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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1928.

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DEVELOPING, PRINTING AND ENLARGING.

(Official Photographers of the China Mail.")

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Bookbinders.

THE CHINA MAIL," Book-

binders.

No. 3a, Wyndham Street.

Dentist.

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HARRY FONG, Dentist,

1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road Central Tel. Central No. 1255.)

Electrical Supplies.

THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.

72, Queen's Road, Central. Tel. C. 3270.

Engineers &

Shipbuilders.

Hair Dressers &

Booksellers.

LEE YEE,

Ladies' and Gentlemen's

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and Booksellers. No. 12, D'Àguilar Street,

(opposite Queen's Theatre).

Hair Dressing Saloon.

HANSON SKEY,

Ladies' and Gentlemen's

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Hair Dressers. 45, Des Voeux Rd, C., H.K.

Optician.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO.

'Phone 2282.

53, Queen's Road Central.

Printers.

"THE CHINA MAIL," General

Printers.

Publishers and Bookbinders. Ja, Wyndham Street. Tel. C. 22

W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD., Ship Chandlers.

Engineers and Shipbuilders, E. HING & CO.,

Kowloon Bay.

New Work & Repairs.

Call Flag "L"

Sole Agenta for Kelvin Motors.

FOR SALE.

ASIATIC AND FOREIGN POSTAGE, STAMPS In Baga, Packets, Bots, and Single

PICTORIAL POSTCARDS, With Chinese Costumes, Viows of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao &c.,

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ALBUMS of HONG KONG

SCENES.

GRACA & CO. Dealers in Philatelic Goods, Artistic Postcards, Toys, Picture Booka, če

No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, ~P: 0. Bax No. 620, HONG KONG

25, Wing Wo St. Tel. C. 1116. Metal Merchants and Ship

Chandlers. Managing Director- Mr. II. S. CHIN.

HERE COMES THAT OLD

· GROUCH-DUGAN-HE'S NOT HAPPY UNLESS HE FEELS BAD-

THE CHINA MAIL,

ON POINT DUTY,

ARE TRAFFIC POLICEMEN

· INCLINED TO RUDENESS?

[By A Policeman.] Eight-consecutive hours of dumb, intense concentration and preserib.

Space precludes any criticism of SWATOW AND REDS. the private motorlat, whose name, alast is legion. This, ons teels;

WANTED:

In deference to the need for a RUSSIANS OF ALL SHADES NOT harmonious relationship between motorista" and the police, is all to the good.-"Daily News and West- minater Gazette."

LONDON MAGISTRATE'S

BUGGESTION.

ed Robot gesturings. Inexhaus MOTORISTS' COURTS. tible, pent-up streams of vehicles crawling tortuously through fro- quently recurring maelstroms of congestion, drivers sitting bolt up- right in their seats with impatience.

The authorities ought to pro- Growing physical discomfort. due vide some special tribunal. to try to long hours of standing, smoke, motor

cases, OF have the lay steam, petrol exhaust, oll, fumes, justices try them," said Mr. throbbing engines, screaming Bingley, the Marylebone magistrate brakes, grinding gears, clattering recently. hoofe, motor horns (devised, with misguided. Ingenuity and nerve- shattering effect) and bicycle bells; and two sorts of weather-wet, when your hands and face are 'steaming with water, and (occa- sionally) fino, when your eyes and throat are full of dust.

He had just decided a number of summonses of this nature, ending with two for dangerous driving.

"We are snowed under with these cases," he added. "It is perfectly monstrous."

Inquiry at the Home Office by a "Dally Expresa" representative elicited a reply to the effect that, while the Home Secretary had un der. consideration the question of the congestion of the police courts, the proposal to have special courts, for motorists was entirely

new,

;"

HAUNTED EXECUTION GROUND

Swatow, May 22.

The authorities in South China, having been warned that Soviet agitatora Bre on their way to Fukien and Kwangtung for the purpose of creating trouble, aro keeping a sharp book out on the passenger lists of vessels entering the Southern ports. Men have been detailed to watch, the houses of suspected Communists likely to shelter the Russian Reds, It is absolutely certain that the authori- ties at Foochow, Amoy, Swatów and Canton will show no compunction toward any Russian agitator who may fall into their hands.

Indeed, Russions of whatever political shade they may be, are in very bad odour with the Southern The lot of that almost archaic

Nationalists. polleeman whose unhappiness found

again and again of how innocent The story is told expression in the gentle humour of

Russian peddlers of clothes have W. S: Gilbert, must compare favour

been cruelly put to death after the ably with that of the present-day

Communist debacle in the South, traffic constable, His function is

Most of these men were Russian unique in the strange vocations of

Tartars whose sole means of aup- advancing civilization. To the un-

The latest returns (1928) preport was the peddling of clothes enquiring mind his job consists in sented to Parliament by the Home and knick-knacks to Chinese in the the mechanical, alternate stopplag Department, which, however, only interior. In fact, most of them had and releasing of two or more lines bring forth evidence up to the end suffered more from Communism of traffic seeking to proceed from of 1926. state that, of 602,637 pro- than the average native of China. different directiona across the

secutions in that year of persons They not only lost all their posser- apot where he stands,

It is un-charged relieved, apparently, by the neces-offences, 163,301 were in relation

sions in Russia when the Bolsheviks came into power, but had to tramp sity for any more, initiative than is

to motor-cars.

thousands of miles across dangerous required for a purely subconscious

Thus more than one-fourth of the country in all kinds of weather, precision of movement. His job

cases before magistrates in 1926 going foodless for days. Many may, it has been said, eventually wore motor-car cases, and, judg women and children who came away be performed by some ingeniousing by the great Increase in motor with them perished on machine..

the way, traffic and the growing number of from hunger or pneumonia. motorists on the roads, the pro- bability is that the 1927 return will show a atill greater proportion.

