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One case of typhoid, two of small-pox, and one of diphtheria were reported over the week-end.
A fine of $5 was imposed on cach of several Chinese at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for carry- Ing chickens by their wings and putting them in crates that were not large enough.
MONDAY,
ECEMBER 16, 1929.
EUROPE'S MAN OF
EU
MYSTERY
MILLIONS MADE BY WAR
MUROPE'S mystery man,, Sir, touch enabled the Casino, in 1925, A Chinese girl and boy were at
Basil Zaharoff, who haa'pulled to declara'a dividend of more than the Kowloon Maglatracy this morn the strings that have manoeuvred 100 per cent, for a total of Fra. ing cautioned by Mr. T. S. Whyte dozens of armles and has bean be. 48,700,000. Smith against fighting in public.hind the scenes of most of Europe's His career has been a melodrama, It was mentioned that the girl hit political dramas of the past half Starting life as a hotel guide in his the lad with her bamboo pole and century, has passed along into com-native Greece, he shortly becama gave him a black eye.
plete oblivion with the same silent ambitious and moved up the stages unobtrusiveness,
of fireman with a hose company, to money lender, merchant in woollens until at 28 he entered the munitions business as agent for Nordenfeldt, and sold cannons and shells to both Greece and Turkey.
Still among the wealthiest half-- dozen men in the world, and probably the richest individual that has ever been produced in Europe, Zaharoff has completely severed re-
Mr. Chin Wah-yuet, who died in Kongmoon on April 5, 1929, at the age of 29, left $4,900 in Hong Kong. Letters of administration have been granted to his widow, Chan Wong- ahi clias Wong Kam-to, of No. 148,,lations with the casinos, munitions It was at that stage of his life Connaught Road Central.
factories and battleship building that the American inventor, Hiram yards which have mounted his mil-Maxim, came into Sir Basil's life The Chinese cook and store keeper lions,
and turned his promises of riches of the a.s. "Kwei Chow" were at the Eighty, heart-sore aince the death inte realities. The two men join Kowloon Magistracy this morning of his wife, the widowed Duchessed their capital, Ideas and inven before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith de Villafranca de los Caballeries, in tion and Sir Basil went around the charged respectively with the un-1926, after 18 months of marriage. World selling the American'a lawful possession of 18 and 192 Sir Baall lives a soured existence, machine guas to Russia, Japan, bottles of Chinese wine on which surrounded by a host of servants Germany, France, England. Bul duty had not been paid. The de- and personal physicians. Among garin, Switzerland and many other fendants were remanded for 24 the thousands of former business armies. During the Spanish- hours, pending the necessary report associates, he has selected a mere American war, he sold American from the I. & E. Dept.
handful, four or five friends, whom machine guns of a value of many ho allows to approach his bedelde.millions to Spain. Mr. Cerveira de Albuquerqus eHe awaits the end, still the prin-
Supported the Allies Castro, Consul-General for Portugal | cipal owner of Monte Carlo casino, During the world war, he stood in Hong Kong, is leaving for Portu- several munitiona plants, and beside the Allies and his fortune gal on furlough with his family on among the heaviest stockholders of was trebled. Always Interested in the 28th inst. During his absence, the great Vickers' industries in his native Greece, he linked arms Mr. Carlos Augusto da Rosa will be England, Sir Basil maintains only with Venizelos and paid for the in charge of the Consulate until the a loosely connected touch with his hasty Greek occupation of Asia
Minor. return of Mr. Pedro H. Botelho, millions.
When the Greeks were Vice-Consul, who is at present in
driven out of Anatolia and lost Shanghai.
heavily with the fall of Smyrna, Sir Basil took a severe loss.
The first company of the Hong Kong Girl Guides gave a very en- of joyable Christmas party at the
cross-breeding, resemblance
Cathedral Hall on Saturday after- language, and, the evidence of noon at which the many children common domestic habits.
who attended had a very jolly time. The earliest relics of man in The purpose of the party, tickets for which were sold at 50 cents each, was Europe, found in the Somme to help to raise funds for a new headquarters building, which is to
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The Monte Carlo Investment With an, initial investment of $5,000,000 In the Monte Carlo casino, Sir Basil increased his for- tune by $17,000,000, for soon after he took over control his magle
CHURCH PARADE
During the service the man sang two bymus in Italian with band accompaniment, and His Lordship Bishop B. Valtorta, D.D... preach ed two sermons on "Who is Jesus Christ?"-first in English and them in Italian.
The Masa was said by the Rev. In Father Teruzzi, served by a mem-
THE ORIGIN OF MAN his wanderings when the Eastern reply to the charge the defendant ber of the Italian ship's crew.
TEN YEARS AGO
[From the "China Mall," December 16, 1919.]
