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RUSSELL STREET GARAGE
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ROLLS ROYCE
Cars
STUDEBAKER CORPORATION Cars
WHITE COMPANY
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Commercial Trucks
UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. Tyres & Rubber Goods A. E. LEJEUNE
Motor Car Mascots
HEAD OFFICE & SHOW ROOM IN PEDDER STREET.
MURDER SUSPECTED.
UNKNOWN WOMAN'S DEATH.
Sospicious circumstances surround the death of
young фотал found dead in Wing On Street, Des Vœux Road Central at 3. o'clock this morning with a wound in her forehead. Murder in suspected, but at the present moment mystery surrounds the identity of the deceased and her murderer, also the crime itself,
THE WOLLOWRA S.S. CO.
A case which is arousing some in terest in shipping circles fa Shangbai and in Hongkong is the contention of the Wollowra Steamship Company, in which Messrs. A. R. Burkill and Sons and Moller and Company, mem
CORRESPONDENCE:
THE RENTS BILL
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE KWANGS WAR
ribbon was DER DE J. W. Da M. S.
[To the Edhër af the " Chins Mat,*}
PING NAM CAPTURED.
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AN IMPORTANT CESTY.
True to prediction, Ping"Nain an Dear Sir His Excellency the Gov
Canton and important: city, weet, of Teng Yuen, ener, in banghing his facts as in the rim dividend of one the sper of its crature, having been
· Macao) “Meniudna: Co, Ltd. an'is now in the hands of the Cantonese, alleged rapacity of some landlor
dollar per akara. *-
emirmed by a trioginis from military has stumbled into a much larger field, Fand the insestef petitions and counter
"A" polics -raki on a home in Calton Time pation which the Rants Bill has Wellington Street led to the arrest of "brought forth, show to what extent a Filipino and the seizure of a dayzer
the shortage of housing accommod- and a kpuckle duster. ation has become a burning question.
The Renta Bit is, at best, only aj palliative. It is designed to combat rack-renting," but it does not increase the housing accommodation of the Colony. There is even the danger that the increase of Govern ment control over private enterprise, which the measure involves, is more than likely to discourage the building of new housėn.
Seventeen, men were arrested playing a gambling aame known as pat kau in a Des Voeux Road, house. Money and dominoes were seized by the police.
We have received with the Registrar's compliments a copy of the University of Hongkong Calen- dar for 1920-1931, replete as usual with interesting and useful inform ation relating to the University.
Although the enemy troops offered a mužboro, cruistence, thair fakling strength had been greatly, weakened [by the defont Teng. Yuen gent ̋it did not cause the Cantonese troops much trouble to enter the city. Nearly 2,000 of the enemy troops have been disarmed and a large quantity of munitions, and numerous rifes were capturëð..
With Teng Yuen, next Ping Nam in
the control of the Cantonese troops, the sert Kwangsi efty to be attacked will be Shumchow where the Kwang- si troops have been preparing a long time to check the advance of the victorious Cantonese broods.
Ward bas reached Canton that
tosese to oust the warlord.
The whole question of the housing shortage has still to be tackled.
While on duty at three o'clock What is the Government doing to encourage private enterprise in the this morning in Connaught Road the Kwangsi generals in control of Central an Todian constable is alleged Shanchow have issued a telegram direction of house building And
to have broken heto the European re-infarming the Cantonese troops that why is there so great a shortage of
venue oikeus quarters at the they have declared the city indepes houses? The renta are high, she Harbour Office and stolen, from a dest of their warlord, Lu Yang ting demand is great, the profits must be tunic a pocket book containing bank- and will cooperate with the Can very attractive, then why this short notes. age? It might be urged that the shortage of Lonses is a world-wide phenomenon, brought about by labour | troubles and aggravated by the War. But surely these explanations cannot apply to Hongkong. In comparison Iwith the conditions in Europe, we in Hongkong have no labour troubles. It is true that the cast of labour has advanced 30 or 40%, but so has the cost of living. There is no real shortage of labour. And it cannot be LOCAL AMERICANS DEFEAT “HART urged that during the War the Chinese labourers of Hongkong all laid down their tools to join the army.
So that the shortage of houses in Hongkong is a local problem due to purely local conditions and has little or nothing to do with the conditions of war-stricken countries.
BASEBALL
SATURDAY'S GOOD GAME.
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FLAYERS.
Local baseball fans witnessed a good exhibition of the American, national game at Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon when the local American team defeated the fast team from the U. S. S. Destroyer Moreover the shortage of houses is Hart" by a score of 14 to 5. There no new problem to the Colony. was a large attendance and the in- There have been recurring periods terest never flagged throughout. The when the disturbed state of the star of the game was White, short mainland has made the shortage more stop for the local team, whose fast acute, but as a growing Colony | Gelding was a feature of the play. we have always had a tendency to For the same side, Pace pitched a be short of houses, and it is therefore perfect game. The "Hart" team showed signs that its organisation Government does not take active a matter of public concern that the might have been better, but except
much for the naval men.
bers of the Chamber, are sharebeld for a few rough epots in the field, mersure to encourage private or ert, that the Indemnity Ordinance every man played well. The hard public enterprise in house building. which the Hongkong Government hitting of the local team was too In a letter some days ago, I charged ts understood to have under consideration indemnifying them against cizims arining out of steps taken during the war, ought not to debar the Company from seeking to recover money allegisă to be due to it in respect of the earnings of the steamship Wollowrs" .re quisitioned by the Hongkong Govern- ment in November, 1917. The case was laid before the Chamber in co white... siderable detail during the past Appel.....
the unbusinesslike methods of one.
