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MOLYNEUX.-Od August 25, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, Eleanor (nee Rowley), wife of H. Lindsay Molyneux, of
A'son.
A sori.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923.
-titious, dread enters one's mind":
DAY BY DAY.
"Fair
WARDER'S ACCIDENT. U.S. TRANSPORT.
Seriously Injured in Fall·
from Verandah,
Warren
Repairing at Kowloon.
THE CORONET.
Doe is forcibly reminded, when] viewing the present crisis, of certain events in 1914. We then
IN ADVERSE HOURS, THE had the Sarajevo aasassinations, FRIENDSHIP OF THE GOOD followed by a humiliating SHINES MOST EACH PROSPER-
Among the many steamers DAY COMMANDS ITS
An accident which, it is feared, ultimatum from a big Power to a LOUB
may have fatal results, occurred repairing at the Docks in email Balkan nation, What FRIENDS.-Euripides.
to Warder Craigle at 2.90 this Kowloon is the U.S. transport It is a long time followed everyone knows. The
the Vessel of y."You should morning, when he fell into Wynd Warren. Play."
any incidents to-day are so nearly
address your letter to the journal ham Street from the second floor since
of the Warders Quartera opposite U.S. Government has come to parallel that an almost superconcerned..
the Gaol, a distance of 46 feat Hongkong to undergo repaira, and the advant of the Warren. and received serious injuries lost there be almost similar re- Sub-Lieutenant P... Agnew
No-one appears to have witness- now actually boing repaired at the sults. If anything very serious bas been posted to the looped the accident, and as yet it has Company's establishment at Kow- not been ascertained exactly un-loon, is a happy augury for the
futore. follows the present differoncos Bluebell on the China Station.
der what circumstances it occurr between Italy and Grosco, the
His Excellency the Governored. When a Telegraph reporter blame will certainly fall on the bigger nation. However much has taken tifin aboard the new interviewed Mr. J. W. Franks Blue Fuadel liner Patroclus to. this morning the view was ex- pressed by the Gaol Superintend the Greek Government might day.
ent that Warder Craigie toppled have best responsible for the
over the railings," which are of abominable murders, there was In the Water Pola League on ordinary height, whilst leaning! need for subb precipitate Saturday night, the V.R.C. "A"gainst them. The night being a action on the part of the Mus-host the R.GLA. "B" by seven warm one, Warder Craigie prob
ably came out on the verandah to It all happened through a news- cool himself. He was described paper. There was the pictura of solini Government, The League goale to nil. of Nations cannot do anything.
The French mail steamer Pauls being a heavy man, it is pre a wealthy young society man, seemingly, as Italy has Ustly re- Lecat, which arrived to-day from sumed that he overbalanced him with the caption, "Who will his fused to accept ite decision; but the North, is to be despatched a self in leaning over the railings, bride be"? Besides his ploture The warder was in his night was a vacant space, with a ques- what reassures us is the know. 4r.m. for Marseilles via ports.clothes when he was picked up tion mark prominently displayed. Molly O'Dair, a little Irish girl, and placed in an ambulance. Au ledge that the majority of the
Information has been received examination of his injuries by Mr. pasted her photo there, just for nations in Europe are heartily
that quarantine imposed on Franks, who came on the scone fun. And then she met him. dick of war.
arrivals from Hongkong has been immediately afterwards, ebowed And after that, by a series of withdrawn by Shanghai as from a serious fracture of the skull as accidents, that very copy of the came into bis hands. August 28th.
well as injuries to the right thigh. paper
The unfortunate warder, who Everything should have been all The Naval authorities have is a native of Scotland, had been right after that; but Molly had a He father who didn't like young men on in Hongkong at the moment, commenced active operations in on the Gual staff four years. but it is open to question whether connection with the lifting of was to have gone on duty this in expensive clothes, and plug the work done by some of the the L9, the submarino sunk morning at 7.15 o'clock. contractors is anything like up during the recent big typhoon.
100
Scamped Work.
"Thore is much building going
to specification. The other day,
a contractor was caught con-
kong.
