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The Telegraph

TUESDAY, DECEMBER. 7, 1926,

FRIENDS AGAIN.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

DAY BY DAY.

1926.

Vancouver on 4th December, and The Empress of Canada, left is due here ou the 23rd.

The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., has issued a handy desk calendar.

a number of most important quos- tions. No fewer than seven Foreign Ministers will be at the gathering,

ALL THINGS THAT SPEAK OF HEA- and it does not take much VEN SPEAK OF EACE-Bailey, Imagination to realise the immense valup-and-potentiality of such an cvent. Those who are inclined to doubt the utility of the League of Nations' would do well to ponder the fact that through no other es isting agency would it be possible to gather such a representative Inspector C. F. Aris, of the

Hongkong Police, left for Aus and powerful company of Interna-tralia by the .s. Tanda on Satur tlonalists, for that ja what all wha day, 7-- attend the League of Nations must be. The vexed question of dis- armament is to be found among a host of other intenta. problems and even If no immediately effec tive agreement is come to, there's

The P and O., liner Malwa, which left Singapore, on the 6th instant, ut 3 p.m. is due hore at 6 p.m. on the 10th.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Mcintyre and Mr. E. A. Leggatt were among

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CAFE PARISIEN.

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]

CANADIAN ANNIVERSARY;

PRINCE OF WALES INVITED.

Oltawa, Dec. 60 The Prince of Wales and Mr..

Sir. It was with great surprise that the French community of Stanley Baldwin have officially been Hongkong read, the intimation of invited to come to Canada to parti the Licensing Board that the cipate in the diamond jubilea of the Cafe Parisien was not fulfilling Confederation of Upper and Lowor any extensive want." Surely, this Canada on July 1st, 1927-Router. is the inmest excuse that could possibly be made.

and its liquers, register my pro- After twelve o'clock at night

Lest.

Realising as we do that any er-rade with a band playing, every Have we anything in fort to bring a little brightness evening? into the drab "Sunday School" the way of vaudeville or the atmosphere of this Colony ie use. legitimate stage other than very less, realising too, that the ignor occasional visits from travelling will render this and other protests Food as they may be, will not com ing of the public by those in powo companies or local offorts which,

futile, I, on behalf of many mem-Pensate us for what we have left ̧ ̧ Having Jeft Singapore at 6 pm.bers of the French community ant at home? We have merely the on the 4th instant, the P. and O, many Britisher's who, in France picture shows and these amuse- at least a certain valuable interliner Nyanza is due here at 6 am. have learned to enjoy the Frenchments are common eyen to a vill-

on the 10th.

Cafe with its apertifs, its wines age at Home. change of ideas. A common cause can only be waged by those who share the same belief and enjoy mutual. confidences, and the League of Nations is undoubtedly serving a great purpose by pro- viding machinery for contact and Interchange of thought. Britain and Germany at least seem to be seckling to do their part in this work of making international peace possible, and it is certain that behind this outward show there is the genuine spirit.

the arrivals from Australia by the 8.3. St. Albans.

By falling from the deck to the bottom of a hold on board the s.a. Cheung Tai, a Chinese injured his jaw and was taken to hospital.

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Miss Peggy Everest, the 11-year old daughter of Mr. R. 3. Everest. of the P.W.D., was the winner of the Flat motor car in the draw organised by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul

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Mr. Leigh, Boarding Officer of the Harbour Department, return- ed from recuperative trip. through Japan and Manchuria on Sunday and his many friends will he pleased to hear that this popular official has regained his hermal good health.

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The League and China.

The question of the interprets tion of the Sino-Belgian Treaty has yet to be disposed of. Belgium Perhaps one of the most sigulwants the matter brought before cant political developments of the the Hague Court, but China is ap- past few months has been the parently opposed to this course,

"The typhoon is moving away holding that the controversy is growth of close and intimate con-political rather than juridical in from the Philippines on a north- tact between Britain and German character. However, according easterly track, and the monsoon In almost every sphere.

Of all to the latest statement on the sub, will freshen considerably."

jeet, China is prepared to take thesays fo-day's 'report of the Royal the countries which were at war in issue before the Assembly of the Observatory, which gives the fol- the great 1914-1918 conflict, no League of Nations, and it is per-lowing forecast up till to-morrow: two so vitally concerned have got haps as well that the question "North to north-east winds, back nearer to friendship than should be considered by that body. freshening; fine, cooler,"

The point at issue is of first in- have Britain and Germany, for, portance, because it touches the whilst it would be idle and untrue general question of China's Treaty

relations with the Powers. to declare that the animosities and hatreds of the war period, have been entirely forgotten, there is a readily apparent desire on both sides to heal the breach as far as possible. During the past sum- mer, a body of German athletes

we may not even buy a sandwich! other Continental nationals of the Colony either solace themselves la Sir, apart from the French and It is no wonder that exiles in this

Colony, there are hundreds of drink or get out as fast as possible. British and Colonial ex-soldiers "No fulfilling any extensive and sailors who fought side by want a poor excusel

In closing, I might say that I am side with us through the awfel years of the past war. I am sure in no way connected with the Cafe that many of them prefer to sit Parisien or its management other at the little tables listening to ththan that of being a customer of. orchestra,

watching the the Cafe-the only bright spot. dancing, as they sip their refresh that I have found in this Colony went rather than stand at the bar, since leaving my native Paris. with no other diversion other than Thanking you for the edurtear

of this space-Yours, etc.

