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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1926.

DAY BY DAY.

working class who contract tuber- cular disease have small chance of

THE FIRMEST AND NOBLEST recovery. The most that can be GROUND ON WHICH PEUPLE CAN LIVE done is to treat thom at one or 15 TRUTH; THE REAL WITH THE other of the hospitals and then,BAL; A GROUND ON WHICH NOTHING when they have been patched up, send them back to their homes.

The latter step naturally has the result of undoing much of the good of the curative treatment, for, back in their old conditions, the discharged patients soon get worse, and, in the majority of in- atancos, death alone brings them a merciful release from their suf- feringa. What is needed, there- fore, is the provision of a Sana torium, where treatment on mo dern lines can be obtained, whilst hand-in-hand with this step should go a movement for encouraging people to work on the land, In. avhich connection the development

18 ASSUMED.-Emerson.

The Empress of Asia left. Kebe yesterday at 6 am, and was due

Kobe at 6 a.m. to-day.

Mr. Rowley James, the now editor of the Straits Echo, was married in Singapore recently to Miss V. L. Bidoleux of Havre.

A Chinese deck passenger on the ss. Anking died at sea and was landed at Amoy, the master's report to the Harbour Offico atates..

....

a police raid in house at Wan- Twenty-six gamblers arrested in chai each paid $2 in fines on up- pearance before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy to-day. Mr. T. A. van den Kolk, chief

RADIO SOCIETY.

LAST NIGHT'S MEETING."

Members of the Radlo Society mot in the Morning Post Building

CYCLIST CHARGED.

COLLISION WITH TWO RICKSHAS.

Shortly after one o'clock yester

last evening, under the chairman-day afternoon, an ordinary push the of Mr. D. Matbourne, when bicycle that was being ridden br the future of the Society was dis- a Chinese youth ran into a ricksha cussed at some length.

in Des Voeux Road Central, and..

With regard to the nanees of proceeding some feet further, it the Society, M. J. R. Way, the collided with a second ricken, the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, passenger of which, as well as the. stated that there was at present ajcoolfe, were thrown heavily to the debit balance.

ground; the rleksha being over- turned.

THE FINANCES, A discussion ensued on the fin-

Mr. Ho, Kom-tong, who was in ancial outlook, during which it

the first ricksha, was not dislodged - was explained that the Society from his sent, although the bump was necessarily incurring exponse that the less fortunate passenger was of some force. He discovered" in maintenance and improvement in the second ricksha was one of listeners-in supported the Society about the face, hands and knees; of equipment, and that unless his own ammahs. She was injured By becoming members, it might while the ricksha coolic received become necessary to wind up the organisation.

more serious hurts, which neces- was most needed was a regular source of in-

eurred at the Central Police Court sitated his going into hospital.

this morning, when a charge of reckless driving was proferred against the cyclist.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1926.

STARTLING FIGURES.

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New Territorios would be a wise "course. Something will certainly have to be done to check the spread of tubercular complaints, for the steady spread of these

diseases must eventually have a detrimental effect on the general health of the Colony.

Poincare's Success,

No

sometime on Mouday his cabin was ed to the Police yesterday that

entered and 53 guilders stolen,

Shanghai state that Gen. Yen The Chinese newspapers in

Chan-yang has issued

an order

forbidding. "indecent" dancing in "foreign cafes" In Chinese ter ritory.

To-day's Observatory report states that depressions lie over North-East China, to the north Hainan. The forecast up to noon bust of Japan and to the south of to-morrow is:--East winds, fresh variable, showery.

to

start a membership campaign and

It was eventually decided to intimate by public announce. ments how those interested could become members of the Society.

The meeting appointed Mr. H. G. Swinburne Hun. Secretary and Mr. J. R. Way Hon. Treasurer, the appointment of other officers being deferred until the next meeting.

LICENCE FEES. posed Government. Bill controlling -Mention was made, of the pro- wireless, and the opinion was ox- pressed hal it would be helpful under were made public as soon if the proposat regulations there-

as possible.

The sequel to this incident oc-

after the first collision, the defen- It was stated by Mr. Ho that,

collided a second time with the dant zig-zagged along the road and other ricksha, which was proceed- ing some feet ahead.

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The hearing was adjourned until Monday for the attendance of the injured ricksha coolie..

FRENCH FINANCES.

BILL TO STABILISE FRANC.

Paris, Aug. 4.

