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A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK.

MONDAY, MAY 10, 1926.

loz.

DAY BY DAY.

MOTOR CAR SMASH.

EUROPEANS' MIRACULOUS

ESCAPE.

HONGKONG IMPORTS.

BUSINESS STILL DULL

The fortnightly Price Current

the Hongkong General Chamber of and Market Report, published by

Commerce, states:

the strike on a totally different footing to that on which it rosted throughout last work. We think that there has been an under- WRECK OF EVERY PASSION, AND THE MIND PROFITS BY THE statement, if anything, in the WE MAY MEASURE OUR ROAD TO computation that 75 per cent. of WISDOM BY THE SORROWS WE those on strike (not minors) havd

HAVE UNDERGONE-Bulwer-Lyt-well-known local architect, of the As Mr. Colbourne Little, the

gone on strike unwillingly, but|

arm of Messrs. Little, Adams and have simply boon obedient to the

Thore was clean bill of healthyesterday afternoon along the Lai Cotton. Goods Market stagnant. Wood, was driving his motor car Cotton Piecegoods and Fancy call of their Union. To so many

in the Colony on Friday.

chikok Road, just past its junc-Nothing doing. Deliveries show a working mon at Home, the Trade The hoalth return for the wook-otecting gear of the car suddenly ton quotation to hand are those of

tion with the Talpo Road, the slight improvement. Latest Co Union polls stern authority as end shows no cases of notifiable went out of order, and befors the the 6th inst. Eg. Sakel. 16.150. well as a safeguard, and, although

car could be brought to a stand- Mid, Am. "Spot" 9.84d. still it had toppled over the atoop

a man might feel that his Union!

disease.

The weather forecast up to noon

Cotton Yara.-We have expert-

has gone too far he would bositate to-morrow i8-East or variable embankment on the right-hand enced a quiet and uneventful fort-

side of the road.

108. $155/166. No.

123.

to disobey its orders just as he winds, moderate; fair.

Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Savage were per bale, with hardly any business. night. Prices have declined, $5/6 would hesitate to throw up its benefits. With the Government Manila, is due here at 7.30 am. Little, were carried over the em- $165/175. No. 168. $175/180. No. The Empress of Canada, from riding as passengers in the car Nominal quotations are as follows: at the time and they, with Mr.

No pledging itsolf to protect him to-morrow. from any rotaliatory action ky

bankment in the car, which rolled 203. $185/195.

bales. Shipments Nil. stocks 8,000 baies. Bargains 2,000

80.

anxiety.

וז

Fai Terrace.

to ber

bales.

Arrivala 1,800.

Woollens-Market dull.

Unsold

Sugar-Market shows signs of improvement, -- since last report,

Saltpetre-Very dull market

The Bishop of Victoria return-over and over, making at least his Trade Union, many a maned to the Colony by the s.s. Pres-three somersaults before it came will go back to work-and gladly ident Polk.

to rest at the foot of the 20-feet drop. The hood of the car was The above is, brielly, our road-loft Vancouver on May 1st, is three, passengers had

The Empress of Russia, which up and, It is to this fact that all

B really Raw Cotton. No business to re- ing of the present situation-adup here on the 19th. instant. miraculous escape. Had the car port. situation which is much more

..been "open" at the time, extremely

Metals Market dull. Very II- hopeful than it was a few days on Saturday afternoon, the Ean inevitable, but, owing to the pro-

Having arrived at Yokohama serious injuries would have beentle doing ... aga. The outbreaks of disorder-pross of Asia is due at Vancouvor tection of the hood, only severe sacks, Market: Very quiet. Quo- Flour Market-Stocks: 3500,000 Mustard & Co., Ltd.iness have decroused and it is on the 17th, Instant.

shaking and bruising was reccitations:-American Patent, $4.80 obvious that blame must, rost on

ved. All three were able to clam- per sack; American Straight, $3.50, Incorporatul under Companies (rdianuces the rowdy type of irresponible left Singapore on the 8th. instant car, but Mrs. Savage was badly per sack; Shanghai Flour, $3.36 The P. & O. s.s. Malwa, which ber out of the partially-wrecked per sacks American Cut off, $3.50 HONGKONG.) 16-17, Connaught Road,

na'or-do-well for past incidents. at noon, is due here on the 12th. (suffering from shock. Fortunate per sack; Australian No. 1, $3.85. Contral.

The need for amergency services instant at about 10 a.m.

Iy, Dr. Leslie Thomas, happened per sack; Canadian Cut-off, $3.10 ought to grow less, and,

to pass the spot almost immediato per sack. The Gazetic notifies that" Mos-ly afterwards and rendered all. with ample supplies of the que Terrace" fupper and lower) necessary necessarios of life, there should from the West side of Pool Street Savage was taken back

assistance. Mrs. bo little further cause for acute will in future be known as Ying home in Kowloon, Mr. Little and Mr. Savage going back later in. the afternoon, after the work of Trade between the United salving the car had been put in Andrew Harper, Jr., local Ford. States and the Philippines for the hand.. Wanchai Bonument.

first period of the year shows a The car, a Willys-Knight, was one of his Fordson, tractors, and dealer. He personally operated Those who have occasion to decrease of P:6,978,449 below the very badly damaged. pass the Wanchai Monument are same quarter last year...

