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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1928.

localised authority to secure the

DAY BY DAY.

IF YOU MAKE MONEY YOUR GOD,

extradition of an alleged offender by the more process of making the application. The present safe-IT WILL PLAGUE YOU LIKE THE DEVIL guards requiring the establish--Fielding.

the

Albans, with the Australian mails, The E. and A. Company's 6.B. St. is due hero at daylight on Wednes- day.

ment of a prime facic case aro There was a clean bill of preserved, and it is for the Gov-health in the Colony over ornor to decide whether the in-week-end. dividual or body making the ap- plication can be regarded as "Chinese authority" for the pur- poses of the Ordinance. It is true that no objection to aurren~ der of the fugitive is to be taken on the ground that the extradition crime is not described in the re- quisition, in the Governor's order. The rainfall registered at the Botanic Gardens, during August or in the magistrate's warrant, in totalled 17.08 inches. There were the technical terms of English 14 days when no rain fell, Jaw, but this is merely because

HAS NO EQUAL Chinco law does not run parallel

APPROVED BY

-BRITISHI BOARD OF TRADE-- -FIRE OFFICES COMMITTEE

PHYSIKALISCH-TECUNISHE REICHBANSTALT-GERMANY-- -LABORATOIRE CENTRAL D'ELECTRICITY-PARIS.

The Empress of Asia, from Shanghal, is due here to-morrow morning and will sail for Mantin at |6 p.m. on Wednesday.

The theft of 120 fathoms of rope,

valued at $120, from the s.5. Chak- to English in all respects. There-Bang has been reported to the fore requirements will be met if police by the master, Mr. E. V.

Bishop, the documents referred to describe offene or recito facta which sub- atania amount to the offences

The new Minister of Union Church, Hongkong, the Rev. F. C. Young, accompanied by his wife, is

RETURNING FROM LEAVE.

HONGKONG RESIDENTS BY

P. AND O. BOATS.

Lists of P. and O, anilings from Home show that the following Hongkong residents are returning dates named: shortly, leaving London on the

The Very Idea!

"No dogs allowed" and "No husbands allowed" are the warn- ing inscriptions inscribed on two large signs at the entrance to Sylvan Grove, Banke River, on the Vermillion, in the Illinois cornbelt, where 50 wives of local farmers are holidaying free from house- hold cares, including children. Khiva, August 23rd.-Mr. and

The occupants of this Adam- Mrs. Wm. Armstrong, Miss Arm-lcas Eden apend their time swim- strong, Mrs. L. E. Hopkins, Mr. ming, boating and fishing.

One husband, interviewed as R. F. Hall, Mr. J. H. Mortlock, Miss C. N. Oswald, Mrs. H Tho was opening a tin of cornod beef for supper, and he guessed Pearce, Master Pearce, Mr. and wo menfolk can stand it ao long Mra. Thomas, Miss E. Thomas, Mr. as them wimmen can."

Venacy.

Moren, August 17th.-Mr. and Mrs, Aplin, Mr. E. R. K. Bovill, Miss M. Colbert, Mrs. G. E. Crabb, Mr. H. L. E. Dwin, Mrs. and Miss Groundwater, Miss K. E. Gordou, Misa Kidd, Mr. A. McVean, Miss P. Rex and Miss Spradbury.

Macedonia, September 7th--Mr. A. Allison, Mrs. A. G. Anderson, W. J. Barling, Mr. A, H. Compton, Miss G. Chectlo, Mies Duerden,

UNDERBRAUMKRAUTÉ TRAINERS DES BARKSPOREKTION

About Hong Kong.

NO PERIODIC REFILLING for which the surrender is grant leaving for Home by the P. and O. Miss S. M. Angel, Mr. and Mrs.

CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE

NON-CONDUCTOR

ed. There are other very desir-liner Macedonia on the 7th instant. able changes reflected in the draft of the amending Ordinaned which of ELECTRICITY

should have the effect of setting RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE.at rest doubts which have arisen during the hearing of recent ex- Typos for Mutor Usta, & Eić,

tradition applications. Running

Amongst tho, passengers who ar- rived here by the President Taft from Manila to-day were the Rev, and Mrs. E. Dowatne, the Rev. and Mrs. E. W. L. Martin, and Mr. Geo, Lerrigo.

