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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.-

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of China suing politically for fuller powers while being wholly 'unablo' to exercise those she has

HE WHO CANNOT DO WHAT and of which she should be most wOULD CONTENT HIM, MUST DE jealous. A pathatio instance of CONTENT WITH WHAT HE CAN.--

Guarini.. national mismanagement, China has wordily protosted against There was again a clean bill of interference by outsiders", and health in the Colony on Wednes loft her great internal problems today, go from bad to worse. "As so often

ALLEGED DEMANDING OF MONEY.

POLICEMAN IN TROUBLE.

fended..

21 YEARS AGO,

EXTRACTS FROM “TELEGRAPH" FILES.

were

The following items are extracts An Indian Police Lance-Sergeanted from the Telegraph files for the ennie up before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, week ended February, 13th, 1905: at the Central Police Court this The Gas Co. notify the public. morning, changed with demanding that the price of gas will be re- money with menaces, and misconduced from $3.50 to $3.00 per The Observatory forecast for duct through entering a house

1,000 cubic feet. Mr. George happens, a poriod that might have to-morrow is:-NE. winds, fresh; without a warrant or other proper Curry was the local Secretary. boen put to the greatest possible fair

authority. Mr. J. Armstrong de Pollard's Lilliputian Opera saa yoar in which China could

The ss. Tilawa, which luft The Acting Deputy Superinten Company appeared in the Theatre have made great strides, had Kobo yesterday, is due here on dent of Police, Mr. C. C. Perdue, Hoval.

Russin addressed a letter to the her leaders the gift of assessing the 16th instant at 8 a.m. in outlining the case, said on Feb,

Powers complaining that groups the International spirit of the

1st., shortly after three o'clock, a times has been frittored away in

Hongkong doctors last night rent collector at Shaukivan went of bandits in Manchuria entertained to dinner, at the to the police station and gave officered by the Japanese.

Dr. Grone was appointed Ås- irritating uselessness. For the Hongkong Hotel, Sir Arthur sheet of paper, on which were writ- merchant classes, as well as for Mayo-Robson, the aminent British ten, numbers, to Inspector Black-sistant Medical Officer. of, Health, the people generally, the dying surgeon, who is one of the world man. He explained that the num-vice Dr. B. L. T. Barnell, resigned. The abolition of the likin sta- tourists on the Empress of Scot-bors corresponded with notes that

had been given to an Indian con-tions in China awaits the conclu- perous, and here in Hongkong

all the commercial stable, who had demanded the sion of and South China the times are astrict yesterday, resulting in the was not paid he would take his

The fire in the Shamshuipo.dis- money with the threat that if it treaties.

Sergt. Major E. D. C. Wolfe was stringent as have been known for total destruction of a one-storeyed father and brother to the Police promoted to rank of lieutenant in many a decade. One might well house at No. 129, Pak Ohi Lung. Station and report them for smok- the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.

Capt. G. J. B. Sayer, of tho turn inpatiently to the future to gea originated in a cockleft. The ing illicit opium, Ás a result,

loss to the landlord is assessed at Sergt. McEwen was sent out to find Hongkong Volunteer Corps, was what are the signs and prospects 33,500, the building not having the defendant, and, on being granted' 10 months' leave of _gb- of improvement.

been insured.

searched, some notes, the numbers sence.

yeur has been other than prosland.

Mustard & Co., Ltd. Internationally, China if she

of which corresponded with those Mr. C. Courtney, of Messrs. Money and jewellery to the written on the paper, were found Butterfield and Swire, fell from can only steer clear of tho further value of $390 wero stolen from in his possession.

the Peak tram ear down into the orgy of fighting which is even No. 12. Wunam Street, Aberdeen, It appeared that the defendant sullah, just outside the tramway now threatening is conceivably according to a report made to the entered the house and found a son station. He was later removed on the point of gaining much of police yesterday by the owner, a of the tenant boiling opium. Selz-anecnscious to the Government

Chinese woman, who said that ing him by the collar, the defen- Civil Hospital. (that which is being claimed for this theft occurred during her dant demanded $100, threatening The Hongkong Cricket Inter-

her. The conferences sitting and absence from, the house. pending on Auch matters us Customs tariff revision, extrator YUNNAN EXPEDITION. the assistance of another son, (the was inspected by Major General ritoriality the reconstruction of]

one

The Telegraph.

FRIDAY, FEB. 12, 1926.

ANOTHER YEAR.

cit

HOLS out to write

the Shanghai Municipal Council,

mand of General Li Chai-sum.

