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TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1927.

CHINA SITUATION.

TUESDAY,

JUNE 14, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

INFINITE IS THE HELP MAN CAN YIELD TO MAN.-Carlyle.

The Ben Line 9.8. Benarty from Home ports is duo to arrive hore on Friday.

CORRESPONDENCE.

REPULSE BAY BATHING.

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir, The announcement appear The weather forecast up tiling in this evening's Telegraph noon to-morrow is "East winds, with regard to the accommodation moderate; cloudy, ruin."

at the public matahed at Répulse Bay, comes up a great disappoint- menti

Surgeon Commdr. E. Heffernan, M.B., has been appointed by the Ad- miralty to H. M. S. Tamar, for the hospital ship, Maine,

It is to be presumed that the Government's Action is the result

The Very Idea!

Firemen were called to Northe Tenth Street betweon Main and Blondeau streets, this morning, where an automobile had caught, fire from a crossed wife in the car-Keokuk paper.

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The baby had no bottle, and

It made the youngster, sad. Why did it want its bottle?

Woll, It took right after dad.

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ing. As stated earlier, this is on the assumption that the factors as known at present remain fairly constant-an assumption that is far from a safe one. The attitude of General Yen Hsi-shan still re- mains of vital importance to all concerned, and the latest news is that although he is a member of the Kucmintang and favours the cause for which Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is fighting he will not maku actual war against his neigh- bours, tho Fengtien forces. Gen- eral Yen, has been described in the

woman! Willesdon

A of the many letters and sugges-"

neigh- North as "China's Champion Fence!

tiona racelrod by the Bathing bour threatens to murder my Has ho Rider" and while that is an ambi- The motor ship Nandng of the Beach Commission, and also of daughter. "Magistrate:

Swedish East Asiatic Co., left Ant-those published in the Press. If made a beginning yet?-Woman: tious title to give any one particu-werp on Sunday for the East and is such is the case, why has the un-Yes, pulled her hat off. Jar man it is perfectly true due to arrive here on July 22nd.

aminous plea for privacy boon

Solicitor at Shoreditch County that General Yen has been on the

ignored? As far as I remember, Two revolvers and 258 rounds of the point emphasised ir practical-Court:" Your husband has an ammunition, for which no clainly every letter was that provision ungovernable temper? Wife ant came forward, have been acized should be provided which would Humph! I manage him. on board the s.s. President Taft.

ensure privacy for batters. Only. to-day, a report appears in the Husband summoned in Surrey: paper of a hather being victimised Have I looked for work? Why I by one of the occupants of a go to bed with my cap on so that cubicle in a public matshed. This I shall be out first thing the next risk is to be created at the pro- morning. posed matshed at Repulse Bay.

top and each aide of every political and military fence that has ever been erected in and around his pro- vince of Shansi. "On which side

The Van Heutz, arriving from he will definitely come down in this

Dell and Singapore with 1,661 Chang-Chiang conflict will doubt-passengers, reports one death at less depend on who gets the better sen, the cause not being stated, of the fighting which promises to The body was buried at sen. break out in the almost immediate.

future. If Chang Tao-lin is forced to retreat northwards then General Yen will almost certainly be pro- Chiang Kai-shek. And vice versa would be just as true. The Feng Yu-hsiung aud Hunkow bunich are

Quite apart from that aspect, is This morning's Harbour Office the question of sharing a cubicle, reports gave 1 arrival and 21 with unknown persons. I am not departures, of which five and a snob I hope, But I do most cer- seven respectively were British,tainly object to leaving my clothes leaving 60 vessels in harbour, where they may come in. contact British 28...

with another person's who is a stranger to me. The very iden is distasteful, and yet that is what

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With reference to Notice to

that vessels proceeding to Canton may now use the Front Reach, provided they proceed at a moderate speed.

Yesterday afternoon a Chinese was found lying in an unconscious condition at No. 116 Queen's Road Central, and he was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, where he died later in the evening.

