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SATURDAY,

JUNE

DAY BY DAY.

FAITH IS

1927.

HIGHER FACULTY

Jewellery valued at $684,30 has been stolen from No. 241, Tomple

especially at a time when past fol- lies have taught the Unions how to use their power with caution and: discretion-must inevitably create THAN REASON-Bailey. a cleavage in the community and stir up social animosities that one hud hoped would be allowed to ile dormant for a spell. Last year, Britain was sadly torn by Indus-H.E. the Governor has appointed trial strife and, when the miners Mr. Willam Le Bart Sparrow to wont back to work defeated and be an Assistant Superintendent of

Police. when the General Strike was de- monstrated to be a hopelessly Im- practicable weapon, there were

Street.

TRAVELLERS AND OTHERS.

A Reminiscence of Spain.

To-morrow morning at seven j began to cheer up; to fling thom-" o'clock if it pleases the Portuguesa selves on the deck; to walk about. rallway I shall be is Spain, in the They kept their belongings in sacks city of Badajoz. From Badajoz I and bundles hear by. They sat shall walk northward through on them, The women were small, Caceres, Plasconcia, Bejar Sala shawled and with bright scarves manca and Zamora-in fact, I tied over their heads, and earrings shall encircle Portugal and arrive swinging like little censors or coll- in Vigo. The distance is three or fed like tiny gilt serpents from their four hundred miles. At Vigo the fears,

Oranges were brought out, Spanish steamship agent-known "King of Vigar" because of the peared and the stench of it stood diamond rings he wears on every up, in sickly beams like candle The Hospital Comforts Commit- finger and the splendour of his smoke. The young girls read waistcoats-has my belongings. new geography books. The men thanks, receipt of 5,000 cigarettes seem, it is thus only a hunt for small but sharp and lithe moun- tee begs to acknowledge with Romantic as the expedition may walked about. One of them, a

from the British-American Tobac-: co Company.

Golfers who propose going out to Fanling on Sunday, should note that the train leaves the Kowloon formerly.

a Pansy or Ideal Cooking.hopes that an, uninterrupted periou Station at 8.25 and not 8.30 asto ironical English sailors as the the peel scattered. Olive oil ap

Stove, which have been spacially adapted to meet the requirements of the house- holder in China.

Economy in fuel is ensured by the use of the cheapost grade of coal which will give rosulte unsurpassed by stoves requiring the best grade of coal.

Pansy and Ideal Stoves are mado to last long.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25. 1927.

TRADE UNION BILL.

taineer, told me what he was 'go-

of industrial peace would ensue. And then, foolishly,, we think, the Government was egged on to in- troduce one of the most controver- sial measures of all time-a Bill

a suitcase. so full of ambiguities concerning

I write this in the mood of de-ing to do. There was no servility Trade Union powers that it will

A Chinese motor driver, plead-flance which the bombastic sun of about. We sroke as man to man, only be by recourse to the Courtsing guilty to a charge of soliciting

He certainly had the best of it. Vigo gives one. I have steeped He said: that many vital points will be set for passengers outside the Kam myself in the sun till I thought my

limbs were on fire. The white "I am Asturianó, I am from tled. We do not wonder that the Ling Hotel, at West Point, in the heat licks up the streets and its Pravin, in the Province of Oviedo.

carly hours of this morning, was Labour Party is determined to

fined $5 or in default seven days flame beats and awathes one. You know it? Naturally you How the sun enriches and em-know It. Yes, sir; naturally! I earry the fight to the country, and hard labour...

powers, pouring like gold coins out am going to Buenos Aires. It la it is that aspect of the controversy

of a sack upon the sea, loading twenty days to Buenos Aires, you the roofs, bichching the walls till say?-Woil, it isn't. Nothing of -the heated discussions at public

they ate as white as bone! the sort. It is sixteen days. Six- meetings, the inflammatory

Houses ripen, shutters age, a rind teen! You are wrong. I mean to speeches of enthusiasts and the

of sunlight is in every brick and say have seen the notice and six stirring up of class feeling-that

tile, on every face, till the city is teen days it says.

