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There was a clean bill of health | He will return to Shanghai in
Owing to the continued uncer-
of the river, and the start of the | for the 24 hours ended on August † March next. motor trip has to be
made by 2. ferryboat. Ever since the railway was made it has been recognized that a proper bridge for vehicular ainty of the weather, the band traffic was required in place of the concert arranged to take place at narrow bridge of boats across the K.C.C. will be postponed in- Lady Louis Mountbatten, was which passengers
and luggage definitely. rived in the Colony yesterday by waiting on amongst the passengers who ar surge to the rickshawa and cars
the s.s. Canton from Haiphong. "
Lady Mountbatten, who is one of the richest women in the world was recently at Bangkok.
From Bangkok she motored into Cambodia and while there visited the ruins of Angkor. She proceed. ed by train for Haiphong which city she left, as stated, by the steamer Canton."
NAVAL MANOEUVRES
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on the other alde, There will be a Dinner Dance at and the question has recently been Repulse Bay Hotel to-day and a stirred again. The present state Tea Dance to-morrow at 1.30 D of things is certainly a disgrace to
The "Andetonians" Band will be in the town; and a new bridge which attendance on these occasions. would afford convenient access to the station, and enable the buses to come right into the town is long overdue
NEW HOSPITAL
The hospital to which the patent medicine millionaire, Mr. Hu Wen- hu, has given 8200,000 is now in
to the extreme east of the town,
Wong Chau-kee, a Chinese male was badly bruised when he was accidentally knocked down. by a motor car bus in Johnstone Road on Thursday night.
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The Hon. Treasurer of the Old Protestant Church and Cemeteries. at Macao Restoration -Fund aa- knowledges the following dona- tion:- 打 Already acknowledged $523,50
His Excellency Sir William and Lady Peel
50.00
line, along the Shanghai-Nakning The new long distance telephone
highway is expected to be ready for use by the end of this month it is learned. The line covers 200 miles and when it is in operation, callers will not be required to wait for service quite so long as they have. to do now.
The following forthcoming wed- dings are announced:-Mr. Thomas Madison" Pile, prison officer of Lalchokow
Taylor
to Miss Jean of 26 Dunlip Street. dog, Greenock, Scotland, en route to unknown Hongkong on the as. Rawalpindi;
Mr. Utaldino Francisco Aveling de Couto, the Chief Officer of the B.B. "On Chao" to Mrs. Chaj Stu Chan.
Staying at Peninsula Hotel, our distinguished visitor will remain a few days in the Colony during the course of erection on a site.
Feh Mut Mo-pin, a Chinese wo- which she will visit the many not far from the old tone fort.ment Civil Hospital on Thursday) Nicol
man was admitted to the Govern- places of interest in Hong Kong It is disappointing that the plans afternoon suffering from a and on the mainland
do not seem to have been drawn bite received from an by anyone with expert knowledge dog, in Queen's Road: East. of what a hospital in these, days ought to be, and that gives rise
Tang. Tek-soon, a fitter at the to some doubt whether we are Shingmun Valley Dam Scheme going to have, as the result of his was admitted to Chinese Navy At Exercises
the Kowloon generosity, a really up-to-date. Hospital late on Thursday even- fully equipped
For the cost of $200,000 to be. Nanking, July 72-Naval man-stamed insituation.
and adequately ning suffering from severe inter-provided by the Honan and Klang- oeuvres are being held on the up-
nal injuries as a result of a fall. Hu recently paid a flying from a height while at work. per and lower reaches of the visit to the port, and in the course Yangtze River under the
direc-of it promised a considerable dona- tion of Rear-Admiral Tseng Ition to provide a sultable place of by Mr. R. Obl, Vice-Consul of the A brown and white dog owned
Squadron, and Rear-Admiral Wang sentences of imprisonment; with was sent to the Kennedy Town ting. Commander of the 2nd Naval detention for criminals serving Argentine, of No. 9 Stubbs Road Shou-ling Commander of the faculties for giving them training Depot for observation on Thursday Training Squadron respectively.. In handicrafts A rumour was go-evening, following an attack upon The 18 gunboats. and cruisersing to crown his benefactions to the son of Mr. Ohl's servant, who participating in the manoeuvres at swatow by building and endowing was severely hitten in the calf. Tsaoha ehchia, near the Capital, a university but this is probably are the Ninghai, Haiyang, Yatsen. an instance of the wish being Chungshan, Chutung, Chuyu, Chu-father to the thought. tal, Chuchien. Chukuan, Klang- yuan. Klangchen, Hungo, Hupeng.
