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Post warns His Excellency and his advisers not "to incur the lasting ree the Book Club is not going to help it, geyser caused by the explosions to which may not go to the Club. If the water, and without waiting for the entment of a largo and reputable portion of the community." But it what about a City Library Revival subside, the yelling mob dived in ie well known that this large and Committee. to collect anbaoriptions They threw the stunned fish to the reputable community is bound to forond donations, and panalarize this few men who remained on the shore,

acglected institution? Who will joint and made a fair haul. give its enemies.

hesitation in

His substance was no-80, and Le.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER - 22-1927-9

SUBMARINE FATALITY.

CORONIAL INQUIRY CONCLUDED.

SOMEONE'S NEGLIGENCE

RESPONSIILE.

ROBBERS ESCAPE,

AFTER HOT PURSUIT.

Lance-Sergeant Bowick WAS There was a man in interesting sight; bat a dangerous am doamel to reom

ratrolling the harbour at 3 o'c'eck 1

IS THIS the land of Hong, game. Incidentally unlawful, but

this morning in the No. 8 Police nook ungrateful to those who do

NAUGHTY? whose name was Ad- they were a long long way from a

Launch, when, off Kellet Taland, be CLUB me honour. The Ex-Activr Men made me an honorary

....versarius, and. that policeman.

heard a polica whistle being blown The submarine fatality inquiry,achora, Simultaneously besaw a small member of their clab, and owing man was an example of cheerfainoss,

The fact that our wae concluded yesterday afternoon, beat with, two men in it rowing to differences of opinion with one of

one that feared none, and denounced

rainfall measures up by Mr. R. E. Lindell, as Corone away apparently in a great burzy. their leaders, I had to write about vile.

to last year's, and and a jary compose of Meskra We told his coxswain and a seaman them as I did last week. Now the

that the water in McK. Pittendrigh (foreman) R. D. to call upon the men to stop, but they Book Club members have prid me the complained not of it, but was content. Taitam Tuk is still thirty feet lower Baptista and J. Gomes. The jury took no notice of the men's shout,

Now there was a day when the than it should be, coupled with th immense compliment of electing ma an honotary member for life, and 1 barbingers of Fate catre to prrent fact that the people cannot have used earned a verdict of "death by The Fergeant fired & round from

misadventure," after much delibera bia revolver into the water to am writing this note to deplore their themselves before their Lord, and or wasted so much more, suggests

frighten the that the Chinese tale of a leakage their Badjoss came also among them.

fugitives, but still transferring

And Fale said auto Badio, from the reservoir is not so foolish as before the Coroner summed up

Beveral witnesses were re-examined without result. The men landed at headquarters from insppropriate

Jardine's Wharf to the west of the premises kindly leat bat lent on Whence comest thou? Then Badjoss we all thought it. I wont round the Conditions, to the City Hall which answered and said, Frota going to place on Sunday morning, peering that when he was asked to take the ginom The Sergeant who was some Ab Kwan the head contractor said Sugar Refinery odd sappeared in thes seems to me their natural ab ding aud fro in the earth, and from walk about below the dam especially, and No. 1 painter to M. Brookshaw's 100 yards bobind them, also landed and place. The fact is that as a Booking up and down in it.

could find no signs of leakage. But office on the 15th ult he did not take searched for the reen in the vicinity And Fato said unto Badjass, Hast I'm told now by two men of asTry the proper No. 1 because the latter for half an hour without success. Ta Clab, simply, they can successfully abide wherever they may happen to thou considered my servant Adver that an underground leakage into the was very busy, but he took in a maa the host which was found among some be comfortable. But my original idea sarius, that there is none like him in ees is not an impossibility. It could who was well acquainted with the samnans lying alongside the wharf, emerge so far out as to be missed, work. He siso admitted that when the Sergeant found a wonden box and was not that they should be simply Hong, and ever cheerful meward!

Then Badjos Buswered and said, even if divers went looking for aub-Mr. Brookshaw gave written instruc- two baskets containiog clothing. The to cater for the members, but also to help, encourage, and popularize the Death he thus for no reward! It is marine springs. If there is anything tions on the 16th to start work on the box had been forced open and its Public Library. I wanted to see that easy to be cheerful when all goes well. like that going on, it is a

great pity.L8, he (witness) did not tell the No. 1 contrate were in a jamble. The boat public institution with more books Thou hast given him pleasant times, Bat other authorities do not believe painter to consuit Ms. Brookshaw te- was t.ken to the Police basin at Yau- and more readers, and a co-operating and the work of his fountainpen bas it is. The shortage, in that case, still fore starting.

mati and the box and basketa Book Club could have brought this not bean wasted.

