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"WILD

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BUT DIDN'T STAY.

Iguana, Tapir, Otter and

"Snakes.

اگر

But

Taishek Barrier a sampan was to work "which has led to the great mentioned in this section and the

Horak. aged 24. an! Charged with unlawful posses-| The work of clearing the one American who on his own admission of armas Hammunition on road yet remaining closed to the! sion had deserted from the Philipboard the "Fatshan" the ship's public since the recent heavy rain!' pines army, was charged before painter was brought before Mr that to Castle Penk-has been

Residents who read this week's By Leung Kam-tong] Major Willson this morning on R. E. Lindsell at the Central proceeding throughout the week

Magistracy and formally remand and favourable progress has been for the Prevention of Cruelty to report of the Hongkong Society Having been asked by the two edunts.

The first count concerned the jed until Tuesday on the applica- made. . "Chim Mail to give anyoviews on ;

The work involved is so-con-under the heading of imports for Animals may have noticed that the possibilities of broadcasting-pussession of a passport and tion of Detective Sub-Inspector

siderable, however, that it has no July were 2 otters, 4 iguarias und Chinese music I must begin by the second his being without visi-Moss.

The seizure was made on the been found possible to open the 6 baskets of snakes, ble means of absistence.. emphasising that I know prac-

Falien suplied putward Poyage of the "Patshan" rond even temporarily for week In the course of their rounds, tically nothing about ralio. be- Sub-Inspector

the test from Hongkong on Thursday, dis-end travellers although the route, the inspectors of the Society yond what I say and heard atffer the withorawal of

he had instructions pyery of a portion of the arms via Taipe and Fanling is still "care even for the ferocious. Wodnesday's test concert in which charge, as

pimals of the jungle, teaching' I was privileged to take a small from the DC... Mr. King, to ask being made when the boat was the available

for ar order for the defendant's tween Capsuimun and Castle? A gap of some fifty to sixtythe ignorant how to avoid cruelty. feet in the embankment learling There was also in the monthly that I think it of. very little use/defendant had given himself hp It Had apparently been ar- to one of the bridges is having to report a list under exports.

First of all say emphatically expulsion from the Colony. to instal apparatus in a theatre to the Polive after being in the ranged that in the vicinity of be maile good and this is the these strange creatures were not The sounds, or music, or what-Colony for some six days.

In reply to Major Wilson. Ir-waft the arrival of the test difficulty experienced, It is presumption was that they were ver he pleases to call it..émanat-i ing from a Chinese stage, are not spector Fallon said that it was when the ingenious contrivances anticipated that this work will be kept hert

Such is not the case. One need in the least amenable to broad-sal under the circumstances to in which the arms were placed completed within four days' time

There remains only about two; have no fear that returning home, sting for entertainment, simply apply only for an order for detén for floating purposes were to be

wered overboard and later pick-days' work un other, temporary tate may mean an

unwelcome hee use can drama for opern) is In reply to another question le-led up by the sampan which was clearances so it may be predicted welcome by stray iguana. fundamentally different from that.

spector Fallon said that it such to have a man's hat hoisted on, awith same certainty that gives of the tccident-

Here I should add that I am an order were made, the defen-hambon pole for purposes of favourable conditions in the mean confining myself to the Cantonese that would have liberty of action identification. This sampan was time, Castle Peak Road will be

at certain hours. The principaljin fact, passed by the "Patshan" open to traffic by Tuesday. object of the Police, in regard to after the discovery had been Four Instruments Enough.

The accused, was that they might made, also on the downward voy- For broadcasting, whether as have him continually under ob-age, apparently still hopeful of "accompaniment to songs, or asservation with a view to getting the arms being lowered

selections four instruments are him deported when the opportun

The Arst discovery of arms in ample. They should not be play-

The Police were await- the lamptrimmer's room led to a ged at high pressure as is neces- ing certain confirmation from thorough search of the vessel and ALLEGED INTERVENTION OF

sary on the stage because

Manila in the matter of photo-another consignment was dis-j theatrical acoustics are so poor graphs and papers of identifica-covered in a fish tub. As a resu and the audience so noisy.

of information eliciter i the For the singer's main guidance

It was therefore decided to pro-course of enquiries the ship's und support I would use the Wooceed on the charge of non-posses-painter was placed under arrest. Kam a two-stringed fiddle of a

The seizure consisted of 20 mellow tone) instead of the Yee sion of passport on which defen

dant was convicted and sentenced Mauser Pistols, 12 Smith and Yin (aiso a two string fiddle, but) with thicker strings and there-to two months' hard labour." efore more penetrating), which marsupies the place of "gender" both in a theatrical band and in an orchestra..

theatre and music.

bur

But nearer to the microphone I suggest putting a quleimer. A dulcimer is on the basis of a harp Haid flat-brass strings fastened on brass regulators which stand en a wooden sound-box, played by striking the strings with two thin stripe of bamboo peel. Under ordinary auditory circumstances, the dulcimer is the sole accompani- | in in played by the ment and singer (soloist).. Having brassi strings which are very "soft" thei dulcimer ought to be entirely free| from blurs in reception, as the vibrations are so mild.

ity arose.

tion.

