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FINE WORK OF ST. JOHN BRIGADE.
the invalid both in Europe and the Crient is Soviet Russia.. whines, through-the medium of a cablegram from Moscow, that the assassination in Warsaw of the Soviet Minister to Poland is
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special theatrical per- banks. The statement will cause Soviet Russla abroad. Which is ranging
Not that formance to be given by the no surprise to those who have seen Gilbert's latest plcture, "Bardelys really too dreadful!
"Yan Shau Lin" troupe at the the Magnificent," now showing at to-the Queen's Theatre. Much of the anyone would condone assassina- tion as a means to such an end. Lee Theatre (East Point)
dash and daring which made Fair morrow at 9,80 p.m. Far. from it. There are more
The object is to entertain the banks famous are to be seen peaceful measures by which the same ends can be obtained. Thus principal military and naval offl-Gilbert as a marquis in the gay. His astonishing escape in the hang- the Moscow cable itself cites the cera now in the Colony (about days before the French Revolution.
ing acene is alone enough to raid on the Peking Embassy, the 200 seats will be available), n blockade of the Consulate in number of the leading European him in the front ranit as a place Shanghai, the latter raid on Arcos and Chinese residents, and 500 athletic stor, and this is by no House in London, and Great Bri- non-commissioned officers and means his only feat of daring. But tain's "provocative" rupture of men (selected by the officers con-Gilbert distinguishes himself in this courage. As the magnificent mar- diplomatic relations. The latter, cerned) from the Forces now in picture by more than personal
the Colony. of course, is not wholly correct.
H.E. the Governor and Lady quis, as the knight errant, as the passionate lover, as the supposed Diplomatic relations have been
rebel-in every phase of his amaz- severed, but the door has not been Clementi will be present.
A "League of Mercy."
Ing role he shows himself to be an closed on legitimate trading faci-
Wherever there is a crowd you accomplished actor, such as one lities between Russia and Great Britain. Still, the plaint as a will find them. It may be at a would never have suspected from whole shows that the Soviet is football match, or a fire, or at his tendency to foppery in earlier very sick in body and soul. It has different points, at a King's pictures. Needless to say in, film seen its mammoth underground Birthday Parade-anywhere, in of the magnitude of "Bardelys the and Alming are all of the highest acheme for the world revolution, fact, where the need for them Magnificent," the settings, costumes standard, while the story, woven including the discomfiture of Bri muy arise.
And we have grown to rely on round a reckices wager between two tain, utterly exposed. The raids
them. Someone faints in a noblemen over the love of a beauti- on the Embassy in Peking and on
Immediately the word ful maiden, is an added source of Arcos House in London have ex-crowd. posed plots that it sought to con-is passed and they come to ad- delight, with a touch of humour ceal. It has been hoist with its minister first aid. Who? The here and there to make a thoroughly
popular production. own petard here, there, and every-St. John's Ambulan men.
Healers and Fighter. where. Trusted by no one, it is
In As early as the sixth century a pariah among the nations. the interests of civilisation it is to a Hospice for Christian Pilgrims be hoped that its present "sick to Jerusalem was established in ness" will prove fatal, so that the the Holy City. This was main- present misgovernment in Moscow tained for several centuries, and
The pupils of Mr. Harry Ore gove may be replaced by a regime able then a hospital was founded close
This another excellent recital at St. to uplift the "toiling masses" of to the Holy Sepulchre.
served by a brotherhood John's Cathedral Hali last night, Russia and to work in peace and was
their playing revealing the careful harmony with the rest of the calling itself "The Poor Brothers training which has developed their of the Hospital of Jerusalem." talent, and the variety and quality When the first Crusaders, in of the programme sustaining the 1099, captured the Holy City, interest of the audience throughout. this hospital cared for the sick and wounded. Then, some years
brotherhood later, the
Was changed into an order of Knight- hood and called "The Order of of the Hospital of St. John Jerusalem." An alternative title the was members the To the Editor of the "China Mali.")
2. Sir,-In your issue of June 6 Knighta Hospitallers."
There is the beginning of the appears an article entitled "The Order as a healing institution. territoriality is being "abusively under "Fashions and Fancies"
re-13. enjoyed." The Chinese factory imitative sex," in which you Later, when the Saracens
who turned, the Order, regulations, as Mr. Chao Hsin-quote "Cecily Hamilton"
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as amazing. Mr. Chad Hsin-chu alluded to the Chinese factory re- gulations not being applied in Settlements, the International where he declared extra-
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MR. ORE'S PUPILS SUCCESS.
The Sonatina for two planos by Mozart and Grieg, played by Mies Rose Choy and Mr. Ore met with particular appreciation.
The programme was, as follows: 1. (a) March "Under the Banner
of Victory"..(Duet) Blon. Dellbes. (b) Pizzicato
4.
