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SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Rupert, Brooke.
The funeral of the late Mr. T. On Easter Monday thousands of The logend of Rupert Brooke has M. Perpetuo took place yesterday. If it is true that the excessive residents, as usual, left Southend outstripped the reality, and a faint-
Page 7. humidity and heat in summer have in anticipation of a holiday inly artificial atmosphere hung about Hong Kong Stock Market: this dulling effect upon the mind, vasion by outsiders. The expected the recent celebrations at Skyros. Croucher & Co.'s daily report, it is no less true that they also crowds did not arrive. The re-for in fact Brooko has inerged into
Pago 7. render the average individual more sidents who fled are thinking of the Adonia-Adonais myth, gather
A verdict of guilty but insane liable to outbursts of irritability, demanding their money back! ing meanwhile the accumulated Criminal Sessions yesterday when was brought by the jury as the Anything, therefore, which reduces
Associations of Shelley and Byron, Martin Gonsalez Correa' was charg.. disturbances in summer is to be the causes of physical and mental
and Landar The real Ruperted with the murder of John Harri- Mrs. Wilcox of New York, aged Brooke was English to the core. Empress of Russia.
son, plumber on board the R.M.S. welcomed. Hill stations, modern 89, landed in England saying: ""I and with alt his exuberance thore.
Page 7. refrigerators, bathing facilities have come to England for rest and were
To-day's wireless programme. maay moments when the cooling systems
Page 3. for offices and quiet and to get away from those futtering of his fair oyblushes IPES. houses all tend to stimulate the terrible noises of New York." But would indicate the public school bodily organs, revitalise the intel- the very same day, the Ministry of reserve. The nude figure which leet, and inerense business and Transport announced that, "The shines among the sparse oliven of administrative efficiency.
spring road-breaking season boginų į Skyros is a monument to Adonais: in London this week."
it is not a monument to Brooke.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
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The Daily Press.
Hose Koso, MAY 7, 1031.
WEATHER AND WORK.
NOT THE MARSEILLES WE Lite,
KNOW!
Queer Claims.
Sport.
South China (Champions) bent. The Rest yesterday.
10. English county, cricket results.
Page 30. Shanghai Champion's result.
Page 6.
Latest Cables.
Mr. Henderson's statement on
Раде 5.
THE weather, as Lieutenant-Com- Is coming out Enst most of us mander DruMOTT, reminded the spend some very happy hours in Policenjen who searched his arrow the oddest accidents do occur in Extrality will be found on
The "Working" Oloss: A rag- Among last year's violent deaths picker in Wrexham lay in hospitalin Americh, it is recorded, was one anffering frote want and neglect from the bite of a crab. But then Marseilles.
Itsreins a pleasant found £200 in notes hidden in it. bustling town, with excellent shops,
America, ns the insurance com The "Upper" Classes:--The Duke j restaurants and cinemas.
panies will testify. On one occasion Thereef Saxe-Altenburg, who is suing
126 young man claimed under an Hong Kong for about five months are a few diserect cabaret, which the Thuringian Government, can-accident policy on the ground that we make up parties to visit after not afford a lawyer, and is bring he had been holding his beloved so
ing his suit under the Poor Persons long on his knee that his leg "wentny 5, is lying in hospital in a
Rotary Club, is for English people an unfailing topic of conservation for it is something which is so ob viously shared by everybody.
dinner.
peaceful and friendly and yet a Act
The town мета Very
The proposed Austro-German Castoms union has been tempor. arily suspended,
Page 0. Flight-Lieut. Waghorn, who was has been under a cloud; the depres
injured in a parachute deseen on sion seems to have been more or
critical condition.
Page 0. less fixed. Hardly a bright spot well-informed Howe paper says of
to sleep," with the result that when The "Middle Classos:-Quare stood up he fell and injured hetween the Federal Governemnt A deadlock has been reached on the horizon has appeared for it" Marseilles, Europe's own terly bills are now overdue. months. Curiously enough the con- Chicago, was last month in the
himself. Another young man (at Board and the Australian Common- dition of the weather seems to have throes of a municipal election, Play It Out!
least one hopes it was another)wealth Bank over a provision in the Commonwealth Bank Amend- been a faithful reflection, ef the which, for a variety of reasons, had
claimed because his beloved hugged ment Bill empowering the Govern him so enthusiastically on his re- mental depression prevailing be much more than a local interest,
turn from a long absence that she
ment to draw on the Bank's "gold cause of the economic situation. Its polities are as flaunting as ita
ments. Some new-comers to Hong Kong
broke two of his ribe, having beard much about the ex- cellener its winter have express
in due!
Canchiere."
Then our London Contemporary gets cloquent and gives us the following details, furid enough to
"Draws,are no use for anything. rascent bathing."The late $. M. J. Woods,
Lobsters and Wickets,
The late S. M. J. Woods had be come in recent years a legendary figure, and the stories that surround,
Cat Stops a Radio Station,
A flash, a crash, a succession of
serves for oversen's debt my
**H.G."
Page 9.
