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The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 13th Sept., 1922.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1922.

The latest example is afforded by Wa Pei-fu's telegram (Twao concurring) to Sun Yat-sen, his

DAY BY DAY.

AFTER FORTY, MEN HAVE

ROUND THE TOWN.

"

PEAK, MOTOR ROAD.

ཪྐུ་- ་ -

(By ** Gadabout.”) To Extend to Victoria Gap. irreconcilable opponent until the MARRIED THEIN HABITS, AND |the other day, approving of the WIVES ARE ONLY AN ITEM IN What's happening to our buf Some particulars are given in fatter's condemnation of the THE LIST, AND NOT THE MOST faloes A little while back on the annual report of the Director

IMPORTANT George Meredi?A, “

got so frisky that he had to jump of Public Works regarding new |antonomous federation pro-

into the V.B.C. bath to cool his motor roads on the Hongkong gramme of General Chan King-

ardour. Then the other day an-sids. Regarding the 20 foot read Two Sanitary ming, with whom until a week

Department other had a passage at arms with skirting the north side of the coolies who were convicted this motor-ayalist, and in last night's bills from Wadchai Gap to for two ago Wu had been propos-morning of assaulting a coolie paper there was a bit about one Magazino Gap, it is stated that it ing an alliance. The victor of employed by the police were each of these beasts of burden patting was completed and surfaced by Changhaintien, be it remembered, sentenced to three weeks' hard coolie into hospital. In the November, with the exception of case of the third buffalo, he met the janciion at Magazine Gap himself soke sympathetically of labour by Mr. N. L. Smith.

This Waterloo Ister on in the day with Craignin Road, this being provincial aspirations in the

when he tried conclusiors with aemporarily held up. On a total Negotiating a waterspout to early days following his defeat

motor-car, the latter having an estimate of $76,000, there was of Chang Tso-lin. A federation reach the verandah, a burglar as wie. After that he was spent up to Decembar 31st. last

entered the quarters of Mr.taken to the slaughter house and 464,789. of antonomous provinces is now Laitour, No. 1 Saifes Terrace, by now he's probably somebody's Concerning the extension of denounced as "absurd" because, oxioon, sometime yesterday 18ys the telegram, it would leave morning and stole money of the soup meat. This is getting the 20 foot road from Magazine serious matter. One of these Gap to the south and of Cham- days you'll be seeing a paragraph berlain Road, the report states military power in the hands of

from the Potice Court, “Bullock that a contract for this work was the provinces. Commenting upon

Notifiable diseases reported last Cart Driver Fined For Speeding, let to Messrs. Kien Do & Co. in General Chan's programme at week were two of enteric fever or something of that kind. If April and, in November, a sup- the time, we remarked upon an and one each of plague and puer things go on like this we shall plementary agreement was enter- ambiguity in it, for, while pur-peral fever. One of the enteric have to get some cowboys, ored into with them for extending was a Britisher, the rest some toreadors along to look after it to Victoria Gap. This road Army in the hands of the Central Sued does not indicate the number. If worked properly it might provide Government, it apparently left of deaths. the provinces pretty much at! liberty to raise troops. So far) the objection holds good. What readers it artificial is that, instead of the question of antonomous federation being considered on principle, amending such features as conflict with the paramouncy

total of $207,

D3E%

porting to place control of the! Chiness. The return as now is. them. Or there might be money in fores part of the project to

of factional division. Apparently Wu and Tsao think i necessary to adduce some further argument

access

to the Peak turn out no end of an attraction District by motor. Starting as to tourists. "Hongkong for Big Macagine Gap, it follows the line Game." **Ferocious Buffaloes of Craigmio Road until Craigmin Footpals set upon a fireman Roaming in the Streets," and all West is reached, thence contour- from the ss Hwabping, lying in that kind of thin. It only needs ing the hillside below Craigmin Road and round Gough Hill. Taikoo Dockyard, last night and a little enterprise. robbed him of his jacket, is the

plasing at the rear of Stewart pockets of which were contained Have con notice how they're Terrace Peak Church, and

sum of $310 and a packet of getting on with the reclamation Government Villas with 1. of 1 in 16, it cigarettes. The victim received scheme? They've taken quite gradient

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a blow on the back of the bead.slice of tortison Hill, near then passes under Mount Kellett inflicted by some hard instro-Happy Valley, although knock Road, and stains its highest of the Central Government, it is ment, which laid him unconsciousing down a miniature mountain elevation of 1,35) F above seized upon to create itesh jines Three men are stated to have with the aid of pick and shovel ordnance dators near the Peak been concerned in this highway seems to me almost like trying to Garden. From this point it is robbers.

bail out the Pacific with a bucke: continued to Victoria ap with Anyway, slowly but surely grades of 1 in 17 and 1 in 18, In connection with the Univer-tbes're getting things done. Aeventually linking up the system FACTION IN CHINA. in support of their attitude. so sity Students' Service Associa- whole host of coolies hack away of motor roads planned for the

they declare that "China has tion, a memorial service for the at the billside and the earth western portion of the City.

