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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

AFTER ALL A BTABLE GOVERNMENT ONLY REQUIRES HORSE SENSE.

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The B.I. 8.8. Takliwa is to leave Amoy on Thursday and is due hero on the following day.

"SCENE" IN POLICE COURT.

The Very Idea!

kong, in which regard particular point has been made of the bene fits which Canton has gained through co-operation between the

TWO, WOMEN BOUND OVER. British and Chinese sections of the

Two young ladies were dearly. Kowloon-Canton Railway. This

A noisy scene occurred in Court been their pet for many years. It devoted to the family cat that had has been a concrete instance of the

this morning when Sybfi Joseph dled, and their grief was intense. was charged before Major C. Wil- They expressed a desire to have value of friendliness, and it is,

The P and Q. 5.8. Nellore, which laon, with disorderly conduct by their favourite buried in the back apparently bine slowly

borne left Singapore yesterday at 8 am, fighting in Peddor Street on Fri garden, but their father, who was home to the Chinese that Hong is due here at 6 am. on the 16th.

day night, the other defendant less sentimental raised strong kong does really desire to co- Dangerous goods manifested ably-dressal Chinese girl, Wong that they should convey the re- this joint charge being a fashion objections and suggested instead operate with Canton and that there yesterday included cartridges and Chiu-wan, aged 22.

great mutual benefits to bochemicals by Katori Maru from

Sybil Joseph protested against maine to a secluded spot in the gained from such a proceeding. Europe.

her arrest and subsequent chargé suburbs, and there inter them. by the police, and worked herself The body was wrapped up in a We have received from Messrs.to such a pitch that her voice was, tient brown paper parcel and was.

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ing to direct and control. Labour activities within their rightful sphere and if he is successful în

The ds. Anjou is moving out to preventing Labour extremists from fanning anew among the labouring Shamshuipo to-day for overhaul and survey. She will be off the -masses ranseless hostility to Hong-West River run for about 10 days.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928.

HONGKONG AND CANTON.

Chai-yam. Conton

heard all over the precincts of the Magistracy. When the Magistrate decided to bind both defendants over, Joseph broke into a fresh torrent of abuse, and carried her quarrel with the other worn out of the Court.

For half-an-hour afterwards the row continued; until, in the hope The P. and O. 8.3. Kalyan, arriv-of getting a solicitor Joseph made ing this morning from Shanghal, another appearance in Court, but carried. 196 troops homeward was ordered out. bound, members of the Shanghai Defence Force.

accomplish a great piece of real statemanship. It cannot be too often urged, that the prosperity of Hongkong and Canton must go hand in hand and that neither one The "Globe Trotters" Company, of the ports can attempt to injure headed by Dick Norton, opening the other without seriously injur-to-night at the Star Theatre, ar rived yesterday by the as. Nam ing itself. Hongkong *is the

sang, having endured a stormy trip natural deep sea entrepot, and from the south. clearing house for Canton and the. liason between the two should be of 'the closest possible character. We can confidently predict that all classes in Hongkong will heartily respond to whatever gestures of cordiality are made from the other side and will not be behindland in proferring real as- sistance so scon as there are rea- sonable guarantees of bonn fides in Centon We. imagine that workers, tradesmen and merchants

conveyed by bus to the place es lected. Unfortunately the girls found many plenic parties about, and saw at once the impossibility of finding privacy for their and task.

They returned home and be- sought their mother to use her in- fluence to get the father to give his consent to having the inter ment in the garden. Somehow it struck her that the parcel veemed somewhat different.

One may imagine their surprise and chagrin when, on opening it, they found it contained large

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Declaring that she would rather. go to prison, she refused to siga the personal surety of $50, and was accordingly committed to pri- son for one week.

Later, during the hearing of the roast of beef! Moral, make sure traffic summonses at noon, Mr. Leo of your own luggage when you D'Almada e Castro appeared,bc-travel. fore, Major Willson and said that he wanted a few minutes' privacy A builder of Thouars

named with his Worship in regard to a Bonneau played a sorry jest at the lady whom you bound over this expense of unsuspecting friends. morning." Mr. D'Almada said He, obtained some death an that he understood his Worship nouncement cards, filled in yester required a surety of $50. He day in the date space, ordered a wanted to inform his Worship of coffin, and took a party to a cafe, certain matters which, ay between Laughingly, the announced that he solicitor and client, he would not intended committing suicide to Mr. O. G. Steen, General Mana-like, to mention in open Court. ger for the Orient of the Dollar

avoid suffering from a malady." His Worship then invited Mr. His friends enjoyed cake and and American Mail Lines, arrived D'Almada to the bench and had champagne and the apparent joke, this morning from Shanghai on a short conference with him.

but half an hour later they found. s.s. President Grant. He will be It is learned that the necessary Bonneau hanged. staying here for several days, pro-bond has since been signed. ceeding hence to Mania later.

