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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

DIPLOMATIC CHANGES.

· TRUTH · 18`A STRUCTURE REARED ON | EARL GRANVILLE APPOINTED THE BATTLE-FIELD OF CONTENDING FORCES. Dr. Winchell.

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony vesterday,

The Ben Line a.s. Benavon, from Home and Straits ports, is duo hero on the 19th instant.

TO BRUSSELS.

The Very Idea!

First Member of loan society to Second Momber."I want to bor row £50. Will you stand security for me?".

Socond Member-"I don't much fancy the risk."

before the war, was subject ton warrant for his arrest on a charge of attempted suicide by persistent efforts to fly the Channel, then in the course of the past two months

London, Mar. 18. to bave had demonstrations of the abilities of the light aeroplane in

The King has approved the ap pointment of Earl Granville, En- the historic flight of Capt. Bert

voy Extraordinary and Miniator Hinkler from Croydon to Australia

Plenipotentiary at The Hague, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and

First Member ”I'd do the same- in fifteen days, and have further

Minister Plenipotentiary at Bras- for you any time, old chap."

Second Member "All right, old read the far-reaching plans for the

The Empress of Aela loft Shang-sels and Envoy Extraordinary and air route to India and the Far East hai at 12.30 p.m. yesterday and is Minister Plenipotentiary at Luxem-aan. I'll borrow the money and

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you shall go security for me. outlined by Lieut. Col. I. A. E. Ed-due here at noon to-morrow. She wards, the Chief Technical Ad-sails for Manila at 6.p.m. on SaturEarl Granville, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., Then I'll hand the cash over to

who is 56, has been Minister, at The you."! day.

Hague sinco, 1926, having formerly First Mombor-"But then I shall

I visor to the Department of Civil:

served in the Diplomatic Service in bo security for my own loan!" Berlin, Caire, Athens, Vieang, Second Mambar-"Well, who- Aviation at the Air Ministry, the annihilation of former ideas of

Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels, better?" while he also spent some time in time and space may be regarded

the Foreign Office.] as complete,, Narrowing the dis- tance, or at least the time factor,

With twelve previous convictions between points of the world's com-against him for similar offences, pass, now presents itself as an a young Chinese was fined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon

A coal coolic was fatally injured yesterday when he accidentally fell into the hold of a lighter whilst at work at Wanchai, off the reclamation.

To Copenhagen.

The King has also approved the appointment of Sir Thomas Hohler,. K.C.M.a., until recently Envoy Ex- traordinary and Mialster Plenipo-

NO PERIODIC REFILLING ideal easily attainable, and Bri-Magistracy this morning, for soll- tentiary at Santiago de Chile, in a

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Mr. Hugh John Macnamara, M.O., of the Bombay, Burmah Trading Company, who was recently married to Miss Olive Prautico Gray at Rangoon, is pending his honoy moon in Hongkong and Manila,

tain has proved over and over pamphlets without a licence. again that she will not be back- ward. A commentator recently suggested the paradox that the development of communications was decreasing rather than in- creasing the knowledge one coun-

In connexion with the explosion, try had of another. The argu-at Saiwanho, reported yesterday, mont, consisted of the statement it is learned that the foki of the that by the necessity of spending Ling Wan Mow Oil Factory, who was seriously injured, died on his weeks or months in the country way to the Government Civil Hos- visited, the traveller of necessity pital. His name, according to a learned its peculiarities, whereas police report, is Yip Nam. the speed of travel eliminated this, At first glance 'It is a reasoning

"A pantry-boy of the ss. Sphinx was charged before Mr. W. Scho field, at the Kowloon Magistracy

Hongkong Telegraph. apparently difficult to overcome this morning, with being in posses-

ANNIHILATING TIME.

Strangling Trade,

over

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similar capacity at Copenhagen,--- British Wireless.

(Sir Thomas spent over thirteen years in the early days of his dip- lomatic career in the Near East, serving at Caire and Constantinopter in different capacities. He went to Tokyo in 1901, but returned to Cairo în 1906. In 1908, he was sent to Mexico as head of the Lega- tion, and during the War was Coun sellor of the Embassy at Washing ton. Sir Thomas Hohler was given many prominent appointments in Eastern Europe after the war, but was appointed to Santiago de Chile In 1924 after completing a special; Mission to Mexico.]

CANTON MINT BEING REORGANISED.

HOPE OF SOON RESUMING

OUTPUT.

Said Tommy Beecham, music's

friend,

"This opera's no copera, I'll have to bring it to an end;

In fact, it's got to stopera---. I'll have to shut up shopera.. It used to be the toney thing For lady fair and fopora To go and hear Do Reszke

sing,

But now they dance for

hopera),

And quite neglect the Opera, As sung by. Dutch or

Wopera.

But now another way I'll scok: I'll just hold out my toppera, And in it twopence ev'ry`week The public they will

dropera!"

And it would seem this brainy scheme

Will turn out right and

propera!

