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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

น

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927.

PROTECTY OUR CAR Naturally, Jayan has problems of "by installing her own, and cannot afford "PYRENE" Fire similar complacenco. Britain her- Extinguisher. aelf has made several suggestions "PYRENE", will for change in the Washington kill fire without agreement, bat complications are damage to the likely to arise over these, for it engine, woodwork

is definitely stated by the head of or upholstery

the United States delegation that Water spreads a

It would be impracticable to potrol fire; sand is inefficient and will institute any modifications with put the engine out out. the concurrence of France of action.

hamille.

DAY BY DAY.

FORBEAR TO JUDGE, FOR WE ARE SINNERS ALL-Shakespeare.

The E. and A. os. St. Albanais.

FILM MELODRAMA.

"THE FLAG LIEUTENANT""

CRITICISED.

due hero from Japan on Wednes-has been shown at the Queen's

day morning.

The B. ss. Tilawa Is duo hero' from Singapore on Thursday mor- ning.

The a... Empress of Aala will and Italy. But as it happens, leave for Manila to-morrow oven "PYRENE" Er both those countries have re-ing at five o'clock. tinguisher is small frained from any participation,

Over the week-end, there were in size, light in and in the end it may be necessary weight and busy toto proceed to changes without two use of typhoid reported (one Dutch and one Chinese), and ono their prior approval. It is for-case of diphtheria (Indian). "PYRENE" does turnate that preliminary examina-

Jewellery worth $1,800 has been not deteriorato undtions of the problems that are stolen from a room at No. 4, Hill is always ready likely to arise have been made by Rond, according to a report made a technical committee, for it may to the Police by a Chinese woman

living there. be concluded that these" experts. will emergo with an agreement on minor points, and leave only the broader issues to be thrashed out in full session.

'for uso

Keep a "PYR- ENE" handy on car and in garage,

Mustard & Co., Ltd. Incorporated under the Companies

Urdiaices Hongkong," Alexandra Buildings, " Dos Vooux Road Control

THANKS.

The Very Idea!

The night porter at a big hotel. was astonished to see the figure of "The Fing Linutenant," which a man, scantily dressed, descending the stairs in the early hours of the Theatre over the week-end and morning. which has been drawing large Tapping him on the shoulder, tho crowds, is the first big 'British'film | porter suit-"What are you doing exhibited in the Colony for some here?"

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time, pasta fact which has added. The man turned and said in a considerably to the interest. Wo dazed way."I beg your pardon--- have heard much about the really Ian a somnambulist." industry to get a place in the can't walk about here like that, no carnest attempt of the British film "Well, sir," said the porter, "you

Empire's markets in compatltion matter what your religion is,' with the films of Hollywood, and "The Flag Lieutenant" is, we pre-Greatly puzzled by the antics of sume, one of the kind that is the trombono man in the band, they designed to provide that compoti. I decided to bring the oldest villager tion. And so, we ought to be and ask him his opinion about it. really critical of it and not let our The old man stood watching the natural and patriotic sympathies player for a while, and then exclaim- swamp what would be our candid edTake no notice o him. judgment were the film non- There's a trick in it; he bain't real- British It is difficult to do so be-ly swallowing it!"" cause the film deals with our over popular navy, the band plays "God Several letters have been address-Save the King" four times during ed to the Chinese press by parents the showing of the picture and the of Chinese students, complaining song "It's the Navy, the British. avainst the proposed increased in Navy" was reiterated until ono the fees at the Government Schools almost tired of it. One can hard- ly judge of the merits of the film as a film when it is filled with, national fervour and self-admira- tion.

And Incidentally, one may note the comment by an American'

As a Chinese was walking newspaper on the altered status along Lower Ruther Street a polo fall from the verandah of No. 6 of Britain now, as a naval power, and, striking the Chinese on the From a definite supremacy that head, indicted a scalp wound, made the British fleets equal, ine was taken to the Government

Civil Hospital. pre-war days, to any combination of two Powers in the world, the naval arm has become almost barely sufficient for defence needs, and other nations have advanced their sea strength to near equality. The United States are able to claim actual equality now, and the present discussions may bring CARPENTER-May 25, at Hampen-forth new groupings of power

den, to Mr. and Mrs. E. W.

