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The Telegraph

MONDAY, DECEMBER."6, 1926,

POWERS NOT TO 'BLAME.

MONDAY.' DECEMBER 6, 1926.

DAY BY DAY.

when he asserts that the only thing which the British want In their dealings with China isto be allowed to live and trade peace- ably in the country. Those utter ances reflect the actual truth and they cannot be gainsaid by any from Manila, at 7 a.m. to-morrow. fair-minded observer of develop- monts in China...

It is, also, a sheer distortion of the facts to talk, as the Canton propagandista do, of British an-

"WHATEVER MAKES MEN GOOD. CHRISTIANS MAKES THEM GOOD CITIZENS-Daniel Webstor.

The Empress of Asia is due here

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of

HONGKONG IMPORTS.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.

The fortnightly Prico Current and Market Report published by the Hong kong General Chamber of Commerce,

atute;

POPPY FUND.

$14,000 TO DATE.

Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, Hon, Secretary of the British Legion. Poppy Day Sub-Committee, writes us, as follows!

further Chincae enso

Cotton Picen Goods and Faney "I have received from Mr. A. M.' typhoid fever was notified on Fri day.

Cotton Goods-Since our last roport Scott-Morris of Messrs. Jardino,, enquiry has broadened and sales of Matheson & Co, Ltd., Swatow, the The annual Police Ball is being Brocades and Drills for quick delivery aum of $599.34, representing the Autumn trade are reported. The

above. Fund.

tagonism towards the Nationalist held at the City Hall on Decem- and Italians and Venetains for the Swatow's contributions to

ber 23rd.

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cause or af forcible British inter- ference In Chineso affairs. Ιπ The Cunard round-the-world market has ruled quieter during the "The Manager of the Nether- the present strife in China, Briner Carinthia, with 200 tourists last fow days, and deliveries have lands

India Commercial Bank fallen off considerably. The raw gave a special rate for the draft latest quotations being those of 1st from the Officers and men of H.M. Inst, Bg Sakol. 14.80d. Mid. Amer. Whitherington and Verity, also "Spot" 6.76d.

tain takes no sides, and she hng aboard, is due here on Wednesday material show a further dceline, "the and contributions were received

again and again made it perfectly. clear that her policy is based on non-interference in the domestic affairs of the country. What Bri- tain wants and this is equally

Lady Clementi is to present the prizes at Peak School breaking-up on Wednesday December 22.

clean

There was

bill of health in the Colony over the week-end."

Amongst the passengers who left by the Atsuta Maru, yeater- day were Sir Gerald and Lady Lennox Congyngham and daugh-

Cotton Yarn-In sympathy with from members of the Dutch, the decline in the producing centres, French, Danish, Russian and local prices have experienced a further Italian communities. drop of $2 to $3 per bale; and market continues

quiet

Quotations aro "As you, are aware, Swatow bas purely nominal: No. 10s. $140/160, been having a very bad time re- No. 128. $146/105. No. 158. $100/170.cently and am sure you will No. 208. $175/180. Arrivals 900 bales.

true of the other Powers-is to see peace and stability in China. It is a matter of complete indif ference to her as to who

comes out on top in the strugglo forter. power. For all too long, has an

The forthcoming wedding is a effort been made to place the nounced of Mr. William John Aud- blame for China's troubles on Bri-eraon. civil servant, residing at

Vitoria Road, Pokfulam, to Mis tish shoulders. The cause is to be Mary Tyrrell, of Shanghai; Mr. found in China herself. And sal-Thomas Branneld, architect sick; American Cut off; $3.50-8.80 month ago with

Shipment Nil Sales Nil. Unsold stock agree with me that their effort is 14,200 bales. Bargains 13,400 bales, splendid one and that the value

Woollens-Market'dull.

of the contribution is enhanced by the fact that so many different

vation can only come from within.

Shameen. Canton, to Miss Doris Lindsay, of Southsea, England.

Chinese reports from Canton state that the districts of Yeng- kiang and Youngchuen have been visited by a severe storm, which

Is It Worth While?

For the second time within à month, Hongkong is being.visited} by two round-the-world cyclists with the rising of the river, has two young men, one a Greck and caused many houses to collapse, with heavy loss of life. Plague the other a Latvian-who

is also said to be rife in these taking "push bikes" with them o

localities. an extended tour in each country, Of course, the trans-oceanic

are.

Sir Jehangir Kothari, 0.B.E., Our issue of Saturday contain-parts of this round-the-world ed two noteworthy declarations on not taken as invalidating a claim seventh trip around

jaunt are done by boat, but that has arrived in Hongkong on his the world.

Amerian Chairman of the Extra-

A

There is doubtless a lot of discom- it was sent after the robbery, fort to be suffered and, when traversing difficult country, a fair

Chinese constable

In-

Raw Cotton. Nothing doing. Metal-Prices slightly easier but nationalities have participated in market dull,

fit.

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Flour market, Stocks: About 400,000 bags of all sorts. Market.

