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at any moment to fall to the ground. Its intervention in the Grek-Talo conflict has not been without some effect, thanks to the insistont efforis of the one idealist politician Eng- ส роученная. Life without idents is stagnation; it is death, The call then is to "all decent men and women in all countries,"
"Aatum."
or
goods, including one lot optical goods, 2 doz. sliver chains, 3 cases black silk gauze, 4 cases blue mottled soap, I case fruit drops, I coll rubber riesha tyre and 7 cases tea, 12.30 p.m.
September 11.-Lamment Bros.,
8.6.
A WINNER.
PROGRAMME WORTH FIVE
DOLLARS!
in the China Mail.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1928;.
DISASTER IN JAPAN.
OFFICIAL NEWS】TO HAND.
OFFERS
OF HELP CONTINUE.
H.M.S. "DESPATCH" AT YOKOHAMA,
The holder of the following at the premises of the Hongkong | theatre programme is requested and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited to forward sanie to the China Mail (Hunghom), 4 furnaces ex office when a coupon to the value "Nile 12.15 pan.
of $s will be issued which may be
It will be an immense relief to many local residents, who have changed for goods to the same value with any of the advertisers relations and friends in Japan, to learn that H.M.S." Despatch" has reached Yokohama. In a message from her commanderit is stated that lives wero lost in Tokyo. The Yokohama casualties Star Theatre Programme No. 19 no
would be advisable · not te take issued Tuesday and Wednesday are put at 70, and it
the figures attributed to Mr. Matheson too seriously, as probably the September 4 and 5.
Patrons of the three Cincina gist of his interview with a Japanese press man in Kobe was transmitted Theatres, the Coronet, Star and to Nagasaki either by telegraph or telephone and the 500 reported. World are advised to retain their deaths may actually be 50. programnues and study the number to be found on the front page.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mrs. G. Stubbings and Mr. W.
"Karmala."
The P and O. 9.5. "Karmala" despatched from London on the evening of August 9, with the English mail, arrived at Hongkong to-day taking only 27% days on the trip-a splendid performance.
LOCAL WEDDING.
LAY-MACLACHLAN.
were honoured.
MEETINGS. September 11-Informal meet- ing of all Brother Buffs at the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9.30 p.m. We are not sure about it, but we December 12-Mecting of Un believe this is what the "Yes, secured Creditors of the Hong
Br.cach of the Banque have bananus" people call the kong Fall. correctly translated, Industrielle de Chine, at the City **Auta," In any case it is the Hall, 3 pan. time when a perceptible change begins to be felt. The bath tub witter has in it a little more nip, Whilst in other directions we fell ingullel to add an extra little nip to the water! A hasty thunght is given to the contents of our winter Kay returned to the Colony by the wardrobe. We shall lay our 'tren- | 5. sares out in the sun, and the fact
Through falling off the roof of: that "ath and dust doth corrupt"
At Union Church, yesterday will plainly be made manifest. No. 19. Fat Hing Street yesterday, Those who take an interest in such a Chinese youth sustained serious afternoon, Mr. Alexander Hyde Lay, son of the late W. G. Jay, matters which are the opposite to injuries.
Commissioner of Customs, and outdoor spert, ar getting ready for
On Des Voeux Road Central Mrs. Lay of 159a Peak, was marri the time when the night sets in
ed to Miss Elizabeth Fleming quickly and the sturs in glori-near Gilman Street, tram No. 53 Maclachlan, only daughter of Mr.
down a accidentally knocked usly in their Latam brillin Chinese boy, seven
years age, and Mrs. J. B. Maclachlan, Taikoo The Philharmonic Society with a
necessitating his removal to hos-Dock and Engineering Co, Ltd.
