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A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held on Thursday afteracon, followed by a meeting of the Finance Committee.

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending July 12, amounted to 112,366 tons, and the sales dur-the ing the period to 69,499 tons.

MONDAY, JULY 28, 1930.

RUSSIAN BANK'S

AFFAIRS.

(Continued from. Page 1.);

*1917 decree. and had resumed tontrol of the business in Paris. A programme of music will be dence before the

It followed from the evi- broadcast from the Majestic Thea-bank functionett and continued to Court that the

CHINA'S TROUBLES.

IRONSIDE AGAIN DEFEATED.

AN OLD STORY,

Canton, Saturday.

tre on Wednesday from 9.30 to 11.30 function outsite of Russia until the was called by C-la-C. Chan Chai- The military conference which p.m. when many pecini numbers

year 1926, In September of that tong to take place on July 24 at will be played by the Majestic Theatre orchestra, under the diree-year, according to the evidence, the Wuchow, has been postponed, tion of Mr. H. E. Nicholson. bank went into world-wide liquida- awaiting the arrival of Generals Li Yang-king and Wong Yam- Mr. B. J. Israel, acting Consul

Sir Peter Grain: Which branch wan, who are understood to be on for the Netherlands at Amoy since started it?

their way from the front to January 26 last, has been appoint-structions were given from Paris.

Mr. Potter: Apparently the in-Wuchow to attend the meeting.

cial Bank,

juries to his head, from which he

consciousness.

tion.

the

Hong Kong Assets,

A

The conference will solve the problems for the extermination of the insurgeats 'and the re-

After

Chan

ed Consul in that town -by: virtue of a Royal Decres, dated April 28. Mr. Israel is the Agent of the Netherland-India Commer-counsel, there were available assets the conference, C.-in-C.

In September, 1926, continued habilitation of Kwangsi in Hong Kong amounting to $300,-Chal-tong will proceed to Laipo, 600 in the hands of the liquidators Pinglo, Kangcheng, and other What painting a signboard out- alde 189 Queen's Bond East at 11 for directions was taken out, and

awaiting disposal, summons cities on an inspection tour.. a.m., yesterday, Tam Kan (20), "notice served on the London credi-

General Retreat. painter, accidentally fell off the

Under the pressure of the Gov- tors and the Shanghai liquidatora. scaffolding and received severe in- It was afterwards contended by ernment troops from various

London creditors died at the Government Civil Hos- could prove in Hong Kong, although strong for them to resist, the that they directions, which may prove too pital at 11.45, without regaining the bank here was merely a branch. Kwangsi-Ironsile remnants are Consel was continuing with his said to be preparing for a general Yesterday a Chinese named Chan Flen when Mr. Alabaster rose to sub-treat to Kwelchew province. A Kwok-fai (32), described as of not that Mr. Patter was not entitled Contingent of the 4th Route fixed abode, attempted to commit to argue the case on behalf of the (Human) Army under Liu Chin- shu have been sent to Yining, sulelde by jumping from the Yau- Mr. Sheldon also rose to register Lungshing and Kuyi

In substance, he said, Kwangsi-Kweichow border to in- a protest. where he was handed over to the appellants were making an applica- tercept their passage. The 63rd division under Li Yang-king are tion for an adjourment. The ap removed him to the Kowloon Hospital, suffering from Flication was founded on the allega- pushing from Pinglo and Yang- tion that Paris was the bank's Head Shau, and the Kwangsi 1st divi- Office.

He would ask Their Lord-sion under Chu Wei-chun from We thank several of our readers which had been brought on entirely division under Ya Hon-mou are

ships to

Wuhsun with Lluchow as their refuse the application,

ultimate goal, while the 69th

mat ferry launch Man Chi. He was rescued and taken to Kowloon

Police who

the effects of Immersion.

Paris liquidators.

who have communicated to us cer- tain

new and inconsistent grounds. information concerning a

Mr. Potter Adamant.

It has European in the local Public Ser-

be proved "beyond reasonable doubt" that

To these and to others who have asked us to confirm the rumour

alt vice,

Mr. Potter assured the Court that this for them, we wish to say that, after he was not now contending that the Department or that Depart making the fullest inquiry, we hate company had been dissolved. What ment is grossly overstaffed and decided that it is not a matter of he said was that if there was a

overpaid. It has to be demon-affairs, in which no one was harm-Paris, and the money

public interest. Purely private Head Office at all, then it was it.

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Hong Kong, Monday, July 26, 1930.

CIVIL SERVICE.

T

sible that any retrenchment in the way either of personnel or of salaries shall not impair the eficiency of any single Départ- ment in the slightest degree. And who can be the best judges of that? Not by any means the band of armchair critics to whom

EARLY ROMANCE.

