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AMBULANCE IN
ACCIDENT
Overturns In Leven Road
SHANGHAI ON THE PHONE
Service To Commence Next Week
AL
According to the Hong Kong The occupants of Ambulance Telephone Company, telephonic
between No. 955, which overturned on communication
Hoag Prince Edward Road yesterday Fong and Shanghai will probably morning. were very lucky to eje established next week. cape without injuries. It appears though the Canton-Shanghai ser that the ambulance was on its nice began operating on Saturday way to the Kwong Wah Hospital there are still a few alterations to in Taumati at 10.15 am with abe made to the equipment at the sick and destitute ma It at Canton exchange before Hong tempted to overtake a lorry near Kong can get into direct touch Leven Road, and for some reason with the northern city.
Form as yet unexplained the swerved suddenly to the right,
Charges for use of the Hong
causing the ambulance to do the Kong-Shanghai line will be $8.50 same. Seeing that he was about for subscribers in the Interna- tional Concession and $8 in
the
to go over the pavement on jother side of the road, the driver turned the steering-wheel sharply Ito the left, causing the vehicle to Iskid and overturn.
Shanghai proper for every three minutes or part thereof.
The opening of the service will" also bring Hong Kong into tele- The Emergency Unit police vaphonic connection with Hankow, came along a few minutes later. Charges for this service will, it and took the scared and shaken is expected, be slightly lower than passenger to the hospital, while those for Shanghai.
the ambulance was later righted by a breakdown gang.
H.K. PHILATELIC SOCIETY
Exhibition Of Stamps Arranged
To enable officials of the Hong Kong Telephone Company to bear the inaugural speeches between Shanghai and Canton on Satur iday. temporary arrangements were made, and an interested group of techncians in Exchange Building listened in to the first con- versations. The service was. ex-
cellent, they said, and voices came
through very clearly.
The Canton-Hankow section of So-the service is by radio telephone.
The Hong Kong Philatelic ciety is holding its second annual exhibition on December 9 and 10, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, in the Morning Post Build- ing, Wyndham Street, between the
hours of 8 and 8 pm This ex- hibition is open to the public and there is no admission charge.
FUNERAL OF MRS. DYKES
Large Gathering At Cemetery
Two gallant veterans of the War Between the States are shown as they marched along Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C.,
where what has been officially designated as the last encampment of the G.A.R, was held. There are to-day less than five thousand of the more than two million storthearted men who fought for the
Union in "61.
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RUDE SHOCK
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·
The other games were all friend- Bee. Playing at home, the Club scored a very fine win over the Navy to score runs,
Midsummer Night's Meeting when set inly through Alec
Many Enemies
Pearce that they succeeded, with
| scoring his 76 not out in just un- der the hour, in the course of
(Continued from Page 4)
too long, he came to look for us six wickets to spare. The Navy in his canoe. Many times I have made 181 for 4 declared, with Lt. Giant Speaks
climbed into his bank dried my-Phillimore (69) as top-scorer. He Prehistoric and remote, but self on his blankets and warmed hit seven boundaries, but Lt. Co with a kindly eye in his huge an-myself against him and, whenever chrane, in hitting up 45 runs, had tered head, the giant stepped he went away for food, he never six, a five and five boundaries: forgot to bring back apples and The Club scored the runs for the silently into the moonlight.
loss of four wickets, Alec Pearce Jam fortunate. Mr. President, that biscuits for us.
just such an experience as you The exhibition this year is re-
The funeral of Mrs. Katherine hope for brings me here to-night, "We had many enemies, both of which he found the boundary 11 presentative of the broad fen- tures of philately and included are Buth Dykes, wife of Mr. A Aand I agree with you in hoping our own kind and his, but he and times. He received good support of Dykes, Storehouseman at the Boyal that mine will be followed by ex his wife protected us against them from the Bev. H. W. Baines, who particularly fine collections
A num-Naval Torpedo Depot Kowloon periences no less beartening. all Now China and Hong Kong.
we are spreading amade 37 as the result of good. the Protestant ber of Chinese Treaty Ports issues, took place at
"Last year I summered Dear over the district and people who otherwise known as Chinese Locais, Cemetery yesterday, the service at the ocean, and one day I tried to have read his books and hears are to be shown. The British pos- the graveside being conducted by swim to a near-by island where him talk are helping to see that
and the Rev. J. R. Higgs. sessions of Australia, Malta
the food was plentiful. The tide we live in peace.
