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HONGKONG, 16th Aug, 1924.

DISTORTION.

SATURDAY

GUST 16, 1924

DAY BY DAY.

CONTENT THYSELF TO LIVE OBSCURELY 000D.--Addison.

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authorition of déception, wo foar that the allegation must rebound) with double force on the journal which thus distorts the facts of the case. The pity of it is that our contemporary is so closely A Router's mossage states that associated with the Canton Mr. Walter Cyril Ward, formerly ongle is harder to keep than

We prosume that a double Government, which was itself a of Shanghai, loft ostate of the single one."

value of £68,734. party to the "Gontiomen's Agrovment" in which it was made absolutely clear that the police had no re-instatemont

rights.

Public Monuments.

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a play foxtrote? Why doesn't the Frog Criticism: Why don't they

Government put up a permanent bandstand? Why don't the K.R.A kill all the moaquitoes before the

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His-Excollogoy the Governor to Facisti in Canton. Loa and performance?

We're sorry that they'vo_takan

has appointed Dr. Robert Fowler Perrin's is so much better. Walker to act as Second Health Officer of the Port.

Two accountants of tho Kwong Yee monay-changer's shop have absconded with uonios bolong- ing to the firm amounting to

Fow monumento anywhere $3,500. can in such a short period have: had the latoresting experiences It is notified that the names of which have befallon the Wanchai the Kung Yik Bank, Limited.; monument during the past six and the Bank of Toi months. After

Shan, Buffering the Limited, have been struck off the indignity of forming a dumping Registor. ground for rubbish, somo-of-it official littor. there eamo the A Chinese who was knocked olean-up by British and American down by taxi No. 971 in Lao Chit naval nion on Remembrance Street yesterday was taken to the Day, and now the site has Government Civil Hospital as a relapsed to its previous use as a result of the injuries he received. convenient place for storing, building and other matoriais;

Is Mujosty the King has

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Some husbands are treated like

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We fancy the saxophone down' dogs. Others are made use of

hoard it lament the other night. our way must bo dying. Wo

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ie that they

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are popular in Kowloon, They

Among Scotsmen crowded buses pronifaing,

Kat their clothes pressed froo-of charge.

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These strike maddles remind free Instruction from fools. us that a wise man gets a lot of

Choup matches are all right. this-woother if-you-happen-to- stríku a good one.

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The Post describes the sculling championship as "another victory for Puddon," Vive la riz!

Local bathors find that inner O D

tubes make excellent substitutes Nothing tickles a Hojuz terrior (or life belts, but they should not.

after more than biting a pedigree pup. be used immediatoly

"blow out." Beyond its collection of statues approved the appointment of the

Many a husband married last in the heart of the city, this tian, Mr. C. Montague Ede to be has already forgolten

All mon are born holplose, but Colony has not a great number an Unofficial Mombor of the how to drive with one hand. of monumonts. Obolisks agem Executive Council during the

Home in Hongkong.help lose than others. to-havo captured the fancy of the early designore of memorials, A. G. Stephen.

absence on leave of the Hon. Mr.

We've yet to encounter a Kow.

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A Chicago dentist has been ar poor appetito.

rested for shooting a patient. Wanchai one, and the one which

There revolvers and 40 rounds

Bol he told him it wouldn't hurt. forms a part of all local funeral

០ ធ announcements. This last has of ammunition were taken by the probably osoaped the fate of the police searchers on the

It took six mon to save a baby 8..

who foll into the Thames, but thon other, nearby, only because it is President Wilson on the arrival get numbers in them.

sho was just nineteen years old. in the middle of an important of the vessel here yesterday. A fairway. Apart from having man has been taken into custody

and will be charged someone in the Public Works

The difforonco botwoon in- Department that most versatile possession-of-the-arms

pertioauce-and-ropartoe doponds of Government buroaus-special-

on the size of the man who says it. ២ ៨. We notice in Hongkong that the shorter womon's hair, tho longer it takes to arrange it.

