THE
PACIFIC BLUE
DAINTY DISH LONDON
FOR DAINTY'S
PAPER ENVISAGES
DUO OF CUBS NEW RACE
IT
was past their mealtime) when the "Telegraph" Now that Staff Photographer visited these cubs who were more interested in their food than
the camera.
Detay there, messmates! What about some grub!'...**
Oh, there you are,
It's about time, too
keeping its waiting like this for our chow!"
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the R.M.S. Queen Mary has re- gained the Blue Riband of the Atlantic, British ship- make a owners - should supreme bid to regain the! Blue Riband of the Suez and the Pacific.
This suggestion was made recently in an Editorial in the London Daily Mail.
The record for the Suez
Hongkong route to
and Shanghai is at present held by the Lloyd Triestino line.
The record for the
(from
Pacific
the American const to
apan) is held by the Canadian
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
RIBAND
SEPTEMBER 30, 1936.
IS URGED
WERE THEY ON THE WINNER?
Messrs A. Stevenson and P. 8. Cassidy. were discussing, a good thing at the rners on Saturday when "Telegraph" Staf Photographer caught them with his lens.
Trooping Season
Pacific liner Empress of Japan THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS
"How quickly the Blue Riband
of the Pacific is regained," said the Daily Mail, "rests solely with the Government, which has de- layed a subsidy to British lines in the Pacific far too long.
oll
TO PASS THROUGH H.K.
THOUSANDS of British troops will pass through Hongkong during the 1936-37 trooping season, which will be an extreme- ly busy.
"Heavily subsidised competitors are driving British vessels ancient trade routes. The strug-
The newest British sea transport, the 11,000-ton Dilwara which gle daily grows more hopeless.
was completed early this year by the British India Co. for. His "We still possess splendid ships. The mercantile fleet of the Canadian
Majesty's Forces with a capacity for 1,150 troop ratings, and the any Pacific
19 magnificent as
and Bibby Line steamers Dorsetshire (9,645 tons) and Lancashire afloat. but even the energy drive of Sir Edward Beatty (head
Pacific Railway). (9,543 tons) will make altogether six calls here while travelling of the Canadian known to be one of the most force between Europe and the Far East, ful business-men in the Empire, cannot make shipping pay against
Impossible odds."
The north Pacific "Blue Riband" YOU CAN BE
was captured by the Canadian Paci-
fle liner Empress of Japan in April,
1031, when, with the King of Stain SCALED BY
aboard, she crossed from Yokohama
to Victoria in seven days, twenty minutes. On sixteen hours
ccm- that passage the liner was
sen.
SOME SCALES
manded by Captain Samuel Robin- Foreign scales in Hongkong The Empress of Japan also holds that give incorrect weights are the records between Yokohama and greater offenders thin Chinese Honolulu scales, statistics compiled by the Honolulu, and between and Victoria, B.C.
Police Department reveal.
1.1/2 Per Cent Of Colony's Population
WAS DEALT WITH BY DEPORTATION OFFICE HONGKONG now has 140,470 finger-prints filed away in the Finger Print Department of the Police.
These
finger-prints, which mainly of Chinese people residing in the Colony, are of tremendous "Im- portaner.
re!
These were responsible last year for detecting 770 persons who had returned to the Colony from banish- ment.
They helped materially in solving: many crimes and in bringing the criminals to justice,
Over 8,800 new,records were added to the Bureau during the year.
In addition to local finger-prints, the Bureau has the prints of many criminals. of the world's leading
Finger-prints are sometimes ex-i changed with other centrès.
Returning on Oct. 21, she will take away military and R.A.F. details for the United Kingdom.
SEAFORTHS FOR HONGKONG
The Dilwarn will arrive on her out- ward voyage on November 3 with the 2nd Loyola on board for Shang- hat and military and R.A.F. drafts lor Hongkong.
Returning on Nov. 21, she will further military and take away
RADIO BROADCAST
The New. Z.B.W. Dance Orchestra
RECITAL BY E. WARNER
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 335 metres (845 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme.
