APARTMENT FLATS
IN CENTRAL DISTRICT.
SOMETHING NEW IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IN HONGKONG.
THE HONGKONG
YANGTSE AIDS NAVY
GAS ATTACKS UNLIKELY" ON WARSHIPS
Navy's £150,000 Bill For Barnacles
YANGTSE RIVER LOWERS COST-
29,000,00 tons of iron and steel are dissipated in rust every year; £150,000 is spent annually by the British Navy in removing barnacles;
Gas attack holds no terrors for British warships.
One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished apartments, each with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached sorvants' quarters, will be available, at moderate rents, in the new modern 8-storey re-inforced concrete building-known as "DINA HOUSE"-now nearing completion in Duddell Street.
These were some of the points made in a paper read to the Con- fumished flats will be fitted with fumiture of modern type. telephone and frigidaire will be provided in each apartment. ference of the Society of Automatic lifts (Waygood Otis). These apartments are bright | Chorien Industry, at Glasgow,
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SONGS FOR CHILDREN.
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY... SEPTEMBER 17, 1935.
ANXIOUS MOMENTS
STANDARD BOOK OF TRADITIONAL SONGS AND TUNES.
Books 1 & 2
WE WONDER WHETHER IT WAS A PRESENT FROM AN AUSTRALIAN BOY FRIEND.... When one of the Young Au- tralia League tourists lost a ring at Repulse Bay on Saturday, some anxious moments were experienced. The Hangkang gentlemen who assisted in the search were Mesara, W. J. Carrie, T. B, Wilson and J. Wolfs. Mr. Carrie received the dazzling smile awarded the
discoverer.
and airy, the majority of them facing towards the Gardens or the by Commander J. L. Bedale, R.N. Paid His Debt Allowed
harbour. Those who have already booked flats, and persons wishing to view the premises, are informed that lifts have now been installed and that they will be shown over the building if application is made at Messrs. H. Ruttonjce & Son's offices next door-No. 7 Duddell Street.
FOR
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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Poking
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL,
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RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
CRAG HOTEL,
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Refreshment Rooms. (near sumraft station) 1 Rallway. Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere,
Caterers etc, to Imperial Airways. Meals are interchangeable, se extra cost wherever you have your breakfast, lunchowa, ten, ay dinner.
Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and roostern sanitation. At the Bonnymede each room has its own gobile telephone.
The Runnymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotels of the Tent with its quiaine, and Justly claims by Ita ociations to offer the traveller such sok to be found elsewhere.
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Teething troubles
Because SCOTT'S Emulsion
contains 44% of pura cod liver
oil and lime calts
for bone formation,
it prevents teething troubles, rickets and soft bones. Ask for genuine
SCOTT'S EMULSION.
of the Engineer-in-Chief's office} at the Admiralty,
One of Commander Bedale's points was the importance of pure- feed water for bollers.
With Fire
A present-day naval water TERRIBLE REVENGE
tube boiler in a very epicure and demands to be fed with the purest ide-nèrated distilled water obtuln-
ON MONEYLENDER.
Delhi, Sept. 5.
able. Failing this, corrosion, scal-THERE is one Kabuli money- ing, or priming, or all three, may lender near Delhi who has be expected."
heen paid back-and with foll This distilled water was very interest. pleasant to wash in, but very int for drinking.
£1
A cobbler hud borrowed from him at interest of Ba, a Chemieni warfare gave rise to month. It was not long before no problems peculiar to the Navy; the cobbler had paid out £20 in Indeed, many held the opinion that interest without having paid the use of such Huse against ships is likely to be rare, since I back the £1 he had originally
be possible
approach borrowed, sufficiently near to employ then explosives are likely to be effective
it
to
more
Submarine Advance Commander Bedale stated that
When the Kabuli beat the cob-
83 Years To Pay A Debt
LAST INSTALMENT ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 2018
A
motor-cyclist who met with an accident was at South- wark County Court last month has been given 83.1/3rd. years— until Christmas 2018-to pay a judgment debt entered against him.
In other words, Judge Wells bler's wife and daughter the cobbler made an order against him to
stunned him when he was asleep,
The man concerned was Henry
Hepper, of West-lane, Rother- hithe, S... who was involved in a fatal accident. The motor- eyele which he was riding came: into collision with Another
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CHILD SONGS. Books 1 & 2
TINY SONGS FOR TINY SINGERS.
Mrs. Murray Macbain;
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Maynard Grover.
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WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF SONGS AND MUSIC FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES.
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Tel. 24648.
USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH. YOUR PICK-UP
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 Such couples are likely to marry. G The talk of King's Langley. B In a considerable
thing but gold braid.
tied him to a bed and heaped dry pay £500 by 1,000 monthly in- grass over him. He then poured oil stalments of ten shillings. over him and set light to the grass, This WEH seen by the whole by modern method of air-condi- village, but so little sympathy is felt tioning a submarine could now re-for this class of money-lender that main below for 8 hours without no one came to his rescue, and he undue discomfort to the crew.
was burned to death. With the 20,000,000 tons of iron
150 Per Cent. and steel dissipated in the form of
The large majority of India's motor-cycle. The pillion pas- rust every year, four or five times money-lenders are Kabulls who, senger of the other machine died as much conl or coke was involved emigrating from Afghanistan, are of his injuries. In a High Court in its production.
