1923-08-18 — Page 5

· SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 1929,

TYPHOON.

“(Continued from page 4)

'On June 2, 1916,this Observatory was on the edge of the calen centre of a small typhoon, moving N.E. and evidently filling up. The wind, which had been strong to, fresh, died away complete- ly between 1 pan. and 2 pun. increasing again with fresh

squalls from northward, by 4 pm, No damage was done. In contrast to this may be mentioned the Mauritius typhoon of 1892, April 29, in which 10,000 people were

*TROUBLE COMING.

LATEST SOUTH CHINA DANGER.

OMINOUS PORTENTS.

GRAVE DISORDERS FEARED.

Interviewed by a China Mail reporter yesterday afternoon Kai (the outlet leading Chinese Merchant at Pait predicted grave disorders in the of Kongmoon)

near future.

that

ጸ

On the afternoon of his leaving Eilled. In those days. Httle was for Hongkong (Thursday) he was known by the public about type privately informed by the River hoons, and the central calm was Defence Commissioner mistaken, for the end of the storm. wireless message had been receiv People therefore opened Jurricane ed to the effect that Yunnanese shutters and left thai. 'ħħuses, some never to retura and others to finds had cupied Shun Tak, the them in ruins, ofhown to another capital of the fertile silk district, San's magistrate having been street by the terrife hurricane on teil after a coup. which followed the central calm1.4%

.

It was stued that the move onl

AS YOU LIKE IT.

WEEK-END SHREDS

SIGNS,

THE CHINA MAIL.

is more adaptable to putting a fish

Dr. Sir James to sleep, than a human beings' In DANCING. Cantlie who knows rural districts com husks were

Hongkong, has a AND, formerly used to stuff mattresses, word of pity for the "poor young PATCHES.

They were all right when you first men" who stay up late at night went to bed, but after an hour or so, to provide partners for the young the husks seemed to turn to cobs. women who dearly love to foot Now that the Peak By morning you probably had corns it. The dear things sleep Tramway Co has on your spine. Great strides have their self sought fatigue into notified by means of been made in mattress manufac oblivion, but the "poor young the peaceful sign what its clients ture. Nowadays you can almost men" grow haggard and

grey must not do, we suggest that the bay one with a guarantee of eight before their time. In spite of Dr. Hongkong Automobile Association hours' steep or your money back. Gantlic's name indicating that he should advise its members what is This is known as getting down to can't lie, we fail to see where the expected of them. Here is a copy had-nek. in a Texan City. af a notice prominently displayed

pity comes in, Footing it has its awa peculiar benefits.. See the

"Drive, Slow, and see our beauti-

ful city," Drive fast, and see our beauti-

ful gool"

As statements of fact nicely worded this has the Diplomatic Body beaten to a frazzle. The iron hand in the Kid gloves!

A book of many. BOW-TIE pages could bc SOUP. made of the times

when some of us.

Even if fully prepared HongShan Tak and the recent taking kong would suffer considerally incrat Heung Shan are part of a have wished that the earth would should the centre of a severe 15-play by the Yumance to over-run open and swallow us up. Here is phoon pass ter the Islandly

Ancient (and ste moder) the province independently of Sua ja good one which has come to our Yat-sen, it being hinted that Nor-gnotice, The brother of Stephen houses would collapst zad probiale, ly a certain proportion of the shipstera money and dissatisfaction Phillips, the poet, is dining with had wrought havoc with the loyalty Royalty and has the misfortune to in shelter would be Adown ashore of San's Yunnan adherents. Our drop his made-up dress bow into. and their decks swept clean. informant gave

as his

okia the soup! Truly an appalling event. Many trees wankt be blown down.

reason for the dissatisfaction: Mr. Koalson Kernahan who tells The greatest danger to pedestrians the inability of Sun to fill the story does not say how the would be from dles and corrugated

promises of monetary rewards incident ended. iron hurtling through the air.

in retura for military services. He puited to the protracted campaign at Walchow as an example of ANOTHER WINNER. questioned loyally, the troops there not having tried their best, so it is PROGRAMME WORTH FIVE stated, to take the town.

DOLLABS.

