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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, MARCH

1927.

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MORE DESTROYE

EIGHTH FLOTILLA ARRIVES IN HARBOUR.

The eighth destroyer flotilla ar- rived in Hongkong last evening, a few hours ahead of the time they were originally expected.

ILM.S. Bruce (Capt. M. Maxwell; Scott, D.S.0.) is the flotilla lender, and with her are: Serapis (Com- minder F.R.R. Percival, D.S.O.); Seraph (Lt. Com. P.B. Wilmot- Smith), Sepoy (Lt. Com. A. L. Pears); Stormcloud, (Lt. Com. PII.C. James); Thracian (Com- mander H. E. Snopp); Sterling (Lt. Com. S. II. Arliss); Sirdar (Lt. Coni C.G.N. Graham); Somme (lit. Com. F.SW. de Winton).

The Bruce is one of five similar vessels built by Messrs. Cammost-- Lairds la 1918-19. And is 3321⁄41⁄2ft. length, 31ft. Dins. beam, 12ft. 3 ins, draught and 1,800 tons displace- ment. Twin.screw driven by on- gines developing 40,000 h.p.” she can reach a speed of 361⁄2 knots. Her armament consists of fivo 14.7 ins, one 3-ins anti-aircraft, and two two-pounder anti-aircraft guns, and six torpedo tubes. The crew numbers 182.

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All the other yessels of the flotilla were built between 1918 11

and 1922, the Thracian being the 13 Correlative of either. latest. They are 276 ft. in length, 14 Late monarch. 26ft in breadth, and 10ft. 18 Marked.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO. draught, with a displacement of 18 Negative prefix.

Telephone C. 4648.

MRS.

SEKAI

MASSAGE

Tel. No. C. 4433, 2nd Floor

2, Duddoll Street. Hongkong

1,076 tons. Their engines deve- 19 Property taxes. lớp 27,000 h.p., giving a maximum 20 Slope.. speed of 36 knots. Thres 4-Ins., 21

machine

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one two-pounder, one gun, four Lewis guns, and two deck torpedo tubes comprise their; 27 armament. Each veel carries a 28 complement of about 100 men.

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MASSAGE HALL SALE OF AN ISLAND. Royal Society.

23, Wyndham Street MRS. H. MORITA. MRS. E. AKAJI.

Telephone 0. 4365,

MRS. MOTONO

Land and Electric MASSAGE

No. 31B, Top Floor Wyndham St.

ongkong.

REALLY CORPORATION.

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Fuga Island. a dot on the man) between the Philippines and For mosa, will change hands in the near future if the owner can es tablish his title to it. The Shang hai Realty Corporation will com- plete the purchase of it, according to Mr. J... Danon, a Manila broker, if the title can be cleared up. Reports were current. some-

Mrs. J. CRAWFORD.time ago that the Mitsui Busan

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SINGON & CO., ESTABLISHED A. D. 1800,

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Kajsha Co. had been approached by Mr. Danon, but that they had refused to buy it.

Fuga Island is only a few miles. from the coast of Luzon, and though undeveloped is considered of potential military and naval importance. At present cattle are raised on it, and a certain amount of timber is cut,

Mr. Vicente Mavigan, the owner, is a descendant of an old Spanish family which was granted the is- land by the Spanish crown in the! 18th century. He has Torrens title to a part of it, and claims the rest by virtue of the Royal grant and the fact that he has paid

taxes on it for many years.'-- Router,

STATE RESPON- SIBILITY.

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OPINIONS OF THIRTY GOVERNMENTS CONSIDERED.

Geneva, March 24. After examining the opinions of thirty Governments in reference to the desirability of an Inter- national agreement regarding the responsibility of States for damage caused in their territories foreign property and persons, the Committee of experts has informe ed the League Council that the question is ripe for the codifica- tion of International, Law.- Reuter.

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BEQUESTS.

LEGACIES TO FAMILIES

IN CHINA.

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SHANGHAI THEFT.

REUTER BROCKLEMANN'S

ACTION.

London, March 24.

A will of considerable local in-

A number of other claims were terest is that of James Russell Brazier, of Craigle Lea, 12 Port- stated to depend on the result of arlington Road, Bournemouth, re- a case now being heard in the sealing of probate of which has King's Bench division, in which been granted to Mr. W. E. L. Shen- Reuter Brocklemann and Company, Lon, solicitor of Hongkong, the at- of Shanghai, sue the Ocean Steam- Liverpool, torney of Patrick Cooper and Joha ship Company, of

owners of the s.s. Eumaeus, for Russell Cooper, executors..

