WHAT ABOUT THAT CHILD'S EYES? Aro thoy just as good as his school mate's the boy or girl who is forging aboad of him or hort Or is he or she handicapped by some little workness of the eyes which makes school work a "burden and retards progress? Why not be sure about it? An examination of the ayos is the only way to be cortalo. If glasses are ordered it will be for one, reason only because your ohtid'e oyes will suffer without thom.."
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881
No 22,027
XD - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.
"SUNNING" PIRACY. ACCOUNTANT STEALS
COMMISSION OF
ENQUIRY.
TO BE HELD IN PRIVATE. ·
$11,000.
TRACED BY FOLLOWING SWEETHEART.
GETS SIX MONTH
By order of His Excellency the Criminal Investigation Depart Governor, Commission of Ernest oneers Investigating the quiry has been appointed to in vestigate the recent piracy of the China Navigation Company's steamer Sunning.
The terms of reference are
divided into four main heading and the Commission is to com. prise xis members, with the Ifon. Mr. E. R. Halifax as Chairman The examination of witnesses is to
WAR OUTLOOK.
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INTERVIEWED.
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One of the speakers at the We overheard a well-know
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ADVANCE ON NANKİNG.
As the sudden return of General Chang Fat-hui to Cantor caused
London, Nov. 26, so much speculation amongst the
The Miners' Delegate Conforence theft of $11,000 the other day different sections of the commun- the negotiations for district settle met to-day to review the course of from a shop at 49, Jervois street,ity, representatives and corresponments, but adjourned without tak: got their man by availing them-dents of the vernacular newspapers ing any definite action, owing to the
A contemporary says normal t- sought an interview which the
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solves of a very neat, device.
Following the receipt of a re- port from the managing director General granted. General Chang of the shop, that his accountant stated that his return has no had disappeared with $1,000 in political significance, nor is he on cash, and a further $10,000 from
any important mission. He was the bank on return of the depositxious to satisfy a long-left de- receipt. Sub-Detective Inspect
inconclusiveness of the negotiations hitherto. The Executive will de eide further policy after receiving the district reports on the progress of negotiations.
BASIS OF CHINA'S POLICY,
In the course of a lengthy article on the present situation In China, Mr. Rodney Gilbert, writing in the with the repudiation of the Sino N. C. Daily News, deals at length
Belgina Treaty, a step which, ho says, Mr. Wellington Koo had no right to take. He continues:
EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE,
be conducted in private, and th. Fallon was called into the case,sire to make an aerial trip and he aination at the terms offered by taxes imposed by the Canton clique
report and recommendations are to be made as early as possibl
terms:
TUE, PROCLAMATION.",
and he traced the whereabouts of the missing man by following a woman with whom the latter was known to be on intimate terms.
A raid was subsequently carried The proclamation ordering the out on a house in Whitfield, and enquiry appears in the Gurram this resulted in the arrest of the Gazette and is in the following hecountant and the recovery of the aum, with the exception of $600, By His Excellency Sir Cecil Which he had already spent. Clementi, Knight Commander of When charged before Major C. the Most Distinguished Order. of Willson, at the Central Pollee Saint Michael and Saint George, Court this morning, Lau Tai, the Governor and Commander-in-Chie: necountant in question, returned of the Calony of Hongkong and Es a plea of guilty, and after Sub- Dependencies and Vice-Admiral Inspector Fallon had related how of the same.
the police traced and effected his
thus took advantage of the op- portunity offered at this particular time when his Command has been given a short respite after the strenuous campaign in Kiangsi. He added that he intended to ro- turn to the front in two of three days.
General Chang further stated that the defeat of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang was up complete that it would not be possible for him to rally his men without outside support, as' most of his generals, are now negotiating with General Chang Kai-shek. As to the situ- tion of Marshal Wu Pei-fù, all his
Whereas by the second section arrest his Worship inflicted sen-generals had sent their representa
months, with hardtives with overtures to the Com-
of the Coinmissioners, Powers Ortence of six dinance, 1986, it is, enacted that labour.
the Governor.in Council shall hav:
power to nominate" Budap-
point Commissioners under the
public seal for the purpose of in- DIPLOMATIC MISSION.
stituting, making, and conducting
any inquiry that may be deemed -advisable and for reporting there-
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TERMS OF REFERENCE. - And whereas the Governor în Council has deemed it advisable
that
mander-in-Chief, and their one desire was to stem the tide of in- vasion into China proper by Mar- shal Chang Tso-lin.
