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OCTOBER
12, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
BE NOT LIQUORISH AFTER FAME, "OUR DESCENT FROM APES." A TRUMPET, THAT DOTH FOR THE FOUND BY EXPERIENCE TO CARRY
MOST PART CONGREGATE MORE ENEMIES THAN FRIENDS-Osborn
duc here from Amoy, to-morrow The B. L. s.a. Takliwa is now
afternoon.
..
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
In touching the matter of long- distance air malle, one must take into account also the various points touched en route. By carrying a certain quantity of postal packages between the different countries traversed, the oporators of the schedule could make a considerable profit, and that alone should be an
earnest student of the subject of
Sir, Evidently "R.P." is incentive to the effort. But in a
an case of this nature, a Government
man's possible, or impossible, des- subsidy would no doubt be readilynounced of Miss M. J. Wurbrick, self with quotations, and these, I cent from apes, or an ape-like an- The forthcoming wedding is ancestor. However, he contents him- forthcoming to establish the scheme of the Government Civil Hospital need hardly point out, do not prove thoroughly. It is to be hoped that, to Mr. K. K. Staple, of Messra. Pil anything. To give someone else's now the Dutch authorities have set
grim and Ca.
opinion is to give that opinion, for the pace, our own. powers-that-be
Whatever it may be worth, and will not lag behind, and will, shortly
Bateson said one thing at one time, nothing more. Just as Professor consider the possibility of at least
says an entirely different thing so his successor, Sir Arthur Keith, a mail service, between England and India. That could be the first stage in an accelerated mail to the Far East, cutting out something like a fortnight from the present time, The service could link up with the ordinary steamer mail at Negapa- tam, for instance. Once the Eng- land-India route had become es tablished, an extension eastwards by aerial carriers would naturally follow. Perhaps we are not so very far off from u realisation of this
One British case of diphtheria. and two Chinese cases of typhiod last week. There was a clean bill (with one death) were reported of health yesterday.
state of decomposition, was found The body of a Chinese, in a hanging on a tree-yesterday near the filter beds by the Waterworks at Kowloon. It has since been removed to the Public Mortuary.
now.
Are we, then, to come down
greater man? Surely not. them, Bateson or Keith, is the to. a competition as to which of
The Very Idea!
New Visitor-Has this boord- ing-house any special advan-" tages?"
Older Visitor (oxperienced) "Yes, you'll find it quite safa to bathe directly after a meal,"
shingled, my husband packed his returned home with my
Woman at Tottenham: When I hair clothes and went away
Man at Yarmouth: A house- keeper is not a servant, but next door to a wife.
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court: He said my dog was
Witness at west country polica
better than she ought to be, and mongrel, and I said his cat was no then he called nte names.
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"Bit of family trouble I want your advice on, air," remarked a sad-looking middle-agad man as he stepped into the witness-box at Willesden daughter's young man wants to be Police-court. "My
there's only one king of my castle courting the girl a month. Now, king of the castle, and only heen
I, too, in the course of many years' study of the subject, have read a number of books, and they have all tended to prove. if the authors' con- an accident near the Yaumati Police dual occurrence of separate entities, A Chinese cyclist, who met with there cannot be the simultanenus tentions are worth anything, that
the Kwong Wah Hospital. Station yesterday, was removed to ride by side, of entirely different cyclist, it is auld, fell off his haps I did not make myself clear The nature, yet very closely allied. Per- machine and fractured his left leg.
in the first letter I wrote you. To quote as well--and I could give the suggested speedy mail service, now Sergeant Condon, ran into a Chi- of science, were I to trespass unduly policeman to me in my own house, Motor cycle No. 851, ridden by published views of a host of men its practicability, has been so wellnese woman, aged 49, on the main on your space, I shall content.my-1 fetches a policeman as well, demonstrated in the Amsterdam-road in Chai Wan yesterday. Ser-self with a reference to the ques-naturally, and my policeman says geant Condon himself received tion of duality. It is by a learned to me, 'You go in and fetch him injuries which necessitated his re-man who himself refers to a num-
Batavia flight.
Motor Show.
