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The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 16th Nov, 1923.

THE ADMIRALTY'S FAULT.

NOVEMBER 17

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and the other in Hongkong. The Admiralty cannot complain that it has had no time in which to

WREN YOUR WORK BECOMES A build for its own servants, as TASE, QUIT YOU'RE IN THE

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have shown, it had ample

We are authorised to contradiat One way for a candidata to win. notios. Yet it preferred to con

It is notified that the name of the rumour that should Kowloon a seat is to promote a Baby Show tinue relying on the local

the Shun Wo Trading Company, Government's good nature, mean- Limited has been struck off the fleet of motor-buses, and get his rival appointed Judge.

Instead of trambars, they are to the called "Fletcher Flyvers," in Sawdust is fine wood but you time doing nothing for its own Register.

line with the precedent set in can't build houses with it. Rand workers. We wonder, whether

The many friends of Mr. A. Enaming the "Beckwith Ball." this again. members of Parliament knew

Wright, the Building Authority, these facts when the question will regret to learn that he is at was raised in the House of Comprasant in hospital. mons. If not, it is about time

© Bir. James Jamieson, British somebody made it bis business tr

Consul General at Canton, re-

From the noise, "Yes, we have let the truth be known. The turned from Shanghai by the no bananas seems to be best play- Issue is one of sufficient import-P. and O, liner Malwa yesterday-ed on a cash register.

ance to the people concerned, to warrant the whole subject being thoroughly exposed in Parlia-

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Those physical jerks will take Why is Hongkong tea way the Dome from the front of wart? Because it grows on one. your waist

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Major-General Sir J. S. Fowler, "Boxing Taught By Post,"

advertisement. K.C.M.G.. CB. D.S.O., having 1876 40 returned from sick leave, resumes modern Mailed Fist, we suppose. comniand of the forces in China.

Martial law in Canton seems Tenders are being invited for to be like electric light-it can be laying-out King's Park, Kow-switched on and off at will. loon, for recreation purposes and the construction of a 30-foot road.

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One of the phases our Theo- sophists didn't get last Wednes- day--

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We see that a Board of Officers is to meet in Kowloon "to con- sider the maintenance of mosquito nets," Probably the Mosquito Workers' Union with call a protest meeting.

We hear that Waichow is still being captured.

Tenants in Canton have to "loan" the Government a month's rent. Wouldn't it be awful if they had to pay the figure we do?

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Nine men grunting, shouting and straining every muscle; wet

What should we do without our His Excellency the Governor with perspiration and fighting

Would has approved the appointment of

criminals A Malayan judge is against terrible odds. they ever succeed? No, they Mr. R. E. Lindsell to be a mem imagination is often a mental reported as having said In Court were being beaten, it was slipping ber of the Subordinate Staff image formed by the mind, recently to two new members of back. "Yab," an extra heave and Board.

prompted by booze, that you're & the Bar: "I am afraid the present heluva fine fellow.

time is somewhat dull, but it is not, I am happy to say, typical of From the way these Chinese usual conditions here." Generals count captured guns

A circular recantly sent to and ammunition, there appears to be a fine market for a really good residents on the Peak "free an calculating machine.

gratis" certainly takes the biscuit.

a tightening of the strain, a pull

to the side, another heave all

Amongst the passengers who together, and, by gad, it was being left by the Empress of Canada held-they were winning. Slowly they got the mastery, inch by day were Mr. and Mrs. R.

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The Chinese have certainly been giving the Kowloon buses a fillup.

Some folk who have bought at

about the lie of the land. high prices now know something

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No attempt is made to rid ourselves of our mental angles." But you won't get mentally square by arguing in circles.

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inch they advanced towards the goal, though it meant tugging and Mr. Allan Cameron. like hell, though the ropes were Inspector W. Gerrard left for

It states that "the time of the cutting into their shoulders and the muscles of their legs were all Australia this morning by the s.s.

Changsha, accompanying his son,practice reels.

Average European resident here beginning Keil, who has recently recovered knotting

is almost wholly occupied by to cramp. Passers-by cast & from typhoid. He will be away

Despite wha: Prohibitionists work or play." The trouble is that glance and walked

may think, a

can't be in many instances the ons cannot ROBARTS-Died at his reindolent offes worker gazed out some three or four months.

frightened out of his wats by Act be distinguished from the other.

