DONALD DUCK
·AH--A BITE!
Oye 1999 Walt Diren's
Fire On The Thetis Was Probable
London, Jime 11. After the conference at Birken- hend it was stated that it is improb- able there would be further Thetts salvage attempts for anolber three weeks as the difficulties of salvage were very great-enter.
Possibility Of Fire
Lontion June 9. A suggestion boat are droite out in the Thetin is disalt with by Reur- Admiral Fraser. Third Sea Lord, in an Interview on his arrival at Bir- kenhead to attend the conference in connection with salvage operations.
Rear-Admiral Fraser said, "It was definitely not a re as we under stand the term. It was what known as an electrical fire. Arnold. said
little smoke
Is
i
A WHOPPER!
MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG
2nd-Up very betubes and though bee still for there is promise of
a fine duy, for which, if it bee 50, thanked For this COM- God hee timed foggy and damp doe sadly irk my rheumatiei: isoukles and more- Bu mo:1 over dog eatise nice to
Reading 1 the nelancholique. i newes shroźn. I due find, one fond column upon food which states that tea and coffee bre veritable patrons. But Lord! thus world hath done pretty well upon them these tro hundred years or more. And if one did lend an ear to all the faddiskene woye
to dife of starvation.
3rd-Much cheered to find that the day dawns for and Lord! how ferent an der I feel as I start But when I cou out from my house. rome, upon the other side of the Peake by Pallorie's Corner, And a
who was the last to coaster about some out stuck upon that he saw a
he left the fore
escape chamber. Smoke would comt from what was really a short-circuit, probably caus- ed by a little water getting over one parts. of the auxiliary machinery There was smoke but no flame and it was simply an ordinary short-cir cuit."Reuter.
CLOTH ROLLS STOLEN Magistrate Believes Story
Told by Dealer
Holding that defendant had given a reasonable explanation as to how he had come by the stolen property, Mr. E. Hinisworth, discharged a cloth dealer, Chan Pun, when he appeared before him at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday.
Chan was charged with receiving four rolls of cloth on April 28, and seven rolls on May 2, the property of the Tai Shing Cloth Factory.
Detective Sergeant C. Dowman pro- secuted, and Mr. G. S. Ford appeared for Chun.
the wall of the house where once Mr. S. Stratap the chirurgeon did mcg reside And God knows there are few of the old tanbenities of the Peake left, bot to plaster it with posters is as naughty a thing as ever
heard. But it seins in these evil tays that the bleat of the word Charity doth cover all, for when 1 a caine to my Offer and step from my Hackney I am beset by no less than six small Chinese girls for some charity, to which indeed, I had given
Tho'
I would not wear the badge. And I must needs push my way! through as they take not no for an answer though stated in my best and most courteuus Cantonese. And I days Day: am minded that there should be stopped. For the sellers
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 10,- 1939.
By Walt Disney
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
Look Thro The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
"Don't forget to fill the ice trays again-you know you'li
want some cubes for your head in the morning!"
bee far more of a pest then the poor Pootung Affair
hawkers who are prisoned for their importunance. Reading in the newes sheetes I see that Vesuvius is in erup-i on but I doubt not that Signor Mussolini will speedily forbid It God
ail shall bee well. To the Races and take my nuncheon in Mr. Caldbeck's box where is, as ever, the best of cheer. But Lord! how I don lose doc nothing iny money for 1 can right, and my billets in the sweep- stakes are of no profitt. After how- ever 1 doe gue by motor coach with young Mr. Caldbeck. Mr. Brummell and a pretty lady to the Snake Pit where I drink a cup or two thence home to dinner and
Heung Yu, assistant, manager of the Tol Shing Factory in Tam Kung Road, said the factory was broken about 40 when into on April 18, rolls of cloth were stolen. A report was made to the Kowloon City-Police-rouding for a space in Mr. Swin
burne's poems, un to bed. Station, and on May 26, as a result of information, he went to No. 34, Wing On Street, where he identified eight rolls of cloth as part of the stolen property.
Defendant had had no previous dealings with their firm.
Mr. Ford: So he would not know your trade mark, would he?-I don' know. We have been selling this cloth in Hongkong for over 10 years.
