WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1927.
CHINA
NEWS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
DEFENCE OF PEKING.
Prospects of Peace Fade
Away.
UNFILIAL CONDUCT.
COST OF LIVING.
CHILDREN WHO ARE SELFISH.
ARE PARENTS TO BLAMET
Some of us can still remember
THE CHINA MAIL.
FOXTROT AGAIN.
RE-ACTION AGAINST TOO MUCH CHARLESTON,
SEASON'S NEW DANCE.
KOWLOON CONCERT.
SATURDAY'S EXCELLENT
PROGRAMME.
Shansi, who has failed as peace-seats by the fire-side. A grown-per cent, above pre-war, is, ny/know how to dance it correctly; | LR.A.M.; and the "J-Pans," under
maker.
than ever, have not seen it for a
CHEAPEST FOOD FOR
10 YEARS.
FURTHER FALL EXPECTED.}
CAMERONIANS' BAND.
Saturday is a full day in regard Official figures now available
A "new" dance is promised for to the entertainment of Service men, On the concerts having been arranged both ually decreased, Peking is prepar-cott in the "Sunday News") the day is lower than it has been for dance programmes of two or three in Kowloon and Hong Kong.
Prospects of peade having grad-writes the Rev. D. Morse Boy-show that the cost of living to the coming social seron
That at the "Better Ole." Peking. ing for defence, according to a homely, comforting prints which ten years, says the "Daily Mail" fashionable London dance-restaur
ants It already appears. It is our Road, under the auspices of the number of reports to hand but, it hsed to be issued by the "An- of April 29.
During the past month there old friend, the foxtrot. It appears YM.C.A. Entertainment Sub-Com- is said, there are only 15,000 men nuuls," and which still hang in
P., and in Tientsin.
The Northern faction's main base cheap frames in countless house has been a remarkable fall in the now in its 1927 guise as the "slow |mittee commences at 7
retail prices of food, an indica-foxtrot."
excellent programme has been ar Many of the younger generation, ranged including the band of the will be at Chengting. 175 miles holds in the land.
One such is of a parlour in the tion of which was given in the
and people who took up dancing Ferrers D.S.O. and Officers (Con- Iat/Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) south-west of Peking, where they are safe from any treacherous fank good, old-fashioned days. Father "Daily Mail" on March 18.
The present index figure, 55 after the autumn of 1925, do not ductor) Mr. Hernce E. Dodwell attack by General Yen Hsi-shun of and mother are sitting in their
up daughter does the ironing. A already stated, the lowest since The ballrooms, now more erowded the direction of Miss Violat Capell, cat licks milk out of a saucer on 1917. A month ago the figure Change of Tactics.
programme. is measured in these days of
There will be no charge for ad- At Tenghalon, which is only 350 the hearth. Ivy peeps in through was 62 per cent.; two years ago very long time na ballroom time who are giving a new and up-to-date Charleston and Black Bottom and mission and all Service men are miles from Peking (as the crow the window, and the door is open-it was 70 per cent.
The following table from the quick-chancing dance tricks. But, cordially invited to attend. flies), and which is inside Shantunging to reveal the uniformed son
Northerners province, the
are just back from the ends of the Ministry of Labour's index to be quite accurate, it is the old. feverishly erecting a system of de-earth, with a bird-cage in one figures of average retail prices smooth, gliding, one, two, one-two- fences and earth-works, including hand and a welcome in the other. shows the reductions since the three foxtrot; the very orthodox the most complicated trench con- The unfilial conduct of children "Daily Mail" forecast, and also dance which was evolved after the Indientions are not lacking that towards their parents nowadays the corresponding prices two war from the origina) crude jazz the Northerners are changing their makes you'wonder whether blood years ago:- tactics and frying to convert the is really thicker than water. war of "movements without fight- The heart-ache of a parent is a ing" into a campaign of "positions hard thing to bear. The grown- with bombardiment."
up child sees only before him the While the Northerners are revista of years in which he is to be ported to be concentrating artillery the chief actor, the paramount: at this point at Tenghelen, however, the Sanking generals have not been person. He wants his place in the sun, and it is perfectly right that ille-but in another direction.
