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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927.

Stay In Hong Kong Prolonged.

further, one might say that with "SUFFOLKS” ARRIVE. the possible exception of Mr. Lloyd George, who has since at- tempted to offer the world, a singularly unconvincing apologia, the public orations of members of his Majesty's Opposition dur- jing' the trying days. of the past! week or so have been significant not only as well-considered ex- hibitions of statesmanship, but as! an indication that one and all in Great Britain to-day bear the atmost goodwill towards China and the Chinese people.

PLANS FOR YMCA.

ELECTION...

DETACHMENTS LEAVE.

CANTON "ROW:"

Seamen's Threat to "Sai On" Captain.

UNION & BRITISH STEAMER.

News has been received that a

whe dis-

The 3.8. "Achilles," with the Second Battalion of the Suffolk threat has been made by the Can- Regiment on board, entered the ton Seamen's Unior, to the British harbour this morning and berth steamboat "Sai On" which was in ed alongside the North wall of Canton harbour for China New the Royal Naval Yard at about Year holidays.

Yesterday the Union is stated 9.30.

The band of the 2nd King's to have openly indicated that they A TOWN COUNCIL or Scottish Borderers played would prevent the boat leaving welcoming music and anong for Hong Kong, unless the master those who boarded to offer an (Captain Jenkins) official welcome were Col. missed. Comyn. O.C. 2nd K.0.S.B., An unconfirmed report goes s0 Major J. Macready, D.S.O.; far as to say that Captain Jenkins Plans for the Mock Town Council DA A. & Q.M.G., Major Peter-was in danger of being.absaulted; at the Y.M.C.A.. Kowloon are pro son, OR.E., O.C.. R.AS.C.. and or even that he had been actually. Capt. A. G. Dobbie, 2nd K.O.S.B. threatened with violence which ceeding.

The campaign proper commences. The 800 men on board bore culminated in his leaving the ship. on Monday when six candidates for full equipment and small detach- The sister-ship: "Tung On" left vacancies will circulate their monts left in the course of the Hong Kong for Canton this morn- "policies" and arrange meetings in morning loaded with their kit for ing and the "Sai On" is due to ar- the building.

The polling will be on the follow the various barracks to which rive here this afternoon. It was learned that the "Bal On" may ing Saturday. There are three they have been assigned.

It is understood that the ori-not sail and that Captain Jenkins vacancies.

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On Thursday, February 17. there ginal plans whereby the Sufmay be returning to the Colony. will be a meeting of the "Ceuncil" folks were to break their journey by another boat. tcertain leaders of three parties and for a few days here and give a Fight & Fortnight Ago. other sitting members have already demonstration route march have About a fortnight ago, there

been appointed).

The matters to be dicussed con-been changed. It is expected that r their stay here will be of longer cera the domestic politics

· "Mudford-on-Sea.”

duration. Orders are awaited.

New Commanding Offeer.

The leaders of the parties are:

was a fight on hoard-when the

ship was in Canton-between the Indian anti-piracy" guards sup-

Messrs. Murray (Progressive) Colonel, F. S. Cooper, D.3.0., Plied by the Hong Kong Police and E. R. Price (Moderate) and the O.C. of the 2nd Suf Dand (Socialist).

the seamen. A large number of

went to the ship to assist the crow The candidates for the three folks, ieft for England on sick men from the Seamen's Union vacancies are Messrs. Ex Sewell and leave before the Battalion left for and the trouble was ended by

A. G. Taylor

Keates and Walker (Moderates), is in command in his absence. locking up the grilles to the

and Messrs. Long and Munn

(Serialists).

FACES IN FLINT.

EXPORT EXPLAINS FREAK

OF NATURE.

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fiber spirit. None the less, owing to the peculiar cincum- stances, the making of the test was necessarily involved. At the

A scientific explanation of the moment it would seem from the remarkably life-like cameos of rejection or postponement-of human faces and animals figures.

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The threat that is stated to

The Suffolks had a warm, send- off on embarking on December 31 bridge, with the guards inside. from the garrison and people of have been made by the agitators: Gibraltar, with which fortress is that if Captain Jenkins remains the regimental name is closely in command the native crew associated.

A few of the details and horses would be made to leave the ship"

and thus prevent her clearing for followed from Gibraltar on the

Hong Kong transport "Patrochis" of January 6 and arrived in Hong Kong yes. terday.

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R.A.F. MESS BILLS.

OFFICERS ABLE TO LIVE ON THEIR PAY.

Major A. G. Taylor, who is the settlement at Hankow, that which appear in the flints on ex-temporarily commanding the Bat the Nationalist". Government is hibition at the Psychic Museum, talion (he was made acting. Lt.- in Victoria Street, was advanced Col. on December 8, 1918) was under the thumb of its Soviet by geological experts of the born in 1879. " advisere, or in other words, in a British Museum and the 'Natural' He was first appointed a 2nd

London, Jan. 15. state of vassalage so Moscow. History Museum, South Ken- Lt. in the Suffolk Regiment in

sington.

