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BIRTHS.
MANNASEH. On May 20, 1923, at Hankow, to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mannasch, a son PARK-On May 21, 1923, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Park, a daughter.
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How delightfully ty INSULAR, "pical is this little
story the London Daily Express tells. Comment la needless. Thus
Scene--A hotel in Buenos Aires: Hotel Clerk (registering new guest)"Foreigner, sir?",
New Arrival (testily) "Certain ly not. English."
Hongkong BROADCASTING. radio fans, told they must wait who shall say how long before they can enjoy full broadcasting de lights, will find wan comfort in Keats' famous lines, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those un- heard are sweeter; therefore... But hope and patience, we are told, are sovereign remedies, and Hong- kong radio fans will yet open their newspapers to find similar announcements to this broadcast- ing item I happened upon in a recent London paper
11.30 a.m. tú 12.30 p.m.-Morn ing Concert-Miss Catherine Anslebrook (contralto). 5.30_181. ---Children's Stories: L. G. M, of the Daily Mail, Zoo Stories. 645; -Boy Scouts, and Girl Guides' News. Bulletin and Weather Re- port. 7.30-Orchestra: Overture. Fortune's Labyriath" (Suppe); valsé de goncert, "Magic of Love" (Vanis). Miss Elen Cameron (contralto): "O M
"T.c Fernando" (Donizetti), Enchantress "
(Hation). Or chestra: "L'Amneau d'Argent" (Chaminade)" Pieretto " (Chaun- inade). 8. Mr. Heath Rabi eson, humorous artist, Orchestra: Selecton, "The Pearl Fishers" (Bizet). Mr. Stanley Roos (tenor); Mountain Lovers" (Squire), "As
you pass by" (Kennedy Russell). Orchestra: "In the Steppes of Central Asia" (Borodin). Mr. Edwin Malkin (organ solos): "Finlandia" (Sibelius), Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt") (Gring). Q.----Orchestra: Madrigale and Passepied from the Ballef," Le Roi s'amuse" (Delibes). 95.- Professor J. T. Macgregor Morris, M.LE.E., of East London College, on "Electric Lamps, New and Old,” Miss Elsa Cameron: "The
THE CHINA MAIL.
HOW 17'5 DONE.
· Every word tenance of motor, rasolige, and .write for this chauffeur's wages, 5.300 dollars," paragram is not
That Mrs. Stillman is of an nterely wasted,
but is harmful, for economical turn of mind is clear It spoils the effect. You see, I from the item" cleaning and press- want to go one better-always a ing clothes," a relatively small out- happy game and to go one better
SATURDAY, MAY 2613
DOMESTIC BREEZE.
LUKONG AND HIS WIFE.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE SEQUEL.
KRUPPS FEEL PINCH.
GOVERNMENT UNHELPFUL,
BERLIN, May 25. The-Government has temporari ly declined to accede to the Knupp must this time Iachieve the purpose lay, with the cleaner and presser
directorate's request: set out below but with even less enabling her to keep down her per
Evidence was given before Mr. [The Krupp, directorate request- efort. Accordingly, after thanking sonal dress bill to 15,000 dollars a JR. Wood yesterday afternoon ined the Government to release Herr the case in which a Chinese con- Wiedfeldt, the Ambassador to the the clever Daily Express writer
wonders how Mr.stable year. One
is charged, with 'Beachcomber" for the parody-
the United States to enable him to`re His sume his former post of general he is taking off Dr. Frank Crane's Stillman could ever have been so manslaughter of his wife. daily. "tonic talks "I leave you ill-advised as to part from so plea was that she pestored him at manager of Krupps in consequence the entrance to No. 7 station and he of the difficulties caused by the to your quitons, thus
frugal a consert.
kicked her unintentionally when recent arrests and sentences of Another barrier she threw their little child to the Krupp directors in the Ruhr. Herr carried! - A -woman. ground.
Krupp von Bohlen, head of OF THE has been named fo A Chinese detective testified to Knupps, was sentenced to fifteen hearing shouts of "Save life" and years imprisonment, and three the Académie Fran-ultimately telephoning for another Krupp directors were given caise, the first time ambu'ance.
heavy terms in connection with the disturbances of March 30
You've got to Get It Done. (Got tha?)
