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purpose can doubtless he instanced in other parts of China proving that in spite of and in the face of many diflicuities and discouragements,
with a deep} there are seated lave of country finding au utter in work of service for the country and the people. China is pardalily still the giant of Napoleon's drenu, but it exactly the slumbering one be suggested.
The "Panama Scandal."
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 4, 1929
THE HONEYMOON.
M
$50 PRIZE FREE,
We
Down through Elysian fiolds
passed. Wo know that to Government Inhaling Nature's breath; has ever existed it was able to Wild-throbbing lover's hands en-
cinept, satisfy all its adherents or the people whom they have been act to govem Prevailed o'er tifo and death. Charles Ray in "A Tailor Made and the same applies to the French With tremulous enraptured pacó,
Government in the policy which hus In Freedon's mume at hud;
www
October 4-Coronet Theatre;
Man."
October 4
Star Theatre
bruco-
"An Accidental Honey-Moon."ed it to occupy the Ruhr listrict of To buve and hold iu Tave's on- Germany, The French Govern- Brent has had its war critics and its Forgetting sorrows past. · critics in the present policy, which it
5.30 pan,
Theatre; October 4-World "Soldiers of Fortune."
October
is pursuing, and it is only necessary With songs of joy our young hearts 4--Star. Theatre:
inade, Forbes-Russell Comedy Co., pre- to mention such names as Austalo
France and Romain Rolland to While Fairies touched the Rame; sents "Blubeard's, Eighth Wife."
October 5.--Star Theatre; prove that they are critics that no And sweetly in the Fountain's
It in shade, Forbes-Russell Comedy Co., pres Hivernent cun despise. sents "Peg O My Heart," 9.15 p.nt. known that innuense loans amount The Flow'rs of Edon cam.
ng to £1,600,000,000 in sterling The pollen gone our love divine~ value were inised by the French
overment and supposed to be Deep love of all our dreams; Bevoted to the work of restoring the Belingered though we drink of regions devastated by the Great'
The news of the death of Charles de Lesseps at the age of 74 which Heuter cables to-day regals his connection with the famous "Panama Scandal" which resulted from the injudicious attempt of his father, Ferdinand de Lesseps, to construet the Parima Canal with un fark Flushed with the success! which and enwned his qarlier
October 5.8-Hongkong Jockey achievement the man who had made Club's fourth Gymkhana. the Suez Canal set out to conquer}
MEETINGS.
HEXA
sport.
Wine---
the 'viehen and the Chugnes und October 6. Twenty-seventh War. It is als known that the Engulfed our living streams. Failed and lost his fortune in the ordinary ammunt meeting of the discrepancy between the money Sweet strenias of spirit and of flesh, Broggle 11 not his fame for Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage expended and the results achieved Proclaiming peace and war: pusterity has already forgotten his filter end remembered only his C, Ltd., at Co.'s Town Office. constitutes a scambi of the first Enveloping our poles afresh,
Lower Albert Rond, noon.
magnitute. Especial interest is Ant blonding evermore. When his ill-fated Pamuna
October 9.-Hongkong Hockey being attached to a new novel Company was wound-up in 1988 the Club; annual meeting in the Hong-published in France, Le Reeril desh, grant, Ye Goils, we may employ aniversaries of the French Republic, kong Cricket Club Pavilion, 5.30 forts which purports to give a We pray, fint here we may enjoy,
Our Love, without the sting! sooking to bring discredit upon the
airly correct picture of the condi Government for its part in the P..
October 15.-Extraordinary gen-tions prevailing in the devastated And love och living thing t affair, made such a big noise about!
The hero is a Ok, gianf us give,, to ride" the it that the Government was forced eral meetings at Hongkong Hotel, parts of France.