A eflent wife ûgured in a rail- way carriage comedy which was disclosed at Wood Green Police Court recently; when a man was Aned twenty shillings for smoking· In a non-smoking carriage.'

The prosecution was brought at the instance of a man, passenger, who said that when he saw the It is reported that the Canton man smoking he protested really Government has decided to rein the Interest of a woman in the sume the work of the Canton Mint carriage who had a baby with at an early date, in which con- nexion mechanics are bually engag her.

Six cooljes on the Tanahita Mocloch Estate in Juva last week Cor-attacked a planter named, Barth,

inflicting serious injuries.

It in stated that a hand was severed and Barth also sustained wounds in the head.

The man continued to smoke, Trouble is said to have ed on the machinery. If unkinder- arisen on account of Barth having ed by other factors, it is believed and the other man passenger sald struck coolies.

that the mint will be restored to that he was complaining at Fins- its normal.output within sixbury Park, when he found, much months. To place the Mint in pro- to his surprise, that the woman. per working order, it is and that whose welfare he was champion- the Government will have to spending was the smoker's wife. a sum of $500,000.

She sat in another part of the At a meeting of native bankers in carriage and said nothing. Macao on Sunday. It was resolved that henceforth the native banks

Willesden woman, accused of will not accept the twenty-cent being drunk in charge of a child. silver coins which are products of

The report from Canton that two officials, of the Chinese Seamen's Union have been arrested, for alleged extortion of money from merchants,

comes very appro-

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the Kwangtung mint. of 1924. Must my baby's namo appear in A fine of $2,000 was imposed by However, when the bankers made the newspaper, sir?

Man, accused of fighting at Tot- Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon known their decision to the people Magistracy this morning, on a of Maeno on Monday, there arose tenham: I am a peace-loving man, Chinese who was charged with be much complaint, states a verna- but nomebody put a cigarette In ing in possession of 95 tacls of cular report. It is said that the my beer,

Solicitor, at Shoreditch: You raw opium in Shanghai Street, bankers will hold another meeting The defendant was said to have to-day, following the people's com- say your lodger is always swear- been arrested with the opium con-plaint and may cancel their re-ing, Woman: I believe he is, but he is an Italian, and it is hard to tell.. carrying under his arm, tained in a bag which he was solution of Sunday.

Twelve months' hard labour and twenty strokes was the sentence imposed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell' to- day on

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NEW CONFIDENCE TRICK.

Tottenham magistrate," to man accused of drunkenness? Are you guilty or not guilty? Man: I was drunk, thank you."

but taking correspondence as one sion of a revolver and 50 rounds of example, a letter reaching Hong- ammunition. The defendant, who kong in fourteen days would was represented by Mr. J. T. Pryor, was remanded for one week. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928. bind the writer closer to the

East than: Je extended a journey of thirty days." respondence forms the world's principal contact, as, between No suggestion of an apology for countries, and is a consideration seeking increased appropriations long in advance of the value of appeared In Sir Samuel Hoare's persons with an intimate know- address on the Air Estimates in ledge of countries other than their Three Chinese shoemakers ap the House of Commons; on the own, particularly as we are pre-peared before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- other hand, quite a distinct notepared to suggest that time coming, on charges of being in pos- of pride was to be detected. Innbined with the development, of session of a quantity of seditious few words, Sir Samuel is excep-communications will ultimately literaturo in Woo Sung Street The defendants were all remanded what has remove many racial differences for a week, for the literature to tionally pleased with been done and is keenly optimistic which now have a detrimental be fully examined. regarding the future; that is, pre-effect on international Intercourse, suming the Air Ministry is per- mitted to continue its present pro- gressive policy. That our experts have the vision to realise the pos- sibilities which lie so close be fore us, and are preparing at an amazingly rapid pace to reduce relatively the dimensions of the universe, particularly as regards priately after the references to the communications of the Empire, illegal imposta on merchandise is clear, and its extent in the made by H. E. the Governor of

"H. Marment and Daughter" is minds of aeronautical authorities Hongkong at the recent banquet given in his honour by the Canton

all very well, but how does the was rendered more appreciable by

customer address such a firm? It Chamber of Commerce. With the Sir Samuel's comprehensive sur-

eqnnot be Messrs.; it cannot be facts of the case against those

A curious story of the theft of | Mesdames; is it in the form in vey. It is scarcely necessary to two men we are not at the moment

a diamond ring was related to the which Charles Lamb addressed dilate upon the immense advan-

Mr. Bensusan-"Dear Sir-and concerned; no doubt they will be

police yesterday. tages to the political and economic

Wong Shiu, a widow, of No. 2, Madame? More and more, in fully investigated by the Canton

Wellington Street, told them she those days of women jurora, do development of not only the Bri- authorities. But there cannot be Following a disputé as to who took three rings to pawn, and we feel the need of epucene terms tish Empire, but to any part of the least shadow of doubt that, was entitled to certain "Lips," while Inside the shop, a Chinese of address. the world, which would be the na" whether these particular Union waitors in a restaurant at No. 237,

quarrel nrose yesterday between woman got. Into conversation.

