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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1985.

*"HELLO

HAZARDS IN ABYSSINIA HONGKONG NAMELESS: UNKNOWN

IL DUCE RISKS

HIS LAURELS

MAY INVOLVE ITALY

IN LONG WAR

By HARRY W, FRANTZ United Press Stag 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- ment with a "rands-off" policy in the Italo-Abyssinian fracas has left American opinion with- out direction, but military and diplomatic experts have been quick to sense the great political hazards that will attend the Italian campaign in Africa,

Munnelini's place in the front -rank of world-statesmen-was attain- ! el, some authoritjes believe, by his ļ masterly management of

interests on her northern And eastern frontiers. The Adriatic has become an "Italian luke," and Hallan nationalism is said to be strong even in the northernmost arctions.

Yugo-Slavin, Greer, Austria und Germany, in turn since the war felt the diplomatie might of Italy. But usually it was Mussolini's velvet glove and not his steel fixt that brought success.

A re-direction of. Italian 10. eigh policy from the Adriatic to the Red Sen, experts point. aut, would give Itały two diplomatic

frontiers. If Italy suffered

unforeseen military reversal,

financial attrition due

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There will be = plug for Hongkong in Octa- her (or New ТУМПОСТАВ telephone

exchange.

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GIRLS

LONDON

SHIP-TO-SHORE

BUENOS AIRES

HONGKONG RADIOPHONE SOON.

QUADRUPLETS

These four American sisters are

sustained queria warfare. Slavic the first quadruplets fo reach the

and German peoples of Central" of 20. They live in Oklahoma, Europe would quite naturally be

moved by a new restlessness.

Adowa Lessan

Hongkong Still Sticks To Beer

SERVICE TO

SHANGHAI

VIA CANTON

WILL PROVIDE LINK WITH WORLD

in less than, two months it will be possible)

SUICIDE DRAMA

for Hongkong telephone subscribers to speak to 32,000,000 telephone: users in other parts of the world, or approxi-

Lieutenant Derek Webber, for- mately 93 per cent. oferty of Hongkong, who left a tetray dressed to a Miss Dovoraf in the telephones in use.

Hongkong before committing ani eide in Suasta.

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,

iphone Company.

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 provent this gruesome ha- bit.

"OWLOON has long since

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been the dumping

ground of parents whose

YOUR

SON'S

CAREER

AVIATION.

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Complete courses for training as pilots or engineers.

All training given on latest type

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children, have died, or of FAR EAST FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL LTD.,.

others who, for one reason or another, prefer dumbing their dead to burying or taken them to the Mortuary.

Last year over a thousand bodies were dumped in various parts of Hongkong, chielly in Kowloon, where 679 bodies were discovered.

were

Only 22 of the bodies Indulis, the remainder

being jchildren, of whom 564 were male, 444 female and 26 unknown. Three of the adult dend were women.

6,441 In Five Years Since the beginning of 1930, a total of 6,441 bodjes have been lound by the Police in the streets and elsewhere in the Colony. Of these, the appalling total of 6,102 have been the bedies of unwanted children.

In an effort to decrease the jevit the Police Department some veurs ngo constructrit special boxes into which the bodies Could be left. Few, however, availed themselves of the oppor- unity of obtaining free-burial for their dead.

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As compared with this total of bodies discovered on the main- ‚'and, only 289 were found on the Island and; mora strangely still in view of the large water, popu- tation, only 27 bolies were dis- covered in the harbour.

Actually; last year's total of 1,056 bodies represents a sub- stantial decrease over 1933, when

1.347 bodies were discovered, 881 of this total being in Kowloon.

telephone service will owned by the Hongkong Tele- WHICH NOISE provide Hongkong with

Practically every country in

Zealand,

ANNOYS MOST?

North and South America, Great Britain and the people would unhesitatingly say it

Napoleon Bonaparte, say the

the necessary link for the world, including Australia, STAR FERRY WHISTLE historians, lost in Egypt the laurels that he gained in North

communicating by India, Japan, South Africa, New OR MOTORISTS' SIRENS Italy: Crispi, Frilliant Italian

Which noise annoys most? Some phone with the outside statesman of the last century, lost post and prestige by the Italian

world.

continent of Europe. will be is the nerve-shattering rivetting disaster at Adowa. Abyssinia, in POPULAR BEVERAGE

brought in touch with the machine used in such buildings as 1896; Briain bad great difficulty

the Hongkong & Shanghai - Bank. defeating the

The equipment is already Colony. Dutch in South Beer is Hongkong's most

Some Hongkong motor cars and the Afrien: Premier Trimo Bivóen of popular beverage.

installed in Canton, and tests No definite information is yet Star Ferry whistle are also irritat- Spain loat in Morovco the Last year duty amounting will be carried out with scale of charges, but it is thought prined

available regarding the proposed ing offenders. They would be sur- to hear that inside the prestige gained by internal policy:į, pre-war Germany at Agadir and to $185,157 was paid on Shanghai in the near future, they will be in the vicinity of $16 average airplane cabin the din is in East Afrion, invited the fatal 2773,498 gallons of imported British equipment is being and $5 a minute for Macao, plus challenge of British sen power. beers and ales, while an used.