'LARTILLEUR. Hongkong, Dec. 7th, 1926,

OR

liquor.

Where are the amusements of this Colony? Have we e promen-

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The Very Idea!

Toss a coin in the air eighty Times tables af 24 hours instead' thousand times and it will land of twice 12 will be issued by the heads forty thousand times; at Swedish railroads next spring and least this was the result of an a similar subdivision of the day is class at the likely to be adopted soon by the experiment by University of California. The postal service and other public de- experiment was simply to verify partments. Amongst the passengers who what had been demonstrated many The administration of the Swed- left for Sydney by the 3.3. Tunda times. before, namely the law of, ish telegraphs and telephones has

average. As was Mrs. A. Prokofieva, the Rus-

Just keep tossing the used the 24 hour scheme since 1909 time goes on, other Treaties will besian lady survivor from the Sun-coin long enough and it will break and thus the public is alrendy"

even many times before you reach partly accustomed to saying 15 o'clock, instead of three P.M. or eighty thousand.

ning pirney. She has been staying with Mr. and Mrs. George Duncan, of Kowloon Docks, whose son, it Engineer of the Sunning at the will be remembered, was the Third

time of the piracy.

Two well known Chinese

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So it is with the expectancy of 21 o'clock for nine P.M., exactly panies base their investments and watches has not yet been des

The life insurance com- as they do in France... life.

How to adapt the dials of clocks the law of average of human life cided, but it is likely that the for your age and generation.

visited Great Britain and com-the United States, 11 the main families will be united on Decem- life statistics of the United States, a different colour, inside the morn.

expiring, and in view of the talk of general renunciation it is essen tial that the situation should be conceive of no better step at the clarified: For that purpose, we can

moment than consideration by the League of Nations of the whole, question. With the exception of peted with the flower of our two Treaty, Powers are members of the premier Universities such a pro- League, and we may be sure that ceeding being unusally cloquent the Sino-Belgian Treaty comes up for debate, the larger issues of of the altering state of things. In which it is really a part will also the telegrams just to hand, we are come under review. That the cld told that there has been a con and China will have to give way to type of Treaty between Powers ference between representatives of agreements of a different charne the British and German Federa-ter there can be no doubt, but, at tions of Industries in an endeavour the same time, that end cannot be attained by the mere process of

ber 30, when Mr. Conway. H. K. Wong will be married to Mias Dora Mel-yük She. Mr. Wong, son of Mr. Wong Chung-yu, mer chant, is an official of the Oil Tax the daughter of the late Mr. She Bureau at Pakhoi. Miss She is

kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Tak-choi, formerly of the Hong Company. The reception is being held at the Hongkong Hotel,

men.

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Their statistics are derived from afternoon hours will be printed in Great Britain, France and Gering figures, as they now are on the many. The statistics for the city clocks of the government. tele- of Chicago--for 1926-show that graph bureaus. out of 1,000. men, from 26 to. 34 years, those who die, included 15.

Once again' the Taflor and Gutter who were divorced, 5 who were with the accent on the Cutter

has risen in its wrath, and, toma- who were single and only married. The ratio is even more hawk in hand, has caused havoc among the members of the favourable as they get older.

Women as an average live three Imperial Conference on account of years longer than

The their sartorial iniquities.

From what I have heard, our How 58 VOLT. After being knocked down by average life is to remove some of the more arti-scrapping all the existing under-motor car No. 336 in the New Ter- Your children should live tour own home-fed statesmen have ficial and harmful barriers of trade standings. Foreign loan obliga- ritories, a Chinese woman died in

The taken the matter to heart, and it years longer than you do, between the two countries, Ations, extra-territoriality, Customs the Kwong Wah Hospital. The

average life in 1950 will be 76 has been seriously suggested that When it the Cabinet should be strengthen- matters and a host of other ques-car, which is owned by the Nam years it is expected. tions are involved. The Powers Hing Motor Bus. Company, Sheung comes to long life, try to be a little ed by the addition of the follow- official character took place only are at present considering some of Shui, was being driven from Fan- better than the average and don't ing Ministers Without Portfolio few weeks ago, and doubtless some these matters as they affect future ling to Shataukok, when the wo believe

said, (or salary): (1) Mr. Dennis, Brad- relations with Ching, but inas- man ran in front of it and was "Married men don't live any longer ley; (2) The Only Tailor in beneficial arrangement will even much as the issues are, in many knocked down and run over. She than single men, it only seems Jermyn-street

respect, common to them all, it was removed to the Kwong Wah would appear eminently desirable Hospital, where she died on that the League should take up the after admission.