CANTON'S WAR.

MILITARY REPORT FROM

NORTH

A military report from the Hunan front to Canton reads:-

Wesson Frounds of ammunition.

revolvers and

3,200

ILLEGAL TRAFFIC.

ARE TRAMP CARS A KEAL NECESSITY”....

At Yochow, 30,000 of the CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW, enemy (Wu Pei-fu's troops) are assembled but there is no cen- tral command.

To the Editor of the "China Mall."]

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SOLDIERS.

HONGKONG PASSENGERS.

I

Ate Iguana's Tail! Not knowing what an iguana was for, of "China Meil' reporter set out to make, inquiries.

A gentleman who has roamed the seven seas spoke of having isten many members of this branch of the reptile family in He also the Philippine Islands confessed to sharing in a meal off the tail the body being inedible. A guess that he hazarded was that these iguanas were brought here to make a special brew of medicinal samshu, as an gredient in Chinese wine like snakes, monkeys, etc.

Hongkong "Zoo."

-in-

eight ladies and a quantity of

The motor-boat had veived weird monsters from all

them te

An "incident in which a de- tachment alleged to be soldiers took high-handed action and sup-

The four that came here were snubbed the posedly

Strike each six feet long, fully grown! Pickets clearing office in Honan

They awaited tran-j creatures. is reported from Canton.

shipment, and were not sent off It may not be generally known ill this month, hence the absence that the strikers have the use of from the "exports." The con- a high building on Honam island, signees are the Zoological Society on the opposite side of the river to of Japan, where the assembly is Canton city where they issue being gradually added to so that permits for certain cargo and their "zoo" is now becoming well passporta for passengers to and known. from Hongkong. A lookout is kept on the Hongkong, steamboat

The speaker on the subject of from the top of the building,

the an iguana's tail, also told This week it was alleged that a China Mail" man about a wild Sir, Your correspondent motor-boat took off from the animal entrepot in Gilman Street, Sung Hok-kang has returned to Hunan and is reorganising Safety" evidently has a grudge steamboat one male passenger, where a distributing agent re- the defeated forces of Ho Yao- against the tramp cars plying chao (this leader being, hastile for hire in Hongkong. I will ask luggage. to Canton, and having been him the following questions, by permission to call on the steam-parts of the world and delivered owners of travelling your kind permission.

boat but not to take off the pus-shows in all party of China., previously defeated).

How does he know the S.P.sengers and their effects. Various other military move-

Seriously, however, an igliana. as the has not taken steps to check the Action was taken and the ments are reported such

motor-boat, passengers and lug-not unlike a chameleon... is the imest aquatic of the lizard family. Also closer to the microphone arrival of big numbers at Chang-practice'?

"Because "Safety" has been gage were detained. Three men. They live on marine vegetation.. die, between the dulcimer and the sha (some days before the report

who quote dressed like military officers, ac diving under water to do so; and Woo Kum) I think there should be ed evacuation) with the requisite pestered by a Yee Woo,, this also being a two headquarters of brigades, divi-prices, why does he not prosecute companied by, ten or fifteen men they can stay under for some con-

them for annoyance? And what armed with Mausers, are alleged string instrument, but even

chair coolies, Mention is also" made of orders about

ricsha to have gone to the clearing office, siderable time without coming to softer than the Woo Kura by!

Then somebody suggested that virtue of its smaller drum at the to the 4th and 6th divisions to coolies, flower hawkera etc. who conducted themselves high-hand the surface to breathe..

edly, and finally to have made off the otters may have been brought base. The Yee Woo would be to take the field, and of a big confer- often shout at one?

Re drivers absconding: Do not with the motor-boat, passengers here by the Fanling Hunt. Such the Woo Kum as the secondence at Cha Ling between the

military and the civil population. drivers of cars other than tramps and luggage.

is not the case, the zoological gar- violin to a first violin. The sounds

decamp' as well after a serious

The report states that the "indens in Japan also being the Russian Arms for Canton?

cident" has been brought to the destination in this case. of both fiddles are nct unlike those

Later. accident? of the violin.

Further news of the extensive Re allegation of unlicensed notice of the Strike Executive and At some distance from the war movements in southern drivers: This is a matter for the picket headquarters. microphone because it is the China. extending up to the Police, no matter if the car is pri loudest instrument-I think there Yangstze valley, is that Russia is vale, livery or trump. ought to be a Hau Kwoon, this sending more help to, Canton, being a miniature clarionet minus and that other warlords are pre- patronise the tramp cars? the keys. It is best understood paring to move.

I and the trumpa of much use)

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A "Second Violin."

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"Talking" Voice the Best,

¡sions, etc.

routes.