Mr. Timothy K. N. Young and sois wish to express their sincere thanks to all friends for the floral tributes and kind sympathy in their recent and bereavement.

Will all please accept this ac- knowledgment.

be

BIRTH..

A cock-boy employed at No. 16, Seymour Road was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour on his pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a gold ring, clothing, and money, to the value of $46, belong ing to his master.

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The follows didn't know her

Pcatino

Sho looked so very sweet. It's funny what a girl can buy At the chemist down the

street.

A man accused of drunkenness. at Acton addressed a woman magis- tate as "My ladyship."

A landlord, who was dent, was naked at Shoreditch on what date he heard the lodger swearing. He replied: "What state? Oh, sober

But, trying to be impartial, one

Willesden woman: I want a sum- can honestly say that in the matter ons against my husband for chak of technique and cinematographying me; and it is not the first time, the film is right up to the standard for he has been doing it for thirty of the best that America gives us. years.. There is well-staged" and exciting action, the leading players take difficult roles with every success, and there is nothing whatever at which to cavil or criticise on the production side. There is, on the other hand, much on which to offer congratulations and to feel that British production is up to the standard at which it can success- fully compete. So much for the

As

"The Flag

story, a

We are informed that the wreck of the 8.4. "Leung Kwong" apim, as a film. peared to be in the process of morning. Our informant stated that the wreck is not quite as far as the Mawan white light, close over to the western side.

for once."

White-haired woman, at Shores ditch County Court: I made it a rule never to raise my voice to. my husband, and so he had no cause to raise his to me,

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Carpenter, of Hongkong, making the British position, com- being lifted by two junks this Lieutenant" is cheap melodrama, of a memorial tablet to a former

'yon.

PPC

Mrs. E. R. Dovey.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927.

THE NAVAL CONFER- ENCE..

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be allowed, he hoped they would not take it as precedent, as the walls of the churches were not designed for venience when people wished to tablets, which might cause incon- make alterations in the fabric in future years.

M.P.

The thred "R's" can be examined with the adore, no safeguarde ut divorced from the higher train- just an impossible position createding, they are apt to produce a for the benefit of the Flag-fourth "E"-rascality. Mr. K. W.

Pugh, Cardiff, Lieutenant who is going to dis

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A young lady was being shown through the locomotive works of a "What that thing," she asked certain engineering firm. the guide,

"That," answered the guide, fie to-date lady, and at once became in- an engine boiler." She was an up-

terested,

The fleet is then told of spectacular air raid (three thene serfous things, and there is machines) which frightens all the Another officer natives away, gets the credit of doing what the as asked. Flag Lieutenant did, and there is

Hearing evidence, at a Consistory Court at Worthing, for the erection full of improbabilities and errors. vicar of St. Paul's, Worthing, Mr. pared with a few years ago, even

within a few hours steaming" of Kenneth M. MacMarran, Chancellor a Naval Station is a "British of the Diocese of Chichester, sald more markedly changed. Yet it is

Outpost manned by a battalion of they suffered from a bad tradition a sign of the altered outlook, and

Scottish troops, who are fighting in the Church of England in re- a proof of the dependence on

The vernacular papers report for their very lives surrounded by gard to the erection of tablets in friendly agreement. So long as a that the utensil used for melting hundreds of natives--either Moors churches. Many churches had been.. nation has A fleet merely big gutta-purcha, in a Chinese dentist's or Arabs, judging by their dress.umbered with ungainly and un- enough to carry out its defence premises in Queen's Road Central, The situation is utterly fareical sightly things in the past which the exploded yesterday evening, result and impossible. For communica-present generation had to bear as needs, it cannot be accused of ing in injuries to three persons, ation, there is reliance on a pigmy best they could.

woman wireless set, and a message is sent clusion that the anlication must Although he had come to the con- aggressive intent. The American 12-year-old assistant, a

the Admiral at the Naval comment is actually a bouquet patient, and an attendant.

