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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1926.

abling the Canton Government from prosecuting its Northern cam paign. The reason for the British action is quite clear, and thore i8 | nothing in the least degree mystori. ous about it. For more than a year, Britain has put up with a. most unwarranted and quite unlaw. ful interference with her trade. She has shown, the most exemplary patience in the face of insult. after. insult, including acts of violence against many of her subjects. Pro- tests to the Canton authorities, have been quite unavailing." We

DAY BY DAY.

GIVE A MAN A TASTE FOR READING, AND THE MEANS OF GRATIFYING IT, AND YOU CAN HARDLY FAIL OF MAR- ING HIM A HAPPY MAN--Sir John Herschel

According to the Old Chinese calendar to-day Is the festival of Whito Dow (Pailu). ・・・

The Colonial Office has appointed Miss H. 1. Robertson, M.A., M.B., Ch.B. as Lady Medical Officer to the Malay States.

At the last quarterly communi- cation of the Grand Lodge of Scot

RAILWAY SMASH SEQUEL.

UNEMPLOYED GERMANS

ANTI-REDS ON TRIAL

RUSSIAN WHITE GUARDS." CHARGED.

CONFESS."

Riga, Sept. 7 The Soviet Press le giving great Berlin, Sept. 7. prominence to the trial of twenty-

The officers, Bezomkow,

have usked the Government to exer- tish Freemasons, Mr. Brodie A months and decided to derail the Pagandą among White officers in

We invite comparison onment has either been unwilling ternational Mixed Court

every count whether else and speed of operation or quality of work.

cise the powers, watch it professes Clark was reappointed District to have, in order to stop the grow-] Grand Master of North China," ingly flagrant infringements of

Shanghai Chinese reports state Treaty rights. The Canton Gov- that once the rendition of the In- com or unable to comply with the re-pleto, the Chinese will turn their attention to securing rendition of quests. So what it has falled to the French Mixed Court: accomplish, Britain has taken in hand. She is determined to put up with these picket incidents no

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cine and Hygiene of the Royal The Diploma in Tropical Medi- Colleges of Physicians and Sur

An arrested casual ward savon members of the White, musician named Otto Slesinger, Guard, which began at Sevastopol The accused aro yesterday, Aged 21 years, and a mechanic charged with attempted countor- named Willy Weber, aged 22, have revolution, confessed to responsibility for the railway smash at Lohrtoon Rapallsky, Detllot and others of General Wrangel's Army founded August, 18th,

a counter-revolutionary organlen- They said they had been un-tion in 1922 to carry on pro- employed and penniless for train and rob the passengers and that ten mombers of this organisa

the Red Army, and it is alleged mail. They loosened the rails.and

tion, headed by Detilot, who was hid in bushes, but were so en route to Odessa aboard the horrified at the resultant spectacle steamer Urish, seized the ship and that they fled, not waiting to rob. compelled the captain to land at The deed preyed on the mind of Varna, where they linked up with Weber, who confessed to his foreign anti-Bolshevista brother at his father's grave, after which the police got on the trail. -Reiter.

Only 42 per cent. of the lost pro geons of England has been con-. ferred on W.Z.C. Yuen, M.B., B.S..perty turned in annually to Scot- Hongkong..

land Yard ever finds its way back according to, he annual report of

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There is much mention made of International Law in the Canton protcet. Sush sub-

We are asked to state that the missions surely come ll from the fine imposed yesterday by Major C. Minister of a Government which Willson on Mr. Speth's motor-dri- ver on conviction of a charge of has been willing to stand idly by taking out his employer's car with and see Treaty ngreements flaunt-out permission, was $15, and not ALLAN JAMES CYRIL DALed by an organised body of profes. $5 as erroneously reported.

MAHOY ALLAN, M.D., on September 8th, 1826, at No. 366, the Peak, Hongkong. The funeral will pass the monu- ment on Thursday, the 9th instant, at 5.00 p.m.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The family desire to thank their relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy, floriql tributes and attendance at the funeral of the late Mrs. A Rooper.

The Telegraph

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1926.

CANTON'S "PROTEST.”

commandeered for military pur- poses. The vessel was bound for Nanking at the time, with passen- gers, all of whom had to leave the ship and find quarters elsewhere.

sional agitatora If the Canton

Reports have been received in Government really sets so inuch Shanghai to the effect that whilst store by International Law, why the China Merchants str. Klangteen has it permitted the boycolt vr

was at Nanking on her last trip she was suddenly boarded and seiz- ganisation to infringe the prize-ed by "Allied" troops and ples thereof for so long? Unless it can show that it has really at- tamped to smash up the movement, the Canton Government cannot complain it it is regarded as being party thereto. Britain's action merely means this that she is tired of waiting for the Canton Government to do something to end the illegal inter- ference with foreign trade. Her patience is exhausted, and she is determined to get her rights

respected.

