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A Chinese, believed to be insano, ASSAILS DOCTORS. has been admitted to hospital suffering from injuries received) through jumping into the road from the first floor of No. 46, Des Voeux- road Central, on Friday.

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The driver of public motor car No. 444 yesterday took to the Cen- tral Police Station four packetɛ, |

CORONER ATTACKS THOSE WHO "ONLY GUESS.”

SECRET POISONERS,

P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!

J. Pierpont

Margan recently cancelled his steamer ticket and postponed a trip to Europe in order "One case was certified as to serve out a jury.

each containing four tins of illicht natural death from heart dis- That's the trouble with being opium. He stated that the packets case" when the dead man

waahigh up in a company that you can't were left in his car in Connaught-found to have a dagger through get anyone to write you an excuse, road Central

[his heart."

This amazing statement ap-organisation.

saying you are indispensable to the

A small fire broke out on board pears in a remarkable attack on: the 8.8. "Kong Ning." a Hong London doctors by one of the Kong-Wuchow boat, at about 10 best-known coroners in the King-

Stenog: "My now sweetle's com-- p.m. on Saturday. The fire-brigade dom, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, of West-

Would you turned out in response to a call, minster. It occurs in a lettering to see me to-night.

Oddie to Sir like to make his acquaintance?” and the fire was soon put out. written by Mr.

Roommate: "Sure, tell him to George Greenwood, who presided Little damage was done. -

er.

"So your daughter is going around the world alone! And how'

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"My girl got her nose broken in three places," those places."

"That' teach her to keep out of

Alpha-"What was the denomina--

at a meeting of the Society for bring him along.” The forthcoming marriage is an- the Prevention of Premature nounced of Dr. H. A. Fawcett, Burial. The "Evening Standard" M.R.C.S., LR.C.P., etc., of No. 6, is able to give the full text of the

letter. |Queen's-gardens, Hong Kong, and

Miss B. M. Woodhead, of Wolver- "I have ceased to give my post- is she preparing herself for the hampton, who is coming to Hong mortem work to general practi- journey?"

Mr. Ingleby

"She has learned to say 'No' in Kong by the P. & 0. .&. "Morea." tioners," writes

Oddie. "It is common knowledge twelve languages.“ that general practitioners are not Pleading guilty to a charge of failing to keep to the proper side expert post-mortem makers.

"So long as of the Southern Fairway of the medical men to give death cer

the law allows harbour on August 14, Wan Loi, tificates in cases where the doc- "DALBETA" FADELESS CURTAIN NETSter of the steam launch "Hop tors have not wh

We." was fined $10 by Commander alive within a very short time of the patient J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., at the death, so long will the public re- Marine Court this morning.

ceive no real and complete pro-

Maybe Russia would find it easier

The West Point police yesterday

tection against the secret poison to get recognition for her Govern- ment if so many of her lenders rounded up 12 motor car touts, who were brought before Mr. R. E. than anyone else how frequent

"Coroners know perhaps better didn't wear boards, Lindsell at the Central Magistracy the practice is for doctors to issue this morning. Eight, who were these death certificates in a first offenders, were fined $10 each. casual way, without taking any tian of that bill you leaned ma?” Three, who each had had a pre-steps to assure themselves that Theta "Episcopalian I guess; vious conviction, were find $15 what they are certifying is true. It keeps lent." One who admitted four previous "I have a long list of these convictions was fined $20.

guesses at the cause of death national Government to be ham-

A Chinese, who was working but how many are there which I

which I happen to have found out, late?" pered in the way the Hankow with a number of other men outside never hear about at all? Who this one." Kuomintang propose doing. It is a shop on Hing Lung-street on can say? very much to be hoped that the Saturday morning, was electrocuted "They commonly certify when It is fitting that the nation which Nationalist Government will treat water pipe. The pipe had become for months, and death may be should also have produced Mussolini, by accidentally putting his hand on they have not seen the deceased gave us Marconi. inventor of radio with the contempt it deserves electrified through a broken electric due to any cause whatever other world's champion loud-speaker, this absurd-suggestion or demand wire having fallen on it. Another than the one they so certify. For

Hankow regarding Dr.man, who tried to rescue him also these Wang. What would be thought fortunate, man

received a severe shock. The un- guesses at the cause of death. The laziest woman in the world died before the and are generally given to save is the one who puts popcorn in her: by Englishmen generally if, say, ambulance arrived.

trouble or to please the relatives pancakes 30 they'll turn over by Manchester politicians petitioned

by thus avoiding the necessity themselves. Whitehall in such a manner as Hankow is now petitioning Nun- king? Or what would Americans think if, say, Chicago Republi- | cans similarly addressed-the Gov- ernment at Washington? Such petitions would be treated with

Cochrane, Ontario, Saturday. Mr. Bert Hassell and Mr. Parker the contempt they richly desery-Cramer left here about 2 o'clock

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ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

FLIERS HOP OFF FOR GREENLAND,

ed. Dr. Wang (and not the Na-this afternoon for Greenland, tionalist Government) is 'de- nounced by the Hankowitea "for selling China's sovereignty and causing another phase of national The

Hong Kong. Monday, Aug. 20, 1928, disgrace."

