THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JULY 18,
1936,
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HERE'S ANOTHER IT IS A "CRIME" TO ΤΟ
"DO YOU KNOW" THE NEW CRAZE:
Floodlighting At Night
CHIT SIGN A
War-Time Ordinance That Is Still Law of Colony
HONGKONG
INVENTION ADDS NEW BEAUTY
As
S the result of a Hongkong invention, the beauty of floodlighting during future celebrations, such as the Coronation in May next year, will become greatly enhanced.
Reproduced on this page is a photograph of Nelson's Column in the centre of Trafalgar Square, London, employing the new invention.
The system is the result of experiments and investigation by Mr. H. Martin, Superintending Electrical Engineer at H. M. Dockyard in Hong- kong-
By means of metallic masks set inside a spot- light, the invention makes it possible to through an exact figure of light much in the same way as is done with a magic lantern.
If a statue is to be illuminated. » minlature
replica is' masked inside the spotlight.
The beam of light, accuractely fortised upon the statue, brilliantly floodlights it, leaving the
surroundings in complete darkness.
Floodlighting has been somewhat
murred in the past by the fact that
Reporters Try It Out
TWO Hongkong “Tele.
graph" reporters went into three hotels last night! to test the application of a law that came into force in 1917.
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music from The Hongkong Hotel
Z.E.K. PROGRAMME
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 356 metres (845 Kilbeycles:
5-R p.m. European Programme. 5-7 p.m. A Relay of the long- kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
Harry Roy's Tiger p.m.
When the Liquors Consoli- Ragamuflins,
Fox-Trot Metley, Memories of dation Ordinance, 1911
You; Hain; Goodbye Blues; It Don't Amendment was
before mean a thing: Happy Feet: Every- body loves my baby: I got Rhythm; Legislative Council during Fox-Trol Medley. the War, it created a consi- derable stir and was hotly opposed by the Unofficials.
7.20 p.m. "Revudeville" Memories. 7.30 p.m. From the Studlo, A Violin and Plantforte Reeltal by Jose Radesky and Mona Maclean.
Programme
Elegie Dance No. 5
Violin Solos-- Massenet: Hungarian .Brulans; 4. Viento
8 p.m. Local Time Simal, Well-
By its passage, the sale of Valse Parisienne Roberts; 1. Ideal ......Tosti: The Hea Liquor in Public Bars of any. Del Riego; 3. Hotels in Hongkong became an offence, not only on the Memories of Leharrr. Hall part of the licensee of the ther Report, Stock Quotations and hotel, but also on the part Announcements. of the person to whom the shing Theatre (Chinese). Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, floodlit by the liquor was supplied. system invealed by, Mr. II. Martin, of Hongkong
it has been imposible to throw t|FAR EAST AVIATION
Boodlit abjeet into clear relief with-
out also lighting some of the sur-
rounding objects,
The system Inventeri by Mr. Ma this already employed in Hongkong,
it "Sleimar Headlamp." as the new Invention in called, being employedį to plek out the clock at the lower" Penk Tram Station with a perfect ritele of light.
The system was successfully tried! nut,
it cum- however, long before
Dur-!
mercially came to Hongkong.
the recent floodlighting of Lon-|
don a 200-walt projector
Dutch Line May Soon
Extend To Hongkong
And Australia
Mr. I of
Martin's design was set up on Ad-
the central of
1
In effect, "chits" were barred from hotels unless the purchaser of liquor was a bona fide hotel resident, or had ordered a meal costing at least 30 cents.
PENALTIES
Heavy penalties were provided for offences,
8.05 p.m. A Relay from the Ko
1 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-10 p.m. European gramme from Z.E.K. on A quency of 6-10 Kilocycles. 8.95 p.m. Songs by Ashley (Tenor).
Pro-
Fre-
Robert
1. Moon for Sale: 2. Take a Mil- Hon: 3. Birl on the Wing: 4. Whh all my heart.
8.18
p.m. Banje Salos by Eddy Peabody.
1. Many hoppy returns of the day; Some of These
Thant law is still in furce, at-12. Blaze away: 3. though enforcement has become a days; 4. St. Louis Blues.
8.30 p.m. Overlure "Manfred" tend lotter.
(Schumann, Op. 115),
843
from
Nevertheless, any "wowser" ean
Excerpts p.m. 1ay a complaint under Section V
& Sullivan). "Patience" (Gilbert of the 1917 Ordinance if he wit-
Overture; The Soldiers of Chr nesses you signing a chit for a
Queen; If you want a receipt for that popular mystery; When 3 rst Because it is illegal to sign chils put this uniform on; Am : alone and nuralty Arch and used to illuminate Singapore it is reported that iter for Commerce, Dr. Earle Page. drink you have just consumed.
