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DERBY SHAPE $21,00
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STYLE No. 3645
A FINE BROWN BROGUE
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Suitable for Golf or Walking
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WORTH
WE GIVE 10% DISCOUNT for CASH
TAN WILLOW
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.
HONGKONG MARKET
IN THE NICK OF TIME.
PRICES.
(Continued from Page 9.)
1927.
OUR DAILY TALK- ON HEALTH.
EXPERIMENTS ON RATS WITH FOODS.
"VIGOUR" DIET USELESS.
BANGKOK HONGKONG.
A SIAM GROUSE ABOUT THE MAIL SERVICE.
A correspondent to the Bangkok Times, signing himself "Business," writes as follows:
Hong-
Both the Bangkok and kong Post offices seem to be try-
POLICE RAID. WHICH
· PREVENTED MURDER.
Receiving information that the ducts it was not easy to see that
of a wealthy any steps taken to encourage local fifteen-year-old son production, would greatly reduce rice merchant was to be murdered the price. It was an old fallacy last night by his kidnappers, a squad to try and make the foreigner pay. of police under Detective Sgt. Teller
In an attempt to determine the ing to make the mail service bo- He though the local man would al- of the Special branch, raided a ways endeavour to keep his price Chinese house situnted in an alley varicus factors that modify the teen these ports as bad as pos Just below the price of the import way of Kungping Road, Shang- vigout of an individual, workera sible. The last American mail J. C. D. Neusin the laboratory of the depart-was dispatched from Hongkong ed stuff and would keep it there hat says "the
7. of August 31. Not only did ment of physiology of the Ohio for Bangkok on a slow boat travel- always,
polico rolonso tho cap State University have conducted ling via Swatow and Holhow, He imagined in the course of the the strike
Territories tive but they arrested four men and a series of experiments during ignoring several steamers depart- the New
esa woman aftar a stern fight in which the past three years. reaped a golden harvest
ing about the same time which ar The tests have been made on rived here much earlier. And pecially in vegetables. But
Bald he
those
mat- were
some 18 shots before the gang were white rats in small house cages how the local Post Office is trying ters which he did not think concern-apprehended. The gang were in with which were connected re-to follow the bad example of the ed the Board or even the Commit- the house when the police arrived volving cylinders. In these the Hongkong Office. The following STYLE No. 3644)
tee which were given fairly wide and in their mad rush to escape, one rats.could exercise at any time information is copied from the powers. 00
They could never hope of the kidnappers broke his ankle they felt the notion. The revolu-official reports of the Customs and that the New Territories would as a result of jumping off a roof, and tions of the cylinders were auto-the Post and Telograph Depart- produce the live-stock that was another was wounded by a shot frommatically recorded.
was running The observations made upon Customs Report needed, viz. 50,000 swine per monti the police whilst he
hundreds of rats indicated that and about 4,000 cattle. The wild down the alleyway.
the energy expenditure in running cat optimist only could suggest
The gang were taken entirely by these cylinders serves as a rather that the New Territories could produce live-stock on that scale. surprise. The boy was kidnapped accurate criterion of the animals
on July 30 and has been in the hamla tendency to exercise. of his captors for over a month,
The studies revealed that the The gang held their young prisoner animals, like human beings, differ} for a ransom of $200,000 and notified
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the police were compelled to draw 1.5
their revolvers and open fire, fring
...
ment.
Name of... Steamer::
Knut Hamsun
Helikon
Havdrot
Hellas: Skuld
Post Office Roport
Despatch of Daily Mails.
NA Helikon
Nil
Hellas
Nit
Daviken
Nil
Chang Tai
Nil
Halldor
Nil
Dampto
NI
Clara Jebsen
Clara Jebsen
Mr. Braga's Reply.. In replying, Mr. Braga said he desired to thank the Chairman for the parents by letters of their degreatly as to the times they choose the very comprehensive review of mands. In the absence of a settle-to exercise, the amount of exercise. the activities of the Committee of ment, the kidnappers intimated to they may take at any given period. the Board which, after being re- the distracted, father and mother that and the effects of light and all sorts of environmental factors produced in the columns of the failing the production of the money
Out often steamers departing Preas, would be an illuminating demanded, the boy was to be done on the amount of their exercise.
