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SATURDAY, JULY

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DAY BY DAY.

1927.

DO NOT ALLOW IDLENESS TO DE- CIEVE YOU FOR WHILE YOU GIVE HIM TO-DAY, HE STEALS TO-MORNOW FROM YOU-Crowquill

Among recent appointments by the Secretary of State for the Colonice is Dr. T. W. Ware "as Medical Officer, Hongkong.

A Chinese has reported to the Police that while he was travelling on the ferry between Hongkong and Yaumati yesterday, someone stole from his pocket $130 in bank notes,

A KALEIDOSCOPE OF LONDON.

and A

Quaint Characters of the Metropolis.

At Charing

I

I remember the Incident well and secreting them in the sleeves of Cross the sun was bewildering tho The train was sliding into London of the warehouses, piercing the outer nimbus

the vehicles and dazzling the shop win- smoke. We had passed suburbs which are crawling and dows.

I walked northward. andling and biting. further and

At Lol- It is officially notified that the further into green England like cester Square dropped pellets of In Charing Cross Road name of The Tai Yuen Hotel Com-the claws of some geometrical red iron rain.

We ware slithering the rain had become swift and pany, Limited, has been struck off lobster. the Rögister..

among the tented acres of roof thick as traffic. The air was in- cockney population of passable. The rain beat up and which smoke down like a thousand little electric. chimneys from

in vivid white on the roads. dribbled up to meet an ochreous, machines and sparked and crackled fuming London drizzle.

We crossed streets, pale trenches sheltered in a doorway with another of for with trams and cars and man. This rain was the kind of people tending little by little city joke he was tired of, he said.

"Goes through yor." Then look- ward in them. The thick sinell and Through falling through a win-

cils the train. We sprang through of my hat to the heels of my boots dow at No. 533 Canton Road, Kow the feel of London seemed to ex- ing me up and down from the brin slamming stations, hit points and and divining sympathy therein, loon, a Chinese woman sustained injuries to her head and was re-

Jumped past signal boxes glitter added: "Makes yer want to be in moyed to the Kwong Wah Hospital.ing with siarum and then emptied Chinu, don't it?""

The rain thinned away until our wheels over a sheen of even metal, a junction as wide as the nothing remained but the perfume crowded of it and the peace. There was a Brown day Thames. down. The lights in the compart river of blue in the sky and petals ment were lit. We might have been "of small cloud fonting upside down a corridor of iron stars thrown at in it. last to earth.

Nantas na they are now constituted are not likely to be able to assi‹ni!- ato surplus caterprises from the International aftlement. Yet, it da absurd for a city to expand up- ward towards the sky when thero is so much cheap ground oata The argument. very boundaries. in favour of "neutralization and amalgamation of political entit- jes" can be supported from this one standpoint alone. Beyond that, it is at every point unsound.

The difference of opinion between the Chinese and the foreigners with regard to the Foreign Settlement is so fundamental that it is difficult to find a makeshift compromise, The Chinese say that the land is theirs and that even if their an. cestors gave it to the foreigners as a dwelling place and for their commerce, they can at any time and in any way they decide, take it buck or modify the foreigner's- tenure. They do not now request representation on the Colinell, nor are they willing even to discuss the foreign view. They demand now not an equal voice but a superior control. The foreigners on the other hand, claim that they were The following warships were in given the Settlement because they port this morning: Wild Swan, Onslaught, Moorhen, Submarines were unwanted in Chinese territory. L16 and L19, Wishart, Scraphie, They were thrust upon a swamp and Vindictive, Delhi, Foxglove, Emer told to live there as they pleased.ald, Hermes, Dauntless, Marazion, They spent 30 years or more turn- Ruthesia, Kharki, Fertul and the

U. S. S. Helena. ing that Swamp into a wonderful

It is notified in the Gazette that, at the expiration of three months, The Honour Land Investment and Agency Company, Limited will, un- less euuse is shewn to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved.

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somehow the

Then a station much larger than

Norinwad aguin, in Tottenham its plat Court Read here were only furni the rest cannoned by. forms were vide, snapping strip ture shops and Indian students. An unaccountable - Near Goodge Street there was a of light.