Pedder Street, of the Hongkong young architect who after the wur stream in self-defence to have judicit Hotel Co., Ltd., and the Shanghai goes to settle in a village easily Of Life and Love we know, evedings taken against Ferdinand de lessee, lis son ('hurler, and fools, Ltd., at 11 a.m. and 11.30 distinguishable, hoping for employ-Bo everlastingly a dream two of his co-workers. Charles trieda, respectively. Ltd divert the state in his own
hed to prevent it reaching his i faller and be so for succeeded in This that the persecutions of which he was the object compelled him to! spread three years from 1896 to 1890
The annual aquatic sports for in England where his participation children attending the Garrison in the ungement of the Suez Schools, will be held in the V.R.C. Canal had won for him some strong bath to-morrow afternoon., The friendships. The elder de Lesseps first event is at 2.30 p.m. Livin istud, serording to some,
necounts he was unconscious of the! disastrous events which took place during the closing wonths of his
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JOHN KYOTO.
ment on the rust work of recon- [To live where'er we go! struction all around. He is honour-į Cable, generous. enthusiastic, eargerly looking forward to doing good work for France for the war victims, whose homes and farms the battere:l down. Th: Keeper of the little exlaminet, whose land is a mass of shellholes, put up a hotel and dance hall so trenches, barbed-wire, and rubbish. resplendent that the first story was
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A large number of coupon have boon sent in for our ciñems pietura voting contest: Readers will be well advised to hand their votes in early as possi« ble to facilitate registration. $50 will be found a usuful sum in these slump times and with local exhibitors giving of their best, cinoma patrons should find it well worth trying for the *prize. There is no entrance leo. Just fill in the coupon an Pago 9 and send it to the China Mail. Readers can submit as many as they like but will bo well advised to vary their selections.
Coupons will be received not ister than Monday, and the result will be announced next Wednesday.
WATER POLO LEAGUE.
REPLY TO MR. LOGAN'S VIEWS.
STATEMENT BY R. G. A
[By Argus.]
The China Mail having
the
ed to give their views in the matter.
1. The presence of Mr. Brodie was
this poor ravaged country higher than the roof-ridge of the end, like a cloud of harpies, all original hovel. One of his neigh-published the views of Mr. kinds of adventurers eager to exploit | hours who lived opposite, in a per- W. Logan, Chairman of the needs and credulitics of the petual state of feud with him, hung Victoria Recreation Club, in con- Tomorrow October 5th being inhabitants, whose one passion is up in his window a photograph of nection with issues arising out of the 13th anniversary of the estab- to get the compensation promised by ho estaminet in 1914; so telling authe match between the V.R.C and lishment of the Portuguese Repulic, the State and set thoir lives going insult for every passing eye to R.G.A. first teams in the Hongkong the Consul General for Portugal gain. Traffickers in war damages rejoice in that the im-keeper's Water Polo League, the Games. will be at home to the Government do a thriving trade, buying a daughter had to use all her charms Committee of the R.G.A, was invite Officials, Members of the Consular clains for small sums in caal that to blandish its removal. Corps, and the Portuguese Com-enable the sellers to begin rebuild-
Delightful was the case of the The statement follows:- unity and friends at the Club ing. Contractors flourish, promis- sisters Fargoton. The elder was' Lusitano from 11 am to non-ing everything, undertaking any the lucky one, with the finest villa only known to us after the time the thing, getting instalments, seatup in Crécy; the younger was poor and game was due to commence 1.e.9 p.m. When his presence was dis- ing their work, supplying materials had nothing but a very humble covered the RG.A. Water Polo The Captain Superintendent at top prices, often even decamping cottage. The cottage was demolish Secretary protested to the Referee the nonce our Cassels one and of Police notifies that traffic on the with, the first payments and doing lel, the vith spared except for against his playing. He was re- Island Road between Shaukiwan nothing. A principal character cracked tile or two. Now all was ferred to the Secretary of the tupeny book of quotations is out on lon nd we, and our readers, are and Chai Wan Gap will be held up whose name in the novel bas its changed. The youngest minds her V.R.C. who is also Captain of the much the poorer thereby America during the Motor trials on Saturday significance, cues along with no claim at $1,000 francs; passed at V.R.C. "A" Team and Secretary is probably the home of the Jazz at that sen 2.30 and 4.30 per definite intentions. simply after coefficient of 51, this gave her more of the Hongkong Water Polo As
also that Second Street between money. The resources of the coun- tin 225,000 francs for rebuilding sociation. Our Water Polo Secret- and the two-legged hopper. the Pokfulum Road and Kui Yan Lane try being only mins and corpses, he So a sumptuous villa rose on the ary asked to see the Membership Tazzer. No harm in that. Auericu will be closed to vehicle traffic takes these for his raw material. cottage site with bow windows Book but was shown only the is rapidly becoming the home of the from Sunday, October 7, till further First he obtains an enormous con- twice as wide as the elder sister's. Visitors Book, The Secretary of Arts with a big A. Juzz is not to notice.
