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Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MARCH 28 1927.

GRAVE DAYS.

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

GOOD INTENTIONS ARE, AT LEAST, THE SEED OF GOOD ACTIONS-Sir William Temple.

been foreseen the Nationalists. have set going forces and influences which they are quite unable to con trol. Marshal Chiang Kai-shok may any what he likes about there being no enmity against Britain

·· The E. and A. Company's as, St. and America the plain fact is that to-day China is seething with anti-Albans, which left Moji on the 25th,

inst., la due here to-morrow. foreignism, almost wholly (if not completely) engendored by the Na tionallets and their Russian com- rades.

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The P. and 0. llner Delta left Singapore at 6 a.m. on Saturday and is due here at 6 a.m. on Thurs day,

CORRESPONDENCE.

PEAK TRAM FARES.

To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph:]

The Very Idea!

A Parish Church had become vacant, and from the applicata for the post a short lect of three was drawn up.

One of these had preached at

Sir. The announcement that the both diets, but, truth to tell, had Penk Tramway Company intends not come up to expectations in his raising season ticket rates, lan preaching, mera especially to matter which should, I think, bo Tamma's, the beadle,"

Before leaving the session-house- vigorously protested against by people who dally use the servica. after the afternoon service, the The public tolerates a lot, but candidate re-entered the church, when a public service suddenly im- | remarking to the beadlo:I want hoses a 38. 1/3% Increase of rates to have, another look at your without giving any reason, it is beautiful church before. I go.”

told surely times that somebody

"Ay, tak' a"guid look at it, sir." them that they had better recon-replied Tammns, dryly, "for it's sider their intention.

no' likely ye'll ever see'd again!" During the past few years, tra- vallers have had much to A rug belonging to Mr. Tafford: of No. 16 Knutsford Terrace, was put up with, what with al- stolen from the lawn in front of torations to stations, restrict

ed services; etc.. but thoro the house during the week-end, A

police.

report has been made to inconveniences were borne cheer-

the

As we look back over the recent past we cannot resist the convie The health return for the week- tion that the Chinese have been ond shows two cases of cerebra emboldened, by the conciliatory at spinal fever and one each of small- titudo of the Powers, into presum-pox and diphtheria.. All were

Chinese. ing on foreign patience and tolera- tion. They Have, as many students of China and the Chinese predicted, mistaken kindness for weakness. But now the limit has been reached, and the firm stand taken at Nan king by Britain and America, hap- pily in complete unity, has, for the This morning's Harbour Office present at least, tempered the Na-return gave 74 vessels in harbour, of which 25 were British, with 14 tionalist mood. The lesson to be arrivals and 11 departurco. The learned from this circumstance British figures were six and two

ropectively. would appear to be that forceful retion, or the threat thereof, is the only thing that headstrong soldiery and truculent mobs in China are

Laat of Mrs.

WIS

more

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Ho stood there by the old

Front door. Ah, he was just a sap. Nobody

cama to answer,

'cause

is

He didn't give a rap.

"Respectable women are often afraid to stop in front of drapers and other shop windows, for fear

of being arrested by the police."

fully in the belief that the system was to be modernised.. Tho modor. nisation has now been achieved, and where one, expected to find or hear that the new system economieni to the Company, and more satisfactory to its clients,

This remarkable statement was evidence would tend to show that made by Mr. H. L. Cancellor, the latter desired state has certain- ly not been reached. The new cars who spoke on. "Advertising as an the Marlborough-street magistrate, are more difficult of ·necesa · and Onurday night, the Hongkong egress, and, furthermore, they can. Ald to the Repression of Crime" to A. D. C. concluded a very success-

not apparently carry the number members of the Publicity Club of fu! run of The

Mr. Cuncellor was alluding to likely to understand and fear. Cheyney" the final performance be-of passengers for which they were London at the Hotel Ceell, Strand, ing well attended. At the fall of the constructed. If the Company is

mistake, surely it is not the growing number of young Diplomacy can make no headway curtain on the inst scone, all the

made fair to push the financial burden in women and girls who, leaving against mob rulo, and we fear that, lady members of the east were pre to the public. In any case, I have sheltered homes, become criminals, despite the excellence of her in-sonted with bouqueta.