similar conference of a more

tually be come to. Britain has consistently been on the side of those who contond that Germany ought to take her place once more na a Great Power, and, in this con- pute has that result, then it may pected to be in wireless communi-

serve, an extremely useful purcation with Hongkong to-day- for all concerned...

whole China problem at an early date. If the Sino-Belgian dis-

EXCHANGE RATES.

nection, it was Britain's influence that was so helpful in the recent admission of Germany to the League of Nations. We were in- formed only yesterday that, ae- cording to the report of the Agent General for Reparafons, Germany

Paris has faithfully discharged all her Brussels obligations under the Dawes' Plan Amsterdam

Berlin and that the deliveries" and pay- Copenhagen

Vienna ments to the Allies have been re- |gularly made. This tremendous ambunt

Buenos Aires for the Shanghai patience and perseverance of the Yokoh

Yokohama York German people, although we do Geneva

Milan not overlook the fact that the li

Stockholm Allies had rights and that Ger-

Oslo Prague many had obligations.

Madrid

says a

Now

Behind all this growth of friend-Rio

The following vessels are ex-

Hosang, Szechuen, Prés. McKin- ley, Pres. Wilson, Pres. Jackson, Eldridge, Hinsang, Haining, Paul Lecat, St. Albans, Amazone, Kwei- yang, Sulyang, Truro City, Vene- zia, Calulu, Shirpla, Pres. Hayes, Aaking, Langahan, Sandviken, Rugby, Dec. 6.

Tjilebost, Carinthin, Kinshan,, 34.88% Coblenz, Carl Legien, Helikon,

12.13 Kutsang and Glenshiel.

liness between Britain and Ger- Hongkong

Bombay many lies the much larger pro Silver (spot & forward)

jspect of a peaceful and happy

-British

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20.39%

18.21

.34.40%

1023 17/32 46. 29/32

.2/0.5/10 4.84.15/10

25.14 107

18.14

19.00/% 143%

OPIUM IMPORTS.

REDUCTION NOT YET PRACTICABLE.

London, Dec. 6. In the House of Commons, Mr. 10 Cecil Wiléon (Labour) asked whe-i 31.88 ther, as a result of the Government

.6.16/10

longer,"

the

wag who

The check girl gave him ser

vice and

With right hand out stood

put:

Of course he knew she craved

a tip-

That's why he tipped his

hat.

Who

.Earned. Twenty-Five Pounds a Week as a Foreman Cutter. ́..

With these two experts in close attendance distressing scenes like the following will no longer be nustomary:

Baldwin: Grey, worsted, · for preference, and I thought of having it double-breasted. Two hip pockets, and no "turn-ups.”-

Austen: Cut out the double breasted, Stan. Unless you take. The fact that Cambridge is cole to cigarettes. You go about with brating the tercentenary of Ba- pipes that look like instrumenta con's death is a reminder that the out of a band: You spoil the set. great Francis, still a much-dis of your clothes... cussed nuthor, was irrepressible Baldwin: All right. I'll have for a hundred years after his it single-breasted, and on the death. Time and again, posthunt loose. By the way, Birkenhead, ous works appeared under his that's a rotten razor you've been distinguished editorship, and final- using. Was it a Ford? D

ly Dr. Thomas Birch compiled a Birkenhead: It's not the razor. collection of unpublished Bacon it's my firm jaw.

d letters, speeches, &c. in 1763— Jix: Jay is right. Ever tried 103 years after the author was in

pumice?

his grave. No wonder the prolific Hoard: Hate to be personal. ponman has since been credited But, Winnie's collar with all the best Elizabethan out- put.

Winston: What's wrong "with it? Covers my neck, doesn't it?

Hoare: Well you know what

An Edinburgh municipal eloctor I mean-it, suggests those nigger. met a candidate for civic honours minstrels at Margate. the other day, and wished him every success.

Why do you wish me success,"

Bridgeman: Yes. Winnie is A idiosyncratic.

...1/5. 13/10 of India's decision to reduce by ten ..1/10 per cent, annually the export of ;-24% opium except for medical and scien- Wireless.

tífic purposes, the imports into British dependencies in the Far East would he proportionately rosaid the candidate, "seeing you are have you a good press?

attached to the Labour party, and I.am not?".

"Well," replied the elector, soc ing his mistake, "I wish you suc-

Europe. In a week's time, repre- sentatives of all the nations oc- The Rev, and Mrs. G. E. Arrow-duced.

Mr. Amury replying, was of opin- cupying seats on the Council of smith, Mr. P. R. Warren and Mr. the Longue of Nations will be C. S. Rossolet were amongst the ion that no such reduction was prac meeting again at Geneva to discuss passengers who left by the Presi-ticable in the prescut circum

stances Router. dent Jackson yesterday.

cess in the next world"

Austen: By the way, Stan,"

Baldwin: Well, yes. Fiven the Liberal papers are kind. Of course, Otter-stream

Austen:

pressote

I moun a trousers

otc.

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