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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

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No. 21,000

六拜禮號三月七英港香

GEN. SUN'S POLICY ON NEW HONOURS.

HUNAN.

THRILLING STORY OF SUPPORT FOR ANTI-CANTON

DISASTER.

A JUMP FOR LIFE.

A thrilling story of how he

himself, together with a crew of

TROOPS?

WRITES CHAN KAI-SHEK.

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1926. 日四十月伍

RECORD PRICE FOR RICE:

MR. JUSTICE GOMPERTZ KNIGHTED.

OVER SIS A PICUL IN SHANGHAI

CONSULS ALSO HONOURED.

London, July 2. The Birthday Honours List in Huhan province have received covers eighteen pages of the

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The activities of Canton troops

told by Captain Fin Malm. Kwangtang province, outlining when Telegraph representative his policy towards Hunan in one called on him yesterday afternoon of those typical Chinese letters of

of the disaster diplomatic nicety. to gather details which

General Sun says he Ropes General Chao Heng-ti, the deposed)

on June 24th, she sank-off Pacau. tory

near the village of Tagudin.

in

the Province of Ilocos Del Sur, Luzon.

make General Sun's

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is now disfavoured.

NEW PEERS.

PRIVY COUNCILLORS.

The

MARRIAGE LAW.

CHINESE PUZZLE IN SINGAPORE. ·

BIGAMY POINT RAISED.

#36 PEN-ANNUM

SINGLE COPY 100ENTS.

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An article in the China Mall If America finally permite very suggests that Hongkong would be light wines, there should be no brightened were. Plers, fear of heavy drinking..

1 Dance Hall, 1 Concert Hall,

1 Bandstand; 1 Buffet and a few Kid McCoy says he is getting other conveniences eracted on round-shouldered in prison. Well, Kellot Island, which should be upright, men don't go to prison. connected to the mainland by a 1 motor road and one footpath. bad to worse in China, even the bridge carrying tramtrack, If things keep on going from Unfortunately, our esteemed con-, pirate business will be affected. first 3,000,00 temporary forgot to subscribe the'

"The back of the Sphinx at Giza ( @

is cracking," says a Calro paper. There is no truth in the rumour, Perhaps it a on account of the that the Scottish Company are to awful strain of being a Sphinx so give demonstrations in "Haggis long. Swiping" at the forthcoming

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A new member of the local Mr. Roland Braddell appeared

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Angling Club tells us that it's his

Campbell, Mr. M. C. Johannes for spelt D'Oisy. for the appellant with Mr. J. G. pointed out that Doisy should be in water.

The Sunday Herald recently honest opinion that fish won't bite

No doubt d'Oisy

mony

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The North Pole and the South" Pole have now been discovered. And yesterday a local motorist dis covered a telephone pole.

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MUCH DISTRESS CAUSED.

Despite the re-edio efforts by philanthropic merchant and Chin-

A judgment delivered by the a severe check from General Sun London Gazette. The recipients ese associations in Shanghai, rico Chief Justice (Sir William Mori- six others, luckily escaped with Chunn-fang. Tupan of Kiangsu, whole globe, although notable prices yesterday (says the Shangoon) in a Chinese marriage case in are located practically, over the their lives when the tag Kamkai Who (says the Shanghai Times, exceptions hereto are the Union hai Times of June 26th) register-Singapore was the subject of argu. becue a totul loss, by foundering has written to General Chang of South Africa and Canada, ed another advance, although atment in the Court of Appeal when off the luzon coast last month, was Kai-shek, the young dietator of where the conferment of honours the level maintained for the past the plaintiff in the action, an in- few days they were the highest fant, suing through his next ever reached for this commodity friend, appealed against the de- The only Peerages are Lord in Shanghai,

cision. Five lawyers were enga- Tredegar," who is raised to, a

Prices were $16.20 to Viscountey, and Mr. Henry Berry, $18.20 per picul, according to

