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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929.

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journey from Amoy. At last, however, the Central Government appears to be taking, notice of developments, for a force of from ten to twenty thousand men, to operate Irrespective of provincial boundaries, is said to be on the Two Chinase cases of typhoid way, several having already ap-were notified yesterday. peared at Amoy. Unfortunately,

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY SEPT." 12, 1929.

LAWLESSNESS IN CHINA.

"

of the.

in

in-

Evidence of lawlessness many other parts of the country is not wanting. Several stances of the murder of mis sionaries have been reported in recent times, whilst "Red" bandits have been increasingly

active in Kwangai and Hupeh Provinces. It was, in fact, only a few days ago that news came through of Hupeh Communiste pillaging and burning towns and massacring over three hundred families. When we consider the

chaotic, conditions which these facts reveal, and the dangers to which foreigners in the interior are exposed, little argument is needed to show what folly it would be were the Treaty Powers, at the present juncture, to agree to the demand for the abolition of extrality. ́China's first busi- ness must be to ensure safety to life and property. That dons, she may reasonably expect the extrality system, to go.

Ltd, has declared an Interim dividend of 8% per annum, less Income Tax.

The m.v.

Shantung (Swedish East Asiatic Co.) left Hamburg on the 7th instant and is due here about October 15th.

Sir-Readora of the Telegraph have secretly admired your spirit- and the frittering away of public funds in salaries, but beyond that, I ask you, is any action going to be taken?

Is the taxpayer going to sit tight and allow the Government to fill the pockets of its employees and keep others in jobs on unnecessary schemos, whilst the Colony, as far as business is concerned, is going to the dogs?

We learn that, contrary to a previous report, an enquiry is to

What are our Unofficial members be held into the death of the late Sergeant Dyerson of the Hong-doing? Easn't any one of them got the courage, of his convictions kong Police Force.

to speak out on behalf of the pub A coolie named Leung Man.lic? Haven't wo any public-spirit ed citizen in our midst who has aged 55, was killed at Connaught the Interest of the Colony at Road West yesterday at 6 pm heart? Must it always be left to through falling from a motor the Editors of a couple of the lead- lorry.

ing papers to take up the cudgels on behalf of the taxpayers?

"

A Chinese woman was fined $8 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for over crowding twelve chickens, while a man was fined $5 for carry ing two fowls suspended by the lega

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The Very Idea!

Who made the first doughnut? - This question is now exercising. the emotions of the bakers of France, England and America.

mest.

The doughnut is a pastry with 400 years of family history, and the bakers are celebrating the quadricentennial of the sweet- "Vive les Doughnuts!" is the pastry-cook's song, though baker in England, France, Ger- many or America seems to know who made the first. There are Germans who say, that, it is from Vienna but the French claim it.

10.

The truth is that its name may be traced to the Icelandic word "delg." In academic circles it 1s dismissed as "sweetened dough fried in fat.".

No one knows when it came to England.

M. Latry, of the Savoy, takes the doughnut for granted. M. Graillot, of the Metropole, and a shakes his culinary historian, head. The Sociste Culinaire re- ferred me to the Food and Cookery Association, and at Cadby Hall, where millions of doughnuts are "shot" with Jam daily, they. thought the doughnut was as Eng- If the bakers of France carry out Hish as Yorkshire pudding. their suggestions for the quadri- centennial there will be floats carrying gigantic doughnuts.

Willesden Magistrate, to a woman You have often successfully used your wiles here, but their force is now spent and a committal order is granted.

I am sure nobody bogrudges an increase in the salaries to some of the Civil Servants who might be underpaid, but when it comes to costing the exchequer $1,300,000 for the first year and more as every year goes on in yearly increments and pensions, it is time some pub le protest was made asking for a Reported missing on Tuesday Commission of Business Men ap last, the body of Chan Kwok-hay, pointed by the Public-not nomi- a student of St. Joseph's College,nated by the Government to look who went out bathing on Monday into things. afternoon, was recovered by the with business in the Colony Ko- Water Police off Ngau Szo Waning from bad to worse and strikes his mother. Only public.

economy yesterday,

and retrenchment the slogan of all the business houses, Wong Po-sam, 20, employed in it is surprising to find the Govern No. 18, Macdonnell Road was ment spending money on schemes sent to the Government Civil which can well be put off until the Hospital yesterday by Mr. Owen tide changes and the Colony's

trade improves. injured spine suffering from an through falling from a scaffolding

at the above address.

an

A Chinese woman employed as amah at No. 20, Swatow Street, Wanchai, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday as a result of a fall from the verandah whilst drying later died at the clothes. She hospital at 3 p.m.

The first concern of the Govern- ment should be to put the Colony's currency on a proper footing.

Mr. W. B. Luke, Willesden Magistrate No law exists to deal adequately with the man who contempt at all meets the case.

