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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JUNE

13. 1927,

RUSSIA STANDING ALONE.

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927.

in sheep's clothing, having been turned away from most of the doorsteps in Europe and America, is now snapping at everybody. It is significant that the worst growls are reserved for Britain. The campaign in China, engineer ed by Bolshevisma, is mainly anti- British, and the least happening now, counter to Soviet aspirations, will be laid at Britain's door. But to be forewarned is to be forearmed; and we stand before the whole world to-day, fully vindicated in the policy we are adopting towards the menace of perverted Bolshevism.

DAY BY DAY.

IEAVEN NEER HELPS THE MAN

WHO WILL NOT ACT-Sophocles,

The Colony had a clean bill of health over the week-end.

HONGKONG SHIPPING

RETURNS.

BIG DECREASE RECORDED LAST YEAR.

A big decrease in tonnage using The P. and O. B.s. Delta from the port of Hongkong is shown in Hongkong, arrived in London on the Harbour Master's report for

1926. Friday.

The President Jackson, arriving from Manila, reports the discovery of four stowaways on board.

Among those arriving by the s.s. President Jackson to-day, were Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Parker.

The local office of the Dollar Steamship Line beg- to announce that the a.a. Praaldent Taft will bo despatched. for Manila at 8 o'clock this evening.

The report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, for last year, shows a net revenue for his department of $1,186,312.55, com- pared with $1,140.926.07 in 1925.

Whilst tampering with the elec.

The total shipping entering and clearing at ports in the Colony during the year 1926 amounted to 310,861 vessels of 86,821,864" tons, Į which compared with the figures of 1925 show a decrease of 68,806 vessels and a decrease of 4,648,220 tons.

28,371,104 tons were engaged in Of the above 30,281 vessels of foreign trade as compared with 41,336 vessels of 32,179,053, tons, in 1925.

There was a decrease in British ocean-going shipping of 515 ships of 609,103 tons. This decrease In ships and tonnage was due to the boycott in China generally,

The decrease in foreign ocean-going tonnage was 1,729,-

676; in foreign river steamers the

Hongkong Elections. We are very pleased to see that the Government intends to intro- duce a Bill, one of the objects of which is to make a Sanitary Board election feas of a struggle than was the last, held in the Supreme Court, when Dr. S. C. He was elected. As is explained in the Objects and Reasone of the Bill; which we published on Saturday,tric wirea of a fan in the kitchen of tormage decrease was 845,143; in a great dent of delay is caused by No. 212, Des Voeux Road, a Chin-steamships under 60 tons in for- the necessary checking of the D, aged ciglitoon, was electrocuted. eign trade the decrease WBE claims of all those who are en Public Mortuary.

His body has been removed to the 78,167; and in junks on foreign titled to vote because they are ex-

trade there was a decrease of cused by Ordinance from Jury.

1,068,875; compared with 1926. This morning's Harbour Office Service. The voting list at such elections is composed of those reports gave 14 arrivals and nine whose names appear on the Jury departures, of which five and four List and also those who are speci-were British, the highest return of fically excused jury service, but as the day, leaving 73 vessels in har there is no list of the latter there bour, British 30. is bound to be much confusion and delay on the very rare occasions when Hongkong is visited by an election. The farce at the Supreme Court on the occasion above referred to has doubtless

register for voting purposes, and

The number of cases in the local police Magistrates' Court last year

was 30,616 as compared with 25,989 in 1925; and the revenue was $233,529.18, as compared with $211,227.43 the previous year.

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The s.s. Antung arriving from Singapore and Amoy, reports two deaths at sea. One of these was from tuberculosis, the body being buried at sea and the other from internal hemorrhage, the body be

ing landed at Swatow.

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In local trade (ie., between places. within the waters of the Colony) there was a decrease in steam-launches of 126,024 and decrease in tonnage of 2,151,743 tons. This decrease in numbers and tonnage was also due to the recent strike and the boycott in China generally,

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P. AND O. TOURS.

SPECIAL RATES TO JAPAN.

The Harry Idea!

