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Prime Back Prime Streaky Collar Sliced

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$1.20

Collar (for boiling) $ 1.10

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Fore Hock Corner Gammom $1.60 Whole Gammcm $1.35

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FOOD SPECIALISTS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"

THURSDAY.

YOU British citizens. Otherwise, bo MUST states the alternative-the duty of the British Government to pro- OWN IT

|tect those interests themselves, no

matter what the cost.

To realise what a wonderful holper and time saver it is you must own a Remington Portable.

It takes the drudgery out of every writing task. ►

It has the longest writing" lino of any portable and takos the standard long- onvelopu..

The Remington Portable is the lightest and smallest portable with the standard koyboard.

Demonstration without obligation.

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Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances Hongkong. Alexandra Buildings, Dos Voeux Road Central,"

BIRTH

EARRIOS. On January 19, 1927, at 21, Cameron Road, Kowloon, to Mr. and Mrs. S. Barrios, & daughter.

The Telegraph

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 19:7.

A TIMELY WARNING.

Surely, the Chinese authoritice [will not be dent to a warning of this grave nature. The Yorkshire Post, typical of many such in-

fluential provincial journals, says that "Britain cannot submit to al- terations prompted by the avowed enemies of this country and back- ed by, threats of violence," and goes on to express the opinion that some demonstration of our

power is necessary in the Far East suffelent to carry the conviction that enemies of Britain still

ARY 20, 1927.

DAY BY DAY,

BY ADVERSITY ARE WROUGHT THE WORKS OF GREATEST ADMIRATION, AND ALL THE FAIR EXAMPLES OF

RENOWN OUT OF DISTRESS MISERY, ARE GROWN.-Daniel.

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AND'

NEW TERRITORY ROBBERY.

SIX MEN ON TRIAL.

The Very Idea!

Newly Wed-When quarrelling, plonae remember that times have changed. For instance——

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Six men were charged before Sir Henry Gollan, at the Criminal "And now," said the heartless The Singapore Polico Band has Sessions this morning, with rob young husband after a2 am. dust- made its first public appearance.bery at Tal Long village in the up. "I presume you will fly to

New Territories. There were your mother?" One Portuguese case of typhoid several further counts in connec fever was reported from Kowloon tinn with receiving and Mr. T. S. "I'll wait an hour and then mother

Whyte-Smith, prosecuting, inform-is sure to be at home!" yesterday.

ed his Lordship that the whole of the charges arose from the same offence.

The B. ss. Takada is leaving Amoy on Saturday and is due here at 4 pm. on Sunday,

To-morrow, according to the old Chinese calendar, is the day of Great Cold (Ta Han).

The Ben Line 9.9. Bonlawers is have to reckon with a strong urm.dud here from Home and Straits Tut demonstration is slowly tak ports on the 28th instant.. ing shape and form. More naval,

The Taikoo Club in holding, its

Outlining the case for the Crown, Mr. Whyte-Smith and that Choung Tal, the wife of one of the elders of the village, was alone in the house, when she was awakea- ed by the breaking-in of the door." She saw four robbers enter, one knife, a third had a chisel and the was carrying a light, another a

fourth an iron bar. They ransack- ed the place and took away the

boats, and a 1,000 strong force of annual ball in the Club Hall to. /articles mentioned in the charge.

Royal Marince will probably" Bemorrow. arriving out here before long, and this aggregation of strength should serve to persuado ary doubting Chinese official of the seriousness of Britain's intention. There is nothing, threatening in

A Paris message of the 14th inst. states that Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison wife of the former Go- vernor General of the Philippine Island, has been granted a divorce

there.

The old lady was unable to identify any of the robbers, and the Crown case depended on the Police evidence. No violence was shown.

There was no direct evidence

against any one of the six mon other than the possession of some of the atolen property, and the statements made by the prisoners

"Not yet," said his "good lady.

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TINNED TRAGEDIES. · Little boy, shocking coll, Lurid flash, spot of oil. Little boy, large kite, Gust of wind, impromptu

flight.

New bus driver, petrol.

tank,

Lighted match, just

biank.

Billy Goat ate dynamite. Big bang, he's gone some

height

Curious boy, high power

bomb,

The little fellow's name

was Tom."

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The red tie universall worn by the men of the operating section on the Southern Railway was dia. pensed with this year. Its place is taken by a blue tio which the railway company has issued.

The red. tie was worn for many

this move which is taken to reas. The band consists of twenty-themselves. sure our nationals that the Govern-eight performers, all of whom have Four of the prisoners were been recruited in Northern India, arrested in a house at Kowloon and who received their musicnl City, with stalen property in their Vents as part of the uniform of training in wellknown Indian Army possession, the fifth, was arrested railway servants of the. London bands. The cost of the band is with a pawnticket in respect of when the amalgamation was effect and South-Western' Company, and borne jointly by the Government some of the proceeds of the robed it was adopted for the operat and the Municipality.

bery, while the sixth was arrested

on him.

The following vessels are expect- ed to be in wireless communication

in Shamshuipo with a gold ringing grades of all the railways which formed the new Southern

group.

