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THURSDAY, JULY 10 1921

INTIMATIONS.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

TICKETS will be issued for

Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda | Anchorage) and return, calling at Swatow and Antoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the "Company's new, fast, well appointed sicamer "Hai Ning" at the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, Including Meals while the steamer is in port.

These Special Tickets will be | available for return only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for: which it is issued or by her following sailing from Foochow.

Duration of stay at Foochow 48 hours.

. The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the

will leave steamer Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at 5 p.m. arriving t daylight on her return (Weather permitting).

WANT

ADVERTISEMENTS

35 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, "$I. PREPAID.

"Every additional word & Conta

for 8 insertions,

TO LET

LET-Ellenbud Villas To

Apply E. T H. Bunje c/o H. M. H. Nemiazee, Prince's Building.

TO LET-New and Airy office

rooms on Ground and first floors, 5, Daddell Street. Can be used as Bank, Commercial. Motor Car Offices. Rent moderate. Apply Sung Tai, 1. Queen Street..

FOR SALE.

The Company's Steam Launch FOR SALE-A 'CELLO, $120 Cold

will. convey

passengers

from

Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow

City, if required.......

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For further particulars and

dates of Sailing-

... Apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CU.

General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP Co. Lb. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.

NOTICE.

P

S from the 1st July there will be 'a permanent taxi stand at the junction of Wong chung and Leighton Road, Happy Valley. Parsons requiring taxis in this locality please ring up 1272.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL,"

E have removed our Hong. kong Store to our Kowloon Branch, No. 84 Nathan Road."

Customers are kindly requested To communicate for their requires menis at our new address where accounts will also be received and pajd.

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CASSUM AHMED & CO. Hongkong, 7th July, 1924. g

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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EMBERS are hereby notified that

the lists for next season's sub scription griffins will close on the 31st July.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1924

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OS Surs Socios sito por este

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Receprao no Club Lusitano no dia 10 ás 17 horas;

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Afim de que a manifestação tenha o maior brilho possivel a Direção pede a todos os Sars. Socios e suas Exas familias o obsequio de comparecerem todas as festas e subscreverem a lista que sc acha patente na Secretaria do Club.

P. A. Rosario

Secretario. Hongkong, 7 de Julho de 1924.

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SNAIL AND RICE DIET.

NAVAL PRISONER OF TIVE SENUSSE

The Committee appointed to cur sider the question" of retired Naval Ollieers" Pensions, which were stopped during such time as they Were Berving during the war, and replaced by ordinary pay, reste its sitting at Old Palace-yard, Mr. Holman Gregory, K... presiding, Sir Bertram Palle, continuing to present the case for the

THE CHINA MAIL.

HARNESSING VESUVIUS.

VOLCANOES TO SUPPLY POWER OF WORLD.

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

For obtaining unemployment benefits by false pretences 18 mån, | 36 of whom worked for one firm, were sentenced-to terms of impri- sonment varying from 14 days. to a month at Thames Police Court.

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>>AWEIRD FISH.

NEW SPECIES CAUGHT OFF ICELAND.

An entirely new specimen of

How a mighty force of destruc- John Smith Jackson Mac-

In the presence of 10.000 people | tion through all the ages. may. Connachle, the former Everton soon be harnessed us man's ser full-back and Scottish internation- Lord Derby unveiled last month a fish has been caught off the coast vant for endless constructive al, was sentenced at Liverpool 40-foot granite column surmounted of Iceland and is to be preserved energy is told in Popular Science to a month's imprisonment in the by the sculptured figure of an Siftings."

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infantryman erected on Douglas promenade, Isle of Man, to the memory of 700 men of the town

+ The Rev Samol Kirshbaum who fell in the war. Knight, rector" of Houghton-le- | Spring, Durham, and at one time rector of St. Andrew's, Wells- street. Oxford-street, W., has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of Jarrow, vacant by the death of Dr. Quirk,"

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I second division for deserting his A plan to obtain fuel and power, wife and family. for the entire world by utilising valcanic heat has just been made by Sir Charles Parsons, famous engineer and inventor of the steam turbine.

The Italians in the neighbour hood of Vesuvius and other vol cances and in volcanic territory at some years have Larderello for been using volcanio steam, piped directly from thderground sources, The Derbyshire police have to operate power plants.

stopped digging in the lonely:fox The new plan goes much covert near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, as

in. a further-and

radically no trace of any bodies has been different direction, Sir Charles found. A prisoner in the United wants to use the direct heat rather States had alleged that he buried than the piped steam. He there two men he had murdered. believes that inexhaustible power can be produced at practically any point on the earth, by constructing immense boilers, to be sunk thousands of feet underground, so that they will get the intense natural heat which lies everywhere, though at different depths, beneath the earth's "comparatively thin, cool

crust.