Public metaservert?; If you're anxious for the
for K.... may soon be who is now in London.
liquor consumed in FUTURE CO.OPERATION
to Shine. accompanying to given permission to extend its
At this conference the question of Bars without
9 p.m. A Relay of the Daventry Australian co-operation
of chits so that, today, aNews Bulletin and Announcements,. ment
a (Copyright by Reuter). K.L.M. was discussed. The K.L.M. meal, no Hotel can sue for pay- hondquarters in Amsterdam are
dent that more cospernikin in Aus-"chit" transaction is merely
goodwill one between retailer and insofar as hotels are
Nelson's Statue in Tenfolgar Square.
As can be seen from the plate | Europe-Batavia service to Dar graph reproduced on this page, the
win. Sydney and Melbourne, in effect was a striking on,
Australia, and Hongkong in the
SOLICITOR TAIPAN'S FORTUNE IN TRUST
Far East.
The K.L.M. has been anxious to ex-1 tend its service to Australia and the Ens for many years. Hefore the 1m- perial service was ready the Royal Netherlands Air Line made a most suc-1 cessful fight to Canberra. Sydney, Melbourne and other capitals in the Fokker. "Abel Tasman."
The first Imperial experimental
fight met with a mishap and Air- Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford
with the
tenlin will be possible in future,
Several Australian Authorities purchaser,
9.20 p.m. Old Musical Comedy Hits by the New Mayfair Orches
tra.
9.15 p.m. A Recital by Mademoi- selle Lucienne Boyer (Soprano),
think that a K... service to Auн-concerned.
the 1. Mother of Pearl-Selection; 2. 10 it
years since is many tralia, covering the distance
hesen rigidly Erick Charell's "White Horse, Inn": Sydney in about seven days, com- Ordinance pared with 12 by Imperial-Qantas, observed. Many high Government 3. Bow Bells-Selection. would be of great value for carry-el-isis, in common with the public ing urgent mails.
in fact, quite cheerfully, The bulk of the mails would still have.
perhaps unwittingly, be carried by the Quantas-Imperial although service because the K.L.M. postage fee broken the law during the past de would be double that of the other ende by slipping in for a swift (Sarvil): 4. Si Pelite (Bayle). ervice.
ane".
the time the Imperial Airways
NO DIFFICULTY. INCOME TO WIFE
Smith few from Australia to Sing service of four and a half!
The "Telegraph" reporters ex- Singapore and seven days to AND FATHER
pore to pick-up-the- maila. from the.
Australia is in operation, the KLM perienced no difliculty in obtaining Stranded Imperial inchine.
expects to be covering the Amater-liquor, despite the fact that they the "boys" who served The late Mr. C. E.
The Amsterdam newspaper, Zele-dam-Batavia and Amsterdam-Hong-warned
Plesman, kong run in three days, with the Grist, formerly of Messrs.graf, learns that Mr. Wilkinson and Grist, who director of the KL.M., has been in latest types of Douglas liners, which them that they were breaking the
conference with the Australian Minis- would
L.!
died at the War Memorial Nursing Home on March 16 this year, drew up his last Will and Testament while he was Home on leave in 1933.
at night.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
THE PLEASURES OF LIFE, LIKE ITS SES, MUST HE PICKED CAREFULLY OR THEM WITH
MAY PRICK US
THEY THORNS..
Woo Lau, aged eight, has been ad- mitted to the Government Civil Hox.
He left local estate to the value of $263,100. With thei exception of 100 Hongkong and pind suffering from injuries xeeplyed Shanghai Banking Corporation when he was knocked down, by car No. shares and 400 Union Insurance 78 Hennessy Rond yesterday. of Canton shares, which are left
A woman, Lau Yuct, aged 34
is
The final showings of "The Road Gang" are being put on at the Queen's Theatre to-day and, not "The Preview
This picture Murder Mystery". due to start to-morrow.
Wang Chi-ying, 28, atone-cutter, has been admitted to the Shing Mun Hospital suffering from injuries re
reived when a truele ran into him at the new Shing Mun Valley,
law.
They stepped into one hotel, or- dered and consumed a round of drinks, and before signing the chit volunteered with pencil by the "boy" said:
You
་་
savce no belong proper
The process was repeated twice, sign chit? Policeman can eatchce".. the same formula being used.
These were the replies they el-
1. Parlez-Mol d'Amour (Lenoir).: Dans la Fumee (Bos); 3. Sans To
10 p.nt. Big Ben from Daventry. Close Down.
