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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928. –
SECURITY.
MÓNDAY, MARCH 5, 1928..
a matter of getting down to the root of the question causes, and not effects, have first to be dealt with.
Of Britain's sympathy with Chinese aspirations there cannot
J.
DAY BY DAY.
NONE. SOʻLITTLE FNJOY LIFE, AND, ARE BUCH BURDENS TO THEMSELVES, AS THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO. THE ACTIVE ONLY HAVE THE TRUE RELISH OF LIFE.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony over the week-end,
The B. I. 6.8. Tilawa, which leavca Amoy this evening, is due here to
NEW SCHOOL OPENED.
· AN INTERESTING LINK WITH
HONGKONG.
and
The Very Idea!
Mother"Now Jack had scarcely
Situated at Billericay, Essex, hid himself in the castle before a great voice boomed out, Fer, f, midway between. London
fum, I smell the blood of an Eng Westcliff-on-Sea,, the official open-lishman. And what do you supposa ing has recently taken place of it was t
The Kiddies (in chorus)-"The St. John's School, the Principal of Mayor of Chicago!" which is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Higby, formerly of Hong- The P. and O. 8.5. Malwa, from kong. Special regard is to be Hongkong, arrive at Marseilles en given to the education of lads the 2nd March at 7.30 a.m..
morrow.
The B. I. 3.8, Shirala, which left Singapore on the 1st instant, is due here to-morrow evening.
from oversens.
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Professor Willibald Richter is said to have the best musical memory in England. He has memorized 2,000 classical compost-
tions,
When alght years old, Professor Dr. J. Douglas Wells, Medical Richter gave his first piano, re- Officer of Health for the Billericay cital. Liszt, the famous composer, district, perfomed the opening then patted him on the head and ceremony. This new building, made him his pupil. Professor- with house attached, has been erected by the Principal (Mr. W. V. Higby, B.A. (Oxon.), as a pri
Richer came to England in 1881, and was music master at Upping- ham School ontil 1887. Ha is the father of Miss Lillan Rushworth, the singer.
be any possible doubt. She is both willing and anxious to see the country. administered as it ought to be, and she can be relied upen to demonstrate her practical sympathy by doing all in her power towards helping the Chin- ose to raise their status amongst the comity of nations. The now contact which has been establish- ed between Hongkong and Canton undoubtedly has its value In this
Bringing the Australian mails, connexion. Marshni Li Chat-sum the E. and A. Company's 8.8. St. and his colleagues have during the Albans, is due here from afanila at past few days received ample evid-daylight to-morrow. ence of our willingness to co- Forthcoming weddings announc-vate school for boarders na well as day scholars. Situated in a
The professor says that no great operate in any movement which is od include that of Lieut. R. A, for the mutual benefit of the two Peyton, R.N., H.M.S. Argus, to pleasant spot within half a mile composer will arise in the present
Miss I. McCoan Thornhill.
of the railway station, the school, which has accommodation for 100, generation. There is too much great tradal centres whose for-
The 8.3. President Jefferson, ar- stands in four acres of ground noise," he said, "too much hurry- gifts in quiet and solitude. tunes are so closely interwoven.
riving from Seattle and Shanghai, There are three departments for curry. A genius must develop his It is equally satisfactory to have reports the death of one. Japanese boys and girls-senior, prepara- Beethoven was lucky because he be the obviously sincere assurances passenger from tuberculosis when tory and kindergarten-carried on came denf. His best work was of Marahal L that his Govern-one day out from the former port.in five well-constructed class-done while he was dead.""" ment is just as keen on maintain. ing and strengthening the cordial relations which at present exist between this Colony and Canton. The pending visit of H.E. the Governor to the Southern capital
This morning's Harbour Office should have the result of putting the seal on the rapprochement reports gave 18 arrivals and 13
seven and Importance of Education. which has been so strikingly de-departures, of which
three respectively, were British,
Counsel at Kingston: When tho 1. Commenting on the large mum-
collision occurred, did the defendant monstrated during the past week.
leaving 74 vessels in harbour, Bri-ber present for that ceremony, tish 29. Tonnage was high, but the Headmaster said their at-say anything to you or you to him? inward freights were comparative-tendance indicated not only their Motorist: I am afraid we did, ly low. Throughs were generally interest in the school, but that Kood with British making the high-they realized the importance of est individual registry of the day, education and the duty which at- one of 7,960 tons.
