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BIRTH.

Special No. 1

BLUCK-On July 27, 1923, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.

E. Bluck, a daughter.

The China Mail, Colony.

S. P. C. A.

THE CHINA MAIL.

A Puppy is 'n lovesome thing,

flod wat.""

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10

the individual Charities Recording to their needs and

CHINA'S DISUNITY.

PROPOSED: ROUND-TABLE

CONFERENCE.

SIR UDBRACT NO TUNG'S 'PLAM

THJESDAY, AUGUST 2LDELT

'PIRATE PLOT:711

ARMS FOUND ON LOCAL STEAMER.

E

SERGEANT'S PROMPT ACTION, ·

to

́ ́UNDESIRABLE 7

SOVIET TRADE ENVOY'S PAST.

FURTHER INQUIRY,

(Reuter's Service to the China Mállj

Stato to insure its members gainst Rickons or unemploy - ment? A radical investigation of our Chatition would show that niany even of those that do not overlap could be topped off. At present imagine more people live by Charity than on it. But these functionaries and their Sir Robert Ho Tung, who hol societies should be reduced to a been actively endeavouring to "Kwang Tah" was about to leave, As the China Merchants' ss | minium, the endless and expen- arrange a round-table conference of her wharf at West Point yesterday sive appeal replaced by One China's leaders with a view to for Shanghai, Sergeant Carey of the

LONDON, August 1. Great Hat, everything dropped securing anity, sends the following Water Police went alongside in appointment as head of the Anglo- Objection to Mr. Rakovsky's into which should be distributed letter to the Ching Mail.

police launch search the Russian trade delegation in London Sir-In continuation of my ship which had on board in succession to. Mr. Krassin_was- utility by a Central Committee previons comunications I have about 200 passengers and a genomi} expressed in the House of Com- how to inform you that i am in cargo. His arrival caused a stammons on the ground that it was receipt of it telegram in Chinese pede, a number of people strug alleged he had been expelled from dated 29th July, 1928, from gling to get ashore. Sergeant France during the war for pro General Wu Pei-fu. In that Carey managed to stop the rush paganda activities against the telegram he is kind enough to and with the aid of the police on Allies and that he had been instru ulinde to my initiative for bring, the launch rostored" order. He mental in the massacre of Whites ing about a conference of Chinese immediately instituted a search in the Ukraine. leaders and other as a public and on one Chinese found three Mr. Ronald McNeill. Under spirited and patriotic movement, loaded revolvers.

Secretary for Foreign Affairs, sald Sergeant Carey. then Regarding the problem of the

com- the facts alleged were not brought Peaceful 'nification of China,municated with the Water Police. to light when the Government con- Wires Wa Pei-fuit hun for The "Kwang Tah" was taken to sidered the question of recognition. years been ing fervent hope that Kowloon Bay where a further Further enquiry would be made Other and the matter reconsidered if it should be solved in a conejen search was carried out.

aris and 'aunsunition were found necessary. tions and wide-awake manter, and that this solution should be entrusted to the people them Helven.***

|Here is an item which tells va/that} one horse went to Canton and in spite of our desire not to be cruel, wo cannot help feeling some pity! for that ore ''arab."'. But the strangest thing of all is the fact net down, in cold-blooded · seriousnera thut a visit was paid, to a crocodile | at the Ming Yuen Gardonal A vast experience. in 'the commodity known as "Crocodiles tears” inukes FEM VOLTA} to see His Majesty, at North Point. We nhl probably interview hiin! A proposition! Lehowing the absolute need for al Soviety such as we possess! The! publicity which the Society gives in nublishing the work done by its Inspector should have its own To-day's Poem. reward. Its finances should not suffer in the future and it should not be compelled to organise faney dress bulls to provide the means to carry fon is splendid work. The public!

shoukl see to that.

Borrowers and Lenders.

Neither a borrower nor u lender) be. If Hongkong's Indian com- munity suddenly nude ap its collec. Ltd. tive mind to follow the age couisel

$ 1,20

1.10 1.50 B.... 1.80 9.85

And the more these surviving Charities were killed off in the struggle for assistance, and the seonor the Gwent Hat itself was! relegated to the dustbin. the better for us all.

