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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1928.

chement with.Marshal Chiang Kai- shek which will result in such an elimination of the power of the ex- tremists that he will remain in Nanking to play a much larger in- fluence in the affairs of the coun- try than he could by merely re maining in charge of the Canton Administration. How far these reports are justified by facts will not be known until the results are disclosed of the new deliberations

DAY BY DAY.

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INTERESTING DINNER.

The Very Idea!

said to be pending in Nanking, small-pox and typhold. All were a.s. Tjikembang. The dinner was eighteen feet by sixteen feet, had

Chinese.

DEATH TO THE CHRISTIAN IS THE CHINESE ENTERTAIN DUTCH FUNERAL OF ALL. HIS SORROWS AND

GUESTS.

The first case under the Cho EVILS, AND THE RESURRECTION OFr ALL HIS JOYB-Aughey,

An interesting dinner party was shire County Council bye-laws un- hold at the Chiasse Merchants dar the Advertisement Regule- tions Act has been heard at Eddis-. The Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd, has declared an interim divi Club, China Building, last night, bury, and the defendants uned dend of 8% p.a. less Income TaxWhen Sir Shousan Chow and Mr.nominal fines of £1 in the case of Kwok Siu-lau were hosts to the the advertising company and" 55% "Yesterday's return of notifiable Captain, Chlef Officer and Doctor in that of the owner of the field in In this case a signboard,. diseases shows two cases each of of the Java-China-Japan Lince which the advertisement stood,

given as an expression of thanks been put up by the company, with for the courtesy and hospitality the words "Chester-4 miles," and These, it is said, are to begin on

Of the Chiness vessels held up shown to a party of Chinese mer underneath certain advertisements the arrival of Marshal Li and Marshal Chiang. Should the ex-for re-examination of lond lines, the chants and others, including to in Ray signs. This advertisemen

5.0. Fung Fat has been released for hosts, who recently made a trip to it was alleged was such as to dis- tremista still maintain their power, Cheong for one trip to Hongkong. Java aboard the Tjikembang. figure the antúral beauty of thes Amongst those present, in landscape, and the company was Marahal Li's position will become more acute. Either he will have On the occasion of the 25th addition to the hosts, were Captain summoned for exhibiting it and to rule "on his own," carrying the anniversary of the foundation of T. P. Schattenburg Mr. Lukon the owner of the field for permit-

be at his office, the Tilkerabang, Mr. M. J. Quiated, sympathy of the law-abiding and Agent will boat Home at nie onto (Chief Officer) and Dr. Manso, of ting and causing it to be exhibit- having to his credit the restoration York Buliding, on Monday, Sep-(Consul General for the Nether- of good relations between Hong-tember 17, from 11 a.m. to 12.80 lands); Mr. H. Bos (Vice-Consul), that the sign did not Infuriously kong and Canton and a

general Pm, rapprochement with Britain, or

For being in possession of 105 he must "knuckle under" to the po pfu lottery tickets in Reclama- Kuomintang. The tendency of the tion Street, Xaumati, a

weeks' hard labour, by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- About Hong Kong. trący this morning.

Mr. C. de Bruyn (Manager of the J.C.J.L.), Mr. A. H. van Nieuwon huijse (Passenger Agent of the

young mindent t

NO PERIODIC REFILLING Party under Leftist influence in to Chinese was fined $50, or six use any means to gain its ends, move against Marshal Li and a might be signalised in three ways a recrudescence of extreme Com-.

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DEATH.

XAVIER-Ureliana Amelia, age 82, died yesterday, at 6.30 p.m., at No. 25, Pilkem Street, Kow- loon, mother of the late Mr. Elias, Maria Xavier of Holt's Wharf, Funeral will take place at 5.16 p.m. to-day at Happy Valley.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY. HEPT. 13 1928

KWANGTUNG OUTLOOK

What is going to happen in Kwangtung? This is the under- current of all converantions In the Province that in any way turn on public affairs, or on any matter that desiderate security of living

The following forthcoming wed-. dings are announced. Mr. V. H. Moore, assistant bacteriologist, Mount Davis Road, to Miss I. M. A. Clarke, No. 67, London Avenue, North End, Portsmouth, en route to Hongkong by the .B. Khyber. Mr. P. Hien, clerk, Banque Indo Chine, No. 66, Robinson Road, to Miss M. Chan, No, 13, Sau Wa Fong, Hongkong.

