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12th, James McKie Atkinson
1926.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CANTON AND HONGKONG.
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.3
BRITISH COAL EXPORTS.
SPANISH LEGISLATION RESENTED.
Rugby, March 10.
Sir-To a Chinese, like myself,
A question was raised in the who is a resident in the Colony of over thirty years' standing your House of Commons as to the in- editorial of last Friday, the 12th, tention of Spain to propose legis. inst., could not fail to be of more fation or issue decrees disadvan than ordinary interest, and I was
In this, as in other matters, wo
THE HUMAN MIND HAS THREE still look in vain for some evid-
OPENING ALL KEYS
LOCKS: ence of a desire on the part of the KNOWLEDGE, REFLECTION, IM-| Canton Government to put an AGINATION Victor Hugo. end to the boycott. Either the
The ss. Talping (E. and O. authorities have the means of Line) is due here on Thursday at controlling the boycott organisa-daylight. tion, or they have not. If they The weather forecast up to noon have, their failure to put a stop to-morrow is E. winds, fresh;
hoping to see some further com-tageous to British coal Imports." to what is admittedly a flagrant overcast, drizzle and mist
I am in a Mr. Locker Lampton; under infringement of Treaty rights can
Some person or persons entered ment on the subject. only. ba construed as moaning
an unnumbered house at Shauki position to gauge the feeling of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, anid the enlightened section of my the British Government were pro- that they have not the inclination wan, and stole a box containing countrymen, here, and I have no testing strongly to the Spanish to do so. That, in turn, implies clothing, jewellery and money hesitation in saying that it will Government against any decreas be a very very long time. bofore limiting the consumption of foreign official backing of the movement. to the value of $29.90. It is either. One thing or the
The French cruiser Jules Canton, Whampoa, or any other coal. Should this protest prove othor: the Canton, Government Michelet, which has expected to port in South China will supplant ineffective the Government would tion could be takon.--British Wire- cannot have it both ways. There stay in the Colony until early Hongkong as their place of consider whether any further ac
Tesa. for the North this afternoon.. ig another aspect to this issue, of next week, is under orders to sail sojourn, which wo are afraid the Canton Government takos little note. It'
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losses suffered when quarantine
Your comment that much of Canton's progress, municipally, Mr. F. E. Booker, Has qualified fesults from the example set by isthis-that power wielded foruny for the Adamson Cup in the this Colony, will be generally con-regulations were imposed on ships; March competition in connection ceded. Especially true is your rẻ- length of time by any faction is with the Royal Hongkong Golfference to the anti-smallpox cam- as they often were in those days, reluctantly surrendered. In the Club, with a score of 74 (95 minus paign now being conducted in that must have been great. It is only
eity as being a reflection of the fair that I should mention the.. long run, therefore, the authori-22).
suffer
the courage to advocate such an ties may themselves
Leave on private affairs to the lessons taught Canton by Hong-name of the gentleman who had through lack of firm
action United Kingdom has been granted kong. You go on to say that "fif against these armed pickets. No to Captain L. D. Jall, from april teen or twenty years ago, the unusual innovation among the no accounting him some embarrassment; he was no other than Dr. S. W. Tso, H. 1. C. Hall, R. A., from March speaking, would on Government can afford to have 7th to October 6th, and to Lieut Chinese of Hongkong, generally Chinese, even at the risk of es
allow themselves to be vaccinated. its rights usurped by any organi20th to September 20th.
but by persistent endeavour the L. D., who as in all his other sation, be the inspiring motive
After being bitton. by a dog, authorities have convinced the public services did the work quist- whatever it way. That is a point
last year when he was appointed over which Canton will do well owned by a Chinese residing at masses of the value of vaccina-ly and unassumingly. It was only No. 146, Wellington Street, second tion, until nowadays big cam-
during the strike, that he perforce to pondor.
floor, a Chinese male was sent to paigns are carried out without Assistant Controller of Labour
I well re- the Government Civil Hospital. the least difficulty." Tho dog has been taken to Ken-member the first public vaccina came into the lime-light. nedy Town.
tion campaign in Hongkong, and a few words on the origin of it Messrs. Benjamin and Potts will not be amiss. It took place
Prohibition Sensations." In spite of the fact that viola
· Lowson, M.A., M.B.; Ch. B. tion of the prohibition laws of the
land,
land.
