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HERRING HALL MARVIN BANK VAULT DOORS.

"A STANDARD FOR THE WORLD" The installation of a Herring Hall Marvin Vault Door la a form of insurance which cannot be duplicated The name itself is the best proof of the high quality of the product-the leader of its kind for over three quarters of a century.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926.

uncertain is the widespread belief

that the newly-formed Hau Shih-

ying Cabinet is none too securely

DAY BY DAY.

THE GIFT DERIVES ITS VALUE seated in the saddle. So far as FROM THE RANK OF THE GIVER. one can gather, there are still-Ovid. many complicated issues to be

Thore was a clean bill of health straightoned out, both in the in the Colony over the wook-end. political and military domaine,

The P. &0. s.s. Karmala, which and he would be a bold, man who

Taft Singapore at 6 pm. on the would venture to prophesy what 18th instant, is due here at 6 p.m. the year 1926 has in store for on the 23rd. North China and the country at large.

Fire-Fighting Needs.

Nothing yot has been said officially regarding possible

·LOCARNO TREATY.

AN ITALIAN ARGUMENT,

Romo, Jan. 18.

TRAFFIC CASES.

(Continued from Page 1)"

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P. W. D. MAN VINED.

The Special Committed charged

Mr. A. J. Wheeldon, of the with the examination of the Locar-F.W.D., the owner of an A.J.8. ho Treaty presented its report to combination, was charged by Sergt. the Chamber of Deputies, pro-with leaving the vehicle unattend.. Baker, of the Traffic Department.

testing against the possibility of od at 2.40 p.m. on Decembar 28th granting a colonial mandate to on the south side of Queen's Road

Central, opposite the City Hall. Germany before Italy has obtained H. M. S. Concord arrived from the north yesterday morning at from the League of Nations the 7.15 and berthed in the man-of-mouns to assure her own economie war anchorage.

The weather forecast for to- action to make quite certain thatmorrow is N.E. winds, mode- the Colony is sava farther fire rate to fresh; generally.overcast.

some drizzle or mist.

expansion-tudopacift.

GERMAN OPINION,

Berlin, Jan. 18.. Herr Stressemann, speaking yesterday at Populist meeting, declared that it would be foolish

of such disastrous character as that which visited the Hongkong The paying-off ball of. H. M. S. to give a definite judgment on the Hotel on New Your a Day. It is common ground between Hawkina will take place on board Locarno Treaty, which has not parties-the Government Fire to-morrow evening, commencing yet entered into force and which Brigade, the Hotel Company and at 8.30 p.m. The officers' ball has will not bear all its fruits until the insurance bodios-that there been arranged for the following after Germany has joined the was no offective fire-fighting evening.

League of Nations. Meanwhile, he thinks that it is an historical SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES force of water in the building

until the engines of the 'Brigade : The President Polk, arriving fact that this Treaty has already got to work at a time when the yesterday, reports boisterous ses shaken the previous Rhonish poli- top floor was almost hopelessly between San Francisco and Kobe, ties of France.Indopacif involved, and we think that the during which time a Chinese!

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TUESDAY, JAN. 19, 1926.

AN UNCERTAIN OUTLOOK.

governmental action is being overboard. taken to ensure that in all high

In the Ladies' Saction of the buildings thera cun, at all tintes. ba..secured a Strong force of Golf Club, the final of the Rail- water on the upper floors. There way Cup was played on Thurs- are one or two buildings hera in day last, the winner heing Mrs. which special fire-fighting pumps D. J. Lewis, who boat Mrs. K. S.. have been installed, and we Morrison by 2 and 1.: seriously suggest that, in the

stalled.

We know that

· THE RHINELAND,

BRITAIN AND GERMANY'S REQUEST.

After Sergeant Baker had given avidence, defendant said he and no desire to loave the combination at the spot where it was found." He had previously left it in tho parking space near the fountain, outside the City Hall, but the po- ice themselves pushed it into the place where Sergeant Baker found it.

Chief Inspector Kent explained that it was only at night-time, when there were performances in the theatre, that cars were moved over on to the Beaconsfield Arçado afde of the parking place. At all other imes they were allowed in the space outside the theatre.

Defendant then complained of the delay in notifying him of the offence. He said it was fifteci days after the incident that he re- seived, the summons, by which time he might easily forgot what really happened.

Chief Inspector "Kent said i there was any delay it must be on the part of the Magistrate's Office in, lasuing the summons.

Defendant was fined $5.

