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DAY BY DAY.

WASHINGTON AGREE.

MENT.

PREFER Japan's Policy Explained.

Well, so much for the pleasant side of things, and now for the other considerations—the eX- pebas and tedium of • long I SHOULD THINK ANY INTELLI-

GENT MAN WOULD journey aboardahip. It is possibly HANGING TO SIX MONTHS' IM- exciting to think of the recent PRISONMENT, TO SAY NOTHING OF reduction in steamer fares, 90 TWENTY YEARS-Mr. Bernard long as one does not dwell on the Shux low charges before the war. It

Mr. A. H. Barlow and Mr. J. is perhaps not unpleasant to Owen Hughes left to Home by visualise the voyage Home (sad) he s.s. Sardinia.

try to forget the voyage backh if one is a good sailor. In the joy of contemplating five six months in the Old Country one

Mrs. E. Vanderbilt and Misa O. C. Vanderbilt arrived here by the 3.a. President McKinley.

ARCHITECT FINED.

represented by Mr. A. E. Wright.

For Divergency from Plans,

Arising out of a recent case Tokyo, Jan. 23rd.-The Dist against a contractor, Mr. A. R. F. was interpellated by Viscount Raven, architect, was summoned Kato, Leader of the Opposition, before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the and the Premier replied that the Police Court this morning, for Government was doing ita utmost divergence from the plans be bad to evacuate Saghalien at the ear-submitted to and had beas sp liest possible moment. Though proved by the Public Works ᄆᄋ formal Degotiations had Department.

The Crown Solicitor, Mr. H. K. occurred, " an Anglo-American- Japanese understanding exista Holmes, prosecuted for the Publio regarding the steps to be taken

Works Department, which was in the evant of others pot ratify ing the Wasbington Agreement. The defendant was represented might even pass over the three months spent on actual travelling by the

Awrongst the passengers arriv. He regretted the Franco-Italian by Mr. W. B. Hiad.

Mr. Hind informed his Worship of the Navy 9.J. President non-ratification ling. In considering this aspect McKinley was Mr. N. L. Watson. Treaty so far, adding that in the that, after consultation with the of the case, the question of a

event of their Easì non-ratifica Crown Solicitor, he was quita tion "it would not be impossible Prepared to put in a plea of guilty quicker vosage crops up and} No. 1 Pack Battery of the for Britain, America and Japan to the tachnical offence on Lehalf. Ithose who remember the days of} H.K.S.RG.A. is to go into campi to reach a certain agrèement, neithe Crown was not pressing for a of his client. He understood that at Customs Pass on February 1st. would Japan fail in respect of trans-Siberian travel, and its

the spirit of the Washington Deavy penalty-that they merely jinterest, and the mouth's journey“ Yesterday's health return Conference in naval adjustment, wanted a conviction for the pur. saved, will like to know if there shows three cases of diphtheris though the planned scrapping Pose of bringing to the attention of all architects, owners ard are any chances of an early (one British and two Chinese) and suspension of construction contractors engaged in the revival of travelling by that route. and one Japanese case of enteric might be postponed." Replying

lever.

17. Connaught Road, Central.

Tel Central No. 1156,

A5

BIRTHS.

to another questioner, the Pr present big building operations mier said the Government were. 10 the Colony that the Major A. S. Littlejohns, D.S.O..

framing the Budget and would provisions of the Public Health R.A.M.C., has assumed the duties give all altection possible to re and Building Ordinance had to of D.A.D.P. and H, China Com-trenchment, particularly in asvaltion of buildings must be carried be complied with, that construc- mand, vice Major D. L. Harding,

matters, in compliance with the spirit of tbo DS.O, R.A.M.C.

lout according to the plans sub- Washington Agreement-Beuter,

mitted to and passed by the Public Works Department, and that if there were any divergence in this respect in the futura the cases would Be brought before the Court and treated more drastically than in the past. In

FUKIEN AFFAIRS.

