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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928.

were built in Britain, as against

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a total of 150 in all other coun

DAY BY DAY.

The Gazette publishes a list of Authorised architects.

H.M.S. Petersfield arrived in Hongkong to-day from Shanghai,

tries, whilst in ownership also

OUR GREATEST GLORY CONSISTS'NOT Britain comes out well on top, in- IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RIBING asmuch na the total ships for Bri-EVERY TIME WE FALL-Goldsmith. tain and the Dominions are 372, as against 179 for the rest of the world. The total, tonnage of mer- chant vessels afloat at the end of the year, holding the classification of Lloyd's Register, amounted to

Mr. C. B. Riggs has been well over thirty million tons, appointed a member of the Pilotage which is the highest figure ever Board. recorded in the history of the Society. Of these, it is worthy of nole that no fower than 6,495 ships of 15,723,296 tona aro Bri- tish, this comparing with 4,144 vessels of 14,937,961 tons for all other countries combined. More- over, at the end of the period un- der review, there were under con- atruction throughout the world to the Society's classification 382 vessels of more than ono and canter OCEAN three quarter million tone. Great

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The appointment of Mr. E. W. Hamilton as Magistrate for Kow- loon is gazetted.

THE PASSING OF THE DUEL Outlawing of War a Logical Sequence,

When I hear aceptics declare frequented by noted brettours who that war can never be abolished, I perpetually sought quarrels. The reply (if the sceptie has known parliamentarians and the jour- were, after the swash- Europe In general and Parts. In alists particular long enough to appre buckling captains, the principal Theirs, the venerable cinto the point of my remark): duellists.

atatesman who may be rewarded as "And duelling?"

The other day a well-known the father of the Third Repubile, his duel. Boulanger, Paris vaudevillist, offended by fought

famous whose popularity was so great at Mr. 1. Oro returned to the something said by n

to a duel. In the old rodomontade become a new Dictator, met, on the Colony on the 8.8. Kitano Maru French poet, challenged the post one moment that he might have from Shanghai.

he asserted that the insult could field of so-called honour, a Minla- Clemenceau, who was both only be wiped out in eingle comter. bat, that, "honour" must be journalist, and politielan, had to antisfied with swords or pistols defend himsch. Many of the The poot was asked to name his older mon, distinguished in the soconds. The effect was intended press or Parliament of the present Amongst those who attended the to be terrifying. Instead, Paris Republic, had their "affaire." In until the war, duelling funeral of the late Mr. J. R.laughed. Who was this strange short, Capell and who sent a wreath word Rip Van Winkle who had slept for persisted. Now it is extinel.

Public opinion expressed itself. years and did not realize that the Mr. and Mrs. R. Pestonji.

duel was demoded?.

against the duel jong before it As for the pout, he took up his disappeared, From about the pen, made two or three phases, middle of the nineteenth century and proved once more that it is there was a genuine reaction, Tho a deadlier weapon than the sword. duellists were no longer consider- Aed to be brave men. They word This time Parle applauded. dual seemed such an absurdity. looked upon as bullica, who wore A French friend of mine, also often cowards at heart, at once a literary man, was likewise ask brutal and braggart, and preten ed to fight a duel-about nothing tiously ridiculous. Public opinion at all by a young aristocrat did not immediately prevail. It much denupciation, The letter of the young aristocrat needed

Thereupon mingled with mockery, to outlaw was in bad French. my friend wrote back: "As the duelling.. challonged party I have the choice of weapons. I choose athography. Consider yourself badly pinked."

