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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1920,
CARLE APARIAB "MËROTET" Harakang, COMES TIED ARC EDITION..
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THE CHINA MAIL.
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
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(Rexter's Service to the China Mail)
BURGLARS DISAPPOINTED,
COST OF FLYING.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT
FRUITLESS.
AN ALARMING ATTACK...
doma
VICKERS OFFICIAL
ESTIMATE.
10s. 6d. PER TON MILE.
AMERICAN RAILROADS.
BIG INCREASE IN FREIGHTS AND FARES.
FUBLIC TO PAY, WAGES INCREASE.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
FOUND.
FOUND COCKATOO, Owner may
have it by applying to No. 1, Gresi George Street, East Pennt, and defraying Cons of the Advertisement,
TEACHING.
OPPORTUNITY offers to Two
CHINESE SCHOOLMASTERS of English-school experience to travel
16 on staff Requirements-Senior and gain experience in Java. (The
Local, fondness of sports and outdoor Chinese English School-Residential,
The Inter-State Commerce Commission has granted advances in rail-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. road freight rates of 40 per cent, in the east 25 per cent, in the south 33 per cent. in the west and 25 per cent, in mountain Pacific territory. Passenger fares have been increased 20 per cent. in order to help to meet the in.life. crease of $600,000,000 Labour Board. It is estimated that the increases aggregate $1,400,000,000 in wages granted by the Railroad per year. The new rates are expected to operate before August 9, when the Government guarantee to the railroads expires
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STORMY SCENES IN TIPPERARY,
"How much does it really cost to
LONDON, July 31. The accounmat of a Chinese shop frequently asked, writes Major W. Trades smashed a number of windows.
There were stormy scenes in Tipperary following an ambushing incident. fy?" is a question which is very Cap New-Street reports that Blake, the well known
A party of troops in Epperary shouting that they would avenge their com
As
5.15 this morning, a feki answered a krock at the door of the shop.
the door was opened. five men armed with daggers rushed into the premises.
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and in-
dependent aeronautical expert in the Daily Naes, but those who might be in a position to answer have generally remained silent on the point. Vague estimates have been made from from 35. 6d. per ton
time to time, ranging about £2. 10s. Der ion mile. The mile to general public has been led to under- stand that a fair mean is about 30s. per toa mile.
Two of them seized and gagged the foki while the other two locked him the complainant in a cubicle. While One man stood guard outside the cubicle. the others ransacked the house. They tried to open a safe but failed in the attempt. One of the I have repeatedly questioned this, intruders her demanded the key- of suggesting after considering every the safe. The assistant accountant, possible cost, that this estimate was denied that he had the custody of the excessive. It comes as a relief, key, and the robber stabbed him. therefore, to receive detailed figures The intruders eventually retired from Capt. Acland, the head of the without taking anything. The wound-aviation' department of
Messrs. ed jaki was removed to the Govers. Vickers, Ltd Speaking of the mam Civil Hospital.
Vickers "Vimy." the type which crossed the Atlantic, and flew to Australia, Capt. Acland states that the cost of firing, including fuel, wages, repairs, renewals and upkeep, depreciation, sundry expenses, and insurance, works out at 10s. 64. per "ton mile
THE VANCOUVER MAILS.
WHEN WILL THEY ARRIVE?
Now that it is definitely known that! theGrear Northern will not call 2: Hongkong the hope that the malis left at Vancouver by the Empress of Asia would be brought hy the former vessel must be abandoned. It has been suggested that the mails might arrive by the Siberia Maru."
A more explicit explanation is duet from the Canadian Post Office Officials at Vancouver for the fzer of removing mails from the Empress of Asia" at the last moment before the vessel sailed for the Orient and delay-i
We have received from the China branch of Vickers Ltd., a booklet on Trans-Continental Flying by Cap tain P. D. Acland, manager of the Aviation Department of Messrs. Vickers Ltd.
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ALLEGED ASSAULT.
EUROPEAN CHARGED.
BAIL ESTREATED,
Water
ing her departure for several hours. Police, yesterday received a request
Sergeant, Moas, of the It has been notified that this was done for a European constable to be owing to the changes made is the mail sent to No. 8. Lochiel Terrace, Kow contract but this does not explain, loon, occupied by Mr. W. J. Cooper, satisfactorily the reason why mail for a marine officer. Sergeant Stimson the Far East.should he held up the was sent. On arrival at the house, excuse that is given sounds weak in the Sergeant interviewed Mrs. Cooper. the extreme and there seems room for While the Sergeant was talking to suspicion that there are other reasons Mrs. Cooper, Mr. Cooper who is than this why the mails were removed alleged to have been under the in- at the last moment. Merchants and shippers in Hongkong and elsewhere have been seriously inconvenienced by the action of the Post Office Officials.
DEATH AT HOME.
MR. JOHN DICKIT,
OLD HONCHONG RESIDENT.
News was received in the Colony yesterday of the death at Gourock, Scotland, of Mr. John Dickie, late of the China Sugar Refinery.
