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bour Party. In its early days, this latter organisation was still strongly under the influence of

DAY BY DAY.

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

HE A FOOL WHO CANNOT BE the Socialists, but as the years ANGRY; BUT HE IS A WISE MAN WHO have passed it has become any- WILL NOT-Seneca. thing but a Revolutionary Party. It has, indeed, for all practical purposes, como to fill the place of the Liberal Party in the politica of the nation, and, at the moment, It occupies the traditional seats

The B.I. 8.a. Tilown is due here from Amoy on the 25th instant.

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THE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL.

RACES AT NORTH POINT THIS AFTERNOON.

The Very Idea!

The Long Arm of Coincidence. "When my father was a young man," writes a Kingsbridge, Des To-day is the Dragon Boat von, resident, "he was deputed to Festival, which, falling on the 6th go to the bank to obtain one hun- Day of the 5th Moon in the Chi-dred sovereigns for Christmas-- neso calendar, coincides with the boxes, Summer Solstice. It is one of the three principal festivals of the

"Upon returning to his office, of the Liberals, when the Con-don, May 24th, by the 8.8.

The mail from Home dated, Lon-Chinese year, and, as is customary and when checking the amount, servatives are in power, by provid-Rawalpindi via sucz, consisted of to seasonable gods, to be followed bore

of the coins on this date, homage will be paid he found that one

two heada. The chief 470 bags. ing the main Opposition. The

by feasting.

cashier 'remarked that there should country has already had one ex-

The Dragon Boat races, which,

be another coin with two mark- porfence of a Labour Government, the coronation of His Majesty King a customary part of the day's cele-where. Strange to say, when my To-day is the 17th anniversary of year in and year out, have formed inge of the reverse side some and it has been none the worse Georgo V. In honour of the oc\brations, will be this year confined ed a similar sum from the bank father the following year obtain. for it. Certainly, the polley it followed when in office was not Sociallatic in the true sense of that term.

casion, men-of-war in port dressed ship to-day.

The 88. Antung, arriving from Singapore and Amoy, reports that ono Chinese deck passenger died four days after leaving Singapore. from beri-beri on June 16 en route,

| to two solitary bonts. These craft

are some 65 feet long, and each he discovered that one of the ave hold 50 oarsmen, In addition to the reigns was na suggested by the: drummer and the man who times cashier. Both coins were mount- the stroke with a gong. A numbered, and upon my father's death of races which have been arranged they come into the possession of for these two bonts will be held my two brothers." this afternoon, opposite the Ming Yuen Gardens, at North Point, the management of which have made elaborate arrangements for the

The fact of the matter is that the present leaders of the Labour

Amongst the passengers who ar Party are men of balance. They rived here from the North by the are not the ardent Socialists they P. and O. liner Ranpura were Pay were in their younger days. Age Comdr. and Mrs. Burtenshaw,occasion. and responsibility have had due Lieut. Comdr, H. Barclay, and Mr.

and Mrs. Nash. effect on their outlook. More- over, as politiciane they are suffi-

A three-year-old boy, the son of ciently level-headed to see that Mr. H. F. Harcourt, was yesterday the country has no time for the chow.dog belonging to a Mr. Wong bitten in the check by a brown extremist element. The General living at 98, Kennedy Road. The Strike brought that lessoh well animal was sent to Kennedy Town

for observation. home. They are therefore wise

in their day and generation by keeping aloof from the left wing

KELLER KERN & Co, Ltd, of the Party-the noisy agitaturs

16/19 Connavont Road, C.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JUNE 22. 1928:

THE LABOUR “SPLIT."

A Chinese, who was arrested In Mongkok carrying four chickens

Marylebone: People keep chip- Man, accused of drunkenness, at

ping ma about my mother-in-law, and it gets into my head.

Woman, at Derby:. I cut her atclothes-line in self-defence,

Yesterday, at noon, over a thou- Band spectators gathered various points of vantage" along the Prayn East to watch four other Dragon boats participating in a

Junk Guild. number of races organised by the

Surrey magistrato: When can you pay the fine? Man: Well, sir, my wife in chancellor of the taxchequer at home.

Bro

Tottenham magistrate, to three' men: You look respectable men. THE WEEK'S PICTURES. The men, in chorus: We

omnibus drivers.

Lincolnshire labourer, accused

ing to be hanged for this, and I saw the rope,

TO-MORROW.

Many pictures of topical interest will appear in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph.

Willesden wife: If my hus band's dinner does not suit him he throws it on the fire-chops, chips, plate, and all.

W

with their wings and legs tied to MANY OF INTEREST APPEAR of begging: I dreamed I was go gether, was charged before Mr. W. whose conceptions of political Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- policy are based on destructive tracy this morning, with causing ideas. So far from the latest out-unnecessary suffering to the fowls, Defendant pleaded guilty and was burst of Bir. Muxton and Mr. fined $7. Cook doing the Labour Party any harm, it should have the reverso effect. For a Party which is de- nounced by men of this type can lay claim to support from the great bulk of the electorate,

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Local Broadcasts..

