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should say the number of people who can lay out $900, or even 3750, on a bathing shed is very limited. So far as Repulse Bay help is concerned, we cannot thinking that the best solution of the problem would be for a comprehensive scheme making provision for a big block of permanent structures, to be taken in hand either by the Government.
DAY BY DAY.
WHAT STATE COULD, FALL, WHAT LIVERTY DECAY, IF THE ZEAL OF MAN'S NOISY PATRIOTISM: WERE AS PURE AB THE SILENT LOYALTY OF A WOMAN'S LOVE-Bulivor Lytton.
POLICE RESERVE,
"ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT
WEEK.
Police Reserve Orders by Hou. Mr. T. H. King, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, `state:›
The Very Idea!
Lost in the woods near Quebos, for some days, Leo Bergeron, 16, | appeared dramatically at a mass being celebrated for his benefit Following a long search, a dam had been opened to drain a pond in Aquatic Sports.
which It was thought his body Meinbers of the Police Reserve might be found. The religious peo- The return of notifiable diseases the 8th. Annual Aquatic Sports at the conclusion of the ceremony are reminded that the entries forple of the district received com-
munion at an open air masa - and ' ar by private enterprise. Some years for the past two days shows one case of the Police and Prison Depart the boy, near collapse, stumbled
The P. and O. 8.s. Karmalà, from Singapore, is due here at 4 p.m. on Thursday.
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ago, we outlined an idea of this of diphtheria and one of typhoid.ments to be hold at the V.R.C. on upon the scene.
Both were Chinese..
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Atwell, and Mrs. Van der Starr, returned from a holiday to Japan aboard the B.. President Pierce.
Mr. F. W. Sutterle, President of the China Realty Co., of Shanghai, and Mr. J Moller, of Messrs. Moller and Co., Shanghai, arrived here by the 8.8. President Plerce.
Dr. G. W. Groft, Professor of at the Horticulture University, Canton, arrived here Lingnam after a holiday in the States by the ss., President Pierce, being accompanied, by his wife,
character.
ter- It visualised a face, or even two terraces, sub- divided into various sections, with verandah яpace in front of each compartment. These compart- ments would be of various NİZON, to suit the requirements of small or large parties, and it would be possible to rent a compartment for a season, by the month, or even by the day or half-day. For whole day or half-day bookings, there would be a plan available nt, some central office in the city, where reservations could be made, In the scheme, facilities for tene ant tiffins might be provided,
Such, a
scheme as
we have roughly outlined would, we Bure. prove very popular, always assuming, of course, that it could be designed so as to ensure JL
Passengers arriving here to-day' ronsonable return on capital oxby the Empress of Asia included penditure. That is a point which Capt. W. Davison, Dr. J. W. Ander- son, Major and Mrs. G. F. Charles, requires technical knowledge to Mrs. H. G. Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. decide. If feasible, the
nd-J. Tully. Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. T. A. F. Robinson, Mr. E. Abraham,
R. R. Roxburgh.
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or about Saturday, September 14th, must bo sent to Sergeant R. J. Hunt on or before September 2nd.
י,
Summer Uniform."
"Equipment Officers of Chinese and Indian Companies are request ed to direct members of their respective Companies who have not already been measured for their Summer Uniform to have this done, at onco.
Chinese Company......
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“I had a case the other day where both the cars were stationary_und run into one another."—Judge Tom- son at Bow County Court.
Police-Sergenut at West Hàm of a suspect who had been arrested-A sweepstake Ucket was found in his possession. Mr. W. P. Forbes, chairman of the Bench-I take no notice of that. One might be found on an archbishop.
A Landlady, complaining ut Thames Police Court of a lodger-
Chinese Company will attend at off my rent. The Magistrate-Su She uses oppressive language to me, Squad Drill-AB recruits of the the Company's Headquarters on do I, but I fear that neither of us Willesden Man-I want a rebato Tuesday, August 27th at 5.30 p.m.will get it.
sharp for squad drill under L/Sorgt. R43 Ts'o Chi On. Dress
The body of a boy has been re-Mufl. covered from the water, and iden tified as that of Chan Chun-tal, an 11-year-old sampan hand, who was drowned on Thursday when his boat capsized during the typhoon.
