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WEATHER REPORT. ( matter still, and it will be remem- } An application was made by the bered that Chang, Kai Suk sus | C.I.D. to Mr. E. W. Hamilton yes- Yesterday's weather report, fore-tained a severe shock to his system terday for the confixation of three cast ad remarks, issued by the in attacking the rival 'Hankow unlicensed printing presses seized Royal Observatory at 3.25 pim., Government when Taxe was its during a raid on a house at Tung
Commander-in-Chief and virtual! Lo Wan (Causeway Bay Road dictator..
The order, was made effective after In the South of China, sad ton lapse of seven days. ay, sickness among Generals haa been equally prevalent. Pri CHUNG Het was wounded on the North River, but the report that he had been taken to his native village Ine House Street Tel. Centrsito die appears to have been ex
aggerated. Pit has always been man of quick and mysterious movement, and to this day he Bits us by magic carpet, between Hong bitten. Kong and Annam. Li TSUNG JEN,
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ex-Hankow Commander-in- Chief, who set the Kwangsi war in motion by his political coup against the civil government, has been in Hong Kong for some time suffering from one form or another of the eye diseases so prevalent in China, Another, leader on the sick list has been General CREN TSAL TONG, who suffers, according to our Canton correspondent, from a liver. There is certainly no sign of the usual symptoms. of such complaint in this officers.sane policy and success in the frid. He saved Canton from a foolish war with Nauking, and
DIPLOMATIC DEBILITY.
Ose peculiar aspect of Chinese life which wems to have remained un- changed since lmperial days is the extraordinary susceptibility to con- traet sudden illness which afflicts China's rulers. and their equally amazing powers of recuperation he very early srcured a peaceful
The police have received instrue tons, we understand, to shoot all unleashed dogs on sight. Eathers, in particular, are warned against allowing their dogs to ruam about without a leash on the beaches, as there have been complaints of a number of people having been
Infant Welfare 'Work.
We are pleased to have the assur nuce of the Chairman of Directors
The "N.-C. Daily Newa"
We learn from the publisher of the .-C. Daily Nêus that it is still impossible to distribute the of the Tang Wah Hospital (Mr. M. paper by mail, although the official | h. Lo) that a beginning has ́al- han is supposed to have been lifted ready been made with an Infant long ago. It will be remembered that Welfare Clinic for Hong Kong. fransmission of the Daily News and in April this year, says our corre the weekly North-China - Herald | spondent, Dr. M. Wong opened a by the Chinese Post Office was for clinic for the purpose at the hos bidden by the Ministry of Compital, at which every Wednesday munientions of the Nationalist afternoon, he and hiż wife (also a Government in Nanking as from qualified doctor) attended the in- May 4. This order was rescinded fonts and gave medical treatment. on June é at a' meeting of the and advies. That we were right in Central Executive Committee in saying that a clinic would be wel- Sanking, but for some extraordi- come is proved by the rapid growth nary reason the rescission was never of the figures quoted by Mr. Lo. put into effect, and both newspapers On April 24, 3 cases, and on July are still forbidden the use of the | 3-33 cases... But this only touches mails for reasons unknown to the the fringe of the question. Import- proprietors." Considering that a ant as the work of a clinic js, it' month has passed since the ban was cannot reach the people who most lifted by the Central authorities, it need it unless a creche is part of is outrageous that the original the establishment. The woman who will take her child to the clinic with prohibition should be still enforced. probally listen to advicemed com The action of the Chinese Guvern-paratively few will do so. But a ment in the first place as we re very rapidly increasing number marked at the tipe-was unfor werking-hours in
would leave their babies during creche, and, A small fire broke out yesterday tunnte, but the deliberate continu: having
Won their confidence by at the rear of a restaurant iance for a month of a prohibition | Aiving them healthy..happy child- which has been formally lifted issuade them that Western methods
ren it would not be hard to per Hollywood Road, has was put out
an injustice beyond all defence. of child welfare are trustworthy. before the arrival of the Fire ap- pliances, three of which were rash- ed to the scene. Police officers from the Central Police Station were the
Photomaton
Miss M. Jorge - a assistant while in Queen's Road at about 3 p.m. yesterday had her handbag snatched. A gentleman gave chase and caught the alleged thief who was handed over to the police. The bag was recovered from the arrested man, who is a Chinese aged about twenty.
World's Longest Lifts,
ד
Sugar from Sawdust!
