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FRIDAY JUNE 7, 1929
TRAFFIC NOISES.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929.
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DAY BY DAY.
A DORE IS A MAN WHO WISHES TO KEET TALKING · ABOUT- HIMSELF WHEN I WISH TO TALK ABOUT MY- SELF
H.M.S. Cornwall has sailed from Hongkong for Welhaiwei,
The Empress of Asia, which left Hongkong on the 15th May, arrived at Vancouver on the 1st June.
gated, but the Conference urge that much might be done if strong representations were made through motoring organisations to the motoring public and the manu- facturers. The Conference con- sidered, but made no recommenda- tion, with regard to "zones" of silence where motor-horna should not be permitted to be sounded or, alternatively, only when neces- sary on grounds, of public safety. To deal with the "considerable : abuse and lack of consideration"
Wednesday's health return shows in the use of horns whe vehicles
one case cach of small-pox, are stationary, a regulation is re-diphtheria and typhoid. The that commended that "when a motor-named was British, the others be
ing Chinese. car is stationary on any highway, no person shall use or permit to be used in connexion therewith any instrument for the purpose of giving audible' warning, except when such use. is necessary on grounds of safety." "
any
Several Chinese, women and boys, were each fined $3 by Mr. T. S.. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for draw- ing water from fire hydranta. In other cases, the defendants falled to appear and had their bail es- treated.
WAS
Precautionary treatment yesterday given at the Government Civil Hospital to a Chinese who was bitten by a dog at the Upper Tram Station. The animal, which is a terrier belonging to Mr. B.D.F. Belth, has been removed to the Kennedy Town depot for observa- tion.
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All these are important points in connexion with the efforts made necessary for the prevention of needless street. nolaes. They haye their application here in Hongkong as in all other placés | where motor vehicles are in use to considerable extent. Not only do we suffer from the undue use of molor-horns, but badly- loaded and ill-conditioned vehicles all add to the daily din. The evils are experienced in a concentrated form in the business centre of the island, due to the fact that we are all more or less herded to- gether in a relatively small space. For this reason, it should be the constant endeavour of the authori ties to keep traffic noises within
A verdict of accidental death reasonable limits. A few prosecu-wan returned at the inquest held tions in the case of the worst yesterday on the body of a young boy who was knocked down on the offenders, coupled with warning Chatic Peak road by a motor car notices on drivers, would probably driven by Mr. W. J. Waddington. materially lessen the cause for The inquest was held in Post Office Building and was conducted by Mr. J. S. MacLaren, sitting without a jury.
annoyuncu,
Pope and Mussolini.
Professor Vernon Nash, of the Department of Journalism of the University of Yenching at Peking, is paying a visit to Hongkong. He is on his way back to Peking by the P. and O, as. Kashgar. He will meet the members of tho Chinese Institute of Journalism at tea this afternoon.
Modern traffic conditions have greatly added to the noise and din of our streets in recent years. The increasing number of motor vehicles in use has made this inevitable. But, whilst this is so,
It was only to be expected that there can be no question that a Vations protest would be raised grent deal of the noise creatett is by the polemical nature of certain ¡Lotally unnecessary. Here in passagen in Signor Mussolini'a re-day was fined $5 by Mr. T, S.
21 YEARS AGO,
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE “TELEGRAPI". FILES.
The following items are from The Hongkong Telograph for the week ended June Oth, 1908:
The Very Idea!
A now ruse of dealers in forbid-- den drugs has just been exposed by a detective of the Paris anti-drug brigade. Posing as a rich and half- intoxicated American tourlat, he | visited a cortain cabaret in Mont- The rate of the dollar on demand martre whore he suspected cocaine
was being sold. was 18, 9.7/16d.
It was announced that H. E. Sir Frederick Lugard, then Governor, would officially open the Kowloon Cricket Clubhouse
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Thero was a lengthy discussion in the Legislative Council on a sug gestion that the upper storeys of all houses of three or more storeys in helght should be demolished
A Chinese who was found tres- pausing near the officera cook house in the Hankow Barracks Shamshuipo, at 11.50 p.m. yester-m
INTSIAL
THE "TELEGRAPH" ART
SUPPLEMENT.
Attractive Pictures In To-morrow's Issue.
There will be an attractive selection of pictures in to- morrow's issue of the Telo. graph Art Supplement.
The King'o Birthday Parade will be illustrated by Gome excellent pictures, willst several photographs will also appear of the church parade of the Portuguese Company of the Volunteer Defence Corps, and the visit of H. E. Major General Sandilands to the Club de Recreio.
Lawn, bowls and Tennis League matches will be illustrated, and there will also be
group of 'the Somerset Regimental football tenm with League runners-up medals.
♫
The portraits will include Mr. Peter Julyan and Mr. Cheng Cheuk-hin; who receiv- ed the 1.S.O. decoration in the King's Birthday "Honours List. There will also be a photograph of the new eastern branch of the Tung Wal Hospital.
