THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1928.
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that the public believes the stories
of the troops being mixed up with the traffic. Nanking's indignation
DAY BY DAY.
MANILA SHOWS,
"coming attrACTION · FOR HONGKONG.
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The Very Idea!
Alarm at the reports that women
THEY WHO ARE MOST WEARY OF in the circumstatices is not surpris- LIFE, AND YET ARE MOST UNWILLING ing, and we can' well understand TO DIE, ARE BUCH WHO HAVE LIVES, the Government leaders viewing TO NO PURPOSE~;WHO HAVE RATHER NREATHED THAN LIVED.-Lord the developments as most unfor- Clarendon tunate, coming so soon after the oficial declaration that the opium evil throughout China is to be sup- presned. Posing before the world as the sworn onemy of the oplum traffic, the Nationalist Government finds itself in rather an unenviable position as a result of the allega- tion
soldiers that its and military officers
thie arrived H.M.S. Herald actively engaged therein. For morning from the Straits and sake, moored in the Naval Anchorage, its own reputation's the Government is now apparently breaking the paying-off pennant determined to get at the root of this
The Manila Shows, which will are again going to wear either- appear here for the first time on large buns" or "masaca of curls" subsides when Investigation' ro- the Praya East. reclamation on veals that the reports come from Saturday evening, December 8th, the hairdressers. What the hair- Yesterday's health return shows comes to Hongkong with the dresser says about the future why's
recommendations.
of women with thoir hair is hot. two further cases of small-pox, both highest of
This popular amusement organlaa- evidence. Not so long ago hair. Chinese,
How has been operating in the dressers wore solemnly laying Straits Settlementa, Burma and their hands on their hoarte and short-haired fashion would 'nover bo adopted by ladies of rank. Since then ducal and even royal. locka have been shorn all over Europe.
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Board meeting yesterday purely formal.
when secured.
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The business at the Sanitary India for the past six years, and toiling, tho' newspapers that the
each year it takes now shows to these countries.
Some idea of the size of this organisation will be gained when It is stated that it takes a ship of ive hundred tons to transport the
Those who are in the best posi show property alone. Some sixty tion to judge doubt if there will the organisation and many of these until nearly everybody has fer- members comprise the personnel of be a complete revival of long hair. people are clever performers gotten how uncomfortable and Jim Peters, who does a free act on untidy it usually was, and how the show grounds each night, las seldom the "masses of curls" effect The following information has been with the Manila Shows for was as poetic as it sounds. been received from His Honour the the past five years performing his Commissioner, Weibowel: "Hong hair-raising stunts. The Petera Apart altogether from
this kong declared to be infected port net consists of what is known as Shanghai incident, there has been Ships will be subject to medical the giant swing. A high rigging umple evidence in the recent past inspection under quarantine re-some sixty feet in the air is raised and Peters on a trapeze loaps the thegulations."
loop several times in succession. This is done in a blazo of light
mulier, and we may expect it tu take drastic action when the facts are fully established.
NO PERIODIC REFILLING of military pa leipation in
CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE plum traffic. This, indeed, has
beon, one of the facts atressed
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BIRTH.
GRAYBURN.-On 26th November, 1928, at the Peak Hospital, the wife of V. M. Grayburn, of a son.
WEDDING..
HAY-MOHAN.-At the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on Satur day, November 24th, James Hay, of Shanghai, to Helen Mohan, of Spermymoor, Co., Durham, England, (Shanghai popers please copy)..
tary land which la closed to all ex- cept military units and civilians on business who have the requisite passes.
A thief, who was surprised whilst in the act of stealing chicken from the second floor of No. 83, Yuer Chow Street, Shamshuipo, took # desperate leap into the street. He was killed almost fustantly and hig body was duly removed to thei Kowloon Mortuary. According to a police report, both the man's arms- were broken.
Do you know that---
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A Horticultural Society was formed in Hongkong more than fifty years ago?
It
established wan February, 1874, by a Govern- ment Garden Committee. Three years later, the Govern- ment withdrew from the con- trol of the Society, which, under unofficial management; continued for some years ...longer.
Many years afterwards, it WOH revived and still con- tinues in operation.
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Stranger-So you are the post- master, storekeeper, justice of the Native-"Yassir! You might say peace, and constable of this town?" I'm the Mussolini of Buckeye Corner."
"
It is reported that a barber in a Buckinghamshire town chaves his clienta with a safety razor.)
It is long since the hand of a.
stranger
Has drawn o'er my chock and my
chin
A keen-whetted blado through the
stubblo.
Though shaving's a douce of a
trouble,
I value a whole and unscarified
skin,
And the old-fashioned blade is a
danger:
How often when lato in the morn
ing
I have shown that more haste
means less speed,
half a And in trying to savo
mitute'
I have landed myself fairly in it," And have found how persistently
scratches can bloed,
And resolved by my wounds to
take warning.
