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Faloreover, pus popul- steadily on the inbreuss, fact" which does, 'not'tand toward

lation of the situation.

DAY BY DAY:

17.18 BETTER TO FIGHT FOR] THE GOOD THAN TO RAIL AT THE ILL-Tennyson.

CORRESPONDENCE

(To the Editor, “Hongkong

Telegraph."},"

The Bent Question.

QUESTIONS,

JAPAN'S VIEW OF BINGAPORE

London, F -23. In à venture such an is, nów The annual dinner ‘of the ÉK

In the House of Commons, re- being launched, the Government David's Society is to be held at Sir, I strongly endorse the Baldwin said he believed that plying to Mr. Gail Wilson, Mr. should render all possible assisthe Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden views so ably expressed by your certain sections of opinion in tanoo by granting ready facilitia,Jon the evening of Saturday, correspondents as to the absolute Japan falt, some surplotón that

February 28th.

Docosaity for continuing the the works at Singapore Indicated to the promotors, and we have

Renta Control Ordinance in the lack of confidence on our part in no doubt that a sympatheti

The petition on the rents ques-intorests of the general public the peaceful intentions of our attitude will be displayed in this ion by the Hongkong Tenants What happened at Singapore le former allies, but Japanese official Protectiva Apsociation was pre-an apt illustration of what would and. other well-informed circles rogard, especially in view of the sented to H.E. the Governor on follow at once if restriction was fully realised that the improve benefits which would accrue to the 10th instant,

withdrawn here.

mont of the Singapore dockyard the whole community were local

Profitooring by principal ton- WRE Mr. G. N. Orme, the Directorants can be easily stopped by our naval policy.

a normal dóvelopment of "THE SAFE WITH production of necessitios in of Education, is to distribute making it a punishable offence,

orensod, If the necessary capital prizes and cortificates to

Its immense distance from the or by having those found guilty Japan provented it being con- |THE_REPUTATION." is ralood, and the project is successful boys of Wah Yan of it evicted from the promises. sidered a threat?"

oficiently managed, the eventual College on Friday, 6th March. Most of the present empty flats Moreover, the two countries

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service.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 24th Feb, 1925.

A FINE IDEAL.

outcome should be to make Hongkong far less dopondent than it now is on external sourced for the provision of the Colony's foodstuffs.

The Paracels.

rocont

years indicates what

would have been occupied if the word firmly united in common The many friends of Mr. Arent was as modorate as that of interests in the preservation of Morley, who is a patient at the controlled houses in the Government Civil Hospital, will mediate neighbourhood, scoing ton, and the precious bonds of a Impeace by the treaty of Washing- bo glad to hear that ho making that the floor space in now historic and valued friendship, good progress towards recovery. buildinga is less than in old ones. (Cheers)-Reuter,

Obviously the higher cost of

Yours oto,,

TAI YUEN.

BANTAMWEIGHT

TITLE.

RETAINED BY HOLDER, London, Feb, 23.

At the National Sporting Club, in a twonty rounds contest for the bantam-weight championship of Britain, and six hundred pounde sterling, Johnny Brown, the holder, beat Harry Corbett, of Hackney.

At the Marine Court this morn- now houses is due to wild ARMAMENT RESTRICTION. ing the mastor of the s.8: Anjou speculation without taking into

London, Feb. 23. was fined $1 for anchoring in the any consideration whatsoever the In the House of Commons, LL Tho, vory interesting Informa. Southern Fairway. A junkmaster value and rentals of adjacent Comdr. Kenworthy asked whet tion about the Paracel Islands Was fined 810 for a similar proportion, the purchasers being bor, in the discussions being held yostorday, recalls the reposted which we were able to publish offence.

incited solely by avarice. Land- between representatives of the lords of this tyfo should suffer British and other Governmenta efforts that have been inado by Paking says Dr. Sun Yat-sen is be allowed to foroo the burden on on naval armaments it, was pro- A Daily Bulletin tologram from for their own rashness and not with regard to a now conference tho Hongkong Government to get the Chinose authorities agreeable weaker, and he is taking loss to the poor innogont masses who posed to include the question of to the erection of a meteorolo-food. Her apont a comfortable have no mosne of owning a extending the scope of the sug- gical and wireless station there, night. His pulso is 110 and house and are therefore helpiens, gosted conference to inoltide so that amplo warning of temperature normal,

It is only fair and reasonable aortal and land armaments. approaching typhoons can bei

that permanent residents particu- Mr. Austen Chamberlain replied CHAMARETTE.-At 133 Ran-given to this port and the whole Mr. 8. Amoh, Japanese Consul larly the middle and working that no such discussions were at

p.m. on Feb. 16th., Eulalia Maria they are, the Paracle aro ideall hearty send-off last week on his in this Colony for say 10 years: Britain and America on the sub goon Road, Singapore, at 6.30 China Coast. Situated where General at Canton, was given classes who can prove residence prosent occurring and no com

munications had passed between Collaco, aged 43, dearly beloved for the purpose, as they can leaving the port. It is probable ought to receive protection from wife of A. King Chamarotto, obtain extremely accurate cal-that ho will be transferred, on being fleeced by unscrupulous Jest for the present, and it was not

culations of approaching storme promotion, to Harbio.

