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No. 21927
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Walking with Susie
(Vocal refrain by Frán Frey), That's you Baby
(Vical refrain by Erwin Magee) Played by George Olsen and His Music
Hits from “The Broadway Melody'
No. 21886
You were meant for me
(Vocal refrain by Burt Lorin Broadway Melody
(Vical refrain by the Four Rajahs) Played by Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orch.
No. 21964
No. 22043
(Broadway Melody
The Wedding of the Painted Doll
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(Sung by Charles King)
The Wedding of the Painted Doll [ Pagan Love Song (From "The Pagan") Played by The Victor Salon Orchestra
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7.–1930.
NOW IS THE TIME" TO GET YOUR
FRIGIDAIRE
DAY BY DAY.
NANKING OFFICIAL IN CANTON.
WARM WELCOME GIVEN TO MR. KOO YING-FAN:
*
The Very Idea!
So naturalista observe a fea Has smaller fleas that on
And these have smaller still to "bite 'em
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Dean Swift. 1687-1745.
A woman student at the School of Tropical Medicine has found that there is partial truth in this old adage.
matters as periodical house-cleans- ing and refuse-removal are not heeded, when we come to auch a
PROGRESS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY terrible disease as small-pox, the THE MAN WHO DOES THINGS, NOT Government compromises with the BY THE MAN WHO TALKS ABOUT HOW
TO OUGHT
DE DONE objectors by allowing home treat-THET
Roosevelt. ment. If the same policy were
Canton, Jan. 5, followed in all matters affecting
*Brother Joseph, formerly in Mr. Koo Ying-fan, one time public health, this Colony" would structor at St Joseph's College, Minister of Finance of the Pro- be one of the filthiest and most Hongkong, has joined the staff of
vincial Government of Kwang- insanitary spots in the whole the La Salle College of the same
tung, arrived in corporation in Manila.
Canton from world. Never by such a policy
Nanking via Shanghai and Hong can we hope to spread enlightened
A would-be suicide who throw kong, yesterday morning. A very Sho is Mise Sykes, of the Depart ideas amongst the masses. It will himself into the barbour opposite large number of officials was pre-ment of Entomology, and, according be argued by defenders of the Hill Road, West Point, on Sunday, sent at the winrf of the Hong- to Dr. Buxton in his report, she has present lax methods, and by those was rescued by a public-car driver kong, Canton and Macao Steam made an "accidental discovery of who would make them even less and subsequently sent to the boat Company to welcome him, considerable importance." ✨
Government Civil Hospital Ho is These included - His Excellency In an examination of the carly- onerous that stricter require-identified as + goldsmith of General Chan Ming-shu, Civil stages of floss she discovered what ments would have the 'offect of Queen's Road Central.
Governor of Kwangtung; Mr. Lam proved to be the first parasitic Wen-kol. Mayor of Canton; "Hymonopteren" (of the same still greater concealment than la
Admiral Chan Chak, Commander order as bees, ants, &c, and having at present practised. Our answer Admitting a charge of return-in-Chief of the Kwangtung Pro- four winga) which has ever been THERE ARE DOMESTIC to this contention is that the lasting from banishment, a Chinese, vincial Fleet; General Au Yang discovered on any flea in any part who was deported from the Colony kue, Commissioner of Publia of the world. This is the first in- MODELS OF FROM FOUR||thing our health authorities in November, 1928, for a period of Safety: Mr. Fan Kee-mo, Commis sect parasite ever discovered on a TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET should do is 'to bargain with the ten years, was sentenced to eight stoner of Finance; and many flea. It kills the larvae.
STORAGE CAPACITY. ignorant and the prejudiced in months hard labour and 15 strokes others.
of the birch by Mr. Whyte Smith suchy a vitally serious matter. By at the Kowloon Magistracy this
morning.
