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DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1928.

biggest and promising trado centres and would the occupy her rightful plače amongst the nations of the world. Not only are the constantly recurring upheavals to which the country is subject caus-

ing a serious. Interference... with commercial development, but the falling off of Customs, revenue is

DAY BY DAY:

GOOD OF A MAN TELL IT UNTO I THOU KNOWEST ANYTHING

OTHERS; IF ANYTHING ILL, TELL IT

PRIVATELY AND ́PRUDENTLY TO HIM- SELF-Burkitt.

RUSSIAN STOWAWAY:

RECORD OF PREVIOUS OFFENCES.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsoll this.' morning, Michael Ivanoff, a Rus-

The Very Idea!

Some Chinese thoughts about women

The cautious woman writes her promises on a slate..

The patient woman roasts an ox alan aged 17, was charged with with a burning glass, let This morning's Harbour Offceroturning from banishment and The extravagant woman burns resulting in less money being avail-eports gave 14 arrivals and 19 de- with stowing away on the 8.sa candle in looking for a match.

partures, of which five of each President McKinley.

The foolish, obstinate woman |able for, administrative and recon- were British, leaving 65 vessels in To both charges defendant goes: to sea in a bandbox. -

sfrüction purposes. The creation harbour, British 25. Cargoes were pleaded guilty, but explained that generally good, with British rehe boarded the President boat of a strong and stable Government turning two of the heaviest of the from Shanghai, and had no inten- would have consequences of the day.

tion of landing in Hongkong,. átmost benefits under both these

meaning to carry on as a atow- away until Manila was reached. headings, and not the lenst im-

Booking is now open at leasrs. Sub-Inspector Elston, who was Moutrie's and the Star Theatre prosecuting, said that the defen- for the Revue season which Mr.dant was discovered after the ship Trotters." will begin at the Star its way to Manila. He said that Dick Norton'a company, tha "Ginhe was one day out of Hongkong on. Theatre on Sunday next. Admis-by stowing away on a President

on is at the popular prices, 58, $2 and $1.

portant of the outcomes would be the utilisation of these Customs re- venues for the national well-being. instead of their use to line the pockets of dishonest politicians and

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Hongkong Telegraph.

How Hospitals Suffer. If there is one aspect of the destructive work of extremists in China which is more regrettable than any other, it is, the wicked campaign which has been careled out against numerous foreign.. controlled hospitals which have done so much to alleviate pain and

During the course of his stay in Hongkong yesterday, General Li Chal-sum "called upon H. E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi), be-, ing introduced by the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow and the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall. The interview lasted for about one hour.

boat, from Shanghai to Manila via Hongkong defendant know that he would he discovered. According to the Sub-Inspector's experience, he had never heard of another | stowaway who managed to reach Hongkong from Shanghai undis- covered.

The vulgar, affected woman is a spider attempting to spin silk.

The curious woman would turn a rainbow to see what was on the other side.

judges at the Cookery and Food Mr. J. J. N. Mackman, ond of the Exhibition at Holland Park Hall, who is known in the trade as the wizard baker of Hull," was present- ed to the Duchess of York, when she visited the exhibitions

tor of Messrs. William Jackson and Son, Ltd., of Hull, he works from ten to twelve hours a day, and much of his time is still spent in the bakehouse:

His skill has won for him more than 4,000 awards, and earned for him the title of "Champton Baker. of the. World," while his advice is Regarding defendant, the Sub-sought by bakers all over the coun- inspector said that when the ship's try. Although he is now a direc- officers searched the President Mc- Kinley prior to entering Manila, they discovered him. hiding in a lifeboat. It was explained that the ship's officers are always very painstaking in their search before entering Manila as the authorities there were very strict.

