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THURSDAY ACOUST

MR. COOLIDGE'S DECISION.

THURSDAY,

AUGUST 4 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

AS WE ADVANCE IN LIFE WE LEARN THE LIMITS OF OUR ABILITIES.— Frondo.

There was ona fresh Chinese case of typhoid fever reported yesterday..

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It is notified that quarantine re strictions have been imposed against arrivals from Swatów on account of Cholera.

CORRESPONDENCE.

DOG SHOOTING.

The Very Idea!

Dear old aoul to chemist—"Oh, and I want a nice tooth brush for my nephew-you know the sort I mean-for cleaning the little parts. of motor bikes."

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(To the Editor; Hongkong.

Telegraph.] Sir,-Approximately nine months ago a dear friend of mino died. In point of fact he was killed in Dr. Cyril Norwood, the head- conformity with existing regula master of Harrow School, inform- tions, but hardly in a manner con-ed a large gathering at the Speech sistent with humane methods of Day proceedings that the gov destruction. Muzzleless, he hap-ernors of the school had purchased a certain the business of a local firm "of pened to stray upon evening not a great distance from builders; decorators, and house my home. The shot that was in-furnishers. tended to despatch him for his The object of the purchase la terrible crime only broke his leg twofold. Repairs to the school and be was clubbed to death. An property and tonements will, in the inglorious end to seven years future, he carried out by vallant service to those who loved school, and the furniture "store bim.

will be used for classrooms,

A bronze bust of the Prime Minister, the gift of Sir Henry Buckingham, was unveiled in the school war memorial buildings.",

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A friend of mine, when playing of my home (which is on private on the Newcastle (County Down)" property), I see the folly of argu- golf links, says n writer In the Thieves broke into No. 16 Guineing against or envilling at the ac- Morning Post, missed the ball and tion of the Police-an action only removed a piece of sod. The justified by a law which, while | caddie exclaimed, "You have aiming at the protection of the renaged, sir." populace through the muzzling of Some little time later on in the dogs, in ipso facto driving dogs game, my friend made a similar mad,

stroke, dislodging a second piece of sod, when the caddie again exclaimed, "You have renaged

the

There will be evening services a the Peak Church on Sundays, August 7, & 14, at 6.30 p.m. The preacher at both services will be the Rev. E. A. Rigden, R. N. All seats free-at.

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My friend asked him what he mount, remarking he had heard of the term as applied to cards, but not to golf.

In America and Europe dogs captured under similar" circum stances are impounded for again, sir." period of, say, 48 hours and if then unclaimed are destroyed. As far as I can ascertain my pup was shot on sight and I merely ask

"Well," said the caddie, "you Mr. W. Turner, general manager if in the name of humanity, he

could not have been impounded so are playing a apade with a club of truters, is in Hongkong on business trip. He arrived from as to give me a chance of claimh-in your hand." Shanghai on the Kalyan. Owinging him (which I attempted to do a few hours after hearing the to travel difficulties he was unable to attend the Pacific Relations Conference at Honolulu,

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news) and paying for my default

if payment there must be.

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Question at Boy County Court: Where is your husband? Woman: Across the road having a hair of the dog.

What Willesden magistrate:

Mr. Cairns, magistrate at tha

street hawking. It is the best Thames Court: If I were ever out of this job I should go in for

paying business I know.

The law is like conventions necessary, but how terribly, hide General John Duncan, Comous oft-times in its application.are you? Man: Coffee stall, sir. mander-in-Chief of the Shanghai Then, why I ask, are most of the. After remaining at, Wellaiwel for Chinese village not a great dis- dogs captured found on the main H.M.S. Frobisher for Weihaiwei. highway. I can walk through a two days, General Duncan will go tance from my home and there by d. Jardine steamer to Tientsin, find not a few mangey, ill-kept returning to Shanghai within 10 wonks," which it would be a days or so.

kindness to destroy, as they will continue disease-ridden to the end. It is certainly a worrying time for those of us who are dog lovers and

ean only appeal for humanity to be done.-Yours, etc.,"!

·AGGRIEVED RESIDENT, Hongkong, 4th "Aug., 1927.

We

Man at Willesden: My neigh- bour told me to come round and bring my friends to meet him and his friends. Clerk: A friendly gesture?,, Man: Oh, no. The friends were to act as secor.us while he and I fought.

Willesden costernonger: Willes- den is unlucky for me. The police run me in three times a week.

Landlady of her tenant at West- minister County Court: He actually told me to go to a certafa place twice. Tenant: Absurd!'

YOU In the realm of foreign affairs. MUST with which we are naturally more concerned, the policy of the OWN, IT

Coolidge administration has not always been as others, would wish. America has maintained her od isolation from the tangled affairs of the other lending nations of the world, and especially in the matter of the League of The P. and O. s.3. Kashgar is Nations has been a disappoint-dye here from Shanghai on Friday mont to many. Regarding China, evening at six o'clock. Amerion's hand was forced, as was the hand of everybody else, by the catastrophic events which have marred the past twelve months, but there has been little sign of co-

The local weather forecast up to operation with other Powers-noon to-morrow, issued by the mostly an aloofness and single- Royal Observatory, is: S. W. or ness of aetion. In the matter of variable winds, moderate to light;

fair.

