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down of foreign-directed hospitals and religious and educational Insti- tutions has been the outcome, of onmity aroused by lying. Through- out the whole of South and Cen- tral China- to-day, there is a great want of regard for the truth among

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APRIL 11, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

HAVING A GOOD TIME AIN'T A MAT-

TER O' AGE. IT'S A MATTER O' BEIN' WILLIN' TO HAVE A GOOD TIME→→ Anne Warner.

PARTNERSHIP CASE.

SUMMARY COURT ACTION COLLAPSES.

The Very Idea!

Some time ago, at a spinning mill, the foreman mechanle sent a new apprentice to the boiler-

Alleging that there was a sue-

Yokohama on Friday and is due over on the same building contract boiler. After

The a.s. Empress of Canada fare Dicion that a plaintiff firm were house to see what the steam pres- trying to obtain their money twico sure gaugo registored On the to arrive at Vancouver on Sunday through two partners, Mr. G. R. absence he returned.

2 few minutes' Haywood applied for the adjourn- "Well, what's the pressure?" ment of a case in the Summary asked his foreman. A Chinese dropped down dead at the Mong-Jacks, acting Pulane Judge,

woman suddenly Court this. morning, before Mr. P. kok Ferry Wharf yesterday after- noon.

The Siberian mail by s.s. Khiva consisted of 111 bags for the G.P.O. and four bags for the Fleet..

The weather forecast issued at noon to-day by the Royal Observa tory prediets: "North-east winds, moderate; overcast, rain."

there

The case was one in which Leung Hop-wo, 15, Sal Street, first Noor, building contractor, sued Tsang Ping-luon, 155, Des Voeux Road Central, third ficer, for the sum of $591 for work done and materials supplied in respect of the building of 9 houses at Shau- kiwau, on inland lot numbers 447 and 448. Mr. Haywood appeared for the defendant, and the plain-a tiff was represented by Mr. C. A. S.

Russ.

Mr. Haywood contended there of was a suspicion that two partners

from the same firm were claim of ing under separate writs from the same defendant firm, but his Lord- ship ruled against him and allow

"I'm no shair," replied tho apprentice, but the finger on the dial says it's a quarter tae three."

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Her lover stayed till much too

late.

Her dad began to pout. Although the girl was fino to

him,

He soon was much put out.

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so-called old-fashioned man and A flirtation conducted between a so-called advanced girl of tɔ-day on a lawn, at a dance.

He: How still the night lu. She (masticating a cigaretto end): Damned band's plumb lazy. Wish they'd play something.

He (locking at her): That is a very pretty dress.

Sho (not even listening): Poisonous laugh that hag's got.

He (moving closer to her):

those who are in power among the Chinese. It is not so bad perhaps in places liko Hongkong and Shang- | next. hai, because there are so many news-disseminating media by which the truth can be told, but even in these large ports there is a fair amount of lying going on among the poorer and ignorant classes. One well-informed correspondent in the North, writing Home a few weeks ago, said that it was practically im possible to get the truth made known among the masses who live in the large and important cities of the Yangtze, and it has to be con-

. During the week-end fessed that a tremendously big pro-was one fresh Chinese case portion of the Chinese people know small-pox reported. There wis

also one Portuguese case nothing other than they are told by

diphtheria. the Chinese, press and that is mostly anti-foreign and anti-British The British vessel Kiangaued the case to proceed. The plain- distortions and inventions.

from the north, reports that two tiff's case collapsed for the mo- half submerged junks were sightment, when he admitted in the wit- This is not only a serious mattered in Latitude 22.23 North, Long-ness box that the plaintiff in ao-There's a sort of magle in the air for China in the present interna-tude 116. East.

other action against the same de-to-night. tional crisis, but it is a vastly more

fendant was a partner in his firm, She (looking at him abruptly); Among the passengers who left and the case was adjourned. What the devil's bitten you? serious affair when viewed in a

for Home on leave on Saturday, In making his application for anYou're not going to turn on the longer perspective. The Chinese by the Kamo Maru, were Mr. and adjournment, Mr. Haywood refer-lop-stuff? are, perhaps, among the most race- Mrs. A. Hicks, Mr. L. Guy, and red to an action in Original Juris He: Has any one ever told you

fiction, which had not yet been what your eyes were like? conscious people in the world-Mr. and Mrs. 4. Steel,

heard, in which Leung Kwong, Sho: Tuny [that's what she they are more obviously "different."