That indomitable old lady the settlement of the trouble with first at the fire and with the help shortly to be installed in Westmingbird literally told an Englishman
Empress Dowager certainly kept Kwangsi. When forced to abandon of a few buckets of water, "but it
but most of her the neutrality which he sought he out,
herself it,
Case
.
The report of the Medical Officer
fresh
each
The longest lift in London is "A little bird told m!" is n
oft-ridiculed expression, but a little ter Roman Catholic Cathedral. It how to made artificial cotton. from will accommodate ten passengers,
a, useless plant. Eight years ago 2 who will be transported awifty and comfortably to near the summit of
party of British research-workers ORANGES Ministers and administrators, ac-conducted the war with complete
the beautiful Byzantine tower, 185
in British Guiana noticed a bird cording to the records, were a sickly success, and turned initial defents
feet above the ground level. From busily building its nest with a of Health for last week is as this height, in lot. This is unfortunately still the into decisive victory. He has re-
substance that looked very much clear weather, like cotton. On closer inspection,, glorious views of London and the however, it proved to be a plant FENG YO HOIANO signed all civil posts, holding that follows:-Two cases of enteric, one to-day.
surrounding country can be en suffers from chronic gastritis, which a soldier should not meddle with from Victoria, and one from Kow-joyed, No doubt, when it is com previously, thought useless which
that (Chinese, 1 Japanese). No pleted, it will be pointed out to affairs-a principal a little while ago rose, to the pro-civil
had been shredded by the bird. To- portions of cancer in the stomach. might well he extended throughout cases of small-pox, but 3 visitors as one of the wonders of day, in Essex and Sussex, on soil that has been found useless for London. Nevertheless, it would be His friends despaired of his life, the country.
deaths are reported. One (Chinese) little thought of in New York. ordinary cultivation, hundreds of acres of the new "cottod" plaats. and in any case his sickness was It is curious, by the way, that case of diphtheria and one death. Some of the skyscrapers there
para possess as many as twenty ordinary lion pounds of the artificial cotton are flourishing. Nearly four mil- declared to be such that he would in China a leader's illness is usual. One (Japanese) case of
lifts, plus six or more express have to retire for at least two years ly announced by his friends, while trhoid fever. One death from in- lifts, which stop only at are being produced at a cost of from the military and political his enemies are politely sceptical flucaza
twentieth floor or thereabouts. The fourpence a pound less than the Larkin Tower. America's latest real thing., Every day sees a new arenas. This was during the earlier concerning such reports. In the
skyscraper, which has 110 storeys discovery in the scientific world. stages of the Hankow crisis, but it topsy-turvey West this process is
The Hong Kong & Shanghai and rises to the enormous height of Two German chemists have just would appear that the "Christian" reversed. Some of our renders may Hotele. Ltd. have secured the ser
1,208 feet above the level of the succeeded in obtaining sugar from street, possesses a super-express lift
sawdust; a Franch scientist is General's strenuous exertions of recollect that of the Liberal Cabinet! vices of Nellie & Joe Farren,
which runs from the bottom to top real diamonds. It seems that the transforming lumps of coal. into late have had 1 most beneficial of twenty years ago the time of Parisian dancers who will give a
straight of the reel. The journey day is fast approaching when we effect on his physical well-being.the People's Budget " and the cabaret entertainment at the Hong occupies three minutes, approxi- xhall be no longer dependent on
Kong Hotel dinner dances on Fri mately six times as long as will be
taken by the Westminster lift. The all our needs. Take the case of the Nature; the scientist will supply day, July 12, and Monday, July 15, Ritz Tower, a block of sumptuous German who recently took eland, and at the Repulse Bay Hotel on residential flats, only methods of war and industry, and would prevent him ever speaking Saturday, July 13. Signor Adoloha lower than the Larkin, also pos- pounds of a chemical substance and, for a long time there has been no again." Another stalwart; still in the Belkosti, operatic tenor, wil also addition, it is provided with hours, produced in its stead eleven
sesses a special non-stop lift. In after treating it for twenty-four, hint of any need either of surgeon's forefront of the battle, was alleged
twenty-four passenger lifts stopping knife or radium treatment. FEND's to be a drug fiend and at least
at all floors, twelve express pas enemies all along have said-un-one other "was drunk every night.