1900. The next year he became This may apply only to the more

The Air Ministry, replying to One of the flints was submitted Lieutenant. In 1910 he was pro- forceful extremist wing, but alby a press representative to the moted Captain and he received the comments of the Offcial Re- government must be adjudged, scientists, who declared that it his present rank in August, 1915. ceiver at Salisbury Bankruptcy not by its individual members, was milions of years old, and that the markings were due to a but as a collective whole. This freak of nature. point it is hardly to be thought On the flint was the profile, in will be lost from sight at to-day's white, of an old man with a beetl- ing brow and deep-set eyes. Like Cabinet meeting in London, and the forty or fifty other flints in

From Jan. 21 to March 17, Court, yesterday denies that the 1916 and from Oct. 15,, 1916 to R.A.F. Mess bills are too high. April 14, 1917, he was temporary It says that it has always been Lt. Col.: and acting Lt-Col. from officially stressed that "officers, even of the most junior rank, Sept. 14, 1017 to June 14, 1918.

Major Taylor was an adjutant, should have no difficulty in living in the Territorials from March on their pay."

it may fairly be expected that it the collection, the marking goes 1915, to January 1916. will influence bur entire future right through the grain!

Natural

The Officers. Other officers of the

2nd

Commanding officers are re- sponsible for seeing that the messes are not run on extravag- ant lines. The daily rate of mess-

policy towards the Nationalist One of the foremost authorities Suffolks arriving to-day are: Government. The British Gov-on Hints, who examined the Major A. M. Cutbill, M.C.,ing at the R.A.F. mess at present ernment must now realise exactly specimen at the British Museum Major N. A. Bittleston, Capt. averages about 3s. 6d. Wine bills where it stands in relation to through a powerful lens, declar- R. W. Leach, Capt. G. G. Carpen- of flight-lieutenants and under ed at once that the marking was ter, D.S.O., Capt. C. F. Hill, M.C., must not exceed £5 per month, China, and what is still more im- quite natural.

Capt. E. H. W. Buckhouse, Capt. but the average of this is nearer

·BARNES,-On January 6. 1927, at

Mahila, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C.portant. in relation to Moscow. The white area is what is E. H. Faulconer Wright, Capt. a sovereign. The subscription for in F. C. Berrill, Capt. F.. B. W. Car-station purposes of entertainment Barnes (née Helen Stott). Consequently it is to be expected known as a 'cherty inclusion daughter.

that whatever policy is laid down the flint," he said. "Its chemical thew, and Capt. S. P. Inskip and sports totals about 258. per.

composition is the same, but it is The adjutant is Lieut. H. R.month. a to-day's Cabinet meeting, that of a different texture from the Hopking.

The daily pay, of a flying-officer policy will envisage our problem rest of the flint. It is quite com- Sixteen subuiterns complete the under two years' seniority is 189. in China, not merely as a matter mon to find these 'cherty inclu-list of officers as follows: Lieut. 10d. exclusive of allowances,

sione' in fints, and every now and enants V. C. Russell, D.S.O., Place Remedies, aged 57 years. affecting the future of the Han- then the outline is of a shape M.C., D.C.M., M.M., B. H. Max- M.C, F. H. Vinden, N.A. Bott, kow and Kiukiang concessiona which gives it à resemblance to alone, not merely as a matter a portrait. These freaks of ns-well, R. Q. March, E. R. D. Elias, GENEROUS BEQUESTS ture are quite well known to 0. A Watts," G T. E. Grey, R. H. H. Unwin, A. D. R. "Hey- science.

DEATH.

REMEDIOS.-On January 25, 1927, at Shanghai, Carlos Mara

Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 4, 1927,

governing the future status of our nationals in the Republic, but

"The profile on this flint is not land, R. N. Charrington, N. M. as a matter of the greatest world that of a prehistoric face. There Barnardiston, R. H. I. Hopkins, importance. To-day's cabinet never was a prehistoric man with Second Lieutenants I. L. Wight, such an aquiline nose.. Their J. E. A. Bazalgette, and J. R. H. meeting is likely to prove historic, noses were more like those of Unwin. Liest. B. G. F. Drew is

Quarter Master. if we are right, and its decisions prize-fighters." fateful to a degree.

