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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1926.

DAY BY DAY.

LATE ITEMS.

the War Office, and Simin 'should be only of Major-General, rank, This is a step towards the selec OUR FEELINGS ARE GIVEN US TO NEWS AHEAD OF THE MAIL. tion of younger men, which is EXCITE TO ACTION, AND WHEN THEY

nono the ices welcome on account END IN THEMSELVES, THEY ARE IM London, November 8th. Mr. E. of its novelty." PRESSED TO NO GOOD. PURPOSER. T. Holmes has been elected Cap. Blahop Sandford.

tain and J. Nunn Secretary of the and MX Pa .y Oxford University Cricket Club

for 1927.

Engineer Captain W. H Mit Tamir, additional, from Decem chell base been appointed to H. M

ber 14, and as Chief Engineer, in Hongkong, on joining.

for becoming acquainted at first haud with conditions as they actual ly wore, and it will be noted thint his Chiengo speech spells disgust and disappointment. As the N. C. Daily News well points out in com- menting on the utterance, Mr. Strawn came an America's gront effort to set Chion in order; he loft the country with China worse than over before. He cante refus. ing to belleve a word of ill of the country; he left painting a picture blacker than any we should have dared portray......Mr. Strawn is not an old China-hand seeking to perpetuate conditions which hoaymatar: Commander G. H. |Thomson, O. B. E., has been ap thew in his youth; he is not a pointed to H. 3 S. Bee, addi dichard refusing to change with lonal from January 14, 1927, and the times; he has no interest in Shanghai from date of joining... ns. Resident, Naval Officer in maintaining the status quo. He came to change the foreigner's position in China to satisfy China's national aspirations He no longer trusts those aspirations." --

.....

A marriage has been arranged Hongkong between Mr. Robert and, will take place shortly in Lythgoe Road, Shanghai, and Miss Jenn Vallance Fleming, sister of Mr. John Fleming of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.

sent..

BIR JAMES BARRIE'S RIGHT HAND.

THREE MILES PER MINUTE.:

NBA 8? WHOSA London, 4th November. Captain. Malcolm Campbell his completed the construction of a 540 h.D. ADVERTISING BY FOSTMARKS,

Napler-Lion twelve cylinder motoc London, November 9th Mr car, costing £8,000. He is now Mitchell Thomson, in reply to a preparing to attempt a three-milos Money and jewellery, to the

question in the House of Commons, a-minute run, surpassing the Babe value of $79, was stolen in suld that enquiries as to the pro-record of 170 miles an hour. CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF. burglary which occurred in the able revenue to be derived from

the scheme for advertising by.post antail hours of this morning at No. marks had shown that it would be London, 9th November-The St.". 40, Wing Lok Street....

quite small and therefore he was Andrews championship committed not prepared to operate it at pre-of the royal and ancient Golf Club have lasted a statement with re- gard to the open golf championship ayatem, saying, that the sectional London, 9th November-The qualifying method tried in 1926 fact that Sir James Barrie is no was unsatisfactory. In 1927 all the longer able to write with his right competitors will play their qualify hand was revealed at an auction of ing rounds on the old and the new play "The Old Lady Shows Her and 21st, June, and, 100 players the holograph, manuscript of his courses at St. Andrews on 20th.

Medsis" at the dinner of the Nows all tieing for the hundredth place. vendors Benevolent Institution, will be eligible for the cham It fetched, 325 guineas together pionship proper which will be plays A Forlorn Hope?