Therza to niche in Life for the
Man who Never Gets It Done.
We've all got something to get
done.
I do it.
Every day.
Don't be a quitter! (Got that?)
If you have something to get done, go to it!
Like I do. Every day. from me. See!
The printer wants
So much space to fill. Does he get it? Sure!
I just do it in no time. And
Fill
My space
Like
This.
Get nie?,
CLUB,
something
The Secretary sends me THE the latest thesis' re- ONION reived by him for ad- mission to this exclusive Club, which is likely to be awarded the onion of the 3rd degree (unpickled) for an effusion likely to bring tears to the eyes of those who read it. Question and answer have alike been sup plied by the would-be entrant.
niest street?
SIGNS
'TIMES
since this uugust body was formed Dr. Smalley said that, decensed 289 years ago. Hongkong's Legis- was suffering from a ruptured lative Council had better book out spleen and the injury could have been caused by a blow or a fall. Hongkong often Deceased died shortly after ad- CLIMATIC moans about its':
mission to hospital. "awful climate, how it is hat one moment and cold the next; how it is dry this morning and damp this evening; how there never was such misery before and never will be again. But Hug seemed very much upset at his apore as a naval base, was worthy
E. Hall for the defence it was In cross-examination by Mr. A. clicited that defendant went to the spital of his own accord and
wife's death.
Divisional Inspector Caygill also gave evidence after which the case was adjourned till Mooday after
noon.
kong should take heart. There are worse places, very much worse places. New England for one, witness reports that last month saw the thermometer one day hovering close to 90 degrees at North Adam's, while just fourteen miles-distant, at Heartwellyille, the ice was still several inches thick and the young- sters of the village were enjoying skating. However, it may be re- Mr. J. R. Wood's court this morning membered that famous writer to explain his absence from jury once said, when asked concerning duty at a recent coroner's inquest. the weather in New England, He was fined Sto. "Wait a minute."
ABSENT JUROR..
Mr. E. G. Lammert appeared in
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Just now when every- TOPICAL body wants to abolish ·
something, private! ownership, class distinction, in- "A congregation for the coa
Q. Which is Hongkong's fun-dividual initiative or organized forring of degrees is to be held at
religion, the following parable of the University on June 8. Robert Louis Stevenson carries an impressive message:
A. Whitty St.
Q. Which the most intelligent? A. Cleverly St.
Q. Which the most regal?. A. Queen's Road.
Q. Which the coolest? A. Ice House St.
The last screening of "Old Four reformers met under a Dad" is announced to take place bramble bash. They were all at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, to- agreed the world must be changed, day and to-morrow Nazimova will
We must abolish property," said appear there in "The Brat."
one/
"We must abolish marriage,”
We must abolish God," said the
The Morals of the said the second. BOOK
Movie. The case REVIEWS
for censorship by third. AMERICAN the most eminent "I wish we could abolish work,"
FASHION. American censor. said the fourth
In honour of the birthday of Queen Mary who is 56 to-day the warships in port flew bunting To- day is also the anniversary of the death of Confucius.
A Chinese seaman of the ss
Stars" (Montague Phillips). 'Caller Herrin'" (Scotch. Mr. Stanley Roos: "Angels guard Thee" (Godard). "I know of Two Bright Eyes" (Clutsam). 9.45.-- Second New Bulletin and Weather Report, 10.-Orchestra: Dance Music-One step, "Hard- un Street": fox trot," Eleanor'';
A farrago of snofl- 'Do not let us get beyond yalse, "Crying for the Moon":
The practical politics," said the first."Kwang Lee" named Ip Chi (20) ing pecksniffian nonsense. fox trot. "Kitten on the Keys"; vapourings of a bombastic Vacuum "The first thing is to reduce men fell into the harbour yesterday one steep, "El Relicario."
morning while fixing up the life with a messianic delusion. The to a commion level:" Sent out from the London station, Life of William Hazlitt. A literay "The first thing," said the boats on the boat-deck, this should help Mr. Fletcher to biography so flabby and uninspired second," is to give freedom to the decide just what public taste de-that-reading it becomes a down-sexes.” mands. European public taste, right torture..
