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DEATH.

STEPHENSON. On January 20, 1928, at Gibraltar, Major General Theodore Edward Stephenson, beloved Father of Mrs. F. S. Harrison,

Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 21, 1928,

SATURDAY CAUSERIE.

The "China Mail," owing to the intervention of the China New Year holiday, will next appear on Tuesday, January 24,

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TAIKOO BALL.

OVER 350 ATTEND THE FUNCTION.

A MERRY EVENING

·SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1928

PAN-AMERICANISM.

LARGE UNITED STATES ́DELEGATION.

CANADIAN INTERESTS.

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Between three and four hundred merrymakers assembled at the

Havana, Yesterday, Talkoo Club last night for the Although the actual agenda of annual ball and a most enjoyable the Pan-American Conference is evening was experienced by all. fixed by resolutions new subjects The Club premises were artistical-can be raised in Committees with- ly laid out and at the head of the cut notice and in the plenary hall was set the photograph of session by a two-thirds vote. The Mr. John Swire, draped with the United States, therefore, sent a flag of Messrs. Butterfield and larger delegation than was sent to Swire and the Union Jack, and on Versailles. efthor side hung faga bearing the dates 1891 and 1928, showing the the conference now is Mr. Charles The most important figure at age of the Club.

PRAPS-PRAPS NOT!

Sandy was playing a very. Indif« feant game of golf, For the third time that afternoon he had foomed

his shot. Turning to the catidle, he remarked, "I think I'm off my gamo to-day."

-“Guid heavens," said the caddie,

hae re played bofore?"

The Victim-If you call this ihme to-morrow

Tho Canvassor (hopefully) This time to-morrow, sir?

The Victim-Ye

shall, be out,

The musie was provided by E. Hughes, who, however, insists Titania's "Melodians under the on playing a modest role, avoiding "Would you die for me?" she leadership of Mr. A. A. Dawes, any move suggesting that the naked santimentally. and the music for the Eightsome United States is interested in: "Now you, look here," he replied Reel and the Caledonians was dominating the conference or any in his matter-of-fact way "are we provided by two pipers and a drum- participating nation as, for in- supposed to be planning a cheap mer of the King's Own Scottish stance, his refusing a office him-nore! or a wedding?" Borderore,

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The Officers,

self but seconding the nomination of Mr. Guerrero, of Salvador, as

The Secretary, Officers and Chairman of the Committee on

"Say Jack, old man, I must dek members of the various com- the Codification of Public Inter-you to lend mo five pounds unt mittees xesponsible for the success national Law which may consider to-morrow. I have left my pursé of the evening were:-President, the question of a nation interfer-ut_home."

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go home and

Mr. N. S. Brown, Vice-Presidents, ing in the domestic affairs of on-{ "I'm very sorry, old chay, but I Messra. D. Templeton and K. B. other, although Mr. Guerrero is haven't the cash to spare. How- Greig Secretary, Mr. J. A. Wat-known to be hostile to United ever, I can tell you how to get it son; Treasurer, Mr. J. B. Rich States policy in Latin-America.

very easily." mond; Chairman, Mr. M. H. Wallace.

A point of particular interest is "How?" the question of Canadian partici-

"Here's a penny, pation in the activities of the con- get your purse!" Decorations:-Messrs. Grimshaw, Cerence within the next few years. Gray, Howell and T. Young. a number of delegates being of

Supper Room: Mesara. Munro, opinion that, with the rapid, I feel sorry for you! Why don't Good Man-Ah, my poor fellow, growth of Canadian trade and in- you work? When I was young,

Committees.

Walmsley, Howell and Richmond.

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Card Room: Messrs. Weir, Mequence, trade and the finan- for ten years I was never in bed

Leod, and James Sloan.

Bar: Messrs. Wallace, Watson and Richmond,

M.C.'s: Messrs. Hope, Young, Coils, Johnston, McCaw and Wat

son.

Door: Messrs. Grimshaw, Wal- lace and Watson,

Special launches were run from

action against the agitators of the Hong Kong and Kowloon to the Dockyard, and the launches made labour unions, always within re- the return journey at 12.80, 1.15

STILL AN ISSUE.

cent years a troublesome in- and 2.15. fluence in the South. Going North we still have Marshal Chang Tso- lin in supreme command. Such Central Government as exists at Peking is his and Manchuria is held with a strong hand, suf- ficiently strong easily to crush the "Big Sword" menace which is said to be looming in the Northern dis-

tricts.

cial treaties on the American con- after five-an hour's work before tinents will not be fully effective breakfast, then five hours work,

unless Canada participated. Router's American Service.

HANKOW ROBBERS.

ROGUES BELIEVED FROM SHANGHAL

ELECTRIC ALARM.