The Telegraph.
stricter way.
star.
on
To quote your words "Now in turn. Canton follows the example set, and by degrees modern health methods are being introduced."
ONE WHO KNOWS. Hongkong, 16th, March, 1926.
The Very Idea!
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(St. And., of Forfar, Scot-United States has been open and are advised.from their Shanghai in 1916-1917, and was started on I cannot conclude in a better way to Winifred Norah widespread over since the laws office that the Chemor United] the advice and initiative of one of than by suggesting that Canton Doggart, M.B., Ch. B. (St. were passed, there must have been Rubber Estatus, Ltd., have de- our most loyal Chinese citizens, should follow other examples set Anda) of St. Andrews, Scot: a big sensation caused throughout clared a final dividend of 25 cents, who urged the Government to in- by Dr. Tso besides health and the whole of the States by the making 40 cents for the year: stitute the campaign, he himself sanitary improvement, particular- disclosure (telegraphed yesterday) whilst the Kota Bahree Estates, undertaking the responsibility and ly the line of action constantly of a huge bootleg conspiracy in Ltd., have declared an interim difficult task of persuading the advecated and adopted by him. Chinese community to submit to which tends to the betterment of Cleveland, in which it is alleged dividend of 15 cents.
public vaccination. The result all classen irrespective of race or that millionaires, Government
As threo Chinese were working
creed, the promotion of education, officials and many others were involved. It has always been on a scaffolding at No. 97, Con- was a great success, and the ex-
wet" drink in naught Road West, the planking ample thus set was followed in the protection of the weak, the
other Eastern cities
such as maintence of peace and order, and WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1926.possible to get a
"dry" America, and it was suddenly overturned, and the mon announced early this year that a wore thrown to the ground. Two Shanghai and ports in Japan. the creating of goodwill and har special campaign was going to be of the men were slightly hurt. The commercial community, par-mony amony the different cou CANTON QUERIES.
made to enforce prohibition in a but the third, who was removed ticularly shipping circles, have nunities Yours; etc.,
General Lineoin to the Government Civil Hos" every reason to be grateful for the effective measures thus introduc- ed to combat smallpox, as the It will have been seen from Andrews was chosen as chief of pital, died soon after admission. this campaign, and he recently.
Among the passengers who our issue of yesterday that the told the Ways and Means Com- police authorities in Canton are mitteo of the House of Repre-arrived from Shanghai in Hong- so concerned over the frequent sentatives that it would cost the kong by the s.s. Porthos was Mr. nation at least $25,000,000 to Marcel Goldschmidt, a former! elashes between rival labour maintain prohibition enforcement manager of the Tientsin branch organisations that they have at its present level during the of Messrs. J. Ullmann & Co.. been urging the Government to present year. He gave no est-who is replacing the local mana imate of how much it would cost to ger. Mr. L. Walch. The letter disarm. all pickets excepting bring about total enforcement.is proceeding to France on leavej those belonging to the Canton-Since that time there has been talk at the end of the month. Hongkong Strike Union: The of General Andrews resigning, but ho says he is going to remain to
After their brief season at the
An imaginary letter to the friends for the expressions of sym- matter is said to have been con-see whether his methods of en-Star Theatre, Kowloon, which
'The Editor:- Saturday,
Cathy and for their assistance. in sidered by the Government, with forcement are successful. He is
Sir, My wife is one of the the death of my husband,"
Γ know. the result that instructions have said to have devised a new plan Quaints" will appear at the
for preventing legally manu- Theatre Royal. There will be sweetest, finest women
"Do
notice women
*men's been issued along the lines urged factured bear and alcohol from three productions of "No, No. And (most of the time I don't
commencing with want to be single. Bat, in the clothes?" asks and answers Julia" by the police. That is so much getting into the hands of bootleg Nanette, to the good, but it would be gers, and says he has organised a Monday, or which night His name of true love, why does she Hoyt in the current number
We merely noted the Beer squad" for this purpose. Excellency the Governor and persist in permitting her petticoat Liberty. pertinent just now to ask the It may be that the disclosure of Lady Clementi will be present. to hang below her skirt?" I have question. We happen to know the reached the point where I no answer without looking it up. If reason for the exclusion of boy-the conspiracy detailed in Router's