As to the general situation in the Province, the atmosphere in Canton is still rather uncertain, whlist in various

of Kwangtung. parta

Leung Puen, 18 years of age,|| especially towards the north and who has been employed as a wai- actress for sometime. in a tea-house eastern borders, Communist tivity continues to be reported.at Dea Vooux Road Central, was How far political labour is regain ing influence and what precisely is happening within the Kuomintang is more difcult to gauge, but BO large an element has been pressed that we cannot doubt the existence of highly inflammable material, once the restraining hand becomes feeble or authority cop fused. These may be idle alarms, but they are sufficient to Indicate the serious nature of Marshal Li's problem. Much, as we have said, will depend on the deliberations which are due to take place when Marshals Ll'and Chiang, together with Mr. Wu Han-min, moet in Nanking..

unconscious state, having taken yesterday found in her home in an nn overdose of opium, dissolved in water, with a view to committing, suicide.

She was immediately rushed to hospital, where her con- BUPdition is said to be serious.

Indian Oll Price War.

woman

Do you know that-

Lower and Upper Albert Roads were named after Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Con- sort?

Arthur Street, Yaumati, was named after Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Whoad statue atands on the Praya, facing Black Plert

Barker Road, was named after Major General Digby Barker, who was General Off- cer Commanding in 1891, and who was the father of Lady May?

Caineron Road, Kowloon, was named after Major Gen- eral W. G. Came on, who was General Officer Commanding in 18857

Carnarvon Road, Kowloon, was named after the Earl of Carnarvon, who was Secretary Tor the Colonica, in 18677

Chamberlain Road, The Peak, was named after Mr. Joseph Chamberinin, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies In 18967

LATINESTEZIENTI SELINE PANASZOL

A further lot of Wuchow oplum was found by Revenue Officers.yes- terday on the waterfront, being

old carried by an who had it tied around her means of a girdle. waist by The woman was fined $2,000, or six months" hard labour, on ap-J.C.J.L), Mr. Stitger and Mr. pearing before Mr. R. E. Lindsell Nolthlus de Man (Netherlands at the Central Police Court to-day, Indian, Commercial Bank), Mr. W. The opium was confiscated us- G. van Oyen (Netherlands Trading Society), Messra. Lo Chung-wan, der an order issued by the Court.

LI. Tze-dong, J. D. Bush, Chan

A ease containing tin-foll, valu-Peck-chuen, Tsoy Pao-alen, Shum ed at $166, was yesterday morning Pak-ming, and Kwok Chan, found, apparently after having

During the evening, Mr. Quist been abandoned, in a acavenging, expressed thanks to the hosts for Inne off Soy Street. The police, on their hospitality to the Dutch having the case turned over to community, whilst Sir Shouson

For the defence it was argued

affect the scenery, but apparently the Bonch could not agree with their contention and infilleted the

fines recorded above.

There have now been several cases with regard to advertise- ment hoardings spoiling the scenery, which must tend to lessen, the number of erections of this sort one used to, and unfortunate- ly still does, aco in some parts of the country.

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Two elderly people had from a Highland glen ta holiday in Glasgow. Passing along a street one day, they read on. a brass plato:-". engraver, ground fiat."

"Oh, John," cried the old wo- man, "what a terrible death I"

"Aye," answered John. "It'l hao been ane o'thao steam roll- ers."

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There has been an orgy of de- bunking J. A. Hutton.

I love to tako don't you

A swell all starch and glue, And leave his pride defunct;

Till, sagging at the knees, He wilts by slow, degrees,

Debunked.

There are who dominato Us loons of low catate And awe the lowly ranked,

Until, as pricked balloons, They stand before the loons, Unswanked.

