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Mozart's Concerto in E Flat Major
Part 1-1st movement-Allegro moderato
6744 Part 2-1st movement (Continued) Allegro moderato
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(Part 8-1st movement-(Concluded) Allegro moderato (Part 4-2nd movement-Un poco adagio
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928.
DAY BY DAY.
GOOD ORDER 18 THE FOUNDATION OF ALL THINGS-Burke.
Two Chinese cases of typhoid were reported yesterday-one from Aberdeen and the other from the the New Territories.
Mr. Keen, Chief Officer of the s.8. Kinshan has been removed to hospital, and Mr. Lake, Chief Officer of the s.8. Taishan has been appointed temporarily in his stead.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
KOWLOON NOISES.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
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public health, whether practiced Indoors or out. We are surprised that Dr. Tso should have argued that it was wrong to attempt to
The Long Arm of Coincidencor force people to change their habits
Here is a coincidence from a by the process of law. Maybe he
realdant at Montreux: "Some was thinking of the liberty of the
years ago my sister and I planned Sir, The Pross of this Colony a foreign tour, which, unfortu- individual, but we would surwest
has from time to time conducted nately, had to be given up at the that if liberty is abused in such n
tho campaigns against night last moment owing to the non- way as to ondanger public health,
noisca of the Chinese. May I now payment of an expected and very then It is time that liberty was
appeal to you to enter the old necessary dividend. One of our restricted. We admit that the
against similar noises, made, I re-nieces came to condole on our gret to say, by Europeans? great disappointment, and said, "I customs and habita of people
Last night, or rather early this want you to do somethin for me ought not to be interfered with so.
morning, sleep in the vicinity ofwill you promise faithfully to do long as they do not enuse annoy-
A the of $5 was imposed on a Cambay Buildings, Kowloon, was it before I tell you what it is?
"Suspecting an offer of a loan ance or injury to others, but when Chinese woman by Mr. W. Scho-mado impossible by a party of men they do-as In the case of spitting field, at the Kowloon Magistracy and women, who with the aid of a from a slender store we refused
this morning, for carrying four particularly plercing piano, made to promise, and while wo then the plea for intervention to chickens in a crate too small for merry between the hours of mid-laughing and arguing over the matter the postman knocked. As night and 2 a.m.
I ran downstairs to look for my justified. That principle is al- the fowls.
This is not the first time on
letters I called back, If there is a ready observed in many of our
This morning's Harbour Office which the molae has emanated thousand pounds in the letter- HAS NO EQUAL local bye-laws, For example,
reports gave 18 arrivals and 16 from this quartor, but previous box, will you promise faithfully Chinese cannot indulge in native departures, with British best, leav-efforts have generally been con- to accept a hundred pounds from music and ong-beating when and ing 62 vessels.in harbour of which fined to Saturday nights, and Sun- us? What suggested this ab-
Aurdity I have no idea. where they like. Neither can23 were British. Tonnage was day morninga.
Most of us are long-suffering fair,, but freight returns were, be-
In the latter-box was the an- the carry chickens by the wings, low average, the British total be enough to tolerate a party up to nouncement of a legacy of £500 midnight, but after that the thing each to my sistor and myself, not nor pigs in certain types of crate.ing 8,000 tons.
becomes an indescribable nui- from any relation, but from an It may have been "habit" in the
absolutely. unexpected source. A Bank draft for G83,000 hissance. past for them to do these things,..
Sleep this weather is difficult Our niece returned home that Chinese named Lee Chow, living enough to obtain at any time, evening with our cheque for £100 CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE but a point was reached at which been handed to the police by a
the law stepped in and limited or at No. 99, Laichikok Road, wha without the imposition of further in her pocket and we started for NON-CONDUCTOR
prohibited these practices. We could stated that he found the document handicaps in the carly hours of Switzerland." cile innumerable instances of a in Shamshuipo. The draft is the morning.
issued by the Royal Bank of
We have all learnt as children Willesdon magistrate, to a man: like character to show that it be Canada and is payable at the that we have a duty to fulfil to-Try to soften your wife's heart. comes necessary, in the public in- Equitable Eastern Bank Corporawards our neighbours. What a Man: I have, sir; I left her four
pity it is that some people fall to times. terest, for the authorities to step. tion.
realise this in after-life. in and restrict individual Hberty.
