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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926.

PROTECT YOUR CAR Foreign Governments have right

by installing to give protection to their "PYRENE" Fire nationals where that protection Extinguisher,

"PYRENE" will

DAY BY DAY.

ADVERSITY HAS THE EFFECT OF is denied owing to an inefficient, ELICITING TALENTS, WHICH, IN mal-administered PROSPEROUS CIRCUMSTANCES, WOULD

HAVE LAIN DORMANT,Horace.

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The health return for yesterday shows two Chinese cases, of typhoid fever.

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There was no busincas of public interest at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board.

JUDGMENT REVIEWED. SUMMONS WITHDRAWN

LANDLORD'S CLAIM

SUCCEEDS.

THE P. W. D. SATISFIED.

Mr. Fong Sau-nin, the owner of a block of property whoso ab- kill fire without corrupt and

Mr. Justico Wood „delivered a damage to the Judiciary system, but they would

roviewed judgment in the Sum-sence in Canton had caused some engine, woodwork welcome the opportunity of aur-

mary Court this morning after a delay in complying with certain or upholstery rendering those rights, because

case had been re-heard. The case sanitary work required by the Water spreads & such a step would mean that China

was one in which a Chinese land-Public Works Department, was petrol fre; sand is

lord claimed from Mr. A. Guetat again named in the remanded" inefficient and will had put her house in better order

the sum of $210, being balance due hearing of a summons, taken out put the engine out and had progressed along the

for rent for No. 6, Kennedy Rond, by the Department, before Mr. R. Lines most to be desired. As Mr.

for the month of June. The de-E. Lindsell this morning. "fendant denied the liability, and Some time had elapsed since the- "PYRENE" Ex-MacMurray said, the matter, was

his counter-claimed for a similar sum, last adjournment, tinguishor is small very thoroughly considered at the

Mr. W. C. Shiner has reported to being money expended for the Worship now asked Mr. Andrewes, in size, tight in Washington Conference and fvelling clock, valued at $24, from or his agent's request, or for dam what case was referred to.

the police the theft of a silver tra-beneft of the landlord, at his own; who appeared for the defendant,

was decided by that assembly his room at No. 73, The Peak.

ages owing to a breach of agree. Mr. Andrewes replied that he (famous for its partiality to the

ment.

would refresh his Worship's Mr. L. Turner represented memory by taking the heading Chinese) that the Powers should

the tenant, and Mr. M. K. Lo the given to a newspaper report of landlord.

the ∙onse. This heading was "Curses the Contractor."

of action.

weight and easy to handle. "PYRENE" doos! not deteriorate and

for use.

Mustard & Co., Ltd.

Passengers departing yesterday by 8,8. Siberia Maru for San Francisco la ports, Included the Hon. and Mrs. John Dewar, Mr. E. Brunner, Mr. R. S. Ellas.

The B.I. steamer Talma, which is always ready at the present retain, their extra-in bringing the Home letter mall of August 26th., is now due here to territorial rights. The history of morrow morning at nine o'clock. Keep a "PYR-events in China since that time ENE" handy on has been the reverse of what car and in garage. would encourage the Powers to change their view, and our Chinese friends have much for which to blame themselves. It is pleasing to note by a public utterance at such a time as the present that the American and British viewpoints so closely coincidea fact which ought to be eloquent to any Chinese possessed of the ability to assess it.

Incorporated under the Companies

Ordinances Hongkong. 16-17, Connaught Road. "Central.

The Telegraph

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22. 1926.

AMERICA'S POLICY.

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Messrs. B. Wylie (S. C. M. Post), M. F. Koy (Chamber of Com merce), C, M. McDonald (China Mad) and W. Kay (Queen's Col- lege), have been hill-climbing to. gether in Scotland.