6.
while still chu very well know; exist only tries to show that women are the continuing its hospital work, also on paper, and we have the highest imitative sex, with which I quite became a powerful fighting or agree, but your article seems to authority for the opinion that court man is gaisation in defence of the
The Order was introduced into 6. probably the sole reason for pro- the imitative sex.
The divergence of opinion mulgating them was a naive de-
seems to be the point of view, for England on the return of the first sire of the Chinese Government to whereas "Cecily Hamilton" shows Crusaders, and a gift of ten acres appear at Geneva in the guise of a that women have imitated men in of land in Clerkenwell enabled modern and progressive State, an manner of head-dress, your arti- the Knights to build a magnifi-7. opinion fully confirmed by Mr.cle, ignoring that, point of view, cent Prior and do here, for
to endeavours
that suffering humanity, what the Chao Hsin-chu's remarkable con- men have imitated men in the parent body had done in the duct. Mr. Chao Hsin-chu's manner of dress--a totally differ- Holy City. Save that the rebels 8.
under. Wat Tyler demolished allusion to extraterritoriality is ent thing.
If men were to imitate women many of the buildings of the Or-9. equally childish, the recent Bri-in the matter of dress, the first to der, all went well until Henry VIII, as the result of his quarrel tish Foreign Office Memorandum cry out would be the women.
The fact that men imitate men with the Pope, suppressed and proving conclusively that nearly
That the chivalrous work of 10. the whole of the capital invested in the matter of dress shows their despoiled the religious houses.
common sense.
But the fact remains that the Order was recognised is in the factories is in fact Chinese. British interests in China, to an women have always imitated men, proved by the fact that the Instance Priory was almost. spared; it and are doing so now. Peak Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. overwhelming extent, are those of the vogue of wearing stiff collars was the last one suppressed.
It was only in the early part of Archibald Ritchie, a son. the trader, but even so, the in-a few years ago, and donning
fluence of the British capitalist, men's clothes (in pattern) which the nineteenth century that the the war. Women imitate. Men the result of a, meeting of the
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the
Warren.
Mies Ethel Banker. The Song of the Robin
Miss Jessie Wong. Coronation March,
Meyerbeer.
Mies Muriel Gubbay. Fragment from "The Dance of the Hours," Miss Irene Gittins. (a) Serenade
Ponchielli.
(b) La Coquette......Borovaky.
Miss Phoebe To. Madrigal.... Miss Elvira Rosario.
(a) Cradle Song
Drigo.
.Lack.
Eselpoff.
(b) Marionette's Funeral.
(a) Au. Matin
Gounod.
Mr. Donald Anderson.
........Godard. (b) Murmuring Brook..Poldini.
Miss Grace Ho Tung. (a) Sonatina for 2 pianos
(b) Consolation. (c) Gavotte
Mozart-Grieg.
.Liszt. .Elgar.
Miss Rose Choy. Impromptu in A flat Schubert.
Miss Hilda Xavier. Habanera...........
Chabrier. Mias Winifred Kew,
11.
12. (a) Romance for 2 planos,
Arenaky.
(b) Valse in A flat....Chopin.
Miss Myra Gutierrez.
Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 8, 1927. along with the Japanese, has been has been done during and after Order in England was revived as 13. (a) The Lark ... Gl{¤—
FOOLISH TACTICS.
an example to Chins, the condi- remain normal. tions in the British and Japanese factories being better than those in the Chinese factories, and a
Mr. Chao Hsin-chu's latest out-high proportion of the few Bri- burst did not, we are told, producetish factories challenging, com-
a favourable impression on the parison with any in the world. Labour Conference, before which Moreover
the movement for
Yours, etc.,
FAIRMINDED. P.S.-The boot is not on the' other foot, but the trousers are on the other sex,
Hong Kong, June 7.
Council of the Order in Paris. Queerly enough, it was another 14. Queen, Victoria, who gave the Order a fresh Charter.
}
Voluntary Workers.
Balakirew,
(b) Valse in G flat.... Chopin.
Miss Daisy Ma.
(a) Valse in A flat....Brähms. (b) Second Mazurka ..Godard.
Mr. Henry Kew,
Rachmanioff.
(a) Liebestraum...Liszt. (b) Prelede in G minor,
Miss Alda Leon. Valse from "Faust".
Gounod-Liszt.
Barthou, Minister of Justice, eqlo- gleed national union and stressed.
