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disastrous war twenty or thirty years hence unless Europe comes to its sensos. And the way Europe must | come to its senses is to organize in- ternational relations for permau nt | peace, sink the national hates which are making this larger Balkans, and strive for the ideal of political unity.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. Sun Cha-hsien, a well-known Chinese actor, passed away in Tian- tein recently. He was 81 year old,
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By mutual agreement, Mr. A. H. Maxcell retires from his partnership in the Shanghai firm of Beth, Mancell and McLure.
OUR FIRE FIGHTERS.
THEIR NEW HOME.
ANOTHER ENOINK ADRIVES.
• When a Ching Mail representative called on the Fire Brigade in their new station, on the ground-floor of Stephen' Building in Des Voeux Road, the first thing he saw was the testlog of the street alarms which he was told is carried out every day. The alarma are connected to a board in the office
NAVAL OFFICER'S DEATH,
MOTOR SMASH INQUIRY.
TUżSDAY, JANUARY 9,
But why didn't you rofatė!--Beciur that there were on many occupants I forced myself to bumour them;
Cross-examined by Mr. Hazlerigg. witness raid he made a statement to After our report of yesterday's the police or January 3rd. He did inquast into the death of Lieut.not tell Inspector Garrod that be Commander Horper had closed, the signalled to the car to pass, but that driver of Mutor Car No. 118, (the car | he moved his car a little furth r to the in which deceased was riding at the left. It was his first intention to let time of the accident) was called to the the car pass, but the passengers witness-box.
ordered him to drive fast.. He did not mention to the Inspector that he was dazzled by the lights,
STORY OF THE NAVAL PARTY'a CHAUFFEUR
He said he had been a licensed
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BOOK REVIEW,
savinink
SELECTED ODES OF HORAGE,
"TRANSLATED INTO ENGLIEN VERSE
DY O R. SAYER.
In the seventeenth century” says Mr. G. M Trevelyan, "members of Parliament quoted from the Bible; in the eighteenth and aietzentk centuries from the classics; in the twentieth century from nothing at all.” - And some have oven time I was confused in my mind and I hinted worse things still of Premier recently fallen from power. In the Mr. Hazlerigg: And the rest you face of such a landslide it in a pleasure just told what I remembered.
to see issuing from Hongkong ana little 'vointe' of Selections in verse have invented ?
The Coroner: Why not? At that
NAVAL OFFICER' DENIAL, -
of some of the Odes of Hexace. It is, we feel sare, only a harbinger.
and the whole thing seems very driver for four years and was in the simple. A person operating the employ of the Connaught Garage. On alarro in any street choses an inthe night of the lat he took his car to dientor with the name of the street the Hongkong Hotel at about 10.30 on it to fall and all the trouble of o'clock. His passengers were six ringing up by telephone and explain- Naval officers in plain clothes. They Pay Lieut. Webb, recalled, was ask wished to go to Repplas Bay Hote, ed il he or any of the party urged the ing the locality is obviated.
He arrived thare at 11.10 p.m. He driver to go faster and said that to The Central Fire Station is now. Capt. E. I. . Barrett, of the
remained there until 1.15 am, when the best of bis knowledge he was proclassical author, and as such, ha Shanghai Municipal Police, won the Building and will be there for from the Naval party boarded the car pared to say that this was rot'à fact. often bean translated. Mr. Bayer has Shanghai Revolver Club's champion ship with a score of 374 out of a possible 400.
Mr. D. H. Banner, -reporta
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the Police that between the 6th and the 8th, somebody stole from a drawer in his house, No. 31. Humphreys Buildings, the sum of $200 in vssh.
The marriage will take place at St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, on the 20th instant at 3.30 pm, of Mr. James H. Ollerdessen to Miss Violet Ltd. Elaine Hawes, daughter of Mr. James
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up a consular position in Cort wall; Ontario, has been appointed Vice
Consul in Quebec.
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BIRTHS.
FERRARI.-Os December 29, 1922, at Shanghi, to Mr. and Mrs.A.P. Berrari, a daughter-stillborn. WALLACE. On January 3, 1923, at shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Dare
Wallsce, a daughter.
HONGKONG CIGAR STORE,
Alexandra Buildings..
properly established in Stephen's
two to three years. The old station is being used by the Police, a number of Sub Inspector and Sergeants are being quartered there. Besides bolding all the engines, hose and other apparatus the new Iremises find room for a motor-ambulance and two motor cate. The Chinese firmen are also quartered on the ground floor, while Mr. Moss, the Station Super. istendent, lives up in the fifth floor. He is accessible by a litt.
