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AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE THE HONGKONG HOTEL|limiting the right of the landlord

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The Hongkort & Shanghai te, t forurparated in Honkong 20, Quern's Bond C. and Stubb Rand,

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Hongkong Telegraph.

DAY BY DAY

IN FOLITICAL SPECULATION THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY" IS NOW GENERALLY INCLUDED AMONG THE EVILS AGAINST WHICH SOCIETY REQUIRES TO BE ITS GUARD.--John Stuart Mill,

•

A Chinese case of typhoid was re-

to ported the health authorities| yesterday.

The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Leonard Geoffrey Morgan, No. 1, Bowen Road, Hong-

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THAT SPRING FEELING

· By S. Q. M. C. R.J.T.HILLS.

IN THE ARMY.

that. A

Just NCE I used to write verse.[

mere jaunt. We mostly start that way.Tragedy almost overtook the Ser- I wrote an 'ede to Spring,

geant-Major who arrived un- 'Tis the time when gay young expectedly from Singapore. Un.

soldiers

documented soldiers, even Ber- Lightly turn to thoughts of reant-majors, are frowned on in

Joye,

any well-regulated army, There 'Tis the time when sergeant was serious talk of sending him

majors

back.

Musketry might be a dull sub- Ject but for Hythe. They are ca Ends, down-beaten by the cry, full of tricks down

there AH A "Standing Load"

When music-hall. No one who evor от

in- spected their sniper's post-com- plele with "Jerry" and alarm ever forget the lcason on the use of cover.

Coo like any turtle dove. "Tis the time when Annital

Training

you're aiming

Close the disengaged eye.".

And so tis, however bad the clock--would

wearers

It

"

ment. Defendant said he had been up at musketry. British platoon Crented." "ordered." and even

་ ་

circles are that in shooting at cer- Lain birds of prey, Mr. Snowden or may bring down with them. even instead of them, a great many innocent and desirable small fowl. It is asked, for example, whether It is good to tax playing fields, woodlands, beauty spots and so on, Among the latest appointments an- which, though held in private nounced by the Admiralty is that of tenure, are actually being used for deut. (F/O R.A.F.) D. A. H. Hor-

nell, to .M.S. Kent. public advantage. Another point made is that no exemption is to be given to land beside roads and Innes; its owners will therefore bekong, to Miss Mary Adelaide Karainke,

No, B, Bowen Road, Hongkong. pul under pressure of the tax. te sell it for building: "Ribboning," Whilst working at the Shekinipu}} reservoir yesterday, a coolie, Chan therefore, will receive a great im-Yum, aged 62, of 1,004, Canton Itond. pelus, as well as the sale of beauty received serious burns through touch-

a live electric wire. The man verac. spots coveted by the Jerry-bulider.

was removed to the Kowloon Hospital. A hundred barrack squares are Miniature ranges, where men To the assertion by Mr. Snowden

littered with the paraphernalia of are kept in trim during the winter, The master of the Fok Wo, suga preliminary musketry. These blobs and where recruits first smell that his proposals will assert the deniers, of 220, Des Voeux Road West,

served the powder, used to be' four white- right of the community the reported to the police last night that on the wall which

Waterloo men as aiming marks washed walls, with decrepit hold- ownership of the land, it is relart, he handed a foki, the sum of $120 toe been repainted once more,jera for targets at one end. They be delivered to the Yut On Sugar Cadre instructors wear aiming have urged from Hythe until in ed by critics that a land tax in this shop, sise of Des Voeux Rond West sex og button-holes and spoil every barracks you may let drive

Infantry, form has no more to do with the but the man has absconded.

the act of serge, jackets by bulgingat elusive

galloping public ownership of land the the

The P and O Steam Navigation pockets with the gadgets of their cavalry and toy tanks, all in

natural landscape. income tax has with the public Company announce a special summer trade.

cruise by the splendidly-appointed sx.

Small Arms Training in hla poc- ownership of cotton mills or curl Rawalpindi to Shanghai. Tsingtau. Regulations insist that once ket, and a Hythe certificata Åled | Wei-hud-wei anul Japan, lenying Hong; year every soldier shall demons- in his records, and every instruc. mines. There is, admittedly, a

kong on or about June 19th, Special

thetor is teaching the same lessons fares case for confiscating land valuos summer

Antrate new that he can hit

·TIFY <rated.

"bobbing

Joe" and loose bis in the same way throughout the created by the public, and for advertisement, appeurs in the shipping Afteen rounds a minute on the Army.

coluning.

de- Recruits are,

tho open range. Part of his pay

of course, There main consideration. The vast "to de as he Bikes with his can."