The hood this powerful little machine made In the light of the latest news sorry to see that the site on

was ripped off, the wind-shield short work of the hazardous and from Home regarding the general which it stands is once again be-

Amongst the passengers who ed, and the mud-gaurds, lamps, doubly hard because of the fact smushed, the rear off-wheel smash- difficult job. The work was made ing littored up with all manner left by the President Taft on etc., torn and twisted, strike, one cannot resist the of rubbish, to say nothing of the Saturday were Dr. and Mrs C. B.

that the off-side rear wheel had temptation to think that it will big bundles of rattan

which Salsbury, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra the embankment, which was fully rear axle of the car to drag in the The work of pulling the car upbeen smashed, which caused the in the vicinity Abraham, and Mrs. D. H. Cam-20 feet high, and not far off the soft turf, making the pull doubly soon be over. Apart from the Ganoworkers heads of the Labour movement work. What is worse still, is the

utilise in the course of their eron and daughter.

perpendicular, WAB performed hard. The work was completed. there has never been very much use to which the railings sur- A telegram from "Shanghai, to

later in the afternoon by Mr. in about 21⁄2 hours, leading opinion in favour of the rounding the obelisk are put by the Wah Kiu Yet Po statos that Chinose. On these rails, clothes Mr. Ma Soo has telegraphed to general' strike, and, when sach;

ure hung out to dry, and the Wu Pei-fu, Sun Chuan-fang and well-known liberal thinkers as whole aspect of the place is far Yin Sik-san in favour of the re- Lord Oxford, Viscount Grey, Mr. from what it should be. It will bepatriation of Karakhan and the Lloyd George and Sir John the site on which it stands was

recalled that this monument and deportation of Borodin. Simon all make definite pro- some few years back the subject As taxi No. 1250 was being nouncements in condemnation of of attention by British and Am driven along the Praya East, near the calling of the general strike, jerican seamon, who one night the Naval Cantoon, a collision went to the spot in a aquad and occurred with tramcar No. 75, we imagine that the main body spent some hours in cleaning which was going in the same of the general public-the the place up, holding the viewdirection. Only slight damage for $200,000 demages because he hypochondriac cases.

The Pittsburg man who has sued" "Coue docs a lot of good in condition, of working classes of Britain--will that the

the was done, and nobody was injured. was called a "bootlegger" has done scribed to me one day the type of place. was an insult to the bo impressed by the folly and memory of the gallant sailors

something to help dx popular ideas case he always cures. It was the When a coolle was carrying concerning the moral and accial case of a thin, nervous chap who mistake of the general strike who lost their lives in fighting cargo frum the steam launch standing of the persons engaged in came to him and said: accion. There will, we think, be pirates and as an appreciation of Yuen Sung, near the Eastern the bootleg trade.

whose sacrifices the monument Street wharf, he lost his balance!

The Very Idea!

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des.

"What can you do for me? I've got kidney trouble.

"Now, friend,' said Couc, sizing

a growing volume of work re- was erected. Later, the Govern- and fell overboard into the har- sumption until a position has mont itself completed the clean hour. He was rescued by Indian nations of words as stirred a the man up, how do you know

The subject of strange concite- been reached wherein the Labour up, and representations were constable No. 88, apparently nonewriter in the London Daily News you've got kidney trouble?

made to the authorities by the the worse for his ducking. loaders will find themselves more local branch of the Navy League

The

to produce this further example: outstanding.characteristic of kidney Two Dorset labourers had a trouble is that the patient feels no quarrel, which ended fatally for pain or discomfort of any kind.

scribed the combat thus: the trial a fellow workman de sheet. one of them. In his evidence at "The man turned white 38 4.

"Oh, dear!" he moaned. "My "Yer see, it were like this'e ad symptons to a T."! pick an' 'e 'ad a pick, an' 'e 'it 'e wi is pick an' 'e 'it 'o wi' 'issen," an' if 'e 'ad 'it 'e wi'. 'is pick as

or legs isolated with but a com-as to the desirablity of the spot Pleading guilty to a charge of paratively small handful of being kept in a propor condition. being in possession of 50 taels of followers. This, of course, pre-the monument would be moved to man, on whose boat the drug was It was eventually understood that prepared opium, a sampan wo- sumes that the Trades Union some more fitting neighbourhood. found, was fined $6,000, or six Congress will persist in its order Failing that, we suggest that pro- months hard labour, by Mr. J. for a general strike, although it site, in Chinese, warning against Magistracy this morning.

minent notices be placed on the H. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon is deypatly to be hoped that they its desecration, and that some- will take the wiser course.

thing be done immediately to The bombshell of the wock-end it was in after the last cloan-up. with the armed robbery com

On Saturday afternoon a "thirdard as 'e it le wi' 'issen 'e'd 'a'. restore the place to the condition man was arrested in connection killed 'e an' not 'e 'e." has been that delivered by Sir Otherwise, one of these days, we mitted at No. 35, Connaught Road John Simon, who is widely recog-may see the British and American West, on Wednesday. The ar nised as a high legal authority marines again busy at the spot.

