1925-08-06 — Page 3

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925.

LAMMERT BROS.

HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES

TIGER AND BISON HUNTING.

AUCTIONEERS, AFTRAINERS AND SURVEYORA, Public Auctions ---

HE Undersigned have received Tractions to sell by Public

Auction

011

FRIDAY, the 7th August, 1923, commencing at 11 a.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell St. 220 Brass and Cast Iron Bracketi

Lamps.

8 Coils Single Lend Covered

Wire.

1 Drum Wire Cable.

3 Cases-59-Pieces Miller Tire

and Tubos.

1 Keg Green Oxide Powder.

10 Electric Table Fans.

27 Tins Mesa.

123 Khaki Jackets.

33 Khaki Shorts,

21 Khaki Trousers.

16 Khaki Breeches.

12 Bonnets.

52 Caps.

41 Helmets.

T2 Great Coats.

3 Drums Black Paint.

And

A Selection of GERMAN GLASS WARE. Three Austrian Iron Safes "Fly- ing Wheel Brand (New).

also

A Quantity of SCHOOL FURNITURE,

Desks.

Comprising:

Desks and Seats.

Blackboards and Stands.""

· and

A Lot of

MISCELLANEOUS GOODS. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 4th August, 1925.

FOR SALE. STANLEY GIBBONS' MONTHLY JOURNAL

for

June and July 1925 with

Full Gibbons Catalogus 8cpplements and Alterations, to Catalogou Prices. at 15 cents per Copy

GRACA & 00..

Dealers in Philatelic Goode. Garden Ecocia, Post Cardia, Toys, &. No. 10, Wyndham Street. P.D. Box 820.

NOTICE.

Hongkong.

The undersigned begs to an- nounce to their customers that they are now able to handle repairs to boots and shoes.

CHERRY & CO.

6, D'AGUILAR STREHT,

Opposite Kayamally a Cu

Telephone Contral No. 432,

Hongkong, July 17, 1925.

TUNG SANG

TAILOR

11A Peel Street

A

EXPERT FITTERS

HIGH CLASS TAILORING

SERVICE.

THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION N1.2 THERAPION N03

10. lfor Binkier Desarch. "MA, Kar Khand" à BOLOSYLRACTER CREVAITS, SEICE DE 20GKANA.BO

MRE. MOTONO:

Electric MASSAGE

318, Wyndham St; 2nd Floor,

Made to order. ROYAL & CO. No. 1, Aguilar Stroot

INTIMATIONS.

LABOUR OFFICE.

With reference to the Notice dated 23rd July it is hereby notified that the Office of Dr. S. W. T'SO, Assistant Controller of Labour (Chinese), will be closed us from WEDNESDAY, August 5th.

G. M. YOUNG, Controller of Labour. Hongkong, Aug. 3, 1925.

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS,

LIMITED.

STORIES OF MAN-EATERS: A'CATTLE-LIFTER.

יי

NOTORIOUS MAN-EATER,

น

|

THE CHINA MAIL.

ROYAL ENCLOSURE.

COVETED PRIVILEGE. AT

ASCOT MEETING.

ད། ཨེ་ མས

QUALIFIED CLUBS,

on December 25,

STEAM PLANES.

GREATER POWER, BUT LIGHTER ENGINES.

"OVERLAND CHINA MAIL"

Contains all the News of the Week.

PRICE

•

-30 cts. PER COPY.

The "Overland China Mail" is obtainable every week on Friday morning at the office of the publishers (China Mail Building) 5, Wyndham“ Street in ample time for the mail.

Strike Breakers Option of Fine Missing Striker Motor Crash Canton Strikers Obituary Must Not Do It

Baseball League Hongkong's Views Tight Money

CONTENTS

Domestic Occurrences Leading Articles

Page.

1

Page.

