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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
A SCHOOLBOY'S TALE, THE WON- DER OF AN HOUn/-Lord Byron.
"A Chinese case of puerperal fever was notified yesterday."
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CORRESPONDENCE.
To MOTOR-CYCLISTS.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
go
The Harbour Office notifies that "Sir-With about ten days to Murray Pier will be closed for re- before the entries close for the pairs lasting about three monthe, Illuminated Motor Procession, or
ganised by the H.KAA, for the
as from Monday next..
The Very Idea!
the conference chamber is reached, the greater likelihood will there be of eventual success. It must not be Inferred, however, that no pro-
A provious tenant of one of gress has been made, in disarma-
row of cottages at Measham, Lot- mont in recent years. To tako Bri-1
castershiro, for which no owner could be tracod, has claimed the tain as a case in point, tho, per sonnel of its Navy has been re-
house on the ground that the duced by some 40,000 men since
length of occupancy has given him. the right of ownership, and ho, has. 1914, whilst more than 200 war
sold the dwelling for £3. When craft, totalling two million tons,
occupied, it was lot for 18, a work. have been scrapped, to say nothing
The as. Fooshing, from Tsing-second night of the Grand Tattoo, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Rural District. of the reductions which have taken tao, reports encountering typhoon it has been found that the Council had passed a resolution to the houses because they were a place in the Army. Japan is a weather, necessitating the vessel notorcyclists of the Colony have serve notices for the closing of parently keen on disarmament, for taking shelter in Nimrod Sound. not supported the event as was danger to the public. When, how-
anticipated.
ever, the Council sought to find Baren Sato has recently suggest-
This, I have gathered in con- the owners, they could not be ed that agreement should be reach ed on limitation of armaments coming this morning, consisted of 636 varaation with overal motor-traced. It was learned that the thusiasm, but rather to the dim-"faggot voting" days when blocks patible with national security as a boge, which were distributed dur-cyclists, is not due to lack of en-houses were a legacy of the old culty of descorating their cycles, of property were parcelled out.
for votes. DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER ·
a preliminary step, with 'a big con- ing the forenoon,
or discovering original ideas, and HAS NO EQUALference later to enlarge the initial
results attainol.
perhaps, to a certain degree, of There la, in fact, reason to be-
shyness. lieve that practically all countries would welcome the making of do- Anite progress in the direction of disarmament, but there is an
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Hongkong Telegraph.
THUMBDAY, SEPT. 20, 1928.
DISARMAMENT.
The mail from England vin Siberia by the e.s. Achilles, arriv
"
Mr. B. Saitau and Mr. J. Wong, of No. 161, Kowloon Tong, were each fined 35 by Mr. W. Schofield
I have been deputed to help with at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for allowing their dogs the motor-cycle section, and I to be abroad without muzzles.
The caso in which Mr. and Mrs.
obvious destre that if a programme A Howarth sued Mrs. L. B. Young About Hong Kong.
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is to be decided upon, all the prin- for damages arising from alleged detention of baggage was conclud- cipal Powers should be a party toed yesterday afternoon, when Mr. It. The outlawry of war, as re-Justice Jacks reserved judgment flected by the widespread adherence to the Kellogg Pact, should provide the spur to the movement, for, If the signatories mean what they sky, they could all lessen the un- productive burden' represented by heavy expenditure on the fighting servicun. The difficulty, however,
A fine of $5 was imposed on a' Chinese by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when Mr. P. J. O'Brien, Inspector of the S. P. C. A., charged the man to three pigs by failing to supply with causing unnecessary cruelty matting to their crates.
Do you know that—
Sulphur Channel (between Hongkong and Green Island) got its name from H.M.S. Sul- phur, which was the ship on which, in 1841, Captain Bel- cher carried out the first sur- vey of Hongkong Harbour?
The first proper survey of the New Territories was not carried out until 1899-1900, and that it was conducted by Mr. Tate, Government Sur- yoyor, after whom was named Tate's Pass and Tate's Cairn, in the Kowloon Range?
Gap Rock Lighthouse, 35 miles south of Hongkong, was erected in the year 18887
Green Island Lighthouse was erected in July, 1876 ?
until..
