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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1928.

years are frisome to Germany,

DAY BY DAY.

and in some measure these fac-. tors hamper her industrial and

DRUNKENNESS IS NOTHING ELSE financial activities. Under the THAN A VOLUNTARY MADNES now scheme advocated, the debt Sencca, would be fixed and the control lifted. Reparations would be The transport Neuralia will leave Shanghal on Monday for Hongkong.

placed on & business fooling.

The P. and O. 8.5. Alipore, from Singapore, la due here at 7 am. on January 4th.

Bonds would ba. Issued by the German Government which would bo negotiablo on the world's mar- kets. Each country would re-

Miss Jean Ho Tung was fined $5 ceive paper to the amount of in

at the Magistracy to-day for driv share in reparations, and caching in a negligent manner in would then have to decide whe-Stubbs Road. ther it holds these bonds and re- coives the interest yearly, or whe-

This morning's Harbour Office Iteports gave 10 arrivals and 15 ther it sells them in the open mar-departures, British four and eight, kot as occasion allows and so re-leaving 67.vessels in port, British

26. ceive a lump sum.

H.M.S. Kent, the flagship left Sandakan on Thursday for Macas- sar. H.M.S. Concord, bringing_re- liefs for the China Station, left Colombo for Singapore on Boxing Day.

It has been suggested that there

The Siberian mail from London ia f dangor in any such arrange: dated December B-December 6 ar- ment as this, for under this fúnd-riving yesterday by 8.3. Nagato Ing agreement the trusteeship, Maru, consisted of 288 bags and was

distributed during the afternoon. and, above all, the personal touch between the creditors and debtor would disappear. The bonds would eventually become distri buted all over the world among private interests and international financial groups, and, in the event of a crisis, the bondholders would

The death took place yesterday, at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, have to follow the strongest finan- of Stoker Petty Oncer Thomas cial group. There is another na Reed, late of HM.S. Gant., It is pect which is not without its for understood that P. O. Reed was a native of Brighton and was un- portance to

industry, married. British

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28. 1928

FRIDAY, DEC.

REPARATIONS.

new

The Dogs' Ordinance, Winding up a year that must be

The Secretary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerco In- forms us that a cable was received this morning from the Shanghal British Chamber of Commerce stat. new Nationalist ng that the Customs Tariff for China will come into effect on February 1st, 1929.

works of Messrs. W. S, Bailey and Co. This bont will be launched, it is learned, in January,

The latest issue of the Hongkong University Journal of Law and Com merve is a most interesting humber In addition to editorial notes, there are articles on social, political and

CHINESE JURYMAN

EXCUSED.

ONLY UNDERSTOOD LITTLE ENGLISH,

The Very Idea!

A strange society has just been formed in Budapest. Tho wives of gamblers have banded them- Mr. Im Pak-hai, of the firm of C.selves into an anonymous union, E. Huygen, Pedder Building, who with the object of preventing the was called to serve on the jury attragedies resulting from losses at. the Criminal Sossions this mor cards. The members of the union ning. before the Chief Justice, was propose to visit members of parlia exempted from service by his Lord-ment and enlighten them on the ship.

The furyman was taking the about by the gambling clubs, and tragle family conditions brought oath when Mr. C. G. Alabaster, eventually to make an appeal to K., defending counsel, pointed the Minister of the Interior. out that Mr. Im seemed to have

The organiser of this union is: some dificulty in reading the anth. the destitute widow of a gambler, Hin Lordship then asked the who drowned himself in tho Juryman if he understood much. Danube after committing, forgery, English, and received a reply to to pay his gambling debts.

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THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.

Big Variety of Pictures

To-morrow.

