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August 20, 1923, Temperature 79.

Barometer 29 61

Rainfall 0,03 inch.

Humidity 80

August 20, 1922 Temperature 80..

Today's closing rate, 2/3, 1/16.

No. 18.959.

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號十二月八年三十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1923.

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Mandarin Costumes of Various Diliga and Pewter-ware,

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(Heuter's Service to the China Mail.).

PARIS, August 19.

FLYING CAMPAIGN.

(Reuter Service to the China Mail.)

London, August 19.

Mr. Cosgrave, Premier of the Irish Free State, A friendser tone was manifested by M. Points afternoon addressed a necting at Eanid, the care, the Premier, in his speech at the unvelling of scene of de Valéra's arrest. There were по a war memorial at Charleville. He declared that heldents. France would make every effort to bring her policy. near that of all the Allies and would always be ready to seck with them any alleviation united action night bring their sufferings.

Subsequently Mr. Cosgrave flew in a military jeroplane to Carlow to address his constituents,

The flight, which was Mr. Cosgrave's first, is pgarded by the Clare electors as a venturesome piece of excellent electioneering and a good adver- M. Poincare said that nations were like in-sement for the Irish air force. dividuals. He realiscil the necessity of uniting in great moral crises better than the un- casiness of convalescence, and although union had now saved the lives of the Allies it was still not useless.

M. Poincare concluded by denying that the Ruhr was responsible, for unemployment in Britain which had improved since last year. He de- precated indulging in controversies like that over the legality of the occupation and preferred to seek a practical solation of the problems in which all were interested..

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lane Crawford's announce that they have a large selection of tea, dinner and toilet-sets.

-The Steam Laundry Co., Ld., announce delay in their deliveries, due to Typhoon damage at their works.

In the gliders competition at Vauville; cables Rester from Paris, Simon remained in the air 47mins 35 secs.

The regular monthly meeting of the Me Engineers' Guild of China is be held tomorrow at 5 pm, at the Guild Office..

DAVIS CUP PLAYERS.

JAPAN VISIT LIKELY.

SYDNEY, August 19. The Secretary of the Australian Lawa Tennis Association believes that the Australasian Council Would be only too pleased to accede to the Japanese desire of members of the Australian Davis Cup teams to visit Japan on the way home.

OVER A CLIFF.

TERRIBLE MOTORCAR

ACCIDENT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SINGAPORE, Aug. 18

A motor car went over a cliff at

Penang last night. Mrs. Coombs, European lady who recently arrived from Shanghai, was killed:

WINNERS

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CARNIVAL DEBRIS.

100 MEN'S EIGHT HOURS CLEARING UP.

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Brighton Carnival ended in a whirl of excitement. The three miles of promenade and drive from the western boundary to Black

Rock was crowded for hours with boisterous revellers, and confetti,

coloured paper streamers, and the like filled the air. A fireworks display put the official finishing touch to the festivities, but hua- dreds kept up the revels tatil day- break

When the last revellers had gone, Corporation workmen, The Home dock, strike has

accompanied by steam wagons, ended; following meetings of the

The holders of the following lorries, and dustcarts, arrived to strikers in London deciding to

theatre programmes are requested remove the debris of the frolic. resume on Tuesplay, cables Renter,

to forward them to the Ching Mail | The whole of the front, the pro- During the month of July office when a coupon the value of menade, and several of the main 13,481 Chinese arrived at Singa$5 will be issued which may be fetti and tumbled masses of paper streets were inches deep with con- pore, and 5,524 left for China. The changed for goods to the same

streamers. The coloured refuse total arrivals this year, for the first value with any of the advertisers was swept into piles sft. high and seven months, are 96,756, the de- in the China Mail, ̄ ̄ ̄

taken to the Corporation destructor. partures 43,154.

Star Theatre Programme No. 341 issued Thursday, August 16 to Saturday, August 18.

Tac work occupied more than 100 men for more than eight hours, On Saturday, Detective Ser-

and there were still many streets geant Lam Kwan raided the first

to be cleared. "There must have been at least 300,000 people on the floor of No. 238, Main Street, To Kwa Wan, and there seized a quan-

front said Mr. Mills, a Corporation tity of colning apparatus together

fireman. "The Corporation dust Patrons of the three Cinema with over thirty counterfeits of Hongkong one cent pieces. This Theatres, the Coronet, Star and were buried under the piles of rubbish. Over 250 loads were morning a Chinese was charged World are advised to retain their collected and more than 10 tons of

before Mr. C. D. Melbourne with being on the premises and the case was formally remanded.

