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SAMLI (Shanghai Fish)
Frozen by A. J. A. Ottomen's Improved Patented mo hod which proserves ita original flavour and qualities. Open tasted always. Appreciated. Floli firm as fresh ftah.
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A STEEL SEA GOING STEAM VESSEL built in Hongkong in 1913. Length O. A. 165 feet; breadth 24′ 6", mean draft 15 3
SCRAPPING A BATTLESHIP,
VESSELS IN BREAKING UP HARBOUR.
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A vivid description of how battleship is broken up is given by J. Penne in the "Christian World"
"It was like Micah's prophecy" being fulfilled before my eyes. Instead of beating swords, Into| ploughshares and spears into prun- Ing-hooks, however, it was break- ing up battleships and converting
their steel and timber to peaceful Robson, secretary of the Brother uses. On a visit to Dover Mr. hood, asked if I would like to sec the battleships in course of demolition by a breaking up com. single screw triple expansion-pany, under which he serves as
foreman. two single ended, 3 furnace
Of course, I accepted Scotch marine boller 13" 6" diameter, 10′ 4′′ long, working "pressure 175 lbs. speed is knots,
For further information, apply to Box Noja c/o "China Mail,”
the invitation."
"Mr. Robson himself began life' 2s a working shipbuilder at South Shields, his native town. It is a little irony that he is now superin one of those men who can turn tending ship destruction. He is their hands to anything. He went to Kent to assist in experimental sinking of shafts. In the Kent coalfield. He believes there is a great fature for the coal and iron Industry in Kent. Between the FOR SALE-Kellett Masor belog splendid coal has been found in
FOR SALE.
No. 185, The Penk. Possession next May. H. Percy Smith, No. 6, Des Voeux Road Central.
TO LET.
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TO LET Two Godowns, or shops, in DUDDELL STREET For Particulars apply to:-H. Rut tonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road.
TO LET-Office Rooms in Central position. Apply:-Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings.
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB..
NOTICE.
THE HALF YEARL Md in the of Members will be held in the Jockey Club Reum. Hongkong Club
Ansex, on MONDAY the 24th of November 1928 at 5.30-p-m
By Onder,
C. P. BROWN, Secretary.
Hongkong:-7th-Nov. 1924.-
NOTICE
TORAGE space on Marine Lots:
with Godowns and Chinese House to Let from 31st December.
W. S. BAILEY & CO, LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. Hongkong, November 3, 1924.
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(Bars SECTION).
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THE PUBLIC is kereby polified of a change in the Train Service instant. For SANG commencing 12th
particulars please see timetables. H P. WINSLOW, Maruger. Hongkong, 10th November, 1924.
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Parish Church, healing mission at Frizinghall Opening the three-days faith.
Bradford, on J. M. Hickson, and the vicar, the October 13, the missioner, Mr. Rev. J. H. Warner, explained to the 400 sick people assembled that not expected, but gradual recovery immediate and sudden cures were following on the act, of faith in submitting to the laying on of hands,
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LOST BODIES TO BE KEPT IN STORAGE.
DECAY OF LAUGHTER.
MAN TENDING TOWARDS
"AGE OF 20BRIETY.
Spithead from the same ship as the missioner placed his bands on it, fractured his skull and died injected schemes bound up with the approaching when there will not be
did Admiral Sir David Beatty. M. Herriot made some remark about the might of the British Navy, and the Admiral reminded him that seven of our battleships had been
BISHOP'S 'BLESSING.
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Then the missioner knelt before MAIL WEEK NEWS. the altar, where the Bishop of Bradford, Dr. Perowne, with his right hand on the missioner's
ITEMS FROM FAR AND head, read the commission in
NEAR.
London, October 5.-A mörgue
So little genuine laughter is left SCRAPPED BY WASHINGTON.
which he
for London-a mortuary where the in the world now that we already gave licence and "But to return to the battleships.exercise the ministry of spiritual Moreton-in-Marsh, Mr. H. J. Page, there may be a better chance of ville joke-smiths, and the time is
authority to the missioner to
bodies of unknown persons can bare forced to resort to the synthetic M. Herriot, the French Premier, healing within our diocese.
