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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

AVIATION NOTES.

WEST RIVER NOTES.

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WUCHOW MORE OR LESS ISOLATED.

TO-DAYES MISCELLANY

WHAT SOCIETY HAS QOT TO Some of the residential accom-FAEL IN THAT TRADE DISPUTES modation which the local Govern- | ARE LIKE FIRE AND PESTILENCE, Those residents of the Colony

A. Dorrespondi nak” writbu ments provides for its subordinate AND THAT THE FINAL, GOAL TO who participated in the first joy-(From an Occasional Corres

Hocoa journal palatom a resold pondex).) staffs is very far from what it BE AIMED AT 18 THEIR TOTAL rides at Repulse Bay in Mr.

anos of the gros à Lord Brougham, A Westmorland school-maate might be. That applies both to PREVENTION.—Major H. Barnes, Ricon's planes will be glad to

Samahui, Oct. 11th. Hongkong and to Kowloon WV, P.

know that aventually certificates

now gone to his rest,' used Everything herois quint. There to relate a passage of arms have been surprised, indeed, to

testifying to they occasion are have been no trains running to between the famous Judge and 320 the "skimpy" mannar in!

In Baning these Canton since September 27th. which some of the residences (Sir Edward Stubbe) is 44 years of the Mackor Atrial Transport attack on H.M.S. Robin, it is progress in life of his wife's son,"

His Excellency the Governor available.

certificatos. the management.

his stepson. Lort Brougham was With regard to the recent evidently not satisfied with the have been built, as though any of age to-day. thing were good enough for the

Compeny state they are unable now definitely learned "small" men of the service. The

to make any issue of the medals Kwangsi troops ared on her. tion, Sir; get distinction.**** that for he said to him, "Get disting H. E. the Governor and Lady which were to have gone along The Robin is still in port. All have got distinction,” was the other day, at the K. R. A.

Stubba have mored from with the papers, as efforts which the holes in her sido have been more witty than mannerly retock, mesting, mention was made of the totally inadequate quarters Mountain Lodge to Government they had made to obtain

plugged up

"for I have the distinction of provided for the Postmaster in House.

satisfactory reproduction of the HMS. Cicala arrived here being stepson to the ugliest man Kowloon, but it was not added,

medals have met with no good from Canton on Friday, the 8th in the United Kingdom."

A.S WATSON & CO., LTD. masters living quarters on one

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would think that the Government! was really hard up, so sparing] is it in the matter of bricks and MOSTAT.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1920.

A PUNNING EPIDEMIC.

A SERIOUS MATTER.

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ținstant, expecting to find two British steamers awaiting an

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as it might have been, that, even Details of the French Govern-}results, what accommodatian there is ment 6 per cent Loan has been rendered less habitablə) advertised elsewhere by the

The Italian air authorities havalescort up to Wachow. On the Foar Christian names from the fact that the new Firs Banque Industrielle de Chine, recalled all thair air attaches, 9th, the Asiatic Fatralsum barna by the new captain of the Station has been erected almost which will accep; subscriptions who had been sent to almost all Company's motor boats Tung cricket team for Australia. Tois dead up against the Post Office, from October 20th to November European countries as well as to wang and Po Kai, is still a very unusual number in with the result that light and air 25th next.

China and Japan. It is believed from Kongmoon, ware ascorted England, but it is much more are to a large extent excluded

that the attaches in London, as far as the wireless station at usual to-day than it wis twanty from the whole of the Post-

man to have A distressing dreident took Paris and Washington will be Ma Hat by HMR Moorhan, years ago for a master's living quarters on one place at the China Sugar Raftery retained, or at least that their The two boats entered the part in three. In such matters fash

yesterday when machine oiler recall will be postponed for safety, having on board liquid ion is Station itself we see the same was tripped up by a machine belt some time. The decision is fuel for Wuchow. On Sunday 33 - elsewhere. Throughout niggardliness displayed in the and drawn towards the machinery,believed to be due to morning, the 10th, the AP.C. the aineteenth century, rough- provision of quarters for the with the result that bis chest was financial considerations, and to motor boat Salkong, with speaking, the Surnames of star. These are situate right crushed. Death was instantane severo criticism of the Go-1,200 cases of oil, arrived from the case of English men and over the Station itself; in fact

at noon H.M.9. woman, outside a very small claas, ous, the body being afterwards ment's air policy by the Italian Canton, and they might be described as bar removed by the Police to the parliament. It will be remember- Cicala left Samshoi for Wechewware prafixed by two initisk. ing been dumped down on to the