Was 1 in prehension seized me. the wrong train? Had I passed mus standing at the street corner I was possessed by putting all the vehemence of his ny station?

fantastic wonder how the face and his two overcoats into the

it! He wore a bowler hat, which,. Landouer will laugh at my rural cornet. The brassy yearning of ignorance!--that train had passed through Water- as he blew, rose and fell lightly on Near "Goodge Street again there loo; that by some trick of the points, his forehead like a safety valve. some conspiracy of the signal man, we were cluding the terminus and was a small public garden, a sooty might even be missing London it place where rallings and asphalt and iron scats thrived." Someone had etched a few trees, and in those... days there was a cold, green smouldering of buds on them. The bought were lucily drawn, a blot here and there was a sparrow; a white scratcu, a sparrow's voice.

.Tren, too, there was a patch of

it

I looked in small panic about the The faces of the compartment. accustomed passengers were wag ging over their newspapers. In one of them I caught the beginning of a headline, "Mysterious Disap- pearance of "I looked from win-

Mrs. E. Thompson and daughter

city. It was clearly defined as The forthcoming wedding is wish to express their sincere thunks to all friends for the their place to live, their ghetto, asunnounced of Mr. Anthur Edward No one interterul with Jenkins, of the Chinese Maritime Coral tributes and kind sym-it were.

Customs, residing at No. 7, Caro-fl pathy in their recent sad

them. The Chinese officials did line Road, Causeway Bay, to Miss bereavement.

not assist them to build this won- Nellie Kwok also of Caroline Road,

Causeway Bay, derful city. The Chinese who came into it, came as refugees from the oppression of their own officials, or because their lives and property WONG-On July 23rd., 1927, at

were unsafe during civil commo. Luguan Villa: Prince Edwardtions, or because they preferred its Real, Kowloon, John Chuen order and cleanliness and general Wong an old resident of Fengkong, in his 77th year, safety to the chaos where they came after a brief illness. Funeral from. In no instances were they on Monday, 25th July, pass-invited to come or asked to stay. ing the University Recreation yet, it is admitted that their.com- Ground, Pokfulam, at 8 pm.

ing has increased the wealth of

whe

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JULY 23.

THE SHANGHAI PROBLEM.

1927.

imic results As

was

L03.

In the current issue of the Gov- ernment Gazette is a notification calling for tenders for a licence for the exclusive maintenance of the tow to window in dismay, sitting 59 so green that you could ferry service for the conveyance ofon Lhe edge of my seat. London not believe

do Krasa, but some mar- persons between the city and Hung might disappear at any moment. hom, Kowloon City, Saiwanho und and then it was I heard a sniffs a velous crueraid pool; and in the "Clapham."1 dils, Fae full-cussocked, double ones Shaukiwan, for three years from assuring grunt from the man in the gass there was a choir of daffe- that, rising in the mold, sing all' the hauviness out of it. A song of daffodik-and London weighs Do

October 1st. hext.

opposite corner! was all right.

It had a tank at

"Gulley scooper, guvnor." He became more informative. "Does away wiv labour, guvnor. everythin' does away wiv labor, "Everything?" I said with ap air. I was beginning to know niy ground for the first time.

guvnor."..

There have been eight entries, anys a New York message, for the

That was the only word he said," more than a spot of raia": projected flight from Dallas

He was It was now nearly the end of but the eloquence of it! (Texas) to Hongkong. Lieut.

He and lilac light in the gray sky, the place, has added to Jarit values Cart Een Eielson, who for the past wearing a mechanic's overalls. He the morning, and a blur of orange

looked like an engine driver. and has brought about such econo-two years has been in the Arctic was an" oldish, puddingy kind of like the glow of an arc light in a are usual with with Captain Wilkins, has express-man with hair as pale as lemon fog, showed the poor sun at his Alongside the railings of ed his intention of attempting a sauce, two solid brown eyes fixed zenith. increased population and increased flight from Seattle to Tokyo alone, like carrants in his head under a this garden an enormous traction purchasing. power. These two

hintly curling, steam of eyebrow. engine drew up. points of view are irreconcimble in Yun Feng-cho and Liu Chun-yu is mustache hung from his nose the back of it and was covered with logic and fact. All measures taken two Chinese women who were ar- ke two contemptuous strings of a carnival of wheels and pipes, rested some time ago for spreading tape. He held his paper down for funnels and tubes, all breathing and I stared at the creature. to reconcile them have ended in rumours that the Wuhan Women's a moment and considered me with spitting.