Perhaps nothing has been so spectacular in recent years in the industrial world as the growth of the motor industry, and a British Wireless message yesterday which reminded the world that the annual. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 12, 1921 motor show at Olympia is due to
AIR MAILS TO THE
EAST,
open to-morrow, indicated that this year's show is going to be far more
important and comprehensive than any of its many predecessors. It was interesting to learn that it is computed that there are more than 78,000,000 motor vehicles in the world and that such a figure is con- The success of a Dutch air pilot saturation point. And it stands to sidered to be a long way below the who has flown to the Netherlands the credit of British manufacturers East Indies from Holland, carrying that they have been pioneers in the a trial mail, within ten days, draws motor vehicle which has brought very light, cheap-running kind of attention to the feasibility of the re- the joys of motoring well-nigh with- gular institution of an aerial mail in the reach of all. The motor pro- to the Far East from Europe. This with the colossal output of America, duction of Britain is, as compared has been advocated for several still a long way in arrears of what years, but nothing definite has it might be, but the British article hitherto eventuated. It is remark-worthiness that is going to stand has a world-wide reputation for able that, with the extension of it in good stead in the keen com- passenger flights, the many at-petition that undoubtedly
lies tempts at long non-stop records, the has growni enormously in
ahead. The British motor trade continuous efforts to traverse terri-years-in fact it has been the
recent
and that's me, you understand, missus thinks more of him than sir. And the trouble is that the she does of me. We has a bit of an up-and-a-downer last night, and he has the check to fetch a
moval to the Government Civilber of other research workers by out and I'll deal with him.' Well, Hospital.
name. I give the views of Meckel, as matter of fact, that's what I'd who in his well-known publication fetched the policeman for, not to
A Chinese, who was crushed be- the "Beytrare zur vergleichenden do the job myself, but, as he ex- tion of Queen's Road Central and good physiologist who has not been before. he could go in the house. tween two hand trucks at the junc- Anatomie." says: "There is no plains to me, he'd want a warrant Ladder Street, was yesterday re-struck by the observation that the Then the young man's policeman moved to the Government: Civil original form of all organisms is came up, and he says to him, 'See Hospital with injuries to his head, and the same, and that out of the magistrate in the morning," and legs. The truck coolies de- this one form, ell, the lowest as well and my policeman says the same. camped after the accident.
as the highest, are developed in to me, and off they goes." such a manner that the Inlter pass This morning's Harbour Office the former as transitory stages. you and your wife are on opposita. The Magistrate: "This is all through the permanent forms of very unfortunate, particularly as reports for the 24 hours ending at Aristotle, Haller, Harvey, Kiel-sides. Of course, you must use no nine o'clock gave nine arrivals meyer, Autenrieth, and many others undue violence, but by all means and 18 departures, British figures have either made this observation put him out, but do not strike him, being three and five respectively. incidentally, or especially the latter, Cargo was on the light side, being have drawn particular attention to shared by all ships with the ex-it, and drawn therefrom results of which did not report any cargo. ception of one British vessel, permanent importance for physio-
logy."
The civil marriage ceremony at the British Consulate General was performed by Mr. Jamieson, on Shanghai, Saturday morning, when Miss
Cecil Allen Pouncey, Assistant in Lintilhac became the bride of Mr. Eugenie Marjorie
the Revenue Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs.
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Applicant: Push him, like, you mean, sir?
The Magistrate: Yes, pash him out. I have purposely quoted that, be- sir. When he comes round to Applicant: I understand now,
learned to do his strokes and pot-mind you. I shall just push, and cause it was written many years night I'm going to push; no un lue before Charles Darwin had yet violence, nor nothing like that, hooks.Yours, etc.,
after that there will be only one king in my castle-and that's me.
