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allow themselves to be exploited politically with such disastrous re- currence.. "Canton for the Can- tonese" would be a good slogan if It meant that the will of the

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LET US BE THANKFUL FOR HEALTH AND A COMPETENCE; AND ABOVE ALL, FOR A QUIET"

majority of the Cantonese was CONSCIENCE-Isaac Walton, going to be put into permanent effect, and it is only when the The opening rate of the dollar Cantonese themselves wake up to on demand to-day-is 28. 5.1/16d. the fact that they must be masters"

TRAMS V. BUSES.

FURTHER ARGUMENTS.

We have received the following letter for publication:

Sir, I have read with great interest Mr. Bellamy's letter on the above subject and I notice that he is disinclined to agree with me that the orgy of tramway extensions in which the Glasgow. Tramways Is indulging is nothing short of

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of their own territory that they will Mr. I. W. Shewan, runner-up

in the Colony's golf champion-maniacal. It is not enough for Mr. ST. LEGER BETTING. enjoy a prosperous peace. For the ship, is to leave for the North.

Bellamy to merely state that "the city of Canton and for the whole

Glasgow Tramways' committee is province of Kwangtung this recent The forthcoming wedding is

not guilty of downright abject open-handed reception by unscru announced of Dr. Richard Edward folly." No person nor committee

Tottenham, of the Hongkong is infallible insofar as the adminis The latest St. Leger betting Is pulous and unrepresentative University, to Miss Norah Mar- tration of their respective affairs is 3 to 1 Manns offered, 7 to 2 taken; political leaders of another set of garet Daly, of Ireland. Installleg

non-Chinese political exploiters has been attended by the most PYRENE disastrous of results and it's high time that the Chinese masses the TO-DAY

workers and the merchants--pulled the wool from off their eyes and Inspection

Saw through the deception which Invited has been practised upon them. If there is any hope at all for Canton at and Kwangtung that hope has to be born in the determination of the Cantonese to institute a Cantonese administration which will give expression to the natural political and economic ideas of the people.

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rosumes his duties in Macao.

rehearsal.

concerned and I still aver that the 9 to 2 Solario; 7 to 1 Zambo, taken policy of the committee under dis- and offered; 8 to 1 Spolthorne, At the Marine Court this morn-cussion is one of short-sightedness offered; 10 to 1 Picaroon; 20 to 1 Hole twenty-two hoatpeople were towards any competitive mode of taken and offered.-Reuter. ing before Lieut. Commdr. G. F. based on préjudice and antipathy Pons Aainorum, 22 to 1 Bucellas severally fined $3 for failing to transportation. Mr. Bellamy take out licences under the Mor states that the Edinburgh Corpora- other routes without, delay or con- chont Shipping Ordinance.

tion had to meet a defelency of fusion. On this vital question, no £8,174 on the buses for the year Corporation in Britain can afford' The Hongkong correspondent anding May 16th last. In Decem-to allow its affections to sway its of the Duirio de Macau says he ber last, the Glasgow Corporation reason. The question is: Arè the understands there is some talk put a fleet of buses on the route buses proving the trams to be too Hongkong Volunteers to be com- Green and up of forming a Company of the between Queen's Cross and Glasgow slow and unsuitable for the traffic to the end of needs of any city? If the answer posed solely of Portuguese mom- February the revenue was fully is yes, then commonsense demands. bors of the community.

£3,000, while the expenditure was; that trams must go and buses come fully £4,000. Not allowing for in. To find out whether it is yes a Mr.. Vicente J. Gracia, of the depreciation, but with interest and or no demunda an impartial review Interpretors Department of sinking fund this represents a of the claims of both services for. Macao, has been sent to Canton deficiency of roughly £1,700, or, precedence, and tests such as the for service in the Portuguese calculated on an annual basis, a one carried out by the Glasgow Consulate there. Mr. Batalha, total loss of £7,000. "Facts are Tramways will merely stir up bad winna ding" said feeling and there is absolutely no the-Technical-Institute-scheme-is-

Burns but facts stripped of their reason why the solution cannot be embelliähments often present an arrived at without mutual re now to be extended, to Kowloor,

The Philharmonic Society is entirely different aspect. The one criminations. Petty,prosecutions where the educational facilities commencing its rohoarsals for vital issue at stake between the of the bus companies are too

"Iolanthe are becoming better with every instant, at St. John's Cathedral if those services are put to the test interest Mr. Bellamy to know that on Monday, 14th, rival services is speedy transit, and numerous and it will no doubt passing year. As will have been Hall. Members and applicants, observed from the report of Wed-for membership are asked to on a fair fick and no favour basis, in a case in Glasgow it was decided.

