1927-07-26 — Page 6

PECIAL OFFER!

GENUINE

EAU DE COLOGNE

TRIPLE EXTRACT

An exquisite and refreshing adjunct to the toilet

In "MAGNUM" Bottles $2 per Bottle

A. S.

WATSON & CO., LTD.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY ·

Established 1841.

Phone C. 16;

Pay a friendly visit

to our

store

い

WE'LL be mighty glad to have you spend fiftcen minutes er so with us some time this week. Listen to the latest Victor Records reproduced on an Ortho- phonic Victrola. Whether you like modern dance music or the classics, vocal or instrumental, you'll find it among these new Victor releases. And no one will ask you to buy a single record. Drop in at lunchtime, if you can. Come in-today!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

AVOID RISKS from fire and burglary by keeping your records

in and valuables HERRING-HALL- MARVIN Safo. We carry in stock a comprehensive rangà of safos suitable for the re- quirements of Banks, Offices and the Home, and inspection is cor- dially invited.

A.FI.H.M. Safe is a sura protection against fre and burglary.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT."

funeral.

The

"

Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 19:7,

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1927.

MAN REFUSED BAIL A SECOND TIME.

“JUMPED". A $5,000 BOND

IN 1925.

require that squares and open spaces which have existed for at least fifty years in the fully deve- loped districts of London shall re- main open spaces and shall cot be destroyed. In the event of such legislation being enacted the

Arrested in 1925 on a charge of landlord would not suffer in the manslaughter, arising out of, dan- long run. Open spaces are not gerous driving, a Chinese then pre- ferred to "jump" his bail of $5,000 unremunerative to him; they im-rather than face the charge. prove his property and enable him to obtain higher rents for it. They are, in fact, a benefit to everybody, and that is why ener getic action is required to save them while yet there is time to do it,

Those who love London and they are all who know it and well-know what benefit charm it gains by reason of its re- sidential squares, and how worthy is the offort being made to retaia

them.

Smashing Idols.

If the report that a section of Nationalist soldiers stationed at Ching Yuen, in Kwangtung, have paid systematic visits to temples

Recently, however, he returned to Hongkong. and was recognised. Information given to the police led to this arrest a few days ago.

He was brought befora Mr. R. E. Lindsell to-day and charged with manslaughter. In view of the difficulty which the traffic dopart- ment had in collecting evidence for the prosecution. Inspector Alexander applied for a week's remand, which was given.

م تاریخ سال

case

DAY BY DAY.

IT 18 WHEN OUR BUDDING. HOPES

The Very Idea!

The retired colonel was defend-

| ARE NIPPED BEYOND BECOVERY BY SOME ROUGH WIND, THAT, WE ARE THE MOST DISPOSED TO PICTURE Toing the climate of India.

"All nonsense," he said. "There's OURSELVES WHAT FLOWERS THEY MIGHT HAVE BORNE, IF THEY HAD no better climate in the world; but there me a lot of young fellows FLOURISHED.Dickens

who, come out to India, and they ent and they drink, and they drink

1:

This morning's Harbour Office and they eat, and they die, and reports gave 16 arrivals and four then they write home to their departures, of which three and friends and tell them that the clim

Of course, one respectively were British ate has killed them.

lots of people die in India. Tell leaving 76 vessels in harbour, Brime where they don't and I'll go

and end my days, there,”

lish 28.

The forthcoming marriage of Mr. John Alexander Fraser, of Taipo, District Officer, (North) to Miss Kathleen Ella Mozley, of Mountain Lodge, Hungkong, is en nounced.

**

하

"Oh, let him in," fair mother

said, "He's just the gas inspector." She promptly paid for that

roninrk.

It was a bill collector.

*

Mr. A. Gill, at Westminster, placed on probation a man of 50 who left prison on May 3.

'It was stated that there were 22 convictions against accused, now before the Court for stealing a deed box while waiting for relief.

in the district and smashed the was found that the driver had left $2,000 in $500 notes from the Na-was, a certain amount of childish-

CRUELTY CASE 'DISMISSED.

terday.

A powerful appeal for the man was made by the Wesleyan chaplain · at Pentonville Prison. He said he It has been reported to the police thought he could claim to know the that, by means of a forged pass-psychology and peculiar mentalily it book, a Chinese managed to draw of the prisoner fairly well. There tional Commercial Savings Bank neas about him, and although wit of No. 344, Des Voeux Road, Cen-ness knew his bad record, all his tral, between 12.30 and 1 pan. yes- offences had been of a trifling ou

ture. There was a danger, he con- tinued, Inaending a man of The driver of Bus No. 101,"be-prisoner's disposition and suscep- longing to the Kowloon Motor Bus tibilities to mix with expert crim-

inais. } Company, reports that he acciden-

Mr Gill-You mean you do not tally knocked down a boy of four-think the prisoner's mentality has teen near Che Wo Street yester been sufliciently considered hither- day. The boy Was sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering to?-That is my suggestion. from injuries to his legs.

