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LANE, CRAWFORD'S SALE IS NOW ON

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926,

PROTECT YOUR CAR ty Hongkong's goodwill towards

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by installing "PYRENE" Fira Extinguisher, "PYRENE" w kili fire without damago, to the enging, woodwork or upholstery Water spreads petrol fire; sand is inefficient and will put the engine out! of action.

handle. "PYRENE" does not deteriorate and is always roady for use,

Keep a "PYR- ENE" handy on car and in garage.

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DAY BY DAY,

TO BE MAN'S TENDER MATE WAS WOMAN BDEN, AND IN OBEYING NATURE SHE HEST SERVES THE PUR- POSES OF HEAVEN-Schiller,

The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Frederick John Sherwell, of Quarry Bay, to Miss Maud Smyth, of Glasgow.

Among the oversen messages received by the Prince of Wales on his 32nd birthday was a telegram: from Prince George, who is serv

CORRESPONDENCE,

THE SUPREME TEST.

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]

THE CANTON PRESS DISPUTE.

APPEAL TO KUOMINTANG.

RIGHTS OF EDITORS.

Sir-In view of the remarkable

The Canton Press Association, achievement by Professor Lang-the newspapers belonging to which, sner yesterday, I would suggoat, as oxcopt the Mis Kuo Jih Pao and a supreme and final test, the fol- Kuo Min Sen. Wen, two Kuomin- lowing, which would, of course, botang dailies, having now susponded. carried out under the personal publication on account of labour de- supervision of the chiefs of the mands, has made formal represen street-numbering department.

tations to the Kuomintang and sub- a number any number will do-Executive Committoo.

Let Professor Langaner be given mitted three roquests to the Central

In a street in Hongkong-any The newspapers demand that the street will do--and should he suc- Kuomintang immediately order the ceed in finding it within a week, printers of the Yin Chiang Paa to lot him be given the O.B.E.

return to work; to order the print- Should he faint by the way, as Guilds Journal to adhere to their ors of the Seventy-two Commercial he probably wilk and the chiefs recent agreement to work at a too, I hope there is always minium salary of $20 monthly. Formazone!Yours ete.

pending further negotiation; and |to prohibit further interference by printers with editorial, policy and advertising matter, In the past,

II.A.

Hongkong, July 27th, 1926...

tho Chinese. . This is now amply demonstrated in the suggestion of the Hongkong delegates that the Government here should advance Cantou a loan of about ten million dollars for the development of

The Observatory has issued an Whampoa port, or some such Interesting chart showing the similar scheme, conditional upon a track of the recent typhoon. loop-line being built to link up the

Quarantine restrictions have Canton-Hankow and the Cunton-

been imposed against arrivals Kowloon Railways. Here is prac from Shanghai

on account of "PYRENE" Ex. tical proof of sincere friendship, cholera. tinguisher is small and wo trust that it will be regard- in size, tight "ined as such by the authorities in waight and easy to Canton. The mere fact that the Whampoa scheme is specifically mentiuried in connection with this loan suffices to show that this Colony, sp far from desiring to cripple Canton economically, is only too anxious to assist in any move-ing in Chinese waters.

the" ment which shall conduce to

Mr. E. M. Raymond, farmer development of trade with that part, partner in Messrs. Moxon and we do, that such Taylor, notifies, that he is not, nor

1as he ever schemes must lead to mutually Director of the Hongkong Deve- been, Secretary of

the Kuomintang Workers' Confer- ence had ordered compositors to re- beneficial consequences. The pro-lopment. Building and Savings

fuse to set up advertising and elitorial matter considered adverse posal, too, should. onge and for all Society, Ltd.'

PROPAGANDA AMONG

to the Kuomintang. The Canton dispel the fpolish notion that Hong-

AMERICANS. '.

newspapers, however, consider that kong wants to obstruct the Wham

the right of decision as to the con- poa project as has só frequently

tents of a newspaper is the business Calcutta, July 26.

of the editors and not the printers. been stated: We can only hope

The Tea Propaganda Committee,

The Min Kuo Jih Pao and the that. the recent conferences has yesterday for falling to have the which is responsible for adver- Kuo Min Sen Wen, siding with the tising and stimulating the habit printers, express surprise that dur- of drinking India tea has helding the present period of excite- its half-yearly mee ing, and it is ment, when the Northern expedi- The case in which three Chinese | disclosed that 50 million pounds tion and the Canton-Hongkong.Con- were charged at the Criminal of ten were produced in India this forence are important topics of the Sessions for robbery at a hut near season as compared with 48% day, newspapers, should have seen Chater Bungalow, Kowloon, was million last season.

itto suspenil publication. Those The Chairman recommended two papers, therefore, have offered concluded yesterday afternoon. The first and third prisoners were that the grant for propaganda hospitality and aid to those who by sentenced to two years' hard la-purposes, in the United States be necessity have had to leave their bour and the third was acquitted, increased from 1:35,000 to £40,000 places of employment.

during the current year.-Reuter. { In point of fact, however, except the printers of the Yin Chiang Pao, who left on their own account, none" of the printers from the others papers have left their shops. They remain on the premises and aro forbidding non-Union printers to enter.