Photographs of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, in Japan will also appear.
Whyte Smith ส. the Kowloon where the conditions were of an in- Magistracy, this morning. His sanitary character, the cost to be Worship remarked that it must be partly borne by owners of adjacent obvious that the barracks were buildings. The matter was even-
tually deferred, private property,
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The Derby was won by Signor-
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He noticed a young man hawking. small plaster statuettes, but he also observed that this salesman only offered his wares to certain clients. The detective called to him, but the vendor of the statuettes did not re- spond. He went only to the tables indicated by a messenger attached to the establishment.
Determined to probe the mystery int any cost, the detective, pretending to be very drunk, walked over to n table where a statuetto had just been sold, and staggered so that he knocked it from the table. When It broke a stream of white powder poured from its hollow interior.
This was sufficient for the detec tive. A whistle, brought to hie aid colleagues who had been waiting outaldo and the statuette merchant, his wares, and several of his clients were bundled into a polleo lorry. The statuettes.
LBOCS of cocaine.
were
Sandy's wife was musical. She had other faults. `as well. But Sandy was a good husband, and when she showed a desire to learn the, violin he promised to make hor a present of one.
"A violin for your wife1" said the assistant at the music shop. "Certainly, sir. One with a chín rest?"
"Aye," said Sandy. Then, na n“ brilliant Idea came to him, he hur- rled after the assistant and caught him by the sleeve. "Mak it a de- tachable chin rest," he said, 'so that she can still use it when she is no playin' the violin."
[If Shakespeare had lived to-day lic would have been a novelist and written thrillers, says Sir James Barrie.]
The Hon. Dr. (later Sir) Ho Kaia was reappointed a member of the Legislative Council for a period of six years,
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Nottingham solicitor--Have you persuasive way? Man-It all depends to whom I am opeaking.
Willesden mother-His step- father does all he possibly can for him-thrashes him and such like. Solicitor at Glasgow-Please ans swer the question by a plain yes, or no. Now, which is it?
Man-The answer is in the nega-
Live.
Man at Glasgow, in accident case-If he had stepped to his right he would have been sufe. Solicitor And what about his left? Man -Down an open mankole.
Mr. Green, the Magistrate at Tot- tenham, to a father-Have you chastised your boy? Father-Yes; I have told him he won't have a farthing to spend through the X-holiday.
(Abbreviations: Aace; K- king: Q-queen; J-jack;
The Singleton Lead-2.
"Have they just had their dinner, The disadvantage of the single then?" asked the little boy of his
ton lead when you hold strength or mother, as the orchestra crept to length in trumps is exemplified in their places nfer the interval in the the illustrations which follow, In concert. each instance south's declaration is
"Why, dear?" hearts and west who must lead,
|Hongkong, as in other places, we cent speeches од the Lateran all know, of the racket caused by Treatica. The surprise lies in the the needless tooting of motor-fact that the Italian Government horny. Until fairly recently, having already ratified the Treaty
with its four annexas and the Con there was 110 local regulation
cordat, His Eminence the Pope
A charge of larceny of 21 panes inetta, dealing with this evil, but it is
should regard 11 Duce's remarks of glass from a house under now an offence to sound motor-in so serious a light as to threaten struction in Prince Edward Road horns unnecessarily. In spite of the reconciliation between the was brought against a Chinese be- that fact, however, the evil con- Church and the State. It must fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. tinues, and it is extremely rare to have been obvious that Signor it was stated that some 200 panes read of a prosecution for this Mussollal spoke throughout funda-had been stolen from this place re- particular offence. Public car-mentally as a representative of the cently. The defendant was sen- drivers are the principal culprits State and of Fascism, and was, tenced to one month's hard labour. therefore more likely to give satis- in this regard. An alert trafic
Ifaction to the Fascist and lay mind
Six enses of Chinese dolls which policeman could get Д dozen
than to those people more mindful were used by the Chui Hual Lim "casen" within the space of half of the interests of the Catholic re-Club, Singapore in the lantern an hour if he watched out for ligion. It is probable that Musso-procession for HRH. the Duke of offenders in any of our main lini was guided
Gloucester have been sent to as much by the
Buckingham Palace, London, His thoroughfares.
natural flow of his rhetoric as by Royal Highness expressed a wish But there are other aspects of argument, though this factor could to have some of the dolls, which this traffic noise question, and not lessen the offence given to theure of remarkably fine workman- these have been fully investigated Vatican. It is natural, for in-ship, and they were forwarded by at Home recently by a conference stance, that the Pope should the Club on board the Morca.
