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The B. and A. Company's 5.8 Tanda from Moji is due here on the 29th instant. ́ ́.

H.M.S. Berwick left Osaka on Sunday for Yokkaichi in continua

tion of the Japanese tour.

Mr. J. Somerville has been ap- pointed Chief Officer of the 3.3. Chuen Chow, vice Mr. D. Scully.

Only routine items appear on the agenda of the Sanitary Board for its meeting to-morrow afternoon,

Mr. J. W. Collom has left hos- pital and has resumed command of the a.s. On Lee vice Mr. Hall,

The P. and O., 8.8. Khiva, front Jongkong, arrived at Marseilles on the 24th November at 4 p.m.

Thesis. Tilnwn will leave Amoy

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"CANADA” AND “FRANCE" BOTIL IN PORT.

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The Very Idea!

The National Council of Wor mon, at their annual conference. at York recently passed a strong Two fine British Hiners, the Em-protest against the proposal of dla- press of Canada and the Empresa cortain London hospitals to of France,, aro at present to be continue the training of women seen lying at adjacent wharves at medical students. The resolution Kowloon. The former is being deprecated this proposal, and temporarily taken off the Pacific urged that a concerted demand be run in order to proceed Home to made for women students, both be re-engined, and her placa la graduate and post-gradunto, to being taken by the Empress of have facilities for training ns ado- France, which arrived hero via quate and efcient as those opon to mon, including their appoint- Suez yosterday.

ment to paid and honorary pasta Both liners leave port on Wed-in hospitals. The conference aléo nesday, the France for Vancouver carried a resolution asking that

the model conditions laid down!. and the Canada for Home.

by the Home Secretary be made The Empress of Canada is the condition of the granting of all larger of the two, her gross ton-lcances to show cinema Alius. ange being 21,517, compared to 18,357 tons for the Empress of France..

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In length also the Canada has a distinct advantage, being 627 feet, compared with the France's 671. Both vessels were built at

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for Hongkong on the 27th instant About Hong Kong and is due here on the 28th in-

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The sa. Pangkor is to be launch- ed at Taikoo on Wednesday. Sho has been built to the order of the Straits Steamship Co., Ltd.

It is generally conceded that ratification of the French debt, with America is a necessary pre- liminary step, and as the United States has made it clear that she will not revise the debt duo to her, it has been proposed that the problem should be solved by the mobilisation of German railway and Industrial bonds, the total value of which would be fully £800,000,000. The floating of those bonds would be impossible If the American market was, un sympathetic, and this is said to be one of the reasons, why M. Poincare is so cager to secure ratification of the Mellon-Beren- ger agreement. A second reason Is that if this agreement fs, not ratifled by next August, France will have to pay, in addition toatant. the ordinary war debt, a equivalent to £80,000,000 for war material loft in France by America. Germany is naturally anxious to be freed from Allied control at the earliest possible KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd |mament, and to hasten it she will no doubt be willing to agree to a financial operation by which credits are mobilised for France provided that nt the same time her nominal liability in reduced. MOORE-DOW.At Union As to Britain's attitude on the

Church, Hongkong, on Satur- day, 24th November, 1928, by matter, she maintains her stand the Rev. F. C. Young, Edward laid down in the Balfour Note that Moore, to Elizabeth Robertson the annual payments received from her debtors must be equiva- lent to the sums payable by her to America. More she does not want; less she will not consent to. A tentative proposal put for ward by Mr. Parker Gilbert, the Agent-General for Reparations, recently was that the total German lability should be scaled down to about one-sixth of the sum fixed by the Reparations Commission in 1921, or approximately equal to

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REPARATIONS. .

the total Alifed debt to America. Since the decision, some weeks France, however,, if we are to ngo, to set up a committee of judge by the recent speeches of experts to regulate finally the M. Poincare, wants enough not only to meet her debts but also a

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There will be a popular lecture at the Holena May: Institutute on 3rd December at 5.30 p.m., when Major Miles, .., will speak on "Wireloas."Advt.

The return of notifiable diseasca for the week-end shows three Chinese cases of small-pox and one Indian case of diphtheria. All were from Kowloon,

The B., Halvard, on her first

"Do you know that----

General Ulyssos. Grant, tho héro of the American Civil War, visited Hongkong In 18797

He arrived here on April 30th of the year named and was entertained to dinner at Government House. Whilst here, he was presented with an address by the Chinese community.

