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'SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER
10, 1927.
DAY BY DAY,
IT IS A WISE MAN WHO KNOWS ĮS
them is tunnelled and hollowed to provide every sort of necom modution for the conveniences of civilisation. In the oldest parts OWN BUSINESS, AND A WISER ONE of the City there are enormous who THOROUGHLY ATTENDS TO IT.---- and elaborate cellars. Deep down | H. L. Wayland. sowors were driven, early in the
Quarantine restrictions imposed Inst century. In more recent against arrivals from Haiphong on -times conduits have been construc-account of cholera have been
ted or pipes laid for water mains,
withdrawn. gos mains, electric light mains. hydraulic mains, and telephone and telegraph cables. This im- mense and intricate system of underground mains and chambers and cables has been further com-
buildings in the past were jected to the vibrations thus caused, because rotor traction is
a modern innovation and neither i ancient nor in more recent times were heavy vehicles run at high speeds through the streets or along the roadways. Whether London buildings will indefinitely
A HAPPY OUTLOOK.
A Window on the High, Oxford.
The worst of a window such as] A group of men and women are this one, looking over the broad clearly making an early start for curve of Oxford's High Street, is the river, the former in white flan- that it constitutes such a serious nels carrying a luncheon basket and deterrent to any kind of work. Es. a gramophone, and the latter wear- It is notified that the rate perpecially is this so on a bright springing those filmy creations somewhat floor for limewashing in Hongkong morning, when the fire in the grate rashly thought suitable for the They will spend the rest and Kowloon shall be $3.80 for the is superfluous, the May shows water. period of one year, commencing pink and white against the gray of the morning somewhere up the from 1st, October, 1927.
walls, and the spires are backed Cher, that tree-shaded tributary by a clear blue sky.
of the Isis, and then move down
dressed.
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II. M. the King has approved theThe temptation to occupy the after lunch to the main river to plicated in many parts of London appointment of the Hon. Mr. Wbroad window sent-just for ten take up a position among the pants
E. L. Shenton, to be an Unofficial minutes-and, survey the world along the course. by the driving of comparatively Member of the Legislative Council pussing, below is well-nigh irresis- Touring motorists on their way large tunnels for the Underground during the absence on leave of the tible. It is a gay, care free-world, through to distant places slow down even at ten o'clock in the morning, perforce and regard with interest and Tube railways. While the Hon. Sir H. E. Pollock, K.C.
and it encourages a care-free atti- and some astonishment the placid world into which their awirling sbsoil in London has been gradu-
Pictures showing for the last tide toward things in general, ally mined away, a fresh strain time to-day are Hoot Gibson's There is the usual crowd of progress has dropped for has been applied to all buildings Western comedy, "Hey; Hey; Cow undergraduates on incredibly dlla-moment... And so the insidious. Some of these window sent has claimed not ten boy" at the World Theatre; and pidated bicycles. from the surface. The rapid de Adolphe Meniou's "The King one going to lectures which were minutes but an hour. velopment of motor traffic and Main Street" at the Star Theatre.timed to start ten minutes ago, and
can be distinguished by the wisps It is evening now in the High, the extraordinary increase ill
of black stuff flung round their and the outlook is subtly different. A Chinese received slight injuries books under their arms. The girls The same folk are there, strolling both the speed and weight of through being knocked down by a are much more contormed to official back after the day's racing, but vehicles and their leads are fac-motor-cytic driven by Sanitary pattern; their bicycles are com- whereas in the morning they and fors that are entirely new. No spector H. E. Strange, at Morri-paratively respectable and usually their gayety and vigour and colour
son Hill Road yesterday. The in-equipped with brakes and a bell filled and possessed the broad street,, subjured man was taken to the Govern
They wear, moreover not in the evening the presence of the ment Civil Hospital, but was dis only a gown but also the regulation old city seems to have gathered and arged after his injuries had been black cap, although on some heads asserted itself, and they appear to it has acquired a mischievous in-belong to it, transient children dividuality.
