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AIL.
MONDAY, JUNE 24,
the country's laws or interference Dr. Coxon To, of - No. 198. Sassoon-road, reported to the Polke with afairs of the State. Hence yesterday, that during the past few the feed. Recent telegrams point days a thief entered his pumping to a compromise, in which; doubt-house on the hillside about 800 feet less, the recalcitrant priests and above his residence by breaking the lock on the door, and stole a Duro the masses will be, to a certain motor water pump, The lose was extent, pacified. It is devoutly to discovered yesterday. be hoped so, as extreme measures
Mary Mok (49), an amah employ on either side are nowadays pro-ed by Mr. S. D. Igglesdon, of No. foundy to be regretted.
P'RAPS
PRAPS NOT !
Alerdeen landladies were the first to be addressed "Doar Yadami" It was written a lodger who was trying to get his own back.
11, Felix Villas, was yesterday "No professional boxer should afternoon admitted to the Governmarry." says д sports writer. ment Civil Hospital. She was burt Come to think of it, one ring is through a fall in attempting to quite enough to worry about.
prevent a small child, who was in her care, from toppling down the
A "Pre-Historic Monster"
According to a cablegram from Reuter, "Old Father Thames" and hillside at Mount Davies.
his those being borne
When a Chinese man and watery bosom in the neighbour. woman were charged before Mr. hood of the famous Boulter's T. S. Whyte-Smith, with disorderly
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Overheard at a Shanghai bridge parly:"He's the sort of fellow who calls a spade three spades."
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Chicago Parody from a paper:
The
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Lives of gunmen should remind
US,
British soldiers are now being. It is Lock appear to have received conduct, it was stated that the taught elementary science. quite a shock on Ascot Sunday woman started the row by pointing always useful to know the boiling (June 29) by the strange appari to a "dead" box in the street and point of a sergeant major. tion of a weird Chinese junk being remarking to the man that he should
The parties were The best schoolboy orator in paddled by seventeen "Chinese be inside it.
Inois is to be sent on a tour of And coolies' to the accompaniment of bound over.
South America next summer. gong noises and cracker-firing.
Capt. G. G. Duit,
6.8. just after Mr. Hoover has gone to The craft is described as being
reported to the so much trouble to win South like that of Д "pre-historic "Tjikembang," monster". (reminiscent, prob Police yesterday, that a thief en- America's goodwill, too! ably, of Lawson Wood's cartoons) tered his cabin on board the ship,
A Hongkew man went on a diet and it is, of course, not to be won at the No. buoy, and, taking his dered at that it caused a sensa-keys from the pocket of à cost hang- of garlic to ward off the "Au." He tion. It was quite an amusing ing there, opened the safe and atole achieved 100 per cent, isolation. and characteristic "stant" on the $250 in banknotes.
Germany now exporte fifty mile part of our recent visitors the
mouth-organs Mr. N. Braga, residing at No. 13. lion
every year, officers of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards and it is good to recall Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, whilst Scmething to blow about!
Saturday that they had time while in China riding a motor-cycle on
News Item:Tennis trousers for to think out such a gay, little afternoon accidentally knocked down pleasantry for the amusement of a Chinese pedestrian at the junc-women are the latest craze." those who at this time of the tion of Kimberley-road and Nathan-deuce they are! year find keen enjoyment on the road. The pedestrian received in- upper reaches of the Thames. We juries to his head, and was removed are inclined to think that those to the Kowloon Hospital, who witnessed the spectacle were not quite so much alarmed as Reuter apparently would have us believe. Surely the descendants of those who chased the Spanish Armada from their shores are part, the Vatican authorities see Hardly likely to be awed by the Mussolini and his Fascisti in true appearance of a Chinese junk-un perspective and calmly look on matter how fearsome in appear while the Dictator and his fellowance! Fascisti pass over the stage of Italian history into oblivion,
furthering the
(alias Ng Taiping); head of the formation of a Vatican State, has
Executive Committee: C. H. Tseng: no other object in so acting than
head of the Secretarial Department: to win over the Italians whole
Owen K. Au Young, B.A. head of the Financial Department: K. K. heartedly, which could not be
Llang; head of the Social Depart- done so long as he, as Dictator, Over the week-end one case of ment: H. M. Tseng; head of the countenanced the condition of the small-pox, one of enteric fever, and Editorial Department: T. S.-Yuen; Vatican and its occupants, espe- one of cerebrospinal fever were Business Manager: L. S. Lien.
notified. All were Chinese.
