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MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1926.

then there would seem no utility whatever in continuing the qon- versations. For be it noted that the comments of the People's Journal reflect a feeling of sheer enmity. It will.

ertainly avail the Nationalist causo nothing if it adopts the stand of viewing with suspicion and distrust any and every overture made by foreign nations in the direction of friend- ship.

DAY BY DAY.

NEVER THROW MUD, YOU MAY Miss YOUR MARK; BUT YOU MUST DIRTY. HANDS.Joseph HAVE Parker.

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INDIA'S POLITICS.

OPENING OF NATIONAL CONGRESS;

CANTON AFFAIRS.

CARGOES TO BE RELEASED.

At a meeting of the Committee. of tho Provincial Government, held in Canton, the following three resolutions were passod::

Gauhati, Assam, Dec. 25. Finding that the delegates from Bengal, Bihar and Assam are in command of majority of the Indian National an overwhelming

1-The cargoes of the threo Congress, opening on: December China Merchants' steamers, 26, which owing to its propinquity Kwong Lee, Hsin Hua, and Tai Passengers arriving here by the will be the miceting place, the Ras Shun, are permitted to be dis- Empress of Canada included Mr. ponsivists have decided not to fight charged under the direction of" a and Mrs. W H. Trenchard Davis, this acasion, but to Mr. II. M. H. Nemazee and G. H.velopments in the hope that the of deputies of the Departments of watch de-special commission to be composed

Potts.

Swarajists themselves will modify Industry, of Labour and of their policy during the first year's Farmors, and representatives of working of the new legislatures, the China Seamen's Union and the Mr. Bhopatkar, President of the cargo-owners, with the deputy of Responsivists, has telegraphed Industry Department as Chairman. from Poona declaring that boycott-

2.A Farmors' Bank is to be

W. Galloway.

Tenders are being invited for the reconstruction of Wong Nei Chinese Race Stand to open nullah Cheong nullah, Section No. 4 from

south east of Jockey Club Stables.

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For all too long has British policy In China been so regarded. and when it is obvious that every

Amongat the passengers who left possible effort is being made to for Manlia by the Empress of place our relations with the Chin-Canada were Dr. A. W. Fearn, Mr. ese on a butter footing, such an

and Mrs. F. S. Harrison, and Mr. attitude amounts to little short of a.churlish pettiness for which we. would give the Nationalist leaders more credit: What is even worse, it would imply a spirit of enmity at any price; and that is a policy which oven the Kuomintang can scarcely afford to adopt in its dealings with the Powers. Until we have some authoritative state- ment of Nationalist opinion on the British gesture, we are inclin- ed to give its leaders credit for more statesmanship than is re- flected in the comments under notice. But if events show that we are too liberal in thinking thus, then we can foresee the possibi- lity of developments of the utmost the

seriousness and gravity.

the Presbyterian Church, Sin- gapore, on December, 18th., 1926, John, eldest son of the late Dr. John Burelay, Banf. Scotland, to Ethel Constance only daughter of Mrs. K. M. Murray, of 15, Pembroke Road Dublin, and late of Ballymead, Ireland.

The Telegraph

MONDAY DEC. 27, 1926.

UNFORTUNATE.

A qualifying examination for appointments of probation clerks in Government service is to be in Queen's Collège Hall on Monday and Tuesday, January 10th and 11th, at 9 a.m.

ing the Councils. has been tried established under the auspicos of and found wanting, and that ob the Departments of Industry, struction has been found wrong Labour, Farmers, and Finance r of Indus practice.. in principle and pornicious in with the Commissioner,

try as Chairman. Ghandi has arrived.

8.A gazette to be issued There is an indication that the monthly, in which the reports of Congress acasion will be a tame the various Departments are to be affair of Swarajist domination.published in fuli. Reuter.

NATIONALISTS CONGRESS DEMANDS.

Gauhati, Dec. 26, There were 2,500 delegates and

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JAVA REVOLT.

Miss Lim Beng Hong, who arriv- 8,000 visitors present at the open- THREE DEATH SENTENCES. cd in Singapore from England raing of the Nationalist Congress, cantly after having passed out. a's which for the first time was held

Batavia, Dec. 25. a barrister, the first woman in in Assám,

The court has passed the death, Malaya to have done so, filed her Srinivasa Iyengar, the ex-Advo- sentence on three men who tried application for membership of the cata General of Madras, in a Presid- to stir up rebellion, one of whom locul barn the Supreme Court Re-ential address, asserted that no murdered a policeman. gistry, Penang, on December 9, scheme of self-Government would be One other rebel has been con- acceptable which denied full condemned to life imprisonment and trol of the Civil Services, and the one to twenty years' imprisonment. military, naval and air forces, Reuter. political relations between Indian States, and which refused India a Dopinion status on the same terms poisoning the people of Assam by: ns were determined at the Imperial currying out an immoral traffic in Conference. Iyengar advocated a opium.Reuter,

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The wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on the 18th instant of M: John Barclay, son of the late Dr. John Barclay, of Banff. Scotland, and Miss Ethel Constance Murray, until recently a nursing sister in the Hongkong Government service.

cultural and business association be-

tween Asiatic countries and promis- | .: A HUGE DEMONSTRATION. cd full support to Indians striving for equal status oversens.

