THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND. 1926.
The WHIPPET
The Overland Whippet will tum is a 34-foot circle... park in a 14-foot carb space. A specially designed steering mechanian, makes stocting easy.
Service Representative:
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Compare other cars by these standards
35 miles on an Imperial gallon of petrol.. 55 miles an hour-5 to 30 miles in 13 seconda.
Fourwheelbrakes-scope in 51 feet from a speed of 40 miles an hour.
Taras in 34 foot circle-parks in 14° feet of amb space.
3 feet 9 inches high-lower gravity centre-greater safety.
Modan-type body-provides sacre la side room than other light cars.
The Overland Whippet represents a combination of the most advanced American and European engineering thought.
It is a complete new car. ..., designed and built as a unit, .. not an old-fashioned, reconstructed chassis. For over three years, Willys- Overland engineers in America and Europe have been developing it The distinctive body lines frankly resemble the smartest cars of America and Europe. It has a beatiful finish of polished Appenine blue lacquer-with nickeled lamp-rims and radiator shell Low- graceful as a Whippet: that's the
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proper way to describe it
New Mechanical Standards
In high-torque motor of 37-6-inch bore by 496-inch stroke, is by far the most efficient light car engine made in the U. S. A. It actually develops more horsepower per enbic inch of piston dis placement and pound of car weight than any other light four-cyl inder engine.
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It has an 80-lb. bryde ...this means greater pulling power... the ability to master hills, sand and mad without shifting gear.
You have never seen a car like it before. In fairness to yourself drive this car prove to yourself that no other light car is com- parable to it
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SHIPPING NOTES.
The Messageries Maritimes "steamer General Metzinger came into port yester- day from Yokohama and Shanghai. The liner brought B tons of cargo for local discharge which consisted of gunny bags, absinthe, mineral water and silk. The General Metzinger also brought as cabin, 64 European dock, and
Eurotic passengers. She also deliver-
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ed 45 bags of mall for Hong Kong. The through cargo manifested was silk, raw silk, waste silk, flour, grapes, steel bars and gunny bags, all of which amounted
to 903 tons. A
The master of the 'me. Suiyang in his report to the Harbour Office atatea thit Chinese passenger jumped overboard at Canton while undergoing medical. examination. The body has not been re- covezed.
CARS
GHOST WHO WAS STABBED,
1.30 AM. JOKE ENDS IN DEATH
ENGLISH SENTRY'S SHOCK,
James William Smith (28), a marine who was stabbed while posing as a ghost, died in the Royal Marine Infirmary, Deal, three weeks after his prank.
Smith played his tragic joke in the East Barracks in the early hours of November 6th, Covering himself in cloth, he approached a sentry, John Wil. liam Charles Meat, and received two bayonet staks.
In his evidence at the inquest, Moat, who is only 17, said: "It was a dark night... I heard footsteps coming from the direction of the disused burial ground situated in the barracks. I then saw a white object moving and coming directly towards me, and in D loud voice the object called out, 'Sentry.'
"Who Are You?".
"I took it for a ghost as I could only see a white sheet moving. I approached the object and challenged it, calling Halt who are you? Receiving ao re- ply, I came to the on-guard position and repeated the challenge.
PRINCE OF WALES ON BUILDING HOUSES.
GOOD ARCHITECTURE
BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
ABOLITION OF SLUMS.
The value of well-designed houses, not merely from the public point of view, but also as a business proposition, was emphasised by the Prince of Wales at the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of British Architects at the Guildhall.
Mr. E. Guy Dauber, president of the institute, who was in the chair, said the Prince on his estates had set a most ad-
mirable example in all the work he had. carried out. He Had carried on a high architectural tradition in all the work, and it was an example that might bo followed by other landowners in this country.
In London, on his estates in Kenning- ton, large areas of slams had been cleared away to be replaced by comfortable, convenient and attractive dwellings (Cheers.)
In his reply the Prince said we could net escape from architecture, be it good or bad: we were sheltered, by it, aur rounded by it and affected by it every day
of our lives.