Thanking you in anticipation for We are firmly convinced that this expectoration evil, can only be
the insertion of this letter, and en- dealt with by law. Once a bye-present in Hongkong, being accom-closing my card,-Yours, etc.,
panied by Miss D. Willis, & friend. law is made, it can be gradually They are on a holiday tour of the Far East. They bring greetings enforced. There would be no
from Mr. James Kerr, a former rush every
A.S.P. of the Hongkong Police, who dren tender sincere thanks to offender of to the Police Station. is now settled down in a pretty their relatives and friends for
Sir-I notice that a new build- It was stated at Marylebone the many kind expressions of Much could be done, early on, suburban district of Melbourne. sympathy in their recent by warnings. Indeed, we see no
The engagement and forthing is being erected in Salisbury that a man accused of drunken- bereavement, also for floral reason why the Government should coming marriage in August are Road on the site of the garage news had been before the court on tributes sont and attendance
not give, suy, three months notice announced of Mr. E. C. Richards, which was blown down in the a similar charge once every year. at the funeral.
of the intention to pass the hye-of the Hongkong Bank, KualaLyphoon of 1927, thus making it since 1923. Man: I am fairly. law and in the meantime engage Lumpur, and Joan, youngest evident that there is no intention consistent about it. Magistrate:
Persistent, you mean. daughter of the late Sir Robert on the part of Government to a number of street lecturers to and of Lady Gardner, of East widen the road at that place. stress the evils, of the habft and bourne,. and formerly of Dublin, pave the way for the official pi. Miss Gardner is a sister of Mrs. hibition. In any event, Hong-A. K. Congrove and recently spent
some months in Kuala Lumpur. kong has been sufficiently long under British rule to warrant a serious effort being made to wipe out this disgusting and dangerous
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( Part 6—2nd movement-(Concluded) Un poco adagio (Rondo)| Dr. F. M. Graca Ozorio and chil-necessity at first to
3rd movement
Part 6-3rd movement-(Concluded)
Haydn's Trio in G Major
with Alfred-Cortot (Pianist)
and Pablo Casala (Violoncellist)
(Part 1-1st movement-Andante
(Part 2-2nd movement-Poco adagio cantabile
Part 3-2nd movement- Poco adagio cantabile Part 4-3rd movement-Rondo all'ongarese
Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor (Op 49).
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Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1928.
THE SPITTING HABIT, practice,
In the opinion of the Head of the Sanitary Department, a notice- able change has taken place in the habits of the Chinese, who are now very apprehensive regarding the evil effects of spitting. We regret to say that we have not
Currency Bandits.
Miss A. C. Valpeid; a lady journ- alist attached to the Geelong Ad veriiser, Victoria, Australia, is at
DISGUSTED. Kowloon, June: 28th, 1928.
BUILDING AT KOWLOON POINT.
Motorist fined at Wood Green for driving at thirty-eight miles
a child to school, ' an hour; I was in a hurry taking
Magistrate at Willesden, to a to man: Your application acoma raise all sorts of difficulties un- der Habeas Corpus, Magna Carta, and "Dora."
Man, at Willeaden: I only plead guilty to not being drunk,
It would be redundant to go over
The notorious Insterburg clair- all the arguments in favour of this very necessary Improvement and voyante, Frau Guenther Geffers. equally futile to point out that the who has been on trial charged south side of the road is the only with obtaining money by false pre- side
which sensible and tences, was recently acquitted." A Buick car in which Madame economical widening can be carri- This case aroused considerable interest in psychological and
Chan
law.
