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WEDNESDAY,
1927. AUGUST 10,
FEW PERSONS HAVE COURAGE ENOUGH TO APPEAR AS GOOD AS THEY REALLY ARE-Hare.
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CASTLE PEAK MURDER.
"PASSAGES" IN COURT.
The Very Idea!
The practical note has finally been The Castle Peak murder case was sounded in a contest where a prize continued before the acting Chief is given to the infant that sloeps
the soundest and longest.
There was a clean bill of health Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood at the in the Colony yesterday.
Criminal Sessions this morning when Dr. J. E. Dovey, Medical officer in charge of Kowloon Mortu- ary, was cross-examined by Mr. F. C. Jerkin, defending.
greater service can be rendered W DAY BY DAY. by any public man than to con- centrate attention on the problem now and to bring such a pressure to bear both on the owners and the Government as may really in- duce the former, to set their house in order" or the latter to make them do 80 before it is too late. But that is not all. Apart from the need for pressing on quickly with the general reor- The P. and 0, s.s. Khiva, from ganization of the industry, by Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles
yesterday morning. auch means as amalgamations and the establishment of Selling agencies, there is one formidable problem which calls urgently for
The B. I. as. Santhia, is due to arrive here from Amoy on Satur- day.
According to the Chinese press, 333 cases of copper cents were shipped to Canton on Thursday.
Witness was. questioned; on, the horizontal or transverse nature of the wound round the neck about which he gave evidence yesterday, and. Mr. Jenkin put to him certain extracts from medical treatises on
Wit strangulation and hanging. ness was asked if he agreed with the following passage which Mr.
Jenkis quoted:-
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He cranked his motor car until
It raised his wife's alarm. Said she, There's something
broken,"
And there was-his bloomin'
arin.
To start talking about "the amoklest town on earth" is probably to make some places in Lancashire
feel self-conscious. But a very likely outsider for the honour seems to be Calcutta, as described by the is an error to suppose that ston. Whereas the smoke of Euro- Bengal Smoke Nuisances Commis- want of obliquity in the impression pean cities is discharged at a of the unemployed miners, whose ornament set with diamonds was round the neck can afford any evi-height of fifty feet or more, Calcut-
attention and scientific treat- ment. What is to be the
fate
numbers are already 230,000 and are more likely to increase than to diminish during the next few months? "The whole tragedy
It was reported to the police
yesterday that a gold and platinum
stolen from No. 39 Caine. Road. sometime between the 1st and 5th instant. The jewellery is worth $200.
dence in favour of the act being
homicidal."
to has a quarter-of-a-million domes tic fireplaces pouring out their dis- charge practically at ground_level and creating "a poisonous, suffocat- ing amoke pall, through which it is impossible to see a few yards In this case, East is
Dr. Dovey:"I agree, but....' His Lordship: You either agree or disagree.
Witness said that he desired to ment, His Lordship replying that if West-only more so. he agreed but qualified it, he really disagreed.
mind that the statement was wrong. Mr. Jenkin (to His Lordship); Oh, you mean the statement that I read to Dr. Dovey is wrong?
It was obvious to his
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Keep your wife quiet! Husband: Barrister at Bow County Court: How can I? Why, she even talks in her sleep.
A Chinese woman was injured of the situation," declared an ex-in. Des Voeux Road Central yester-qualify that agreement with a state-ahead:" pert recently was that the in-day through a fall resulting from a hurried attempt to alight from dustry had to support over 3,100, a moving tram. She was taken to 000 men and boys, whereas it could the Government Civil Hospital really only employ 950,000 if they with injuries, to her feet. were to get a really satisfactory standard of living." What is, to be done with the displaced miners? It is not a problem which can be left to solve itself. The miners, with their extreme local concen- tration and segregation from the rest of the community, are the last
Among those leaving by the s.8. President Pierce to-day were Miss R. J. Collins, Mr. F., Macdonald, Captain H. W. Chandler, Rev. and Mrs. Howard Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Morris, Mr. W. Turner and Lieut.. A. U. H. Hacket Pain.
