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"Phone 20616.

NOTICE.

Will our numerous customers please note that on and a er MONDAY, July 27th, our principal Hong Kong Depot will be at 60, Queen's Road: Central, Tel. No. 21279 (50 yds. west of Queen's Theatre), for the collection of Laundry, Drycleaning or Dyeing Orders; also a Special Valeteria Service will be installed. Suits, Gowns, etc., can be Steam Pressed on the premises within 20 minutes, while your servant waits.

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NOW ON SALE

The

CHINA YEAR BOOK

1931

EDITED BY

H. G. W. WOODHEAD, O.B.E.

"A Mentor. Superb.. ... It is not on exaggeration to say that the "China Yoar Book" is one of the most remarkable produs

. No-one who pretends to tions of its-kind in the world. desire to discuss or study affairs in China can afford to with out this book-North-Chias Daily News...

The "China Year Book" as it is presented to-day, is a volume. that no newspaper, commercial, government, in fact any office can do without." Chinn Presz".

"There is no single work containing such a mass of varied and most useful information on things Chinese as the "China Your Book Similar publications exist in many other countries, but fow can compare with, and nona excels, the latest issue of this work-Finance & Commerce.

On Sale

Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd.,

Chatar Road," HONG KONG

and

Commercial Press, Ltd.

PRICE

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THE CHINA MAIL.

WHITEAWAYS

GREAT

SUMMER SALE.

BARGAIN IN HELMETS.

THE IMPERIAL TROPICAL SUN HELMET

TRAND,

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50 Only

MEN'S

CORK & RUBBER··

COMPOSITION HELMETS.

Best English Manufacture. All Sizes. Covered white Drill. Usual Price $16.50..

SPECIAL

SALE PRICE $10.50

SOLA PITH TOPEES.

Odd Sizes in numerous Styles.. White and Khaki. HEAVILY REDUCED. MUST BE SOLD.

FI

SHOP EARLY 'ÁT

WHITEAWAYS.

often recourse to qualified treat ment is left until the case is

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931.

Two Chinese were fined $20 each WAS SHE WILLING, OR TRIED TO SWALLOW

by Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Central Magistracy this morning for hav- Ing dumped a quantity of rubbish, consisting of earth and atones, on the Penya West Reclamation."

A notice posted. at the Harbour Office states that no examinations for vertientes of competency for masters, mates, or engineers will be held during the week ending August 8.

WAS SHE FORCED?"

Charge of Procuring

Young Girl..

WAY TO SETTLE À DEET.

PAWN TICKETS.

Loiterer Remanded for Enquiries.

IDLE FOR THREE MONTHS.

Man Yuk and Fung King, the Detained on Sunday night at the latter a married woman, made an Shaukiwan Police Station for en- appearance at the Kowloon Magis-quiries on a chargo of loitering,

was found Whilst at work in the kitchen of tracy, this morning, on a charge of Pang Hau-chai (19)

trying to swollow two 18 Carolino II Road, Taui Sec-al unlawfully taking away from the later

On being searched (18), an amah, accidentally upset Colony a girl named Fung Sau-ying, pawn 'tickets. a pot of boiling water and scalded with intent to sell or dispose of for nine local pawn tickets and five both her lege. She was taken to an immoral purpose in Macao. Macao pawn tickets' were found.

Another woman; Ho Luk, was Ho was brought before Mr. the Tung Wah Hospital.

charged with aiding and abbetting Schofield this morning, and Inaps- for G. A. Simson stated that Fun Fung (30), of the K.C.R., the first two defendants. was removed to the Kowloon Hoa Inspector Murphy, of the S.C.A., accused had been in the Colony for

about three months and was pital yesterday suffering from in-appeared for the prosecution.

He was arrested on All Juries to his chest alleged to have]

defendants pleaded employed. been inflicted by another employee "gullty" but said that the girl was a reclamation in Kam Wah Street,

three

of the railway near the Shatin Tunnel.

willing to go.

