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MONDAY MARCH
DAY BY DAY.
KNOW THYSELF, THEN BE THY- SELF-Meredith.
The B. I s.8. Teesta left Singa- the pore on Friday and is due here
on the 25th instant.
PROTECT YOUR CAR people as a whole, we believe that by installing a that is so; indeed, we would go "PYRENE" Fire further and say that the great. Extinguisher."
majority do not in any way con- "PYRENE" will cern themselves with the political kill fire without agitation which has been worked damage to the
up during recent times over engine, woodwork or upholstery.
question of China's relations to the foreign Powers. It is idle to talk Water spreads a petrol fire; sand is of the demand for Treaty revision inefficient and will being a great, nation-wide move- put the engine outment, for the simple reason that of action.
the rights which foreigners have
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Alexandru Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central,
BIRTH.
“NUNNERY ROBBED.
THREE MEN ON TRIAL
The Verry Jale!
Bafore Mr. J. R. Wood, acting
Two travellers at a country m Chief Justice, at the Criminal Sas, were aroused, fronë tasir slumbers, sions this morning, three Chinese in the wee aina' 'cors by the dread were charged in connection with cry of "Fire" They began to two robberies at Lan Tau island. dress, so hurriedly that bas. put The first charge was of his trousers on back to front. The strike of cooks aboard committing a robbery st The man "reversely!! clad,
and N.Y.K. vassels has had no effects a nunnery
atealing alarmed by smoke entering the on the vessels now in Hongkong. blankets, scarfs, A thermos bedroom, jumped out the window, flask, a gown, and ter pounds of but his calmer comrade made good The Empress of Asta left ice. They Were alternatively his escape from the burning Yokohama on Friday afternoon charged with receiving the articles building down some back stars, enjoyed in China have not worked and le due at Vancouver on the and further charged with commit- and immediately hurried to where ting robbery at a contractor's mat his friend bad landed when he either to the disadvantage or the
shed on Lan Tau, and with stealing jumped." aggravation of the Chinese people. During the week-end, there were two watches, and 364 in money.
"Are ye hurt?" he asked the The desirability of a revision of two Chinese cases of small-pox re- Both robberies are alleged to have "jumper."
occurred on the same evening,
Looking down at his nether the Treaties can be conceded with-ported and also one Chineso caJanuary, 27th. The prisoners depy garments, the recumbent one r
the charges. The Attorney Gen-plied, "Ah canna feel ony pain,
out attributing it to a popular de- mand, for, in the present state of China's political evolution there is no means of ascertaining what the people really think. If the Powers were so oppressive and aggressive in their policies as the extremists would have the world believe, there would be' little response to the de- mand by party politicians for Treaty adjustment; the fact that, in the circumstances prevalling, the Powers are sympathetic towards
China on this issue is the surest proof of goodwill. We are grati- fled, in this connection, at Dr. Koo's admission that Britain's policy is one of good intention, and that he
27th instant.
of typhoid fever.
The .s. President Madison will eral, the Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, but a' fear ah'm fatally twisted i
sail for Manila at 3 p.m. to-mor row and not at 8 p.m. today as previously advertised.
The
motor vessel Japan (Swedish East Asiatic Co.) left Antwerp on Thursday last and is due here about April 29th,
The President Madison is due to arrive about midnight and will be berthed in Kowloon Bay, lighters being requisitioned to work, cargo until daylight to facilitate her des-
patch to-morrow.
This morning's Harbour Office returns gave 15 arrivals and eight departures, of which five and four respectively were British, leaving 69 vessels in harbour, of which
| RASMUSSEN.—At the Peak Hos-approaches the issues in a broad-22 were British.
pital, on March 18th, to Mr.minded and tolerant spirit. Un- and Mrs. V. A. J, J, Rasmuse
The theft, some time during last happily, however, the Peking ad-week, of a gold and jade necklace, sen, a son.
ministration rests on a very in valued at $250, from a wardrobe, secure basis, and it is difficult to has been reported by Mrs. Scott, think that, under present condi-living at "Huntington" Stubbs Road. The loss was discovered tions, any really useful agreements only yesterday by the owner. can be concluded with the authorl- ties in the Northern capital.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
Mrs. William Knight and Mr. P. E. Knight wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all friends who attended the funeral, for the beautiful floral tributes and many kind letters and expressions of sympathy so generously given at their sat bereavement in the death of Revenue Officer William Knight.
