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The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 29th Feb, 1924.
PROTECTION OF TENANTS.
1994
DAY BY DAY.
THERE ARE THREE FAITHFUL FRIENDS AN OLD WIFE AN OLD DOG AND READY MONEY.- who are equally interested in Benjamin Franklin, the general weal. In this matter
of the Rents Ordinance, one can
There were four Chinese cases
this
IMPERIAL WIRELESS SCHEME
NEW HIGH-POWER STATIONS PROPOSED.
STATE CONTROL IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.
(Reuter's Service.)
write sympathetically of the of small-pox notified yesterday.
London, February 28.5 woes of tenants from actual ex- At the Marine Court
The report of the Imperial Wireless Committée recommends periance of the subject, for, to morning. a junkman was fined that the Post Office should own and operate all the Empire wireless quote David Garrick: Their $5 for anchoring in the fairway.stations in Britain, alternatively an exception should be made in the case of Canada and the existing competition between the Post caure I plead,-plead it in eart
Thes. Hop Sang reports the Office and Anglo-Canadian wireless should be continued subject to and mind; a fellow-feeling makes
death of one native from con-safeguarding the public intarests in any licence granted the Angle- oce wondrous kind." But in the sumption on the voyage from Canadian service.
In any licence granted to a private company, the State must case of a Government, which Swatow.
reserve the right to take possession or exercise control of the stations popular imagination is want to
Readers should watch out for in any emergency. The Leafield station should be enlarged. The place on a plane by itself, it re-
İ" Caricartoons,”
s" the first of a new high-power station now being built at Rugby should be extend- quires trua sympathy with theories of which will appear in to-ed to a sixteen mast station. A second new station of similar capacity should be erected without delay. Each high-power station people to realise their needs.morrow's Telegraph.
should have a world range, and be equipped with the latest apparat- Only then can the gods properly
We have received copies of the The Post Office should establish an improved business organisa- come down from Olympus and
schedule of the Flower and tion. The present terminal wireless station at Cairo should be re rule benignantly. That welcome Vegetable Show to be held on moved from the Empire system as soon as the requirements of the circumstance. that combination Thursday, 6th March."
Admiralty be met by other stations, and the proposed new high- of ability to lead and ability to
power stations in India, South Africa and Australia be operating. The case in which five Chinese
An expert wireless telegraphy commission should be requested sympathise, is not given to the administration of every Crown were yesterday charged at the to report on the extent and cost of a wireless system for the Colonies,
Criminal Sessions with conspiring to complete the Empire network of wireless communications. Colony, but it is fortunately an to commit a robbery concluded in Private enterprise should be given facilities to develop wireless attribute of the Government of the afternoon, when was communication outside the Empire, subject in the case of the Anglo-
found not guilty and the others Continental services to the payment of royalties or otherwise, in*. Hongkong.
each sentenced to three years" view of the competition between wireless and State-owned cables. hard labour.
There should be free competition in foreign wireless, subject to the State reserving the right to expropriate, or take possession or a • sume control in the case of a national emergency.
The Cup."
One
During His speech, yesterday The re-plays having had de-ou the Bill to amend the Rents cisive results, eight teams are Ordinance, the Attorney General now in readiness to proceed with announced that the Goverment the fourth round of the English had decided to abandon the pro- Football Cup Competition. The posals that the provisions of the matches are to be played on amerding Bill should apply to Saturday week, when some rare current notices to quit. tussles should be been between the
us.
GERMANS WILL JOIN THE LEAGUE.
BUT WANT UNFETTERED MEMBERSHIP..
Berlin, February
competing teams There will no Mr. D. O. de Silva; of Hong- In view of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's recent statement. it is doubt be every possible effort kong, who is an honorary chiaf-noteworthy that the Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, in a speech made by all the sides engaged,tain of the island of Tavouci, Fiji, in the Reichstag declared the Government had not rejected in prin- because success ensures entry and is known there as "Ratu ciple the idea of entering the League of Nations, but had not re- into the semi-final. In the Ravilevu,” gave an exhibition war ceived any invitation from the responsible quarter. He further previous rounds, some well-known dance at the visitors' ball held in stressed the necessity of a guarantee of full and unconditional The large proportion of resid-cup-fighters, with big history the auditorium of the Manila membership of the League being extended to Germany, including
membership of the Council. ents in this Colony who pay rent behind them, have had to suc-Carnival on the 19th instant.
cumb to defeat, though there are]
SHIPPING BOARD FLEET FOR SALE.
