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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 1931.

Cabinet's Fall.

In the

of

as are residents of foreign coun- tries in Europe and the United States. To transmit to the Orient anything less than the truth, no matter how unpalatable. or even unsettling, would eventually be strongly resented. The political-

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931.

Crowded houses are the rule all CANTON-HONG KONG

their children. Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld, of the Children's afternoon and evening at the Clinic, London, very rightly said, King's Theatre to sea and lear the other day, that a childs failure "The Lawyer's Secret.** to adjust itself to its environment

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TELEPHONE.

Preparations for the Opening Ceremony.

SIR W. PEEL TO SPEAK.

is not due to original sin, but is The lowest open air temperature the fault of its parents.

|yesforday," was 83 degrees. Al 4 Parents should realise, very few P.m. It was 92 degrees. The of them do the difficulty of grow-humidity was only 75. at: 10 a.m. ing up. Most parents seem to be and 68 at 4 p.m. i unable fully to sympathise with their children. Elther that, or Fifteen employees were injured they are too lazy to make the at- ed promises on a site on the south when a acaffolding, which surround-

Cantón, To-day." tempt. They impase standards of j

With reference to. the long-dis side of Prince Edward Road, a tance telephone service between complete maturity ON tiny. shoulders, and then say they can- short distance from its intersection Canton and Hong Kong to be in- not understand why Jack or

with Argyle Street, collapsed yea-augurated on JU!!

September 1, the is so naughty,

terday. The Injured were, twelve Committee in charge of its ad- women and three men.

ministration has decided to estab- Inferiority Complex.

lish sub-call-offices at the import-" This is a very familiar thing

A Siamese passenger by, thenat towns of Sheklung and Shum- 9. Kedah gave birth to nowadays. It is to be met with while the vessel was on her way lishments of those sub-offices are twins chun. Preparations for the estab everywhere. Indeed, it seems to from Belawan Dell to Penang last in progress, and it is expected that have infected the world in toto. It' iveck. reveals itself in Hong Kong as ono to the port authorities, immediately at the formal opening of the line. The matter-was reported they also will be ready for service thing, in Singapore as another, in the vessel arrived, but in spite of The opening ceremony of operat London as somethig else, and 20 everything possible being done foring the service will be attended by on. Nobody seems to have escaped. the mother and her infants, the Mr. Lin Yun-kai, Chairman of the All have it in one form or another. twins did not live for more than a Kwangtung Provincial Government And yet it can be overcome and few hours.

and by Sir William Peel, Governor vanquished if, as Dr. James Kerr,

of Hong Kong. Chairman Lin and formerly school medical officer for) A British officer was injured in Sir William will hold the first con London, said a few week ago, "a the head and ribs by ashover versation through the telephone child is taught to hold itself erect of stones during the rioting at on September 1, when Mr. Lin will and look its fellows in the "face Nablus on the occasion of the apeak Chinese to be translated into before it leaves the nursery Arab strike throughout Palestine, English by his secretary to Sir school."

That child, the doctor in protest against sealed armourled William, who will speak English to says," will not suffer from in- in Jewish villages." The Police be translated into Chinese by his feriority complex of any kind. He were obliged to fire on the crowd of accretary to Chairman Lin. strongly advocates the establish- demonstrators who refused to dis- The service will open for the ment of nursery schools on a large perse. Six demonstratora were public on. September 1.-Canton senle:

There is much to be said seriously injured. The military Sun. for the proposal.

have taken charge of the situation and armoured cars and reinforce Empire Tours for School Children. ments have been summoned.. So

A party of Public School boys is records a

Reuter message new on its way to Australia. The Jerusalem. cables, announced their departure from England a few days ago, There is another scheme on foot. to encourage inter-Imperial, con-

It is a Scotish project, and· tact. was mentioned last month at a To Avoid Constipation session of the British Common-; in Hot Weather. wealth Education Conference. It is to exchange children between) Scotland and Canada, next year. It is hoped to utilise a troopship to transport 1,000 high-school children

DRINK WATER.

from

Journal of the American Medical [By Dr. Morris Fishbein: Editor. Association, and of Hygein, the

[The official "opening will take place at 11.30 a.m. on September 1 at the office of the Hong Kong Telephone Company, Exchange Building.]