Mr. Wells is at his best when be
a man asked Mr. Wells whether ho
ed the hope that they will be else where before the next good weather form the basis of a best seller: his name are legion. A contempor- i cracks like a machine-gun. Then touches on autobiography, and it "Political graft is rampant. Aary critic says that as a bowler he silence. The generatora in the was a gay and vivid speech which human behaviour.
Undoubtedly the weather affects bar was advertised for sale. Among was unplayable if he had resied the power house at Moorside Edge he made at the dinner of the Asso-
A sunny dis the assets the vendor unblushingly day before. As a matter of fact, standstill.
Eroadcasting station were at a ciation of Shop Assistants. Ho
That's a short-circuit position enn hardly be expected named his friendship with a cer- he scorned rest. One of his best in C panel," anid one of the e- told of his persistent refusal to be under a permanently clouded aky.tain municipal councillor, and 147 performances was against C L gineers. I'll have a look at como a draper-u profession which Spring in Europe with its balmy electors cards! The late Mayor, bridge. That morning C. I. Thorn were swung open and out fell the
Thornton's England XL. at Cam-it. The doors of the panel his mother considered to be the breezes and its bright daye stimmu- whose place is now to be filled, was ton, A. J. Webbe, Georgs Vernon body of a
nurac cat-the station pet.
of gentlemen and heroes. lates the flow of sap in plants, and a Socialist, elected by the help of and Perey de Paravicini came to Poor pussy had stepped on ten Somo years ago at a club dinner blood in man, whose thoughts, as the Communists, who have become MacGregor at Jesus. The real casting Corporation official explain had ever in after life mot any asso
A British Broad- breakfast with Woods and Gregor thousand volts. least in some cases, lightly turn to practically the bosses' of the consisted of seven hot lobsters, ed: The cat delighted in prowling sites of his draper days. "Yes," love.
Southern Cosmopolis, because of which the elder men It has been said that Russia their influence with the saloons.Woods and MacGregor ate their mitters, where the maze of wires is said Mr. Wella, "I met one of them. all, washing them down with run. She must have crawled up a lust year in the street Alloa, was never properly governed after Nothing so like Amerien has ever copious draughts of audit ale. An narrow pipe and got into one of the PETER THE GREAT transferred his been seen in Europe. Saloon-keep-hour later Woods went on to the transmitting panels. The ten thou:G.," he said, 'I 'enrd you were/ headquarters to
and volt cables did the rest.": St. Petersburg ers have their gangs, every member field and took all ten wickets!
in 'Arroda," "
The bleak north seems
to have of which knows that he is liable to hardened the entlook of the rulers, be humped off or taken for a frozen their sympathy and caused ride if he shows signs of disobedi them to withdraw within the ence. The duties of the ganga are recesses of their palaces. The many, foit in the saloons more than numbing effect of excessive cold, the elections are prepared. There however, is not in its results so
different from the enervating and
are plans for the manufacture of
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refuso. about the tunnels under the trana-
Local Notes and Events
H.M.S. Cornwall arrived in
Li
Home
missioned.
·where sho WAS ra.com-
Kwan, Л Chinese
false identity papers, seals for harbour at 7 a.m. yesterday fron passenger on the as. Taishan, jump for the coming year," however, we saloon cipation of brilliant trade prospects
ed overboard on Tuesday night may hope for a more agreeable when the vessel, which was bound disappointment this year.-Hong for this port, was about 30 miles Kong Daily Press, May 7,-1000. from here. Although a search was Looking Back 50 Years, made, no trace was found of the
up further Agencies will let us depressing consequences of excessive passports, and forgeries of Ặm- know the Linos in which they are bumid heat. interested the information will be
In this connection bassadors' signatures. The anion- forwarded to London and passed one wonders whether the change keeping politician has first of all on to interested parties as op from Teiping in the north to Nan-to justify his position as a boar' portunity offers. Service is offered to our Readers king in the centre of China will by protecting his men.
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As a mark of the 1st anniversary There are of the necension to the Throne of have any appreciable effects upon many ways in France whereby H.M. the King, warships in har- the character of legislators and jury can be influenced, and acquit-bour were "dressed" yesterday, administrators. Probably what is tals for murder are customary. No gained in winter at Nanking will be | jury dare conviet.' But the gang. balance by the excessive heat of ster's great power is electoral. He
man.
A Chinese girl was run over by from Kowloon that a Chinese com- A report was received yesterday
We reproduce, in full, to-day, Dr. Happer's interesting paper on the population of China. The opinions pressed therein are we think, Imised on good and reasonable
Summer, when Peiping has the buys votes-whether of the living" bus, belonging to the Kowloon mitted suicide by shooting himself grounds, arrived at after a careful
really cool in summer.
or the dead. Forged votes are as plentiful as leaves in autumn. The scandal has grown so pronounced of late that the Home Secretary
The official figures of the 1931 census for the municipal area of Singapore show that tho total population, is 446,047, which is 10,002 more than in 1921 and 186,137 more than in 1011.