Station asking for assistance. Off it proves, as nothing else could,

Among the passengers who ar goes a destroyer with a landing how far off the mark are the derived here yesterday by the s

party on board, and that particular tractors who attempt to saddle us President Jefferson were Mr. A. part of the film is, with the help with a policy of imperialistic Brostedt, the Oriental Manager of of the Admiralty, well done conquest.:

the Canadian National Railways at Then there is a landing under fire Hongkong. The Jefferson is tak-led by the charmed Flag Lieu- What of Locarno?

ing a large passenger list on to tenant, who is singularly full of

Bad housing has more to do with One cannot resist an expression Manila, including a number of ap-irresponsibility. The relief of the of deep regret that so much of pointees to the Philippines Bureau beleagured garrison on shore is stupidity than any other social con-

dition. Mr. R. G. Randall. followed by the enemy exploding the promise of Locarno has not fof Education.

Board of Education circulars are. the defendera' small stock of been realised, and that the poli- It is possible at this stage, aftertical tension in Europe is, still so In view of the suspension of the ammunition (left out in an open as plentiful as spring cabbages, the Naval Disarmament

Finance has been the weak spot Constrained. Dr. Stresemann must service of the Kwong Tai Taxicab yard) and the shooting away of Mr. W. G. Bentlin. ference has sat for some time and have been genuinely perturbed Company-the agents of the Hong- the wireless aerials. So we now

when he saw fit to ask in the kong and Kowloon Taxicab Com have a naval and military partythe Achilles heel-in Labour Mosley, various national opinions have Reichstag, on Thursday, whether pany-it is reported in the verna-surrounded and beleaguered just polities. Mr. Oswald been expressed. to obtain a fairer M. Poincare's aim was the Ruhrcular press that a group of Chinese as the military party was a few policy or the Locarno policy, and, are now organlaing a new taxicab hours earlier. No communication perspective of the discussions and although the events out here in company, to have a fleet of 35 cars, to comment with less dependence China have resulted in our losing which will arrive in the Colony in on prophetic instinct. It has close watch on European political the Colony in the near future.

events, it has been manifest for become clear that the programmes some time past that there has

A ricksha coalie was fined six guise himself as a native, run back offered by the thres participating been a dissipation of the hopeful dollars by Major C. Willson this to the shore (we don't know just Powers have not been accepted in spirit that, was born at Locarno morning for walking across, and how far away it is) and shout, the different countries with any-and later ralified, se to speak, at lying on the grass around, the using his hands, as a megaphone. the famous meeting. of Foreign cenotaph. The coolie pleaded that to the destroyer telling of the thing like unanimous criticism, Ministers at Thoiry. It was cer he was very tired and the day was serious situation back in the gorri- and certainly with little commen- tainly understood to be one of the hot, but the Magistrate informed son. dation. In Japan, there appears to outcomes of the Locarno meeting him that he could lie anywhere else

that the Allie's would effect as he was really tired. He had no14 division between certain early as 筏

possible the military right whatever to be lying on the sections of public opinion and the evacution of the Rhineland, and grass.. seemingly official viewpoint. It Dr. Stresemann puts it as high as

"a condition of the signing." Approximately seven hundred

a wrong award of honours, The was the polite reply. appears very much as if the Since that time-nine months ago Chinese immigrants arrived in way women are allowed to inter-

There is a dog in Leicester who people expected their delegates there has been a significant Manila last Monday, on board two fere with the Admiral in this to suggest, more than has been change in the tone of French poll-steamers, the Heng An and the matter and the whole set of im- regularly visits a motion picture circumstances which show. He goes to the front of the done, whilst the Japanese Govern-ties, mainly because M. Poincare Consuelo. Most of the newcomers probable

has succeeded in triumphing over are from Amoy. The Heng An ensue is a distinct blemish which theatre, selects a vacant seat and ment has been inclined to adopt a M. Briand-the Liberal statesman carried 400 Chinese, while 300 it is impossible to overlook. The watches the performance until the line of caution and possible easy to whom Locarno owed so much. took passage ou the Consuelo. author of the stage play might not close. At times he registers excite- compromise.

