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pagandist tendencies of the Soviet, provided good grounds for demanding firm

guarantees

THE MOST CONTEMPTIBLE ARE GEN- against political penetration under ERALLY THE MOST CONTEMPTUOUS the guise of railway development.,Į Fielding. Add to this a 'probable desire" to secure undivided control of a lucrative enterprise, and the occurrence of the crisis can ba easily understood.

LATEST FICTION.

The Very Idea!

NEW NOVELS IN COLONIAL LIBRARY.

Warrenpoint (County Down); Ur- ban Council was in a dilemma when Messrs. Word, Lock and Coin-tenders were received from five A Chinese case of typhoid was pany's success in maintaining an Arms to supply surf-riding "anf- notified yesterday as having ec-unending supply of modern fiction mala" for use in the swimming curred in the Victoria registration by some of the best-known English ponda at the sen baths, district.

writers is well evidenced in tho Mr. Connolly suggested a horgo latest additions to their Colonial | and a swan, one for the women's Library, three of which are now and the other for the men's pond, to hand. They are all of the best while Mr. Fox, amid laughter, aug

Mr. M'Guigan favoured an alliga- and most entertaining type of gested two ducks for the women. thrillers, and those who revel in mystery stories will And all three tor, while Mr. Gordon suggested a much to their liking.

camel, which the Surveyor said, would give bathers the hump.

The question of the proposed closing of wells is to come before the Sunitary Board at its meeting

to-morrow.

The Bishop of Victoria and Mrs, Dupuy, Rev. T. A. Broadfoot, Rev. W, T. Featherstone, Lt. W. H. Clifford, Col. McD. Haskard and Mr. P. W. Parker arrived on the Empress of Asia from Manila yesterday,

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The Council was unable to agree,

and the duty of making a selection was foisted on the Town-Clerk.

Magistrato at Willesden: Where do you live?.

Witness: Just off Kingsway. Magistrate: Sounds quite aristo-

to be "off Drurylane."

rate. In my young days it used

Leslie Churleria adds to his previous Huccesses. in "The Bandit," which grips the attention from start to finish. The story is extremely well told, and for its bewildering succession of exciting incidents it would be difficult, if not impossible, to excel it. The chief character is the wealthy son a South American brigand. of Known as the "Black Cat," he wo comes involved in Innumerable escapades, during the course which he outwits saveral daring It is a good thing to have a great angs of thiefs and shows up their ancestor, but the shortor the pedi activities. Once he makes agree the better chance you have of million dollar bot that he will inheriting some of his abilities.-- commit a number of thefts and Dean Inge.

the booty lo ita then restore owners-n fent which he accom- plishes after many hair-breadth cacapes. There is a girl detective in the alory also, and, of course,

of

As we look back on the incidents which followed China's action, which brought the two nations to the very verge of war, it must be conceded that China's behaviour,

A Chinese girl died at the Kow- under Intense provocation, has loon Hospital yesterday from in- been strictly circumspect. She juries received through being has acted on the defensive knocked down by a motor-bus in throughout, despite the Russian Kowloon on Saturday, pin-prick policy and the mast.ng of big Soviet forces along the frontier. It has, of course, to be remembered that there were sirong reasons 'on both sides ngainat proceeding to extremes, Apart from the possible outcome of a conflict. China could hardly afford to go war, whilst precipitate action by either country would probably bring them into conflict with Japan. The suggested con- ference on all outstanding issues may the the best possible In the clrcumstances,

A eaution was administered to aa romantic vein runs through it in view of the past history of the student of Kowloon City who was We can commend this book as a

charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte real super-thriller; Chinese Eastern Railway, it up-Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy The Three Black Dots," by pears civious that matter will have this morning, with causlug an Ottwell Binns, is a vastly differ to be put un a more salisfactory | obstruction by playing fotball, ent type of story, but marked also forsake their joyous profession of fooling than a mere return to the with others not in custody, in Nga by plenty of excitement. The tale home-making and motherhood for epens with a mysterious wedding the thorny path of literature. Afr. BARRETTO-On the 2nd Septem-atatue quo. There is need for a

in an English village, followed by Howell Davies. ber. at 9.45 am, at his residence No. 90, Kowloon Tong, F. F. new working agreement and the of all disputes Barretto, aged 59. Funeral will settlement pans the monument, to-morrow under the existing agreement, to at 5.30 pm. Shanghai papers

say nothing of a cleating up of please copy.

