THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935.
HAZARDS IN ABYSSINIA HONGKONG NAMELESS: UNKNOWN
IL DUCE RISKS
HIS LAURELS
MAY INVOLVE ITALY
IN LONG WAR
By HARRY W. FRANTZ Baited Press Stuff Correspondent
Washington, Aug. 20. Premier Mussolini will risk his hard-won laurels as: a world statesman if and when Italian troops launch aggressive warfare against the potential million of Abyssinian hill-men, some international authorities here believe.
"Eleventh hour" caution at Rome would not cause surprise. The United States Govern's ment with a "hands-off" policy in the Italo-Abyssinian Tracas has left American opinion*with- out direction. but military and ¦ diplomatic experts have been p quick to sense the great polition -hazards--that will attend the Italian campaign in Africa.
front
Mussolini's place in the rank of world state-ansen was attain- ! ed, come nothorities belleve, by his.
Italian masterly management of interests on ber northern and eastern frontiers. The Adriatle han become an Italian lake," and Italian nationalison ba said to be Strong even in the northernniest sections.
“Yugo-Slivia, Grever, Austria! Fand Gerbuy in turn, sinen the warį felt the diplomatic might of Itnly. But usually it WIN Mussolini's | velvet glove and not his steel fist that brought success.
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A re-direction ot Italian For- vign policy from the Adriatle to The Red Son, experts paint out.j would give Halv two diplomatie frontiers. If Italy suffered unforeseen military reversal, financial attrition due to
These four, American sisters are sustained guerila warfare, Slavic the first quadruplets to reach the They live in Oklahoma. and German peoples of Centrale of 20.
Europe would quite naturally be moved by a new restlessness.
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Napoleon Bonaparte. say historians. laurels that he gained in North Italy Crispi, Frilliant
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In less than lwo months it will be possible for Hongkong telephone) subscribers to speak to' 32,000,000 telephone!! users in other parts of the world, or approxi- mately 93 per cent. of the telephones in use.
Lieutenaar Derek Webber, for mertaf Hongkong, who left a letter
'addressed to a Mim Dororoff in
Hongkong before committing ani!
de in Suaver,
H.K. Police Still Face
Old Problem
KOWLOON IS CHIEF DUMPING PLACE
FOR DEAD
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Dead Chinese, bodies dumped in the streets and har- bour of Hongkong with a re- gularity and persistence that, so far, has defeated every effort of the Police Department to prevent this gruesome ha- bit.
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been the dumping
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others who, for one reason or another, prefer dumping their dead to burying or taken them to the Mortuary,
Last year over a thousand bodies were dumped in various party of Rongkong, chielly in Kawloon, where 679 bodies were dis covered.
Only 22 of the haios were | adult, the remainder beint (children, of whom 561 were male, 444 female and 26 unknown. Three of the adult, dead were women.
6,441 In Five Years Slace the beginning of 1930, a total of 6,411 bodies have been found by the Police In the streets and elsewhere in the Colony. Of these, the appalling total of 6,102 have been the bodies of unwanted children.
In an effort to decrease the Devil the Police Department some Years ago constructed special shoxes into which the bodies could be left. Few, however, Fevailed themselves of the oppor- i tunity of obtaining free burial for their dead.
Az ermpars 4 with this total af 1 Bass dierovered on the main- j'an 1, only 289 wer · fouart on the dunt and mare strangely still in view of the large water po Nation, only 27 bodies were dis
covered, in the harbour,
Actually, last year's total ar 1,056 hadies reprefents a sub- stantial decrease over 1931, when 1.347 bodies were discovered. 881 of this total being in Kowloon.
On the Double Tenth -October 10--the
Hongkong will be linked to the Shanghai-Canton radio Canton station by the ordinary trunk line telephone service, telephone service will owned by the Hongkong Tele- WHICH NOISE provide Hongkong with Phone Company. 'the necessary link for communicating by phone with the outside World.
statesman of the last century, lost post, and prestige by the Italian disaster at Adowa, Abyssinia, in POPULAR BEVERAGE 1896; Britain ad great difficulty defeating the Dutch in South Beer is Hongkong's most Africa; Premivy Prime Rivera of popular beverage. Spain loati Morocco the
Last year duty amounting prestige goined by internal policy: pre-war Germany at Agadir and to $185,157 was paid on in East Africa, invited the fatal 273,498 gallons of imported challenge of British sa power. beers and ales, while an These lessons of history run; additional $53,118 was paid Itala on 88,257 gallons of beer Abyssinian war. Some friends of brewed by the Hongkong telephonic communication and Slunghai to various centres in
she may develop Brewers and Distillers, Ltd. a military and faucial "leer" The total quantity of beer in Africa. The Italian military disaster at Capretto in October imported into and made in
ANNOYS MOST? Practically every country in the world, including Australia, STAR FERRY WHISTLE India, Japan, South Africa, New OR MOTORISTS' SIRENS Zealand, North and South
Which noise annoys most? Some America, Great Britain and the people would unhesitatingly say it continent of Europe, will be is the nerve-shattering rivetting brought in touch with the machine used in such buildings as the Hongkong & Shanghai Hank. The equipment is already Colony.
