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THURSDAY, MAY 1925.

DAY BY DAY.

THE EVEREST EPIC.

agreement, ondorsed by the principal Powars, which will koop a ohook on the evil. Hong- kong, at any rato, hopes to see IT IS MUCH BETTER TO HAVE Bomo fruitful result from the YOUR GOLD IN THE HAND THAN

IN THE HEART.—Fuller. prosent Conferencó.

Tropical Australia.

LOCAL YACHTING,

SATURDAY'S CLOSING

CRUISE

A FILM OF GREAT VALUE.

There were two good" housan yesterday at the first day's screen- The Royal Hongkong Yacht ing of the Eple of Everest film in Club is holding its closing cruise the Star Theatre. Some of thosa on Saturday, when [s most in- Revenue officers boarding the present probably want with a mild teresting programme will be Empress of Canada yesterday ouriosity, oxpecting to see a ro- provided, including races for Bo much has boon said and arrested a Chinese following the cord of no more interest than the English and Chinese, rigged written latoly about the Northern discovery of a rifle, a pistol and average travel pictures. What cruisers, various, yachts (with Territory of Australia, that one 600 rounda of ammunition, they did see must have loft the events for ladios), rowing for tho bogan

whother

| least imaginative of them thrilled, Loveson · Cup, Club fours and to wonder the Commonwealth Government

and with an abiding understanding racos for collapsible lifeboats, moant to take up the question

of what the great attempt meant, from submarinos who failed when on the verge of and the groat glory of the mon

success.

of its development at all, owing torday in jumping off a lorry

A Chinase boy was killed yes to the apparant difficulty of

which was proceeding down reconciling the many conflicting! views on the subject, authorita- Keelung Street, Kowloon City. tive and otherwise. The main The body was taken to the Kow-

loon Mortuary. point for consideration has been whother the tropical part of Australia can be made capable

Most of the scenos are beautiful, but underlying all we sense the cold, impassioned cruelty of the elements, and the implacable opposition of mighty Nature to

of supporting a large resident We acknowledge receipt of the puny mankind. In the views of white population or not. The annual report of the China Inice and snow, heaped up glaciers, advocates of the "White Austra-ternational Faming Relief Com-doop crevasses, sharp hillocks, lia" policy have either declared mission, Peking, which gives a sboor cliffs, and driving mist, we that people of European extras full account of the valuable work sense the terrible menace which tion can lead healthy lives in the done last year. A number of can lurk behind it all; onhanood north, or else have contented illustrations and some maps by the glimpses of tiny figures: themselves with leaving it an accompany the letterpress.

opon question, Beemingly be lieving that the present state of undeveloped wealth is sufficient

game of lawn bowls during the There will be an exhibition.

afternoon, whilst at the con (wife of the Commodore of the clusing of racing. Mrs. T. Arthur Club) will present the season's prizea.

CHINA COAST.

OFFICERS.

RECENT CHANGES. Mr. E, J. Plowright has boon appointed second officer, Kiangeu. Mr Q. T. Harrison, from reserve, has gone second officer,

moving, so laboriously and slowly, to the final contest. When the sad failure comes, one feels the loss of time and money and life Taikoo Wan I. as if it were a personal grief.

for several gouerations to come. Sevon junk-mastors, charged at | MUSTARD & Co. Inc. On the other hand, there are the the Marine Court this morning

scores of oompotont observers with being under way without The film is easily one of the who consider that the tropical exhibiting the regulation lights, greatest achievements, of our territory can never be success-were each fined $16. One other, times, and its instructive value fully colonised by the white races, charged with anchoring in the can hardly be estimated. One no more than can any other tropic Southern Fairway, was fined $10, can write of it truly that on no place on the globe. They have while a fine of $20 was imposed account should one miss seeing opposed the exclusive system on the master of a steam launch it. advocated by the other party, who was found guilty of failing and some have gone so far as to to observe the rule of the road, urge the use of imported Asiatic labour for the development of the

The Telegraph,

HONGKONG, 7th May, 1925.

THE ARMS TRAFFIC.

vast tracts which but a few years

by the white

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The whole scheme is made clear in admirably explanatory sub-titles and descriptivo mattor. So one can follow the explorers,

Mr H Jackson, third engineer, Hsin Peking, has gone second engineer, Minghai.

Mr W. J. G. Jones, from reserve, has gone third engineer, Hsin Faking

Mr N. 8, Halliday, secand engineer, Ninghai, bas resigned.

Captain C. D. Nicoll, of the Changsang, has gone master, Chipshing.

Captain H. 8. Hurley, of the Chipshing, is on leave,

On roserve...