vet to learn that the financial state and haunt the main streets of the tentions, Britain has been some-

of the Peak Tram Company usti- West End. During the wook-end, a theftfies the exorbitant Increase now "The fear of respectable women what too precipitate in treating so

was carried out in Dr. W. Leslie notified.

that they may be arrested in mis- generously with the Nationalists Thomas' surgery in Alexander's regarding Hankow and Kluklang. Building, where money amounting to $800 in notes, was taken from a There are, however, bigger issues drawer which was found to have yet to be faced, including the future been forced open when Dr. Thomas of Shanghai. Fortunately, this is returned yesterday morning. n problem which concerns all the Powers, whose attitude must ob- viously be affected by what has oc- curred at Nanking and what may yet happen elsewhere.

We pray

Seventy rounds of rifle ammuni- tion, found unclaimed in a pulaon- ger coach of the Canton. train on Friday, were ordered to be con fiscated by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. The ammunition was contained in a Chinese soldier's bandolier pre-

earriage by a military man from sumably having been left in the

that the nations concerned will stand solidly united from now on wards, for union is strength-and strength alone seems likely to pro-Canton. cure respect in China to-day.

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The following vessels are expect-

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In conclusion, I would urge that take for women of this type while other users of the Punk trams pro-gazing in shop windows is a great," test, and also the matter be taken menace to. trade," said Mr. Can up by the Peak and Mid-Levels cellor. Residents' Asscelations.

Thanking you to insert this let- ter in your valuable paper, and en-

R. J. H. closing my card,-Youre etc.,

Hongkong, March, 28th, 1927.

STOLEN CLOTHES.

CHINESE GETS THREE MONTHS.

On Friday Insta Chinese boy

appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell for being in possession of a large quantity of clothing believed to he stolen. Sergeant Rozeskwy, 'who Prosecuted, asked for a remand, until this morning.

clothing:

Barrister at Bow County Court Will you agree to what your wife aald? Man: If It is in my favour,

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Walthamstow landlady of hor lodger: I cannot say I hear him, but you can tell that he is swear- Ing by the movement of his lips.

....

Solicitor at Bow County Court: Why cunnot you and your lodger live in peace? Landlady: Be- ause we are both women; that is the answer.

Derbyshire man

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I deny that

my dog is dangerous. I have him here, and can put him on evidence.

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If the terrible happeninge in Nanking have no other effect, they have at last brought the Powers more closely into line than they have ever been since the China crisis irst attained' serious dimensions. Many months ago, Britain foresaw the certainty of grave happenings

ed to be in wireless communication in China and made her preparations

A Clumsy Statement.

with Hongkong to-day: St. Al bans, Amazone, Paul, Lecat, Sui- for the protection of British lives

If General Pai Ching-hai was, as sang, Gogra, Kueichow,. Focksang, and property accordingly. If any he claimed, speaking for Marshal Emil Kirdorf Antung, Anhui,

A convert is 'woman who lives regret is to be entertained concern Chiang Kai-shek when he stated Kwangchow, Tjileboot, Tjipanas,

When the case came up for hear in a big house and can't get out..

Cerberus is a famous brand of ing British policy it is that definite the Americans had been drawn into Svale, West Niger, West Sequana, ing this morning, the police wero

the Nanking affair by the British Menndo Maru Tsuruga Maru, able to produce the owner of the Balt action in sending out a big defence and that America should be warned Hozan Maru, Hakata Maru and

Goblin menns a sort of tapestry force was not taken even carlier, in not to let Britain lead her into a Haruna Maru.

false position, then the Marshal

Sergeant Rozeskwy tdid his or carpet. Worship that when the defendant A fugue la a man's deadly which event there would probably ought to be asked for a little clearer have been no necessity of surren-explanation. The Nanking affair Responding to a knock and to a was questioned about the cloth-enemy.

