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WEDNESDAY,

JUNE

DAY BY DAY.

IN GIVING, A MAN RECEIVES MORE THAN HE GIVES:--MacDonald.

1927.

KUOMINTANG AND "SINWANPAO.”

CIRCULATION OF SHANGHAI

YOU sort that these "stunt" fights have little practical value, and that they MUST

are the product of seekers" after OWN IT

sensation and notoriety, but these croakers are as badly astray na wore the thought-shy folk of YCATE

The RMS. Empres of Canada ago who, inveighed against the left Kobe yesterday at 7 pm., and "abomination called a railway is due at Yokohama on the 9th train." In a very true sense our June at 6. am. long-distance fliers of to-day are. The Ambulance Brigade theatri-Shanghai Kuomintang Political but the ploneers of a flying age, forcal performance at the Lee

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DEATH.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE

8,

1927

AVIATION TRIUMPH.

will

the day is purely coming when Thontre to-morrow night, flight will be as every-day an affair begin at 5.30 p.m., not at 9.15, as as motoring is to-day. Man out-previously announced. strips his fellow inhabitants of this world in whatever matter to which

he applies his reason and he will vet outstrip the achievements of oven the greatest of our long flight birds. That he will contrive to fashion better machines, incor- porating a more natural mechanism of propulsion than the propeller de- vite we know at presunt, and that

he will learn more of the art of planing and gliding is unquestioned. But, meanwhile, there is reason to be proud of the fact that there are men of outficient valour to set out on long hazardous journeys, depend- ing on the reliability of highly- intricate internal combustion en- gines, the development of a fault in which instantly imperils their safety. Chamberlin and Lindbergn have been regaled with congratula- tions, and they have truly written their rames on the serell of fame, just as have Alcock, Brown, Pinedo, Doisy, Cobham and a score of

others.

Burma Slavery.

This morning's Harbour Office Reports gave 15 arrivals and 13 'departures, of which six and five respectively were British, leaving 53 vessels in harbour, British 24.

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The Very Idea!

A famous golfer' was making a round of the course with his caddie, who was apt to atammer of excitement. Was in moments

Arrived at one particularly dif

did this hole in two the other ficult hole, the golfer remarked:

day."

PAPER FORBIDDEN.

Considerable surprise caused in Shanghai Chinese circles last week by reports which were circulated to the effect that tho

Bureau, acting under instructions: from the yamon of the Commender in-Chief of the Nationalist 1 orces (Gen, Chiang Kai-shek), had for- bidden the distribution of the Sinwanpao, one of the leading vernacular newspapers in China, to be distributed outside the In fternational Settlement and the

French Concession.

A representative of the North China Daily News at once made Inquiries and was informed that The Hongkong rainfall for the the report was quite correct but 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day that the reasons for this sudden was 0.81 inch. The total since action on the part of the Nation January 1st is now 45.58 inches,alist officials was unknown, inag- against an average of 27,39 inches.much as the Sinanpao has always

The Royal Observatory's weather forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-morrow is:-S.E. or variable winds, moderate; cloudy, occasional rain.

"What!" erled the caddie. "Well, all I can say is that you are a L

"Hold on, hold on!" said the- golfer in surprise...

"You're a lucky man," sir!" concluded, the stammering caddie.

The tennis ball flew out of

aight.

One lad said, "What's the

score?"

The other answered, "What's

the diff,

We can't play any more?"

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A Senegalese "boy," employed in maintained a fair and impartial the household of a prominent stand so far as Chinese politics French official at St. Loula, the only capital of Senegambla found in are concerned, attacking

and his mistress's wastepaper basket.. whenever it was necessary giving credit where credit was due. a catalogue of the Magazins du In conformity with the order Louvre, in Paris, and he was cap- the copies of the Sinwanpao which tivated by the illustrations of were intended for outport circula-beautiful girls there depicted, all A Chinese, named Leung Yan.tlon were seized at the Chinese duty priced. living at 31, Jervois Street, fell Post Office' on Sunday morning to from a cock-loft while asleep and prevent their reaching the paper's fractured his skull so severely that outport subscribers. he died. His body has been taken to the public mortuary.

