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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The family and relatives of the

late M. B. Suffiad' tender their

dance at the funeral.

BIRTH.

SILCOCK.--On December 5, 1924, to Mr. and Mrs, Arnold Silcock, Chengtu, a daughter.

miles. The ZR3 carries 30 passengers, and their luggage, and a crew of 24. She is to be employed on a mall service between New York and London, occupying two days

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1925.

dom from German Custome for NOTICES TO MARINERS.

Avb years for. the products of Alsace-Lorraine; and that an attempt, at the conclusion of the London Conference to extend this

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

privilege for a further consider- The following notices to able term of years failed owing to mariners are published in the cur- German, opposition. The cottonrent "Government Gazette:"

CORON' PASSAGE. The third class red nua buoy in Coron Passage, Calamian Group, has been reported missing. It will be replaced to its former position as soon as practicable and proper notice will then be issued.

CORRESPONDENCE.

HONGKONG EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the China Mail.J

Sir-To one who has but the... slighest interest in the educational system of this Colony,even a cursory glance at the results of the Un-

trade, or at least the finishing

CEBU HARBOUR. · {indestry. of Alsace-Lorraine

The second class black can buoy throve greatly under the pre- ferential treatment; and, if it had at the point of reef N. E.versity of Hongkong. Juator exam

of Bentolinao Point, northern reveals some striking as well as been prolbaged,, spinning mills and

entrance of Cebu Harbour, has startling facts, In the first place, weaving sheds might have been been moved northward. The buoy it is noticeable that considerably erected to manufacture the cloth is now moored in 47 feet of water. less than the usual percentage of which Alsace-Lorraine mostly got

Sextant angles as follow candidates ware successful. from Lancashire. France having Right angle Pangtian Point to Many were doored." We wonder failed so far in negotiating a new Bagacay Point Lighthouse 78. why. Perhaps the standard of Commercial Treaty, it is. ensy to 50: Loft angle Bagacay. Point these unhappy warriors was far understand the trek of laden Lighthouse to Polat northeastern below" that of their luckier vehicles, en route to Germany coast to entrance of Cansaga Bay predecessors, and unless this is from Alsace-Lorraine, on Satur:100:10:

so, there is no reason why the day, to take advantage of the last

percentage of passes does not day for the entry of duty-free goods.

come nearly so high or low, which ever it is, as in previous years. This process of eliminating un versity by means of such exams. desirable entrants into, the uni as the matriculation may be a wise policy but not altogether a sound one at this stage. If, by judging from the results you published last night, the attainments in English of most schools in the Colony are at their low water mark, then it is up to the University authorities and nobody else to see that the standard is put up a litle higher. The "curse of public exams, such. as these, is already too well known. How much decent. English Can any school boy or girl learn under the present system of the WRONGLY subject in preparation for exams? CHARGED. & Do the University authorities realise 'that learning onc textbook in English

pre- scribed

Memories.

SAN BERNARDINO STRAIT.' "The automatic acetylene flashing white light on. Calantas Rock, western entrance of San Bernar dino Strait, has been reported not burning. It will be relighted as soon as practicable and proper notice will then be issued.

SERIOUS OFFENCE.

The launch by Messrs, Swan, -Hunter and Wigham Richardson of the new British India steamer "Santhia" leads a Home paper to recall many memories in the East, Her predecessor in the title was a five thousand-ton cargo steamer, with accommodation for a few passengers, and was launched by Messrs. Dennys, of Dumbarton, in 1901, a unit of a huge class of similar ships launched at various yurtis between 1895 and 1901. She was designed for the Indian TWO GUNNERS there that she spent the greater and Eastern trade, and it was part of her career, with occasional runs down to Australia. During A. J. H. Pepler and W. Ivor

for these exams does the war she was left to her owners Juliff, gunners of the R.G.A., the when so many of her consorts first of whom was charged, last give the poor candidate ever a peep" into anything which may serious offence be called literature, far less the were commissioned by the authori- Friday with a ties, but that was not the only against Tsol la-cho, eleven-year slighest command of the language? occasion when she showed very old daughter of a Chinese clerk, What about conducting the exam satisfactory financial results for on a military path leading to Mount in English on lines similar she was a steady dividend earner Davis Battery on January 7, and to the Oxford and Cambridge with a remarkable freedom from the second with aiding and abet- Local Exams? As it is, accident all through her career, tingere again brought before candidates are

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sent up with

on - the journey. "The ship is 656 feet in length, she has a gas capacity of 2,500,000 cubic feet, and is capable of a non-stop flight of 7,600 miles. She could, therefore, if required. In 1923 Ahe was sold to Japanese Mr. J. R. Wood at the Central 'a, very narrow-minded notion make comfortably the voyage of owners, who kept her registered Magistracy this morning.

of English literature. They could The men appeared to have been perhaps "spout" to you the whole the Pacific, from San Francisco at Dairen to avoid some of the

troublesome restrictions on for-wrougly charged, and were dis of their textbook: but surely that 16 Hongkong. Her Maximum speed eign-built ships, and she has been charged, the Magistrate remarking is not learning English. is 80 miles an hour, although her running from that port to various that there was nothing against

