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(of course, is sasior to with than to get put into pffect. But a good purpose would be served if the [Information_regarding indebted-
DAY BY DAY.
TO THERE IN A SOLUTION
PROBLEM THAT CON-
|ness*were made public, so that EVERY
1922.
ROUND THE TOWN.
ANOTHER MURDER.
[By
"Gadabout.”]
Sanitary Foreman Shot. There really is something in FRONTS MANKIND; THE POINT
The longstanding fand betwOEN - it might be realised, exactly IS TO FIND IT.-- Worres.
what these old-timers say when the Sanitary Department coalies they tell the tale to we poor and labourers of certaila: guilds in da where China standa að far an ex-
griffins. A day or two back I said to have produced a serions
ternal and internal obligations One Chinese cans of entericas casually glancing over the case which cocurred laat night, in
fover was notified yesterday.
are concerns. Devolution, or as General Chan puts it, self-govern« mant for the provinces, has muod
The recent fire in the Customs offre at Canton resulted in losses to commend it in a country of totalling $150,000 the extent of China, and if tha? |
is conceded, a considerable step! The Dew Shakee road
should be taken towards re- Canton is to be over 4,000 fest in
struction has been awarded at $380 per foot.
Were
THE FIRE BRIGADE.
be Housed Temporarily in Des Voeux Road.
minutes of a certain local sport-Bowrington Road, Wanchai, when ing club, now defunct. Some of one of the former, descabed as a the entries were rather interest- foreman, was shot in the left side › ing. On one page, with a date of by an assailant whose identity is some twenty years ago, was set still under investigation. out the monthly wages paid to The foreman died from the the Club staff. The head boy got affects of his injury and his and a similar sum per mensen remains were subsequently re- length. The contract for its con-as paid the son of toil who look-moved to the Public Mortuary. unificatiod.
ed after the garden. Ther wers') There is one other point in the
saven under boys, and their; amoluments ranged from $2_to: interview worthy of note and
$3. Let's hope they didn't spend that is General Chan's explan-
Among the departures by the their money in riotous living. Tango Maru_yesterday stion of his break with, Sun Yat-Madame Lottie Gordon, Mr. P. The total monthly pay bill of the sen. It is now openly stated that M. Hodgson, Capt. and Mrs. T. Raff came to $3350, for nine ser- To Chan disagreed with his former Shearer, Mr. A. L. Pinkerted, Mr.ants. Another entry, some ten
The Hongkong Fire Brigade are chief not only on points of policy 4 Commons and Capt. G. A.ears later, caught my eye. The secretary was reporting those Mudden.
mattere which
to bave new temporary bead-. secretaries do but by reason of the latter's extreme political views. Those The extension of the Helena report and among other things quarters. They are to be moved Was also that the ingredients in out of their present premises at views led Sun into "plots and May Institute will be open for the composition of gin and bit the junction of Queen's Road and schemes which Cha conside:spection, to-morrow, Thursday.ters have been purchased. Wellington Street and will be Sept. 21st., from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. page or two farther on was the honed in the new building re- ed harmful to Chins; and so the The Council jovits members and drinks price list. To look at en cently erected by Mr. M.J.D. two parted company. Precisely their friends. Tea will be served. raised shirt. They would be Voeux Road and Pottinger Strest. Stephens at the corner of Des Adet.
enough to make even old “Passy-
The ground floor of the new foot forget his good refolutions.} Two Chinese women have re-a small bottle of beer cost 25 building is divided into five sec- MUSTARD & Coenough is already known of Sun ported to the police that whilst cents and a large ditto tan centsions, suitable for shops, etc. The Yat-sen's tendencies to warrant walking down the billside near more. A peg of whisky was 10 sections and also the top or. Brigade are renting four of theso the belief that they were revolu. / Whitfold they were stopped by cents and 20 cents for a double-The first floor, it is understood, is
men, armed respectively bander. Those aforementioned tionary in character. And the witb a dagger and a file, who ingredients when sold in the shape to be let out to private firms as naar future will probably reveal stole their jewellery, valued at of the finished article --gia-and- offices.
On the ground floor will be kept much that up to the present has $17.
bitters-passed over the bar been going on beneath the sur
counterfo: 10 cents. By carbonate; the engines and fire fighting ap Chung Trung and Tsang Shing of sods (which, I learn, is a newpliances, the rear portion being face.
were found guilty at the Crim nal and permissible explative for em-divided off for quarters for the Sessions, before the Chief Justice phasising purposes), with appetite office and flats for the super- men. On the top story will be (Sir Wm. Rees Davies) this sers at that price, the population intendent and the station officer. must have all developed eating diabetes.
Distributora,
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 20th Sept., 1922.
tank.
A CLEAR-THINKING PATRIOT.
what there schemes were, Gin- eral Chan dass not
sy, but
been
WO
morning. of being in possession of coining machinery on Lam Tong Island on Aug. 14th, and were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
Bank
...