The latest
tmct for clearing the ground at have all its own way,
Infuriated and jealous, the elder the V.R.C. insisted on playing this contribution is that made by the The Hon. Treasurer of the 45 francs a cubic metre, according hous. But she put in a claim for
prices ranging from 10 fines to could get nothing for her undamaged man in face of the objection.
2. On September zz the R.G.A. head of the house which has given Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hos to the material, rubble, stone, cut furniture; and as the younger Hon. Secretary of the H.K. Water Water Polo Secretary wrote to the Thirth to that lured of mortals ontpitals bega to acknowledge with stone. As he pays his workmen asister's house grew up from the Polo Association asking if a stro
of which, or whom, has arisen that hunks the following donations uniform 4 franes, his profits are foundations she would remember classic of a byegona age: "Up caune Li Wing-kwong, E.
$100 worth white, and the State pays something more, Johnny with his catuera." Mr.
J. M. Wong, Esq. Eastina has spent quite a million Clan Sai-k. Esq dollars (gold) in providing his native Kwok Sui-tun, Esq. city with the finest theatre that Lo Chap-shari, s- Lever was, and endowed it, that | Fung Ping-shan, Esq. the beat in all forms of art, may Ip Wing-cho, Esq. have, free and unencumbered-play- Mok Man-choo, L. That is not going to knock Jazz Li Ping. Esq. ... on the bead by my means. There Wong Yoi-taug, Esq. is a vast constituency that likes its Mok Kon-sung. Es. music red hot and which does not Chi Kung-po, Esq. require a frown, a frigid look, and a Ma Chi-hung, Beg,
Jazz strikes a popular Yan-chuen. Esq. bas had in two qualities, different connections of the enter need and fond as we think we are Herszano, Thrany, Oor. 4, 1929, prise that some of China's sons are of the best in music, we should look capable of originating and main-person whose feet do not beat in
try to establish a co-operative incts, turned his attention to the (a) They were kept waiting threes society, the members of which dead, and for regrouping nati taining, and seeking in various ways time, whose shoulders do not move.
would combine and put instalments cemeteries and isolated graves got nice her prestige and and, whose eyes do not light up!
paid into a common fund. But contracts for moving the bodies ar honesty and fairness do not score in 73 francs ench, a profit of something It was pointed out to us yester,fenlighten her people. The spering when the strains of a really virulent juzz beats on the air. We only
this scramble: the members are like 50 franes. As this first contract that whitt an immens of a bruch of the Ho Hong Bunk protest when the classic hen roost
suspicious and reluctant to forge Mrs. H. B. Harker was a passen-anything in favour of someone else.but I have a notion it will be a
was estimated at 20,000 corpses ismonent of prominence is given to is perhaps merely a commercialis rabbed and our favourite Prelude, matters which are the occasion of natter of perhaps only pussing or Spring Song, is impounded with ger on the incoming "Arafura." Sometimes the amounts advanced good deal better-the affair pro
to dispute referees' decisions in are more than enough, and then the ruined well.
previous matches. strife, outrage, politieni trickery, sont, but it represents the out anyone's leave, and made to do
4 We fully apreciate the allot- Mr. W. Adamson, Mr. and Mrs claimant will not give up a farthing.! we don't think its playing the game pelty squabbles, rivil wars, and the launching out of another tentarle of duty as a dance tune.
Au architect got himself entrusted ment of the V.R.C. Bath to the other items in ways that are dark comer which has proved its even if its playing the tune. Apart Ammuller, Mr. and Mrs. Collison let the whole house be painted with: work amounting to a hundred Services. The Services subscribe with which the Chinese are sup/worth gisewhere and become not a from all this we profess to be deeply Mr. and Mrs. Costello, Mr. and again, tear up the deal floor and put million fmnes. He simply drew his to the V.R.C. Sports either in the posed to be very efficient, very little fitte factor in helping the wheels of interested in the "Jazz Invasion" Mrs. Ferguson, Mr. J. G. Greig, down oak, put in a marble fireplace 5 per cent.; furned it out at 3, form of subscriptions or trophies.
instead of the country hearth.