His Lordship: I think so. Mr. Jenkin: I did not know that your Lordship had any medical qualifications.If that is your opinion I can quote authorities to convince you on the question. The K.B.S. water polo team to At this time several people in meet the Royal Navy at the Court were smiling and His Lord
Solicitor at Bow, County. Court: Was the woman who gave evidence last your wife? Man, hastily: Not guilty.
Solicitar at Willesden: Do you consider that he was too drunk to drive his car home? Witness: Well I think he might have got there safely, providing that he came up
Bougkong Telegraph body of workpeople who can be Victoria Recreation Club this ship intimated that he desired the against no obstacles.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10 1927.
MINERS' PLIGHT.
Amid the weiter of important
left to shift for themselves in the expectation that they will find work somehow in other occupa- tions. Not for a hundred years has Britain had to face a problem of transference of labour on such a formidable scale, of such great in- trinsic difficulty, and threatening so much human tragedy. The Commission were insistent last year that the Government "prepare plans," and must be ready to "provide funds." There has not been any sign of either the plans or the funds. The Gov- ernment's only contribution to the problem so far has been to get angry with anyone who calls at- tention to it.
Cholera.
must
evening will be B. Angus, G. Rod-matter to be treated seriously. ger, J. Pearne, E. W. Railton, R. There was no further discussion Witchell, C. W, Simpson and C. on the point. Logan. Reserves, E. Murphy and W. Lawson."
The vernacular press states that with the Japanese boycott going on, and Chinese labourers at vari- ous ports refusing to discharge any Japanese products, it is esti- mated that one of the shipping lines will lose approximately $130,-
0C0 a month.
those departing for Among Shanghai by the President Pierce this morning was the Canton con- tingent of Chinese athletes going to Shanghai to participate in the Far Eastern Games to be held this mor.th. There were 18 girls and 14 boys in the party.
Mr. Jenkin asked. His Lordship, to make a note that he would not allow Dr. Dovey to agree to a statement with qualifications.
The Acting Chief Justice said. he was not attempting to infringe on the liberty of a witness but was looking at it from the point of view of logic.
Dr. Dovey was allowed to make his qualification, however, and said that statistics show in suici- dal hanging it was extremely rare to have a circular mark round the neck below the level of the larynx.
Woman at Willesden: That man's false statements are the only clever things he ever does.
Acton wife. My husband. threa- tens to knock my head off, but he has never done it,"
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Ten aged globe trotters left Liverpool recently by the Canadian Pacific liner. Minnedosa. Their combined ages totalled 739 years. Within a month two Canadian Pacific liners have carried twenty septuagenarians, ten eastbound and ten westbound, a record in Atlantic" travel.
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I went to America with my knees trembling. There was no neces- Mr. Jenkin asked witness if hesity-Sir Wm. Crawford.
Scotsmen are sometimes rather difficult. I am a Scotsman myɛelf. agreed that in hanging, wherever the knot was, in the front, back or side if the ncose was a running-Col.. C. A. Malcolm
The British Army has the finest. one the resultant groove would be
non-commissioned officers of any a horizontal one,
army in the world. The Duke of Connaught.
international and China happen- ings there is the danger that we out here overlook some of the really pressing problems with which the people at Home are from time to time faced. The failure of the Geneva parley, for instance, has for some time driven into the background most other political problems, but it should not be forgotten that the great
On Monday afternoon, while the mining industry of Britain is pass-
squall was at its height, part of Witness disagreed and Mr. Jen ing through a time of extreme
the matshed of the Chinese Bath-kin said the point was a very im crisis. The facts of the present
ing Club at North Point was portant one. Witness said a hori
Concerning the late Mr. White's blown down. Some Chinese ladies zoutal groove would occur only In situation are so very plain and so very grim-unemployment heavy when cholera is affecting the main- time were involved in the debris menced to amplify his answers by recalls how, at one gathering, Mr. It is interesting, just at a time who were taking tea there at the cases of strangulation and com- connexion with Daly's Theatre, a writer in the London Evening News and increasing, extensive short land, and imported cases have of the roof, but no-one was hurt. experiences, causing Mr. Jenkin to White talked of Miss Phyllis Dare
noted in the Colony, to
say "I have never met you before and why she expected new time, wages falling everywhere to been
observe that there is also a severe From the Torchlight Tattoo Dr. Dovey, and I want to assure stockings at 25s, a pair for every the very low minima of last year's epidemic in Arábia and Persia. held on the Race Course at Shang-you that this is no case of trying performance. settlements, and the colliery-com-The number of deaths suggests hai on June 3 and 4, the handsome to bait you."
