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DAY BY DAY.

I AM A FRIEND TO LIBERTY, "AND"] LIKEWISE A FRIEND TO REASON

and Braz!!-found general accept- anee. The non-permanent seata would, it was thought, best bo apportioned so that all the varione parts of the world had representn- | George Borrow. tion on the Council, and there was adeliberate choosing of can

didates to secure that end. cluime of China and

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21 YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS TROM "TELEGRAPH FILES.

The following Itoms are extract- The death of a Chinese panson ger on the s.s. Shirala from Sined from the Telegraph files for the The gapore is reported by the master, week ended September 23rd, 1905. Two Chinend cases of 'enterio The rate of the dollar on do fover were reported to the Medical mand was 18. 11. '5/16d. Officer of Health on Wednesday.

were

based on territorial considera tions, as was the earlier cinim of

Brazil to a permanent sent But

It is oficially announced that: quarantine restrictions have been Amoy on account of cholurn. imposed against arrivals from

The s.s. Kidderpore, which loft Shanghai at 9 am.

on the 16th instant, is due here at 5 am. on the 20th.

Passengers arriving yesterday by ss. Morca from, Europe via ports included Mr. and Mrs. H. Cadman, Engr. Lieut. F. W. Jones RN., Dr. R. E. Tottenham, Colonel J. M. Boyd, Lieut. H. L. C. Hall, and Mr. E. B. C. Hornell,

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Mr. W. H. Taft, the U. S. War Secretary, and the Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan) conferred with lending Chinese on the question of the anti-American boycott.

FERRY PIRACY.

FOUR CHARGED WITH MURDER.

One of the two Indian guarda

who was wounded during the

|piracy of the Sal, Kung ferry, having succumbed to his Injuries, a charge of murder was brought against four men before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magia- tracy this morning.

The four defendants were first charged with attempted, murder, but this indictment was amond-

actual mur

"The dignity of the Legislative ed for one" of

der. There was also a count Council in Hongkong is now on- hanced," says a paragraph, "by the of robbery on the high seas pre- ferred against all defendants, appearance of the official mem-

third was further bers in the conventional frock while the

charged with being in unlawful poss cont."

session of a revolver and three

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the Irish Free State challenged ALWAYS READY should be no geographical con- that basis, arguing that there

siderations of any

kind. It was a plea with a great deal of attraz tiveness about it and it would not have been surprising if it had gained a fair amount' of support

For the next two months divers from the smolloy nations re-will be at work off Kennedy Town presented in the Assembly. erecting the new automatic self-

At the annual meeting of the rounds of ammunition, and the Britain could not officially support recording tide-guage: Mariners it, however, for the policy of using the Sulphur Channel are re-Y. M. C. A. Football Club, Mr. J. I fourth defondant with having in quested to proceed at slow speed. McPherson was appointed Prest his possession two rounds of am-

dent and Mr. A. Hamilton captain. munition. having world-wide geographical

In answer to his Worship, Sub representation on the Council

The Douglas Steamship Com-Inspector. Andrew. anid that hiạ must be favoured by the Great

pany proposed a dividend of 7 per instructions were to ask for the Powers who, naturally, want to

cent.; the Union. Insurance Society, withdrawal of the charge of at- 600, an equal balance of influence

dividend of $40 per share; and tempted murder only, but it was maintained in the Council. The

Wm. Powell, Ltd, a final dividend possible that others would be of 7 per cent., after having paid dropped later. Canadian representative vigorous-

an interim of 5 per cent.

The defendants were remanded on the application of the prosecű- ly supported the Irish argument, the main force of which was that every nation belonging to the League should be free to claim a Beat and submit itself for election irrespective of any outside con sideration., The Assembly, how- over, decided against the chim of Ireland and, as is seen by the latest voting "figures published elsewhere in this issue, voted in accordance with the geographical idea. The choice of policy has been made and it is to be trusted

There is to be a development in defeated C. Roberts, of the West and Minister Plenipotentiary at that it will be found a right the Saikung piracy affair, the In-Kents, in a match for the welter-Duazzao. British Wireless. choice: China has only been clect-dian guard who was seriously shot having died in hospital here, ed for two years and this will where he was brought after the doubtless inspire the loquacious incident. The men now in eus- Mr. Chu to further expressions of tody, and alleged to be part of the disagreement, although it is to be pirate gang, will now be charged

with murder. hoped that he will not again threaten "misunderstanding" by the people of China. He does his country a dis-service by failing to show toleration for the viewpoints of others.

On and after the 20th inst. the business of the Hongkong branchAt a Volunteer, promenade con- tion, for one week.. of the P. & O. Banking Corpora- cert, the vocalists included Mrs. tion will be carried on at Prince's George Grimble and Cạpt, G. P. Building, Chater Road, on the pre-

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HALE-On Sept: 17th, at the French Hospital, to the wife of W. E. Hale, a daughter..

