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SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930.
DAY BY DAY
FRIENDS ARE MUCH BETTER TRIED. IN BAD FORTUNE THAN IN GOOD-
The Government is inviting
tenders for slipping and stripping for examination of the No. 1 police
launch.
TOPSY-TURVEYDOM
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Ari Unequal Contest.
Flying from Justice.
Colonies will be expected "also to contribute something, as the mat- ter was one of those discussed at the recent Colonial Office Con-' ference At first, of course, the new venture will have to feel its way. When the station is erected," | Aristotle. na idea will be able to be gathered
More than 100 motorcars were of the effectiveness or otherwise of
hold up on the road at Besancon Air Station of Bourges flew away. An air mechanic at the Military the reception in distant parts of
by a cow which was in the way in an instructional machine to es- When a man fired at her and cape coming before his superiora on the Empire, and, assuming this is
slightly wounded her, the cow a chargy of stealing a motor cycle. satisfactory, the next thing to do Tenders are being invited for charged at the cars so furiously He was afterwards arrested at a will be to devise programunes which occupation as a quarry up to that most of the occupants fied spot some 60 miles away. He had December 31st of an area of about into a wood. One was badly got been forced to come down because will serve the various overseas pos-22 acres on the Shaukiwan Road. ed. The cow was finally shot in he had run out of petrol. sessions. In this latter connexion,
the head and killed. the time factor will be of great im-
Ominous. portance, so that reception may be at convenient hours. At first, it is intended to operate the Empire broadcast for a limited period cach day, but previous announcements have stated that the ultimate aim will be a round-the-clock pro-
gramme.
It will, without question, be a great boon for people in all parts of the Empire to hear "Homeside"
programmes of the highest class, but even of greater importance are the possibilities ahead for radio
Notice is given that a fourth and final dividend of $2.31 per cent. has been declared in the matter of the Kam Wing Bank (în liquida- tien).
Limited
When the door of Mrs. James Morrell's house in Talbot-road, Bournemouth was opened to the
Curious Ambition,
Miss Laura F. Gals, a 26-year- old New York airwoman, made 980 consecutive Inside loops during dight that lasted 16 hours 25 minutes. She broke the previous
It is notified that the names of postman a robin hopped into the record for women, established by the Tat Kwong Printing Company, hall. The postman left a parcel herself by 638 loops.
of Mysterious Afair in Kew Gardens. and the Wang Hong containing a, framed picture. Steamship Company, Limited, have Mrs. Morell, who was 103 last Joe, the Kew Gardens crane, has month. The glass was broken become a widower under mysterious, and the picture damaged. Mrs. circumstances.. "Always together, he and his companion had become known as the Darby and Joan of " the gardens, but recently the female bird disappeared. Joebe-
been struck off the Register.
His Excellency the Governor has Morrell died that day. appointed Sergeant-Major Henry Even Church Was No Sanctuary, Westlake, D.C.3, Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, to be In the middle of an early morn came very depressed, and the offi- Honorary Lieutenant and Quarter-ing service at St. John's Church,cials could not understand the de- master.
Waterlco-road, the door was open-sertion until they found his wife ed, and a monkey rushed in. She dead-drowned in a water barrel. It is notified that at the expira: ran up the aisle and scrambled It is believed that she perched on tion of three months the Wai Hing underneath a pew in which a wo- the edge of the barrel, toppled in cause is shown to the contrary, be was being sung was stopped to get out. Company will be dissolved, sisting clergy, and the congrega. tion joined in a monkey hunt. Eventually she was caught.
The Hongkong & Shanghai {{ telephonic communication between Company, Limited, will, unless man was sitting. A psalm which and was exhausted by her struggles
possessions. This matter is likely struck off the register and the abruptly, while the vicar, two as-A Real Wild Goose Chase.
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LABRUM.On the 8th August, 1930, at the Matilda Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Labrum, a daughter.
