THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1924
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had a most disastrous year. In
DAY BY DAY.
"THE ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF
addition to general business de GREAT THINGS CONSISTS 15 pression and a decline in silver | DOING SMALL THINGS WELL, exchange, great distress was Confucius. occasioned by the summer floods, randaring some two million home-
The sa. Madawaska reported
lass people on the verge of starv to the Harbour Office this morn- tion, whilst cholera made ita ing that she was "dragging." appearance and took a heavy toll of life. added to which the political obnos greatly restricted
Yesterday's
· U.S. RAILWAY STRIKE.
Mail Trains Curtailed.
¿Boster's. Service. ) ¡Continued" from Page 11
`Chicago, July 11. Several railways have curtailed the mail-train schedules, owing to the shopmen's strike.
The Wabash Railway authorities report that thees thousand miles of line have ceased to operate.
Trouble continues at various place where collisions have occured health return between strikers and strike-breakers:
the credit facilities usually ex-shows one fatal case of small-pox Neither the owners oùr the miners hava yet replied to President tended by native bankers to their and one non-fatal case of plague. | Harding's proposals for a resumption. Neither professes datisfac-. customers. Such a successian of Both were Chinese.
tion with the proposal.
untoward developments would
DUTCH ELECTION CAUSES DIFFICULT SITUATION.
appear to be enough to cripplej Half-Caste."---You have failed most places, especially seeing to comply with the rule which that unemployment increased to requires anonymous correspon
Queen Confers with Leaders. an alarming extent. But in order dents to furnish their addresses. to relieve the situation a factory,
The Hague, July 11. styled the Poor Man's Workshop
Queen Wilhelmina received the Premier, with whom har Majesty Injuries to both legs were discussed the difficult political situation resulting from the elections. with a capital of $50,000 was received by a coolls who was run The Queen receives the Presidents of the States Geceral-so- established in the city by over at Praya East by a trolley worrow.
loaded with earth for the Prays East reclamation.
Convicted of tampering with A Chinese Was
་་
STATUS OF SANTO DOMINGO.
U.S. Contemplating Evacuation.
Washington, July 11.
group of Chinese philanthropists, whilst officials and merchants organised a relief bureau, sup- |ported by Government 'striaxes and private contributions, with the object of relieving immediate a water meter, distress, and in the midst of all fined $25 by Mr. E W. Hamilton. The State Department has adopted a tentative programme to the unfavourable circumstances, this morning. The defendant evacuate Santo Domingo, provided that it can be ascertained a big Industrial Exhibition was pleaded that the meter was out of that evacuation meets with the approval of the majority of the No- held in the city, and this is being order and ha was trying to minican people. transformed into a permanent repair it. Industrial Museum.
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HONGKONG, 124th July, 1922.
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In Kowloon City yesterday, a fight between two mendicaals The impression that one gelafended fo the removal of one of on reading through the report is the combatants to the Kwong that the Chinese are a wonderful Wab Hospital. He had people when it comes to battling wound on the head inflicted with with obstacles, and what is true a chopper. of Nasking, is equally true of many other centres. Despite all the unrest and the ravages off
Sliding down the hillside oo flood and famine which so often returning from worshipping at the | Ching Shan Temple, Castle Peak, make their effects felt in various in elderly man sustained fatal parts of the country, tbe silent TO ESTES toil
He was unconscious on. and injuries.
when he was rescoed, and died at trade, if restricted, is by no means the Kwong Wah Hospital brought to a standstill. „The re- cuperative power of the Chinese
TRAIN COLLISION IN SPAIN,
Many Killed.
Paris, July 12. A message from Madrid states that 30 were killed and 30 injured in collision between the Galician express and a mail train near Valencia. The latter was mostly filled will passenger going- on holiday. The dead include a judie, a senator, and a deputy”.
HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.
Dempsey and Coloured Champion Reported to Have Signed.
New York, July 11. Dempsey and the negro, Harry Wills, have contracted to box for the world's beavy-weight championship, the time and place to be arranged later.
EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE. is something of which the country A ricksha coolie who
may well be proud, but we cannot returning from Kennedy Towa help thinking how much greater at 1 o'clock this morning, was and more rapid would their pro- | held up near the Slaughter House gress be if they were freed from by two men, who, after giving these physical and political draw him a severe drubbing, stole from backs and the country opened up his pockets 30 cents and his in it would be a case of "The as it ought to be. Then indeed licence.
INDIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS.