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The Telegraph

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926.

tween representatives of the CONFERENCE ISSUES.two Governments will have

cleared away all suspicions and wrong ideas both on the one side and the other, and that be fore long the consentences will be

If there is one aspect of the Can- ten hayeolt negotiations which is more apparent than any other from a fading of the several communi-shown in a termination of the boy ines which have been issned, it is cott and the ushering is of a new that both sides have presented their era of sincere friendship, based on cases in.a thoroughly frack and out. 4 "dusire to co-operate for the mittatal benefit both of Canton and spoken manger. There has been se

this Colony. minding of matters by either dele- gation-the issues have been.plain- ly stated, and no-one is left in am- biguity as to the specific attitudes of one side or the other... That is

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as it should be, for an essential pre requisite of any final settlement must necessarily be a just apprecia- tion by both parties of the view points of the other. There is no necessity at the moment to analyse in detail the statements issued, for these tell their own tale in plain and unvarnished langange. position now is that the Conference stands adjourned in order that the two delegations may consult their Governments on, two important points which have emerged from

the discussions,

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Much of the time of the members of the Conference appears to have been taken up in discussing the „Shakee firing, "the relation of which

Wasted Water.

We notice that nothing has yet been done to make the huge supply of water which is running to waste

over

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Mr. C. H. Dodson, proprietor of the Motor Cycle Exchange, Kow- loon was fined $3 by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy

rear light of his motor car

luminated.

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A summons taken out against M. I. B. Trevor, of the Kowloon- Canton Railway, for failing to stop after running over and killing a dog in Nathan Road on Sunday, the July 11, was dismissed on application of Sub Inspector Nicoll.

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According to the Chinese. Press, the head office of the Chinese Bars of Communications will shortly be the removed from Peking to French Concession in Tientsin,

Mr. Liang Shih-Yih, the financial wizard of China, will move with: the bank. !

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A coolie was charged before Mr. Nihill yesterday at the Kowloon Magistracy with robbery. It was

alleged that the coolle stole 180 castles of spring onions from the garden of another Chinese at Tal The coolle was Lang Village. about to leave the garden with his ooty when one of the gardeners saw him, and caught him. was later turned over to the police. Ife was sentenced in twa months hard labour,

He

TEA DRINKING.

ANGRY CHANNEL

ISLANDERS.

PELTED ON LEAVING FRANCE.

London, July 26. Excursionista from Jersey to

Granville, on the French coast had an unpleasant experience.

ROYAL VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

On leaving Granville the PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR. steamer's band struck up the

London, July 26. Marseillaise, but a crowd on the quay resented this and started It is officially announced that the stone throwing. A woman passen-Duke and Duchess of York will ger was hit. There is much in-visit New Zealand in 1927- dignation in Jersey-Reuter.

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Why should he worry if it

burned?

He didn't own the ship

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the waterfall a few yards along the Harlech Road from the Peak Hotel any more easy of access to the house coolies and others who are maturally looking for an easy water supply in place of that turn ed off in the ordinary taps. The Peak public have been appealed to by the Wales, Authority and others to use as little water possibly from the mains and to col leet all they can by means of nullahs or raincatching devices. In the vicinity of the Peak Hotel there are cores of people who want water for other than potable purposes and there are tons of water ruining, over the waterfall above mentioned every hour. This water is running down into the Pofulum reservoir which is overflowing, and which is being sufficiently Ted from other

"I guess I'll stay down-town to- softrees to make it independent of, this stream. But the supply, on

Friends in Hongkong will regret') night," says Mister Married Man. the Harlech Rand level, is fenced to learn of the death, on June "Tis beat that I keep out of sight. to the boycott movement is not off by a spiked iron fence and there 23 following an operation per- The missus says I can. She might formed : London, of Mr. William as well just tell me, I'd be some- viewed in precisely the same man-is a notice board, the notice on

Rags make paper, paper makes which has long since been totally Murray Scott, formerly managon what in the way. It's actions that money, money makes banks, banks ner by the two delegations.

obliterated, which,, presumably, of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery in expel me from the household, for make loans, loans make poverty, The point now reached on this issue ought to contain the formal prohibi-Hongkong. The late Mr. Murray the day.

ppverly makes rage-then you is a proposal by the Canton dele- tion of tumpering with or polluting Scott, who retired from the East "I watched her fix the table. I start all over again.

