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Those who are feeling depressed at the troubles through which we are passing would receive a good tonic

if they took a walk through White chapel. For on the notice board of a certain church there the fallowing piece of anatomical pleasantry has been painted:·

It is easier to smile than to frown!

Shy Lover.

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GENERAL ITEMS

The city of Montreal has adopted the town of Avion an outpost of Lens, where every Montreal Fattalion fought.

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The ex-Kaiser began sawing trees in the grounds of his Door residence is mail week for the first time since his wife's death.

WHKE OPIUM?

MAN PAID TO GO TO JAIL.

UNUSUAL POLICE COURT CASE

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THE CHINA MATU.

LOGEL KID GENERAL.

-A young farmer-from Cheung- shawan was yesterday removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from injuries received through being knocked down by motor car No. 415, } in Shanghai Street, Yanmati-

ROYAL AIR FORCE

MEMORIAL FUND.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HONGKONG'S CONTRIBUTION

A Queen's Road West grocer, was this morning charged before Magis-

The folkwing letters have been Three cases of enteric Tever, one trate Orme with having kept an British and the others Chinese, and received in acknowledgment of the opium divan, and had in his posses one case of paratyphoid fever, contribution made by residents in sion 2 quantity of non-Government Chinese, were reported during the Honghong to the Royal Air Force osium and opium dress. Four other 48 hours ended yesterday. Last Memorial Fund. The money was men were charged with smoking week eleven Chinese died from small raised through the agency of the opium on the premises.

pox, nine from plague, and two from Hongkong Aero Club, and forwarded The first defendant denied that he influenza. One non-fatal case of by H.E. the Governor at the end of was the keeper of the divan, or that plague, Chinese; two of small pax: January - the opium belonged to him. He said one British and the other Chinese; that he sublet the back portion of one of diphtheria, Portuguese; and the permises to the second defendant-three of paratyphoid fever, two He did not know what the second Japanese and the other Chinese, were defendant did there.

The second defendant admitted also reported.

that he was the tenant of the rear of

the shop. He claimed the opiam. but asserted that it was Government opiam

bought from a Chinese medicine shop. --

The other men admitted smoking optam.

, Arlington, St. S.W, L

March 21st, 192). "

Dear Sir Reginald Stubbs,-I write to convey to you the very warm thanks of the Committee of the Royal Air Force Memorial Fund for the generous donation contributed to the Fund by the residents in Hongkong.

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An ocean tragedy is reported to have occurred on the N.Y.K. steamer "Kaga Mara" It is stated that one of the passenges, an English lady. The Committee hope that you will either jumped or feli overboard while take proper opportunity of assuring the ship was in the Indian Ocean, the residents of the war sense of The tragedy occurred late at night their kindness, which has been excited Acting Chief Fræventive Office

and though the alarm was given and Watt, who made the

seizure, the boat stopped no trace of the by this liberal contribution. And said that he was not prepared to women could be found. It is further the Committer hope that the residents accept the first and secced def-stated that she had been married to will, in so far as it may be posible, endants pleas, as he Loped to Japanese student three days prior continue to give their valuable support Re-named ZR2 (Zeppelin Rigid prove to the Magistrate that to her departure from London and to the Fund.--I remain. Fours To frown you me 64 muscles, burd), the British airship R 38, which first defendast was the real culprit that her husband was also on board faithfully. only 13 to smile!

has been sold to the United States and the second defendant his returning to Japan.

(S) HIGH CECTS, will fy the Atlantic in July.

catspaw. When he raided the pre-

(Chairman.) mites at 7.30 last night the first

In spite of the vigilance of the defendant was in the front part special detectives and the placing Through pricking his finger with a

of the shop The second defendant of armed police on duty in the par shrub. ex-Chief Petty Officer Williamas standing at the entrance to mutuel booths, the picking of pocketr Tamblyn of Downderts. Cornwall the inner room in which be found at Kiangwan race course seems to died at Mymonth from lockjaw.

the other three man lying on a bed be on the increase if anything. Op To smoting aptum. In a drawer in the Saturday a thief got a record haul, counter be found some opium drasa robbing a foreign gentleman of over done up in paper packets. On top $800. Yet such is some people's of a safe behind the comter, he found fortune that this gentleman, fncreas- subsequently thrown away by the making good the unexpected loss, first defendant's wife while be was came away from the races $1,500 to searching another part of the shop the good on the day, reports the In the safe, he found a pair of scales the N. C. D. Nets. used for weighing opium. In the P presence of first defendant, the last

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7. Iddesleigh House,

· Castor St., SWI, 18th March. 1921.