ged in the appeal. who has been appointed a Baron, was briefly reported by "telegram at the time. Captain Tupan of Henan, will succeed in Lieutenant of Monmouth, served on the last record reached. Never Baron Tredegar, who is Deputy quality, an increase of 20 cents Malm is the principal of the firm his effort to regain his power in the South Africa War and the during the most critical epochs of the first three respondents, Mr. would think such wisdom a capital Of Messre, Malin and Co., lai an ineinuation that are. Human in Great War, in the latter of which Shanghai's history, not during St. George for the fourth respon- port Chao to recapture. in he commanded H. M.'s yacht civil war, revolution or the Tai- shipbrokers and surveyors, and he order to

0.0 was in command of the tug when, power supreme in adjacent terri Liberty and won decorations for ping rebellion of last century, did dent, and Mr. R. Page for the fifth

"Dark haired men marry first," his services. He owns, about the price of rice rench such aand sixth respondents.

anys a contemporary. We thought to the Chinese newspapers, reads: becomes a Baron, is a Welsh ecal-reached during the civil war

General Sun's letter, according 40,000 acres.

Mr. Henry Seymour Berry, who sent time.

It was the light-headed ones. height as it is quoted at the pre

"Christon Duke of York's Baby The highest price

May 29," says on American newss "Since 1917 there has been con- tinuous warfare in Hanan. With owner, being Chairman or Direc-around Shanghai in the autumn Braddell said that the plaintiff sure he occasionally has to fly for

When a newly married man says paper heading. We thought her In opening his address, Mr. he lives like a bird you may be name was Elizabeth, the Chao Hengeti government, the tor of over fifty companies. He of 1924, when supplies from the claimed certain declarations that his life. It was on June 12th that the province enjoyed period. of was associated with the late Lord country were held up and hun- little tug left here for Manila, peace, Gen. Chno being a Hunan Rhondda in colliery and other dreds of thousands of refugees through his father." The actual

"Geese and chickens stuffed entitled to property; he was having been sold to the Negros man himself, his policy was undertakings, and to his native flocked to Shanghai, was not more issue was the question whether man's legal home is where his tween large

with precious stones and other An American Judge said that a valuables have been passing be Philippine Lumber Corporation of Hunan for the Hiinanese/ Fol town of Merthyr Tydvil he has than $17. picul.

cities in Soviet that city; by the Tak Kee Steam-flowing his fight, the war between made gifts, including a new wing

the plaintiff was legitimate. The Bible is kept. "There must be a Russia" states the South Ching While a certain amount of dis- Chief Justice had held that plan-lot of homeless men. ship Co., of Hongkong. The tug Gen. Yeh Kai-sen and Gen. Tang for the General Hospital and tress is being alleviated by the tiff had failed to prove any cere

Morning Post. But they failed, was of 60 tons gross and 28 tons Sen-chi' has caused the province £20,000 for building a technical philanthropic action of local mer.

of marriage between is Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, who is

topaz the customs. fet register, her dimensions being: adjacent to Kwangtung, I believe school in memory of his father.] chante and associens, who have father and mother that a pre -Length. 84 feet; breath, 14 great distress. As Hunan ir

opened cheap riceydepots and are sumption of marriage arose from scientist and not a typographical 'feet; and depth of hold 7 fect, six adjacoït,to Kuangtung,: I believe

selling rice at much below the the

error, is trying to find out how evidence, but that pre- inches..

that you must sympathize with.

