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FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928.

AN ABSURD PROTEST.

Whether any official reply will be forthcoming to the protest made to the British Minister in

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928.

demnity for the persons dead and injured, Mr. Wu seemingly over- looks the point that several of. these must have been members of the pirate gang which ransacked the ship. Further, he feigns indignation at the loss of the ship and its cargo, but has either he or his Government ever taken the slightest action to prevent the al- most countrywide reign of pirate terrorism-which has caused such huge losses to shipping Interests for years past?

DAY BY DAY.

THE MAIN OBJECT OF HUMAN LIFE 18 THE FULL DEVELOPMENT. AND USE- WHATEVER FUL EMPLOYMENT OF POWERS WE POSSES.-Lecky.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

The Very Idea!

DERELICT JUNK AND FIRING PROGRAMME,

The doctor suddenly came fly- ing out of his study in a great- ...Notices to mariners wore issueditate of excitement. by the local authorities this morn "What's the matter?" Inquired There was a clean bill of healthing, relative to the sighting of his wife, a timid little woman, in the Colony yesterday.

derelict junk and an alteration of who was more or less used to this the firing programme from Stone-sort of thing.

"Some fellow has just telephoned cutters Island during February.

Tho'master of sis. West Nomon-that he can't live without me," he. tum reports the sighting of a gasped the medical derelict junk at 10.30 a.m. on hurried into his motor cont January 6th in a position four His wife gave a sigh of relief. miles East of Ooksen Island Light. "Just a moment," she said gently.

"I think that call was for daughter, dear."

Passengers arriving here this morning by the P. and O. a.s. Morca from Shanghai' included Mr. and M: Stanton Brown, Mr. C. G. Mackle and Mr. A. G. Gordon,

Shanghai pässengers bound for Home by the P. and O. 3.8. Morea, now in port, include Lady Barton, the Misses Barthu, Licut-Comdr. Spurgeon, Capt. E. F. Fuller and air, J. McMurtrie.

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Gun Practice. The demand that, the Com

With reference to the Govern- mander of Submarine L4 should

Dr. Henry Van Dyke is glad free ment Gazette notice of June 17, receive adequate punishment"

1927, No. 5.140, the following verse is going out of fashion. "A Is the most ridiculous of the whole

amendments have been made to the great part of it," he says, "is programme of Coast Defence Prac-simply the production of laziness series. What actually happened?

The annual distribution Lf

tices by the Officer in Command. combined with the spirit of re volt. It is not really free, and it Whilst in the neighbourhood,

prizes at the Ellis Kadoorie School

February S. Alternative day is not usually verse, but semi- Lieut.-Comdr. Halahar observed for Indians will take place at the

3 pdr. practice

from intoxicated prose." nship, evidently in the hands of School on Thursday next at 11.30 for

Willesden man: He was not a.m. Mr. A. el Arculli has kindly Stonecutters by 20th Heavy Bat- pirates, making for Bias Bay consented to distribute the prize:tery R.A. on February 10. 7.

February 17. Alternative day for drunk, air; it was the hot fermenta- He called on the vessel to stop,

At the conclusion, of the Court 6 inch charge practice from tions we used on his legs.

Man, appearing for his father but no notice was taken of the

of Enquiry into the On Lee-Stonecutters by 20th Heavy Bat- signal. Then a blank round was Kwong Fook Cheong collision, it is tery R.A, February 16, delete all on a judgment summons at Shore-

Judge

from warning learned that Caplain Fernandez reference to 6 pdr. practice fromditch: My father is ill in bed.

Cluer: Suffering fired, followed by a

then, the was reinstated to the post of mas- Devils Peak by 12th Heavy Battery

what-judgment summons? "live" shot. Even

ter, vire Mr Bousfeld, while Mr. on February 17.

Man, emphatically, at .Shore- "Irenc" continued under way, and C. H. Brown was retained as Chief

February 21. Alternate day ditch: I never touch drink. (additional) for 82 inch charge Judge Cluer: Humph! Few of accordingly other shots were fired Offeer. with a view to disabling her.

The Chinese who was arrested practice by 31st Heavy Battery, us can say that.

