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Good-bye!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER
DAY BY DAY,
MOTOR NOTES.
RING OUT OLD SHAPES OF FOUL A Batch of Useful Hints.
DISEASE,
SINO OUT THE LEST OF GOLD;
NARROWING
RING OUT THE WARS OF OLD,
To-marrow there leaves for Home, after a period of useful service to the Empire, "a good. old English gentleman" who will always have a warm place in the hearts of thase with whom he has come in contact during his stay in Hongkong. Wa Tefer Major General Ventris, who hasf
One part of the automobile that just vagated the China Command. |
To-morrow, being New Year's is most widely neglected is the and who will now presumably Day, there will be no issue of the vacuura tank. It should be drained return to well-earned retirement. Hong Telegraph. Ta pur each week. Water and dirt arcu- After a strenuous career, includ-readers we wish a thoroughly mulate at its bortom just as they ing considerable active service, bright and happy New Year. do at the bottom of the gastank.
There is only one thing wrong with a leaking tire pump It
THOUSAND needs a new washer, or if the
washer is only hardened, it needs.
RINO IN THE THOUSAND YEARS a little softening with nestsfoot OF PEACE-Tennpr.
oil.
Major General Ventris went on the Retired List several years) before. the Great War
The West Point Folice have
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Tita changing will come much
and shellac rubbed over the rim. If time allows, remove all rust; patches with a file or sandpaper. Changing tires, in such event,j will be less of a bother.
A very fine selection from the broke out, but when the call arrested a Chiness suspected of easier with the use of graphise
of duty came he responded|being implicated in the armed best French, English & American thy weight of years robbers at Water Street.
he might have been entled to think that his serving days were ver. Then, when the war was still young, he came to Hongkong to take over the Command of the Forces in China, and the work he has done here, in a quiet bat thorough manter. has been of the utmost benedi in the Empire. Al that he hits duine cannot, nicourse,
WATSON'S
Lieut. Col. Wyndham and the others of the 2nd Wiltshires are giving an "At Home" at the Hongkong Hotel to-night.
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MAJOR GENERAL VENTRIS.
Leaves for Home To-morrow,
Using a monkey wrench to remove a spark plug lays the pleg open to liablity of being broken. A socket wreach should be used Amongst the passengers who for this purpose. It just fits be told here, but we do know that ived by the Empress of Japan around the plug and protects the Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires and high regard of officers and Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rouse. Mr. The always neid the confidence Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wakeman,
yesterday were Dr. McKenoy.jcore from accident. them to forward their names and aliresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as affection. Considerate, kindly Sarth.
men alike-Bay, even their J. W. Franks and Mr. R. A. C. vidance of their bona fides.
All communications intended for publication should be addressr courteous, with nothing of ed to the Editor.
the stern, unreasonable disciplin- ! arian about him, he get upheld! the dignity of his office and woni
Last night the Bandman repularity on all bands. He Comedy Company gave a delight-
The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip Service Collar, in which conses-to-night with "The Roiters
too notably in the matter of the the Truth." The season closes in shifting. tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for an his unremitting efforts were which is being staged by special. A good way to prevent harden-Army Division in England. It was
Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
The rate of subscription to The Hongkook Telegraph" is 500|worked hard for the Tommy fu! performance of "Nothing Bur/Sine should be accelerated slight-Lieutenant Colonelcy. He retired as a Major General on July
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In shifting from bigh to second Command, is leaving for England by the 4. Sicilia which sails at Major General F. Ventris, C.B., who has just vacated the Chica sometimes the gears grind and 10 am. to-morres, after having hell the Command of the Forces in raap. This may be due to adrag China since July 17, 1913. ging clutch or an inequality first Commission an
Geners Ventris received his February 11. 1575. He served in the in speed between the engine and
Soudan clutch. In such a case the en-for his services was mentioned in despatches and awarded a Brevet Expeditions of 188185 and 1595-96. and
7, 1909. On the outbreak of war he was at once re-employed and until posted to the China Command was in command of a New a happy slection to send ing of inner tubes while they are General Ventris to Chins where his knowledge of the stored away during winter is to country as well as his ability 25 an administrator could place them in hot water once be fully used. General Ventris carries with him the best The The holidays having interrupt-month or six weeks. After a few wishes of all who have served under him; his unfailing whole Colony, we are sure, is with fed work in the local electro-mak-minutes immersion, they should courtesy and kindness of heart endeared hira to Kl in wishing him very many ing establishments, there will be be dried thoroughly and indated and it is the general hope that he may have many years of life to happy and peaceful years in the no issue of the usual Tringraph slightly before being hung up. enjoy his well earned rest.
