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TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1926.

DAY BY DAY.

19 EVERYTHING-W. P. Sargili."

TALENT IS SOMETHING, BUT TACT

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony over the week-end..

M. Venezelos, the famous Greek statesman, has intimated that he would take the post of minister of Foreign Affairs in a Coalition Cabinet.

of

A first and final" dividend $3.52 per cent, has been declared in the matter of the Kwong Hing

U. S. NEWS ITEMS.

OF INTEREST TO OUR VISITORS.

Nov,

the Montevidean Government to give satisfaction for the alleged insult to Cuba's diguity voiced by the Uruguay delegate before the League of Nations:

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The delegato da alleged to have. Louisville, Ky.,

declared that Quba's sovereignty 16.was restricted by virtue of a per Sammy Mandell, lightweight cham-manent treaty between Cuba and pion tonight knocked out Ray the United States. round, Moore, of Chicago, in the with

San Pedro, California, Nov. 10.- Zane Grey, the author, and party salled to-day for scruise of several months in the South Seas.

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YOU validity of the Board: The first MUST named, in the course of a lengthy OWN IT opinion, holde that the law creating the Board is null and void, stressing the point that membership of the Board aniounts to public office, which members of the Legislature are specifically prohibited from holding. The Judge Advocate cites Hongkong, arrived at London, on The P. & O. 8.a.. Morca, from provisions of the Philippine Or18th November. ganic Act to show that complete

Washington," Nov, 16--Governor General Wood of the Philippine Is and "unhampered executive Fou- The Empress of Russia, left

lands to-day was charged with thority is vested in the Governor Yokohama on Saturday afternoon

usurpation of legislative and General, and

and is due at Vancouver, on the

judicial functions" in abolishing eclares that the crea-20th November.

the board of Control, in a state- tion of the Board of Control

Chicago, Nov, 16-Johnny Hill, mont. Issued here by Vicento G. and the naming of a personal "on- The Empress of Asia, loft Van- of Manila, tonight defeated Dondle Bunuan, bead of the Washington croaches of the powers of the Execouver, on the 12th November, and Davis, of Chicago in a ton round office of the Philippine Indepen=" cutive Development, destroys the the 23rd..

is duo at Yokohama, at noon, onight. Hill received the referee'sdence Commission.

.decision.

The statement charged that fundamental principle of the

Governor General. Wood had at-. separation of powers in the Gov.

Washington, Nov. 16. Having tempted to sell government cor ernment and violates the doctrine

disclosed that there is enough porations with a governmental in- money in the treasury to warrant a vestment of $20,000,000 to big that the Legislature has the powers

15. per cent. credit on this year's American Interests, but that, he and authority to make the laws but.

Income taxes the administration had been blocked by the Filipino the duty of executing them is on the

feels that the next move is up to members of the Board of Control. Congress. It was said at the Executive Department.". It was

White House to-day that President. after the receipt of these opinions

Coolidge, through Congress, is the Figures tell the story

New York, November 15.--- that Governor General Wood took Firm, of No. 37, Jervola Street best judge of what should be done Cardinals' supremacy in world's of the

series play. The Yankees lead in Washington, Nov. 16.-Senator

errors, and not much else.. William M. Butler who is a guest Thovenow hammered the ball that he did not intend to retire of the games, 417, but he tied his at the White House sald to-day for the most impressive parcentage as chairman of the Republican Na-teammates, Southworth and Bot- tional Committee because of his tomley, for the high hit total with defeat by David I. Walsh in the 10. Thevenow led his team in run Massachusetts senatorial contest scoring with five, just one behind on November 2. President Cao Babe Ruth, who led all the players. Udge also indicated that he saw

The Cardinals went to bat 223 no reason for Senator Butler to times to 239 for the Yanke, "drove retire from the chairmanship of out 65 hits for total of 91 sacks the committee.

Baltimore, Nov 16 The Ama-amassed a team batting average while the opposition was hitting only 64 times for 8, aud thereby

convention to-day, rejected all the American Leagues. Rich tour Athletic Union, in annual of 272 or thirty points higher than

United States by foreign athletes home runs. But the Carda scored proposals for the invasion of the smashed records with und also trips abroad by Ameri- 31 times while the Yunkeas were can stars the coming year. This counting ten times less. The stops the prospective return visit Cards drove out 12 doubles to 10 of Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish run- for the Hugmén. Each team has elected president. ner. Murray Halvert was re-one triple.

Seven Yankees errors pulled the fielding average down to 1975. Havana, Nov. 16.-Cuba hao The Cards, with five errors, ftelded severed diplomatic relations with for 988.A Uruguay and has recalled its min- The Cards made six double playa

Mustard & Co., Ltd.

Incorporated under the Companies

Ordinances Flongkong." Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central,

BIRTH.

PATERSON.On 27th October, at Lillian Cottage, 442, King Street, Aberdeen, Scotland, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pater-

son, N daughter. (Valerie Lillian Murray).

The Telegraph

MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1926,

THE PHILIPPINE CRISIS..

A political crisis of the first order appears to have been created in the Philippine Islands as a consequence.

who are in bankruptcy.

