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GENERAL NEWS,

Gunboat Destroyed by Aircraft-,

ARE CRIMES A NECES- SITY?

Wish for New Ones at Doctors'

Congress..

Prisons are Universition of

Nogal » (Arizona), July 29., An official surgont despateb received here anys that an airmen named Masson flew over Cusy-crime. mas harbour yesterday and drop- ped a bomb on to the Mexionn gunboat Tampico, destroying the Vessel.Reuter."

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The Tampico, built at Eliz:- bath Port New Jersey, in 1902. was a vessel of 980 t ›ns.'

Evils of Quarterly Pensions It was stated at an inquest hold at Llington on the body of Frederick Wiliam Cornish, aged 54. a naval pensioner, that the

The Law Courte of England do far more harm to society than all our burglars and thiovos.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1913.

WAR ON RATS.

Crusade by Manila. Bureau.

of Health.

According to the "Manila Times," war is to be waged on rate by the Buronu of Health there.

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ONE CENT PER WORD

TO LET.

FOR EACH INSERTION,

TO LET.

MEIRION, No. 10, Peak, TO LET Modern three roun-

or unfurnished.

Rooms. Cheap Rental. No. 59 The Peak, Mount Kellet, "Harting," Austin Road, Kow- loan, immediate possession

To let or for sale, GLEN-

Rats cost Manila approximately 375,000 Pesos a year. It is esti Crime is a good thing is is mated that each rat costs for Decossary..

| upkeep 2,50 Pesos a year and These are a few of the many in- there are approximately 150,000 toresting views expressed at con-rata in the city of Manila alone. SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, gress of the British Medical &8-Now if these rats were extor-Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March,

ociation during a debite, on minsted, aside from the immense 1913. Punishment.

financial saving

To lot furnished, KELLETT oitizens, the danger of disease CREST No. 66, Peak; early

possession. spreading would be minimized

To let "ROGATE," Austin There are two ways 'by which

To let, furnished for one year November next

The debate was opened by Dr. James Seat (formerly Governor of Holloway Gil). It has been

.to Manila's

Inan drew his pension quarterly sometimes enunciated, he said, the rat can be exterminated "/ Road, Kowloon; from 1st October."

and usually paid the greater portion of it away for loans. The Coroner said he thought that if old-age pensions could be paid weekly, naval and military ones could be also. A verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind" was returned.

New Zealand Trusts.

Wellington, July 30. The Court of Appeal. Las un animously affirmed the conviction

that crime wasn disones inherite suid Dr Leisor, the Director of from 1st

ed flats with every conven- ience, Humphreys Buildings, Cornwall Avenue, Kowloon.

No. 2 Minden Villas, Mody Road, Kowloon, five rooms, ten- nis court,

Four-roomed housesin Cameron Terrace, Granville Avenue and Salisbury Avenues, Kowloon.

Cheap rentals.

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or sequired, and that criminals the Bureau, to the Times." "COOMBE," Magazine Gap, with shonli ba pitied and not blamed," First, by the proper disposal of Tennis Lawn. put under kind treatment and not garbage, and sand, by building FOR SALE-HARTING and punished.

him out of existence, and thai ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-Conduit Road. means by putting up buildinge in land Lot No. 1154. such a way that the rat will find

FOR SALE. LADBROKE.” No. 9 Conduit Road, Fine View! it difficult to enter them through of harbour: 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, any other medium than the doors Garden and Tennis Court. Ac-. and it is certain that such acomodations for 30 Servants. course on his part would prove decidedly disastrous to his health

There was certainly an analogy between crimes and disease, but it was difficult for most of them to think that the cold-blooded as sassin or poironer, the professional burglar or housebreaker whose crimes origianted in sheer self

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of the Merchants' Associationishness, and often caused terrible and well being.'

