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result of this cheap. service has been an increase in the number of passengers by no fewer than 3,286,859 in two years and a jump of $185,713 in receipts within the samo period over the
MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 22, 1932.
SHANGHAI JOURNALISTS RUNNING RIOT.
Being Doubted.
FICTION NOT FACT!
(Reuter's Special Service).
RICHARD BARTHELMESS HERE.
Film Star and Wife on Pleasure Trip.
Mr. Richard Bartheless, the popular Vitaphone screen star, and his wife, formerly Miss Jessica Sargent, a New York society girl, arrived here from Vancouver, vin Shanghai, on the C.PS. liner. Em- London, Yesterday. press of Japan, yesterday morning. The Shanghai situation is fea-They are staying in Hong Kong for tured in all newspapers in Lon-a few days, before continuing on don and the Provinces, but it is their pleasure trip, to Indo-China felt that some of the Shanghai and south Java, returning to Los
journalists. are allowing, their Angeles via Europe. A contributory cause of
same route. In Kowloon a second Stories Cabled London class passenger on a bus can tra- vel only one mile for five cents - and then only if he is conversant with the route, às otherwise, on certain routes certain conductors demand and get ten cents and that, on occasion, even for a much shorter distance than one mile.
quest of sensation to run riot. Mr. Barthelmess who la under this extortion, it may be, lies in
One story describes how contract with Warner Brothers the fact that bus tickets are not beautiful English girl is fighting Corporation and must return to sufficiently concise and that the shoulder to shoulder with the Hollywood by April, became famous Chinese troops, another speaks on the screen after his performance, fare charts (usually exhibited of Klangwan creeks running in "ToTable David" some years only in the first class section) are with blood, while a third tells of ago. He did brilliant work in far too general to be easily under-a Japanese brigade fighting des- "The Dawn Patrol" with Douglas stood by the average passenger rounded by Chinese forces.
perately for its life when sur- Fairbanks, jun., and Neil Hamilton. He was atar of that spectacular pro- Perpendicular lines of figures Finally, the European women duction "Cimarron," and also ap- from 1 to 5 (including section) of Shanghai are described as peared in "The Love Doctor" and convey nothing to anybody in heroines, carrying on as usual in "Drag." tendering five cents only for a death from shellfire.
spite of imminent danger and
five cents journey. That apart, These colourful details are not however, it being admitted that believed by retired Shanghailan- "it is clear that the economic of the Far East, but an ignor- ders, and others with experience limit to which Kowloon fares can ant general public is being thrill
NEW DESTROYERS ARRIVE IN PORT.
8th Flotilla Now Complete.
utilities must defect its own the harbour soon after 10 o'clock.
LESSON-SERMON.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.
"Mind" was the subject of the Lasson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, February 21.
be raised has now been reacted," ed. cannot the bus operators revertį to the scale of fares in force be fore July 1 last, or even before that? They have the pleasur-
The Golden Text waɛ.-"God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but able experience of the trama on
of power, and of love, and of a the Western Market - Shauki-
sound mind." (2 Tim. 1; 7.) wan route for their guidance.
Among the citations which com prised the Lesson-Sermon was the That experience has been bornej The remaining four ships of the following from the Bible.-"The rarely do we hear of any com-
out for years in the tramway new 8th Destroyer Flotilla, for aor Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, plaint of the conduct of drivers.
systems of Glasgow and other vice on the China Station, in place Surely as I have thought, so shall ór conductors; and the most con-
of the "S" and "T" destroyers which it come to pasa; and as I have pur- great cities at Home. sorious of Sanitary Inspectors
Sheer returned Home recently, arrived in posed, so shall it stand. For the must admit that it is difficult to Breed in fixing fares on public port this morning, steaming into Lord of hosts hath purposed, and Traffic Fares.
find fault with
who shall disannul it? and his the general enda. Pity it is for the sake Witch (1,360 tons), Whitshed, Wren shall turn it back?" (aulah 14; These vessels are H.M. ships hand is stretched out, and who cleanliness of buses, whilst Three facts atand out pro-promiscuous spitting by pas-
of the shareholders in Hong and Veteran, each of 1,825 tons. 24, 27.) minently in the speech of the
Kong Tramways, Limited They tied up alongside the weat wall Chairman (Mr. A. B. Stewart) rarely seen. Pity it is that such fares on the Kai Tack buses can-flotilla, which are already
inside the buses is that an experiment of reduced of the R.N. Dockyard.
