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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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NEW TERRITORIES Will B OPENED TO TRAFFIC on SATURDAY, the 2ler AUGUST. Caution should be Ex ercised on the OASTAL ROAD 4 Saveral Portions of which are Still Under Rapsir, E. D. WOLFE Capt. Supt. of Police

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B. THOMPSON, ADTERTHING & PUBLICITY EURZIU, 4th Floor, Alexandra Buildings.

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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF THE

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PROPERTY

WEST.

Sitante at Victoria, Hongkong, and known sa

No. 806, QUEEN'S ROAD erected-upon-T82_REMAINING POR TION OF INLAND LOT No. 1659, TO BE SOLD BI

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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WEDNESDAY, THE 25TH DAY or AUGUST,

1926, AT 3 O'CLOCK P.M.,

AT THE

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS,

INTIMATIONS.

THE

DEWAR'S

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY

AUGUST 2187, 1926

In regard to the piracy of the s Hoi Fan it has now been ascertained thas the total lost amounted to $80,000, Most of it was comprised of cargo. One of the mail bags was ala alit open and the contents tampered with.

**** The Chinese student who has been to U.S.A. or Europe feels he has gained in stature, having established his right to be considered an authority on Western ways. Yet in some respects the expert ence, though achieved at great cost and at much personal sacrifice, though it The .. Szechulen was due yesterday furnishes the mind with valuable informa with Home and Europe mail vid Siberis, tion, must inevitably end in disillusion and also Shanghai mail, but was delay. meat. The journey across the world for ed and the mail will not now be avail- the British removes any sense of in-ble until to-day. She will bring a total mail of 275 bags, of which 15 bags is 91fariority which may have been experi from the United Kingdom.

enced while at home where it is con- sidered the proper thing to shout in chorus that the country is going to the dogs. The travelled Chinese, on the other hand, finds no evidence that the high opinion entertained by Chinese

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A selection of gramophone records were broadcasted by the Hongkong Radio Society between seven and eight o'clock last evening. The selections were varied and all the records were Victor make, being supplied by Messrs. Moutrie and

purpose of broadcasting.

SCOTCH WHISKY their own country is shared by others. Co., for the

OF GREAT AGE.

AWARDED 50 GOLD. AND

PRIZE MEDALS.

DEWAR'S

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THE VERY FINEST OLD

No. 4, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, BONGKONG, SCOTCH WHISKY

BY

MR. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer,

The Property consists of:

All That Piece or Parcel of Grennd situate at Victoris aforensic registered in the land Office as THE REMAINING PORTION or ONLAND LOT No. 18, together with No. Brected 606, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST thereon. The Property is held for the Unex- pired Residue of Term of 75 years from the 18th NovEMBEA, 1900 (Renewable for Oner Farther Term of 75 years) created by an Indenture of Crown Lee daw the 945 DECEMBER 1901, and made between His LATE MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII of the one part and WOO YIU NAM and TSUI WAN KWAL of the other part. Annual Crown Rent: $16.00. Ares: 739 square feet.

For further Particulars, Apply to-

13. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER. Mortgageer Solicitors,

OR TO

MR. E V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer.. Hongkong. 14k August, 1926.

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As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.

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whose ignorance of any of their achieve-' ments is generally complete. He ands

Prof. J. Anderson, of the Hongkong Uni- an indifference if not entirely wrong ideasversity, and Dr. Arthur Woo were passen. with regard to the Chinese ways of life.sers on the 3.8. Empress of dria which Above all, he is impressed with the reign left Hongkong on Thursday for the North. They will represent Hongkong of law and order, the higher standard of

at the joint conference of the China. living, the higher level of education, the

Medical Association and British Medical use of machines in place of men to do Association at Peking. lowly work of life. He finds that the individual life is important.

Cheng Sau Chin, an unemployed Chi hisnese, was fined $100 by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy yester day morning, for treating a small ser. vant girl. The evidence showed that the girl had been cruelly beaten by her rattan cane, inflicting

The only sure fact the foreigner got hold of about the Chinese is that they are a prolife race, that by their very numbers and low plane of living they are an economic menace to those coun master with a tries to which they might migrate if persevere injuries to various parts of her mitted. Hence the immigration laws and body,

TRAGIC DEATH.

· NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST ELECTROCUTED.

WELL-KNOWN LOCAL SWIMMER.

