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RUSSELL-On October 29th at Mount Cough, 371, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Russell → son.

The Telegraph.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925.

"THE FRENCH IN

SYRIA.

GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL

TO-NIGHT'S CEREMONY.

The French Mandatory Zone is divided into four autonomous statos, each having a French ad- viser responsible to the High Commissioner at Beyrout on tho

There should be a large gather ocast, where the head governmenting at the Theatre Royal at 5.15 ofices are situated. The Druses, p.m. to-day, when occasion will

DAY BY DAY.

SHARE PRICES.

ARETO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

THE HEARTS OF MEN THEIR BOOKS; EVENTS ARE THEIR TUTORS; GREAT ACTIONS ARE THEIR ELOQUENCE-Macaulay.

The opening rate of the dollar

in the oast of the country, havo bo takon by the foreign and Chi-on demand to-day is 2s. 5.1/16d. nese communities to bid farewell bean in a state of insurrection for to His Excellency the Governor. There was a clean bill of health some time past and recent telo-Thore will be addresses presented in the Colony on Tuesday. graphic nows has told of fighting to His Excellency on behalf of communities, that from foreign

"Mr. D. A. Goodwin and Mr. T, and-disaffection. It has been all residents being in the following Paterson left by the s.s. ProE- too evident that the nativos havo terms:

ident Jefferson yesterday. not takon kindly to the presont Edward Stubbe, Knight Com- To His Excellency Sir Reginald | foreign administration.

The Empress of Russia left mander of the Most Distinguished Yokohama at 8 o'clock this The particular Article of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint morning and is due in Hongkong Covenant of the League of Na- George, Governor and Commander-on November 5th. tions governing this question of in-Chief of the Colony of Hong-

kong and its Mandates states that the inha-Vice-Admiral of the same.

Dependencies and Passongers arriving by s.8. Angers yesterday included Major bitants of these Mandated terri- Your Excellency-We the JF. Drake, Mr. M. E. M. Ellis, torics shall be put under the signatories of this address, boing Captain Durrouzet and Mr. H. G.

members of the British and For Swinburn.” tutelage of advanced nationa who, eign Communities of the Colony

of Canada:

The silk shipped per s.8. Pres-

as Governor, a period which has ident Madison, which sailed from had its moments of grave anxiety, this port at 5 p.m. on September you have upheld the dignity of 30th, arrived at Now York at mid- your high office and promoted the night on October 24th, having peace, harmony. and unity of the been 24 calendar days in transit. many elements which comprise this Community

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Mrs. D.H. Cameron, wife of the The many complex problems General Manager of the Standard in the population of the Colony rived here on the s.s. President resulting from the rapid growth Oil Company in Hongkong, -ar- have been faced with a firmness, Lincoln from America to-day, be- fairness and foresight which have ing accompanied by her daughter won the approbation of all classes. Theodore

by reason of their resources, of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Mr. T.J. Gaisford St. Lawronce, their experience or their goograavall ourselves of the opportunity H. E. the Governor's Privato presented by your Excellency's Secretary, is a passenger for phical position, can beat undertake approaching departure for Eng Home to-morrow on the Empress this responsibility." It is further tand to express in this manner the clearly stated that these nations sentiments of esteem and respect. should act as mandatories of the entertain for your character announced of Mr. James Gray The forthcoming wedding is and administrative abilities. League and exercise their powers Throughout the period of nearly Road, to Miss Alice Ricarda Bar- Marshall of No, 29, Morrison Hill on behalf of the Langue; that six years which has clapsed since retto, of Bowrington Road. they should act on the principle we assembled to present an Ad- that the well-being and develop-

dress of Greeting on your arrival ment of the peoples under their tutelage forms & sacred trust of civilisation," and that they should render to the Council of the League an annual report on the territory committed to their charge. As regards the communi- ties "detached from the former Ottoman Empire (of which the Syrians, aro one it is declared in

Your Governance will long be the Covenant that they have

remembered for its breadth of In connection with the unavoid- reached a stage of developrient vision and the progress made in able cancellation, of Saturday's where their existence as indopen the transfer of Military Lands, in performanou by the Italian Opera dent nations can be provisionally in Water Supply Schemes; in imed soats for that night can have Port and Harbour development, Company, all those who had book- recognised subject to the render-proved means of Communication their money refunded by applying ing of administrative advico and and in Town planning. It will be to Moutria's. The first perform assistance by a Mandatory until remembered nlag for the measures ance takes place on Monday- such time as they are able to the manner in which the scales of

taken to suppress Piracy and for| Adut: : stand alone." At the moment wol justice were held ovenly against Probate of the will of the late cannot resist the thought that it the conflicting interests of land- Mr. Charles Osmund of L. Liberty would have been a wise step if lords and tenants during a period Avenue, Homuntin, has just been the Syrians had been given a Population.

of unprecedented expansion in the granted in the Supreme Court to Mr. Arthur F. Osmund, son of the fullor measure of solf-government Our good wishes attend your deceased. In the will, which was when they made all the fuss about Excellency and Lady Stubbs, made on July 13, 1925, the testa- it in 1920 and if their so-called

whose personal charm and enthu-tor leaves the whole of his estate, "robel" movements had been a within her sphere in the Colony

siasm for all good causes that lay $21,400, to his children.

ittle more sympathetically hand-have won the hearts of every led.

class.

