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ABOUT ST GEORGE,

April 29rd has a' claim which should protect it from oblivion.. for

was on a St. George's Day that William Shakespeare was born and on another St. George's Day, 52 years later he died all too soon. But to-day St. George.. has it." There is good reason to believe in the saint, although in! this enlightened age the story of the fight with a dragon must, sad to relate, be relegated to the limbo of the fable. England's hero, who is said to have been a patri- cian soldier, was born towards the close of the third century in Palestine at Lydda, of which city

R:

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1926.

BALTIC PACT.

BREAK IS LITHUANIAN CABINET.

SOVIET SNUBBED..

(Router's Service;);

Riga, April 221

PEACE IN SYRIA.

FRENCH AND BRITISH COMBINING WELL.

OPERATIONS PROGRESSING.

(Reuter's Service.)

„Paria, April' 22, According to: the "Petit.

The Lithuanian Foreign Mini ster. Mr. Reinys, has Fesigned Journal," M. Briand, Premier, owing to his colleagues not ordor addressing the Senate Foreign sing his action in carrying on Affairs Committes, explained that separate negotiations for a Russo-; Lithuanian Neutrality Agreeipont."

The acting Foreign Minister stated that the Soviet Government suggested that all the Baltic States should enter into a guarantee pact containing a neutrality clause.

his father was: Governer: When The Baltic Governments consected to negotiate. but emphasised that mere lad, England's future they could not agree to any stipula patron saint entered the army,tion contradicting the statutes of soon being raised to the rank of the League of Nations, and there tribune. There is little doubt could be no question of anything that he served under Galerius in but a Treaty between Russliv o the Persian War. After that he the one side and the whole of the removed to Beirut, although the

Baltic States on the othar..

story that he was sent to Eng- land by Diocletian, is, unfortun ately, no more than a tradition.

Superintendent of Folice and it was not till 1917 that he was given the additional duties of Acting Colonial Treasurer. At long last, in December, 1918. he was appointed and has since held the office of Colonial Treasurer. That he may have made good in uhe best sense of the word is not questioned under the circum- stances, governing this coveted post. It may not be che so spot where the hero washed his any sins of omission or commis-hands after the encounter.

It was at Beirut that the famous fight, with the dragon took place, und, according to one authority, the well is still shown into which the monster was cast; also the

It

No. 5.WYNDHAM ST.,HONGKONGsion on his part that these finan-was St. George's conversion to

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A communicationa... should be addressed to the Nowapapor Enter. prise, Ltd, to whom all remittances: should be made payable..

London Officos:--The Far Eastern

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BIRTH.

LAVILLE - At Batu Gajah, Perak, on April 11, 1926; 10. the wife of L. V. J. Laville Esq., Malayan Civil Service, a daughter.

etal votes invariably evoke critiChristianity which cisma by the Unofficial members of the Council..

VAS

ultimately

AJ

CHINA'S WARS.

IMPORANT ARRIVALS IN PEKING.

(Reuter'a Service)

Lord Plummer..

a complete understanding and collaboration existed between M. Henrt de Jouvenel (Governor of Peking, April 22.Syria) and Field Marshal Lord Chang Haueh-liang Chang Plumer (British High Commis-

sioner for Palestine). Tsung-chang and Li Ching-Min en-

cost him his life. Refusing to make sacrifices to the gods, he was. To mention only one item in the beheaded on a Good Friday, after Such long list of votes passed yester a week of cruel torturest day, criticism was certainly are the main facts as rented by Eusebius concerning St. George of justified of the request

Lydda, and although they lack for $80,000: for buildings!

corroborative "evidence, there and furniture. $16,500 for

seems little out of the ordinary, site. and $2,000 for an ex

excepting, of course, the dragon gratia payment to the con-

episode,, to make them seem be- tractors in connection with the new Kowidion Hospital yond belief. The cult of St. as England is Sir Henry Pollock pointed out George, so far

concerned seems to have origin- that the original "estimate $604,000 in 1922, and the most ated in the Crusades. In the early important reason for the estimate history of England the number of being, exceeded was a decision to victorious fields over which the lower the level of the site, which red cross of St. George had floated involved the removal of additionalare legion; and later in conjunc- NUNES—REUTENS,