It is learned that Mr. CM. McDonald, editor of the China Mail, is recovering from the effects of an accident while on his way Home on leave. He was a passenger on the La. Largs Bay, Enter ing the Gulf of Aden, the ship was in a heavy seas and Mr. McDonald was thrown so badly that he broke two ribs

The death occurred yesterday, under near the spine. The heat and pain were very trying, but recovery was quick, and tragic circumstances, of Leading Tele- Mr. McDonald on July 15th expected to graphist Leonard Carling, of Submarine

Carline met his death while attending go ashore at Fort Said. He is now in London. ·

to some batteries on board the submarine, F.M.T. Neuralia with the 2nd when he was electrocuted. "He was able KO.S.B. and 23rd H. Battery for to ask someone to turn off the current, Hongkong and drafts of Malaya and and then collapsed. He died within-half- North and South China, will leave s Southampton on September 17th being By his terribly sudden death the Navy dus in Singapore on October 17th and has lost one of its finest swimmers. Hongkong on October ind.

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return with the 1st East Surrey for During his two and a half years in the India, the eth H. Battery for Singa-Colony he had won numerous prizes, and pore and details from China for United only a few weeks ago he secured many Kingdom and will take details from in the aquatic sports of H. M.S. Ambrose. Malaya, being due Home again no December 13th

Carline was not only well known in the Nary, but also to most of the members of the V.R.C., and to all the water polo players in the Colony.

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He was a native of Manchester, and

in the Autumn.

..Mr. J. W. Lee, the member of the Canton staff of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, whose death from cholera was recorded in Thursday's Daily Press, is was due to go home with the next draft survived by his father, Mr. John Lee, of

The funeral will probably take place No. 1, Ventris Road, Kowloon, a police pensioner, who is probably the oldest this evening at Happy Valley. European in Hongkong. Mr. John Lee arrived in Hongkong in August, 1864, (just before the arrival of the late Sir Paul Chater) joining the police force the same year. He is now 3 yeaza of age and lives with his wife in Ventrie Road. The late Mr. J.-W. Leo was their fifth and youngest child, and the couple bave survived them all.

the various disabilities, imposed upon The circular road in the New Terri- them. The returned student is either tories, which as been closed since the denacionalised or disillusioned because he heavy rain-storm of July 18th, will be realises the immeasurable gulf, between re-opened to-day. This means that the Oriental and Occidental ways. He re-road to Castle Peak and going completely turns having had his eyes opened to the around the New Territories will now b

available. Motorists, however, arc asked YESTERDAY'S TYPHOON NEWS AND great difference between the value set

FORECAST. upon China by the Chinese themselves, to proceed with caution over the repaired

and the esteem in which she is held abroad. This fact is not shouted at: him, but is quietly but firmly borne in upon

parts.

Dr. C. Bennett, a well known medical man in the Far East, has been appoipted

him, by the contrasts in everyday life resident physician and superintendent at the Shanghai General Hospital "Dr. which he notes between the two systems-Bennett, succeeding to the post-vacant The discovery merely awakens at first the by the death of he late Dr. J. B. Fearn, WATSON sense of inferiority and then an intense has until recently been the Port Health hatred of that which has caused the Officer at Woosung. He assumeed his CO., LTD. awakening. He soon learns that the new duties at the General Hospital on

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APPLICATIONS US and Y ENGLAND-RING.-At the Peak Church,

of in HA MAY INSTITUTE. Hongkong. Applications should he made in Writing to the HUN. SECRETARY. c/o HELENA MAY INSTITUTE Not Later Than AUGUST 31ST.

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Monday, August Teth.

Despite rumours concerning aa out. break of cholera in the Colony. It has been ascertained that no case of cholera locally-acquired has been notified to the raedical authorities. The only case im- ported into Hongkong since August 8th is that of Lieut. Berry R.N., commander of A.M.S. Faulkner. He was brought from the Canton River on Thursday, an. is at present a patient in the Royal Naval Hospital.

privilege granted, to China of inflicting wrong on foreigners is not due to fear of the power of that country but partly to the tolerance and indulgence of Hospital, to HILDA, wife of ETDNEY Western Powers; to war weariness and to the fact that there is mutual jealousy MARRIAGE.

those Powers. The last thing such Hongkong, on August 19th. ARTHUR immunity is due to is China's own military RONALD, third son of W. ENGLAND.

