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WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 17, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
The fact that the British flor has been kept waiting ao long and the fact that the German airmen
PEOPLE WHO TALK OF THE DIG- had to turn back demonstratesNITY OF LABOUR USUALLY HAVE SOFT
JOBB-Alfred Berners.
There were no cases for hearing at the Marine Court this morning,
that the aeroplane as a mode of travel has not yet reached a stage of development at which it can be counted as dependable as the older-established modes. While The B. I. steamer Talwa, is due Capt. Courtney has been "weather-here. to-morrow morning from
Singapore.
Bound" ocean liners have made many trips to Amerien' and back
The Empress of Russia is due in again, and no ship of the senHongkong at 8 am, next Monday, turns back to pert because of whart.
and will berth at pier 5, Kowloon She is due to leave for storm, unless in the event of seri-Vancouver on Wednesday, at noon. ous mishap. The day may come
It was rumoured yesterday that when travel by air will be as un-
both Gen. Li Chal-sum and Wang affected by the weather as travel Shao-hung, the two prominent by sta is now, but much develop-figures in South China, to-day had arrived in the Colony. Further ment in the matter of power and enquiry proves that this was not estabilisation will have to precede true. that time. As we pointed out the other day in connexion with the race for the Schueider Cup, there has been tremendous development in aviation within recent years, and it is by no means beyond the bounds of reasonable conception that ships of the air will be made as "air worthy" as ships of the are "sea worthy to-day. Great achievements have already been accomplished, and, with the tremendous amount of world-wide interest at present focussed upon aviation and its undoubted future, there will most certainly be a quickening of the already rapid
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Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Moss wish to | progress.
thank all their friends for kind sympathy ami floral tributes sent in their recent bereavement.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
ATLANTIC FLIGHTS.
General-ities.
While walking along Wellington Street yesterday afternoon, a Chi- nese girl of about seven years waa suddenly attacked by a sneak thief who snatched a gold bracelet from her hand and made good his escape,
A young Chinese woman jumped overboard from a harbour ferry launch last evening, and was
OBITUARY,
CHICAGO MEAT KING DIES IN LONDON.
The Very Idea!
Two American tourists in ar Edinburgh hotel were discussing London, Aug. 16. their experiences. According to Following an illness lasting their own account, they had had some time, and which caused his a busy time correcting the histori- family to come over to England cal inaccuracies of the unso- recently, Mr. J. Orden Armour,phisticated inhabitants of the.. the well-known Chicago mest- Scottish capital.
"That's so," agreed his friend, "but you are quite wrong about.. the Forth Bridge. It was Bobby Burns."
died in London, packer, has
"Yes," said one, “I find the where he was on a holiday.
folks hare know nothin'. I was Mr. Armour's mother died three weeks ago. Scott committed suicide by jump- nonagenariantold in Glasgow that Sir Walter Reuter
ing over the Forth Bridge, but. Mr. Jonathan Ogden Armour nobody here seems to have heard He went to Yale, but left before was born at Milwaukee in 1863.about it." graduating so as to take up busi neas with his father in Chicago. Besides being chairman of the meat-packers,, Armour & Co, he was a director of, among other concerns, the National City Bank of New York, the Hibernian Bank- ing Association, and other banks, as well as several, railway com- punies, and trusts connected with his business. He published a book in 1906 entitled "The Pack-conceited that if they marry you ers and the People."
they expect you, to say "Thank you.".
Business Built Up. Mr. Armour's Wife was the story of the growth of an industry and the rise of a great city. Through his efforts his father's packing plant became the largest in the
Subsequently rescued and allowed world and the industry made
to return to her home on the as-Chicago one of the greatest com srance of safe-keeping by relatives mercial centres in the United who appeared later at the Police Station.
States,
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They're picldin' up the pieces, With a dustpan and a rake, Because he used his horn
When he oughta used his
brake.
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East Ham woman: Mea are so
Solicitor at Bow County Court: Is your wife going to be here to give evidence? Man: Great Scot, no! She has gone to play tennis.
band told me that he had found a Wife at Willesden: My hus- sporting girl, and he intended to leave me for her.