with a characteristic letter, from led under the same conditions as in Sir James Barrio proclaiming that 1926. All Competitors who are 15 Just on what grounde, Mr. Lloyd At nine o'clock this morning his right hand gave out soon after strokes or more behind the leader George bases, his optimism regard-there were seventy-five ships, in he had completed this manuscript. at the end of the second round will ing the prospects of the Liberal harbour. The total arrivals dur-He now writes left-handed to the be made compulsorily to retire and party (as told by a British Wireing twenty-four hours were cigh-joy of his correspondents. "In the remainder will play two fur- Tess message, on Monday) is a little teen, six of these being British.deed", he adds, "the purchaser will ther rounds on 24th June. hard to discover. Every Britisher, There were twenty-one departures, wish my right hand had given out no matter what his personal politics nine being British... might be, remains intoneely inter- ested in the one-time all powerful A codjie, who was charged with MILITARY INNOVATION." Liberal party and especially in the being on board the .. Tilawa, personal doings of its parliament without the permission of the masing the belief that Lt.-General Sir London, 10th November. Voic. ary Jender, Mr. Lloyd George, who ter or the officer in charge, was atill remains the most dynamic per sent to prison for one month with Richard Montage Stuart Wortley sonality in British politics. The hard labour, by the Marine Magis

is reaigning and that the vacancy Subject to the payment of thres party's debacle at the Inst. General trate, Lieut. Commdr. G. F. Holc,kely to be filled by Major gold franes (a French Consulate Election and the unfortunate per at the Marine Court this morning, graph remarks that such appoint-lowed to visit the graves of Ger General Doverell, the Daily Tele- fee), German nationals were al sonal quarrel between Lord Oxford | ·· and Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George To-day's report of the Royal meat would effect the interesting man soldiers in Alsace and Lor with its devastating split in the Observatory states that there is a parallel and innovation. that raine on November Tand 2 (All In view of the fact that Mr. rank and file of the party, has all V-shaped depression between China Quartermaster-Generals at both Saints and All Souls days). Silas H. Strawn was the Chairman but eclipsed it, and yet Mr. Lloyd and Japan and an anticyclone con- George can speak of optimism.tral over mid-Japan. The local of the International Commission Maybe, he knows more than he says forecast up till noon to-morrow"is.. on Extra-Territoriality Jurisdie- or even hints, but to the ordinaryNorth-east winds, moderate; tion in China, the main recommen-observer it would seem that, the overcast with rain at first, impray-

politics of the future are going ing later." dations of which have just been to be mainly divided between issued, special interest will attach the Conservative Right and The health return for the past

Left to some remarks which he recently the Labour

and that week shows six cases of typhoid there will be little or no room for fever (all Chinese excepting one made before the Chicago Associa-the middle course. For some time imported English case), of which. tion of Commerce, on the situation the power of altering the balance three proved fatal. There were s he found it in China. In the may lie with the middle party, just also two fatal Chinese cases of course of his speech, Mr. Strawn as the power of altering the balance diphtheria and one fatal Chinese of a see-saw rests with the little occurrance of nuerperal fever. stated that the country no longer chap who moves about the centre, The returns for Monday and Tues had any responsible Government, but the power will assuredly be a day show four more Chinese cases and that through the greed and de- trapsitory one only. Mr. Lloyd of typhoid and one Chinese case of

Georgo has indicated that he becerebro-spinal fever. sire for aggrandisement of the War lieves that Labour will have a big... Lords, it was rapidly being reduced

The Telegraph

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1926,

AN AMERICAN ON CHINA.

to impotence and misery. In this connection he cited some striking Sgures regarding the falling into ruin of the railway system of the country as the result of military domination, on the "squeeze" levied on the use of goods wagons and of the seizure of railway revenues by the War Lords, who in 2 space of thirteen years have taken $250,000,000 of the earnings of various lines..

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sooner,"

The

The amateur championship con- ditions will be the same as in 1926.

A charge will be made for ad- mission to Hoylake course.

