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CORRESPONDENCE.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir, The need for an electric

cow's tyrants, and what crimes have they committed? They are earnest religious men, and others. whe have dared to hold political FERED BY A BENSITIVE MIND, FOR

THE SEVEREST PUNISHMENT SUI QUEEN'S ROAD CLOCK TOWER.

views which do not commend | INJURY INFLICTED UPON ANOTHER, themselves to. Russia's autocrats. 18 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF HAVING

DONE IT.-Hosca Ballou. They have done no wrong; yot thoy are consigned to outer dark- ness and their last days rendered full of suffering and agony. This is the much-vaunted "freedom" and equality" of which the Soviet leaders so glibly talk. This is the "brotherly collaboration" of which the Constitution makes mention.

Sane elements have long since held the view that Russia's ex- periment in Communiam would eventually defeat its own ends and come to Anal disbater. The por- tonts are all that way. At the moment, the tyrants are having their day, but that time will as suredly come to an end, for his- tory has shown that oppressed peoples turn on their oppressors in the long run. There is thus one solitary ray of comfort in these happenings in Russia-a de- monstration to the whole world that Communistic rule is the sheer quoterary, in which

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Longkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, DEC.

10. 1928

"THIS FREEDOM."

China, some of whose leaders have been wont to prate so loudly of the evils of "Imperialism," has this example almost at her very door, She may well be thankful that she is no longer hand-in-glove with the Soviet. And a litle quiet thinking will, we hope, lead her to realise who, after all, are her true frienda.

Smallpox and Propaganda.

We can imagine few works of greater value to the community than that to be undertaken by the members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, a lecturing tour of the New Territories and the island

The P. & O. a.a. Macedonia, from Hongkong, arrived at Marsellies on the 7th December at 3.80 p.m.

Messrs. S. Moutrie and Co. have issued an attractive wall calendar, bearing coloured scenes from

Dickens' works.

H.M.S. Hermes left Kudat for Manila on Sunday, and H.M.S. Bluebell aniled from Pagoda An- chorage for Keelung.

Mrs. W. T. Southorn will distri- bute the prizes at the Peak School prize-giving to be held at the Poak Club on December 21.

Twelve further Chinese cases of small-pox were notified during the week-end, of which eleven were from Kowloon districts.

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A Chinese morchant, at present living in the Wan Kau Boarding House, reports to the police that a foki collected $268.18 from the Tak Cheung Loong firm without his au

thority, and has since disappeared.

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The body of a Chinese woman was removed to the Public Mor- tunry yesterday from No. 1 South Lane (West Point District). The woman, so the authorities were in- formed, hanged herself in a cublele in the house..

The Acting Assistant Com- missioner has arranged with the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for, the members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade to glve a series of lectures on small- pox and malaria in the New Ter- ritories.

Fines of $5 each were imposed on two Chinese, charged before Mr.

W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with cruelty to pigs, which were being carried in a small crate. animals' legs were bruised and bleeding.

and

The Very Idea!

Giving advice to a couple ho had just married at Islington Chapel recently, Rev. J. Shophord said to them: "Avold the danger-

normal time clock tower at the one attractions of seaside resorts. The sen disturba youthful · love." Junction of Queen's Road Pedder Street is greatly felt. Wo Interviewed after the service, he used to have there" formerly two said to a reporter: "The son is n clocks, but both were taken down delight to children, a stimulant to by their owners when removing, age, but a danger to youthful love. What is badly needed is the Is it not strango for a young wo- erection of an electric clock on a post in the middle of the street, man setting out from England to somewhere near or above the marry a man in Africa to change stand of the traffic-officer, visible her mind on a voyage? I was from all four crossirige,

asked to tell a man waiting at the Queen's Road and Poddor Street docks at Capetown, for his proa. corner is perhaps, or soon will be,pective bride that she bad decided the most frequented corner dr

on the voyage to marry another

Hongkong's business centre, and man." the erection of a suitable clock there would be of inestimable

benefit to the public.

