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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

MAY 9, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

Yangtze and the resumption of ita enormous trade are matters so vital to the welfare of China that

IT IS CUSTOMARY TO, ENCOURAGE there would be no luck of justi- PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN Acation if the Powers. di com- | MWAYS BE MASTERS

OF THEIR

FATES. BUT FACTS--WHICH ARE mence to expreise stern, control. NEVER EMOTIONAL--DEMONSTRATE Foreign interests alone would THAT CIRCUMSTANCES OVER WHICH make such a step almost advisable, WE HAVE NO CONTROL FREQUENTLY AFFECT MEN'S DESTINIES.---Richard but the Powers whose nationals

Strei. trade with China owe it to the Chinese to prevent

a policy of

|ing specie amounting to $21,000.

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During the week-end there was only one case of notifiable disease reported, this being a Chinese ease Weef typhoid fever.

THE NANKING

ATROCITY..

OUTSPOKEN COMMENT,

The Very Idea!

In connexion with the Beethoven centenary, the following story s

What is being done about the fold of a concert of classical music Nanking atrocity, asks the N. C.in America:---

The "Leonora" overture, in which Daily News in an editorial article on Tuesday last. We are now in two trumpet pussages "off-stago" the third month, close on eight are played, was being performed, weeks, ainee it happened. All the but on neither occasion did the After the furious conductor

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The Hydrangea arrived this advantage of swift, stern justice trumpeting come in.

overlure the CUT DOWN EXPENSES | drift from causing overwhelming morning from Fort Bayard carry-has been lost by inexcusable de rushed to the wings and found the Ins. It would almost seem as if fireman apostrophising the trum- the outrage were altogether for poter, "I tell you you can't play gotten. Meanwhile now events have followed to distract attention yet further from it. By some Ümid creatures it is argued that, as Chiang Kai-shek has arisen to A Chinese, stated to be employ-crush the Communista," nothing ed at the Dairy Farm at Pokfu- must be done which might give lum, suddenly collapsed and died him offence and serve to change on the waterfront on Saturday.

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disaster. The unfortunate thing is that there is little likelihood of the Powers, in concert, taking the steps that are necessary. have seen in the ease of the Nan- king Note how the Washington Government is in divergence with the others and how Japan is none too anxious to assume responsibil.

One ease of small-pox and one ities which are not evenly borne of enteric fever were the only by others. Britain has been urged notifications of infectious disease to take the steps that are neces-appearing on the health return on

Saturday. Both were Chinese, sary, but there is obvious cause for caution and reflection before any one Power embarks upon a course of action in which others will not join her and by the execution of which she would stand to hear the brunt of enemy-inspired villifica-

tion.

We are firmly convinced that this policy of drift is all wrong and tremendously costly in every way to all concerned, but, it would seem that the hour has not yet brought forth the will or the means to avert an ever-growing disaster. It is not a very hape ful reflection with which one is left, after reading Mr. Simpson's tale of chaos, because porte of the „Powers still fail to understand the YANGTSZE TRAGEDY, 'imperative need for action, or to

Hongkong Telegraph. disaster.

MONDAY, MAY 9 1997.

realize the sin of omission they are committing by not interven- ing on behalf of the peaceful mil- one of this great country of

China.

The s.s. Empress of Canada is duc at Yokohama to-day, on schedule. Capt. S. Robinson, C.B.E., R.N.R., is on leave, an Capt. A. J. Hailey, R.N.R., is in command.

his

that 'ere. There's a concert on." The youngster laughed when

father slipped. And fell upon the floor. But father chanced to hear

him, so. He doesn't any more.

Hackney landlady: My lodger kicked up an awful row. He said that some one had taken his spec- taelca, and all the time they were

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mind. To others, equally irresolute, visions appear of the Communist bubble Hanko disappearing in spontaneous com- bustion, of rogues falling out and hancat men thus quietly coming on his nose. to their own again, So once more, better to do nothing and wait on Willesden magistrate: There Meanwhile, an unsur was nothing wrong with your con- events.

