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FRIDAY

appointed, have thought more of themselves and their wealth than they have thought of others, and have altogether belled the high- faluting, language of "democracy" used by their spokesmen. The press-gangs are ngain at work in:

SEPTEMBER 9,

DAY BY DAY.

1927.

HO DOES THAT WHICH OUR REASON AND OUR CONSCIENCE CONDEMN J. G. Holland.

A MAN DOES NOT NECESSARILY SIN

There was a clean bill of health- Canton, impressing coolies for un-in the Colony yesterday. willing service with the usually un- paid army, and this in itself is:

The s.s. Benavon from Home.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1927,

· CANTON'S LAPSE!

lightened" administration which

!

prevails. We dislike having to The accident happened yesterday, make this criticism, but as it is the boy being taken to the Military only by facing unpleasant truths Hospital at Kowloon in the lorry

Later, he was transferred to the that we shall be able to change them Kowloon Hospital. into pleasant ones it would be wrong

A report has been made to the to act and speak as though every-

police by Sergeant Ratfield that a thing in Canton were fine and splen-surf of $100 was stolen yesterday did.

We do not doubt the from the officers' quarters at the fact that there is a large and grow-Kai Tack Aerodrome. ing appreciation of and desire for good and honest government. and that there are many young earnest men who have right ideas and who are untainted with the corruption that now spoils everything. And

The Jew was very depressed. Business was bad, and things were far from pleasant at home. It was, moreover, a miserable day of wind and rain, and he "had no umbrella, Walking down the Sir, I read with considerable street, he muttered to himself—

of Tuesday last. Suddenly chimney came about the wireless reception' of hurtling down and felled him to concerts from ·Australia and the ground. · After a few minutes Holland

| he regained his feet and was heard While not wishing in any way to remark, "Oh, Gott, don't you to belittle the results of an ex-know ven a man's in fun?" perforced amateur such as Mr. Taylor, or the extensivo "write. up" which his efforts achieved, would like to point out that the individualistic note of the article is to be deprecated.

Might 1 mention that to my own knowledge many local amateurs and, of course, professionals, Francis Calduco, un eleven-year-also, obtained the concerts in old boy, living at No. 531 Nathan question with ease. I think Road, was rather seriously injured I am correct, in saying, that road he was knocked down by a received the Australia end of the when in attempting to cross the

more than one not only military lorry."

test, but also successfully received Mr. Marcuse's B.B.C. relay, tran-

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Synthetic bread, the Walrus

anid,..

Is what we chiefly need: Chemical vingar besides

Is very good indeed- Now, artificial Oysters, dear. We can afford to feed!

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There is a good-natured feeling of comradeship among the news-

thusiastic disagreements on poli- papers of England which keeps them, in spite of the most en- tical questions, good

friends,

of the

Captain Harris, living at No. 1 amitted from his home in Surrey personally, if one may extend the we are left hoping that they will,Huntington, Stubbs Road, has re-which commenced about 9.30 p.m.quality of personification to n cor- ere long, manage somehow to get matters into their own hands and demonstrate that Canton was not only the home of the Revolution but can teach the rest of China a lesson in the arts and virtues of honest administration.

Hongkong Produce.

ported to the police the theft of local time.

porate entity. An

amusing two watches and a silver cigarette

The transmissions were intel- instance of this recently occurred, case from his bedroom valged ligibly audible on one valve and J. E. Garvin, editor altogether at $118.

any decently designed two or three Observer, wrote a strongly worded condemnation of the present valve short wave regenerative re- ceiver would pick them up here Government's plan for reformig the House of Lords. It is the without any trouble,

This morning's Harbour Office reports gave a fair tennage, with 13 arrivals and nine departures, of which two and two respectively were British, leaving 61 vessels in harbour, British 26.