"To make a shy lover propose a London woman has just tried a care- fully selected colour scheme in her had waited in vain for months for her drawing room. The lover to propose. She was deeply in laye, and began to seek sawe plan by which she could break down the The world-famous collection of reserve of the man. She knew that Egyptian and Oriental antiquities he loved her, but she was anxious belonging to the late Lord Amherst not to propose herself. She con- suited an artist friend as to whether / of Hackney to be sold at Sotheby's/a pot of prepared opium, which was ing bis later, wagers in the hope of ledge receipt this morning of your}

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In June,

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any special arrangement of colours would bring about the desired effect.

A Civil Service supplementary He. devised a colour scheme, con- sisting of apricot and golden walls, estimate" for £6,000, including $5.000 with black as a contrast, and softly for Dr. Addison's salary in his new

wisaned.

Sir R. E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G.,

Governor's House,

Hongkong.

Sir.-I have the honour to acknow,

registered letter No. 498/1920, dated 99th January, 1921, enclosing a cheque for £273 9. 9., being the amount subscribed by the residents of Hongkong.

Will you please accept on behalf

shaded lamps. The woman, who is position as Minister without portfolio, three defendants said that they each San Francisco Chamber of Commerc of the Chairman and Committee of

wealthy, had the scheme carried out, and, in her most alluring gown, received the shy lover in her pro posal room. His shyness was over. i come" and, according to plan, he of

The Government have no intention introducing legislation this year

The Foreign Trade Dept. of the annonces that the biggest excue

sion that has ever left San Francisco this Fund their very grateful thanks will sail from that port in Septembee for your extremely handsome sub- for a tour of the principal seapornscription, and we are the more grateful.

proposed. The wedding takes place to restrict the rents of business/Fut in his shop by second defendant of the Far East. For the purposs- for this help, coming as it does from

shortly. Crasces lands

prentises, Mr. Lloyd George stated in Parliament.

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paid 10 cents to 5rst defendant for smoking opium.

The first defendant, who denied this, said that the opium was

without his knowledge.

all the passenger accommodation the remote parts of our Empire at The Magistrate: If you did not aboard one of the Pacific Mail Com. time when money is extremely "krow the"oplum "was "in" "you"shop," Boys-and their fathers-will-be

surely, you cannot say that it was pany's new Shipping Board 535 dificult to obtain from the general

steamers has been reserved. Stops public at home. interested in the scheme of the Boys and girls ought to form rat-put there by second defendant.

will be made at Honolulu, Yokohama, Chilean Government to turn"Juan, killing Clubs and organise boats, The Magistrate said that excepting

The Committee would be grateful Fernandez, popularly. knowa as said Sir James Cantlie. at a meeting for his own admission there was Kobe Shanghat, Manila. Sourabaya, it, through the Fress or any other

Smurapore, Saigon, Fiong Hong Robinson Crusoe's Island," into a of the Vermin Repression Society at nothing to prove that the opinong, and Canton. The purpose of medium that you think fit, our thanks national park, and to provide it with fiordon-square, Wic.

belonged to the second defendant. the excursion is to cultivate friendly could be conveyed to as many of the caves, parrots, goats, and a Man

On the other hand, the evidence was relations with all Oriental peoples kind donors as is possible. Friday, just as it was when Crusoe

clearly against first defendant. was shipwrecked there more than

Inspector Watt said that second and to foster trade between San 200 years ago. The announcement

defendant had "done time" before Francisco and the Far East. of this scheme has stirred up the old

for the same thing, and it appeared controversy as to where Robinson

that first defendant was paying him Crusoe's Island really lies. According to the Tribune, of New York, Tobago, a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea,!

Depreciated German. currency deserves the title. It is also pointed means that British skilled Labour is out that Alexander Selkirk lived on competing with the imported products Juan Fernandez from 1704 to 1709, German labour at a wage cost of and that Defoe based his story On Selkirk's adventures. Selkirk's story, National Union of Manufacturers and G. per hour, a deputation from the however, differs from Robinson Crusoe's in many details. Still it other trade associations said to the bears a close resemblance to its main President of the Board of Trade. features...

Card Losses Law..

