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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

TOTAL

DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE

THURSDAY, MAY

DAY BY DAY.

The B. L. 8a. Takliwa, from Singapore, is dug here on Sunday.

Yesterday's return of noti- fiable.

· Unfortunately, Lancashire has. failed in its efforts to solve its own proidem, and wo fear that further

WHILE WE DELIBERATE ABOUT BE- fektion between the employers and CINING, IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE TO operatives is Inevitable. The BEGIN. Quinilian worst aspect of these labour dis- putes is that not only do they tend to extinguish the chances for in- dustrial recovery, but they also ad- versely affect the general movement towards better relations between employers and employed. It is, however, the considered opinion of the Press at Home that the pro- sent state of the cotton industry' is In great part, due to a fallure by yarlous sections of the trade to harmonise their viewpoints on vital matters. Unless ways and means can be devised of working as one

big industrial unit, we fear the out- look will continue to be dark, These recurring conferences be- tween masters and men have not

diseases shows three Chinoso casca of small-pox, one British and one American ease of diphtheria, and one Chinese case of paratyphoid fever.

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At the Magistracy, before Major Willson this morning, a Chinesa was charged with snatching $1,000 in banknotes from another Chinese, but in the absence of the complain ant he was" discharged.

The attention of cinema-gours is drawn to the special times for D.. TV. Griffith's production, "The White Rose," at the World Theatre, namely 2.30, 6,00, 7.15 and 9.30. one and begins promptly at these

· A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. NO PERIODIC REFILLING achieved much as yet, and if agree. The picture is an unusually long

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AN APOLOGY.

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MESSRS. LANE CRAWFORD LIMITED beg to inform the public that in advertising goods for sale in their Men's Outfitting. Department by notices in the local press and by circulars to customers they have made use of designs and letterpress which are the copyright of Messrs." Austin Reed's of Regent Street London particularly in advertisements headed "THE NEW TAILOR- ING YOU CHOOSE YOUR CLOTHES NOT CLOTH" which both in design and letterpress is an infringement of Messrs. Austin Reed's copyright advertisement "THE NEW TAILOR- ING YOU CHOOSE. CLOTHES INSTEAD OF CLOTH" and "LANEFORD DRESS COLLARS,” the design and letterpress of which is an infringement of Messrs. Austin Reed's copyright advertisement in respect of their Summit collárs.

MESSRS. LANE CRAWFORD LIMITED publicly admit that they are not, and never have been, the agents of Messrs. Austin Reed's and that their use of such designs and letterpress was entirely unauthorised and a flagrant infringement of Messrs. Austin Reed's copyrights.

MESSRS, LAND CRAWFORD LIMITED regret the publication of such infringements and they unreservedly apologise to Messrs. Austin Reed's and to the public.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1928.

times.

PASSING OF HMS. "ROBIN."

He Verry Idea!

26 YEARS SERVICE ON THE The landlord of the small cour-

WEST RIVER.

FRIEND OF SHIPPING.

1,

The announcement that H.M.S. Robin is to be sold, marks the pass- ing of a gunboat which has econ 26 years' service on the West River and which has on numerous occasions rendered nasintance to merchant shipping in the Delta.

!

try Inn was in a forment of eb- citement. It was not every day that he received a telegram from an archbishop, booking, accom modation for a night, and the good man hardly know whether he was Ion his head er his hools.no ›

He marshalled his amall staff in front of him, and gave them the most explicit Instructions as to how they were to comport themselves before Lordship, and their, method of address,

H.M.9. Robin left Canton for the

To the youthful "buttons," in particular, he was solemnly im- last time about six weeks ago when

he flew the paying-off pennant and pressive. "Ye'll mind, noc, Tam- was escorted down the river by mic, when ye tak up his Lordship's H.M.S. Moorhen. As aho stermed

shavin'-watter. I the mornin', yo'll away, the three British gunboatschap discreetly at the door, walt then off Shameen fired long stringa till he answers, an' any thon, "It's of crackers, the Robin responding.

the boy, my Lord!" To mark the departure of the Tammle muttered over his in- he would Robin from Canton waters a recep-structions, and swore

"mind." tion was recently held on board,

Excellent Record.