Three new Privy Councillors market price, there is much mur sumption had been rebutted by the the first man got to America duty, Captain Malm told our represen. the suffering of the Hunanese are created, these being Colonel muring around Shanghai at the first three defendants:

and why? tative that when the tug left Gen. Chao Heng-ti who is now John Gretton, (Unionist M.P. for current prices. So great is the hongkong she was in good condi- in Shanghai, is being urged by Rutland, and Chairman of Bass, demand for rice that the grain is

This fellow-countrymen to return Ratcliff and Gretton, Ltd.); Sir being unloaded from the boats to Braddell mentioned that Mr. being broadcast that the Coolidge. you get. tion and, was well and sufficiently to his native province for the Halford John Mackinder (Chair" the shop immediately it arrives Beatty, the Secretary for Chinese administration is one part spirit- manned with 1 full European purpose of settling the dispute man of the Imperial Shipping and here, instead of being put in zo-Affairs, had been taking an extra-ualistic, one part queer and one crew, with the exception of one between Tang and Yeh. I hope Imperial Economic Committee): downs as was the former custom ordinary amount of evidence in Pilipino, of ever, including him he will succeed in his attempt:

part peculiar. Prices of rice in other cities in the commission at present being Bad weather was exper- enced throughout the voyage. The last year, how can the Hunan try of War).

"An unusual famine occurred and Lord Onslow, (Under Seere Kiangsu are a trife cheaper than held in order to find out what real- The only job to suit some Hong-:

the Shanghai level.

ly constituted a Chinese marriage, kong lads would be the poat of Six Baronetcies course was originally set 132 true, people bear another calamity of

As a result of the shortage in and what was the law as to how tester in a mattress factory." which was later changed to 138 warfare? It is my opinion that for political and public services, Shanghai, much more Saigon rice many wives a Chinese could have, true.

neither the south nor the north whilst the most prominent names

Mr. Justice Deane pointed out is being imported and sold", in should participate in the civil war among twenty-five Knight Bache-Shanghai, supplies from this that in cases like the Six Widows modern styles is that you don't pierced, but they're often bored.

The worst of some of these there; both should maintain strict lors are the musician,, Mr. Henry source having been trebled since Case there were references to know whether a girl's coming or On the 23rd June, when the tag neutrality, in order to avoid Coward: Mr. F. E. Lacer, Secre

going. was in Latitude 17.2 observation, further complications and suffer-tary to the Marylebone Cricket the Chinese crops failed, and several principal wives; yet in an Club: and Mr. Stanley Machin,

prices of native rice began to other case a second marriage to a and Longitude,119.8 by deading to the people there."

Director of Grösse and Blackwell,

principal wife had been held to rezkaning, she encountered a

be bigamous. Ltd. severe typhoon. However, Cap- tuin Malm, being an old hand on the China Coast, managed, to extricate the little craft from

We know a Kowloon man who's awaken to the fact that they have the typhona, and at 1 a.m, on Jure

TROOPS START LOOTING. ing of a gerond principal wife was so handy about the house that married misfortune..) 24th, the San Fernando light-

bigamy it would be necessary to when there's a piano to be moved, house was sighted. A course wai A report from Swatow states

Teheran, July, 2,

go into the whole matter, and as he always grabs the stool. Mrs. Massey, widow Point that the Bureau for the Preven-

The military stationed a matter of fact that was what lighthouse, but, on account of the tion of Smuggling and Protection former Premier of New Zealand, Salmas, which is

60 miles from the coramlesion was doing.

"Chinese takes to golf sticks,” stress of weather the engines ha of Merchants is trying to impose is the sole recipient of a Dame Tabriz, have revolted and killed point in all these cases was that is a heading la" an American "to be stopped, because water exorbitant taxation on all craft of the Grand Cross the British

their commandant." They march-| if two persons lived together as paper. When a Chinese gives up could not be maintained in

A Home newspaper publishes an the and cargo, but the movement is Empire Order, while anong five ed to Moku, via Khoy, and were man and wife for sufficiently his chop sticks for golf it must be article on how to increase the boilers, which were busily engag-being resisted by the people.

Dame Commanders figure the joined by the local forces at both then they were married for the Pretty bad.

Jong period and had had children, I All classes are so indignant at veteran actress, Mrs. Kendal and places. They then started looting. ed supplying steam to the bilge

tourist traffic, Why not eliminata the age line from pasaports and pump and the emergency pump these extravagant measures for Dr. Mary Scharlieb.

