PURE CARBOLIC SOAPS
Terprimended by dical Profession.
Guaranteed to contain the amount of Pure Carbolic acid specified per cent For Toilet Use Price 81.25 10 per cent for The Bath
30 per cent Medical Bath
per box 3 Cakes
$25 per box
of 8 Cakes
Soap,
85 cts. per Oake
YOU WILL ENJOY A MOST REFRESHING AND LUXURIOUS BATH BY USING
WATSON'S
Household AMMONIA,
S. WATSON & CO, LTD.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
Powell
Phone O. 4578,
THE POTENCY OF CUT.
The Great Cardinal Factor in Talloring is Epitomised in the work "CUT. That indefinable touch of the artist that lends a Style, and Brands a Distinction upon the Wearer and Producer alike.
The man of discriminating taste thinks well before placing his Tailoring orders with, a firm, without an Acknowledged
Reputation in this Paramount Essential,
Our New Cutter is a Man of 'Ripe Experience.
Upon whose Ability to Render Absolute Satisfaction.
WE HAVE THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE.
TAILORS.
PEDDER
Phone Gerrard 5476
#
STREET.
Tel. "Jamaco" London.
A. C. DISS
Late of Dass BROS. & MACKINTOSE, LTD)
HONGKONG
Clo CAMPBELL LATHAM & CO.
PUN
TAILORS
69, Conduit Street
LONDON, WI.
YICK CHO.
-LAND & ESTATE
AGENTS
Telephone Central No. 911-1987, 35, Queen's Road Central,
ATTRACTIVE VALUES IN MENS WEAR
FINE QUALITA PONGEE SHIRTS
$6.00 each.
*
"DEJALENE" DURABLE WHITE SHIRTS... $5.50 CASHMERE PYJAMAS DESIGNS AND
COLOURS
WASHING TIES
4 Pieces for $1.00
-་
WHITE WASHING BELTS
$4.50 por suit
$1.00 each:
45 Cu
NEWEST DESIGN TIES
BEST ENGLISH MADE GENUINE CORK
HELMETS
"
Now $5,00 ORIGINAL PRICE $9.50
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
TO REMIND YOU
That great cames here mentioned perform exclusively for the Victor Co.
Alda, Amato, Bori, Caruso, Chaliapin, Chemet, Cortot, Culp, Dal Monte, De Pachmaan, Blman, Farrar, Galli-Curci, Gilly Gluck. Heifetz Hreistler, Kubelik, Martinelli, McCormack, Paderewski, Ponselle, Rachmaninoff, etc., etc.
Records of the world's greatest are on our shelves:
Ask for catalogue.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
TRY OUR BREAD
The quality defies competition
10 Cents lb.
AT
MORINAGA CANDY STORE.
fact that there are British ships speedy and comfortable and
routes, effectively controlled by a British navy, which givq, all that, the most exacting traveller can destre.
Good Work.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
HUMAN.
The Shrede man does know Colonel Tillinghast L'Hom
How political enemies become very human in GREAT not their everyday rela tions is illustrated by Mr. Will medieu Huston and is not quite Thorne, the Labour M.P., in his sure if the Bishop will be atto- autobiography "My Life's gether pleased at mentioning him Battles," which Messrs. Newnes and his projected mission to publish at Ss. 6d.
The loca Police Department should have just reason to be proud of their efforts when the statistics for the year come to be
"I have but one purpose. That Mr. Thorne says that he met Europe. The Colonel says":- published as the measures taken since the commencement of the Lord Birkenhead in a London
when he (Mr. is to try to sample every legitim strike four months ago have re- tube station sulted in a
that Europe makes; remarkable Thorne) was about to set out onate form of liquid refreshment. the in falling off
number his wartime visit to Russia..
"I may not live long, but I want which in of serious crimes
"Hello, Thorne," said Lord
F. E. to be able to gasp out in my last normal times fill the daily regis Birkenhead (then Sir ter. This happy result has been Smith). "I've been reading words that I had a few weeks of not feel that I should! *I 43u achieved by hard work on the about your going to Russia as a unashamed drinking before I died. part of the officials of this depart- delegate. Do you know it is very
have to drink in private. Drink- ment and to some extent through cold out there?"
These latter in- other causes.
Mr. Thorne replied that he onlying is not a crime. clude the vlauable assistance of knew of what he had read of "The average American is law- special constables, the quietening | Russia.. effect on evildoers by the pre-
with
Despite the Labour member's
abiding, but he can't persuade himself the Volstead act is a law. So he ignores it. I don't know any one in New York who doesn't drink. But they're law-keeping citizens..
"You "Oh!" came the reply. sence of the mobilised Volunteers, had better take this coat and the stoppage of the Canton traffic, which enabled the authori-you." ties to exercise more efficient con- trol on Chinese passengers by protests, Lord Birkenhead insist ships. Added to these is the good ed on lending his magnificent which resulted in eliminating the coat there and then. lawless element by periodical raids on suspected houses and dwellings in general,
CHARMED 1492.
