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SATURDAY. JUYL 21, 1923

DAY BY DAY

The Singapore scheme is part of our plans for guardianship of the Empire THERE IS A TERRIBLE MODERN routes. It has the concurrence IDEAL QALLED "CITY IMPROVE MENT," WHICH HAS BEEN RE of the Admiralty Staff, and it is SPONSIBLE FOR MORE HORRORS aimed at securing the mobility THAN EVEN THE TROFESSIONAL of the main Fleet. The sugges- CRIMINAL OLESS-Lord Curzon, tion that the Admiralty should

Tenders are being invited for sail the naval lands and buildings reclaiming an area of approxim- in Hongkong in order to help ately 20 acres of foreshore at pay for the Singapore scheme Kowloon Bay, protecting the sounde sbaurd to us. Whatever so reclaimed with a rubble

mound and contingent worke happens at Singapore, we pre- sume there will always be naval station here. Our interests in the East demand that should bo so. All that the Washing ton Agreemsat means su far as Hongkong! is concerned is that we cannot develop our baso bere. In any case, Britain is

Bulls and Inners

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We wish to contradict the The reason some men never rumour that. Foreigner" is to become home drunk is because they made a life member of the Club can't find the house." Lusitano.

There are places, apparently,

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From the way everyone seems where telephones somtimes work. to be out, in answer to the The District Officer of Mukah telephone, it would seem that ses (Sarawak) gravely records in his bathing is more popular than aver monthly report Twice during the month telephone messages this year.

were received from Sibu, on the

An advert in Home paper. rude .58 follows - Wanted,

His Excellenoy the Governor

6th and 10th." The worst of an old water has been pleased, under instruc- tions from the Secretary of State meter is that it is always willing tor the Colonies, to recognise, to do a good turn. provisionally and pending the le- one of His Majesty's Exequatur, Mr. Sverre Berg as Consul for Norway in Ronkoog.

According to the police, thieves

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You want to be on the right pleeping partnership in any sound side when you're driving motors bus. We can recommend some of our buses for sound, but the and bargains.

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The teacher's holiday has just sleeper.

commenced. Mother's has ended. Some of these turf experts-

....would Le much better under it.",

Specifications on Applic-hardly Fat reduced to the status have been busy lately amongst of a village grocer's shop, which bathers in the shed at Kennedy the pers mal effects left by

This language controversy: has to sell out its stock of one Town and North Point. Yester brings us to the cocclusion that MUSTARD & Co. commodity before it can afford to day a further case was reported, while some should think twice purchase another. To sum up, in which a waiter at the Yee Woo before they write, others write

restuarant stated that he return twice before they think. there is nothing, sinister abouted from a dip to find his clothing this Singapore project. It is a missing. scheme which fits in with our plans for Imperial defence-and that is all there is to it.

Distributers.

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Those theosophists might be perfect dream right, but: ■ overnight has been known to look a perfect fright in the morning.

When a couple of lying motorists meet, the recording angel has to start writing shorthand.

This lotter-writing craza re- minds us that while it only needs The Governor-in-Council pro-two to cause a row, there are al poses to make an order for the ways plenty of others ready and altering of that partian of Queen's willing to help.

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When you see a tree down in They say there are about three such road so much as is not re- Kowloon these days, you never billion typhoid germe to the quired to provide a width of 60 know whether to blame a typhoon imperial pint of nullah water. Germed marks have now

feat measured from the present or a motor. reached a stage of decline where northern boundary line of the they can be termed worthless.aid road. One mark is now cot sufficient to

The Worthless Mark.

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After the contest, lots of motorists will be able to guess why the spirit ie more willing. than the flesh.; ・・

GATES-On July 12, 1923, at Withington, Manchester, the wife of F. Gates, of a son.

Trouble with lots of our wide, DEATHS.

awake young men in that they MERWIN On July 8, 1923, purchase a grain of sugar, so to At the P.W.D. Offices on don't brighten up till about mid- at the Faber Hospital, Taingtao, speak. Wo wonder whether a August 7th, three lots of Crown night. Dr. Caroline Blows Merwin, of ten mark postage stamp is not land situated at Ho Mun Tin are the A. P. M. Tsinan, of acute worth more as a piece of paper to be sold. These are Inland Lot

Arguing with a Hongkong pericarditis.

Two million to the pound, or well No. 1627 (area, about 56,100 traffic policeman te mere foolish- Times are so bad with some ROWARTH-On July 16, over eight thousand to the penny!

