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CORRESPONDENCE,
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph.**)
Bathing Complaints.
"SPIT AND POLISH.”
The Latest Army Edict.
THE HONGKONG `TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1923.
WOLF'S COWARDICE.
Canadian Trappers' Tales.
Mr. Arthur Heming, a disting
Not since it was held, against A report that three trappers all outside criticism, that the Air were killed and davoured by A Force officer must possess a pack of timber wolves at Ignace, sword and wear it on ceremonial in the far north trapping district, Sir-If I remember rightly. I occasions has the old army out-and that the remains of sixteen, believe there was a paragraph in
look-the "spit and polish wolves were found in the snow at your paper some days ago calling brilliance as in a circular which lenged by naturalists and by tradition-appeared with such the scene of the tragedy, is chal- attention to the limited accom modation for bathers at North is said to have been just issued tappers who know the babits of! Point
to the RAM C. officers at the wolves and have hunted for years It will probably interest you to Royal Herbert Hospital at Wool in the North Country, writes a know that on Sunday last the wich. Henceforward, when they Canadian correspondent of the that a number of soldiers and Parade, so to speak, and there uished Canadian naturalist, die. accommodation was so over-tared are on duty they will be "on
Times.
Chinese made used of the open is to be no nonsense about their matabed provided for non-bathers. Costume. "Slacks are forbid. credits the whole story,
There is a notice posted on the den. When in uniform it must insists that timber wolves are not beach to the effect that batherse full uniform-breeches, tap mankillers. Mr. W. T. Thomson. must not partially remove their boots or gaiters, and spars."
a dealer in fure at Ignace, atates We costumes when entering the ather that there are to be no ex.,
that wolves are numerous in the shower, but some of the bathers ceptions; the military medical neighbourhood, but he decisres referred to removed everythingman must go round his wards that although he has lived in the they possessed right out in the garbed as for cavalry drill, and country for twenty five years, he open matshed.
march booted and spurred intoas never known a buman being the operating theatre. One can he ever known a report of man- to be killed by wolves. Nor has only wonder that he had not been
Yours etc.
DECENCY. Hongkong, May 22. 1945.
WATER SHORTAGE.
A Kowloon Complaint. We have received the follow ing for publication:
and
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ordered to ride into it on by Indians or trappers. charger and operate for appen. dicitis from the eacdle. Certainly,
lives at Gogama, in the Sudbury Mr. Tom Saville, & trapper who
it would be no great surprise district, in a letter to the tube on top of these instructions-to hear that if the commanding contends that wolves flee from officer happened to enter while
the sight of man. He says that operation was in progress the be has never been molested by instruments and "spring smartly there was any railway connection surgeon was expected to drop his wolves, although he went into Northern Ontario long before to attention." However, à ques- Sir,If say residents in Kow. tion is to be asked in Parliament with that country, and for years loon are inconvenienced by the about these Woolwich orders, so in the summer, hanting and teap- has been guiding and prospecting | water restrictions, surely there that perhaps somebody will bej are none more so than the tenants officially requested not to be so pag in the winter, sleeping more of the top floers in Nathan Road. foolish. Of course, unless "King's hemmed in by four walls and a often alongside a camp, fire than On inspection, the following was Regulations" have been amended, coticed that the water situated some subordinate at Woolwich roof above. Mr. Saville on the ground floor had a rusty must have done a dreadful thing) 34" supply pipe corroded, without even more dreadful than wear-
I will tell you just one little doubt having been there sinca ing slacks--in communicating his personal experience with those the houses were built some twenty grievance and the contents of this ferocious man-eaters. years ago, supplying three floors circular to a member of Parlizing back from the Hudson Bay each with two taps. To say that ment. He must complain through Post just after New Year, where there is insufficient pressure is the recognized military channels had been to take my fall catch absurd. The highest point the first to bis C. O., and then to
of furs. water is laid on is 45 feet above the next higher authority, and so street level, and there is no on. It is a good thing that this difficulty in obtaining it when Woolwich oddity should be raised east, or west, on account of the the water is not restricted.
in Parliament, and the upshot
The trouble lies ia the will be awaited with interest. fact that the ground Hoor Manchester Guardian,
is occupied by Chinese and con. sequently they have, during the hours that the water is turned on,) an unlimited supply sad they certainly make the most of it. Os entering their kitchen, I saw four Shanghai bath tubs filled and numerous other receptacles, and coolies, evidently
from their friends ready to carry water way our water, for which we have to pay.
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Sometimes I could not tell whe- ther we were travelling north, snow blowing and drifting, but I knew the dogs would not fail me.. Once in a while there would be a lull, and I recognized an-island ahead of us where I had camped overnight with my family on aur way in to our hunting ground early in the fall. I could see what I took to be a deer feeding Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
along the bore at the cedars, but Thrills a Big Audience.
I just got a glimpse of him, then, it drifted up again and I could eesl New York, April 7: A weird fothing but snow. We were just photograph, described by Sir making the point of this island.! Arthur Conan Doyle as that of and what should we meet coming pirit war dead-myriads of grim from the other side but a pack of faces, hovering above the Ceno-wolves. We just met there. is under 10 zallons. For the re-taph of the unknown Soldier in The leader, a big, grizzled. long- mainder I require I have to send London during the two minutes legged old chap. looked me over my boy down with a bucket and he of silence for player-drew gasps from a distance of about 20ft; the bas to wait hie turn with outside of astonishment from 3 large rest of the pack ranged behind coolies.
audience in Carnegie Hall last and alongside of hire, their tails I don't blame the Chidese alight, when he gave his first straight for just about as long as together. A lot of it is due to a lecture on spiritism. Some it takes to stiffen them out with faulty system by which the water women sobbed, and even scoffers fear. Then they broke. They just is distributed.
were thrilled.
flattened out on the ice and flew The K.R.A. states that it's purely a local trouble: the land-through?"