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
far the better way would be to jabolish the permission for home treatment and, if there is to be uny |circularising of the Chinese com- munity, let it be on the lines of
DODWELL &Co., Ltd. threatening draste treatment
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HONG KONG S. URINA
BIRTH.
at
BEVAN-On January 2nd
Swalow, wife of Temple P. M. „Bevan, of a daughter.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
of
those guilty either of concealment or of dumping. That is the kind
Allegations that he embezzled $1,331 have been made against Kwan Kau by Li Shu-yul, the mana ger of the Tak Cheung Bank, 39, Wing Lok Street. The complainant reported to the police that Kwan, who is a foki, embezzled the money after collecting it for the Banks
Ying-fan has returned to Canton This is the first time Mr. Kod for two years. He is most emphatic that he is merely making
So far the 'Teaser fleas" have not. and there seems little hope of been discovered on the "little fica," proving the "ad inanitum,"
•
a pleasure trip, but it is freely of Appeal: A generating station is Lord Dunedin, sitting as a Lord | reported that he will visit
Kwangsi and report on the present not a place where electricity is on position there to the Nationalist tap to the passer-by, like beer at a Government in Nunking.
public-house.
Counsel at Clerkenwell County His Excellency General Chan Court (to the jury),: Remember - gave a dinner last night that your time will come to be run Shan in honour of Mr. Koo. A enough in London. Iaree circle of Government officials attended.
{of propaganda of which Hongkong from various shops, and that he at the Government Club at Tungover in the street if you live long
slands most in need.
has since absconded.
In the matter of small-pox,, we
A fine of 60 was imposed by Mr. |fear it is more by luck than good| Whyte Smith at the Kowloon management that this Colony has Magistracy this morning on a Chinese who pleaded guilty to a
JL
for some years been spared charge of keeping Д common
cach
Was
really serious epidemic, Past gaming house at 168, Woosung measures for controlling
the Street. Five others were disease have been utterly inademen had their ball of $3 estreated. fined $2 for gambling, while nine quate. On the other hand, if we A sum of about $7, which turn to plagae, there is evidence found on the table, was ordered
to be confiscated. galore of the benefits of vigorous action. The periodical cleansing TUESDAY JANUARY 7, 19 0. of houses and the refusal to per- mit hollow partitions in houses And
THE TREATMENT OF SMALL-POX.
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MARINE COURT.
Mr. Koo's official position at present_is_Chief of the Civil Ofefuls' Department of the Nationalist Government at Nan king-Our Own Correspondent,
Mr. Campion the South-Western magistrate, to defendant: You are three parts of a rogue because you have tried to deceive me and one part fool for betting in the street' when ill...
Woman at Tottenham: I didn't' aft her. I should have done if she had not moved when my arm shot
SPEAKEASY”. AT THE out,
'QUEEN'S.
IN THE FORM OF AN EXCELLENT FILM.
'Of considerable interest la the talking picture now showing at
COMMDR. NEWILL BACK FROM the
HOME LEAVE.
Sitting at the Marine Court this morning for the first time after Commdr. J. B. Newill, D.5.0., R.N- returning from Home leave,
bouts were charged with making fast to the ss. Nellore yesterday whilst she was still under way.
The defendants denied the charge, anying that they were only [rowing beside the Nellore.
suid
Queen's Theatre under the title of "Speakeasy." It details the adventures of a girl reporter, who, out to make good with her City Editor, obtains the "scoop" of the day, and in so doing is drawn into
boxer, whose inspiration she be comes. There are a number of exciting chapters before the story closes with a unique view of a boxing ring, where the hero is
a romance with a
shown making a last-minute re" covery as he gains fresh courage and inspiration from the presence at the ringside of his fiancee.
and the dialogue excellently ar The production is well acted,
ranged and clear. Above all, it and bustle of a modern, metro- gives close contact with the hustle polis...
"Speakeasy" will be completing its run to-morrow.
(A visit to a cinema is replacing the luncheon as a preliminary to business among commercial men,. I read.)
Should an unresponsiva, client
grow increasingly defiant And your samples are unopened
for an hour;
And your cloquent parsuasion meets with nothing but
evasion
While his visage looks dis-
couragingly dour,
A
Tell him blandiy" you are going where a voice declaims, "Now showing,"
With a hint about a perfect'
picture play; "Get him sentod nice and cosy→
and the propect will be rosy In accordance with the order of
the day,
Gentleman. (bewildered at the elaborate wedding): "Are you the bridegroom?"
