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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928,

DAY BY DAY.

CURIOSITY, IS ONE OF THE PERMA-

A Chinese caso of typhold was notified yesterday.

of the no-war scheme. If we take the Great War es an example; wo imagine that, even to-day, all the participants would argue that they NENT AND CERTAIN CHARACTERIS- fought in self-defence; cer-TICS OF A VIGOROUS INTELLECT.— tainly none..would admit that. war

Johnson.

was a part of its national policy.

When the scheme was first put forward in definito form, France was uneasy lest a goneral renuncia- tion of war should disablo her from coming to the aid of those weaker Powers whose territories she has guaranteed. "But that point has been met by an assurance, that if one nation attacks a second, in con- travention of the Treaty, a third nation may intertone. In fact, not only tan nution, allowed to fight in its own defence; but also in de-

HAS NO EQUAL fence of its allies if they are

APPROVED BY

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-LABORATOIRE CENTRAL D'ELECTRICITY—PARIB,

The name of Mr. G. H. Bond has been added to the list of authorised architects.

"An Noronha and Co, are the pub Observer," Messrs lishers of the Civil Serviço List.

The Government proposes to lense about 20,000 square feet of foreshore at Ma Tau Kok. The premium is $21,750.

Mr. F. C. Herose arrived here by signatories to the Treaty. Here the 6.9. President Lincoln. Ho is

again the Pact allows considerable- intitude to those subscribing to it.

There are other points, too, such as About Hong Kong. the rights of Powers to retain free- dom of action in certain regions,

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Treaty could easily be ignored by those wishing to follow a polley contrary to the spirit of the under- taking. However, something has { been gained by uniting the Old 'and the New Worlds in a common un- derstanding on this great : lesuc, and we hold the hope that all who KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. have subscribed" to it will observe

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1928.

the underlying spirit of this first serious effort to outlaw war.

Do you know that——

The first prospectus of the Hongkong und Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation was issued by a business. Arm in Hongkong?

This was in July, 1864, the firm being Messrs, Dent ́ ́ and Company. The capital was 5,000,000, in 20,000 shares of $260 each.

LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.

15-Strects and Ladies.

There are, in dealing with Hong-but hardly anybody knows its kong matters, two sides of the name. I have heard it referred to water, as I have, already pointed na "Paddy's Market." The point. out. And If, in my last letter, the of it in that the proceeds of many Kowloon, side, took, more than its local robberies eventually find share, this was because Kowloon their way there, and if you are. was the first to receive us, It was lucky you may pick up (50 we were in Kowloon that we grew out of told) some notable bargains. IC fed us royally on dishes delicate chief robber quite early in your the crysalis stage; Kowloon that you are unlucky you will meet the and new, (I think crab's ment cock visit, who, having duly sized you tail was the most impressive), and up, will precedo you into each shop set before us ice-cold, water of a in turn and, under tho..pretenco clear, sweet quality that seems to of assisting you in the search for be denied to Victorin, for all its economical merchandise, will fix wonderful catchment system and the price with the shopkeeper Blier beds. Even the island water below which he must not sell. If comes as a blessing after six weeks you meet with this worthy, you of an oil-driven vessel's doubtful might as well give up and try supply, but it la poor stuft never again another day. theless, though occasionally en- K. introduced us to the placu, livened by more than a suspicion being in need of a drill or a of chlorine. However, Hongkong spanner, I forget which. (IC, Is was never, I believe, noted for one of those people who are usual- being a water-drinking community, fly in need of a drill or a spanner). no doubt for this very reason. We gained a partial victory over Much can be. Inferred from the the chief robber by dividing forcos drinking habits of all animals. I and attacking. two shops at once. intend to say a little more on this There is a wonderful collection of subject at a later date.

odds and ends, carlos, inlaid trays,

So in Kowloon we woke again as tools, electric fans, fountain pens, it were to a knowledge of the life junk of every description. I must that swarmed around us, a light-confess that no very notable bar- hearted life on the whole-hs agains have come my way as yet, background, the hoots of shipping but I have replenished the tool In the harbour, floating in through chest of the car and I hope nobody shouts, cries, laughter, and afrecognizes then. vigorous and chronle clearing of were

The merchants forming the Provisional Committe Messra. F. Chomley, A. F. Heard, Thomas Sutherland, G. F. Maclenn, D. Lapraik, W. Nissen, H. B. Lemann, W. Schmidt, A. Sassoon, R. Brand, P. Franijce, W. Adamson, G. J. Helland and R. Dhunjee- shaw,

The Bank was opened on January 1st, 1865, with Mr. V. Kreaser as the first Manager.