@... sidence No. 4 Ashley Terrace. of a near-by window: some men

An extraordinary general of Parliament. Ricardo

"Women draad physical an- Robarts. 63 Ramiro

even squatted on the kerb stones years. Funeral will pass the and disdainfully spst. A grama meeting of the Hongkong Hotel

The obituary notice of a well- gularity," is another phrase. megument this evening at 5.15 phone was heard reeling off "Yes Company. Ltd., was held at the

for the Hongkong Hotel this morning, known public man stated that Possibly this explains why they p.m. (Shanghai papers please we have no bananas

84th time the "hook, book of when an extraordinary resolution he was loyal to his King and are so fond of blowing one, an copy)."

motor car added itself to the changing the Company's name to Country, and died on Empire other up.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Day." Could loyalty do more? medley of noises, another yeli or

To "Diversity of thought is. two from the strugling nine, and Hotels, Limited," passed recently,

A mac got into trouble in necessary for the proper develop- the steady dull rythm of machi-was confirmed.

Singapore the other day for tres- ment of the mind" should per nery at work below. Withal, the

**The Love Flower." the beauti- passing in a police station. He haps be added "Honi Sai Qui tapping of typewriter keys close

Nothing unusual ful romance made by D. W should have been sent for obser- Maly Pense"!

0 at hand. was happening. The scane was Ice Griffith, will be shown for two vation.

We are also sorry to hear "that House Street, the time was just more days at the Coronet, and

will have A Home paper says motor- "Hongkong is lamentably de- after 11 o'clock in the morning. Kowloon residents

bases are great feeders for the ficient in men who can speak A truck laden with bales of card-the opportunity board was being hauled up the forming their own opinion of the railways. But the railways seem reasonably well in Public." One can hardly expect the Hongkong hill. chair coolies were awaiting much discussed "Salome", to be to be fed up with it

taxi-driver to be up to the London It has been annuanced in the their turn on the stand, the shown at the Star for one day

standard yat! House of Commons that it has Brunswick Studio was "demons-caly.

to a prospective cus- trating

Amongst the passengers who become desirable to confice aptomer, and the Editor was writing

arrived by the P. and O. liner pointments of chargemen to the his leading article. That's all.

Kaiser-I-Hind were Mr. and Mrs. Hongkong Naval - Dockyard to India's Status.

E W. Hamilton. Mr. and Mr. those volunteering to come East

Writing the other day about C. Montague Ede. Mr. and Mrs.

"The tendency hate is for without their families. The res-the controversy between the I-W. L. Leask, Mr. and Mrs. B. D.

women to become hard.” Facially?

→ son given is the housing shortage dian delegates to the Imperial Evans, Mr. and Miss Hollings-

The time has almost arrived in this Colony. That shortage. Conference and other Colonial worth, Mr. Owen Hughes and

when concerned citizens will be- so far as naval employees is con- representatives, particularly the Miss Hughes, and Mr. and Mrs.

South African delegate, we com-J. M. Alves. cerned, is due entirely to the Ad-mented on the very unsatisfactory |

A Japanese recently went into gin writing to the papers enquir A Chinese mad has been miralty. More than two years ending to the debate on India's ago, the Hongkong Government status in the Empire. Practically admitted to the Kwong Wah West-End toilet saloon with a ing when they may expect the nothing definite was accomplish-Hospital suffering from injuries Mr. Hairose and was charged P.W.D. to fill in the holes in our granted the naval authorities the ed. and so far as the Kenya and caused by jumping from a tram-8.18.6 by the barber, a Mr. Tax. streets.

motion. The No wonder the victim's hair rose

We hope readers of yesterday's use of a number of houses in South African questions were car whilst in

Post did not confuse the "Severn block of Government flats in concerned, the Indian requests accident occurred in the western at the tax.

were refused point blank. The district, but the man was able to

The tattoo craze," says the Barrage" with its Hongkong equi- the Happy Valley district. inevitable has happened, and the walk away and board the Sam 02 the distinct understanding close of the Conference has been shaipo ferry. On arrival across Post, is spreading among the valent.

women of Sydney, and quite & number are having their arms

Our miniature rifle range will emergency marred by recriminatory phrases the harbour, he collapsed. was an

which so doubt, will leave & concession to enable the Admiralty

Sir T. B. bitter taste behind.

Their soon be open. Keep your oli A motor-car accident occurred and legs tattoood with designs of to build for their own employees. Sapru, in his statements con- in Wanchai last night. A Chinese flowers and butterflies." The Government even went so cerning Gen. Smuts' attitude. girl of 14 years was alighting from husbands no doubt will have bees bottles.

