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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1920.
OUR POLICY IN INDIA.
the
FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926.
repeated tala that Britain has beon encouraging unrest in China, The merest analysis of the facts, however, should be sufficient to prove that in the one case, as In the other, Britain, would have everything to lose and nothing to gain by a continuance of these disturbances.
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HE WHO COMMITS INJUSTICE 18 EVER MADE MORE WRETCHED THAN HE WHO SUFFERS IT-Plato.
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To-day is the 26th Anniversary of the Accession of King Victor Emmanuel 111, of Italy.'
Two cases of enteric fever, ono Chinese and one Indian, and one Chinese case of paratyphoid fever, were reported to the Medical Of cor of Health on Wednesday.
A lady, violinist or cellist is re- quired to complete a smail or chestra which is being organised by bias V. Andrews. An adver- isement giving particulars appears on Page, 4.
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Our record in India, despite the tremendous' difficultien which have had to be surmounted, fe one of which we have overy reason to be proud. We have endeavour- ed to hold the balance fairly between bitterly antagonistic elements, and that will continue to be the bed-rock of British policy in the country. We believe, with Lord. Reading, that India's future will best be served by the Beople working in close harmony with Britain, but a prime necessity of future progress and happiness must be the creation of a better spirit, between Hindus and Moslems. Given that, we convinced that India will her rightful place amongst the comity of nations comprising the British Commonivelth, and herter," was future be even more glorious than her wonderful past.
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Communications to the Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Autom- obile Association may be ad- dressed to him care of the Morning Post Building, or to Post Office Box No. 116.
The master of the steam launch, are Taikoo Yung, was fined $10 at the Marine Court this morning for mooring outside two others along side the s.s. Tean. Mr. L. HIV. Booth, the assistant Harbour Mas- the complainant, and proved the case.
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21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH FILES.
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The following items are extract. ed from the Telegraph files for the weck ended July 20th, 1005...
The rate of the collar on demand was 16.,10. 11/164.
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The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., notified a dividend of 12 per cent, the carry-forward being about $500,000.
WHO'S WHO.
ABOARD "PRESIDENT.
WILSON."
Passengers arriving here by the" .8. President Jackson included tho following:
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Prof. R. Scott, wife and child, returning to America for a holl day via Suez,
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Messra. Nancy Cleaver and· Helen Swinehart, Californians, making a tour of the Orient.
Mr. C. L. Cappage and wife. Mr. Coppage is Vice-President and Director of Sales of the California Petroleum Co., and is completing
A series of bad earthquake a tour of Australia, New Zealand, shocks were felt in Canton and Batavia and Far Eastern ports in Macao.
the interests of his crganization. Mr. Angel Elizalde, with wife Junk Bay was declared a port and son. He is proprietor of the of the Colony,"
Panama Sugar Estate, returning to America with his wife, who was, formerly Miss Sprecklels, daughter of the late Mr. Jack Spreeklels, California sugar king.
Mrs. Florence Gastonguay, San Francisco, making a tour of the Orient.
Much interest was 'centred in the proposed visit to Hongkong of Mr. W H. Taft, U. S Secretary for War.
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The Government issued a state. ment 'showing the effect of market rents and slaughter-house fees on This the retail price of, ment.
that by showed
Government charges the price was raised by $0.00359 per ib.
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Comdr. E. Norton and wife, of the U.S. Navy, returning to Amerien from their station in the Philippine Islands.
Miss Dorothy Forster, daughter of the Red Cross manager in the Pallippine Islands, returning to America to enter school,
Mrs. G. C. Poizat and three sous,
Co. moved their offices from Ped-prominent in Philippine inter-
der Street to Hotel Mansions..
The report of the Assessor show-
Mrs. R. E. Lynch, of 2, Armend Buildings, reports to the Police that yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m. she left a leather bag in a ricksha, ed that the Colonyvrateable value on paying off the coolie at the Star | was $10,500,000. Ferry. In the bag was a silver cigarette case, money and other articles, the tutal value being $31.
Chinese in Hongkong are being invited to subscribe to the "Sun
The following vessels are expect ed to be in wireless communication with Hongkong to-day-Capitaine Faure, Sai On, Taishan, Lungshan,
Mr. G. W. Swire was admitted a partner in the firm of Messrs. But- terfield and Swire
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Mr. Frank Herrier, prominent advertising, newspaper and club- man of Manila. travelling to America on a business mission.
Mrs. R. Erickson and daughter- Eleanor. Mrs. Erickson is the wife of the Manila manager of the American Bureau of Shipping,
A man named Aaron Ellis.was and is on a pleasure trip to tho
London via St. Lawrence at £50 Mr. A. Henry, distributing
and via New York at £62.
