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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927.

OUR $50 PRIZE.

Result of Ninth New Puzzle.

THREE SHARE THE PRIZE.

The statement made by Sir

in Austen Chamberlain

the House of Commons to the effect that "action was being consider- ed" regarding the payment in depreciated currency of interest

The "China Mail" has pleasure on Hankow municipal debentures

In announcing the result of the is as fatuous as most that have ninth Cross-Word Puzzle of the new come from the Foreign Secretary series. This has been won by three of late in respect to conditions competitors each with fully correct

solutions. The winners are:- in China. What action, in the Miss C. O. Frost,

uame of commonsense and con- sistency, can be taken?

Having,

Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Masters.

Mesers. Shewan, Tomes & Co.

P. O. Box No. 46,

Hong Kong.

16,

In accordance with his definite line of policy towards China, J. F. Souza, Burrendered the British Conces- sion at Hankow to mob law, hay- F. E de Souza, ing surrendered Kiuklang, Nan- king and Wuhu, and being on the point (there is no evidence to the In accordance with the rules the contrary) of surrendering the prize will be divided among the three Concession at Tientsin, all by winners and cheques will be sent to "agreement," it is indeed difficult them four days hence under re- to see how the Home Govern-gistered cover, together with the of the "China ment or anyone else is in a congratulations

Mall." " position to prevent debenture The correct solutions are 08 holders being "rooked" by the fellows:- Hankow "authorities" to their

A cross. hearts content.. The payment; 1, COLLECT; 7, CLYSTER; 14,

15, UNEATH: of the interest on the Bonds in EUNUCH; question was promised on June DRAG: 17, UP; 10, OR; 20, TRYO 80 in Central China Bank cur- (TYRO); 21, U.S.; 22, BRAZIER; rency. There is no definite news 24. M.M.; 26, AGEN; 27, DOGE; yet, in the first place, that the 30, UNCLE: 33. BIJOU; 34, T.; 35, BE; 36, S.W.; 37, BY; 39, N.T.; interest, or any part of it, has 40, BY: 42. NO: 43, ON; 46, been paid at all. If it has been SLEET, 48, ESCOT; 49, BRAT; 51, met with currency, of the above SEER; 52, UP; 54. TUSSOCK; 67, Bank, it will show a loss of from A.B.; 68, MULL; 61, BO: 62, F.A. twenty to forty per cent., for that 63, AONL (LOAN); 66, EMEUTE; is the extent to which notes of 66, LOCATE; 69, DAGGERS; 70, the Central China Bank have ADHERES.

Down, depreciated. Foreigners in and around Hankow will not look at LNA. 4. LUG: 5,

1, CEDUOUS; 2, OURS; 3, E.C.; G them, and Chinese will only CHURN; 8, LURED; 9, Y.N.; 10, accept them at definitely lowered SET; 11, TAR; 12, ETYM; 13, values. So what "steps" are RHOMBUS; 18, PA; 19. O.L; 22, the Home Government likely to BEE; 23, ROB; 25, ACT; 26, suggest? Only one solution ap- GLITTER; 28. GIBBOSE; 29, pears feasible to us, and it is not E.J.Y.; 31, N.E.; 32, OS: .38. so fantastic as some of the solu- ASSUMED; 39, NEB; 41, YE; 12, tions that have been advanced N.B.; 44. N.C.R.; 45, STABLES; 47, by champions of China for the TAT; 48 EEK: 60, TUBER; 51, cure of her many ills. Our sug-OF: 57, ANTE: 59, LEG; 60, LUG; SCALD; 53, PUMA; 55, SO; 56, gestion is that Sir Austen Cham- berlain sponsors a nice fat loan to 69. ACE; 64. OAR; 66, T.E.; 68, Imperialism, and there is always Messrs. Eugene Chen and Com- pany, of Hankow, so that their the possibility of a Sino-Soviet discredited currency may rise to entente." Strange words, in-parity. And then the poor Bri- deed, but a stranger remark fol- tish and other bond holders who lowed, namely, that "the anti-were trustful enough to put their faith and their money-in Bri- Communist movement was not tish municipal stocks will be able aimed against Soviet Russia, and to get their interest in full! the Nationalist Government was

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more than willing to resume the traditional friendly relationship VALUE OF ADVERTISING. with the Soviet Government."

with language,

OH.

P'RAPS P'RAPS NOT!

A young woman of New York sopke at the rate of eight and one- third words, per second for five minutes in giving evidence in a re- cent court case. "Diction perfect." A much-married Hong Kong man, who has had experience of the elo- cutionary capabilities of a well- roused woman, says he can quite believe it.

When the police broke into a strong room in the Soviet trade. headquarters in London, they found It contained nothing but chairs and tables.