Neither the Army nor the LEC A Western Samoa are featured.
The deceased lady had been ill carried me out to sea and mylout all the Moose said and more."
were at full strength when they considerably larger portion of the for only a short time, and passed strength was almost gone.
Just His voice trailed away into g met at Sookunpoo, but full marks exhibition this year than last
away at the early age of 32 years as I was sinking, a coast guardings, as he remembered his pop must be given Lt. D. M. Prichard given over to covers, first
aero-She had been in the Colony for boat caught me up and stopped. 1lar stick and began to chew.
for Mis 7 for 30, which plane flights and others.
Out in the moonlight a dappled the past two and a half years, and was too far gone to be frightene
Was mainly responsible for was leaping around its the Indians' poor total of leaves her husband and a daughter, or to resist. Ropes were fastened Fawn
32. Patsy, aged 10.
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The chief mourners were
others
the
So I can bear:
steady cricket.
*
+
round me and I was boisted on mother, trying to attract the Pre- of which A. R. Abbas claim-
осе
boundaries.
On the Civil Service ground, the home team beat a side made up of representatives of the
The
off the
one
board where I lay unable tosident's attention; but no
ed 45! The Army replied with move. Nor was this all. It wa thought a fawn could have an 100 for 4, Sergt. Daniels, who has bereaved husband, and Mrs. H. C-cold, so the crew rubbed me dry thing to say and they all expected been playing in the Second Divi- Johnson, a close friend of the and covered me with blankets the doe to speak. But, to every sion for some weeks now, being family.
soon recovered and grew stronger one's surprise, the Fawn bounded Others present were Mr. C. B. and then I foolishly got afraid, so into the circle and began breath-top scorer with 52, including eight Hosking and Mr. W. C. Austin, that my legs had to be tied to lessly: "I may be little and young, but I understand what you have representing the Dockyard Re-prevent my hurting myself. creation Club, Mr. W. H. Ander- "The boat made for shore water said. Hother says I may tell my. ton, Mr. A. H. Adams, Mr. H. C. and, by the time we arrived, I was tale, too, if you will let me.
Fawn's Tale Johnson, Mr. E. F. T. Venables, well again. I was hoisted over- Mr. A. V. Peacock, Mr. and Mrs.board and waded ashore. It was "Not so long ago, one evening RAS.C. and EAMC. by 9 L. E. Kirby, Mr. Warrington, Mrs. the last of the twilight and, as I dog.frightened me away from my wickets. A. EL Perry took 4 for A. G. Waldie, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. reached the woods. I turned and mother into a lake. I was so 17 when the visitors batted first Fancy, Mr. L. E. Warren, Mr. Fjbellowed my thanks it was all I scared I lost all sense of direction and compiled 108, Pte. Gantzer, a T. Moran, Mrs. Eolidge, Mr. and could do. I carry a token of the I swam on, getting more and more Second Division player, making Mrs. H. P. Blake, and
many adventure and I carry it with lost and, by the time I reached the highest score, 76, which in- pride and gratitude." He bent beach, I could only just érawl out claded eight boundaries.. A wreath from "Daddy
and his head and the moonlight shone So far gone I was that I hardly Civil Servants knocked Patsy were buried with the re on a bright metal tag fastened to noticed a large dog, which found runs for the loss of only
me and stood over me, but didn't wicket, and I was glad to see W. mains and a great many forall his great horn,
try to hurt me. I couldn't he H. Colledge, the Colony wicket- tributes from friends were also
Beaver's Tale
crying for my mother and present-keeper, making 66 as he was bat- received.