He also spent some days in Canton and Macao during hin . visit.

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trip under the Canton Govern-Glasgow, the Canada in 1922 at ment charter, brought up 150 Yun- the Fairfield yards and the France

anche army recruits from Uni-in 1913 at Beardmore's. phong, bound for Canton.

The Empress of Canada has been' in the Hongkong Vancouver The prizes awarded in connexion service since 1922 and will return with the Decorated Motor Car Cam-to this service when the engine petition at the Grand Tulioo, are work has been completed. being displayed in one of the win- dows of Messrs. Ullmann & Co.

140 European passengers.

Oil-burning, the Empress Of France has turbino engines and

Ltd. question of Geran the ruil extent further sun on account of re-reports gave 18 arrivals and 12 the slightest fatigue. The st

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A patient in a London hospital had been on milk diet for nome days, and was beginning to show #gns of improvement.

"I think," said the doctor to the nurse, "that this patient can start having a few breadcrumbs now."

The listening patient broke in with "What do you take me for -a canary?".

When a coalman was gummoned

A witness at Tottenham: Whon and caught him (a moterist) asked him if he knew ho had knocked a boy off a bicycle, he said, "What business is that of youra?" and threatened to knock

are all

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H. E. the Officer Administering quadruple screws. With superb at Acton for maintenance arreara, the Government is to take three Interior fittings and furnishings he said: This bad weather gots rinks of lawn bowlers to the Club that tell how truly the designers our money down. We have had de Recreio on Wednesday afternoon, have produced unparalleled luxury sunshine for a long time and I the matches starting at 3.30 ~m.

and comfort, the Empress of cannot get a chance, France has permanent accommo- The 8.s. Empresas of France.dations, all classes, for more than from Home, entered without cargo 1,500 passengers and is one of the for Hongkong, but carried 260 best ships of the Company's fleet. tons shipped to Vancouver, to-

There are six largu passenger gether with 61 bags of mail and decks, with elevator service which my head off. As a sport I took makes every part of the ship easy off my glasses and said, “Tho plea- to reach and gigantic as tho ship sure is yours." This morning's Harbour Office is one can go all over it without Woman in Lambeth County 13 boat Court: I have not got any pectively. Tonnage was fair, but apacious promenade, large amok married.

daughters now. They freights were low, the British totaling room, card room and gymna- "It was one of those mornings under both headings being approsium. No cabins are

on this when everything went wrong-a ximately 4,500 tons. The highest deck.

thing that happens-to every one of figures of the day were returned

The next deck is devoled entire us once in a lifetime," said a baker by Japanese, in four vessels, with one Norwegian and one Japanese to first-class public rooms, in-charged at West Ham with selling

cluding smoking room, grand bread under weight, from Canton in ballast.

lounge, drawing room, library and A landlady at North London. There was a big grass fire on writing room. This deck is also Palice Court, who sought posses

promenade and has no eabla sion of additional rooms in her the hillside at Pokfulum on Satur Deck A has 87 first class cabins, day evening, which created a good dent of excitement, in the neigh-including suites and special rooms, bourhood. Two engines proceed with accommodation for 188 saloon cd to the spot from the Central passengers. Fire Station and one hundred men of the Police Emergency Squad were niso called out. When hoses could be brought into play the flames were soon extinguished,,

CORRESPONDENCE.

Trams v. Buses.

Hund, the

SHOOTING MISHAP IN NEW TERRITORIES.

CHINESE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY DOCTOR.

house, said that when the tenant and his wife came through the breakfast room the table had to he movet and everybody had to stand up..

(The latest fashion is for evening shock made of feathers-Daily Paper.}

Wo rend of feathor-headed

malda

In novels writ of past decades: Although they're loveller of

head

They're feather-footed now

instead!

