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21, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

WORRY IS A BLUNDER THAT BLACK- ENS ALL AROUND AND MAKES IMPE A REGRET.-Dr. J. W. Johnson,

Thore is a Buggestion in a mèss- age from Peking that if Japan woro to proclaim a Protectorate in Manchuria, nono of the Powers would interfere. Whilst, however, we can woll understand the" dis-

The Empress of Canada loft clination of any other nation to Vancouver on the 17th May, and is become involved in the China due here on the 4th June. altuation, the point cannot bo over- .

The only caso of notifiable looked that Japan was one of the ease reported over the week-end Contracting parties to the Nine-was one of typhoid, the sufferer be- Power Treaty concluded at Wash-Ing a Chinese. ington in 1922. By that Treaty,

For wearing his hat in Court at Magistracy this the signatory Powers agreed to the Kowloon respect the sovereign indepen morning, a Chinese was fined 1 by dence and the territorial and ad- ministrative integrity of China,

Mr. W. Schofield.

PRETTY CHINESE

WEDDING.

AT THE ROSARY CHURCH ON

SATURDAY.

The Very Idea!

People have expressed- surprise at a recent confession of Sir Wil- A pretty wedding was solomnisod Ham Orpen's that he is shy. As a at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on matter of fact shyness is a social Saturday morning, the contracting disability which takes very diverse dis-parties being Misa Irene Florence forms, and in a more sensitive age. Shing, second daughter of Mrs. It is commoner than supericial Charles Shing and the late Mr. observers Imagine, Gruffness Charles Shing, of Sydney, Austra- often Indicates shyness; also frrit lla, and Mr. B. Siow, eldast son of Mr. Joseph Slow and the late Mrs, ability, heartiness," sarcasm, gig- Siow, of Beremban. The Rev. Eling, and a score of other man- nerisms. It is a žurlous trait 'in Father Spada officinted.

The bride was given away by her human nature that we should be brother, Mr. Albart Shing. She moru ashamed of shyness than al- wore a dress of Ivory charmeuse most any other weakness, and we and, moreover, also undertook to crost, Hillmorton near Rugby, beaded in silver, with embroidered would rather be thought vicious

vell and train, enhanced by A than diffident. coronet of orange blossoms. Hor bouquet was of white roses.

Mr. John McCubbin, of Hill retired resident engineer of the China Gas Company, Hongkong, deft estate of £8,979 (not per sonalty £7,790),

L.

The wedding which has been an-

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Miss Wilhelmina Wong attended A hotel for the exclusive use of as bridesmaid, and she wore a chauffeurs is being constructed in

best man.

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"I was having a row with my- Mr. Androw Lim Hoy, brother-

man accused at Lambeth Police in-law of the bridegroom, was the self and the furniture," said a After the ceremony, a reception Court of using insulting words.

Hackney man," in Shoreditch was given at the Knutsford Hotel by the bride's cousin, Mrs. Chan-County Court? There is no rea aing, who wore a pretty dress in son why a wife should not be made to pay as a business pro- silver and black.

refrain from taking advantage of conditions In China in order to seek special rights and privileges. A further point, to be borne in mind is that the Treaty contemnounced between Hester Rosalind, dress of apricot crepe de chine. Berkeley Street, etcted in. daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Hung with hat to match, and carried a cadilly. Each bedroom will have hot and cold running water and a |plated full and frank discussions Taze Yee.. and Robert Ho Tung, bouquet of pink roses.

The flower girls were Miss Chan telephone, so that employers can between the contracting Powers Junior, will take place on June 6th. if a situation should arise involv- A recaption will be held at idle-Soo and Miss Eva Wong, who wore call the drivers at any time. On wild," 8 Seymour Road at 4.30 p.m. attired in pink charmeuse. They the lower floors of the building wore silver bandeaux and carried there will be a garage. Room ing the application of the stipu

The three men arrested in con-baskets of pink roses. Master prices at this chauffeurs hotel.. lations.

nexion with the armed robbery Ramon Chan, as page boy, wore a the frat in England, are to range. committed at No 16, Temple Street blue satin auit, whilst little Alvena from 7/6 a night, if for no other grounds than yesterday morning were formally Chow, as train-bearer, was similar those covered by the Nine-Power charged before Mr. W. Schofieldly attired. Treaty, any action by Japan in at the Kowloon Magistrney thia the nature of establishing a Pro-morning, and remanded for one

week. tectorate in Manchuria would be

A Chinese child, about a month come a matter of concern not only

old, has been found by the police KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. to China, but to all the Treaty on the foreshore of Samshuipe, Powers. It has, however, to be near the Military Camp. It is be- admitted that Japan is more vital-leved to have been abandoned by its parents. The police have sent ly concerned with possible hap-the child to the Kwour Wah penings in Manchuria than any Hospital. other Power. Knowing what has happened in Shantung and in other parts of China as well, we can understand her anxiety lest chaos and unrest spread to Manchuria, where she has such huge interests. At any rate, she is doing nothing EYES ON MANCHURIA. by stealth; she has made her in tentions known to the world. All the same, the need for caution was never greater than it is at the present moment.

