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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1929.

of the organisations of which they have charge. The Chiness worker may be hoodwinked for the time, but the Communists cannot hope to fool all the people all the time. So to-day much of their propaganda falls on deaf ears: the workers are coming to realise the truth.

DAY BY DAY.

NO MAN CAN BE AS RUDE AS A WO-4. MAN CAN. IT IS A GIFT.-Raymond Coulson,

Dr. RA. de Castro Rasto has left by the President Jackson on a short holiday..

The P. & O. s.s. Karmala, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on 8th November at 8.80 p.m.

DRIVER FINED ON

FOUR COUNTS.

SIGNAL OF POLICE OFFICER

GOES UNHEEDED.

The Very Idea!

"Pack Up Your Troubles" is not cxacly Bacred muse au the play ing of this tune on the bells of St. Martin-in-the-Fields le ade- parture from the usual programmė“ as brosacast from churca ALosynes, TOUTING NUISANCE.

I remember, however, says a cor- respondent in a Home paper, to Touting for fares, driving on have heard "Drinit to Me: Only the wrong side of the road, negli With Thine Eyes" from the bells gent driving, and disobeying the

of a church in Somerset-Paulton: orders of a Polica Sergeant, were my memory serves some fire or the charges enumerated in a sum six and thirty years ago, and for mons against the Chinese driver

In this matter of the spread of extremist literature, the Chinese authorities have a duty not only

H. E. the Governor is to perform to. themselves, but also to foreign

the opening ceremony of the Tung settlements bordering on their Wah Eastern Hospital at Sookunpoo of public car No 640, which was aught I know the old tune may still heard by Mr. A. W. G. H. Granting out over the weat country. It is obviously Impro at 11 am on the 27th instant.

ham, at the Central Police Court, 000. It puzzled tg to hear & vil- lage lad whistling the song the per that the Kuomintang should]

"Walter," Hagen and Joe Kirk this morning. circulato anti-British propaganda wood, the famous golfers, are

Sergeant S. J. Macnamara stated evening before, hut when twelve in British territory, as it is doing shortly making

tour of the that at 8 pm. on November 2 he o'clock came the next day the my in the F31S., the more se in view. Orient. The Manila Golf Club is was in Des Voeux Road Central, stery was solved. After all, ins

hoping to make arrangements for near the intersection of Gilman these days, when enterprising the pair to play in the Philippines. Street, when he saw car No 540 parsons present plays in their coming towards him. A moment churches, a popular song on the lator it crossed over to the wrong church bells does not seem out of side of the road, cutting across in the way, particularly if it be one

with a notable quality of "uplift.“ front of two pedestrians.

of the close connexion between that body and the Central Govern- ment in Nanking. Quito recently. There will be a Lantern Lecture also, this Colony was flooded with at the Helena may, Tuesday, 19ch November, a 5.30 pm, when Dr. "Red" propaganda, addressed to G. A. Herkiots will speak on "im

of Java.' (Volcanos, British soldiers and sailors, which pressions

Islands and Foresca) emanated from the Kwangtung, Coral Advt.

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munist Party. This claptrap, of! The police have been notified by course, ques no harm among our! Mr. Justus, or Mesare. . . Kruse & Co, Canton, that he was Service men, who only laugh at its roobed of a fountain pen, which crudities. All the same, some good was stolen by some persons out of, might be done by drawing the s pocket, whilst he was walking Fedeer Street. The pen is attention of the officials of neigh-¡ valued at $11. bouring territory to the circulation of such mattter. In China's own Wan Chung, Coxswain of the interests, the "Reds" should be steamer Po un, has reported that about 1.45 p.m. on Sunday, whilst rooted out and their propaganda the s.3. Sui Twi, was putting in the bud. alongside schemes. nipped: In

the Wing Lok Wharf

Hongkong Telegraph. Otherwise, the time may come from Macao, its stara strack the

TUESDAY. Nov. 12, 1949.