Mr. Justice McGardie in the King's Bench Division gave judgment for Mr. Andrew Lee Robinson, steel merchant, of Victoria-place, Stockton

Thanet local authorities are again complaining of the large quantity of crude oil discharged from Thames steamers, which is being washed askore along the coast.

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While more than 100 people were sitting awaiting the result of a whist drive in an apstairs room at the Whitby (Yorks) Territorial Drill Hall. the floor collapsed, but was checked

on-Tees, who sought to recover from bra gun-carriage below. Into the Mr. Gilbert Marsh, racehorse owner,

to.do time again,

The Magistrate. I will convict first defendant and treat second defendant the same as the others;

The first defendant was fined $60, six weeks' hard labour, and the

others $2 each.

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NEW STEAMER HERE.

T. K. K. "RAKIYO MARU.”

PUBLIC INSPECTION INÝITED.

The T. K. K. advise that the

of Saville-row, W., £2,685 lost by Mr. like depression people were hurled latest addition to their South Ameri Robinson as cards in March 1920, with chairs and tables, while others can Line Service, the ss., "Rakoyo

The action was brought under Sec- tion 2 of the Gaming Act, 1835.

It was pointed out that Mr. Robin- son gave a cheque for £2,700, the additional £15 representing cash which Mr. Marsh handed to him as a payment irrespective of the card Josses.

were left insecurely perched on the ledges at the side. Many fainted,

Mara," will be open for public inspec tion to-morrow, Wednesday, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. A cardial invitation is but no one was seriously injured, extended to the public to inspect this doctors, nurses, and ambulance men fine new steamer. Laurches will assisting in the rescue work. leave Blake Pier at frequent intervals,

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PASSENGERS

ARRIVALS.

A curious incident is reported

I beg to enclose herewith our official receipt No. A. 611.-I am, etc.

(Ed.) W. E. S. Burch, Lt. Col. (Secretary Royal Air Force Memo-

from Nagora. Towards evening on rial Fund.) May 21, says a despatch to the Asahi,

seven year-old boy of Mr. E. S. Eollay, the American Consil. in

Nagoya, was playing in the com

with his friends, when a man in Jap anese clothes entered, dragzed away the son of the Consul, and inflicted upon him severe injuries on his right

pound of the Consulate at Aoi-choi

TO-DAY'S

- ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

arm. The injuries were evidently THE Offices and Stations of the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS done with a sharp knife. After com for Kowloon and District WILL BE mitting the deed the man ran away. OLOSED to Public Business on The message says that the local FRIDAY, the 10th, instant. (Dragog police are making search for the Boat Festival). offender, while keeping the matter secret. Nothing is known as to the cause of this cowardly attack.

W. G. LAY. Commissioner of Chinese Customs,

Kowloon and District," York Buildings, Bongkong, June 6, 1921.

STEAMERS FOR.

A Canton anti-cigarette society has been formed by several pro- minent merchants, military officers, politicians and students with head P. & O. S. N. CO. quarters at Tai Hong Maloo. The Society has for its object to urge the public not to smoke cigarettes. A very extensive propaganda campaign is being planned and printed pamphlets are being distributed to the people urging them to give up the tobacco habit. The people are invited to join the Society. There are natio dues to be paid except the small fee. It is reported that the member- sum of 10 cents required as Initiation Through Bill of Lading issued for abip of the Society, is increasing very rapidly. "Canton; Times,

STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUS. TRALLA BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS',

"& LONDON.

Batavia, Persian Gulf, Continental, American and South African Ports.

While the steam launch plying Coptic WALKER, Carying His THE Steamship “DUNERA”

a part of the consideration was not took refuge in a house in the Bue de Cocradt, H. R. Cooper, J. L. Creshing between Tung Koon, and Sheklung. † Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from

illegal would defeat the object of the

statute. "Dadadads."

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Isly and the police surrounded it.

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was half way actoss the Tune Koon this Port on or about SATURDAY, Lake last Saturday morning, more 18th June, 1921, taking Präsen- than ten of the pumengers attacked

Running up to a little stall which For Mr. Marsh it was contended his former sweetheart kept outside that there was no actual payment by the St. Lazare Station in Paris, & Mr. Robinson with the section of young man named Andrieux drew a the Act, and that Section 2 did not revolver and shot her dead. Jealousy apply to a cheque of which a part is believed to have been his motive Mrs. Abunda. D. A. M. Andios.

