BRITISH MISSIONS IN CHINA
REPORTED SURRENDER OF RIGHTS.
DECISION ATTRIBUTED TO HOME GOVERNMENT.
CONSUL SCEPTICAL.
DRINKING IN NEW YORK.
"BETTER LIQUQR" AND EASIER TO 'GET!"""
THE HONGKONG TELEGRA
CHINA NEW YEAR PAPER CHASE RACES.
IN CANTON.
OBSERVED ON USUAL LAVISH SCALE
MISS SCOTT HARSTON. WINS HEAVYWEIGHT EVENT.
The Very Idea!
A curato at St. Mary's Church, The fourth Papar Hunt of the Balham, the Rev. Samuel Lynn season was held on Sunday afternoon, Thomas, M.A., was fined £10 and the icot being at Silva's bungalow, 45 58. costs at South-Western Fanling. In spite of the good feld | Police Court recently for unlaw- which turned out for the drag on the fully and without authority wear- previous day there were 21 startering the ribbons of two medals, the for the Paper Hunt. The following 1915 Star and an Italian decora-K riders made up the field:
tion.
New York, Dec. 26. The holiday festivities "Have brought fewer fatalities from HOLIDAY SPIRIT. poison liquor in New York than in any récent years, causing the
Canton, Jan. 30. belief that New York's quality of
To-day, the Arst day of the first illicit beverages is improving.
Col. Hayley Dell, Siang River: C
Mr. Howe, for the War Office, moon of the Chinese lunar calea L. Oliphant, Strathlorne: WT said that the curate, when con- There was no decrease in drink-dar, was obsered here with the Stanton, Social Mark; Com. Lang, As ducting services in church, wore ing, as was evideileod from the usual celebrations customary at You Like It; Mr. Manny, Grey Eyes; fact that on Christmas Eve and the Chinese New Year, and it was Miss Hayley Ball, Shady Joe; Mis the ribbons on his stole. He had Christmas Day 99 persons were indeed difficult to believe that Scott Haraton, Gold Medal; Mr. represented that he was wounded Mr.in the war, but his services in the admitted to the city's hospitals these celebrations had been
Prospecti pro- Beasley, Bright suffering from alcoholism, but sohibited both by the Central Na- Fernicat: Mr. Worrall, Brown Eve for he did not see a shot fired in Thomas, Fat Choy; Mr J Cava, field were singularly peaceful, Shanghai, Jan. 26.
far only one death Is reported, tionalist Government at. Nanking Mr. Lee, Muskee; Mr. Dale, Nobleman; A telegram received in Shang and that purely from excessive and by the Provincia; authorities Mr. Ascnamara, James Pigs: Langer. The only excitement he hai yesterday stated that all drinking.
Pof Kwangtung.
Cont Bulteel, Samaritan: Mr. Mac had was when he was court-mar- The doctor in charge of the al-
Festivities were to be seen on Intyre, Cave Man; Mr. Watson, tialled for being drunk, 'and" was special privilèges held in China
coholic ward of the city's largest all sides on a large scale. Since Aristophanes; Mr. A. E. MacCartney, reprimanded.
Bellevue, by British missionaries had hospital.
declared:
He was colled up for service yesterday evening there bas Honeymoon; Mr. Ferguson, Tornado;
Mr. Keinshagen, 600; Mr. Kendrew, in the Army Service Corps and re- been surrendered by their Home There does not appear to be any hardly been a moment's allence
ceived a commission in the La- trace of wood alcohol or other from the continual firing of fire- Government. The message fur-poleons among alcoholic patients crackers. Flags and bunting de- A line of about 10 miles had been bour Corps. Later he became an ther stated that Mr. Arthur this year, so I think one is war corate. all the streets, buildings inld" by Mears. Patten and Beck education officer.
