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FRY'S
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CHOCOLATE NUT ASSORTMENT
There are eight different nut centres in this fine assortment
Almond
Whirls, Cream Almonds and Roasted Almonds, Hazel-nuts and Brazil- nuts, Walnuts, Cokernut Paste and Marzipan.
ONE OF THE
FAMOUS
5
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CHOCOLATE ASSORTMENTS
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CRAG HOTEL,
Penang Hills
(2,400 feet above sealevel),
Refreshment Rooms. (near summit station) Hill Hallway.
"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE" RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.
Meals are Interchangeable, no extra cost wherever you have your breakfast, luncheon. Les, or dinner.
Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern santiation. At the Hankymode_rach room has its own putile telephone,
The Runnymede Restaurant has, trawieniably pride of place among hotela of the Est with its culaine, and fustly slaine by its association to offer the trurailer such as la to be found elsewhere,
Teething troubles
Because SCOTT'S Emulsion
contains 44% of pura cod liver
oil and lime salts
for bone formation,'
it prevents teething troubles, rickets and soft bones. Askfor genuine
SCOTT'S EMULSION
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936.
Storm Over New Quetta
'PREJUDICE' IN
GOVERNMENT
STATEMENT
GOVERNMENT advertisement for applications for one of the biggest architectural tasks for many years—the rebuilding of Quetta—has drawn protesta from British architects.
The advertisement, which ap- peared in the London Press recent- ly, rends:
"The Secretary of State for
India Found
India in Courell invites appllen. Heaviest Hit
tions for appointment as civi- lian consulting architect to the military engineering services in India, in connection with the reconstruction of Quetta.
"Candidates must be British subjects ond the sons of Bri- tish subjects....they must be Associates of the Royal Insti- tute of British Architecta."
There are in Great Britain some 12,000 registored architects, about 9,000 of whom are connected with either the Royal Institute of Bri- tish Architects, the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, or the Institute of Re gistered Architects.
"Picked Out"
It is these last two bodies which are now protesting against the advertisement,
By Disaster
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PLACE QUAKE TOLL ABOVE 20,000
Washington, Feb. 5, THE most appalling of the major disasters of 1935,
the according to Geographic Society, was the destructive earthquake on May 3 in India that caused the loss of more than 20,000 lives.
Post
Just
Received.
CLAIMED "RIGHT
TO DIE"
76-YEAR-OLD MAN'S
A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS AND
LETTER TO CORONER CELLOS.
A remarkable letter written
•
by a man who claimed that he Also VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE-BASS, had the right to die, was read at
the inquest at Plymouth, last GUITAR BANJO, TENOR BANJO, MANDOLINE month, on William Henry Osborne (76), pensioned Ad AND UKELELE STRINGS AND ACCESSORIES. miralty overseer, of Devonport, who died from coal gas poisoning.
The Coroner (Mr. W. E. (Major) suld that the letter, which was addressed to him, covered a newspaper cutting. Thia cutting referred to statement made by Canoa Peter Green, a North of
PRICES TO SUIT EVERY PURSE AND PURPOSE..
England clergyman and Chapll TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.
to the King, who anid that if he were suffering from an incurable [disease, he would take painless poison in a cup of tea and die with ti clear mind.
"No Terror"
The Coroner then read Osborne's letter, which was as follows:
"Dear Mr. Coroner,
"Death hath no terrors for me. Ever since I arrived nt. man's estate, I have endeavoured to be a good husband, a good father, and a good citizen.
"I am in full possession of my facultion and am most desirous
a National that you should return true nnd not casi a slur on my intelli- verdict at the inquest on my body gence and sanity and cause pain to my dear wife and children.
A large number of deaths were attributed to hurricanes, Bloods, tornadoes, earthquakes and minor catastrophes in all parts of the | world,
*
am
9 Ice House Street HONG KONG.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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16
10 19
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"Sir, I am putting into practice what I have advocated for many yearn, viz., when person has arrived, at the age of 65-1 70-and is suffering from incurable complaint, as I am, it the In China, the Yellow River val-should be in the power of ley was inundated in March, the guards, to put that person pala- doctor, with satisfactory safe.
