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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER
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DAY BY DAY.
alace recounised Mr. Obata's ser ces in the settlen of the Shantung question by bestowing upon him an unusually high de coration, conficts with the idea of his being regarded as non persona | Winifred Graham prla, Obviously, no country would
WE ARE MADE TO FIGHT ALWAYS, LIKE THE MICROBES. THE MOMENT WE ARE STILL WE ARE LOST.---
The Ben Lines.e. Benvrackie, from Home and Straits ports, is dus here on January 2nd.
A Watchnight Service is to be hold watchers Church, West Point, to-morrow," commencing at 11.30 p.m.
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1929
grant an honour to a man so re- Four further Chinese cases of garded. We have seen it contend-small-pox were notified in the Colony
yesterday. od, in recent/comments on the ap- pointment, that "the Chineso people" are bliterly opposed to the choice of Mr. Obata. In point of fact, of course, the Chinese people as a whole are not the least bit concerned over the matter, for the simple reason that the rent bulk of the populace would not even.
The Filipino community is cele- know that the change had been made. The truth would annear to brating Rizal Day, on January 5th, by a concert at the Peninsula be that those groups who interHotel, commencing at.8.30 p.m. meddle in affairs on which they are wholly incompetent to express an opinion are scizing on this issue to create fresh trouble with Jadan. In particular, student or ganisations have been to the fore
Fourteen painters were each Shingwners Association, whose fined $3 by Mr. Whyte Smith at the real business is obviously outsido Kowloon Magistracy this morning for gambling at 525, Shanghai the sphere of politics, has inform- Street. The keeper was fined $50. DODWELL & Co., Ltd.ed the Nanking Govorument that
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM" FOUR |TO EIGHTEEN CUBIO FEET
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DEATH.
O'DELL-At the Matilda Hos- pital, Hongkong, on December 30th, 1929, Ada Lillian O'dell. Funeral passes the Monument at 6p.m. to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY DEC. 30, 1929.
WRONG TACTICS.
CORRESPONDENCE
To The Editor of
· Telegraph,]
ongkong
A Geisha Criticism.
The Very Idea!
A device called
Sir,-Apropos the recent success-pilot can, has been
It is a sensitive piece of mechan- Ism, consisting of a gyroscopa driven by compressed air and link- ed by pistons to the rudder and
elevators.
ful performances of "The Gelsba, on several types of air craft. your critle "Allegro" In your issue Royal Air Force, of 27th, inst. certainly voices the opinion of a very great number of people in this Colony when he says
The last night's show was specially successful, but there were many who regretted that the invariable custom of the Philharmonic Society of having bouquets and gifts from well-wishers passed up over the footlights was abandoned on this occasion
The Assister has been evolved during years of work by esperto at the Royal Aircraft Eatablishment at Farnborough.
By ite means pdlots may attend to other work while the aeroplane continues without deviation on its course, safe in the hands of the "robot"
Now, Sir, if the Committeo or Producer considered it was not fensible to auction the kimonos and Thieves carried away a spare present bouquets, etc., all on the Mr. Cairns, the Thames" magi- wheel and tyro from Mr. same night owing to the length of strate, to woman charged with Duckworth's-car as it was parked time it would have taken to accom drunkenness: Sixtyfive is a bit at Causeway, Kill yesterday after plish this, why could they not have late in life to join the Bright Young
attended to their financial affairs Eeople. noon.
on Saturday night'a performance, Dec, 21st, thereby releasing the flowers and gifts? last night" for the presentation of
Willesden Wife: My husband hasn't, so to say, left me, but he just comes in and out when he thinks he
will
Man at Tottenham The defen- dant said, "Let's fight fair! and
then he knocked me down with a
stick"
Woman at Willesden: Can I have a separation from my hus band for thinking things about me that are not true?- Ming dynY
However, now that we know
Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery where we stand, perhaps the Com- Division: People want to talk to mittee and/or Producers in future me sometimes over the telephone. would prefer that bouquets, etc., bo I say, "No, put it in writing." sent direct to the houses of the ar- don't mind discussing pleasure over thatce which would save them a the telephon great deal of unnecessary time and trouble and congestion at the back of the stage, not to mention sparing the performers the annoyance of scrambling through dozens of bas kets of flowers and parcels to make
overything.→→ sure they had got
Yours ate. LAST NIGHTER
As remarked by "Allegro," the "last night" custom of handing bouquets, etc., should not have been abandoned by the Society, in fair- it trombles with fear when it
The forthcoming wedding. ie nn-ness not only to the artistes them thinks of the loss of China's nounced of Mr Leopold Gotley selves but to those who have been sovereign rights. and the menace Frost, No. 8, The Peak, to Miss kind enough to send them gifts
Margaret Charlotte St. Claire Gra- to the safety of the lives and pro-ham, No. 41, Kallam Lane, British
Concession, Tientsin. perties of the Chinese neula which will come about. if Mr.
the It.M.S. Passengers by Obata, again' comes to China as Minister." Could absurdity go Empress of Canada, which arrived from the North yesterday included much farther?
