Four Passengers Killed and Six Injured Hongkong, Apr. 7.
A. serious collision between two motor-buses occurred yesterday afternoon in the New Territoriex. One of tha buses contained party of boy-scauls of the Seventh Balyingpun' Schoo! troop, who] wore. proceeding to their" camp. The bases, which were travelling Correspondent. the streets are straight, clean and broad-—-something that' important portions of commercial and _industrial Tokio haven't got. The houses are artistically constructed, with that blending of Chinese and native Japanese architecture that takes Japanes houses so picturesque, "Inside are miniature landscape gardens as in the days before September, 1923, with little altars where a lantern or @ candle is di burnt by devout or superstitions—it is hard to distinguish between these words—oiren (courtesans) to solicit. the favour of the gods. Everything seems to be the same before, the only innovation being that zine plates have been! used for the roofing of the houses instead-of the heavy til From the windows kimonos of all hues are spread out to. dry. The shrill falsetto of a musically-inclined courtesan comes. from fame hidden room. Street vendors of all sorts of things—from gaudy tinsel to raw fsh—peddle. their wares from door to door, dwelling eloquently on the radiant looks of the women who: now come out and telling them how much more] beautiful they would be if they only had this or that ornament affixed to their hair or their clothes, the while the ofran drinks in all the flattery apathetically.
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