A quadroon is a piece of money dering the Concessions at Hankow is described as "merely an isolated shouted enquiry for her husband, ing, he was quite frank about it

used by pirates. incident" but surely the word whose name was mentioned, and told the police all he knew. and Kiukiang. Possibly, that re- "merely is a little out of place Chinese woman living at Na. 241, The story told by defendant to Nimrod is a thing for cleaning gret is to-day shared by the when deliberate looting and out- Portland Street. Yaumati, about the police was that, together with guns.with. British Government itself, which, rage against foreigners was com-roon yesterday, opened the door to two others, he had watched No. 77,

Daniel Rudge, a seventeen-year- mitted by uniformed Nationalist admit four men. One of the men Leighton Hill Road for some time. according to a London press com- soldiers. Foreigners have been was known to her, having called No. 77 was a new house and de-old District Messenger boy, left ment, is not blind to the unhappy killed at Nanking through the ex-at the house a number of times, fendant knew that only a Chinese Waterloo by the Aquitania bont cesses of Marshal Chiang Kai- but on this occasion he went there couple lived there. On the 23rd, on a. recent morning with half a conséquences of the diplomatic mea-shek's soldiers. Cold-blooded mur in the role of leader of a gang of he saw them leaving the house, so dozen packages of "master" gramo aures already taken. However der, including the shooting dead of armed robbers, and carried a re-they went up and found that the phone records for the Beethoven Bound and gagged, the door was locked on the outside. centenary celebrations in America pulting that issue on one side, there a French priest by Nationalist volver. could be no greater justification of officers, has been committed without woman was driven into the kit They broke the lock and, entering next month. The discs, which any discrimination of foreign na-chen. A search yielded a haul the house, stole some jewellery, have been insured for £5,000 by Columbia Company, have Britain's preparedness than that tionality. American residents, as of money and jewellery to the money and clothing to the value of the

been made in London. by the, Loser") supplied during the past week by well as British, spent hours of 'tor-value of 375, following which, the $168.50.

Defendant was ture and suspense with mobs and robbers made their escape.

arrested in String Quartet, and thousands of the grave incidents in Shanghai undisciplined soldiers around them.

Shaukiwan before a report was records will be taken from them and Nanking, and the Baldwin British and American war vessels The evening services at the received by the police about the for distribution among colleges Government must have been great-jointly put an artillery barrage Union Church, Kennedy Road, robbery. The clothing was found and schools in the United States

around the Hill on which nationala yesterday were accompanied by an in his possession, but the jewellery during the festival week. ly reassured by the expression of of both countries were huddled, not instrumental recital in honour of stolen from the house had not yet

Those are all the during to move.

centenary of the death of been recovered. He had given allWireless is a stratagem for pri facts which are incontrovertible, Beethoven, when excerpts from the assistance he could to the Shanghai by nationals of no fewer and how then can Marshal Chiang the composer's works were ren police, but they were not able to ducing a monstrous national in- than twenty-seven countries. Kai-shek, speaking through a subordered. Those contributing were trace his accomplices.

Serious as have been the occur-dinate, assert that the Americans Mr. G. F. Longyear, Mrs. H. Defendant, whose record show- reneca ever since the Nationalist were drawn-in" by the British? Baleat, and Mrs. Griggs, organist ed that he was just out of gaol, affixing moral censure to worry

That is not the tone in which to of St. Peter's Church. The selec] was sentenced to three months and anxiety.-Dean Inge. Armies penetrated into Central refer to what was joint and com-

tions were very skilfully played, hard labour. China, it has taken the terrible mou action compelled by the ex and the programme was brough treme gravity of the situation. And situation at Nanking to bring home there is a distinct threat in his re- to the outside world the intense ference "to China's "powerful gravity of the present situation in economic weapon" which we im Kirk Maconachie spoke on the life gine will cause resentment. When China, The detailed stories of the he points out that "the foreign and character of the composer. The collection was in ald of the experiences suffered by foreigners Powers cannot bring enough war- there, following the entry of the ships to China to suppress the as-British and Foreign Bible Society. pirations of the Chinese people" Nationalist troops, tell their own

he implies that there is a desire to tale. With the facts so well attest do so an implication which, in ed, it is idle for the Nationalists to face of all that Britain has done

of late in spite of the anti-foreign! attempt to place the blame on the outrages at various ports along the shoulders of Northern troops or Yunglaze Valley, is particularly ill- timed and greatly provocative.