Mr. G. B. J. Athoe, secretary Yangtze valley in July, and a lessly to death. of the Incorporated
severe earthquake was felt in the Associa-western section in December. A this cannot be legally done, though "As the law at present stands, tion, said "The India Office have typhoon in Fukien province on apparently picked out and sub- August 5 took several hundred taking the law into my own sidised one body to the detri-lives. ment of the others.
Genoa Suffers Waterspout
hands. Please spare my dear wife and children all the trouble you can.
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ACROSS
8 Meadows in puro surroundings of course give this to any lover of the country.
"Any rot" should not be an apt
Kangram.
10 It takes peculiar skill to com-
plete this trinket
12
In this suitable wine to offer to
an undertaker?
14 What sounds like a direction is
ont-spoken and decisive.
про
"How can I live to HCO them "We are not putting forward At Genoa, Italy, on August 23, a wearing their lives in SOITOW the claims of our own body, but dozen buildings were amashed by away and all to no purpose. that of the Government's Archia waterspout in one of the most "Therefore, I claim the absolute tects Registration Act 1921.
unusual disasters of the year. Dur right to die. The belief that every "That Act was passed to proves were lost when a dam broke. will justify my action and give me ing the sume month, hundreds of right-thinking man and woman tect the public against the charla-i
credit for so doing is a great com-i tan, and the register contains the] The United States had more names of 12,000 qualified men any than its share of natural disasters.fort to me in my last moments." one of whom we submit should be Floods were reported in various
"Sensible Letter" at liberty to apply for this post." sections throughout the year. Dur The Coroner said that the ing October and November, a se-letter seemed sensible and reason- Mr. R. S. Helby, acting regis-ries of earthquakes were felt, parable, and did not indicate that the trar of the Institute of Registered ticularly in Helena, Montana. The man was of unsound mind. Architects, of which Sir Edwin quakes caused extensive property Dr. R. B. Wagner, who had been Lutyens, RA, is the founder and damage and the loss of several attending Osborne for some time, 18 About as common as the three president, said:
said that he was suffering from an incurable disease. "He may 21 Material for a pudding. "The selection of one profes- Rional body in the advertisement] Severo dust storms occurred in to do this thing."
have had a sudden mental impulse 22 This officer should know the
ally's language at least. for a public appointment is most the Mid-Western states during the
The Coroner-An abnormal im-
23 An essential part of the white invidious,
spring and early summer, causing pulse 7-Yes. In cases like these, 25 The very fighters to tackle in-
mar'a burden. destructim of property and block-there are impulses which would age of railroad and highway result in the mind being unbalanc-28 Insect that made a whole tribe
ed at that actual moment, although run away. Few of the volcanic eruptions of I have never seen this man un-30 This is no epithet for the volco the year were in thickly settled balanced at any other time, "It is unthinkablo that Sir regions. In December Mauna Loa
32 Illness (half caused by spirit?) The Coroner said that he con- 3 Suitable Christian name for a Edwin Lutyens, who is also presi-Volcano in Hawall cast a 13-mile oidered there was sufficient
pubile vaccinator? dent of the Incorporated Assocía-lava flow down. Its alope toward evidence to justify a verdict of tion, would apply for this post,
Hilo. On November 7 Mount "Suicide while temporarily but if he wanted to he is auto- Asama, 90 miles west of Tokyo, unsound mind.” matically barred and after all he Japan, erupted, throwing ash over has had some slight experience the city.
"No Monopoly
"It is rank prejudice-the R.L.B.A. have no monopoly,
lives.
Dust Storms Severe
traffic.
of
"No Hope Of Curo" It will be recalled that Canon
of Indian architecture, for he was On December 3, a landslide Peter Green, of Manchester, one responsible for the building of buried the village of Verde Cocha, of the best-known clergy men in half New Delhi."