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Lula Oliva, a Filipino, has been committed to the Criminal Sossions for trial by the Kowloon Magis trate on a charge of rape. The defendant was also arraigned on charges of indecent assault and common assault.

Chin Wai Street.

"The Phantom Car,"" by Fred M. White is a splendid example of the thrilling mystery story marked by much ingenuity and culminating something uncanny about the

An education which is purely in- tellectual appears to have n dis- integrating and destructiva rather than a constructive tendency. The Bishop of Gloucester.

We must be thankful that women,

two ears, have not two tongues as although they have two eyes and well-Judge Cluer.

It must be herglam which has led

so many thousands of women to

In a few years' time there will be no difference between a Sunday and

During a heavy rainfall recently, A man is reported to have been seen awimming in one of the Greenock streets, but natives of the nock the incident a second never gave thought!

Stranger (on his first visit to Greenock)"Good heavens! There's

For being in possession of 20 the murder of the bridegroom the taels of raw oplum on the Can-Eame evening. Then the scene ton train, a Chinese was fined changes to Morocco, for the a Bank Holiday-The Rev. Hand $600 with the alternative of three beautiful young widow and her Whitc.

Many of the offences which are months' hard labour by Mr. T. S. willing, assistants in the task of

"at the Kowloon tracking down the murderer be punishable by the law are infinitely Whyte Smith Magistracy this morning. Ac- come possessed of clues which less unpleasant in those which cording to Revenue Officer Tallon, take them to the desert and the are not. Lord Ta.istock the oplum was found in a basket quarters of the French Foreign Memory so often plays the come- but was not specially concealed. Legion. Thence onwards, dramatic dian and turns our miseries in re- incidents occur in rapid succca collection into jests. Mr. Robert Palestine Troubles,

sion, the plot being well worked | Lynd. Pleading guilty to a charge of out and providing much to hold -Accusations of political mishand-

larceny of thirty bricks from the attention. An exciting novel, ling against Britain and a

vacant piece of ground at the rear well handled., renewal of the cry that of the Tin Mo Temple in Yaumati, Jewish Homelan is a Chinese was sentenced to one failure, are almost inevitable ac month's hard labour by Mr. T. S. at the Kowloon companimenta of the recent tragic Whyte Smith events in Palestine. It is a veryMagistracy this morning. Then a surprising climax. There is old cry. Ever since the great ex-defendant had one previous con-

ghostly motor horn which drives periment was made possible by the viction for larceny in August. Balfour Declaration and in spite of

a charming young girl to distruc On a charge of returning from tion after her lover has disappear. the successive adherences to that Declaration by various Governments banishment, a Shanghai Chinese ed on a long-distance aerial fight, was sentenced to eight months' to any nothing of mysterious here until its purport became embodied hard labour and 15 strokes of the footprints which suggest that an Further in the Mandate from the League of birch by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at ape-man has been traised to at the beginning of a performance. light, Nations, there have been prominent the Kowloon Magistracy this mor- criminal purposes. Add to this of "Mariette" at His Majesty's the however, suggest that there is at Jews ready to write its epitaph on ning. The defendant, who was the fact that a dominating part other evening and soft music had some doubt in the point. Seeming the slightest pretext. Even as far arrested on a charge of larceny of a played by a crippled and un-alsturbance at a corner of the stalls. a jacket from a matshed in Mody acrupulous scientist, who utilise After several indignant "shishes" back as 1923, Dr. Jerad Zangwill, Road, stated that he had no money faked spiritualist manifestations had been uttered, the hubbub sub- the noted Jewish author, is quoted to return to the North. The for the purpose of getting hold of sided. But not until the first in-

the girl's wealth, and it can be imagined that "The Phantom Carterval was the cause known, when a gentleman was seen gallantly pre-' has all the ingredients of a first-senting a lady with her shoe, which class thriller. It is one of Mr.she had somehow walked out of in White's best efforts.

passing to her seat, and which had been kicked two rows off by another latecomer!