CHINESE GIRE IS DEMENTED.

Two Chinese women appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindaell this morning charged with allegri cruelty to a girl of fourteen, at No. Yak Ming Street, West Point.

Among the passengers who left by the 8.3. Siberia Maru to-day, for Japan and the States, were the Stewart. Captain B. J. Larcomb, Rev. W. T. Featherstone, Mr. E. Mr. D. E. Smith, Lieut.-Col. W. C. Russell and Mrs. Russell, Miss L. Loureiro, and Mr. A. B. Wond. I

It was stated that work would bo found for prisoner by a former em- ployer, and the Magistrate said he would take the exceptional course of binding him over to come up for judgment within a year.

Prisoner, leaving the dock," said he thanked the Magistrate for the clemency extended to him, and he would justify it in every way.

The aveldent, on which the ac eused is charged with manslaugh- ter, occurred on June 1, 1925. A man was killed at the junction of Sandakan with 61 deck pasaun- The Hin Sang, arriving from Queen's Rond and Pokfulum Road near the No. 7 Police Station. The gers, reports the death of one driver was brought before then route, from pthisis, on July 22, The body was buried at sea on-the Police Magistrate for trial, on a

same day. charge of manslaughter the

day, and week's

4 next

was granted bail being mund fixed at $6,000. When the

called ง week later, was.

the Colony. idols there, be true, it points. to a

Mr. R. B. Lindsell refused to Mrs. J. C. Wong and her chil-remarkable instance of Russian grant ball this morning, remark dren, grand children and grunt Communism being imbibed with

It ising that since the man could for- grand children beg to acknowledge some of its worst features. with heartfelt thanks the many

to be presumed that the netion felt a $5,000 ball once, he might

do so agala. expressions of sympathy and con-

was anti-religious, for there is no! dolence from their friends in their suggestion of reprisal against the sad bereavement for the numerous villagera, who apparently were beautiful floral tributes sent and

merely inoffensive country folk. for their kind attendance at the There was possibly the urge to commit theft, for some of the idols were conted with successive layers of gold-leaf. but nevertheless the deed represented, to the soldiers, who had been brought up to revere those very idels, a case of delib- erute sacrilego.. There. have been many instances of anti-christi in demonstrations in parts of Kwang

It was stated that the women, tung, but one can understand this fanaticism in the case of anti-who were the girl's mother and Foreign troops, whose desecration

An attractive girl complained to of Christian places of worship and respectively, chained her up in the house and that the neigh-

Mr. Sucll, the Old-street magin. cemeteries was not offending their bours could hear her cries at own, but an alien, belief. Now, through the day and night.

A Chinese coolie was sent to the trate, that her lover had taken away however, they seem to have gone

Mr. Lindseli, who had been in Government Civil Hospital yester- her engagement ring by force.

Talkoo Dockyard,

Mr. Snell: Engagement rings During recent years there has so far as to desecrate the idols communication with the S. C. A. day from the

which their fathers, worshippe, discharged the two women on dis-suffering from serious wounds to belong to the people to whom they thereby establishing a definite a covering that the girl was mad the right of his head, caused by a have been given. Summon him.

The girl was turning away when To A report furnished by the Lunatic rusty seale falling on him whilst sence of traditional belief. which was not unnatural in view some ways of thinking this may Asylum showed that the girl was he was at work chipping rust on Mr. Snell asked, "How much is it

spell enlightenment: to those who seriously demented. The Magis- the 8. Seang Bee, which was un-worth?"

The girl: $13.5s. of what had happened in parti- look beyond their particular pre-trate added that the two women dergoing repairs at the time. cular cases, and for that reason judices it betokens the decay in were only to blame because they the public at Home has given moral and national fibre, that is did not send her to the Lunatic

threatening Chima to-day. Many Asylum sooner.

A report was made to the Pelice healty welcome to the recent de; of the people imbibing the worst The girl's mother explained that yesterday by Mr. C. 1. Cookea, el cision to appoint a Royal Commis-of cervain Foreiga examples, there the girl had previously been treat the Ifongkong and Shangha! Bank, sion for the purpose of consider. have not been wanting frequented in the Lunatic Asylum and had to the effect that his wife lost a instances of this imitation of the been returned to her completely gold brooch on which were mount

She had a relapse, howed three Chinese gold cash. The ing the London squares and their extremism that Moscow so proli eured.

after Mrs. preservation. It is estimated that fically breeds. The anti-God so-ever, but the mother wanted to try loss was discovered

Peak Cooken had reached the the number of squares, crescents, cleties of Soviet Russia have their a Chinese method of curing.