Cheung Ne. shipwright foreman, transferred to the Tsimshatsui about. At the time of writing it isn't But put forth thy hand now, and

· A bandy-legged said he opened up the tanks on the Pulice Station. really settled. The Committee went tease him, and he will be otherwise.

womat combing 16th on instructions from Mr. Middi1, to investigate the City Hall And Fate Bid to Badjos, Behold,

her hair.

He opened the tanks again on the proposition after the meeting. I did he is in thy power, but do not slay

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when the gang started work Ltd. thinking that hardly fair in the

that morning. Fome of his circumstances; but I hope they

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"The lemon for journalists is that

118 that the war

And there was a day when Adver eatius got a whitlow, and had his thumb mutilated by a skilful surgeon. end did suffer great pain. Yet did he continue to make bad jokes, and ba P.S.I hear they found the room foolishly lacrtious. Then got be a cruel at the City Hall quite unsuitable.

cough, which kept him busy, and be Modern controvar-tween coughs he indulged in laughter. Then Badjosa did cover him with the MISDIRECTED sialista may ba INFERENCES observed reminding boils of Hong, the same coming upon his legs, his arms, and the back of his was to be a faveller, abolishing snob-neck, and upon bis hody, and even bery and other unkindnesses. They at last in such place that to sit save conclude that in some way the people on the corner of a chair was painful. who have not amended their ways He did not scrape himself with a pot- are guilty of disloyalty to sher. Ho ewore mildly, and went on the war. The inference more just, of joking. course, is that the prophecy that the Then came unto him Temanites and war would do these things was a false Shuhites, pea, and Naamathites, that prophecy. Men are always inferring were worre to bear even then boils; but wrongly from the wrong side, like the he went yachting, B.d did keep cherr- judge in the following anecdote. fol. Some Western B:ste of America pass.

Then Badjoss threw in his hard,

SOME

DINNER

requires explanation.

THINGS I DON'T ADMIRE

A Macassar fish on e pink plate German consuming soup, The other newspapers

A lee ebore on a dark and squaly

night.

An empty bar

The Chaplin moustache Boils.

Church congregatione singing. The colour of post-war beer. The bumming and bawing of the man

about to request a loan. Mr. Prof.--- And the Rev

"LOVE'S CRUCIBLE."

CORONET'S BEST PICTURE,

bolts.

When Dr. Eeler was recalled, the Corcaer said: The question Las been raised by the Jury if the man vas overcome by gas fumes and fell into the stagnant water at the bottom of the taak and was drowned.

THE EARTHQUAKE,

Then suddenly a something indefin-

beard caught the Far.

At first it was as the sound of the little waves of a calm een, gurgling un the shingle of the shore, then drawing back the little stones with noisy súccation; gurgling again and withdrawing But even thup Dr. Eeler: I think it very likely moderate, there was a dread Rigni- that this was so, but at the post-fienues in the males It was the little mortem examination the signs I found cloud on the horizon, ecming before, were more like those of asphyxo the great stort. than of drowning.

Deliberate; not swift to accomplish There was no water in the lungs ? {it-elf; relentless to achieve its crisis, Yes, but I would expect to find more the welling noise grew ever in volume, in a case of drowning. The fast that in awful strength. It was as if a artificial respiration was triu i mibt m'gaty. racking toreado was slowly have taken tho water from the lunga, scoaring the earth, mercilessly and Then it is possible that the deceased unhastily pulling up the trees by their was overcome by gas and fell into the roots tearing the woodwork off the hannes, dragging apart the very vitals water and was drowned?—Yes.

of the earth and harvesting all this debris for one supreme upheaval.

There was an atmosphere of tense, A lite'n child's silent expectation.

THE SUMMING-UP,

"The best picture we've seen for a long time" was the general verdiet ed a law, in the interests of temper and ran down a steep place, and of those who saw" Love's Crucible," ance, that no drinking-saloon should became as a stranger in that land. the wonderful. Sxedish picture,

The Coroner, in summing up, briefly exirt within a mile of any school- And the moral of it is: Why worry? sreened at the Coronet yesterday. house. Under this, a Court decided

My apologies are dan to In all respects, acting, photo-reviewed the evid nce and went on that certain existing school-house

the other guests at a graphy and staging, it was miles to say that it remained for the Jary swell dinner party I at aad miles ahead of the average to decide whether the death was a gasp for brukth broke the atrain: ma t be pulled down.