Sir James Jamieson, former British Consul General at Canton, Khiva this morning. He has been arrived here by the P. and O. liner.

the stop of proclaiming the aboli- tion of the Board of Control, and it is not without some significance that this step was taken just after the Legislature had adjourned, al-posted to Tientsin." though in point of fact he was aware of the nature of the opinions two days prior to the adjournment, As was to be expected, the Filipino lenders are up in arms against the action taken by the Governor General. Indeed, Speaker Roxas says it will be regarded by the Filipino people as an unwar ranted abuse of power, a curtail ment of their autonomy, a usurpa- tion of judicial functions and unjust provocation." The President...

Mr. Honry J. Allen, Ex-Governor of Kansas, now visiting China with the American University Afcat, was the guest of honour at a tallin held in the Union Club by the Pan- Pacific Association of Shanghai.

and O. liner Khiva to-day included Passengers arriving by the P. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hamer, Mrs. Parker Rees, Mrs. Dowbiggin, O'Gowan, Mr. G. E. F. Thompson, Major General and Mrs. Wanless Mrs. and Miss Staples Smith, and a large number of naval officers.

The Chartered Bank has receiv- of the Senate declares that it willed the following telegram from aid the cause of independence by Transport and Trading Co., Ltd. the Head Office in London: "Shell quickening the people's sentiment declared dividend at the rate of 28. for freedom. Looking at the mat-per share free of Income Tax pay

able 5th January. Bearer Coupon ter quite disinterestedly, one would to be presented No. 48." have thought that the Governor General's proper course would have been to endeavour to secure an amendment of the law to the extent to which it is considered faulty, but Instead of adopting this proceat the South China Restaurant by

the Chinese Athletic Club,

of the proclamation recently issued dure he has taken upon himself the

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by Governor General Wood abolish-abolition of the Board of Control. ing what is known as the Board of The Senate President makes Control. For a proper understand strong point in this connection ing of the situation it should be when he says that the Courts alone explained that in 1916 the Philip are empowered to declare the pine Legislature, by enactment, legality or unconstitutionality of created the Philippine Nationala giyen law.

Bank, purchasing the majority of the shares with public funds. Ex- clusive power was vested in the Governor General to appoint the President and Vice-President of the

Railway Accidents,

with the surplus.

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the Colony, staying in the Hong-nounced to-day The step was one New Yorkers' got bases

Dr. C. T. Wang is at present. Indster from Uruguay, it was an- to three for the Yanks. Thirty kong Hotel. He went to see the taken because of the failure of balls to 11 for St. Louis, ese Athletic Club played against football match in which the Chin-

the R. A. on Saturday, and was afterwards entertained to dinner

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The Royal Hongkong Yacht Club will have a new Hon. Secre-

tary at the end of this month in Mr. F. J. Easterbrook, who will sent Hon. Secretary, Mr. F. Oliver, take over the duties from the pre- who is leaving the Colony at the end of the year. Mr. Easterbrook has served on both the sailing and general committees.

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Mr. H. G. Wells' nowadays entire- Marvin case of the Eskimo who has ly dissociates himself from his confessed to the killing of a mem characters, but some years ago one ber of the Peary expedition seven- of these no doubt entirely with-teen years ago. The territory was out his author's permission-anti- not under the jurisdiction of any cipated Mr. Henry Ford's gospel nation at the time, and Danish au- A Chinese girl, aged six years, of more leisure for all. Mr. thorities admit that no action can was knocked down in Des Voeux Stephen Stratton it was, in "The be taken against the Eskimo Kud- Road Central, early yesterday Passionate Friends," who greeted looktoo. Since that time, however, The latest English railway dis- afternoon, by a motor-car belong-the new eta: "There is no longer Denmark has assumed control of aster, by which nine persons have ing to the United States Navy, and any need for slavery, open or dis- the area. breaks a wonderful record of im- U.S.S. Huron. It was driven by mere labourers. any more; they been killed and a number Injured, used by Admiral Williams, of the guised. We do not need slaves nor. munity from serious accident on W. Glassford. The girl, who had are no longer essential to a civili- British railways. There has been injuries to her legs, was

ad-sation. Man has ridden on his

servitude. He struggles through to a new phase, à phase of release, a phase when leisure and an un- exampled freedom are possible to every human being."

Time, draw my creases kindly, Nor deeply graved, nor blindly,

With humour sprinkle These furrows round the eyelid Like notches in pielid

Mind how they wrinkle!

