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Acknowledgment.

THE HONGKONG

Mrs. James Macdonald and family return sincere thanks to all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy, and for the many beautiful floral tributes rent in their recent sad bereavemont.

Chas. Wallace, a son.

Births.

Death.

LOPES-AL 22, Range Road, Shanghai, on February 24th, Lino Jose Lopes, formerly of the Treasury Office, Hongkong, aged 70. By cable.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONUKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921.

A REGULAR MIX-UP.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Anglo-Japanese Treaty.

DAY BY DAY.

IN GENERAL, PRIDE IS

GREAT

In a recent interview with a THE BOTTOM OF ALL Press representative in London, MISTAKES-Ruskin.

Sir John Findlay, one of New

Zealand's delegates to the League

of Nations, stated that, while

'Yesterday'a health

AT

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS..

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THE NEAR EAST CONFERENCE.

The cost of electing a United States President, has been tabul- atod by a writer in the Forum! who averages out the total dis- Turkish Delegates to Submit More Definite Proposals. return bursements at 135 million dollars, appreciative of Japanego shows one fatal caso each of But the personal campaign funde

London, February 23. assistance in the war, Australia | plaguo and

The rival Turkish delegations attended this morning's confer- small-pox (both)

vary immensely, from 50,000 to 1614 million dollars-this latter once, which adjourned till to-morrow after an hour's discussion. being McKinley's bill of costs, communique says that Tewfik Pasha and Bekirsami both expound d Lincoln was the most economical general principles for the restoration of peace in the Near East.

and New Zealand objected to the Chinese).

renewal of the Anglo-Japaness |

Alliance. A cable now apprises

British Dissatisfaction at Turkish Dilatoriness.

us that the Now Zealand Premier In the somi-final of the Open of all the successful candidates in They were invited to spooify their views in more concrete form disclaims this statement 88 a Billiards Championship at the the list. "I cannot enter the to the points in the Treaty of Sevres which they desire modified.

of the official Victoria Recreation presentation

Club last ring on the money basis," he view. The Premier adda that his night, L. A. Oemund defeated E. wrote; "first because in the main country and Australia already Quimaraes by 750-640. Osmund's it is wrong, and secondly becauss! have a thorough understanding highest breaks were 45, 38, 34, I canot get the money,'' with the Imperial Government 25, 23, 21 and 20, whilst Guimar respecting Japanese immigration, sea' best efforts were 41, 32, 25, the Home authorities recognising 24 and 21.

the Dominions' right to decide who shall enter their countries;

and expresses the view that.

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Later. Dissatisfaction is expressed in British circles at the dilatoriness of the Turkish delegation as shown at to-day's meeting of the con- ference. Dospite the fact that the delegates had had months to The Honourable Corps of Gen-consider the matter, they were unable to advance a concreta case. tlemen-at-Arms, to which three! The German delegates who are going to London on Saturday new officers have just been ap- are similarly at present in a state of indecision, the experts on the pointed, claims to be the oldest sub-commission disagreeing as regarde recommendations.

Venizelos to be Consulted.

London, February 24.

It is announced that M. Venizelos will shortly confer with M.

An interesting debuto took cerpe in England with the ex- New Zealand is not opposed to a renewal of the Treaty unless in-place at the St. Andrew's Church coption of the Yeomen of the possible conditions are imposed, Hall, Kowloon, last night, under Guard. Formerly the members as, for example, "such an inter- the auspices of the St. Andrew's were styled Gentlemen Pen- pretation of the Treaty as would Church Men's Association. The sionere, the present title being Calogeropoulos to discuss the best means of retaining the pro- make war with America possible." subject was: Is Britain on the given by William IV, nearly 90 Greece advantages conferred by the Treaty of Sevres.

decline?" The Rev, G. R. years ago.

It is not generally The brevity entailed by cable ren-1 ders the qualifying clause a little Lindsay was in the chair. The known that each of the Gentle-

leaders two

RESIGNATION OF IRISH CONSTABULARY OFFICE. wero Messrs. at Arms (who are recruited from ambiguous. Probably the moaning

E. A..

Farrell and W. the Reserve of Officers) receives or the chief meaning, simply has

London, February 24. reference to the question that has ackson. A spirited discussion small allowanco, nominally of

Crozier, in a letter of resignation, declares that theft by polico- been attracting a good deal of took place, and the gathering £70. The Captaincy of the Corps

men is unpardonable. "I cannot associate myself with a force attention lately-that of Britain's provided evidence of the popul- is an Office that changes hands which such acts are condoned," states the letter.

of the with other Household appoint- obligation to go to the assistance arity of this feature

[The above message presumably refers to the Constabulary Japan in the ovent of war Association's activities. The next monts upon a new Ministry com- forces in Ireland. Col. E. P. Crozier, Royal Irish Rifles, and between the latter country and dobate will take place on Marching into power, but the other Major T. H. Crozier, who was born at Monkalown, Co. Dublin,

officers are not subject to this un-figure in the Army List.]

the United States.

