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SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926.
the
DAY BY DAY.
!
The oponing Fate of the dollar on demand to-day was 25. 4.9/16d.
before it was issued, but Its re- cont publication has soomingly not served to monit, matters in the least. The criticism of
IN ULLARACTER, IN MANNERS, [IN-STYLE, IN ALL THINGS THE ono
of the judges, which SUPREME EXCELLENCE IS SIM- wo partly reprinted from a {PLICITY~Longfellow, Shanghai contemporary yester day, serves to indicato disappointment which the foreign | community in the North, and: probably elsewhere, must feel) over this effort obtaining appur- ently no better results than u damp squib. Certain rosignations have occurred in the police forco concerned with the shooting, and
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Suckling roturned from Shanghai by the s.s. Provident Grant.
The Empress of Australia, which left Yokohama at 6a.m. to-day, is due here on the 16th instant.
LOCAL YACHTING.
To-
A BUSY WEEK-END. There is a busy week-end before local yachting enthusiasts. day the championship races. will be resumed and the yachts will race in the 6th Championship event the course being from the Club to Channel Rocks, Kowloon Rocks, Lyeman Beacon, märk on line and finish at the yacht Club,
To-morrow Is "Titania Day" and the Royal Navy have issued a chal
BANKNOTE SCANDAL,
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
"Paris, Jan. 8. According to Le Matin, it socina established that the persons com-." promised in the banknote scandal had been engaged in hatching October, afmeil formidable, plot in Bavaria since etan;u of the map of Central as a complete
Europe. Archiluke Albert tried to win to his eauge Signor Mussolini and the Rumanian National Party Count Bethelin tried to persunde the Regent, Admiral Horty, to re- tire voluntarily,
the making of the false French Presses used for notes were disegvered in the base- ment of the Chateau of Prince Albert at Windischgrau, henda of the Institute were Depute, Franz Ulain, arrested in Italy, has been brought to Budapest.
Tudopacif
The Cartographical arrested. The
for a race and they will lie the hosts to the Club yachtsmen en HMS. Titania. Sixteen boats are 4 large sum us compensation has
It is notified that the naino of aged and there will be a race
Newspapers of Prague state that cannot be picked or forced,been tendered to the Chinese pany, Limited, has been struck afternoon,
the Wo Hing Navigation Com.in the morning and again in the the police, neting on Informations from the French police, arrested and can only be opened by
authorities for distribution among off the Register.
The morning race will start from the Socialist Leader, Ruthene Arky. the dependants of the, victims. [
the Yacht Club and anish at Searches made in his house are the proper koy. The word
This money has been declined. has appointed Dr. O. F. Lubatti being at "cleven o'clock.
His. Excellency the Governor HMS. Titania, the starting unexpected to reveal important 'YALE'
In the developments. Obviously the position remains into act as Monopoly Analyst and afternoon the gun will go at 2.45 security,
practically the same
unsatis- as an Assistant Superintendent of and after starting from the Titania factory state
the inish will be at the Yacht Clüb. asaver, It is Imports and Exports.
High water is at 6.3 a.m. and low Shanghai's "affair", but far more |
Work on the tomb for the late water at 1136 a.m. than merely Shanglafs affair. Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Nanking wili The course of the morning race and, though only one of the in- og shortly, Musara, Yao Shin-will be from Club Line, Lyemun kee having been selected by ten-Beacon, Channel Rocks and finish cidents of a tragic period, it is der for its construction, says a at Titania, a distance of 6.6 miles. one that calls urgently for Shanghai report.
The afternoon course is via Chan-
A BISHOP'S EVIDENCE. settlement and a decent obituary
nel Rocks, Lyemun, Beacon, Gust Thu Wai Ching on her Rock Buoy to finishing point, a dis-
Budapest, Jan. 8. notice.
arrival in Hongkong, reports tance of 7.6 miles.
Giving evidence at a police in- sighting a large junk, bottom upi
quiry into the banknote affair, the The Club and Navy will be re-military Roman Catholic Bishop, The Water Supply.
in Lat. 22.23 N., Long. 114.59 Epresented in the races Statistics regarding the on January 8th at9.30. The wreck following:-
the M. Stefana Dravecz, admitted that Colony's water supply, showing is a danger to shipping.
he knew the objects inspiring the R.H.K.Y.C.-A. L. Shields (Vice- forgeries but dissociated himself the position on the first day of the present month, disclose a
Mr. Lewis S. Gannett, associate Arthur, H. S. Rouse, L.-Col. H. B. proposed adopted means.
Commodore and Captain), Capt. A. therefrom directly he discovered the marked falling off in the contents editor of The Nation, a wookly Guun, D.S.O., M.C., B.A., Lt. Col. are now six employees of the Cer of reservoirs as compared with published, in New York, is visit V. Coates, I., H. J. Pearce, H. J. tographical Institute in custody.
