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MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1927.
YAUMATI BLAZE.
KEROSINE CARGO CATCHES FIRE.
JUNK DESTROYED.
There was a spectacular blaze at
HOME SPORT.
"What's become of yer parrot, Mrs. Hicks ?"
"We 'ad to sell 'im; 'e'took to dropping 'is aitches something
'orrible."
staff? The latter charge, ob viously correct to all who suffer from daily journeyings across the Harbour, is directed at the | Company's coxswains, many of whom perform as if they were recently recruited garbage coolles or ricksha pullers. Many of their attempts to effect a landing
if they really attempt it at all the Yaumati typhoon shelter are painful to watch and watt Saturday night, when a junk with for, and must be a sore irritation cargo of kerosine was burnt pric- to the poor mortals already moretically to the water's edge: « than deservedly inflicted by hav The presence of the junk in the Genteel Lady: Yes, we're ing to live in Kowloon. What is shelter with such inflammable mate- leavin. 'ad enough o' this 'ole; wanted, of course, is another rial aboard is illegal and it is sur- goin' to live in a much better Company to start running ferries prising to hear that the junk em-neighbourhood after this." across the Harbour in healthy fire assumed dangerous.
ployees absconded as soon as the Common Lady: So are we.
prapar- opposition to the present one. tions. But such a venture would requiro It is believed that there were a very large initial outlay and seven men on board the junk at the would, we suspect, strike up time and all are said to have escap- against vested interests. So it ised unhurt with the exception of one man who is stated to have been that the Colony of Hong Kong, awakened by the fire and to have first case, had been retained by a A young lawyer, pleading his an outpost of the Empire, the jumped into the sea with his farmer to prosecute a railway Pearl of the Orient, gets very clothes burning. This man is re-
What,
you
Genteel Lady: movin', too?
Common Lady: No; we're stop- pin' 'ere!·
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near in actuality a "small town" ported to have reached the shore company for killing twenty-four at Home. For which some of us, and to have been conveyed to the pigs. He wanted to impress the though not the humble Kowloon Kwong Wah Hospital.
jury with the magnitude of the ite, must be thankful,
Two land appliances and the fire injury. float were sent to cope with the Twenty-four pigs, gentlemen," fire. Owing to the firm hold the he said, "twenty four!" Twice fire had and the nature of the cargo, the number there is in the jury hope of saving the junk had to be
box. abandoned, but the efforts of the firemen to restrict the blaze to the one vessel were successful.
LATEST PIRACY.
BOAST OF LEADER OF THE GANG,
Fifteen men on a dead man's) chest! Yo Ho. and a bottle of Rum. Chinese pirates are busy once again. The lesson taught the marauders, whose haven is Bias Bay, must be repented. Having once started on a policy of cleaning up the Chinn Sen, there must be no relaxation. In the old days, when ship's crew caught pirates red-handed they would hang theo "gentiemen" from the yard arms and leave them there!
COMMUNIST PLOT.
A TROUBLESOME BUSINESS IN JAVA.
Batavia, July 23.
for a day or two. We are more week correspondence the authori As already mentioned in my mid- civilised now. We have to conform ties discovered a plot to revolt on
to international law and hand over Sunday night, but owing captured sea thieves to the country
Bigbee: Wonder what business that man is in? They say he is perfectly deaf.
Carper: Oh, that's Jack Robin- son; why, he receives complaints in the railway office.
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"Jock, wull ye dine with me to-morrow nicht?"
"Aye, Sandy, I wull." "Guid. Eight o'clock-at your hoose!"
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A well-known Judge attended a
to the function and left his hat and
of their origin. The new piracy has drastic measures taken by the police coat in the cloakroom. The at- this time been directed against a and others the whole affair fizzled tendant, who knew the Judge by Norwegian vessel; the captain and out like a candle. second lieutenant being shot down,
not be totally disregarded as a factor in the position, but any
An alarming discovery was that sight, did not give him a ticket. eventual rise to power by him and the first lieutenant by force enadorese troops in the Army! When the Judge left he was could not but be regarded as majeur made to pilot the captured were affected by Communist propa. given his correct belongings.