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THE CABINET AND CHINA,

London, Jan. 16. The entirely new situation

Edinburgh and London, parti created by the breakdown of the

It is of interest to note that cularly the former, benefit largely negotiations at Hankow will be

four of the officers were with the from bequests made by the Tate- Suffolk Regiment in 1914, three Mr. Edward Clark of Messrs: considered by the British Cabinet

of them with the battalion. Capt. R. and R. Clark, printers of to-day. Until the decisions of

R. W. Leach was with the 1st Edinburgh. He left £10,000 to that meeting have been made British Labour Leaders & China.

Batt. from 1910 to 1914 as first the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, known, it is perhaps a little pre- Since the Labour Government

Heutenant, while Capt. B. H. W. £10,000 to the Heriot Watt Col Backhouse, Capt. P. R. W. Car-lege, Edinburgh, for furthering mature to speculate as to what in Britain left office a little over

thew and Capt. S. P. Inskip join-the teaching of typography, £10,- will happen next in China. None two years ago, a number of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's Cabinet

Singapore, Jan. 22. ed the 2nd Battalion, and were 000 to a similar London institu- the less it is timely to emphasise colleagues have made speeches the Central Station has been

A police constable attached to second lieutenants together in the tion which the trustees are to

ar early days of the war.

select, £10,000 to endow a print- one point at least. Speaking at which, for one reason or another, rested on a charge of robbery,

*Castle and Key."

ing school for Edinburgh, £6,000 It is alleged that the secuJed Kilmarnock last week, the Secre- have been worthy of special note.

Ir politics are an organised quar-dragged a man from a riesha and The badge of the "Suffolks" is to endow a printing school for tary for Dominiona, Mr. L. E. S. rel, during an election they degen- robbad him of a gold watch. His "The Castle and Key" super- London, £5.000 for Red Cross Amery, said that the offer Bri-erate easily into a fight between victim afterwards saw him in plain scribed "Gibraltar 1779-88," and purposes, 23,000 to St. Cuthbert's with the motto. underneath Church, Edinburgh, £1,000 each tain was making to China would snarling curs, and it is certainly clothes and made a complaint.

The accused was arrested and it "Montis Insignia Calpe.”

to the Edinburgh Sick Children's' to the credit of Mr. J. H. Thomas be seen, when published, to be so that on the morrow of the poll ha stated a pawn ticket was found The uniform is red and facings Hospital and the Honourable among his belongings, and the far-reaching, generous and con- was the first to lift the political watch was recovered.

Company of Edinburgh Golfers. The "Achilles," which brought The trustees are directed to dis- siderate of Chinese ausceptibili debate above that level. As an ties, that it was impossible to con- exhibition of dignity in defeat Mr. P. A. F. David in the District the Suffolks to Hong Kong, was tribute the residue for charitable rapidly reconditioned", and con-purposes in Edinburgh and Lon- and of patriotic feeling his few Court, the case being postponed. celve, of its rejection by any public speeches since handing

verted in one week from a pas- don and it is expressly provided section in China that was in- over the portfolio for Dominions

senger and cargo boat to a troop- that Edinburgh University is to ship. The work was done by be regarded as in this category. fluenced by a regard for the wel- Affairs, with their fine appeal for

Messrs. Alfred Helt and Com-: fare, or even the national senti-a truce to class bitterness, could

pany's employees and constituted not have been bettered: In the ment of China. Any such rejec- circumstances, we were by no

Shanghai, Feb. Bojto

something of a record, most of tien, Mr. Amery added, could only means surprised to find Mr. Very severe earthquake shocks the internal fittings. of the pa- be due to extraneous influences, Thomas one of the first to con- were felt in Shanghal at 11.50, this sengar accommodation. being

morning Buildings rocked and altered.

The accused was brought before

SHANGHAI SHAKEN.

namely the dominance of Belgratulate Sir Austen Chamber* for half a minute it was a dis

yellow.

Paris, Feb. 8.-A message from Beirut states that Hassan Atrash chief of the rebel family of Atrash, has submitted to the French au thorities-Hayas.

Jain upon. his statesmanlike tinctly unpleasant experience. shevik agents and Bolshevik speech on the China situation. Shocks of such severity have been

Rugby, Feb. 8.-The trial fight policy. The British proposals, it Such utterances at the present rare here hitherto. No damage fa

A STANDARD REMEDY, may be said at once, were not time, coming, as they do, from reported.

Another shock of seventy seconds CHAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy is took place yesterday of the No. 4. ex-Labour Ministers, cannot, fail

A standard family

now" "aeroplane cons medicine, Heroules, made with the primary intention to give added confidence to the duration was felt at 1 pm. Prompt, reliable and effective for structed for the Cairo-Karachỉ.

Later. of applying a test in this regard Government, at the same tine

coughs, colds group, bronchial, coughs, route.. Captain Broad, the pilot, The local observatory states, that coughs resulting from whooping cough, stated that the fight was in every indicating to the world at large to-day's earthquakes centred 150 to nervous they were made solely for the that British policy at the present 200 alles west or north-west of troublesome night caughs and the new under construction, will leave hacking, tickling throat, way successful. Aeroplane. No. 8. purpose of reaching an honour-tire is not of one shade of politi Shanghai, and are not considered chronic coughs of elderly people. For for Cairo on February 23.British

salo averywhere. able settlement in a fair and cal thought only. To go a step serious.---Reuter.

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