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1.-Will Holders of Bathing Hatshed per mita kindly sand into the Undersigned, on er before the 431D DAY OF JUNE, 1928, Answers to the following Questions--

(a)-What is the Licence Number of

your Bathing Matshed and where is it situated?

(b)-To what extent is your Matshed

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(Sa) W. SCHOFIELD. Hon. Secretary,

BATHING BEACHES COMMITTEE, Post Office Building,

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NOTICE.

GENERAL THE HALF-YEARLY

MEETING of MEMBERS will be held in the JOCKEY Cres Boox, HONGKONG CLUB ANNEX, on MONDAY, 21st JUNE, 1926, at

6.15 F..

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By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary,

ON SALE.

HONGKONG HANBARD REPORTS

of the MEETINGS

COUNCIL for

Revised by Members,

LEGISLATIVE

Besica 1925.

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THE DE nterested in SAFE DEPOSIT, that thay bare actually in their New Building. 5, QUELK'S ROAD, SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES at the Yearly Rate of for the Small Size and $12 for the Large Siza.

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carry the British Gazette by aeroplans all over the Kingdom. The act of taking over the Morning Post offices and plant Cabinet Minuto

Becauso, his father reprimanded hi for having spent 60 on a new Panama hat, Yen Hel Lin, a student in Wuchong, took his life by swallowing poison.

Mr. Hetling, the Dutch aviator, who has been conducting passenger fights over Shanghai for the past three weeks, has reduced bis fees from $20 to $10,

Mr. Jabin Hau, a well-known Chineso newspaperman of Shanghai, has beent

MONDAY, JUNE 21ST. 1926

The trouble started in the office of the Daily Mail where the men engaged in the mechanical departments objected to the pinions and the tone of the leading was confirmed by a article. They demanded that the article signed by Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL (who. should be altered or omitted. Naturally by the way, began his career as a news Mr. paper correspondent) and he becahue, the editor refused to comply. BALDWIN, on being informed of the nominally, the Editor.

By dint of enquiries and good luck a incident, regarding it as an "overt act," to wo his own words, and thereupon few linotype operators were secured; also broke off negotiations with the T.U.Car experienced master printer, and a appointed editor of the English edition The latter promptly disclaimed respon mechanical engineer able to run the of the Far Eastern Times of Tiontain. sibility. They declared that the "overt great rotary presses. On the frat night Mr. Eliot Sharp and Mr. Jim Harri- not" was done without their knowledge it was necessary to leave the two inside son, of the staff of The Japan Advertizer, But subsequently the fact pages of the paper blank, but on the Tokyo, have arrived in Peking on their tour around the world. They were to omorged that similar incidents had occur- next night all four were filled with nową. red at the same hour in the offices of Thereafter the British Gazette was im- leave Peking for Shanghai við Dairen, the Daily Telegraph and other Londoc proved until it contained a tolerably en route to India. WHISKY papers, so that the conclusion is irresist- good selection of news about the strike,

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A telegram from London announced able that the attack on the freedom of the business of Parliament, world-opinion the marriage at St. Martin's in the

of Britain under the supreme ordeal sho | Fields, London, of Mrs. Stephen, widow. the Press was premeditated.

was forced to undergo, and other intelli-of the late Chief Manager of the Hong- gence of absorbing interest to readers in kong and Shanghai Bank, to Dr. every part of the country who were Eduard Birt, of Shanghai, hungry for the truth, and wore in need of facts to correct the wicked rumours that were spread abroad with the object of causing disaffection towards King and Country.

It was part of a concerted plan of campaign. The instigators of the General Striko might declare-and they did so with "damned iteration" as FALSTAFF Bays-that it was called regarding a trade dispute concerning the miners; but the evidence was patent for all the world to see that this statement was faise, and that the strike was political and not economic. Freedom of the Press is the aurest bulwark of liberty in any country; the unfettered expression of opinion is the force really feared by the enemies of democratic government; and, there fore, when the misguided fanatics who challenged Parliamentary government in Britain and disclosed themselves as re- volutionaries by Bring their first shot against the Press, they were historically true to typo.

Somerset Maughan upon his roturn to England from his six-months' trip to Bornco, Siam and Indo-China, said: "I back with three bronze have come Buddhas," and with sufficient material to keep me occupied in writing plays, books and stories for the next ten years."

