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despite their having one common ground in their opposition to Nan- king, they might not find it easy to unite in any independence move. ment. None the less, it is quite
From the Office Butts 口口 conceivable that some of the pre-
HISTORY IN GENERAL IS AN AC- Some of our golfers should take "Appropriate Gems:-The flapper Bently unemployed politicians would COUNT OF WHAT MEN HAVE DONE up angling. They so love a good and her boy friend-On Pals, The
TO MAKE EACH OTHER UNHAPPY. lle!
be prepared to lend a hand in the setting up of another anti-Nunking Government in the South. In'sup! YOU FIND THE LATEST port of the allegations of intrigue, MODELS OF THE CAR THAT HAS WON THE HEART OF it is asserted from Nanking that the THE WORLD, LEADING ALL Cantonese troops, despite urgent OTHERS IN SALES.
requests, have declined to move fur AT THE CURB YOU WILL ther North in the war against the ADMIRE THEIR SMART Communists. As against this, we MODERN BEAUTY, ON THE
It is notified that the name of Chinese Gramophone Recordings, Regiatur.
hau' been Limited,
struck off "the
The quarantine restrictions impos arrivals from Hongkong on account of ed by Port Swottenham against small-pox and cerebro-spinal menin-¡
itis have been removed.
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boy-friend and his flapper-Moon- stones, The Repulse Bay tanned Adonis-Aquamarine. The bar Wo notice that a ment agree- lizard-Tope-as! The reckless imo- ment has been concluded between England and Australia. For all, torist-Gravestone! that, it will probably result in tough argument.
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salt
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A channel ísland, offered for sule In London, is described as a "parn-
early
The Soviet has decreed the death lise" and "gem act in an azure- penalty for corn stealers. The sea. While the island itself is editor felt the same way about the English beyond doubt, the adver- ROAD YOU WILL MARVEL AT have recent reports that Chan Chai-
tiaing indubitably THEIR EFFORTLESS CONTROL, tong's forces have been co-operatiering the Government has received day.
His Excellency the Officer Admini-man who stood on his the other
American, THE EASY SMOOTHNESS OF ing with the Chiang Kai-shek information from the Secretary of
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State for the Colonies that Mr. It is now claimed that in Northern Kwangtung Tetsujiro Kokri has been LUXURIOUS COMFORT WITH against the Reds, coupled with news Acting inpanese Coheal-General at water is goed for the hair. We frequently mentioned. WHICH THEY RIDE. EVERY
that the work of suppression has MODERN IMPROVE- MENT IS AT YOUR COM- been 50 effectual that there is no
The Government is inviting tenders MAND. INCREASED POWER, call for the Cantonese forces to go for the supply of a double skinned CUSHIONED AGAINST further afield. In addition, there bitilt in accordance with a plan and teakwood shallow draft launch to be VIBRATION. THE VELVETY is the further point that Chan Chai-specification which may be obtained SMOOTHNESS OF THE FAMOUS
at the Ofice of the Government
Hongkong.
Marine Surveyor.
You hear the "average man" He has suppose that the man we observed never been clearly defined; but we using one of these electric combs suspect he is the one who marries at Repulse Bay the other after the superior woman. noon, was undergoing a salt and battery treatment!
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What this Colony needs is a shaving soap which will sound an "The modern complexion harmo- alarm or something when a man.
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"Bake 1. Home," says i headtrig in ladies' page. Most of us have
al
SYNCROMESH GEAR SHIFT-tong may have knowledge of plans
nises with the tout ensemble," preoccupied with the affairs of ING. THE THRILL OF COAST-for fresh trouble in Canton, and ING ALONG ON MOMENTUM for this reason may wish to keep
states an alleged beauty expert. home and office, inadvertently Amateurs competing in mur Summer The trouble is that some seem to starts to spread it on a tonth WHENEVER YOU
WISH- his troops within the province. So Photo Competition, which close on mistake tout for toot!
brush. CONTROLLED BY THE TOUCH far as the outside observer can see, entries cannot be accepted under the 31st instant, are reminded that j OF A BUTTON. DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS. there is no doubt of Chan Chai-initials or nom de plumes; names and
addresses of conipetitors must be A cow is to he CHEVROLET SERIES "BA" Long's loyalty to the Central Govs given. Those who have not complied preferred to a PASSENGER SPECIAL SEDAN-ernment, in which connexion it
with this rule should do so if they saxaphone be desire their MAROON OR BLUE complete must be remembered that he has to the judges.