As we consider this matter and Mr. L. Yates, Mr. A. J. P. Heard, Mr. J. Scott Harstor and Miss the expressed intention by Nan-Scott Harston and Lady Shou-son kine to declare extrality at an end Chow. on January 1st., we cannot escape the Impression that the Chinese Government is playing up to those do so noisy elements who much to foster trouble between China and foreign nations. Such a policy is far from being either dionified or politic. It renresents a foolish willingness to adopt a provacative attitude in foreign affairs-a policy which is bound to have undesirable repercussions, Mexican Consulate in Hongkong reason given being that the con But when they get too old to fall
The Indian Congress.
If all the facts have been dis-If China aspires to a high place closed, we cannot see that Nan-in the comity of nations, other and loftier ddens must "animate har king is acting very wisely fire-
leaders. fusing to agree to the appointment of Mr. Y. Obata as Japan's Minis fter to China, Indeed, the action appears to the disinterested ob server to be most unfortunate at the present juncture, and one which may easily create needless friction between the two nution. Already, the Japanese Government
In connexion with the recent escape by a Chinese from Lalchikok Prison, it is understood that the man, named Li Shick, was recaptur- fed by a Chinese detective attached to the Police Station at West Point on Saturday.
*
Mr. Pablo Castillo, Consul for
Hongkong, Dec. 80th, 1929,
The Currency Muddle. Sir-Very nearly three months Mexico, Informe us that, having ago it was decided by those in been ordered to take charge of the financial authority over the Colony Mexican Consulate General at Yokohama, he will close the to alter our currency system, the tinued premium on, the local dollar and the correspondingly high tael rato were proving fatol' to our trade:
an December 31st.
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Mr. Sharpe (magistrato at Old." strbet) to weman: I have had some experience of men and wo- men, and from the way you talke to me I think you often got what you deserve.
"A man who never has a quarrel: with his wife wants watching.”—A Shoreditch Hackney woman County Court.⠀
When a man gets too old to fall in love," he gets gout," Lord
Dewar.)
In youth mankind is apt to be-- A ready butt for Cupid's dartsy Men show a striking tendency ©To have affected hearts, t
In love; when raptures: are
Gout come to take them 'neath
its thrall he And-checten a acn gout!
In Ontario there is a monument.
has warned Nanking of the seri- matter for surprise or any great unnecessary cruelty to chickens few were enabled to net, fortunes, grows in millions.
methods
in
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Hamilton
A Chinese rattan worker, who was arrested in Nelson Street in possession of an automatic pistol, appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning and remanded for hours for further enquiries.
Fines of $5 each were imposed Gandhi's fanaticnl genius still dominates the Indian National Con on each of two Chinese who_up- gress and the adoption of his re-peared before Mr. Whyte Smith solution defining Swaraj as complete at the Kowloon Magistracy this independence for India cannot be a morning on charges of enusing
by carrying them by the wings. ous consequences. which may re- degree of gloom. The situation has
its serious Bapects: There
For the possession of 739 Com- sult if the refusal to accept Mr. Obata is insisted upon, and it is signs that the Congress leaders have munistic pamphlets, a Chinese, who been giving close study to was arrested by a district watch- suspicions he had Sinn man, whose even hinted that diplomatic rela-the
of the tians may be severed. In recent Feiners
Ireland during aroused, at Queen's Road East on declarations of policy in regard to the war. How far they are the 9th instant, was sentenced to at the Central Police China, the Tokyo Government has prepared to attempt their execution six months' hard labour by Mr. stressed its desire to work on lincs is a matter for conjecture. In the Court this morning. of real friendship and co-opera-adoption of this particular resolu-, tion, with a view to the satisfaction, however, there lies little room tory adjustment of all outstanding for alarm. Gandhi and his prin cipal colleagues have recently ex- questions. That being the Chibited a disposition to compromise the refusal to accept Mr. Obata and even while urging his views for fear that he may prove him-upon the Congress, Gandhi was self an exponent of the "positive careful to point out that the door policy" pursued by the Tanaka was open for a peace conference, as Cabinet-for that is really what he chose to call it. The form of the objections amount toa tant-the resolution is probably a breach amount to accusing Japan of in- of the penal code, but obviously, also it has been framed in the reaction following the breakdown of the con. It is said that the refusal to ference between the puxtremist, ind- avree to the appointment is due ers and the Viceroy at Delhi a few Obala in days before the session. At that to the fact that Mr. non persona prata with the Chinese discussion, the Viceroy was asked Government owing to his alleged to prejudge the actions of the Bri- tish Parliament and therefore was connexion with the Twenty-one unable to give the assurances de- Demands. That argument, how-marded regarding Dominion Status. ever, appears to be thoroughly un- Hence the movement of Gandhi to. convincing. In the first place, the fullest extreme in theory,
Paris Mr. Ohata was in 1915, the year though the outburst of certain Lon when the demands were put for- don Conservative journ:ls would ap- New York,
Geneva Sz ward, in no position to exercise apear to be quite premature. It in Brussela
Amsteram dominating influence on Japan's important to note, for instance, that
the Congress is less representative Milan Berlin foreign policy. He was then in of India this year than ever before,
Stockholm relatively minor position at theThe vast majority of its members Copenhagen Legation In Peking. Secondly, concerned with the Indian Legisla-'Oslo N when he became Minister to China tures, Central and Provincial, Vienna In 1918 no objections were raised have refrained from purticipa Helsingfors to the appointment. If, therefore, tion. All members, with respect for Madrid ** he was not in ill-favour with the British ideals and motives being Lisbon,
Athens Chinese, Government at that time, absent, the task of the extremists it does seem the height of absurdi was simplified insofar as resolutions Richest
were concerned, but complicated Buenos Air ty to rake up his alleged associa should the question arise of putting Shanghai
Bombay tion with the Twenty-one Demands words luto action.” The seditionist Hong Kong fourteen years after they were speech of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Yokohama presented. The further point, President, is to be viewed more Silver (spot)
Silver (forward made by Tokyo, that China has seriously than anything suggested.
sincerity.
The alteration was made, and the immediate result was considet able dislocation all round, as part of which were the wholesale to an apple tree-doubtless the only suspension of import business, the memorfal of the kind in the world. great inconvenience in the matter. It was one of several discovered of handling the silver coins, and by an early poincer, John McIntosh, incidentally an overnight depre- and transplanted in an open space. ciation in both the earnings and in 1700. All the treeeg died savo
luscious druff and became the par savings of the community as a one, which for over a century bore ent tree of the famwus McIntosh whole. ·
As against this, a fortunate Red Apple, which Canada now and at the same time to explain In 1892 this veteran tree, was to the unfortunate many that the badly scorched by fire, but it con change was to the benefit of the tinued to bear fruit until 1908. Colony, and that naturally a little temporary loss and inconvenience must be suffered before the bene- fit was felt.
Since then, the chaos into which we were plunged has grown worse and worse; neither have matters been improved by the spasmodic tinkering to which the exchange market has been subject.
A small outbreak of tre occurred:
the s.s, Szechuan at the Talkoo Dockyard yesterday, afternoon, in the forehold of the vessel, which entered the dock for some slight re- pairs during the week-end. The fire float arrived promptly on the scene, and the flames were -ex-- Slight damage was done by the fire, tinguished without much difflent
NYDIA?
Nydia, the blind flowers deller of the doomed city of Pompeil, was one of those unfortunate girls whose lives are ruined by a hopeless, un-
Pleading guilty to a charge of larceny of two sacks of papayas
of business on Saturday last the from a garden on the Castle Peak And the result? At the close Rond, a Chinese was fined $10 or fourteen days' hard labour by Mr. local dollar was again standing at Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- a considearble premium, and the ACK dent was arrested carrying the steadily rising once more. In gistracy this morning. The defentsel was dealable around 79, Le
other words; after months of Joss WHO WAS. and inconvenience nothing what- sacks at 3.15 a.m. yesterday. "
Appearing on charges of tres-ever seems to have been accom passing on Government Plantations plished, save further damage to at Kowloon City, a Chinese woman our position as a trading com and a man were each fined $5 by munity and financial centre.. Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon If then, our bankers as Magistrney this morning.. The wo whole are unable to deal with the man was alleged to have been situation, then it surely behoves breaking green branches off pine up to wait no longer but to inport was found some recognised expert from abroad who can put matters right trees, while the man
for us. One can well, imagina-the collecting dried pine needles.
mingled horror and contempt with which this suggestion would be EXCHANGE RATES.
received by our local "experts" but it is a procedure that has been London, Dec. 29. adopted with signal success else
123.80 where, and it is high time, that 4884 general welfare took precedence 34.856 of personal feelings and particu- 25.005 lar Interests. Yours, ste 12.09%
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