late Mr. Arnold Hugbes (Head- which comes tumbling down is The total length of this road Wonderful and weird are the been an autocratic and Impermaster of Ting Wah College) is put into tip-trucks, which run on from Magazine Gap to Victoria permutations of Chinese politice!ialis: country for

over four to be held to the Rhenish Mission & miniature radway line below. Gas is 1.83 miles. At the end of Bu: a little while ago Sun Yat-thousand years-1s if the avowed Church. Bonham Road, on Sun-Then a cooning little laco comes the year satisfactory progress had sen the Southern idealist, and object of the revolution had not day. 17th September, at 5 pm F.Ealong and carts the stuff away. been made, the section from The Ofoer-Aumınisering the Crossing the road near the Police] Magazine Gap to Stewart Terrace. Chang Teo-lin, the Manchurian been to end that tradition. There Government has signified his ia- Club, then a turn to the left, then being practically completed. The War Lord. were arrayed in is an unconscious irony in such reation of being present. The to the right, on the straight total estimate is $85,000, of which singular alliance. On the oppos- a reason being tendered to Sun Rev. T. W. Pearce. LL.D., will be alongside the Bowrington Canal. $67,680 was spent up to Decembe

the preacher.

under the canal bridge, the little 31st, last. ing side stood Wu Pei-fu and Yat-sen, the declared champion

train-looks almost like a gigan-¦ Tsao Kwan, with Canton's other of democracy. Were there any

tic toy-pus along on to the peninsula, where a whole squad leader, General Chan King-ming, tokens of heartfelt conviction,, iu general sympathy. Tsao look-of an earnest desire for co-oper GOVERNMENT HOUSE of coolies proceed to dump be the gea. Then there's another crowd conducting ed the pale shadow of a Superation in the interests of the

an offensive on another part ofi Tuchun in the hand of his nomination, this coming together of

the hill. This is taken down to al subordinate but energetic the various leaders would be of

the water by hand trucks; why. director. Wu. Perbaps it was to the happiest augury; but how is

kuows. Various additions and imthe lord Harry only some extent a pose. Teso has it possible to feel confidence in the provements are being carried out They've got a couple of engines Fire Brigade Station, it is stated not the initiative and resourceful-durability of palpable alliances in connection with the kitchen which bare been lying idle in the annual report of the ness of the younger man, but he

Autonomous and garage block at Government under tarpaulins for the very Director of Public Works that House. For this purpose, the 1921 dickens of a time now-but, still, several schemes have been pre- has astuteness enough to realise¦ federation would not necessarily Estimates included a sum of suppose the powers-that-be pared and considered. A coo- this fact, which probably impelled be a good thing in China's pre- $100,000, of which $39,511 was know their own business best. Atract was let in November last to him to leave the conduct and sent staz of development, nor spent last year. According to the little way out is the dredger and lessrs. Po Yick and Co. for the annual report of the Director of rear bye are half-a-dozen junks. piling and formation of found- responsibility-of a bazardous would "the rule of the strong Public Works, the details of the the coolies inside shovelling the ions, amounting to $33.240. undertaking to his more ente:jman “—if you could get the right work are as follow :—

cargo of earth overboard as if The commencement of the work their very lives depended on it. was delayed until the beginning prising associate. At Chaoghsig. Jone necessarily be a bad thing.

Kitchen "Block.-The work Then some gay hammers away

of December. pending the clear- tien. Wu certainly inflicted a The evil is that political issues. consisted of pulling down the old at & gong; and then there's an 8 of the site by the occupiers. kitchen and outbuildings and

Drawings for the steel framework explosion. That's some big rock kitchen. servers

Panda Porter?

Improving Kitchen and Garage.

cargo

into

NEW FIRE STATION.

Crown Agents to Secure Tenders.

Rezarding the new Hongkong

hears, though by no means final, instead of being discussed erecting a new black comprising gone west. And so it goes on to accompany the indents were

defeat upon the Manchurian their merita, are made the pawn dictator. For a moment & hope of personal ambition.

dawned that the way had been paved for clearing up the chaos

The

new

A Deadly Scourge

.

prepared and forwarded to the Crown Agents for tenders.

and "servants, day after day. It's & terrific figol, The tender of Messrs. Wing Omsa agaicat nature. It's the fight for this work amounting that's been going on

since the $40.256.42 was accepted, the

Colony came into existence; the contract being signed on the fight which transformed a barren other be said: "Eb-1 say, old rock into what Hongkong is bean-eh--would you care to join

mein-eh-a trotter?" today.

new

and

summer, we know there is pleaty Home. There's a little difference of talent available to give quite a between the average citizen at good show. And, then again, I Home and out here. In the krow one or two who were rather average town of half a million ar portion disappointed because there wasn't so inhabitants you don't get six. it is calcul.Bay dancing. Beyood seeing a teen murders in six months, In

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that reigned in the Republic.

29th June. "Tuberculosis takes its steady During the succeeding three or toll in deaths year by year and

Garage Block.-This work con- four months

there have been attracts no great notice." This is !sisted of pulling down part of the the comment of Dr. Pearse on the olde tables and outbuildings, erect-

That was a jolly little concert Those figures relating to our spasmodic efforts, but it is difalarming mortality from this ing a new block comprising

at the K.C. C. the other night, but guardians of the law, published ficult to chcern tangible signs of dread scourge. The adjective is garage, laundry, and Custodian's I must confess that I was a bit in the Trigraph a few days ago. reform. The re-convocation of fully justified, for during last year Quarters, and forming a.

disappointed. The renovation were very interesting there were no fewer than 1.894 carriege drive and entrance gates. to the Clab pavilion WAS an instructive, and at first glance it Parliament, instead of clarifying deaths from tubercular diseases The tender of Messrs. Wah Lee & obstacle, I suppose, to a similar would appear that we haven't so the situation. tends rather to in this Colons, this being 614 Co. for this work amounting to kind of concert to those held last very much to grouse about. But aggravate - in short, China more than from all the other $50.449.21 was accepted, the Con year, but it should have been it's all very well to tell us that diseases, tract being signed on the 18th.possible to rig up some sort of sin proportion to our population remains a prer to faction. :,dangerous infectious

including plague. malaria, cholera, October. The foundations were stage elsewhere and, after those we've more than twice as maay may be that Wu Pei-fn meant small-pox, typhoid and diphtheris. laid and walls stood at a height al fresco evenings we had last men as the average town at well, but thaf, strong as he had In other words, out of every 100 of t Din. by the end of the become, bie influence was not deaths in the Colony. 47 were year.

from tuberculosis. These Are! sufficiently widespread to enable terrible figures, and the astound- bim to control the country-ing thing is, to use Dr. Pearse's the

ruler of Szecbuea, phrase, that they attract

We are aware, of ated that there

no certain citizen who shall be the first six months of the where Wa's party has sustain-Great notice.

course. that the chief factor in pro- fewer than 861 persons to nameless shovelling a crumbly previous year we had twelve ed a reverse, Says 13 during euch a serious situation is the acre, or 34 per house. This pork pie into that orifice in his murders, and you would have to much. Accordingly we find the to be found in the conditions under works out at an average of over face situated a little below his go a long way before you found various leaders, Wu prominent which so many of the poorer Chin- ten persons per floor, which is an asal organ, & Ia chop a cown at Home the size of

ese live. The spitting habit, also. among them, seeking to reinforce no doubt plays a large part in the

increase of 33 per cent in the stick fashion, I missed those Hongkong with that number. No, their positions by forming fresh spread of the disease. But until space of ten years. It is some delightful little snacks which waskee the population: it doesn't thing to the good that an improve you saw temptingly exposed to malter a great deal whether there groups until the lines of division better housing is provided and ment has been made in the stamp view (and also being heartily is one or one million living bers, criss-cross in every direction. potil the expectoration evil can

be stamped out, there are the of native dwelling-bouses, but it eaten) at concerts that have gone the number of police should be To unravel these presents

is, none the less, put on record on before. It was terrible not regulatedaccording to the amount victires of this dread disease to be that the existing law has failed baving any trotters, but perhaps of crime. A wit suggested the considered. And we think the to produce a really satisfactory those who have to clean up the other day that we ought to have should be considered for the treat-pe of Chinese house. Tee trou- morning after the night before one policeman for every one ment of those stricken by this ble in Hoogkong is that, owing will not voice my sentiments. inbabitant. Then again, it's all to geographical restrictions. By the way, talking about these very well on paper when you see a comrade until the distressing hut still curable cour thousands of Chinese are berded little delicacies, & fanny incident that Kowloon is watched over by next turn of the kaleidoscope.jplaint. Consumptives in Hong- This illustrates bow artificial kong get a poor chance of re-together in what are little better occurred at one of the K.C.C.'s, 35 men, out of which four and than human rabbit warrens. The previous al fresco shows. He Europeans, but when you come covery, for the simple reason time is coming when practically was inclined to be a haw-baw down to hard facta it'e not quite are the antagonisme. By this we that modern open-air treatment is the whole of Chinatown will have kind of bird. Perhaps he wore so satisfactory. When you get ido uot mean that the hostility not made available.

to be razed to the ground. There monocle and all that kind of away from Nathan Road you can between the rivals may not be real Overcrowding.

is plenty of room on the main.thing; but that I don't know go quite long way without enough. It is artificial because That there is serious overcrowd-land, but town-planning sohemes Anyway, he was a highbrow. He seeing a policeman. Kowloon They were does not seem to have its fair dictated, not by fixed principles, ing in the native part of the city cannot be put through in a year, was with pal.

is smply shown by Dr. Pearse's or even in teo. By degrees, how.|koocking one over (as ao Aussie wback, but perhaps there are but by personal ambition-a trite raport. Indeed, it is on the in-ever, the great bulk of the native put it to me the other day) when better times coming when some dictum. Fot one calling for crease rather than otherwise. population must move across the bo of the heights spotted the more of those thirty-two new reaffirmation.

Figures prove that point. In water.

snack counter, Turning to the men from Home get out here,

veritable Chinese puzzle; to-day's ally was yesterday & SWOTD enemy and yesterday's foe bas

become

time has come when measures