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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1924.

tection from every menace:

whether in Germany or boyund Germany. Thoso who spoak | somewhat loosely of Fronch

DAY BY DAY.

OF ALL TREASURE KNOWLEDOE IS THE MOST PREVIOUS, FOR

militariem apparently overlook IT CAN NEITHER BE STOLEN,

TWO-MINUTE TALKS ABally Tonie

By ROBERT POWER

SUPERFLUOUS !

Buous!

that important fosture of the GIVEN AWAY, NOR CONSUMED.— country's national defence. Tho | Hitopadesa.

Superfous moans soothing When wo oxaniing the routino: heavy burdon of armamònts

Yosterday's hoalth return shows not absolutely nesaskary. A of our daily lifo, wo dru astonished' would, no doubt, quite willingly two cases of small-pox (imported), luxury, maybe, or just that extra at the amount of the superfluous. bo eased if an adequate substituto two of cerebrospinal fever and which in case of stern necessity Whistanley built tho first Eddy- When stone lighthouso-al strango for the maximum requirement ons of unlerie fovor. All are can be disponead with.

you come to look around it is construction adorned with towers were forthcoming. Finally there Chinoso.

astonishing, how many supar- and jutting corners. Its supor ไป the mattor of Inter-Allled

A Shanghai telogram to the luities can be harboured un fluities offered every hold to the debts. bristling with

angry olamante and it was thorny bail Bulletin says 11.M.S. Blue-thinkingly.

destroyed. Smeaton's smooth probloms, and

In this age of Realities every tower. modelled ሲ subject of ball has proceeded to Video Is

on the onk vital concern to

the British land with the object of standing body consciously or unconscious- Gaverament, which has already which is still ashore,

by the motor vessol Glen Amoy y is learning to do without. I treo, arose in its place and still Aulos tho wild winds ́ and road that many Court offices are the riging billows. Thord la to bear the load of debt-ropay-

being. abolished. Long ago the nent to America without any A blasting charge accidontally Jestor vanished from the King's nothing, superfluous about it Worry about our persoant appear- the Palace, the Merry Androw who

anco, clothes, deportment, im- Specifications on Applica reimbursement from our own discharged and blow off

fingers of the right hand of a stone tried to keep the Monarch In au debtors. Can the proposed inter-dresser at Morrison Hill Road good tempor, The Court Taster pression we make upon others Allied conference come to a final yesterday. Ho was removed to has also departed the follow in reason there is no harm in this decision, of a mutually satis- the Government Civil Hospitu). whone dubipus office it was to solicitude, but how easily it may factory nature ? If it can, it will

sample the food of Royalty to develop into a cult of the super The mistress of a fishing boat detect lurking poison. Then too. MUTARD & Co. not only set Europe on its fectou 95 by the Binrino the Astrologor has gone, and now Business to got thủ habit of again, so to speak, but also bring Magistrate, Lieut.-Com. Conway they tell me the master of the cutting out the unnecessary. In now lease of life to the whole Hake, this morning for using King's Music is an office to be an interview they allow a certain world.

bright lights for fishing in Hung- abolished. Superfluous, although amount of tim, and, therefore, any elaboration or unnecuRNATY hom Bay, this boing, a prohibited picturesque.......

vorbiage is a waste of precious in timo of real necessity how minutes. "Get down to the baru the superfluous vanishos. Wo sot bonos of facts" was the advico New Numbers Needed.

AL the Chinuse National much storo by the little points of given by a merchant prince to his Quite recently, all the houses Christian Council conforence, dream. We cannot set out in the callers. In other words, eliminato in the Poak district have been re- now being hold, it was announced morning unless our tie is to our the superfluous. numbored, and the work has been that $5,037.13 had boon contribui-liking, our hat "suitable," and. Truth is often overgrown by a done in such a way that allowed by churches in China for the athor sartorial details in kooping tanglo of falsehood. It is difficult ance is made for now residences relief of sufforore from the Japan with our.contoption of the filnews sometimes to say whare the one COLLIGNON. At the Hague, built. There

which in the near future may be esa earthquako;

of things. To many ladies, begins and the other oude. The will chus,

fashion is a taskmaster.. But habit of exaggeration is easily Holland, on the 20th of May.imagine, bo no need to worry! A raport from Shanghai states when people are thrown away an uncouraged but most difficult to 1924, J. H. Collignon, Senior about further re-nuinbering, for that a Presidential Mandate apa raft or marooned on a desert get rid of. It is indond the coul Managing Director of Holland-many years. The schomo has pointing Conoral Chan King island, then only Realities are tivation of the euporiluous--the China Trading Co. By cable.

been extremely well thought out ming Military Inspector of important. To find food, sheltor; unnecessary elaboration of Reali- and exocuted. Now, it occurs to Kwangtung and Kwangst Pro- and safoty theso uro the ty Deal in facts. Be accurate. us, that it is about time the vincos will be issued when he essentials. Other muttore aqom Cullivato Truth.Then you will dis-

trivial.. authorities took in hand for has recaptured Canton,

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HONGKONG, 21st May, 1924.