A Debtor in a letter to Bow May I use the space of your County Court: If I do not pay £2 valued columns to herewith place a month I will pledge myself to be. the above suggestions before the responsible for any fine, penalty, public and the Government or sentence that may be imposed authorities concerned, as well as on me. Judgo Thompson: Ho before the taipan's of our big seems more than usually earnest. firma, among them the lending

BEHOORN

About Hong Kong

Do you know that——

It was in 1877 that the first Chinese was married under elvil law in Hongkong?

This was on June 7th, when the bride (Miss Ling Chat- koo, of Canton) and the bridegroom (Mr. George Sukeo Chun) appeared before the Marriage. Registrar. The bridegroom was the son of Mr. Chun Tal-kwong, transla- tor at the Supreme Court, and the marriage created much at- tention.

The bridal couple' appear ed before the Registrar in full nuptial costumes, that of the bridegroom being a Mandarin. dreas and that of the brida was a red role, with head- dress resembling a crown and a string of heads falling down over the face.

The CREATES Y

Week-end news throws a vivid light on political intolerance in Russia. Adherents of Trotsky, we are toki, are being sent in batches to convict Hettlements, where thou-villages, instructing the lowly and ignorant regarding the prevention sand of prisoners are not

of small-pux and malaria. The only deprived of their liberties but lectures are extended over a period are barbarously treated by the of some weeks, and reach as far afield as Fanling on the mainland, Soviet gaolers. Some Idea of the Stanley on the Hongkong side, and terrible conditions which these un- Cheung Chau. It is not of course, fortunate people suffer may be the first venture of this excellently capable organisation into this field gained from the fact that last year of public service. The free .vnc over three thousand of themcinition records, now showing ahensive shopping guide of some 250 perished as a consequence of the grand total of over 34,000 cases, is aufficient to indicate the selfless hardships which they had been ness of these volunteer workers, callel upon to bear. Of more while it la also to be remembered than passing interest also is the that the immediate effects of their efforts is not limited to those actu- rumour that the latest con-ally trented. It must be obvious

sent to the convict settlements is a group of young Chinese, includ- ing, it is sald, à son of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.

Lane, Crawford's annual General catalogue has just come to hand, revealing a most useful and compre pages. All the Departments are dealt with, and several hundred ill- ustrations Basist in making the book a valuable reference.

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A report was made to the police

The Complainant in a Pengo, assault case: I have witnesses to prove it. The Defendant: I have witnesses to prove that there were no wilneasca there.

A Willesden Prisonor: I was not so, drunk but I could walk. Tho. Pollco Sergeant: Yes, all the while I was holding you up..

"She lives with a Russian, and and so understanda foreign lab- guages," sald a Walthamtow wo- man of u defendant at Bow County Court.

[A' girl may have a face like a porilla, and yet have the most beautifid soul-Irish paper.]

I wish I had married Priscilla, It would have been wiss on the

whole;

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Though her face was so like a

gorilla; She had such a beautiful soul. But Phyllis, whose beauty 30

blinding

Made more of a cogent appeal, Is slowly but stondily grinding Me under her beautiful heel.

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Seventeen sailors bound for mwanament | shoro leave were held up at Ports- mouth Station booking office by a

firms dealing in electric clocks, fussy little man, who tendered with the hope that either the one four-and-nine-pence, and asked or the other party will take this for a ticket for Londen,

"But you can't go to London for opportunity of doing an excellent

the clerk and lasting service to the public four-and-nine-perce," of Hongkong, and carn their told him.

-"Can't I?" quoth the would be sincere thanks for it.

Would the erection of such a traveller. "Then where can I go clock tower, any, by one of the to?"