Regarding Marshal Feng Yu- hsiang, General Chang said it was confirmed that the Kuominchun Army was in possession of Shensi, and had crossed the western fron- tiers of Hupeh at a point where it is in touch with the units of the Nationalist armies stationed in that region.
the close of the
in-
Executive, was unanimously carri- A resolution, submitted by the
ed, expressing the Conference's in the owners in several districts, and inviting the Government's atten- tion to employers' refusal in Notts,
HANKOW STRIKE THREAT.
Big Stoppage, Possible.
Shanghai, Nov. 27. A message from Hankow estates that there is a pessibi- lity of a widespread strike, in- cluling servants, washermen, railway workers and shop nazistants.
Orders have been given forciners to lay in Rocks of supplies -Reater,
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Bristol, Leicester and Kent not to meet the miners' representatives; and also in Somerset, until the men had resumed.
Reuter.
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"Since
| “Ryndam". dinner said the resident remark in the Peak tram students were alming at ar the other night, that he should enlargement of spirit. We were travel light" when he went Home, led to believe that it was a "dry" He probably intends to pay ha
rent before he goes. ship.
DO The correspondent who asked.
people suffer from. heading.
"Rent Distress" says newspaper how to fatten poultry in. Hong- That's what lots of kong, should throw them off Chinn Building. They would certainly O O
come down plump!
conditions with Canton will be An American candidate statea resumed in a month. Which one, that he is neither "wet" nor “dry.” though?
He will probably find his political · bier...
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And now to-day comes a mes-' Eugene Chen in reply to an inter-the workers gave 'em up long ago. the Cruise," says sage from Canton, penned by Mr.temporary's heading. Out here, :"Floating University: Spirit of 2 летарарег national protest against the illegal
honding. Water on board and cocktails ashore, we believe. which in essence anys: you continue to fiddle about with form you whether a prize is to be given for the individual who Pekink and ignore us, you might
guesses what is under the tar- as well know that we no longer,
paulin in Pedder Street. have any acquaintance with the Diplomatic Body whose members reside in Peking and are aware of
no treaties that are binding upon
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Polished hard coal is said to be a good substitute for jet in the The one manufacture of "rings. drawback, however, is the prohibi- tive cost.
"Many of the so-called modern ent names hundreds of years ago" richer every year. ailments were known under diffor-
Ireland is said to be getting
Of course states n London physician. The her capital'a Dublin. game with the modern evening
Legally and theoretically neither Wellington Koo nor Eugene Chen dress. It used to be called "In Philippines politics at the is in a position to defy the world fingerie..
In China's name. Both represent unrecognised local federations. As
it happens. however, both are ex-
moment, the question of the hour Which is the stronger," the Wood or the bark?
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is:
When a woman tells a man ashe
pressing the feeling, (though not will be a friend to him, she fre the thought, because the thought quently changes her mind and as we conceive it is not there) of marries him. 90 per cent of the Chinese whose sentiments are guided by the trend
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Lots of folk who know what's vhat don't figure in "Who's Who."
A European statesman is ismed Big onts Krenszynski. The best way to one's incomio, knowE pronounce it is to first sneeze and
then swear.
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Where there's bill there's
pay...
of China's international relations,ence displayed in China if these The average Chinese is distinctly Generals weren't constantly losing
{their heads. feminine in all his reactions in stimuli from without. They do not set him thinking. as they do the adult male, among us; they stir his Mr. A. G. Cook, after the meeting feelings. The Chinese is guided in
Judging · from the amount stated that terms had only provi-his likes and dislikes, in all his
perfume some of the ladies use; sionally been reached in Scotland enthusiasms and spiritual re-
"For Sale.-Large Navy Pram" they must be 100 per scented and Lancashire, but had not yet actions generally by his emotions, been submitted to the men his intuitions and his traditional reads an advertisement in the Americans,
regard for his amour propre, Long-South China Morning, Post. We sighted consideration for his own trust that Nelson's famous signal: MORE AGREEMENTS”.
welfare bas little to do with the has not been overlooked. plans of the individual Chinese,
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In some parts of Hungary, farm We do not know why min labourers are paid in vegetables. There are 441,000 miners work-once his sentiments or prejudices
are aroused; and, by the same should be called a "live wire Occasionally, a man asks for an ing to-day.
