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OCTOBER 119
DAY BY DAY.
NATURE DESIGNED Uu ΤΟ BE OF GOOD CHEER.-Douglas Jerrold.
the case of very small quantities) for madiolnal purposes; but if the Geneva legislatura thinks it can suppress the smuggling of}
"the oplum, and other "dopa' world over, it is going to bʊ] fvalightened by the mon who Yesterday's health return
have come into actual contact shows one Chinese with the subject. It will not botyphoid fever. the first awakening of the League from a Utopian dream,
Aerial Progress.
of
A coolie fell from the gangway- whilst boarding tho a.o. Hoi miing at the Douglas wharf yesterday, and was drownod.
Among the passongors άμο The visite of world illors to here by the P. & O, 8,8: Kashgar Hongkong have certainly done are. Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smilth and Bomathing to increase local Mr. T. P. M. Bevan. intorest in aviation. According
to what we read, radical changes The local Monagor of the In aeroplano designs are expected Morcantile Bank of Indja, Ltd.. to rosult from experiments now has received cabled advio è that boing carried out by the the Bank has declared an interlu Norwegian, Professor Bjerknes, dividend of 8. per who, before a recent inoeting Income Tax.
of the British Association for
cont. loss
the Advancement of Science, A fractured ankle, caused whon demonstrated his new style of
one of the whools of a truck machine. This aeroplane has]
over passed
his foot, Was whirling oylinders intoad of sustained by a P. W. D. coolie at wings, and these are shaped like Pokfulum, Road yesterday. Ho tin cans, which revolvo swiftly. was removed to the Government The technical explanation of how Civil Hopital.
MUSTARD & CO. they work is too complicted to
17, Connaught Road, Central,
Tel. C. 1186.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 1st Oct., 1924.
OPIUM SMUGGLING.
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NEW LEADER OF LIBERAL PEERS.
EARL BEAUCHAMP APPOINTED.
London, Bopt. 30, Earl Beauchamp has been olected loader of the Liberal poors In succession to Lord Gray, who has resigned.----Reuter.
Viscount Groy.
YCE.
(To the Editor of the !! Hongkong Telegraph.")
*A_Lady Thanked.
SirPlease allow me space to thank the unknown lady who so-kindly came to the aid of a dying dog, after it was run over by a motor car yesterday.
I am sorry the motorists were dolayed for a couple of seconds,. but would wish them to realiso that someone bas lost something far greater-a Frionų,-
One fools certain that all dog- lovers will join me in thanking that lady onas again for the kind- ness which she, on her kacos, so willingly administered to the pot. Hor charity is deeply appreciated by none other more than
Yours truly,
WAPI, Hongkong, Oct. 1st, 1924.
A Complaint.
Sir,With roforence to the correspondence which appeared under the above heading in your valued paper last week, it is very gratifying to the residente in
give here, but groat hopes are Fatal injurios were received [Earl Beauchamp, K. G., is in Pilkom Street, Yaumati, to soo contred on this now type of
by a coolie from assault 52nd year, and is an administra- that the Water Authority is so machine, which, it is stated, will carried out by two mon, supposed tor of much experience. Ho was kind and considerato that four rovolutionise flying. It is intorest- to be boarding house runnore, on formerly Lord President of the public fountains are already being ing to note that most of our new board one of the Java Line Council, and was for two years installed there for their supply. Ideas come from studying and vessels in the harbour yesterday. He was appointed Lord Liauton of this privately-owned street to Governor of Now South Wales. It now remains for the owner | adapting things that already Tho assailants escaped.
oxist. When man wanted to fly,
first
Anti-British.
passenger Cars
harbour.
at the
NO SOVIET HOSTILITY.
BRITISH PREMIERS'
ant of Gloucestershire in 1912 instal a few cleotrio or gas lights, bo naturally started out with the idon that his soroplane must have Mr. Chau Lu, President of and Lord Warden of the Cinque or olse the Public Works Depart Ports in 1913. From 1910 to 1914 mont would have to call upon wings like a bird or insect. The the Kwangtung University, he was First Commissioner of hits to do so for public safety.
Gon. Hau plane you see soaring overhead nogotiating with looks as if it wore a huge dragon Shang-chi for the evacuation of Works. Ho resigned office in the and also for the police to stop the Intolerable food-hawker nuisance fly or hawk. Similarly, the his troops from the promises of crisis in May, 1915.
Viscount Grey, K. G., is now which still continues unabated railway
the Canton Agricultural Collego, looked like stagecoachos. The so as to enable the holding of years of age. A man of bril every morning when several of liant talenta, he will always be a them bollow in the atroat so The withdrawal by the Gov-first typewriter keyboard was classes in that College.
figure of note in British history loudly as almost to awaken the copy of a piano's, ovon ornment of its prosecution in the to black and white keys in a row.
of the past two decades. As dead. The police should forth- Despite her forced trip up the Boorotary for Foreign Affairs with stop this disturbance of the case of the alleged 'oplum saug- It is hard to shake off the preco Yangtazo river to Pootung, the (1905 to 1916) he faced the most public pance.
