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THURSDAY,
AUGUST 25,
DAY BY DAY.
THE HAPPINESS OF OUR LIVES DE- PENDS MUCH LESS ON THE ACTUAL
able perfection in the art and science of aviation. It is pleasing. to observe the fine spirit that actu- ated those who faced the risks in- volved in their effort. But official | VALUE OF THE WORK DONE THAN ON control is called for where national- THE SPIRIT IN WHICH WE DO IT ly-recognised contests are concern. Prince Leopold ed to save the over-darine from
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Saint Paul's School, Darjeorling, has received a windfall, in the shape of a bequest of Rs. 200,000 loft by the lato Lord Cable, formerly: head of Bird and Company,
The s.s. Ningehow, arriving from Singapore this morning carried 50 deportees from the Straits, under the charge of a European sergeant and 10 Indian constables.
1927.
CHINESE CONTRASTS.
[By Y, Curtis.]
The Very Idea!
The child who has been reprov- It is the violent contrasts thated: "Mummy, don't you love me are so difficult to grasp and re- still?
concile to the mind, In this de-. The mother, wearily: "Yes,
lectable Eastern land.
Hongkong abounds in contrasts.
darling, but you never are."
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Here is a Chinese jeweller's Teacher-"For men must work shop window, arranged with in-and women must waop,' What is finite pains, artistic skill such as the meaning of that line, Willie?" no other hands could accomplish. Wille "It means that, men have
and to work to
get money, and colourful, mind-satisfying
then women have to cry, bolore seductive.
the men will give it to them."
A step or two beyond, is a com bustible store, (I can find no other word to describe the Chinese
Alexander Cornfoot, aged thirty- cooked-meat emporium) which soven, who was sentenced at Bath must be seen to be believed, and Police Court to three months' seen too, in occupation, at meal-imprisonment for drunkenness times. Can these same hands be and assaulting the police, stated The same with the intricate, customers at a public house ridi- responsible for both phenomena? after he was arrested that the minuto stitchery to be seen onculed him, because, although
drinking he every side. Surely a brain cap Scotsman, There were three cases of able of weaving such patterns, lemonade. typhoid fever reported yesterday, should correspondingly advanes, "I then began to drink whisky," the sufferers being one British, in these modern times, from one Portuguese and one Chinese. gastronomic point of view! There was also. one Chinese' case of diphtheria.
Passengers arriving by the consequences of their own rash-Mishima Maru from Japan includ- ness. It should also be prohibitory ed Mr. George and Mrs. Margaret for men to set out, as did Captain Watt and Mr. Phillip T. Lamble. Irwin, on flights which, as a com- petent writer whom we quoted has phrased it, are almost impossible of accomplishment in the present state of aviation. The trans- Pacific flight, he maintains, may never be done for some years to come, involving as it does long stretches which would test the most capable trans-Atlantic flere. Yet. without trial nothing can be accom- plished; and, while one may criticise the possible thoughtless- ness of those at the back of some recent "stunt" flights, one must pay a tribute to the men who enter- ed on the hazardous contest, and the many more who, no doubt, would be willing to risk their lives to morrow were some fresh idea for ni aerial trial of endurance put forward.
Haiphong "Nationalism." We wonder how many of the Chinese will have seen the para dox. in their cry. of "Nationalism"
71 vessels in harbour, British 31.
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ahe added, "and when I finished I
had only 6s. left out of £5.”.
It is a truism, that the first thing the Westerner goes to improve, as
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Mr. Justice Sankey in the Law he rises socially, is his gastrono-Courts: Shat the windows, please. This morning's Harbour Office mic appointments.
It is July, you know, and we must, Then as to manners! There is keep warm.
Solleitor at Bow County Court: reports gave 19 arrivals and 18 departures, with British shipping nothing on this earth more graci- best entering seven and six underous and dignified, than the man- What was your posture after the the respective headings, leaving ner of the haute Chinese, and, accident? Motorist: A contem-
at the other end of the scale, plative reclining posture." there is nothing to compare with Midland reveller: I had no idea Silver ornaments and money his uneducated brother's "deport-I was drunk until the policeman
notified me of it. valued at $74 had been stolen ment.