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Agelo. He took the car to the first The. Coroner: Did anybody tell
ing I don't think ar bridge and back to the Hotel where him to go faster at the car was pass We cheered the two ladies, got out.
and there was a lot of row.
The Coroner (to the chauffeur of No. 163) Aro there any questions you would like to pat
The Coroner: What time did you get back to the Hotel from the first bridge-Iot back at 120 am. The ladies then got out and I then started back for Hongkong at 1.25 am. with the Naval Officers.
Now, your passengers say you left the Hotel at 20 a.m. You say 1.25
■.m., which is right ?—I say 1.256.m.
THE PASSENDERS' INSTRUCTIONƏ, Continuing, witness said he never
Our representative W&I very courteously shown round by Mr. Moes. The new station, undoubtedly of the motor car described as No. has better facilities and there is much 46 He did not pass that car at more room. A great improvement Tytam The only car he passed was has been affected in the Chinese a Datch car. He reached Ab King's firemen's quarters. The men-there slipway a little after 2 a.m. He was
The Corner: Which one told you
Horaca bas always been a favourite
only culled a small selection but even in the bouquet every reader will probably find an old favourite. Read- ing these verses through a English poems we are most struck with ‘A Winter's song.
See how white Boracte stands The chauffeur pointed to dan of the Mantled deep in suo Naval Officers in Court (Lient. How the frost with joy þande Wallace) and said that gentleman did. Holds the rivers' flow,
Paymaster Lient. McBride alec | While in vain the woode do straim denied the chauffeur's statement. He Their haary burden to sustain. heard hobody tell the driver to gu faster
"Brings the morrow joy or pain Paymaster Lieut. Wallace, who was Question not the fates; sitting next the driver said that he father set it down asgain
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did not on that occasion tell him to What soe'er awaits. go faster. Previously he had told him to pass one car.
The Chauffeur: He was sitting be horse (the chauffeur made the gesture of a jockey on a horse).
Lieut. Beacham raid that, what the chauffeur had said about going faster was not true,
Love is sweat and youth is fleet, Dancing is for aimble feet."
Ode II XIV (To Posthumus)-is- rendering
The fleeting years slip fast away. Old age and wrinkles threaten us
At times, too, Mr. Sayer's ear plays him falre
It is hard to justify —
who left the Colony Isat June to také / #:n 64 of them in the Central Station then travelling at 20 miles per hour. raide me and gesticulated as if riding a great favourite and we like Mr. Bayer's
sleep in banks with iron stands and 4 car came close behind his ca each one is allotted camphornoo! "very close." The car behind sounded trank. Hot and cold water has been its horn for a short time. Withou
Lieur, Wallses then added that, installed in the bath rooms and the kept straight on, The passengers (all generally speaking the chauffeur
But we think his choice of a metre let this car story was untras, but he admitted Hardly euits the sentiment as well as A man who was found unush system has been adopted for the of them) told him not
that certain parts of the story were | Mr. Gladstone's :---- lavatories. Electric fans have been pase. conscious has been sent to the
The Cotoner atked Lieut. Walisoo true. He noticed the headlights How swiftly glids the fleeting years, Kwong, Wab Hospital by the Polier, put into the sleeping and mess rooms.
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into being shown
the to stand up. The chauffeur then said of the other car flash on to the wind- Alma! nor piety nor tears" It is believed that he enstained his
man that this officer had told him to "go screen of their car.. injuries through falling from a motorworkshop, the China Mait
building, not fast," bus st the junction of Nathan and realised that a
originally intended for a fire station, Medy Roads, Kowloon.
must have its defeasts. The workshop The Tiente a river was covered pace is very limited and there are no over with a thin film of ice opposite drying facilities." Hose, siter use, bat the Band on December 29, but this to be sent to the Wanchai sub quickly dispersed. The ice-breaker at taion for drying. But the main disadvantage is the lack of space for Tien'sin he had little to do, so far,drill. At the old station the Brigade the conditions lower down being could have practices, but here, the favourable for rapit clearance of
men have to go to East Point for floating ice.
drill. This being difficult to arrange as the contingency of a fire in the Central or Western districts has to be provided for.
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The Rev. M. T. Stauffer, who left for America last year after spending several years in Shanghai as recret- sry in the Chins Continuation Com- bittee, has been appointed Edu cational Secretary of the Stadeut Volunteer Movement for Foreign Mis sions to America.