NANKING INCIDENT

SETTLEMENT,

STORMS IN U.S.A.

STATES.

ار

LESSON SERMON. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

certificates

for an inquest.

are mere

"Another source of danger lies.

Wife "Where have you been sơ

1

Hubby-"Stop me If you've heard.

..

Mrs. Jones "Do your daughters

in the fact that the medical men live at home?"

with low-class practices always,

for ages past, have looked to the

Mrs. Smith-"Oh, nol

They

coroner's court as a source of in- aren't married yet." come. Some coroners always

other efforts have been made.

She "I can't; I'm going to see Tristan and (solde.""

"Well, bring 'em along!"

Ball-player "We gave the um pire fifty bucks to let us win the game."

Friend And still you lost?" Pinyer "Yeah; the umpire was

platform.

pence."

woman

"But the Government needs "Here's thres shilings, my good. pressing, as the Ministry of man," said the flustered Health objects that this would leaning out of the carriage window, add to the national expense.

"Keep the tuppence for yourself." "Compared with other expen- diture, however,

the expense

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give the post-mortem examina- Ho-"Come on up to our house: tion in cases of sudden death to to-night.” the doctors reporting them, and for each such case the doctor re- ceives a fee of two guineas. If he sells his practice. this income is estimated and is taken into consideration in fixing the price." Sir George Greenwood. Sir George Greenwood goes Hankowites ENORMOUS DAMAGES IN FOUR demand," he said to the "Even- crooked."

even farther than Mr. Oddie. "We seem to be unaware of the fact

ing Standard," "that in all cases that the proposals made by Dr.

the fact of death should be escer- A Woman who hadn't time to get. Wang on behalf of the National-]

New York, Saturday. tained by test, and the cause of her ticket asked a portor to get it Thousands of acres of farm- death certified by a doctor as a for her. ist Government were the very land were ruined and innumerable result of his personal careful ex-moving off the porter ran along the

Just as the train was. least that could possibly be ac-houses wrecked by the recent amination. The attitude adopted by the cepted by the British Govern-heavy storms and floods in Vir- "When I was in the House of members of the Kuomintang at ment.

ginia, North Carolina, South Commons I brought forward Bills

"Here's your ticket, ma'am" he More important still, Carolina and Georgia. Reuter's to make this legal, and since then gasped. "It cost three and tup- Hankow regarding the National- nothing was definitely settled as American Service. ist Government's settlement with further proceedings are left in Great Britain of the Nanking in- the hands of a Sino-British Com- cident will come as a painful mission "for the purpose of veri- surprise to all well-wishers of fying the actual injuries and dam- China and the new Government, age suffered by the British and to

The foreman was going from one Unless the various bodies or assess the amount of compensa-

SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

would be trifling, especially when man to another with a sheet of groups of the Kuomintang work tion due in each case."

lives are in the balance. No fami- paper in his hand. "Mind" was the subject of the ly would grumble at a slight extra When he came to Sandy M'Kie,. together harmoniously it will be It would be interesting to know Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of fee to make sure that one of their he, sald impossible to obtain that unity in what kind of a settlement the Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, members was not buried alive." "Sandy, this is a subscription to China which is essential for the Hankowites would propose; and it August 19.

Sir George Greenwood, who is to get a wreath for Jock Stuart, The Golden Text was from Pro- in his 79th year, stated some who died last week. country's welfare. It is little may be safely stated that if it verba 2:6, "The Lord giveth wig years ago that he had given a mates have given a ahilling to- short of an outrage that one sec-differed from that offered by the dom: out of his mouth cometh direction to those who would be wards it." tion of the Party should believe Nationalist Government it would knowledge and understanding." his executors to plunge a stiletto

*Och, man," replied Sandyz. that it is: within its power to im- not be acceptable..

