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THE
THE BARONET AND
THE BUTLER.
EMPLOYER DESCRIBED AS A **PERFECT PIG.”
INSULTS AT DINNER.
After heating the description of scone at dinner between a baronet and his butler Judge Hargreaves at West London County Court dis- missed the claim of the butler for £6 118. 3d., in place of notice and for laundry.
CHINA MAIL.
CHARING CROSS.
“Bargaining" for New Station.
Sir Percy Simmons, chairman of London County Council Improve- ment Committee, gave evidence be fore the Select Committee which la considering the Council's Charing Cross Bridge Bill.
RED RULE AND RUIN IN KIANGSI.
ORGY OF ARSON AND CRIME.
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DRILLED ARMIES.
Kinklang, April 7.
The seeds of Communism widely Sir Percy stated that the Southern sown and Implanted in Klangsi by Railway Co. regarded the first pro-the Southern Nationalists, and their posal for transferring Charing Cross Station to the south side of trusted advisers and friends, The rail- Borodin and Co. during their pro- the river as impossible. way did not want to adopt the Lion gress through the province in James Hugh Mitchell, of Mark-Brewery site scheme, and only did 1926-27 is now bearing a ghastly
ao as a result of pressure brought ham-street, Chelsea, S.W., sued Sir to bear on them by the Government. harvest of pillage, slaughter and
· LAMMERT · BROS.Robert Moncreiffe, of Eaton-square. They were satisfied now that every
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THURSDAY, May 22, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Coom. Duddell Street.
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The defence was that Mitchell had been insolent and that Sir Robert was justled in dismissing him.
Mitchell described an Incident which he said occurred on the even- ing of March 16, when Sir Robert, Lady Moncrelife and her nice were
at dinner.
thing would be done under this scheme to meet the convenience of their passengers.
ruin.
The Russian advisers have long since "folded their tents, and silent- ly disappeared but their work is now bearing fruit in an appalling orgy of lawlessness and crime, which seems to be helped by the selfish- nese and ineptitude of the officials.
Only in the large towns, where a strong military force is maintained Is there a measure of security, and even in these places fear fills the hearts of the people.
SOVIET PEASANTS.
Reversal of Policy Proposed.
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Riga, April 10.
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The Underground Railway and bus facilities for getting from the new station to other parts of Lon- don will be even better than those provided at the present terminus.
Dealing with the petition of the Westminster
Sir City Council, Percy said that body claimed that Serving the Soup. "The footman
was out, he said, provision should be made in the bill
The smaller towns are at the now for the widening of St. Martin's "and I was sorving the soup. Sir
of bands of Communists Lane, because, if the Westminster mercy Robert said to me, 'What is the
City Council could attribute the while the country districts are com- soup? I answered, 'Clear soup.'
A conference held in Moscow by Ile turned round on me for not call-necessity for that widening to the pletely under the iron rule of the
the Commissariat of Agriculture ing him Sir Robert' before I had new traffic bridge, they would be
Large Cities Cut off.
of the U.S.S.R. to consider the pro able to claim a greater contribution time to address him by his title."
What depredation they have Mitchell added that Sir Robert from the L.C.C. than if the improve-
recommended the Government tem- Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinets, then threatened to kick him, told ment were carried out, say, now. eaused; Ningtu and Juikin in thegress of the sowing campaign has during the last two years, foreign-recently dispossessed under the Chesterfield Couch and Armchairs, him to go out, and refused to pay They would try to secure a larger south east, captured and re-captured porarily to reinstate the peasants "I think St. Martin's Lane will crs driven out, houses looted and de-anti-kulak policy, especially in the Desks, Chairs, Typewriters. him beyond that day. He was eng grant from the Road Fund.