He
Mr. C. W. L. King, of the Penang Rubber Estates, was a passenger arriving from Singapore this morning by sis. Suwa Maru. will depart on Home leave by s Empresa" of Russia, sailing on Wednesday,
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are
ruoms, while provision has been made for extension when necessary. dormatories in the Thore school house, where Mra, Higby, wife of the Headmaster, will be responsible for the care of the
bourders.
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Clerk Willesden: Are you
Man at Bow County Court: Ho single? oman: Yes, quite.
the money, and loses it.
sells racing tips, backs horses with
Barrister to an excited witness at Mr. Higby presided at the open-Whitechapel: Is it true that-- ing ceremony, and his parents Witness: No. were amongst those present.
Willesden man: I am too old to remember dates, and I am only here to speak the truth.
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A resolution that the living wage The Egyptian Problem, Egypt's rejection of the terms
proposal should be based on the tached to parents to educate their needs of one person the wage- of the proposed new treaty with
children to the best of their earner-and that the family allow
scheme should include The hearing of the case in which ability. He proceeded to give an ance Great Britain may, even in the absence of the precise nature of Sandager Singh, an Indian watch-outline of the construction of the separate provision for the wife was conference of the man of the Standard Oil Company, building and explained that one discussed at a
Divisional Independent the proposals, be described as an
is being charged before Mr. Wof his chief reasons for selecting Welsh oxcellent example of political Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis-that site was to obtain sufficient Labour Party at Swansea..
Miss. G. Cowles (Pontypridd), Britain's attitude towards Chinn
folly. The extremists have forced tracy, with the murder of Jittaground for sport adjacent to the
Singh, another watchman, has been school. The four acres available who made the proposition, contend- could hardly have been more suc-
a Ministerial crisis on the country fixed for Friday morning at 11.30 would be most useful for provided that even the IL.P. ignored the cinctly stated than in the speech for no other reason than that they o'clock. Friday afternoon and next ing football and cricket pitches existence of the womion so far as
the living wage was concerned.
"The dignity of the wife," she which His Excellency the Goyuspected Sarwat Pasha, who has Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and dennis courts close at hand. ernor delivered at the luncheon resigned the Premiership, of ac- are also being reserved for the case.
After dealing with the nature of said, "Is practically overlooked. given to Marshal Li Chai-sum and cepting the British viewpoint that
Following a recent collision be- the curriculum, he mentioned that When a woman marrieą,, she; bo the British Government was con his colleagues on Friday. In the tinuing its policy of seolding to tween a junk and a sampen off once upon a time the early stages comes charwoman, washerwoman, word "accurity," Sir Cecil Clementi preserve the integrity of Egypt. Putol Island, near Aberdeen, in of education were not considered housewife, and many other things. Sir Austen Chamberlain, we may which a small Chinese girl was to be of much importance, but She did most of the work, and yet summarised the aims and aspira-be sure, made a sincere attempt, crushed to death, it is learned from now they all knew that the right was least recognised. tions of British traders, and he in his conversations and in the this morning's police reports that a amount of education between the was able to show that those aims draft treaty, to meet the legitimate Chinese named Kwok Shun-leo, the ages of five and 14 years was most and aspirations also animated the aspirations of Egypt, and if the Meersman of the junk concerned in important, becaues that was the extremists hope by shouting to in the collision, has been arrested by time when character was formed. Chinese people in districts which duce the British Government to the police on Saturday and will be Furthermore, there was the im- have so badly suffered during a make greater concessions than charged with the manslaughter of portance of that loyalty and good citizenship which, for want of a
Chemist (to his stout wife)- are justified by wisdom and by the the child.