A LUCKY SWEEP TICKET NUMBER.
MOVIE AND FORTUNE.
Mr.
My bootlegger is, for exam
He has ple, an excellent man.
12
told me from time to time that he Lady
would never dream of selling Astor regarded Thorne with special favour benarcotics, for, he explains, "It's cause he gave his corner seat in against the law.” - the house of Commons to her...
"Just after this incident," he relates, "she presented me with two gold-cased pencils and beautiful diamond and pear? tie- pin.
"Bus, after all, we have' never, in all American history produced a single bottle of real whiskey or a legitimate drink of beer. quality of drink has deteriorated especially in the past
The
year,
"When I was ill in Aberdeen she though in recent months it has sent me roses from her own gar-improved a bit.” den. During my wife's illness Prohibition bath her heroes. Has any particular number speciu she also sent her fruit and Arthur's Knights in search of the significance 11 Jotturies, cash flowers, as well as to my son when Hoiy Grail are not in it with the sweeps, rates, draws, etc. purely he was in hospital in Falmouth." Colonel. Though he may be matters of lock in which each and
Mr. Thorne was later a guest misunderstood the Streds man overy number has the same chance?
Some peopls maintain that No. at one of Lady Astor's political believes he is not far wrong in 738 has a better chance of winning dinners, but he would only go on accusing the Colonel of red ten than, say, 777. Agu, the first condition that he could wear his densies. Who nose! and last number in a sweep are everyday clothes.
ways thought to not have the The last page of the book con- slighest chance of coming out."tains a pathetic reference to the
last author's late wife. Plios: who wont down to Satindays' mces will be able to bear
"During the 30 years of our timony, that ticket No. 1 won a married life," he writes, "I had big prize
At any rate a story is going many ups and downs, all of which gond town that ticket No. 1492 she shared with me. She was a in next year's Derby sweep of a thrifty and economical Chan travellers had in this connection.al, chibin avhich the total is cellor of the Household Exche-best of all, Mischa plays at the
A. P. C. BUILDING.
The China Mail
(Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription, excluding postaga abroad, B.K. $38, payablo In advance. Local delivery free.)
Overland China Mail.
(The weekly edition of the "China Mail." Annual subscription, H.K. $13 including postage $15, payable in advance.)
Published by
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Printers & Publishers
No. 5.WYNDHAM ST.,HONGKONG Telephones Central 22 & 4641. Cable Address: Mail. Hongkong..
All communications should be addressed to the Newspaper Enter- prise, Ltd., to whom all remittances should be made payable.
London Offices:-The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Lid, 24, Devonshire Bloomsbury, W.C.1.
Street,
Tel. C. 4702.
quer.
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
One impressive feature at least of Mischa Levit his playing.
zki'a recitals, is of the British national anthern. It is played
manis respect. But perlups impressively and thereby com-
oj voramencement and not at the end A judge, the son of a judge, feel-likely to be very big is going to be
"Her foresight was revealed to of his recitals. Here is a prac lucky. Take the cush, sweeps uf ing the restraint of Soviet
est clubs, each ticket costs $10,me in a way I never realised when, zice which might well be copied hospitality, freely acknowledged, But dirket No. 1492 is now assessed after her death, I found that she In Austruha it is almost the In Hongkong it is only feels called upon to recount hist a value of $50. Superstitions? had left me 2450, which she had custom
If you likes. But there is also saved, and of which I knew no-done when H. the Governor is coincidence. Very recently the thing." Queen's Theatre showed a picture) Conductor 1492"* featuring a well- known comedion." For some reason
other, somebody who saw the picture is alleged to have taken a reial aney is the number, bene
rise in value of the ticket. Just
and his fellow-passengers' experi- ences during, a journey home. Three times held up by the over- heating of an axle, may not be a matter worth complaining about;| but a considerable delay due to the work of bandits, is a reason
as there any faditists who say that able cause of complaint, more soj
a number divisible by seven when the work of these outlaws three, or the total of the digits off results in the loss of lives of rail which is divisible by n, will win way workers, and is likely to do a piece of green cheese from the mami, so there will be others whe in the case of passengers and assage from the Goddess of belonging to different countries. Claner in a movie title.
30
The incidents mentioned by Mr. 'W. W. Grantham, K.C., point to serious facts which cannot be blinked. Russia's internal affairs are by no means settled or secure. Counter-revolutionaries appear to Hongkong, Thursday, October 15, 1925. be carrying on a sort of guerilla
VIA SIBERIA"
One of the signs of the return
Was
to normal after the war
་
or
CLASSICAL RECITAL.
LAST NIGHT'S GREAT SUCCESS.