The great man arrived, dined, and retired for the night. Next The gunboat has had a varied morning the "buttons" ascended history and her 20 years' service is with the hot water, his knees. one long record of excellent achieve-quaking

ment is not soon reached, it might be found best to adopt a suggestion put forward some months back-- According to a police report, a

ment. The many Commanders of woman, twentythree

Tap! Tap! A great voice roared, her during her long career. must namely, that a new Colton Control Chinese

years of age, attempted to commit have some interesting atorics to re- "Well, what! Who's there?" Board he created, representative of suicide by jumping over the verlate of the days in Canton when

"The Lord, ma boy!" employers, merchants and opera-andah of No. 17, Tai Yuen Street; militarists and "Red" officials would

A dog that can pronounce words tives, armed with suitable compul-yesterday. She received injuries commandeer private Inunches Indig-

to her legs and head and was recriminately for their own use and has been discovered in America. sory powers. Now that the indus moved to the Government Hospital. when the Robin would swoop downCabled report. try is to secure some relief from local, taxes, it ought not to be im- possible for the various elements to reach agreement on points which have hitherto stood in the way of a-solution-of-the-problem.

Another Emergency?

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The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, Colonial Secretary, arrived back from Home by the Blue Funnel liner Antenor this morning, ac companied by Mrs. Southera. Ho will net as Officer Administering the Government when H.E. the Governor leaves on Wednesday next.

Our Swatow correspondent says Once again the British Govern- May Day passed of quietly, the ment has been taken seriously to celebration having been merged task in the matter of finding em-with the others falling into these few days, and to be carried out on THE COTTON INDUSTRY ployment for the Reservists dis-the 4th. The Labour Unions had

charged after a brief period of service in China, and once again the answers must be regarded 69 thoroughly unsatisfactory.

Can

meeting, to which each sent a few delegates, in the city headquarters of the Kuomintang.

Many of the public will no doubt make a point of being present at The Club de Recreio on Saturday night, when over thirty juvenila a "Contra performers will give

The charge of Dance" display. admission is one dollar, for adults. and fifty cents for children and for soldiers and sailors in uniform. The proceeds will go towards the Society of St. Vincent de Paul,

The case was concluded before Mr. R. E: Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, in which a Chinese was charged with being concerned with a

the river to rescue launches nying the British dag. The Chinese au- thorities in Canton once suggested buying the gunboat, but this did not materialise.

A Friend in Need.

The Robin played a big part in the troubles of 1925 and 1926 and has frequently rendered assistance in cases of piracy. Merchant ship- come to look upon ping has

a friend in need and

how

assistance in the time of accidents.

was

I love my dog and my dog loves

mel.

And my dog talks, too, and he

8473, says he: "When I feel fed up, when I feel

all blue,

I just go moochin,—and why

can't you? "When I'm mad I fight, or I tear

a cat-

4

Whatta YOU do when you feel

like that?

"I got a collar, and wear it, sol But it ain't like yours-for to

work in-No!

"I pay no tax and I got no debts, I got no conscience and no

regrets..." When my dog talks like that to

I wish he were I and that I

were be.'

there have been numerous oc- casions when she has rendered Recently she went to the help of the a.. On Lee which was ashore

to which the cargo junks near Kongmoon, arranging for transferred. ́Although the Robin took no active part in the punitive expedition which followed the Kochow piracy, she has often gone to the aid of other ships which have fallen into the hands of challenge to attempt to undergo

pirates.

Recent Tragedy.

me,

Two Europeans have accepted a

the Hindu fire-walking ceremony at Maritzburg.

The ceremony as carried out by A recent tragedy connected with Hindu fanatics consists of walk- the gunboat was when A. B. Roughing in a pit of red-hot coals, was shot in Chinese territory while whence they claim to emerge un- the Robin. was at Samshul." After scatlied. *

Hongkong, like other centres in the Far East, has a very vital in- Lerest in the Lancashire cotton. in-anything be imagined less con- dustry, and for that reason there vincing than the main point made will be general regret that another that 150 of them had found work? breakdown has occurred in the at Sir Laming Worthington-Evans tempt between the employers and must be unduly optimistic if he operatives to reach a settlement on hopes by such a figure to impress the wages and hours problem. One the Labour Party that the Govern- of the points on which, the freshment is earnestly concerning itself

that occasion, she paid one of her. The Europeans are now under- deadlock has occurred in the pro-with their welfare. This paltry atrongest

frequent visits to Hongkong and going the usual Hindu preparation. posal by, the employers that time ten per cent. is the

eggs, alcoholic liquor, and tobacco, occupied in cleaning machinery justification for the complaints

then went up the West River for They are foregoing all fish, flesh, the last time. should be excluded from the 48-made in the House of Commons,