Troops have despatched from Mr. Bradde!! said he did not ad-awarded 150 pounds for damage

purposes of succession.

A young lady in London was give the ladies a chance. in order to keep the craft afloat. raising funds, that a general strike.

Tabriz to cope with the insurgents mit that anybody in the Colony done to her hair in a beauty Football players at San Diego The tug had sprung a very bal was called on the 1st July. The leak on account of the heavy local authorities are now endea-j

Trouble has also broken out knew what really constituted a strain which she had experienced vouring to settle the matter. In during the bad weather. Matters the meantime, everything is at a looked extremely serious from the standstill.

self.

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SEVERE TYPHOON.

then set for the Piedra

fact that the tide set the littls

vessel to the northward very

quickly.

In the meantime, the water was

rising rapidly. in the hull, but

steam

SWATOW STRIKE.

NEW TAXES RESENTED.

CANTON WOMEN.

was finally got up whey WANT OFFICIAL POSITIONS. the vessel was off Darigayo Point,

tide:

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are awarde.l

OTHER HONOURS.

The Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; is conferred on Si:) Herbert Samuel, ex-Chairman of the Coal Commission:

of the

LOCAL AND FAR EASTERN.

MR SIDNEY BARTON KNIGHTED, The list also includes a Knight Commandership of the British Empire Order for Mr. Sidney Barton, H. M.'s Consul-General at Shanghai; and Commanderships of

soar.

REVOLT IN PERSIA,

In the course of his speech Mr.

PRINCIPAL WIVES.

Mr. Braddell said that if any- one wanted to prove that the tak-

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England expects that every man this year will pay his betting.

When buying perfume, the mors.

·Non-alcoholic accusations, are cents you spend, the better scenta

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People who sing at their work. should remember what happens. to the mosquito,i.

One thing about Englanel's climate. There's plenty of rest for the wicket,.......

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"Modern girls' ears aren't

A Manchester girl has had threo. husbands in three months. Bet When you speak of Hongkong's she knows all about the "hat climate, it's us well to explain,

trick." whether you mean yesterday's or to-day's.

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The Norge could not land at the North Pole on account of water and thin ice. Perry must' havé gone there during the dry season.

at Bujnurd, in Khorasan, to which Chinese marriage. They had only Parlour. She must have had more are being charged with liquor place regiment has been depatch the evidence of Mr. Stirling (of hair than our Hongkong flappers. offences. ed from the Capital--Reuter

THE HOLY CARPET,

That's what comes to playing a game with a kick in it

the Chinese Protectorate) on the. point that a Chinese could not From the Daily Presa "Reports

Patrons of our tramcurs say marry a secondary wife until he that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.

has secured funds and that having to hang on straps fa had married a principal wife. There was evidence, he submittted, munitions, which are reaching the a long standing complaint. that the appellant was recognis- Kuominchun (which is now in the

the same Order for Mr. E. G. WHY IT WAS ORDERED BACK ed. by the family as being legiti-North competitions at Wimble. The thief who mistook a tract

Jamieson, of

Shanghai; Mr.

C. C. A. Kirke, of Swatow; and

Mr. J. H. Robson, of the Malay States.

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There are some striking effects

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mate, and the deceased never don.", Although we don't know for a banknote was himself soon Cairo, July 2 adopted another son, so that if Mr. Kuominchun as a tennis tracked. but a defect had developed in the Replying to the demands of the

The Holy Carpet has been order- appellant was not regarded as player, we are awaiting Reuter to main boiler, which was leaking Canton Women's Right Associn-:

ed back from Juddah, due to dis- legitimate they were asked to be-inform us that a sensational racket badly. Shortly after leaving tion, the Kuomintang. has agreed C. M. G's have been conferred agreement between Emir Ulhajj lieve that this man died without was created when he "volleyed to be seen in Canton those days. "Darigayo Point, the tug was only to employ women in its several de- on Mr. R. O. Winstedt, of the and King Hedjaz regarding the leaving male issue to carry on the and thundered."