Very Dilee

Because the neighbours teased rational being, and, I am sure, aņi her on the day she hobbed her hair, hopester than any of them, Oh! fifteen year-old Marie Kriz of I am sick of visions and systems Prague, committed suicide by that ahove one another aside and Jumping from the third-storey fat come over again, like the figures of her parents.

in £1 moving picture. Horace With the permission of her Walpole (letter to George Mon- parents Maris had her hair bobbed, tagu). When she returned home her. parents were away. A neighbour. saw her and began to tease her for you, have a happy hope, and live If you want your husband to love

of Quebec, died a few hours after bours joined in, telling her that to find your affinity colour in which having "baby hair" Other neigh happily ever after, it behooves you her husband had sailed in the 'she was 4.fool. Marie was soup "you fltas a rose to its stem So Aquitania from Southampton reset that she rushed upstairs, open- says somebody or other, probably cently in order to be at her bed-ed the window, and jumped out, hired by the affiliated, decorators side. Mr. Lanctott was in England She was killed instantly on the who, want new colour wash on all to assist in the pleading of. pavement below. Quebec's case before the Privy Council in connection with the Labrador boundary dispute. ;

ger show at the next election and A Reator-message from Quebec that matters might be so evenly says that the wife of Mr. Charles the power to make or break either divided that the Liberals will have Lanctott, Deputy Attorney-General aside. There does not seem to be much hope of Liberalism reguin inga preponderating position itself and it is apparently going to be content to play the middle role. If this is the prospect that fills Mr. Lloyd George with optimism, he has lost not a little of his old dis- satisfaction with half measures and with secondary position. The Welsh Wizard is playing on, muted strings.

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NEW SOLICITOR. "

MR. HORACE LO ADMITTED.

our homes, as mistresses of house holds decide that tan oatmeal dis "Before we were married you temper put on the living room last used to say there wasn't another your is not their "affinity colour": man like me in the world.","

"Yet, and now I'd hate to think Here's your pointers. If you are there was."

a wistful britnette, you should live in rooms decorated in blue with touches of yellow and rose. If you EXCHANGE RATES.

OLD FRIENDS.-Oh! if you are in are one of those whom gentlemen earnest and transplant yourself to profer live amid apple greens with Rugby, Nov. 30.

Rochiampton, how happy I shall be gold and pink touches. A back- The Attorney General, the Hon. You know how long have been ground of soft blue with gentle rose. 34.38 . H Kemp, applied to the vexed at seeing so little of you. is always a foil for the blonde, too, 12.13 Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, What has one to do when one grows they admit. And this doesn't quite 20.41 for Mr. Horace Lo to be admitted tired of the world, as we both do, fit into the general iden, but 34.40 and enrolled as a solicitor, at the but to draw nearer and nearer, and if you're a big lady with masses of

192 Supreme Court this morning.

gently waste the remains of life auburn hair you must live in dull 2.17/82 In making the application, Mr with the friends with whom one mahogany tone midst antique

45% Kemp said Mr. Lo "vas ar-

21ticled to his brother Mr. M. ple will have no regard for us and

began it? Young and happy peo- furniture and old prints. 2/0, 6/10

But more pertinent at the moment, when the rights of foreigners in China are being discussed, is Mr. Strawn's declaration that the Le Paris

Brussels gations in Peking are unable to

Amsterdam secure redress from the Central Berlin

Copenhagen Government for the wrongs done Vienna to their nationals in any part of

Helsingfors Lisbon Ca China. One heard, he said, much Buenos Aires,

Shanghai of the "sovereign" rights of the Yokolinma Chinese Republic, but Chinese New York

Geneva Stockholm

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4.86K Lo, who, us they all knew, had our old stories, and they are In There may never be another 25.13 had an extensive legal education: the right; but we shall not tire one Jackie Coogan "The Kid" created 114% Mr. Horure Lo had been examined another; we shall laugh together a demand for his services and 13.13 in Hongkong and the examiners when nobody is by to laugh at us, Jackie has reaped a fortune, but 19.13% had reported that, he was fit to be and we may think ourselves young producers no longer, fancy young-

26%

Britisk Wirelose.

a eolicitor. He had filed an affida-

politicians did not seem interested Milan in the rights of the Chinese people. Stack The lack of communications, the

Prague

02.03

A supremacy of avaricious War Lords, Madrid

Rio

vit in a form which he understood enough when we see nobody sters for important roles.

recent survey of studios disclosed younger. and the endless series of the manu Bombay

1/6. 19/10 his Lordship approved.