The steam generated by these. boilers, in a steadier and more regular flow than that obtained by directly tapping the volcanic steam, would be piped upward to huge | turbine erigines, which in turn would operate electrical plants from which light and power could be distributed by wire or perhaps by wireless-over inany miles of territory.

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The Southwark, S.E., Board of Guardians are awaiting a renly from the Ministry of Health as 1 what they can do with 190 äble- bodied men, married, with fami- lies, mostly young, who have been receiving relief for more than two years and not doing any work.

The Rome conference on emigra- tion and immigration, whose work is drawing to a close, has decided to meet again, either in England or Switzerland, within two or three

in the fisheries museum at Hall.

Mr. T. Sheppard, the curator, states that the British Museum authorities have inspected it and they report they have nothing liko it in the national collection. The Bridge House Estates Com«' About # yard in length, mittee of the Corporation of the flesh of this extraordinary London has been asked by the creature is soft Minister of Transport to defer The head is somewhat after the and Babby. consideration of the proposed St. type of the halibut, but the entire Paul's Bridge until the Advisory | surface of the body, is covered with Committee to be set up under the sharp and hard conical spikes London Traffic Bill has dealt with resembling pure white ivory. The skin is coal black, resembling polished blacklead. The fish has Aldershot police are trying to other unusual features. The tail, find the owner of a gold ring and perhaps the most extraordinary a gold brooch containing a photo-part of the specimen, resembles a graph of a baby and a young man, gloved hand with eight fingers, which have been sent to them from London by a man, who said he picked them. up in an Aldershot street six years ago.

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The Publle Health Committee of the Fulham Borough Council, decided recently to allow six weeks to elapse and then demolish a street of condemned houses off Sotheron-road, the owner of which cannot be tried, the tenants hay ing paid no re for three years.

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between" each of which is a thin web to assist in swimming, while in the centre of the back is a long fishing rod like formation with a tassel-like structure dangling at the extremity nearly a foot in length.

The British Museum authorities propose to investigate the matter."

The fish it will be noticed, pre- acnts some resemblance to the carried its Angler-fish, which remarkable tasselled "Oshing-rod" on the head,

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The Victoria Cross awarded to years to re-examine the agreePrivate Sith, of the 1st Madras ments concluded in Rome in the Fusiliers, for gallantry at Lucknow light of experience gained during on November 16, 1857, was sold for

For sorenese of the masscles aftor siol that time..

£40 at Glendining's, Argyllent exeris une fur shumic pains, much relief is afforded by masking the street, W. The gold medal afle to parts throusch y with han for the Battle of Talavera, July basin in Balun. Try it when you 09, awarded to Major Lincoln have need of so ha pieparation and so Stanhope, 6th Light Dragoons, fr yourself what an excellent liniment

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In the throne room of the Valicen the Pope has solemnly proclaimed 1925 as a Holy Year, and a Bull afterwards read out prays for the pacification of Europe, the reunion of the Christian Churches, and, the of Palestine more

RADIO MÁY TRANSMIT POWER

The first great experiments may be made on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which is ideally suited for such undertaking. This great volcano just across the bay from settlement Naples, is still active-but not in accordance with the wishes of dangerous, so far as ordinary human Christianity. foresight can judge.

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In order to put the new plans to Robert John Platten, 74, a magis- a practical test near Vesuvius, it trate, and for more than 30 years may be necessary to sink the clerk to the Lenslade Urban boilers only a few hundred feet District Council, was found not beneath the surface. In the event guilty at Buckinghamshire Assizes that the experiment is successful. | öf churges of forgery.....in. similar undertakings will be essay- | connection with the council ed at greater depths in other coun-accounts.. Mr. Justice Greer said tries.

it was one thing to be careless and If another invention, the wireless another to be dishonest... transmission of power, is perfect.

Sir William Mackenzie, KC., ed. the big volcanoes of the world, like Vesuvius, would in themselves has been appointed chairman of suffice to supply heat and power Committee to consider the claims 10 the entire globe. Since it could of rien dismissed from the police be transmitted anywhere over and prison service on account of mountains, across oceans, and even the strike by 1919. to ships at sea-the lorations of

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the stations, would be unimportant, Sir William

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Joynson-Hicks,

and the plants would naturally he M.P, in an address at the Con- in the immediate vicinity of the stitutional Club, charged the Gov- big volcanoes, where it would be erament with complete failure in necessary to dig only a little disregard to the unemployment prob- tance to lap the inexhaustible heat. fem. The unemployed had been

DR. TESLA'S EXPERIMENTS. Dr. Nikola Tesla confidently believes that the time is almost at hand when electric power in large quantities can be transmitted by radio.

· វា engaged along these bren for

TUNG SANG there would be no inersise in his broadcast.