Public Mortuary.

ed that there was very severe and escorted there three bosts To-day a considerable minority roof of the Station, and, what is)

[criticism of the Rome Tokyo the motor basts leading, with the carry three, and in the public almost unbelievable, there are no

flight over the huge expenditure gamboat & quarter of a mile, schools you will find an old belief verandahs whatever. To expect Sub-Inspector Murphy had a involved and the benefits which aster. The Cicals was ready prevailing that it is somehow Europeans to live in small case before Mr. Dyer Ball this it would bring.

for any attack, all the man being better for a boy's standing at verandableas rooms in a climate moring in which he charged a

stationed at the guns.

school if his parents have been such as that which prevails here Chinese with appropriating to his

So far, no information has thoughtful enough not to omit the in the summer months is, to put own use a sum of $105, the pro-

reached here for fifteen days third Christian name. it very mildly, asking a mile too ceeds accruing from the sale of came through the wires during from Wachow, so it is impossible much. We wonder who designs two grave sites at the Chinese the past week was the reported to say anything regarding that

The four Christian names Government quarters. cemetery at Aberdeen which he intention of G many, through place, as all the telegraph wires possessed by Mfr. Douglas remind Whoever he is, would be like to conducted on behalf of a Chinese the agency of the Zeppelin Com-have been cut and the poles are one of the famous Ford brothers, reside in them himself? One woman. The case was remanded. pany, to inaugurate an airship tying on the dyks. Some of the familiarly known as "Alphabet service from Germany to America poles have, in fact, been taken Fords, all of whom had four with two Zeppelins specially con- away for firewood and the wires names spiece. An investigation Last week's health return stracted to suit the conditions have been rolled up in a heap a into the names of cricketers shows four occurrences of enteric required in the passage over the several places, so after peace has generally might not be without (three Chinese and one British Atlantic. This report comes been fixed up it will take the interes. Professionalis have no imported case), two of cerebro confirmation of a speech credited Telegraph Company a month or Christian names officially, though spinal fever (both Chinese), and to General Seely, in which he is more to repair the lines. two of diphtheria (one Portuguese reported as declaring that Ger-

no North Country Englishman will The Taiming arrived in forget Johnnie Briggs, George Judging from American papers and one Indian). The cerebro many will endeavour to regain to hand, a pus-making epidemic spinal case and one of the enteric by air all that she had lost on land Port to-day (11th instant) at 6.30 Ulyett. and Tom Emmet; but, un- has broken out in the States. It cases ended fatally. There were and at sea, Looking at the main kong this afternoon. She will not ordinary

Pc. and is returning to Hong-oficially. their далее has had its origin in the election also ten Chinese deaths from aspects of the new scheme, it

enough. speaking campaign which is now going on, influenza,

go up to Wachow yet awhile, generally. The Yorkshire fondness would appear that Germany is there are many thousand Kwangsi for Old Testament names gives us and the people are said to be

now on the eve of a big under-roops anxious to get down and such eccentricities as Saul Wade The news which we were able to give yesterday that the Asiatic | having good sport in ringing the Passengers going oner the taking, in which a daring vesture land a band in Canton, but 3 and Ephraim Lockwood. An Petroleum Company bas purchased the whole block of business changes on "You Tell 'Em." Fo: Kowloon-Canton Railway at a is to be made to switch the vast there are no steamers running exhaustive search into the names premises known as Bank Buildings, extending on the south side of example -

certain hour yesterday must have volume of passenger trade across they can of course do nothing of famous amateurs reveals such Queen's Road from Wyndham Street to The Pharmacy, is pleasing in "You tell 'em, Mississippi. you been surprised when passing the Atlantic on to her Zeppelins Chinese steamers with the treasures as Alexander Josiah one aspect yet very serious in another. It is pleasing to know that have a big mouth.