The case of the of E. Yorks, to BARBARA, second or naval, prowess. daughter of L. H. KING, 372. The Chinese student, who, after several years of life in Western universities, returns to see corruption and inefficiency rampant

A consigament of arms, comprising in his own country and feels that he is 1,000 machine guns, 75,000 Mauser pistols helpless to stem the tide," is there and about two million rounds of ammuni- fore perhaps one for sympathy and under- tion is stated to have been seized by the standing rather than

Canton authorities on board a vessel pear condemnation. Human nature, being what it is, bitter- the village of Foo Moon in the Canton ness and hatred of the foreigner, as we

river a few days ago. There are various have said, seem inevitable in the majority reports as to the object of smuggling such a large quantity of arms into Canton, but of instances. How can we prevent an

in some "quarters it is stated that they **inferiority complex" from producing were destined for "counter-revolution- such results. That is a problem to the lists.!! solution of which Western teachers might profitably devote more attention.

Hongkong Office: 14. Chater Road, London Office: 181, Fleet Street, EC."

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HONGAOND AUGEST ST, 1926.

450 THE RETURNED STUDENT.

Plus taxes 450

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Mr. J. Hansell, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Sungei Patani, has been transferred to Singapore.

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The death occurred at the General Hospital, Singapore, on the 12th inst. of Captain Frederick James Stack, who was a well-known figure in shipping circles. The late Captain Stack, who was 60 years of age, came up from Australia twenty years ago and took charge of one of the ships operated by the Ho Hong Steam-

A Chinese was sentenced to three ship Company. Twelve years ago be months hard labour at the Central joined the Straits Steamship Company Magistracy yesterday for causing grievous and was in the Kinta when he retired ten bodily harm to two others with a chopper." months ago on account of health.

THE WEATHER.

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LOST A WATCH?

TWO WALTHAMS SAVED FROM PAWNSHOP.

CHINESE SENTENCED-

It would appear; from a case before Major C. Willson at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday morning, that two Ameri- can Waltham gold wrist watches are now in the hands of the police awaiting claim- ants.

One watch has the makers' name on the dial and is complete with a flexible Yesterday's weather repofte regarding band. The other, slightly smaller, which the typhoon read as under 1-

has hooks, designed for use either za a 10.44 a.m.-Typhoon of unknown inter-wrist or pocket watch, may be the valued sity within 60 miles of Lat. Jedeg. N., possession of some person, whose initials Long, 110deg. N., moving N.W.

appear in woven characters at the back -10.55.Pressure baa decreased

(decipherable-as-E.C.S.C.-), the date April. slightly over S.W. China and increased 10th, 1917, on the inside of the back cover, slightly over Formoss and the Philippines.and the makers' name and number (Wal- It is nearly stationary elsewherre.

tham, U.S.A., 188755) on the works..... The typhoon appears to be crossing These watches were found in the posses. Hainan in NW direction-It-may-besion of a young Chinese who visited a filling up.

pawnshop at time when Sergeant Brittain and a detective were there making investigations in another case. In answer to a charge of unlawful posses- sion, defendant stated that he purchissed

[Note: The position indicated in this warning is almost directly over Hainan Island, of the coast of Kwangtung. In stead of going North as indicated yester. day, the depression has moved towards the West. The locality is still outside the 300 miles radiun.]

A cable warning received by the local American Consulate from Manila at 12.30 a.m. stated:—

Typhoon in about 110deg. Long.. E., 18deg. Lat. N., moving N.W. Cyclone or typhoon E.S.E. of Naha, moving N.E. or E.N.L

The weather report, forecast, and remarks, issued by the Observatory at 5.30 last evening, read:-

The typhoon appears to be in about Lat. 20deg., and Long: 109deg., moving N.N.W. or filling up.

Local forecast: S.W. winds moderate fine to showery..

POSSESSION OF ARMS.

SENTENCES METED OUT AT KOWLOON.

Mr. J. H. E. Nihill and Major C. Willsor sat together at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon to try

two possession of arms cases.

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the smaller of the watches in Shanghai and the other from a local shop. An em ployee of the latter shop refuted this statement in evidence.

His Worship was not satisfied with the explanation and sentenced defendant to three weeks" bard labour. Order was made for the watches to be held by the police pending claimants,

LADY MOND'S JEWELS.

MELCHET COURT BURGLARY.

A £5,000 HAUL.

Jewellery to the value of £5,000 was stolen carly on July 17th from Melchet Court, Romsey, near Southampton, the Hampshire residence of Sir Alfred Mond, M.P.