photographs submitted cause, in addi- with 6 Wire Wheels, Tires and a big military backing, the only
tion to making Tubes Bumpers, Luggage Rack, Tourists Trunk, Chrome Tire uncertain elements being in naval Covers, Etc.. Etc.
and air force circles. Hongkong ANIMALS & SUICIDE gives milk. Chinese opinion appears to be that Chan Chai-tong would have nothing to do with any separatist move- ment. That
attitude, if well founded, is all to his credit.
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AN OLD THEORY
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about the same
sound, it also
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Although they
claim to have invented a noiseless gun in Do animals commit suicide? Italy, the report No-one will claim that the Nan-raised in a new form following kong notwith
This old question has been reached Hong- king Covernment has been all that the remarkable case which took stand.
one
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any
"Non-Garden-
A young undergraduate was being taken to task for having creceded his leave by nwo days. "Well," said the professor, "what have you to say for yourseft"
"I'm awfully sorry," replied the student. "I really couldn't get back before. I was detain- ed by most important busi-
C89."
"So you wanted two mure days of grace, did you.” "No ni of Gladys!!!
it night be. At the same time, place at Upton Zoo, Chester. it has to be kept in mind that it
It was stated by witnesses that
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A famous halds office in a time of extreme berately gnawed off six feet
monkeys deli-
of chess expert difficulty, and, moreover, that it rope which was hanging in his hasn't played has been constantly, bandicapped by it, and secured one end to a bough. Still, it may be open air cage, climbed a tree with for five years. the frequent changes in its per-At the other end he made a slip his move sonnel. Much of its energies have. knot, through which he passed his moment now. LAM WOO-AL No. 1, Tramway in fact. been dissipated in attempt-tight and dropped off. Death was
head. He then pulled the knot | Hath on 27th August, 1932, at 5ing to patch up squabbles between instantaneous. It was stated by a.m., Mrs. Lam Woo, wife 01 Mr. Lam Woo, building contrac-the various eliques-squabbles those who saw the occurrence that jer" :-Exact- Lor. The funeral will take place which reflect a failure on the part
it was a deliberate suicide. ly, but on the to-morrow nt 3 p.m.. to the
Naturalista were unwilling to Peak it is known Chinese Christian Cemetery, of the participants to put first accept the theory of suicide with-as fertilizer!
things first. This is all the more out more substantini proof. regrettable when we consider that eminent biologist, said to a Press Professor E. W. MacBride, the the spirit of unity amongst the representative: "In the absence A clergyman recently people has probably been nover of scientific proof, I should decline wrestling match. greater than at the present time. absolutely to believe that it was a found it was impossible to keep a were ever filmed. The Sino-Japanese crisis has welded yet been a
case of suicide. There has never good man down. North and South together as never case of suleide in all nature.
scientifically proved
before. The tragedy of the sitna- tion is that the politicians should continue their bickerings in spite of the call of the time for unityfoundation. On the other hand, at 40 cents apiece. there have been of thought and action.
where swarms of rats have been known
Pokfulam,
ANNOUNCEMENT.
A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Miss Amy Byrne. of. East St. Kikda, Melbourne, and Stanley I Hill, M.IN.A.. Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, Navy Yard, Hongkong.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1922.
CANTON & NANKING
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won a
this past week.
A reader says there is endless entertain- ment to be found on our bathing beaches, Nudia- tractions?
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. A local resi- dent was very surprised to find
Was
how simple il to give a broadcast talk. As easy as B. B. C., In fact.
·D D Auntle Cy- clone wants to know if this Lambeth Bridge ia to take the place of Con- tract.
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about
"The story that scorpions would Only Soviet propaganda plays A contemporary, in reporting a in certain circumstances take their are permitted on the Russian stage, collision in Shanghai harbour, own lives was demolished many Further protection is indicated in says "the Calchas propellor tore a years ago. It is entirely without the fact that eggs are now selling hole in the hull of the Lecsang as
cases
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to dash into the sea, all of them Prosperity is like happiness. It being drowned. In South Africa | Just happens when you get busy antelopes have done the same and forget about it. thing. This, however, has been
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ahe was passing; it was a glancing blow." Seems to have been onc under the belt.