Last week's health, return 'con- longer tell her of it. Yesterday, a woman is married to a man she cott pickets from: the terms of telegram of yesterday, was in the this order. Do the police and the nature of a sequel to General
Andrews' new-style vigilance. tained ton cases of notifiable dis- and again this morning, the darn- notices his clothes considerably to Government. officials generally Inasmuch as the "wets" in the ease, all being Chinese. Thored thing showed. And I didn't their disadvantage. She also no- was one case of a dog suffering even remind her of it. In an tices them if she isn't married to
AD to bring otherwise him, provided she wants to annoy regard these boycott pickets as a United States are also making a law unto themselves, and are special campaign this year on from rabies. There were five effort
behalf of getting legal sanction cases of enteric, two of rabies, immaculate woman to her senses, him. If she isn't married to him name and and doesn't care to annoy him, the they to be permitted to follow for the manufacture and sale of and one each of small-pox you may publish my
chances are she pays no attention to them. their policy of intimidation and beers and light wines, it is pos-diphtheria and cerebro-spinal hers if you see fit to help me.
If the instinct of gratitude were terrorism without official checksible that 1926, will be a fateful favor. The deaths numbered six
the lively as instinct of Scientific men tell the world to of any kind? It certainly looks year for prohibition's cause. The three from enteric, and one measure is obviously unpopular, each from diphtheria, small-pox
generosity this would be a pretty wear less clothes and be healthy, good world. like it.
und it has brought a great deal of and rabies.
For centuries we have been telling with it.
Ån Extraordinary General The point to be kept in mind, technical "lawlessness
the heathen to wear more clothes A gigantic statue of Burns, on however, is that if the Govern-Would it not be better to adopt a
rational compromise than con- Meeting of the Kowloon Golf ment can disarm, one group of tinue the overlasting fight with Club will be held at the Kowloon the scale of the Statue of Liberty and be good,
"Clay," says Sir William Brage 19
at armod pickets, it can surely take its periodical sonsations and British School at 6 pm, to-day, at the entrance to New York Har-
either side? for the purpose of considering, hour, to stand on the Clyde, is pro- a wayward material, and disclosares on. America will possibly answer and, if thought fit, approving the posed by Sir Harry Lauder.
alterations to the Articles of Putting forward the idea at the timex shows an inexplicable bohay- Kirn lour." The description is true of decisively before long.
Association of the Club. As an annual supper, of the attendance of at least thirty (Argyllshire) Burns Club, he offer clay in all its forms." membera is necessary, it ised £1,000 towards the project.
The spot he suggested for this Happy the man who can smile trusted that a special effort will be made by members to be pre-statue Is between Dunoon and right through the things that make Kirn, where it would be a land- going tougher. He is the man who sent
anark for vessels passing up and is set to do his best cause he's down the Clyde. The cost is not a bluffer. We've all got to estimated at £5,000.
have our ups and downs. It's Mr. T. A. Maquisten, M.P., in been thus since the very beginning welcoming Sir Harry's gift, said Hurrah for the man who such a statue he hoped would be frowns, but who always comes right on the shore, so that people a grinning. coming up the river would see it
like action against others. So long as it does not do so, the impression must remain that the desire to deal with the boycotters is absent. It is to the point, also, to ask from what source these pickets obtain their arms:
EXCHANGE RATES.
Rugby, March, 16. To-day's exchange rates are ne
from the Government, then it is surely within the province of the follow:
Paris authorities to call them back. On Amsterdam
Berita the other hand, if the men or the Brussels organisations behind them supply Copenhagen Vienfors the weapons, it is equally up to the Government to issue an order Lisbon"
Buenos Aires for the disarming of all pickets. Sha
Shanghal Yokohama In no well-ordered society would oko m
New any group of men be permitted to Geneva go about fully armed, interfering Stockholm with the free movement of persons Osto
Prague and merchandise. Inaction by Madrid.
Ric the Government, from whatever Bombay source the arms may have been Hongkong
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