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LONDON 195

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by installing "PYRENE Firo Extinguisher. "PYRENE" will kill firo without

THURSDAY,

hardly on the middle-class familles of whom Mr. Braga speaks. It is not, therefore, a subject that can merely be dismissed with the plen that little can be done.

The head of the Sanitary Board

damage to the rightly pointed out that the Bourd engine, woodwork in itself is not," and never can be,

SEPTEMBER 8, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

THE PERSON WHO NEVER ALTERS STANDING IIS OPINION IS LIKE WATER, AND BREEDS REPTILES OF THE MIND-William Blako.

There were two fresh cases of

or upholstery a controller of market prices. It typhoid fever reported yesterday. Water aproads

is out primarily to see that, food

DEPARTURE OF MR. KOO YING-FAN.

Á DRAMATIC EVENT IN

CANTON

The Very Idea!

Going into a rondy-made. clothier's, a man walked up to the assistant and said:

"I'd very much like to try on that blue serge suit in the win- dow. May 1?"

"I'm afraid not, sir," replied the assistant gravely; "you'll have to

petrol fire; sand is is sold in a clearly manner, and is steps have been taken by the Can; this ever-turbulent city. The re-use the drossingroom."

inefficient and will put the engine out of action. "PYRENE" Ex- tinguisher is small in size, light in weight and easy to

handlo.

"PYRENE" does

So far as can be ascertained, no ton authorities in respect of the passing of Whampoa forts by the .. Lungshan during dark hours, on her last trip down.

A local Chinese newspaper says that a Chinese who arrived in the Colony from Annam states that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is now in Annam but that he will leave for another place" shortly.

At for consumption. Beyond that it cannot go at present. But it appears, in view of the contact which the Board's employees are able to maintain with the vendors of foodstuffs, and in view of the Sanitary Board unofficial represen tation being the nearest thing to a municipal commision of which Hongkong can boast, that it is not

for use.

ost of place to suggest a sub-com- An earlier report that the s.s.

Koop a

mittee of a permanent nature, up- Anjou had broken down on her "PYR- ENE" hundy on pointed to take up the whole sub-last trip to Kongmoon is now known to be correct, This ship car and in garage.jeet of food prices,

is laid up, and will be compelled supplies, "rings," middlemen, to go to dock for the repair of waste of cost on transport, and so cracked cylinder. forth, and suggest regulations.

not deteriorate and is always ready

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IN MEMORIAM.

To the dear memory of James Cyril Dalmahey Allen, who died in Hongkong on September g 1926."

The

sources of

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Girls when they went out to

swim,

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Once dressed like Mothor

Hubbard;

Now they have a bolder whim: They dress more like hor

cupboard.

(A Special Correspandent.j

Canton, Sept. 7. Sensation follows, sensation in cont money scare and the vory.ap- parent injustice indicted on the merchants was the forerunner of news that Mr. Koo Ying-fan, the eause of the first mentioned trou- ble, has been forced to leave a turned. The merchants and peo- home to which he only recently re- ple were amazed last evening at this turn of events, most of them

Councillors of the East Prus- not crediting the fact that Mr. sinn town of Wartenburg recent- Koo had seen fit to resign.

ly decided to levy a tax on Many and various (and all of "bubikopfe," or women with bob- then imaginary) were the excuses bed, shingled or otherwise abbre- As an innovation, however, they put forward for this sudden de-viated hair. ment treasurer, and even officials decided that "married bubikopfe" parture on the part of the Govern in high positions in the different should be taxed twice as heavily Departments blinded themselves to as "spinster bubikonfe," and that the fact the Mr. Mr Koo had sud-girls under fifteen with shortened denly decided that Canton was just hair should be exempt from taxa- a little too warm to suit him. Ortion.

