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MONDAY,

APRIL 25, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE WORLD IF IT WAS NOT EMBELLISHED BY LITTLE CHILDREN.---Binney.

Commission is most definite and the report proceeds to deal at great length with: the problem of the Indian Guards, the un- satisfactory character of the present system being frankly ad- mitted. It is stated that the principal weakness of the present depart for Weihaiwai on Thursday. system is the divided responsibility Bishop Valtoria left Hongkong somewhat conflicting nu-to-day for the interior. He will be

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MARRIAGE.

MAXWELL-TAIT: On April 2nd, 1927, at the Union Church, Kow- loon, by the Rev. J. Kirk Macon-

nchie, David Hour, videst son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H, Muxwell, Walkerville. Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Gertrude, elder daughter of

Mr.

and Mrs. Tait, Burradon, Northumberland.

BIRTH.

CARR. On April 23rd, 1927, at Victoria Hospital, the wife qi T. W. Carr, (P.W.D.), a son.

hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1937.

PIRACY REPORT.

thority of the Police and the owners and Masters of vessels upon which

H. M. S. Ambrose is detailed to

absent a week.

THE ST. GEORGE'S DAY CELEBRATIONS.

INSPIRING ADDRESS AT CATHEDRAL.

Club.

The Very Idea!

The professor and his wife had enjoyed their previous holiday on a farm so well that it was their desire to repeat it.

St. George's Day was fittingly The only thing that made them celebrated over the week-end. In doubtful was that they had boun addition to the laying of wreaths somewhat annoyed by the proxi on the Cenotaph on Saturday foro mity of the pigsty to the house. noon, there was the entertainment to Service mon at the Queen's the farmer and explained the Finally, the professor wrote to Passengers to Manila and Aus-Theatre in the evening, and at objectionable feature. He rece tralian ports by the All Maru on night special dances were held ated the following reply; Saturday, Included the violinist the Hongkong Hotel and Peak Jascha Heifetz and party.

On Saturday, also, H.E. the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, and Capt. Steele, his A.D.C., attended as Huests of the President and Committee of St. George's Society at a lúntheon in the palm court of the Hongkone Hotel, the de- corations being symbolie of the day.

The Wing On overhaul will prob- ably be completed on or

about Thursday, and she will resume her rilace on the Kongmoon run од

The P. and O. 8.8. Moren and s.s. Nyanza, with the English and out- ward mails, are both due to arrive here from Singapore on Thursday

morning.

Cathedral Service.

The services at St. John's Cathe- dral yesterday morning were in the nature, of thanksgiving ser vices in which for the first time in its history as a Society, the President, Committee and mem- bers of the Hongkong St. George's Society participated.

the guards are employed, and the Commission has come to the conclu- sion that the engagement and con- trol of guards should be left entire.

The Empress of Asia is expect ly in the hands of the owners, the ed to reach Shanghai from Nagn- Captain Superintendent of Police! this evening and will leave

for Hongkong to-morrow. to assist in their provision if re- quested. The present system by which the guards are engaged and disciplined by the police and then put on board ships without the con- | Sunday, sultation of the Captain is bad, beenuse

the Captain has only a Į limited authority over the men. It is now proposed that the guards should be employed by the owners just as are the seamen of a ship, and we think that the proposal will find ready acceptance. As regards further measures for the preven- tion of piracy, it is recommended that the prosent Regulations be rescinded, that more assistance should be given by the navy in patrolling, and that as regards pirate strongholds, and falling

The service comprising prayers, The Corporals of the King's Own lessons and hyana, was conducted effective co-operation by the Chin Scottish Borderers are holding a by the Rev. H. Copley 2Moyle, ese, their destruction should be dance at the R. E. Theatre on Wed-assisted by the Rev. G. E. S. carried out whenever it scens desir-nesday, at which it is understood Upsdell and the Cathedral Choir. both Lady Clementi, and the G.O.C. Mr. R. A. Brown officiated at the able and expedient. With refer- and Mrs. Luard will be present,

Towards the close the ence to the root of all piracy, the;

congregation sang "God Save the report states that "it is a common-

King, and at the dispersal the

and Glory."

