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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.

MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

THE CHEERFUL,, MAN'S 'A - KING--- Bickerstaff..."

The only case of notifiable disease reported over the week end was one Chinese occurrenço of typhoid fever....

OPIUM FIND ON

“KONG NING.”

PANTRY BOY'S DENIALS IN COURT.

A pantry boy of the s.s. Kong Ning, a steamer plying between Wuchow, was Hongkong and charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning with being in possession of 18 taels of prepared oplum.

Mr Horace Lo appeared for the defendant.

In evidence a Chinese revenue

Lady Clementi ta progressing very satisfactorily and is expected to be able to leave the Peat officer said he carried out a search Hospital by the end of the month.on board the Kong Ning on Jan-

Passengers for Los Angelea by 3.5. President Grant from Manila this morning, include the Hon. Manuel Nieto and the family of the Hon. Quezon.

pessimist who would venture to predict that the problem will remain. at its present "deadlock* for twenty Yours. There is a big difference between drawing up a programme.

We have received an effective and putting it through (as;our own-

Chinese calendar from the curtailed programme of naval cons-Canadian Pacific Railway Com- truction this year shows) and the puny. most that ought to be made of Mr. Wilbur's suggestions is that they represent the extent to which the United States is prepared to go in the event of a limitation agreement not being reached. That is the crux of the matter, we imagine, and we cannot therefore regard as any- thing other than extremely danger- ous the utter complacency with which many people "continue to view the breakdown at Genova. That complacency has had its re- action already in the United States and that is a fact to which all eyes should be opened. The most con- structive attitude at the moment it not one of Indignant criticism at the action of Mr. Wilbur in bringing forth his alarming programme but one genuine attempt to bridge the differences between the American and British viewpoints so that a limitation agreement between the two countries will make Mr. Wi- bur's programme nothing more substantial than the paper draft it is at present,

The Very Idea!

Warder: The prisoner wishes to be employed at his own work, sir. "Prison Governor: "Quito right, but what is his work?"

Warder: "Ho's a flying man,"!-

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When dad got home at 1

o'clock,

He had no key, by heck. So father rang the doorball,

ard

His wife then wrung his..

neck.

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Friend (at a French play): Why

uary 12th and on a bunk, which did you applaud so vigorously. was only sufficiently large to ac-when that comedian made his bundle of blankets. The defendant, commodate one person, he found a speech before the curtain? who was with two other pantry that folks would think I under- Sprigging (confidentially): So boys,, claimed the bundle, which stood French: What did he say?

Friend: Ho said that the re- Charged with returning from which searched, was found to con- banishment, having been deported tain a parcel of opium. This, mainder of his part would be after completing a prison sen however, the defendant said did taken by an understudy,

not belong to him. tence of ten months, a

The defendant was then called this morning received eight months from Mr. R. E, Lind-the prosecution did not belong to and he said the bundle produced by sell.

him, only one of three blankets being his property, This blanket had been lent to another person. Witness was not aware of the pre- sence of the opium, as he had not used his blanket during the last trip.

Chinese another

The master of a trading junk, registered as T3300H, and his fokis were taken into custody yes- terday, following the seizure, by the police, on board of three Luger pistols, three magazines and over 300 rounds of ammunition."

The case was adjourned till Wed- nesday morning, for the other pan- try boys to be called, his Worship remarking that it would be fair for both sides if they were called.

At the Marine Court this morn ing before Commdr. G. F. Hole, Wong Wan Tin, the master of a fishing boat, was charged with navigating the harbour without re: THE gulation lights and pleading guilty, was fined $10 with the alternative of 10 days imprisonment:

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RECENT TRAIN

HOLD-UP.

SOME FURTHER DETAILS.

Fifteen thousand applications George Dyott, who is seeking a have been received by Commander

fourth man for the expedition into the Brazilian wilds to search for Colonel Fawcett, the missing Bri- tish explorer, who disappeared when he left for the interior to look for the fabled lost Inca city.

