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The

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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928

THE CAPETOWN RIOTS

was reached on basis.

SATURDAY, JUNE (2

Hortzog declared when thef

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DAY BY DAY,

promise was reached that while

the Union Jack would not be. flown in every little dorp, it would,THE ONLY WAY TO BE REALLY UN- UBUAL IS TO BE ONESELF WHICK be displayed wherever predomin HARDLY ANYBODY 18-Ada Lever ant sentiment demanded it.

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A now schedule of charges by the Bacteriological appears in the Gazette.

Institute

Lieut-Colonel Frederick Eaves; D.S.O., has been appointed to act as First Police Magistrate,

Dr. Phoon Seek Wong has been appointed a. Member of the Mid- wives Board for a term of three

years.

The Gazette contains acales of charges for ex-Ray and ultra- violet ray treatment, and massage, at local hospitals.

A bankruptcy notification states that a first dividend of $10 per cent. has been declared in the matter of Lo Tse-lim, of 65, Wing Lok Street.

Sentiment amongst the coloured

Dr. J..S. Dykes has been appoint- people in Capetown is certainly ed a Momber of the Dental Board. strongly in favour of the British connexión, witness the manner in which, durip Thursday's riots, they tore up the new national dar and cheered the Union Jack. This may be taken as a demonstration of faith in the ideals for which the Empire flag stands and also as very marked disapproval of tho attitude of many Dutch-born South Africans who still and no more in the conception' of Empire than an imposed political connexion. General Hertzog himself is not free from criticism in.this regard, and his latest declaration, to the effect that the new national fing Is a lasting symbol of South Africa's independence the power and authority of the Union Jack, is hardly what one would expect after his acquiescence in the compromise reached last year. He is obviously much more of a Nationalist than an Imperialist in the best sense of that term. The ex- tremists in South Africa still hold a view of the Empire us something outside South Africi, pursuing its own ends, to which South Africa's interests are considered Bub ordinate; whereas the true concep tion is that of something inside Africa-n free political relationship offering, innumerable opportunities to South Africans for making their country great. It is, of course, a thousand pities that there should again, be racial troubles over this

Among the passengers sailing fing question, after the settlement which it was hoped would heal all for Home to-day on the Hakuaan Maru is Mr. E. R. Price, formerly breaches, but it is particularly com- of the staff of the China Mail. forting at the present juncture toIt is understood that Mr. Price is realise that there are at any rate returning to the Colony. some coloured people who have a just appreciation of what British rule really stands for.

We

At the P.W.D. offices on the 18th inst., there will be offered for sale New Kowloon Inland Lot 1135, situate at Shamshulpo. "The area 1,785 square feet, and the upset price $2,231.25.

LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.

7. Following Winds in the Gulf of Sucz

We Balled on into the canal. At dumps of old tins half-buried In first, marshes on each side, some of sand, piles of rusty wire, forgot them white with salt. Later, the ten and decaying slowly in the silent desert, lying coared and scarred hent. At points along the canal, under the sun. To the east it was gangs of labourers, Indian and the most desolate thing I have ever Egyptión, dig out the sand that is acen. No living thing could even continually being blown into the look at it for long. On the west, water, and run it by hand in there is first the little fresh water trollies a little way out into the canal, bringing life from the old desert. At one point where they Nile in the shape of a narrow strip were widening the cut, men wero of green, a few bunches of trees, an digging by hand, putting the earth occasional station with homo into baskets, carrying - it up the clustered houses. There is also the bank on their heads, and dumping railway. We passed one train, and it into hand trucks on the other everybody cheered at this evidence side. Engineering here is pro of western culture.

bably very much the same as it was, Beyond the railway, the endless in the days of the Pharoshs.

The weather grew warmer and desert. And as we felt our way further and further in, the rolling warmer, but the sky was overcast dunes and ridges began to take on and it was still bearable. a wonderful beauty of their own;;

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a waste of burning orange with de At five-thirty one morning an oil casional patches of dry scrub. tanker drew up just outside our. Everything was very quiet, After porthole and hooted. It went on the nover-ending sound of the open hooting till we got up. Consequent- sea, the silence of the desert, were ly we saw the Burrise while we lay it not for the romantic newness of off Suez, replenishing fuel, water, it all, would become oppressive, and green vegetables; and we thank- But on one's first journey easted the oil tanker. Here one wants. wards one lives through it in a to be able to see both sides of the continuous thrill of expectation, ship at once, the east to Watch, a one's eyes fastened on the throbbing fiery ball bounce with incredible distances, waiting for the flecting speed over a low dark line of hills, where a. truly event, that awift ehadow that never and the west comes, perhaps of a forgotten army gorgeous line of rugged sandstono in bright colours, the standards of heights change from mauve to Isfa raised to the sun, chariot wheels shining red and orange, Later drumming on the hard sand....these become lighter and lighter Mr, G. K. Blair, of 16, Bowen or maybe just a hunted, hooded under the blinding heat until they Rond, has reported to the police man, dodging round the hillocks assume the character of fairy the theft of $1,500 worth of on a tired steed, his once gay cloak mountains with no mass, riding on jewellery and money. Two of his trailing in the dust, his long riffo an astonishing line of faint orange houseboys are suspected, as they clasped in a thin brown hand... tingos above the shining blue-green,

water. have absconded.

