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MONDAY APRIL 22, 1929.

COMMUNISM IN CHINA.

MONDA

APRIL 22, 1929

DAY BY DAY.

EDUCATION IS THE ART OF TEACH- ING THE YOUNG TO LEAHN TO DO THE THINGS THAT THEY DO NOT LIKE TO Do-Dr. A. W. Upcott,

The bealth return for the week- end shows one case each of small- pox, diphtheria and typhoid. All were Chinene.

1.

HONGKONG IMPORTS.

JAPANESE PIECE GOODS

COMPETITION.

The fortnightly Prica Curront and Market Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, states:

Cotton Piece Goods,

The Very Idea!

characteristic of Japan, Korea, Indio, and, though. possibly to a less oxtont, of China. The salient result of this depression is that

The luckiest youth in London many farmers from being owners

one day recently was Laurenco Turner, a twenty-year-old packor of their lands become at first

employed by a city firm of linen, part-owner part-tenant, and then HI.M.S. Bruce is due to leave

| merchants. When in Sloane Street, tenant: the transition being mado Woosung. for Hongkong to-day.

W, he found lying on the pavo- ment the pearl necklace, worth by the execution of mortgages on

£5,000, which had been lost by thedelds raised at exorbitant

The following reports have been Lady Guthrio while shopping. rates of interest. Therd in

received:

Little thinking that the pearls another important factor. Owing

were of any value, Turner casually The market is quiet, with prac-placed them in his pocket and to the increases of population, the

The P. and O. liner Morca, with tically nothing doing." Deliveries went on his way. When oven. holdings of a family become split... the Duke of Gloucester have fallen. away as is usual tually it was ascertained that his Into sections too small to aboard, is due here from Singapore during the Ching Ming festival, and might be valuable, the pearls

at 10 am, on Thursday.

Cotton prices are cheaper, but word at once taken to the polico support the groups which Own

aro not reflected in the price of station, «A reward of £500 had them, and there'is a large increase

The P. &. O. s.s. "Khiva" from piecegoods.

been ordered and this will be paid' of what in a corresponding crisis

Hongkong arrived London on 20th There is very little buying of to Turner. of English history came to be April, and the ss. "Khyber" from cotton piece goods at present. Mrs. Turner, Laurence's mo- landless men." Hongkong arrived Marseilles on Now that the boycott has been ther, said: "My son when he came. more or less withdrawn, business threw the pearls on my lap, say. Chinese rural society has been 20th April

in Japanese goods is being ing Here, mother, are some Capt. J. L. P. Maanair, Royal resumed. Japancar qualities will pearls for you. Artillery, will deliver a lecture on thus be an active factor once more "Curiosition of Mathematical and will compete with the consign. Philosophy," at the Hongkong Uniments sent out by Lancashira com- versity at 8.30 p.m. on Friday,

up

known a

ono of the most stable in the history of any country: but this development has been met by the specious agitation of Communistic theory imported from Russia, which has fallen on prepared soll. For there is no other solution

The vaccination return of the St. John Ambulance Brigade gives a grand total of 339,089 vaccinat-

bines. Clearances have been steady, with white shirtings in fair demand.

Woollens.

1.

"None of us thought much about them until I saw they were fitted with a special safety catch. This made me think they might be of some value, so I took them to a jeweller. He said, 'You could not buy them for £1,000.*~*

"I nearly fainted with the shock in the field. During the long-ed up to April 38. During last A few small lines in miscel extended revolution, government week there were 837 vaccinatione, laneous fabrics have been put and took them round to the police

through. Bradford prices are re-station." has been at a discount: and any

The basket ball team of the ported to have reached a very

shut University of the Philippines ar cheap basis and will probably "Maurice, mine boy, vy you rived here by the President Madi-harden in the evont of any weight off the reddlo?"

of business. Clearances have "Dey was broadcasting do ser- son. They are on their ways been limited to a few packages of vices from de synagogue, Poppa." Japan, where several tournaments

blankets and wool Venetians. are to be played.

Cotton Yarn.

Since our last report market has remained unchanged and prices have further declined $2 to $4 per

bale.

Nominal quotations are as fol. lows:-Na, 108, $175-190, No. 128. $180-192, No. 16s. $195-200, No. 208. $200-210.

II.M.S. Sepoy arrived at Woosung from the Yangtsze on Saturday and left for Hongkong yesterday, on which day H.M.S. Cleopatra Sales nil, arrived at Woosung and H.M.S. bales. Carysfort at Shanghal, both from Hongkong.

effective solution would involve, a policy which in the nature of things would take many years to carry through and which demands an Intelligent and settled govern-

The Hon. Treasurer of the St. ment, having at heart the intereste

John Ambulance Brigade begs to of the agricultural community. acknowledge the following dona- So far, the conditions have not tions towards the Funds of the permitted auch a policy, oven If Brigade: Sir Robert Ilo Tung,