Special studies were made on to date this month for Hongkong, one to the public in general. He to death at midnight last night.
all of the organs of the body to mail was despatched on only The police, well aware of the find out their importance in three, and these three travelling did not quite see eye to eye with the Chairman that it was not the existence of a well organized gang relation to the factors commonly by indirect routes. It would be
the concern of the Board as regards of kidnappers, operating not only in understood under
word dificult to imagine how worse the matter of the prices of food-Shanghai but in Nanking, Soochow "vigour."
gorvice could be given and it would It was found that the thyroid be interesting to know what ex stuff. The
fact of the and other towns, have been un- Board having appointed a com- tiring in their efforts to ascertain and parathyroid were not directlyplanation the Post and Telegraph mittee to deal with the question the headquarters of these men and concerned in the production of officials can give. I can imaging
to be highly congratulated on vigour, since removal of these no valid excuse. was a tacit consent on the part of are
This Depart the Board to more or less regulate their raid yesterday of at least one glands from the body or the feed-ment can readily obtain informa in the interest of the community of the baunts of the gang, liberating ing of the glandular extract did tion as the departure and destina for the past two or three years as they did an innocent koy who not materially affect the animal's tion of all steamers from th
mere
ar
the question of the prices, al- would have mest certainly met his exercise. Removal of some of the Customa, as all steamers though he recognised that there denth last night but for the com-adrenal glands above the kidneys cleared through the Customs on was no statutory enactment that mendabla investigations of Detective had a definite affect in producing for two days before departure.
would force that duty upon any Sgt. Telfer and his associates. member of the Committee or the Board.
7:
Nevertheless, it was auch an important question affecting such
a large number of "persons in Hongkong that the Board might usefully have used its influence in i
"JACK SHEPPARD"
OF PARIS.
weakness, the capacity of the muscles being reduced in one-six- :
teenth of the normal, but feeding The pageboys at the Hotel Cecí of extracts of these glands did recently lined up, according t not have any beneficial affect on size, to compete in a list to find the animal's 'activity:
Here is scientific evidence as their duties, but if they were nea out, not only their knowledge of to the lack of any reasonable basis in an earance, smart in movement tions of the glands of various diction. Page 14-Jimmy Chane types. that are sold with the claim the smallest on parade, with that they will restore vim, vigour and vitality.
controlling. prices. He did not /GONE RIGHT AWAY ON THIRD for the use of any of the prepara-accurate of memory and good of
quite agree that there was com- petition in Hongkong markets. He said he spoke from personal knowledge. He had been into the market and had made it a point to
Men's Footwear Stylists enquire at the various stalls, fish.
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Paris, Aug: 4.
A young burglar named Louis Tamisier cstablished 4 record
meat, vegetables and fruit, and it was a curious co-incidence that starting-from-one atall in the fruit department one goes the length of the entire block to find practically the same prices pre- vailing. That was quite unlike a hole he had made in the ceiling Paris. anything one could get, say in Ice of the old cell in which the police
had put him. House Street, or in any other de-
He was recaptured a few days partment of activity in the econo-later, and sent to a stouter prison mic life of the Colony.
yesterday when he escaped from lifted the floor of the van and
slipped out on to the road." prison for the third time.
Charged with several burglaries Tamisier was again captured a in the region of Chartres, Tamisier week later. He was sentenced to was arrested there in May. That two years imprisonment and sent same evening he escaped through to the prison of Fresnes outaido
Here he behaved so badly thas he was, by way of punishment, placed in a small cell by himself.
That suited Tamisier.
at Chartres, where he was care- His new part of the prison build- Not so very long ago he had re-fully watched. The next day.ing consisted of a ground floor ceived a letter from a Chinese of while he was. being taken to the with a small loft above. Last Hongkong, a man whom he did not court in the prison van, this night Tamisier pierced a hole in know. The letter suggested the modern "Jean Sheppard" quietly the roof, and crawled up and out. idea of bringing to the notice of
the Board the absence of anything like an official scale in the public markets of Hongkong. At first, he confessed, he could nat see the force of the argument of the absence of a scale. He invited the Chinese gentleman for a confer- ence and the latter pointed out to him the grievances of the Chinese servants in the vegetable and fish sections. A certain quantity of a presumed weight was given to the servants and they were generally told to take it or leave it. If there could be an official scale in the market for use at a nominal price. such a contrivance.. would be of extreme advantage to the people who had to buy from Hongkong markets.
مها
It was arranged, to bring "the matter before the Board and hel thought that was an opportune moment to do so, and he should be grateful if the Chairman could in some way meet the request of this Chinese gentleman.
Government Assistance.
In the matter of New Terri- Lories, they were not all wild op timists, yet they were sanguine. enoegh to believe that under the fustering care of the Hongkong Government farmers of the New Territorieght be induce~ to: produce a good deal more than they had done in the past. They stood Hongkong in good stead during the frat months of the troubles in 1925. He had no doubt that given the neccesso, facilities and en- couragement, vegetables, a ny rate, could be 11oduced at-larger quantities and in the end seld at competitive prices against the importer.
As for swine and cattle, that of course, would in time develop, The cost of transport, especially by rail, had been much too high. and if, as a result of the discus sion that afternoon, the Board could induce the railway authori ties to reduce prices they would have done a service to Hongkong,
The chairman remarked that the police had always in fact almost daily kept their eyes open and prosecution for deficient scales and alot weight was a dally matter at the police courts..
voice that was louder and cleare than any, was the winner. For eign names were chosen, but Jim my triumphed with all minner.5
medal and a silver watch.
tongue-twisters. His prize was
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