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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

VAULT DOOR n

SATURDAY, JANUARY 1

defensive precautions

| ignored; nor do we for a moment{ jimagine that America's anxiety

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1925.

MIXED

CASHLEY STERNE-

GRILLY

"AUTHOR OF-

Sometimes I feel constrained

to ask those people who employ the word "Xmas" if they know what Christmas really stands for.

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There really scams to be some A Chinese who was knockud Prospoot at last that we shall monts, and so forth-whon wol down by the "Black Maria" in revert ore long to that fine old come to view, all these contro- Don Vaux Road Central yester Brilish institution, tho penny vercial issues and sido-issuos of day, was taken to the Govern- post. One of the most encourag- ing signs in that the statue of Sir world diplomacy is parallel ment Civil Hospital suffering from Rowland Hill, hard by the Royal A Thames anglot, on opening a

injuries to his foot.

Exchange, looks more choorful pike which he had caught, found to-day then for many yaare past.

amall spirit flask in the Ever since the ponny post wont voracious flah's stomach. But < west-along with the sixponny

there is really nothing exceptional telegram and whisky that did not in this. Evory jack must have tasto like turpentine-I have bis gill, as the old saw saith. frequently noticed a look of pain on the statue's featuroa. Indood

aspoct, we cannot refrain from heaving a sigh of regret that such things must be.

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Robbers entered a but ocoupled by a woman at Tak Shok Mi yostorday and atolo $236 worth of proporty. They wore armod with daggers.

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The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 10th Jan., 1925.

NAVAL POWER.

annoying me with his annus! the night from the annual installation position of tho' following verses, Logislative banquet of the Worshipful Com-which I call-

pany of Whitebait Bleachers, seoing Sir Rowland's head burlod

on th.

position on first an Official Member of day of tho presont yoar. All the Executive and reservoirs on the island contain Councils. less water than on the correspond. ing date a your previously, the

Mr. San Fo, lato Mayor of in his hands. total contents being 1,560.84 Canton, who has beon million gallons, as against 1,812.33 political visit to Marshal Chang on January 1st, 1924. On the so-lin, has roturned to Canton. restricted servies now in force. He left Hongkong by the Bai On this gives us about a six months on Thursday night. supply. Turning to Kowloon, wo seo that the reservoir there contained 282.73 million gallons, Gazelle, snow has boon fallingablo emotion, as in Six Rowland's Cunton band, at timos display consider- Jus compared with 330.24 last continuously for the past five

According

to the

BLO

to add most of Our

Which inspiros that, although London statues

regard PIN Hing ovents with stony indiflorenco, some, on the other

your. Reckoning on full consumpdays at Shiukwan, the terminus Co. As a further instance, whon Elon, this is about equivalent to a of the Canton section of the the City Charwoman somo fow four months' supply. It is Canton-Hankow Railway.

interesting hore to note the total rainfall for the past year was 98.37 inches, this figure compar

years ago was instructed, to wash Mr. Goorgo Peabody, moby people tostify to the fact that at the conclusion of the ceremony

Ever since the halo which sur-jing with 106.74 inches for the of Miss Doris Dinsdale, of Kobo the ominent philanthropist's oyon

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.

FUTURE PROGRAMME.

Genova, Jan. 9.

The engagement is announced

to Mr. Frank Wallis, H. B. M. Vice-Consul at Canton.

Tho at Christ Church, Shamden. marriage will take place shortly

wore moist.

nowly qualified

Aftor many years' experiment-

A PEEVISH LULLABY. Hush-a-byo, chilblain, on my

big too!

Why in the world do you

irritato so?

You, who've been itching, the

whole of the day,

Leave me in ponce for a little,

I pray!

Why can't you sloop like all

good chilblaina do ?

Must you bo rostless the whole

night-time through?

Conduct, so cruel drives me

half off my thatch;; Yet you don't care

a hang, though I scratch and I scratch i

Nover a respito you grant me,

Instead,

I have to onduro you in boota

and in bod.

Why can't you allow mo a

a little allay?

Or don't ohilblains have any

Eight Hours Day? Hush-a-byo, chilblain, on my

big too!

