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OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN.

21, Queena Kasd Central Hong KODE

No. 18,133:

The China Mail.

December 14, 1920, Temperature 55

ESTABLISHED

Barometer 30.14

Rainfall 000 inch.

1845

Hamidity 62

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 1990.

二拜機

·號四十月二十年十二百九十一英

MISSING LINK.

APE MAN IN CHINA...

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HIGH-CLASS CONFECTIONERY

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OF THE FINEST QUALITY, NEATLY PACKED

it ELEGANT BOXES of 1 h, 2 lbs, & 4 lba.

The first shipment of really high-class Chocolates that are EQUAL TO PRE-WAR QUALITY.

At very reasonable prices.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

(THE EUROPEAN GARAGE)

Motor Cars for Sale and Hire. Garages. at

res Vax Road.

Tels. 452 & 3552.

26. Nathan Road, Koloo

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA

IS NOW LOCATED AT

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Opposite to LOCK HING & CO.

YEE SANG FAT CO.

XMAS GIFTS

FOR EVERYBODY

FANCY HANDKERCHIEFS SILK SHAWLS & SCARFS DRESSING GOWNS AND DRESSING CASES

XMAS CARDS

in beautiful designs Many other Xmas Gifts.

YEE SANG FAT CO.

Queen's Road and D'Aguilar Street.

MiseGregor's V.Q.2.

WHISKIES.

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When you want to buy

LTD: TEL-75.-

DIAMONDS, WATCHES & JEWELLERY

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do not forget that you have to take more care in the choice of your dealer than you would with other merchandise. Buy reputable goods from a reputable firm

"ULLMANN & 00.

French firm, Eat, 1850.

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION FROM AMERICA.

December 14, 1919, Temperature 60.

初一十申庚次年九盧民奉

CHAUFFEUR'S JOY RIDE.

THE DOLLAR.

Today's closing rate 3: 11/16

To-day's opening rate 3: 11:13

FURIOUS DRIVING.

TELL-TALE TYRES AND RADIATOR.

BBY'S ORDEAL.

1

ONE EFFECT OF "THE MOVIES.”

Tied hand and foot with strips torn from bis own shirt, and bearing traces of a beating with a piece of wood, a boy of 4 was found naked

Before Magistrate Smith at the STRIPPED AND BEAT N. New York, Nov. 4.--The expedi Magistracy this morning, Mr. King, tion sponsored by the American ASP, charged the driver of motor Museum of Natural History, which car No. 1, owned by the Kowloon will set forth for China next Febr-branch of the Dragon Motor Garage, ry, will search not only for fossils with furious driving at 9.20 p.m. of the ape-man, regarded by biologists yesterday. Mr. A. A. Wison, in the chain assistant manager of the Dragon as the missing link of evolution, but will study the abori-Motor Car Co. admitted that ginal tribes now said to be fast dis- the defendant was in charge of car appearing in China

No. 1, but, asserted that he was not We know as little about some of on duty at night, when the car the living natives as about the fossil was driven by another chauffeur history of the country." says Mr. Roy who was present in Court. According Chapman Andrews, who will lead the to the time sheet, the car left the expedition. Long before the Chi-garage soon after 7 o'clock and nese arrived, Chins was inhabited by returned at 8.45. It did not go cut aboriginal tribes, which were pushed again that night. Therefore the car somb and west, just as the Indians seen by Mr. King could not have were driven westward by white men been car No. L iwho advanced across the American

Continent.

į

a Salford playing field, wires a Daily Chronicle correspondent..

"It is one of the most remarkable stories I ever heard." a police super- intendent told the local magistrates when Horace Cannon, an 11-year-old schoolboy, was charged with assault. Mr. King was positively sure that ing Ernest Wolstenholme. he had made no mistake, stating that | On Saturday night, he said, the Remnants of nearly 30 of these he actually chased the car through small boy was playing near his home. tribes, such as Lotos, Mosos, Lisos several roads before he lost sight of when Cannon came along took him

It. Then, aware that car No. 1 was by the hand, and walked him to the? and others are rapidly disappearing owned by the Dragan, he went to the Bolton-road playing ground. and the expedition expects to study

garage where he examined the car. Here he striped the child naked, I them before they become extinct."

