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MONDAY,

APRIL 4, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

'YOU WILL, I BELIEVE, IN GENERAL, INGRATIATE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

STILL LESS BY PAYING THEM TOO MUCH GOURT THAN TOO LITTLE--- Greville.

PRIZE DAYS.

TWO LOCAL COLLEGE

FUNCTIONS.

The Very Idea!

The house surgeon of a London The prize-giving and Founders' juries of a poor woman whose arm hospital was attending to the in- Day celebration in connexion with had been severely bitten. As he St. Stephen's College was held at was dressing the wound, he sald the Great Hall of the University "I cannot make out what sort of on Saturday night, when many animal bit you. This is too small and supporters were for a horse's bite, and too large

for a dog's." The Empress of Russia loft Yoko- Dr. S. W. Tao spoke to the hama on Friday at 10 p.m. and is gathering as one of the founders."It wasn't an animal; it was an

"Oh, sir," replied the patient, due here on Saturday.

He referred to the day on which other lydy." the College was started, Murch

YOU oral occasions the Nationalists MUST have had the fleld wholly to them. OWN IT selves, nothing whatever having been done to offset their propagan dn. It is not to to wondered at, in such circumstances, that the masses of the Chinese people come to bellove na gospel truth the file-

The P. and O. a... Mantua, from tions served up for their consump-Hongkong arrived at Marseilles an tion by the Nationalist propagand- 1st April at 7 a.m. ists. By the steady and constant outflow of publicity matter, by the strict censorship of vernacular journals and by (as in the case of Hankow) causing labour to be withdrawn from foreign journals, the Nationalists have managed to secure almost a monopoly of the usual channels of propaganda. With the facts thus, it becomes of all the greater importance that there should be extensive British publicity through the medium of the Chinese written word.

These remarks apply to large extent to China whole, but we would also like to think that there is some prospect of really serious propaganda here

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One Romeo, one Juliet; "Twas there he first fell into

debt,

For Romeo'd whrt Juliet.

...

There was only one case of not-1903, and to the late Sir Kai Ho flable disenso reported over the Kal, C.M.Go, Sir Boshan Wei Yuk, week-end, this being a Chinese Mr. Lai Kwai-pui, and others who C.M.G., the. Hon. Mr. Chau Sai-ki, case of small-pox.

helped with the foundation. gave him confidence to know such The twenty-sovouth

men were on the College Council Bowling Green Club is advertised to general meeting of the

as Sir Henry Pollock, Messrs. W.

On the way to Pijl the Renown be held in the Club House on Thurs. Fattenden and P. Lauder, sup- crossed the other "ne"the In

ported now, by three old boys tornational Date Line-and day. April 14, at 5.45 p.m.

Messrs. Li Hoi-tung, chairman of lost a day in the calendar: in the Tung Wa Hospital, T. N. Chau, this ease half of the 14th and A lady's evening'Aress, valued at A, barrister, and K. L. Chau, 15th. It is a complication which 879, has been stolen from the shop.A of the Education Depart once tempted Gilbert to a comic of Madame Chiffon, of 30 Queon's 2

Road, Central, according to a re- port received by the Polico.

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A fire broke out at the Tai Tack in the Kowloon City district, yes- Dyeing Factory at Saikung Road,

in Hongkong.

are terday. The outbreak was quick, constantly arising on which the extinguished, being confined to the wholesale distribution of pamphlets

chimney.

in Chinese would have effects of the Mrs. Z. P. dos Remedios Gomes, utmost valde. The chief necessity late of No. 6, Austin Avenue, Kow-

ment:

80.

1

The annual report was read by pera he did not write: and it has had. in real life, the effect of the Rev. E. W. L. Martin, Acting giving a child the unusual birth-

Warden, in which he referred

course

to the fact that the Warden, day of February 30. B.D., had returned to England ordinary the Rey. W. H. Hewitt, The Dato Line would in the owing to ill-health in October. through Fijl, and so made it pos- have passed Special prizes for Chinese studies sible for a

man in Rambe or had been kindly given by the Hon. Taveuni to have one leg in Sun- Sir Shouson Chow, and the Hon.day and the other in Monday; Dr. Kotowall, CM.G.

