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THURSDAY FED. 21. 1929.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

21, 1929.

A

the affected areas," and to find them employment of a less pre- carious character than that which they have latterly had. In word; the situation is one of intense gravity, and every cent that is subscribed will be put to the very best possible uso.

DAY BY DAY,

THEIR

SOME PEOPLE ARE RUSTY. HARSI, UNGAINLY MANNERS BAT our wHATEVER IS GOOD IN THEIR OWN CHARACTERS.-Rev. W. Arnot.

Mrs. Southorn will distribute the School on Monday, March 4. prizes at tho. Italian Convent

J

CURIOUS STORY OF THEFT.

COMPLAINANTS FATHER'S LUCKY THOUGHT.

The Very Idea!

Women are liko that to-day. Defying rulca and getting what they want is their meat and drink and they generally come off victor with a book or anything else they go after.

"Understanding India" is an in- teresting contrast to the much- discussed. "Mother India," Ger A peculiar story was related to trudo Marvin Williams, the au- Mr. T. S. Whyto Smith at the Kow-thor, points out, that only 30 per When we think of the position

loon Magistracy this morning cent of the population of India from this particular angle, it will

when three men appeared before his practices child marriage. Worship on charges of stealing and at once becomo apparent that no

receiving a quantity of clothing tics, however, are the experiences More interesting than her statis- fortuitous boom such as some of Prince of Wales' Banner to the mati.

Mrs. Southorn is presenting the from No. 23, Pilkem Street Yau of the author herself, who travel- the collieries are at the moment winning Girl Guide Companynt

ed more than 6000 miles in India experiencing can bring any really the Diocessan Girls School on Fri-stealing the clothing but the other which forbids a white woman, un- The first defendant admitted alone, ignoring the convention tangible or lasting relief to the day, at 4 pm,

denied the charges.

accompanied by a white man, to sufferers. The problem is so big

enter the lower quarters of Indian that its solution must take a very

The clothing, was left hanging in citles, even in the daytime. She Madame Wu Ting-fang has the passageway of No. 29, Pilken slept in mud huts and was enter- long time, and in the meantime consented to day the foundation Street, on Tuesday night but yes-tained by ruling Hindu princes. the miners, their wives

and

stone of the Kowloon branch of terday morning they had disappear the Chinese Young Men's Chris-cd., children, must be supported. It tian Association

on Saturday may be noticed that many

afternoon.

Complainant's father said that on charitable organisations have been)

discovering the loss of the cloth ing he started to mako enquiries by at work for the purpose of sending Eight further cases of small-about the garments. He went to visiting friends and asking them money, food and clothing to the pox were notified yesterday, all No. 16, Shanghai Street, where a affected areas, but since по

being Chinoso with the exception friend resided and was on the point promise has been made to double were from Victoria and the other ticles when he saw the missing of one Filipino, Six of the cases of speaking to him about the ar- the sums collected by these so-two from Kowloon, cieties, they are boing brought | Into the Lord Mayor's Fund for the sake of profiting from the ing before the Hon. Commdr. G. F.

At the Marine Court this morn-friend were given in charge. Government offer and centralising Hole, R.N., Leung Yun, the master The principal tenant of the floor the relief work. Hongkong people of a trading junk was charged testified to the second and third who support the Fund can

with unlawfully mooring his craft defendants living on the floor but: in the Southern Fairway, and was she said she did not know the first assured that their donations will fined $10.

defendant. be of real assistance in holping to alloviate distress and privation." We hope the flow of charitable gifts will continue.

rest

mutiny at Lungkow, a compara- tively mild outbreak magnified into greater significance by the

A notice issued by the Capt Supt. of Police intimates that the portion of Zetland Street, between On Lan Street and Queen's Road Central, will be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic until fur- ther notice.

EXCHANGE RATES.

things on a bed on which the first and second defendants were lying. The two defendants and his

After hearing the evidenco his Worship said that there was no evidence against the second and third men, who were discharged, The first defendant was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

DAIRY FARM CO.

SUCCESSFUL REPORT FOR LAST YEAR.

election

1.

and

Audit. The annexed Recounts have been audited by Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming London, Feb. 20..who offer themselves for re-

..124.25. election. .4.86 7/32.

Woman Revoller at Marylebone had some Australian wine, We are all told to consume Empire Mr. Bingley (the Magistrate)- products. Pay 58.

Willesdon Magistrate-Has your husband ever been to this Court? Wife Yes, and the Magistrate knocked him down. The Magist trate-Knocked him down? What for? Wife-For 108, a week..

Thirty or forty people have signed Solicitor at North London- this petition that your tenants are people. Landlord-That is all right, respectable and hardworking but it doesn't say that they don't fight.

sex)-My tenant is earning good Landlord at. Feltham. (Middło- money and can afford to pay hle rent. The Chairman-What do you call good money. Landlord-Ho gets £1 n week from the parish and keeps dog.

(A writer has been commenting adveracly Ont Woman's "Allcted figure.")