Its present authorised capital in $50,000,000.

Drastic Stops in Egypt. The political crisis in Egypt has taken a totally unexpected burn. King Fund's action In/ |dissolving both the Chamber and Senate for a period of three years is drastic in the extreme, though, WAR RENUNCIATION. parenthetically, one is not surpris- ed that the disorder and in- efficiency of the administration on his way to Singapore to under what la cailed popular gov Rubber Co.

establish a branch of the Goodrich

erament has exhausted his

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direction of disarmament. Time

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threats, the whole punctuated by But to take your pleasure in the what our preconceived nowajiaper streets of Hongkong there is no fancios of pirates, robbers and need to buy. Just to wander up Bolsheviks told us must be fre- and down and feast your eyes on quent bursts of rifle and machine- the new-found teeming population gun fire, but which turned out to going about their several occupa- be merely the necessary cleansing tons, is in itself a joyous educa- of the surrounding spirit world ton. All kinds are hero, from the from devils and undesirable nucos- stout, comfortable-looking gentle- try by means of crackers.

man in a long white allk coat, to the coolle clad in shorts and

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We crossed the ferry and Invad-(perhaps) a singlet rolled up ed, the streets of Hongkong. I under his armpits; from the pea think the first thing that strikes sant woman in black cont and the newcomer is the crowds. Trousers, to the exquisitely dainty suppose somebody has some idea young lady with her small figure of the number of people there are neatly glad in the most lovely In Hongkong, but it can't be an coloured silk, and no hat to ruin accurate one. Particularly in the her glossy raven hair. narrower streets that point th] If I was of a cantankerous dis- irregular curves up the steep hill-position I should be tempted to....

The majority of these woman with her representativo

In the sense that It betokens a present-day widesprend bias in favour of peace, the acceptance of ever, to admit the failure at this lasia and China Totograph Com-wall

patience. It is one thing, how- The Eastern Extension, Austra-side, they throng from wall to compare the average Chinoso the Kellogg Anti-War Treaty by stage of Egyptian politicians to pany, Ltd., announce that tele-streets are marked "no motore," English sister. Fortunately I was Britain and other Great Powers can justify the introduction of consti- graphic communication with and hudced several consist merely born amiable, if not positively gal- be regarded as a most welcome tutional government, and another Shanghai and beyond has been re- of hundreds of steps, reaching innt, and with the recollection of

established.

right across the road and leading the presence in the Colony of such development. It is at any rate ato erase important Articles of the

on and on from terrace to terrace obviously vital souls as our one- step in the right direction, but its Constitution, and we should not be

Miss Helen Shaw, who arrived every house is a shop or workshop, tell myself that, after all, looks of climbing houses, Practically time correspondent, "Femina," I value must necessarily be some surprised if the British Govern-here by the 8.3. President Lincoln, and in addition many of the streets are not everything. I will permit what discounted unless it is follow-ment which gave Egypt her con- is to be married here to Mr. Harry have stalls down each side purvey-myself merely the one observation, ed up by some serious effort in the stitution tras something to say in Mohler, Secretary of the Philipping ing moally fruit, ten, vegetables that I have never yet seen a Chinese

the matter. It is evidently the Inter leave for Manila.