"She said she had always had panies, in the exporting districts, that the disease in the Near East profit of $21,425.61 was realised Witness sald that he was fresh silk stockings," said Mr. losing money steadily week by efforts to check its spread will divided
has secured a firm hold, and that and that-this-has-been-equally giving his experiences as a white. "I told her she must not between the General medical man, Mr. Jenkin replying, expect that under my management. week—that it would have been have to be strenuous to have any Officer Commanding (for the benfit"Which in the case of hanging is I ant a business man. In any case, impossible for even the most stub-great effect. Of more than or of the troops) and the Union Jacknil."
why wouldn't 168. stockings do?” · The case is proceeding- born of congenital fact-dinary importance, is the news Club,
our
that up-to-date vaccine is being
White economised over the shirkers to pretend that all was despatched from Europe by aero- With reference to the case of a
famous Daly's orchestra, and that well. In June, 1925, it may be plane. Thus is the latest scienti- Chinese who was arrested recently
nearly broke the late Merlin Mor- gan's heart. They told the story remembered, when the crisis which fic knowledge of the West coming
as a suspect in connexion with the to the East in an attempt to bom-armed robbery committed at Tai)
that "Jimmy," after listening to the led to the subsidy was coming to bat one of the most ancient Nam Street, Shumsuipo, the verna
orchestra for a while, pointed to a head, the industry took a sudden scourges of which, mankind is a
the drummer and said, "That man victim. The history of cholernicular press now states that when
has only struck one note in five plunge for the worse and the hoary enough, just as with most the man was taken to the police i
minutes. He need not be paid sc much."
Most likely that was "Jimmy".
over
as
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station the victim of the robbery, who is a woman, was called up and was unable to identify him, so he was released.
Part of the veranda of 74, Con-
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BOMBS IN CANTON,
TWO ARRESTS MADE.
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Despite the rigid prohibition on parcel carrying in Canton, two per- sons were arrested on Monday for having dynamite and highly ex-White's humour. plosive chemicals, in their posses- gion.
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silk :
Glasgow is once again to have the One of them was arrested on the halfpenny fare which was abolish- Bund. He carried a wicker basket ed in 1920 on account of financial which drew the attention of a de- stringency. It is a noteworthy tective, who made a search. fact that the system by which their Chemicals for bomb making were Corporation allows passengers to found, and the owner was arrested travel the whole distance on any of Another man was arrested while the routes on payment of twopence riding in a ricksha. He carried has been a remarkable success, T.N.T. powder and was according though the longest journey is as ly detained. His address was great as twenty-two miles.. found, and a search there revealed a large collection of arms and ammunitions.
The police are keeping a sharp look-out for agitators and alloged communists.
employment figure shot up for a
of the other terrible ravages of the brief space Lo
300,000. East. It goes back to the dawn of Colonel Lane-Fex the Secretary of civilisation, inasmuch as civilised man, unlike his aboriginal fore- the Mines Department, in the bears, has established markets, recent House of Commons debate, towns with insanitary drainage
and crowded accordingly took June, 1925.