Willesden magistrate, It will take a long time before
to from Headquarters House between
be over- labourer named D'Este: A very 12.30 and 7 p.m. yesterday, ac-all these things can cording to a report made to the come, and East fall into line with aristocratic name, especially with
West. If, and when, these Utopian an apostrophe. police.
idens materialise, what a wonder- ful place China will be!
when they think of the happen- A Chinese woman who attempt- ingy at Haiphong during last week. Here we have the customed to alight from a moving tram- car in Shaukiwan Road yesterday THURSDAY, AUGUST.25 1927, ary position reversed, Beenuse
acumen and sustained severe injuries to her of their business'
head, and was removed to the steady application to work the Government Civil Hospital. Chinese who have migrated to Indo-China have become the lead- ing merchants there, especially as
“STUNT" AIR RACES.
This patience, this perfection of detail, applied to every-day life. and the big things thereof. It is well-nigh unimaginable!
Hongkong will have subways and over-head trains, for aught we know. Maybe the ferry itself will a scrapped, in favour of bridge or tunnel. The boisterous elements
It may be presumed that the regards the great rice trade of reported that yesterday afternoon, will be catered for, and the inches
of rain will have proper outlets,
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Newly married man at Bow County Court: I am now second in charge.
Weman at Kingston: Well, I certain a little guilty to a extent.
Greenwich magistrate:
am
participants in the Dole flight Hawaii from America, as well the airmen who were attempting Philippines, and largely of Hawaii, five, who was later taken to the lic fury; and even the mighty ty took a widow for a cruise.
the
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Convicted
on a charge of anatching a gold bangle from a baby, which was being carried on its mother's back near the Sham-
Yes! The contrasts are endless, the interest deep, and the tale of Hongkong is yet to tell.
UNMUZZLED DOG.
ANIMAL SHOT AND OWNER FINED:
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The "modern girl" does things which her parents would never have done and vice-virtue.
K. B. E. (Knight of the British Empire) also means "Keep buy- ing Empire."--Mr. Amery.
Why were you drunk? Man: I was fed and wanted to make myself happy. Revenue Officer E. Wardley has
with one and the weather
"More schoolboy howlers:- Haiphong and Saigon. The same in Connaught Road Central, while
We do not know much about totale of peaceful domination can be he was riding his motor cycle,
oy, aged when they descend in their majethe prophet Elijah, save that he as told of the Malay States, of the No. 516, he struck
phoon's navoc will be minimised to
The courage of the Turks is ex- a fraction, when Hongkong folk no Even in Shanghai it is the Canton-Government Civil Hospital. a flight across the Pacific to Hong-ese who are at the head of big
longer needs must burrow and hide, plained by the fact that a man with more than one wife is more kong. are dead, having probably businesses-practically all The next Session of the Chinese during his lordly sway.
contrast willing to face death than if he perished in the ocean. The United wealthy "compradores" are from Language School conducted under There is also the
the South. At Haiphong we have the auspices of the General Chara-In merchandise, for the ima had only one.
Much butter is imported from States Government, while making just seen a demonstration of "Naber of Commerce opens on Mon- ginative mind. Junks loading and
5. Classes for unloading, with heavy and valuable Denmark because Danish cows a final effort to find the three miss- tionalism" in which the Chinese day, September
greater enterprise
to new and advanced students are bales at the docks, for all to see; have ing aeroplanes, has rightly indicat-were the foreigners and suffered ed that it is going to supervise, victimisation and violence at the held daily during the titin inter- and those smaller, still more valu-superior technical education
After twice committing suicide, hands of those who are native to val and in addition each student able packages, sewn carefully in ours. and presumably control, these the country.