tended this week. Prior American photoplay. Its setting mere accident or whether such blame women fainted; young girls shrieked; It were probably useful A SAD to see ourselves as others to the dinner the hostess had been and costuming were superb and the attached to any person as to bring the weaker among the men in the THOUGHT. Fec us, Robert Batas peiting about my favourite dishes, in whole production was truly an artistic that person within the law of mono fascinated crowd spluttered import- was no foot. Some of his a general sort of way; but I had no triumph of which the scores sad slaughter; that was to say, whether actly as if by their influ ace they and arithmetic to demonstrate abases, readers, however, probably regard the idea that I would be taken so literal scores of mediocre films that have any one had been guilty of culpable could check the inevitable. Strong no one will listen; but make a red-hot desired "giftio" as a preparation for ly. The menu (which must have been turned out in recent years have negligence in failing to take properprs men blenched, an 1, though the rcise Lensation with specific charges of seeing ourselves as we really a. flabbergastified some of the highly re-made us forget that the screen is cautions before any workman entered was now so terrific, co vibrant as to

capa ble.

the submarinn tanke before they wire read the very naves and move the crime, and you are sure of a hearing That would be fatal. Scripturn bids spectable gacats) was as follows:

Hore-d'oeuvres, Pickled Onions

safe. Four or five persone appeated very flesh of them, braced themselves at once. Sundry honourable members mau know himself, bat sociptare in

Oatmeal Porridge

to be directly indirectly ra pasible to stand the ebook with white delivered edifying sentiments last cludes some human extravagances

Braised beef and onions

for the work on the submarine courage........at last it bappeled. The China Mail. Frid y about "public journals making and fallibilities. It is more than

The Chinamen spat, Omelet with herbs

There was Mr. Brookshaw, who, as reckless accusations," about the mis likely that it ever men realize reality,

Blood puddings

chief shipwright, gave order to the

"STRAITS PRODUCE." chief done by advertising "mandalahedding illusions, on that day men

obief contractor for the work to be and "robbery" in big type, and so will die.

this undertaken

particular forth. The fault lies with the failure

contractor

LONG.-Frank, P. Long at Yunnan

od 30th August. Deeply regrett ed. Funeral took place on 31st August at Yunnanfu.

"TRUI, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"

so long as you rely on mere rezzon

Hongkoso, SATURDAY, SEPT. 3, 1822. of people, including honourable

ADVERSARIA.

POLEMICS BAme, Bardened in wickedness, up to all the tricks, and I never really supposed

that "Roderick Random" could

teach

I do

those who fanked.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

We are oficially informed that the rumour that Wiseman's old site in Des Voeux Road has been sold is not true. It is a fast, however, that boat. the site is for sale.

charge

The chief

of the case, if a verdict of

man.

Cheese and pickled quians, And the drinks began with German beer and fiuished with cocktails,

wa9 then told to consult the slaughter could be returned without though liqueurs were permitted to

man (Mr. Middis). bringing the charge home to any The total output of the KailanWhat does he do !" continued the particular person. Maybe Mr. Mackin.

The Coroner replied that in the Mixing Administration's mines for the Coroner. "He merely instructs his REGISTRATION eleòt of the E. A.g/week ending August 19 amounted to No.1 painter that the boat is ready. of manslaughter they would have to

tosh, as president-

event of the Jury returning a verdict M. A. Club, will not / 74,655 tons and the sales during the to work upon and that he can carry state some particular person or

VOLUNTARY

OF CLUBITES.

their verdict and, after an absence of THE VERDICT. The Jury then retired to consider

of accidental death due to misad |16 minutes, returned with a verdict

Oh Science 'What follies are perpetrated ORIGIN members themselves, to attend to OP HAN. in thy austere name, anything of public importance that

Sometimes by men appears in print unless it is dressed that have done things to earn the I am an old hand at the "P and forced on their notice like a name of scientists. Oftener by unssi- sensational murder or a tasty divorceentific journalists embroidering their case,"

proclamations. Professor Elliot Smith of London University in the latest ass, The Government still desires that in-

period to 52,897 tons. object to this.

on. The No. 1 painter in bis tarn Lope that

or the latest victim of an ass, as the formation as to who can do what in Nathan Road, Kowloons, during last definitely that they are not. Ap

(on the 16th ult.,) asks Mr. Middie if persons. OF STYLE "Roderick "

Burglars entered No. is not

66A, the tanks are ready. Mr. Middis eaye deluding himself by the conclusions of his predecesSOTS, case may prove, Ha“ вжеерзаная"

strike time. Let the E.AS.M. A night and stole a gold chain and a mo Agything, despite his thinking he knows way sight when He brushes asidow other th, and of its members, noting their special table in Mre, Avenell's bedroom.