"The first thing" said the third, Old Morocco and the Forbidden anyway. And here let me utter
is to find out how to do it."
The first step," said the first, to abolish the Bible," "The first thing," said the The White Heart. of Mojave. second;" is to abolish the laws."
The first thing?" said the third, is to abolish mankind."
one solemn warning': broadcasting Atlas. The conventional travel must fail inevitably unless it - book, duity written and uninterest-"is cludes the daily dollar rate. Asking pictures, anyone you like.
Having traced the Another. AROUND decay of every civilis-
sation but our ow THE CIRCLE." and that they see
Hongkong's HONGKONG'S - Cenotaph has
.. WAR
now been un- veiled, our sim-. "ple" "tribute to
. MEMORIAL.
་ ༤ ་
PACIFIC NAVAL BASE.
NEW ZEALAND VIEW.
WELLINGTON, May 25. Mr. Massey, the Premier, in a: Speech, said the selection of Sing
of all possible encouragement by countries endeavouring to establish the Empire on a firm basis in this part of the world.. The decision, far from being a possible cause of war, would prove h great factor in the promotion of peace.
BOGUS BANKNOTES.
AND BOGUS BUMPKINS.
OLD TRICK WORKS AGAIN,
L
Thanks to police surveillance, the confidence trick which was so common here once, has been now almost eradicated. Two or three weeks ago, however, a case` was girl being victimised on Bowen reported to the police of a school- Road and yesterday two cases were notified, with the same modus operandi, The number of men was
two in each instance: -
?
Chan Ling-kwai, married woman, of 8 Wing Sing Street, was in Possession Street when she was accosted by two, simple-look- ing men who informed her that having just arrived from te interior, they had come by good fortune as they had picked up a wad of banknotes. They were in a dilemma as they did not know where to change them and promis, ed handsomely to reward anybody who would take charge of Priscilla Dean will be seen for the notes and change. them the last time in "Conflict at the into silver. However, there Coronet to-day. Sunday's picture was another side tu the is to be "The Sporting Duchess," story, which was that the finance a superb film version of the famous expert, should hand over some. Drury Lane drama of that name, security. The woman parted with and Norma Talmadge will arrive a pair of gold bangles, valued at on Monday in "Smilin' Through" which is to run for the week.
::
$100 and two gold rings worth $16. Needless to say, when she turned into the next strect she found that she had received a bundle of waste paper and the simpletons were nowhere to be seen,
At 6.15 p.m. another woman of 12 Catchick Street told a similar tale to the police. She had met the Theatre and had been-induced to tricksters outside the Ko Shing part with a pair of bangles worth $70 together with a roll of pongee silk which cost $8.
I see the Queen's The local Harbour Office hos POLITENESS College magazine received a telegram from Mr. H.S. tottering now-philp-
has a trenchant Sweeting, Harbour Master at "sophers" have" (naturally enough) decided that progress, lasting pro- the unreturning brave. What note on the excessive politeness Canton, which says that "practice people speedily relent, rewind gress, is an illusion. Some have words could one not write about of some of the students who, so it gun-firing will take place from 10 and return, I shall sue them undergone further, indeed, and claimed this solemn event; what praises
seems, go out of their way am, to noon on May 26 (to-day) in the Army Act, for it is warm that this holds true about our very bestow; what warnings utter. But Good Afternoon" to every Master Shipping is warned not to navigate to -say Good morning and the vicinity of Chang Chow Forts." enough just now for one to echo word itself. They assert that death like His Excellency the Governor, Sydney Smith's famous answer to can overtake this globe in many I prefer to echo a more eloquent about a dozen times per day; in the vicinity during the hours a query about the weather: "Heat, forms-gradual freezing or stiddenvoice. Accordingly, I reprint here making it an embarrassment, de mentioned. ma'am It was so dreadful Heve terrestrial collision. From the the following poem by Laurence Once is enough" is the excellent riches difficult to appreciate. that I found that there was disaster, they say, will emerge a Housinan which appeared in slogan. I wonder if the cause of suicide was reported to the police An unusual case of attempted. nothing left for it but
to nebula, which, after untold ages, recent issue of the Spectator: take off my flesh and sit in my will become the new earth. The Dedicated to "A Dead: Warrior, this is the excessive attention yesterday. Lo Cheung sang (25) bones" Moreover--but, stay, here poet has seen the same vision:****** it is no mere conventional lament, giten to the rules generally to be unemployed, of Reclamation BANK NOTES GONE. comes the fan. Thank heaven!
