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HONGKONG, 29th Nov, 1923.

HONGKONG AND WIRELESS.

We are in thorough agreemen: with Hongkong's shipping men when they assert that the Colony's wireless service is far from satisfactory. When we con-

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

DAY BY DAY.

AN INDUSTRY IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL UNITS STRIVE TO

contentions of those who have jalwayn argued that it was inade- quate to the needs of this great shipping and commercial centre. We are now led to hope that a ELIMINATE COMPETITION IS DEAD new and more powerful station AND DAMNED-Mr. Austin Hop: will be erected at Cin Drinkers" | kinson, M.P. Bay. But when? The Marconi

To-day is Thanksgiving Day Company has offered to erect with our American friends. It is station in Hongkong, but it seems being celebrated locally, by that this project is likely to be merous private parties. hung up whilst the Colonial Office discusses the matter with

1923.

A LOCAL CAUSERIE.

CANTON SITUATION.

THREAT FROM THE NORTH

[BY "IMPRESSIONIST.”] A sad aspect of the present report states that a detache epidemic of small-pox is the ment of troops from General Lam dumping in the public pathways Foo's force has arrived at Sun of the remains of those who have Kai, to the north of Canton city. died from the disease. These are There is a general tandshey in bodies of little children in almost the city to believe this report, as all cases, and it would appear troops have been hurriedly mor that the mortality rate amongst ing in this direction during the young sufferers is exceptionally past few days. high. Without wishing to take. An official report states that For failing to carry the regals- the alarmist's standpoint in this the Yunnanese troops captured the Company's representatives at/lion lights, the coxswain of the matter, the point occurs as to Sheklung on the 27th instant, but

motor boat Europe was fined $5 whether measures already ad- this has not yet been confirmed. Home. Hongkong. somehow, by

Comdr, Beckwith, at the opted go far enough to stamp

The resignation of Leu Chung- out the outbreak. When it

hai as(Civil Governor has been has muddled the wireless quas-Marine Court this morning.

is learned that in one day last tion all the way along. The need

week the number of dead bodies accepted. Chan Hsu-yan has been of a really good service is palp- There were 28 fresh cases of picked up in the streets alone appointed to fill the post for the time being, pending a settlement able, but we are always in the small-por notified yesterday, the reached the total of thirty, it may of the dispate between vations sufferers being all Chinese with well be asked if something farther position of waiting for it. In the the exception of one Japanese. cannot be done to extend the parties as to who shall be given

the position. tbe meantime. British business suf- Thirteen of the cases were from powers already given to

Sanitary Department officials. It fers and we are far behind the Kowloon.

does not seem sufficient to bring times in the application of wire-

A fine of $10 was imposed on one or two isolated cases into the less to our criminal problems. the coxswain of the motor-boat Courts and for the maximum We are hoping, however, that Wing Cheong 2, by Comdr. Beck-penalties to be inflicted on those

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? the Government's recognition of with, at the Marine Court, this discovered dumping the bodies of the urgency of the matter will morning. for carrying six excess their relatives in the streets. Unless I am greatly mistaken. passengers.

the confirmed prejudice that Shanghai, reports passing the The s.. Liang Chow, from load to early and thoroughgoing action.

Tientsin has declared Hong-appears to be inborn in these Hamburg-Amerika Line steamer off Chilang Point, kong and Canton small-por in people for anything savouring of P fected. The precautions against hospital measures is not to be anchored and Rying the sigual,

"not under command." vessels arriving at the northern

Messrs. Arahold, Bros., the It is interesting to note Sirport are confined for the present

The Chinese dread of fumigat- local agents for the Hamburg- Claud Severn's prediction, made to medical inspection.

ing measures, which sometimes America Line, have heard nothing in his speech at a school prize-

involve the spoiling of their of the matter, although the distribution yesterday, that the

Mr. and Mrs. C., Thorne left worldly belongings, far outweighs Preussen has wireless, which time is coming when residents of Hongkong for good by the Emother and wiser considerations points to the probability that this Colony will have their own

press of Russia to-day. Mr. If the question of burial expenses nothing serious is amiss, gardens, and no longer have to Thorne's place as Commissioner comes in at all, as it does with dwell in flats. That must be in of Customs is being filled by Mr. the poorer people, it only serves the distant fature, and those who R. B. R. Wade, from Peking. to strengthen their resolve to act now suffer from the shortage of proper housing accommodation

Woman in the Home.

overcome by such means.