Of sporting events, there will be three photographs of play at the, Reports by vessels arriving from opening match of the Hongkong the West River are to the effect that baseball season last Saturday, the sunken Kochow has been including one of H.E. the Officer Government partially raised and the work of Administering the getting out the cargo has been pitching the first ball; as well as commenced. Further attempts to refloat the vessel will be made when

a group of the South China team. she is Hghtened and sore of the

A more than usually interesting accumulated silt is cleared from old-time picture will be a group the holds.

of the Kowloon Football Club team of 1895-96 season which won

Wife, at Kingston: My husband

is a barman, and he says that bo will not do any dirty work.

More schoolboy howlers: Wat Tyler led the pheasants' revolt and was himself a phon sant."

Jolin Wycliffe was of a religious

Sex.

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At Bannockburn the Scots placed It is to be doubted whether the

A report was made to the police the Hongkong Football Challenge The community at large is no yesterday by Miss R, Ault, a sister Cup, this being a year after the honeycombs in the ground, which Lhrew the English into confusion. reported "split" in the Labour more than casually interested in at the Government Civil Hospital, Club was formed.

Doomsday Book is another name political ranks at Home is likely wireless, those for whom the sub-to the effect that at 12.30 p.m., Two photographs will show to have any serious consequences ject has any distinct appeal being whilst she was walking in Queen's Dragon Boats in practice races off for "Paradise Lost.".

near St. Francie Yaumati earlier in the week; for the official Labour Party. Mr. limited to a few "die-hard" experi-Road Central,

Hotel, a Chinese snatched from whilst other pictures will be of Philip Hammond, a vigorous Maxton and Mr. Cook, the origina- menters. It is a sad confession the her a handbag, containing aundry Miss Violet Ma, a elever young old man of 82, who appeared in tors of the plea for adherence to Colony has to make in the year articles and money, to the total Canton girl of thirteen years who the dock in his ghirt sleeves, was a policy of unceasing war on cap become an essential feature in the

1928, years after broadcasting has value of $24.

has raised big sums for charity by before Mr. Fry, at Bow-street, her dancing and singing; as well recently on a charge of causing an italista, have in latter years life of millions, of people in other This morning's Harbour Office as a group of Queen's College obstruction in the Strand. figured prominently amongst the

parts of the world, and the Indif-reports gave 21 arrivals and 14 de-Commercial 1 Class and masters.

There will also be a group taken intransigent element in the Party,ference is not entirely attributable partures, leaving 69 vessels in har-

bour, of which 25 were British. at the wedding at Golders Green recently of Mr. M. P. Concannon and Miss Dorothy M. Lyon, of Hongkong.

Bory.

are

JUNK COLLISION.

THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED.

According to the evidence of a constable the defendant was on the footway surrounded by a large crowd. He was carrying a red rag and two placards, bearing the words, "82 Culling. S.0.S. Help please. King George_ owes me £2,000. The Red Flag. One Penny. Starving under the Union Jack." When told 'to go away, Hammond declared that he had the King's permission to be there. Hammond donted that he caused any obstruction. "I know better than that,” he said. "I wasn't

:

a warning from the magistrate.

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Good wife, though as you

rightly say. Your wishes I ignore And struggle every passing

day

To vex you more and more,

'Tis for your good I'm showing

such

A fondness for the caveman

touch.

They represent the extremist wing, to the public themselves, nor yet to Tonnage was heavy, but inward which has little in common with the difficulties peculiar to Hong freights were generally poor, with leaders of the type of Mr. Ramsay kong. Many would-be enthusiasts the top figures of rice in Nor- wegian and Chinese vessels. MacDonald, Mr. Snowden, or Mr. have been appalled by the con Through freights were much J. H. Thomas, whose conceptions tant interference in reception by heavier with the best of the day in a of the role which the Party should the Morse from the naval vessels British ship. Two British and one play in the political life of the in Harbour and from the Stonecut-Chinese from Canton entered in nation have been tempered as the

ters installation, while, when these ballast. years have brought them fresh broadcasts have been subject to re Mr. R. E. Lindaell, this morning, are at peace, Manila and Shanghai

A fine of $15 was imposed by responsibilities. The Cook's and markable "fade-outs" offering little

on a Chinese who was charged A collision in the harbour, nearborn yesterday." (Laughter.) the Maxton's

out-and-out encouragement to perserveranec.

Attempts have been made to broad- with cruelty to chickens. The the Yaumati typhoon shelter, yes- The Magistrate: I don't see how Socialists; they represent but a cast locally, but the Government police told his Warship that they terday resulted in the death of a you could walk about like that small fraction of the Labourites, exercised too rigid control for arrested the defendant in Con-Chinese boy, three years of age, without causing an obstruction.