SIEMSEN-On August 24, st Victoria Nursing Home,
The Local Manager of the Mer. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A.Gstructing a concrete beam for a
incantile Bank of India, Ltd., has with absolutely garage
reinforcement. He received cabled advice that the sufficient should have put in sever one- Bank has declared an interim and-a-quarter iuch bars, instead dividend of 8%, less income tax. of which he used only four of one-incb. By a stroke of luck, the
Madame Tulasre, wife of the GOLDING.-On August 25, at shortcoming was detected by the French Vice Consul at Swatow,
gave birth to a
son yesterday the Watanabe Hospital, Sbang. P.W.D. Building Authority; other- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gold-wise, the job would have been morning aboard the Hai Hons. completed and, with the strength coming from Swalow to Hong ing, & Fon,
OLSEN-On August 26, at the of the beam a mere quarter of what Victoria Nursing Home, Shang-it should have been, a collapse would certainly have occurred hai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Olsen, later. The offence was a serious one, but we are surprised that the Magistrate only imposed a fine of $50, the maximum, we believe, being, four times this amount. It seems to us that in such cases the full penalty of the law should be imposed as a warning to Captain C. S. Benning, D.S.C, contractors. It is a by no means lately commanding the Fourth easy matter to discover these Submarine Flotilla on the China evasions, especially in reinforced Station, has joined the staff of concrete work, where the work is the Dolphin, submarino depot so soon covered up. When off ship at Portsmouth. endere are caught, they should be made an example of. Indeed, we should like to see the maximum pensity made much heavier Incidentally, is architects eup ervision all that it might be in Hongkong?
RUSSELL-At Mount Gough 131 Peak on the 3rd, inst, to Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Russell, a daugh-
tar.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 3rd Sept., 1923.
THE DRUMS OF WAR.
THE DISASTER IN JAPAN.
Mabel Normand in ← Molly O."
hats, and so he put down the parental foot.
Molly's vicissitudes after that form the basis of the picture "Molly O," which is at the Coronet this week.
There, is nothing bighly dramatic about this film. Ita bost features is ite homely present- Worst Calamity for Many ation of the family life of the
Years,
·HONGKONG'S CHITS.
O'Dairs, and the whole production is characterized by some special- All over the world there will be ly good acting. felt intense sympathy for the
Mabel Normand, in the prin, Japanese people in the terrible cipal role, gives a very touching disaster that has befallen their and yet amusing protrayal of country, news of which is given" Molly O," the little Irish girl. in Reuter's cables to-day. We She is supported by a groups of The London Gazette announces express our sincere condolences artistes of merit, and Saturday's : under Foreign Office Appoint to all the Japanese residents of audiences were evidently appre- pants, July 16, that the King has Hongkong, to whom the bad tid-olative of the programme offered. approved Senor Don Antonio M.inge must have come as a grest Martiy Valdes as Consul of Cela shock, and especially to those who might have suffered personal] at Hongkong.
bereavement in consequence of} the calamity, Aa we announce elsewhere in this issue, H. E. the Governor's Aid-de-Camp has
Sympathy From Manila. formally called at the Japan-
Consulate to express Says the Manila Daily Bulle- sympathy with the stricken t country and its people. This is Listen, old bean evidence of how the newe will be When you run up to Hong- received in all parts of the Empire. kong for a week or so, just a bit of Japan has previously suffered a vacation, to keep you quite well from serious earthquakes, the two in this beastly Manila cool- worst oasce on record, (apart from ness, fancy having to have the one in Yedu referred to in to- bit of change in your jacket or day's messages) being in 1855 and your jeans, before ordering your in 1896. In the former year 7,000 whisky sods at any of the hotels
Because they're paying cash in The health retura for the past persons were killed in Tokyo; and two days shows two cases of in the latter year an earthquake the colony hotels those days and
The Rev. G. E. Arrowsmith lately organising secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society for the Eastern District, has been appointed Assistant Chaplain of St. Andrew's, Kowloon.
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Clubs are not mentioned in the liquors erdinance and
One cannot view the latest developments in the Italo-Greek dispute without feeling that mat- tere need never have come to Lucky! such a pass.
Not only wBI A fact which may or may not Italy's action in sending Greece be generally known was stated by
the Colonial Secretary during the paratyphoid fever and one each and tidal wave in the Sabkiru our old friend, the chit, has been an ultimatum somewhat more proceedings of the Finance Com- of small-pox, enteric fever and district resulted in the enormeus quite done away with by an old hasty than prudent, but the termsmittee of the Legislative Council cerebro-spinal fever. One of the death-roll of 30,000. Unfortun statute some bothering person were decidedly harsh, and such on Thursday when he remarked paratyphoid fever cases was an ately, the present calamity appears dug up from the laws of the the when most of the colony laddies as no nation with any self-respect that the Government system was American, and the sufferer from to be quite as severe as any other colony, enacted way back in 1917
that public officers pay..eix per enteric was a Britisher. The rest hitherto experienced, and
number of casualties the greatest were an ay at war as Tommies, would agree to. The other Powerscent, of their salaries in respect were Chinese,
Rather inconveniencing, eh og record.
what? have tried their best to alter the of rent. They are lucky people'
Opiam was used by a woman, trend of events into a peaceful not to have to pay very much
What does the average named Ip Li-zze, living at No. 11 more.. channel. First of all they cau- European resident of the Colony Potak Street, West Point, to take AFTER THE DELUGE. the Hongkong papers are quite tioned Italy against too precip have to reckon for rent? In mazy her life, yesterday. She was re- itate action. Almost immediately coses, something like 25 per cent. moved to the Tung Wah Hospital on that came the occupation of of the salary received. There is immediately after her condition
a slight difference between the was discovered, and later trane. Further Collapses and a justice because the hotels are Corfu, with its resultant inflam two, it must be admitted. More ferred to the Government Civil ing of Greek feeling. So, that than that, the public officers, or Hospital, where she died soon just when the Balkans seemed many of them, live in quite palati-after admission.