It was stated in a Willesden ense that a joiner earned £2 10s. a week and a labourer £3 108,-
Magistrate's clerk at Totten-
When Philip D. Armour, his A Bangkok message of August 8, father, brought the Armour family states that air, Randolph F. Car to Chicago in 1875, the city by ham: Are you married or single?
the lake was straggling to re- Woman: A widow, roll, secretary of the American build itself after the disastrous
Clark: Then Legation and Consul-General, Cell fre of 1871. The elder Armour Well, I am alone.
you are
not single. Woman: off the verandah at the Phya Thai realized the strategic advantage" |Hotel and sustained serious in-
Solicitor to a man with his wife juries. A wrist was fractured and the city possessed,
though ita at his elbow at Bow County a knee and his head were injured.in the centre of the fertile plaips your wife here. You are free situation on Lake Michigan and Court: Don't take any notice of
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of the middle west. The daily returns of freight and
He built up the business of from her for a minute or two. passengers by the vessels of the Steamboat Company, continue to its record financial period and
Armour & Co. to G.$182,000,000 in This is a speedy age in which show an improvement since the died happily, thinking the ultim-Everything has been, or is rapidly we live an age of motorisation. settlement of the Lungshan boy-ate had been reached. cott. Each vessel carries appro- His son, who had left Yale in ised the fire departments until it's being, motorised. They've motor- ximately 400 passengers, and more than 1,000 packages of cargo on
1881, a year before his gradua- every trip.
tion, to go into the firm, believ-no fun seeing the fire engines go ed that his father had only made past, and they've motorised the a beginning and set himself to fun being a criminal. The farm, police departments until it's no prove it. He succeeded beyond his most optimistic dreams. He the circus and the flapper have all watched the volume of business wonderful, however, of all the been modernly motorised. Most go beyond the G.$100,000,000 mark and promise to climb even high-transformations wrought by the.
motor is the
they motorising the pedestrian. Pedes- trians who persist in their re-
er.
Established World Markets.
way
ore
He established world marketsfusal to become motorists are and made Armour & Co, an inter-painlessly motorised to death and the ports of the world to the live cemetery. It's terribly speedy national institution, He opened then pleasantly motorised to the
for the first time.
A remarkable feature of the news items on China has always been the number of Generals engaged in the various civil wars, and when the big campaign of the past year had developed for a few months there was another galaxy of military talent to juggle with, Names, and
By skilfully cutting the 'glass' out WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927. yet more names, have come into
prominence from time to time, but of the sides of a showcase in a few have remained to prove that piecegoods shop at No. 4 Kau Yue they were more than mere transi- Fong, two Chinese managed to steal ents in the firmament of Chin- fifteen rolls of cloths valued at $100 cse "stars." Of the really import- The proprietor only discovered the ant commanders, just about a dozen loss yesterday and reported the names need be memorised-Chiangmatter to the police. The theft is It is five or six weeks ago now Chuan-feng, Feng Yu-hsiang. Wa previously,
Kai-shek, Chang Tso-lin, Sun said to have place three or four days since Capt. Courtney, the well-Pei-fu (now a "has-been"), Li known British aviator, announced Chal-sum, Tang Seng-chi, and one or two others being the principal bis intention of flying across the members of the more prominent reports gave 10 arrivals and 11 de-stock raisers in South America age. Atlantic to Amerien and back, and personalities. It may never be known how many Generals there think any Chinese Army List is published, and if it was it would require, re-issue every week. Also, most of the bandit leaders have taken unto themselves the title of General, without the least shadow of authority. Now that Chiang
Shortly after the 11 o'clock ferry Kai-shek has retired from the had left the Kowloon Star Ferry principal role in the Southern pier this morning, a Chinese from ranks, there is a plethora of Gen- the lower deck either jumped or orals whose opinions are to be taken fell into the water. A scaman of into account, and whose troops are the ferry dived in and rescued the probably to be reckoned with, for man, who was none the worse for the time being at any rate. The his immersion. The incident caus- average member of the reading ed little delay to the ferry routine, the boat stopping for only about a public must be tired of trying to "place" all these military comman-
minute. ders. In yesterday's issue there
This morning's Harbour Oflice partures, of which two and two Four respectively were British. vessels entered in ballast. Japanesc
I have no time for gamės.-
the fact that he has not yet made actually are in China: we do not carried the entire through freight sumed active direction of the firm Mr. Justice Bateson,
that flight has led some people to think that this British venture is overmuch concerned about the weather conditions. And, it will come as a healthy corrective for them to know that the two large Junker planes which were being flown from Germany to the United States, and which left Dessau on Sunday, were both forced to turn back on account of the very bad weather conditions experienced
Tennage for the 24 hours was ex-Sheldon, daughter of Martin J. ceptionally low, only reaching the 14,000 mark. There are 69 vessels in harbour. British, 25.
