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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 19
PROTECT YOUR CAR western science--they have so fall-
DAY BY DAY
FALSEHOODS - NOT, ONLY, DISAGREE WITH TRUTHS BUT OFTEN QUARREL AMONG THEMSELVES-Daniel Web ster.
POLICE DESERTERS.
TROUBLE WITH NORTHERN CHINESE
GIRL ROBBED
SEIZED BY TWO MEN.
A thirteen-year-old Chinese gird According to Cantata Bloxham, was robbed of a pair of golis A... there have been consider mounted rattan bangles when Shantung men from the Hong- Gap Road yesterday, able number of desertions or gathering firewood at Wanchál
Half-a-mfle from Aberdeen Roud
by installing ed to learn the value of true learn “PYRENE, Fire
ing that they have driven it from. Extinguisher
out among them and left thom- “PYRENE"), will selves bereft of its power at a time kill firo without
when it would have been damage to the engine, woodwork the most benefit. The lesson they Chinese case of typhold was or upholstery. are now receiving is a severe one reported from Shaukiwan yester Water spreads and it is to be hoped that they will day. armas Ma
STAROGIAL Alaskan ANTES DE CANG 1 Logo BROTHIANS 1 Kong Police Force lately, and Wel- potrol fire; sand is profft, by it and instead of showing The Ben Ling Bearrackle 'inefficient adi will
ingratitude and hostility to the defrom European and Straits ports, put the engine out
voted men and women who go into is due to arrive Here on the 16th of action,
China to help them, they will mani- Instant fest.
a little of that thankfulness: The Empress of Russia, which natural to those who receive suc loft! Hongkong on July 22nd,
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BIRTH.
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The Telegraph
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1926.
THE WRONG WAY.
There will be much sympathy in. Hongkong for sorely-tried resid- ents of Shanghai who are not only enduring one of the greatest heat waves ever experienced, but who are living in the midst of a severe The duration of the intensely hot spell-has-now-been-prolonged and
outbreak of the dreaded cholera.
it is devoutly to be wished that
Hai-Wel has been wiltten to, with Junction, she was safzed by two the view thetopping deserters re- men who questioned her th regard turning to that port to a bundle of wood she was „One of the men' thus intercepted carrying. This was the preluda at Wei-Hal-Wel was, returned to to a highway robbery that foll Hongkong yesterday, and to-day od Securing the pair of he was charged, before Mr. E. the mon ran quickly away in the Lindsell, with desertion
direction of Aberdeen Village:
cour. They can surely see that they arrived at Vancouver on the Captain Bloxham, in reply to the Returning to Aberdeen; the girl
their have done more harm to the instant. nationals than they have to others. And it in precisely the same with the boycott, because it is based on
a similarly false Idea. Those who
Yesterday was a day of high temperatures along the Ching Coast,At 2 pm. 99 was recorded at Shanghai and 100 at Swatow,
REVERE, Passangers departing for Manila yesterday by 8.8. Empress of Asia, included Major Vantour and the Shipoff Company of Russian Dancers,
are continuing that boycott are interfering with the healthy com- petition that is the life and soul of business are raising false bar riers which increase prices at every turn. Not only are the Chiness of the Ford Motor Company of Mr. J. V. Crowe, representative merchants losing money, but the Detroit, has returned from Can Inhabitants of the districts. con-ton and is staying at Hotel trolled by the boycott are paying Metropole. more for practically everything they have to buy. Nobody can in- terfere with the cheapest channels of supply without setting up a vici- ous circles of increased prices. It is perfectly true that imports must pay for exports, and if im- Amongst the passengers who ports from "Hongkong have been arrived here by the s.s. President McKinley were Mr. and Mrs. B. forbidden then exports to. Hong Smith, Mr. George Burton, Mr. kong have fallen accordingly. Vir. H. Gibson, Mr. S. Imbrack and tual stagnation has been the result Mr. George A. Moskovaki, - and all the company consequences quite disastrous.
A New Government House?'
Mrs. Stirling (wife of the Rear Admiral), accompanied by Miss Stirling, returned to Hongkong yesterday, from a holiday at tion a.s. Kweichow, Weihaiwei, by the China. Naviga-
**
A Shanghai newspaper says' that Chinese police are to be seen walking through the streets of Chapei and Nantao beating brass gongs and warning the people to drink in order to avoid cholera. take heed of what they eat and
Magistrate, said he was unable reported the case to the local to discover any ronson for the de- Police Station, a sertion. It was true, however, The usual police search-parties that desertions from the Shan were sent out yesterday afternoon, ting contingent were frequent, but no arrests have been made. and had caused the police, authori led here to write to Wei-Hai-Wel
The defendant deserted from the Force on the 3rd June. There was one report against him, as 'shown in his departmental record.
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the Hongko
Telegraph]
OUR J. P's.