It has been averred that the rail- way lines have been torn up, and the sleepers used by the peasants the Soviet firewood, but authorities not very long ago announced that they had repair- ed the line and it was again open

We are indebted to the Hon to trafic. We learn from a re-Colonial Secretary for a copy of HUTCHINSON-On January cont issue of a Japan contem-the 1923 Hongkong Civil Service 15, 1923, at the Victoris Nursingporary that }

German has List, which contains much in- Home. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.

succeeded in travelling from Government and other matters.

teresting information regarding The Latest Developments-this case, Mr. Raven, through C. V. Hutchison, a son.

Manchuria to his home in Eerlin, DONNELLY.-On the 23rd.

Foocho, Jan. 23rd.-La Fu.Ja inatvertency, allowed tha January, 1923, at 19 Marchester in less than eighteen days He

The as. President McKinley in left the city on Monday and Street London, W. the wife of took the precaution of obtaining which came into port early this Hsu Sung-chi is expected to folgence before the plans had been [put through, aven before the D. E. Donnelly, a son.

a pass from Mo-caw, applying morning brought no fewer than tow. It is expected that the Civil alterations to the building in 230 sacks of mail for Hongkong. Governor will resign and that question had been brought before for it two months beforehand. She also had 2460 tons of general Wang Yung.choan will withdraw, the Building Authority. Obers who bays tried get cargo for Hongkong and 610 tons Kiaugai to occupy Fokies. The Raven had had notice that these thus allowing so Army from icd said he understood that Mr. two Admirals will assume resalterations had taken place but ponsibility for the Civil Governor-

MARRIAGE. DIVANS-SAUNDERS.- Oo January 13, 1923, at Holy Trinity through, and have neglected this of through cargo. Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Very preparation. have found hem-

of Michael Divans, Esq., Scot- land, to Florence Hilda, daughter

Esq.. St. Agnes, Brigate.

lia Aomo remote Russian or when

contractor to make a diver-

Mr.

Rev Dean Symons, William. sonsalves held up for months aecluded its season here last night, order, general discontent has been Botify the contractor not to con- The Frawley Company conship. Although there is no dis through inadvertency he did not

**Enter Madame"

was aroused through the wholesale of this, the present preceedings tique, and that, in consequence of the late "Edward Saunders, Siberian village, often having staged at the Theatre Royal impressment of labour for military were brought before bis Worship.

eventually to retrace their The play was greatly enjoyed, transport.-Feuler.

But in one respect he (Mr. Hind) thought Mr. Holmes would agree with him, and that was that these alterations were being done quite openly without any intention of concealment. For that reason be asked his Worship that, in record- ing & conviction, a small penalty or slight tine be imposed.

DEATH.

Sourney. The prospect of jetting quickly and without molestation A:CHERSON-At the Inter- aational Hospital. Kobe.

through Siberis, Russia, and even at 11.5 am. on Friday, January Germany nowadaya" is not 12th, 1925, William Lawrence bright one; so for some ime to Ascherson, Doctor of Medicinei come we shall have to leap to in the University of Cambridge.

Born in Richmond. Surrey, Eng-the old trail, the long tail, but land, July 4th, 1971.

The Telegraph,

HONGKONG, 24th Jan., 1923.

HOMEWARD BOUND.

the trail that leads to Hope.

Adele Blood and Mr. T. Daniel and the clever acting of Miss Frawley were especially appre- felsted. Both were in fine form.] and Miss Blood's work was of an especially high order.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the "Haagseng

Telegraph.")!

PIRATE.

Finger Prints in Blood. A Chinese believed to be a mem-

Tomorrow morning. Thursday. January 25th, at 10.30 am. at

A Disclaimer,

Mr. Holmes, in reply to the the Halens May Institute, Mrs.) Zabel will give the members of the

Magistrate, said he was quite Sir,-Under the above heading, prepared to lat the Reading Circle and their friends letter from the Chinese Charo go at that.

