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Friday's health return shower two cases of small-pox and one of diptheria. All were Chinese;"

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The Empress of Russia left is due here at 8 a.m. to-morrow. Manila at 4.30 p.m. yesterday and

shipping methods THEM.-Emerson. (which has ontalled the assump. tion by shipowners of duties which are not strictly their concern) has most materially, contributed to the expansion of overseas trade, but It has not proved that this process need be advanced to a point where extravagance and wasteful ex- penditure creep in. There fire, of course, many aspects to this problem, but it seems that the Mr. B. Wylie, General Manager time has come when the proper of the South China Morning Post, relationship of shipowners and Ltd., left for Home on leave by

es. Haruna Maru on Saturday.

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traders in the matter needs to bu armed. ".

Empire Day. To-day, being Empire Day, one's thoughts turn more than ever to the heart of the Empire, in which there is being waged a serious in- dustrial struggle concerning one of the most vital industries of the. country. At the moment of writ-

ing, there is a wide gulf between

The Empress of Canada. left Yokohama on Saturday and is duc at Vancouver on the 31st instant.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]

A SUGGESTION CALICISED,

Sir, I was intensely surprised, and not a little alarmed, to read in your "Saturday's Motor Supple ment a suggestion that, in order to relieve the „Câine 'Hond-Garden Road motor traffic, Wyndham Street might be opened to motor vehicles. At the moment I cannot. quite see how motor care are going to get from Caino Road to Wyn- dham Street unless it be by way of Old Bailey or Glenealy (death traps both), and, for the life of me, I don't know why it should be con sidered good palley to add such a A social evening was held at the tremendous hazard, as Wyndham Kowloon Football Club on Satur Streat would be, to the motoring day when a number of members risks of the City in order to "re- most leve a stream of traffic which is and their friends spent

number of never contested and which has enjoyable time. A musical items were given by those been singularly free from accident. present, and in the intervala dan "cing was, indulged in,

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One hears a lot of talk about the dangers of Garden Road, and sometimes in the same breath a lot A Chinese married couple have more about the poor quality of

been admitted to the Kwong Wan

MUSTARD & CO., LTD. the parties, both of them for vast Hospital from Hunghom with ly different reasons having reject-urn on their faces, hands, and ed the Premier's proposals. It is feet, caused by the overturning of dificult to see where the point of a kerosene lamp which set fire to a mosquito net while they were asleep..

Incorporated under the Companies, Ordinancer Hongkong. 16-17, Connaught Road, Central

The Telegraph.

MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926.

SHIPPING CHARGES.

compromise can be found, "al- though it is inevitable that in the long run some compromise, must be arrived at. It is the serious-

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OIL STEAMER AFIRE.

· FRENCH' VESSEL DAMAGED.

London, May 23...

A message from Dunkirk says that the French steamer Omphale,. 'from Port Arthur with petroleum, The took fire in port last night. fire was extinguished, by steam inicetion, but the damage was ap parently serious.-Reuter,

directly oppositeit is in every way thoroughly undesirable as a

I can ima main artery of traffic. gine the shockingly bad accidents that would be highly probable i this road were thrown open to mo- tor vehicles, and, as an owner- driver, I hate to think that I might one day be directed to use it. 'The bare thought is enough. I feel sure that there is no responsible backing for the suggestion. Yours, e etc

FOUR SEATER Hongkong, May 26th., 1926.

THE MOSQUITO PEST.

Sir Adjacent to the Mongkok.

traffic control, but I think the Tsui Police Station is a dug-out facts, belie both assertions. still waiting to be filled up when would be interesting to know how the P.W.D. awakes from its many accidents have taken place lethargy to start work on the new during the past year between Caine Mongkok road. Road (say, at the point by Old Bailey) and the bottom of Garden Koud, for I venture to assert that The Marchese "de Pinedo, who the figure would establish one of

The dug-out has in the interim become mosquito repository from which a battalion of vicious and self-indulgent mosquitoes emerge neighbourhood. Ing affair

Quite a sting-

ness of the interim, the loss of recently flow from Rome to 'Tokyo two things-either the compara on friendly visits to the immédiate.. via Australia by aeroplane, lective safety of the route or the effi- tured before the Royal Aeonauticiency of traffle control. People cal Society on April 8 and made who grouse" cannot have the out a strong case for the seaplane argument both ways, though they as compared with aeroplane for

often try. long journeys. The Marchese predicted the use of large and

planes powerful'

suitable for navigating on water by means of Sails,

trade, the increase of poverty and hardship and the danger of losing permanently some of Britain's best business that is the immedi- ate problem, and the hearts and sympathy of 1 Britons over- seas will to-day go out to the Home Government in the critical crisis which it is called upon to. face. Empire Day was instituted not for the propagation of ultra-

Commander E.W. W. Ling, who has been appointed fleet gunnery officer on the China Station and posted to

the flagship Hawking, has been in the service, since May. 1904, was promoted lieutenant in 1908 and has held his present, rank since the last day of 1920. Throughout the date war he was a gunnery officer serving in succes- sion on the cruiser Roxborough and the battleships Hibernia and Agamemnon.