Riders came on to paper just below "It is not a serious criminal of- Henderson, Secretary of. Stafa ranted in drawing the conclusion and motor vehicles, these latter the Raliway at Fanling and crdased [ fence," said course), but it is that the intoxicants absorbed to having resumed work on New the unploughed fields in the direction most improper that people who for Foreign Affairs, was respon- day are of much better quality Year's Eve after a lightning strike of the Eighth Green where the frat are entitled to wear these ribbons sible for the announcement, re-than they used to be." -
lasting twenty-four hours.
should have their reputationa be- Dr. Charles Norris, the city's
Theatrical shows were arranged up again in the Kum Ting Valley ported to have been made in
chief medical examiner, sald he in all the various placca of enter and bearing right over the grass land amirched."
crossed the river and so to the Main Mr. Nicholls, defending, snid London.
was convinced that "liquor in
tainment, and there were Road, near the Country Club. Leav-there was no question of Mr. Under existing conditions, Bri-getting better and good liquor numerous side shows in all the ing the Country Club on the left the Thomas trying to obtain financial
get." but seems easier to
theatres fine ran in the direction of Lo Woo gain. He had worn the ribbons streets; cinemas 'and tish missionarica in this country worst period was always between were crowded the whole day. Pass, but bearing right ran through enjoy the right to own property Christmas and the New Year.
on the spur of the moment, and "Flower sellers, vendors of toys, Le Woo Camp and on by Bridge 47 outside the treaty ports. They
"lie added "Facts are startling paper decorations and ornaments to the Sheung Shui Patrol Path had to continue doing so,
Here was the third check but the The magistrate said that it was also are accorded the right to reside in territory outside the cough they stand. People ap. lined all the principal streets. Hing was found again along the grass probably due to vanity. treaty ports." They may also lease pear to have adjusted themselves The population appear to be all of the foot hills and carried on to
to the easily obtainable supplies in the streets clothed in many Sun Wai where it crossed the river Friend (seeing-Angus McTavish and do not go about it so hox-coloured silks. The garages are and found the finish between the flags at, the mangle): "Hello, Angus, gishly. They are all contributing factors but they do not indicate doing a roaring trade and it is no on the South side of the Race Course doing the washing?"
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outside the renty ports.
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ur own mortgages on property
Consul Doubtful.
Mr. C. F. Garsin, H, M. Consul- General heie, last night, informed
the
wonder that they have given in to that Prohibition is any more the demands of the strikers! effective."
It was noted that the usual ne a representative of The Shanghai tivities of raiding squades of Pro- Sunday Times that he had re-hibition agents before the holi- ceived no official information con- days were absent in New York cerning the matter. Mr. Garsinthis year.
stated that he is of the belief that ; such a decision on the part of the Home Government is improbable, concerning as it does extraterri- torial rights enjoyed by Britons in China. The Consul-General also voiced the belief that such a step would hardly be taken with- out further negotiations between
the two Governinents."
Not Alarmed.
On
ADULT EDUCATION.
Continued from Page 6.)
opportunity along certain lines of Atudy, but not all.
Same, ass Ever.
check was found; Paper was
The lend at the start was taken by Angus: “Al'm juist puttin':my Cave with the rest of the field in awhusky corks through the man bunch on his heels. After the first gle." milo Worrall, Watson, Magnay, Dala and Cave, established a load from the
Nerve Specialist at Shoreditch There is really no difference to rest of the field and on crossing the be observed between the New Main Road these five were of a County Court: Time is the great Year celebrations to-day, and mile ahead of the rest of the field thing. It cures a patient and we those of previous years. It is and making a cracking pace for Home, get the credit. said that the Government offices At the finish Worrall and Megnay have been ordered to remain open, entered the straight together and but it is doubtful if one "could spectators witnessed grand finish find many of the employees active in which Grey Eyes heat Brown Eve ly engaged in work if one werey a head with Nobleman two lengths behind. The finishing order was as to Igok into the offices. The follows: Chinese Maritime Customs are JI closed patil Monday; and all the native banks, firms and shops are
fased.
Rosulta
Lightweights and Heavyweights competed together:
Light Weighis: 1st. Mr. Magney,
2nd Mr. Worrall, 3rd. Mr. Dale feavy Weights: 1st. Miss P. Scott Harston, End. Mr. M. M. Watson, 3rd. Mr. Reinshagan.
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Man at Kingston-on-Thames: The trouble la all because my wife carries a puff and powder to to the make herself up to go pictures with another man.
Judge Crawford at Edmonton County Court: I do not blame women for not wearing steeves.
