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
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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
-4422
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
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Fowls, Canton
Fowls, Hainan Goose
Pigeons, Canton
章
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
花
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
み
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.
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Leg
Shoulder
11
SQUATO
ต
Saddle both Pig's Chitlings
The
Brains
Feat
+
Fry
31
Read
Heart
"
·
Kidneys
Liver
a year of Pork Chop
The
Leg
"
Loin
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the
"
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IT
Heart Kidneys
13
Liver
Matton
Sausages
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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.”
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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
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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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12
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12
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10
Cane Shoots; bunch
Cauliflower (Large) :. A each 22
Colary, Chinese
Curry Stuff, English.. RMH
Garlic
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#
+
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.
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