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PARAGON

TUESDAY, AUGUST

from his first ideals, and had sur-e rendered himself to militarism of the most pronounced type. It may bethat he set qut with high hopes, And that necessity, and the stern necessity of Chinese intrigue, pelled him to acquiesce in much that. afterwards turned all for- eigners against the Nanking re- QUALITY & DURABILITYgime. The split with the Han-

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DEATH.

MOSS.-On 16th. August, 1927, at

the Government Civil Hos pital. Gladys Jean Moss, aged 5 years. the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Moss.

kow party at one time was taken to be a promise of moderation, a breaking away from extremism but subsequently Nanking become as extreme as any regime the country had known. Thus Chiang retires from the limelight, and none remains to shed even a fg urative tear

16, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

THERS ARE ONLY TWO POLITICAL PARTIES; HONEST PEOPLE AND THE OTHERS-Barres,

Departures to-day Tor Manila, include Mr. and Mrs. R. Gould, Captain J. A. Bennett, and Major C. O. and Mrs. M. J. Cresson.

Mr. W. C. Lyle, who for some

past has weeks

been giving golfing lessons here, left to-day by the s.3. Helion for Bangkok, where he goes according to pre- vious arrangement.

This morning's Harbour Office Reports gave eight arrivals and 11 departures, a feature being that no British vessels entered, al- though the nationality provided four of the departures, leaving 70 vessels in harbour, British 25.

Driven at first by the urgings of a dawning patriotism, guided

Owing to trouble with the by Soviet Russiar, counsela, Mar- Chinese authorities in Dosing shal Chinng gathered much of the some few days ago, the s.s. Tai On, a Hongkong-Wuchow river country to his banner. But, was

boat, is now detained by the he all the time working merely for Chinese government in Canton, his own ends? That will pro-states the vernacular, press.

As Mr.

Mustard & Co., Ltd.bably never be known. Certain it

Yesterday morning a Chinese is that he foresaw the glove to school-boy of about 16 while on to school, passing Gust him from supreme command, his way

Hollywood Road in the vicinity Land just in time withdrew from of Queen's "College, was, the noose that Hankow and Mos-severely injured in the head by vessel falling. cow had contrived for his undo an earthorn-ware

from a house, causing hini to bleed |ing. Had he been able to defeat profusely. He was immediately

them, all might have been well taken to hospital.

Their from his point of view.

Hallgood, of the opposition, however, has proved Swedish Trading Company, was too strong. "Following a well-yesterday" entering the Company's on a known precedent," as à London godown at Kennedy Town

visit of inspection, he was attacked message succinctly puts it, his and bitten by a dog belonging to commanders are deserting him, and the watchman of the godown. Mr. Hallgood received medical atton- he has wisely retired before being lion, while the dog was seized and ignominiously compelled to quit removed to the depot at Kennedy It is a case of howing to force Town for observation. majeure. The break-up forescen by the Northerners when they re- Lused to carry ou the peace parley that he had instituted with his Toes, has occurred. China is once

The

Hongkong Telegraph.iemisiniously compelled to gait.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1927.

EXIT CHIANG.

more thrown into the melting pot. Of Chiang himself, there may be much to condone and much to blame It is said that he retires wealthy man, yet one can hardly think of him quite in the terms.

of other militarists

BUS CONDUCTOR DROWNED.

TEMPTED TO BATHE AT TIN

HAU

The Very Idea!

Chief-Justice Taft once recalled how Roosevolt invited Elihu Root to a White House luncheon. As Root began framing an excuse,

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The conductor of bus No. 214the President agreeably said:"i was drowned while bathing at Tin understand you, Elthu; what you Hau, on the mainland, yesterday, mean is that you will come if you In a report received by the have no subsequent engagement." police, it is stated that the bus was forced, by the petrol running Hush-a-by, baby, pretty one

sleep. out, to stop before the journey had been half-completed, while the driver returned to Mongkok-

tsui'to obtain a refill.

During his absence, apparently tempted by the heat, the conduc tor, who was left in charge, went on to the beach, where he strip- ped and entered the water.

