Cycling Does Not Make Man Flat-Chested
·THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934.
CASES IN COURT
UNMUZZLED DOG
To-day's Short Story.”
Lives Of Men
By James Hilton.
Insurance
Head Among Those Fined.
NUISANCE
Criticism Offered By Local ONE DOG BECOMING REGULAR
Club Founder
To the Editor, "China Mail.")
In your editions of the
Chest Measurements
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
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HE Kanaka screwed on the dredth of the price that the pearl Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell; Manager helmet, leaning well over eventually fetched. In the shops of the Manufacturer's Life In-the side to do so; and Saung Lo, of Bond-street, or Fifth Avenue. surance Company, of No. 9. for perhaps the ten-thousandth He did not know that his Austra-| Shek-O Road, was fined $20 by time in his life, dived gently lian boss traded for two hundred 16th in-, tions as rounded shoulders at Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the backwards into the warm ocean, per cent, profit with an American Central Magistracy this morn- "Not a bad little feller, for a firm that made a similar profit. stant there appeared an article chests through the use of the drop-ing, for allowing his two dogs to Malay," remarked the Australian He did not know that the Jap written by Mr. F. A. Horni-ped handlebar.
wander from Shek-O Road to Big boss to his visitor from the main-storekeeper who sold beer brook under the title of "Flat- If the very few cyclists in my Wave Bay without muzzles, on land. "Only you can't get him to tinned provisions systematically. Chested Cyclists." The Hong experience who have been inclined July 1.
realise that the stuff don't fetch cheated him. Kong Cycling Club was mention that, way, it has always been the Mrs. H. C. Baker, of No. 17 what it used to. Except for this And since there were so many ed in connection with this epi-case that they are tied to a desk Magazine Gap Road, was also fined partic'ler job, y'know, these boya simple things that he did not tome on the evils (?) of cycling; during the greater part of the day:810, for allowing her dog to be out ain't got much headpiece." a fact which brings me to wield often cycling has proved the chief without a muzzle..
know, it was not perhaps surpris Meanwhile Saung Lo was sink-ing that he couldn't be got to my ten in the hope of lessening means of keeping there in decent the ill-effects such an article is health."
Mr. E. A. Jenkinson, of No. 303ing slowly through the groen realise the world-alump, the fall in The Peak, was fined $10 on a sum-translucent fathoms. His airpipe commodity prices, and the need likely to make in the minds of local
mons for allowing his dog to be at and life line trailed above him, the for him to dive twice as often and evelist. and intending Mr. Hornibrook admits that cy-large at Jardine's Corner without a used air escaping by the outlet-bring up twice the quantity of cyclists, and to give them clista de a great deal of walking: muzzle.
valve in a succession of explosive shell for the same reward. truer idea of the sport. I have this in itself is often aufficient to no contention with the author of check any tendency to stoop after . G. Scott. of No. 2 Bungalow, Re-was, though
A fine of $10 was imposed on Mr. bubbles. A strange apparition he the article mentioned with re-riding in a cramped position. Be-pulse Bay, for allowed his dog un-
a famillar one, in these waters-the round steel gard to his figures as to the
fore quoting a few measurements of muzzled on the beach.
helmet, the bulging coavas numerical status of English! cyclists; either have I the de-some of the "flat-chested, life-long. The case of Mrs. D. Ellis, of No. naked from the wrist, holding life- sire to enter into any controversy.
dropped-handlebar cyclists" I will I Staunton Street, who was sum- rubber clothing, the brown hands, on the subject of cycle paths"gain refer you to Dr. Abrahams moned for allowing her dog to be at naked from the wrist holding life for England as used in Holland. whose remarks apent cyclists' chests large without a muzzle, and with. titie and shellnot. And these These subjects are commented are most enlightening-"Although out a lend, was adjourned for one hands were small and sweetly
shaped AS
woman's. They upon every day in many home the comparatively cramped position week.
matched, for delicacy, the brownj
Yet there were, on the other duce the movements of the diaph Miss D. Ellls, of No. 2 Fly Dragon
face screened by the steel And hand, a few odd things that Saung! Firstly, Mr. Hornibrook has ap ragm and xo restrict abdominal Terrace, was summoned for allowing
plate-glass.
