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MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.

THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL.

9-12. Chatham Road, Kuwloon.

Finent Situation on the Peninsula. Large Airy Rooms with Fall Benefit of the Coul Sea Breezes. Unequalled Cuisine.

Cable Add. Phone

"Harrlow."

TYL. 36734.

Praprietress:-Mrs. Gardiner,

MARBLE HALL

21, Nathan Rd., Kowloon. Tel. 57089.

A SELECT PRIVATE HOTEL FURNISHED WITH AN EYE TO THE COMFORT OF ITS TENANTS..

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for vecasional phonetic apellings, such as harbor, plow,and altho.)

16 7

18 19 110

H

1 12 13

12

15

lb

17

18

23

24

27

128

33

36

137

139

40

44 45

148

151

52

155

59

HORIZONTAL

1-Hub of a Whorl B-Prefix. Twice B-To plerse 12-Largo, laksa

13-Insect 14-Malady 15-Active power 17-Penetrates 19-Meature of weight 20-An leland on the

Gulf of Riga, Eithonia

HORIZONTAL (Cont) 46-The record of a single year |48-Liquid measure

(abbr.)

51-To be distressed 53-To Intertwing

confusedly 55-Falsifer 56-General of

Confederate Army 158-Letter of alphabet

(pl.)

22-Manuscripts (abbr:)|59-8erf

23-A negative

25-Child's father

'25-Army Order

(abbr.)

37-A dish

30-stake 33-Threotood aloth 34-Plays almlessly 36-Musical note 36-To guide one's

Course

38-A tower (pl)

40-Either

41-Army Ordinance

2

60-Terminate 81-Lyric poems

VERTICAL

1-Trim

2-A large southern constellation

3-Capital of Austria 4-Even (Poot)

5-Barked at

6-Into

7-A horse

Department (abbr) 10-Tunes

-Porched

9-A trembling

male voice

43-A continent (abbr.) [11-Lowest tone në 44-Grosso

131

[32

49 150

'VERTICAL (Cont) 16-Company (abbr) 18-North Latitude

(abbr.) 21-A deep orange

color 124-A Wes-Ka

carnivore |26-Mallslova burning

of a building 27-A dance (Fr.) 28-Parchad

29-Mistake

30-Ever (Poot.) 31-Raw metal

L

22-Reserve (abbr.) 37-Wind Instrument 29-Bont in the middle 41-To anoint (Archale) 42-Reckonad time 44-An amerous look 45-A flower

[46-A thoroughfare

(abbr.)

47-Musical nota

49-To the sheltered

side

50-in a smaller degren 52-Before

|54-Non-Commissioned

Officer (abbr.)

167-Half an om

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in tomorrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.

ERI

LOTE EER D VERST ST ITERATE TO SKRTM PAPLAWE SOOL NERVE SMULATE ERAS TREPANS

NERO O

WATER RETURN.

The level and storage of water in our reservoirs on April 1, 1931, is as under:-

FINDING BURIED TOMBS.

•Novel Methods of

Excavation.

HELD IN DERISION.

course and

THE

CHINA MAIL.

CHINA AS UNIVERSAL PROVIDER.

Dr. Lavington Hart's Forecast.

many

of

K

119

11

HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.

APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.

Butcher Meat. Sirloin

Steak Sirloin

Sausages Bullock's Brains

Tongue, fresh .. 4

Tongue, corned

Hend

FT

Heart

T

Hump, Balt

Feet

h

Kidneys

Tail

H

Liver

15

Tripe

1

April 15, June, June,

P

Chicken Capons, Small

Poultry,

Eggs, Hen (coolding)..

April 15, June, June,

1981. ID18. 1014.

Cts. Co. Ctá

lb. 60 30 31

#

là cách 38

50 28

H

30

$2

TI

30

EN

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21

22

21

per doz. 33

18

新鮮雞蛋

**

36 25

ib.

60

55

24

24

"

46

24

魏 each 36

30

21

ib.

76

*

80

each 90

58 SKNAA #8«SSBAR

DRA

Fowls, Canton

Fowls, Hainan Goose

Pigeons, Canton

plbow

Turkeys, Cock

Turkeys, Hon

Snipe

Phonoapt

Qumil Partridges

* D

Fruits.

