further examples of dubious lasug-forcing methods by Red troops. Nevertheless, unless Wang Dr. C. T.
and Mar- Maka" || shat Chiang Kai-shek are pre-
pared to
eat their high-sound- ing words of a few months ago, they have no option but to indicate immediately and emphati. cally their refusal to acquiesce in
At a moeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislativo the abject surrender apparently Council held yesterday, supple contemplated by Chang Hsuch-mentary expenditure amountin to
82,338 was approved. liang..
THERE ARE DOMESTICO MODELS OF FROM FOUR. TO EIGHTEEN CUBIO FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.
OVER®
$1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
The Wah Yau College is holding Ita tenth anniversary dinner in the Hall of the College on Monday, December 16th, "at 7.30 p.m.
THE CYCLE-RIDING NUISANCE.
MAGISTRATE ORDERS LAD A
CANING
The Very Idea!
"Two good friends,” Dr. Arthur Price Evelyn O'Leary and Audine Gwladya O'Leary, of Yateley * That he meant to do everything Lodge, Yately, Hants, benefit to the in his power as a magistrate to extent of £20,000 from the will of about the Colony at night-time bert Quin, of Milborne Grove, The stop Chinese lads riding bicycles a London man, Mr. Matthew No- without a light, was strongly em- Boltons, West Brompton. phasised by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at His two "good friends" also in the Central Magistracy this mornherit Mr. Quin's residence and ef- ing, when a boy appeared before fecta. him on a charge of riding a cycle without a light.
The defendant's master was pre- sent in the Court and asked the On the departure of Mr. F. S. magistrate if he would consider Harrison from Hongkong shortly,fining the lad instead of ordering Mr. R. H. Wild will assume charge a caning, as the later punishment, of the local branch of the South British Insurance Company.
The Inspecting Ordnance Officer, Hongkong, will fire a quantity of rockets, lights, etc., for proof pur poses at Stonecutters Island this afternoon, commencing at 6.30-
Perhaps the queerest feature of the affair in the fact that Mukden chose to sing small at a time when the great, Powers, Britain, the United States, France, Italy and Japan"were contemplating joint action to prevent the very thing most feared. China's appeal to the League of Nations was, a matter of time; Napking had already been in anxious communication with the signatories to the Kellogg Paet. "Chemna patrons and music-lovers not without encouragement. The will be pleased to learn that the Hongkong Amusements, Ltd., has plight of Manchuria impressed -arranged for the engagement of an self no less deeply upon the Powers other well-known musician," Serge than upon the Mukden leaders, Stupin, the Russian virtuoso cellist.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY Nov. 29,
1929.
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On being charged before Mr. But the champions of peace are W. Schofield at the Kowloon Ma- helpless in the present situation. gistracy this morning with being Seemingly peace obtained under in possession of 5.5 mace of pre- duress perhaps, and degrading to pared optum, a Chinese living at Aplin Street Shamshuipó was China, has been re-established and fined $14 or one month's hard la- the need for action has automati- bour in default cally disappeared. We are, of
Five Chinese, two men, ja woman course, perfectly prepared for a
and two boys, appeared before complete denial by Chung Hsueh- Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon lang that he entered into this "bar- Magistracy this morning on a gain." The mere report of the in-charge of kidnapping a five-year- terview at Toyko between Baron old boy from his parents in the Shamshuipo District. The defen- Shidehara and Mr. Neville should | dants were all remanded till Mon- be sufficient to instil in him a de- day for further enquiries sire to "save face." Moscow's of-
Meanwhile,
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THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.
Pictorial Features for To-morrow.
To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will again contain a fine series of topical pictures.
A feature, will be the large number of photographs of the Interport tennis. contesis be- tween Hongkong and Shanghai, in which all the players who took part will be scen.
Other pictures will includo some good snapshots taken of the steeplechasing at Kwant on Sunday, a group taken at the wedding of Mr. Bishop and Miss Hansen, and another at the wedding of Mr. F. M. Garcia and Miss ... Marin Noronha. There will also be some interior views of the new NY.K. liner Asama Maru, due here next week, and a picture of li, E. the Governor at the opening of the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital.
Of more than ordinary in- terest will be a series of pic- tures showing some of the beautiful stone Buddahs which have survived for 14 centuries in a cliff at Tatung-fu, In North Shanel, over 90 of which" have recently been defaced by vandal soldiers and "corrupt officialo.
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Mr. Quin, who formerly lived in Calcutta, left over $34,000." The will provides that if one of the two beneficiarles is dead the whole of the bequest goes to the survivor.
(Women who acquired the fash- ionable tan complexion during thei summer are being bleached by bear- ly specialists.)
When we strayed beside the
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You and I together; You rejoiced most fervently. In the tropig weather. You were anxious for the boon Of a brown complexion: Salt and oun together soon
Tanned you to perfection.
Just a little artful ald
And your lips grey ruddy, Red and brown together made
Quite à charming study. But those summer days are past,
Autumin has succeeded, And your sunburn seems to Inst
Longer than is needed.
