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MARRIAGE.

LEE OGDENAt the Registry Ofice, Hongkong, on Sept.

22nd., Alfred Gordon Lee, M.C., second son of the late Philip Stirling Lee, of Sea- ford, Sussex, to Mrs. Ednah Ogden, youngest daughter of the late William Edgar Prall, of New York.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1927.

MONDAY,

that it appears to be further from co-ordinated rule than ever.

The Nanking conference promis- ed at least some form of unification among the Kuomintang members, but these latest eventa prove that the party has split into too many. factions during the past year for

SEPTEMBER 26, 1927,

DAY BY DAY.

Vancouver on Thursday and is due The 8.3. Empress of Russia left.

here on October 10th.

The British vessel Pheumpenh, arriving from Saigon, reports one

AN UNLUCKY THIRTEEN.

SEQUEL TO WANCHAI

FANTAN PARTY,

The Very Idea!

The mother took her baby to be christened. The clergyman, who knew her personally, dipped his

Late on Saturday night, a party pou in the ink, and prepared to fill of officers from the local station When he came to the space

in the necessary papers.

unity to be easy of accomplishment, casualty," a seaman having broken raided No. 13, Lee Tung Street, reserved for the date he said

his BIT.

:

in the Wanchai quarter, on in It really appears as if the story of

formation received of the third 22nd, lan't it?"

genially, "Let me see-this is the China Itself is repcated on a smaller

The weather forecast up till floor of the building being used "Certainly not!" said the in- scale in the affairs of its various noon to-morrow is:-North" varias a fantan establishment.

dignant mother. "We've only Two Chinese detectives disguis-been married three years." party groups. Intrigue, counterable winds, moderate; overcust,

"some rain."

ed in the Japanese national plotting, cliques, jealousy, the failure to sink personal differences

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costume followed closely on the Wife at Willesden': 'I want a We learn that it has been definite-heels of a Japanese into the floor, summons against my husband for admittance apparently being gala-giving me only 30s, housekeeping ed by the use of certain pass-words. They surprised a party of thirteen money last week, instead of £2. Magistrate: You must manage as persons one Chinese and twelve best you can on 30s. We have no Japanese) in the act of staking power to issue a summons. money on a fantan game. With a Chinese woman, who appeared to be a servant, the thirteen were taken into custody and were charged before Majer C. Willson this morning.

The P. and O. 9.8. Kashmir ia due here with the English mails from Singapore on Thursday at about nuon. The s.s. St. Albans is due here from Moji on Wednesday

men

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for the sake of the country or they decided to hold this year's St. cause, have resulted inevitably in Andrew's Bail on St. Andrew's Day, failure to profit by whatever op Wednesday, November 30th. portunities offered. The civilian politicians have fared worst, and the military commanders have had most to say in the conduct of alfairs. There is a small shadow east in the Yangtsze area, which may be taken to indicate coming

There will be a Public Lecture events of some importance. It is at the Helena May Institute on ere absent from the Court, and Prisoner, referring to a witness

Monday, 3rd October, at 5.30 p.m..the amounts of $200 and $150 at Thames Police Court.

He was it. Heavenly which they had deposited as ball intoxi-iiquor-been mopping being the subject, Spheres "Stars" given by the Rev. with the station. Inspector, were like. J. Kirk Maconachie.-Advt.

confiscated. The Chinese woman

morning.

the hint of a militarist revival. The eliques which have armies to sup- port them are many, but their aims are similar. They desire money first, then power afterwards. In

The marriage arranged between striving for these, the national Mr. J. A. Fraser and Miss K. E. principles to which they are sup- Mozley will take place in St. posed to subscribe obtain second-John's Cathedral on Wednesday, 28th inst., at 2.30 p.m. Owing to ary consideration. The latest news the bride's recent illness, there is of military factions, striving to will be no reception, but all friends oust one another from position. It will be welcome at the Cathedral. brings one back to the conclusion that China will never succeed as a unified government under a plural ity of controllers; but requires one man, dominant, and' capable of en- foreing his will, a Cromwell indeed. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, came nearest to achieving that role. Probably that is why his return is desired. It may be best for "the Nationalists, if. they are. suffer complete disintegration.

Irish Politics,

not

to

Great

This morning's Harbour Office departures, of which six and one Reports gave 12 arrivals and six respectively were British, leaving 64 vessels in harbour, British 20. Cargoes were generally low, with British through cargoes especially poor.

The Lungalan, on the Macno run

A Japanese, named S. Honda, and a Chinese, named Chan Chuen,

Willesden witness: The watch lost was a lady watch.