as an association, taka a register bracelet worth $100 from the dressing ference to Mr. Meddis, the No. 1 pain

parently, without any further re- "style. obvious willingness to instruct his he said "is style est de l'homme declares that its original owner lived willing to undertake, etc., and burg

Buffon was

about the "Pittdown" Bkull, and

ter sends 12 of his men into the tanke grandmother how to suck eggs. On meme," Roderick's style is of himself. in the early "Pelistocene" (sic) it in to the Government. Very useful, arrived by the 8.8. Empress of

qualifications, what they will be

Miss. Mabel Jordan, a visitor who each of the three tanks."

on the morning of the 17th-four for his last appearsace about a week ago That looks too like a horrible libel, a period. The first men were black and a good example for other clubs to Asis," and is at present living at t.that this No. 1 painter had admitted wished to add the following rider:

did not answer him, having then I stress the "if Shaw (picked out They originated (from men like apetiollow. There isn't likely to be a useful George's Hotel, Kennedy Road, had having done ten previous jobs of the their view that this fatal accident

Continuing the Coroner remarked This recently at a local dinner party by a "from the Siwalik Hills in the foot

{ good judge as our beststylist) declares | hills of the Himalayas"-in the hollow / mau whò isn't a member of a club of her small leather case containing zame sort and that he had never hat arises out of negligence on the part of

that "effectiveness of assertion is the

some sort.

$40 in American currency notes, one O why should the spirit of Canadian note and some Chinese and him to suppose that it was not really inasmuch sa foul tanks are virtual

any real accident before. This led

some person in the Naval Yard, and ONA mortal be proud # WET shair I diona kon' but it is a Chinees youth while walking in At the same time it was generally entered ehould not have been ac I'm Japanese coins snatched from har by dangerous to go down into the tanks, death-traps, the tank which deceased DAY prond, sometimes tremen Kennedy Road a little beyond the known in the Yard that the tankessible until it had been certified to tram one wet day this week, I hed

dously so. Trying to board hotel yesterday afternoon.

might be dangerous and that be free from gas.

quite enough to talk about.

week things are slack and something I see in the latest Truth reminde me of his obiter diets on the art of "put ting ideas norosa." He said:

پایا.

venture.

A RIDER. The Foreman annonated that they "The Jury wish to put on record

Alpha and Omega of style." I just beyond the dead tree that you "flamboyant and rococo" stuff like on your left as you step up the mina is effective, (as it has proved it would like to add, emulating his par path where the dead snake lies, I The result is, as the China Mail self) why, there you are. I am (to ticularity. If the anthropologists are generously admitted од this my own profound astonishment) a really going to carry on like this, I'la occasion, that the Daily Press certified stylist. Style without published "a thoughtful leader." something to say may be pretty,

go back to Genesis-a much more "Thoughtful leaders," I may re-like the wax lady in the milliner's intelligent (and "scientific ") theory 48 inches high, that carried its chin 30. Feel Street, first floor, reports that anyone was sent down. Despite that to the notice of the Naval Yirg give precedence to s female about A Chinese widow living at No. Precautions had to be taken before. "Further, the Jury wish to brind window, you back. I usually have something

bat ib cannot kies

of the origin of man.

mind my friende, carry more weight with thoughtful people--the people, that is, to whom they are address to say (not always) and I may it, se CERTAINLY WA ed-than do acrid eructations due convincingly as I can, in any style

readers. The China Mail didn't orođit the your pandulous earn towards the out-

DEVILISH should refer to De Valers "Devil BJ

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that make a

F--

A local raan thinks "P, and walked with what it seemed to a man dressed as a Chinese monk the No. 1 painter allowed bia men to authorities the necessity for enforcing.

suppose was a dignified, regal step. It visited her fat yesterday and offered go straight on. Whether the con measures which will preclude any re newspapermen 1acked the substance and the contours her alacky charm,' which he said tractor or the No. 1 painter was.

currence of this nature, and recom- to mental indigestion through in that at the moment seems to me suit Ers." There is justice in the pus trast in its clothes, which were asked the woman to hand him all the

woman a woman would bring her plenty of money. guilty of culpabla negligence was for mend that a locked grid be put sorces sufficient mastication, descent able, but usually simply and straight. This devilish politician used to talk (though I'm no judge of these things) money she had got for him to plant the Coroner said that Mr. Middie knew are in the process of ventilation, and

for a Le man, but apparently it put When she accepted, the "monk" the Jury to decide.

any opening from which the man-hole salivation, and hasty deglutition. forwardly, calling spades spadea." If

