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KOWLOON DAILY SUPPLEMENT

Hongkong Daily Press

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Once in the United Kingdom.

ESTABLISHED 1857

Issued Gratis with the regular Edition of the "Daily Fress ."

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(Near Star Cinema)

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Watches and Clocks and Repairs Jade and other Precious Stones

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933

Kotoloon Supplement

HONG KONG, APRIL 18, 1933.

HOLIDAYS

SOME serious-minded mathematician once pointed out that one third of our lives was spent in leisure, and suggested that if we were to work

AN EXCITING ENCOUNTER

WITH PIRATES

REMINISCENCES OF AN EX-CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

(Continued)

The Blue Taxicabs Limited. during the festival holidays as wall at Kowloon. The author describes I therefore gave instructions for

NOTICE.

Our Patrons are hereby notified that from the 1st. day of May, 1933 the fares for taxicab hire will revert to the old tariff-ie. 40 cents First mile and ten cents for sach subsequent Quarter mile.

In Addition the Company will run small taxicabs from New Ferry Pier Stand at Jordan Road, Kowloon, the tariff to be. 80 cents First mile and 5 cents per quarter mile for subse quent mileage.

Also public cars for hire Day and Night :-

4 seater car at $2.40 per hour.

5

.. $3.00

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$1

7

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" $4.20

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Waiting time at half charge,

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For large and small cabs or public cars Ring 57417 & 87714 and car will be sent immediately from nearest stand.

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Office and Garage

Corner Nathan Road & Market Street, Kowloon.

The WORLD DRUG Co. The cheapest and most completely stocked Drug store in Kowloon..

Wholesale and Retail.

Patent Medicines, Drugs, Toilet Requisites & Druggist.

KOWLOON OFFICE:-370, Nathan Road. (Next to Nathan Hotel).

Phone: 56994.

The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. and all Compradore Stores

FOR

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Nathan Road

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Tel 56600 56603

Barber Shop

Highly Qualified Barbers for Men

No. 1 HANKOW ROAD

TEL. 56213

MOTOR CAB STORAGE-REPAIBING The Nathan Garage

65, NATHAN ROAD

-SHIPPING-MOVEMENTS;

The P. & O. s.s." Carthage, left Singapore for this port on the 15th gist at 9 am, with the outward

Tel. 56948

English mails, the 19th inst at about 6 am

The P. & 0.5.5. Mirzhpore left Moji for this port on the 14th inst at 10 m;, and is dus here on the 19th inst,, at about 8 p.m.

as during the week-ends the output, in 1889, he was placed in charge of a Customs station at of the world would be trobled. Changchow, in the Ladrones or Happily his suggestion is no longer Pirate Islands, about seven mile: west of Hong Kong. "The island," applicable to modern conditions

he writes, "contained a population and the trouble nowadays is to find of some 5,000 Chinese, most of whom enough work for people in ordinary were engaged in manufacturing shrimp space, the vile stench of tires. The technocrats believe that which nearly drove us frantic we should have more holidays, in Added to this there were hundreds order to relieve the labour de. of salt fish drying establishments which spread their fish all over the pression, and thus give the unen island and on every available rock ployed an opportunity to work and tree. Hundreds of junk loads while we enjoyed ourselves. Yet of fresh or ratten fish were landed daily, and after being sorted out. there is more than a tincture of were set. in the sun to dry; this, truth in the old saying, All work combined with the odious stench of and no play makes Jack a dull the shrimp sauce, may be better boy." An occasionat holiday, how imagined than described. It was over, even if we spend the whole of six long years before I saw the it in bed, relieves the mental tension fast of the place. experienced by all office workers and gives our tired nerves a much- needed rest.

addition to

In this Colony we are certainly not stinted in our holidays, for, in the Christmas, New Year, Easter and other Bank Holi- days, we enjoy innumerable recesses in connection with Chinese festivals, apart from the annual race meeting nt Happy Valley, which, for some reason or other, is regarded as a public holiday. Although it may not be said that we have a surfeit of vacations, nobody could accuse the business houses of Hong Kong of over working, for the majority of employees leave their desks promptly at five o'clock every even- ing and one o'clock on Saturdays, The professions in which it is not always possible to keep regular hours and where overtime is some- times essential, such as banking and medicine are, fortunately for the indolent, few and far between.

The following exciting narrative, vessel, I called for her Hong Kong of encounters with pirates in the clearance, which, on being produc vicinity of Hong Kong, was writed, stated that she was a deep-sea ten by Mr. L C. Arlington, for fishing junk. A thorough search merly of the Chinees Maritime failed, however, to show any fishing Customs and for a time stationed acts or fishing tackle whatsoever. the men with me to look for arms or other contraband, and; taking the No. 1 Chinese with me, I de scended into the men's quarters. Noticing a red cloth asiled at the back of the jos before which in- cense was burning, I tapped it, and the moment I did so I saw a gleam of rifles placed acroes a rack at the back wall of another small compartment which the red cloth was intended to screen from observation. No sooner did I got a glance at the arms piled on the rack than a shot was red at me from the top of the ladder lead- ing down to the unlit chamber I was in, the bulbot just grazing the edge of my cap. The No. 1, who was carrying a bull's-eye lamp, dropped it from fright, and we were left in total darkness until the lamp was recovered, when we rushed up on deck to find that shooting was going on all round us. As I subsequently discovered, my men had opened fire the mo me, and were as promptly fired ment they heard the shot fired at

however, getting the best of them, upon by the pirates. Our people, the pirates book to the water, where they were fired upon by the foreign officer in the gig. When the affair was over we found that seven of

