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THE HONG KONG $ DIRECTORY
1928 Issue
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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928..
A BY-ELECTION RESULT.
A "SAFE SEAT.”.
GOVERNMENT RETAIN THE CONSTITUENCY,
EASY CONSERVATIVE WIN.
London, Yesterday.
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DOG RACING.
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A Delightful Story of Youth and Romance, with the star of "7th
Heaven in her first Comedy Picture !
LASTS 20 SECONDS. JANET GAYNOR
KEEPING OUT THE UNDESIR-BUILDINGS DAMAGED: SEVERAL
ABLE ELEMENT.
ONLY PARI-MUTUEL.
Shanghai, July, 13,
PERSONS INJURED.
GOVERNOR'S FAMILY.
Constantinople, Yesterday.
The result of the by-election at Since the inauguration of grey. A vinient earthquake of 20 Hallam (Shefflold) owing to Major hound racing in Shanghai the ques- seconds' duration occurred in General Sir Frederick Sykes' ap-tion has come up whether it would, Smyrna yesterday. Many build- pointment as Governor of Bombaying if in addition to the pari sons injured, including the wife not make the sport more interest-ings are damaged and several per-
is as follows.
Mr. Smith (Cons. 9417.
Mr. Flynn (Labour) 5393. Mr. Hobman (Liberal) 2715,
SPANISH OIL.
NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE
mutuel, bookies were permitted to and child of the Governor.-Reu- function. It is well-known, of, ter. course, that quite a number of pri- vate individuals are in the habit of making books among their circle of acquaintances not only for grey-
TO AUSTRALIA.
THE MOTORIST.
hound but for all other forms of GREAT WELCOME TO BIRTLES, racing, but this naturally does not affect the issue. The point really comes down to whether the intro- duction of the professional bookie would be advantageous or otherwise New York, Yesterday. to Shanghai. In this connection The Pana American Petroleum the decision taken by the authorities
and
MONOPOLY..
7
16,000 MILES JOURNEY,
Sydney, Yesterday. Francis Birtles was enthusiastic-
Transport Company and of Luna Park is of very great im-ally welcomed when he arrived Atlantic Refining Company are portance. reported to be negotiating for the We understand that at a com- management of the Spanish oil mittee meeting held this week the monopoly on a long term contract matter was discussed, and the to supply refined oils to the Span- decision arrived at was that the ish market. Reuter..
only betting at Luna, Park should be through the parl-mutuel,
WATER BUFFALOES.”
Covetous Eyes.
here, having motored from London. On his journey he broke all long distance records. Leaving London on October 19, he has since travell- ed 16,000 miles by land and 500 by sea-Reuter.!
AN ADDICT.
UNEMPLOYED EUROPEAN GOES TO JAIL.
It is understood that bookies In other parts of the world have been WHAT SOME OF "EMBLEMS" casting covetous eyes towards
WERE LIKE.
Shanghai.as a feld for their activities, and that, were there the SEEN AT THE EXHIBITION.semblance of a chance to do buef.
Įness, numbers would lose no time Patrick Joseph McKay (43), un- Lions which looked more like in making their way here. The employed and described as a native water buffaloes than anything danger always attendant upon the of county Cork, Ireland, was this, else predominated in the designs introduction of a new feature such morning charged before Major C. submitted in the Tattoo Emblem as this is that among the number Willson, O.B.B., on three counts as competition, the result of which would probably be a proportion of follow:-(1) larceny of a fork and was announced last Saturday, the undesirable element. One can a spoon worth $4 from St. Paul's Long before the opening hour imagine what the. effect would be Hospital, Causeway Bay; (2) mak- of to-day's exhibition of the de- should it happen that crooked working false entry in the register of signs, a number were at the was discovered proceeding in the the Hong Kong Hotel; and (3) mak- Cheer O Naval and Military enclosures of any of the racing ing false entry in the register of Y.M.C.A. at the City Hall to see clubs here, and as it would be im-the Palace Hotel. the "hanging." Views expressed possible in the first instance to dis- Accused admitted all three are too diversified to be repeated. criminate between the respectable charges. Yet they were a reflex of the in- bookles and those of the other
Sub-Inspector Elaton said that dividual making them.
variety, it is better that no risk at accused had passed himself off as For the purpose for which it is all should be run, for once anything a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the British required, there is not the slight of the kind we have hinted at oc- Navy in one hotel and as a medical est doubt that Mr. Pun U-ying's curred, the damage done, would be officer of the U.S. Navy in another. tiger couchant on a red triangle is Irreparable, not only to racing but He ran up bills at both the Hong the most outstanding and the best to the reputation of the whole Kong and Palace Hotels, which he adaptable for а two-coloured foreign community,
was unable to settle. On July 11 block.