"RED" PROPAGANDA.

an All

Witness next saw the defendant, who was in charge of the car, lean forward in his seat and say some thing to the pedestrians. They did not appear to want the car, and defendant returned to his proper side of the road. Further up the street, he again accosted two other pedestrians; and then, observing witness for the first time, stopped and moved slowly on. When he saw witness put up a hand hs" signal to atop, he accelerated and drove off, almost knocking down two person as he did so.-

A Gorman officer who had" emigrated to the States, aucceed ed in being admitted to President Lincoln, and by reason of his man." ners and intelligent appearance, was promised a lieutenants com- mission in a cavalry regiment,

He was so pleased that he con- sidered it his duty to inform the President that he belonged to one of the oldest noble houses in Ger*** many.

"Oh, never mind that," was the reply. "You will never and that

At the corner of Gilman Street he succeeded in picking up a num ber of passengers and drave off to be an obstacle to your advance- with them, still heedless of the ment." signal given by witness.

Cross-examined by Mr. F. X. D'Almada Jnr., on behalf of the

More howlers:

Queen Buzabeth rodo through

when the evil will assume largar stem of the Po On, causing 'dam defendant, Sergeant Macnamara Coventry with nothing on, and

and more serious proportions.

Serbo-Italian Relations.

It is high time that ordinary good sense began to play a part in the quarrel between Italy and Yugo Slavia. All the bitterness and re- sentment appears to be on one side. Belgrade seeths, or so it would seem, at the mere thought of Italy,

age to the amount of $100,

Patrick Carmody, who is stated to be a destitate American seaman, has been nummtiêu tô the Goverus

ment Civil Hospital, in an exhaust ed condition. He was found auck in Ice House Street about 4 p.m. on Sunday, and strightway was re- moved to hospital by the police,

A warrant has been issued for

agreed that, except for the presence of pedestrians, the roadway was clear of other traffic when the de- fendant crossed and recrossed it.

Mr. D'Almada put it to witness that it was possible for the defend- ant to look in the direction of the ving him. Sergeant without actually obear-

Mr. Grantham: Sleepwalking? Mr. D'Almada explained that what he meant to say was that it was possible for the defendant not when his mind was engrossed with other things.

Making a statement in the wit-

and it is difficult for the Serbians the arrest of Chang Ping, on a to have observed, the Sergeant to see things in their true perspec- tive. Italy, on the other hand, ap charge of fraudulent conversion pears to have adopted an attitude. of $2,000 in Hongkong currency, suspiciously akin to bullying. a the monies of Mr. Ho Hing-wan, weaker neighbour, with the result assistant manager of the Ng Tau that sympathies abroad are largely Bank at Wuchow. Mr. Ho is at towards the Serbians. The trouble present residing at 149, Queen's began with the passing of the death Road Central. sentence on.

young student of

remained quiescent, but it gpaganda, against Italy

have been carried on in. Yugo

the

its

to

Kowloon

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of the road.

MARINE COURT.

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align offered her mas clou

G. by Dnaw is the captain of the London Fire Brigade..

Herrings go about the wea' In shawis.

Angua, was engaged to a giri who,a zew anys dolore ner nue teenth arcpuay, had ner der cob-- beu. Ali her girl arienüs "con-" gratulated nar on her proved up pearance, and it was tueralore.

Waout any "misgivings that she snowed herself to her sweetheart.

Buc-Angus viewed her. When grate

disapproval.

"It's hard on me, lassie," he said; verra hard! After I've just aft bought ye a packet of nairpins for, your burchagy."

Dear old lady, at the Post Office I'd like to encourage aviation: I'll have one of those aur mail stamps.

M.dland woman, taking the oath I shall speak the holy truth-you cannot beat it!

