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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
|
DAY BY DAY.
POLISHED BRASS, WILL PASS UPON
MORE PEOPLE TILAN WROUGHT GOLD.
Chesterfield.
Late last night a verandah at 871, Shanghai Street, Yaumati, second floor, collapsed, but no one was injured...
Thieves broke into No. 251 Lai- chilrok Road, first floor, yesterday. and stole money, jewellery and clothing to the value of $119.20.
that there was one case
21 YEARS AGO,
EXTRACTS FROM “TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended June 9th, 1908.
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The Very Idea!
The passing pedestriana yelled cut warnings, and the brakes of the vehicles screeched plorcingly as the two taxi-cabs were pulled up quick- ly within a yard of each other.
The drivers glared at one another The rate of the dollar on de- speechless' with indignation as they mand was 2s. 1 3/16d.
cach mentally laid the blame of the affair on the other.
J
"Wot the is the matter with H.M.S. Monmouth arrived in the you?" demanded one of the men. Colony.
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Mr. H. E.. Pollock presided over Yesterday's health return shows a small gathering of members as diphtheria, one case of typhoid und the Hongkong Branch of the Navy fsembled at the annual meeting of one case of cerebro-spinal fever, League. all the sufferera being Chinese.
A scavenging coolie has been taken to the Government Civil Hospital with injuries sustained through accidentally falling into the hold of a sanitary lighter at Kennedy Town.
While carrying out repairs to the aerial ropeway at the Dairy Farm, Pokfulum, an employee fell and sustained injuries to his head and legs, which necessitated his removal to the Nethersole Hospital.
Promised Alliance. Unless something very unto ward and, at the present moment, unforeseen happens. there will doubtless soon be an alliance con- cluded between the big military commanders of the sides lately contending in. China's civil war.. When private motor car No. The feature of the preliminary 1520 was being driven along negotiations has been the obvious Shaukiwan Road by дл In- concern of the leading Nationalist dlan yesterday, it came into colli- personalities to conform to the re-sion with tram car No. 55, which quest of Marshal Chang Tao-lin was travelling in the opposite direc- that there shall remain no Russian tion. Both vehicles were damaged or Communist influence in the but there were no personal injuries.
party. If an alliance is formed it
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Great Intarost was ovinced at an exhibition of moving pictures, given at the City Hall.
Assistant engineer on the Kow- Mr. J. G. Steen was appointed an
loon-Canton Railway.
The British Vice Consulate at Macao was closed until further notice.
OLD HONGKONG.
A SPECIAL PICTORIAL
FEATURE.
To-morrow's edition of the Tele- graph will be specially interesting by reason of the fact that it will
"Nothinks wrong with me," came the reply,
"You gave me a nasty look, you did," said the first driver, climbing air. out of his seat with a threatening
Disdainfully the other manwuy. red his gear lovor and as his vehicle moved off he called to mention it, you 'ave got a nasty the irate one "Now you come to
look, but I didn't give it to yer."
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He dreamed he dwelt in marble
halls.
In that there's nothing
wrong,
''Cause he'd been playing mar-
bles with
His youngsters all day long.
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When it was suggested to the Linslade, Bucks, Magistrate that a music and dancing license for a hotel near a church might disturb the church services a solicitor said this argument might have been good in the old days of the polka, but in these days of the Charleston there could be no objection. The application was granted.
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Willesden woman: I have sum-
Hongkong, Canton and Macao-moned my husband before, but the reproductions of paintings which magistrate dismissed the case be- date back to 1850.
The pictures, which are the pro- perty of Mr. Wyndham Law, who collected the larger part of what is
cause my life was sworn away.
