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TIJL) DAY, JULY 18, 1923,

CANTON SITUATION.

ANOTHER PEACE MOVE.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen is now reported to

A BIG JOB.

RECONDITIONING THE

"LEVIATHAN,

WAY

TYPHOON WEATHER.

SOME LOCAL RESULTS.

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Án the result of the heavy rains, a portion of the chimney of No. 1, Shelley Stress collapsed at noon. Yee

THE CHINA MAIL.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS

WANTED.

provised market roughly constructed from the debris of the fallen structure. No mishap has been reparted in the harbour all the small craft having takon shelter in the Yaumati; and Causeway Bay refuges. The large A mailed repart from New York

ocean going liners

remained be willing to negotiate pance with onersi Khan Kwine-ming. Admiral states that the work of reconditioning

the storm, their extra anchors pro- Des Voeux Road Central, Solicitors. at their buoya throughout MESSRS DEACON LOOKER, IL DEACON & HARSTON of No. 1 Toux Trng-kwong commander of the America's largest and best known

President terday. No one was injured and onlyviding adequate security against the have for investment the sum of Northern Squadron of the Navy is passenger liner, tho the prime mover in a fresh endeavour Harding," formerly the "Leviathan," email damage was done to the roof of force of the wind and the rough ses. $500,000, and are prepared to con- to bring about an immediate is well under

at the the house by the falling bricks. The Very few effects of the storm were sider applications for the advance settlement of the dispute between Newport News Shipbuilding and remaining part of the chimney has evident in the streets of the Oity this ment of the same on first class Chan and Hun without farther Dry Dock Company's plant, been shored up.

morning, being confined to some | Mortgages of house property, small broken branches of trees, a“ Hongkong, July 13, 1922, A main telephone wire near the few dislodged window shutters, and Wing Wo Street wharf was broken by some signboards hanging pertionsly the brawy winds yesterday, and many outside shops with one strand of their houses were disconnected throughout wire support broken. In some houses the day and night. Bitters repaired on the upper levels which received the full force of the wind blowing the damage this morning.

The telephones at the Central Foilce straight up from the sea, many Station and the Magistracy were in-windows were seen stripped of every terrupted for a couple of hours yester-pane of glass.get day afternoon. The connection was No landslides have so far been re apeedily repaired and hold throughout ported; reports from the New Terri- last night's storm.

tories are not yet to hand owing to The now matched market at Kow- the fact that they are at present dis-LADY staying Hongkong wishes to meet other members. Write, loon City was blown down during the connected from Hongkong as the E. G. Room 455 Hongkong Hotel. storm last night, and this morning result of the suspension of the various provisions had to be got at an im-small ferry service!

violence on either aide. Immediately according to the supervising engineer, after the fighting on Sunday, Admiral Mr. W F. Gibbs, who uas returned Tong addressed appeals to both Chan from a visit to the ship, The dry and Sun to spare the people of dock company in not caly assembling Canton further misery and anxiety the vast quantities of materials and restore penge to Kwangtung neorssary for the work, but i force of more than 1,000 mechanics are busy Roon as possible by a little give and take on both sides, without on the ship itselt.

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which no settlement can be reached.

afloat.

..!

All of the partially demolished pas While nothing has as yet boen senger accommodations have been heard from Chan, Sun has replied to ripped out, and the wo kingmen are Admiral Tong that he would congoing direct to the ship's skin in pre- sider prace terms with Chan if he paration for installing the new work (Admiral Tong) on !

Generalend equipment which will make her, Ngai Beng-ping, Lee Ping-wing according to Mr. Lasker, chairman of Hung Sit-lin and Hung Lenug acted the Shipting Board, the finest skip as mediators.

The first big work to be done. Mr. These five held a conference on Holebee Island, amali naval Gibbs said, will be on her engines, base in the middle of Canton har-boilers, machinery and installation of bour, and decided upon the follow-the oil burning equipment, Two of ing three peace conditions:-(1) har eigh's turbines have been opened That both sides must lend their up, one of them the firet time since support to the scheme for the reuni- the ship was launched. The turbines, fication of Chine, and together form he said, are in excellent condition. an organisation for the discussion of much better than had been hoped for. peace terms between the North and Down near her keel will be installed South.

fuel oil tanks, and match of the now (2) ThatSun's Northern Expedition. wasted space between the inner and ary Army must not attack Canton outer ball of the vessel will be equip. through Binkwas;

Chan ped for additional banker capacity. and his

part undertaker not to attack Sun's warships.

