ANNIVERSARY MONTH
AT
THE CORONET
Saturday, December 6 RUDOLF VALENTINO
Hero of The Sheik" and The Four Horsemen.
in
16
BLOOD
and
SAND
LAST WEEK
of the
MOTOR CAR DRAW
in aid of the funds of the
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL for the support of the Poor of Hongkong
a 1925 BUICK standard light six 5 Passenger Touring Car equipped with BALLOON TYRES and Four Wheel Brakes, etc.
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and 3 CONSOLATION Prizes
2nd
3rd..
Brunswick Phonograph Singer Sewing Machine Portable Underwood?
To be drawn for on the night of the 41st
ANNUAL AL FRESCO FETE
:
7th December, 1924,
TICKETS $3.00 ONLY
may be obtained at Cafe Wiseman, Alexandra Cafe, Blue Bird Hongkong Cigar Store, Brunswick Studio, Graca & Co., China Auction Room, Noronha & Co., and other Stores and Clubs; and in Kowloon at Peninsular Store, Station Hotel, Bookshop at the Ferry, Duro Motor Car Co.,etc.
Do not put off buying your ticket until the Fete.
a few tickets left."-
HELP HONGKONG'S POOR.
THEATRE
ROYAL.
SIX NIGHTS COMMENCING AT NINE" O'CLOCK
DECEMBER 12th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th
THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD-
BOOKING NOW OPEN AT ANDERSON'S
PRICES: $3.00, $2.00 and $1.00
THIS XMAS
is a pleasure to give and a joy
to receive a
CONKLIN PEN
Pen that never fails to give perfect
writing service.
Bole Agents:
THE WING ON CO., LTD,
I. HONG KONG
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL
A masage from The Hague, announces that Mr. Van der Goes, Netherlands Minister to Lisbon, will shortly be appointed Minister to Cairo. He will succeed Mr. Van Limburgstigum...
A fight occurred between two Kangs of lepers at the Pulau fere jak leper
"settlement, Kuala Lumpur, and resulted in several being injured, one of whom died as a result of a stab wound through
the heart.
AND GENERAL.
United Asbestos Founders Shares are quoted at $500 (buyers); the quotation for Ordinaries is $16.
Chefoo is having trouble with Its whisky. A Chinese has empty started buying up the bottles of a particular brand, Alling
The loss of a wallet containing them up with some form of alcohol and selling this as the genuine $85 from his bedroom is reported article. As an antidote to this by Mr. N. Blumenthal, of No. 2, practice consumers have been Ausun Avenue. asked to deface the labels on all their empty bottles.
The Chinese press. of Shang- hai tells the story of a young man who was sent by his master to carry $600 i silver and $400 in China has been invited to send motes to "a business house in a delegation to the Paris Art Ex-Pootung, and it is related that he hibition which takes place next accomplished the remarkable feat year from April to Novehuber. Mr. of travelling there in a motor bus. Chen Lu, the Chinese Minister in It is further said that he was set, France, has sent one of bis associ- upon by "three men wearing old, ates Home to confer with the lead-uniforms" and robbed "of his ing Chinese artists."
money, and that He afterwards, wrote to his faster reporting the robbery." It must have been kind thought which a very prompted the letter, remarks the
N-C. Daily News."
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A Mestrovic marble bas-relief valued at $50,000, borrowed from the Yugoslav Government fell to the ground when being hoisted into position at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. It was broken into four pieces. It is hoped how ever that it can be repaired.
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By the order of Marshal Chi Hsieh yuan, the Admiralty House at Shanghai has been changed into the Shanghai Department of Naval Affairs. The Nanking Admiralty House will in future be the official headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy,
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Mr. Howard, residing, 'st No. 46. Lyndhurst Terrace, reports the loss of a silk kimono valued at $185 from his bedroom.
A Chinese child, six years old, was injured in the leg in a motor lorry accident at Wing Fung Street, and had to be removed to, the Government Civil Hospital..
A Chinese junk coolle was to the Kwong Wah removed
Hospital yesterday suffering from bodily injuries caused by being caught between two earth trucks at a dock at Tai Wan.
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A paragraph in yesterday's Garrison Orders reads In view of the numerous cases of fresh Infection with malaria that con- tinue to be received at the Military Hospitals, Hongkong and Kow- loon, attention is directed to the circular memorandum of D.A.D.P., C.C. (with special regard to paras. 4 and 5), to which C.O. 1461/13 refers."