}
présent.
THE ISLAND OF *
"MARY ROSE.”
* The glamour, the mystery, the Į mok, is daanted 'in every su×6
romance of the Rebrides have for the word. been the theme of any g
**There ar
so many roads to and may a stop, Mr. Mae a line, som krev only to the Gregor lits trusted his text with peak gatherer or to the fourkela freshness" ändt miderstanding intherir arste the fisher folks, wh lẻ which must compel attention and others are no more than the boat excite admiration.
Bracks of the mountain hare sad the
• His youthful and vivid itnggina-|úmið, swift-footed deer, sion his love of Nature is all But they all fave their pekars her manifestations;, the distine- Jan? they are visited by the curles tion of his phrasing the in-and the green-hooled adhure mi timney with which he bids his wil the birds that come in from the tenders wander hand-in-hape bringing with them' something with him by the hills and lode of their drep, impenetrable habitat and sens which he loves well. Thear downy-winged strangers, di must take a strong appal, at last fragments of another agt, and any rate to Highlanders, whether continually visiting among They dwell al home or across the | They kuoy all the roads to
Estes, and, as they pay us a al
entrbutions to what is alreruhy at environment of runge mind of fuitit
A 200YEAR OLD VIOLIN,
warfare, and this suggests that Sher delight was the result of "Red" activities now well the concert given last night by known under the word Bolshe-Messrs. Teen Jongen and J. A.-Lord Alts in a Foreword to Passgy adel their inte
Jahold the Hebrides! vism, are not generally appre- ciated. Nor
they, are
*
*
*
Kilewski The progamme opened with the exacting Kreutzer Sonata we of Bethoven, for violin and piano. This tribine by Lord Aless 101 ment."
Litt wonder ist, some lols early considered to be the Via imagine, likely to be appreciated. The title has a Tolstoyan flavour: Mr. Alastair Alpin Manger Siberia mode of travelling to the Thas we may still expect the re./ the composition is one of the great bock Behold the arides! or suffer from wint Masefield cal
arterprices in music Amongst | Wayfering" in the....Westem Beg
scanfeunt sav Mr. Madali or the direction to this moval of balts and pins from rail the whirl and excitement of the bold W. & R. Chambers, Ltd.. 75. Pd. Mudiregor in a later chapter on East.,
The Call of the S effect written on correspondence. way-lines, more or less as a matnd vigorvas opening Presto, then, will be endorsed by all whe
ter of course for some little time y-like send subject stands get Mr. MacGregor's delightful if you and its wateli tla d Only this week is it given as a
out. Nolling is lost of the tetuder hooks. The author, for instance, partim of the feet from Storbosay to come. The statement that the ess of the Andante in the brilliant is familiar with the island so calm, quiet afternoon, or ven piece of interesting news that a
whilst ciated with Parrie's Mary Rose, mail from Home arrived in a re-railway track and rolling stock variations which follow it,
la Im-h gale was blowing, Ins tord transit of twenty days, are both it a "shocking state" the rantelle-like Finale Is He writes in one of his sketches:-}certain that with him you would say
[wonderful appeal. Both artistey The roads to the Poles bave simply must to down to the Information of this sort was fair-suggest a laxity of control due played as to the miner born, and charm that only the romanticist again, to the Iomely sen on the by commor before the war, and either to indifference, or to what adverb rendering, Mendellscomprehend. I am thinking at the sohn's Concerto in E minor moment of a bridle-path that runs. the Via Siberia route was be- is probably more correct, to the sutiful-The Andante and allegro between the great montains of the
"And, as write" 1 food this site coming a fairly popular one with fact that the Government has its movements particularly, Mr. Bile-Forest of Harris on the on side, lever coming over me; and ! those who either were "no sailors hands too full as a result of its wski's techning, lightness of touch, and a gleaming sunlit sea on the alt give anythine if 1 coult bold" or with whom time was of interference in things which it and great interpretive powers other, until it merges into a heather down to the so in the mysterient As a mail can be argued do not concern it in row in lus, rendering of and bracken-vered track for upIsle of Lewis, and linger abag
this thing of sweetness. This was on the hillside.