When I heard that he was charged with

Clergyman at Kingston: being drunk I could not believe it. He works

opposite the vicarage, and when I want help. with my wireless I look him up.

was fined $5; while the remainder Two young men on their way were each mulct in the fine of $10. I home, after a late supper, took off

Twenty-five yen 羅 ten-dollar their silk hats and dress coats at. American gold piece, and over 4 a.m., rolled up their sleeves and $134 local money, seized during worked for two hours like navvies the raid, were confiscated on the with Piccadilly road makers in application of the prosecuting trenches. A navvy told the police officer, Sergeant Rozeskwy. Evening News that they were "real toffs, like lords' sons." They were quite sober, he said and merely wanted to do a bit of real work.

SIR ROBERT HARTS STATUE.

PREPARING FOR ERECTION

IN SHANGHAI,

*

A sergeant-major, who was not very popular with his men, was instructing them' in funeral drill. Dividing them into two files, he paced slowly up and down between the ranks, remarking-"Now, then, you fellers, I am the corpse. Pay attention."

slow Having completed his march, he wheeled round, surveyed them carefully, and delivered his judgment as follows:

Large familles are an advantage to the nation.-Alderman Cresa- well, Mayor of Wandsworth,

Those who have noted the mutshed which has been erected At the Marine Court this over a small section of the Bund morning, before Commdr. J. B. directly in front of the new Newill, D.S.O., R.N., five mistress-Customs House and midway be- es and three masters of junks, were tween this and the new Customs' "Your 'ands is right, you 'eads charged with having their craft Examination Shed will have is right, but you 'aven't got that ying inshore during dark hours, surmised, say the N. C. Daily look of regret in your eyes that you Pleading guilty, they were several-News, that the spot marks the new ought to 'nve!"

fined $10, with the alternative home of Sir Robert Hart's, atatue which will be unveiled at the same of 10 days' imprisonment.

time as the Customs House is in- augurated.

About the middle of December yesterday, made what is believed is the date given by Customs to be a record trip. Leaving officials and the architects alike Hongkong at 9.5 a.m., she was for the opening of the new build- berthed at Macao at 11.50 am. ing. By that time it is expected that Leaving on the return journey at the stone paved island which will 4 p.m., she was conipletely berthed at 7.5 p.m.. Captain Madden, is form the site for Sir Robert Hart's the popular master of this vessel. statue will have also have been

'Musleal host-What do you say completed. Mounted on this will be a granite pedestal of the same to a little Grieg before dinner?

Unmusical Guest-Ah, DOW material as the facade of the Customs House. It will measure you're talking! Just a very small 13 feet high from its base to the glass, for me! base of the statue, which is eight Two large new

Adolphe Menjou's comedy, "The King on Main Street," is the chief picture at the 5.16 and 9.20 per- formances in the World Theatre to Vampire," fills the bill at the 2.80 day, and a Chinese drama, "The feet in height.

7.15 performances. "The King on Main Street" will be screened for the last time to-day.

bronze panels, bearing inscrip- tions of Sir Robert Hart's services

to China and giving his distinctions and honorary orders, will appear front and back on the pedestal.

The modern youth is spending too much time in play, particularly at golf-Sir Thomas Chitty.

Haberdashery is under a cloud

because pina, hooks and eyes are being ousted by elastic and press studs Mr. A. H. Riddle,

#

When Babbage, the inventor of the calculating machine, read the verse in Tennyson's "Vision of

Sin"--

Fill the cup and fill the can;

Have a rouse before the morn. Every moment dies a man,!

Every moment one is born.

he was convinced that there was something wrong with it. Accord-

problem. His investigations led

We are pleased to note that the Executive Council of the Irish Free State has decided to "carry on" with the Government » NEW TRENDS.

of the country, and many will have shared the sincere relief felt by the majority of Irishmen The situation in China has that the Government is going to continue its tenure of office. changed considerably in the past The small majority of six, obtain week or so, and there are new trends ed at the last election, gives it a observable everywhere. It is dif- working chance provided it gets ficult to sort out the various mili- the support of other parties which have promised it-and there is no tary factions and assess the rela-nced to plunge, the country into tive importance of their latest strife and turmoil, for that is coups, as Chinese political affairs assuredly what the accession to power of Mr. De Valera would are still in something of a maze.mean. The chief planks in his But it is evident already that the platform are the abolition of the hoped-for Nationalist co-operation oath, and the re-opening of the under one supreme body, which financial settlement with was to rule nearly the whole of Britain,, His Chief Whip has add

ed to this programme what sounds China south of the Yangtze, from very much like a threat of forcible Nanking, has not materialised. annexation of Northern Ireland.