It was charged against a clergy- man otherwise popular with his people that his prayers were not not cover all his congregation "comprehensive" enough-they did

Next Sunday he sat this right by remembering "the whole of "the people, young and old, rich and poor, sick and well, on son and land

in prison and out of it." That seemed to cover them all. At all events he had no more comi- plaats.

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Perhaps the shortened skirts and

frocks May give old ladies starts and

shocks,

Like sudden firo;

But yet they do not fall below The loveliness we used to know In fact they're higher,

For trailing clouds of finery Are now effete; And Eve is doubly good to see So "brief" and neat.

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Yorkshire reveller, reproachfully, to the policeman who arrested him:

have been safe in my own door.

Another five railings and I should

Woman at Highgate: You can hear her voice a mile away. The other woman: But only when I am speaking the truth.

Kingston woman: She called me a gutterenipe, but I am a policeman's daughter.

Boy at Kingston: I saw the second blow-Mayor: How did you know it was the second 7--Boy: I beard the first.

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Mayor, to a woman at Kingston: Have you any questions to put to her?-Woman, tossing her head: I have no wish to speak to her.

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Nottinghamshire poncher: We ing special rates for tourists in by catching rabbits.

The P. & O. Company are quot-were doing the farmer a good turn tending to visit Japar during the

summer months.

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These rates Willesden magistrate:

So you will continue until the end of object to pay your wife any more September, and the trips are ex-noney; how much have you already

sations in the country. It is Obviously, this will effect a very responsible for a considerable ad-pected to be very popular aa sev- paid her?--Husband: Nothing, sir.

less than 50,401.

cral enquiries have already been made.

The company has made alf the necessary arrangements, and the first steamer will leave Hongkong on June 24. This will be the s.8. recorded at the Royal Obvervatory, Moji, Kobe and Yokohama. Each Altogether 210 earthquakes were Macedonia, which will call at Hongkong, during the year 1926 by of the steamers will make a fort- the Milne-Shaw Seismograph, as night's stay in Japan, but travel, against 169 in 1925. The number lers will be able to return by any for 1926 includes a series of 18 of the Company's vessels. small earthquakes on August 6-6, 6 on August 7-8, and 4 on August 16.

caused the authorities to act and the proposed Bill will be heartily welcomed. It provides, mainly, that all those who are excused jury service by Ordinance shall The Soviet Government has call-inly to have their names put on ed again upon the old terrorist that such a register will be closed methods, in an effort to intimidate for 14 days before any ballot so the" counter-revolutionary organi- that all claims can be investigated.

The troubles in China have been desirable improvement at elee dition to Hongkong's population. known that anti-Soviet plotting has tions, for an exempted person en-The latest figures show that from been going on for a considerable titled to vote, instead of having 40 the middle of February to the end wait while his particulars are be time. The plotters are mostly ing taken down in order to check of May the excess of arrivals over Russians, many of them Mon- up his claim to a vote, will be able departures by all routes was no archists, and include # great to give his name and get his vot- number of ordinary persons who are sick of the tyranny that maa- querades under the name of pro- leturian freedom, and seek any form of release. If these organi: sations are partly financed, or in other ways assisted from abroad, it is by aympathisers, who, out of nity, desire to see the terrorised Russian middioclasses relieved of the yoke that Bolshevist excess.has placed on them. Nothing of this aid, however, can be terraed official. None of the big govern-vious muddle. ments abroad has organised to oust the Soviet from its position. Recent action has been. by way of precaution and self-protection, so as to counter the activities of the hired men of the Bolshevist auto- cracy. The "Red" terror must be

ing paper just as quickly as if he were a juryman with his name in the Jury List. There are some changes contemplated in the en- umeration of persons exempt from jury service who are entitled to vote, and a careful study of these reveals that some needed clarifica tion has been done. It is not very often that we in Hongkong get a

The B.4. Rawalpindi, one of the Company's new steamers, will sail for the North on July 22. The chance of voting for a public resell this morning with throwing and will return to Hongkong on Charged before Mr. R. E. Lind-ship will leave Kobe on August 11 presentative on an administrative stones, a Chinese, who was chased August 18. body, and, with the relatively small number of voters concerned, it should be possible to make elec- tions delightfully simple affairs. The present Bill worthily sets out to prevent a repetition of the pre-

WOMAN CHARGED.

