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MEMORIAL MEETING.

A Memorial Meeting of the late Mr. O Yausheung will be held on Sunday, September 18, 1827, at 3 p.m. sharp in the Hong Kong University Union. Relatives and Friends are kindly requested to attend,

Flower-wreaths and Memorial scrolls should be sent to the Clerk, Hong Kong University Union, NOT later than three hours before the Commence- ment of the Meating.

WONG KWOK-FONG," (Hon. Bec.) Government Vernacular School.

Hong Kong Monday, Sept. 12, 1927.

LIQUOR LAWS.

may, often damn a man's whole! character and reputation. Hence qur appeal for greater simplicity of language in the framing of our legislation.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927.

FALLEN STARS.

· CHIANG KAI-SHEK 'AND. EUGENE CHEN.

Not for a long time has any-

thing so unexpected taken place

PRAPS PIRAPS NOT!

in the ever-changing kaleidoscope A. Hittle more Brawn would EL CORRESPONDENCE. the same week of Chiang Kal teams on Saturday.

of China as the resignations in strengthen the lawn bowls trial

THE RS.P.C.A.

To the Editor of the "Chlum Mail.") Sir, The following para- graph was culled from. Friday evening's "China Mail"

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shek and Eugene Chen, the former from the post of Com- A small boy had just been mander-in-Chief of the Nanking vaccinated; and the doctor pre- armies and the latter from that pared to bandage the sore arm of Foreign Minister to the Han when the youngster said: "Put kow Government. As to Chiang it on the other arm, doctor." his military situation began to be

"Why, no," said the physician: want to put it on your sere arm, so the boys at school won't

really desperate a little over a week ago, but as he had a com- "For having stripped froga mand of funds unequalled by hit you on it."

from the city?

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while they were still alive.

any other Chinese General, it "Then put it on the other, Wong Ling-yui was fined $2 was felt he might contrive to please. You don't know the boys In the Provisional Court, the escape complete disaster in the at our school." money to go to the Society usual Chinese way. The mos- for Prevention of Cruelty to sages, however, tell the old tale

What Friend (to farmer): Animals, Баув the

"N.-G.intrigue, internal dissension, became of that hand you got Daily News."

disgruntled commanders, un- The italics are mine, Mr. popularity on account of methods Editor. Now, in view of the instituted to extort money from excellent work the local Society the people and further, he was is doing, is it too much to sug- bluntly told that so long as he gest that our City Fathers fol- continued to occupy the post of low the example of the North- generalissimp the hope of re-

Old Gent: Don't

little ern Settlement and direct that uniting the party he had been Anes imposed in our Police the means of splitting could not boy, I'm not hurt.

He was offered a Little Boy: No, but it was Courts in "cruelty" caces-if not be realised.

Farmer: Well, he used to be મ્ય chauffeur, and the Idiot crawled under a horse to see why it wouldn't go.

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cry

all, at least those brought by subordinate command, but hav-my banana you trod on! S.P.C.A. Inspectors-should going already lined his pockets and

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Little Jimmie: So have we. Little Johnnie: But ours has

to the funds of the Society? secured sufficient well-paid pro- Little Johnnie: We've got a

Surely, the amount of such tection, he promptly declined proper mayor in our town. fines collected during one year what amounted to "the order of would not equal half the annual the boot" and "voluntarily re- gasolene bill for the "Dog tired into private life." He has a collar and chain. Has yours?

alone. quitted Nanking.

Little Jimmie: No, we let him Catchers" motor cycles; and if not money can be officially spent for While the Nanking Government go about loose. the destruction of animals (I am continues to function through!

followers

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not concerned as to whether it such Ministries as are left and a Sensitive Golfer (who has is necessary or otherwise), why chairmanless Military Council, foozled): Did you laugh at me, cannot a few dollars be placed many personal

of boy7 on the other side of the balance Chiang have had to make them- Caddie: No, sir; I was laugh- to protect dumb animals from selves scarce, especially the ing at anither man.

Sensitive Golfer: And what's. Bill to amend the Liquors Ordin- unnecessary sufferings at the group designated the "Shanghai

hands of ignorant coolies?