don't-suppose-you-know-much- I looked like a mechanical cock- failfre The only politicni possi-Association was contemplating a bilities in the situation are the naked parade, have been sentenced about-London disdain. Something roach. Bombastically it squirted a to be shot by the Association. Itscornful, final, uncommunicative, fan of steam underneath; exulting- maintenance of the status quo oris learned that the Nationalist Gov-annulling there was about those ly, it hissed from its chest; oil per- Every move you made be spired from it; it panted, and all A correspondent of the fan- a change of contractual relation-ernment will not allow the execution eyes.

In be carried out, and has ordered trayed to them your ignorance of its brass teeth and steel pistons chester Guardián, his recently sug-ships by the negotiation of a new a retrial of the case.

his customs, and that more thun shone. China and the

anything else fills the cockiey with gested that to find a solution of the treaty between

Among the results of the an irony and a pity which are de-

"What is that?" I asked in differences of opinion between the Powers concerned with regard to

There was in those Shanghai Municipal Council and a Shunghai.. A temporary expedient Trinity examination of the Inna vastating.

His cout drooped body which calls itself the Chinese may be worked out with a view to of Court, which was held in May, eyes the knowledge of innumerable amazement of a little man who was

appen: the following:-Roman bus lines and tube routes, short standing by me. Ratepayers' Association there wards giving the Chinese residents Law, Class 111: Chin Yinskek, eats and alloyways in thousanda, behind him like a rook's tail. He the titter of a million taxis, the was ragged and insignificant, all should be the compromise of taking a voice in the management of the Lincoln's Inn; Cheung Lee-yeor; blare and ridicule of a score of that is miserable but pert to look Inner Temple. Constitutional the International Settlement away Foreign Settlement, so that duringaw and Legal History, Class railway termini, the derision of. 4t. He said in the "obliging" cock-

new one-way streets, the authority voice: from the Council and withdrawing this transitional period in China's Toshio Okamoto, Inner Temple; live, official amusement of the me- it from China by making it a free affairs when there is no responsible Heng Hung-pang, Middle Temple: tropolitan police, and the inert city after the fashion of Danzig, | Government with which the Powers Cheung Lee-yeoli, Inner Temple.blank weight of the city itself. which is governed under the general can negotiate a treaty, the Chinese supervision of the League of Na-residents of the Settlement, those tions. Such proposals as this one who pay rates and have interests says the M. C. Daily News, usually there, may make themselves heard, emanate from a definitely known Chinese political quarter and are

Short Wave Commercial Radio. always rejected by all responsible China's Chinese as a breach of

There will be the greatest in- terest, we, feel sure, in the and by most zovereignty

announcement, which we were able responsiblu foreigners as to make yesterday, of the inaugura- Further complicating an already tion of a commercial radio service-

between Hongkong and Manta. complex political pro- The system is a short-wave one, Parie blem. Were the Foreign Settle- and therefore will be immune from Brussels

"interference" by the ordinary Amsterdam arent the whole of Shanghai, the

wireless traffic. In the hands of Stockholm question of its relationship to China the eficient staffs that will be Copenhagen might be simplified, for that re-engaged on either side, the service Vienna lationship involves the question of should be free from interruptions, Helsingfors

and work as smoothly as the Lisbon

Buchurest expansion." This is the only con-ordinary cable system. The acme-

Buemos Aires sideration which justifies thinking what cheaper rates should be an

Shangahi Yokohama about the "neutralization" of the attraction in themselves, but in time, with the proof of the pudding Shanghai arca. The fifth port of in proper working, we do not doubt New Yorkt

Geneva public Milan H considerable the world 'must expand and there that

patronage will be forthcoming. Berlin is plenty of room tog such expan Essentially, the scheme requires Oslo sign but curiously enough, that ex-support, if it is going to be a com- Prague pansion seems to take place almost mercial success. In the case of a Madrid

long telegram, with a large number Rio of words, the saving in cost will Athens- probably be something to reckon Bombay in deciding whether or not to use Hongkong radio. But in any case, the public Silver Spot everywhere is taking to innova. Silver Forward tions readily, and once this new service has been established on the basis