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ment is behind, their legal rights All of us ardently hope with Sir Douglas logg, that the Chinese will respond, to the invitation to, réach a satisfactory "arrangement| on the lines of the recent British Memorandum and that the peace with Hongkong to-day:-Kutsang, prisoners showed that they were The statements made by the between Britain and all parts of Yingchow, Sphinx. Helikon, Ran-all cogether on the night of

The tie came to be adopted in China will not be broken. But it goon Maru, Chicago Maru, Tenyo November 25th-26th. Some admit the following way. A director cannot be a peace at any price-Maru, Kashmir, Kashgar, Delta, ted, taking part, while others was travelling on the old London Prekident Madison, Ruhr, Carin- declared that their "hearts failed and South-Western Railway sys- especially the price of insultingthia, Soochow and Huichow..

tem some years ago when a dif- "them and they remained outside. and humiliating ejectment from

In reading out the statements of ficulty arose about stopping the homes and business, houses in Through the courtesy of Mr. the prisoners, Mr. White-Smith train, and he conceived the iden which we have a legal right to Sacred Heart College, Nathan copy before Sir Henry Goljan. Heing traffic should wear a bold red H. W. Ray the students of the said something which was on the that every man engaged in operat Road, are to hold a concert in com- explained that it had been altered. tie so that in case of emergency memoration of the full percentage

Sir Henry Gollan:-What right of passes obtained in the lust Ma-has a Court interpreter to alter danger signal. triculation Examination of the

statements? I want it to be University of Hongkong. This understood that they shall not be The Canton extremists are ap-will be held at the Tai Yat Theatre parently not willing to leave well on Sunday at 10a.m.

altered. alone, for the Anti-British Boycott | Extension Committee is still seek-

dwell and trade unmolested.

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Still At it.

want to carry on trade without any of these foolish restraints. boycott has injured them tremen The

Lieutenant-Cominander H. P.

KOWLOON TRAFFIC.

ARE THE REGULATIONS

UNDERSTOOD?

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sequences of the utmost gravity. such movements disappeared once persone riding bicycles down the and for all. At the bottom of bus route are, arrested for a

.

Mr. Whyte-Smith explained that the statements were sent to be certified as true translations. If the translation was not true, the

The case is proceeding.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SCHOOL RESULTS.

To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.].

It could be taken off and used as The idea was adopted and became part of the official uniform of porters and other traffic grades.

More "howlers":"

A connoisseur is a person who stands outside a picture palice... An oculist is a fish with long legs.

Poetry is when every line begins with a capital letter.

The whole world, except the United States, lies in the temper- ance zone,

Hoxton man: It is not as easy it looks to give a wife a character.

RS

Man accused at. Highgate of cruelty to a horse: The horse is is fat as a whale." Magistrate: There is no joy in being fat if you suffer from corps and sprained tendons.....

room."

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There is a new note creeping into the oficial British references to the Chinese situation-a note of grave and solemn warning to ing to keepalive the movement for Mead, who is taking up the com the Nationalists. Sir Douglas discrimination against British mail of a group of minesweepers interpreter would alter it.

Home in reserve at Sheerness, last Hogg, the British Attorney Gen- goods. A scheme hus for

Üme been afoot by which it is served in charge of Hongkong eral, has performed a very valu- hoped to get, merchants to hand Wireless Station and in 1027- able duty by stating, in olear and over any stocks of British me-23 was on the staff at Shotley, unmistakable terms, the intentionchandise which they may have or Training Establishment. Lieutenant- hand, and to get rid of these by duties during the first year of war Commandor Mond qualified in signal of the British Government to decheap-safe methods at special de and was Assistant Squadron W/T all that might be necessary to pro-pois to be established for the pur-Officer with Vico-Admiral Jerram in [tect not only British lives and pose: Unfortunately for the agita- the King George V. at Jutland. He property bút also British rights.tors, however, the, merchants have had formerly been second-in-com-

not felt inclined to help the Command of the destroyer Lark at Sir-Re the correspondence un- It is in his reference to, "rights" mittee in any way; for it is report-Heligoland and at the destruction der the title of "School Results" that can be detected the sterner dat many of them have de-of the Konigin Inise on the first in your esteemed paper of yester day's date, "Render Unto Caesar" tone which seems, alas, needful to clined to give any information as day of war.

to the stocks they hold. We know

does not seem to have studied the bring the Chinese authorities to that numerous printed forms have

results of the Local University realisation that Britain menns been distributed with a view to

Examinations closely, otherwise he would not have, neglected to state what she is saying. There is a getting information on this point, but merchants have not bothered

that Sacred Heart School Patient"Doctor, can you cure growing insistence, In Britain on to fill many of these in. What the

was the only school that secured me of anoring? I snore so loudly the refusal to surrender anything mischief-makers fail to realise is

a full percentage of passes in the that I waken myself.", Matriculation Examination last

Doctor"In that case I would at all to coercion or force, and that the business people of Canton f China fails to appreciate the

Many Chinese cyclists appear to your and therefore deserves a lit-advise you to sleep in another

tle honour... solidarity of feeling behind that,

of the road in operation at the that 1926 was the first year the be entirely ignorant of the rule

'Furthermore I wish to point out then there will inevitably be con- dously and they would be glad if Kowloon Ferry and quite often Sacred Heart School formed a cast from 2LO on Christmas Eve: The following appeal was broad-

Matriculation Class and all the "Will anyone who is willing to There has been all-round praise all this anti-British campaign in breach of the Traffic Regulations. boys at their first trial passed the sell ass's milk to save the life of for the fine display of patience Canton are-a few professional.