The court missionary explained. the great majority of whom are smooth working and the Radio So- naught Road West with thirty-the son of a junk owner..

ciety is, to all intents and purposes, eight, chickens in one basket. According to an account of the that Hammond was apparently quite content to build up on the defunct. We welcome, therefore, Eight of the chickens were dead. incident supplied to the police by under the Impression that the existing social system auch re- Mr. L.II. King's announcement The chickens were sent to Hong- the police by the junk owner, at King had some money which he through our columns yesterday, kong from Kwang Chow Wan, and about 11.30 a.m. yesterday his junk lost a long time ago in a share forms as they consider are neces-that the Government has definitely the voyage by junk lasted two was proceeding from the typhoon transaction.

decided upon a provisional scheme days.

shelter with a cargo of machinery

Hammond was discharged with for the transmission of broadcast.

to the s.a. Hydrangea at the Chiu It should be understood that the programmes through a Government A party of fifteen guests gather- On wharf.

station. The proposals are for the ed' at the St. Francis Hotel last L.L.P., to which both Mr. Maxton time confined to test transmissions evening to bid farewell to Mr. H. the northern entrance to the shelter, Whilst the junk was abreast of and Mr. Cook belong, is quite dis-of gramaphone records, but Mr. Griffiths, of the Naval Yard, who ateam launch, the Tak Shing, tow- tinet from the official Labour King holds out great hopes for the leaves for Home to-morrow by the ing a rice junk, crossed its bow. future, including the provision of s.s. Ranpura. After an excellent The stern of the rice junk got en- Party Founded at a conference an up-to-date studio, and the relay-dinner, especially arranged by Mr. tangled with the rigging of the held at Bradford in 1893, under ing of London programmes. Wo Hannings, the manager of the junk sailing towards tho the presidency of the late Mr. suggest that in the meantime a big Hotel, a programme of vocal and Hydrangea, with the result that the

effort be made. to give the public musical entertainment was render latter was capsized, Keir Hardie, It is essentially a a greater understanding of and con-ed, with intervals for the toasting Socialist organisation. Very few fidence in wireless broadcasting as of, Mr. Griffiths and expressions of ter's son, whose body was picked up All were rescued except the mss- of the present Labour M.P's are applying to Hongkong. If radio is goodwill the part of his

soon afterwards by the police returned under ita auspices, and after the rebuffs of the past, the

to become popular in Hongkong, colleagues,

launch. Artificial respiration was although Mr. Ramsay MacDonald small man, that is to say, the man The Victoria and Albert Museum resorted to, but without success. and Mr. Snowden have figured as with a one or two valve receiver, has accepted from Mr. H. Blair-The body was eventually taken to its chairman, both have

must be reassured, and others em man, of St. James's, S.W., a Chin-the mortuary. now boldened in the belief that satie- eso jardiniere, a beautiful tree In sovered their connexion with it. factory results can be achieved at silver. The base is studded with Tracing back the history of the a small initial outlay. Multiple- semi-precious stones. In the instruments are not required, and, branches of the tree, which, is British Labour movement, we find furthermore, those who can afford partly fashioned of rose quartz that the original body was the them, and are at all Interested in and coral, are two birds, and at

wireless, no doubt possess them the foot of the tree' is a dog in Paris Labour Representation League,

already. A great deal can be done silver. The piece, of the Kien Geneva which came into existence in in this Colony if the problem in Lung period, is believed to have Berlin 1869. At the General Election of tackled resolutely, though we trust come from the Summer Palace at Oslo 1874, his League put forward too great faith will not be placed Peking, 1736-1795.

Helsingfors in the promise of relays from Eng-

Athens fourteen candidates, of whom two land. Mr. King is probably well In order 10

elected. Other organisa-aware that the best time for re-merchants desirous of partaking on York

assist local Buenos Aires

Hongkong tions, including the I...P., came It is dark in England, dark in held in various parts in Java, the Stockholm

ception is during the period when in forthcoming exhibitions to be Amsterdam into being subsequently, and in Hongkong, and therefore, dark, all Java-China-Japan Line's agents in Vienna 1900 a. Labour-Socialist alliance the way. This means it would be. was cemented at a London

necessary to get up at about four Hongkong have written to the Madrid con-o'clock in the morning to receive. Chinese Chamber of Commerce to Bucharest ference attended by representa Enthusiasm would be subjected any that any goods shipped to the Bombay Brassels tives of some half a million Trade to a great strain, we are very much exhibitions which might have to Unionists and Socialists. From local offerings, and we do not think wards will be conveyed free of Pragus

afraid. Reliance must be placed in be reshipped to Hongkong after Copenhagen this conference there emerged the there is any cause for scepticism. charge. Froight will be charged Lisbon Labour Representation Committee, Programmes worth picking up can only on goods which find buyers in Blo which can be described as the ment operators display a little am- to get the Customs authority to Silver (spot and forward)

easily be arranged, If the Govern Java, Stops are also being taken Shanghai ... direct ancestor of the present Lbition.

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were

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