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rejection, the officers concerned elected to gamble on exchange, only to find that their speculativo bent had led them astray.

1

DAY BY DAY.

IT IS UNMISTAKABLE MADNESS TO LIVE IN POVERTY ONLY TO DIE BICHI. -Juvenal.

There was a clean bill of health

8th..

CORRESPONDENCE.

Government Salaries.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir congratulate Mr. J. P. Braga, the defender of the poor, for pleading on behalf of the local Civil Servants, re the recent Increase of the salaries of the Euro. pean Staff.

The Very Idea!

A kick for a kick fa the punish- mont meted out to pupils of tho council schools in Conesvill, Iowa.

The school board there approved the "Lit for tat" theory of dis- cipline when it acquitted Mrs. C.

Burnett, a teacher, of charges. of cruelty

to James Swails, an eleven-year-old schoolboy, when the boy persisted in kicking other children in the school yard

The attitude of the Telegraph on the 1907 scheme was that it was a one-sided arrangement in in the Colony yesterday. the interests of a body of officiala

The E. and A. Company's .. who had twice had their salaries Tands left Sydney on the 17th adjusted in the course of thirteen instant and is dus here on August years, and that an injustice was being done to those servants who were earning smaller pay, by leaving them out of account. That is almost the same argument that we have put forward during the past week. The grounds on which the higher-paid officials made their application, twenty-one years ago are precisely the same among those at Rugby School salaries are effected by the rise in at him in passing.

The B.A. degree was conferred at Cambridge on June 19. on Suon Wood Kwong and Ah Tah Tan, of Christ's College; and S. K. Tah, of Emmanuel College.

Sir, Charles and Lady Addis, Sir Newton Stabb, and Sir Travors Clarke and Lady Clarke wers Speech Day on June 23.

·

Work le proceeding rapidly in connexion with the Fair which is to take place at Macao in the com- ing nutumn. Many places are ma terlalizing and regulations are now

as those on which present-day dollar-anlaried servants ask for consideration of their claims-the stendy rise in the cost of renta But and commodities generally. there is this marked difference available.

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"..

materially changed for the better CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE in the case of the officers paid on a sterling basis. No longer have NON-CONDUCTOR

they to go into the open market and rent houses at current rates,

Residents are reminded that the and no longer do they have to pay passages for their wives and chall-first of this season's Promenade Concerts, arranged by the Hong- Corps, dren. But, in spite of these better kong Volunteer Defence conditions, they are being granted takes place this evening at Volun

will teer Headquarters, at 9.16. fresh congensions which involve the Colony in a cost of more than three lakhs a year. It Is pertinent to observe that the 1907, scheme, unlike the one just put into force, was brought before the Legislative Council for Anal endorsement, This suggests that public opinion was shown greater consideration in those days than 1s now the case. True, the present Unofficial. Members have approved of the new arrangement, but the public heard nothing of

it was until the matter

The least, that our fait accompli,

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIY JULY 20 1928

THEN AND NOW.

It is surprising how history repeats itself in Hongkong. We

A Japanese youth, age 16, wAD admitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from the effects of an attack by a bull terrier belonging to Mr. Morita of No. 218, Queen's Road East,

Really, one fails to understand the mentality of those who have recommeniled an increase of the salaries for Europeans, ignoring in toto the poor local Staff, who have good and special claims to considerate treatment on the ground of high living costs in Hongkong.

If those who draw sterling

the cost of living, how can the

PRINCI KIERANI MENANTIAL ENGINETIZEN SOCHUREST About Hong Kong.

Do you know that——

Two Consuls fought a duel with pistols at Kowloon In 18727

The occurrence took placo on July 29th, of the year named, the duellists being the Consuls for Spain and Peru. A dispute over a card debt was the cause. The Poruvian Consul was wound- ed in the arm, hut not serious- ly. Subsequently, both partici- pants were tried at the Su- preme Court, and, pleading gulity, were each fined $200,

Warrants for the arrest of all persons present at the affair were issued, but, except that ball was allowed them, we cannot discover what transpired from the prosuCU-

tions.

Sir Cecil and Lady Clementi: were among the guests of Mrs. Amery at an "at home" at 112, Subordinate Officers, with much They analler salaries, withstand the Eaton-square on June 20.

attemted the General Bame burden without difficulties also Assembly of the Order of St. John and hardship?

on June 25,

I hope that someone will como forward and fight out the just cause to receive blessings from Mr. E. W. Hewn of No. 3, Ashley the Lord on High, Who makes no Road reports to the police that distinctions in the physical dis- package containing a hundred attribution of His wealth among house,some time yesterday be that fact in looking over the that the claims of the dollar-paid tween 2 and 7:30 pm. The pared Telegraph files of twenty-one Government servants receive the of stones is valued at $345. years ago, for every now and then consideration to which they are we come across matters which still

justly entilled. periodically recur and give rise to considerable discussion. Such a matter, is the question of the salaries paid to civil servants,

I have been constantly struck by Unofficials can now do is to se, quamarines were stolen from his His creatures.-Yours, etc.,

representations had been made,

The two Chinese charged at the Criminal Sessions with highway robbery near King's Park werb yesterday afternoon found guilty. Mr. Justice Jacks sentenced them

each to five years' imprisonment

and twelve strokes with the birch.

