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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1926,
PROTECT YOUR CAR ought to have gone to hospital were
by installing "PYRENE" Fire Extinguisher. A
FYREND" will kill fre, without damago to the engine, woodwork or upholstery, Water spreads petrol fire sand is Inefficient and will put the engine out of action. "RYRENG" Ex- tinguisher is small. in size, light in weight and paer to handle. "PYRENE" does not deteriorate and is always ready
for 180.
unable to do so owing to lack of accommodation. "This lack of hos pital accommodation was a serious mattor, especially in the case of mon suffering from malaria whe were thereby upahle to obtain pros per treatment and, ip consequence, were constantly alck in station. Later on in the report it is stated that malarin is bad at all the out- -stations, but that it is most serious
DAY BY DAY.
YOUNG MEN THINK OLD MEN ARE FOOLS, BUT OLD MEN KNOW YOUNG MEN ARE FOOLSGeorge Chapman.
No case of notifiable disease was reported over the week-end.
Telegraphic communication with Tientsin and Peking has been re- established.
for submarines..
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CORRESPONDENCE.
MASTERS NOTICE,
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]
CHINESE MOVIES,
PROMISING SHANGHAI FILM.
A now Chinese motion picture. feature: The Imposter ten reele production made in Shang- hai, was recently abawn at the Victoria Theatre.
ing this decision with others ren-play tawa wato
derod in Hongkong a few months
Among those returning to the Colony to-day by the s.a. President | 480. Garfield was Mrs. I. H. Geaze and daughter.
at Sha Tau Kok where practically the entire establishment w changed three times during the year solely on account of malaria. It is obvious from such a report that much more could be done than at present to make the out-stations The P. and O. ss. Macedonia, loss unhealthy than now, and there with the English mall, left Singa- is, reference in the report to the pore yesterday and is due bere at Кеер а "PYR-need for better draining and nul-N
daylight on Thursday. ENE" handy on car and in garage.
Inh-training. Also it should not One case, of enteric fever con be a charge against the Govern tracted by a Portuguese residont is reported in the return of the ment by police officers
that Medical Oficer of Health for Fri- | Mustard &Co.,Ltd. there is no hospital accommoda-doj. (Incorporated under Companies Ordinancetion for them when they go slek,
HONGKONG.
and every effort should be made 16-17, Connaught Road Central.
to remedy what is an entirely in- defensible state of affairs.
The Telegraph
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1926.
OUR POLICE FORCE.
Sir, With reference to the re- cent decision of the Court in the
The picture has been produced case of a British Captain of the by the Pacific, Film Co., Ltd.," of.. Mercantile. Marine, as published Shanghai, and was written' and Liout K M. P. Edwards hasin' your issue of the 17th instant, directed by M. K. Wong. The been appointed to II.M.3: Titania without any spirit of criticism of sub-titles are in English an
the law, I could not help connect Chinese. The story of the photo-
Yuen Tai-ching ia captain of e man-of-war, While in Shanghai It seems to mo a disgrace that he and his ship are ordered to the a coolie or an ordinary domestic Northern Seas, the mesenge being servant in the "service of Euro- delivered by his close friend, Li peans should be entitled by law Hucn-vung, the purser. While Hu to a full month's notice and that is away he falls seriously ill, His a British Captain who, in order wife, upon hearing of this, bas- to arrive at such a responsible tene to join him, but mosts: a position has had to go through tragic death on the way, for the many years of hard studies and boat by which she is travelling practical training, could be discatches fire and all on board missed with 24 hours' notice." perish.
This news is not, however, com- Even in supposing that such municated to the captain owing terme had been accepted by the to his weak state. When be dis tako place in Shanghal on Friday,sion that the British Law did not come and suffers a dangerous re The wedding was announced to Captain, I was under the impree covers it by accident he is over. July 16, between Mr. Omar Rum recognise arbitrary clauses in any lapse. He blames his friend, Li jahn, son of Mrs. A. Kumjahn of agreement which are Imposed in Huen-vung, for keeping the dews Tientsin, and Miss Gladys Ismail, an obviously mean spirit of trick-from him. Haunted by a feeling daughter of the late Mr. and Mra.ery by one of the parties, as such of uneasiness, he had already ask Prison Matters.
5. C. Ismail of Hongkong.
was undoubtedly the case in the ed his friend to see if his family There are some interesting re-
present instance. The above de-was safe. Li Huen-vung unfor- The 5.5. President Garfield cision proves that my knowledge tunately failed to find any trace of marka in the annual report of the bought in a goodly complement in such matters was not yet.com- the captain's little daughter, Yuen Superintendent of Prisons, just cluding Mr. C. V. Ross, who is on
of passengers this morning, in-plete. fasued, regarding the gnol accom-a short business trip hore from Thanking you in anticipation
In the meantime Yuen Ing's nurse, troubled by druditors, had
home, and there she grows up with the nurse's own daughter.
Cavite Navy Yard. near Manila.
...'
Ing..
PRO-JUSTICIA. Hongkong, July 17, 1926.