The
the Old Country and the overseaz
Hongkong Telegraph. important place. Indeed, if the
SATURDAY, AUG. 9. 1930.
EMPIRE RADIO.
Determined M. Briand..
formation.
Many Mickle Mak' A Muckte.
Gollan (Chief Justice, Hongkong), Nightmare Boxer. Mr. R. O. Winstedt (Director of Education,
Federated Malay
States), Mr. G. Hemmant (Under (California), suffered from night D. W. Handley, of Sacramento Secretary, Straits Settlements), mares. He hit his wife while they and Sir Frank Baddeley (Chief slept. She has divorced him, Secretary, Nigeria), were among charging him with cruelty. those received.
A woman visited a fortune-teller in Canning Town, E., and was given a crystal to hold. Said the
would not do harm
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but £100 of the money was found. by police and passers-by. The detec- tives had trailed the gang since last
Florida. When the police entered winter, when a series of sensation- al jewel robberies occurred in the room, all five-four men and a
woman-were gathered about a bed on which lay £60,000 worth of The Economist.
jewels, including twenty-five dia- John Arthur, Herbert, 45, of set with a magnificent seventeen- mond studded bracelets and a ring Croyden, was carat diamond. None of the gang face downwards in resisted, but the woman swallowed. a mysterions, piece of paper, while one of the men threw the package. of money out of the window.
opinion is anxious to explore ali the good contained in the Briand Cecil-road, West proposals. What is clear at the found dead moment is that the discussion about a foot of water at Three cannot profitably be pursued until Kings Pond, Mitcham. There is the Geneva meetings in September, no suggestion of foul play.
to be heard much of in the near
geese by airplanes, received a check A new sport, the chasing of wild There has, been constituted in future, especially in connexion with
Gença' a special Chamber of Com-
in Winnipeg when Mr., Philip Osler, the wireless-cable merger. What merce having as its object the
of the Winnipeg Flying Club, was the position of Hongkong will be development of business between
fined for a breach of the Dominion Swarms of locusts have now be law for the protection of wild birds. eventually, in the Empire chain, Italy and the Far Eastern market.
Local firms interested and whome se dense in Palestine that With other members of the club, has not yet been determined, but desire to become members are in- they lie three feet deep on the Osler had been amusing himself we imagine that, whatever the fu-vited to apply to the Italian Con-railway lines and trains have been by flying at full speed into the be, this sulate General, Hongkong, for in- could be removed. The Govern ewana flying northward to their compelled to pull up until they numerous bands of wild geese and ture arrangements may Colony will be assigned a mot un-
ment has voted $50,000 and is breeding grounds. The rates of drawback set out in mobilising all its forces to com- The Insufficient Crystal.
bat the menace. wireless service is to remain in Goy. regulation 1 of the Drawback Re-
gulations under the Tobacco Or-Grave for Sirty. erament hands, provision will have dinance have been further amend- to be made for very big and posed by the substitution for item (c) Mourners from all parts of the fortune teller to the woman:-"You sibly costly improvements. How. of the following item:-On to-country assembled at Gillingham can see you in a court.
to anyone. bacco manufactured in Chinese for the funeral in one grave of the worry, you will win your case." The But do not. ever, there are many factors to be fashion, (i) without the addition victims of the explosion in the visitor was a policewoman, and she taken into account, and until these of oil at the rate 87 cents per lb.; monitor Glatton, which blew up in told the story at West Ham Police
(ii) with the addition of not more Dover Harbour, in 1918, and was Court. The crystal-gazer was or become much more clearly indicated, than 17 per cent. of oil at the rate torpedoed to prevent further ex- dered to pay. £10 for telling for- Radio enthusiasts in all part of it will be useless to speculate on
of 78 cents per lb.
plosions. The vessel was finally tunes. salvaged and the bones of the the overseas Empire will have read future possibilities. Nevertheless,
Their Majesties received, in the victims, numbering over 60, were £5,000 Through a Window. with deep satisfaction the announce it is inevitable, with the develop- Throne Room
at Buckingham recovered.