And all the seventeen sailors leading firms dealing in electric clocks, not serva them as an told him. excellent advertisement for their cideks and thus more than TC-

One of the aupremo tests of

componse them for the initial education is, and must remain, the keep?-Yours, etc.,

$

Sub-Dept. City Improvement, THEOSOPHICAL ORDER OF SERVICE,

Herbert E. Lanepart, Chief Brother for China. Hongkong, December 10.

signment of political prisoners that with the increasing numbers yesterday by the accountant of the outlay and the amall cost of up appetite which it leaves for know-

of these rendered immune from Lee Yee Kee hardware shop, of 40, small-pax, the risks of the remain-Queen's Road Central, to the effect der become correspondingly less that on taking their stock for the To some extent, fi may seem at year, they found that 328 dozen of, this time when a smallpox epidemicles, valued at $999.27, have been is rather severo in certain parts of stolen during the year. Kowloon, that the lectures rather like locking the stable door

A report has been made to the after the horse has departed, but, after all, the responsibility for pre-police by Sister Davis, of the Gov venting or checking auch an out-erament Civil Hospital, to the

The point which inevitably Bug- gests itself to the reader of this news in that these things are hap- pening la a country governed by

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ledge. That is a great problem of any state educational system. Is the curriculum such and the montal reactions of a character that will make the student an- xious when he goes out into life to continue to educate himself, or is satisfed he wholly

with the THE WATER SHORTAGE.

groundwork he has received and Sir, The Colony, as all know, content to leave it at that? The a period of ability of inculcating the appetite

of

Communists, who are never red break cannot rest with the St. John effect that between Thursday and is passing through

Ambulance Brigade. It is, indeed, Sunday last, some-one entered her of telling the world that real free somewhat strange to find that those room, in the Sisters' Quarters in acute water shortage, yet enorm-for knowledge resta largely with re daily quite unnecessarily the character of the curriculum. dom and liberty are only attain-publicly-paid officials whose task it ligh Street, and stole from herous amounts of valuable water the teachers. It rests in part with

wasted away.

How that great principle of creat- able under Soviet rule. When we Colony are content largely to leave

is to guard the public health of the dressing table $90 in notes,

I refer to the hundreds ing an appetite for education is come to analyse the facts, however, propaganda, not the least valuable

We are informed by Mr. J. M. thousands of water-taps, a large being developed finds its criterion it is found that no greater tyranny of aids, to a private organisation. If exists anywhere in the world to the Government, worked ceaselessly Alves that the gross receipts of percentage of which, possibly one in the average of knowledge that. in other directions, an excuse might the St. Vincent de Paul Society's third, have become soiled by rust provells, and the growing breadth or sand and thus do not shut of that average. There is no such day than that exercised by perhaps be found, but the evidence Fele, including Rose Day, are Russia's political leaders. The certainly does not point that way about $19,000, which is rather less entirely, unicas force is used. As thing as standardized education. year. The result, in the total aggregate,It is a process that goes on from At to-morrow's meeting of the than the total, last Soviet Constitution denouncer

of the educational authorities is Sanitary Board, Mr. Braga is call-names of winners in the various an enormous amount of water is the cradle to the grave. The duty day and night left running into to direct it into right lines, and capitalism as being a system un-ing attention to unsatisfactory sani-rames will be Issued later.

the guttera. der which slavery, national op-tary conditions in certain districts pression and imperialisite brutal of Kowloon, which, in part, are re-

Signor

the Carpi, sponsible for the development or the

organiser and ties are the lot of the people, spread of smallpox infection. known

of Far-Eastern whereas it envisages the Socialism More instances of water pollution ger

are also the subject of questions. Companies, passed of Russia as providing "mutuál It is to be hoped that the answers Hongkong on Saturday. His latest confidence and peace, national on this occaion will reveal a little venture in the theatrical world is freedom and equality, a dwelling closer attention and more sympathe "The Parisian Revue," a company Lie treatment than could be credited of ten variety artists, which will together in peace, and the brother to the head of the Sanitary De-visit the Queen's Theatre during

Christmas week. ly collaboration of peoples." Bear-partment at the last meeting.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Ing these descriptions in mind, we have only to compare the lot of the people in Russia to-day with that of, say, the citizens of the United