MR. LANSBURY AND HIS WIFE.

there.

should go

on the

now attacking Luekai and Lok-. yung, midway between Kweilin Canton News and Liuchow. Agency,

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Foreign Troong fr. China,

Canton, Saturday.

According to information from

What he was asking was the diplomatic circles the number that the liquidator in Hong Kong of foreign troops stationed in be asked to find out the true position China are as follows

American, 2,300; British, 7,700;

of Paris. That was all.

Mr. Jenkin contended the Sir Japanese 1,800; French, 3,400; Henry Gollan had found a spect-Italian, 400.

Head Agency.

Beany that there was .no Ollice.

Mr. Potter: Oh, no! "My marriage was the most Mr. Jenkin insisted that this

me." blessed thing that ever happened to was an entirely new

case, where- upon Mr. Potier said that the ap-

Canton News

stato

Peking, Yesterday. A meeting of the enlarged Plen ary Session of the Kuomintang la to be held to-morrow, when the "seven fundamental bases" of the day-dreams come so easily and Those are the words of Mr. peal was directed against the whole Party will be brought forward for naturally. Not by any means George Lansbury, First Commis-of Sir Henry Gollan's judgment. approval. they who inanely call for the axe sioner of Works, and ex-coffee-stall The argument was that if His Lord-

New Government? for the mere sake of providing a worker.

manager, stone-breaker and farm ship had been correct in his ruling

The vernacular papers that the company was not dissolved, that when this is done, Quo Tal-chi, Roman holiday. Not by any He and the wife whom he met where was the Head Office?

Hauch Tupi and Chia Ching-teh, means those who are quite in-

over 5 years before at school Answering Sir Joseph Kemp, Mir. celebrated their golden wedding on Potter said "The order we are ap-Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hai-

representing capable of looking below the sur-May 29.

Wang Ching-wel, pealing against is one that says in shan respectively, will go to Muk- face of things and who, there- "It was

at St. Mary's School, effect that the money must go to den to lay these bases fore, are naturally prone to Whitchapel, that wa met," Mr. the London creditors. So far & Chang Hsueh-liang and

before imagine the worst possible of Lansbury told a Dally Herald re- I know, nobody makes anything out the formation of a Northern Gov- discuss presentative. "We walked out, to- of it at moment, apparently only ernment; while Wang Ching-wel their own fellow-citizens in the gether in September, 1875, when the London creditors." Public Service.

will go to see Yen Hai-shan and she was not yet 15 and I was 16.

Feng Yu-balang. The ideal critic is he who We were married when I was 21.

His Coffee Stall, aspires to the ideal, whether he

What About Paris? Their Lordship having drawn "I was in partnership with my counsel is attention to the fact that be in the Public Service or out-brother in Whitechapel, unloading the notice of motion was that the with it not he who blindly calls coals. Afterwards, for a short moneys be paid to the Shanghal It is to be hoped that ful advantage will be taken by uses the chopper, rune amok, and Australia.

for the axe the while he himself Period, I managed a coffee-stall and liquidators, Mr. Potter explained then we decided to emigrate to that Sir Henry Gollan's ruling had community, particularly by the

accessarily affected his plen, The attacks a Service but for which "We found it a regular hell of Shanghat liquidators now asked

that I only earned 1. a day. breaking, but was so inexperienced over the world. That would be his unemployment I got a job of stone-the Head Office, for distribution all

main argument, and he was merely.

the

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acrid critics of the Civil Service he himself might have no part or competition. After eight weeks of that the assets be sent to Paris, as

of the invitation published in the advertising.columns of the Press, Colony. If there be any call at all parcel in the general life of the submit proposals or Bug for a common assault, let it be on

to

I got another job in a slaughter-asking the Court to establish the

gestions for effecting economies systems the malafides of which house and lost it because I refused position of Paris.

to work on Sundays. A farmer took Mr. Alabaster: The attitude of over three

years ago.

All are expected to be back in Peking by the latter half of August, 90 the establishment of Government is expected to take place carly in September-Reuter.

Ten Years Ago.

(From the "Chinn Mail,"

July 28, 1920.1

To-day's dollar is 114d.'

* *

the

worth 3/-

even of those who place them- be disappointed with the result of started work in my wife's father's and I hope he will often say

in any branch of the Public have been demonstrated beyond me on as a farm worker at £40 à Paris, was ascertained Service. The task Bet the the shadow of a doubt. Let the year and food.

