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men and women, which give a realistic effect of what these Vermin can do. Free fly awabs are given out, and Illustrated posters of all descriptions, show- ing the ravages of the various diseases, are pasted all over the streets and in hotels and other places of public gathering, Health posters are also issued. by the Health Offices oven at Singapore, Penang, and elsewhere, but in this British Colony of ours, we have nothing of the kind. The Fates have been very kind to us, but we cannot expect to have a continual run of good "Josa" We do not wish to be pessimistic, but as Dr. Koch ask. ed at a meeting of the Sanitary Board last year, "Can we say we are prepared for an epidemic, and what will the Colony do in case an epidemic of any deadly disease should visit us."

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929.

NEWS IN BRIEF

--A Chinesa shipbuilder employed at the Kowloon Dock was removed to A llet of rubile vaccinatora in the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday published in the "Government afternoon suffering from a crushed Gazette

fright hand, cauged through it being Caught between a steel plate and a Mr. Bell, of the Ruth Van Valey staging on which he was working Company, is leaving to-day by on board a ship undergoing repairs the 8.8. "Katori Mary" for Singa, at the dock. pore.

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Two Chinese, are reported to have The preacher in St. Andrew's held up a rent collector in a vacant Church, to-morrow at, Matins will be house and stolen $800 from him. the Rev. E. A. Armstrong, Assist. The victim La Shiu-wah, employed by the Sincere, Insurance, Co, sald ent Chaplain.

that the two men asked to view a vacant house, in Graham" Street.

New branches of the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, have been opened at Kuala Krai (Kelantan) and Kuala Lipis (Pahang)"

took them there, but, once in- side, the robbers produced revolvers. The rent collector was cowed, and the thieves, after tying him, with ropes, made off with the money.

A small fire broke out at No. 14, Tai Wong Street at 9 a.m. yester day, but the flames were extingulah- ed before the arrival of the brigade.partner in the Wing Hing tailoring

The case in which Yau Ka-wai, a

at

the

firm, was charged with the alleged Eddie Cantor, famous, comedian embezzlement of capital funds of and acrobat, appears in the prime the firm, and with the alleged for- of a Chinese borrowing role, co-starred with Clara Bow, in gery "Kid Boots" showing at the Majes- note was concluded before Mr.

A. W. G. H, Grantham tic Theatre to-day.

Central Magistracy yesterday. Ex- The forthcoming wedding is pressing himself satisfied that the announced at the Registry of Mr. prosecution had failed to make out Jacob Vidumsky to Mrs. Sima a prima facie case, the Magistrate Mordouchovna Berman, both of No. discharged the accused. 15, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

The forthcoming wedding is announced of Lieut.-Commander Walter Desmond Brown, R.N., Hong Kong Nával Dockýárd, to Mias Dora Stewart, of the Peninsula Hotel.

The

A

PROMINENT CHINESE GENERAL

DIRECTOR OF KWANGTUNG ARSENAL

Honolulu, America to at Pratte

Prevention. it is Wake Up, said, is better than Hong Kong cure. Even if the Government is quite prepared to fight against an epidemic, it may be too late, for it is beyond reason to sup: pose that

an epidemic can be nipped in the bud without some damagd being done. The Gov ernment, should, therefore, be

INTERESTING CAREER The wedding will take place in the continually at work to prevent Peak Church, of Mr. John R. L.

General Wong Su, the present an outbreak of any ravaging Stanton, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.

Stanton of 12 Tregunter Mansions, Director of Kwangtung Arsenal in disease. In short we should The Peak, and Miss Astri Larsen, Shekchang, is a native of Chungshan were recently here. This is quite wake up, and as a poster in Dr. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs district. He spent his early years.

Fawcett's office aptly says:-"Do Karsten Larssen of 7, Peak Man in Honolulu where he first met the This meet- late Dr. Sun Yat-sen. true, and one trembles to think

your sleeping at night, 8 hourssions, on Monday at 4 o'clock. where our lethargic, Government

Very Rev. A, Swann, M.A., D.S.C.ing of the two men ripened into of it lengthens life, and do your Dean of St. John's Cathedral, will close intimacy during the early part would lead us to by its insistent work in the day." This poster officiate.

of the Republic. After, completing backwardness and the spirit of

his

in schooling should be placed on the wall. In

to "maskee-ism."

