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with

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

A.S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.

"We'll

never

HONGKONG.

be satisfied

with makeshift music”

"AFTER wo had heard the new Orthophonic Victrola, wo were spoiled. Nothing less perfect would do. For what other reproducing instrument could equal thoso round, mellow, lifelike tones... and the effect of the singer or player being right there in the room with you?

But Edward had heard that you could do certain things to the old-type machine and make it “like na Orthophonic." However, his experiments didn't turn out. So we finally bought our Orthophonic Victrola.

It certainly made a difference around our house. We play it practically all the time. And it offers 'a splendid musical 'éducation for Edward, Jr. ́ ́

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Are you missing the enjoy ment that ap. Orthophonie Victrola would bring to your home? There's no need to- with our easy-payment plan! We make you an allowance on your old-style machine. Our stock of models offers a choice for every pocketbook. Let's talk things over!

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Victor Distributors.

AN APOLOGY.

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 collars.

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

They undertake not to reproduce such infringements in future.

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The

Thonghong Telegraphı.

WEDNESDAY MAY 9 1928

THE TSINAN CRISIS.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

quate explanation of the origin of the clash. Knowing the delicate position in which they were placed,

YOU WILL FIND HALF THE BATTLE the Japanese military commanders 18 GAINED IF YOU NEVER ALLOW would, scarcely be likely to pro-YOURSELF TO SAY ANYTHING GLOOMY,

—L. M. Child, cipitate serious trouble by such, unwarranted tactics. But in the absence of statements by wholly disinterested eye-witnesses, such

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.

as have not yet como to hand, it The P. and O. 6.8. Kashgar, would be politie to lay aside the from Shanghai, is due here at 7 question of responafbility for them. on Friday. tragis happenings. At the mo-

The Empress of Asia left Yoko-, ment, feeling in both Chinese and hama yesterday at 5 p.m. and is Japanese direles is so inflamed due at Hongkong on the 16th inst. that reports from either quarter seeking to pin down responsiblilty. The motor vessel Javaroso for the occurrences should be Prince, from New York, sailed taken with reserves

from Shanghul yesterday morning, and is expected to arrive here io-morrow afternoon.

That the presence of Japanese troops in Shantung should be re-

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The 8.8. President Jefferson, sented by the Chinese.nt the pre-arriving from U.S. ports and sent juncture is only natural. Shanghai, reports the death of a There were priests when the in-Chinese, Yee Moe-an, on May 4th,

tention of despatching them was one day before arriving at the

latter port. frst announced, and there have. been many since. It is, however,

The M.S. Talleyrand, of the only fair to attempt to look at the Norwegian, Afrien and- Australla matter from the Japanese stand-Line, left Lisbon on 1st inst., and point, which is that, after lengthy about 10th June, with eargo from is expected to arrive here on' or

Norway and ports.

over

·an-

CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS.

SHAREBROKER AND OPIUM *SMUGGLERS.

Ho Hung, who described him golf as a sharobroker, appeared before Major C. Willson this morn Ing, charged with possession of 140 tacls of prepared opfum. He was arrested during a raid by Revenue Offcera on the Tut Chung Kwok Boarding House in Des Voeux Road.

The defendant was represented Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios, who pleaded guilty on his behalf but declared that defondant had been made a scapegoat.

The Very Idea!

Mrs. Smithson had a terrible temper, and her husband was much in awe of her. One day, in his own den, he was discoursing to a few choice friends concerning adme of her peculiarities,

ho said, "that my wife was utterly "I have thought for some time," devoid of taste, but the other day she put on a new dress in which sho out-Heroded, Herod, it was so aw- ful, and as she went out I leant out of the window to have another look. at her, and

At this moment his wife entered- ed suddenly "And the funnícat part of the whole thing," went on Mr. Remedios said a friend of Smithson without turning a hair, defendant's told him to go to the "was that they found the cow Tai Chung Kwok restaurant to cleven days aftor on the third plat- meet a prospective client. Ho form of the Eiffel Tower." went in the company of his friend Mrs. Smithson.never understood. and three othurs.

what there was in this silly state- On arrival at the restaurant, thement to make them all laugh so supposed share-buyer was nowhere much. to be seen, and Ho and his friend walted in the restaurant whilst the

other three men went to look for the would-be'investor."