The Mayar got his claim accept-plans and dossiers. Sometimes his Hongkong Water Polo League and ed by the Comunision Cantonale, subordinates were commipt as well as their supporters usually turn up in thanks to his son-in-law, the expert incompetent, and would share graft large numbers for which they pay adviser, at his full estimate of with contractors who supplied bad Entrance Fees. 1300.000 fmuce, 1914 valuation, materials, and would pass bills for
which at the coefficient of the work never done.
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AWAKENING CHINA.
with absolute suspicion on
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Honestly,
As Jazz
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
piano, a great firm Referee had been appointed 100 The Boche will pay all in the long cupboard, and add them to the list for the game and suggested Mr. G. T. May. On the 23rd the Sacre- Chinese The harassed official cubed up her rum, so it is all right. 100 labourers were kept shifting earth inventory and found tlust it came to replied that the question of the tary H.K. Water Polo Association 100 at a cost of 50 francs a cubic metre more than the cubic space of the Referee had not been settled. 100the inhabitants would have done whole house, including the garret-Nothing further regarding the e 100 it for one. The war victims sent up softs. "If the pieces were piled one feree was heard until the timeof the grossly influted claims for com- on top of another in every room the match. Neither the secretary not 100 pensation: those who were fair ceilings would burst*** All the captain of the R.G.A. team were 100 were left in the lurch. In assessing same, though her claim was sealed consulted regarding the appoint 100, the damage the Commission Cantown, at the coefficient of
300
100
she ment of Mr. Meek. In view of the
100 tonale was advised by an expert in did remarkably well, and was able long delay in starting it wa
ench case: and, however unfair or to take some of the wind out of her obviously useless to press the 100 absurd his report, it was always sister's suits with a superb, motor-question of the referee further. 100 accepted, unless there was a relative car!
or friend to support, or an enemy to
1,500
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Trade and Commerce more a little with which the Admiral Line Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal, Mrs, T. effort is used to secure, and space
Steamship Company promise us. If Neave and Mrs. P. A. Wilkie were Dr. Lim Boon we may be allowed to say so, and passengers on the outgoing given to items of news which more smoothly. redound to the credit of China and Keng's recital of the ins and we apologise deeply and desperately, press of Russia." Chinese and prove that the country efforts of the Amoy University it is an Admiral idea. is possessed of sons jealous for her which probably owes its inception anda go, our promised visitors are
the hope echo
that dancing reputation and sager to advance her to him and of which he is the of the distinguished order and we honoured and enthusiastic head, is entliusinats will be given an oppor- in the arts and sciences, to raise the Chinese idealist in a practical tunity of fox-trotting to the real the people to a higher conception of vein. The brief story of Mr. Tanthing. Pings, and to make it so that China Kab-kee's-a Singapore merchant
in take her place in the family of benefaction to the extent of Today's Poem. nations as one entitled to respect $12,000,000 for the establishment
ist
(Worth.)
That tells just how we stand; But how mon trust us whon- We need a helping hand!
JOHN KYOTO.
1023.
COMEDY COMPANY.
"BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH
3. The conduct of the spectators
cut down. The her and a friend during his profits on clearing con- causes ***
Bouzier, finding competition re- was probably due to the following
quarters of an hour, the game having been fixed to start af o'clock. In this connection it may be remarked the R.G.A. would have been perfectly justified in claiming the points, (b) There have been tendencies
pocketing the difference for signing There are five Army Teams in the
A PROPOSED REMEDY;'
moment gavo him more than a And, of course, all this crew were million and a half: Add allowances dead against reparations in kind. It would appear that the best way and inderanities amounting to a The victims themselves wanted out of the present unsatisfactory round million, and be drow two and houses, but the contmotors wanted position would be for a meeting of WIFE.”
a balf millions for a property high prices and monopolies.