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A cable to the "Wah Tsz Yat

Do

touts

only ignorant'

people

ARBITRARY STEPS.

Snakes For Food.

The "Mail" reporter also heard that a tapir arrived a few days ago, to be sent on to San Fran- cisco.

Articles in previous issues of this paper have explained the uses a bamboo flute with reed General Chang Kai-Shek is re- on every occasion: From what I

FOREIGN OWNED SCHOOLS to "which snakes are put by Chin- mouthpiece, but only a few inches ported to have ordered his 2nd have seen, some of them seem to

IN CANTON.

ese in this Colony and, of course, long. The general softness and and 3rd armies to advance; his have taken out "public vehicle"

elsewhere. Snakes form an ex- smoothneas of ita tones would help chjective being stated to be the licences. Accordingly, I presume

pensive item in diet-in fact CHINESE AGITATION. and it's always pleasant to the entry of Fükien provincé by two that they pay. the usual livery

more costly than a luxury. Even Chinese car.

rates. Is any harm done then? The greater the competition, the Arbitrary steps are suggested the poisonous variety have their have great restorative attributes inches from the microphone; of Russian arms and ammunition Since the tramps have "stands," come before yesterday's meeting and the "meat" is' considered a'de-[ The singer should be only a few Po" says that another shipment lower the prices for the public. In a resolution which was to have value. The spleen is supposed to

regular or irregular. I suppose in Canton of the Executive So- singing almost directly into it, is expected shortly at Canton.. but with this one qualification. A pro-Wu general is believed that they are permitted, or at ciety on Education-steps which licacy.

The import of snakes into least known."

aim at the very root of "foreign" Hongkong (from Canton "more When we sing on the stage, or to have arrived at Amoy to

From the tone in which "Safe schools in Canton and territory. at concerts, we usually try to operate with the Fukien tuchun

vessels ty" writes I can only presume

The proposer is of the opinion far") has been restricted by the do our "loudest," for reasons and the Chinese naval

that he is a snob with his fleet of that since the Nationalist Govern-strike. But there is also a re- given above.

offensive (against All singing for there in an

private cars. I have seen even ment is busy with the present export business, Hongkong deal- radio should. bu "generously Kwangtung?).

real taipans ride in tramps, when war, decisive measures ought to ere sending on shipments to places where the Cantonese modulated; in fact I would lay down that the normal "speaking The Fukien defence commis-

proposals include:-

As the winter is" the snake voice be used as I think it will be sioner on the Kwangtung frontier

Administrative committees feast season, it is thought that best heard on a receiving set, with is reported to have sent his artil- or without loud speaker. Thelery to Fingho.

and positions of principala to be the batch of six baskets mention- greatest difficulty in Cantonese Sun Chuan-fang has ordered

confined to Chinese (ie, ined in the H.K.S.P.C.A. report were schools now, owned or "con- either for transhipment, or for singing is enunciation, or clarity the following

trolled by foreignera).

(Continued on Page 12.) ·

CANTON'S TROUBLES.

Sinews of War.

CO-

movements of

The

necessity arose, so what has your be adopted by the Society, emigrate in any number.

correspondent to say now?

Live and let live is my motto."

Thanking you for inserting this reply on behalf of ignorant' drivers who are unable to answer for themselves,

Yours, etc.,

CHAN.

of "words" as distinct from munitions: light artillery,

mountain artillery, rifles and am-) munition from the Shanghai arsenal which is to work at night.

Hongkong, August 6. Three car-loads (400,000 rounds) of ammunition from Luaghwa

Memorials of Re-entry by the araenal.-Kung Sheung Yat Po.

Peking is rumoured to have Crown on Kowoon Inland Lots ordered an inquiry into the move-Nos. 1627 and 2008 have been re- The Canton Government is re-ments of M. Borodin, in Hunan gistered according to law. ported to have settied the postal province, where he acompanied strike by offering a subsidy to the General Chang Kai-shek. workers, who are expected to re- turn to work on Monday.

Further open fights in the city,

| between rival labour factions, are

reported.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

The closing rate of the dollar, no demand, to-day was 2/2 1/16.

The Police Commissioner in Canton is reported to have order- ed vigilant supervision

over suspected activities in some of the Japanese boarding houses in different parts of Canton city.

Land and property vested in such institutions to be turned over to Chinese.

making special snake samshu.

WEEK-END WEATHER

All schools managed by for- Til noon to-morrow the wea- eigners to be registered with ther forecast is:-Moderate S.E. the Government which will ap-winds; variable, showery. point one supervisor, from the At 11.17 u,m. to-day the Obser- educational departments, to be vatory reported:- continually at the schools and Pressure has increased moder to direct all matters and mat-ately over N:E. Japan and alight- ters pertaining to administra-ly from S.W. Japan to Hongkong. tion,

It is nearly stationary elsewhere. Syllabus, etc., to conform A depression covers China and a feeble anti- with Government regulations. Indo-China and

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