Woman at Marylebone County Court: She got very antagunasty. Man at Acton charged, with using bad language: Me the wife were having an altera- tion.
and
Above all people, we parents, Mr. D. E. Rosle, Director- ought to be the last to accept any
In spite of the general air of General of the Ching Inland Missense of limitation as to our ability prosperity always evident in the sion, a veteran missionary worker and opportunity to constantly add Chinese New Year celebrations, and a leader in British missionary to our fund of worth-while know-it must be enid that the past year
the ledge. If home is to be made NO
"To many traders the termina- work, was interviewed
interesting to growing son and has been a bad one from a busi-
tion of the year will be welcome. matter last night,
daughters that they prefer it to ness point of view for nearly all
for it has been a period of_con- any place on earth, there must be the trades carried on in Canton, Nomething there that satisfies their The silk merchants have suffered spell has made flowers very acarce siderable difficulty, says the Drap Prospects for 1930 depend large- Mr. Hosie was not at all alarm mutual out-reaching, as well as heavy losses consequent on the and the "Mow Tan" and narciss), era" Record.
general depression in the home so much in demand at Chinese ed over the report of the an-affection and love.
fetching highly upon the weather, and on this markets of America and Europe. New Year, me nouncement in London, declaring,
prices. The cost of living in gen- subject the chief organ of the instead, that such a move was not
Some day we shall appreciate
Threatened Invasions.
eral is rising rapidly, largely due trade hesitates "to estimate the unexpected and is in keeping with the gradual relinquishment of more than we may do now, the
The general dealers of various to the fall of silver currency, but prospects"! "It is well known, extrality rights plan of the foreign importance of the family dinner
table. When our young people South China produce have been partly due also to the continual however," says the journal, "that increasing of the import duties so far as the drapery trade is con- Powers concerned,'
come home from school or college, hampered, as has the whole pound to the high taxation imposed cerned, it is of the greatest im
portance that the different kinds of weather, hot and cold, wet and Belfer was expressed by Mr. mentally active with the leaven lation, by three threatened
of the of knowledge, and curious for vasions. First there was the by the Provincial Government. Hoste that high offeins
fine, should come at the appropriate Nanking Government will do all intellectual adventure, it is 4he Kwangs trouble and the revolt
times." can sympathetically of the Provincin Fleet in May, within their power to protect mis-parents who Hionary lives and property in the and understandingly discuss some then again in October and Decem- interior of China, in the event that missionaries there come under the jurisdiction of the Chinese authori-
ties.
Mr. Hoste was not inclined to attach any great significance to the matter, declaring that Nanking will do everything possible for the safety of the missionaries in "China.
No Great Surprise.
I
in-
Golf et Tangshan.
foreign Amongst the
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com-
nre
of the things which are beingber when the city was twice in munity, the Chinese New Year is introduced through the medium of danger from two different sources, being observed with the custom- the school-room or lecture hall, General Chan Fat-kwei's Iron-ary holidays. The Banks who are establishing the "round sides attacking from the North closed for five days, reopening on table" of family harmony and and the Kwangsl troops again Tuesday the 3rd February, whilat
which will be
on Shameen runctity,
more pressing in from the West. How-moat of the firma "home" to the children, than any-ever, it is to be hoped that the will be closed at least till Monday, where else can ever be. For, is this rebels have
To-day, New Year's Day, a golf now been finally not one way of retaining and exterminated, and that with the competition was arranged at the strengthening that community of Nationalist Government under Tungshan Recreation Club, for interest and thought which are no Marshal Chiang Kai-shek having which Mr. F. II. Tyson donated a surmounted an extremely difficult very handsome silver cup. Play Buy crisis
in Nanking. the whole was over 36 holes medal play: country may look forward to a there were 22 entries and Mr. G. W. Greene carried off the cup In the city everything is year of peace and unification.
very with a net score of 189, (one under year. The cold bogey)-Our Own Correspondent, expensive this
vital to family unity?,
on the
are
There are those who will "The move was evident and docs that this can be effected in other not occasion, a great deal of sur-ways than by attempts prise in circles where the situa- part of the parents to "keep up tion is well understood," Mr. Hoste with the bay" or, "the girl." But stated. There is no occasion to this is rather begging the ques
tion; sympathetic response on the be alarmed."