Deceased was formerly a Com-£82 damages for alleged breach of inssioner in the Customs Service Contract for the carriage of a and died on March 7 1926 at the quantity of woollens to Shanghai.

Age of 66.

He left net estate in Hongkong of $8,100 and in the United King He directed his

dom of £11,706.

executors to pay for six months

the his death after ing legacies, free of duty:

To his sister, Jane Maitland Brazier, £1,000,-

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HENRY FORD FAILS.

WIVES WHO WILL NOT

TAKE WAGES.

more money than she would know what to do with.

the argument.

The American Way. But no such luck is in store for Why the Wives Refuse. This is a common problem with American husbands. Henry Ford thousands of American women can make himself the wealthiest whose husbands, while not as rich man in the world, but he cannot Henry Ford has started a con- as Mr. Ford, nevertheless make too make American wives accept Evidence was given that a native

troversy among both sexes by de- much money for their wives to salaries. The present way of life craft was

claring that all wives should be spend without mental fatigue. in America is too firmly fixed for discovered taking off cloth from the Eumacus early one

paid salaries for their housework. But this aspect of the problem is that.

The American man, it is affirm- morning in January last year. Mr. Ferd does not say what a wife not what is troubling the large

Jed, takes home to his wife, every G is worth but leaves this part of majority of American citizens. The defence stated that all the

the problem to be settled accord- To be able to persuade their Saturday night, all of his carnings. recovered, and the' gods were

salary would He receives back enough pay for' in each in- wives to accept follow-theft was discovered through the

ing to the finances ship's officers' vigilance.

dividual case. A wife is worth, by content these middle-class Ameri- his fare to the office, for a meagre The case was adjourned.this plan, as much as she can get. cana us a gift of the good fairy lunch since he finds it impossible But, curiously enough (writes) at the wedding feast. Mr. Ford to work hard after a heavy mid- New York correspondent of the regarded suspiciously by the day meal and to keep up his Evening Standard) the Ford pro-women, is enthusiastically encour stock of tobacco.

All that remains over goes to position does not find favour with aged by the men to proceed with Helen Hols Strong, daughter of the wives. In general, the hushia agitation. Salaries for wives the wife. She pays the rent, re- Carl Hole Strong, of Epsom. bands in America have no special would solve many domestic prob- plenishes te larder, and mota. David William Tanquorey, of

James Alexander Barclay Bar-objection to the salary idea. Mr. lems that continually recur under the other household expenses.

Out of her purse comes the shill Fettes College, Edinburgh, £250.

ton, son of Sir Sydney Barton, of Ford, being a husband himself, 1s the, present system.

Feminine extravagance, one of ing per person to secure admit He also left legacies of 100 the British Logation, Peking. charged by the women with adopt-

an occasional cinema each to the following god children

Barbara Mary Kent, daughter of ing the masculine, point of view, the major vices of the Americau tance to or name children:

Percy Horace Kent, barrister of

Being at the same time so wealthy standard of living, would vanish show to which she takes her hus

wivea had salarles, The band. that he does not know how much if Winefred Adelaid Taylor (now Tientsin.

What mother desires for herself, Contessa Terni),

money he has got, he is not able strange spectacle of husbands in daughter of John Russel Cooper, son of one

to look at the question from the cheap, dowdy sults walking beskle she goes out and buys, Presents a Com- of the executors, and Francis Edward Taylor, missioner of Chinese Customs, Aline Joyce Walsham, daughter standpoint of people to whom wives resplendent in allks and in the form of goode are out of every fashion among American women. furs, 80 ecnspicious in money really means something. Violet Tours, daughter of Ber- of Percy Romilly Walshama, deputy

Paying a salary to Mrs. Ford American city, would be no more They want money. They do not thold George Tours, British Con: Commissioner of Chinese Cus proportionate to her husband's if wives could be persuaded to ac trust their husbands to buy any sul in China.

toms.

Income would give her far cept salaries. That, at least, la thing' for them.."

His brother, Henry Woodham Brazier, $1,000.

His excecutor, Patrick Cooper, £500.

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The Point in Question ·

WELLATSA MATTER

WHY YOU STUCK YOUR UMBRELLA IN MY EYE!!

I STUCK MY UMBRELLA IN YOUR. EYE? I BEG YOUR PARDON BUT T DIDAT!!!

DIDN'T! HOW CAN YOU STAND THERE 'AN' SAY YOU DIDN'T POKE MÉ IN TA' EYE-

WITIL YOUR UMBRELLA F

THIS AIN'T MY UMBRELLA !!

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