Hankow, Jan. 16. Like Shanghai, this part has FENGTIEN AND PEACE WITH of armed robberies and burglaries. been suffering from an epidemic SHANSI.

which are largely attributed to expert rogues from Shanghai. Up to the present, the miscreants

THE FLAG QUESTION.

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then dinner, than four-hours' more work, then supper, then, bed, then up again at five the next morn- Ing-":

Loafer "I say, guv'nor, where did ya servo your time-Portland or Dartmoor?

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"What are you thinkin' of doin' with your boy, Joe?"

"Eh? Well, I thought of tryin' to get him. Into the police."

"The police? Why?". "Well, they're sure to 'ave "Im- one way or another."

.

Inquisitive One (to gate porter): Is that all you have to do all day

just open those gates?" "Oh, no, air; that's only half.” there, then?"

'Only half? Why, what else is

"Shut 'em."

co-operation between Mukden and most entirely to holding up ex- The flag issue which prevented have confined their activities al- Shansi about four months ago change shops in the native section appears to have again, cropped up and to burgling various foreign in the course of negotiations for residences in the ex-Russian Con- peace between Marahal Chang Teo cession, but they are now evid-

in and General Yen Hal-ahan at ently growing bolder and are ex- An employer has ordered the fol the present moment, if Chinese tending their operations. The lowing notice to be posted in hie press reports can be bellaved.

business premises?-- However, there is this difference Laidlaw & Co. were entered the premises of Messrs. Whiteaway,

"Any malo employee desiring to

Out of the welter of intrigue, bribery, and banditry which has soaked through the country dur- ing the past twelve months Chang Tao-lin, as was the case in former in the circumstances; four months other night and some $700 in attend the funeral of a near rela- ago it was Yen who insisted that cash, together with cheques and tive must notify his foreman be years, emerges as the one--"war the Ankuochun

must fly the

lord" whose efforts are not Kuomintang emblem before he con- compradore orders to the value fore 10 a.m. on the day of the clouded with petty squabbling Chang in a common drive against the safe. The next day, at about

sented to co-operate with Marshal af more than $300, removed from match."

and personal glorification. The communism. Now it is the turn six o'clock in the evening, the ex- They had made an appointment dispute with Shansi a few months of the dictator to insist that be- British Concession was the scene for golf, but Brown was late.

fore peace is possible Governor of a daring robbery when two back is regarded in some quarters Yen must prove his change of Chinese exchange companies, next he came up, but I have bean sea- "Sorry, old man," he panted, as heart by taking down the Kuo-door to the Chung Foo Union ting, a trap for my wife." coloured national standard. again. yards from the Concession Police "What on earth do you suspect ?" mintang flag and hoisting the five-Bank and not more than 150 "Good heavens!” cried Staffa The Shanal peace term as com Station, were relieved of a sum în Brown sighed. "A mouse in the

to Shantung Tupan notes and silver totalling more pantry," he answered. municated Chang Tsung-chang by emissaries than 10,000 dollars. of the Shanai governor at present.

An armed “:

as a bad break on the part of Chang, but it is now seen that the "Model Governor" is a beligerent individual and one of the kind who welcomes a scrap.

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You'll be all right in the morning."

Guest: "I want another roo Proprietor: "Oh, ge to bed,

Guest: "I tell you I want another

room."

in Tainan, are reported to be as policeman on duty at the door was follows: (1) That the security of herded inside the premises with his sleep at two in the morning); Hotel proprietor (disturbed from And so the Old Year goes out. Shansi should be guaranteed by the staffs of the two companies in What's the matter?" There are rumours of war and Mukden; (2) That all the Feng-question, while the robbers, who threats of war but in reality the from Shansi; (9) That the admin all, calmly removed their booty.

tien troops should be withdrawn are stated to have, totalled six in country is in a more peaceful con- istration of the Chenting-Taiyuan It is interesting to note that dition than has been its lot for a railway should be rastored to both companies had recently in long while. The pot is seething, Shanal.

The counter-proposals of the cating directly with the Police stalled electric alarms communi- Ankuochun are:-(1) That the Station, but the staffs of both Peking-Suiyuan railway should re- concerns were so overcome with main vested in Fengtien; (2) That fear that they allowed the robbers tang flag; (8) That Shansi military thought of using the alarms. To An old offender, being tried bo- Shansi must discard, the Kuomin-several minutes start before they. leaders responsible for the conflict the credit of the police, be it said fore the Bench, was accused of na with Fengflen should be publish- that they arrived on the scene saulting his wife. ed; and (4) That Shansi must make almost immediately they were common: cause with Fengtlen summoned but the birds had

always seething, and we ara pretty sure that it is going to boil over at some time or other. And so we must leave it, hoping for the best in the twelve months that lay before us..

control of the whole line of the

A GREAT SOLDIER. against Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. flown.-Reuter.