research.
Nothing can now be done for it. I have long despaired of opera.
-M. Diaghilef.
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In 1891, just before he had as-
young Armour married Miss Lolita
Sheldon, Sheffield, Conn. To- gether they fostered the philan-
The flapper of to-day is 20 thropies which the elder Armour times more beautiful and more had conceived. Armour Institute graecful than her mother.-Mr. became a technical school of na-Shaw Desmond. tional reputation and its enroll- I have been afraid to tako up ment doubled and tripled. Under golf because I know what a firm direction of the Armours it led hold the game gets on you.-Mr. the field in important scientific Norman Scorgie.
We have begun once more to As the wealth and prestige of realise what our Elizabthan an- the Ogden firm increased, Arm-cestors realised--that music is a our's business activities became necessary part of the general more varied. He was a director civilised life.--Sir Henry Hadow. in a score or more of banks, rail-
The minister, a somewhat cor- were several comparatively new Pictures showing for the last roads, and other financial insti-
tutions. Among them were the pulent gentleman, was walking names, of moh who would be obs-time to-day are Hoot Gibson's
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul along the road with a rather sad, eure were they not jockeyed into brisk cowboy comedy, "The Den- railroad, the Continental and Com-thoughtful look on his face. Meet- prominence every time some big ver Dude," at the World Theatre: mercial Bank of Chicago, and the ing one of his elders he was greeted ger man makes an exit. helps to complicate matters further, Civil War comedy, "Hands Up" atsurance Company of Milwaukee, matter to-day, minister, you look It all and Raymond Griffith's amusing Northwestern and National In- with the remark:What is the and one is driven to the offering of the Star. Theatre. The continuous He also inaugurated and develop very sad like?" silent thanks that the Chinese navy programme in the Star Theatre, it ed Armour & Co., Ltd., of London.all desh is as grass." is not a big one, else the list of Ad- should be noted, ends at 8.30, the mirals might tax the journalist's new Our Cabaret staging the business as president of Armour the minister in the waist, "you will
In 1922, he retired from active
"Cheer up," replied John, poking memory still further. It is, indeed, revue "A La Carte" at 9.30 pm.
& Co., and became chairman of the movements of all the Generals, almost an impossible task to follow
the board of directors. He was and the better plan is perhaps to
content to maintain a more or confine oneself to the Marshals,
less, passive control over the great who already number not a few.
industry that he had established. Yet every General Marshal, and for that matter, every proceeded so far in the prepara- creasing number of philanthropies young Lieutenant in China may tion of ita case that it is indicated and hobbica. truly be said to carry a Marshal's that on the appearance of the men baton in his knapsack. So the before the Magistrate, next Tues- ranks of the Generals are destined day, on the expiration of the pre- to swell yet further. And in consent period of remand, the Crown' sidering the matter in this broad will be in a position to open Police aspect, one has to remember the Court proceedings against the narrower question of individual aceused. provinces, each, with its numerous
In connexion with the case in which two men are charged with the murder of Mrs. Mackay, we
"Ah! John," said the minister,
mak a guid hayatack.”
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The examination season is now
beginning, and this fact has led a
& potential understand that the Crown has. He devoted his leisure to an in-logical college-to send a couple of
HEAVY FINES.