Something that would have two humans, following the dog ting very well and fully deserved been a marmur of applause in a found me and carried me up to it He was not out and had hit FIVE DAY TESTS ARE
human gathering ran through the their cabin wrapped in a blanket nine boundaries in scoring his REQUESTED
"They told me there was noth-runs. meeting. The President lifted his paw for silence and said:ing to be afraid of, and I got so (Continued from Page 2) That was a great story and well comfortable that I went to sleep spoken; it goes far to bear out on a seat in the tchen: When I
There was nothing very Time limited Tests have produced my contention. Now let us bear woke up, they took me up the hil standing in the junior friendly other pretty pieces of stone wall the Beaver who, from his appar-into the woods and let me go. It games apart from the fact that ing when the last straw at which ent impatience, must have a good was raining and that was a good C. Pope and B. G. Baker, the Po-
tale to tell"
¡thing, for it soon washed away the lice opening bowlers did well to Yet to hear some people talk. The Beaver could contain him-strange smell of the humans, dimiss Craigengower for 111 when a suggestion is made to in-self no longer. Propped up on soon found my mother who he runs, Pope following this up by crease the duration of Test Mathis tail, he swung his head from followed me round the lake, and scoring 54, retired The Police ches, even by one day, one might side to side and even forgot all am very grateful.”
won easily by 6 wickets. The suppose that it is the custom of boat chewing the popular stick be The story rushed out, like a tiny other matches resulted in wins batsmen to dash at the bowling clutched in his hands! "I should brook, quicker than it can be writ-for the Navy and Royal Engine- from the start if the clock has to think I have. You know the his-ten; and the speaker, suddenly ers over the Club and Indians be considered as well as the score-tory of my tribe, how we have overcome with the enormity of respectively, while the game be
been persecuted for centuries and speaking in such company, bound-tween the Recreio and Actually Test match dull play is the trade of countries has beened back to its mother and hid its seconds was drawn... largely a bogey. Slow play in cer-built upon our skins. So we live face in her side. Itain circumstances is not tedious, under the water, and we, wroïd Unless the match has entered a man by every trick we know, but blind alley which is impossible in the tricks haven't stopped our ex-scraping
termination. a game that is continued finish batting is never dull.
to chatch was a draw.
board.
to 2
Meeting Closes
Again a ripple of sound, clave
ont-
C.S.C.C.
on rock and gentle sident of this meeting and grate breathing flowed and ebbed away-ful that you have borne out my "This is my story: I am the first This time the silence continued. -
belief of better times and better The President broke it. It is relations to man. We have all to In the past the MC.C. have of my kind to be born free in a sometimes given way to the Ansuman house. You have heard nearly time to close our meetin
live together in the world "and. tralians over matters that have of Gray Owl,' the wise and gentle Many of us are hungry and have there is room for us all. E been against British interest. Indian who is devoting his life to food to find before morning. It is "The meeting is adjourned us But if the powers of English our preservation? My father and not castomary for the President til this same full moon night next cricket grant Australia's request mother were Jelly Roll and Baw- to speak. If it were, I have a tale year, and I name the Hoose to be and extend Test matches in Eng-hide, his first beaver family, and to tell, no less interesting than its President. May you all live in land the great games will gain in was born in a lodge they but those we have heard; but it will, peace and plenty till then interest
in a corner of Gray Owl's but be keep till next year and even im-: A Small Gazy cloud crossed the Draws will be rare instead of side a northern lake.
prove by keeping, I hope common, and fhose melancholy: "We kittens played with him on stood up, sleek
almost, dia- the floor in the evenings, and, jolly,
Ba moon and, when it was gone, the
and rock was bare, the slide empty and
the far cry of a loom out on.
when we stayed “out in the lake I am glad to have been Prelaks echoed the bear's benedict