Young Man: "No, air; I was eliminated in the semifinals.”
EXCHANGE RATES.
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offices have been almost wholly responsible for the com- plete wiping out of the disease here. At first, the Chinese roment. Whilst conceding the point thated both the one measure and the Mr. M. K. Lo is actuated by the very other; time has now convinced bent of motives, and that he them of the benefits accruing had before him a case in which honestly believes it will be in the therefrom. So, we suggest, will the mistresses of two passenger publie interest to render less it be in the matter of small-pox rigorous, the conditions under treatment. Far from making fur- which small-pox patients, may be ther Concessions, let the bye-laws, treated in their own homes, we be strengthened, and, what is cannot but dissent from the atti-more, strictly enforced. In the
Sgt. Went, who prosecuted, tade which he adopts on this all-long run, the very classes which when the Nellore came into the important subject. Mr. Lo re-now seek to stay the spread of harbour yesterday at about 8 a.m. with home better idens will themselves coments were made fast to the ship, he noticed that the defendants' treatment' permittal, the poorer to realise that there is no Inom He went on board the Nellore and class of Chinese resort to concen}-[for compromise methods in fight- fusked the captain whether he had ment of cases and the dumping offing such dérully disease
given the defendants permission [lo do so, and, receiving an answer the bodies of victims, but he p-small-pox.
[in the negative, arrested the de- pears to think that these evils
fendants. spring from a deep-rooted belief) that the disinfection process in- sisted upon proves injurious to While it could never have been clothing. Therefore, he suggests apprehended that the Labour Gov-they did not make fast, to the that it might be wide to waive dis-ernment would pay serious atten- steamer but wire only rowing infection, provided all the Intion to the follies committed in the alongside when they were arrested.
name of All Indin at Lahore, it is Hi Worship, however, register. The total storage in the island New York mates of a house where small-pox satisfactory that the first official led a conviction and imposed a fine reservoirs on the morning of Mon- Geneve breaks out submit to vaccination. statement regarding the Congress As we say, Mr. Lo's bona fides are should destroy completely any and beyond question; all the same, we every illusion which may have been | must confess our surprise that he entertained by Gandhi and his col- |should plead for a weakening of leagues. Earl Russell, the newly the present restrictions when, in appointed Under-Secretary for In- point of fact, the situation culls dia, could not have made the posi- for reverse treatment. We shall tion much clearer. No one knew be even more surprised if, at this better, he said, than the Indians themselves, how very foolish wie afternoon's meeting of the Säni-the talk of complete independence
London, Jan. 6. tary Board, the Government shows for India. It must equally be ob-morrow
Bir Robert Vansittart will to- The week's consumtion amount- take up his duties ased to 25.38 million gallons, not in- itself in any way sympathetic to vious that such resolutions as were Permanent Under-Secretary for cluding 1.85 million gallons sup the suggestions thrown out. [passed, ut Laboré could serve only Foreign Affairs, in succession to plied to Water Boats at Lai Chi
Kok. Sir Ronald Lindsay.
India's Future.
It would be interesting to know to hinder the progress of the coun- if there is any other place be try towards self-government. The sides Hongkong throughout the
Labour Party has shown that it will not allow itself to be influenced by length and breadth of the British auch crude forms of propaganda, Empire where the authorities per- though it may derive a certain mit the treatment of small-pox amount of encouragement from the patients in their own homes. We other big political conference, held very much doubt it. In this mat- simultaneously at Madras, a con- ter, the authorities here have, inference which revealed the emer- our opinion, been far too con-gence in force of a moderate element
The Liberal
British Government.
Witness then produced n letler from the aster of the Nellore [corroborating his statement.'
+
Defendants still maintained that
of $10 each.
FOREIGN OFFICE CHANGE.
1
THE NEW PERMANENT "UNDER-SECRETARY.
LATEST WATER STATISTICS.
COLONY'S SUPPLIES STILL SHRINKING.
Copenhagen
London, Jan. 6.