The deceased gentleman, whe was voy popular here, first arrived. in the Colony some forty years ago, and was in charge of the Bowring. ton Refinery for over thirty years, during part of which time he
fluence of liquor is said to have appeared, and told the Sergeant to got out of his house. Mrs. Cooper refused to let him go however, saying that she needed his help. Mr. Cooper, it is asserted, theb, without warning, dealt the Sergeant a heavy blow on the jaw. Mr. Cooper was removed to the Police: Station where he was detained for several hours until he was bailed out, by his wife. This morning, when his name was called to answer charge of assaulting a Police Officer, Mr. Comper Magistrate Hurchison ordered his failed to appear. bail of $10 to be estreated.
$2,000 FINE.
POSSESSION OF OPIUM.
The defendant pleaded
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guilty."
also had charge of the Swatowing, charged a Chinese before Magis Revenue Officer Marks this morni branch refinery. He retired from the trate Hutchison with the unlawful Colony about ten years ago and went possession of 37 tzels of prepared to Gourock where he resided until non-Government opium. the time of his death. He was al native of Millport, West Scotland. He said that the drug was Amoy The deceased geatleman was in in- opium. different bealth when he left the Colony, but improved considerably was searched as he was about to leave The Officer said that the defendant .at Home, and according to the last the s.5, "Amakusa Mara" yesterday. mail advices, was in fairly good The drug was found tied to his; health. His death therefore came as body.
a great surprise to his many local friends.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $2,000 or, in default, six months"
fiscated."
con-
SMALL CHANGE.
ATTEMPED IXPORT FAILH.
Mr. Dickie's wife, a lady of very hard labour. The drug was charming disposition, predeceased him some twenty years ago, in 1897. Their three sons, Messrs F.J. Dickie (Dodwell and Co.), J.D. Dickie, who is on his way back to the Colony, and John-Dickie, jr., who is at present en route to East Africa to take a hend in the development of that Colony, were all born in Hongkong, and served in H.M. Forces during the Great War. To them will be extended the deepest sympathy is their bereave ment.
The late Mr, Dickie was one of the founders and a keen member of the St. John's Lodge of Freemasons. He was also a member of the Phoenix Club.
"WALLA-WALLASS
were this "morning charged before, Two Chinese men and a woman Magistrate Smith with unlawfully attempting to export $288 worth of Hongkong subsidiary coins
of local regulations.
The defendants pleaded ignorance.
found on board the s.&. "Sannamboi" The Police said that they were yesterday as she was about to sail for Kongmoon. They were searched. and the coins were found on their persons.
The Magistrate-imposed
double-cross Le tabour of never double. $15 each.
LOCAL AND GEMERU.
The death occurred on July 16 of Mr. Ambrose Eikter, on his estate in Kudat, British North Borneo,
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
IBY COURTESY
HONGKONG DAŽY PRESS."]
THE PEKING CRISIS.
The CP.OS. RMS. "Montea- left there the same day and is due at gle" arrived at Moji on August 2, CHOLERA OUTBREAK AMONG CHINESE Shanghai on August 4 (p.m.)
TROOPS.
PEKING, August 2. The outbreak of cholera among Wa
disease records one fatal Chinese To-day's return of notifiable case of enteric fever, and three cases: Pei-fu's troops, outside Peking, is of plague (two Japanese and one foreign medical men and the Chinese Chinese), one of which was fatal.
creating alarm. The diplomats, the authorities are taking action.
The name
Admiral G. A. Dreaper, who was of Surgeon-Rear stationed in Hongkong a few years ago, figures in the last Honours List Division). as the recipient of a C.B. (Military
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A resumption of the feud be. tween hostile clans of rattan workers is suggested by the fact that the coolie who was stabbed in the back in Spring Garden Lane is a rattan worker. The assailants have not been discovered:
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forming the British Legation Guard. signed by the Superintendent of the resumed to-day. The Coke's Rifles, that they must produce an Import Permali proceeded to Tientsin to-day, having Import and Exports, Hongkong, before
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Partial train service to Tientsin was
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REVUE CONCERT.
D. F. AMELIAS CC.
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All claims must be presented within a week of the steamer's arrival hore, after which they cannot be recognized.
No Claim will be admitted altor the THE CONCERT which was aban-Goods have left the Godewas, and all
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Adulta $2; Children $1.
STILL THEY COME !
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Hongkong, August 3, 1920,
The Cream of the World's Photoplays!
The Slogan of the Trade for 1920 was “FEWER AND BETTER PICTURES,' Coronet patrons have seen some of them
and cannot but recognise that producers
have had the courage of their convictions.
TO-NIGHT another GOLDWYN Masterpiece fills the Screen at the Little House-
"THE VENUS MODEL"
in which
MABEL NORMAND,
Best Beloved of ALL Screeen Stars,
has a part that fits her like the proverbial glove.
A Gossamer Story; Humour of the Damtiest; Marble Kormand as handsome, as entrancing and as droll as we have ever yet seen her: Goldwyn fighting, setting and photography: Coronet projection and musical presentation: Add to all this à fine Pathe Gazette
and a scream of a Rolia comedy.
For sheer entertainment value, can you beat it? Not in Hongkong to-night
any rate.
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