ha proceeded In many things

Mr. J. A. Poynting, of No. 4, all Government and private

chemistry study Aimai Villas, Kowloon, made we are behind other countries by

offices. The community as а about fifty years. Take the

report to the Police to the effect Institute of Technology, New York, whole should be shaken up from that burglars had entered his real and inter at the St. Lawrence Uni- health of the Colony, for instance.

its lethargy and ennui and made dence between 1 and 5.30 am. yes versity, where he obtained the We have so far done little

Master's Degree in Science. . Subse- terday. The intruders stole jewel- to do a full share of work in the lary and other articles to the total quantly, he graduated at Harvard earnestly and deterraindedly to

interests of public health,

University In Business Administra- educate the mass of uneducated

a silver-plated jewel case and ation. He then spent a number of Chinese in our midst. The. 80-

A correspondent string of pearls were found on the years, working in various factories In America, In order to gain experi- called annual health campaign is

writes to inform | roof.

ence and inside knowledge of Ameri- conducted in a most desultory

ua that when he

The following police officers are can factory organisation before re- manner, and very often left in

was playing golf going on Home leave by the 6.8.

turning to China, the hands of the YMCA and at, Shek-O on Sunday, a large "Macedonia" on November 9 De-

It was in the 10th year of the Re- the St John Ambulance Brigade, green snake wriggled from hetective Sergeant B. Clemo (No. If we are to instil the value of hind the bunker, putting him off (Central), Mr. H. C. Caltrop, took a leading part in South China 71. Detective Sergeant C. T. Byron public (1921) fit General Wong good health into the uneducated his shot. He swiftly decapitated A.S.P., Kowloon, Traffic Sergt. J. politics and becaine expert adviser to class of Chinese who live here the creature with his club, and Scrim (Yaumat!) and Sergt. M. the Headquarters of the Generalle under our protection, we should carried it victoriously home. It Flaherty (Central). Nine police aimo in Canton, in which capacity

recrufts are strive to drive home this educa-measures twelve feet from tip to Colony on the 3.8. "Mantua" which The following year saw blu holding on their way to the he rendered meritorious service.

tion in a more effective way.

tail, and is handsomely marked is due on November 20,

a responsible position on board the with alternate black and red

gunboat, "Wing Fung," now known diagonal design on a green back- A number of well-known local as the "Chungshan," which then was In the International

ground Our informant states artistes will be taking part in a Dr. Sun's flagship. Health Concession of Shang-that he is not presenting the concert of Chamber Music which Later, he was appointed Director Parades hai, a monster health specimen to the local Museum, as has been arranged by Mr. H. Ore of the Munition Factory at Foo he fears that if he does so it for November 11, at 9.15 pm, in chow; then, Superintendent of the parade is held every will only be lost in the mass of the Cathedral Hall. Besides Mr. Government Mint for two years in year, lasting several days. Huge unclassified rubbish which has Ore those who have promised to Canton. Hong Kong, Baturday Nov 2, 1929 paper fles, mosquitoes, rats, been allowed to accumulate there take part are Mrs. D. J. Valentine Leaving this post, he became Ad- cockroaches and other vermin Snakes are not common in the and Mme. C. Bonenfant Messrs. viser to the Board of Finance of the Colony, although several of con- J. L. P.MacNair, C. Bonenfant and Generalissimo's Headquarters, con which are the enemies of good siderable size, including pythons, Li Chor-chi. The proceeds will be currently with the Kwangtung De health re paraded. Then have been killed both in Hong devoted to the St. Peter's Church partment of Finance. there are the mannikins of sickly Kong and on the mainland. Young Men's Club...

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STILL WATERS

The Colony's Snakes

+

value of $223. Later a gold ring.

In spite of wide- Dollar spread notifica- Proclamation tion about the Needed silver dollär having been re- atored to favour, many specific instances of Chinese shopkeepers and tradesmen refusing to accept same at par have been brought to the notice of the "China Mail" On looking through the records, the shops just now is a penell and In view of such extreme unknown Mass by Mozart, discover-

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

we have discovered more than

Tip For Golfers: Laughing at Death: "The Tiger": A Blind Composer: Mozart's Mass: Master Falconer

Golfer's Wrist Score AMONG the new ideas shown in

"The Tiger" at 88

at

An Unknown Moxart Mass

THERE is no reason for supposing

Very

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Expert Adviser

Then General Wong want to his present post, achloving signal suc OCB3. He was afterwards trans ferred as Director to the Central Arsenal of the National Revolution- ary Army, serving two years there. On the factory being closed, he be camo Military Councillor on the Staff of the 8th. Route Army Head- Quarters.