Opera,
7 p.m.. GrAida"-Grand March
Orchestral"
(Verdi); Arin-"La Bolieme"Yes," they call me Mimi (Puccini) Rosetta Pampanint (Soprano); Aria
"La Boheme-Your tiny hand is frozen (Puccini) .... Luigi Marini (Tenor); Orchestral-"La Gioconda" Dance of the hours (Penchlelll); Arin Barber of Seville Largo al
(Rossini). factotum
Riccardio Stracciar! (Baritone); Band-"Mefis tofele"-Prologue (Bolte).
Closing Local
7.30 p.m. Quotations.
7.33 p.m. Welsh, Music.
Stock
Song The frailty of life (Nant- Kyn)
.William Edwards (Tenor); Song--My little Welsh home ("Songs of the Welch Mountains") (Williams)
Lelin
(Contralto) Megane Chorus Y Delyn Aur. Gypsy laugh- ing chorus (Bell)
Rhondda Band Songs
Welsh Glee Singers;
of Wales .... The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards- Song-
Leila Dear Wales (Roberts) Megane (Contralto); Song-In praise of Wales (Wwlyd) The Gypsy William Edwards Cys) (Tenor).
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announceinents.
8.03 p.m.
From the Studio. *The New Z.B.W. Dance
Programme,
chestra."
Or
of the
1. Rhythm is our business; 2. De- tween two fires; 3. On the beach at Ball Ball: 4. Waltz Song Islands; 5. Ev'ry time I look at you; 6. You'll have to swing it-"Rhythm on the Range"; 7. Blue Sunset: 8. Waltz-I adore you-"Fatal Lody" 9. I can't escape from you-"Rhythm on the Range": 10. She shall have music(From the Film "She shat! have music"); i. Business in F.; 12. Mama don't allow it.
8.15 p.m. Songs of old.
p.m. News and ments from London.
D
Announce-
9.20 p.m. From the Studio. Four "Songs of the fair," (East-
from "The 9.35 p.m. Selection Damask Rose" (Chopin),
9.45 p.m. From the Studio, A Saxaphone Recital by A. W.. Whitehead.
Programme. Concertina Militaire man; 2. The sleeping beauty- Tschaikowsky; 3. Gypsy Dance Phillips.
(Tenor), dom. RA.F. details for the United King-hope Martin), Sung by Edgar Warner
On January 5 the Lancashire will arrive with the 1st Seaforths from Last year, 14 foreign scales, out of Palestine for Hongkong. This fom- 541 examined, were found to be giv-ous Battalion will be stationed in ing incorrect weights. Of the 2,207 Hongkong.
33 On her return trip on Jan. 13 the Chinese scales examined; only
intermediate Lancashire will carry were found incorrect.
Yesterday, a "Telegraph" repre-station details from longkong for sentative, armed with ten-cent coins, Columbo. endeavoured to And a publle scales giving incorrect weights. His quest, however, was unsuccessful. Each of the eight automatic senies tested gave exactly the same weight.
that revealed Subsequent inquiries
these seales are tested each day.
Three of the 87 Yard measures examined by the Police last year
were found to be incorrect, as were two of the 112 Chinese foot measures. Police Department secured 20 con- victions, with fines totalling $748, for offences under the Weights Measures Ordinance in 1935.
and
1.
Beeck-
Orchestru-Heart's urnes
The Dilwara will make a speelal
10 pan. Big Ben from London, trip to Singapore and Hongkong
Variety Programme on March 5 to bring out large mill-
Songs For me, for you, Darling, tary and R.A.F. drafts from Ilome and take away detalls for return. je vous aime beaucoup.... Hilde. The season
son will close with a second garde: Fiano Solos-Two for to- Renara: Songs- Admirally voyage by the Dorsetshire night-Medley which will call here on March 17 with When my Mummy smiles. I feel like smaller military drafts and take away a feather in the breeze........