No. 1628 (about 66,000 square will immediately jump to the buy a new car for the motor Shanghai, Robert Henry Rowarth, The time has obviously come feet: upset price, $19,800); and conclusion that you are a taipan contests. aged 58 years. ."

when some new term will have to

1995, at the General Hospital Where is the rouble after this square feet; upset price. $16,880):ness. 3wear and drive on. He people that they are not able to

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 21st July, 1923

THE SINGAPORE BASE.

Dr. Sun's Intentions.

A report from Wuchow states. that both the naval and military

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the'matter.

The eunuch market in China has eased considerably, the supply being more than the demand.

If some of our young men

What most of these loo House Street folk would rather be doing is someone else.

We'd hate to be a preventive officer and have the job to search Nicola's trunk.

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Lots of folk you can neither im- press or dopress.

be applied to marks-say "mille. No. 1629 (about 20,000 square and naturally neglect to report mark," "worth a thousand of the feet; upset price, $6,000). present unit! The whole matter WUCHOW SITUATION. of German marke is rightly des cribed as a farce. Leaving out of consideration, for the present, the. question of the why and where fare, it is obvious that the elump has brought Germany's currency forces of Dr. Sun Yat-sen have could only know the price of to a pass from which it can never arrived there and the Kwangsi things in our shop windows, they recover by ordinary moans. If we troops have retreated without wouldn't run so many risks at It seems to us that politicians take the exchange index as a offering any resistance. It is bathing picnics..

Some people are afraid of motor at Home are working themselves reflection of the country's econ- stated that the commanders of

omic position, we cannot but feel cortain sections of the Kwangai A little sand in the spinach

cars.

We need lots more like. into a deal of unnecessary excite apprehensive as to what conditions forces have accepted Dr. isn't particularly pleasant, but it

that so as to give the police, s their keeps tremendously in keeping chance to get on their beat again. ment and frenzy over the question are likely to develop shortly. Has Sun's proposal that of the Singapore naval base. It German commercial intercourse positions be not interfered with the silver clean.

with the rest of the world been and consequently they will not might almost he imagined from almost permanently crippled by despatch any reinforcements to- the tone of some of the recent the circumstances that have led wards Shiubing. Parliamentary speeches that Brito the slump? Are reparations A report says that Dr. Son has likely to be recoverable at this ordered the Cantonese forces to tain had made up her mind to

rato? These are but two of the romain at Wuchow until Chan go to war with Japan and, în

questions that arise. In the King-ming's forces at Walchow preparation for the event, had meantime, other grave factors have been crushed, when he will control of Kwangs planned this new naval base in are to be noted. While the Allies assume

are pressing for indemnities, while Province." the Straits. The thought never

one of them holds a large part appears to occur to these scare of industrial Germany in sub WHITEAWAY'S STORE. on the wind. mongers that if that were thejection, the country exbibits signa real motive, it would be discerned of being torn by factional differ

ences. What a spectacle of the

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If it wasn't that we knew, we might think "Dempsey-Gibbons another wedding. It was, however, a different kind of a fight.

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A young bachelor advertises in when we loan our fire escape. to the last for a furnished bedrogman to bang himself. near the Observatory," with and. without board." Looks as if he Pity they couldn't do the same chose the location in order to live thing with some of our armed

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Taso Kun, in a telegram to Dr. -" Chandler."- Thanks for the Sun, says he is his bosom friend suggestion. Hongkong Evening and frankly admits that he is a Leader sounds good, but it can be ita

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According to the Telegraph on

by the Japanese long before the once potent Prussian regimel completion of the base, which Some future historian; if writing A nefice appearing elsewhere militarist. If he doesn't lock out both and yet still retain would then be utterly useless for about the decline and fall of the in this isau draws the attention he is very liable to be disbanded original name.

feel of the public to the additionel one of these days. German Empire, would the purpose. This talk, however, impelled to devote a whole section showroom space now being.

...We learn that there is no truth of possible war with Japan, and to the decline and fall of the mark. utilised on the first floor of the The Government is about to in the rumour that a gold mine well known house of Whiteaway take borings and soundings ba exists underneath Punjab of a race-conflict in which the

Laidlaw & Co. Ltd, whites will be opposed by every World Flights.

