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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927.

tion, held in London-elicited the TAKING 'NO RISKS. statement that the average Scot,

was nearly a stone heavier than

the average Englishman. From

of the Highlanders he seemed to

his subaoquent remarks in praise

SHANGHAFS DEFENSIVE

MEASURES..

infer that they particularly excel OUR LETTER FROM NORTH..

If

in stature and avoirdupois.

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A LONG WALK.

JAPANESE STUDENT'S

· WORLD TOURS.

VISIT TO HONG KONG.

The

latest round-the-world: walker to visit Hong Kong is Mr.

they really do so to-day, it must

[From Our Own Correspondent.] be because those of them,, who are left in the Highlands fare

Shanghai, Jan. 17. better than their numerous but Whilst refugees continue to ar-S. Akimitsu, a graduate of the ill-nourished ancestors. Johnson rive in the Settlement from up-Ritzimeikat College of Law in roundly declared that a London river ports, and the air veritably Kioto, Japan, who has arranged drayman was more than a match seethes with rumours of trouble

He is 26 years of age. Start- ing on Adgast 8 last year; he has

for the average Highlander, In in the immediate neighbourhood for himself three distinct tours Carlyle's youthful days Scottish of Shanghai, preparations con-which will cover the northern sec- physique was supposed to be at tinus on a lavish scale for the tions of both hemispheres. its highest in the south-west of celebration of the. Chinese New Scotland, and the averageYear holidays. height of adult men and women. General satisfaction is ex- so far visited places in Japan and in Annandale was said to be equal pressed in most of the clubs in Korea, Manchuria, Dairen, Port to that of the Grenadier Guards regard to the Council's attitude Arthur, Tientsin, Peking and Industrialism has lowered the and it is believed that if there is Shanghai, and he arrived here standard in the more crowded

any trouble in Shanghai, it will yesterday on the "Kotaus Muru" shiros, whilst in Scotland as be within rather than without from Swatow. whele, agricultural decay has rethe Settlement. duced the numbers of those who

Next Sunday he will walk

The opinion is generally felt attain the old rustic standard. that, having in view the huge round the island of Hong Kong, In regretting the disappearance sum the Customs surtax will yield starting from Government House of the Highlanders from their Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, the at 9am... native counties, Sir Andrew oblatter will put up a strong de Mr. Akimitsu travels “light” served that they were the people fence against the Cantonese, with the minimum of baggage. who put "nger" into the Scot should they edeavour to continue He carries with him a book of tish nation. The word aptly des their North-ward march, in the autographs, a hot water bottle, cribes the contribution of the direction of Shanghai Highlands to Scottish military

It is, of course, good news that band inscribed with the words history and to tho Terpsichorean the British Government is send-walking round the world" un one art. But what is usually undering out further detachments of side and Japanese characters. stood as the Celtic spirit suggests troops to China, but most people with the same meaning on the a rather more delicate seasoning. think that if there is any trouble, reverses

haversack, a flask and a white

Ginger is conspicuously absent the major portion of the work Three Different Routes, from the conduct of local and re-will fall upon the local Police and Mr. Akimitsu, "who started out gional affairs in the Highlands, Volunteers. The one and only with 2,000 yen,"helps to support A somewhat stronger cash of it topic at the present time is the himself by contributing articles might assist in removing some of possibility of a repetition of the to the Japanese newspapers on the handicaps that prevent the Hankow affair; and, whilst the the progress of his tour. Highlands from ranking with Council is doing everything in its hopes to be able later to write a Switzerland and the Pyrenees power to afford the fullest pro-book on his experiences. among the playgrounds Europe.

Soviet Intolerance.

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More Barricades.

MORE QUESTIONS BY MR.

J. P. BRAGA,

He

conerete At this afternoon's meeting of the

in which human faeces are collected and allowed to decompose to serve as manure in vegetable gardena in that.

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Hong Kong. Tuesday, Jan. 25, 1927,

POWERS UNITED.

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ment.