The seaside visitor sought the landlady of the house where he complaints, Sho listened was staying, and began to make. her patience became exhausted.
"Please don't think I'm ignor- ant," he wound up. "I know all. the tricks of your trade. Do you think I've lived in.boarding-housen. for Afteen years for nothing?"
"I shouldn't be surprised," re- plied the landlady coldly..
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I dislike Jazz extremely on the ground that it makes no real con- tribution to music-Dame. Ethel Smyth.
The food of this country to-day is purer and less adulterated than. it has ever been before.--Dr. Jamos Fenton..
Those are days of impatience of anything beyond quarter of an hour or twenty minutes' sermons. -Canon E. O. Jones.
It is our duty to make it as easy as possible for members to get into the House of Commons-Sir W. Joynson-Hicks.
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s to and a formula which shall be On the application of the de- acceptable to each and every na-fence, the case in which Mr. E. D. Shanks charged a motor car driver tion, especially as opinions differ with refusing hire when disengag- on the point of adequate means ed, was adjourned by W, Schofield for the preservation of national at the Kowloon Magistracy this security. If any delay in calling morning, till Friday, the 28th Inst., the defendant having instructed a a fresh conference has the result solicitor to appear on his behalf,
Mr. Arthur Hetherington, of of clearing away misunderstand-
This morning's Harbour Of PCS RECE
has received Middlesbrough, ings on this point and making an
annoymously three one-dollar bills eventual understanding more like-reports gave 16 arrivals and the
envelope, postmarked same number of departures, of would ask, through the courtesy of ly, then nothing will have been lost which alx under each heading were your columns, that all motor-Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., with Naval disarmament is again to by waiting a little longer,
British, leaving 55 vessels in har-cyclists who would be willing to loiter saying: "Please find en- bour, British 20, British vessels top-participate in a concerted action closed twelve shillings. I once the fore at Geneva, but, judging
ped the heavy records under both in this event, get in touch with me took some coppers out of your headings, with Japanese from reports of the latest de
and at the Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, at the mother's house. I return thera The Autogiro and Aviation, Danish holding next best place in earliest opportunity, when a moot with. Interest. From one who is liberations, there does not seem
Ing could be arranged, and all de-sorry." definite much prospect of any
Though it is perhaps early toward and through respectively.
tails fixed up.
The envelope was addressed to headway being made in the im- attempt an assessment of the
Deaths, nt sea are reported by Time is short, and any action Mr. Hetherington, at the Grey' medinte future. The latest Bug-value to aviation of Senor De La
Cierva's invention, the light the s.8. Ilo Sung from. Calcutta must be taken at once, so it would Horse Hotel, Stockton, which he gestion put forward in that a pri- across the English Chanael of his and Singapore, and the .a. Deva- be as well if these keen on this left fourteen years ago. "I can vate meeting should be summoned autogire or windmill plane, marks wongse from Tourane and Hol-item would ring me up without only think the sender is someone of the French, British, United a very distinct step in aeriai pro-how. The Ilo Sang carried 454 delay, (K.1371) so that plans may who acted as a domestic servant to my mother," Mr. Iethorington After unsuccessful ex- Asiatic deck passengers and two be made.
must have been Statos, Italian and Japanese de-regs.
Again thanking you for this said. "It
because my a long time ago, legates to the Disarmament Comperiments extending over a period of these died en route, one from
of many years, with big Govern-beri-beri and the other from an courtesy Yours, etc.,
mother has been dead thirty-four P. Sands,
years. Apparently the trivial mission, the gathering to be held in ment prizes as a lure to inventors, gina pectoris, both bodies being The ship's steward
Assistant Secretary. theft has, weighed on the conscious Paris. Underlying this idea there it can at least be said that the buried at sen.