[Photo on page 7.)

TEN YEARS AGO

(From the "China - Mail,” November 2, 1919-1-

M. CLEMENCEAU is eighty-eight,

at the outset that the hitherto age and the heat, which he “han`al- whose reilla work exactly like a.

ed in a church at Baden, is spurious. ways felt severely, his health has for six-chambered gun; as one leaden some weeks past given chute for But the tendeney to dismiss such dis- coveries at once as forgeries or one precedent of proclamations, point becomes exhausted another anxiety at times course, every com- frauds is for some unknown reason

He receives, of

Mr. John Marshall of the Naval penned in the accepted classical automatically slips into position."

fort his

prevalent in musical circles. unpreten borte in the style of yore, being made in the other novelty is the golfer's Vendee, at au Jards but The treatment accorded to certain Yard (Stores Dept.) was buried at

wrist score. It is a small wash- "The Tiger chafes against his con-

fragments of Schubert is a case in the Protestant cometery at Happy Chinese language. With due re-able tablet bot in a snakeskin or tinced absence from Paris.

Valley He had been a resident of Hp is Point

The manuscript bears the date spect, it is now suggested that a leather strap which buckles round Bald to be growing dry deaf, but 1791, the year of the composer's Hong Kong for 24 years. His fun- his faculties are still äleft. 'and he notice in the "Gazette" is wanted. theyifit, and is inscribed, "Hole, followed every dove

death, and it is known that he was cral was attended by the heads of of the recent myself, opponent, result. Thus Hague Conference.

in Baden that year. Moreover, al-the various Naval Stores Depart- The Secretariat for Chinese

though, owing to Rickness and other ment, including Messrs. Flatt, the player with the aid

the aid of the That Is a wonderful record for reasons Mozart composed compara- pencil, which has a socket on the man who was actively engaged in other side, is able to check the politics in the slities and who was well-know Egara in public life game with the minimum of before the Franco-Prassias Wer. In

rouble.

the serles

path of evast. pictures the

famous avents in French bistory, M. Clemenceau is the only Agure include ed who is alive; të day."

Affairs might take on the duty of informing the Chinese masses and advertisements ought be in

revelle 1700, Herr Poll ribos Megridge and Barnett, and prac that the last year of his life is one tically all the naval ratings connect of the most prolific periods of his ed therewith. The Rev. J. Kirk whole career and musically one of Maconachie officiated at the grave. olde" and at the conclusion of the If therefore, the Mass can be

serted in the vernácular. papersWhether such a trifle will make Palace of Versailles representing the most interesting":

forthwith to prevent misunder for better golf is perhaps ade standing, and avoid inconvenience. batable point, but it should cer. Even agents of a Government tainly appeal to players who can Department have refused silver

„never find a pencil on the course.

dollars, the excuse In one instance being that the man "did not know Grim Borealis how to tell a good one from !HE "King>gi: Spain bad" and, therefore, did not feel through ano

agentulated on

inclined to run the risk! Shops, (having)

on the other hand, continue to in

sist

substantial discount, irritating to say the

paksed

The Dellas Festival FREDERIC

took place at No. 298 and 295, Shangal Street, Yaumati

proved, so far as it is possible to do obsequies a large number of floral soy genuine after close examination fributes were laid upon the grave. of a style and subject matter, It will be a valuable acquisition. It A vory serious outbreak of fire might even lead to the performance of some of the dozen or mon Hses undoubtedly by Mozart which have “Dilfuz," the composer,

bean of the shelf for years

Paz-being able to, publ find the festival in his honour with "A" Duke Privilege

THOM Bicah in his organising.THERE is only one person, besides

pathiations his friends that royalty who has the- ria have been booked in his nams defy thy closure. Rotten:

That EDMIL BO

Hel the Duke of concerts who, in virtue of bellig Boutibda for him.mester-falconer of the United

the gold medal dom, le entitled to, želvu

mic Society along the sacred tar that fia.

musle has wheels may disturbate

onUntil the lines of the

duke prevented him from Abthis prerogative; It

annual, aight

of

o to holder of the title

driving among

The Era originated on the ground floor of No. 233 which was occupied by a Chinese medicine dealer. The alarm was raised, and the Fire Bri to | gade" turned out immédiately. When reached the burning bulld-. Ing the flames were spreading fierce- fy and in opife of a sufficient supply ng- pf water, tim fiames, spread to No.

285

*** Some of the inmates escaped in a burs

233 In trying

the