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An inventor is trying to perfeet
a motor-car which will run equal-
ly well on land or water. We've
Soviet Social Conditions. The Russian experiment con-attributed to an ancestral instinct tinues to attract interested, ob-to follow where others have gone,, The man who says there is no seen that kind already: they won't
An interesting account the lapse of time having brought such thing as silence has never run on lund. has just come to hand, by Mrs. up the sea where once there was asked a bank manager for a loan. Alice W. Field, of Soviet social dry land,
servers.
animals,
sold for what it is worth,
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"There are also many other tales,
The only certain thing about New Definition:-A bargain is prosperity is that lots of people which have been set up by the but not one has ever been scientian article which is so little worth will be enjoying it when others are Soviet for the protection of mo- enlly proved, and I bellave none of its original price that it must be waiting for it to arrive. therhood and childhood.
The them." writer cites from Soviet publien- tions on these subjects and contri- butes her
own observations of such institutions in Moscow. Such subjects as the work of the Insti- tute for the Protection of Mother- hood and Childhood, the Soviet marriage and divorce laws,' and Russian methods of nursery mana goment are discussed in some de-
If it be true, as is suggested by a prominent Nanking journal, that fresh intrigues are brewing in the South, having as their ultimate aim the setting up of an independent Government, the move can only be described as mnat regrettable. At no time in China's history has there been greater need than now for the nation to present a united front. The indications are that we are approaching a crisis in Far Eastern affairs which may, in its gravity and in its widespread re- percussions, outweigh any of the tail. Mrs. Field in distinctly in. past twenty years. Sino-Japanese sympathy with the Soviet social. feeling, so far froni becoming more welfare programme, and does full composed, appears to be drifting justice to the elements in Soviet into dangerous channels, and, in
law and practice which make for view of the possibility of a fresh equality of opportunity as between women and men, for the training upheaval, nothing can be more fatal of children, for the overcoming of to China's best interests than any- the vast Russian inheritance of thing in the nature of revived in-lethargy, backwardnesu and ternal dissension. That fact neglect. In welfare and educa- alone should suffice to convince tion, as in other aspects of Soviet Chinese leaders of all schools of projects that the casual visitor to life, there are so many ambitious thought of the danger of renewed Russia, swamped with a round of discord between Nanking and Can visits, interviews and printed material, is so impressed by the substantial progress made that the limitations imposed by Soviet conditions are sometimes lost from view. Mrs. Field does not alto- does not gather from her book how gother escape this tendency. One
many features of Russian life still | make the lot of the working woman hard-tho necesalty, for instance,, of sometimes standing for hours in queues, the crowding on fram cars, the absence of a hundred · labour-saving conventonces which. aro almost taken for granted. In | Europe and America,
ton.
It is common knowledge, that many of the erstwhile Nanking officiale now in the South are by
no manner of means satisfied with
the Central Government's outlook. Amongst these are those who con older that Nanking's foreign policy, especially in relation to Japan, is lacking in forcefulness, and others who will never be satisfied until Chiang Kai-shek is Quated. But they do not all belong to the same schools of political thought, and,
"I had the most horrible dream!. "I was walking right out
In the street with nothing on but my pyjamas."
It's computed that one married woman in five in Hongkong knows how to drive a car, but nobody has yet explained why she prefera the back seat.
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Many two-car families in America are now one-car families, Which may be another way of say- ing that more fathers are waiking more.
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According to a scientist, a mos- quito can fly for fourteen hours without a rest. Unfortunately, the Hongkong variety seems un- aware of this fact.
What we need is a motor-car that will stop and count 100 be- fore hitting an electric light standard.
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The Chinese calendar says Tuck- day was the "Stopping of Heat." And how!
The following air navigation direc tion has been made in 'substitution for Direction No, 32 "A ground engineer'a licenco will only be issued by the Governor after a report by the Director of Air Services, in cach as to the competence of the applicant, accompanied a medical certificate of fitness, after medical examination in accordance with par- |graph_83, and a recommendation, by the Director of Air Sorvices that the licence bo Issued to the applicant."
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