While feeding clay to the pag- mill at the Brick Works at Deep Water Bay, yesterday, a workman had one finger taken off by the machinery.

There were three Chinese cases of typhoid fever reported over the week-end, and also one Chinese case of small-pox and one Chinese case of cerebro-spinal fover.

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"We ain't had no pigs on the placo since you was hero last summer.. Be sure to come."

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A publican, a baker, a doctor, and a draper, candidates for an English Town Council election, it is reported, have adepted this four-full slogan:--

"Vote for whisky, vote for dough,

Castor oil, and calico."

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An amusing situation arose at the sitting of the West Stirling- shire Justices at Cumpale, in the Lennox Arms Hotel.

One of the Justices, Sir George Stirling, D.S.O., of Glorat, left his car on the street in front of the hotel. It so happened that the

A lawyer for accused stated it was quite a common practice; in fact, there was one there at the moment.

There were present the Pres-first case called was one in which dent of the Society and Mrs. C. G. the accused party was charged Alabaster, the two Past Prea with leaving his car at that place. dents; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and Mr.

A. Dowley, Lady Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, Rev. Mr. F. A. Wells, Mr. W. J. Eldridge, Mr. E. Cock, My. P: S. Cassidy, Mr. R. A. Jar- dine, Mr. E. Ralphs and others.

organ.

Sir George Stirling (chairman of the Justice)--My car is there just now. (Laughter.) of five days' imprisonment, wID A penalty of 5s., with the option

imposed.

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From the class-room-

Ket's Rebellion was caused by the enclosure of the Commons, on which the poprer classes used to graze.

place to repeat that the elimination tee acknowledge with many thanks organist rendered "Land of Hope wall built by the Russians to keep

The partition of Poland was the

the Germans out.

St. Andrew is the patient saint of Scotland: the patent saint of England is Union Jack.

Cannibal is two brothers who killed each other in the Bible.

The Hospital Comforts Commit-

receipt of six cases of miscellaneous of piracy on the China coast must Hospital Comforts from the Joint

A collection was taken for the await improvement in the condition Council of "The Order St. John" of the country as a whole, and that and "The British Red Cross So-provision of Hospital comforts for

the troops of the ciety."

Shanghai Defence Corps. while no effort is made to deal with

Choosing for his address the pirates in their liars ashore by their own Government, and whilst the Stedman, M.D., of Bramcote, Wey-text of Jeremiah 5, verse 15, "A bridge, and late of Hongkong, who Mighty Nation," the Rev. Mr. efforts of those with power through- died on Feb. 2, aged 64, left estate Conley Movie and he believed it out the land end only in the en-of the gross value of £107,195, with was the first time the local He left officials of the St. George's Society couragement of disorder and dea-net persónulty £101,040. |truction, so long will piracy flourish £500 to the Weybridge Cottage Hos.ind attended a commemorative penny, but did not get it.

service as a body, and he wel- comed their presence. The

The late Dr. Frederick Osmund

pital.

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Magistrate, at' Tottenham, to a man accused of begging: Are you guilty

or not guilty? Man: Nearly guilty. I asked for a

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Mr. W. Borrowman, of Messrs. Thought for the necasion was the Marylebone for a summons for

patron saint, St. George, said Mr.

W. S. Bailey and Co., was some Moyle, who proceeded to sketch what seriously injured about the face as the result of a collision be- the life-history of the Saint, so far tween his notor-cycle and a motor-as we know it, as well as refer us in Coronation Road yesterday.to the allegorical story of the slay Mr. Borrowman was passing the ing of the dragon. bus when it turned unexpectedly towards the middle of the road, and the motor-cycle crashed into the site. The injured man was taken to the Kowloon Hospital and de- tained.

