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THE AMBULANCE BRIGADE.
MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
days, one such request camo from A small outlying village on the island of Lantao-a circumstance
CHILDREN HAVE MORE NEED OF which shows how the work of the MODELS THAN OF CRITICS.-Joubert. Brigade in this particular.respect
The P. and O. 5.5. Mantun, fs. becoming increasingly appre from Singapore, is due hero at ciated. There have been many noon on Thursday,
occasions, also, in which the
Dr. Navel Poston! Karanjin, Ambulance men have rendered fine
M.B., B.S., Hongkong, has been service during local calamities. admitted to practise. No call is over allowed, to και unanswered, and it may be mon-
MONGKOK ARMED ROBBERY.
The Very Idea!
INTRUDERS BIND AND GÁG
The stuffed great auk (an ax- WOMAN.
tinct bird) in the Museum at Trinity College, Dublin, was Responding to a knock, a woman recently
under. purloined by living at No. 18, Hung Lok Street, graduntes as a joka on the Pro- Mongkok, opened the door of her fessor of the Zoological Depart house yesterday afternoon, to ad-ment, who found that the bird mit four men, who said they were had disappeared from the case, looking for her husband. As the and a stuffed wren had been sub latter was absout, one of the latituted.
tioned that the Brigade did excel./Seraph arrived in Hongkong this materials in order to leave the fingerprints on the case, and
lent work at the King Edward Hotel fire, this being the third early morning in succession on which the Ambulance men were
H.M.S. Sommo and H.M.S. visitors called for writing
Detectives were called to take morning from Pagoda Anchorage, message with the woman, but as later the auk, was found bidden he cat down to write, his com in a remote corner of Trinity Col-
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During the week-end, three panions suddenly seized the further cases of small-pox and two woman. Boforo long, she found lege, covered with of typhoid were notified. All wore herself bound and gagged and gown.
thrust into the kitchen, with her Chinese.
At a small Irish music hall one young daughter.
Later, a woman water-carrier, of the turns announced that if a upon going to the floor, found the member of the audience would victims and released them. It call out the name of any of Shake- was then discovered that the speare's famous female croations rabbers had made good their he would endeavour to portray Amongst the passengers who escapo, after stealing a small that character. There was an then a difidont voice suggested left for Home yesterday by the quantity of jewellery, valued at uneasy silence for a moment, and
$27. s.s. President Johnson were Mr. In
"Florence Noightingale."" and Mrs. C. D. Lambort.
smartly in attendance at Con- Tho, Hongkong Portuguese in flagrations. Scattered as fos mem- torport football team loft for bere are all over the Colony, there Shanghai by the 6,8. Shidzuoka
| Maru to-day." -_ is no four of the Brigade not hearing of mishaps when they occur, and the response is always prompt and wholehearted.
We should be lacking in appre- ciation if, in closing this well- We understand that during the deserved tribute, we did not refor absence of Mr. J. F. Brenan on leave, Mr. G. S. Moss, M.B.E., Bri- to the tremendous amount of work tish Consul in Fooshow, will take which has been done by, Mr. E.lover charge of the British Con- Kalpbe, the Assistant Com-sulate-General in Canton, missioner, in having catablish-
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a report received by the police, it is stated that one of the men was armed with a knife.
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The actor's brow grew storn with wrath. "Luk hore," he an- nounced truculently, "don't yo try to make a gonsoon of me. 'I said Shakespeare, not Dickens!"
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Shoreditch man, of his woman lodger she can awear and drink like a man.
Love may not make the world go round, but it makes a lot of
em-
MORE ANTI-BRITISH SLOGANS. od the movement here and lecture at the next general meet-
Riga, Feb. 24. hia
ehergy ing of the Hongkong University
Advantage was taken by the people giddy. Arts Association, to-morrow at in having brought the Corps to 8.30 p.m. His subject will be: Soviet authorities yesterday to A woman who was fined five its present strength and efficiency."The Spirit of the Chinese Sages," exploit the eleventh anniversary of shillings at Tattenham was found the formation of the Red Army for incapably drunk in an invalid this regand he has spared
chair. neither time nor energy. In all from the counter of a shop in districts where Red troops were Charged with stealing $3.10 the purpose of military propaganda, Celebrations wero held in all
"My friend la 'an old-age pen- that he has done, he has been Kowloon City, a nine-year-old stationed, and the civilian popula-sioner, but he is a gentleman all backed up by enthusiastic and Chinese was ordered by Mr. T. Stion were urged to take part in the the same. A witness at King
Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon festivities. A chorus of Pression on Thames. capable, officers. Valuable 89 Magistracy this morning, to tributes to the Red Army wha mc- Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch these services have been, however, receive eight strokes of the cone companied by the publication of County Court Three pulls at your they would have been of Httle in Court.