(The falley) When God ut first inade Man,

Having a glass of blessings Bland-

ing by

J

Let us (ssid He pour on him all

we can':

Let the world's riches, which

disperseit lie Contract into a span.

So strength first made a way,

Thon beauty flow'd, then wis. I

dom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, Gol unde

natty.

of the late Mr. Shakespeare one imagines that some of our local lawyers would experience a distinct Rest in the botton lay.

Perceiving that, alone of all His

treasure,

check in the flow of six and

eights (or whatever in the equiva For if I should (said He)

Bestow this jewel aleo en My lent in local currency of the figure) towards their cash boxes. Con- sidering that there nre only

creature,

He would adore My gifts instead

Me,

of

And rest in Nature, not the God

of Nature;

let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining

Testlessness,

| about 4,000 of their nationality| in the whole Colony the tur- banned stalwarts who' watch our property by night and would be happy to make us an advance on it Yet if wo culled on them at their "registered address" in the daytime] must, to judge from the Summary Let him be rich and weary, that at | Coart news published in the news

If goodness lend him not, yet papers, be easily the most litigious section of the community. There

least

weariness

is, however, an engaging simplicity May this him to My breast.

about their financis] transactions between friends, as witness a case heard yesterday where one watch- | mun handed another $750 on re- quest, free of interest, with no men- tion of any period of repayment and without even the formality of u signed acknowledgment of the debt. Quite probably too the money would have been paid back in due course if the borrower and leader had not had a bitter quarrel culminating in. the issue of a writ. The borrower must have been very much annoyed about it since he went to the trouble

-GEORGE HERDERT.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

concealed on the ship and it is stated that a number of suspects were 'detained in addition to! the three revolvers. the man who is alleged to have had

I would like to add that is it wlegraphic communication

It has been stated that the anus" with General Wu Pei-fu in reply do not appear to be part of an at- to his telegram of the 20th July,tempt to smuggle and it is thought and await the outcome of our that the arms were brought on exchange of telegrins with much board for some dangerous purpose. interest.

Yours, etc..

ARMS TRAFFIC.

AMERICAN SAILOR

CHARGED.

J

WITHOUT TRIAL

2.

FREE STATES RUSH.

MEASURE.

LONDON, August 1 Following the decision of the Free State Appeal Court to the effect that as conditions of armed revolt no longer existed in Ireland the Government was not entitled to detain thousands of prisoners in military custody, the Free State: Parliament, despite the opposition of the Labour members, rushed- through a bill empowering the

for six months persons on до charge.

R. Ho Tuna. As already reported, Sir Robert Ho Tung has received replies from Dr. Sun Yat-sen and President Li Yuan-hung expressing the support Sir of the proposed conference. Robert Ha Tung is confident that once the lenders get together for u KOWLOON SHOOTING INCIDENT. Government to arrest and detain round-table conference half the battle for achieving unity has been Erwin Nelson (20), described won. Without making ang definite as an American, and a quarter- declared that the immediate release The Minister of Home Affairs request, he would like the confer-master of the 5.5. "President of prisoners who had been the ence to be held in Hongkong. firstly McKinley," was charged before most reckless in warring against because the Colony is neutral and Mr. J. R. Wood this morning with the state would be a great disaster. secondly because the spade work the unlawful possession of two re- will have been done by a Hongkong|volvers and 47 1ounds of ammuni-

tion. man.

TYPHOON INCIDENT.

MURDER CHARGE

WITHDRAWN.

Sub-Inspector Spear, who had charge of the case, asked His Worship for a remand as the C.S.P. would ask for committal. Accord-

ingly the case was held over till

IL30 am. to-morrow.

the

a riesha and to have been challeng-

EXPRESS TRAIN SMASH;

BERLIN, August 1. The number of the victims in the now given as 47 killed and 37 in Hamburg-Munich train disaster is

jured:

- DAVIS CUP TENNIS.