Looking carefully, you' Let me raise no false expecta- can see tracks of men leading from. tions. We saw none of these things the shore into hidden valleys be- the burning rocks. Oc- and yet we were not disappoint hind

casionally there is a patch of some- At a little distance from the thing darker that may be vegeta- water there was, by day, no sign tion, or some unexplained shadow. After breakfast, we moved off of life at all; only one great bird that came in from time to time and down the gulf of Suez with a light hovered over us; watching. But following wind. It got gradually when the night came down with hotter. Many of our friends, just the swiftness of great wings, the sat and perspired. Mary ordered desert sprang to life in a multitude an iced soda water and spent a good of little fires where we had seen no deal of the morning pouring drops men before. We were continually of it on to the back of her neck. Finally she flaned out the block of finding new ones.

ice and put it all on the top of her We passed El Kantara in day spine, holding it there till it was light; the depot of the Camel melted. Then she went for a walk Corps with a hundred od ces round the deck to dry. standing by the cunul bank, fengt- ing their supercilious eyes on the Hot?" said F, who la returning trackless sand. No doubt time to time they are permitted to Yes, pretty fair, but it can do from from six months leave at Home. feast their ballies also but on what better than this in Hongkong in is not-at-once-obvious. Here were summer" also some rolics of the war, huge

I wonder.

Tenders are invited for the pre- paration of site and the erection of intrine at Wong Nel Chang also demolition of existing latrine to- gether with all other necessary and contingent works,

Hon. Gerald William Lascelles, of Tillington House, Petworth, Sussex, brother of the Earl of Harewood and uncle of Viscount Lascelles, left unsettled property of the gross value of £26,898 1s.

10d.

Four more contributions were

ed.

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOT TRUE.

To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.]

POEMS THAT LIVE.

THE SHEPHERD BOY.

Ho that is down noods fear no fall,

He that is low, no pride;

Ho that is humble ever ahali Havo God to be his guide.

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I am content with what I have,

Little be It or much: And, Lord, contentment still I crave,

Because Thou savest such.

Fulness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage: Here little, and hereafter bliss,

Is best from ago to age.

John Bunyan

Sir, In view of the "Amazing Tragedy tale of murder in Spanish convent, published in your issue of 28th May and taken from the London Daily Chronicle, I should be grateful if you would publish the fact that the following day the Daily Chronicle gave prominence to the following cor-

Paris rection:The report in ques- was quoted by our tion correspondent from a Paris news- paper, and was published by us in Whilst the Yaumati ferry boat good faith. From further in-

dependent inquiries we have since Cambridge University athlete and Man. Chung was crossing from made we are satisfied that there son and heir of the Marquis of Hongkong to Yaumati yesterday is no truth in the statements con-Exeter, who is 23, has been up- afternoon, a Chinese, forty years of tained in the report and we regret pointed a J. P. for the Liberty of ac-uge, jumped overboard in an having given publicity to them.

Peterborough. tempt to commit suicide, but, was rescued by the crew of a passing molar boat.

Interviewed in London, the Spanish Ambassador characterised

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Lord Burghley, the well-known

A Great Discovery. are glad to observe that on making further hicursions into perhaps ill-assorted laws of this It is notified that, at the expira- There were remarkable and, to Colony, the police authorities, or tion of three months, the J. T. their legal advisers, have discovered Lloyd and Company, Limited will, the outside world, quite unexpect means

of action against anti-unless cause is, shewn to the con- ed demonstrations of violence in Japanese orators. We somehow trary, be struck off the register Capetown on the occasion of the thought the was possible if the and the Company will be dig-

authorities sought far enough. As solved. | official hoisting of the new Union we pointed out in a leading article fing. This took place on Thurs earlier this week, our own brief survey of the Ordinances revealed day, the 18th anniversary of the two Sections under which they could received yesterday for the establish- establishment of the Union of have been charged, and the police ment of the Chinese Faculty in the have now revealed yet another. Hongkong University, The Sincere South Afrien. It will be recalled eck confession in Colonel Company $1,900; Mr. Kan Ying that there was a bitter political Baves Court by which two agitators po $1,000; Mr. Chan Lim-pik 3500; war in various parts of the Unionescaped scot-free, must have caused and Messrs. Luen On $300.

the makera of some of our laws last year over the flag question, to turn in their grave. It la

The Hongkong Agency of the but that towards the end of the obviously an anomaly which could Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschap- year a settlement of the dispute not exist in British law that a man pij (Netherlands Trading Society) could make use of terms in the

has received a telegram from the 4 compromise public highway before_large_num- The original design put hers of people, the publication of Batavia office announcing that a which were by law prohibited as dividend of ten per cent. has been forward by the Government was my handbills, pamplets or ban-declared for the year 1927. the flag of the House of Orange nors

were concerned. Yet, two namely, horizontal stripes

of aquapious agitators were kindly re- leased. The fault, of course, could orange, white and blue, together not be attached to the Magistrate with a shield on the white stripe.concerned. It was with extreme re-

luctance that Colonel Eaves One quarter of this shield was to cepted the unconditional withdrawal have been occupied by the Union of the police charges; probably, Jack, and opponents of the design like the man-in-the-street, he, look contended that it did not rive guf.d at the matter from the point of view of common-sense, an unusual

Mrs. B. Spaulding, who recently ficient prominence to the British amount of which quality (for of amblem.