The U.S. Arbitration

Treaty.

The facts in relation to this momentous matter have, one

reassure

9th.

COOLIE'S DEATH.

المسلية

Fails.

certainty of tenure.

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THE YIELD FROM E.P.D.

THE SITUATION IN PERSIA.

London, February 23. M. Stambulinsky, the Bulgarian Premier, accompanies King Boris on the visit to America in the summer.

LABUAN.

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY” HONOURS BISHOP OF

London, February 22,

Mr. Arthur Acheson, one of the most diligent of our modern!

London, February 23. Shakespearo students, has put Mr. Chamberlain announces that after providing £18,000,000 for would have thought, been made Charge of Manslaughter scholars of the poot's text to fresh net amount of the Excess Profits Duty paid to the Exchequer from forward a claim that will rouge refunds and appoximately a million for interest as pro-payment, the fairly clear. The original Treaty,

bouts of controversy. In his latest April, 1, 1920 to February 01, 1921 was £191,000,000, made, in 1905, did not contain

book, "Shakespeare's Lost Years any restrictive condition respect-

Arising from, the death of a in London," which Mr. Bernard ing British, aid to Japan, bat WALLACE--At Seattle, on 21st February, to Mr. and Mrs. when the Alliance was renewed young Chinese coolic who was on Quaritch publishes, he attempts to in 1911 a clause, Article IV., was the 15th instant killed at the prove that the immortal Sir John

Coup d'Etat not Directed Against British. inserted to provide that the pact Kowloon Docks by the falling of Falstaff was not an imaginary

Paris, February 23. GALLUZZI-At No. 9 Mountain View, The Peak, on the 22nd.should not apply to any nation the anchor of the Tooksang which figure of the poet's brain but had

Roports from Persia indicate that calm prevails at Teheran. inst, the wife of U. C. Galluzzi, a son.

with which Britain had concluded was in the Docks, the boatswain its original in real life, and that

vessol was yesterday this original was John Florio. The Bazaar has been closed. Cossacks have made a re-distribution of a general Arbitration Treaty. of the Marriage.

During the interim Britain had charged with manslaughter, Florin was an Italian refugee and wealth. A number of arrests, have been made, including the ex-Minis- GERRARD-HENDERSON--At the Masonic Temple, Greon-negotiated, or negotiated for, being alleged that in the lowering toacter of languages who shared ters Montazul-mulk, Mokhteshames and Saltaneb and Princes Firman ock, on the 12th January, by the Rev. Chis. F. Flaming, B. D. such a Treaty with the United of the chain into No. 2 Dock he with Shakespeare the patronage Firma and Firouz. The rebels doclare that they respect the Shah and The Senate refused to did not take the necessary pre-of the Earl of Southampton. His hold Bolshevism in abhorence. The coup d'etal is apparently not assisted by the Rev. W. Gerrard, brother of the Bridegroom, George States.

jealousy of the poet led him to let directed against the British. Gorrard of Hongkong, son of the late Rov George Gerrard and of ratify it, and therefore the Treaty cautions.

Examined by the Magistrate loose a flood of veiled abuse which Mrs. Gerrard, Atholl Terrace, Edinburgh, to Helen Fairlie Henderson, that is, the contemplated Treaty

BULGARIAN PREMIER TO ACCOMPANY KING ON O. B. E., daughter of the late Mr. George Henderson, Engineer and with the United States-did not yesterday the defendant said that Mr. Acheson identifies as aimed come within the exceptions Le put the ship's carpenter in at Shakespeare. For this it is said All's Well

TOUR of Mrs. Henderson, 8 Antigua Street, Graenock.

indicated in the Anglo-Japanese charge of the windlass and sent he is ridiculed in Troaty. Shortly after the break-two of the sailors to procure a two That Ends Well" in the character ing out of the war, however, inch wire hauser and a shacklo. of Parolles, and later as Sir John Britain notified Japan that she Another man was detailed to Falstaff. would regard the Anglo-American obtain a 34 inch Manila rope

Kelly's Directories, which have Treaty as coming within the which was to be attached to the intention of Article IV. This, last link of the anchor chain passed under new control, re- apparently, hardly sufficed to whilst it was being lowered into present à highly profitable un- of the dry-dock. He (the defendant) dertaking, yet when the forerun- section Д

the wire ner of them all, "A Collection of

The Senate of Aberdeen University has granted the Honorary American opinion, which sur-personally attached mised that there might be seerst hauser to the anchor chain, 25 the Names of the Merchants Doctorate of Divinity to the Right Rev. L.D.L. Danson, Bishop clauses to the Anglo-Japanose feet from the end, the object Living in and about the City of of Labuan and Sarawak. Treaty. Such a thing has been being to give him control of London," was issued, in 1677, it chain as it was being contained A most apologetic specifically denied by official the