Brussels guerilla bands. The Consulates, wo Foreign warships will always come are told, were wantonly looted by to China to protect foreigners from Amsterdam

Borlin repetition of Nanking, and the Copenhagen undisciplined Nationalist troops: hot air about aspirations of the Vienna foreign homes and missionary pro-Chinese people is very much out of

Helsingfors perty were robbed and burned by place in relation to that affair. If Lisbon uniformed Nationallets, who also this clumsy statement of Marshal Bucharest

Chiang is that best he can contri, Buenos Aires treated foreign women with the bute to a situation which is in need Shanghai, greatest brutality; whilst a Nation-of skilful handling and much diplo. Yokohama allat officer shot dead a French macy, then we see, little hope Now

of averting a crisis of real interna Geneva

Milan There are only a few Ina- tional Importance. priest.

Dalo tances picked out at random from many others that could be cited to

gratitude spontaneously sent from

to

1 fitting termination with Beethoven's anthem "The Heavens Proclaim Him." The Rev. J.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

York

Stockholm

Prague

Mindrid

During the current week, Masera pin down responsibility on the Na-whiteaway, Laidlaw &Co, Ltd. are tionalists. It is equally futile to holding a special sale of "dollar Bombay

Many abtractive and

Hongkong plead, in extenuation, that the bargains."

useful items are included. The Silver (spot) troops got out of hand. That is sale will definitely end on Satur Silver (forward) precisely the trouble that has long day, 2nd April.

WEST POINT FIRE.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN A GODOWN,

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activity. Mr. R. E. Stevenson.

Christ was quite driginal in

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There are so few complaints that one may doubt whether the policeman is not the chrysalis form of the angelic forces which keep- order in the billowy skies above. Mr. Jack Hayes, M.P.

Far too many girls want to be private secretaries. Dr. West-

away.

When William's great aunt Overheating of a "drying stove passed away all his poverty- which set fire to a number of bags sticken friends. rallied round him of tea is given as the cause of an with words of cheer and comfort. extensive godown fire at West But William remained sud and Point on Saturday afternoon. The dejected.

"She left a will and teatament, I 124,05 godown is situated in Sai Yuen

34.94 Lane, and the fokls of a tea éstab- suppose?" murmured Sandy care- ..12.13% lishment on the first floor were lessly.

"Oh, yes," said William, "she 20.47 13/16 disturbed from their evening meal

.18.12% about five o'clock when flames left a will and testament."

were seen at the end of the floor.

London, Mar. 26.

.04.03

.102.70

2.33/04

788

They waited expectantly while The fire spread quickly to the sobs choked back his words. "I" top storey where the living quar- he declared at last, "am to have 7.3/16 ters of the coolles employed in the the Testament." .47.0/10

.2/54 godown were situated. The Fire

2/04 Brigade arrived promptly on the

"What a beautiful coat, Claude;

4.85% scene and checked the flames be but I do feel an occasional pang.

fore the top floor suffered exten- for the "poor animal skinned to 105% sive damage.

25,24%

18.125

Between twenty and thirty sacks

get it."

Thanks, 1863 of ten were destroyed, and while you, Ellen."

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27.11

that's very kind of

no official figures of damage "arc. 976 available it is interesting to note

Amongst the passengers who de 5.47/61 that the insurance on the goods

parted by the 8.8. Haruna Maru 1/0.16/16 amounted to nearly $10,000.

woro Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Forbes, 1/11

Large stocks of betel nuta, stor Admiral Ilugo Lacerda, Dr. and .26.11/16 ed on the ground floor, were Mrs. J. C. Soares, Mrs. F. E. Nash

26.1/14 damaged by water,

-British Wireless.

and Mrs. J. C. Marka.