So have I seen the high

Fall, starlike, from the sky Befor the great `unwashed,

When, alipping in the mire, They sheepishly retire,

Diaposhed

Having exercised the patience of the presiding magistrate on three different days, a defendant was asked whether he had further avidence to offer, and he replied that he would like to call his wife. Mr. Archdall, C.P.M.: Do you want to call your wife?

The defendant (smiling broadly

able to trace the owner. The tin-to be a wonderfully interesting will tell. It better.

Issued three months after the them, promptly commenced en-Chow spoko of the enjoyable and clasping and unclasping his and the prospects of a quiet life, /problem has settled itself, the quiries, with the result that in ultimo which the party recontly hands): Well, she can only tell statement by the Government of very brief space of time they were spent in Java, which they found you what I have told you but she If the decision of the Fifth Plenary India on the recent kerosene price foil was found to have been stolen country. He said they had hos- Mr. Archdall: Very well, but if Session of the C. E. C. in Nanking, war in India between the Royal from the Wing Shing Fat shop, atitality extended them not only that is all, how can it help your

Dutch Shell group and the

by the Chinese community but by case when you have admitted the to abolish the Branch Political

Standard Oil Company, is, nover-419, Shanghai Street, Yaumati.

the Dutch as well.

facts. Councile, holds good, then Marshal theless, an extremely interesting

The Colonial Dispensary have

Mr. van Nieuwenhuijse respond-The defendant: Wel! I think I Li Chai-sum's Government is ipso document. Based on the reports

taken new premises situated in the facto dissolved, at least from the of the Tariff Board which

Ho Heng, Building, just across the ed and spoke of the aim of the would like the old girl to come directed to investigate the ques end of the current year. At the tion of safeguarding the oil indus- street from their present location. J.C.J.L. to provide every comfort along. It is just as well to let After. further consideration, moment, there is nothing stable in try in India from injury inflicted It is owing to the fact that their on their ships for visitors to Java, the women help us you know. sight to replace it, for the Central by the sale of imported kerosene ed, that the removal to a new ad- hosts to attend the Company's not to further delay proceedings, present building is to be demolish- and extended an invitation to the however, the defendant decided Committee as at present constituted at uneconomic prices, it is out-dress is necessary. When com- 25th anniversary celebrations on and closed his case.

WDB

MURDER REPRIEVES.

THE LAW JOURNAL” AND HOME SECRETARY,

While travelling on the Irish - mail'express train from Euston to Holyhead recently, Mrs. Fletcher, aged 26, wife of a Woolwich boot- maker, gave birth to a baby. daughter.

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Mr. Herbert Wilmshurst, the guard, said: "We had Just gone through Bangor when The "Law Journal," comment-passenger cemo to mo and told me

a woman in

spoken in its criticisms, though it pleted, the new store will be the 17th instant. is an incredible mixture of names accepts the position that no action modernly equipped and well stock- of all the parties within the is now called for. The outstand-ed with the many specialities of Kuomintang, and is unlikely ever ing feature of the report is the this particular trade. It is anti- exoneration of the Standard Oll cipated that the change-over will to

much authority. Company from ✓ exercise

responsibility, take place on October 1st. Should the Moderates be definitely either in respect of the sale of

This morning's Harbour Office thrown over by Nanking, they kerosene between September, 1927, must either ignore the decrees of and March, 1928, or as regards the reports gave fair arrivals and de initiation anywhere of price cut-partures, with British appearing the Central Council or fade out of bing. The striking disclosure that prominently under both headings. the picture, and to ignore the de- the Royal Dutch Shell group had Tonnage was comparatively low ing on the reprieve of the three that in the next compartment to

themselves, recognised the, claims of com- with inward freights less than the Brighton murderers, states that my van there was crets 13 to place

panies, who were members of the average and throughs showing a re-obviously this incident, follow-need of assistance. I found a man. technically at any rate, in an un-pool, to compensation for losses duction. British constitutional position and invite suffered as the, result of the price highest of the inward cargoes and ing so closely on the reversal who said he was a physician. He Won of Oscar Slater, will make moments the child was born. rebellion against their authority in war, bears out the finding that the second best of the throughs, after twenty years of the convic- came along with me, and in a foo the sacred name of Dr. Sun's Three the British firm led the movement with a total of more than 15,000t increasingly dificult to inflict With the idea of getting a doctor (and ambulance to meet the train the death penalty.