Now,
a barber's a man and 4. brother,
Yet although he be skilful, I said, He is human and may be caught
tripping,
Suppose that his foot should bo
slipping,
stimulate production. Funds for war purposes have been raised in this way, and we have it on the the word of the Association named that the opium traffic in Shanghai, Hankow, Nanking and elsewhere has been a scandal and a contra- dication of the declared ideals of the Nationalist Government, but
We understand that the case in has been officially conducted with a total absence of regard for the which a publie car driver named Kwong Wah summoned Mr. B. people's welfare. For its own good Pasco, of Messrs. Brewer and nume, therefore, the Nanking Goy-Co., for alleged assault, has been and accompanied by a fireworks ernment will do well, to probe this withdrawn by the former. The display which adds a thrill to the
case Arst came up on Wednesday performance.
One of the most interesting peo- latest scandal to the bottom, for, last, when it was remanded for a with feelings running a high bewerk. Mr. Pasco, it will be reple with the Manila Shows is Jess to be eight feet, four inches tall tween the two factions concerned, called, brought a cross-summons Adams, the Kokomo Giant, said and numbered as one of the biggest we may be sure that the truth will for disorderly behaviour likely to
ocension n breach of the peace,
men in the world to-day. Jess he revealed in all Its nakedness,
arrived in Hongkong a little the The annual Thanksgiving Ser-worse for wear as far as his shoes concerned and he spent a
· Lahore Accusations,
vice of the First Church of Christ, were
locate a pair of phoen large enough The death of Lalu Rajpat Rai Scientist, will be held in the busy day yesterday in an effort to Church edifice, Macdonell Read, was regrettable, not because he to-morrow, Thursday, at 6.30 p.m. to fit him. Luckily he was able had any great love for Britain, but In accordance with the Manual of to get several pairs made to order. Mention should also be made of Wade, the world's most WEDNESDAY, Nov. 28, 1928 because his rabid Nationalism was the Mother Church, The First
tattooed lady. This probably misguided rather than Church of Christ, Scientist. In Bertie Boston, Mass., U.S.A., the service famous wilful perversity. A man
will include selections from the little lady is tattooed from the top THE OPIUM SCANDALS. swayed the multitude by oratory. Bible and correlative passages of her head to the sole of her feet. he was the leader of the National from the Christian Science text-Six years were necessary to com- Party In the Indian Assembly, and book, "Science and Health with plete the work of tattooing the
Baker Eddy. A portion his keenest opponents, officii and Key to the Scripturen" by Mary numerous designs that Bertio dis- anofficial, admiring his powers. service will be devoted to testi- would have been on good terms monies of healing and benefits ren number of high class attractions with him at all times had he purceived through the application of such as are found with the larger to the sued his avowed abjects by con- Christian Science. The' public is shows of this character in the other."--A Willesden witness.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
The Shanghai opium scandals, to use the phrase used by the verna- cular newspapers, are apparently
who
causing some concern National Government leaders institutional means. The average Nanking, who are agreed that the British mentality revolts almost! disclosures made are particularly automatically at the thought of unfortunate at the present jane-pernicious agitation, which is
ture.
cordially invited to attend.
of the plays.
DUMPED BODIES.
TEN MORE PICKED UP YESTERDAY.
No fewer then ten dead bodies
Kowloon,
two
these cases,
The Manila Shows have quité
Homeland. Several of the riding devices are exact duplicates of the rides that were exhibited at Wembley and no doubt. Hongkong amusement-lovera will receive this new form of entertainment with much enthusiasm.
POLICE INSPECTOR
INVALIDED.
LEAVING THE COLONY ON SATURDAY.
It
clear he might pretty well cut off my head,
So I will not be shaved by another.
But now there is no need for
braving
Such terrible dangern as these, For a barber, I'm certain, in using A safety-first razor is losing
No custom whatever. He's cer
4ain to please
All too lazy to do their own shaving.
"Mother, the minister's coming.” "How do you know, child?"
"Because I've just seen dad put the parrat in the stable.
"He was neither drunk nor sober, but just in a state when he was neither one thing or
tho
"My husband spent all last night walking up and down staira.”
A woman at Highgate.
"I have only ono daughter, the other in over age."-A mother at Whitechapel.
"If I ever come here again. I hope you will punish me well.”—A 14-years-old boy placed on proba- tion at Walsall, Staffordshire, for orchard robbing.
"I saw a line of care by the road side, and I naturally thought It must be a motor park.A man fined 30s. at Kingston-on-Thames for obstruction,
Woman at Shirebrook, Derby-
The auctioneer held up a batter ed fiddle..
The precise details of the quite different from any sugges¬ affair are not known at the tion that the distaste for the agi- moment, although I would appear tator is carried any further. We that a few days ago a huge quan- think, therefore, that the acausa- tity of smuggled oplum was track-long against the police in, con- were picked up by the police ed down by the police to a den innexion with the incident at Lahore yesterday from Hongkong and
and of at the end of Octobor can be dis- Shangimi, and as they were engaged missed at once as purely malici
amall-pox three were in rounding up the inmates of the ous. Lala Rajpat Rai led an un-coming from Yaumat, Mongkok place, the military appeared on the raly crowd into a hostile, demon- and West Point respectively. All stration against the Simón Com-
were bodies of children.
