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DEATH.

LAMMERT.At the Government Civil Hospital, at 8 clock last night, at the age of 55 years, Frank Lammert. The funeral will pass the Monument at

4.15 p.m. this afternoon.

ENGAGEMENT.

The angagement is announced be- tween Mr. Robert E. Farrell, of the Hongkong Telephone Company, and Miss Nina Paterson, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.. J. Paterson,

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 1927,

THE BRITISH MINERS.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3,

their power? Their previous efforts at self-help have proved a failurb. Last year they were induced to enter into an unequal conflict, a bitter hand to hand struggle with the owners; and the owners, sup ported by the Government; won. For many years past they have been turning their attention to another supposed remedy-not a miner's, but a politicians remedy. It has been presented to then in the guise of Nationalisation, and -the advocates of it have been the political Labour' party. “But since last year they have become wary.

DAY BY DAY.

FAITII IS DEFERENTIAL INCREDUL- TTY-Voltaire.

The British ressòl Phemlus from Europe reports the death of one Chinese deck passenger, en route,

from tuberculosis. ;"-་་

The s.8. Kudat, of the Straits Steamship Company, sailed for lengthened at Taikoo Dock. Singapore yesterday, after being

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One Chinese case of diphtheria and three cases of outerie one Portuguese, one Chinese, and one Japanese imported-were reported

1927.

GOLD THAT BROUGHT SORROW.

BOOTLEG KING'S AMAZING.

CAREER.

WIFE TRACKED AND SHOTK

The Very Idea!

The following "In memoriam notice appeared in a newspaper re cently

To be in Heaven is better for Than jewels, wealth, or a motor

George Remus of Cincinnati was called the king of the boot One of the alleged ambitions of leggers. Starting with a capital King George is to ride on top of a of $10,000 gold, he built it up to London omnibus some day from more than $5,000,000. In his one end, of the town to the other, career he had gross sales of more this dream is to be realized than $75,000,000; he paid $20,000, within the next few months, the 000 in graft to various officers; King may board a bus directly in he employed 3,000 people and front of Buckingham Palace, na handled some 3,000,000 gallons of buses now stop near the palace'a whisky To-day he is under front gates, which is something The Royal Observatory reports detention for the murder of his they have never done before, oven their eyes to win their votes? Is that; the anti-cyclono has strong-wife; and this story, printed in in the days when buses were drawn thened and is contral over Mid the Cincinnati Post, expresses the apan, Moderate monsoon may strange, fantastic tragedy of his The local forecast is E. winds of millionaires, has come to an bo expected over the N. China Sealifet

George Romus, most miserable moderate; fine.

Ibsen-like end. Charged with murder, he sits in his cell, symbol

| What after all is this remedy which | yesterday.

he Labour party dangles before

it a method of extracting more wealth from the mincs? Not at All. It is only a change of insters. What the most intelligent minera are looking for to-day "Is not n

political slogan, but a acientific watchmen in Wanchal yesterday re of the futility of riches without]

man

made

The St. Peter's Church, Young Men's Club is holding a debate on Monday evening next, when the motion at issue is ""That marriage is a hindrance to a successful career." The principals in the debate will be the Rev. W. R. Con- nell, Miss M. M. Clark. Mrs. A. E. Matthews and Mr. P. Sands.,,

A fight between two Indian practical scheme for making the sulted in one of them being sent to mines pay, with fair play to the the Government Civil Hospital The injured men who work in them. That is with a broken arm.

+2 statement to what Mr. Oliver Harris has been the effect that he was attacked by saying in the Colliery Workers' | an Indian guard. Magazine, and Mr. Jack Jones, the miners' leader in the Carw Valley, and many other thinking leaders in the South Wales coalfield. They do net propose a revolution in the in- dustry, because they know that re- volutions do not work. They cer- tainly advocate Stute acquisition of the minerals, because the royalty This morning's Harbour Office owners take no active, part in the reports gave a fair number of an industry, though they can clog its place. Tonnage showed a reduce tries, with British holding the top development. They propose praction, but all the heavier freights tical means for ensuring amalga mation of mines, for co-operation, for avoiding waste; for better use of the mine products, better distri- bution, better selling; and for nas- sociating miners and mine-owners for purposes of consultation. It is suggested, and rightly enough we think, that the miners in Britain are tired of politics, and quarrels,

Armistice and Radio,

character.

by horses.

