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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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MONDAY,

JUNE 20, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

CORRESPONDENCE.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. AND THE WHY NO BAND CONCERTS?. WORLD 18 BOUND TO BELIEVE A

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Duncan, his Chief-of-Staff, and When in Tientsin, Major-General Colonel Heuth paid a visit to the ex- Emperor.

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

RUMA

Sin- It

somewhat dis- appointing, to read in your valu- Committee of the K.R.A. hed de- able paper on Friday that the

The Very Idea!

A few gems from the advertis mont columns: Gentleman wants shooting.

Wanted, a horse, to do the work of a country minister,

Wanted, an organist, and a lad to blow the game;

Widow, in comfortable circum- to marry two

Inventor of new typo of prom wishes to meet financier to push

Bond,

cided that the funds of the Astances, wishes" sociation could not be used for the hiring of military bands.

It may have been n totally or roneous Impression, but I imagin- ed that the sub-committee was ap-

SAMO.

Furriors begs to announce tinti

he will make up coats etc., for ladles out of their own alding,

Wanted by amiable young lady, Willing

Cigars and cigarettes worth Country is supported by Australia show case

in front of No. 88, and New Zealand. Yet, it is serious-Queen's Road, Control. ly suggested that Japan intends to bargain at the forthcoming confer-

loss of time. In this the Mother $31.86 have been stolen from a order to find a means, if possible, thor passage to Canada.

The Dance advertised to be held it the Peak Club on Friday, the 24th June, has been cancelled owing to "lack, of, support from the mem- bors.

ence for "compensations" in other. directions, if she overlocks these matters of Pacific bases. One can understand how the public feeling

The Harbour Office reports up in Nippon must fear a menace in to nine o'clock this morning gave the establishment of big striking-ten arrivals and nine departures, and British figures being two points in the waters washing the

three respectively. shores of the Asiatic island empire; but on the other hand, American public opinion a particularly con-

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As a Chinese was walking along First Street he tripped, and fell on a broken bottle. The bottle

pointed, not for the purpose of as certaining the purposes for which the funds could be used, but în of providing Kowloon with band concerts during the week...,

Does the decision of the K.R.A. sub-committee mean that the idea of band concerts in Kewloon has been totally abandoned? If so, it scoms to mo that initiative is de- cidedly lacking, It has been pointed out before, I believe, that six or seven military bands are in the Colony, That our summer aights cannot be brightoned on at least one night a week by one of these bands secm's absurd.

If finance is the chief worry of the K.R.A., might not an object lesson be taken from the K.C.C. concert a few weeks back. I am

to take care of children and á

good sailor.

The wonder child' of Wembley, described us the smallest baby in the world, which weighed only one and a balf pound at birth, is only nine inches long.

"Everybody anys it is a miracle that the child is still alive," said famous doctors from the hospitals the mother, Mrs. Cozens. "Many

that the child is really as small have come to satisfy themselves as it is claimed to be. They all weighed it, and were astonished that it has lived.”,

Mrs. Cozens was advised to havo

cerned over the iden of the ever-cut his chest so badly that he sure that a concert arranged, say the child reared in an incubator, .. growing Japanese navy. So it up was taken to the Government pears as if a number of knotty Civil Hospital.

Thongkong Telegraph.points require unravelling. Happi-

MONDAY, JUNE 20 1927.

NAVAL RATIOS.

Mrs. D. A. Ross, 2, Queen's ly, the three big lowers con-Road, Contral, has reported to the cerned approach the conference with Police that sometime during the a good deal less suspicion than past mouth someone stole from her room a bracelet with pendant, ruled a number of years ago. World valued at $100. statesmanship has of late grown to realise the folly of narrow views, and a give-and-take policy has been

at the Kowloon Football Club, but she would not give her con-. with seating accommodation for sent three or four hundred people, would repay the organisers at any time:

We have never had a better op- portunity than the present of hearing good music by good bands and to allow it to pass by with out the slightest effort is, almost Pleading guilty to a charge oferiminal-Yours, etc.,

RESIDENT. being in possession of twenty taels

Kowlooh, June 18, 1927. of non-Government opium a cool. On was fined $2,000 or in default ten months' hard labour.