I suppose that the reception of habit of all English newspapers these stations is a miner epic in to put out posters giving readers the linking of Empire with the an idea of what ever issue con- In the hurry and stress of Motherland, but the answer to the tains. *

production. the query appearing at "the head of newspaper A Chinese was bitten by a dog your article, as to the constitution Observer put gut this poster: belonging to Mr. Castilho, at Ken-of a reception record for the There having been a revival of nedy Town, yesterday. The man Colony is decidedly in the nega the question of growing foodstuffs went to the Government Civil Hostive. on a larger scale locally, one might|pital for treatment while the dog I do not think that this reception It can be imagined how much examine the matter of soil fertili-was seized and removed to the deappeared to any experienced amusement this caused when re

A Crowning Blunder

...by

J. L. Garvin

A

something printed in other newspapers.

ty, which counts for so much in pot.

amateur being

as all schemes for increased agricul-

phenomenal, the possibilities of tural development. The newcomer. A fall into a tank of a steamer short wave transmission and re- to this place is usually struck lying at Taikon Docks, caused scri- ception being well known and, in by the apparent barrenness ous injuries to a dock-hand yester-consequence, the matter did not of large tracts of the open soun- day. Ho sustained a fractured receive any further publicity. try, and the seeming poor quality skull and was removed to the Gov- Yours, etc., of the soil. On closer examina-ernment Civil Hospital in a serious

condition.

We are genuinely sorry regard-tion it is found that the main soil ing recent events in Canton because they prove that the old game of seeking after personal advantage still dominates most of the poli- ticians in the Southern capital, as indeed that trait appears to hold sway all over China, The story of

THOMAS R. ROLLAND, Member, Inst. Radio Engineers. Hongkong, Sept. 8, 1927.

of the Colony, except in the small areas where alluvial deposita are The following are passengers possible, is a disintegrated granite, through to London on the s.. or else some form of clay and Novara which arrived from Shang WOULD-BE SUICIDES. sandstone, usually far from pro hai to-day :-Sq. Ldr. W. Sowrey, this almost arid description, and. Leahy Five. Officers J. Hadden, mising. Most of the earth is of Flight Lieut. McBain, N. Moreton, the idea of flourishing erops of A. Hill, L. Cannon, C. Heard. vegetables or fruit is necessarily associated with intensive manur-

RESCUES FROM THE HARBOUR.

Willesden woman: Can I have a summons against my mother-in- law for definition of character.

Nottinghamshire miner's wife: We use a sledge hammer as à poker.

Magistrate at Willesden: How old is that baby? Mother: Only two, sir. Magistrate: But its head is as large as yours.

Willesden magistrate: If you were not drunk, why were you in

take quite a long time, so I will the grounds? Man: It is cap- able of explanation; but it would

In transpires to-day that a Chin-not worry you with it. While hanging out some clothes ese in planning to do away with Man at Iambeth: When I the past week has been oft-times ing. Briefly, it may be taken as dry on a clothesline yesterday, himself, took great pains to en-married my wife I married two an amah at No. 9 Nanking Street sure that his identity, should not women. I married her mother pitched headlong from the top of be lost to those who should recover Also, In wall on which she was standing his body afterwards.

and received injuries from which she succumbed, an hour later, at the Kwong Wah Hospital.

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A five-year-old boy, noticing.a lady in Victorian attire enter a tremear, startled his father with the following question:

"Daddy, has the lady who has just got in got any legs?"

"Of course, she has," replied tar father, rather shocked..

repeated in Canton, but we were a fact that much of the soll grown beginning to hope that Canton was upon by the Chinese in thoroughly really striving to live up to the exhausted of its fertile contents There is hardly periodically...

The man is Ng Sul Tak, who be ideals of its creed as the fount of any leaving of the land fallow to

fore throwing himself from the the progressive movement in China. recuperate, and only where rice is

Praya wall at Kennedy Town, had It appears as though General Li grown can it be said that there is

left a paper in his pocket giving not an almost continual rotation

The following ships were expee-particulars regarding his place of Chai-sum has now succeeded in of crops. Thus, to start with, the gaining complete power and that his nature of the earth is inferior.ed to be in wireless communication origin and his age, which was no mistake, he success has been obtained at the After seeing in the Philippines with Hongkong to-day--Songbo, shown to be 25 years. Then that'

and Malaya and other tropical Tonkin, Pronto, Osaka Maru, Deli there might be expense of many officials who have places, how seeds placed in the Maru, Sade Maru, Kame Maru wrote on the paper the Chinese now left--presumably for Nanking ground can almost be left to them-President Grant, Alipore, Eury characters for "suicide."