The stranger explained she |tural decompaniment to the extab- | officials are or are not guilty of the Queen's Road West, as a conse- wished to buy jewellery which had Whether the "Daughter" stays lishment of adequate air systems.offences with which they are being quence of which one man was ad not been redeemed. The widow or goes, there is one busincas title

Civil showed her the rings which she which no traveller from Liverpool. Britain is going ahead rapidly. charged, the procedure which they By the end of this year, India will are stated to have followed is all too Hospital with a stab wound on his was about to pawn, and after street will ever cease to regret, common at many China ports. We back, inflicted by a knife. The examining them, the alleged con. It read, in unabashed letters, "An- bo within seven days of London, are all acquainted with the almost man who is alleged to have used fidence trickster said she would derson, Anderson and Anderson," and a weekly mail service will be interminable barriers which have the knife is now in the custody of like to purchase one. A price of in which the conjunction had a $600 was agreed upon. The rings cumulative force not to be match.. been erected on the waterways and the police. maintained by that wonderfully

elsewhere by pirates and brigands,

were handed back and the un-ed by italics. Of recent years successful concern, the Imperial who make a fat living by levying According to a report made to known woman left to consult her they have got a pursit in the

directorate who scented redun Airways Company. Two huge air-tolla on junk and other cargoes. the police by Mfr. Lee, of the Mar- relatives" about the purchase.

The Seamen's Unions, in various coni International. Marine Com- When she had gone, the widow daney, and the name is now some- ships, designed for the Transat ports, have also been extremely munication Company, of 15, Con- examined the rings which she thing quite modest and common- lantic service, sponsored by Com-active in regularly collecting dues, naught Road Central, an attache thought had been handed back to place. mander Burney, and with which setting themselves up as though case containing a volt reading her and found, to her dismay, that the United States Is only too will they were duly authorised to levy meter and some tools, valued at $80 she held only two rings.

such imposta. So when we add were stolen yesterday. Mr. Lee left ing to co-operate, will completo to the exactions of pirates and the attache case on a counter at brigands, these additional levies Sincere's store whilst shopping by the Unions, to say nothing of there and after examing some utterly illegal impoats enforced articles, Mr. Lee turned to find by militarists, some idea can be that the case had been stolen. gained of the tremendous burdens

Chinese banishee who

returned to the Colony after hav ing been sent away for a period of ten years last month. The de- fendant's record showed that he was convicited and Imprisoned in 1924 for theft and assault, and since then he has been twice ban-

ished.

mitted to the Government

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their flying texts, These giant air craft, which, Sir Samuel Hoare argues, have immense advantages over the heavier-than-air machine, which commerce has to bear in In our introductory paragraph to Paris If they can be proved to be safe, China, for the evil extends to most the official statement issued by the Brussels

parts of the country. As "Sir Hongkong Observatory regarding Amsterdam are the result of three years Coell Clement! reminded he bu- the recording of last Saturday's Berlin of acientile research. Girders siness men of Canton last Saturday earthquake, we made two technical Copenhagen stronger than in any other airship there is a point.at, which excessive errors whilst seeking to summarise Vienna

taxation defeats its own enda, even the communique for popular under- Helsingfors

Lisbon in the world are embodied in their apart from the effect it has on the standing. The Director of the Ob- construction, while a new measure general cost of living. The wonder servatory, Mr. T. F. Claxton, writ Bucharest of safety will be a fenture if the is that, with all these obstacles, "It was not stated in my note

Ing to correct these, states: Buenos Alros

Shanghai trade is able to flourish to the ex- new engine built on the semi-tent to which It docs.. On the other that the carthquake was the most New York

on th Diesel principle and burning crude hand, the rellef that would be severe ever recorded by the Ilong-Geneva

secured by commerce, and the con- kong Selamographs or that the Milan sequent cheapening of the cost of vibrations at the most severe stage. Stockholm living, If all legal taxation were of the disturbance lasted for near Olo to be wiped out, can be realised.ly half a minute. The time of Prague This point, we are told, is well ap- vibration referred to in the note ! Athens preciated by the Canton authori- was of course the time of vibra

oll, proves successful. Messrs. Beardmore claim its ability to do velop 650 h.p, and the enthusiasm already shown would indicate that this famous firm has another bril- Hant achievement to its credit.

When we remember that Mr. A. V. Roe, not a great many years

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ties, whose efforts in the direction tion of the pendulum, or, in other Bombay of freeing business from these in words, the time-interval between Hongkong tolerable imposta will, we are sure, the crests of the earthquake waves, Silver (spot) be watched with the utmost not the duration of the distor Silver (forward)

banco.". sympathy in Hongkong

London, Mar. 13.

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"Don't use your fingers; use the 124 tongs.. Haven't you got no sense?".

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