Country, which he has served Historial Supplement this week. This will keep the rubber soft and ungrudgingly and so well. Next Saturday's illustrations, pliable.
however, will comprise many of local interest.
he has made innumerable friends,
highly appreciated. "Socially, also, request
who will say goodbye to him with the keenest regret.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will to delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd..so Shameen, Cantos, who are our agents there.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920.
ANOTHER MILESTONE,
Cementing the Entente.
FOOTBALL.
Pegun In a quiet way. the jscheme by which Eiritish towns have adopted" towns in the devastated areas of North-East! France has grown space. "Our people have experienced heavy pressure upon their persis, but this is an object of no common sort. The Tommunities in the as follows: -
At his special reques: General Ventris departure from Hong- kong will be private and there will be no guard of honour at the Pier.
VENEREAL DISEASE.
Commission's Aim in Hongkong.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
This best way to locate aby electrical trouble is to begin atj oce end of the ignition system and work step by step to the other end. Start with the spark plugs, and if these are found in good condition, go on to the wir
Since the day of old Hamble- ing and terminal connections. The Far East Commission
don, cricket has been known as Inspect the distributor case next appointed by the Society for writer in a home journal. But it the elegant game, remarks a for dirt or carbon dus If the Combating the Prevalence of is capable of taking on nicer sirg trouble is here it can be rete-Venereal Disease died by wiping with a clean rag. Hongkong on Wednesday, and believe the reports of the match arrived in and graces even yet, if we are to took up its Headquarters at the between the M.C.C. and Victoris eight-cylinder La Hongkong Hotel.
Com- Farette contains the latest at mission comprises two members, one of these accounts we are told just concluded in Australia. In 85 12 13 8 12 tempt to remove vibration from Rupert Hallam and Mrs tha: "a lovely stroke which seat Neville Rolfe, and their mission the ball to the leg boundary Was 2311 is 11 automobile motors. Instead of
4135 16 the conventional three main bear in this Colony will consist of make by Hearne, and the batsman $325 529 ozs.M.D.McCall Whitedesigner advocating measures by which was warmly congratulated by the 10 12 11 of the La Fayette, has given bis the disease can be combated and fieldsmen. Here is courtesy in- 71 3 3 4 9 5 motor five. In this case, every prevented.
As a first step. Dr. Hallam mea" is no mere misprint for deed! Les us only hope "feld's-
League Tables to Date. The League tables to date are war stricken terntory suffered to E SHKONG LEAGUE: DIVISION 1. a degree that can scarcely bet recognised by those who have not |
Goals witnessed the desolation wrourbti by the invading hosts. Save for
Sporadiz Earl B.G...
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Another milestone on the long road of time is all but past. We lair-raids and are about to say "Good-bye" to 1920 and to welcome in a year that sorties which suffired to give Wiltshires looks full of promising possibilities, as we look back upon the non-combatants an inkling of the H. K. Chuk common experiences of the past pearl there as much tor which we horrors of war--the towns of the Kowloon. can be thankful, albeit there is a little also to menit tiisappointment. Honeland were spatet contact
Taman... The world didn's have all it thought it was going to get but it has with
hostilities. Thisis. C.A..
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better able to face the future by teason of its experience. Un-re, of showing sympathy with Ambrose. 6 1 4 1 4 16 39 between two main bearings. fortunately, there are those among us who thrive on jeremiage, who our friends whose families and Carlisle.
413022 making the shatt so rigid as tongkong Telegraph in an inter-amesities we may look to from our can always find cause for gloom and worry: out there is room for property were exposed to
practically eliminate vibration stew yesterday, the Commission cricketer as this spirit of chivilry very real toɔks and optimum when we look at what has been "the latarde of astrife.
all speeds.
will get into touch with the
gets really going. and compare it wa
"Strudwick Governmentandthegeneralbodies What might have been.*
Jehester has set the Largeri The feature of the past year, internationally, has been a steady cities
appointed by the Government for captain," the reports of the future brilliantly stumped the Australian striving after word-wele peace and the setting of the problems launchire a fund of £00970 H.MLS Tamar 7 5 11 13 13 11on of gasoline, automobilies and the educational and clerical is read, but the gallant
To get more miles out of a gal. the maintenance of public health born in the late war. And if there has not been complete success,behalf of Mezieres, and Newcastle HM S. Haw- there has been inuch purifying of the atmosphere.