Pel-fu's representatives are Henry, eldest son of the late material at a cost of $282,000. tion with the blue cross of St.tered Peking this morning. Henry Nunes of the Singa- This decision incidentally led to Andrew, and the diagonal red pected shortly after which a con- pore Municipality,

outstanding and the contractors losses in the cross of St. Patrick, his glory has fererce to discuss Eugenie Emily Holmeberg, Nunes of 2, Race Course typhoon of August 23, 1923, as in no way departed. In spite of questions will take place. Lane at the Church of St. even the Director of Fublic Works St. George's foreign origin, there Joseph, Kuching, at 7.a.m. admitted that the contractors is something typically English On: April 5, 1926, to would have finished their work in about him; as the lines say:-- Mabel Veronica, second

contract time if it had not been St. George he was for England, daughter of Joseph P.

And before he killed the Reutens, retired accountant for the change in the level of the of the Sarawak .Government site. and the inclusion of extra

drogen and the late Maria Teresa worka. No wonder he advocated Reutens of Shanghai,

ļa vote of $2,000 to the contractors [as an "act of grace!"

MÄRRIAGE,

DEATHS.

-Arthur

He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon..

Marshal Wu Pel-fu..

Question in Commons:

London, April 22:

Wu

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The combined operations were well in hand, and peace in Syria. could be expected in the" future.

ECONOMY BILL.

near

THIRD READING PASSED BY COMMONS..

EDUCATION ÄFFECTED:

(Reuter's Service.)

London, April 22. The House of Commons by 828 votes to 138, passed the third read- ing of the Economy Bill. after speeches by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Lloyd George condemning the proposals in the Bill to take $4,700,000 from the National In- surance Bund and to economise on

education.

ex-li Mr. Winston Churchill, in reply,

In the House of Commons Mr.

R. C. Wailhead (Labour, Merthyr)

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asked if the Government had been approached or

entered into an agreement on the either of the parties engaged in the civil war in China, in the event of either of them occupying. Peking, as to-the- It is to be hoped that now-a-future Government of China or its Again, a vote of $10,966 was

days England's patron saint is future foreign policy? from cerebral haemorrhage, asked to make, godd a shortage of about to recover her honourable Frederic John d'Esterre- coal stored at the Government place in the national regard, for, Darby, in his 45th year. coal yard at Blackhead's Point in St. George has been all that stood the European Hospital, Kuaia been placed under the supervision

at 1925. Although the coal had for the nation's glory in the past. Lumpur, Maurice H. Kirby,, of the F.M.S. Posts and Tele graphs Department.

DARBY.--At Maur, "on April 7,.

KIRBY. On April 12,

Hongkong, Friday, April 23, 1926.

WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

of a private firm it had been de-

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declared that the Government's pro posals were justified. He pointed out that this year's Estimates pro- „ vided for £2,000,000 more for edu cation than did those of the Labour Government in 1924.

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ARGENTINE LOAN.

ARRANGED BY MESSKS, MORGAN'S,

(Reuter's American Service,) Garrison Commandant,

New York, April 22. Peking, April 28,

Messrs. Morgan's have ar- Wu Pei-fu telegraphed to the Committee of Safety again to-day ranged a loan of $20,000,000 at Insisting on the appointment of six per cent. for the Argentina Wang Huai-cheng as garrison com- Government, which is offered at mandant. which Chang. Taung $98. chung, the nominee of Wang Han-

Wang Haai-- cheng is still in Tientsin.

Offer of Grain. At a meeting to-day. Wang Shih- chen's Committee of Safety re- solved to carry on indefinitely.

cided that no claim against that ST. GEORGE'S DAY.ming, has taken over. firra could be established, and so the value of the shortage was. written off. Another dip into the: Colonial Treasurer's exchequer !