Ling Dai Ming, 22, a Chinese Breman of the Blue Funnel Line steamer Automedon, was charged at the East Ham Police Court on April 6 with possession of 31⁄2 oz. of raw opium. In a cigarette carton in Ling's jacket pocket a constable found a small quantity

Wyndham Street is narrower than Garden Road, it is the

more fully occupied By shops and dwel liigs, it has a lot of pedestrian and school children and chair coolie traffic, its pavements are unsuited much steeper than Garden Road, it for general use, the gradient is ends abruptly on Queen's Road with acute corners and with no roadway

The historian of this fair Co. lony omits to mention the mosquito pestilence, but the writer would. Hike to reassure your readers that mosquito-breeding is far from being a salubrious sport.

In short, the sooner this cess- pool in Mongkok is removed, "the less are my neighbours' chances of being stung.Yours, etc.,

MONGKOKITIS. Hongkong, May 24th, 1926. --

The Very Idea!

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An old bushranger-affer hear- murdered his wife is partly a proof. ing Melba sing in Australin said of that, but the fact that he mur

"I've walked eighteen miles to ried again is conclusive," hear ye. And it was worth it. You're all prizes and no blanks.

Sculpture is very easy and wry" And mind you, I know a bit about very simple. You just take a block of opium, and in his boots was a singing. I was in a circus meself of marble and a chisel and knock off all the marble you don't want.

once."

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Local shipping and commercial companies will alike, be interested to learn that a circular has re- cently been issued by the Baltic national bombast, not to serve ae Conference of Shipowners which a big stick with which to beat the drum of aggressive imperialism to seeks to define the responsibility the annoyance

of neighbour of shipowners in meeting charges nationals, but as a day on which all citizens of the British Empire for loading and discharging cargo. might be reminded and made It is stated that particularly in proud of the great heritage of liner trades, but also to a great Empire which has come down to and increasing extent in tramp them. The now aged Earl of Meath, who founded the day and trades, shipowners have assumed happily chore the birthday of the more and more responsibility for late Queen Victoria, has said that charges that lie outside their all he la striving for is the recog- nition throughout Greater Britain efective control. Time was and the Empire of the indivisabi- | when cargo was brought along.lity of the whole and of the side the vessel by the shippers tremendous benefits which all sub- jects within that Empire enjoy and taken from alongside by the and of which they ought to be receivers, the shipowners merely proud and give public show of it. acting as carriers, Custom has For that and for the systematic

teaching of patriotism in the further quantity. The defendant since altered all that, and law has schools there can be nothing but pleaded "Guilty," and was fined sanctioned the alteration, for in hearty support, and we of Hong-£5, with the alternative of thirty- the Rules for the Carriage of kong ought to do all possible to "one days' imprisonment.

The eternal flame" on tho. further the idea. There are times Goods by Sen shipowners assume when we are, perhaps, prone to

The N. C. Daily News under York when the pastor gave out the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in a much wider responsibility than forget the great value and inca- stands on good authority that un- hymn "From

Greenland's Icy Park, which was extinguished by was formerly the case. Aparttimable benefit of belonging to der the will of the late Mr. Henry Mountains," and "protested against a playful tourist some weeks ago, from the point of convenience, it the great British commonwealth

The misadventure will make it has been suggested that possibly serves to remind us of our pri- Hospital, St. Luke's ospital, the only mon are vile." It has long dificult to recapture the original of nations, and anything which dral School, the Shantung Rond the line stating that in Cerlon has been reit by Marshal Foch. in the days of high freight rates, vileges and also of our obligations Institution for the Chinese Blind, he well-behaved dependency; and Phrase with any conviction. when shipowners were careless of ought to be cordially supported. The Children's Refuge, The Little strikes one as all the more unsccza- deed, all stories of undying fires should be received with suspicion, We believe that the heart of the Sisters of the Poor, The Shanghai the disbursements they were call-Empire is sound (the collapse of Mission to Ricksha Men and St. at a moment when we have just whether in Eastorn tombs or in-

learned that Mr. Trebitsch Lincoln' ed upon to make, they extended the general strik. threat more Joseph's Asylum for the Poor, bene has been for some months the guest Brampton which was said never English inns (there was one at their liability to duties and than proved that) and that it will fit to a very considerable extent

be but a short while, before the and that provision is made for the of a Buddhist monastery in the to have been out for two hundred charges that should really have

island. The only excuse is that great Industrial and social ma- foundation of an Institute, School

some careless Vestal Virgin, or belonged to other parties.

chine is once more in smooth and Scholarships bearing his name. Elshop Heber knew no better. He Years). How is one to know that wrote when the Island had only priest, or maid-of-all work, did not This point of deciding by whom working order.