Do you know tha{~-~-

progress has been made in fitting About Hong Kong steamers for oil-burning, the num- ber of steamere so equipped be- Ing 19,058,014, as against 1,310,209 In 1914. Motor ships also show a great increase, the number at the end of the year being 2,933, or just

DODWELL &Co., Ltd. ten times that of fourteen years

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

ago,

In view of recent shipping dis- asters, it is of more than ordinary interest to note that Lloyd's have)

for the be- concern Dr. S. W. Ts'o and family tendern special

their sincere thanks to all re-haviour of ships under service latives and friends for their conditions. It is a matter of com- kind expresslons of sympathy and floral tributes received in mon knowledge that cargo vessels their recent bereavement and are now required to undertake for their attendance at the

voyages, in the ballast condition, funeral.

of longer duration, and 'nt greater speeds, than has been customary hitherte. The Committee has al- im- ways attached considerable The Marriage arranged between portance and value to the experk

Mr. G. B. S. Thomson and ence gained by the observation of] Miss F. E. Kilsen, will take place at St. John's Cathedral, the conduct of ships when on Saturday 8th December, at tually under the stress of service not conditions, and in order to keep 3 p.m. Invitations are being insued, but all friends at the will be welcome Cathedral, and afterwards at the Hongkong Hotel.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY. DEC. 1. 1928.

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The first land sales took place in June, 1841, and that 60 seafront lots, with frontage of 100 feet each, were put up at the upset price of £10 per lot?

The sale,was conducted by Mr. J. Robert Morrison, who wns Secretary and Treasurer to the Superintendent of Trade, and who later became Colonial Secretary. He found- ed an education society whose "institution was on Morrison HI (named after bim) and when he died at Macno in 1843, the Hongkong Govern- ment announced his death na "a positive national cala- 'mity."

[Some details of the first "land sales will be given in a

later issue.]

JARNANASTAZARINE; CHORISANSINAZUMEVANJEMAAKTERI

No fewer than seventeen dend bodies were picked up yesterday by the police, and of these seven were small-pox cases, six coming from the Yaumati district and one from Mongkok.

Dr. S. W. Tuo, O.B.E., Mr. W. H. Bell, Mr. A. Cameron and Mr. R. M. Dyer have been nominated an members of the Court of the Hongkong University for a fur- to ther three years.,

Duels diminished in numbers in the twentieth century, but the old

The

Yet my own memory goes back custom lingered., Force of habit to daya-not very long ago when a not always easily overcome, and to have declined to fight for althose who felt themselves insulted matter of honour (and everything believed it was the proper thing to affect one's to send their challenge, and those was supposed honour) would have been reckon who received a challenge believed ed disgraceful. A gentleman had they could not refuse it without no option. If he had jostled some being dubbed poltroons. Many of bullying boulevardier, or had the duels were half-hearted com stared at him unconsciously, or bats. They were engaged on both had made a quick reply which sides meraly for the form. might be taken in bad part, then frony of the public was keener, he could, if he valued the good Reprobation was more widesprend. opinion of his fellows, hardly sense of shame gradually stay- escape from a duel. Seconds were ed the arm of the would-be After the nominated to see that everything duelist. The duel was disappear was done according to the rules of ing before the war.

When I any it completely vanish- the game, and at dawn, while the war, it completely vanished. dew was still on the grass, the parties would meet in some retired ed, I mean, of course, as an institu- wear shoulder-of-mutton corner of a park or wood, would tion. Just as there may be, some- discharge their pistols at the where in the world, a few women agreed sigual, or engage in a bout who.

sleeves, and trailing skirts, and of fencing.

It must be confessed that the other pre-war apparel, so from majority of these encounters in time to time there may be discover- our line were harmless enough. el sothe old-fashioned duellist, It was rare that the consequences But the race, as a race, no longer were serious. The pistols were exists. Public opinion laughs at fired in the air, and the swordplay the notion of duelling, and would was stopped on the least pretext. frown angrily at the appearance What is the moral of all this? The antagonists were reconciled of a duellist, they proclaimed that as a result of

close touch with problemis which may arise in consequence of these changed. requirements the Committee has during the past year, arranged for a member of the Society's technical staff make voyages on cargo vessels,

A Chinese woman, with serlous with the sole object of observing Injuries to her hand, was admitted

Bourrelier, has the behaviour of the structures to the Kowloon Hospital at 10.2

who satisfied. The old sinister-writer, Henr in any exceptionally severe condi- last night and died shortly after these matutinal exercises "honour" It is surely obvious. A French

wards. The injuries were received tions of weather and loading to when the woman attempted to light jibe about "pistols for, two and rightly said that the Kellogg Pact, It was ridicule that nooner or later abolish war, as which they may be subjected. In from a bus lu motion in Princé Ed-refreshments for one" was acldom which puts war in the pillory, will

justified. wurd Read.

eventually made duelling Impos-public opinion

Before duelling. vlew of the fact that the problems.