DEAUVILLE, August L]]. France beat Spain in

the

No statement was made in court,

[The Hamburg Munich express but it appears that Nelson was The charge of murder preferred arrested in Austin Road on Tues collided with a stationary train near against Tec Chung-lin, the Chinese day night. It is stated that a Cassel, owing to the driver not who on Friday last jumped into the Chinese detective had been posted seeing the signals against him, harbour with his wife from the there, information having been owing to a piece of dirt flying into

his eye.] Steamboat Co.'s Canton steamer received by the police that some- wharf and was gallantly rescued body was likely to pass with arms. by Chief Preventive Officer Clark, At

stated hour, -Nelson has been withdrawn and the man is alleged to have passed in Aug. z. Coronet Theatre; has been released. "Hunting Big Game in Africa." It will be recalled that the couple ed. The man in the ricsha, whoever August 2-World Theatre; intended to commit suicide after he was, Jumped out and ran away of briefing one of the Colony's most The Camival with Matheson arriving from Canton the night with the officer in pursuit. One European Davis Cup final by three able barristers though the Judge Lang.

before but the man was saved. His version says that the detective fired matches to two, Blanchy winning felt himself unable to certify, when Aug. 2-Star Theatre; "Below wife, who had been a victim to at the fugitive before capturing the decider against Flequer 6-1,6-2, the time came to "shroff up" the the Deadline."

while others consumption, died after being Nelson, costs to be paid by the defendant, Ang. 3. Promenade Concert on taken out of the water, hence the that the man in that his extravagance was justified. Volunteer Parade Ground, 9.15 p.m. charge of murder. The Attorney ricsha fired first In another However, though loan oft loses

General is stated to have advised quarter it is stated that the de-. the C.S.P. that there was no case tective was interfered with by against Tse.

another man who escaped. How- After his release Tse returned ever, Nelson was arrested. No. to Canton with his grown-up thing was found on him. Arms daughter and son.

are said to have been picked up not far from the spot.

worth.

The Great Hat.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

2

For the 24-hours ending July 31, two cases of "small-pox' were reported. Yesterday one case of plague was reported.

rain at all.

St. Paul declared Charity the Notice is given that Monday: greatest of the virtues, but the next being a bank-boliday the Chority of which he spoke was Exchange banks will be closed for not the financial contribution to the transaction of public business. which its meaning has been The Imports and Exports Office degraded. On the contrary he will close at noon. made a deliberate antithesis be-

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CHINA'S PREMIER,

ACTIVITY AT PAOTINGFU.

PEKING, August 1. The centre of political activity seems to have shifted to Pactingfn,. where prominent leaders are in conference to-day.

The conference will approve the efforts to induce Dr. W. W. Yen to Should he become Premier. decline the post, it may be offered to Wu Yu-lin-Courtesy Daily Bulletin.

*SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

.

BEACHED.

3-6, 6-1.

say the

LOCAL RIVER STEAMER'S MISHAP.

STEERING GEAR BLAMED,

to

The s.s."Kwong Fook Cheung " (Captain de la Sala) while on a voyage from Hongkong Wuchow, struck a rock or shoal and is now beached near Sam Leung Hap Hau about seven miles above Shiu Hing,

SOARING ¦ HIGHER.

LATEST AEROPLANE

RECORD.

Paris, August, E. The aviator Lecointe reached a height of 10,800 metres it an acros plane at Villa Coublay aerodrome, beating the world's record of 10,518. metres by the American Lienten- ant Macready.

AMOY CRISIS.

PEKING LACKS OFFICIAL "NEWS."

PEKING, August 1. In Government circles nothing is happenings in Amoy, but messa known officially regarding the

fact it is, permeates the work of our lose both in this instance, sice the Kingsclere Hall, 245 p.m.,

loan and friend" and possibly will August 8-Lammert Bros., at local Society which seeks to prevent defendant is an impecunious watch quantity thoughtless cruelty on the part an out of a job, the plaintiff prob- linen.

of fine furniture and T. principally of those who are called ahly feels he has got his money's Aug. 7-At 3 p.m. P.W.D.

upon to handle the large amount the way they appeared to relish the in Ho Mun Tin.