The Robin, which is a ship of and have only one meal cach day. hours week. Apparently, every at- and it would seem that the Gov-watchman who is not in custody, in 85 tons, was built in 1897, Ten- They have to bathe twice daily, at the unlawful detention of two re-dera are now invited for the pur-sunset and sunrise, after which tempt was made to reach a compro- ernment has lost sight of the fact fugees from Swatow for a felonious chase of her as she lies in the they pray and sit in contemplation misc on the points at issue, but that, having taken many hundreda purpose. The defendant was sen basin of the Naval Depot at Kow of God for ten minutes.

On the day of the ceremony finally the conference broke down, of men from their jobs to meet a tenced to six months' hard labour loon. If required for further ser-

be sold to they will wear yellow robes. A and the next step resis with the sudden emergency in China, and twelve strokes with the birch.vice, the ship can

British nationals only and if sacred knot will be tied around

't employers. It is to be hoped that has a moral obligation to deal A Chinese hawker, thirty years bought for breaking-up the vessel their wrists, and after bathing in up the river they will encircle tho even at this late stage, after so justly and fairly by them on their of age, was drowned in the Taipo has to be completely broken

River on Monday afternoon. It within twelve months from the local temple and the fire pit, and many disappointments, something return. The War Office apparent-

then plunge in the glowing fur- will emerge from the latest discus-ly thinks enough has been done by appears that he went to the river data of purchase,

The passing of the Robin.coin-nace. sions to enable the industry to re-plucing their names on an unem-t about 1 p.m. on Monday for the

ployment register. It is time that joint purpose of gathering ehells cides with that of the Woodcock sume full operations.

someone in authority took the pro-and swimuning. At about 2.45 p.m. and Woodlark, two gunboats built

the

district

|

|DISCOVERY OF BRAZIL.

ANNIVERSARY MARKED IN

HONGKONG,

Proprietor (indignantly)~"You

Sandy-Weel, what was ye ex- pectin' me to do; stagger oot?"

Shoreditch woman. The tyre of the motor went off like a pistol shot. Solicitor: How do you know a pistol shot? Woman: My husband was at the front and has described it.

Before the War, the industry was blem thoroughly to heart, and re- he was seen to be in difficulties, a year later, which have just been come into my restaurant, you or in a most prosperous condition, but garded it as an emergency need and waving his hands frantically withdrawn from service on theder a glass of water, you drink it,

ing drastic measures to be intra-He sunk before help could be for the past neven years it has duced with equal facility as those rendered, and the body was re- Yangtsze after very useful careers. and you calmly walk out!"

covered, and removed to the Kow- been under a very dark cloud. To which enabled their call to

loon Mortuary. such a position has the trade now Colours. Likewise the Government owes it to itself to dispel allega- fallen that manufacturers are at ions that now the Reservists have This morning's Harbour Office re their wits ends to know how to served their purpose, it has no ports were up to the average of the avoid bankruptcy. In a debate further use for them. We do not past few days in the number of which took place on the state of suggest this is true for a moment, vessels arriving and departing, but but we venture the comment that freights showed an improvement.

The British warships in port the industry, in the House of Com-a great deal more could have been British vessels registered a total of

20.000 tons of cargo under both to-day flow the Portuguese national mona last month, it was rightfully done since their return. If in hendings, and while there were only fing, to mark the anniversary of

Man at Southend, when asked to said that there has never been any dustry cannot absorb them at the six through freights, these were all the discovery of Brazil. The dis- plead: Somehow I do not feel that

moment, State employment could

I am guilty. question of incapacity or of in- easily be found-anything rather of the day under all headings were Vicente Yanez Pinzon, a compan

of high. figures. The top returns

made in 1490 by covery was

Woman who had been fined 10s; feriority in the technique of the than throwing these "deserving made by British vessels. There

Labour members men to use Sir Laming Worthing-were 56 vassels In harbour at 9 am, the coast as far as the Amazon and hard up I am you would not fine workers, but

ion of Columbus, who saited along at Southend: If you knew how argued that the rehabilitation of ton-Evan's expression, on their own of which 19 were British.