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Lady Mood retired about midnight the previous day and entered her dressing room about 12.30 to draw the curtain. The jewels were then in the room,

Early next morning a maid who took In one case three Chinese were charged. Lady Mond a cup of tea remarked to This was a sequel to the action of her:-"I suppose you put your jewels Sergt. Kennedy and Inspector Stimson, away." of Yaumati, who, aeting-on-information The loan was then discovered. One side. that on the night of August 11th a rob of the window of the dressing room was bery was planned by a band consisting open, and the doors were unlocked. of four Chinese, at Ngau Tau Kok, Hanging from the window fastening was visited the place at 8 pm. Three men a long towel About eft. below the were arrested in consequence and a fourth window is a roof to part of the ground escaped. Shots were bred at the fugitive, floor at the back of the mansion.

Flats $100/195 THE" inconvenience and sacrifice the average Chinese student is prepared to *** 8156/174

make in order to secure Western educa $ 15/140 ...8127/174 tion is in many cases truly remarkable.

$140.50

He will, for example, cheerfully risk a $218/340

journey from far Szechuan, involving 12 days in a chair during which he may receive the attention of bandits and be held to ransom, then a perilous journey down the rapids from Chungking. to lchang and, finally, after much delay, he will reach Shanghai or Hongkong for the advanced courses of study. No student ia Europeia-called upon to face such Mess Carroll Bros. bave been ad- The Hongkong Amustments, Ltd., are difficulties in the pursuit of knowledge,vised that the Raub Australian Gold following a week of first grade pictures yet so great is his thirst for the latest Mining Co., Ltd. has declared & final at the Queen's Theatre by presenting at dividend of 1 per share for the year that Theatre to-morrow (Sunday) for first

The stolen articles, include a pearl necklace, platinum end diamond ring. ideas that the Chinese student williBending March, 1926, making a total of 2-screening Maurice Tourneur's great theil bat his pursuers soon lost track of him.]

in the dark. endures all the dangers and discomforts

platinum ring set with two diamonds and for the year

ler, Torment," The plot of this picture

After evidence had been given, two of a cluster of emeralds a gold ring set. that such travel inflicta, in the belief that

Linges upon the great earthquako, at there is something to be gained which

Yokohama, and the story to deal with the defendants were sentenced to four will compensate him for all his trouble.

the torment of greed, the torment of leve, cars hard labour; while the other de ADVERTISEMENTS.

Though he is willing to spend four or occurred shortly after birth. The funeral blending. together and making a

and the torment of disaster all the themes fendant, was remanded, as he stated he

wished to call a witocas. TO LET From

First September, Eve weeks in order to achieve his object took place at Happy Valley on, Thursday wonderful entertainment. It is a First

In the other case, a man and a woman STOW FORD "No." 46, "Bonham" "ROAD, Three Stories Sir Roods, Five Bath in China, his real Mecca is Europe or afternoon.

Rooms, Kitchen, Servants Quarters-Apply America, the places where the knowledge

National super-production, and stars were charged in connection with the Owen Moore and Bessie Love. Another possession of two revolvera and ammuni- to DEACONE, Prince's Building, [195

A rifle and 10 rounds of ammunition attraction to-morrow night will be Miss tion. The arms were found under the estimated at about £6,000. is obtainable in its proper setting, with LET-Quist Eurovent: FLATS at Tangthe right atmosphere, the correct back were found in the possession of a master Gladys Garfield, who will contribute fresh bed of the man in his cubicle in a house The police investigations indicate that

sons. To-day there will be shown. for the of a junk at Deep Bay on Thursday." He | last time Rex Ingram's production in Bate Street, Yaumati, and the woman FACRAME Cha Bonta Banging from $35.00 ground, and the traditions which righty was arrested and charged yesterday be." Scaramouche," based on Raphael Sabe- was the principal tenant of the house.

tini's famous novel. The picture has aq to $45.00 Per month. Also European Tought to accompany the imparting of it fore Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon stars Alice Terry, Ramen Novarro and After evidence had been given, the man at Ka Oruz" BULDING Nathan Road, at Moderate Rate Apply to-THE KA CEUEN and which sud eo greatly to its value and Magistracy, who imposed a fine of 8100 Lewis Stone, supported by a cast of 10,000 was sentenced to three years hard labour,

and the woman was discharged. LAND ESTATE 22, Tang Hing Road,

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with a large pearl and a large diamond, another gold ring with two diamonds, á diamond bracelet, platinum mistlet watch set with pearls, emeralds, rubies and crystals, a pair of diamond earrings, and a pair of diamond hair slides,

These were all taken from Lady Mond's dressing room, but a considerable amount" of money and other jewellery were left.

The value of the missing jewellery is

no forcible entry had been effected, and the official opinion is that the thief ar thieves entered the dressing room by means of the door and got away with the jewellery."

"A reward of £500 has been offered.