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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

7, 1929,

THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR

(Copyright, 1923, by The Bell Syndicats, Inc),

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

SUMMER UNDERWEAR

AS YOU LIKE IT

Far be it from us to tell you what Underwear you should wear. Perhaps you have a liking for india Gauze-open or pull-over. style--you may be a wool-all-the- year-round man, you may find life unbearable in anything but Aertex. It is because we realise this so well that we keep all these Among kinds and many more. them you are sure to find under- wear as you like it.

GAUZE

AERTEX

B. V. D.

$3.00 Each.

$3.75

$1.75

Cash Discount 10%.

Mackintosh's

What's Wrong With The Fire Brigade?

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Disquieting Reports; The Government and Kowloon Tong; are topics dealt with in the Current issue of the Weekly Press."

Stranded Steamship Gutted; Child Slavery

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Factories; Illicit Opium Arrests, are other features.

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WHITEAWAY'S

GREAT SALE

SECOND WEEK

WILL COMMENCE

ON

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th. FURTHER REDUCTIONS

AND BARGAINS

IN ALL DEPARTMENTS

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KOWLOON TONG MARKET.

PLANS APPROVED BY THE SANITARY BOARD.

SMOKE NUISANCE AND WHITEWASHING.

At the meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday the President, Mr. N. L. Smith, proposed" that the Board approve the plan of May 29, 1029, for the proposed Kowloon Tong Market, subject to the altera tions proposed by the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga.

WHEN JUNIOR, VERY PROUD AT TAKING A MES

SAGE WHILE YOU WERE IN THE TUB,' REPORTS THAT IT WAS A WOMAN ASKING YOU AND DADDY TO DINNER NEXT FRIDAY AT SEVEN O'CLOCK, AND SHE'LL EXPECT YOU UNLESS SHE HEARS FROM YOU, AND NO, HE

DIDN'T GET HER NAME

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MURDERED CZAR'S ROUND THE COURTS.

MILLIONS.

NEW YORK CAUSE CELEBRE. yesterday for failing to produce her driver's licence when requested to do so by the Police on July 29, when was driving along Leighton Hill Road.

New York.-A fight, for the late Czar's millions has been started by Madame Tschaikowsky, who claims to be the Grand-Duchess Anustasia

"KAIPING COAL

FOR HOME, FACTORY, & POWER HOUSE

HOME. FACTORY

AND

BUNKERS

POWER

HOUSE,

TUGS &

LOCOS.

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION DODWELL & CO., LTD.. Agents, Hong Kong.

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN..

Your girl friend goes around a good deal, doesn't she?"

Yes, in social circles.

"Do you live in the elty?"

No, just outside the city Limits-we've moved to the 330th floor."

Scotch professional aplier, after fourteen years of retirement,.. bas resumed the game. Evidently he found His bail.

Mistress: What did they have for breakfast at your last place!"

New Cook: I dunno. They 'ada't got up when I left."

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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CLAIM BY ALLEGED

DAUGHTER.

MISS GRACE HO TUNG

FINED.

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Miss Grace Ho Tung was sum- moned before Mr. E. W. Hamilton

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of Russia, daughter of the late

Czar.

Her attorney brought an action in the courts with the object of compelling the United States banks

Miss Ho Tung admitted the offence and was ined 95. His Wor

ship remarked that the fine was always the same for this particular breach of the regulations. "

THE SINCERE COMPANY BULGLARY.

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The case against the two men and two women who are charged in connection with the burglary at Messrs. Sincere's a fortnight ago

to disclose the Czar's accounts. Large Number of Stalls. Thereupon Solicitor Kohler, repre. thesenting twenty-three genuine mem- Mr. Braga in seconding motion said: feel I must availbers of the Romanow family, an- myself of this public meeting of the nounced that he would move an in- Board to record my appreciation of junction compelling the National the reception accorded to my pro- City Bank and the Guarantee Trust

Co., who are jointly administratis down for hearing on Tuesday at posal two years ago to erect public market for the rapidly growing securities to the amount of six 2.15 p.m.

One of the defendants is charged others are accused of receiving.

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ing district of Kowloon Tong. At million, dollars for the Czar's awith the actual burglary, while the

first the original design submitted by the Hon, Director of Public Works was for a very modest struc ture indeed which, it was estimated, would cost the small sum of $1,500. With that plan I was not satisfied, because I thought it could not pos sibly meet the requirements of Kowloon Tong residents. Thanks to the Head of the Sanitary Depart ment (Mr. W J. Carrie), I was giver an opportunity to discuss the amended plan for a structure of a greatly improved design with a large number of stalls and better internal arrangements altogether

To.. Cost $10,000.

under 1

count, to show why these securi-

ties should not be transferred to

the surviving members of the Roma

LOWS.

Kohler,

furthermore, intends

to have all Soviet government ac couats attached, a measure which strenuously opposed by the American lawyer who represents the interests of the Soviet Govern- ment and who claims that the money deposited by the Czar is legally the property of the Russian

state.

The man charged with the bur glary made an appeal to Mr. Hamil ton yesterday to release him, stating that he had an aged mother in the country who would probably die of shock if she got to bear that her son, was in prison.

His Worship: Where is your mother 7

Defendant: Io Foochow. Please release me.

His Worship: I am afraid. I can't release you because of your You will have to aged mother.

stand your trial. ·

The Police are asking for the com. mittal of all defendants.

CLOTHING THEFT.

The Smoke Nuisance. The President read a minute re- Two Chinese were before Mr. The Director of Public Works' Intive to the nuisance caused by Whyte Smith on charges of stealing Acquiescence in my suggestion foundries, smithies, and the like. sixty-two pieces of clothing from i house in Prince Edward Road for the keeping apart of the The position of the Medical Officer and alternatively with receiving.

