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FRIDAY, SSPT. 23. 1927.

THOUGHTS ON PEACE.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

21 YEARS AGO.

THE HEART 15 WISER THAN THE A GREAT TYPHOON DISASTER. INTELLECT.-J. G. Holland.

One Chinese case of enteric fever was reported yesterday.

The Very Idea!

The office boy had asked the after- The files of the Hongkong Tele- noon off for the purpose of attend- graph for the week September Ing a "funeral" 17th-September 22nd, 1906, are

trous typhoon which visited the Colony on September 18th.

But when he arrived at the foot-.

queue, and when he had just got forward to the pay-box, to his hor ror he espied his manager a few yards behind him.

Weather reports by ships arriv-full of the account of the disas-ball ground he had to join the ing this morning, included one "boisterous" and one "thyphoon,"

The popular orchestra of H.M.S. "Danae" will play during dinner at Lane, Crawford's" Restaurant September. to-morrow night, Saturday, 24th

cargoes being less than usual.

Ice-cream merchant at Bow County Court: The climate is dend against me.

Plaistow debtor: The plaintiff should call when I have the money, otherwise it melts.

ing Itself to the task of perfecting its own military and naval strength --not so much in the matter of numbers as in the matter of scienti- fio efficiency. A Home writer re- minds us that the phrase "the next war" is already being used casual- ly and that the mental habit of most people to ignore danger until it is actually upon them is inveter-

For a space of barely two hours In this connexion onc cannot

on the morning of September help thinking of the recent military

18th, a typhoon of abnormal

Was he caught? Not a bit of it! manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain

velocity swept over Hongkong, Turning to the man next to him, when new. tanks, big and little, were

laid a great part of the city in he inquired loudly:"In this the ruins, annihilated the fleet of entrance gate to the cemetery, being tried out. The writer' goes

shipping which was lying in the please?". on to say that there is more excite arriving from Europe and Singa- destruction to thousands. A great The Blue Funnel, liner Keemun, harbour and worked unexampled ment about greyhound racing than pore, reports the death of one pil-feet of junks and sampans was about this half-realized revolution-grim en route, the cause of death smashed to atoms, thousands of ary reorganization of the British not being stated in the Harbour lives were lost and hundreds

Office' report.

made homeless. Never in the Army that is being pushed on at

history of the Colony had such a feverish speed with all the resour- This morning's Harbour Office calamity overtaken it. ces of scienéc. While we play, our reports gave nine arrivals and 16

Willesden man accused of rob- The typhoon was utterly un departures, British vessels num expected. It masters attend grimly to the pre-baring three and six respectively, Hongkong, was of small dlámster tion to ask her. Landlady: "But formed close to bing his landlady: I have no ques- parations for that "next war" from leaving 61 vessels in harbour, Bri but of great intensity. Although I have one to ask him. If he has which the world as we know it may tish 17, Tonnage was lower, with the weather had been threatening my street door key, will he kindly

hand it over? not emerge. These

the day before, no danger was "dragons" of the prinie (new style)

and no apprehended signals were hoisted. The har- pering woman

Willesden magistrate, to a whis- danger

witness Please destined, unless we wake up and

buur was full of unprepared ship-speak as though you were talking take notice in time, to tear the life has been sent to the Government Ping and native craft. Soon after to your children when they are cf Europe in the slime of dissolu-Civil Ifospital suffering from con- and the Orst typhoon signal was

8. o'clock the weather worsened naughty.

Man accused of drunkenness at tion, are waxing monstrous and cussion and fracture of the right hoisted and barely five minutes Tunbridge Wells: I came into the powerful, and they are meant to be caused by his being knocked later the gun was fired and the town to buy some shirts and bought used. Not that one has a word down by motor-car No. 67 on the black ball hoisted on H.M.S.