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It would appear as if the tripar-adopted l big questions of internin-boy on the river steamer Chung tite naval disarmament conference tional import. This augurs well for which is to be opened to-day at

a further agreement, and u period, Geneva, between Britain, America in the future, of mutual trust and

The Police have destroyed a and Japan, is to be the most im-egitimate naval expansion, free dog owned by Mr. C. Lim, No. 8, portant discussion of naval matters from any hectic counter-measures Kennedy Road, which was report which has yet occurred. The such as ruled in the old days whened to be suffering from rables. The carcase has been sent to the Washington agreement of some few ever some nation launched a mam-Government Bacteriologist for years ago, at which the ratio of moth battleship or a new class of examination. 5/5/3 was established, has" never submarine. been regarded with unanimous ap- proval.

Other Powers apart from

EIGHTY WOUNDS.

MURDER TRIAL AT SESSIONS.

Magistrate at Willesden: What rent do they pay for these two rooms? Landlady: Oh, too ridi-, culous-223. 6d. a week.

Poplar man: It was hardly an assault, "I only struck him once.

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Man at Yarmouth: I want a stop put to a woman's tongue, The chairman: That is a tall order.

Driver at Bow County: I was stationary when I pulled up.

Walthamstow landlady: My lodger has been flying the flag öf truco since I issued the summons for possession.

Mr. Louis Auger M.P. for Pres- cott and Canada's youngest mem- ber of Parliament, was the victim That there were eighty wounds of a singular case of mistaken iden- on the body of the woman who tity in an Ottawa court in which was murdered, was the statement he was unsuccessfully sued by a made by medical witnesses at the doctor, who maintained that he A Chinese coolic has been sent Criminal Sessions this morning in had not received payment for a to the Government Civil Hospital the case in which Ku Tsoi is charg-series of treatments he thought with a wound in the left shouldered with murdering the concubine he had administered to Auger. and minor abrasions. Ho receiv- ed his injuries during the course of his employer at Kowloon City The court decided the doctor was

of a fight with other men at No. 3, George's Lane.

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on April 6

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy appeared for the Crown and Mr. F. C. Jen- kin for the prisoner.

Dr. E. P. Minnet said he had

mistakon in his identification.

Parry.

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to

myself.Judge

I am afraid that the public wint

Chang as Dictator. the three principais concerned, had

Marshal Chang Tso-lin's. formal very little to do with the conclusions assumption of the office of Dicta- arrived af, and it was not long he tor comes as a rather surprising fore controversies arose

British sentiment is an enormous as to development so late in the day as

trade asset-Sir John Ferguson. this. According to the news of the absolute adherence of the three the past week, Peking is beset Miss Elizabeth Tilley, daughter examined two choppers alleged to been to a cinema, and I never want The engagement is announced of

Only once in my life have I contracting nations. It was stated with enemies all around-Mar-of Sir John Tilley, the Am-have been found near the scene to go again-Lord Banbury. at one time, in America, that Bri-shals Chiang Kai-shek, and Feng bassador to Japan, to Captain of the crime and found that they

Yu-hsiang and General Yen Shi-Philip Gwyn, 16th Punjab Regi-bore bloodstains and had black of Scotland are the finest in the The grocers' and provision shops tain had obtained the best of the shan, to name only the most ment, who at present is a language halra attached to them. He had world. Mr. A. E. Wiltshire. bargain, and there was also a great prominent and it seems a little officer, attached to the British also found traces of blood on the

At the end of a very long voyage deal of talk later regarding the prescmptious, to say the very bassy.