the Hongkong Water Polo A880 insured in 1914 for 120,000 francs, "Nothing from the Bocheciation Management to be called to To-night's programine at the Star including all his crops. And he eries Labadou. "Rather than decide, the points at issue which is an adaptation by Arthur Wim- meant to pocket the money, only accept a stone from those who are:
burned our houses we would peris from the French of Alfred build the minimum amount, and
(1) Whether -Mr. Brodit was Savor, Mr. Wimperis is reckoned wait till the cost of building should prefer to live and die in the tragic qualified to play in the League. one of the ablest writers of comedy drop by half before putting up the majesty of our ruins.".
(2) Whether the Hon. Secretary at the present time, and proof of rest. The other farmers pulled
All these and many other details of the League and Captain of the the success of the adaptation of faces, but only said, "So long as are given simply as part of the V.R C. was justifield in inviting a-
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" des fa there's, enough for everybody."
frame and setting of the story; thay gentleman not on the official list of the fact that it is still going strong at the Globe Theatre, London, after M. Jonent's factory at Crécy had are not intended in any way as pro-referees to take the match.
(3) Whether, in view of the employed a hundred local hands. paganda, but they carry a very objection made by the R. G. A a run of many months.
The amusing plot deals with the Ho began to clear the site and grave indictment, which will take a
Water Polo Secretary, the match escapades of an American mil rébuild, but on getting his advances great deal of refuting. It lends a
THE FUTURE. lionaire in Paris, His marriages he stopped the work except for three new significance to the desperate should not be replayed.
When these vital points have and divorces are so frequent that or four men to keep up appearnces, insistence of M. Poincaré an screw- His purpose is to reach it in he becomes appropriately dubbed invested his 1,200,000 franca in ing money out of Germany regard been decided, it would be advis this, the painter's month, "Bluebeard." Eventually homeots Bons de la Défense, drawing 72,000 less of any consideration as to her able to call a meeting to fathom and if four monthie of deluge a lady to whom his millions make franes interest. The reason he was capacity to pay. The money spill-public opinion as to the advisability bid one expect four wooks of litle appeal, however, and it is in no hurry to go on was twofolded over the devastated regions for and feasibility of placing the com- good weather, be any so upon the byplay between the two he would wait for cheaper building the benefit of the corrupt and groody petition next year in charge of a Kunehom in all ila autumnal that the plot turns.
prices; and, antit he could get his was borrowed and squandorod in the similar-body to that of the Hong- charme mentir sooner, bet Tomorrow night, for the fare workmen on his own terms. When belief that it would ultimately come kong Football Association....
It is not in the interests of true would only have painted pio well: performance in Hongkong, reconstruction was at an end and from German pockets; what will tares for Noah's now house "Pog O' My Heart" will be pre- they could no longer got good wages Franco think of all this orgy of sport that any one club or any of after the Flood
sented, and a record house la elsawbero fe would take them at corruption and plander if she is left its officials should assume control expected. Walpole.
of the Water Polo League. ten frates a day take it or leave it. to pay for it herself?
WEATHER CALENDAR.
OCTOBER 4.
and every consideration, Not of the Chimi Institute to accom- "Tis not the property we have, everyone who aspires to, gr medato 2,000 pupils is inspirationa! engaged in Government service, is rending, whilst the donation, of hin a charlatan and a rogne souking the profits in business made during the greatest good for self. Not every war for the University itself, is tó General is corrupt. There are those say the least a matter for praiso in who, if they do not exactly leaven these days of apparent selfishness. the whole, do show that con- There is no need to recount all that scientious effort is being made in Dr. Lim Boon Keng says the ways that are true and of good University of Amoy has done and ia report. It should therefore be the doing, in the teaching of the 1702. aim of all to give credit where credit | different subjects be enumerates- is duo and to bring to notice those which oven includes courses in self-effacing efforts which are being journalism so that Chinese news- directed with unselfisk aim and papers may becouse staffed with the The good is oft interred high idealism of their calling who with their bones perlispa, whilst the will realise their responsibility to amighty deeds of others are the public. Similar items of blazoned abroad as if they were bonefaction and high outlook, of
tive.