· Enclosing my eard, gling activities disclosed in docu-dont of the past. Old ideas cling Canadian Pacific liner, Empress anxious period of his career on and modify new ideas. But as of Australia, will leave Hongkong the outbreak of the Great War.
Yours etc., monts found on the s.8. Taltack, the new ideas develop, espacially on schedule timo, officials of the Sir Edward Groy, as he then was,
PREFERENTIAL servas to show how difficult it is new inventione, the old is gradu- Company stated to-day, Tho received a peorago in 1916; and
TREATMENT, trip and to follow up a seeming cluo with-ally shaken off. So the time may
accompanying
resigned from office on the re- Hongkong, Oct. 1st., 1924. out actual arrest of a man with be ripe for the aeroplane to cease convenience caused the big ship signation of the Coalition Minis-
looking like a bird or insect. Wheto bo delayed two days in arriving try. He was a popular Ambas TRESPASS IN COAL. the opium on his person. Ap-knowe
hore. This time will be made up andor to the United States from
DEPOT. parently, the transactions which
by a shorter stay in the local 1918 to 1920. He has boon the documents' roferred to had
troubled of lato years by failing GIRLS LET OFF LIGHTLY. The supporters of Dr. Sun Yat- led the authorities to bolfove son havo so often and so insistent-
oyosight.] Cocil B. de Mille saams to have,
Because the prosecution did not wish to pross the caso, two young that they had got on the track of ly complained of British hatred of assembled an "all the talonte”
Chinese bout girls were only anugglers, but we suppose it was thoir loader that we have become cast in the Paramount picture,
| cautioned by Mr. E. W. Hamilton, not possible to prove that the there is no real ground for this opene for a short run
tired of attempting to show that in "The Affairs of Anatol," which
at the Kowloon Magistracy this mattor was not a porfectly leg-distorted conception. From the Queen's Theatre to-day. Hie
morning, on a charge of tros- passing in the Governmont Coal itimate one of trading in the diatribe which has just appoared cast includes such famous artists
DENIAL.
Depot, Yaumati, brought against drug. Wo in the Colony have in the Canton Gazette, howover, as Wallace Roid, Gloria Swanson,
London, Sopt. 30.
them by Mr. W. McKay, Senior explaining why Dr. Sun owos no Bebo Daniels, Wanda Hawley.
In the House of Commons Mr. Junk Inspector. laws which are designed to ratitude to England, it is maui- Agnes Ayros, Elliott Dexter and Ramsay MacDonald quoted Mr. provont dealings in opium othor fost that the Southern loader Monte Blue, to mention no Hodgson as his authority for his Worship
Inspector Blackman informed that tho do- than the authorised transactions hates the British with an inton- others. Even Elinor Glyn, the denial that the Soviet had shown fondants wore
on board in the Government product, and eity which we should imagino has world-famed 'novelist, consented him or any members of his diplo-a motor boat which
never been equalled. Dr. Sun, to appear in one of the society matic staff, any hostility.-Reuter
shipway in the Dopot, The constable who saw thom had but here is a case of a million that China is no more than a modern matrimonial and divorce
THE TAX ON them arrested, Mr. McKay mon. dollars of the drug alleged to be semi-colony ( not worse) of problems and will be put on at
tioned the mattor to the Assistant Eugland and her follows," and all performancos at the Queen's GERMAN GOODS... passed through the Colony with that, as a consequence, he, as an Theatro till Sunday.
Harbour Mastor who thought out any check, Actually, it does agitator, inust be suppressed, A
Paris, Sept. 30, that the defondants woroTM not In "Lucretia Lombard," the
the really to blame for their presence not appear fair to this Govern-moro far-fetched and ridiculous ment to expect it to keep a tally Iden, so totally at variance with picture showing at the World German Note on the French in the yard but were there on the facts, we cannot conceive. Then Theatro to-day, fate plays ataxes, points out that the twenty-invitation of some members of the of opium which may be designod there is much in this outburst clever and baffling game with a six por cent, tax is the same that crew of the motor boat.
Mr. McKay said that he was. for Chinese -consumption in about the cowspaper hirelings man and a woman-oach married is loviod by Britain, and ly China, unless the Chinese Gov. of British Imperialism," and the to persons they do not like and mentioned in the Dawes plan, not pressing for penalty, but the campaign of lies and black-love. "Lucrotia Lombard" is a doclaring that additional crow would be departmentally orament 'McGREGOR"
for the present practguardism by England's reptile screen adaptation of Kathloun burden is laid on the German dealt with. ically non-existent is prepared pross in Hongkong, in Shang- Norris' famous novel of the same Govornmont, and Franco doos nat to co-operate wholeheartedly in hai," etc. Presumably our Can name. Co-starring in this Warner intend to depart from the Dawes
plan.-Reuter. the matter. It is a pity the au-ton contemporary has an idea Brothers classic of the screen, a that the English newspaper proes Harry Ranf production; are thorities brought the prosection in Hongkong and the Treaty Irene Rich and Monte Blue, two without first making sure of the Porte is subsidised to be pro- bright luminaries of the silver) grounds on which they intended British in its outlook and that screen who will be remembered its commonts are directed from for their brilliant work in to proceed: but nevertheless some common source. It may "Brass." Jack Conway directed their action has again roused as wel! bo put on record, the picture, which has received public interest in the matter of however, as the truth, that the highest praiso in cities where it opiam smuggling as It affects British press in the East (in has been played.