Tammany," whose chief func- funny about him? ance of 1911 that has been repro- While the money is not likely tion the kidnapping of Caddle: Well, he plays golf duced in the Press from the "Gov-8reatly to affect the Govern wealthy Chinese for ransom on awfu' like you, sir!"

ment Budget, it should be a use the plea of suppressing Com- The belief that, as a And yet its ful addition to the funds of a muniam..

ernment Gazette."

main object is to remedy an ob- scurity of a section in the prin- cipal Ordinance to which attention has been drawn by a recent case before a Magistrate, This sec- tion, we are told, is open to "doubts and criticisms." It seems to hesitate between a substantivė: section and an evidence section. It is arguable that possession of dutiable liquor must first be proved by the prosecution to be "contrary to the provisions of the Ordinance" before the onus is thrown on the acused of proving that the duty has been paid. This, it is rightly pointed out, reduces the section to an absurdity in the case where the only element of illegality is the non-payment of

Yours, etc.,

BULLDOG.

Hong Kong, September 10.

was

"Tommy, who taught you that

Disgruntled supporter (whose deserving Society, which, I un-consequence of the heavy defeats team has been beaten) to re- derstand, is not subsidised, but of the Nationalist forces, the feree: Where's yer dog, mister? Referee: Dog? Why should I depends entirely on public con- party was likely to break up is tributions.

now modified. The party, it is have a dog? now thought, may have a new Supporter: Well, most blind lease of life, as the Nanking men 'ave dorgs, don't they? Nationalists will probably ally themselves with the Hankow Nationalists, and speculation in dreadful word? regard to a possible rapproche- ment is brisk. The supposition is that Wuhan demanded the re- tirement of Chiang Kai-shek and Nanking the retirement of Tang Sheng chih, both being accused of usurping military power con- trary

Cottager (to husband): “Reu- to the policy of the ben, the gen'l'man wants a noo Kuomintang. As matters rest laid egg to 'is tea. I'll slip

U.S. AND FRANCE.

NEW TRADE TREATY SUGGESTED.

Washington, Yesterday.

"Santa Claus, mummy." "Nonsense!"

"Yes, he did, when he fell over a chair in my room on.Christ- mas Eve."

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Sailor's Wife: So you expect

As a result of the situation for the present Chiang is out but round to the stores while you go created by the application of the Tang remains. So far only one in the yard and cluck." new French Tariff Schedules, the side of the bargain has been State Department has authorised carried out. The power behind the American Embassy in Paris Tang in Hankow enabled him to to be back in three years' time? to open negotiations for a new get rid of the troublesome Chen

Sailor: Aye, Mary, that I do. Commercial Treaty with France and there is no saying what the

Sailor's Wife: If you are later, duty. In the proposed new section until October 1, as originally will have to put up with should of your excuses about the ship. immediately instead of waiting wordy politicians of Nanking don't you come home with any it is to be presumed, in any planned. Reuter's American Ser- he go to Nanking Tang breaking down and you having

usurped many of the functions to walk home. charge of possession of dutiable vice.

liquors, that these were dutjable,

i.e-that the duty had not been

of the Civil 'Government at Hankow, and the fall of tho

Stingy Player (in billiard- once prominent Sino-Jamaican room): Those cues want tipping

paid, but the defendant can THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK. barrister, Eugene. Chen, is said badly. avoid liability by proving either

YOKOHAMA BANK'S DIVIDEND.

to have been the outcome of a Attendant: Yes, sir; I know quarrel over Tang's aspirations just how they feel.

to becoming more or less a dicta-

tor. Although Chen posed as a

Disgusted Tramp (caught in

The local office of the Yokohama Moderate in the counsels of wire fence): Why can't some cablegram from the Head Office to Mr. O'Malley after the attack on less fence? Special Bank Ltd. is in receipt of a Hankow, the negotiations with fellow invent a blinking wire-

the effect that at the 95th half the British Concession, plainly

:

Old Lady: How do you like

(I) that the duty had in fact been paid, or (II) that he had good and sufficient reason to believe that the duty had been paid. It is stated, and not without reason, that it is peculiarly difficult for the shareholders held at the head revealed him as a puppet of yearly ordinary general meeting of the prosecution to prove in any office at Yokohama on the 10th fn- Borodin. Immediately Borodin school, my little man? case that the duty has not been stant, a net profit of Yen 15,179,- went Chen's influence waned. The Little Man: I like it

