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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

MONDAY, MAY 28, 1929-

PACIFIC MAIL

STEAMSHIP COMPANY

MANAGING AGENTS

UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD,

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FAST NEW AMERICAN STEAMERS TO

SAN FRANCISCO

via

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PRESCRIPTIONS

when the doctor prescribes

he expects the druggista AllĮ the prescription with pure druga.. The quality of our Drugo, Medicines and Toilet Goods lat Lot surpassed. Have the doctor's‡ prescription Alled here and the? result will be satisfactory

THE PHARMACY

The Had Bldg Opposite Ice Honas St--

MORRISON PIANOS

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SEVEN YEARS.

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94A, Wanchai Rond

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LATER,

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BY Adding other panels at any time to receive more distant or louder signals. BY Being able to change the position of the panels ach circuit for EX perimental purposes.

BY Saving Money IT'S

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show." BY A Visit to our

rooms for demonstra. tions or further informa Lion,

HONGKONG HOTEL CO, LTD {ELTCTRICAL DEPARTMENT)

NIKKO'S CLOSING SALE.

15th. to 25th. May

OWING TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM OUR HEAD CFFICE IN JAPAN, TO CLOSE DOWN OUR PERIO DEPARTMENT UN ACC IST OF CHANGING THE FIRM INTU AIMITED COMPANY "FOR IMPORTS

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SETOS AMBR?

THE GRAECO-EGYPTIAN

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THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD.

SILIMPOPON COAL

*

Dr. M. E. ASGER, (DENTAL SURGEON) · nounces office removal to Top Floor

BRITISH WAR GRAVES

Labour M.PS. Report.

PRINCE SENTENCED.

Impostor's Hotel Frauds.

WORLD'S NEW SHIPS.

Belter British Figures, The shipbuilding "reforms of

The following Labour represent- atives took advantage of the Easter recess to visit the warly, Yendencheno Mohamid Saide Lloyd's Register for the past At the London Sessions recent cemeteries in Grammon, M.P. Kakelo, 27, who described himself quarter show, for the first time Sium-Mr. C. G. Ammon, M.Pas "Prince of Kurdistan, was since March. 1921, an increase Mr. H. C. Charlton, M.P., Mr.

P

THE undersigned are prepared Lo quote prices for beat quality freshly mined Silimpopon Cust, trimmed inte Bunkers at Harry Gosling, M.P.. Mr. D. R. charged with incurring debts by as compared with the previous Schattik or Sandatan (British Grenfell, M.P., Mr. John Robert means of fraud and obtaining quarter, in the tonnige ander North Borneo), and to contract son, M.P, and Mr. Ernest Berin. by false pretences. He construction in Great Britain and

pleaded Not guilty." for regular Supplies of cargo Transport Workers' Union. In a

Ireland. The tonnage beira bailt lots at favourable rates.

statement issued for publication Mr. Parival Clarke.prosecuting, at the end of March was 1,492,138 Steamers calling at Sebattik they say they wished to satisfy said the prisoner arrived at the tons, and exceeded by about 23,500- or Sandakan exclusively for themselves that the graves were Savoy Hotel from Paris on Marchtons the figures given for Denem- Bunkers are exempt from pay-baing fittingly cared for by the 11, with no luggage, and saying bar 31 last. ment of ordinary Port Charges. Imperial War Graves, Commis- that he was Prince of Kurdistan, The tonnage actually under The minimum draft of water sion, that they were being looked asked for the best suite in the construction in Great Britain and alongside the Company's Wharf after by the comrades of those hotel, he produced a passport and Ireland (deducting that on which at Sebattik is $6 feet at low water who fell and that the conditions so impressed the clerk that he was work has been suspended for some Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie under which these British care given a suite of rooms costing six time) now aniounts to 1,311,000 Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any takers lived and worked were as guineas a day. Kakelo explained tons. The average tonnage under required information concerning they should be. Above all, they the absence of luggage by saying construction during the swelte the Part may ba- had on

wanted to know if they could as his secretary was following withouths immediately preceeding application to

sure all sorrowing relatives in it. Next day, when his bill was the war was 1,890,000 tons-Le, this country that the graves were presented, he said be had no 579,000 tons more than the present GIBB, LIVINGSTON & watched and tended as one would money, and was transferred to a figures.

CO. LTD.

wish. They continue-

cheaper room. He told the manı- The total merchant tonnage "Perhaps what impressed us ger his signature was "good building in other countries is Astenta,

most, and what we had not re- for millions.TM The The Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ld.alized before, was the vast area left

prisoner 1,367,934 tons, but this includes the Saroy Hotel about 148,000 tons upon which rendered for ever sacred by the on March 13 and went to the work

bas been -suspended graves of the dead of England, Hyde Park Hotel. There he gave leaving about 1,220,000 tons Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and all his address 4.5 the Turkish actually under construction. The the British Dominions beyond the Embassy. He remained at the latter figure is leas by 50,000 tons sess our brothers of every class | Hyde Park Hotel until March 15 than that being built at the end who gave their lives for us in the and borrowed £20 from the of December last. The figures Great War. The eloquence of manager. He also hired a car for the leading countries abroad the figures. appalling as it is, fails from the Daimler Hire Company are:-Germany and Danzig, 343, In its full effect unless one has for eleven days without paying 027 tons; France, 209,581 tobs: actually gone on pilgrimage from for it.