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An aged Chinese messenger in the Education Department, fell while in the office yesterday and fractured his left thigh. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

As he had for some time been contemplating taking to himself a wife, he scanned the pages of the catalogue with especial in terest. He was most pleased by a girl in a sable coat, but the price was quite prohibitive, and his choice had to fall on within his limited means.

one morÜ

No Reason Given. Nobody seems to know the for the step taken and reason representatives of the Sinwaupas interviewed the authorities but

He duly wrote to the store ask- they were informed that action had been taken by the Political Ing them to send-him out the lady Council in accordance with in marked on the page he enclosed by He structions from the Nanking. Gov-the next available steamer. ernment. The general manager remitted the price demanded, and Having been bitten by a dog in of the paper, Mr. Waung, was of also sent ten francs for her the New Territories, a Weihaiwei the opinion that there was a mis expenses on the voyage. Anxious- policeman has been taken to the understanding somewhere but rely be awaited the arrival of his Kowloon Hospital for treatment. port has it that action was taken bride, who, he expected, would be The dog, which was seized, was by the authorities probably be attired as shown in the illustra- sent to Ma Tau Kok for observa-cause the paper published certain tions. tion.

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A Chinese woman fell from tram car No. 40 while it was in motion near the Central Market, and sus tained injuries which necessitated her removal to the Government Civil Hospital.

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unfavourable, news articles and To his greut disappointment, he. editorials against the Kuomintang received a polite note to the effect and the Nationalist Army prior to that it was the article of apparel the capture of Shanghai by the and not the lady shown therein Nationalists. It is further that was for sale, and his money thought that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek was returned. He had to be con- was "Influenced to take action betent with a dusky bride obtained cause the Sinwarpao published a locally. list of merchants and firms 'from whom he and the Kuomintang Judgment debtor at Bow County desired to "borrow" huge sums of Court: I have an imperishable A Chinese married woman liv-money for the Anti-Northern Ex-character. ing at No. 8, Lai Chi Un, Kowloon City, suddenly attacked another woman inmate of the house yes- ferday, causing such injuries that the woman had to be removed to the Kowloon Hospital for treat ment. Her assailant was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, and is believed to be insane.

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pedition.

DISHONEST FITTER.

MAKES A SILLY EXCUSE.

得

For stating that the "deyil" had made the marks of the Kow- loon Dock Company on a drill which he was charged with stealing a Chinese employed at the yard was severely reprimanded by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis

The defendant, who was employ.

Willesden women: I want a summons against my neighboure for annoying my cat Magistrate: I am afraid pussy is not entitled to a summons for annoyance.

Question at Bow County Court: Had you friend with you? Man: No, my wife.

P

A woman complained at Willes- den that she had received the notice from her landlord: Remove your clothing from the meat safe, or pay an extra 23. a week.

Man

at Marylebone: I have never been locked up for being drunk in my life before. Mr. Bingley, magistrate: Well, every- body must have a beginning.

It came as a matter of consider able surprise to many readers of the daily newspapers to learn, some months ago, that there were some thousands of slaves still in existence in a part of the British Empire, WILSON. I Edinburgh, on June namely in Burma. One learned at 6th, in a traffic accident, RO-school that Britain was the pioneer NALD MALCOLM, the belov-nation in the abolition of slavery. ed younger son of Mr. and Other countries following suit, Mrs. F. Douglas Wilson, of there came the emancipation of Hongkong, aged 10 years,

the African slaves in America, and this was a main cause of the Ameri- can Civil War. More than half a century later, one would have imagined that the "existence of slavery on a large scale anywhere was a myth. The explanation of this seeming anomaly, so far as Burma is concerned, is the fact that a large part of the country to the north and north-east is wild, with half-civilised tribes as inhabitants, and the general population living in a state of primitive gavagery. Thus we read not only of slavery, but niso of human sacrifices, which in reminiscent of the South Sen The Chinese third engineer of islands of the old days, or of the the s.s. Hua Ming was using a There is the inevitable shower of

interior of New Guinea to-day. kerosene blow lamp in the course congratulations being bestowed on