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A man applied unsuccessfully at would be a simple matter for any Chinese authority to smoke out such

assault against a hairdresser who, a notorious nest as Blas Bay, and

he alleged, clipped his eyelashes to keep it under control; but until

against his will." the Chinese can be induced to take

Judge Cluer, action themselves, or Lo allow

County Court: Deductions to be drawn from casier than law. is very evident from the action to be taken in the common

the story, continued the preacher. lengthy report of the "Sunning" interests, the risk of piracies in

were the national characteristics

Man accused of drunkenness at they portrayed, chiefly the spirit Piracy Commission, which we pub- Chinese waters will remain....

of adventure that had always Lambeth: I had nothing to speak High on another page of to-day'a Wholly to prevent piracy involves

actuated Englishmen; and con- of. I might have had six or seven laste, that the Commission went a destruction of the conditions

nested therewith were the love for glasses of ale, nothing more. thoroughly into the whole question which breed pirates, a common duty on this morning, with returning duty, and the love of liberty. Charged before Major C. Will-outdoor sport, the adherence to of piracy prevention as well as of every civilised Government."efore his ten-year term of banish Throughout it all was the sense making an exhaustive enquiry into That is the right note on whichment had expired, a Chinese ex-of responsibility, and the dominant the facts and circumstances sur- to end any reference to this great convict pleaded that he had made Christian influence that charged rounding the piracy of the steamer evil of piracy, for every other device slight miscalculation when at the race.

tempting to reckon the time ne- He concluded by expressing the Sonning. There are very many is but a palliative and not a cure. ording to the Chinese calendar.hope that this heritage would be conflicting opinions extant regard-

Sergeant Vincent, of the Finger-handed on to the generations to Prints Bureau, stated that the de-follow, and become more and more fendant had only one-and-a-half- bjessing to the whole world. years more before completing his hard labour was passed. term. Sentence of six months*

Anzac Day.

The

OBITUARY.

DIRECTOR OF MANILA THEATRES,

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The Thames Embankment saw

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one of the most dramatic incidents in its history "recently, when a young man dived into the river and saved a drowning pigeon. It was opposite Cleopatra's Needle that the maimed bird WAS struggling for its life, watched by a crowd of people. ing the proper way, to prevent

A young man joined the crowd. He threw off piracy, but we think that even those!

his coat, unlaced his boots, and who disagree with the Commis- To-day is Anzac Day, of glorious.

dived into the river. He clasped the bird's foot and swam to the sion's Sndings will agree that the memory. Throughout the Common-

steps. Then he picked up his. Commission did its work extremely wealth of Australia and Dominion

of New Zealand, this amiversary The four river gunboats for ser-

coat and pressed it round the bird. well and have succeeded in present-is fittingly celebrated, and in other vice in China which were ordered

Lord Dewar tells the following ing a report of very great value, parts of the world, where there are last your from Messrs. Yarrow and

Australasian

"An American with a guidebook Associations,

are of two types. the Co., We think the members of the Com-members will gather for their an-Gannet and Petrel are of 319

in his hand knocked at a coor in mission rightly came to the conclu-nual luncheon or dinner, and the tons, with engines of 2,250 h.p.,

South Belgravia and asked the Mr. Frank Goulette, one of the landlady, 'Is this where Goldsmith sion that an effective search on toaste will be to the men who fought giving a speed of 16 knots, the totai

She anid, 'I cannot re- board ship is practically impossible placed the colonies "down under" on

in those engagements that for ever oil fuel capacity being 60 tons; and most widely known business men lived?

the Scamew and Tern, of 202 tons, in the Philippines, died of cancer member a gentleman of that name and that, so far us the present the plane of grown nations. An with geared turbines of 1,350 hp. of the stomach at his home in Ma-that stayed here.' 'I mean Oliver search provisions up and down the Australian historian, writing the giving a speed of 14 knots, the oflrine City, Michigan, on the even-Goldsmith, the poet.' 'A poet, oh,

Bothing of April 18. official account of the Anzac parti-fuel capacity being 50 tons.