"

Without knowing the full facts of the caso, it is obviously im- possible for us to judge of the rights or wrongs of the really calamitous happenings in Dam- ascus, the principal town of Syria. The news has been so slow in getting through that there is ob-

The Chinose master of the viously much more yet to know

steam launch Osaka Muru was and it would be unwise to assume

We look forward to your don-fined $10 by Lieut. Commidr. G. that any of the ropors yet re-

tinuing and completing

F. Hole at the Marine Court this Cancer Controversy, career of public usefulness and rule of the road. A junkmaster a long morning for failing to observe the ceived give either a full or ac-

Following the world-wide inter-distinction in the service of His was fined similarly for dumping curate statement of all the pre-est in the subject of cancer last your Majesty which will always be fol- building rubbish in the harbour cedent causes and incidents when the public were made to lowed with the keenest interest in

at the quarantino anchorago which led up to this clash between realise that the dread disease was this Colony,

an ever-increasing menace-and We beg that you will convey to

without permission. native bands and Frenchamilitary. the inauguration of special re- Lady Stubbs our, warmest greet- The bombardment of certain of search, a period followed during ings and we desire to convey to the Governor and the Official We understand His Excellency the native quarters was doubtless which but little seemed to have you our sincerest wishes for hapMombers of the Executive and been done towards solving the piness and prosperity in the Legislativo Councils were onter- an extreme measure forced upon question of a cure. It was only future., " the authorities by the seriousness of the position, but it is to be ago, of the discoveries of two

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the announcement, a fow-monthe

tained at the Hongkong Club yesterday at tiffin by the Un- official Members of both Councils,

English investigators, Dr. Gye soruin, which is treated "with and that a handsome silver loving hoped that the estimate

Of and Mr. Barnard, suggesting that dilute nitric acid and an iodine cup was presented to the Go casualties is lower than that the presence of a germ in cancer- already cabled, and, that peaceous growths had been established,gent-if the patient is normal vernor as a token of their esteem

the fluid remains clear; if cancer and rogard. and order has been restored pond-

which roused again the intenso

fluid becomes is present the intorest in possible causative ing negotiations,

The following is the list of locali sharo quotations issued to-day

Banks.

I.

Hongkong, $1,140 sa.. Chartered, 201 Mercantile A and B., £295 Morcantile C., £13) b P. and O., 49 n. East Asia, $86 n.

Marine Ins,

Conton Ins., $695 b. China Underwriters, $2.35 North China, Tis. 140 n. Unions, $260 b. Yangtze, $40.

Fire Ins..

China Fires, $200 Hongkong Fire, 8600 b.

Shipping,

Douglases, $40 n. Steamboats, $221, 80. Tugs, $428. Indo-Chines, $38 n. Shell Trans., 86/- b. Star Ferries, 859 b Watorboats, $16 b. Oriental Nav., $255 n.

Refineries.

China Sugars, $381 Malabons, $48 n. Mining.

Banguote, $21. Kailans, 60

b. Langkate, Tle. 28, b. S'hai Explorations, Tha. 5 n. Shanghai Loans, Tls. 8 n. Ruubs, $3 b.

Tronohe, 67/-\b." Ural Caspians, 8/- ..

Docks, et

Kowloon Wharfa, $142 n. Whampoa Docks, 365 n. Hongkews, Tle. 170° në New Engineprings, Tis. 7 n. Shanghai Docks, Tls, 115 b.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $91 n.. H.K. Lands, $70. 8. Realtys, $2.50 b. Territorials, $7. Humphreys, $16 n. Princes Bidge, $150, n. Rural Lande, 810 ...

Cottons.

Ewos, Tis. 9 b "Orientals, Tis. $3 b.

S'hai Cottons, Tls. '52 b.

Miscellaneous.

Canton Ioes, $7 n. Cements, $18. China Buser, Tla. 101 China Lights, $16 n. China Prov, $9.60 Constructions, $4. Dairy Farms, $191 b. Electrics, $57. Der A. Wing, 810 n.

Macao Electrics, $40 n. Developments, 50 cents, Ropos, $40 n. Tramways, $26 n. Lane Crawfords, $13" sa. Mackintosh, $214 m. Peak Trams; $15 b. Singeres, $13) n. Taxis, 65. United Asbestos, $20 -m Watsons (Old), $16 Powells, $149. Watsons (New), $15

Amusements, $10 b.

