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The

Thongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 91927.

ARMY CHANGES.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH

Elinutes are going to be increased, reductions must be made in some of the existing expenditure. A saving la, as stated above to be made on cavalry, and also out of the Ter ritorial Army by the abolition' of bounties for new entrants. Thore will doubtless be some opposition to this on the part of the various County Territorial Associations, though we out here are not suff-

DAY BY DAY.

TO DECIDE ON A MAN'S REAL DELARAC- NOTHING IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN

TER FROM WHAT WE SEE OF HIM IN PUBLIC.

mist..

fever were notified yesterday, the Threa further cases of typhoid sufferers being British, Japanese and Chinese.

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1927.

SINGAPORE TRAGEDY.

INQUEST ON WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

The Very Idea!

"One of the ncat country cstates in Vermont, fourtes buildings, ninaty acres of inendow and woodland, all heated with hot water, electricity and gan"— American paper.

Poor, mother spilled a

of milk

quart

And on the

floor 'twas aticking.A The kitten said, "You bad, bad

lk."

In the matter of experimenting. It is announced that an experimen tal mechanised force is being form ed at Tidworth in order that prae- tical experience may bo gained of the effect of mechanisation on the all-important matter of tactics. More and more money must be

The local weather forecast up spent op

this development of the to noon

The Coroner has returned a ver- to-morrow fa-North Army and, unless the Army Es. winds, moderate; overcast, drizzio, in the case of Mr. Edgar N. Lee, it looks as though the Kindness to Apart from the first four or five. dict of death from misadventure funny things in this advertisement the Standard Oil Company asats- Cows people had got to work, and, tant, who fell from a parapet of had started lastalling central It was stated that the deceased the Rallies Hotel on February 25. heating in folds. evilently wished to ontor n friend's room from the outsidė. There was nothing to show that The B. I. Steamship. Shirala will he was killed by any other person

or that he committed suicide, leave for Singapore, Penang and Calcutta on or about Friday March

Singapore, Mar, 8. 11th., 1927 at 1 p.m.

A Singapore newspaper, report- ing the tragedy, states that Mr. Lee was walking on the parapet on the second four of the hotel when he fell to the ground and sustained injuries of such a severe nature that he died in the General Hospital soon after his admission. was singing, shouting, and swear- Policeman at Willesden: She A resident at the hotel is salding. -Woman: I am only a poor to have seen a figure on the para- widow, sir; how could I be doing. Pot. He was reading on his veran- all those three things at the sams dah at the time, and shortly after time? his noticing the figure he heard a sound as if something had fallon Walthamstow debtor: They on to the ground below. Looking sold me up chock-a-block. All out, he saw something on the they left me was my wife. ground. Several persons hurried to the spot and found Mr. Lee, still breathing, but unconscious. His head was badly crushed.

...

And then gave it a licking.

A 30,000,000 years old dinosaur, of the largest in the world, will be assembled by experts In South Kensington.

clently acquainted with the facts lighting from a moving tram car overlooking the central court, the National History Museum.

A Chinese was injured through on the Praya East yesterday. He was taken to hospital suffering from hand injuries.

of the case to judge of the effect of the proposal. The full sup of money being asked for the Army

A Chinese woman fell in alight- this year is nearly £1,000,000 lessing from a moving bus at Lal- than asked for last year and this is chiekok Rond, yesterday. It was a large reduction seeing that the found necessary to take her to total' is only just over £40,000,000, the Kwong Wah Hospital. The combined reduction on the Air and Army amounts to nearly one- and-a-half millions and it will be interesting to see how far the Navy Estimates (expected to show a decrease), add to that sum. This much is certain; that Britain is at least one of the Great Powers striv- ing to cut down her yearly expendi- ture on fighting forces.

Fine Men.

Leather valued at $470 was re- covered yesterday by the police after it had been taken from a shop at Portland Street. A man has been detained on suspicion.

the

Taking an overdose of opium with serious results, A Chinese woman was admitted into Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday. She had endeavoured to commit suicide.