Owing to the prevalence of armed robberies, it is possible that the present Fire Station will be. Friend Adversarios in his converted into temporary polic weekly screed on Saturday iovit-quarters, which will be welcome ed local aquatic men to air their news to the banks and other
Although the rent for the naw
half
that
1
From
Wanted: the Truth.
Sir John Bradbury is probably best-known to the generality of Britishers in coonestion with A lot of ground was covered in war-time paper correnty. More the special interview which our lately he has been busy as a
A detective who was on duty views on the merits and other-business firms in that neighbour- member of the Reparations. representative bad on Saturday Commission. The Times Paris in the early hours of this morn-wise of poles as compared to hood. with General Chan King-ming, correspondent states that Siring to catch any robber that cars. I'm afraid I don't come and which we published in our John is desirous of retiring from might come along, sa man in within the category mentioned, quarters will be higher than that the Commission because he is the street in the central district but nevertheless, feel almost of the old, the Brigade will have yesterday's issue. In reading it anxious to tell the truth about whose movements be viewed with bound to bott in. His general far superior accommodation and over, one is left with the impres- Germany's financial position, suspicion. A call to stop for the tone conveys the impression that it is understood that the terms sion that General Chan is a "which is impossible while he purpose of being searched brought he imagines it is only the Chinese agreed upon are very moderate.
came to occupies an official position." Do response from the suspicious who sula. Until I clear-thinking patriot, anxious to That Commission, as we have character, and the detective used Hongkong the word yulo was not course, be only temporary. When These new quarters will, of srve his country to the very once or twice observed, has been his revolver. The shot wounded in my vocabulary—but "what's in the big seven-story building at best of his ability.
He fully strangely silent concerning the the man, who is now in bospital, a name?" A yulo with any other present in course of erection on would make the boat ekim over the site opposite the Central appreciates the difficulties now results of its investigations. Per
haps it would be more correct to
At a banquet given in Canton the waves just as fast. (Apologies Market is finished the Brigade confronting Chins, especially in say that the Allied Governments to adficials of the Chamber of Mr. Shakespeare.) As a matter of will be given permanent quarters regard to the Gnancial problem, have been hackward in publishing Commerce, Commissioner Chung fact, yuloing isn't confined to there. This new building should but he is not without hope ibst, the Commission's findings, as the expressed the intention of the this part of the world; I was be completed within the next two
step presumably rests with them. Government to maintain the yuloed (although the fellow with years. given a spirit of willing to The reason for non-publication notes at their parvaine by means the car called it some other name operation amongst her leaders, may be a desire to minimise of depositing cash in a foreign which has slipped my memory) eventual ssivation will be found dissension. Probably there has back to an amount of $500,000 by Scottish fisherman long and started giving away free For his own part, be is prepared
some difference of view each month for a period of twenty before I had ever dreamed of seate on the dress as-the-atteko» between the various nations months until the fall amount of coming East of Suez, and that)tion principle? to decastrate what can be done representatives on the Cammisten million dollars in notes to be fisherman certainly bad never by concentrating on the work sion. But it is not worth while deposited in the Hongkong and been out in China. If you are in A beneficient Glovers neat, is entirely a dingy with a fellow to steer, a studying the wants and the which lies near at band grow bolding the material back Shangbai on this score.. From casual die redeemed.
stout back and a good pair of cars pockets of the citizens, bas in- Kwangtong, bis sim being to closures it may be inferred that
will send you through the water treated itself in a launch service help in making à model Southern while the French delegate's report The wedding of Mr. Cedric at twice the speed of a gulo, running daily between Hongkong province, where peace and pras-was against allowing latitude to Bord and Miss Phyllis Wilks though the latter method is aand Stonecutter's Island bathing Germany. Sir John felt that some will take place on November stb. good one if you are in a busy beach (another bighly command- perity shall take the place of moderation of the pressure upon in Shanghai. Mr. Boyd, who is waterway and there is nobody to able piece of work of considerate strife and financial embarrass-our late adversary was desirable. the son of Lady_Burdett, of handle the tiller. As far as rulers) and for transport the ment. We wish him well in the It certainly seams as if the best Ramsbury Manor. Wiltshire, is exercise is concerned. I back charge is only twenty cents,
courte would be to let the with the firm of Messrs. Jardine towing every time. Presumably or
sum if you citizens of the Allied countries Matheson and is well-known in suloing is the more convenient embark st, Kowloon. What is particularly striking have. the Pubstance of the the local polo world, both here method in a sampan or other Kowloon to Stonecutter's and is that General Chan, himself a data that has been collected and in Shanghai. Miss Phyllis sacb pomanageable craft, and I've back for ten cents is about the military leader, should lay so and for this reason Sir John's Wilks is the daughter of Mr. and an idea that the yulo is better nasrest to something-for-nothing much stress on the separation of ignation might be beneficist, Mrs. S. J. Wilks of Clairmont, against a strong current, or with that anyone can wish for in these diligent as he has been in the Cape Town. We understand that a heavy load, or under other get all-you-can-out-of-the-public civil and military affairs. Mili performance of his task. Hitherto they will be returning to Hong-difficult conditions. By the way, times in which we live, There's tariste, according to him, should we have been confronted one day kong in time to be present at the in many dingies, there's a hole pobody making & fortune out of it, have to say in civil matters. with tales of astonishing German wedding of Mr. D. G. M. Bernard for a rowlock right aft. Fact is believe me, and as a matter of fact the same day as TDy brother I've an idea the Government bare and in view of the hold which prosperity and on the next with and Miss Addir.
