6
Cold, damp, and changeable weather
bring to mind steps that may be taken to protect
the fragile and susceptible,
S
WATSON'S'
MALT EXTRACT with COD LIVER OIL
gives valuable support to the patient's natural power of resistance.
Prepared from British winter malted barley and cod liver oil specially selected for its vitamin ècntent. Its palatability makes it acceptable to the most fasticious.
A. $. WATSON & CO., LTD.
The Hongkong Dispensary
Phone
No. 16. C.
豐銀首飾古玩玉器
Fa
(Kowloon Dispensary K. 17)
WAI KEE
JADE JEWELLERY
CHINESE CURIOS›
GOLD AND SILVER SMITH..
SECOND HAND JEWELLERY
HONG KONG HOTEL BUILDING
Queen's Road, Central
!! HONO KONGA
Telephone C. 3337
惠
香港中環大酒店行
THE ALEXANDRA CAFE
GOOD FOOD
QUICK SERVICE
EXPERT COOKING
SPECIAL TIFFIN $1
*
GLOBE & RUTGERS
1
FIRE INSURANCE CO..
OF NEW YORK.
FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE
14
At Lowest Current Rates.
·AMERICAN ASIATIC UNDERWRITERS
Phone Central
4907 4908
(SOUTH CHINA)
FED INC, USA..
2. Connaught Road, Central,
Bols
SILVER TOP. DRY GIN
Embodying in it every feature of a style of LONDON DRY GIN. Messrs. Bols before.exporting have matured the GIN for a mume ber of years. Every bottle has the advantage of over three 'centuries, experience.
Sole Distributure:--
H. RUTTONJEE & SON,
16, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
CHY LOONG.
New Season Préserved Ginger..
Best quailly-Prompt attention to Experters.
Office:—281, Queen's Road. Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2580. Factory-500-504, Canton Road, Ya umuti. Tel K. 860..
THE CHINA MAIL.
HERE'S A TREAT!
New
H
Good music, well played, is a pleasure; good music, played on the new Ortho- phonic Victrola, is a treat! Come in and let us demonstrate this wonderful instrument for you. There is no obli- gation-give yourself this delightful "experience!
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
Victor Diatributors..
Victrola
Orthophanu
The China Mail
(Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription, excluding postaga. abroad, HK. 330, payable in advance, Loral delivery free.)
Overland, Chinë Mail.
(The weekly edition of the "Chins Hat Annual subscription, E.K. $18 including: póstaga $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 ihould be made payable.
London Offices:The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 38-38, Southampton Street, Strand: W.C.2
BIRTH.
REBSAMEN-On. January 1, 1927, at Shanghai, to. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rebsamen, a son.
+]
DEATH.
PRIEST. On January 1, 1927, at Shanghai, Fanny, the dearly be- loved wife of W. J. Priest, aged
46 years.
Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 8, 1927.
HONG KONG'S NAVAL
VOLUNTEERS.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927.
have made enough in a few years HANKOW'S WEALTH. to enable them to purchase a small farm and to retire into the
Centre."
ROMANTIC HISTORY.
WU PEI-FU.
POETIC SPIRIT SHINES UNDIMMED.
VERSES TO MADAME WU.
country. It is not a pleasant task, China's Greatest.Trading however, pulling people about under, often, gruelling circum- stances and few would begrudgo them a well earned retirement, if they actually made as much as it
Feking, Dec. 30. is said they do, and few would be-
Hankow has been called tho Man-"" Though wars rage: though grudge them the, conveniences which it is proposed to afford chester of China. And with ren- Generals turn traitor and foes. bem under the movement recent-son, For you find there none of the press forward, the poetic spirit ly inaugurated which will doubt-reckless gaioty or Shanghai's of Marshal Wu Pei-fu shines on, less receive considerable support. cabarets, none of Harbin's drama-fundimmed.. Passengers sometimes confess to tie conflicts, none of the dignity, Two poems, both of unusual feeling none too comfortable at historical colour, and beinl bri-distinction, were recently written being borne by a perspiring liance of Poking. Hankow is essen-by the defeated Warlord, one to human being. It may be that in tially city of commerce rich fa to defend his chief, the other honour a guard who gave his time the ricsha puller will staid, drab. Life beats there with a be entirely superseded. by slower pulse, writes C. C. Dixon into extoll the brave heart of his
wife, who never leaves his side. more mechanical means of the "Daily Mail"
The verse to the soldier transport but 80 long 02 For many rdasana Hankow he is not only willing but raucous-the greatest prize that the Can-translated as follows:- ly insistent that his arms and tonese have yet captured. Besides "The cold wind from the west ahoulders should be placed at doing a vast trade it is the ter
blows my old battle gar- one's service for a monetary con-minus of the Peking-Hankow Ralk!