MINIMUM PRICE TO BE FIXED.
(Reuter's American Service.)
Washington, February 28.
for their dwellings will rejoice at still one or two teams with not-| The North German Lloyd the news that the Government able records in past years stills Dertlinger, commanded by Warpts, and the intends renewing the Rents left in In this latter connection, Captain
Aston Villa and Newcastle United Hamburg-America Olderburg, Ordinance for a further period of may be specially mentioned. (Captain Bush) have arrived in one year from the end of June The former, during the past the port on what is anderstood to next. In their joy at learning of twenty-four years, have won the be their first trip East since the
Both are from Hamburg. this extended protection ther Cup three times, whilst the war.
latter have won the trophy once will not forget to be grateful to and been in the final од "The Victor," the picture at the administrators who thus con-three other occasions during the the Coronat, does not deal exclu- tinue to exhibit their concern for same period. The Villa now has sively with the squared circle, The United States Shipping Board has invited bids by March the people's welfare. We take it to meet West Bromwich, which but the hero's rise to fame and 14th for the entire fleet of 1.335 vessels, of which approximately 423 achieved a splendid feat by over fortune begins when in an in-are operating. The Board will fix the minimum prica after valuation, that there merely remains the coming the Wolves, who have a matter of deciding what precise tine cup tie record. There should Prompt scrap hetlattens a well instead of the former terms of a minimum of thirty dollars per too. known bäzer. After that his path
Washington, Lster. form the renewed Ordinance castle and Liverpool, which latter well-deserved rewards of all real-ships.
be great rivalry between New-smoothed, and he meets with the The vessels to be sold include the Leviathan and her big sister
with its several amendments-is to assume. There can be no prospect of the Legislative Coun-
THIN END OF THE WEDGE. cil turning down a measure
Washington, February 28. which has the endorsement of appeared in the final whereas two years with hard labour, un
the two agricultural labourers) Forty members of the House of Representatives have announced the Government and the majority Manchester has at least on one who were charged on Wednesday their intention to introduce a Bill next week to legalize the manu of Unofficials. besides meeting occasion won the competition. A
Southern team which has upset at the Criminal Sessions with facture and sale of beverages of an alcoholic content of 2.75 per the bare requirements of 8
many calculations in the past but carrying arms and ammunition. cent. by volume. population which contemplates never got through to the final is The polica had not been able to will entertain glean any useful information Burnley, the cup-winners of 1913. from the prisoners' statements. tion with utter dread.. Apparent-14. We should not care to fore-
The Harbour Office notifies that, ly the Government desires to cast the result of this or any give further careful considera-other of the matches. The un-until further notice, borings of tion to the recommendations of expected often happens in cup the harbour bed will be taken ties, and we shall not be at all form 300 to 600 feet from the
won the Cup in 1913-14-ly proper film heroes. teani Manchester City will be at bome
to Cardiff, a side which has come
Mr. Justice Gompertz to-day
up wonderfully in recent years. pronounced deferred sentence of
The
Welsh
the eventual removal of protec-Swindon, who
team has never
the Housing Commission, and in surprised to some strange Praya wall between Queen Vic-
the meantime, while no remedy results on March 8th..
for the house shortage is at hand. The Ladies' Chance. the only course is to give tenants another year's grace.
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CORRESPONDENCE,
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong) Telegraph."
Trams or Buses?
A correspondent forwards as the following extract from the
World of the 23rd, Wireless
Sir, Referring to your leader January, 1924, which he thinks in today's issue, where you say
some of
our Apart from the disfiguring of might interest
the main roads of the peninsula.” News of the reception of Lon-(ie, by trams), I ask you could readers:— don broadcasting in Calcutta was anything be more unsightly than
first
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toria Street and Kennedy Town. One or two junks will be employ-
by day ed displaying
balt. and by Before now, we have heard red flag and ladies at some of our local dance's night two red lights vertical. All As the months go by, we ex-bemoaning the il-luck which vessels are warned to keep clear
sends a bad partner their way. and pass at slow speed. pect we shall observe various Of course, they can always stretch
A little bookie: which should contained in a recent message some of the buses at present run- remedial measures coming into the truth somewhat with the stock
If Kowloon must have busc#--- being, such as the forty-years reply that their programmes are have a considerable messure of from the Daily Telegraph corning in Kowloon ?