The Hau Tak import and export
senger lifts, and three freight lifts, or elevators as they are called over sympathetically and pessimistically Yet the curious thing was that
tha "the great barly bully was these wretched sinners either died frm of 55, Bonham Strand, have there. Twenty-six miles, of steel never better in his life.".
at a great age or are still vexing ported to the police the loss of rope were used in equipping these
elevators. The sensation of going out $2,050. A man travelling on the His colleague of Shansi, Yrs their opponents--while several cfs. Tai Wing Wah was entrusted SHIR SHAN, has been recently their contemporary statesman of with the money at Hoihow to bring smitten with a dysentery that has unquestioned respectability died
to Hong Kong, tut en arrival he China's dis gravely hampered his movements. several years ago.
informed the shop that he lost the
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abroad. to study Western Mr. LLOYD GEORGE's laryngitis [50
1929 Edition
OF THE
DIRECTORY
AND
Ku
sing on those occasions.
CHRONICLE YA, who has governed his own tinguished invalids will probably money. In the meantime he has
OF THE
OF
HONG KONG,
THE TREATY POETа or
overseas.
Great
abonded, and it is not known whether he has taken the money with him.
Chinese Dancer,
pounds
modern
of coal! The scientist is producing in hours that for which Nature would require as many centuries! Having produced coal from vegetables, the scientists are now getting their moneysworth of the coal Petrol, soap,
what seems in interminable period and alcohol are only a few of the up in one of these non-stop lifts for rubber, oil, fertilisers, ammonia is uncanny Coming down is equal substances to be derived from a ly so in a different way. The pres lump of coal." But even now the sure of air in the lift increases.50 scientists are not satisfied. They much towards the bottom of the are now turning their attention to
shaft that a sort of momentary clear your cars by swallowing hard. deafness results, and you have to
The Chinese Rug.
peanut shella! Artificial silk the shells and, in the very near future, already being produced from the a lemonade made from peanut shells and bran is to be placed on the market!
province extraordinarily well for prove just as tough
loose livers."" seventeen years, and has played no Britain's allegedly The 67th Annual Issue
unsuccessful part in the wider They will come back into the lime- sphere that has fallen to him since light just as soon as the stage is set
In the general field of Oriental and the cue given for their re ap-
Rugs, the Chinese Rug holds a place Directory and Chronicle the capture of Peping by hic un-
couth but well-disciplined 'troops,pearance. Meanwhile their mourning Sylvia Chen, the winsome daughnique, by reason of its distinctive Looking Back 26 Years. has probably not the least wish to friends deplore their debility, while ter of Eugene Chen, former Minisly symbolic design, and contrasting
colour combination, as well as by A correspondent enquires what Beck either health or knowledge their sceptical enemies merely stoff.ter of Foreign Affairs in the the geographical and historical is the respective rank that th North China is evidently He jests at scare that never felt a earliest Nationalist Government of association with the tradition and Governor of Hong Kong holds in Y quire SOLE AGENT for HONG KONG (Commission Basis only or CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO- good enough for him. But it is easy Wound, and sneers at sickness who China, scored a sensational triumph folk-lore of the Celestial Nation relation to the Naval and Military anonymous writer has truthful Commanders in the Colony. Well, STRAITS to see why FENG YU HSANG should is never ill, but in due course the when she appeared in several num-
ly penned, "The products of the Sir Matthew Nathan, for instance. SETTLEMENTS, MALAY be unwilling to venture on his positions will be reversed, and his burs of a dance programme in the Chinese carpet makers are so vastly will be honorary Lieut.-General Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre different from those of other of the Forces and honorary Com-
Oriental STATES, NETHERLANDS travels, without YEN BE SUAN nt tory again repeat itself.
cons mander-in-Chiel of the Navy. But at Moscow: Not in many years titute 蟲 INDIA, BORNEO. THE his side. The tupan of Shanai is
story by themselves, these honorary positions interfere has this PHILIPPINES, Etc.
