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Midshipmen's Prank,

The Fisherman's Lamont..

The disappearance of two gild of from over biturly that,

wooden balls led to the appearance at the local polien court of Robert Sussex Langford and William Henry Bowater, midshipmen in H.M.S Warspits, on a charge of stealing the balls, which ware valued at 30s, to one of wilful damage, and the The magistrates reduced the charge case was dismissed on payment of

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The Marine Chronometer,

Bibliography of Japan.

Of special interest to all stud enta of Japanese affairs is ther Announcement of the publication by Meers Kurl W

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of Leipzig, of Onkar Nachod's Hieraann,

"Bibliographis of Japan for the yours 1927-1929, together with a ro volume for the years 1905-1996. The work of the auchor, which is pro duced in the German language, is. based upen years of olfart devoted their wigigas, industries and to a study of the people of Japan, their progress The oarlier volu mos of this work are devoted par ticularly to the economia industriai development of Japan.

From Isles of Adventure."

Last month a groy haired lady pineener and a quick Irish smile- slipped unobtrusively into London. likely to set her down as a woman At first hight ong would be moro

who dearly loved home comforts. and a quiet life than a the-friend

'j of annnibals nod head huntërar:Yosh

the name of Beatrice, Grimshaw is

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truthfully and without sacking to convey any special point of view. The facts have spoken for them- selves, and the deductions have been left to the reader." There have been accounts of the crooks of Chicago, and to what extent, they influence the life of that great city, of

A keen fisherman complained Hollywood, the Red Indians, the Police and the Army. But the real

trout in the most beautiful part value has been, wo suggest, in the

of Hampshire who his whole descriptions of the ordinary life of

afternoon was spoilt by the blare the country of an American mining

of alleged music from a country tawn, of the ranches, the cotton

fair. And worse than that, The Bolds, tho great lumber industry

internal nucline that produced and to-day, of American business

pertoire of about twenty minutes the music had only a limited re-

methods..

duration, Therefore, every twenty We see a great country, with

minutes it added to his cmbarrassment by playing the tropical swamps, with black moun

Si Frank Dyson, Astronomer National Anthem. Ai a koon tains where a hardy and defiant Royal, recently unveiled a bronze aberman, he was placed in the white population clings to the memorial tablet outside St. Giles dilemina of deciding whether he in-the-Fields, Bloomsbury, in me ought to stand at attention and ideals of the past, with a huge mory of Thomas Earnabaw, the remove his hat every twenty negro population, and an amazing creator of the modern marine minutes, with disastrous results to education system vastly different chronomatar, who worshipped in the his fishing.

churchyard just over 100 youra ago. from that of England. There is The tablet was the joint gift of Ohin! Chin!. in type of Briton who seems to take it as a personal affront, and almost as a conus belli, that American people should have a different in tonation from himself; that United States universities are unlike not only Oxford and Cambridge, but all others in England, that baschall is played instead of cricket, and that even humour is of another jorder. It is a curious" attitude, and if British people could accept America as it is, without suggest E-To-On August 28, 1931, eting that an instant Anglicisation

the Olico of the Registrar of Marriages, H. M. KEW, eldėst:

is needed, much irritation on both son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Kaw, sides could be avoided, British to Miss IRENE TO, eldest daugh- people used to have an idea that ter of the lato Dr. and Mrs. To YING KWAN..

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much alike in Queen VICTORIA JEуs, but that there are now certain divergencies which ought to be remedied. The " Pen Pictures,” in. a very quiet and modest way, have shown our readers an immensely great country-grent in size, `re-

A dance will be held at the sources and the spirit of its people: Craigengower C.C. this evening st But it is not England on a large the close of the open air concert scale, any more than it is what it is understood that any balance

to be given by the Bootleggers." either Hollywood films or the which may remain from the receipts novels of SINCLAIR Lewis would at the concert will be donated to have us Believe. If we feel bitter charity. against: America the best thing to For driving a motor-car, the do is to explore the country, if not licence of which had not been re in person, at least through To Wong and Dr. B. P. Lee wers newed, Mr. E. R. Childe, Dr. B. sufficiently wide range of reading to get a fair picture. Interest will inevitably dispel.přejudicc.

