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Matual Arrangement, Ms. McMAS.
ATED on SisT JULY, 1928.
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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGES.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF THE
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
Bituate at Victoris, Hongkong, and known an No. 608, QUEEN ROAD WEST, erected aron Tax REMAINING POR. TION OF INLAND LOT No. 1659, To DS SHY
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WEDNESDAY, THE SIX DAY CE AUGUST,
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Ma. E V. M. R. on SOUSA, Auctioneer.
The Property consists of
All That Piece or Parcal of Ground situate at Victoria aforesaid registered in the land Office THE REMAINING PORTION or INLAND LOT No. 1659, together with No. 808 QUEEN'S ROAD WEST erectad thereon. The Property held for the Unex pired Residue of Term of 75 years from the
2th-Novases, 1900 (Renewable for One" Further Term of 75 years) created by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 34th DICKMBER, 1901, ant made between HIS LATE MATY KING EDWARD VII of the one part and WOO YID NAM and TSUI Annual WAN KWAI of the other part. Crown Rent: $15.00. Ares: 739 square fest.
For further Particulars, Apply to....... Mass, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
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The Trade Unions are not at all what Englishmen mean by that came, but are organs of the State, and the Chairman of the Trade Union Central Council bas a seat on the Politbureau. Strikes are not allowed, and the main purpose of Russian Trade Unions ia-not to promote the welfare of the workmen, but to keep them in due subjection to the Politbureau What has been happening, therefore, in regard to the contributions of Russian miners to British miners in the coal strike, is that a deplorably ill-housed, ill-paid body of Russian workmen have had compulsory deductions made from their scanty wages in order to support
At the meeting of the Hongkong Lodge of the Theosophical Society on Thursday, Mr. H. E. Lanepart gave an address on "The Hidden Side of Religions."
One British.caac.of diphtheria and one Chinese case of cerebrospinal fever aro mentioned in the return of notifiable dis case reported during the twenty-four bours ended August 12th,
It is not necessary to mention the novel which has inspired the writing of another, to be called, “.
But They Marry Brunettes" Rumour names Hiss Elsie Janis as the author of the
Brunette theory and book.
སྐ-་
a Trade Union, movement in Great.
Commencing from to-morrow (Sunday) Britain; but as a matter of sober truth
and extending to Wednesday "A Thief the Folitbureau and its pliant tool the
in Paradise" will be the principal-at- "Government" of Russia would pottraction at the Queen's Theatre: This allow such a movement as the coal strike air is a First National production and to exist in that country for a single week. should appeal to all picturegoers. The workmen are simply serfs, with no liberty to express their opinions, much less take action to try to enforce them
Abazaar is to be held on September
end-4th, inclusive, in the London Mission The Communist Politbureau of Russia, Society compound, Bonham Road, for having established its own government-athe building fund of the new Church of ruthless tyranny-hopes ultimately to do Christ in China (To Chai Church). the same in England and in other coun. Further particulars will be announced tries. The reason that. Englishmen and later. it difficult to understand their tactics is that the aim they have in view appears so ridiculously impossible.
THE FINAL TEST MATCH.
A Chinese was sent to the Kwang Wah Hospital, on Wednesday, suffering from injuries received as the result of being knocked down by a motor-car driven by Mr. J. Mason, of the Kowloon Naval Yard-in-front-of-the-Kowloon-Motor- THE Australian cricketers cannot legiti-Bus Company's premises. mately complain that they have not had
The Police Traffic Department an enough attention paid to them during their present tour in England. Some of nounces that Queen's Road East, between our old fogies, indeed, have expressed Arsenal Street and Greason Street, will amazement that in the midst of the bo closed to vehicular traffic to-morrow general strike and the paralysis of (Sunday). Traffic will be diverted vid
Gresson Street industry caused by the coal strike the Praya East and British people could devote so much Queen's Road East, and rice versa. time and thought to nhy The old simile is trotted out and the attitude of the cricket crowds has been
game.
likened to that of Nero who is apposed to have fiddled while Rome was burning The despondent observers shake their benda and say that there are far more
to
For being in possession of 14 taela of illicit opium, which he admitted having emuggled into Hongkong on an AP.C. lighter from Wuchow, Ho Kam, a seaman employed on the my Ching Lung, as at the Central Magistracy yesterday fined $1,000 by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, with the
people in England to-day who know the alternative of six months' hard labour. names of the Australian team than who
DEPOSITS FROM $500. Or INTITED OF AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,know the names of the men in the
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MELIX VILLAS.—At the TERMINUS of
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Hongkong Office: 1. Chater Road.