Kung-chuen,
mother-in-
the
ed out.
on
of Mr. Wang Ching- We are getting new, ferries and criminological circles. Some of wel former chairman of Nationalist Government Central buses as fast as requirements in- the psychic experts who have been Executive Committee, and "Mr. crease, but we don't get our road, connulted as to the nature of the Chan Yow-tso, Ex-Reconstruction and further exigent progress in occult powers claimed by the clar Commissioner, Kwantung, were locomotion is choked at this point. voyante have emphatically affirm- This road is not devoted to joy-ed that they are convinced that travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Hongkong is inclined" to be tod Ipoh, met with a serious accident riding; it is the only road by which Frau Geffers is posscased of a Madame Kowloon residents can get to their sixth sense, or at any rate of quite literal. We are therefore likely at Bidor last week. to provoke consternation or amüse-Chan was injured and Mr. Chan work, and with a rapidly increas-abnormal powers. Dr. Krooner, ment, as the case might be, in re-narrowly escaped. marking upon the number of ban- dits harboured within the bounds
·
ing population in the Peninsula leono of the Berlin experta sum absolutely inadequate for even the moned to be present at the trial, expressed the emphatic opinion present needs.
Why then docs Government per that such exceptionally gifted Frau Geffers. mit the erect in of another build-clairvoyantes as
could very well be utilised by the Prussian Criminal Investigation Department as assistant detec tiven.
TROGLODYTE. Kowloon, June 27, 1928.
Ifealth that a bye-law be passed the conclusion, however, that it is Messra, Woo Hin-tack, Lo Tung-given by Captain Morgan at the lead to suspicion. being laid upon
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At the annual meeting of the of the Colony. We are not, how-wing Tack Athletic Association the ever, referring to our American following officers were elected for observed any remarked evidence of friend, the "stick-up man," nor to the current year:-President, Mr. ing on this alte7-Youra, etc.,.
of Ng Tai-ping (President of the the change, nor do we imagine those marauding gangs, one
This view is not shared by the that it has been perceived by the China's exclusive features, who Ping Pong League and Chairman of practice the unpleasant habit of the Modern Literary Association);
Prussian authorities, who think public generally. For this reason, insisting upon extending the hos Vice-President, Mr. Ng Ming Chiu,
THE "KOCHOW" ́ENQUIRY.
that the employment of mediums we heartily commend the sugges-pitality of their mountain lairs to B. A.: Hon Secretary, Mr. Lai wayfarers at a Woon-cheong; Hon. Treasurer, Mr.
Sir,-In reading over the evidence in investigating crime may easily tion of the Medical Officer of unsuspecting
prise. We have been forced to Lue Ho-long; General Committee,
Kowloon enquiry, I was greatly entirely innocent persons.
The president of the District of making expectoration in public not essential to be lawless to be a fang, Andrew Lau, and Leung uprised at his statement in
which he said that owing to the ex-Koenigaberg, in East Prussia, has places illegal. In the discussion bandit, and the Hongkong species Kwan-kwong...
cessive speed of the s.s. I'd Lee in therefore felt called upon to issue on the subject at Tuesday's meet-we have particularly in mind is
An extraordinary incident which passing the Kochow, the lifting a special order prohibiting the the average money-changer. Safe- Ing of the Sanitary Board, there ly, ensconced behind brass occurred on the local railway in gear was damaged by the wash employment by the police of so- appeared to be general agreement grille, his propensities towards the April last year is revealed in the by the Tal Lee, thus causing deten called telepathic and clairvoyant mediums for the tracking down of that the spitting habit is ob-extractions of more than his just annual report just issued. Antion in raising the Kochow.