Woman at Willesden--The trou- ble with my neighbour was all be cause my husband sat on the door. step in his working clothes,

Willesden woman-Can I have a sammons against a neighbour for using blank language to me? I've brought a specimen in my hand-

In reading through the annual | address of the High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States, we were interested to note the observation that unlawful societies have latterly been giving very little trouble in that territory.

ness-box; defendant said it was only

The Communists, whilst appear

in reponse to beckoning by a the roadway. It appeared that ing to be minutely organised,

group of pedestrains that he crossed they wanted to hire his car for a have, it la stated, been hampered

A Chinese who was charged trip to the Chinese Athletic foot bail ground, but a bargain could by the paucity of members and seventeen. This may have been

justice in the strict sense of the before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at not be struck, and he left them to almost total lack of funds. word. So may have been the im- the

Magistracy this available evidence, showa position of imprisonment for thirty morning, with breaking and enter cross over again to his own side that for the time being, the years on youths of the same age. ing. No. 187, Tung Choi Street, It was then he saw the Sergeant,

Humanitarianists throughout the movement is receiving less and world'wete however shocked by the Mongkok, was remanded until but could not understand, owing to to-morrow morning owing to the the roar of his engine, what the less support from the rest of the severity of the special tribunal at

Pola; and it was small wonder that absence of the complainant, who latter was saying. He then pro

ceeded to Gilman Street where he Wife at Highgate-Why cannot community. A further point man. the Belgrade newspapers expressed, had gone to Canton.

obtained a number of passengers a husband be a husband and not a Active pro- tioned is that the Kuomintang has angry disapproval.

A Chinese named Chung Kwai, and drove off with them to the boss?! Beems to

the football ground.

Penge wife My husband has (30) has been admitted to

He said that had he heard and frozen feet. Magistrate Not in recorded that anti-British pro-Slavia ever since the execution of Kowloon Hospital, suffering from

It understood what the Sergeant this weather. immersion. of the Serbian student, and relations the effects

Nottingham wdman I was nura- paganda emanating from

have become more and more embit appears that the sampan which he wanted him to do, he would have Propaganda Department of tered, neither Government making and another man were handling stopped although he already had ing a baby which she deliberately Centrum in Nanking. continues a move towards reconciliation. The suddenly capsized, off Shau Ki passengers in his car.

His Worship convicted the de-challenged to fight incident over the week-end when a Wan, and it was only the timely reach the F.M.S.

responsible offelal of the Italian appearance of the steam launch fendant on all charges, remarking Here in Hongkong, the year Legation at Belgrade appears, from Tommy Atkins that saved him that the circumstances were aggre-

the story related by Reuter, to have which is drawing to a close bas, set himself out provoke a disture from drowning, Sue Ping-yan, Vating. A fine of $25 was imposed. happily, not been marked by any bance, and to have got exactly that the other occupant of the sampan really serious activity by Com for which he was asking, is cal- is reported missing and believed

culated to make matters much to be drowned. munists, although a great deal of worse: The Italian Minister at

The Superioress and Sisters of SEVERAL CASES HEARD THIS "Red" propaganda still managed Belgrade, whose first considera-

tion should be the cultiva- the Canossian Institute wish to to find its way into the Colony, tion of good relations between his thank Mrs. H. T. Creasy for kindly

Two atceramen and two mis So far as we are able to judge, Government and that to which he is coming to open their Fair on

accredited, disregarded' a golden op Saturday, and to convey to her tresses of passenger boata pleaded bag- most of this, If not all, is imported, portunity of pouring oil on troubled their sincere appreciation of her guilty when brought before Mr. and it appears to be circulated by waters. If the facts have been cor- encouraging speech. They also T. W. H. Hosegood, at the Marine paid servants of the agencies rectly stated, Colonel Cassona was wish to thank their many patrons Court this morning, on the charge

in the wrong and should not have and friends who spent so generous of making fast to the 8.8. Suwa WHO WAS.. producing it. It no doubt been supported. It was open to ly at the Fair, and especially Mary whilst she was still under hoped in this way to stir Signor Galli to advise his 'Govern the Commodore for the loan of way,

up ment to recall the Air Attache and flags anu bunting, the Editors of The prosecuting officer said the trouble amongat the Colony's to concede something, at least to the Chinese Papers, Watson and Suwa Maru was approaching her workers, but fortunately there is Serbian opinion. Instead, he ap Co. Ltd., The Blue Bird Co., Chung wharf at the Kowloon Godowns no evidence of its making any pears to have insisted upon the pun-Hing Store, Wing Hing China when the defendants made fast to ishment of the Serbian patriot, and Ware Co. Ltd., and the Salesian the vessel, carrying on board many marked Impression on those for to be dissatisfied because he was Fathers for the splendid music boarding-house runners. whose consumption' It is primarily sent to prison for a month only. rendered by their able bandsmen, Such an attitude will certainly, give intended. Not much headway