The Very Idea!

The Straits Settlements Associa- tion, in Singapore, recently held a ballot for a member to succeed Mr. William Dunman or the Municipal "Japan's Sorrow, "

Commission. There were two can- Although by no means unexpectdidates (Mr. John Laycock and Mr. ed, the death of the Emperor of C. C. Dunman), the former being Japan will come as heavy blow to chosen by 238 votes to 188. the Japanese people, who have ever been noted for their close attach-

Delhi, Dec. 25; ment, to their sovereign and the

Hundreds of thousands of whole of the Royal House. Indeed,

The Swarajist leader, Motilal Hindus, including members of the it is scarcely too much to say that

Nehru, moved p continuance of the "untouchable" class, attended the. that devotion almost amounts to

policy involving non-acceptance of funeral of Swami Shradenand, Worship, so intense in character is

Government offices, the refusal of A hugh demonstration followed it, "So to-day Japan is in deep

supplies and the rejection of the the cremation. The proceedings mourning for one who has ever been

Budget."

were-orderly, except for a few loved and whose memory as a

A Member of the Assembly, Mr. minor incidents, in connection liberal-minded monarch will be trea- Patrick Murphy, a guaner in the Phookan, while admitting that Bri-with which six Mohammedans were 'sured for many a year. For the 12th Heavy Battery of the Royaltish rule had brought some improve-arrested for stone-throwing............. last five years, the late Emporer Artillery, died at the Military Hos-ment, charged the Government with Reuter. |has been practically an invalid andpital, at Bowen Road, on Thurs- After reading the recent although he had thus been debarred day from the effects, it is believed, speeches in Hankow by M. Boro- from active participation in the of a bite from a rabid dog. A post- din and Mr. Sun Fo, and the com-

affairs of State, he always retain- mortem examination confirmed the ed the love and reverence of his opinion in regard to the cause of ments by the Peking People's many subjects. Since 1921, the death. The funeral took place at Tribune on the British Memoran- Crown Prince, who now comes to the Cemetery on Friday morning, dum regarding future policy in the Throne, has been acting as 'the doceased being interred with China, one almost despairs of the high responsibilites in a manner

Regent, and he has discharged his full military họpours.

possibility of reasonable inter-which "promises that he will be a The Bishop of London is to-day course with the Kuomintang. We worthy, successor to his lamented visiting Canton and will return to father. Some five years ago, the the Colony to-night. Tomorrow

The island that floats on the The world's champions slump did not, of course,

expect any new Emperor, as Crown Prince, he is to address the quarterly ser-

surface of the Lake Orion; at occasionally, sir," responded the thing but abuse and misrepresen-visited England and was Peceived vice of the. Mathers' Union in St. Michigan, for part of the year, office boy, mildly. tation from the Soviet envoy, who there with great cathusiasm, im- John's Cathedral, will attend the and then sinks out of sight for has his own' axe to grind, nor per into contact as a modern and pro-, Association in the City Hall at scientists.

"Silly". Haddenham, in rural pressing all with whom he came reception by the Victoria Diocesan a few months still is puzzling

Buckinghamshire, is a lazy man's haps need we pay much heed to gressive young man with a high 4.16 p.m., whilst at night he will It appears regularly about the paradise. For yeara the village Mr. Sun Fo's diatribe, as he is hy sense of his obligations to his coun- be, the guest of honour at the middle of ench August, It will has been the scene of a serious The women think the no means a commanding figure in try. As a former Ally of Japan's, Oxford and Cambridge dinner in float until about the middle of sex war.

Britain and the British people the Hongkong Hotel."

February and then sink. Efforts men are lazy and undertake all the Nationalist ranks. But when mourn with the Japanese in their

4o control ita actions have ended the schemes themselves. The wo the People's Tribune professes to hour of sorrow and at the same The Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey, in failure. Since it is not wanted men recently gave a flower show..

time extend their felicitations to the who has been appointed Minister in in the lake, attempts have been Next year, says Mrs. Mary Dod- speak for the Nationalists as, a nation in their knowledge that the the Wanchai Wesleyan Church, ar made to end its career by loading well, chief organizor, if the mon whole and says that the British Royal line is being continued by a rived in Hongkong. by the it with tons of stones. This behave themselves they will be. proposals are atterly unaccept-new Emperor and Empress who P. and O. Kalyan. The new minis month, however, finds it still dry- allowed to look after the ten tables Lable, we begin to wonder how far have already endeared themselves ter is a member of the Wesleyan ng on the surface.

at the show. to the people and under whose bene Methodist Foreign Mission Council: Another island with a spirit of this represents the considered at-ficent rule Japan is doubtless des- nt Home, and a fact of considerable adventure is the one in Henry's Elkhart High School, Kansas, titude of the Kuomintang. If it tined to retain her high place local interest is that he is a brother Lake near Targée Fass in the claims this year's honours for the Cairly reflects the Nationalist view-amongst the Great Powers of the of. Rear-Admiral Knight. Anstey, Rockies. Adventurers who have largest football player of the

world.