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If Hongkong telephone boothe were larger it might be oasier to

Acting sonsibly those beautiful with moonlight nights is a suro sign

of-ignorance-

Kaleha Rain falls on the just and the

pector of monuments. it is difi-announce the acquisition of Pier unjust, but especially on lawn cult to say how those momorials No. 16, ut Brooklyn, New York, bowlers. should be cared for. The only in place of Plor B. Tompinsvillo,

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The way some mon attend the club you'd think they wore out of spirits at hom

If it were not for their seriously appointed to the post of an in-. The Nippon Yuson aturo, implying trickory of the Sanest possible kind, we should feel inclined to regard the Canton sure hope for the Wanchai one Staton leland. This new pior iss A passimist is a man wonder- tia teftes allegations against the would appear to be the gradual located in the shipping centre of ing how on earth his topee got

expansion of the more pro- Now York and has good connoo so dirty. French authorities on the Sha-tontious part of the city into its tion with railroad torminals. moen as intensely humorous, suburbs. Changes are bound to

A northern contemporary is That thoyfare a deliberate distor-come in the neighbourhood of What appeared to be a case of whole-heartedly in favour of the The K. R. 4. should have the obelisk which will restore to suicide has been disclosed by the exécution of General Dawns. This provided moro space for the tion of the facts is made clear that locality some of the glories discovery of the dead body of a scome Homewhat drastic. After bandmaster to act in.

of the past, (when Government Chinese at the entrance into No. all, he did his best to find a plan.

OB. House was in the vicinity), and 86, Connaught Road West.

Shanghai Magistrato: Where

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moat serious shortage

locally is people with something worth while to say.

to sa

The best way to avoid will dis- Talking about oclipsos, isn't it putes is to leave your money to about time that some of our lawyer right from the start. movie stars word blotted out?

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There was a slight disturbance Tho individual who addressed in Kowloon the other night, but a letter to Messrs Lauecraw, our next door neighbour's grams. Ford & Co. must have been phone won easily. Boverely stung by the livver bug.

If

ROHO of our Hongkong "Bissionary" appears to be the ladies would smoke a cheaper Missionary, brand of cigarettos their husbands

Besides filling the roservoirs,

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debts.

reason beauty and brains soldom We can only assume that the

go together is because both are soldom needed.

Thought is

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from the statements issued us to exactly what happened when the lukongs returned to the Franch after long years the monument to length of rope had been tiod Our Sanitary people have so did the blow strike you? Defond- Concession. All the way through into its own again:

our fallen naval beroes will come round the man's nook, and death for failed to isolate the typhoid ant: At the bottom of my stract! had resulted from strangulation. gorm. Perhaps they've never this strike trouble, the Cunton)

The man was in a destitute state. tried the House of Dotention. The Sudan. deelte has been blaming the Shameen authorities, and it con-in the Sudan was, not very an affair occurring at 9.45 last parrot was a very

Any thought that the trouble The police are enquiring into The departure of Kowloon's tinuos to do so, although it is serious, and would be short lived, night when a district watchman patent that the source of the is discounted by the measures shot and wounded a Chinose in latest breach must be sought the authorities are taking, in the leg in Nathan Road. It is cluding that most significant of said that the man was challenged olsowhere. A few days ago, our actions-the provision of ro-by the watchman, and was fired Canton contemporary Was up inforcements, Evidently the at when he ran away. He was in Aros against the British Government has taken

the taken to the Government Civil Municipal authorities, on whom. opinion of the military com-Hospital.

manders and mon on the spot. it placed all the responsibility for We can conclude that very Vostorday there arrived in the new deadlock that hud arison.serious events are anticipated. Hongkong a party of Akali In doing so, however, it un-A study of the propaganda which Sikhs, bound from Canada to new feminine for

has been going fortunately committed itself cis--for some months gives a good grievances.

on in Egypt India to protest against cortain according to one of our local would better able to pay their

They presented a contemporarios. is the French authorities, for, in idea of the now Nationalist picturesque appearance in their

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of the Sudanese would rather curious swords in same. During good hard rain prevents our team it pointed out that whereas the havo thiv Britsh authority, their stay they are police engaged by the latter were but tho self-styled protectors of accommodatod

boing from losing. al the Sikh 'downtroddun" races have decid-Temple. not warned of possible dismissal

Too many forks in our roads if they joined in the strike, theed to take up the cudgels on their behalf. For Egyptians to lay lukongs employed by the French claim to the Sudan is absurd. circumstances

The enquiry conducted into the are used for spoons. were plainly told that they would Thoir only interest in the place breach of discipline at the King wield the bars more instead of of the alleged If some of our builders would lose their jobs and their pensions is its nearness, and the opportun-Ed ward VIIth Medical Col- if they struck. Then came this ity it offers to wage a political ioga at Singapore, recently, com smoking, we'd have more houses. campaign detrimental to Britain. menced in the Legislative Coun-

The Frunoh Mutuality Medal comment: The British Muni- The risk of bloodshed has not cil Chamber last week. It was

If sous people. had to drink has been awarded to the King of cipal Council cannot plead that boon considered in the same light anticipated that the

warm saquiry

whisky-sodas, this ice Cambodia. Possibly Paris beard they have the same justification with the chance of striking a would be concluded last Satur shortago would maybe nover his band being broadcasted from

blow at British pawar. However day. The report will bo sont to

have happoned.

the Circus at Kowloon.. as the French for refusing to re-optimistic one might try to be the Council of the College, which,

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Thore is probably nothing more have taken to bro-back riding.

