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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928.

CANTON ACTS.

Judging from reports to hand. General Li Chai-sum is living up

faction.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928.

well-ordered military operations, the task of suppressing those bloodthirsty Communists ought not to ba difficult of achievement. Only by stern measures will

peaca be brought to this sore-amicted région.

As wo say, it is a most en- couraging sign that General Di Chal-sum is marking his return to Canton by early action in the Swabue district. All that part

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south-eastern Kwangtung badly needs cleaning up, in which connexion we should like to see some serious effort made to deal with the Blas Bay region, close at hand. If General Li Chai-sum will see to it that some real cam- paign is carried out against the pirates haunts in this locality, he will earn the thanks not only of this Colony but of hosts of his own nationals who have already suffered at the hands of these Bins Bay outlaws. A great op portunity now presents itself to the Canton authorities to tablish their authority in this region and to suppress orce and for all the menace to Chinese and foreign shipping which these free- booters must continue to be so long as they remain unmolested.

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DEATH OF THOMAS' HARDY.

HE WHO PLAYS WITH DOLLARS IN HIS YOUTH WILL HAVE TO BEG FOR ENGLAND'S GRAND OLD MAN FARTHINGS IN HIS AGE-Hone..

Lady Clementi is to present the cups and certificatos at the St. Stephen's Girls' College apeech day on Tuesday next at 3 p.m.

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The s.s. Shapsi left Taikoo Dock this morning, after overhaul and schedule during the next few days. will resume her place in the sailing

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Prof. Hinton of the Hongkong University will distribute the prizes to the students of St. George's Girls' School at the Chinese Y. M. C. A. Auditorium this afternoon.

It is announced that the round the world tourist vessel Belgenland will arrive here on February 9, re- will berth at A. 1. buoy during her maining until February 13, and stay.

OF LETTERS.

The Very Idea!

Mrs. Murphy And 'ow does yer old man like workin' at th' browory?"

Mrs. Flanaga "E'asn't been able to tell me yet.

London, Jan. 11. The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M., the great Not long ago a woman passen. novelist and poet ger vas about to alight from an English

Edinburgh tramcar: before it had. Reuter.

come to a stop, when the conduc- tor cried to her, "Madam, you had better wait until the car stops, because if you jump off and fall and break your neck, it's me that will suffer.”

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Rightly known as the Grand Old Man of English letters, for he Yesterday's health return shows was only a few months off bis three Chinese cases of diphtheria, 88th birthday, Thomas Hardy has one Portuguese case of typhoid and occupied a beloved place in the one Chinese occurrence of core-hearts of countless readers all

Magistrate: How did your bro-spinal fever.

over the world. Starting life as husband desert you? North Lon- an architect, at which he display don wife: I threw him out of the ed considerable gifts, being a house.

Willesden man: If a man pays prizaman of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1883, he rates and taxes surely he can do began to write verses and early on as he likes outside his own house? attracted attention. During his Magistrato: That is not the law. early years of publication-from Nottinghamshire poacher: Rab- 1860 to 1867-he confined himself bits do not always stay at home exclusively to verse, but later for meals; they often feod. in my

His first book garden. turned to prese.

Husband at Willesder: Swear- lished in 1871, this being succeeding may be a curious way of "Desperate Remedies" was pub- ed by "Under the Greendwood showing my love for my wife; bat Tree" and "A Pair of Blue Eyes" if she left me fifty times I should The sunken sand junk, submerged But it was left for "Far From the still want her back... off the Canton Wharf of the Hong- Madding Crowd" in 1874 to make kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat him immeiliately known and from Company, was lifted by craft from that time his books have given him Taikoo yesterday and towed to Yau-a unique place among English writers. One has only to men- tion "Tess of the D'Urbevilles," "Jude the Obscure," and "Life's Little Ironies" to get a reminder was made. of the greatness of the writer of Man at Croydon: I am a good them. Of many other books to husband.. I can cultivate the his credit there is "The Trumpet-garden, do boot repairing, make Major" "The Pursuit of the Well-clothes, and cut hair. Beloved," "Wessex Tales" and "A

to Unconscious humour from the Changed Man" which come mind as wonderful examples of schoolroom- the beauty of his writings.

mati.

An Indian soldier named Yar Mahommed was sent to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital yesterday suf- fering from a fractured leg caused by an iron gate falling on him in the 'grounds of Murray Barracks.

