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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14,

the boycott of British goods per- sists (and let us remember, that the new movement is not backed up by organised force, baing 1 that regard a distinct. Improve ment on the old), thero le no read on to fear that the main bulk of the Colony's trate will be interferi ed with

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The Telegraph

THURSDAY OCTOBER 14, 1926

"THE COMING BOOM.

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It may be human nature, alter

The war memorial at Bedford our past experiences, to be a trifle School was opened by Prince

we' cannot see that anything gis to

Mr. D. Mackenzie, the well. known diver of Talkoo Dock, leaves for Home with Mrs. Mackenzie and three children on Saturday by s.8. Morea.

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1926.

FAREWELL TO SURREYS.

TO-NIGHT'S GOVERNMENT

HOUSE FUNCTION. Excellent arrangements have

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GUARDS MEMORIAL.

SATURDAY'S. IMPRESSIVE

CEREMONY:

Rugby, Oct. 13.

On Saturday, the War Memorial

been made for the dinner and of the Guards, which has been dance at Government House to erected on the Horse Guarda night, which is taking the form ofarado will be unveiled by the

farewell to the officers of the Duke of Connaught.

From the remotest parts of the East Surrey Regiment; “and It is

the from expected that about three hun country and even

Dominions over 5,000 men who: dred and fifty people will be pro- sent to participate in the event.erved with the Guards during the Amongst the passengers who About seventy have been invited war will gather for the ceremony. be gained at the moment by in arrived by the as. President to attend the dinner, which will Thore will be on parade nearly dulging in jeremiate, Nolther is Lincoln were Mr. and Mrs. P. H. precede the dancing. Those pro 4,000 guardsmen now serving. there any excuse for business peo- Suckling, and Mrs. F. McD. sent will include Major General After the ceremony, there will

Courtney. plo to "wait for others to make a

C. C..Luard G. O. C. Chini Com be a March Past down. the Mall, fand, Rear Admiral Stirling, the Duke of Connaught taking the move." Let us take the removal

Elout. Col. F. S. Montague Bates, salute. That will be a scene un of the shipping ban as an accept

commanding officer of the East paralleled since the days of the Surreys, senior officers, represent war Just as then, there will be ed fact, and got on with the busi

ing units of the local Command, in the columns queer conglomera ness of taking every advantage of

naval and evil representatives, tion of uniform and civiilan the assured rosumption of hormal

and well-known local residents clothes. This column, which will Sir Henry Pollock returns to The dinner will be held at 7.45, be headed by the King's. Company conditions. The boom is coming the Colony early next week and and dancing will commence at of the 1st Battalion of the we may be sure, and the fruits of the Hon. Dr. W. V. M. Koch, who 9.30. Dress is white mess jacket, Grenadier Guards, will be more than two miles in length. At the it will be garnered by those who has occupied Sir Honry's scat on find black tie. display the energy, and the en- on holiday.

the Legislative Council, leaves The ball room is being suitably head of the column and immediate decorated, a feature being papery behind the King's Company, terprise for which there is now.

baskets of flowers, gaily coloured, will be a section recalling the such pressing need,

with Chinese characters, which memories of the war, of twelve are to be suspended, from the men who will parade in service kit ceiling. With suitable lighting with tin helmets, khaki and these, should produce very pretty knapsacks--just a vision of the effects. The floor, which is being Guards as they were in the mud treated with a special powder, will of France and Flanders, These "he found to be in excellent con-Active. Service" men will be.

dition. This room has been posted round the base of the completely re-decorated, and there Memorial, during the ceremony.. is A wide verandah outside British Wireless. where guests can sit out. Two drawing rooms will also be used as sitting-out places, and in addition A military orchestra will provide chairs and other accommodation the music, and will play all the will be provided in the corridors. latest and most popular dance tunes. The billiard room will be avaliable On October 20th. prior to their for the use of non-dancers, and departure on the 27th, the non- rooms have also been set aside for commissioned officers, and men of those who are inclined for a hand the East Surreys regiment will be at cards. If the weather clears up, entertained by Lady Clementi at accommodation will be afforded for an "at home" at Government House, guests in the grounds of Govern when it is expected that between ment House, but if the rain con- two and three hundred will be pre- tinues this arrangement will pro-sent. A very enjoyable programme

The Coal Issue.