MEXICAN RAILWAY STRIKE EXPECTED. addressed to the circles in London, while Baron lowered. He also fastened the preface

of end

the

therein: hauser. persons described

Mexico City, Fobruary 23. Hayashi, the Japanese Am-other

In anticipation of a general railway strike, in which it is estimat- bassador, stated that Japan under- The Dock foreman stood at the Although the publishing of stood and entirely acquiesced in bow of the ship, giving orders to the ensuing pamphlet (or cata-ed about 40,000 employees will be involved, the Government has Constitutional Reformers attending the Races yesterday must British non-participation in any the carpenter to start his wind-logue) may at the first seem to concentrated troops in all important centres. The trouble is due to have had much of their enjoyment offset when they read the blunt war between his country and lass when necessary. Witness several persons a ridiculous and the railway directors refusing to recognise the men's Unions.

America.

repeated the foreman's order, and preposterous attempt, yet the Government is strongly supporting the directors.

collection at the same time watched the two author of this poor intimation that the Home Government had decided to nako.ng! change either in the numbers or the mode of selection of members of Probable Modifications.

seamen easing off the wire hauser. humbly hopes that it will not be

FRENCH NAVAL DERATE. tho Legislative Council. Such was Mr. Churchill's announcement in

Although the term of ten years le did not repeat the foreman's exploded or rejected by you, for reply to a question by Colonel John Ward, who pressed for an early

забе and conveniency!

Paris, February 23. statement on the question in view of the pressing necessity of provided for by the Treaty expires last order which caused the ac whose

The Chamber longthily debated the future of the Navy. The representation of the British attitudo on the question of slavery and in July of this year, the Alliance cident, because he was not ready, (together with your foreign cor-

. of the employment of young children," Passing over for the moment continuos for a further twelve but despite this and the pro-respondents) he principally in- Minister for the Navy requested increased credits for complete

the. man, who tended it." The first London roorganisation, meanwhile reserving the question of construction. neither party has tost the confusing of the issues by Colonel Ward, upon which we shall months, as

watching for the last directory is a small octavo; to terminate it:was

of the chain,

120 the of have something to say later on, this refusal to grant the Colony any given notice

each pages, of link the subject measure of r. form whatsoever is, to put it very mildly, disappoint but naturally

addresses the former ing, in view of the circumstance that other Crown Colonies have, in renowat has boon ougaging a lot carpenter started the windlass, containing some twenty names the recent past been granted concessions of a very far-reaching of attention in both countries. It Released from the all control, the and character. Why Hongkong should be fixed upon as the Cinderella is hardly surprising that some chain ran its whole length and being printed in old English type a shed at a Belgian paval base. of the Crown Colonies we can hardly understand. At all events mortification has been manifested fell on top of the deceased who and the latter in italics. It was the announcement comes rather in the nature of an anti-climax in in Japan at the exemption provi. was standing in the dry-dook published long before the practise view of Mr. Churchill's cable to the Governor, about a week ago, in so respecting the United States, below. It dropped on his head of numbering houses came into vogue, so many of the addresses which he declared "I wish to assure you of my interest in the and organs like the Asahi have and smashed it. fortunes of the community over which you preside." This frankly intimated that an arrange- In discharging the defendant, read quaintly enough: "Daniel be spoken withai binds Japan to on the resumption of the case Axtell, to Constitutional Reform question is the first Hongkong issue upon ment which

Mr. Lindsell at the sign of the Purse in which Mr. Churchill has made a pronouncement, and if his utter-definite engagements, such as this morning,

an army to India, observed that the defendant, as Loathbury; Thomas Smith, back- ance is to be taken as the measure of his "interest" in the sending

while according shown in the evidence, had taken side the Exchange at a Packer's; community of this Colony, then we could very well do without ins if need be,

Robert Blackman at a Barber's, exemptions in regard to all the necessary precautions. solicitude.