оп Nottingham man: This woman Unhappily, some lives were lost, in connexion with the robbery from Mount Davis

to 9.2 inch chargo practice was married in my presence. bat the fault for this lies with committed on the fishing boat at February 20. Delete all reference is slightly related to me, for she the pirates and not with the Li's Tai O on New Year's Eve," was

charged before, Mr. W. Schofield from Devil's Peak by 12th Battery, the circum- Commander. In

at tho Kowloon Magistracy this RA, on February 21. stances, Lieut.-Comdr. Halahan morning and formally remanded not only showed commendable for one week.

At the Marine Court this morn- enterprise, but he took the only action possible, and; so far from ing, before Commdr. G. F. Hole, meriting rebuke, he deserves the the master of the steam launch Standard was charged with secur- thanks of the Chinese authoritiesing his craft outside two others for doing a job of work which alongside the s.s. President Hari- they themselves have been either son on January 1 and pleading guilty, was fined $5 with the usual unwilling or unble to do.

alternative.

Nationalist "Split..

To-day's Observatory report

INTERESTING CHINESE WEDDING.

"SUGAR KING'S" SON MARRIED.

A notable Chinese wedding took place this morning, when Mr. Kwik Siang-ling was married to

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A schoolboy's definition-Biology is the science of shopping.

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Fortune does not love faint

hearts-Robert Blatchford.

It is said that music is dead within

Us.. I don't believe it.- Lord Askwith.'

Girls of 21 are much steadier than the average boy of that age. --Sir James Parr.

There is nothing I hate so much as to see a room full of children. eating a meal in deadly silence. Mr. J. O. Newton.

My idea of a workman is a man

his wife.-Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald.

Further issures are showing states that the anticyclone entral Miss Yang Ying-lien, in a cerecho regards his work with exactly Peking by Mr. C. C. Wu last themselves within the so-called over N. China has strengthe red mony at the residence of the the same affection as he regards,

alist

ม

little more than

Mr.

Path.

the leading merchants of Nam Pak Hong and Wing Lok Street.

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CHINESE STEAMER

ASHORE.

as.

the

"Yes, I know," grinned the youth. At the next meeting the pre-

the sident announced that the secretary would read the minutes of previous meeting. The secretary, produced his notebook, and stood

"The meeting lasted exactly minutes,"" he said,

The "fapper" having been de-

the Patron Saint of

scribed by Dr. E. F. Armstrong, of the British Dyestuffs Corpora tion, us jected her to an analysis. As a Chemistry, the Daily News hus sub- result, here are ruthlessly exposed. a few of the concoctions with which, with the co-operation of the chemist, she seeks to improve on nature:-

Hair "Improved" with henna, which a vegetable juice, and peroxide, which is a chemical com-

pound.

donna.

Nationalist party in China. In lightly. Fresh monsoon may be bridegroom at No. 1, Oaklands At the ceremony, a very large

The village football club was month in regard to the events as-fact, so disintegrated has that expected along the S.E. Const, of

being reorganised. The doctor socinted, with the piracy of the Party" become that it has ceased China and over the China Sea number of friends attended, in- China Merchant's steamer "Trane, to be, a Party at all and is now The forecast up to noon to-morrow cluding the Japanese Consul Gen-

collection of N.E. winds, fresh; fair ateral, Mr. Murakami, and almost all was appointed president, and a youth of particularly vacuous Countenance was proposed we do not know. If so, it ought cliques and factions eagerly await-first, some rain later,

This morning's Harbour Office The bridegroom's father is the

secretary. not to be a difficult task to ing a trial of strength one against

"You know how to take shatter to pieces the absurd, de- the other. A Renier message

from Shanghai yesterday, indicat-reports gave 22 arrivals and 20 de-well-known "Sugar King," Mr. Kvik mands pat forward by the former ed a growing belief that the out-partures, British holding top place Djioen-eng, who is also the promo- minutes, of course, Daniel?" asked Foreign Minister of the Nation standing feature of the coming with seven and nine respectively.ter of the North Point Reclamation of

Government. Incidentally. Spring will be a struggle for Tonnage was fair, with low in-Scheme and the Chinese President power between the tive main ward freights, although through of the Instone Banking Corpora it may be observed that the pro-wings of the old Party; namely, registries were considerably bet- tion, amongst other important At 9 a.m. to-day there were positions in the Far Eastern com- tost was a trifle helated, not hav- the Kwangui fortes now in Han-ter.

