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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

JUNE

10,

1927.

ex S.S. "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA"

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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.

THE TRADES UNION

BILL.

Among yesterday's cable news was an item recording that the Committee Stage of the Trade Unions Bill had been passed by the. House of Commons with the help

The Very Idea!

There was a cloan bill of health safely navigating Capsulmun Pass place lost parts in a relatively

of time lost through Industrial THE GRAVE. Madame Neckor. disputes during the first three months of 1927. The aggregate of "days lost" during the quarter was only 350,000, and for the previous seven years the comparable figures were:--

1920

1021

1022"

1923 1024 :

1925

1026

more

in the Colony yesterday.

King Gustav, of Sweden, cele brates his 68th. birthday to-day.

$3,070,000

To the list of the Hongkong 1,200,000 and Wuchow river boats is added 3,420,000 the .s. Shing On.

1,300,000 The destroyers Wolsey and

Woolston, now serving with the third flotilla in China, are to re- turn to Malta.

Nominations for the election of a Justice of the Peace to the Licensing Board, on Tuesday next, closed yesterday, but no nomina tions have been received. "

An official of the Eastern Sea Fisheries Joint Committee said re- Evidence as to the method of contly: "A starfish is able to re-

short time." was given by Captain R. D. Thomas at the Central Magistracytions and garages are arranging It is understood that petrol sta- this morning, when the inquest on to serve out starfish to all motor-

the victims who were drowned when the s.s. Leung Kwong sank after coming into collision with. the launch Moonshine in the pass, was continued, boforo Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Lieut. Commander G, F. Hole, and a special jury.

Mr. T. G. Bennett is appearing for the owners, coxswain and crow of the Moonshine, Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton for Captain Wilson of the Leung Kwong, and Mrs. Martin, the widow of Mr. F. E. A. Martin who was drowned, and Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones for the owners of the Leung Kwonk

ists.

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Now kiss the lady," mother

said.?

"Oh, no!" replied the tot. "I would, but I'm afraid I'd get.

A siap-liko father got."

Magistrate at the Thames Police a Malteso: Indicate Court to which of the two persons you refer 10. Multese, pointing to a man who wore spats: The one with gloves on his fest.

2,070,000 320,000 1,240,000 Nor is there this year, as there. has been in most of the above years, serious conflict in ono ord

Solicitor at Bow County Court: industries foreshadowed.

This morning Captain Thomas Your husband is very a88ortivo. Yet it is now, when, for the first

said he had been in command of | Wife: Is he? Not to me. time since the war, there is evid

one of the Steamboat Company's Decree absolute was granted by ships for 26 years. In reply to heen on night work for five years, ence of a general desire to allow

Judge Peter Grain, ut the the self-inflicted wounds of indis- British Supreme Court, on Friday Mr. Lindsell witness said he would and have had no proper sleep by most decidedly be on the bridge of day because of my wife's continual try to heal, that the Government morning, in the divorce case

suimun Pass. When he approach- Grande. It will be remembered ed the pass from the West he has brought forward a proposal for Mrs. J. M. Gande against W. Jhis ship when going through Cap- nagging injecting an irritant into them. Is that the decree pisi was granted usually stood on an almost due the marked improvement in the by in Honour on December 7, East course until Green Island or Ita light showed through the pass. position of which the above. 1926.

He then usually put his helm to figures give evidence--to be the be-

came down the

of

Husband at Willesden: I have

Man in Midlands, accused of

fighting: It was a friendly fight, and I bear him no hammerosity.

Woman at Bow County Court: I shall talk as long as I like. I have to pay for it.

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In last year's report the direc-starboard and ginning of better things, or is it tors of the Great Northern Tele-Channel, on the Lan Tau island The Literary Guild of Ameri- merely 3 necessary breathing-graph informed shareholders that side where the water was deepest..

Witness said he knew the Moon- ca saya that the reading of books space between one exhaustingcoming years might be expected

to show less satisfactory results. shine and added that it had about shows a steady decrease in the

States. According United struggle and another? The ang

not the same draught as the Leung statistics published by the Guild, Although conditions have wer rested with the present Gov-changed since then, directors feel Kwong.