The first defendant pleaded guilty urinal from the market build of Health would, he said, be streng but the other denied having any ing proper

separate thened by the considered opinion thing to do with the theft. roof is another of those improve-of the Board. Mr. Wong Kwong

Inspector Phillips said that the ments which have commended them- Tin had made an excellent sugges- first defendant had been a boarder at the complainant's house and that selves to those Kowloon Tong re- tion and he begged to propose to first defendant stole the clothing sidents with whom I had the benefit the Board, instead of 'his intended and went to Canton. On his return of discussing the amended plan. To minute, that they should appoint she was questioned and admitted the Vice-President (the Hon. Mr. committee to consider what action the theft, The property was re H. T. Creasy, C.B.E.) of this Board should be taken with regard to covered from I different pawn nuisances caused by fance, which shops. A number of these tickets also Kowloon Tong residents are could not be dealt with under the were found in the second defend- thankful for agreement in sugges-Ordinance against smoke nuisances, ant's house.

The first defendant was sentenced tions I put forward on their behalf into the matter and report to the to six week's hard labour and the and in compliance with their Board. The committee he would second defendant who was convicted wishes. From a sum of $1,500 the suggest would be composed of the on the receiving charge was fined estimate for the more pretentious Medical Officer of Health, Mr. Wong $25 or three weeks' imprisonment. Kwong Tin, Mr. T. N. Chau, and the with building to conform

the Hen. Mr. JP. Braga.

YOUNG THIEF GETS" WIND amenities of the Kowloon Tong The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy

UP." Garden City has grown to $10,000. seconded the motion, which was I hope with the adoption of the duly carried. motion, proposed by the President,

and that the committee should look

Those Present.

Zima Washing, The President further moved, and by all members of this Board, the Board approved, that the work authority will be abtained forthwith of lime washing be undertaken again from His Excellency the Governor by the Department during the 1998 to incur this comparatively "small to 1930 season. expenditure of $10,000 tu provide the Kowloon Tong Estate, with a market that has been felt now for some time as an urgent necessity

The motion was unanimously ac cepted by the Board.

(Continued on next Ooluma.)

A young Chinese who was charg ed before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith with stealing 845.40 from an old woman living in amatshed at' Sheung Un Lingvillage, Kowloon City, pleaded guilty, and was sen- tenced to one month's hard labour. Defendant had been questioned im- mediately after "the loss was dis covered and he admitted the theft and led the police to the rear of his house where he had buried the

The following gentlemen were present care. N. L. Smith (Pre- sident), H: T. Creasy, C.B.E., B. A. H. North, J. P. Braga, Dr. J money. H: Fawcett (Medical Officer of Health), Dr. M. Koch, Messrs. T. N. Chau, M. K. Lo, Wong Kwong Tin and J. Watson (Secretary).

Hit Worship; He seems to have owned up very quickly.

Inspector Phillips: Yes, he prob ably got the wind up.

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1.-Poetical for ashore.

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7. A tower whose fate it may be

to be eaten by its own head. 11.-A short period suggestive of

lingering.

15. A devotee.

15.-lf the sun were this we should

be colder. 18-Keeps the door. 19-Preferred the blood of an.

Englishman.

20-Don't stumble over this. 22.A ditch in the West Country. 3-4 Prefix meaning up to date. 24. This girl is surely of the

clinging type. 25.-What the, fowler spread. 26. The river of bumps."

28. The dirt type is the scene of

fierce contests. 30-A fairy from the Arabian

.Nights.

31.-Whitsun crowds gathered on

these.

33.-A duck from Scandinavia. 35.This is just as little as 32

dowa. 38.-See on 26 across, in eights 38.-A flower just disappearing

from our gardens. 40.-Venomous yet savoury. 43-A confused fibre. 45-A jar, or a jar will do it. 47. You will find him in Tibet.

49.A mixed one.

60.-A Cockney can take one thus

spelled. $1.-Sometimes glad, but mostly

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ture.

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worn out. 52.-Lěnín took his place. 54.-Part of a mator. 56.-Kin. 67-In form a table, yet not furni- You gather this while ye may. 61.-A. very junior servant of Mr.

Rockefeller. 62.The rosy-fingered goddess. 63.-A doubter who sounds as if he

might have blood-poisoning. 04.The villain's hands are ocen

sionally this in gore.

BOWL, 1-Relating to a High Priest. 2. These are moulding tools.. 3-A much discussed gland. 4-You irritate people if you do

this to them.

5.-A Scotch one is headier. B. The latter part of a Scottish

county..

8-The adjective from 21 down.

-This election was not this by

the Tories,

10. We do this with our tea. 11-What the non-Latinist might

call the Latinist. 12-Might be said to smooth out

wrinkles.

13-Nothing to do with fireworks,

...but concerns, lever.... 17 The plural of 10 down.

18.-A lady whose name suggestr

the joie de vivre..

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21.-What 11 down calls eggs. pr.-Réveillé in the tropics. 98.-The latter part of the adjec tive of stamp-collecting. 29.-A Turkish summer-house, 30. You may be in this cresting

the street.

32. This is just as much as 35

«across.

31-Anglers do this gently, 31-Still exist in Eastern Europe. 38.-An argument that will hold

water.

39.Matthew was a poet. 40.-Often more important than

the play.

41.-The American reindeer. 42.-A city well known

across.

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44.-The counterpart, so to speak,

of 1 down.

45.Short for & State in Canada 49. You should always let your

plans do this...

53.-A steak with Parliamentary

connections.

51.-She is a Rajak's bride. 55.Gipsies do this..

56. A Scottish Border name. 58. The appropriate name of a coin in one of the new Euro- pean States. ED-Inferior but useful many a

time..

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