Some Hongkong motor cars and the installed in Canton, and tests! No definite juformation is yet Star Ferry whistle are also irritat will be carried out with scale of charges, but it is thought prised
available regarding the proposed ing offenders. They would be sur- to hear that inside the Shanghai in the near future. they will be in the vicinity of $16 average airplane cabin the din is British equipment is being and $5 a
a minute for Shanghal and Manila even worse.
for the conf estimate here na to possible results of ALTY
Italy fear that
1917 is still vivid in the memory Hongkong last year was of strategists. They recall the tremendous physical and moral 361,755 gallons. support given to Italy in her tragic hoar by England.
Next in popularity was whisky, of which 29,268 gallons Optimistic at iters of Mussolini was imported. Gins and Cock, believe that he will win n prompt tails were a good third. 17,653 and smashing military decision in gallons being imported, as com- Abyssinia, and that Great Britain pared with 14,636 gallons and other countries will adjust foreign brandy and 1,078 gal- themselves reluctantly to the sub Jons of Empire brandy. sequent de facto situation as they, Port Wing (6,192 gallons), did after the Japanese occupation': Sherry (4,432 gallons), and
of Manchuria.
of
Vermouth (4,130 gallons) were
Knife Best Weapon? next in order of favouritism.
Hongkong people seemingly du This optimistic view is counter-) ed by some military experts who not care for their tots of Rum. believe that the title and the knife for only 3.169 gallons were im-
of ported. are still essential weapons
mountain warfare, and that In
Less Champagne Now
Abyssinia numbers of men rather. Imports of champagne, slump- than modernity of equipment mayed badly compared with pre- jrove decisive.
vious years, only 1,983 gallons The potential risk to Italy of an
politico-military ad-going into bond. The duty on African venture, analysts point out, rests this quantity, however, was as upon the fact that she has attained much as that paid for almost much rum, and ex- hegemony on her northern and twice as eastern frontiers without prece-ceeded the duty paid on Sherries. dent in modern times, but based on The duty collected for Euro- some circumstances that may not pean Type liquors was $952,774, prove permanent.
while the total duty collected on Such circumstances are: (1) all type, of liquor amounted to the Russian "bear" has temporari- $2,239,533. This represents a ly stopped hunting the "honey decrease of $211,322 compared Pots" of imperialistic conquest; with the 1933.
post-war decades to consolidate
•
(2) the South Slavs required the Illicit distilleries continued the nationhood attained in the to give Excise officers trouble war-born kingdom of Serbs, Cronts, during last year, despite fre and Slovenes; (3) Greck Imperi-'quent raids. Many respectable aliam proved abortive in Asia houses in Kowloon were, when Minor, and (4) France has kept raided, found to be elaborate a relatively relaxed attitude toward distilleries, turning out illicit Italy because of her transcending native beverages, brewed chiefly concern over Germany.
from rice,
jused.
minute for Macao, plus Scientists have now invented a trunk line fees from Hongkong to "pulse thermometer" which regis- Canton.
ters intensity of sound as the ordin ary thermometer records degrees of heat.
Shanghai is already in The scale of charges from Manila
with all parts of the world,
the world is as follows!
as is Manila.
On this "noise thermometer" the jsound of a whisper heard five feet Pint Cach away is 10. The noise in n rail- 3 min. Add. Min..way carriage with the window open Franer with Monnen G$92.00 G$10,67 is 60, a roați drill 90, an aeroplane
4.00 cabin 100.
But the biggest noise of all known 21.00 to selence is that of heavy, gun-
Canton will possibly utilise Java both channels for its service. It! Portugal will also link up with the existing Australia
G. Britain, Irelatul low-power radio-telephone sta-
Germany tion at Macno, at present used United States (avg) for brandensting purposes.
12.00
15.25
11.65
89.42 32.46 30.00
10.00
36.00
11:25
Norway...
$2.75
10.95
10.84 fire-16,000,000,000 times louder than a whisper, and hundred times louder than a roaring lion five feet away.
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