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NEARLY RUINED

CANTON'S THREE RAILWAYS

ORDER AFTER CHAOS

Suicidal Concessions to Omnivorous

CONTROL NOW VESTED IN A NANKING MINISTRY *

HONG KONG, A SATURDAY

THE KING GRADUALLY IMPROVING

NO DISEASE NOW WHAT THE BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION REVEALED

THE SEASIDE CHANGÉ

London, Yesterday.»

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IS THAT SOP

Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse.

No-one can say that these local debates are price-does, what?

then?

Athena has had a “Lightning Bread Strike." Current bread?

lain of touting by, Louie cheap line!"

Soviet House, once occupied by Arcos, has just been sold. ... A Red letter sale?

THE INJUNCTION:

******* London, Yesterday, 29 A spatartling, likesaling an saya). to the National

The question of the leadership "813,000 for Two Servants.” A British wireless mesdago states:

acknowleds of the Salvation Army again came Do you have to buy them now, To-day's bulletin concerning the ing a receipt. na's new tariff before Justice Eve in the High How the pernicious influence of labour unions-omnivorous in

agreeing to its en- Court to-day.

It is the acrobatic dancers who their greed-all but brought about the total collapse of the three King's Illness contained one of the metropolitan railways of Canton, which now pass under the control most reassuring signs yet noted. schedule,

The application had been made put the "pant" into pantomime.

it is urged that the National of the Ministry of Railways in Nanking, is related below by an While stating that the improvement fordement.

In His Majesty's condition zon-

Too bad the King's advisers did Gallery should be opened at expert.

In return for loyalty diaplayed at a critical period of anti-Com-tinued it added that the bacteriology (Chinese For on behalf of General Branwell munist activity, the Kwangtung Government conceded so much to jgical examination showed that the/eign Minister)and Mr. K Booth to reestrain the High Coun not take our contemporary's tip night..... A picturesque proposal. the railwaymen that ruin stared the lines in the face. The least right chest was now free of infect Yoshizawa (anese Minister to ell of the Army from acting on a regarding the suitability of the ing organism. The fact that China) held conference to-day. expensive course open at one time was to stop working altogether!

Order has been evolved out of chaos. The part taken by one examination has shown that the It is learned from authoritative resolution declaring him physical Riviera as a health resort, isn't it? man in a strenuous struggle of 19 months is told below. Having organism which caused the injec sources that both agreed that ly unit to remain in office and from been placed in a semblance of order, the rallways from henceforth tion has now disappeared from the failure to settle, the Tainan Inci proceeding to the appointment of a

right side of the chest where it had dent had caused a deadlock in successor. will be directed from the national capital.

RESULT OF POLITICAL COUP

(From a Special Correspondent] Reports current for some days that the National Government of China, through the Ministry of Railways (of which Mr. Sun Fo is head), desired to take over control of the three railways running out of Canton, the capital of Kwangtung province, have been confirmed. A Reuter cable of Thursday stated that an order had been issued for transfer of management to the Ministry.

Prior to publication of this cable, I sought Mr. George Bow, who only recently relinquished the post of

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A YM.C.A. lecture is announced as "China-The Land we Live in.". Is that so?

"Mady Trains Held Up."

He must have been a strong man.

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Snapshots of the stomach are to be shown on the screen for doctors.

Inside information.

English women have been des feated by Danish at single- stick.....

Our women fence best when asked their age.

"The hard." for it.

Germans are working And getting good marks

A revue in London is all Robey; while some of the other shows are disrobe-y

About now some South American countries think of making some good revolutions.

been centred meats that the King Sino-Japanese relations and that The case was further adjourned is now suffering only from weak-unless the Incident were settled, until next Tuesday to enable the ness resulting from the disease and it will be impossible for them to parties to complete their evidence. that there is no longer any trouble discuss other Sino-Japanese issues. Addressing counsel the judge ex- from infection. With this removedDr. Wang and Count G. de pressed the sincere hope that every Under supervision, the Railway the King's progress, it is hoped, Martel (French

el Minister to effort would be made to adjust the China) held conference to-day differences, without pursuing men'e Uniona underwent reorgan- may continue to be steady.

This news has increased the op- regarding few trade treaty to more devious course than neces- isation.

timism which has been growing in

A lady in her will directed her Former concessions, which the Palace circles since the issue of replace the axlating conventions sary.