In Lancashire and Cheshire the token, far-sighted consideration unless it is because he is capable increase in his week's celery. General Niu Yung-chien, to
coalowncre' and miners' representa- for China's ultimate best interests of shocking other people. whom the important mission of winning over the Kiangsu and Antives have accepted terms of settle has very little to do with the emo- ment, including an eight-hour tlönal policies that are evolved hui forces to the side of the NA day, the continuance of April rates in such institutions as the Wai- tionalists has been given, is re- of pay and a temporary truce for chizopu and supported by some ported to have arrived at Kiukiang three months.
millions of alert; shrewd, "but dis- to submit his report of the mis-
tinctly feminine minds throughout sion to General Chang Kai-shek.
this country. It is likely that he will be given the Chief Command of the Kingsu
terview, General Chang stated the plan of advancing on Nank- ing had already been begun by the sending of various units to Im- portant points.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN TO" VISIT M. POINCARE.
Rugby, Nov. 26, When Sir Austen Chamberlain spends two days in Paris at the
At an inquiry should be in- end of next week on a journey, to stituted, mude, and conducted as the League Council meeting at to the circumstances under which Geneva, he hopes, to pay his res- the s.s. Sunning was on the 15th pects to M. Poincare, President of November, 1926, seized by pirates the Council as well as to the For- while on the voyage from Shang-eign Minister M. Briand. hai to Hongkong;" and in partien. The statements published in (a) to inquire how it waspapers that the British Foreign possible for the pirates to Secretary has been endeavouring get on board the steamer to arrange other meetings for him- with arms in their posses self or for statesmen of other aion;
countries, are completely devoid of foundation-British. Wireless."
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(b) to inquiry how it was possible for the pirates to seize the ship;
(c) to consider the efficiency of The anti-piracy fittings in the ship and to make re- commendations as to altert- fiona and additions, if any, that may be deemed neces sary in the .. Sunning or other sea-going ships; and
(d) to consider the supply of
armed guards, the number
to be carried and their ad ministration.
THE MEMBERS.
Now Sir Cecil Clementi
some of the Continental news-
KING AND EMPIRE.
forces..
Later.
A conference of coalowners and representatives of miners in Der- byshire has resched an under- standing with regard to the terms of agreement.-Reuter,
ALWAYS THE SAME.
The American explorer, Mr. Roy We wonder whether the "Rynd- Chapman Andrews, is not likely to
Concrete facts don't usually come from wooden heads.
ham" would remain, a dry ship if discover any more ancient eggs referyndham were taken on the owing to danger of interference from bandits. In the meantime question?,
local hotel residents might induce We were rather surprised that him to fit out an expedition to more Hongkong ladicé did not Hongkong. enter such a kneasy competition It has long been a traditions an ankle-judging contest. among statesmen and diplomatists EMERGENCY REGULATIONS.
in the Occident that the Vatican
Men's felt hats of plar, Rugby, Nov 26.
and the British Foreign Office
Quite the fashion at Home. The House of Commons was to- stood out, head and shoulders reengage and russet hues are now hearing that General Chang Ye day engaged with the further re-above everything else, for clear fruity! had thrown in his lot with the newal of the Emergency Regula definition of their own objectives London, Nov. 26.
Nationalists, who had elevated tions.
and consistency in their pursuit Toasting the Oversea represen-him to the rank of an Army Corpá Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the of them. This is wrong. China.
MESSAGE TO IMPERIAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES.
THE JUKIEN FRONT.
A Chinese news agency, reports that General Chow Yum-yan on
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Plum is now the favourite colour
in ladies' clothes. It used to bo
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Until a girl settles down, her father usually settles; up.
B With so many motor cars about,, people take life easy-and often!. O'D tatives at the Imperial Conference Commander, retreated with his Home Secretary, in moving the for 30 centuries has been distin-House Street. Even the thermo-
An electron is the smallest unit at a dinner given to them in the force into Chekiang. The latest renewal, observed that it was the guished by a foreign policy which meter, is going down.
of matter. Wives should remem- House of Lords by the Empire report is to the effect that he has eighth and, he hoped, the last time has never swerved to right or left Parliamentary Association, Mr. joined. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang he had risen to move auch & re-by the fraction of a degree, but
One advantage which the horse ber that when they are searching Stanley Baldwin read a letter fromat Tientsin. General Fong Sing solution.
There was something has been consistent throughout. has over the motor car is that he for an effective description to fling H.M. the King replying to the to is under orders to proceed to like half a million miners back The reason that China, in this can be started much easier in co'd back at their husbands. Layal Address of the Conference, Foochow to co-operate with Ad- at work out of the one million who respect, overtops all the world is weather than in hot. stating that Fils Majesty had fol-miral Sah, the Civil Governor, to were involved in the stoppage. If that her policy has never been lowed with close interest all the restore order, and organise the in a few days he could satisfy him- founded upon consideration for By the time a man learns to fg." proceedings of the Conference and civil administration on the lines self that the condition of affairs herself or anyone else, has never keep silent, he generally knows was convinced that its labours laid down by the Kuomintang. In was such that he could safely deviated for more than a moment quite a lot worth saying.