The Lesson-Sermon also includ- The other vessels of the new Christian
ed the following passage from the at the annual meeting of the satisfactory conditions
Science textbook, Hong Kong Tramways, Limited be applied to the bus services on aix months.
not be made for, say, the next station, are H.M. ships Keppel the Scriptures," by Mary Baker on the "Science and Health, with Key to
-a striking increase of passen- the Kowloon side.
(flotilla leader) Wild Swan, White-Eddy"God is Mind, and God is Other reflections in the Kow-latter is at present doing duty at this statement rests the Science of
hall, Verity, and Wishart. ger receipts by tramway from
The Infinite; hence all is Mind. On Not being bus experts, as re-loon bus services as a whole oc- Shanghai, while the Verity is out on being, and the Principle of this. Shaukiwan to the Western gards manufacture and traffic cur to us; but our space is limit-exercises. Market and vice versa; a trifling condition,
The leader and the Science is divine demonstrating we cannot disagree ed. In any case, something must other two ships are in port. improvement of 3.21 cents per (any more than we may agree) be left for
harmony and immortality." (p.492.) mile in fares on the Kai Tack with the intimation at the an-sidents' Association Committee motor buses; and tardy recogni-nual meeting of Hong Kong to say at the forthcoming annual tion of the fact that the econo-Tramways, Limited, that it is general meeting! mic limit to which Kowloon bus the intention of the Directors to fares can be raised has now been purchase one or more new chassis fitted with Diesel engines of the It was a foregone "conclusion type which is "considered best
reached.
sengers
cannot
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BRITISH PRESS COMMENTS ON SHANGHAI SITUATION
"League Has Failed," Says Daily Herald.
DAILY TELEGRAPH DEFINES BRITAIN'S POLICY.
venant.
London, Yesterday.
LEAVE TO APPEAL GRANTED.
Goods Sold and Delivered.
ONE OF LIFE'S JOKES.
The Parachutist And The Stairs.
Warner Lips, at one time the
Canada, is in hospital.. champion parachute jumper, of
In the Full Court this morning, their Lordship, the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph H. Kemp, K.C) and more than 20 jumps from aeroplanes, Although only 19 he has made the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice R. E. all of them, from a height of between Lladsell), granted leave to appeal 5,000 and 10,000 feet. He had against a decision of the Pulsne jumped with confidence and skill, Judge in an action in Summary and not once had he suffered an Jurisdiction involving a claim for accident.
$925 for goods sold and delivered. But recently he was walking up- Originally the plaintiffs (now re-stairs in an hotel at Kitchener, spondents), the Wong Kwal Kee Ontario, when his foot slipped. He firm, of 111. Yu Chau Street, twisted his ankle and snapped a Shamshuipo, claimed against the bone. defendant, (now appellant), Ip Tuen, of 147, Peiho Street, Sham-
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News in Brief.