We have received a most at tractive Chinese wall calendar from Messrs. Dodwell and Co., agents for the Caledoninn Insur- ance Company and the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company.

Vessels arriving from the south.

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Husband at Willesden: It tore. my soul to know that my wife

during the past 24 hours, report AFRAID OF BIG FISH. preferred her mother to me.

all desire a spell of quiet recon structive effort, and we fully share high winds and heavy seas, ono the optimism to which the rewind" was encountered. Vessels ship stating that a "great north Inauguration of General Li, Chai- from Manila and the north make sum's regime has given rise. The fair reports. Chinese year just dying could not end better than in giving birth to new hopes and a better understand ing between the two great cities of Canton and Hongkong.

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Among passengers departing for Manila by s.s. President Grant p.m. to-day are Mr. Don Tinling, Traffic Manager for the Orient of the Dollar and American fail Line, Mr. A. W. Perry, Mr. L Everett and Mr. W. J. Sawyer of the United States Shipping Board.

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Elderly woman, fined six shill- ings at Marylebone, for being "MUST BE WHALES!”

drunk: Beg pardon? Mr. Bing- ley, magistrate: Six shillings, A curious excuse was advanced ma'am; a shilling extra for the by the master of a fishing junk, who ride. was charged before Mr. W. Scho field, at the Kowloon Magistracy Court: Is your husband here? Judge: Snagge, at Bow County this morning, with having in his Womans Certainly not. He has possession four dynamite bombe, me to keep one stick dynamite, fourteen detona. tors and one piece of fuze, without

a permit.

The defendant pleaded guilty. Inspector Aris (A.C.I., Kowloon) informed his Worship that the de- At the Marine Court this morn-fendant, in a statement to the police, ng, before Commdr. G. F. Hole, said that he required the articles Taol San, master of a trading junk, for self-protection. was charged with attempting to leave the port during prohibited hours, and, pleading guilty, was. fined $15, with the alternative of two weeks' imprisonment,

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In imposing a fine of $75, his Worship remarked that this was the first time he had heard such a plea.

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Marylebone man of his land- lady:-She uses certain abusivo- epitaphs to me Magistrate, will bear in mind what you say. smiling: Very well, good morning

Willesden woman tenant: I

have to get out unless I oject my sub-tenants, because my landlord, who lives on the premises, la being turned out by his landlord for overcrowding.

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When they were leaving the rail- way carriage, however, the bride- room lifted his coat from the rack, and a quantity of rice fell

from it

The other occupants of the car- riaga tittered, but, assuming an unconcerned. appearance, the young man turned to his bride and remarked:-

"By Jove, May, I've brought away the bridegroom's coat by mig- take!"

There will be widespread satis faction in Hongkong at the report, received by us from a well-inform- ed Canion correspondent yester-

British Caution. day, that there is a much brighter

The assurance of the Prime atmosphere in that city in con- Minister that the British Govern-

When asked how he intended to sequence of the inception of the re-ment does not contemplate the gime established by General, Li withdrawal of the Shanghai De-

the dynamite for self-protection, the defendant replied that he was fence Force while there remains a

afraid of his bont being attacked has passed possibility that British lives and

by large fish in the open sea." With through such a devastating crisis property may be imparilled, indi-

Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed looked the dynamite he was able to scare the part exactly. But they didn't during the past few weeks that it cites, we hope, that the Foreign

Buch fish away.

want anyone to know they were Offee maintaina an essentially } Distress signals made by 9.8. His must have been a fairly easy task, practical outlook on the China Kwaisang yesterday afternoon, re-means "whales.

Worship:-He evidently a newly-married couple, and tried to have brought about an improve- situation, and incidentally, that sulted in the putting off of a me

On the Magistrate's remark ried for years instead of only to appear as if they had been mar- ment, but the newly-engendered the departure for Home of the dical officer to that ship. It was being interpreted, the defendant, re hours. feeling is something more than an Green Howards completes the re-found, on arrival, that a Chinese plied that there were other large

duction programme. During the fireman had been severely injured fish besides whales. expression of thankfulness at the past week or two there has been

in the hond, by the falling of a passing of turmoil and bloodshed-bewildering succession of alliances combustion chamber door. He it is, apparently, a soundly-founded and cleavages, with the Yangtze was removed to hospital, but later hope that under the moderato rule which threaten an outbreak of progressing favourably,

situation developing along lines advices are to the effect that he is of General 1 the city may regain hostilities in the Spring directed sing of its shattered prosperity, by the Rightists against Nanking This morning's Harbour Office" and Shanghai. Shanghai has fur-reports gave 15 arrivals and 10 The task of driving away hostile ther cause for apprehension in the departures, of which, five under forces, such as the "Ironsides" presence of agents of Sun Chuan-cach heading were British, leaving proved to be, has been thoroughly fang, the late controller of the 77 vessels In harbour, British 25. undertaken by General Li and, ac-district, who, still unhappy at the Tonnage was fair, with generally loss of this wealthy trading centre, low inward freights, Norwegian cording to latest advices, the pro-appears to be testing the feeling making the heaviest