R.N., who at one time served at the landed on it without knowledge state. The player is John "Tiny" point, we can see little hope for

China Station.

of its roving habits have awaken- Moore, 20, and captain of the a consummation of that friendship

ed in the morning to find them team. "Tiny" is six feet two. which Britain has been at so muchy

selves miles from where they were inches tall, and when "up to nor- the night before. pains to bring about.

On consideration, we cannot ) · bring ourselves to believe that the

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The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports issued by the League of

mal", as he puts it, makes the Nations for the week ended

scalea groan at 309 pounds. Just December 18 shows the following'

now the youth is underweight and......... casos of infectious diseases: Brussels, Dee. 26,

only makes 298. The loss he aс- Plague, Mauritius sight eases, Kuomintang leaders would be su The Queen, Prince Charles, the Reunion one, Colombo one, Sourg-

countą for by stating he worked one and Bangkok. three.

the harvest folds last summer. short-sighted as to fling back in Chinese Minister and the Aposto- baya

Moore has difficulty in getting lic Nuncio attențied a Pontifical Cholera, Calcutta 51 cases, Negn- Britain's face the offer of sin High Masa which was celebrated palam nine, Rangoon une Singa-

a football uniform to fit him as core friendsfly

he wears size 48 pants. Then which has just at the church of St. Michel pore one, Tourane eight, Bangkok one. Small pox, Aden one case,

after he gets them he has more been made. For one thing, the Gudule, by the Chinese Bishops Bombay six, Calcutta 97, Negapo- It is as objectionable a gesture trouble keeping them in stock as

ontents of the Memorandum are visiting Europe.

tam one. Madras nine, Singapore to tip the barber who shave you he wears out two or three pair The service pommemorated, the two and Shanghai one.. not yet known, and although we seventh centenary of the founda-

as to tip the coloratura soprano pach season. who sings for you. Bo decrees might overlook a rabid Redtion of the church.

The death has occurred Inho Barber Supply Dealers' Asso A Chinese bishop officiated at Portugal journal projudging the overtures

of

To be a style leader, a man has the well-known ciation in America, in high and only to sezdy fashions of 25 years before being fully acquainted with ning prayer in the afternoon-Malayan proprietary planter and solemn convention: Neither beau- and take suggestions from miner, Mr. W. Kellie Smith. Mr. ty workers nor barbers should be them, according to Adolphe Men- their nature, it would seem scarce-

Kellie Smith, who resided in tipped for their work, elaborated you. Men's styles ran ly likely that the Government

The jury in the Saikung piracy Malaya for many years and had the convention, because they are almost exactly 25 years, accord- in cycles of leaders would place themselves in case returned a verdict of guilty extensive property at Batu Gaja, artists with creative touch.

against the three prisoners, who was originally an engineer, and

ing to the screen atar. Therefore, auch a compromising position. amongst other acts of piracy, were built the section of the F.M.S. Rail-tal proportions in America, where enough, they are bound to return <Tipping has grown to continen If man keops his clothes long Especially would that appear un-also convicted of the murder of an

way from Kampar to Teluk Anson. they tip the waitress, the shoe to style again. Indian guard on the steam launch. Suosequently he took up coffee shiner, the paper boy, the porter, likely in view of the very cordial The case came to a conclusion on planting and later, in the early the taxi-driver, the head waiter, nature of the recent conversations Friday afternoon; when sentence days of the rubber Industry, he was until our tipping is a sizeable part concerning all actor who arrived A story goes about Broadway between Mr. Miles Lampson and of death was passed by the Chief one of the first to bocome interest of our budget and a nuisance.. lati for a tehertsal. The stage. Mr. Eugene Chen, which, we have Justice (Sir. Henry Gollan) Re-ed in the new product. He was plying to a point submitted by the the owner of the old Kellas estate.

"Good for the barber dealers director began to get a little harsh beon given to understand, are to jury which had caused one of them Mr. Kellle Smith was prominent Long

may their propaganda when the actor interrupted with: be resumed in the near future, to enter a recommendation for ly connected with both the rubber spread!" "A lot of folks will "Say, walt a minute. I can ex-". If the Nationalist leaders general-mercy for the accused, his Lordship and tin industries, and was pro-shout.

plain everything.

I was on my ly. subscribe to the bittor attitude been given to the nccused to bring pean proprietary plantor and miner

way to the theatre when I was said that every opportunity had bably the most successful Euro-,

*Tommy, you can't seem to get taken suddenly and unexpectedly adopted by the Journal namod, witnesses forward.

in the country.

anything right to-day."

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