Injured through an iron bar trading as the Wo Yik firm, were calls her father] has got an And if there is going to be anything dropping on his right leg, a Chin, suing Tsang Ping-luen for $3.813 oculist in tow, who talks some at all which will break down theese workman was removed from in respect of 7 houses at Shauki-bosh or other about eye-strain

Sand Street to the Government wan. He said there were affida-through bright lights. natural barriers of race and colour Civil Hospital yesterday..

vits Aled in that antion which He (with a despairing gosture): FAIRLEY-PEMBERTON—AL the and form moře quickly than the

seemed to show that Leung Kwong Won't you ever be yourself with Peak Church on Monday, slow process of the past, it will bu

was connected in some way with me?

She (going up the lawn to the 11th April by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle M.A., Victor these closer understandings which

Leung Hop-wo, either as a foki or partner. When the accounts had ballroom): I came here to be Lionel Alleek

been put in order the amount iamused. Fairley are always horn of friendly trade

claimable on that writ would be as a slam in the jaw with an iron You're about as useful Shanghai to Mabel Pember-intercourse and mutual respect. ton, of Sydney, Australia.

substantially the same as on the bar. One of the greatest hopes of the

Among those arriving by the present writ, and he urged that as there was a suggestion of a cor- future, so far as China is concern- Empress of Russia on Saturday ed, is that she will become "differ- were Mrs. C. II. Benson. Mr. and spiracy the present case should be Mr. F. A.adiourned until the Original Juris- eht"-gradually wearing off the Mrs. G. J. Harman,

diction action was tried. He ad- and Mrs, J. Crampton and Mr. effects of her age-long isolation Dickson.

mitted they owed $694, but did not know to whom to pay it. irem so many of the other peoples of the world. And she can only achieve that by being friendly to foreigners and receptive of their thought. For the Chinese people to be taught to hate and abhor the foreigner, to be told that he is One of the most striking features a heartless murderer and the doer of the whirl of events which has of evil is for a very great blow to precipitated the present crisis in be delivered at the forces of pro- China is the consistent policy of

The propagandists who are fabrication and lying which has driving the Chinese back into an been followed by the directors of insular attitude and into new and the Nationalist cause, and this is intense antagonisms against the

MARRIAGE.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

ous

MONDAY, APRIL 11 1927.

A GREAT WRONG.

gress.

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The American vessal Pawlet. from Pacifie ports, reports that she picked up nine ahipwrecked shermen outside Hongkong at a garly hous this morning."

On board the s.s. President Polk (Dollar Steamship Line) which came into port this morning, and which is proceeding on her round- the-world schedule, is a party of 70 tourists who are circling the globe under the personal conduc- torship of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Robertson, Most of the tourists western States of America. are from California and other

In order to facilitate communi- the Nationalist Ministry of Cort- cations, says the Canton Gazette,

munications has decided to erect six wireless stations at the fol- lowing places: Nanchang in in Shenisi, Chungking in Szechuan, chow in Chekiang. The total cost Changsha in Hunan and Hang- is estimated at $110,000 for each station. The Ministry of Finance will arrange to set aside the funds

a feature well worthy of very seri-eoples of the West are also driv-Kiangsi, Nanning in Kwangst, Sian

consideration by the many ing them back along the road of Powers who are now vitally affect-time, farther away from the day ed by the country's upheaval: We when China shall be a modernised, hear very much of the word "pro-well-governed and happily-peopled paganda" in these days, but surely country. To us, this anti-foreign the service of propaganda wasism is but a political problem, but never more cutraged than it has to the historian it represents a de- been in China within recent months. plorable set-back to the march of

IND.

for this purpose.

Application Opposed. "

Mr. Russ opposed the applica tion, saying that Mr. Haywood eculd cross-examine on the point in the present case.