Commander Dyott intends also to investigate the stories that ancient ruins of great Indian cities built by the Inens are still standing in Central Brazil.

Commander Dyott is confident that the mystery of Colonel Faw- cett's disappearance will be clear- ed up by the expedition,

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Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch, to a man: Your wife consents to this order; do you? Man (hurriedly): Oh, certainly if she does.

A woman asked the magistrate at In connexion with the train held Tottenham for an order entitling up by bandita near Namkong her to keep a cat. She explained Station, on the Chinese section of that she was a lodger, and the the Canton-Kowloon Railway, on landlady objected to cats, Thursday night, a later report Solicitor at Lambeth: It is a from Canton declares that it has. long time since the previous con- been definitely known that theviction, so I will not mention it. gang of robbers who boarded the Mr. Rooth, the magistrate: But train disguised as passengers, was you have." headed by two notorious bandit chiefs, named Chan Kam and Cheung Kam.

The gang consisted of about

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You can't have too many rich men-Lord Balfour.

Doctors qualify everything- Mr. Justice Horridge,

thirty men, some of whom bought tickets, while a good many of their companions refused to do so, dis-life-Sir Edmund Gosse, playing a most truculent attitude. The station master's auspicions were arcused, but before he could act, the train had departed. Im-

I have never made a joke in my

Laughter is to the human being what sunshine is to the cabbage.

Lord Dewar.

There are some people who say

HUMILITY.mediately the robbers entered the we have a Government in power train, they rushed forward to the bent upon making war, in the fu- engine, ordering the driver, atture, I do not believe it.—Mr. J. pistol point, to make away at full R. Clynes.

The Prayer Book Whatever views one may hold in regard to the recent crisis caused by the Parliamentary rejection of According to a report issued by the revised Prayer Book, it must be the police this morning, the Matron conceded that the Bishops are fac-of Kowloon Hospital, reports that ing the problein with much courage at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday, while she and patience. The latest develop and three other ladies were walking THE NAVAL PROBLEM.ment is that a new measure is to be down Kowloon Tsai Gap, two Chin- brought before the National Churchese men came up from behind, one Assembly, containing changes of whom snatched a basket contain- which, it is hoped, will tend to re-ing $5. The men then ran away. There is not

the slightest

move misapprehensions and make doubt that something of a sen- clearer and more explicit the inten This morning's Harbour Office sation has been caused

intions and limitations of the original reports gave arrivals and 11 de- proposals. It will thus be seen that partures, of which five and one the United States and elsc-

England's spiritual leaders are not respectively were British, leaving. where by the publication, by Mr: prepared to regard the House of 167 vessels in harbour, British 22. Curtis Wilbur, the Secretary of the Commons vote us being the last Both tonnage and freights were word on the subject, but that they low, with inward registries better Navy, of his twenty-year pro- are determined, if possible, to than through, Japanese and Bri- Kramme of battleship construction, secure what they regard as neces- tiah making the best returns under for he deals with really colossalary revisions in tac Prayer Book.the respective headings.

Their pertinacity in the face of the figures that stagger anyone used to recent reverse leaves no room for dealing with the annual budgetary doubt us to their sincerity. At the

same time, no-one can have read CHRISTIAN provisions of the various nations. the full Parliamentary debate on What Mr. Wilbur is aiming at is the revised Book without being nothing less than the replacement deeply impressed by the intensity of the feeling which swept the of the present United States' navy House of Commons, making the oc-

at a place named Hungkong, some A deer which had been fostered twenty miles from Namkong, the by a cow in the Tyrolean Alpa with a new one, and this is a fact casion" a truly memorable one. There was a very large congrega-bandits, forced the driver to stop. is now living 4 peaceful What was perhaps surprising, in tion at St. John's Cathedral yester the train and about sixty more life in a cowshed in a neighbour- which should be borne in mind these days when materialism is sup- day morning, when the Rev. Alfred robbers came aboard and helped ing village. when considering his, proposals,posed to dominate the lives of so Swann, M.A., D.S.C., the new Chap their companions to remove

It had presumably the lost its mother in the spring, and This costly tonnage which he pre should have been this reflection of Hongkong, preached his first ses were kidnapped by the bandice, herds of cows which are turned many of our people, was that there lain, Dean, and Archdeacon of booty. About 100 passengers had taken refuge with one of the poses is to be in substitution for such deep-seated religious convic-mon here. The reverend gentle who headed for Shachuen village. dut to graze during the summer and not in addition to the present tion on the part of men whose man took the whole service and.

