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MASON'S

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No. 21,2433

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 27TH, 1926 XI

叁卅百式千空萬弍第 1日八拾月睦年實丙:

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

ANI Ncom

Dep. 6,40 9,18 10.80 -11.40 12,00

[ INCOME-TAX ON A TEMPERANCE FUND.

Dep. 6,80

9,24 70,99

Dop. 7,02 9.58 10,51

Dap 7,16 9.49 11.04

7.10 718

Kowloon...

Yaxshi...

12.09.

Bastin

18.9

Taipo

1234

$8,098.04 2.4

Taipo Market

Dap. 7.21

9.53 11.08

13.59

3.00 5.18 6.06 7:48

Fanling

Bhanngahui

...Dep, 7,58 10,07 11.99

Dep. 7.82 10.09 11.18

12.43

8.11 534 639 758

1959

3.16 6.08 6.23 3,093.

Bhamchan

Arr. 7,42 | 10,19 #11,98; *12.20

1958

3.71 5,946,99 8,06

AM

Shamshan

...Top.

7.21

8,05 10,38 11.40

A.M. PA

1.56

-Skonugshai-

Fanling

7.33

Dep 701 8.12 10.35 1147 8.16 10,49 11,51 ...Dap.

Taipo Markst

Dip

8.28 10,59 12.02

Taipe

Shatin Yamah...

Kowloo

...Dopit 8:19 Am 8.20

8.30 11.01 12.07 8.43 11.17 12.41 855-1129-12,33 9.08 11.37 12.41

4.08 5.18 8.00 417 8.07 424 520 6,15 5,24 8.10 8.11 4.09 8.41 4.38 5,34 6.29 3.25

5,89 6.89 3,58

4,36 5.51 6.46 -830

5,086,08 ~6.59 2.37 1.58 5,16 6,11 7,06

STATICUMA,

7.43

Dop 7.59

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYS.

AN. A.K. E.X. F.M.

Fanling ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 2.20 6.25 "Bhataukok...Arf, 8.40 18,25 215 720

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

STATIONS

Faating

AX. EX PM PM. ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 8.30 6.25

Shatankok...Arr, 8.40 12.25 415 7.20

STAVIONI,

4.43

WEEK DAYS. Shatankot...Dep. 8.30 10.15 1.05 3.00 Tanking

...A, 7.25 11.10 200 5.35

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

AK. A FN FL

STATICK,

Bhatankok...Dep. 6.80 10.15 2,06 5,00 Fanling Art. 7.25. 11.10 8.00 -5.55

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*** LITTLE FUNDS,”* ̈·

CALCUTTA RIOTS.

ANONYMOUS ATTACKS ON LORD

LYTTON.

"F. E'S" SPIRITED DEFENCE.

LONDON, July 10th.

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號七廿月七年五十國民中

PRETTIEST GIRLS IN ENGLAND.

BIRMINGHAM A BEAUTY NURSERY.

NOTTINGHAM'S" RIVALRY.

Birmingham is not inclined to let pass unchallenged the boast of Nottingham that its girls are the prettiest io. England.

"Our city. Birmingham people will tell you, "has mere really pretty girls Per-head-of-the population-than-any- place in the country, and, apart from those to be seen in the West End of Lon-. don, no girls are more smartly dressed."

Mr. Justice Rowlatt, in the King's Bench Division, allowed the appeal of Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State the Income Tax Commissioners from a for India, delivering a speech at the decision of the Special Purposes Comdianer given by the Maharajah of Alwar mission that the fanda and objects of the at the Hotel Cecil last night, said he Temperance Council of the Christian took that opportunity to controvert the Churches of England and Wales were attacks made upon Lord Lytton in con- charitable, and the Commissioners must nection with the Calcutta" disturbances. return to the council taxes upon in-

Lord Lytton had the responsibility of terest and dividenda-which had been-de-governing one of the great-Presidencies-This claim, one-is-told-does-not-spring ducted at source for the Commissioners of India in critical days. Although he

Mr. Justice Rowlatt observed that there (Lord Birkenhead) was had been a case in the courts to decide whether the training of spiritualistic mediums might be a charity, but there were objects the benevolent and charitable nature of which could never be in ques tion-the dogs' home, for instance.

Sir Douglas.--One has often beard there is a large fund in the possession of in the presence of a politician" for Liberal principles. Supposing on, the approaching dissolution of the Liberel Party-

The Judge. I was going to put a similar question, only I thought the indelicacy of it was too great.