a fresh leage to enmity, and we trust during the two days of the Fete can be hoped for without financial that Rome will see that no such un- support and enthusiasm, and both reasonableness is permitted in ita

name. these appear to be lacking here, just as they are in the Federated Malay States. There would, in- deed, appear grounds for thinking that gradually the Chinese Paris worker is coming to see the folly New York

Brussels of having anything to do with the

Geneva.. Communists, who, like the ex-Amsterdam

Milan tremists of Labour Unions, are Mila

Borlin more keenly bent on feathering Stockholm their own nests than in seeking to

Copenhagen Oslo Vienna serve the interests of the people

Prague for whose welfare they profesʊ so

Helsingfors much anxiety. Again and again Madrid it been shown that those Athena agitators go into the movement Bucharest solely for what they can get out Buenos Aires of it, witness the numerous

Bombay Shanghai occasions on which Union leaders, Hong Kong having got together a substantial Yokohama

Silver (spot) sum of money collected from silver (forward) members, decamp with the funds

has

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THIEF'S DEATH LEAP.

FEARED ARREST FOR THEFT

OF CIGARETTES.

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, Nov. 1L

123.87 A tragic story of how fear of ar- 4.87 27/82 rest caused a Chinese to make a 84.806 death leap from the second floor 20.17 of a tea house in Queen's Road 12.08% West, is brought to light to-day.

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His Worship imposed a fine of $10 on each of the defendants with the auternative or 10 days' imprison- ment.

That the sea was rough and that there was a strong wind blowing was the excuse given by the más- ters of two cargo boats who were charged with causing an obstruc tion by anchoring their boats in the Southern Fairway.

The prosecuting officer admitted that the sea was rough at the time, but said other junks could get along without cuating anchor.

The defendants were fined $8 sach.

The tragedy, as reported to the For carrying cargo instead of 2010 pollee, is that the man entered the passengers as stipulated in hor 18.205 tea house at 519, Queen's Road,llcence, the mistress of a passen- 18.205 and stole two packets of cigarettes gere boat was fined $3.

04.09 from the counter, valued at-25

08.273

conts.

Unfortunately for him, he was discovered In the act by Chung

375 Yun, a waiter employed at the res

tunrint, who sprang at the thief.

WEATHER REFORT.

The Royal Observatory reports

10 The man fled to the kitchen, with that tho anticyclone remains the waiter in full chase, and Instationary, pressure being highest an attempt to escape, the mis to the north of the Lower Yang- creant leapt out of a window on teze Valley. Fresh monsoon will 8/04 the second floor. He struck the prevail along the China coast and a pavement below, and the police over the North Chinn Ben: The .22% rushed up, only to find that life forecast till noon to-morrow is

NE. winds fresh; fine. British Wireless, was extinct.

ALVARADO?

You will not read far into a history of the Spanish lava alons.of America without com ing upon the name of Alvara- do soldier of fortune, and leutenant of the great Cortes

Pedro de Alvarado was born at Badajoz in 1495, and com menced his career as an ex- plorer, penetrating to Yucatan' In 1518. After joining Cortes he was given temporary com mand in Mexico, where he issued orders for the massacr ing of the native high-born families a piece of terrible folly, which brought endless. misfortunes to the Europeans, and led to the evacuation of the chief cfty during the night Alvarado himself fought with signal bravery during the retreat, and was later placed In charge of the army which 'Invaded Guatemala. A charge being brought against him of defrauding the royal fredsury. ho was sent to Spain for trial, acquitted, and returned to Guatemala as governor, later taking part in the conquest of Hondurna

K There are many accounts of Alvarado, but none, better than that contained scott's wonderful book "Con quest of Peru.**.

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