16/18 CONNAUGHT ROAD, C.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MAY 21, 1928.

Pleading guilty to being in possession of 1,800 dutiable "Three Castle" cigarettes, a Chinese, who' appeared before Major C. Willson this morning, was fined $50, or, in default four weeks in prison. The man was arrested on board the at Tung On.

The bride's going-away dress position." was of maroon crepe, de chine.

FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.

Woman, at Willesden Police Court: "You would think, from the way, he gives evidence, that the officer knows everything; mattor of fact he knows nothing."

នម ១,

Witness at Westminster County Court "Defendant is a builder and has a big place." Judge Sir Alfred Tobin: "The outside of the castlo looks all right, but you never know what ravening wolves there may be within."

Man at Bow-street, pleading *1 wish guilty to drunkenness.

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Tom (teaching her to drive)

PRACTICAL JOKER AT CITY HALL Firemen at Headquarters were stirred into activity this morning A Chinese who attempted to on receiving an alarm which was commit suicide by jumping into the transmitted through the mechanical

A hasty you would give me three months. harbour from the Wing Lok Street device at the Station. Wharf, yesterday afternoon, was glance at the indication board show need it. I am a dipsomaniac. I rescued by the boat people in the ed that the call was sent from the have a good berth, and could al- vicinity. His condition was such signal box outside the City Hall, ways get another, so it is not a that he had to be sent to the Gov-whither two engines were despatch-question of money."

ed without loss of time. This was ernment Civil Hospital.

about 9.30 a.m., and it was raining heavily at the time. Our Syatow correspondent

When the engines had drawn up"Throw in the clutch."

Sweet Young Thing--"Throw it states that General Heu Ching-out aide the City Hall, the firemen tang, with his family and personal sought in vain to locate the out in yourself. You can throw bet- suite, arrived there on Thursday break. The Liberary caretaker ter than, I can.”

was questioned, but he declared

"The next World War will start that neither he nor any of his as- sistants had sent out a call.

Eventually, an examination of on May 28, 1928, and will continue the fire signal box outside the City until September 16, 1986."

Mr. Basil Stewart made this Hall showed, that the glass cover- ing of the dial had been smashed statement recently at the third and the handle switched round to annual meeting of the British register a call to Fire Brigado Israelites at Londonerry House,

Evidently some Park Lane, W. London.

At a moment when Japan con- tinues to dominate the situation in Shantung, her. intentione in Manchuria come to the forefront

Another Public Scandal. ca. a result of the memorandum which the Tokyo Government has Pride in the integrity of British issued regarding its policies in institutions is being subjected to North Chinn generally and Man-one little shock after another. Wo He had been absent since he went churia in particular. Diplomata have scarcely had time to recover to Hongkong to welcome Marshal Li from the unpleasant disclosures-in on his return from Shanghai and In Peking are apparently of the connexion with franc apeculation accompanied him to Canton, opinion that the document does by Foreign Offico officials, follow- not throw much light on Japan's ed by a first-class sensation in the intentions, but in other quarters Royal Navy, merely because three there is an obvious suspicion that galiant officers got on one another's ahe may eventually declare a Pro-nerves, when serious allegations are being made against pollee tectorate in the territory in which methods subsequent to the acquit she considers that she has special tal of Sir Lee Chiuzza Money, and interests to safeguard. According Miss Irene Savage, on serious charges against public decency.

case

This morning's Harbour Office reports gave nine arrivals and 13 departares, British four and seven respectively, leaving 50 vessels in harbour, of which 19 were British. Headquarters. Tonnage was fair, with average practical joker had been at work, inward cargoes, while the totale of but he was not traced, and the en- through freight showed an im-gines aoon returned to the station.

zovement.

"JUNGLES."

THIEF'S AMUSING EXCUSE

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This date, bo'sald, is foretold in exactly the same way as was bollam of the Great Pyramid. August 4, 1914, through the sym- (Buy your copy early and avoid the rush). By combining the pro- phetic forecasts of the Bible with the chronological forecasts of the Great Pyramid we could foresee history.

"In the great turmoil England and her colonies and those other nations which are part of Israel will eventually emerge victorious, but Russia will be wiped out en- tirely."

So that's that.

Andrew

to the text of the Memorandum, The only consolation is that A detachment of the Queen's FOUND IN HONGKONG Japan is greatly concerned over prompt measures have been taken Regiment, accompanied by the immediately the band, returned from Macno by the possibility of the peace and in each

the s.s. Sui Tai this morning. The breath of Senndal has produced a order of Manchuria being threat-noxious atmosphere. Sir William visit to the Portuguese Colony was

IN COURT. ened as a result of the Chinese Joynson-Hicks is seeking permis in the nature of an International civil war, and she is apparently sion to institute a tribunal enquiry celebration of an historical asso- into the Tair, which he describes clation of the regiment with the

Brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell prepared to take "appropriate and as a matter of definite and urgent Portuguese more than a century effective steps" to prevent any public importance. Things are ago. Captain Whyte, A.D.C. to this morning for being in unlawful

the H.E. the Officer Administering the possession of four spanners,

accompanied the Chinese caused, some amusement auch development. So far, her coming to a pretty pass if

public needs protection from the Government,

in Court by stating that he found action appears to be limited to a police in contradistinction to need-party.

the apanners in "the jungles of Hongkong." possible refusal of passage toing the protection of the police.