And the foolish-is allotted a personal teacher for chamois leather, and bartered for
with eager yet forceful whispera, Cowper lived till 1800, when he "stunt" aerial races in future. In ness and wrongfulness of the Au- conversational practice.
for none but the elect to see.
died a natural death. the case of the Dole race, one of namite proceeding is doubtless the missing participants is a lady, firmly believed in by all Chinese concerned. At Haiphong, as in Miss Mildred Doran, and she is China, there has been a wrong the first of her sex to be involved conception of "Nationalism," in an air disaster of this nature. which ought not to be a petty shuipo Market on Tuesday, a hatred or dislike of better-equip young Chinese was sentenced by One recalls that there were a num-ped strangers but an endeavour to Mr. W. Schofield this morning to ber of tragedies at the outset of improve things native up to the six months' hard labour and or the race, and the authorities at level of the imported. If everydered to receive 15 strokes of the first announced a ban on the Dole country violently excluded for- birch.
eigners this would indeed be a flights owing to several of the en-sorry world of insular and jealous trants Being unqualified or impro-nations, slow to progress and de-, perly equipped. However the race velop. The danger of so-called eventually proceeded, and two com- "Nationalism" is that as regards people who are not educated and petitors reached their goal and won brond-minded it tends to become mers the substantial money prizes offer- anti-foreign-it is often
That ed. The others have not been so jealousy and selfishness.
was what was demonstrated at fortunate. Gloom has been cast, we Haiphong, and we have seen it learn, over the American public, many times during the past year We whose reaction to the previous in- in different parts of China.
When the police made an opium The defendant pleaded guilty to terest in long-distance flights is cannot too strongly urge againa narrow-minded tendencies of that probably sufficient to chill the ar-kind. But it is certainly intrigu-raid on No. 21, Stone Nullah Lane, all three summonses,
Sergt. Pennell informed his ing, to say the least, to ace our one of the occupants of the house Chinese friends, as hated foreign-attempted to evade thera by clime-Worship that the chow dog ha crs in
On the charges of keeping to a neighbouring countrying over to the adjoining house. been destroyed by the Police. long-distance flying has been over- simply because their better busile was successful but, unfortun- danc. There was a big thrill in
ness ability has put them into aately, in his attempt to hasten dogs without licenses the defen-
Such
down the stairs, he tripped and dant was fined $5 on each sum the crossing of the Atlantic by the leading business position.
a state of affairs ought to make sustained injuries to his head and mons, with the further fine of $1 deservedly-famous Colonel Lind-
them realise the weakness of their shoulders which necessitated his on the charge of allowing the chow bergh. His lone voyage by air
own cries against "hated foreign-removal to the Government Civil dog to be abroad without a muzzle. The defendant on leaving the Hospital. from New York to Paris was truly | ers.'
court protested that the chow dog had already been destroyed by the an epic of the skies, and will stand
Police. forever as a fent of endurance alı most unexampled. His spectacular success robbed the later flights by Chamberlin and Byrd of much of their interest. Other nimmen ther turned to "fields afresh," in the hitherto unconquered Pacific, and the fight to Hawaii was accomplish-
dour of fame-seekers for some | considerable time. Frankly, this
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THE TYPHOON AND TAI O.
COMMENDARLE WORK OF
RESCUE.
Modern life is a mixture of the gin of vice and the fizz of pleasure.-M. Maurice Dekobra."
The higher spirited, the more reckless a boy is, the greater asset A Chinese woman, who jumped A rather uncommon precedure into the harbour from the Star was adopted in a case, at the Kow- he is to the nation-Lord Thom-..
this morning, son...
We have to look to better adver- Ferry at 6 pm. yesterday, was loon Magistracy rescued by a seaman employed on when a house boy employed at No. the ferry and was removed to the 142, Kowloon Tong was summoned tising and more eficient salesman- Government Civil Hospital. Ac- before Mr. W. Schofield by Serg ship to restore the pre-war proa cording to information received Pennell for keeping a chow dog perity of this country-Mr. F. W.
Goodenough. by the police, the woman lived at without a license and allowing the 39, Shanghai Street, second floor. animal to he abroad without a and, owing to some family trouble, muzzle. The defendant was Also intended to cut short her life. charged with keeping a second
dog without a license.