KOREAN RIOTS.

China's New Note to Japan.

Nanking. Yesterday. With reference to the Korean which, according to the Chinese riots at the beginning of July, in investigators, 140 Chinese were killed and 118 seriously injured, In very hot weather with con and the loss aiderable humidity, the condition goods approximated to $3,000,- of property and Schemes of this nature are great-ing, proper rest and diet.

of health depends on proper cloth-000, the Foreign Office this morn- Weting delivered a third Note to the

Humpty Dumpty the Labour | cum-financial crisis at Home had from Scotland to Canada, and to Health Magazine,]

unenviable role

Government has had a great fall It has failed to solve the financial problems. It has been unable to agree on the crisis confronting the nation.. Its job is being

to come and it had to be faced, even though it involved the

downfall of half a dozen Cabinets

bring back a similar number from Canada to Scotland. The trip would last three weeks.

Is to be encouraged, and if they clothing is a good conductor of Japanese Minister, Mr. Shige- can, in course of time, be extended heat. Hence, if damp clothes are mitsu to become inter-National so much worn in hot weather, there is the better.

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The Note insists that the Japan- danger of chilling. People who ese authorities in Korea failed to go bathing and then sit around in give Chinese nationals proper pro- amp bathing suits find this out tection, both before and during the air which is inhaled is rarified ess Government should be held very promptly. In hot weather, the outrages, and that the Japan- by heat and contains less oxygen; responsible. therefore, there is a tendency to

The Note further demands that

Ten Years Ago.

of every possible political hue. The solution — a kind of Nation- al Government composed of some taken out of its hands by the

of the best elements in all three hated Tories and the despised

Combating U.S. Influence. Parties is possibly the hap Liberals, plus a sprinkling of

Sir Percy Nunn, Professor of The Education at the London Univer members of the Labour Cabinet piest that could be found,

Conservative ex-Premier, Mr. sity, is reported to have said re as it existed up to Sunday last. Stanley Baldwin, admits that a cetly, that the exploitation of a That is the worst-or the best General Election at the present great educational opportunity by retention of carbon dioxide in the the perpetrators of the outrages of the news sent out to this

the United States, and its neglect fancture would be disastrous to

blood. Some people insist that and delinquent officials be punish- by Great Britain, had created a Colony by the British official the nation. Means must be situation seriously unfavourable to this is partly the reason why they ed; that there be a formal apology wireless station and by the found as speedily as possible for Britain' trading interests. i tire sp qasily In hot weather." from the Japanese Government; orthodox telegraph

People who live in the tropics compensation for the loss of life agencies. balancing the Budget and restor- "At this critical point in the

guarantee There has been no attempt on ing confidence. in British credit, nation's history," he added, it is have a pulse rate that is slightly and property; and a

than ever to higher than that of those living in that there will be no recurrence the part of officialdom at Home The Labour Cabinet, as such, strengthen those

more important.

It is believed of such outrages in future.— the temperate zonë. subtle, but to censor the Press messages and

may have been split by internal powerful bonds between the differ- that it is related to the breathing Reuter."

People are also inclined to thereby keep the good people of

dissensions; but that of itself is whose permanence can be guaran. be more irritable. In hot weather

ent nations of the Commonwealth rate. this Colony in the dark regard-

In the really insignificant so long as a teed by a community of funda than in cold weather. ing the real gravity of the crisis body of British statesmen are mental educatioal ideas and ideals, tropics there is a condition called And there has been no sugges found ready and willing to ster tion from Home to the Press of

into the breach and essay the sugaring the pill by mild head lines and inocuous posters. From

task of cutting the cloth accord certain angles it will doubtless being to the existing measure, regarded as "simply too dread With the collaboration of Con servatives and Liberals a Nation- ful" to publish all the facts of the