Man at Marylebone County. Court-My knowledge of County the stage. Court procedure is limited to its

then? Judge Snagge-Are County Courts represented on the stage, Man--Only as a joke,, of course.

representation.

on

Babby was spending the Arst The present premium of notes morning of his holiday shopping, over the silver dollar is approxi- with his mother in the West-end." mately 15% which even the unini-In the course of their stroll they tinted knows is accentuating the stood and looked at a window present depression in the trade of display of gowns on beautiful wax the Colony. What is the Govern- models. ment doing about it?

The silver dollar is supposed to be legal tender in the Colony, but is it? Why does the Post Office refuse to accept a silver dollar in Payment of postage stamps?

"Mummy," asked Bob "after- wards, was that where daddy bought you?"

The sergeant, asked the squad to stand at ense whilst head- Charged with returning from

dressed a few remarks to them. banishment, a Chinese, who was

If something la not done soon, "When I was a little lad," he said, deported from Hongkong for five years in 1927, was sentenced to the Government will have to start my mother gave me a box of eight months' hard labour by Mr. relief works, not for keeping some wooden soldiers, and I used to

of their employees in jobs, but for play with them all day long... T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon the business houses here who are One day my box of soldiers get

morning. The Magistracy this. defendant said that his house in finding it hard to make ends meet. lost. I cried a lot about them, and Before I close, ean any of your at last my mother said, "Never the country had been demolished by typhoon and he had come to readers supply figures showing the mind, my boy, don't cry any more. personnel of the Civil Servants in You'll get your wooden soldiers Hongkong for work,

Hongkong in the various Cavern-back some day."

!!

a stone's-

of the Crystal Palace." What a chance!

Calshot Speeds. All concerned in the remarkable air exploits at Calshot these past few days, from the designers of the machines which have fully established. Britain's air speed supremacy to the mechanics who The treatment meted out to were responsible for their absolute

ment Departments? It would be "And by all the Powers," added members of the Basel Mission by dependability in the crucial tests, cannot be too highly congratulated.

Two Chinese who were charged very interesting if compared with the sergeant bitterly, "I've got bandits (as reported in our Issue The outstanding performance, of

this cies. of yesterday) is illuminative of course, was Flying Oficer Wag-before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at our other Colonfes and depender-them back now!"

the Kowloon Magistracy horn's victory in the Schneider morning with being in possession I again ask what are the Un- An advertisement reads: "Apart- conditions which continue to pre Trophy Contest, while the most of one and a half catties of salt official European and Chinese ments to let, within vail in many parts of China at striking incident, probably, was the present moment. These per-Squadron-Leader Orlebar's disap-fish reasonably suspected of members of the Legislative Coun-throw

having been stolen or unlawfully cil doing?. fectly innocent people, engaged on pointment on finding he had beat- obtained, said that they had found

The maskce germ seems to be en the world's" speed record by a a work of mercy amongst the matter of only 37 miles an hour, the fish at the Kowloon Godowns. eating away the very marrow of Chinese, were.

most brutally this after he had twice covered Each defendant was fined $5 or Hongkong.

seven days' hard labour, marked course of three treated, witness the fact that the besides kidnapping the three men kilometres at speeds in excess of

six miles a minute!. In point of A fine of $2 was imposed on a of the party, the bandits went flying merit, however, the breaking Chinese cyclist who was charged the length of placing ropes round of the record, where sharp bursts before Mr. T. S. Wayte Smith at over a short distance is the essen the Kowloon Magistracy. this the pecks of the womenfolk andtial, cannot compare with the feat morning for riding his machine even bound up the poor little of covering over 200 miles with down Salisbury Road leading to children, before departing. This twenty-eight corners to negotiate the old Police Pier. His Worship

at an average speed of over 328 remarked that that was a danger incident in of compelling im-miles an hour. There is no means ous thing to do and pointed out portance in view of the fact that of telling exactly what speeds Fly that the buses leaving the stands German residents in China haveing Waghorn reached in the course had to make use of practically the tention.

of his brilliant fight, but it may no extrality rights and are be taken for granted that there entire roadway.

therefore at the mercy of Chinese misrule,

This particular case serves to illustrate the absence of real

authority in the region where the

outrage took place. In this

very

were times when he drew close, to the speed of 368 m.p.h. which was recorded by his skipper, Orlebar, in the first lap of his sut ressful attack upon the official

I enclose my card. Yours, etc..

M

K.M.A.

There are far more bad motor- drivers than bad motor-cyclists- Bir Harold Bowden,

It is our duty not to aggravate the situation by political passions. -Mr. Snowden.

In matters of foreign policy one has to to be carefulLord.. Par-

mour.