League Baseball 1-4 Coolie Hire

16

.18

Nanking Riot

.16

Hate The Strike

16

5

Get Together;

16

5

A Date Wanted

17

5

Despite The Strike

17

6

Hongkong's Lend

17

Who's Who

6

Canton Unmasks

'Soviet Model'

6

Wuchow News

18

Hawkers' Reward Unmasked

"Lest We Forget"

18

7

Typhoon Damage

18

British Silence

.19

Coolle Thrents

Loyal Chinese

20

Experimental Run

20

Soldier Juiled

20

77

Funeral Service

20

7

$100 A Gon)

89

Nurses Rescued

20

Sun Pao-chi

20

9

Correspondence

21.

9

Driver's Claim

21

9

Anti-Strike Orator

9

Local Trade

Typhoon Damage

Chase on River

10

Valley Flood ...

Seditious Posters

10

Military Sport

Impressive Scenes

10

Local Strike

Sport News

10

Our Volunteers

Frontier Firing

11.

Funeral

11

No Notice

Daylight Robbery

11

Macao Picket

Share Market

11

Arms Case

Rubber

11

Press Case

24

Ambulance Test

H. J.

11

Took Umbrage

.24

Loaded Pistol

11

Lightning Toll

.24

Strike Bossee

12

Contradictory

.24

Strikers' Courts'

12

Mr. Sun Fo

.24

.24

combusion

#

Bombs Found "Outport News Canton Items Black-Shirts H.M.S. Calro

Every year in the merry month of The following appeared as a lottor May appears in the newspapers & sident of the Institute of Mining Dr. John 9. Haldana, the pre in the daily "Statesman," Cal- culta,—"Jungli koobra" writes ? short paragraph calculated to make Engineers, in a paper read at the Being very fond of shikar per those whose social achievemente anual meeting of the institute ut haps my own experiences will be of have not equalled their social ambi- Canlif, said that some people seom interest to other sportsmen. I am tions anything but marry. Its to believe that the use of coal for curtainly not a "great shikuri,'' but I am very keen: I love jungle, life wording is always precisely the steam engines was going to be more and do a big game shoot whenever sume, and it is as follows:-- or less superseded. He believed 1 can arrange to go for one-not u

The list for Ascot Royal En- and the not very remote future, that steam engines in the future, vory eny matter, however, nowa claire tickets eleses on-, and no whare steam was raised by coal or days.

Most of my shooting has been that date. They should be address combustion engines in a great many applications can be considered after ol, would take the place of internal done in the Central Farvinces, anded to Viscan Churchill, Ascot cases. as bison are preserved in most of Office, St. James' Palaco, S.W. L. the forests diere, my experiences

In the case of the steam engine|Fatal Dive After that, says a writer in the they had to jacket every part of it with bison are limited. But I have Sunday Express," the fully quali to retain the heat, but in the in- had some experiences with tigers, and the qualifiable are alike ternal combustion engine they had including a man-enter, which will in the outer darkness, for whom to adopt other meuares to get rid perhaps be interesting,

there is no hope. It is possible, of of the beat, otherwise the steel course, to make too much of these would not stand the temperatures to 1 March last X and I went to things, and most people to whom which it was subjected. This was the southern part of the Central Ascot is a big event de so. But, on a waste of heat energy. Provinces, and it was suggested to the principle that only those clubs. The future development of the s by the loend authorities that we are worth joining which are dificult steam engine would be along the shumid go after a notorious mani- to join, a badge for the Royal En lines of increased steam pressure enter which had been doing great closure ut Ascot is worth considers with smaller and lighter engines. damage for some months in a cer-Jably more than its weight, in gold The boilers also would be reduced tain entity. We agreed with some to those who are queertain of get in size as the pressure went up, so relictance, as we had intended fing one.

that the complete engine and boiler.More Squeeze"

A Mah Jong Face? going to another spot where we

would be much smaller and lighter Street Lectures NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. knew tigers were fairly numerous.

but at the same time we were keen whom budes came as night secoeds bustion engine, and would in all

There is a large standing list to than an equivalent internal com

Rice Exports An INTERIM DIVIDEND of Frying our luck for a few days day to whom the Royal Encksure probability be more suitable and Education In China Afty cents per share has been with a man-eater, which is not declared and will be payable ON sally begged in the same way as Ast week is as atural as Eton. even superior for use in nerclanes AND AFTER WEDNESDAY, civilised tiger. We get news of sol, and Christams padding my motorenes

The steam engine would eventual: THE 26TH AUGUST,

1926, im immediately, as he followed our when Dividend Warrants may be haggage carts for a few hundred The accepted method of applica- ly at the internal obtained upon application at the yards within a mile and a half of tion is to write, in the third person, enginé.

our camp, offices of the Company.

