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STAIR CARPET
$2.50 yd.
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FILET NET
50" wide.
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CRETONNE COVERED $2.50
CUSHIONS.
CARD TABLES
CAMP BEDS.
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THE HONGKONG 'TELEGRAPH.
1934. FRIDAY, JULY 20,
NOTES OF THE DAY THE RESURRECTION OF
CATALONIA
A RICKSHA DANGER
THE VAUXHALL
-LIGHT SIX
and his Tho ricksha coolle vehicle have been described as a dangor both to mechanical and pedestrian traffic, as well as to the coolle himself. Acceptance of this
HAS SET-An entirely Now. Standard of luxury at moderate
cost
-VAUXHALL”
-THE
-OF
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DEMONSTRATIONS with PLEASURE
'Phone 27778-9.
HONG KONG HOTEL
GARAGE Stubbs Road.
BIRTH.
most urgent solution. The Catalans are
By A. Eddy
in Spain ?""
a highly
There is a Catalan university
The Very Idea!
BUY OUR BODY
By Eddie "Woolworth" Kelly Whenever Max Haer felt the need for raising a sum of money rapids ly, we read in a morning contem- porary. It was his- custom to sell shore in himself. To-day Max own only 30 per cent, of himecit, the remaining 70 per cent. being variously split up amongst many persona
Among the national pro-jof Catalonin who had the temerity Catplan: speak God's "Why don't you condemnation immediately places blems of Spain the problem to address them in upon the authorities the obligation of Catalonia requires the language? Don't you know you're of properly controlling such menace. In many respects this work is being well carried out, yet it would appear that the dangers developed and individuallatie peo-functioning in Barcelona to-day presented by the uncontrolled rush ple descending from the Phoeni- and slowly but surely all posts of rickshns and chairs to the clans, Greeks, Celts and Jews, are boing filled with Catalans and entrance of the Star Ferry wharf and are the most typical of that all textbooks, shop signs, tramway between 7 and 8 o'clock every morn- Mediterranean race which has routes, documenté, etc., printed in scheme long ago, but, some- ing have entirely escaped the notler contributed so much to the in-Spanish are being replaced by onshow or the other, the Hong- of the authorities. Apart from tellectual and artistic develop printed in Catalan.
describing figures in the air with his stick, should one of the coolies be foolish enough to come to ment him, the constable on point duty at the Ferry shows no intercat in the turmoll which goes on around him overy ten minutes.
NO CONTROL
ment of Europe.
-
THIS
man Baer is a bear after our own heart.
that We thought of
kong public didn't, seem to WHY INDEPENDENCE IS
have enough faith in us. WITHHELD.
We once endeavoured to sell Temperamentally and physically
The much sought for Estatuto, they differ immensoly. from the Spaniarde, and their language, is however, was not altogether what our whole body to the Hong- just de different from Spanish as the Catalans expected as it did kong University. for vivisection French or Italian. Their capital, not give them absolute Anancial purposes, but the University de Catalonia commanded the body before pay- Barcelona, is not only one of the Independence.
EL
of the
Still, the scheme is worth re- viving, ospecially aa Mazle seems to have made a success of it.
And, when you come to boil it
people in Hongkong who would down, why confine the scheme to ourselves. There are plenty of
body a profitablo business. find the sale of portions of their
most beautiful and historically in-prises one, seventh part of the ment. tercating cities of Europe to-day, territory and one sixth of the but it was two thousand years entire population of Spain and at free one time supplied seventy per cent. Apparently his whole concern ago under Julius Caesar is to regulate motor vehicles ap-city exempted from paying tribute of the national revenue proaching the wharf simultaneous-to the Roman Empire. Very few country which is the principal rea- ly with the exodus of passengers people know that before Spain ever son why the Spanish Government from the ferry. That accomplish-was, Catalonia had given three does not want to grant her fingn- ed, he can stand back with calm emperors to Rome, Trajan and clal independence.
Barcelonn is not only the largest! The local medical profession, detachment until it is appropriate Augustus III, being the best known for motor transport to continue on among them, and that the oldest city, but it is the Blanchester and which has been hard hit by the Meanwhlie, a howling.constitution in Europe is not the by far the greatest industrial and heat wave, because people no
at the opportunity. FARRY-WINGFLJLD-On 20th July, its way.
