WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1928.
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"WINSTON' & 'DAVID. SHIP'S ROPE.
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CHANG TSUNG-CHANG AND SHANTUNG.
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WHAT THE "TOTAL" EXTIN- GUISHER CAN DO.
A DEMONSTRATION.
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In the compound of the Central Fire Station, yesterday afternoon,
Connaught-rund Central.
There was S
MUNITIONS AT CHEFOO.
Peking. Yesterday."
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LARGE STOLEN COILS NOW COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED,
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·IN THE “MAIL"
GOOD.POLICE" WORK.
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Westminster. The House was Several reports of late have 90071 after three (says been received by the police relat- The vernacular papers report P an interesting demonstration was that Chang Tsung-chang intends the "Daily Telegraph's" political ing to thefts of hemp rope from held of the "Total" Are extinguish shortly to make a bid for power correspondent) and but for Mr. British and foreign steamers in er, the Hong Kong and South China in Shantung, stating he has reLloyd George it would have been Hong Kong harbour.
As a result the police discover- agents of which are Mesars, Keller, cently received from unnamed up even earlier. But Mr. Lloyd Kern and Co., Ltil, of Nos. 16-19 ources $10,000,000 for his pro-attendance, took it into his head heard of a man collecting a sum George, who is irregular in his ed a hawker who said that he had Ject,
it is known that he has ship to make a speech which brought of nearly $100 from a marine The demonstration was carried ed large quantities of ammunt-up Mr. Churchill, and the attack store dealer after a talk about But by Mr. John S. Smith whilst on to Chefoe, and the vernacu and the reply made the operative "hemp rope."
The shop in question proved to Mr. E. Kern was also present to ar papers report that the Chihli- part of the debate. It is a pity explain the simplicity of the extin-Shantung troops inside
that these two men have fallen be the Tak On Co., marine deal- guisher
Great Wall have been paid 'a out so, for they have many ideas ers, at No. 35, Tung Mun-street. large gathering month's wages and also that in common, and, as usual, the In a raid, engineered by the present, both European and Chin- Nanking has ordered Feng Yu-nearer strong forces approach police, coils of rope were found ese, including slicers of the Fire siang immediately to send forces without actually joining in which tallied with the samples Brigade, and all were favourably exterminate the Northerners amity the greater the beat of held by the Water police. impressed with the efficiency of the Chefoo, while Pei Chung-hai conflict.
This morning, at the Kowloon extinguisher which squirts a power-as been ordered to attack those
Mr. Churchill put down Mr. Court, Detective, Sergeant Fowlic ful stream of white powder cop inside the Great Wall.
Lloyd George's hostility to produced the missing colls before taining carbonic acid. This has
The foremost line of the Chihlichagrin at seeing what he hoped Mr. Walter Schofields an instantaneous effect on flames. Shantung forces is at present at own party turned into a measure belonged to the J. C. I. Line, the would be a trump card for his The coll of rope marked "red" which cannot live against it and Lutal. are speedily extinguished no mat-
of practical reform by the other coil marked blue was the proper ter what hold the fire had previous
side. In plain words, what Mr.ty of Jardine, Matheson, while to the bringing of the extinguish-
Tokyo, Yesterday. Lloyd George thought was the the remaining one, which was er into play, The flames were sim- that the infantry regiment and turned out to be a king only, and terfield and Swire.
The War Office has decided ace of trumps in his hands, has unmarked, was claimed by But--| ply driven back and swallowed up the artillery detachment, which has been overtrumped by Mr. by the powder before the eyes of was sent from Shantung to Tien- Churchill's ace. They are very mentioned shipping firms were Representatives of the above the fascinated gathering who only tain in May owing to the uneasi-near to each other, and therefore present in Court. a couple of minutes previously ness then existing in that area, they quarrel the more. were awed by the magnitude of the shall return to Shantung early in
Capt. D. Skinner, Assistant raging flames, which were started September to rejoin the Third for the purpose of the demonstra- Division, of which it will form
part.-Reuter. Chimney Blaze.
tion,
The first demonstration was with a wooden chimney which showed. with what effect the "Total" could| be used in case of a fire in a lift shaft, flue, chute or chimney of any kind. The inside of the wooden chimney was thoroughly maturated with a mixture of crude
Japanese Troops.