Nearly Four Thousand.
Simla. July 11. Excluding Moplab convicts, the total number of prisoners taken the recent political movement amounts to 3,815.
EXPLOSION AT GERMAN EXPLOSIVES DEPOT. Berlin, July 12.. Thirty workmen were killed or injured in an explosion at the Groden explosives depot. near Cuxhaven.
ROUND THE TOWN.
From
recent indications looks as if a decided increase will have to be recorded in relation to offences of the violent kind when the statistics for 1922 come to be Awakentax of Chios." We have
As the s.s. Hing Wab, from compiled. Assalts, hold-ups, yet hopes that the time will come Singapore.
mooring this and intimidation are becoming en China will settle down to morning, two Chinese sailors fell
peace and progress. And for that overboard. The boarding officer | commonplaces. Faction fights reason we trust that, for the good was passing in his launch at the are another edifying feature. The of the country and the whole time. He threw lifebuoys to the other day it was the Peak coolies: world, the negotiations no going men and they were rescued with this week Yaumati gangs, sp-will have a happy issue, bringing]
on with a view to real anification out quch difcolty. parently running into hundreds, about lasting concord and the threatened to create disorder. will to advance.
(By "Gadabout.') Apparently there gentry suppose Industrialism in China.
They've got a little scheme in that, because they are not best We wonder what sort of a of robbery, a charge of returning Manila that I should like to see in
from banishment, a kidnapping Hongkong. upon robbery or some other na report a Labour commission from
With the object of farious project, they are at liberty the West would deliver alter case and a case of conspiracy to withdrawing from circulation Bil mutilated paper money. Gov- kidnap with intent to procura to carry oa bamboo-pole warfareditions ic China? The general ansom and riding and abettingiornor-General Wood last Decem- about & new cinema that was
investigating industrial Con-
bar ordered that every querer
This month's Criminal Sessions list includes a murder charge.. two cases of armed robbery, twoj
kidnapping.
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etcetera's
end of it: However, Hongkang is apparently not unique in thin respect. In yeaterday's paper 1 saw a little paragraph stating that there is a little war In Chefoo over a proposal to grant a licence. to a cinema with a bar. How our neighbours in the land of rubber and tin must smile. I remember a pal down that way coming up. to me one day and telling me all according to thoir own sweet will, impression has been that the
there should ha a general burning going to open in the near future. forgetful that they are living sons of lan are ready to do a
A real posh show of all torn an dirty bills. There under British law. Ножетет,
Jong day's work for what the
be. The Hongkong and Shanghai was a burn-up under the scheme going to I forget now bumblest European spends upon Banking Corporation has declared recently. when these offences are not so ima packet of fags, and at the an interim dividend of £3 per F2,333,117.55 went up in smoke, that were going to be includ- portant as some that have been Washington Labour Conference share, subject to deduction of Salads a heap of money, but tha
ed in the new building, but frequent of late; perhaps, indeed, two years ago Chine was treated income tax, for the half year actual value as probably only a
I recollect that there was going as one of the backward races.jending 30:5. June last at a rate of few dollars. I don't know what
to be a bar. it would b
"Jost think of iL' A good thing in its There are reasons enough for 28. 74d. per dollar. Shareholders happens to our paper money in way if soxe of the ardent war-this, too. We understand that are requested to apply for divid-Hongkong From some of the riors just alluded to were to be in many parts of the interior send warrants on and after Ture-specimensyon sae floating around, involved in a vigorous set-to so modicum of rice, still represent
few coppers, eked out with a[day, 8th. Angust.
I should say our bills go the same that they might get a thorough the reward of a day's toil. Erid-
that WAY
old soldiers Bre cudgelling to test their valour. eatly this is only one side of the connection with an attempted fade
One man has been arrested in supposed to go: they simply
What s lot of European RWAY... Stuck together picture. According to The occurrences that call for vernacular Press, the dyeworkers Island last night: When saven ease-iaden and filthy, there's rounding up these days. They the armed robbery on Ping Chau by bite of stampe paper, dis vagrants the police seem to be more notice are the assaults and at Shanghai hare just exacted or eight men, armed with not much similarity between the roped in three at the beginning of robberies that are daily taking terms which the most advanced revolvers and daggers, broke into notes we carry around with as.