The Telegraph

FRIDAY, SEPT. 17. 1926

LEAGUE ISSUES.

The organisation of the League

of Nations is in the making at the Taoment and a very great deal indeed will depend on how the members of the League accom- plish the task at thom this week. After the crisis of last March, it

was not anticipated that there

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Mr. Charles R. Scott was ap- Bointed manager of the local branch of the International Bank-

Failing to appear in Court when a charge of assaulting a tramwaying Corporation. wirenian was preferred against

The St. John Ambulance, Asso- him at the Central Magistracy this morning, an American member of ciation notified a course of lec the crew of the President Taft tures for ladies. had his bail of $5 estreated by an order from the Magistrate.

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The following vessels are expect- ed to be in wireless communication with Hongkong to-day.--Van Over- straten, Talthybius, Patroculus, Tilawa. Kwongsung, Kalgan, Lim- chow, Suisang, Seochow, Santhia, Kiangsu, Kidderpore, City of Ran- goon, Aki Maru, Amur Maru, Kumamoto Maru, Mayebashi Maru, Kum Maru, Manelaus and Presi- dent Madison.

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Rugby, Sept. 16. H.M. the King has approved of the appointment of Mr. William Leeds, Envoy Extraordinary' and At a big boxing tournament at Minister Plenipotentiary at Cura- the Theatre Royal, Sum Newman cas, to be Envoy Extraordinary

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weight championship of the Co- lony, whilst Jack Weday had to re- tire in the-fourth round in his defeated J. Collins. Both were match with E. H. Greenhill for the Sandow gold medallists.

In a contest middleweight title.

for the amateur wrestling cham- pionship of the Colony, J. Witchell

Lieutenant G. H. Potts resigned commission in the Volunteers.

The Very Idee!

15,000,000 is not inhabitable," flat would be a population of 10,307,921

to the square mile. Too many

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would be much difficulty over the question of Germany's admission and her election to a permanent

Besides being better for every other things for the dificulty which body concerned, it is positively is experienced in getting our classCA optimism has proved well. founded,. The United States Minister to

necessary that you die. Here is to be interested in what we think thanks mainly to the statesman-China made a noteworthy declara- The forthcoming weddings aro how the pastor of a New York they should be interested in. Very rarely are we ready to believe that ship of M. Briand, the French tion of American policy on the announced of Mr. Roland Forus church figures it out:

extra-territoriality question when worth Griffin, of No. 21 Yu Yuen Beginning at the time of Christ, the teller is so badly prepared, the representative, who made matters he stated that there could at present Road, Shanghai, to Miss Lillithe with 300,000,000 people alive then, work so unfortunately graded, the 26 smoothly workable. The ques be no question of the surrendering Crossley, of Malvern Terrace, and figuring that the population love of the work so conspicuous by “

of rights, and that America must Leeds, England; Mr. George Sin-doubles every 50 years, there would its absence that it would be tion of the non-permanent sente.

see to it that her nationals are duly clair, clerk of works, residing at now be 412,316,416,000,000 per-"wonderful if any class could be in- however, looked like proving a

protected, Were Chica in a posi-115 Avenue Road, Shanghai to sons inhabitating the globe. duced to look a second time at the. difficult one to x up, and a special tion to guarantee fair and just Miss Mary Lillian Gibson Inkster. Considering the earth's surface, book from which the lesson is Committee has been examining no need for a continuance of extra-who is due to arive in the Colony 58,000,000 square miles, of which taken the matter and laying down rules. territorial rights, but, as Mr. Mar-

King George IV curad Genoral· of procedure. governing election Murray put it, the cause of justice The expenditure during 1925 on

Sir George Higginson of smoking. and re-eligibility. The report of in at stake, and as that would be the Public Works Department in

General Higginson recalled on his threatened if foreign rights were the Straits Settlements exceeded.It was interesting, (says a Home 100th birthday recently, that when this Committee has been

surrendered, a. necessary evil" that of any recent year and was, writer) to listen to the Prince's ad- he was a child the king noticed him unanimously adopted by the must still continue. There has been, in fact, the highest ever recorded dress at Oxford from the point of in his perambulator one day and, Assembly. China has been con- for some time past, a deal of specu-in the Colony, states the annual review of the pronounciation con- for a joke, since the child was star- sistently insistent on a seat, and lation as to America's attitude on port of the Colonial Engineer, troversy. His Royal Highness pro- ing at the king's cigar, put it to this question, but ground for doubt Taking into account variations in nouncee the thin "often." He says the baby's lips. The nauscous im- has even suggested that she ought is now altogether removed. It is price it probably represents fully "die-rection" and "acoustics, and pression stayed with him all his to be given a permanent sent. possible that recent events in China double the work done in 1921 and stresses the first syllable of "illus life, Sir George stated. Persia later came along with a have had much to do with the mak- is 12 to 15 per cent. in excess of trate" and "pursuit." In the

ing of this definite pronouncement, that done in 1924.