The villagers emptati Lan Churchill from one of the list of qualified eiths. What those cally told us that the man-cater The REGISTER OF MEM-old not touch a bus, but we tied qualified clubs are, the merabers of BERS of the Company will be out four young buffaloes, as there Birm know full well. Others for CLOSED from THURSDAY 18TH AUGUST to WEDNES-Te, id to be a couple of other most part, need not worry.

tigers in that beality.

As tiny space of the royal en- The next DAY, 26th AUGUST, 1925, both

morning we saw the shikur and closure is limited and the number of days inclusive.

the who cannot well be refused others returning to smp minus one admission is large indeed, neither

ป. We were filled with joy assuming that there had a kill. 41 - place nor Løvd Churchill's talk But we knew from the faces of the grows in comfort enel year, shikari and the men as out as they enme new timt something lmd gone) Perhaps the mut extraordinary wrong. They story, was fun when intruder to this strip of lawn was a they approached the third bait, notorious erock, who, in 1914, im- HONGKONG" HOTEL as dairan six & yards persented a member of a foreig Rouillon, Mrs. A. N. McDonald, the other side of a deep mulih tembussy, and waffed about the en- Mr. F. A. Bowen, Mr. See Ching- walked up to about fifteen yards of cloure in a fake beard, fearing only woo, Mr. T. M. Shove, Mr. Chan the buffado, which was standing up, lest it should rain. He took a King-tong, Mrs. W. S. Parr. Mr. when they saw a tiger grated under the ring" t, and was discovered Tong Ngoi-sau, Mr. J. Watt, Mr. a bush within ten feet of the bait. on the third day. The affair came and Mrs. F. Leon, Mr. Carredo de It was then about & a.m. The men to the ears of the King some weeks Mayda, Mrs. M. Nishioka, Misa (seven of them) formed a bunch.inter, and his 3aior insisted on H. Nishioka, Mr. Lee Han-heng, and they and the tiger stared at prosecution, which was abandoned Mr. Dum Cun-lum, Mr. and Mrs. pach other for a few seconds; the becuase war broke out.

W. G. Green, Mr. Look King, Mrs. men then retired nekwards till they

Mr. Mack But the vast majority of those Look Alexandra, reached the nullahy, from which | who obtain badges are worthy to be Chuong, Mrs. Maria Galindo, Mr. place they did sprints in record the personal greats of the King Phung Phan, Mr. Ow Yeung, Mr. time!

and Queen, as in a sense, they are. F. A. Edmonson, Mr. H, J. Eddo, Indeed, the Quren has been known Mrs. Leong Hong-sze Mrs. Lu exercises her authority in the Sze. Mrs. Marie T. Marquart, matter of women in the enclosure Mr. Ny Luen-tai. Miss Ng Ly- smoking or letting over the rails, haun, Master Ng Doo-kwong, "If thy want to hef, their men Miss Vera B. Smyth, Master must do it for them," her Majesty Woon Haun, Mr. John D. Evans, is declared on good authority to have Mr. R. K., L. Guthrie, Mrs. H W. said.

Stephens, Mra, E. S. Well, Miss E. Well, Miss K. A. Dosser, Miss H. Dosser, Mrs. Mary M. Gohn, Master Robt. A. Gohn, Mr. F. Hammond, Mr. H. W. Logan, Miss A. L. O'Malley, Mr. M. Teague.

Per A.O.L. 6.3. President

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary. Hongkong, July 29, 1925.

A

TEA LOUNGE. 10 a.m. iq 12 midnight.

PUBLIC BAR

8 n.m.,la 12 midnight.

SODA FOUNTAIN

9 a.m. 10 11 p.m.