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will be found of an intensely Interesting and varied charac- - ter

Of recent weddings there will be numerous plctures, "these including the marringos of Mr. P. Gillespie and Mies C. M. Gill, of Mr. J. W. Ben- nett and Kiss F. M. Skipsey, of Mr. J. Muir and Misa C. T. Smith, and of Mr. Ko Yeung- hung and Miss Choi Ping-yl

Sport will be well repre sented by photographs taken nt the Fanling Hunt steeple- chases and the football match between England and Chinn, whilst there will bo a group of the Lam Long football team and photographs of Mrs. R. E. Tottenham and Miss Enid Lo, the finalists in the Indies' tennia championship.

There will be three photo- graphs taken at the launching, nt Bailey's yard, of the now gunboat Kien Yu, built for the Canton Government, us well as a new studio portrait of General Chan Ming-shu, the, new Civil Governor of Canton.

Other pictures will include some photographs of the re- cent fire at Kongmoon, the dinner party 'on the N.D.L. - Fulda, the prize picture of the Hongkong University Ama- teur Photographic Society's exhibition, and a scene from the Court of King Arthur at Camelot, given by pupils of the Victoria British School.

TURBORGARSATION NUMBERED ANGCHAEBATES

scheme which is evolved, Germany would naturally expect to expand her exports in order to meet her indebtedness and give greater de- her creditors. That would obviously result in keener competition in the world markets.

The Canton Naval Headquarters We, mention these points to show that issues of the highest iniport have despatched a staff, to Hong- ance are bound up with this re-kong in connexion with the com- pletion of the construction of the purations problem, and it may be gunboat "Chap Shun" which taken for granted that it will not now under construction at the " be an easy task to evolve a scheme With the Intended appointment, in satisfactory, to all parties concern the very near future, of a Com-ed. mittee of Experts, the German re- parations question will shortly be assuming an aspect of much im- portance. The United States us, happily, consented to representa-almost a record one for new ordin-economic problems in British Ma- tion on the Committee, and with ances, the Legislative Council yes-laya, by Professor Hinton; on terday afternoon passed slx enact Chinese family and property law in Its membership consisting of ex-ments through their final stages. AG. Von Faber; on an

the Netherlands Indies, by Dr. auditor's large proportion of the year's duties regarding wages, by Mr. legislative work has been concern-V. F. Viccajee; a critical survey of ed with the amendment of existing the penal code of the Tang Dynasty, Tung; the history by Mr. Lams ordinances, and we mention this of sericulture, by Miss Lam Slu- fact since it seems to us that there chan, the Government and laws of the effect that he only understood has been at least one important China, by Mr. M. A. Khan; and the a little. omission. We refer to the Doge Soviet civil code and science of sociological jurisprudence, by Pro- Ordinance. Designed in its pre-fessar G. W. Keeton. sent form to counter an outbreak af rabies in the Colony, and rigid- ly-enforced over a period of years, requiring all dogs to be muzzled or on a lead in the public high- ways, all the evidence goes to show that its purpose has been New York satisfactorily completed. During Brussels the whole of. 1928, not a single one, Geneva...

Amsterdami of the suspected dogs taken to Milan dogs' home for observation has Berlin been proved to be rabid, the last Stockholm ense to which official attention Copenhagen was directed occurring in Decem-Vienna as a final settlement of Germany's ber, 1927. These facts, brought Prague war indebtedness. It is a system out as the result of enquiries by Helsingfors.. by which Germany is enabled to Mr. J. P. Bragu at the Sanitary Lisbon transfer yearly large sums of Board meeting, In themselves re- Athens

Bucharest money, or their equivalent, with present a very obvious case for cre aat upsetting the markets and, ex-those who plead that the time has Buenos Aires changes of the world, or unduly come to afford some relief. If we Bombay

may make use of the pearl of wis= | Shanghai hampering German reconstruc- dom, which apparently in accord Hongkong tion. The maximum annual pay-ance with recent habit, dropped Yokohama ment was fixed at £125,000,000, to from the lips of the Head of the Blver (spot) be reached progressively during Sanitary Board the fact that no Bilver (forward)

dogs have been proved to be rabid

perts from many countries, we may expect the whole issue to bo thoroughly studied with a view to reaching something like finality on this vital problem. If, as seems Hikely, the Dawes Plan is to be completely reorganised, the result will be the taking of a step more important than any sluce the sign. ing of the Treaty of Versailles, In Britain, it is considered that the effects of whatever agreement is reached will react on the export business to an extent which will largely depend on the facilities opened up for German trade in the markets of the world,