II-Is it not possible to obtain are, other site to which this squatters" settlement might be transferred and

remove

the source of an ever- present danger, to the health of pre- sent and prospective residents in the

neighbourhood, arising out of the use of noxious and offensive manurlal matter by the vegetable gardeners?

oftection to all both foreigners ind By way of Indo-China and Chinese alike, soma amusement is Siam, Mr. Akimitsu hopes to ar- to be found in the protest lodged rive in England, going through by shop-keepers in Boundary and Europe. He will then return to #Whoever knew truth put to Elgin Roads against the barri-Yokohama and set out on a second the worse in a free and open en- ricades which have been erected tour covering the whole of North counter ?" With this question on the borders of the Settlement. America. His third tour will be John Milton championed the

from Tokyo, across Siberia to liberty of the Press in England, Following the move of the Moscow. He thinks that the and ever since his day his words Council of the International set. whole tour will be completed in have stood to rebuke and frustlement, the French municipal four years. trate every effort to bring about authorities have taken simila be met by threats, but by armed illiberal censorship or restrictions steps in preparation for any dis- occur in forces assembled in Shanghai in on freedom of discussion. Russia turbance that may

to-day needs a Milton The the future. Along the boundaries COLONY'S HEALTH. sufficient numbers to curb the Soviet Government has silenced of the French Concession to-day excrescences of the howling mobs discussion and banned freedom of are to be seen war-like displays opinion in a fashion more drastic of barbed-wire fences, and at and hairbrained agitators. The than that which raised the great several points along Rue des Chinese have to be taught that Puritan's ire. It is reported that Deux Republiques, grilled gate they can gain no more material the Bolshevic censorship is to be of iren burs with advantages at the expense of the carried in to libraries, and that foundations and sills have been Sanitary Department.. Mr. J. P. the removal of counter-revolu-erected: Chinese passing through Braga will ask a series of questions Powers through the agency--tionary and martistic literature, the open gates are not molested on two subjects, as follow-

Kowloon Tong, spired or uninspired--of mab law."from all small libraries of the and all traffic continues to be Whatever differences exist or Soviet Republic" will take place conducted as usual.

By whose sanction and under what forthwith. The books classed as

Chinese and The Council;

by-law has permisalon, if any, been' may arise hereafter in regard to

"counter-revolutionary and in- The question of Chinese repre- granted to certain Chinese squatars, the fature of the foreign Conces-artistic" are indicated more par-sentation on the Municipal Coun-

to construct, on recently filed-in Crown' sions in Shanghai can only be ticularly as works of idealistic eil has again been mooted in offi- land in the district of Kowloon Tong, It will be recalled within a hundred yards of dwelling- composed round the conference bent and all books on religion cial quarters.

which are not anti-religious. Pro-that some time last year, Mr.houses, a cesspool of rement, concrete table. On that the Powers are pagandist. literature favouring Stirling Fessenden, the Chairman (approximate dimensions 16' by 10), united. The warning-but not a political systems other than the of the Council, at a banquet at threat, be it noted-is there for system now in power in Russia the Majestic Hotel, announced the Nationalists to accept or dis-cone under the ban, together that the Council were in favour

with works of history and litera-of the appointment of three Chin-{

II-alt in the best interest of the regard!

tura dating from Tsarist times, lese members in addition to the public health that a hew squatters' and containing matter favourable nine counsellors who at present settlement, with its attendant objec- Foreign Intervention.

in any respect to the old regime. function as the municipal actionable feature mentioned in (1) be The old parrot cry of the Can- Intolerance of this sort does not thority. Nothing, however, has permitted to be established in a new tonere has had another airing by manifest a sense of strength or been done in the matter, the and growing residential district 7 Colonel L'Estrange Malone. Lec-security in the Bolshevist Govern-Chinese having demanded a com

States which are firmly plete franchise with Chinese re- turing at the Parliamentary Labour Club in London on Decem-based upon the patriotism of the presentation in proportion to the her 16, he stated that the Canton people find it needless to hamper number of Chinese rate-payers Whatever may have been the Government is "out for freedom criticism with stringent censor-which, of course, would mean obstacles to unity among the from foreign intervention and in ship. Powers in the past in relation to fluence and for industrial free. dom." That has never been op- Chinese affairs, it is welcome

posed by the Powers. All along news to learn that four of them the line have they made it clear! have agreed on common measures beyond all possible argument that | for the defence of Shanghai. they do not desire and do not in- tend to intervene in China's

plained of? The Government is continuing to Great Britain, America, France, domestic affairs.. A thousand assist refugees, who have lost their and Japan have arranged to main-times within the past couple of all in the disastrous resent floods There are a few residents in!

V-Will the President. be good Shanghai at the present time who enough to cause samples of water to tain a garrison of 4,000 men, to years alone has it been reiterated in Malaya.

that China must put her own Public relief funds are mounting pride themselves in narrating be taken by officers of the Sanitary which force, each country will house in order that she must daily.

events of the old days when they Departinent from the stagnant pools contribute a certain quota.