Moch information of a very modation of the Colony. It is put Kobe, und Rear-Admiral Sum-for your kind insertion of this taken her little charge to her own
on record that at. Victoria Gaoler Kittelle, Commandant of the Bettor.Yours, etc., "the need for better quarters, offers, hospital, stores and work- Shops becomes more pressing every year," and it is further ex- plained that there no zoom
we
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PASSENGERS ARRIVED.
mitted by Indians, I beg to say Yuen Ing. Unexpectedly her ad- that it is erroneous., For your mirer broods over 'the possibility, information the nationalities of of her forgetting him when she is these boys are:
rich and suddenly repents of his A. Hurtenm, Malay; H. M. Ismail, promise, and confesses the whole Arabian; C. Gomes. Portuguese.plot. Yuen Ing's identity is proved
These boys are personally beyond doubt owing to a known to me and I can therefore spicuous birthmark, a large mole Per ss. President Madison. tell correctly of their nationalities. on her arm, which her father re Miss T. W: Balean, Miss B. Bart-Yours, etc.,
'P. BENE.
Hongkong, July 17, 1926.
con-
cognizes. Thus the daughter is restored to her father, and every. thing ends happily.
valuable nature is to be found the annual report of the Captain Superintendent of Police "for the
The following ships are expect
Years pass. The good nurse year 1995, which has just been
ed to be in wireless communica-
dies,, but on her death bed gives issued, and the document is one
tion with Hongkong to-day:-Em-
her daughter various articles prov well worthy of study by all who
press of Russia, Pres, Taft, Pres.
ALLEGED ASSAULT BY
ing the parentage of Yuen Ing. Harrison, Warsudra, Honolulu
The nurse's daughter, Alled with take an intelligent interest in the for expansion, as all available Mare, Pres, Madison, Tjimanoek,
INDIANS.
avarice, plans to keep these welfare and development of Hong-ground in built on. There is Mare, Hei Mei Maru, Aki Maru. Press that the assault of the two even persuades her admirer to
Andre Lebon, Kwaisung. Taiyo Sir, As it is
papers and pass herself of as. understood by the Yuen Tsi-ching's daughter. She.. kong. The facts collated are in further observation that "the Kashima Maru, Haining, Dar-ladies at Happy Valley was compromise to murder the innocent teresting not only in themselves buildings are generally in good danas, Tonkin, Hozan Maru...... but more for the light they throw remir" Exactly what this means on the trend of events. For in- it would be hard to say, 18 stance, although it is interesting have heard that the buildings are to learn that there have been de-
in constant need of attention and creases in the number of both that they are by no means private and public rickshas and the secure as they should be for such number of hand-drawn trucks, it
an institution. It would also be is more intriguing to draw the interesting to know much money Eckart, Mrs. H. Geare, Miss E. lett, Mrs. H. Bleecker, Mrs. H. obvious inference that motor is spent yearly to keep the place Geare, Mr. H. A. Jaynes, Mr. A: I, traction is slowly displacing the old wasteful and slow man-power |
even in its present condition. As Johns, Mr. C. E. Maligny, Miss B. to the Laichikok Gaol, the re- Mr. W. M. Quinn, Mr. C. V. Ross, Monroe, Mr. Lawrance, B. Parker, traction. Public rickshny de-
port states that there are now Miss H, Smith, Mr. D. Ward-Smith, creased by 150 last year, private seven halls there, including one Mr. and Mrs. J. D. William and rickshas by over 100, trucks by 250 and licensed drivers and bearers by prisoners are in association and for juveniles, "but as ull the no fewer than 7,0001 All this there are no workshops, the esta spell the displacement of the "human draft animal" by mechani-blishment cannot be regarded as cal traction and it is a displace.
a satisfactory penitentiary." We ment which ought to be welcomed should think not. Conditions be- and encouraged.
ing as they are at both the gaols the mentioned, it seems to utmost folly to go on spending public money on their upkeep and maintenance. The only logical conclusion is that a new gaol is badly needed. That has been realised for a very long time past; hence the Ngau Sha Wan scheme, now unhappily held in abeyance In view, however, of the huge amount of money spent in piling the site for that gaol, we once again press for a resumption of the project. To go elsewhere now, would he equivalent to bury-
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us
Mr. F. Wilson.
POLISH DUEL.
"
EX-PREMIER REFUSES TO FIRE.
Warsaw,
June 15.-Count Skrzynski and General Szeptycki, who quarrelled over the recent Polish coup de'etat, fought a duel with revolvers to-day in a friend's house in Warsaw.. The General's
bullet missed and Skrzynski re- fused to shoot. The duel was held in the presence of seconds and a court of honour. The principals at a distance of fifteen paces. agreed, to fire a single shot each..
The Very Idea I
Rafter I'm becoming so near- Hugh Walpole at a tea arouacs sighted that I bump into. people this: when I walk along the street..
"That afternoon I came to the Shafter: Goodness, man! That's conclusion that I did not like men dangerous. Why don't you buy a of letters to be too plump or to car and drive it?
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Mother baked a dandy cake
and
When the cake was done, Sonny licked the frosting off
and
Mother licked, her son..