The Reverend W. Lindsay per [light allegretto navement is seeking
pital.
formed the ceremony. A recep- singers, and players, and the intent listener-in; i would sing to us in
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Hotel at which the usual toasts Ltd. regians andreamt of The A... is to put on the purple; it is out to prove that the play's the thing. The Book Club has centered itself again on the written and printed word. Its browsers have nuch to supy their time and their thought, which cannot be said of every organisation that enters for public need. Of the Art Club we know absolutely "nowt." Perhap it sleepeth, or is moribund, waiting for the breath of life to be given to the flesh which covers its tired homes. We wish it well. The H.A.P.S. in its quaintly negative state of mind, is developing a photo graphic exhibition! After this the eynie may add that evidently satan still finds work for idle hands to do! The devil he does! Bingby the Helen May people will doubtless issue its ecture and meeting list for the coming season. May it be per- mitted us to hope that there will be something fresh about it-solDe- thing that will make that climb to the white-clad mansion really worth while? We owe the Helena May people a lot. Where our vaunted University has falled in supplying what we should have a series of University Extension Lectures, the Helenu May has modestly stepped
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The bride's dress was of white charmeuse with pearl trimming, long net wedding veil and orange blossom. She carried a bouquet of
A Kenter dispatch from Hel-white roses and lilies. singfors reads: The semi-official announcement from Moscow, that the export of grain is prohibited, is now stated to be incorrect. The prohibition only affects wool exports,
Mr. Lay of Canton, the brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man, Mr. Douglas Reid and Mr. Alex, Mackenzie as ushers.
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The bride's going-away dress was of pale blue georgette over a ground of pink with a picture hat of same colour.
The bridal couple will proceed to Shanghai by the "Empress of Asia" for the honeymoon.
An order has been issued by the Generalissimo stating that all the Canton temples are to be con- fiscated, Instructions have been given to all the district magistrates to this effect. Since the people are more or less enlightened, states the Generalissimo, such confisca tion does not offer any difficulty. The hindrance comes only from CHILDREN TO BE TAUGHT. superstitious people Canton Daily News.
says the
BOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
PORTUGUESE.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
VANCOUVER, September 5. The Government of British Columbia in conjunction with the Timber Men's Association will offer a large contribution of lumber, to assist in repairing the devastated regions in Japan.
BELGIAN KING'S CONDOLENCES.
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BRUSSELS, September 5, The King of the Belgians has conveyed his condolences to the Japanese Embassy in connection with the disaster.
OFFICIAL NEWS.
LONDON, September 5, Official news from Japan states that the Ministries of Home Affairs, Finance, Education and Railways, in additon to the arsenal, Takanawa Palace and the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, have been
burnt down}+
It is estimated that 200,000 houses have been destroyed by fire. A telegram from the Japanese Minister of the Imperial Household states that H.I.H. Princesses Vimashina and Hirokosa Kan-in and HIH. Prince Moromasa perisheet In the earthquake.
The Emperor and Empress, were at Nikko and the Prince Regent Some damage was done to the in Tokyo, but all are safe. Imperial Palaces, but none was destroyed,
FATE OF ITALIAN AMBASSADOR.
ROME, September 5.
That the Italian Ambassador perished in Tokyo seems indicated by the report from the French Consul at Kobe. It announces that the troyed, but the whole of the Italian Colony in Japan is safe, including Italian Embassy at Tokyo and the Consulate at Yokohama were des the diplomatic corps with the exception of the Ambassador.
PLANS FOR AID.
LONDON, September 5.
The Chartered Bank of Indin, Australia and China has donated one Sir Edwin Stocton M. P. has telegraphed to the Rt. Hon. Viscount Peel, Secretary of State for India,suggesting that the India Office should thousand guineas to the Lord Mayor's Japanese Relief Fund.
arrange to despatch, without delay, cargoes of rice to Japan.
NAVY TO HELP.
The Admiral of the British China Squadron has been instructed to- purchase food stuffs and supplies locally and proceed immediately with the fleet to Japan and place the supplics at the disposal of the Japanese Government.
Messages of sympathy continue to pour into the Japanese Embassy including messages from the Lord Mayors of London, Bristol, Leeds and the civic heads of, other cities.
An announcement was made at yesterday's Education Board meet ing that the Government had Seventeen thousand pounds has already been subscribed to the sanctioned the handing over of Lord Mayor's Japanese Relief Fund.