This is thought to have been the secret haunt of an amateur saxo-. phone player.

A sportsman of Cardiff, who is seventy-eight years old, lost his speech through the shock of wit- nessing an accident. He is now seeking further shocks in the hope of recovering his speech, as he is a fish vendor by trade and a good voice is essential to him in bual-

ness.

A Hame paper compiles a list of things we never hear twice as fol- lows:-

"You've Won the Calcutta'

Sweep!"

"Strike a match and see if there

is any petrol left in the tank." .."This riee pudding tastes of ar- senic!"

"You are the proud father of trip- lets!"

in

A street filled with boiling por ridge was the sequel to a £4,000 fire Johannesberg. The outbreak occurred at a milling establishment. Firemen poured in tons of water which swelled great quantities of crushed oats. This soon began to boil, burst the walls, and then pour- ed out into the street like lava from meals of the product. a volcano. Natives made hearty

Roast Australian porcupine was the chief dish at an exotic dinner given by the French Zoological Society, in Paris. It was received

was also pronounced fine,

16-YEAR OLD GIRL'S LOT. UNSCRUPULOUS GUARDIANS with enthusiasm, and stewed lizard

JAILED.

PITIFUL STORY IN COURT.

He came home late for supper. He was a professor of chemistry and she was a wife who tried to

have a good supper for him every night. When he'd be late her good. cooking would be spoiled and then he'd start to find fault. late again to-night.

He was

The supper

was cold. The argument was on. The wife finally broke down crying. But he was a professor of chemie- try.

"Stop crying! Your tears have

no effect upon me. What are they?

A small percentage of phosphorous salts, a little sodium chloride. Ail the rest-water. Bah!

little daughter of

"Molly," said some one to the a clergyman, "does your father preach the same sermon twice?"

"I think, perhaps, he does," re- think he talks loud and soft in turned Molly, cautiously, "but I different places the second time, so it doesn't sound the same.

Son: "Dad, what does 'Excursion Rate' mean?"

Father (absently): "Oh, about, two miles an hour."

•

"Papa, what makes a man always give a woman a diamond engage- ment ring?"

"The woman."

"What do you think of my new dress, Jimmy?

"I didn't notice it"

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A pitiful story of how 2 16 year-old Chinese girl was led into a life of same by her guardians was told in Major C. Willson's Court yesterday afternoon, when "Our Empire needs to advertise," a Chinese man was charged with Mr. Wu may imagine himself said the Right Hon. T. P. O'Conner, living on the girl's earnings, and clever in thus seeking to establish M.P., at the weekly luncheon at the his wife was charged with aiding a difference between Communism by the Advertising Association,

Holborn Restaurant, organised and abetting.

Mr. R. A. C. North of the Secre- and Soviet Russia, but all that he in connection with the Advertising tariat for Chinese Affairs prose- does is to make himself ridiculous Convention and Exhibition at Olym-cuted. The accused was not in the eyes of not only foreigners derful. Empire,"

pia this month. "We have a won- defended.

he continued. The girl was the daughter of a but Chinese. Well he knows that "We have the potential customers. widow who married a medicine. the cult of Communism lives, population in the United States, I

In spite of the vast superiority of vendor of Canton when the girl moves, and has its being in Soviet hold still to the fact that in Eng mother died when she was 13 was seven months old. The girl's Russia. and that anyone, say, inland we can produce more perfect

work, more finished work, more years old and the step-father sold Moscow, giving expression to honest work than in any nation of her to the accused for $150. The any opposite theory would in- the world. But we must proclaim male accused had never done any Hong Kong, Thursday, July 7, 1927.stantly be branded as a traitor in that way the future of our Em-tified with fan tan gambling it to all the world, and I believe honest work, being usually iden- to the cause of Communism and vire will be even greater than its houses and opium divans, while despatched in the orthodox glorious and immortal past.” his wife had often been seen by Mr. O'Connor referred to the en- the girl with "large lumps of Moscow fashion. Equally well ormous potentialities of the opium in her possession." does he know that it was from Argentine as a market for British The parties came to Hong Kong goods. He instanced the practice on March 14 last and engaged & Mr. C. C. Wu, the Nanking Moscow that all the Communist of German sellers in that country, cubicle on the third floor of No. Government's Foreign Commis-influences and machinations in with a knowledge of the Spanish 211 Hollywood Road. Ten days

catalogues In sioner, is able and learned, as China emanated with the sole Spanish and prices in Spanish. later the female accused took the befits one who has been called to object of Sovietising China and "Let us not forget that Germany girl to the Mei Chow Hotel where the British Bar, but he has the estranging China from all the is a very able race," said Mr. she was made to spend three days O'Connor. "I regard it as one of with a man, the female accused, weakness of the great majority other foreign Powers.