Causeway Bay Road. to say against "mechanizing" the

Tamar. Sweeping in from the west the typhoon approached Army. It cannot be mechanized

The Royal Observatory reports with amazing velocity and by 8.30 toc fast or too thoroughly. The still central over N. Japan

The northern anticyclone is The

am. the full force was being felt tank was the sole idea of genius in anticyclone over China has dis- and the retreat of the native the last war-the simple but useful persed. A typhoon is approaching floating population to shelter was idea of killing with machines in local weather forecast up to noon in the throes of the storm.

the Bonins from S. W. The cut off. Everything was caught

They said that the inan was out of work, and solely for the purpose stead of men. An armfy with the to-morrow is: East or variable Most of the liners were of annoying them he fixed, a pistol maximum of machines and the mini-winds, moderate; fair.

at their moorings in the at the bottom of the garden, fasten-. mum of men is clearly the most

centre of the harbour anded a place of string to the trigger, Society news from Deauville, river steamers were alongside and loaded the weapon with blank sensible arrangement. How many where everybody goes for the wharves ав usual. By nine ammunition. hundreds of thousands of soldiers bizarre, notes that Foujita, the o'clock the gale was roaring. Then, whenever they went into? would be alive to-day if we had celebrated Japanese artist, wears Ferries, trams. Peak cars and the garden to feed the chickens, he a gaily-striped bathing costume, everything on land had stopped and pulled the string from his kitchen They were saved up our men and concentrated tortoise-shell-rimmed spectacles, the Colony took what shelter it and fired the pistol. upon machines. It was, alas! for gold earrings, and a Basque beret could from the storm Meanwhile, terrified.

the harbour had been lashed to a too long the other way about. most of the morning, and puts on

The magistrate sent a policeman a wonderful cowboy suit when he tempestuous fury and lives were to see the man. Geneva goes on planning for peace Troes to the Bar du Soleil, which being sacrificed by the score as and the experts go on planning for has ousted the Pottiere, for his sumpans and junks were turned victory in the event of war.

bottom upwards all over the har- May aperitif.

bour. the Geneva diplomats make the efforts of the experts unnecessary.

A Promoter of Peace..

A Chinese boy aged 7, living on harbour boat No. 1824, which was lying off Causeway Bay yesterday

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Beer instead.

Two women from Kentish Town

complained to Mr. Hay Halkett, the Marylebone magistrate, of a new form of terror adopted by their. next-door neighbour, a man.

Ir

It was the first Council meeting the new civic representative had attended, and he listened gravely to the report of the medical officer, the statistics in which frankly puz- zled him. For example, owing to

The Harbour Office report of 9.9. There were many gallant in Heron, states that she picked up cidents of rescue work and not a the s.s. Hubro about 30 miles east few Chinese lost their lives in try- of the Lamocks when the lattering to save others. Many Europeans, was disabled with engine trouble prominent among whom was Mr. the influenza epidemic the deaths and drifting. The Heron is a Nor-Bevan, were at work along the for the month had been at the rate What on wegian vessel, running on charac. Praya performing feats of bravery of "fifteen point five." ter for the A.P.C., and carrying a

in hauling unfortunate Chinese out earth did "point five" mean? of the harbour. Even the largest In his perplexity he sought the cargo of 7,403 fuel oil for coast present anchored in Kowloon Bay all sides. Preparatory continuing her voy-

The various Committees of the the Nobel Peace Prize next year ports from San Pedro. She is a kind of junks had gone down on advice of a fellow-Councillor, whose

There is something particularly fitting in the proposal, put forward by Boy Scouts in Scandinavia, that League of Nations are nothing if should be awarded to the Chief not persevering in their efforts to Scout, Sir Robert Baden Powell disedver a working arrangement for Boys became more than a mere

It is many years ago that Scouting aye, whereby the peace of the world can pastime in parts. of Britain, and o'clock, according to the vernacular Early yesterday morning, at 5 be safeguarded, and the unanimous now-it is a world-wide fashion, and

the Boy Scout movement one of the press, a posse of detectives raided adoption, of proposals made by most important institutions of anthe union of the Chinese joss-paper German, French and Datch dele-international character we know. workers, in Hollywood Road, and gates for the creation of a Commit. The writer recalls the time, some

when the police arrived all the inmates, more than ten persons, Lee consider measures calculated a member of an early troop, and the eighteen years ago, when he was

were asleep. They were aroused, to afford all States guarantees of movement was really in its infancy. and the house was thoroughly security and arbitration should go money went towards one's uniform,