There were very well-deserved encomiums passed on the Public Works Department last week when it so expeditiously handled the clearing away of earth falls which Those who have been following were blocking the Colony's main the end of affairs in India of motor roads. It is a very fine fedt, Yat-sen Memorial Hall to be built remanded on a charge of murder-States..
to have re-opened Stubbs Road to
in Canton in honour of the lateing Gunner Richard Sampson, of Mrs. S. Seiffert, wife of an Ameri- lage have noted with the, utmost traffic so soon, and it is nothing Kuomintang Chief. The trea-the Royal Artillery, whose body can aval officer travelling to regret the many serious and bitter less than a tribute to the efficacy surer of this fund is the Kuomin-was found with the head battered Shanghai, where she will join her
of hard work to conflicts between das and
have re-started tang Central Bank in Canton and in.
husband. pumping water up the Peak from the trustees include many impor-
Father Jurgens and Sisters Moslems. Which have resulted in the Pokiulum Rond pumping tant Chinese.
The Canadian Pacific Company Mary and Stefano,, proceeding to considerable bloodshed and given station. But now that these very
Indvertised first-class passages to China. less cause to much anxiety on the part urgent, works are more or
fixed up so that we can "carry on," of both the Imperial and
officer, U. S.S. B., Manila, who will may be urge that, in the interests
remain in Hongkong for a short Indian Governments. In view of of health and confort, more at-
From advertisements the follow-stay. what has occurred, it is well that tention be given to clearing Kotsu Maru, Kinshan, Kwangtung ing prices are taken:-Dairy Farm Mr. C. B. Hewes, in the American sume responsible statement should the main business streets of the Shi Muru, Pres. Jackson, Hakone Co., sausages, 2 conts
per b.: Embassy, Peking, returning to his City? There is dust and dirt Mara, Tottori Maru, Hector, Tjisa-Siemssen and Co., case be made on the subject, and for everywhere and, with the sunshine. Pronto, West Niger, Atlas Maru, quarts of Tuborg beer, $10.50; H.
of 48 post.
Mr. Anton Adams, retired New this reason we welcome the and heat of the past two days Calulu, Liberator, Canton Chenan, Price and Co, case of Club whisky, Zealand capitalist, touring the
are becoming very 'un-Fooksang, Sinkiang and Apooy.
Far East with Mr. and Mrs. straightforward
obviously matters and
pleasant for those who have shops
Coppage. sincere dcclarations just made in or offices on either Queen's Road The authorities in Canton are al- the House of Lords by Lord Central or Des Voeux Road Cen-lowing the ricaba Birkenhond and the Marquis of tral. One store proprietor has crease their fares, and the new disability for refusing to have "He accusés, me of going to
"that whenever a schedule makes ten cents the mini- children vaccinated has been pre-work," said a man at Stratford .. Rending. The present position, complained
motor car passes along his sidemum tare. Members of the Go-sented to Parliament by Mr. Tom Police Court, complaining of abuse together with future possibilities, of the street, he and his shop have vernment, Labour leaders, and Groves.
by a neighour. was thoroughly explored by both to suffer clouds of dust. In Des soldiers, with or without badges,
Voeux Rond the conditions
are will also now have to pay fares certainly different from those and not be allowed "cumshow" I know that they were unanimous in
to which
we in Hongkong rides. exploding certain fantastic notions have been used and we 21 Stair of P.W.D. which have been spread abroad by think that
any sweepers, together with enemies of Britain regarding the helpers from the Sanitary Depart latter's attitude towards these ment, might be put to work sweep- disruptions.
ing up and clearing away the There is not the slightest doubt loose sand and dust complained of
Of course, the tops of sand washed as Lord Birkenhead said, down into Pedder Street will not religious and communal anta-be movable for weeks, but as this
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. spokesmen, and it is gratifying to
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There has recently come into the Japan Christian Intelligencer existence a new magazine named
The chief aim of this publication is to impart Information regarding things Japanese to the outside world. Those wishing to subscribe to the magazine are asked to com- municate with Mr. M. Tauruta of gonism has always been a eause of rond is impassable at present it the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., riots in India, and it is equally
Hongkong. the dust nuisance point of view, clear that, but for the firm and Whilst splendid work has been Refugees from Fukien province impartial rule of Britain, matters done in clearing away tons have commenced to stream into would be far more serious than of material,
the centre of Shanghai as the Cantonese expedi our town is not exactly a credit tionary foree against the north is they now are. Recalling the.