Magistrate "What brought you to this?

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Prisoner Two policemen.". Magistrate-Drunk, I suppose?" Prisoner "Yes both of them."

Willesden magistrato: Is the Poor little man! Everything he room furnished? Woman: Yes, touched turned to gold and the but the frying pan is mine.

Judge gold became a corruption that

Cluer, at Shoreditch: home and destroyed it; it touched Woman:" He supports me. destroyed him it entered his What is your husband's occupation?

his mind with a madness that sent Barrister, at Shoreditch County him on his errand of murdar, Court: You drink? Man: Why about slapping at society, in the quets in West Londoti.

A pathotle clown that went not? They have plenty of ban- and he was dreadfully slapped himself and now lles crushed and bleeding.

Former Lawyer.~

A poor lawyer from Chicago, he loomed suddenly on, the horizon of Cincinnati, a glittering figure on the street, giving $5 tips to the building he had for his office newsboys. On the doorstep of he vaunted his name in coloured tiles. He bought a great house and filled it with tawdry

Man at Kingston: I will take my cath by the cap I am holding in my hand that have no money. West Ham magistrate: I do not know what to do with you. Man:

do-let me off.

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says n

The custom of "kissing the Book" on taking an oath dies hard all that is necessary is to hold the in London, Although since 1909 Bible in the hand while repeating" were carried in British ships.

the oath, most people, no City solicitor, seem to feel that There were 17 arrivals and nine splendour.

something is missing from the departures, leaving 62 vessels in

unless He built a Roman bath, think- ceremonial harbour, of which 23 were British.ing to make a great splash in the solemnly kissed the Book.

they have

city with a luxury that was not A report was made to the in the home of even Cincinnati's "Let me see some of your black police yesterday to the effect wealthiest. that sometime between 9 a.m.

kid gloves," said a lady to a shop- on Tuesday and

assistant. "These are not the 6 a.m. on

latest style, are they?" she asked, Wednesday, a rattan basket con-

when the gloves were produced. taining money and clothing to the value of $180 was stolen from the Civil Service Cricket Club.

...

CANTON SITUATION.

EXPEDITION AGAINST

HANKOW..

Surely, he thought, such display must lift him to a high place in the community, la not money the god before which all the world bows?

.

He wanted respectability, and the May music festivals and the wife in choice seats. symphonies found him and his

But people only laughed at him,

Money Was Power,

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"Yes ma'am," replied the young woman; "We have had them in stock only two days."""

"I didn't think they were, be cause the fashion paper says black. kids hava tan stitches and vice versa. I see the tan, stitches, but not the vice versa.”

The assistant said that vice verac was French for seven buttons, so Ishe sold three pairs.

Hundreds of gallons of milk More than a score of corrupted were lost in the roadway near to prison and Golder's Green Station, London,

men, seek-when a motor lorry belonging to at

destruction.

But money only postponed the day. In the end he went to prison.

#

The young, subaltern was show ing his aunt round the camp, whe suddenly a bugle blared out.

"What's that for?" she aske apprehensively,

Oh, that's for tattoo," said ho nephew reassuringly,

of the Eastern Extension Tele-and intrigues. They seek a means, graph Company, Hongkong.

a definite plan, for restoring the East was yesterday removed to the A Chinese living at No. 38 Praya mines to prosperity. It is a ques-Government Civil Hospital suffer- tion whether one exists, but the ing from the effects of a dog bite. though it was to weep at the It is reported that the animal bepathetic little man who was like political party which can contrive longer to Mr. Honda of No. 30 one In a golden ship, floundering to persuade the miners that it has Praya Eust and has since been re about without a compass. an-one-and that will not necessari- moved to Kennedy Town for ob-

servation... ly be Labour-will be dológ much towards stabilising its position Crowded houses again greeted the. among the masses of the popula- wonderful screen version of Jules policemen went