BUT IS ABLE TO PROVE RIGHTS.

Charged with being in unlawful

and caught by a member of the staff The rates quoted are, $210 re- at Isako's Circus, Wanchai, during turn to Kobe, and $235 return to. a disturbance there on Saturday, Yokohama, all tickets being avail- was fined $50 or in default four able for a period of two months weeks' hard labour.

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The local office of the American Mail Line beg to announce that the s.3. President Jackson will be despatched for Victoria and Seat- tle via Shanghai, Kobe and Yoko- hama at 7.00 p.m. to-morrow (June 14), instead of 7.30 a.m. June 15, as previously advertised.

only.

The Company's local agents,

Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co., have in stock a collection' of illustrated literature on Japan, and copies may be had on applica- tion.

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Girl at Willesden: I married a soldier at Christmas, and he has fought all my family-my father and mother and all my brothers, as well as myself.

The use of gramophone music instead of anthems in church is proposed by the Rev. A. H. S. Pat

Writing in his trick, vicar of Washington, Pul- borough, Sussex. parish magazine, Mr. Pattrick says: "Now that the gramophone re- produces vocal and instrumental

music, I propose to make use of music very nearly perfectly and there are beautiful records of sacred some of these in the place provided for the anthem in the Prayerbook. The uplifting power of beautiful music, wedded to sacred words and adequately rendered, is now brought within reach of every congrega-

tion."

On arriving at the scene of a fire

at Steinbergen, in the Wesergebirge (Germany), the fire brigade from The 38. Rawalpindi has a ton-

the heighbouring town of Exten nage of 16,000, and is a

was threatened and insulted by a: sister

When the confu- ship to the Ranpura, the Ranchi, hostile crowd

'She and the Rajiputana.

sion had subsided, it became appar- luxuriously appointed, and should ent that the members of the fre inter- lopers endeavouring to frustrate the payment of the fire insurance ..money.

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fought wherever it raises its head possession of 27 catties of rice, agent of the Nederlandsche Handel Satisfy the most fastidious travel-brigade were regarded as

in other lands, and be driven back within its own borders. This is what the other nations are doing. Britain has recently given the world a lead, by "courageously taking a firm line of action, despite the risks of being misunderstood in certain quarters. Hence the Soviet outbursts, culminating" in senseless accusations linking the assassination of a Soviet Minister in Poland with the breaking off of diplomatic relations at London. It is an example of the twisted logic that Moscow brings to bear

on all questions, the warped au- look of Russia's present advisors, and the prejudice and blind hatred that actuate Soviet policies. The rest of the world can afford to look on and smile at this exhibi- tion of childish rage.

We are informed by the local a Chinese woman, who appeared Maatschappij (Netherlands Trad- this morning before Mr. R. E. ing Society) that he is in receipt of Lindsell, was able to produce aa telegram from the Batavia Office, receipt from a rezistered shop at advising that the dividend for the which she bought the rice. year 1926 has been declared at 8

The Magistrate remarked that per cent. the woman should not have been charged, whreeapon Inspector Grunt, who was prosecuting, plained that when charged at the Police Station the woman had re- fused to take the police to the shop where she had bought the rice or to produce any receipt. woman saying that there was The Magistrate discharged the nothing suspicious about such a woman carrying a few cattles of rice and that she ought not to have been arrested.

Street.

GIRL THIEF.

AN UNUSUAL CASE.

Sir Hugh Clifford attended officially, the pontifical high mass in the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd at Singapore, on Sunday,

ler.

CUBICLES LIKE MUSH- ROOMS.

DEMOLITION WORK IN

SINGAPORE.

The blister of the bungalow still festers on the countryside.--Lord Peel.

I expect to lose my life in the streets of London; the dangers are so frightful-Mr. H. C. A. Bing- ley.