Gramophones, Records, Aged at £90 a year, with 3s. 6d. have to be widened." Sir Percy [stroyed, and the people cruelly Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus, Planos,
Fans, Carpets, week extra for laundry. Wyndham Electric, Table
The solicitor for Sir Robert-Did said, "but I think it is a Httle treated. Rugs, Chinese Hand Paintings in Blackwood Frames,
you not turn to Sir Robert and say early for the L.C.C. to give the Ornaments,
undertaking. "You are a perfect pig"?-No, Curios, etc.
Did you not go down to the table
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SPECIAL PHYSICAL CULTURE CLASS.
A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
*
&
Not Adequate.
Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Dinner Wag- and say to Lady Moncreiffe, "You a perfect pig"-No. I may MME. BARONELLI.-Special atten- gona, Ice Chests, Dinner Crockery, are
have said that since my engagement tion given to stout and stiff ladies Cutlery, Glass Ware, etc.
Brass, Teak and Iron Bedsteads, I had been treated as a pig. who desire to regain their youthful
Baronet's Evidence. figure.
given to Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Special, treatment elderly ladies for renewing the youth Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw- Sir Robert Moncreiffe, in ful appearance of the face. treatment can be accomplished in six ers, Washstands, Toilet Crockery, dance, said that Mitchell showed no the traffic north. days.
Peking Bldg., 27a, Nathan Mosquito Nets, Commodes, etc. Rond, Kowloon.
and
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE.
This
Within
An hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. Particulars aply to:
evi-
respect, and he never addressed him as "Sir Robert" or Lady Moncreiffe as "My Lady."
"I asked him what soup it was,
Reds.
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Then in the west, Lungchuan, and Yangsin, where the two Finial ladies escaped from, only to be taken a short time later and killed, These cities too have been repeatedly taken by bandits.
and Transcaspia.
As the collectivization degree forbids collective farms to give up land once they have taken it, it would be difficult to restore to the peasants the fand they formerly
PROHIBITION WAR.
Doctors' Privileges Assailed.
New York, April 2. Attacks upon the Prohibition Act and efforts to secure its modifica. tion are multiplying. The "wets,"
are broadcasting a speech by Sena- tor Gydings, a Democrat of Mary- in anticipation of the next election,
land, who has compiled drastic figures to prove that the national "dry" law is a complete failure, and that under it drunkanness and crime generally have increased.
Senator Gydings told the Senate that drunkenness was increasing among young people. He mention-
football game recently, attended by 80,000 persons, the groundkeeper picked up more than 1,000 glass Haske. "There was a spectacle,”. said the Senator, "that reminde me of the decline of Rome."
To-day, before the State of New York Senate Committee Dr. Samuel Lambert, an Engllah-born doctor, who was formerly president of the New York Academy of Medicine, pleaded that no restrictions as pro. posed should be placed on doctors
ed that after an army and navy
Sir Henry Cautly: It does seem to me that you have not provided ad-
cultivated. The reinstated pea- squately for the increase in traffic
Large cities like Kian have been sants must therefore be given other which will result from the construc-practically besieged and cut off for land, and the State must make in- tion of this bridge.
Kanchow, the largest city dividual cultivation weeks.
possible by Sir Percy: Theré la no doubt there must be facilities for taking weeks has been attacked, but, for seeds at the disposal of each pea- in the south, within the last few placing horses, implements, and It would be un-tunately the attack was repulsed by sant requiring them. The confer- wise to come to a definite decision as the occupation force, while the cap-ence has also urged the Govern to the widening of St. Martin's Lane ture of Yuanchow near the Hunan ment to act quickly, as otherwise it until we can judge better what is border is still fresh in the minds of will be late even for the late spring
sowing. On View from Wednesday, May thick or clear, and he curtly said, going to be the effect of the bridge. the public.
Sir Percy was prepared to give There, many were killed, the shouted, "You are a pig. I said, 'coan undertaking on behalf of the whole place looted, $60,000 squeezed Central Executive Committee of the ordering whisky for their patient.
County Council to insert an instruc-out of the people, and three for tion in the bill to obtain by com- eigners were carried off into cap Petition or otherwise designs for the tivity. bridge.
