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9,
1927.
DAY BY DAY.
wise have received more attention. RELIEF OF MANY AND THE END OF DEATH IS THE WISH OF SOME, THE
In reflecting on the postponements ALL-Seneca. necessary, we would emphasise, as:
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was stated earlier on, the need for The weather forecast up till noon ia:"South winds, planning ahead. A scheme of de-to-morrow
moderate, squally; showery. velopment that has nearly been completed, after a full five years of There was one British case of stendy work, is the Praya Enst re-typhoid fever reported yesterday, clamation. That comprises one of and one Chinese case of cerebro-
spinal fever, the biggest areas of harbour front- age that this port is likely to have to deal with for a good many years. We understand that plans for the area-have already been propared, but there is more to be considered than the more demarcation of
A Chinese woman was sent to tio Government Hospital yesterday suffering from scald wounds. She was pushed by another woman into a cauldron of boiling water during a quarrel.
A Chinese employed at the Dairy roadways and building sites. We Farm Company, Fukfulum depot, referred editorially some time has been admitted to the Alice back to the need for bearing in Memorial Hospital, having been mind the architectural amenities kicked by a cow when he was milk-
ing the animal yesterday. wherever new erections are to go
up.
We had seant hope of co- The steersman of a trading junk ordination, following the know-accidentally fell overboard and was ledge that the late Governor of drowned a few days ago, when the Hongkong had not desired to in-unk was in a strong sea off Sham- Fuipo. His body has since been terfere, as he thought it would be, picked up, and sent to the Kowloon with private enterprise. But the Mortuary. concern about the Kowloon front-
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AN IBERIAN VISIT.
Lisbon-and Then Spain.
All night the steamer pushes break into i trot. They have a along the coast of Portal while grim, trembling, anxious smile on the 'emigrants sing, and the carly their faces and they look straight morning wo turn into the estuary in front of them. They dare not of the Tagus. The lilne, oak-beard-pause, they dare not even glance ed Siorra of Clatra breaks up Into aside. The weight is so great that a green population of small village-now and then they give a shout as flecked hills. The Tagus widens sort encouragment. And now gladly to the sea after the narrow comes a woman carrying a large- battle of its course through Castilelerate of live chickens on her head. and Extremadura.
I pass the notorious Brazilian
The catuary narrows and, nips enfe where the political Intrigues Lisbon like a placers. That white take place. It looks very innocent. city is built upon a dozen hills. The waiters are dark and disillu- Thoro is wind on the water and, assioned. They sigh. The few habi we anchor, the beseiging craft skip tues are sleepy. They sit and gaze up and down on the tops of the at the walls. Thoy cat shrimps. waves, gesticulating as excitedly as It appears that to-day there will be their. crows. A Portuguese official no coup d'etat!
The friend who accompanies and comes aboard. He is rather faded: he scoms almost pathetic, for he is who knows all about the endless in- carrying a large bouquet of red and trigues is stopped by a pleasant and white roses which the purser sus distinguished gentleman. He is pets-ploud-are a present for the gloved with affability. He looks captain...
this way and that as he talks, thie We proceed to a grave examina moment he smiles and chuckles and tion of passports. My passport the next he is frowning and expos- contains, far more about the titles tulating. He is a general. He has and the awesome nature of Lord before him some imaginary scene. Curzon than it does about me. The He begins to act it. He brings official reads some of this and makes down his two fists and presses the note of it, stamps a page, and I knucides together over and over The second promenade concert am sure that the records of the again within an inch of my friend's age makes us hope again. It is al-by the Band of the 1st Batta. entry of aliens into Portugal in the face
This it appears is the general's ways easier to ensure the ameni The Cameronians will take place month of April will contain the
Of my way of explaining that although.all ties beforehand than alter had re-at the Lee Gardens to-night, un-name of Lord Curzon!
last week he was, thus, "with horna Once we land, that green and locked" with the Minister of War construct some years afterwards. less the weather is not suitable, sinister entry-nothing.
in which caso the concert will be
The earth is although "with horns locked" he held in the new Lee Theatre fively wind goes.
baked and burned up. I wade repeats again and again-yet they nearby.
through heavy dust. The city is have now made it up. Nothing has trembling, Roofs are vibrant red, happened. There will be no coup walls are broad slabs of glare. The d'état and the sun is hot, it is true, sun unloads upon my shoulders but not too hot for a pleasant little
Walking more walk, slowly like this,
Off comes and fills me.
I wade deeper and his hat--no, not for a pleasant lit- slowly deeper into the heat. The ground the walk like, this-good-bye.....
The railway station-the famous rises and I escape from the shade. less, lumpy streets of the docks to Roccio where the trains start up in a street that cuts up one of the hills the air somewhere and you have to of Lisbon. There the walls breathe [take a lift to get them is like an as 37,995 feet-just a little under The marriage will take place at put fire; and archways and cellars, enormous bare stable. At night it Everyone seven-and-one-fifth miles. ThereJongkong, in October, of Robert ice. It is not enough to say the is always crowded. has been a much higher altituds Keith Valentine, of Messrs. Dod-sky is blue; the sky is a fire and shouts and bawla." There are hun- dreds of small cotton-clad soldiers reached with a land plane, but it well and. Co., Ltd., son of Mr. the flame is royal.
