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THEOSOPHY
WHAT IS THEOSOPHY“.
will be the subject of this week's public lectura of the Hongkong Lodge the Theosophical Society, 7, Duddell Street, on Thursday, November, 4th., st 6 p.m. The mesting is open to the Public, Lecturer M. Manuk.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SHANGHAI TAXIS.
PROTENTIOUS REGULATIONS
PREPARED.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
1926.
ROYAL VISITORS.
MINERS DISPUTE.
CROWN PRINCE & PRINCESS OF SWEDEN.
THE BRITISH SEAMEN'S ANSWER.
LIGHT
Later in the month the Colony
In Japan they travelled officially but here the visit.le to be informal and they will be travelling as the Duke and Duchess of Scania.
New York, Nov, 2.
Roaders of the Municipal Gazette must have been startled and not a
la to entertain distinguished visi A poll of British sonaien belong- little puzzled to see the long list tore in the persons of the Crowning to the British Seamen's Union, of regulations on the front page Prince and Princess of Sweden. In American ports has resulted in relative to the control of public As is well known their Highnesses an overwhelming rejection of pro- taxicabs in the Settlement, says have been touring America, and posals that the seamen refuse to the N. C. D. News. The same list Japan and they are due to arrive sign on vessels carrying cont to Britain and also contributo a shil appeared in the French Municipal, here on the as. Katori Maru on. Council's Buletiny Municipal: the November 20,
ling or half-crown weekly per head to help the miners-Reuters: previous week. Just what the whole thing was all about we were
American Service. at a loss to know since, to our knowledge, the hire-car companies of Shanghai have run, à fairly good service and according to re- gulations, without the necessity of a monotonous list of regulations covering two columns of typo...
Much interested in the 17 con- ditions, a reporter spent practically the whole of the afternoon getting at what he thinks is the bottom of the matter and then found that it was all over nothing at all.
The Chinese "Stuff".
The Crown Prince Gustavus; Adolphus is tow 43 years of age, and holds the rank of Major-Gen- has had a long military training eral in the Swedish army. He
and was the first royal personage takes a keen interest in athletics in Sweden to gain a coveted prize which is only given to those who successfully fulfil a number of tests in many branches of eport. His first wife waa Princess Mar garet of Connaught, a daughter of Prince Arthur and elder sister of Princess "Pat" as she is popularly known. She died in 1920.
Was
ATTEMPT ON MUSSOLINI.
EX-ANARCHIST'S SON,
Bologna, Nov. 2. An official .communique statos that Mussolini's assailant's father, an ex-anarchist, compalled his son to leave the Young Fascist organi- sation of which he was a member, but apparently the father has not participated in subversive activi- ties for many years. Enquiries are "
view to the proceeding with a
covering others responsible for the crime-Reuter.
The two Municipal Councils of Shanghai seem to be stealing the Chinese "stuff." Everyone knows
The Crown Princess Louise that it is a pet hobby of a Chinese married the Crown Prince in official body to hear that something London in 1923. She may happen and at once to draft daughter of Prince Louis of Bat- war she a set of rules as long as the Great tenburg. During the
served as a nurse in a French Wall of China, to govern some Military hospital. thing they haven't the faintest idea about.
Keeping the above in mind, this is what we found. Several months ago the Shanghai Munici-: pal Council received from, the French Municipal Council a re- quest to draft a set of rules for a new taxicab company which was going to startle Shanghai with 100 bright little taxicabs of the type "watch the clock and pay the price." These were supposed to be coming from Hongkong where there was a surplus of cabs at the time.
CHEETAH DEAD.
. SUCCUMBS TO INJURY OF
PAW.
Suffering from a severely in- jured paw, sustained when it was. trapped, the cheetah which was caught recently and sold to a re- sident of Yaumati succumbed to its Injury on Sunday, at the Yau- From further inquiries it was mati Police Station, where it was learned that the French Municipal taken after the Police gained Council had received one lone-knowledge of its presence in the some letter from a person who district. stated that they were the Hongkong Taxicab Co., Ltd.
Though the weeks passed into months, nothing more was heard, but lo and behold, the regulations came in due courge. “
a
dis-
Rome. Nov, 2.
A huge demonstration of thou-) sands of Fascists and representa-' tives of ex-service organisations, thunderously cheered Mussolini. The Secretary General of the Fascist party, Turati, in a speech declared the Fascists demanded the death penalty for those behind the dastardly attempt.-Router.
RECENT CANTON
1941
INSPECTION.
AMERICAN PROTEST:
Washington, Nov. 2.
It will be remembered that a wild animal was reported to have A new United States protest to been caught in the New Terrí- Canton accuses the Canton Gov- tories and brought to No. 48 ernment of violation of treaty Temple Street, where It was being rights in compelling ships enter- kept by the man who had purchasing port to submit to examination ed it from the trappers.
by officials of the newly
The price paid for the creature, created Inspection Bureau, which which is more like a cheetah than is acting independently of the. anything else, was $100 and it was regular Customs administration.— to have been sent to the. Lee Reuter's American Servico. Gardens for exhibition purposes.
Some Gems of Bureaucracy. A few of the regulations are worth quoting. Number 11 reads, "Chauffeurs are prohibited from soliciting or contriving by any
In the meantime it was taken to pretext to solicit from passengers the Police Station any remuneration other than that proper cage, but on Sunday, it and put in a marked on the taximeter." (We died apparently from the wound all rise in favour of this). Anto the paw which was caught in other, "Taximeters must be the trap.
illuminated by an apparatus which The owner of the animal intim- shall be lit at sunset, whenever ated that he did not want the car- the vehicle is engaged." (Nothing case and Sub Inspector Hutchins le said about the passengers being of the Yaumati Police Station is illuminated). Yet another, Arti- now the proud possessor of a chee- cles found which it has not been tah skin, possible, to restore to their ownera immediately must be deposited within 24 hours at the nearest police station." (But who will see that it is done?").
Anyone answering to, the des- eription of the Hongkong Taxicab Co., Ld., in Shanghai, please notify us and receive a free paper of this morning's issue.
MEXICAN REVOLT.
GOVERNMENT BLAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Mexico City, Nov. 2.
In connection with the annihila- tion of a small band of "fanatics" in the State of. Durango, led by General Gallegos, a Government communique claims that the au thorities have evidence that the Roman Catholic Episcopate organising a revolution.
BANDIT OUTRAGE;
FRENCH' CONSUL AT LUNGCHOW KILLED.
Peking, Nov. 2. Bandits killed the French Con- sul, M. Robert, of Lungchow, on October 31, while he was motor- ing from there to Langsen," în Tado-China-Reuter,
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