A visitor informs the China Mai Retrenchment Committee is, as intricate question of retrench-

that he was warned not to go to a "After some months, buying food we once before stated, delicate in ment-if there be a call for such I found that instead of having better hear Mr. Potter's argument He was advised to take his Shang-

Amenities.

Chinese money changer, as one of and necessities from my employer,,

Sir Peter Grain: I think we had these would be sure to cheat him. the extreme. The need is all the-be approached from the right wages to draw, he had a bill against fret. You greater, therefore, for the utmost angle of true citizenship without me!

will have an oppor-hal money to the bank, if he want- meed of co-operation on the part the slightest suspicion of ulterior, and we eventually got back to

The children were continually been talking nonsense.

tunity later to tell him that he has ed Hong Kong money for it. He of those who are genuinely in a motives.

went to the bank, and was informed Mr. Potter (smilingly): My that the rate was 2 per cent, dis- position to be of service-and

England again, a rather sad and friend has often said that before, count. We may or may not, of course, diaflustered pair. The next day I

In other words, the bank it would give him $990 local currency selves on a lofty pedestal and pose the Retrenchment Committee's chapel.

igain.

for $1,000 Shanghal notes. He sawmil; and veneer works in White- as experts in regard to a Service work, but that need not prevent

Mr. Potter then proceeded to then went to Chinese money quote authorities on certain points changer, and

without any

bar- "Our house in Bow was a four-of the case, staling inter alia that gaining received 11⁄2 per cent. melled by anything that departs My wages at the works were 30s handed us asking for a fair fleld, untram roomed cottage. Our family ran up although there had been no pre-premium, that is to SAY, to six, so we were a bit crowded. cedent when the judgment was $1,016 for his thousand. Differ from the real spirit of criticism a week and the house rent free.

down in the Lower ence $35. He thinks it only fair- or suggestion.

Court, a. decision "How my wife managed to feed been reached in

had since to the Chinese money changers and clothe us all I don't know, ex Court

the Supreme to mention this. cept that she worked early and late decision

In New York,, which

at her job.

to which they are not them- selves attached, directly or in- directly.

News in Brief.

• Stubbs Hond will be open traffle to-morrow at 8 am..

"I threw myself into the Socialist cause. Directly my work was to finished on Saturday, I would leave for the provinces, address a meet- log on Saturday night, and three One case of typhoid fever was on Sunday, and he back ready to dotied during the week-end.

start work at Ta.m. on Monday,

Dreams Come True. "Somehow our hearts kept young,

he proposed

to bring to the notice of Their Lordships.

Te case la proceeding.

"BETTER RIP ME OPEN."

Ten Years Hence,

From the "China Mall" of

July 28, 1940.) ·

The P.W.D. Boulders Vigilance "Send me to jail for an offenca Branch invites the co-operation of like that? You better rip me all residents. In detecting unsafe) reward of Alty boulders. A dollars will be paid for each boulder taken to the P.W.D. office, frrespective of size.

In the mass of controversy that has given rise to the spilling of gallons of good ink, the very vital point has systematical- ly and almost wantonly been over- looked that Civil Servants are individually precluded by the terms of their engagement from replying to criticisms and figures that are obviously misleading or

A Chinese lad, tited to be em- fallacious. Silence by no means ployed as "ball boy" at the U.B.R.C implies consent; on their part, was at the Kowloon Magistracy this and the world soomed cheerful pen," declared an, aged Chinese with any assertions made in the morning cautioned by Mr. Whyte Those early years of propagands and mendicant at the Kowloon Magis hope of earning kudos with the un-out a licence T

tracy this morning when Mr hard manual labour, were among Smith on a charge of hawking with

the very happlest of our married Whyte Smith imposed a fine of $5 official section of the community.

life.

er seven days" jell for begging for alms in Nathan Road. The mere fact the

et that m

that His Excel For the unlawful possession of 53 "We walked the streets of London g lency the Governo

taels of prepared non-Government by night, talking and dreaming of Who is per- opium, which Revenue Officer a future in which the world of man fectly new to local conditions, ac Grimmit said was found concealed will be world of beauty, It was a dark and stormy night, streets or on Ferries, buses, and cepted the idea of a Retrench-round, his waist and legs, a Chinese, love, and Joy. and the motorist was lost. Present- mant Committee by no who was yesterday arrested on the “Many of our dreams, have come Ir he saw a sign on a posteljobs

water front, was this morning fined true. We both bellave that our With great dificulty he climbed A movement is on foot for the or alx months hard labour nation will peacefully win the new the pout, struck a match, and read compulsory, closing of all shops in

freedom

Wet Taint

the Colony on Sundaysjasse

means proves that all that has

The Sanitary Board has decreed that in future it will be a punish- able offence to throw litter on the

other vehicles.