Thore the situation a year previously, ing Hongkong. He has been in Armstrong, P. On the date named, five out of Canton for the last two weeks Jack, C. E. L. Girst. F. G. Vaux, H. the six reservoirs on the Hong-studying the political condition Effersoc, A., J. Ritchie, R. J. Dixon, kong side wore well below the there. foverflow mark; the only excep
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FLOODS AT HOME.
tion being Tytam Internmediate,; The following members of the Royal Navy--Commodore A, J. where there were just four inches Court of the University of Hong-B. Stirling C..B., R.N., Comdr. R. above. Looking at the matter kong have been appointed for a Ratsey, R.N.. Lieut.-Comdr. B. M. from the standpoint of water further period of three years. Barraclough, R.N., Lieut.-Comdr.
THAMES VALLEY SHANGHAI'S “AFFAIR". actually in storage, we find that Messrs. D. G. M. Bernard, H. B.H. B. Crane, R.N., Lieut.-Comer.
SUBMERGED. reservoirs un the Hang.. Dowbiggin, M. P. Talati and CW. Bower, D.S.C., R.N., Lieut. kong Nido when the pre-J. R. Wood.
F. C. Husband-Clutton, R.N., Lieut.
London. Jan. 8. Hent year opened contain-
H.V. King, A.N., Lieut. G. S. Wind-entirely submarged, and it is The valley of the Thames is His Excellency the Governor yer, R.N., Lieut. E. A. A. Gibbon feared that the disasters of 1894
In many respects Shanghai hasad about 335 million gallons less
Beon more fortunate than Hong-thun was the case on January has appointed the following gen-R.N., Lieut. R. J. Gardner, RN will be repeated.Indopacfic..
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kong in the present Chinese 1925. Turning to Kowloon, temen to be members of the Lieut. R. C. S. Garwood, R.
the figures show that there was a Pilotage Board for 1926-The Lieut, M. A. Maude, R.N., Llant.. trouble. Whilst threatened decline of twenty million gallons Assistant Harbour Master (PreR. W. Mois, R. N., Surg.-Lieut. M. several times with serious as between the two datos, despite sident, an officer of the Royal Brown, R.N., Sub-Lieut. C. W. M. disturbances owing. to
its the fact that this year there were Navy, Mr. G. D. M. Arthur, Mr. Vereker, R., Sub-Lieut. G. A.
$2 million gallons stored in the C.B. Riggs, and Mr. Henry Neave Thring, R.N. proximity to the compaigning Shok Lai Pui reservoir, which
On Monday, the ladies will saii. His. Excellency the Governor their fifth championship race." months ago. It is when we come has appointed port has
the followingl to look into figures like these Litat medical practitioners as members unchallengeable position as an
wo realise the necessity for can-of the Committed to assist the entrepot for the whole of North serving supplies, especially as, in Government in the agement THURSDAY'S MURDER. the Chamber has approved the China's trade, and We doubt the normal course of events, cot of the Peak Hospit during the much rain can be expected for present year:-Dr.W. V. M. Koch, whother the financial losses of some considerable time to come. Dr. S. S. Strahan and Dr. J. W. Shanghai commercial mon have It is hard on those living in rider Anderson. boel so severe that they cannot main districts to have to ho put
by
VICTIM A CHINESE DOCTOR.
Brussels, Jan. 8. The Financial Committeo of report of M. Gaspar on the con- solidation of the Belgian debts to the United States.—Indopucific.
has received the last Sacraments. In connection with the report Brussels suys Cardinal Morcier "An Indopacifi message from
of Colonial Secretary in Ceylon, Tung Hing Lane, which runs
A large number of friends gather from Wing Lok Street to the cd at Queen's Fier to see him offray, it has since been ascer- The following forthcoming tained that the victim was a weddings are announced: Captain
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Elizabeth Quelch, widow, residing ut the King Edward Hotel; Mr. kong Club, to Miss Ado May John Norrie Owen, of the Hong- Meadows, of the Helena May
Institute.
be made up by an early, return to will be periodically unavoidable chor, accompanied by his wife, which wo gave yesterday of the Jun restricted supply, but this The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Flot-1 business. Indeed, much of the until the new and larger sources left by the P. & O. liner Maced-murder of an unknown Chinese normal life of Shanghai husaro rendered available,
onia to-day to take up the position already been 'resuntod. This is the more interesting when one
The Banknote Forgery. One imagines from the observes that the spark which set seriousness of the mutter that we alight the blaze of anti-foreignism have yet to hear very much more The Harbour Master notifies Chinese doctor named Wong Yuk. Oleg Vidimar Preselov, of the s.8. in China was, struck at the of the colossal banknote fraud that information has been re.ko, aged 43, who had been staying Philadelphia, to Mrs. Myrtle Northern port on May 30, the some of Austria's leading political ties that artillery practice will house, Connaught Road West,
which was being engineered by coived form the military authori in the Kam Lam Tai boarding tragic day when rioters were shot personages, and it is dasily take place from Stanley Penin- Macao on Wednsday, and he left The deceased arrived here from foreign-controlled police conceivable that France, the sala in a south easterly direction the boarding house soon after six
entry which was going to suffer on the 12th, 13th and 14th, Janu- That incident has apparently been mast by the putting into circula-ary. All junks, ships, and other!