Defondant's record showed that fresh monsoon over the China Sea.he stowed away from Hongkong to The forecast up to noon to-morrow Shanghai in January, for which is-North winds, fresh fair.

act he was then committed to the House of Detention. Later, he re- Dr. Wang Chung-hui, D.C.L.,quested to be sent to Macao but found his way back to Hongkong Minister of Justice, passed

and eventually, was caught making through the Colony yesterday on a second attempt to stow away to board the 6.5. Andro Lebon en route to the Hague, where he will a month's hard labour, followed Swatow. For this he was given sit as one of the Judges at an ex-by an expulsion order. traordinary session of the Por- manent Court of International Jus- tice, to be held on February 6,

To-day's Observatory report KELLER, KERN & Co., Ltd. suffering amongst the Chinese states that the antic, clone has A few days ago, we reprinted a spread southward. Strong mon- story from Tainan showing how soon may be expected along the troops of the Kunminchin ousted South-east coast of China and their enemios who had been in occupation of the Canadian Church Hospital at Kueiteh and then, before proceeding in pursuit of their foes, halted to loot the hospital of everything of value. Not only did they ransack the WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1928 hospital itself, but they robbed the residences-of-the absent foreign doctors and stripped the Chinese CHINA'S REVENUES. staff of all they possessed. All (the drugs and valuable instruments of the hospital were also carried the The figures published yesterday off. As the writer put it,

irony of the situation was that showing the Chinese Maritime Cus- this self-same hospital had toms revenue for 1927 provide elp-ministered to these troons in their evil wounds and pain all through the quent testimony of the effects, to China herself, caused he summer and early autumn. We fire brigade was early on the to the House of Detention and on

quote this page, not because it is anything unusual, but because it scene and managed to localise the is so typical of the kind of thing outbreak. Damage was done to a large quantity of linen estimated that happens in China

the outbreak is not yet establish- to be worth $400. The cause of

the strife and turmoil which has become so chronic throughout the greater part of the country during the past few years. The total in- come amounts to Tls. G8,687,000, which is a decrease of nearly nine and a half million tacks when com pareff with the previous twelve months. It is true that 1920 was

when

Solicitor at Bow County Court: Man: No, I had a bottle of beer. Were you alone on this occasion?

Willesden landlady: Every time do anything for ray tenant he curses me

Magistrate: How Was your husband cruel to you? Willesden wife: By making me sit on the stairs all night.

heard that there was a fight, and Nottinghamshire! WOMB: I He was sent away during the naturally I went to see it.

Men at the Thames Court: 1. summer but was again caught in Hongkong, and it was discovered like work. Mr. Cairns (magist then that he found Swatow notate); I wish I was like you; I afternoon at 4.45 at the Tak Chaned all the way on foot to Hong

A small fire broke out yesterday quite to his liking, and had return- don't like work.

Motorist at Kingston: The Laundry, 116, Kennedy Road. The xong.

Once again he was sent policeman was hidden behind a

lamp post, so I could not see him. August 11, he was forbidden the Colony for one year.

ed.

troops and mobs get out of hand, Here in the South, we have had any number of somewhat similar instances, notably in the attacks made, on the Canton Hospital and The following vessels are ex- the Stout Memorial Hospital at pected to be in wireless com- Wuchow. These two Institutions, munication with Hongkong to-day: of magnificent work to their Morea, Taiyo Maru, Andre Lobon, like so many others, have reare Garmula, Pres, Jefferson, Malwa, an extremely good year so far as credit sarvice not to foreigners, Angers, Sinklang, Santhia, Ko- revenue was concerned, and thus but to the poor and suffering chow, Empress of Russia, Menado the comparison may be a little un-Chinese. Yet they have been the Maru, Yuen Sang, Tjikini, Las. targets of calumny and attack and Vegas, Tjilewong, Fooksang, Presi- have had their beneficient work dent McKinley, Taiwa Maru, and interrupted and

ever altogether City of Tokio. suspended. Could folly go to more extreme lengths?

fair, but it is worth pointing out that the figures for, the past twelve months are lower than those for any year since 1924.

EXCHANGE RATES.