Cabinet that carries the burden of Empire.
The typical JoHN BULL, however, just goes on in the old, quiet, unemotional
SHANTUNG TROOPS
MUTINY
HOLD UP TRAIN FOR TIENTSIN.
-THROUGH-REUTER'S AGENCY.]-
PERING, August 13th. Chang Tsung Chang's first division of Shantung troops, "commanded by Hsieh Ya Huien, while en route to Nankow from Shantung, mutinied this morning between Langtang and Locfa; and held
up this morning's train to Tientsin at the latter point.
MUTINY SURDUED,
SHANGHAI'S CHOLERA
OUTBREAK.
ÖRIGEN IN CHINESE WATER WORKS.
“LAMENTABLE CONDITIONS
DISCLOSED.
THOUSANDS. DYING.
[TEROCON LEUTEEF AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, August 13th. Unpleasant disclosures regarding the probable cause of the cholera epidémio Įin' Shanghai appeared in to-day'ı official | Municipal Gazette.
LATTE
Out of a total of 1,399 casas sò far Official reports state that one Shan-notifed, 60 per cent. were from Chiness tung regiment mutined early this more territory, mostly from the border settle." ing
ment of Chapel. It is now practically proved that the cause was the appalling condition of the Chapel water supply.
Other Shantung troops hurried to the scene by brigade commander and most
of the mutineers were subdued and dis-Samples from various sources taken by armed. Some escaped soon after the out the Shanghaf health authorities showed break
-in-every case. cholera virbios, which is
the specific cause of cholera..
No reason is given for the mutiny, which was suppressed by eleven o'clock, after which the train service was resum ed.
PROPERTY SALE.
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The Gazette points out that Scochow. Creek in the region of the water supply- takes in swarms with beggar-boats and the banks are dotted with beggar-hutá, so that the Creek is little better than an
open sewer.
At his auction room, No. SA. D'Aquilar
FOREIGN HELP SOLICITED. Street, yesterday afternoon, Mr. A. G.
The Chinese authorities when their de Rocha sold, by order of the mort eyes were opened to the seriousness of gagces, a leasehold property situate at the positios, asked expert foreign help Cheung Sha Wan, in the Dependency of to right matters and it is now being Kowloon, and known as Sub-section one given. of Section A of New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 435, with six buildings in course of construction thereon.
The areas are 5,918 square feet, or thereabouts, and the annual Crown rental is 827.26.
The upset price was $10,000, with bids of 8500 acceptable. After two bids, the property was knocked down to the Sun Kwong Hop Company, Ltd, for 811,000.
AN ARAB WILL.
JUDGES DISMISS WIDOW'S APPEAL.
SUSPICIOUS FEATURES. OF, MALAY
DOCUMENT.
The Singapore Court of Appeal gavė
judgment on the 4th inst., in the appeal
The M.-C. Daily News, in a special article on the subject, says the Chapci. water is little better than liquid filth. The smell from the waterworks is nau- seating and the storage tanks and filter- beds, which ought to have been cleaned every four days, have been untouched for probably more than a month;
The newspaper attributes the cause of this disgraceful state of affairs to variety of reasons, including incom
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The Chapel waterworks are a private' Chinese undertaking.
BIG DAILY TOLL Cholera is taking an appalling toll of Chinese in the native section of Shang. hai and the Woosung district across the Whangpoo River, says a
An Associated Press message dated the 7th instant. It
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The Baily Press.
BONGKONG, AUGUST 14TH, 1929.
