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CORRESPONDENCE.

SHALL WE PRAY OR SHALL WE PLAY?

[To the Editor nf the "China, Mall”]

Sir, I have read with consider- able interest the numerous letters

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1926.

S WILL GO DOWN!

PREDICTION BY CANTON AUTHORITY.

"CHINA MUST SAVE!!!

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As a sequel to the ailver slump. that have appeared in your the "Canton Gazette," in esteemed paper during the past

an

TREATY SURPRISE.

PEKING GOVT, DISPOSED TO REASON.

‚LETTER FROM CAPITAL.

[From Our Own Correspondent..) Poking. Oct. 29. To-day the question of expiring. Treaties occupies most of the

week. It is difficult to understand editorial exhorts Chinese to unite the paychology of a mind such as to create a new united monetary tention of official Peking, and alse that of your correspondent "E. system for the "whole of China the attention of the more vocal Human." I agree that life is one "with a governing centre strong students and radicala, battle against ""getting the enough to rogulate the exchange. Contrary to the fears of the dumps" but is it inhuman to con-rates, and to struggla against Logntion Quarter, the present ecrute but one day in the year banks," the chief agents of Im-Government is showing itself as to the.. memory of those gallant perialism.

disposed to be reasonable, at lenst lads who died that the world! might have peace? I think that' "Ionides struck the right note in his original letter when he said that it was only right that, like Good Friday and Easter Day, we should have a Atting interval be- tween the Day of Sorrow and the Day of Joy.

Yours, etc., ONE WHO CANNOT FORGET. Hong Kong, Nov. 6. 1926.

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Yours, etc...

ROBIN HOOD, Hong Kong, Nov. 6. 1926.

CIVIC APATHY.

It is a long time since the "Can- where Belgium, is concerned, and ton Gazette" has published a load-ristead of demanding the imme- ing articlo. The one in question|diate cancellation of the treaty has several interesting points, as (which expired yesterday) will con- follow:-

sent to a modus vivendi while

now "The situation is anything but treaty is being recognised.

We

Thus Belgian business in China favourable jo this" country, cannot. begin selling silver in con- will not at once be thrown into j'aiderable quantities, because such a chaos; nor will the extraterritosial polley eat only accelerato the fall rights of Belgians be lost to them In prices. And if we leave in our without due warning. possession the stock of the white metal

we now havo, the losses would only be distributed through a certain period.

Opportunity for Export.

Upon two things China will in- ist, however, The first is that a denite dute he set for expiration of the modus vivendi. with the un- trenty

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Ts, the Editor of the "China Maik Sir-Like your correspondert "B. Human," I do not know whe ther "Monitor" is

"But in spite of possiblederstanding that if a new A mournful!

fluctuations in both directions, has not been negotiated and ratified young person Or parson fundamentally allver prices will by that time, that all agreements. who does not know human

move downwards, not upwards. shall lapas, and nature.

the Way to

"What About Japan? lead it. I notice that “Monitor”!

....China muat save the

The second is that the new treaty has not accepted the challenge to

position for the silver-producing It was with the knowledge that draft a time-table for the obser

countries-chiefly for Americast contain no "unequal claules

nor, articles," With her 80% of the world's proi the island resources had been de-vance of Armistice Day. Perhaps

This means the doing away with duction." The finds the task beyond him? veloped almost to the limit of For my part, I shall buy a poppy.

al extraterritorial rights and the prospect has not only appalled the capacity that the decision was ar-observe with countless millions After referring to the heavy loss Belrians. Eat has given cause. for fived at to tap the resources of the two minutes' silence in mem- to Chila "from the national peint serious thought to

other the perennial spring at Shing Munry of those who fell and then, of view," the situation is summed foreigners here, for the longest-

for no reason other than that up thus: --

ired of the other treaties has not or the purpose of supplying Hongthink it the proper thing to do. The price of the white men many more years to run. "Kong as well as Kowloon, With shall join with my friends in on the London silver market, which Another question being asiced, pipes laid across the harbour for celebrating the eighth anniver-reflects precisely the whole situa-but which gets no answer, is if the conduct of such filtered ary of the greatest victory in the in. dropped during last months China has taken the same attitude annals of the British Naval and from 30-81 penge per standard toward, Japan for the Japanese water to a service bed near the Military Forces."

