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A correspondent of the "Shang- hai Mercury" writes:-
THE LIBERTY BELL.
DID NOT PEAL OUT ON JULY: 4.
"A MYTH."
When was the Declaration of Exciting times we are having. Independence adopted and signed ? and not the least of these is that If you answer July 4, 1776, as you this city has gone "red," this time probably will, then you're wrong with a greater, vengeance than anys Mr. C. Ferrol, writing in an
TR. P. M. HODGSON having easterly direction Following Our great flood had hardly sub-tinental Congress on June 7, 1776, Mresignet the Honorary Seere- the
Association.
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Hon. Secretary,
o H.K. Telegraph. Hongkong, "29th July, 1926,
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even the last short term this Gen- exchange.. eral had charge of the city. Now he has returned, the other party Declaration of Independence was What is popularly known as the fled post haste, and the Kwang signed August 2, 1776. But the tung red Bag of revolution is seen document was headed "In con- A message from Perang notined flying in all our streets, a small gress, July 4, 1776," and thus we the departure of the seaplane from red flag, about 20 by 30 inches,elebrate that day. the northern settlement a minute red cloth, but upper corner, with. A resolution declaring that or two after eleven gelock vester white star in centre, or similar these colonies are, and of right
device:
The five-colour dug is ought to be: free and independent day morning und at 11.10 he dis-i
not known here! appeared
States" was cffered by Richard view from the Georgetown" flying in a south
Impetuous Dare-Devils..
Henry Lee of Virginia in the Con-
sided. when this new invasion and adopted July 2
That was eminat line all the way taryship of this Association all down
senplane
first comes, and some 20,000 Kwangsi the famous Declaration of Ip- Communications, and letters in sighted at Singapore from the soldiers, all hardy, impetuous, dependence. future should be addressed to the Mount Faber Signal Station when dare-devil looking, poured into Nothing was done about it at undersigned who has been appoint passed over Sultan Shoal at 3.25. and past the city, pursuing Gen- the time save to note the passage
of the A quarter of an hour later Mr. R. eral Yeh and his men. Now we of the resolution in the journal, Honerary Secretary
Johnstone, the President of the hear that Marshal Wu Pei-fu had On July 2, the same day Lee's Singapore Ex-Services Fiving Aaso-sent General Yeh two million dol-resolution was adopted, the pre- jeintions whe was among the partyers for his army, but that, asamble was taken ap for considera- on the Government launch Kitti- ugual, is falled to get out of Head-tion in committee of the whole. wake-which had gone out to meet arters Office, he was defeated, Consideration of it lasted until the airman shortly after two nelock and Wo aspribes it to that fact. July 4, when after some pruning,
spotted the seaplane flying at a He has ways of finding out the preamble as drafted by!
and Thomas Jefferson was adopted. height of about five hundred feet things, and has dismissed above the masts of the shipping" at imprisoned General Yeh, and re- The vote was taken by states A3 or Chiefasual, and no record was made of Tanjong Pagar dying in a westerly Deved his Treasurer direction.
Secretary of the important part the action of individual members. of his body!
although it is known that there Posters are to be seen on all were adverse 'votes. A few minutes later the machine the walls, and Wu and Chang, Bist day of July, 1926, are request-glided gracefully to the smooth and all so-called "imperialist On July 19 a resolution ed to forward the same as soon as water, alighting into the wind people and countries (everybody, adopted that the declaration about a mile from the shore oppe-in fact, but myself) are under the should be engrossed on parchment possible to the undersigned
site the Yacht Club, where a very ban, or made the laughing stock and signed by every member of Berge number of onlookers watched of the populace by crude but congress. This engrossed "copy the arrival It was some time pointed pictures. Down with all was ready on August 2, and the Before the kerosene in huey authority, down with rule. "with members then present appended
picked up. but within all might away with the police- their signaturés. ten minutes "of the senplarie
men. jails, penitentiaries, and let The list of signers includes being sighted from the Kit-
have Freedom, is the US
real those who were opposed when it tiwake Sergeant. Ward. of the
47-Evergreen tree meaning of this wild Russian was adopted on July 2, it, omits Royal Air force, who has accom-how! now heard the world over, some of those who supported it, panied Mr. Cobham since leaving and it will end, as now is seen in and includes some who did not be- Basra, had made the supplane Fast Russia. with down with God. come members of congress until
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to her, moorings. The rival was down with the Bible, down with after July 4. 1776. One of the acomplished without further misal religion and righteousness-signers did not take his seat until up than the temporary loss of Ser. All is Ours, and we can and will November 4, 1776. In fact, more geant Ward's topee. which
Was do as we please, and off with the than a fourth of those who signed tlown off as the seaplane taxi'd heads of all opposers.
