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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1922.
moquainted with the commercial goography of the Empire. This exhibition will go a long way
DAY BY DAY.
- HS WHO 19 IN A HURRY TO
ROUND THE TOWN,
DEATH IN GAOL.
Prisoner Dies of Pneumonia.
(By "Gadabout.")
The good folks at "Yome asem as koon as ever on dansing. In a paper which reached me by the last mail I noticed several adver. There was a clean bill of healthtisements in connection with the the death of a year old mala
towards enlightening them. In RETURN A KINDNESS, -HAS NOT the words, if not in the identical THE MIND OF A GRATEFUL MAN, |sease, of the distinguished states. | BUT OF A DEBTOR.—Seneca,
man just quoted, tha big gather- ing at Wembley Fark should stimulate Britishers to "think in the Calony yesterday. Imperially."
The "Egypt" Disaster.
Residents of Hongkong, because they have all had "experience of sea voyaging, have followed the enquiry into the loss of the P. and O. liner Egypt with the deepest of interest. Yesterday, the finding of the Court came through, and it was couched in terms which re-
Some light was thrown on tha system of treating sick convicta at Victoria Gaol by an inquest into
Flight fantastic Dancing used to prisoner, named Li Ying, held at be too warm a pastime during the Magistracy yesterday afternoon To-day is the Hindoo festival of the, suramer months, but up by Mr. B. E. Lindsell (Coroner. Sat Narain and the Chinese parently things have changed with the assistance of the following festival of Chung yuan-chish. somewhat. I notice that fox trots jurors: Messrs. H. P. Lamarche and one steps are still in favour, [[foreman). Ng Kwok-ling and B.0. but there are some new ones. Marval. The Colonial Secretary informs What's a Lascelles Waltz and a Li Ying w committed us that the Government of Hong-Murray Tango? I suppose we Victoria Gral on August 2nd. for kong has made arrangements to shall bear of them bara when the six months bard labour for the end a further $50,000 to Swatow dancing season comes round kidnapping of a servant girl at for relief purposes.
In
again, but if the new Tango is Strumshinpɔ. Last Saturday he anything like the old car, I can't reported sick and was admitted to Eleven deaths occurred see it a popular number at any of the Gaol Hospital. Acecrding to flected upon practically everybody amongs: pilgrims returning from our big balls Takre up too much the evidence adduced, he was not concerned with seeing to the safety Mecca 03 the Blue Funnel room for the limited space at our seen by the Garl Pector (Dr. A. R. of those aboard the ill-fated boat. steamer Antilochus. between disposal-and that new City Hall, Eslar until Monday ring. The Company's regulations were Jeddah and Singapore.
with a decent-sized dancing ball,] when be was found to be sudering probably good, but the fact is
seems a long time coming. The from pneumonia. He was then recorded that they were not given
prices of admission at Home are setiously, but not dangerously, ill. effect to, with the result that about Amongst the passengers who rather interesting. To enter Yesterday morning Dr. Evler re- a hundred souls perished. It is left by the sa. Katori Maru were most halls it oasts a modest cerced ad urgent cil at 8.25 from nos for us to apportion the blame; Mr. F. X. A. Silva, proceeding bab I don't suppose there's the Gaol. Un his arrival at the that has already been done by alto Lisbon, to represent Macao ina tea Or # dinner thrown al Hospital about twenty competent Court after & mos: the Portuguese Senate, and Mr.in, મ there is at EP of minutes later, the deceased was exhaustive enquiry, and, in view J. M. da Rocha, senior partner of the danes here, but there's some already dead. The cause of death of the terrible loss of if that was Mesere, J. M da Rocha and Co.,difference in the price. It's was peumonia, which supervened sustained, it is to be hopal that who is sailing for London.
pity somebody doesn't start tuberculis. Dr. Esler toll the some profit will be derived fram
dances in Hongkong during the Court that from the man's ap、 the strictures passni We all
The World Theatre is showing inter at a simila: figure. There's pearance it would be difficult to say learn from experience; let us "Western Blood." fire-reel (no doub; about whether or not he was seriously ill.