Another change of front. is re-

has

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SIMPLE! CEREMONY OF OBSERVANCE

AT THE CENOTAPH.

Chang Tso-lin has offered to supply large quantities of grain to Peking, where a shortage is caus- ing anxiety,

It is reported that Chang Tso-lin

SAVE THE FRANC..

MAHARAJAH'S HANDSOME

"* DONATION..

(Havas Agency.)

Paria April 22. The Mabarajah of Kapurthala has given- 50,000 francs to the fund for the improvemant of the franc.

BANK RATE.

(Reuters American Service.)

New York, April 22:

In a recent article dealing with vealed in respect of a small sum

There was a simple ceremony financial votes passed by the of $123 for postmen.. Some of of observance at the Cenotaph Legislative Council, after a cer- these deserted in June last year, to-day of the national day, will shortly visit Peking... tain degree of demur by the Uncertain privileges were withdrawn wreath being laid at the Cenotaph officiul members, it was pointed on their rejoining, and now that at 9:30 by Mr. W. A. Dowley, who was accompanied by Mr. C. G. out in effect that so long as the decision

been reversed Alabaster who carried the An unemployed Chinese was Colony had no Financial Adviser (after a period of satisfactory wreath, the Hon. Mr. E. R. caught by the cell constable in the an improvement in finance could service), and hence

Hallifax, Sir Henry Pollock, the act of passing over a box of another Hon. Mr. H. W, Bird, Mr. F. A matches to a prisoner at the Kow- not be expected. There is an breach is made in the 1926 Estim-Perry, Mr. H. R. B. Hancock, Mr. loon · Magistracy yesterday. official, it is true, who combines ates. Other items could," be de- T. M. Hazlerigg. Mr. S. M. Charged with committing an the offices of Colonial Treasurer, tailed, all being excused on the Mayes, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Mr. offence, he was fined $5 or seven discount rate has boon roduced Assessor of Rates, Collector of grounds that they could not be W. C. Shiner, Mr. Greensmith days. Stamp Revenue, and Estate Duty foreseen or that there had been Commissioner; but he would prob- oversights or discrepancies or two ably be the first to disclaim to be great reductions in the original | Telegrams conveying greetings the financial peer of, say, Sir C. J. estimates. All point to the fact from St. George's societies In other parts of the Empire have Rivett-Carnac or Mr. W. J. F. that the Colonial Treasury's De-been received this morning and Williamson, both of whom in the partment must be working under more were.coming in at the time capacity of Financil Adviser did great and almost needless dif.of going to press.

It is, however, impossible to

and Col. Robertson,

Other members of the Society were also present.

so much in their respective times ficulties occasioned by the lack of publish a list of them or of the to consolidate the finances of proper functioning of other De-telegrams sent out until the com- Siam. The present Colonial partmente in the important mat-plete liat is available. Treasurer, in the first place, haster of finance. These supple the City Hall will be filuminated The St. George" cross outside not the powers of a Financial Ad mental votes have long proved a to-night for the concert given. viser, whilst he has suffered the bone of contention, and whilst it under the auspices of the Society. fate of his predecessors in the is recognised that some are quite same post by being engaged in unavoidable, it cannot be claimed half a dozen different departments that others could not have been before securing the substantive foreseen in the framing of the appointment of Colonial Trea original Estimates. If any Im-RUB Chamberlain's Pain Balm on the painful, spots. It is penetrating, surer. From 1908 to 1912 (inclu-provement is to be expected It is starts up the circulation which carries sive of a period of Home leave) appare only to be found in the the congestion and pressure at causes

the

pain. That is, how it helps he yas Postmaster-General and appoint ment of a Financial Ad- rheumatle pains, lumbags, backache, Acting Colonial Treasurer. In viser, accountable only to the neuralgia, wollen, aching Joints and murdles Sold and · recommended 1918 he was appointed Captain Governor in Counc

averwhere,

A. GOOD LINIMENT.

The Federal Reserve Bank re-

from four to 3% per cent,

ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

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