045.45 including Yen 6,142,857.99 His elimination, coupled with closed. paid. But it is easy for the de- carried over from last account was that of General Galen, the Rus- fendant to discharge the onus.. If shown. It was resolved to pay asian military adviser, marks a Teacher: Now, Tommy, what The essence of legislation is duty has been paid there should Yen 5,000,000.-) for the hd to the Moscow's influence in China. Cockney Tommy: Please miss,

dividend of 10% p.a. (absorbing fresh and serious setback to is a bison? simplicity. Unfortunately be no difficulty in proving that ended June 30, 1927, to add to the

80 many laws are full of ambiguity fact, but it is sufficient for him to Reserve Fund Yen 4,000,000, and On the other hand, there is Feng, it's a thing that mother mixes

to carry forward Yen 6,179,045.45 the "Christian" General, now a the puddin' in. that they make traps for the un-submit proof beyond a reasonable to the next account.

Marshal, with a Foreign Minis- ister of his own and Borodin at wary and multiply litigation. doubt that he had good and auf-

Boss: The city girl beat your his elbow, watching events close- Liza in that race, Jacky. The object of many framers of ficient reason to believe that it

had been paid.

ly and ready to profit therefrom Jack: Not fair, boss; she wear FAIR WEATHER. Bills appears to be to confuse ex-

at the first opportunity. Already high-heeled shoes; run down hill there is some talk of the Nan- all blanky time. perts and laymen alike. The in- tention may be clear to their own exposes another weakness, in the moderate; fair, is the official weasing a joint sitting under the North east or variable winde,king and Hankow factions Hold- minds, but practical tents in original Ordinance inasmuch as it ther forecast until noon to-morrow. wing of Feng at Kaifeng. If day at school, and his father Johnnie, aged six, had his first Courts of law leave even Judges was made an offence for the central to the N.W. of Oshima. An-termined to thrash out their he got on.

The Loochoos depression is now both the Governments were de- asked his young offspring how wondering what that intention licensed of a licensed ware ticyclones are situated over: Man- differences a settlement would exactly was. To clothe a Bill with house to keep dutiable, liquors churia and to the east of the have an important bearing upon the cane for telling who pinched "Well," replied. Johnnie; "I got technical language may be clever, on his licensed, premises. Bonins,

the situation. Feng, however, Tommy Smith." would have to conform or find himself isolated between a united] When Tommy arrived home it Kuomintang and a bitterly hostile was easy to see he had been fight. North, and it le doubtful if he ing.

The draft of the amending Bil}

The anticyclone over 'China has

low over the China Sea

RUBBER QUOTATIONS:

but its usual effect is to bewilder An anomaly of this kind, weakened. Pressure is relatively and embarrass those who have to of course, must be removed. It is interpret it and those who have to passing strange that it has not administer it. The verdict of the been discovered in the interval be man in the street is that "the law tween 1911 and 1927. It is little is a hass," but it would be much cause for wonder that even a lay-

Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been less of a hass" If there were less men can at times boast that he advised of the following quotations aspiring for grandiloquent lan-can "run a horse and carton rubber shares :——— guage and more concentration on through an Act of Parliament." Allenbys

Ayer Moleks plain and simple English. More- Nor is it surprising that litiga

Glenealys Jimalis over, if "the law is a hass" that tion generally should be so con.

#Majaka Pindas · cannot be placed to the debit of fusing and so protracted looking Pajams either Bench or Bar but to those to the senseless and obscure word.

charged with the responsibility, ing... the provisions in many for framing the hundred and one existing Ordinances.

point is Bills that find their place on the Statute-book as Ordinances of

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is yet prepared to commit him "Fighting again!" sald his self to either course. The mother Peking correspondent, of "The

"No," Tommy answered, "I Times" has reminded the public was sitting on Jimmy Smith, and. that Feng is elusive" and, in- I forgot to hold his feet.". deed, that he is the greatest opportuniat in all Chinese his

Movie Director (discovering tory, which is saying a good the dummy): My heavens! deal. All that he has done of What, was it we threw over the late tends to confirm this appre-cliffs?A ciation. China Express and Telegrahp,

A Critic: You have made your

hero too. hot-headed, I'm afraid. Budding Author: How do you mean? "ME

Arrested for violation of the

Penang Is honoured with Arat liquor law, W. H. Bridewell was haled into court and fined $100. prizes for coconut oil and copra He paid fit, found himself broke Cakes by the Malayan Agri-Horti- Critle: Well, he has a lantern and wired his wife for money Kuala Lumpur recently, the prize face lit up. His checks flamed

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