Prince's English laboratory" is

Every day, it seems, we pick up demand, for a non-permanent seat for of late there have been numer-

still an uncertain word, for he pro- the papers to read that Mussolini, basing her claim on the plea thatous instances showing the danger The Jewish cemetery of Manila nounced it first with the accent on Italy's premiera la carte, has put the people of Asin ought to have to which foreigners would be sub-was dedicated last Sunday in the the lab, and then with the accent on his foot down on something else.

jected were they liable to the pre-presence of 60 or 70 members of the or.

Mussolini has been so busy lately at least two representatives on cess. of Chinese law. As things the Jewish community of the city.

that to find a phase of Italian life the Council-China and Persia.now aro, it is next to impossible for The new cemetery is one of the One of the week's reports from which has not been touched in some And then the final surprise of all even Chinese to secure justice in most beautiful sites in Cementerio the Channel is discouraging to way by the ban, you'd have to dive was staged, which was a dramatic the courts, and it can be well left del Norte, which the community awimming:

every deep, to the imagination what the posi- bought from the government. A

A large number of bottle-nosed The latest to come under the for request by the Irish Free State tion of foreigners would be were big chapel already has been built

sharks, 12 ft. to 14 ft. long, fol- bidden list is the parade. Not all that she be given a non-permanent the rights they now enjoy taken there. The speakers at the dedi- lowed Farstad, who was u ble parades are banned, of course, and to take nourishment properly. here is where a fine shade of mean- seat. The claim was based on the away. Not only do the ordinary cation ceremonies were Colonel

Jaw courts fail in their duties, but H. A. Wolfson, Jacob Rosenthal, So, it seems, were the sharks.

ing enters the question. A parade, plea that the allocation of seats in many places utterly illegal or L. Beck, Morria Frieder, and M. Perfum

to be held in Italy, must be "effec on the Council ought not to be ganisations have set up their own Goldstoin.

Perfume is as important to the tively useful hereafter. To deter French maid and matron as her mine whether a proposed parade, is governed by geographical con-courts in which they presume to usurp the functions of government siderations, and that any nation by meting out punishment to those to record the death of Mr. D. G.

We regret, saya the Malay Mail, gown or wrap. ⠀

useful or worthless, a commission, There is at least one "pal has been set up. should feel itself free to be elect- who cross their paths, Germans Robertson, the founder of the firm fumerie" for every shop of robes ed; quite irrespective and in- in China do not enjoy extra-territ bearing his name in Kuala Luin and manteaux, in the points are which determine may

orial rights, and they could

And Milady on a shopping tour dependent of Its location. This

tell a striking story of their lot ur, which occurred in Canada

quite suddenly last month. Mr. devotes as many hours to the Pro under Chinese law, for they know Robertson retired from Malays per matching of perfume and, her that it is useless to bring actions over ten years ago. He came out personality as most people give to In native courts and expect to

to Malay to join Mesaro. Riley dress or shoe selection. secure justice. So far from the Hargreaves and Co., Ltd., which So far as the permanent seats present being the time for the with he left to become the first manager on the Council are concerned, the drawal of extra-territorial rights of the Federated Engineering Co. allocation is governed by ཐ་ it would be far more opportune to Ltd., formed by the amalgamation extend such rights to those who de

of the two firms of Riley Har-

is a matter of principle which requires to be carefully looked

Into.

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He drove his golf ball in a well. Thus was the game begun. And, when he found the

bloomin' thing

Ho claimed a hole-in-one.

Only the Great not enjoy, them. The time may greaves, and Howarth Erskine. Powers are considered eligible for come when China will enjoy full He left the Federated Engineering

sovereign rights in this regard, but Co. in 1904 and started the firm of changes of taste, or the love of It is the fashion to blame the a matter which lies in China's D. G. Robertson and Co. He was

election to a permanent seat, and that is a limitation which has except for the protests of Spain

as to when that day will be--that

own hands.

We should like to know just what

given. parade's - usofulness,

The

Fascists, with their shirts, sot the style for parades, of course, several years back when they marched into Rome and declared Fascism. aupreme, - Perhaps a useful parade ja one without a white shirt or collar in the whole line of march

Joan"Do you think they are really in lover

listens while he describes a football Phyllis "They must be. She also a director of William Mackin-melodrama, or the utilitarianism of match, and he Heters while she do-

to-day, or, the cinema on a hundred scribes her gowns," non and Co., Ltd., of Aberdeen.