resources. The War Minister has the industry would not be achieved spent much time poring over hig by reducing wages and Increasing schemes for the mechanisation of hours. Mr. Tom Shaw, in stres- the Army. He might try humanis- sing the need for reducing manu-ng the War Office for a change. facturing costs, declared that the employers were aurrounded by "rings" and combines which made

EXCHANGE RATES.

their own prices, and which re- morselessly squeezed every drop of

Parlo blood they could out of the industry. Brussola He thought the system of merchant- AmatorAdam

Berlin Ing could be developed in such a

Copenhagen way as to remove many of the exist- Vienna ing difficulties, and ́ ́urged an ex- Helsingfors

Lisbon laustive enquiry by the Govern-Bucharest ment into the whole problem. The Buenos Aires Government reply to that sugges Yokohama

Shanghal

tion was that the Balfour Com-No

York malttee was very thoroughly inycat-Milan gating the crisis, and that the in- Stockholm dustry would benefit by large and Old..

Prague considered schemes of amalgama Madrid tlon, with a view to the absorption Athens

Blo of uneconomic units. The advice Bombay

given to Lancashire by the Pre-Hongkong *** sident of the Board of Trade was: Silver (forward) Silver (spot) ...

"Get on with the job yourselves.”

London, May 2..

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4/87.15/16

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Monotonous' Life.

(To the Editor, Hongkong T'elegraph.]

then proceeded to the mouth of me at all.

the Orinoco. He made no Bottle Debtor at Shoreditch County ment, but took possession of the Court: I have always been taught country in the name of the that you might get caught if you Spanish Government. In the kept books, so I have never dond following year, the Portuguese 80.

commandér, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Mr. Bingley, Marylebone magis- appointed by his monarch to trate, to. a night watchman: It fallow the course of Vasco de always looks to me such a delight Gama in the East, was driven by full task: You have a lovely fire adverse winds from his track and and sit there and smoke all night. he reached the Brazilian coast,

Judge Sir Alfred Tabin at Weet- minster: What is the use of coun- anchoring in Porto Seguro.

An altar was erected on Easter sel, except to get one out of a Day, mass celebrated in the presence bunker, to use a golf term? of the natives, the country declar-

B

+

Sir, Whilst everyone will sym- .34.05 pathise with "Soldier" when ho 12.10%

.20.40 writes of a monotonous life, 1. .18.20 think he must agree that it is the 84.876 same for all of us. As he says, ed an appanage of Portugal and a A White Wyandotte hen belong. 193% if one doesn't go to the cinema, stone cross erected in commomara-ing to F. Parker, of Weelsby. .2.3/02 | where can one got

tion of the ovent,

House, Market Rasen, Lincoln- Cabral despatched amall 780 It is, however, impossible to

shire, continues to defy all trade 47.18/10 offer the Garrison one mad whirl vessel to Portugal to announce ispion regulations by doubling her 2/7.11/16 of festivities. No-one can afford discovery, and, without forming output. Experts any even top- 111/6to live like that, and we should any settlement, proceeded to India, notchera in the poultry world are 26.12 all anon be fed up with it." : On the arrival of the dewa Annot expected to do this. When a Lifo in Hongkong Ja a dull Portugal, King Emanuel Invited pullet, it began to lay two eggs a 18.18 affair, but what would you? What Amerigo Vespucci, to enter his day. As the other hens appeared 174% does one do each and every day service and despatched him with to resent this, the Wyandotta had three vessels to explore the coun-to be segregated to save her from 104% of the week Home In England? 29.974

Yes, the British Army is the try. For nearly 80 years the serious injury. Now she has re 1202 finest in the world, and in the Kings of Portugal paid little at commenced. laying two or more 31/82 menotony of their lives the sol tontion to the new territory, but eggs a day, and her record for 2/0.11/16 diera are no better off than civi- its colonisation was prosecuted by one week was: Sunday, one; Mons 20% Ham-and no worse.Yours, etc. subjects of the Portuguese mon- day, two; Tuesday, one; Wednes

FOUR BEVEN. archy who traded there chiefly day, two Thursday, two; Friday," -British' Wireless. Hongkong, May 1st, 1928.

for Brazil wood.'

none, and Saturday, four.

92.66

29.375

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