Mr. Lindsell:—Evidence has the amount spent for books was ernment; and the right answer is justified in proposing a dividend

been given by the coxswain of the only 1.10 dollars per head of the certainly not the Bill. The weight of 20 per cent.

Moonshine that coming from the population in 1926, while for a point sweets, Ice-cream and sodawater, of the Government's majority will

Major and Brevet Lieutenant-West he stood over to doubtless succeed in carrying the Colonel R. T. Lee, C.M.G., D.S.O., about 500 feet from the red light us much as 18.10 dollars was spent. I am a great lover of idleness- Bill through the Commons before 0.B.B., from the Queen's Royal at Ma Hon, and then turned prac Regiment, has been promoted totically due South towards Lan the Autumn recess, and the House Command the 2nd Battalion of the Tau. Would you say that was The Earl of Balfour.

reasonable navigation --No, I of Lords will probably find the Durham Light Infantry, now at

should not. measure one to its liking. "There Shanghai, in the place of Lieute..- seems little doubt but that it willant-Colonel J. W. Jeffreys, D.S.O., whose tenure of command expired be passed, but we are of opinion

on April 29. that Mr. Stanley Baldwin' and his fellow Ministers in the Govern- ment are making a very profound error and are failing to read aright the altered spirit of the times.

British Films.

A fishing club has been formed in the Chinese YM.CA. It is proposed that an outing will be held once a week, and the charge

for members will be twenty cents. Fishing members will have to provide their own gear, while the Y.MC.A. will provide the sanipans. Those interested should send in their names to the Y.M.C.A.

Mrs. Alec Tweedie gave two

Witness went on to say that at the time of the collision the tide would be about half ebb and would

Lawyers live by the natural mis- takes of laymen.-Judge Cluer.

The common Englishman is a aristocrat-Prebendary natural A. W. Gough.

be fairly strong, between two-and-- A general strike for Industrial a-balf and three knots. There- purposes is general nonsense.--Mr. fore if the coxswain stood straight Philip Snowden.

I would not live in South Africa on for the red light until only 600. feet away, there was a danger of with a wife and family for all the him going on a reef which was tea in China-Sir Granville Ryrie.

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One day three Bulgars decided the river till they came to the pic- to surrender. They waded down ket, the men of which were fishing. They shouted to the Bulgars to go away, as they were disturbing the fish.

Mr. Bennett said, with due de- In the "History of the 60th Divi- 1914-1918," written by ference, that he did think the sion, coxewain had said so. He had not Colonel P. H. Dalbige, C.B., it is been re-examined by the Court on related that on the Dofran front a the point, but what he obviously strong picket was kept on the Var- meant was that he took his boat dar to prevent the enemy penetrat- of the guillotine procedure, and we that the Home Government, after It is very interesting to observe

further towards the light until he ing between the British and the cannot refrain from deploring the discussion, with members of the house-warming parties" recently, had straightened her out and the French. fact that the Government is push-trade, have decided to insert her flat at Devonshire House be-light was abeam, and he was then ing this measure through the amendments in the Cinema Filming too small to accommodate all between four and five hundred feet

Quota Bill, which was mooted a her friends at one time. Among from the light.

In reply to Mr. Lindsell on the House with all the weight of its long time ago, and introduced as a those who accepted Invitations big majority but in face of what is concrete measure early this year. were the Japanese Ambassador point, witness said it would be per. The agitation against a certain and Baroness Matsui, Lady (Ro- fectly safe for such a boat to go obviously widespread feeling type of American film led to the nald) Macleay, General Sir Fran- within 500-feet of the red light, but

The Bulgars moved along the against the Bill throughout the project for elimination of the cis and Lady, Younghusband, Sir he would not call such a proceeding

He added that shore, and surrendered to good navigation. country. In our issue of yester-cheaper varieties, as well as coun- Claud and Lady Severn, Colonel ships should pass the red light about A.S.C. unit six miles in the rear.