The success achieved was astounding, and gonded the T.U.C., and their ex-

As. Mr. Justice Wood was proceeding tremist friends to madness. Around the Morning Post building in the Strand to the Civil Servico Cricket Club on were guards of policemen sad special Saturday afternoon a splinter struck him constables, and admission was only to in the eye, as he was passing some stone be obtained by a pass. The office of the breaking operations near Morrison Hill paper was like a boleaguered fortress. Mr. Woed was unable to play tennis, and The key mea-the men who understood had to return home for immediate treat- the linotypes and the printing machines ment. -never left the premises at all; they

An old woman newspaper hawker was wore too precious to step outside into a wicked world. By the time the strike fined 3 at the Central Magistracy on It is to the credit of British journalism ended after ten days the circulation of Saturday for causing an obstruction in that the design of the T.U.C, was the paper had risen to over 2,000,000 Jackson Road, near the Hongkong Club. speedily, frustrated. The Daily Mail sent copies daily, which shews what can be The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolle, 0.8.P., an editorial staff to the Paris office where done when Englishmion put their backs was the complainant. His car had prac a Continental, edition has been printed into a job that at the outset seems beyond tically run into her, as she was crossing for many years, and from the French a human possibility of achievement: In the road. capital the paper was produced every this way the most formidable attempt morning while the strike lasted. Hall a that has yet been made to cripple the million copies were brought over daily freedom of the Press and withhold that when a native passonger boat re by aeroplanes and distributed in: Groot essential nows from the public was

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The name of the International Petro-

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A Police report on Saturday stated

fused to stop in the Harbour, when signalled to do so by the police, the vessel was fred at, and one man on board was killed. The man's name is given d Lam Cheung Lan and he is described as " a pig dealer..

Lilian Tong, the eleven-year old leum Co., Ltd., has been struck off the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tong Shao Register of Companies,

produced in small printing offices situated in London, in similar office in the Midlands, and in the West of England. These strike editions consisted at first of one sheet printed on both sides. Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express, and most of the other London papers made gallant efforts to come out with make-shift journals, and did so with access under extraordinary difficulties. At first they consisted of single sheets of icolzoap size, typewritten, and produced

A final dividend of one per cent. has BIRT-STEPHEN.-On June 14th, at St. on multigraph machines as business firms

Martin-in-the-Fields, London, Dr. are accustomed to print circulars. Con-been declared with regard to Messra, EDUARD BIRT, to MARGHERITA STELLA, sidered merely as news summaries, they Hawthorne & Pearson, formerly of St. widow of Mr.. A. G. STEPHEN.' WHITAMORE-MILEY. On June 7th, at the deserve to bo preserved and studied by George's Building,

BIRTH. Jons-On June 16th at the Victoria Nursing Home, Bhanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. JOHN, daughter (HELEN MARGARET).

MARRIAGES. -

Alterations in

house numbers' in

Nathan Road (825 to 700), Jordan Road, and Ying Fai Terruce, are notified in the Government Gazette.

Yi, who was ao popular with visitors to hor. father's house, Rango Road, Shang- hai, died on the 13th inst. from a com- plication after measles. The body was

taken to the Cantonese Guild before being buried at Tongkawan, Kwangtung. As the Star Ferry's Golden Star was crossing the harbour at 0 p.m. on Satur

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British Consulate-General, Tientsin, very young man who desires to learn Further life saving demonstrations day, an elderly Chinese passenger jump. and afterwards at the American the art of literary compression. Thus the were given by members of the St. John cd into the water in an attempt to Military Chapel, R. A. WhitaMore

Ambulance Brigade at the North Point

Mr. Merriman, to SALLY MILEY, aister of Captain days went by, and the afforts of the pro-and Kennedy Town bathing beaches on commit suicide.

warder in Victoria Gaol, jumped into prietors of the big dailies to bring out Saturday afternoon. MILEY, of the 15th U.S. Infantry.

the water immediately and with the help DEATHS.

larger papers giving the public news at Small

H.E. the Governor in Council has of two of the crew effected a rescue. The 6t, greater length wore successful.

ordered that the Christian Chinese Ceme man was removed to the Kwong Wah KENNELLEY-On June 15th, at

Joseph's Presbytery, Shanghai, Rev. papers of four pages were printed and ery, Kowloon City, known as Now Kow. Hospital. MARTIN KENNELLEY, S.J.

dispatched by motor-cars and aeroplanes loon Inland Lot No. 18, shall be closed TOSCANI.-On June 16th, as Beochew, all over the Kingdom; and these diminu- from and after July 1st.

PAOLO, beloyed and only child of Mr.

and Mrs. T. TOSCANI, aged 10 months, tiva sheets were in turn succeeded by

Hospital, DELMIRA ALVAREB XAVISH,

Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Road, London Office 181, Fleet Street, RO

The Daily Press.

Boxoxo, June 2ler, 1926.

A TRIUMPH FOR: BRITISH JOURNALISM.

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Tira Home mails arrived on Saturday, The is. Katari Maru brought 20 bags of

mail via the same route. Her total mail was 20 bags, which consisted of Japan and Bhanghai letters and papers. The ... Alipoli brought 107 bags of mail, 89 bags of which wore from the United Kingdom vid Negapatam (dated London, May 20th).