But the best-laid schemes of where the full meeting of the Chief selves and he expected to flourish, lochus, Helios, Lycaon, Haldis,

one reallses, in spots here, where Macassar Mary, Glenluce, St. A mice and men gang oft ngley. It Excentive Council of the Kuomin-even coarse grass finds it difficult bans, Talamba, Sandviken, Nami- was high tide last evening and to-day tang is due shortly to be held. And to exist, and dies down altogether sang, Nanking, Hong Peng, Chak- there were a number of amateur Bruce.

anglere fishing from the seawall. It is proposed to hold a great it is ridmitted that they have gone in dry weather, what our agricul- sang, Seistan and Kwaisang.

One of them heard the splash when campaign this year to Induce the turists have to face. The remedy,

the would-be suicide jumped into public to drink, more milk-Sir

John Gilmour.

Thely

AN OLD CAR NOW IN USE.

On the Penic Tramway this mern. ing there was one old car and one new car in use, owing to the fact that the car which suffered a dimaged bearing yesterday, in consequence of which the service was suspended all the morning, had to be taken off the run for atten- tion.

prompt rescue.

Frustrated and much exhausted, the would-be suicide was handed over to the police and subsequently removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

"Well, where are they? she looks

as if she's all body,"

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The greatest curse of Australia

is the extremists:-M.

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When I parted from Mr. Gibson and Admiral Jones I gave them each a British briar pipe with which they might offer, upon the altar of peace, the incense of Virginia when they got home- Mr. Bridgemann.

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What are rabies and what woulI

to Nanking in search of new posts-hich the Chinese have adopted Mr. Koa Ying-fan, the erstwhile for many geterations, is con-PEAK TRAM STOPPAGE. the water, and he effected a very Finance Minister, has possibly been timous heavy manuring, made a scapegoat by General Limethods are objectionable to the delicate nostrils of those whose Chai-sum, but whether that is soccupation does not bring them in or not he has left the City of Tamsenstant association 'with local village life, and in many ways are

There is pathos in the case re- with a very bad impression behind dangerous from a health point of him, because he it was who was at view, but in the results there is

ported by the police of a blind beg- the head of the Ministry when the no denying that they are effective.

gar who sought to end hla miseries

the waterfront near ham teacher of one of his pupils. Banks and pierchants were blud-We note with interest the attempt

in the harbour. He was seen to you do for them? asked a Notting- to introduce Chilean nitrates here.

leap from

Rabies are Jewish priests; and I geoned into making a "loan" to the There is certainly much to be said

Whitty Street, but was rescued by a Chinese. The latter disappear would do nothing for them, replied impecunious Government. We are for this form of fertiliser, but it

The bearing of the connecting roded from the scene after having the boy. not going to attempt to discover is doubtful whether the Chinese

was found to be badly scored, and seen the beggar turned over to the This was one of the stories told market gardeners, most conserva- who precisely has been mostly in tive of country folk, will take it was in consequence of this that care of the police, and efforts to by the Bishop of Southwell when fault during the past sorry Gnan- readily to any innovations of this the service yesterday afternoon and trace him for the purpose of com-speaking on "Laughter" at Newark

The ordinary time table have not been successful. cial episode, but we do know that kind. It has yet to be demonstrat evening was of slow and partial mending him for his gallant act yesterday.

ed whother cost of transport from nature, the officials who sanctioned it and the land of origin, and so forth, could not be adhered to. were responsible for its being car-will give a manure as cheap as the