MÓRÉ LARCENIES,

rested man was caught in the] harbour near the Wing Lok Street wharf by a Chinese dotoc-) tive.

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He had a real lumbago walk, Yet health was quite in trim, He walked that way to fit the

skirts

His wifey made for him.

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This thing has puzzled me for

years,

So tell me, if you can, Why Salomon; with his un-

dred wivesp

Was called the wisest man?

Neither Sam nor Rastus 'could tell time. But Sam had a nice, big watch, which he exhibited with a fiue air of superiority.

"What time am it?" asked Ras-

"

Bishop Henshaw, Manchester, is The following vessels are ex-inbouring, under the ordeal of tus. TWO CHINESE ARRESTED.

pected to be in wireless com- having to wear a mitre that is too munication with Hongkong to- small for him. It keeps falling off ed the timepiece. "Dar she am."

Sam hesitated and then extend- More Jurcenics occurred yesterdayAmur Maru, Vogtland, of his head. A friend is having

President Taft, Shima Maru, a new one made but mitres ore then said Damn if she ain't."-

Rastus looked af it carefully and day.

Ateuta Maru No. 2, Kumsang, ornamented with rich embroidery

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A visitor to the East Asia Hotel, Empress of Canada, Daiboshi and sometimes take as long as 12 Connaught Road Central, was ab- Maru, Angere, Kitano Maru, months to make. sent from his room for a short Bendoeng Mara and Talamba.

President Grant, Hozan Maru,į time, and when he returned he found clothing and jewellery, to

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and whose past sympathy with the Trade Union movement in- vests anything he might say against them with added weight. He is, on principle, rightly jealousi of any rights and privileges pos sessed by working mon, on whose behalf he has laboured politically for years, and he would not place labour organisations in the cate

Democracy in working order at Greenwich is an awe-inspiring gory of wrong-doers unless hel

Wanstead - Council's clerk has at the Borough Council:

sight. Thus a report of a meeting were sincerely convinced of their

been instructed to write a The Kowloon Fire Brigado ro-judicious" letter to the London of a chairman.. arrur. He has given it out as his,

Dr. Morgan: You are a swine the value of $165, had been stolen. Gaived a call from No. 14, Nam and North-Eastern Railway, onil- considered opinion that the call.

On Saturday, some person en-shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday of their trains,

Choung

Street, Shamshuipo, ing attention to the unpunctuality that when the latter's photograph Dr. Morgan informed the Mayer ing of the geaorul strike conflictstered No. 41 Wong Nel Cheong morning, with the legislation of the country Road by means of a door that was wore used for storing Chinese. The premises, which

is hung in the Counell Chamber. and that those who suffer by it left open, and stole jewellery to jces sticks and paper, were well 45 minutes, on a wager, and want: tends to throw a stone at it and A Harvard senior ato 48 eggs in with those of past Mayors, he in- have a right to sue for redross'in

the value of $223,

alight, and the fire was not ex- home on his own power. But that smash the glass. the Courts. That is an extrued for breaking and entering No. damage had been caused by both comment, "Feeding that boy has and uproars.

Two Chinese have been arrest-tinguished until considerable is not as interesting as his mother's

There were many Interruptions' ordinarily serious statement, and 158, Tung Hing Road, Mongkok- Dames and water.

always been like putting cheese down a rat hole."

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to protect workers from the loss of Trade Union bonefits if they now disobey those Unions and return to work. To this there will, no doubt, be some

res the Dock Co. played an inter-pair of trousers, from 5 to 8 conts; ponse from the Labour leaders, hong match, which resulted in a collar, from 6 to 8 conts; and rather fishy campaign launched in shot and killed the “villain” In the and it places the mattor of win for the former by 71 to 51.

handkerchiefs, from 2 to 3 cents. his namo led a doctor to say?. play the pistol being loaded..

it has been followed by a declara tsui, from which place it is alleged

Dr. Morgan Tore to his feet and tion by the Prime Minister in they stole clothing and jewellery Laundry price lists in Hong-

threw all the available inkwella on the floor. which the Government undertales valued at $130. Of this amount, kotg will be lacreased, according Barrister (to a woman at Bow

property to the value of $110 has to the Industrial and Commercial County Court)You owe $35, water varafos.

Dr. Morgan throw a pair of been recovered.

Dally News, as a result of the Have you it with you?

Wornan The presence of a number of demands of the laundry-men for Good gracious, no! I haven't any police prevented trouble as higher wages,

the The price for money, and if I had £35 I should meeting broko up. On the Kowloon golf course risen from 8 to 11 center; Chinese neighbourhood.

washing uit of pyjamas has not like to trust it on me in this yesterday, the Godown Co, and long coat, from 15 to 20 cents;

The first Moscow performance of the drama "Catherine the Great Emile Coue's protest against a ended in a tragedy when the hero