In response to the Magistrate,
and he deserted because he the defendant said he was sick,
thought permission to leave the Forea would not be given (if he had applied for de officially! M
Sentence of six months harding's issue only mentioned briefly Sir Your leader in last even labour was imposed.
the duties of our Justices of the Peace. I, for one, would like to know the exact duties and whether these duties are generally carried out by them. It appears to me that the list of J.P's has increased in number and I note that certain names are unfamiliar to the. public: "If I remember rightly, the appointment of loon gentlemon as
WORLD PEACE.
THE SINISTER THREAT OF
CHINA...
London, Aug. 11.
The Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, J. P. by our former Governors who was President of the Board was made strictly and in accord- of Education from 1916 to 1922, ance, with the justified amount of has been lecturing in London, and public services that a citizen has in referring to the prospects of rendered which called for his world peace said that there were appointment. In those days it many arguments favourable to the was generally the rule that view that the human race was too residents of long and respected wise to commit suicide. But it standing, coupled with their public was a sinister fact that China, services, were to be recommended formerly the most peaceful com to be Justices of the Peace for the
The interesting fact is disclosed in the annual report of the Land Officer that during last year the is an ill wind that blowmunity in the world, was now Colony. old Military Sanitarium site at nobody any good. Chinese physi- owing to the failure, through the ed it is the custom that a record supplied with arms for civil war, When a person has been honour- Magazine Gap was transferred by cians in Shanghai are reported to intereat of certain the War Department to the Hong- be coining, money during the pre- firms, to ratify the St. Germain's I fall to see why this is not done armament of his careor be made known, but
thus be considerable interest coffin makers are working night of arms. Until the Chinese situa- Yours, etc.;
There will sent cholera epidemic, while local Treaty for regulating the export. when J. Pa are appointed aroused as to the use to which-and-day-to-meet-requirements. this fine site will eventually be
keng Government.
put. It will be recalled that prior. It is
'a
the much-needed rain will apon to 1923 the sanitarium building. Thirtieth annual general meeting / provement in the prospects of the
While working on some tele- phone' wires at Kowloon Chai ye terday morning, Chinese elec
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Shanghai is nothing if not well money be needed in site prepara- trician received a severe shock and
LANE, CRAWFORD'S Removal Arrangements
Saturday, Sunday & Monday August 14th, 15th, and 16th.
are moving days)
Saturday, August 14th
.2
We shall be open as usual on this day, but we ask you to place all orders for general supplies on Friday or before.
Sunday, August 15th
Cafe Wiseman will be closed, but Bread and Cakes will be obtainable at our Old Store (Grocery Dept) up till mid-day..
Monday, August 16th
We shall be CLOSED all day but Groceries, Bread, and other Foodstuffs will be obtainable by Pass Book at our Old Store.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
advertised that the come. When close on 3,000 inha- stood on this site, although it had of the shareholders of the United bitants suffer from cholera in a been for many years-unoccupied Asbestos Oriental-Agency, Ltd. but that the big typhoon in August will be held in the offices of Messrs. fortnight and when there are over of the year named completely Dodwell & Co., Ltd. on Tuesday, 450 death within that period, then wrecked the structure. The site August 31 at noon. it can assuredly be said that the has since remained vacant, al- greatest port in China is suffering though it is easily accessible by motor road, is situate in an ideal from a disastrous visitation. But locality and very little, if any
tion were it to be built upon. We was later removed to the Kwong have heard it said that Sir Edward Wah Hospital from where he was Stubbs greatly favoured this spot subsequently taken to the Kowloo as the site for a new Government Hospital. House, but what the Government's intentions now are we do not know. that the Colony had a new resid- It would certainly seem high time
once for its Governor, as both the present buildings are rather old and need considerable annual out lay for their upkeep. At this af is a further vote for $12,000 in ternoon's Council meeting there
equipped with medical and hospital services, and we may rest assured that so soon as climatic conditions become less favourable to the dis- ease the authorities will soon get the upper hand of the scourge. But there is a different story to tell in the case of the disastrous out- break of cholers in the native cities of the interior above Wuchow, as related by our Nanning correspond ent yesterday. This is a case in respect of Government House, and it would be interesting to know
ENQUIREE":
tion cleared up it was impossible fo to be confident of any great. im
world's future.-Reuter.
Hongkong, Aug. 12, 1926.
3
THE “H29" DISASTER.
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, Aug. 11.