Founce to 24-25, La., a decline in treaty ton, lapfied this month, Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong

price already reaching 20%. Many Marshal Chang Tao-lin's control could afford to smile at the rain-

Chinese enterprisce in the big over affairs in Peking becomes trade cen..es cannot restore even more complete every day, and the fall figures. however meagre.

their former stocks" of goods be-Fengtien Party is certainly trylog But it cannot afford to so long as

enuse foreign wares are becoming to make Peking more likeable. the Government refuses to pro-

more and more expensive.. The

A Life for a Free Show! To the Editor of the "China Mail"} level of prices in China rises much For a time the,schiers were out ceed with the scheme. One of

Sir, This is not the first time more slowly than the exchange rate of hand and thought they owned the reasons for His Excellency's that I have taken the liberty of in" gold currencies. As the index- the city. Now discipline" is very disinclination to proceed with the addressing your and of "compl-numbers of wholesale prices in rigid scheme was, he stated in Coun.menting you upon your outspoken Shanghat show, the increase Until Oct. 27, soldiers walked

attitude towards the manner infor

year is only ecual into any Chinese theatre "on the cil, the probability of the needs of which this Colony is to use a to

2.506 index being 1602 od as they rode on the trams Kowloon growing beyond the pre- colloquialism. "run." I hope is will for September 1925 and 1812 without paying, sent supply capacity by reason of not be the laat.

for September 1926: The special order stopping this genial practice. Your leading article in yester-export index reflects the same ten-Two soldiers forced their way into increasing population, but among day's paper was most refreshing, dency of a very slow upward move a theatre just outside Chien men "other cogent reasons" which he and I hope that it will have been ment: 149.2 in September 1925 and gate and when they were remon- The bi-annual race for the "Tre- declined to go into was doubtless read by all sober-minded people 153.2 in September 1926.

Estrated with, one of them shot at vessa" trophy has not failed since that which it is generally under- whose lot it is to sojourn in this "Of course, this rise of foreign the electric light globes in the its inception to attract many re stood constitutes the main issue to submit to the present method main almost steady gives Chinese

outpost of Empire and who have currencies when export prices re-lobby. sidents to witness what is not on which the decision was arriv- of administration.

merchanta merely a test of endurance beed at-that the ground in ques- tween Asiatic crews and of sea- tion is in leased territory and that manship cn the part of their it is as well; therefore, that as officers but an institution to bring little as possible expense be incur home to ships' crews and the pub-red in connection with the scheme. lie generally, the need for provide Even, however, assuming that the ing against contingencies and to land will only "be leased for the keep green "the memory of the remaining 7 years, there is, no historic feat of those who man-reason why, put on a proper work- ned the life-boats of the ill-fateding basis, works for supplying the "Trevessa." As keenly contested island with water from the main as ever, the race this week con-land should not have paid for stituted an even severer test in themselves during that period. It that the absence of wind neces-is to be hoped that the last word sitated the use of oars the whole has not been said on this matter. way. It was fitting that victory should have fallen to the Dutch

Hong Kong. Saturday, Nov. 6, 1928.

A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.

Another attempt on the life of

a

» opportunity

exer

Then came aft

A warning has been

all other soldiers who try to bully

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The next morning both soldiers were decapitated in the street be- You strike the nail right on the strengthen their position in the fore the theatre building and to-day head when you say that there can world market and to widen export. their heads adorn either side of the

doorway. be no genuine test of civic apathy But in reality they receive or of the civic spirit here under diminishing quantities of goods as issued that this same fate will meet existing conditions. As you quite equivalent of their exports," rightly point out, there is much That the Hong Kong Government the people, theatres, merchants ar Municipal Council with a Muni- as a suggestion of Hong Kong re-civilians on the trams and the un- work that could best be tackled by can fix the dollar's rate is described trams. At last there is room for ripal staff and, again, I am with sidents who "in their imagination paid soldiers walk." you through and through, with think that the forces of economic few exceptions Civil Servants laws can be stopped”, officers. Let the Government per- rarely make ideal Municipal

form the functions of a Govern- ment and leave the control of the duly elected by the people. Municipality to a Municipal Body

"} The present method is a sheer farce.

With regard to the Macao-Chin- This morning's papers clearly in-cse boundary, the 89th Cantonese dicate this. for, here we have the Regiment stationed on the Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legis-border) has requested by cable that lative Council who, to some ex- the Ministry of Foreign

MACAO'S FRONTIER.

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Affairs

Mrs. Koo Goes to Paris. Mrs. Wellington Koo, wife of the Acting Premier, left Peking this morning by special train for Paris. Her trip is said to have no political xignificance, but, to be due to the illness of her mother, who is now" in the French capital.

Is "Chang Tso-lin surely coming The south of the Great Wall? railway station at Tientsin has been decorated to welcome him, great

ine which has been one of the Italy's "strong man" focussed tent at any rate, may be said to protest to the Portuguese author arches have been erected at cross

keenest contestants for honours, thus enabling them to draw level

event with no, less conspicuous success on previous occasions.