No rebate is allowed for large An Indian constable, P. C. R. at least if they did not actually In the absence of a local municipa- 461, was yesterday taken to the blind themselves, this was the pre-families of girls. lity this is the best which the Co-Government Civil Hospital with tence that they kept up for the lony can perhaps expect. We are head injuries resulting from an ac-benefit of the outside world. Now, cident. In alighting from a bus of course, it is known to everyone obliged to accept the official con-in Nathan Road he slipped and fell, that Mr. Koo has departed not to tention that little can be done in

Military Movement. the matter. It is pointed out that the very large population to be

Thousands of soldiers passed through Canton yesterday on their catered for in the port cannot ex-

way to the East River front pect sufficient supplies from the

While the ss. Lungshan was on They are mostly from the district mainland. The tendency is for her voyage to the Colony last night of Siukwan where

Willesden man: Trade is very 11 great army. The

bad with us,. for we are dress- the population to increase and the at 6 p.m. a Chinese of about 20, use for

makers. available territory for production dressed in white, jumped over-armica of Tsing Tai-kwan are re-

bicard to commit suicide.. Des-norted to have departed

Tottenham man: My wife wrote to decrease. Yet

Kiangsi where, with the aid of the maintain we

pite the efforts made at rescue, thousands stated above, they are to me, "I don't want any more to going out with that much can be done towards re.the body was not recovered.

to repulse the enemy. The last do with you. I am steamer addressed to his father from the rear. Other troops have At Lambeth: He said to his who works in a native bank inbeen ordered to Sheklung to check companion when they were arrest Canton.

the advance of a "Red" element ined: It's all right, Bert, it is all that area.

experience." * That the Government is worried

striking his head against the run-return. ning board. The base of his skull was fractured, and he was removed to Hospital in an unconscious con- dition.

The

there is no

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Essex labour accused of strik- ing another man: I scareely struck him, sir. The other man: Scarcely! Why I saw the Milky Way doing the Charleston..

Tower Bridge witness taking the oath: The evidence I give to the courts should be the truth.. Clerk: We know it should be. The aath says "shall be."

Hongkong Telegraph.ducing the dependence on outside young man left a letter in the mentioned soldiers are to attack the governor's son"

THE PRICE OF FOOD.

Chaksang

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One can therefore sympathise with him in his chagrin when one of the tourists on leaving ap proached him and languidly asked "Say guy, will yew tell me the name of this castle?"

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Banknote Values. That the Canton banknote will depreciate in value as soon as the

The bride entered with her merchants have paid their debt to the Government is a foregone con- father, who was beautifully dress- clusion. Nine-tenths of the In a quarrel between two bro- enormous sum demanded has beened in a gown of soft white chiffon- georgette crepe, trimmed in thers at their home a: No. 276 handed in to the Treasury, and, princess lace and embroidered in Queen's Road West, one was yesterday was the last day for stabbed, it is alleged, with a pair allowing payments to be made. sunburst designs with seed pearls of scissors by the other and a The order that all delinquents, asand rhinestones.--From an Ameri", serious wound inflicted in his side.far as the payment of this money can paper.

was concerned, were to be arrested The injured man was removed to

This country has been re- the Government Civil Hospital their quota had not been re-

for its pessimists.-- yesterday. Efforts made to find the ceived during the time given by themarkable

Those who lounge through life other man who immediately ran Government, has now been waived. Mr. H. A. L. Fisher. away, have not yet been successful. Apparently, "the Government has received a good start and are now

are the most miserable creatures in the universe.-The Bishop of Petersborough.

CHARTERED BANK "DIVI."

Working-class mothers are not miracle-workers, though love makes them seem so at times- Mrn. W. T. Layton.

soarees of supply. There is room for a considerable increase in the THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927, growing of vegetables and fruit)

The following ships were expect in the New Territories, there ised to be in wireless communica at the state of affairs at Sheklung This little incident was relat- ample space for the raising of tion with Hongkong to-day: is undoubted, for they fear thated to an Evening Despatch repre- swine, and perhaps cattle, in large Yuenseng, Kamo Maru, Deli Maru, in the event of this place falling to [sentative while in conversation Kashima Maru, the enemy it will mean that Canton with an Edinburgh Castle guide, The guide had spent a very numbers, and the prospects for Korea Maru,