There seemed every prospect ever the week-end that the Sino-Soviet crisis would be settled by the sign ing of a joint declaration, to

which Ratica would with some modifications. facts

coming

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WATER LEVELS.

the demand for reinstatement of

as having said: "In the last analy-lureeny count was dropped. the former Russian manager and is the British coercion in Palestine assistant manager, being content must take the form of bombs and with their replacement by new poison gas and must be used to officials, provided China, on her part, protect Jewish immigration against replaces the Chinese chairman of the Arabs and equally against directe

Dr. C.T. Wang, however, Jewish immigration to prolect Eng- appears dead against the making of land from an Arab outbreak in a Pan-Arabic region. Zionism can

FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

NEW JOURNAL'S ENTERPRISE.

a man swimming up the street!"

Native-Well, what about 167 He wants to get to the other side."

After the Bghts had been lowered

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Mr. Snell, the Old-street magi- trate, to a husband: Tell your wife you have been to see me and that

The following table, compiled any such concession. Ilowever, the therefore only rely upon as much of by the Board of Conservancy joint declaration envisages a con-England's might as suits the polley Works of Kwangtung, shows the ference at which all outstanding is-of England and since the Zionist water levels in English feet on BUREAU FOR FOLK ON HOME you will not give her any more the West, North and East Rivers on the dates named:

sues

Aug. 31 Sept. 1.

19.4

6.9

6.3

3.0

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money if she hates you.

A young woman witness at Bow County Court: 'I would not have "Piccadilly," the new Soclety dreamed of swearing at him. Why, weekly, a copy of which is just to he's an old man, hand, should make 1 special

Out-of-work 'man summoned at.. appeal to Britons overacas and to Highgate for income tax wrote all associated with the Services. that when he got work again his It is the only journal of this class earnings had to go to meet debts The level at Shamshui on August to inaugurate special features of honour, and therefore could not 30th was 12.9 feet.

. Shlubing

Tsinovuen Shamshlu Sheklung

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL.

OLD BOYS' DINNER IN MANILA.

dealing with the Dominions and be used for payment of Income tax. Empire and the Services. For the One lie is na good ng another so rest, it is best described as a long as it is effectivo.-A witness at really high-class illustrated Bow County Court.

'may be disposed of, and lenders are ready to accept any, con- possibly, if such a conference sits,ditions, however humiliating and a way out of the impasse may be however impracticable, it is clear that a minimum of might will be at found.

Whilst the propriety of China's the disposal of the Jewish national home and that mainly in the Bri- action in having seized the rail-tish interest, which is nakedly pro- way and arrested the Russian claimed by a shoal of writers to be officials was extremely doubtful, the erection of a barrier State for the reasons given for the taking the defence of the Suez Canal." In of this step were such that they fact, it is admitted that Arab.

Society journal, in which almost Willesden Man: My landlady la could not but appen! to all coun-hostility affords the greatest ob

every aspect of life is covered. a perfect cat and is leading me a There is good fiction,, special dog's life. tries which have suffered from the stacle to complete success, the com- plaint apparently being that Britain

articles on music, dancing, the activities of Soviet propagandists.did not at once endeavour the im

theatres, cinemas, sport, fashions,

On one and no lack of light, humorous

occasion a well-known From the facts which have been possible, namely, the exclusion of

reading, cartoons and clever bishop travelled to a town about 45 revealed; there is not the slightest the Arab from the country, It is

A further feature is miles from Aberdeen to perform An Old Boye Dinner of the sketches, doubt that the Russian officials gratifying at this moment, there- Hongkong Diocesan Boys' School the wealth of coloured illustra-some Church function. When this of the railway have been actively fore, to receive an endorsement of was held at the Cosmes Club, ions, in which connexion it may was completed, there was still a engaged, over a considerable British policy by Earl Balfour, who Manila, on Thursday last. The be remarked that the copy before considerable time to wait before the us contains an excellent pleture next train. Accordingly, he ad- period, in plets against Chinese says that the fulfilment of the pied-guettes were Mr. H. K. Kwong, the of the official landing of the Duke journed to the hotel.