The P. and O. s.s. Kalyan, with the English mails, left Singapore yesterday morning and is due hero Friday afternoon. The same Com pany's se. Alipore is dug from Singapore on Friday morning.

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Hackney man: What you can- not cure you endure, and that is. how I stand with my wife.

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Magistrate at Willesden: Does your husband support you?— Wife: He gave me 18. Sd. yester- day for myself and three children.

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It would appear that somebodying in three stages. First they has been instructed to build a wrote symbols for the idea that community "matshed at Repulse they wanted to represent; for in- Bay, and dy all probability, the stance, for a bee thoy made same old plans have been dug up, picture of a bee; for a lenf n and the arrangements which have picture of a leaf. Then they been so generally condemned at combined both symbols, and they other beaches are to be provided expressed at Hongkong's favourite bathing thought as belief, a combination. beach. If such is the case, Re of "bee" and "lear" -Student's pulse Bay will not be improved by examination paper for matricula- bringing it into line with Kennedy Lion at an American College. Town and North Point

till left pretty much to themselves Mariners No. 3, it is announced will happen at Repulse Bay. over in Honan and their reported victories over the Fengtien forces have not brought them (seemingly, at any rate) into any greater favour with Marshal Chiang or very much nearer to Pelting. Hankow is said to be much less "Red" politically, and Mr. Fugene Chen indulges him- self in one of those sarcastic quips which condemn him as a statesman when he says that the Government of Hankow is almost "purely bour doubt regarding geois."

But there is apparently, negotiations

an appreciable improvement in the which all last week were temper of the Hankow Chinese. being carried on between re- Logked at us a complete picture, presentatives of the North and China is to-day not a whit less the South with the object of patch-interesting us offering almost end ing up pence. between the contend-less possibilities in the matter of ing forces. The Southern leaders political and military speculations were prepared to call off the war, and conjectures. The one thing provided Marshal Chang Tso-lin certain is that there is going to be walked out of Poking and Tientsin a lot more quarrelling and conse- and retired to his own, Manchu-quent unrest.

There is no the failure of

rian sphere of influence, and it did

Bathing Beach Thefts."

The recent reports of thefts at the bathing beaches, the victims being users of the public matsheds, as well as statements we have heard from persons who have lost small

sums

Is it not possible to ensure that accommodation be provided which will be absolutely private for who- ever engages it? I should not feel very pleased to be the first person to undress in a cubicle, and upon re- It is learned that the salvaged turning from the water, discover portion of the ss. Tilcbaet having the uniforms of three chauffeurs been made watertight, it will be mixed up with my clothes. And undccked and berthed at a har-yet this is possible under the sys- our buoy on July 2. Construc-tem which appears to have been tion of a new fore-part will then deelied upon. be proceeded with.

Mr. N. Thanwardes, President of the Hindu Merchants' Associa-. tion, was among the passengers who left Hongkong by the Kashmir on Saturday last. Mr. Thanwardes was given a hearty send-off by his compatriots.

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The Chinese transport Julian, į which has been in harbour for the past three months, has been seized

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Some schoolboy "howlera."- into castes and outcastes.

The people of India are divided The Hugenots were persecuted by St. Bartholomew.

At what time WAS

Adam married? Upon his wedding Eve. The three principal parts of the ye are the pupil, the moat and

the beam.

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Mr. Churchill has certainly a gift for euphemism. Was it not Enclosing my card.Yours, the who invented the phrase "ter-

DISAPPOINTED. Hongkong, June 13th, 1927...

MOTOR MISHAPS.

LADY THROWN FROM RICKSHA.

miniological inexactitude" for a blunter word of three letters? And the other day he explained delicately that more "alcoholic emphasis". could be obtained from a certain quality of port than an equal quantity of whisky.