scribe's article appeared reports of dire etraits. It is im- the War Lords have on affairs in possible for the Allied nationals
Described as
two-mile-European was to be seen yuloing
a dingy off Stonecutter's Island. the North, he foresees that to to form a definite judgment until minute laugh, Charles Ray's ap
they have authoritative data. pearance on the screen at the join hands with Peking at the
Star Theatre this evening in the Mr. Ray certainly gets out our pockets. We are getting moment would only be to place Conjuring in Court.
high-action picture Grossed some cute advertising dodges, but, something cheap and we appre- The somewhat drab proceed-Lightning" should furaish cause reslly. I do think he's about ciate it.. Bat why rub it in?. I Kwangtung in the grip of the
When be don't know whether it's the Gor- very people whose powers the ings at the Magistracy were mo- for huge mirth and raise that us reached the limit South wish to see curtailed. In mentarily enlivened yesterday by willing merry litter from the comes cut with "Children wear-erament, the launch company, or sturs in the conjuring line. lugubrious member who is to be log Harold Lloyd spectacles will whether it is just the modesty of urging that the militarists should For this the spectators were in found in every audience. A racy be admitted at 2.30 today the coxswains, but why does give way for the good of the debted to a watchman of melo-motor and a vivacious mise, are FREE
it's beginning to the Stonecutter's launch always people, General Chan proves his dramatic tendencies, who was the two essentials brought into get too much of a good thing. have to play second fiddle to say giving evidence in an arms case. this picture, and the effect each Why, one of theas days I suppose other craft which wants to come bonesty of purpose. If his plan of The accused was found squatting produces on the high-spirited we shall be seeing everybody off alongside the Kowloon wharf it big conference on the disarma in front of a native temple. Near youth as typified by Charles is to try and get cumsha tickets to the same time? Nearly everY
or four men
were aptly described by the title. These Charlie Chaplin, wearing little day the bathers' craft respectfully cheat question were put into effect, by three
reclining, and, perceiving the film will be shown from to-night taggy trousers; or perhaps some makes way for the military the results would no doubt be to watchman, the accused
till Thursday.
of the youngsters will start trying launch, which comes alongside the good of the whole country. It cast himself into an attitude of
to cultivate the Charlie Chaplin just after fire. Of course, that is must not be overlooked that this repose. doubtless to lall Lying asleep across a counter feet. If the Coronet gets showing it should be: just so the mill- suspicion. In doing so, however, at two o'clock this morning, & any Annette Kellerman films and tary can start bagpipe practice military question has a very be allowed a towel to fall from grocer, at No. 107, Wabu Street. offers inducements to come to the when everybody wants to go to direct connection with the his attire. The watchman prompt was startled into consciousness show on the same lines, there will bed and to sleep. We are used to financial problem, also. It is, ly pounced upon this article, and by a rough hand laid on bis) be no end-of-season reductions in all that And if some high-and- indeed, the military incubus yesterday, re-enacted the scene shoulder and a threatening voice batbing costumes in the stores, mighty taipan wants to take a that is making such tremendous for the benefit of the Bench, asking him to surrender the key though on those days Mr. Ray party of half-a-dozen or so out in "Just watch what I am going to of his safe. Two robbers had wouldn't need much ice to keep his firm's launch the regular inroads on the national and pro-turn out of this towel," he ex- entered the shop, and, having the audience cool. The Hawaiians curd just have to wait a litte vincia) sxchequers. General claimed. A little tumbling, and falled to get the key from the last week wouldn't have had longer Twenty or thirty people a grocer, they set about opening all much difficulty lo getting full can wait the convenience of the Chan wants the people of China then the, witness exhibited
dagger sequel, oine months the drawers in the place. There houses every night if they could half-dozen. Then, when every to know how they stand in regard bard. It wasn't up to the were about a hundred dollars in the have induced some of the fair body else is quite sure they've to national indebtedness. What standard of the old prestidigi- counter which the robbers took. members of the audience to come finished with the wharf, the launch is more, he urges that no further fateur whom we used to see to it was fortunate for the grocer in on fres-gratis-and-for-nothing for the populace comes alongside. Fleet Street producing & guipes that they did not press him for tickets, wearing those straw-like It's only a small master, but tink debts be contracted and that an pig (from bis coat-tail, it tran-possession of the key of the safe, skirts. No; this sort of thing come, first served. And the public. effort be made to wipe off old spired); but it futroduced a little ar there were two thousand can't go on. What if an enter-launch is supposed to rus le accounts and start afresh. That,} variety?
dollars locked up inside,
prising man staged Salome here me fable
..
to subsidise the scheme in order that we can enjoy the advantages which nature bestows upon us without burning too big a hole in