TRAFFIC ACC

TWO CASES YESTERDAY,

Inspector Bradley, "of

the

factors and the hopes of an event-cloudy. A Swiss investigator Commencing to-night, three Syria is not the first of the ual cure. Hard on the heels, as the actual seat of the growth. An Europeans will find most interest- goes further, claiming to detect special porformandoBy which former Ottoman countries. now it were, of the British, announce-injection of serum containing ra- fing, are to be given at the Tai- under governance by a European of prior discovery of the "mist" becomes localised in the growth. actress, Miss Pik Wen-ha, Seats ment, there cumeu German claim active substances is used and ping Theatro by the noted Chinese country by a mandate from the which super microscopic research A photographic plate placed on may be booked at Messrs. Mout- League of Nations in which seri- has suggested to be formed by the body is affected by the radio ric's. To-night'e attraction will

minute cancer, bacteria. Who-active substance, and the exact be "A Wife's Revenge," a histori. Sanitary Department, reports to the arison, and ever might be the real pioneer in: it, very interesting iniloed to the detection of these probablet of trouble is thus diagnosed. cal play from the Tein Dynasty, police that whilst he was driving a study the process by which form cultures, the question of All these discoveries are of com-which will be preceded by a motor-car at 2 pm. yesterday in how much further mankind as for milestones on the road to Pik Wen-ha, will appear on the into collision with a tramcar, with paratively spcant date, and they musical act and dances Miss Morrison Street his vehicle came France came to control this progressed along the path of the great goal-the final conquest stage at 9 large and important territory. Fearch remains to be expounded, of the cancer scourge.

9 p.m. During the war-ir 1918, to be Now, hardly have the laymen advance in our knowledge of the docided to applaud an important

OUR

trouble has

precise--the Turks were drivon

olsowhere in China

as woll,

the result that the motor-car suf- fered dumage to the extent of $200. No one was injured.

Another mishap occurred yester-

Military Taxes: out of Syria and. Lebanon by scourage, whon another scientist, We notice that Mr. Wang military commanders settle down day when a Chinese chauffeur was British forces, assisted by French a German, deprecates our optim-Ching-wai, one of the Canton with their troops at convenient driving a private car along Caine.

ism, and boldly assorts that can-Government leaders, has been revenue-producing and Arabs detachments.. By the car is not caused by any germ. unburdening himself to what is there proceed to lovy all manner of There were

spots and Road and knocked ever a ricksha. two fares in the decision of the Supreme Council He puts forth the very substantial described as a convention of pro- taxes with which to enrich them-ricksha a Chiese woman and a of the Allios, the districts were argument that were the gorm vincial representativos of the selves and pay their mon. That child, and they were both alightly entrusted to France to be adminis- theory a fact, then the onset of Kuomintang on the subject of the is, as we remarked yesterday. injured. They were taken to the disease would be impartial as centralisation of provincial reve- one of the biggest problems which tored under a Mandato. The to age: whereas cancer is assent-nues. He states that in July any Government le China willospital, but after treatment it was Syrians have always been in a ially an affliction of middle-age, last, a mandate was issued, pro- have to face, for whilst there may

found unnecessary to detain them. stato more or less of resentment more mature of us are, through nues and abolishing all illegal away, with internal imposts, it is Yet it may be, after all, that the hibiting the interception of reve: be glib promises of the doing at French dominance, and in 1920 the artificial conditions of modern taxation and levies introduced by quite another thing to put these |a "Syrian Congress" at Damascus, Ilfo and the cumulative effect of the militarists. After speaking promises into effect. Not oven. declared Syria to be an indepen-the onset of the causative bacteria, Government, ho states that it is assert that since the date of its wrong diat, more susceptible to of opposition to this action of the the Cantan Government would dont country with Emir Faisal as So there is hope that the research difficult to straighten out this mandato "abolishing" taxes, im- King. This action of the Congress workers are on the right track. business, but it must be done," posed by militarists, the practice did not receive the sanction of the In the meantime, we might note Long before this, Mr. Wang and has stopped. Of course it hasn't, two recently-perfected methods his supporters must have realised and at prosent neither the Can- Allied Powers and General Gou-of detecting the disease in its that a big issuo of this kind can- ton-Government nor any other raud occupied Damascus, Aloppo, early stages, and thus enhanc not be disposed of in- a fow administration which depends on Mr. Hayley Morrisa has been Hama and Horns. Enir Foisating the chances of curative treat phrases such as he has used. It support from militarists can seo married at Uckfield to his "house mont A French doctor has in-is. common knowledge that that it does. Those are the facts, keeper," Miss Madelino Roberts- laft the country and later became troduced a test of human blood not only in the South, but and they cannot be gainsaid. Router.

HAYLEY MORRISS

MARRIED.

WEDS HIS CO-DEFENDANT.

London, Det, 28.