Those were days when the pocket our search the police left the searched. After about three a long way towards convincing the ns the beginning of a troop was a scepties that, in spite of great dif- costly affair, coming out of private Chinese. Three of the eight men ficulties, the League is making de- funds, and those lads who could, Nothing illicit was found on the were members of the union. finite progress along right lines. much open-air fun, and real train-premises.

paid for all they got. There was

It is explained that the resolutioning, including the first lessons in

place niter arresting

eight

Shipping Casualties,

The larger vesela in harbour toll was taken. fured little better and an appalling Among the ships to suffer were :—

s.s. Hitchcock, driven ashore near the Kowloon Godown, being swept right over the seawall,

s.s. Signal, ashore at West Point. 8.3. Changsha, ashore alongside

Dock Company's wharf, with a list

of 45 degrees.

9.s. Sarsogan, dashed against the quay wall and foundered. with stern under water.

8.8. Johanne, partially submerged,

s.s. Monteagle, put ashore on the Praya near the V. R. C.

which has been adopted follows the valuable stand-by later. One re-August 26 of two officers who are in

coolting which developed into a The appointments dated from

3.5. Emana Luyken, went aground the vicinity of Arnhold

H.M.S. Moorhen, partially sunk in the Naval Yard basin, seriously damaged.

the Kowloon Torpedo Depot.

French torpedo boat ashore at

8.8. Strathmore had just left the Dock after repair and was run into by another steamer and badly damaged.

5.3. Loongsang collided with the Chipsing, both sustaining

long experience of local government matters seemed to promise en- lightenment.

"Oh, that's easy enough," said.

the veteran. "Fifteen point five means fifteen dead and five at the point of death."

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The most interesting period of life is from 80 to 40 backwards.- Lord Lambourne.

I think Mr. Bonar Lay, will emerge as one of the greatest.ng- ures of the time.-Mr. Baldwin,

As a rival to the flashy and de- grading allurements of town life allotments are incomparable-Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.

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An attempt to "break the bank" at Monte Carlo by means of forged notes resulted in the arrest of the perpetrators.

Four Hungarians formed a syn-

up capital of £8,300, with which they proposed to do great things.

They decided, after much de- liberation, to operate at Monte Carlo. They took rooms at one of.. the best hotels, and spent a few days in pleasure seeking, without playing at the Casino, in order to give the impression that they were mere casual pleasure-seekers.

main lines of the proposals submit-calls also the proud day when the joining the staff of the new senior Karberg's oil works, and was fol- ted by M. Paul Boncour (France) rat-class badge was earned, and naval officer in the Yangtsze, lowed by Portuguese gunboat "dedicate at Budapest, with a full paid-. carlier this month, and that the badgos, of which the naturalsit's CB. His chief staff officer will be

the later addition of individual Rear-Admiral Hugh, J. Tweedle, Rosario" and s.s. Neil Macleod. complete report was adopted by ac-badge was the first. But there has Commander C. A. G. Hutchison, of clamation-a fact in itself signifi- always been more in the Boy Scout the Plans Division, Naval Staff, cant of the spirit of the delegates. playing in the countryside.

movement than mere camping and Admiralty, a well-known mater

It is cyclist, and the winner of the One cannot hope for really spectacu- the building up of character, the recent trial for the Arbuthnot lar acts of disarmament regarding teaching of how to be useful citi-auto-cycle trophy. This will be the world-wide desire for peace, trustworthiness, and

zens, the obligation of honesty and Commander Hutchison's ärst the daily oversea appointment in his pre- for there are questiona of security "good turn." lessons which are sent rank, as he was appointed to and prestige to be considered, but never forgotten, that count for so the. Admiralty shortly after his the will to pence is being demon much. And, essentially, the Boy promotion in June, 1924, before Scouts are non-militaristic-though which he was second-in-command strated stronger and stronger as they have aroused suspicion of mili- of the cruiser Calypso. The minor damage. the years go by and, through the tarism in certain quarters in the secretary to Rear Admiral Tweedie ngency of the League of Nations, for world peace. The "do unto der II. R. M. Woolhouse, O.B.E. past-and their organisation makes will be Paymaster Lieht.-Comman- there is growing up a solid public your neighbour as you would be from the surveying ship Fitzrdy, opinion which will make the waging done by" spirit is likely to survive and in 1923-25 secretary to Rear- in later manhood. The interna- i Admiral Wilmot S. Nicholson, C.B.,

of war more

They then set to work with their capital in their pockets in bills of £40 or £80 each.