better term, they called caprit de "Don't come into the shop for a long period of unrest and uncer history of the past forty years, At the Marine Court this morn corps. As far as possible, he and minute. I am trying to sell six tainty. The elimination of pirates they will be sadly disappointed. Ing, before Commdr. J. B. Newill, the staff wished to lead their bottles of my fat-reducing mix-
British policy in Egypt has always and brigands, the putting of an been marked by a desire
leave D.S.O., R.N., Leung Ng, mistress pupils into taking pride not only ture." end to civil war, the protection of the country to herself as far as of a cargo boat, was charged within being clever, but in becoming life and properly and, trade and
commerce-these were
Women, urged Miss Cowles, would never take their proper places a position of independance. Tho in public life until they had secured proposal was defeated.
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Mr. A. H. Russell, headmaster of
consistent with the security of using drags and grapplings to lift useful members of society. While communications, her defence, the objects from the harbour bed in the parents might not always see the re-protection of foreign interests and the Naval Anchorage, without eye to eye with what was done at East Bristol Contral School, in a medies which His Excellency pre-of the Sudan. We made a de-written permission of the Harbour the school, he asked them to be claration in 1922, terminating the Master. Pleading guilty, the ac- patient and rest assured that the scribed, and, as he rightly said, Protectorate formerly held, in cused was sentenced to a fine of staff were doing all in their power once these things are accomplish-treducing a proper Constitution, $5, with the alternative of five to further the interests of the
pupils. (Applause), ed, there will dawn for South but retaining the defence under days' imprisonment.
China such an era of prosperity as she has not experienced for many a long year,
lecture to teachers of the National Gregg Association (London sec- tion), said that in five without, writing, to- seconds any one should be able,
or ten
Give the day of the week for any. dáte, such as August 8, 1911.
Tell the cost of 7 cwts. at 1d. per pound.
1
Find the cube root of 42,508,549. Divide 68,372,594 by 61, Mr. Russell made his audience
gasp by instantly writing on the blackboard the answer to such sums as 843,760 multiplied by 4,738.
"All lightning calculating," said
funda-
British control. It is the ex-
The Right Spirit. pressed necessity for the retention Among shipping moyements re
Dr. Douglas Wells declared that of British troopa in Egypt for a corded are those of the s.a. Kan-
of all period of ten years that has proved chow, of the China Navigation his interest in children the great stumbling block in the Company, from Talkoo Dock, sho ages had always been a tremend. and he realized that His Excellency was very pointed present negotiations. The Egyptian being scheduled to sail for Shang-ous one
Cabinet contends that such terms ai at 2 p.m. to-morrow; the B.B.education was the important thing In his observations when he an imply the right of Great Britain to Wing On, from lay-up, going to for boys and girls up to the time serted that if security were an occupy Egypt, but whether or not the wharf on Saturday and sailing of manhood and womanhood, when sured, there would no longer be clause. Egypt could ever the row; and, the s.8. Hanyang, taken Next to the parent, there was no Mr. Russell, "must come by adopt this is true, stern facts dictate the for Kongmoon at 7p.m. to-mor- they could choose for themselves. any need for any further clamoursist interference by a
foreign in hand at Kowloon Docks for more important man in the na-ing new methods in the
tion than the schoolmaster, be- mentals." about "unequal treaties," "Imper-Power if an attempt was nade, overhaul yesterday.
while we have special ir: rests
cause, along with the parent, he ialism," and other senseless which must be preserved until we
Sir Peter Grain, who has been had in his hands the moulding of A gang of labourers were at slogana. It is precisely because are satisfied of Egypt's ability to sitting with the Chief Justice, Sir those who were sent under his work on a new road, but one of them there is at present, in so many carry out her obligations to in- Henry Gollan, and the Fulane care to be educated in that right lacked enthusiasm for his job, and
ternational society as an
inde- Judge, Mr. J. R. Wood, in the spirit to which Mr. Higby had re-made little attempt to work. parts of Chinu, no such security pendent sovereign state. We have Hongkong Full Court of Appeal, is ferred the spirit which was going The foreman, after watching his as was indicated in Sir Cecil no doubt Sir Austen Chamberlain leaving the Colony on Friday by to keep that great country and half-hearted attempts at digging, Carmarthenshire for Empire of theirs still the greatest went up to him and "réndarked;— went as far as reasonably possible Shanghai, He will be accompani-empire the world ever saw. Ia "Don't be afraid. Lean on your Clementi's speech, that the safe with the Egyptian desire to fured by Sir Henry Gollan, who will those days, perhaps, more than spade now. and then, just for the guards provided by Treaty have to ther reduce the limits of British it in the Full Court of Appeal in before the war, there was a tre- look of the thing. I'll pay if you be retained. When the reverse is control. By rejecting the pro- Shanghai. Sir Henry is expected mendous heritage for the children break it!".