NOW OPEN.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI, HOTELS, LTD.

TAR TIGER'S CUNNING.

We went quickly to the spot, where we found the young buffalo still alive and without a scratch on him, and foot-printa of the tiger abain four feet from the bait. We alve saw the place where he had been sitting and the direction in which he had gone. The cunning brute would not touch the bait, but Subscribers of the China Mail had sat there wailing for the men not receiving their paper every to come for it some time. Fortun-

NOTICE.

CROOK INTRUDRA,

evening owing to the uncertain alely for the men the tiger was to live taken altogether nearly delivery as the result of the strike visible from the direction in which forty bullocks and buffalues from are invited to notify this office they came, otherwise they would carts moving along a certain section

0

PASSENGERS.

DEPARTURES.

P

Per P.M. .s. President Taft on

August 1-Mr. L. L. S. van Leeuwen, Mr. and Mrs. Collar. Mr. P. Mistry, Mr. Chan Tax-poh. Mr. J. Pasquier, Mrs. Chun Wing-ken, Miss L May, Mr.

H. King, Mr. T

Eleodora

if they would prefer to purchase as walked up to the buffalo with of a road, and carts ceased to ply Madison on August 1:Mr. J. H. their paper from the street news unt seeing him and there would cer- on that road. He would drag the, Detyeus, Mr. B. A. Doran, Mr. boys direct and have the amount tainly have been a fragedy.

bullock, from the cart a few yards J. M. Ashley, Mr. R. A. Floode, credited to their account.

Now ordinarily one would have into the jungle and there start his Mr. F. 0. England, Mrs. S. M. expected a tiger, particularly a meal. On one occasion a driver hat England, Miss S. J. England, Mr. muni-enter, to have attacked the men the tiger with a stick several times and Mrs. E. M. Wilson, Mrs. M. when they had gone so close to him. on the lead and body while he was Hayden, Inft. John Hayden, Miss Two bounds would have reached attacking his bulleck, but the tiger L. C. Franchere, Miss Mary G. them, but he did not move a muscle, did not turn on him. The crimen, L. Hooper, Master J. Hooper, 1 Kelty, Miss M. S. Wicks, Mrst®

HONGKONG HEIGHTS, For the information of visitors the following list of some of the Alghest points on the Island and Mainland is published:—

Island. Victoria Peak

Feet. 1828

Bignal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1794

Mountain Lodge

1728

The Eyrie

1725

Peak Hotel

130K

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Mainland.

Taimoshan Kowloon Peak

Bowen Rd. (Alterbeda) 297

evorywhero.

8124

1971

on

some orrasions followed the

tiger with his kill into the jungle r

Miss Hooper, Mr. J.

Whiteside, and tried to frighten him off, but McCormack, Miss M. M. Symour, Mr. I. he merely sat and growled and Miss I

He did not on Oesterblom, Mr. I. Moldes, Mr. snarled at them.

once,

On discussing the matter with the villagers they told us that the man enter never attacked when he had been seen, and that he always got his victim unawares from behind. We did not get a ebunce at that any ocensionati mpt to attack a, M. E. Kern, Mr. E. P. Bell, Miss L. Durham, Mr. I. Chalmers, Mr. brute, as he moved from that locality man, either in a cart or in the

I went after this brute and Mre. A. Carter, Mr. Lim after a couple of days, evidently jungle. having got suspicious.

but, he slipped out of the beat. Thiam-hon, Master Lim Thiam- This, was believed to be the same man-eater! He was eventually shot, I believe, yee, Miss O. Eccles, Miss A. I. Gußin, Mr. A. E. Hardman, Mr. which attacked Mr. George, the by native shikari.