Thank you, sir.

Man:

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passed wrong remains unrequited duct. and new conviction is instilled Please tell my wife that." into the lawless that foreigners may be harried and looted and murdered with impunity.

of

An

Stout man at Tottenham: I am a baker, Magistrate: A baker! Man: Yes, but I agree that I look like a publican.

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Wife at Willesden: I am separ- aled from my husband--not legally, but because we have so many chil- dren that there is no room. "

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Judge Cluer at Shoreditch: I prefer my own opinion to that of my doctor.

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We protest most strongly against A four-year-old Chinese child the unpardonable procrastination was killed yesterday through a fall that has let the weeks drift by and from the first floor of No. 117 nothing be done. We protest in house. Whitfield, into the backyard of the the name of the hundreds of

foreigners The body was taken to deeply wronged the Mortuary.

Nanking and in the cause of the dignity and honour of the whire man in China. Recollections of Lien-cheng begin to afford ominous parallel. When the nows of the attack on the Blue Express Woman: She struck me and said, first went round the world, the "Now I will bet you 45 you are answer came back that govern-afraid to take me into court. Clerk:" ments were rendy to do every And you took the bet? Woman: thing and anything to obtain full Yes. In a fall resulting from an at- tempt to board a moving tram at reparation. And all this just

Indignation came to naught. Su At a meeting of the Wem Guard- the Praya East on Saturday, Chinese was injured in the left it begins to be feared of the cacians the master reported that a of Nanking. It is not as if most female inmate, aged 68, who had arm. He was taken to the Govern-rgent representations had not died of influenza, had been in the ment Civil Hospital.

Through being knocked down by a motor cycle at Queen's Road East, a 10-year-old Chinese girl was removed to the Government Civil Hospital on Saturday with injuries to her legs.

tish.

over the

general toning down of all high lights and lessened value in the essential features?

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Ne-up can have read Mr. Len-

been telegraphed to London from house since she was a fortnight old. influential quarters in China. The Clerk: She has cost 135 nox Simpson's, despatches from

The total shipping arrivals and The question, however, must be 21,700. thi Yaugtsze, or more especially

departures

week-end asked: Have equally urgent re The Chairman: No, she has cost numbered 32 and 27 respectively. presentations gone from all quarus nothing. I have visited the house the interview he granted to Reur

of which 14 and 12 were British, ters? Have all representatives many times and never saw her idle. tre's correspondent at Shanghai

leaving in harbour this morning of Great Britain in China shown 71 vessels, of which 26 were Bri-an equally keen appreciation of upon his return there last week,

Task For Red Cross.

Do scientists make a practice of

their che vital principle involved and "analysing" without realising

friends and the extra-

From what at first seemed

The unquestionable need of strong others with whom they come in ordinary gravity of the situa- small affair, the flooding follow- A Chinese male passenger on action? Is it possible that once contact? Apparently they do, for tion along China's greatest ing the excessive rise in the the Hulchow suddenly died white again Peking has proved too far Sir Ernest Rutherford told this Mississippi River has developed the steamer was anchored at No. from the centre of realities for a story at the dinner of the British [waterway. That waterway is,

also, her greatest trade route the United States, and the

into the worst in the history of 33 Buoy on Saturday. There were just appreciation of them? that Wireless Dinner Club at the

Redno suspicious elrcumstances, and distance has lént, if not enchant- Trocadero, London. ami along its banks are Cross there is faced with the the remains were taken ashore toment to the view, at any rate a

"I was at Oxford last year at the many of the largest and most urgent need of aiding considerably the Kowloon Mortuary.

meeting of the British Association. over 200,000 people who have been

was with Sir Arthur Keith, and I famous cities of the country, the victims of

said to him—A gathering like this this disaster, A mishap secured at the new St.

must be of great interest to you, These, says "Putnam Weale," have There is also the need to re-till Paul's Girls College building at