Money doesn't keep some far as to offer the Navy a site. has very regrettably added fuel a tramcar near Gresson Street fixed somewhore just to show how

to this possible fire of resentment; and was about the cross to the they get stung.

people out of trouble. The yacht The two years expired in July and altogether it is a most un-pavement when she was knocked

"The Birth of a Nation" film Fantome II has gone to Canton.. motor-car owned by

Naturally, last, and as the premises were fortunate conclusion to what was down by a

Indian named Nai Karr, is forbidden in France,

Seems to us, the way things urgently required for the Govern means to be a drawing closer off an

From a certain quarter it has are going, in order to secure ment's own servants, the naval the bonds of Empire. The clear living at No. 1, Excelsior Terrace.

age. between India and South Her injuries were not serious.

been suggested that milk be pro- unanimity in China, it would be tenants were turned out. They Africa has but became more

of the vided instead of whisky at this easier if Sir Robert Ho Tung Mr. R. Weusthoff. had no naval quarters, however, marked. The affects on the Indian

of trying to wash haggis down with into which to move, as the Ad-public cannot yet be gauged, but Oriental Commerical Bank. Ltd. Year's St. Andrew's Ball Fancy took over the Presidency.

is sure to be such as to cause far-left miralty had done absolutely ther ill-feeling. The chief danger Canada for San Francisco, where milk! • nothing to meet the conditions to peace in India lies with the he will represent this Bank's in-!

Some of the really enthusiastic reelers would probably object which it well knew would prevail thousands of professional agita- terests in the forthcoming stock- tors who will seize this opport-holders meeting of the Canton Consequently, they have been

unity of launching further attacks Band of San Francisco. He will to being turned into churns.

→ compelled to seek other, accomon things British. The whole be accompanied by Mr. Chong C.

Perhaps the necessary "pep" medation, thus aggravating the affair is an object lesson on the Cheok, President of the Oriental local problem further still. Now proper choice of language in the Commercial Bank, Ltd. and who would be given to the function by

areca of diplomacy.

will later proceed to Havana to peptonising the milk. it is calmly stated that new men

organize a branch, while Mr. Weusthoff will remain in San We can imagine some of the may have to come out without

Francisco to look after the old timers ashking sfor a glash of their families.

Oriental Commercial Bank's s'terrorised smilk. interests

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So far he is the only one with whom everyone agrees.

Heading in the Post: Black- smiths Demand Abolition." Car red unanimously.

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Chan is giving the Constitu tionalists all the ginger they need.

The-height of modesty : Siri Robert Ho Tung refusing to be interviewed.

We heard a suggestion the other day that the first race at the gymkhanas should not start would be that no horse should

finish before the favourite.

Not only is the Admiralty's re- missness to be condemned from the point of view of yet further adding to the Colony's difficulties

There is quite a flutter among London. Everything for ladies including a charming iris to be even more regretted feminine hearts in the Colony,wear,

Judging from the gramophones from the standpoint of the hard-consequent upon the opening of selection of the latest novelties, Messrs. Lane. Crawford's new is being specialised in. It is the ships it imposes on its own emadies department in the new and artistry with which the windows out our way, some folk seem to before 3 p.m. A better suggestion ployees. Apart from the point commodious showrooms under have been decorated, and the thick a successor to Caruso has

Some local motorists are quite, that it is altogether unfair to ask the Hongkong Hotel, lately oc-saloon furnished and lighted, that been found. We don't.

cupied by the Hotel motor de makes the new show-room some-

Many a marriage which began married 'men to come East as

thing new for Hongkong. There partment.

particular about running you grass widowers," it is scan- When a representative of the are five private dressing rooms, with billing and cooing has ended nice to your face, but not at sil

down behind your back: dalous that such men should, as Telegraph railed this morning it including one specially designed in billing and raing.

Farmers at Home report the the result of the stupidity of was to find a palatial saloon, for the fitting on of afternoon

In some Hongkong boss replete with artistic showcases frocks. those in authority, be expected and fittings, in which was Messrs. Lane Crawford's have appearance of a new kind of grab. to maintain

a corkscrew without she domestic being exhibited models of the suple justification to feel proud This should be good news for the houses it is impossible to i

bungry unemployed. establishments-one at Home latest creations of Paris and of their new enterprise.

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