Ho's friend then told him of a scheme to smuggle opium' and promised him 10 cants for each inel he carried. He consented, Revenue Offcers arrived, and it was at this moment that the His friend managed to escape but Ho was caught.

Mr. Remedios asked His Worship to be lenient with the defendant in view of the special circumstances.

The Chief Preventive Officer agreed that the defendant was not a principal.

"

Tim, Tim, Tipperary. Tim

Won the National (good for

him);

Though forty-two were after

startin'

Only he and Billy Barton Over all the fences dartin' Had the winning vim.

The bookies cheered the most As Tim skimmed past the

post,

Oh, I wish I'd had a fiver

On Tipperary Tim.

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Seeking employment in a London. office, a cockney lad caused aston- ishment when he confessed that A fine of $5,000 or in default his previous situation had been an. six months' hard labour was im-engagement at a South London posed.-

ARGUED AGAINST COURT'S

SENTENCE:

deliberation, the Government came to the conclusion that ng other course could be consistent with A matshed lavatory at Whit the Premier's declaration of Au-fold Barracks caught fire seater

day evening and was almost zust last when he announced to the entirely destroyed. The Kowloon world his determination to protect Brigade received the call at 7.30 the interests and lives of Japanese .. and despatched, two

pliances to the scene, nationals in China at any cost.

home as a maid-of-all-work.—-After- Thore are, it must be remembered,

In the advisement of the An-

making repeatedly unsuccessful." some ten thousand Japanese fuderson Music Company, on another

elforts to obtain "manual" work, two page of this issue, there is'n de- Taingtao alene, with

liberate mistake. To the first per- TRUCULENT OLD MAN. make a round of offices in the city. This fifteen-year-old lad decided to theuennd more in Tsinanfu, to say son who detects the error and re-

"i had to get up very early in the nothing of the extensive Japanese ports same to the Company con-

morning," he told his prospective employer, "and my first job. was business interests in both cities. corned will be presented free a

to get the breakfast ready. Dur "Japan hus not forgotten the Nan-10-inch record of his or her own

choosing.

An old Chinese was summoneding the day I had to serve at table, king incident," said a Tokyo. Gov

before. Mr. R. E. Lindsell this answer the doorbell, scrub the ernment apokesman recently, "and Mr. W. W. Hornell, Vice-Chan-morning, at the instance of a Sani-floors, make the beds, run errands public opinion in this country de-cellor of the Hongkong Univeralty, tary Inspector, for using the base and clean the boots and silver. but the housekeeper was always The hopes entertained over the mands that our people in China be left for Marseilles by the M. M.ment of his house at 39, Square My employer was very good to me,

liner Chenonceaux yesterday. By Street as sleeping quarters. week-end that there would be no protected." There were fears, ac- the same boat there also travelled He disputed the ovidence, stating saying I didn't do enough work. further clashes bewteen

the cording to this official, that the Dr. Felix d'Horta, Dr. Ramon de that the men who were found lying My wages ware twelve shillings and Santos, Rev. Father Saunier, Mr. in the basement were enjoying a aixpence ($3.00) a week, and I Chinése and Japanese military Chinese soldiery might get out of and Mrs, C. Cabral and Mr. A. F. pipe of oplum after their day's tool when I could get it." He is now employed in the London forces at Txinanfu broke down hand as they did at Nanking; not de Garcia.

office and can make an excellent cup yesterday. when news

of tea. eame that the commandera would not through of a renewal of the undesire to protect foreign interests, fortunale conflicts. Whilst still but that they would not be able ↑ holding the view that thu Japancae to do so. That extensive looting has were in unlawful occupation of occurred, not only of Japanese but the commercial area, the Chinese of ether foreign property as well, authorities had apparently order- and that terrible atrocities have ed all Chinese troops and officials been committed on civilians, there

seems little room to doubt. But and also 10,000 gunny bags, valued at $2,960, the property of Chop it has yet to be established whe-Nam Seng Watt. ther these things happened before or after the first clash at arms, All we can now hope is that, even at this late hour of the day, some means will be found to bring this suicidal conflict to an early end, so that peace may be restored in the East. For a continuance of these outbursts can only lead to events of even greater gravity,

from this region, with a view, as | Marshal Chiang Kai-shok staled, to avoiding further serious deve- lopments, According to Tokyo re- ports; however, this arrangement was broken by the Nationalist troops, who are accused of having for the second time ignored their; Forders' nid to have launched an

attack on the Japanese forces. If that is really the ease, there can bo no question as to who is to blame for the recrudescence of the trouble. At the time of writing, Įkowever, we have only the Japan- ese version of the causes which

in events.

er

The Rumanian "Thriller"

than his

And

work.