Daddy's gone golfing to win

the club sweep,

If he plays nicely-I hope that

he will-- Mother will show him her

dressmaker's bill, Hush-a-by, babyy safe in your

cot,

Duddy's come home and his

Lemper is hot; Cuddle down closer, baby of

mine,

Daddy went round in a hun-

dred and nine.

When the driver returned, hall- an-hour afterwards, the conductor had not returned to the bus. Searching on the beach, the driver found his clothes, where he had left them before entering the wa

In a divorce case at Birmingham te, but of the owner there was no sign, It was presumed that he Assizes Mr. Justice M'Cardie took was drowned, and the assistance the unusual step of shortening, the of fishermen was enlisted to re-period of waiting for the decree to cover the body. Some time later be made absolute for the sake of they brought up the body, but life an unborn childs

was extinct.

OYSTER. POACHERS DRIVEN OFF.

He observed, that the recent legis- Intion should have been placed on

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broader footing, and that the ecclesiastical objections were not in his opinion well founded. He thought the section of the Act which enabled the Court to lessen the period of six months which, must elapse before a decree ab solute could be made was designed to meet just the class of case be- fore him. in order than the ex- en-pected child might be born legitim-

ate.

WATCHMEN EXCHANGE SHOTS WITH THEM. The story of a thrilling counter between a fleet of pirate boats and watchmen who were Subject to the discretion of any employed to guard the oyster beds other Judge, if such a case came off Nam Wan, has reached the before him and no valid grounds of objection were brought forward Colony through police channels.

At Nam Wan, which is in the by the King's Proctor, he would Pingshan distrlet of the new Ter-shorten the period.

that the per- ritories, there are extensive oystersons might marry earlier and there- beds, which constitute the chief y confer upon the little one the

status of legitimacy. source for the supply of oysters The yearly normal importation to this Colony.

The parson who can be described of Japanese piece-goods into the On Sunday afternoon at 3.45 as "passing rich" is a rare species. Colony, was estimated at $20,000-eight

approached the

The Bishop of Worcester. 000. With the recent procimaa: grounds from the direction of Almost all men, except doctors, son of the Japanse boycott in Fook Wink, in the Namtao districts are helplessly at sea with a baby. various ports on the China coast and the occupants of three of Mrs Dymond (Mayoress of and in the Interior of China, it these, who appeared to be only Hastings.)

estimated that, at the very ones armed, opened fire with rifles least, there has been, a drop of 33 per cent. in the usual amount of on the watchmen guarding the business done by the Japanese firms who deal with picce-goods, states the vernacular press.

is

beds.

boats

longed fight ensued, and in the The fire being returned, a pro- and the poachers were beaten off They withdrew, with what casula- atles it is not known.

the silver coins in the parcel to was given, the boy throw all

the ground, and while passersby were busy picking up the coins the lad took to his heels.

A CASE FOR HELP.

BUT A WHIPPING NECESSARY.

Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning A small boy appearing before

on a charge of stealing clothing off the clothes-line at Whitfeld was recommended to the Court as a deserving case.

So the portents of the past few weeks have not been at fault, and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is out of the picture. His passing from greatness is dramatic, for he has filled the public eye for more than

Yesterday morning, while who have

Chinese woman was leaving 11 a year as the man with almost un-

feathered their nests, and then money changer's shop, opposite ob canny ability to aurmount

resigned the lucrative

Central Market, holding in post of the stacles, and there was a time when

her hand a parcel containing. $50, commanding a victorious faction

she was attacked by a boy of only he was looked upon, in Europe and to others. He remains in the Kuo-about 14, who snatched her par- America as well as in China, asmintang. But it can be said that cel and minde good his escape with the one individun who might there was hardly anything else the bank-notes. When the alarm stand a chance of bringing prac-for him to do. It is always pos- tically the whole country under sible that he may re-appear as a his sway. There was a time when military leader, but never again as observers likened him to the great the dominating personality of the military figures of history. He, it

past year. His was a great anybody, could unify China and chance: and the Tall has been all eliminate much of the dissension the greater. The 'net result has that was retarding its progress.been mil, and the sorrows of China Indeed, when Chiting proceeded are perhaps but at their beginning from one success to another, and A position hopeless enough a few when Shanghai fell to his arms weeks ago, is probably rendered while his troops were, so far as all the more bereft of promise effects went, knocking at the very Chiang goes; and chaos remains. gutes of Peking, there were many, while they did not agree with the Nationalist pulley, who were will