ZEESEN PROGRAMMES
Far Tastern Special programmes. steners will be broadens from invesen, an
futwa
וונון
for
Dan 19,74 m 15,200 kc 1.30-19.m
17.74 m 15,200 ke 4.45-8.10 p.m. 31.45 m 648 ke 4.45-4.15 p.. 10.74 m 15200 ke D.-12.30 ..
BOUTI! ABIA ZONE
DIN
DJB
Selli
Aala Zone, broademat from DJB.. (10.74 metres) and DJN (81.46 metres).
4.38 p.m. German Folk Bang
p.m. Music by the Reichswehr. 5.30 p.m. News and Review in English. 3.45 p.m. New Velres at the Microphone.
.30 p.m. Aporte Review.
0.10 p.m. News and Review in German,
7 .. Concrri of Light Music.
p.m. Now in English.
8.15 p.m. Greetings to our Listeners in
Australia.
8.20 p.m. Concert of Light Mudle (con
tinued),
FAST ASIA ZONE
East Asis Zone brandgaal through Dig an 10.02 metre (16,280 ka, 1.80-3 p.m. Concert,
9.05 m. German Falk Song, 1.1.m. Greetings to our Listeners In
the "Far Ekai."
First "boy":"I don't know." news at 2 p.m. Second Boy:"Me no savyy" Third boy:-Took chit around to other reporter."
Leading Hongkong hotels were bitterly opposed to passage of 1917. from Ordinance. and characterised
Wong Ho, aged 12 years, was ad
the
Civil Government
As
to his father, Mr. E. J. Grist, years, was admitted to the Govern the entire state has been leftment Civil Hospital yesterday suffer-mitted to in the hands of Trustees, who ing from injuries alleged to have been Hospital yesterday suffering
a moving tram in Des Voux Road that they lost too much are to hold it in trust to pay one inflicted by a number of unknown men injuries recived when he jumped off ridiculous Government argument half of the income to his Mother and women in Chung Hing Street.
to Mrs. Grist.
To-morrow being
the
under chit system.
French
West yesterday. **
BAG OF CHITS and the remaining half to his
For obstructing the police by giving widlow.
nhawker warning of the approach National Day, the French Consulate
During the debate the then Claud Furniture, cars, horse and of the police, So Shing, 10, stall will be closed to business. The Con-
was fined $0, in default sul for France, M. Jules Leurquia, Colonial Secretary, Mr. other personal effects are leftprisonment for a month, by Mr. C. will be "At ilome" at 12 Peak Road. Severn produced in Legislative Council a bag containing chits B. Burgess at the Central Magistraes from 11.311 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
amounting to about $3,000, all to-day.
At The Central Magistracy to-day, signed at one hotel and practically attack A chopper
on n man ut Lai Hing-choi, 32, barber, was re-irrecoverable,
In the early days of the enact- Chan Hung lane about 9.30 o'clock manded for a week on a charge of the j last night resulted in a hawker, Chui possession of 299 counterfeit 10-cent Wai, aged 25 years, being numitted to coins. Sgt. Shepherd told Mr. G. R.ment, the law was evaded by the the Government Civil Hospital. His Burgess that the ease was one for process of signing an "1.0.U." fer assailant, an unknown man, made his committal. scope, and has not yet been arrested.
NEW BRITISH FLEET
TO EMBODY LATEST DISCOVERIES
London. July 12. "Britain will have practically a new
A fine of $26, in default a month's fleet strong enough to go anywliere to carry out its duties any condi- Admitting the theft of a radiator imprisonment, was imposed by Mr. tions," said the First Lord of the cap from private motor-car No. 156 Burgess at the Central Magistracy ta- Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare at parked in Chatham Rond outside the day on Tung Cho, 31 for the tareeny Southampton to-day.
Rosary Church' yesterday, Li Sang, of seven receipt books belonging to Set. Guild and He declared that it was a matter aged 17, unemployed, was fined $. in Europe Arms.
default two weeks hard labour when Tung spoke very good English and the new fleel should be built upon he was brought before Mr. E. Him-described him as a "calliwag whose right lines and every possible effort sworth at the Kowloon Magistracy father would have nothing to do with
by the this
Detective-Sergeant him." is being made to benefit
of life and death-
for Britain
thut
teachings of practical experience
and from the discov rles and inven
tions of science.
He
upon
morning. Haynes prosecuted.
You,
The assault charge against Wong
the equivalent of the amount of the chit. Gradually, however, the ok chit system came back into use, until to-day it is almost universally employed.