Ecuador, kliling all of its 60 inhabi- the North of England, made his tants. Eighty-eight persons died declaration in an issue of "Social Sir Edwin Lutyens was at one when an ice avalanche destroyed Welfare. Ho sald that in certain time associate of the Royal In- part of the Soviet city of Kir- circumstances, a atitute of British Architects, but ovsk on the Kola Peninsula
person should broke away some years ago.
on have the right to end his life. Ho December 9-United Press. wrote that if he were incurable,
he would like to be allowed to get} n.second opinion from a specialist, who would give him a certificate showing that there was no hope of cure and that there was likell- hand of prolonged suffering."
GERMANS LEARN
ENGLISH
Cologne, Feb, 2.
ENGLISH is to be taught instead of French as the principal foreign language in at public and secondary schools in Gormany.
It is also to be taught in German elementary schoola, in which hitherto no foreign language lessons have been given. The instruction is to be given during the last three years of the school period-Reuter
SALESMAN SAM
SAM, MR.UMPH, IN ROOM
SAY, I NUMBER 15, OWES A THREE-WEEKS) KIN GET OF BILL OF $901 TRY TO COL- /TH' MONEY MINOOTS LECT IT, BUT DON'T INSULT WITHOUT LATER
HIM! HE'S KINDA TOUCHY! EVEN
THIS HOTEL
(S OPEN
ALL DAY
BILL
ASKIN
O
HIM FER IT!
1/3
7/8
1
5
71
10 X
16
19
20
"Then I would make my will, say goodbye to my friends, receive: the last sacraments, and take a dose of painless poison in a cupi of tea. So I should die with a clear mind..and I and my friends be spared much needless distress." "Which," he asked, "Is the best and most religious way to dio: to dle after weeks of 赴 living death or to die with a clear mind, which enables one to pray and receive the sacraments?"
Paid in Full
GOOD GOSH! FIRST YA REMOVE TH LAMPS AN) CHAIRS AN NOW YER. TAKIN' OUT TH' DRESSER
KIN YA PLEASE TELL ME WHY?
allin
15
SURE!
Net,
of a B.B.C. announcer.
DOWN
1 Certainly a fair example of its
kind. in a way,
2 This kind of boat does take let-
tora as well as parcels.
J Chrysalis.
4 Even a pelican couldn't manage
to take this with one this. 5 Chess-man.
6 Narrow.
7 No, it may prove expensive in rough weather if your boat has not enough of this board.
11 Part of this American town is
fashionable.
126
13 "Gay sina" (anog.)
14 Obviously suitable work for a
dress-maker..
10 This is worth quite a lot of pics.. 16 Children's toy. 17 Fish.
19 Pine product perhaps.
28 The fly fisherman knows how to
this this.
24 A tea-table delicacy,
25 This snurlan can upset many
with its tail.
20 Etheldruda's pet name, they say..
27 Fart of the body; is part of it
misplaced?
20 Relative,
80 The ladies thought this was what the anilor called out, when they rushed from their cabins.
31 Row that may be coaTAE. Yesterday's Solation.
FF IMPROVIDENÍ
HONOR INOM ON O
JA CONVOCATION
BOON EL AV FOKINE YENE INCLUDE O
8 IMO NOLA BHOR BO GAG- TAR TE NNERIURE NAILS NS AND A CENT INERTES SUGAR AN EFITAET AS
N E8 S-V. 0 N ALMA ELEPHANTINEL
8
WE PROLETARIAN
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for $25,000
in 1936 to continue its work for sick and destituto children."
- Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building,
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
By Small
WHEN PEOPLE DON'T PAY THEIR|| 80-85-86-, HOTEL BILLS, TH' HOTEL
90 DOLLARS! HAS NO DOUGH TO PAY
CORRECT! TH' FURNITURE COMPANY; AN' SO WE GOTTA SEND TH’. STUFF BACKT