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WE beg to give notice that two lines, deal with the tried Leather Trunks labelled Mr. officers who had retained to service. C. W. Loftus, Hongkong, Das Captain B. 8. G. Owatki Wit- senger ex; "Tanda" which inside that-he-volunteered--his have been lying in storage since services in 1911. Subsequently he The 13th November 1923 will bef-war-torpalmiljet sold by Public Auction to defray and sul five months as expenses if same are not claimed

priser in "The bands of the and all expenses paid before the Genussi. During the period their 31st July 1924.

food was mainly sails, and rice. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CU, they were more or less natul experimenting

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The prevention of Eviction Bill: B.L S. N. CO. LTD.

sill, he served on the Maruthe interruption of the World passed through Committee of the Mongkong, 8th July, 1924.

Coast, and was also in charge of War, he might already have ac House of Lords after several im- the Edinburgh Castle engaged in complished this feat. Prior to the portant amendments had been War, he erected a huge steel carried, one including within the convoying "American troops (0 England. When he reverted to tower. from which high frequency provisions of the bill landlords currents, generated in a power who became purchasers of dwell- the retired list he was told that plant at its base, were to be ing houses after May 5 of this year and sons and daughters over 18 pension for War services.

He believed that electric power years of age of landlords; and would be stopped during his war factories through the agency of jects and those who fought in the

radiobur that it could-light laraps, lare war on behalf of the Allios.— - Sir Bertram Falle called several run ships and airplanes, no matter

The German Aero Lloyd Co. other Witnesses to show that the how distant, provided only they

to the proper has instituted a "Bower air service" impression prevalent among naval were tuned

wave-length, Unfortunately be between Haarlem, the centre of officers was that their pelision would be paid for the period of cause of the War, it was necessary the Dutch bulb fields, and Berlin, the power be-360 miles away, blooms cut in their war service. Vice Admirul to dismantle

fore the experiments could be Halland in the morning being V. H. G. Bernard, on behalf of the concluded. Only two months ago sold in Berlin in the afternoon. Asociation of Retired Naval however, at a general scientific Officers said that previous to convention in Cincinnati, there Presiding at the annual meeting December, 1920, there was no were shown small models of of the National Association for authority for the suspension of devices

transmitted Employment of Regular Sailors, pensions during war service, and sufficient power to light ordinary Soldiers, and Airmen, the Prince it would seem as if the suspensions electric bulbs by wireless so the of Wales emphasised the necessity were due to faulty reading of the principle, at any rate, has been for the maintenance of the strength and efficiency of the Services that King's Regulations and Admiralty demonstrated practically.

Neither the use of volcanic Service men should be assured of instructions by a clerk at the

heat nor the transmission of power civilian employment on leaving. Admiralty. The chairman made a Beard of the King's Regulations and wireless would be any more the active list. Admiralty Instructions and agreed

On the occasion of Founders' as to the soundness of the conten-

Day the Duke and Duchess of York tion. Sir Charles Walker, Deputy

paid a visit to the Lord Mayor Beuretary of the Admiralty, giving

WORLD LANGUAGE. Treloar Cripples' Hospital at Alton. evidence on behalf of the Ad-1.

Queen Alexandra sent to Viscount miralty, mid that in the matter of BUSINESS NEEDS MAY MAKE Burnham, chairman of the trustees, whoreceived the guests, a telegram- IT ENGLISH. pensions their policy had been con-

expressing continued interess and sistent throughout, and in no case had real officer been állowed

"Wireless may make English sympathy in the hospital. to draw pension and service pay.the language of the world."

Supporting the appeal for fund This is the opinion of Major- He was surprised that many of the witnesses were quite unaware that General James Harbord, pre- to buy Tintoretto's, portrait of Vin- their pensions would be stopped on sident of the Radio Corporation of cenzo Morisini for the nation, Mr. their being called out for service, upon the fact that English is the could han th

America. He bases his opinion Ramsay MacDonald said that there more subversive: because there were marry of them fanguage of business in the lead doctrine than that no large sums of who must have signed a form on ing countries of the world, and money should be spent on anything. retirement which clearly stated also because the control and deve that did not pertain to meat and that persions would be stopped on lopment of wireless apparatus is drink, zaiment or house room. their being called to active service. largely in English-speaking hands.

Business necessity,

An ancient custom begun in the саус It appeared quite clear that the Adniiralty considered it was quite General Harbord, will was 14th century to celebrate the Junecasory to legislate by Order natives of other countries to leam English victory over the Scots at in Council to stop refired

ed pay, trapeak English. The grant-bus-Neville's Cross, bear Durham, In because an officer became an activeness centres of the world are the 1340, was observed by the Deant Cathedral, who ascended to the Rervice officer when called out and English-speaking cities of New clergy and chole of Durham York and London, and the business received his pay as such.

man who understands. English can top of the Central Tower and sang The chairman announced that get the commercial news he want anthems. Mr. John Burton, a lay the Committee would consider the from the air faster and more come clerk, was one of the party for the

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