Kowloon, Sept. 19th, 1928. of the sender all these years." would appear to be a distinct world has at last produced a ma- of the s.s. Devawongse died from chine capable of almost vertical heart failure, the body in this case anxiety on the part of Franco to ascent and descent, and of aus-also being buried at sen.
a doubt, get the situation reviewed before tained light. Without
Mr. F. Owaton, formerly of the next meeting of the Commis-neronautical experts throughout
the world are watching the per- Yokohama, Japan, who died ut sion, which has been fixed for 1981.formances of his machine with Saling Lodge, Hill Road, Lower Indeed, M. Boncour, the French extreme interest, though It has al- Bourne, Frankam, Surrey on
THE LATEST CHANGES. delegate, has even suggested the ready been revealed that one seri- January 27, last year, left Hong- overcome. kong estate to the value of $1,800, holding of a conference either atous defect has to be
Grent hopes may, however, be while net personalty in England
Mr. F. Jenkins, second officer, the end of this year or at the be held out. Even in Its present amounts to £1,745. Revealing of
Fengtion, has gone extra eccond ginning of next. No doubt the form, the machine is a remarkable probate has been granted to Mr. oficer, Kanchew, bir. R. Curnow, fact that the British and French achievement, and we may be cer- M. H. Turner, of Messrs. Deacons, from reserve, has gone second offloor. Mr. J. W. Smith has been appoint- Governmenta have been able to tain that anything which is effi- who is the attorney of the widow, Fenglion:
clent to the extent proved, can be Mrs. E. F. Owstón, living at Saling reach a common viewpoint on the perfected by further research and Lodge, to whom everything is beed extra second offleer, Hsin Peking.
Mr. D. M. Haines has been ap question is a factor contributing to experiment. The autogiro pre- queathed,
pointed second officer, Shengking.
is the product of Vancouver's na- this desire, but at the moment sents two unusual features, since
Mr. I. Newton, chief officer, Fat- tive Industry, but rather a re- shan, has gone chief officer, Antung.
It reminds, a there has been no official intimationit combines the principles of the helicopter, or vertical ascent and of how the other Naval Powers descent machine, and the orníhop- view that development. It hoster, or machine that flaps its been rumoured that the compromise wings like a bird. The fault to be overcome is that when descend- might not be acceptable to some ing the pilot experiences the un- of the Governments to which de pleasant sensation of heading for tails of the Ruggested arrangement a crash. What is far more im- portant at the moment, however, have been communicated, and there has been a hint that it may be necessary for Britain and France to put their proposal in some other form, in order to meet possible ob- jections.
"THE BIRTH OF A NATION."
SUPER-FILM SHOWING AT THE WORLD.
The directing genius of D. W. is, the fact that Senor De La Grimth has left its impress on the Clerva yesterday flew from Croy-emotional scenes in "The Birth of den to Boulogne via Lympne and a Nation," a film rightly described Cape Grisnez without mishap. as a super-production, which is Beside the ordinary acroplane, the being shown at the World Theatre. Autogiro presents an unorthodox,
theme.
CHINA COAST OFFICIERS.
A clerical correspondent sends to a Home paper a brief poem which he received from a brother in Vancouver. He thinks it is so touching that readers should have the beneft of it. Here it is:
There was a young woman of
Ryde
Who ate some green apples
and died.
For within the lamented
They quickly fermented, And made cider Inside her
Inside.
One does not imagine that this
Mr. W. Dickinson, chief officer, An-exported article. tung, has gone chief oficer, Taikon writer, however, of another poe- Wan YI. Mr. A. F. Maginnis, chiet tical, effort, which deals with the officer, Taikoo Wan Yi, has gone canning industry, for which Van- chief omloor, Fatahan,
couver is famous, and which is Mr. F. Appleton, from reserve, has the frult of purely local talent: gone third engineer officer, Sheng-
A canner uncommonly canny ing.
Thus chanted one day to his
granny,
Mr. J. W. Andersen, second on gineer officer, Ichang, ls on reserve.
Mr. A. Urwin, second engineer officer, Anhul, has gone second- engineer officer, Fatashan.
"A canner can can
All a canner can can, But a canner can't can a can,
can hot"
Mr. E. R. McDiarmid, second Throughout the big scenes enginoor officer, Antung, is on Home
Willesden mother: I want to indeed an extraordinary appear which reproduce the troublous leave.