this week. Most of these un- fortunates are said to be sesmen place. A few days ago there was deem Gilbertian. Passing arer the occupants slipped into the Fishers we get at Home. Isn' Western trade-union leader might an unnumbered matshed, one of bere and the crisp, crinkly
whose ships have gone on with- a daylight robbery at Sincere's. such Iteros as the paying of kitchen and got out of the shed it possible to have some system
out them, leaving them stranded. In yesterday's issue, besides the "wine money on the fifth day of by the back door. He raised the by which a ante once handed This sort of thing happens I sup incipient inter-gang fight at every moon," we see that the alarm, attracting to his dwelling back over 2. bank's counter pose, in most ports, but we get Yaumati, we had to chronicle missing any employee without and captured one of the would-be jfasning ouly brand new notes ? At beim ends here who've never a party of villagers who chased becomes cancelled, the banks quite a number of fellows on their case of snatching from a the permission of the workers robbers. European lady, a bighway rob bery, a robbery at a matshed, an
A
masters are debarred from dis-
first sought and obtained! Up holders of proprietorial and
from
bad evidently bled to death.
006,
he said. "Why, you'll be abla io go there and have z driak and, unless you want to, there's no need to see the pictures at all ! "
earned a cent at sea. . More than one planter has come up this way since the rubber slump started and there are more fellows then the average man-in-the-street is aware who come out to this part of the globe on spec, The old ides still prevails among work and fortune for all in the some at Home that there's Colonies. Whether you've any trade or profession makes; so
Home they manage to keep the paper money fairly clean; surely, managerial rights must be in Investigations were made by if only from a hygienic point of armed assault in the middle of some peril of being seized with the police this morning into the view, some similar measures the day at a money-changer's fits. Fortber, with the manifest death of a concubine, 23 years of those employed in Blighty could premises in Queen's Road East, object of preventing recruiting tage..who had apparently been be adopted here.
the outside, workers must murdared in her room an an assault in Second Street, and
possess the Guild certificate, second floor of 103, Des Voeux
The griffin and the old hand sundry other elevating episodes, which is said to cost $120, and Road West. A fellow inmate who In general the police department which, it may be conjectured, discovered the crime made re-were coming over on the Ferry has shown efficiency, especially would only be issued at the port at the Central Police Station They were going to the Gym:
khana. Guild's whim. The "backward," this morning which called out a
The griffin, like most
long as you're game to try your. allowing for the size of the workers appear to have won on number of detectives. The woman other grifios, had managed to population to be dealt with. It sil sides--if the system's topsy- was found lying in her bed with a get his fair share of prickly heat. band at anything you're bound to make good Whether that still deep cut across the throat She "By gum," said the red spotted applies to Australia xed Ceosde is gratifying to note in this con-turvydom doesn't upset it.
if there's a horse named I don't know, but it certainly nection that steps are being]
Prickly Heat I'm going to back isn't the case in the East. The taken to augment the European
it."7
Governmeat ought to bring In legislation to stop anybody fund- ing unless he has either a job to go to, or a trade by which ha enlisted pending the arrival of Unofficial members of the before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the
stands a fair chance of getting the reinforcemente, In many Legislative Council met yester Magistracy this morning. The
a billet and a certain sum in cash. cases the justice meted out to the day to consider the future of the gold wristlet watch taken from
The people at the other end who offenders is commensurate with Peak Hospital, which is threaten the complainant was pawned by very much alive in other places issue the passports ought to wazi ed with closure on September robbers. One of them subse besides Hoogkoog. Why, during intending emigrants, too. Th their misdeeds, but it may be 30th. We learn that it was decid-quently returned the pawn ticket the interval at our cinemas that present state of affairs is no good come desirable to make penalties ed to make an offer to the to the complainant's friend in have a bar you should be able to to the Colony and is certainly. more stringent. Evidently the Hospital shareholders, and, if Queen Victoria Street. Aweek' imbibe a glass of formazaus, in't much good to the poor un- members of the criminal fraternity the military authorities Fit & the Magistrate, on the apple. I've never been able to make out. find anything to do, and then his this is not accepted, to approach formal remand was granted by while a whisky and soda is taboo, fortunate who lands here, can't here have little appreciation of view to securing a portion of lion of Detective Inspector La Mid-Victorian Hongkong It's to be sent away at somebody [the quality of mercy.
their hospital for public use. Grant..
not done, and Endopose that's the | else's expensé,
branch of the Force, 30108
of the military having been
PEAK HOSPITAL.
Offer to Shareholders.
Two men alleged to have been concerned with highway robbery in Queen's Road Central on the 7th. inst. were charged
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