Mr.
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su authorities, a stone dyke can be built near Lanfeng in Honan suf- fcient to keep the Yellow River
in, northern Kiangsu to from reverting to its old course.
thereby considerable damage. The Yellow River Flood Prevention" Association in Nanking is reported to safeguard against possible floods to have decided upon this scheme
in the near future.
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yet in spite of the lessons taught indelible impression in the minds sufferings of those who went to to have seen it. by the War, the sacrifice and the of those who were fortunate enough
fight and the privations of those Following Peace came the revival who were left behind. the world of trade with Europe. The process appears once again to be on the Was gradual. The enhanced value crge of another outbreak of the dollar-It exceeded six hostilities-a conflict the magni shillings at one stage, enabled the tude of which would surely over- Colony to pay the high prices shadow all the havoc, the death demanded Hong Kong saw the and destruction of the last war first aeroplane in fight not very The Peace which was bought so long after the War and what a dearly has lasted sixteen years and thrill it gave the population! so far attempts to disturb it has
August 1914 to August 1934 covers been unsuccessful. Meanwhile a o span in the history of the Colony younger generation is growing up, that should be most interesting for
While working on the side of a
Owing to trade depressions of the whose only knowledge of the War future generations. It embodies a
ship at the Taikoo Dockyard., on world, more overseas Chinese have. 1s gleaned from novels and possibly period when the Colony was at the
BIG EXPLOSION
Thursday afterono, Wong Shing- returned to this country during the the stage and screen. For them zenith of Its prosperity, when there Chenshen. Haining and Kiangning last Wednesday, the sound of a heavily, sustaining severe
In the middle of the forenoon of Hee, a Atter, allppsed and fell past five months than those who the prospect of War holds no fear was a boom first in shipping. then while those at Hukow, neat. Klu-heavy explosion was heard over a injuries. He was admitted to the South Asian Islands, according to head have left the country for the and the indications are that before in shares and then in property.kian, are the Yingjul, Haishou, large area of the town, It came Government Civil Hospital the officials of the overseas affairs as- very long the opportunity willThe same twenty years covers two Minchuan, Jenshen and Kungshen. from a shop on the outskirts where same day... arrive when they may have a taste strikes, the biggest we have wit.
Kuo Min.
sociations in Shanghal. During the of what war can be like.
drecrackers were made and sold. ressed. It also covers the begin-
last five months, a total of 6,535 Upon this wentieth anniversary ning of the trade depression here
The proprietor with his wife and Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Secre- Chinese, including 2,4189. male of Britain's entry into the War it and affords a strong contrast to
child were engaged upstairs in tary-General of the Shanghai, adults, and 1,904 female adults, Colony Ands itself groaning under mixing the powder for the crack- Municopal Council, is leaving by emigrated to the South Asian Is- may be permitted to recall the the prosperous days just following the effects of a "slump, unpre loyal though insignificant part the War. Twenty years after the cedented in its history from ed. He was literally blown to United States. After visiting TE-trom these islands, totalled:8,944 ers, when the whole mass explod- the 6,5. Empress of Japan for the lands while those who returned which Hong Kong played in that momentous declaration of War that which it is struggling valiantly to pieces, and the other two, with anlatives and friends in America, Mr. including, 4,735 male adults and epic struggle. Not a few left the brought us great prosperity, the extricate itself
other worker in the shop, either Fessenden hopes to visit Europe. 1,153 female adults.
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