Defendant, in evidence, said he was introduced to a travelling trader by u relative, and had bought the cloth after having been shown some samples and the original roll. had no suspicion that it was stolen property,
But
BRITAIN
IS BLAMED
the
case
Spokesman's Regret
June 10, 189.
BATCHELORS
BAKED BEANS 45c. per tin
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
QUITE UNGOVERNABLE
Year in Gaol for Assault And Snatching
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Ilongtong Stock Exchange weekly report issued yesterday says:
"You seem to be entirely un- In spile of the break occasioned goverable. From your record you by the celebration of His Majesty's appear to intend to lead your own birthday and the preceding hält fe, regardless of the law and of holiday on Wednesday, our market other people," said Mr. R. A. D. displayed considerable activity and Early last sexalon it was very freuls Forrest at the Central Magistracy Hood advances were recorded in many to absorb any on two satisßech and, likely
Business Dona During The Week II.K. Bank $1,420, $1,400, $1,410, $1,420.
rumoured in society and in the lobble®}"spar- when dealing with a 15-stocks; closing with buyers still un-
of Porilement that the Queen had grown
charged
1-1-
tired of finding pocket money fur young counts of and assault in the offerings at reasonable rates,
Central district." Prince Albert Victor of Wales, popu-
After snatching money from a larly known as "Cellars and Cuffs," and year-old boy, the youth was alleged that in consequenco her 'Majesty's loyal to Enshed another boy over the Commons would be called upon to make eye with a piece of wire, causing a provision for the young man's needs bad cut, because he had, attempted on a scule befitting his position an eld- to seize him. est son of heir apparent to the throne
Inspector A. L. Hopkins produced
of the British Empire. Instantly the defendant's record, which revealed Radicals were up in arms; public meet that he had seven previous convie- Lugs were held, and some newspapers tions for larceny and snatching. For dared to hint that the most seenly and those offences he had been sentenced
to terms
Juvenile Remund in the natural course would be for Queen
Home,
and also ordered whippings.
Forrest Victoria, as head of the family, to pro-
Mr. Passing sentence,
order vide for its Impecunious melons by draw said."In
to safeguard the ing upon her hoarded millions.
public. I am going to sentence you
The Government, remembering the to six months' hard labour on cuch long and acrimanlous debate over the count, the terms to run consecutive- Just grant-that of Princess Beatrice ly. During your Imprisonment, you be under observation by the upon her maerloge to Prince Henry of will Baltenburg-bent before the storm, anil prison medleal officer." delegated Viscount Cross, the Queen's
favourite
rot
her
5150-
WHIPPINGS ORDERED
Found Alt for #whipping, Lau
Inform Minister, to Majesty that the time war pitious. The Queen atormet and vowed Ngan, 20, unemployed, was sentenced to two months hard labour and 10 her will should be done. The Govern- trokes of the cane by Mr. R. A. D.
Com-
mont stood Arm, and finally promise was effected whereby the House Forrest at the
Central Magistracy
ut
of Commons was not called upon to vote yesterday for theft of a pair of gold Sil, from a valued any money just then, but the whole car-rings, question of the grants to members of woman, Luk Sau-won, 40, in Con- the royal family was referred *elect committee, of which Mr. Gladnought Road, West Point, on June 5. He was also recommended for bunishment.
to
only been
atone is a member.
The fight, however, has
A similar sentence and recommen- the British protest regarding Tink-postponed, and it in practically certain
er's death reached him, the En- that a battle royal will be fought next dation were made in the ease of bassy spokesman stated.-Domei. session when the committee shall pre- Tsung Ngau, 25, unemployed, who
nent its report.
pleaded guilty to theft of a pair of Meanwhile, Prince Albert Victor is gold car-rings valued at $15 from Chan Yuk-lon, 40, In trying to oke out a living on a couple a Shanghai, June 9.
West Point, on of thousands a year allowed him by his Connaught Road, 4 spokesman's statement repented fatlier, and about as much, which June 6. the Japanese naval statement ex-grudgingly doled out quarterly, by his
Inspector W. Mahr prosecuted. pressing regret that the Anglo-Japan- parsimonious grandmother. ese incidents were tending to assume increasing gravity.
to the
en-
their
woman,
5 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1034.