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A young Chinese woman, found through all the proposed altera-suffering from poison at the tions in the law is an obvious de P.W.D. we kshop at Whitfield, KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd sire to facilitate its operation, and yesterday, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital. A this should be to the mutual ad-police report issued this morning states that the polson was self- administered.

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vantige of Hongkong and the Chinese authorities making the re- quisitions.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gardner wish

to tender their thanks to allly friends for their expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement and for the floral tribules sent..

DEATH.

GOULBOURŃ-On August 27, 1928, at the Paulan Hospital, Shanghai, William Ernest Goulbourn, aged 9 years.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Do you know thal-—-

A former Governor of Hong- kong, Sir John F. Davis, was a famous Chinese scholar and was the author of the only really good work on China that had up to then been written?

Prior to coming to Hong- kong as Governor' in Bay, 1844, Sir John Davis had lived and aludied much in the country, and was knighted by Her Majesty for his ser: vices in the East,

Davis Street; Hongkong, was named after him.

JUDEMENSINCE KITSAVAREJIITZMANINA TUBE KAC

A Chinese who was charged be- fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow- We should, of course, be strong-loon Magistracy this morning with against any amendment of the being in unlawful possession of law which tended to deprive pure- 3.5 mace of prepared opium at the Mongkok Ferry Wharf was fined political offenders of the right $14 with the alternative of two of asylum in this Colony by the week's hard labour in default, trumping up of charges of an ex-

A boarder at "Longalde" Villa, traditable character so that an Victorin Road, Mr. Feriain, has Mra. M. E. Dalgleish, Mias C. Fer- innerent man might get into the reported to the police that he hand-gusson, Rev. T. A. Giles, Capt. clutches of his enemies. llonged $120, to a house-coolic to be. C. S. Hadaway, Mr. and Mrs. paid to Mrs. Little, the proprie-F. S. Harrison, Miss Horne, Miss kóng can never lend itself to such tresss for his hoard and lodging.F. E. Kitson, Mr. and Mrs. H, G. abuses of the law ng that, But The money was not given to Mrs. Lowder, Mrs. F. R. March, Mr. W. it is equally important that Chin-Little, and the coolie has disap- Muller, Miss P. Mallins, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Itadger, Mr. and Mrs, peared. ese crimigals should not be able

Rapley, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. F. This morning's Harbour Oflçer Stone, Mr. N. L. Smith, Mias B. F. to find in Hongkong a sanctuary

reporla gave 13 arrivals and 10 H. Shearer, Miss Brown Tyrtoff, where they would be immune from departures of which six under Miss N. Tyrtoff, Mrs. 17. Wilks, punishment for offences commit- each head were British, leaving Rev. and Mra. T. B. Woods, Rev.

63 vessels in port, British 23. and Mrs. F. C. Young. ted elsewhere. Both these con-

Tonnage was fair and with all siderations appear to have been vessels carrying cargo, British given due weight in the draft Or-totals of freight were 14,000 tons, with the two highest Inward and the second best through.

MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1928.dinance now issued, and when the law is amended in accordance with its terms, the position should be far more satisfactory to the au- thorities both here and in Chinese territory.

EXTRÁDITION.

I will have been observed from our issue of Saturday that the Incal law in regard to the extradi- tion of fugitive criminals to China

G6.

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[A Libéral journal regretfully. admite that the details of the recend meeting of the Cabinet remain asi impenetrable secret.]

Hush the Tories are in coune!!;

Let us try to overhearl Suroly, that was Winston Churchill

Soundly boxing Jix's ear. Was that muffled sound an inkpot

Hurled by Joynson at his foot Scandalous to keep reportars

From this etertaining show.

That faint murmur must be Bald

win,

Calm of mien as is his wont, Saying, "Gentlemen, whatever.

You may think of saying--don't." There are no more sounds of con-

filet;

Yet be sure it is the cone, Rival. Mininters are struggling

In a murderous embrace.

Why have doors of auch a thickness? They have stopped tho keyhole,

too.