To-day's dollar in worth 5/- 21⁄4d. Volunteers:-Now approaches the end of the year and the end of our local form of conscription. Boon now the Defence Corps will be a memory, pleasant to some, less so to others, Men will feel that it is good to know how to handle a rifle now. Mary men who have enjoyed their soldier- ing experiences will wont
to keep what they have learned.
There will be no scarcity of volun- teors for and we hope that the authorities will
the new volunteer corps so act as not to discourage the free influx of recruits. Let the volunteering be voluntary.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
He has helped scores of armies to win wars, and governments were liberal In rewarding him with marks of merit. He has been de corated by 31 nations with 298 orders of merit. Britain made him a Knight of the Bath; Oxford Italian Sailors In R.C.named him doctor honoris causa. He sat on the boards of more than Cathedral
300 industrial concerns.
Once while travelling through middle of the nineteenth century, be erected in London.
The three funnel Italian cruiser Switzerland by train he met a proved that he existed in the
"Libia" slipped out of harbour beautiful Spanish woman, whose The Chinese Herballat Practi- éarly this morning, proceeding identity he learned to be Duchess Drift period (Palaeolithic Age). tioners Association held an inaugural north after a stay here which de Vilafranca, Princess de Bour Later, discoveries of Fraas were meeting at the Lee Garden yester- lasted nearly a month. Yesterday bon. She was married and Spain made at the source of the day, under the chairmanship of Mr. the Captain. Officers and men of frowns upon divorce. Sir Basti Schussen. Moreover, palaeolithic Wong Kwong-tin, Honorary Chair the ship, headed by their own knew patience and wait . In 1925, man, supported by Mr. C. 3. Lee, band, attended a Church Parade at his castle near Paris, Sir Banil implements are found in France, Honorary Adviser. The formal at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, married his Princess after the Britain, Russia, the countries of opening was performed in time-filing half the pews in the body of Duke's death.-United Press. South Europe, N. Africa, honoured Chinese fashion, amidst the Cathedral at the 10.30 am, much enthusiasm, Mr. C. S. Lee Mass. The Consul-Gefferal for America, and S. India,
made speeches. A committee of. 34 Italy and his wife were also pré- It is an old theory that man was formed to look after the affairs sent. spread over the world from Asin; of the Association,
The sailors of the "Libla" made Asiatic fauna are found with re-
A very smart turn ont In their "How much were you promised | ceremonialuniform, which includ- mains of palaeolithic man in
for it?" asked Mr. W. Schoßfeld at ed white spats and gloves. Drift Beds Dubois's discovery the, Kowloon Magistracy on Satur- of Pithecanthropus erectus (1892) day, of a Chinese woman who was charged with the unlawful posses- has led those who accept it to sion of 141 pe piu lottery tickets. place the cradle of the race in "Nothing," she replied. Detective Java, and to trace the first migra- Sergeant Humphreys pointed out Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 16, 1929. tion therefrom.
that the defendant-was arrested in If so, man must have started on at the time besides the tickets.
Canton Road, and had $79 on her
Archipelago was part of the said that she was walking along
For being found in possession of Asian mainland, when no Indian when a man came up to her and The discovery by a Chinese
A 21 po piu lottery tickets a Chinese asked her to carry the tickets. Ocean separated Asia from geologist in a quarry at Chow Africa, and Java had land com-six weeks hard labour, was imposed. morning fined $50.
fine of $50, with the alternative of was at the Kowloon Magistracy this houtien, near Peking, of a communication with Australia. plete, unbroken skull, said to
It may be that the conclusions belong to the species Sinanthropas reached from the discovery of the Pekinensis (Peking Man), may Chowhoutien skull (which we prove to be a vital determinant will call Sisanthropas Chowhou in the theory of race migration. tiensis) may prove (sic) the cradle According to the report, the of the race to have been China, skull is associated with the a fact which would certainly put period of the Piltdown man and a feather in the cap of that.an-] the Java "ape" man, but one clent country; and leads, by the must necessarily arrive at no de- way, to interesting speculation. finite opinion until the views of other anthropologists are pressed. The find may assist to-
to Buckingham Palace in her among the people. In conclu- lists of what is needed to make a wards the elucidation of the
official capacity-she was receiv-sion, the telegram requests the Gov
I as undergraduates relationship between the races of
mouth of the Yangtze River to re- they do not know they are not like- Mrs. E. C. Burton, mother of Mr, ed in audience by the King in ernment to send men-of-war to the happy life, mankind and their forbears. R. C. Tredwed (Consul-General in mail weak-may be some compen main there so long as the pirates ly to find out inter. It à one of
Hong Kong U.S.A.), arrived sation to Miss Margaret Boadfield continue their activities. Concerning this branch of an- on the "Empress of Asia.””. thropology (craniometry), an
Winter Sport Plans interesting problem has been
ALREADY orgaalantions which A Chinese, who was arrested for
cater specially for the hundreds raised by the observation that carrying a chicken and a duck by
of English people who each year igo; their wings at the Mongkok Ferry
to Switzerland for winter sports are there is a tendency of the skulls Wharf, was at the Kowloon Magis-
Miss Bondicld's period of office reporting difficulty in arranging ac of immigrants to become in the tracy on Saturday fined $5 for the has so far been hardly a happy commodation and railway reserva- that he cannot be happy unless he
one for her. Apart from her un- tions. course of a few generations like offence.“,
popularity with the Extreme Loft
Eat while the enthusiasts, where than anyone has e right to be at is a fat-class life is much older the native skull type, the example
The wedding of Mr. Leslie Ralph (though that is hardly likely to possible, have taken steps to safe- 30.