It was rather. Heartening to read Japanese-owned cotton mills in ing to give him the credit for a

in the British Wireless message Shanghai, nine in number, will great achievement, and to wish seat out on Saturday about the disclose on September 1, as a protest him final victory. Amid all the covery of new processes by which against the 12% per cent. tax on tar products are going to be made manufactured goods, imposed by corruption, the absence of a driv-more nmerous process which the Nanking Nationalist Govern- 'ing ideal, and the chaos of petty promises to find more employmentment and effective on September jealousies, Chiang Kai-shek really because the figures of unemploy published in a Shanghai Japanese for the workers of the Midlands,1, according to 1 statement stood out as the only commander ment in Britain have, of late, been newspaper. The closing of the Wharf yesterday, and charged who may truly have placed the otherwise than encouraging. A Japanese mills, it is asserted, will this morning before Mr. R. E. good of his fellow.countrymen ment figures revealed very clearly sons out of work, the enforced of two taels of prepared Macuo recent analysis of the unemploy- throw approximately 60,000 per Lindsell with being in possession ahove all else. Certainly, he had that the depression was mainly at idleness of whom would prove a opium, a Chinese pleaded that he

tributable to the industries prin serious

pence and was a stranger to the Colony, and

Home Unemployment.

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We can no longer trust to what I call the natural limitations upon the faney of builders.-Mr. Neville Chamberlain,

A world without the Press would be a world of sightless humanity groping for the unknown-Major Isidore Salmon.

It is one of the basic laws of American hospitality that there shall be speeches at all meals ex- copt breakfast in bed.--Mr. Philip Guedella.

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"Henry VI had his wives. executed when he tired of them." wrote Jones minor. "In fact, he ing." was always chopping and chang-

A Lauder story is told concerning the visit of the comedian to the "north, while film acting at Bam- With regard to a recent report The police stated that he was burgh Capt. J. C. Collingwood of around in the various textile and seven years ago. He had no house Harry was a keen angler, sent at of the Government sending men an orphan whose parents died Cornhill House, knowing that Sir printing factories in

Kowloon to live in, and slept where he telegram, prepaid, to him, inviting and in Kenndy Town, to make could.

him to come and have a day's fish- wages and living of the Chinese orphan organization was still in Tweed. enquiries about the conditions of His Worship asked if the policeing on the Cornhill. waters of the labourers, the vernacular press existence, and on being informed In a courteous réply sent by post, now states that these enquiries that it was still a going concern, Sir Harry regretted he was unable "This looks like a to get away from his engagements have been extended to the various remarked: labour unions, shipping dockyards suitable candidate. See what you at Bamburgh, and he returned the reply-paid form, with the jocular and the different hongs of the can do for him."

But justice had still to be satis-remark that he thought it a pity mental-amitha, building-contrac- tors' labourers, and carpenters.

fed, and the Court ordered the 'to waste the bawbees. bdy to receive six strokes with the cane in punishment for the theft of the clothing.

menace

to

NOT SO INNOCENT.

OPIUM IN HIS TOPEE.

Arrested at the Wing Lok

"History," exclaimed the feminist speaker, "is full of examples of the perfect woman. But search as you may I defy you to find one instance of the perfect man."

I think I could tell you of a. perfect man, madam," said a crush- ed-looking specimen of humanity, rising at the back of the hall.

"You mean yourself, I suppose?” suggested the speaker acidly.