י

pair 3.50 each 45

1.20

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1981. 1919. 1014

Ct. Ct. Ca

牛粑h.

33 24 12

#

Prime Cut

80 28 11

*

Corned

+

28 12

"

Capone, Large

Roast

.M

33: 24

22

Duck

H

Breast

"

30 20 18

Doved

Soup Stork

27 20 18

33 24 22

2

Eggs, Hen (fresh)

40 30 36

A per set 17

88 26 20

10 12

each 75 50 50

60

» $1.20

-$1.20

lb.

24

18

24

20 18

10 12

15

10 12

27

20

22

t

ib.

24

13

14

8 0 ག

71

set $1.50 $1.00 $1.00

lb. 40 .26

40 26

lb. 86 $5

30 24

金山超藥

18

26

鞍肉

40

28

**

В 4

27

Carambola

Per set 3

** **

12

lb. 18

15

Coconuta

each 12 10 10

28

15 16

Lemons, China .......

"

26

30

18 20

"

each 15 10 10

Lemons (American)

B

15 10 &

Lichees, Dried

荔枝干 Ib.

85

25

1b. 48 30 24

Orange (Canton)

新會品推

22

-

排骨

36 25 23

+

Oranges....

36

#

32

40

60

70

Poars (Canton)

......

49

20

H

20

21

21

Peanuts

4

10

12

T

per aet 90

60

70

Persimmons, Large

#C

each 12

8

7

#

12

15 12

10

Plantain .......

5 8

71

46 26 25

Pumelo, Slam

蒸肉 each 22

10 6

ib. 25 26

Walnuts

24

16

30 20 18

36 26 20

22 20 20

TF

28

$2

"If in a year or two's time the Beef public wants an equestrian statue, it might be rather a good thing to She is a smail dark poaxant girl turn' to China for the sculptor," barely in her twenties, with thick Baid Dr. S. Lavington Hart. and short black hair and dark founder and for nearly forty years the Anglo-Chineso lively eyes, and she walks quickly Principal of over the ground, her arms stretch- College, Tientsin, speaking on March 11 at the London Mission- ed in front of her holding a V-shaped elm twig sharply pointed ary Society's Laymen's lunch at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon where the two joints meet. Sud- denly the twig points backwarde, Street, on "What If China became then forwards, and swings right the Universal Provider?" round between her hands. With- China, he said, has the goods out wasting a moment she puts and it has the men. One of his old heel where the rod has pointed. Astudents, Mr. Chou Ting-hsu, has man follows her with a bundle of recently won some of the highest Academy little flagpoles like those on a golf prizes at the Royal

sticks one in by her School in London. Another is the China's heel. On she goes, and the rol architect of ngain begins to dance; another modern skyscrapers. Her commer-

clal men flagpole, and yet another, until a

are rapidly adopting Calves' Hand & Fast

Mutton Chop rectangular space has been neatly modern methods and her workers mapped out by the poles, and her learn rapidly. China has the men work for the moment is finished, and she has the goods. In Shansi Then the diggers come. And after province there are 25,000

of

fields, coa! two days they find an Etruscan miles

bituminous and anthracite. tomb just where she had divined it to bel

coal is almost on the surface, and there is enough to supply the world Fact Or Fancy? This work is going on every day for thousands of years. It could at Capena, under the shadows of be easily transported to the coast. 120,000 there are Mount Soracte, some thirty miles In Manchuris north-east of Rome. How much of aquare miles of arable land pro-

two harvests ducing all this is of any value and how

wheat, maize and barley. much delusion is difficult to ascer tain.

the English quality is not yet no good as that Following

elsewhere, but method the Italian authorities produced

Chinese are willing to look after | Sheep's Head & Feet -. every leaf and ear on a plant, and, given the chance, will soon make land produce two bushela where formerly it only produced one. Sucking Pigs, to order

"Commerce and exchange" said Suet, Beef... draine at various levels ranging Dr. Hart, "are not merely govern- from two to fifteen feet below the ed by supply and demand but also yeal

by political sensitiveness and present level of the ground. It is virgin soil for archaeologists and racial feeling. Is the China of the one of future to remain friendly with us full of promise; in fact them was heard to whisper as he or are we willing for it to become Åre followed the peasant girl who another Soviet-ruled land?

to go "divines" the tombs right and left we prepared for relations on this ground, "If I were blind from bad to worse? We who are Bream folded I could point to a tomb missionaries do not go to China Canton Fresh Water T

to wave the Union Jack or to teach

a number

+

have taken

aerial of photographs of the whole district where the Etruscan eity of Capena once stood. And from these there is clear evidence of many tombs, streets, house foundations. and

right and left on this ground."