In the circumstances bookies will he went to the St. Paul's Hospital not be allowed by the Greyhound where he stopped two days and left Racing Club, which ruling will pro-without paying the bill. When he bably appeal to the majority as was arrested at. the Sallers Home being very sound.~"N. C. D. N.".
Few Original Ideas, Most of the designs were exe cuted in black and white, a few very faintly in pencil-so faintly that they could never be made into a block for reproduction and some in colour.
CANCER CAMPAIGN.
LARGE NUMBER OF DELEGATES
RECEIVED BY KING..
"CAUSES AND CURE,"
London, Yesterday,
and his effects were searched, the fork and spoon belonging to the hospital and other articles to which the accused had no right were dis- covered.
Accused told the Magistrate that he had been taking morphia for 20 years and that accounted for his present condition, He also anid) that he had served during the War
Original ideas were not too numerous. The lion, emblems of the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force, Britannia, a Crown, a bull dog, a map of Hong Kong or the Peak as seen from the harbour, and the Union Jack| H. M. the King received 120 dele-in Mesopotamia, Italy and France. were the most common features.
gatos representing the 22 countries Inspector Elston said that he un One competitor sent in a map who have sent representatives to deratood that accused was in re- of Hong Kong with the flame of the British Empire Cancer Cam-ceipt of a pension from Home and the torch blazing across the island paign Conference, which is being he did not know what effect a con- and ending where Happy Valley is held in London.
viction would have on it. supposed to be. Another drew a
Replyng to the address of the The Magistrate imposed fines of map of the world with the Bri-President, Sir John Bland Sutter, $25 or four weeks' jail on each tish Empire painted red, super-His Majesty said he noted particu-|
charge. imposed by one of the stereotype larly that the object of the cam-
McKay did not have the money to designs.
paign was research into both the pay the fines and went to jail for cure and causes of cancer. Doubt- 12 weeks, Mrs. H. V. Koop sent in less In the last resort the discovery cleverly executed designs which of the cause was the only certain were not so forcible as that of and absolute "means of cure, but the winner'a. Mr. K. S. Leung His Majesty was glad that the based his idea on Hong Kong and
practical side of the problem had turned out capable and bold draw not been ignored. If the discus- MOTOR DRIVER WHO "LOOK ings, Mr. G. W. Arnold' went. in
Lack of Accuracy.
for variety as did Mr. M. A. Bap-slons resulted in the advance of tista whose forte was good draw-diagnosis and treatment, or even in the palliation of the disease, the
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A strange part in the exhibits Conference, in the view of thou-
AN OBSTRUCTION.
·ED FOR A FARE.”
At the Central Magistracy, be for Mr. C. Willson this morning,
is the glaring lack of accuracy in sands of sufferers, would have the driver of public motor car depicting Servicemen in uniform | justifled itself—Reuter.
-elther ancient or modern-and either on duty or standing at ease. The pouches in an Infantryman's bandoller were smaller than his tunic.buttons but, fortunately, the idea of his standing guard by the Union Jack and the size of the picture found it a place on the board.
TRAIN DISASTER.
TWO GERMAN EXPRESSES COLLIDE NEAR MUNICH.
TRAIL DEMOLISHED.
No. 499 was. charged with caus- ing an obstruction at Repulse Bay.
According to the prosecution, Mr. G. F. Haslam, manager of Messrs. Brunner, Mond and Co. was driving with Mr. W. R. Scott, A.S.P., along the road at Repulse Bay, when they were obstructed by the defendant's car, which was placed at the middle of the road and unattended
N two expresses. The carriages burst how long it took him to find the His Worship asked Mr. Haslam into flames and some of the bodies defendant...
Munich, Yesterday. At least 10 have been killed and
The exhibition remains open till 6 p.m. to-day. Admission is free.
25 injured in collision between
M
ARCTIC SEARCHERS. are unrecognisable.ht
The disaster was caused by RUSSIAN AVIATOR AND COM-passenger pulling the communica.
tion gard. This stopped the Nurem PANIONS PICKED UP
borg express outside the station at Munich, and a second train, which The "Krassin" picked up Chuk-left the station a few minutes after novsky and his four companions wards, crashed into the stationary at 10 o'clock last night. Reuter express
Moscow Yesterday,
uter.
three minutes and he was in the Mr. Haslam: It took me two or
undergrowth.
The defendant's version that he was away to look for a fare, did not satisfy the Magistrate. Fur thermore, kis record showed that he had a few previous convictions.
A fine of $12 was imposed.
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