Lots of Mongkoktsul mosquitoes Cunton Gazette's own admission, the Home Government is faced be takon,

like a fight than a movie picture therefore, it was known from with some of the gravest problems

of one.

DO that have ever worried an Empira the start that the polles engaged administration.

Bort Lytell in "The Right That India swart Failed." & Motro picture, will be by the French were not to be re- with agitators, some in the right seen at the Queen's Theatre at contradict seldom change their People who always itch to instated. That is quite apart and others mero mischief-makers; ali showe froin to-morrow,mind. from the terms of the Gentle-tions of this revolutionary spirit: This soroon-play was adapted in East Africa there are reflec Sunday, till Tuesday inclusive, men's Agreement," which was in South Africa there is an oxfrom a story in the Saturday beaten these days he

Ever notice when a bowlor gets endorsed by the strike loaders tremist element over on the alert Evening Post. It deals with a blames the weather 7 and which specifically laid down to assert itself; and very much prize-fighter who has, the rare that those policemon were ro-Iroland, with all that it can mean and the rafinements of life. noaror home wo have the case of combination of skill at boxing:

The things wo pride ourselves they're applying for jobs.at the quired to come to the French in the future. Now comes Egypt Charming Virginia Valli, who most upon are the possessions Observatory; Concession and. tender their and the Sudan, and the cup soum will be remembarad for bar part our trionda cannot afford.

hardly full to the brim yet. It is in "The Idle Rich," is the horoino, an outlook for the croakers to and Bull Montana is also in the rovel in.

CLAN CUMMING

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cast.

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always

on the inureano. Many ladies have recently boon' windows reflecting... observed in front of Pedder Street

The hardest building to find in Hongkong is the library.

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Some of our young man write lottore homo about the fun they're baving, while those having the fun have no time to write.

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Sugars are hardening, Looks as The sight of these buses remind if we'll have plenty of toffes for us that it's a poor mule that Halloween. won't work both ways.

The lesson of those American balloting plotures is that every

A wise man paddles his own mother's son has a chance to

wiser anoe, but a

one gets grow up and be a delegate.

Mr. R. Kindersloy, who had bon apanding some months in the course of a world tour, be-j fore he came up to Hongkong by the Kalyan, will visit Japan and someone else to push it. the United States. Mr. Kia-

Friday is an unlucky day to dorsley is a son of Bir. Robert Bome men living, a dog's life dive into shallow water, Kiudursley, a director of the bank take too much license. Clan of England and member of the

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Thoro cannot be the slightest doubt that the police engaged by the French Municipality know perfectly well what they wore elgning, sitoo the nature of the documents was fully oxplained

SERIOUS DAMAGE TO to each and all of them in

CARGO. Chinese. With the pircum-

Aden, August 15, stanoos thus, we can only regard The fire in the B.. our Canton contemporary's uttor-Cumming, which broke out on bakors committee of the Allied

Aug. 13, has not yet been Conference.. Ho takes a great equals until you can slap them on be a tune and always disappoints ly falso allegations as an attempt extinguished. The

Is interest in boxing and while in the back and borrow a dollar. you, it's a cinesio, to throw dust into the oyas of seriously damaged, and the dis- Singapore sparred with some of the public, with a view to obscur-chargo is proceeding slowly the professionals. Mr. Kindersloy owing to the dense smoko... It is did the journey from Bingapore ing the roa! origin of the now foarad the lower held is also to Penang and back, by motor deadlook. Accusing the French afire-Reuter.

jojolo.

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Hint to Bandstandoris: Whon Women will never be mon's a piece threatens every minute to

Description of libel by innuendo: A Shameen min.

man writes to An'ya The KR.A must be making a good tlist dricket, will never replace thing from these Band Concerte, baseballuntil you get three strikes.

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