$200; Mr. Kwok Hin-wang, $25. there were knowledge and good-, will enough to carry it through.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the Bolshevist short-cut to Utopia makes an immediate appon The persistence of Communist when it is put in a porsuasive and trouble in Kwangtung, as well as picturesque way to the peasants, elsewhere, is a problem which is and that so many of the students

A Chinese who was arrested at

oplum in clearly not solved merely by urg-have been easily bitten with it,the Kowloon Railway Station with ing military action against H. Its The fact that students have taken 80 taels of raw

possession was fined $2,400, or ten vitality suggests that there are it up dons, however, show the months' liard labour, by Mr. T. S. conditions in the social and weakness of the Chinese educa- Whyle Smith at Kowloon Magis- economic life of the community, to tional system in recent years. It tracy this morning. which it makes a direct appeal, shows that the revolution bas and there is in the form of its deprived the teaching class of a appeal an element so speelous as due historical sense, and left them to capture the imagination not but blind leaders of the blind. only of an illiterate peasantry, but Recent pronouncements by the alno of considerable members of Nanking

Government,

# and the boy and girl students of change of policy in. the Kuemin- middle school age. On one side it tang, have done something, to re-

his

Amongst the passengers who ar rived here from Manila by the 8.8. President Madison was Major K. A. McLennan, the manager of the Robin Hood Mille, Ltd., of Van- couver. Accompanied by his wife, he is on an extended tour of the Orient.

Arrivals nil. Shipments nil, 900 Unsold Stock Bargains 4,800 bales,

BRIDGE MADE EASY

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by. W.W.Wentworth

"Vot's the matter' vith that? It's good you should listen to suck. t'ings,"

"Yes, Popps, I know, but dey vas taking do collection.'

[Actually, says' a" traveller, the desert chieftain is a very common- Place character.].

118

Till now it's always seemed to

(We shared our noveliste”

beliefs)

That there was something

glorious

About Saharan chiefs.

To-day we have begun to dzem That notion one of our mis-

takes;

These desert chieftains, it would

seem,

Are really no great sheikė.

Head aloft, she sailed majestic- ally down the stairs to Charing Cross, Underground. With the studied sang-froid of a theatrical star, basking in the full limelight K-of public gaze, she walked "down Xslage" to a porter standing at a

door of the train.

Focussing her gold lorgnette, she gave him a cold-storage "once over, and said: "Portah! Will this train take me to Victori-ah?" On receiving a pollte assurance that it would, she swept into the carriage.

(Abbreviations: A-ace; king; Q-queen; J-jack; any card lower than 10).

3-Average Probabilities. The third number of the Belilios Quick tricks may be described School Journal has made Its ap- makes a rallying ground for the store the balance. But the fruits pearance. It comprises nearly fifty a positive or reasonably sure bandits who aro a perennial of the previous period of unres-pages and gives much interesting tricks. A qulek trick in one that weakness of Chinese society. On traint have inevitably to be reap. information regarding the School's any be fairly counted on to win a netivities. All concerned in its pro-trick on the first or second round, duction are to be congratulated on and, possibly, on the third round.

With owl-like solemnity the An Ace is a quick trick. King- the excellence of the magazine.

and Queen in combination is a quick porter whipped off his cup

brushed the platform with It_na The basis of all sound bidding he executed a bow worthy of a Then, replacing it at a jaunty is a knowledge of quick trick 17th century gallant. values. Without a knowledge of

"BI them, your bidding becomes or angle, he winked knowingly at a derly and dependable. How quick colleague, and shouted: tricks are described and valued is We've sold the bloomin' Station [" shown in this table:

A Chineso coolie's neglect to turn off the lap which was running into a bucket in Canton Road while the man was away getting another re ceptacle led to his appearance be- fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning on a charge of wasting water. His

fine of $5. Worship, on convication, imposed a

thia alde it needs little examina- ed. tion: it is merely to-day what the Three Dot Society was in former

Disarmament Conference, days, and a recruited from the

Lord Cushendan's offer to take n agricultural overplus of the

back sent in the discussions at the population for which there is as Preparatory Disarmament Con- yet no outlet In village life. ference, while possibly as logical as Among such handits, there has the British delegate ventured to

nevertheless always been an implied profess] suggest, comes against à social order which finds considerable surprise. The gesture is likely to be given, a very mixed no adequate place for them, and reception in political and military

The latest issue. of the Silver from their ranks have risen not a circles, though it is realised that an wolf, the official organ of the Boy | few of those who have controlled early agreement is desirable in Scouts and Girl Guides Associations the destinies of the country 'even order that the real Disarmument of Hongkong, is a most readable may be held. It is number, and deals very interesting- in recent years. There is a Robin Conference Hood tradition in Chinese popular the British representatives have letter from Mr. C. H. Blason, A

admitted by Lord Cusrendun that ly with the local activities of the Associations. It includes n'farewell thought, fostered by the Three always taken very strone exception sistant Commissioner, on the eve of Kingdom novel, and the plays to certain features of the military his departure for Home. that are repeatedly acted from limitation convention, particu- the Continental it; and in spite of the excesses of larly to

the question any given band of brigands, views handitry has a certain popular conscription and reservists, storm of protest, it will be

On

trick,

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K Q A J 10

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Wife at Bow I always shut my mouth my husband has been drinking.