Still there is no harm in hinting " There has been a great to do. Sad that circumstantial details Cannot be by us supplied, Though the longest ears in London

Have been listening outside.

Inquisitive Pedestrian-"What is the lantern here for?"

Navvy "So that nobody falls over this heap of stones."

Pedestrian-"And what are the stones hero for?"

Navvy "Regorea, Sure to hold up the lantern."

Motorist, ut Mansfields. Tho motor-cycle was splashed with mud up to its eyes.

Magistratos' clerk, at Stratford, to two women who had quarrelled: Go home and try to be friends. It is only the weather. It may be cooler to-morrow.

Tottenham solicitor: You are a young woman; you are only fifty- five.-Woman: Thank you, sir.

Judge Sturges, at West London County Court: One

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of the dis-

Professor A/E. Heath, of Swan- addressing the Summer of the British Social

Was

Mr. Bingley, Marylebone magia.. Karmala, September 15th-Mrs.trate, to an Irishman: I suppose A. Coleman, Mr. S. Hellier, Mr. you were not drunk in the proper 11, M. Ince, Mr. and Mrs. W. Jun-Irish meaning of the torm; you king, Mrs. M. M. Morrison, Mr. were not really comfortably drunk. E. L, Mansfield, Miss M. Row and After conviction by Mr. W. Scho-Mr. K. G. Wallington.

Khyber, September 20th. Mr. feld at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for hawking without E. M. Allen, Mr. L. G. Blackburn, Beense, a Chinese complained Mr. J. C. Bowie, Miss E. B. Block that he was assaulted by the con- burn, Miss I. Clarke, Mr. J. Do-advantages of being married is Atable. The man was taken to naldson, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Dids-that you have to pay for your Hospital for examination but after bury, Mr. G. S. Graver, Mrs. R. V. wife. 12 hours observation it was report Harris, Mrs. D. R. Kilbee, Mr. R. S. The Soviet Way,

ed that he was suffering from Logan, Mrs. A. E. Martin, Mrs. G. 3. Mitchell, Miss F. M: Mic- "nothing."

chell,, Mr. and Mrs. W. Orr, Mr.sea, The raply of Soviet Russis to the invitation to align the Kellogg

News has been received in and Mrs L. C. Parker-Kees, Mr. School is again to undergo revision. Pact is typical of the oficial

Shanghai by telegram of J. Stevenson, Mr. R. Taylor, Hygiene Council at Cambridge, Difficulties which have arisen effiqsions which have of late the death in London of Mr. E. W. Rev. R. L. Upton, Mr. R. T. Woods, said it was extremely difficult to

years emanated from that country: Noel, an old and very well-known

Malwa, October Mrs. M. M. get rid of head hunting in a cer since, the Ordinance of 1889 was fustead of a plain affirmation of resident of the Far East,

Mr. II. Atwell, Mr., Mr. F. P. and Miss Lain part of the Empire. When amended last year make this willingness to sign, M. Litvinoff, or retired from Shanghai on oc- Anslow, Miss K, M. Anderson, Mrs. they forbade the practice of a desirable. These difficulties have on behalf of the Soviet, has in-count of illness some five years. A. Bloomfield, Rev. and Mrs, N. Young man going to a neighbour- ing village and capturing a head, dulged in rigmarole about been mainly caused by the con-universal and completo disarma- ago, and had since been resident Bland, Mrs. V. Baker, Mr. Thus, there was an outcry because the in London, where he passed away Carson, Rev. and Mrs. J. Curtis, young women prótested that they stitutional confusion which still menta measure which he must prevails in China, which has had know to be practicably impossible on Wednesday last at the age of Mr. J. II. Crocker, Mrs. P. had no means of judging whether Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Ca young man was worth while or the effect of enabling fugitives to affairs. There is the usual critic at the present juncture of world