Lo did know. parently wided out of his depth in breathing, compensating expansion her dog to be at large without
Saung Lo, in fact, was but twenty-one years old, though he tom of the sea. He knew the geo- He knew, for instance, the bot- No of the lungs is at a maximum and muzzle on July 1, regard to the gear question. matter how heavily, strongly
the magnificent development, of the Sergeant Kelley stated that the had been diving for years. Borngraphy of a small patch of ocean- clumsily a man may be fashioned expert cyclist is widely recognised." dog, which is now under observation on a Sumatra plantation, he had floor near Thursday Island as well If, as Dr. Abrahams. says, the at Kennedy Town, jumped at an boom, to find at last a job he could or village. He knew the clefts
drifted south by Nature, he will always find a
after the rubber as most men know their own town medium gear of from 60 to 70 inches (comparatively cramped position of amah, who had her clothes torn.do that white men would always and shelves of that strange under- much easier to ride than a large the racing cyclist fails to hinter The same dog, he said, had been pay him for. He himself did not one of over those figures,, He withis chest developement, how much sent to Kennedy Town last Septem-profess to understand the whys coral
sea world, the twilight green of perhaps be faster over the first few less is the average common orber for observation.
caverns, and wherefores of it; he only haunts of creatures hardly to be the shadowed miles, but the more moderately garden specimen of a cyclist go-
Sergeant Kelley asked His Wor-knew that he could earn money by described in any words of his own. reared cyclist will cover a ongering to be troubled over the sug ship to take a serious view of the groping in deep levels for pearl He knew where this secret con- distance, and finish in a less ex-gested evils of his
less cramped case, and said that he had been un-shell, apart from the prospect of tinent steepened hausted condition.
dor instruction to ask for the dog finding an occasional pearl. He where he could never explore; into depths (Continued an Page 5) to be destroyed.
had had such luck on several oc-stared into the dark vastness; he When questioned by Mr. Macfad-casions, and had made extra often he walked to the brink and yen, Miss Ellis said that she is quite money.
newspapers and they are there (especially in cycle racing) may re- Dog May Be Destroyed
fore-conimon knowledge.
Three-Speed Gear
or
In the hilly country of the Hong
position?
Kong locality a free-wheel used in THEY COULD NOT
combination with a gear of medium|
size will be found sufficient to meet
all requirements; a three-speed gear,
however, will be an even greater energy preserver, though possibly not so speedy as the single-genr/- free-wheel.
.
DRIVE A CAR
Robbers Frustrated In Getaway.
The large gear for comfortable WALLET CONTAINING $13,000
touring is absolutely out of the question: throughout my own
ex-
RETRIEVED BY POLICE
very
willing to give up her dog.
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To-morrow's story will be "The Black Bag," by Muriel Harris.
He did not know that the sum when afterwards he regained the felt it was his own discovery, and The case was remanded for an-paid him' was less than Jother week, during which time the
A hus-surface the thought comforted him even if the contents of his shell-net fetched a disappointing price.
dog will be still under observation.
H
DOG-BITE VICTIM
DUTIABLE CHINESE TOBACCO
Kwang Tung, a 38-year-old coolie,
He was proud that he could de further than any scend
other
When attempting to board a junk and Pun Yam, a 33-year-old coolle, diver he had ever heard of-ten, in the harbour, from & sampan, were each fined $800, in default twenty,even thirty, fathoms, to a Pun Yip-yau, of No. 147, Hai Tang four months' imprisonment, by Mr. depth where he dare not stay perience of cycling I have never yet! Remarking that he had a
Street, was bitten by a dog. He E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon more than a few moments because met a genuine "cyclist" who prefer- bad criminal record which went was admitted to the Kowloon Hos- Magistracy this morning, for having of a gripping numbness that came
pital. The dog was later sent to 165 pounds of dutiable prepared into his lirabs.
Chinese tobacco in their possession that this was caused by a pres- He did not know in Chatham Road at 7.80 a.m, on sure of scores of pounds' weight July 17.
Detective-Sergeant J. F. Kennedy science was
upon every inch of his body; his prosecuted and stated that the men economics..
as deficient as his Information re- But he well knew the major symptoms of danger, and he knew also what those dangers were. He had seen men die of diver's par- GIGANTIC CANTON FRÁUD
alysis, yelling in hideous agonies throughout the warm island (Continued from Page 1 + nights; and he knew from his own This forgery has victimised experience that if he stayed down
STRIKE ENDS?