Verne's great story "Michael Stro-hundreds of other tion. We expect the mines ques-goff" in the Queen's Theatre yester- ing to imitate this most absurd dairy company collided with a car. Forty-six churus, tion, indeed, to form one of the day. The picture, which presents of men, fell likewise to destruc- motor

each containing seventeen gallons major issues at the next general a thrilling adventure tale in vivid on

When the law scized him and of milk, turned the road into a One of the big problems of ir-election.

settings, will be screened until Sa- turday, and it should be noted that convicted him of felonies, he had river of milk. The lorry driver dustry at home, likely to grow more

owing to its unusual length, per- even then no sense of the creep-crawled out unhurt from his over acute

ing in

was turned lorry, but the driver of the Money time, and not to

formances begin promptly at the be overlooked much longer, is

Considerable interest will doubt-times advertised namely, 2.30. 6.10, power. Money would save him. car was badly injured and taken to

It had lifted him from obscurity hospital. 7:15, 0.20. that of the coal miners less have been aroused throughout

and had given him the Roman and the future of the mines.ment that in connexion with this

bath and the the whole Empire by the announce-

luxury that, filled his house. The decline in Britain's coal export year's celebration of Armistice trade, chiefly due to higher working Day arrangements are being made costs, is serious enough. The post whereby, through the agency of wireless telegraphy, all will be able tion of the mining industry is prol-to

participate in the London ably approaching a point where it celebrations at least to the ex- will be well-nigh precarious, owing dition, to the broadcasting of sing determined to send an expedition tent of listening to them. In ad-

Li Chai-sum' seems to be very o limited prospects, and inevitable ing by thousands of ex-servicemen, increases in expenditure on the ILR.II. the Prince of Wales will to attack Gen. Tang Seng-chi of workings. The miners themselves i deliver à message for transmission. Hankow as shown by his recent from prison. she was gone from Further him. He heard that it was even abroad, and, owing to the success mobilising of troops.

The freshest atory from" Aber- realise this as well as the owners of the newly-developed short wave troops belonging to Gen. Lone who had helped to place him deen is that of a native who pick- or the Government, and this is mak-length this message should be Fük-lam, and the 13th Army, in prison who had taken her. ed up a wallet full of Treasury-

Whom the gods would destroy notes. ing them restless; not, however, picked up by all radio enthusiasts Fang

Shiukwan A in the Empire. We have made patched to

few they first make inad and the yellow The top one was for £1, but when with an inclination to demand more enquiries and discover that al- days ago, and it is also stated god that Remus had erected was he discovered the others were only wages, for they have accepted the though there are possibly 30 people that a part of the 6th Division and not through with him. In wild ten shilling ones, he died of a

in this Colony with short-wave re- the 4th. Division of the Kwangs! fury he went about the country. broken heart. fact that they cannot expect more.ceiving acts, there are no adequate Army will also be despatched to pursuing his wife. The wealth he They realise, possibly, that expect facilities for the re-transmission Shiukwan. ing higher wages will be like look-here of the Prince's message. One To his friends Gen. Li Chal-sum ing for the proverbial blood out of would have thought that in a has declared that he has made up Colony of the importance of Hong- his mind to attack the Hankow a stone.

The big coal strike Inst kong it would have been possible Government in spite of advice year was a'disaster in every way, for the short-wave messages which from various quarters in Canton and its effects are still unfortunate will come over the air to be pick-to the contrary.

ed up, amplified and then re-trans- ly only too apparent.

Regarding Mr. Wang Ching-woi's Necessity

mitted out locally for the benefit proposal of calling a Kuomintang spells industrial peace for the time of all those who possess ordinary Conference at Canton it is said being. But the men's leaders are Jung-wave wireless sets. But, that Gen. Li Chai-sum has not paid. parently, there is little prospect of much attention to such a proposal, encouraging them to look for more that sort of thing at present, knowing that the Conference than present-day coal mining offers: The only transmitter here is in And can one blame them? Surely the possession of the YM.C.A. could never be a great success when members of the Kuomintang Entertainment Committee and it is

Ting-ying were

pes-

And when he was out of this prison he was flung into another. He had bedecked his wife' with "Oh, is it .really?" she said

his money. was to lift her. shine in that lofty place where It on soldiers' arms, but I didn' silks and jewels, that she might "How interesting! I've often seer

know they had a special time for But when he came at length | doing it."