found in a hastily-written dollar Street, Yaumati, jumped into the They hang people for murder,
"The world's great age begins as you will now see :-
seeking book of etiquette written harbour with his three year old anew, don't they?
by a foreigner out to help "our dear son Both father and son were Chinese brethren, and very often rescued by some boat-people in the let it be said by a pedantic Chin-vicinity and the son was then sent ese teacher who has acquired the to hospital. knack of producing books on Eng-
Some one asked Pro-
Steinach TOOK fessor
of TOO Vienna, whose rejuvena- HARD. tion experiments are well known, if there wasn't considerable danger in the process. "Of course the thing can be overdone," he replied with a
The China Mail, smile. "I am told that a woman
HOKOKORO, SATURday, May 28, 1933.
met a friend of hers on the street wheeling a perambulator in which sat a chubby infant. I did not know you had a baby, said the first woman in surprise. I haven't," replied the other despondently. This is my husband-he has been to Dr. Steinach.”
The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake re-
дет
Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles and faiths and
empires gleam. Like wrecks of a dissolving
dream
A brighter Hellas
نم
rears its
mountains
From waves serener far'; A new Peneus rolls his fountains
Against the morning star; Where fairer Tempes bloom,
there sleep
Young Cyclads on a sunnier
deep."
Have you ever paused, WHICH reading your paper, to EXPLAINS admire the
Harry is a living ex innate MUCH, beauty of print? Take LAUDER ample of the fact that
most of us either ac- And thus and thus. But where the very type which clothes these words, does it not, quire, achieve, or have characteris away? You're more concerned. when you look closer, please your tics thrust upon us. "Thus it is that with it melted down and reart eye? Does it not impress you with Harry's supposed "saving sense' its chaste neatness like our newly is world famous. The story that Naturally. And it's progress here unveiled Cenotaph? Surely it does he had decided to leave a million that interests you. Well, read this
neat litite item I came across the
Here sown to dust lies one that
drave
...!
The furrow through his heart; Now, of the fields he died to save.
His own dust fomis apart
Where went the tramp of martial
feet,
The blare of trumpets loud, Comes slience with their winding
sheet, And shadow with her shroud.
WAS-TE PAPER
SUBSTITUTED..
According to the sub-manager
of the Wing Tak Bank, 263 ·
lish grammar, etiquette, and For stowing on the s.s. Queen's Road Central, he received arithmetic with detestable coh- "Oostkerk" from Shanghai to
letter at 3 p.m. Yesterday descension, obviously unconscious Hongkong, two Russians were from the Tal Tak Cheong Bank, of their glaring inaccuracies and yesterday sentenced to a month's Ningpo Road, Shanghai, informing highly humorous tendencies. How hard labour each. Mr. J. R. Wood him that a representative had sailed else did we get the inevitable and expressed the hope that the case on the ss. "Shantung" on May 21, stilted "Don't - inention. it!" would appear in the local press to bringing a small box containing which even our ricsha coolies act as a deterrent to others as defen- $16,000 in Hongkong notes and re- sometimes trot, out?
dants had defrauded the shipping questing him to take delivery of it The gentleman who has firm and that people with no pros-on arrival of the ship.Vet
At 4 pm he went on board the SPEAK written to the papers pects of employment were not
UPI saying he could not wanted in Hongkong. Defendants ship and located the box in the bear the Cenotaph une said they wished to go to Europe, the box was in good order and strong room. To all appearances veiling speeches behaved like preferably Germany.
condition but on being opened it Other The
"Yei Maru No. 2," which was found to contain nothing but .stilled, So with distraction round him a perfect gentleman,
people similarly situated" have been known to adopt more ran ashore on one of the Nine waste-paper. The foki of the Bank Now let him be content!
drastic ways of making their plight Pins islands on Monday night has anywhere and the local bank there koown and had Thursday's not yet been refloated. The Tai- there ceremony been less Impressive koo engineers who are engaged on upon made a report to the police. Statue Square might have rung to salvage operations, are of the
His mind no longer counsel takes, No sword his hand peed draw, Across whose borders peace now
makes Inviolable law.