As he was motor-cycling near preserved for some weeks so that smiles of comic artists and vende- watched the Naval Review at
of Paxford, Worcestershire, falling identification is one of the pro- Moving quietly among the sick, from his machine in an apparent the head of each sufferer and Shipston-on-Stour hospital, prayed for health and recovery.
a laugh, left in the entire world, rapid development of refrigeration.according to Dr. Charles Gray In Pairs the morgue has been Shaw, professor of philosophy at long established. Its usefulness is New York University, who made For carrying a letter from a As the missioner passed the prisoner in Wormwood Scrubs beat proved in determining the his gloomy forecast for a summer scrapped under the Washington bishop blessed each of the sick. Prison W., and another letter back identity of bodies taken from the school audience at the university
Seine. Agreement. It was three of those who were dfterwards helped out of to him, Edward William King, 31,
"Man may be defined as a ships I saw in the breakers' hands. the church to a marquee, where a warder, was fined' ss. in each case
In the London area the river creature Those ships cost £2,000,000 each they were given refreshments. at West London Police Court.
of laughter and tears." police often take from the Dr. Shaw said. at about the beginning of the war.
Many of the sick had come long
Thames as many as ten bodies asocialism, and the like are seeking "If pacificism. It was easy to belleve it when one distances, and the strain of the
week, most of them difficult to to efface all fears, it may happen Sentence of 12 months' imprison.
If they could be pre- that certain other cases will work saw the armour plates of finest service and the pain of unaccustom-ment was passed at Edinburgh identity: steel, ten to twelve inches thick, rd movement left its mark on on James Kinnaird, of Bellfield-erved for a month, many mysteries for the destruction of laughter. between the plates and the inside and the teak that serves as a buffer their faces.
avenue, Musselburgh, for having of the Thames might be solved.
Primitive mon Plans are now going forward for enough to laugh, since wit involves did not know skin' of the ship. The teak is Mrs. S. H. Pinfold, of Wigan-road, ing a motor-lorry, knocked down refrigeration plant for the mor& certain amount of intelligence.
A 6-years-old Bradford woman, on June 27 while drunk and driv foot thick, and it costs new £17 suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and killed Motion Orr Williamson, try of a large London hospital. The men of the future will know ton. If a £2,000,000 building were who has been unable to walk for 19.
These are in the hands of Mr. too much to laugh at anything, put up and it depreciated at the two years, walked sumblingly
Arthur H. Barker, consulting co-
"Men are tending toward rate of £200,000 a year, everybody
Battersea Council have asked the fineer and professor of heating and age of sobriety in which laughter would be aghast, but here were a door to the motor car waiting to London County Council to abolish ventilation ut the University will have no real place. good £6,000,000 worth of materid take her home. The crowd greeted the horse-riding "row" in Batter College, Gower Street, W.C.
In the and-skilled workmanship welted her with cries of "It's a miracle." sea Park because it is so little used.frigeration is the generation of ice which will preserve our jokes in the sober period of scientific and social The latest development in re thought there away at that rate. Even apart
may be museuma Another woman, Mrs. Lavender, from scrapping, war-time ex- of Stanningley, near Brad- perience has made ten-year-old ford, who had not walked for battleships almost as obsolete. as Nelson's "Victory,"
years on account of paralysis of the spine, is also stated to have AN EXPERT JOB..
walked a few steps. "This breaking up of battleships such a faith-healing mission has It is the first occasion on which
a
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a few steps from the church!
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Tribe, of Tennyson-road, Batter-power being derived from the mere stone age,
Returning from a walk, Mr. on trains while in motion, the way we keep the memorials of the case will be sea, SW, found his wife banging ovement of the coach over the labelled The Age of Laughter." dead from a shed celling at the to experiinent in this direction.
rails. The L.M.S. are preparing "Laughter arises from the twin. back of the house.
causes of incongruity and in- "Ice can be made in a kitchen equality. The laugh is at once of coach as the train goes along," physical and social origin. After 14 weeks' idleness due to said Mr. Leo Sunderland, the re-laugh at what we do not under- is a highly expert business. The been held under the direct auspices a strike, Neath Main Collieries are
We
a torpedo, a mine, or a well-direct-
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ships look as if no power short of of the Church of England. Al-10 close their foor plis at Skewenigeration expert, of Albemarle stand or at what seems inferior to
company
CRIPPLED WOMAN'S STORY. Another four hundred cases
ed shot from a 14-inch gun could together more than 1,300 sick are Glamorganshire, 1,100 men being all night, the machine produces duces us to assume an exalted posi Street, W. "If the train travels us. In both cases our pride in- make any impression on them. Visiting Bradford for the mission, affected.
super-refrigeration, so that the ice tion and lofty air. The bolts and rivets that fasten which many doctors of the district
attains a very much lower tempera- the plates together seem as if they
are attending.