At

Marylebone an elderly woman, declared lugubriously that her husband had threatened to 'cut her in pieces and pass ber through the mangle."

"Not that I mind that," she said, even more mourningly, "but he frightens the children--just A little."

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Mr. Halkett granted this sum- mons for threats quickly. Time was passing, and it was also pos sible that he desired to frighten After Hia. Lordship had upheld the husband rather more than a Mr. Russ, Mr. Haywood said he little, would ask for an adjournment on the grounds that he wished to M. Justice Avory (to counsel subpoena Leung Kwong, the plain- in High Court)-Surely you don't. tir in the other action, in order pretend that a man has to by to cross-examine him on the point.wealthy to form a company nowa there had been plenty of time for undischarged bankrupts did every Mr. Russ again opposed, saying days. I thought it was a thing any witnesses to be subpoenaed. day.

Mr. Haywood,replied he thought

ment on his first application. he was sure to get an adjourn- Oxford Street la the most

wonderful street in the world.-- His Lordship again upheld Mr. Mr. John Lewis. Russ and the case proceeded.

Books are among the trials of

Shackleton. many literary lives. Miss Edith

No church has ever gone into

said he entered into a contract The plaintiff, giving evidence, with the defendant to build the houses sometime between March polities without coming out badly and April, 1925. That agreement smirched, and discredited.-Dean was signed by the defendant, and Inge.

quite vieux jeu; love has eyes like

imlets now.-Miss Edna Best.

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The March issue of the Chinese it was filed in the Original Juris- It should not be long before all interesting number, including in completed seven of the houses up by long-distance telephones. Mr. Economic Journal is a very diction action. He (plaintiff) had the towns of Europe are connected It can with truth be said that over

its contents a review of trading to the first floor, when payments Milon. since the birth of the Nationalist

in 1926--dealing with the cotton in respect of them stopped. The To the frank, modern woman the movement there has been a grow-

and yarn market, tea, dyestuffs, total work was for over $3,000, old saying, "Love is blind," is ing disregard for veracity in the

piece-goods, silk, wheat and our and of that a balance of $594 was The Singapore Affair. Special artibles review banking in now owing. After the work was news and a deliberate perversion

China, the bullion and exchange Atopped he went to Canton, leaving I am confident that if taxation of facts served up for the benefit returned in the inquest on victims the whole period of last year and charge.

Now that the verdict has been markets, strikes in Shanghai over a foreman named Leung Kwong in could be lightened we should in- of the common people. To go back of the shooting affair at Singapore, their result, and other mattera of

crease the consumption of British Foods. Besides restricting trade, but only two year, we all remember one can more clearly appraise the general information. An interest-

Partnership Admitted.

another effect of our heavy taxes the distortions that appeared in the server at this distance.

situation as it appears to an ob-ing illustrated article deals with

It is only the use of the mule cart in Peking against the defendant arm, alleg

Mr Russ: Did he issue a writ is to kill thrift. Mr. Eric Gamage. Chinese newspapers relating to the within the last few years that the A description of the Hotou region, ing that he was a partner in your

arrested Leonard Eger, Shanghai incidents of May 30th. disorderly clement among thewith a map, and a study of the firm-He is a partner in my firm, Holton, Kansas, on a charge of Chinese population of our sistersoy bean as an item in human diet, but I have to work it out before failure to support his, child, has and to the Shakee affair. Let it

Colony has made itself so con- Care be granted (as indeed it must) that spicuous in the annals of erime worthy of special note.

among other contributions I know what shore he has, been released, on the successful

Mr. Haywood: there are generally two ways of there, and the matter is evidently

This action plea of his counsel that a nursing must stop now, iny Lord!

be He baby carinét classed looking at a matter and that there closely associated with the ques the native. The section of the says Leung Kwong is a partner

ita "destitute" when it receives tion of the new "Nationalism" in must inevitably be a difference of China. For a fairly long period crowd which proved so trouble-

His Lordship, to plaintiff Why food supply from its mother. "tone" in relating the facts of an in the history of the southern port, some happens to be the Hylams, is your partner bringing an action

A farmer went into a jeweller's incident, according to the political there has been a constant warfare a community of Hainan island, as well?-I don't know.