To say the greatest necessitics of the receiving from him $130. Since of the leaders in China to-day that the anti-Communist

move-future of our country that we then the girl had nightly visited ahould make our young people the Mei Chow Hotel, Great East- in giving expression to sentiment was not aimed against study languages in order to swell ern Hotel and Empress Hotel. ment which he knows full well Soviet Russia is a gross travesty Empire trade. It la simply About the middle of June the

national narrownes6, national

accused decided that the girl was are inaccurate. Thus, in ex- of facts.

ignorance, and nation lethargy not making money fast enough, plaining the position to

It is time that leaders in China that our young people are Soviet Consul-General, M. like Mr. Wu were brought to taught two or three languages, In 30 they decided to send her to The girl then got order to carry the flag of our trade Singapore. Linde, on the eve of the latter's their senses and made to realise to every foreign country," __

one of her customers in the Great Eastern Hotel to write to her departure from Shanghai, Mr. that juggling with words for the

step-father in Canton. The lat Wu makes declarations of a kind mere sake of "eyewash" not only

ter came down and had an inter- that he himself must realise will is undignified but is a wilful per- · KOWLOON STREET FIGHT.

view with the accused who demanded $280 for the surrender mislead no one, not even Moscow, version of the truth that cannot] The purification of the Kuomin-raise China generally in the coolies which resulted in traffic did not have the money to pay he A street fight between some of the girl. As the step-father tang, he states, was necessitated estimation of the outside world. being held up at the junction of went with the girl to the S.C.A., by the fact that the Chinese Com- Moscow may chuckle over Mr. Canton and Salisbury Roads, and Inspector Shaftain arrested munist Party was hindering the Wa's naive exposition of the had its sequel before Mr. W. The male accused's story was

Kowloon, at 1 p.m., on Tuesday, the accused. progress and threatened the very anti-Communist movement, but Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- that a returned Chinese emigrant existence of the Nationalist re-the best friends of China will tracy yesterday when three of the from America had offered $600 volution. Had he stopped there, sincerely regret the faintest, combatants were charged with to marry the girl, but she refus disorderly conduct. The fighted. As it was "a woman's affair" he would have been perfectly cor-suggestion of coquetry with took place between ricahn cooliea he did not interfere. He did not rect, politically, diplomatically, Soviet Russia. And the Chinese and street

Bamboo know anything about the girl's and historically. He must have themselves may well pray to be poles were freely used and there movements. He certainly did not The woman said that when the felt that M. Linde's departure spared from all that a Sino-were several cracked heads. The receive a cent from the girl.

police had great difficulty in called for something soft and Soviet entente really means and stopping the fight and arresting Chinese American's offer was put tender to mitigate the drastic rightly resent any iden of China the leader of the street coolies before the girl she refused to get steps taken by the Nanking re-resuming the traditional friendly and two others, one of whom was married saying that she pre-ing it must be unscrewed and laid

a ricsha puller. The first ac-ferred an "independent life." The gime against the Communists, relationship with Soviet Russia cused, the leader of street coolies, girl led an immoral life of her own and so he proceeds, in common of which Mr. Wu so gilbly speaks. was fined $15, while the other two choice and never gave a cent of

her earnings.to the house... parlance, to "put his foot in it." Until Mr. Wu and others in high were fined $8 each.

The Magistrate convicted the He called the attention of the positions in China. are manly

accused and sentenced the man to Soviet Consul-General to the enough to speak the truth and A Chinese living at No. 126 Wan-three months' jail and the woman

ernment realises that Soviet Rus- not be surprised if all their public No. 218, Queen's Road East. He girls step-father the girl was re- The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.sia and China are in a similar utterances in regard to China's position among the family of na relations with foreign nations are tions, being under oppression by looked at askance.

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Ifuture.

Councillor Jones: "Owing to the urgency of the matter, I propose we have the cemetery extended 18 soon as possible, and have the ground consecrated ready for use." Councillor Muggins: "I rise to second the proposa), and in regard to having the ground consecrated- well, it's ten years since I had my wearing splendidly." back yard done with it, and it's still

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"My poor husband was a wonder- ful artist," alghed the landlady, as she hacked at the plecrust, “and always said he found inspiration in my cooking."

"A sculptor, I presume,” said the gloomy boarder, surveying his bent fork.

The inventor of a new feeding- bottle for infants sent out the fol- towing among his directions to

mothers:

"When the baby is done "drink-

In a cool place under the hydrant. If the baby does not thrive on fresh

milk, it should be boiled."

An ounce of tomato seed, we learn, can produce 1,600 ounces of seed, which, in turn, could bring a harvest of 8,000,000 pounds of tomatoes. It is as sumed that the gardener would have to be as liberal with his hoe as the statistician is with his pencil.