Per 83, *Colombia, yesterday: only of the consideration was illegal He then ran of down the street, Appel Mr and Mrs J. Barros, Mr and Mr. Justice McCardie held that a pursued by hundreds of people. Mrs C. Beat, Mr and Mrs Leo. Bergholz, cheque was actual payment, and de Dodging the traffic, Andrieux Lept Mr T. Blagder, irr H. Burmeister, clared that to refuse to allow Mr.i

Chalmer, Mrs G. Cogswell, Messes H.-W Robinson to recover merely because a rapid fire at them as he ran. Her and Mrs S. P. Carpandee, Mie Wa ham, James Dalby, Mrs L. C. Davis, Kr T. G. Davis, Mr H. W. Dean, Min 7. Biggs, Mr. E. Duan, Mist & Falls; Mr You are the meanest man I'ever. D. Ferreira, Mr J. F. Flest, Capt. La A special correspondent of the came across. You deserve it all. D. Gibbenk T. J. L. Gibeey, Mr H the cabin and ordered the captain to gera and Cargo for the above Parts... Hall, Mr H. 7. Hoith, Kiss E. Heath.

Silk and Valuables and Tes for Italy, Petit Parisien met the German ex Stand down." said the magistrate at Brand Men Heinemado, Mr.E. W. Lai sop the boat. Two of the men France and London (under arrangement) Crown Prince on the road near Aberdare (Glaro) to a hay and com, Capt 8, 6. Hilton, kies H. Hali, remained with guns pointed at the will be transhipped at Bombay into the Doors, his father's Dutch home, merchant, who was prosecuting his H. Howard Mrs E Jarck, Mr L.D. captain while the others Hail Steamer proceeding direct to few days ago and requested a state son, Howell Thomas Whiting, for. L. Lissak: Mr D. D. Livingstone, Air the passengers and their belongings. Parcels will be rroyed at this Office

Karsiney, Mr. Ledesus, Mr Levi, Him made a thorough search of all Marseilles sud Landon, - ment. The ex-Crown Prince said in theft. It was stated that the son 27. MacQuade, Mr and Mrs C F The captain was next ordered to until 3 r the day before sailing. German: "We are prisoners here."

received 10d. a day of. 14 hours. He Moelich, jr., Bistec Blonica, Mr A. Nichel, Then," says the correspondent told the Beach that be was supposed Kir W. van Permis, Mr G. Rumell. Mr steer to a deserted place where the The contents and value of all packages

expression, inexpressibly

L. C. Bussell, Mr and Mrs J. O. Shep pirates went, ashore taking along are required. IA comic, came over his face. He to be in partnership with his fatherpard Mr and Mrs R. B. Sheppard. Krs with them several rich passengers seepied to think for a minate and, and to receive £5 a year as his share,

who are believed to be prominent apparently wanting to laugh, he but that he had not had it. He was

merchants. The captives will be held for ransom The familles of Lashed the air with his cane. This bound over.

these unfortunate captives are pr pecting blackmailing letters from the pirates, says the Canton Times.

angry

completed, he took a basty sep aside

and shonted: "Dadada. Dadadada: Dadada Dada." With a bound be

T. Schlesingez Mr B Schmidt, He A. Schmucki, Mrs M. Schulz Mr 3. Spener, KJ. Stotis, Er Fugarts, Mr H. E. Swan, Mc G. F. Win ter, Mr E. C. Zitkowski, and Miss Zitkowski,

The Dadwell Tdnes Bolton Caitla left New York May 21.

The combined attack being made crossed the road and made a brisk by the judges, headed by the Lord. turn to the right and another to the Chancellor, on the undefended divorce

· The R. & A. #“ Esstart.“ leit Manila lett, like a fox followed by a pack list, was prosecuted with redoubled He went into an enclosure and for a vigour during the past week, when for this port on June at afternoon with

MARINE MISDOINGS. moment stood raising his arms to 600, cases were disposed of. This the outward Australian, Hails, and is wards the sky, disappearing behind establishes a record. Altogether due here on June 3 at about daylight

•The (.P. 18. 218. "Empress of Failure to renew their licences.led the trees, Several photographs were 1,261 cases have been despatched out Russia arrived at Tokuhamia an

Jeon of 1,681 standing at the beginning of 5(p.mlears there on June 7 (i) to the prosecution of 24 cargo beat the term commenced on May 4. In and is due at

Jane 17 masters and mistresses SAFE, SURE, ALWAYS CURES addition 200 out of 375 defended (m)

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Agents. Hongkong, June 5, 1921

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

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