Chinese was On Saturday cially His Holiness the Pope,
Some people who live to a ripe Mr. being virtually prisoners. So the Augustus Brostedt, Cana-charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte- astute Mussolini proclaims the dian National Railwaya representa Smith with cruelty to his six-year old age are still very green.
tive, returned to the Colony from old son by thrashing him with the Vatican free and, the better to Manila by the "President Madison" handle of a feather duster, after If woman's intuition is so van- make it seem so in reality, forms to-day.
tying his hand together in front of derful why does she ask so many him. An Indian constable said that questions? it into a State. So far, so good;
Overland China Ma Mussolini, in
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WHAT OF MUSSOLINI 7
PLEASE DON'T WASTE WATER
At the second annual meeting of Association the Modern Literary
When we hear they're doing time, That we're apt to leave behind us Finger prints at scenes of crime,
Sandy says that garden cities are better in the abstract than in the concrete.
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Bafore marriage a man yearns for held in Queen's Hotel, the following a wife, afterwards he just earns for officers were elected for the current fer. Yesterday was the birthday of year-President: Wu Chien-chung HR.H. the Prince of Wales
Some unserviceable cordite will be barnt at Stonecutter's Rifle Bange tomorrow and on Friday.
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It was the schooner "Hesperus," That sailed one wintry day, And the skipper had taken a
little whisky
To bear to U.S.A.
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Motors may ruin some of our young folk, but the majority ruin the motors.
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An entertainment by the papila had he not interfered the boy would but the subsequent actions of the will be given at the Maryknoll have been severely injured. The Some girls are naturally pretty: Duce revealed the iron grip be- Convent, Austin Road, this after father, who is a fisherman, explained others artificially. neath the velvet glove Musso soon, to which parents and friends that he was afraid his son might lipi, however, soon found that in are invited. colliding
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get drowned so he had prohibited Many a golfer's handicap is one him from swimming. The boy had over the eight. disregarded the order, so he chastis ed him. The Magistrate discharged accused with a caution.
Economy is waiting for a water- apout in order to fill your radia- tor.
Son:
with the Vatican On the occasion of the anniver Hong Kong, Honday, June 24, 182.uthorities he was ting some mary of His Majesty's Coronation thing very different from "laying all the warships in harbour. were down the law to he "Black dressed on Saturday, and a "salute" Shirts" Unless the Dictator coas fired at noon.
Mr. A. J. Basto has arrived at SHANGHAI WATER advice to one in the family, do you?" operates wholeheartedly with the Vatican his fate and that of the Pakkai, says the China Mail Fascisti is sealed. Meanwhile, a Forrepondent, to assure duty as Chinese Maritime Commissioner, truce has been called, but can Customa, Kongmoon those who appreciate what Musso- lini and his Fascisti really hope
came
It is only a few days since news to hand of the serious differences that had occurred between the new Vatican State and Italy or rather with Musso- lipi, who nowadays, appears rally
for, doubt that the leaders of the Italy of today, will be content ways to cooperate with the Vatican? Perhaps so while Italy
to believe that he is "Italy" and that Italy is what he says it is. To the Fasciati it has been left to discover that in the 20th Century. a Dictatorship is preferable to alone is the object of the Dicta tor's thoughts, but not after Democracy. Perhaps to the easy-
wards. going Italians it is; but that fact: need not delude Mussolini his
Mussolini, rightly or wrongly
AN APOLOGY
In our issue of June there ap peared a letter from a correspondent
Dad, you don't charge for
Lawyer: "No, of course not."- Son: "Well, when you were a boy and needed a dollar, what did you do-?"
It is understood that Mr. Ng Tal-who had an unpleasant experience in A boy was out for catfish in a He landed a big ping, President of the Modern Liter-Shangbai "some years ago through Mississippi yawi.
3.80 p.m.