After rebut, to avert acomplication so dis-

ferences to examination successtressing to the missionaries, it in this connexion is promptitude loon, who died on February 18th., and the free night school for poor awerves sharply to the east a little of issue and been paid into the

1927, left estate valued at $10,000. boys, the Rev. Mr.. Martin said over north of the group. Another de

A coolic was sent to prison for six weeks, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, for the theft of four Jack-hamis (sure on Works jack-hammers from the godown of at North Point.

see that every possible opportunity F. T. Gomes. is grasped: We have hundreds of thousands of Chinese living here, to many of whom, we fear, "enemy" FIELDER On the 31st March, propaganda regularly finds its way, 1927, at Frideswide Nursing despite the efforts of the authori- Home, Bournemouth, to Mr.ties to keep it out. and Mrs. B. E. Pielder A

It is amongst daughter, Crystal, Lucy,

MARRIAGE.

through the

New Building Fund in voluntary subscriptions, and the students of avoid the Aleutian Islands, and a 1925 also raised $5,500 by their further change of direction to get bazaar,

Behring Straits. An inspiring address was given Indeed, it follows, as nearly as Chancellor of the University, who activity. by Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E., Vice-ay be, the line of least human impressed on his hearers the value

East Ham wife: A husband of building up a sound character, which however could not be done must be nice if he believe all you A Chinese hoy was admitted yes-without discipline, self-restrain,ay. these people that we should dis- tribute regular British propaganda Hospital following an accident in

terday into the Government Ciza and self-sacrifice.

An elderly landlord, who com- Mr. W. L. Pattenden proposed matter, and in view of likely hapQueen's Road, West, in which he thanks to Mr. Hornell for his pre-plained at Bow County of the was slightly injured through being sence, his speech, and permission quarrelling of his lodgers, was knocked down by a motor-car. to

a tiff with use the Great Hall for the asked: "You have ***

celebration, and the Chairman was your wife sometimes, I suppose, like most of us? The landlord: I thanked by Mr. T.N. Chau.

have always looked on-I am single.

WILKERSON-DEADBEATER-penings in the future the question

On April 2nd, by the Rev. H. is one of urgency and importance. Copley Moyle, at St. John's Cathedral, Allsa Margaret Leadbeater to Raymond Guy Wilkerson.

The

Longer Life.

The stationery shop of Messrs. Der A. Wing, at Des Voeux Road,

An excellent concert was contri- The figures just published by the Central, has been robbed of twelve buted to by the following: Mr. Registrar General showing that the numbering, machines, worth $360.H.C. Yau, Miss II. Suth. Mr. T.H. average length of human life is according to a report made by the Lim, Miss Chau, Mr. Wong Wei; becoming greater in England have Manager to the police on Satur-Mesars, Sands and Wittenbach, and a really tremendous significance. day.

Dr. Y. S. Wan. They mein that conditions of life

On behalf of the students, a pro-

than they have been in the past, twelve pounds of lend from the Tal-testimonial by the College Council, A Chinese convicted for stealing feet, Chan Mo-tong, presented a silver cup, and a framed and that the death rate is getting koo Dock was this morning sen- uven lower than the

to Professor Lai Taai-hic, (Hon. very low tenced to six weeks' hard labour. figures of recent years. As a mat- Several months ago, the defendant Lam), Professor of Chinese at the ter of fact the death rate for Eng-served a term in gnol for stealing

University. land and Wales last year was the from the same place. PROPAGANDA NEEDED. lowest on record, being 11.6 per

Thongkong Gelegraph.generally are on a higher standard

MONDAY, APRIL 4 1327.

difference between the birth rate

Amongst the passengers leaving

by the Blue Funnel liner Hector were Sir Eric Stuart Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Adams, Rev. and Mrs. E. Dewatoc, Mrs. F. G. Stokes, Mrs. W. T. B. Terry Mrs. F. A. Cumming and Capt. and

While sailing of Sau See Man, not far from Hongkong, yesterday an Aberdeen sains Junk was struck by a squall and capsized, crew were later rescued by a Clinging to the upturned-boat, the

other fishing junk and taken to

Aberdeen.

Docksin English School. Professor C. A. Middleton Smith, of Hongkong University, distributed prizes to scholars of the Docksin English School at the

Chinese Y.M.C.A.

on Saturday

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+

Father at Willesden: I own I struck my little girl in the mouth, but it was to keep her in her place. Greenwich County Court wit- 88: I knew the speed of the because I looked at the

thermometer.