He added: affecting Indo-Chine-Reuter,

"However the case Rallway Administrations of Kwang-the last bulletin at noon on Tues-

should ultimately result, one can- busband to take care of her pets.

.. Was he one of them ? tung were forced to make, remained day, in which the doctors recorded

Inot but appreciate that its continu-" in force but no further demands their belief that sea air would be

ance is calculated prejudicially to good for His Majesty,

affect a great and benevolent in- There has just been published ie not one in which the combatants were presented by the men.

It pitch into one another. atitution of which all your clients "The Trial of Charles I."....

good Charles L.'s head- Are members and to which I have makes no doubt each and every one of them line... Is loyally attached.--British Wire- leas Service.

How the concessions affected the To-day's bulletin gives rise to the financial condition of the lines can hope that the date of the King's de- best be judged from the table of parture for Bognor will be settled statistics given herewith, that is, in within the next few days.

so far as they apply to comparative It is understood at Bognor that wages for the last financial year the King will remain at Craigwell (1927/8) and that of two or three House at least until after Easter. years before.

103 Days' Pay

Craigwell House has been rented for the King for three months.

Superintendent of the Canton- All three metropolitan systeras The length of stay will depend to Samshul Railway, and who left for Shanghal on Wednesday on the (Canton-Kowloon, Yueh-Han and a large extent on the progress the lose. King makes while he is at the sea- "Empress of Asia." Mr. Bow has Kwong Sam) operated at a

Much of the inflated expenditure aide.

MeÑo Bulletin mé favoured me with information about the three Canton radways and such a due to an abundance of over time pay and extremely low ineffi. is given below.

ciency.

The Loop Line

To quote, for instance, an out- In passing, it is interesting to standing example:-One labourer note that the loop line which H. E. drew in the month of January, 1928, the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, 31 days' regular pay and 72 days' K.C.M.G.) proposed nearly a year overtime, making a total of 103 ngo ja to connect the Canton-days,

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No bulletin regarding the King's health was issued this evening.

OBITUARY

IT MAY RAIN

N. E. winds, moderate, over- cast, some light, rain or mist, is the weather forecast until noon to-morrow.

A NEW SCHEME

VETERINARY SCIENCE

RESEARCHIN

EMPORTANT PROPOSAL

London, Yesterday.

A comprehensive scheme of co- ordination and reorganisation which

The death is announced from will eventually make the Colonial

vice attracting young Washington of Mr. Oscar Under-Veterinary Service a first-class ser

of wood, ex-Sonator of Alabama.

scientific bent, is laid down in a

nounced of Dr. Bogucki, who was From Warsaw the death is an social worker during plague epidemics in the Far East before financial conditions would be. But the War-Router. in spite of ruin being in sight, Kwangtung could not afford to let the three metropolitan rallways stop running.

Kowloon Railway (Chinese section) The manner in which wages were With the canton-Hankow Railway eating up finances became alarming. (southern section) which is best It appeared then that the sooner the known as the Yueh-Han Line. lines ceased to function the better

Because of geographical posi- tion, however, it has not been con- sidered feasible yet to propose that a loop line should extend to the Canton-Samshul Railway as well. When Mr. Bow was sent to take

charge of the Canton-Samsul Rall

men

one by Lord Lovat to enquire into report by the committee presided veterinary research administration

To Stand Over

Reuter says that the Salvation Army injunction has been ordered to stand over until Jan. 29 and that meanwhile the injunction con- tinues.

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No, Clarence; a "pitched battle"

George Carpentier has made his appearance in London as a dancer. "C.. is bowling well now," says He was always noted for his "foot- R. Abbit in his cricket notes. ... work.”

18 Australia downhearted? No!

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Some people live on their sav-

"Bill" to Permit More Spendings; but bili-stickers live on their ing."

18.We call this the cheapest hoardings. kindness on Bill's part.

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At the 'Earl's Court circus a man ANGRY RETORT" southheld to the home of the la Ahot cutzeed a howitzer.

roast beef of old. England-or He must find it a great bore. rather of Joba Bullocks.

QUESTIONS IN JAPANESE- LOWER HOUSE.

THAT MUKDEN BOMB

Tokyo, Yesterday. The bombing of Marshal Chang Tao-lin of Manchuria served

Mussolini has bought a racehorse,

A testator has left his house- and doubtless all good Fascisti'wili keeper five houses. The houses put their black shirts on him. should now keep the housekeeper.