EXCHANGE RATES,
The following ship were GX- pected to be in wireless coin- munication with Hongkong today: Hector, West Elecajon, Tjisondari, Deli Maru, Ganges Maru, Harunk Maru, Goyo Maru, Cremer, Maru. Goyo Maru, Cremmer, Russia, Antenor, Empress of Suisang, Kursang, Maud, Nor- viken, Java, President McKinley, Geneva President Taft, and Knut Hamsun.Herlin
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ASSAULT ON BUS.
Paris
Oslo Helsingfors Athons Buenos Aires Hongkong Now York
CONDUCTOR SET UPON BY FIVE MEN.
Vienna Madrid
Amsterdam Stockholm
London, Aug. 24.
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There is no limit to the In- ganuity of the small boy in search of cigarette cards, writes a news- paper correspondent.
1, went to a slot machine the other day for cigarettes. The kind which takes nothing but the machine wae one of the exacting coins. My sixpence; thickest slightly worn, was rejected. Í find a léss had no more sixpences, and so. I turned away to
Then I heard a voice at my scupulous apparatus. elbow, Try this one, sir." It was a small boy holding out a bright We exchanged,. new sixpence. and this time the machine deliver- ed the goods. Then from the "Any boy
the 'demand, came cigarette cards, sir?”
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The editorial notes
of the
Edinburgh "Rotary Bulletin con elude, with this story:-
An Edinburgh Rotarian, had .25,21 been angling at Lochleven, and
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subsequently was telling about: As 192% his outing to an Irish friend. 872% he displayed his "basket" of one 47.29/82 trout, he said, meditatively:- .1/11% "That fish has cost me $0s." ,4.86 5/82 "Begorra," replied the Irish
.12.13% man, "and it's lucky ye are that
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ye didna catch any more."..
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C. N. C. DISPUTE.
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Further news of the damage in ed twice before the Dole race ori-icted at Tai O was received this morning, and from this is appears. What has followed is that practically every ginated.
matshed tragedy of a particularly unfor- was blown down, while there were, tunate kind. The Atlantic flight three collapses, and several houses
suffered extensively. was rewarded by a big monetary
Under extraordinarily difficult prize, and the offer of prizes for conditions, Sergeant Swan, of the the Pacific flights was on a par with Tai O. Police Station, carried out this precedent. Yet the idea of an the work of rescue, assisted by the two sons of the kai fong, Mr. Ng nctual race implied, from the out-Ping Nam. These lads are stud set, hasty preparation on the partents of King's College, and mem-
18.16 RUMOURS OF A SETTLEMENT. of those who feared they might be here of the First Aid Detachment,
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Following on yesterday's, report: too late to enter successfully. Prob their knowledge of Red Cross work
being of great value.
G.27/64 that negotiations were to be ra A full measure of credit is due ably ill-equipped, a number have
In asking for a remand, Sub- Shanghai:
2/6 opened at Shanghel, there were met with disaster. It appears to to the Police officer, who was the
28% rumours round Hongkong to-day- -British Wireless. that the C.N.C.. dispute had been have required this to make the only member of the force on the Inspector Phillips, said that the silver (spot and forward)
Island, his colleague being away complainant had been removed to
settled, or was on the eve of be authorities in America realise that on duty in Hongkong and unable Hospital suffering from several
ing settled. the stunt business can go too far. to return until Monday.
bruises inflicted by five men who We have no desire to belittle the Part of the roof of the Police had a quarrel with the conductor incentive offered by donors of Station was removed by the wind, over their fares. The Police had while the rowing boat used on ser-as yet received no intimation from prizes, whose one aim was probably vice disappeared, and has not yet the hospital as to the nature of to promote rivalry leading to valu- been recovered.
As the result of an assault Bacharest made on the conductor of a Kow-Bombay
Yokohama loon Motor bus, in Sai Kung Road, Kowloon City, on Wednesday Brussels afternoon, a Chinese was charged Copenhagen before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning Lebon with common assault.
the man's injuries.
Milani
Prague
Rio
TO-DAY
Dollar on demand Lighting-up
1/11 7/16 -6.48 p.m.
When our representative called on the local Guild officials, how. ever, he was informed that so far as they knew there was nothing new to report: