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THURSDAY. JULY 24, 1924.
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perienced Chinese Assistant allotted on the 19th day of May, required for large British firm in 1923, has been made by the Company, Hongkong. Must be good writer | and that such call, will be payable to and quick at figures. Sound the Company's Bankers, The knowledge of English. Apply box Hongkong and Shanghai Banking | No. 303. Corporation in Hongkong on or before the 15th day of August 1924
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED."
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Dollar's 'per share for the six the reduced rate of $80 for the months ending 30th June 1924 will round Vorage, including Meals be payable on THURSDAY, August while the steamer is in port. ..14th on which date Dividend Warrants These Special Tickets will be may be obtained on application "at available for return only by this the Company's Office, 11 Queen's steamer, either by the Voyage for Road Central... which it is issued or by her following sailing from Foochow.
Duration of stay at Foochow 48, hours.
The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the steamer will leave Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at * p.m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather!. permitting).
The Company's Steam Launch will Convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.
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Remarkable scenes were wit nessed at the British Empire
Hassanein Bey, First Secretary Exhibition at Wembley on Moo- of the Egyptian Legation in Wash day in mal week. Vast, holiday ington, says & London message of crowds visited the Exhibition, and June 8, has just been presented all attendance records went by the the Royal Geographifcal Society, 20 years, had been engaged on with the Founder's gold medal of board. It is estimated that at one the highest honour that can be Rontgen my research work, and period 200,000 people were lined awarded for exploration, and the both Imnds amputated, in Coir no in queues awaiting admittance most coveted by explorers all over
stantinople. the world. Single-handed, and for to the grounds.
the first time, he crossed the south, not by the regular caravan route followed by the Berlouins, bur by back in London from his holiday at The Prime Minister is expected an unfrequented route which led his lume in Tonsionsouth, Moray So congested were the turnstiles unknown oases in the heart of the
to his discovery of two hitherto shire. that the gates had to be thrown desert, the cases of Arkenu and open to ticketholders. Queues Quenat. He also corrected the The Irish Free State has ap hundreds of yards long waited position of the district of wells pointed Professor Smiddy, of Cork, good humouredly outside the oasis itself. For the last forty United States, subject to the north of Kufra and of the Kufra Minister Plenipotentiary in the years both have been placed approval of the American tiovern wrongly on the maps, the first ment. being a hundred kilometres out and the second forty.
It was announced officially that the attendance reached the huge figure of 321,232
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HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHORstaurants and every attraction in the amusement park was besieged. At night Wembley was seen in all the brilliance of its carnival costume. For the great Empire miles were covered in the six and Bonington, who died in London in Two thousand two hundred. The last painting by Richard P. Carnival many coloured fairy lamps a half months camel trek. The 1828, aged 26. and other lights illuminated the journey has been described by Christie for fle. It was a cliff WIPS sold at lake, with its swiftly moving Dr John Bail, the head of the Desert lauiches conveying gaily dressed Survey of Egypt, as an almost drawing only gin. by Rgin.
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L.S. GREENHILL, Secretary. Hongkong. 22nd July, 1924.
NOTICE.
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*Mr. THOMAS GARNER PATERSON as a Partrer in our Firm.
The business will be carried on asi heretofore under the firm name of Anderson and Ashs.
ANDERSON & ASHE. Hongkong, 14th July, 1924.
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Customers are kindly requested
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may
DAY, the 20th August, when Dividend Warrants
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The Share Registers of the Conipany will be closed from Wednesday, 6th August, Tuesday, 10th August, 1924, both days inclusive.
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THE OLD BAILEY,
WHAT SESSION WOULD BE LIKE IN FRANCE.
A French Jurist writing in a home paper BAYS*~*
If I met. Sir Henry Dickens, K.C., in the tube I should not recognise him again, but I know if I go on riding in the tube for ever I shall never meet him. Yet have I stood mutual apologies) in a train, the on the toe of a French judge (with "Landru Special" to be precise and I know I am likely to theet
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These thoughts grossed my mind. the other day when I sat in the Old Balley, and tried to compare Commion Serjeant's Court at the the different methods of meting out justice as practised in France and England. If the Old Bailey
French would be a picture of the Court there King, because in every court and bust of the Republic. On the walls police station in France there is a would be a motto, the equivalent of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity:" There would be much more noise"; there would be much more 'fuss; In France the judge is like the Oh much more of everything.
the prisoner: Public Prosecuter. He says to "Tell me now, why did you kill your wife ?" To which the prisoner answers: "Mister, the Judget I did not kill an assumption of anger comes my wife" And the judge, with back with: "Now, now; did you shout her or did you strangle her? In France a prisoner is held to be guilty until he proves himself innocent."
unique achievement in the annal The island dance floor was of exploration. Hossanein Bay thronged, and confetti battles filled brought back a complete survey of ourly 50 years a minister at Rams, The Bev. Herman Stundel for up interludes between the dancing. the route he followed, and accurate Miniature orchestras toured the positions of the oases he discoveresato Synagogue, who had a wom grounds, and an historical note and others which had been placed fiber of Hebrew erature was struck by the three thousand wrongly on the maps. He als
and manuseipas, has died suddenly, Bristolians in the Bristol pageant, has a collection of geologica "ged 77. who took part clad in the gaily specimeds, a valuable set of photo coloured costs of days of old. graphs, and a cinematograph film 4 ten o'clocs a marpon was which will shortly be shown fired, which was the signal for the public. everyone to join hands in the great link of Empire handshake, which Hassanein Bey, who has been extended right round the lake, and staying in London, is leaving for included citizens from every corner France to fence for Egypt in the of the Empire. The carnival pro- Olympic Games in Paris. Next" cession, which marched to the month he goes back to America to British Government Pavillon, was resume his official duties. In a a remarkable sight
interview with a representative of "The Observer," he some impressions of his journey across the Libyan desert. The the Hebrew Eusigration Aid think the Common Serjeant would
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Britain and Central Europe through To help emigants stränded in exhaustion of the United States quota till July 1, a delegation of
Society arrived at Southampton.
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On the Landru Special, as we used to call the train which took the witnesses, and the journalists the judge, the Public Prosecutor,
everybody. One evening I saw the judge was hail fellow with to and fro from Versailles to Paris,
him rise politely and give up his. seat to a large blonde; then hé
took a paper bag, and from the stood and chatted with the Public- Prosecutor, and from his pocket bag a sausage roll. which he munched meditatively. I do not
do that.
great thing that struck me," he said, "is the extraordinary change that has taken place in the desert.
I cannot visualise the counsel for Only forty-five years ago, when
the defence in the case at the Old Mour-ears, in which
Jard Bailey going out into the lobby the intrepid German explorer, Birkenhead and the wife of the while the hearing is suspended, Rohlfs, went to Kufra, there were Guekwar of Baroda were riding, and talking to reporters and the vast patches of grass in the desert collided in High-street, Watford public concerning the merits of the which are now dry brushwood, and Both were slightly ent by broken case. I cannot imagine a man on have been so for the last few years. gluss, but were able to continue trial for his life at the Old Bailey
"At Quenat, the second oasis their journeys. discovered, I came acruss, very
being treated as an animal at bay! interesting
Press photographers standing on rock drawings of
the ledge of the dock and fixing a ostriches, giraffes, and other At a conferere hetween the hundred candlepower lamp to animals. The absence of the eniployers at the Wembley Exhibi- obtain a good "close-up" as the camel-seems-remarkable Now-tion Amusement Park ini mgje-judge pronounces sentence. Yet
■days one cannot reach these sentatives of the Workers' Uney, all these things have I seen across oases from any point except with an advance of 10s, per week on the the Channel.
a caniel, and neither giraffes nor existing minimu seles
Wus
I do not think the British 'public at a murder trial would drink Champagne and est foie gras sandwiches; nor would women produce lip-sticks and powder- puffs; but it is done-across the Channel.
ostriches can live there now. It agreed to.. would be interesting to know the date of the drawings. Was the came not known at all to the Mr. Leslie Heward, who is inhabitants, of these parts of and a conductor of the British Africa at the time the drawings National Opera Company, las were made, or was the nature of been appoirited musical director the desert different from what it and conductor of the Capetown the Old Bailey by the silence, I was particularly impressed at is to-day was there more grass, Orchestra, and will leave for South broken only by the scratching and were other animals" of burden Africa shortly.
of quill pens, by the dignity of used?
