THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
“THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1923.
THE YOKOHAMA EARTHQUAKE.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
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KRAFT LOAF CHEESE
"no" rind-no waste-100%
Cheese
80 cents per lb.
AUSTRALIAN CHEDDAR
flavour unequalled.
80 cents per ìb.
COULOMMIER
own make
40 cents per pat
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TOOTAL CLOTH
THE GUARANTEED
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VELVET FABRIC
27 WIDE
A FEW SERVICEABLE, AND PRACTICAL
COLOURS JUST ARRIVED, A.
AND
SPECIALLY SHOWN IN OUR WINDOW
FOR A FEW DAYS.
PATTERNS GLADLY SUBMITTED
"UPON REQUEST
Wm. POWELL Ftd.
Above are the first pictures jewach Hongkong of the damage ransed at Vakolumn by the recent earthquake. They were taken by offteers of the s.8-Empress of Quinda whilst on rescue work. The first picture lows refugees being towed towards the Empress liner: the other smail snapshots give an Indication of witt Yokohanty and its environs look like to-day.
NEW FERRIES.
The Improved Yaumati Service.
ARMS
SEIZED.
Aboard French Mailboat.
Disclosure made in the recent arnis case in which two Frenche The pupulatiem on the Kowlooit Peninsula bas rapidly grown men were detained for "alleged within the past twelve months gun-running, mentioned the use and with a well regulated ferry.of the French mail-boats for this
contraband, and
yesterday,
accordingly servire there is very possibility when the Cord itlero.came in of it increasing even further sell.
a party of Water Pa cope with the station, and Palice Warded the vessel wh in order to give the publice a
searched her cargo. They were bntier service, we understand that the new tenderers for the rewarded by the discovery of 54
Yamati Ferry Service Monopoly
revolvers, 25 antomatics, and 10 Mausers with nearly 10,000
are at present preparing plans rounds of ammunition,, 10 clean- for the (traction of four fust modern double-ended ferrying rods and eight springs. The
t.c
whole consignment was fiscated and taken Headquarters,
con-
Police
A PUZZLE A DAY,
If five times four are thirty-three What will the fourth of twenty heal Can you answer the above question, assuming that five times four actually does equal thirty. three?
"
Yesterday's answer;
376
99
101
A proved that his score should steamers for the Yaumati service
have been 385 and not 319, by The dimensions of these steamers
Lurning the target upside down. will probably be 100 feet in length
which changed the section next and 20 feet in breadth, with a
tp.the centre from 66.to 99. [{A's] speed of about ten knots, as com
hits are indicated by the letter "The impovation, introduced of B's by "") A had a right to pared with the. seven knots at- tained by the present service providing on these row vessels this claim, as the 99 section, be-
for vehicular launches. When completed, these accommodation vessels will appear somewhat like traffic will be equally welcomedg nearer the centre of thu the present Star Ferry vessels, in arther quarter, and in this arger, should naturally be of with the difference that a much connection is, interesting to greater value.thin the 88 section.
greater number of passengers
Hearn that alterations will ho
the present plans provide for four made to the new pier to permit of hundred will be carried whilst fears to be run off the piur into the there will be becomdation | ferrios tiumselves, for automobiles.
stomach.
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HIPPOPOTAMUS KILLED BY ́
TENNIS BALL Cinciunali:-Zeckon, a gigantic In enquiries a Telegraph re
hippopolemus. the largest in The new scale of fares propos-porter was given to understand captivity in America, has just ed to be charged by the new that the profits for the first half died here as the result of swallow. tenderer i as follows: Ten of this year of the Kowlonn Szeing a tennis ball thrown by cents for first class passengers, Yeak Ferry Company, as the visitor into its cage. A nuister four cents for second-class and tenderers are styled, are in the of pennies was also found in its, two cents for the third-class, neighbourhood of $130,000, which, This will. moan" a reduction in compared with the £80,000 for the the prasent general second and corresponding period of last year, cont, shows an increase of nearly half third-class fares, of onc which reduction will undoubtedly lakh. If these figures can be be appreciated greatly by the taken as correct, the day when poorer classes of the population the population across the Har residing across the harbour. Inbour will rival if not exceed that this decision the Company is of Hongkong may not be für "off. influenced by the view that cheap The essential thing is cheapness farox will be a considerable factor of transportation across the har- in developing the other side, of bour, and the lead given by the the harbour and believes these Sze Youk Company in a reduction will pay the Company in the long of the current fares is deserving
of praise.
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or Supremacy.
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