"How two boys stole a schoolboy's topce, pawned it, and were caught gambling with the proceeds was related at the Central Magistracy yesterday, when they were charged with larceny. the smaller of the two, was ordered ten as they come. On the whole the many strokes with a cane. thousands of onlookers go to see cricket played because it provides a pleasant
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden pastime in the open air Occasionally-and-Crown Princess Louise sailed from very occasionally say some critica San Francisco on August 4th for the thrill of excitement creeps in fun Orient. They will stop at Honolulu and Cricket is still the great game of proceed from there to Japan for a visit THE SO-CALLED TRADE UNIONS
England. In the minds of
of several weeks. They will tour Chino, mang IN RUSSIA.
made popular by that very remarkable stop at Manila and probably continue personality. Dr. W. G. GRACE. Some of around the world by' way of India. THERE appears to be considerable couus remember the Doctor," but to the fusion of thought about the term "Trade majority of onlookers_to-day he is just
The . Fingehow arrived yesterday evening with 75 bags of mail from Union" in reference to the subject where
a tradition. We say they were giants Shanghai, which included eleven bags of Russia is concerned, "During the General in those days" as we talk of "W.G." Home mail vid Siberia. This mail will Strike in Great Britain when the Soviet and the others. Soon the younger be ready for delivery and collection this Government were taxed with sending generation will be talking, in a similar morning. Also due at 9 a.m. to-day is money to support the Trades Union Constrain of Homas and those who are the the s.. Hong Hwa with letters and gress in the attack that body engineered heroes of thousands of schoolboys in papers from Home vid Negapatam, dated against the nation, the reply of the Soviet Britain to-day. Hero-worship is not to London, July 15th. was that the contributions were from be despised. It is all to the good that Trade Unions in Russia. In the Press youth should include in ita ideals
it was
www
Yesterday we reported that during "a
of Mr. Justice Sproule to grant probate are dying daily in this section. The of a will which she propounded as the
message continues: will of her late husband, a wealthy Arab named Syed Abdullah bin Syed Abdullah
The Chief Justice (Sir William Mori son), in the course of his judgment, said it was suspicious that an educated Arab should make his will in indifferent Malay, and the absence of the habitual invoca tions, was a strong feature in the case of a highly religious Mohamedan as the deceased was. It was also remarkable that the dispositions of the will were against the provisions of the Mohamedan law
Four degrees fall in the temperature ....
to-day decreased the prostrations and |alleviated slightly the cholera epidemic
which developed with appalling swiftness.
the temperature mounted to almost record heights, 102 degrees being regis tered yesterday. Although many foreign- attacked by cholera, the foreign deaths ers were prostrated" and perhaps forty
from heat numbered under a dozen and only two foreigners have died, so far, of cholera,
HOSPITALS INADEQUATE."
element that the will was valid and in- river in Woosung and surrounding con
The heaviest mortality from cholera has There was also a strongly insistent been in the Chinese territory across the disputable, and various matters seemed cessions where the population is 1,500,000 to constitute a strange and unusual in which hospital facilities are utterly in cerned that the will was valid and un- anxiety to impress upon everybody, con- adequate, although they are receiving thousands for treatment. The Chinese assailable. In addition there were sus-officials are establishing many hospital picious over payments to legatees. stations and taking other meaiurea for The circumstances that the deceased relieving the situation, but it is admitted bad clearly indicated his intention of con- that the situation is beyond their control, sulting a lawyer in the making of his will,
The only relief possible is rain and n- and that be was an educated man of lower temperature for which the Chinese. suspicion of the genuineness of the will. rites in temples and are forbidding the His Lordship said he placed do reliance' slaughter of animals. The magistrates whatever on the evidence of the so-called and other oficials are praying to appease experts-in-handwriting. There were no the dragon king and to obtain rain which. experts in handwriting in Singapore and is twenty-five per cent. under normal. even if there were he would look upon The creeks are drying up, presaging, a their evidence with great reserve. rice crop shortage.