Among the citations which com.into his heart after death, as he "that'll make me an' Jock square. prised the Lesson-Sermon was the had no faith in the present (He owed me a bob" peach another section or, as in the Chinese of the Hankow variety following from the Bible: "Then methods of certifying, death. present instance, that one section who imagine that in the settle-one of them, which was a lawyer, He is a barrister, and was for Weary Wille knocked firmly at of the Parfy should "petition for ment of the Nanking outrage asked him a question, tempting many years Solicitor to the Treathe door of the Subbubses' houso,

For 12 years he the immediate dismissal and that is about to be effected him, and saying, Master, which is sury

was and Mrs. Subbubs herself opened. punishment of an influential China's sovereignty, etc. is law? Jesus said unto him. Thou Ho is a great authority on Shake- the greatest commandment in the Liberal M.P. for Peterborough. member of the Nationalist Gov-affected. would be much better shall love the Lord thy God with speare. ernment. Surely the Hankow employed fu thinking that the Bri.all thyheart, and with all thy members of the Kuomintang tish and Americans after the is the first and great command- aout, and with all thy mind. This realise that Dr. C. T. Wang, in his Janking outrage were very ment And the second is like unto VANDERBILT SUED. five-pound note." official capacity of Minister for patient and long-suffering in not it, Thou shalt love thy ceighbour Foreign Affairs of the National seeking a settlement in a very as thyself." Matt. 22 35-39. .. CUSTODY OF £5,000,000 BABY different way. At is to be hope of the following passages from the

The Lesson-Sermon also includ- TO BE DECIDED. that the Nationalist Government half of the Government and that at Nanking will without any and Health with Key to the Scrip- has, according to the "New York One day, whilst a certain open-

Christian Safence textbook "Science Paris. Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt the policy which he enunciated hesitation, inform the Hankow tures by Mary Baker Eddy: "With Herald" (Paris edition), brought air market was held, it rained in- represented the considered mischief-makers that it is for one Father, even God, the whole a suit for divorce against Mr. cessantly. Night came on, and a opinion not of himself only but of the new Government to formulate fatally of man would be brethren; William H. Vanderbilt.

stallkeeper who sold spectacles, himself and his colleagues of the the country's foreign policy, and, with one Mind and that God, She demands in her sult that had not had a single customer. new Government

which is no way dependent upon would consist of Love and Truth, Emily be awarded to whichever old lady came to the stall, and began or good, the bretherenhood of man the custody of their, daughter As he was about to pack up, an We are told that in this action the ignorance and stupidity 01 and have unity of Principle and parent is better fitted to care for to try on several pairs, but with- of the Hankow Kuomintang certain members of the Kuomin spiritual power which constitute the best interests of the child out success. Not any, apparently,,. "there is more than meets the tang at Hänkow.. A divine Science (p. 470.)

She also asks for alimony.would auit her, and the stallkeeper

The Imminence of the aćtión

ist Government, was acting on be

eye.” That is very probably true,

of the Kuomintang are yet fami liar enough with a national Gov-

...

Those

All your

"A little while ago," ma'am com- menced the vagrant. "you gave, me' an old walatcont."

"I remember."

"In one pocket of it there was ́a'

"Oh, and you have come to retorn: it she cried delightedly..

"Oh, no, mum! I've come? för: another waistcoat!

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has been reported frequently was in despair, till he said: "What as it is perhaps too much to ex- The 8.5: "Solstan".! reports the While delivering blocks of ice since Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt a minute: lady, I think I've got a pect that all the various sections deaths of two Chinese on board at a shop in Brixton road, S.W. a separated about three years aro. pair wot'll suit yer, ere.

from tuberculosis,

railway carman named Hubert Key Mra, Vanderbilt was Miss Emily He went to the back of the stall, was overcome by the heat and was O'Neill Davies before her wea and then came back with a pair of removed in an ambulance to ding in November, 1929, to Mr. spectacles, which he himself, put erament that they are prepared the 8.8. "Hop, Sang," reported that

Mr. G. Warren, chief officer of hospital -----

Vanderbilt, who is the great-on for her. to sink their individuality for between. 8 p.m. on August 17 and

great-grandson of Commodore have them, the old lady If the Government issued pre- Cornelius: Vanderbilt. Their said. "They suit me lovely "miquan the sake of the country as alam. on the 18th someone stole mium bends, we could pay off the daughter Emily was born in May, In his desperations, the stallkeeper whole But they will shave to do from the ship, 30 fathoms of National Debt in leas than ten years, 1925, and is the heiress to had pushed both the glasses out so, as it will be aitolerable for any alla rope, valued at $50. -Sir Arthur Holbrook, M.P. £5,000,000,

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