(9) That the troope of both sides must evacuate Canton under their leaders (Ohun and Sur) and take up temporary stations elsewhere until s settlement is rettled.

must

Da

The person not familiar with the work entailed to restore to usefulpres ship of the size of the President Harding" cannot grap the volume of detail that is required. Prior to making their bid, a staff of twenty engineers worked over the minutely These conditions have been subdetailed plans prepared for the bidders mitted to both Chan and Bun for their by Mr. Gibbs for more than two

months. approval.

It was on the advice they obtained Fighting broke out in Siukwan yesterday. General Yeung Sek-leung, as to cost of materials and labour the Station Commander has reported that they based their successful to Canton that a zection of the teuder to do the work. Now that the Northern Expeditionary army undership is in their hands this labour ie General Hoi Sung-cheo invaded the bearing fruit,

From practically all over the macu- City from Chibeng and Namhung in this morning. The City garrison was facturing district of the United States taken by surprise and driven back will come materials to be used in the without offering much resistance. reconstruction of the big shi, Subsequently, however, they deliver Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, New ed a counter attack and after heavy,York, Connecticut, New Jersey, fighting lasting several hours, com- Virginia, States of the southern group pletely defeated the invaders, who and as far west as Illinois, factories numbered some 40,000 men as against will be called upon to farmish the

thousands the defenders' 25,000.

of pounds of piping, millions of feet of wire, tons of steel thousands of yards of textiles, &c.

'VARSITY "COOKS."

"BOIL YOUR HEAD" TEST.

The following notice bas appeared in the columna of the Grania, the Cambridge University magazine :-

GRANTA TRIPOS.

Letting of the contract meant work for many thousands of men. Whe the actual reconstruction is under way a force of perhaps 3,000 will be era ployed on the ship alone. As feeders to the labours of this force haidreds will be employed in transportation of material. Every manufacturing con- corn which will be called upon to fur- nish material for the ship will bave to construct or manufacture their speci

Final Examination in Cooking for the Bac. Hum. Degree, Easter Term,fied article from the special designs. 1922, to be held in the Market-square, on Thursday, June 8, at 11.45 a.m.

QUESTION SERET.

Candidates must answer two ques tions, of which the first must be' one. 1. Prepare any one of the following national dishes according to your place of birth :----

Yorkshire

(a) Roast Beef and

Pudding.

(b) Haggis and Usquebangh. (e) Welsh Rarebit and Leska, (a) Half a pint of Moonshine, (8) Any Soft Cocktail.

Cosmopolitan gentlemen may pre- pare a dish of Hot and Tat.

2 Prepare your favourite savoury. (Candidates who fail to satisfy tha Examiner in this question will be required to ent their exhibits.)

3. Go and Boil your head. Gentlemen are required to bring their own materiale. Water may be obtained locally. No fires are to be lighted and only Primus Stoves are to be used for cooking purposes.

The examination will be held in public. Visitors may be permitted by candidates to taste aby prepara- tion, but the Examiners will not hold themselves responsible for any 3 affects which way result, nor does the Granta Insurance Scheme cover polson

risks.

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provided by the main contractors. All of this means work, and engineers in charge estimate that a very large per- centage of the seven million dollars which the Shipping Board will pay to have the ship robuilt will be absorbe into the channels of trade in the form of wages.

CLEOPATRA'S ASP.

Kamakat

DESCENDANTS AT LONDON ZOO.

Two Cerastes vipera, believed to be descendants of the asp in the legend of Cleopatra's death (Cleopatra in supposed to have died as a result of holding one of these venomous enskra to her bosom), are recent arrivals at the London Zoological Gardens.

These nasty things are almost in- visible, for they wriggla into the sand of their miniature desert until only their eyes emerge. There is a horned variety of the Cerastes which come mands a higher price-because it looke even more repulsive, perhaps; it is now always closely examined when offered for sale. Native dealers in Africa" have a traditional trick of em bellishing the ordinary. Cerastes with small artificial horne made from por

• One fatal case of small pox was supíno quille ! - notified yesterday.

One of the big pythons in the Reptile House has not fed since July Battering from injuries in the 1920, as he has nearly completed a body received through being knocked two years' fast. There is no partien down by P. W. D. motor truck No. 3 lar soxiety about him for the in Causeway Bay, a Chinese youth moment. Mr. E.-G. Boulenger, the was yesterday admitted to the curator of reptiles, quoted

hospital.

KÖYRMUSIN OF BIRIMKA

The B. L. 2.1. “City of Manchester left Baigon on July 11 and is due to

the case of a python in Paris which lived for four years and one month without food.

In another case, a reticulated python refined food until offered a Rodeo, which was eocapted. After that be refused, ducks, rabbits, and

arrive at Hongkong on July 16. fowls, until someone said, "Try The B. Hector Inff Liver- another goose, when the python at pool on July 8 for Hongkong, Shanghal once readopted the babit of feeding and Hankow and I expected to anive

-Daily Math

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