Why do I leave the Asturias?. like a great, coarse fruit that is most to be deplored. Instead of

over-ripened, has dropped heavily To get more money, clearly. I the Government forcing the Bill

to earth.

oarn more money and then I shall through the Commons under the

In London, the sun, like an are return, for the Asturias is the most guillotine rule as it has, it would

lamp in a fog, dripped a watery, beautiful place in the world. Whut have been infinitely better if it had

line light. That grayness follow shall I do? Whatever presents it ed us to Cherbourg and the Bay of self. If good, well good. If bad, I paid 120 pesetas for consented to the appointment of

Biscay: we northerners cat fog well bad. Select Committee to examine the

and gray and drizzle. It was at my passage.and it is enough. Now. matter from every angle and re-

La Coruna that we became aware where do you come from? How port-before the introduction of this

of another power; there was clear old are you? What are you do light. We could see at last. The ing? Are you married?..." distrust-breeding legislation.

ocean ran high and royal

A duggestion has been made to the Nationalist authorities that cinematograph photographers should be appointed to visit the war front to take pictures of the fighting, especially Nationalist victories.

་་

scenes

of

A police raid yesterday on the basement of a house in St. Francis Yard resulted in the surprise of twelve men who were playing pai kau at the time. The men were brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning and, pleading guilty, were each fined $3 or six day's hard

labour.

sengers,

+

There is a song about the man of 'Pravic, and the English of it. goes something like this:

I am from Pravia

And my mother is a Praviana. For this reason ・・・

There is no evil in me.

man's chant:

Tell me bright fish Where are thy little.

ones There" was always a sardonic

In connexion with the summer excursion trips arranged by the Dome after dome of blue water N.Y.K., the company announce

rosc loftily into A Pacific Entente.

brilliance, that they will be pleased to for- crumbled into a snow of foam, glid Apparently inspired by the Jaward a folder of information on into dark and luminous troughs, panese Forciga Office, we are toll, the attractions of the various re- There was a solidity and a light- The discussion on the Trade one of the papers in Japan has de-sorts in Japan to intending pas-ness in the water. Each wave was Union Bill, which

on application to the a being. It rose, poised and received its clared that "an effective under-

At night, with the lights of standing or pact" with Britain in local office in Connaught Road. arched downward like a school of Spanish villages raked together third reading in the House of

the Pacific is "highly desirable".

porpoises. The affted foam lay like star dust on the mountains," Commons on Thursday, will now and that such an understanding Doctor Wong, residing at the like an immense lace from horizon the moon as big and tawny as a be even more widespread through should form an integral part of the

naval disarmament University, has reported to the to horizon. The Ashing boats of tambourine, and one hot white atar out the country than it has been proposed

agreement at Geneva. This bear's police that when driving his motor La Coruna, under their sling, of pushed up the sky and slipping during the weeks taken up by the out the indicated policy of a see-ear No. 6-12 along Caine Road, ves-sal, flew over and through these down again over Portugal as the age deck was broken by songs of passage of the measure through tion of Japanese public opinion, asterday, a Chinese girl ran in front billows, with the deliberation of boat relied, the silence of the ste the Honse. It has been impossible reflected in speeches made from of the car. She was knocked down sea gulls,

The foam exploded upon them, this kind. There was a man lying time to time by certain of the and sustained injuries which ara to pick up any Home paper of late country's prominent statesmen. believed to be serious, and was spurted at them, the water sheeted at on the deck, and in that harsh, without finding that the Bill is But it opens up very long vistas.taken to the Government Civil Hos-them; now they were flat as a web minor, quavery way learned from of surf on the wave; now they the Moora-the sound of it brought secupied the centre of the public Britain herself is probably inclinpital.

were soaring or diving for the next the very smell of Africa to the ed to favour an Anglo-Japanese stage and that feeling upon it has entente, for it is known that the The following additions have one. They silt the wind and the nostrils-he sang song after song. run very high. The discussion of decision to allow the former albeen made to the Register of Me-sea with their speed, spume could I caught the first lines of a fisher- it has long since overflowed from liance with Nippon to lapse was dical Practioners entitled to pruc-not fly faster or sting harder.