landlords.

desirable that he should make any a few hours before thoy roach)

further statement.-Reuter. on the coast. It has again and The police visited the caretaker's in property during the abnormal Porsons who blindly speculated again been pointed out that this quarters at the Roman Catholic boom, thereby contributing to would benefit China as much ae Cathedral on Sunday night and inflate prices and causing wide- anybody else, with the saving of arrested a man in possession of a spread distress, have only them- life effooted in timely warnings.loaded revolver and some spare noivos to blame and do not deserve The torrible. Swatow disaster of rounds of ammunition.

the nympathy of the Government could bo

or the public, avoided by more The engagement is announced acourato information about the batween Captain B. S. Hoy, 2/4th path of a coming oyelonis galo. Bombay Granadiors (K.E.O.), and A stop forward in the move-Inoldontally, it might mean the Anno Donnis, older daughter of Hongkong, Fob, 24th, 1925, mont to devolop the Now Terri-and to any smuggling activities Mr. and Mrs. Rowland H. R. such as our information indicat- Wado, Chinoso Maritima torios agriculturally is to boled. The reference to the boilors Customs. noticed by the issuing of the of ships which have been wrocked

Sir, I would only venture one on the Paracels, reminds us of prospootus of the New Torri-

It is reported by Mosare is a sound axiom in political thought on the rents question. It the experience that befol a sur-Cassumbhoy and Company, com economy that the broadest and tories Building and Agricultural voying party some years ago. mission agents, that their godown Development Company, Ltd., of They were sent to the islands to at No. 153 Prays East was broken strongest shoulders should bear

the heaviest burdons.

Brown attacked persistently, which we gave some details in report on the possibilities of the into on the night of the 22nd-23rd

and although he frequently missed phosphate doposito there, and and a quantity of sharks' fins,

Lot that ides be applied in the the mark he soon secured a lead. our issuo of yostorday. If there found, so they reported, that some valued at $1,124, stolen.

caco of this ront question. If on pointe. is one aspect of this Company's Japanoso had already worked the

there is a burden to be borne, it Corbott was chiefly on the greater part of the supplies.] schome which appeals to us more While they were camped on one we can testify to "Scaramouche," and monied interests, and not by some straight lofts..

Having soon the film ourselves, should be carried by the large defensive, but cocasionally landed than another it is that which of the islande, a storm came on, which is now showing at the the masses, many of whom sto aims at the securing of land for and blow with terrific force for Queen's Theatre, as boing one of living on the verge of poverty. the purpose of raising fruit and more than an hour. The mon in finest pictures over shown in the the party bad litorally to dig Colony. It is drawing record vegetables and for the breeding themselves in to avoid the flying houses to the Queen's, and is woll Hongkong, Fob, 24th, 1925, of cattle, as well as the laying sand and small stones. When worth seeing. down of a modern poultry farm The principal promoter of the encampment to find that the will be the subject of this week's "Theosophy and Christianity" Company, Mr. F. P. de V. Soares, sharp particles of Kand had Public Lecture of the Hongkong has long entertained the idea of their bark, and had polished up Society,

stripped many of the bushes of Lodgo of the Theosophical launching some such project as the old boilers until thoy shone Contral, on Wednesday February 16, Queen's Road this, and wo wish him and his in the sun. Inhospitable, treach-25th, at 5.45 p.m. The public are follow co-operators well in the cols form a likely spot for the

The monsoon is still blowing arous, romantic withal, the Para-invitod.-Advt.

[strong outside, and most of the .70

U.S.A. TO BRITAIN. venture which they have in con-activities of smugglers

ships arriving are reporting bad and The case in which Li Lam was weather.

Washington, Feb. 23. pirates, and at present their charged with the theft of seven $1.00 templation,

Batting would give a

troopship Derbyshire, Rear-Admiral Moffott, of the phas Hongkong has all too long ample background for a China On factory at Causeway Bay with the Punjab Regiment, had his return from Bermuda declared Conrad sewing machines from the Wing which arrived here on Sunday Bureau of Naval Aeronautics, upon $1.75 doponded on outside sources for Bea yarn of more than ordinary was concluded at the Criminal dirty weather, and so had the that the Navy Department hoped

its supplies of moat, fruit and vegetables. In times of unrest More Flirting.

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Corbett'a seconds in the sixteenth round.

The towel was thrown in by

In the fifteenth round, Brown floored his opponent with a loft hook to the jaw, for a count of nine. Directly attorwards he sent him down again with a right to the jaw for eight. Corbett was very groggy, but lasted out the round.

In the sixteenth, Corbett was again sont down twice before the towel was thrown in.-Reuter.

AIRSHIP MAILS.