"Oh, no-not me!" replied the little man sadly. "My wife's first hustand."

a great opportunity, and it is pos- cipally dependent upon interna- good order in Shanghai. It is of-course he did not understand the Law Courts the other day dur-

ter had he known how to profit by

sible that he would have done bet- tional trade, such as coal mining, further stated that the tax, termed the local regulations.

metal manufacture, engineering illegal, will result in the closing

shipbuilding, and

cotton and

да

it. But now he is fading from the woollen manufacture, etc., and this of many Chinese mills, both, flour carried the opium under his topeeing an entry in the ship's 10you.

fact goes to prove how vitally im-industrial plants. .

and cotton,. as well as other

An amusing incident occurred in

ing the hearing of a claim for com- pensation. A-stevedore's labourer The police stated that the man.

was being cross-examined regard→ To the defendant His Worship kept by the chief officer. said: So innocent that you car will admit," aald the examining ried the drug inside your topee. counsel, that the record in the 9200 or two months

ship's log would be correct?"" The witness, a quizzical Irishman, evid- ently imagined that the other kind of log the speed log-was referred tu. "Not at all," sir," he replied, "they're often wrong." "What do

العالم

COLONY'S HEALTH.

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of one.

picture-discredited, deserted, and Jittle better than those who, in the portant it Is to Britain that world affairs should be peaceful and name of China, have gone before untroubled. It is a fact of which export trade in manufactured arti- him, sowing the path of internecine economists have had to take serious cles. No matter how one tooks warfare, and bringing nothing innote that in very many countries at the situation, it is clear that seri- there has been widespread depres-ous difficulties still face British ex- the way of beneficial results.

sion ever since the Armistice, or, portens and, concurrently, British Numerous mea- manufacturers. It is pitiful to assess all that at least, lack of steady continuity. Chiang's big failure has meant. vast war-time changes that were

sures have been proposed at one This is partly explained ly the

mean?'* snapped counsel, time or another for improving the LAST WEEK'S GOOD RETURN. you

"Have you .ever. Been a log?" The millions of dollars wasted, the made in productive capacity, a fact situation, such as working arrange-

There were three fresh cases "Many a time, sirë Counsel wax- thousands of lives lost, the untold which has led to over-production ments, pooling of orders, cartels, of typhiod fever reported to the ed caustic. "I much doubt whe-

from steel works and rolling mills, the exchange of information, co misery inflicted.

on the Chinese coal mines, engineering shops, cut: ordination of research and so forth, health authorities. yesterday, all ther you have ever seen the inside Have you any idea how people, the many international ton mills and many other industrial but nothing can hope to succeed like the sufferers being Chinese.

Last week's health return was they are made up?" "Not the concerns. But changes in produc efficiency and cherpness-always better than for some weeks past, slightest idea, si responded the problems to which his campaign tive capacity have not been soldly the winning methods in all compe- there being only ope fatal case of witness cheerfully, and then gazed and subsequent events gave rise, due to the economie necessities of tition. The breaking down of small-pox, one non-fatal case of round the court in amazement at the hundred and one things that the War period, b

tariff barriers, must also be pursued they have also been stimulated and for the British trader, there is diphtheria, three non-fatal cases the shout of laughter that followed, of typhold, and que death from and which no attempt was made to arose out of that northern drive by the intensified nationalism the greater development of trade influenza.

suppress. Even the lady jurors from Canton to the Yellow River which, has existed in many coun

within the Empire to which he can

enjoyed the joke. all can be placed at the door fries, leading to the desire for in-most worthily apply himself. There is serious world-wide industrial dustrial independence. It la count- of a great ambition. which hased as a normal sign of progress deprcasion, and" it behoves the signally failed to achieve what it for a country to develop industries, manufacturers and traders of Bri- set out for. Yet it was evident on highly industrialised countries, to combat its most serious effect, but such a proceeding has its effect tain to do everything possible that the Marshal had fallen away like Britain, that rely on a large which is the unemployment of large

numbers of British working men.

TO-DAY.

Dollar ou dentand Lighting-up

1/11 7/16 6.61 p.m.

Coloured Mald (to mistress) = Miss L., will you plense, mam, 'vice, me twenty-five cents on my wages? The leader of our church. is gwine away, and we want to give him a little momentum,

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