"All the dry docks of the world to be found throughout the length action judgment was entered are filled for the greater part of trade.
and breadth of India, plying their jagainst Hepper for £500. the year, not with ships requiring Their rate of interest is as much He told Judge Wells that repairs to their plates, rudders, as 150 per cent. a year, and, what owing to family and other cir-13 propellers, or underwater attings, is more, they collect by intimida- cumstances it was impossible for but simply for the removal barnacles, while every ship upon)
him to meet the judgment debt.
of Lion.
Hg, brawny fellows of the north, | the seas pays a daily toll in extra they are never seen without a stick, fuel burned.
in their hands, and they are dread-
measure
nav
10 A very contradictory pair of
words used by policemen (3, 4). 11 Take a little off.
12 Although a pound and a shilling too is wanted for this seat it need not cost a guinen,
course there's
of
with this owing.
terrible noise
16 In partnership with another man
he'd make a good farmer.
17 What use is this ruscal's head to
bin 7
18 Take the oath again, please, 20 Not a bringer of fine weather. 22 So give me only a portion.
ARE BILINGUAL 2 Given to needless hustle.
A visit by ships to the Yangtzeed by all classes of Indians. United CLIPPER AIRMEN was almost as good as docking for Press. removing underwater growths, be- cause fresh water disagreed with the marine growths accumulated in snit water.
IN A HURRY
JUAN IGNACIO POMBO is in a hurry to reach Vera Cruz, for which city he left on Saturday. It is girl friend, Maria Elena Rivero, for whom he flew the Atlantic, has set a time-limit for his arrival. If The exceeds it, Juan Ignacio Pombo will have to seek another sweet-
heart.
SALESMAN SAM -
(NOW, FAUNTLEROY, HERE'S MISTER
SAM HOWDY! SPY PLEASED, TA
MEETCHA, LIKE A LITTLE GENT!
HIYA, DOPEY!
PAN-AMERICAN STAFF SPEAK CHINESE
on her next
San Francisco, Sept. 3. When the Pan-American clipper ship reaches Marno experimental fight across the Pacific. the airmen will greet the Chinese in their native tongue, and when they wing their way to Manila the greetings will be in | Spanish.
The adult division of the Call- fornia Department of Education, through the Federal Emergency Edtication Programme, have estab- Hahed cinsnes in Chinese лий Spanish for the air trail-blazers who will add luguistic qualifica- tions to their knowledge of avia Lion, navigation, meteorology, mechanics and radio.
Four evenings each week the language books are opened and the Brors delve into the mysteries of Oriental characters and Castilian worda. The Chinese course 18 being taught by Mrs. Parlock Lowe, an American born Chinese and graduate of the University of Call- fornia with an A.D. degree. The classes are augmented by the staff of the San Francisco passenger office who will eventually go to posta in the Far Enst.-United Press.
Such a Nice Boy
(WHAT A FINE LITTLE MAN!! I'LL BET SOME DAY YOU'LL
BE PRESIDENT!
(AHEM)
MANAG
SILK
Sox
S'POSE YOU COULD BE PRESIDENT, "TOO, HUH?
YEAH, FAUNTY 1.SUPPOSE I COULD!
24 In these times half a dozen arc
very hungry.
28. Dun dicc (nnag,),
20 Primary colours certainly, but not so pronounced as to be heard
a distance. nt a
30 Although a delicate fabric it
sounds as though it would useful for hard work.
31 Anyone would be mad
1
owned this.
Accrual.
DOWN
be
10 have
2 To a starving man such flicks would sound inviting if spoken slowly,
Imagine a sloop in hail at sea. 4 Here's "klock, nun," for the
hedgesparrow.
5 How the swan was dismember-
cd?
The tale for n minn who believes in gymnasties.
GARDEN LOT SOLD
CROWN AREA ON REPULSE BAY ROAD
the
Garden Let No. 88, adjoining Rural Building Lot No. 309, was offered for public auction at 8 pm. yesterday in to be held for a term of 21 years.
Public Works Department offices.
The lot consisted of land 40,000 square feet in area, with an annual rental of $94, situated at Repulso Bay Road, Hongkong.
The property was bought by Mr. Lui Wat-chan on behalf of Mrs. Chin Fu-yee, for the upset price of $2,033.
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And yet he may be quite a hard hitler.
9 Not Arst let it be observed.
14 With a gesture of welconte I give
up any claim,
16 A popular publication.
16 The garment which makes ane
almost ask if the hairs hurt. 18 More led (anng.).
19 When a business is going like elockwork it isn't likely to be this
(two words 5, 2).
20 Mouldy! #1 Patent.
25 Treated-or; as Bitte Tommy
consider it, ¡li-treated.
26 Showing how spilt cane miny
affect the skin.
27 Nothing makes beer bitter like
this-thank goodness.
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