"You did not give me a ticket ship to the pirate's neat. On leay-ganda and numerous arrests have personal chalenge to Chiang ing the ship, the leader of the gang been matic. Some of them were when I came in," he said, "so how Kai-shek. Then would come bonsted that he and his jolly deserters who travelled through the do you know these things belong further clash between these tive Rogers were off to a place where country in a motor car preaching to me?""
neroplanes could not And them. communism. From this it would
"I don't" replied the attendant, war lords, sooner or later, with Possibly, the leader issued his seem that ample funds are avail-"I only know that you handed. taunt in the belief that as there thle for this work. The Mena- were no Norwegian air force units donese troops are some of the best them to me.".
fighters in the D.E.I. army and have
a resultant continuance of the civil war.
with impunity. If so, he overlooked
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in the Far East, it could be madeways been loyal to the Govern-i・ Mistress "I have bought you In the overtures to the Nan- the fact that international law dement even as far back as the time this alarm clock for the morn- king Government the Hankow clares pirates to be outlaws, and of the East Indian Company.
Itings."
clique evidently disclose a lack of thus a proper mark for all nations was therefore only natural that a New Maid: "Well, do you mind to draw a bow against, irrespective meeting of Menadonese soldiers confidence in their own power to of the particular one suffering was called in Bandoeng one even if I change it for a wrist watch suppress Nanking. If they can "Straits Times" (July 22).
through their depredations. ing this week, which-was-attended for eveninga?"
by about 200 men. Speakers drawn from all ranks emphatically denied that the Menadonëse troops as whole were affected by the com
COLLISION AT YAUMATI.
JUNK RUNS INTO FERRY BOAT.
Ma: "Hilda's young man hasn't been for a week. Have you said
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win over Feng Yu-hsiang and, in turn, the Nanking Government they shall have to reckon with
munist movement and declared that something to him?”. Chiang Kai-shek whom they pre-
Pa: "No, I've not even seen they were ready to fight for the Government which had made them him since I sent the gas bill on viously dismissed from his post of
what they are to-day. In the bar- to him." Generalissimo. The latter may While a Mongkok ferry launch munists had a warm reception at rack rooms would-be soldier Com-) have his enemies within his own was making the northern en- the hands of their loyal comrades. McDougal down the street, and Mrs. Jones: "I met Mrs. fold, but he still exercises trance of the Yaumati Typhoon It is worthy of mention that this
shelter at 5.30 am, on Saturday, renewed action coincides with the she told me that you told her the tremendous hold over the people she was bumped into by a junk return of a
not to tell large number of news I told you -and the armies within the which was approaching the en-pilgrims from Mecca and the pos- because Mrs. Brown made me zone occupied by the Southerntrance from an opposite direction. sibility that funds are brought inte promise not to tell it before she
This junk had on board a long the country in this manner is not would tell it to me." Nationalists. The whole posi-plank which stuck out some 20 excluded especially in view of the Mrs. Smith: "Why, Mrs. tion, it will be seen, bristles with feet in front of her bow. The fact that an order had been dr McDougal told me she wouldn't problems the eventual solution of launch was struck in the centre by culated to the effect that the home. tell a soul that I had told her."
this plank, and knocked out of her troubled with all kinds of formall- wouldn't tell you she had told me coming pilgrims were not to be "Never mind. I told her I which cannot be forecast. Very course.
ties such as baggage examination, you told her." much will depend on how far the This caused her to run into a etc. Moderates in Hankow have gone was just inside the shelter. The nearing completion is
badly hole another junk which The Pusar Gambir which is now toward purging that centre of junk which was damaged to the guarded and nobody is allowed in ant tie were annoyed by a slow strongly Two golfers playing an import- the Communists. If, as report-extent of $50, was towed into the grounds after G .m.; farther couple in front of them, obviously ed General Galens, Moscow's shallow water where she sank and the outside walla are brightly illa- new to the game. At one hole
minated to lighten the task of the there was nominees is still to remain "to settled down on the mud bed.
a particularly long police.
wait. One of the offending direct the Hankow army,"
Raden Oerip, an ex-desu teacher couple dawdled on the fairway idea of a pact with Nanking
was arrested in Bandoeng and con- while his companion searched becomes as remote as ever.
fessed to being a financier of the industriously in the rough. new plot. He was found to be in
At length the waiting couple posacasion of 1.80. The slater of could contain their impatience no Soedono was treasurer and had
longer, f.200, in her possession when ar-
any
FLOODS IN INDIA. FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE
HOMELESS.
The Commander-in-Chlef of the
one
SEARCH FOR A PACT.
According to the latest news from China each of the rival parties are still endeavouring to exploit each other by an outward semblance of a desire for a pact
Bombay, Saturday. aimed at eliminating a third That Ferry.
The floods in Gujerat are sub-rested.
"Why don't you help your The Star Ferry Company Blding. Forty thousand people in
friend to find his ball?" party. It is an interesting study. Borodin tried to woo Chiang Kai- exists, of course, for the benefit lees. Baroda is still unable to investigate the growth of Com
Ahmedabad are reported home- Army has formed a commission to shouted indignantly.