AN ERROR,

and

Mr. Grimes, in reply to the

*.* In delivering judgment, his Lord, ship said: In this review, with the Magistrate, said that he was now help of the able arguments sub- satisfied with the progress made mitted by Mr. M. Lo for the with the work, Hu agreed to the landlord, an error in my original withdrawal of the summons. " judgment has been shown. I gave The summons was accordingly Judgment for the tenant on the withdrawn. landlord's claim for rent on the

Mr. John MacMurray, tho supposition that the defence to the claim was release" la respect of United States Minister to China, This defence was supported is due in Hongkong from Amoy by evidence furnished by the land- to-morrow.

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lord.

It seemed to me that the land-issue raised by the tenant's, defence lord was stopped by his agent's is "payment" and nothing else, i.e., The Indo-China Steam Naviga- conduct from denying a "relanse." cash payment or not cash payment. tion Company's s.s. Cheongshing I gave judgment for the tenant. On this Issue again the landlord's is to make another trip to Can-as I now think on insufficient con- case is not hampered by estoppel.. ton, earrying passengers and sideration.. The distinction be- The receipt given,is final discharge cargo. She leaves on Friday, 24th tween release" and "payment" for the claim for rent, if the rent instant, and returna on Sunday.necessitated proof of payment of was paid in full, and not otherwise. the claim in full. This is a case in The landlord having given a receipt of service in detecting the real is-ped from claiming a payment of which pleadings would have been to the tenant is not thereby, estop-

suos.

the prosecutors' table at the Row

Owing to the accommodation at

loon Magistracy being limited, à desk has been provided for the Press at one end of the Magie- irate's Bench.

The late Sir Hugh Dixson, of Aberygaldie, Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia, who died on May 11th, 1926, loft estafe in Hongkong amounting to $2,058,100. Large

rent from him, if the rent has not been, in fact, paid.

As I have previously explained,

have not been satisfied that-

The Boycott Boomerang. No more eloquent testimony of the evil dffects of the anti-British If there was one point of more boycott on the Chinese could be vale than all the others referred wished for than the observations, to by Mr. John MacMurray, the printed in our issue of yesterday,

MATERIAL QUESTION. American Minister to China, in made by our correspondent at Pak

"Release" was in fact never a hoi. The point to be remembered his recent speech at Shanghai, it is that Pakhoi is a Chinese fort

part of the tenant's own case. It I was suggested solely from evidence payment" has been either proved was in relation to the bad in-and that the great bulk of the

Mr. F. H. Craphell; of the Hong of the landlord's agent. The tenor disproved by the ovidenco in fluence of Soviet Russia in China. trade carried on there is done by kong and Kowloon Wharf and ant's case was "payment" not "re-the case. On these grounds. I Chinese merchants. In its cam Godown Company, left by the lease. I went astray in saying now consider that judgment America had refused to re-

paign aimed at the British, how-Siberin Maru on a business trip that it was immaterial to find should be entered for the land- cognise the Soviet, said Mr. ever, the boycott lenders are hit-fo Japan. Mr. U. L. A. Mohideen whether the landlord's receipt was lord on his claim. The judge- ting their own countrymen, for the was a passenger on the same ship issued for cash or for some other ment on the counter-claim is re- MacMurray, not because Soviet owed America money cutting off of trade with Hongkong to Shanghai, on business.

consideration. The question is afirmed. Each party will pay hia has meant heavy losses to tho-Chi-

material for the reason that the own costs. because of the Soviet's lack of

nese generally. There is, ap- honour in regard to internationalparently no lack of steamers visit- obligations. Russia's policy was ing the port, but the merchanta

sert that shipping for export via one of International irresponsibility Canton and Shanghai is so expen and America was afraid that that sive as to become, impracticable. feeling of irresponsibility, if As to goods entering the port, the correspondent says that transport adopted in China, might lead her

from Canton is almost double to declare that her international what it would be from Hongkong obligations were out of date and if communication were restored. that any discontened party in As in Canton, so at Pakhoi-an at- tempt is being made to show that control of different parts of the the merchants are strongly in country could. repudiate all favour of the boycott and that treaties. This is the real dan they are gladly supporting it on "patriotic" lines. Our correspon- dent, however, says that he has talked with many of the merchants both of Pakhoi and Liemchow, "and they one and all bemoan their losses caused by the anti-British boycott." It is clear, therefore, that the boycott at Pakhoi, an at Canton, is a wholly artificial move- ment, in no way back by the people. Indeed, it is resented by the merchant class "as causing

bequests were made to members of his, family and lesser bequests were made to his employees.