Che
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MARCH 21 1927.
PEKING AND THE POWERS.
Empire Trade.
It will be learned with much
the
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Major-General Sir Neill Mal- colm, chairman of the court of directors of the British North Borneo Company, and the pre- decessor of Major-General Sir Theodore Fraser, Malaya's pre- sent G.O.C., spent a very short time in Singapore last Monday on his way to British North Borneo,
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K. C., la prosecuting for the Crown. Sir Joseph Kemp said the first rabbery took place at the nunnery, which was at a height of about 1,500 feet, and the second occurred further east of the peak of the island, the matshed being at height of 2,600 feet. That would mean that after committing the frat robbery, the men would have to descend into Tung Chung village, and climb up again to the con- tractor's matshed, which would take them between three and four hours. The robbers visited the nunnery at six o'clock in the evening, and the matshed at eleven o'clock.
There was a girl in our town And she was wondrous wise. She bossed her home because
she wed
A man just half her size.
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Ruskin was at the bottom of the poll in 1888, when be stood for the Rectorship of Glasgow University. He had deeply offended students, by telling a deputation sent to learn his views on politics that they should not worry about such things.
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"You are students at the Uni- With regard to the first robbers, versity, and have no more busi- two nuns would say that the men ness with politics than you have first asked for rice, and when they with rat-catching. Had you ever entered it was seen that one had read ten words of mine with ver money.derstanding you would have known a knife and demanded They searched the place and left that I care no more either for Disraeli or Mr. Gladstone after about an hour, taking with Mr. them the articles mentioned in the than for two old bagpipes with charge. The nuns were not able the drones going by steam, but that I hate all Liberialiam as I to identfy the men.
At about cleven o'clock, three Carlyle I stand-we two alone do Beelzebub, and that with men broke into the contractor's now in England-for God and the matshed and a struggle ensued, Queen!" during which the contractor was wounded in the face, wrist and Some one has been at pains to ribs. He was overpowered, tied trace the origin of the famous up, and gagged, and the men took witticism, "Advice to Those about the watches, money and a belt. to Marry-Don't," which The contractor's thirteen-year-old first published at Christmas son gave the alarm to some fokis time 1841, and it has been found the fokis found three men near in attributed to different sources, after the men had departed, and that at different times it has been the vicinity, one of whom was nearly all Scottish. Among those carrying some bundles on a bam-who have been credited with its boo pole. When the bundles were examined, they were found to con- tain the articles which had been stolen from the nunnery. The ar- rested men were taken back to the contractor's rantshed, and on the way one of the men tried ta escape but he was re-captured,
The case is proceeding.
CITY BURGLARY.
ROBBERS ENTER
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authorship wore (1) a Glasgow policeman, (2) tn Edinburgh bricklayer, (3) a Perth railway- Man, (4) a Dundee compositor, (5) an Inverness hotelkeeper, and (6) an Aberdeen reporter.
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Policeman at Lambeth, des- cribing the arrest of a beggar: I saw him in a plausible condition.
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Nottinghamshire man: If I were receiving parish money could afford to have a solicitor.