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Mr. A. Ogilvie, architect, will give a lecture at the University Union at 8.30 p.m. on Friday on The Ruins of Angkor." Mr. Ogilvie will illustrate his talk by The decision of the safetymen cinematographic pictures of the to remain at work, in spite of the ruins. official determination of the Miners' Federation to continue In ald of the U. C. and M. C. L. and intensify the strike, will have Funds the operetta "Playmates" been greeted with satisfaction by te so be given by the children of all but the very extremist element Quarry Bay in the Taikoo Club of the trade union movement, be- Wall on Saturday night. The cause it would have been very prices of toickets, which can be had hard indeed to have justified ac at the Club, on the night of the tion aimed at the ruination of the performance, are $2 and $1. idie mines. There is still a fair amount of sympathy with the Miss Dorothy Holyoak," whose Despite the fact that the ban on miners but there would be no sym- marriage to Captain C. D. Arm- shipping between Hongkong and thy at all if they were success-strong, of the East Surreys, is to fal in instigating such disastrous take place at St. John's Cathedral Canton has been lifted, a measure and wickedly destructive action on Saturday, will be given away of indeelston and doubt, amount-as the calling out of the safety by His excellency the Governor. The ing in some instances to pesmen by whose work the pits are best man will be Lieut. C. J. Yeo, simism, is still apparent locally in kept in an operative condition. It of the East Surrey regiment.

says much for the leaders of thu regard to the events of the past, Safetymen's Union that they per

Passengers sailing for the north few days. There are two factors suaded their delegates to record by s.s. Empress of Asia this mor- which account for this one, the a unanimous vote against a stop-ning included Mr. and Mrs. W. pare. And meanwhile, the miners Albert, Mrs. M. E. Asger, Mr. W. talk of a bigger and more inten-plight goes, from bad to worse. R. Butchart Mr. J. Coulthart, sified boycott of British goods; Their ranks are showing a grow-Flight Lieut. J. ST. Fall, Mr. and the other, the somewhat na-ing cleavage, there are more and J. S. Gubbay. Mr. C. 8. Gubbay, more men-returning to work every Mr. R. S. James, Lieut. H. E. tural disinclination, after so many day in direct opposition to, the de- Magnusson, Mr. J. L. Robinson, months of stagnation, to take any cree of the Federation, there is lit. Major and Mrs. O. P. Snyder, thing for granted. On the first the hope of an embargo on foreign Mr. and Mrs. D. Templeton and point, there has been some con-

coal supplies proving euccessful in Mr. Liang Shih-yi, any way, and there is very openly. fusion in terms. We have all be-

expressed opposition among many Amongst the passengers who come accustomed to talk of "the other trade unions belonging to arrived yesterday by the s.s. boycott," whereas it is the block-the Trades Union Congress to the Antenor were:-Mr. D. H. Blake,

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been

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bably not be put into effect.

is being arranged. The services Owing to "the limited space of of local artists, are being, secured the dining room, the dinner and for the purpose of giving a play in supper will be held in the supper the grounds, and the guests will be room, and the dining room will be entertained to tea and miscellane used as a buffet.

ous items in the ball room.

The Very Idea!

Spring generally is considered

We'll have to

Transgressors, beware.

Watch your step-take 'care, Of the cook who concocts -the confections.. And trifloe eschew, They'll undermine you Till you come to the end.

your section..

When dining you go 'Tis good to say "No" Wine is wicked-when work

ing or wooing.

And pudding tastes well, Just au naturel; Without brandy the sauce.

of undoing.

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In the early days of the World

idea of a levy in aid of the miners Mr. P. H. Cobb, Mrs. Greig, Miss the silly season. Is autumn trying ade which has done most harm and their families. The state of V. Hughes, Mrs. Holyoak, Mies to this Colony.

Admittedly, the British industry is not so flourish J. Holyoak, Miss D. Holyoak, Capt. to usurp the title? boycotting of British goods has ing that the country's workers can and Mrs. J. D. Joll, Mrs. Jacobs-wait and see. Not so long ago it was Mah Jongg. No home was gone on side by side with the ban/saddle themselves with the cout of Larkoom, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Laycomplete without a table piled with maintaining over a million unem-Mrs. A. C. Middleton, Mrs. H. R. on shipping, but, as we shall show ployed miners, and it would seem Remington, Mrs. Syme-Thomson, little pieces of bamboo having later, that is, relatively speaking, that there is nothing for the Mrs. E. L. Sim, Mrs. Whyte-Smith, laundry mark inscriptions. Then it was the cross word puzzle. on the and Miss Aileen Woods,

Dictionaries were in demand. We a secondary though by no means miners but to capitulate

owners' terms or to continue the unimportant matter.

The following vessels are ex-all searched enclopedias for three- struggle alone. Everything points Those who are inclined to pesto a failure of the miners on the pected to be in wireless communi. letter words meaning elephant; or simistic views appear to forget main point of a national agree-cation with Hongkong to-day some thing equally as important. Empress of "Asia, Mausang, City During that time. no home was ment, because they have that the trade in British goods re-abandoned by the Government on Baroda,

of

Van Overstraten, complete without at least one. presents only a fraction of the that issue and have failed to forge Morea, West Nomentum, Takada, maniac. Caue then came along with his brightening little bit of Tjikarang, Tjisalak, commerce of this Colony. Indeed, any stronger weapons with which Jeypore,

Knut Jarl, Talamba, Tjikini, An- philosophy. He was a fad, but it has been enlculated that quite of work abstention which they king, Andes Maru, Menado Maru. a very nice one even if it did War the officer in charge of a

to wage their fight than the one- three-quarters of Hongkong's have used, since May Inst. As Mishima Maru, Tone Maru, An- become exasperating to many of British post, deep in the heart of