If evidence were needed to show how trade is adversely affected by civil war, we need only turn to the returns for those ports where the troubles of the past year have been most acute. Shanghai, forex New York ample, shows a décline of over Brussels

Geneva

Parly

seven million taels, Hankow a drop Amsterdam

of two-and-a-quarter millions, and Milan Canton a ahrinkage of over. å

Bertin Stockholm million-and-a-half. When it 18 Copenhagen further borne in mind that the Oslo

Vienna costs of most commodities have Progue shown a tendency to increase rather Helsingfors

Madrid than otherwise, it will be realised Lisbon how, serious, the decline in actual Athens

Bucharest bulk of trade has been. There is Rio

RECENT PICNIC DISASTER.

JURY'S FINDING THIS MORNING.

His Worship imposed a fine of the charge of stowing away ant $100 or six week's hard labour on for returning from banishment defendant was sentenced' to three months' hard labour.

CANTON'S REIGN OF TERROR.

INTERESTING FILM ON

VIEW?

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The police and railway dfficials searching a thousand-mile atretch of railway between Cage-. town and Johannesburg in an -endeavour to And an ancient stone which was presented to Johannes- burg Cathedral by Canterbury Cathedral. It mysteriously dis- appeared from a goods van of the Union Limited. Express on a journey from Talile Bay docks. It was being conveyed by the Rev. 9. M. Woodfeld, who saw the stone placed in, the van at the docks, but missed it, with two portmanteaus, on arrival at Johannesburg. South Africa attaches great senti- mental value to the stone.

Complained a member of Parli ment to a well-known British peer "I've got a 'orrible cadache. What would you prescribe?"

A couple of aspiratés," was the prompt answer.

An interesting film showing the disastrous effects and carnage re- sulting from the recent. Com-! munist insurrection in Canton was screened at the World Theatre yesterday. Although the photo graphy was rather poor, it is valu- able as a record, which cannot be disputed, of the dark, doings of a memorable episode in the history of the Chinese city. In this pic-

Surrounded by members of the ture are shown the wreckage of Corporation the Mayor, in his robes half-burnt buildings; the chief and chain of office, stepped for strategical points of encounter ward to open the now golf course. Sitting shortly after noon to-between the "Reds" and Govern- He took a mighty swipe with A 20.45 day, Mr. W. Schofield, assisted by ment troops; and the slaughter niblick, which he buried in the earth a foot behind the ball smash- a jury, concluded 4t the Kowloon carried out by both sides.

Thony in solemn tones, he said 18.344 Magistracy, the hearing of the from the international point of Ing the club-head.jpg

inquiry into the circumstances of view, the chief value of the reel "Gentlemen, I declare, these links. the deaths of six persons who lies in the filming, of Soviet docu-well and truly opened.

ments and scals which furnish an- .103% were passengers on the Sai Kung other link in the chain of evidence

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28.30 Ferry on November 27, when a of Russian complicity, and also in

Baboo English which provides

2 7/15 party of picnickers were involved the glimpses it gives of the proces-sport in mbat departments of life.. ..36714 in a fire which broke out on the

church, especially the Anglican, being always a snare to the natives

790 motor boat off Taipo Sha, Portion through the streets of the fivo is at its livellest in matters .6 57/64

Shelter Island.

captured "Red" Russians prior to ecclesiastical, the language of the 47 13/16

Mr. Schofield summed up at their execution. 1/6 1/16

length, prefacing his address to Accompanying, this Canton pic 2/7/ 2/0% the jury with an expression of ture, in a two-days' bill at the 1/11 1/32 sympathy to the relatives of the Theatre, are an International

....25% deceased persons.

News Beel, and a feature produc- 26 6/16 Eight questions were submitted tion entitled "Back in God's Coun-

British Wireless.