fraternal greetings from soldiers tooth to get it out? King John and sailors in Germany and France, had the samo difculty. avall had it not been for the
A married woman who arrived and the occasion was marked by the keenness of the personnel of the from Canton by the train last formal incorporation of many new Schoolgirls, as well as school- Corps, which must always be the evening was arrested with fifteen units in the air squadron, which was
tenis of raw opinion in her posses christened "Our Roply to Cham-boys, distinguish themselves by determining factor in the muccesssion. She was brought before Mr.berlain after the rupture with the perpetration of howlers. For instance, it must surely be a com- of such voluntary movements. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon England.
magistracy this morning and The motives for the demonstra-ng "apper"who recently stated To-morrow evening, the Colony's The generosity of the Chinese com- fined $460, or two month's im-tions were partly to instil terror that "Ethyl spirit is a manikin, Divisions of the St. John Ambu-munity in giving financial support | prisonment,
into the hearts of Kullak and who shows dresses at Barker's"
London fashion Trotskyist enemies within and part (a noted lance Brigade will be having what to the Brigade must also ha ́aċ-
Before Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith,ly to display to the capitalist world rurfum), 'Another young lady re- might be termed their popular knowledged, for without this aid it at the Kowloon Magistracy this the might of the milltary organised plied, in answer to the question, "What should the Lady of Shaloit "field day." for on the Murray would be impossible for the morning, the master of a fishing workmen and peasants.
boat was charged with having in The Soviet newspapers quote at have done instead of lying down Parade ground the annual inapee- movement to flourish.
his possession a quantity of length from the festive speeches of on the boot becauso Bir Lancelot, notice of her?"-"She tion is to be carried out 'by His
dynamite and four detonators. Red Generals in which they em- took no
looked out for an- Excellency the Governor. There
The defendant said he had had hesised that the Red Army was the should have the ́dynamite for the
last two weapon of the proletariat against her." Doubtless a candid and will doubtless be a large allen-
years. A fine of $10 was imposed, the capitalist oppressor in all frank statement of the modern girls' viewpoint! Soma boyish countries. dance of all sections of the com-
culled from the The usual crop of slogans was specimens, President Johnson invented for the occasion, 42 being "University Correspondent,” arrived in port on Saturday on considered sufficient for the present worth raproducing, "Parts of her maiden voyage round the celebrations. Samnies of these are: Egypt ar cultivated by irrita- world under the Deller flag, The Kellogg Pact is mere tion," deposed one young gontle having been recently rebuilt at window-dressing display. In the man. "An accumulator," wrote Newport News. Amongst the back of the shop they are preparing another, is a place whore, thay passengers for Hongkong were a new war" or "British Imperialism | rear chickens." Other gems Mr. and Mrs. Allau Cameron, Dr seeks to inflame Afghanistan in were: "New York time is behind und Mrs. C. II. Burton, and Mr. order to use it as A jumping-off Greenwich time, because America W. II. Bell.
ground for an attack on the Soviet was not discovered until much Union, but the Red Army sleepless later." "Sir Walter Scott wan jy guards our frontiers.”
called the Blizzard of the North. He tried to reach the North Pole, but died in the attempt." M.A. becomes a B.A. when he getá married.", "A focus Jea London, Mar. 24. thing that looks like a mushroom, 1247/32 but if you eat it, it feels dif- .34.96 Serent," One bright youth was ...12.12 asked to correct the sentence, "It .92.70% was me that has broken the win- .18.17% | dow.” Alus for grammari The .18.10% instinct of self protection, per- .164.13/10 laps, who knows, motivated by 32.20 the guilty consciousness of some .874% past miedood, evidently dictated 5.13/16 the answer: "It wasn't me that 1/5.31/82 has broken the window."
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Reparation Difficulties. The month which has elapsed munity, which will in this way ho since the Committee of Experts on Reparations gathered at Paris, and able to show its appreciation of settled down, according to their the very fine work which the terms of reference, to discover a Brigade does day in and day out final resolution of the reparatione all the year round. We all know problems, has apparently been un- how busy the St. John Ambulance productive of result other than the men have been during the small-settlement of a few preliminary dif- Beultion. The meetings are held in pox epidemic; in fact, we learn that camera, of course, and the few olli- (so occupied have they been with | cial statements issued regarding the this splendid work that there has puture of the discussions have not been very little time in which to rehearse for the annual inspection. None the less, we expect the members to present their usual smart and business-like appear ance at to-morrow's ceremony..
The 5,8.
EXCHANGE RATES.