should be made lighter and abould organization and with
Surrey wicket-keeper immediate- The natums oijis raising £20,500 towards re- the world are getting a better understanding of real internation-habilitating
ly expressed his deep regret to be geared down to 25 or 30 miles co-operation, to the first H.M.S. Arras, alism; Conferences of the old Allies have been important and instalment having boso bande!
an hour. That is the opinion of measures
Mr. Armstrong for the action. To by the appoint- 1 writer in The Lamp. official ment of a local body to enquire wick, was to take a mean advant fairly frequent additional Peace treaties have been signed; and to the Mayor of that battered Wiltshires
Įstamp a man out, said Mr. Strod-
there is a tendency to exhibit the
organ of the Standard Oil Com-into the prevalence of the disease age behind a man's back. He de 6 3 2 1 15 5 ICAL. Une place during his rement visit HMS. of the most important happenings of the year has been the meeting the Tyne. No less commendable
pany of New Jersey, who adds here and to take necessary steps. plored that law 23, as it was at of the Assembly of the League of Nahons at winch was discussed are such movements as the in-R. EA.
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that such a motor car 6
could The abolition of houses of be made to average from 25 ill-repute. will be. advocated, with no alternative but to act as
present constituted, had left him many vital questions affecting the peace of the worl And just as apguration of a Shiling Fund for MS. Cur
7 15 17 13 3 to 30 miles the old year is dying we have telegraphic news of the views that Bapaume by leading Yorkshirel
to each gal. as far 25 circumstances the had done. He basteaed to have been exchanged regarding the decreasing of naval armaments, journals representing Sheffiel!!
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lon of fuel used. "The United permit. 71 31 7 17 3 States is the only country in the medical treatment for sufferers, framing of that law, which, he and the provision of explain be bad had no part in the in which matter, Great Britain has taken a lead that should impress and of a
Mil of Pennies for to-morrow.
There are no League matches whole world that insists on high- It will be the fondamental aim of said, really went against his fin. many other bations, especially the United States, whose active co- Fund bra South Coast operation in the League of Nations is so highly desirable. Between town.
powered, heavy motor cars," says the Commission to provide free Armentierea
the writer. "It is time that we medical treatment for all. regard acknowledged Mr. Strudwick's est instincts. Mr. Armstrong nation and nation the world contains a better spirit than it did of the latest adoptions, and twelve months ago. Industrially and inancially the year has been London, which has organised a
stopped i The man who gets less of the financial circumstances apology in a gracious speech." .HARE COINS AT HABLECH a disappointment. There was an expectation that the great trade special scheme in addition to
from six to eight miles from a under which the patients may be CASTLE, boom of 1919 would extend to 1949 also, but that expectation has adoptions hyshme of the con- Castle workmen discovered sever-use that will enable him to push lectures, and the co-operation of obey the new etiquette.
During excavations at Harlech
gallon of gasoline in order to bare placed. not been realised. The world's supply of goods would seem to be ponent
a reserve power for occasional | With the aid of a number of Hobbs, we may be sure, will too large for the amount of money available, though by no means immortal Verdun under its wing al rare coins dating back to the his car along the road at from 50 local sympathisers adequate to supply all the wants.
in the Surrey batsman drove Macartney The war is having it inevitable as part of the capital's pro reign of Heary VIII. effect. The world sull needs supplies. but it cannot afford to paygramme. Altogether the sponsor-
[to 75 miles ап hour, is work, the Commission is confident for seven fours in two overs, but
offender for them. And the result is a trade depression, unemployment and ships make up a goodly list, and
sgainst the that its visit will not have been was deeply moved subsequently want an object lesson, if anyone ever needed it, of the costliness more are in contemplation. Some was
public good. For all practical ineffectual.
