THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DERBY CROWD AT THE HONGKONG RACES.
Above are seen some of the spectators on Derby Day at the Hongkong Races. (Photd:
Ming. Yuen).
Mr. Ho Kom-long leading in Masonic Hall (Mr. Wong) up, the winner of the. Hongkong Stakes.
Cheung).
(Photo: Meo
SILK STOCKINGS SECRETS.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.
BIG SHIPPING THEFT
STUDENT OFFICER ARRESTED IN MANILA.
PESOS 34,000 MISSING.
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Mariano Ramos, until recently student ofeer on the inter-island steamer Borongan, will have, to answer to the charge, of qualified! theft Involving the Pesos 34,000 which was discovered missing from the steamer's safe in captain's cabin, after the ship's arrival in Manila from the south. says the Manila Bulletin, Assis- tant. Fiscal Doroten Amador filed the complaint against Ramos with the Court of First Instance last Saturday, Flacal Amador has re- commended Pesca 8,000 bail for his temporary release from custody.
Simultaneous with the filing of the complaint against Mariano Ramos, the fiscal also recommend- Jed the release from custody of Mario Ramos and Antonio Ramos, father and brother, respectively, of the accused, and of Pablo 5D. A PAIR WHOLESALE,
Paynito, cabin boy on the Boron- 29. 6D. RETAIL.
gan, who were taken into custody Remarkable trade secrets were along with the student officer. revealed by a witness heard by the According to the fiscal, there is at Board of Trade Committee con-present not sufficient evidence that! Bidering the application for a safe-they participated in the theft. guarding duty on imported hosiery No Trace of Stolen Money,
and knitwear.
Mr. Alfred Stern, a manufac- |turer, chairman of the group of merchants and importers oppos- ing the application, said the popularity of artificin silk had heen greatly increased by the introduction of a dull finish.
When it was first introduced anyone could tell whether a girl walking down the street was wear- ing artificial silk stockings, be- cause they were shiny. Now, with a dull finish, they had the aume appearance as real slik. Sharp Practice.
"There is a lot of fraud in the trade, or at any rate sharp prac: tice," said Mr. Stern, later. "I have here a stocking which is sold wholesale at. ba. a dozen pairs, It has, 28. Gd. stamped on the foot of each stocking." The price was making a scene was wrecked by stamped on by the manufacturer. BEBE DANIELS
an overhanging branch as the "Silk," he said, in answer to INJURED.
truck on which the Pullman car another question, "is all silk was mounted passed under a tree.cept when it is artificial silk James Hall, playing opposite Colton is all cotton. Wool is all MISHAP DURING PICTURE
Miss Daniels, sustained a broken wool, but woollen la sbeddy stuff." - FILMING,
wrist. He extricated the actress Mr. Comynn Carr, K.O, asked Hollywood, Feb. 11. from the wreekage, despite his in-how the much greater consump
tion of cheap cotton hose was ac- Bebe Daniels, the film actress, jury..
After an X-ray, physicians un-counted for. suffered a sprained back, bruises
Mr. Stern: Women wear differ- and possible internal Injuries in nounced that Miss Daniels ap- an accident which occurred during parently suffered no laternal in-ent-coloured dresses, and even if juries. However,, she will be a woman is only earning £2 a week the filming of a picture to-day,
The actress was burled, in a confined to the hospital for several aho will like to have linlf a dozen mass of debris when an imitation days is a result of the sprained different-coloured stockings in her
wardrobe.”, Pullman car in which she was back and the bruises..
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Search for the Pesos 34,000. stolen from the steel safe aboard the steamer Borongan has con-| tinued, but there is little or no prospect of recovering the amount. Private-owned automobiles and a hired PU car were used by the secret service operatives in mak ing a search through Maulla, Pasay, Paranaque and Balayan;|
Bargain
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$5.75
CHILDREN'S WOOLLEN: OVERCOATS BABY BAGS (made from Woollen blanketing) GENT'S RAINCOATS (special `bargain)
83.75
$3.75
$6.50
MANY OTHER BARGAINS IN OUR LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
YEE SANG FAT CO.
"ROOM FOR YOUNGER MEN."
but having other important pubile work to do, I feel it my duty to make room for a younger man, who, given his start as an Under Secretary at an earlier age, should
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Batangas, in an effort to locate the SIR B. CHADWICK AND THE prove to be a source of strength BASE REACHED OF PIT THAT
money.
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The secret service attached little
Public Spirited Offer. Mr. Baldwin, in his reply, writes:
WILL EMPLOY 3,000.
Seaham Harbour, Jan. 15. The reaching of the pit bottom in the Tempest shaft of the Marquess of Londonderry's now colliery at Seaham Harbour, at a depth of 2,000 feet, was celebrated yester day by the workmen being enter
to the Conservative Party in the PRIME MINISTER,
future.