the document on August 2 did not along to the buoy, but this' was re-
Strange indeed that these fake part in the proceedings when whoopers-up-for this "new" and the declaration was adopted, fatal order fail to see that the Moreover, the list of signers as very people they. so exalt will be, it now stands was not completed the duralumin propelier and engine and are the worst despots the until after January 17, 1777. On LAMMERT BROS. Lovered, divested hinfself of his world has ever known. The pea-that date congress ordered that ing overalls and, clad in a workman- like suit of Khaki drill. left the Santry of Russia know this new, an authenticated copy be sent to and wolves, actual wolves, en-all states, and that copy settled seaplane for a small boat, where he danger the very existence of hun the date of the celebration every- was greeted By the Master attendreds of isolated villages, and no where as July 4. dant Captain Freyberg, and was brought to the Kittiwake, Sergeant one can show themselves abroad The news of the adoption did not become known to the general Ward being left to supervise the after dark sets in.
We hear of intense desolation in public until July 9. 1776. and it Alling up of 50 gallons of spirit!
AGCTIONEERA, APPRAISERS.
"AND SURVEYORE,
Public Auctions-
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▼IID Undersigned haus, poneirad;
Receiver, Supreme Court, to sell by Public Auction
required for the next stage of the all quarters by the late flood, of was then celebrated in Philadel-1 instructions from the Official
A dykes broken, houses down, and phia. Battalions paraded on the
some lives lost, but the people common, and "shot up the town,' plod on such is poor China, and notwithstanding the scarcity of oh, if they would only look up. powder Speeches were made
There are placards all over the land wine flowed. city, with "Dewn with England;" And now we come to something]; "Down with Wa," etc. Terrible important, in light of present tra- at their Sales Room Duddell Street. times are ahead for all if Russia dition. wins now.
MOUNT FŮJI.
BEARS AT THE FOOT.
The military surveyors claim that the height of Mount Fuji is
ON |SATURDAY, the 7th August, 1926,
at 11.30 a.m,
'Street.
The Stock-in-trade, Furniture, No "Liberty Bell."
Fixtures, Goodwill, Book-debt and The "Liberty Bell" probably Guild Deposit belonging to the Tai rang that day, because all of the Fung Firm of No. 13, Wing On bells in town did, but "Liberty Bell did not ring as a particular signal of the signing, and it was not cracking in doing so.
No at- tention was paid to the bell at the time. It was 50 years before it became famous.
The "Liberty Bell" tradition wel
owe
(IN ONE LOT). Terms: As Customary.
LAMMERT BROS.; Auctioneers. Hongkong, 6th August, 1926,
ON
flight to Muntok, whither Cobham teaves on Saturday.
Welcomed at the Yacht Club. The Kittiwake then proceeded to the pier of the Yacht Club, where la small party, including the Hon'ble the Governor's Deputy (the Hon'ble Mr. Hayes Marriott and Mrs Hayes Marriott. and Dr. A. L. Hoops, (the Vice Commodorg, of the Yacht Club) had gathered to meat him. During tea on the lawn in front of the Club & number of in- troductions to the famous airman took place and Mr Cobham then went to meet, Sergeant Ward, who had brought off the airman's per- donal effects from the seaplane Hutsumi Sasada, freni Kuchino-xperienced vachtsmen at the Club 3,778 metres, or 12,467 shaku, but
supersted the possible danger of the authorities, being still uncer- famous novelist of the eighteen-instructions from the Official to one George Lippard, aHE Undersigned have received damage to the duralumin floats of tain have decided to make an thirties. The myth-surrounding Receiver. Supreme Court, to sell by the machine through timber being elaborate survey of the mountain. it is effectually punctured by Public Auction washed against them bad A party of military surveyors Henry J. Ford, emeritus professor weather during the night, and visited Fujiyama on July 20 to of politics at Princeton, in an the desirability of the seaplane in to more sheltered. Mr. Nakano's observatory in of November, 1924.