So far very little of real value has been excavated. The Etruscan tombs at Cerveteri, with their lovely dark red walls and stucco relief work, are much finer and their treasures of brass and pot tery from the tombs of Etruria more beautiful than any yet found at Capena in the museum of the Villa Giulia in Rome.

*

Leg

Shoulder

11

SQUATO

Saddle both Pig's Chitlings

The

Brains

Feat

+

Fry

31

Read

Heart

"

·

Kidneys

Liver

a year of Pork Chop

The

Leg

"

Loin

TT

the

"

Fet or Lard

IT

Heart Kidneys

13

Liver

Matton

Sausages

H

No. 1.

Fish.

#

Barbel

Fish

Fresh Water

economies. We go to publish a Carp message of peace without which Catfish no intercourse be-Codfish there can be tween nations, and that our mutual Crabs ... contacts may be conducive to good Cuttle Fish feeling. We go to help raise the Bab down-trodden, for if the cheap Dace labour of China is exploited, the Dog Fish whole world will suffer. As the Eels, Conger status of the worker in the For East is improved so will half the So for the prosent interest is difficulty we have to meet regard. Froge centred round the novel method of ing the cost of production here, in Garoupa excavation and the supposed gifts face of competition from cheap Gudgeon Our Herrings of the young woman. Her own labour elsewhere, be solved.

She tells mission colleges, too, are sending Halibut story is a simple one. how she used to suffer from ner-out young Chinese into business, Labrus vous shocks in the fields, and no imbued with principles that will doctor was able to find anything solve many of these problems." wrong with her.

Metal Divining.

One day near Grosseto she saw a water-diviner

at work. "Let me try," she said, and borrowing his divining-rod sho proved at once to be an expert at the job. But her speciality is metal and minerals. That is why the Etruscan tombs, which always contain some metal objects, have become for the time being her special province, "If there la metal under me," she says, "I have

"SPOKES IN WHEELS,"

Bureaucratic Troubles In Moscow.

Yellow

Louch

Lobsters

Mackerel Monk Fish

Mullet

Oysters

Ferrot Fiab

Porch Piko Plaice Pomfret, White

Pomfret, Black

Under the title. "Spokes in the Prawns Wheels," one of the Moscow newa- Esy

a sort of electric shock, but if it papers occasionally prints brief Rock Fiab gaseous ground with petrol items describing the everyday Roach fumes then I feel faint.”

.:

18

Scientists Doubt.

difficulties of life in the Soviet Balrasn capital. A good many of them Shark common source in tho Skate

One learns it is this last sensa- have A tion which is the great attraction | bureaucratiam which to-day Shrimps

of Signorina Mataloni, for she has spreads over a vast field of Rus-Snapper heen chartered exclusively by the sian life, and affects such things Soles Radio Company in Rome for their as buying and repairing suits. Tench research work round the small lake So one contributor to thin Tazbot

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of Leprignano five miles from "Spokes in the Wheels Depart- Turtles, mali, fr. water Capena. The excavation of the ment," perhaps a sixfooter, com Etruscan tombs is a hobby of the plains that "for three months not

#

cimals of gallons during the month company; their real hopes are one tall Muscovite could buy a CRIME IN LONDON.

of March.

Consumption

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#

#

Almonds

Apples (California)

Bananas (bride's) .... 燕山香藥

1b.

chim cách 13

Grapes

* #

€ 115.

Vegetables, &c.