The Sanitary Inspector said that offered by the Singapore pollee for was well past eleven o'clock in A reward of $1,500 has been when he visited the premiaca, it information leading to the arrest the evening. and conviction of a Dutch born Of the six men whom he found Hokkien, named Thio Kim Chuan, in the basement of the building. who is wanted for criminal breach one was lying asleep on a canvas of trust in respect of rubber bed, while the others were stretch valued at $87,200, the property of ed out on mats and were smoking the Netherlands Trading Society opium,"

This morning'a Harbour Ofce reports gave 20 arrivals and 28

departares, of which four and 10 respectively were British, leaving

On being fined $25 and warned against a repetition of the offence, defendant argued against the pen- ulty and was sharply ordered by his Worship "to go away."

He then anid he was unable to pay the fine,

His Worship indicated that the

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North London man: When they saw my face they shouted "Mur der!"

Barrister to a motorist at Bow County Court: How often had your used the road where the ac cident occurred? Motorist: Onco

too often.

Wife, promising at Bow County Court to pay off a debt: I will stop his supper beer.

Stratford lodger:, A husband does not usually bolher about the language he uses to his wife.

A man who described himself at Willesden Police Court as ́o

61 veksels in harbour of which 16 alternative would be 14 days' im-musician had a mouth organ in his

were British. Tonnage was in-prisonment. creased, but inward freights were extremely low, there being only three returns of four figures. Through registries were better, with some high individual returns, three vessels entering in ballast only.

An extraordinary incident oc- eurred in the Penang District

A

OBTAINED PAPER ON HIS FACE.

paper.

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possession...

Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, at West- minster County Court: The court never loncs a document. The only thing that is ever lost here in a

4

case,

'';

Soma "bowlers:"- The launch or lunch of a ship over is the potatoes and mash the head people get after the ship goes into the water. They also drink a lot of beer and stuff.

Vaco da Gama was an explorer who doubled the Cape of Good Good Hope now, but there were two Hope. There's only one Cape of when Vasco had done the job. He is dend now. That was hundreds of years ago.

Tarzan is the short name for the American flag. The full name is Tarzan Stripes

An aged Scotsman was on his BUT TWO THIEVES TRY A

death-bed. His parish minister SECOND TIME.

urged upon him the necessity of preparing for the future fe, and Two Chinese appeared before Mr. spoke of the near annuach of the fed to a renewal of hostilities. It prince, who, for the sake of a red-ing of a charge against a bank charged with obtaining two lots before the "King of Terrors."

The intrigues of an ex-Crown Court last week during the hear-R. E. Lindell, this morning time when he wont have to appear "Weel weel," replied the old would be wise, before passing haired woman, renounces his right rupt. Messrs. Hastings Rhodes, of paper by false pretences.

The men presented themselves at Scot, an' what for should I be judgment, to learn the Chinese ex- of accession to the Throne in Saunders and Finch, who appear

meet the King of planation of this regrettable turn favour of a six-year-old son, to finded for the defence, withdrew from the Ying Cheong Sang, a stationer's afraid to

later that his anibitions are strong- the case and left the court whilst shop, at 200, Des Voeux Road Cen Terrors. Hae I no lived with the resolution, and the case was proceeding. It ap-tral, a few days ago and obtained queen of them for the last fifty To the impartial observer, it is plots to overthrow the Regency pears that counsel objected to the twenty calties of brown parcel years?"

One of the men was known as an extremely difficult to apportion sound more like the theme of

novel from the pen of a William Le evidence of one of the witnesses puper. blame for the events of the past | Queux or a Baroness D'Orczy than and when the Judge overruled the employee of the Man Lee Chan firm |

objection counsel withdrew,

and the paper was handed week in Tsinanfu. The Japanese current tumanian politica.

without questions. the facts relating to hunts in God-

Amongst the passengers who Yesterday they sought to obtain explanation of the first clash was stone woods by Scotland Yard de-left by the Empress of Russia to- further fifteen cutties of the that their defences had been with tectives for an aeroplane supposed-day were Major and Mrs. G. F.