Indian Company, Strength. -Constable R256 Ghafur Ali is permitted to resign, en leaving the Colony, with effect from August 15th.
Aerial cocktail parties are the Int- - est eraze in fashionable circles In France. Parties of society folk motor to Le Bourget and other aero- dromes daily, and spend their even- ings gliding over Parla, sipping "a whoopeo" cocktail. Tourist com- panes are copying the iden, and are chartering aeroplanes equipped with cocktail bars. The craze during the hot summer nights is a welcome change from the heated cafes and cabarets of mid-Paris,
Parade.-All ranks of the Indian Company will parade at Police leadquarters on Tuesday, September 3rd for drill under Sergeant Condon. Fall in at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-White Uniform, belt and cap and with
Customer "Is this a real ostrich absent from this parade without feather?" Shopman-"Oh, no, ma- leave from the Company Com-dam, hardly real-for one-and-nino, Ostrich is merely ita nom-de-piume,” mander.
express her thanks to all friends: vantages would be many, not the Lieut.-Col. P. A. Cardew, and Mr.white cover. No member may be
ment,
being immunity
from
both Civil and Military, of her least late husband. for the honours typhoon damage, à desirable Im- paid, the messages of sympathy. and the floral tributes sent on the provement in the amenities of the occasion of her recent bereave-locality, and the provision of facilities for many now unable to meet the cost of erceling their own sheds. Possibly the plan would be worth looking into by some local company interested in such a project.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY AUGUST 26, 1920.
THE BATHING SHED PROBLEM.
Although the bathing season in rapidly drawing to a close, the suggestion made by the Hon. Sir
Flying Squad.
A Chinese who had a previous conviction for larceny was sen- tenced to three months hard labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte. Smith The next fortnightly patrol of the at the Kowloon Magistracy this Hongkong Section will take place morning for stealing à pair of on Thursday, September 5th. trousers. The defendant was Falt in at the Central Pollee staled to have been arrested wear Station at h.16 p.m, sharp. Drças
|–Khaki Uniform. the three pairs of trousers.
Henry Pollock, in a letter to thepathy will go out to the Italian to two months' hurd labour by Mr.
more
Sharpshooters' Company, Strength.-Constable R422 A. Spary has been permitted to resign haying completed years' service with effect from August 10th.
"DREAM OF LOVE.”
FAMOUS STAGE PLAY
one
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"Jokes Cracked by Lord Aber- deen" is the title of a now "Canny Tales" book, published by Valentine & Sons (Ltd.), Dundee." Here are two of them:,
In most Scottish Churches It used to be the custom to take up the col- lection by ladie,
A man had on one occasion ac- cidentally dropped a half-crown, in- stead of the Intended penny, into the receptacle. This worried him very much--and the following Sabbath when the ladle was passed before him he pretended not to ace It, and put nothing in
The officiating elder, who knew of the previous mishap, quickly sized up the situation and did not further obtrude the ladle.
On the following Sabbath the same thing occurred, and after a while the elder practically ignored" that member of the congregation, but he had kept note of the date.
On the thirtieth Sunday after the half-crown had been given, he held the ladle in front of the con- tributor, and whispered, "Your time Is up now, Geordie."
