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THURSDAY, AUGUST

1925.

DAY BY DAY,

HONGKONG STRIKERS,

WHAT THEY DO IN VANTON

Items, .even extra-territoriality, Darlington, we are glad to see that will not crop up then?,

the claims of Richard Trevithick Before proceeding further to to a place amongst the great men examine the question of Ministerial in the history of British engineer--

JUDGMENT FOR AN EVIL THING pledges, let us quote the assurance ing have not been entirely over DAY OR TWO, SOME CENTURY OR IB MANY TIMES DELAYED SOME

given by Mr. Austen Chamberlain looked. Writing in the Manchester TWO; BUT IT IS AS SURE AS LIFE, In a statement made, on July 1st Guardian of July 4th, Mr. David 17 18 ASSURE AS DEATH-feature conoorning the activities

Curlylo. In the House of Commons Any Brownlie boldly asserts that "the discussion of these large issues is real ploneer of the locomotive was The opening, ruta of the dollar Portable Impossible until the Chinese Richard Trovithick, probably the on demand to-day is 28. 4.11/16d. Typewriter Government have taken steps to greatest engineer that ever lived."

with the

put an end to the present anti-A Cornishmari, born of hamble Yesterday's health return shows Standard foreign agliations, and have shown parents, Trevithick had many one British and can Chiness casety two sections, Different reports keyboard, their ability to enforce law and inventions to his credit even before of typhoid favor.

of

The

The Canton Gazette runs a daily

of the strikers from Hongkong, and from this we extract the fol lowing items...

Strikors guarde held a general Yesterday (August 19th) the

meeting. The guards bavo.. now“, six companies, divided into twon-

have been made by the chief. commander the chief military, and political instructors. The

order and respect for the treaty he produced the first practicable Nothing rights of the Powera." That was steam locomotive to carry passon-Manila Observatory, at 11a.nl

A tologram received from the present staff is composed of a

to learn."

Nothing conlearn."

Ask for Demonstra tion.

Greig On 25th Inst., at New castle-on-Tyne, to Mr. and Mrs: K. E. Greig, of a Daughter.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

The Telegraph.

:THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1925.

THE QUESTION OF A PLEDGE.

War Debts.

Rugby section of the Hongkong A meeting of members of the Football Club is to be held in the Hongkong Cricket Club pavilion on Friday, August 28, at 5.30 p.m.

secretariat, military section, finance, d-control, ordi-

ask 50 military students to give military training.

The All Chinese Labour Federa Shumeen Strikers Committee tion together with the Hongkong have organised a propaganda' school for strikers. The aim of the school is to give the more active workers the necessary. od- ucation in order that they may the Surrey Regiment threw a cor- organisers. The school is located Yesterday afternoon men from become good propogandist and don round the Pokfulam district in the building of the possants. other raid for idlers. About ten students has already hagun study. whilst the police carried out an-school. The first enrollment of Chinese were taken into custody. Duration of the course will bo

two weeks, and then another The forthcoming wedding is ar. enlistment will be summoned. nounced of Mr. John Nettleton, strikers' guard that have been There are sight sections of tho of the Standard Oil Company sent recently to different places It was he who resides at No. 27, Humphreys

don.

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tor.

EVACUATION.

a direct reference to the question' gers as well as goods, and it was to-day states there is a typhoon of extra-territoriality. but we he who first employed iron rails oast of Northern Formosa, mov-nary affairs. It was decided to

ing W. N. W. cannot help associating the matter possessing the main characteristics with other large issues," also of the ruil at present employed on coming under the terms of refer our railway systems. Then, so for A

ence of the Washington agree!ns":

as mere models. no concerned, his School ments, such as the customs first, which is now in the South necessity revisions. There should be no con- Kensington Museum, dates back as ferences whatever with the Peking far as 1797. In further proof of Government while it has signally Trevithlek's genius as an engineer, failed to take the least action to let us quote from "Locomotive stop the anti-foreign campaign Engineering," a work by Z. Co

· MUSTARD & CO. really now an anti-British campaign burn, C.E., in which the author says |16-17, Connaught Road Central and has indeed deliberately that "as a true inventor no name