ment, sideration it is doubtful if he way and the strategic key to the would appreciate the reasoning of entire upper Yangtse. At Hankow, those who refuse to patronise him too, are the works of the great Han on humanitarian grounds.
POLICE AMBUSH.
KOWLOON SKIRMISH CASE CONTINUED..
yeh-ping Company, which turns out 200,000 tons of iron and steel year; the largest arsenal in China (situated in the suburb of Han vang); and large electrical, bank fing, and other undertakinga, - fin janded and managed by the British.
is
To look upon the blood stain on the cloak brings sorrow to my heart.
113
My only possessions how are my loyal heart and brave soul
These will be with me forever.
despite the iteund snow of the present situation." This verse illustrates the deep Foreign Community: devotion of Marshal Wu to a There are about 1,200 foreigners guard who lost his life in the Further evidence was given at a Hankow, 600 of whom are British, battle at Ting Sau Chiao, Blood the Kowloon Magistracy yester 300 Germans, 150 Russians, and the from the wound of the dying man day in the case in which four rest mainly French and Japanese. stained the garment of the chief. Chinese are held on various: Six hundred miles though they who attempted to alleviate the charges in connection with the are from the sea, the Europeana suffering of the soldier. Marshal skirmish with the Police at are by no means cut off from pro-Wu has never permitted the distillery in the neighbourhood of tletion. The Yangtse. Is navigable blood-stain to be removed from Gin Drinkers Bay on Dec, 2 by river vessels for 1,300 miles all his garment, pointing to it when four men were killed.
the year round; During the sum-2ways us the life blood of a Three of the four men aremer, when the sun melts the snows faithful man who died that he charged with attempted armed of Tibet, ocean-going boats, includ might live. sulted in
despatching robbery and possession of instruing H.M.S. "Hawkins," the flagship To his wife, who because of of four
boats from Hongments fit for an unlawful pur-of our Chinese squadron, can reach the reverse of her husband's for- tanes, insists on wearing an old pose.
Hankow with safety and ease. Kong to the North
Evidenes concerning two re Over 8,000 years old, Hankow in cotton garment, which cannot week which would greatly volvers found on the scene was not only one of the most ancient of properly protect her from the diminish the number available for given by Mr. C. Greenwood, Chinese cities but the largest. In cold, Marsha! Wu writes:
Police Armourer. The revolvers 1861, when it was one of the patrol work. It is in times such were all loaded and one which had ports opened by treaty to foreign as these that the Naval Reserve two rounds fired from it was in trade, Hankow was little more than would be invaluable. The Naval good condition. Two rounds found a fishing village, poor, dirty and authorities have already express-in the other revolver were wet disease-ridden, sprawling upon
A Chinese detective said that swamp beside the sluggish Yangtse. ed the opinion that the Reserve he went with Sub-Inspector
Amazing Growth would be of great assistance to Andrews to the Wo Lung Distil But then began a miraculous ex- posted in the pansion hardly paralleled even in them and to the Colony in timesery, and was
"master's" room with three other the mushroom growths of America. of emergeicy and that the Chinese detectives and Sub-In- Lying at the junction of the Yang-
the
this
48
B
"The thief has not been slain The people have not been saved Old people will go on together, Fighting the cold and starva-
tion.
Daily we wear the horse-skin
and the skin of the buil What does it matter? Only a good and bright soul can bring real peace."
scheme is practicable. The first spector Andrews. They waitedte and the Han rivers, Hankow be move in the direction of putting from 7 till a little after 10 p.m.came the clearing house for myriads SIANFU'S DEFENDER. when some people came into the junks and the central trading de- the scheme into working opera-room, and on seeing the police pot for the whole of the immense
tion will be awaited with interest.
