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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929.

P. & O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8. 8.

Tona

From Hong Kong i

About

MALWA

*KHYBER

10,980 21st Dec.

Noon 9,114 28th Dec.

RAJPUTANA

LAHORE

1930 16,508 4th Jan,

5,304 11th

Jan.

KHIVA

Dentination

Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antworp M'aollies, Ldon, R'dam & A'werp. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marselllas & London. Cargo only. Calla Casa Blanca..

MIRZAPORE

JEYFORE

MANTUA

9,135 18th Jan. 6,715 22nd Jan. 5,828❘ 25th

Jan.

10,948 1xt Fab.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TILAWA

TALAMBA TAKADA

TALMA

SHINALA

TAKLIWA *TILAWA

| 10,000 | 28th Dee.

1030 8,018 7th Jan. 6,949 19th Jan 10,000 28th Jan. 7,841 8th Fab. 7,936 18th Fab. | 10,008 3rd Mar,

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Perang & Calcutta. Singapore, Panang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

1930

*ST. ALBANS 4,500 3rd Jan NELLORE

4,853 81at Jan. TANDA

6,950 28th Feb.)

Calls Port Holland.

Manila, Sandakan, Thorsday, Island, Cairns, Townsville, Brisbane, Syd- ney & Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

The E. & A. S.S. Co, Ltd., stoainers, will also call at Shanghai, Tolle, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as in

ducement offers.

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The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London vin Gues Canal The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE LILY FOOT TO BE THE USE OF FINGER- NEW YORK'S WORST

BANNED

50,000 WOMEN IN PEKING

UNDER DISPLEASURE

"CORRECTION CORPS"

Peking, December 6.

PRINTS

吊

THE CULT AS FIRST PRACTISED IN INDIA

NOT INFALLIBLE

NOISES

CLASSIFICATION BY POPULAR

VOTE. RESULTS

CHURCH BELLS NUISANCE

The dificulties that often arise; The "Customs Correction Corps" In a person proving his or her ment Commission, whose question. New York. The Noise Abate- of the local bureau of social wel-Identity, and the value of the naire requesting, a vote to deter- fare announces that 50,357 Chinese finger-print system, were explained women have been discovered within a lecture on "Faces and. Finger is getting results and hundreds of mine the worst holes in the city, bound feet in the former capital, Prints," which was delivered at the letters, are being received daily at and that they have been instructed Horniman Museum, London, recent the Commission's office-Automo to unbind their feet at once.

ly by Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell A short period of grace is por

The ordinary person, when asked church bells ringing early in the bile horns, noisy brakes, fire.syrens, mitted the women to unbind their to furnish proof of identity, would, morning, and motor trucks are feat, and after the expiration of the he said, produce his birth certifi-selected as the most annoying dis- time fixed, the corps statutes that a cate; but in many instances births turbances by a majority of the per- thorough check-up wil be made, had not been registered. The sons filing reports during the first and those who have not complied testimony of friends and relatives, few days since the questionnaire was also not infallible, as they was sent out to the public. Church might have left the country; and bells came in for some comment by the lecturer quoted several well- one man. He said he was not jack- known instances of mistaken

will be punished.

Faces Bulli Up

Men with Queues Representatives of the corps have been stationed at all the city gates in Peking to watch for peasants en- identity, citing the famous Tick-ng in roligious zeal, but “no-one tering the city with bound feet or bourne caso, and. that of Adolf goes to church as early as five men with queues. These officials Beck

a.m. Another method of identi- are armed with large scissors, and fication, often adopted by sailors,

Copies of the questionnaire were have been instructed to salp of the was tattooing; but this was llable sent to residents in all sections of queues of conservative farmers who to Imitation.

the city and the recipients were re- paralet in wearing the ancient hir-

quested to vote for the most annoy- sute adornment.

Dr. Mitchell showed on the screening noise on a list of 26, giving They are also instructed to warn how faces could be built from the the time and place of its moat fre- peasant women entering the city akeleton by experts using standard quent occurrence, The Noise Abate. that they will not be permitted to measurements, ascertained from ment Commission welcomes All leave until they have unbound their various nationalities, and narrated suggestions, but is using the in- feet.

how such a face was built up. Information obtained largely for the The Bureau states that the cam-plasticine and led to the identifien-purpose of mapping out a campaign paign has continued for two years tion of Dominica Ross, an Italian, calculated to wipe out unnecessary against bound feet and queues, and who was found murdered in a Now noises. When the most troublesome that the time has come to stamp York cellar, and had been missing nolees are ascertained, the Commis- out this practice, regarded as per- for over a year,

sjon-intonds to wage an educational nicious, without further delay. United Press.

CONSIGNEES.

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The first discovery of the use of campaign with the hope of influenc- finger-prints proved a valuable aiding those responsible for such to the process of identification. nolaes to abate the nuisance The hand of a prehistoric man, much as possible. found on the wall of a cave in

The questionnaire Instanced America, showing the particular loudspeakers in houses, automobile markings on the finger tips, proved horns, horse-drawn trucks, motor- that those patterns had been notic-trucks, buses, nolay mechanism.or ed at a very early peried; but the tyres, automobile cut-outs. Twenty first attempt to use them as a means other noises were listed and the of identification was made by Sir recipients of the questionnaire were William Herschell about 1863, requested to vote for the most when he was a Commissioner in annoying noise-United Press. India. He noticed that if the. natives were asked to place, their fingers on a document, they regard- BENARTY # Consigneos of cargo are hereby in-would never repudiately and the ed it as something sacred, and formed that all goods are being land-

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE DEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAFTS.