to us just now, neither can we growing active. A party of 356're serious nature of recent distur- earn the customary compliment of fugees arrived at Nantro from bancos, it does not require much visitors that Hongkong is the Foochow province last Thursday cleanest city in the Far East It morning. The refugees are Hupeh imagination, to picture, the state is a compliment of which we ought people and therefore are being fed of India were Britain to with- to be a little proud and jealous, and accommodated by the Hupeh draw, and leave the contending and it is to be hoped that the work Guild until arrangements are made
of cleaning up will be taken for sending them to their homes. elements to fight the issue out.
seriously in hand. It is, admittedly, also true that new political Influences and forces which have been Feleased in recent times have been a factor in the unrest in India, just as they have been elsewhere, and in this con- Paris nection, at a time when so much Brussels
Amsterdam is heard of majority rule, it is not
Berlin difficult to understand the prosely- Copenhagen tising tendencies shown by both Vianna Hindus and Moslems. The sug- Helsingfors gestion that in these disputes Lisbon
Buenos Aires Britain has shown apartialty Shanghai towards the latter, and have been Yokohamu encouraging the disorders, is New York. almost too, foolish to need refuta- Geneva
Milan tlon, but in view of the wide cur-
Stockholm rency which has been given to the Oss point, it is just as well that both Progue Madrid Lord Birkenhead and the Marquis Rio. Hombay
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of Reading should categorically Hongkong deny it. This absurd allegation is Silver (spot) almost on all fours with. the oft-
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A consignment of Channel Is- lands cattle, yaled at £13.500, specially selected for breeding Purposes, has left Plymouth for Dollar on demand:
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About a billion and a half years carried off and eaten. ago rain began to fall upon the "earth. Since then we've had Kansas school boards have de-
750,000 miles of rain.
cided, to let the teachers bob it.. The figures are offered by Dr. Two years ago nearly every board. William Bowie, of the C. S. Coast in the State ruled against teachers and Geodetic Survey. This is the who used rouge or babbed their sedimentary age in which we are treases. This year not a single living, Dr. Bowie said, and it start letter has been received by Prof. ed with the beginning of rainfall. H. W. Johnson, of the teachers' An average of 30 inches of rain appointment bureau of the Univer a year falls on the whole world, sity of Kanans, which asks for which is the equivalent of a milo teachers without bobbed hair. of rainfall, every 2,000 years.
Berlin is about to launch an in-
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No fewer than 10 cheap rice de- pots are functioning in various parts of Chapei, Pootung, Jessfield, the Settlement and the French Con- cession at Shanghai. Thousands of Rabgy, July 29. pieuls of rice are being sold at $10 mails in. Berli reached its bureau. Both, the married and 205 and $11 per plcul, the grain being addressce recently, because postal the about-to-be-married who feel of inferior quality from Saigon authorities recognized the address the need of a guiding hand may but Its nutrition value is high.as an automobile number and call at the bureau for advice. In These prices represent a substantial looked up the owner.
A postal card addressed to teresting, experiment in the form "VO-619" and sent through the of a municipal marriage" advice.
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decrease on the ruling quotations ...18.24 for Chinese rice.
Latest market .34.414 rates ranged from $15.80 to 17.80 ...1936 per picul, according to the quality..
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the main, it will serve tho eugeniets, as its prime. purpose is to deter the physically and men- tally unfit from the holy state.
A very fine idea! if anyone goes to the bureau. We have ever .45.7/16 It is notified that on and after
observed that when a swain and 2/10% August 1st, the radio counter in the
damozel desire to marry, they will, .1/11.6/10 | main hall of the General Post Office“
regardless of all the reasons why. .4.86 5/10 will be closed, and will be transfer-
they should not for the betterment 26.123red to the Radio Telegraph Office on,
Rov, J. W. Roone, of the British of the race. Although the results 119 the third floor of the General Post and Foreign Bible Society, on and effects of marriage are social
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Office building. The counter at the returning to London from Central in the larger sense, its inception Radio Telegraph Office will be open Africa reported finding a man over seems to remain a purely .22.10 1044
day and night for the acceptance of whose father had 2,000 wives. personal none-of-your-business .01.68% radio telegrams. The entrance to One Ring of the Conge, he said, affair.
7.9/83 the building in at the Des Voeux came out to meet him with 176 1/5.29/32 Road-Fedder Street corner. The wives. He was poor as kings go
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"Does your new novel end háp- ja doors will be closed after 10 p.m., there. Cannibalismn .20,9/10
not pily?" 29.9/16 but admittance may be obtained by extinct,, according to Mr., Roome, "It's a matter of opinion. They British Wirolcae. ringing the night-bell.
who said one of his porters was marry.
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