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CHAOS IN CHINA.

SŁ GEORGE'S SOCIETY.

U.S. Minister's Indictment.

The Annual Report.

Peking, Feb. 22.

Was

On the 6th January, a ball was

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23; 1923,

COLLISION RUMOUR. DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Steamer Reported Sunk.

We bare made extensive

The raport of the Committea There has been rumour in Dr. Scharman, the American of the Society of St. George. town to-day of a serious collision Minister, speaking al the Hongkong, for the year ending somewhere between Swatow and American Assosiation dinner. 31st December, 1922, states | Amoy, as the result of which recalled that last yes! the The cash balance in hand stands a steamer is said to have Washington Conference had just at $975.16 and in addition the boen sunt and many lives lost. finished, and that in the interval sum of $4700 is on fixed deposit. Up to the time of going to prass, most of its provisions have During the year several calls however, we have been unable to been put into effect. but have been made on the Society obtain any confirmation of the there has been no progress in for assistance and grants to the story. connection with the withdrawal of sum of $2,638.19 have been The news emanated from a extra-territoriality. The commis given.

Japanese steamer which has just sion of jurists which should have To mark the occasion of Stanilved from Swatow, and the been appointed for this purpose George's Day the sum of $50) story is to the effect that a within three months after the was granted from the Society's three-funnelled steamer ran into Conference, has not yet best ap- Funds to the Director of Education a smaller bost during fog and pointed, due to the request for far prize essaya and for the Buck her. Officers of the Japanese delay by China. Ho hoped that purchase of books for the British bost say they had the news from this commission would te con schools.

part officials at Swatow. stituted without delay, that this question, which of held in the City Hall, at which enquiries this afternoon to secure suck vital importance to more than 1,100 persans were confirmation of the story, but foreign nationals, would be present.

have been unable to do so. settled. The Powers represented During the year 23 new mem- The manager of one shipping at Washington desired that@ains bers joined the Society, the mem-company informed us that in should develop an efective and bership of which stable Government, but during the over 350. past year Chlos has made no Your Committee deeply regretless station at Cape D'Aguilar, progress..in this regard. There to record the death of the follow. but no news of any such disaster has been no disbandment cfling members since the last had been received there. troops, of which there are probab-report: Mr. K. Brayshay. Mr. ly 1,250,000, of whom only about 10. W. Bristow, Mr. W. T. Elson, ) per cent are under the cocttol of Mr. M. A. Hancox. Hon. Mr. E. H. the PekingGovernment. There are; Sharp, Mr. W. C. D. Turner, Mr. also some hundreds of thousads E. Walker and Mr. T. O. Wilken, of brigande. between whom and and extend sincere sympathy"to! the soldiery it is hard to make a their relations. distinction. Banditry, which has increased, has reached alarming proportions. There has been oo progress towards unification, sed the country is more than ever divided. There has been to pro-i gress in financial rehabilitation. and poblic debts and foreign and domestic debts are alike unpaid. As regards stability. there

wete no less that seven Premier last year. The country's hope lay in the bonest and in-1 dustrious population, who have A Hongkong Examination.ed or he would have got away.

always accepted the leadership of the educated classes, in which he

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

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into Tyrone, and he was st length captured by the Ulster Constabulary at Strabane. There! was a football match on, and the polis" wanted to be there in- stead of escorting their prisoner to the frontier. They couldn't leave him in the barracks ucattend-

So they made him referee. An examination for the meant that as be bad to stay in included traders and banker, asuisances" was held locally in spectator. Bight was impossible. certificate "Inspector of the field. watched by every well as the graduates. To those December last, the members of Everybody was satisfied we must look "for, the establish the Board of Examiners being play was Snished,

when the more effective and Dr. J. T. C. Johnson (PCMO) refette was taken into custody stable Government, while faleigh Chairman: Dr. W. W. Pearce again, marched to the Donegal nations could help by their good.O.H), Mr. J. F. Mackenzie border, and handed over to the wilt, sympathy and renderingbuch (Col. Vet Surgeon). service China might k-Stuart Taylor, Mr. E Ralphs.

Sir Eric Cosgrave militis." Courtesy "Daily Bulletin "

Secretary.

Apother terror to peaceful life There were seven candidates, is threatened by M. Belin, inven- of whom the following were auc- tor of the system of transmitting cessful-Henry Lace Lockhart, photographs by wire and wireless. Francis Asle, Martin Thomson This is television, which, as the Horten Biake. Eldred Jane scd came conveys mean the ability Ernest Savage.

to see things or people at a dis- tance by the aid of the telephone. At the moment when the perce of the home is imperilled by loud- voiced speakers" who wish to broad-cast advertising announce-

BILLIARDS.

