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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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Business:-
ELECTIONS & GENERAL.
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are
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at
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CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO,, EFD, and
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees per Company's Vessel, # "PHEMIUS"
From UNITED KINGDOM and CONTINENTAL PORTS vku
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Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given
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On TUESDAY, the 14th. August, 1928;
commencing at 10.30 mm.
at Godown No. 18, The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Gdown Co., Ltd., Kowloon,
** A-Large Quantity of “
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Aquare Iron, Bwing Check Valves, Show Cards, Chlorate of Potash, Broken Glass, Sulphuric
MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928.
LETTER GOLF.
Just in case any letter golf fans suffer from spring fever, to-day's puzzle is not too hard. There's a
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.-
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ROSE
1-The idea of letter golf is to Acid, Dye Samples, Wood Tar, change one word to another and Hats, Aeroplane Parts, Lamp do it in par, a given number of Shados, Switches, Cord Holders, strokes. Thus to change COW to Films, Cotton, Cotton Fless Goods, Hen, In three strokes," COW, Paper, Account Books, Cigarettes, HOW HEW HEN.
Fish Plates, Bolta and Nuts, Steel' 2-You can change only one Clips, Iron Gates, Jolets, Stan-lotter at time. chions, Old Wire, Motor Car Tyres,
One solution is printed on another
Old Wire Rope, Underwear, Vices, ord, of common usage, for each 3-You must have a complete Iron Plate, Wire Cable, Glass jump. Slang words and abbrevin. Ware, Plank, Dried Shrimps, Becketions don't count. de Mer, Sulphate of Ammonia,
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TOLL OF WAR.
FOUR MILLION KILLED IN CHINA.
Chil
Shanghai, Aug. 7. According to unofėjal estimates Chinese made public hero, the wars fought in the provinces of and Shantung during in the past few years resulted the deaths of 4,000,000 men, one million of whom are said to havo been youths.-Associated Press.
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Sandakan.....
Straits, Egypt and Europe via Mar-
seilles
Manlin
Swntow
Mon., Aug, 20, 10.30 a.m. Mausang...Tues., Aug. 21, 1.30 p.r.
Philoctetes
................... Tues., Aug. 21,
K. P, 0.
Registration Letters
Registration
Letters...
1 p.m.
.1 p.m.
G. P. O.
1.45 pm.
.2.30 pm.
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Emp. of Ruusin
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*Correspondence bearing vessel's name only.
ANGLO-AMERICAN ATHLETICS.
U.S. WIN INTERNATIONAL
MATCH.
Two Miles Relay (In four sections of half a mile each).Tho. British Empire won by fifteen yards,
The British team was.--Little, McEachern, Edwards and Lowe. The American team was-Sitting, Phillips, Fuller and Watson. Time: 7 mins,, 48 4/5 Бесн.
Eight Lap Steeplechase (in four Isections of London, Aug. 11.
two laps each).The Brl- America and Britain met to-day in tish Empire won by eight yards. The Ernest Brooks, aged 65, a photo-an athletic match at Stamford Bridge. British team was. Livingstone-Lear grapher, of Balham-hill, Tooting, The weather was glorious and rifty months, Tatham, Morgan and Burgh-
The ley, The American S.W., was charged before Mr. thousand people were present,
team was-Mont- Mend, the Marlborough-street British team represented. the whole
62 sets Pole Jump. (teams of three).— insulting words and behaviour at America took eight and Britnin six.
The match was decided on the relay America aggregated 89 foot 3 inches, Grosvenor-square, W., and was for team principle, teams being made against to piccinnie, Barnes
up of three or four men to and
to America was.—McGinnis, did and Drocgmuller: The British Em-
magistrate, recently, with using Empire, but of the fourteen events Timo Kalten and Spencer
fined £2.
Some
7
of 18 feet 0 faches, and broke the British record.
