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QUEEN'S REGIMENT
MEMORIAL.
TO BE UNVEILED ON SUNDAY.
The Very Idea!
What becomes of our old buttons? A clothing export's estimato of the number of now buttons used by a man on an averago amounts to about 100 annually, This includes
the Japanese standpoint, and not only has any intention of permanent occupation been refuted, but there
THE ONE QUALIFICATION NECESŞ- have been specific assurances that ART TO SMALL, BEGINNINGS DECOM- atdes will not be taken in the Chin-ING GREAT ENTERPRISES IS THIRFT ene givli war. With declarations AND CAREFULNESS, BORDERING' ON of this character so freely reiter PARSIMONY.-Harry Furniaa. ated, Britain or any other Power would naturally be reluctant to criticise the Japanese action. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in answering his questionera on Wednesday, was
Mr. and Mrs. Burlingham re- able to show that Britain's polley turned to the Colony on the P. and of strict neutrality in China re-O. ss."Ranpura. mains absolutely unaltered, and he made it perfectly clear that tha
Mr. E. W. Alderson, M.C., who British Government le against be- was formerly with the Hongkong coming involved in any form of in- and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd, has 9.15 p.m. by Lieut.-Col. Hayley is often as good at the end of a
one Indian.
arrived in Singapore and is now employed at the Raffles Hotel.
As recently announced in the Telegraph, the officers and men of the 1st Battn. of the Queen's Regiment are having a memorial buttons of the kinds that actually plaque placed in St. John's Catho-wear out, such as are attached to dral to officers and man of a former our under garments. But what be.. 1st Battalion who lost their lives | comes of the others? Do they cling to the clothes to which they wore in China in 1860.
This plaque, which has been de- originally attached, long after wo signed by Messrs. Jones, Brown
and Co., of Hongkong, is to be see the last of them, until they final- placed on the south wall of they drop off and are lost or are cast Lady Chapel in the Cathedral, and away as worthless with the rage to It is to be unveiled on Sunday at which they still adhere? It seems a terrible waste, becauso a button
year's hard wear as it was when it tervention. That should satisfy
Bell, O. S. 0.
The form of the religious service was first sewn on jacket or waist- even those who suggest that Britain
has been printed, and the clergy coat. But I suppose (says a is conniving at forcible action in-
A Chinese who went out swim-taking part will be the Very Rev. writer), that if I cut the buttons Chian
ming off the Kal Tak Band yester-the Dean (the Rev. A. Swann, off ray old suits and returned them As to when Japan will withdraw day afternoon, got out of his PSC.), assisted by the Rev. S to the tailor for re-use he would Llewellyn Webb, Senior Chaplain not offer me any noticeable reduc her forces from China, time will depth and was drowned. His bed to the Forces, and the Rev. H. Vtion in the price of my, new clothes, and would sneer at me in his heart show. Japan herself would prob- was subsequently recovered and
sent to the Kowloon Mortuary.
A dotachment, 450 strong of the as a mean follow. It is not done, 1st Battalion, the Queen's Regi- | even in Aberdeen. "
NO PERIODIC REFILLING ably say that that largely depends
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Where shall wo put him? ......
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on the Chinese themselves. The
After a hearing in the Singapore ment, with officers, N.C.O.'s and the Vice-Minister for War, in his state-Assize Court which lasted a whole band of the Reigment will be pre- ment a few days ago, said the withday, a special jury acquitted Mr. W..sent at the ceremony, and 120 men drawal from Shantung would take Mann on a charge of causing the with officers and N.C.O.'s of the
be present. RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE. place as soon as the present danger death of Mr. W. B Balfour by rash 1st Battalion the K.O.S.B. will also
and negligent motor/ driving.