The Magistrate said that he

Tram Station from Queen's Road counterpart in the anti-idal Chin-

Central. triangles, terraces, and similar ese soldiers. The ethics of Con-would make out an order for the enclosures in London is about fucius are forgotten and in their girl to stay in the Lunatic Asylum 450. Of this number, about 286 place are absorbed the tenets of until she was perfectly recovered. Mars Now the family gods are If she should have a further re- are squares, and 247 of these spurned. A small thing perhaps. lapse, Mr. Lindsell told the mother S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. | squares could be described as gar- to the non-idolatrous, but bespeak it was her duty to send her to the advised that the Straits Steamshipi

toing the disintegration and. de asylum.

terioration which is afflicting the London and the possibility of Lon-country to-day. doners being deprived of these pic- turesque "lungs" will be under-

The New Orthophanic

Victrola

lllllllE1

How Much Do You Know?

1. Who Invented....

2. What is the

3. Explain

....

IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER F

YOU CANNOT ANSWER ALL THE

QUESTIONS IN THIS POPULAR DAILY

FEATURE,

BUT IF YOU DO NOT REALISE THAT

Lane, Crawford's HAVE A SALE

OF MEN'S SHOES Now On-THAT

THE SOFT FURNISHING AND HARD-

WARE DEPARTMENTS START THEIRS

To-morrow, AND THE LADIE'S

DEPARTMENT. ON Thursday - WELL

YOU WILL BE MISSING OPPORTUNI

TIES OF SAVING-

MONEY.-- and THAT

MATTERS

LONDON'S SQUARES.

beer a good deal of anxiety about the future of London squares,

den squares. The menace

up-

COLONY.

THREE MORE EUROPEANS

WITH ENTERIC.

The health return for last week shows a persistence of typhoid in fection, with three more European cases.

TOO MUCH RECKLESS DRIVING.

MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT IN TRAFFIC CASE.

"There has been rather too at much of this sort of gaine Stubbs Road," commented Major Willson this morning as C. fined a motorist, Mr. K. S Robert-: son, $15 for reckless driving.

he

stood when it is stated that out THE HEALTH OF THE of these 247 squares, only 61 are fer posterity. absolutely secure Commerce, has reached out many times of recent years to grasp a aquare here and a square there. In some cases its efforts have been successful, trees have been rooted, turf has disappeared, and

It was stated that Mr. Robertson' in their "place have been reared There were also two cholera cut in between two buses, travel- the blanketing walls of factory or cases, both fatal, one British and ling la opposite directions at a one Chinese. These, as reported bend at Stubbs Road, and slightly offee. The disappearance of the last week, were imported, in the collided with both

Mr. D. L. de Leur, of the Mornington-crescent, N.W., and of British case it is believed from

Canton.

Netherlands Trading Company, Endsleigh-gardens, N.W., are the

The enteric fever cases number was fined $20 for exceeding the I must important recent examplesed nine, and there was one death speed limit while proceeding along of this change. Efforts to acquire during the period covered. The Queen's Road East on his motor other open spaces have not been cases comprised two British, one cycle.

complained that German,

Defendant and six. Chinese, four so successful, Public opinion, coming from Hongkong and five tardy notice was given to him of quite recently prevented negotia- from the peninsula. There was the summons, but as far as he une death from enteric during the could recollect, he was driving at tions going too far for the trans- week.

a moderate speed on the day in fer of the Covent Garden market The reappearance of small-pox question.

Sergeant Baker stated that he to the site of the Foundling Hos-is shown in one Chinese case, with pital and its turfed grounds in one death. There was also one was following defendant in a caso of diphtheria, two cases of private car, but later abandoned Bloomsbury, W.C. Many of these cerebro-spinal fever, with one further parault na this would be London squares are the only play-denth, and two deaths from puer-dangerous in the crowded area of grounds, of thousands of children peral fever, as well as one fresh Wanchal. This was

for the delay. case; all being Chinese,

Yesterday's rotura gave a new in densely populated districts. It is important that the Commis-case of enteric (Chinese) from: Kowloon, and anothor Chinese sion should get to work at once ease of puerperal fever. and lose no time in making its ro- port. If two or three years are

the reason

** +

Mr. Snell (with a smile): It would be.

Show me the stutistics of a nation's homeowners and I will tell you its happiness-Major "H. L. Nathan.

The work of contemporary Bri- tish artists is the finest being pro- duced throughout the world to-day, -Sir Joseph Duveen.