Saving the Pence,
A striking illustration of the truth that pounds will look after themselves is to hand this week
MURDERED BY ENRAGED POPULACE?
!!
took out their guns and two shots Yangtse valley, which draine an were fired. The police officers area of nearly a million square miles returned the fire, and he himself and fertilises the crops that feed fred four shots In this shooting 200 millions
Peking, Dec. 30. of people. The General Yang Yu-chen, the affray, witness further added Amazon may be the world's largest second Kuominchun commander Sub-Inspector Andrews killed one river and the Nile the most his-who held Sianfu against Geheral of the robbers outright. Another toric, but for power of life and Liu Chen-hun during the seven of the miscreants was wounded. death over mankind the Yangtse months' siege, has mysteriously in the recorded achievement of an Further evidence was heard, is supreme.
disappeared, it is reported in Indian watchman, - probate of and the defendants having `in-
Fed by this great life stream, wires reaching here from Honan. whose will has been granted. Em-timated that they would be call Hankow spread over the flats and When the Kuominchun which ployed at a West Point godown at ing witnesses for their defence marshes like some tropical growth raised the siege entered Sianfu, a wage which would not the case was adjourned.
To-day, with a population of it was discovered that General keep & heavy smoker in
1,626,000 às compared with Shang-Yang was gone. cigarettes and tobacco, from
hal'a 1,500,000, it is not only the In some quarters. it is said the time of his first arrival
largest city in China, but the largest that the Kuominchun chief left in the whole of Aela
for Hankow. Other reports are Fine Race Course. of his race. saved enough out of
that the native populace of the his meagre earnings to make
Flat, depressingly ugly-from" a city, enraged at the obstinate The case in which £ Chinese height its roof tops form a sea of stand of the General in refusing small loans to those in humble stands charged with attempting to drab grey, broken only by the yel- to give up, murdered him. circumstances around him who pawn imitation gold rings was again low waters of the Yangtse-and stood in urgent need of mentioned in Mr. Schofield's Court sweltering for six months in the ready cash. With
$1,000 BAIL.
in the Colony this self-denying] PAWNING IMITATION RINGS Oriental, with a patience typical
was
CASE.
£1,000,000 FORTUNE,
DEVOLVES ON A BOY OF SEVEN,
..
12
mosquitoes in the world; and, with
ין
Missionary Secretary's
Comment.
London, Dec. 8..
capital at the Central Magistracy yesteryear beneath a blazing sun, Han- LORD INCHCAPE'S SPEECH, increased weekly by the day afternoon, Mr., W. B. Hind kow is generally avoided by Euro interest demanded, he wasintiinating that he had been inpeans in the East. At night the iable with the passing of the years structed to defend only a few mo-air is alive with, what must surely to launch out on more ambitious ments earlier and would therefore be the largest and most ferocious Hines as regards money lending apply for a remund, until at the time of his death he
Mr MeCallum, prosecuting, said this plague and an entire lack of "I wonder if Lord Inchcape is was worth $46,000, although still that he did not wish to prejudice the sanitation and clean drinking water aware that the missionaries work Enthusiastic potential naval engaged in the humble occupa defence. He was ready to go on in the Chinese quarters. It is not in China under exactly the same. Volunteers in Hong Kong were tion of a watchman. It would
and felt that the defendant had had surprising that diphtheria, typhoid, treaty provisions as the business assured some months ago that perhaps be unfair to infer what plenty of time to instruct counsel. and several sorts of fever exact amen?" said Mr. Barclay, the the only delay in putting the habit of charging, but in this that he should grant a remand in
rate of interest he was in the Hi Worshipanid that he felt heavy toll.
} secretary of the Church Mission- Volunteer Naval Reserve scheme connection it may be recalled that the circumstances.