We urge once again that Great because you can study the skulls of heen reduced to mere riot-centres, many square miles of territory Kennedy Road on Saturday, when Britain will break away from the those around you? He said 'Yes,

that has been devastated, and to semblance of effective find seed sufficient to re-now the edge in the second floor and time-serving of the Diplomatic that group over there consisting of one of the workmen slipped from intolerable shilly-shallying and it is of great interest. You see governmental control. Millions-valuable crops that have been dropped a distance of twenty feet Body and will boldly proceed to Sir Oliver Lodge. Sir Arthur tens of milliens--of Chinese are utterly ruined. We read day by to the groand. He received in action as she did in sending the Schuster, and the Earl of Balfour.

day of the incidents connected juries to the head and legs, and defence being seriously affected for ill by with the flood-of animals render-was removed to the Government That

forces. to Shanghul. If you go and dig in this country hundred-times justified you will find the kind of skull that the great unheaval which has left ed tame by hunger, of ruman Civil Hospital in a serious condi-stroke saved Shanghai. Another Sir Oliver Lodge has. If you go the region in a disordered, soldier-beings almost at the extreme of tion.

would with equal certainty save to Nineveh you will find Schuster's ridden and penorious state, and it despair, who are huddled, some of them on the insecure levecs,

the Yangtze Valley. We go back type of skull; and Balfour's is a The exhibition of pictures Is distinctly disquieting to think awaiting succour.

at again to the demand we made last typical Scottish akull.'" Help is being premises of Messrs. Komor and week for the occupation of Han- sent from all over the country, and Komor has attracted a large num-kow. takes the form of rescues by boat ber of people, many of whom have Yangtze and the disease with served.-Lord Cottesloe.

It is the nerve centre of the The stingy man is never well and by aeroplane, that being in taken the opportunity of acquiring which it is infected is paralyzing itself sufficient to point to

If you want a wife to your mind, the some of the work exhibited. the whole of central China. To you must bring her up yourself.—- greatness of the catastrophe and There are still some wonderful wait on events in that region or Rev. R. J. Campbell. The territory affected comprises and oils, but residents are reming- saviour from some other quarter party will be the Government again. the vastness of the area affected. examples in both water colours for the possible appearance of a urban areas, rich agriculturaled that sections. valuable forests, and closes on Friday next.

the display definitely of the compass is only to waste Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.

more time, to deepen the miseries What has been done already in developed tracks where ronds, railways, industrial concerns, and

with no

latest

news from the

sidered proved.

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Two years hence the Labour

Money won at billiards cannot be to-recovered.

that the Nationalists-the power that invaded and broke up the old regimes along this great river have split into factions and have thereby taken away all semblance of centrally-directed control. I it any wonder that Mr. Simpson should speak of suspense and

of the decent Chinese people of the case of Boards of Guardians [stagnation? All down the river, so forth, have probably been At the Marine Court this morn. Hupeh and increase the difficulties may be done in the case of Town Bettlement. Now Councils.--Mr. Neville Chamber- from Hankow to Shanghai there ruined. The question of re ing before Lieut. Commdr. 3. W. of ultimuse

habilitation and repair is

Newill R.N., D.S.O., the master of a the time to act when, as Mr. lain. now is no trade and an absence of occupying the minds of those con. the motor boat Australia was fined Lenox Simpson reminds us in the $15, with the alternative of two striking interview published tv-

Among the legal points given in conditions in which it can be re-cerned, but the prime necessity is werks' imprisonment, for failing day, all previous authority has a certain almanack are the follow- started. There is no Yangtze an abatement of the flood and the

draining a way of the water, before to exhibit the regulation lights disintegrated into congeries of ing group capable, at the moment, of anything can be done to efface the whilst under way. Defendant riot-centres. To occupy Hankow Anyone letting off fireworks in forming anything remotely re-signs of devastation. This in any admitted that the stern. light was

pleaded not guilty, but later is not difficult; it would show that public is liable to a fine of £5.

we realized where the true res- You must not play cards in a pub- sembling a Government. The fall case is a long and weary task. in not burning, and the case was con-ponsibility for the Nanking out-le-house.