The revised health return for with their huge baggage train of

"Mr E. J. A. Porter, from leave, of industry could make into an the past wosk shows four cases of yake, hill-ponies and asses, and has gone chief officer, Loksang. area of great wealth. However, small-pox (two fatal), four of their sturdy Nepalese porters, Mr. E. Bones, acting chief we have now a dofinite decision

strange land of officer, Loksang, has gone second. by the Commonwealth autho-Cerebro-spinal faver (three fatal), through the

and one fatal caso gach of puer-Tibet, with its ancientmonasteries officer, Kungwo rities, as disclosed in a new paral fever and diphtheria. All and peculier people and customs, Mr. J. MoLeavy, second officer, Hongkong and the Far East cable yesterday, to build railways wore Chinese excepting one im-to the wide, bare plains, ever Luenho, bas gone acting chief

and encourage motor transport, ported Indian oase of small-pox. going up and up until the roof officer, same ship generally have an even deeper as first steps towards the develop-The return for Tuesday shows of the world" is veritably, reach Mr. . V. W. R. Basham, chief interest in the International ment of the Northern Territory, one Chinese case of small-pox ed. Here the greatest struggle officer, Luonho, is on leave, Arms Conference now sitting at presumably

and one Apuamite case of typhoid. of all begins. Gradually the

Mr. J. J. Robertson, suply third population.

climbers grow fewer in number, engineer, Woaang, has resigned. Geneva than they evinced in the

as base camps are left at different Mr. J. W. Laverick, supy Opium Conference held in the A Moot Point.

elevations, and eventually, some second engineer, Wogang, has Rumours persist in asserting 23,000 feet up, preparations are resigned. V samo city recently. Although

But the question of whether or that North Chins will see another made for the final tussle with the

Mr. J. Mylor, third officer, the opium and drug evil can play not the climatic conditions are ontbreak of civil war this sura-mighty Mount Everest herself. Sarvistan, is on reserve, havoc with a nation's manhood, suitable for the exclusive polioy mer. They have been strengthen-By means of almost superhuman Mr. T. Lowery, second officer, provided excess becomes & nation-at present operating, has still to ed during the past few days by effort, camps are established at Haihong, is on roserve.

be decided. We would like to roports of, serious troops move- 25,000 and then 27,000 foot. "One Mr. S. Duncan han boon hp al vice, the effects are,, generally think that the "White Australia ments along the Kin-Han and party, with a marvel of pluck and pointed sup'y third officer, individual than the race, Moro-but unfortunately the latest pro- that the opposing factions will be just 1,000 below the goal-but Mr. R. Perry has been appoint- ovor, the addiot usually injures nouncements by those qualified Fongtien and the Triple Al- plain human endurance can do ed third officer, Haiyang, Mr. T. to judge, and who have carefully lance, represented by Feng Yuno more. Then it is that Mallory Gore, third officer, Haiyang, is on himself alone. Seldom doea he studied the subject, are entirely hsing, Sun Yuch and Yueh Wei- and Irvine, with oxygen ap- reserve, run riot and inflict harm on opposed to attempts to colonise chun, successor to Hu Ching-yi. paratus, make the final bid-and Mr. D. J. Thomas, third officer,

the tropical areas with peopla

Odell, watching through his Lornstan, has gone third officer, others. In the case of arms whose ancestors came from tem-

glasses, sees them get to within Armianestan, Mr. P. Munday, smuggling, however, the con- perate, and even frigid, regions. sequences are rather different. In fact, research he shore Judge, Hongkong, is a passenger tually the realisation that two P. McGinner, chief officer, Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, Pusine 500 feet of the top. Then comes chief officer, Arabestan, has gone the long, anxious wait, and even-chief. officer, Armanesten. Mr. there are certain places where We in Hongkong know what the the whites cannot found lasting Homeward by the P. and more lives have been added to the Armanostan, is possession of arms so often means settlements. Now that several Kermala, Only the older genera toll of Everest-thirteen in all. Shipping and Engineering. when they get into the hands of generations of colonists from tion, says the Malay Mail, will

The wonderful photography, Europe have been reared in recall that Mr. Gompertz started criminal characters; whilst the different parts of the world, it has as a Malayan Cadet, being later with the use of a high-powered seconded to the Hongkong telescopic lens, brings the mon

-A CURRENT MISCELLANY. whole world realises how civil become possible to examine the Servion. Mr. and Mrs. Gompertz and their task vividly before us, war, with the needless slaughter effects of their new environ landed and motored to Kuala and in itself this sets a world's

the stock. The dis-Lumpur to look up some of their record in pictorial reproduction.