•

GERMAN STEAMER'S

SIGNAL

against the requirements of the though difficulties, of which one

can extract no comfort from the In Singapore last week, Mr. law. Not that more than ordinary is the lack of an accessible large knowledge that the next geners-Verbeek, the second officer of the heartlessness can be said to have supply of water for refining tion, so to speak, will enjoy K.P.M. steamer Van Cloon, was been shown in many of the cases, purposes, may cause its abandon. advantages that are now absent acquitted on a charge of smuggl-A bunch of flowers is frequently ment. from the local scheme of things.ing opium, but the master of the discovered placed beside the We were reading only yester-vessel, Capt. Schlette, and the dumped remains of the child; day of the effects the modern agent. Mr. E. Straatemeier, were and, for the rest, a pathetic trust general, and European converts in the good offices of a becavolent to the Chinese "chow" in partio- housing system, in all parts of the convicted and fined $3,000 each.

Government. Thus are the dead,ular, is the news that on comple- world, is having on woman-

in some messure at least, accord-|tion of the new skyscraper on the especially in her capacity as wife

The Misses Lillian and Dorothyed some of the reverence due to Old Post Office site, a first-class

...

Of interest to epicureans in

Chinese restaurant is to be ac commodated on the roof. The nation has occurred to If in the posters that are being Chinese merchant that pos-

soma

sider the extent to which this and mother. A learned observer Gish appear together in "Orphans them.

predicts that women in thirty of the Storm," D. W. Griffith's' modern branch of scientific en-years' time will not be doing any latest photoplay, for the first time deavour has been applied else kind of housework. At least in sincecast together in Mr. Griffith's where to commerce, as a means the cities, everybody will be living Hearts of the World." This placarded throughout the to sibly good mtney msy

in big apartment houses on the

be yielded by bringing new Griffith dramatic epic, found urging the importance of vaccina. of rapid and reliable communics lines of hotels, and all the worked on the Kate Claxton stage tion, a warning were included of of the delights of the Wast Point tion, we cannot escape the con- of a home will be performed by melodrama. "The Two Orphans," the dangers attendant on a case restaurants within more acces- The scientist: is & United Artists Corporation of small-pox left unreported to sible roach of Europeans, for viction that Hongkong, as one of staff of servants, the world's biggest ports, is far responsible for this view of the release, and is now at the Coronet./ the authorities, bester results whom the new establishment will

future actually applaud it. for

might be obtained in the fight chiefly cater. I use the word behind the times. There are, it he declares that, in spite of all

Found suspended by the neck against this terrible scourge.~delights" with a deal of reserve, The risk of wholesale infection lest it be confused with the is true. prospects of an improve-their so-called freedom, women ment in the future, but it looksjare still drudges and slaves in in his room as the Tailoy board in-a place so densely crowded as "distractions" mentioned by a

their homes, being so busy with ing house on the Praya Central. to us as if that future is still far housekeeping that they have no the body of Lee Wing, a returned Hongkong is obvious. One may benevolent gentleman the other go further and state with truth day as being not conducive ahead. We can see great utility time to instruct their children emigrant, was removed to the that the proportions which the

to the development of 3 locally in the extension of wire- properly or be companions to Public Mortuary yesterday by the epidemic has assumed have been "scholarly” wied at the

their husbands. We fear the police. Previous to this, reports less facilities, not only for com.

professor has gone right off the had reached the Central Police brought about mainly through University. Since the establish

this cause, coupled with the not ment is to be kept very exclusive. Station that the man had gambled overclean habits of some of the by the elimination of certain mercial parposes, but also in the track.

away his savings, and this fact is prevention of piracy and, in

believed to have been the motive sanitation is one that could be poorer people. The gospel of The Cause.

objectionable features of the West serving the needs of both the

for the rash act.

broadcasted with beneft here, and will be bestowed on the composi Point quarter special attention land and water police.

the psychological moment fortion of the native menu. Much is Yesterday, a fire broke out on impressing its truth on these promised in the variety and is this very tendency towards apartment life, where there is so the s.s. Anjou as she was lying at ignorant people is a time such as composition of the chop suays little of interest, so little real a wharf near Wing Lok Street the present when convincing served. Eager tourists from "the a potent factor were it developed housework to do or superintend, The Fire Brigade soon arrived lessons could be conveyed by Hotel" across the way are expect locally as it should be. In the that to stay at home "gets on snd. with the help of the large pointing to the ravages of the ed to flock over in large numbers.

the wife, float, soon extinguished the dreadful disease.