Counsel (cross-examining wit- ness)-"I suggest that, Mrs. Hig- gins is anathema to you."

of German. liability, there have parallons. There would appear been various reports as to the to be considerable conflict of lines which the suggested reviewpoint in the French and Ger- vision of the Dawen plan will take. man attitudes on the question, and The Allied Governmenta concern-these may not prove chay of ed have been in close touch one adjustment. There is a consider with another on the matter, and able section of French opinion It would seem from the latest that Germany may be let off too memorandum by the Berlin Gov-ightly unless care is taken, and ernment that there is a fear in in this connexion it is well to re- Germany lest the whole question member that although Germany be prejudged before the Com-hus been meeting the amounts due milttes gets to work. This ex-under the Dawes plan, she has plains the suggestions that the been able to raise several private, Committee should be composed of loans to that in international independent experts not bound by book-keeping she has managed to any fixed instructions, that no come out on the right side. claims should be made, in advance | as to the amount Germany must' pay, and that this latter point be

A had accident occurred 'on It has taken, many years to rid. impartially examined in

Saturday morning, when a Chi- County Cricket of the prejudice

nese was fatally shot in the abdo-: dance with Germany's capacity against the league system, but the

[To The Editor of Hongkong men by a Japanese doctor of the It is clear, from the tenour of new scheme of scoring in the

Telegraph.]

Majima Hospital, Wanchai. Germany's Intest note on the sub-championship as approved by the

Sir-Referring to "Non-share- A party of Japanese were out Advisory Committee requires ench jeet, that Berlin is seeking to make county to play twenty-eight mat holders" letter in your hard bird-shooting at Ping Shan, in the the best bargain she can in the ches, neither more nor less. This yesterday, and particularly to his New Territories, and it is believ circumstances. This is quite will do away with those "dreadful" remarks suggesting lack of entered that the doctor discharged his percentages,...the..bano-of- cricket priso-on the part of this Company gun into a clump of shrubs with natural, but the issues involved mathematicians for many years, regarding Queen's Road, I desire out realising that a man was are most complicated, and, as no although it introduces the some to say that the Hongkong Tram- amongst the trees

The deceased, it is learned, was many nations are involved in the what startling, though unavoid- ways, Ltd., applied to the Govern

able, proposition that points are ment for permission to operate a a rickaha coolle employed at matter, it will not be an easy task to be divided if a match is not service of buses along Queen's the Majima Hospital, and on to reach an agreement acceptable played. The recommendations of Road and applied on three deca- Saturday was engaged in carry- to all parties.

the Advisory Committee retain the klons, as follows:-February 12th, ing provisions for his masters. Paris principle of first innings/points, 1925: August 9th, 1927; and It is possible that he went into Genova For

an understanding of the but in every other possibility with February 24th; 1928. Yours, etc., the cluster of shrubs to look for Berlin problem it is necessary to recall the exception, of course, of a win points are divided. that the Dawes plan, stripped of its outright, complexities, arranged for certain Thus with the disappearance, of percentages, there is no tempta- German assets, such as railways, tion for a well-placed foam to try to come under the control of the and provent the competition of an Agent-General for Reparations, the percentage system" is de- this in generally little more than Jured man to the Kowloon Hos Vid

inninga apiece. The worst effect approval of the M.C.O., though balance arrived to convey the In-Stockholm for Britain and America jointly to finitely circumvented, though the formality. Of the recent pital. Here all that could be done Madrid lend Germany, £80,000,000 in question of the encouragement of proposals outlined with a desire by way of medical attention was Babay order to establish a new currency dull and slow batting in not, as far to assist the bowler to check the carried out, but the injuries were Yokohama

na we can ace, affected. The heavy scoring which waB more of such a nature that the man Brussels -i- on a gold basis, and for Germany revolutionary proposal, submitted inked last season than ever died shortly after admission to the Milan 4ss. Copenhagen to pay annuities which, starting by Warwickshire, and rejected, before, nothing has been heard for hospital.

would have made every match some time. The difficulties were froma comparatively email

It is interesting to recall that Fraguo. A fight to the very er lastno obvious, particularly the amount, would Incrone to a inch, but so many serious umpire's responsibility in, the case a similar accident occurred at Cas- normal maximum of £125,000,000 anomalies were possible that of the new: 1.b.w.zule, suggested, tle Peak last year, when a villaghanghal

er lost his life after being BC-- Silver (spot) cricket la far better off without it: that the main proposals appear to for the year 1928-29. In view of The Advisory Committee's resolu- have been dropped by mutual cidentally shot by a Portuguese Silver (forward).

who was out shooting birds. Itho immediate heavy commitment|tion is, of course, subject to the consent..

L. C. F. BELLAMY.

General Manager. Hongkong, Nov. 24th, 1928.

Witness Then you suggest wrong. It's my friends I calls by their Christian names "

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