The photo-plas
William Fox, they would be popular. zood will eventually come.hich has a romantic atmosphere
Prince's Pavilion filled up quickly In the handling of ships in and plenty of good humour. The enough at fifty cents a time at the BRANDT BACKHOUSE. — moments of emergency, On July 22nd. at the Church of human element is everything: it which tips the attention of the
the girl Roberts figures in this play.two tea dances held there. St. Martin in the Fields by the is regrettable that in this case it Rev. Castles H. Ritchie, Henry failed. as did the system, which audience from start to finish. Gastave, only son of Mr. and was the work of human minds. Mrs. H. O. Brandt, of Hale,
17, Connaught Road Central.
Tel. No. 1185.
MARRIAGE
trust that our of this disaster,
br
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In reply to the Cornner. Dr. Esler said that it was possible for a prisoner to be admitted to hospital without presious reference to him, After hual inspection at the
Was sitting in the Hongkong hospital a prisoner who reported Hotel America Soda Fountain sick would be sent to bospital and After his assumption of duty,)
the other day having a chat with would not be seen by hon until However, if the Chestire, to Daris, Mary Mar-Stricter Regulations.
anal over Big Guo Egg" andet mening the new Governor of Canton sent Good Samaritan" and we go: Prisuper was found to be seriously guarite, only daughter of Mr.j The Court has made some im for Comm's-ioner Chung Sbou-
ill, witaess would be seat for. round to that old topic, whether a and Mrs. James H. Barkhouse of portant recommendations, which, nan and Mr. Yao Chit, Manager fellow who's spent & few years this case be was not notified that la
Hoogkong.
if put into effect, should be sil to of the Provincial Bank, for con-out bere could settle down at the deceased bad bean admitted to the good in ensuring the greater sultation with regard to the re Home again. No: I don't think hospital. safety of those who travel by sedemption of the provincial notes the average fellow could. You The Coroner: From the con
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
The Telegraph.
One is that the same Board of It was decided to resume the
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don't go
and have a decent bar body, and imagin his life would have been to a swimming fete dition of this man's illness do you
a jazz band, and a dance thrown saved if you had been sent for in, at the usual aquatic sports in earlier?
Mrs. A. Weill and family wish Trade supervision and inspection business of the Bank oo or about to heartily thank all their friends as is applied to emigrant ships | the 15:3. of this month. for their kind expressions of should be extended to a foreign. sympathy in their recent sad going passenger ships. Another, bereavement.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- the Old Country. You don't get Dr. Ellert I don't think hê would and a most important one, is that ministering the Government has refreshment tents where they base benefited by any other trest- Mr. and Mrs. Leopoldo de the supply of a cumbered badge to received & despatch from the sell pigs trotters and pork pies, mest. The man's lungs were Sousa beg to tender their since each member of the boats' crow Secretary of State for the Colon-and rest thanks to their numerous before sailing should be made lies to the effect that he has can quench your thin with
little place where roobally affected.
The Coroner: Not if you bad friends for the kind expression of compulsory in the case of all such appointed Sir Frank Swettenbar, lemonade, ginger ale and other taken up the care forty-eight bours sympathy in their recent bereve-ships. In the case of the Egypt, G.C.M.G. late Governor of the things (mostly other things) at earlier?-No-I don't think so. ment and also to: the tarall it was the failure to handle the Straits Sectiamente, to be Chair-the average al tresco-concert. tributes received.
bosts properly that caused
No Alarming Symptoms. man of the Committee for the And, by the way, the K.C.C. is such a heavy death-roll. Bost Far East Group in the British giving another of its little Evidence was given by а drill, we fear, is usually a mot Empire Exhibition, 1924.