C259 a descriptive account of the Is-ber of Commerce appears in to- Government Perversty. lands of the Torres Straits. Mr. days issue of your paper to the forward in extenuation of his Another point Mr. Hind brought"

When a Governmes makes.

H. W. Kent's lecture "Da Col-effect that the statement that client's offence was that, in any either lawa or regulsions, or testing Chinese Pottery and Por the Society for the protection of case, the architects' certificate of issues orders to other people, itcelain and other Curios, bas Mutton is hat a creatue of the works or alterations, completed should be prepared to ce form to be postponed until Monday, Chamber is remarkagle and that according to the approved plans, the spirit of its or decrees. February 5th, at 5.30 p.adt. Ee Protection Society has 30 had to be submitted and endorsed That, surely, ie cult rasonable.

connection with this Chamber, al- by the Department as the final Yet & walk down the Papa East, Much effective night photo-though certain of our members step. This is the time of year when near to where the ralamation graphs has been introduced into may also be its members."

His Worship imposed a ne o! scheme'is now being crried out "Flower of the North," the fine In reply to this disclaimer.I am 510. many sojourners in the East are shows that our Governtent is an film based on the well-known directed by my Executive Com arranging for a voyage to the Old offender against its om orders.novel by James Oliver Curwood,mittee to say that the assertion, Country; when they perhaps are The whole of the timer sards which is being shown as the to which exception is taken, is SUPPOSED “SUI AN”

which used to be on the sea side Coronet this week. Many of based upon the following facts, already beginning to pack up of the road. Mesra... King's these scenes were taken in the which should enable the public to their belonginga, and are over-slipway, and also the Wanchai mountains of Northern Oregon determice the degree of kinship! hauling trunks and supplement-fruit and vegetable maket, have where stately shadows load their between the Chamber and the of romance and Society and whether the state- ing wardrobes. It is the begin- been removed to other stes so as atmosphere

to make easily possible.he sink-mystery. Concurrently with ment that the "Protection' Sc-. ning of the season which is inz of a big drainage pie and the Flower of the North" the ciets has no connection with this recognised from Bombay to widening of the roadway. The Coronet management are screen Chamber" should stand or fall. her of a pirate gang operating Tokyo as the ideal one for pre-only obstructions whio remaining Charlie Chaplin's latest It will be recalled that the for- near Hongkong, and to have been on the line of alignmet of the comedy, The Idle Class." in mation of the "Protection" Socis-one of the men who took part in paring to depart on the home-old buildings is the Garrnment's which the inimitable comedian ty was proposed by a Committee the Sui An piracy, was arrested at $15.00 & $18.00 !ward trek: whether for good, or workshop and the run-ut walls furnishes oceans of fun. member of the Chamber at the lodging house in Rus du Coa.

for a holiday prior to another of the now and tempoary fire

famous meeting in the Tai P.14th. Four detectives visited tha aulat, Shanghai, early on January Theatre [30th. July, 1921) presided spell of some years in the alien taion. As one wals down

the road and exeriences of play to the satisfaction of over by the Chamber's Chairman, shank and Det.Szt. Douglas, of house-Dat-Inspector Cruick- climes of Asia. February and the inconvenience caused twenty two men, especially when who, according to an unchalleng March are the months usually by these obstructios

the and partisanship amongst spectatora ed paragraph in the Hongkong Municipal Police, Det- chosen for the commencement of realises that but for therat would and players runs bigh. But the Telegraph under the heading of Inspector Dupree, of the French bave been possible to viden the good referee will not greatly Mui-Tsai," had made public his Police, and Det.-faspector Willis, the sea voyage, and they are roadway all through, is not bother whether he gives satisfac. willingness to establish the "Proof Hongkong-and they found considered lucky who can so ar unnatural to ask the gestion:tion or not. His job is to watch tection" Society. After an inter- the suspect well supplied with range their departure as to arrive Why did the Governmet make out for infringements of the rules val of over a month, the spade arms, 12 revolvers, two automatic in the homeland in the middle of the other people shift ifit were and to penalise the offenders, work was taken in band by the pistols and a quantity of am

not prepared to remove.ts own whoever they are. spring for "Ah! to be in England, workshops at the sam time entirely disintorested. We beat this time, it will be seen that

Fle should be Chamber. From a circular issued munition being seized..

