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MARRIAGE.

THURSDAY, JANUARY

thing approaching real unification has been achieved, the National Government feels emboldened to make some effort for cutting down China's huge armies, reassured by belief that it can exercise cen-

DAY BY DAY.

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I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE A NEW CON- CEPTION OF NOBILITY, DASED ON HEAL SUTERIORITY, AND NOT ON COATS OF ARMS OR BROAD ACRES. Dean Inge.

tralised control over the country's armed forces. It will thereford

The P. and O. 3.8. Allpore, from be the task of the Conference now Singapore, is due hero at 8 a.m. måsting to evolve a workable) morrow. scheme towards this end, and the

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BERNARD SHAW FOR HONGKONG.

THE MACDONA' PLAYERS' HONGKONG SEASON.

The Very Idea!

Somo of the parishioners of Cal- low. Herefordshire, were shocked

There is hardly a civilised coun-recently when their pastor, the Barnard Shaw, have not been invitation through the press to try in the world where the plays of Rov, A. Manby, Lloyd, issuing an to-presented either in English or motorists to attend services at his translated into the language of church, mentioned as a special at- has enjoyed such a universal half a mile from the Angel Inn, á the country; in fact no dramatist traction that the church was only popularity during his own life- time. Through acquiring the hostelry famous for its excellent rights of these plays early in 1921, ale. The parishioners protested Mr. Charles Macdona's companies against linking an invitation to a are known throughout public house with an Invitation to England Scotland and Ireland a church. "The Maedona Players") have a

The F. and O. B.S. Mantua, from real test of Nationallat authority Shanghai, is due here at 6 am will come when efforts are made to to-morrow. put into force the decisions which | are reached.

In the past, disbandment of troops in China has generally had little other effect than to add to the strength of the bandit gangs operating in the country. This has been so because the dispersed troops have been merely turned' loose, without any means of mak ing a living bafing provided for them. The first requisite, there- fore, of any new scheme will be to see that work is rendered avail- able for such men as are not re- quired in military service. Here we touch

The P. & O. BA. Karmate, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on (which 1st January at 9 a.m.

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The P. and 0.8.8. Khyber, from Hongkong, arrived at London the 1st January at 11 a.mt.

f.

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reportory company following comparable to no other. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd, apparently clusively the works of one author. critics in his sermon. He said playing ex-not at all abashed, replied to his Each year they play a long season that his invitation was based on in the West End of London before

of human

:

The Empress of Australia. left visiting the large university and an understanding

naturo, due here on February 13th. Suez on New Year's Day and is manufacturing towns in the coun-

try. They have also visited Paris "The religious man," he de- and had two very successful aca-clared, "is supposed to regard the left for South Africa on a second abomination. It Is that spirit I sons there and a company has just public house na a place of visit to that country.

want lo contradict. Christianity has nothing to do with what a man cats or drinks.. Whatever else one finds in a public house,

one always finds there some of the bost elements of human nature.”

Mr. G. H. Bond has been admitted a partner, in the firm of Messrs Architects, Civil Engineera & Sur- Denison, Ram & Gibbs, Chartered

veyors.

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This will be their first visit to the Far East, and they will open at the Theatre Royal on Monday next' with "Pygmalion,"

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Information received an economie problem.

In the

The task of creating a society Colony is to the effect that Leslie All up and down the country there Haynes has been appointed Editor lady out of a "cockney flower- is a call for reconstruction, and of the Dunstable Borough Gazette soller is no light one, but Henry

Magistrate at Tower Bridge if the means for Annncing the and Laton Journal

Higgins (Professor of Phonetics)Have you any friends? Man-No. wagered that he could do it. The air, I am Irish. numerous projects which have

Eleven further Chinesa enses of the restraining of her flow of adjoe-der the sun, but the imitations correcting of her pronunciation, been mentioned can only be found, small-pox were notified yesterday, tives, the moulding of her man- frequently surpass the original.

There may be nothing now un- there should be no difficulty in of which eight were from Kowlooners, the "settling" of her father (A giving employment to the disband districts. There was also a British dusiman) presented great dificul County Court that he was in the An elderly man said at Bow case of typhoid recorded.