Dr Leiser's idea is to eliminate Hongkong, 27th June, 1913; [211 and other parties to the Sagar eufferings to innocent people- Trust. The judgmont rays that should be pitied and not blamed, double walls, double ceilings, the New Zealand Commercial and treated better than many double stairs etc., from all build Trusts Act is stricter than the bonest and law abiding people ings, and also to build a founda.

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himself

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Becond helping

of rice pudding. He has just made two more discoveries. (1). That the young Prince of Wales thinks Mr Thomas Pilkington has the Turkey Trut "jolly good fuo,'" sold his famous horse. Prince and (2), that Queen Alexandra is Palatine to Air J. B. Joel,

The on

the verge of bankruptcy horse, however, is not to be through her extravagance and the handed over until after the race failure of some speculations in for the Jockey Club Stakes at the which she has been indulging. Newmarket First October Meeting Try they never, so hard, English has been decided, and it is newspapers never seem to have understood that one of the condi- the luck to get hold of such valu- tions of the sale is that Pince able copy as this. Palatine is not to leave the country. !

houses to a depth twice the thick Thongle striedy speaking, re-ness of the base, thus preventing formation was not art of the the rat from burrowing under and punishment, there was a strong getting into the houses by way of desire to do all that could be done the floors. to realnim iinils by bringing "Kuts." explained Dr Heiser. good in, fluences to bear on them "start breeding at five months The Hon. John Collier bus sent, while inprison. If that could he and breed a litter of from six to the following letter to a corres done, it was the most satisfactory nine ratiots every three months for pondent who askel him to "solve kind of deterrent.

about fiveyears, so you can see that, the riddle" of his picture "The

An interesting point in the unless some quick action is taken Fallen Idol" in this year's Royal address was as to the changing on the pert of Manila residents, to Academy Exhibition: Dear character of crime, the change be- exterminate the pest slogether, Sir-The weeping woman is the fulien idol. It is a young wife, do doubt, the result of eraca- things will reach a pitch where tion. There are now fewer offences life here will be unbearable. confessing to her middle-aged against the person with violence. There was a time when the rat hasband. The husband is evid- but a larger number of clever and was valuable as a scavenger bat entiya studious man, and has pot ingenious frauds.

since all garbage is destroyed he sibly neglected her,. At any rate, "Criminals should he made to has turned from a benefactor to the first thought that occurs 10uffer," was the view of Dr. U. A. ja peat," bia is Was it iny fault? Iim-

Mercier (Parkstonio),

‘And supposing you sucesod in agine he will forgive his wife.

The Rev. 07. B Simpson (Chup-driving the rat out of Manila," Yours faithfully, John Collier."

laiq-Inspector of risoners) con- queried the reporter, "won't he fessed amazemout and amusement thrive in the country? An interim injuncition has bean at the assortions by "softhearted He certainly will not," de- granted by Mr Justice. Neville or sloppy sentimentalists" that the olared Dr. Heirs or most emphati- Testraining two companies known punishment of imprisonment cally. City rate, unlike city as the Rainbow (Whitley Bay) counted for little nothing ns. peopie, do not thrive in the coun (Limited) and Frolics (Limited) deterrent. "Say what you like," try." from causing, in the grounds of hedeclared," the person who is The Spanish City." Whitley sent to prison and is once bit is Bey, any annoyance to a hout-frequently twico aby.' holder by carrying on certain This speaker provided an Heiser, "but all this cannot be done ahowa and entertainments. A excellent reason against the unless every citizen in Manila co- the price will be £5,000 less. The prospectus described the object customary "Boven days' Bon-operates with us. Baild houses highest price ever paid for a of the Rainbow Wheal, which is touce for drunkenness.