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Speaking generally, it has ay exactly what it thinks SATURDAY CARNVIAL.
after weighing up any, situation. been proved, wo learn from The mere fact that Dr. Sun hasi
There should be a large attend- official reports, that as much not "a good press in the Eust opium is brought into the Colony is sufficient to reflect what the ance at the Grill Room of the majority think of him and his Hongkong Hotel on Saturday for illegal dispossal as over schemes. But hatred has dance is to be heid, evening or night, when a special carnival
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THE MOSUL TROUBLE.
on
CLASH BEING AVOIDED. London, Sept, 30. Router in informed that the Washington, Sept. 30, situation in Iraq appears to be The Interstate Commission has that Turkish troops
aro still authorised the Southern Pacific within the boundary of Mosul Railway Company to acquire and vilayet.
Thoy have burned control carriers comprising the villages, but no offensive has El Paso and South Western been taken by British aeroplanos system by stock purchase and sinco Sopt. 24th, oxcept where lose, subject to certain condi- the aeroplanes have first buen tions-Renter's American Service fired on. In the meantime, both
MILITARY TROUBLE.
TROOP MOVEMENTS AT KONGMOON.
(Var Owen Correspondent.)
Kongmoon, Sopt. 30,
sidos have established a linu whoreon it is unlikely thoy will clash. It te bolievod Lord Thom- son is at Mosul-Reuter,
Gonova, Sopt. 39.
At a Council mooting at which Morul committee was appoint- od, Lord Parmeor said that frost
was
passes the Government depart- | part in the o things as A ment concerned. From ease public man Dr. Sun has hoen fancy dress being optional.
weighed in the balances, and The occasion will be markod that have arison during the past found wanting. As to the plea the farewell appearance of the two years it appears that that Dr Sun owes no gratitudo European orchestra under the Large numbore of troops under information showed that the lucrative business is done in to England for saving his life direction of Mr. Whitey Smith, Brigadier-General Heu Chai, of frontier situation was procarious. consignments of Porsian and in 1922 when he went aboard and this is an added reason why the 7th Brigade of Cantonese He emphasised that there must
a British gunboat, because ho
all who love really flrat-class Boldioro, who arrived back a fowo no disturbance, and gavo a Indian opina, the latter being could have loft on
dance music should be present.days ago at Sunwui and Kong-solomn undertaking on behalf of ospecially in domand by the warship,
Those who desire to reserve tabies moen from Yanping and beyond the British Government on the that is about to
matter. Fothi Bey gave connoisseurs. Tho China coast funniest thing wo have
aro advised to do so without under order of being transferred 022.
similar assurance. It |to Canton, have been busy com- dolay. countored for years. The fact has several ports where the remains that he was hard prose-
mandooring native launches and announced that both parties junks during the last few days, would share the cost of invos- drug can be landed, and Hong-ed by his onomice, that he was
A report has it that this move tigation by the special committee, kong, as well as Shanghai, can forced to loa to eave his life
-Reuter. is in connection with some troublo koop tally of very little of this and that he did accept British
that is browing between General hospitality. If he is not grate- traffic, and then only through ful for that, then we cannot received by the American Con Commander-in-Chief of Kwangel
The telegram quoted below was Hau Sung-chi and Lau Chun-won, N.Y.K. DISPUTE. estimates made whenever some conjure up any situation in which sulate-General, Hongkong, from troops now in Kwangtung. This
RESIGNATIONS TO BE transaction COMOR to light,hos likely to be.
the Manila Observatory at 11 report has been gaining strength
WITHDRAWN. Eventually, the League of
a.m. to-day:
from the fact that a brigado of
Tokyo, Sept. 30, Nations will havo induced the The Marine Court of Enquiry
Typhoon in about 142 Long. E., soldiers under General Li Chit, Both parties to the Nippon ano of Lau's subordinatos, has Yusen Kaisha disputa have now various Governments of the into the stranding of the ss. 13 Lut, N., moving N.N.W.
Cyclono Tecumsoh on Cut Rook has
OX typhoon E. of recently been disarmed at Kong-endorsed the proposals for n with- world to agren to totul probibit-been fixed for Monday next, Luzun, more than 300 miles hoi, in Sunning district, by Gondrawal of the staff resignations. ion of the drug traffic except in Ootuber 6th.
distant, direction' unknown,
oral Hen Sung-chi's men,
Reuter
TYPHOON WARNING.
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