What will it be this Africa, received a wireless mes trade is in non-British goods. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has point- tenor, Porthos, Songbe, Kumsang, us at times.

autumn? There are two things sage from his chief: This Colony has served for many ed out, the miners must sooner or Robert Dollar and Mantua.

on the horizon. One is the intel #War doclared. later face the economic facts of

Arrest all as the distributing the present situation, and when

There is a typhoon to the southigence test. The other is a new enemy aliens in your district."?

religion. A gentleman with the, point for an enormous coastal they do that it will inevitably of Hongkong, which, according to alphabet for a name is being ceived this communication:-

A few days later the chief re- to-day's report of the Royal Obser- hailed as a great teacher. Here's "Have arrested seven Germans, vafory, appears to over 300 miles

intelligence test question: three Belglans, four Spaplards, S. S. E. of the Colony. It is mov- Will Jiddu Krishnamurti become five Frenchmen, a couple of inir. westward, in the direction of

a fad this winter? the Paracels and Tourane. A

Swedes, an. Austrian, and un Manila warning received to-day

American Please inform me England's best-dressed bathers whom we are at war with" says there is a depression in the Rugby, Oct. 13.

have been going into the water 170 Sea. The local forecast up till noon 174 to-morrow is:-"East winds, 12.12% strong: overenst, occasional rain."

20.39 18.24%

long years

trade, mostly Chinese, and it is mean a return to work.

mainly this business which has

made Hongkong the great port that

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EXCHANGE RATES.

it is. All manner of native pro- ducts-not forgetting the tremen- dous trade in rice-have been

Paris | handled from this port, which has Brussels been found the natural and most Berlin

Amsterdam

economic point of distribution. Copenhagen

Vienna For the past fifteen months, the Helsingfors greater part of that trade has been Lisbon

Buenos Aires diverted to other ports, at a much Bomb greater cost to all concerned, let

New York

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without getting web.

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Women cannot possibly wear

The latest style in bathing costumes is a one-piece tightly any fewer or any thinner clothes. Take it on the authority of Mr. fitting suit made of rubber, in a Representatives of the Canadien variety of brilliant colours and Lewes Hay, chairman of the 192 wheat. pools and the principal decorated. Zebra-skin shoes concutive committee of the Drap..

wheat-growing organisations of plete the bizarre costumes. No ers Chamber of Trade of England, 46.59/64 the United States, meeting as a stockings are the rule,

15%

v1/11% provisional committee, bave select- 4.85.3/10 ed, Kansas City. (Missouri) as the

25.11

1 venue of the International Con- ference of Wheat Pools, which is 20.06 to be held on March 16 next year, 163% when a definite.plan will be sub 32.06 mitted for a world-wide wheat .6.15/16 pool.

2/05 2/0% .25,16/10

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He tried to wear his father's shoes;

The largest size for men. But, lo, he walked right into them.

again.

And then right out.

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the absolute finality has been reached. The drapers confess themselves, unable to discover any way of clothing their clients with fower or flimsier clothing.

Another feminine secret was let out at the convention of drapers there. The older the women be- come, the uuzler and more

"Yes, I can give you a job," said diaphanous their garments be- the farmer's wife, "You can col- come. Bir Sidney Skinner, pre- lect the eggs for me if you are aident of the Drapers Chamber of

Trade, is authority for this dis sure you won't steal any "...

covery.

it be remembered. But now that Geneva

Milan the ban on shipping has been lift-Stockholm ed, there must inevitably be 'a re- Oslo turn of that trade, qulte.irrespec-

Madrid tive of the point as to whether the Rio

Shanghai actual boycott of British goods

Hongkong continues or not. That is an Silver (apot)

Silver (forward): aspect of the situation which needs stressing at the moment, and it is one which appears to have been somewhat overlooked. With arti- ficial, restrictions removed, trade, is bound to flow through the most July 21. The labol bore an English ported. There was one death Frohibition leader W. J. Finlay economic channels and Hong postage stamp and requested the from cerebro-spinal fever, nation-son adjures folk to keep away

Ander to forward Information really not mentioned. The Colony from wine trifles and brandy "I like these Louis XV shoes, kong is the natural port of service garding the date and place of its had a clean bill of health on Tues-sauce they are first stops on the but they are too tight." for South Chind. So that even if discovery.

day

downward path.

"Then try a pair of Louis XVIZ

The return of the number of 263 casca of notifiable disease occur- ed in the Colony during the week

According to a label attached to Chinese case of diphtheria, and lady. I was manager of some fit, a toy ballon found near Neuwied six cases of enteric fever, classified baths an wash-ouses for 15 that cold weather might make wo

(Rhineland) was released at as, four Chinese; one Welsh and years, an Inover took a bath." children's, fote in Birmingham on one Indian. Two cases were im

ended Saturday last show's one "You can trust me wit anything, Sir Sidney poo-pooed the Iden

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men wear heavier garments.

"They would rather freeze to death than wear woullies,” he said..

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