*
Boss Did you collect, that
possess too agreeable party man- ners."-Lewellyn Powys in "The Verdict of the Bridlegoose."
•
A girl wanted her hair luffy, and of another abada, so the.bar- ber just curled up and dyed.
Little Tommy came home from school looking very blue.
Upon the signal, "Fire!" General
"That school is about the limit," Szeptycki turned and fired. His bill
he complained. "Teacher caned. bullet grazed Count Skryanski's
Jenkins No air. He kicked me this afternoon, and only be hair and buried itself in the wall me down a light of stairs.!"
cause he told us that Robin Hood's of the room. ・・
Boss"You go back and get men were dressed in green jerkins, Count Skrzynski dramatically that money. I'll show him he pad I said that couldn't be,
because green jerkins wara" things you find in pickle-bot-
mh,!;
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There are very many similarly interesting side-lights to be found in the report, but what strikes one most when reading this record of our police force for the year 1925 is the tremendous amount of work which was performed by the force under circumstances which were more than ordinarily trying. The prodigious work that was accom. plished during the onerous days of June, July and August when the strike and boycott were being felt to the full, has never quite been realised, we think, and there is ing thousands of dollars in the lowered his revolver and said: "I can't scare me."
ground at Ngau Sha Wan, to say wish to state that I deliberately typical modesty of phrasing used nothing of the time and labour do not want to shoot. If there is "Amy Lowell, enthroned on a tles. If a fellow knows anything in reference to it in the report we which have been spent on pre- any one here who thinks it is high-backed chair, smoking her in that class: It pays to keep it to now have under notice. The or-paration of plans, etc., which will necessary to defend his honour or cigar and eyeing the company with himself."
be largely useless for any alter takes issue with my ideals, let him. the, aggressive, narrow eye of ganisation of strike labour, the
native scheme. Surely the shoot. But I shall not shoot." some high-pedigreed bird, whose
Scientific men can tell us with protection of labour that remained Colony is not so flush with The duel ended without the narrow hood is large enough to in a few million of years the age loyal to their various firms, the money that it can afford to waste principals shaking hands. Count contain only two thoughts, herself of the earth, astronomers have
Skrzyneki, has the reputation of and her own expensive eggs." carrying out of raids in native dis- public funds in such a macner?,
weighed the sun, but the man isn't. being a dead shot.
born yet who can tell why nitaflor tricts and the maintaining of extra
When friends called upon him
will charge as much for a suit of patrols throughout the whole
"Suddenly there entered upon clothes for a little man as for a: London, June 26-A Maltu mes at 6.30 o'clock this morning, he drink, who everybody called Scotty
after the duel, which was fought us a youth, a Uttle the worse for big one. Colony entailed a strain that wassage says a big anti-Govermentaald: cheerfully and effectively borne, demonstration occurred last even-. "I don't know how to miss, and and who, I learnt afterwards) was
ing arising out of the alleged did not want to kill a man in the novelist, Scott Fitzgerald, loss, the day of the false rumour! and this Colony owes much to its illegal suspension of Pro. Bartolo whose veins flows the blood of my There was something about this sectas to be getting over. An er well-organised and disciplined at a recent sitting of the Assembly. forefathers."
young man, who came in from ception occurred at Torquay some pollee force for the comparatively Pro Bartolo attempted to attend General Szeptycic! is a distantTough -Man's Bend" with, a bot- weeks ago when a London delegate peaceful manner in which a great yesterday's sitting, but the Presi-relative of the former Premier.tlo in his hand, that I liked cx to the Oddfellows Conference told
dont, assisted by the police, pre- To another friend, the Count tremely. crisis was weathered.
He had evidently never, the Deputy Grand Master that the vented him from entering the said: did not want to wound met Dreiser before; and, far gone coal striku was settled, and the There is one part of the report Palace. The whole police force of him nor to miss, so I didn't shoot in his cups as he was, he address Deputy Grand Master to the which is not satisfactory and that Malta, with mounted troops arm at all.ed tho, older novelist with maudlin Grand Master, and the Grand is the portion which relates to theed with revolvers, are concerntrat A further reason for Count deference. It was as thought Master, told the other 700 do ed at Valetta A very stormy sit-Skrzynski facing death from an home young Dick Lovelace Had legates, who cheered londly, and health of those members who live ting followed in the Assembly. adversary who at first refused to come bursting into Ben Jonson's sans the National Anthem with regards the New Territory House and the Opposition, pro-and then withholding are, was folosely at this boy's face, one Master wald to the Deputy-firand teating, withdrew and received a because to have killed or wounded noticed that it had a weak, pretty, Master afterwards, and how the Atations the health of the men is fur tremendous popular ovation. All the General would have preci blue eyed modern look that would Deputy Grand Master expressed from good and that a large num-shops are either closed or shutter pitated wholesale duelling within have been curiously inappropriate his emotions to the London do her of men who wore sick and whoʻl od.
the army.
in more horole days."
legate, are not recorded.
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Between nonepapers and wire
He the out-stations, It is stated Strangers were cleared from the accept his challenge, friends sald, room; only, when one looked more great fervour,What the Grand