Climbing, I am soon among the who fill the trains, and they stand As we announced yesterday, the is surely phenomenal that a flying James Valentine, late of Messrs. heavy terra cotta roofs, and as they and shout hoarsely at one another. Government scheme for improving should be able to climb so high and
machine, equipped with floats, Dodwell & Co., Ltd. of Shanghai divide where, in gulfs of light, the All shout, or if they cannot shout,
Aimee Talbot Haslett, Kowloon Point is in abeyance, and above its landing place. From only daughter of Mr. Frederick streets curve downward I get sud- they yell. The human roar la so the work will not be put in hand America, also, comes news of the Haslett, of "Castlebar," Reigate, den and thrilling glimpses of the great it is impossible to hear the estuary and the bay which have steaming trains and scarcely pos- mounted like a wall behind me. sible to see them.... until next year. Everything is, design of a new bombing plane- Surrey, England."
a military machine designed to presumably ready to go ahead as
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JULY 9 1997,
DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES.
Aviation Developments.
The year 1927 is proving to be. No explanation was available a remarkable one in the history when inquiries were made at the of aviation for scarcely a week Post Office in regard to the delay passes without the receipt of news of the Siborian mall. Letters and not reached the regarding new and startling hap- parcels have penings. Only yesterday Reuter Colony for fortnight, but is told how Lieut. C. C. Champion learned that a Siberian mail will had made a new altitude record arrive on Monday.. with a seaplane, ascending as high
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The roofs are lichened, sun-eaten, When the train leaves, the shouts carry five machine guns and 3,000 An Indian guard has been admit-caked with ancient heat, and across increase, For miles the train soon as the necessary prelimina-lbs of high explosives with which ted to the Government Civil Hos-them I can see a pattern of avenues smokes through a soft black tunnel. ries have been completed, for to bomb land and sea forces. And pitai suffering from a nevale cut below, green regiments of acacia in The train becomes one long, slow we have just witnessed a series of over his left eye, us a result of hav- blossom marching out. On all the clanking shout. If the people could plans have been drawn up and a wonderful trans-Atlantic flights. ing been stoned by a mob of Chinese hills hundreds of little houses like sing it would be different. They proved. It is estimated that the in which the possibility has been at the polo ground, Causeway Bay narrow white boxes with pink lids just sit and think at the tops of demonstrated of bringing the The Indian guard noticed a number to them, a pair of belfries here, a their voices. But after "half an work will occupy about two years, American and European contin- of. Chinese assaulting another: In-tree there, the surly wing of an arch hour their enthusiasm slackens. but when completed there will be ente much
We.. nearer together. "Adian, and on going to the man's or the iron tower of one of those They become strangely silent. a decided improvement in the ap-British dier is now preparing to assistance was in his turn mobbed. tail street lifts.
his into a station and there a per- pearance of that part of Kowloon," prove that present-day British
The streets of all the hills of Liseant girl is crying, "Who Buys Passengers arriving from the bon strick down into the main Plaza fresh water?" And a woman, where, as it happens, all visitors to machines and men can still com
pete with others. in
these north by 8.8. Khiva yesterday in which is a pit of light. "Shriek" "Oranges!" Out climber the sol the place obtain their first impres- deeds of derring-do, and that cluded Squadron Leader A. E alone describes the course of those diers and the peasants and they
the spirit of Alcock sions. At present there is very
and Barr-Sim, Paymaster Commdr. J. streets; cobbled, intricate as an rush for the water. Brown lives on. In company Bell, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Cheese-arabesque and headlong as a pass- They gulp down two huge jars little that is attractive about the with the civil conquest of the
man, Lieut N.C.H. Downe, Mr. age of comets. They were laid for of water. The women keep the layout, and the conglomeration of air there is a continuous evolution C. Gordon Mackie, Captain El Mon-mule and man and donkey; not for men in order and take the ha'pence. sheds, hapliazard forms of tempor- the matter of aircraft for com-kman, Flying Officer S. C. Parker Italian motorcars. But down them They sell the oranges and the plat
batant purposes and it does not ary architecture, and so forth take more than a little imagination and Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. Twil- the motorcars fly like a vivid flight form. is littered with orange pecl.
of parrots."
Nearly everyone in the train has an orange. You see a înce and an +++++ give a false den of the actually to conjure up the type of fighting ey and familly.