However, it is reassuring to be summary of recent discussions one's nerves." and

mother. and companion of early flames. Considerable damage

informed that o Chinese band between the Chamber of Com-married life often becomes a dis- was done to the second-class

The owner of an extensive will not be included in the at- Inerce and the Government which contented inmate, seeking outside saloon and several cabins. we publish to-day that point is interests and more and more Luckily there were no passengers tract of sea frontage that is being tractions.

husband and aboard at the time. The outbreak reclaimed at North Point is an very forcibly illustrated Ordia-neglecting her

children, if there be any. As a is believed to have originated in Amoy Chinese, one of the many

Talking of chop-sucy, or chow- ary cable communication with well-known woman writer has the galley.

who emigrated from that port to rise to pusitions of wealth and min as it is called in the verna Canton is often interrupted, and, pointed out, when a wife really

Joe Willow, an American, ap: Dutch East Indies. Forty years

responsibility in the Straits and cular in South China, I wonder even when it is not, the Chinese loves her husband, and especial-

how many people realise the proper ceremonial that goes with no: drudgery or on a charge of stowing away from

From the standpoint of helping British trade, wireless would be

The true cause of "woman in the home" being not in the home

work

However,

chow-min

time party

service is far from what it mighty if she has children. house-peared this morning on remand age, Mr. Quick Djion Eng went the consumption of each bowlful? be. The case of the American slavery, even though it be very Manila on board a German ship. to Java as one of a number of silk merchants who were able to monotonous at times. Science, Sergeant Dorling made a state-poor emigrants: to-day he owns/As curry, we are told, cannot be the Engers, so chow-min,in all its do big business through getting of course, cannot grasp this fact, ment that defendant who and a business yielding a turnover of Properly digested without using as it is something it is unable to been taken before the American several millions. The secret toothsomeness, must be accorded

this phenomenal success is- news of the Japanese disaster

measure in kilowatt hours. It is Consul General, failed to produceljugar. This commodity, turned certain rites. The next by means of wireless received merely the instinct of the truly citizenship papers. on a U.S. naval boat provides a womanly woman. Therefore, efforts would be made to get him out by the big estates of Java, is join a striking proof of the value of anything which tends to axert a job on a ship. In the meantime bought by him in bulk. In the interval that follows until it counter influence, to suppress the his Worship made an order com- radio communication. The British natural desire of human beings mitting the man to the House of issues from the refinery First he naval authorities are apparently for a comfortabte home to them Detention for seven days. not averse to rendering what selves, is to be utterly deplored. A little bungalow with a small help they can in this connection, garden is better than a big at but with only one wireless oper- with every modern convenience ator on the gunboat stationed at in the city, if we are to have

have them as soon as possible.

if you are not yet initiated, use your wits. Observe the long- coated fellow at the other sable. ponderously rocks finished product for the table, Mr. his head from side to side. Quick does some remarkable Suddenly he plunges a pair of business transaction, of which chopsticks into the steam一 the appreciation in which the dollars and cents.

A highly interesting mark of the results are represented in ing bowl and rescues, a mass of Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation is held by Chinese

Canton it is patent that only garden suburbs, therefore, lét merchants and public men has

atrictly limited facilities are available. Other means than this will have to be found, in which connection cannot help thinking that the installation

we

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Quick now poise, like that produced by a suc- bas taken the form of the pre- thirty years, Mr. sentation to the Bank of a very finds himself with a fortune of tion pump, eyes staring until handsome model of a pagoda by several millions, the title of they almost threaten to obtruds. Java Sugar King." and a pro- from their sockets, & gulp and two of the leading members of the Chinese community, Mr. Chu spect of coming into further down goes the morself It has Pao-san, the well-known mer- prominence by his deal in land been a hard, struggle, but every- of rocaiving apparatus on the

of chore-min, Mesere. W. S. Bailey & Co., chant and shipowner who has for at North Roint. This land was thing, even the seemingly inter- Shameen, if this be feasible, Ltd., of Kowloon, have built to long been at the head of the obtained at an auction some two minable strings

r the follow makes more poise would be of distinct value. The the order of the Standard Oil Co. of activities of the Chinese Chamber years ago, and it may take have an end. If in the process equipping of river steamers with New York a steel lighter 155 feet of Commerce, and Mr. Fu Siao-another year before the wireless would be a wise policy long by 31 feet beam and carrying en, managing director of the clamtion is carried seawards to than our table etiquette would

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bulkheads, hand windlass, cap sence in Shanghai of Mr. A. G. report on harbour improvements To please your Chinese host, you operators."

stan and steering gear, crew's Stephen, chief manager of the the other day. It remains to will be well advised to do the The station at Cape D'Aguilarapace for twelve men, captain's Bank, to make the presentation, be added that the erection of same. Of such little details in cabin, mass room and galley, steel the souvenir being handed over a sugar refinery is being con- built up the success of a choto has been most disappointing, tubular signal mast and usual to him and to Mr. G. H. Stitt, the sidered along with the scheme min party. One cannot be tog

local manager.

of building seawall wharves, careful its history has borne out the outfit