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West Ham husband: I will be responsible for everything but what my wife says,

Nottinghamshire woman:. She struck me a blow in the face from bebind.

to

a bit

Dr. C. V. Boland, who resides at the hotel, was called. for imme diately and under his instructions the deceased was sent off to the General Hospital without any de- lay It appears that everything An old man, summoned for his possible was done for the injured rates at Willesden, asked for nix man, but he died a short time after lector: This man always gets at weeks further grace." The cal ho had been admitted. Four Chinese who are charged.

Another realdent occupying he has heard what time your wor the end of the queue, and when in connection with an armed rob-room overlooking the spot whership With several thousand additional bery at Quarry Bay were commit- Mr. Lee was picked up, also stated defaulters, he asks for

Is allowing other. men of the Ariny and Navy in theted for trial by Mr. R. E. Lind- that he saw an object moving along longer. Colony, Hongkong to-day wears sell at the Central Police Court the parapet and he informed the more the aspect of a naval and this morning.

hotel authorities. military station than it has for

Laurence Clay, the Chelmsford The deceased gentleman has schoolboy who has been missing, been in Singapore for several was found in Southampton. Ho years in connection with the Stan- kad a copy of "Midshipman Ensy," dard Oil Company of New York. and said he wanted to go a abroad, He had a wide circle of friends and the news of his death came aa a shock to all who knew him. The deepest sympathy is felt with his young wife, to whom he was mar ried about three years ago. was amongst those who went down to Mr. Lee after his fall.

DESERTING LEGIONNAIRES,

Some schoolboy “howlers":— "Louis XVI. Was gelatined during the French Revolution."

"Ceylon la joined to India by a Shachain of coral wreaths."

"The highest peaks in the Alpa is Blana Mango."

"Amongst the islands of the West Indies are the Pyjamas. noted. for toilet sponges."

"Chaplets are small places of worship:"

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He was a member of a choral Bociety, and was very proud of his powerful bass voice. Que night he dreamt he was in heaven, and the next day he was describing his dream to a friend.

"There were tens of thousands

As in the case of the Air Est many years past. The new forces Mr. E. J. Figuercido's car, now here have been sent out mere-which was previously reported as mates, recently presented to the ly as a precaution should British having been stolen, was recovered House of Commons, so in the Army lives and property in the Far yesterday on a

piece of vacant Estimates, details of which wore East be placed in jeopardy, and, ground off Cox's Path, Kowloon.

glad as we are to see them, we No arrests have been made. received by cable yesterday, there all devoutly hope that their aer- is revealed the influence of modern vices will not be required. Their ideas and changing conditions of presence, however, is reassuring Going down the Pokfulum Road in these times of stress and incline yesterday, an Aberdeen warfare. The principal feature of turmoil. Hongkong wishes for bus ran into a gas-lamp and the proposed provision for the all who are stationed here the knocked it over. A Chinese was Army is the big reduction that is very happiest of times, and the hit by the falling standard, but forces can rely on the Colony was not very seriously injured. being made in the use of cavalry-doing its best to make their He was discharged after first-aid. a saving' of £98,000 this year and memory of Hongkong a really treatment at the Government Civil £237,000 in å full year--and the pleaeant, one when they eventually Hospital

have to leave us. In the past, the corresponding increase in the pro- most cordial relations have al-

Amongst the passengers who left STILL DETAINED IN vision of mechanical vehicles. In ways existed between the Service by the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus

HONGKONG. short, petrol is ousting the horse, and civilian communities of the to-day were Mr. and Mrs. A. M. and death-dealing mechanical ve- Forces who have been detailed for MacGregor, Mrs. R. F. C. Master, Stankoviak and Kovahl, who desert- Colony, and men of His Majesty's Bowes-Smith, Mr. and Mrs. N. C.