Two rich Chinese merchants, months.

A cow adopted and fed it, and. with Church matters. Rarely has sion. the House been so moved, we are

States, were among those kidnap- told, and there can be no doubting humility, which was, he said, quite port. They possessed bank notes edits adopted mother into the cow- His sermon dealt with Christian ped; says a vernacular prese re- the winter the deer eagerly follow- the point that in this instance Par- different to the cringing humility to the value of some $30,000. liament was re-echoing what the of the Mohammedan, for the Chri- country as a whole felt.. At the stian looked up to God as his large detachment of soldiers tain's "props of the Empire," who moment, we are without details as father.. Christian humility had was despatched to the vicinity of had been in the wilde for twenty to the character of the revised mea-nothing of weakness in it. Christ Namkong and Woochung stations, years fell down in a faint on his sure which is to come before the National Church Assembly, but we because, owing to his humility than twenty suspects were taken observed, for the first time, a mo was full of compelling strength, and on the following day more

return to England, when he do not hesitate to say that if it in God's Spirit worked in him. God into custody at the Namkongdern" woman with shingled hair, any way tends to knock away the could make no use of the proud and Station, props from the essentials of Eng-self-sufficient.

glad neck, light silk stockings, and lish Protestantisin, It will be doom. ed to failure. It was the Reforma-

cela knees. tion which gave England the light light which Protestants are determined to keep unextinguished.

HONGKONG DEAN'S FIRST SERMÓN.

speed from the station. Arriving

tonnage, and it should be remember names are not normally associated created a most favourable impres recently returned from the Uniten when the cattle were driven in for

ed that in twenty years' time the ships which are being built to-day will doubtless have passed to the obsolete list. Upon reflection, our own view of the present big-navy talk in the United States is that it is designed more to impress other nations, like Great Britain, with the necessity of coming to a naval agreement, than it' is to indicate a striving after naval supremacy. It is a well-timed gesture (after the fruitless break-up of the recent tripartite Geneva Conference) de- signed to tell the world that if naval competition, is going to be the order of the day, then the United

EXCHANGE RATES..

Paris Brussels States ean Berlin

Amsterdam and will take its place in that race. Copenhagen It must be borne in mind, also, that Mr. Wilbur has always been an ad- vocate of a large navy, that he is of the expansionist school, and that he would naturally put forward a very Yokohama ambitious scheme.

Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai

London, Jan. 15.

When the news reached Canton

CHINESE POSTMAN

REPROVED.

shed.

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The story goes that one of Bri-

ficient strength of character to go It was a quality calling for suf- God's' way and not the way of the World. Talking, as many people did nowadays of other people's duties and our rights had nothing "ACCUSED OF TELLING LIES. of Christian humility in it, and was of no use to the world. The truly

A Chinese was charged, on re-chemists. Ha Christian attitude was to do the mand, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell .124 duty that lay to hand, and if an- this morning, with stealing letters rejoice from a private letter-box hanging that it should be given to one of in the staircase of No. 299, Des

Voeux Road West, greater power to do the task well.