Thanking you for your courtesy,

Yours, etc normal speed is not as a rule to points in the East ever since, with

The major charge is now prefer-

ANTI-EXAMUS. exceed 50 miles.

the The Burney

occasional voyages across Pacific for timber and other sup- Ellement, who was remanded in red against another gunner, James scheme provides for a fleet of six plies for the relief of the earth military custody until Monday airships, each of which will have quake sufferers. She is now the next when a date will be fixed for a greater passenger 'capacity and "Shaka Maru, and has a very hearing. a faster normal speed than the her successor to the name of good chance of running alongside

American ZR3. But the first of "Santhia" for many years to come

these ships cannot, according to Captain' Burney himself, be com- pleted for at least 18 months, nor the entire fleet within a period less than three years. In the meantime, not only the United States, but France and Germany;

in Eastern waters.

A VETERAN CLERK.

MR. MAHMOOD BIN

SUFFIAD...

TWENTY YEARS' SERVICE.

It is with regret that the "China Mail" recorda the death, on Saturday, of Mr. Mahmood Bin Suffiad, of the Colonial Secre- tary's office, which occurred at his residence, No. 169, Wongnei- chong Road, at the age of 41 years.

them.

ILLICIT ARMS,

POLICE PLEASE NOTE.

[Ta the Editor of the China Mali

Sir, Is it not time that the Hongkong Government with its enormous surplus finds employed at Pulice Headquarters, a clerk who has a knowledge of the

CHARGE AGAINST A BOAT (English language?

WOMAN."

Last evening I was informed. that a band of some to 'armed robbers was attacking the "Ig- Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at habitants of a village below my the Kowloon Magistracy this house at Pokfulam (Telegraph morning. 3

boat-woman. was Bay,) charged with the possession of Is A telephone message was sent revolvers, 7 pistols, and 9,200 to Police Headquarters, and the rounds of ammualtion.

only reply received from

the The case was remanded, Mr. clerk in charge of the telephone N. . Brewer appearing for the, was something in Chinese. accused..

The same hing happened The police withdrew charges about seven mo...hs ago when I against two boys arrested for the telephoned Central Police Station same offence.

that my chauffeur had acarly

heartfelt thanks to all their friends for their kind messages and possibly Italy and Czecho- of sympathy in their recent Slovakia, are ahead of Britain. bereavement, for the beautiful France holds the world's duration wreaths sent, and for their atten- record, set up by the R34 on her historic Atlantic voyage, and the French airship "Dixmude" "made a non-stop journey of 4.400 miles in 118 hours. When we reflect on the importance to our own Empire of rapid means of com-

Joining the Government service munication as an Imperial nexus, on December 1, 1903, the late Mr. PARR-COSTAIN—On January it is difficult to understand why a Suffiad had been in the CS.O. fór

5, 1926, at Shanghai, Marjorie supreme effort has not been made about 20 yes rising to a position 31. Emily Costain, to Arthur by the British Government to senior man in Grade 1 of the of much responsibility, being the Parr, both of Liverpool, Eng-secure for the Empire the same Clerical Establishment. He was land.

leading position in aerial shipping of a retiring disposition and was as it occupies in the maritime well liked by his colleagues in the Civil Service. Much sympathy will go out to his widow and six children.

MARRIAGE.

Hongkong, Monday, January 12, 1925, world.

AIRSHIPS AND IMPERIAL COMMUNICATIONS,

&

A

FUNERAL YESTERDAY.

·

At the Kowloon Magistracy this murdered his wife." It was nearly morning, an order was made for one hour, after ringing up about the confiscation of a revolver and 10 times, that I got a European 250 rounds of ammunition found Officer on the telephone. by Sergeant A. Kirby on a "President" boat on December

CONCEALED DAGGER.

CHINESE OWNER SHOT BY A. DETECTIVE.

SAINT. JOAN.”

Was

Yours etc..

JOHN ARNOLD. Hongkong, Canton and Macao

Steambout Co., Ltd. January 12, 1924-

IN CHINESE SERVICE

STARTLING REPORT OF THE AMHERST."

"

A CHEQUERED CAREER.

"S.S.' Amherst at Holbow as was the rather Chinese gunboat, Stariling report braght in by the "Borneo"

Most of the shipping community will recall the name of this sturdy little ship which was once a regular caller åt Hongkong.

Before coming up to Hongkong, she was in the stone-carying trade at Singapore. She was purchased at the height of the boom during the War by a Hongkong merchant but was under requisition by the Straits Government for some time. and did not get here till the War was over.

A Chinese' was taken to the Commerce With Germany.