The teacher had been lecturing his pupils on famous proverbs. Out of sight, out of mind. Now, take this one," he said. Can any body tell me what that

over means?" "Yes, sir." brightest boy in the school. "In- visible and insane."

་

answered

the

afternoon. Professor Middleton Smith was afterwards presented with a beautiful framed pieture.

After an address in Chinese by tination, of the hon. Members of To speak of the ultimate des- the Chairman, Mr. Ko Kar-wing, this House is not in order. The B.A., the annual report was read Speaker, by Mr. Dixon Chan, the Principal, The rage for cross-word puzzles be reviewed as a period of re-that there is in us more mental who said the previous year could is but one of the modern signs

benefactors who had helped them utilise. Sir Arthur Keith. organization. He thanked their ability than we know how to

after the strike of 1925. The

As a nation we are not very good in selling our goods; we de- pend too exclusively on quality.- Mr. Lloyd George..

1,000. In order to gain a clear ilea of the big improvement achies We notice that the question of it needs only to be stated that the death rates for the years adequate publicity for British 1901-05 averaged 16.1 per 1,000- paliny amongst the Chinese was re- a figure which was then hailed as cently raised in the House of Com-remarkable. It is true that the birth rate has also fallen in late mons, when it was stated that

years, last year's figure being 17.8 Chinese translations cf Britain's per 1,000, the lowest ever touched, Memorandum of December last and it will be sean, however, that the of the Treaty revision proposals and the death rate is still sufficient were being freely, circulated inly great to rob the "fears" of pupu

lar chatterers of their substance. various parts of the country. Dr. There is no fact of which twentieth H. W. Looker, a formaer Hongkong century Britain has more reason to

speaker referred to the growth of resident, put a number of questions be proud than the fall in infantile

the school sinte September 1923, on the subject to Sir Austen Cham-in showing a welcome advance been reported to the police as oc- when only about 30 per cent. of

mortality, the figure for last year

Faur cases of dog-bites have

and the set-back they had in 1925 berlain, in the course of which he on that of only a few years ago. urring during the week-end. The the total scholars on the role at admittedly an uphill task, what ar

Progressive legislation being suggested that the recent resolu- As recently as 1901-06 the death victims received treatment at the tendel. After the blockade was pears to be needed is not a brake, tion of the Cabinet in regard to of age was 138 per 1,000 births and the dogs were seized and remove called off, however, the attandance but an accelerator, not a Second

rate among infants under one year | Government Civil Hospital, "while our aims in China should be simi-this was brought down to 110 in to the observation depots at Ken-ment during the year was 94, and Mr. A. Barratt Brown.

increased. The maximum enrol-Chamber, but a second gear. larly translated and distributed. | 1911-15 much to the satisfaction of nedy Town and Matankok. The Foreign Secretary replied that workers who had been striving to

since February they had admitted many earnest medical and social

For my part, I hold that of all exercise of human faculty Litern- it would be better to leave the de- give the country's babies a-better Mr. George E. Cumming, of

The engagement is announced of an additional 50 boys.

References were made. to the ture and Art "tread nearest to cision on these matters to the Bri- chance. During the past ten years, Craigielea Estate, Muar, Johore,tions and commercial teaching, can avail ourselves of their com

salisfactory results of examina-Gad;" and I think the more we there has been a steady improve-eldest son of the Rev. J. B. and Mrs and the staff were thanked for pany in His service the better.- tish authorities оп the

spot.ment, and in 1926 only 70 babies Cumming, Dufftown, Scotland, and who were fully alive to the neces-out of every 1,000 born died under Mise Eleanor Maude, of Hongkong, their hard work. The lack of play Prof. George Saintsbury, aity of making the policy of the the age of one year. That is a

younger daughter of the late Mr.ing fields was regretted. With re-

Under modern conditions, thers Government as widely known as

record which is going to be even and Mrs. T. Maude, Christchurch, gard to discipline, it had been ia no necessary place for sculpture lowered, if the trend of the past New Zealand.

maintained in a very strict man- except on the mantelshelf or in possible.