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AMERICA.

NATURALISATION.

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the Cloak-makers Company and the Chin to chin with Herbort of thousands with hairbreadth ad- British Horological Society. Mr. Hoover at the bar of public opinion venture in tropic beas. Miss Grim T. 0 Earnshaw, of Finsbury, a great-grandson, was present with to-day, Joseph Stalin, buccaneer Ishaw, who is now visiting Eng- his son Mr. Harry Root Earnshaw.bureaucrat of Russia's arrogant land to see her sister and transact economic imperialism, chills the some literary business, has lived peaceful air of 'n returning pres- for five-and-twenty years in Papua, Britain and Calendar Reform

perity just turning into achieve that amazing and only partly es Calendar Reform has been sot up. a new

A Parliamentary Committee en ment mong the world's peoples with plored island of jungle and gold challenge to popular mines. Her house in Port Moresby, Others interested have been invited credulity-orying that the earth's the capital, is one of the main sacial to join the Committee, the objects millions line up and listen with rallying points of the little colony of which are:-To see that a posi- clamorous consent to the succulent of some 100 whites. From this bes tive British opinion on calendar Soviet sophistry so long the pre- Mies Grimshaw sails constantly reform is expressed before the ferred pap of rabid Red men and around New Guinea, the Selomous, the League of Nations Conference believe the millennium is truly on the New Hebrides, and all the other which is to report on it in the the make from the mike mega-wild islunds of primitive savagery autuma: To press for the stabilisa phone of the Horse Boy of the in the Eastern South Pacific. It is tion of Easter; and to ensure that Caucasus, "Everywhere, the this intensive knowledge of the no scheme of reform embodying a gullible glost and glow in the old timer that gives her stories. thirteen-month year is imposed warmth radiated from the ready the ring of conviction which nas upon the League of Nations in de words of the Gamblin Man on the made them so popular and so easily fault of any definite British view Kremlin."--Extract from New distinguishable from the product of

Tork Evening Graphic.

the globe-trotting novelist. on the question..

Local Notes and Events ★

each fined 819 at the Central Police Court yesterday. A further fine of '88 was' inflicted on Dr. Loc for, fail- ing to renew his driving licence.

Sepoy's Death.

A Good Scrap.

“One. Orde Of cerebro-spinal Four men attacked the manager meningitia and one of puerperal and treasurer of a local oil refinery fever were reported on Wednesd The affair took place at the junc on Wednesday evening in Mongkok, and Thursday, tion of Waterloo and Nathua Roads, and after a spirited fight, the robbers fled, down Waterloo Road, without having stolen anything. Slight head injuries were sustained. by the manager, Ling Kan Bad, Neither of the victims, were able which were attended to by a doctor. to give a description of their assailants.

From the files

Looking Back 25 Years.

The third monthly competition for the China Mail cup at disap pearing targets took place on the King's Park Range on Saturday, when some good scores were made, Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse making a posible" while several scores of

WHEN Sir' AUSTes Chamberlain de clared that war between the United States and Great Britain was un- thinkable, he spoke as one who knew America well, who had per sonal friends on the other side of the Atlantic, and who had been in close touch with Washington's diplomats and statesmen. As a member of the British Cabinet.dur. ing the War it seemed ridiculous to think of fighting either Mr. Hooven, Europe's one-time Victual- sahd" from European countries to board the ferry at Mongkok on biking on the bill-side by the junc"]