Out of the total deaths of Chi- To have brought the exchange Inese registered in the Colony last value of the frame back from over year, nearly half were due to resin under 180 to the pound piratory diseases of one,kind og retting a new Finance Bill through sterling, and to have succeeded in another. To be exact, the precise the Semte and the Chamber with that on and after the 15th August any licenco fees for receiving sets, Banque de France from the law

One member throught that the A customs notification intimatesvernment ought not to charge has been issued, exempting the A Bill for stabilising the franc Sorgentage was 115. To put it in but negligible opposition, is the the worth-east Shantung promon whilst the idea was also put for forbidding the purchase of ha another form, these deaths,total- the new Poincar Cabinet.

rather renirkable achievement of tory fog signal will be a respond ward that, in the event of fees be-tional currencies at a premium. Jed. 6,115, which represents an in-matter how widely the majority of Page 6 of the current "List of should be banded over by the issue notes which are not includ ing gur signal, as decribed on ing charged, a proportion thereof The Banque is to be entitled to. crease of over in thousand when: Britishers may differ

from the Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, etc. Government to the Society, at lonated in the legal limit in respect of compared with the previous twelve French Premier, they will have to The distinguishing interval for sole broadcasting agency.

political outlook of the new on the Coast and Rivers of China so long as the latter remained the gold coinage and foreign curren- months. Taking purely tuber admit that his was the outstanding this station will be one minute,

cies which it purchases on the cabar discases, we find that the personality around which the lead-

After further matters were dis-market; and the Government will death-rall numbered 2,201, which, prepared to gather in one lust desing at full pressure just now toon Thursday, September 2nd, old reserve

ing parliamentary groups were

The Shanghai Arsenal is work, cussed, it was decided to hold an- thus bought, for accretion to the maintain the sterling and dollars with the solitary exception of 1924, perate effort to save the country meet. the needs of the

other general meeting at 5.30p.m. is the highest figure attained since either from financial ruin or a dicArmy as they are likely to de- naked to attend.

Thus the note. is- "Allied which all interested in radio are sue will not be inflated. 1914; and in this connection it has riott had all failed to attract par Orders have been issued that the tatorship. Briand, Painleve, Her-velop in the Upper Yangtze Valley.

The Chamber's Finance Commit- in mind that last fiamentary majorities and, when factory is to turn out at least Chinese programme broadcast by sinking fund and the management tce, after hearing M. Poincare'a year's statistica would undoubted- it beenme obvious that a union 30. Maxim guns a month and 600 the Society, and those who listen-of National Defence Bonds, adopt- At night, there was a purely proposals for the creation of a exposition of the Government's. y have represented a record had (virtually a coalition) would have rilles, to say nothing of large ed-in are reported to have beened the same by 16 votes to 7.

are alone who was mentioned as field pieces. to be resorted to, it was 31. Pain-quantities of munitions and small well pleased with the reception. the central figure. Excepting ex- treme Right and extreme Lett, all

to be borne

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CHINESE CONCERT.

-Router.

week.

The Very Jobs!

it not been for the fact that for several months the Colony's pop-

Those taking part were Messrs. tion was decreased owing to the

Stockholm. A former stone cut-Ho Chak-man, Yeung Kwai-fun, Leung Kam-tong. Wai Po-cheung, strike and boycott causing a bigare represented in the Cabinet prime minister of Sweden.

shades of parliamentary opinion for, Carl Gustaf Ekman, is now Tai Wing-kwong, Sun Choy-yee penn concert during the coming exodus of Chinese from our midst. which includes many ex-Promiers

It is hoped to give another Euro- These figures, we venture to sug- and it may well be that France-is, in the past hundred years is illust- "The democratization of Sweden

and Wong Sai-wan. gest, will come as a big surprise at long last, seriously grappling rated by the fact that until 1828 to those who have not been in the order.

with task of putting her house in no commoner had ever served as The frane has already re- member of the royal council, where- habit of analysing the Colony's acted to the general feeling of con- as in the present cabinet not a sin. yearly health future. Even if we fidence and there are indicationsgle nobleman is included. exclude. tubercular affections, we

that war debt payments are to commence.. find that there were well over four which will do most for the "chabi-pected to be in wireless communi-

It is. this latter fact The following vessels are Thousand Chinese deaths from litation of the frane, because it cation with Hongkong to-day:--| respiratory complaints. As to the Will be in the nature of an earnest ixion, Helios, Havenstein, Nisshu causes of this terrible scourge, is a trite and trae saying that Nagpore, Banku, Namsang, Hai- recent examination:-

which has long been wanting. It Maru, Delta, Pres. Jackson,, The following is the result of u which takes a big yearly toll of those who help themselves receive ning, Sarpedon, Stanley Dollar,

The announcements from Lon don that dinner jackets had been the active population, there are

most help, and the case of France Skolme, Muensterland, Sydney know of the two expressions found "awallowtail" may have caused Question: "Write what you banned in favour of the good old many that could be cited,

is yet another proof of it. Over-

Those Maru, Venezia, Fooksang, Shirala, on the Royal Arms, Honi soit qui considerabie crowding and otherwise pad hous-titude of helplessness, to wring yan, Cyclops, Friesland, Seang droit."

who were content to assume an at- Glengale, Soochow, Valsella, Kalmal y pense and Dieu et mon upper New York, but it found the consternation in ing conditions are undoubtedly their hands and wait for some Bee, Hellas and Yeijun Maru.