At

to report him if he did not payport team beat Swatow, at that The father came out of a back room,port, by an innings and 66 runs. where he was smoking opium, and The Hongkong Volunteer Corps

rent collector), was called in. C. Slade. One hundred and When he arrived, he had $80 in thirty members were present. and the rendition of the Mixed THE CANTON ARMY PLANS.ing, the defendant reduced his de-gave the fourth of its series of

his possession, and, after bargain- The Masonic Quadrille Club........ Court promise fruitful conclusion, Following the report of Mr.mand to $70. The rent collector dances in the Masonic Hull, Zot- It is with some diffidence that providing it is found that China Wang Ching-wai and General Tan went out to borrow $10, and, meef-land Street.

in can be trusted with the conces-Yen-kai having left for the Northing a friend, told him about it. a boxing display in the retrospective moud of the closing sions she seeks. Britain's de-River sector to confer with Gen- The friend advised him to note the Theatre Royal, Christie beat King report the matterin 躲 fifteen-round, contest on Chinese year-the year that was clared policy, so-far as the breacheral Chu Pui-tak, a report states numbers and that General Chang Kai-shek and which he did.

points. Mr. J. D. Logan was ushered in with pessimism by the between Hongkong and Canton his staff proceeded in gunboat |

In the first place, it was alleged timekeeper, and Mr. J. Burke re- superstitious as being one of bad is concerned, is avowedly one of to the South-West sector, to in- the defendant threatened to report feres.

the father for smoking opium, but If ever China has patient conciliation. China'spect the troops under the coin a later statement it was stated warranted the title of a "land of civil wars must remain her own This step is in accordance with that the threat was made because surrows" it has been during the concern. And thus is it seen, from the order of the Military Counes the son was boiling opium.

The case is proceeding. thirteen lunar months now about every angle, that the situation will that the whole Army is to be in- to end, because from one end of only improve in ratio to China's spected within three months.

It is surmised that General Li the country to the other there growth of ability to control her Chai-sum will be given the com- has been a forced and unpleasant|own affairs and people. Hermand of the expedition against garnering of the fruits of mal- ardent students would be better Yunnan, in conjunction with Gen- administration. Right from the employed seeking internal recral Fan Shck-sang. General Li, BRIEF VISIT TO HONGKONG.

being a Kwangsi man, is consider- early days of the year, matters forms than meddling in the ed the best man to head this ex-

Sir Charles Eliot, G.C.M.G., who was the first Vice Chancellor of began to go wrong the country's international aspects of China's pedition,

the Hongkong University, having poverty and commercial status, and if there is any, hope at It is said that the 4th Army held last position from 1912 to reported to be at Nossi Be, Mada-

Corps will be despatched from 1918, is at present on a brief visit fiers are with the squadron.

gascar. Eighteen German col- to all in the future it must of Yunchow to Lungchow, on the to the Colony, passing through on depressioi leading D. widespread discontent with the necessity lie in the growth of the Yunnan frontier, as soon as Gen his way Home on retiring from Dowager has become a convert to It is reported that the Empress authority. And knowledge that China needs justerul Chang Kai-shek has complet-the important position of British Christian Science.

chancos administration from the inside as ed his inspection, and large quan- Ambassador to Japan, which he has those

tities of ammunition are, it is held since 1919. He is a passen Rev. J. B. Martinet, Procureur- The death is announced of the of fate tha: happen now and a preliminary to any improv-stated being transported from ger on the N. Y. K. Liner Kashima again and decide the destiny of ment of her standing among the Kongmoon and Sui Hing.

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big things, that discontent with nations of the world. Wo wish internal chaos swung round into we had the power to offect all the the form olan anti-foreign wave improvements we roulias' are so that has been unequalled since essential, and, more in hope than. the days of the Boxer revolt and in expectation, though none the which was, even to the most less hearty, we wish all our U. S. OBJECTS TO DIVORCED

LADY, observant and magnanimously Chinese friends a happier year to minded, without justification or come than the one through which

New York, Feb: 11. Peuson. How that wave spread they have just passed.

The immigration officials have until it engulfed practically the

decided not to allow* Vera, The Opium Evil,

!

that

Meanwhile she

SIR CHARLES ELIOT.

was

The Kowloon Pigeon Club held a.show in the Kowloon Hotel. Among the successful exhibitors were Mesars.. J. D. Logan, G. Kynorh, J. Hand, and W. Higby.

H.M.S. Vengeance was inspect- ed in drills and general evolu- tions by Rear Admiral, the Hon. A. G. Curzon-Howe, before sailing for Malta on the 10th Inst.

The death is announced In Ger- many of Mr. Grote, of the firm of Messrs. Melchers and Company. The Russia Baltic Squadron is

Maru, which came into port to-day General of the Mission Etrangeres. The West Kents had to vacate and resumes. her trip to-morrow, During his brief stay in the Colony, Mount Austin Barracks owing to Sir Charles has had the pleasure of case of plague in the coolie renewing many friendship formed quarters.

Mr. William Laird, chief officer during his residence here.

Sir Charles Eliot, who

of the s.s. Shakzada, lost his life educated at Cheltenham and Ox at Kowloon Dock. Deceased went ford, where he carried off many down into the lower hold of the high honours, has had a most dis-vessel to investigate a fire and was tinguished career in the diplomatic asphyxiated.