News reaches us of the deathsible.

varlous were Yet there

redoubtable Pact, in relation to passenger vessels

this morning of Mr. Albert Gil- are of a somewhat different

bert, who formerly resided at swordsmen who provoked ducla treaties indicated the public desire with " mischievous purpose, to make in end of war; but nonė character from those of cargo Praya East. The deceased, who

also was a member of the Engineers' Their success in duels furnished of them entirely ruled out war-- reputation. Most indeed they preserved war as a Hongkong, ds one of the vesseln, the Committee has

Institute, was in Hongkong on be them with a world's greatest shipping ports provided for voyages to be made, half of a Japanese firm of makers writing men-capecially those con- weapon for the preservation of nected with newspapera-had pence; if that curious paradox may. and as a centre bf no inconsider by another of the Society's expert of gramaphone records,

their duelling experiences, and be permitted. Included in to-morrow's nows some of the celebrated pre-war able Importance so far as actual surveyors, in a large passenger

na-ship, in order that similar ob-reel at the Queen's Theatre is an journalists had to fight a score of For the first time war is now shipbuilding is concerned,

interesting record of the opochal duels. turally has a keen concern in allservations may be obtained,

flight of the "Graf Zeppelin" from maritime matters. For that rea

Germany to America, son, it will find much of interest in the annual report of Lloyd's

THE SHIPPING POSITION.

German Dispute.

time

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has abolished the Kellogg

and

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It was not. Riche-

declared to be outlawed; and though, outside the text of the Generally, however, the duel, as pact, various nations have made taken from the giant dirigible, we knew it, was a mero shadow reservations, it has been put on of the Rhine, France, Maderia, of Its former self, a pale reflec-record that war is deemed to be the Atlantic and Manhattan, where tion of the days of which Dumas inexcusable and incompatible with elvilization. Public Register of Shipping, for the year The deadlock in the West Ger the successful landing was made, wrote so entertainingly, idealizing modern

iron and steel industry are shown.

the figures of D'Artagnan, and the opinion is aroused to the need of 1027-28, which covers a great deal man of ground and gives most detail-amounts to little less than a

In addition to the great dramatic Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, putting war beyond the pale; and The truth about if pubile opinion grows strong and Aramis. national calamity, and there is

enough-ns it will-the reserval ed information concerning the reason to fear that unless the production "The King of Kings" those days is very different. present state of shipping. It la move announced to-day has the which is being shown to-day for the reign of Louis XIII-and again tions of atatasmen will not stand. under the Restoration-duelling Precisely as duelling has ceased to be recognized as a proper recorded that during the year un-desired effect, the serious diatur the last time at the Queen's bance at Bochum on Wednesday Theatre, two other pictures are

In the course of the seventeenth method of settling private dis- der review, there has been when thirty rioters were sent to also having their final screenings. Was a public danger. marked increase in the Society's hospital will be merely the fore- They are: "The Bugle Call" with century the duel claimed mere putes, so will war cease to be uperations, duc in part to a large runner of similarly unfortunate Jackie Coogan; at the World: and victims than all the wara, civil or recognized as a proper method of portion of the work interrupted by scenes, The rapid approach of "Don't Tell The Wife" featuring foreign, of that epoch, Richellea settling national disputes.

edleted the severest penalties: And the means will be the same, Christmastide intensifies the dau- Irene Rich, at the Star.

against tho duel, but his edict was In both cases. The moral con». the coal dispute having been com-ger us the relief from public

The health bulletin of Eastern largely disregarded. Indeed, any demnation of the duel will be pleted during the period, and also funds granted to the workers is by reason of the fact that the woefully insufficient to stave off ports for the week ended Satur: body who had predicted the p388- followed by the moral condemna-

bitterness. The dispute originat-day last, issued by the Director of ing of the duel would have been tion of war.