He is survived he could never have stayed here; Const go, it is a comparatively cipation in hostilities during the types, however, will carry two 3-in. by his widow and two children. our lodgers have to pay cash in

He was 46 years old. easy matter at any port ho- Great War, sets down the Gallipoli guns and eight smaller weapons. tween Shanghai and Singapore campaign as the period when the In the important natter of draught, Australasian race came to its cons the new gunboats will draw 3ft. (with the passible exceptions of ciousness of nationhood, and the 2% in. of water and 3 ft. 2 in. Bangkok and Kwangchowan, owing rest of the world to à realisation of water respectively, as compared that bure was another unit of the with the 4 ft. of the large gunboats to strict search) to snuggle arms Imperiai commonwealth that had of the "Insect" class, mounting in and ammunition on board ship passed through its baptism of fire, runs, which now constitute the bulk In the case of the Sunning the Com-and emerged in virile member of of the flotilla. The old-type gun- from 1896-1900, mission thought that the Piracy the British family congress. It bouts, dating

may be recalled that the word which the new craft are to replace, Regulations were not taken serious-Anzac embodies the initials of the have from 2 ft. to 23% ft. draught,

The Arst show house under his In this connexion, it is interest- ly enough and that among the Australian and New Zealand Army The Petrel and the Tern are at

management was the Paco theatre.ing to note that there is an agre being reconstructed at officers there was a false sense of Corps, the first unit to sail for the present

He later acquired the cine Lux on ment between France and Scot- scene of action when war broke out, Taikos Dockyard and are nearing Plaza Santa Cruz and finally built land dating from the time of the security, inasmuch as some of the and which, in conjunction with completion. The Gannet and the

Hundred Years' War, when Scot- grilles were not kept properly lock-other Imperial forces, covered it. Seamew, which are en route from the Lyric theatre on the Escolta,

Mr. Goulette was the founder of tish troops were helping France,, ed. The Commission came to the self with undying fame in the land- England, will be assembled at the the Lyric Film Exchange. In 1921 which has never definitely been

ing at Gallipoli, and the subsequent same Dockyard. conclusion that the grille system operations on the peninstin. The

his interests were incorporated un-repealed, and which gives Scots der the firm name: France and the benefits of French citizenship, has a positive value, and, in con- campaign was, from a strictly sidering the efficiency of anti-military point of view, unsucessful, will have reminiscences of "the Goulette, Inc. This organization including presumably exemption

The ultimate evacuation was as campaigning days to exchange, expanded until it controlled more from the identity card tax. piracy fittings in a ship, thought glorious an enterprise in some ways Chiefly, it is a day of deathless re-than 200 theatres in the Inlands,

Medicine must be unpleasant to

1. that the value of grilles for anti-n the original fanding. But actu- collections, and one that has been including many small houses in

F. J. on set aside for ever as a record; even Manila. He also was the owner of inspire confidence, Dr. piracy purposes might over-ride ally the long, weary fight the possible conflict with the Board ease the situation elsewhere, and sacred to the one purpose by State restaurant which bears his name,

that small peninsula did much to the name Anzac being preserved the Lyric Music House and the Waldo.

London is one of the healthiest on Echague at Santa Cruz bridge. places in the world to live in.→ of Trade Instructions, and that the we know now that at the moment legislation. There are not many

His motion picture intorests Lord Haddo. risks involved by grilles may easily of seeming defeat we were very near Australasians in the local com-

a nagnificent success. Wherever munity, and special celebration by were disposed of by Mr. Goulette |be exaggerated. But it was stipu-Australians and New Zealanders them is not possible, but to any of In 1925.

lated that grilles, to be effec- meet to-day there will be a spirit our readers who come from the While in Manila Mr. Goulette tive, must be unscalable and must of comradeship, and the veterana Antipodes, and especially to those was an active member of many of the war, the real "diggers," in who may happen to be of the An- lodges and clubs. He was a Ma- be supported by a fortified bridge. particular those whose privilege it zaca, we offer congratulations on son, belonging to Minerva lodge

On the two last-named points the 'was to be among the true Anzaca, this day of their proudest memories. No. 41.

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Mr. Goulette went to the Philip- pines with the volunteers in 1899. A Spanish claim based on an is civilian career began in agreement of 1862, under which, Manila as a member of the police Spaniards will not have to pay the force, and for a time he was in identity card fee required from charge of the general police mess. other foreigners residing in In 1906 he became interested in France more than two months, has the theatre business and was a just been allowed by the French pioneer in bringing American Government, says the Morning films to the Pallippines.

Post Paris correspondent.

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English manufacturers are much to modest in their claims.—Sir Sydney Skinner,

The Socialist teaching seems largely one of plenty to eat and plenty to drink-Rev. H. J. Marz thall.