In the southern parts of the and Mrs. J. P. Carver, Mrs. Lim Divisional Forest Officer, in Novem-

Mrs. Central Provinces where tigers are Lee-kuen,

Lim Soo- ber last

On a previous shoot my benters fairly numerous, I have found that kuen, Mrs. Soon Poh-yung, Mrs. were going through the jungle to the villagers are not in the least Teng Yu-chen, Miss Leong Lim- the place from where the beat was afraid, when there are two or three ling, Master W. Carver, Mr. and to commence, when they suddenly of them, to go through the jungles Mrs. C. H. Kanter, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Of course when Mok, Mr. Ko Legog-hoe, Mr. came 011 four tigers-male, even by night.

to female, and two nearly full-grown there is a man-enter in the locality and Mrs. Leung Cheung, Mr. cubs, seated in the side of batches and then only in broad day- Mr. Tee Chong-pee, Mrs,

the men move about in larger Mrs. Wong Shee, Mrs. Lam Shee,

The tiger kept roaring and charg-

Ang-se, Mrs. Tee Lo-se.

tree.

light.

!

GOOD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. Mothers always give Chamberinin's their ground, while the tigress led but it would make this letter too

From my own experiences, i Cough Remedy for croupy coughs, colds, charged the men with the intention wover, and from genuine in-

the cubs away. Had all four tigers O difficult breathing, bronchial and in- of doing damage: they would have idents which I have heard of. I fluenza coughs. It is good for the little, made quite a good bug."

The have come to the conclusion that and grown ups too and every one beat was ruined for that day, but the tiger like all animals, has a knows it contains no narcotics. Sold the next day those four tigers were antal fear of man, and is or beaten out. The tigress led the dinarily not dangerous, and that cubs and the tiger formed the rear even a man-eater will probably not guard. It was a hot day and the attack if he has been seen. ligoys were apparently not inclinal course a wounded tiger is a different PAONICIODOOOoooodnongo to travel. The tiger kept only thing altogether. A tiger has a big about 25 or 30 yards in front ofs nature and is not a noble'

"yellow streak" running through THE AUCTIONEERING the beaters, and frequently tapped animal like the lion.

BROKERING CO., LTD. round and growled and snarled a wild animal may attack at times Any large 80, Duddell Street

them, but did nothing more. He

ing towards the men, who stood I could give some more instances,

FURNITURE AUCTIONS

OVCTY

TUESDAY ad+PRIDAY

1.230 bat

L. E. S. HODGE,

Auationser...

Of

did not charge the beaters at all. seemingly without provocation. I The sad part of this story is that have known a large wild boar to I tried to bring off a right and charge a man at glit, but a bonz left" us one does with suipe, and at the best of times is an aggressive it the tigress and one of the cube, beast. I have also known & wound- Both of which got away! S Fed blug ball to charge, but he may

|heva dono šo more from fright than- ATTACKING - CART": "BULCOCKS." Lanything elsensordinaril they are: About a couple of years ago a Į timid animals. The reason why all notorious old cattle-lifter in the big game shooting is so fascinating aonth Central Provinces turned hid is because of the glorioud uncer attention to cart bullocks, which he tainty as to what is going to hap found so easy to get. He is mid pen.

VORBOLTED HEAD

RUISER GASKET

STOPS LEAKS SAVES ROOFS

ARBOʻLAT

DODWELLRICOL HONGKONG

TOSKE CARRIED BY

Tee

Striker's Pay

The Powers and China....13-16 Shanghai Inquiry

YOUR EYES ARE YOUR MOST VALUABLE AS:ET

PROTECT THEM WITH UTMOST CARE.

SUNGLARE IS THE CAUSE OF EXCESSIVE STRAIN ON

THE EYES

THE BEST PROTECTION FOR

THEM IS OUR

HIGH QUALITY

SUN GOGGLES.

AVOID UNNECESSARY ŠIKAIN. !

ON YOUR EYES BY PURCHASING A PAIR NOW.

Prices from:

ཅ་ཅ-

$1.00 to $12.70 per pair..

THE SINCERE Co., Ltd.

HONGKONG EMPORIUM

Standard of the World.

CARBO-LASTIC

Semi-Liquid Asbestos Roofing

BTOPS LEAKS IN OLD ROOFS PRESERVES NEW ROOFS

*་

REBUILDS OLD WORN-OUT GALVANISED IR:N ROOFS

WATERPROOFS FOUNDATIONS

For further parti?

Telephone C. 1030%

nery Department.