Daphine, the proper silhouette

Was once so slim and straight, That you were forced, with keen

regrot,

To think before you até... You had no gastronomie "lng" When "Alleted figures" were

the thing!

But fashions. change; the human

Jath "No longer is au fail. Woman pursues a pleasant path

To plumplshness to-day Your figure (filleted on skilly)

le "off," so All it willy-nilly!

dozing wife."

A creaking floor-board awoke his

China Rumour-Mongers,

Once again, the Spring being almost with us, political observers are turning to thoughts of civil Ford, the General Manager of the Major General Sir Reginald MONEY STILL NEEDED, war in China. Encouraged by the Dunlop Rubber Company in India, was a passenger on the Shinyo Maru, which left Hongkong yes- It is to be hoped that no mis-

terday for the North, He was ac Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., The annual report of the Dairy companied by Lady Ford.. conceptions will be created here spread plot by Chang Chung- rumours of its origin in a wide-

Ltd., states that the profit for the in Hongkong by the Reuter's chang, the experts are talking

period under review after writing message atating that, as a result confidently of strained military don, living at No. 1, Granville Road, pincing $10,000 to reserve against A European boy, named G. Gor-$51,100 off share Investments, off $109,633.05 for depreciation, of the fronty weather, something relations, and seriously express was given treatment at the Kow-bad and doubtful debts and pro- approaching a boom is being the belief, without very good on an attack made by a ferocious Auditors' fees, amounts to $305,-

loon Hospital yesterday following viding for Directors' experienced in the coal industry, reason that we see yet, that open dog. The lad was bitten in the 286.43 which includes the sum of causing practically every collfery conflict is inevitable. The villain left leg by the animal, which be- $16,004.79 brought forward from in Britain to work at full capacity.

of the pleco, we are asked to longs to Mrs. Gabriel.

last year's accounts. It is pro- The chief fact to be kept in mind believe, is Marshal Fong Yu-

posed to deal with the above is that this is only a momentary for War, who has been marching of the Governmcht," three Chinese share on 200,000 shares, $250,000;

halang, the Nationalist Minister

balance of $305,286,43 as follows: Stating that they were "servants To pay a dividend of $1:26 per phase; indeed, Renter describes his troops into Shantung with the went to the ground floor of No. 4, add to General Reserve, $30,000; it na being merely temporary. All avowed purpose of occupation. Keswick Street, yesterday, for the to carry forward, $26,286.48.

Twelve 'clock had. boomed out that the news means is that some The choice is good; indeed, Mar- illicit opium. They did not find ostensible purpose of searching for

from the church across the way, of Britain's keenest competitora sha! Feng is the only military any contraband, but they took $70 resigned from the Board on leav-round once again.

Directors. Mr. Montague Ede that the hour of retiring had come reminding Mr. and Mrs. Naggim are unable, through their ports leader capable of. filling the role from a woman. A complaint was ing the Colony. being blocked up, to meet current allotted. It is pointed out that made at the local Police Station and,

As usual, Naggim performed his demands, and in such

Feng, contrary to agreement at in the ensueing investigations M. Koch and Mr. A. B. Stewart fire, closed the windows, made fast Retiring Directors-Dr. W. v, nightly routine. He poked out the clrenm- stances it is only natural that the

the disbandment conference, de-

man was arrested,

retire by rotation but being their safety-catches, locked the British Industry should gain a

clines to await the Japanese!

eligible offer themselves for re- doors, turned out the lights, and momentary advantage. We stress anxious to strengthen his hand at evacuation of Shantung, and,

finally, with a long-drawn sigh of these points because of a pessi-once, has practically seized the

stairs. relief, made his way slowly up- bility that the local fund on behalf southern half of Shantung by of the distressed miners and their stationing six divisions of troops Paris familica might suffer if the at Taining and along the Grand Brussels

New York impression were to get abroad that Canal, while two divisions are GonGVA there is no further need for help. reported to have marched north of Amsterdam

The dominant factor in the

Tsinanfu. When it is recalled, however, that Feng was promised Stockholm British coal Industry is that economie considerations are caus-Northerners last year, it is not

Shantung on the conquest of the Copenhagen ing a complete change in the out-surprising to find that his im- Prague Vienna look of the collleries.

Mines patience seems to have outgrown Helsingfors have been continuously closed his discretion. The cables reveal Madrid down, many of them without the that Feng has an excellent answer Athens expectation of ever again re-open-for his. accusers, if such there be. Bucharest ing, since the increasing use of This is by no means the first time to

Buenos Aires off and electricity, amongst other that rumours of a proposed coup Bombay causes, makes them

by Chang Chung-chang, backed Shanghat unprolit- able. It is this

by the former Northern leaders, Hongkong circumstance

have been in the air, and an effort Silver Spot & Forward....26.13/16. Pallard Le Brix has arrived

Yokohama which has thrown some

Cairo, Feb, 20. 300,000 miners out of work, and it has the recognised Minister for War in the bud by been offelally stated that of these would have to be commended at least 200,000 have no hope of from all practical viewpoints. If, eyer being again steadily employ-in protecting Nationalist interests, ed in the work Into.which they he consolidates his own position, have been born and bred. During he might well argue that this is the past two years the majority of purely incidental. It is whispered, those who have managed to get whek and Marshal Yen Hai-alan however, that Marshal Chiang Kai- occasional work havo had to accept view Fang's accession to greater steadily decreasing wages, but as power and influence with suspicion the situation has gone from, bad to and that they have formed a com- worse greht numbers are losing bination to prevent by force, if necessary, his occupation of Shan-

to' nip the move

Milan Berlin

Lisbon

.34.945.