A steersman of a cargo boat was charged at the Marine Court this morning before the Hon. Commdr. been fully indicative of the pro-G. F. Hola, R.N. for lying inshore gress made. We are left to draw during prohibited hours at Sal
Defendant plended) our own conclusions from the fnet Ying Pun that a deadlock now appears to have guilty and was fined $10 or 10 Parie been reached on the question of the days. Ip Szo, the mistress of Brussels amount of Germany's annual pay-another cargo boat was before his Amsterdam ment to her creditors. In the cur- Worship for committing the same Bilan
offence near Cheung Chau Ferry Stockholm rent year, the fifth under the Dawes Wharf and received the same Oslo Plan, Germany's Hability amounts penalty. F
to Mks.2,250,000,000, and Mr. Park- er Gilbert, the Agent-General, is satisfied of Germany's ability to meet her obligations. Dr. Schacht, the head of the German delegation Conference,
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Although we have all become more or less accustomed to seeing the Brigade uniform in evidence
Mr. Tang Shao-yi, formerly the Rio... whenever there is any call for the
first Premier of the Chinese Re Bombay. service of those who wear it, it is
public in 1912 and now a retired Hongkong to be doubted whether suficient
politician, arrived in Hongkong on New York the 8.8. President Johnson on Satur- Geneva thought is given to the magni-
day and is staying at a local hotel. Berlin น Reuter message from Recently he was appointed by the Copenhagen ficent voluntary work which the aya
Berlin, has submitted to National Government as Chairman Vienna Brigade does, without involving the finanelal experts of
of a Commission to consider the ad. [Helsingfors the Government in one cent of Powers that the yearly payment Shan Halen in Kwangtung making Bucharest
vleability of reforming the Chung Lisbon expenditure. The movement has should be considerably reduced in it the first Model Halen (district) Buenos Aires only been in existence here since the future. Through him, Ger-In China. Others in the same com- Shanghat the early days of the Great War, many claims that the utmost burden mission comprise Messrs. Sun Fo. Yokohama
be expected to bear is Wu Te-chen, Chung Wing-kwong Silver (apot) but in the intervening perlod there have hoon seven or eight Divisions the
Mks. 1,400,000,000 and apparently und Choi Choung,
reduction established, apart from the two is admitted to the extent that other Nursing Divisions, and to-day delegates have suggested a reduc
tion of the present scale by Mka. there are over three hundred young 600,000,000 to Mks. 1,750,000,000. men who give their services freely Dr. Schacht is now in Berlin con- forring with others on this particu- and willingly to the Colony.
lar point, though, without a know- Scarcely a day passes that there is lodge of the real facts wing to the not some call on these young curious that there should be any scanty explanation given, it seems fellows, either in dealing with reference back on the part of any accidents, attending outbreaks of delegate in view of the understand- fire, or carrying out their vaccina-ing that the Experts were to meet with absolutely" open_minds, sngi tion campaign. In this latter without instructions from their connexion, latest figures show respective Governments. No ob- that close on 350,000 Chinese have and it is safe to presume, therefore, jection has been raised, however,
been inoculated since December, that the German delegate is acting record of which the Brigade within his rights. It is reported that the German industrialists "are may well be proud. This is all the in favour of an attempt to reach-n more remarkable when we remom- | convpismisc," A passible develop- ber that not so many years ago rising scule on the lines of the ment a 1 arrangement of another
Che Chinese community as Dawes Plan, though the Exports a whole was decidedly oppos- have still a much greater problem to settle, namely, the' total amount od to vaccination. Nowadays, of Germany's liability. Wo jm- case,agine that a considerable amount of for the Brigade is being constant water will run under the bridges of the Seine before the Exports are ly requested to carry out Inocu- in a position to submit recom lations. Within the part few i mendations.
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The Church is doing, less than it ought to do, but it is doing nine-tenths of what is being done - |át all,—The Archblahop of York,
The Prime Minister makes literary discoveries, but it's al ways a Mary and she's always dead.-Mr. Philip Guedalla,
I am far from thinking that a Christian is necessarily a fool. Dean Inge.
31. PLAYING WITHOUT take trick with King of hearts.
DETERMINING CARD
What card should Declarer, now play to insure game?
The Error: Declaror leads 4 of diamonds and takes with King of diamonds in the Dummy where upon it develops that East is blank of the suit and West holds the Jack I am not the sort of man to be of diamonds with three others. inspired-Sir Edward Elgar.
The Correct Method: To Insura Quite nice people are no longer making game, Declarer must shocked by the word “damn.”- make five tricks in diamonds. De-Mr. Alfred Johns, clarer playa Queen of diamonds to I tremble to think of delegates nscertain the distribution of the from Africa poking about the back four missing cards in that suit. streets of Liverpool and saying, With this information, he is in the "This is what a thousand years pouition to finesse to capture all of of Christianity has done for the them no matter how they are dis inhabitants.The Rev. F. R. tributed.
I doubt if work ever killed any. body--Mr. Arnold Bennett,
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Bouth (Declaror)--- 4 AKI
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The Bidding: South obtains contract for one no-trump.
Deciding the Play: Wear Iends
The Principle: Endeavour to re- tain a commanding honour in each 3 of hearts and Declarer must hand for successful finessing...
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