** THESE LITTLE TUNDE.”

not Lord

Lytton's colleague in the gravest days of all, he had been his colleague in periods which had not been free from anxiety.

Continuing, Lord Birkenhead' said: "I make it perfectly plain that the Governorship of Lord Lytton, assisted as it has been by the charming lady who shared all his anxieties, has been one of great distinction.

i

COWARDLY AND ANONYMOUS. * "One of the newspapers, I bardly re- was the member which I think it Morning Post-published a cowardly anonymous attack upon him in relation to the recent disturbances in Calcutta. Sir Douglas-Supposing, on the ap- I wish to make it publicly plain that proaching dissolution of the Liberal both the Viceroy and myself, who know Party, your lordship should be asked to all the circumstances, are prepared to settle a claim for the sequestration of sustain Lord Lytton if any attack upon Mr. Lloyd George's fund, and decide him should any one be so-foolish-be whether it should go in support of Con-made in the Houses of Parliament. servative or Socialistic principles, could

the court be asked to treat it as a charity?

..

IRRESPONSIBLE ABUSE,

"I know the whole history of the The Judge Mr. Attorney, I have al-Calcutta disturbances. This attack upon a man who was charged with respon. ways lived in hopes of seeing the day sibility in connection with them and who when the Attorney-General would come for a period of more than four years has into the court with an application for held aloft the colours, alike of India the charitable administration of these and the British Empire, this attack was little funda

_made_without any knowledge of fact to

*

Mr. Justice Rowlatt, giving judgment,pport it. said the case was the first to come before

It means that he had been made the the Court under the Finance Act of 19 target of irresponsible, cowardly abuse. It did not go to the Divisional Court in anyone in the House of Lords attacks the old, way. Legialation constituted the

my noble friend, I will reply, and greater part of the field contemplated by don't think he will repeat the attack." the promoters of the society, he added, but the word politics did not necessarily mean party politics.

"The ancient and honourable term,” said the judge, has been degraded by ita clase nasociation with the word politician."

This council, he added, was instituted mainly to effect changes in the law. Whether they were wise or unwise, ns to be pursued on party lines or otherwise, wholly immaterial. This was a class of purpose which it was impossible to hold was a charitable purpose, and therefore he must allow the appeal with costs.

FLAME OF PATRIOTISM.

U.S. MEMORIAL TO BRITISH WAR

PRISONERS.

A window in memory of the British prisoners of war who died in Germany, presented to Westminster Abbey by Mr. J. W. Gerard, American Ambassador i Berlin from 1913 to 1917, has been dedic- ated by the Dean (Dr. Foxley Norris) at a service in the Abbey. The window has been placed on the north side of the nave. Mr. Gerard could not attend but, through the medium of Mr. Houghton, $600,000 INCREASED REVENUE FOR the American Ambassador in London,

MALACCA, FINANCE. .

YEAR 1925.

delivered a message in-which he said:

This window is dedicated to those of my wards who made a sacrifice as great as did those who fell fighting on the field of battle, and who, in captivity, showed themselves to be Christian_gentlemen as well as patriots.

The financial report on the Settlement of Malares for 1925 states that the re- "venue" was "83,558,485.19 an increase of nearly $800,000 on that of 1924. Tots figure has only been exceeded twice in

Mr. Houghton said that it had been 1920 (4,587,978) and 1919 (3,899,633). "Mr. Gerard's duty to visit the prison The following items showed large in camps where British soldiers were in creases, Licences over 500,000 and Fost terned. Thus he came to know these Telegraphs, nearly 40,000.

men in all their humanity, and above all to honour the white and shining spirit of patriotism which animated them and burned like a flame.

Beats on Government properties show ed a nominal decrease of $42,000 but this was entirely due to the large amount of arrears of rent recovered in 1994. Land Sales show a decrease of $28,000.

The expenditure amounted to $2,238,303.09 en increase of $147,000 over 1924. Personal Emoluments increased $37,000 owing to increases in the Establ lishments of various departments and incremental schemes. Other Charges increased by about the same figure.

Military Expenditure decreased by Drill Hall and Sergeant Major's Quar- ters was debited. A large increase for Miscellaneous Services was due to the new Water Supply Scheme.

HEIRS TO £12,000 TRACED.