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THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S VISIT.

the public eye even more intently represent public opinion in the ties against alleged encroachment Colony, unanimously condemnning outside the Barrier, states the with the record of the Douglas. one whose personality and schemes which, owing to the pre-"Canton Gazette." ". boats which "have figured in the policy have made him one of the sent method of administration, post-War nothing will prevent the Govern greatest figures in

ment from carrying out.. Europe. The son of a Socialistic

Much may be written upon the blacksmith, a political exile asso-subject of civic apathy, but the ciating with Russian terrorists in present system in this Colony un- The question of the Island's

doubtedly encourages it. As a Geneva, earning a pittance by matter of fact it is somewhat re- Sir, Most people who have, water supply figured prominently

hard manual labour, often starv-markable that such eminent mem from time to time, had the pri- in the discussion at the Budgeting, many times imprisoned, this bers of the community should be vilege of hearing the Bishop. of debate, and in spite of official

revolutionary fire brand" has de-80 public-spirited as to be willing London either preach in a church assurance that the limitations of veloped into the acknowledgedly condemning projects knowing very cordially welcome the news. to waste valuable time in public or address a public meeting, will island water resources are realised;"saviour of Italy. Whilst any at as they do, that their efforts will that His Lordship is to visit Hong it seems that we are to be denied tempt to acclimatise on English be fruitless.

To the Editor of the "Chian Mall."]

Kong.

access to the only source which soil the principles of Fascism If an elected Municipal Council I notice that arrangements have

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Would it not be possible, Sir,

streets, and his special train has been waiting on the sidetracks at Mukden, for days.

Political gossip has it that he will ever come to Peking, which, will be considered equivalent to declaring himself Chief Executive. orRegent until a president is chosen. The present Cabinet is entirely his creation, and Wu Pəl- as has most of the influence of the f's Influence has been eliminated,

Tupan of Shantung.

1925, AB certified by the Managers of the respective Banka:-

Average Specie Banks

Amount. In Roservo.

tralia

and

ina $15,410,101 5,300,000*

Sh

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Patile

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Bank of In-

BANK NOTES.

Returne of the average amount can permanently solve a problem would probably be as futile as it control, a city such as Shanghai, to preach at the Cathedral and at of specie in reserve in Hong Kong can control, and most efficiently already been made for Dr. Ingram of Bank Notes in circulation and which will always be "acute in would be ridiculous, the English with its heterogeneous population, St. Andrew's Church and record during the month ended October, years of low rainfall. Although

to say nothing of the all-import congregations may be anticipated 31, peoples join in congratulating on the last few years have been well his escape from the hand of the against periodical inrushes of re-

ant question of its defence in both places of worship. up to normal as regards rainfall would-be assassin, one who, wher fugees from war zones and the for arrangements to be made for and at the present moment, with ther or not he may owe his pre- problems of dealing, not infre our distinguished visitor to ad- Chartered Bank one of well over 90 inches, we have every

sent pre-eminent position to tak-quently, with thousands of leader-dress a public meeting at, say, the of India, Aus- reason to feel tem-

less troops left by absconding Theatre Royal? There must be

China Ing the tide of reaction on the warlords, surely one would suc. many like myself, who, not being Hongkong and porarily secure, it must be re-

Cannot representa-regular church-goers, would very membered that in years past it has flood and floating to power upon it, ceed here? fallen to little over 40 inches has, at any rate, given a new bions be made to the authorities much like to have an opportunity at Home for a thorough overhaul of hearing His Lordship without birth of hopeful enthusiasm to of our entire system? What say participating in a service in which and may at any time reach as low a figure. Any policy which forty millions of war-wearled the Committee of the Constitue we are, to be quite frank, not in- terested. One recalls very vivid- ignores the possibility of a recur. People and convinced them that tional Reform Association?

· Miramur ex intervallo fallentia: ly the great speeches made by Dr. and hard haud. rence of such "can" years is a

discipline, sacrifice

inscla ac non incauta Ingram in his own. diocese, short-sighted and foolish one and

work are the very springs of real futuri, which, in English, is "We especially during the early days of existence.

admire at a distance the things the War, and one can say without whilst the construction of a new

that deceive us: let us not be too hesitation that one of His Lord- reservoir on the Island will, enablə

ignorant nor incautious in regard ship's, "Wake Up Manhood!” reserve stocks to be considerably

to the future."

speeches would do a good deal of The cricket match between the

Yours, etc.," supplemented in times of Heavy R. A. O. C. and H. M. S. "Tamar”.

good in a place like this. rains it will contribute little to the reported yesterday was a league

Yours, etc., Hong Kong, Nov. 5, 1926.

G. A solution of the problem of assur- fixture and not a friendly match, Continued at foot of next column. Hong Kong, Nüv. 6, 1926.

IONIDES.

$50,0005

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Total.... $69,886,088 41,850,000

* In addition Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,250,600, t'In addition Securities' deposit

ed with the Crown Agents und Straits Government valued at £3,108,097

§ In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued "at £180,000.