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given encouragement to the stands in so close connection with agitators. To discuss tariffs at the locomotive engine as that of this juncture is to make a confes Richard Trevithick, sion of weakness, in our opinion; who first broke through the Buildings," Kowloon, to Miss in the country to enforce the and, as we have pointed out, one trämmels of Watt's system of Winifred Margaret Shaw, of Lon-blockade. Each soction is ac- subject can lead to another. With condensation and low, if not

companied by a political instruc what we have already seen of the negative, pressure; it was he who

The propugnadist school lins failure to enforce treaty rights, we first employed the internal fire- Fong enquiry has been provision- students each. Every day, at 7 The resumption of the Po Hing graduated five sections of five cannot be expected to set much place and internal heating surface; ally fixed for next Wednesday o'clock in the aftormoor, these store by prearranged agendas he was the first to create or promote afternoon, when the concluding students speak to the strikers in being adhered to, and certain a chinney draught by means of stages of the evidence will be tak- their sleeping quarters, or in the

en. On Friday afternoon the en- open air. Mr. & Mrs. Ho Kom-tong topics being excluded, especially exhaust steam; the first to employ quiry will be continued for the The political Bureau of the desire to thank the St. John's when other Powers, at least one of a horizontal cylinder and cranked unming up by the Coroner, and Cantonese Army-having started Ambulance Corps, Boy's Scout whom is prepared to discuss extra-anxle, and to propose two such

the jury's finding.

a campaign to encourage the Division of the Sai Ying Pun

soldiers to self-denial in order to School, relatives and friends for territoriality, are involved. It cylinders with the cranks at right Capt. Cross, at present with his these scations to come to lecture help the strikers-invited one of their letters of sympathy, attend- would almost appear that Britons angles to each other, the first to Regiment the 2nd Kings, station in the barracks for two days, ance and floral tributes at the in China have been banking on surround the cylinder with hot air; ed at Chakrata, United Provinces, The main items of the lectures funeral of their son, Ho Sui On.

what was not in reality a pledge, the first to draw a load by the College and goes to Quetta for ditions of Chinese workers, in India, has qualified for the Staff were history of the strike, con- but merely a diplomatic statement. adhesion of a smooth wheel upon a two years in January next. It foreign factories, relation between smooth bar; and the first to make will be recalled that Capt. Cross the soldiers and the workers. was married to Miss Muriel, The soldiers were very much & work a railway locomotive. Denison shortly before the Regi- interested in these lectures, and There was an interesting item in Trevithick and Stephenson were ment left Hongkong for India.. promised to unite with the yesterday's cables to the effect that contemporaries; the first locomo-

strikers against the imperialist A Chinese who was a member President Coolidge thinks the Debt ive seen by the latter was cons-

of the spacial district guard corps Funding Commission should listen tructed by the former." Such are attached to Taihang village was to the outstanding debtor nations' a few of the facts in regard to the sentenced to two months' hard pleas for more lenient treatment achievements of a man who is all labour by Mr. S.B.B. McElderry, at the Central Magistracy this It is perhaps a pity that, while than was accorded by the United too little remembered for the part morning, for embezzling the sum the matter of Mr. Austen Chamber States to Britain, The President he played as a railway pioneer. of $80 belonging to the equipment lain's

funds of the Corps, with which pledge concerning the added that the Commissions then Like many another inventor, he he was entrusted." necessity for Chinn ceasing lega) working out the British arrange died in poverty, passing away at azitation was stressed at the mass ment, established the principle Dartford, in Kent, where, in Holy meeting on Tuesday, there was no that the basis of settlement with Trinity Church, a tablet has been the Harbour Office states:The Church bells in three towns rang, hint in the cable sent to the Prime the nations should be their ability erected ' .to his

A Hongkong Telephone Co. will cafes and cabarets were allowed.

commence testing and repairing Minister that this pledge of the to pay! This latter, point raises memorial window to him has been a cable in the Harbour Cable Re-opon all night long and orchestras Foreign Minister was depended the question of determining such placed in Westminster Abbey, next serve at 7 am on 29th. August Ueber Alles,"

at midnight played Deutschland to a prodigious upon by the British residents of ability, which is by no means an to the. Brunel and Stephenson and will complete the work on or vocal accompaniment. Reuter

before 31st. August. All ship- this part of the work. But it easy fatter, as has been found out windows: whilst