through Lok Hr, near Shatin, to which, if they realise all the Chinese flag lying would Webbe and Samuel Moses James a British company is so well progressing ibat it can buy such al

see the dead body of a Chinese comforts and esse which "You tell 'em, skyscraper, you hanging by a piece of rope from expected of them, will, needless to commandeer, and they would Englishman, save the greatest of

are be just the thing for valuable block and that in due season the present old and almos:

them Woods. And is there any other delapidated row of shops and offices will be superseded by big modern bave a lot of stories.”

one of the telegraph poles. On to say, become popular inasmuch OVON navigate the

vessels cricketers, who was (and is) premises, making the Pedder Street end of Queen's Road & present These are sample genus of the its discovery the body was cut as it is expected that the trip themselves. able sight. The enterprise of the firm in question is worthy of pan-epidemic that has swept the down and identified as that of a cross the Atlantic will not

known to the majority of his The arrival of the Taiming here countrymen by the initials of his commendation, for the scheme spells a big future improvement, the land.

sections fisherman. It is presumed to have occupy more than forty-eight was a pleasure for all, as she Christian names alone? few sparing benefit of which the Colony will resp. But there is a serious side Making you-tell-'ems has been a case of suicide.

bours. The question of fares brought mail a cd fresh provisions. to the matter and we most earnestly invite the Government's become, so we are told, a fa

has, however, to be faced, but for we have been hard hit in the attention to it. Unless the Government will make itself actively vourite indoor sport af parties Chinese was this morning passengers, I cannot see how the braided stores, meat, vegetables, London County Council has been

faiting a fall complement of interested, a period of great anxiety is ahead. Let us just state the newspapers are offering prizes for charged before Mr. G. S. Orme cost of fare could be profitably the best "you-tell-ems" and the

3.8. Moth is expected here asked to sanction at its evening The present tenants of Bank Buildings (and they occupy five pun in its many varieties has be with acting as a tout for some reduced from $150 to $50.

on Wednesday to relieve H.M.8. classes, is not altogether an in- shops and oine offices) are all leaseholders, some of the leases still come, at least temporarily, a fa-Wanchai. It was at the instance Chinese women of ill-repute at

Cicala, which goes to Hongkong. Doration Among the medicinal having a fairly considerable time to run-say, two years and more. vourite in the American idiom.

men whom he The sistèment that five bon- But there is a clause in all the leases providing that in the event of As Dr. Addison, the celebrated of two naval

There are about 500 Kwangsi virtues attributed to tobacco when approached tbat the Folice dred passengers can be accom-soldiers at Kwongli sad st Wah it first reached Europe. was its the sale of the property teams can be given four months' notice to essayist, said irreverent puasters obtained information which led to modated with ease in these new On, whilst some 1,000 Kwangtung supposed value as a preservative quit. The purchasers of the property have just given notice to all probably will bere exclaim. "You bis arrest. the tenants that they are now required to

The case was re- Zeppelins strikes a weak spot in troops are about 1⁄2 miles distant clear out by the tell 'em, doctor, you have the end of February. In ciber words, fourteen tenants will be patients!as Dr. Addison said: Banded to enable the prisoner to the arguments of the pessimist from the Kwangsi forces.

on whose who is fond of deprecating the force to find other premises. If there were

reasonable chance of "The seeds of punning are in the up in the women

behalf defendant had acted.

possibilities of these big gaabags. them doing so, there would be nothing more to say, but the fact of minds of all men, and though

as passenger-carrying liners. This the roatter is that there is not. We all know what recently bappened they may be subdued by ressou,

achievement instances another in Pedder Street when Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. went reflection and good sease, they The explosion of a tyre brought stage in the development off into occupancy of the premises formerly held by Madame Fairall will be very apt to shoot up in the about an accident to a seaman of aeronautics. She was forced to go out of business because there was nowhere greatest genius. It indeed im H.M.S. Carlisle named S. else she could go. Messrs. Robinson's in Des Voeux Road were possible to kill a weed which the Shepherd. Whilst driving on his also forced out of business, and with the approaching sale of the soil has a natural disposition to motor cycle at Taai Wan Gap on