Arrested by n Chinese detective on pends upon it in most cases,

are three grades of army shots majority are bilssfully ignorant Jane in Reclamation Street, but it is dangerous to mix purposes.

of the of the very rudiments of the art. tossession of a revulver and five rounds marksmen the

so ttle We can well appreciate Mr. Suos. of ammunition, a man named Leung crossed guns), 1st and 2nd Class Our constabulary give

Mr. If a man be one of these he scope for its practice. Most men thening was brought before den's aim in penalising and cuereGrantham, at the Kowloon Magistracy | “bat-eyed," a terrible reproach have a healthy fear of a lethal ing the land profileer and the land-to-lay, and on admitting the charge. among soldiers.

weapon as something that may go We have a reputation to keep off at any moment. Plan drill hog, but a possible penalisation of was sentenced to one year's imprison

its part. Having "sloped, the good landlord and the burden asked to carry the arms.

firing won the day at Dettingen. ing of land which, though technical

It has been mightily respected on

his "hipe" countless According to a report issued by the the world's battlefields ever since, hundreds of times, it feels coin- fy private is in fact in publle en-police this morning. A European The Germans said that the "math fortable to a recruit's hand as a motorist, the driver of ear No. 1539inute training of the sld Regu stick from the hedgerow long he- joyment. naturally Cutsc

collided with the lump standard out-

Wharf in lars caused them to over-estimate fore he gets to the range. The side the "Star" Ferry

element in the Caught Road at 8 o'clock last Cur machine-gun strength in 1914. only surprise

There are as good howlers re- wight, breaking the glass shade. The It was also claimed that when the "kick." man refused to produce his licences or new-fangled products of the War

received undue attention in the counted by musketry instructors give his name and address.

Mr Grantham ant as Magistrate at training camps, things went bad-as ever came from a public school.

ly in France,

Everybody must know this one In Once before we forgót all this. the Army. "A recruit, asked if he I have seen musketry returns for knew the three kinds of fouling A season when of all the Cavalry set up in a rifle barrel, replied (the rest were Bearly as bad) glibly, "Yessir. Superstitious, in- only one regiment fired. In that Termal and platonic." DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH one case they fired teu rounds per A harder case was the man who

AND EAST RIVERS.

man, at a range of 50 yards, in constantly failed to register a hit. fuil dress. Majuba came soon It is a little difficult to stand in The following table, lasued by afterwards.

front of a man loaded with ball. the Kwangtung River Conservancy The French have dubbled the A persistent instructor at Inst Find details of the recommenda- Commission, shows in English feet bayonet "Queen of the Battle discovered that his man, having in Lee-Enßekistaken careful aim, held his breath the water levels on the West River, field," - We trust ions of the Larkin Committee North River and East River on the and recite the three Rules of Ain to suffocation point and shut both hower-deck promotion to commis dates named:

jing.

eyes tight. sioned rank in the Royal Navy,

June June The controlling force in mus "I know." he said, when the h fully confiar the happy impression West River at Shivhing

19.1 ketry is the Small Arms School structor enme up for breathi, "I ni- its details were commotances, been errated by the prelimiuncy dis-North River a Tsingyura Blythe Wing). The only serways do that. Instinct: that's

18.2 geants of horse or foot that do what it is, Serge." rather free their criticismsclosures. The age disabilities have North River at Sanshui 9.5

5.7 not know the "Roughs" and the of some of its details. Mr. Stow-heets abolished, and an avenue of East River at Sheklang

Yet, with all the odds in his The highest levels recorded are: "Reach Field" are those that are

favour the sergeant may den's proposed is In essence quite promotion to the highest ranks has

Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, waiting their turn to go there. The dllemm been thrown open

There was the One of the most cosmopolitan times be worsted. 29.2 feet; Samshul, 27.3 feet: simple. There is to be a tax of

of Sheklung, 11.5 feet.

On sad case of the M.I. who was very haunts in England is Ilythe. ne penny in the pennd on the presented by the probability

candidates lacking experience in The lowest levels on record are the opening afternoon of a course lerae with a bad shot among his enpital value of all land, with eer-

the handling of men has been met ainus 5 feet at Saroshut and you may discuss Empire condi-recruita.

tions with men who have just ar- "And you," he finished, "are tain important exceptions. The

in two ways, In the first place, minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.

rived from its farthest corners supposed to have valuation, which it is proposed to

nys, who show exceptional pro-

India alone sends no one. They Territorials?" have their own School, begin on August 1st, will take some time, for there are from ten to twelve million separate heredita- meats to be dealt with. Conse quently, it is not intended that the tax shall be imposed until 1934. The cost of the valuation is esti- mated at between a million ki a million and a half sterling: estimate has been given of the

vicla likely

of the tax. The exemptions

agricultural Include fand-farm, allotments, and mar ket gardens-church sites, teeme- teries, railways, and land owned by leen authorities, as well as plots

assessed at not more thans

FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931,

LIBERAL-LABOUR FRICTION.

