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HONG KONG, OCTOBER 1, 1931.
A NOTABLE BOOK ON. CHINA.
Mr. HALL follows thias
Authoribien
News and Views *
in the portrayal of life in the old
factories of Canton, long be
fore the days of extri
lity,
From two, books, Zile
Line
Wealth Before Warmth.
and the Fan Kuae at C
by
A strong current
Mr. HUNTER who arriv Conton in 1825
nsib
Marlborough's Explosion.
The Admiralty experi collect data on the effect of internal
Sin the
TYPHOON RESCUES.
QUESTIONS FOR LEGISLA
TIVE COUNCIL.
At today's meeting of the Legis- Iativo Council, the Hon.
boy who should go far. Last torm, rollicking" Memo and from the when he went back to his prepare explosions in warships had definite Kotewall will dat the following
of a Mr
tory school, his parents provided results when a test in WILLIAM HICKEY, Who Came to
in MS. Ma questions him with a sufficient amount of borough in Plymouth Sound chased which struck the Colony with some With reference to the typhoon Chino as long ago as 1789, wo get fascinating pictures of those spac for the holidays they were more starboard bow plates an examina September, resulting in the destruc pocket money. When he came home the ship, to "spring a loak in the
suddenness on Wediceday, the ha ous days, when life was easy and than surprised to find that it had tion of the hull revealed a rout tention of many sum craft and the money plentiful The mandarins
increased to considerable proper foot below the water-line, and cel- loss of some lives, among the float- and merchant priness treated the
tions. They naturally asked the lision mats were immediately got ing population, will the Govern "Fun Kwac" with good natured youthful Crocsts how this came out. The ship, took a light listament state:-(a) The number of friendliucas, evidently regarding about "Oh," was his reply, I one of the torpedo ats and adult wafe and the number of hives them as rough and
hired out my hot water bottle to the jacent actions dcoded, but the children, from whom they derived other chaps at 3d, a night gread proft, and for whose safety
pumps kopt the water under con- what measures were taken by the reported to have been lost (O England's Worst August Since 1912 trol and temporary repairs were Government for rescuing amell they were apecially responsible.
Augult lived up to its wat once effected. The vessel was craft in distress, (e) In what part WILLIAM HICKEY VALEN
was a true
Maca
putation until almost the last few towed
back safely
or parts of the Harboury the Kiu roni of the eightooth coutury, and hours of the month. On the last day
Sing was on reseuo work during the well spiced story of his expul Kew added a further 0.12 inch to evening to Dovonport Dockyard. the typhoon; (d) Whether any Its total, making 4.80 inches all told The Marlborough is to be scrapped vessels other than the Kau Sing sion from school is itself enough to the highest August figure since under the London Treaty. what the appetite for further ad-1913-while Greenwich with a total
were employed by the Government for rescue wonk; and, if so, what ventures of this young CasennovAL
of 6.8 inches has benton all records
vessels were so used for the month over a period of Mr. HUNTER gives the following ninety years. In sunahine, figures description of an English dinner as were almost equally abnormal. The proprietor of a well-known scon by Chinese eyco
How was down 49 hours on the hotel on top of one of the moun month-the dullest record since tains in the Siobengebirge overlook Judgo now what tastes people 1922, when the total was 131 hours, ing the Rhino, has been faced with 3 (n) at what outstations are possess who, sitat table and as against the present one of 138-- swallow bowls of a fluid, in their while only two other Augusta have a problem, which seemed likely to outlandish tongues called Jo- proved worse, those of 1912 (100 wreck his matrimonial pence. Related for giving warnings of ap and next deyour flush of fish, hours) and 1908 (128 hours). Con- inay be to resemble the living fish for the year, the last five months proud, father went to Königswinter ved in a manner as near as don is now 170 hours below average contly a daughter was born and the itself Dishes of half raw meat having all contributed to the deficit to register the birth. He was in- are then placed at various angles The list of August's misdoings informed by the authorities that his of the table; these font in gravy cluded Cloudbursts Hailstones whilo from thom pieces are cut as big as golf balls"; Crops flat hotel, which was on the border line, will ask:MAAL!
toned out or washed away; Overs belonged to the neighbouring com- flowing rivers; and County cricket
with sword-like instruments and placed before the guests. Really it was not until I beheld this sight that, I became convinced of what. I had often heard, that the ferocious disposition of these
Baby's Birth on the Border,
clubs driven almost to bankruptcy mane of Dollendorf. In Dollendorf In addition, aens were so rough that the opposite view was taken and bathing had often been impossible he w
was abnormal;
The Common Gold.
1.