al Government has been formed financial and political crisis at

temporarily. The first stage of Home to the thousands of Orien-

the crisis is over. tals in this and other Crown Colonies. Such a heading in a

patient has now a very strong chance not only of convalescence evoning contemporary as Dra

but of complete recovery... His matic climax to Britain's long day of crisis" may raise the strong constitution, aided by the ire of oraculous persons over-cultation of the physicians of seas who imagine they are born all Parties, must win out in the to control everybody else's affairs end, As in all crises in the past Britain may muddle through for

The financial

(Fram the "China Hell" of

August 25, 1921.1

To-day's dollar is worth 2/8 %.

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"In the Dominions, to say no- "tropical Irritability," which is thing of foreign lands, such as supposed to be due to some change China and Turkey, where Britain taking place in the nervous system has vast interests, the new social in hot weather. However, these It is quite possible that and educational movements are things have not been definitely es Irritability is due to the changed

At the City Hall on Tuesday coming more and more under tablished. American direction."

conditions under which people live evening holders of Marine lots in- In hot weather there is less appetereated in the Praya East Reclama tite, less desire for meat, and ation Scheme met to consider the News in Brief.

greater demand for spicy articles draft of à Bill to be submitted to the of food. Physicians who live in Legislative Council in connection. The engagement is announced of the tropics Insist that this is due with the arrangement already. Dr. O. J. Wittern and Mlas Gertrud to a lowering of the power of reached between the Government Benz

Holstein digestion associated with living in and tho lot holders regarding the Hohenwested,

hot weather. However, this is terms under which the project shall not nearly so important as the be carried out. ⠀ danger of constipation in hot Mr. John Duncan, executive on- weather. In het weather mach gineer of the P.W.D., who prepared moisture is lost from the skin, all the plans and diagrams and therefore, the material in the supervised all soundings and sur- bowels tends to be exceedingly hard weys in connection with the scheme, One case of typhoid fever, one and concentrated. In order to present to elucidate any paint a time, but, when she realises to of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and overcome the tendency to constipa that might require any, explana- the full the gravity of the posi- one of puerperal fever were not. tio. in hot weather is also to lot.

fied over the week-end, All were to drink lots of water and also Chinese.

as well as their own. They can. not perceive that even newspapers are entitled to a little window. dressing in the presentation of news not rumour or conjec- ture emanating from the Home land. These

same imperant beings would probably be the first to close their eyes to an in- tensive propaganda for some non- British product merely deploring The Naughty Child, per the medium of annual re ports, the encroachments by for child the nes eigners on British trade and com-child;

tion, triumph is inevitable. Con fidence in her wonderful resources and potentialities remains unim paired!

erce (owing to the unadmitted

Mail Commentary:

There is the

one or the other Rip Ven. Winkleism of their own cause the

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naughty and

that aug

riots)

risis at Home," either poli-

incial, cannot be kept

Britons overseas are-as

much entitled to know the worst Is the reflex of

lover

(Germany); -

Too late for insertion is this issue we have received a lengthy account of the visit of the 2nd Hong Kong Troop of Boy Scouts to Macao.

It is hoped that teachers and school children in Kowloon will make a point of seeing With Byrd at the South Pole, at the Majestic Theatre to-day..

Five thousand dollars worth of chandu was seized in Penang last week Three arrests have been made, including, it is believed, & well-known Chinesa, merchant of that laland, AND INDIA INDELL

take considerable quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables.G

THE BODY AFTER DEATH,

"Executor Only Has Control Over It."

Aetatement that a man had no power to diapose of his body after death was made by the coroner at an inquest at Eastbourne ona Dutchman who was found dead on Eastbourne front, and who had At the Registrar's Offices yester written a request that his body. day afternoon Miss May Jones of should be given to a hospital for exasperat- Hong-Kong, -- was married to Mr. research purposes,

George Edward Buckner, 05 "The only person,

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