posals the Waidiet extremists have the case, then no obstacle what merely halted the progresa of their to stay in Shanghai for about a of this country; Education, if it
country as futuro British action fortnight.
anly be directed in accord wita declaration of 1922.
ever will stand in the way of a far-reaching revision of the treaties. It is not us if China had no example in this matter, for right at her own door it is, being shown, in Hongkong and in Shanghal, that security can ba guaranteed, provided there is the will and the determination. So
it all comes back again to the old point-namely, that the remedy lies with China's own leaders. It
is absurd for Chinese politicians
FORGED CANTON
BONDS.
GREEDY MONEY-CHANGERS. SUFFER LOSS. Considerable numbers of forged
Government Canton
the 8.8.
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HARBOUR ROBBERY
CASE.
POLICE UNABLE TO
. PROCEED.
One man is old at 50 while an- other is a youth at 70-Sir Burton Chudwick.
were to be of any success, as the There is very little local Headmaster had said, had to compatriotism in London-Sir John bine not only the learning which Gilbert. tho. boys and girls obtained from books, but that sense of discipline, that team-spirit, that idea of play- ing the game and of unselfishness, which went to make up the real man and the real woman. If Mr. Higby continued as well as he had started, they could be quite sure of a fine and flourishing school in St. John's. (Applause).
The average national school pro duet can read, can write, can do complicated sums, but can he think for himself?-Miss M. Gladdery, wh
To succeed a man should not be. afraid to take chances, have too many Irons in the fire, or love ples. Aure better than his work---Dr. Bornard Hollander.
I trust racing dogs, which is not sport and which, without betting,
The charges preferred against a former, engineer of the steam launch Wo Fat Shing, in con- armed robbery Treasury nexion with the Bonde have recently been discover committed on board the launch on relled solely on the evidence of a ed by victimised money-changers in October 12th last were with-man now serving a term of three the Wing Hon Road and other dis-drawn by the police, before Mr. years' hard labour in connexion would cease in a day, will disap tricts of Canton.
W. Schofield at the Kowloon with the affair. The convicted pear as quickly as it has risen, It appears that this counterfeiters Magistracy this morning. man, however, almost entirely The Bishop of Coventry. usually hand these forged Bonds to Sub-Inspector Dorling. who contradicted a statement which he money-changers at night-time to be prosecuted, informed his Worship had previously made to the police,
When the Attorney General. (Sir exchanged for coin at about twenty that he had been instructed to whose case according to Sub per cent of their face value, and in withdraw the charges against the Inspector Dorling had been "knock Joseph Horsford Kemp) goes on. the artificial light it is difficult for defendant.
ad on the head" as a consequence. leave shortly, the Hon. Bir Henry the money-changers to see whether
Defendant was accordingly dis- On the suggestion of his Wor- Pollock will act in his place. This ship, the defendant was, at the will create a vacancy on the Legisla
to demand the abrogation of the treaties so long as the necessity for safeguards exists. As the position improves, something can admittedly be done in the way of revision, but the Chinese cannot expect to secure the full measure
the bonds are genuine or not charged. of their demands unless they, on Many a money-changer, in his
It will be remembered that at last hearing, remanded for the Live Council, for which, it is under their part, discharge the obliga sreed, had thus been swindled, ac the previous hearing, the prosecu prosecution to consider the post-lood; two names are likely to be
proposed, tions which lie upon them. It is cording to reports from Canton.
tion intimated that the Crown lon...
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