In Crown Land on the eastern and The work out her own salvation. It is not yet possible to ascertain used to go shooting where the

western boundaries of Kowloon Tong moral effect of such a concerted There has only been one form of the total death-rell or damage, but Race Course now stands, or

and more particularly of a small measure should be very great in-foreign influence and foreign in-it a officially estimated that therepeper-hunting in what is now one

have been over 30 fatalities. In the.

atream draining into the nullah at tervention in the affairs of China. state of Kelantan, where 800,000 of the busiest parts of the Hong the point where it is being covered There can ..be no That, as

all the world knows, hand of cattle perished, and the kew district. Now comes the

in below the railway bridge, and have question, as

news that the Town Hall, for such samples examined for the pre the past, emanates from Moscow. Let the damage to rice crope is $400,000. in

Traders losses in one town years an historic land-mark in sence of any matter that might con of any of the Chinese fac-Chinese free themselves of this

mesalliance, and they will imme- totalled $800,000.

the International Settlement, has mituto a danger to public health in tions endeavouring to play off one diately rid themselves of the The death-roll in Pernix is esti- been sold and is to make way for the district of Kowloon Tong?

another modern of the Powers against the others.worst possible type of foreign in-mated at 24-Reuter.

departmental store. That, of course, is as it should be, Auence. Let them give Borodin

Built in the latter part of the It would have been nothing short & Co. their walking tickets, and

19th century, the old building yet breathes of a calamity to leave one Power they will be the first to realise

of atmosphere how great an inculus they have to take isolated action in an inter-thrown overboard. Until then,

Shanghai, Jan. 24.

bygone years, of gay, stately national crisis in which the inter- they cannot talk with sincerity of

"Though the bus employecs struck balls, where gathered the elite of ests of all the Treaty Powers are being "out for freedom from for a few days ago through fear of the city. Then, too, within its sign intervention and foreign in-molestation by the tramway men, It aged walls there once gathered identical. The task of defending fluence. Moreover, they will un-is reported that they are now three solemn, dignified Chief these interests in Shanghai is to doubtedly find, too late, that how arranging to present demands to Justices, representing England,

ever irksome those "unequal the management.

América and Japan to hold off- cial inquiry into the shooting of Chinese student on May 30, room patterned after those of

three other department stores on: The strains of music, of Verdi, Nanking Road, The reported

Beethoven and Mozart, and other approaching

The company is capitalised at Italo-Hungarian negotiations for masters has oft been heard in the $5,000,000, it was announced, and the re-establishment of a Hum-old building, for it was there in it is planned to begin construc- garian transit port at Flume are recent years that the Municipal tion of the new building very, arousing comment at Belgrade, Symphony Concerts were given. shortly. The backers of the en- Bola basis of their relations with The Stature of Scotsmen.

The occasion of the annual as Jugo-Slavia koped that

Modern Shops.

terprise hope to have a portion of the Powers, mob law has to be Burns anniversary dinner invari Hungary would choose Spalato. It is understood that the Dah] the building ready for occupancy absolutely eliminated. Any repeti-ably suggests the writing of a It is thought that Hungary will Wah Company will erect a huge within two, and a-half years. tlon of the Hankow incident at few lines dealing either with necessarily negotiate a friendship modern departmental store on The building will be eight storeys, Shanghai, even on a minor scale, Scotsmen, their country or their treaty with Italy, if Flume is the alte: The building will also high and will cost about $1,500,- immortal poet. A speech made chosen, thus further isolating house a bank insurance, restaur-000 and will probably have a will spell disaster not to the by Sir Andrew Caird at a dinner Jugo-Slavia and aggravating the ant, hotel and roof garden amuse tower which will be illuminated Powers.concerned but to the Chin-of the Scottish Clans Associa-Italo-Jugoslav tension.

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STRIKERS RESUME.

be shared if the need arises. The Treaties" may be, it will be a The tramway men returned to

Chinese cannot now discriminate mere nothing to what is in store between any, of the Powers. for them once Moscow becomes Moreover, they must now realise the master of the Chinese. That, is no idle theory. It is a stern' that, if they honestly desire the fact that has to be faced by the peace to be kept and if they genu-Chinese. inely aim at negotiation as the

work this morning, and the service is gradually getting back to nor mel-Reuter.,

Chinese, majority on the Council. It is rumoured that something may be done at the forthcoming Municipal election, but, in view of the general political situation and the uncertainty of affairs, it is difficult to forecast at all accurately in this direction.

Progress,

1925.

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IV-If a new site can be found, will the Government take into favourable consideration the removal as soon as practicable of the settlement com-

Stagnant Pools,

VI-I deemed advisable as a pre- ventive measure against providing breeding ground for the larvas of anopheles mosquito, will the President direct officers of the Department to have the stagnant posle treated with kerosene oll or other substanco cal- culated to minimise the danger of an outbreak of malaria due to the axistence of the stagnant popla re- ferred to in (V) ?