Dealing with Mr. Middis's evidence, cover has been removed while tanks "Vital subjects" are worthy of I am "famboyant and rocore" some of murderone arguments, and now of the dernier or mode. It did the the silver tree. The unsuspecting that the tanks had to be tested by that all tanks should be certified in

quite reasonably about the wickedness careful treatment. The flamboyant times, and that hurts anybody. I'm and rococo styla of writing generally sorry. The point is that my job is to

ont-Herods Herod,

goosesten very slowly while I fidgetted woman gave up $61.70, and the man means of a lighted candle before the writing to be free from gas before in the rain. It loltered on the stap promptly bolted with it. le by word: Mocked I put my hand where it ought to have impres the author more than his "get it over" or "put it acroes", Do

painters entered them. This test had work is commenced ; and, that a copy THE CITY at by people who do not been rounder than it was, and pushed I do my job? Ó, Roderick! Bend

not been carried out bat Mr. Middie of such certificate be handed to the. LIBRARY use it and who do

it inside, remarking:

Ab amazing incident in raported had said that he had no ides that the contractor concerned and signed for D.P. with thoughtful leader." side where the grist public in and serves some jeers. It wants weeding, the rain, and the sight o' your spindls-having a bath in his house. The re-mitted that it fad become the pro-rider on record thanked the Jurora for

nothing for it. It delas. You are keeping suld folks in receiving a severe electric shock while tanks that morning. Mr. Middie ad

**Faites, me from Tokohama, a foreign resident men intended to go down into the by him." That would have been to admit that hearken to the your that enawan and it wants re stocking. It wants a shanks is not worth, wetting sida.t in question, Mr. A. W. L. Giles tice, had become common-for the the interest they had taken in a long The Coroner after placing the Jury's it thinks. We said it printed a leader that question. "He blooming well catalogue. It wants to be used more. Leave-in-days and gox-on't! You had returned home to his bungalow foremes to takon men giving well reasoned arguments," does." Is this conceited 1. Very well After all, it is our library, ours as a should have seen the expression on on the Bluff, and had scarcely entered and start "right in" without discharged. and at these weil reasoned arguments then. I am conceited. But style is community. It is what we allow it the chit's face. It froze the rain his bath when the shock occurred. He any reference to the chargeman.

on board and difficult case. The Jary was then happened to be our own, that did not the man himself. No mau, no style to be, and it could be whatever we drops swain out generosity unduly.

Conceited or not, I get it acros. like to make it. Books are added. I do not know if "Roderick" meant Bodarick! I advise you to hesitate occasionally, when funds allow."

was jurt able to crawl out on to the There, again, the Jury had to decide Some minutes after the Court had the China Mast when he spoke of e'er again venturing to criticize Me If we cared enough, we could soon

I was lying off a rocky door where he was later found by Mrs. if this practice amounted to culpable been cleared the Jurors returned anl boyant and rococo style, of in such mattain. Make a noise like an make the foods allow more. It is a

FISHERS ahora in these parts, a few Glow......... He had been billy burned negligence against Mr. Maldis. If, on expressed a desire to see the Coroner,

days ago, in-obs of my about the ankles and back, and was the other hand, the Jury found-re Jis 7: On the Cornes rejuming his sess writing **; "but as" regards the main honest egg, and beat it.

shame to see it neglected. A vom Fachts, and I watched a cord of absolutely 'erksunted – The explîb (rence * which-1 was not caliněle, the Foreman, said. The Tarp 180 object of getting attention and getting

By way of warning the munity library is about the most use natives, young man and boys, ation gives of the acodent is that the they would bring in a verdict of ac: Centre to put on record their apprecia thinged do, I commend to him for

QUAINT Government not to be ful scect a community can have, shedding their clothes and clustering cable of the electie company yasosoidental death sad they could add tion of the courageons conduct of conferation the following quotation

TUBEAT 40 sticky about giving Because the Hongkong Club has a on the edge of the rocks Were they under the beagalow and fcom Truth. A Truth spinion may

Lim a site for a branch library famous for its rellenos is no going to swim aff and board me 1. Or been as a result of a defect Meght amorn, with him than say of Church in Kowloon, the Boy. Mr. reason why we shouldn't have another what I soon Inazned. a couple of relation that the shook was

Maconschie ́in an interview in the as good for that farger community ticks of dynamite were thrown into by Mr. Giles.

the

BRAVE CONSTABLE COMMENDED.

rider mensuring any particular Nars Yard Police Conueble

Hancock.

The Foreman acked for the gublance This additional tider was placed out of the Jury in view of the dimoultion | record."