"It may interest you to know Continues weak. Quotations: that Swatow's subscription to the American Patent, $4.40-4.60 per suck; Wanhsien Fund closed about a American Straight, $3.45-3.70 per

a total of Mex.

per sneks; sarki Shanghai Flour, $3.50-550 560 50

per No. 1-83.75-3.85 per snek; Canadian Cut off, $3.35-3.45 por

"I have not yet received all 'con- sock; Canadian Straight. $9.36-3.10 tributions from the Outports but per snck; Canadian Mixture, 83.10-when this has been done I will 3.30 per sick; Canadian 2nd Clear, let you have a list of the various $3.00-3.10 per snck;

amounts collected and remitted Home. Swatow's contribution steady throughout the fortnight since brings the total received up to date last circular.

to $14,000."

Sugar.-Market firm. Saltpetre-Market ruling

very

The Very Idea!

.The

Lany way due to the polices of the off of the dull round of daily toit soliciting in Hollywood Road, com- tion why these radio signals don't. "A house?" said the American."

the situation in China by competo be cycling round the world. He is a member of, a leading tent foreign ovservers The ene Our present visitors, gaily be-Zorastrian family in Sind, and. was contained in a brief summary decked with sports medals and many public institutions in India, wearing miniature flags of the England and elsewhere have bene- of speech delivered in Shanghai by countries through which they have fited from his wealth and philan- the new British Minister Mr. Miles passed, are earning their expenses

thropic interests.

Present, interest in the planet a "lost ball,' and the second ball Mars, due to its approach to the played became the ball in play." Lampson, and the other was a fut-by selling photos and posteards--

Sentence of three months' hard earth, brings to the surface again souvenirs of unusual visitors. ler version than has hitherto been But the point or purpose of the Inbour was inflicted by Mr. R. E. all sorts of vague theories and illu- One day an American and an Chinese sions about the part radio might Irishman were talking about differ published locally of the speech journey, apart from the pure ad-indsell to-day on which Mr. Silas Strawn, the venture of the thing, is indeed charged with the theft of six bales play in our attempts to communic- ent concerts in which they had

hard to discover ass also the of leather, valued at $1,500, from a

ate with Martians. If those ideas, sung. worth of it. To our mind it is godown at Belcher's Street..

ever ring true, smash goes one of "When I first sang in a concert,

American said Territorial Commission, made in nther a senseless and purposeless spector P. Grant said the stuff had the finest pet theories about radio. such a shower of flowers came from Chicago some weeks back. Bath undertaking, just a fine free lark, been disposed of in Macao whither That's the famous Heaviside layer the audience that I could have set utterances

theory, evolved by the late Prof. up a flower shop." were unanimous on

Heaviside of England. On it is one point-thut China's

"Well, that's nothing," said Pat. present

while based our entire belief as to how "When I first sang at an open-air troubles arise, from conditions amount of anxiety, too. But it's Charging a woman, at the Central radio waves are transmitted and re- meeting the crowd presented me within the country and are not in a glorious "spred this throwing Magistracy this morning, with ceived, and our solution to the ques- with a house

fly directly into space. in an ordinary job, dressing up in plained that he was accosted in a

You must be mad!" Powers. Mr. Lampson declared picturesque clothing, taking one's familiar way by the woman," who The Heaviside theory presup- "Faith, it's true," said Pat. "But that the talk of British Imperial-cycle and setting out on a voyageukong." After hearing the evid-inyer, perhaps magnetic, above our

fused the offensive term of "baby poses the existence of a mysterious begorra, a brick at a time."

atmosphere, about 100 miles up,

A new method of evading in- which deflects the radio waves hurl- migration laws was uncovered in ed from our broadcast and other Cuba when Immigration officials radio stations and returns them to discovered that 27 Chinese osten- the earth, where they may be re- sibly Cuban residents returning to ceived.

Whether there's leak in Havana after a visit in China, were this layer, so as to let stray waves travelling on false passports. "In- shoot out farther into space, can- vestigation disclosed that the men not be ascertained. But even sup- had been furnished with passports posing

leak-well, it takes, a of Chinese already residing in Cuba, powerful receiver to tune in a radio their photographs being pasted signal from a station 3,000 miles over the picture of the real owner. away. Mars is distant some As Cuban immigration laws pre- 42,000,000 miles when it's nearest. vent entry of Chinese immigrants

tion regarding this growing popular "tunt." If it had some more useful purpose than it ap pears to have, there might be some justification..

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A cargo collic was injured in a rather curious manner yesterday when working on cargo-boat No. dropped overboard, and all would have been well, for him, except for the possible effects of a cold im- mersion, had it not been for the piece of rock from the deck of the

Overbalancing himself, he

fact that in falling he displaced a

and had to be taken to hospital. foot. He waa rather severely hurt,

A Washington telegrain of Dr cember 1st states that serious dcubt is expressed in some official circles since the publication of the Attorney General's opinion de- claring the Philippine Board of Control invalid, as to the legality of the sale of government business enterprise as contemplated by Gov- ernor General Wood. It is point 7ed out that the Philippine National 12.13 Bank, the afanita Railroad and 20.394 other companies were purchased 18.20% by the legislature and the questi

10441of legality enters whether the 2.17/32 properties could be disposed of 46. 13/16 without the approval of the same ...2/4ources.

