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value of the data in' checking up oxactly what becomes of the Colony's supplies. Possibly, also,
DAY BY DAY.
NO REFORMS WILL HELP AS LONG
it might be feasible to classify the AS HUMANITY REMAINS WILD- information so as to show where | Tolstoy. the need for water is greatest and,
The P. and O. ss. Rajputana, if undue wastage occure) to pin It from Shanghai, is due here at 6 down to specific districts. Be a.m. on Friday. that as it may, the authorities
The P. & O... Kalyan, from cannot be too free with informa- Hongkong, arrived at London on
tion in thene Umes.
A
CORRESPONDENCE.
Atlantic Flights.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
Two French chionista, M.M Aubert and Duval, have invented a now steal; the main feature of which is that it consists of treat Sir-In connexion with the also is subjected to ammoniac gae.. ing atool alloys with nitrogen, and made by the French aviators. Rene quartz like paper. The process is flight across the Atlantic just
The product cuts glass and. Lefevre and Arroland and their effective on steel only. The sur financial backer Armand Lotti, face hardness of the now steel, who niso acted wireless Yesterday's return of notifiable operator, to which reference is which is already being manufactur diseases showed three casca of made in your issue of the 15th ed. is stated to be the highest one of diphtheria. Instant, there is published by your.known. Exhaustive tests with the solves a list of the flights across steel in motor and aero-engine datos. the Atlantic with their respective cylinders are stated to have given.
the 16th June at 8 a.m.
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remarkable results.
Happily, there appears a pro spect of sufficient water being available to tide us over the com.small-pox and
All were Chinese. ing months, even apart from the
Messrs. Ells and Edgar's May supplies at present in storage, The cost of bringing in supplies local and other stocks on the fent performed by the Portuguese isapo of figures and quotations of
It pains me to observe that the from outside, however, is going to Hongkong Stock Exchange List has avinters, Gago
Reveller at Tottonham: In a Coutinho and manner of speaking I had a drink run the Colony into a very big come to hand.
Sacadura Cabral in June, 1922, has too many. bill, this quite apart from schemes,
been overlooked. This flight was: Probate of the will of Leung the one that is incontestibly of the thousands who have been ran. I suppose they are looking after which will be necessary to ar- Ting-fu, aliae Laung Sze-yin, alias the greatest scientific value in over during the holiday. Dr. range for distribution. This lat- Loung Yik-cho, a merchant, view of the fact that it was the Waldo, the City of London coroner.. ter point is really the most im fast year, has been granted to his firet during which the methods when told that medical witnesser
died In Bangkok on December 11 portant of all. Even under exist-wife. The local estato is sworn at employed in maritime navigation were absent,
were successfully applied ing arrangements, the populace $34,000. is suffering hardships engagh,
Letters of administration of the and in the very forefront of Gov-estate of Arthur Oscar Barradas, orunient policy must be placed a of 6, St. Joseph's Mansions, who died intestate on February 26 in determination not to increase Hongkong, have been granted to thone, hardships except under, the Jose Augusto Barradas. The local dictates of stern necessity. It is catate amounts to $31,400. for this reason that we urge that every possible alternative means be explored before any decision is reached to place the community solely on supplies from tanks, We are informed, by those who should know that, despite difficulties. which the the
mentions, 'It to proceed
Mr. J. E. and Miss Hansen' wish to thank all kind friends for their expressions of sympathy Government
is
On the application of Detective Inspector Fallon, a revolver which was found unclaimed in the pump house at the rear of No. 227, Nathan Rond, was ordered to be confiscated by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
aviation, processes which have: Willesdon Prisoner: That wit--- since been adopted almost univer-nees can't speak the truth; ho sally. These processes have been ought to be standing for Parlia applied to almost every, if not ment. every, flight of any consequence made since. Yours, etc.,
DUARTE VEIGA. Hongkong, June 17th, 1929.
FURTHER SUICIDE ATTEMPTS.
TWO CASES REPORTED
YESTERDAY.
A flaherman who was arrested on
Chang So-chau, 19, an amah a bus with a quantity of dynamite employed at No. 12, Fung Tai and detonators in his possession Torrace, Village Road, was re- by was fined $20 by Mr. T. S. Whyte moved to hospital yesterday in a
in their recent bereavement quite feasible in their recent bereavement, also for their floral tributes the method of using the mains for Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy sorious condition, resulting from |
on the island this morning. His Worship re-the swallowing of a big dose of
and attendance at the funeral. distribution, both
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
marked that the defendant was a dangerous man to be in a bus.
opium.
and in Hongkong. There are ob-
"Another case of attempted sul- vious and very strong objections
According to a report by Mr. cfde, was also reported by a junk- to any other system, not the least Manners, of No. 4A, Armend master, who told the police that, of which is the possibility of seri- Buildings, Kowloon, a Shanghai yesterday, he rescued a young ous incidents occurring if people tailor who had been carrying on woman from the water near the his trade at No. 1, Pilkin Street, P. and O. coal-yard at Taikoktaul. find real difficulty in procuring Yaumatt, has absconded with cloth the woman has since been taken WEDNESDAY JUNE 19, 1929. supplies. The mechanical dif- and other dress materials belong to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
ficulties of getting more
watering to Mr. Mannera, which were handed to him for the purpose of direct into the reservoirs can, we dress-making. The man received feel, he over-stressed. Let them He earnestly faced. If that in done, the really logical way of dealing with the problem will, we have little doubt, he found not be- yond the bounds of possibility.