merely who are privileged to walk. The forthcoming marriage is There are not so many of these for a time in its shadow, announced of Harold Fowler Mar- lecture-goers today, either awheel There is a marked stillness that shall, an electrical engineer of or on foot, because it is the begin- descends from a clear sky after sun- 691 Fock Avenue, Shanghai, and ning of Eights Week, when the au- set in all places, and in Oxford it Dorothy Bingham, of
"Blair nual intercollege bumping races finds its fullest counterpart in the take place on the river, and there gray buildings and spires and be able to resist this now
are relatives and friends to be look-towers that all down the tumult of form
ed after, and a hundred and one the centuries have stood quiet and of attack is a question which
other arrangements to be made. serene, cherishing unperturbed its architects and engineers cannot
unchanging ideals and truths. They yet
"Bubbly," an antique racing car, istand now, dark and clear-cut To-day is the Chinese Much will, no doubt, depend onden is specially decorated in its sages, stufed with hatless figures blue of the western skv. buttress festival. The Sincere Co's Roof Gar- makes one of its daily meteoric pas-against the pale rose and gold and more perfect roads and the en- celebration. Over the centre of and golf bags, disappearing over and dome and spire, unalterably
Magdalen bridge
rearing calm and, so it seems, unalterably forcement of weight limits on the covered portion of the Garden exhaust and clattering chains. It wise, motor-lorries and steam-lorries. is erected a beautiful structure is followed by way of contrast by No one could pass down the High
made of coloured gauze on bam The menace of the future is here;boo framework, representing the someone's people down for the the force permanence of that uni- a Rolls-Royce that has brought on such an evening without feeling but such is the Ingenuity of themhun Utopia according to Chinese week, and appears a little affronted verse of knowledge of which they engineer that he may be able to story. At night there will be by the mortarboard and gown which are the centre. Surely Attila him- meet it. Fortunately, it is a pro-song girls.
athletic shows and Chinese sing-have been draped over the radiator self would have checked his fierce legions, coming hotfoot across the blem which Hongkong is not likely.
bridge, and felt there was some- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1927. to be troubled with for a long
thing here that even he could not time to come, if ever. It is enough
destroy.
for us to have excessive rain and high-velocity gales to con- tend with, without any burrowing underground. Let us be thankful for small mercies.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The following wedding has been arranged to take place at the Union Church Kowloon on the 14th Octoberg between Mr. Cecil James Kingdom, of the Prison Depart ment and Miss Una Maud Falls, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Falla of Kowloon.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
A MOD'RN CITY DANGER
There appears on our picture page to-day a view of the Cornhill collapse in London, in which
with answer
World Fliers.
confidence.
There will have been many
Athol," Chambers Road, South- port, England, who is now on her way out to China on board the 3.3. Sarpedon.
moon
cap.
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with
LATEST YANGTŚZE NEWS.
AMERICANS EVACUATE
WUHU.
NEW BILL."
TO AMEND THE LIQUORS
ORDINANCE.
The chauffeur, jamming on his The health bulletin of Eastern brakes for the third time in a min Ports for last week, issued by the ute to avoid running over an untidy Principal Civil Medical Officer, "gives looking individual who has wander The murmur of talk and laughter the following cases: Plagio, Suez, ed out in front of his wheels, won drifts up occasionally to the win- Bassein, Bombay, Colombo, Singa- dera indulgently what would hap: dow, but for the most part the. pore and Saigon 1 each; Cholera, pen to these people if they found groups pusa by in allence because Basmh 31, Jadrns 24, Shanghai 23, themselves in London traffic. He there is no need for conversation | Amoy 18, Calcutta and Canton 10. does not realize how should he? and walk slowly because the day hus cach, Tourane 2, Manila, Bangkok, that he has just avoided running been one of those halcyon days that Saigon and Maca 1 each; Sminll-pox, down the world's greatest author live always in the memory, and Caleatta 4, Bombay and Madras 2ity on Thucydides, who has never they do not wish to cut short its each Basral. Vazagapatam, Soura- taken any notice of such mundane final chapter in the soft evening
air. bain, Bandjermasin and Saigon 1 matters as traffic and never will.