Grimes, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Grimes, not. The business of head hunt. On arriving from Kongmoon Miss M. Grimes, Mr. J. Goddard,ing did not arise out of any pecu- profit from legal technicalities ism of Britain for reserving free-yesterday, a travelling trader re-Mr. A. J. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. H. liar blood-thirstiness. It ralsed on their behalf. The post-dom of action in the case of ported to the police that he was and Miss M. King, Mr. and Mrs. part of a body of moral, religious,

certain regions outside the British robbed during the voyage of a B. E. Maughan, Capt. A. A. Nicho- and social beliefs and customs... tion has therefore been far from Empire, but, so far as Reuter has large sum which his father handed las, Miss Nettleton, Mrs. J. B. On the whole, hend hunters, he satisfactory under the law as it told us, there is no complaint to him to buy goods in Hongkong. Newell, Mrs. Nicholas, Mr. and thought, were rather loss blood- now stands. If China were against America for a precisely He said he handed the money to

similar reservation in her favour. the pantry "boy" on the s.s. On Mrs. H. H. Perz, Mrs. J. N. Felly, thirsty than other tribes whers country ruled by one central au- The Soviet's willingness to adhere Lee, but the money disappeared Mrs. Pouvis, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. the practice did not hold good. thority, with laws common to all to the Pact is qualified by the right from the pantry where it was said Perry, Mrs. M. Pollock, Miss L E. That social custom could be

Rogers, Mrs. R. B. Robertson, Miss placed by customs rather lesa parts, the situation would be im- a secure modifications, but in to have been kept.

M. Sinton, Mr. W. F. Simmons, Mr. humanly destructive. Handshak view of the decision of the mensely clarified, but unhappily principal signatories that the Pact Passengers arriving this morn and Mrs, J. T. Shand, Mr. and Mrs. ing was a mera habit now and its L. M. origin was a custom forgotten. that is not the case. Until that should be left in its present forming by the 8.8. President Taft in-J. F. Wright and Miss

He shook hands with the director central authority emerges and a of generalities, we do not think eluded the Right. Rev. Bishop G, Wright.

on arrival in the hall. The rea son for it' vas that he took his general codification of the laws is that Russia has much chance of S. Moser, of the Eplacopal Church modifying what has already been in the Philippines, accompanied accomplished, it is obviously designed in Paris. But in epite of by Mrs. Moser, Masters R. E. and

dagger hand in his, and therefore was safer than he would have sirable to recognise actualities. Russia's poculiarly Russian out. Rodgers, sons of Mr. Rodgers;

been if he had not done so. Jook, it is a distinct gain to have the exchange broker, on vacation

|(Laughter.) That is what the new amendments secured her adherence, for it from school at Bagulo, and Mr. of Mr. Sergia to the Hongkong Inw set out to must never be forgotten that the J. Osmena, son

of the Philippines have the isolated position of Russia is Osmena, do, and they should

always a grava, menace to the Legislature. effect of facilitating the process of peace of Europe. It is a danger- extradition as between this Colony ous anomaly that Russia should be

outside the councils of the world, within the ambit of international Helsingfors and adjacent Chinese authorities.

and if she complains that it is the agreements, the more likely are Buenos Aires The principal points to be guard-attitude of the other Powers which her politielans to be content that Hongkong Now York ed against in amending the extra-has put her there she is also she shall exist aide by side but

Jargely to blame for her isolation, internally different from other Amsterdam dition law are that nothing should She has consistently made un-nations. Russia must give up her Stockholm

Vienna role as a violent political mission- on the "bour- be done which shall open the door scrupulous war

geofef" system of the so-calledary out to convert or subvert the Madrid to the abuse of the process by in-capitalist countries, and she has world to her belahevist syston of Bucharest dividuals or bodies making the ap- preached revolution to the masses, government, and she can never Bombay plication, or which shall deprive In turn, the capitalists of other hope to establish "universal and nations have retaliated by strik complete disarmament" while she the alleged fugitive of his rights, ing at her economically, and there drives the rulers of capitalist Copenhagen A study of the alterations now la constant "war"-destructive if countries to fear revolutions bred Prague of her intrigues. Russia must Lisbon proposed leaves us with the im- not bloody. Russla must learn to decide: Is it war or is it peace? Rio...

trant other nations as equals if pression that these points have she wishes to be so treated herself: If she loves peace with the ardour Bhanghai been kept well in mind. It will he cannot plot and bomoan her she simulates she will coase her Bilver (spot)

in the internal Silver (forward) fate at the same time. And the interference not be possible for any and every more that Russia can be brought politics of other nations.

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