Three different tanquets will be two kow and Canton on the one hand, 75 vessels in harbour, of which 25mercial world. ing been delivered until

and the Cheklang group in Nan- were British.

given at the Kam Ling Restaurant up. months' after the occurrences

king and Shanghai on the other.

Rudolph Valentino's romantic at West Point in celebration of which it relates. Furthermore, In this latter group there has

was shown at the Queen's Theatre ese friends of the family, is brightly. ..

to-morrow night; of the captured pirates lately been a split as is evidenced comedy drama #The Eagle which the nuptinis. The first, for Japan-thirty-five four

by the resignation of Mr C. C.

for Chinese, on whose release Mr. Wu demandedWa and the appointment of Mr. sometime ago is being screened being held had netually been executed the Que Tai-chi as Minister for For-again at the World Theatre. The the second, day before he ledged his protest, eign Affairs. But, assuming for topical am "Canton under the Sunday, and the third, which will the moment that this Chekiang Beds is still being shown at the take place on Monday, is for Euro- World Theatre. The current at-pean residents amongst whom Mr. whilst the other three paid the Party holds together, na indeed it

"The Show-On," the story of a big extreme pentity of the law on the might, it will still be aloof from traction at the Star Theatre is Kwik Djioen-eng is widely known. following day. But maybe Mr. and antagonist to the Kwangsi bluff, with Ford Sterling, Lois Wil- party and there will doubtless son and Louise Brooks in the lead- Wu and his Government were not be an armed clash involving "all ing roles. greatly concerned over the fate of that was formerly the old Na-

tionalist Party. The interesting Amongst the passengers who the arrested men, nor, for that

is what arrived from Home by the P., and speculation for us here

Canton.O. ling Malwa yesterday were Sir HOPE OF REFLOATING SOON. any of the other is likely to happen in matter, over points put forward in the protest. Although one hesitates to prog-Henry and Lady Pollock, the Ho... nosticate any further upsetting Mr. H. T. Creasy (the Directór

The Chinese steamer Yan On, which was probably sent in s

turmoil to mild to all that Cantor of Public Works) and Mrs. Creasy, a piece of official formality, All has suffered of late it would only Mr. S. B. B. McElderry and Mrs.which left here last week on a the same, it will not be amiss to be in line with previous history McElderry, Miss A. Dyer, Mr. C.voyage to Kwang Chew Wan, has if the Kwangai "faction were Burford and Mrs. Burford, Mr. met with a mishap when nearing make a few comments on the de-forced to leave, Kwangtung If and Sirs., Hast, Mr. V. Hast, Mr. her destination.

Mr. Kinross, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek definite F. Smith; mantis submitted.

When Mr. Wu asked for an ex-ly comes back as the head of the Whelan, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, Chekiang militarists; there will Mrs. Potts, Mr. Sinclair, Dr. and pression of regret for the alleged be much popular sympathy for Mrs. Digby, Mr. and Mrs. Waller violation of China's sovereignty, him in Canton should he seek to and Mrs. Newton. he was raising, a very familiar gain control once more here in the south, and in addition to that ery, but he conveniently ignored fact note has to be taken of the the vital point that British insistent demand of "Canton for hai Defence Force for the work forthcoming from Kwang Chow

a which has been carried on in reWan, and there were no casual with hydrofluoric acid. Cantonese"-which s

It is also stated that there action at Bias Bay, in this case slogan too powerful for any out-creational centres for them was ties. as well as in others, has only side military forces to resist for seen on Monday last in the presen-is every hope of refloating the duced from carbohydrates treated been taken because the Chinese very long. None will wish for tation of a silver casket topped by vessel after the damage is repair-with pitric acid and dissolved in

Canton more ardently than do a beautifully carved British lion in ed.....