I will back the buses"every time. that a motor bus may not uplift ☀ There is something very familiar nesday's meeting of the Board of make a point of attending this I would now draw Mr. Bellamy's or set down passengers, within the about this cry of "Canton for the Education, arrangements have been

attention to the reason why the Glasgow, área. This prosecution

Cantonese" which is now reported mads whereby such subject as

St. John's Cathedral Notes says: Glaszow Tramway authorities were was founded on an Act of Parling Who in 1866 to be going up from the neighbourt chemistry, physics, mathematics, We are very grateful to Mrs. unsuccessful in their bus venture. ment dated 1800,

Taggart for her kindness in de-The routes taken by the tram and could, of course, be expected to ing port-a familiarity which tells French, book-keeping, shorthand fraying the expenses in connec-bus between those two termini were foreleil the advent of the swift- its own story of mis-government. and cookery will be taught at the tion with the proposed alteration divergent and the tram had the moving petrol bus of the 20th and additions to the side Chapel. benefit of a much shorter and century, but at the same time why For more times thun one cares to Central British School.

This re-

busier route, while the bus was should an archaic statute be allow- remember, the people of Canton presents a distinct step forward,

Yesterday, His Excellency the given a route which few citizensed to deprive the people of to-day have suffered the yoke of an and it is now up to parents to show Governor, attended by Captain have any desire or need to utilise of the mode of transport they are imported domination. Even within their appreciation of the new Swinton, A.D.C., was entertained Mr. Bellamy will see that the demanding, viz. motor bus.

to. dinner on board the Jules fair field and no favour conditions Bellamy states that the motor bus, quite recent years there have been facilities which are being provid-Ferry by H. E. Admiral Frochot, were lacking. The question might like the tramcar, has its own many displays of force necessary ed for the benefit of Kowloon Commanding the French Cruiser be asked could a fairer comparison particular sphere of usefulness, but.

have been made? In 1921, a cerench has its limitations." in order to rid the province of children. We are aware that Squadron.

tain Councillor tabled a motion to Yes, the tramcar has at Kwangtung of non-Cantonese who there is, at Home, a deal of criti-

moment its own parti. On arrival in port, this after-petition Parliament to grant the the.

of usefulness, have held the reins of office in cism regarding the introdution of noon, the P. & O. linor Karmal Glasgow Corporation powers to cular "sphere. harsh manner over the inhabitants. what are termed "fancy" subject went alongside the naval camber operate buses under the municipal but this is being challenged more There was the famous case of the into the school curriculum, but this for the purpose of getting some authority. From a memorandum and more every day by the to of her heavy cargo discharged, issued by the Town Clerk it is date bus, and, given equal powers Kwangsi forces (eventually driven applies mostly to the primary the big naval crane being atilised noticed that powers are given to of operating, the bus will prove"

at by General Chan Kwing-ming) schools, where there are few, if for this work,

the Corporation to run buses (1) conclusively that there is no inside the city and (2) outside the place for the tram. and, quite recently, there has been any, specialists amongst the teach

city, (n) along two defined routes, There is always an element of the ejectment of Yunnanese and ing staffy. The consequence is

Burnside to Mount Florida and risk attached to any mode of con- Kwangst forces who had fallen that pupils often get nothing more

Belokshaws, West. to Paisley, and veyance, animate and Inanimate,' (b) elsewhere within cortain limits and the question of fool-proof foul of the Cantonese rulers. And than a mere amiattering of know-

and under certain conditiona with steering raised by Mr. Bellamy now, the people of Canton" seem to ledge on some subjects when they

the consent of, the Minister of does not eliminate this element, be waking up to the fact that they would be far better employed in

Arrivals for the twenty-four Transport and the Local: Authority Moreover, the number of bus acci- under the domination of a securing a good grounding in hours ending at nine o'clock this route outside the city, etc. From steering gear is proportionately of the district along any other dents caused through defective party of Russians who have essentials. That argument, how-morning were twelve and depart- exploited them in the furtherance ever, will not apply to the new venures seven. The total number of the above it will be seen that small. A tram driver is just as vessels in barbour is 93.. notwithstanding the fact that it able to lose his head and cause of a political doctrine' which is ture in Kowloon, Inasmuch as the The Ting Sang, from Shanghai, lay within their power to do so, disaster as a bus driver. "For fundamentally opposed to the in-services of qualified lecturers have brought 1,437 tons of rice and the Tramway authorities did not you cannot find fool-proof drivers.