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Dear old Aunt Aphasia says that

A boy golfer writes to urge that she isn't going to buy a new diary our local this year, as there are still a good attack on the Government again hole. ammunition for the Opposition's golf should be taught

The curriculum would many pages left of her 1928 diary. then include tee time. to-day. In the Lower House. the

Helen Ford, the American autrese, in the non-self-governing colonies. budget Committee heard the

Ex-King Manuel, It appears, has otherwise known as "Helen of The report recommends the estab- Minselto spokesman, Mr. Seiko Hishment of a School of Tropical Nakano, firing off questions in sixteen names .... This does not Troy," is no tiny that she might be Veterinary Science in London rapid succession, most of which include, the names he was called by called Helen of Troy-weight. modelled on the lines of the School Baron Tanaka (Premier and For the revolutionaries.

A critic complains that some New traffic regulations for race of Tropical Medicine and also's eign Minister) evaded.

girls think it funny to use any novel week have been published in thePivotal" Central Research Station

Referring to the suspicion exist A French General has been abus-alang expressions which they may were conscious of the danger to "Gazette" and the notification of in the tropics, preferably in Easting both at home and abroad, Mr. ing Eagland. But the only general pick up..... Many a now word

Nakano demanded to know what England will care about this year spoken in jest! Jan. 4 is cancelled.

the Government was doing to clear will be General Election. itself. Baron Tanaka replied that

Leaders of the reorganised urdons

RACE WEEK TRAFFIC

In-

Length

WAGES

in

Monthly Averages

Miles

Canton-Kowloon Yuch-Han

80

200

crease (per 1924/5 1927/8 cent.) $36,784 -$77,084 108 *$1,004,633 $1,889,887

*Present monthly salaries per head

Canton-Samahul

30 $281,502

BD $588,439 125

Staff Labour $108.00 08.50 47.00

$40.30 48.80 55,00

Paris, Jan. 24.-Monsieur A. U. a director of

* for 1926/0, not 1924/5.

haned on 1928 figures, which are approximate.

Africa Rauter.

BANKRUPTCY COURT

winho.

| ADMIRALS RESIGN

Stanghal Yesterday. Admirat Chen Chi-liang, com manding the First Squadron, and Admiral Chen Shao-kwan, com

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If the Premier is responsible for every act of Japanese officials abroad, ten thousand Premiere confined to one car each..... Roumanian Ministers are to be

would not be enough, Reuter.

HEAPS OF DEAD

FAMINE CONDITIONS IN SUAIYUAN

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notable for the primary colonra..

"Cigarette smoking is making We shall next year hear that each idiots of women. Something must Balkan State is being rationed to be done to stop it, says Miss Mary. one war'a year..

Dobbs, of Tepeka. And it has not been unknown for cigarette smokers to make fools of women!

they were considering the best A paper asks "Was Shakespeare friend of the man whose pocket he The Bankruptcy Court will sit on means of removing suspicion, but a schoolmaster ?" .... .... A Hillage, picked really meant he would have Rousseau, fosterrench school in Saturday, Feb. 2-when the public he was unable to say more at pre- or should we say a Hamlet, school-bean if he had got away with it! Hanoi, and professor of Indo-examination will be held at 10.30 sent.

The Premier's patience ended master 7 - China philology at the College de am. ofthe Hop Yick Dyeing Fac

So many runs have scored in the Suggested howler for schoolboy Australian cricket season that it is France, who fulfilled several mis-oof Shing On-street, Saf- when the questioner insisted that

the Government was responsible of the future In 1929 England feared there may not be enough A second dividend of $5 per cent. for the arrangements for guard was invaded by the people of left for the later matches. way early in the summer of 1927, railways, and thus to their own sions in China and Japan, has com

has been declared in the bankrupting the crossing where the Chin- Flapland." traffic was on the verge of suspen- means of livelihood. Unbusinesslike mitted suicide.-Reuter.

cy of Lin Man-po of No. 20, Nam ese and Japanese railways cross- sion. Management was more or less methods in the unions, however,

King'street, Yaumatl.

ed and where Chang Teo-lin was Harvey, the middle-weight boxer,

The bride wore a white lace neglected. There was a famine in deprived the leaders of real authori

An application for discharge by bombed.

has just become..., a father.

frock over bell pink georgette materials required for maintenance ty. Consequently, they were re-

advocate a longsighted tions, these being promulgated on Farg Tat-hang of No. 6, On Hing-

The Premier retorted "I can't We understand that the son Is Home paper. a za According and repair, especially for making luctant to

terrace will be heard at 10.80 a.m.give permission for every detall. still comparatively a light-weight. to the old masters hell, was, more much-needed improvements and re-policy, for fear of dissension among July 18, 1928.