strongly object to the pas- on the subict. This conferenec,
sage In which the Prime in a report to the Ministry of Minister
Pleading guilty to a charge of suggested
if that Transport, considers that a regula-the Roman Catholic religion had failing to keep their licences on board, the mistresses of four pas- tion should be made under the remained in its native Palestine: Renger boats were this morning Motor Car Acts to deal with excen-would, in all probability, have fined $2 each at the Marine Court of the Essenes by the Hon. Comandr. G. F. Hole, kive and avoidable noises from suffered the fate motor vehicles which are badly and Therapeutists and flickered RN. Sgt. Fraser prosecuted in constructed, badly loaded, or in This thesis is, of course, complete with committing a breach of his out without leaving any trace, another case in which the foki of a - passenger boat was charged | faulty condition. It recommends ly at variance with the Roman that "no person shall use or permit Catholic doctrine, which insists cence by carrying 18 bags of that the essentially Catholic and to be used on any highway any universal character of Christianity offence, defendant was ined $h, motor-car which, or any part or is due to its Divinic origin. An with the alternative of five days accessory of which, or the load of other point which has deeply up- Bet Roman Catholic opinion is which, create any excessive noise."
Signor Mussolini's subhorn; e- Any noise, it is stated, should be fusal to consider yielding an addi- deemed excessive if it is causedtion 'foot of territory to the new either directly or indirectly by the Vatican State, and his insistence that the Church of Italy is subject faulty construction, condition, lack to the authority
of the Italian Taris of repair, or adjustment of the State. Il Duce pointed out that Now York motor-car; or the faulty packing there wore two distinct novereign-Brussels or adjustment of the load; and the ties, but in the State the Church Geneva
was neither sovereign nor free, Amsterdam nolso is in excess of the molec bcause it was placed under the Milan ordinarily created by malor-cars general laws of the State which Berlin of a similar class. On the possi-allows free admission of other Stockholm bility of framing a regulation to religions. In his peroration he add-Copenhagen
cd, "The Italian State is Catholic, Vienna prohibit or control the use of but it la Fascist and above all, Prague... horns, it is pointed out that while it is exclusively and essentially Helsingfors the complaints against excessive Fascist" The Pope regards these Madrid statements, not only as denying the Llebon and nerve-racking noise constitut- sovereignly of the Church, but as Athens ed a legitimate grievance, the Con- a challenge to the Concordat, and Bucharest ference had not sufficient material the anxiety is made clear by the Ro..... before them to draft a regulation have reached a delicato stage, but
comments thereon. Developments Buenos Aires
Bombay Shanghai which would satisfactorily control it is confidently belloved that the Hongkong the use of horns of an unpleasant disputatious passages of Signor Silver (spot) quality. It is suggested that the Mussollet's address will be satis Yokohama
|factorily explained, and the diffi- [Blver (forward) | matter' might be further investi-culties overcome.
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charcoal. On admitting the
imprisonment.
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holds:
"Only it says on the programime, 1-Spades, A Q 10 XXX; hearts, 'Part II, will have the assistance of Weat should not lead the singleton K XXX; diamonds, X; clubs, XX, a fuller orchestra!" " as he holds four trumps to an hon- our. He should lead his longest and strongest suit even though it is not a solid suit. His opening lead Ho should be the spade Ace. should continue that suit on each
Oh, bury him deep
In some dhady bower He drives in the middle- At ten miles an hour.
The next day the old lady, very near the end, said to him, "About
A lawyer was known to be a occasion, endeavouring to weaken the declarer's strong trump hand. bit grasping. He had just made 2--Spades, AK Q.XXX; hearts, out a will for an old lady client who London, June 8.XXXX, diamonds, X; clubs, XX, was passing away. West should not lead the single ..124,05
ton when he holds, four small .4.84 20/82
..34.02 trumps with a strong side unit, my will-I've given you
"Just one minute, my good 25.105 He should lead the strong sult and friend," said the lawyer, wishing to 12.07% endeavour to weaken the declarere have witnesses for the remaric ..02.66 strong trump hand.
"I've-given-you-" and sho 20:385 opening lead Is the spade King,
stopped again. .18.185
3-Spades, XXXX: hearts, XX- 18.205 XX; díumonda, X; club, XXXX. 18.106
Wost should lead the singleton. 100% With four small trumpe or less and 193a "Yarborough," the gamble may 84.875 be successful.
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West's best
"Yes, yes," urged the lawyer. Then she finished, "A-great- great-deul-of-trouble!"
The assault summons taken out by Charles North against E. P.. Smith was against mentioned be Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E., M.A., fore Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith at the Vice-Chancellor of the University Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, 47.3/10
of Hongkong, will be leaving the afternoon when his Worship dis- 1/5.6/82
Colony on long leave on Saturday, nissed the summons. It will be! .2/8%
the 8th instant. The duties of recalled that the case was called .1/10%
24 Vice-Chancellor will, during his on Wednesday morning and again .1/0.21/82 absence, be carried on by His in the afternoon but neither party 24.1/16 Honour, Sir Henry Gollan, Kt.. was present in Court; his. Worship
adjourning the summons sine die, British Wireless.
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