Mr. D. "Bbert, second engineer summon my daughter. I have Lord Cushendan, in his latest ance, accentuated in flight. Its opoch of the American Civil War,
strange Bomewhat grotesque runs the thread, at times no more officer, Talkoo Wan Yi is on Home brought up fifteen of them, and statement on the subject, has made
structure and the manner of Its than sketched, of a tender love leave, Mr. W. W. M. Chapman, from she is the only one with a temper. Solicitor at Lambeth: Was the It clear that Britain would most flight may provide food for the story, appealing because of ita reserve, has gone second engineer
between the Mr. D. McPherson has been ap-motor-car driven likely oppose any undue hastening sceptics; in fact, It is almost na- very simplicity. It is the Drst officer, Talkoo Wan Yi.
pointed second officer, Kutwa. tramway Unes and the kerb? of the convening of the Disarmatural that the first impulse should effective illustration of Griffith's be one of difdence in accepting method of screening a simple love
Mr. R. W. Drancy, second officer, Witness: No, Between the kerb ment Commission. He no doubt its potentialities. It must not be story while using big scenes as
officer, Yatabing, Mr. T. A. Howard,
Hounslow Inquest witness: I am has in mind the regrettable failure forgotten, however, that this is backgrounds to emphasise the Mingsang, has gone extra mocond and the tramway lines.
second officer, Kutwo, has допо of the last conference and is only a beginning. It is within the
The war between the Federal second officer, Mingsong
here to do justice to my fellow. memory of many that Mr. A. V.
countrymen. Mr. G. Porterfield, from reserve, anxious that the ground shall be Roe, in the early days of flying, and Confederate States, and the so well prepared in advance that was arrested for proposing to com- big issue of negro slavery, are two has gone second engineer officer, there may be no fears of a second mit suicide inasmuch as he con- features of the big scenes. In the Loongwo
Mr. J. Moalem, third engineer templated a flight across the Chan- end wo are shown the rising of a fiasco. It is true, of course, that rol in the machine from which the horde of hooded and masked officer, Loongwo, has gone to shore Britain and France have now kot majority of heavier-than-air craft riders, the Ku Klux Klan, wielding employment.
Mr. IL E. Swaine, from reserve, close together on this question, but, have evolved. It is probable that a power for good or evil.
Lilian Gish, who over must re- has gone third engineer officer, Wa as the British delegato pointed out the modern aeroplane has boon de- main as a Grinth discovery, heads shing., Mr. H. Turner, third engineer
veloped to an extent which pre- a week or so ago, an agreement cludes usurpation of its position a cast which includes many other officer, Walshing, has gone temporary
stars who owo their rise to screen third engineer officer, Kutwo.
Following the recent presenta-- made between two States le not al- by any now invention of the auto fame to this the first big produc- Mr. A. Paton, Becond engineer tion of certificates to qualified
officer, Kutto, is on reserva, ways acceptable to a third, and in giro type. Nevertheless it is ob- tion of the famous director.
Kr. 1. S. Holmes, chief engineer students, the China Ladles Hair. As advertised, the picture is
dressing Saloon has opened its event negotiations and vious that aviation has a very
larga vacant place which only the being shown until Saturday, officer, Pingwe, is on reserve. amendments are often necessary. helicopter can 11. It seeme fair Owing to its length, there are only
Mr. D. W. Pollock, third engineer first branch, for ladies only, at No. In other words, the task of securing ly certain that future development three screeninga, dally
com-officer, Suiwo, has gone acting second 5, D'Agullar Street, and a second branch, for both sexes, on the anything like unanimity of view will be largely along the lines mencing promptly at 2.80 6.30 and engineer, Pingwo.
Captain E. Walker, of the Haiheng, ground floor of the Kayamally Building. The hygienic methods point on such a big subject, as dis- commenced by Senor De La Cier 9.20 promptly. At the last named
va, and therefore, yesterday's performance, tho. Theatre has gone master, Haining.
Mr. E. W. Lowson, chief officer, employed; as well as the courtesy armament can only be accomplish-fight may be heralded as marking orchestra, now much Improved, ed by gradual steps, and the more the opening of a new era in the will be in attendance with a pro- Hathong, has gone extra chief officer, of the assistants, are attracting.
Halvard Shipping and Engineering, numerous customers, gramme of appropriate music. obstacles that are removed before conquest of the air.
such an
Bookmaker at Grimsby; I ani almply working for. Mr. Churchill. Barrister at Shoreditch: Your Christian name? Man: Bill Bar. rister: Does that mean William Mant No, plain BIL
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