The Steamship.

people.

ed at their risk into the hazardous iden occurred to him to use this as and/or extra hazardous Godown of a means of identifying different The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery be obtained.

may No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 20th inst. will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 3rd January, 1030, OF they will not be recognised,

DOMINION STATUS Extremists New Move

Calcutta The extremists are. working hard to persuade the signa tories of the Delhi manifesto of the

Lord Irwin's declaration to with- Congress Party which welcomed draw it, in view of Mr. Wedgwood Benn's refusal of an amnesty for prisoners, and the publication of the

Finger Prints Indestructible. Finger-prints, said the lecturer, are permanent and indestructible; and he showed how, even after the pattern was restored when the new skin had been burnt off, the original akin was formed. The various pro- cesses for taking impressions of Goods are to be left in the Godowns books, both by ink and vapour, were correspondance between Mr. Bald-

All broken, chafed, and damaged finger-prints from the covers of where they will be examined on the shown; and in one instance the lec-win and Mr. MacDonald. The issue 19th inst at 10 a.m., by Messrs.turer did not develop the impres will be settled at a mesting at Goddard & Douglas,

No Fire Insurance has been effect-sion for three years. In tropical Allahabad summoned climates the sales of the feet can Pundit Motilal Nehru.

by the be used; but it was exceedingly Sapru and the moderates will deter Sir Tel rare to find any pattern on the heel. minedly resist the revocation of the

In the lower animals the patterns manifesto. are much simpler; but when we reach the apo stage, the markings are found to be very similar to the human prints. Dogs and cows have well-marked patterns on their The tide-table given below. has

poses. You ink the nose," said Dr. dieting Machine, which includes 40 printing" been obtained by aid of the Tide-pra Mitchell, "and make the cow do the The method was cap components for the better prediction able of extension to animale, and of tides, from the result of the the only sure and certain method analysis of the tidal observations, in the identification of human taken at the Kowloon tidal observa-

Bills of Lading will be countersign ed by.

GIER, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 14th December, 1929.

HONG KONG TIDE

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--- The Union 8.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdon via Newtory ander the direction of Dr. beings was to make use of the Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc,

Doberck during the years 1887, 188s finger-print system. and 1889.

"It may be that in time," added The times and heights are given the lecturer, "everyone who algns a for Kowloon; but they may be cred The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamora for Southampton and for the Victoria Naval Yard and cheque will have to make a finger- Aberdeen, the differences being very print, and it would be well if this could be done when a person makes The times of high and low-water a will, as we should then have more with the times of...alack-water, and, must not be considered to coincide certainty than we have at present." change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct, 10 Ais, kai

London via Panama Canal.

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

KRIVA

TAKADA .. ❤MIRZAPORE

MANTUA

NELLORE

TAZMA

0,136 1.21st Dec. Shanghat, Moji, Kobe & Tokohama.

Noon 8,949 27th Doc. Amoy, Shat, Mojl, Kobo' & Genics. 0,715 28th Doc. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe,

Gam $1930

10,948 3rd Jan

4.854 10,000

*KIDDERPORE. 5,834

KARMALA TAKLIWA

7th Jun *7th 10th Jan. 9,128 17th Jan, 7,930 28th Jan. Cargo only.

S'hal, Moll, Kobe & Thama Moji, · Kobey: Oanka" & Yhama. "Amoy," Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe OS S'hai, Moji, Kobe. & Y'hama,

·Am0904-Kabe: &÷Ozaka.

All dates are approximate and subject to alløration WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED Fassenger for Rangoon must; defrayist Blackpore while awaiting the on-carrying barge.

All Cabins are atted with Elsetris: Fans Iros. Athamers, or London and Australian, Lines are " Parcels teenbaring n not more, Laan~275 the Company's Offer up to Noon on the

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STRIKE THAT FAILED

Helsingfors. The one-day gen. December 21 to 27, 1929,

eral etrike,proclaimed by the Communist-controlled trade union HIGH WATER LOWEN WATKE organisation, out of sympathy with some Communist prisoners on hung- DAT

Standard d HtTimes

3er strike, was a total failure. The Social Democrats bad warned their Bat - 31; 4, 44, 44 m 7:45. members against taking part in the Sma. 21 m 0:59

strike.

Standard Times

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tion arising out of the Parliamen

Allahabad. The political situa-

tary debates on the Viceroy's an nouncement in regard to Dominion Status for India was discussed by the Congresa Working Committee under the chairmanship of the Mr. Gandhi and Mr Ansari and Pundit Motilal Nehru, who, it is others were non-committal and pre- reported, indicated. a preference for ferred a re-statement emphasising altering the manifesto issued on the demand for a general amnesty November 2 at Delhi by political as a condition precedent to accept leaders (offering co-operation with ance of the offer. Sir Tej Sapru, the new proposed conference with the Liberal leader advised the com- the Simon Commission making cermittee not to modify the manifesto tain stipulations) In the direction on the ground that to do so would of non-acceptance of the Govern-embarrass India's friends. mente offer of a conference in view The discussion was subsequently of the definite declaration that the adjourned, pending a consultation angouncement implied no change of with the signatories of the mani policy.

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WARSHIPS IN PORT

"Semph,"

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British warships in, port this morn In basin of RN. Dockyard "Tamar," "Petersfield," "Marazion," "Cornflower,"

West wall: "Kent': (Sagship).

Dock: "Bopovi

No. 4 Buoy: "Herald" No. Buoys "Hermes," No. 6. Buoy #Cornwall" No. 7 Buoy: "Iroqu No. 12- Buoy: "Sirdar"

"Thracian.

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