Gloucester in Hongkong. There he was welcomed by the authority, and no-one can blame ea of 1917 is a question of honour Chinese Consul General in Manila, of

to the British Empire, and a formal the Rev. W. T. Featherstone, Containing some oighty pages, proprietor who said:"I think your the Chinese for seeking to put an expression of American sympathy Headmaster, Dr. See Chong Su, this number is a marvel of cheap- lordship should take a seat in the end to this state of affairs. But from President Hoover, who Cx- Ph.D., and Mr. Sing Chong Kengness at one shilling, which is the commercial-room. There is a good the issue was not quite so simple presses confidence that out of the

The following sixteen Old Boye price at which "Piccadilly" Bells. fire there, and a comfortable arm- were present:-Mr. Uy Cho Yee as all that." China's motives were present tragic events will come (1910), the School's Representa Home leave, special interest will

To Hongkong folk going on chair."

To this arrangement the bishop at probably more complex than greator securitý and safeguards for tive in Manila, Mr. Uy Teng Yiu be taken 'in the "Piccadilly once agreed.

There was no one else in the room would appear on the surface. As the future, under which the steady (1921), Mr. Uy Teng Tong (1924), | Bureau" which is being run in

A at first; bat suona ilitle man bust- one writer has suggested, the per- Homeland will be even more as-

rehabilitation of Palestine as a true Mr. Cu Ka Keng (1926), Mr. Deo connexion with this journal.

Se Kiat (1924), Mr. Wong Yau few yards from Piccadilly Circus led in, and after surveying the in-. fervid antlonalism of the suppor sured. Zionism has crested an Ideal Cheng (1916), Mr. Ngan Siu Chfok this bureau has been established truder for, a moment, anid:---“Ex- ters of the Nanking Government, that has stirred Jews throughout (1924), Mr. 14 Hoan Chai (1924), especially for the use of visitors cuse me sir, but this is the com-

· It is a place mereini-room-reserved for travel- and the dificulty of gratifying it the world, and it will in the end, Tian Kes (1926), Mr. Ty Glok Kim where those on loave can meet le

Mr. Ty Kim Punt (1925), Mr. Ty from overseas.

"Yes," said the bishop, "so I in the matter of immediate abroga- by peaceful immigration make Pa- (1925), Mr. Chua Lian Soon their friends, smoke, yarn, and not tion of extrality rights, made it lestine, spiritually and spefully, (1924), Mr. O, Tlong Kong. (1922), right into the heart of things understand, but the proprietor was desirable that some demonstration Jewish. It seems to be forgotten Mr. Ngo Ka Ilu (1927), Mr. again. The staff discharges all good enough to suggest that I should should be given of a "strong" by some Jews that the palley of Bri- Mariano Malcampo (1911), Mr. manner of services, helping overalt Here."

seus folk in the matter of shop- "Then may I ask what line you tain alone enables the movement to Chua Kal Tat‘(1929). foreign polky, and by taking the get a start at all, and farther that During the proceedings two and it also has a branch office in

ping, theatre tickets, tours, etc., are in?"

"Well," replied the bishop, after line which it has, the Government once committed to an enterprise, photographs

were taken, A Paris for the benefit of thone a moment's pause, "I'm the spirit has definitely asserted its authori-Britain is not in the habit of ad- second representative the visiting France. Information online," ty over a debatable province. mitting failure, no matter how long School in Manila has been appoint. Ita activities will be willingly "Oh, in that case," said the com

the Editor of merelal. man, of course it's all Morcover, the past history of and difficult may be the achieve-ed, namely, Mr. Chu Ka Kong who sunolled by

was a Boarder at the School from "Piccadilly," Carlyle House, 211, right."From "Jokes Oracked by Manchuria, no less than the pro- ment.

1910 to 1925..

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