An Edinburgh lady recently in- vited some friends to tea, and knowing that they were partial to a "nice bit of cheese," she went herself to the grocers and person- ally selected a choice-looking. cut

at end time seem likely that Mar- shal Chang would agree to go- subject to one or two previses that did not seem greatly at variance

A collision between a motor cycle with what Marshal Chiang Kai-shek

by the Supreme Court for debt, and a public ricksha in Nathan would be expected to concede. But,

and a clearance has been refused. Road, Kowloon,sterday, resulted money cr articles. This vessel is run by the in a Portugues. ady named Mrs. the parley has come to nought, and

and have not troubled to report the Chinese Coastguard Administra-E. J. Cordeiro, who was riding in there was news lo hand yesterday matter to the police, raise the question. that the Southern offensive had tion of better care when out bath

ing where there are crowds of all been resumed. It has been report classes of the population. The cd several times during the past public beaches are open to all who few days that Marshal Chang Tso-behave themselves there, are res lin and his associates had taken ad-Pectably clad, and can pay the fee of one sailing from Hongkong at the malice by Lance Corporal looked very queer.

On arrival this evening, the 5.5. Sui An will be taken off the Macao run for overhaul, docking to-morrow morning. The service

of Stilton, which she duly handed over to the keeping of a newly- the ricksha, being taken to the arrived servant girl. Military Hospital for treatment. On lifting the cover from the Fortunately the lady was not cheese during the tea function, eriously hurt and was not de- she was amazed to find that the Stilton had been cut up into tained.

According to a report made to minute particles, and, moreover, Hurriedly replacing the cover,

C.

Gray, 66th. Field Com

at 8 a.m. daily, will be maintained pany RE, Nanking Camp, Shum she said nothing at the time, but by the s.s. Sui Tai.

shulpo, he was driving a motor cycle waited till the guests had gone along Nathan Road at 11.45 in the and then interrogated the new Shanghai Chinese will hold a morning, and, when near Peking servant.

meeting at the Chinese Read, he collided with a public rick- Then the mystery stood reveal- mass Public Recreation Ground at Westsha which was overturned, throwing ed,

"I didna' think you would like a' Gate, at 9 am to-nurrow (June Mrs. Cordeiro out. Lance Corporal 15) and another at the Hsin Wu Gray stopped an ambulance which the rotten bits, missis," said the Tai Theatre in the Chinese City was passing at the time which con maid of all work, "so I howkit at 1 pm, to commemorate the veyed Mrs. Cordeiro to the Military them a oot w' the tuttie knifo."

Hospital, from which place she re-

An incident about Mr. G. Ber- turned home after receiving trent- ment.

Another Accident,

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amounted to £40.

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of ten cents to use a cubicle. It is 2 p.m. and a return from- Macao vantage of the trace to reorganise possible that, apart from any re his military dispositions and it is gular users who may be tempted to be dishonest, there may be sys- lo ho expected that he will put up tematic visits by. ne'er-do-wells ja fight against the South in hisle whose payment of the entrance fee sire to pétain Tientsin and. Peking. Is considered an investment with a view to a haul of other people's Of course, he has always Mukden at property. This petty thieving is the back of him on which he can fairly common during the bathing season, many people being able to fall back, though to have to do so

recall occasions when they have lost would doubtless be a great disap-two or three dollars, a watch, a sufferings endured by the late Dr. pointment. It is no secret that Small article of jewellery, and so Sun Yat-sen. following the defeat

nard Shaw was' related to the forth. Usually, after one experi-of his armies by Gen. Chen Marshal Chaing has keenly desired

ence of that nature, there has been Chiung-ming in Canton five years

Both the rickäha and, the motor members of Glasgow Publicity to be a big political force in China every precaution that no further | ago.

cycle were slightly damaged. Lance Club by Mr. J. L. Beilby, of the In- itself and if he is compelled loss was auflered. These experi-

Gorporal Gray escaped with a few dustrial Peace Council. An order for the confiscation of cruises

Many years ago, Mr. Beilby to withdraw to his Manchurian euces have in every case followed

said, he was acting as an organiser too much trust in human mature, two revolvers, 258 rounds of cor- stronghold it will be the end of 4 and have been the fault largely of responding ammunition, and 100

for a Labour movement, and was long-held wish.