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Durham labourer accused of as- sault: He hit me on the mouth, and then said,
"Let bygones bo
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Man at Shoreditch:
As wives
will most certainly be an anti- Mrs. Ribeira, 513, Nathan Road,contain a page of old pictures of "Red" alliance, though the na-Kowloon, has reported to the police pirations of the Nationalist Party that her twelve-years old daughter will probably be retained. It is was bitten by a dog belonging to openly stated by General Yen of Mrs. Harris of the same address. Shansi that he supports the doc The child is receiving medical There have been several raids trine of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen treatment, and the dog has been
bygones." made recently by the authorities though he avers that he is anti-sent to Mau Tau Kok for observa-now known as the Chater Collec- tion, give a vivid idea of old Hong- Communist. And we think that tion. in connexion with the keeping by that will be the feature of any
kong and Canton.
Magistrates' clerk at Welling- certain persons of what
are combination of the forces of the Plans, have been drawn up by In addition to the above, to-borough: Do you plead guilty? politely termed illegal houses. The North and South at least for the the Nationalist financial authori-morrow's issue will contain our Man: Yes, but I would like to plead
time being. Under the pressure ties for the establishment of ausun! local picture feature, in- not guilty, activities of the powers-that-be of the Southern advance, the Nationalist Central Bank in Shangcluding pictures taken at the are no doubt a reflection of the Northern leaders are prepared to hai, of which the total capital is King's Birthday Parade, and at the problems that have now arisen. capitulate provided there is no ex-intended to be $50,000,000. It is Fourth Extra Race Meeting of the go I suppose I am lucky, for she
tension of the Russian influence understood that the bank will be- Hongkong Jockey Club; a group at buys her own clothes. It may be considered an unsavoury they have just done their best to gin official operations as soon as the marriage of Mr. B. 1. Leitao subject by some people, but old eliminate in and around Peking.the sum of $10,000,000 has been and Miss Maria de Sousa; a view Judge Cluer at Shoreditch: It of you showing the British Ficet in har- must be torture to some fashioned prudery in the discus-Of course, there is the disposition collected.
of the Hankow party yet to al-
bour; pictures taken at the King's women to hold your tongues, sion of such matters long ago tend to, and one of yesterday's
Birthday "At Home," at Cheung Chau, and another showing the disappeared, and it
no
Dragon Boat Race at Aberdeen. useful purpose to permit such thing to remain in the "hush- hush" athge. The social evil, so far as Hongkong is concerned, a good deal of public mention a few years ago, when Lady Astor brought the matter forward in the House of Commons, primarily in can nexion
came up for
serves
Alleging that the Chinese paper reports mentioned that Marshall the Nan Yang Yat Fo, published Feng Yu-hsiang was making over-in Medan, Sumatra, was propa- tures to Marshal Ching Kai-shek gating the Sun Yat-sen doctrine to help him in the matter of arms among the Chinese in that city, and money. But present indica-the Dutch Government has order- tions are that these two facts willed that paper to be closed, and not be enough to prevent the con- banished both the manager and clusion of a tripartite alliance be-the editor from Medan, states a tween Marshal Chang Tso-lin, locai vernacular paper. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and Gen-
in
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris. Brusséis Stockholm Helsingfors Vienna
ural Yen Hsi-ghan and that one of its main features will be an
A Water Return, dated June 1st., alliance against
shows that all the reservoirs in the Communism.
Rio with. the discussion
How long such an alliance would Colony were either overflowing or last, how much or how little it nearly full, the total water
Bombay of the proposed naval hase
storage on the Hongkong side on New York would be supported by the various at Singapore. She rather un-political factions within the Kuo- that date being 2,103.24 million Amsterdam gallons as compared with 1,223.64 Copenhagen necessarily condemned the admi- minchun and Kuomintang and million gallons on the same date Bucharest
whether it would succeed in bringinst year. In Kowloon there were Athens. nistrations of the Crown Colony ing peace to China and a better 424 million gallons, as against Lisbon ... seaports for their alleged understanding with the foreign 326.32 million gallons a year ago.. Yokohama
Genova "legalising of vice", and subsc- Powers are all speculations giving If rise to much uncertainty.