MAJOR-GENERAL T. E.

STEPHENSON DEAD.

DAUGHTER IN HONG KONG.

It is stated that Shansi peace delegates in Tainan have indicated their willingness to discuss all the

FEW DIPLOMAS.

PHILIPPINES UNIVERSITY

AGAIN APPEAR BEFORE COURT.

The two Canton officials alleged to-have in their possession money

Proprietor: What's the matter with your room?"

Guest: "Well, toatant with it, ti's on fire."

“Liquor?" asked the Magistrate. "No," "answered the prisoner gloomily, "she licked me!"

Clara: "When yer goin' ter git

Sarah: "Never." Clara: "Why?"

Sarah: "Well, yer see. I won't marry Bill when 'e ain't sober, - am”. 'e won't marry me w'on o' Is."

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married

China, this week-end, casts off her Old Year and does 80,

we imagine, with few regrets. For the past twelve months, whatever calendar they are reckoned by, have given us a period, as unfruit- ful as any experience since the Revolution. "China is at the

Fengtion terms except numbor two CANTON OFFICIALS. married, Sarah, my dear?" which relates to the flag question. 'crossroads," has been the verdict

This, they say, will have to be re- of casual observers during recent

ferred to Taiyuanfu for considera- years. She is not. She is in a The death is announced (by tion "N. C. Standard”

cable) at Gibraltar, of Major Gen blind alley. Nationalism no more

eral Theodore Edward Stephenson. according to Sun Yat Sen than to Major-General Stephenson was Hoyle is being preached by rival born March 28, 1866, son of the factions at places so little apart late Rev. Canon Stephenson of Wey- as Nanking and Hankow. At mouth, England, and was educated at Marlborough College. He enter the latter dia ppointed politicians ed the army in 1874, joining the abound, though there are enough| 56th Regiment. In 1881 he was

The University of the Philip-ed from $50,000 to $5,000. Mr. "I see," answered the thes or them to carry on internal and promoted to Captain of the Easex pines may have the least nuraber Eldon Potter, for the defence, you keep a scrap book.". fute warfare. The former 1 He rose to be Major-General ent number of qualified candid affirmed that the case "recked with

Regiment.

of graduates this year if the pre-criticised the prosecution and held by supporters of Generalis commanding the Bloemfontein Disates for graduation, 1924, is not politics." simo Chiang Kai-shek, but the trict, and troops in the Orange increased, it was learned at the Chiang Kai-shek bubble, it seems, River Colony in 1902-04 Major State University,

"Just paid another £5 of the General commanding the Trang nak More than 500 have applied for doctor's bill, darling." has burst. True he still has con- 1904-86; and Acted as G.O. Com graduation but the examination Splendid, Jack, two more pay trol of the richest "plum" that can mandor-in-Chief in South Africa In of records by the registrar's office ments and the baby's cure." fall to Chinese banditry-Shang 1904, his rank of Major-General behas disclosed that more than hal-but every now and then, ac cording to reports from that city, he is scared by the discovery of Northern agents in his midst.

SLACKNÉSS,

ing confirmed In 1906. eighty per cent of applicants

From that time on he command-have deficiences either in acade

stolen from the Central Bank were The two young married women again before the Court at the Cen were having tes together. "Do tral Magistracy yesterday and were you knew," said one of them, that remanded until January 26. Ball every time I have an argument in the case of one who was stated with my husband I make a noto of to be a British subject was reducit in my diary1"

Bank Clerks "But, madam, you

will have to be-Identified before. I can cash this cheque for you."

George would be dreadfully angry, Fair Caller (blúshing furiously); Oh, I just hate to do it, and

but I have a love letter here which describes me fully if you would care to see itira

ed stroops in Colcheater, Aldershot, mic units or in military science science Because of the strict the Straits Bettlements, and Malay and physical education. Because examination of individual class A man with a very large mouth Peninsula, holding the Skaits Com of these, it is feared that not records, by the registrar's office, entered a_music-dealer's shop mand at the time of the outbreak more than three hundred will be which was inaugurated in the purchase a mouth-organ. He of the War graduated next March Last college year, the deficiencies that shown every shape of mouth So much, then, for the Yang Major-General Stephenson was year, about 500 were graduated would have otherwise passed un- in the shop, but still was not

the father of Mra, S. Harrison, It was disclosed that many of noticed were raked up.

fed. wife of Mr. F. B. Harrison, the local the deficiencies of the applicants The colleges of liberal arts,

Look here, sald Manager of the South British As, date as early as

an education, and law count with the awe shall have to meas surance Company, for whom there year in college, especially those in greatest number of deficient stud- one. Just try your to be direct will be great fecal sympathy.

physical education and military eats the records show.

this plano."

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