Lies; half way through the experi-London Police when they wore top ment Higgins decides to try what There has just come to hand a progress has been made, and he hats, copy of the Malayan Daily Express brings the girl to one of his Mo

Old Street prisoner-I gave Christmas Number. Published inther's At Homes; all goes well wrong address because these de- Kuala Lumpur, at $1 per copy, it while she keeps to the generalitics tectives do me more harm than contains some eighty pages of she has been taught but consterna-good. light and seasonable reading mat- tion is caused at the end of her When a woman and a cyclone ter and is well illustrated. A visit by the inclusion of an adjec- make up their minds, to go any- bright and chatty number, it ive never heard in any drawing where, nothing on earth can stop should find a ready sale.

room. In six months the task is them. Anally accomplished and the girl Mr. Justice Salter suggested in

Higgins has won his wager-but to work in airplanes.. at an Ambassador's garden party, in twenty years miners would go has been passed off as a duchess his Court recently that perhaps

he had looked no further than this

ed troops. These things, however, cannot be done in a day. We must DODWELL & Co., Ltd, therefore hardly expect the mili- tary problem to be solved right away. But if the basis of a really workable acheme can be reached, MCRAE HURLEY-On January and if personal jealousies and 3. 1929, at 2.30 non. ut the Re-ambitions on the part of military gistry, Mr. Lionel McRae to Mrs. M. P. Hurley (nee Gol- leaders can be overconio, there is denberg).

no reason why by gradual steps China should not find some better employment for the huge number of superfluous troops now serving in one or other of the armies scattered up and down the coun-

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY. JAN. 3 1929

THE DISBANDMENT PROBLEM.

try.

The King's Illness.

bound for India. The transport

Magistrato's Clerk at Tower

ja llongkong this morning from The transport Neuralia arrived Shanghai with the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment on board, and is surprised and perplexed at Bridge You women cannot both also has on board half of the standing the soul concealed in what talk at once. The Magistrate- Battalion Northamptonshire Regi-gutter-snipe;" The future of this not.

he termed "this draggle-tail Oh, yes, they can, but they must ment which is proceeding to Malta, girl with her newly awakened Details are being picked up here soul-not her training-proves to for England

be the real problem of the play.

SAI ON COLLIDES WITH JUNK.

BOAT RESCUES WOMEN

AND CHILDREN,

Canton last night, reports being in The as. Sal On, arriving from collision with a junk in Capsulmun Pass, shortly before midnight.

At the end of the sixth week of the King's illness, the sympathy and Interest of the public remain |nnabated. A week ago, is, The Disbandment Conference again brought the worst dangers Majesty suffered a 'sel-back which

which has opened in Nanking has very rear Indeed, but Juler, de- a big problem to tackle. It is im-velopments have inspired a thuch possible to say with any exacti-evident that a shade of anxiety more hopeful feeling, though it is tude the precise number of men must continue for some time. under arms in China, but it enn Apparently, the discus conforms with certainty be stated that the to a type in which there is

A boat was immediately sent single trisis, but a protracted total for outstrips that of any succession of ups and downs, and away from the Sai On, under the other country. Most of the exli- it is this vacillation that has been and a number of women and child- command of Chief Officer Cornwall,

mates basert

reasonable responsible for the extreme weak ren were taken off, part the crew grands put the figure at between now affirmed that is Majesty has navigate her to the beach.

neus of the Royal Patient. It is remaining on band the junk one and two million men. The mastered the disease and is suffer- It is understood that the junk curse of China for miny yeara past ing more from its destructive was not seriously damaged and that has been this huge military effects than anything else. No when the colligion occurred she was incubus, and it is gratifying to find can, therefore, be expected. Tho

quick_and_decisive improvement not showing lights.

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recovery will be long and arduous,} but progress, however slow, is to he looked for. The new calcium

that the National Government has rome to realise that only by means of disbandment of superfluous treatment appears to be having forces cun the heavy drain on the beneficial results, and the Empire country be stopped. But the sub-will wait patiently, amid its loyal |ject bristles with difllculties, and hopes and prayers, for a favour- able outcome. The most reasaur-

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The village choir-boys had do- elded to form a. cricket team, and appointed their junior member honorary secretary:

In due course the youngster ap- pealed to the curate for support. This is how his letter ended:- "And we should be very pleased, Hir, if you would allow us the use of the bats which the choir-mon sky you have in the belfry!"

The greatest obstacle in this way of disarmament is that we all 'fear the risk of peace, more than we fear the risks of war-Mr. Ram- sag MacDonald.

Red tape is a-good thing up to a point, but it must havo a certain amount of clastic in. it here and there. Sir Leonard Dunning.

The voice of the people is not necessarily the voice of God: it is quite as often the voice of Satan. -Mr. Norman Angell.

In the atmosphere of Genova patriotism perishes: a patriot

I am frankly aghast at the ambil number of people whom I meet in first-class railway carringes who read on a' journey. The Duchess of Atholl.

Spades are trumps, and Souththere is simply a apy who cannot

bo shot-Mr. Bernard Shaw. has the lend. North and South must win four of the five tricks.