'elock on Thursday night, being suffored to fester in the Chinese tion of false notes of a face valovessels are to keep clear of the found unconscious in the lang hind, for we find that seven of twenty-five-million franes, will range,
soon afterwards. As we reported months have gone by, and no questions of
ask a few pertinent and awkward,
yesterday, ho died shortly after In view of the forthcoming settlement has yet been reached. Government. The bright spot is tors for the Chinese YM.C.A.a district magistrate of Ko Chau morning at Union Church on the Budapest | At the annual election of direc. being admitted to hospital. eclipse, the Rev. J. Kirk Macona-
It is learned that the man was chic will preach on In that, the events in question that the Hungarian Premier, in Board last evening, the following under General Tang Pur-yan eclipses in Bible timos and will Sunday learning of the plot and of the ware chosen for the term of three until recently. He then led to give an illustrated lecture on assume an importance quité means by which its financial cost yours: Mr. Kwok Chin of Wing Macao by way of Kwang Chow Thursday evening in the Union beyond,what would ordinarily was going to be mot. ruthlessly On Company, Mr. Wong Kwong Wan have been the case, and we believe exposed the whole thing. A Shen, Mr. Ng Yu Det, Mr. Wong Tokyo University,
He was a graduate of Church Hall on eclipses of the those responsible for finding an
political romp d'etal was being Wei, and Mr. Ngan Kwan Yu, amicable solution are becoming order to pay those whoso help one year to sarve the unexpired prepared in Hungary and, in Mr. Wu Kai Yin was elected for! Leonsiderably warried by their was hulng onlisted, huge term of Dr. Won Mai Kai, who,
persistent failure.
quantities of French bank notes has resigned. were forged with the cognisanec Perhaps the most peculiar and assistance of many highly aspect of the May 30 affair has placed Hungarian officials. Such froin Tsun Wan Au village. Six Ne more we'll drink or wrestle with the wish-bone of a turk,
A further robbery is reported The holidays are over and we've straggled back to work; been the developments following unprecedented in the annals of mon, thras being armed with ro-With paper hats and crackers, the puddings, pics and nuts
proceeding must, surely, bo which cannot be said to have European politics, and the effect Thursday night, and while two
volvers, entered a house on And all the other odds and ends which made us feel like muts. contributed to the general dignity of it will undoubtedly
widespread and serious,
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of most people.concerned, nor to of the names involved are of house. They stole $100 in money guarded the woman who occupied a cubicle, the others soarched the have placed international diplo- personages of the highest rank, and clothing and lowellery to the macy in a very favourable light. and one wonders how the After a representative meeting schemers could have hoped for value of over $350. Before leav- of foreign delegates, a report was political schema seeing that their Police seaman who was in another the eventual success of theirng, they kidnapped 4 Water issued which, for some obscure Offices. (if they had secured Part of the house. reason, was not suffered to be- power) would have been gained
in
sun and moon.
HOLIDAYS.
There must be some who carried on with slaw and ututely grace And never hit the high-spots or ran a hectic ruce, Who woke on Boxing morning and also New Year's Day And grected all the fam'ly with wishes bright and gay.
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And when he mingled with the crowd, what sights there met his
gaze:
Who woke on those same mornings with a mouth both rough and dry, Who felt like death and shuddered at thoughts of bread or moat, discreditable manner. Music lovers will have an un-But had a bath and drank it and staggered down the street. come public until quite recently, Political machinations are, at all expected treat to-morrow (Sun- Naturally enough, this secretive times liable to lack a high moral day evening at the Queen's procedure led to harmful in-tone and many unprincipled ex-Theatre when, in addition to the pedients are doubtless resorted to picture programine, the fine Ruondoes and considerable loss of by those whose careers and lives symphony orchestra of H. M. S. "face" for the Powers concerned. depend upon the retention or Hawkins, under the baton of
the fudicial on- gaining of political power, but we Bandmester C, T. Munsfield, will quiry, conducted by a British, anany parallel in history for the the stage with some very beauti- have yet to learn that there is give a number of selections on American, and a Japanese judge, wholesale forgery of another fut lighting effects. The manage-o mon of our olean living, it fairly makes us weep; and sedulously boycotted by the country's bank-notes by a pen-mont raquest patrons to be in Wo feel so nauseated at sight of drunken sleep. Chinese. The report of that on-
urious clique seeking to pay for a thoir soate punctually at 9.15 So let us make a promise: "From strong drink we'll refrain coup d'état against fellow p.m. as the orchestral concert "And with regard to binges," I tell you; no'er again.". quiry was also subject, to delay nationals.
will start the performance.
Thon
came
The whole of Hongkong's people seemed bathed in quite a haze. He ashly called in at his club, saw many a ghastly eight With sunken check and bloodshot eye-say, what a hectic night!
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