Bon
'Bus Co., in Shanghai Street an¡ in a room at Hotel Nathan.. Fur-consideration of the events of the advantage. As scientists study more closely the effects of climate
Tuesday and was killed.
ther details of this incident were
past
thirty years in the Central upon human efficiency, they will
not available at time of going to Kingdom and its present con- probably furnish us with the means
Charged before Mr. E. W. Hamil.press, though it was gathered thatditions. It is a coincidence that in of combatting, the debilitating some time ago sent a Police Com-ion yesterday with stealing at occurred at about 7.30 p.m. 1 October lust, when Dr. Happer's effects of humid hent just as they missioner to report upon the situa-blanket, the property of Mrs. K.
paper must have been passing COMPREHENSIVE AND COM-have enabled us to withstand the tion. Nothing has altered or in-Turnbull, a Chinese was sentenced
Following an accident in Morris through the Press, in the course of rigours of the cold winter. It is proved. It would need tidal wave to three months' hard labour.
an article on the same subject, we Street on Tuesday when a PLETE REPORT certainly casier to get comfortably or an earthquake to effect any
also gave three hundred millions' warm in winter than it is to get change."
Chinese was knocked down by a
08 An outside estimate of the motor lorry, and seriously injured,
population of China and then ex- in crowd mobbed the driver, until he had to in rescued, by the polico.llions" had been considerably pressed a belief that "China's
Covernment Civil Hospital where it The injured man was taken to the
was found that he nad received in-aggeration are very liable to occur where it is impossible to obtain re juries to one of his legs.
liable statistica. China undoubted. ly contains a vast population and it was natural, in the days when the Empire was practically a sealed book to Europeans, that mach speculation should have been rifo as to the number of the inhabitants. Crowded eities were known to stud
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST
is given in the
“HONG KONG WEEKLY
PRESS,"
"THE CHINA OVERLAND
Experiments conducted on ani- mals at varying temperatures and
Mr. Maxton's Challenge.
Spring storms and summer floods, together with war effects and the boycott, accounted for the diminish ed export of China's main staples
magnified. These errors
of ex-
different degrees of humidity have Mr. Maxton, greatly daring, has shown' that the optimum tempera.challenged the Prime Minister to a ture is 60 deg. with a humidity of golf match, and has promised vo 52 per vent. If these are raised give him advice on his game. Mr.
Six stowaways, who were found to 75 deg. and 70, respectively, the Maxton, is suffering from the golt on the Dutch 8.8. Tjikarang (from amount of work done falls 15 per fever, and has recently been throw. Java), wore charged before Mr. E. cent while an increase to D1 deg.ing challenges about. But despite W. Hamilton yesterday and were | Looking Back 2 Years. and 00 per cent. humidity causes a beautiful follow-through saptured each given a term of six weeks' in a drop of 25 per cent. on output. [last summer and recorded on a prison with hard labour. When, as often happens in Hang cherished photograph, he cannot Kong there is stagnant air, in hope to stand up to the Prime
Mrs. H. T. Creasy has kindly addition to high temperature and Minister, who plays down to a consented to distribute the prizes to in 1905; so Mr. H. B. Morse tells the whole of the eighteen provinces, high humidity, the effect on efficiency, handicap. That would not deter the successful competitors at the us in his annual report based on agricultural and gardening open- accuracy and concentration must Mr. Maxton from giving the Prime conclusion of the 7th annuel athie- Chinese in the interior will buy less, tions were earried on auth is be considerable. Much of the work Minister advice on his game. He tie sports of the Sacred Heart output, if our Canton correspon-minute sealo, right up to the ter- in offices is of a mechanical nature, has been tendering advice to Mr. College on Saturday at 4 p.m. ondent bo not mistaken, is likely to raced side of the hills, and sch and the introduction of calculating MacDonald for a long time. How the Kowloon Football Club, ground. be repented this year; and it follows na enormous floating population, machines, and other modern devices evor, it is good to know that the The 190 yards flat race open to the that while. producing less, thein ereeks, rivers, and on the coast, -Bubscription, paid in advance-reduces-the-mental-strain-but there frry header of Ciusgow'r witd murtladies in the Colony will take place Chinure in the twuridy wil thuy text, was vible that it is not wonder per annum for delivery in Hong is a limit to such devolution. Ad-plays golf. The true fanatic dez at 3.30 pm, and the half-mile open Kong 19; including Postage to ministrative problems, have to be pises everything and everyone, into the Colony (men) at 3:45 p.m. sxy part of the world-$18.
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