The holder si

De dwing theatre pinganone is respect to forward it to the Claint Mail office

Chu

In Rangoon COMMISSION BASIS. when they

want any

"1

one whs has hopped the twiglet as. they say a refined circles, they offer a reward of five per cent if the total amount stolen or other wise taken "is recovered. Failing the recovery of the whole amount, the acount of the reward is nom inad. Its all wrong of course. They

Kongmoon itself is comparative ly quiet the press-gangs are still a work roping in unfortunate mea for military coolic work. Last Saur say, 500 of Cha Cheuk-man's the ousteil Heungshan magistrate)

should add Bank Interest to the troops arrived outside Pakaianomat "borrowed" and add the when a coupe to those Chan Chak, Sun's commanders that. This is what Canton

personally. interviewed

principal to it, and allow five per will be issued which may be elsting chief, but permission for the would call a fifty-fifty basis. ed for goods in the sun valine with fleeing troops to enter the town was ory of the advertisers in the China withhete. It is stated that naless

Command Orders Chan Chak absorbs these troops

IRRITATING. have something Mail.

fate bis turps they will becoate

very severe to say Coronet Theatre Pregatimo No, handits soon as they have no vision the absorbing question of Chic 781 issued Wednesday, August 15 table means of support. They are at Blinds. Unnecessary durage is present quartered at Ngoi Hoi|being done to them through non- Friday, August 17.

which is about one mile from Pak observance in instructions contai Patrones of the three Cinco Kal

ed in para. 133 Command Standing Officers Commanding Theatres

Uneasiness is felt as to the future Orders. The Coronest.. Star and. World are advised to retain their as Li Yew-hob, the anti-Sun ex-Units are to bring to the notice of Civil Govern and General is all occupants of Married Quarrers programtues, and study the number ramoured to be plotting another the instructions contined in the rising in the neighbourhood. How above quoted para, speci atten- ever, Chan Chak, has about twenty tion being directed to the last sub- Sinali river gunboats which į para, the contents of which will in aitieagh obsolete will be useful in all future cases be enforced. quelling disorder,

this is very, sad. To maltreat a poor Chic Blind is the most cruel- lest form of torture we have ever !come across.

A poor wee little Jonesome Chic Blind. And what is a Chic Blind? Is it one of those

ta le lonml on the rout page.

AFTER THE TYPHOON..

ENJOY HOME PLEASANT

SHOPPING,

ARMS TRAFFIC.

All

This may be the wo mille for sails, ANOTHER POLICE SEARCH? things you pull down in the

but it is quite good » conngh for sales. That is, onre the betaal min stops, ; Then, indesst, the sales will be very welcome. for what pleasante

RECENT ARREST SEQUEL

Resistant

of

This, from an Engler ADVICE editorial, strikes a re-

sponsive chord:

Lady f.buying KOT LIKELY. Hooseberries at a 20

(Still): "These Kooscherfies don't look very clean."

Salesman: "Well, what d'you expect a bloke to do? Wash 'em and comb their fai: for threppence

pandu

The Cherub

in

POETRY sending these ex- amples pleads not

'

guilty. He says he found 'em.

Mary had a little lamb,

Its fleece was white as snow, She took it to Pittsburg one day, And now look at the poor dan

thing.

aud

}

On mules we find two legs

belind,

TASTES.

too.

poor young men" footing their bills at the end of the month and later on in life footing the bed- room floor with teething infants. Between Romance and Reality, as between chalk and cheese, there is a vast difference. Dancing is good|

unquestionably. We know of

several who have died dancing-at the end of a rope!

FAIRY STORIES,

(1) A Chinese who Mauser had one pistol and some ammunition de- livered them up at the Central Police Station.

ter and handed him the month's (2) A "Buy" came to his mus- squeeze from the compradores' bill (All compradores have decid- ed to reduce their prices.

And two we find before; We stand behind before we find appear in the Medical officer of No cases of notifiable disease What the two behind be for.

Healths returns for August 15. They have been During the 24 hours ending August saying things in 16, one case of enteric fever was Charleville, which reported. The patient is' a Japan- is down under, meaning Australia. 50, And saying 'en hard Pleasure-loving Charlevilleans (villeans sounds right under the Presiding at a luacheon to Capt. cires.) seem to prefer a circus to a Lorking, who has completed forty church. A circus came to place and stayed there three days ing Association. Mr. Winston

the years' service with the Early Clos

day following the church collect the work of the organisation and and departed with £950. The Sun- Churchill paid eloquent tribute to

ions for the day were £1.110 near to the single-mindedness and ly all in three penny-pieces. Its a whole-hearted resolution, courage, matter of taste as the lady said and patience with which Captain

Larking had pursued his task. when she kissed the bovine.

bedrom before er, you begin to take off. er, your gloves? Please enlighten TIS someone. And also tell 15 quietly justine gould be hand dog skrge. The vernacular press,this njera | what para. 133. Command-Stand- ping? Om might have said what ing contains af, account of anings Orders is, and also the last inore usefid pastime could be found, ¦ alleged search by the police on the sub-para. The only para, we know since the typhon how is evrtant to prendises of the Hong Shing Mereof is the one in that exhausting have taken its usual toll in house centile Co. Lui, at No. Queen's hymn. O Paradise, O. Paradise A held bredsages. Consequently it is Road Central, which they hit is a very tingly that Messrs, White sequel to the arrest of U Man-hun,