North London woman, of her landlady-She has taught ber dogs to cry and imitate my three babies.

Debtor, at Westminster County Court-shall have to go to prison. I've got nothing. Judge Turner- It is only if you have money and won't pay that you have the pri yllege of going to prison.

K Q 10

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A J 10

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K Q J

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A Q 10

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A Q J

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AK J

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K J 10 The Ambulance Brigade group

The foregoing table should of published in our Pictorial Supple

ment on Saturday was, by an in- A

advertence, given an Incorrect memorized before any effort caption. It was not the King's made to make any further,

To know the quick trick value Kowloon Division, under charge of

travelling expenses. pro-on-Thames, earning £8 a week and

EXCHANGE RATES.

"I am not actually a bullder's foreman. I just walk round out beside the job."A man at Kingston- is

•

A story of the early days of railways:

'Mr. Cairns, the Thames Magis-, appeal. Two Generals, who have called, was aroused last year when College Division, as stated but thegress or advancement. been operating in the Swalow it was learned that the British

Divisional Superintendent. E of your hand in the first essential trate-Married people should re-, district have traded on this aspect Government had made certain con- Savage, with the Ralph Ellefeney of all sound bldding. Bridge is a member that not all women aro in their sweep through so many cessions in this connexion, in return shield. The error in description game of information; you cannot angels any more than all men are: towns. When they take a town for acceptance of the principles of arose from the fact that the photo-ive proper information unless not saints, their method is, as is reported, to the so-called Anglo-French naval graph was taken at King's College. you know the value of your hand. The value of the hand is deter. mined by its quick values, and you loot the shops and sell at a low compromise. That the principal British delegate' should announce

cannot make a sound bid unleas prico to the poorer of the "people, the complete withdrawal of all

you know its quick trick value, and so demonstrate the economic objections, even though the British

The necessity and Importance London, Apr. 21, protest which their movement is Government is still of the same

124.26% of knowing the quick trick table mind, reeme to be playing with Paris

34.95% cannot be stressed too strongly. supposed to embody.

All bidding, la based upon it. The movement, however, has edged tools. The excuse given Brussels

Amsterdam Berlin been extended far beyond the military Power In the Jense

Copenhagen bandit class by the previous skilthat European. Powers under Vienna ful organisation of the Agricul-stand it, and that the coun- Helsingfors

tries regarded 219 millary Lisbon tural Unions. These set out with Powers should decide the mutter Bucharest the intention of foreing an imme for themselves. The attitudo is Huenos Aires

us, would seem Shanghai · diate decrease in the rents which strange. To

more sensible to argue that because Yokohama agriculturists should pay for their Britain has no great interest in the New York lands. The course of agriculture settlement of the various pointe Geneva

in dispute, her opinion in the mat Milan

that Britain IA not a

A little girl, boarding a train for Aberdeen from, Edinburgh, asked the guard to tell her when they came to Dundee. The train steamed on through Dundee, and the guard, suddenly remembering about the girl, told the driver to shunt the train back into the. atation. He ran up to the carri Aliceuge where the little girl was, sny ing. "Come on, lass. This is Dundee."

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12.08 .20.47% 18,21 .34.50

Friday last was observed 108 Graduation Day at the 1084 Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals. .810

Mndom Wu Ting-fang, sister of the 47.5/18 late Sir Kai Ho Kai, the founder of

the hospitals, and herself a gene 4.861 ous benefactor of the work, present cd the certificates to the graduating .25.21%

The Hon. Dr. S. W. Te'o, short 32.4714 nuraS. .18.141 O.B.E., presided at the

18.20 Graduation Ceremony, which was

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"Oh, thank ye very much," she replied smiling, "Ma grannie told me tao eat in plece when I got Lae Dundee

in China is similar to that in other ter should be of greater weight. Stockholm

The engagement is announced 104 held in the Lecture Room of the of Harold Gordon Enles, second lands in the East. Volume VI We fail to see any real distinction Oslo

Madrid

33.09% Hospitals and an address to the of the report of the Jerusalem between the world laughing at a Prague

failure to agree, and the world

Athens

374% nurses who were graduating was son of the lato Mr.-W. J. Eales and Conference, entitled "The Chris-grinning at an agreement which

6.67/04 given by the Matron. A Gradun of Mrs. Eales, Uplands, Park, Enfield, and Louise, younger Rio

1/6.31/32 tion Service was held tho tion Mission in Relation to Rural' fulls to achieve its purnose, namely; Bombay

the reasonable limitation of land Hongkong

.1/11% evening, conducted by the Roy. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Problems" shows 0 general

armaments, and de-militarisation Silver (spot and forward) ...25% Cheung Chak Ling of the Chinese Vivian Hogg, of Paak Hok Tour,

Canton. agricultural depression to bal on a sound system.

----British Wireless. Hop Yab Church.

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