Manufacturing Co. They will and cooked foods. One or two woman who could by the widest streets are given aver mainly to stretch of interpretation, be called will tell whether the Treaty is to intention of King Fund to rule the country personally for a period of

ono particular form of merchan-gross. be effective for the purpose for

His Majesty the King has adise. We found (amongst the We are, of course, in many ways, three years, and which it was designed. That de this, he has suspended the Article Ilon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton to be street, a curio atreet, a furniture civilisation than

in order to do proved the appointment of the more Chinese quartors) a shoe still in a more barbarous state of penda largely on the manner of its requiring the Government to orderan Unofficial Member of the Execu-street, a silk street, a cloth and Republic. I remember reading in the Célestini elections within two months of ative and Legislative Councils nice cotton street, a picture framers a hook by a certain lady who was dissolution, while newspapers will the Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, street.

touring China a few decades ago he subjected to a strict censorship. resigned.

Des Voeux Road, down which with the laudable object of in- the trams run, apart from a mum-ducing Chinese ladies to give up Amongst the passengers who ber of large stores, sells mainly footbinding, how with a sublime Manchester goods and German curiosity she happened one day to Mr. W. F. Arndt, thermos flasks. Queen's Rond, intrude on the privacy of a young running parallel from the other Chinese lady who was undergoing alde of the Hongkong Hotel, goes her toilette. She describes with

The Wafdists appear to be exceed- ingly angry with the course map- ped out by the Royal Deeres and arrived here by the as. President were determined to hold their poli-Lincoln

Was

wife.

been

LAW THAT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS.

| Interpretation and on the good faith of the signatories. If we say we are a little dubious of the rent value of declarations of this type, it is not because we have any wish to discredit the motives of those initiating them, but because they tical meeting at Tanta in spite of General Agent of the Dollar Co. are by their very nature apt to be the specific bau by the Governin langkong, with his

ment. At any rate, we can

at They have been on vacation in in for silk, jade, ivory, and mus-remarkable naiveto the revulsion rather ambiguess in their least be sure the leaders of the the States,

sage eatabllaliments. Chinese with which the Chinese lady phraseology and leave loopholes Nationalista as. they choose to

signs hang. in hundreds from evidently regarded her; how she through which it is possible for the decision lying down, and that Colonial Commercial

either side, their posters are plas-shrank from her sight and called call themselves will not take the It is hereby notified that the tered on every pillar, and if you to her attendants. The English- unprincipled to escape the obligaturmoil is likely to reign unlessLimited, the General Exchange in all the swarming throng, never sent in her apologies for the dis- Company, wander for at Grst you will see woman, of course, withdrew and tions which they have undertaken. very definite steps are taken to Company, Limited, the Yue Taka European face or an intelligible tress she had caused; but in her

If there is a weakness in the students in control. King Fuad Company Limited, have

keep political agitators and Company, Limited, and the Sedan sign, and you will begin to feel comments on the incident she Treaty and its implications It is well may feel that the irrational struck off the Register,

perhaps a little lost as your eyes refers merely to the strange in relation to the right of self-de- elements, who prematurely discard-

become bemused with this over-seclusion in which Chinese ladies whelming presence of an idea-still live, that one should be so fence. That issue was raised bothed the British Treaty offer in a fit His Majesty the King has ap-graphic literature. by France and Britain when Mr. Brought British warships to Egypt Hon. Mr. R. A, C. North to be an At Home we are taught in our never occurred to her that the girl

of petulance, and who later proved the appointment of the

Jupset by the unexpected appear- One thing you must never do,lance of a foreigner. It naturally Kellogg first made his proposals, by a misguided effort to force the Officia! Member of the Executive youth, "when in doubt, ask a whose privacy she had invaded, and their plea for further light on Public Assemblies Bill through and Legislative Councils during policeman." it resulted in

And as we grow up and who had spent all her life Parliament, will benefit by a rest. his tenure of office as Acting Sec- we are apt to accept this as one surrounded by the beautiful pro the issuing of a Three years in which to reflect on relary for Chinese Affairs. American Note. In this, Mr. the errors which occasioned the Kellogg contended that the right King's disapproval may bring of self-defence was implicit and them back in 1981, a litle more subdued in their enthusiasms, and undeniable-an essential of sover-perhaps a little wiser. Develop. eign power which need not be ments will be watched with stated. Writing on the subject, extreme interest in Great Britain. just after Mr. Kellogg's Note, wis fasued, Sir Frederick - Pollock, an accepted authority on international law, made this apposite remark: "I wonder whether Mr. Kellogg has reflected that Implied exceptions Geneva may turn out to be wider than ex- Berlin