"String of Debts."

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near a side show.

After hearing evidence of arrest

When questioned in the box, the by an Indian Sergeant, the Magis- The Armament Supply Officer, girl said she was 10 years old, and trate romanded accused for 24 Royal Naval Armament Depot, that the third defendant was her hours for further enquiries to ba notifies the Harbour Master for in- mother and the second defendant made regarding the pawn tickets.. formation of mariners that a her cousin. She agreed that she

small quantity of fireworks will be was quite willing to go to Macao MAN KILLED IN A fired for proof purposes at the and be sold for the purpose men- Stonecutter's rifle range to-morrow tioned. Continuing, she said that her father had died and left a string of debts, and the creditors wor

morning.

FIGHT.

Crime of Judge and a

Bad Temper."

Descending from the top bunk inpressing for immediate payment. his quarters at No. 7, Police Station, She suggested to the creditors Tong Tam, a Police constable, ac that she should be sold as a pros- cidentally fell on to a kit box and titute, and that the money should go

A fight after a village dance, in ruptured himself, also sustaining

to the payment of her father's which one mun was killed, was Ho servare injuries to his ribs.

debts. A discussion took place at described at Salisbury Assizes is now lying in the Government the first defendant's house at Bute when Samuel Edwin Robins, aged Civil Heapital in a serious condi- Street about a week ago.

tion.

[Iwenty-one. WOR sentenced to The only people present were the twenty-two months' barð labour

In a report to the Police Lo Lam, girl herself, and the first two de-for manslaughter,

The two defendants Mr. J. G. Trapnell, prosecuting, Coxswain of the steam launch Sai fendants. Kung, atated that whilst in charge, suggested that the sale should take said that the Aght took place out-- of the vessel at 3 o'clock yesterday place in Kowloon, but the girl ex-side a dance hall at Hilcot, near afternson a male passenger jumped pressed a wish to go away, and Pewney. There was a dispute be

tween, a 122:11 nomed Daniel Sielafr and Robins, in which an- ints the harbour about 25 yards Macao was finally decided upon.

The China Mail hopeless. This dread can only be away from the Hunghom Wharf. A search was made for the missing

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overcome, or at least modified, by gradual and steady propaganda

tures.

man without result.

Mother Agreed.

The mother of the girl agreed to other man natnad Hawkins inter- the proposed sale, oh condition that Vened and endeavoured, to separ the proceeds should be paid over to them. Robins struck Hawkins, Three Chinese were produced at her after the expenses had been de-knocking him into the bank, and by such bodies as the Chinese

the Kowloon Police Court this ducted. The girl's mother then then attacked Sinclair, knocking Medical Association and

the morning, and charged with at-went to the wharf and saw the girl him to the ground.

Mr. Trapnell alleged that Robins Chinese Y.M.C.A. with its annual tempting to stowaway on the soff on the boat in company with the

hon partly raised Sinclair and One of Sirdhana to Singapore. Health Weeks

On arrival at and public lec-!

two defendants. the men was tied up in a sack one Macro they stayed at a boarding truck him a severe blow, and did the same a recond tima. Sinclair in a basket, and the third concealed house and the same evening a man was so reverely injured about the Of the notifiable diseases, tuber-in a sack. A fine of $50 or and woman visited them, and ex-head that he died. culosis as usual is taking the month's imprisonment was imposed pressed approval of the girl and dis- Mr. Justice Itoche said that the

cussed terms for her purchase. heaviest toll of the population, on each. The total deaths from January 1

The visiting troop of Boy Scouts to July 25 were

Troop (St. Hong Kong 1,604-an average of nearly eight 24th

party yesterday.

On the same night the boarding crime was due to Robins' had tem- no fewer than from Macao were the guests of the house was raided, and the two do per.

fendants were detained, a

the

per day. How many cases there Joseph's Troop) at a Chinese tifin Police suspeneted they had did- KING'S TASTE IN ART

Besides the are in the Colony on any given Scoutmasters of both these troops

They were finally napped the girl.' returned to Hong Kong.