Yesterday morning Rover's suc war debta-that vexed question-

censor, an amiable pup of but America has insisted on her view-

A Chinese who accidently fell eight months, met his end. Yes, point and there can be little ques-into the Harbour from the Yauma- he was also muzzleless, and a tion that on that scors the United Ferry bout Mun Yee, yesterday; though I give as excuse the fact was picked up and sent to the Gov-that he seldom left the precincts States is to-day less sympatheti-ernment Civil Hospital. eally viewed than she has been ut any time within recent history. The Coolidge Administration hasRead last night and succeeded in ateuling money and jewellery to been intensely jealous

of the value of $90, the property of America's pre-eminent positionmarried woman, living on

ground floor. and at times it has been made to appear, as though America lacked. understanding of any sympathy with the problems of the war- harassed nations of the West. But whether that view is the right one or not, there has never been any deviation from the high- Mr. and Mrs. Rahim wish to ex-principled outlook of the President press their deep thanks for who has now announced that he the expressions of sympathy and condolence from their is not going to stand again. If he numerous friends, customers has guided America into isolation and relatives in their recent it is only because he truly and snd bereavement.

honestly believes that such is the better road; if he has guided America into insistence on war. Defence Force, left on Sunday on debt payment, it is because he Helieves in the meral worth of that net; and if he has guided Amèrien into a strictly non-intervention attitude towards China, it beenuse he values, as a principle,

Early yesterday morning a corps the policy of leaving China of Chinese detectives and a Euro- inviolate as a nation. The effects rean detective raided the third floor of 22, Hollywood Rand, eight of his policy may, at times, have men being arrested, and a pair of appeared to us as unfortunate, but bracelets and more than a hundred the guiding principles of it are pawn tickets being found. It is believed that the place was a ren- worthy of emulation by all devous of men of doubtful charac administrators who are called into "ters. Four years ago to the very day high office. His sudden announco- after his dramatic succession to men of withdrawal haspnaturally the post of President of the United enough, surprised and confounded States, President Calvin Coolidge the country of which he has been bus quietly announced that he so worthy a head. does not intend to stand for re- election next year. It August 3rd. 1923, that Warren Harding, then President, died sud- denly, and Calvin Coolidge, the the revival of war memories, parti-terday at No. 40, Lower Lascar Row A robbery was committed yes- Vice-President, assumed

the cularly those appertaining to the according to a report made by a Presidency, the oath of

declaration of war in the tragic Chinese widow to the police. She, office

days of the late summer of 1914. siates that 380 in notes were stolen. being administered by his father, Yet the essence of the lessons learn-The thieves apparently made their since dend, at the paternal homeed from that great conflict is re-estry by forcing open the lock on in the little village of Plymouth, astrous effects hostilities had on house seems to have heard their membrance, particularly of the dis-the staircase door but nobody in the Vermont. Thus, without ostenta-all participants, and which sowed entry or departure.

The craze of Frenchwomen to tion, Calvin Coolidge became seeds that are being cropped to-day

A reception and tea-dance, was wear pyjamas on every possible and will continue to be harvested

given by the French Consul and President, and it has.

been for a long time to come. Yet, to

The military band of the North- Madame Dufaure de la Prado at occasion is growing rapidly. The whilst spending a

vacation at Britons, and especially those who amptonshire Regiment, by the kind their residence at Peak Road res-Proprietors of a cinema near the Rapid City that he has chosen to were old enough at the time, to-day permission of Lt. Col. S. H. J. terday in honour of the French Church of the Madeleine

dressed their women attendants will be an anniversary embodying Thunder, C.M.G., D.S.O.. M.C., and naval visitors to this port from have handed to press representa a warning and perhaps also

in plum-coloured pyjamas. Lead 3 Officers, will play at the 5.10 and the cruiser Primaguet. lives little typewritten slips of warning that is best revived an- 920 performances in the Queen's

Invitations had been issued to a ing dressmakers are producing puper atating, in a sentence, that nually. To many there will come Theatre on Sunday next, when the number of prominent residents of Pyjamas for women made exactly memories of the first news of the feature film will be "The Coming the Colony, and amongst those as they are for men with the coat, he does not intend to stand again. outbreak of hostilities, the two or of Amos," the screen version of present, in addition to members of lapping from left to right instead The act is typical of the man--the three days of wondering what part W. J. Locke's famous novel.

the Consular Corps' and their of right to left. wives, were Lady Clementi, Mrs. Pastel shades are the most popu- Silent President, who for four Britain would play in them, the dawning evidence thut we could not

W. T. Southorn (wife of the co-lar, and blue with pink piping is very critical years has been at the keep out of the conflict, and that CE.M.S. for the election of of- C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G., (Com-two" is a model produced for hos- The Annual Meeting of the lonial Secretary), Major-Genoral the most popular of all. "Tea for helm of the state machine of what we would stand by our ally France, feials for the next season was held manding South China Command), tesses who wish to receive their has become the greatest country in and then the anxious waiting for on July 26th, says St. John's and Mrs Luard, Commodore Peat guests in pyjamas, while a well-

the Cabinet's decision on that fale Cathedral the world. He was the 30thful August day.