view of the nature of the disaster, of the Hankow clique might, if and

rage lay and it would be a step of paramount effectiveness the threat to it results in its down- Mississippi area suggests that

wards the restoration of peace ani fall, eventually weld together the conditions are likely to

worse. The task ahead of

order throughout Central China. opposing factions, and there is Red Cross and other relief organi bound to be a period of evensations is therefore not yet capable of being estimated. The whole prevailing, before things simmer the catastrophe with sentimenta of down to such a condition. The the deepest sympathy for those week-end telegrams have told of affected, and for the people and Government of the United States mevore fighting between the Han-in this terrible trial that has

traps and the Fenglien hefallen the country. kow

forces, and it would seem as though Hankow, with the formid- able array of opponents all round it and the failure of the expected assistance from Marshal Feng Yu- lesiang, is due for an early col- Tapse.

And when that comes it

grow

Publicans cannot recover for beer, &c., consumed on their pre- mises.

A bailif must not break into a

greater chaos than that at present world, we feel 'sure, must viewW. Schofield, at the Kowloon ALLEGED STOWAWAYS house, but he may enter by the

:

LAME HAWKER.

*** When a case in which a female the Passenger arriving from the North by the Takliwn, charged with the possession of 39 tuels, of prepared opium, was mentioned before Mr.

Magistracy this morning, Revenue Officer Lanigan explained that the defendant had been taken ill since her arrest and was unable to ap- pear in Court. The case was ad- journed pending her recovery,

ACQUITTED OF SQUATTING CHARGE.

OBITUARY.

SURG. LT. COMDR, G. AUBREY. The death has occurred at the Naval Hospital of a popular naval officer in the person of Surgeon

PLEA OF LOST TICKETS.

chimney,

Tradesmen cannot be compelled to well their goods at the prices mark- ed in the windows.

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"We are ruined!" exclaimed the Two Chinese who were charged manager of the Kentucky Slasher, before Mr. W. Schofield at the as he rushed into the office and seat- Kowloon Magistracy this morning ed himself on an empty soup-box. with atowing away on board the "What's the matter now?" asked as. Yuen Sang from Singapore the editor, looking up absentedly pleaded that they had purchased from a brilliant article he was writ- tickets before embarking fo:

ing on pea-nuty. Hongkong but, during the voyage "See here! Didn't we advertise from Singapore to Hoihow, some sheet music as a premium to sub- Pergon had stolen their tickets and scribers 7"

"Sure, boss."

money.

The compradore of the ship "Waal, our miserable contempor-

Is difcult to see how even greater lane man into Mr. R. E. Lindsell's t-Comdr. G. Aubrey, of H.M.Save evidence of finding the two ary over the way is now giving

confusion is to be avoided.

Mr. Simpson'a plen is that the hour has arrived when the facts

A Chinese constable brought a

Court this morning and charged him with squatting, a procedure Tamur,

men among the deck passengers away pianos to play the music on." without tickels, but when asked by

which was contrary to the condi- Admitted into the Naval Hos-the Magistrate how many tickets tions of the man's hawking license, pital suffering from pneumonia, it had been issued by the agents and Banished from the Colony on will have to be faced and recondition, his Worship anid:

On discovering the man's con is stated, he passed away last if the number of passengers August 6, 1026, for a period of

What night.

Deceased, who was only tallied with the number of tickets Ave years, #b Chinese. was, this struction attempted by force from else could you expect him to do 2 years of age, leaves a widow sold, witness said he was not in morning. sentenced to Baven

with whom much without, but that is a plea which, than squatting?

sympathy a position to give the number of months hard labour and 20 strokes unfortunately, is not likely to re- Remarking that the man should is felt.

tickets sold.

of the birch by Mr. W. Schofield not have been brought there at The funeral, with full naval

The case was adjourned till to-at the Kowloon Magistracy for re- sult in action by those who oughtall, his Worship ordered his dishonours, takes place at Happy morrow morning for the neces-turning before the expiration of to take it. The navigation of the "charge.

Valley the afternoon.

his term of banishment.

sary evidenca if available,

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