The flag as finally ficialdom) he has demonstrated in severed her connexion with the several of his decisions during a Union Insurance Society of Can- agreed to, after much acrimonious brief sojourn in the Magisterial ton, Ltd., after eleven and a half discussion, consists of the orange,chair. However, it would appear years service, is sailing for Home white and blue horizontal stripes, difficulty by pleading that the She has been the recipient of sev that the police, have got over the by the Hakusan Maru to-day. but with the shield removed. In orators are guilty of disorderly con- feral handsome presents from the place of the shield are the Union duct whereby a breach of the members of the European, Portu

KOWLOON BUS SERVICES. If the bus company is fully aware Jack and Republician flags in the peace might be occasioned, and of guese and Chinese staff, amongst

causing an obstruction. A man whom she was very popular.

of the chopping, and changing- Sir, Will you, on behalf of a continually going on, it is incum- centre of the white atripe. prosecuted at the Kowloon Magis-

number of residents of Kowloon bent upon them to inform the But although there is this new trate yesterday was sentenced to

We are installing new lighting Tong, put the following questions public. We know that the Kow- two months' hard labour, and emblem, the Union Jack flies

though we do not propose to discuss in the Chancel and Sanctuary of to the C.S.P.-(a) are there any loan Bus Co. has been granted the officially alongside the national the merits of the case, it is signi- the Cathedral, and possibly also recognised routes which buses are monopoly for Kowloon Tong, and flag to signify the Union's status ficant that his main excuse was in the have and transepts, saya obliged to follow under police re therefore in the absence of com

that he considered it his duty to Cathedral Notes. The Chancel and gulations?; (b), if so, will he internationally as a member of the take upon himself the role of anti-sanctuary are to be lit by lamps draw the attention of the Kowloon Petition, the necessity for super

vision becomes stronger, British commonwealth of nations. Japanese orator. It does not take reflected eastwards, so that no Bus Co. to the pranks of their

after leaving Prince) No one would have any com- There are thus two South African much imagination to realise the naked light will be visible to the drivers

state of affairs which would arise congregation. Even the experi- Edward Road and entering Kow-plaint to make if the movements of the buses were fully understood. Baga-the national or domestic if this idea apread to any extent,

It is when people miss ferries by flag, and the Empire flag. It Is to and the sooner & stop is put to it eats so far inde show what a loon Tong?

vast improvement Buch lighting

Since the beginning of May treason of the idiosyncrasy of a be noted, too, that the Union Jack the better. For the time being we will make,

has been, impossible for residents perhaps humorously-minded bus Fare content that the police have fles officially all the year round in now disposed of absurd an posis

of Kowloon Tong to follow the driver that warranted annoyance Altar Rails for the Lady Chapel vagaries of the series. Often is felt. I am anxious to know if the four provincial capitals-tion.

are in process of construction, enough one stays at a terminus at the police have any authority re Capetown, Maritzburg, Bloemfon-

writes the Dean in Cathedral which the bus never arrives, garding the conduct of this bus tein, and Pretoria-as well as the A concert, to welcome Mr. Ng Notes. These are being carved while on other occasions a bus service, and if so, when they pre- chief coastal towna. As to the Tai-ping, the President of the As-in teak, to a beautiful de licenced to carry 14, and exceed-poan to exercise that authority1 Aying of it officially in the smaller sociation, has been arranged to sign of grapes and vine leaves and ing that number, if one cares to Thanking your Yours, etc.,

take place at the Chung Shen corn, drawn. by Mrs. H. V. Koop, towns, it was agreed at the time Athletic Association. An attrac-working in conjunction with the count school children, makosa sight-seeing tour of the district of the settlement of the con-tive musical programme has been Cathedral Architecte. If the ex-before wending its weary way to

PB-During the worst of this troversy that this raint should rest arranged, including a violin solo ocution of the work proves to be the ferry.

||morning's, rain" ng bus (eppeared by Miss Daisy Wu and butterfly as good as the design, the new with the Government of the day and jazz dances by pupils of Pro- rails will be a great addition to Yesterday a particularly dant all in the space of half an hour. In this. connexion, General fessor Valentine Pinn.

the beauty of the Cathedral. grant case occurred. Drivers of Kowloon, June 2nd, 1928..

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the report as absolutely falac, add two buses one following twenty ing "The news is the laughing yards behind the other, complete stock of Spain and a revival of the ly ignored the normal route and old libellous report contradicted for no understood reason. Where they went to exactly it is difficult to say, but I for one, walked casually to Prince Edward Road and caught a No. 6 bus, before either had made their appearance at the regular terminus.

some months ago."-Yours, etc.

G. BYRNE, 8.J. Hongkong, June 1st, 1928, '

KOWLOON TONOITE.

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