So they pass until darkness ench.
There is no need to in Oxford; slowly gathers in the lanes and the bus drivers all know, and wait steals out to fill the street and Big. several fietns, some with Eastern hearty congratulations extended The farewell programme which for his passage. An athlete and Tom's hundred and one strokes connexions, were involved. There here in Hongkong to the Amerithe Broadway Follies will begin an aesthete stroll up toward Car mark the end of the day.
Happy is he who possesses, if was another collapse of offices can aviators, Messrs. Schlee and in the Queen's Theatre to-morrow, fax together, deep in conversation.
the Polish Brock, who yesterday afternoon includes
National The former is dressed | later, also in the heart of London's arrived from Hanoi on their flight Dance, Serenade of Drego, vocal tweeds and the latter in a grass-High.
in faded only for a year, a window on the
B. T. J., hitsy area, and there were a few around the world. To have flown selections and finally, by general green suit and red tie. fatalities. It raises the question over 11,000 miles in 13 days is to request, the charming Arctic of the Ballot. The Broadway Follies' of a very vital danger in modern have accomplished one
world's outstanding. aviation season will definitely conclude en city construction-the risk caused achievements, and, especially in Monday night, and the company by, the undermining cf. big struc- these days. of disasters to long-will leave for Manila. The movie. men play which completes the pro- tures through the needs of under distance fliers are the two.
who arrived in Hongkong yester-gramme at the Queen's Theatre to- ground passages and railways.
day entitled to the heartiest of morrow is Laura La Plante's ex- London is threatened with a greeting and the best of wishes cellent farce, "The Love Thrill."
In the current issue of the serious problem along these lines. for the remainder of the light.
The P. and O. Malwa, which is
Government Gazette, it is notified The collapses referred to are
Their magnificent crossing of the Atlantic proved to be, the fore-due to arrive. next week, has the
Ichang, Sept. 9. that the Government intends to directly due to underground raner of what has been a series following Hongkong passengers General Chang Hui-tsan, vice-introduce a new Bill, at the operations, in one case the work of notable accomplishments and, on board. Mr. F. F. Clare, Mrs. commander of the 2nd Army and meeting of the Legislative Council on the foundations of a nearby but for the hindrance afforded by F. F. Clarke, Mrs. M. Costello and the acting Commissioner for Fore to be held on Thursday next, for block of buildings. It is a matter over-meticulous officials in Turkey, child, Rev. C. D. Cousins, Miss ign Affairs returned the call of the the amendment of the Liquors
the fliers would have been well (Dr.) Douglas, Mr. S. F. Edgar, British commercial consellor on Consolidation Ordinance of 1911.
The Bill sets but many altera- which affects most modern cities, ahead of their schedule.
They Mr.
T. H. Hook, Mr. Quongboard H.M.S. Bee to-day.-Naval | Mr. for as the traffic becomes more plan to complete the circuit of the Lee,
J.
tions in the wording of the W. Platt, Mr. Wireless, Mrs. H. Rus-
original Ordinance and it is ex- congested above ground, the neees-world in 22 days and, given the .. Frismall,
Changsha, Sept. 9.
plained in the Objects and Reasons. The Commissioner for Foreign that "the Ordinance is introduced same good fortune that has so far sell, Bliss M. Russell, Miss K. aity for tunnelling increases. It been theirs, they have
Russell, Dr. and Mrs. Shellshear, is a fine point whether it were chance of doing so.
One of the Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Strathan, Affairs has arrived and opened his because of the obscurity of a sec-
office-Naval Wireless,
tion in the principal Ordinance Sub-Lt. G. M. Sladen, R.N., Mr. better to risk congestion than longest and most hazardous "hops". E. Stevenson, Mrs. K. Taylor,
which is of great practical. im- Klukiang, Sept. 9.