Five thousand pounds in bank- ment that plans are now well un-ment of inter-Imperial communica- Palace, on July 14, the members
notes were thrown out of a window der way for the provision
Mr. Short (Parliamentary Under- of the Hotel Commodore, in Forty- of ations, that Hongkong must have a (accompanied by their wives) of Secretary, Home Office), stated Second-St, New York, when a gang broadcast service from the Old definite place in whatever future which has just concluded in $201,315 in fines for all kinds of tives who broke into their flat, All the Colonial Office Conference, that during 1929 motorists paid of thieves were surprised by detec- Country. This project has beer Schemes are evolved.
London. Sir Reginald Stubba road offences. (Governor of Jamaica), Sir Henry under consideration for a very long time, but many difficulties have been
Evidence that M. Briand is not encountered, principally that of finance. The British Broadcast- discouraged by the reception of ing Corporation has all along been his former Note on the proposed willing to assist in the scheme, but federation of Europe is given by it has quite naturally taken the view the report yesterday that he is now engaged in preparing a fur- that it cannot be expected to bear ther note: Britain has insisted the whole burden. One of the that the question be raised at the inst suggestions put forward was League Assembly in September that the Government should con- but M. Briand appears determined tribute towards the undertaking to spend the next month in at- from the large sums it receives tempting to persuade the countries from wireless licences, but it nowtain is concerned, it appears pro- .concerned. So far as Great Bri- appears that the difficulty is to be bable that Mr. Henderson, Mr. solved in another way. The B.B.C. Graham, Lord Cecil, and Miss has purchased land for the station Lawrence will be prepared to dis near Daventry, and the cost of in-cuss the matter when they go to stallation will be met by the Geneva in September: but there is ground enough for the fear that, Colonial Office, assisted' by the
although M. Briand's purpose is Colonies, the B. B. C. providing the deeply appreciated, and his work programmes free. This appears to commended, the particular scheme be quite a happy solution of the he propounded on May 17 meets problem.
certain obstacles in the official We are told that the short-wave British view. The chief of those transmitter to be installed will be obstacles is that the old question of sanctions and of "aggression" sufficiently powerful to reach the
are indirectly raised in the old remotest parts of the Empire. form which in 1924 left' the British This will be good, news to Hong- Government no alternative but to kong radio enthusiasts. At pre- reject the Protocol. It is recor- seat, the only Home broadcasting aised in London that M. Briand which can be picked up here is that has made a determined and an from the experimental station at ingenious attempt to compromise between the Continental taste for Chelmsford, which is not of great juridical and military sanction power, and, as we have before and the Anglo-Saxon taste for the stated, these transmissions are sort of psychological security subject to a great deal of "fading," aimed at in the Kellogg Pact. which makes anything like regular There is no mention of sanctions or satisfactory reception out of the the less it is so framed that it in the Briand memorandum. None question. These considerations will would still rest ultimately for its not arise when the new short-wave sanction on the sanction clauses. station is in operation. That the of the League of Nations Covenant. scheme is well advanced may be It would therefore not obviate the gathered from the fact that the classical danger of Article 16 of Treasury has provisionally agreed the Covenant whereby in juridical theory the British navy might be
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to find a sum of £22,000 for called on to prevent the United original outlay and that work on States from trading with an "ag- the new transmitter is expected to gressor" State; in other words, commence within three or four whereby an Anglo-American war months. The Dominions are to might be prescribed as a means of be asked, at the forthcoming Im- preventing war. That simple re- perial Conference, to assist the duction to absurdity has never acheme financially, and we presume with the same force as it appeals. appealed to Continental minds that Hongkong and the other Crown to British minds. Yet British
"Caesar, get off that filthy table!"
M. BOSHEA