Their first evening showed heavy. gains, thanks to a carefully de- Visi "ayatem." They won again on the second evening, but on the third they lost. On the fourth evening they won back all that they

They were arrested on the fifth e.s. Kwongchow and Shun Lee evening foundered.

It had been discovered that all Many others boats were more or their capital was in counterfeit less damaged.

notes, and their attempt to break the bank ended in disaster.

.s. Fatshan left lying high and dry in Kowloon Bay.

in collision near Tsim Tsa Tsui.

French mail steamer Polynesian

8.5. Sun Cheung turned turtle at had lost.

and more difficult. tional affiliation, and similar. code at the submarine depot at Fort her moorings and broke her back

EXCHANGE RATES.

The effective enforcement of the of honour, the enjoyable jamborees Blockhouse. decisions of the Council in the where lads of many nations mingle event of a conflict breaking out is ing towards the ideal of universal in perfect harmony, are all work- a most powerful deterrent to which respect and goodwill. In few even the smallest State can con- other ways can it be said that the tribute and cach State is now being out his teachings, Sir Robert Baden Paris

hoy is father to the man. Through- requested to supply information re-Powell refrains, despite the drill-Brussels garding the measures it would take ing and other essential discipline, Amsterdam

Berlin and the forces it would be prepared from inculcating antagonism to anyone; instead, it is always the

Copenhagen to employ in support of the Council, cult of brotherhood

Vienna that he If once the Council of the League preachos. The Nobel prize for

Helsingfors Lisbon

of Nations can be made a powerful peace could hardly be more fittingly Bucharest

bestowed than on the head of this Buenos Aires great organisation, the 'affectionate Shanghai, ly-remembered Chief Scout.

body (and always provided that it is not "ridden" by any of the larger powers for their own ends) for the enforcement of international de- crees, the likelihood of war will concurrently fade into the realm of the improbable.

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But, while the League of Nations la steadily applying itself in the in- terests of permanent peace, each of

the individual States is still apply-

Yokohama New York Geneva

Galo

An invitation issued, by the Com- Milan mittoe of the Club Lusitano to its Stockholm members and their families and to Prague the members of the Portugueau Madrid community, pr the Occasion Athens of the rocoption to bo held Rio in honour of H. E. the Governor of Bombay Macao, on Saturday, at 4.30 p.m. Hongkong

London, Sept. 22.

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Enormous Toll.

The typhoon lasted for only a A lady was entertaining the .34.03 little over two hours, for by clergyman to tea one afternoon, .12.13411 o'clock the weather had abated when her little son ran in from the

20.42 and shortly afterwards the sun garden. .18.17 came out to reveal scenes of "Mummy," he cried, "we caught 84.5216 desolation throughout the whole a snake in the garden, an' we beat

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it, beat it, an beat it till here It was found impossible to he noticed the minister, and his 47.15/16 estimate the total damage but the voice became hushed, and be fin- 2/6 conservative figure of $20,000,000 ished "till God called him to Him-- 1/11.5/10 was included in an official report self."

4.88 17/82 published later. The total death

.26.28 roll in and out of the harbour was

.89.80 put at not less than 10,000, being Rt. Rev. J. C. Houre. He was in .18.10 mostly Chinese waterbout people, a small pleasure boat off Castle.

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whose corpses were being collect Peak Bay when the typhoon 104% cd' for days afterwards. Nearly struck, and all on board were 27.78

2,000 junks and dampans were drowned. His body was recovered. .5.65/84 destroyed, including 600 junks of some days later. 1/5.29/32 a fishing fleet caught just outside Messages of condolence and

1/11% the harbour.

sympathy were later received from Prominent among those drown-Fall parts of the world, and special

oleowhere in this issue.. at the Club Lusitano, is published Bliver (spot and forward)....25%

-British Wireless.; HA

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