REJUVENATION.
LORD BIRKENHEAD ON HIS AGE.
"WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS."
To-day
quean'a Theatre; "Love Me And The World Is Mine,” To-day--World Theatre; "Whis- pering Smith."
quiz."
To-day-Star Theatre; "Manne-
To-day-Theatre Royal; Cecilia. Hansen, the world's greatest violin- ist, 9.15 p.m. "A Kiss in a Taxi."
September 2-3—Queen's Theatre;
Land Sales. September 3-At P. W. D. Offices, Crown lands Prince Edward-rd., Kowloon, 3 p.. at Shamshulpo and
Meetings.
August 30-Royal Hong Kong
Golf Clab confirmatory meeting.
August 30 Rugby Football meeting at Union Bldg., Pedder-st, 5.30 p.m.
August 31-Forty-first annual meeting of members of the Hong Kong Football Club In Messrs. 5.30 p.m. Jardine, Matheson'a board room,
September 2-H.K.V.D.C. No. 2 Platoon Rifle Club meeting at the Peak. Range. 9.30 am.
September 3-Hong Kong Cricket |
Bldg., 5.15 p.m. Sanitary Board Room, Post Office League annual meeting in the
September & Annual meeting of: Mid-levels' Residents Asscn. at
6 p.m.
Sports.
Sept. 6, 7-Soldiers' Club Billiard Tournament: H.K.V.D.C. v 81st Battery R.A., 6 p.m. -
Miscellaneous.
August 31-Hong Kong Amateur
Football league entries close on this
date......
September 1-Second Moonlight picnic of St. Peter's Y. M. Club.
September 1-Miss V. Capell re- sumes her Dancing Classes on this date.
Mr. Lloyd George was in his Marine Superintendent for Jar- quiet, persuasive mood. He made dine. Matheson's appeared for Ladies Recreation Club, Peak-rd., as though he was using but half that firm, Mr. A. H. Naismith, his strength out of consideration Chief Officer of the s.s. "Кл for Mr. Churchill, who has acern-Ying," for Butterfeld and Swire, ed Intely not entirely to have and Mr. A. J. Ramond, for the shaken off the effect of his in J. C. J. Line. fluenza. Ms. Lloyd George there- The unmarked rope, the Magis, fore confined his criticism to the trate was informed, could be iden- suggestion that Mr. Churchill's tified with little difficulty by Mr. concessions anticipating the rat- Naismith. ing relief to coal, taking the tax The rope. stolen from the 8.8. At the Criterion Restaurant, Lon-off kerosene, and the reduction of "Ka Sing" (B. & S.) was 140 oil and gasolene, and it instantly don, last month, the Japan Society the betting tax, had knocked the fathoms long, and that from the went up in fumes at the application gave a dinner in honour of the bottom out of his Budget, and 8.5. "Sui Sang" (J.M.) 92
Waseda University athletic team converted a surplus into a deficit. fathoms, and that from the se The Alumes were given ample which went to Amsterdam
Could they how have a new finan-Baton (J.C.J.L.) was of 270 t'me to take a good hold before take part in the Olympic games precedent for budgeting on a de-
cial statement? There was no fathoms. the extinguisher was brought into During their stay in England they
The magistrate ordered the play Then Mr. Smith advanced had a friendly contest with the
ficit.
rope to be restored to the rightful towards the chimney with a hand Achilles team of athletes drawn
Mr. Churchill had a simple an-owners. apparatus, starting to squirt the from Oxford and Cambridge Uni-swer. He had budgeted for u powder at the base when about versities, the members of which loss of revenue by his concessions SIX BILLION POUNDS.
surplus of 18 millions; and his four feet away. The effect on the flames. was instantaneous, and in were also among the guests.
amounted to 4 millions. There less than a minute. the fire was; The Earl of Birkenhead, submit
ting the toast of "The Waseda Uni- versity Athletic Team," said:
of a mulch,
out.
ture,
.
Motor-Car Engine.
to
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New York, Mr. Henry Ford's
September 14-H.K.V.D.C. (Ma chine Gun Company) dinner, Head- quarters, 7.45 p.m.
