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The
Hongkong Eelegraph.
TUESDAY MAY 21, 1929
HUMANITARIAN
IDEALS..
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929.
lego of Veterinary Surgeons is now raising funds for the found- ing of a "chair" in Canine |Medicine and Surgery.
·
DAY BY DAY.
A GOSSIP'S TONQUE IS THE DEVIL'S MATCHBOX.Fred G, Pitt,
Licut P. Ashe has been appointed to H. M. & Toro.
:
The Navy League (Hongkong Branch) advertise that the film "Keep Watch" will be shown at the Queen's Theatre on Empire Day (May 24) at 5 p.m. 7
PIECE GOODS MARKET.
-AFFECTED BY TROUBLES
IN KWANGTUNG,
The fortnightly Price Current and Markot Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, states:
Cotton Piece Goods, The following reports have been received:
The Very Idea!
'Two convicts at the Maryland gaol although hampered by their inability to spend any time togo“ ther or erect anything in the way of working models, have perfoctod a device for the hydraulic genera- tion of power on which they have been given a patent by the United. States,
To revert to the treatment of human beings, the recent develop. ment of welfare centres among the workers, both in the factorica and near their homes, is evidence from Singapore, is duc here at 6 The P. and O. 9.8. Rajputana,
of the developing sense of social | nm, on Thursday. responsibility. The Industrial
They are, says a New York mess. Welfare Society, an organisation The return of notifiable dis-
Further sales are reported in age, Frank Allers, a member of formed in 1919 to stimulate the in-enses for the past three days Brocades, Woven Stripe Poplins the Norris murder gang, and Ray
cases of small-pox and, Shadow Stripe Poplins. Now mond Scott, serving a Bontonce terest of employers in the welfare shows three
and one, of cerebre-spinal fever. sales have also been made in Tur- for highway robbery. Scott, who of their workpeople, has the All were Chinese.
ret Cloths and Cord Stripe has practical experience in power the technical names of fourteen hundred firms
Shirtings, but in the majority of plants, supplied
·linės quantities booked only knowledge; while Allers, always on its books, One firm recently
amount to about 50 per cent. of interested in hydraulic power, Installed a clinic, with a staff
last year's purchases. Owing to furnished the theory. the present unsettled conditions in They passed dentist and doctor, and othera
books, plans, Kwangtung, with its depreciating and
back blueprints
and havo made arrangements for
currency, deliveries are practically forth under tho anpervision treating their workpeople with
nil; this state of affairs also ac of the prison guards, work- general ultra-violet rays. The
For stealing two zinc alabs from counts for the cautious policying by day in the furnituro effect of this, in human comfort the Kowloon Docks, a Chinese adopted by responsible dealers, in factory of the prison and studying and human happiness, cannot be employee was fined $7 with the making their commitmento for by night. Finally, when the plang Cotton remains were completed they sent them to alternative of 10 days' hard labour next season. computed,, but it is indicative of in default, by Mr. T. 3. Whyto stendy, no fluctuations of any in a Washington attorney, who had growth of humanitarian Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy portance having taken place since a working model, constructed which they obtained a patent. There has been a fair amount
The device, which costs extreme- of enquiry for Poplins, Brocades and Striped Shirtings. Fartherly little to operate, forces water business has been settled in these into an air chamber by its own Michael Plankos, of 120, Whit-lines, but many offers have had to pressure: from there it is forced field, received serious injuries to be referred back.
Manchester by compressed air into a turbine, the head and face yesterday when prices have been a little easier, and then returns to the original container to be used again. The he was thrown over the handlebars but weakness of exchange makes
prisoners have told the Wardon of his cycle, and le now in the G.C.H, it difficult to Applying his brakes too roughly orders are reported to have been they would be able to supply the turned while riding down a hill, his bycycle placed for Black Cambrics, and a prison with electricity. for $1,000 completo somersault, small trado, has been done in a year instand of the $70,000 the throwing him into the roadway.