Parlahioner (waking from, a It is particularly Atting that was over, apologies made and ap- Types for Motor Cars, & Etc,
Lieut. Col. R. Hayley Bell, D.S.Osnooze): Let him have this scat APPROVED Ly BOARD of TRADE,propriate punishment meled out to
Nine months-hard labour and should perform the ceremony of I am going home to dinner LONDON.
those responsible for the outrages twenty strekes of the birch was unvolling this memorial to fallen Col. Hayley Bell, who, against Japanese subjects and that the schtence passed by Lt. Col. comrades. the troops would return from Man-Euves this morning on a Chiness who returned to the Colony after KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. | chúria at the carliest possible op- having been banished for ten
portunity. The Shantung settle years in January, 1927. ment, however, still scems as far off as ever, whilst matters have by no means come to a head as yet in Manghuria So for the time being, all that we can do in to "wait and see."
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928.
BRITAIN AND JAPAN.
A Deserved Honour.
Two further reports have been made to the police concerning fall ing over verandahs whilst leaning put to dry clothes. The first report was made from 32 Temple Street, first floor and the second from 16 Lun Fat Street. Both persona are now in hospital...
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A live and active Girl Guides A fine of $500, or six months' organisation emboldens the belief hard labour, was imposed by LL. thut the true spirit of Empiro is Col. Eaves this morning on being fostered in the Colony, and Chinese who pleaded guilty to pos- it was therefore singularly appro-session of 6.2 taels of prepared Although in the House of Com-priate that the decoration con-opium. The defendant was ur- mons on Wednesday there was, as ferred upon Mrs. H. H. Reming-rested by Revenue Officers in Con- far as the reports go, no sugges-ton, who has worked unceasingly naught Road Central, tion that representations should be for the movement in Hongkong.
An old negro got up one night of course, inkes a keen interest Inat a revival meeting and said: Cathedral affairs, forms, a link
"Brudders and sisters, you knowa Colony and thean' I knows dat I ain't been what between the Queen's Regiment.
I oughter been. I've robbed hen-. In the Great War he served in roosts an' stole hawgs, an' told lies, the 10th (service), battalion and an' got drunk, an' alashed folka with commanded it from August, 1917, mali razor, an' cussed and swore; in France. Italy, and Flanders, but I thank heaven dere's one thing. and later with the Army of I ain't nebber done. I ain't nobber Occupation in Cologne.
REFUSES TO BE BOUND OVER.
NASTY INCIDENT AT LAI- CHIKOK AVENTED.
A further incident of Chinese
attempting to take the law into
men
abused
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lost mah religion."
fibbing habit, says: Who save a Arnold Bennett, 'writing on the
Pharisee will have the effrontery · to cast a stone nt any kind of a liar? We are all living in glass houses. The honest man does not exist. Some may be absolutely un- tainted. by some varieties of sin, But none is absolutely untainted by dishonesty. It is as "suro na anything can be in this shifty
their own hands was related to world that George Washington Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon must have told thousands upon Magistracy this morning when a thousands of lies in the sixty- should have been invested yester- A Pahang correspondent of the Chinese was charged by Bergeant seven years of his brilliant and use made to Japan regarding her action day, Empire Day. It needs no Malay Mail writes that three Brittain with disorderly conduct. ful earthly carcer. I should not The defendant pleaded not be surprised to learn that he oc- In China, there was apparent a very little courage to be in earnest in
chio were attacked by
casionally went so far as to lie, to wild guilty. obvious desire, on the part of this particular outpost of Empire, Chinese living in a hut near Man- but Mrs. Remington has contri-
A passenger on a Kowloon Motor himself. This lying business fe Liberal and Labour members, that buted perseverance and untiring elephants. Two of the men wore Britain should not follow a policy patience to the development of trampled to death but the third bus at Laichikok yesterday fell off very difficult. which might be interpreted as im- Guiding, and the Medal of Merit cscaped and reported the matter the vehicle while attempting to
Where do films go which are not bodies to Bentong hospital. and on his return to Latchikol on passed by the British Board of plying support for a policy of inter-conferred by the Association into the police, who brought the alight. The driver was
England, and presented by Mrs.
the following journey found 4 Censors or are not successful? vention. Ong of the questions ask-Southern, is an honour deserved. ed was whether, before Intervening, Perhaps the best tribute to Mrs. Because he did not get sufficient large crowd of Chinese walting And what happens to films after
the arrival of the bus.