In the meantime however, ly secretly commissioned to rush drawn from the Japanese quarter the Prince to his country when the Evans, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Beattie, the stationers had learned that the on the Nationalists guaranteeing coup d'etat is to be effected, and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brown, Mr. and man had been discharged from his protection, but that most im- only an attempted assasination or Mrs. L. Stansfield, Mrs. B. D. F. employment and they lost no time in

so in necessary to make the story Belth, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Greene, communicating with the police,

Pleading guilty the defendants mediately afterwards, there was an worth the while of Mr. Edgar Wal-Mrs. W. A. Nowers, Engineer Com- inrush of Southern troops who lace. Yet these are the facts con- mander H. G. Marshall, Capt. O. were each sentenced to eight weeks' started Indiscriminate looting and cerring the aspirations of ex-Crown Mitchell, Mr. R. R. Roxburgh, Mr. hard labour.

Prince Carol, of Rumania, to the W. H. Beatty, Mr. J. H. Bottomley, Chinese firing. The

versions throne which would have been his Mr. A. Morris, Mr. M. E. Durand · EXCHANGE RATES: have been that the fighting was but occasioned by Japanese soldiers day he was residing in England, arresting Nationalist propaganda but Home and Foreign Office off he is, probably finds it difficult to Brussels agents and by a refusal to permit cials are not grateful to har understand that there should be. Amsterdam

bour meddlesome, if mettle any resistance to his economie Berlin certain unarmed Chinese troops to some, personality, and have sugpolley, which while settling external Copenhagen pass the point where the Japanese gested, in other words, that be debts and improving the value of Vienna were on guard, We gather these might conduct himself to a more the leu, has also been achieved. at Helsingfors

Prince Carolla terrible cost. healthy climate.

Tride is almost Lisbon ... Chinese allegations from various must have derived much amusement throttled, partly by the tremend- Bucharest reports contained in Press cables, from the wild assumptions on alously heavy import and export Buenos Aires but, so far, we have not encounter simple visit to a London cinema to taxes, partly by lack of capital, and Shanghai

ace "We are all Gamblers" but that again by inefficient transport faci-Yokohama [ed any official version of the com- his movements are being followed titles; and while internal trade is Now York

Geneva mencement of the trouble, beyond so closely is indicative of a certain thus stagnant, dit is not unexpect Milan a suggestion contained in a de-relating to Rumania is in the air. any avenue of relief, however doubt

knowledge that something unusualed that those heavily burdened seek Stockholm claration by the Nationalist For The Liberal Government In powerful the offering. It may be, as M.

Oslo Pragao eign Minister that on enteringin Rumania is endeavouring to dis-Inca states, that there is no back-

Madrid count the stories, of revolution- ing in Rumania for Prince Carol's Athens the Japanese troops

ary plota by the Feasant Party, and aspirations, but it is significant Rio "fired ruthlessly at our soldiers evidently does not think that the that M. Maniu, the prominent Pea- Bombay and people.". Few people, how-campaign of agitation carried on by sant leader, seeks an interview with Hongkong

the Peasants has real significance the Regency at Bucharest. Inter- Stiver (spot) ever, will be prepared to regard as far as they are concerned, M. oating developments are possible Silver (forward) this latter statement as an ade-Vintila Bratianu, fierce patriot as within the next few days,

Tsinanfu

for his adventures with and Mr. W. Brown. Madame Lupescu. Up to yester-

Paris

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Skeletons are bones with the

|people rubbed of..

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London, May 8.

124 .34.95 .1210 ned and Saville Row tailors wero 20.40 thunderstruck when reports were .18,195 published that the Prince of Wales .34.575 | had appeared at Mansion House, .193% wearing trousers with turned-up 24 cuffs with his morning cont. "The ....785 Prince made a mistake either with 47.13/10

18/19his coat or with his trousers," do

clared one veteran tailor with cop- viction.

The youth of Britain was stup-

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Among passengers arriving by 8.8, President Jefferson was Mr. 104% D. T..Buckley, Comptroller of the 28.95 Dollar Steamship Line; making a .372/4 .5.59/04 tour of inspection in the Intereata 1/5.81/82 of the Line. He will continue the 2/0% trip to Manila in the 's.s, President 27% Grant on Saturday, with Captain' 26.15/10 Robert Dollar and family, arriv British Wirolens.

ing by that ship."