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entirely within the narrow bounds of the Foreign Settlement. The lower end of the French Conces- sion has been made attractive to commerce and business but they have not gone there, preferring the

a reliable means of com

Criminal Law and Procedure, My lips moved faintly to thank Class III: Sir Meow-yong, Inner him, but beneath the sheer load of Temple. Real Property and Con-his great knowledge he dropped veyancing, Class III: Kuan Inn-with a sniff behind his newspaper. tan, Middle Temple. Final Ex-At Waterloo he sank steaming into amination, Class II: Tiow Wan- the Highgate tube, the lift closing roh, Jnner Temple. Class 11 upon him like an oven door. Hinn Yam-teh, Inner Temple, and supposed I should never see hit Soon Kim-teo, Inner, Temple. rgain.

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, July 22.

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"Yes," said he.

Pause. Awkward pause.

"Yes," he said. and coming closer whispered with a confidence that turnell my head. "But they can't do wivout men, guv! Not vivout men ! 1 !"

But I did see him again in the

It was a declaration of indepen- I walked matter of a few hours. across the river and his disdain dence. He stood away. He seemed seemed to accompany me. When 10 become larger. He lifted his I posed as being genial and know- chin. Ho pulled out his chest. He 124ledgable he seemed to be there be patted it. He was enormous.

"Nao!" he shouted in derisive 34.93 traying me till I lost all confidence. 12.11% Though London is a jangling kalei- triumph. 18.12 doscope, and turning it you pusy 18.15 from street to street, from cry to ..34.50

cry, escape a million wheels and see 19270 million faces that your memory, .2.15/39 discards (for you will never see

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"No" I shouted too, carried away.

"Not wivout men!" he shouted. "Not wivout men!" I called out. We gloried. We gazed at each

them again), yet I could not shake other in mutual admiration. There was a long pause. Then the gran-

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I carved my way through Lon- dour of humanity became. embar- We did not know what 4.85.15/24 don's bus-laden air; it was vermi- rassing.

"Nao!" he said, shaking his head

25.22ion and trembling with buses, to do with it.

.89.34 storm-gray and foam-white with 20.4244 solemn buildings. The sententi- wenkly.

.18.79 ousness of London! Bluck taxis} .163.80 rolled alowly out of the side turn- ridiculous.

.28.30ings liko un eternal game of bowls,

.6.27/38

"N" I began, feeling a little

And then, sitting at the wheel ane after the other. Barges bub- of the traction engine, I saw a pud- 30bled up dragging the river after dingy kind of man with hair palo .1/5.13/16

them. Cranes were conducting as lemon sauce and under a vague .2/04 .26.3/14)

V. S. F. their earnest dumb show over the team of eyebrow, eyes, eyes. 28.1/1 wharves, conjuring with the balea

-British Wiraicus.

Passengers arriving from tho Mrs. Van Andel, who realdes at north by 8.5. Macedania included the Repulse Bay Hotel, reports

more costly premises within the munication between here and the tion of Manila, and it suggests post Captain Andrew and Miss that between Ice House Street and confines of the Settlement. Dr. V.Philippines, with which a not insibilities of relayed wireless com! Sherman. Through passengers the Italian-Convent, or between K. Ting evolved a reasonable plan pnsiderable amount of business munication from Hongkong to, say to Europe included Major A. and Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., and done, the operators will probably San Francisco, at moderate cos Mr. Chapman, Eng. Comradr. the Hongkong Hotel yesterday, of attracting commerce and indus-ba kept quite busy. It is interest and in speedy time. Historically try to the northern part of his ing to note that only a few weeks considered, the new service marks Robbins, Eng. Lt. "F. Banner, she lost a gold neckchain and pen- Ktory-in 1 region between ago a commercial radio service another advance by the Far East Liputs. F. E. Bostock, R. C. Gerves dant. The pendant had a fairly. between the Philippines and the in the use of the latest scientifle and J. Tait, Lieut. Commdrs. R. large opal in the centre surround- Kiangwan and Yoosung, bat United States of America was metheda and appliances in com Taylor, and Clanchy and Captain, ad by small diamonds, and the pro

H. C. England.

perty is valued at £10. nothing came of that. Chapel aut established by the Radio Corpora- mércor