Lay the cards out on the table, as shown in the diagram. Study it will require wise statesmanshiping statement for some time past

them uld see if you can find how to deal with it effectually.

wus made by Sir William Joynson. H.M.S. Tarantula has just ré- North and South can win four of Hicks, the Home Secretury, yester-turned There was a time when the pre-day, on leaving London for Men- the Christmas holidays in Wuchow which this can be done is outlined to Canton after passing the five tricks. The one way in decessors of the present National tone. The doctors, he says, are and reports a very jolly time for you in the solution, printed Government hoped to achieve the now satisfied with the King's pro- spent up there amongst the foreign elsewhere on this page. unification of the country by gress. His Majesty has taken community,

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

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The Solution.

South leads his club. If West

were decorated. In addition to a heart, giving North and South this, a pine tree was decorated two tricks in that suit, or he must and this gave a very jolly aspect lend a club or a diamond, which to the whole ship.^

allows North and South to discard Early on Christmas day the

a heart in one hand, trump in the various messeB

were decorated London, Jan. 2.

other and then win the remaining with_bunting, Christmas fáre was 124.10 displayed everywhere and each tricks. Of course, if East takes .25,10

mess was issued with refreshments the opening etub trick he also must 20.80 18.195 from the Captain and Officere, lead a club or a diamond.. 102 which was very greatly anoreciated.

There is a slight variation to,

other than military measures, but pulling through. At this stage of in proper naval fanhlen.

turn for the better and is slowly Christmas was kept up on board It eventually came to be realised the illness, it would scarcely be Christmas Eve, the day was spent} In this problem the solution lles that force must be met by force, possible to obtain a more pleasing thoroughly scrubbing and cleaning in forcing the opponents to make and so came about the struggle for signs of a lifting of the cloudy will absolutely spick and span; during themselves.

summary of the position The the ship and making everything a lead highly undesirable for supremsey on the battlefield, re- be a source of great comfort to the afternoon a party went ashore. sulting in a series of uninterrupted Her Majesty the Queen, who has and gathered greenery and during victories for the Nationalist and been a moat anxious watcher the night the mast yarda, etc., wins the trick, he must ofther lead

throughout. lied troops. By the victors, the campaign has been described as a war against corrupt militarists. Thle is in part true, of course, but it must not be forgotten that in the past the corruption complain-Geneva ed of has not been all on one side. Berlin We have had numerous examples Oalo

Helsingfors of military leaders all over the Athens country, and in all factions, resort-Buenos Aires ing to corrupt and illegal methods. New York Hongkong

Much of this has been due to com- Amsterdam pulsion, for with no adequate pro-Vienna

Stockholm

vision made for the upkeep of the Madrid armies and the various factions Bombay

Bucharest

more or less a law unto them-Yokohama

Brussels solves, means of finding revenue,

Milan however, Improper have had to be Copenhagan resorted to. Thus has the mili. Prague Lisbon tary problem impinged on other Rio big Issuesithe oplum-growing Shanhai evil, for one, and irregular taxa-Silver (forward).

Silver (spot) ¡tion, for another. Now that some-

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.576 A service was held on board in this problem in that North and 47.13/32 the forenoon, being conducted by

2/0% the Rev. R. A. Jaffray, at which a South may lead one round of 4.88% number of the foreign residents trumps before leading the club ..12.08 of the port were present. After 18.136 the service a tour of the ship was 34.45 mado and the various messes 29.75 entertained the foreign residents

who had come on board. 1/10.23/32 The Wuchow Club was thrown .84.885 open to the ship's company for the .02.665 day, and by kind permission of tho 18.17 8.N.O., Commander' M. I. Clarke 163 and the Officers, a very amusing 100% contert was given, the programme .6.20/32 being contributed to by C.P.O. Holiday Edinburgh, S. P. O. Miller, P. O 26.5/16 Holland, P.0. Driscoll, and

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Arm. Mta. Whelan.-Our Own "Correspondent.

--British Wireless,

THE U. 8, ́AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE,

Cleveland, Ohio, Jana 2.

Mr. Myron Herrick, is critically if The U.S. Ambassador to France, at his Chagrin Falis estate.

Oxygen is being administered. -Reulor's" American Serolço,

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man beings, take violent likes [It is announced that plants, like.

and dislikes.]

Once there really was no mea-

Aure

To the love we felt for Pat, And it was indeed a pleasure

When he dropped in for a

shat.

But his jolly conversation

Which delighted us of yore Hus received its termination

By our showing him the door.

And this treatment, though up-

Betting,

Is no more than he deserves" Since we found that he was

getting

On the aspidistra's nerves,

T. H..

Minister Could you supply me with a very small quantity or notepaper?"

Btationor-"Would a sixpence worth be enough?"."!

Minister "Oh! dear no, I just want a very amall quantity. You ses I get all my notepaper in bulk from Glasgow, and as I am EXE pecting a supply in soon, I would be obliged for about threepence worth,"

The goods were handed over and then

Minister By the way, Mr. (stationer), I never see you at church on Sundays,"

- Stationer "Oh no. You see I have the wireless, and I get all my sermons from Glasgow "