few years is maintained. The

ner. Concluding, Mr. Ko thank the museum-Mr. Eric Gill. spread of such valuable work as the

The question raised is one of the

In connexion with the forthcom-ed Professor Middleston Smith for atmost importance, and, despite Sirganisation of baby clinics, matering concert at Taikoo on Wednes-attending to distribute the prizes

nity welfare centres and All such-like endeavour is a feature of will commento at 8.30. A launch men present

day, we are advised that the show and the other ladies and gentle which latter-day Britain can be will leave Murray Pier at 7. Prosegor Middleton Smith gave After distributing the prises, justifiably proud. The vulne 02 education and guidance was never Launches, will also leave the Coalan address on engineering and more clearly demonstrated.

Wharf, Talkoo Dockyard, after the other developments during the past entertainment, conveying people to 15 years. Honghong and Kowloon.

Austen Chamberlain's references to the British authorities in Peking, we cannot say that we are at all convinced that there is sufficient publicity, from the British stand- point, in the Far East. know to what a Ane point the Na- tionalists have brought the art of Paris propaganda in China, thanks large- Geneva

EXCHANGE RATES. We all

Berlin

ly to Russian direction. It is true Oslo ́....... that much of this propaganda has Helsingfors

Athens its basis in deliberate distortions of Buenos Aires facts, but the point to be kept in

Hongkong mind in that it is invariably most Amsterdam

New York

comprehensive and, what is more, Stockholm

Vienna

is promptly issued and widely dis- Madrid seminated. Again and again, in Bucharest atances have occurred in which Kobe

Bombay the British have been concerned, Brussels regarding which the Chinese view-

Milan Copenhagen point has held the field for many Prague weeks before there has been the

Lisbon Rio least effort on our part to let our Shanghai side be known. Indeed, we would Silver (pot) go further and state that on sey-

Silver (forward)

Police Pier at 8 pm. for Taikoo,

He had done himself well at the dinner, but he was sufficiently awake to rise and offer his seat. him to the bus. to the woman who came in after

When she got out he resumed his seat, and said complacently to the smiling conductor-"D'ye know why I gave up my sont? it was to show that chivalry atill exists.?

sir," repiled the conductor, "be- "I did wonder why you did it,

The Harbour Office returns for London, April, 2.,

On entering a room at the Ni the week-end gave 42 arrivals and 124 Chan Boarding House, 216 Des 30 departures, British numbering 26.26 Voeux Road Central, at about half 22 and 10 respectively, leaving 71

past three on Saturday afternoon. vessels in harbour, of which cause the lady and you were the a "boy" found the dead body of a were British.

only two people in the bus." 102.80 Chinese who had hung himself.

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There has been some unneces

A loop of rope was found hanging The ss. Kwong Pook Cheong sary protest against the Bill for from the top of the bed, which has again been placed on the the better protection of the green was tied round the man's neck.Kongmoon run, after having boun plover. The error in to imagine) 12.14 The body was taken to the public overhauled. The new master of that the condition or number of 18.12% mortuary.

the vessel la Captain Johnson, re-plovers bear any relation to the .34.03 27.15

placing Captain J. E. Wilson. supply of plovers' eggs.

..880

Arriving in the Colony on board

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.1/5.67/01 the B. and I. Tilawa, a Chinese Owing to the incidence of cale.

2/0 pleaded guilty before Mr. W.bration processions at Konemoon, During March 4,90 inches of 34.93 Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- the river steamers San Nam Hol, rain fell at the Botanical Gardens, 102.86 tracy this morning, to a charge of On Lee and Leung Kwong, were according to records kept by Mr. .18.21 stowing away at Singapore. Ho compelled to return to Hongkong Grean, the Superintendent of the 101 was fined $75 with the alternative without discharging cargo. All Botanical and Forestry Depart. 2.33/64

of six weeks hard labour. The vessels were delayed by heavy ment. Rain fell on twonty of tho 0.27/32 .2.1/04

Pilawa left Singapore on March 20|fog and did not arrive at Kong-thirty-one days, but only on two and the defendant was discovered moon until 8 pm, on Saturday, the occasions did the fall excood one 26 concealed in one of the ship's coal scheduled time being 6 s.m. on inch this being on the 25th

bunkers on the following day, that day.

(1.46-in.) and the 29th (1.07 in.).

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