White Shirtings for early ship- prison now spends annually for ment. The adverse situation at power. Canton has caused a temporary set back to clearances, but de- liveries have shown Home im- provement during the last few
the
ideals in the Old Country.
Hongkong's Air Future. The French alrmen who flew to Hongkong from Saigon in n Bre gnet seaplane and are now engaged on the return trip, attracted very little attention. Apart from aero dromo officials and those concerned in the supply of fuel, their arrival and departure was witnessed by few. This may have been due to the fact that there was nothing which could be regarded as spec- tacular or brilliant in the journey from Saigon. The flight was quite an ordinary accomplishment in these days when the reliability of air- craft is generally accepted, and it is partly by reason of this fact that the trip was of real importance to the Colony. Briefly stated, the ob-; ject of the flight was to explore
yesterday. The dofondant was arrested in the atroot with slabs in his possession,
the last report.
tho
4
Detective Inspector Fallon ap- lied to Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday | for an order for the confiscation of days. two revolvers and eight rounds of ammunition which were found hidden in some sand behind No. 41, Yuan Chau Street, Shamshulpo, on the morning of May 12. The
necessary order was mado.
connect. Some
Woollens.
on
A motorist was being charged with exceeding the speed limit along a country lane.
Is it a fact," asked the Magis- trate of the policeman in the wit ness-box, "that the defendant's A few email lines are reported car went round the corner at 80
Union, miles an hour?"
to have been placed on Gaberdines and Union Cashmeres, but generally speaking business in Woollens is at a standstill. Brad- ford prices are lower, the bulk of next season's requirements having
In all civilised countries there is the possibilities of an extension of] attempted suicide by throwing her- already been settled.
teristics.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
A Chinese woman yesterday
self into the harbour from Yau a growing tendency to greater
commercial air services from mati Ferry. She was promptly: kindliness towards our fellow crea- French Indo-China to Hongkong, rescued, however, by the cook and tures and also towards the lower its importance lying in the fact that seaman of the steam launch animals. This is particularly true the French Government has a much Man Ying, and was later taken to of Great Britain, though the Bri- bigger project in View, the deve the G.C.II. where it was found that tish people have always been noted lopment of a commercial air ser-hewan suffering from injuries received by striking the wharf and for their humanitarian charac-vice between Paris and Saigon. In also immersion.
The ordinary police other words, there is for the first time something tangible in the forces are used to deal with any possibility, (presuming M. Robbe, lapses from regular standards, but the Deputy Director of the Cio besides the police there are other | Arienne Francaise, in satisfied with organisations concerned with the his experimental flight,) of Hong-
The following is the disposition of warships now in port: duty of protecting the helpless, kong being directly con-
Basin. II.M.S. Tamar, Sub- The Royal Society for the Preven- nected with London by
com-marine L.15. uir tion of Cruelty to Children has a mercial services, namely, North Arm.-H.M.S. Thracian.
to Paris, Paris Lo In Dock.-H.M. ship's Bruce,, body of inspectors ready to come to London the assistance of any children who Saigon and Salgon to Hongkong. Somme and Sirdar.
It may be some time before this may be suffering ill-treatment at the bonds of parents or guardians, desirable position is attained, but, In any event. It would seem that Many years ago these inspectors French enterprise will forestall any met with a hostile reception in a effort by British intorests. Oficial few of the poorer quarters of the Hongkong is ready to talk of Hong- towns and elties when making their kong's future as an airport, has investigation; to-day they are wel-gone to the trouble of appointing SEAPLANE SAFELY REACHES comed in most homes and the gen- Director of Air Services, and Is eral public is always ready to assist content, apparently, to leave things
stances.