Oldenburg, Kwaisang, Hiram, will Bo endangered. Other rum- We had occasion to remark a poultry rearing are bright enough Namsang, St. Albans, Novara, All-Durs state that these Communists, busy morning. He had the history pore, Sandviken, Talamba, Van mainly composed of robbers and of the Castle on his finger tips, and few weeks ago that discontento suggest double the present ac- with the high cost of living in this ivity. Perhaps with direct cfficial feutsz. Perseus, President Jeffer-bandits, can be easily suppressed had given the large party of cipline and that their knowledge of his knowledge. If he had Colony would shortly be revived, encouragement these, and similar son, Michael Jebsen, Anhui, and as they are wholely without dis- American tourists the full beneft of war tactics is very little. They mentioned Edinburgh Castle once The first indication that there is enterprises, would shortly flourish,

Mgr. Gennaro Hayasaka, nomi- are also without ammunition. If in the morning he had mentioned an articulate body who resent the It suggests a use for some of the

strange that they have advanced so teresting connexions. imposition of priecs which they money that is to be so jealouslynated Bishop of Nagasaki, the the latter case is correct it is it at least fifty times in fifty in-

first Japanese Bishop, will arrive far, because this same state of consider should be lower, came in hoarded through the policy of in Hongkong to-morrow, Friday, being without arms was reported

recent by the Kamo Maru en route for

many weeks ago. the Sanitary board discussion on economy outlined in the Tuesday, when Mr. J. P. Braga Budget programme. So far, there Boine, where he will be consecrat- ed by His Holiness Pope Pius XI raised the matter of prices of food" is only one certain contribution

on the 23rd. October. During his stuffs. The result of the debate of value from Tuesday's discus- stay in Hongkong. Mgr. Gennaro appears to have been entirely nega.sion, and that is a suggestion that Hayasaka will be the guest of the

French Mission. tive, yet it has at least drawn the number of markets might be attention more immediately to the increased, and thus healthy com- existence of a genuine grievance-petition be fostered. It is a policy the high level of charges for food which will meet with hearty en commodities in the markets. the dorsement, and it is to be hoped undoubted "understanding" which will be pushed forward as part of prevails, whereby nearly all stalls the local development that cannot holders maintain A parity of be postponed until the better times charges, and the constant tend-of the future which our financial

advisers are awaiting. ency, quite apart from seasonal or other market fluctuations, for a

The Band Concert at Kowloon on a sound basis, and therefore will not worry the merchants in Cost of Government.

Dock on Sunday will be held in gradual increase in prices. It ap-

the evening commencing at 3.30. respect of arrest. pears to be the eternal cycle, the

On glancing through the draft The Band of the 1st. Battn. North- vicious cycle of the war, when estimates of the Colony's revenue amptonshire Regiment, by kind everything rose in value, and to and expenditure for next year one permission of Lt. Col. S. II. J. becomes convinced of the fact that Thunder, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., and such an extent that, while a drop the Government has cut down fair- Officers, will play. Launches will came Inter, it was nothing likely drastically on the amount of leave Queen's Pier at 8.30 p.m., re- sufficient to "bainnce the original work it proposes to do, over and turning to Hongkong at 10.30 p.m. above maintaining the present ser- A bus service has also been ar soaring rates. So this problem,vices of its various departments. ranged for residents in Kowloon. like the poor, we are evidently al-Just to the satisfy our own craving The Goy-for gures we have gone to the

Ng Kai, the Chief Steward of ways to have with us.

trouble of totalling the sums in all the s.s. Chuenchow, was arrested ernment, knowing the close. con- the Departments to be paid on the waterfront yesterday on a nexion between reasonably com-way for personal emoluments" charge of being in possession of a -ín other words salaris.

quantity of cigarettes on which duty fortable living conditions and a

and wages-and we find that bad not been paid. Mr. Horace contented and progressive com- nearly $7,500,000 out of the Lo, in appearing for the defence at munity, cannot ignore the subject,

the Central Magistracy this morn- spent will go in reward for services ing, applied for a remand stating and we do not believe that the au- rendered. And, of course, in ad- that the defendant, who was on bail thorities are not fully alive to thedition there is a large sum grafited of $40, was away on his boat. The tendency for the cost of living to in the way of allowances, so that it

case was adjourned by Major. C. costs this Colony about $8,000,000 Willson until Wednesday, go up, in all directions. It is an a year to pay for its government servants and employees. We do not Insidious rise, as we have pre-