We learn that the two Europeans, hicles will take the place of old service in Hongkong have general Mrs. A. Leach, Mrs. R. E. Macdou-ed from the French Legion in Ton-of sopranos, and tens of thousands time picturesque" horse regiments. ly left the Colony with the utmost gall, Mrs. F. Ratsey, Engineer Cap-in and eventually reached hers of contraltos, and tens of thou-

regret, as many letter received tain E. G. Pallot, Mr. R. E. Green-. Perhaps there was never a more from them have clearly shown.mith, Lieut.-Comdr. F. J. H. after a most trying journey over-sands of tenors, and we were all picturesque sight than that Time was when Hongkong was Lloyd and Capt. C. B. Riggs.

land through China, are still at the singing The Hallelujah Chorus," House of Detention.

when all at once Gabriel, who was of a"troop of cavalry, especial for men of the Army and Navy, anything but a pleasant station

An order for their deportation conducting, stopped us dead, and ly when

In addition to most of the Shang- back to Indo-China, made at their pointing at me with his baton. they were in full but conditions have very matorial- "dress" uniform, and one has. ly changed in recent years until hai jockeys who came down for the last appearance before the Court, said, Jones, not quite so lodd in only to think of the famous now this Colony has come to be Hongkong Races, passengers leave where they wore charged with va the bass."

looked upon as one where the ing by the Empress of Asia to-day grancy, has een delayed, while Hussar and Lancer regiments to be Services can find much that is included Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bar- the authorities are considering five, who was dressed in the latest" reminded of the valiant and epic gratifying. It is a healthy spot low, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ferguson, the matter of destination.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McHutcheon,

At the Police Court hearing, the fashion, with a fur coat, confessed deeds performed by regiments of ties for aport, whilst, as we say, R. M. Austin, Mr. A. K. Mackenzie, for the return of the men to the she could not read the oath,

and there are endless opportuni Mr. and Mrs. A. H. K. Cobb, Mrs. French Consul made an application at Tottenham Palice Court that British cavalry in the wars that the contact with the civilian com- Mr. L. Dunbar, Mr. S. J. Hicks, authorities of Indo-China, on the The magistrate: What? Cannot are gone, And in their place will munity is far closer than ever it Mr. J. S. Gubbay, Mr. C. S. Gub ground that the men illegally re-read the oath?

has been before. One thing that bay, Mr. A. H. Lay, Mr. R. Grim-tained their military uniforms, There are two or three of us in disdainfully: come, so it would seem, armies of strikes everybody about the menshaw and Mr. R. L. Toeg. armoured-cars, whippet tanks, and of the Army and Navy in Hong- such like manstrous things of metal kong is that they are a fine type and machinery, emitting not only country. We are sure that during of men-a real credit to their

smoke screens and petrol fumes their stay here, be it long or short,!

but a hail of death from many they will worthily uphold the.

EXCHANGE RATES.

traditions of the Services and machine guns. War is going to the Empire, and that when they be an uglier affair altogether. Even have to say good-bye there will Reuter the other day, in referring be general regret felt amongst all to the fact that sailors donned gas

sections of the community.

masks during manoeuvres off Gibraltar, was inspired to such a phrase as "dog-headed demons". and-with foot soldiers looking like such and co-operating with armour- plated machines of really won Geneva

New York derful mechanical mobility, the Milan Berlin prospect is most distinctly in

Oslo real "blood and Paris. favour of a

Brussels iron" kind of warfare. This use

Amsterdam is the inevitablo trend of an Copenhagen

Stockholm age in which nearly all locomotion is being reduced to terms of petrol- driven engines. Even artillery is

Rio HIO

going to be "tractor-hauled" and Boong

Sir Lamington Worthington-Evans,

Prague the Minister of War,'. in. in- Madrid troducing the Army Estimates, Buenos Aires

Athens made use of such a phrase as "the Shanghai petrol driven army of the future." Yokohama To the old-timers, this will be la-Silver (forward)

Silver (apot)

mented just as all other "new-

| fangled notions" have been lament-

ed thoroughout history.