The loss of a hand-bag valued at $20 is reported by an employee A letter in "L'Echo de Chine," of Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & recently commented on the pre-Co., Ltd. The bag was left in a sence in the French Concession ricsha outside Messrs. Lock Hing's (Shanghai) of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the shop at Queen's Road Central. Annamite guard outside the house and the careful police precautions to ensure Dr. Sun's safety, and asks why on earth he is allowed the run of the Concession. "If a French citizen indulged in one-hundredth part of the fantasies of Dr. Sun, inciting war and violence, creating foreign hatred and planning in the Concession to renew the regime of An example of the iron dis-murder and pillage which has cipline "maintained among troops characterized the role of this stationed in the Chinese City, gentleman from Canton, he would Shanghai, the Chinese press re-be immediately expelled by the cently reported the case of a police" the letter states. It con soldier who was "ticked off" for cludes by asking: How long is entering into conversation with a this farce going to last ?.. lady at the barrack gate, where he was dolog guard duty. He was Lordered to kneel down and to re- main kneeling until an incense stick which was, then lighted burnt itself out.
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The remains of Daisuke Namba, the young Japanese who attempted to assassinate the Prince Regent, have at last reached their last resting place, not in Zoshigaya A member of the Executive cemetery, as previously given out, Committee of the "Shanghai So- but in the convicts burial ground ciety" has addressed to Tuan Chu-in Minami Ayase in the eastern jui, Feng Yu-nsiang, and others, a suburb, across the River Sumida: memorandum on the improvement The burial itself, was quite event of China's economic and political less; but to make it so cost the affairs, and the following two officials of Ichigaya prison à great proposals adorn a lengthy list: deal of head racking. They did That a limit be put upon the not want the executed radical's amount of property which can be body to become the cause of any inherited, in order to level the more scenes, and how to outwit standing of members of the com- the socialist and other like olements munity"; and," that treaties which that might make attempts to inter are an insult to our national cept it on the road to the burying dignity be abolished in order to place taxed all the mental re bring about equality among sources of Governor Ono and his
subordinates. nations."
SOCIAL AND
Dr. W. W. Peter will leave Shanghai early in December to attend a Health Conference to be held in Cléngtu, the Erst since 1908. It is anticipated that 500 public health workers will be in attendance. His trip will include educational health campaigns" in other parts of Szechuan and it is hoped that it will result in ex- tending the work of preventive medicine and hygiene in the interior.
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The largest post office bullding in China will shortly be completed in Shanghai, where a new central office for the Shanghai district has been erected on the corner of Szechuen and. North Soochow Roads Postal business hunded by the Shanghai office has greatly in creased in recent years. Roughly, the premises are U-shaped in plan. The building is five stories and a 200-foot clock tower rises above The ground the main entrance.
floor will be occupied by the im port and export parcels depart- ment, and one of the counters will be 523 feet long. The second floor will be used as administrative offices and the third as residential fats and quarters for members of the staff. Construction work was started, 18 months ago. tract was given to a Chinese firm, Ah Hong and Co. Building has been rapid and the contract, will be finished several months before the date specified.
The con-
PERSONAL
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The "Shanghai Nippon " ounces the death of Mr. R. Fukuoka, who was for many years teacher at the Tung Wen College, and was a well-known lawyer.
For the second time in the history Hongkong will take part in Full of the Colony the Chief Justice of Court proceedings at Shanghal, the last occasion being about two years. ago. Sir Henry Cowper Gollan will leave for Shanghai to-morrow.
The following arrived by the President Jackson" from Manila to-day Mr. Archibald H. Christie, Mr. "Emile P. Colas, Mr. A." R. Curtin, ML H. Geare, Mr. H. A. Hyndman, Mr. Arthur Leach, Mr. J. Pabalan, Mrs. J., Pabalan, Miss A. Resch, Mr. Geo. Forman, Mr. Allston Gerry, Mr. E. P. Hick, Mrs. E. P Hicks, Miss S. Chadlin, Miss M. Chaßin, and Mrs Thos, Worthen.