The point is that a "some years ago, was only 66 years could quickly understand. As gates that it be made the subject the supply,

perfectly good and copious supply | of age and resided since his return much as I was able---well, I tried Newlywed: My wife is going of an impartial enquiry, the mem- of elean water is running to waste Homo at Wake-mills, Haslemere, to lend a hand. The tricky little to Puria for her gowns. bers of which should determine the becalise no-one has thought either Surrey. The remains were trimmin' that she spread around so Cynic: I thought she had left. question of responsibility for the of opening it up or of tapping it. cremated at Golders Green crema-free just pictured talken' women them somewhere!-

If a temporary wooden trough had torium on June 25th, the service and it's not the place for the.. shooting and also make recommen-

been led into the waterfall and being private.

"I'll gladly pay the grocer, and In his best epistolary style, n dations with regard to a final settle thence along Harlech Road to the

believe me it's enough. Bat, Chinese has made application to ment of the boycott. Whilst Peak Hotel corner, with a place at.

The Admiralty notify that they frankly, I say no air, as to helpin' The Shanghai Times for a copy of have detailed the cruisers Dart-eat the stuff. The feed that she's the paper. the British have nothing to fear which buckets or other water re-

ceptacles could have been filled, mouth and the depot ship Green- preparin' may be nice an' all of from such an investigation so far some direct encouragement consist- wicht to convey. new crews that, but I prefer an airin' In the as the origin of the shooting is con-ent with the Government's appeal to the China Station for the outdoors. Where's my Hat?

for the use of nullah water would submarine depot ships Ambrose have been given. As it is, a pre- and Titania, the minesweeper to what's goin' on to-night-the "Of course you know the answer mitim has been placed on the carry- Marazion, and the sloops Foxglove, reason why yours truly.much pre- ing out of the injunction. There Hollyhock, Bluebell and Magnolia, fers to fade from sight. are not a few residents on the Peak which ar to be recommissioned neighbour 'girls are comin' and a who think that the Government for a further period of service on bridge game's in the air, so might very well have done a little the China atation. The Dart father's goin' out cause he's just more to assist householders over the mouth, Yarmouth and Greenwich not wanted there." period of acute water shortage by will leave England about the making special arrangements middle of September.. whereby nullah waters might have been made more easily accessible.

cerned, we cannot see that an on- quiry at this time of day is likely to be of great value, and certainly cannot think that such a court would be competent to put forward suggestions in regard to the terms on which the boycott shall be settled. The linking of the two points is only likely to confuse issues, besides which the length of time necessary for the calling of

The funeral of Mr. Tong Yat-

Commander Franels N. Miles, navigating officer of the Hawkins, C. B. E., who has been appointed

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This is how his letter reads: "Please send me a kind of newspaper of your nobl com- pany by post office order with- out delay..

"Good-by. "Your lovely "P

It might be added, incidentally, that the newspaper had to pay six. cents postage due on the lotter bo- Opportunity may knock-but I cause it only had a ono cent stamp. desen't seem to give a rap for some on i people.

An advertisement in an Ameri-

the enquiry, the hearing of evid/wan, a typist in the employ of Captain Hugh S. Shipway, flagship can magazine runs:-

the China

The more you travel through

this world

The more you'll understand "Romancer, soldier, poet, gal. They'll never give you credit

wfor

The punch which didn't.

land.

It hails the winners as the

The world will never seek:

Navigation Company of Vice-Admiral Sir Edwin S. once and the submission of conclu- for the past 16 years, took place Alexander-Sinclair, K. B. Elant sportsman, great artist and sions would defeat the object of yesterday afternoon, with Chinese M. V. O., Commander-in-Chief great man, a Donn Byrne is born an early termination of the present ceremonial. The deceased was a of the China Station, will assume to bless this drab world of ours-

highly esteemed servant of the the duties of Fleet Navigating with his bold, colourful, high-Behind the surface, which it troubles. It remains to be seen Company and the Interment was Offleer on joining the flagship to hearted stories ones in a hundred what the British Government, attended by many of his fellows, wards the middle of August next years. A nobler Byron, a more which is to be consulted on the while a large number of floral Commander Miles was appointed musical Dumas, a more vital Moro point, will say with regard to the tributes were sent from the a middy in 1903, passed his dith, a swifter moving Scott-hero various departments of Messrs. lieutenancy examinations taking he is, Donn Byrne! No man can holding of such an enquiry; it is Butterfield and Swire, including five "Arsts"in 1908, and reached tell a story like him." possible that the Idea might be ona bearing the design of the his present rank in 1920. Ho favoured provided that the boycott company's flag in coloured blos served in the late war, obtained the advertisement?

But what about the writer of aoms: Death took place at the the three war decorations and the Governmont Civil Hospital yoster O. B. E. Commandor Miles was day morning, following a three latterly serving with the Now Zea-

land Navy,

could first of all be disposed of.

Yesterday we made a brief com- ment on Britain's-and particular-weeks illness.

The boy stood on the burning

dock And didn't give a rip.

strong

The losers na the weak

It does not judge you by the

things.

That in your heart are hid; Nor by the things you meant

to do:

But just by what you did.