fall, but we understand that this popolarity amongst local house-respondent in that city. This lease scheme, and perhaps byt done in the best of circles wives has just been issued by the remarkable feat, it appears, was and I believe that if a referendum accomplished accidentally on were taken of the whole com- June of 1935 there will be less unless followed by the handing Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage January 5th. by the Secretary of munity ninety per cent, would fear of the wage-earning public over of the programme as proof Co. Ltd. It contains fifty good the Radio Club of Bengal, who, vote for trams-then for good- being exploited by landlords, of the assertion. Well, now, the milk recipes which are designed
fair sex will have their opportuni- to show how easy it is to increase with a number of enthusiastic ness' sake let us have buses that WAE experiment- are buses, and not perambulating That, however, is a matter which
A with ty at tonight's Leap Year Dance the daily ration of milk and colleagues,
two-valve tin kettles. In fact, let us have the Oa the future will have to decide at the City Hall, for it is whisper-so benefit one's health. There ing
Occasion British made buseF. man's voice_l
Yourd etc. There seems, at the present stage led to us that "Leap Year Extras "are recipes for soups, fish courses, set.
was heard saying. Hello, every
C. H. M. of affairs, to be but little hope of are to be included in the program-meat and vegetable dishes, cafes, of tuning-in, a
me. In these numbers, the ladies puddings, etc.
body Mr. Frazer (or Fisher), wil Hongkong. Feb, 28th, 1924. the more urgent housing problems will reverse the usual procedure:
now. Here the message ended being solved within the next by choosing their own gentlemen.
[If our correspondent had taken Our Picture Page to-morrow abruptly? For several hours no sixteen months. There is much partners. The result should be will be of marked general in-further success was obtained, but the trouble to read our article extremely amusing, and maybe terest. It will include photographs on the following day, with a five- carefully, he would have noticed to be decided, and then a great a little informative regarding taken at the wedding of Miss valve receiver, the experimenters that we made a plea for a desl to be done, before tenants whom the ladies like and Dorothy Frost and Mr. H. Conce more succeeded in tuning-in modern and adequate motor bus
they do not care Rowson; pictures of the funeral the carrier wave. Male voices; service."-Ed. K. H. T.} can feel really secure from rack. whom
for as partners. Hitherto, the of the late Bishop Fozzoni, as well with organ accompaniment, were renters. Nevertheless, it is fair sex have had a monopoly in se one photograph showing the then beard--a particularly inter- great comfort to know that in the matter of enjoying a grouch deceased prelate lying in state at eating result in view of the fact our present Government we have because of being left out in the the Roman Catholic Cathedral; a that on the day in question Lon an administration which places cold. After to-night's experience, group of Professor Danenberg's don was broadcasting a service
it is possible that some of the pupils, and a snapshot of Mr. Hill, from St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. the public welfare before any men folk will become quite deject the popular Shanghai jockey,
On the, following days further
The following have been select thing else. However much one ed over being regarded as male escorting Miss Addis to tiffin at items were received, the best of ed to represent the Kowloon F. C. might criticise the authorities wall-flowers. It has been aug the Hongkong Races after win which was a violin solo. A lady on Saturday, 1st March, in their contralto was also heard, though 1st Division League match, for inexplicable delays, the fact gested to us that some of the ning the ladies' purse.
most of her words were rendered versus South Chins, on the has to be admitted that they coming forward, and that they
indistinguishable - by atmosp Sokumpoo “A”. ground, -kick-off -- always ready to lead a will need to be encouraged to take it is Leap Year! So if they're harice. While there is no claim 415 p.m. - A Duncan; F. com-up the attack Um! We can bachelors they may discover that that these experiments yielded Wheeler, T. Knight, A. Turner, Eympathetic ear to the
let that pass. Some of the gentle there are few advantages which anything like perfection, it is J. McKelvie, H. Wheeler; & plaints of the populace, and
men may appreciate this new spare no effort to remedy just arrangement, which will relieve are unaccompanied by corres confidently believed that future Latham, M. Howatt H grievances. In our Governor them of the necessity of making a pending disadvantages. They'd attempts will produce really Roberts, R. Nash, and K. A. Mason Beserve — C. E. Millard himself the Colony is fortunate choice yet, on the other hand,
are
ladies may be a little shy in
better be wary'
Batisfactory results.
FOOTBALL.
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