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is going to admit to permanent mombership of the Council such

DAY BY DAY.

FOR IT IS BETTER TO BE ALONE countries as Spain, Poland and THAN IN DAD COMPANY-George Brazil, the problem is plunged Washington.

into utter chaos and anomaly, Where is one to bogin and ond If Brazil, why not Chile and the Argentine? If Spain and Poland, why not Jugo-Slavia and Czecho Slovakia; and why not (moro

FORMERLY IN HONGKONG.

DEATH OF PROFESSOR

3. B. J. SKERTCHLY:

↑ The weather forecast up to noon. It is with much regret that wo to-morrow is-N.E. winds, frosh; have to chronicle the death of overcast, drizzle and mist.

The Ms. Japan left Singapore on the 13th instant, and is due

portinently) such important here, on the 20th.

what

Professor S: BJ. Skertchly, who will be remembered by some of the Colony's elder residents as a former Hongkong, man,

European countries 'as" Sweden, and Holland? It can be seen at The P. & C. s.8, Dovanba, which once that if the honour of having loft Singapore yesterday at 8 ju permanent seat on the Council a.m., is duo here at 6 a.m. on the branches of science.

20th instant. is not strictly confined to have been known as the Great Powers, G vista of jealousy intrigue and log-rolling is opened up, at the end of which lies the dissolution of the Longue.

An amendod notification staten that the 8.9 Kalyan loft Singa pore on the 12th Instant at 4 p.m., and is due here at 8 a.m. on the 17th instant.

He was a

a 'most

BOOTLEGGING CONSPIRACY.

SENSATIONAL INDICTMENT,

New York, March 15."

$25,000,000 as COST OF ENFORCEMENT.

A message from Cleveland, Ohio, says the millionaires, manufac... turers, real estate men and also Government employees, in twelve cities are involved in a 40,000 word indictment, naming 112 persons in During his residence in the an alleged bootlegging conspiracy, Colony, the deceased gentleman which has been returned by a took an especially keen interest Federal Grand Jury. The Indict in geology and natural history was originated by four Philadelphia ment alleges that the conspiracy being an expert in both these bootleggers, who had headquarters it Cleveland and created an particularly keen member of the organisation for the concentration Odd Volumes Society, founded by and distribution of a contraband Sir James Cantlle, to the mem-supply of pure grain alcohol. lecturas, acting also us bera of which he often delivered The operations are alleged to

cover a Burlad of three years. informative guide at walks in the Reuter's American Service. Now Territories. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that he was It was an essential part of the

the father of a former editor of Two cases of rabies are notified the Hongkong Telegraph. understanding at Locarno that,

On by the Medical Officer of Health leaving Hongkong, he Germany should enter the League

as having occurred in the 48 British North Borneo, where he went to and receive the status, of a Fer-hours endod March 14th. In one remained for some years pursuing manent Momber of the Council caso a Chinese was the victim, in his researches, and later settled a status which is going to be the other a dog.

in Queensland, being first Brest- something" vastly different from

dent of the Queensland Natura A Chinese male child has beanists' Club and of the Royal what Germany thought if other]

of Queensland. wont to the Government Civil Society than Great Powers are going to Hospital suffering from a dog bite, death took place, at the age of be given permanent" seats for the The animal belonge to a Chinese 76 years, at Nerang.

The late Professor was a writer sake of a "counterpoise," It is widow of 10, Sholley Stroot, and

subjecto when one views the issud in that has been sent to Kennedy Town. of some note on the

to which he devoted the greater light that one sees the full signifi-

part of his life and among his canes of the German standpoint. on the right side of the faco, & fey, Swinburne, Russell Wallace, Suffering from a severe wound friends he counted Darwin, Hux There is little doubt but that Chinese male has been sent to the Oscar Wilde and G. A. Sala. He Germany will be admitted to the Government Civil Hospital. It came of a Lefcestershire family TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1926.

League, but there is still a grave inflicted by a chopper, which was fumaus Guy, Earl of

is alleged that the wound was which traces itself back to the cloud hanging over the issue of thrown at him by someone on an The first step in his career as a Warwick. LEAGUE'S REAL ISSUE, her receiving a permanent seat upper floor at 30, Possession geologist was a post with the If only the Street. The wounded man lived Khedive of Egypt, after which he

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on the Council. cloud can be cleared-und there. are many influences, strenuously at work-it may yet be possible to effect the salvage of some. of the Locarno hopes."