It is now re-homed in its an- 15. cient property-the massive six- teenth-century St. John's Gate House. The desire of the re-16. vived Order the Archbishop of York is its Prelate, the Duke of
Mr. H. Ore. Connaught its Grand Prior-was it was made. Nobody can be securing better labour conditions
HONG KONG IN THE FILMS.
to reproduce here the spirit of was initiated and has
FRANCE AND THE REDS. surprised at that.. Owing to its in China
the old Knights Hospitallers. So political-character, the speech was teen led by foreigners. These are
Mr. Sidney Woods, a Hong its first work was to create an or-
Angers, June 7. quite out of place, and the indisputable facts. Yet Mr. Chao Kong St. Joseph's College boy ganisation to serve humanity-
Speaking at the inauguration of Chairman, a distinguished Indian Hsin-chu has the cool audacity to born in California of American to teach ambulance work and the the monument erected in memory who represents his country as assert that there is no possibility and Chinese parents, has return-transportation of the sick and of those who died in the memory
ed to the Colony from North suffering.
Films of the King's China, High Commissioner in London, of China adapting herself to a
parade and 'other Then followed that great or- the entire confidence and admira- was only doing his duty in calling modern labour system until she is Birthday Mr. Chao Hein-chu to order. liberated from the yoke of the events of interest have been ganisation for giving practical tion of the members of the Govern- He added that the Cabinet would' Instead of accepting this rebuke foreign Powers! The only yoke taken by Mr. Woods for the effect to the teaching the St. ment for M. Poincare,
What "news reels," he having an John Ambulance Brigade. with the deference due to the which is preventing China from arrangement with Fox Films and that has done and is doing is not permit men receiving ordere from abroad to carry out propagan- marvellous. There are thou-in which might result in France's Chair, Mr. Chao Hein-chu seems raising her standards of labour, the Gaumont Co.
When in North China, Mr.sands of men all over the Empire perdition. The Government were to have deliberately created a every impartial observer knows, scane deliberately, we say, be- is her own apathy, coupled with a Woods was busy in the war who have learned first aid from conscious of their duty and would
zone,
e." He also h med scenes con- the St. John Ambulance Associa-not fail therein Hava6. ***** state of civil war, Cause he exclaimed that his in- chronic
cerning tha British Defence tion, and thus become members structions were to make a speech and the sooner Mr. Chao Hsin- Force in Shanghai.
of the Brigade. All are volun- COLONIAL INSTITUTE. tary workers. They are found along the lines he was following, chu ceases his childish attempte
Hague, June 7..... at railway stations, football evidence that he was ready for a to throw dust in the eyes of the
matches, public functions-every-sident, opened the nineteenth ges fight. Mr. Chao Hsin-chu's world, the sooner will his excit cxcitement appears to have been able speeches cease to evoke gen-has already taken seven or eight Its ambulances are found all sion of the International Colonial Institute at the Peace Palace. It Buch that it was impossible for eral laughter and noise. Mr. Chao months, during which time, the over the Empire. The war ser- was attended by forty-two dele- the Chairman to silence him, Hsin-chu referred to his "instrue pler has been closed to the public vice of the Et. John Ambulance gates, including those from Britain, without turning the proceedings tions," Whoever gave him those will, it is hoped, be completed is Brigade was magnificent. By its Heiland, France, Japan, the United.
two more months time, Extensive work it yearly saves hundreds of States and Portugal-Reuter. into a brawl, and the Conference instructions should take steps to repairs were oving to the strain thousands of lives and alleviates
then the had no remedy but
The M.M. 8.8. "Porthos" arrived show its rescind them so that no further on the piles as a result of the bat a vast amount of suffering.
here yesterday from Marseilles disapproval by gene laughter discredit may be brought on tering by, typhoon seas last year Hong Kong is, fortunate not
China in this disgraceful manner, and the opportunity has also been only in having an ambulance via ports with a long list of pas and noise Mr. Cha Isin-chu's
taken to substitute reinforced con corps but in having it officered by sengers. Among those disem conduct was bad enough, repre-
crete steps for the corded fron men full of zeal and enthusiasma barking here were Lt. Vieira stops. The considerable suspen- in the work of first aid senting at once a breach of pro-
alon of work necessitated by high cedure and a
I'a personal insult to the
tides, together with the fact that Turkey nged. In the good old much of the work has had to be Conference, but it was not nearly
done by divers, da responsible for so culpable as the gross in days before the war when Spring the considerable time taken. The accuracy of his statements. These synchronised with risings in the cost of the wor his estimated to be statements can only be described Balkans, to be regarded as the something like $20,000,
Soviet Sick.
The work to Blake Pier, which where..
The Prince Consort as Its Pre-
Garin, Mr. Xavier Soares, Lt.. and, Mrs. Valente de Almeida, 24 Captain and Mta. J. d'Almélida What the modern girl engaged Pinheiro(all from Marselles); in hospital work objects to is not Miss H. M. Hoyt and Mr. Bray discipline but irritating restric-field from Singapore; Mr. and tions Colonel R. J. Blackhamu. Mira, Davis, from Saigon,