Macintosh was ex- The "jungles" proved to be no tremely patriotic. One day he armed Northerners and Southern- We hope things are not quito so bad as that. It will probably be

Paris, Apr. 28,-Towns in more than a huge tree on the sido was at a lecture, on Shakespeare. ers through the corridor of Shay-found, in a nutshell, that what has France have now a new motive of Lyttleton Road where the de- The lecturer dwelt long upon the haikwan, but even that is sumcient happened is nothing more serious for shunning the result of the in-fendant, on being charged, took the virtues of this great writer, and to show that she is not prepared than an excess of zeal on the part dustrial riots. By a judgment of police, to show them the exact after the lecture Andrew said to of two or three Scotland Yard the Dunkirk Court yesterday, the spot where the spanners were him "Ye think a fina lot of Shake- detectives. This is grave enough, municipality was condemned to picked up. especially

Police evidence was to the effect As it is alleged that pay damages to the extent of about third degree methods were employ-20,000 francs (160) plus inter- that the defendant was stopped and ed to force Miss Savage into a est for nearly two years to a. M. searched in Babington Path yes to forecast the happenings of even confession which she had no inten- Vandamme, who had a number of the immediate future, but in the tion of making, while she also casks of wine on the premises of terday and on him was found five complains that the questions put to Dunkirk harbour. In June, 1926, spanners for which he could give no satisfactory account. He was circumstances prevailing it is her were the reverse of delicate in the course of a riot following then taken to the Police Station.

The defendant's record showed quite natural that Chinese sus- If these allegations are proved, we a docker's lock-out, Vandamme's can imagine only two motives. anska were smashed, and the muni-

Worship sentenced him to three fmonths hard labour.

to stand by and permit events to take their own course.

It is not easy at this juncture

speare,"

"Yes, I do," was the reply. "Well, d'ye think he was maír clover than Rabble Burns?"

"Oh, certainly, There's no com- parison between them."

"May be ao, but Rabble Burns would na write such nonsense as,

a croon."

#Nonsense. What do .you mean?"

Inicions regarding Japan's motives The detectives were either discon- cipality is now held responsible, five previous convictions and his 'Uneasy lies the bead that weare

should be deepening. The main point on which the Chinese, both North and South, are laying stress

"Ayo, nonsense., He wad hang

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tonted with the decision of the Magistrate, or realising that the prosecuting officers were in peril of a perjury charge, were seeking is that Manchuria is, after all, an avenue of escape for their part of China, and we can there-colleagues. There can, however,! be no justification for the extreme fore well understand the resent-measures alleged, and the public Paris ment now manifesting itself over has a very real grievance if the Geneva the possibility of Japan taking affair is not sifted to the full. The

Foreign Offico scandal, and the Helsingfors upon herself to interfere in the "Royal Oak" affair were unfor- Athens military dispositions of the rival tunate in that the seriousness of Buenos Aires armies in that territory. Whether the matter was aggravated by the Hongkong publicity accorded in advance, and New York Japan has any ulterior motives, or probably the present case has Amsterdam whether the precautions being suffered the same fate. We are Stockholm taken are merely for the purpose inclined to believe that the facts Vienna

Madrid. wfl convince the public that if

Bucharest of protecting her admittedly large any injustice has been done, the Bombay Interests, time will tell. But, fol-offence is isolated to the officera Yokohama lowing hard on the heels of the immediately involved, and does Brussels

not seriously affect the honour and Milan happenings in Shantung, the

good faith of the police organisa- Copenhagen Japanese declaration was bound tien generally. It is, nevertheless, Prague to increase the fears of those who disturbing that such a position can Lisbon

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Shanghai held that the Tokyo Government Dome acandal, in England with its

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troubled conditions In China, our devastation!

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From the Autau district, in the 47.18/10

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84.70 at Paak Wal Village. 1.20.15 Though the clrcumstances can 700 bo presumed to indicate suicide, .1/5.83/64 there are other features which are 1/10.18/16 thought by the police to require 84.98 close investigation, and on this presumption, they have detained a woman who is the widow of the deceased.

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"How did you manage to Paris in two daya?".

do

"Easily, my daughter did the monuments and museums, my wife the shops, and I did the theatres and cafes."

No wife should tell her hus- band of her mistakes, domestic or otherwise; he will see quite

himself enough of them for Maric Connor Leighton..

A vicar had for his curate a tall, Individual. cadaverous-looking One Sunday, according to custom, the vicar mado an appeal for the The deceased was a ricksha pull-curate's stipend fund, but unfor 2/8 er, who had been living in Paak tgnately glanced at his co-worker .28 Wai Village for some considerable as he concluded with the word:-- "The collection will now be ..27

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