your
conditions in Kowloon that, peculiar to the Kai Tack routes." when bus fares were raised fur- Wherein do these traffic condi- ther in July last, the number of tions differ from those in Hong passengers would show a con- Kong or, indeed, from those ob- siderable decline. Unfortunately taining in any of the large cities the Kai Tack service has had to at Home where, we are candidly auffer in conjunction with the informed, "the utmost caution is other two bus concerns operat- being exercised, by motor bus ing on the mainland. In any operators" as regards the intro- commentary on the bus services duction of Diesel engines? By Guns in Shanghai are shatter-shuipo, and the Pulsne Judge gave in Kowloon in general, the Hong the average layman, condemned ing the fabric of Geneva, declares judgment for plaintiff. Kong Tramways, Limited, need daily to "patronise" some of the the Daily Herald's" Geneva Cor- not be over-sensitive as
The appellant-defendant was re- A meeting of the Chinese Geni- re- contraptions called motor buses respondent, and upon this the presented by Mr. R. C. H. Lim eral Chamber of Commerce has been gards conditions on the sub-in Kowloon, further enlighten- Paper bases an editorial proclaim: (instructed by Mr. P. H. Sin), who arranged for Wednesday at 3.p.m. sidiary. They would probably ment on this technical phase of and urging the enforcement of question of law and on fact. The ing that the "League has failed" based his grounds of appeal on both be the first to concede that, as bus operating would be appre- Article XVI of the League Corespondents-plaintifs,
In commemoration of the birth- compared with Hong Kong, bus ciated.
re- day of George Washington, the The "Daily Telegraph", com-jun, instructed by Mr. M. A. da to-day, and a
presented by Mr. Leo d'Almada, warships in harbour were "dressed" patrons in Kowloon are poorly Again, if it be deemed in ments on the resolute spirit of gilva), ***
salvo was fired at served in some instances
public, on financial or other the Chinese, but declares that atrociously ill-served.
The next step in this case will be This grounds, for Kowloon residents Japan's overwhelming military the hearing of the appeal itself, Lowest open air temperatures on applies to time schedule, to have buses of the compare-iterates that Britain's policy muat date to be fixed.
advantages must prevail, and re- which is to be heard de nove at a Saturday and Sunday were 66 and make of buses, conduct of tively more luxurious type em- be one of non-interference but, at
58 respectively. Humidity on drivers and
Saturday at 10 am, was 68, and 72 daily condition of the vehicles. that they can expect hay, tionals. It concludes by saying conductors and ployed in Hong Kong, the least the ty of the interests of her na
safety
2.m. 68 and p.m. also In making such sweeping demand that buses run that every Power with a Treaty statement, however, we must strictly to schedule, that drivers Status in China is determined fairly concede "that our actual and conductors be given a course shall not arise whatever develop- that the necessity for evacuation experience of the green (or Kai of lessons in civility and polite-ments may arise in the local sit Tack) buses is infinitesimal com-ness, that each and every bus be uation-Reuter, pared with that on the reds and kept as clean and as free from yellows. Even so, no one would dust and dirt as is humanly pos pretend for one moment that sible, and that the obnoxions travelling by bus on the main habit of spitting he rigidly vetoed land is anything so pleasing and even though, as we suggested comfortable, as a journey on any recentl
passengere caught in of the buses operated by the the a have to be put off befo two companies In Hong Kong. they The latter the Hong Kong companies do make a serious effort to adhere to time tables? the type of vehicle is far Bu for to that employed in Kowloon
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their destinations Finally, we come to the ques-
Märes. For five cents,
to Chaukiwany
Y.M.C.A. DANCE.
IRISH ELECTIONS. and B. Sunday la vas, at 10 Government Party Not Fearing Defeat.
Mr. Cosgrave's fear of a Gov-
Dublin, Saturday,
ernment defeat. is diminishing with the latest returns, which show that Government has
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China- Mail" of
February 22, 1922.]
Today's dollar is worth 2/5%.
thirty-four against De Valera's forty-six, as Independents and working on rice junks have present- It is reported that the coolles farmers, numbering eleven, are ed a petition for a 30 per cent, In- The "Social Committee the expected to support the Govern crease in wages together with de
are, to hold a
tval ment. Dance in the New Wing on Febru- It is possible the casting vote rice loaded into steamers; that all mands that the coolles weigh "all" ary: 26, commend at 9 pm for the Presidency will lie with samples of rice be given to them
are George the Speaker.
Novelt
De Valera, replying to a crypticpropriate all rice, swee
and that they be allowed to call, cryptically to his inter employers have not yet replied
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