I have often thought it is a re-

The Building Surveyor to the of last week. Attended by Cap- Singapore Municipality

in hiaproach to Nonconformity that so

in Wood, his A.D.C.. His Ex-annual report says, "A systematic many of our chapels are closed all cellency arrived at the Cathedral a weekly demolition party worked day long-Sir Kingsley Wood, with the National Anthem. little after eight, and was greeted during the year, pulling, down un- The days of commanding, whe He authorized cubicles, attap huts, ther military or in any other walk then inspected the guard of hon-sheds, etc., but I am afraid with of life, by shouting or bullying are

dead-General Sir Charles Haring: our of the Cadet Corps and the Boy out any insting good.

Scouts of the St. Joseph's Institu- Until the housing shortage is ton.

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A novel course was taken by Mr. T. Scanlan, the Lambeth Magi-

tion, drawn up outside. On en-overcome and house rents lowered, tering the Cathedral he was re-cubicles will spring up like mush-- ceived by Father Ruaudel and the rooms in the night. four wardens. Father Rundel The principal tenant cannot strate, when Edward Harvey, aged then escorted him to the special afford the high rent charged by 84, a pensioner of the Royal Hos seat within the sanctuary rail, owners, so to make ends meet andpital, Chelsea, pleaded guilty to be- near Monseigneur Barillon. in a good many cases overlap, heing found drunk and incapable at

puts up cubicles, as fast as we pull Gilbert Road, Kennington.

Mr. Scanlan said to the old man them down.".

"I will give you the benefit of the Juvenile Offenders Act. (Laughter). The Act was passed originally for the benefit of juvenile offenders. You will be bound over to be of good behaviour for twelve months,"

Another Chelsen pensionor,

MEAT THIEF.

SENTENCED TO FOUR WEEKS.

A Chinese girl, aged nineteen, A serious motor accident is re- But there is more in the recent has been arrested by the police ported to have occurred recently for stealing a purse containing on the iron bridge near Kanthan, events in connexion with the Soviet $600 and 26 pieces of jewellery on the road between Sungei Siput than mere food, for amusement.valued $275 from the counter of and Chemor, says the Times of The blood lust has been loosened jeweller's shop at Aberdeen Malaya. A Morris-Cowley two- suater driven by Mr. B. M. Bell, -or, more correctly it has been

At the time of the theft, an- nasistant on Dovenby estate, was shown openly to the world-and other woman was making a purfound overturned on the road, with In the early hours of Sunday named Henry Randell (75), who all the nationa look on aghast chase at the shop. She was the Mr. Bell lying in an unconscious morning, a coolle employed by a was in company with Harvey, also owner of the purse and she put state beside it. Messrs, II. W. La butcher at West Point to carry some pleaded guilty to being found drunk it down on the counter so that Brooy and A. Metcalfe, who were beef from the Central Market and incapable, and he was similarly she might be better able to on their way from Penang, dis- caught a man who was in the act | dealt with. which she was about to purchase. ed Mr. Bell to the Ipoh Hospital, for himself examine the article of jewellery covered the accident, and convey-of cutting off a piece of the beef

to-day at this fresh exhibition of

the old terrorism that charac-

terised the dawn of the Bolshevist

New version of the broad path to regime. Widespread comments all The girl, seeing the purso lying whence he was removed to Bata The coolie told Mr. Lindsell this destruction in U.-S. A. agree in condemning the now on the counter of the shop, appar Gajah Hospital. Mr. Bell, appar-morning, that he felt a slight tug "What, married? Don't make me Soviet horror, aptly described as ently unwatched, made a dash in-ently drove his car against the at his back and, on looking behind, laugh, stupid. How did you ever

side, seized the purse and ran railings of the bridge, the car.

saw a man going quickly away get a wife?? a "blood bath." What" is to away, but she was overhauled by turning turtle and alighting on its He shouted "Thief, Thief" and a follow can for the present be mere one of the assistants of the shop hood nearly twenty feet from the Chinese constable near-by arrested matter for conjecture. The wolf and handed over to the police.

spot where the bridge was struck.. the defendant.

"I just dobered up and there sho

was."