There was a Naval Boxing Com- service. He was Third Secretary in the Embassy at St. Petersburg petition at Kowloon Docks. Sen- from 1888 to '1892, at Constan- men from H. M. S. Glory, H. M. S.. whole foreign community, and Whilst we are prepared to the United States to which she Affaires in Morocco from 1892 part.

Countess of Cathcart to land intinople from 1893 to 1898, Charge Albion, and H. M. S... Ocean took how it has been prolonged and regard the activities of the Nahas proceeded with the object of to 1923, in Bulgaria in 1895 and exploited in South China by non-tional Anti-Opium Association marketing a play she has written. Serbia in 1897, Secretary to the of the Very Rev. F. R. Noval as The appointment is announced as coming within the scope of Chinese enemies of Britain, is well-intentioned ideas, we cannot

The Countess, replying to offi-British Embassy at Washington in successor to the Very Rev. E. Tar- all too widely-known and suffered but regret an attempt which this culs, acknowledged she 1898, and High Commissioner of res, in his office of Procurator of to need telling here. In the body has just made to place the was divorced and has declared her the East Africa Protectorate and he Dominican Mission.

blame on foreigners for the con- intention of appealing to Washing Agent and Consul General in Zan- The first meeting of Hongkong North and Central China that mance of the opium evil in ten with a view to a reversal of zibar from 1900 to 1904, when he Regatta took place off Wanchals wave has passed, and in its China. The Association has just the order.

re-resigned. The following year, he Representing the Civil Service wake has come a recrudescence sent a message to the members mains in the Ellis Island Deten- became Vice Chancellor of the Cadets in a race-were-A. G. M.. of the Commission on Extra-tion Station. The Countess en-University of Sheffield, ir. 1909 was] Fletcher; S. B. G. Ross, E, R, Hall- of the devastating 'civil} territoriality in the course of gagement to the novelist, Ralpha member of the Royal Commission fax, C. MclMesact Cox: J, R. war in which the country which it. asserts that the Neale, was recently announced on Electoral Systems, then spent Wood.

the Renter's American Service,

six years in Hongkong as Vico is periodically embroiled by privileges enjoyed under

existing system constitute a sort The Countess of Catheart was Chancellor of the University, "after independent militarist's owning of permit to dishonest foreigners formerly

Miss Vera Frater, which he rejoined the diplomatic allegiance to none and consider- engaged in the smuggling of the daughter of the late Mr. John service, being appointed High Com- ing nothing but their personal drug, and also stating that owing Fraser of Cape Town. She origin-missioner in Siberia and sub-

10 the transportation of opiumally married Captain de" Croy sequently Ambassador to Japan. aggrandisement and power. The from abroad in foreign vessels, it Warter, of the 4th. Dragon Guarda, story of the "Yi-Chton "your is difficult for the Chineso author-whu was killed in the war. In will, for the majority of people in ties to enforce oplum prohibition | 1919 she married the Earl of STRANDED VESSELS. the North be one of useless so long as extra-territoriality re-Cathcart who divorced her. in

inuing in force. The inference 1922.1 slaughter and chaos, of hunger from these statements is that the

ALL THREE STILL ASHORE. [ing to Mr. Day, Sir Austen Cham- and privation born of the futile production of opium by China is

berlain said no munitions or any. The arrival of the Altai Maru other support had been given by waste of internecine strife. A quite a minor matter compared

with the importation from abrond, gressively reducing the exports in the waters of the Colony was the British War Office to the reliable estimate only last week but that, of course, is ridiculous of the drug with the object of officially notified at the Harbour British Volunteer Force in Han- put the number of starving people China herself grows some 15,000 extinguishing them altogether mee this morning although she how during the past twelve. in the Central Provinces at just tons of opium annually, whilst as except as regards medical re-

for the smuggling from abroad it quiroments. The facts aro that is still ashore in the Fo Tau Man monthe-Reuter. over one million, and inis pertinent to point out that the China herself is utterly unable to

Lighters are still engaged in the every newspaper that comes from bulk of this is from Turkey control the production of opium the North can be found authentic and Persia, countries which have in her own country, thanks main-transfer of her cargo but it is not no extra-territorial rights in ly to the activities of militarists anticipated that she will get off narratives of the ravages caused China. So for as Britain is con- who, for the sake of the profits today.

Of the Hunan and Kweiyang, to peaceful people by undis-corned, every ounce of opium accruing to them, actually com ciplined troops. The Contral grown in India in accounted for pel farmers to cultivate the grounded in the western entrance Government in Peking has again only two days ago a message

and its destination known; whilst Poppy. The anti-oplum laws in to the Hainan Straits, little fur- China remain a dand letter, and ther information is to band, but it provod helpless, and one has came to hand To the effect that the evil will nevor bo abolished is certain that so far they are still

so long as that is the case.

hield up. had to witness the sorry speptacle the Indian Government is pro

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