afterwards regretted in certain the House, and by means of quarters. Japan herself would ise Medicine in this Colony-LiIt was at Vigo that we felt the speeches and handbills and arti-probably desire a renewal of that Kuang-yu, Government Civil Hos- sun. He seemed to step down the cles in the newspapers there has pact, or a substitute therefor, ifpital, Bachelor of Medicine and sky and put his face into mine. Bachelor of Surgery of the Daiver He hit out. You can feel him in for no other reason than as a safety of Hongkong, Ma Wai-man, 3; been demonstrated a keen and

guard against having to play Kennedy Road, Bachelor of Me- widespread feeling against the lone hand against the Government's proposals. It is true Powers. The British viewpoint dicine and Bachelor of Surgery of

would rather have an agreement the University of Hongkong. that daring the passage of the of large scope, for to arrow "it

The body of a Chinese, between Bill. there have been one or two down to only Japan opens, the way

to possible complications with 40 and 56 years of age, who is amendments, aimed at pacifying other nations with whom we desire believed to have been murdered, outraged Labour opinion, but these to be on friendly terms. Indeed, has been taken, to the Kowloon

"There is a cry with mockery have failed in their object, as is alliances these days are rather Mortuary. The body was found

looked upon as entanglements than on the foreshore at Pak Cho Wan, amid the bravado of sun and from the people in that, the scorn proved by the declaration of Mr. blessings, unless they are more or Cheung Chau, on Thursday. On water, a well of black fron with a of the northerner for the south- J. H. Thomas in the Commons on less universal. One point of view an examination being carried out white dressing of decks to iterner-what country does not have. Thursday that the Opposition in- in Japan itself regards the British it was found that both wrists and There were the South Americans that? The man sat up to sing tended to use their constitutional a seekers after an anti-Soviet ankles were tied, and there was gobbling their Castilian as though again in a rasping voice. It has blue, and apparently there is a Ja-also a rope round his neck with ait were a mouthful of spitting, hot the raucous amusing mockery, and rights in the country and invite panese section of opinion

knot at the back. fears being dragged into any a mamlate to have the measure re- moved from the Statute Book. quarrel with Russia. But the two Countries that have, unfortunately, Labour is confident that it has the most suspicion of each other's majority of the country behind it motives are Japan and Amerien... in ita plea for the rejection of the If Britain, who desires nothing. more than permanent friendship measure, but, contrariwise,

with the United States, were to supporters of the Government also come to any binding alliance with Pacific matters, declare that they are confident the Japanese on

the

America,

western

NEW HOSPITAL.

that

and

SHAMEEN DEFENCE

FORCE.

ITS SOCIAL ACTIVITIES.

Un page 12 of to-day's issue we

While on Shameen the men were

your bones, your eyes, your hair, touch to these songs, a grim hum You seem to be drinking him. At our grasped from the ups and Vigo, the wide bay hissed like downs of everyday living.

metal with the heat and burned the edge of that little white pyramid of a town. On the night the boat swung into Lisbon, with the moun- tains stretched like tired dogs

beside it.

How vulgar the liner seemed

Somos pobres muchachos de.

Cadiz-z-z

Y no sabemos apuntar

A has muchachas de Cadiz-z-z. Se las puede preguntar.

Mi padre

manda A. mi

potatoes instead of one of the something of the peasant'a shrewd finest languages in the world. insight into the causes of bad gov- The Argentinos had a gramophone crnment; which set their teeth chiming and their eyes glittering like tam- bourines, as they bent their hands and tapped their feet to tunes that clashed with all the stridor of Buenos Aires.

madro-e-o

Y mi madre me manda

mi-i-i

Mi madre me manda à

(Quickly)

Y yo manda a 'mis hermanos. Todos nos mandamas acqui-i-i.

(Load Derision).

Father-orders mother- Mother orders me

I order my brothers and

"slators

We all order one another

about here..