123.32
.34.91
12.08%
Berlin
.20.42
18.205
Vienna
.34.63
Helsingfors
.194
Lisbon
108.26
Bucharest
.81H
Buenos Aires' Hongkong Yokohama
45%
1/7/
2/0,8/10
.4.87%
*25.125
.93.26
day, 6th January, amounted to Milan 1,279.77 million gallons, showing Stockholm a decrease of 47.50 million gallons Calo
Prague during the past week.
Madrid
The week's consumption amount- Athens ed to 46,91 million gallons. W Rio
The total storage in the main-Bombay
Shanghai land reservoirs on the morning of Silver (sport) Monday 6th January, amounted Silver (forward) to 458.50 million gallons, showing
a decrease of 9.04 million gallona during the past week.
Sir Ronald Lindsay leaves The yield from the Shing Mun. England in about two month's River and streams during the time to assume his post as week is 18.14 million gallons... Ambassador British Wireless.
at Washington.---.
CLEARER WEATHER.
"THE HIGH STEPPERS.”
"AT THE MAJESTIC THEATRE, KOWLOON.
houses:
The Royal Observatory reports siderate of Chinese susceptibili-| anxious to co-operate with the that the anticyclone has strengthen-
The talented company of British. ed slightly. It remains central to vaudeville stars, "The High Step- tics. Smallpox is one
the north of the Yangtze Valley, pers," will again appear at the Ma- of the meeting, undoubtedly, provides Lord Strong monsoon along the south-jestic Theatre, Kowloon, to-day In most filthy and virulent of Irwin's answer to the critica of his east coast of China and over the complete change of programme. diseases, and yet the
measures request that the declared purposes North China Sea, The which Hongkong takes to prevent of British statesmanship should be noon
forecast Ever since, they commenced their to-morrow is:-N.E. season.. on New Year's Day, they its spreading are less stringent cleared of all ambiguity and that winds, fresh; overcast at first, have been playing to capacity than those employed by the health Dominion Status should be plain- clearing later, authorities in many other places ly acknowledged as the goal of Bri-
They present ong of the bright- In regard to far less dangerous tish endeavour. But, for the Optocouree, could have had no basis. gratamos ever seen in South China. est, anappiest, and cleverest" pro- complaints. The old plea of pre- MacDonald and Mr. Wedgwood Benn based on Dominion Status, subject tralian baritone vocalist, has a very ber Proclamation which Mr. Ramsay The Liberals ask for a Constitution, Mahomet Kassim, an Indian-Aus- judice and objections on the part authorised on the representations to such safeguards and reservations fine voice and is heard to advantage of the poorer classes of Chinese made by the Viceroy, the complete as may be necessary for the period in some well chosen songs of his hes for all too long been heeded: unanimity manifest at Madras of transition, No reasonable obawn composing: Bert Bekl, jugglor To respect it is only to prevent the could never have been obtained. Nat fection can be offered to the prin- and comedian, sends the audiences acceptance of better ideas. only that, but the hopes now enter ciple thus set forth, not even by the the same time. Each artist le
in fits of laughter and applause at Strangely enough, although Chin-tained that the Moderates will re- ase objections in regard to such gain control of India's political moet vigorous Imperialist as far as star in his or her own particular
we can see,.
Line of entertainment.
18.145
.18.205
164
.26.975
875
.5.28/64
.1/5:15/16
.1/11%%
20%
-20.0/10
British
WHO WAS.......
FLIBBERTI GIBBET?
In "King Lear" Shakespeare speaks of one of the charac ters, poor Tom" as being possessed by five friends, one of whom was Flibbertigibbet, the fiend of mopping and mowing; who since possessed chambermaids and waiting women;" who walka abroad from curfew until cock-crow," giving men pins and needles,; squint eyes, and hare-lips the spirit of malice, in short. Shakespeare was not the originator of this name, which had been previously, used by Latimer in his sermons to de- note and denounce back- biters and gossipu-and in Shakespeare's lifetime, a book? called, "A Declaration of mentioned Fiberdigibetas Eeregious Popish Imposturee
one of the evil spirits which the Jesuits claimed to be able- to exorcise.
The precise significance of the terms seems to have been, Jost in the course of the cen
chatterbox, malicious or not. turles, and nowadays wE; apply it to, any frivolous