1934, at the War Memorial
their Nasing Home, to Bride and 3.jearing, laughing mob of rickaha Magna Charta bat the "Usatges" commercial centre of Spain and longer catch colds, would jump
two-wheel
Appendicitis operations would promulgated in Barcelona in 1068. her ships have been navigating pullers, with
the seven seas of many centuries. undertaken free, na the profit Parry-Wingfield, a son.
chariots and dangerous shafts,
The Catalans are very thrifty from the sale of the appendices surround the out-going ferry pass- engers, impeding their progress, and making positively hazardous Catalonia was at the height of her and hard working people who have would more than compensate for The advertising columns and the journey from the Ferry to the opposte side of the Pray. Fur-power from the 13th to the 16th become prosperous by dint of their the cost of the operations.
and offers of sales. Kings conquering the Balearic and Swiss, while the Spaniards nows paragraphs in local news- ther confusion is wrought by the century, her Counts and later tireless energy, same as the Dutch the cials who are used to have others extending their domain to
work for them and who now find other side of the Pyrenees, now South-eastern France, where
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
ONCE A GREAT POWER. Barcelona with the hinterland of
rickshan being rushed indlacrimin- Lislands, Sardinia and Stelly, and are gentlemen of leisure and om-papers would be filled with reports.
.
Something like this, we suppose: WANTED-SELL your body to the highest bidder. Top prices paid for old teeth, ingrowing toenails and corns,
Don't be look after themselves. misled by other firms offering higher prices. We Pay Cash.
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FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934,
ately from behind stationary care, are pestered
it extremely distasteful to re- # HARBOUR TUNNELS while pedestrians.
several yards down the road by the
nounce the fruit of the Catalans' tho Residents who have been given persistent pullers. Shouk? to visualising a harbour tunnel constable on point duty inke it in great number of people to-day labour which they have been
name of "patois". The fact that torical due. linking Hongkong and Kowloon to his head to chase a too-venture-peak Catalan known under the accustomed to regard as their hig. Save the corns and the kidneys will
some coolie; there is a wild stem 200 out of the 300 ships compris-
Although the Estatuto which the will no doubt have read with deep
FOR SALE, IMMEDIATE POSSES interest the news of the opening pede towards the Post Office, Ing the united Christian fleet
SION-1900 Model wife. Splendid' by His Majesty the King of the pedestrians being forced to flee to which destroyed the naval power Catalans originally demanded call- largest underwater highway In avoid ricksha shafts in the middle of the Turks in the battle of ed for financial independence, very
Lepanto in 1571, were financed by wisely it did not call for customs condition, sound in every limb. Only Barcelona is an eloquent proof of autonomy for the reason that the had one owner, carefully driven since the world, connecting Liverpool of their backs.
Numerous extras thrown in. Owner with Birkenhead. This 'mam-
the power wielded by the Catalans industries and commerce of Barce- new. New set of tooth this year. lona depond to a large extent on obtaining new model, and will consider at that time. moth project, which has taken no INTOLERABLE POSITION
By intermarrying with the ruling Spain, and Catalonia could not take any reasonable offer, less than nine years to build, con-
The situation is really intoler- sists of a gigantic tube some
free-house of Aragon which in turn
She needs. Spain very badly forty-six feet in diameter, withable,. Whilst allowed such smaller branches at each end. dom, the ricksha pulier is just as united with that of Castille, tho Between its shafts, the tunnel is dangerous at 7 o'clock in the morn-Catalan counts lost their independ actually less than a mile long, ing as he is in the full tide of ence and Catalonia became an in-especially because of the present but including its two branches traffic at midday. Business people tegral part of Spain. In spite of depression which is hitting her it extends to nearly three miles.coming across from Kowloon daily the continuous rebellions and up-very hard and which is eloquently have to suffer discomfort and not arisings against the Spanish yoke, expressed in the fact that there A most amazing piece of en-little indignity as a result of the it was only in 1932 that the Cata- are over 25,000 empty apartments structions to sell by Public Auction on gineering work, it makes pro-uncontrolled behaviour of these lans were granted autonomy em-in the city to-day where four years tors was necessary to secure a ,slot. vision for four lines of traffic. ricksha coolies early in the morn-bodied in the so called "Estatuto" ago the recommendation of sena- It is when we come to considering. It is high time the authorit-or Home Rule, the cost of such projects that ies took adequate measures for the doubts arise whether Hongkong amelioration of existing conditions. could ever afford to embark on
whole of this, note in which to ex-
Here aro
hla Own
The writer had the good fortune
the risk of losing her best customer.
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DAMMETT'S AUCTIONS For the convenience of our clients, at the Kowloon Hospital. we have opened a branch Sales Room
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received in-
WEDNESDAY NEXT
Old and Surplus Hospital Relics. ETC. ETC.
comprising:-
DAMMETT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers,
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AIN'T IT GLAND TO BE BLOOMIN WELL DEAD.