"May therefore with the Correspondence has passed be. Importance to the discovery of tween. Sir Burton Chadwick and warmest regard for you, ask you Posos 200 in the possession of the Prime Minister on the subject to accept my resignation." Antonio Ramos, brother of Mari- of the resignation by the former ano, who is facing charges of of his post of Parliamentary qualified theft in connexion with Secretary to the Board of Trade, the disappearance of the Pesos When the appointment of Mr. 34,000 from the safe. The detec-II. G. Williams as his successor "From several conversations we tained.. tivos in charge and the chief of was announced last week I stated have had I have realised that no- The first sod of the colliery was police are inclined to believe that that Sir Burton Chadwick had thing lies nearer your heart than cut by Viscount Castlereagh in the money recovered, was not a been actuated in his resolve by his the Company of Master Marinera, December, 1923. The colliery, part of the booty.
teaire to devote himself to the for which you have done so much.which is costing approximately work of the Company of Master Having been at the Board of Trade £1,000,000, is expected to produce, Mariners, of which he is Deputy myself, I know, too, the exact when fully developed, 1,000,000 tons Chairman.,
nature of the duties you have of cost per annum, and to employ performed with such zeal and 3,000 workers.
The toast of "Success to the Now. loyalty for more than three years.
LONGER, DAYS AS WORLD AGES.
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GREAT ASTRONOMER'S GUESS
THAT PROVED RIGHT.
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Investigations have shown that the movement of the tides in length ening the day by a fraction of a second each century. :
This is confrmed in his letter
to Mr. Baldwin. He writes:
"I am going to nak you to ac- "It was therefore with the less Colliery" was proposed by Mr. cept my resignation from the surprise, though, with great re. Malcolm Dillon, agent to Lord Lon office with which you honoured gret, that I learnt from your let donderry, who said that the under me three years ago, an office inter that you wish to be freed from taking would add greatly to the. which it has been a privilege and offcial work to devote your time prosperity of Seaham Harbour, joy to serve, and the giving up to help in establishing the post- which was this year celebrating its of which I shall deeply regret. Ition of the Company of Master centenary, have other work to do, however, Mariners that it may take its right-
Big fires in the month of De which has lately assumed such ful place in the life of the Bri-
Trade duties,
the British seaman.
Sir Frank Dyson, the Astrono-proportion that I fear I may not lah nailon. I think we all knew cember involved a total loss of mer-Royal, explained this recently be able to contfune to give un- in the Great War, if we did not £755,000, according to a special in a lecture on The Observation divided attention to my Board of realise it before, what we owed to report prepared by Meaars, Harris and Cô, fire loss assessora, Thera gf the Solar Eclipse."
"I refer to the Company of Mas- "Your generous andle were altogether 88 fires involving The eclipse in Nineveh in 753 ter Mariners, of which I have the spirited offer to make room for a loss of £5,000 and over. The B.C., he said, enabled natronomera honour to be the Deputy Master younger man, while you are still following are the principal de- to discover that the speed of the
The responsibilities of leader-in the prime of life, is team work tafis rotation of the earth was gradual-ship in the early life of this Com- of a very high order; and I feel Shop Premises, Castle- ly being reduced.
pany are increasing with its suc-confident that your action, appre- ford, Yorks Halley's calculations of the ccas.
ciated as it is by me, will be no Panel Works,, Kingsland,
N.E. With this duly before me, I am less appreciated by the Conserva- eclipso in Nineveh showed that that city should have been some moved to my decision by a further tive Party and by British seamen, Mansion Fire, Hereford hundreds of miles outside the zone consideration. I suppose that to whom you feel yourself bound Spring Mills, Burnley...
never before in the history by so many ties.
Mansion, near Eastbourne To make his calculation fit the of the Conservative Party was "Believe me, with every good Umbrella Frame Manufac
turer, Birmingham facts he suggested that the month there such a splendid force of was getting longer, and subsequent young men in the House of Com-wish for the success of your fu
ture work, and with grateful Church, Burnley..... of the tides was lengthening the "Well, Heaven knows!-I do thanks for the services, you have Mansion, Hereford..
Carpet Shop, Oxford- day by a thousandth part of a not count myself old-but rather rendered to the Government,Warehouse, Glasgow 45,000 second each century.
in the prime of life at fifty-eight, your very sincerely,
STANLEY BALDWIN. street,
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́INTERESTING. PICTURE OF PAST.
This interesting photograph shows the firnt interport aides ever to represent Shanghai and Hongkong. Shanghal won by two goals to one on the S.R.C. ground, after extra time had been played. The match was the first official interport of the series, a previous match between the Shanghaf Football Club-not, strictly speaking, Shanghal and Hongkong having been won by the Colony players on their home ground. Many veterans of the football field who are still connected with the game here and in Shanghai in various capacities are shown here as they looked when, they, too, chased the leather. From left to right their names are: Top: A Hamilton, R. 8. Swan, 8. Brown (Reserve), Bdr. Golman, J-Ellle, GA, Robinson, A, Piercy, V. Davies, J. A., Quayle, B. Grimshaw, Second row: D. Campbell C. Winkle, Gnr. Green, Gnr Dollman, Spr, Lowis, W. H. Semmans, J. L. Wade, T. 8. D. Wade, H. G. Read, H. T. Flowers, Front: W. V. Pennell, Cpl.
Pearson, R. C. Barlow, G. F. Forshaw, W. C. Clifford, J. C. Porter, {abl