[shows, which were so popular European arder that his instrue- perfunctory business on most
last summer, on Saturday. At tions were not to send for the passenger ships. Everybody gets warning of it, with the result that
Under the United States Govome now they are having doctor units the patient's ters- dickens of a controversy whether persture was above 101 degrees. it generally resolves itself more ernment scheme for securing a or less into a farce. Emergency reserve of officers to take the People shall be allowed to play in this case the man's temperature drills, of which no warning was field in case of war, Major Johc would like some of the cant deceased complained that he was games in the parks on Sundays. was bever user 102 degrees. The given, would be far more in Lee, of the US Army, is on a slingers to have a look-see at the suffering from headache and fever keeping with the conditions visit to Cains for the purpose of tennis courts and bowling greens and witness did not realise that attaching to mishaps at sea.registering ex-Service men. Yes It sounds a gox! way off to And we canno: help thinking terday, accompanied by the L. Sin this part of the world on the be was serious!s ill. [1924, but probably the time will that Board of Trade reguls Consul-General, he bad tiffin with Sabbath and I don't think we're terday morning, when he relieved any the worse for it. Act the Indian warder on night duty, not be too auch for preparing for Where human lives are at stake. House and later addressed locatable from the States told as yes- he found that the man's condition i. E. Mr Severa at Government
Americans
terday that one died and twenty had become much worse. He at at the Consulate.!
A few overcome by the heat in once went for Dr. Esler where the scheme was explained. Chicago. with a temperature of minutes before the doctor's arrival He has now gone to Canton. It 87. After the summer we've been the man expired as be was being is hoped that many local Amer through, it we went to a country given some brands. A rumour has pread fromicans will register under the like that, we should be getting! Peking that Was Pei-fu is to have scheme.
HONGKONG, 5th Sept., 1922,
THINKING IMPERIALLY.
tions on this point are called for. the Empire Trade Exhibition the precautions cannot be too which is to be beld at Wembley strict. |Park, London. At any rate, the
the fact that the undertaking has already been in hand for so.3e time is a sign that the promoters aira at thoroughness. By all ac counts the function is to be upon
A
Wu to Fight Europeans?
a chance of adding to his laurels
by an encounter with European
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overcome with the cold.
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At 6.25 yes-
The foreman of the jury asked whether in view of the man's low temperature Dr. Evler would con- troops in Mongolia, where the best to the picture "I'll Get Him new soda fountain, Mr. Taggart
Dorothy Gish is seen at ber Bolsheviks, hold sway, despite Yet." which came to the Ster really ought to think of an approbe id ant issued any instructions By the way, talking about the eider the warder had acted on grod
judgment. an unprecedented scale, and this Chins's suzerainty
Recalled, Dr. Evler stated that oret that Theatre last evening. The audi-priate name for it. You can't say is saying something after the territory. Things might come to s exhibitions at the White Cup clash eventually, but they are not from the story in which Dorothy Hongkong Hotel American Soda nut to be sent for until the enre cot ample entertainment to a pal, I'll see you at the the hospital warder that he was likely to for the time being. As is seen on the love trait against Fountain." It's a terrible mouth-patient's temperature reached 101 and the Crystal Palace.
a matter of fact, a Soviet Envoy young newspaper guarantee of a million sterling Extraordinary. M. Joffe, bas just
reporterful. It would be a good test per
He bad instructed, the degrees. takes some getting together, but! arrived in Peking with a view to Possessed of radical ideas on thehaps after. say. the fourteenth, warder to send for him at core it question of fortune hunting made by another cocktail expert the patient seemed to be seriously the amount has been fully sub-ing. Russia being desirous of
reaching some sort of understand. He is also possessed of that I wot of, but it's hardly the ill. However, he had no reason to scribed, which is a promising renewing
toochy temperament which trade relations with
nare for what is getting to be a think that in this case the warder. makes omen. According to prevent in-China. 0.