For the first time in the history Here is a good joke on Amerl- vince is all but cleared of rival of the populace, preparatory to an Through freights were better was this morning admitted to rate. Two New Yorkers visiting of the Colony, an Indian barrister cans, or on one American, at any troops. At any rate, there is little attempt at a coup in the likely with British making good returns practice here. He is Mr. Kahan London were gazing with out- likelihood of the peace of the finding circumstances too strong the day...

event of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and the second best registry of Singh Chowdhury, of China Build- spoken criticism on the plain un- neighbourhood of Canton being for him. Future British policy

ing, and was formerly practising pretentious exterior of the Prime. disturbed from without for some must therefore of necessity. The local agents of the Dollar

in. Sandakan, British- North Minister's official residence in be directed towards the continued Line announce that the.s.s. Prest.

Borneo.

Downing Street. "What a home time to come, even though the pre-retention of a force in Shanghal dent Monroe, after being ashore was made to the Chief Justice, Sir exclaimed.

Application for his enrollment for a Prime Minister," one of them dicted clash between "Canton and sufficiently strong to discourage in the Shimoseki Straits, has been Henry Gollan, by the Attorney the present Nanking party

any armed body from venturing refloated without damage and will General, Sir Joseph Kemp, who caught alght of a small two-sea- "Yes," said the other, who had eventuates. It

upon an invasion of the Interna- be one day late on schedule. In-said that Mr. Chowdhury was call- ter standing at the curb, "and only needs ational Settlement should Shanghai stead of arriving here on Saturday, ed to the Bar by the Honourable look at that car, will yu? Why, moderate and woll-balanced ad- once again become involved as a January 14, and sailing for Manila Society of King's Inn, Dublin on in li'l ol' New York a second-hand ministration from within to give war region, as it very well may in on January 15, she will now arrive November 1, 1924. Canton an opportunity of display- Mr. Stanley Baldwin and his for the Philippines on Monday, the practice his Lordship wishedAt this moment a well-dressed

the near future. It seems that on Sunday, January 15, and sail

store clerk would be ashamed to. In admitting Mr. Chowdhury to own a fivver like that. ing its wonderful recuperative Ministers are keeping this well January 16, powers, and it would seam that, in before their minds, and while this

him every success.

Mr. F. C. Jenkin and Mr. Eldon sidence, entered the car, and drove.

man emerged from the official re- the reaction following the extremist is the case, we can subscribe un- reign of terror, Canton is fortunate concluding a

Potter, K.C., who were also in of reservedly to the avowed policy of

Court in connexion with a new treaty with

shook hands with Mr. Chowdhury to-day in possessing a ruler of the Ching when the country is in a

and expressed their, good wishes. type-desired. Much will depend on position to make a bargain. Un- the manner in which he and the friction between partles and in- fortunately, friction and counter-

Paris officials under him proceed in their dividuals are more pronounced at Amsterdam

Brussels work of reorganisation, but if there the moment than for some time Berlin

past, and the hope of a unified Copenhagen is an avoidance of undue financini China is recolving a further set- Vienna pressure on merchants and a just back. For the next few months, Helsingfors.... hundling of the Labour problem, practical politics must hold sway Lisbon then General Ti Chal-sum might

against magnanimity. well be privileged to exercise a pro- longed and beneficent rule. It is

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last speaker asked a passing case, "Say, who was that guy?" the

policeman.

BEAR-ADMIRAL RICHARDS.

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.2.7/10 Rear Admiral George Edward 790 Richards died on Dec. 8, within .47.18/10 |two days of attaining 75 years. 1/6.1/10 Entering the Navy as a cadet in 1/11 1866, he later joined the survey 4.875/18 ing branch, and from 1873, when

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809 Major-General Sir P. M. Carnegy. Major-General Sir Philip Main- 2/71/2 12/0 warlag Carnegy, K.C.B., who has 20% died aged 70, took part in the 26.5/10 Boxer campaign in China in 1900

with the Indian contingent.

-British Wireless.

"Mr. A. B. Oughton, the Hamerican Hambassador, aft," an swered the bobby politely,

A fisherman who is believed to have been drowned by the fish be was "playing" formed the subject. of an inquest which has been held at Long Island,

A man, John Mellowicz, who was on holiday from New York, hired a boat and went out alone into Long Island Sound to fish.

A fishing line was wound round one of his wrists, and when it was drawn in it revealed a large flounder weighing more than 5lbs. which was found dead on the hook

It is believed that Mellowicz was leaning over, the side trying to land the fish when he slipped, and the fiali, darting away, pulled his head under the water,