· Li}}"
Mr. Edward Kelly, the well-known local Compradors, wishes to nounce that he has opened a Branch store in Nathan Road, Kowloon, where mainland residents now have the opportunity of purchasing por- tions of his anatomy.
1
KELLY CUTS THE COST.
Will Catalonia and Spain. ever | Appendices (inftamed and normal), of realding in Barcelona when the Catalan deputies finally brought come to blows, over the Catalan Gall Stones, Tonsils, Adenoids, sur- home the Estatuto after genera-Independence?. It is very likely plus nibs, etc., etc. tiona of unsuccessful efforts and that both parties will find it more! Ja similar venture for the purpose "S.F." NOW!
for days and days the rejoicing expedient to come to an under- of linking the island with the
in Catalonia was indescribable, standing or at least to defer the The reader who took us kindly to mainland. The Mersey tunnel
our use of the term They recalled with bitterness the issue in face of the growing Frisco as a contraction for San rule of the Spaniards especially menace from the, radical elements has involved an expenditure of Lusk over no less a sum than eight millions Francisco is still not quite satisfied. during the dictatorship of Primo which are beginning to make the sterling, or, in terms of Hong-We are therefore giving him thede Rivera when the Spanish off-future of both Spain and Catalonia kong currency, well over $100 in precisely what he feels on the cials used to frown upon the sons look none too rosy.
a staggering subject. 000,000 truly figure. Admittedly, a harbour words:-"There isn't a San Fran tunnel sufficient for local needs clacan at large who lacks feeling his city is being inaccurately dis- would not he nearly the length counted when abbreviated to even of the Mersey undertaking, nor 'Frisco. So in this case, in good the fact that the would there be a need to cater clean fair fun, I want to bring your
attention to for four lines of traffic. None initials S.F. would not as seriously the less, if it were to possess the mislead your intelligent renders as necessary attributes of such an 'Frisco, nor would they lower a underwater highway, including heretofore creditable standard of ter but Frisco was coined. In the adequate lighting and ventila-news reporting. It is a smail mat- Columbus tion, the cost would, we imagine, pro-Prohibition days of the famous
Coast and be quite prohibitive. Moreover, Barbary
Avenue and used exclusively by there is not that necessity, deck sailors, and transient lumber economic and otherwise, locally camp workers who came out of the for such a venture which is to mountains to spend their six month yearly earnings on whatever be found in the case of the sister colourful pleasures thoy found. I ports of Liverpool and Birken-am sure none of your intelligent or present highbrow readers would care to head. There are at adequate means of communica place themselves in any of the three by your allowing them the
or
classes
tiort between Hongkong and pine of reading out lond Kowloon, and these have been traction Frisco, anyone who's
ar columns containing the It inevitably
materially added to by the pro-
docs, you know, vision of the vehicular ferry, been there happens to overhear, which enables goods to be quick-If you must be brief, there's no ly transferred from one side of other reputable city in the world the harbour to the other. This known as S.F. and no S.F. nows-
paper over, refers to Frisco," development alone has autor matically removed the need for such fanciful schemes as tunnels doubtless become a paying pro- and cross-harbour bridges. The position. It is a truly wonderful Mersey project, as has been in-piece of work, a credit alike to municipal onterprise and to dicated, stands in quite another those who designed it and carried category and, by reason of the out the actual work of construc special factors prevailing, will Ition.
"Instead of going to the country this summer, we're going.
spend our vacation right out,
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT,
Play on our NASAL ORGANS. You can obtain one of these in- struments from Kolly for less than $5. Plain noses, from $4.50 to $1, Hed noses cost one bottle of whiský
more.
OUR LEGS ARE CHEAP-Left Lega a Speciality. Hairy, $10.50; Ilain $10. Right Legs with or with out cerns. Bunlona 10 centa extra. Wa nro expecting a new consign nont of toes by the next Inward: isil. Big toes, GO conis, lttle toes, 10. cents. Toenails extra. With each: purchase of two big toes we will throw in one ingrowing toenail with- out extra charge.
LIVERS. LIVERS. LIVERS.
Kelly has the finest assortment of Livera in Hongkong. Buy SOL Brand (Regd. Trade Mark) Lavers British and Dost. Our Morning After
aroun the Night Before Liver excelled in quality, Whisky livers, gin livers, brandy llvers, dirty livers, clean livors. Have you got a Livert. If not, see Kelly to-day. He will. guarantee that you'll have one to
HEART DEPARTMENT. MPA Kelly announces that he has one Heart, slightly dented, for sale, U seen many years service, but still T good as new. LADIESI DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY. Buy Kelly's heart, and you'll know what throb
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