Britain some time ago definitely of his duties in the engine room Mr. Clarence Chamberlin, the undertook to have these slaves of the ship yesterday when the

freed, and in face of much opposi lamp burst, causing serious in- tracy this morning. American aviator, who has put uption from the tribes concerned-juries to the man's legs and body, ja new world's record by flying from resulting in one case in the murderte was removed to the Governed at the Kowloon Docks as a New York to a spot just short of of a British officer who was leading ment Civil Hospital, and his confiter, was charged with stealing one drill belonging to the Com- an expedition into the wild country dition is serious.

pany and with being in possession | Berlin-nearly 4,000 miles. It has obtained the emancipation of

of another drill and chisel, reason- is a truly wonderful feat, although nearly all the 5,000 or ao human

The following ships are expoet-ably suspected of having been it loses something of its spectacu-beings who still survived under a

system of age-old serfdom. It is ed to be in Wireless Communica- stolen. far natury by reason of following hoped shortly to remove the last tion with Hongkong to-day- While denying that, he stole the the magnificent vestige of slavery from the Burmese Suisang, Java Arrow, Haiching, drills, the defendant admitted that of Russia, Kashmir, he had taken the chisel from the achievement of Lindbergh who interland, and thus the good Empress

work will have been completed. Tulma, President Pierce, Pres. yard. He claimed to have pur- flew, unaccompanied and in the face The case of Burma is merely one in Montroe, President Jackson, Ton-chased the drills for use in the of much advice. to the contrary, ↑ point. It is known that several kin, Talamba, Porthos, Bessa, fitters' shop because the company from New York to Paris. This ther more or less civilised coun-Machaon, D'Artagann, Kingyuan, did not supply drills of the size year is proving a big "banner" tries sanction forms of service that Hongpeng, Menade Maru, Taikwa he required for his work.

are little, if at all, short of slave- year in the matter of long-distance owning. In parts of Africa, parti- aviation; and attacks on the record cularly where the white races have

not taken control, actual bondage The body of the 19 year-old have been made by Englishmen, exists up to this day, and the mat-Indian youth named Abbas Bhoy, and Americans. To the latter has ter was the subject about a year who disappeared under the water come the success, so far, but it is ago of a League of Nations com- while bathing at Taiwan Bay on ten weeks' härd labour on the two mother died, to oblige her mother.

We live still in an age of Sunday was found flouting oft ment. not at all improbable that someone transition. On the same page of Kowloon Docks yesterday and was among the other contenders will yet yesterday's paper there was a re-recovered. The deceased who was establish an even higher mileage port of the 4,000 mile night from with a party of seven, could not America to Europe, and the 4 swim, and was floating on a piece mark. It seems likely that the nouncement that, in a land Band-of wood when he was seen to go Pacific will next be attacked, for wiched in between the two most an under. Strenuous efforts.

cient of Asiatic civilisations-In? there are already substantial prizes dian and Chinese-It is hoped that made to locate him, but without offered to the aviator who first the practice of human sacrifices crosses that waste of water from will shortly cense."

20 closely un

San Francisco, to Tokyo-a distinco

of 4,760 milon. It seems a well-

nigh impousible feat, but he would

EXCHANGE RATES.

be a poor and unobservant prophet wiro Would assert that it Paris

be dono. And the

acro

Brussels Arasterdam enginos Berlin

Copenhagen

will not perfection of and planes, the speeding up of the Vienna machines, and the skill and art of Helsingfors

Lisbon aviators will go on progressing

Bucharest until it will be possible to undertake Buenos Aires flights of a distance and duration Shanghai..

Yokohama at present unthought of.