At any rate, to judge by Offices, three lots of Crown Land of live stock dealt with in the argument, he provided a capital'{

We remember this fact morning's entertainment for a score being stressed, by His Honour Mr. or so of his compatriots. Justice Gompertz at the inaugural Horazona, ThurSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922 meeting of the Society, one of the most enthusiastic meetings it has been our lot to attend. Prosecu- How many people, when they tion was to be side-tracked as much subscribe sums to charity; stop to

themselves the question Last month's total rainfall was as" possible and the beneficent work "Where does that money really

20.43 inches. The most that fell on It is one of the anomalies of our of teaching and admonition was to go"

be tried. pretended civilisation

Once the coin is dropped in the one day was 5.76 inches on July 27. That has been a policy that it

bax, or the cheque has been posted. Next to this was the 22nd with 3.53 becomes necesary to have societies wisely carried out by Inspector this episode passes from their mind inches. Twelve days were without

Fred. Fisher of whom we have and in practically forgotten. of a preventative character. In á supposed Class A. civilisation we 'pleasant recollections sa an officer

ges from other sources disclose the have organisations that counteract in the now defunct Police Reserves,

According to the compradore of occurrence of serious trouble. It by prosecutions before a legal and has been most successful as his

the ship, who made a report to the seems that General Tsang Chin- Captain HL Fogg and Mr. D. C/ Chinese owners, the Lun Fat S.S. Ping, who is suspected of Anfu assembly the frequept acis of report for July proves. He cites a

Brodie have returned to the Colony Co. of 94, Des Voeux Road West, Sympathies, apparently decided to cruelty to little children and to mere matter of ten cruelty cases

per the s.s." St. Albans."

the ship was in the rapids when join Li Lie chun and to support dumb animals. Allowing for the ascribed to ignorance, and reports

the accident occurred. Owing to the Kuo Ming-tang party la tween donations und Charity. Members of the Rattan Wor- Mr. and Mrs, D. Tollan, Mr. and the strong current running, she the subsequent fighting the "little naughtinesses" of some that it has only been necessary to

Though I bestow, all my goode kers' Guild have been granted an Mrs. L Morley and Miss D. was slightly taken out of her troops got out of hand and children and the frequent perverse.givo, two cautious and make two

to feed the poor......... and have all-round increase of 17 per cent. Hancock were passengers on the course. After the impact was forcibly entered the foreign cune net Charity, it profiteth me on their wages by their masters as 8.8. "Kashima Maru," which left for felt

ship was nens of some of our neighbours of prosecutions. We find a consider-

taken cession, firing indiscriminately at nothing."

the result of several conferences Europe. yesterday,

astern when it was found that she all shipping. Two Chinese gun- "the lower order," it is beyond able amount of interest in this July

The general system of Charitable between delegates from both

Norther was making water, at the bow and boats supporting the human comprehension and perhaps report. It is for one thing a bird's

administration nowadays can wall sides, says the local Wah Tare Yar According to a Reuter cable some of the cargo in the bow hold cause opened fire apon the forts. reasonable analysis to understand eye view of the vast suxount of be compared to an old bulk larch Pe. The makers of rattan furniture, from San Francisco, Geteral had been damaged. Orders were Finally the Southerners were dri

trade which is carried out in certaining along, its crew frantically strive described as rattan knitters" In Sawyer etates that President Hard-at once given for the ship to be ven off. General Tsang Chin-ping. why acts of cruelty are done which lines. Charles Lamb would surely ing to patch up the leaks and sear Chinese, are to get an additional ing has passed the crisis and is now beached and this was completed in is now in Changchew.Reader. arouse public resentment and call have been interested in the numbering the pumps going desperately. 10 per cent on their wares.

well on the way to recovery. 35 minutes. The compradore: nt- for redresa. It may be the natural.

tributes the accident to the steam of pigs dealt with. It might have

Well might we say to ourselves :—

"Church Notes"