jacket and trousers the prosecu I want A few years' peace and question of gun elevation. Ton-treat himself to a formal ceremony,

least of it, for Chang Tso-lin to

tion alleged the prisoner was quietness. Opium weighing 245,095 ounces wearing on the night of the nage was restricted at Washington, of installation as Dictator. Un- and 8,418 ounces of orphia and murder. but increased gun elevation was less the Marshal of Mukden has other narcotic drugs together with

The medical officer of the Tung held to give the nation adopting it something up his sleeve of which a great quantity of hypodermic" Wah, hospital said that when the cheap and showy things-Mr. W. we as yet know nothing, his pre-syringes and anti-opium pills, al-woman was admitted she was still Hemming (president, Goldsmiths' an unfair advantage which was not sont step seems a most foolish one, together worth more than $260,741 conscious but very weak. provided against. It required an and in these days of "Nationalism" were destroyed at Pootung last condition was serious and the to a state of physical well-being If humanity could be brought official denial to dispose of this so blatantly unconstitutional as to week. eriticism,

arouse the political enmities of though whether the most of his fellow countrymen.

The injuries on her many of our social probleme would The King and Queen held the first hands might have prevented her disappear-President Coolidge." critics were convinced is another Of course, Chang has been vir-Court of the season at Buckingham from signing it.

An eclipse ball on June 28 in a matter. Then followed à contro.tually a Dictator for years past, Palace on May 21. Among those there were, wounds all over the versy as to whether America, des Premier holding office by grace Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, First eighteen on the face, nine on the course

each and every Government and in attendance upon the King was body, forty on the head and neck, marquee to be erected on the race- at Richmond, Yorkshire, pite her 5 to a ratio, was to be of his support and losing office so and Principal Naval 1ide-de-Camp. | toft hand, eight on the right hand, dancing to take place during the "mennced" by the Japanese navy.soon as Chang desired. For the The two Misses Leveson were two on each wrist and a bruise on night, a meal to be served after The Washington agreement res- this formal declaration will give Mrs. Looker, wife of Mr. H. W. have been caused by a chopper. eclipse of the sun at 6.25 a.m. to very little access of power which among the ladies summoned, also the shoulder. The wounds might dawn, and a view of the total tricted the tonnage of certain ships, him, Chang might have left things Looker,.M.P.

The case is proceeding.

be given from seats on the grand- hut auxiliary craft could be built alone and concentrated on, keep-

stand, is proposed by a special ng in check the Southern advance.

committee formed of members of Richmond Town Council.

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woman made a statement before a magistrate.

Witness said

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, June 19.

ip to almost any number. That There have been a great many come a film actor is to have a very Sir Alan Cobham, who is to be- led to much discussion of the com- people who have consistently gallant part in the film to be called. parative value of battleships and asserted that Ching needs the "The Flight Lieutenant," which has cruisers as against submarines or the other warlords, to.. impotence ment of a commercial air station part of a Cromwell, to subduc❘ been planned round the establish- aberaft. Presumably, the Washing- and to impose à petice and unity in China. The story concerns an Paris tor conference was a trial, and it based on his own personality and English girl in China who is being Brussels

assertiveness, Ching is not ripe forced to marry an unwelcome Amsterdam appears very much as if the nations for a democractic form of govera-ruitor. The proceedings are inter

Berlin | concerned have been awaiting the ment, they say, and ought to be rupted by Chinese bandlits, and in Copenhagen

Vienna | expiry of the period arranged, so ruled firmly by one man, That the nick of time "Sir Alan Cob-

Helsingfors might be so, but we do not think ham" turns up and bombs the uto as to bring forward new ideas as a that Chang Tso-lin is destined to tackers from the air. A Chinese Bucharest result of the experience gained. be that man, though the delusion village is now being built on the Buenos Aires.

due Shanghai This brings us to the considera-that he is possibly accounts for nerodrome at Stag lane, and tion of the forthcoming conference has shown neither the virtuce nor spectacular air lighting and bomb- New York

the present bloodless coap. Chang course it will be the scene of much Kobe and its probable feet on world the ability sufficient to attracting. policies.