New York

Milan

It is to men, like Lindbergh, Genova Chamberlin, and their illustrious Stockholm predecessors of all nationalition and Orto

Prague

to these adventurous souls who are Madrid ahendy planning the downfall of Athens the Intely-established records that Rio

Bombay the world owes the ever-quickening | Hongkong-

Silver (spot) rate of progress in matters acro-

Silver (forward) nautical. There are those who as

Baru, Benvannoch, Seochow.

avail.

!

were

· Scaffolding erected outside the Hongkong Club over last week-end gave the impression that renova- tions were in progress but on, en-

His Worship pointed out that one of the drills bore the mark of the Dock Company, which was proof enough that such drills were supplied by the Ducks.

الله

The defendant wad sentenced to

charges.

EUROPEANS ROBBED.

ANOTHER SNATCHING CASE.

Solicitor of a woman witness at Bow County Court: She is very deaf. Defendant: Oh, is shel Ask her to have a drink.

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Funny misaives to teachera:- Doar Teacher,-Please excuse John for staying at home he had meesells, to oblige his father.

Teacher, You must excuse my girl for not coming to school, sho was sick and lade in a common dose state for tree days.

Please let Willie home at two o'clock. I take him out for a little pleasure to see his grand- father's grave.

Please excuse Rachael for being away these two days her grand-

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It is said that on one occasion Mr. Arthur Bourchier, while pre- paring for the role of Henry VIII, cultivated a beard. One day when it was fully grown he went to his. club and was challenged by the doorman, who did not recognise him.

Mention of three thefts from Europeans was contained In the "What name, sir please?" he Police reports this morning, In| inquired. cluding one case of bag snatching "Henry the Eighth,” replied Mr.

from a lady.

It appears that Mrs. Roger D. Bourchier without the flicker of quiry it was found that glass win-Arnold; who realdes at Miller an eyelid. The doorman consult- dows were being fitted on the London, June 7,

124 verandah overlooking the Praya to House, 13 Cameron Road, Kowed the list, ran his eye down the

bang. 34.90 prevent spray, and rain from incon- loon, was purchasing flowera in's, and closed the book with a "No longer a member, sir," he 12.12% veniencing, diners during stormy Wyndham Street when a Chinese 20.4914 wouther. To ensure uniformity, cume behind her and, suddenly

19.17 similar windows were fitted on the snatching her bag which she was replied. 84.51 Chator Road verandah. The win carrying under her arm, made off .192% lows have now been put in and the with it. The snatcher succeeded 2.7/16 scaffolding removed. .80714 .17.11/16

you

An attorney who advertised for in getting away with the bag, a chauffeur, when questioning o applicant, Baid "How which contained money and other negro articles, the value of which is $40. about you, George; aro .2/74 A police raid last night on

Two weeks ago Mr. EF. Groom, married?" /10.15/10 house in Hollywood Road resulted assistant at Mesure. Gibb Living- "Naw, sir, boss; naw, sir; Ah

in the arrest of a number of Chin-stone and Company, entrusted a makes my own livin'," 2bese and one woman who were eu- servant boy with two Halts cof- 18.11gaged in a game of pui kau. They clothing, worth $150, to take to

.4.86

26.25

18.72 were charged this morning before the Stanley Street laundry. Mr.

103% Mr. R. E. Lindsell with gambling Groom has reported that the boy Yesterday afternoon, the bar 28 and one raan and the woman were has since been dismissed and has boy who was remanded from the 866 charged with keeping a gaming gone away, taking the clothing previous day on a charge of lar- 5.27/32 house. All pleaded guilty and with him.

ceny of nine cigarettes from the 1/5.83/84 were fined $3 ench except the Lieut. Elliott, Queen's Regiment, N. A. A. F. Institute, was brought keepers of the house who were Lyemun Barracke, has reported before Mr. W Schofield at the fined $50 or in default four weeks' that someone entered his quarters Kowloon Magistracy and sentenced hard labour.

and stole a gold ring worth $40 to six weeks' hard labour,

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