Airship Services. According to Commander, Bur- ney, keen anxiety is being express- ed in Germany to be the first to

A Chinese, twenty-three years of operate a Transatlantic passenger age, was yesterday sent to the Gov- airship service, and an endeavour ernment Civil Hospital from Tai- is being made to outpace Great kop Dockyard. The man was sul- Britain by applying full pressure fering from a fractured left leg day and night at the Friedrich-enused by a large pulley falling on. shafen Zeppelin works with a view him while he was at work.

completing the air-liner "LZ127" in October. To seems the matter is of little con- cern, and we shall be surprised if the British authorities show signs of hysteria consequent upon the announcement. Any distinction to

to

us it

Col. J. M. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. H. Birkett, Dr. J. C. C. Donelan, Mr. G. C. Moxon, Capt. J. C. Daily, Col. and Mrs. A. Dugdale, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Dunne, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. H. Grice and Miss. Grice were among from

bg' derived from being the first in the passengers arriving the field may safely be conceded to Europe by the s.8. Hector. Germany if the ambitious and

A Great Poet.

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His

Doctor at Kingaton; I admit that it is difficult for a medical man, after forming an opinion, to alter it.

Kingston solicitor: What is. your age? Man: Thirty today. I was twenty-nine when this charge

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Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines:

Sir Walter Scott wrote Quentin Durward, Ivanhoe, and Emulsion. Ambiguous means having two wives and not being able to get rid of one of them.

Our forefathers are not living as long as they did.

A Soviet la a cloth used by waiters in hotels.

A connoisseur is a person who stands outside a picture palace.

A tuliaman is a man who calls every week for the furniture

money.

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Women are far more careful.

The person is looked upon as the relieving officer of the parish.

Mr. Mandeville B. Philips.

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History is lettered... with the stories of nations destroyed by own wealth-President their Coolidge,

Religious difficulties of the age: are intensely felt by many young people,-Prebendary O. Harris."

"But I wanted a manniah hat. This isn't mannish enough," said the pretty girl.

"That's a nian's hat, miss," said the salesman.

Speaking on golf, the Earl of Haddington said he heard a story the other day of a golfer who was also a murderer. The story did not tell whether he murdered an opponent who had laid him a atýmic on the last green.

In the realm of verse, Thomas Hardy was undoubtedly one of the greatest of latter-day English In recent years he has poets. written only poems and dramatic verse and his Wessex Poems to his promise to take stern action

(written from 1865 onwards) are against the "Reds." He is credit

Perhaps the best known.

his verse has a ed by Chinese correspondents

output has been not only great in quantity but.

He wrote with having instructed the mili-

quality all its own. several notable poems on the war. tary forces at Swatow to break

He is also the author of several up the Communist armed crops in well-advanced British plans pur-This morning's Harbour Office re dramas and plays, "The Three the Swabue district, whilst it has sue a steady consistent course poris gave nine arrivals and cight Wayfarers" being specially pro- than men.--Lad Frances Balfour. towards fruition. The enlighten- departures of which three and four duced at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, been announced that he has ordered ing information conveyed in a respectively were British, leaving (which was his birthplace and the proscription of the Revolu- Press interview by Commander 68 vessels in harbour, British 21. which had been his home for very Burney suggests that Great Britain | Tonnage and freights were general- tionary Workers' Association in

many years) in 1911. may justly lay claim to be leadingly low, with the higher..figures re- Canton, as well as the numerous the world in the development of corded by Chinese, Danish and Thomas Hardy was honoured in Unions associated therewith: commercial lying where lighter-Dutch.

1910 by being decorated with the The steady pursuit of the "Iron air-liner "R100" will be ready for than-air craft is concerned. The

coveted Order of Merit, und in Sergeant Peuster, of the Flying 1923 he was specially visited by sides" is also an indication that her maiden flight in April, while a Squad, reported to the Police yes the Prince of Wales on the occa ricsha sion of his 83rd birthday. He had General L Chai-sum is deter- accond airship of ever larger terday that he found a

dimensions is under construction coolie lying in Arsenal Street suf been honoured by the Universities mined to take every possible step at Cardington, near Bedford, and fering from superficial injuries to of Oxford, Cambridge and St. to consolidate the rule of the will be completed by the end of his leg caused by being knocked Andrew's, was a justice of the moderates in Kwangtung, and July. It seems clear that Com-down by motor cycle 047. The Peace for Dorset, was à member mander Burncy, who will person-driver of the cycle had failed to of the Council of Justice to the fact that the authorities at ally carry out the official trials, is stop after the accident. The Animals and a great lover of the Swatow are also engaged in ac-perfectly satisfied to wait until coalie was not admitted to Hos-English countryside. tive anti-Communist measures bath are ready, in spite of the pital.