The next fortnightly patrol of On charge of dumping rubbish the Kowloon Section will take in Battery Street, a Chinese was place on Tuesday, September 10th, fined $3 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith Fall in at the Tsim-tsa-isul Fire Schneider Trophy Mishaps.
at the Kowloon Magistracy this Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. morning. His Worship pointed out Dress-Khak! Uniform. The withdrawal of Italy from to the defendant that it was the Schneider Trophy contest,absurd that he should duump threatened by a sequence of disas rubbish when he must have secu
the streets being cleared tera leaving her little alternative. typhoon debris.
of the would be a great disappointment. Of the challengers to British speed
Two Chinese who, were charged supremaer, Italy has been general with larcony of a quantity of ly considered to have the best pros-picks, as well as a felt hat and a pect of success, and every nym pair of trousers, from a hut in Kowloon Tong, were each sentenced Government in the loss of their. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon newspapers, advocating a
finest seaplanes, one after the Magistracy this morning. Both permanent type of shed at Re-other, and in the death of Captain defendants had previous convic
MODERNIZED. pulse Bay, serves once again to Giuseppe Motta, one of their most tions. It was stated that the hut draw attention to a local problem distinguished plats. The tragedy had been demolished by the typhoon und the articles were necessible to
Modernizing an old French play which affects a large number of las cast a gloom over the pre- the public.
was the task that faced Darathy Farnum
What is thought to be a record when sho adapted residents. Every time a typhoonparations for the contest, though There, is mingled in the public
"Adrienne Lecouvreur" for the for the shortest marriage wns es- comes long, the customary mat mind a feeling of admiration of for Mr. J. H. Hunt,
General sympathy will be felt filing under the title, "Dream of tablished there by a workman and his wife in Moscow. They were shed structures suffer badly, and, the courage of such men as the
6.B.E., Love." · "Adrienne Lecouveour," married by Soviet law and left the Secretary of tha European one of the most famous plays in office, boarded a trom and set out as they are uninsurable against Inte Captain Motta, Flying Officers Y.M.C.A., by the loss be has the history of the stage, was on their honeymoon. On the tram damage, owners are liable to find Waghorn, Atcherley, Orlebar and suffered the death of its used for many seasons as a star-
a quarrel started about where they themselves with quite a big bill Ajello, who, well knowing the brother, Mr. S./P. Hunt, M.B.E. ring vehicle for the famous artist, would live. Forty minutes after the
Even apart from grave risks, take their lives in The late Mr. Hunt was well Sarah Bernhardt.
marriage ceremony they went back damage by typhoon, or fire, these their hands daily to uphold the known in Ilome railway circles,
In bringing the colourful drama to the Soviet office and asked for a honour of their countries. It is being station muster at Ports- sheds are by no means cheap to rather a pity that Italy's requestHe received his decoration for scenarist laid the plot in a Balkan
Harbour and Stratton, up to the present day, the noted divorce! crect, so that, in any event, owner for a postponement of the race work done at Southamton, in state and provided a new ship involves a good deal of ex-could not be granted in view of connexion with the despatch of ground for the gripping narra |the ill-luck experienced, but there troops abroad during the war, tive penned by Scibe and Legouve
muny years ago. such type are necessary, for the Is niuch in the argument advanced
He was, for instance, in the habit The new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that France would have a real focal custum of spending a good cause of complaint since she with-well-known resident of Singapore, Ford and Nils Asther are featured, novel method of his own invention. The death of Mr. V. Clumeck, a production, in which Joan Craw of taking out his own teeth by a part of the Saturday or Sunday drew much earlier on the plea that occurred at his residence last opens on Thursday at the Queen's Tying one end of a piece of catgut at one or other of our bathing it would be impossible to get her week. He had been in poor Theatre, and brings to the screen round the offending tooth, he would
to meet.
pense. Yet structures of
some
mouth
months. Mr.