Ironmonger Lane; Farly Step-Championship. What we fear about this refusal is that it is based on the Britain's obligations, is one-sided.

henson, at Billingsgate every unfortunate mixing of two separate issues. The "slavery" and In the Diet the other day,

morning." child labour question has nothing whatever to do with the Con- however, Viscount Uchida, the stitutional Reform question, though those with no knowledge of Foreign Minister, avowed that CHINESE IN SIAM ASKING

An examination of the names local conditions would be led to infer from Colonel Ward's the Japanese Government still

shows that the great family of) phraseology that Hongkong Britishers want tho Legislative Council favoured renewal. At Home the

Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robin- reformed for the express purpose of dealing with this other matter. Foreign Office has appointed a

son had not spread eo far over Nothing is further from the truth. Constitutional Reform was committee to report upon the Peking Proposes to Appoint London as it has now, for there urged long before Colonel Ward and his verbose friends began ex-whole question of the Allianco.

are only eighteen Smiths, ten ploiting this slavery" problem; and it may as well be stated that With the former Minister to

Browns, nine Joneses, and four) even if the most thorough-going measure of reform were granted it Peking, Sir John Jordan, at the

As many complaints have been Robinsons. The Cooks, Halle, is very much open to doubt whether the Unofficials would back up head of the committee, Chinese received by the Central Govern Hills, and Kings are almost as the Labour Colonel in his latest campaign. The voe is as yot un susceptibilities will

Of the fifty-eight receive sympathetic considerament from the Chinese residents numerous. academic issue; the other a matter of practical politics.

Seeing that that one in Siam, asking for redress "gold-smiths that keep running

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no doubt!

FOR REDRESS.

a Minister to Bangkok.

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It would be illuminating to know whether Colonel Ward. has tion. main purposes of the because the Bangkok Government cashes" thirty-oight carried on confused the questions because of a lack of knowledge on the points of the is to provide for is imposing very harsh conditions business in Lombard Street, which

The

DISASTROUS BELGIAN FIRE.

Antwerp, February 23. Damage to the extent of six million francs was done by a fire in

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.) SHANGHAI'S BILLIARD CHAMPION.

Shanghai, February 24. Mr. Porter boat Mr. Bush in the final of the Amateur Billiards

THE U. S. S. ALBANY,

Shanghai February 24, The U.S. S. Albany has arrived here from Via, divostok.

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Peking, February 23. The Macao delimitation question will he again taken up between Yon Wai-ching, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Portuguese. Minister, at the beginning of March.

The Government has instructed all the provincial authorities to hasten the election of M.P. 'e, saying that important matters must be involved, or whether he has deliberately bracketed their together Treaty

Chinese immigrants, the is atill almost exclusively decided by the new Parliament. maintenance At any rate, he was only in Hong- the in order to strengthen his caso.

of China's on

It is reported that a loan of $5,000,000, is in the course of kong for a "dog's watch," and, as he came here in a purely military territorial integrity, that country Ministry of Foreign Affairs, states ocupied by bankers, though

first principles, the a Peking report, has telegraphed name of the firms established negotiation between Teo Yu-lin and Japan in Tientsin for forest capacity in the midst of a great war, and would presumably be fully has, on occupied with Army affairs, it would bo unfortunats were Parlia plainest right to be consulted. to the Chinese Minister in Tokyo, there in 1677 has survived to the development. The conditions are at present unknown.

The Ministry of War, after a meeting, has decided that troops ment or the Government to accept him as a qualified spokesman on The pity is that Chinese weakness Mr. Hu Wei-te, instructing him present day. But Child's Bank Hongkong matters. But what is of even greater importance is supplies, in large measure, the acqualot the Siamese Minister described in the directory as march or Urge from four sides. Four commanders have been whether Mr. Churchill has got the issues mixed. We cannot very raison d'etre of the Treaty. That there with its proposal to appoint" Robert Blanchard and Child, at appointed accordingly.

the Marygold, in Fleet Street"

Shanghal, February 23. well see how he could have done, since we presume that he must Britain would, in a renewal of the a Chinese Minister to Siam,

A telegraphio reply has been still carries on at No. 1, Fleet Information from Yunnan states that the conditions demanded Government setting out the facts of the case as well as the aspir-America may be taken for granted; that the Bigmese Minister bas with the motto "Ainsi mon ame," Government for rounion are as follows:-1st, the title of Com ations of the Constitutional Reform Association. One thing is certain that His Excellency the Governor can be under no mia-and the views of the Colonies are already submitted the proposal gilt upon a green ground, is still mander in Chief will be abolished and Koo appolated as Tuchuet of -

shop," Yunnan by mandate; 2nd all the arrears due to the military by Tung apprehension as to the nature of the demande for reform of the sure to receive careful consider- to the Bangkok Government and to be seen in the bank

definite roply is and a marigold still blooms on Chi-yao will be paid off; 3rd, the reorganisation system in Yunnang Legislature, as will no doubt be borne out when his despatches on ation at the forthcoming Imperial that as soon as

given he will submit it. Conference,

the bank cheques.

will be the same so in Kwangsi. the subject are made public,

have in his posacasion despatches emanating from the Hongkong Treaty, be categorically exempted

from aiding Japan against received from Mr. Hu stating Street, the original marigold, by Koo Pun-chun, the new tuchun of Yunnan, from the Faking

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