a peaceful and capable man, not
famous theatre, wit The t'an has been associated in no way with the prerogative of those two Executive Commanders, overwhelmingly ambitious, and no
centuries, with the humble as well doubt CHIANG KAISHEK Becs in him an ideal colleague, whom he
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but let his niche be filled by some- An advertisement elsewhere in trend in public one who, despite occasional attacks this issue announces that the Hong of dysentery, would probably be Kong and Shanghai Bank has CLASSIFIED LIST able to keep what he had been given. declared an interim dividend of CHIANG KA SHER's health ale £3 per share, lees income-tax, for | IMPORT AND EXPORT|scems greatly to have improved of the half-year ending June 30 last. late. It will be remembered that The dividend will be payable on MERCHANTS
at the time of his retirement to and alter August 8, Japan in November, 1997, he was suffering frem
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as the mighty, in private as well despatched without reference to the as in public, in their religious and Governor, though he, ns ultimate ceremonial life, that to write of it representative of His Majesty the
This Large Volume of approximate- ly 2,000 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an could trust with part, if not all, outbreak of fre occurred in Hai-rhythmic, Miss Chen captured fully is to tell much of Chinese his- King here, enjoys superior rank Alphabetical List of Residents of FENG's vast, though famine phong Rand, Kowloon on the first the audience as soon as she appear-tory, in its many ramifications. by courtesy. Of course, in the cas in the Far East containing the stricken domain. But it is surely Boor of a bouse, The Fire Brigade's ed and thereafter monopolized at-Though for centuries, rur making of local trouble the Governor could Names of Nearly
asking more than human unture prompt arrival confaed the out-tention even to the exclusion of can endure to suggest that the break to the flat where it originated famous ballet dancers on the same with all Modern Conveniences, Dr Arranged, with the initials as well Christian" General should not and very little damage was done.
programme. Incidentally, her sue merely step aside for the time being;
interesting taste. Miss Chen's talent seems to lie in the direction of syncopated dancing a blending of jazz rhythms with the free interpretive movements of the Duncan school. It constitutes a strong contrast to the formal lace-like ballet dancing for which Russia is famous. Eugene Chen, after the collapse of the radical Smugglers have "devised a New He went through the ordeal means of trying to evade the search Canton Government, left for Moe befits the inartial spirit, and now officers of the wharves, At the cow, together with Madam Sun that he is no longer debilitated by Central Magistracy yesterday, a Yat Sen and other leaders of the pyorrhea, he is twice the man he Chinese, employed as a cook in the Kuomintang. Ho brought his four was. Having consumed the Kwangai Indian guarda on the Tung On was children, two boys and to giria, big four," like mere hors fined $1,320 or in default to serve with him. Bylyin, who had began $8d'autre, he is vigorously tackling nimo aonths hard labour for at to study dancing in her birthplace
the "Christian" General, a some illicit opium. It was stated by in the West Indies, Trinidad, re-product, but loudly clampured for A decription of the vessel bus what tougher proposition, but sollevenue Officer Grimmitt that the sumed her studies intensively there. far with evident succces. The de-n carried the opium in a false Russian critics, as well as for abdomen. The Revenue. Officers
Limusin who attended this concert, promise a brilliant career for her. materialises, may be a more serious trick.
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has been associated with the Oriont, call upon either Commander to lead and has occupied a considerable assistance, but this, would be more portion of the peoples' efforts, it is in the nature of a request than an only within modern times that the order.-Hong Kong Daily Prem, Western world has realized, to any July 11; 1904. extent, the charm of the Chinese Looking Back 50 Years, carpet, save for an occasional con-
The P. & O. str. Kaisar-I-Hind noisseur, or curio collector, who ventured far afield in search of new arrived here, yesterday evening specimens for his collection. Prior and made fast to the P. & O to the world war, Chinese rugs were Wharf, West Point, at six o'clock. comparatively little known, rank- She left Singapore, the 4th ing much below the rugs of the instant at half-past five o'clock Far East in demand, but during p.m., and when in the outer har this struggle, with those regions bear an accident occurred on boarı closed ordinary commerce, to one of the steam winches, and dealers perforce turned to the Far they had to send ashore and get it East, wishing to carry on as repaired, thereby detaining the best they might, with the lowly vessel about four hours. Before Chinese member of the rug family, arriving, at Bombay she broke one until such time as normality might of the blades, of her propeller, in be re-established. Their education-consequence of which accident the al selling campaigns, focused atten- vessel has not been going full speed, tion upon the Chinese rug aa had but, nevertheless a speed of 12) never occurred before, with an en-kunta was obtained. The length of tirely unexpected result. The buy- the Kaisar-1-Hind is 400.78 feet, ing public, having sensed the main breadth 42.35 feet, and depth beauties of the Chinese rug for of hold 31 feet. Her gross tonnage itself, refused to be deprived of the is 4,023, and registered 2,359 tons.
to
more specimens, with the result that already been given la our columns, the demand for these rugs has in- but we may mention that she is creased so rapidly as to be the cause superbly fitted up with all the of the founding of several business latest improvements Hang houses of merit.
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