Italy, 185,001 tons: United States, cemetery to cemetery all down The prisoner, in the witness-tons: and Japan, 83,357 tons. The 174,76 tons: Holland, 121,321 the old battlefront, in the villages box, said that his ancestors were figures for Germany alone ire bebind the line and the towns the Pharaohs. He came here on 333,487 tone. Germany, therefore, still father back.

special mission to the British ranks, judged by the tonnago seemed to us that there was Government, and claimed that he hardly a village from Ypres to the Somme in which the great white Cross of Sacrifice, bearing the emblematical Bronze Sword, of Kurdistan. was not to be seen. But the rea- son we are giving publicity to our impressions is that we hope ther may bring some comfort to meny whose thoughts for ever turn to those bloodstained battlefields when they know that we were struck by net a: ly the energy and efficiency shown throughout the work, but by the spirit of re- verence and loving care which baracterizes all grades of the Commission's staff whom we met, 98 per cent. of whom are Service

of the

UNION BUILDING Telephone Central 1392 Hongkong, Lat. March 933

CUARANTEED GROCERIES

THE BEST BRANDS.

OF

men.

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The statement points out that in the devastated area these men

WINES & SPIRITS sometimes have to put up with a

DELIVERIES ANYWHERE. UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION

Telephone K, 625,

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EMPRESS STORE

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lower standard of living" than could be wished, add adds:The cemeteries themselves are puiga- antly beautiful. What struck us most was their simple dignity. We had heard a great deal of the equality of treatment accorded to all war graves, but until we visited the cemeteries we never

MASSACE HALL tragedy

23, WYNDHAM STREET MRS. H. MORITA, MR. H. SUGITA.

Mrs. SEKAI

MASSAGE

THE PHARMACY and FLOOR, Bo, %, Daddel Street, Hongkong.

ASTHMA CURE

Over 40 yrs ago the late Lord Beamnaðald tawided to the benefits be received from Himrod's Asthma Cars, and every pont brings similar lettere to-day. FAMED FOR 20 YEARS

TOBACCO CO.,

11 & Queen's Road,

Deputy

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had bad interviews with Lord under construction as the world's Curzon's secretary about scheme

second largest shipbuilders. for the revival of the monarchy launched in the world during the The total tonnage of vessels

quarter under review amounted his debts, he said, "Her Royaltons

Asked how he proposed to pay to 442,522 tons..of which 228,371 Highness has sent me mones." Britain and Ireland, 70,46% tons were launched in. Great.

Mr. Clarke read a portion of alia Germany and Danzig, 53,212 letter from the prisoner's wife, tons in the United States, and 90, which said, "I want you to be a 477 tons in other countries. The man as well as a prince, and to do something worth while. I have the promise of two positions which you could take one at one hundred dollars per week."

The jury found the prisoner guilty.

Mr. Lawrie passed sentence of six months' imprisonment in the second division, and recommended Kakelo for deportation

NATIONAL GAMES.

toansgs on which work, wen started in the world during the same period amounted to 530,621 tous of which 355,203 tons were commenced in Great Britain and Ireland. These totals however, do not include vessels commenced in Germany during the quarter, such information not being Jer available.

DICTATION.

A Staff Test.

The following is a dictation paper set for candidates in the Where Mah Jongg Fails,

Sydney (New South

WRler) Sewarage Office. It is said to The Chinese game of Mahhave beaten everyone. The so- realized what it really react to Jongg, which was to supplant ademician versed in chronological see every rank of soldier, from bridge and provide a new channel data and geological antiquitier, general to private, lying side by for the redistribution of the expert in synthesis and construc- side under the same simple head-coinage, does not seem to betion of exegesis, to whom the stoces, silent witnesses to future fulfilling expectatious. And, differential calculus was arith- generations of the world's greatest indeed, a pastime which requre metical simplicity personified. the services of a hundred and who could startle philosophy On the last day the Labour re. thirty-six blocks,all inscribed with with subtle theses on occult an! presentatives visited cemetery Chinese characters; of which the abstruse sciences or involva. & in the heart of the devastated scoring is admittedly difficult; and tortured labyrinth in in philolog- area, where some British bodies which costs "anything up to £18|ical polemics illustrated by simile were being buried which had re- a set," seems caculated to appeal and metaphor and phrased with cently been found in the course of only to the small class of the vocabulistic plenitude and grand- restoring the neighbouring coun- mathematicallyminded rich with filoquent exuberance; in short, a tryside. Every provision, they a smattering of hieroglyphice. veritable peripatetic lexicon, one state, has been made by the Com-

It is not so easy & thing as it whose mathematical disquisitions mission to safeguard and deal looks to make a recreation which pa, hydrostatic forces and the promptly with these inevitable is popular in one country equally laws of posumatics were quoted discoveries.

popular in another; even when throughout Christendom as irre- no question of morale is involved, fragable and indefessible-auch a as in the сазе of bullman, I say, with this stupendous Aghting. or of climate, As learning, may be unable to earn in ski-ing and tobogganing. Tabis living in the industrial centres spite of spasmodic propaganda; like Sydney, where common seⱭG this country is not yet converted is the main factor guiding the to baseball and the Canadian hazardous venturers of commer- national game of lacrosse is cial pursuits and manufactures to mostly seen here within school efficient financial issues. precincts. The Basque game of pelota does not seem able to cross the frontier. And there in the Japanese papera report the African game of manicals, played intention of a Catholic sisterhood by the natives over most of the in Tokyo to open a school in continent, which the white man Sumiyoshi, near Koba. Arrange- has never been able, not only to mouts are said to be in progress play, but even to understand. for the lease of a suitable site.

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