THE WATER OUTLOOK,
the goods on the 11th instant, and was not to be found when a call was made. on his place of businces by the police yesterday. The cloth is valued at $33.
WATER LEVELS.
FOR WEST, NORTH AND
EAST RIVERS.
The following table, compiled The weekly return of tho
by the Board of Conservancy Medical Officer of Health contain Works of Kwangtung, shows the ed nino cases of enteric fever, two, each of small-pox and cerebro-water levels in English feet on the spinal fever and one of diphtheria. West, North and East Rivera on All were Chinese with the excep- the dates named: tion of one American case and ane Indian caso of enteric. There were two deaths from small-pox, LWO from cerebro-spinal fever
Whilst in normal times the pub- lie taken little or no interest in the monthly report showing the contents of the Colony's reser- voirs, conditions have now become so grave that the weekly com- munique is eagerly scanned on its
Police Methods. appearance in the newspapora. The sharpness of the censure ad- The Intent statement shows that ministered by the Chief Justice in the decline in supplies still con- Criminal Sessions yesterday gives tinues, with little prospect at the the police little ground for com- and one from diphtheria. Threo moment of any augmentation by plaint. It was not by any means deaths were reported from In- rainfall. It thus becomes more
the first time that Sir Henry fluenza, which is not notifiable. Gollan has been provoked Into Yesterday's return contained one than ever necessary for the Gov-
strong criticism of police methods case of small-pox, one of enteric one of cerebrospinal fever and ernment to push on with emer in the ordering of identification
All were Chinese.. fever. gency mensures in order not only parades, and it is not, therefore, to cope with the immediate future aurprising if His Lordship anṇuMOS but with the more trying times that such departures from the which will be experienced in the rules Inid down as are revealed are autumn and winter should the due to slackness pure and simple. drought be not relieved, The In the circumstances His Lord- situation is one of greater serious. ship's experience yesterday was highly trying and yexing. On ness than has been experienced In
many occasions, Sir Henry has the Colony for very many years. drawn the attention of responsible locate a gang of thieves who ap The police are endeavouring to This is a fact which cannot be police officials to certain rules of
pear to have specialised in the too often impressed on the public, procedure which must be followed theft of flowering plants.
FLOWERING PLANT THIEVES.
POLICE SEEKING FOR LOCAL GANG.
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It requires two people to push barrows, because they sink into the soft roads this weather.-A costermonger at Marylebone.
Mr. Hay Halkett, the Maryle- bone Magistrate (to wife complain- ing of assault)-When your hus- band hits you, do you always hit him back? Wife- awaya try to,. but I never succeed. Ho is too quick. for me.
"Women are again dressing their hair to show their cars.**
Time was when wonderful!
Phyllis
Was barred by fashion's decreo From showing her eara in pub-
lic, Though she showed them
privately.
I wonder if in the end, aga Or fashion will ever succeed, In return for the aural append--
age,
In hiding the great knockkneed.
For the car is a thing of beauty, Allke on the maid or cocotte; Dame Fashion, now do your
duty.
For the feminine knee is not.
A small boy was gent with a nole- to the London clinic,
On the note his mother had writ- ten these words: "Be so kind on to do something to John's face. He has had it for a long while, and it's. spreading fast!""
Juns 17 June 18iama" doca much less than justice
The popular fame of "Spooner.. to Dr. Spooner, who is, like most. eminent Oxford dons, a real wit Some of the best Instances of his. Ironie gift concern the time when ho served as an examiner in that curious. school which is known to the University Statutes As "The Firat Public Examination in Holy' Scripture, or the Book offered in
and lieu thereof"
to under- graduates as "Divvers."
BRIDGE MADE EASY Joy WW.Wentworth
(Abbreviations: A-ace; any card lower than 10.) king: Q-queen; J-jack;
The Squeeze Play-1.
K-
At one viva voce he djamissed. a candidate who had shown more than usual inability to grapple with the Greek Testament with the dry comment, "You know," Mr. Smith there is an exceilent trans- Intion of this published."
At another examination a can- didate, after meeting a succession of easy questions with glum all- ence, was asked finally, "Where was St. Paul born?" "God knows," ho.was heard to mutter under his Lrenth. "Ah, Mr. Jones, saiá, Dr.