Berlin quent replies from individuals who these military chiefs could get to- General Hospital, Singapore, ef Oslo
The depth has taken place in the Milan were better informed as to local | gether and agree to support a mo- conditions, as well as statements derate Nationalist party which Mra. Elizabeth Habekost, at the ad- Shanghai would got about the great task of vanced age of 87. Mrs. Habekost, Hongkong governing the country properly who was probably the oldest Euro-Madrid from the civil standpoint, then we
pean resident of Singapore, came Silver (forward) up from Australia with her mother Silver (forward) should be on the threshold of a
and her sister (the late Mrs. M. de new and promising ern.
Basagotti) close upon 70 years ago and enjoyed good health during the .whole of that long period. She married Capt. Habekast who for many years was a well-known skip- per in the Straits and who died in 1890. Of the family of thirteen children, four survive. Mrs. Habe- kost entered the hospital at Easter and her death was due to, old age.
in the Pruss, appear to have silenced the agitation for the time being. But it is bound to crop up again. At the time referred to, the Governor of Hong-
가
kong (Sfr Reginald Stubbs) was HONGKONG'S "ASSET" asked for a report on the subject, and that was no doubt duly sent Home. It must have satisfied the
Home Government that authorities
EX-BANDITS AS COOLIES.
The haunts of the West River here were doing their best underpirates and bandits were raided the circumstances.
recently by the Cantonese troops,
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A girl of 11 years of age, René Astle, the daughter of a miner, is puzzling medical men ut Burton- on-Trent. Her bones are so brit tle that they break very easily, and already she has suffered seven bone fractures, five to legs and two to collar-bones. For two years she was in the Derbyshire Infirmary, 124 and was discharged: three weeks .34.16 ago, but yesterday, when .18.14 crutches; she stumbled and fell. .192% She is now in the Infirmary at
.34.52 Burton-on-Trent.
London, June 9.
.5.53/64 ...1/GT
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Sonie schoolboy "howlers" .4.86 19/82 Alexander the Great was born in 12.12 1/16 Athens during the absence of his
18.17
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parente.
Edward the Third would have .2.15/32 been King of France if his mother .1/10.15/16 had been a man.
.25.25 The chief clause in the Magna .20.50 Charta was that no freeman should ...88 be put to death or be imprisoned
13.72 without his own consent. .2/0
My favourite character in Eng- 2/0 ish history is Henry VIII, because .28.074 he had six wives and killed them all.
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-British Wireless.
Exactly two inches of rain were. recorded at the Royal Observatory during the 24 hours ending at 10 o'clock this morning, making a total of 48.45 inches for this year- against an average of 28.41. The forcast up till noon to-morrow is: "East winda, moderate; overcast, rain.".
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Bathing from motor-cars has been prohibited by a resolution passed by Bournemouth Borough Council.
"People come here from neigh- bouring places," said Alderman H. Robison, chairman of the Beach Committee; "they park their cara on Undercliffe Drive, sproud a sheet over the window, undress, and have a jolly good time in the water. They return to the car and have a delightful lunch, followed by a Then they feel like another
snooze.
The cruiser Curlew, Captain A. In the Straits Settlements, and most of them have been dis-H. Taylor, O.B.E., which is on its Captain R. Neville, Private Se-bathe.
persed. Some of their leaders, it way out to China to replace the cretary to H. E. the Governor of "The sheet is pat round the 'car chiefly through the activities of
is said by the local vernacular Caradoc, taking out a new crew Ceylon, will not accompany Sir windows, and after the bathe they prominent Church personages, the press have gone to the Straity Bottlements to settle there, while
for the Delhi at the same time,Hugh Clifford to the Straits, but return to the car and dress. Then was ordered to leave Plymouth on will continue as Private Secretary the vacuum flask comes out for tea, forso far have arrived in Hongkong
in all its aspects, came up
whole subject of the social evil, those who could not afford to go May 8. She was expected at Mal to the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, I and eventually they go home, hav enquiry, and a special commission and are earning an honest living ta from May 15 to 17, Port Said when the latter takes up duties as ing had a cheap day's outing."
as coolies or other labourers. The
on May 20, Suez on May 21; Aden Ofter Administering the Govern delivered a report. The basis of vernacular papers state that those 3 to 7. Sngapore from June 12
on May 26-27, Colombo from Junement, that report was a recommendation who are now in the Colony total to 15, and Hengkong on June 20, for the legalisation of a certain a fair number.