Layton; again smaller details for Home.
Cine Studio Orchestra; Units at Hongkong are already Selection preparing nominal rolls of all per-Song-Thirly Thirsty Throat? .... sonnel due for transfer, so that the Anona Winn (Soprano); Instrumental Broken Doll. Alexander's Rag War Office can make allotment of
Brian Lawrence accommodation for them.
Time Band
the Lansdowne House Sextet; Vocal Duet All because of you Browning and Starr; Instrumental- Kohala March
Frank Ferera und Join Paaluhi; Vocal-Rolling A summens against Mrs. A. W down the Hilly-Billy Trail?
The WITHOUT RESPECT, LOVE CANNOT GO
ONE WING-Aler. Grimmitt, of No. 7 Haven Street, for Hill Billies; Plano Solos-Gershwin FAR OR RISE 107
allowing her fox terrier bitch to Medley... Renara; Song-Heurt of Dumas (fils).
wander brand in Haven Street with Gold Turner Layton; Orchestra out a muzzle or on a lead on Septem-Waltz Medley ... Hurry Chap An application for the confiscation ber 18 was dismissed before Mr. S. F. man (Harp), and his Music Lovers. of 190 lbs. of rice, found unmani- Balfour at the Central Magistracy
11 p.m.
Close Down. fested and unclaimed on board the this morning owing to the absence A. W. launch Pe On, lying alongside the of the complainant. Mr. Luen On Wharf, on September 10. Grimmilt appeared to answer the was made by Detective-Sergeant summons and entered a formal plea Willerton before Mr. Balfour at the of not guilty. Central Magistracy Unis moming.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
A total of 10,346 persons, repre- The application was granted in the senting 114 per cent. of the entire absence of a claimant.
population of the Colony, were dealt with by the Deportation, Omce during the year.
the
FINE CHEVROLET RECORD
after
THESE two Able Bodied lion cubs shown above had their regulation rations delayed an hour to enable our camera man to snap them at their meals,
Two pets of H.M.S. Dainty,
Mak Chong, 17, belonging to a beef stall in the Central Market, they were handed over to Lieut..
Government wos admitled to the Cmdr.. Cartwright when the strip
12,000,000 MARK A sampan woman, Chan Cheung, Civil Hospital yesterday with a stab It was at abdomen.
PASSED was returning from the Mediter-
Three and a half thousand people reported to the police yesterday that wound in rancan three months ago. were Hongkong deportees, 4,727 were while her boat, No, 1932, was along-first belleved that Mak received the Holt's Wharf it overturned wound through a fight or on assault, persons deported after being dis- side
Spurred by a record-breaking
month The cubs were
then three charged from gaol, and 54 persons owing to too many people standing but police enquiries revealed that
continuing when Mak was hurriedly cutting demand were sent away by order of the on one side. All the occupants were the wound was accidentally inflicted
thrown into the water, but nothing meat. He collapsed after the cut, month, the production of Chevrolet weeks old They were found in Courts.
The remainder were deportees from serious happened, as the No. 5 Police
many of his customers were cars and trucks passed the 12,000,000 in the vicinity, and the lair of two man-eaters shot other centres. Singapore and Sarn launch, which was
ambulance mark on August 1, Automotive Dally seriously alarmed. to their ald. and rescued wak provided 007, (with 2023
was sent for and he was conveyed to News reports in its issue of August hospital.
It took until 1923-11 years---to Rangoon 04, Mauritius two, Sandakan Chan Luk, 25, alias Cheung Foon,
Ngau Wal, aged 27, unemployed, build the first 1,000,000 units. ment, at the request of terrified five, Ocean Island 32, Hongkong married woman, appeared on re-
Mendicants 654 and ex-soldiers of the mand before Mr. B. Himsworth at 3 Lyndhurst Terrace for on months.
a charge of being found Just million were bullt in only eight 19th Route Army 40, The male reported sick a fort-crease of 2,871 compared with 1934.