Waterboats $8.
ILK. Wharves $110, $110, $11033. H.K. Docks $18, $18,10, $10. Providents $1.85, $4.00, $4.05. Hotels $5.00.
H.K. Lands $304, $304, $37,
Tramways
$37.10.
$18.00, $16.70. $17. $17.10, $17%, $17.20, $17.30. China Lights (Old) $8.00, China Lights (New) $5.70, Electries $50, $50, $50, $5034. Telophones (Old) $24. Cements $13.85, $14.
Dalry Farms (Old) $22, $22.10,
$22.20.
Watsons $8.35. $8.40, $8%, $8.70, $8.85. $8.80, $0.00.
- Govt. 34% lonn % prem.
Marsmans (H.K.) 4/-
Shanghai Cottons Sh.$100 ex, div."
Buyers
H.K. Banks $1,385 Unions Ins, $440
China Underwriters $1.45 Wharves $110
H.K.
H.K. Docks $184 Providents $4.05
ILK. Lands $37 Humphreys $8%
H.K. Tramways $17.15 -Star Ferries $80-
Yaumati Ferries $22.70 China Lights (Old) $8.00 China Lights (New) $5.70 Canton Ices $1.10
H.K Ropes $3.70 Watsons $0.05
Wing On (HK) $41 Wm. Powell Ltd. 10 cents Entertainments $6.80- Constructions $1
II.K. Govt. 4% loan 4% pm. Maramans 4/-
Sales
H.K. Banks $1,410
H.K. Wharves $111
H.K. Docks $18 Providents $4.05
I.K. Realtles $5.05 Youmati-Ferries-$23- Watsons $8
Sellers
H.K. Banks $1,400
Unions Ins. $405
H.K. Wharves $110/110%
H.K. Decks $18.35
I. & S. Hotels $5.80 H.K. Lands $37/37.15
H.K. Tramways $17 China Lights (Old) $8.85
China Lights (New) $5,85
H.K. Electries $50% Dalry Farms (Old) $22.20 Watsons $8.05
It is no libel on his Royal Highness (the capitals are de rigueur here to
investments. atute that he has failed most completely unreasonably high return. upon their He added, "The Japanese author to iro within his income. Such a pro- ilies cannot but show the deepest cending would. Indeed, be mosi un
10 YEARS AGO Tokyo, June 3. concern with the measures taken by princely and at shameful variance with
June 10, 1920. Questioned regarding the Pootung the British authorities in protecting the traditions of the house of Guelph.
AT THE CINEMAS "Riley The Cop" with J. Furrell Mac- geneldent in Shanghai, the spokesman, their interests in China, tending to When the Prince of Wales care of age to of the Foreign Omee said to-day that benefit the regime of Chiang Kai-Renoped into his royal pocket at onee he believed that it would not show shek. We hope that the British nu- the comfortably sunt of $4,000,000, the Donald and Louise Fazenda showing at "Lovely Mary" with Bossie Love, any further developments.
thorities will give: calm and careful accumulations during his minority of the Queen's Theatre;
"the revenues of his hereditary Duchy "most Terming
matter." un-reconstruction
of Cornwall. This big sum was spent William Halnes and Mary Alden show 4th. (Lord's Day)-Lay late my
with marvellous celerity, and His Royal Ing at the World Theatre; nuncheon having dis-fortunate," the spokesman hoped that Reuter,
"Blockery" with Lon Chaney showing guests for
Highness bas never since had such a
Albert Victor at the Star Theatre. balance at bis banker's. appointed mee at the fast minute. the affair would be settled between
Rates in Shanghai
has probably heard his father talk re- And nearly all day I doe fie in a long the Japanese and British authorities chair in my garden reading and concerned in Shanghai-Domel.
Chinese agents allegedly employed gretfully of the good times which fol
Alexandra ot by the Japanese
are owed his marriage to gendarmerie am sad at heart at sleeping.
befallen
Britain Blamed the the disastre that has
of the Denmark, the most charming Princess visiting all Chinese residents
A remarkable interview with the ex of modern times. If the father did not Thelis. submarine
districts, where among
Eastern
Shanghai, Shanghai, Jung 9.