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL-i

WO

arou.

POSTAL COURIER MISSING.

MACAO NOTES.

SIGNS OF BUSINESS PROGRESS.

the Colony as well. Take the Bishop Root has retired from city of Victoria. Even in the the Secretaryship of the Chinese KONGMOON MYSTERY. contre of the Europoan shopping| National Christian Council, and district it is the exeoption rather the Rov, R. C. Lobenstine, former- than the rule to see any numbers ly Secretary of the C.C.C., has at all If our roadors doubt this docided to tuke up work as full statement, lot thom ondoavour to Secretary of the former body. find any particular mumbor in say, Queen's Road or Dos Vocux'

Whilst handing up a bucket of The people of the Allied coun-Road, They will be lucky if they water from the sou, a young boat tries are still hopeful of a satin-discover the number they woman fell from a sumpan and

ara Booking. Then, too, there was drowned yostorday. factory settlement of the repara- are many instancos, ovon whore vessel was anchored at Saikong tions problem, which is not so numbers are provided, to which wharf at the time. In spite of at

nuch a big question awaiting as and. Sk's have been tempts to rescue.her, the woman

addod, showing the need that was not seen again. solution as combination of

exists for revising the whole related subjects cach quito street. Next let us pop across to formidable in itself. One of the Kowloon. What do we find principal obstacles to a soltlo-thero? Blogks and blocks of

fata without any numbors visible. mont has boon 110 German

froin the outside. These things attitude of evasion, but wo think should not bo. in woll-ordered

The following team will that by now so many concossions Colony. Every shop and avory in Whites against the

house should have its number Bombay

(Our Own Corrependent)

(Our Own Correspondent,) Kongmoon, May 20, The mysterious disappearance

Macao, May 20. of a postal courieremployed by the Bomo years ago it was hard to Post Office at Fakkal has created find in Macao any foreign busi- No clue has so far boen obtained was practically all in the bands The something like a sensation locally, nous concerns. Local commerce by the postal authorities, but of Chineso merchants. Europaan what littlo clroumstantial commerce was confined to two or evidence is availablo bas three grocery stores, dealing in

&

,

SUMMER HOCKEY,

lod to the belief that there winos and a fow other articles. haa boon a dastardly murder. It As time went on, foreign- firms appears that on the morning of Bottled down, because of u bolief the 15th. inat. the courier was sont that Macao would develop later across, as usual, fordelivery of mail on into a cominercial contro. Wo mattor in Chiu Lin, which is the cannot yet claim to have reached play name given to a large village or a the desired goal, but much has 2/cluster of villages on the other side boon done which proves that

have been obtained, compared prominantly displayed; both in latter ground at 5.45 m. on The courier did not return to revive.

Gronadier on the of the river opposite Pakkai. Macao is making evory effort to

that even wore

with the original punitive pro-English and in Chinoso. Whore Friday, 23rd instant-P. W. F. office at the usual time, and at a There are now many firms try- visions of the Vorsailles Treaty, so many of our chilts are deliver Mills, G. H. Piercy, A. V. T- Inter hour, another courier, having ing to build botter businesses, and a reactionary od by coolies, the advantage of Dean, Lt. Watson, R. N., E. J. performed his duties for the day some intond erooting imposing party-to-come-into power in this would be immense. We R. Mitchell, A-Bowker, in Ho Tong, Doxt to Chiulin, re-edifices. Tho Banco Nacional commend to the Government the Lt. Ashby, R. N., Capt. Williams, turned to Pakkai, carrying with Ultramarino will have its own Germany there will be little, if idea of overhauling, by degreos, R. M., Lt. Com. Ingham, R. N., him the mail-bag bolonging to the building, dus to the offorts of the any, further attempt to wriggle the numbering of the Colony's G. R. More and Lt. Manders, missing courier and reporting that present manager, Mr. M. Lopes

The matter R. N. out of obligations or sow seeds streets and houses,

has been permitted to slide for

MORE ARMS.

“PHRA NANG" HAUL CONFISCATED.

מן

COUNTERFEIT COIN.

it had been handed to him by a who has secured permission from of dissension among the Allies. far too long now. The sooner it

stranger from Chiulin and that his Head Offco to construct a the he had boon told that his follow-magnificent building Next, of equal importance, has] is tackled, the easier will it be.

postman would bo back to office European style of architecture. been the unbonding altitude of

by the Bank's aftor he had had a little rest, The plan is Band Concerts: Franco. For some months, now,

As the day wore

other architect and it is hoped that the The willingnons shown. hy!