I throw a message wrapped in a "Sir William Joynson-Hicks," it towel out of the window as we proceeds, "has, notwithstanding passed a signal box, at the same the proceedings at the Assizes time whistling to attract the and before the Court of Criminal signalman's attention, but on ar Appeal, felt the scintilla of doubt rival at Holyhead I found the mess- which made the triple execution age had not been discovered. Impossible.

Principles.

Marshal Li has striven hard to avoid being placed in this position. The patience of his ardent British sympathies was strained to the ut most by his decision last March to go to Nanking. What measure of

recorded the

entirely. Whether or not they tons. There were 16 arrivals and were justified in a matter which 14 departures, leaving 61 vessels was not a vital concern of the in harbour of which 27 were Bri- enquiry which was held. For a tish. long time prior to June when a settlement was reached, there was bitter feeling between the Royal Dutch Shell and the Standard Oll Company oved the Russian oil contracts. The Royal Dutch

EXCHANGE RATES,

real peril attended this resolve we rightly claim that the oil deposits Paris do not yet know. Yet probably in Russia, which, the Sovlet Gov.

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Brussels

It showed the wisest statesmanship ornment has stolen, belong to them Amsterdam at the time. The popular imagina- wholly or in greater part, and the Berlin

company objected very naturally Copenhagen tion had been captured by the twp to the Socony's purchase of oil Vienna ideas of the Northern Expedition from Russia at a cheap rate, which Helsingolfors and of the unity of the nation un-amounted to giving a competitor Labon an advantage through the most Athens

Buenos Aires der the Party, and there was, and noxious medium possible in the Shanghai is, no room in China for a leader eyes of the Royal Dutch Shell Yokohama who does not give an impression of group. However, this has now New York

been settled. The Standard Ol! Geneva ardour in such projects. Marshal Company has agreed to take steps Milan Li accordingly took the risk in to compensate the former owners Stockholm March, and then again this August of the Russian properties In Oslo.

future contracts with the Soviet. Prague he wont with Mr. Chu Chuo-hsin to There can be no suggestion that no

Madrid Nanking to align himself with the the price war was anything but a

Bucharest forward move of the Party to con- legitimate business measure, Bombay trol China. There are now per- though it is astonishing that minor Hongkong

companies in the pool should have Silver (spot) sistent rumours that he and the made a claim for protection in the Silver (forward) Moderates have reached a rappro- circumstances revealed.

Seen in her room at the Station

London, Sppt. 12.. "We are glad of the result, and Hotel, Holyhead, Mrs. Fletcher 124.20 we admire his courage in not said: "After the baby was born ..84.00

abstaining from reversing his own the doctor blessed me, and added 13.10%

decision so recently given. But a "May the grace of God be upon penalty which depends so clearly you! He also expressed the wish 84.4214 on the Home Secretary for the that the baby should be called 192% time being having a mind capable Graco, In the compartment there 10714 of doubt becomes Itaalf the sub-was a gfri who stuck to me to the

976 Joct of increasing doubt."

last. No married woman could be found in the train

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"A comment an the appointment 10.21/82 of the Police Commission is also

A gentleman stayed the night 4.85 1/82 made by the "Law Journal." It at a hotel, and when he got his 25.20 proceeds: "While, however, the bill next morning be found it 92.15 scope of Inquiry is aaple, we pretty stiff.

18,13 Imagine that doubt will be felt! When he looked up the landlord 18,19 whether the members of the Com- to pay the bill the latter remark¬ 108% mission as a whole are of the ed:Would you care to have -20.20% .5.20/82

necessary standing to undertake one or two views of the hotel, air? We've just had some nice ones 707%

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the task.

"A stronger commission might "No, thanks," said the visitor well have been expected for per shortly, "I've got my own views haps the most important inquiry of this hotel, and they couldn't of recent years.

be printed."