Does the Government con adequate, and, if not, what other sider tho measures so taken
measures the Government proposer to take in future typhoona
arrangements, if any, are contem typhoon signals haisted?; (b) What
signals is visible? prosching typhoons to vessels to which none of the existing typhoon
Mr. Shenton's" "Queries;
The Hon Mr. W. E. L. Shenton
1. In the event of typhoon.. the approach of a typhoon to this siguals being hoisted indicating Colony and the native boat popula and the number of people drowned Finally, it was decided that a com-gements be made for the vari
he was
sent back to Königswinter. tion desiring to get to shelter, can
ous Government Inches (includ mission, composed of officials being Police And Harbour Office Plonging to both communes, should launches) to assist in towing the
make sure through which
bost population to shelter. the hotel the border line passed exorbitant towing charges demand-
part of
8 Is Government aware of the Careful measurements were taken, ed by launches in the barbour in number of innocent chimpanzees on the mountain top, had to the during the approach of the last
severo colds in tthe head. Apart dismay of all it found that the
typhoon & from a synapathy with chimpanzees, border line ren exactly through the remarks a London correspondent, middle of the hotel keeper's bed.. I am afraid that this announcement There was dismay on the mountain The Riota: A Correction. does not stir me, because the pro- top and it seemed that nothing fossor does not seem to have dis short of a judgment of Solomon: We are very glad to be able to covered how to prevent oneself could save the situation. After correct a statement, in wur leading being the unwilling recipient of 'w hours of discussion, however, it was article of yesterday, to the effect the gift on receipt. Next time I the foot of the bed and thus the folly murdered in our streets (it) filterable virus, or how to deal with proved that the baby was born at that a young Japanese couple were teu a nasty told from a friend it birth was registered in Königs was the incident when a gallant Chinese woman rescued their baby), Fortunately the parents were not murdered, thanks to a detachment: of police arriving in the hack of time. They were both sent to hos pital, and the woman was dis- going on well. We would also say charged yesterday and the man is
police have been most helpful and that all through this crisis the courteous to members of our staff in their task of gathering news be observed, but wherever possible Official reticence has often had to the facts of the situation have been given..
demons arises from their indul gence in such gross food. How lamentable their condition and yet our dishes they pretend to despise
Then a green and It is reported that, an American white substance, the smell of Professor has discovered that the which was overpowering common cold is due to filterable the greener and more lively it is, viruses and has succeeded in giving with the more relish it is eaten. This is called cheese, and is no- companied by the drinking of a muddy rod duid which fans up over the tops of the drinking cups, soils one's clothes, and is named Pe-urh." Mr. HALL evidently looks back with regret to the days when MR. RONALD HALL has given us in Chinese and English gentlemen Eminent Authorities of China afraternised with cay good-humour most interesting and thought-pro-depth and genorosity rarely seen
and friendships were found of voking book Not the least of its in this materialistic age. Then able to call it by the politer name merits is its brevity, for one puts Europe was caught in the vast of filterable virus. it down with & wish that it had and a great gulf was riven between mills of the Industrial Revolution, en longer. China is a vast the two peoples, such as did not subject to deal with, and many exist in olden times. Now, China worthy and authoritative works are of machinery not invented by her is herself entangled in the wheels of such portentous length and own people, and that moves more weight that the average reader quickly than STEVENSON's Rocket, retreats in disorder, after an un- the problem of China; it should HALL'S book throws light on even struggle with the introduction be read, and read again, and it by some distinguished friend of the may lead us to seek further ac author.
quaintance and friendship with the Eminent Authorities to whom he has gracefully introduced us.
[EMINENT AUTHORITIES ON CHINA: by RONALD HALL, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1931.]
Mr. BALL divides his authorities Pinto Healists, Optimists and Pessi
miats, extracts from books by mon of the three types of mind being neatly dovetailed to convey the different points of view. The author, like the Speaker of the NEW INDUSTRIES ARE ON House of Commons, as he himself puts it, now and then interposes with a brief explanation, or cluci dation, and gives an all-too-brief summing up at the end.
THE WAY.
will be no comfort for me to be winter.
Diacration.
Preserving Animals for Ever.
The preservation of animal and vegetable specimens in an absolute conductors, a correspondent writes possible by a new British discovery, Apropos of the ready wit of 'busly permanent fort is now made
inches, weigh over nineteen stone, Ltd., London. Described as the as follows:-I am six foot two which is being exhibited at Harrods, and look it Some time ago 1 Eternitas process, this method ens boarded a bus at Hampton Court, ables a specimen of an animal, Tho conductor came up to the top be preserved exactly as it was in meaning to travel to Charing Cross. from a mouss to an elephant, to deck, on which Tas the only life. The process consists first in passanger. I then discovered that the fixation of the specimen in the bad nothing less than a pound position required; next, de-hydra- note. The conductor had no change. tion and the replacement of the Getting It Over "I'm late already," I said, "Don't, water extracted by wax, which filiste kome
I beg of you turn me off the up all the tissues. It is now being A famous editor has confessed 'bas." For a moment he looked it used quite extensively, but it will that his first job as a journalist, was me musingly, “Turn you off the be used to a greater extent in carrying a rail of water to the "bus 1, he murmured gently. Then anatomical and pathological instruc- | boiler. He is lucky. Except that
he bent over me, “Do do you think tional work, and also in the they use a pot, many other writers. I am Samson 1"
medical museums
do little else all their lives;
Local Notes and Events ★
The Colony had a clean bill of
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years.