Manson, Lady ter-action to the system whereby Etherton, day, we published a short review the booking at cinema theatres Charles and Lady Addis, Sir Den the centre of the channel, about 300

"And what's this here thing go- of a brochure on the subject of throughout the British Isles was son Ross, Sir Newton and Lady 10 1,000 fect.

in advance by Stabb, General Sir Ian and Ladywas coming into the channel from wife.

Continuing, witness said if he ing to be?" asked the rich man's this Bill and on the whole question taken up years of Trade Union law and we wishrates that obliged the exhibitors

American agents, under special Hamilton.

the South and another vessel was approaching from the North he it were possible for all our readers to show practically an entirely Under date of June 9th, Messrs, night see the approaching vessel's to study the little book which Mr. trans-Atlantic programme. Ad- Wheelock and Company report that starboard, light for a little while, Ramsay Muir has compiled. It is mitted the British product is often the freight situation at Hankow is and it would be quite usual to see more expensive to hire, it is cer still very unsettled; there seems two lights approaching him after- admitted that there are anomalies tainly worth its price, the best of to be a certain amount of cargo wards. Then he would expect to in the law as it now stands but the the recent productions being at still drifting in from the interior ree the port lights only. author goes on to show that this least equal to the super films from and from the Upper Yangiste but the United States. Many proprie-the bulk of the cargo which had is the wrong season in which to in- tors of picture houses, in addition accumulated at Hankow has beening near the centre of the channel, the ordinary newspaper is not very

Sir

Mr. Lindsell:If you were keep

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"An Italian staircase," said the architect of the new mansion.

"Waste of time," said she. "We shan't ever have any Italians to - see ug."

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The Archdeacon of Norwich's lament over the gloomy and "dis- torted view of life presented by

A and you saw two lights down almost reasonable,

newspaper does troduce such a controversial mea to the patriotic urge, have desired shipped off. As far as the lower on the same track, what would you

not profess to give a picture of sure, and that in order to limit to show home films as a commer-Yangisze is concerned, the retreat do?-I should alter my course to the virtuous life. That is taken

cial step in the right direction, of the Northern furces has opened tarboard. the powers of the Union one has to but have been prevented by the ad- the river to unrestricted trading

for granted: it is the exceptions, define what their powers are going vance-booking system. The Home and the convoy system has now.

Would you under any circum-the freaks, the disturbances, that stances alter your course to port, if call for notice. A state of war to be a very difficult and danger- Government's Bill is intended to been

discontinued but in the there was a considerable distance necessarily demands more news- ous task. The attitude of the Gov- do away with this block-booking, meantime trade has come to a between the ships and there was no

and "blind" booking, by making a standstill.

paper space than a state of peace. immediate likelihood of a collision? Perhaps the best reply to the Arch- ernment would seem to be that the proportion of British pictures ob-

--No.

deacon is the Manchester. Guar Bill is designed to establish cer- criticism was the possible creation Gross revenue of the Eastern Ex-sinking of the Leung Kwong, wit-

ligatory at every show. The only

Eastern Extension Telegraph.---- Questioned with regard to the dian's remarks that tain principles, such as, that a of a pampered industry, and this tension Australasia and China uces said, if the collision had occur- general strike is illegal, that in-is to be countered by the medifica- Telegraph Co., Ltd., for 1926 was red near the centre of the channel, timidation is illegal, and so forth.tions cabled yesterday--the quota £2,047,933, from which is deduct it was possible, that the Leung

system x to operate only for a Superficially, that attitude is very period of 12 years, and the maxi-ed £693,901 for ordinary expenses, Kwong could have surk near the right and reasonable, and there mum obligatory percentage of and £237,157 for maintenance of shore of Lan Tau Island, if her en- would be few men who would as-home manufactured films la to be cables, ships and special expendi-gines had been going ahead, if she sert that such things should not be 30 instead of the proposed 25 perture, leaving a balance of £1,115,- was assisted by the tide ex had a cent. Thus the objections of the 975. After deductions there re-list that way either before or after illegal. But, unfortunately, the trade, against permanent protec-mains a balance of $951,996, to the collision, and if she took a full difficulty of so drafting a Billtion, have been met in a spirit of which is added £413,434 brought ten minutes to sink.