couriors roturned from this adamant position of our Colonel Batás to permit the ex-

the local authorities will approve it. noighbouring postal areas, bring-I hear that. Mr. Lopes is going Ally has been less emphatic, collent band of the East Surrey

ing ominous messages that the Home on leave, and if this is trao largely due, porhaps, to tho Regiment to play in public once Mr. E. W. Hamilton mado an missing postman had been badly the whole of Macao will feel his. change of Belgian policy. Of a wook will surely be inuch ap-order for the confiscation of ton beaten by some peoplo in Chiulin. doparture, especially the Chiceso preciated by the public, and we Luger pistols, 16 revolvers, eight It was not until then that the community, amongst which 'ho the other big Governments con- hope that his offer will be taken automatic pistols, 15 Luger postal officials began to be has many friends. He has dono a cerned, Italy has always shown advantage of by the public. Con- | magazines sight spare stocks and suspicious, and mon wero Im-grost doal in bringing Chinese u readiness to come to reasonsidering that Hongkong is a 7,675 rounds of ammunition, at mediatoly sent over to Chiulin to and Portugueso business mon ablo terms, even if sacrifices have little opportunity of hearing the morning.

onquiries, which, how more in contact with one another. military station, we get all too the Kowloon Magistracy this make

over, have led to little result. to be made. Rocent visits by regimental band, though, as we In making the application.

The matter has since been re- M. M. Theunis and Hymans to mentioned yesterday, in other 'Sergeant Simpson said that on

to the Postal Com- the Allied countries have rosuli- days the programmes supplied by information received he boarded ported

Indian bands in Kowloon wore the s... Phra Nang and on sear-missioner of Canton, and an in- led in a better understanding quite a popular foature after din-ching the forehold at 8.45 a.m. onspootor has boen sent horo to and the whole stage in Europe nore. That the public would the 9th inst he discovered ave investigate the case. Up to now.

A charge of, being in unlawful appears almost to be set now for rejoice at the chance to have sacks containing the arms and the postal officials are none the

Wisor for all the enquiries made, possession of 1,000 counterfoit the final scenos of the great regular opor-air band concerte ammunition, among the cwhich only land to strengthon coins of various kinds was pro- we have not the slightest doubt. Enquiries wore mindo, but nobody their suspicion that the cuso is forred against a Chinoso pass- tragedy.

Nothing could be more delightful claimed tho contrábund. Whilst one cat fool moro hope during the hot-sonson. As to the bost venue, the Botanical Gardens ful than for a your past, there and the Voluntoor Parado Ground are sourcos of possible future suggost themselves in the case of disagreemont which have to be Hongkong, whilst the availablo considered. We have had vory would make a choice for that land near the raliway in Kowloon slight indication of the effect of logality an easy matter. Wo M. Poincare's political defest on certainly do trust that, if these Sentence of six years hard miscreants, if any, brought to

fustice. the French point of view, but aploon will not be overlooked. A Tak-lung, who was found guilty concorts are to be arranged, Kow-labour was passed yesterday on parontly this romaine the same as good idea would be to have them of wounding Cheung Ching with it was last month. The greatest in Hongkong and at Kowloon on intent to do him grievous bodily TEX RICKARD INDICTED. ⠀⠀ stumbling-block is the question alternate weeks. At any rate, harm.

SIX YEARS.

SESSIONS WOUNDING.

CASE.

of security for France from now that the offor has been so Mr. A. Dyor Ball, in passing generously made, lot it be thank-sontento, said that the prisoner future aggrossion, and we can fully accepted.

quito easily realise how import- ant that matter is to our Ally.

In the case of Britain, pains are

was fortunato in not being before him on a charge of murder. I

Prisoner's #dofonde", wASE A reiteration of his statements at

CHINESE PASSENGER

CHARGED..

one of murdor. According to tho pastal mon, there is no question or of the 8.8. Suug Shan Maru, bolore Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at of the courier absconding of his the Kowloon Magistracy this own accord. It is said that the morning Sunwui magistrato will be asked It is alloged that the coins to co-operate in connection with were found concealed among this oase so that the mystery defendant's belongings on board may be cleared up and the the vessel yesterday.

Dofondant stated that he did not know the coins word: spurious,

A romand was granted,

SEIZURE ON EMPRESS

A third Illegal Movement of Fight

ger from Films

Empress of Rú before Mr. Newark, New Jersey, May 20.

22 YEARS IN THE POBT

The Federal Grand Jury, after being

fof: Four postcards, posted in Ger- the Magistracy. He urged that investigation of the transporta- takon to safeguard the coasts of many in 1902 by Mr. John Stead he could have easily escaped off tion of films of the Dempsey- the United Kingdoin and of the youngest son of the late Mr. W. the boat had he wished. Instead Carpontior fight from Now Jersey whole Empire by suuintaluing a T. Steady to ble sister at Hayling to waited for the second onloor to other states, which is forbid felon

Inland have just been delivered. Even when the sentence was den by law, has returned an huge naval arm. In the case of A charge of twopones, was ade being interpreted to him, prisoner Indictment against the light pro Franco there is a big lund froullor on each card by the Post Office strenuously protested his illctor Fox Riskard andülzothers, as: woll which requires absoluto, for re-direction.

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