Atten- portance, e, section 86, provoke a danger to actual atrue-of the trip is yet to be done, that child; and infant, Mrs. M. Willlam- More troops have passed down
tion has been drawn being from Yokohama to Honolulu,
to this the river.Naval Wirlecss. tures. Naturally, the disaster in which is a distance of some 3,400
subject by a recent care before a London has raised much comment miles-equal to that accomplished
Trouble at Wuhu.
magistrate. The section is open in the Home press. One paper moment of writing, the plans of agitation for securing a larger
At the from Detroit to Croydon.
the following doubts. and In consequence of the Shian
Wuhu, Sept. 9. criticisms, which are put very observes that it is inevitable that the aviators in this respect are representation in the Irak Cabinet up the river and all Americans
The 6th Army is expected from shortly:- the collapse of so important a not yet certain, but if they go King Feisal hins appointed two have been evacuated as trouble being a substantive section and an (a) It seems to hesitate between London building as the Commer-direct from Japan to the Hawaiian
more shighs as ministers:-His feared by them. Doctor Hai evidence section. islands they are then left faced Abdul Muhsin Chelebi Esh Shal-Tsu-chai has arrived from Anking cial Union offices in Cornhill with a flight of over 2,000 miles lash, who was a member of Jaafar and has made a friendly call on aion must first be proved by the (b) It is arguable that posses- should raise serious questions re- across to the mainland of America. Pasha's former Cabinet from No-the Senior Naval Officer. He has prosecution to be "contrary to the garding the safety of London Unfortunately, there is a record vember, 1923, to August, 1924, given an assurance that the recent provisions of (the) Ordinance" buildings generally. The subsi- of disaster regarding this stretch,and Sheikh Salman al Barak,
firing on British vessels is now before the anus is thrown on the but the "Pride of Detroit" has dence of part of Waterloo Bridge proved itself worthy of undertak
being investigated.-Naval Wire, accused of proving that the duty leas,
had been paid. This reduces the and the signs of weakness in the ing what is, by comparison with
section to an absurdity in the case Nanking, Sept 9. structure of St. Paul's Cathedral other parts of the journey, noth-
Wang Ching-wei has proceeded the non-payment of duty.
where the only element of illegality had already caused some anxiety it is that the very best of good Paris
ing very extraordinary. Certain
London, Sept. 9. to Shanghai to meet Mr. C. C. Wu,(c) The section provides that
.124 on that head. It is, of course, wishes will go from Hongkong Brussels
the representative from the Minis-every person who, contrary to the .24.90%
The well known to all that the condi- with Messrs. Brock and Schlee on Amsterdam
Commissioner 12.13%try.
for provisions of the Ordinance, has 20.43 Foreign Affairs has called on the In his possession any intoxicating tions of London life and the their great venture. We shall Borlin
follow their journeying with much Copenhagen
18.16 Senior Naval Officer here with re-liquors which have been illegally methods of locomotion have been interest and not only wish for Vienna
34.48gard to the recent firing on H.M.S. made shall be guilty of an offence, transformed in the last thirty them a safe and successful ter- Helsingfors
192% Cockchafer and stated that the but it is not contrary to the pro- .6.55/64 Chinese authoritics are anxious to visions of the Ordinance to be in years; and what may have been mination of it, but also the Bombay
.1/5.20/82 stop sniping-Naval Wireless, possession of, intoxicating liquora. perfectly sound and solid in 1897 achievement of time-cutting which Hongkong
which have been illegally made, Chinklang, Sept. 9. may therefore nowadays be liable
(d) On the other hand, it is Distinct signs of preparation unnecessary for the section to to fail under the new strains
for a further Innding on the north declare it to be an offence to be in. which are being imposed on all The King aboard his yacht, the
bank of the river are evident.possession of any Intoxicating "Britannia," at Cowes is one of the edifices.
interesting glimpses offered by London offices and houses are built on something extremely like
honeycomb, comments journal. The ground
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Prague the topical gazette showing at Madrid
Buenos Aires the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. Shanghai. His Majesty is shown dressed in
Yokohama
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British Wireless.
to
liquors contrary to the provisions of the Ordinance. Even "if the mere prohibition were not enough section 89 makes it clear that contravention of any prohibition is an offence.