A Brussels telegram states that a committee is being formed in preparations to a private firm of The late Mr. Alfred Gascoyne architects to facilitate the early Belgium, under the patronage of the Government, to raise subscriptions Wise ex-Paisne Judge of Hong-building of extra school accom- towards Japanese relief, kong, has left estate valued atmodation, Also a motion was
OFFER FROM AUSTRALIA. £26,145, says a Reuter message. passed that the Portuguese lan-i
MELBOURNE, September S. guage be taught at the Belillos
The Federal Government has requested the Imperial Government Visiting the Colony is Mr. Girls' School next term. in. All these are but modest Norman Westwood, Manager of
The Director of Education (Hon. to ascertain whether Australian relief measures will be acceptable to symptoms of the approach of the the Universal Pictures Corpora- Mr. E, A. Irving) presided and there fapan. Newspapers urge the Commonwealth to act quickly in reason when the mind of an is tion. Mr. Westwood returns to were also present the Rev. T. W. affording assistance. Victorian Labourites suggest the despatch of the being catered for. Benisons on all Shanghai by the s.s. "President Pearce, the Rev. A. D. Stewart. Australian Fleet to Japan with relief. those engaged in their unselfish Grant" which sails to-morrow. the Rev. Fr. H. Valtorta, Mr. E. Ralphs (the Inspector of English enterprise.
Without ceremony the Prince of Schools), Mr. R. A. D. Forrest
Moscow, September 5. Wales, travelling as Lord Renfrew, (acting Inspector of Vernacular left Waterloo, on September 4, for Schools), Mr. B. Wylie, Mr. A. F. B.
It luas been decided to order all Russian ships in the Pacific to Proclamations Southampton in order to embark | Silva-Netto, Mr. U. Rumjahn, Dr.
posted in the streets call upon the population to show sympathy by on the "Empress of France" for Wan Man-kai and Mr. S. W. Tso, Japan with food, and to send all possible assistance. Canada on a private visit to his with Mr. V. P. Law (Secretary).
The Director of Education not attending cinemas and other entertainments. ranch.
Lannounced that a temporary building would be put up at the
A ready response has been made to the appeals to assist the Kowloon School to accommodate four or six class-rooms. Physics Japanese sufferers. The Red Cross is cabling 1000 to the Japanese
Red Cross. would be taught this year and a chemistry a year hence. A sum of $3,000 would be spent imme- diately on physics apparatus and
——— To-day's Poem.
The China Mail. of convalescence, of reorganization
and relaikking. Whilst Europe is in a scerning stato of chaos of con- Roxokwao, Thursday, SET. 6, 1993. flicting thought and aims, the light
DECENT PEOPLE.
of reason is not entirely eclipsed. Politicians and the experts in the questionable art of war, have point- |ed out that it is in the Pacific that
enis,
(The Weaver.) With ene skein of tangled Old Father Time of strives To weave with patterns of our] The fabric of our lives.
friends,
Each stitch we lose, in threads of
gold, Is knit with all our tears;
CORRESPONDENCE.
SUN IS WILLING.
NEW YORK, September 5. After fluctuating widely, Japanese securities closed two to ten
HELP FROM RUSSIA
points lower.
MELBOURNE GETS BUSY.
MELBOURNE, September 5.
MONEY POURING IN.
LONDON, September 28.. General Booth has cabled £3,000 for the Salvation Army relief
It s renmined for the Man- the eyes and thoughts of diplomats And may he found in friendships | (To the Editor of the China Ma-) $5,000 more would be spent next work in Japan and has also launched a worldwide appeal for £2,000,000
chester Guardian to call attention to
are more or less centered; "that ola,
a possibility the thoughts of which, all over and around the Pacific Renowed in after years.
men
1923.
JOHN KYOTO.
SHADOWS BEFORE..
Corring Events Advertised
year.
TRADE CENTRE SHIFTS.
for relief and restoration purposes. Immediate assurances of subs Sir, The enclosed is a copy of a
Mr. Irving expressed a hope tantial aid have been received from the United States, Canada, and telegram I received from Dr. Sun that Portuguese parents would be Scotland. The Grand Lodge of English Freemasons, assembled at Yat-sen this aftemoon. It is of so enthusiastic over the inclusion of Liverpool, unanimously voted £2,200 towards the relief of the sufferers
in the in Japan. language great an importance in connection Portuguese with the proposal for a round table Belilios School syllabus. It was
to teach. Conference that I shall esteem the unanimously decided favour of publication in your about thirteen girls who would be columns. Yours etc.,
promoted to Class 5A next term R. HO TUNG. and the Government would be ap-
proached to engage a teacher. Hongkong, 5th Sept., 1923.