It has been pointed out by a diplomatic correspondent that the

Dawes Plan was never conceived

WAS

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

Oalo

Madrid

After remarking that it was a serious case and it would perhaps bo botter to have someone with a better knowledge of English, his Lordship said he would exempt Mr: Im from 'service.

This juryman was also called for jury service nt the Sessions on the morning of December 18 when he failed to appear and was fined $50. He attended the Court in the afternoon, however, and pleaded sickness, with the result that the fine was reduced to one of $10. .12.07% Mr. R. K. Butler, another jury-

London, Dec, 27.

.....123,95 4,85 11/10 ,94.87 .25.16

92.72

.20.38% man, was also excused when he 18.00 informed the Court that he was 18,17% leaving the Colony shortly.

18.10.

.31.464

.1034

21 YEARS AGO.

During her husband's lifetime she formed the habit of waiting for him in the vestibule of the card club in the small hours of the morning, and there become intimate with numbers of women who waited, trembling, at the thought of the lassen. which their husbands would disclose to them when they came from the card

rooms.

The piano tuner found the in- strument in good condition and not in the lenst In need of attention, A few days Inter his employer re- ceived a letter from the owner of the piano stating that she did not think it had been properly tuned.

After being reprimanded liy his employer the tuner, made another trip, and again tested every note of the instrument, only to find na fault, This time he told the own

cr no.

*** "Yes," she said, "It certainly seems all right now, but, as soon ns I begin to sing it gets all out of tune."

"Can any boy in the class toll me what harness is?" asked the teacher.

Not a single boy know. "Well," continued the teacher, "Is there any boy in the class whose father works among hornes 7"

"Please, teacher, mine does," sald one pupil.

"Well, what is it your father puts on horses overy day?" ·

"Please, teacher, every half- penny he's got."

There's Dad!—he seems

nover done jawin' at ma Fur not stickin' at the school, | An' nez, that ter climo to the top of

the treo

7

I'll need ter chuck playin' thé fulo; Ho sez there was boys at the school

in his day Who've since wun both fortune en'

fame;

Maybel-But to Dad I wud just

like to say-

"Well, why didn't you do the

· But it wouldn't be wise,

As I've reason to fear

He might spring a surprise · An' give me a thick earl

It's all right for Dad-he has got a

soft job,

Each uvrnin' at five he is free, While I carry on, drivin' inter my

nob

Tho stuff that's to help clime tho.

Yet he toddles, off every night on his

own

To billiards, to pictures, or pub, An' I turn to my books with a sigh

or a monks,

His poor, ill-used Ignorant cub,

Oh! I hate dll this grind, For it drives me half mad; dow I wish I could find

A soft job like my Dad!

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Nottingham Solicitor-One of the surest ways to make an enemy In to lend him money.

Policeman nt Lowes Police Court-He said, "You will get a pulty medal for this."

A wife, complaining at Totten- ham of her husband, said that while she worked he drank tea.

Woman at Willesden-I did not put a collar on my dog because the poor little thing had a stiff

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· “TELEGRAPH" FILES. .5.20/32 .47.21/04 The following items are from .1/8.1/16 the Honglong Telegraph for the neck.

2/7 week ended December 20th, 1907. ..211/16 .1/10.23/32 23.7/16 .26%

British Wireless.

FISHING JUNK PIRACY.

SESSIONS CASE NOW

ADJOURNED. -

The rate of the dollar on do- mand was 18, 93⁄41⁄4d.

It was reported at a Sanitary Board meeting that the provision of a vegetable market for Yau- mati would be proceeded with at

once.