.25.235.

.12.11.

.92.65

20,435.

LE BRIX MAKING PROGRESS.

18.155.

18.205.

.18.105,

.34.54.

ARRIVAL AT CAIRO

REPORTED. •

103

.192

:31,296.

109 11/10

.375. .813.

París, Feb. 20.

. Later, Le Brix landed at Heliopolis at ..2/64-8.45.-Ilavas.

.47.5/10.

4.

...1/6.

...1/11%

.1/10 5/10.

"John," she said sleepily, "aro you sure everything is all right? Everything shut up for the night?" "Yes, dear," he nswered fervently. "Everything I can shut up."

To-day's Dog Story.-"Susan Is 217 Airdale," wrote Croy- don resident recently, "and ever since her arrival in Our family she has regarded the hearthrog as her lawful property. She was rather disconcerted, there-

Le Brix, who is making a flight fore, when a very small kitten call from Paris to Saigon, flew overed Richard arrived and also adopt- .5.29/32. Benghazi at 12.30.

ed this resting-place.

"At the other end of the room is a blind cord with a wooden acorn .. attached, and Susan evidently

occasions, when he was sleeping in noticed that Richard found thla ir- resistible as a plaything, for on two front of the fire, she deliberately walked across and rattled the acorn on the floor. Richard rose to the bait and made a dive for the cord. whereupon Susan calmly walked across the room and stretched her- self on the hearthrug, which was now free from the intruder." A

British Wireless. from Tunis-Reuter,

51-

COMMON ERROD /

IN BRIDGE

AND

HOW TO CORRECT THEM.

by ww.wentworth

4. FINESSING MONOR TOWARD HONOR AT WRONG TIMIS

Woot

Korth (Dummy)— AJ 64 VAGE

K.7 82. A 980

their fitness, and their plight has tung. In this, we are given to hacome intensified by the fact understand, lies the serious threat that unemployment benefit has of active strife. Chiang shows his censed. In the circumstances, it great interest in the problem, by is no surprise that thousands of wandering off to Fenghwa his families have been thrown' on to birthplace, with his wife, while glib charity. The situation has been full details of plans formulated for

Chinese correspondents relate the Loads 3 described as the worst national the conquest of China at a so-called enlamity of its kind since the secret military meeting in Dairen. great Irish famine. Not only is Our scepticism la coloured possibly there a call for money with which by our earnest wishes for an cra to furnish these distressed people of continued peace. Intriguë seema with the ordinary necessities of to be meat and drink to certain. life, but schemes have to be put groups of politicians," but at the Into operation for moving the hardly justified by definitive in-3

moment the predictions of war are miners and their familles out of formation or reasonable inference.

South (Doclarer)—— AAQ8E2

SAD

A$2

Bant

The bidding: South bids one spade; all pass,

of hearts. How should Declarer Deciding the play: West leads play to make game?

.

Lecturing to the Philsophical In- stitution on "The Sea-Serpent." Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. (retired), told of a sailor who re-

wheel of

The Error: Declarer wins the cuived a letter from his mother first trick in dummy with Ace of saying she quite believed his ac- hearts, and then finesses Jack of count of pulling up a hearts, which is covered by East Pharoah's chariot when they raised with King of spades. Declarer anchor in the Red Sea, but to say wins trick with Ace of spades, that he had seen fish that flew was Game is lost as result of this play going too far, and she refused to as opponents make King of clubs, believe it.

Queen of clubs, Queen of hearts. and 10 of spades.

The people in the railway saloon The correct method: To frame, carrlage were startled by the en Declarer must make five tricks Intrance of two masked men, one apades. After winning first trick large, the other small,, armed with with Ace of hearts, Declarer plays revolvers.

"No, partner," said the smaller man, gallantly, "we'll leave the Indles alone."

14 of spades, finessine, with Queen "Throw up your hands," said the of spades. Thereafter. Ace of big man, "We're going in rob.all apades is played and in all probab-the men and kiss all the Indies," bility the King of apades will then fall. The last spade is now drawn The Principle: Do not finesse and game la Insured.

missing the King and 10 of that jan_honor, toward an honor, when. holding only eight or less cards

Buit

of uncertain age, "the bis man is "Mind your own business, young man, stapped a woman passenger robbing the train, not you!”