In a report inde to the police, Ho Shek Sang, accountant of the Kung Choong imports and exports A sepoy of the Jhat Regiinent, firm, states that he paid $7,000 to named Labhu, fell from the top a man who purported to be a re- floor verandah of the hospital at prosentative of a firm with which and received injuries from which he nets. Subsequently it was discover, subsequent practice, but these were Whitfield Barracks on Wednesday. the Kung Cheong had done busi-nine were made by members at the died very soon afterwards. The ad that the man had no connection not allowed to count in the competi body was removed to the Kowloon whatsoever with the firm he claim. tion, as by the rules only the frat Mortuary.

ed to represent, and it is believed shoot counts. The following is the that the accountant has been the list of scores victim of a fraud,"

ler-in-Chief, or any of the men with whom he had, conducted negotia tions in which, though wills might clash, personal relations remained of the friendliest. But to speakers and publicists in a condition of nourasthenia about the American Canadian border, which they have never crossed, and the situation in the Pacifio. Ocean, which they have never sailed, UNCLE SAM

veritable + But when you have lived in both the United States and Great Britain you erase to think in terms of JOHN BULL and UNCLE SAM, and substitute for these, figments the roal man and woman whom you have known.

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W. S. GILBERT, in a famous num her, held that it was greatly to any man's credit to remain an English man; stil greater, one imagines, must be the credit which attaches to those who, though, born foreign There is in the Kwong Wah Hos- ore, yet elect to became British.pital a street coolie who now, be- Last year there were nearly a thou, lieves in the old adage, lore haste, less speed." He attempted

:

Of

Thursday before it was properly alongside the wharf, and fell be tween the ferry and the wharf. His injuries are serious..

alone, according to a returu. made to the House of Commons, these more than balf were Russians -White Russian exiles, one must

"A quiet wedding took place at the suppose, Lince the Soviet Govern. ment is not likely lightly to survesterday between Mr. H. M. Kew, office of the Registrar of Marriages render its claim on the allegiance the well-known local sharebroker,

Whilst 'n troop of boys from the St. Lewis Industrial School · were. tion of Mount Davis and Victoria.

covered a human skeleton beneath Ronds on Wednesday, they dis- a tree, in circumstances that sug seated suicide, Hanging from the

evidently been hanged. Death must tree overhead was a belt, with which the unfortunate person had have taken place some months ago, and doctors, were unable to deter mine the sex of the remains. pair of Chinese shoes found on the skeleton points to the nationality of the suicide.

That Okit Bystem!"

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P. PJ; Wodehouse W. H. T. Davis

J. G. Gow"....

* W, L. Pattenden

J. McInnes .... J. D. Peter

H. W. Birden L. G. Bird

D. J. Mackenzie G. H. Wakeham P. N. R. Jones. G. E. Morroll J. H.. Pidgeon... N. Daniel

Dr. G. M. Harston A. Mackenzie...... HT. Richardson. E. S. Carruthers W. J. J. Gast G. A. Hasting Dr. Evans Jones

A. R. Love renge Hong Kong Daily Press, August,

of its subjects, while even a Labour and the eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Home Secretary, as the case of M.1 W. Kew, and Miss. Irene To, the eldest daughter of the late Dr. and TROTSKY shows, is none too willing Mrs. To Ying Kwan. The honey to allow Bolsheviks even to visit moon is being spent in Shanghai.. Britain, let alone settle there for

The fact that sna-ching "a jade good. Apparently the privilege of bangle from a child in Yaumati British citizenship is more highly Market is a serious offence is to be

The chit system, some beer and prized on the Continent than in impressed upon an unemployed man

a motor boat attendant who ap 28, 1906). America: 050 Europeans were named Lau Yuen with 12 strokes of proved of neither resulted in the naturalised last year, but only the birch. In addition, two months' appearance before Mr. Williams at

Looking Back 50 Years, twenty-six citizens of the United hard labour will afford him an of the Central Magistracy yesterday Look States. But, if we recruit, comportunity of ruminating upon his morning of a young son of the It is satisfactory to and that the putatively few from America, some offence. The Court was the KowFatherland." He had imbibed proposed Tramway Bill is likely to of those we do attract are of good loon Magistracy and the Magistrate the bear, endeavoured to sign the receive the sanction of our local Recent descriptions in- English quality. In 1915, for example, we was Mr. J. A. Frater.