Thess lessons of history account additional $53,118 was paid for the cool estimate, here as tu! on 88,257 gallons of beer

possible results of an Italo-

Abyssinian war. Some friends of brewed by the Hongkong Enly fear that she may develop Brewers and Distillers, Ltd. a military and francia! "ulcer" The total quantity of beer disaster at Caperetto in October imported into and made in 1017 is still vivid in the memory Hongkong last year Was of strategists. They reenl the 361,755 gallons.

in Africa. The Italian military!

Tremendous physical and morali

Next in popularity WAK support given to Italy in her tragic!

whisky, of which 29,268 gallons hour by England. ·

Optimistic auiries of Mussolint was imported. Gins and Cock- believe that he will win a prompt tails were a good third, 17,653 and amashing military decision in gallons being imported, as com Abyssinia, and that Great Britainpared with 14,636 gallons of and other countries will adjust foreign brandy and 1978 gal- themselves reluctantly to the sub-ons of Empire brandy. sequent de furto situation as they] Port Wine (6,192 gallons), did after the Japanese occupation Sherry (4,432 gallons).

of Manchuria.

Knife Best Weapon?

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This optimistic view is counter

and

Vermouth (4,130 gallons) were next in order of favouritism.

Hongkong people seemingly do

not care for their tots of Rum,

ed by some military experts who for only 3.169 gallons were im- believe that the rifle and the knifej

are still essential wenpons of

ported.

mountain warfare, and that in? Less Champagne Now Abyssinia numbers of men rather Imports of champagne slump- than modernity of equipment mayjed badly compared with pre- Prove decisive.

vious years, only 1,083 gallons

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The potential risk to Italy of an going into bond. The duty on African politico-military ad-! venture, analysts point out, rests this quantity, however, was as upon the fact that she has attained much as that paid for almost rum, and ex- a hegemony on her northern and twice as much eastern frontiers without proce- ceeded the duty paid on Sherries, dont 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" bas temporari- $2,299,633. This represents ly stopped hunting the "honey-decrease of $211.322 compared pots" of imperialistic conquest; with the 1933. (2) the South Shavs required tho Illicit distilleries continued consolidate to give Excise officers trouble post-wil decades to the nationhood attained in the during last year, despite fre war-born kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; (3) Greck Imperi- quent raids. Many respectable aliam proved bortive in Asia houses in Kowloon were, when elaborate Minor, and (4) France has kept raided, found to be

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a relatively relaxed attitude toward distilleries, turning out illicit Italy because of her transsending, native beverages, brewed chiefly concern over Germany.

from rice.

a minute for Shanghai and Manila Jeven worse,

trunk line fees frim Hongkong to Canton.

The scale of charges from Manila

the warld is as follows:'

Shanghai is already in telephonic communication and Shanghai to various centres In with all parts of the world, las is Manila.

First

Each

Scientists have now invented a "noise thermometer" which regis tera intensity of sound as the ordin- ary thermometer records degrees of heat.

On this "nuine thermometer" the sound of a whisper heard Ave feet away is 10. The noise in a rail- way carriage with the window open in GO, a road drill 90, an aeroplane 4.00 cabin 100.

3 ruina, Add. Min. France with Monner G$32.00 G$10.87

Canton will possibly utilise Java both channels for its service. It Portugu} will also link up with the existing Australia

Gt. Britnin, Ireland low-power radio-telephone sta-

Germany tion at Macno, at present used United States (avg) for broadcasting purposes, Norway

But the biggest noise of all known 21.00 to science is that of heavy gun- fire-16,000,000,000 Times louder

12,00

35.25

11.85

68.12

32.45

10.84

30.00

10.00

35.00

11.25

32.75

10.05

than a whisper, and a hundred times louder thun a roaring lion five feet away.

THE ART OF RICE-GROWING

At the Tokyo Girls Higher School atminiature rice field has been constructed in the corner of the play. ground, thus giving the pupils an opportunity to learn the growing of rice practically.

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