part of the parents, and willing- the Asked if, in his opinion, the re- ness to be participatons in ported decision of the British educational adventures through Goverȧment would tend to en- which their young folks danger the lives of British mia passing, must inevitably lead to sionaries in the interior, by tempt- that mental quickening which will faz roving bands of brigands to open the door to flands of intellig become bolger and prey upon the ence, and to opportunities for cul- missions, Mr. Hoste replied that tivating the best things that the situation in some parts of the human knowledge has to offer. interior can become no worse for And with this there need not be the missionaries there, and in must not be any sacrifice of general the decision of the that knowledge which is not of Government will not tend to en- the schools, nor of that under- discernment by danger the lives of the missionary standing and
which all human knowledge is workers,
attested or rejected. A. J. P. in the Christian Science Monitor,
Not Anti-Forelta.
The veteran missionary pointed out that the brigands are not
markedly anti-foreign, but are IRON INDUSTRIES LTD.
seeking loot, much preferring to
have a rich Chinese fall into their
and the
SHAREHOLDERS.
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hands than to loot a sinall mission. | MEETING OF CREDITORS AND
Most of the missions in the interior ære quite poor loot the brigands might obtain
The adjourned first meetings of from them would compensate them creditors and shareholders of Iron very poorly for their risk and Industries, Ltd., of Pinners Hall
trouble, Mr. Hoste explained. He
Austin Friars, E.C., were held at
Carey-street, W. C.
also aid that the brigands as ¿ the offices of the Board of Trade, whole cannot become much bolder than they are at present.
The company was incorporated Questioned regarding the"
on January 11 last with a nominal published report of "strong capital of £050,000, and was formed protests" registered in Shanghai to carry on business as a finance by British missionaries in con-house. The statement of affairs nexion with the announced showed total liabilities of £671,015, decision of the Home Government, of which £070,291 is unsecured, Mr. Hoste declared that he knows and assets estimated to realise nothing of such protests, and that £662,466.***
A resolution was passed nominat
he greatly discounts such reports.
The decision was not unexpecting Mr. Maurice Jenks, chartered ed." he said. "and I know of no accountant; as Hquidator, valid reason for protest."
HOT MO
POTATOES
POLICE PROTECTION
The R-One-O-One
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Gave us plenty of fun
"In Ita triala in a variable climate,
And poets of might'll
Find fame with the title, Because it's so cusy to rhyme it! But it isn't the same
With the new airship's name- The horrible name, R-One- Hundred!
We may say that we know le Dead certain most poeta Will mention that "someone has blunder'd"!
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Great fortitude was displayed by Ernest Ainscow, 21, of Woodlands- street, Cheetham, when he was bad- ly injured in a railway accident at Victoria Station, Manchester.
While one of his legs, mangled in the wheel of an engine, Was being amputated on the spot, he never lost consciousness, but calm- ly asked for a cigarette. This he ameked while the doctor operat ed.
Ainscow, a telegraph linesman, was working on the line when the enging struck him. His legs were caught between a wheel and the brake mechanism, and he was dragged along in this position for a short distance.
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"He is the bravest man I have ever known," said Mr. Hopwood, the stationmaster. "He is a hero in every sepse of the word.
Aluscow is now in the Manches
serious ter Jewish Hospital in a condition.
"And when Mrs. Gubbinge sez you wasn't no llay, wot did yer
I; sez, Two negatives means án infirmary," and I knocks or down." MR. H LOWTHER'S DEATH.
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Automobile Club, London, and about 80 yards, lost its feet-and was of independent means. He slipped un to,ita side, pliahia
The inquest on Mr. Harold Ar-wan a bachelor, 65 years of age, Lowther out of the saddle on to thur Lowther, brother of Viscount a good horacman, a very bold him besljiv
Ullswater and cousin to Lord rider, and was thoroughly used to Dr. Holmes stated that Mr. L Lonsdale, who was thrown from horses. He had been staying at the skull was fractured and his horse and killed on Friday Bicester for part of the hunting death must have been practically, morning at Bicester, was held on sERBO instantaneous, ROSEMA Saturday at Bicester, der Elijah Horn Mr. Lowther's The Jury returned a verdict of Viscount Ullswater said that his groom, said that Mr. Lowther accidental death, and expressed brother lived mostly at the Royal horse shled it something in the sympathy with
fence, bolted down the road for water
Viscount Con
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