"Good Business.”
towns
"I got no reply; instead, the object came on moving its arms and hands
If our architects are dull and unia- underneath the sheet. I gave the chal- lenge for the third time, and attempted spired," he went on," we are condemned to blow my whistle to summon the guard, to live in ugly, ill-constructed buildings. but suddenly the white robed figure or to go about our daily business in rushed at me and fell across the bayonet mean, ill-planned cities,
and point. I pulled the bayonot out from him villages
"If, on the other hand, our architects quickly.
can give us surroundings which are bath good to look at and good to dwell in there is bound to be a wonderful differ ence in our general well-being and in our whole outlook on life.
"The ghost then hit me on the ohin, and as closed with him my ride and bayonet and whistle fell to the ground. In the struggle the sheet came off and I could see a head of hair-and then I realised that the ghost was human being.
He then ran away, and I chased him, but could not catch him. I went back and recovered my bayonet, rife, and whistle, and close beside these I, found a white sheet and a Marine's cap. I took these articles to the guard room. Beyond shcuting the one word, Sentry !', the
ghost uttered no other sound whatever."
A sergeant said that Smith dashed into the guard room at 1.35 am en November- eth, and said, "Sergeant, the sentry has stabbed me." He had evidently been drinking heavily, but was not drunk When the sentry entered and saw that the injured man was one of his mese mates, he said: "I am sorry, I did not know it was you”
Santry not to Blame. Surgeon-Commander Kelly said Smith's wounds bad healed, and in his opinion the cause of death was pneumonia follow. ing exposure on the night of the incident. A verdict of Accidental death was returned by the jury, who added that they did not consider that Moat was in any way to blame.
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SUNRISE AND. SUNSET IN HONG KONG
FOR DECEMBER, 1
(STANDARD TIME OF 120ṛH MERIDIAN, OT GREENWICH). Date Sunrise, December 22nd 6.50 4.10.
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"Our president has spid some very nice things about the architectural policy pursued on my Duchy, estates. This policy has not, however, been followed solely for the good of the general public; it is also a very sound business pro position.
"We have always found that the erection of cottages or block of flats was cheaper when designed by an architect than if we merely adopted. a pattern.
"A Masterpiece."
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"We have found, too, that a well- designed, simple building invariably gives greater pleasure to those who live in it, and creates in them a real pride in their home.
"So I should like anybody who con templates the erection of a building, great or small, to beware of the fallacy- that. it is good policy to economise on the architect's fee. Speaking simply as a landlord, I can assure him it is rot."
During the evening the Prince pre- sented the Royal Gold Medal for Archi- tecture to Professor Ragnar Catberg, of Stockholm.
said the By universal consent," Prince, Professor Oatberg's master-
piece, the new town hall in Stockholm, is one of the greatest buildings ever produced by human genius, and we are proud that our medal should be in hir haads."
£90,000 STATION FOR EPSOM.
A new station costing £00,000 is to be built at Epsom. It will be welcomed by the crowds that go to the famous 'Downs for the Derby.
At the present the town has two stations quite near to "each other, Epsom and Epsom TOWE An entirely new station is to be built on the site of the former, with two island platforms, each 630 feet long and 35 feet wide, protected over part of their length by an awning 300 feet long. There will also be a load- ing dock 200 feet long for dealing with horses,
The Epsom Town station will then be used exclusively for goods traffic.
HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hong Kong Observatory, December 21st.
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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
From December 22nd to 23th, 1926 HIGH WAZ.
Days
Month
Date of
Wód: 22
Balar. 25-
H. Koog.
Standard
Time.
Height
LOW WATU.
H. Kong
Standard
Time.
Height
1288
h. m. ft. in, hft in 1148m 5440.9 10:45 a 7 Thur, 231 5611 96281 1.
11 197 1 Fri 23 148 7.1614
11 55 66.
8 Noinferior High xor Low Water
6. 2 m
2.0 17.38 at 4. 5. Mon 27m 123 5-6 m 948
41.49 9:45 45 Tuen, 28 m 1865 1.10 28
5 395 2 114 1