Do you see the dead creeping-twenty-one of them.
Sir Arthur asked. A TALE OF THE GOLD RUSH. lorde say they are not allowed to pointing to the spectral faces on
Similar testimony is offered by alter the supply. If we are to go the screen. "You can see them Dr. J. S. McCullough, of Toronto, through the summer with such an everywhere."
The total amount I have had through my taps this last week
who, in the Klondyke gold rush.|
arrangement then I think it time! There were two photographe, was one of a party of men who for someone to make a move in taken by Mrs. Dean, an English attempted a traverse from the
the matter.
Yours etc.
TENANT.
Kowloon, May 22, 1923.
CONVICT GIVES EVIDENCE.
medium. The first, a snapshot, Mackenzie River at Fort Norman showed the great crowd standing to the Ste vartor McMillan River, barebeaded before the Cenotaph over the divide.
A faint luminous patch, familiar He was obliged to come back on in all spirit pictures, appeared account of sickness when the over the throng.
party had got not about sixty miles;
The second picture, which had on the trail. After dividing the been exposed during the two min-supplies with his partner, he went utes of Prayer, showed countless back alone, and as it was necess- heads of sad-visaged soldiers float-ry that the onward-going party Highway Robbery Charge. spectators were blotted out. Some have a tent to cover him on the should have two teats, he did not ing above the memorial." The faces were blurred. but others of spruce boughs and had a fire at return trip, but built little shelters pression of the audience was thai were distinct. The general im-:
his feet. Wolves there seemed the faces were those of men who terrifying howls at night, but they to be in pleats, judging from the were seldom seen.“
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At the Criminal Sessions last March, two men were convicted of highway robbery on Laichikok read on the night of had been killed in battle. Feb. 9th-10th.
Two men, riding in rickshay, moved." Sir Arthur said, when stand that the wolves never at were stopped by tour man, one of the sobbing and buzz of hysterical tacked a man, so be travelled all carcass, came within a few yards whom was armed with a revolver whispered comment interrupted alone, and seldom carried a wea-of bip and saw his lip turn up, and another A dagger. The bis remarks. robbers relieved the two men of
"I consider it the their valuables, which included a greatest spirit picture in the pon of any kind other than a light exposing his testa.
camp axe. "The fact that I was turned, and after another back- Then he chein and a pair of spectacles. developed immediately and that my trail I saw fresh wolf tracks,
He declared the plates had been that every time I went back over from the landscape."
out night after night alone, and ward glance he just vanished Two men were arrested in con- there was no chance for fraud. nection with the crime and are
On the other hand, Mr. W.Tson? and that through the long Arctic Hornaday, Director of the Bronx Since those two men
Laights one could almost always Zoological Gardens at New York caught, another man has been
bear the howl or bark of the wolf, declares that north-western sec- arcated. He came before the you know you have the boat. If big game was driven away by the threatened with invasion by packs probably chasing haras, for the tions of the United States are Chief Justice, at the Criminal you do not, you have not yet forty odd men who had gone over of bunger-mad wolves from Sessions, this morning. Ons of done the best you can the witnesses called was one of your eyes comfort. It is possible wolves and little else but hares increase in the number of grey to give the country, leaving hungryCanada. He thinks the alerming the men convicted of being con- to correct the vision of eyes that and ptarmigan, would seem to timber wolves is explained by low cerned in the robbery, last March, need glasses without using Toric prove that if ever the wolf would raw fur prices. Two years ago The jury were Messrs. W. H. B. lenses. It would also be possible attack a human being the condi- wolfskins fetched from £4 to £12 Muskatt, R. M. da Rocha, W. P. to Liang, A. D. Sequeira, J. C. preumatic tyres, but it would not I plodded my slow course back range from £1 to a little less than motor car without tions were right for them to do so in New York, while prices now Bib'ey, Li Wal-ching and H. H.be as comfortable. If you have alone over this trail. R:medios.
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£4. Owing to the low prices, Accused waS sentenced to a pair of Tories, their deep inner of Canada ever attack a living to regard wolf-killing as a profit varione merchants who occupied "I do not believe that the wolves Indians and trappers have ceased changes made in the sign by the Above are shown the different seven years' imprisonment and curve conforme to the natural human being. I have talked of able pursuit, and the wolves are the store. The clotbing merchant motions of your eye. Toric lenses wolves to many bushmen and rapidly exterminating game ani- added a "C" to "Oats." The gun- of any prescription are msau-never yet have I come across mals. In Alaska, he says entire suaith changed the "A" to "L," factured by Hoogkong Optical Co., anyone who had bush experience herds of caribou have been an- and one letter was changed suc- successors to Clark & Co., manu- but had an absolute contempt nibilated, while in many instance cessively by the hardware dealer, facturing and refracting opticans, for the wolf so far as being huntere and trappers have been the second clothing merchant, located in 53, Queen's Road attacked by him want. I once attacked, and some killed, by zo. the grocer, the animal dealer and Central.
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