Mr. Russ remarked his instruc-shop to buy a timepiece. The leanings of he who is doing the between the, police and the Triad who have always been the most tions were that Leang Kwong was jeweller asked if, he ever saw 3

societies, and it is specially inter-lawless element of the consmopoli- not a partner, but if the plaintiff cuckoo clock. relativig, and there still remains a esting to note that the Kuomintan inhabitants of Singapore. Of admitted he was, that altered the

"No," anid, the farmer, "but I very definite line on one side of tang has always been considered late they had grown extremely bel-whole position:

saw a hen clock many a time!" an unlawful society in Singapore,ligerent against constituted au- which is factual truth and on the where not very long ago several thority, and no doubt imagined the best thing to do is for this His Lordship: It seems to me other sheer falsification. It is on members of this body were pro- that they could defy the police a plaintiff to join with the Original on a London (Ontario) newspaper. Charles Maisha (19), a reporter the latter side that Nationalist pro- secuted and fined for establishing little more than was wise, as de- Jurisdiction uction.

pleaded guilty to a charge of Не paganda has flourished, thanks to in Chinn has had a direct influence Whatever the final decision in the Mr. Russ sald had he known the admitted he had set fire to a build-

In agreeing to an adjournment, arson in the Police Court. in the Malayan city, and the meet-matter--and so far as the evid-facts he would not have urged for ing with a view to securing a ing last month to commemorate ence goes, the police constables ap- the case to be continued. the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen had peared to have justification, on

the guidance and teaching given by

the extremists of Moscow. It would

a branch association. The trouble velopments afterwards proved.

newspaper.

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as

be possible to enumerate many in-

Mr. Haywood auggested that his journalistie "scoop" over a rival an additional fervour which led their side in firing on a menacing original application should now cidents of which the Chincas public to the unfortunato riot and sub-mob-the affair is not likely to ax-be upheld, that the easo be has been told only grossly untrue or sequent shooting in which Mix sume any great proportions. In adjourned until the Original Juris.

Chinese lost their lives. The land where the native popula- diction action had been heard and According to an official state- exaggerated stories. The Foochow Jury has returned a verdict which tion is intensely loyal and con- settled.

ment, the total value of arms and story of foreign missionaries col-at bost must be described as non-tented, the Hylams, an alien im- Mr. Russ said he thought if the munitions of war imported into lecting Chinese bables for the par- committal, leaving the queation of migrant section, have lost all sym-case was adjourned sine die they China was 806,036. Haiwan taela pose of killing them to police justification still to be pathy by their continued defiance could talk the matter over between in 1923, 1,615,711 Halkwan taels in 1024, and 7,311,584 Hallwan taels fought out, either by controver-of authority, even the other Chin- themselves. obtain parts of their bodies slalista or by means of an official ose communities, for the most part His Lordship accordingly in 1925. The figures for 1925 show that the value of arms and for export le an example that departmental enquiry. Fortunate law-abiding, being hostile to them. adjourned the case sinc die.

munitions imported from, the comes readily to mind, andy, Singapore is sufficiently remov. The killing of rioters was unfor-

countries named was:-Germany, ed from the heart of the Chinese tunate, and perhaps innocent have there have been almost countless trouble to be in a position to attach suffered with the guilty, but the A coolio toppled off his seat on 3,813,644 Haikwan taels: Norway, others. The Hankow and Nanking only ordinary riot importance to whole affair has a lossen to lina lorry which was proceeding 1,272,855; Italy, 1,014,338; Japan, exaggerations are typical, and most the affair." The Chinese popula-part, and it is to be hoped that along Robinson Road yesterday. 420,899 Hongkong, 211,967. (The of what has occurred at Canton and who have no birthright at stake, application will take it most to and arms and was taken to the taol in the years named averaged tion are for the moat part allens, those for whom it has the greatest Ho received injuries to his head value of the Haikwan, or Customs,

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