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Hong Kong, Tuesday," March 1. 1927.

CROCODILE TEARS,

win it. The beat efforts, till his own time, were those of the four- teenth Earl, the Victorian Frime Minister, who loved racing at least as well as he loved politics. It was not his luck ever to win the Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger, but the favourite. for the Derby in 1858, Toxophilite, was his horse..

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1927.

BRUTAL ROBBERS.

YA QAUSEWAY BAY 'JUNK

RAIDED.

ARREST OF THREE MEN.

About one o'clock this morning"

RUSSIA'S REPLY.

Home Paper's Strong Comment.

"EVASIVE AND INSOLENT."

The morning papers generally :

In the twenty years before 1863, the occupants of a passenger junk the period of his most strenuous at Causeway Bay were awakened activity, both in politics and in by a small row boat bumping into Esport, he won in stakes about their craft. Before they were clear receive the Russian Note very as to what was happening five men coldly and signalise it as vague, £94,000.

boarded the passenger boat. One insolent and evasive.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

LIMÍTED LIABILITY COMPANY MANAGEMENT.

(To the Editor of the “China Mail"

Sir. It is surprising how lit tle active interest a taken by shareholders in the management

of the men said they were sonsching| The Times' declares the Gov- for arms. He caught hold of the fornment would de well to ignore mother and cutting her wrist it altogether. It is a mixture of with chopper removed a pair of misstatements, false charges and

bangles worth $30.00. The old

woman's husband attempted to go vague professions of pacific in- to her rescue but was promptly tentions,, the answer to which has knocked on, the head by one of the already been given in Sir Austen other mon and rendered uneon-Chamberlain's Note. The matter Phelous. Wong Mul's sister blow a should for the moment be allowed. police whistle wherupon the five to rest there, since a protracted

One robbers jumped overboard.

succeeded in reaching the shore and controversy will merely compli- making his escape. The other four cate the foreign situation in China, which is far from being

of

of companies in which they in-ware fished out by the crews Vest their money. I have seen it launches in the vicinity and handed unconnected with Soviet intrigue,

stated somewhere that a people over to the police. have the government, they de

serve. If this be true of nations

DER A. WING'S.

of

SALE OF PRINTING DEPARTMENT.

COURT APPLICATION.

but a better handled by itself.

The "Morning Post" says that. despite its hypocritical profes- sions the reply breathes a de- fant refusal to desist from the courses which provoked Sir Austen Chamberlain's Note.

"Blackguards,

insolent. mendacious and dif- The "Daily Mail' says the nota

it must be no less true of sharo-

in holders

Some of our healthy local companies. A

the "part interest on:

The Daily Telegraph" says shareholders in all that concerns

the reply is a voluminous out. a company is the best guarantee

pouring of evasive verbiaga and of that company's success and

recrimination. It is quite worth. prosperity. Can it be wondered

"Confirmation of special resolu-less for the purpose for which at that the management of tons passed at meetings of Der A is nominally intended. It is company in which the share Wing and Company, paper mer-not for our Government to ac- holders evince no interest in time chants, stationers, printers, etcleept a challenge to enter a disputa comes to disregard the share-for the reduction of capital was on a matter which is incontro- holders entirely and when the given at the Supreme Court this vertible, and whereupon its own shareholders do wake up and morning by Mr. Justice Wood. The attitude has been stated in suf- make their voices heard the reduction it was explained, was in

of the ficiently' plain terms.. minority may by clever connection with the sale manoeuvres stifle all attempts at printing department.

Mr. C G. Alabaster, K.C., appear- reform if such reform be desired for the petitioning Company able in the interests of the com- The Company was incorporated in pany. It is also possible for a 1928, he explained, with offices at fuse. "In authorising Sir Austeh small clique to obtain the direc60 Des Voeux Central with a capital Chamberlain to despatch His pro- tion of a company owing to lack of $500,000, divided into shares of test the Government exposed it, of interest and want of under $10. Shortly after its incorpora self to the almost proverbial con- standing by the shareholders of tion, 16, 160 of these shares had sequences, that he who Sandies the issues involved. Acasual been lasted for 4,610 the calls had words with blackguards must ex- pect to be insulted. This expec- monstrations of the nature staged observer might consider a majcri- not been paid.)