Taiping society is much grieveti

It is stated that the prisoners. include M. Henrichson and mem bers of his provisional Cabinet, who were organised to take over the direction of affairs after the overthrow of the Bolshevists- Reuter

The members of the French the Metropolitan Police hore. The total number of articles found and Order of the Society of Jesus will turned in to the police during 1025 shortly, leave the large training was 163,570. Among the deposits college at Ore, Hastings, and re- last year were a ferret, two human turn to France. Their collections leg bones, a glass eye, two white of specimens of plant and animal mice, a parrot and one parcel con- species have beon divided between taining a pair of opera glasses and the British and the Hastings

Museums a pair of kippers.

The Very Ideas!

Jdon

Here is a story about Bernard 'cause, lo, when you're dancing to hear of the eüdden illness and Shay which I do not think has you're daneing your troubles. death, which occurred in the Tai-ever been published before (says away. ping Hospital last week of Mr. V the Daily Chronicle.)

Batate, Matang. Mr. Upton was

C. Upton, manager of Lauderdale The daughter of an old friend Among the many witty sayings of G. B. S. was getting married, of the late Israef Zangwill, one of for many years prominent in social thin velume containing a play the most delightful was his retort events, sport and volunteering and

of his own arrived from the to a very effusive lady who rushed was officer, commanding B.Com rugger player until quite recently

pany, M.S.V.R. He was a keen

dramatist as a wedding present. up to him exclaiming "Mr. Zang-

'occasion of

her

rarriage”1

The batter never played

good ball.

In fact, he was a chump. He couldn't knock the old

pill out,

dwellers in

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Manhattan countryside to the doorway of certain big theatres. Such is competition in these "dog days" that

Brooklyn playhouse gives 25-miles free bus service to

.to

the

one

1. win Long Islanders

theatre.

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reading the play, and had nearly I have read it through three It was only when the bride was will, your new book is wonderful! At a meeting of the Sanitary reached the end, that she found times." Board yesterday the following cheque for £50 between the "Madam," replied the author, "I had rather have heard that you As was to be expected, Mr.

More Obstruction,

were present, Mr. N. L. Smith pages. (chairman). Dr. A: G. M. Severn, The inscription was Shavian, had bought three coples." Eugene Chen, in his capacity as

The failure to find a negotiable the Hon. Mr.. H. T. Creasy, the for, following the

name of the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the basis in the coal dispute, which, Hon. Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. S. W. recipient, were the words:-"Oo Free busses now bring Canton Government, has come out dragging en for nearly five months, T'so. Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Dr. the

the first with a characteristic "protest" has already very effectually quash- J. C. Macgown, Col. Boylan Smith ed the prospects of a British trade against the British action which revival for some time to come, is and Mr. R. 4. D. Forrest (secre aims at putting a stop to the acti-deplorable, and the present positary) There was no business of vities of the boycott pickets. The tion of stalemate just when we had public importanco.

been thinking the end was in sight

Lieut.-Col. Ronald Macclesfield- language he uses is not altogether is a heavy charge to be laid at the Health, C.M.G., p.S.O., who is taking polite, and he is obviously at prest | door of the conlowners. Through

over command of the British forces pains to present the situation as out protracted consultations previ-

in North China, is 'a mem- ously the coatowners have never

bor of a being one

famous military in which "Chinese stressed the same uncompromising

and family

has spent all Nationalists"-by which, we pre-attitude in regard to a national His adult life in the army. He has death of "Sandy" at the Zoo, gives youthful minds. He bad woun-i The Times, in announcing the children trying to Improve their agreement, and we sincerely trust, there is something more behind Mr.received many military honours, him the proper description of up the grand old story of James Churchill's warning of Government including the much-coveted Queen's "orang-utan." The popular word Watts and his mother's kettle, and action than mere bluff. It is not Medal, the Distinguished Service is "ourang-optang," and it is curi- asked little Tommy "And now,"

Order and, during the great war, surprising that the owners were the French Croix de Guerre..

oue that nearly every language in Tommy, what does the steam come Europe (except Spanish) has hit out of the kettle spout for?" called upon to give reasons

on the same jingle. Nothing could. "So that mother can open your their objections to entering upon negotiations with the miners' re of the Canton Government to smug of rhyme to the average man, It ventured the bright. lad,

Fearing an attempt on the part better show the strong appeal letters before you get home," presentatives on a national basis, gie arme and munitions into Shang- it in precisely the same way that Hitherto the miners have taken

sume, he means the Canton extrem- ists--are waxing indignant at the definite step taken by Britain to suppress an utterly illegal and wholly artificial movement. He talks of a powerful section of Chinese Nationalists" believing in the boycott weapon, and thus ap. pears to endorse the activities of the boycott leaders and pickets. It would be pertinent to ask whether he and the other Ministers of his Government stand at the back of the movement. Hongkong has al- ways maintained and it has had

for

ip

But always knocked the

ump...

Warnounciation is hara-kiri.