For the purpose of introducing films into Chins especially prepared for Chinese audiences, an organization has just been formed in America, and Mr. James A. Thomas, formerly
of the British-American Tobacco Com.
Armaments, u checkel, will supply the power and reparations, still acute will supply the cause for future trouble-unless Europe makes one identified with it. big, last effort to solve both these
pany in Shanghai, in said to be
censored.
To day, a new Denis Engine is being put together at the Kowloon Godowns, it having just arrived from home.
WEST RIVER WAR.
BRITISH GUNBOAT UNDER FIRE.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Wuchow, January 7, — Only two ships are sailing from Hongkong to this port at present all the others are laid up. The British and "Taiming" ships! Kochow
than Samehui.
to let the car paas?—Thore sitting bebind me. I could not sen them. They spoke English. Those in the back stood up-two or three of them, they created a great noise.
They tell me that they were chear ing at the other car is it pred They appeared excited as if the other car was gaining on me.
And they told you to go fast Yes.
Did you go fast f-Iid a little. When you began to go faster where was the other car? Was it behind or beside you-When the other car draw level with the middle of our car I began to accelerate.
PREVENTING THE OTHER CAR FROM TASSING.
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And what was your object is acce- [lerating ?—I wanted to prevent them
overtaking us.
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Lanut. Capley also denied the allegation and added: "At the rame time I can quite imagine that he thought that we wished him to go faster."
Wherefore ingrat Bustch the ring
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Bracelet from the yielding finger'
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"Do you doubt ite pa and ma Of your gol-haired Mary sta" By this time it was approaching 5 Oss of Mr. Sayer's renderingo (to pm, and Mr. Dennys applied for an Xanthiae Phoceus) seems to us to adjournment of the Court, stating reduce the level of Horace.
that the Jury were all basy men."
The Coroner: You sit down. Mr. Dennys. I am going to carry on. Sgt. Alexander, wil you forward.
TECHNICAL EVIDENCE..
come
"Do not think is a disgrace That a little elavey's face In a chap with such a Lame Should awake so fierce a fame."
After reading this through we turn. Sergt. Alexander said that he visited to the Latin again; and we fail to rea the scene or the accident the morning why he has turned it into a volgar afterwards ard saw the wheel mark it that reminda ons, of Mr Kipling. of car No. 118 directed right on to minus the Cockney dora.
Lord Morley once broached the the rock. There was no sign of skid.
He knew car No. 46. The head lights question with Mr Gladators as to who of that car were fixed with Warner's was the greatest of the Latin poets. Javour So that you were racing the other Anti glare glasses and would not dazzler Glastove Reemed to car? We did not like to be over-the same as bead lights fitted with Horace: Lord Morley (rightly as we ordinary glass. The highest speed at think) gave the palm to Lucretion. The driver of the other car says which il at corner could be taken was. And we hope that Mr Sayer, in the that you signalled him to pan-120 miles an hour. It was a dangerous pear future, will give ut rendering did not, neither did I sound s born. corner owing to the presence of apuc from the De Rerun Nature.
Did your passengers signal-rock. don't know.
DRIVER DAZZLED.
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LIEUT, WALLACE AMENDS DIS STATEMENT,
Lieut. Wallace then came forward and said he wished to amend bis evidence. Ho admitted that he did
LAND SALE.
CHINE E LADY BIDS.
Censorship of phonograph racorde
In reply to Mr. Haslerigg the wit corroding problems Partis in con- has been decided upon by the Educa
ness said that the highest speed for a ferences like the futile Paris meeting tion Department of Japan. The
Well, aftar you acelerated what motorcar at night time, he considered, MAINGON-On Wednesday, Jan will not bring the solation; even less vernacular papere report that's com-
than 15 miles per hour. uary 3, 1923, at Shanghai, to Mr. will separate adventures like the Ruhr mittes of six censors is to be apare sailing as far as Samshui only. happened -When the head of their at that corner should not be more Traffic Inspector Garrod also gave and Mrs. A. Maingon, a daughter invasion which to-day's later oibles pointed to sea that nothing shook The former sails on Sunday, Tuesday car drew lavd with the middle of our
ing shall come forth from the disco. report Franc: impatiently waiting to They will brand with an off vial mark and Thursday each week, the latter car the headlights of their car flasbed launch. Even America's intervention in each record that they approve. Both on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. on to the wind screen. The light also evidence and said that he considered The China Mail.the role of mediator-a prospect now foreign and Japanese H. M. Consul has issued an order pro- played on my syes and I was dazzled quite safe for two cars to pasa at
hibiting all British whips from pro-and. I turasd my car to the left. I 13 feet wide corner at 20 miles per fast disappearing-would scarcely
coeding farther up the West River, could not see the kerb stones and my hour if the proper care was taken. It was quite safe to do this at night car struck the stones. "TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
bring that complete and final Battle- A shopkeeper of Yung Shoe Wan,
Before you struck the stones did time. While H. M. Genboat "Moorban," was proceeding up the West River on you sen the rear light of the other HONGKONG, Tuesday, JANUARY, 1993. ment necessary (in Router's own words) Lamma Island, reports to the Police
to avert anarchy in Europe Before that during the night of the 8th some Sunday last, in the neighbourhood of cat ?-I did not.