they have ended their journey Remington's work was the splen-rice to cat, a carpenter apprentice
It WAH alleged that the found the country's picture palaces? Japan had communicated her intendid turn-out of Guides at the core-assaulted a Chinese cook so badly
gathered there to is-Inquiries in London showed that tions to other interested Powers, mony. Guiding is an outlet for that the latter had to be detained sault the driver, but their they are turned into junk. The but it does not appear from the young girlhood, occupying a place for three days at the Government.
became known to silver in them is separated by a cabled messages that this query was similar in all respects to the Boy Civil Hospital before he could intentions
The apprentice a warder of the prison who sent special process, and the celluloid Scout organisation for boya. It appear in Court.
Col for the Police. It was alleged the base specially dealt with by manu- definitely answered. Here in the
encourages those who will one day pleaded guilty before Lt.
ordered mob had been collected by the de- facturers who transform it into East, however, we do know that the be the women of the Empire--and Eaves to-day and was Japanese Premier has taken into his how great a responsibility that is to receive six strokes of the birch. fendant. They were dispersed by various kinds of varnish largely
the Police.
used for the painting of motor-cars. The defendant refused to be No fewer than seventy-seven rea- confidence the Ambassadors of some to work and to find pleasure in
working, to play and to get the A slight collision occurred Inbound over, remarking that he had gons have been given in one year of the principal. Powers in Tokyo best out of their play. By the Singapore last week between adone nothing wrong. The by the Board of Censors for refus- to the extent at least of informing award of badges, the girls are Flying Club aeaplane and a was then adjourned till to-morrowing their certificate. The latest into the launch. The owner of the launch, morning. them of the motives which have encouraged to delve
mysteries of domestic art, to bo- in his report to the Shipping animated his Government in decid- come handy: in short, are afford-Office, states that the seaplane was ing to send a sufficient number of ed a wonderful opportunity of taking off at about 5.30 and one troopa into China to protectfully equipping themselves as the of the floats struck the stem of the wives and mothers of the future. launch. The seaplane was slighly. the lives and property of We are sometimes apt to miss the damaged, and the launch was also
You'll never get Roy Boythe of Japanese subjects. It could real value and import of the work slightly damaged above the water-
Los Angeles to believe the stories be argued, of course, that the of self-sacrificing individuals, line,
CASE.
about cigarettes being the ruina- who, like Mrs. Remington, spare
tion of a man. He'll only recite the provisions of the Nine-Power themselves nothing to urge the
Five bottles of Hennessy brandy story of how, tired of a monotonous Treaty contemplated that, in cir-spirit of Guiding and Scouting on Empire Day was observed yes. cumstances such as those which the younger generation, partly, or terday at the Diocesan Beys' were produced before Mr. W. life, he turned on the gas in hig have now arisen, there would be a rather chiefly, because of the School, the Headmaster (Rev. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- room. Desiring one more fag be- absence of immediate results. AT. Featherstone) giving an ad- tracy this morning, as the subject fore he died, he took one, lighted full and frank discussion between greater mistake, was never made,dress at School Prayers at 9 am of a charge of unlawful possession ja match, and thereby saved his life. brought against a Chinese who The resulting explosion brought the signatory Powers. There has A true Guide or a true Scout, has In the course of his remarks he certainly been no exchange of view-something instilled into her or him stated that the greatness of the was arrested by a detective in police, who rescued him... point along these lines. The prob- by the brief spell of discipline and Empire was largely due to the-
stress laid on the underlying fact that it has believed in ability is that Japan does not con-principle of both movements, formation rather than revolution. sider the despatch of her troops to service to others, that cannot be The School had a holiday from Shantung as constituting any speel. imparted by school training alone; 1.20 p.m.
however fine the institution. We al cause for consultation with the trust that the Girl Guide movement from other Powers, but merely regards in Hongkong will go on it as in the nature of a justifiable strength to strength, increasing in
service as in age., precaution for the protection of her nationals,
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BRANDY IN COURT.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION
Jordan Road.
figures show that 6,238,176ft. of film, embracing 1,718 subjects, were submitted during 1920 to the Beard. Four films were fojected and eighteen were held up.