A extraordinary general meet-tation Moscow has promptly and. In Canton to distinguish betweenty of votes cast at a meeting to ings held on September 29 and Octo- the natural and the artificial. Mr.wishes of

be conclusive evidence of the ber 13 resolutions were passed for characteristically fulfilled."

the shareholders

of reducing the capital to $480,000 he Note is an elaborate piece The Daily Chronicle" says Mann and his clique must have that company.

tshe Such is not "al $10 shares. performed similar

manoeuvres ways the case. Quite recently at The plant and goodwill of the of special pleading, does not give during labour disputes at Home company meeting the voting printing department of Company is a specific answer, and holds out. was participated in by 27 shara to be assigned to Mr. B. W. Brad-no hope shve in very general. in an effort to win the crowd or holders each holding one share bury and Mr. Chan Tong in ex-terms. However, any move away catch votes. The Socialist Press only and by 62 shareholders each change for the 4.000 shares for can- from hostility on the part of the knows as

five shares only. cellation and also the payment of Soviet would be greatly welcomed well as anybody the holding value of cartoons depicting starv- the same side is the registered Linotype and Machinery Company British public want to see its good. One of the principal speakers on $8,000 specified claims of people and reciprocated here, but in The view of Moscow's past record the who supplied machinery. ing women and children pleading holder of seventy shares and his is mentioned. The money, it was

the

headmaster rebuking, sorrow than in anger,

to opulent capitalists for the companion speaker who spoke indicated, had been placed with intentions established by per-

formance. wherewithal to buy a few crumbs with no less force and authority Messa. Wilkinson and Grist.

The Daily News" saya is the registered owner of one Advertisements had been placed of bread. It does not require a hundred shares. And yet these and these were in order, it was manner of the reply is that of u ten-years-old Chinese boy to plead speakers and their friends with stated, and His Lordship granted urbane to an inspired audience for "world one and others with five shares the application for confirming the more in

resolutions. to their credit carried the day as unity of all exploited classes and far as the voting at that meeting peoples." He has only to take was concerned. Mr. Tom Mann to thousands of If shareholders and investors will not attend meetings of limit- Chinese homes to give him coned hability companies, what is to

A GOOD DISPLAY.

the foolish escapade of a rebel- flious schoolboy-Reuter. <

Bolshevik Responsibility.

Paris, Feb. 28. Commenting on the Russian to Britain the "Ere Nouvelle" says that with all their cunning, one certain thing is that Bolshevism will not succeed in convincing the gallery that they did not prepare and foment civil war in Ching-Reuter.

crete examples of little children be expected but that which does LITTLE DANCERS' CONCLUDING reply

DISPLAY.

Yours, etc.,

ONLOOKER.

Hong Kong, Feb. 28.

ST. DAVID'S DAY.

slave girls and slave boys-being sometimes happen. exploited all their lives. He has only to take Mr. Tom Mann to: places in Canton where all the ethics of decency are ruthlessly discarded in the exploitation of Mr. Tom Mann, the Socialist the labour and "services" of agitator and a prominent figure in children not yet in their teens. numerous strikes at Home and in If Mr. Tem Mann has struck a Australia, has been moved to sentimental patch, he will as- tears at the ripe old age of 71 suredly find many an outlet for years. It is very pathetic to think his tears before he leaves the that he should travel all the way Kwangtung Province. to Canton to shed a few tears! see much that will "make him try The cause of the "moisture was simple enough-merely what the

OBSERVANCE BY LOCAL SOCIETY.

WREATH ON CENOTAPH.

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NICARAGUA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH CRUISER,

Despite the counter-attraction of the Races, there was a large attendance at the matinee per formance yesterday of Miss V. Capell's dancing pupils who gave an even better performance than on Saturday night. The engern- bles met with particularly good response, "The Spirit Carnival and "Nippy" going with a real awing that captivated He will In observance of St. David's Day,

London, Feb. 27. A meage from Corinto, Nicara-· gta says that H.M.S. "Colombo" members of the local Welsh Society the audience and led to insistent (Cymdeithas Dewi Sant) attended demands for more.