"Oh, he's got the ball," the shek, and failed. Next he started of Kowloon. In other words, the communicate by telegraph.-munism In the army. The commia-other replied, blandly. "He's a flirtation with the "Christian people who run the Star Ferry Reuter.
sion will co-operate with the Mil- looking for his club." Casualties Exaggerated. tary Information Service and the General," with equally negative exist for the benefit of the people
Bombay, yesterday. C.I.D. in the various garrison the outside who live in Kowloon. But the Telegraphic communication with towns.
Judge: Why did you stick the results so far as world knows, although one must people who run the Star Ferry do Baroda has been re-established. a result of the new dis- knife in this man?"
coveries in West Java all public Prisoner: "I saw the police of the not live in Kowloon, the Star The city and parts of the sur buildings in Medan are now guard coming, and had to hide it some-
money-making water for three days. The city's taken place,
rounding "Christian General's" motives Ferry being a
district were undered but so far no irregularities have where." proposition. That's the rub. So, total death-roll, however, is only a number of natives were arrested
On Thursday night | and actions.
A seaside landlady was hack- Since Borodin's departure for in consequence, whilst the Star 30. The death-roll in the sur- in the neighbourhood of
rounding district has not yet been Strufswijkstrant-Weltevreden and when she remarked
the ing at the very hard piecrust, Russia we have been told that the Ferry continues to make money, ascertained, but is not likely to taken to the police station where "My late husband greatly ap- Communists in Hankow have ask-possessing a glorious monopoly, exceed 100.. The mills at two of them were placed in cus- ed the "Christion General" to go the people who live in Kowloon Ahmedabad have reopened but tody."Singapore
be always sceptical
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have to put up with what they are suffering from a shortage of Corr. can get. Which is mighty little, labour, a large numbers of em all things considered. As corres-ployees having left the city, where pondents to this journal have 5,098 houses were destroyed. pointed out, at least a sanely con- Reuter. structed landing stage at both)
motor car of Mr. C. M. Manners
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Free. Presa" precinted my culinary products." Gloomy Lodger: "A sculptor, I presume?"
MOTOR CAR STOLEN. wept for ten minutes over her
BUICK DISAPPEARS FROM NEAR FERRY.
After the fair plaintiff had
troubles, a barrister entering the court exclaimed:---
"Why, what's the matter with that poor girl?"
to Hankow "in order that a reconciliation may be effected with the Nanking Party." The Hankow clique know full well that no pact with Hanking is ends is the least of a number of A radiator cap and a mascot possible until they completely reforms badly requiring atten- worth $50 was stolen from the disavow Communism and Moscow tion. In this respect it seems to of No. 4A, Armand Buildings, influence and direction. Hence us that the Company should have Kimberley Road, Kowloon, yester
the ordinary foresight to lookį they have recently been trying to just a little way ahead, when the
Mr. Wong Chal-aheung left ha day.
Bulek motor car outside the Star impress outsiders-and particu- present arrangements will prove
Jewellery and other property ferry wharf on Saturday night. It larly Nanking-that the Moder- physically impossible for the worth $10 was reported stolen was gone when he returned for it me anything you know about
maintenance of anything ap-from the room of one of the nurses
yesterday morning, ates now control Hankow and proaching an adequate service of of the Eastern Maternity Hospi that the Communist extremists transport across the Harbour.tal, Stone Nullah Lane, yester
Whether Kowloon, as a residential area,day.
grows from month to month; the
are in the minority.
they will lure Marshal Feng Yu-
"seasons" issued by the Company A third class Chinese passen-
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"I think," said the Magistrate, "she's waiting to be bailed out."
Teacher: "Now, Tommie, tell
London."
Tommie: "All the people that live in London are stupid."
Teacher: "Good gracious! Why?"
Tommie: "Well, teacher, you told us that London's population
EVERY USER IS A FRIEND. halang into their net is another must prove this point. Soon alger jumped into the harbour from people who have been cured by Cham is very dense."
The personal recommendations of matter. They are certainly not remodelling of the whole landing, the Yaumati ferry launch "Man berlain's Cough Remedy, have done likely to deceive General Chiang and boarding stages will be im-Yes" while in midstream yester more than all else to increase the sale
perative, a why attempt to day morning. The launch circled there are now more hotties of it sold with fried children-Household and use of this preparation, until Serve cream mushroom sauce Kal-shek and the Nanking Gov- "carry on" in antiquated sur- the spot for ten minutes but no ench year than: of any other cough hint in a Johnstown (Pa.) paper. ernment. Feng Yu-halang can-roundings and with an inefficient trace of the man could be found. raedicine. It is for sale overywhere.