Paris States or of Britain, two

of the New York world's greatest "capitalistic" Brussels countries. If we do this, we ar- Amsterdam rive at the caally demonstrable Milan fact that it is not under Sociallem Berlin

Stockholm

Geneva

or' Communiam that real freedom Copenhagen and liberty provail, but that the Oslo

Vicuna true democracies are to be found Prague. in countries which have set their Helsingfors

Madrid faces agahist the pernicious and

Lisbon destructivo doctrines of the Athens "Reds." Religious and political Bucharest

Rio freedom are enjoyed by the people Buenos Aires of the "capitalisite" - countries; Bombay

Shangkal both are absolutely denied in Hongkong Soviet Russia. Who are these Yokohama

Silver (spot) unhappy people sent to the horrors Silver (forward) of convict settlements by Mon-

for those authorities to be so It should be possible to prevent equipped that they have the power: well this huge wastage by introducing and the incentive to create among mana- and enforcing by law of some those with whom their duties lie Opera new type of water-tap, which the appetite for education of through would act automatically and be which the school system merely

absolutely fool, sand-und rust lays the foundation. proof, and shut off the water completely the moment the hand

In a. lecture--now issued in is withdrawn..

booklet form-on. "The Flight of By thin simple device some 15 Fashion," delivered in Ceylon by to 20 per cent. of our total water the Rev. C. V. A. MacEchern, the consumption could probably be

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A limewasher, 63 years of age,saved, and I believe that heroin speaker sald there were always those who harped unreasonably was admitted to the Government lies, to a good extent, the way Civil Hospital yesterday, suffering out of our immediate difficulties. upon the "good old days.” London, Dec. 9.

I would be glad if our water

Said a boy to his father:-"That from a fractured leg, received 124.17%

through falling off a ladder whilst authorities would give the above was a ghastly murder, the other 4.85 1/32

84.89 engaged in limewashing at 38, Con- their practical consideration, day, in the city."

"Aye," replied the old father, 25.18 naught Road Central,, Another Yours, etc., 12.0% man, 00 years of age, fell off a THEOSOPHICAL ORDER OF SERVICE murders are not what they used .92.82% scuffolding whilst at work in the

Sub-Dept. City Improvement, 20.35% same locality and he also was sent

Herbert E. Lanopart, .18.14 to hospital with a fractured leg: Chief Brother for China,

18.10

Hongkong, December 10.

18.19%

.84.40

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to be."

A very attractive programme has been arranged for the Helena May Instituto on Thursday even- This morning's Harbour Office

ing. Amongst the contributors .163% roports gave 14 arrivals and nine ..102% departures, British being three

will be Mrs. Hargreaves Browne, .80.02% and four respectively. Tonnage

Mrs. Bellamy and Miss Achenon, .109% was comparatively good, but In-

whilst in a series of French 876 ward freights were low, while the

To-day'd Observatory report rhymes those taking part will be 805% throughs were high, with heavy atates that the anticyclone over Jacqueline and Jill Hargreaves .5.29/32 Individual figures. Chinoso regls China has strengthened.

A de Browne, Sylvia and Mary Pethick, 47.13/32

top inward, while pression is shown over N.E. Japan. Victor and Betty Comyn, Rosaline 1/6.1/82 tored the

2/ Japanose held the higheat place in fresh to strong monsoon may be and Andrew Kinloch, Pauline 2/0 the days returns with the second expected along the S.E. const of Wolfe-Murray, Yvonne Davenport 1/10.25/82 best inward and the two, best China and over the China Sea. Browne, Betty Richards and Mar 28.5/18 throughs, the nationality record-The forecast till noon' to-morrow guerite MacElderry. Mr. F. Ma 28.7/16 ing both inward and through N.E. winds, fresh; fine to son, A.R.C.0., L.T.C.L, will be the

freights in four vessels of five." cloudy.

accompanist.

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