East Side all prepared. factors, as also is the widespread thing to turn up achieved but little

Answer: "On February 8, 1727, The patriarchal Hebrews, ward habit of promiscuous expectorn-was a serious situation needing at which he uprooted from a pot in walk together-pals-and being many

Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter politicians of Irish and Italian de- they only temporised with what For the theft of several shrubs Raleigh, Bart, went out for a szent and other dignitaries of tion. Economic issues of no small tention right at the roots. M. the old Botanical Gardens, a Chi-absorbed, were regardless of any refused to give up the swallowtail

lands nagnitude are involved in the Poincare and his Ministers are obnese was sentenced to three weeks atmospheric conditions! As they coat. Let fashions change; they have stubbornly housing question, for we may beviously doing the work required.

hard labour by Major C. Willson returned to the Park Gates about have appeared in swallowtails on at the Central Police Court to-day. 4.30, they were compelled to take the slightest provocation, sure that no Chinese lives in crowded and undesirable condi

In reply to the Magistrate the cognisance of the mud which prosecuting police officer sald that separated them from home. Sir dietate, they will be months ahead And now, by virtue of London the inducement in the case was the Walter was wearing as was befit of their "swell" brothers of the up medicinal value which is supposed ting such an occasion, his poah town club belt.

tions from choice. The inability.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, August 4.

163

171 12.10%

to rent better and healthier types of dwellings, because of financial Paris

Brussels stringency, compels hundreds of Amsterdam the native population to live in in-

Berlin Copenhagen sanitary and wholly unhygienic Vienna surroundings, and this circum Lisbon

Helsingfors stance must in the long run lead Buenos Aires to an undermining of their health. Yokohama

Shanglad Gradually we may hope to see con- Geneva

New York, ditions improved in these respects, bilan but so long as certain parts of

Stockholm Oslo Chinatown remain little better Prague Madrid than a warren of delapidated and Rio ill-ventilated house, so long may Hongkong

Bombay

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by the Chinese to be present in cont of black velvet and lace trim-, the plants.

mings..

Judge to a defendant-Shall we

He removed the coat from his both try to be really intelligent for

A Chinese workman at the Naval shoulders, and with the aid of his just two minutes-try hard? 20.42 Yard failed to get through the sword, spread it over the mud.

184 main gate of the Yard yesterday Turning to her Majesty, he said, An Englishman, an Irishman, 3442% .193%

93 with two pleces; of lead-coverod | Elizabeth, slep across; I will hold and a Scotsman were dining .2.17/2 cable, in spite of the care he took your hand. She did, and, turning together.

46in hiding them in his trousers. to Sir Walter, sald, Thank you, I didn't see either of you at 2/10 Discovered by the police searcher Walter, "Honi soit qui maly old John's wedding last week, 1/11 4.86.6/13 at the gato be was, arrested, and pense,'

26.12

," which means, 'It has not said the Irishman.

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"I couldn't manage to get there," said the Scot, "but I sent him a pair of sugar tongs that a hundred "people"could use,"

when charged with larceny, be-done your coat any good. Sir "No," said the Englishman, "I 14414fore Major C. Willson at the Cen- Walter raised his coat, and, gazing couldn't go, but I sent him a coffee 2.1814 tral Magistracy, this morning, was upon the impress of the royal nun services for half-a-dozen people." ..104% aentenced to one month's hard ber nines upon it, and the mud, "It was a grand wedding," cou-. .32.20 labour.

howed to her Majesty and said, tinued the Irishman. 'Dieu et mon droit, which bolag. Superintendent J. Cruickshank, Interpreted means, My God and people."

"I sent him a tea set for a dozen who is retiring from the Shanghai you're right?” Municipal Police after 21 years? service, has been presented with Reyes, a Mexican inventor has de-by his comrades at Central, polico

Mexico City.-Manuel

He asked his girlie for her hand a gold watch, suitably inscribed, Carlos

In marriage, so to speak, veloped a gyrocopter for airplanea station. The presentation

And, did she give it to him? Yes, which he claims will enable them made by Captain E. I. M. Barrett,

She did-upon the cheek, to land vertically. He calls the Commissioner of Police, who paid device a "hellocoplano" and has left sincere tribue to Superintendent markable man. I now.

Willis Smith is the most re- for San Antonio where he will de Cruickshank's services and ex- monstrate the machine. It is repressed regret at his doparture.

How 807 invention in Spain and not to con- Cruickshank replied in charac- ported to differ from the La Cierva from Shanghai,

Willis He can play the saXO- Superintendent phone. flict with La Clarva's patenta. teristically few remarks.

we expect to see tubercular and Silver (apot and forward)' other diseases maintaining their hold on the people. Housing re- form is a prime recessity in this Colony, whilst much could also be done by propaganda pointing out the evils of certain practices and encouraging hygienic ideas,

In the meantime, the ovil re- mains to be coped with.. As con- ditions now are, Chinese of the

Was

Huh?

1

Willis-And-doosh't!:

-There is hot and cold water in most homea. Wives keep their husbands in one, and throw the other on most of their plans.

A newspaper reports the denih. of a famous circus sword swallow He died of Indigestion,"