was
1904
ke
back-
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Dr. Monsey was a very able phy- sician and enjoyed a wide practice amongst people who did not object to certain eccentricities,
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benches makes it essential that team ready in time. The struggle health for some
Ц brilliant array of military fasten the other to a bullet. Charg 6 years scenes and vivid picturizations Ing a pistol with this bullet and a Auch facilities should be provided. may rent between Britain and Clumeck, who
fall measure of powder, the doctor royal court. A At Home, of course, provision for the United States, and even here of age, came to the Straits Settle of intrigue in
ments in 1889 and joined the firm Court balls, carnivals, back-stage very speedily performed the opera-
tion. undressing and dressing is made there is a distinct uncertainty of Joseph Bastiuni, exporters of of a royal opera house, coronation Lieutenant Williams, America's pineapples. He joined A. Clouet ceremonies, a revolution and the
He had, however, great difficulty by the use of tents or the familiar crack racing-pilot, was rendered and Co. in 1893, became a partner nomadic life of a wandering in persuading any of his patients to allow him to use this device; but bathing box on wheels; these, unconscious by the fumes of in 1903 and latterly had been gypsy tribe are some of the many however, would not be at all in
"400-miles-an-hour sole proprietor. In
one day a gentleman consented, The reputed
picturesque and colourful scenes suitable for local needs.
machine" before he could get it to married Maric, the eldest daugh- which form an excellent back apparatus was adjusted, the pistol was ready, and then the patient, seized with momentary terror, cried When, as at Repulse Bay, largo take off, and no chance must be ref the late Mr. A. Frankel and ground to the fuscinating plot,
Mrs. Frankel, and he leaves a taken of a repetition of such a family of three sons and three
Aileen Pringle returns to a re-out, "Stop, stop! I've changed my numbers of bathing 'matsheds aro
disastrous event during flight, daughters.
gal role, that of a haughty and mind.". erected in one locality, an
designing Duchess, and Warner "But I haven't," replied the doc- un-Trials with a new engine have not
Oland again le seen as an impostor, instantly palling the trigger. desirable disfigurement of the induced the plane to take the air,
ing ruler. Carmel Myers and There was, a terrific explosion, a scenery results-they produce, as and if the mechanical problema ex.
many others of note are included cry of terror, but the operation was Sir Henry Pollock describes it, posed cannot be overcome, America
in the elaborate supporting cast. all over; the tooth was out.
The plot is motivated by the "wild wigwam appearance." will be obliged to drop out of the
Lomantle gypay dancing girl and little To the vialtor, there may be some- race, which this your seemed to
the Crown Prince of the hold great possibilities of an thing picturesque and quaint in
kingdom. Revolutions and daring It will be epoch-making event. the sight of such a settlement of anti-climax If the British machines
Airtations provide complicatione that threaten; the security of the aleds, but that these struc- are left to compete against ench.
throne and place many obstacles? Lures are unsightly, there can be other in setting up new official
in the path of the lovers. no two opinions, especially when, world apced records,
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[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1 Sir, While there have been no complaints about water supply for some times past, I am
Although the two love each
WATER LEVELS.
FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
The following table, compiled afraid other they earnot wed. When an by the Board of Conservancy shall have to start them again., Internal revolution in the little Works of Kwangtung, shows the show signs of wear and tear. Sir An elderly Chinese attempted
For over a week all the houseskingdom has swept away royalty water levels in English, feet on Henry Pollock draws attention to commit suicide yesterday by in the upper levels of Pottinger and all traditions that hamper it, the West, North and East Rivers to the advantages of a type of infleting serious wounds to his Street, where I live, have been with the course of their love gives pro- on the dates named
Aug. 24-Aug, 25- throat necessitating bis admit shed which undoubtedly is an in-tance to the Kowloon Hospital out water until one or two o'clock mise of running smoothly. Then
in the afternoon. Will the
Shiuhing sur- comes the unexpected and provement in every respect, over in a serious condition. He reside Government give some explanation prising climaz the orthodox matshed, and, for ed at No. 17, Pilkem Street, Yau of this? We are supposed to get
mail. The cause of his act is under water for at least twelve, hourą, "Dream of Love" was directed | those who can afford it, nothing stond to be illness and unemploy- daily. Yours' etc.
Fred Niblo, who also directed "Ben Hur," better could be wished. But we'ment,
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· 9.2 v3.8.8. 16.2 Sheklung ... 5.6 The luvel at Shiuling on the 22nd inst. was 24.4.