Paler checks, the fashion teach,
Go with evening dresses,
So your face you needs must.
bleach
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With your magie miesses. Thus un aspect new you bring,
But 1 am afraid you Are not quite the lovely thing Sun and sea had made you.
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Scout-master"Now, suppose you found yourself suddenly in flames, what would you do?"
Scout "Keep cool, sir!"
Woman, at Thames Court My husband will not work, Mr. Cairns, Magistrate A beneficent Provi dence and a kindly State provide that he need not.
Judge Thompson, KC., at Bow County Court How old is this in- jured child? Mr. Silken-Twenty- one next February.
Defendant at Clerkenwell County Court--This is becoming a mud- muslinging contest, Cross-examining counsel-am sure that if 1 en- gaged in a contest of that sort with you I should lose,
Twenty-four Chinese faced Mr. First astonishment and then fically sanctioned announcement W. Schofield at the Kowloon Ma- possibly be characteris gistracy this morning, two charg- bewilderment are engendered by will
a crude, jest. At the ed with keeping a common gaming the report of Chung Hsueh-liang'sed as
house, and the others charged with announcement WIS pusillanimous surrender to Moscow, time that
gambling in an unnumbered but and finally it becomes obvious that made, however, it bore every air at Cheung Sha Wan. The keepers fined $50 while the La matter of such grave moment.will of genuineness. For days past, were 'each
not be allowed to fizzle out in such it has been persistently reported twenty-fifth man who was arrest-qu
others were fined $3. cach, A
a grisly anti-climax. The young that Chang Han-Bang was tireded, failed to appear and had his Manchurian leader, faced with to waiting for C. T. Wang to end alarming reports of Soviet ter the dispute and was preparing to rorism and ruthlessness; and know- take the initiative. Denials that he ing well that he could not look to had appointed Dr. Wellington Koo Nanking for assistance in the hour to negotiate were qualified by hints of crisis, may he forgiven much 'ex- that the near future might see the cept. the collapse of his morale. faking of this step.
read pak.
A letter from And yet it is impossible to be the Chinese defences in the Man-Chinese firm suggesting that the
Chamber of Commerce should re Hieve that any factor other than chuli region had crumpled before quest the Chinese firms to adopt sheer panic could have dictated the the Soviet invaders and the Im- the Gregorian instead of the lunar terms of settlement which, accord- mediate prospect in view was the calendar. The Secretary pointed out that it was an impossibility, Ing to an official Soviet source, he capture of Harbin by the Soviet. considering that the majority of voluntarily offered to the Foreign In such circumstances, there is the trade here is done with Chinese who all use the Commissariat at Moscow, ceding strong reason to believe, the young firms in Canton
lunar calendar, and unless the completely to the demands cou- Manchurian lender awallowed his Cantoneso decide on a change the Lained in the Russian ultimatum of | dignity, pride and high notions of Hongkong Chinese will have to ad July last, involving the restoration browbeating the Soviet and sur-ere to the lunar calendar particu-SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE
Jarly in view of the annual settle- of the pre-dispute situation on the rendered, for his part, the position ments of debts at the end of every Chinese Eastern, Railway, even to so stoutly maintained for the past Chinese year. the reinstatement of the Soviet aix months. Circumstantial evi- assistant-manager. dence is contained' in the fact of the manger and The propagandist activities of these withdrawal of the Soviet troops to |particular individuals was the pre- the border. It
clear text on which the Manchurian au- that
the attack was launch- thorities chose the high-handed step ed. expressly
hasten
ball of $5 estreated. A sum of would probably stop him from do- $18.93, which was picked up, waning any work for some time.
Mr. Justice Avory, to a witness confiscated.
Mr. Hamilton, in refusing this request, said: I am not going to in the King's Bench Division At the monthly meeting of the have it. These young fellows Every seat in this Court crcake, and Clamber of Com- have to remember that they can't every board too, apparently. It is hear what you Chineso
say unlear you speak louder merce yesterday afternoon, the ride about the streets without impossible to Secretary, Mr. Chan Heung-lights. I am going to stop this than the senta creak.
aj bicycle-riding some way or other; that is why I am going to have him beaten. It will not hurt him, and he will be ready for work two minutes later:
to.
The defendant was ordered six strokes of the cane.
21 YEARS AGO.
**TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for week ended November 28th, 1908:
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It was the young barrister's first- case, and he was bubbling over with pride and enthusiasm as he stood in court
"Now," said he, addressing the defendant, "you say you came to town to look for work. I put it to you there was another, a stranger motive that brought you all this distancë.”
"Well," hesitated the defendant, "there was-**
"Ah!" cried the barrister. triumphantly. "And what was it?"
"A locomotive."
This a story of the future,
of First Lord. Where's the Army?
Admiralty:
Second Lord of Same: He's out rowing in the Navy,
work will result in certain orders not to be placed for the present. Whilst we regret the policy of in this matter, the Government betokening (us we suggested at
Amongst residents joining the aneumatizÁLSKE the time the decision was reached) Volunteer Corps were Mr. J. H. 11
a failure to take the large view, Backhouse and Mr.. J. Kynoch. nothing is to be gated by at-
WHO WAS.. Lempting to read into that policy. a decision to abandon the whole
FLORIMEL?
fairs).