The people of Glasgow are general cargo, the Chaksang from carry out fair trials and their dividualistic basis on which Chinese been secured, whilst there are Bangkok brought 2,055 tons of action leaves them open to severe not clamouring for luxurious social and commercial life has for well-equipped laboratories for the rice and general cargo, and the criticism, one being justified in travel on penny fares. They are se many generations rested. practical subjects, The authorities Kwangehow from Bangkok is thinking that they had no desire only demanding speedy transit. fact that buses are speedier; Just to what extent that feeling are to be commended for their discharging 1,945 tons of rice and to put the rival services to a fair No sane person can gainsay the

general.

teat. With the powers they of oppression prevails among the enterprise in arranging these new

possessed, why did they not choose Mr. Bellamy admits they are more confortable and the additional Chinese of Canton it is, as yet, hard courses of instruction," and we, to judge, but that there is a grow trust that their efforts will be re-

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im-could have been, gathered instead charge in fares is readily given in exchange for these two bene- which obviously would never prove Scottish Tramways Association effects of the stroke of fate that a successful venture? had been dealt them, and within The L. C. C., according to Mr. held at Ayr this year, the mana- ger of the Lanarkshire Tramways a few months everything went Bellamy, does not appear to share Company confessed that they were traitors by the Russians and their

my views that the days of the keenly feeling the competition on almost as usual. The terrible tramways are numbered. Beneath of the mator buses. Many more ultra-Red companions, is berne out It is now just two years since effects of the great earthquake are a sketch in a recent copy of Punch could make a similar confession by the latest reports received the greatest calamity that Japan still evident at both Yokohama I notice the following interesting if they were candid enough. There is said to be much unensi had ever known in ber history and Tokyo, but a great amount of

dialogue:

Mr. Punch: "Why all those ultimately got. They want buses, What the people want, they will ness among the big Russian com-affected a large 'arca of har most reconstruction work has been ae-traffic jams; why do you discourage so why not stop evading the munity in Canton and, although we populous territory-destroying one complished.

In the comparatively private enterprise on this natural issue and acceding to their re think it is premature to expect of her large seaports and wreck short space of two years the small share of the risk-some few temerity to introduce the bus

thoroughfare by refusing to take a quest.

Glasgow has the anything like a generat expulsioning a great deal of her capital. Japanese engineers and their assis-thousands ?" just yet, we are convinced that the There was terrible loss of life, and tants have rebuilt much that had

wholeheartedly, others will fol L.C.C. Official:-"We can't afford ios,-Yours, etc. Chinose--even those who are now scenes of horror such as only a been destroyed, and it should not to take risks."

A. MORRISON. Bo submissive-will eventually wish vast catastrophe can give rise to be long before practically all the afford to lose over a quarter-of-a-| |

Mr. Punch: "You can apparently Hongkong, Sept. 8, 1925. to see the affairs of Canton and There was not a single country, of broken achievements of the past million a year on your trams which South Chinn directed and controlled the world that did not deeply sym are replaced.

ANOTHER VIEW We are reminded help to make the blocks."

Sir, Mr. Bellamy 1s convincing; by purely Chinese elements. There pathise with the Land of the Ris- of this achievement by the recent As regards traffic blocks, this is Glasgow trams are the best in the is not the slightest doubt that the ing Sun in its disastrous grief, publication of a journal devoted to such as Glasgow where a one-kong's dreams, at

a.serious question in large cities world comfortable beyond Hong- bulk of the Cantonese would have and help came pouring in from all a description, graphically illus-minute service is maintained by Buses are a luxury, for which they nothing further to do with the sides. It was realised that the trated, of the feat that the recon- the trams in certain parts. Hold would have to pay a little more. strike or boycott movement if they country's sorrows were such as to struction department has perform-ups are almost a dally occurrence It is a frank admission could help it Lat the dictators ronder. Its programmes of developed and it is undoubtedly an acis the result. Some two or three clear to give us a little less of the [and "aggravating traffic congestion Could Mr Bellamy see his way remove the restrictions on the mont nagatory to a large extent, complishment of which the Japa- years ago a fire occurred in Miller tramway discomfort for which wo movement of workers and cargo and and it was perhaps wondered in nese nation can be justly proud; Street, with a result that the trams pay the bus luxury price of ten we should immediately see how come quarters whether the land and which should form an example (one of Glasgow's busiest streets) tramway discomfort for a penny

wore entirely off Argyle Street cents, or alternatively let us have true that statement is. It is only was not actually crippled for some to certain other races which put for two daya. If buses had been yours, etc., bendabik because the Cantonese are, in the time to come. However, with words before deeds, and get no the mode of conveyance, they would bulk, docile and placid that they characteristic energy, the Japanese further along the road of progress, merely have been switched on to

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