ANOTHER BROADCAST

ARRANGED. :

one fortunate circumstance reveal-Buenos Aires. ed by the returns namely, that all Shanghai-

Bombay

foreign Bans and obligations Hongkong Yokohama secured on the Customs revenue

Silver (spot) have been met in full, but as Silver (forward) against that we have to set the fact that the redemption payments of the Consolidated Debt are two years in arrears, the revenues being again insufficient to permit any such payments during the year just closed. In this way does the de-

TEST TRANSMISSION FOR THIS EVENING. creased Customs sources react so as to keep' China struggling under

There will be another teat trans- the incubus of heavy indebtedness.mission by the Y.M.C.A. Enter-

Depressing as the figures are yet in another way they illustrate how remarkably trade does manage to survive in this strife-ridden country. It has again and again been pointed out that the Chinese do succeed in discovering avenues for business even under the most adverse conditions; and that fact 1s once more established by the total of over Tls. 68,000,000 for inst year's Customs revenues. The thought cannot, however, escape us that, given pence and concord, the record would be very much higher. If only the country-could-settle down, China would without difficulty become one of the world's

tainment Committee this evening when a musical programme of gramophone records will be broad- cast, between 6 and 7.30 pm, on a wavelength of 340 metros.

to the jury for their consideration try," with Renee Adoree in the and after a retirement the follow-principal role. ing finding was announced:

1. The outbreak was a pure ac- cident.

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2. There seems to have been "negligence on the part of the coxs- wain in not remedying the de- ficiencies of the 'engine and of fail- ing to prevent the overcrowding of the launch.

UNMUZZLED DOG.

of India. A well-known blahop

tells that he has been addressed es

your divine worship," as my.. paternal old father by one who signed himself, "your affiliated son as "civilized sir" and, "honoured enormity, and has even been spoken of as an honoured and spanking air A tele- gram sent by a well-known mabarajah to his agent, be fore the bishop's arrival in a cór- PEAK LADY FINED. tain city of Bengal was couched in the terms: Prepare to receive Mrs. C. 1. Cookes, of No. 9. The the metropolis." Begging letters Peak, was summoned before Mr. afford priceless, examples, as when E. Lindsell this morning | one -Baboo-wrote: This "your for allowing her white-and-black | humble, clotheless, and foodless to be blamed as regards the over-ed and unmuzzled.

4. The police at Saikung are not terrier to wander abroad unleash- petitioner begs humbly to bo pardoned, and gracefully beseech crowding of the launch

In reply to the charge, Mr your worship to shelter him under gulations stated in the licence, in out, I presume,

5. In accordance with the re Cookes anid-It was just allowed the Ecclesia's mighty wings, just to support with the family" and sufficient life saving apparatus was A fine of $5 was imposed." another begs, in terms of humble carried on the boat. Four life Mr. C. Onslow, who, was sum-supplication, for baptism, absolu- not sufficient. buoys were carried but these were moned for a similar offence in tion, and a pair of shoes,

Connaught Road Central, was

3. No blame attaches to the crew.

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R.

It will be recalled that the first ing, was a great success, helng of these tests, last Friday even-

picked up all over the Colony at 6. More could have been done if fined $5. He was also summoned for loud-speaker strength. Possessors the crew had not lost their presence having failed to take out a licence listen-in again, with anticipation of receiving sets should be able to of mind.

of good reception.

Another brondenst will be given next Friday, details of which will be announced in due course.

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand Lighting-up

not to blame.

18. We wish to recommend that: the Police Department should see that all motor launches at Snikung are supplied with sufficient life-env- ing apparatus as stated in the

LADY CLEMENTI

7: The owner of the launchies. Both offences were admitted World Theatre and the Star-

for hls dog, and was fined another.The current programmes at the

Theatre wil be gereened for the last time to-day. At the formuer is James Oliver Cutwood's Back to God's Country,featuring Renes Adoree and the exceptional ly interesting typical film, Ganton

Theatre is showing Pauline Starke and Wallace Beery in The Devil's verdict, and recommendations would terday removed to the Peak Hos. Cargo," a story of the gold rush.

licence and that they see in future PATIENT AT PEAK HOSPITAL Under the Reds The Star

that motor and other launches are

not overcrowded, gy

Lady Clementi la still indisposed

The Coroner said that the jury's and under medical advice was yes-

2/7/16. 5.48 p.m.

bo forwarded to the proper quarter pital.

of 1849,