October 4, 5, 6--Grand Tattoo, at Sookumpoo, 8.30 p.m.
A hairdresser's assistant at Lille, France, has shaved himself in 27 seconds without a scratch, this being, it is said, a world
record.
The New Zealand House of Re-
fore he had still a prospective EXPECTED YIELD OF FORD surplus of 14 millions, and he RUBBER GROUNDS. An equally speedy and effective
fhought that he would realise it. demonstration was then carried out
I am fast reaching an age when How came Mr. Lloyd George, one with a wonden structure represent become more and more inclined to wonders, to overlook all this pud-motor ship "Lake Orma" left ing a wall of a room or building, encourage the worship of the old ding that Mr. Churchill had left Detroit bound for Santaren, which was also well saturated with the young. (Laughter.) In our himself? Whether a Chancellor Brazil, laden with supplies for presentatives has rejected the Day- the same highly inflammable mix-modern English world that is not of the Exchequer has any right developing the rubber plantation of light Saving Bill, this involving the
a fashionable cult, but my birthday to budget for so liberal a surplus the Ford Motor Company."
end of summer time in New Zea- is to-morrow, and in three years I is, of course, another story.
land. shall unfortunately-if I live--have The final and most daring deattained the age of 60. Well, any monstration was the setting alightedy who is travelling so swiftly of the engine of Mr. Smith's motor along the road of life becomes more ear after gasolene had been pour-and more indulgent of the worship ed on the mechanism. After the engine had gone up in flames, Mr. Smith coolly pulled down the bon- At present, while you are 60, you net and then climbed into the driv til retain a certain degree of er's seat where he
affectionate relationship with those removed an "Auto-Total" cylinder, and then who follow you; when you are 70 proceeded to walk round the front you become rather a bore; when you of the car squirting the powder are 80 you are pointed
suing.
of ancestors,
fullled
NOTICES.
Mr. Ford's prospective plantation "Degrading" Arguments. exceeds 5,000,000 acres, with soil out that his concessions were not bearing quality." The trees to be Dr. Churchill went on to point deserbed as of the "best rubber wasted, but would go to the replanted will mature in ten years, mission of taxation; he had, in and I expectations are fact, only forestalled this year they may yield approximately six the remission of taxes that he billion pounds of rubber annually, HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB might otherwise have made next. crop that is vastly in excess of the He admitted that in so far as he total world production this year. had done so he would have less to
However, Mr. Ford does not con- give away next year,
nursery stocks.
RUGBY.
LL Interested in RUGBY are invited to
anticipation of rating relief to but the establishment of an operat-A FOOTBALL
Even the template an immediate monopoly, through the interstices of the bon-as an interesting relic; and when railways had left him with plentying base and port, i survey of the attend a Meeting at Union Bulld net through which flames were is. you reach 90 you are wheeled about. of money to finance the rating ground, and the preparation of ing, Peddor Street, on THURSDAY, I
(Laughter.) I have wondered if reliefs up to 1930. Trade might The fire was out In a minute, there is anything in this rejuvenat improve by then, but if it did not and when the bonnet was re-opening idea. I have thought of this there would be a gap in 1930.
He went on to complain Litter-WORKER-MANAGERS. ed, it was found that the engine matter deeply, and I cannot see that. had not suffered in the least, and a man of 150 would be any particu- ly of Mr. Lloyd George's criti-
"A BEAUTIFUL THEORY." - within two minutes of the conclu-lar addition to the home. There cisms in the country, which have
"darkened counsel, put a spoke in Mr. Duncan Balley, managing Mesars. Charles
any clogging effect on the engine which blow the stuff off as it pur-
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sion of the demonstration, Mr. would be a promising youngster of the wheel of reform, and confused director of Smith entered his car and started 80 or 90 about the house, and he the public mind," and after des- Roberts and Co., Ltd., Wakefield, the engine which responded in-might think he was entitled to come cribing Mr. Lloyd George's argu-speaking at the conference of the stantly. The powder did not have into his own. (Laughter.) ments as degrading, he put his at-Industrial Co-partnership Associa-THE EXTRAORDINARY GEN- Friendship With Japan. titude down to chagrin at finding tion at Oxford said that the idea. ERAL MEETING of MEM- Speaking of the friendship exist-himself overtrumped.