His Lordship dismissed the appeal, and Mr. Justice Deane and Mr. Justice Action concurred.--Straite Timet.
at home and abroad we" read a great prowess in healthy outdoor sports and quarrel at Battery Street, Yaumsti, a comparatively large fortune also raised are praying. They are holding unusual
deal from time to time of Trade Unionism that which is called "the team spirit." under the Moscow regime. But what in The final test, match, which commences point of fact does that really mean? An to-day, is to be played to a finish. That authority on Russian affairs has supplied is what the public want in the first place. us with some interesting and instructive But we doubt whether they will be information on the subject."
satisfied with a very long drawn out
Chinese received a blow in the region of the spleen from a sanitary coolie's broom, as a result of which the man died shortly afterwards. The sanitary coolie dis appeared, but was later arrested in the neighbourhood of Shatin in the earlier hours of yesterday morning. He is being In the first place, it is important to contest. The real demand is that there detained on a charge of manslaughter, note that the words "Government" and shall not be too much of the "safety pending the result of the post-mortem "Trade Union represent quite differ-first" about the tactics of the batamen examination. eat" things in Russia from what they do The rules of the game do not need alter-
CEYLON PLANTER'S
ADVENTURE.
HALF VILLAGE POPULATION DIE.
The beaviest mortality is in the indus“. trial centres and the larger villages. In one village in the Woosung district half of the population died in three days, the victims dying without treatment in hos- pital. An estimate of the' total deatha so far is impossible.
RUSSIAN GIRL SUCCUMBS.
elsewhere. What is called the Governing to produce "brighter" cricket. "All Police Station Compound, which have AEROPLANE FLIGHT TO CATCH A Bussian girl died of cholera alter
LINER.
attempting to commit suicide by drowns ing herself in the Whangpon River. She was pulled out of the water alive," but which is infected with cholera germs. died yesterday from swallowing the water
PURE WATER,
The trees on one side of the Central ment of Russia is only one organ, and that is required to secure definite results been familiar landmarks, are now under that not the governing organ,, of the is quicker scoring. As one correspondent the axes Two of these, besides the motor-
Mr. G. Barnacle, & rubber planter on 10 LET. From First September, Communist party. The real power is a expressed it a few days ago the rising cycle shed near the charge room, are ed the boat-train from London to Liver furlough from Ceylon, and his wife miss 10WFORD No. 2 40. BONTAN ROAD, Three Stories Six Booms, Fire Bath body called the Politbureau, which con- generation of cricketers must be, traght being removed in order to provide more pool. Boom, Kitchen Servant Quarters-Apply troie the Third International, the "Trade to realise that the ball is manufactured room for parking space. The trees. ad-ed an aeroplane to Shotwick, Cheshire They motored to Croydon and charter- to DEACONS, Prince's Building. 2. (199
23 Unions, and the Government itself, to be hit and not merely patted." It join the shed close to the wall of the from where they motored to Liverpool, both graduates of American medical col LET-Quiet European FLATS at T Ting Road, opposite to the Moros CrotsWell as various other bodies. They matters little, in our opinion, whether officers quarters. For many years these where they embarked on the liner Euri- leges, have launched a campaign to Exaxaxez Cheap Rants Ranging from $95,00 are, as Lord BALFOUR recently remarked, England or Australia wins this conclud-trees, with their long spreading branches Pides bound to Australia with 30 minutes.feducate the lower class Chinese in the to $45.00 Per month. Also, all one when something is to be done, ing match of the series so long as the infused an atmosphere of coolness to the Mr. Barracle was enthusiastic over the drinking impure water, The Biosha Mis- **KA CRUST" Bunamo at Moderate Bate. Apply to THE KA UBUEN but separate and distinct when excuses players play to win, and a good houses nearby and sheltered many from success of his first aeroplane flight, but slon has placed wooden containers filled with boiled water at convenient points so. LAND ESTATE, Tang Hing. Real,
that the coolics can drink with safety. KOTL
for what has been done have to be made. sporting game results.
| sun and 'rain."
to spare.
Dr. W. 8. New and Dr. W. L. New,
A city with reference to the danger of
lin wife laughingly said: "Never again. I would rather miss a dozen liners.'
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