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Strong but moderating monsoon may be expected along the coast, says to-day's weather report by Royal Observatory. The forecast up till noon to-morrow gratification that there has been "North-east winds, strong, direct action by a number of manu- facturers at Home as a result of the campaign in favour of the ex The Chinese vessel Phranang, tension of Empire trade which was arriving from Haihow, reports so marked a feature of the Imperial sighting a derelict junkin Conference, held last autumn. It Latitude 21,37 N., Longtitad was then stated that some concert-113.30.45 B., at noon on March 19. ed effort should be made to stimu The derelict was overturned and it late trade between the various was observed that three square countries of the Empire, especially holes were cut in the bottom. in view of the big decline in foreign trade which has, of Inte years, been experienced by Britain, and we read in one of the latest Home journals to arrive that some of the leading manufacturers are sending representatives out to the larger countries within the Empire. For instance, several representatives of There is much of interest in the leading motor manufacturers have statements which Dr. Wellington recently arrived in Australia to Koo made to foreign journalista indiscover what is wrong with Bri tish cars, so far as Australia is Peking last week regarding the encerned, and why it is that onlying, two masters and
At the Marine Court this morn
A woman complained at Wil- two mit
leaden that a man had attacked question of Treaty revision. Those one-tenth of the cars in use in Aus-
iresses of cargo boats were
her. Magistrate:. Why does not who have been wondering how the tralia were manufactured in Bri-
charged, befere Lieut. Commdr. 1ain. The Dominion has imported G. F. Hole, with lying inshore of the more valuable articles.
your husband deal with him? F'eking politicians regard the agree- £18,000,000 worth of motor cars
On Sunday morning, Mr. W. S. Waman: He is such a little fel- why ments recently concluded between and
Austra without permission during dark should Britain and the Nationalist Govern-li pay all that money to foreign hours, Pleading guilty, they were Drake, of the staff, had occasion to low, sir and we have nine children. countries? That is the question severally fined $6, with the alter-go to the store, but found that the
Some Biblical Howlers:--- ment regarding the future status these representatives are going to
native of five days' imprisonment front door was bolted from the in- with hard labour.
Stories of funny replies to ex- side. Thinking that perhaps an- of the Concessions at Hankow and try to answer. Representatives of
other member of the staff had gone amination questions are always the chemical trade have also been
in earlier, Mr. Drake knocked re-cropping up. Two recently, the Kiukiang will note, from the re-
sent out to Australia-men who
peatedly but obtained no response.product of a Bible examination in print of Dr. Koo's statement which have behind them brains, experi-
The door was eventually forced the country, may be given. One we published on Saturday, that no
ence and almost unlimited capital.
open when it was found that the shows the influence of environ- Britain is also sending out repre-
shop was in a state of great con- ment on specific reference to this matter sentatives to other big Dominions
the answer. In the fusion, goods having been
written part the scholars were was made. However, Dr. Koo de like Canada and South Africa and
moved from drawers and fixtures asked to give a short description and strewn about. In scribed as groundless the fear that there is a very well-organised effort
the of Jacob's dream. One youth being made to attract to Britain
gentleman's outfitting depart- the trade of the Empire in manu
a change of Government might lead to repudiation of agreements reached with the Powers. He was, in making this statement, obviously referring to agreements concluded between the Peking authorities and the Rowers, and it is therefore still open to doubt whether the Nation-
LAUGHTER GALORE.
BUSTER KEATON IN "THE GENERAL."
WM. POWELL'S.
Sometime during the week-end- presumably on Sunday morning- thieves broke into the premises of Messrs. William Powell, Ltd., and ransacked the premise in search
re-
A motor-cyclist summoned at Ipswich for not having an effectivo silencer pleaded that he was "neutral."