Lalk, there wore plenty of people to Kaiser Wilhelm at Deorn, in which the many others died my old
friend
tell the lad all about it. What won- former German Emperor surveys the Japanese naval and diplomatie au-couraging them not to pay Cominander Hayter: At seven of the
the N. C. D. der, then, that the young Prince began political world at large and hints that clock to Mr. A. Jay's fint where thorities laid the blame for the re-municipal rates, says
to emulate the paternal prowess before nothing will stop Japan's ambitions in doe and him sore aflileted of a carcent rapid deterioration of the Anglo-News.
[Daily Mail, well-known for its advoca- still. These Chinese agents, it is learned, out of his teens, and is at it China, is published this morning in the uncie, so that he doth drink his Japanese relations in China at Brl-
tion of a policy of giving Japan absoj Hollands while leaning upon the tain's door by accusing Britons of
Usurers are very kind when dealing late liberty to do as she wills in China. ho suld. There Ino Is Mr. Nick, seeming "to be insisting upon their make house to house calls and in- Hemantelpiece.
recently from Shanghal and wee dou rights generally as if conditions were form the occupants that if they con- with the heir to a crewn. Albert Vic.It is useless to think,"
FUNCTIONS AT STANLEY much pleasant conversation normal, without realizing the serious- tinued to pay the rates as in the past, tor's "paper" does not nost around the "that growth of Japanese power have
The ex-Kaiser was extremely scep And thence hame where I doe muehness of the present state of affairs." the Japanese authorities would look money market; but it exists in plenty, China can now be prevented."
Mr.
Yoshlaki Miura, the Japanese upon this with dislavour and "mca- and in due season will have to be met.
There will be no function in the miss anv She-child for her husband
no accumulations of ducal or other re- Nation, and about its value in inter-
to- but seldom takes his dinner at home. Consul-General, called on Mr. Her-Bures would be taken to deal with The Prince, unlike his father, will have tical about the future of the League of
bert Phillips, the British Consul-uch "offenders." jand indeed nor do I
venues to draw upon when Queen Vic-national relationships. lle laughed at R.A. Sergeants Mess, Stanley As for as could be learned how-toria shall be gathered to her father, the folly of merely talking disarma-morrow. Functions will in futuro be fortnight, commencing 5th-Up very betimes and a fair General, this afternoon to file repre-
are still but he can count reasonably wonment when the nations were actually held once
June 18. day for which the Lord be thanked. sentations blaming the general Bri threatening me but I do inhale a incidents in Shanghul.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria must be miemment called Vapex which I This outlook is prevailing among the past, which leads to the bellef find nitghly comforting. This day the Britons in other parts of China, that the agents of the gendarmerie a very rich woman-probably the richest my sapers being ordered, I doe roe according to a spokesman of the Ja- have Instructions only to approach of her sex living. During the lifetime
stated that Chinese residents.
of her husband, Prince Albort of Saxe- to the Clubbe to be trimmed by the panese Embassy. He
In the Western
districts where Coburg-Gotha, she did not spend mure barber. but at the door 1 doe meet while the representations against the Mistress Addis and doc fall in talk general nature were not specifically houses, whilst actually in "Ta Tao" than one fifth of her income. Since ates must have saved quite three-fourths with her, and later comes her Lord related to the Tinkler case, Mr. Miura territory, enjoy the privileges of the his death, twenty-six years ago, sho and wee doe all drinke a glasse of was understood to have pointed out Settlement's public utilities, pay rates have to the Council, the occupants was to wine. And they being gone, to my that the Lunchong
the British animosity also been forced for a number of greatest possible surprise and plen- traceable to sure I find Knip there and all alone, against Japan, stace Tinkier, instead months already to pay rates to the as well, al- and soe wee too do drink a glosse of regarding the Japanese Navy as "Ta Tao" authorities together until her Lord comes all too a friend, went about antagonising its though they receive no privileges in soon. Home and when in my bed, I officers and bluejackels whose very exchange for these payments,
AWAY
with Beetles & Cockroaches
KIATINET POWDER
Sprinkis Kealings at eight
In all comart and crarice
and swasp them up in the
morning DEAD. ti leaver no after-smell.
Agents: Muller
Phipps (China), Ltd.