Hong Kong was visited by an oler typhoon on Friday night and Baturday, but although the gala was
Looking Back 50 Years.
Where there is smoke, runs the old adage, there must be fire there bas been much talk about the in- troduction of railways into China, and it is reasonable to suppose that underlying it is some probability of their becoming an accomplished fact. Ever since the threatened in vasion of China by the Russian
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Mr. A Strot, the well-known
ONE after another of the observers of business conditions has declared that the great need of the business The book opens with an amusing depression is the development of world in its effort to climb out of comparison between Queen VICTORIA some big new industry which will and the Dowager Empress Ta' take up the slack of employment health on Tuesday, Ha Quotations show how these and put capital into circulation. remarkable and autocratic old the impression that no such in Usually these statements have left Indies, who lacked nothing but a dustry has yet appeared on the The Raub Australian Gold Mining sense of humour, reacted to a
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fatal 18th of September, its effects the public. The mandarins then midst of a vigorous adolescence
were by no means so disastrous, discovered that the moans of trans and in addition there has come to
thanks to the timely warning which port for their troops and munitions. light, a host of all davelopmenta
enabled adequate preparations to be of war were paintifully slow and her features would have been ed
with big potentialitics.
made to resint it or to obtain ebel extremely defective, so much so i Here are some of the innovations mirably suited by the poke bonnete Ankle-high radiators, aluminum for impresario, has booked the famous Friday evening the sampans for the nuts with Russia ending in an open
ter. After the gun was fired on fact, that in the event of their dis and black silks favoured by British framing tall buildings, heat supply. Brandes dames of the nineties in eut with scissors, gyroseppes that of the Orient. Teresina, together Ferry made its last journey across to utilize their forces in an offer ing rugs, road wood, that can be Spanish dancer, Teresina for a tour second time that day, madoa sperdy rupture they would have been inta run for shelter, while the Star helpless position, and quite unable imitation of their Queen It is in will hold a 160-foot ship within a d
to Kowloon with a bont that was tive manner. Although this act this manner that Mr. HALL into maximum roll of two degrees, with a pianist and a guitarist will packed by people anxious to return was demonstrated to conviction, and duces us to Annals and Memoris of trio Lowboate operated by Tappear in the Colony about the end to their homes before the means of in number of the higher officials
mate control one-man automatic, the Court of Peking, and. China; gorges, a new process for making of December,
communication was stopped. The strenuously advocated the construe wind did not rise until after mid- tion of certain lines of railway on Under the Empress Dowager, by E. oopper harder than most common
night when, necompanied by heavy nocount of their strategia valus, BACKHOUSE and J. O. P. BLAND. tools The possibilities for a new
Townpours of rain, wit blew with there were still a sufficient number The latter work, apart from a dull markets are endless.
A product that will sweep the world's
terrific violence all through the of influential conservative mat night. On Saturday morning a Peking to secure the rejection of opening,
MY HALL It would appear, therefore, that," At toady's meeting of the Legis. man-of-war near Hib.8. Tamar was the proposal. The lately degraded Assures De LYTTON STRACERY - while the need of a new
seen drifting, but she soon recovered Viceroy of the Liang Kiang gave- industry to lift business out of the lative Council, the Coloint Secre- herself. The shipping losses were bis opinion adversely to the rail- famous study of Queen VICTORIA Tuti reosiving considerable atten
comparatively light, two lighters way, this appears to have parried There follow extrac from the tion, there are many forces, now at tary will move a resol
and two-junks foundering in the some weight at Paking and to have hocks in question, including
work accomplishing this very things the basis of calculation
larion harbour, On this occasion the heavy, sent un the scale, against them. swift and vivid description of that rise becomes spectacular or apt, of civil ser
and whether any one new enter
seas were dashing over the Fraya Bince that time, however, notwith dramatic moment in Chinese bit the of eat in the aggregate inim
ints with dependents and the spray was rising to great, standing thing the difficulty with
heightens result of which many Russia has been settled, and tory: when the enligh JURG | pertant; There appears.
Fin gold currengy, poun Lu pleaded in vain with his Roval ablo rasson: to anticipato
godowns, and houses along the hostilition with that power Mistress against allowing the attack beneficial effect will
converted the railway question has Hong continued on the rapia Hong Kong not distant future.
1908. Daily Press, October 1881,
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