Notce. The Hon. At length-the Secretary's report

son, C.M.G., Paymaster-Comman-known male dressmaker is show- President and few men who have nows of our declaration of war on year showed that amongst other Comyn, (Commanding. King's Owning wear.

for the past der N. Rogers, Lieut-Col. L. Jing pyjamas for dinner and even- held that post have had to decide Germany. One looks back on those meetings the Society had had Scottish Borderers), the Hon. Mr. also met with much

Cocktail pyjamas hayo

bigger issues than those that have callow youth, with something of financial statement showed a small/E."D. C. Wolfe (Captain Superin- Paris..

three Hocial gatherings. The

The prices of the new occurred during his reign. wonderment. Thirteen years have balance on the right side. Mr. teadent of Police) and Mrs. Wolfe, pyjama suits are fabulous.

passed, and much has occurred of Hopper, who was Chairman of a Politics in the United States is a world importance since. The war District Federation of C.E.M.S. in keen and involved affair, and to was fought to the bitter end, England, was elected Chairman for the outsider. It is well-nigh impos-world affair that taxed the resources the ensuing year, Mr. H. J. Foun sible to assess the value of cach utmost, a dragged-out" affair that and Treasurer and Mesurs, T. W. of the early participanta to the tain was re-elected Hon. Secretary political event and its repercus-eventually called upon the farthest Carr. W. Jackson, H. Gittina and sions. President Coolidge has outposts of the Empire to throw Zimmern were elected members Paris

their weight on the side of the of the Committee. It was decided Brussels. steered an admirable course mid-Motherland, and a weary affair with to hold the opening meeting for Geneva way between the keen nationalism all its glamour gone. How well next season on Tuesday, October Berlin on which his Republican party is one recalls the first tidings that th based and that larger internation- visualises a big expanse of green Britain had gone to war. Memory alism which the people of America turf, a Minor Counties cricket gree, that he has inherited Liabon are obviously so anxious to foster match, in progress, and an en- from ten centuries, or more, of Bucharest und promote..

The task is not thusiastic crowd discussing the ancestors battling for a national Buenos Aires

news. It was a time of enthusiasm. heritage.

Shanghai. casy, and it is inevitable that there. Several generations had passed thirteen years ago, of the "it will Those were the days,

Yokohama should be some mistakes and much since the last big war in which the probably be over by Christmas" Amsterdam

New York done with which others will not country had been engaged, and the feeling. We are wiser now, and Milon

other side of war, the terrible pic- viser in our generation. That Stockholm agree, but hitherto President ture of suffering" and alaughter, wisdom, maybe was in some cases Oslo Coolidge has maintained a single-the evils of the black aftermath, dearly bought, but it stands in Prague There only danger of being forgotten after Madrid reas of purpose that has stamped had been forgotton. him as an ideal administrator and remained the glamour, the glory time has dulled the most vivid re- Athens

reflected in every youth's heart collections of the war years. It | Rio which has made his regime one when he sees a regiment of soldiers were well, then, to jog one's memory Bombay of solid achievement for his coun- go by, with band playing, and feels a little on this anniversary of a Hongkong

2/0 Typhoon in about 125° Long. E .25% 27 Lat, N., recurving north-east- stirring within his breast the mar-momentous day in Britain's bla-Silver (spot and-forward), try.

tial spirit, dormant ́in varying de toty,

--British Wireless, ward.

was ON

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War Memories.

There are those who will deory

days, when one was scarce out of

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Mr. C. F. J. Quarles van Ufford, the local manager of the Java China Japan Line, who has been with the CJ.L. in the Colony for sixteen years, is leaving on August 17 to become manager of the Company at Sourabaya. Mr. C. de Bruyn, who was the assistant manager in Hongkong, will take Mr. van Ufford's place.

COST OF LIVING. Sir-As a member of a local British firm am interested in the comparative cost of living in Hongkong, Shanghai, North China and Japan.

only told you to go once. Man at Clerkenwell County Court: I have a glass of beer

some

ine. Judge Can you or any of your readers when I think I will and when I

have the price on furnish information, preferably Bairstow: Quite right. Even to- from an official source? It occursday

a working man has to me that there must be many rights. foreigners in Hongkong who would be interested in this subject.-- Yours, etc.,

QUERY. Hongkong, Aug 4, 1927.

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RECEPTION.

TO FRENCH NAVAL"

VISITORS.

and others.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Copenhagen Viorna Helsingfors

A little passage of arms from the Trade Union Bill debata:-

Sir Douglas Hogg: I am sorry the hon. and learned gentleman takes offence. If he will think for a moment-

Mr. Harney: I do think for a moment-

Sir D. Hogg: Then if he will think for several moments

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Prosperity in Amerien is vital to the prosperity of Europe.-Mr. J." W. O'Leary,

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Later.