For keeping a café in Arthur-ture than freezing point, und lasts and Galileo; now they try to joke "Men used to laugh at Columbus would hold them till the Day of
street, New Oxford-street, W.C., lager. Judgment. But the
about Einstein and Freud. Bit as a gaming-house "Alfred Wehrli. has found ways
When the train stops, the the supply of good laughs is becom of stripping were dealt with on the second 3 a Swiss chef, was fined £200 machine does not make ice, but any ing less and less as man grows the mighty monsters of their protective armour. Mr. Robson day of the mission. From the Bow ordered to be deported at ca already made keeps quite solid more and more wise. showed me heaps of neatly shaped Bradford stated that a cripple for
Bow-street. steps of the alter the Bishop of
for 12 hours, Buch machines Those who are so advanced s two to five-ton blocks of steel ready 14 years had on the first day
require no attention.
to see their way through all incom- for conveyance by ship or rail to attended the mission and then wright, was committed by the installed in London hotels which to laugh at anything.
Lechmere Worrall, 49, play- Refrigerators are now being gruities and inequalities never stop the purchasers. How are the blocks.
When aft Bow-street magistrate for trial on its operated by a touch of a but men are fully evolved, laughter, will a charge of obtaining £1 by means ton, the only care they need being die a natural death. Indeed, it is of a worthless cheque from a cabin occasional drop of oil. Some safe to predict that war and laugh man. Bail was allowed.
of them are placed only 18 inches ter will depart band-in-hand. from red-hot furnaces.'
shaped and sized? I was shown the pushed her bathchair part of the
way home.
yardlong cylinders of acetylene gas. Three cylinders, each with This was Miss Euphemia Bryant, its tube, are united to suppir the of Junction-row, Bradford, who incredibly fierce heat before which has been an invalid for 30 years a section of steel armour is melted and disabled for 14. She is aged as butter, and carved into sizes 34 and has suffered from nervous and hapes at will. A five-ton paralysis, which had reduced her block looks very small.
to a physical wreck, unable to feed herself, to walk out, or to dress.
CARVING THE SHIP AWAY "Most beautiful work is taken,
She
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FICTION
DUELS.
SOME THRILLING FIGHTS IN NOVELS.
corded by Ambrose Bierce in his story, "The Middle Tos of the Right Foot." The scene is a room in deserted country house, re- puted to be haunted. The two men are to fight with knives in the dark! "You will not move until
On the way home she got out of out of the ships and sold; If posther chair and pushed it the re- sible, intact. There were boilers mainder of the distance. weighing thirty-five tons. The states that when Mr. Hickson laid quarter sessions at Lewes when There are few thrills in fiction you hear the closing of the outer difficulty is to find railway cars his hands on her she felt some Harold Russell asked to have his quite the equal of a well-managed door, says the "master of cere- that will carry them. Teak, as thing like a click in her legs and sentence of 18 months for house-counter between The Master and actual duel, however, Bierce denies duel. There is the thrilling en-monies." A description of the. every schoolboy knows, is the felt her strength returning. After breaking increased to three years' Mr. Henry in Stevenson's "The Us hardest and most intractable of reaching home she made a good penal servitude. timber, but orders for furniture meal and was able to grasp things
Master of Ballantrae." "A wind- A sound of trampling ensued. if they take half a teaspoonful of ships are received and executed afternoon walking about the dis- treatment at Nuneaton.
made of the teak from particular with her hands. She spent the Six cases of all-pox are under less stricture of frost binds the air the closing of the immer door, and Bisurated Magnesia in a little
when in the midst of frosted finally, the outer one closed with a water immediately, after eating,
with neatness and despatch.' trict round her home, receiving the
trees?' between two candles the conclusion which shook the entire No matter how badly you may thing on board at the time of the
"A ship is bought with every congratulations of her friends. Peterborough is to have its first brothiers take up their positions. building. suffer from Indigestion, dyspepsia, sale. Among the contents are vouched for by the Vicar of Bolton,
A few minutes later a belated. The genuineness-of-the-case-is Socialist mayor in Mr Leonard M. Henry "crowded upon his foe gas, flatulence, or acidity-no crockery, glass, cutlery, beautiful the Rev. A. P. Gower Rees, and.