British justice, and, above all, by its scrupulous fairness. The defendant... The Conservative Party in the surrendered to his bail, and was Lewes division of Sussex will meet bowed into the dock by a police- to select their candidate for the man. A wonderful dock, large by-election caused by the apjunt and furnished with chairs and Conservative member, as Governor flowers. Possibly by request.
I notice there were no ment of Colonel Campion, the tables. of Western Australia.
But at the very end I found something that was the same in both cities-the C3 looking young
"Many of the treks of old routes in the Western desert of Egypt point in a direction towards Ouenat, and it is probable that the route from Mediterranean coast to Central
Africa in ancient times was through Ouenat," and not through Kufre, as it is now. This may afford a valuable link for archæolo gical research.
"The discovery of the oasis is important, because on account of to Holland will start.
Amsterdam, the same evening.
in Rotterdam and know were detectives,
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CLOCK OF DEATH.
An additional week day air mail men, with ferrety chins and shifty water being known to be there, which must reach the G.P.O.. and looking very important when Letters, eyes, dodging about the corridors, explorers will have more scope for King Edward-street, C., before summoned to conferences in the their work in that part of the desert, 1.35 p.m., will be delivered without corner with men a blind man would especially as they have been extra fee, located accurately on the map by astronomical Fobservations. And, incidentally, the presence of these gases in Egyptian and Soudanese territory may prove useful for of the black tribes of Tebu and Goran. Though they live from day to day on the verge of starva- the international pue at Copen-astronomical clock of Henry VIII. tion, they are nevertheless very hagen later in the month. happy people.
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By the stopping of the famous
at Hampton Court Palace, and the death, within a few hours of one DIFFICULTIES OF TREK.
of the palace inmates the ancient "Sandstorms were the great difficulty at the beginning of the
legend surrounding the "Clock of Warabhay Beranji Darabsette, Death has once more been journey. They are a real danger 45, and his wife were discharged fulfilled.
and Robert George, 34, engineer, if one is going on a trek with no landmarks, especially if the gale was fined £3 at Willesden on a is facing one; It is then very charge of stealing a diamond tie-pin difficult to keep one's bearings and some cloth panels from 119, land follow the route.
Drayton-road, Harlesden, N.W..
"The trek from Quenat to the hills of Erdi was the most difficult of the whole journey. At one
Tradition runs that the stopping
of the clock portends the imminent death of a palace resident.
On Friday afternoon, for the first time for many years, the clock stopped, and on Friday night an elderly woman, Miss Jane Cuppage, daughter of General Sir Burke Cuppage who fought at Waterloo,
time it looked as though the of my own experience and of the caravan was to end its progress Libyan desert without being was found dead in her apartment. here. It was a ten days trek fatalist. The desert has a great without water, and we were caught charm and fascination, but it can was started again, and no cause On Saturday morning the clock hy the heat, wave, which badly also be terribly cruel. It is when you for its stoppage could be dia- affected the camels and the men. see the camels walking with their covered." The guide 'was also not sure of the heads drooping from exhaustion
An official of the palace said route, as he had not been there for and thirst, when your guide an-that twice within his personal several years. However, we manswers your question about the route knowledge someone aged to pull through.
with a vague and hopeless God few hours after the clock stopped." Towards the end of the journey, knows best, and your map is a
Made in 1540, the clock registers after getting over the long water blank, when your water is scarce the hour of the day, day of the less treks, accentuated by the and there is no sign of the next month, position of the sun, number summer heat, we had to cope with well, when you scan the horizon
has died a
the difficulty of the ground, which and it to the same hazy line be of days since the beginning of the had then become very rocky and tween the sky and the Bands for, and high water mark at
●H◆H◆HONGK@H@H@H@H@H@H@Ha broken: The camels were dead whichever way you look, it is then London Bridge.
Theat, and it required great the traveller feels in need of the TICK OHO
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It is often said that the Bedouin is shortly publishing & book of bis and prostrating diarrhoea. Chain ber
fa unnecessarily a fatalist, but no journey. It will be the arat hook iain's Colls and Diarrhoen Remedy girte one can live in the desert dotie of the dashrt written in English Instant warmth, comfort and case from long treka—and here I am speaking I by a man of the dosage!
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