Hie

discovered evidences of human existence.. in the glaciul era in Chinese constable was found at being supported later by the Yesterday, the body of a East Anglia, his conclusione

King's Park, Kowloon, death eminent. Dr. Geikle, having apparently been due to aj wound in the throat. The con- stauble had been missing from: Yaumati Police Station sinco;

is one of murder or suicide. Sunday night. At the moment, it is not known whether the case

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ITALIAN DEBT.

In connection with the above the following interesting telegram appeared in the Manila Bulletin. from the United Press agency.

Lincoln Andrews, Chief of the Washington, March 6-Gonoral special prohibition enforcement europaign, to-day told the House Ways and Means Committee that it would cost the nation around $25,000,000 to maintain prohibi- tion enforcement during 1926 as it is being conducted at present,

He said that he would not ven- ture a guess as to how much it would cost to bring about complete. state appropriations of the same enforcement without the aid of purpose.

Committee began

The House: Ways and Means consideration' yesterday of the bill, sponsored by Secretary Meljon, which creates a Department for the enforcement of prohibition entirely separate from the Treasury Department. This would bo un enforcement bureau

and responsibility in the hands of centralizing the entire authority

one man.

General Andrews' friends, are. arging him to step up and resign, fellowing what is generally looked upon as a rebuff by Secretar Mellon. Without mincing words, Mellon, several days ago spurned Andrews' scheme for a Presidential commission to investigate the status of prohibition.]

one great topic of interna- tional comment at the moment is the imperiled condition of the League of Nations now 'in session Cat Geneva, and there is no need for us to make excuse in refer-

Labour Tyranny. ring to the matter onco more oditorially. So far as the pro-tyranny have seldom been more The ovil.consequences of labour

BRITAIN GETS FIRST

PAYMENT. gress of conciliatory movements strikingly illustrated than in the is concerned, the latest telegrams incidents which have led to the

Rugby, March 15. ** When a Chinese female,crawled tell their own story, and we pro-closing down of the Canton Hos-

sum of £2,000,000, being pital. Having induced the into a sewer at Argyle Street, the first half-yearly instalment of pose, in this article, to deal with Chinese workers in this Ame-she was rescued by Station Off-the Indian debt, under the fund- the question of the composition rienn-controlled institution cer Saunders, of the Kowlooning agreement recently reached

striko go on of the Council of the Loagne as

because the Fire Station, and was sent to the etween Mr. Winston Churchill u matter of principle. apart almit to Union control, the strike man had a wound on the right account of the British Treasury Engineering Union, and declined

management would not

sub-Kwong Wah Hospital. The wo- and Count Volpi, was paid to the together from what is, at the leaders caused water light und side of the head, apparently to-day.-British Wireless, monient, happening as Geneva, food supplies to be cut off for caused by her striking the brick- age has been received from the three days until it eventually work inside the sewer. "A mess- hospital, that the woman had been under their observation before.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

The

A muss meeting of Messrs. Hoe's workers decided not to ac-·· cept the decision of the National Committee of the Amalgamated

to resume work-Reuter.

The Very Idea!

The

"The defendant gave her nge as diacovered with 28 children. twenty-seven." What we want to oldest is 35 and the youngest one know is, whether that is news or year The proud parent is him- were the reporters inferring some self 55 and has had many wives. thing 7

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It may have been asked by many, became impossible for the foreign "Where is the danger of enlarg-staff to carry on. Apparently, ing the Council of the League?" was nothing to the strike organi- and why cannot there be an at-sation that, as the result of these Lerroristic methods, the lives of tude of "the more, the merrier"? suffering patients of their own Of course, there is, first and nationality should be placed in foreinost the obvious objection to danger. They were prepared to wield the weapons of intimida- an unwieldly Council, just as tion and dictation with an there is an objection to unwieldy autocracy which contraqis Cabinet or unwieldly Com- strangely with their glib talk of freedon and liberty.. mittees, and it can be argued so we have it on record that that the Council's functions are finally the inmates of the hospital WANTED A COLEOPTERIST

but at no time more than four. so important that it cannot afford were reduced to a" diet of salt

Sir, There have been several

He considers that four, la enough to inour unnecessary handicaps ggs, whilst the American staff

carried on us bost they could references lately to the mosquito)