Those white and golden auks some consequence.
the least.. In the Far East the further shown in a cycle of four It leads by a whaling station to where the plovers and the eurlewa route, the Russia way has yet to be equalled-unless it will be work of Russian politicians is pieces including Comparin's ChatBumbinnester and Aminu wada! Oh! to be scrambling well known. The fact if it is self- Louis XIII and Pavane suidhe-the river of the Stranger mong those rocks that have with equalled and surpessed, as seems
thend, of the Warrior-Gust. Here stood the storms of countless age, to the immense king of evident: To Bolshevicks probable by air mail routes-for
Weljence. Brukas Valse nad heath-sprent path branches off to or to be investigating again that it has meant the early confirma- ascribe all our present troubles, Tampa brilliant Capricios. Mr. 14. the ferry for the Ishand of Sony, cave at Ness, where the pigmies which Mary Rose' wased to dwell, and where the daunt tion of cables, contracts, and and in spite of denials to the con- Jongen is not a whit behind his from
to EAWAY Tir-an-Og.rss sea-rievers of old were wont to orders, and has made home seem trary, there is a vast deal of truth colleague and demonstrated the positited
Hion of great gifts in his The main tack-if it may be conceal their plunder!.... .. just round the corner. It is only in what is said. This pointed work at the piano. Mr. Bilewski's tormed track-continues for an- The sea is a great Jeweller of recently that the line has again warning from home will certainly violin by Guernerin) is exactly other six or eight mides, and ulti- men as well as of things that have 200 years.id. Mr. Jongen had the mately brings one down to the sea no being there is neither disdain been open for traffic and there is have the effect of hesitancy or disfaction of playing on a tuneful in front of the Isle of Scarpan or class distinction abent the s on record the interesting experi- abatention. Sympathise as we Collard and Collard supplied by ishuud simply teeming with spooks Seafaring in a calling whore wafel- ences of those who have essayed may desire to do with counter-Messre. Anderson. The audience and gnomes and weird things that word is internationality. Nothing was large in numbers and keanly only show themselves"in the dark-gould be more pleasingly instructive the journey since the Soviet revioutionaries, sympathy stops.
appreciative.
in these days of imperialistic tens became responsible for the con- 'short at the possibility of being
Anyone who has never seen a dency than to inspect those stringe fay or clf, and sincerely wishes to ly different visitors from many trol of the line.. These experi- killed by them in their efforts to ences were interesting to say the remove from the earth those who dog) I call this dog Sausage, island-road on a dark night, and of a molem seaport town.
First Boy (displaying pet do so, should certainly go along this lands that are berthed in the dock least, but not encouraging to apparently are doing no good on because he's only half-bred-see" meander round the black cerie Seafaring is a calling where all those who contemplated a journey it. Mr. Grantham's warning will Second Boy: "That reminds me walls of Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, and men are men and nothing more. across Europe. The news now probably be misconstrued and of a gont we called 'nearly be-ho will readily be assured of the And what higher praise can we cabled out will effectually dampen misinterpreted. But it will do cause he was all butt; and a prize existence of the supernatural bestow upon a human being in this cockerel was called Robinson, be- Then the Taland of Taransay, which age of artificiality than to say that that would-be good in drawing attention to the I cause he crew so."
also is plainly discernible from this' he is a plain, unaffected man?'*
Any
ardour
NEAR.
ARNO SUG
APPROVES
PATKPOL TELEGRA
Reuters Servic
Berling
hilo official quarters Locarno Conferenc eschel & crisis, it it alter Herr Kempné resident Hindenbur to be followed
on of President
lic Cabinet, a tele
to the German De Locarno,
As chojal" stated t w possibilities eithe Locarno Delegation wo go straight ahead, on A be sent which
result in the brea ference.
PACT SAFE -Excarto communiqué stated maring the juridical
the Conference dopt the greater purt at of the Security F a few points for fur
unofficial announc Allies have give aces, recogmeing imation vis a vis art Covenant, thereby ons
the League boso dence that the Pact w ed in a few days.; es had also been re or pointe, like the
concupation
ONE PROBLEM F Locarn
ATES Gorman Govern Bering Herr Kempner ed by aeroplane to
camo to report pro proved the Delegati It is generally conce tions regarding t Searity Pact are dips
The sole remaining. Prema the guarantee
stern frontiers.
BACK FROM BE
-". Berli
Har Kempner returr to-day The Conferen
umed this evening
Locarn The German delego
President anthorisation to adher
caived
pect.
Rom
Signor Mussolini Lodrno la participate
rk of the conferenc
HIGHER RA
TELEGRAPH CO
DECISIO
(Router's Ser
Par
Subject to the ap plary Conference, Commitice of the Telagraph Conferend that the increased te charges on Telegrame plid on April 1, 1928
The increases, wh idered certain wil dopted, in spite of
merely maimum rates charg not obligatory.
06
PANAMA TE
(Reuter's Se
Panama,
The high rents landlords, which c
cant strike of tenar
quent disorders, are
The situation is acc yesterday and quie When troops raf guarters of the st they seized litreatu the place. A striket a window and ord ing as a result. subduing effect?
ace.
STRIKE F
(Havas A
The papers emp general strike of Comunista tried to ay na a protest are C War WDA & COM
some of the oned wero di beringleaders, who
at this failure.
The Peuple,
on Communist
mites that the fatimally.
L'Deuvre"
sta were, back Martin Ba
hot show po
haper eulogis
Workers in 2 Barely