TWO OPIUM CARRIERS..
correspondent-the Dean of a theo- specimens of "howlers" which he
considers the best he has en- countered in quite a long experience as examiner.
A candidate, in a Biblical paper, asked to write on the Flood, began his answer as follows: "To have made the Flood universal "would have been a work of super-irriga- tion."
One of the machines had flown as far as Ireland and had headed for the open sea, but heavy storms. the defiance of which would have meant certain death. forced it re- turn, and it landed at Dessau after a nerve-trying night of over 22 hours. The sympathy of all will go out to the German aviators whose valiant effort was thus turn ed to failure, but, as we stated above, there will be much public value in the fact that the flight had to be abandoned because it will serve to remind the unthink ing that a trans-Atlantic flight westward, in face of the storma which prevail at this time of the year, is as yet well-nigh beyond the capabilities of air machines. The flights from America to military commanders, who get into The Y. M. C. A. has issued a A Chinese, who was arrested on Another, in an Arts-Divinity Europe have been glorious print whenever there there is a Summer Number of the already board the s.s. Tune On with fifty examination, dealing with the re- chance of a small war being fought. much-looked-forward-to "Red Tri-tuels of prepared opium concealed ligious condition of Israel in the achievements, but a flight back The report we published from Yun-angle," and there is a decidedly in his waistband, was charged time of the Judges, expressed him- the other way--especially at this man the other day was a case in summery atmosphere about the con- before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with self as follows: "The only Chris- time of the year when the general-point. At least half-a-dozen Generals tents, with a touch here and there being in possession of same. He tians in those days were the Jews, are waging a little campaign all on more reminiscent of a summer at pleaded guilty to the offence and and they were nearly as bad ly prevailing winds are from west their own there, and the student of Home than in Hongkong (expecial to east is a harder proposition, Generalship in this unhappy land ly the illustrated poem about a man
may find therein a few more names and a maid in a punt). calling for the most skilful naviga- for his collection. What care the whole the magazine is a very bright tion and piloting. The failure of Yunnan Generals for the reat of number, and will give anyone
It may be that there is apell of pleasant reading. the big Junker machines, which China?
a war being waged up near the are of proved design and endur-Yangtsze, but this is not worrying Replying to questions in the anco, is eloquent of the trying them, certainly not while the pick- Federal Council at Kuala Lumpur So n Colonel of last week regarding the trunk and adverse conditions that had ings are good.
yesterday defeats another Colonel telephone sehame in Malaya the to be combatted, and one can now of the same corps, and becomes a Chief Secretary said:--The matter readily understand why Capt. General overnight. Perhaps in has been under consideration for time the Chinese army may assume some time but the question is a Courtney, who is not out for any the position of a certain Volunteer difficult one. Its desirability is race or prize but merely to de- Church Parade which was sarcas-great, but when it come to a mat- monstrate the capabilities of the tically described as "a small body tor of spending $12,500,000 it is of men entirely surrounded by absolutely essential that we should Dornier-Napier "whale" machine, officers." Anyhow, there are enough go into the matter very carefully, has decided to await reports of Generals to start with. It seems The advantages are great but the
to be a general mix-up: favourable weather.
cost also is very great..:
On the
said that he was only a carrier, heathens as the rest.'
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Asked if he could divulge the name or address of his employer, the man stated quite seriously that keeping as soon as you're married? "So you are going to get up house- he did not know who employed I thought you had made up your
him.
J mind to board."
Mr. Lindsell imposed at fine of $4,000 or in default cight months hard labour.
Another man, who was arrested fast night on the Yuet On wharf with 36 taels in his possession, was fined $3,000 pr in default aix months hard labour.
mined to have a house of our own."
"Yes, but George is equally deter
"And so you are going to keep house in order to please George? that George will be glad to board." "No, I'm going to keep house .80
Passing through Hongkong are Mr. and Mrs. Randall Gould, from We are officially informed that Peking. Mr. Gould who is a quarantine restrictions have been United Fress correspondent goes to imposed against arrivals, from Manila to take charge there vice Holhow on account of Cholera. Mr. Kuhns.