Mr. H. L. Dennys, jr., was auc cessful at the final examination for solicitors, and left London to

Witness at Lambeth-My wife calls me the guy-nor. Solicitar- You must not assume that the husband is always the guv'nor.

To-day's Dog Story-Fifty years the present year. But Germany's since the last rasi at least re-

go, a reader writes, I was on my total indebtedness was not fixed, moves justification for the shoot

honeymoon, and, walking with my nor was any limit imposed uponing of dogs. The recent incident

wife round the Capstan Rock, In which a man's terrier. puppy

Ilfracombe, I had a walking, stick the period during which the pay was shot on its owner's doorstep.

In my hand, when a large retriever ments should be made. The thus adding insult to a grave in-

dog came up, barking furlously. figure of £125,000,000, which it Jury, is only one of many in which

At first I was a little disturbed at the Police have been proved to

his apparent fierceness, and when considered Germany could lack sense of proportion in their pay, although it by no means interpretation of the powers grant-

me to throw my walking stick over covers the Allied war expenditure, ed under the Ordinance. As resumed before the Chief Justice The Criminal Sessions were re-

the wall on to the rocks below, I. The name of Dr. G. D. R. Black hesitated, as I had no wish to risk does nearly cover inter-Allied In-garda muzzling, the case against (Sir Henry Gollan) at the Supreme was added to the list of medical the loss of the stlek. But at last,

is now almost equally strong, and Court this morning, when Mr. C.G. debtedness for the next 65. years. we suggest that the RS.P.C.A.Alabaster, K.C., mentioned the

na there was no other way of get practitioners. On the whole, the Dawes Plan has should exercise 'pressure in the case in which Ho Fu is charged

ting rid of the dog, I threw the been working satisfactorily, and right quarter with a view to with the piracy of a fishing Junk.

Pollard's Lilliputians appeared stick over the wall. The dog Mr. Alabaster, who is defending, at the Theatre Royal, their reper-bounded over, and returned with

securing an carly remission of the

Join his father's firm in Hong-it became evident that he wanted- kong..

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it is worth bearing in mind that sentence so long'aga passed on stated that a special plea had been toire including "The Belle of New the stick in his mouth.

the suggestion for reorganisation,

or reconstruction, comes from Ger- Allied many, and not from the nations, There appears

no idea

that by reconstruction the Allied

the canine world.

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FINE WEATHER,

In vain I tried to obtain the slick entered, that the accused had York" and "La Poupee."

from him. He turned round and already been tried and discharged

kept some distance in front of me on that charge, in China and would

going towards the town. I had not or should not be tried again.

to follow, and at last he ran into Council continued it would be

a baker's shop. The bakor in- necessary for the defence to get in.

formed me that the dog would not formation from the records of the To-day's Observatory report creditors will receive any more, Messrs. Siemens and Halske A-polico' of the trial in Ching: Ap-states that a new anticyclone has give up the stick until I had and Siemens-Schuckertwerke A-G.,plication had been made to the formed over the Yangtze Valley when he dropped the stick and bought him a bun. This. I did, ther they will even obtain greater Berlin, Germany, have sent us a Magistrate at Shekki, and a reply A depression is shown to the south allowed me to pick it up.

very attractive and useful pocket had been received referring them east of the Loochocs. Fresh mon- security. It has to be admitted, diary bound in red Morocco and to a higher authority at Ilcung-soon will continue along the south dog ran off. The baker informed After consuming the bun the however, that the control entailed conveniently Atted with me-shan. He asked for the case to be cast coast of China and over theme that the dog, which was not under the scheme, the non-fixation moranda booklet, etc. It is one of put over until the next Sessions. China Ben. The forecast till noon his, was continually carrying out the best things of its kind we His Lordship granted the applica to-morrow is:-North-east winds, the trick. It seemed his daily of the total debt and the term of have seen,

tion:

fresh; fine.

task.

and it is somewhat doubtful whe-