A fine of $100 or two months' im-

day no one can tell Their num-others present were the Rev. E. prisonment was imposed on the first ber must simply be appalling, Armstrong, Scout Commissioner ferdefendant, and $20 or two weeks' Kowloon, and Mr. R. Dormer, Scoutmaster

Andrew's of St. Tropp.

And it will continue to be appall- ing until the authorities have the courage of their convictions and stringently veto spitting in public places and public vehicles and ferries. And the only way to en-Crackers Fired Without

a Permit.

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jul 29, 1931. force that veto ia by way of fines

Disease in Colony.

in the Police Courts. The con- science of the community must' be aroused to the perils of this

ד'

BAD JOSS.

a recent date)

on the third defendant. The second' defendant was discharged.

The girl is to be handed over to the care of the S.C.A.

BOOMING BRITAIN.

Campaign to Win Visitors.

When we are not swallowed up in a Londen fog we are lost in a Scottish mist.

Trade depression is everywhere, and

He Does Not Like "Jazzy" Pictures.

"I do not like inzzy art," declared the King when, with the Queen and his sister. Princess Victoria, he visited an exhibition of paintings by Prince Nicholas of Greece, at the French Gallery, New Bond Straet.

The King's attention was attract- ed by a painting of tho Place'de la Concorde, Paris, and he remark- ed that he had many times driven through

GRAF ZEPPELIN. Meeting with Russian Ice Breaker.

off

the

NO MONEY FOR FINE.

TO TELL THE TRUTH.

He purchased a painting of the. When summoned before Mr.

Trocadero Bridge, Paria, and the In spite of the trying weather dreadful scourge of tuberculosis Schofield this morning for having

A big campaign has now teen Queen bought a study of still life. -and each Summer in the that is making auch great inroads fired crackers on

some of the two pictures._______ opinion of Europeans is always on the health of the comparative. without a permit from the S.C.A., started to tell the world the truth Princess Victoria also purchased more trying than its predeces-ly young. Its dangers are not a Chinese pleaded that he had been about Britain, and

out of work for about two years, hundreds of reason why it is well HOT a little consolation is to be sufficiently realised: The risks and, a short time aga, had gone to worth coming to see.

Holiday-making foreigners have derived from studying the weekly of infection are not realised. The Canton to look for work. returns of notifiable diseases criminality of spitting in public Ilis mother fired crackers, a small many illusions about Britain. Herz

It is always raining. Thus, an unofficial calculation places has to be forcibly brought string, in the hope that his journey are some of them:

would be successful. However, he from January 1 to July 25 this home to the Chinese before any was unable to get employment in

Berlin, Yesterday. year discloses that, apart from slight reduction in the toll from Canton and so he returned to Hong

The Graf Zeppelin mot the Rus Kong in response to an urgent call,

icebreaker slan

"Malyguin tuberculosis, there were only 46 tuberculosis is possible. non-Chinese cases notified out of

Outside the realm of notifiable which was the summons!

Hooker Island. The Magistrate imposed a fine of

This is about the last country In The airship alighted on a total of 219. The term non- diseases there is malaria fever, $3.

the world in which to spend a jolly water and exchanged, mail bags,. Chinese is in itself very elastic, regarding which the weekly off- Defendant pleaded that he did holiday.

and rose again a quarter of ar including as it does not only cial returns are naturally silent. not have a capt with him, where- Mr. A. F. Primrose, an official of hour later-Reuter, Europeans but Portuguese, In- Here, too, there is room for very upon his Worship ordered him to the Travel Association of Great

This was done by Britain and Ireland, said that he MAN WHO FILMED WAR. Eurasians. Gians, and

How great improvement, which, again, be searched..

the Court constable, who found had encountered these ideas In Britons are involved in is only possible when the Colony nothing but a piece of paper. Amerien, France, and other coun- The death ia announced in Los these 246 non-Chinese cases can- is rid of anopheles mosquitoes. The Magistrate-In future you tries. not be stated with exactitude It is conceded that there is a must remember to get a

permit Snaside resorts and other places Angeles at the age of 47 of Mr. Joseph White Farnham, who began until the annual report is publish- tremendous amount of research from the S.C.A. before you fire have just been invited to co-operate his professional career on the New

with the Travel Association of ed in due course by the Medical work to be done, but this hardly crackers, Cautioned.