Artichokes

Beans, Sprout

11

Long

Reet Root

Bitter Squash

Brinjals, Green

Red

##

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Ib. 5

8

12

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15

"

12

12

"

10

Cane Shoots; bunch

Cauliflower (Large) :. A each 22

Colary, Chinese

Curry Stuff, English.. RMH

Garlic

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奴意頭榮鼎仔仔瓜仔菜頭染茄 酶來

#

+

8 1

16

98 18 19 19 1

13

16

#

16 27

Cabbage, Chinese

12

0

(Shanghai)

16 17

23

26

16 27

17

(Hedlum) 中椰菜花

10

23 16

(Small)

轉茶花

12

"

6

10

Carrots

筆 Ib. 6 5 8

10 8

+9

10 10

$

10

Chfilles, Dried

辣椒干

15 25

5

10

B

Red

"

紅辣椒

18 10 10

28

30

Groen

瓷花椒

n B 12

32

26

13

20

8

40 30

Cucumbers

15

2

22 18

8 6

13 23

Ginger, Young

9

7

18

15

: Old

8

20

19

82

13

Horsersûlab, Shanghai

10

85 8

€2

24

Indian Corn

ទ 45

82

21

Lettuce

20

20

Water Chestnuts

13

2

Manifiin.

10

++

12

2

8

14

9

1

10

80

15

30

B

8

16 0

Green

6

36 29

Shanghai

上海葱頭

8 8

36 30

Parsley

16

00

B6 45

Potato, Sweet

5 3

10

14

Japanese

4

10

14

American

金山薯仔

77

13

18

Pumpkin

4

10

Radish

紅樹仔

86

20

Rhubarb (Fresh)

18

a

10

Shallots

干意!

8

10

10

Spinach

8

82 80

12

4

28

28

в

22

28

6

26 86

28 12 12

14 15

1.25 40

15

Mushrooms, Fresh Okroes

Onions, Bombay

Tomatoen

Taros....

Turnips, Panti (Long) Vegetable Marrow

Water Cress Water Lily Roo

ing an offence which had become very prevalent. There were only

archaeologists. Clothing Trust has a programme NO INCREASE WITH GROWTH/ two charges of bigamy, which was the new plansts are, but he ex

centred at Loprignano. No wonder auit," and declares that the State 1980 1931 210.01 267.13

then that the 451,480 Roman and foreign, do not take, it of dividing people Estimated population 441,160

all very seriously.

per

15.5

Consumption

head per day...

18,4 March, 1930.From March 1 to 31, 12 hours supply. (8 a.m.-8 p.m.) was given to all Rider Main Districts (Principal Mains closed 6 pm-6 a.m.).

March, 1831.From March 1 to 81, a constant street fountain supply was operated in all Rider Main Districts.

Kowloon,

1930

1031

Kowloon Reservoir

and Byewash Shek Lai · Puf '0" 28" 6"

Reservoir

8' 0"B 60" Reception Reservoir L. 19' 9"

Storage la taillious and decimals

of gallons.. · 1980 Reservoir Kowloon Tytam Byawash 22′ 6′′B25", 1"B and Byewach 802.40 Tytam Intermediate 55 7B 25 OB Shek Lai Pui Tytam Tak

Roservoir

85.90

Tytam

City and Hill District.

1930

103t".

• 14′ 7′′B 26'11B

835B 4210"B

ong Nel Chung 28.3"E 26′10′′B Reception Reservoir

1031.

DEMPSEY SEEKS A DIVORCE.

Former Champion. Arrives At Reno.

:

Reno, Nevada, April 11.

OF POPULATION.

into four categories, according to height, and making the tallest wait until

At the March session for the the end of the year before suits can be obtained to fit them.' jurisdiction of the Central Court Another Item, entitled "Moscow at the Sessions House, Old Bailey. Without Tailors," writes unfavour-the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild) ably of the workshops of the Mos-charging the Grand Jury, com cow Textile Sewing Union, which mented on the fact that in spite of undertake tailoring repairs, accus-the increase in population crime" in

the lowest number he had known.

Count Volta, who discovered "Ca," was not able to say how big

ever pressed the opinton that they are "fragments of worlds moving in Immense space, and so small that they are difoult to measure."

"We must now examine their

added characteristics,"

Count Volta, in order to trace their orbits."

PLANETS FOUND BY CAMERA.

"Ca" and "Ba" Too Small To Measure.