In the Pre- lieu's cdicta, it was not severo unexpected and urgent demanded in a claim for increase wages, Medical and Sanitary Services, considered foolish. for oll-tank vessels could only be submitted to an arbitration board gives the following cases, the aux-Clerce (between the Boulevard punishment during the nineteenth

The award figures in parenthesis indicating Saint-German and the Seine) and ago. met by the construction of a large some

favoured the 'employees, and the deaths: Plague, Beirut 1, Bagh in the Palace Royale (new the and twentieth centuries which number of additional ships. The law of Germany demands that the dad 3 (2); Cholera, Bombay (3). Pluce des Vosges) the duellist stopped duelling. It will not be Increase in the volume of work, Arbitration Award must be accept | Calcutta (53), Madras (15), Nega-met; and history even records "sauctions" which will stop war. onvisaged by many people against however, was of short duration, ed. The iron and steel "barons," patam (1), Rangoon (3), Pond1-duels between women in the Bois The sanctions, the punishments, the exceptional demand for new however, have been adamant and cherry (4), Bangkok 8 (7); Small- de Boulogne...

There was a great outbreak of war, will prove in themselves to in maintaining the lock-out order pox, Basra), 13 (11), Bombay 1. tonnage having been more than eil for the purpose of bending the Calcutta 3 (2), Madras 4 (4), dueling under Napoleon; and with be ineffective. It is the moral de- met, with the result that there is operatives to their will, have Moulmein 2, Negapatam 5. Fondi Restoration matters grow nunciation of war which will make now a heavy falling off in the defied the rulings of two impor- cherry (3), Macassar 1 (1), Bela- worse. It was not safe to enter it seem a foolish method,

tant Labour Courts. In the eyes wán Dell 2 (1). Samarinda 15 (3). I certain eafes, particularly those criminal act-SIBLEY HUDDLESTON mumber of new vessels which have of the law, the lock-out, which Bangkok 1, Priom Panh 5 (4), about the Palafa Royal, which were in the Christian Science Monitor. been ordered.

affects 250,000 men directly, and Shanghai (6), Canton 1, Baghdad One encouraging aspect of the thousands of other workerk in 14 (9). statistics contained in the report directly, is illegal, and it is within is that British shipping still moro sue the employers for all wages submit the whole question to a than holda it own. Nearly five lost thereby. On the other hand, new arbitrator has naturally been hundred vessels of about a million the attitude of the employers can readily accepted by the employers, not be made clearer than, as set who have everything to gain and and a half tone gross were ap-out in the notice threatening the little to lose. The men are in a proved by the Society's Committee lock-out. If the wage increase in more difficult position, but in the during the year, and of this pro-paid, they say, they cannot com- circumstances, have little option jected tonnage 49.3 per cent, la pete in the world markets, and but to give thoir assont. It is at rather than make the slightest least satisfactory to learn that intended to be built in Great Bri- concession, they will close down the employers have accepted in tain and Ireland. Of the new the grent works entirely. Already principle the understanding that it is alleged, stabbed Miss Patricia Thcome Taxpayers Society, Abbey. boats classed during the year, 418 the losses to both sides must be the decision of the new arbitrator Johnson, private secretary to Lord House, Westminster.

colossal. Herr Musiler's offer to must be unconditionally accepted.

the power of the Trade Unions to

DEATH OF CAPTAIN MCDOUGALL.

GIRL VICTIM OF ALLEGED ATTACK RECOVERING.

London, Nov. 6.

Decies, and afterwards stabbed himself, died in Westminster Hospital yesterday,

Miss Johnson, who has been un der treatment at the surgery of Dr. Gross, Southwick-place, Bayswater, was reported yesterday to be "very much better."

The alleged attack occurred on Captain Donald McDougall, who, Wednesday last at the offices of the