(Continued From Page 1),
red pushing his machine to pedall-back to 1916, the Paisne Judge Me Tau Kok. ing it.
Mr. P. Jacks, at the Criminal Apropos of pedalling it might be Sessions, Supreme Court, this of use were I to mention a few morning, sentenced a Chinese, Li words of Dr. Adolphe Abrahama Hoi-tung, to a total of 10 years' (the Honorary Medical Officer to hard labour on three charges of the International Athletic Board robbery, by two or more, at No. 8j
At the same time he warned la-were arrested. on and British Olympic Team) in a Wood Road, possession of arme,bour that the general strike con-
calved. recent article "Cycling provides an and returning from banishment. Jatituted Insurrection and civil war. effective employment of the muscles The accused pleaded guilty.
MANEOUVRE EFFECT of the legs and of the abdomen. Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith, As It is interpreted that the man-
The rhythmical action of the legs sistant Crown Solicitor, conducted eauver will put pressure
on the maintains suficient pressure upon the case for the Crown. He said frecalcitrant maritimme unions. the veins to squeeze the blood in re-that on June 2, last, two men, one The employers are expected to gular and proper fashion towards of whom was the accused, gained reiterate their acceptance of ar- many landlords who lived over too long, or descended too quickly, the heart. This advantage only entrance into No. 2 Wood Road,bitration, whereupon should the seas. .: physiologists can properly appre-the home of Mr. Laj Hin-man, pro- maritime unions reject the other their property by the claim of im- his ears and nose, and he would They were deprived of gouta of blood would trickle out of ciate, but, in brief, it embodies anprietor of the Kowloon Hotel. unions will be justified in desert-postors who produced false deeds feel as if an iron bar were being accessory pumping action that has They come upon Mr. Lai sitting ing the cause, ending the general and appeared to have title to the clamped across his forehead and its influence in taking some of the in the front room. Mr. Lai, after strike and other co-operation property.
tightened, work from the heart". We are all the sudden surprise, recognised onej United Press, per S. E. Levy and aware that normally a heart beats of the men to be the nephew of his Company.
Three persons have also been But he did not worry. It was arrested on a charge of forging his job, And as the gently swell- revenue stamps for wine and to-jing current drifted him into the They are first to be tried depths, he would have had no mis-
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(Continued From Page 1) General Strike Threat At Minneapolis.
Bring Relief.
San Francisco, To-day. Widespread relief is manifest here following the signs of imminent peace parlays. Labour officials yes terday held a long conference and drafted a resolution or the subject of arbitration.
A member of the Federal Labour Disputes Board has revealed that definite proposals are being consider- ed to end the whole controversy..
A later cable states that the. Strike Committee has offered settlement by arbitration-Reuter.
at a rate of approximately 70 times fourth, concubine and who had! per minute, and if we are to obtain been in his employ many years The Committee asked the Gover-bacco. the greatest assistence from the ago. There were other persons in nors of California, Orgon and by the Finance Department which givings at all but for that my pumping action of pedalling we the room at the time, including Washington, and the Mayors of will later hand them should endeavour to pedal at the his concubine, members of the the affected ports and cities, to judicial authorities, same rate. Very few people can family and the chauffeur.
appeal to President Roosevelt to maintain such a high rate of pedall-
act so as to permit employees and ing on a large gear, which explains In the uproar and confusion, the employers to arbitrate all the partially the short racing life of chauffeur managed to leave the questions of the dispute.
been his protest at the time of the last reckoning with the boss. And "big-geared" men.
room without being noticed and The proposal is contingent upon Dropped Handlebars went to inform the police: In the the acceptance by the employers Petroleum Company's retail price a laugh, had been one that Saung As from to-day the Asiatic the Australian's reply, given with On the subject of dropped handle-meantime the two men produced of each group of employees in- bars, I would quote the reason for firearms and demanded $10,000. volved in the dispute.
for Shell Motor Spirit is as foi-Lo had completely failed to under-
stand. their use, which is, chiefly, to share The concubine fainted at the sight
low:- "BLOODY INSURRECTION" the weight of the rider equally upon) of the revolvers.
