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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9, 1931.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE AT WAR ON GREY SQUIRRELS.
CHEFOO.
WINE COMPANY'S-WARE- HOUSE COMPLETELY
GUTTED.
TO BE EXTERMINATED IN THE
L.C.C. PARKS
The London County Council have given, instructions (pa the extermi❤ Chefoo, "Doc"-Residents here nation of all groy squirrels in parks were provided today with the un.
and open spaces under their con- usdal spectacle of alcohol kegs "ox-
trol. This decision follows a lead ploding, when stocks of liquor and the godowns in watch they were given by many musialpal-bodies, stored, the estimated value of which and is one which has been blessed
by the Ministry of Agriculture. wan $1,000,000; went up in flames.
The Are occurred this morning
A national campaign against the
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in the godowns of the Chang Yupest has been started Mr. L. W. Wine Company, the premises being Swainson, of Moorlands, Boxmeer, entirely gutted.
Hertfordshing, who is the hom "Wherever you Despite the size of the conflagra-seorotary, statod:
Bud the grey squirrel the woods tion no lives were lost.
It is reported that neither the arc silent, The song birds are liquor nor the property was inuur-dead. A grey squirrel will kill a full,growa pheasant; it takes'sband, ing wheat, pulls up bulb in the gardens, takes the hourt cut of cabbages- in fact, there is no more destructive peast in Baitain."
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GIANT WHALE ON,
EXHIBITION.
85-TON MONSTER ARRIVES IN
LONDON.
London, Doc. -A monster '05- ton whale called Erla," the pro- perty of the Pacific Whaling Com- pany, arrived at the London docka to-day from America
The whale, which is embalmed in a special crate in which it in ou view at a Christmas circus, waa 200 years old when it was caught two years ago.
POST OFFICE RUN BY "! AMATEURS.”
MILLIONS WASTED.
Viscount Wolmer, who was As- sistant Postmaster General from 1924 to 1029, writing in Lloyds
CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN
O-PRODUCE PLAY
·RIDIOULING GOSPEL.
Moscow, Dec. 2.With Christrnás only a few weeks off, the Soviet au- thorities are completing prepara tions for their annual anti-Christ- mas campaign,
The cutting and setting of Christ- mus trees has again seen forbidden on the ground that Russia's foresta should not be despoiled for religious purposes. As a special feature of this year's campaign, the promin-| ont Russian playwright, Alexandar Krisanor, has been commissioned to write an atheistic play ridfoul- ing, the gospel story which will be performed during Christmas Wook throughout Russia. In the capital five theatres, have boon instructed to produce the play simultaneously.
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Bank Monthly Review on Post Hong Kong Daily Press,
office Reform, statos:
"A great business is being run
The carcase was the largest single package that has ever crossed the by amateurs in business. It is or. Atlantic. Special arrangements kad 'ganised, not as a business, but as to be made for anshipping it by a Government Department. There is a lack of collaboration, touch means of the world's biggest com mercial floating erane, known as the with the public, and of professional London mammoth: The cost of kacwledge. The result is that many this operation lifting the whale from ship to shore-was £120 -
The carcase is complete, except for the heart, which weighed 1,200
milliong .. of the taxpayers' money,have been and are being. wasted; that the business is stagn- ant where is ought to be develop-
pounds. The mouth is large enoughing that the whole
commercial
to seat ton children comfortably in. afficiency of the country is thereby
Esido.
OCEAN CRUISES.
CUNARD LINE'S EXTENSIVE
PROGRAMME.
The Cunard Line, with the depar sure of the Mauretania' from Southampton for New York, in augurated one of the greatest cruise campaigns ever organised.
From the middle of November int: March a fleet of ten liuers of
the company will make 27 cruises, involving a steaming distance of over 163,000 miles.
Tad commissioning of this Arma- da will not only give employment te housands of British seamen, but will provide work for industries
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impaired and that the staff auf-
fors, as it does in all business that are mismanaged.","
"The cause," he says,
"is that: the Post Office still retains, renghly | speaking, the organisation which it assumed about the year 1855."?,
The remedy, it is suggested, is a public utility, company, holding
monopoly on "gas company terme." The State could be a large shareholder as it is of the Anglo- Persian Oil Company end of the established in heature of Suez Canal, Something could be:
"Consumers' Council," composed of, say, 50 members of Parliament, whose duty it would be to ventilate ¡ccal grievances.
RADIUM IN PLENTY.
POSITION IN THE LC.C. HOSPITALS.
A
tualling, and fuelling of these ships. Outstanding features of the Cunard programme include three ernises of the Mauretania from New York between November 1s and
"There is enough rádium for all, January 4; the inclusion of the patients in L.C.C. hospitals, and Aquitania for the first time as there is no evidence of an unsatis- cruising ship; the departure of sixfied demand.'
liners from Now York between Do. This statement is contained in the cember 18 and Desember 26; the de-report of the Central Public Health parture of the Franconia on a world Committee presented at the resting cruisa; and three cruises from Eng of the London County Council land to be made by the Laconia
"No additional facilities are re- between January and April.
quired,” it is added.”
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POLICE ARREST TWO DRUG TRAFFICKERS.
CAUGHT AS THEY STEPPED OFF TRAIN AT BERLIN,
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When the National Radium Com mission was set up a few years ago it was found almost at once" that there was great shortage of trained doctors with the export knowledgo. „necessary ··
superintending Berlin, Dec. 1 The intensive radium treatment, campaign of the Continental police against the international drug: Up to that time there had been rings, resulted today in the arrest
for
of the Istambout banker Eboushas far the much indiscrivainate use of and an American citizen of Yugos this substance, but the situation haa lavian birth, Belgracio, domiciled changed, and in the Inst report of at New York. Both were arrested the Commission the giving up of the as they stopped off the train, the police having been notified of their use of the four-gramma "boinbat impending arrival bere by the the Westminster Hospital was re Paris authorities who in turn had corded.. Facpived information from
Geneva drug agents,
From the documents round
the
This, together with other cireum- onstance, such as, the fact that cortain
both drug traffickers it appears centres in England have been un- that they had come to Germany
to purchase, illicity; large quanti-able to take up the quantities of tics of drugs. However, no charges radium allocated, theans that at the have been preferred bgainst the
two who will be expelled sa unde moment there is plenty available for airable aliens.
properly unleated patients.
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