The teacher submitted the case to the pupils of her room, and the punila decided that justice demand- ed that Jamics also ba kicked,

The teacher approved the son- tence, so the offender was placed against the wall while all the child- him, each one taking a lusty kick

ren whom lo hnd kicked filed by

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He was up for an American Unf- versity entrance examination. His intellectual attainmenta were known to ba slight, but the powers that be were anxious to pass him, for ho was a magnificent athlete.

"Just put down something," pleaded his tutor. "Write down anything you can, and we'll get you And Through somehow or other." he left, his pupil to it.

Ho aut for two hours'gazing at' the virin paper before him. Then he put down the one word, "Dam."

Later on his tutor came up to him more in sorrow than in anger. "Wa can't pass you," he said despairing- ly. You've spelt it wrong!""

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Kingston policeman: I persuad- ed him to go away, but he would." not go.

Father to the Willesden magis- trate. Please give me a paper so that my son shall behave himself at home.

Chairman at Kingston of a man accused of drunkenness: Did ho use any bad language? Policeman: He was beyond it.

Tottenhum policeman: Hia language was so bad when I called to see him that I was forced to walk away..

Solicitor at Kingston: Do you collect the rent at this cottage? Witness: I try io:

a

Walthamstow wife: When I hear.

wanna say how good some nich

are I know that she is single, JUSTICE.

Judge Bairstow, at Clerkenwell: P. S.-I have just read your thought that digging was one of editorial article of Wednesday in those gentle exercise which old men which you strongly plead for the might take up as well as young men. poor. class. Please accept my Barrister: Diving sand at the heartfelt thanks and congratulaseaside is one thing, and digging up Lions for this.

roads with a pickaxe, is another,

Kowloon, July 18th, 1928.

“HOTEL IMPERIAL”.

Lieutenant Paul Almay, in

"Golfers," remarks a writer, "are generally truthful."

Though mental reservation Is admotimes justified, Especially at golf, when

There are things one met hide, Yet on the hole, papas and sone Who golf are mostly. Washingtons,_____ Truth with thom is instinctive.

When they land in the rougli, Or if their ball is bunkered,

"I've heard them oft enough, As towards the trouble they draw

nigh,

Say that they do not like the lle,

Miss Ethel Mayes, of Leyton, had

Nanking and Twinnnfu. Two and a half months after now once again to the fore. Our the regrettable Tainan affair,

This morning's Harbour Office. files show that in July, 1907, there Japan is making a serious bid to

AN EFFECTIVE WAR FILM. was, as now, a new scheme intro-gel it. wiped off the slate, and we Reports showed an improvement

Pola Negri appenra. in "Hotel [dured for the granting of exchange may be certain it will not be the British Freights. Of the four Henyy-figures, British_returned three, with a total of approximate-Imperial, the chief attraction-in compensation to offciais paid on a fault of the Japanèse If the nego- sterling hadis. 11 arose, as the tiations drag on interminably by 20,000 tons. There were 28 de- the current programine at the vessels in Queen's Theatre. This is a war anfortunately has been allowed to partures, leaving 53 recently-introduced, sehen did.

happen with regard to the Nanking harbour, of which 21-were British. story, set In Austria, but without any actual fighting scenes beyond

· *** because these officers, considered | Incident. The Nationalist Govern-

some elever superimnosed pictures Col. Duarte Veiga, Director of which are most effective.. that their pay was inadequate, and,ment has been formally requested after considerable reluctance, the to send plenipotentiary delegates Public Works, is temporarily in

charge of the Macno Port Works Austrian Hussar, manages to get the then Secretary of State for the to Tsinanfu, the scene of

Department, pending instructions through the Tussian lines Into an Colonies, Lord Elgin, was moved trouble, to meet the Japanese from Portugal Col. Veiga is an Austrian frontier town and drags her left leg amputated in a street to make a number of concessions presentatives, and four terms, defatigable worker and as Director himself to the Hotel Imperial, near her home recently. She had In favour of those on whose behnit enumerated by the Tokyo Govern-of Public Works has already where, on the arrival of the Rusheen caught and pinned by the wing extraordinary ability in the mutter

sian Headquarter Staff at the of a private motor car, which ment, have been laid down as the of improvements made by him.

hotel, he poses as a walter, ite is mounted the pavement to avoid basis of negotiation. The "terms" What is especially interesting in are identical with the demands |