Government Civil Hospital fact The funeral took place yester- night with a bullet wound in the Great Britain is still the only day at the Mahomedan Cemetery. leg. The man took to flight on

very large gathering at- being accosted by a Chinese de one of the Allies to sign a new Owing to the persistent pro- Commercial Treaty; a provisional tended, including the Hon. Sir tective at Des Voeux Road West, Claud Severn (Colonial Secre- but a bullet felled him. The in- crastination of the Imperial agreement has been reached Government in coming to

between Italy and Germany per-tary), Mr. S. B. B. McElderry jured man had good grounds to

(Acting Assistant Colonial Secre- get away before a search decision in respect of the Burney mitting a continuance of trade tazy), Mr. J. A. E. Bullock (Chief carried out, as he had a dagger

relations after yesterday pending airship scheme, which provides the conclusion of a definite Treaty Clerk, C.S.0.), Mr. W. G. Fits concealed under his jacket.

Gibbon (First Clerk, C.S.0.) and for a service, first to Egypt, next whilst the negotiations on similar the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall (a tective's revolver grazed the shins A stray bullet from the de- to India and, in its third phase of lines beween France and Germany

former colleague).

of a Chinese passer-by, who also development, to Australia, the have still proved abortive: This

Wreaths were sent by the had to be removed to hospital. unwonted stir in the commercial United States quicker to realise relations of the Allies toward Hongkong Government, H.E. the the value of the airship as a Germany is due, to Saturday last Governor, Sir Claud Severn, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher (Assistant cornmercial factor, has secured a being the date on which the com- Colonial

mercial privileges secured to the McElderry, Bullock, FitzGibbon. Secretary), Messrs. pronounced lead of the Empire. Allies under the Treaty of Ver

Those attending to-night's opeb.

Captain T. Thirlwell now im. Captain Burney's scheme has beet sailles came to an end. Great the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. R. H.

ing performance, are reminded charge of the Taikoo Dock tag, definitely approved, but it will Britain was wise in taking time Kotewall, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. that it commences promptly at was given command and, in spite

Wan and many others.

and that latecomers will only be of her small size, ran regularly probably take two years at least by the forelock and concluding a Commercial Treaty on December

admitted at the conclusion of from talsport to Adelaide add. before Britain can attain' to 3 last, thus averting any danger

Scope I. This will operate Freemantle bringing up cargoes' position which America, in this of entering into a commercial war.

throughout the season, ·

of sandalwood --The-latest-golf - story-which-The matinee wif take place on Captains-J. Anderson and Jones- field of enterprise now occupies. We are now Informed that, not-

withstanding the lapse of the comes from Melbourne concerns a Wednesday at 430 pm, and the (not the present master of the Already the American ZR1, better commercial clauses of the Ver- parson who has only lately taken extra matinee on Wednesday

Chướn. Chow” also had the com.nand at different periods. known as the "Shenandoah" is on sailles Treaty, it is not believed to the game. He was matched 21 at the same hour. service, while early this year it is that the trading position between tion rather for his language than

with a player possessing' a reputa

"Lloyd's Register" for 1928 5 gives the "Amherst's” met tonnage hoped to establish a regular trans-Britain and Germany will be his ability on the putting green.

as 241 tons, owned by the On Fat Atlantic service with the ZRB, extends to Britain, the most-of interest, but there was dis changed. Therefore, Germany The event created a great deal

S.S. Co. and under the British flag. Unofficial history records that renamed "The Los Angeles." This favoured-nation treatment with

appolotment

club.

she was sold by her original buyers vessel is u Zeppelin airship, built reciprocity. It goes without any-house when it' was found

and that she passed from the in Germany, to replace one that ing that, but for a continuance that there was no breach between

British to the Chinese, then the fof the most-favoured-nation-treat the two-on-the-contrary-they-

-Chilean-and-again--back-to-the should have been surrendered to ment the Commercial Treaty came back rare good friends. The following will represent the Chinese Hag. " the United States under the peace would not have been signed. This "His language !!” echoed the H.R.H.C. ist XI against HM.S. Few scom to recall her paalug settlement. She was manned for is of special significance to parson, when the question was "Hawking" on Wednesday at the lato the hands of the Chiness Britain's cotton, trade, which has directly put to him. "Oh, yes: "I U.S.RC. at 5 pm, sharp; and Government, but some think that ber initial voyage across the been competing up to now with notice it. But then, golf is a very, PW. F. Mills, H." Owen she may have met a fato, similar to Atlantic by a German crew; and goods sent through Alsace er difficult game for a clergyman Hughes, A.. A. Dand, the Rev. that of the Hok Canton" and was travelled by way of France, Spain, Lorraine to Germany without any to play. I found it very convenient, E. W L Marin, E. Riken over by Chinese naval forces.

kind of "hindrance, It may be when, Mr. Brassie rose to the height Mitchell (captain), L4 P. Ralpha The Amherst is an from... | and the South Atlantic, to New recalled that, under the Treaty of of hier, argument, as it were to, G. R. More, H. R. Meacock, Lts rassel, built in 1886 at Port Glas Jersey, à distance of 4,500 Versailles; France, obtained free- or any. Heab, heaks

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