Christian humility

A the

postman,

whose foundation of our British sports-section the address was included, manship. It was the subordina was examined by his Worship as tion of self that stood down wil to why he had made it a practice

.34.99 other could do it better

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"The patron Saint of Chemistry" is how the Director of the British Dyestuffs Corporation (Dr. F. E. Armstrong) described the modern flapper at the annual gathering of everything the flapper display to said: "Almost our admiring view is the work of chemist. She has rings on her fingers comprising Synthetic stones, bells on her toes, otherwise synthetic leather, also mysterious underclothes, which is one of the greatest achievements of chemis-. try, and the very sheen on her hair

ingly

for the better man, played of slipping all letters, whetheris, perhaps, synthetic, while her

tacle. It was put to him that the

..2/7 for the side and not for self, took addressed to the owner of the face, doubtless, beare products of 1/11.1/16 beating cheerfully and accepted box or not, into the same recepthe Dyestuffs Corporation. 4.87 16/10 the umpire's decision.

.25.32

Humility was not self deprecia letters which now formed the sub- .92.20 tion. Self-depreciation was mur-ject of the charge were never re- .18.18% bid and wrong. It arose out of ceived by the addressees.

18.38

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CORRESPONDENCE.

MOTOR CAR NUISANCE,

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

self-consciousness. The humbla He replied that he always per- mun was essentially the man who sonally delivered letters- which did not think about himself. His were not meant for the box in mind was set on God's work. Self-question, but later admitted that depreciation was due to porpetual he pushed all letters addressed to opinion and a feeling. that they did the box. thinking about other people's all floors in the same building in

not give us proper appreciation. "Is this your Interpretation of Our Lord emphasised that "the your duties 7" his Worship inter- meck shall inherit the earth." The rogated. meek man made no unjustifiable Mr. Lindsell said it was obvious claim upon life. The pushful and that the postman was telling lies ambitious claimed more than their to save himself from trouble with "For Hire mofor cars lined up due, and they did not inherit the his superiors. He was guilty of so thick, two or three deep, one earth because mon instinctively dereliction of duty and he would behind the other leaving, no room banded themselves against their be reported and be dealt with de- for passengers who have alighted

Because a humble partmentally.

from the ferry to cross the street.

Sir-Witness traffic regulation on the Hongkong side of the ferry each evening!

Now York Geneva The really important point to be Milan kept in mind is whether the mere Oslo

Stockholm existence of such a programme on Prague

...164 paper, will impede an agreement on

Madrid

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.1/8.1/10 Hongkong tious 20-year programme has been Silver (spot and forward)..... 26% drawn up means that it must, neces-

-British Wireless. sorily, be carried out, for there will

Pictures showing in the local be many other influences at work. cinemas for the last time to-day, The money for it will most certainly besides Peter B. Kyne's capital al venture story, "War Paint," at the not be voted in a lump sum, and Queen's Theatre, include W. C. every year Congress will be invited Fields' comedy. "It's the Old Army to pass the building appropriations Game" at the World Theatre, and for the next twelve months. The Tumbleweeds,"

William S. Hart's Western drama aggression.

at the Star man claimed little he provoked na Detective-Sergeant Whant stat The same habit prevails late at discussions on those occasions will Theatre. "It's the Old Army opposition and his fellows trusted ed that, following his arrest, the night at the down town tram stops.. most assuredly be swayed by what Game" is being screened at 5.15 him. Humility of this kind was defendant was taken back to his These cars drive around and is being done elsewhere.

and 9.20 only, the picture in the not easy, and because it was dif- house, where other letters believed around slowly, stopping at every Any big World Theatre at 2.30. and 7.15 ficult it strengthened character. to have been stolen in the same likely prospect and barely whisper advance towards a solution of the being the Chinese drama "Wong The proud man had no peace of way were found sandwiched in "motor car?". disarmament problem is certain to Tin Ba." The movie programme.

mind. Peace of mind came of between the pages of a book. Ono Surely this is not good traffic. in the Star Theatre ends at 8.80, as humility, and harmony with men of these was a registered com regulation?Yours, etc, awake reluctance in the United the "Globe Trotters" present their and mature that sought to serve The case is being continued this

women because they recognis munication. States to sanction further expendi- entertaining revue, ture, and he would be a confirmed. land,” at 9.15.

Hongkong, Jan. 16th, 1928,

"Pleasure-

and not to dominate.

afternoon..

ali

THEATREGOER.