Literary Greatness. provides further cause for satis-German challenge, and after all,

more importance is attached to From the Secretary of the Wire Many have been the high appre plans for the future than to the less League, London, we have re-eintions written of his writings, not Our Swatow correspondent re-immediate present. The British ceived a specimen of the pros-only for their literary merit but also proposals. appear to be cut-and-pectus used by the Overseas Secre-for the kindliness and generosity fers in a report that the troops of dried. A Transatlantic, service is tary, at present touring South of the humanity that lay beneath. The time came for him to pay General Wang Shao-hung bave to be inaugurated, to be operated Africa and Australia to form the Like Meredith. Hardy was a man the extreme penalty, and he was scored a victory in the Swabue by a commercial company Craft nucleus of an Empire Broadcasting of purely literary occupation. standing on the scaffold with the will leave England's shore once Branch. The Secretary adds:-Ilardy's wonderful literary art rope round his neck, and the region, but so far this is the only every two days and will reach "It is hoped that your readers will and dramatic power have not only executioner was waiting to shoot mention we have had of forces New York in 48 hours, returning have the opportunity of responding entertained many thousands of the bolt, and he was asked what from

Canton being in that in ten hours less. It will be at an early date through the ap careless readers, but they have his last request was, and he said possible to have dinner in Newpointment of responsible agents." struck into some minds more "May I have a few practice locality. Whether the rumour is York on Monday and tiffin in

less of the seriousness of his swings before. I die." # The chief picture in the founded on fact, or whether it London on Wednesday. Beyond

new teaching, One commentator has He also, heard of two

do the written "His novels

not Scotsmen playing on a hot day has been confused with opera-broad hit that farther giant air-Star Theatre to-day is "Satan in inspire briga: or hopeful feelings. last summer, when one of them

those "proposals there is a pretty continuous programme at tions carried out by General eraft will be built in order to Sables," a story of love in Paris Their tendency is to exaggerate had a paralytic stroke on the Chan Chi-tong, there would ap-bring Bombay within 32 hours of in the guy days before the war the power of circumstances and ninth green, and the other made pear to be no doubt that the Hai- London, and Australia within five The principal players are Lowell halittle the helpfulness of free him count it."

The circumstances through luk Fung Communists, are at last days Journey of the Empire Sherman as a Russian prince and will:

capital. There is much more than Pauline Garon as a Parisian dancer, which a Hardy charactor works its' encountering some resistance.big talk in this. We can rest as The movie programme at the Star way are made to appear like the It appears that the inhabitantssured that Great Britain at least Theatre ends at 8.30, the Globe meshes of Fate. It is a Fagan of villages which have suffered is alive to the possibilities and Trotters at 9.15 presenting their rather than a Christian view that practicability of airships as a entertaining revue "Scenes and Hardy takes of the ways of Pro-

Screams." 曲

vidence with man, Good-will and sq much at the hands of these means of shortening distances bê-

perseverance in well-doing seem "Reds" have at last been moved tween important. centres." The

not to avall to save Hardy's most

Princess Bibesco, the daughter to hit back, with the result that pioneering spirit is as alive in

interesting characters from the

of the Earl of Oxford, provides England to-day as ever it was, ouf

hands of the cruel destinies. the extremist faction has been Dean Ingea notwithstanding.

spite of noble traits and great vic- the reading public with some more driven out of Latk-fung, one of

tories over his worse nature, the of her customary epigrama and language, in the two main centres of Chinese

Mayor of Casterbridge ends badly, eccentricities of There is never a good angel hover "There is No Return" Here are Soviet activity. It may well be,

ing about to snatch a Hardy herd some quotations from her new 48 our correspondent suggests,

or heroine from misfortune. In book:

"It seemed to him that a 'bobbed' the mills of the gods they are London, Jan. 11.

ground between the upper and the woman could hardly give the A special committee of the nether millstones. But if Hardy's sense of being in bed. What a this modern 134 Senate appointed to investigate agedies do not increase our faith ridiculous thing:

the alleged Mexican documents they certainly rainister to the 20.47 published in the Hearst newspap- taste for literature of the best 18,20 era have reported to the Senate form." 34.64 that the documents were spurious 1935 and fraudulent--Reuter's American 13/32 Service,

EXCHANGE RÄTES.

Paris

that even if the Communists are later dispersed from Luk-fung, the headquarters of their move Brussels ment, they may retreat to strong Amsterdam

Berlin fastnesses in the hills and await

Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama New York Geneva

a more favourable opportunity to resume their reign of terrorism, but it is at any rate gratifying to know that at present they are not being permitted to have matters all their own way. So terrible have been the experiences of the Mil people living under their ruleStockholm that we may hope to witness aPrague continued resolve on the part of Madrid Athons these unhappy people to take Ro counter-measures against the Bombay

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