A popular member of the Hong-ahire: My husband gives me ex- scene and intervened. It is sald mission in spite of a prohibitory
Of the remaining seven cases, kong Police Force, in the person of pence a week pocket money and that the quantity discovered was order by the Police Superinten-
bodica were found in Inspector John Robertson Clark, then asks for it back again
at Shamshulpo, is leaving for Home on Saturday.on extremely large, and that the dent. The Police were forced to
Shaukiwan, one one at West Point, and one at being invalided out of the Force. police have been able to unearth n charge the crowd to prevent them
breaking down the barricades, Yaumati..
Recruited at Home on June 4,
"Lot 24," he announced. "Now, huge smuggling conspiracy, with and during the scuttle à number
The small-pox case from the 1910, Inspector Clark arrived in the widespread ramifications. '
of the demonstrators, including The fact that opium smuggling Lala Itajpat Rai, received injuries. West Point distriot was picked up Colony in the following month, since what am I offered for this beauti on Pokfulum Road, near house No. when he has been in continuous ser ful violin? Take a look at its case, vice with the Force except for a See the blurred finger marks of On the same day, Rajpat Rai ac- Is going on in Shanghai comes, of cused the police of an unprovoked 20. !.
break of four years, between 1916 remorseless time. To the merry 1919, when he was on active service notes of this fine old instrument, course, as no surprise, for the evil attack on the mob, but said that is common to all parts of China, "happily the blows of the lathi did but the present case appears to be not fall very heavily" on him. more than usually interesting and Even he did not suggest that he was singled out for ussault, and important from the suggestions that fact that he was injured freely made that Garrison troops merely means that one of the men Paris are engaged in the traffe and that really responsible for the outbreak New York
received some punishment instead Brussels military officers are waxing fat on of his comparative innocent dupes. Geneva the business. Possibly there would Unfortunately, nineteen days Amelordam have been no such allegations made later, Lala Rajpat Ital passet Mflor
nway, his death being attributed were it not for the circumstance to heart failure. The allegation Copenhagen that the municipal and military against the police were immediate- Oglo authoritles appear to be in conflictly re-launched with fresh force, Vienna but the statement of Earl Winter- Prague
EXCHANGE RATES.
Bortin Stockholm
Bucharest
ns to which shall secure possession ton in the House of Commons on Helsingfors of the opium in dispute. That Monday, seems effectively to dis- Madrid there is friction between the two pose of the question, 'No evidence Lisbon groups is very obvious, and it may has been adduced to show that Athens well be that one result of this will Rajpat Rai's death was due to blows received from the police,
Buenos Aires bo further Interesting disclosures and official enquiries have shown
for the police is Shanghai
Bombay concerning the traffic in the drug that the case The fact that local Kuomintang concrete. The Nationalists can- Hongkong not be commended for what is Yokohama organisations have suggested the little more than an endeavour to Gilver (spot) dissolution of the Shanghai Gar- make capital out of the death of Bliver (forward), rison forces is sufficient to show their leader.
.12.07%
in the war.
On returning to the Colony, he the brocaded dames of fair France have danced the stately minuet in was promoted to the rank of Ser- the glittering ballrooms of Ver- geant the following year, and rose, London, Nov. 27. by progressive stages, to the sub sailles. Now, gentlemen, what de stantive rank of Inspector in 1926, you offer me for this instrument?"
There was a long silence. .124.70
Latterly he has been Divisional In-
"Five bob," said one at length..
declared the .4.85 9/32
"It's Yours," 134.89 #pector in charge of the No. 7
25.18 West Point Police Station.
Inspector Clark ia woll-known in auctioneer cheerfully. "Now for 1.02.66 sporting eireles, being a member of lot 25,"
20.85 the Police football team until a .18.14 few years ago. Of late, he has 18.19. given more attention to the less 18.10 strenuett's' game of howls. .84.40% Inspector, Clark is the holder of ..163 certificates for Cantonese. In the .192%offelal records, in reference to an .30.07% incident, which occurred on Novem- 108 ber 18, 1911, mention was made
Whilet travelling on a tramcar .376 of courage shown by Police Con- 805% stable Clark as he was then) in between Shaukiwan and Causeway 6.29/32 the execution of hits duty when he Bay, a Chinese woman gaye birth 47.15/32 brought arrested persons to the to a daughter at 11:15 am. yester .1/6.1/32 Police Station' despite oposition by day, a šk
.2/74 a hostile crowd. For this, he was
BIRTH ON TRAMCAR,
DAUGHTER TO A CHINESE PASSENGER.
K
She was removed from the car
2/0 commended by His Excellency the when the latter reached the Bay
1/10% Governor in the following month.
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Inspector Clark sails for Home 28.11/10
on Saturday, accompanied by his -British Wireless, wife and family.
View: Station, and as soon as it
was possible to do so, was taken to the St. Paul's Hospital of Capso way Bay,
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