Fracer

chit, and assaulted the raptor bent legislative body without any need attendant who wouldn't trust. He less loss of time. The project has newspapers of the great influx of captured Mr. HENRY JAMES, and in

Two Shangani tailors, formerly ned This was the least the warm support of the unofficial 1027 Mr. T. S, EL107 Women ap- American tourists to Britain this|parently are more constant than employed by Madame Chiffon, were of his troubles. Whilst at the Cen- members, and His Excellency the men to the country of their birth, charged at the Central Police tral Police Station he so far forget, Governor, at the last meeting of the year, the friendliness with which

for of the 488 Russians naturalised Court yesterday with assaulting a himself as to disturb the well-carn, Council, dispelled all lingering the visitors have been received, and

last year only fifteen were women, third employee of the same shop. while in the case of Poland the The complainant was represented rest of a hundred tired police doubts as to the view be takes of men by using profans language and the question Opposition outside comparable figures were 177 and by Mr. J.T. Prior, Mr. Horace Lo behaving in a disorderly manner the Council is also of the most ten. This may be mainly due to appearing in defence, of the alleged Mr. Williams decided that, for being significant character; the landown English; were written with a view the fact that those who senk untur assailante. Alter Madame Chiffon thus privileged he should pay a fineers whose interests are affected have to dispelling misunderstanding alisation do so mainly for reasons had given evidence the case was auol 810.

almost unanimously signified their between English and American of business, and that those who journed until Monday,

assent to the scheme, and the only travel on busisess are still for the

How long does it take a Chinese one who has really withheld unn- people, and it is with that object most part ron. But, if women do

to ain a cup of tea 1. This weighty sent is the officer in command of the in mind that cortain of these not travel as much as men, they That he was hungry and had no problem was pondered by the Troops, who, of course, has to refer articles have been reproduced in have, it seems no objection to money with which to buy food was interpreter at the Central Magis-the matter to the War Office. There marrying foreigners when they meet the defence put forward by a young tray yesterday morning, when en seems to be a general consensus of the Daily Preu. We have all them in their own country. This, Chinese esterday, when he was itinerant hawker was charged be opinion as to the desirability of during the last four months, pub- at least, is the most probable ex- charged before Mr. Schofield with fors Mr. Schofield with obstructing tramways, and we have no reason to lished a serica of "Pen Pictures ofplanation of the fact that of those stealing a chicken on Thursday from the footpath by leaving his waren doubt that their construction wi!) America," the last of which appears who were rendmitted to lost British a woman at West Point The thief thereon When questioned as to be approved by the Colonial Office nationality 220 were women and stated that had no relatives in the the length of time during which the The Tramway will unquestionably to-day. They hava beca, written by only thirty-four men. The discrep Colony, having arrived here from goods were left on the path the prove a great convenienos, to: all an-American citizan who has been apoy here no doubt, arises from Kongmoon, only two months ago, hawker replied: For as long as those having business or pleasure. in every one of the States; and the fact that a married woman in This statement was corroborated it would take to sin a cup of tea in the town, but its greatest value Britain takes her husband's nation by the police, and the Magistrate Is not on record that any witty will, we think, ultimately, be found. from-this-wide, knowledge of his ality, whether she wants to or not, i den t with, the charge under the emulator of a famous judge asked, in bringing the outlying partic country he has described, imply he does not want, and provide yet youth over and granting him enough Court was therefore spared the munication with the bus

The figures suggest that very often First Offenders' Act, binding the What is a cup of tea, and the of the Calopy into closer

money from the Poor Box to pay ordeal of laughing politely. The of Victoria-Hong J

hawker was fined $3.

the genuine appreciation and enjoy, ment they have shown of things

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No Money: No Food,

and fairly, many phases of its life. The testimony has been given

a further argument in favour of changing the law.*-

his fare back to Kongmoon.