Questioned by Mr. Wrottesley,
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE.
21, 1930.
'Clear soup, came up to me and Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS. out of this room or I will kick you
Auctioneers out." Hong Kong, May 17, 1930.
"To Lady Moncreiffe he said, 'You are a perfect pig; that is what you Cant Higher Local),Tinstructions to sell by Public
THE Undersigned have received are, a perfect pig.'
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MISS RUTH CULLEY
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MISCELLANEOUS
Auction
ON
FRIDAY, May 23, 1930, commencing at 5.15 p.m.,
at their Sales Room, Duddell Streat.
A Very Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS Comprising:-
Kalinin, senior Chairman of the US.S.R., in a speech to the plenary conference of the Leningrad soviet on the food supply problem, re-
proved citizens for "continually asking whether it is not yet pos- sible to increase food rations, es- Pecially of milk for children and of meat for workmen." There was not, he continued, enough, in the
He said that a poll had been taken by the American Medical As-
medical men in all parts of the sociation, which included 20,000 country. More than half the par- ticipants' had declared that whisky was indispensable in the practice - of medicine and beneficial in old age, where nothing could take its
Public Buildings Burned Down.
Churches and foreign residences, "I have never had so impertinent K.C. (for Lambeth Borough Coun- officials' residences and police quar- a servant. I told him to leave the el), Sir Percy Simmons said it tera have been looted, burned down room and go next morning. I said would be desirable to make certain or demolished in different parts of to him that if he had been educated road improvements, and he hoped the province. in a gentleman's house he would they would be carried out before the In many districts, deeds of pro- food shops for increased rations.place ná a tonic. N
ence.
perty have been burned, rich owners driven out, lands divided, and in such a way as to provide only suffi- cient grain for focal use.
Taxes are not paid to the proper
know how to address a gentleman."new bridge was completed.
Mitchell.I have been with the Mr. Wrottesley asked how much
Whence could they get the food- stuffs for increased rations? of this
cow would not give more milk; The nobility and royalty. I have been of the £12,500,000 cost six years in one place, and have scheme would be expended on rail-
they must distribute more evenly, never been dismissed for impertin-way reinstatement. Sir Percy re-
and what there was would auffice. YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and
plied that they were paying the officials but to those appointed by However, although rations of other Mall" printed."China
China, Hong Kong (including promptly
Judge Hargreaves said that on Southern Railway £2,126,000. which the Communists. In many parts foodstuffs might fluctuate, brand Office, No, SA, Wyndham St. Tele-Hong Kong Jubilee double sur-Mitchell's own evidence he had come did not include the cost of the new land is left uncultivated.
Cities rations would continue as at pre-i phone 20022.
charged), Slam, British Colonies to the conclusion that he had been site. The Council got the old site still under official control are faced sent, "because we have learnt to Macao, etc.
The with a shortage of rice and other economize and expend grain sen- very impertinent. He had not the of Charing Cross Station. alightest hesitation in saying that new site was 2% times as large as necessities, as the country people are sibly."
prevented from taking their pro- Sir Robert was justified in dismiss the old site. Ing Mitchell. There would be judg-
duce into the city. ment for Sir Robert Moncreiffe.
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PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras.
Filme Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and
Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate."
A Trial Order is Solldited.
A. SEK & CO.
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SUTTON'S FINE GRASS SEEDS
for
GARDEN LAWNS, ETC.
for sale at
GRACA & CO.,
Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stampe, Toys, Fletare Books,
16. WYNDHAM STREET, PO. Bor No. 820 HONG KONG.
On View from Wednesday, May 21, 1930.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneera Hong Kong, May 17, 1930.
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IDENTITY RIDDLE. Dead Man Claimed by Two Women.