dwelling places, naught Road West, first floor, col- his basis of comparison, and in dark, evil-smelling places, an
Thus the cholera bacillus, a lurker lapsed on Monday morning. It is learned that shortly before the argued that, though there are now accompaniment of insanitation, a collapse an Indian constable was a shrinker passing underneath, and when he 233,000 minera out of work, that lover of crowds and
from fresh air and sunlight, con- saw that some plaster was falling is really a most promising im-tinues to hold its own in a few he immediately ran up to the first provement on two years ago. By strongholds that modern methods floor of the house and warned the reference to the same standard, have not yet reached. Wherever persons up there that the veranda sanitation and general cleanliness was going to collapse. Fortunate "we have had a wonderful re- have prevailed, cholera has been ly it was near noon, when most covery of our export trade," and defeated; so that modern armies of the fokis in the first floor had we are rapidly regaining our are able to move with less fear of gone to their tiffins, therefore no
the veranda epidemics than they had of old, one was in
at the position." At the same time, when scourges of uncleanliness time. The case was reported to Colonel Lane-Fox agreed that we took a far heavier toll than the police headquarters afterwards. must not be complacent, and armed foe. It is of interest to
recollect, though, that General While on leave ashore, last insisted that he had never
Maude, the hero of Kut, fell a night, a seaman of the steamer couraged the owners in com-victim of cholera, in the very Japan Arrow, named T. Hansen, placency. The Government want-place where so many cases are at met with adventure. Of the, de present occurring. It is a fact tails of this adventure, Hafsen ed to leave the owners to work out that the disease remains a menace has but a hazy recollection. He Parls
New York their own salvation. "At the same to even the cleanest communities, remembers however, that he en-Brussels time; they must. remember that so long as they are in juxtaposi-gaged a rieksha to. go about the Geneva they are expected to put their tion to foul areas where the germs town, and that he still had this Amsterdam
can remain dormant and breed ricksha when later in the evening | Milan house in order. The country whenever opportunity occurs. So he emerged from a restaurant to Berlin
strictest is watching and before very long the
precautions can go out for another ride. The end Stockholm never come amise. modern sanitation forms one of ed" in Statue Square and that
Happily of it all was that he was "dump Copenhagen
Oslo Vienna the greatest safeguards that we when he came to himself he was Prague But the great danger to-day Is have, and care as to the food and minus his hat, his jacket, a camera Helsingfors that matters will be allowed to drink we consume can do the rest, and about $45 in money. Hansen Madrid There are also anti-cholera went to the Central Police Station Lisbon drift, and that public opinion will vaccines, one of the latest being where he made a report,
en-
a report will have to be made of what is being done."
be content to ignore the problem, taken by the mouth, and being claimed to have no distressing
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LOCAL S.P.C.A.-
INSPECTORS' WORK IN JULY.
The S.P.C.A. inspectors had a busy time last month, carrying oat a great deal of inspection work wherever livestock was being. London, August 9.
124.05 transported. In the course of 4.86 8/32 their duties thay investigated, .34.03 inter alia, 1,802 crates of poultry, .25.22 1,237 pigs in transit op trucks, and 12.12 .89.5/16 1,417 pigs in junks and on ferries. 20.45. As regards imports, they ins .18.12 pected no fewer than 3,563 crates .18.14 of poultry in ships, 11,224 pige in .18.80 ships, and 2,801 head of cattle in .34.50 ships and junks.
until the miners are once more after-effects whatever. Hongkong despite the handicaps they have Buenos Aires ready for a fight, which it will has had two or three unfortunate to face in a majority population Bombay then be hopeless to avert. That instances of well-known residents that is l-educated in personal Shanghai after all, is the story of the coal within recent weeks, but our staving off anything like epidemic silver (apot and forward)
falling victims to the scourge hygiene, should go a long way to Hongkong Yokohama
mines since the Armistice. No efficient methods of sanitation, proportions of the 'disease.
-164 There was a large number of . 102% cases of cautions, prosecutions, 27/16 and investigations on, reports re- .372ceived.
28.77%
.780
Inspections of premises includ- 5.27/32 ed the markets, landing places; de- .47.18/16 pots, .pons, and bird shope. .1/5.19/82
As regard dogs, 12 were admit 2/6ted during the month to the dogs' .1/11% home, one was claimed, four were.
1/11%. 25.1/10 sold, eight were destroyed, and
one died.
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