The annual reunion of the befriended by Anna Bedink, an collision, When a doctor ar connexion with the pleas of the mule by neral Fukuda imme- Victoria (Hongkong and South attractive servant, with whom berived he found that it was im- Busalan General eventually be out first amputating her leg below stering-salaried ajetals of twenty-diately Japanese troops had China) Doiresan Association was falls into love and with whom the possible to extricate the girl with- one years ago Is that they were the situation in hand, with one held on June 27 in Victory House. comes infatuated. Then compli-the knee. The girl remained con. Lelecster-square. The chair wis based principally on the Increased subtle, but extremely important taken by Sir Claud Severn, and the cations ensue, culminating in the sclous while he worked for twenty de-chief speakers were Lady lesio sheating of a famous Russian minutes, using only a local annes cost of living in Hongkong. exception. General Fukuda

sired a personal apology from (author of "Two Gentlemen of secret agent by Almasy, and, ofthetic. She was then removed to Several beads of departments

of the town by the Austrians, with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. It was Ching") and Dr. A. J. Watson, of course, the subsequent recupture hospital." Issued a memorandum on the sub- realhed that such an apology would Yunnan Fu,

the happlest results for Almasy fect, in which they drew altention render untenable Chiang Kai-

The Hotel President at Macao is and his sweetheart.

The story is very effectively excessive house rents, high cost shek's position as the Nanking to be opened by His Excellency the of clothing (because of the neces-milltary leader, more certainly at riovernor of Macao: on Sunday, interpreted, and special mention sity of providing against both hot that time a most critical stage in This splendid edifice in the first is due to Pola Negri as the servant and cold weather), Hability for Chiang's career. Several reports building of the sky scraper type to and George Slegmann in the role able for the many Innovations with much power, especially in the steamer fares for wives and chil-were circulated suggesting that be erected at Macao and is remark of the Russian' General. Both act dren when taking Home leave, and Marshal Chiang had complied possessed, some ahown at Macao mere dramatic incidents.

average. higher wages to servants. Indeed, with the demands of Fukuda in for the first time. The total cost photography is also well above the high rents and increasing dollar order to pursue the Northern is estimated at over $500,000...

campaign, but it may be certain

A native of Equador found des prices for most commodities were that he did not, nor at any time titate was charged before Major THE WEEK'S PICTURES. cited as "the key to the position." Intended, to do go. The Japanest The Secretary of State at first set Government is no longer following. Willson this morning and plead. that line, but is insisting insteaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Elston, his face sternly against making upon an apology from the Nanking Prosecuting, salt, that defendant any concessions to the applicants, Covernment; the remainder of appeared to be a respectable per- caperlally holding that there were the demands, punishment of those son in stralfened circumstances. responsible for the outrages, in- The defendendunt had asked to be

VARIED SELECTION FOR TO-MORROW.

The

Tominy was having, dinner at a little friend's house one day and was very intercated when the father said grace.

"My daddy doesn't say that. "Doesn't he, dear?" grace," he remarked.

"No, we don't always have a looks over the table and says, 'Good Lord, what a dinner!""

grace, but when we do, Daddy just

EXCHANGE RATES.

insumcient grounds for granting demnification for Japanese losses committed to the House of Daten- morrow's Telegraph will ho found New York any allowances to officers whore and the provision of guarantees ton. The necessary

made.

salaries exceeded £1,000

per for the future, mark no change in annum, but he eventually agregattitude in any other respect. The

order was

The pictorial features of to- Parts

Brussels extremely interesting.

Geneva There will be two pictures taken Amsterdam in connexion with the lawn bowls Milan Mears, W. Fleming, J. Reed and match last Sunday at Shameen Berlin to a scheme of a temporary charat decision now 'rests with Mr. C. T.

Wang, and we trust he will pay R. Andrews of the Naval Dockyard between Hongkong and Canton Stockholm ter. Five years previous to this, more attention to Japan's démon Recreation Club were all recipients players, one showing the teams Copenhagen

The Diocesan Boys' School Vienna there had been efforts made to get strations of good faith in with on Wednesday of gifts from mem- and another the play in progress. Onlo

Helsingfors dome exchange compensation drawing 5,000 troops from Shan-bers of the Club, on the occasion

tung and the issue of orders for of their departure from the Colony groups will appear, these being Frague scheme put Into force, but a

Spocial pictures from Home will Lisbon the evacuation of 7,000 mere to-morrow. Mr. Fleming was pro. the School and Boarders' Prefects. scheme then propounded by the shortly, than to his own coloured anted with a handsome silver Secretary of State, whereby eas regarding Sino-foreign rela-tea service net, Mr. Reed was given include the first section of the Athens

Andrews gift took the form of a Singapore Naval Base, the presen- Rio .... officers were to receive half thairions. It is impossible to forecast tortoise shell set, whilst Mr. 50,000-ton floating dock for, the Bucharest

the nature of the reception likely.

Shanghai salary in sterling and the other to be accorded at Nanking to the gold watch. Mr. A. J. Coleman, tation of the Wightman Cup to Buenos Aires

draughtsman, a temporary add! British lady tennis players by Bombay

Yokohama half in local currency, was turped Japan offer to negotiate, but it is tional staff of the Naval Yard, was Princess Helene Victoria, and a of International STOED

Silver (spot) down.

Commenting on that, the certain that to be an safe ground, presented with an ivory statuette happy

China must be prepared to meet by his colleagues on his returning tennis players snapped. at Wimble Silver (forward) Telegraph remarked that_by...this | her responsibilities.

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