compradore away, Laidley & Co. shook furthe having their big summer sale now, Messrs. Dodwell and Company, Shopgars" can get everything they Ltd. The reportgoes on to say want-al bargain prices. Even if that the police searched a Messrs. Whiley, Laidlaw & named Ho Chung-ting bit freundi ('n, were mig pong the best mathing incriniasting. It is als known firms in the Colony, their stated that the raid the was result of display advertisement in this issue the documents found on U who lets gives ample prof the variels, the heen charged with possession of a quality, at the tempting pries Mauser and one revolver. The re- their sale offers the shepper. Many port conchides with words to the prices, it will be seen, late by felt that the police had reduced Gifty per eat, and others: suspicion aloit the firm but that the

papers related to Ho personally, ] have been put even lower, Thes: He is stated to be the treasurer of things speak for themselves, and it the company,

is only necessary to add that being the only generał sale Messrs. White! away and Laidlaw are having this your, this is the last opportunity ¦ for securing their regular stock at sale prives.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

RENTS DISPUTE.

SUB-LETTING PROFITS,

Dani

If an editor's post-bug is uny- thing to go by, the one calling which the ordinary citizen thinks he understands without knowing anything at all about it, is that of,

journalist; the one enterprise which he thinks he can run with- can any training or experience at all is a newspaper. It is, indeed, a very singular fact that so many well-behaved Britons who would not dream of offering gratuitous advice to an archbishop or even 10 a railway manager, deca it a public duty to advice editors on all possible occasions in great detail, and with considerable acerbity, of the liaes on which their newspapers ought to be conducted.

I don't know anything about an CASE REHEARD,

editor's post-bug, but the conversa- |tions of newspaper-"experts" that Before the Puispe judge (Mr. I overhear in the train are eloquent Justice Gumpert) in the Summary of the possibilities of that myster- Court yesterday afternoon, rehear-ious receptacle. The man whose ing was granted in the case in ignorance of the subject touches which Yuon Yung Yu, the tenant the most sublime heights, the man of the first floor of 135 Peel Street, who coulda't distinguish a quoin sued his sub-tenant fer the sum of from a split infinitive, or a galley $77 rent in respect of a portion of from an unrelated participle, is invari diy the most vocul and the August 18-Coronet Theatre; the floor. "Nanook of the North.".

When the case originally came most oracular. August 18-World Theatre:" for hearing the plaintiff was res "While New York Sleeps.”

presented by Mr. M. M. Watson,

. BEDS. August 18.-Star

and the defendant by Mr. M. K. Don. G. Merle, the great Society, transpired that the plaintiff were first made of bamboo, but it Entertainer and Magician; Earle Was tenant of the whole premises has since beca found that bamboo

monthly rental of £37

Theatre;

Williams in "The Silver Cir."

fat a

August 19. Star Theatre defendant $77 per month for a por-

ja month, and was charging the

"Hunting Big Game in 'Africa."

tion of the premises. Accordingly

August 19-World Theatre;j Bebe Daniels in Nancy from Mr. Lo asked that the Puisne

Nowhere."

PUBLIC AUCTIONS, August 20-At P.W.D.. Oflices, eight lots of Crown land at Stubbs Road, 3 p.m.

Angust 20-Lumert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, an old collec tion of Postage Stamps (really being broken up), 5.15 p.it.

August 21. Lammert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, "The s.s. "Chekfang." now lying at Stamshuipo, 3 p.m.

MEETINGS.

Judge assess the standard rent of the portion of the Sour occupied by the defendiri.

At the time His Honour reserved judgment, but subsequently decid- ed in favour of the plaintiff, "05 the whole," said His Honour, "I think the plaintiff is right and this portion is the standard rent the rent at which it was first let, that is, $77,"

For the rehearing the defence briefed counsel, Mr. F. C. Jenkia appearing on their behalf. The point at issue was simply what is the standard rent.. August 20.—General niestbig of —— After hearing both Fir. -Jenkin the Hongkong Philhannonia. So- and Mr. Watson at considerable ciety at St. John's Cathedral, 5-30 length, Mr. Gompertz reserved his

decision.

p.m.

Continuing our research on the History of Beds, we learn that bedsprings

HONGKONG HOTEL

GRILL ROOM

SATURDAY, August 18th,

DINNER DANSANT

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT

OF THE

NEW YORK SYNCOPATED

Dancing

ORCHESTRA

p.m--Midnight.

Late Car to Peak 12.30.

Tables may be reserved.

HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING & SAVINGS SOCIETY.

The Promoter of the above Society (in formation) invites those interested in Building and ultimately owning a Home on Terms that may be arranged to suit the means of all classes to call or send for & Form of Application to participate in a scheme of Dwelling House Construction.

FREDERICK ELLIS, (Promoter),

No 10, Ice House Street,

Hongkong

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