And time from age to age shall
bulld His standing moruntent..
Yet hitherto you have taken this or so to the widow, of the unknown other day and tell me if the wiseNot here, where strife, and greed, the cry of Speak up, speak up!" opinion; that they will be able to
Rags make paper. Paper makes money. Money makes banks. Banks make loans. Loans make poverty, and Poverty makes rags.
and lust
SOCIAL AND PERSONALI
WHICH IS WORSE? fanate beauty for granted, just as warrior is well known. Some ones are not right, if progress is
This interpellation is very discon-refloat the vessel with the assist- Grind up the bones of men;
certing for the speaker, but there is ance of a high tide, Meanwhile Arnold Bennett says the average others have reached me which, as not an illusion
But in that safe and secret dust.
a classical way of dealing with it. the work of jettisoning the cargo STEALING OR RECEIVING. man takes the amazing human they do not seem to cause anxiety, machine for granted. But were to the subject of them, may be re-
Which shall not rise again.
Daniel Webster, stung by a re-continues and up to yesterday after petition of this admonition, once noon 800 tons of the 3,000 odd tons. In a police court case before Me. you to peep over my shoulder now corded. In Sydney, the famous
Mr. Stillman, who is nurned to the chairman of his meet of coal on board, consigned to the RE Lindsell this morning, Mr. you would realise-forcibly just comedian was noticed purchasing.
ECONOMY living apart from her in and said; - Sir, at the Last Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, had been R EA. Webster, defending how great this innate beauty is, a newspaper in the street. He
husband, the wealthy Great Day, when all the infinite thrown overboard,
solicitor, applied för bail remarking bompared with the hand's uneven pulled out his purse from which
American J. A, Stillman, has found generations of mankind are
that his clients were only charged product. Not that I write like came two moths. This has been
it impossible to live on the pittance gathered together round, the foot-
with receiving. His Worship Napoleon whose love-letters were contradicted to the extent that
of 50,000 dollars a year, which her stool of the Throne, awaiting
thereupon remarked that receivers often mistaken for battle plans. only one moth is said to have flown;
Research work is always close-fisted spouse allows her as the Final Judgment, when the
wereworse than thieves,}}}After Not, either, that I write like the out. There were two originally,
interesting and often of alimony, She is asking the heavens are relied up as in a Iste Lord Goschen's father who, but one consumed the other
great benefit to mankind. Supreme Court to increase the scroll, and the countenance of the RAO.C Major, A., E.,B. Jones
Lleut-Col B. A Hill, DSO of further argument the Magistrate said Receiving is a felony as much hen he went to London, was. When in New York Harry was The following research on beds, amount to 120,000 dollars, and even the Almighty is turned towards Captain R. Walker, of the as stealing. Bail was not granted,
seen by a friend coming out of an may be of interest. The first bed then the itemised bill of expenses the good and the evil, the just RAM.C he wrote such a bad hand that obviously Irish babk. The frend mentioned in history is in the book which she has submitted shown that and the unjust when the angels been taken on the strength of the Paleos y Te
cently arrived, have defendants being remanded in Dobody would take him for a clerk, upbraided him for this lack of of Deuteronomy. It belonged to she will be 3380 pilars short at with their silver trumpets are send- But simply that the electric people patriotisme when ther
local CommandEHA
· were | Og the King of Bashan. It was nine the end of the year. The estimate, ing forth their clarion-blast of have done the Ruhr trick in our Scottish banks, but received the cubits in length by four cubits io of 16,500 wice and seized all the fans not reply Na, na, I was just filling mal width, or about sixteen by seven self for reparations, however but fountain pen One more, in the feet Apparently Og was a longer. Eimply for fbelated) rewinding, fom of a conundrum What de King than his name indicates Hitherto all my efforts to emu
obliged to found a firm, because
Job have broken down, with's
kwhich tre well; only too appar
In this script. Unless those electri
BDS
ference betw Lauder and Bed built for Sólómon was of ced
The
Well from Lebanon so that the iso Kli get a drink out of a wouldn't be moleste
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