New peace time uses are con-Spaniards, who were on Monday to smoke. Evidently Eton was Old Post Office building quite a number of office and shop tenants produce." At any rate, panning the Stanley Road, the back tyre tantly being found for the charged with being stowaways not the only school to encourage will be forced to more. This is a serious matter. We know of a is much in vogue in the States burst, causing the machine to aeroplane. Опа remarkable on the Eastern Trader from smoking among its scholars, for case in which the tenant of an office in the Old Post Office, knowing just now, and every candidate swerve on to the roadside. The development is that of adapting Shanghai, were again brought up Misso, a French Huguenot who that he would soon be forced to leave, found something else in the for office is being warned not to side channel checked the career it to forest survey purposes. It before Mr. G. N. Orms at the visited England in 1697, notes very Bank Building that within four months will be pulled down take himself too seriously, nor of the machine which then fall is no longer necessary for men to Police Court to-day.

that "the vary women take The scarcity of office and shop room in the European city has become to attempt to deplore a state of on its side, throwing Shepherd beat their toilsome way through The prisoners' story was to the tobacco in abundance, and In so scute that the business developmost of the Colony is being affairs in which a people pun beavily on the ground. He dense woods and undergrowth. By effect that they shipped from Worcestershire the children are restricted to a costly extent. We bear that the tenants of Bank while the burning issues smoulder. sustained a fractured knee and fights over the forest lands, exact South America to Yokohama to sent to school with pipes in their Balldings have never expected the literal application of the clause For (according to one paper) the sprained ankle, and had to go into lobtained as to the extent and port they were left stranded by calls a halt in their studies while information Cai be quickly "see the sights.” At the Japanese satchels, and the schoolmaster above referred to, but the purchasers hare every right to exercise punster will be quick to exclaim-the Naval Hospital. It and there can be no grumble against them. But surely, it is timel

conformation of the forest, the the unexpected deper.are of they all smoke." something was done to remedy the shortage of accommodation. Mr. Candidate, you have the "You tell 'em where to sleep,

nature of the timber, and the their steamer. They later ob- has been suggested to us that the tenants now affected should joint bank!"

There is a special attraction at suitable lines for cutting tracks,tamned work as firemen which ly address the Government pointing out the extreme difficulty of

the Repulse Bay Hotel to-night, whilst

Those Polish women folunteers where open spaces enabled them to get a cheap recently fighting in the "Battalion securing any other accommodation, asking it to intervene on their

when Mme. Belikovitch, of the are available machines CAD passage to Shanghai. Having the of Death to defend Wars&W behall, persuading the A.P.C. to be content' to give twelve months'

Warsaw Opera House, will again be landed to make desire to proceed to Manila, they could quote plenty of precedent notice instead of the legal four months. But that would only give ANGLO-AMERICAN UNITY.

appear in classic dances, whilst more detailed examination. Air stowed away on the Easter from the history of the Britis temporary relief. When the building does come down there will We were more than glad to baritons, will also be beard. Both the making of necessary maps.

Mr. Paul. Gray, the famous photographs will also facilitate (Trader. Still exist the danger of people being thrown out of business. We read of the appeal which Sit these artistes are front-rankers, Compared with old methods, these it was stated by Inspector Spearmarksa home contemporary, one In the case of Rodriguez Peres, Amazons that leap to memory, re- army. Among the many British have to look farther ahead than just a mere postponement, though, Auckland Geddes has just made and Hongkong should count it air expeditions are both mach that he had been brought up be-can recall Christiana Cavanagh, doubt less, that would be of great assistence

in favour of greater Anglo self fortunate in having them speedier and much less expensive, fore the Maricas Consul, who fought beside her husband The present position goes to show that the Government must American co-operation actively interest itself in the problem of congestion that is facing realm of commerce, which he is when they mada

in the visit the Colony. Last Saturday, and they are expected to do agreed on, but the Consul had no as a private soldier, and was the basiness community of the Colony. We remember the words of convinced will in the long run be

first valuable work in opening out proof of the prisoner's identity to buried with full military honours Mr. Claud Bevers when he spoke of the great desirability of re- to the benefit of both nations apparence, the Hotel was crowd-lands not yet fully explored. admit him to the benefits of long ago as 1739, Shoes building the whole city; he feared the paralysing congestion that is Trade rivalry, as

ded to overflowing, and the same Canads is the U. S.

just purchasing citizenship. With regard to the twice severely wounded, at the even now with us.