Mr. Wrottesley: You pay them that sum, and you exchange the old efte for this new site 2 times the
The argument against the whisky is that 20 per cent. of such privilege of doctora prescribing meilleine," according to "dry" witnesses, is diverted to beverage
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TYCHO BRAHE.
and
Referring to the attitude of the 16th Century Astronomer capitalist world towards the Who Dreamed of Radium Well Organised Armies.
U.S.S.R., Kalinin warned comrades We speak of bandits, but many of size. The Southern Railway did these bands are not only that, but against "the illusion that the cap-On the Swedish island of Ven, in not make a bad bargain, did they? are well organised Communist Red Pitallet world is getting used to the the Sound between the southern
U.S.S.R., just as a man gradually Swedish province of Scania Sir Percy: I am glad you Army units, they are styled "hong gets used to a noisome disease." Denmark, a unique museum com- task that. I have heard a chuin," Red Army. Thus the cap- According to the official report, the merating Tycho Brahe, the famous
com-tors of Yuanchow
were the 5th, assembly cheered Kalinin's curl astronomer of the sixteenth century, lot about the railway pany making a very goud bargain division of the Red Army.
ous comparison, as well as his final has been opened to the public. In some cases, as in Anfuh and advice to "help yourselves by your und the London County Council a
Brahe Tycho
won interna- very had one. I say without Yuanchow, the city people
own efforts, organising better and tional fame through his treaties A case of mistaken Identity of a hesitation that the Southern Rail-treated very cruelly, robbed, tor-working harder and more skilfully;
on "celestial mechanice," and, head man is being investigated by way have made a fair bargain, and tured, and even killed, but, in some otherwise food supplies cannot im thanks
the generosity prove."-Times.
the King, he built a the police at Kingston, Hampton as far as the London County Council other places as Kao-an, only the and Twickenham.
observatory, Uranienborg, are concerned we made an exceeding-yamen and police stations were burned, the bandits even buying A man was found dead recently only satisfactory one.
this island. Later on he left Ven the railway line at Whitton, near Mr. Wrottesley: Have you in
for Prague, where he is said to have Twickenham. The coroner, Dr. this matter horse in mind that
divined the secret of radium, J. S. Crone, recording
though, of course, he was unable an open Charing Cross Railway Bridge is verdict at the inquest, expressed the nearing the end of its life?
be identified.
were
and paying cash for the oil to burn the official places down."
So this bydra-headed monster has ariaen and is growing in strength.
RARE FLOWERS.
upiniun that the man would never Sir Percy: I think that question How can it be suppressed? What is Chinese Charged with
being done by responsible people? is affected by the fact that the trains props may be sent after a bandit Picking Ixora Chinensis. Following the inquest, however, running over it are now nearly all raid, but plenty of time is usually Mrs. Brady, of Acre Road, Kingston-electric, and are much lighter, ⠀
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DIFFICULT TO GROW.
on-Thames, and another member of Did not that suggest to you that given for the raiders to get away her family saw the body at Twicken- you might save all this damage by with their booty of goods and cap- A pretty bunch of Ixora Chinensis,
tires.
ham and satisfied, the authorities putting the Southern Railway under-
Little attempt is made to follow a very rare and specially grown that it was that of the man whom ground? That is not feasible. she had married in the name of
Have you had an engineer's re-up and exterminate, and of course plant on the hills of the Colony and Brady.
port on that question? I do not these mobile forces of disorder move the mainland, was exhibited in the The registration certificate was think there was one.
very quickly in the mountainous Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday, before Mr. Whyte-Smith, when a altered, and the man was buried in
The committee adjourned.
Chinese man and a boy were jointly the name of Brady,
charged with its unlawful posses
Another woman has now satified the police that the man was really teleFrancis Alfred Perris, aged-59, of Berkshire Cottages Hanworth,
The following unclaimed grams are lying at the Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong: Middlesex. Malmberg, care of Blue Funnel plodov Antónoz, from London, Po. Paget 26, from Shanghai. Porozol, Hong Kong Hotel, from Shanghalutta
Papermill; from London.