Garden Road Damage, Sir-Many of the Colony's pro- Keate was killed by consump- blems have been broached in your tion and not by Croker.-MF, G. K. columns resently, and to add a little Chesterton. to the list of subjects requiring ac- The working girl still looks upon tion, I would like to refer to what men as superior beings. Miss I understand is an old bone of con- V. D. Swalaland.

I refer to the exit, from Garden Road; and should like to know when

DANCE ACEEASI DAN BIN MARANT AN

PROMETHEUS.

Prometheus, one of the Titans, or elder, gods, gave offence to his com- great

locality, Communism appears to already set our foreign rivals 52 taels of raw opium at the Kow-more dangerous to negotiate. A peers of the Upper World

speed record. An attempt is to be made to-day to drive the record still higher, as if we had not

difficult enough problem us it is. be rampant, as it is in many The question now is whether such ther parts of the country. For colossal speeds can ever be applied some time past, there has been in a useful direction. The ten

the future, it is fairly talk of a concerted move from the dency

certain, will be to increase the three provinces of Fukien, Kiung-travel rate of even passenger and

fire

-by stealing

from Heaven, where it was a zeal.- ously guarded secret, and bestowing it upon the sons of men.

For his offence, Zeus, or Jupiter, the King of Heaven, caused him to be bound to a mighty mountain, where vult tures were instructed to eat out his heart, and the furies to rage around his head. He was even tually rescued from his fate by Hercules..

A fine of $1,560, with the it will be improved. That such a WHO WAS ? alternative of seven months" hard cross-road exists in its present con- labour, was imposed on a Chinese dition is surprising and beyond the understanding of those who are woman who appeared before Mr. daily dashing across it. An island T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon for pedestrians has been laid down Magistracy this morning, on at the Star Ferry exit, although charge of being in possession of Garden Road is a crossing much loon Railway Station. When his pedestrian has to make a blind rush, Worship was told the defendant or 1s feft in midstream cling- was a widow he exclaimed: "A ing to the policeman's hand widow! I thought she was a child." (unless left stranded by that unfortunate building on the corner of Murray Parade The manager of the National

Ground). Perhaps the Medical De- Bi and Kwangtung against the commercial planes, though it Commercial Saving Bank, at No. Communist hordes, more

would seem manifestly impossible 363, Nathan Road, was fined $10 partment can do something. There par. to achieve such a standard ng has by Mr. T. S. Whyte, Smith at the may be no germs, but it is a decided- ticularly against the force under been set at Calshot. a journey Kowloon Magistracy this morningly unpleasant place to be held up the, notorious. leaders, Ts and to Canton and back could be for keeping a dog without a by the red flashes.-Yours etc. Mo. Lack of co-ordination be- undertaken in half an hour, while licence and allowing the animal to a flight to Shanghai would occupy be abroad without a muzzle. A tween the provincial authorities, approximately two hours. Neither fine of $5 was imposed on Mr. and, still more, their own sub-this generation nor the next is Arthur Alves, of No. 289, Kowloon ordinates, coupled with the small likely to see the development of Tong, the charge being that of allowing a dog abroad without a ordinary aircraft to that stage,

muzzle. prospect of material gain for the

however.

FOR WEST, NORTH AND troops in such an expedition,

EAST RIVERS. havo resulted in

The loss of a bracelet set with masterly &

A licensed stall holder any twelve diamonds,-valued at $1,500, Inactivity on the

Government

"The following table, compiled peared before. Mr. T: S. has been reported to the Police. side and increased licence among Whyte Smith at the Kowloon The bracelet belongs to Mre. by the Board of Conservancy the Communists. From the Magistracy this morning on Cheung Kau, of 32 Kennedy Road, Works of Kwangtung, shows the Д charge of hawking fruit and she thinks that she lost it water levels in English feet on Kwangtung border of. Fukien, Tau and Mo appear to have away from his stall and of resist- whilst attending a performance at the West, North and East Rivers

ing arrest. The defendant, who the Queen's Theatre. She told on the dates named: recently travelled north and to struggled and ran away, had five the Police that probably the child. Sept. 10 Sept. 11

Shiuhing previous convictions under the with her may have kicked it off have fallen on the city of Yung hawkers' regulations. His Wor- when held up to get a better view. chun, their appearance causing a ship Imposed fines of 85 on each Mrs. Cheung Kau paid a visit to the theatre later but was unable. panic at Chuanchow,

i

a day's charge.

to discover, the bracelet,

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Prometheus 18 the first legendary benefactor of the human race, for the firo which he gave to mortals enabled mankind to fashion instrumente which would till the earth; and, in deed, the whole industrial world of to-day may be said to date from his gift,alace what thing could we make without fire?

Prometheus was a favourite. character of the old Greek which has Inspired much sub dramatists, and the fable is one seruent poetry, but perhaps the best known work of all is Shel- ley's fine poem "Prometheus Unbound."