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The Colony's Championship.

In connection with the billiards! championship of the Colony, the Erst of the semi-finals took place laat night at the V.R.C, when Mr. A. J. Osmund defeated Mr. The following team will represments along your private wireless R. Luz 30 to 3:0. The winent the Club in their League sec, looms the even more terrible ner made a break of 87, the Bame sxainst the H.M.S. Ambrose spectre of being under observation

on the Club ground to-morrow:- at

moment that highest yet recorded in the tour-cPhail: Israel, Bishop Mairipitive person wishes to pry nament, while: ia opponent's bent effort was a 45.

Donovan, Moore: May, Mc favish, jinto your doings. The danger is not immediate, but M. Belin is a Begg, McBride, England. Leurs

very serious B0:1 determined inventor. If past experiments THE CHINESE WAY. The final will be pared on

justifs, me he says, the expectation Thirteen Chinese rrested in that means will be found to ren- Saturday, beginning at 6 pnthe International Settlement at der distant objects visible by whilst the challenge round will Shanghai, convicted of armed telephone, there is every reason take place on Monday. s the robbery and handed over to the to take his forecast seriously. same hour, the winner of thefins! Chinese authorities, were execut-During his lecture to the Society to meet Prancvich, the presented at the Arsenal on February of Electricians he did. in fact. holder. Both these matches will 13th. One man was concerned in stage a number of impressive be 1,000 up.)

a case which occurred as far back experiments. As 1920.

This evening, Messrs. and Tuang meet in the cher.

semi-final at 3 p.m.

A PUZZLE A DAY.

A man entered a store andpur.

chased a pair of shoes for five

FROM THE HEART OF CHINA

dollars. He gave the storekeeper Comes This Message of Praise

a twenty dollar bill Having no

change, the 'storekeeper sent the

note to another store, and gave

and Thanks To Baby's Own Tablets.

I have no wish to reopen the subject of givings tramcar seat to a lady but Laball give what may be called the other side ot the shield, writes a correspondent to the Manchester Guardian, I am one of those men who look much older than their years. perhaps. amongst other causes, on account of a torpid liver and a strong- growing "besver." Twice I have

the purchaser fifteen dollars from Even in the heart of China the twenty dollars change. Later Baby's Own Tablets, the Cana- enjoyed (the very word!) the ex- the proprietor of the other more dian children's remedy, are perience of having a lady rise to came in, bringing back the known and prized in many homes. Į give me her seat when I have twenty-dollar bill, which was a Magistrate Tsao Chu Lieb, of been compelled to yield to the counterfeit. He demanded twenty | Kwauling, Shansi Province, request because her powers dollars,, which the storekeeper writes concerning them:→ of insistence matcbed gave him. What was the sore- "My one-year old child become her powers of speech. On keeper's loss on the transaction? sick. His abdomen felt very hard another occasion I broke the rules

Yesterday's answer:

and ho cried day and night. I tried and regulations of our local tram- to cure him in many ways, but way service by rising without success until learnlog of accommodate a lady with a baby Baby's Own Tablets I got the right in her arms, and was promptly remedy. The child recovered after ordered off the car by the

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I had given him ten Tablete. conductor, because no one in our Since then I have never failed to city may stand in the interior of give him Baby's Own Tablets what is called a "first-class" car. whenever he gets ill; and never I was meekly obeying the official have failed to effect B cure in a spirit of self-sacrifice, when quickly. Baby's Own Tablets are the lady rose in her wrath, and indeed & good medicine- Boat with Olymplan gesture, the baby for Children in the Sea of Misery!" notwithstanding, exclaimed, For infantile indigestion, con- "Conductor, don't you dare in- stipation, colic, diarrhoes, croup, terfere with this gentleman!" and colds, simple fever, teething he didn't. I may add that I The icebost can travel faster troubles and worms Baby's Own continue to rise for a lady, and than the wind which is blowing Tablets are an unequalled remedy. hope to do so "till," as the from A to B by following a course They are guaranteed absolutely by man says, "travelling days are across the lake from A to C. If the safe and harmless oven for the done." sail is kept perpendicular to the youngest infant. Dealer sell wind, the boat will be carried direct them, or post free, 60 cents per

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