A belated report has reached' the Paris viously commented, and it is only suggest that that is too much be-

cause it includes nearly $1,500,000 police to the effect that Mrs. Fig- Brussels

Amsterdam Berlin by making a comparison between for police services, over $1,200,000 gins, who resides at the Hongkong presented-day rates and charges for P. W. D. salaries and wages and Hotel, was walking along Bowen and those prevailing at stated in- very large sums on account of the load on the 25th August, when, Copenha

Harbour, Medical, Sanitary and near Lauristen Hotel, she encoun- Helsingfors tervals in the past that the true Education Departments (to mention tered two Chinese. One of the men Lisbon

only a few of the principal), the was armed with a hatchet and they Bucharest We fear position can be reclised.

made a rush as if to attack her. Buenos Aires chief spendings in which are, At that very moment, states Mrs. Shanghai that most of those whose attention necessarily, of wages character.

Figgins, two sailors appeared Yokohama is drawn to the matter are in a Well over $1,000,000 is spent every around a bend, and the Chinese New York

year on Cadets and senior and turned tail and fled. position not to feel the additional

junior clerks—a fact which goes to impost to any marked extent, and emphasise the growing cost of ad-

We notice that in Leung Kai and Lai Yes, were Stockholm with the better-off classes it is ministration.

many of the Departments there has jointly charged at the Central Prague probably a case of not caring to heen a cutting down under the Magistracy this morning with being Madrid interfere with what might be con-heading of "personal emoluments" in possession of three $10-notes and-

two $1-notes of the Hongkong and Rio sidered a legitimate.profit made as compared with the previous year,

though in others there have been Shanghal Bank, which were alleged Bombay by the dealers in foodstuffs; thus what are regarded as unavoidable to be forgeries; and also with being Hongkong

When well over one in possession of 800 labels resembl- Silver (spot and forward) on the live-and-let-live principle increases, the Government itself must hesi-third of the Government's expending the labels used by the Superin- ture goes in salaries it is time we tendant of Imports and Exports in tate to interfere. At the

same suggest to consider very carefully connexion with Government pre- time, the question is a vital one the keeping down of any further pared opium. They were remand- to the poorer classes, and in its expenditure in this respect-especi- ed until Monday at noon on an ap ally when the slogan otherwise is plication by Sub-Inspector Shaf-

tain. cumulative effects presses very "economy."

$22.183,045 Catimated

to

Good teeth do not generally appeal to the boy until he begins to fancy himself or to the girl until she desires to be "fancied." -Professor W. H. Gilmour.

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INTERIM OF 14 PER CENT. The local office of the Chartered "Is pigs pigs?" Ellis Parker Bank of India, Australia and Butler's famous generalization China hus, received the following regarding porcines is in dispute telegram to-day from the Head by exhibitors at the eight-sixth Office::

annual show of the Royal Agricul "Directors have declared an tural Society, which opened in erim Dividend for the past hethe magnificent park of Viscount year at the rate of 14% per annum Tredgar. at Bassaleg, near New- free of Income Tax."

port, Monmouthshire, recently. "What fact has moat impressed you during the last fifty years?" one of the pork authorities was asked by a vinitor. "The romark- -the able growth of pigs," was reply. "To-day the average pig is seven inches taller than it was 124 34.91ffty years ago."

EXCHANGE RATES.

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Milan

Dala

Athens

London, Sept. 7.

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"An emply medicine bottle, the .18.16 contents of which have not been

.84.48 analysed, was found in the burned

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American Judge-"Well, John,

I can give you this divorce, but it will cost you three dollars."

John-"Three dollars, boss1" Judge "That's the fee."

John "Well, boss, I jes tell ya, .18.11 I don't believe I wants no divorce. 18.45 There ain't three dollars difference 163wen dem two wimmen." .23.78

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.6.65/64 An interesting visitor in the .1/5.29/32 Colony is Professor M. Langaner,

1/11 the expert of occult, scfence:

.25%

-British Wireless,

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand. 1/11-9/16 6.94 p.m. Lighting-up

with Mrs. Langsner. The pro fessor, it will be remem- bered, was married. recently in Java. After a short stay in Hongkong Professor Langsner will proceed to Japan and America and later to Australia,

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