Gleaninge From Our Exchanges, quieting discovery has been old friends but found all the of untold number of people, has ment on boon" and is encouraged in China made that even where moderate Government offices closed for unsolved did those two daunt growth in the demand in China But the great question remains Emphasising the remarkable because of the organised smuggl-temperatures provail, the white Hari Raye.

less spirits reach the summit, be-for foreign-style papor during the stock is deteriorating under the ing of weapons into that dis-prolonged effect of heat and

fore some unknown disaster over past ten years, Dr. Julius. Klein, took them? It is a matter which | director of the Bureau of Foreign tressed country.

humidity, s0 that' ovon the southern portions of the United Perhaps the latest new use time alone, and maybe chance, and Domestic Commerce, U. S There can be little doubt that States are unsuited to prolific for rubber at Home is as bandages

A states that China's papor much of the arms smuggling settlement. It is only the for horses' lege, pale crepe being

H.E, the Governor has signified imports had increased from 32,352 from which Hongkong and China continuous influx of European found particularly suitable for the his intention of attending at one tons in 1912 to an annual average suffer is the work of organised populations of territories outside purpose was due to the initiative film

immigrants that has kept the purpose. Its introduction for this of the screenings of this great of 80,022 tona during the last four years. The United Statos increased its share in this trade syndicates operating from for- Europe on the increase--the of Mr. Burkill, of Shanghai-one

from 373 tons, or less than 0,5 Kennedy,

per cent of the 1913 imports, to eign countries. There is money original stock bas gradually be-of the partners in

come less and less fortile, until it Burkill and Co., of. Penang-who in the game, and it is that is in danger of elimination. Onco, took some home last Autumn and

an average of 9,186 tons annually sinos 1920, or for 1923 alone, to 8 factor which induces Individuals the stream of immigrants slows tried it on his huntors with such

per cent. of the total and organisations to enter into down and, atops, as it must do success that it was at once taken

Imports, some day, the problem of these up by his racing friends, and it, in spite of the risks of detec-colonial areas might (with a rubber bandages are now quite tion. Here in Hongkong some- few exceptions) become that common on the English Turf, thing has been done towards of how to prevent steady says the, Straits Echo. We are decrease of population. This told that three candidates in the stifling the evil by strengthening matter already applies to the Grand National and three in the the law so as to permit of the tomporate parts of Australia, Lincolnshire ran in pale crepo The Lee White Company

which are far from adequately bandages.

signalised their return to the Mr. Edward Cunningham, of infliction of savers sentences,

Colony by two excellent shows at Messrs. Chas. Goodall and Son, populated even up to the present; but what is needed is that more so. It can readily be seen that,

the City Hall last evening, the who has devoted years to the first at 6.15 and the second at 9.30 study of playing card history, has stringent measures be taken in though colonising the tropic

The death occurred at Peking pim. Los White again mado a great put forward an ingenious theory those countries which are the area's might succeed for a genera-

tion or two, the laws of Naturo on April 26th, as a result of hit, two new songs, "That's how I as to their origin, briefly an distributing centros of arms and must inevitably assert themselves, injuries sustained though an Lost, Him" and the "Bow-bow follows: The ancestors of cards, ammunition. Tho Geneva Con- and our great-grandchildren be accident at the Nanyuan Gym Bluce" meeting with instantan, he says, wore a kind of chessmen which, for the sake ference is now proparing a draft faced with urgont facts which khana on the 20th, of Captain Leous succOSE, convention on the subject, and it from

now are just beginning to emerge W. Hughes, M.C., attached to the Gus MoNaughton and Ernest of portability or cheapnons, the stage of biological Peking Embassy se tanguage Sefton were in great form, their of ivory. The game of chess were painted on diska, usually Is to be hoped that the torms theorica.

officer. The funeral service was drolloriedkooping a large audienco theroof will bo-sufficiently drastic as to minimise if not trafila altogether suppressa which is a disgrace to all associated with it. Britain, America and Japan have, through their delegatos, ex-

BOXING HEADQUARTERS,

can solve.

LEE WHITE BACK AGAIN.

TWO EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES.

Foreign paper mosts littlo competition from the domestic product in China, except in a fow lines, such as wrapping paper and strawboard,

held at the British. Legation chapel on the afternoon of the in paroxysms of laughter, Billie griginally, as now, represented 28th, the intermont taking place Lockwood, always a favourite, two armies in conflict in the open, at the British Cemetery, Captain was happy and orazy, and mado being wholly visible to the other the movements of each armiy a fascinating Piccadilly Jim, Onas flat chessmen were evolved, Hughes joined the British Army while the rich vologs of Reg. however, the use of concealed on January 18, 1911, and was

Dandy and Fabbio Feustend found attached to the 2nd battalion of much favour, The Peaches were semblance to cards of chess play armies became possible. The re- the Loyal Regiment. After one given loss to do than in many of od in this manner is obvious, and year he was posted to the 125th Loo White's shows, but wore as Napier's Rifles, Indian Army popular as over. The Poll Dance no dovolopment of the game. New York, May 6-Madison (now 5th battalion, 6th Rajputana was very cleverly executed by would be more natural than dis- problem effectually tackled, and Square Garden has onded its Riflos). He served during the Mao Baird and bar partner and using the cardenessmon for a pensing with the'chequered board with other countries co-operating bouts. It is being demolished mia and Palestino. He arrived

caroer with a series of boxing Great War in Franco, Mesopata This evening Lee White will

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