There was, however, a general de- the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on No. 3
charged with assaulting Leung Sam unlawful purpose on Tuesday before
Achievement of the 12,000,000th at No. 2 Granville Road with three Mr. Balfour. at the Central Magis-
Detective-Ser-car milestone in the company's bis-. this morning. night ago and though liberally
tracy athers not in custody, with intent to rob her. Sergt. A. Kinnear appeared Heart T. Wilkington said a Chinese tory was hastened by the sustained
was in
informed when walk-demand and increased production for the prosecution. A second charge
Every month this year proferred against Chan Luk states ing along Lyndhurst Terrace that facilities,
there was someone in a vacant house, except February established a new that on the same night of the assault He went along to house No. 3 and high peak in retail sales. she had in her possession an auto- there caught defendant in the act of figures just to hand show that during matic revolver, three rounds of am atempting to remove some partitions. that month Chevrolet retail sales munition and a cartridge case. A
Defendant was remanded in police reached a total of 111,900 units: the formal remand of one week was custody for 24 hours.
highest July figure in the history of granted. The case is for committal.
the company. The closest approach to this record was in July, 1920, when 103,428 units more sold.
ad- came
by Mr. Holland Smith, of the ditional nine vagrants from Singa- everyone. Tanganyika Forestry Depart-pore), the Dutch East Indies 535.
villagers.
dosed with brandy and other
sailor-like delights, his cold re- GOLD EMBARGO
fused to yield to treatment until
Lion Tamer Wallis got some Scott's Emulsion.
Here we
the thought of being paid off in
a few weeks when they set sail for Whipsnade on board the homeward bound Dainty.
licy..
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The
July
The July sales achievement brings
The Hague, Sept. 20. The Second Chamber passed with see the cubs in the out a division Bills to give effect to
Sentence of six weeks' hard labour pink of condition and happy at the Government's new currency po-
Admitting a charge of possession of was imposed on Chun Foo, aged 29, The Bills Impose a gold embargo, 22 po-plu lottery tickets, Yuen Ying, unemployed, when he admitted a Institute a Control Fund for con-nged 10, single woman, was bound charge of stealing a mak-joong, set retail sales since January 1 to 777,028. trolling rates of exchange, and-enact over in the sum of $25 for a period from the Lak Hot Tung Hotel before units, which is 90,347 higher than 10 at the Centralprevious all-time record set in 1920. measures to prevent the rising of of six months, when she appeared Mr. S. F. Balfour
before Mr. Balfour at the
this. morning. Acting Magistracy prices.-Reuter.
To keep pace with the demant SW.55 ACTION
Matches said defendant was
by a district watchman in which stich volume reflects, Che: stopped outside the Tung Wah Hospital near
Queen's Road Central near Ladder vrolet's 10 assembly plants in the Berne, Sept. 30. New Street.
Defendant claimed the Street while carrying a parcel, which United States bullt 125,301 units, the debate lasting thirteen
was asked by another person to carry on being opened, was found to con- second highest July production in the A whist drive and tombola will be hours, the Swiss Lower House apie tickets, for which she would be tain- the set. Defendant, later ad- history of the company. held in the R. A. (Stn.) Sergeants proved, by 99 votes to 00, of the mid-paid 20 centa. The tickets were mitted stealing the set from the Hotel only 3,059 units lower than the all- Mess, Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, on night action of the Government in consented and ordered to be dos-reof, where it had been left by the time Sunday, October 4, at 8.30 p.m.
After a
Magistracy this morning. efector W. Mair gaid defendant was]
devaluing the franc temporarily and trayed.
placing an embargo on 'gold-Router.
complainant, Chan Chiu, a cook.
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This in
tion in July included 0,056 units shipped overseas for assembly, and 2,470 units built in Canada, making total of 130,033 for the a grand month.
Chevrolet's production, of
1030 models by months since last October follows:-
December January
116,434
104,153
February
07,003
March
127,808
April
113,515
May
130,310
June
144,023
July
October
00,020
November
108,670
Total:
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