the victims themselves. We do not rounds of Winchester rifle am Yesterday, when Mr. C. D. about to resign his position be- cause they could not pay his The rapid progress which Mar-know whether there is a more munition was made by Mr. W. Wright, of the Chartered Bank, was

marked epidemic of thefts this year, Schofield at the Kowloon Magi- driving a motor cycle along Holly wages, when he was fortunate shal Chiang Kai-shek's forces made or whether more reports are being stracy this morning. In making wood Road, he mocked down a enough to secure G. B. S. to give o through Kiangsu right to the bor-made public, but the users or bath the application, Revenue Officer Chinese, who was taken to the public lecture. The function was der of Shantung cannot being sheds at the public beaches Lanigan etated that the contra- taken as a guide to the rate of pro- should be warned in good time not band was found unclaimed in the Government Civil Hospital with a success, and the drawings

to leave any valuableu unattended. Itateorage quarters on board the scalp wounds. gress they are likely to make is difficult to keep ward and watch President Taft. against the men now prepared to all the time, however, and

"At the Marine Court this defend the remainder of the route though the minimum be carried in the way of money, and jewellery be to Peking and Tientsin, for they left at home; most bathers have morning, the masters of two pas- senger boats were charged with met with little fighting opposition. to trust largely to luck, or to the malding fast alongside the s.8. Marshal Chiang won a political and honesty of their fellows, when they President Taft whilst under way, Paris.

enter the water. It does not up without permission. Pleading not Genova" financial battle through Kiangsu pear to be too ruch, then, to ask the far more than he won a military authorities to make some effort to guilty, they were convicted after Berlin

Madrid one and, unless he and his party reduce the incidence of these losses. evidence had been heard and Vienna

severally fined $10. The master Warning notices can easily be put

Bucharest can engineer something similar as

up, reminding the public to beware of a trading junk pleaded guilty of leaving valuables or money to not showing regulation lights, obama regards the defenders of the coun-

Now York Amatordam try now interposed between his about. Again, the police could tell and was mulet of a simlar sum.

...12.12% one was priced at £450. This won- off a detective or two to keep an

.18.18 der dog looked much like all other A Chinese who was found guilty | Copenhagen front lines and the capital of the eye on the sheds, and check anyone

.163% dogs, though a trifle weighed down, country, he can expect a real test observed loitering in cubicles other of stealing a purae, was sentenced Fragao.

.2.15/82 by his name of Duffryn Apollo.' than for the purpose of dressing or by Mr. R. E. Lindsell to three Lisbon.

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He was carrying on a rapid back- of arma and fighting prowess.changing into bathing dress. Per months' hard labour this morning.

Shanghai

chat with a neighbour, whose price haps the best remedy, though, The man managed to extract a

was n mere £5. There were three would be for the W. D. to purse from another man's pocket Milan

88 times as many women and girls ex- authorise the attendants to take as they were passing each other on Oslo

19276hibiting as men. "The terrier charge of valuables and purses. A the stairs of a house in Queen's Helsingfors

869 type of dog appeals to woman more small fee, say five cents each per- Road. The vletim pretended he Athens

7.28/82 than any other kind, I think. They son, could be charged for this ser- knew nothing of his losa, but re- Buenos Aires

2/0 are such sporting dogs. The most vico. The general public, we feel tarned a few minutes later with a Hongkong

28% popular breeds at the moment are sure, would be greatly appreciative Chinese constable and caused the Silver (spot and forward)

-British Wireless. fox terriers and Sealyhams." thief's arrest. of some such facility.

Marshal Chiang is a long way from his base and he is taking, the war right into the enemy's country, so that it is only reasonable to suppose that the fighting will be of lengthy duration and that tor- ritorial gains will be slow in com-

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When he asked Mr. Shaw how much his expenses were, be was whimsically told, "I have three. hobbies in my life motoring, swimming, and public speaking, and I never make money out of my hobbies."

Mr. Bellby added that the poor .20.25 organiser had another lense of .20.40 .84.52%

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life.

Among the 800 terriers at the Joint Terrier Show at Olympia, Konsington, W., were animals

1/1082 valued at from £50 to £300, while

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