While the labour unrest seethes Per case (containing Two
But as usual, his remote and aaddle, pedals and bars. There is a Mr. Lai was forced to open his
throughout the nation, the Nation-1
private world consoled him. There New Tins)
$10.85
were two dreams in his mind-the correct size of "triangle" formed by safe and a wallet containing $18,-al Recovery Administrator, Gen-Per Unit of Two New Tins.. 9.95 these three points for every cyclist. 000 was taken by the robbers the students of the University of Per Imperial Gallon in bulk. bank" to return north someday, ceived July 13, 10.18 m.)
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL eral Hugh Johnson addressing Per Unit in Returnable Drums 9.15 one quite practical, a matter of
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra. Baving up enough money "longa Comfortable positioning means die who began to quarrel over the
phic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Ra. covering the proper distances to suit money.
California, at Berkeley on the oc-
and marry a girl of his own race; your body as between hands, seat Nobody Could Drive!
casion of his receiving & honorary Two cases of diphtheria, five cases
but this happy consummation was and feet. The shape of this
decree, denounced the San Fran- of typhoid fever, three cASEN of They decided to take Bir. Lai claco strike as "a civil war and a meningitis, one case of puerperal his earnings could scarcely keep fast receding in prospect now that triangle onze found should never be away with them and forced him bloody Insurrection." altered, but it may be pivoted. to get into a car in front of the
fever, two cases of human rabies Hands low and saddle well over the house, but after seating them-strike against a recalcitrant em-reported in the Colony daring the genuity in framing his account.
The right of dissatisfied men to and one case of animal rabies were up with the Jap storekeeper's in bottom bracket is best for real selves beside him in the back seat player was inviolate, ho`sald.
Curious however *much week ended July 14. During the sprinting or track riding; hands it was discovered that nobody
The Government had the will to came period one person died from red, Saung Lo could never quite slightly higher and saddle a little could drive the car. The robbers support it to the limit of its wes- typhoid fever, two from meningitis, get out of debt to the wily trader, behind the bracket gives an ideal then took Mr. Lai back to the pon. In a two-sided conflict, but two from human rables, and 68 from would not be allowed to leave road-racing "position which it is house, but, while in the passage, the prosunt general strike was a tuberculosis.
and as long as he was in debt he possible to maintain for severall the police arrived,
Thursday Island. The system hours with a considerable degree of They arrested the two men and comfort.
FEDERAL POWER INVOKED use economic strangulation than worked perfectly-more perfectly found in the pocket of Li Hol- When the Inter-State and in it could go into the street and than Saung Lo realised. But Shallow "dropa" with seat a little tung, a revolver and ten rounds of ternational commerce of the as-shoot innocent bystanders. further back to increase pedalling ammunition.
was always his other dream, ability on the lower, gears will be Mr. Lockhart Santh produced waters throughout the State, mostly in tween Oakl found more beneficial for the tour-the accused's record which was a power of the Federal Government themselves of this blight Immed, under the earth of a world un- textile centres, due to the collapse Ist. Not for one moment is it pos- very bad one, dating from 1916. had been deliberately invoked fately they would set back the touched by other men, of secrets of the negotiations on wages and Urban Ferry is still operating. sible to admit that cycling will give He was banished from the Co One side warring against the clock of the labour organisations he alone could probe the rider such physical imperfec-lony for life in September 1920. business element could no more 10 years he concluded Reuter.
working conditions-United Press. United Press, per S. E. Levy, and nued on Page 10.1 per S. E. Levy and Company. Company.
threat to the community.
he
Minneapolis, To-day." The truck drivers struck bere
yesterday, and a general strike
*threatens.
A battery of National Guard artillery has been ordered for duty as a precaution.-United. Press, per S. E. Levy and Com-
pany.
TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE
Birmingham, Alabama,
BAY REGION. STRIKERS „TOTAL 75,000 (Continued from paga 1.) The municipal railway resumed its, services without incident. The cars are guarded but the sche dules, apparently, are normal. To-day. Eighteen thousand textile work- tem have ceased work, halfing the
Carmen on the Key-Route Sfa ers, which is more than half of the Key System Ferry pperating be stata's workers, have struck tween Oakland. Berkeley and
The Southern Pacifle and Inter-
tion was paralysed up and down "If the responsible elements of Was a mystical one-s donne AC