An obvious, mistake by the com- on Feb. 28. storing the track to working con- the rank and file, who jealously dition.

elung on to the benefits they had mission was that it ignored a recommendation that the urlane be Incidentally, I know that Mr. Bow obtained. had the choice at two lines to Acting na a counter-influence, given a hearing. Since they did not manage. He went to the Canton-sections of labour not connected have an opportunity to express their Samshuí Railway (also known as with the railways and which had views the men, naturally, retained the Kwong-Sam Idre) because it suffered at the hands of the Unions their figh scale of wages. But was the shorter and therefore the before the coup of April, 1927, were under the new regulations, which one which would show results more scaling revenge. They sought to were strict, lesiages were stopped manding the: Second Squadron, of the Chinese Navy, have tendered quickly.

influence the Government to abolish and efficiency increased.

their resignations. Their reason

Bir Arthur Holbrook would Net Result His administration, lasting 19 unions or, at least, to render them

Peking, Yesterday. morths, might be summarised into Ineffective.

The policy subsequently adopted is that the Disbandment Confer

"I don't care what you three stages, as follow:

The trouble then might be by the Canton-Sanshui Radway ence has cut down the naval ex- The China Famine Reliat Com

abolish quarter-days as strasbron-

abolish them as,” sighed poor Hard- 1. From the time of assump summed up thus the Government was:to seek the co-operation of timates from $500,000 a month to mittee has received a report from $300,000, and wishes to reduce the Saratal; Suaiyuan, stating that the

The British Flower Show was P. 80 long as you abolish tion of office to Nov., 1927: had first encouraged the unions; the executive committee of the men's strength and place the Navy deaths there from. famine causes said to have "flowers as big as foot- them! concentrated study of existing such had come to stay; they were union; refrain from harshness; rely Ministry under the control of the sonunderous that it is impos- balls." And some of the ex conditions.

obnoxious not in mere existence, on explanation and persuasion, to

War Minister-Reuter. 2.-Jan., 1928 to August, 1928: but because of the Government's remove misunderstanding; retrench- further study and solution of pro- policy (Just before then) of allow-ment by discharging all non- fblems, also maiding recommenda- ing them far too many liberties; effective and superfluous employees; tions to the Provincial Govern-political agitators had secured con- creation of the post of extra en- ment

trol of some unions,

gineer to take change of the newly 8-From August to the end of

Commission Acts formed cost data office and to deter 1928: making improvements, fol Suggestions were made to the mine the Increase in efficiency lowing the promulgation of new Government then that adjustment strict supervision to comb out un regulations for treatment of was the better solution than drastic desirables and thereby ensure that employees,

action; and that giving licence to no employee is mistreated, also th those who sought revenge against each man works property during

Political Origin -

:

In the Canton, political coup of the unions, was suicidal, mala kona April 1927, labour Torganisations As a result, the Canton breach of The net result is been reduction supporting the Nationalist Govern the Folitical Council of the National of the staff by about 200 men, and

co-operated with Governm

The men of such orga

helped bo

ondered the Raliwa

reduction in

„FRENCH: TRADE

.A burglar who preferred minia tures, is supposed to have done so under a confused Impression that, caught, he would get a smaller sentence.

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sible for the authorities to keep hibition flowerbeds were trampled "There are over 800 tramps who pace in burying them. Outside on as if they were referees. patronise the East Barnet, institu-

the city huge heaps of dead are

lying, which the dogs and wolves

tion weekly, «Bays...” en “evening”

officials, of course, tion; so as to tance of pait-

ynk Paris, Yesterday, Are devouring. Forty died in the This Week's Great Thougirt paper. uports for 1928 total streets last week, all of whom are Notice in a shop window, try to give.

being thrown on these horrible must be distinctly understood, that erit

favoury. these prices is to be said for cashi year mounde,NANT 19,000,000 Last Week 3,000 bandits, driven only"

1,000,000 desperate by hunger, entered

torture

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made Com Your

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took the damn da

A writer on theatres says that the mysteryplay is dying, owing to the difficulty of Inventing new. So let us (13) Hamlet thrills we haye

at we know not.