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Father was in relaxed mood, and spending

a. night, with his

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the onus of blame for the continu hai, the Commander of the Woo we insist on talking of the A French scientist has discover ance of this disastrous strike, but sung Forts has, it is reported, sta-Japanese method of suicide aged that when butterflies are de- they have expressed willingness to tioned warships in the Yangtze at hari-hari when the proper pro- capitated they live from one to enter into negotiations on the lines a point beyond Woosung. laid down by the Government. The ships stationed in the vicinity are Government has not suggested that making generous use of their He was a flirt, and had just

searchlights at nights, and ships asked the girl to marry him. terms will mean a national agree-

"No," she said, promptly and ment in the respect that the same entering the port after dark are

Hable to be searched.

firmly. wages and conditions, will prevail in all districts, but that there be no occasion to vary its opinion district variations in accordance with the conditions prevailing in

that the boycott has been maintain- ed by a small group of terrorists, that the movement has no popular support (because by its very nature

different areas. The strike

costing the various Boards of Guardians in Britain something in the region of £250,000 every week, and some-one must needs give way

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Chinese reports state that begin- ning from October 1, and lasting

till November 30 a surtax will be levied by the Maritime Customs on imports and exports for the pur pose of famine relief-this with the permission of the. Diplomatic killed mel"

two weeks longer than their ordinary span. In every case they were found to act normally, which is more than can be anid

human beings who have com pletely lost their heads.

of

He became threatrical.

It seems a curious arrangement "You have crushed my life at of nature that beheading should one blow," he murmured, hearsely, act as a reprieve. Doubtless it is "I fancy not," she, responded. relatively large sub-stations on "Ah, but you do not know," he the nervous systems of some in- insisted. "You have killed mesects which permit them to carry on. We of the higher "creation "Well, if I have" she remarked. are victims of a centralisation. it is destructive of trade and com-eomewhere if this very serious Body. With this increase, the sur- marca), and that it would have situation is to be brought to an end. taxes levied on Chinesa Govern coully," "you must be a cat for I which forbids any hope of achiev- mont owned methods of communica- know seven other girls who have in longevity by auch drastic automatically collapsed were the

tion will be cancelled. The same done the same thing, and you are methods: pickets disbanded. The plea of

Among the passengers on the reports state that this arrange not dead yet. You've got one widespread support therefore falls Patroclus,, which is due shortly, is ment has been confirmed by the more chance.":"

Mr. Alex. Ross, of Alex. Ross & Co. toms at Shanghai.

Chinese Superintendent of Cus-

Manchester, Hongkong, and Shang- hai. first came out East to the service greaves; C.B.E., has been placed on It is 44 years since Mr. Ross Paymr. Capt. Herbert J. Har of the then important and highly the retired list, with the rank of respected firm of Messrs. Holliday, Paymr. Rear-Admiral. Wise & Co..

to the ground. Indeed;, we believe that Cantonese business men wel-

come the British action rather than

otherwise.

Mr. Chen's dragging in of the Shakee shooting and his talk of the British action possibly leading to

The following vessels are ex- another "massacre" of Chinese can pected to be in wireless com be written down as so much. clap-munication with Hongkong to-day trap, having no bearing on the is-Pres.. Pierce, Van Overstraten, Anking, Chnan, Kumamoto Maru, Bues whatever. Neither can we Takada, Kaying, Hwahehong, Mau or anybody else who knows the san, D'Artagnan, Taiping, Indua facts see in the move against the Maru, Nagpere, Ketsu Maru, Sar

pedon, Hakozaki & Maru, Empress pickets any attempt to create an of Russia, Sunning, Laisang and Incident for the purpose of dis Hanoi.

He was

There is an old tale from our rainbow books of fairy lore about: Melody flows, and away the the damsel whose blood royal wis crowd goos o'er a floor that'e na known because her tender flesh, a summer time treat, and the were buried 'neath 12 comforters slippery as ice. Shuffle of feet is could feel a lentil even though it world will admit that it's nice. of padded elderdown. They tried Couples may croon in the llit eiderdown of rose and oiderdow the first naval representative on of a tune, for they're lost in the of violet. They tried lentils the Board of Management of the sway of a dance. Dipping and small and lentile large. They Navy and Army Cantoon Board, swaying, while music is playing, tried golden beds and couches of now known as the Navy, Army till carried away in a trance. diamond. And whenever the and Air Force Institutes Board of Folk get their full of it, all for maiden did lay herself down upga Management, and served as such the thrill of It Funny how the couch which surmounted tho from 1917 to 1923, receiving the sweet music acts. Clenta up the lentil 12,000 leagues below, she C.B.E for his services. Ho ha mind in you; soon you can and I did moan piteously whilst her since been serving at Chatham," where during the last two years you simply the power to relax. alabaster flesh turned black and he has been the Port Accountant How can one worry, when swept, blue. Then they knew, sho" was Officer on the staff of the Cominn hurry, as over the dance floor, the child royal, indeed and the mander-in-Chief at the Nore,, they sway? Yes, It's entrancing, throne was heral