Putting this last indiscrétion Lieutenant Colonel Edward Ved-The bronze panels on the old There are continuous reports of a

aside, the official policy of Fianna der and Major Samuel A. White, pedestal of the statue where it now Nationalist split at Nanking, there Fail. as announced by Mr. De of the army medical corps, have stands on the Bund foreshore at was the recent series of incidents Valera obviously involves a re-been detailed from the Philippines the junction of the Bund and ingly he sat down to work out the vision of the Treaty, and the department to represent the Unit Kiukiang Road, will be placed on

the sides of the new pedestal.him to make the following repre were putting forward of demands that ed States at the seventh congress disarmed, and now we have indica-no British Government would of the Far Eastern Association of The new panels, which are consentation to the poet: tions that the so-called "Red" ele-accept. It is

"It must be manifest that were not a programme Tropical Medicine at Calcutta, siderably larger than the former

ones are being made in England this true the population of the that has appealed Ito the Dec. 5. ments are making a bid for power.

at the present time, and are ex-world would be at a standstill. In mass of the Irish people, who, It is a point to consider, whether whatever their views as to the

pected to arrive in time for the truth, the rate of birth is slightly the retirement of Marshal Chiang merits of the treaty provisions, evening at a house in Canton Road,statue.

It is reported that on Saturday second unveiling ceremony of the in excess of that of death. Kai-shek has not made confusion work, and dread nothing so much year-old daughter, then lying ill, recollect that the original un-read-

would suggest that in the next have settled down to make it Kowloon, 4 man attacked his 16- Old Shanghai residents will edition of your poem you have it worse confounded, rather than set as the awakening of sleeping with a razor and afterwards turned veiling ceremony took place on the way for an amicable reunion dogs. One can easily imagine the weapon on himself. Both father the morning of May 25, 1611, when Every moment 1 1-16 is born. between the Hankow and Nanking Valera's reign of office would give Hrispitul with serious wounds in Bund to do honour to the occasion rect. The actual figure. is

the renewed strife to which, De and daughter were removed to a large gathering appeared on the Strictly speaking this is not cor- parties. We learned more, the rise. The viewpoint

Mr. their throats. other day, about a third party, the Heifernan, the leader

The daughter has and sailors from the various men-decimal so long that I cannot get of the since died, while the father, who is of war in the river lined up along it in the line, but I believe 1 1-16 Shanghai one, known to have been Farm'èra' Party, that A few stated to have been considerably the enclosure of the statue as will be sufficiently accurate. for Lavourable to Chiang Kai-shek. In months in office would convince De worried over his daughter's illness, part of the impressive ceremony.

poetry." Valera of the futility of his pro- is in a precarious condition. stead of the three groups combin-gramme and in the end prove to

The statue was erected partly by

The Sunday school teacher, was ing, however, there are indica-be all to the good of the country

subacription by members of the tions of a widening schism. The cannot very well be shared by The s.s. Eumaeus, Blue Funnel Custom service, which Sir Robert endeavouring to elucidate the Nanking conference was boycotted ment's responsibilities

those who recognise the Govern-liner, arrived in Manila at 3. p.m. Hart organized and developed by meaning of the word "honour" to She had, to. the on Wednesday with 1,400 tons of the Postal Service, which he creat- her class of small boys. by a number of the most prominent State. Within those few months vessels comes from New York via rate-payers of the Settlement. Mr. but they didn't seem to have quite cargo for discharge here. The ed; and by funds provided by the given them several illustrations," members of the Kuomintang, which envisaged by Mr. Heiferaan much Suez on the first trip from that port Henry Pegram, A.R.A. was the grasped the point.

permanent harm might be done. did not augur well for its gonclu-and if Ireland can steer clear of

Later, came evidence that an outbreak of the old feud Wuhan was still semi-independent, much the better.

in which unreliable troops

sions.

in outlook if not in fact, and finally

we had the coup by General Ho

Ying-ching whereby he assumed en-

EXCHANGE RATES.

tire control of the Shanghai area. Paris Hia, connexion with Nanking had Now York

Brusacis not been particularly cordial, and Genova it appeared that here, also, was a Amsterdam rift in the lute. Now come re- Borlin Milan

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Qalo Vienna

Yu-hsiang is meeting with reverses, Bucharest

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under the new Blue Funnel Line sculptor of the statue. schedule of 44 days. The ship

For every moment dies a man,

"Well now, John," she con- tinued, addressing a youngster of eleven, supposing I were to put than schedule. The new schedule Wales these days when a dance and take out some money, what Hotel keepers in England and my hand into. someone's. pocket was announced two months ago,

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There was a long pause, and all! anchor in New York for the Orient, finding a new difficulty in entering London, Sept. 25.

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