by the spectacle of Macartney's of warfare apart from the direct cost of its conduct. Governments of the returned inhabitants are has become so through haring makes 25 to 30 miles an hour to learn that the Japanese Con-until the next day, when Macart- not mythical originally. It purposes an automobile that Dr. Hallam was much interest-bowling analysis. It was not are burdened with war debts, peoples with high cost of living, high living under the most primitive drifted outside of all bestic s.would serve every need... Sach & sul-General (Mr. G. Ohmori), for ner bowled him for none, that taxation and a depreciated currency. Time alone will right matters conditions, dug-outs, huts, and Just lately the story of Loe car could be made to average reasons connected with national Mr. Hobbs recovered from his and the Governments of the world have a task before them in trying similar improvised shelters being Kruger millions" bas to sid. We in Hongkong bave felt the effects of the depression. atilised for the time being, so revived by the death in an obscure closer to 30 miles on every gallon the abolition of the Japanese the true touch of the courtier been better than 25 miles and probably prestige, was inclined to favour remorse and smiled again." But and we have had our local CAUSES of depression, too, that assistance is
part of London of a man said to of gasoline." But the year ahead looks a little brighter. China will greatly help particularly welcome.
brothels in Hongkong and the will come when the reports tell be J. E. Preece, of Pretoria ". if she can, in great measure, compose her internal differences and
sending back of their inmates us that Douglas bas objected to who is credited with having help- become the consumer on her old scale.
to Japan. In Japan, Dr. Dolphin's frequent and world the only remedies are those of strict economy, of limiting un-Treasure Trove.
ed the Transvaal president to An additional gain in the Hallam remarked, the work successful appeals for leg-before- productive expenditure, of reducing national debts and internali
escape from South Africa with a efficiency of the motor car, saya of the Commission had been of a wicket. "Mr. Douglas sternly taxation. And the maintenance of peace is the prime essential
large sum of money which was this writer, could be had from highly successful character and cautioned his Anything in the way of lost said to bave been lost en route.(the
wicketkeeper. As a Colony we have come Through the year well. True, the treasure, be it but a faint rumour, It bas not been proved that ratio
1138 of A higher gear when it left that country, the ex- He pointed out how necessary it closing months have brought grave trade problems and the present is sure of attracting attention. Kruger took any such treasure. Under ordinary driving condi-mission and the Japanese health were to be upheld, that no appeal and Д fourth speed. change of views between the Com-was, if the fine tone of criokat position is not over-bright, But there is every reason for con. Innumerable must be the tales and the old President needed no tions, he explains, "a six-cylinder, organizations had concurred on should be made unless it were fidence in the future. Big developmenis are promised for the Port around which some legend has one to assist him in escaping, as 30-horse-power motor with a car the necessity of a maintenance of manifest that the batsman was within measureable time; the Government is showing a more con-grown up. Daring the present he had plenty of time.
derate attitude towarde commercial expansion and schemes are century.& company was formed gold from the Rand mines may from 700 to 1,000 revolutions of the Commission had establish profit by his (Mr. Douglas's Some doing 20 miles an hour will make the mutual relations that the visit out. He hoped Mr. Dolphin would under way that will help to encourage the return of prosperity. The for recovering treasure alleged to have been shipped by somebody minute, depending on the geared. year has witnessed a greater interest on the part of the public in be resting on the bed of the North at that period in a schooner ratio and the diameter of the
example." When the great game civic affairs and the recent Budget made provision for many de- Sea somewhere off the coast of which was lost, but if so the gold wheels. Under these conditions presentative that the Society is ties as these, then it will be as Dr. Hallam informed our re- can provide us with such amení- izable improvements. We feel that 1941 can be looked forward to Holland, where a ship with reput- has apparently been lost too, as the engine is operating at low maintained by public-spirited elegant" and as "gentlemanly" asa year in which many of the trade troubles will be dissipated, ad valuable cargo was sunk in an attempt at year in which the present progressive policy of the local Govern Napoleonic times. Another en. abandoned a number of years ago. equipped with a fourth geared-up which were sent out to the West to be.
recovery was efficiency. If the car were Britiabera and the Commissions as Lilly white himself desired it ment will be continued, and a year that will bring the world a step terprising party operated off the All the same it may be that some speed for level roads, the motor Indies and the Far East have the nearer the realisation of the hopes we foudly cherished during the coast of Ireland in the hope of enterprising company-promoter speed in this case could be cordial and entire approval of the after completing its engagements dark days of war. Slowly, but autels, we are coming back into the recovering bullion from a Spanish among our great-grandchildren brought down to 500 R. P. M. British Government. full sunshine of a world at peace a world prosperous and happy. galleon. In both cases results will invite subscriptions
bere,- will proceed to Singapore It couly needs a little patience,
for with a resultant marked gain in The Commission bas toured and Colombo before returning to suggested that if the tressure locating the "Kruger millions."
Canada, Japan and Shanghai, and England.
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