Mr. Maxton followed up Mr. share in
workers should have a BERS in connection with the new The powder has no unpleasant ing between Japan and Great Bri- odour, is not poisonous, and can-tain, he said that the friendship of day by an exposition of the sort "The real problem," he said, "is Building, TO-MORROW, the 30th
the management Wheatley's speech of the other business was
of a Articles of Association will be held) a beautiful theory, at the Office of the Club, York not harm any material.
great peoples did not depend on the of Budget he would have when not that employers want to with-instant at 5.15 p.m.. written terms of a lawyer's docu ment. It depended on the hearts of benchers sat on the front Minis from the
I the present Labour back-hold a share of the management those peoples, and there wore many terrial bench.
workers, but to get matters between Britain and
someone who will share it. Japan which were not perhaps to Mr. Maxton, is how much does charge hands, workers, managers The test of a Budget, according "Whether you advertise for easily understood by the citizens of it take out of the pockets of the or general managers, one of the other countries, but were realized rich and how much does it put biggest problems is to get people A Chinese, alleged to tuve stolen by us as inhabitants of an ancient into the pockets of the poor? If fitted to do the work. a clock from No. 2 Cambay Build-and historical island, subsisting on, it be objected that riches and pumber of, workers cannot be fit- A large ings, the residence of Mrs. Gomes; proud traditions. No Englishman poverty are merely relative terms ted to manage, businesses. also to have stalen two baskets would ever forget the assistance and need containing a wrist watch, seven given to us by Japan in the early, finition, Mr. Maxton has his an gifts that make up a man of busi- more precise, de person has not the indefinable articles of clothing and jewellery days of the war.
swer pat to that. A man who ness he can no more run a buat- Prof. Yamamoto replied.
has more than a thousand a year ness than a man who has hot ar Tong, appeared at the Kowloon The Japanese Charge d'Affaires, is not only a rich man but a super-tistic gifts can paint a picture." Magistracy yesterday on charges of Mr. S. Saburi, submitting the toast rich man, and all the excess over larceny and receiving atolen pro-f "The Achilles Team," said the that should be taken from him Mr. Ben Turner at Bradford re Statements such as that made by perty.
present was the arst occasion on, and given to his poorer brethren cently that one of the reasons why He was sentenced to two months' which a combination of Japanese So now we know. hard labour on the first charge, a University athletes had visited
trade was going down was that fine of $100 or a further two Europe, and it was more than grati-
Brigadier-General Sir Samuel H. managers. could be seon months hard. labour on the third tyng that the country selected for Wilson, Premanent Under-Secretary in the morning, were calculated to strolling to the office at ten o'clock charge, while the second charge this visit should have been Old for the Colonies, has left England mislead. The manager who was England, that the scene of excoun- on an official visit to the West criticised for doing that might ter should have been the celebrated African Colantes...
have lain awake at five o'clock in ground at Stamford Bridge, and
the morning working very hard that the opposing team should have
— with his brain, and tu been composed of past and present Mayeda, Major W W. Grantham, students of Oxford and Cambridge. KC, Colonel J. C. Somerville, Lady
Hollywood, Yeste Mr. J. W. J. Rinkel responded. Henry Wilson, Major-General LG death is announced During the evening the Earl of Drummond, Colonel the Master of mother of Charlin Chay Birkenhead presented a banter to Sempill, Mr. J. Wilson Taylor, Capter's American Service Thirty children playing happily the Waseda toam from the Achilles fain G Warre, Lady Arnold, Mr. In the Hampstead and North Bf team, and in doing so said it was Pancras Day Nursery at Hamp 10 emblem of the sporting comrade- stead, N.W., had a delightful sur- ship which united, the two coun- priso when Princess Mary paid fries, them an unexpected "vlalte Among those
was withdrawnt.
Mr. Walter Citr'ne, secretary of the Trades Union Congress, is to be nominated for the presidency of the International Föderation of Trade Unions at the connell mest ing at Amsterdam in September.
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