Fascisti into believing in the hopes to go much farther afield Government Civil Hospital In a occasion for alarm, or even auspicion,
fallacy that it is equally accept-
in the name of the Fascist and serious condition.
been created. an
ary Association, is organising a drilong unboled water. Our corres one that pulled him overboard. As again, spluttering concert in aid of charity in the nonde qusurated that in the event one that nulled
Kong the public should be warned that
What I wants to know is, is Theatre Royal on the 28th and 29th of Shanggul water, being wed in Hoer he craved in
it must be boiled before used for drink
kid a-fishin or this fish Whatever may have been the fact kiddin Chinese girl, Lo Krin-yee ing purposes. (16), of No. 4. Water street. We regarding our correspondent's experi Point, attempted to commit suicide ence, we have received information
"How do you like your new yesterday by swallowing a quantity concerning existing conditions French music teacher, Helen ?!" of eplum. She was taken to the Shanghai which shows that there is qe
He's a very polite man. When I made a mistake yesterday, he concerning the purity of the water pre- vided by the Shanghai Waterworks said: Pray, mademoiselle, why do able to other and more virile taly. Will he do so? We wou Diddly, comedian and dancer, Company, and we regret that en im you take such pains to improve on
der! For quite a while to come the star of Jack Carter's Sereiaders, pression to the contrary may bays Beethoven ?" peoples. Where there is a love of much will depend upon the rela, wil give a "special" cabaret anter. The plant is equipped on the most Voice from Upstairs: "What liberty there can be no Dictatortions in Italy of the Church attainment during the dinner dance modern lines as approved in large time is it, Barbara r
-no Mussolinis and a real the State. Obviously, Mussolini in the Roof Garden of the Hong European and American cities, and Parbern: "I don't know Jim's
Kong Hotel from to-morrow to lending British and American consult watch len't going." Democracy never fails to find
(ex-Socialist) stands for the Friday, inclusive.
ing engineers who have inspected the many able men, for all of whom aristocratic principle that the
lant have expressed complete satisfat Voice: Oh, and how about
Jim ??? there is much to do in a well- masses should be guided by those tective Sergeant O'Donovation with it.
ལ་ The Company maintals very governed State. A country under competent to lead him. and a party of Police executed a
In
An unicensed equipped laboratories, stalled by fully That fatal word had just been (qualfed English chemists, to test the spoken. The rejected suitor stood a dictatorship is a country that spiritual affairs that also is pre printing press at No. 67, 49 water supplied to the public. In before her listening to her elaborate mentally, morally, and physicallycisely the Vatican's views. The wan-road, yeaterday afternoon, and is gradually falling into decay other extreme is, of course, Conseled three presses and a quantity and unless the Italians insist upon | muni In extremes wisdom is of type. No-arrest was made. Mussolini being their first and never to be found. In the ind The Hon. Mr W. T. Southern,
"Well, I would stareely go so far." last Dictator they will find in the vidt elevation of the masses Colonial Secretary and Mrs. South-the Shanghai Muncipality inalsts shall he answered as his courage gradual- bo maintained by the lactose fermenters y returned. "It's but fair to give ne-is-to be or returned yesterday from their not exceed ten per ilre, and this Nature the credit for that, he course of a few generations that in Democracy
health trip to the
ilippines
added as he retired in good order. standard is always maintained. upliftment) their lot has by no means im found a nation's
Sir Henry Polbek
Samples of water are boken, daly proved,
The Church and State trouble Pollock returned by the same from many paints in diffent parts if
Conductar, said the pompous in Mexico is not quite analogous steamer the Empress of Rus the city by the Company, quite inderean, "stop at Lord Street, will with that of Italy it has been,
It is with nations as
with individuals, excessive virility exhibited by a dictator inevitably lands to fabbiness in the body politic
search warrant for
a
spite of the poor source of supply, the explanations of her decision. results compare mest favourably with those obtained in London by the Metro politan Water Board,
The bacteriological standard which
trust that I have made myself sufficiently plain," she said. "
dent of the samples taken by the local ~~ health authorities.
In view of these facis and in view
in also of the very helpful attitude taken by Shanghai in assisting to relieve Berlons, water, shortage in Hong We regret that an altogether wr Impression regarding Seitz Shanghai water was eren that it was respondent's letter
or appears to be, me
Mr. TS. Whyte-Smith, the asion betw ecclesiastics and the Kowloon Magistrate, commenting
a cola case feard on Saturda, far, however, as Church and law of the countr
pickpocket, said that tate in Italy are concerned, re Lision
igs indicate that the en thorities are at least Unter atch for Mussolini ecclesiastics
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Right, sir," replied the condue tor, and presently pulled the bell."
The passenger prepared to light, when he noticed that the bus had B pulled up several feet from the kerb, and the road was muddy,⠀⠀⠀
Can't you get properly into the side?' be demanded angrily, by
"Certainly, air said the conduc tor. Then he shouted to the driver,
ced to to the most satisfactory and reassuring "Bu, get in a bit close. The gent
getting off cleans his own boots."
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