albouses which are well equipped to quiet with first-class furniture, whereas aeitling down
In a delirious fit, brought on by spall comes this now, and the ordinary civilian has to take
of various members of the staff, Two buildings comprising a soome little reassuring nowe. At furnishing. There is yet another No. 98, Des Voeux Road West, point. The public servant, after so escaped the attention of hie mo-
over the small soap making factory at such complaints being that cash has been demanded in satisfaction ather and jumped. the back of everything is the many years' eervice,, gats
collapsed on Saturday afternoon,
The ordinance forb ds sale of knowledge that the massacre in pension; the other man has to verandab railings into the street, Saigon Road, Kowloon City, of liquors supplied." Albania bas resulted in very struggle the boat he can, in the last night. He was, picked up when all the walls came down intoxicating liquor for consump-
face of high rerits and increasing and taken in an ambulance to bitter feeling throughout Italy cost of living, to save sufficient to the Government Civil Hospital. There were no casualties; and the tion except for cash, with the
H
Landslide.
agog about the situation, say
ing
that it's A Tank in
willing to take chances on bad debts, just as the clube must do,
The Hongkong Hotel is running The after effects of Wednes day's and Thursday's heavy an advertisement, bringing forth
have been
making an extract. from the ordinance, because of "numerous complaints.
rains
end.
grave threat of conflict. There what he can get and do his own fever, a 12-year-old boy living at themselves felt during the week from patrons as to the incivility.
and the fervour with which Press and public appear to have ac- claimed Signor Mussolini's first Note to Athens savours of war fever, that most terrible of slic tions which can grip the imagina.
make his latter yours comfortable, where he died later.
same good fortune attended a similar calamity in Holy Cross following exceptions
1. Sale by the bote! proprietor Street, Shaukiwao, on Friday
2. Bale by tho,proprietor to be
As conditions are ta day in the
In the Summary Court, this night, Two fire engines and to a resident of the hotel. Colony, this task is becoming more difficult with every passing morning, Mr. Justice Gompertz about thirty Bremen rushed to the year, eo much so that we count gave judgment in favour of the scene in the latter case, but their consumed in the dining room at a the man fortunate who will ever Tal Yik Cheong firm against the services were not required, as regular weal or for any bonafide one was hurt despite meal, cost of which is at least 30
cente,IN be, able to settle down at Home in Shun Wo Hing firm for $1,925 95, no
being a comfort. In making these observa damages for breach of three con-it
three-storeyed
The Hongkong Te egraph is sug tions of an excitable people. In tions, we are not for a moment tracts relating to sugar trans-house that was involved,
gesting the presence of a Pussy- considering the decidedly militar suggesting that the public servant actions. Plaintiffs were repre- Serious Landslip at Glenenly. foot" as the "certain poison" who iatic attitude of Italy in this should be treated otherwise. We santed by Mr. M. M. Watson.
On Saturday afternoon there revived the ordinance, of whom
| matter, one is inevitably forced make the comparision In order to Defendants did not put in an was a serious landslip at Glenealy we did not know there were many
ehow the position of the average
to the conclusion that Bignor European resident employed out. Mussolini is largely responsible side Government service. It] as an individual. His critics would be nearer the ideal were have dubbed him the Italian we all, in certain respects, in the of the Government position
dictator, and the ovente of servant. the last few days tend to provej them right. Farbapa there aro Italian statesmen, not hotheads, who will be able to bring matters to a speedy conclusion without
FOOTBALL.
China Has A Win. Wollongong, Sept. 1-Chinn plunging portion of Europe defeated the South Const, une
goal to ail-Router. into turmoil.
pearance...
TYPHOON WARNING,
Ravine, near the western entrance in Hongkong".
tunately nobody was injured,
to the Botanical Gardens. For
though many tons of earth came THE BASEBALL STARS” down and the road has been .com- pletely blocked; i
Bt. Louis, August 20.-Kenneth
THEIR STANDING.":
0326
About half past ten last night Williams made bis 25th. home The telegram quoted below was received by the American Con- another brick and tile-roofed run today, E. sulate General, Hongkong, from house in Wong Nei Chong village the Manila Observatory at 11.30 (which suffered so severely in the floods) came down with a craeb. am, to-daya Ta
Again; exceedingly good fortune being injured. attended the inhabitants, nobody
Typhoon in about 141 deg Long. E. 17 deg. Lat. N., moving
N.W.
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