SMUGGLED RUM,

Sosalona yesterday afternoon. Hamburg-American liner Muns- to send the Los Angeles on e Prisoner was found guilty and torland, which arrived this morn-round trip with mails to England in the adjacent Chinese territory, There is something almost labour.

sontonood to three years' harding a whole day late on account in the course of the coming, sum,

at the strong galo and heavy soas mor. this Colony has again and again amusing in the reiterated pro-

which she had experienced.

This would be after she had nouncements by Rusalan Sovlot Lest .65 bad its supplies of these essential officials of their intention to repay shows three cases of diphtheria tain E. Klauson, which arrived Panama with mails.

The coaster Fjoldstrand, Cap made trips to Portó Rica and commoditios placed in jeopardy, debts contracted by their country (two fatal), two fatal casos each yesterday from Keelung with Admiral Moffett said the voyage $1.00 whilst in periods when importa- and to negotiate agreements with of small-pox and typhoid and one coals, had very bad weather to Bermuda was undertaken to

constitutional Powers. The Intent fatal tion has become difficult, prices statement to receive prominence spinal fever. All were Chinoso. Formosa channel.

обоцитовое of corobro-the last day of her voyage across demonstrate the commercial poss $1.40 have risen to very bigh levels, is that of M. Krassia, the Soviet A further case of diphtheria and

pibilities of airshipe. The flight The Blue Funnel linor Asty-from Lakehurst to Bermuds took Bearing in mind the large tracts Ambassador at Paris, who has one of cerebro-spinal fover were anax, Captain J. Power, arrivod twelve hours, and it had easily of land in the Now Territories about to return to his post to

beon on a trip homo, and is also notified yesterday, both yesterday from Singapore, and beaten a big stormship.-Router's which aro suitable for the grow arrange an understanding with

also had strong monsoon, dirty American Service. and rainy weather, Franco. Inoldentally, the picture Martha Mattox, vonsidered one Two of Admiral Stark's former Ing that nothing has boon done terday was takon recently in the who plays in King Vidor's soroon Batarola, Captain E. Wilkes, are to introduce modern means of French capital, and deplots him adaptation of the popular stage alongside West Point wharves culture And to placo tho in the garb of autocracy,

INDIAN GUARD FINED, success which is showing' on to-day. Tho.Batarein is shortly $1.30 agricultural industry on a better interesting study for his comrades is first cousin to Low Wallace, Swatow and back here.

with silk hat complote, and an Wednesday at the World Theatre, to make her maiden trip to Katar Singh, an Indian ship's'. basis. The need has become all of the Russian proletariat. Two whoso " Ben-Hur" is about to be The coaster Gitters, Captain the amount of the duty owed on guard, was fined $20 or ten times 2.35 the greater in recent times, bo-points of his statement deserve put on the screen by Goldwyn Tvedt, is still undergoing repairs two bottles of rum, which wers 1.20 cause considerable areas on the Czarist commitments will be Miss Mattox has been on the at the Kowloon Docks,

found in his possession by a Kowloon side which were former acknowledged (with conditions), stage for many years, having left. The freighter Vestland, Captain Chinese Revenus Officer yasters 1.50 given over to the ralaing of counterclaims. The latter is anal troupe when she was very monthé was laid up at the fate It was stated at the Central

and the reference to Russian college to join a travelling theatri- J. Omimundsen, which for three day fruit, rice and vegetables have old standby of Boviot negotiators, young

outside Stonecutters Island, is Magistracy this morning that the now loading for Bangkok, where defendant's courage failed him 1.10 now become absorbad as the and amounts to a refusal to pay what they owo, for to bring a

it is stated shafshe has obtained when he found himself face to result of building operations, with claim for damage done by in- and will not acknowledge what a time charter at rather favour face with the revenue man, and 1.90 the result that local production tervention in Russia is to over the owes until the owes some able rates.

has declined rather than in- look the possibilities of over-more. That is a form of reason- whelming counter-claims by the ing amounting almost to a faroo, Foreused. This makes Hongkong truly democratic nations for and unless the Soviet administra

tooreasingly dependent for its damages suffered through Soviet tion is prepared to come down to food supplies on outside sources intrigue in their territories. As a commonsense baala of argument, for the other promise, it involves it dannot reasonably expont more -balonough development the stipulation that Russia be than proiiminary agreements i aven in ordinary times, but oven granted a big lean. Thus the will with, the main issure held in- worse when conditions become pay an old debt out of a new one, definitely in abeyance.

Lane, Crawford Ltd.

study-the promise that tho

BACK TO CHILE.

he turned" tall "to sack "raftgs:in the new Fire. Station bullding: opposite sha Central Market Pre ylousto this he took w dusparata obance, indisposing of thewi piece of evidence-by daaling the Boulogne, Feb. 23,

bottles to the grounds. The broken Senor Allesandri bas sailed, for pisses were, howover, collected Obile, to rosume the President- and shown to Mr. J. R. Wood this ship, Router,

morning.