When you struck the stones how lasting peace can be secured, we have pete set fire to his cargo-boat Yustebing. Yuanousee soldiers fired Iving at the foreshore near his shop. repeatedly emphasiz d, Europe must The boat was valus at 150, and lesbout 200 shots, about 20 of which was your car in relation to theirs
hit the Moorhen". They desisted, The other car was quite close to my first unravel the tangle in which re believes the burg of it was a ruse however, and decamped when the car with its head neatly into the body Rot as a jockey when the cars drew will become very useful both for Whey Farope dies "Reparations" parations, war debts and armaments decoy to get him out of the shop, so Moorhen let loose
with her of my car. will be written on her heart. For are inextricably mixed., Dermany mitted. He thinks he was wise in at synfiered no casualties.
that an armed robbery could be cam-
Tho "Moorhen" After you scelerated how was it machine-guns.
that the other cat was able to go just as surely as thesu interminable faces ruin because, wilfully or other ing indoors.
The Yunnanese troops are now ahead 1-Because the other car ac wraagles are spreading economie ruin wise, she cannot meet her reparations
below Lukpy, about 79 miles from oelerated earlier than wine. ever wider, the present bankrupt obligations. France, desperately
Witnate added that his car did not will address the Jury. Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Culver and Wuchow. Reinforcements for the diplomacy is sinking men's hopes still needing the reparations money to daughter from Culver City, California, Canton Army are being rushed to get up the pace of the other car. deeper in de pair. B. G. Wells, in mest ber national deficit and restore were pissengers on the se. "Pro Bhiuting.
sident Grant" which arrived from his latest history. writes that we the devastated regions, maintain a fanila yesterday. Tao Culvers, after are now beginning to realise the expensive army to back her demands spending two weeks at the Repulse war, "terrible and enormous se against the defaulter. America, atek Bay Hotel, will continue on their trip it was, ended nothing, began noing to have disarmaments reduced around the world, sailing for Marseilles on the " Kamo Marn" about January
EUROPE'S DANGËR.
were
"STEELHEART.”
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́ ́AT, KOWLOON, THEATRE.
*Steelheart," the stirring Vitegraph
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At the time you struck the stone, ware you still trying to keep in front of the other cart-At that time I tried to stop the car and attempted to awerve to the other side, because I felt two bumps.
Why did you keep to the left so much-Broause the other car was running into ours,
BLOW SPEED-NO ACCIDENT.
level.
Evidence by the police Interpretar was then taken and the Enquiry adjouined until to-morrow (Wednet day) afternoon when the Solicitors
FROM THE HEART OF
CHINA
Comas This Montage of Praiso -
lásd Thanks to
'Baby's Own Tablets;
A big crowd gathered at the P.W.D. office gesterday when New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 49 was put up for auction. The property is bounded by Kes Kuk and Haitan Streets at Shand nipó and measures · 49 503, squnəs feet. The upset price was $99,000 and the annual Crown Rent $228.
The property is near the water- front, which is being reclaimed ex- tensively. As the environments are being developed, the piece of land
business and residential premisar.
A number of Byndicates were in- terested in the bidding and a Chinese lady, a Hr. Tam Sik see, was also a prospective porphaser. With the exception of an $8,000 jump in the early stages when the lady was at if responding to the auctioneer's en couragement, the bidding was not brisk. Offers mounted by $500 and $1,000 jumps till the property was knocked down to Mr. Kwok To tai ak $150,500...