M. Henry T. Finek advises the for one man to handle, and he now to its technical efficiency, without light or water. There is problem, and it may be of interest study of astronomy and long con has four, all of whom are young, But this is for from being all yet another contrast provided by to draw attention to the possi- templation of the illimitable He says he is still going strong It is contended, by those who this affair-namely, that whilst bilities of enlisting the services of heavens for the cure of "the and hopes to do even better for his

the authorities are engaged in water beetles in this connection. ludicrous egotism" of singers and country, have, the very best interests of carrying out & health campaign Some little time ago'a tar boiler other professional musicians. Wo the Longue as a League at heart which involves the vaccinu was noticed at the road side at can suggest an easier and less A good story of a Hongkong that if the proposal to admittion of thousands of people, Shek 0 which, having been out of bothersome remedy. It would be a kiddie who was taken to church these professional trouble-makers use for a while, contained a quan-casual chat, with the orchestra at Home whilst his parents were on leave is going the rounds. It permanent seats on the Council of mercy and bouling which the to clear without a dipper it was

so happened that it was a Com-, were adopted, it would under-subjects of a friendly nation seok left at the time; and visited a few

cunion service to which the little to carry out amongst the Chinose days later, when mosquito, larvae Illustrating his lecture with Naturally, the nice white table. a Californian paper: lad was taken by his mother. mine the fundamental prin- Incidentally, we are wondering were expected, but instead, a num-stereopticon slides and, motion- cloth; the bread and the wine ciple of the Council's com what steps the Canton Govern-ber.of water beetles were seen. pictures, Dr. position:

principle is ment took to provont the cutting These appeared to be of the Andrews, Gobi Desert explorer, and, unable to suppress his curiosity Roy Chapman attracted the youngster's attention, off of the water and light supplies Dytiscus type, with the characteris-recently showed an audience of any longer, during prayer te that two elements go to make up to the hospital. Surely, it has tic yellow stripe on each side, but 400 at the Long Beach Ebell Club whispered somewhat loudly in his the Council: 臼 permanent more control over the city's much smaller than : fe large just how he and members of his mother's ear:-"Are we going to element, consisting of what are affairs than to permit a handful Dytiseus found in Great Britain.

Here was a case where the ability 10,000,000,000 years ago.”

staff dug qut dinosaur called the Great Powers, and a of labour extremists to cause the

egg stop to fin, mummy?" shutting down of an institution of the beetle to fly had enabled it! fluctuating clement, consisting of which has done such magnificent to get to water Inaccessible to fish,

The blunt, outspoken chap is smaller States elected by thoir work for the masses of Canton, and it seems not improbable that We're not going to worry over rarely as popular as the one who peers. There are four present

beetles play h considerable much until the flapper gets to be la a little economical with the permanent members, these boing

part in keeping down mosquito at least half as bad as she paints truth. Iarvae in paddy fields and other halfers. pinces where small fish cannot live

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OPIUM..

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owing to the water draining off at Insomnia is a serious thing, cepecially when one's wife is It would appear therefore that afflicted.. paddy fields and pools of fair extent are not so likely to contain

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The absent-minded dentist who....

Was working, quite alert, Upon his car applied a wrench

And said, "Now this won't

hurt."

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the United States, Germany and

"Do not smoke or drink, but have Russia would be entitled

A Chinese who came from Amoy mosquito larvae as very small plenty of wives".

Our sympathy goes "out to the parmanont seats if and when they was arrested on the Kwong Wing quantities of water, often conceal- That is the ongevity receipt of man whose wife refused to talk become mombors of the Longue. wharf on the 13th inst; when heed in long grass and perhaps fed Karo Agha, the oldest man in Tur- loud enough to produce an echo for The foregoing may be considered a was found to have in his possession springs, in which beetles can-key who, with health and happi- fear it would have the last word,

not swim,--drainage being in suchess, is now enjoying his 150th somewhat arbitrary definition of 126 taels of non-Government pre-cuses imperative and oiling only year. He ascribes his long life to what are the world's Great pared oplum, valued at $1,500. The effective as a tomporary measure his polygamous practice from early

Perhaps someone in the Colony manhood. Powers, but it is, after all, a opium was found concealed in the

may have studied the habits of sansible and practical definition, false bottom of a basket.

local carnivorous, water beetles, The defendant said he was on his and if so, an' article might be of way to Anním.

considerable value.Yours, etc... it. Ilindicates a clear, broad line

C. H. BLASON. Mr. Lindsel imposed a fine of which can be defendod and $10,000.

Hongkong, March 15th, 1926.

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