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MANY IN TO-MORROW'S "TELEGRAPH."
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said the brandy had been THE WEEK'S PICTURES. given to him by a friend, who did not have any place to put it. He had been unable to find the friend, but, in reply to his Worship, 'de A combined gift from Scouts offendant intimated that he would the whole world will be presented like an adjournment for a further to the Chief Scout, Sir Robert chance to search for the man. Baden-Powell, on the occasion of The case was adjourned until to the International Jamboree inmorrow morning, 1929, the 21st anniversary of the There
In the circumstances prevailing, AN ABSENT JUROR. Boy Scout Movement.
we cannot see that Britain would'
be justified in suspecting Japan of
following a policy of aggression or
OFFICE RUSH NO EXCUSE.
Mr. A. W. H. Edic, of the P. and
must be in the Colony many old Scouts, who belonged here elsewhere, who would like
or
to participate in this gift. Bub scriptions should be sent to Mr. C.
of warlike penetration. in China.o. Company, appeared before Lt. H. Blason, c/o Messrs. Butterfield
The Vice-Minister for War in Col. F. Enves at the Central Magis-and, Swire. Tokyo has just definitely denied the tracy this morning to answer a suggestions that Japan contem-from the jury in a recent enquiry sunimons for absenting himself
plates either the permanent control held in the Court.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.]
To-morrow's issue of the Tele- graph will contain an admirably. varied selection of pictures of topical interest.
These will include an attractive group of Girl Guides, taken in the grounds of Government House on Empire Day, as well as some snapshots of Guides on their way. to the special service at St. John's Cathedral; and a group of officials and others at the opening of the Cheer 'Q. Y.M.C.A last evening, More contributions have been ro
"LES MISERABLES."
Sport will be represented by a ceived during the past few days of Shantung or the establishment Addressing Col. Eaves, his Wor- for the establishment of a Chinese
Sir-What an unpleasant aur- group of the Kowloon and Happy. Valley golf team which met in a ship said I understand you were Faculty in the Hongkong Univer-prise awaited lovers of that
match on Sunday, and by groups of a Protectorate in Manchuria.ummoned to appear at an inquant sity, each of the following having famous masterpiece of literature of rowing and football teams from He clted the despatch to Shanghai the other day and you did not turn consented to donate $200 Messra.Les Miserables" when, after H.M.S. Wild Swan, with trophies. of the British Defence Force and "P.
Lo Shun Long; Nam Cheung Hong,
paying exorbitant prices, they Defendant:-I am in a shipping Chen Hung-leung Sheun Cheong
There will also be photographs the sending of U. 8. forces to office and we had a ship in that Tai Hong, Yat Cheong Hong. We were shown a very unsatisfactory
picture from almost overy of Costes and Le Brix, the French Nicaragua 48 being dietated afternoon. There was a lot of Keo Hong, Kin Tack Hong, Yau
If the picture "Loafers, on arrival in Paris after by considerations for the things to do and I actually forgot Hing Loong Hong, Wang Kwok- standpoint. protection of British and
about it. I turned up half and shun, Au Yeung Shan Ting, Hau Miserables" was worth $2.00, I am their wonderful sight from Tokyo That German airmen who were the first, American subjects, and claim regrets, but •
hour afterwards to express my Tack Hong, Shun Sang Yuen Hong, sure that "Sorrel and Son" was of Koehl and von Huenefeld, the
Tung Fat Tuen Hong, Chu Tack worth more than double. ed the same right for Japan His Worship: That is no ex Loong Hong, Li Pak-yin, Tai Yau picture had "Les Miserables" to fly across the Atlantic fram in China at the present juncture.cuse. When you are summoned Bank, Man Chung Tal Hong, and wiped off the map. Yours, etc,
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