V. HUGHES. Hongkong, October 12, 1927.
Petrol is a fine mascot.-Captain Hinchliffe.
jacket off H. M. S. Manties who persists in wandering off the track Street will be a back number in
Sir, I am afraid that "R. P." The funeral service for the blue-
The latest building in Regent fell into the Whangpoo and was that that "bestiality" of which he
of this argument. I do not doubt 1940.-Mr. G. S. Holmes.. drowned and.
whose body was speaks is a fact, both in olden times stop nursing babies, start nursing Some women, as soon as they recovered only on Thursday, after and to-day. The Biblical reference grievances. Mr. J. A. R. Cairns. tory in various makes of machines, brightest spot in the whole of the held on Thursday afternoon. At things that are not to be done. But an English point of view, the Eng-
several days in the water, was merely quotes it as one of those and the success that has attended is constantly absorbing new labour
I hold very definitely that, from country's industrial outlook, and it
an inquest held before the funeral,I have not seen anyone before ad lish girl makes a far better man- such ventures-for instance, the and much of that displaced by venture was returned.
a verdict of death from misad-vance it as a theory, as your cor- nequin than her French confrere. flights to and from Australia, and slackness in other industries. There
respondent does, that it may be Mr. A. H. is long-sighted argument on to the Cape and back, as well as the side of those who urge that the Go-R. E. Lindsell of the theft of a
Williams the cause of "an ape's descent from Selfridge's)."
(of Convicted this morning by Mr. man." We were dealing with a visits of British officials by aero-vernment at Home should do all in blanket from No. 29 Sing Won do not believe is possible).
man's descent from apes (which I plang to India--nothing its power to assist in the develop Road, a Chinese was sentenced to
has ment of roads-good main roads been done towards inaugura that will not only make motoring was a further charge against the to be aware that such bestiality of three months' hard labour. There Incidentally, "R.P." does not seem tion of al definite air mail more attractive to the present car schedule over the
owner but will facilitate the deve man for returning from banish- which he speaks cannot result in. well traversed.
30 lopment of the industry by creatment and on this count Mr. R. E. Any offspring. This is easily a Let us examineing the demand for more cars. The Lindsell imposed a sentence of scientific fact-Yours, ete., the feat of the Dutch pilot. Des- British motor manufacturer, now nine months' hard labour, and
SEEKER. Hongkong, October 12, 1927.
areas
the
or
The
Times
activities of
ex-
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MR. COSGRAVE IS RE-ELECTED.
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The supervisor of a Western railroad received the following men note from one of his track fore-
"I am sending in the accident report on Casey's foot when he struck it with the spike maul. Now, under 'Remarks,' do you want miné or do you want Casey's?"
*
An amusing story was fired off recently by Mr. T. W. Cosgrave, president of the Irish Free State, concerning a young peasant wo- man-Sally Sweeny who used tó walk into Galway twice a week to do shopping for his family.
She could neither read nor write, yet she never made a mistake with any of the messages that were en- trusted to her.
pite a day's delay owing to en- with a free hand (he lost a tremen-
that he is really in the business twenty strokes. gino trouble when flying from In- dous amount to America during the The following ships were dia to Burmah, he completed his days of the war) is proving his pected
to be in wireless com- flight to Java within the ten days reasonably-priced product that will Van Heutsz, Santhia. Kumsang, 'cupacity to turn out a high-class,munication with Hongkong to-day: stipulated. The average time for assuredly earn for him big markets Macedonia, Yingchow, Takliwa, a mail steamer from Amsterdam to throughout the world, if he and his Malwa, Suisang, Angora, General Batavia is not short of a whole to work in competing with the President
selling advisers go the right way Metzinger, Bencleuch, Diomed, DAIL OPPOSITION DEFEATED, month, or even more, so that the makers of rival countring. Year by Pierce,
Jackson, President aerial route has reduced the time year there has been a big advance Menado Maru,
Tilsalak, Tjikembeng, taken to one third..
in the design of British cars, and Romelo, Ohio Maru, Tangistan
Dublin, Oct. 11. Maru, The charge many of the smaller makers, who
The Dail was crowded at the is ten florins, which is about $10 were not strong enough to stand
and Norviken.
Once, however, her memory did opening of the new session. It in Hongkong currency at present produced a confusion and needless alone and compete and who only
debated a motion for the re-elec fall her. One of the ladies of the rates of exchange, for a single let multiplicity of makes, have been Siemens Schuckert and Co., the of the Executive, which was bring back a yard of satin, and the Messration of Mr. Casgrave as President family had commissioned her to ter: Close typed, on thin paper, such driven into either absorption famous German firm at Harbin, carried by 70 to 70 votes, against word had slipped out of Sally's a communication could run into amalgamation with larger concerns have been remarkable. On top the opposition of the Republicans
mind. several thousand words without ex-industry is better organised and electric, trams
so that to-day the British motoring of undertaking to construct the and Labourites--Reuter.