guard this aspect of their winter being the approximation of the of the Union Insurance Society of worry her), there was her car holidays, there are many who will, skulls of Anglo-Saxon, Scandina. Canton, Ltd. and Miss Doreen Accident after the General Elec- as in other years, forget until the vian, Italian, and other racial Pyman, of Edinburgh,, took place tion, as the result of which she last moment the Importance of an Employment in the Merchant Navy
early overhaul of their kit. representatives to the Indian November 14.
In the Cathedral at Bombay on still has to walk with sticks.
But she has known worse trials pletely to ruin a ski-ing holiday than ber of inquiries were received for Nothing is calculated more com- THE Imperial Merchant Service Guild reports that a steady num-' type in North American."
and discomforts than this. To be last-minute discovery that one has
navigation officers In the Merchant If, as the report indicates, the The pupils of Mrs. J. R. Salterated and temporarily dis-moi tato teftegarding the Navy and 24 members received 2D-
will give a planoforte recital at bled Cabinet Minister is an Im-made last winter
winter clothes skull found at Peking actually the St. Andrew's Church Hall at provement on a job as a shop ne-
pointment during this period. Thes **Taity atte
Include four to compromisa" by mou
chief officers, eight does agree with that of the Java & o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. E.sistant at an annual salary of buying a second-hand monkey-jacket two fourth officers. Most of the second officers, ton third officers and or Piltdown man, a valuable link Cock has kindly consented to 6 for seventy-four hours of and letting out a pair of old trousers
are seldom, if over, satisfactory.
vacancies announced are for second in ethnological history will have present the Trinity College of
or third mates, for which there is Music certificates Cobtained by the
an increasing demand, and it been forged. We are still distant pupils this year
Those who know enough about the gratifying to know, that many of the from the certainty that the THE Commission for the Reorganit do well to alt down with panel and
game to realise what is wanted will older men who have been compelled to serve as quartermasters and AB's races have a common-origin, Amongst passengers who patsed sation of Shanghai Commercial paper, recall the weaknesses that for years past have now a chance although, in spite of disagree "Hakone Maru" on Friday and sallat piracles outside: Wossung have Those who have not been before this capacity lately after years of un- through the Colony on the 8.6. Organisations has telegraphed to the were apparent last season, and ble of getting an officer's feb, many
National: Government, pointing out them to an Intelligent tailor.
members having been appointed-in ment on details, this theory has ed again on Saturday, was His Excel become almost daily occurrences and should add to these instructions an employment and distrass on account general, acceptance among selen lency Mr. Chorosuka, Yata, Japan's that many letters have been racavearly consultation with an experience of their domewhat advanced gs. kava. Minister at Siam since 1921, Acced by the Commission from boatmen ed friend. When the time comer for The young man have no need now The chief reasons for the moved by NYAN His Excel Complaining: 62 the loss of live and their first vist to the practice slopes to wander about looking for an off- beker are phrefological smillar-laney la returning to his post after being piratad, The Colegram ay tini-expended his been imply re- Guild they r af onser be put into properties on a result of their junks they will and that the forethought cer's job, fermon application to the Zurlet
that honghen the Wooring
touch with uilatie vacacer!.
ex-
NEWS IN BRIEF
Shop Assistant and Royalty: Piracy On The Yangtze: Holidays In Switzerland: Playing For
Safety: Employment At Sea
Miss Bondfield at the Palace police have frequently engaged the The Happy Life
and defeated them, 41
THE fact that she is the first pirates да
soon the patrol-boats, leave, ALL the undergraduates of all the
woman Minister to pay a visit | the pirates sgain. work havoc
for the adverse criticisms that have been passed on her work by of the Labour certain members party even more than by her poli- tical opponents.
work a week.
Piracy Complaints
that are
universities have been making
the few subjects upon which our opinions in youth are important. But one regrets to observe in the majority a determination to play for safety. They voted a sound coralitution the first necessity. It was most reason- able. The undergraduate who feels