CANADIAN RELATIVES OF A

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ham points proudly to proofs merely from local patriotism; Birming

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Which city or town is the most fruitful recruiting ground for the beauty choruses 15, Quixx's ECAD CENTRAL, TEL. 75 CENTRAL of the revues? The answer one receives is Birmingham, and, as the clinching Argument, Birmingham points out that the marriage age of its girls is the lowest in the country, thus proving that their charms are such that it is impossible for midland men to resist them for any length of time."

A Birmingham artist states that he found it much easier to find the right kind of pretty gas models in Bir- mingham than London, in spite of London's colony of professional models. added, "is not only pretty but has a "The average Birmingham girl," he

fine figure, and I certainly strongly dis agree with the Nottingham assertion that Birminghüm girls' bands and feet are too large. I have never noticed it."

The manager of one of the city's largest shoe stores suggested that the Notting- ham canard, as he called it, about the size of Miss Birmingham's feet possibly arote from the fact that Birmingham girls were the best shod in the country.

.

SHOE FASHIONS.

said, certainly makes the foot look a The latest pointed-toe fashion," he little larger than it actually is, and if Nottingham girls are still wearing last season's models" He left the sentence unfinished; the deduction was so obvious. I learn, moreover, from the shop- keepers, that the average size of glove sold in Birmingham is a six, compared with an average size in most towns of xlx and a half, and on the figure question generally, Mr. James Kilgour, manager of the Hippodrome Variety Theatre here, asserted that he considered the Birming

ham figure the most lithesome he had

Been.

"Once," "he confessed, "I thought there was nothing to beat the girls of Newcastle-on-Tyne, but when I came to Birmingham I changed my mind."

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BOOM IN BRITISH TYPE- WRITERS.

SWEDEN-ORDERS 1,007

The boom in British typewriters, which the King started in February when, at the British Industries Fair, White City, W., he condemned the use of foreign- made machines in Government offices, has exceeded the most optimistic expects- Lions.

The Imperial Typewriter Company, of Leicester, which has just received an order for 1,000 machines for the Swedish Telegraph Department, has more than doubled its plaat.

Mr. Mawle, the export sales manager;

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840,000 in 1991 the cost of the New announced that owing to publicity in the well as a Government order from Tangan Canitine under the personal-supervision-of-

"MONOPOLIES! -

Dr. F. J. Waldo, London City coroner,

newspapers, relatives had been traced of the late Mr. Frederick W. Jones, a account collector for fifty years in the service of Messrs. Waterlow and Sons, on whom he recently held an inquest.

Mr. Jones, who was fatally injured by a horse and van near the Mansion

The London sales manager of British Typewriters, Ltd., said that his fire could not extend their plant quickly-enough-to cope with the increasing demand

The typewriter industry is

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The revenue derived from the sale of chandu was $1,050,388 as against House, lived in a miserly manner in a paratively new one in England," he add 81.263.424 in 1924. Liquor and Tobacco small cottage in Parnell-read, Old Ford, ed, and we have to train our mechanics. Duties amounted to £237,875 and E: He would allow no one to enter his Our production has increased by more 8310,963 respectively as against $140,903 and 8155,872 in 1924. Toddy Shop Bent 100m. After his death valuable securi- than 200 per cent."

ties were found hidden, and he left be showed an increase of $18,730 over the tween £10,000 and £12,000. previous year although five less shops

Mr. Cross, the coroner's officer, said were licensed. Thirty-two thousand five hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents that a firm of solicitors had been ag vas collected in Stampa Fees under the proached by a woman living in Wake Chandu, Liquors Revenue and Tobacco field, who stated that she was the widow of the dead man's brother, who died in Winnipeg in 1913. Her children, a boy and a girl, were in Winnipeg. There was no doubt that the children were the

Revenue Ordinances.

There were 77 prosecutions instituted and 84 convictions were obtained. Sixty sir prosecutions were under the Liquor Ordinance, most of them for being in next of kin. possession of dutiable liquor and ap-Dr. Waldo said that he had received paratus for distilling liquor: the fines.many letters from people named Jones, were only realised in a few cases.

Living in different parts of the country,

FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICES. The Bar-Lock Typewriter Co. has had to double its output to meet the steady increase in orders. A few days ago they received an order for 100 machines from London firm, and they are supplying machines to Government offices in large numbers.

The Speaker (at a special meeting for working men): Rarely, indeed, have I heen, privileged to address-er-so many tons of soil 1”.

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