The orchestral support was has arrived and that the British his eyes out" and with much at the Cenotaph at eleven o'clock greater provocation than that this morning when Mr. D. J. Lewis, stronger than on Saturday night. Charge d'Affaires has conferred

At the conclusion of the per- with the Captuin.-Reuter. behalf of the Society.

formance flowers and chocolates:

Corintho, Feb. 28. After a conference with Captain Among those present were Mr. J.in profusion were handed up to

aboard the Owen Hughes, Mr. L. E. Hopkins, the youthful performers by par Lecky Commander Williams, R.N.A., Mr.ents and others appreciative of "Colombo" the British Charge. David Davies, Mr. H. Owen Hughes, their efforts.

d'Affaires issued a statement in he said that i necessory Mr. G. S. Hagh Jones, Mr. J. S Special thanks are due to. Miss which

Vaughan, who was at the piano, Britain would be the first country both during the rehearsals and the Diaz regime. Nothing would ufter the United States to recognise the performances, and also to be done except in co-operation with Mrs. Miles, Mrs. Machado, Mrs. the American Admiral, Latimer. Gain, Mrs. Bloxham, Mrs. Tay- United States marines were fired lor, Miss K. Gourdin, Mr. W. J. on while en route by train from Carroll, Mr. H. Dineley and the Loon to Chinandega. Nobody was

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H.M.S. hit but orders were "Hermes," who all materially return the fire and endeavour to capture the assailants in future- contributed towards the success Renter's American Service, of the effort.

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Thomas, and Mr. E. Wynne Jones

The Society is holding & dinner to-night at the Hotel Savoy.

usual "naive manner 23 "eloquent" address by a tren- years-old boy in appealing for. "world unity of all exploited Origin of the Derby. classes and peoples.". The "Can- Racing in England, and that is ton Gazette rightly say that to say in the world, owes much to "auch" a spectacle would be caleu-has done more than the House of our old families, but none of thera lated to reduce any normal adult Stanley, of which Lord Darby is to tears." It would sure do that! the present head. AB an Little wonder that an abnormal organised sport horse-racing person of 71 summers fell to it began in the years when Charles OVER $26,000,000 MORE TO BE

II. used regularly to move his Court to Newmarket Heath. We

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Washington, Feb, 28. The House of Representatives | few valueless" crocodile tears to A century later the twelfth Earl has passed and sent to the Senato Bill authorising the expenditure of

RUBBER SALES. on had a hunting-box, for his stag- $26,150,000 to modernise the battle- 4 platform and giving ex-hounds at Epsom, called The shipa "Oklahoma" and "Nevada," Messrs Carroll Bros. advise the

Oaks.

made I gratitude for the including the elevation of turret fallowing sales pression to words and phrases

sport which he showed his neigh-guns, and to complete three ships Straits the meaning of which he bours, they arranged, in 1779, now being constructed. Reuter's Allenbys

be woefully ignor-"The Oaks Stakes for three-year-American Service. Cinema producers up. old fillies," and Lord Derby won it. In 1780 they followed it with pear to have lost the chance of a "The Derby Stakes of 50 guineas lifetime for a picture based on a each; h ft; colts and fillies. The real "tragedy" in Chinese politi- last mile of the course. But One case of small-pox and one cal life. The sob-stuff manufacthe winner was not from Lord of diphtheria, both Chinese, were

· Derby's stable. Sir Charles-Bun-notified yesterday." tured on the spot by Mr. Tom bury's chestnut colt Diomed is the

Last week there were eight Mann would alone have been first name written on the roll cases of small-pox, alx proving worth

A ransom to Hollywood which now bears the name of the fatal. They were all Chinese, directors of the silver screen.

Earl of Derby's Sansovino, who and two were imported. won in 1924. This was the first There were five cases of enteric To speak seriously-if auch is time the Derby colours had won, fever, of which three proved possible on this subject-Mr. Tom but not for want of trying. Lord fatal. Two were British and the "The total output of the Kailan Mann and the others who went to Derby once stated that for the other three Chinese.

Mining Administration's mines Four cases of diphtheria were for the week ending February 12, Canton as "comrades" of the whole hundred and forty-four

reare the Derby had been in exist also notified, two fatal. One was amounted to 982 tons, and the Third Internationale, must have unce the heads of his family, with British and the others were sales during the period to 54,888 had sufficient experience of de-Tone exception, had laboured to Chinese.

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FRANCE'S DEBT OFFER,

Washington, Feb. 28. The Treasury has been notified that the offfeial offer of the French Government to pay the United States $10,000,000 on account of outstanding French war debt on June 15 is en route from Paris. Reater's American Service,

Rome, Feb. 28. The Marquis De Pinedo has arrived in Rio De Janlero. Reuter.

London, Feb. 27-The death is apnounced of Sir Luke Fildes, B.A.. the celebrated Engilst painter- Reuter,

American Aviators killed in the air Buenos Aires, Fab. 28. The collision were Captain Woolsey and Lieutenant Benton Reuters American Service