The inquest was adjourned.. wise compromise, and nothing forward, making a total available limiting the powers of the Trade should stand in the way of those balance of $1,365,490. From this Unions as to be proof against am- who are introducting legislation to £550,000 is transferred to general Four dividends of biguity and unreasonable con- assist the British product. The reserve fund,

This morning's Harbour" Office United States has the climatic ad-2% p.c. each have been paid, leav-reports gave 17 arrivals and 20 struction in the Courts, is not avantages that Britain does not ing balance of £416,430 to be car departures, of which six and nine point of small detail but the crux possess for open-air scenes, but fried forward.

of the whole matter upon which modern invention and improve

ments have 'enabled the studio to

respectively were British, leaving

67 vessels in harbour, British 24.

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It would be an ill day for him and everybody else if the news- papers were found full of large headlines over records of "good- ness, simple piety, honourable conduct, sincerity, and loving- kindness." It would mean that these things were so rare that we had to be reminded that they existed at all.

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A few gems taken from essays written in a Welsh town by child- ren on the recent visit of the King and Queen to Cardiff-

All Cardiff crowed in Queen Street when the Queen passed by The King banged the door with d hamlet. Admiral Sir William Good-

The mountain police pushed the. the Government has created a very make up a great deal for what is enough, who has been Commander-

people back. The mistress of a cargo boat solid feeling against it throughout not had out-of-doors. Again, in-Chief at the Nore since March which was

The King never come in a ex- alongside the s.8.curshon. the working class people of the many films do not require "wild, 1921, hauled down his flag on Apoey yesterday afternoon loading

The King and Queen was dress- country. It is a fact which must West" types of backgrounds, and May 15 on the expiration of the rice, has reported to the Police that ed alright, but not like what you

historical pictures can best be pro- usual three-year period, and was one not be lost sight of that the Unions ducea where history has been for succeeded by Admiral Sir E. S. when the steamer suiled. It is her

of her fokia disappeared would expect.

They welcomed the King with a distrust the Courts, and the vague, hundreds of years in the making Alexander-Sinclair, who has re-belief that the man was drowned, mallet: loose wording of Clauses 1 and 3, With reorganisation of the Fromecently returned home from China but there is a possibility of his hav

industry, co-oparation among the

an being relieved by Vice-Admiral ing stowed away... which are the vital Clauses of the producers, and the assistance that Sir Reginak Tyrwhitt. The Chief Bill, will leave many matters to be the proposed legislation is to give, of Staff to Admiral Alexander- there should be a marked increase

A Chinese, charged before Major tion of the Chinese police deten decided in cases brought before in both the output of British Sinclair will be Captain E. B.SC. Willson with returning from tien room at Shanghai, which is the Courts, Labour looks askance films and the demand for them. It Bingham, V.C., O.B.E., late in.com at the whole procedure, and much is now "up to the Industry to mand of the Nore Reserve Flotilla, banishment, was sentenced to eight now filled up with prisoners ar

months hard labour this morning, rested by the Shanghai and Woo- harm has been done to the cause prove that. It is capable of taking The Admiral will have the same The defendant was convicted in

In view of the dreadful condl-;

advantage of the aid it la to go. Secretary as in China and in 1925 for stealing and was sent to sung Police, Gen. Wu Chung-hain of industrial peace at Home by the coive, and when the quota no long-earlier commands, Paymaster prison for six months, in addition has requested the chief military' introduction of the measure.

er operates compulsorily it is to Commander, H. W. Woodward, and receiving twelve strokes with the justice to find means of keeping be hoped the proportion of homo also the same Assistant Secretary.

birch. He was banished for ten these prisoners elsewhere; in ar- picturas will be maintained, or even Paymaster Lieutenant J. A. Hus-years at the end of his term of im-der to prevent the spread of epide-

mies. increased; on their sheer merits."

prisonment.

The Bill is, in view of the Chust Toned temper of Labour since the