COPY.
"Generalissmo, Canton,
5th Sept., 1923.
OPIUM AND TUCHUNS.
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NAGASAKI, September S.
at this time, we imagined, would be consciousness of somewhat changed absent from, and foreign to, the proportions of national strength minds of all decent
and night soon have to be felt and with women in all countries." Comingit come some perceptible modifica
Due to the wholesale destruction of Tokyo and Yokohama, the from such a source as the fan-tions of existing policies." It may
centre of foreign trade will be shifted to Kobe The Kobe Chamber chester Guardian, the paper that be, human nature being what it is,
of Commerce, at a meeting, proposed to take care of all incoming. foreign cargo intended for Tokyo and Yokohama, The export of excites the pride of all true jour- that experts are already thinking of |
raw silk from Yokohama is impossible; it is generally hoped that a In The Mait. aaliste; a paper, to quote Lord these "perceptible modifications of
slik exchange will now be established either at Kobe or Osaka where exports are made. It is feared that stocks of raw silk in Yokohama, Robert Cecil's happy' phrase, which existing policies" and are shaping
ENTERTAINMENTS.
amounting to 47,000 bales, were all burned. The Yokohama Specie has made righteousness readable," a course to take advantage of the
Bank and the Osaka Foreign Exchange are quiet and quotations have and a paper with more than anbreeze of uniefortune which has
September 6.-Coronet Theatre;
been nominal since Monday, Demand for dollars increasing owing to English insular reputation, what is blown so hardly against Japan. It Mary Pickford in "Polyanna."
September 6-Star Theatre; kong: 1 am prepared personally
"Sir Robert Ho Tung, Hong- INTERESTING SUGGESTION. expectations of an excess of expons by increased shipments of raw silk now expressed calls for something seems inconceivable. The dominant
during the second 'six months is not likely to materialise now on. account of the catastrophe at Yokohama. more than the entry attention thought in the minds and hearts"The Ladder Jinx."
to meet other Chinese leaders at
A JAPANESE DESCRIPTION, September 6-World Theatre; Conference proposed by you. Sun Last year it was suggested in the which the terrible events of the pust "of all decent people" is one of deep Constance Binney in "The Sleep Yat-sen."
China Press that the League of The correspondent of the Tokyo Asahi tells a first hand thrilling few days are likely to cause to be sympathy, not mere lip sytopathy, Walker" The New Leather
Nations should make a direct ap story of the disasters in Yokohama. He says the whole of Yokohama, given to it,
The Guardian points hut a sympathy willing to be direct Pushers, Round 12.
peal to the Tuchuns and Military including the harbour, was turned into a huge mass of blazing. fires by September 7-8.--Theatre
Generals of the Provinces with the Standard Oil and Rising Sun godowns quickly bursting Into out that Japan's lossen in the ed into practical channels of relief. Royal; Tina Gerald and Tom DEATH AT WAGLAN. view to limiting production. Noth- flames and spreading all round, consuming nearby houses. The destructive visitation which has If, after these expressions have gone Fenwick in a repertoire of Original
ing came of the proposal for the burning oil flowed into the creeks, and then into the harbour setting been paid-bor, are likely to be their natural courso,the human mind one-act plays.
reason that such action was cou-on fire launcher, barges, and sampans; for the time causing a veritable SOCIAL. beavier than those which sho ex- could be so untionally and inter-
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
sidered an interference with the in- sea of fire. Refugees, who had reached the heights overlooking the September 8.-Grand Carnival
PASSES AWAY
ternal affairs of the country, but it completely devastated town still smouldering, were frantically shou perienced in her war with Russic, nationally ordered that it could see Dinner Dansant at the reopening
might be beneficial if the League ting for wives, children, fathers and mothers. Fissures from two from which she emerged to take, a the world and its inhabitants as a of Repulse Bay Hotel.
