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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1919.

Photo: Tientsile Press

A huge crowd of Koreans watching the funeral of the late ex-Emperor.

Photo: Culerwool and Underwood.

The Cincinnati Reds. U.S. National Baseball League Champions.

It shows the

Photo - Underwoolant & ale cu cext,

This is a picture of the first airpla» funerali coffin containing the remains of the four millatlisi old son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Allan of Toronto, Canada, being placed in an airplane to be carried three miles to Mount Pleasant Cemetery..

Photo: Underwood and Underwood,

Queen of Spain photographed with her children in the Magdalena Castle, Santander.

Meeting of steel strikers at Gary, Indianapolis. Inset shows one of the leaders addressing the crowd.

THE GREAT NORTH ROAD,

ENGLAND'S IMMEMORIALers,

a pas-

cers

TAKEN

BREVITIES.

In the Mile End-road, thieves The letter "a is not the first broke into the warehouse of a 'in

every Janguage-it comes clothier named Barnet Rosen- fourth in the Runic Futhark and berg, and stale, amongst other thirteenth in Ethiopic. things, bearly 500 yards of melion cloth and coloured serges and tweeds, many melton overcoats and blankets valued at nearly £500.

Tories of revolutionary days live Many-descendants of American

Bahamas. on the islands of Lucaya in the

The abacus or ancient calculat- ing table is still in use in China, India and other parts of the Orient.

their choice, and selected the muffs, and a quantity of unfinish- weekdays. No doubt, the good old stench and dust carry

£10,000 RUBBERY.

most valuable furs for removal | ed skunk muffs and stoles. days were very good for travel senger or two as well as goods.

Five large white wicker baskets and

and You get an idea of the journeys | VALUABLE highwaymen.

FURS

lettered. S. and & "and bearing hostelries, but they can never they are making by catching a

IN MOTOR CAR. HIGHWAY.

certain numbers were used to have quite reached this pitch of glimpse as they thunder by of

pack the goals. They were carri chalked in-criptions: Londen During the railway" strike in splendour.

The latest victims of the ganged out through the basement, and Between the standing carts and and Leicester," "Bedford," England the good old days came

of thieves who have made recent

The fog back (with a difference) to the cars flows from sunrise till long" Manchester." and so on. Great North Road. A corres-river of traffic down the hill and plastered.

successful hauls in all parts of removed in a motor car. Nine-tenths of the lorries are London, with the aid of motor which pravallei would assist the after sunset a swift, noisy,odorous

with great labels: pondent of the Daily Nons

Food only." or "Milk." Some Chronicle,) Stanton and Stanton found in North-East London.

are (says a recent Dailyieves in their operations.

Later, the empty baskets wer up the hill and past the church. writes

This is on the main road to and make a more personal appeal Limited. wholesale furriers, of write this from High Barnet, from the great industrial North for safe conduct on the lines of City-road, E.C., who, during the A reward of £250 is offered by the first and last stopping-place-the place where wealth is a favourite inscription: "Grub week end, have lost furs the them in connection with the through a good many centuries of literally made. So the wealthy for the Women and Kids"

DICKEYS LIKED BY CHINESE. those who go into and come out men pour past in their motor-cars. most of them have their names. When the premises were opened ported in the Daily Chronicle, was

A writer in The Arts Gazette of London on its northen side and every car I have seen (and I just as they used to at the front

out in Manchester-states, that he has been informed by the best of all ways, the King's must have seen hundreds in theWo Emma" or "Rolis. But on Monday morning it was found carried

by a Foreign Office official, lately highway. The town has seen the course of an hour) has been rot Royce," or "The Firing that every room in the seven- avenue. glory and the decay, and now it piled high with luggage and Welshman, in endless satirical storied building had been ran- Marylebone police are inquiring returned from China, t at some

thieves The

had into a similar robbery-it is be of the works of Charles Dickens sees the triumph, of the Great parcels, and packed with

pas-allusion to the temper and natural sacked. North Road. Railways may come sangers.

apparently entered by the fire- lieved by the same gang-from have been translated into Chinese Sometimes the pas history of the lorry tribe.

PROCESSES the premises of Messrs. Smithe with astonishing success, and and railways may go, but the SZBKers were half buried in The Great North Road welcomes escape door on the roof.- road goes on for ever the most packages and

It was evident that the thieves and Gures, Wigmaze-strest. The that David Copperfield bas trunks were them all. If it thinks. it must stable thing, perhaps, in all our Strapped on behind as well. cartainly be feeling rather proud were experts in furs, for they thieves got away with a number proved an especial favourite and civilisation.

Most of the lorries (oh, the fof itself.

showed great discrimiation in of fur coats, sable ties, suries and is being widely read.

High Barnet is making a for- une, out of the triumph of the Great North Road. Its main street, with a church and a righi angle in the middle, is a filter through which the most trem- endous volume of road traffe that has

poured into ever

thi metropolis has to pass, leaving behind it as it flows a deposit or what would have been gold before the war, and is now very useful paper.

The street was lined on both sides with a marvellous assort- ment of stationary things or wheels-big and little motorcars, enormous lorries, bicycles, cour- try carts piled high with trusses of hay. The motor garages and repair shops are full of bustle day and night. The little shops where they sell gaspers" are sold out continually. The taverns and hotels find it hard to get big enough upplies of refreshment for man and bras The teashopa `ara doing a sum- mer Sunday trade on eutumu

DO NGS OF THE DUFFS

THERE, THAT CHAIR. LOOKS LIKE NEW- I'VE BEEN AFTER TOM TO PAINT IT, FOR. THE LAST TWO MONTHS-"THE ONLY WAY TO

GET ANYTHING DONE IS 'To Do Fr

YOUR SELF-

And

Talue of nearly £10.000.

robbery.

A similar robbery as

It Prov d To Be Qite a Sürprise For om

ILL LEAVE IT SET RIGHT HERE IN THE SUHROOM AND SEE IF TOM WILL NOTICE IT WRSH HE

COMES HOME

TOH, DID YOU KOTICE THE CHAIR PAINTED TODAY? DOESN'T IT LOOK

NICE?

•

was re-

YOU'RE

I DIDN'T HOTICE

SITTING

IT- WHERE IS

IT?

IN IT!

The champion food conservers. are the bison or buffalo, which. take up a trail and stick to it so as not to trample on the grass needed for their foc.

Three hundred inventions. most of them designed to perfect in shoemaking, are credited to ose mac, the late Louis Goddu of Winchester,

Mass.

BY ALLMAN.

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