London, Jan, 18. absence of very high pressure in With reference to. the applica

Reuter learns that the British

THOUGHT HE WAS BEING SALUTED. the street muins, the Govern- tion by Mr. Owen Hastings, Government is at present giving ment should insist on all high Dennys, and Bowloy!, at the attention to Germany's represen- For dangerous driving up buildings having such pumps In-Central Police Cours yesterday. tations regarding the number of Stubbs Road, particularly in ne- corner which is re- in for the case against the two, Chi- Shanghai very strict regulations nose, who were sont le prison for Allied troops in the Rhineland, gotiating a are enforced as regards fire pro- three months with hard labour. with a view to suitably replying tarded as dangerous, a Hongkong thereto after consultation with Hotel Garage driver was fined- tection before ди Occupafor intimidating a pantry boy at

the Franco-Belgian Governmenta, $20. tion curtificate is given the Hongkong Hotel, to be re- At the present moment, thereby the Municipality, and opened, it has been decided that-Reuter. is a hill in the military operations there have been many cases the case will not he re-heard.

in which owners of property

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Sergeant Baker, of the Traffic Department, who overtook the de- endant on his combination, said that in the process. of speeding along Stubbs Road, the defendant first overtook a car, then a lorry The at a dangerous corner. speed defendant attained was 20 miles an hour, and there might have been a bad smash at the. corner with a vehicle from the opposite direction.

The defendant, who asked how his driving could be regarded na dangerous, told the Court that he thought he was being accorded a salute when Sergeant Baker over- took him and raised up an arm in warning."

in North China, but it would already in occupation have been An official communique an- appear from a study of the news told to carry out certain worknouncos the appointment of Gen- papers that the situation is by no unless they desire to have the oral Ching Chim, as General Offi-

building officially closed against eer Commanding the 6th Army LATEST QUOTATIONS. means composed as yet. The

them. There is far too much Corps and General Lao Te-ping, recent remarkable recovery of official indifference here in the as Vice-General Officer Com- Messrs. Carroll Bros. are in re inmanding the 2nd Army Corps.ceipt of a cable from Singapore Marshal Chang Tso-lin and the question of fire, protoction

buildings, although it would be a Another communique announcos advising that rubber is quoted at triumph of what has been termed carping critic who would find the appointment of Dr. C. C. Wu. $1.99 per tb, and giving the fol. the People's Army, in its war fault with the work of the Fire Messrs. Hau Chien, Lum Cheong, lowing quotations: with Ceneral 1, put an entirely Brigade. It is not enough to Loo Hing-yuon und Chin Shu-fun

Ayer Panus Balgownies different complexjun on the evil provide a good Fire Brigade: as members of the Committee of there, should strictly enforcible Judicial Affairs, with Hsu Chion war, and there were hopes in anti-fire regulations governing as Chairman of the Committee. many quarters that these develop the occupation of property. If we In the absence of Hsu Chien on a take the Poak district, for special diplomatic mission, to ments would usher in a new and

instance, how many houses aro Peking, Dr. C. C. Wu is to act as mero peaceful era. It seems, there the inhabitants of which Chairman pro fen. however, that the situation in would have any possible chance Shantang is still far from settled, before the Fire Brigade arrived? of the districts in the extreme of putting out a serious firo Telegrams from the magistrates the relations between the Honan What does anybody think would north-eastern part of Kwangtung forces and the troops under happen if the Pouk Hotel went have been received, stating that Marshal Wu Pui-fu still being on fire? Surely, it is just as those districts have been raided important for a building to be complicated.

properly.equipped to fight fire as by roving bands of the Yuct Kwan soldiers on the Kingsi-Fukien- One result of the recent fighting it is for it to conform to certain Kwangtung, frontier, and that the has been that all the forces have standards of security?

forces stationed there are in- jadequate to round them up. The FRENCH PAPER'S OPINION.

Committee of Military Affairs has ordered General Ching Chim, who

Paris, Jan. 18.

Soviet Le Matin regards the is responible for the peace and welfare of these districts, to hunt changes as the most considerable down these bands of soldiers event in the internal politics of pony belonging to Mr. A. H. Car

since. the death of Mroll, was injured in the left but- even if he has to enter the terri-Russia

Lenin, M. Rykoff, representing tock when a motor cycle ridden by tory of Kiaugsi to do so.

the truly Russian National Moderna bespectacled Chinese youth ran ism and Communism, tends to into it. sometime last month.

buen weakened by losses, and it

is stated that the People's Army, which has gained by the turn- of events, is rather Longer for peace. There is, however, a fear by the followers of Gonoral Feng that the Mukdenites may attempt

GREEK DEBT.

HITCH IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH US.

Washington, Jan. 18.

SOUND ADVICE TO LANCASHIRE,

SOVIET CHANGES.

Indopacifi,

A EUROPEAN FINED. Mr. G. K. Vallack WAS fined $10 on "a charge of speeding while driving a moter cycle combination in Morrison Cap Road on the 19th December.

Inspector. Alexander stated he was on his combination with the Chief Inspector in the aide car when he saw defendant, who was attempting to overtake a lorry, but had to swerve behind it again when another lorry appranche l from the opposite direction..