bringing survey the peak in a week with article in the American Mercury SATURDAY, the 7th August, 1926, water inside the hulks. After con- Higashi-yasughara as the centre. Lippard was no more truthful at their Sales Room, Daddell Street. alderation the airman, decided to Mr. Ishihara, an engineer to the than Parson Weems, to whose The Furniture Fixtures, Goodwill leave the machina where she was Yamanashi Kench, who had been imagination we owe the incompar and Guild Deposit belonging to the moored, but he himself went put investigating the primitive forest ble story about George Wash-Ying Kee Company of No. 2, Wing and supervised the placing of lamps at the foot of Mount Fuji and re-ington and the cherry tree. at the end of each of the wings. turned to the Prefectural Office on and after being told that a police July 20, claims to have discover-dence was not signed on July 4, launch would be on duty there dured five craters along the road
1776. ing the night. Mr. Cobham left the known as Shojin-guchi. He says!
"Liberty Bell' did not "peel out Club with his mechanie after 5.30 that the locality is misty at all notes of liberty" on July 4, 1776, to inspect cases of spare parts at times, and has been passed un- and it was only one of numerous noticed by mountaineers. The the office of the Master Attendant.
bells that rang at the celebration. district, the engineer also claims, on July 9, 1776. The Flight Weather. During this time and in view of abounds in bears. Trees in the
Both, however, are the fact that he was due at the locality were scratched by their Ex-Services Flying Association din-claws, and they sighted a couple and it really doesn't matter whe symbols of a great occurrence, ner later on Mr. Cobham had little of them prowling close by the ther the tradition surrounding opportunity to discuss his flight volcanic rocks. with press ropresentatives. He stated, however, that after experl- encing bad weather at Rangoon fly! ing conditions had been very good.
from Arita Hizen.
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Acting Superintendent, Hongkong Station, 6th Aug., 1926,
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The Declaration of Indepen-
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On Street, (IN ONE LOT). Terms: As Customary..
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongong, 8th August, 1926,,
merelyTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
"ON"
Auction"
at 12 Noon
thern is entirely true. The fact SATURDAY, the 7th August, 1928, remains that the Declaration of Independence marked a new chap- at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. ter in the history of the world.
The Steam Launch
"CHINESE PRINCE"
A small Scottish lassie came to
"An American machine blowa HONGKONG HEIGHTS. The only trouble that has been en-50,400 pint bottles in a 24-hour day
countered during this period, Ser with almost no labour except in London on a visit to her uncle, as she now lies between Blake Fler geant Ward stated, was with ceroiling the machine; and yet Con-surgeon...
and, Star Ferry Wharf. For the information of visitors tain valve springs of the engine,gress gave the bottle manufacturers On returning home she was noted
For full particulars apply to the the following list of some of the which needed replacing... This
'a tariff of 50 per cent. Was this 50 to have added a clause to her Undersigned highest points on the Island and work will be done in Singapore be per cent for the ofler or for the prayers, concluding: "And please
Terms: As Customary, Mainland is published :—
fore the flight is resumed. Ser profits of the manufacturer?" make all sick people well-except geant Ward said he himself had bad Representative Canfield.
Island.
Victoria Peak Signal Station Mt. Parker Mountain Lodge The Eyrie... Peak Hotel
Feet.
no previous experience of long.
1828
distance flying, with the exception
1774
of a flight from Baara to Baghdad.
1784
those who keep Uncle Davie, in a state o' prosperity."
WILL RELIEVE MOTHER'S - FEARS.
He has been in the Air Force for Her gray fuselage bears the words. 1725
five years and appeared rather to "Sir Charles Wakefeld Flight to 1725 weldomo his present duties as a Australia." The machine is the 1805 release from the conditions of ser- same machine on which Mr. Cobham A PANIC of fear seizes mother when anddon and severe cramps, agoniz- 1000 vice at Basra..
recently flew to South Africa, Ing Intestinal pains and weakening 877 During the afternoon a large The engine is a 385 h.p. air-cooled diarrhots. prostraty some one of the 297 number of people came down to the Siddeley Jaguar, capable of main family, Keep Chamberlain's Colle Yacht Club to see the seaplane staining a cruising speed of 100 and Diarrhosa Remedy in the homs
and much she lay at her moorings about a miles an hour, which a maximum either fear nor alarm. I. quace pain emergenclexonteed a 'cause quarter of a mile from the shore of 126 miles an hourS.F.P. almost instantly, Seld, everywhare:
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