the meantime, General Ho Ying waive any or all of the regala from a fixed idea, and beenuse that yum continues to hold the supreme tions he would get the necessary fixed idea has never been shaped military command in Fukien. Order and bring it before the by reason, but always by feeling. It is believed in some quarters House for immediate sanction. He The prejudice which has guided that the Southerns will take pos added, that be was now going to all Chinese policy from the begin-gems to show that the whole provide various styles of "blow- session of Nanking before the retain the
power of prohibiting ning of the Chow dynasty to the household has got into the swim. Fengtien armies of relief can be meetings or processions in his present is what the psycho-
From the China Mail:-"Decem. each. own hands, taking it out of the analysts would call "the superi hands of district Chief Constables. ority complex." The introduction ber 25-His Lordship the preach Any prohibition would be made into China, through the returned at St. John's Cathedral, 11 here on entirely on his own responsibility students and the patriots of post- December 23 or 24 (will Bishop, shevik trouble in China with soft- To day's increase in the number revolutionary times, of a sugges- of London) who is expected a soap" remarked a writer in a Home
the of miners at work is 13,083, making tion of the "Inferiority complex" To which may be added for contemporary. We quite agree.
visit of Local It requires grit. the total 441,571 British Wire has only intensified the passionate ward to
hold of the old, superiority com-churchmen are looking this diss
tinguished preacher," plex upon the Chinese spirit.
Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Gov ernor and Commander-in-Chief of had afforded the world a better the Colony of Hongkong and its understanding and clearer vision Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of of what the British Empire means, the same, with the advice and con and the ideals for which it stands. sent of the Executive Council,
-Router, hereby appoint you?
The Honourable Mr. Edwin
Richard Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E.,
The Honourable Mr. Edward
Dudley Coracaden Wolfe,
IN PRIVATÉ.
"And I do further, with the advice
Lieut.-Commander George Fran- and consent of the Executiva
cia Hole, R.N.,
Commander Francis N. Miles, O.BE, R.N.,
Council, order and direct that the" said Commissioners shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges, set out in the third section of the.. William George Goggin, Esq., said Ordinance and that the ex- Captain Alfred James: Holland, amination. of witneses shall be con- to be Commisionere for the pur-ducted in privates:
pose of instituting, making, and And I do further require you, conducting "such Inquiry:
the sald Commissioners, to report And I'd also appoint you, the to me your findings in the mattu aald Mr. Edwin Richard Hallifax of the said inquiry and your r to be Chairman of the said Com-commendations at as early a date misalonera:
us possible.
"And I do also appoint Mr. Given under my hand and the Alexander William George Horder Public Seal of the Colony at Vic Grantham to be Secretary to the torla, Hongkong this 25th day of
November, 1926. Bald Commissioners
mobilised for active service.
WHARF WORKERS STRIKE.
SHIPPING. HELD UP IN AUSTRALIA.
less.
WHITE STAR LINE.
ROYAL MAIL LINE TO PURCHASE.
Melbourne, Nov. 26. Owing to a strike of Jumpers throughout Australia, following their refusal to work overtime,
New York, Nov. 26.. work consed at noon to-day until Monday morning.
The P. and O: a.s. Mooltan will It is learned that the sale of the consequently be, delayed at Ade- White Star Ling to the Royal Mall laide two days. The situation Steam Packet Company, for £7,000, generally is becoming more sori-000, has been practically decided upon Router's American Service.
ous-Reuter,
THE BASES OF POLICY.
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The O.B.I. is awarded to Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw Co., Ltd., for. The fact that the Ederle family their keen foresight in solving the has moved into a palatial home financial stringency, by offering to
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the moderate price of 25 cents
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"You cannot clean up the Bol-
Some of our men-folk who let their bair grow, so long must be
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suggest that they first of all abolish the custom of annual civit
At the opening of an industrial afraid of being taken for a flap- This remains the basis of the exhibition, Australian cadets play per policy which Mr. Koo and Mr. ed. a fanfare on trumpets. It is
Chinese Customs, we would Chen are pursuing with such not true that Hongkong cadets Before the Powers revise the energy at this moment, They are have challenged them to not interested in China's welfare trumpet-blowing contest. or the prosperity, and happinessOM
A large porpoise has been wash wars. of her people. The fact that they
Wo reckon that the wild and cannot evolve a respectable Goved, ashore at the Isle of Wight."
kong would have been spelt in two nothing on wildor and wolller ernment, giving their people peace, Such an occurrence near Hong woolly gunmen of the Weat have
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