Both the radiator and the tyres wire tressed him up, beat him, and ran Describing these aborigines. with

The baby was found by a The night was fairly sway. still warm whom he has huntes, Mr. Andrews cool. Therefore, had the car returned man who was attracted by his said they are totally unlike Chinese, to the garage at 8.45 as alleged, the moaning. having tall and slender bodies, long tyres, if not the radiator, should have

When the police traced Cannon faces, pauician roses, and other char-Been cool at 9.25 when he saw the he admitted what he had done, and acteristics of Caucasian blood...

said he did not like Wolstenholthe because he was a coward. He added

like that at the pictures."

THE CRADLE OF MANKIND.

car in the garage.

Mr. Wilson called the garage clerk

JEYES

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HARMLESS "TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS, SAFE AND` CLEANLY TO USE, BUT MOST EFFECTIVE IN THE

Mr. Andrews says that scientific to prove that the car returned to the that he had seen cowards treated EXTERMINATION or COCKROACHES:

J

men are now agreed in the belief that garage at 8.45 and did not leave

The magistrates remanded Cannon the oldest prehistoric remains of man, again that night. It was not possible and of many beasts, lie somewhere for the car to have left the garage for a medical examination. within the Great Central Asiatic Pla- without the clerk's knowledge. Mr!! reau, where few white men have ever! Wilson added that while he did not trust the drivers, be trusted the clerk. penetrated.

and was sure he spoke the truth when he said that the car was back at the garage at 845.

returning to the garage,

Mr. Wilson said that that would not

be possible without his knowledge,

clerk in the Kowloon garage to

CANTON CITY.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

PROVISIONAL CHARTER ADOPTED.

According to the Canton Times

One of the reasons why title is known of China's fossils and those of interior Asia is that material of this

Mr. King said that there were two sor: is carefully concealed by the Chinese, who term the relics.. dr. men sitting in the front part of the gon's bones," and use them for medi- car when he saw it at 920 It was quite possible that the driver was cinal purposes, said Mr. Andrews.

Ore result expected is the educa-giving a friend a joy ride before i tion of Americans in a knowledge of the immerse continent across the Paci fc. Whether success or failure meets the attempt to find the "missing link," as it was the practice of the Cantous will be governed under a hundreds of thousands of specimens telephone, to the Hongkong office new system of municipal government of Asiatic animal and plant life are to

as soon as a car left the garage, also by the beginning of next year. Tha be collected and brought to America. as soon as if returned. It was enter-change in the form of city adminis These it is planned are to be placed in his Hongkong time sheet that tration was definitely decided upon at a recent session of the newly in the proposed $1,000,000 Hall of the car returned at 8.45.

Legislative Commission, Asiatic Life in this city.

Mr. King maintained that car No. created

which has adopted the proposed Headquarters for the expedition are 1 was the car he saw. The defence Provisional City Charter framed by to be at Peking. The work of the he said, could not get away from the expedition is to continue for five fact that it was impossible for ther. To Sun, the present Resident years. The first year will be devoted tyres to be still warm at 9.25 if the Director of the Municipality and Director General of the "Board of to studies in paleontology and zoology car returned to the garage at 845. in China. The second year the work The Magistrate decided to convict Conservancy Works of Kwangtung. is to be carried into Mongolia, with and imposed a fine of $25. geologists added to the field staff. Then for the next three years the entire force will be scattered in vide- spread sections of Asia:

DUTCH SHIPPING.

PROPOSED NEW SERVICE.

JAVA TO JAPAN DIRECT.

The new city charter provides for ja commission form of government composed of six members with the Mayor as the chairman. Each of the six members will head one of the following departments: Finance, WARWICK COMEDY COMPANY. Public Works, Public Safety, Public

THEATRE ROYAL

CAPE. DREW ON LEAVE."

There was again a good house at the Theatre Royal last evening when the Warwick Comedy Company successfully presented "Captain Drew

Utilities, Pablic Health and Educa- tion. The present police administra- tion will be reorganized under the new Department of Public Safety, probably with General Ngai Bong- ping, the present incumbent, at the head of the new department.