London, Aug. 11. Salvage, workers have located Parliament has adjourned, until the bodies of the missing men in mid-October.-Reuter.
submaripe H.29-Reuter,
The
Very Idea!
which one, sees the harmful folly how much money has been spent New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 949 frills, furbelows, laces and rib- hoy because of the item of cloth
According to to-day's report of
of low pressure extends from the the Royal Observatory "a trough
middle of the China Sea to fur east of Luzon. A typhoon muy be forming in its eastern ex-
In order to give employment to Children's Bureau, in cooperation tremity." The forecast up till thousands of French needlewomen with large life insurance com-
or variable winds; fine.". noon to-morrow isLight, east now out of jobs, & movement by panies. It costs about 56,150 to leading figures in the world of bring up one child to the age of fashion has been started to restore 18, according to the figures, the Three buildings situated on
to the world the old modes of girl costing slightly more than the
on this building and on Mountain Cheung Sha Wan were sold by Mr. bons. Many French hat factorice ing Lodge during the past five or six E. V. M. R. de Sousa at the China are closed because of the present years; also what further funds Auction Rooms yesterday to Mr. ap
simple styles. near future. It seems to us rather Road, Central, for the price of are expected to be spent in the Mak Fook, of No. 125 Connaught Bridget, said Dennis, timidly, bad policy to keep on throwing $5,800. The property consists of away public money on these two an area of 3,240 square feet. old residences if there is any in- tention to erect a new residence.
When a motorist is pinched for
"did ye iver think of marryin' 7 What do movie actors cobe speeding he'd usually in a fine fix.
are, now said Bridget look tween scenes? The stars have ing demurely at her shoe, sure little canvass seats upon which now, the subject has rivor entered, theft names are painted so that me mind there will be no opportunity of "It's sorry I am," said Dennis, and such lese majesty an might be dorp- mitted were a mere person to oc- he started to leave the room.
of the co-called "patriotic" EX- pulsion of foreign doctors and the closing down of foreign-run hospf- tals. The people of the afflicted district are se minic-stricken at the spread of the disease and of the inability of the native doctors to cope with it, that, they have drawn up and issued a circular ap- peal to all hospitals in Canton, Nanning, Wuchow and. Kweilin to send doctors and medical supplies with all possible haste. But the unfortunate part is that many hos pitals which would have been full of carnest desire to help and which would have rendered devoted ser- vice are no longer in oxistence as functioning bodies. If we take the
Paris Brussels,... case of the Stout Memorial Hos
A librarian who was asked to Amsterdam pitel at Wuchow we find that it has for hotweather reading, Jestingly gen recommend some novels, sultable Berlin..... been closed down and ita foreign suggested the following Porter's staff driven away on the score of "Freckles, Bullen's Cup of the Baenos dire
ringto "patriotiem." There will doubt Deep Stacpoole's Beach of Shanghai
Dreams, Phelps's "Shady Side,
Yokohama less be as, much help as possible Collin's "Woman In White," Row Geneya
New York rendered from Nanning, Canton land's "In the Shadow," Hocking Milan and other places, but how much In the Sweat of Thy Brow Stockholm more could have been done had it Tree Vachell's "Blinds Downrid
Hardy's Under the Greenwood hot been for past foolishness. France's The Gods Are Athirst
The Brimming Cap Bor and Burchell's "My Lady of the Hongkong
Silver:(apot: Bass" Which Bass he failed to allver (forward)
From the effects, it is atated, of for the Governor. Would it not be some, powder which he took, a possible to sell the present two Chinese died, in hospital. yestar- houses and to replace them by a day, one hour after removal from Military Sanitarium site the the ailment, It is stated that he Bridget. "Ye've set me thinldn'" to these chairs and road news- fine, modern residence on old his home. At an acute stage of War minute, Dennis, said cupy them. Generally they drift say, this spot is easily reached by admitted to his wife that he had
paper and "fan" magazine storlea motor car, being only about twenty taken poison. The woman-is be-
Here's a riddle for married pee- about themselves. Extras find a minutes run from town, and if ing detained, with the view to disbe married in order to total 25,000 cuss dinner engagements, but their ple. How long should a couple flock of young men, ready to dis-
erected thereon it might easily a becoming official residence were covering the motive...
take the place of the two upon which money is at present continu- ally being asked.
What has really happened is that these "patriotle" students have driven back the frontier line of speci
EXCHANGE RATES.
Rugby, August 11.
kinses. A Chicago judge awards conversations Trun" "largely ito. a fair plaintier $25,000 extra or $1 a “partios" and roles they hopp to kies for the 26,000 kisses which she play. Workers and camera crews should bave,hnd, but never did invariably read the sport pages have, in her married life. - Justiand directors rest. Beveral have one kiss a day would take almost the orchestras pløy" · "restful $12.11 70 years to make 25,000! The music D
judge must figure that the normal married life demanda them before, during and after meals.
170%
"Wirelaar.
He walked right in and kiss.. Sed his wife
Of course it set her think
The only answer she could
Wns, Surely, he's been
drinking.
When the drill sergeant shouted, “right about face, his newest pri- vate mumbled thank goodness, I'm finally right about something “
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