Bank and to perform various other duties and functions in connection therewith. Two years later, the Act was amended in such a manner as to place the control of the Bank of late years, a remarkable im-mitted to the Government Civil brother man out of the need of

provement in the safety of railway Hospital. in a committee consisting of the travelling in Britain, for although Governor General, the President of the number of accidents were al

The following vessels are ex- the Senate and the Speaker of the ways on a low scale as compared pected to be in wireless communi House of Representatives.

with railways on the Continent, an cation with Hongkong to-day: This intensive movement for safer travel Katori Maru, Khivs, President body is known as the Board of Con-was inauguarted soon after the be-Madison, Mishima. Maru; Cham-" trol, and special emphasis should beginning of the century. Prior to bord, Autolycus, General Metzin- laid on the point that the two last-comparatively high. The lending Mart, Talkwa Maru, Van Cloon, that time the yearly death roll was ger, Kwangtung, Songbo, Akita named members are Filippinos. Companies in Britain have spared Haining, Devanha, President Van Subsequently, the Government en- little in the way of time and money, Buren, Suf An, Emil Kirdorf, tered further into business by and organisation to make railway Chung On and Sulyang.

travel as safe as possible, and no- creating a National Coal Company, where in the world are great rail-

Police reporta atate that a Chi- National Petroleum Company, a way systems run more strictly to

nese woman, aged 27, address un- National Development Company, a schedule or better supervised than known, was yesterday knocked are the main lines in the Home down by a motor-cycle, ridden by National Cement Company, a Na- country. In 1923 the number of Mr. B. C. Randall, of Messrs. Ben- tional Iron Company, the aggregate passengers killed throughout the jamin & Potts, while she capital of all these corporations whole country was just under the crossing the road at Caine Road amounting to over fifty-four million when compared to the millions of the Government Civil Hospital, 100 mark-an insignificant number at 9.30 a.m. She was removed to pesos. As with the National Bank, passengers carried. The frequency where she was detained auffering 7-day set so with all these other concerns of serious train accidents has been from serious injuries, including

considerably leasened, and such an (as shown)

the power of control, including the elaborate "safety" system has been

a severe scalp wound and internal appointment of directors, had been put into operation on most lines

injurica. $27.50 vested in the Board which Governor that, barring sudden mechanical.

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7-DAY GOLD PLATED SET

" inch $6.00

$40.00

THE CELEBRATED.

WARRANTED FULL HOLLOW GROUND

General Wood has now declared to

be abolished:

Was

Let not the long years' ravage My cheek with trenches savage,

Let joy bells tinkle. And keep my spirit sunny, That only furrows funny My face may wrinkle!

Declining age's peace is In finding fun in-creases, And old oyes' twinkle. Time, carve me not too deeply, But give and give me cheaply,

Your funniest wrinkle"f

The "Stop" sign on the corner Didn't mean a thing, by heck, And now the auto that he drove

Is just a total wreck.

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This atory comes from Prague, A boy, blowing lead balls from a pipe, inhaled too strongly and drew one into his lung. Efforts to ex- tract it were unsuccessful and his life was despaired of. Then a rub ber hose was introduced until the end touched the. obstruction. An

air pump was used and the ball was drawn out almost immediately.

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Three women vote to every five. men. That means that women cast three-eighths of the vote, Now

we know who'll get the blame when things go wrong!

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The recent instance in which a baffling little problem in stage mechanism was solved during a dream has many parallels, so that evidently there is a psychological · foundation for the old counsel to Father: Did you tell your "sleep on your troubles." Condor- teacher that I helped you with cet, the Fronch mathematician, your French lesson, Tommy?

sometimes found that, his calcula Tommy: Yes, and she said she tions worked themselves out dur The residence of Mr. L. M.wouldn't keep me in after school ing his dreams, and when the Rev. breakdown, the risk. of serious ac- Ozorio of the Eastern Extension this time because it didn't seem Carnock was editing John Wesley's cident is almost negligible. In the Telegraph Co. at 16, Arbuthnot fair I should suffer for your "Journal," he obtained the clue to case of the latest Birmingham, York Road, was entered by a burglar express smash it was due to the in the small hours of yesterday. ignorance, of the Board of Control, the Gov. remains of a goods wagon which morning, the man scaling a rain-

He who cherishes a deep and two fragmentary Babylonian in- had toppled over Touling the line pipe, but making sufficient noise, to ernor General, in its deliberations—an easily proventible cause that betray his presence. The burglar homicidal grudge should lure his scriptions on which Professor often found himself in a minority; will most assuredly be strictly eh entered the kitchen, but Mr. Oz enemy into frozen wastes of the Hilprecht was once working, 3/4 inch $6.00 he was, in fact, a mere figure-headquired into. Only a few weeks ago orlo, attracted by the noise, northland before he proceeds to Though of obvious interest, he there were some very congratula switched on the light, which caus- satisfy it. There he may, with could minke little of alther. Then possessing no powers whatever. It tory things said at Home regarding ed the Intruder to make a hurried perfect impunity, commit murder, in a dream an old Babylonian is this factor which no doubt caused safer railway travelling, and it is and captured at the end of the ing little tricks of the Spanish in- ed that really the two fragments oxft, He was chased, however, assault and battery and all the cun- priest appeared to him and reveal- hini to secure the views of the At-much to be deplored that Friday's back alleyway, being subsequently quisition. A crime committed in were complementary parts of a

serious smash should Happen along banded over to the police. The torney General and the Judge Ad to spoll what has been nothing man will be charged before the no man's land obviously cannot be larger whole. Which proved to be vocate in Washington as to the short of a remarkable record. magistrate this morning.

prosecuted, as shown in the recent the case.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.

TEL. C. 4507.

Aa is clear from the constitution

its complex. cipher in his sleep. The most dramatic case concerns