The new system will be effective on leave." It is a bright comedy, full during a period of five years during A plan to initiare a direct shipping of amusing situations which the com- which time, the mayor and depart- service between Java and Japan is) being discussed. In this connection, Pany made the most of and which mental heads wil hold office under were readily appreciated by the appointment from the Civil Governor, the Kokumin calls attention to the audience. The plot, though by no It is the intention of Governor Chen opinion expressed by Mr. Kaning, means new. was well worked out. Chiang ming to introduce direct pop- Director of the Dutch Shipping Com-It concerns a husband who neglects ular elections in choosing the heads pany. in an interview, who said )— his wife and is apparently surprised of the city government after this Dutch Indies is anxious for com- when she seeks diversion elsewhere period of five years, so that the citi mercial co-operation with the Powers, In this case Mrs.Moxon found pleasure may be able to control their especially with Japan. The former in the society of Captain Drew who own government,

Besides the commission, an Advisory country is thrown open to the world was on leave with the firm intention

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for economic expansion, while the of enjoying himself. As a part of Board of thirty members, represent- Latter is bent on the establishment of his amusement he makes love to Mrs ing different classes of the popula a foreign market. A direct shipping Moxon but later, finds that the joke tion is to be created within three A household months after the coming into effect service between Japan and Java has gone too far. would, therefore, contribute a great tragedy seems certain but explana- of the new charter. The members deal towards the development of tions follow supported by a firm pur. of this Advisory Board are to be pose of amendment on the husband. made up of ten citizens appointed commercial interests:

The part of "Captain Drew was by the Governor, ten elected by the "The proposal is being enthusias- tically welcomed by all Dutch ship- admirably played by Mr. N. Thorpe citizens at large, and ten chosen by ping concerns and it is hoped that the Mayne. That of Mrs Moxon was different public associations, who embusiasm, will be reciprocated by allotted to Miss Jono Mayne who will represent the merchants, labour- made a delightful study of it. Mring classes, educators, lawyers, Japanese as well."

Frank Thorpe Wheatley was as physicians and engineers.

To guard against misuse of public funds, a special Department of Audit is to be created, the auditor holding office under the Governor's appoint- ment

$

It is further reported that the mem- good as Mr. Moxon. The minor bers of the Dutch Japanese society parts were all well taken and helped will confer in the near future to con-

in the general success of the piece. sider-the proposition. ķ

Tonight the Company presents Oscar Wilde's A woman of no im- portance" a satirical work which WHITBY'S FMOUS ABBEY. should command a good house,

'XPERT "OHEME.

PLAN TO PRESERVE - RUINS.

Mr. Wakamiyo, editor- of the Chinco, is responsible for the state- ment that Japan has no book worth

the

It is expected that the new system

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ments of new city heads an nounced within a few days..

name th self-government. The Tientsin. community bas although she had that system for the sustained a geit loss in the death It is announced that an extensive past 30 years, a fact which throws a on December 4, whilst under an scheme for preserving the ruins of light on the national characteristic anaesthetic, of Miss K. A. Jones, for Whitby Abbey is to be put in hand of the Japanese. Not only are they many years Matron of the Victoria at once, and will probably occupy ex anable to invent systems and institu Hospital, says the N. C. Sunday pert workmen for five or six years. tions of their own, but it is beyond Times. Many a one in this town Early in the year the Abbey, their capacity to make a special study had cause to be thankful to her for One of the most faragus of Yorkshire of those institutions they have in the unremitting care that the be

| remains, was transferred to the ported from abroad, he thinks. The guardianship of the Office of Works only concern which the Japanese Enough of the chance), north fra shows in civic administration, Mr. sept and nave remsias to show Wakamita says, is in matters relat how.magnificent this old Benedictine ing to fattige wat least those who | foundation must have been

invent the tages do

stowed upon them whilst they were under her as patients, and the deceased lady was most popular with all sections of the community, a number of whom have been at one

ime er another under her care,

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