numerous

the

"Changchow, as well aa otber

islands forming Ladrones, was the rendezvous of pirates, who kept all of us on the qui vive, foreigners and natives alite. Gangs of pirates would get together and attack the villages, even in broad daylight, and after looting and killing, escape either to Macao or Kowloon, where they disposed of their booty. The Cus toms Officers had many tussles and the pirates had been drowned and narrow escapes from these pests of

six killed by rifle fire, the remain- the sea. On one occasion I had a ing nine being either rescued from. close shave myself. The official of the sea or caught by the local the island informed me that a junk braves as they landed on the containing twenty-two pirates was beach. After being tortured by the expected to make an attack while local official, they confessed to their a theatrical performance was un

participation in several other pir- der way, and asked for my assist acies, and were sent to Canton, ance. At the time there were no where they were executed. The less than 900 junks in the harbour junk and rifles (all of the latest the crews of which had gone on Colt pattern) were confiscated. Of shore to see the performance. At the hundreds of pirate junka seized midnight it was reported that the by the Customs, nearly all had pirate junk had arrived and was cleared from Hong Kong, and all anchored amongst the fishing fleet. had the beat of modern arms on Some employers are inclined to Our arrangement was for myself board. The salt smugglers also all grumble that holidays are an un- mitigated nuisance in that they crew, and have one foreign officer Hong Kong authorities were doubt

to board the pirate with an armed cleared from Hong Kong. The disorganise the routine of the office

stationed in Come distance less greatly to blame for this state and demoralise the staff for several off, so that then a signal of affairs, for if they had exercised days afterwards. Although this he was to come on board the off the sama precautions that the Cus may be regarded as &D exaggeracial with some fairly bras" keep toms and Chinese officials did, tion, there is no doubt that holidays do hold up business and put em- ployers and employees behind in their work. The slight sacrifice is well worth it, however, since it is $74 in the best interests of local firme that the members of their staffs,

ing watch on the

beach in the smugglers and pirated would dates that not have made the Colony their

junk by happy hunting ground."

(to be continued)

order to catch =**** might escape swimming ashore." "On boarding the

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SIBERIAN HORRORS

Vivid Tales of Ex-Prisoner

on him and ordered his removal

should avoid mental strain by get

to another camp where the work ting as much fresh air and exer

was lighter and fresh air and plen. cise as possible. In England and

ty of food were provided. From America employers in factories and

here he managed to escape and the large department stores take an

worked his was down to Yladivos-) almost paternal interest in their

tock where, during the Revolution, staffs, and insist on theji indul-

he found employment in a timber gence in all forms of recreation, Condemned to serve a long sen- exporting Arm. From there he even going to the extent of providence as a prisoner-of-war in the went to Shanghai and worked for ing playing fields and open-air liberian iron mities, Mr. A. Biech several years Las architectural gymnasiums for their use. This is art, Czheckoffovakian, subject draughtsman, recently leaving that believed to increase the efficiency of formerely in the ampoy of the firm to join Messra. Bata and Co. employees and add to their im- Bits Shoe Company and now re-

Gold Plentifu nunity to sickness.

siding at the European Y.M.C.A., Mr. Riechart described the pri- Employers in this Colony might asdful experiences to a Doily Biberian peasants lived and said Kawloon described some of his mitive conditions on which the make a worse investment than to Press Lepresentative yesterday. ensure that their staffs get plenty

that, owing to the difficulties of} When are was declared Mr. transport, the villagers actually of exercise during the week-ends Bischaft at studying of the Acused geld with which to decorate and holidays, and encourage the ademy of Commerce in Berlin and, the harness and halters of their formation of sporta clubs for their enfisting in the Gorman Army, horses. There was gold in abund rospective firms. If they were to was despatched with the advance ance near Lake Baikal, as well a take a greater interest in the wel- troops to fight against the Russians, in the region of the Amur and Sun. fare of their employees during Affer two years of desperate fight gari liivers, but it was impossible after-office hours, and contributeding on the Russo-German frontier, to export it from these places, many towards the provision of playing he was taken prisoner in thle and, of which were in inaccessible moun Golds, organised bathing parties actes, detention, in the core at pain fastnesses and thousands of and other outdoor amusemente, the Tomik, where he and his fellow miles from mad or rail. Various Aumber on the sick-list every year German prisoners were as

treat attempts to sfuggle the gold had might be considerably diminished.ed and 11-fed, e

to been made, but in every case they The truth is that few people ever Barye in the iron mines in yoes: had failed, for the Soviet officials: think of organising their holidays chink." Fore prisoners wèra had their spies everywhere and snd, instead of following a satoried Brother like basta and phot anyone on sight who attempt programme, aimlessly meander forced ork in the underground ed, to slip past the Customs. The through the day and fad, at the pilla

healcely duty on gold was so high that it end of the holiday that they have a Valoo

Allow baid no one to take it out of the done absolutely nothing. The send yo

alf. "In country. One man bought a large sible man gets the utmost value tiris stanosphere hundreds of quantity for G85,000, but was told

"fall 11 and died, even that if he wanted to from his vacation and returns to the p his office not only invigorated, but the sta rest of them rocumbing of Sikre he have to pay with the satisfying feeling that he to the deplorable conditions For 3100,000 duty,

ascomplished something and tonately for Mr Blochart, when he have to farcit lived every minute of his leisure.

ussian doctor

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18-21 Hankow Rd. Tel. 58588.

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Phone: 68762

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CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co. (1918), Ltd.

Aiding In The Development of Kowloon and the New Territories by

PROVIDING ELECTRICITY

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