The Hongkong correspondent of the Eastern Times, one of the Shanghai vernacular papers, gives us the largest fish story of the. season. His story concerns a giant carp captured in the waters of the Colony, and he reports that the fish, which weighed more than 100 calties, could speak. When asked, it said that the political situation in Canton would be settled within three months if the fishermen would let it loose. This request was acceded to and the fish receiv- ed his freedom.

World Theatre Programme No. 939 issued Wednesday August 15 to Saturday August 18.

programmes and study the number

to be found on the front page.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The China Mail regrets to learn that Mr. R.A.C. North of the Government Service is an inmate of the Government Civil Hospital.

The names of Mr. Iu Tak-chung, Mr. A. J. Lane and Mr. J. L. Adams have been added to the list of Authorised Architects.

According to news received from Yunnanfu, states Rester, Mr. Weatherbe has escape from the bandits. Troops have been despat ched to search for him and escort

班主

The Tientsin properties of Reiss Brothers Ld., in liquidation, | were sold at the offices of L. Moore him to Yunnanfu.

& Co., Ld, Bristow Road, to a

The wedding took place in Chinese Group represented by Mr. Yokohama on August 11, of Mr. Lee, compradore of the Eastern Robert E. McCann, of Shanghai, Trading Company, China. The price, says the N. C. Star, was and Miss Flora Kerr of Los

Angeles. Tls. 181,000. The Chinese group

is said to be a new purely native Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of firm, called the Tientsin Press Packing Co., recently promoted. Nigeria, has arrived in England Mr. W. J. Warmsley was the only from West Africa and will remain other interested idder near the at home until September Sir Hugh closing price,, having bid married as his second wife Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, the writer of Peter's 'Mother, and other well- known novels.

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confetti were swept up, and the

hundreds of thousands of streamers used in the revels would stretch at least three time; round the earth.” It is estimated that almost 500,000 people were inBlackpool on theclos ing day of the Blackpool Caráival, and that nearly all of thein: essem- bled on the front in the evening. Many thousands, were in. fancy. dress.

After the revels great crowds swarmed to the railway and motor-coach stations. At the former the gates were closed owing. to the hopeless overcrowding, and many people scaled the high walls to gain admission.

FIRST ... TYPEWRITERS.

FOUR HOURS TO TYPE 150 WORDS.

An interesting exhibition is now open at the Science Museum, South Kensington, showing the develop Iment of typewriters from 1829 to the present year. There is also a specimen copy of the first letter ever typed. It was typed by an American in New York in 1830. It is estimated that the first letter of not more than 150 words took over ---- four hours to type. The early type- writers are heavy, cumbersome.in- The death is reported of Milena,struments usually made with a the ex-Queen of Montenegro, King plano keyboard. One invented in of a Chinese detective in a main Nicholas of Montenegro was de- 1865, fa nearly 3ft, square, and could street there, the Government are ported in 1918, and diedita 1921, only take a sheet of paper 21⁄2in increasing the ponaitles for unlaw-his country being united with Jugo by 4in, smaller than a postcard. ful possession of arms to ten years Stavi. Among the daughters of One is shaped like a barrel, The hard labour and a flogging. The the King and Queen is Queen | first machine that, could type law, will be enforced with the Helen of Italy. utmost rigour. The Straits Times

The Hongkong correspondent of the Straits Times wired, that following the sensational murder

quicker than one could write was not invented until 1866 Many of headed the telegram with the A London cable message ans the early machines weigh words," Necessary in Malaya." nounces the death of the Marquis of more than 2016., and can only type The position in Hongkong, close, Cholmondeley, P.C. He was born capital letters. Figures In the very to the lawless mainland of south 5 1858 and he marrieret* 1870) carly machinet were unknown. China, differs very much from that Winifred Ida, daughter of the late | There are 50 exhibits in-all). So of Malaya, comments the Malay Colonel Sir Robert : Klugscote, great is the demand for typewriters Mail, but it does; seem that the KCB The Marquis : wie Joint nowadays that they are being made present fine of $100 for the illegal Kereditary Great Chamberlain. Hej at the rate of 75 per hour' as còm2 possession of amis is inadequate, left two sons and one daughter. ....... | pared with two a year 50 years ago.

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