I emphatically refute that state- criminals. due, which in other circumstances ongine arrived in British territory
time jectionable and even dangerous
on going bare-faced from the Chinese section without ment. Every be termed to public health, but two schools robbery, are usually most in evi-driver or fireman in control. For through the Wangmoon Bar Chan-
Isaac and Sandy were playing exhausted of thought were revealed. There dence when strangers to the tunately steam
need Colony
local
put to "Slow Speed," as is custom-a round of golf, Sandy drove off currency, when the engine arrived on then the engines of the Tal Lee are
to a were those who wanted the evil Several times lately we have had British line and it came surressed by law; and there were complaints of heavy losses on ex-standstill without doing any harm.ry with all, or nearly all, steamers and sent the ball well up the fair- the others who wished it to be change in cases where advantage The incident is attributed to dis-using the Channel, as a matter of way. Iaane followed, but his ball
the ground. has been taken of the customer's affected employees on the Chinese Precaution, should the vessel tako flew straightaway into the rough.
On the night in question, the Tai gradually eliminated by the ro-ignorance of the ruling rate. The section who apparently abandoned
the engine.
Lee was anchored, waiting for tide, cess of education. Our opinion money-changer is undoubtedly a
from 10.30 p.m. to 11.45 p.m. la that it is high time the matter necessary fenture of our system,
Thanking you for space for the The master of the Wai Sang but something should be done to was dealt with by the former check the pernicious practice of printing shop, of Yaumati, report-above, in your paper. Yours, etc. method.. If ferry and tramway which we complain. It is surely ed to the police yesterday that a not too much to ask that the foki collected $30 on his behalf on absconded. Two money-changer should be required Monday and
might
WAS
E. MIDGLEY.
Hongkong, June 28th, 1928,
EXCHANGE RATES.
to exhibit, or to have on hand for other reports of embezzlement exhibition if demanded, the cur- were made to the police yesterday, rent rates of exchange, and if he both from West point. The master is not willing to do this voluntarily of the Kwong On Yuen pig dealer's it could be made a condition of his shop report the loss of $1,121.73 Heence. Some such remedy is through a foki.absconding, and a
fish stallholder at the Salyingpun Brussels urgently needed.
market stated that he has been Amsterdam robbed in the same way of $52 by Berlin a dishonest employec.
Silver Purchases.
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companies can makes it an 'offence, then why cannot the Government? In point of fact, spitting on pub le piers is already illegal. We can therefore see no hardship in making the rohibition general.
The arguments put forward, on Tuesday against the passing of the suggested hve-law were by no means convincing. Mr. Braga
A remarkable action came to an asserted that ninety ner cent. of end in America on Tuesday In the Chinese populace is literate. the rejection of an application by Supreme Court at Washington to Lisbon
Buenos Aires If that is so, what can be the silver producers to compel the read into the Pittman Law some- value of suggested handbills and U.S. Treasury to purchase a huge thing that most certainly was
quantity of allver at a price almost never intended. The action was, Yokohama pamphlets? Educative measures double the ruling market rate. No in common parlance, a try-on, and New York through the medium of the printed other decision was, of course, naturally failed. It would of Goneva
feasible. The Pittman Law, on course, be extraordinarily interest-Milan word obviously can make no ep-which the application was based, ing to learn the argument by which Stockholm
the Silver Producers' Association Oslo peal to those unable to read. was passed during the WIT What then? Are we to wait until authorising the US. Government sought to convince a judge that the Prague
private the masses have become educated? to make silver purchases at any Government had passed a law Madrid
time in order to atabilled the price, which would enable a We feel, with Dr. Pope, that we has never been repealed institution to force it into a policy Bombay kave waited long enough already. Apparently, the American silver with which it might or might not Hongkong Expectoration is not only a Althy producers, being of opinion that agree. In, its absence, we can re Silver (spot) habit; it is a distinct menace to the present market rate of silver flect only upon the Association's Silver (forward)
is too low, thought to induce the audacity.
Athens Rio
London, June 27.
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