But she did not allow herself to for the China ceeding the weight limit that may capitalised than ever before. Per Electricity Co., it has contracted
be beaten without an effort to re- Later. call it, so she went into the princi- be imposed.
There must be hun-haps Britain, owing to its geo- for Installing additional equip
graphical limitations, will never be ment for 4,500 automatic tele-submitted an alternative motion.
pal shop in Galway still thinking Neither of the opposition parties hard.. dreds of business men, in this the equal in size of America in the phones (the present capacity Mr. Cosgrave received the support she asked, "whin it's not divil that Colony alone, who would cheerfully motor industry, but we do like to being 3,000 telephones) and the of 6 Farmers and 11. Indepen-ye say to him?".
"What is't that ye call the divil,". pay $10 for a letter to get Home that the British product is worthy tomatic system for about 3,000 stained from voting. Reuter.
think, and with good enough cause,
establishment of another audents, while Mr. Redmond ab- within ten days. Had the pilot of the great engineering reputation telephones flown across Burmah and Síam to of the country of its origin. And (Chinese Quarter Hongkong, instead of down the may 'that ever be so.
The German firm Malay Peninsula, he would have reached here at about the same time as he arrived at Java, so that London to Hongkong might well be done in nine days, or even less. There is reference to the possibility of the journey from Holland to Java, being performed within a week, a Dutch journal advocating the co operation of the British authorities, with a relay of men and machines. This is a very good suggestion, and is not a new one. It is quite with in the realm of practicability for mails to be carried to and fro between London and the Far East in a week.
for
Fuchiation
of Harbin). has further
taken up the work of erecting THE MEXICAN REVOLT
new power house of 6,000 volts at Tsitsihar,
SUPPRESSED.-
PRESIDENT CALLES AGAIN
SUPREME.
Mexico City, Oct. 11. The revolution has been crush-|
"Te it Satan you would be mean- ing?" asked the astonished graper. "The very wan," said Sally de- yard." lightfully. "An' ye'll give me a
The steamer was ploughing her way across the Channel at a time when a big sea was running. kindly steward went up to an old' lady, who looked very pala and was leaning gainst the rail.
"Come below," he said, "your. teeth are chattering with the cold."
The sand bag, redoubt, erected" Range and Fushan Roads, in the Comdr. Conway Benning Allen, The following forthcoming wed- in March, at the intersection of dings Northern district of Shanghai, is R. N., H. M. Submarine L5, of are announced: Lieut.
being demolished by a squad of Lisconnan, Dernock, County An- Indian soldiers. This barricade trim, and Majorie Brough Warren, lately has become an eyesore to Westmoreland House, Tunbridge the residents of the district owing Wells, A. McAlpine, murine engi-ed, leaving President Calles com- "Don't tell lies, laddle" replied to the very bad condition it was ner of the sa. Luisang, and Eliza-plete master, and Obregon the the old lady sternly. "My teeth allowed to fall into, lao the beth Paterson Stewart, of 120 able between it and the barbed Scotland. Kenneth Kingsley Sta-and 150 revolutionists were killed narrow passage for traffic avall Drumfrochar Road,
only presidential candidate. wire on the other side of the ple, merchant, of "Huntingdon", in battle, and that 10,000,000 It is estimated that one Federal sanitary object is being halled Stubbs Road, and Martha Jane года. The removal of this in-
Greenock,
with satisfaction, says the Shang-Warbeck, nursing sister, Govern pesos were spent by, the Govern- hai Mercury by that section of ment Civil Hospital. Firmino ment in suppressing the move the community which has to use Kavler Delgado, clerk, of 162 Bel-ment, but all rebel property re- that part of the Settlement.
chers Street, and Mercedes Filo verta to the State-Reuter's mena Castilho, 1 Cadogan Street. American Service.
are in my pocket."
The first calendar of the season. comes from Mesars. Brower and Co., booksellers. The illustration, The Commissioner of Oathu," depicts a parrot resting on top of a set of golf cluba slung across a golfer's shoulder on the way to' the links.