him fariously jealous popular rendezvous. Of course, could have realised that the man the question of
when anyone appears to bim to it could be called the "dry' dications, the exhibition is to be Mongolia. M Joe bas bean be posching on his preserves. or something like that, but when
bar, was seriously ill. fencing by declaring that Soviet The programme also includes you talk of cocktail experts and that the cause of death was quite Suamiog up. the Coroner said an Empire one in fact as well troops are only holding the coun- Mack Sennett comedy and con- punches and shakes, and such clear. if the jury was not satisfied as in name, as the Overseas try against the reactionaries": dominons, especially Australia. There are, or were, both Moscow be replaced by the extraordinary one of the other kind of re- the Goal Hospital they would be tinues until Friday when it will like nomenclature, wbich remind with the conditions prevailing in and Far Eastern Republic troops are taking a practical part in Mongolia. Wu. it may be
attraction Why Change Your freshers, you want something a at liberty to Hongkong, we are glad to see, is judged, is too astute to hazard
Wife?"
little more in keeping with thements. likely to be represented by some his position at the present time
general scheme. How would Without adjourning. the jury
The Passyfoot Arms" do? Or returned by trans-moral ventures, especial- typical exhibits.
a verdict of death in ly as he might have Chanz. Tao EMPLOYING SERVANTS, what about "The Dry Dock?" accordance with the medical testi- The leading purpose of the lin issuing from his stronghold
tatay, and added a rider that in Exhibition, which will continue hard by. Assuming Wa worsted
Something awful's happened in view of the low temperature of the for six months, is to take stock the Soviet forces, his own would
Mr. Lindsell Explains.
deceased the hospital warder had the mess. Having borrowed a of the Empire's industries and would give Chang his chance to probably be weakened, which
violin bow, got round somebody to condition was so serious,
no reason to suspect that the man's fruitful theme-io see what re-down his rival and take over the Lindsell) says he was wrongly invested a few cents in a fiddle.
The First Magistrate (Mr. R. E. give him en empty biscuit tin, rources need development. It may prestige 23 recoupment with reported when, during the hear string and collected together one
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be said that this could be done interest for the defeat in the ing of a Kowloon larceny charge of two other little etceteras, one Tosti'e "Good Bye,” I told him. without su exhibition, As #
matter of survey it could. What the exbibition is specially designed to do is to bring home to the British people as a living reality our vast undeveloped
spring-
PEKING NEWS.
Preparations for War.
It
on Monday, he was represented of our worthy colleagues has You should bare just seen the as saying that "he could not constructed an instrument which look on his face when he turned understand how a man with such he tells us is a one-stringed fiddle. round and said he was playing & bad record as the defandant had Well, that's bad enough in itself, Annie Laurie." It's getting & could be taken into service by but there's worse to come. The terrible strain on the nerves. Europeans." He states that owner of the alleged instrument starts after dinner and goes on what he actually said was that it thinks be can play, and his enthu-till long past time to go to bed. A Peking telegram states that was extraordinary that Europeans siasm's catching on. Some of the First one, then another, will estate,"
the late Joseph owing to the Chihli troops having "should here to suploy such a other members of our once happy pick the thing up and start off. Chamberlain termed it, and thus arrived at Pa Kai, Chang Tao-lia man.
meas want to learn to play, too. To see say of 'em resining their We willingly publish the ex-Ob, it's terrible. We've had no bow before they start, you would further to stimulate enterprise. has increased the defence force
at Chinchów.
planation, but would add that, peace for nearly a week. I'm think they were all Mischa It is astonishing-or, rather, shall
Another Peking message says whether it in extraordinary or not, sure it'll end in trouble. A fellow Eimans. But, boly smoke, you're we say that it is not at all that Wu Pei-fu bas ordered large the fact remains that under exist was strumming sway the other not long deceived, after they've moday and, trying to be sociable and drawn the bow across the string. astonishing, considering the ex-stocks of rice for the military and icg conditions there are
has also ordered the Arsenal at satisfactory means of Europeans give him a little bit of encourage time or two: No wonder Kow Hanyang to work day and night ascertaining the past records of ment, I told him he was getting leon's getting & reputation for are in the manufacture of cartridges. newly-engaged servants.
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