Milan are already in- unto himself the spontaneous and

abiding loyalties upon which any Opportunity now is provided for Stockholm dications of vast questions crop-Dictatorship would have to sub-intending candidatcu to sit at ping up, and somewhat aweeping sist. It seems as though he has Shanghai for the London Univer-gu

Madrid altarations to the old schedule. If been badly advised, and we can sity examinations. Until two Athens preliminary forecasts are to be be- not ace how his assumption of a years ago it was necessary for

Dictatorship can effect very much them to go Home for examina-Bombay lleyed, Japan is going to ask for or lagt very long..

tions. Last week the University Hongkong better consideration of her special

London Matriculation Ex-Silver (spot and forward) uminations word held at the Bri- problems of defence. It is expect-

Felix Fernandez, cashier of thotish Consulate, Mr. S. Cameron provincial treasurers office and Potter being appointed by Sir Sid..

There

ed, for instance, that she will re-

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7.30-Great Moments in Hig tory, "God Discovered in Cali- fornia-Radio programme in an .124 Americas paper, .34.00% .12.12 .20:40

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A young married woman who 18.1914 Bummoned her husband at West 34.614 Ham Police Court for assault, .102.90 alleged that he attacked her be- .2.81/84 cause she slapped the baby.

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A woman can now dress on £5 2/01/2

a. year! This was the startling conclusion to which Daily Ex- press representative damo in the 87.40 Agricultural Hall, Islington, en .19.12 visiting the Stationery Exhibition, 18.78 which was opened by the Lord 163.15/16 Mayor, Sir Rowland Blades. The .28.46 feature of the exhibition was a

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stall at which were displayed some 6.-16/04

gorgeous creations for women .1/5.27/32

..2/0 such prices as 2s, and 2s. 6d, with ....28% smart hats for 1s. 6d. Women's -Dritish Wireless. handbaga wore on sale for anything :

from Od. to 19. 6. What were they made of? As befitted a stationery

|quire, a raising of her permitted Philippine National Bank, who is as honorary, sub-examiner to the from the house of Mr. William Paper-paper of all colours-but. of the, Surigao branch of theney Barton, H.M. Consul-General, Pleading guilty to stealing $113 exhibition, they were made of ratio of naval strength to one of charged with the eroazzlemont University. At the last Matricu-Saunders, a Chinese was sentenced you did not notice that they were equality with Britain and America. of P.48,776.27, has been arrested lation examinations, in January to three years hard labour by the made of paper until you touched It is known that the large increase according to a telegraphic report amongst the sucessful candidates Acting Pusine Judge, Mr. P. Jacks them, and even then you were

received last week at the insular was Miss Darroch, daughter of at the Criminal Sessions this morn

doubtful. in auxiliary craft has given rise to auditor's office, Manila. Forman Dr. J. Darroch, who since, hus Ing. Another Chinese was sentenced a desire to seek the extension of dez accounts were recently found gone Home. and understood lato five years' hard labour for steal- restrictive agreements to such types short of P29.144.27 in cash and about to enter the University ing seven postal packets from the of haval armament, but now it is many of which have not yet ma-degrees in Low. Science. Commerce

P.19,682 in Liberty Loan coupons; All the examinations leading to“

General Post Office. stated that the Japanese are likely tured. The reports received did and Arts can be taken in Shang- to oppose such a suggestion. That not explain whether the missing hal. The honorary secretary to cash to property of the Nationalthe University of London Society: alone will require diplomatic hand- Bank or that of the provincial in Shanghai is Mr. J. P. Jones, ling if no-feeling is to arise. government.

B.Sc. (Glasgow).

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand: 1/11.15/16. Lighting-up

7.10 p.m.

Passengers arriving from the north by 6.8, Suwa Maru included Mr: C. L. Laird and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Martin, whilo departures for Europe via porta by the same vea- se included Mr. F. and Miss Clara Fisher and Mr. V. Rupehand.