Give me a rost for a brief half-

a-mo',

And if you'll be good and in

slumber rocline,

To-morrow I'll buy you some

nice lodinol

rounded the Washington Naval now, or should be, almost at the previous twolve months. We are Disarmament Conforenco had ond of our long dry spell, so that faded, it became evident that the the situation does not appear to

A copy of the Morning Post decisions were incompleto, and

be one giving cause for anxioty.

printed in 1774 and another of The Fatshan branch of the the Times printed in 1791 wore At the same time, the continu- that the nations concerned were anco of restricted supply on the Kwangtung Telegraphic Admin recently sold at auction for £6 restless under the self-imposed Hongkong side shows that con- the projected telephone line from stood to be

istration has protested agains!apisco. The purchaser is under- servation is still necessary. restrictions on their future build- Taking the situation as a whole, Canton to Fatshan on the ground dentist. ing of warships. For several we cannot fool really sufo in this that it may sripple telegraphic

business. months we had the spectacle of Colony until the big waterworks the relative naval strongth being scheme now in hand roach a stage

at which more waler will bu An Order-in-Council by the ing. I read, sciontist has criticised the ratio 5,5,3, for available for consumption, thus Governor provides for the succeeded in persuading an oystor

of the Britain, the United States, and doing away with the necessity for extension

Judgments to produce a pink pearl. His (Facilition for Enforcement) mothod of procedura has not Japan, respectively, was found to restricted supplies.

Ordinanco, 1921, to judgmonts been officially divulged, but in be less easy to maintain than it

mado by courts in the Federated scientific circlos it in widely appeared on paper or in the

Malay Stalos,

assumod that the result www Bohiovod by dieting tho atmosphore of the conferenco

The average, mean temperature oyster on thermometer-bulbs and chamber. It was inevitable that

during Decomber was 61.9 the tomato chutney. Some of my practical difficulties should arise,

highest boing 73.2 and the lowest readers may possibly remember and that aftor-thoughts abould

52.4. There were 238.3 hours of that that eminent expert on dioto- The executive council of the sunshine, and O. 71-insh of rain. tios, Dr. Bulkley Stodger, semo As, owing to oxigence of space not be altogether pleasant. Japan International Labour Office has The total fall of rain for the your, years ago endeavoured to induce last week, I was prevented from naturally began to fool that she decided that there shall be two recorded at the Observatory, was a tamo oyster, named Olivor, making very much progress with

98.57.

which bo owned to produco a my splendid now sorial story, I had come off a bad third best, scesions in 1926, one to study

pear-shaped black pearl by diot-havo decided to omit the synopsis maritime questions and the other with hor navy kept in a minority to deal with general labour pro-

It is notified that the Hong-ing if exclusively on decanter- trom the present instalment. I position. Tho exclusion of Singa-[bloms,

kong Mortgago and Share stoppore and coal tar ; and doubt fam anxious to got the prelimin- It has also decided to establish Brokers Company, Limited. will logs the distinguished Dr. wouldary chapters over and arrive at pore from the area of restricted

permanent emigration

be struck off the Companies have succeeded, but for his own the part whore Knora la lured fortifications, with a subsequentį

mittoo, Reuter,

Register, if it fails to obtain a lamentable oversight. Aftor into the steam laundry and decision to establish a huge base

cortificate to commence business fooding his pot one night be forced to become chartered within two monthe after the omitted to close its shell, with the accountant. It will make your thero, was considered to be a

publication of this notico.

result that Olivor contracted blood stand on ond i neat move by Britain on the

bivalvular disease of the heart. A world's chessboard. The discus-

It is notified that, at the state of high fover supervened, sion of gun elevation in the

expiration of three months from and though the distracted Dr. data The United Motor Com-promptly put his pet to oyator United States of America showed

pany, Limited, and the Yangtse bed, shaved its board, and placed how wide was the feeling against

Stoom Navigation Company, its head on ice, it never rallied, Ed Lewis, the holder of the Limited will, unless Cause is but passed peacefully away in its the unsatisfactory position that world's heavy weight wrestling shown to the contrary, bo struck Washington Treaty had championship, whose wrestling off the registor and the companios created-with a rofloction among methods have won him the will be dissolved.

nickname of "Strangler," met his the European continental nations as well. The passage of time has not affected those problems, nor is a ready solution of inter- national naval relations to bo discornod amidst all the discus- sions which have since cropped

tho

up.