Because, a woman gets married is no reason why any special pri- vilege should be given to her over a single woman.-Sister Mary Bal- lard.

Willesden woman: My son playa the piano and, of course, he has a violent temper.

*

Messrs. W. F. Stevenson and Company of Manila have been

Company's steamer Talpeng. which grounded near Zamboanga on July 7, has been refloated and

Mr. C. Lee, Willesden magistrate, towed to Sandakan by the

to a Somerset man accused of being Kinabalu, The Kinabalu has drunk: You people are so thorough- taken over the run of the Taipengly respectable at home.

Why, do between Zamboanga and Singa-you alter when you come to London? Man at Highgate: He said pore.

something but I don't know what he said. I answered him back, but I don't know what I said.,. He hit me, and I remembered no more... Midland solicitor: What kind of beer do you drink?-Man: Mild; I cannot afford anything elec

A “WHITE LINË” OFFENCE.

FINE FOR CAUSING AN

OBSTRUCTION.-

Clerk, at Willesden, to a man ac- cused of being drunk: Do you plead guilty? Man: No, I am sure I was all right before I went into the pub.

#

A young Chinese was summoned before Major C. Willson this morn-

"Welcome to the Princess". WAS ing for obstruction of the roadway. In explaining that the summons was written on a mirror with a piece taken out under Regulation No 121 of soap by one of the patients at of the Traffic Ordinance, Trafic the Kent County Mental Hospital, Sergeant Baker stated that defendat Barming Heath, Maidstone, ant was standing on the white line which Princess Mary visited to in Pedder Street, apparently wait open the new Nurses' Home and ing for a tram, when he was told by Training School, attached to the witness to move into the verandah, as he was obstructing the traffic.

"He replied that he would not move for me," said witness.

A fine of $6 was imposed.

EXCHANGE RATES.

hospital.

The Princess was given a great welcome by the townspeople of Maidstone and the Hospital staff.

A young bride asked her husband to copy a wireless recipe she want- ed. He did his best, but got two stations at once, one of which was broadcasting physical exercises and the other the recipe. This is what he took down:

London, July 25.

.124.06

"Hands on hips, place one cup of .4.85 flour on the shoulders, raise kneeA 34.0334 and depress toes, and mix thorough .26.2014ly in half a cup of milk. Repeat

12.11% six times. Inhale quickly one-half .69.3% teaspoonful of baking powder, lower 20.40% lego, and mash two hard-boiled eggs .18.17% in a sieve. Exhale, breathe natur ...18,80 ally, und sift into bowl.

..84,60

.192.70

Paris New York Brussels A visitor to Hongkong is Count Gonova Alexander Clios, Polish artist, Amsterdam educated,, in Petersburg. Count Milan Borlin He painted Clios is no stranger.

Stockholm Betting in connexion with horse the "St. Joan" scenery, which was Osto wasted in delay and talking, some racing is to be introduced in Nor- later illustrated in the Theatrical

Vienna

"Attention! Lis flat on the floor of the most valuable of the squares way this summer. A law to this Magazine of New York. He also

168% and roll the white of an egg until Prague

it comes to boil. In ten minutes, may be built over. Many of the effect has been passed by the won commendation in the local Helsingfors

from the fire and rub Storting, which neglected protests Art Club and did some sketches Madrid squares are liable to be disposed from farmers against what was for the Admiralty, Count Clios Lisbon

with a rough towel. of at any minute, when they believed to be cruelty against has been on a visit to Malaya and Athens

806 Breathe naturally, dress in warm 6.27/82 flannels, and serve with fish soup," cease to be breathing places for animals. The betting is to be ar- Manila. In Siam he painted 63 Bucharest,

ranged by totalinator, for one far- landscapes to the Government's Rio

.4725 the people of the capital. It

The body of a Chinese woman, mer member of the Storting ask-order for the Siamese exhibition Buenos Aires

1/5.57/04 Bombay seems clear that, as the community ed: "Is there no limit to human and 84 water colours for an lue-

Shangha!

2/04 aged 80, who was drowned by the cruelty against our dumb friends?trated official "Book of Stam." Hongkong

1/11% overturning of a sampan at the has the right to impose building. Not only are the horses to run for Count Ciles is giving an exhibi- Tokohama

1/11.7/32 Yaumati Typhoon Shelter on Mon- regulations on the owners

of the fun of idlers, but they are tion of his work at the Hongkong Silver (spot and forward) 26.8/16 day morning, has been sent to the

-British Wireless, property, so it has the right to oven to be tantalised afterwards." Hotel this week.

28.48

2.7/16

remove

871

smartly

Kowloon Mortuary..