I have suggested, keep all gar-horse sold at publis auction is in course of erection, as being to Aman in prison for that period, bage covered in metal receptacles. the 37,500 guineas which M, produce the sensation of "dasbing he said, raised a great thirst, sad and the rat will soon final himself Edmond Blanc paid for 'fying beadlong into Dante's fearful In- looked forward to the end of without food-and there you Fox in 1900. ferno amid a tumult of mechan- the seven days to slake it in the are." ically-produced noises and. thun der, weird, unearthly, and uncanny soreams, and the flames

4:

Big Wheel Inferno.

and fires of Hades,"

Mongkung Vessels Delayed,

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And if his food supply is cut off, then he'll die?"

"He surely will," laughed Dr.

·

The price to be paid by M, Joel is, we are informed, £15,000 anless the horse is beaten in one of his engagements, in which case

of Lady Lightfoot. He was bred by Colonel Hall Walker, whe sold him in the summer of 1000 Up to the present he has won £36,364 in stakes. Donevan won more money in slakca than any other horse; in two years he won racus in the value of £55,153.

Prince Palatine is a five-year nearest public-house (Laughter.) Dr. Heiser said that twice a old bay horse by l'ersimmon out

Prince Kropotkin said he be-year all boats calling at the port lieved prison was not a deterrent. of Manila are fumigated thorough Twenty-four hours bread and ly, but was of the opinion that water might seem a deterrent to such a course would not be prag to Mr. Pilkington for £2,000. Up until dark last night, says those who lay on soft beds and ticable for Manila homes as the Cablenews Amerionn" of had good food, bat it would not rat would only have to get out for August 20, the steamships Empire be to those who slept under the time being and return after and Loongsang, both of which Thames bridges, (Hear, hear.) the fumigation was completed. sbould have arrived from Hong. Something must be done entirely kong yesterday morning, had not to ohange our present system. been reported. Undoubtedly the especially in regard to politipal typhoon which struck Hongkong offenders. (Cheers') Sunday has delayed them but

tho

Captain Arthur St. John Becretary of tbe the agents expect these boats in (Hon port by daylight to-day. The Penal Reform Lasgue) empha Yuensang has four passengers for sised the great harm done to Manila and the Empire two. Messrs society by the law courts, which, Mecondray and Company, agents for the Empire, announce that she will sail for Australian poris at noon to-day, providing that she gete in this morning.

Medical Inspection of Chinese Students.

At the Triennial Conference of Medical Missionaries in China, held in January of this year, Dr. Richard A. Bolt, Medical Director of the Teing Bus College, Poking, read a paper entitled "A Plea for More Syatematic Medical Inspec-

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THE FAIR FARM. old friend the London corapon- At London Zoo, .

dent of some of the United States

IS Located in The Healthies papers has for the weaknesses, District of Kowloon, and Supplies Mr Marcus S. Abrahame, a fade and financial difficulties of us "manufactured criminals by put-

dally with the... Choicest ting into prison people who should Fellow of the Zoological Society, England's Royalty. Not long ago, VEGETABLES, EGGS, not be there." It was, he said has presented a young made it will be recalled, he found out POULTRY. necessary to protect ourselves Orang-utan, from Singapore. that King George was at daggers against the people who deal with The little animal appears to be drawn with Princess Henry of SUPERVISION and every atten

GROWING OF VEGETABLES, the criminals; "but when we about three years old; and, like Battenberg; and, a little later, tion is paid to the PROPER speak about it we are told there all the young of the man-like that His Majesty was so hard and the Poultry of EUROPEAN is no time for justice in our apes, is gentle and affectionate.np

not STOCK. Try Our Delicious courtà." ("Oh, oh.")

It was obtained by one of Mr. afford to pay his cook and CRISP SALADS! Abraham's managere, and has was reduced to having to deny i Grand Hotel, Queen's Road. been treated almost like a human infant, being given a bath of hot

Subsidies to Provinces.

that he could

The Farm is under EUROPEAN

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week, and fed on boiled rice and

Certain provinces, which are milk, bread, and fruit. It is little tion and Physical Examination unable to maintain their armies, more than 2ft.in height, with the

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