tween Holt's Wharf and Statue Buildings. It has been said that London Pier. You can have three guesses. ather colour, does credit to The Atlantic has been crossed, has a peculiar charm on account Bridge, tunnel or water main?. It would appear that a newse nobody. We refuse to let any both ways, by aeroplane and of facilities offered by the big

paper atory must necessarily be body make our flesh creep at the airship; England to Australia stores where there is an endless One touch of human nature premature in Hongkong if at the mention of possibilities of this has been done, by air, within variety of merchandise displayed makes the whole world kin. fime of publication everyone in

thirty days; brave men risked in the most attractive manner. Lieutenant Palmer, V.C., of town does not know of it. their lives (a number met their It would seem that Whiteaway's Malaga, asked by the King if he Then there is the suggestion deaths) in attempting these have decided to omulate this

Next to getting it yourself, the But the goal of example locally, for on visiting had met the Prince of Wales that Britain stole a match on the the daring aviator, a flight round this emporium, one is struck with during his recent tour of the East, best thing is to rush round and

is reported by Reuter as having have it contradicated. other Powers at the Washington the world, has still to be attained the general effect of the numer-replied Epsiclei on created Conference. That is a sheer It is, perhaps, significant of ous departments so tastefully ar price. Poor chap, he seems have

in ranged. recent developments travesty of the facts. There the

The "Soft Goods" department/boon still thinking of the rubber Thursday last, "a boiler martst speed, power, cruising range, and

market. Ma noyer has been any secret of our general

at Kowloon Dock was fatally atability of flying on the first floor has been on- intention to create a base at machines, that so many men, of larged and a splendid exhibition

It is denied that, as a result of struck on the head by a piece of

rock. Quite a slump in fact. Singapore. It has been on the different nationalities, should be of cretonnes, shadow tissues,

the recent discussion on the pro- proparing for the encirclement of ourtainings, household linens valence of typhold in the Colony,; lapik for years, and Colonel the globe by air. Several have damasks etc., are on view. Amery declares that the Tranty already started out and failed. Those desiring travelling goods Sanitary Inspectors will be lice was chosen solely to make Eventually, perhaps before very will find everything decossery in equipped with vest pocket micros.

long, there will be success, the form of trunks, portmanteaue, copes. it clear that Singapore was out Naturally, we hope it will be baga, etc., while adjoining this side it. There never was the least The best way to avoid typhoid suggestion at Washington that changefel elements and other steade je to be seen, ranging from is to drink "Whisky Dry." the Powers should be restricted dangers of the project, but the simple three piece combina-

If wealth is a disease, then

Talking of short cuts, a cor- outside the zone, and it is absurd whoever it be bis feat will rank as tion bed to those of massive brass.

the greatest an airman could The household, ironmongery there must be not a few carriers lo, attempt now to extend that achieve. In this connection we and-turnery display is most com in and ground Ice House Street. respondent in the D. P. mentions "at least one parson" who does not zone, which is what the abandon recall the flight by Ross Emith prehensive, and thie, as well as

We can understood any Chinese mlad running the gauntlet of hip- from London to Australia an the Chins and glass dept, has ment of the Singapore project achievement which still ranks been considerably enlarged. Sport- wanting to go to Mexico these Stroot. Possibly with a view to would mean Britain has, in our among the greatest in aviation, ing goods of every description are days. Revolutions are only re- obtaining local colour for bis nezt.,

slative after all: opinion, made big enough sacri- We had the privilege of mosting to be obtained. ices already under the Washing-the intrepid Scotch-Australian Space preventş ve from making shortly before he accomplished but brief reference to the many ton Agreement. As the First his feat. Twenty-four years of lines stocked, but mention must be Lord of the Admiralty says, we age." a blond, well set-up young made of the "Standard Values," have voluntarily denied ourselves man, with sunny smile at all which, Mr. O, Smith (the Hong the use of a base bere in Hong times, he was typical of his stock, keng Manager) informs us repres Somehow we felt sure he would onts a scheme to supply the whole kong and retired a further fifteen succeed. The airman's early of the firm's branches overeens hundred miles to make it clear death-through an accident--was with reliable goods at specially This feature alone his. Elee, somehow, we believe low prices, that we have no aggerselve ideas that the palm of a successful should make this store an oven against Japan or no wish to round the world fight would more popular shopping contre in dominate the East

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How's your carburettor ?

There is a decided difference between a cycle and a car, but very little in hospital.

Who the duece cares for postry these hot days, anyway?.

Some of those motor buses uged the monkey gland treatment

After holding it for many

Slow Work Championship. The years, the FW.D. has lost the honour now goes to the Peak Tramway Company by virtue of the rate of progress attained in. erooting the lower station barrier.

sermons

Education" You have bot sent us your name and you needn't bother to, either..

We'd hate to let some of those literary critics handle our cheque book.

The sad thing about buying 3. motor car is that you ran into so many creditors.