them in their work. A remarkable feature of their activities last year was that, of the cases investigated by them, fourteen per cent. were invited by parents who came for advice with regard to children who the near future. Now the French are coming into the field and it might be suffering because the might be argued that the need is parents were in adverse clrcum-more urgent. Perhaps the Direc- tor of Air Services will make a The other organisation most statement in the near future, out- directly concerned in this kind of lining the offelal attitude towards work is the Royal Society for the the scheme contemplated by the prevention of Cruelty to Animals. French, and incidentally removing the impression that the post' car- This organisation has done noble
ries no duties with It. work, not merely in detecting and securing punishment of Individuals guilty of active cruelty, bat in al- leviating the sufferings of dumb creatures due to thoughtlessness or lack of understanding. Almost every Briton is a dog lover. Scarcely any inhabitant of Great Britain would cause needless suffer-
TWENTY, CHINESE GAMBLERS.
Foreign Chinese gunboats ying Swei, Hai Yung," Kwang
and Chu Tal.
FRENCH FLIGHT.
HANOL
BANVARD COMEDY'
SEASON.
"TITARK" GREATLY ENJOYED
··LAST NIGHT.
6.
Cotton Yarn.
Market is stagnant and business entirely neglected.
Nominal quotations are as fol- lows:No. 108. $175-186, No. 128. $18-190, No. 168. $190-195, No.
203. $195-200.
Arrivals 300 bales. Shipments nil. Sales nil. Unaold Stock 1,100 balea. Bargains 4,000 bales.
BRIDGE MADE EASY Гой W.W.Wentworth
(Abbreviations: A-ace; K- king; Q-queen; J-jack; any card lower than 10.).
Defensive Bids 1
The policeman nodded.
"Yes, sir! It must have been quite that."
"And what gear was he in?" was the Magistrate's next ques- tion. At this tho policeman: scratched his head and looked puzzled.
"He was travelling too fast for me to see properly, sir," he said at last, "but I do remember that he had a bowler hat and a green scarf
on."
["The days, are pakt when a woman's face was her fortune-to- day it is the druggist's Mr. Charles Warren.]
.7
When grandpa courted grand-
mamma
(Dear days of frills and lace!). He'd bow, and any, "You hold
for mo
A fortune in your face."
But now when Reggio "pets" `.
with Flo
In some dim parking-place, They kiss, and he anys, "Girlie,
there's
A fortune on your face!"
The Daily Mall reported a case Xof a car crash, leading to the remarriage of a man and woman who had been divorced. From enquiries made, saya & law
Imagine that the dealer has bid journal, it seems that during the
are the second past year alone, seventy marri
tion:
1
suit.
Wonderfull
go
at that. We have long urged that Word has been received here, one club. You the Government should now con- that the Breguet seaplane which player. What would you bid hold-ages have taken place between cern itself more seriously with the left here at 6.45 a.m. yesterday on ing each of the hands which fol-husbands and wives who have development of Hongkong aviation the return flight to Indo-China, low? The explanation in each in- been divorced. Seventy couples in and trouble of getting married in view of expected activity by arrived at Hanoi ut 4 p.m. (local stance accompanies the illustra London went to all the expense Chinese aerial services companies in time) on the same day."
Spades X X; hearts K X X X X; and all the expense and trouble The Hanoi-Hongkong flight has diamonds A X X; clubs X X X of getting divorced, only to plished both ways, with a favour-| able wind shortening the time of 11⁄2 quick tricks properly distribble of getting married again. the return flight.
uted, a quick trick being in the Ave-card suit. Some experts will not bid on less than K 10 X X X, The National Greyhound Racing especially on a clear score,
Club has long been seeking au Spades XX; hearts X X X: effective device to defeat, the rac diamonds A JX X X; clubs J X Xing crooks who make a practice Pass. The hand does not contain of substituting one dog for an-
other. approximately 1 1⁄2 quick tricks.