Later I doe feel a rheum in the head tish attitude for the recent series of ever, Japanese ratepayers
paying their rates punctually as inom fat legacy from his royal grand- very busily engages in re-arming.
mother.
incident
doe taken hot possott and aspirin presence in the Lunchong properly
and so to sleep.
was a result of a request from the B-A mighty disturbed night. British authorities.
renace
25 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1014.
Mi Bylvia Pankhurst, barns on suffragiste to the House of Commons.. After the procession had gone a mile, the police surrounded the litter and arrested Miss Pankhurst. A man was
tittor, headed a procession of East End
being full of nightmares and plan. Consul-General Miura called on Lt. Col. Hindmarsh Sails injured in the scuffle. tusles but when I am awakened at the British Consul-General before hatt_after_seven_of_the_clock-I-am
Trejoiced to find I have cured my
For England
-The-low-of-the Hongkong landlord A send-off that must have warmed presented in the contributed article published in another column, wherein threatened rheum in the bend, But tween gangsters and the police and] alost the weather is again changed one Chinese detective does most ex- his heart and dimmed his eyes was he is represented ne filling a role skin and given Lt. Col. J. H. L. Hindmarsh to the "Get-rich quick-Wallingford" in olice cellent well-slaying any man
1st one which is widely adopted in the to forge and raine. To my
Duother with his Commanding Officer of the somewhat late for mee who am wont striking down
arresting him. Kumaon Rifles, when he left Hong- Colony, but, as we have had occasion to bee at my desk before a-half after empty pistol---and eight. I am somewhat, perturbed to But to my mind flogging is too little kong on retirement yesterday. He to point out before, the high rants pro Are making aro down used here, though indeed His Honour and his wife sailed by the Empress valling in Hongkong do not necessarily enormous profits. The man who bought that my Antamoks
bear there to some labour the Chief Justice hath said. he will of Canada, taking the American route mean that all landlords,
hours proporty ten or fifteen years ago, again and trouble there, though it may bee a inflict it, aye, and has done so. But to England.
Every member of the company who and atfil holds it, is unquestionably pro- device to depreciate the shares before in this place there are a plenty of
Ating enormously by present day ren- bo spared from duty was tals, while those who have taken ad- n heavy buying. And should my the maudlin dotards. who would billets in the sweepstakes prove for- rather ten honest citizens were mur- could &tunate I am minded to buy ons ordered than one ruthless criminal present on No. 1 wharf and the corn-vastage of the steady rise in the two thousand more. A foule humid incur the Indignity ot fogging. Dany's Dieci away from the value of property in recent years owing pulled slowly away from the to the pressure of a growing popula accommodation with
Available altion проп day so that, though I do on dry gar-And these folic in their foolishness ns.
wharf. Mrs. Hindmaralı, ments at a half after five 1 am wet uigh make mee vomit. through when I doe rome to the 8th-His Majesty's Birthday is to floral tribute about her shoulders, bare undoubtedly realised handsome pays for the house property, the higher, Some be celebrated, and so I did wake at stood with her husband at the deck profits. The higher the price a man Cluble at a little after six.
and heard the rain rall. They waved farewell and were of course, must be the rentals to make pleasant talk in the Snake Pit with seven of the
*** well-known fact that during the past somd metrlo Ladies and thor: Latas dia pity the poor trope, though it glina erent parting cheer in roo- the Investment zemunerative. It tak fund so homem Bundičkanadiskanthangmire it was less-irksomoto ha pense, incendrehwis` two-and Low yents a very large amount of house BEETLES,MOTHS catly wish that my wife, poor wretch, wet with raina than sweat, And at
property, in the Colony-hee-shanged. hands at very high-prices, and it can FLEAS etc., aren Bags were here to join in these cheeful eight of the clock, I did hear, the a half years in Hongkong. His place
rain and pity the poor; spectators at the head of the Kumaon. Res 1 not be conndently, anid, we think, that 7th Reading in, the newes riceles But there being so much to doo now. Elled by Major J. Moffatt, the majority of landlords are getting.
0.B..
even at the present level of rentals, an BUT IT MUST BE KEATING'S
I find that there has been a fight bo- have no leisure to write moro.
KEATING'S
KILLS
companys."
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