Thanks to the energy of several old volunteer firemen, in particular" Messrs. G. E. O. Mayne and L. M. new foreign Beytagh, the volunteer unit of the French Fire Brigade is now definitely estab- lished in Shanghai, and has come Mr. Herbert A. Wiley, manager under the orders of Capt. M. for China of the American Foreign Chapeaux, the chief of the brigade. Insurance Association was enter It will be known as Le Torrent No. tained at the Shanghai Club to az and its first members are the "scrd-off" tiffin last Wednesday following:-Foreman-G. E. 0. by 25 of his British insurance Mayne; 1st Assistant.-W. S. Mr. J. G. Schon, of the Siam friends on the occasion of his Clay 2nd Assistant-A G. State Railways, who twelve coming departure for the States. Mossop; Firemen.-H. A. Atkin- months ago had a bad attack of Mr. Wiley during his four years son, L. M. ff. Beytagh, S. A. Brodt- malaria, necessitating a health trip. residence in Shanghai has taken a korb, D. H. Cooke, H. J. Facra. to Hongkong, has again" broken prominent part in insurance J. F. Feely, I. H. C. Godfrey, R. down. Dr. lb Hansen went out to matters connected with China,
At the headquarters of the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, Liverpool, recently, Captain Arthur L. Gordon, commander of the Blue Funnel (Alfred. Holt) liner... "Lycaon," was presented with the
By the will of Count Louis
The final list of Mipisterial silver life-saving medal of the Zborowski, the racing motorist, appointments is published. Major Grand Priory of the Order of the owner of the car Chitty Bang Bang G. Hennessy, Major W: Cope, Mr. Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem who was killed while driving a F. C. Thomson, Viscount Curzon in England, in recognition of his racing car near Milan, Countess and Lord Stanley, all Members of humate and valuable services in Violet E. Zborowski, the widow the House of Commons, have been saving life on the occasion of the of 47. St. James's-court, Bucking appointed Junior Lords of the great Japanese earthquake 24 ham Gate, S. W., receives £23,000 Treasury, the last two named to be September 1, 1923.
In cash and interest from the unpaid. Col. G. A. Gibbs, Sir residuary estate sufficient to It is stated that trouble has provide an income of £8,450. The Harry Barnston and Capt. D. H.
Hacking have arisen in the institution in the count was a grandson of Mary: Treasurer, Comptroller and Vice- been appointed French Concession at Shanghai, Alice Astor, who was a grand Chamberlain of the Household known as the Shanghai University, daughter of the first John Jacob respectively. Mr. H. D. Margesson owing to the varied political views Astor. The other legatses are has been appoluted Assistant
Hastings, Dragoon Whip. of the students. A number of the Lawrence students belonging to the Com- Guards, Secunderabad, £11,000;
Grimshaw, B. C Hale, I E R bring him back to Bangkok, and Harris, E. A. Jenkinson, (hon. in view of his condition, says the secretory and treasurer), P. A.Bangkok Times," it has been MacDougall, G C Nazer, E. S thought advisable to place him Mr. Schon was Thellefsen, H. N. Wienberg, J. B. under restraint
one of the shell shock victims of Wishart, F. O. Woll.
the war.
munist Party are said to have Mr. Roddan Burn and his wife, The King has given authority to attempted to influence others by Patricia, of Deepdene, Herne Bay wear the following decorations circularizing their views, while £5,500 each; Ronald Mandut, of conferred in recognition of valu some of the others attempted to Secunderabad, a "share in the able services: Order of the prevent them, with the result that residuary estate, and Mr Nalder, Excellent Crop (Chica) Insignia a free fight took place. The pre- of Canterbury, Er1,000, Count of the Second Class, Mr. J. H. sident of the institution is Dr. Zborowski has been buried at Macoun,, of the Chinese Maritime Kiang Kang-hu, well-known Melton Mowbray, Leicestembira Customs. Order of the Striped Chinese Socialist, who recently Countess Zborowshi before her Tiger (China): Insignis, of the visited Moscow and who was marriage was Miss Violet Leicester Third Class, Brig-Gen. R. Marr mentioned as the Chinese Am of the Galety: Theatre Mr and Johnson, CM.G., D.SO., formerly Bassador to Soviet Russia. Some Mrs. Burn were friends of Count Commandant of the Shanghai of the students belong to the Ztarowski Mr. Nalder was also Volunteer Corps: Insignia of the Kuomintang others are Conserva.great friend, and for the past three Firth Class, May G, Graytigge, tives; some are Bolsheviks, and years has been helping in the formerly: Commander of the the remainder Communists of management of the count's Canter Chinese Company of the Shanghai various degreon.
Volunteer Corps.
bury estate..
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1924.
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