This is another method of con- Spooner, "I should not presume to
in the hope that there will be at identification parades. Their Following on the theft, last very read and whole-hearted co-absolute rigidity in essential to week, of a lurge number of plants vorting a losing card into a winner, doubt that proposition; but what I justice, and no other rules can be from the residence of Mr. J. M. Its aim is to force your opponents wished more precisely to ascertain operation in keeping consumption
Xavier, at Macdonnell Road, Miss to discard probable winning cards, prescribed Or safely down to the minimum. '
followed. As was pointed out,
anfely
cd.
F. M. Ellis, living at 455, The This is typified by the following was whether you at this moment. The figures for the past week grave miscarriages of justice Peak, has been similarly victimis-lustration in which the declarer are the knowledge of the
has obtained the contract with a Almighty," show a distinct rise in consump. might caufly result from non- The police have been informed bid of four spades over East's hid tion on the island, the reason for compliance with the fundamental that, on the night before last, 17 of hearts:
"Did the foreman show you precautions demanded In the palms were spirited away from Mias Dummy holds: Spades 5; hearts round and tell you what your work which it would be interesting to interests of the prisoner, while Elle house, the peculiar feature 7 6 3; diamonds-10 7 8; clubs would bejn inquired the posing learn. Kowloon's consumption, allp-shod methods
a large works, when addressing a must Come of the theft being that the thieves 10 9 8743. on the other hand, has declined, within the category of a public did not steal the pots as well. All East Spades 2; hearts-new employee.
danger. Sir Henry Gollan's clear they did was to dig out the palms AQJ98; dinondis-Q 6 6 4} "Yes, sir; he told me to wake the figure being the lowest since statement of the position cannot be and leave the pots behind.
clubs K J..
him up when I see you 'coming, so the shortage set in. It le, how-over-stressed, and perhaps the
Declarer: Spades--A K Q 10 9 I must go, sir." ever, impossible to gather from before the Court, the discharge of
86 3; hearts-K 4; diamonds- aummary treatment of the cave
AK 8; clubs-none. the information contained in the the prisoner following the Judge's weekly communique precisely how request to the jury return a verdict of Not Guilty, will bring much the mainland consumes for it home to the police more its own purposes, for the simple effectively than the censura in reason that the total given in itself might do. Otherwise, we should have been at a loss to
cludes the supplies to waterboats understand the necessity for
ELECTRIC TORCHES
STOLEN.
G. E. C. SUFFER LOSS PUT AT $100.
The theft of a considerable num-
Weat: Spades-J 7: hearts-10 |· 62; diamonds J, 9 2; clubs—A Q 6 5 2,
EXCHANGE RATES,
:
West onens the heart 10 and Enst takes with the heart ace.. On
PAYIB the second round east returns the Geneva spade 4.
Berlin From a cursory examination the Oslo declarer observes that he can win Helsingfors and to Hongkong. We have now requesting acquittal, and thus ber of electric torches and sockets, all of the remaining tricks Athens reached a stage at which the pub-setting at liberty a possible felon. the property of the General Electric small slam-If he can compel op Buenos Aires
As far as we could judge the Co., has been reported to the Polico ponenta to weaken their diamond Hongkong He desires the fullest possible in-case from the report, there was by Mr. Thomas, assistant manager sult. This is accomplished by lead. Now, York formation on all aspects of the no direct evidence of incorrect of the Company.
ing all of the remaining trumps. Amsterdam water problem. We would there- procedure in the ordering of the Discovery of the theft, which is West and cast are in a quandary Stockholm. fore suggest that the weekly sta identification. The error of the believed to have been carried out as to what to discard. They are Vienna police, and it was serious enough, between January 1 and Juno 15, In a tight squeeze." They can-Madrid. Listics not only show how much consisted in failure to produce was not made until a check was not protect every sult. As a rest
Bombay the island and the mainland con- evidence of the proper conduct of made of the stock in the store insult, west is finally forced to weak Yokohama
the parade, the Judge and jury Queen's Building, after the week- en his diamond suit or discard his Brussels sume for their own purposes, but (being asked to guess what took end. It was then ascertained that club ace. East is left at the end that on the basis of the estimated place, which of course was absurd. a number of cases containing 700 with the diamond queen and club Copenhagen population an indication be given The police perhaps expect them-electrio torches and 101 sockets, king jack, for it is reasonably dure prague that he would not have discarded Lisbon of the daily consumption per head selves and their actions to be had been removed.
The identity of the thief or his strong clubs in preference to the Rio... taken for granted, but they may for both sides of the harbour. now be convinced that oven air thieves still remains undiscovered. diamonda. Declarer then makes Shanghal Then we shall know exactly where. Integrity is required, in the public. The value of the goods stolen is the diamond ace king 8 good and Silver (spot) wo are, to say nothing of the interest, to be shown by evidence.stated in Mr. Thomas' report to has scored a small alam by means Bliver (forward)
of the squeeze play, exceed $400,
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