Oslo press ones." At any rate, Britain

Helsingfors has accepted the Treaty on the dis- Athens tinct understanding that it docs Buenos Aires

Hongkong not impair the right of acif-defence, New York and, in accordance with Mr. Amsterdam

St ́ckholm Kellogg's assurance, that each

Vienna State alone is competent to decide Madrid when the circumstances necessitate Bucharest

Bombay ... recourse to war for that purpose. Yokohama

Brusselai It is easy to understand that signa-

Milan tories to the Treaty should. want. Copenhagen this point mado thoroughly, clear, Prague

Lisbon but the conceding of the right to

Tio each Power to define what is and Shanghal what is not self-defence does seem Silver (spot)

Silver (forward) Ito detract from the practical value |

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

London, July 20.

"CRYING SCANDAL," SAYS HIGH COURT JUDGE,

J

of the immutable Jaws of nature, ducts of a culture two thousand But, like all natural laws, there is years old, was gonuinely revolted generally a flaw to be found some-by the apparition, that burst so where. In this case there is a very suddenly upon her,—the stays, the distinct flaw at Hongkong. I once shaped jacket, the gored skirt, the asked the way to a magistrate's black boots, the terrible. hat, the house of a policeman who was abnormal figuró.... standing in the same road within two hundred yards of the place. I might have asked the way to Timbuctoo.

No, if you get lost in Hongkong,

Thank goodness we have grown more. rational, in our dress. So- rational indeed are we that there actually seems to be some sort of pause in the hectic changes of But ean we

Mr: Justice Rowlatt recently condemned in the strangest terms all you need do fa to jump fito European fashions. the wording of Bection 21 of the the nearest ricksha, wave your yet pretend to such an eye for what. 124 Finance Act, 1922, which was in hand in the direction from which is just unaffectedly beautiful as 25.25 troduced by Sir Robert Horne, you have come, and you will very exists, or at any rate did exist 20.37 then Chancellor.

soon find yourself back in civilisa in China, before European in- .18.20

The judge, who

came was trying ation, either at the Star Ferry, the fluence

to disturb .10814

.the 3704 case dealing with income tax, Hongkong Hotel, or the Club, the serenity of their outlook? What three centres fron which all Euro-we can endeavour to do is to in- 47.3/18 said:

,2/01/ "It is a crying scandal that pean life radlated.

prove the serenity of our own 4.881 legislation by which the subject is

putlook; and for this, thera ara 12.08% taxed should appear in the Statue And then, of course, there is singularly enchanting opportuni- 18.16 Book in that utterly unintelligible always Cat Street. I don't know ties to be found daily in the 34.40% form. It cannot be understood by why it is called Cat Street, Its devious and crowded streets of 20.4214 any layman, or by any lawyer name is something quite different, 'Hongkong.

795% without a prolonged study and

1/6,20/82

620784 without having all the law books 1/10.21/82 at his elbow,

$34.91 "I am told by the Attorney-

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The Rov. F. C. Young, for the An Order has been made by the

18.19 General-and, I am suro rightly last five years minister of the Con-overnor-in-Council whereby aur 104 that it is only in this form that gregational Church in Bellingham, vey, and registry fees payable un- .2.8/16 | the legislation can be got through, Kent, who has accepted the padder the Merchant Shipping Ordin~ .5.59/64 "Then all I have to say is that"|torate of Union Church, Hongkong,ance have been reduced by one .2/7% the price of getting this legislation on the retirement of Mr. Macon-half in respect of the yachts of .27.1/16 through ja that the people of this chic, sails for. Hongkong 10 yachts club which appear in the

country are taxed by laws they September. -British Wiralosa.

Navy List. cannot understand;"