Fletcher, a railway clerk
with-a-contained-and-growing fury farmer a boy, met a wagon which matter how many medicines you fittings, carpets, baths, and a the verger of Bolton Church, who
Nearer and nearer he crept upon was being driven furionaly towards may have tried without success hundred other desirable things has known Miss Bryant for 25 German destroyer 'sunk at Scapa lepped back with a little bobbing
After 3 days' work, the six the man till of a sudden the Master the town."
Scaramouche has several duels in Flow in 1gig was, raised on oth For some time the battle, the course of his adventurous
wages, but at length the Master, career, and so also does -Gilde: feeling himself beaten, attempte a Berault in Stanley Weyman'i foul stroke. Mr. Henry saves bin-Under the Red Robe The self by leaping Laide, and the latter's first encounter in the book Master, lunging in the air, stan is one of the best. An Englishmon bles to his knee. Before he can accuses De Berault of using marked move the other's sword is through cards -- his body-It-writhes-for-a-moment There is a little space bebind
like a trodden worm, and then the church of St. Jacquios,
M. is still. "God forgive us, Mr. Etranger, } said. Henry," said I, "he is dead
Doubtless you will accompany me thither ?"
years.
- STREET SERVICE.
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M. Michael Mordkin, the Russian dancer, who has been performing under the Soviet régime for several years, is now at the London Coliseum.
When fined £20 for keeping an Edinburgh gambling house, Isaac Levy said the ingling the police stated they heard was not money
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don't give up hope. Thousands The breakers gradually, carve the who once suffered as you now ship away downwards from the suffer who had tried everything turrets and endwards from how to
To another instance a man who without obtaining relief now stern. It is sometimes dangerous has only uttered monosyllables for Nearly a fifth of the total King's enjoy perfect health, and can get work, but such precautions are two years said. "Thank you very Beach cases this term are concern.
taken as to reduce the posibility much," when given tea in almost anything without the of Casualties to the Passion Treatment tent outside the churched with personal, Injury ligation. slightest pain or discomfort You Now, if I had to live in a town can do the same if you will go outside London, it to-day to any good chemist and to Soutlises, the residential is rely
Mrs. Parry, of Chester, arrived get
4 package of Bisarated quarter of Portsmouth, that I would after the service bad concluded, Magnesia. Take as directed above turn. The history of the past car owing to the breakdown of her and you'll soon forget you ever ries on into the history of today, motor-car As Mrs. Parry was a had a stomach...you'll find your the new torpedo boat fles past the quite helpless Invalid and could vital organs strengthened, while old Victory with the same white not be taken from the the an content and enjoyment will all ensign #ying from each, and the balance men having left, Mr. Hick your life. But be quite are you told Elizabethan Culvering and SGR held a service in the street, the No. 80, Wellington Street yet the right thing for your pro-akers can still be seen in theme workers, who were still present,
tection the oval "BISMAG” trade walk which brings you to the huge kneeling in the road. mark is prominently displayed on great glamour there to anyone with artillery of the forts. There is a the wrapper, and you should look the historie sense sanse which I to build a first-class baiteship Afor it when buying:easy
drink in with my mother's nik. Let us hopegas Christians and tax
The "Vengeance is now shorn payers, that few will be available Suit on || of half her bulk, Her-17ton for the breaker" fen-Years-lience, anotfor lewesen berr Hon plans, because the world will have no will possiblymerEverinplanung further fe for any ships but those Seay.engines Out of her teak that are needed for the pursuits pulpits of Church doors may be of peace, fashioned. It costs £7,000, pot now.
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A different kind of qualis re- "With pleasure," he blurted out,
"to the devil if you like!"
AN EXPERT. De Berault plays with his., op- ponent for a while, watching the sweat gather on his brow. Da. Berault is an expert, and takes his time, The other fights fiercely. Then De Berault slips, but the other holda off. Still the fight goes on, until suddenly 'iy a beat of affected anger I thrust strongly fover his guard, which had become weak, and ran hin through the cheet. The ensuing adventures of De Rersalt ore the outcome of this duel,
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