But whether one likes the iden of a "petrol-driven" Army or not, It is reassuring to know that Bri tain is determined not to be behind

ROAD SCHEMES.

TWO CANTON PROPOSALS.

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The residents on Honam laland, opposite Canton, are promoting a campaign to have a bund bullt on

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A married woman, aged twenty-

The Woman,

an application which was strenu-

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who said they preferred to be sent words at a time were read by a ously opposed by the ex-Legioners, our family who cannot read.

She repeated the oath as a few to Shanghai, where there is a Romanian Consul to deal with their policeman. It was with difficulty.

that she pronounced some of the words.

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In the course of statements in the Court, they said that the y eign Legion through circumstances were compelled to join the For- which left them with

no other choice.

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The magistrate: Dear me.

evening a confirmed bachelor was At a Burns supper the other

entrusted with the toast of "The

the southern bank of the Canton The position now is that their Ladies." He delivered himself as

follows:-

keep them!"

River.

deportation has been delayed whilst The Director of the Yueh-Han the case is being given further with great pleasure that I ask you Lodies and gentlemen, it is Railway Administration in Canton consideration." On enquiries at to drink to the health of "The suggested to the Government that Police Headquarters yesterday, Ladies God bless them-and. a modern road be built frem | Telegraph reporter was informed. Shakee to Wongsha, the main that "instructions are being awalt- London, March 8.

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Canton station of the railway. ed from the Hongkong Govern .25.23 The Ministry of Communica- | ment.". 100% tions of the Nationalist Govern- 20.47 ment has circulated instructions 18.60 to the telegraphic administrations 194.05 .124.05 in different provinces ordering -34.00 that damaged telegraphic lines ba .12.13%

18.18 Immediately repaired. Special at- 18.21 tention should be given to 34.477% line between Kiangai and Che- 192.9/16 kiang, the Ministry orders.

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HEAVY EXPENDITURE.

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KWANGTUNG. POSTAL.

FINANCES

2/6 According to Chinese reports, .2/0.1/32 the Postal Commissioner at 28.1/15 Canton is requesting the Provin

.25% cial Government to grant subsidies British Wireless.

to the Postal Administration of Kwangtung which is not receiving sumclent revenues to cover its expenditure,

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand 1/11/18/16 Lighting-up

6.30 p.m.

The Postal Commissioner states that as the postmen hava had their pay increased twice recently, the Postal Administration has to bear very heavy expenditure monthly,

HARBOURING GIRL.

A valuable collection of British bectles, containing 13,000 careful- ly mounted specimens, has been presented to the Royal Scottish Museum by the widow of the late James E. Black, Peebles, a well- known entomologist

CHOPPER ATTACK.

ETERNAL TRIANGLE CASE.

!

THREAT OF SUICIDE.

Charged, under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, with harbouring a 16-year-old girl, a Chinese, at the Police Court, this morning, said that the girl came to him of her, accord, and would That his wife had been unfaith- not leave, threatening to throw ful was the reason given by a Chin- herself into the harbour If.. ahesse for taking the law into his own were returned to her guardian. hands and carrying out a serious. Defendant was remanded by Mr. chopper attack on a fellow-lodger R E. Lindsell, bail being allowed in First Street. in the sum of $250.

The injured map, although now lying in a serious condition at the Government Civil Hospital, Is' ex- They Afth-annual-ordinary gen pected to recover, and before his. oral meeting of shareholders of the appearance in the Court, his Wor- Hongkong Engineering and Cons ship ordered that the accused truction Co., Ltd., will be held at man's story be fully investigated by the offices of Messrs. Showin the police. Tomes & Co., on Wednesday, March Defendant was remanded in 23, at 1180 zm

police custody,