News has been received of the steering gear not responding when Who indeed am I that I should,

announces instinct of the bully, loosely suggested another delightful essay offer my fellow-man Charity? If that a Mr. Mason, whose musical death in Simla, from enteric fever, in the rapids. A curbed in most people, which seeks excursion into the succulent subject the mill that grinds our common qualifications have been deemed to of Miss Fuller, a member of the The Kwong Fook Cheung an outlet for its petty fiendishness, of roast pig! Probably the late

be excellent by the Committee in Kasi's Hawaiian Company which left Hongkong with a general cargo com catches and cripples him in England appointed to make a was in Hongkong a few months of rice, yarn, marine delicacies, either iu' acts of bodily cruelty, or Archbishop Tample would have

ite wheel, it is Justice I owe him, selection, has been appointed ago,

manufactured goods, &c, on Thurs- where authority has been assumed found something for comment in

not Charity. The common social organist of St. John's Cathedral in mechanism should provide against place of Mr. Deoman Fuller resign-

day last. She was delayed at Shiu. Hing on account of the lack of or acquired, the biting, often the fact the poultry is mòntioned no

these accidente. To-mori.w the ed. The date of Mr. Mason's arrival F. O. LL. Stokes at the age of 69 transhipment furks which had been

Peking, Aug. I shanderous words of an unkind less that seven times in the Inspec

Reuter's representative has been wheel may catch me. The race in the Colony will be announced He was for several years Sporting commandeered by the military reliably informed that, despite tongue, or the imposition of tasks tor's report. It was the Arch

is not to the swift," says the in due course, “

Editor of the Rangoon Times, Heor had gone elsewhere to escape the effective five per cent Import which are either beyond the powers bishop's growl that at every parish

Preacher, nor the battle to the pu

also acted as editor of the paper on requisitioning The accident tariff, the net revenue collected by strong. But adds Ecclesiastes, of those concerned or have not been church he visited they sang "The

A Peking message to the Daily several occasions.

occurred on Saturday last and the the Customs Authorities for the "tirae and chance happeneth to Bulletin states that in vlow of The engagement is announced of on the Tal On Amimber of July last year, shows decrease of compradore arrived here yesterday month of July, as compared with * bargained for. It might be said. Church's One Foundation' whilst them all. In this ancient state- China's inability to send a delegate altering somewhat Hood's well at supper afterwards be was regaled

ment of the human tragedy lies to the World Parliamentary Con- Mr. O E. Chubb and Miss M. E. shipwrights are leaving for the spot nearly Shanghal Tis: 180,000. known lines, that

also the modern solution. For vention, which is to be opened at Dipple. Mr. Chubb joined the North today to repair the vessel which is It is pointed out that the effective with chicken! Our dog fauciere

there is a calculation of "time" Copenhagen this month, both Borneo Trading Co. in Sandakan sall on the beach

1 | five per cent. tariff should, by now, should be interested in the state and a "doctrine of chance, by Houses have requested the Wal-13 years ago and for several years of the average size of river be coming fully off deliver ment that twenty puppies came

which insurance experts over chiapou to forward a congratulatory now has been its general manager; steamer, the Kwang Fook The above figures, show that," through from Tai (2. Tom Boown.

come the chase of contingency, telegram, to the Convention, ex- Miss Dipole was for nearly two Choung was built by a local ship- owing to the ent Urantia bor cost Why should not every trade and pressing a hope that the Convention year the Nurse Marrow of Jesselton yard of the same time and has and the general tmnist, they large craft and profession consume its will lead to a' world peace and Hospital and at present occupies a been on the Wuchow-Hongkong Increase that was expected has not awa smake, be compelled by the government by the people.

sömilar post in Sandakan;;

eventisäted--Petiter-

"Cruelty is wronght by want of

Thought

"As well as Want of Heart-

might have found time to compone And it is obvious that this fact, for a verse or two begining with 1

The death is announced of Mr.

the

run for d. few months,

CHINESE CUSTOMS

RETURNS.

ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT EFFECTS.