This protection seems at last to Spades AJ 10 XX: hearts XX have been secured. It takes the X; diamonds X X; clubs X X X form of a small silver identity Bid one spade, The hand contain disc or button, each with Its Bon Travere comedy, "Thark," quick tricks In the five-card specific marking, that is perman- ently fixed in the dog's car, which was presented to a larga house at
***** ing the Star Theatre, Kowloon, last Spades X X X; hearls A Q X X is painlessly pierced. night by the Banvard English X; diamonds X X; cluba X X. X. As the dogs are p isented for. Comedy Company and, as before, Bid one heart. A Q, although each race the track manager, who came in for wholehearted appre valued as only 1% quick tricks, is is provided with a master gauge, fits this to the keywaya on tho clation. From the beginning to really worth a shade more, the end the artists' work was Spades X X X; hearts Q J X X button, and if this registers accu- Twenty perspiring Chinese were fully in keeping with their parte X; diamonds. X X X; clubs A Xrately the dog, is passed for the ing to a dog. But years ago, in lined up in front of the Magia and all contributed their quota to Bid one heart. The hand contains rece. As the keyways are gauged.. busy centres where It was not con-trate, Mr. N. L Smith, at the a highly successful presentation. 11⁄2 quick tricks properly distrib to the ten thousandth part of an Police Court this morning, charged Bardy Russell was as funny as uted. Some experts would not bid inch, It is impossible to gauga venient to have them running loose, with whiling away, the holiday over, his peculiar mannerisms and on Jess than Q 3 10 X. X, especially them without the master tools, householders were apt to keep their hours over
the week-end by inflexion of speech convulsing the on a clear score.
The disc is the invention of Mr. dogs chained up for relatively long gambling.
audicace on many occasions. Mr. Spades Q 10 X X X; hearts X; Hall, M. Inst. M.E, of the Mono- periods. The work of the Society cooler than the others, for he Benbow, was another who contri- Pass: When
The twelfth in the row looked R. Henton Grey, as Sir Hector diamonds K J 10 X; clubs K X X mark Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and the five-card sult it has already been sanctioned by has not only led to the abolition of had no other wearing apparel than buted a large part to the fun, does not contain 1⁄2 quick trick the IRS.P.C.A. and been provision- this, but the general public have a pair of short pentar
while the ladies in the cast deserve the balance of hand should con- ally approved by the stewards of now been no impressed by the Addressing the Inspector in every credit for a thoroughly tain two quick tricks to justify a the National Greyhound Racing
defensive bid. Society's attitude that anyone of-charge of the case, the Magletrate enjoyable performance.
Club, who will no doubt adopt the stated that at least one of the Tonight the Company is stag.
Spades AJ X X X X; hearts Q scheme after a large number of fending in this connexion will very accused seemed to have had a run ing "Diversion," a play which has X; diamonds X X X; clubs X X tests have been made on racing soon hear about it from his neigh-for his money and had apparently not been seen in Hongkong before. Pass. 11⁄2 quick tricks missing, greyhounds. bours. In many other ways help "literally put his shirt on the
game!"
ONE MAN WHO "PUT HIS
SHIRT ON
The Inspector replied that, as à matter of fact, the accused actual- ly had done so!
has been given. In the case of poor people who cannot afford to pay veterinary surgecons' fees thore
The Chinese who kopt the little jare now free clinics for the treat-den where the arrests were made ment of their pots when they are was fined $50, or 14 days, while the others each had $8 returned fl or injured, and the Royal Col- to them out of their $5 bail..
1
The length does not compensate The device does not affect the for the missing qulek trick re- dogs in any way and causes no quirement.
pain.
In recognition of his action in presenting all the rights of
Spades JX X; hearts Q 10 X; "Peter Pan," worth about £2,000 diamonds Q J 10 X; clubs A J X. a year, to the Hospital for Sick Bid no trump. The total hand is Children, Great Ormond-stract, as good as an original, no trumps Sir James Barrle has been elected with three sults stopped. It also a vice-president of the hospital.contains two stops in clubs.
#Faither, what does this mean, The light of other days has fad- ed","
Father:-"It juist means time you were in bed."