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An instantaneous hit was yester-ment, boxes of all sorts dad been wrote that "Jacob had a dram factured articles, On the other day made at the Queen's Theatre rifled and the contents thrown and saw a vision." Of course the error may be a fault of hand, there has been much helpful with "The General," Buster Kea- about, whilst in the ladies' depart-orthography; but the same can suggestion done by the Dominion ton's latest and funniest alm. This ment a similar state of affairs hardly be said of the other, which representatives who have returned is the "frozen-faced comedian's" prevailed.
had to do with the ever fascinating to their own countries, appeals have first picture for the United Artists A search revealed that the story of Joseph and his brethren. ing been made to consumers to favour the use of British goods of the opinion that it is the best in small windows in a lavatory, theseJoseph knew his brothers when and many who saw it yesterday are thieves had broken in through two Asked if they could explain how wherever possible. On the basis which he has ever figured.
windows being in the alleyway they came down to Egypt, o of co-operation between the Mother
"The General" is remarkable between Mesers. Powells and the bright youth replied, "He would Country and the Dominions it is from many viewpoints, but chiefly Bank of East Asta. The door
to
alists would consider such agree-possible to achieve a tremendous because of the extremely clever leading from the lavatory to the see their name on their cairts." ments binding. In fact, Reasoning, of course, front bie politicians have long since taken is extremely encouraging to see that with sheer buffoonery and burles-side, but the thieves had forced own experience, where the carts
so much effort is now being made
from each farm place display the que. It has the Civil the stand that they alone are com-
War this and so gained admittance to
name and place of the owner, he translate the platitudinous
assumed that the revenue regula petent to conclude such understand-speeches of the recent Imperial for its setting and deals principally the general store.
with the experiences of Buster It is not certain at what time tions in Canaan would be the ings, a point which few others are Conference into definite action.
Keaton as a young Southerner who repeatedly tried to enlist in the the thieves broke in or at what same, though as a matter of fact willing to concede, however. Dr.
time they left, but there were in they had no carte. Confederate Army but who was re-dications that they had been dis- fused on the ground that he was turbed and made a hurried depar- of more value to the cause as the ture, for several parcels of goods, engineer of a locomotive known as obviously made up for removal, had years old, are on the student roll "The General." We refrain frombeen left behind. There were several of a California high school. Thin indicating the details of the story,
parcela
among those was 12.1312 save to say that in the end the en-left. The safe, which is, in the vealed that Floyd Carroll and
not been Frankle Lackey, seniore, 20.46% gineer bringe off a big coup for the
18,22 South and is fittingly rewarded office upstairs, had
touched.
away and were married last 34.52 There are some big scenes in the 192.11/10 fim,, including, the plunging of a A new fact which emerges, to spring.
2.38/64 locomotive into a raging river from day in connection with the robbery
Koo asserts that any engagements regarding the abolition of unila-
teral Treaty provisions would
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Brussels as the demands for revision were
Amsterdam not confined to any one political | Berlin
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Bucharest it is not without Its significance Bombay that Dr. Koo did not disclose the Hongkong
York attitude of himself and his collea-Geneva gues regarding the Sino-British Milag
Stockholm. understanding reached at Hankow. Oslo
Another interesting feature of Prague Dr. Koo's statement is his declara- tion that the Chinese people are not Rio anti-foreign, and that they are not Kobe unmindful of what foreigners have Silver (apot)
Silver (forward) done for the country. Taking the
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eral" is most noteworthy for the razors and shaving mirrors while found himself, with a house of 22 1/11% typical Buster Keaton touches with on the premises. With regard to rooms on his hands but no garage 26.24 which it abounds and, which must this it is suggested that they were and no room on hili, property to 105.96 be seen to be appreciated. Buster probably well dressed, so that they build one Se ha podeled the is even more whimsical than ever could carry packages though the front, bulk, an attractive:- dzive, 18.14 18:87 before and, fo this film he is pal streets without exciting any part and alanged his parling into a
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*kandwhitil this is completed, no es- Defendant (in a loud voice). The fins will be shown up to and timate of the Haul can be mader | Justissi Jostios Unawat ryk vkkattamya exediting for. Detectivas-aparn visited the pre- | fustice!?
the night sessions to-night and to-mises this morning to conduct fur Judge Silence morrow, when Heifers, the world-ther investigations. Up to the pre- dant will please rem famed violinist, is to appear
Bent no arrests have bom made.
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