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE- WITHOUT CALOMEL
ing You Could Push a· Bus Over And You'll Jump Out of Bed Feel- The liver should puur out two pinta ọf quli bile into your boweli dally. If Usta bila is not flowing freely your food doesn't digest. It Just decays in the bowels, Cina balonlá up your stomach, You get, constipated. Your whole system is poligned and you feel sour, aunk kid the world locka punk,
Halle, fizzy értaka. Palalabia laxatives and harsh pergatives are makeshifts, A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes the famou, aure deling Carter's Little Liver Fills to get those two pints of bile flowing freely and make you feel "un and up". Harmless, contio, yet amazing in mak ing bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills, Look for the name Carter's un
Charged before Mr. Macfadyen at Chun, 30, unemployed, was withdrawn sald, "We must remember that the Kowloon Magistracy to-day with when he appeared before Mr. C. B. the larceny of a wristlet watch from Burgess at the Central Magistracy the British Empire depends
Wong Pak-sum, aged 21, electrician, today. Wong was convicted on Fri the sen for its existence. If sea
11 21-year-old unemployed man, Loday of bag-snatching in Caine Road communications are cut we have n
was given sentence of one and remanded for examination as to supply of raw materials that wh
ais fitnesa for a thrashing. *This only last three months, but that supply month's hard labour. Inspector Shan
was sentenced to six would be more than we should need, non stated that defendant was sleep-morning ho because in six weeks we should being on a camp bed cutside No. 143 months imprisonment in addition to Shanghai Street about 3 am, on 20 strokes of the birch. The assault dead from starvation."
Sunday, when defendant put his hand case was withdrawn by Sub-Inspector He conchided with a tribute to into complainant's facket pocket and Kirby when Mrs. Tam Siu-yu, the Mr. Baldwin, British Premier, far tried to take the walch. Complainant complainant, said in evidence that better than the pacifists he repre- was apparently only dozing, for he there was no amault but that she had sents the forces of peaco in the immediately neized defendant and slipped to the ground by the jerk; "he red package, country." Reuter's Special.
handed him over to. a constable. when Wong grabbed her bag,"
9.15 pm 8.30 .
News and Review in German. "Jorg verlell."
10 p.m. News and Review in Engilah on
DJN
10.15 p.m Toder In Germany.
10.30 p.m. "Wem Gott will rechte Gumt
ezwrtness ....
f. p.m. Dance Masie,
$1.45 pm Sporta teriew.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wave-lengths and frequencies
Wavelength
are sheerved by Daventry.
Frequency
6,950 *.c. 49.59 melzen 31.65 meiten
0,GR3 k... 21.30 metres
Rign
CSA
GSB
9,610 k..
THC
CSD
CRE
11.750 11,805
kic k.c.
25.53 mitres 25.28 metres.
16,540 k...
19.82
mitro
650
11,790
GKI
11,474k.e.
metr
GAI
14.200 k.e.
19.80
murtzen
C83
21,510 kA.
19.00 mtir
Get
#.110 k.c. 20.10 metres
Transmission · 1
(4.5.2, 0.8.3.)
16,80 meiren
11.07
12.30 p.m. 1 Den. "Spanish Landscape,” 1p.m. Algernon Itlackwood. 1.15. ritish Componeer.
2.10 p.m. The News and Annoucements, Gemwich Time Blenal at 2.15 p.m.
Transmission 2
(G.8.0., Q.8.11.}
7 p.m, Big Ben.
་
"Telling the Tale"!
7.30 p.m. The Whithy
chestra.
Municipal
A p.m. English Humorist-$6,
8.15 pm. A teclist by farstd Fairhurst
(VIoHo)-
H.10 p.m. "Road House,"
Greenwich Time Signal at D.
The News and Announcements. 9.20 p.m. Arthur Salisbury, and hic Dre
chestra,
9.28 p.m. Hppz1k Talk.
Transmision 3
(G.9.G., 0.9.P., (1.B.D.).
10 p.m. Big Ben. The ..C Midland
Orel.catrs.
11 pm. "Agriculture in the Brith Ilta:
Hamming Up."
11.1 p.m. A Recital of Wilfrid Hander-
song's Hongu.
11.30 pm. The Hungaria Gipsy Orchestra, 21.60 p.m. The News and Announcement.
Greenwich Time Signal wt 12 .. 1315 a... The Taldere Schwiler Biring
Bastet.
12. a.m. Kipling Reading.
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STOCKS OF RAWLPLUGS AND TOOLS-
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The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
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Farm's Soda Fountain......