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of seizing control of the Railway, settlement. If Moscow had merely an action which introduced the six-" issued a fabricated, report in order months' struggle which has given to discredit. Chang Hauch-liang
Mr. A. E. Wood was appointed such grave concern to the whole
'as may be argued, would they have project. That, we think, is not to act ns Assistant Registrar Gen- world. The wronga and rights of proceeded to this length? It is by any means the intention of the feral (Secretary for Chinese Af- that particular action are not our scarcely conceivable, since it would MacDonald has given a definite Government. Indeed, Mr. Ramsay concern to-day. China adopted be tantamount to throwing away assurance that, there shall be no in a new item from Canton, as A man-eating tiger was reported, not wholly approved in the only good cards they hold. The change of policy without full being seen in the neighbourhood of foreign circles, but at least definite. future is fraught with grave dan-agreement being reuched between Lin Tong. It attacked a man and Both the Mukden and Nanking
the Imperial, Dominion and Co-, hie wife, and both Inter succumbed gers. The alleged settlement is cer-lonial Governments concerned, to their injuries. Governments declared their deter
tain to be repudiated. It oversteps So far as Hongking's grang a
course
mination to hold the Railway what
ever the cost, und as the deadlock dragged on, it seemed that they were in a strong enough position to carry out that intention. A week of real warfare has sufficed to break the spirit of the Mukden leaders.
condition that the money was to
EXCHANGE RATES.
Brussels
the limits of what any Government concerned, no conditions were at may fairly regard as permissible tached to it, except the implied even to relieve pressure. If it is be spent on the development of allowed to go through, the Russians the Base. Moreover, if we under will walk in arrogantly and indulge stand Mr. Alexander's latest state- in their old tricks along the rail-ment, our contribution has already Paris
been spent. As will be recalled, way with impunity. The National the money represented the profits Amsterdam But this cannot be the end. Government's next steps will be of from the war-time Shipping: Con- Berlin Nanking's reaction is not dif-
vital importance. The future his-trol scheme, concerning the dia. Copenhagen ficult to predict. The terms under tory of their country may be at at the time was a triflo uneasy. Helsingfors
position of which the Government Vienna which Chang · Haugh-Hang has
stake. Thoir aims can be achieved Indeed, critics of the Government Lisbon... bought off, or hopes to buy off without war, but not without cour have gone so far as to assert that Bucharest Soviet aggression, mean complete
that money was obtained, if not Buenos Aires uge, resoluteness and vigour.
Illegally, then quite unconstitu- Shanghai humiliation for China. No other
tionally. Be that as it may, there Yokohama interpretation is possible. Nanking
wes no question of Hongkong New York will, of course, vigorously repudiat Hongkong and the Base. citizens, in an outburst of loyalty, Genova
coming forward and subscribing the the Mukden offer. The position
Once again the Singapore Naval funds; nor was it even a case of should therefore, reveri to' deadlock (Baac has figured prominently in the money being derived from the Stockholm and defiance of Moscow; actually, Parliamentary discussions, with ordinary revenues of the Colony. Oslo it is possible the acquel may depend the result that the attitude of the In effect, the contribution came Prague Home Government has been made from the pockets of shipowners, Madrid upon Nanking's power in Mukden. distinctly clearer. The First Lord who disputed the right of the Gov- Athens When all is said and done, the Na of the Admiralty has nosured crament either to keep the money fo tional Government's interest in the questioners that no orders for itself or to give it to the Imperial Bombay
material have been cancelled Government for the purposes of the Hong Kong. well-being of the Chinese Eastern owing to the decision to slow Singapore Base. In the circum- Silver (spot) Railway is extremely shadowy, down work on the Base, although stances, therefore, it seems to us while, safe in Central China, the the suspension of some items of kong's contribution, the better.
that the least said about Hong-Silver (forward)
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The hand of Florimel the Fair was sought by there gallant knights, Sir Satyrane, Sir Peridure, and Sir-Calidore, but to none of their vows did she listen With favour, being very deeply in love with Bir Marinel, who did not return her passion.
A report having reached the Court of the Fairy Queen, where Florimel ́attended, that Marinel had been slain, the. maiden set forth to ascertain the truth of the rumour, but she was taught by Portous, the soa god, and imprisoned in a dungeon, " deep in the bottom of a huge grênt rock.””.
One day, Marinel was invite ed to attend a banquet given by Porteus, and wandering about the halls of the ocean, he heard the lamentations of Florimel bewailing the lot....... that had befallen her for his sake, and being moved to pity, he secured the maiden's release and married her.
Florimel: wore a famous. golden girdle, once the pro- perty of Venus, which had the magic peculiarity of allowing itself to be worn only by pure women, Placed around the waint of an unchaste person fb would immediately tear itself asunder,
You will read all about Florimel and her girdle #in
Spenser's "Fairy Queen.!!!.