Now comes a strong feeling among Amoricans that their navy is bohind the permissible limit, and recent cabled nows shows that in cortain respoets it is not up to the power which would bring it to the loval of Britain's floot. Without attempt- ing to discuss the morits of difforont elaima, as to gun- elevation or otherwise, wo can discern in those matters the continuance of that restlessness

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"STRANGLER' BEATEN.

com.

SUCCUMBS TO VARSITY ATHLETE.

Kansas City, Jan. 9.

match last night whon Wayno; Sub-inspector Fiold, with a Munn, former Nebraska Universi-party of police officers, raided No.3 Circular Pathway yester day, Roizing one revolver, one pistol and a dagger. This move sloop.

is said to havo nipped in the bud mont was carried out by Dr. The subsequent inter- a projected armed robbery. One Bulkley Stodger, attended by a woman and two mon found in the bottle of Chill vinegar, and two promises have boon taken into thin slicos of brown bread and custody.

buttor.

During the past year, there wore examined under the Salo of A Durban paper states that Foods and Drage Ordinanco thirty young native girl possos80s tho

of milk, Bix enmplos

of highest soprano voice in tho camphorated oil, four each of world. It does not, however, buttor and coffee, threo of flour, say if hor topnotes have snow on | two each of condensed milk and thom all the year round. •

popper, as well as numorous einglo samples of other commodi- tion. All woro genuine oxcopt- ing on each of fresh milk and storilised milk.

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One of the boos in my bonnet

KNOOK-KNEED KNORA: or, the Girl who took the Wrong Unfirellu.

ly.

Chapter II. (cont.). "Nover!" cried Enid Mibble-

and

thwaite-Mibblothwaite, scornful- "What take your money Bond my porodixehaired grandmother '10 a folon's coll~~ nover! I'll see you in. Hel-in Holonsburgh firet i "

She raised her arm. the door," she said.

"There is

"What a jolly one!!" murmured Sidney Fitz Poodle examining the knobs with much interest.

"Novor darkon it again!" cried Enid.

"I haven't touched it, I swear!" said Sidney.

"In any case I shouldn't darkon it. All it wants is a little~"

Enid Postlethwaite Postle- has already begun its annual (thwaite silonced him with, a buzz. In almost very shop win-goaturo, and rang the boll. dow I pass I soe printed placards Humphreye", she said to the Carmol Myers, according to advertising goods for "Xmas "responding menial, "show thin- roporte from other cities, has one of the most hideous abbro-this person the front door!" "Strangler" Lewis.

added ono oro

romarkable viations in the English language. But dash it all!" protested charactorization to tho many

We don't refer to Michaelmas Sidney, "I don't want to see any which originally Btartod tho ty athlete, won two out of three already to her credit, as a cabarot as "Mikomas," so why distort mora.doors. I'm not a ballydoor world armaments race. From falls with him, and only falied porformer in "The Love Pirate," Christmas into Xmas 7" One collector. I came to~~" $120.00, $140.00 and $160.00 warships, the question of relative to make it three straight because a Richard Thomas Production of these days the "X" horror "You came to. blackmail mo," at the second meeting he violated released by F.B.O., coming to the will spread,, and we shall havo Enid interposed,, "and I'm not strength has extended to air the rules by lifting Lowis and World Theatre on Sunday. In the the Vicar announcing, "Let us having any. Go! I never want floots and in time, as now pro-throwing him out of the ring.

carlier HODNOS sho portrays, sing hymn 53~*Xtians, awakel to Boo your ugly mug again." COBBON como into being and

Lowie was badly injured and admirably, It is sald, the happy, salute the happy morn'; the hero Baffled, Bidnoy MoGumboll better armament becomes pasei-

had to bo sont to hospital.

enrofree sophistication of a girl of The Pilgrim's Progress will was about to take his hat from Munn was formerly a famous of this type, while later, when be known as "Xtian"; the Blue-the top of the mort-onfo, when a blo, the controversy is certain to footballer. Ilo won by main jealousy comes into her life, sho goat School will be called strange thing happened I involve oven groator tasuos. Wo strength, throwing off the invests the part with doftly con- "K's Hospital": the_ceremony (The strange thing will be ex- do not subscribe to the doctrine rushing him into submission from the thought of love and

veteran's famous hoodlooks and ceived touches that carry hor of baptism will be referred to as plained, with dissolving views, in roning"; and the discovoror next week's long and absorbing of pacifism which would have Router's American Service. happiness to hatrod and revenge, of America, «Xopher Columbus, instalment.)

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