September 8-Opera Song Bur-
News reached the Harbour office notified the various. Tuchuns and to three feet wide and ten feet deep are here and there in the streets. foremost place among the Nations, whole, and not as warring members
AN AMERICAN DESCRIPTION. Her exfeeblement has no corres whose every action is to be treated lesque and Mystery at Kowloon early this morning of the sudden Generals that their action was con- Charred bodies are lying, at intervals of every forty yards.
Cricket Club, 9.15 p.m.
death of Mr. Edward Arthur trary to Treaty and was the subject of comment throughout the world. ponding counterpart in any country with doubt anil suspicion, what
September 15.-Hongkong Johnson, the lighthouse keeper at aho might be disposed to regard as would not the outcome be? If this Volunteer Defence Corps Proinen Waglan. The cause of death is not known but.. is presumed to a formidable neighbour, and it is if calamity has culled up nothing more
ade Concert, 915 p.m. 2)
have been heart failure. The this connection that this Manchester, thun a vorbál and a contributionary
The Bluff and other elevated sections, where foreigners resided, September 8-10, Royal Hong-body is to be brought back to
contain nothing but charred ruins and the bones of former occupants. Guardian with all the solid weight sympathy, and not called up a kong Golf Club September Capt-Hongkong this afternoon when
LOCAL ACTIVITIES,
Of 200 visitors at the Grand Hotel only a few escaped; only one of its prestigo and influence, urges desire to view sympathetically other air's Cup to be played at Fanling. a post mortem examination will
man escaped from the Yokohama Club where many were lunching, that no diplomatic advantago what peoples and places foreign to out September 7-Lammert Bros., The late Mr. Johnson, who was
Friday September 7. 7.30 p.m. The Oriental Palace Hotel literally sank into the ground, except ever shall be taken of her mis views and ways of living, it has at No. 49 Godown, Hongkong and 49, had put in seven years fortune. At first sight the warning been in that respect, viewed as an Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. a lighthouse keeper in the Trinity English Debating Club, Subject the upper and part of the second floor which are above the level of the tremendous shock. Frantic calls for help came from beneath the would seem to be a piece of unconsolidator of peoplos, a success, Kowloon, 76 bags of flour, 10.30. House Service before he arrived"How to develop China's Merbund. The majority of the houses on the bluff collapsed at the first
in the Colony in 1901. He began chant Marino."
Saturday Seplor
Members wreckage, but assistance was only possible in a few cases.
Temple Court Hoteland Cherry Mount Hotel were thrown complete warranted panic, not justified by a success that has nothing in it in September 7-Laminert Bros., here as slath assistant lighthouse
service Swimming Tests at 7.30 p.m. facts, but we are inclined to fes! the way of hope for the future. The at their Sates Rooms; the S. L. keeper and efficicat
"Christ and the Youngly off the Bluff into the town; the Bluff Hotel was hurled down to the Sunday, earned him steady" promotion
French Orphangage, containing sixteen, sisters and 160 children was that the warning is necessary, Iono hope, in the shape of the "Atalanta" as she now lies in Huntil in 1919 he was appointed a Man.”. Address by Mr. Wongbottom of the Honmoku side of the hill, few occupants escaping." The
hom Bay, at Noon, en
September 7-Lammert Bros., first-class lighthouse. keeper. He Tat-kal at 8 p.m.
Monday to Thursday. Cinema smashed in the food, not a soul surviving.
(Continued On Page S at their. Salos Rooms, Daddell was not married and has no
display: "Civilisation." Street, a quantity of miscellaneous relatives here.
ie not that any advantage is likely. League of Nations, an outcome of to be taken now, but hereafter the war, has, ere this, scomed to be during the painful and slow course a work and tottering thing, ready
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NAGASAKI, September 6, Mr. Matheson, correspondent in Tokyo of the Chicago Tribune, on his arrival at Kobe from Yokohania, said that no less than 500 foreigners resident in Yokohama had perished (a message from H.M.S. "DespatchTM gives the figures as 70). :-