But life has its compensations.ary Society, adding "If the Chin- In the foreign concession there is ese dislike missionaries what into working operation would be in a bankruptcy case recently be-
Mr. Hind applied for bail.
a racecourse, reckoned the finest in about the business men and the in connection with the granting fore the Chief Justice, when His
Mr. McCallum said that whilst all China (The Chinese, always P. and O, officers who possess the Lordship expressed surprise that of financial support by the Home a debtor should have been asked to not opposing ball he would like to great gamblers, have recently built same right, but no more right. and local Governments.
point out that the case was not one an opposition racecourse, where than the missionaries' organisa- Since sign note for double the amount of a single offence, but one of a you may see coolies literally stak-tions. The Chinese probably then, provision has been made in he actually received, he
series of offences.
ing their shirts.) And there are realise that the P. and D. Com both Estimates for the gift of a that such was the general prac assured by the Official Receiver
His Worship allowed bail"inalso lawn tennis courts, a cricket pany operates in. China for its gunboat of the "Insect" class (on tice among money lenders here.
$1,000.
and football ground, and two fair own profit whereas missionary golf courses though golf anywhere aims are altruistic. Letters from the part of the Home Govern- Whilst not losing sight of the un-
in China (and I have played from our people in Western China, ment) and of a vote of $40,000 for fortunate position, of those who,
Hong Kong to Harbin) is handicap-where there is considerable anti- having urgent need of ready cost of upkeep, fuelling and train-money, are calied upon to repay at
ped by the extraordinary inability foreign feeling, have shown that ed personnel (by the Hong Kong extortionate rates, a lesson may
of the country to produce proper they are being treated well. Government). On the face of it still be derived from a record of there should be nothing to hinder self-abnegation extending over a
CHINESE STOWAWAYS. period of years by which the goal, | the local authorities from an however mercenary, was eventual
Well Fed and Partly · nouncing the conditions under ly attained.
Intoxicated. which it is proposed to ruh the scheme and appealing for local support. The gunboat is not ex-
In connection with the appeal Monte Carlo villa. The family This decision means that the wife was travelling between Adelaide pected to be despatched until the
which is to be launched for sup- fortunes were founded by Sir will be able to proceed with the and Melbourne six Chinese stow- middle of the year but certain port of the proposal to found an Rupert's grandfather, who was a divorce suit in England. valuable work could be put in be institution torameliorate the lot butcher's assistant in Aldgate. forehand, and training "could be of the ricsha coolie, it will come as London, before emigrating to given to those who will not bring from Bishop Valtorta, the coven-
a surprise to most people to learn Australia in 1840.
to their voluntary patrol worker of the movement, who spent
As a result of to-day's meeting: They appeared to have been of the Commission on the Imperial well fed, and were partly under knowledge of local waters or of years of missionary work in the
funeral, it has been decided that the the influence of liquor. They matters nautical. The earlier district from which most of our
Em were handed over to the Mel- chair and ricahs coolfes come, The Air Ministry has adopted the funeral service for the lato this training is, commenced, the that these humble toilers are un-Schilovsky-Cooke gyroscopie. Indica peror of Japan will be held at the bourne police, better. For whilst it is hardly able to keep their families in tor, enabling pilats to fly in a Imperial villa at Shinjuku from the evening of February 7 to the dawn likely that naval vessels will be comfortable circumstances dur- fog and nocturnally.mak needed for active service in the ing their period of service here. The instrument, which is 4in, in of the following day. It is expected It is freely said among the older diameter is rotated electrically, and that, this decision will be made pub vicinity of Hong Kong, calle may residents that ricshe and chair registers the smallest deviation Hic subject to approval by the Em be made such as that which re- coolles in the past, at any rate, from a straight line.
The Riesha Coolle's Lot.
London,. Dec. 29, The only baronetcy in Aug-
tarf
SOCIETY DIVORCE.
tralia and a fortune estimated
London, Dec. 7. at one million sterling, has been inherited by a seven years old The Divorce Court upheld Lady. boy as a result of the sudden Cheylesmore's claim, holding that interests death of Sir Rupert Clarke, of Lord. Cheylesmore's Repertswood, Victoria, at he were in England, not in Canada.
||
FLYING IN FOGS.
London, Dec. B.
peror.
EMPEROR'S FUNERAL.
Tokyo, Jani 8..
4)
'Melbourne, Dec. 9. When the steamer "Sirdhana"
aways who had eluded the search of the Customs officers at Fre mantle and Adelaide were dis- covered in hiding in a small cup- beard.
According to the Paris "Liberte" 200,000 French soldiers are con centrated on the Italian ontier between Nice and Grenoble.