M. Poincare made a noteworthy The arrival of the 700 Chinese have known any better, but ffment, but never barks nor The delegation.

tors. When the show is over, he speech at Bar-le-Duc on May 2nd. gave the immigration division of British films are going to satisfy any trouble for proprietor or visi head, Viscount Saito, is armed in which (to quote a leading Home the bureau of customs a very growingly-critical audiences and with vary wide powers, and ap-review) he announced a pro busy day.

are going to take their rightful jumps down and trots quietly out, place in interesting and Instruct- to return the next day whether parently his instructions have gramme of reaction at home and abroad including an attack on the

A prominent Chinese merchants ing us, they must be free of there is a change of programme or been to observe the trend of the unions of Government servants, has suggested in the vernacular ridiculous impossibilities and must discussious and interpolate Japan's the energetic nepression of Compress that as the five hougs, the not outrage any ordinary man's The following atory Illustrates ideas as occasion requires. There munist, anti-militarist and Nam Pak Hong, the piece'goods, the common sense. "The real future of

An English commercial traveller tonomist propaganda, high Protec-metal ware, the shipping, and the the films lies in their ability to the taciturn nature-of the Sect. is talk of the Pacific, empire re-tion, more fortifications, no dis- foreign sundry goods sellers are interpret for us the affairs of quiring a higher ratio, sufficiently armament, no evacuation of the he leading Chinese business inter everyday life and present them recently entering the Edinburgh to persistent to suggest that both Rhineland and no reconciliation ests in the Colony, it in advisable with an artistry that will contain London train at Newcastle found

He greeted them" with a official and public feeling is in speech amounted to all that or not a committee from among themselves production of films must be some

with Germany." Whether the that these five hongs should appoint helpful encouragement, and the two Scotsmen in his compartment. weather," &c,, but the only re favour of a change. But the dis-we do not know, but we do know, to discuss the trade revival and thing more than good photography"Good morning, gentlemen, pleasant cussions will have to proceed con- that Germany has been growingly later put forward their suggestions and the telling of a tale.

"The Flag Lieutenant" is a good sponse was a grunt from each man siderably before it can be definite-tion of the Allies to honour their merce.

apprehensive regarding the intento the Chinese Chamber of Com

fim from the production point of as they subjected the poor "com- The-Englishman was chilled, and ly known what attitude to that Locarno obligations and effect the

view, but it is disappointing to one mercial" to a stony stare. question the Nipponese delegates military evacuation of the Rhine-

The s.s. Empress of Asia arrived who would like to see the medium

Leaving the compartment, how. wish to adopt. So far as the land. None can deny that Gerla port from Vancouver and ports of cinematography explaited with did not venture another word for United States are concerned, it ignty and to the freedom of her goodly passenger list. Those ar-gence.

aver at a station near London he many is entitled to full sovere-this morning, bringing with her a keen regard to people's intelll, thours.

ventured a chcery "Well, good oven- appears. that A characteristic territory as early as is ever pos-riving for Hongkong included, the'

ing gentlemen, whereupon the one Scot turned to the other with the optimism prevails. Much is hop-sible, and, Inasmuch as the pack Hen. Dr. R. H. and Mrs. Kotewall, fication of Germany on these raat- Mrs. W. E. Clarke, Mr. Ho Kom-

It was reported on

Saturdayreranrk-Man, he's an awfu ed for, and the spirit of comters in of grave and vital import tong, Mr. J. Noble, and Mr. and

The bont that the girl who ran in front of blether." promise is to be invoked wherever to the pause of Europe, it ought Mrs. R. R. Roxburgh.. possible. Britain's suggestions

to be the aim of all European carried 80 first-class passengera car No. 642, belonging to Dr. statesmen to hasten the evacua- for Hongkong, 11 first-class pas-Wang of the University and was A pot of boiling water, which have been taken as the basis for tion. It is a fact of which we sengers for Manila, 67 second knocked down, had received in was accidentally knocked over, favourable American comment, must not lose sight that there is class passengers for Hongkong juries which were believed to be severaly scalded a Chinese woman and the two western Powers seem much in European politics at this and 30 second-class passengers for serious. It was, however, found living at 187, Second Street, caug moment that endangers all the Manila, together with 69 third that the Injuries are alight, and ing burns which necessitated her to be nearer definite agreement work for peace that has been done class and 267 steerage passengers the girl is expected to be able to removal to the Government Civil

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To make the engine tender,"

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