WELL-KNOWN PONY INJUREIL Elmleaf, a well-known rack.

The accident occurred in Leighton Hill Road and it is alleg- ed by the youth that it was brought about by the pony, which, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. was being led along by a mafoo, laking fright and backing into the way of his machine, which was being driven on the proper side of the roadway.

BRITAIN'S MODEST PROGRAMME.

London, Jan. 18.

to extend their influence to Shan- A temporary deadlock has arisen haikwan, Johol and Peking, and in the Greek debt negotiations, as PIECE GOODS PROBLEM. become the heir of M. Lenin It is said that this is the main the Greeks have informed the American commission that they are factor in preventing a stabilisa-unauthorised, to negotiate the fard- tion of matters in the capital. {ing of the fifteen million dollar war Much, of course, depends on debt unless the United States will extend a further loan of thirty

London, Jan. 18. the attitude of Chang Tso-lin. three millions, The Americans

Urging Lancashire to start the On this point, the Mukden War have replied that they are una extensive production of cotton cloth)

Replying to the Magistrate, Ina- Lord, in a recent interview, stated thorised to make any further ad-of coarser grades, Sir William

pector Kent said the animal was that ho intends supplying urmas vances under the war credit. It is Clare Lees, ex-president of the

understood that the Greeks are Manchester Chamber of Commerce, In a speech at Ludlow, review. unable to carry on training for and ammunition to General cabling to Athens for instructions. In a speech, said that the growthing the Government's record, Mr sometime and they were not sur: Ching-lin in return for his aid, as-Reuter.

of collon in India and China was Bridgeman said it was not gen- that they would be able to run

It In the forthcoming Races. he could not leave him to his fate.i "

Fater.a factor that would have to be erally known that other great mari-f Mr. Caroll, who was kept During the war the United States reckoned with. So long as casters time Powers namely the United

by away

a Board meet. What is of mere importance than

extended a credit, of fifty million peoples were ready to buy cloth States, Japan, France and Italy ing, was represented in Court this statement, however, is his dollars to Greece but only fifteen made from that cotton Britain had kaip down since the war ove by one of his clerks, who said declaration that he does not pro-millions were actually advanced. should strive for a share of the three hundred warships. from pose sending his troops beyond The Greek Government now, ap-business, He quoted statistics cruisers downwards, while Bri-that Mr. Carroll had actually spent between $70 to $80 in hay- contribution was only ing the pony attended to for the Shanhaikwan, and that he willparently, desires, as a condition ef showing the remarkable ineroase in tain's

the funding settlement, to draw on Japanese exports of piece gonda to cleven: "So don't let anybody say rather serious scratch caused to do his utmost for the preservation the balance of this war credit after China, corresponding with a de- we led the competition in the new the upper part of its left hindleg, of peace in the throe Eastern Pro-jallowing for accrued interest oncline of Britain's shore.-Reuter. construction

warships." vinces. He added that the Muk-what has been actually advanced. den forces.could easily defout the-Reuter's American Service. People's Army, but he has no

intention of fighting against M. KRASSIN'S HEALTII. General Feng, his present plan: being to rotire from office when

"PROLONGED HOLIDAY

PLANNED,

Paris, Jan. 18.

BRITISH GOLFER.

Reuter,

ROBBERY

of:

His Worship imposed a fine of

$5 on the defendant for negligunt driving, and on the question of compensation for Mr. Carroll in PLANNED? structed the Chief Inspector to

sce the pony's owner..

ACCEPTS. NEW YORK POST.

FOUR CHINESE CHARGED. New York, dan, 18.

Hatred of the former German. While staying at St. Augustines, Four Chinese, who were Kaiser is still strong enough in Flori. Archic Compston, the caught on the stairway at 230, England to force a Sheffold There are, however, other fac-

North Manchester golf profes-Queen's Road East, appeared be-picture theatre manager to with- M. Krassin has arrived here cional, who is touring the states fore Mr. R. E. Lindseli, at the draw a film depicting Wilhelm II tors, in the situation besides

from Moscow and leaves shortly with Massy, has intimated that Central Polica Court this morn- and his daily life in Doorn. The Marshal Chang Tso-lin, and it to reaume his duties at the Em he has tentatively accepted aning, charged with attempted film was shown" recently and will be interesting to watch how bassy in London, though, owing appointment will the New York armed robbery, and hoing in almigat caused a rist although the the various interosta become to the state of his health, he Metropolitan and District Club. possession of daggers, gags, etc. picture itself simply dealt with intende to take a fairly prolonged Thus, Britain loses one of her Inspector Murphy asked for a the ex-Kaiser doing odd jobs aligned, as time goes on. What holiday in the near future-best known golfing personalities. romand for a week, and this was about the house and roading the makes the outlook oven more] Reuter,

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