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had spent to glorify her he now Described as a “railway monkey,' spent to pursue her. So, until Walter Richards, aged 23, was, that moment when the pursuit sentenced to twelve month's im- ended and he killed her.-N. E. Aprisonment at Gateshead, for theft. Service..

It was stated that he was an ex- pert railway thief. It was dis- covered that he had been living for some time on. the station roof, where be cooked his food and slept, and from time to time came down to plunder the station premises.

TROOPS AT ICHANG.

YANG SEN'S VANGUARD.

Shanghai, Nor..2. The only new development on

A

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.)

UNMÜZZIED DOGS. Sir-May I crave a little spaer in your paper to draw attention t the fact that quite a number of dog-owners at Yue Kwong Terrace, Village Road (Happy Valley) al-

not. We observe that some of the the old transmitter that used to be are so scattered as at present the Yangteze area reported to-day. big dailies fit Home are expressing experimented with by the en-It is considered doubtful whether is the arrival at Ichang of a num concern already over this feeling in thusiasts of the Radio Society, Wang Ching-wel and his suppor- ber of General Yang Son's troops. the miners' ranks. One of them So one need not look with muchters can persuade even a small-Naval Wireless.

hope to that source But while number of the leaders back to observes that for some time past we are left bemoaning the fact Canton to attend such-n: Con- there have been signs in the min-that Hongkong is benighted in this ference.

den, Tungshan, formerly the re- oldence of Mr. Sun Fo. ing industry that the miners are regard, sight should not be lost of

Why Mr. Soong Came Back. the fact that a really wonderful

Mr. Soong-declares that he is looking round for a new and better era is opening up-regarding Inti-

Canton, Nov. 2. only coming back to Canton to at way of helping themselves. For mate contact between the peoples

Mr.T. V. Soong arrived at Can-tend the Generni Conference of fully three years past, we think it of the earth. Only the other day, ton yesterday accompanied by the Central Kuomintang Commia is correct to state, their trade has people all over: London were listen-Mr. Tong Shui-hol, Mr. Shi- sioners which has been proposed low their dogs loose.on the street.

ing in to a special; radio message been in a very bad way. It has from Australia, and they could hear Chung-yu, Director of the Nation by Mr. Wang.

alisti Customs Department, Mr A Grand Meeting.

As they do not seem to realise suffered the extremes of depression the speaker tell of the breaking Paul: Wang, Soong's secretary, and Thousands of Canton people the danger of rabies or to appreci

of the dawn of a beautifully clear and the total eclipse of the great warm day. And the natural re- several others, Mr. Soong was will attend a grand meeting, at ate Government's laudable efforts stoppage. Evanescent signs of im-flection on such a matter is that greeted at the wharf by a number the East Parade, Ground, In Can at stamping it out, the writer provement have been disappointing, the world is witnessing the dawn of prominent officials, including ton, to-day, to celebrate the return hopes with many others that law and to-day they still see mines of a new and powerful civilising the present Commissioner of Fin-of Mr. Wong-Ching-wel and Mrs. officers will take the matter In agency--an agency which when ance, General Chau Min-cho, Liao Chung-wat on the one hand hand before any serious dog-bites almost every district losing money, fully developed, might easily bring Immediately after his arrival in spite of miserable pay and long the people of Sydney in continual Mr. Soong wont to call on Mr. and to celebrate the recent sup-occur in that locality Yours, etc. hours. Is there any remedy within contact with the life of the people Wang Ching-weland is ataying \extremists, on the other handaf Hongkong, Nov. 3rd: 1927.-

of Irondon.

with Mr. Wang in the Kwai Gar-

pression of the "Reds" the labour

at all Hours without muzzle or Jend.