On the arrival of the Curlow in
Buch
chlef only a few weeks ago.
HARBOUR SUICIDE.
JI
in
At the King's Birthday Parade
The captain and the mate' aboard the "Pretty Polly" were at logger- heads... They scowled whenever they met, and scized opportunities
effecting the arrest of a number making the day's entries in the log- of armed Chinese secret society book, and the mate, when making men had attracted the attention of his entries was very surprised to the authorities, were presented with ece in the captain's handwriting the Police Medal, The Chinese June 2, 1917-Mate drunk." The funeral servico for the late detectives received the medals at Commander Darrouzet was held the hands of the new Governor, Sir last Monday afternoon at St.Hugh Clifford.. Joseph's Cathedral, Shanghai, the
Ile stared at it wrathfully, thon. alow grin broke over his faco. He took his pen but and wrote:- "June, 1917-Captain, sober."
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number of premises (the Straits that the coolie carrying one's port Caradoc, Captain H. C. Allen, wilttives whose initiative and gallantry fect glee. Each took a turn at It is at least intriguing to think China, the present crew of the at Singapore three Chinese detec-of scoring off each other with per- Government having abolished all manteau may have been a pirates over to her, and the Caradoc
some years previously).
will return to England with the There was an immediate outery.
old crew of the Delhi, for refit. against that finding, from reli- gious quarters especially. It la: interesting to note that the re commendations in the report were CHINESE JUMPS FROM FERRY, chiefly supported by medical
burial taking place at Lokawei A fond between two clans of In- While the Taumati ferry launch Cemetery an hour later. The Rev.dians who drive hire cars in Singa A tourist party at Athens, was opinion, in one case that of an Chung was crossing the Father Marlet ofleintet at the pore culminated on Thursday even being shown the Acropolis, when doctor since knighted for his ser-harbour yesterday a third class graveside. It will be recalled that ing last week in a terrible scene in one of the visitors, an American vices in his line of work. Ap-Chinese passenger jumped over deceased, who was in command of Colemari Street, close to Meyer girl, after an enthusiastic, "Gee, parently the matter in Malaya is board and sank almost immediate French war vessel Craonne, ho- Mansions and a stand for hire cars. I'll say it's great!" appeared to miss camo suddenly ill with blood About 8.15, some Sikhs armed with something. "Say," she said, "where hanging fire, pending the attual A lifebuoy was thrown, but poisoning and died on Sunday long poles attacked several drivers, are the four horsemen, anyway?" establishment of the naval base. owing to the sudden disappear afternoon. From the Cathedral a beating them in n most horrible But the controversy is likely ance of the man under water it military procession marched to the manner about the head and body.
three: One'man who took refuge in a drain"
The Malaya Government has was of no avail. The coxswain cemetery, preceded by to rage anew at some future date. sounded his siren which brought aquads of police. The religious was beaten about the head. Several purchased new offices on the. In Hongkong, we gather that a police launch alongside, and al-rites being concluded Admiral injured men were taken to hospital, Liverpool Globe Insurance site at the Government's former policy is though the latter boat cruised Bazire, in command of the French where one died from his injuries. the corner of Admiralty Arch and being maintained-definite limita-body was not recovered.
about the spot for some time the navy in China, pronounced the Several arrests were later made by Trafalgar Square in London. This
valedictory at the graveside. the police.
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