Great Britain and Ireland, and de-York Morning Telegraph and ended

titko-writers and' tails of the proposed campaign for it as one of Hollywood's most pro- Department.

picture conduces to satisfaction in the

A WEEK'S DISEASES.

booming Britain have been sent to editans. Leaving tuberculosis aside for populated areas of the Colony

1,160 town clerks and civic officials. In 1915 he made a trip to Europe. the moment there was a total of where mosquitoes make night a TYPHOID, DIPHTHERIA ́AND "The Travel Association is a non-on bohalf of the Carnegie Peace......... 104 cases of typhoid fever, with misery to residents in spite of

trading body, established with Gov Foundation to secure motion plc- ornment support to increase the tures of the war. 30 deaths, and. 76 cases of diph- mosquito nets and spraying with The this, that, or the other "sover- theria with 24 deaths. numbers of cases of other not!-eign remedy." fiable diseases have been in. Anitesmal so far this year. With an estimated population verging News in Brief. on 700,000 these figures are not

The lowest open air temperature alarming. Indeed, looking to the dense Chinese population they yesterday was 80 degrees, The humidity was 75 at 10 am and 80 are quite satisfactory. And pos- at 4 pm Between these hours to sibly there might have been few the rainfall was 0.11 inch:

many

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Bac

· TUBERCULOSIS.“

The official return of diseases number of visitors to Britain and

Among the famous films edited and deaths during the week end- the demand for British goods," Mr and titled by him were "Greed,"

"The Primrose explained. ed July 25 Is as follows:-

Big "Charley's Aunt," Cases. DeathsFrance has calculated that she Parade," and "Allas Jimmy Valen

4 received $104,000,000 from, visitors tine."

61

Typhoid fever. 7 1 Diphtheria Scarlet fever Tuberculosis ........

Summary to July 25, The returns from January

July 25 give the following figuro

er than 80 deaths from typhoid hushed

DF Belth, director of Typhoid, fever and 24 deaths from diph

Co., Sniall-pox Measre

Jardine, Mathesd Tita

passenger lar Shanghai Scarlet fever on the Empress of

way Diphtheria Kong from Vancouver

theria had the Chinese patients either seen a doctor mitted

even

been ad

hos

class

Cerebro-s

ling Paratyphole

|Puerperal

Ten Years Ago.

from abroad, while pur Board of A. Trade figures showed only £15,000, 000 for the same period. So we are starting a big push to prove that 1we are an alive, go-ahead country and not, as an American described us. 'n land of tottering ruine Cases, Deaths. In our programme for attract

104 50 ing visitors we are issuing full

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Fram "CHEST WAITH 22 July 29, 18211-

Tu-day's dollar is worth 2/9%.

datalia in foreign countries of Before Magistrate Orme this coming events Royal engagements, morning a horas boy employed by social functions, festivals and old Mr. Knight of the P. & 0. Co.. customs, exhibitions and shows, was charged with having kept an conferences, sporting engagements, plum divan in the servants quar regattas and so on. Then Amerters of her master's house at No.y Icons and other visitors who are 18, The Peak.DOMA typhoid Cases interested in special things such as After C. P. O. Watt had deposed were three Ascot and motor racing, or orto raiding the premises, and seizing

one small-pox the Schnalder Trophy contest, can one tael of illicit opium and gear

nal Lover plan to be here at the proper for preparing, opium, the accused

was fined $90,