It is not altogether surprising that is risky should have arken be- the Labor and Liberal Parties over Mr. Snowden's land-s

Nat that 121 proposals. Lux Liberals have any objection to the

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main principle of the but because they have, ever since

L120.

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no

Homa

It is on

that

these

and

uneasiness. other gromads The Liberals want the scope of, the fall limited, Whether ther will be prepared to go to the extent of throwing the Government out, remains to be seen We much doubt any surl; develop- $11. Ku! that Liberal-Labour relations are grachhlly breaming straited is very apareat.

Naval Promotions

mise in training establishments

Kowloon this morning.

WATER LEVELS.

...

201 11

17.4

R.

2.0

the

proposals of the Larkin Committee, has granted a new charter in the Lower Deck which will be popular: in all ranks.

and sea-going ships, and ordinaryches will undergo a similar process seamen who pass exceptionally well of selection and training. It may training thus be claimed that the Board of through the ordinary classes, will be given special opporthe Admiralty, in endorsing tunities of rendering themselves eligible for Acting Sub-Lieutenants. If not already serving in big ships, these young men will be drafted to them, and the rank of A.B. will be open in twelve months. At the age of 19 they will be eligible for rating as Acting Lending Seamen. For a minimur of six months, they will carry out a Leading Sea- man's duties on another skip, after which they will be ready for pre- sentation to a Selection Bourd

to Successful candidates will go Devonport Naval Barracks for a modified course as Petty Officers, on completion of which they will Board, will be appointed Acting Final Selection appear before a

Sub-Lieutenants and sent to Green- wich for further special training. These, courses are substituted for, the lengtheir service us Leading Seaman and Petty Offeer which necessarily increased the. nye of Mate benefit acerning to a lessor at the Scheme and formed a bar to the

those promoted under the termination of a long lease, on un-higher branches of the Service. developed hand, and on mineral with two minor, but no means un- rights. The last was left; the important exceptions, all differen- other three were abandoned because tiation between Lower Deck and thele yield was negligible and they Cadet Sub-Lieutenants disappears. had become a nuisance. The cost They will have the advantage of an additional £150 uniform 'allowance, of the valuations, which dragged

not granted to Cadet officers,

It will be observed that there is a wide difference between Mr. Snowden's scheme and the Lloyd George land duties, which were carried so enthusiastically in 1903 and repealed no cheerfully after the war. Those duties were four in number, and were levied on in- erement valves on sales of land, on

on for some five years, amounted and will occupy the Ward Room to over five millions sterling, and and not the Gun Room Meas. the Exchequer did not get a quar-Apart from a alightly increased tor of that sum from the taxes in age, and the absence of the execu the whole nine years of their axlative Petty Officers' course at Devon- tence. It should be noted, however, port, the engineering candidates that Mr. Snowdon intends to tax from the ER.A. and stoker bran

Imagine a sleeping barrack

room.

"Yes, Sergeant."

some-

been in the

"Didn't they teach you to shoot

Enter R.-twe sergeants. Two kitings crash to the floor. there?" Shoulders benve angrily in four- teen beds.

"Any spare beds in here?" No. What mob, chum?" "First Westmorlanils?" "Hongkong."

"I'm thinking about asking you to my party.

"Yes, Sergeant."

"Well, it's the same gun, isn't il?"

"No, Sergeant. Mine was an eighteen-pounder."

It's all a game; and whenever a man can make his daily task into sport he must become a good workman. There are Squadron and Company cups, regimental trophies, cups the conditions of whose competitions were drawn up in Brown Hess days. There are hosts of trophies put up every year at Command or A.R.A. meet-

Commands

and regiments inga. have their rifle clubs, with week- ly shoots. Small bore rifles rattle all through the winter. Many Bergeants resses have a wooden epoon so that their woral sho: may not go unrewarded.

If all the shooting trophies In the Army were sent to the melting rot we might clear the National Debt.. We should almost certain-. ly lose the next war,

PHIPPS Finds that CHEMISTS ARE REAL

The conception of a chomist,as In distorted shadow seon through la bottle of cough mixture is,

imagine, pretty general. The high-piled counter, dark with proven cures and Infallible re- medies, the smell of sealing wax, and the general aura of hygienic gloom all seem to segregate the. chomist from human ken,

But I have been privileged. have been to the Chemists' Exhibi- tion at the Royal Horticultural: Society's new hull, Westminster, and now I am satisfied that chemists have legs and that they are, in fact, in all respects worthy

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