S. LACK,
Peculiarities of Boots, The night before the tragedy, Ferris accompanied his alege to Stanwell near Staines, and was not |
HOW THEY COME.
Russians Charged with Being Stowaways.
areas.
Local Defence Corps.
to
of Ane
on
For centuries his observa-
to prove his thesis scientifically.
tory was left to decay, but
A few years ago Stato ar chaeologists excavated the place
and made many interesting dis- coveries. The walls of the place have been repaired and surrounded by hedges, and a museum arranged there in which all the results of the excavation are displayed. In struments and books, which had been saved in earlier times and had been preserved in Stockholm and Lund," will also be included.
HOCKEY.
Hermes Too Strong for. Radio Sports Club,
A new bandit-suppression com-slon at Prince Edward Road, missioner has been recently appoint- Defendants pleaded guilty and ed and his plan seem to be to ar- said that they had taken the plout range for local defence corps in from the Government hillside at every town. This plan may save Kowloon City."
Mr. J. J. Hirst, Assistant Super the cities, but for the country It Is insuficient.
visor of the Botanical and Forestry Now is the time for the country Department, prosecuting, told his not to indulge in a useless fight be-Worship that fxora chinensis was seen again. The niece has identi Two young Russians, named tween North and South, but for all one of the specially protected flowers A hockey match between the fled a wedding ring and a purse Alexander Palevoy and Eugin who love their country to get to grown in Hong Kong. The flowers Radio Sports Club and the Engine found on the body, and also two Novikoff, respectively, appeared. be. gether, and unitedly crush out Com at present were blooming in pro Room Hockey team, H.M.S. Hermes, small pieces of lead pencil
fore Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kow-munism, or Communiam will crush fusion, since the Forestry Depart was played on Saturday on the loon Magistracy on Saturday not only the fair province of mont took good care of their Army "B" ground, Bookumpoo. on a charge of being stowaways on Kiangal, but the whole country will growth. At one time these ixora The Radio Sports Club put up a the as President Adams from be involved in this horrible chaotic chinensis flower had practically very good game, but the Hermes Shanghal to Hong Kong on May 17. pit of Communism, and China will vanished from the Colony, but this were too strong for them. The was rectified by the Government Hürmen goalkeeper was in ex - Particulars of the clothing given Both were remanded for 48 hours, be another Russia.
enforcing a special ordinance. ceptionally good form, in spite of The following unclaimed tale by the niece, & sister of Perris, and on bail of $50 each. Det-Bergt.
Fit for Caning? -
the splendid play by the forwards grams are lying at the office of the her husband, with whom he had Kellet is in charge of the case.
His Worship pointed out that he of the R.A.C. He managed to guard Great Northern Telegraph Com lived, correspond with the official
Isano was taking his son, Abe, would send the boy to the doctor. the goal successfully and only one pany (Limited), of Denmark respond with the official description.
for a walk, and noticing his boy's to obtain his correct age, and to ball entered the net The game Towel, from Shanghal Mrs. Brady had not seen her hus- Gatthwong, from Jeannette, band for some years.
Did you hear what happened to shoes haremarked, "Are they see whether he was fit for a can-was exceptionally swift throughout,
Your
ing or not.
Bonding with the Hermes being ano- ONE The police are now trying to dis Brown?" E V JESSEN," Z cover whether Brady and Ferris - "No, what?!
Abe answered, Yes, fader Regarding the man his Worship cessful by three goals to one. It is Superintendent were the same man or whether it in "He drank too much, in Venice Vell, then," said, Isaac,, "take imposed a fine of $20 or three hoped that another match will be
arranged for Saturday next.. weeks fall Hong Kong, May 7, 1980, -7 a case of mistaken Identity, and tried to lie down in the gutter." longer strides,
Superintendent Hong Kong, May 15, 1980,
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The identity also seems establish ed beyond doubt by certain pecull arities in the man's boots, which the police had retained.