The local Agents of the Yan On authorities have seriously dewe, a period of peace and its ac- silver mounted on a black pedestal faulted by not taking the matter companying prosperity, but it about five feet in height: Inscribed are the Wai Hing Steam Naviga- one's on the pedestal were the words, tion Company. No. 17, Des Voeux in their own hands. All that would be foolish to close

eyes to the fact that the military "Presented by warrant-officers, non- Road West. Britain wants assured is immuni-group at present in the ascen- commissioned officers and men of ty from attack on British and dency there is composed of "out-the Shanghai Defence Force as other shing by the notorious Blassiders" and that anything might token of their gratitude for the consequence. Of kindness and hospitality shown happen in Bay gang. She has again end, course, it might be that the Chin-them during their stay here:" and again represented to the Chinese csc people in the South are getting followed the regiments participat

used to looking with tolerationing.. authorities that this is a responsi- beyond the borders of their re- provinces and that bility which belongs to them, but spective that if they feel unequal to the Kwangtung and Kwangsi (the Liang Kwang) can go along. internal task, then, she is willing to co-hand-in-hand without operate therein. Moreover, dae rivalries and jealousies. There werning has been given that, will be not a few whose hopes are failing single-handed Chinese ac- contred in such a consummation..

Forthcoming weddings announ- Attention is drawn to a special Yokohama tion or co-operation with British' forces, Britain reserves the rightced include those of Mr. R. Hadvertisement in this issue an- Now Worl

Chappell, Hongkong, and Shang-nouncing that, owing to unavoid-Geneva to act on her own initiative. The hai Bank, Hongkong, to Missable circumstances, the opening Minn plea that by anti-piracy action lu M. E. Macgregor, "Glanwenny" date of the "Globe Trotters" sca- Stockholm Bias Bay waters, Britain has Bridgend, Glamorganshire. Lieut.son at the Star Theatre has been Date violated Chinese sovereignty may, M. R. da Costa Zanatt, of the changed from Sunday, January Prague

Portuguese gunboat Patria, to 8th, to Tuesday, January 10th.

Athens on a point of sheer technicality, Mise M, C. N. da Silva, "Shorn- The order of the revues remains

Ria be true, but few will deny that. cliffe," 7 Garden Road, Hongkong unaltered, however, the only dif

Hongkong the circumstances Justify the Sergt. W. F. Dudman, R.A.Fference being that the season be- Shanghai

Cameran Road, Kowloon, to Miss gins two days later. Booking is Silver (spot): operations. Regarding the de- H. Monteiro, nurse, 270 Stewart at Messrs. Moutrie's and the Star Silver (forward) mand for compensation and In-Terrace, Hongkong.

the

Eyes" Improved" by blacken- ing the eyebrows and the cyclashes with carbon (coal-dust), and by heightening the sparkle with bella- Cheeks-Improved" with face According to a radiogram re- ceived here yesterday, from the powder, which is fuller's earth, or French port, she is reported to take powder or chalk, made to have gone ashore on the coast to bloom again with red oxide of the east of Tang Hai, as a copse- lead, and "preserved" with petro quence of her steering gear leum jellies with Various oxides.

Lips-"Improved" with grease A magnificent expression of baving gone out of order.

Assistance for the crew was paint.

Jewels-Opaline glass treated gratitude on the part of the Shang-

Clothes Artificial silk, pro-

THE "GLOBE TROTTERS."

CHANGE IN OPENING DATE.

Theatre.

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London; Jan. 5.

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Shoes-Made of paper, tinted regetable colouring. and

crocodile leather.

stamped to look like lizard skin or

Furs-Fabrica trented by weird and wonderful chemical processes. Hat-Probably a paper composition devised to look like straw.

Mix well together, and there you have the Modern. Flapper. In spite of or in consequence

as

you will)-these arts and artifices,

it must be admitted that there is really somthing rather bowitching 20.46 about her. That "something" would 18.20% | probably defy analysis. ,34:54

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The lady leaned across the bridge 2.13/32 table and addressed her husband:

780 "Better let me add up the score, 47.26/32 dear. You take so long to get it.

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With a sigh of relief the.

Cartesian Professor of Mathematics 82.30 handed over the bridge marker

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