University Examination. Besides, a baby please communicate with nen two offenders were charg-1 understand that the school is Mrs. Cumming, of 2, Connaught and forbearance shown by the agitators, and these are the men ed before Mr. T. W. Ainsworth, at short of staff owing to financial square, Hyde Park? Telephono

who are trying by hook or crook to the Kowloon Magistracy this difficulties, still the Headmaster No. Paddington 0026. keep the movement alive. These morning, it was. stated that there has been able to conduct his must be within 24 hours journey. of the mob incidents of a fortnight men, also, are of the type which was a notice on the side of the classes so successfully. This is a of London, and if necessary Mrs, ago, but there were many "old creates all the anti-foreign feeling road, indicating that vehicular fact we should not ignore.

in China. Hitherto they have traffe, other than motor buses, is

Camming would purchase the ass hands" in China who deplored the been given far too much latitude prohibited from using the central the Government or the generous

In conclusion, I believe that if and foal.” forced withdrawal, knowing full by the Chinese authorities, who thoroughfare.

"The world'e maddest madman is public will give the school n little His Worship said that, judging well the misinterpretation that seemingly fail to realise the dan would be placed on that act and ments of this kind.

ger of repercussions from move by the frequency with which the help, it will be able to do more claimed by Melbourne. His parti

The Canton regulation was violated, it would

good to the younger generation cular weakness is the burning of the great loss of British prestige Government would be well advised appear that the indication was not and produce more students for the the immaculately-trimmed hedges among the commonalty of China. to keep a sharp check on these ex prominent enough.

Hongkong University. Yours, of. suburban householders, and in less than three montha He has It is claimed by students of their

destroyed over fifty hedges without nature that our Chinese nolgh-

Newspapers being apprehended. bours misinterpret consideration for weakness and prudence for fear, but it will be a calamity if the leaders of the Natiohalist Go- | Amsterdam vernment possess no better powers Helsingfors 'Copenhagen of assessment or discernment. Buenos Aires

Yokohama Sir Douglas Hogg's speech reveala

New York that the Cabinet is not unmindful. Milan of past Chinese errors of judg | Madrid: Bombay ment, for he specifically, warns

Genova China against being encouraged.

Stockholm by our forbearance at Hankow to

Prague Rio.... attempt to repeat similar events Hongkong

Brussels throughout China. He abjures Berlin them not to attempt forcible re- Viennu Lisbon possession of the Concessions and Shanghal to make themselves competent.to

Silver (upot) Silver (forward)' protect the lives and property of

British forces in Hankow in face

tremists.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, Jan. 10.

122% .12.13% .18.20

102%

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It was stated that there was a we line on the roadway direct- ing all vehicular traffic along the road passing directly in front of dence column re school results "The Hedge Hog."

Sir In perusing the correspon-have dubbed the unknown lunatio the Railway Station.

in your yesterday's, issue, 1 find The defendants in both cases that "Render Unto Cacsar" passed were fined $6 cach.

off the private schools as unworthy of notice and I do not realise. Paris, Jan. 14-Mary Caldwell dence column re school resulta .46.15/10 Hay, American film actress, was school is first and which school Zor 16 granted a" divorce here to-day is second, ete. with regard to the

112% from Richard Barthelmess on the Local Examination. .10.00 ground of "her husband's injuri .30.17% .1/8.3/52 the atom to sing the door of

homo upon her.”

28.30 18.19

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For if he goes by percentage of

passes, which I think he should if

ho wants to compare the results, then he should realise that the

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR.

PRINCE OF WALES' KEEN INTERESTS.

"Fair

London, Jan, 19. Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, Presi- 103% Moscow, Jan. 14. Clemeny Sacrbd Heart School was the only dent of the Board of Trade, mado .5.25/32 Varosshiloff, head of the Soviet school that secured a hundred per the Interesting announcement at

1/11% 34.01

Russian army, declared to-day that cent. passes at the last Matricula- the British Industries 20.40 Russia must prepare för a' possible tion Examination and in the Juncheon, that so keon du the 44.17 war "with all of the countries sur-Junior Local, the Docksin Schoo! .2.17/32 rounding us,

Backed by England should be given the first place. ..2/0 they are preparing to attack us. Youre, etc.,

We must militarize the whole ppp- ulation."

.26% 28.11/16 -British Wireless.

FAIRNESS.

Hongkong, Jan. 20th, 1927.

Prince of Wales on the British Industries Fair, that he has con-

santed to be the chief guest of the Government at the, Inaugural banquet-British. Wireless..