The Royal Observatory report for

to-day states that the Yangtaze de- pression has moved into the Yellow Sea and an anticyclone is probably forming over China. The trough over the China Sea has filled up. The local forecast up till noon to- morrow is: Enst Winds, moderate;

fair.

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THE FLORIDA HURRICANE.

The Very Idea

The following reaches us from "A Mak":"Sir,-Wad ye be guid enough tae insert the following notice in your paper, If ye are quite sartain ngebody will tak offence?"

"Tae the gentleman wha plays the pipes a' nicht in Harlech Road: -Kamarashindoo !" (We believe this, translated into English, nieans "Greetings!"')"

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He bought a hunter's licence,

but

It didn't work so nice. In spite of it, they pinched

the chap

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For shooting loaded dice...

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From a schoolboy's essay on the racehorse:

"The racehorse is a noble animal "Tak notice that Pokfulum is no used very cruel by gentlemen. the only place where boulders grow Races are very bad places. Nono and fall Ye ken hoo the, Hellan- but wicked people know anything ders rooled doon boulders on about races. The last Derby was. ta the Sassenachs at Killicrankie? won by Mr. Morriss' Munna, a Sae beware!

beautiful bay colt by Phalaris, ris

ger to China, and it is more real than our Chinese friends realise," said Mr. MacMurray, and as the speaker is noted as being friendly and sympathetic in every way to the Young China movement the utterance is one which ought to give cause for China's "Reds" to pause and ponder. There, is no greater political curse in China very heavy losses. Which brings us to the point that if the boycott to-day than that of irresponsibility pickets were dispersed, both in ments have sent messages to the and there is the danger that, Canton and at Pakhoi, the move-United States' Government deeply owing to contact with and direc-ment would promptly collapse.regretting the Florida disaster what they thocht of the bag-pipes ma

In the meantime, let, the Canton Russian Government, which professes so and sympathising with the victims. irresponsibility much solicitude for "the people," ponder over the boomerang effects

"this

of the boycott and the injury caus-

ed to Chinese whose interests, it claims to be anxious to safeguard.

tion from half-baked theorists, will go even to the lengths of repudiation. The day in which that happened would indeed be sad one, for in spite of all her trials and disruptions of the past, China has honoured her bond. excepting in money matters of late years when failure to pay inevitable owing to 021- paralleled chaos in Peking. Berlin Treaty rights have been recognis- Copenhagen Vienna....

Was

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris Brussels Amsterdam

LATER REPORTS.

London, Sept. 21. The British and French Govern-

Reuter."

HURRICANE SWEEPING ON.

"I luv the skirl o' the pipes in ing four. The odds was nine to their proper setting of haggis and one against him, and he won eight heather, but oot here in a foreign lengths. Good old Steve?" land is maks me recht Homesick..

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"Some Chinese who were asked Lenore J. Coffee, well known cine- scrivener, defies all Jaws, are reputed to have said: We of superstition, especially those likee bagpipes; they blong alia pertaining to "13." She was born same Chinese Music!'"

July 13 in San Francisco in a house In view of the above rebuke, the numbered 13. She has just com- gentleman who plays the pipes on pleted her thirteenth script and haa. the Peak may possibly be induced outlines for 13 more. And there to transfer his activities to Wan- are 13 letters in her name.. chai or West Point.