Rugby, Dec. 5.

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In a barber chair he crawled. "Just trim mo good," he said,

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and permits a Chinese resident to leave the island, for not, more than six months, it is believed that some of the Chinese residents' have been making a practice of "lonning" their passports to an agency. In Hong Kong to be furnished would- be immigrants.

He woke up he was bald.

A famous light of the medical profession has a head of abnormal size. After n' committee meeting Floorwalker (to a woman who one of his colleagues; a man of no has annoyed the saleswomen in the little self-confidence, put on by mis- shop for several hours without buy- take the first doctor's hat, which ing anything)-Madam, are you shut down on him like an extir shopping here? guisher.

Women (rather surprised)- "If I had a head as big as that," Why, certainly, what else could I he said to the owner of the hat, bo dolug? "I would move the world."

of more or less self-supporting ist in China is "all moonshine, travel. Some few years ago, thescence, Mr. Lindseli dismissed the whilst, according to the report of was a man who pushed a baby's the Chicago speech, Mr. Strawn perambulator all round the worl characterised as "pure bunk" the living ou the support accorded him because of the novelty of the suggestions that China's precari proceeding, and to-day there lots ous status is due to Imperialism, of young men copying his iden, Jack of tariff autonomy, extra-ter- though varying it with cycles or

with something else. The irres ritoriality or unequal treatiesponsibility of the act is perhaps The fact of the matter, of the most startling thing about it. course, is that certain of China's Maybe, we are unimaginative and political leaders have been lock-not find room for much appropa-boat, which dropped on his leg and altogether too prosaic, but we do ing about for excuses to account for the present chaotic and troubi ed condition of their country, and in the phrase "foreign lmper ialism" they have sought to ex- plain to the outside world the root of the evil. It is the pet cry of the noisy, element amongst China's politicians and by insidious pro paganda it has been taken in many, quarters to represent the truth. Brussels

Amsterdam Soviet agitators join in the chorus, Berlin painting China as being in the Copenhagen

Vienna position of a "sub-Colonya peo-

Ifelsingfors ple oppressed by the high-handed Lisbon

Buenos Aires actions of the Powers and permit-Shanghai ted none of the rights of a self-

Yokohama

Helen Wills still reigns, in Eng- New York governing nation. These and Geneva

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one, without his knowledge, and land. The demuro. Callfornia ten- Milan other parrot-cries have been in

111 Queen's Theatre is a Faramount resumes play with another ball nis player, whose simple conduct 18.15 picture entitled "Merton of the sacrifices the hole-in-one shot, ac and terrific tennis captivate Great dulged in so long and so insistent- Oslo

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118 Movies." It has to do with the cording to the decision of the Com- Britain, is still well remembered. .163. 11/16 ly that they have caused the real Madrid

ambitions of a store employee to .31.86

mittee of Rules of the Royal and The latest sign of her continued Rio

0 become a movie star and shows facts of the situation to become

Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. popularity is supplied by Mra. Sat- .1/5% how he eventually got a part in Bombay obscured. It is well, however, Hongkong

The ruling came in response to therthwaite, one of England's best .1/103% a burlesque, all the time thinking the following query from the Relg- tennis players. At Gloneagles, in that occasion should now and

Silver (spot & forward) 24.0/16 that he was playing in real até Heath Club. "A lady playing company

Charles with Lord Wireless...

drama. There are some extréme; then be taken to dissipate such

in a stroke competition did a short Hope and Sir Joseph Tich, ly funny Incidents resulting from hole in one, but as the hole is not borne, she appeared in a untruths, and it is a happy circum-

this situation, and the film should in sight from the tee she did not new adaptation of the famous stance that reputable British and

Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, former make a strong appeal to those know it. Not finding the ball; she Helen Wills oyo-shade. The visor American spokesmen should come Governor. General of the Phillip who like something light and went back to the tee and played an- like shield against the sun is piped

falanda, interviewed in amusing. A love interest runs pine

other, and only discovered that she with red and two slim ribbons, also forward with pointed deninis of

Manila, denied that his visit here through the story, of course, had holed her first tee shot on hol- piped with red, go around the wear these baseless allegations. Mr. has any policial significance, insf.. Glenn. Huator takes the title role ing out her second ball, Should er's head and fanten in a small Strawn 'suys the Powers have done ter that he has no intention of be with marked success, whilst Viola. her score be one, of five?" The bow over the forehead. The Helen

Committea answered: "The score Wills eye-shade in Increasingly po all that they possibly can to give coming Governor General again, Dana plays a big part in the sue

and stated that the position is one cess of the picture.ns the girl who made with the accond ball counts. pular on English courts, but: Mrs. A straight deal to China, and Mr. that demands the best that the befriended the ambitious sales-When the player abandoned the Satthorthwaite's improvement on it Lampson strikes a similar note 'best man obtainable can give.

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Floorwalker-Well, madam, I "It you had," replied the other, thought perhaps you might be tak- "you would know you couldn't." ing an inventory..

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search for the first ball it became Is novel.