A police witness stated that he the class of event. was on special duty at 19, Gros- individual performances were made. pire team was. Bond, Housden and venor-square at a ball at Lady The Americans in the Mile Relay put Pickard;
The American Barnes made a leap Beecham's house, when he was up a world's record. Ono American, The called to Brooks, who had just leaping 13. feet 0 inches, broke the British pole jump record, and another, been ejected.
1
High Jump (teams of three)- inch, broke the Brooks was shouting that some- covering 25 feet
American aggregated 10 feet, against one inside owed him a shilling.
Uritish long jump record..
The results in detail were as the Empire's 18 feet 8 inches. The Later he tried to take hold of follow:
American team was-McGinnis, King the arm of a woman alighting 400 yards Relay, (in four sections and Osborne. The Empire teata was..
Simmons and Gordon. Munro Jump from a taxicab, but she took no of 100 yards each)-America won by
of threo) notice of him.
inches. Her Quan, Cumming and Russell The America aggregated 74 feet 3 inches, British Empire team was-Williams against the Empire's 68 feet 14 inch.
Hubbard and Batce. Carlton, Fitzpatrick, and London. The American team was Ham, The Empire Time: 37 4/5 secs.
Viljoon.
The American, Ham, jampad 25 feet. Inchi,
breaking
the British record. the Hammer (teams of
Brooks told the magistrate that a woman guest on arrival at the house told the taxicab driver that she would have to borrow Bome money to pay him. Brooks there- upon paid the ahilling fare.
Police Inspector John Magill
1 Mile Relay (in four sections of team was-Atkinson, Harrison and 440 yards)America won by eight yards. Her team was. Baird, Mor kan Taylor, Barbuti. and Spencer.
stated that Brooks told him that The British Empire team was Wil-orica aggregated 476 foot:
he was a Press photographer. son, Rinkle, Leighwood, and Ball.10.
Lord Burnham had a party at Time; I mina, 18 2/6 secs,, a world's Lady Beecham's, and Lord Burn-record. ham told the witneas that a foot-
Tha
the Empire's
Piese American team
fnch.
Knef Corky' and Black..
WAS-Britton, 450 Yards Hurdles Relays won Noices and McSweeney (team of
team
Throwing the Javelin three)The
The Empire
5041 aggregated againat America's
wwwDyeing, Anderson and Col. The British team:
man had Informed him that Brooks sections of 120 yards)-America was trying to force his way into by two and a half yards. Her term the ball
The British Empire team
Gaby Burghley,
Time: 02 Bocs. the Weight (teams
Brooks, addressing the magia-inson Smith.
trate, stated that he was invited there by Lady Beecham, who aut-Weightman
and 585
of
font
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The
American
W
gested that he might like to take three)Azorica aggregated
145 piling and Weightman
Putting
but only
Bartlett and g
Miles Team Race (six to run- four
(America) 37.2/5 BOCE
A
mile,
to count) The Empire
pointe, Smith Gnished first in 14 mins.
One Billa Relay
some photographs. Later he was 11 inches, against the British Empire's told Lord Burnham did not want 125 foot 8 inches. The American beat America by 17,20 any photos talten. Med tears was-Brix, Kuck and Bothert He handed up a letter to the The British Empire team was How-
av fons section of half magistrate which set forth that beland, Hart and Woods,
of a furlong and one wap & Press photographer,' of Four Miles Relay (in four sections Regent-street, W., that he was the of a mile, each)The British Empire
yards. The Empire team was lato private photographer, to the won by two yards. The British quarter mile) The Empire won by Ring and Queen, and the Prince was-Docherty, Starr Whyte and Edwards, Rangeley, Fitzpatrick and
Ellis: The American team was. Lowe, The American team wa of Wales and an official photoCarter, Lermon, Robinson and Hahn. Cubel, Alderman, Russel and Couger.,
#reggio Time::B ̧ mins, 22 8/5 seca:---Reuter- grapher during the warmer 17 mins 223/5 seca.
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