The moonshine trade is con making two knots an hour, and it partments, whenever possible, on Straits Settlements; and Mr. distribution of the Mahmal gifts ancestral worship. was found impossible to stem the the same terms as men.

Harold Porter, Acting Consul to the poor.

According to the Telegraph, vincing America that the wages of It appears that In the course of further argu-

"Bardsley was superb, and at the sin are death, So far, however, only one young General at Hankow,

Bedouin Chiefs were demanding ment Mr. Braddell said that if a woman hue succeeded in getting Honorary Commanderships of the customary large share and Chinese had in his keeping a wo close of play was undefeated witho

post in the Kuomintang clerical the British Empire Order have that Ulhajj gave them £10,000 for man for a number of years and she 173. He hit 13 fours." Judging The Daily Prees vouchsafes the the depth was 1,000 fathoms only staff, and she is being employed been conferred on Dato Mentribi. the poor, retaining the balance of bore children, she became, accord- from the plus fours, one would information that The Island of?

imagine him to be a golfer 200 yards from the shore, the in the auditing office. Cantonese sar, of Johore; and the Undang of £20,000, pending instructions from ing to Chinese law and custom, beach inelining to an angle of women have been given teaching Sungei Ujong."

his Goyernment.-Reutor.

his taip, if nothing more.The00 about 46 degrees. But on account positions for many years, and now A Knight Bachelorship is

Chinezo did not bother about what The trouble with too many of of the small speed the vessel was nearly one-third of the teachers

she was. The point was that our roade is that they seem to making, it was found impossible of the primary grades, are women.

they looked on the children of the have gone in for permanent waves. union as legitimate.

At this time, the tug was in the neighbourhood of a beach where

to make for the nearest shallow beach in the vicinity, which was just off Darigayo Point.

"EVERYBODY FOR HIMSELF,

con-

ferred on Mr. Justice H. H. J. Gompertz, Chief Justice of the Malay States, and whe until re- cently was Paisno Judge, of Hong kong:

THE LATE SIR PAUL CHATER

NOT BIGAMY.

Pratas a, a reef, 162 miles long, with an area of 300 acres," "Acrec- tion obviously required!

Book worms are said to suffer a heavy mortality. Must be the result of tome aine poisoning.

Latterly there have been more bishops than bandits in Chicago,

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DANUBE FLOODS. RICH HARVEST THREATENED.

Lots of folk sighing for the FRANC SLUMPS.

good old days wouldn't know Belgrade, July 8.

After quoting from the Chief which end of a horse to crank up. There are disastrous floods in -DOWN TO 183 TO ..

the low-lying districts, with many Justice's decision, Mr. Braddell London July 2.

victims and much damage. The proceeded to cite authorities. Ho Wa-imagine Eskimo dogs have Danube is higher than for a con- said that in the Malacca case the a good time chasing north pole We understand that the local The French franc closed in Lon of a Knight Commandership of the tury. Fifteen thousand men, Chinese Consul awore that under ente, it was found that she had barely don at 188, the slump apparently Brition Empire Order for the Into assicted by troops, are working to the law in Chian a man could only

newspaper heading "A Sodden steerage way and there was only being due to the uncertainty of Sir Paul Chater, in recognition of save the harvest in the Batchka have one lit-fat, and a man

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Derby" did not relate to a "rélio Every man fan woman-hater of the past recently recovered five minutes way of movement left the French political situation his services to Hongkong, had he district, the most fertile in the took another it was bigamy and until he reaches the age of about from excavations in Ied. Hodno

(Continued on Page 18.): Reuter.

survived Reuter,

Kingdom Reuter

(Continued on Page 16.) 18.

When the tug had reached the

vicinity of Pacac, said Capt. Malm,

The Honours List states that His Majesty would have approved

Street.