During last night, workmen dis- ried out have rightly earned the old-fashioned form in present use. connected the car with the damaged. An alternative to the objection-bearing and put into commission the strict condemnation of Chinese and able part of the use of excreta is old car which has for some months. foreigners of all classes. The ex- a proper sewage plant, the almost been in the car shed at the bottom. pression of indignation by business odourless residue being used in. Chinese of Shanghai is fully shared place of the crude material now traded in so largely. It would be here, where there is a very wide less of a threat to a long-establish spread lack of trust in the regimeed local industry, and at least would go hand in hand with a at present in power in Canton.

reform which a world port like The thing we really deplore is longkong should be able to boast that there is as yet so little sign in the years to come a modern Paris

refuse and sewage disposal system. Brussels And to go back to the question Amsterdam the sake of the governed. Surely, local agricultural produce, on Berlin at no place in China is there such cannot but arrive at the conclusion Copenhagen

that the nature of our soil neces-Vienna...

of really honest administration for

It is hoped to put the new car into use again almost immediately.

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EXCHANGE RATES.

a wealth of goodwill and co-opera-sitates a careful study of fertills-Helsingfors tion awaiting clean government asing requirements before any big-ban there is here in the South, and at scale idens of fruit or vegetable Bucharest

Buenos Aires

Canton in particular. It Is not the growing can be embarked upon. Hongkong

fault of the people that the Govern-

Yokohama New York Geneva

ment has not succeeded-It could

A Chinese tapper working on Milan. have enjoyed a tremendous success Bahau ostate F. M. S., was on Mon Stockholm had it contained within itself the day last attacked by a male panther. Oslo essentials of success, namely, hon- Hearing his cries for help, a com- Prague eaty of purpose and a desire panion named Hiah Poh pluckily Madrid went to his assistance, and with a Athens to govern for the benefit and uplift stick beat the panther to death. Rio of the people. But the old game His friend, however, had received Bombay of personal advancement has gone several wounds, and died of blood Shanghai

Silver (spot) poisoning two days later.-Malay

Silver (forward) Officials have remained self- Mail.

on

LADY ROBBED,

SMART SENTENCE FOR SNATCHER.

Another of his examples of·

humour was?'.. •

A traveller in Spain wanted mushrooms stewed in milk. To explain to the walter he drew a picture of a mushroom and a cow. To his surprise the waiter brought an umbrella and two tickets for a bull fight.

Laughter is in essence a social An exemplary sentence was im-response, went on the Bishop. posed by Mr. W. Schofield at the what makes a thing funny, he Kowloon Magistracy this morning said, is the element of surprise. on a Chinese who was charged A boy ran into his mother's room with snatching a hand bag from and cried, "There's a strange man London, Sept. 8.

The Mrs. J. A. d'Almeida, in Nathan upstairs kissing nurse. ....124 Road last night.

mother expressed surprise, and the The defendant pleaded guilty.

boyanddedy April fool, motner. The complainant was walking is only daddy”--

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18.16 along Nathan Road in the vicinity .34.48 of Sal Fee Terrace at about 6.30

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The quiet French-Canadian 192% p.m. yesterday when the defendant village of Grandeance, Quebec, 2.7/10 anatched her hand bag containing was the scene recently of one of

.785 $12 and other articles and ran

47.31/82 away Mr. J. M. Luiz, who resides the most discussed weddings of recent years. Mr. James A: Still- 1/11 in Sai Tec Terrace, was a short man, jon, son of the multimil 1/11.7/32 distance behind the complainant lionaire United States bunker, 4.80.5/32 and immediately gave chase.

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.89:45 He overtook the defendant in married Miss Lena Wilson, the Jordan Road and caught him, later daughter of Scottish and French parents and a former maid-servant .18.42 handing him over to the Police:

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Sergeant Hargreaves, prosecute in the Stillman's summer home 23.81ing, asked for a severe sentence in here. .107 view of the numerous cases of " 6,55/64 snatching in the Colony and ha...

The Baad of the 1st Battalion Holiday Worship sent the defendant to pri- ..2/5% son for six months with hard lab- Cameronians is giving a promenade 26% our and further ordered a birch-concert at the Ede Memorial Park 25.7/18 ing of 20 strokes.

in Kowloon Tong tomorrow night, British Wireless.

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