I saw that afternoon 'a poignant

it cannot ever, we fancy, be at the

We all talked about voyages, that the electorate will back them expense of the third party to the are showing a picture of the races and trades, and we came to discussions. A very Shameen Defence Force; com- the inevitable ce sclusion that we

The English of it lacks the re- up in what they declare is a fight Geneva

were the finest people under the against the tyranny of the Tradehappy solution, not only of naval prising "D" Company of the K. O.

disarmament questions but also 31. B. an ancillary section of sun. (There is something in the resonance, the dignity, the mock Unions.

all Pacific problems, would be a de-machine gunners and a Company saying that travelling has a nar-berois of the Castilian, and sounds The aspect of the matter which finite understanding among the of Punjabis. "B" Company hav-rowing tendency) Meantime the vulgar boside, it: we most regret is that the country three nations which have at pre-ing finished their alloted period of ship's officer could not understand

sent the largest interests at stake two months on Shameen, have why anyone ever went to sca. is now plunged into a sharp class there-Britain,

An English clerk confessed he war-a political struggle in which Japan. If the Guneva conference since returned to the Colony. the strongest appeal is made to at can pave the way to that, it willbilleted in the theatre ball attach- was taking seven dozen dinner man's status and not to his intel-marke an important milestone ined to the Shameen Club. The resi shirts with him to Santos, stolid in

world history.

dents of the small settlement, both the determination not to be at the ect. Labour has already flooded

British and French, catered for mercy of a Brazilian laundry. He the social welfare of the troops told this to a Brazilian who droop-sight in the steerage quarters. the country with litorature, and

and this took the form of whisted and looped himself about chairs The sacks, and bundles were piled and pillars like a violet, tropical un on the deck. The smell of tho other propaganda denouncing the

drives, concerts and all kinds of convolulus, who could not belleve place! There was a sack with the Bill as a class attack by the monied

sports.

the story.

label, Conservatives against the power

The K.O.S.B. Concert party re-

Don Francisco Alvarez, Vigo turned the hospitality shown to of the poor man's Trade Union.

Buenos Aires, them by organising a very much and to offset this there has been

and roped onto the sack a fine, A new hospital for Chinese is to appreciated concert, which was counter propaganda in which the

strong two-handled saw with its be built near Causeway Bay in the held in the Shameen Club. So officials of the Unions are painted vicinity of the St. Paul Hospital, pleased wore the Shameen resi-

teeth protected by a strip of cane. Careful Don Francisco and his be as being just so many irresponsible says the vernacular press. It is dents that, at the conclusion of agitators. Most working men are

learnt that this new hospital will the show, a collection was made ba under the management of the which was utilised to cover the

loved saw. How many Spanish ity,

logs had he sawn with it? I won- trade unionists and in spite of Tung Wah Hospital. The estimated cost of prizes for a boxing tourna

Spain lay beside us its torrid der If it were he who later stood whatever political leanings a man cost of the building will be appro-ment and sports meeting open to

all units of the Défence Force. sopia slabs of land. At Vigo the up on deck and shouted magni- might have he is naturally jealouximately $180,000..

The proposal of bullding this new Mr. George Dunean, of Jardine, Spanish emigrants came aboard, Acently the song of which I have of the immunities which his union hospital was made sometime ago by Matheson and Company, who was frightened and too excited at first only the first words: enjoya, even though he is told that the Tung Wah Hospital, and about the only civilian to take part in to be and, faces incised by the I am from Vigo, senores

And the former, lost his fight to Pte.labour, of the earth and the deeply And from no other place Boma of these immunities are $100,000 has been collected.

d from n It has always been felt that for Porter of the "Kosbieg,"

acoring sun. It burns their eyes

This is my destination. Tomor anomalous and ought not to per- the Chinese, especially those who The favourite game was, of ass black as grapes and there fa a

ww row morning at seven o'clock, if are poor, living in the vicinity of course, "socter" and many fine brightness in them.

It is the pleasure of the Porturjoge Causeway Bay and Shaukiwan, a tuasies were witnessed on the

As the boat left they were de-railway. I shall be en route. hospital in that part of the Colony football ground in front of Meaarsi

solate, but after a few hours they is badly needed,

Butterfield and Swire's office,

sist. The attempt of a Conserva tive Government to take away some of the power of the Unions—

FOR CAUSEWAY BAY.

Every few minutes he repeated with a flaccid politeneus:

"Pero hombre, slete docent" "Slete docena

"Pero, siete dice usted?" The source of the Englishman's prestige is his plodding eccentric

YS.P