An exciting game is promised for of the departments of the Govern- Dert Saturday when the local Ameriment with being largely responsible can taget, in due to play a Japanese for the disinclination of individuals
to build
The bar score follows:---
BONGBONG AMERICANS,
Lasher
month, the view expressed by the Committee to the Hongkong Cham-Scott ber being that if the facts as cited Lake
If it is so profitable to own property; in Hongkong and people of a business AB R. R. P.O. A. & Colony like this are yet not eager to 4 1 1 0 1 0 build, it is quite clear that there is 55 2 2 2 7 0 no other explanation than that the
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Daugherty
3 3 1 1 3 1 1 conditions of acquiring land from the
C. 3 1 1 8 4 0 Government and of owning property 13 4 2 1 700 are far too onerous and burdensome,
LF 3 3 2 0 0 0 And if this temporary measure
were correct the Company appeared Rock ...... 2 2 2 0 0 0 which the Government is rushing
to have grounds for complaint. Potter Chamber of Commerce Journal,
SPORT.
LAWN BOWLS.
A League match was played be tween the Kowloon Cricket Club and the Kowloon Bowling Green Cab. on Saturday, July 16, which resulted in a win for the latter. Appended are
the scores >
K.C.C. W. T. Elson.
NO. 1 RINK
V. C. Labrum.
R. C. Hunter.
A. G. File
(S&ip)...... 11
KB.G.C.
1. N. R. Allen. D. L. Keith.
W. P. Ledley. W. Russell.
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NO. 2 FINE.
H E. Stevens.
J. Hyde.
1. Staffer.
J. McMurtrie
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J. Barz.
Face
Totals......
RP 3 2 1 1
P 0 1 0
14 12 21 15
USS. "HART."
O through, urged by the popular clamour
A.2. 2. H. P.O. A. E Cortish *** 35 4 0 1.0 Delwarth... 55 3 1 1 1 Dilliber ... 22 3 1 0 1 2 Bell.......... 18 8 1 1:8 0 Smith 3 3 1 1 2 Niebler 3 1 1 3 Mollisar...... KF Lane... C 0 1 Anbe
3 0 0 0
27 5 7.21 14 6.
P
Totals
for relief, is going to divert people's
attention from the real problema at
issue, its passage into law should be viewed with the utmost misgiving.
I am, Dear Sir,
Yous faithfully,
BA HUSTLZE.
Hongkong, July 17, 1931.
One case of plague, Chinese, and one imported case of enteric fever, Indian, were notified on Saturday.
Twenty-one students of a certain school in Hol Ping were taken away by bandits who raided the school and several wealthy residences, reports DON'T NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY. the Canton Times. Having learned HEN you fail to provide your that the troops the city
J. C. Brown.
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D Harvey.
S. Gray.
MO. 3 KINK.
W. R. Oswald.
J. P. Robinson.
J. M. Jack,
J. Gibson.
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of
family with a bottle of hamber magistrate bad been sent to ain's Colic and Barbos Bemedy at villages in the interior to
Bettle
this season of the year, you are neglect feuds still raging among the
| be prevalent, and it is too dango oni a
(Skip).....18 ing them a towel complaint is sure different villages, the bandits entered malady to be trifled with "This is the city and ransacked several bones
specially true if there are children in |the family. A nose or two of this reme
D. McKenzie.
P. T. Farrell
R. Hall.
R. Lapsley.
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medy will place the trouble within control sad per bapa save a life, or st least a doctor's bil For sale by Chemists and Storskeepers.
and the school without meeting any- TESİSLENCE. The bandits succeeded in making their escape with the captire audents who are now being held for ransON, -
BRINGING
MONDAY, JULY 18,51M1,
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
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direct from the Scottish Flüherics :-
80 cents per Ib..
FILLETS HADDOCKS
KIPPERS RED HERRINGS
GOUDA (Full EDAM ...
30
#
$1.25 per lb.
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Ball
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· THE CHRONOJFTER" AND WATCH KALER
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YOU NEVER LIKE ANYTHING I COOK FOR YOU - I MADE THOSE PAN-CAKES ESPECIALLY FOR YOU AND YOU'VE ONLY
„EATEN ABOUT HALF
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GIMMEA CHANCE I'M.
NOT FINISHED YET.
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HER - IT'S A TOUGH JOB.
·BUT I'LL HAVE TO DO IT-
UP
was the fliers say
& Iex Home Seras, HonorsNG.
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Chesterfields certainly are "zooming"-going up!
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Packed, too, in an air-tight pockage that keeps 'era fresh till kmoked.
Satisfy? Well, say-have you tried 'era?
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