Mr Kwak is a well known property owner being specially interested at Even in the heart of China Baby's present, in the foreshore reclamation Own Tablota, the Canadian child on's reinody, are known and prized in many at Shawanipo. Ho is associated with bom. Magistrate Tran Chu Lich, of Mr. Kwok Shuen of the Wing Qa Kwanling, Phunst fro.inos. wr.tes con- Company. corning them -
The price works out at $304 per
My one-year old chid became sick,
thing and settled nothing. Mors owing to the huge cost of keeping 17. Mr. Culver has the distinction of than that, we are now beginning abreast with her competitors, shows haping Culver City named after him.
Dida't you know it was a dangerous to realize that the peace is proving little sympathy for her European He is interested in banking and reat equally soulless. The "crudely or debtors. Britain, with her serious estate development, in sad around picture which constitutes the current thing to accelerate going to The attraction at the Kowloon Theatre, corner with another car level!-The gaviied egotisms and pains of unemployment problem menacing the Los Angeles.
gets its name from the sterling road was broad enough for the other national and imperial greed" that Government's security-and threaten-
day and night. I tried to cure him wh thas been paid for other lots in The affairs of the Liberty Club in qualities of the hero Trus as etael car to pass on the sight; instead of His Abd-mon felt very hard and he cried square foot and though higher than many ways, but without success unil the neighbourhood, is a good invest- corried mankind into the war haveing internal disorder, is anxious to
learning of Baby's 'n Tablets I got maat which abould bring in a fair "emerged from it sufficiently woim-1ave the reparations question settlet Shanghai, a defunct organization was his heart, yet tender as a woman's doing to it nearly ran into us.
started esily in 1921 for the benefit and when the heroine happened along
the light remedy The child recover d It you had gone slowly instead of after I had given him ten Tablets. Since return to the owners, when the to the outback mining town he took paired to make some other similar and Germany's crushing burden re of American ex-service men
Baby's Own Tablety whenever he gote disaater bighly probable as soon as lieved. The Turks, seeking to exploit before Liz Honour Judge Lobingier at her, to to speak; under bis wing accelerating this accident would not then I have never failed to give him property is developed.
What does a prudent driver do it, and never have failed to effect a cure the world is a little recovered from its the Allies troublar, for their own the U. B. Court last week, upoa d'sims Dorgan, keeper of the local shsuty, had happened. Ten't that saf-Yes.
for rent and clab equipment. The was the villain and, when the heroine
a good elicine Boat for Children fa war exhaustion and fatigue." The advantage.iza every opportunity to laistitis were Mensre. Hall and Holtz, and her hero entered a mine shaft he when his car is being overtaken by quickly. Baby Tees To Indeed
Every young child is susceptibls to factors which more than any others increase the confusion. Wirst wonder, who claimed $2,909 for füriture, pushed aver a slide which nearly another car! Doesn't he go along at the of Misery.1"
Po infalle indigestion. constipation, croup. Don't wait until, this dreadful are foroing Europe ever deeper into thon, that the Italian atateaman, etc., sapplied and the Russian entrapped them in a living tomb the same speed 1-Sometimes be do 25.
A prudent man f-Yes, he would colle diarios, coup, simple fever. dis attacks your little one before you tething tables and worms Baby's Own Propare fori. It comes in the night when the morass are the disarmament Signor Nitti, in his book, The Economic Society, on whos prams More thrills follow in the film and
Tablets am an unequaled remedy. They chemists abops are sadly cloudy, and breakdown and the reparations bate. Decadence l-Europe" finds Europe the club was opened, for Tis. 3,0:0, enlminate in a light in which Dorgan do that
rent and taxes due on a three years and the heroine's missing husband are When your passengere told you to are guaranteed aalasele safe end this almo's culd be warning. Get hermices even for the youngest infant, and keep Chambariai i's Cingh amour. Quoting Wells again, States organised becoming a larger Balkans and facing leave at a rental of Tis. 330 par killed. Thus ie the way left clear for go fab, why did you obey them-At Dealers hell them, ir pel free, Bicents of hand. I never fells acts quickly for war will make war jut a gareral rain. What wonder, either, month. After hearing evideras Hit Steelheart, the hero, to claim his that time the other car had not over- por vial, from the De Was Medio ad is absolutely harmless. For en cuy
rightful reward..
is Co., 6. Klangwa lod, Shinghai. aurely as bens will lay egg, that, Wells foresess another equally Honour reserved judgment.
taken iný cerɔTË
Croup.
all Obemists and Storekeepon...