ping should give the lighter en- may be that Ministers do not in the matter of the German re-Scholarship was founded in 1888 at gaged on this work a wide berth require to be reminded of their parations. We are almost inclin- Victória University, Manchester and ongines should be stopped as each vessel approaches and promises, and that any such suggested to think that, within certain Beyond these mementoes, together passes the lighter." tion would have been taken as limits, ability to pay comes down with an inscription on the house presumption on our part. Yet it to the willingness of a nation to in a little Cornish town where he is dificult not to feel disappointed undergo taxation, and in this con-was born, there are few tangible at the failure to Impress this section wo cannat overlook the fact records of his achievements. But this morning. He denied that he necessity on the Chinese authorities that Britain still remains the from the standpoint of giving anchored and it was admitted Her Majesty the Queen has before. any consideration by heaviest taxed country of any of honour where honour, is due, it is that he was arrested 200 yards expressed a wish that collections. Britain of treaty revisions, nor to the belligerents of the Great War.well that now and again Trevi-age while under sail. Three day for the sufferers in the cyclone from the alloged place of anchor-be made in Holland on her birth-

view the latest developments of the We are bearing our burden, in thick's true position in the realm other Chinese were charged with mentioned on the 10th instant. negotiations with Peking without spite, of the heavy calls which this of railway engineering should be being under way without certi. It is hoped that Dutchmen abroad ficated engineers on board their will meet Her Majesty's wishes. some amount of apprehension. involves on British taxpayers, and recalled.

launches. They pleaded guilty Router." Two main lines of action on which we still have to wait for even a

and were severally fined $10. the Chinese Government has laid part of the money which we loan- stress ever since the trouble started to our Allies. However the Fed ure, extra-territoriality and circumstance may be explained, the customs revisions. The former is fact remains that, so far, Britain so obviously a matter for future is the outstanding example consideration that it has not been amongst the nations taking part in adopted, so far as an item in the the war who is meeting her obliga- programme of conferences with the tions. We have no desire to see any Chinese authorities. At the same of our former Allies struggling un- time, there is no pledge that it will der burdens too great for them to nui be made a subject of forth bear, but it does seem a litle in- coming discussions, and we know congruous that Britain should be to Moscow until to-morrow and Mr. Karakhan, Soviot Am- that the Chinese themselves will expected to shoulder the heaviest the inaugural ceremony in connee-bassador recently approached not neglect the least opportunity of load when it comes to adjusting tion with the Sino-Russian con- the Waichian Pa requesting that ference will be held this after a Russian moving picture com- bringing it up. What makes us international finances arising out noon. It is believed the proceed-pany Demoorary Cinema Co., apprehensive is the definite decision of situations brought about by the ings will be purely formal.be given this privilege of going to by both Britain and the United War. States of America, within the last

three days, to appoint representa- tives for a tariff conference, which

memory.

SINO-RUSSIAN "CONFERENCE.

Trevithick

INAUGURAL CEREMONY

TO-DAY.

GERMAN REJOICING,

Cologno, Aug. 26. The Belgians banded over the Duisburg Ruhrort bridgehead at A notice to mariners posted at evacuation of the sanctions area, midnight, thus comploting tho

DUTCH CYCLONE

For anchoring in a cable - APPEAL TO HOLLANDERS serve, a Chinese junkmaster was

ABROAD. fined $10 at the, Marine Court

The Hague, Aug. 26.

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Brooklyn, Aug. 26

Lord Northampton has in con- sequence of damage caused by visitors to Castle Ashby, his Nor thampton seat, issued an appeal that more consideration be shown by them. He adds: - "Lady Northampton and I are pleased to 800 people enjoying the beau tion of the park, but I hope they pionships, Richards and Williams Peking, August 26. Following will remember it is private pro defeated Manual Alonso und a long conference with C. T. Wang porty, and that they are only Flaquer by 6/4, 4/6, 6,2.6/3.— who returned from the south yes there as our guests.

Realer's American device decided to postpone his departure terday afternoon, Karakkan has

-Renter

Honan to do business" and that their luggages be exempted from Later.

texaniipation by the Chinese Railway Pioneers.

The inaguration ceremony at authorities. The request WAS the Sino-Russian Conference bereideted by the Chinese Foreign Although the name of George gan at seven this evening. Office. It is believed that the the Peking Government has Stephenson has naturally figured Speeches are being delivers of a Russian moving picture company arranged for the 23rd of October. very prominently in connection formal nature Proceedings were intended to do no business, In anfinished at half past eight-Honan other than carrying on What assurance have we that other with the Railway Centenary at Reuter

Bolshevik propaganda.

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