But can that ever be possible?

Let us consider.

The Human Equation: The first and most difficult ob- stacle to be surmounted in the re- gulation of traffic is the fact that

with non-indictable

As things stand to-day in the South, Communism has no chance.

The Chinese in the South have never been as sick of Communiem as now. There are still a great |

each vehicle in these vast daily pro- WEARY OF DISORDER many Reds in the interior of course,

cessions is controlled by human being. Drivers respond to traffic signala with a readiness which varies in proportion to their in- telligence, self-control, road experi- ence, and-good nature. The con- atable knows, that when, as it be- comes necessary, he decides to stop the flow of trafile in one direction, his signal will be received by the driver concerned with:

but they are at present more SIGNIFICANT APATHY OF ·

engaged in fighting on the defen- HANGCHOW TOWARDS JAPAN.sive than in spreading the pernici-

oua tenets of Communism.

All agitators caught here are promptly taken out and executed. One favourite execution lot la near the Customs Quarters. Already there are legende of the place being haunted. "N. C. Daily News."

- Hangchow, May 29. All is quiet and peaceful here, Nothing much in the way of news to record. City improvements and street widening go on space Hangchow is fast becoming a favourite week-end pleasure ground (a) Prompt and courteous obe- and each Saturday sees a large in-

dience,

flux of guests who are charmed with the environs.

(b) A. gesture of frenzied des-

pair,.

(c) A rueful "just my luck"

sort of expression, or (d) A grin of cheery resigna-

tion.

The police forco daily shows signs of increasing efficiency and the arm of the law is having affect in many new directions. The hot breeze of excitement and anxiety of He knows, however, that it will recent days in the political realm be obeyed. He relies for his por- has already calmed down to almost sonal safety, and for the safety of a chill of fadifference. Even the the line of vehicles which has just Japanese incident is barren of an. been released by a watchful col-thusiasm. Social upheaval does league, upon that obedience. not produce social re-construction A further complication, not gen- but a weary entail_of_fresh_up-

The erally realized, is the neccsalty for heavals.

better-thinking a purely local knowledge on the Chinese are learning this, part of the constable of the direc- The propaganda bureau seems to tion taken at road Junctions by lack the initiative of the early days various services of buses and trams of the Revolutionary movement. It and by long-distance motor trans- is rather astounding to find so many port services. Since the constable | posters being torn down while many normally docs duty at a consider- of the anti-Japanese publicity pic able number of these cross-ronds at tures fail in their purpose. Side different times, his memory is cram- by side with some of the flagrant med with bus and tram routes anti-foreign elegans is a picture of classified according to their ser- a sick man in bed. The patient is vice numbers. The sorting out,

labelled "The Chinese people." too, of slow-moving vehicles from The physician stands by the bed the faster-moving vehicles line also side ready to adminlater a glass of occupies much of the constable's | medicine which is marked "The time.

three principles of the people." 'Bus Drivers Wonderful, "Take this" he says, "and you will. Finally, since at least 50 per cent. soon be well and strong." Other of Central London's traffic is com- cartoons are exhibited suggesting posed of omnibuses, it would be veiled and troubled feeling. A few pleasant to add a word in apprecia-series. of posters enlighten the tion of their wonderful drivers. Alert, patient good-humoured, and superlatively efficient, they possess as much "traffic sense" as any traffic constable, and co-operate with him in a manner which wins his warmest gratitude. The bus driver's hand is perpetually on his-brake, or ready to relay the con- stable's anticipated signal to follow ing vehicles, His response to that signal le invariably u grlu, seen for A revue is not produced for a a fleeting Instant as a gleam of first-night audience, but for a more white teeth in a swarthy, Intelli-intelligent public which begins to gent face. Hats (or helmets) off show itself about the third night to him.

sentenced

Two ex-soldiers were in Shanghai Provisional Court to Avo years' imprisonment each on a charge of unlawful possession of counterfeit notes. Three chops and 26-counterfeit Bank of China bank notes were ordered to be confiscat- ed.

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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.,

OF DENMARK.

The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com pany (Limited) of Denmark:-

Evictors, from Shanghai, Danlen, Savey Hotel, Manila,

from

Junrirya, from Yokohama. Mrs. R. C. Vercival, "Empress of Russia," from Tsingtau.

Lomera, Petrosilo, from Shang- haf.

E. V. JESSEN.

Superintendent Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928..

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

people about International law and! The following Uiclaimed Tele reveal the strength of foreign na-grams are lying in the E. E. tions in arms and ships.

Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-

Aupaari, from: Calcutta. Bond, Butterfield & Swire, from Gleben, S.W.

The student class and those in official capacities still hold Hang-! chow in the state of mourning The black arm-band of crape is worn and serves to keep green the memory of National humillations.

N. C. Daily News."

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E. A. LEGGATT,

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