A sardonic policeman-an elder, orange fastened to it. The train important terminus that Kowloon machine of the future if, at this
The health bulletin of Eastern stage, there is a bomber capable
graver bird loolding helplessly out jerks and aways and then steals out. Point forms, in relation to both or carrying Ave machine guna and ports, issued by the Principal Civil of his red helmet-does wise and With a cry the soldiers chase it the main ferry service across the about 11⁄2 tone of high explosives. Medical Officer of Health, for the beautiful things with a white baton; down the track and get on as best harbour and the station which tor-With long and sustained flight be-wook ending Baturday last, contains there is an agonizing squeal of they can..
We are now no longer a shout; minates what in time may be the coming more and more an every. the following cases: Plague, Bas-mauled gears, an excruciating skid. Rangoon 4, Then the baton does something day matter in aviation and with sein 33, Bombay 7, the inevitable developments in Colombo 2, Alexandria 1; Cholera, even more beautiful and the joyful we are a smell, a soft, sweet smoky Our endless The this respect, the prospect of long- Calcutta 21, Bassein, Bombay, Ne-chauffeurs of Lisbon puncture the smell of oranges.
journey to Badajoz takes fourteen distance raids by fleets of highly-gapatam, Saigon and Tourang 2 air with their horns and slit the reek trails across Portugal. armed and death-dealing aircraft enth, Bangkok 1; Small-pox, Bon-next hill.
hours and as they crawl by even becomes a very real one. If ever bay 93, Calcutta 16, Nagasaki 12,
Peasants gather round the cellar that smell becomes limp, exhausted we are going to discuss the quea-Rangoon 7, Vizagapatam 4, Negapa
older, Heavier parts of the city. the train bumps out of the coastal tion of disarmament in a satisfac tam and Columbo 2 cach and Suoz restauranta and taverns in the and then inert. In silent Portugni tory manner, we shall have to take and Bangkok 1-cach,
These peasants wear their odd heat onto the cold inland plateau. serious note of the menace of the
bright costumes. The women-it is We pass small towns like a heap of air machine. It is bringing to the
La city of beautiful women-pin white boxes with balls of yellow
coloured silk scarves to their heads light pinned onto them. world great possibilities in the way of quicker travel and the ra
The men carry long sticks and weir The faint glow of the train shows- sultant breaking down of the bar-
bright sashes round their waists, the beginnings of olive groves and riers of distance, but it is also
bulging because of the loaves of furrows. Later there is that sweet bread and the belongings they tuck odour of acncia. We arrive bringing a new menace and danger in its adaptation to the uses of
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In a brief consideration of the plans that are no longer heard of, one recollects schemes for new roadways, euch as the extension from Stubbs Road across the top
CORRESPONDENCE.
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WARNING FOR OTHER WOMEN.
"This is the sort of case where!
married the petitioner, with whom he lived for four weeks, and then deserted her to go off with some other woman."
Sir, May 1,
the Stockholm through medium of your esteemed paper, Oslo register a protest against the Prague of Wongneichong and on to Quarry practice of some
unthinking Madrid Bay district; and one also recalls people in Hongkong offices who Athena
the slovenly Buch matters aa Kowloon Bay re-are addicted to
Bombay habit of throwing their cigarette clamation, with big projects that ends through office windows into silver (spot and forward)
Hongkong
Publication of these facts, he experts were called in to report the street.
'n'dded, might warn other women. upon. Such ideas were freely dis- I refrain from mentioning! any
Mr. Justice Bateson also grant- particular area, but should this cussed once upon a time, along catch the eye of any of the cul-
Over 1,500,000 trees are to be the facts might very well be stated ed a decree nisl to Mrs. Margret with-cat it be believed anbi prits it may give them to think planted on government lands in in the Press," said Mr. Justice Alexandra Buckley, of Highbury tious schemes like a bridge across of the possible consequences of the Province of Québec this year Bateson in the Divorce Court, re- New Park, Highbury, against Mr... the harbour, and even u tunnel their carelessness. In the office by the Department of Lands and cently, granting a decree nist to Ernest Mathias Buckley, a dentist. The circumstances following where I work, or am supposed to, Forests: Every year the Depart Mrs. Clare Agnes Page, of Cam thereunder. Circumstances alter ash trays aro to be found on ment advances its reforestation bridge-terrace, Hyde Park, on the cuses, and bure essentials are now every desk, and if in other offices plans, and this year in the biggest ground of the misconduct of her that marriage, he said, were some boing considered. The great these receptacles were put to yet, although next year's pro husband, Mr Gillbert Howard what similar to those in the pre- vlous case, except that Buckley their proper use there would be gramme will surpass it. By 1929 Page.
had obtained £600 and a motor-car Shing Mun water supply scheme need to litter ""fag!! ends the annual plantings will likely has been partially proceeded with, about the street, or endanger run to 5,000,000 saplings a year. The respondent" said the to go away with a month after the The preliminary work in this con-Judge, "Is a man who, having been marriage. It did not appear that as an item in the Colony's develop passers-by-Yours, etc.,
nexion is being done at the Bor-through the Divorce Court at least he had been in the Divorce Court ment programme that could not
once before theso, proceedings, before. thiaville nursery."
ANNOYED,
Hongkong, July 8, 1927.