Dr. Rofus M. Jones, of Haver- just passed under British control let it out for an hour or two, and charges incurred in loading and

ford College, Pennsylvania, is and to a Bishop of those days (if then relight it before the next visiting China this year on a lec. we may telescope two phrases visitor arrived 7 It is to hard to

chief omne igontum pro corpore vili, prove a negative. turing, tour. One of the gatherings in which he has been Besides, allowances must be made asked to take part is the Quadren-te u Bishop in search of a rhyme. nial Conference of the Chinesa

Mr. Rodney Gilbert, who tells us discharging cargo should be borne, "What's Wrong With Ching is one of considerable importance; (Murray, 10s. 6d), is an American and it seems likely that more will who has spent fifteen years as a be heard of it in the near future, journalist in the country, and who future, besides being the wielder of a live

Lester the Cathedral and the Cathe-

One has a good deal of sympathy with the Indian who, the other day, rose at a religious meeting in New

been a gross insult to a friendly

In-

Most of the expense entailed inly pen, has the attraction of know- National Christian Council, Dr. How did you like "Hamlet" A porter captured a bandit who

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opinions about which there la no

Refus Jones is noted in Merica night?

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tried to hold up a train and now they don't know whether to re-

rep "taupene month wdr Juda

He never hugged his lady tair. He thought it out of taste. The evening was the only

thing That ever went to waste.

the shipment of cargoes is incuring his own mird, and holding

us a speaker and writer on the Well, It seemed like a good show ward him for protecting passen. red in loading and discharging, hesitation. Mr. Gilbert's view i psychology of religion. He has but it was all made up of quota-fers, or removing competition. and it is claimed with some rea that the Chinese are thoroughly in- been responsible for several books tions, son that there are many points capable of self-government, thut en mysticism and Quaker history.

A young swain of Turin, Italy which shipowners

they treat every gesture of genero-During and since the war he has are in

sity by foreign Powers as evidence been engaged on work of civilian was arrested for kiasing his girl the American as he was leaving her at her door: nothing like so ‘good a position to of either fear or cunning and that relief through

step. The police magistrate dis-. ensure economy as are the ship. the sentimental patronage extend Friends' Service Committee.

missed the charge of "offense, pers and receivers. In other ed to movements of Celestial self-

Mr. J. B. Ferrier, who leaves against public decency," but the There te one business in Eng- assertion by Western 'democracies. words, the point is being stressed is simply helping a witches' caul Shanghai for Australla during the supreme court of Italy reversed the land, which never seems to suffer that shipowners are, and should dron of trouble to boil over all the latter part of the month to tuke decision and upheld the law. If from depression of bad times.. faster. That China is assimilating up secretarial work with a golf you feel like klasing your girl in The cigarette manufacturers are be regarded, primarily as the car-strengthening elements from her club there, was presented by Italy, better take her down into always aces up. The cigarette riere of goods. The avowed pur-contact with Western culture Mr. foreign and Chinese friends of the the cellar. pose of the Baltic Conference in Gilbort refuses to belleve: "The B. A. T. Co. at the Thirty Club on the matter is to make an attempt growth of wholesome new idena Monday last with a silver elgar is infinitesimal as compared with box, suitably Inscribed. Mr. C. R. to reduce handling costs to a level the collapse of old moral stan- Harran, on behalf of his collea corresponding to the reduced level darda." He frankly descries catas-Eues, in making the presenta- trophe ahead: The British and tion, referred to the genini charac- A Home shipping writer, deal-American peoples" cannot at this ter and uprightness of the guest late date be argued into an appro- of the evening and wished him all ing with the issub, says one is ciation of real conditions in the success in his new venture. Mr. plex life. left with little doubt that certain East, hut must be violently shocked Ferrier, replying, expressed his port charges that are at present into a sane perspective upon China regret at leaving Shanghal, but paid by shipowners would prob- ment of 1900 The sane perap the royal and ancient game-ke

by something like the Boxer move having been offered a job after lils red-up."

own heart-largely connected with Hazi ably be much reduced if they had tive will, according to Mr. Gilbert, could not resist going.

Bald counsel: montally nomal. been left to the concern of Im-mean a benign but frm guardian-

ship.

of freight rates. -

She could not tell her husband

From Adam, as they say. "Twas et a masquerade" and

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Of fellows dressed that way.

Highbrow (softly)-It's a com

Lowbrow-Eh! Why? Some wives are starved and others are

is the universal smoke even more › than.pipes. We

Harry Thaw's visits to Broad- way, are now quoted as being "needed resta" from the effort of writings: the story of his life". which is reported going valiantly on in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, or "somewhere in Pennsylvania."....

Harry, has at least five news papermen on his payroll, some of

whom act in the reportorial ca- pacity of running down "iousa My client is not enda while others write, edit and The fact that he revise