We look longingly at the valuable lands held by Secretary for Commerce said, andrianto is anticipated to night seroplanes specially fitted for other prisoner, Gomes, bis Wor-Battles of Lauden asted Bamillies, the military and wonder when we are going to hear anything further cannot be avoided, but at the

on Saturday next. this purpose, and the Indian Gov-ship was informed that the and had been taken prisoner. of the mooted resumption of them. We see that purely native shops same time there is scope for a

ernment has placed con mots for Chilian Consal would look after and fought a duel before, she and dwelling houses are creeping year by year more from the west in closer understanding between the| Until the expiration of the similar type of machine. In him.

returned to England, where she Can easterly direction, overtaking both sides of Wyndham Street, and English-speaking races, in bus- Ordinance which deals with the bath cases the contracts have been Both men were sentenced by received a well-earned pension pushing as far as Zatland Street (by way of On Lan Street). Native iness as well 赶路 in politice, matter, no Germans are permit placed in England, and the the Magistrate to twenty-one and became a popular plamaker. encroachment, the acquirement of premises by big concerns, an ex- We liked that observation of ted to reside in the Colony except seroplanes, which are designed | days' hard labour,

Anne Chamberlayne, who Hden" ceptional demand and no room for further building have contributed the British Ambassador that when making a temporary stay for both cargo and passenger

buried in Chaises Parish Churcb.. to make the lot of small business people and those who need office if the English-speaking peoples whilst passing through to other accommodation, are fitted with carried on official ses-planes for fought gallantly against the room & very unenviable one. Talk of reclamations and resumptions work together no half-baked countries. This is the gist of the interchangeable land-carriage and the purpose of ascertaining the French, Phoebe Hessel, accord and re-building does not one bit of good; it is very urgent action Communists er Militarist adven- information we have gathered Boats.

position of shoals of fish. The ing to her spitaph at Brighton, scheme provides for the fitting op served for many years as a soldier

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Smoking in school, which the

from contagion. So at the time of the Great Plague in 1565 all the boys at Eton were obliged to smoke in school avery morning. One of these juvenile smokers years afterwards declared

to Hearne, theOxford antiquary, that he was never so much whipped during his whole time at Eton as The two Booth Americanha was one morging for refusing

STOWAWAYS,

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that is needed. Our Chamber of Commerce knows that commercial turers" will long continue to by enquiries at the Colonial and business development is being restricted; tenants know that disturb the resettling of the Secretariat. We were informed Another peace time use for the of wireless installations on and was wounded at Fontenoy when they are forced to move there is nowhere else for them to world. We believe it Anglo-that, the fact that. Germans in plane is indicated in the fact that number of steam trawlers, the while, most memorable" of all. go: and yet the Government does nothing. For the sake of American unity can accomplish passing through the Colony to go the United States Fishery Bureau skippers of which will be notified Mary Ann Taylor accompanied Hongkong, for the sake of its own reputation and for the sake of the great things. There is, indeed, to Canton and other Chinese ports has enablished a service of sex-by the sea-plane observers of the ber lover, an infantry officer, to Interests of those adversely affected, the Government must do some little that it could not do were are obliged to make a temporary planes in connection with the position of the various shoals and the wire, absequently served thing and do it quickly. If things move at the slow fate of the past, the will to co-operate only stay here pending the securing of American fishing industry, Ex- the direction they are taking, so s'allor, and became the femor #then Hongkong will, in a few years, be suffering from 'the serious displayed sa it should be.

psssages could not be avoided. pert fibermen observers are being that they may be intercepted. "Billes" of the nauties; ballad, effects of partial self-rirangulationí.