New York, Sept. 21. The hurricane last night isolat- ed Pensacola and Mobile and swept towards other points on the

The dentist explained that it coast of the Gulf of Mexico and' inland over Southern Alabama and would be ten and sixpence to ex- Mississippi. A radio operator attract with gas.. Rugby, September 21, Mobile has estimated that half a .176 million dollars worth of damage .164% 12.11

has already been" done there .20.37 Reuter's American Service. 18.2714 34.40%

ed if not always observed, and the Helsingfors international honour of China is

Buenos Aires sufficiently high to be not too Shanghai

Yokohama lightly valued.

New York Mr. MacMurray performed a

Geneva Milan valuable task when he out- Stockholm

Oslo spokenly stated the above case,

Prague and he also made the attitude of Madrid the United States towards the Bombay

Silver (spot) problem of extra-territoriality Hongkong clearly defined. It is an attitudo Silver (forward) on all fours with that adopted by Britain that it is a bad expedient which ought to be removed na

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THE STRICKEN ZONE.

New York, Sept. 21.

Reports from the stricken

"Ton and sixpence mit gas,"" said the Jew. "I von't pay it; I'll vait till daylight.".

Some more school "howlers": Posters are sheets of paper past ed on blackguards.

An optimist is a thing with a lot of little legs.

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The radio is "dumping culture. into the average home in carload lots," declared a speaker before the National Education Association convention, All the more need for selectivity!

Karl Petr, who lives in Car- pathian Ruthonia, is reputed to be He the oldest man in Europe: claims to be only 112 years of age, but, according to documents in his 2/9 Florida zone reiterate stories of The Christian flung his mute at possession, he is, in fact, 121, hav- 2/0.3/32

Thrice the utter wreckage of houses.the Saracen, who stopped it with ing been born in 1805. 4.85%

25.12 The roads are strewn with all his butler.

married, he has been a lone widower .133% kinds of debris. Medical supplies, Autumn is the season when the these thirty years.

18.15 especially tetanus serum, are

It is not surprising to learn that badly needed in some places and

A native of Manchester is a Man- Petr is somewhat old-fashioned. most communities are answering churjan.

He looks upon this as a selfish age, $31.99

7.17/32 demands of martial law. Sanitary

Bofore the Ship Canal was built and ho thinks that humanity is 1/5.15/16 engineers are being mobilised to ships were unloaded at Liverpool going to the dogs.

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-British Wireless,

farmers cut their cornis,

2/2 try to avert opidemics. Hardly a and sent by train to Manchester. *He considers that a ridiculous .27.15/16 dozen houses in the devastated "R.S.V.P." meuns "Received fuss is made of the Great War,

area at Miami remain undamaged same very prompt."

which was a poor affair, compared and only a few of the larger build- An aqueduct does marvellous with the conflicts of the past, in ings creaped great damage. The tricks at a circus.

which he bore hand. When I add The death has occurred of the big hotels on Miami Beach opened. Charon was: a man who fried that he is a teetotaler and a non- smoker, and that he goes to bed at Rev. John Thomson, Pastor of their doors to the populace for re- souls over the sticks." soon as it is safe to do 801 Hutton and Shenfield, Union fuge when the storm broke, there- Contralto is a low sort of music eight and riscs early, you will is a makeshift which will

gather that he is just the sort of which will be Church, and formerly President by greatly reducing the casualties. which only ladies sing.

Seven thousand persons formed The name of Caesar's wife, was example to throw at the heads of gladly surrendered, a course at of the Essex Congregational Union,

He was formely in charge of Ho-a' bread queue at Fort Lauderdale Cacaufen, she was above suspicion, the rising generation. How young present impossible since the very ward Congregational Church, Bed- yesterday.--Router's

American Socrates died from an overdose Ruthenia must hate hearing about

him. cause of justice was at stake. ford, for many years.

Sarvice.

of wedlock.

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