In the heavens between Mara

TWO BITES FREE.

The presence here to-day of ing them of charging unreasonably the area over which the Court had and Jupiter, forty million to four Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight high prices, and of taking two jurisdiction seemed to be constant: hundred million miles from the champion of the world, caused months to replace buttons. There were about 20 cases a week earth, are the two planeta" "Ba"

An old legal doctrine that a dog great speculation and revived ·re- An indignant. cftizen records a which came to the Court. That and "Ca" the discovery of which ports that he has come to the case when water-pipes were found might sound a lot, but when they has been reported from the Fine is entitled to, two bites of a person. before being declared dangerous divorce capital of America to ob stuffed up with undelivered letters considered that the jurisdiction. of Torinese Observatory tain a divorce from Miss Estelle which a weary postman had taken the Court extended over 8,000,000.

Professor Count Luigi Volta, has been upheld by the California

Court of Appeals. Taylor, popular motion picture ac- this means of discarding, and people, It was not so many as it director of the observatory, and a tress.

grandson of the The Court also pointed out that adds: "Such cases are not rare in sounded. Although the population great-great Newspaper reporters eagerly the practice of postal institutions. had increased, serious crime had famous electrician after whom the whereas a dog must bite a human 184.90 questioned the one-time "Manassa.We need a trial of the criminals not increased pro rata. He found "volt" is named, has made public befag twice before it is declared Mauler. But they obtained little who destroy the correspondence of the volume of crime was pretty the photographic plate on which vicious the State law provides that 03.00 information, for their trouble.

227There is a possibility that I will rens

hundreds and thousands of citi constant. Of course, they only got "Ba" was discovered by Professor one bite of sheep, gost, or poultry

the more serious cases there, and Lacchini, also of the observatory dooms him. 280.17 obtain a divorce but let's not talkThat even death does not free the calendar had been lightened by staff. Consumption of water in Kowloos about it," was all that Mr. Damp-the citizen from the burdans of the empowering of magistrates, to 411 that can be seen on the plate

The establishment of a Junior L. denotes "Level with Overflow."] in millions and decimals of gallons say would say before he went into bureaucracy is indicated by an- try a good many cases they could by the eye of the layman-Bre

Storage In million and decirali during the month of Maria.

1980 1981 a huddle in bis lawyers corner other correspondent, who declares not try a few years ago. The lot of black dots and thin black Agricultural College at the Head that the friends and relatives of a calendar contained the names of 61 lines. To the astronomer, how of the Lakes for the training of deceased citizen must spend three persons. There were two charges ever, the plate reveals the secrets young men and women of North- Alberts shipped 115 cars of days standing In queues to obtain of murder, but only one would of the skies. Pointing, to a faint western Ontario was advocated eggs eastward In 1980, according the air dormentary attestations come before the Grand Jury. The line, less than ons-twentieth of an before. the. Fort William Chamber to R. H. Ennismore, federal egg which are required, in cases of other charge of murder was left inch long. Count Volta said: "That of Commerce at a recent meeting. The Government Analyal reports Inspector, who added that the death, and even then may have over the last session An is Lacchini's planet As "Ba" Members of the Port Arthur che quality of the water month of January and February balenity in buying a comin, usled eminently regrettable feature in had moved across the heavens he Chamber of Commerce attended locales calmfall: March 31-1930, this year had apparently, been re- the deceased person is of average the calendar was that there were had registered his movements on the meeting and supported, the 10,39;, March 81,- 1981, 40.50

six charges of breaking and enter- this plate.

Ppkfulum

177B 227"B.

[Noter B. denoles "Below Over flow" A. denotes "Above Overflow";

Tytam

of gallons

Total

83.15

421.4

179,500

1930- 1981. Consumption... 11480 189.54 272.85 193.20 | Estimated population -

1.6788 Consumption 1150252.70 termediate

487:6079 $882,50

$6.98

Tytam Byawanḥ, Tytam

Total

329,00,79:19.AK

781.10864.40

Commmmption of water in the city

and Hill District in malilions and de-

head per day Be

181.225.1

Constant supply in all-districta dur

Februar 1980 and 1931.

United Press.

cord ones in egg production.

`size.“

ргарона!.

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