Roehampton is a delightful the fact that 1,100 children now 1/11 factured motives to make civil Hongkong.

In granting the application, his Silver (spot) wara, with the Treasury of the Silver forward)

25.5/18 Lordship said he had great plea-spot at once cheerful and retired. are registered for fobs of which

sure in admitting Mr. Lo as a soli-You will anible in your chaise about there are only a few each week, Central Government at stake, and

citor, and expressed the hope that Richmond Park; we shall see one the outrageous taxes on, merchants

he would have a very successful another as often as we like; I shall A peculiar phenomenon is report- frequently peep at London and ed from Imbari City where 200 ROSE DAY.

career all these, Mr. Strawn declared,

Mr. Lo is a brother of Messrs. M. bring you tales of it, and we shall sparrows nestling in a big tree near Worked against any possibility of

-FURTHER DONATIONS. K. and M. W. Lo, whom he will sometimes touch a card with Mr a cotton mill, wore killed when " Two the immediate formulation of a'

join after his admission. He wase and laugh our fill; for I must lightning struck the tree.. To-morrow is Rose Day, when educated in Queen's College, and tell you I desire to die when I have baskets full of dead sparrows were fixed policy with regard to China, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul whilst there he obtained the Junior nobody left to laugh with me, I collected by a workman the morning

These observations, coming from holde its annual street sale of Morrison," "Ho Fook," and the have never yet seen or heard any after the storm. a prominent American who came roses on behalf of the poor of the Senior Morrisonacholarships,hing serious that was not ridi East full of enthusiasm for things Colony. The Society is entirely the latter being of course the most culo Jesuits, Methodiste, philo non-political in character and is coveted prize. He left Queen's sophers, politicians, the bypocrito Chinese, and firmly believing that open to co-operation with any char-College in 1918 whon be matricuint Rousseau, the scoffer Voltaire, the

cd, and went to the Hongkong. foreigners generally and exagger-itable organisations for the bot University, where he studied in the encyclopedists, the Humes, the Lytteltona, the Grenvilles, the ated the situation, are not withoutter care of the poor people. Arts Faculty for two years.

The following additional dona- He was articled to ft. M. K. Latifeist 'tyrant of Prussla, and the their special significance. Mctions have been received towards in November 1921--just five years Mountcbank of History, Mr. Pitt, Strawn, let it be stressed, was no the funds of the al fresco fete to ago, He went, to England on the all are to me but impostors in their The lack of adequate newspaper 80th January, 1924, and whilst various ways. Fame or interest in space for advertising purposes is mere globe-trotter of the type which be held on Sunday:

$100. there he attended the office of their object; and after all their being felt in France. In Paris epends a couple of weeks in the

30. Messrs. Lo and Lo's London agents. parade. I think a ploughman who signs are found in all sorts of country seeing things on the sur- Kwang Sang Hong, tollet ar-

Moesrs. Darley, Cumberland & Co.! face and then posing as an authoriticles. British-American Tobacco and went through a course of logal sows, reade his almanack, and be places, but the newest sample of studies with the well known firm lieves the stare so many farthing Ingenuity in advertising as shown Co., 4,000 cigarettes, Mrs. Everast of law concliors, Messrs. Gibson and candles created to prevent his in the barber shops where there are ty on the Chinese problem. He and Mrs. O'Donoghue, useful ar- Weldon. He returned to the Colony falling into a ditch as he goes brilliantly lettered signs on the

opportunities ticles for the souvenir stall.

In September, 1925.

home at night, a wiser and more ceilings,

had exceptional

Mrs. J. M. Alves

Col. & Mrs. Comyn

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"Lend me an ear," the speaker.

said,

In quite resounding tone. "Why should we?" someone.

questioned him,

"You've got two of you own"