A meeting of the Licensing Board will be held in the Council Chamber next Falling from a height of sixteen feet, Saturday, at noon, for the purpose of XAVIER-On June 10th, at Kowloon four-page papers of the normal size. while at work on a ship, & Chinese fitter, considering the following application daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. While the London papers were carrying employed at Taikoo dockyard, has been under the Liquors Consolidation Ordin- for a publican's licence to retail inotxi- XAVIER, aged one year and one on the fight against tyrannical aggres-admitted to the Government Civil Hosance, 1911: From Joseph Louis Durand-

pital with a fractured skull.

cating liquors at the premises situated at inonth. (Macao and Shanghail'siou, we are glad to record that jour. papers please copy).

nalism in the Provinces also rose to the Members of the Hongkong Jockey Club No. 12, Pedder Street (Pedder Building)

sign

Cafe Resturau are reminded that the ball-yearly meet under occasion and refused to be suppressed ing will be held to-day at 6.15 p.m. The Parisien." by the T.U.C.The Yorkshire Post, for lists for subscription griffins for Doxt instance, came out every morning during senson close also to-day at at 4 p.m. the strike with four large pagos; other

A collision between a motor-car and a letters and papers (London, May 27th) famous papers also contrived to appear public ricksha occurred on. Friday nearvil Siberia and 0 bags of Continental more or less successfully; and many of the Naval Yard maiu gate. The car was the country weeklies published special driven by Mrs. Chater, wife of Surgeon Captain Chater, R. N. The ricksha was editions overy day and gave the public a damaged. most creditable service of trustworthy.

E.E. the Governor has appointed, pro- intelligence.

visionally and subject to His Majesty's Probably the most picturesque adven- pleasure, Mr. D. G. M. Bernard to be

Thomas MacGowan, late manager of ture in journalism during this stirring an Unofficial Member of the Legislative period was the foundation in the short Council in place of the late Mr. P. H. the Robinson Piano Co, Tientsin, who was convicted and sentenced to twelve Holyoak.

months' imprisonment in connection with space of a day and a night of a new daily' ONE of the effects of the General Strike paper, The British Garette. We cannot The name of Dr. Tanng Fuk Cho, 81, the Tientsin arms case recently, arrived Des Voeux Road, Central, 2nd floor, in Shanghai by the Jardine's steamer, at home has been to enhance the position here tell the story in detail, but it ought Hongkong, Bachelor of Medicine and Lieathing from Tientsin in charge of a of the Press in the estimation of the not to go unrecorded. At the suggestion Bachelor of Burgery of the University of Sikh hasildar, die wat met upon arrival Police Station and taken to Amoy Road- public. The frat act of the Trades of the Editor of the Morning Post the Hongkong, has been added to the let of by Inspector Mookansie of Hongkow

Government commandeered the offices of medical practitioners,

Gaol under escort... Union Congress in their bid for power that paper hd essayed the Herculean Sir. Reginald Stubbe, the Governor of the

Mr. J. H. Taggart, Managing Director, was the attempted suppression of the task of printing and publishing a four of Hongkong, in accopting an address NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

newspappre... It will be recalled that the page strike, bulletin daily. The idea of from the residents of Kingston, Jamaica, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Is given in the

T.U.C., assumed full responsibility for getting the Government to lend a hand promised, to encourage the idea of local Ltd. Mr. W. J. Hawkor, joint manag self-government, as a means of promoting ing-director, and Mr. J. P. Bourne, HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS,

the miners case, and while negotiations in the great game of boating the toes of the efficient management of civic affair. superintendent, were the guests of honour at Chinese dinner at the Tea Woo with which is mcorporated

were still proceeding between them and opinion was brilliant, since it solved the

problem of distribution which handicap Among the students called to the Bar Restaurant, Wost Point, on Saturday at the Inns of Court in April were: night, given by the hotel staff. Each THE CHINA OVERLAND the Government that is to say,... before

pod all other nowspapers. The circula Lincoln's Inn: Mr. King Seen Kum, guest was presented with a Chinese TRADE REPORT."

it could be said the efforts to find a way tion of the latter was restricted because B.A. LL.B., Harvard University Inner embroidered scroll. The hope was ex- Temple: Mr. M. T. Tin, St. Peter's, pressed that Mr. Taggart would benefit out of the dark forest of controversy had of the hold-up of the railwaye but the Cambridge; Gray's Iun: Mr. K. Cantlis, from his forthcoming holiday, and con- Bubscription, paid in advance 18 failed the Unions controlling the workers Government had the resources of the M.A., Aberdeen University; and Mr. gratulations were extended to

Hawker on his recent promotion. annum for delivery in Hongkong eluding in the printing trade came out on strike Royal Air Force at their command to Tom Na Banong, Oxford University. Postade to any the

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