The st. Kwangtah, which now that April's there." It may And whilst speaking of overo-lieve most, if not all, Hong."intending members are request. sailed for Hongsong on January na kong referees see their duties ed to communicate with and to 15th. was searched by the police der, with a mild breeze rustling question about the dumps of discouraged at criticism levelled to the Chamber's Secretary might be on board, but none was impertinent to ask aery old in this light. They may be send their annual subscriptions before she left, it being suspected. that other members of the gang the hedgerows and decoying us wand, stone, etc., whih the against them, especially when meeting of members eventually into the fields and quiet lanes, Government keeps on the Prays done through the medium

of took place. The Chamber's Central. Between the larbour the newspapers. But the sincere Chairman and Vice-Chairman where the primroses are out and Office and the new bumati and conscientious referee will were elected Patrons of the ia the the boughs and twigs are sprout- Ferry pier there are mar gravel not allow that to deter him from Society; the Chairman, the Hon. French police, pending removal ing green; or perhaps it is drizzi infringements of the rul which discharging his duties as he in- Secretary and the Hon. Treasurer to Hongkong. ing hard, the earth is water-forbids pub ic roads to be sed for terprets them. Our advice to were also elected from the Cham. searched a small piece of paper logged, the landscape misty, and purpose other than leitionate correspondents who criticise re-ber's Committee. A large nur was found sewed inside the front When one recile the ferees is to learn to abide by their ber of the Chamber's Commitee of his coat, and folded within that our tropic-thinned blood feels fact that there are fines flicted decisions, however unpalatable serves

a slip of yellow' paper, with finger chilled. But nevertheless we do on Chinese in our Polic Court they may be. We are afraid that of the "Protection Society prints in blood. This is believed not grumble, for it is merely the very week for causing betrus- most of the criticisme of this and members of the Society are by the French Police to indicate tions on footpaths autsia their seture emanate from biassed largely recruited from the memblood brotherhood in the pirate old, changeable, climate that has shops, it appeare all th more people-generally supporters of bers of the Chamber and their gang, & pledge not to betray bie been Britain's always. With the anomaloys that the Govenments team which

bas suffered families. Lastly, out of seven)

accomplices.-N,C,D,N, poet we perhaps exclaim: "April. fender with regard to th public beat sportamen are those who are by the "Protection" Society to should so consistat 4 through a referee's ruling. The members of the Committee elected April, laugh tby girlish laughter; thoroughfares.

content to leave the game in the devise, with our representatives, facts cited,. the expression then, the moment after, weep thy

hands of the referee and to accept |& scheme for the abolition of the employed may not be happy and Football Referees. girlish tears!" And later, hav-|

bis rulings in good part. Re-mui-tsai system for submission toto msk that it be withdrawn- iag watched the hawthorn bloom,!

Football referees the wad over ferees, of course, are baman, but the Government, six are Com Yours, etc., come in for their dua mare of it is poor sportsmanship to view mittee members of the Chinese For the Anti-Mui-trui Society, and fade, we come back again to criticism-and often mos than a possible error of judgment as a Chamber of Commerce.

C. G. ANDERSON the land we have chosen, or been that. It is a thankless jo to at wilful and unjust panallsing of a In conclusion, I am directed to Hon. English Secretary. obliged to choose, for our exile. Įtempt to adjudicate on to field player,

state that, notwithstanding the! Hongkong, 23rd. January, 1923,

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