Intrigue is again reported, and he should have it. He must in- the "Hong Kong Evening Post" is crease while the parents decrease. Butler, salt. of the opinion that panic may seize But he ought to remember that the Northern defenders before they he has been born on the altar of Eggs, unch are ready to give battle.
sacrifice. That, if his memory is Cheese, lb. 1/1
Васол, 16. short, his parents' is long.
nections of modern warfare.
.Dic-liards Gain Ground,
Bread, Alb. Bread (London) Flour, 7b, Beef, chilled riba, lb. Milk, quart Butter, fresh,
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2/14
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1/1 1/64
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1/8
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Price of Fish. The index figure for fish prices
WORLD THEATRE.
"SOUL FIRE" TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.
dancing which reached its perfec 1927 1925tion in 1924, when competition March April, dancing was the rage, and which 9%, 10%. declined, dying of Its own rigid orthodoxy, an à quickened-up dance
Actually. "Soul-Fire" (to be time reached our bands from screened at 6.15 and 9.15 only) is a America, and new conditions and visualised symphony. Each part is new fashions demanded a livelier an episode in the life of its young The coming of the American composer and each part measure. Charleston ryhthm last year finish reflects the mood of its symphonic ed it off. It cannot be danced pro-movement. perly when the dance time exceeds
The prologue of the picture is a forty-eight bars to the minute. New York concert hall. The pie- 2d, 14. Most bands play Charlestone foxture then fades into the first move- trots at nearer fifty-six to the ment of the symphony, presenting, minute, and some go up to sixty and with a hackground of Italy, the re- sixty-four. It is possible to voll of the young musician against As the die-hards are guining; As the strapping. son or the
Charleston with music going up to his thoroughly conventional par ground in Marshal Chang Tso-lin's daughter about to marry walk.
seventy.
ents. The second movement, the Councils at Peking, the more com-into the old family parlour they
"Graceful Dances."
sherzo, takes the young hero to petent younger generals are report seem, in their parents' eyes, to be
What has caused the decided re- Paris, where he has grown sne- to be dissatisfied and jealousy is many persons. The past years has been reduced during the past
as a writer of popular leading towards 21 open break
He revolts against tho which would be fatal at this stage spring into life, and the little ones month from 114 to 106 per cent.ival of this now old-fashioned cessful Farther victories are claimed by prattle again and cling to their above pre-war. To-day the Food dance? The demand, mainly, for music. the Sunking armies, each wing father and mother. Is it really Council, which is inquiring into an alternative to the quick foxtrot. cheapness of this tawdry success. rather aggressively Bvaly however, and the third movement, having been reported to have made true that the children don't care the high price of fish, is to take the steady progress, Specific names about us now, the parents think, evidence from the London Fish music to which the present gen- the largo, carries the composer to Trade Association and the erntion do the dance of the moment, Port Said, where he is a derelict, are given of points where the Nan-when once we were all in all? king armies have actually eroazed) The home should be built on Lowestoft Wholesale Fish Buyers' which is combination of quick dreamer well nigh broken
foxtrot and staccato Charleston, the wheel of fate. However, the the provincial boundary into Shan-something firmer than sentiment, Association.
Young and agile people, good-young genius finds himself-and ung, which is the fast gap between juri sentiment has its part to play.
If world weather conditions re-bumrest dancers, people who look real love in the final movement, Chiang Kai-shek's men and the If only children would think main satisfactory and trade un-on dancing as playtime, and the the rhapsodie, in the South Seas.
Each episode is distinct in itself metropolitan province of Chilli. things out! For their own sakes disturbed it is expected that there room as a place primarily to
between each the camera Anxiety in Canton, they had better do so, as the time will be a still further fall in the chat and laugh, flirt and dance and From Canton it is gathered that will come when they, too, will be general level of food prices during amusing dances in. form what may swings back to the New York con- are shelved by forgetful offspring. the next two months. Seasonalbe termed "the Charleston crowd." cert hall where the symphony is a series of minor incidents
But there is another element of the being played. causing little anxiety about the I was walking along a busy influences should aid this..
Other prominent players in sup- Communists and other agitators. street one Saturday night, when "Prices of houses have come public which. while tolerant of
Walter Long, The expedition which recently I responded to the attraction of a down appreciably since the cut in Charleston and Charlestoned fox-port of Richard Barthelmess and
trot, and even dancing Charleston Bessie Love are went out from Canton, up the rail crowd, and pushed my way the subsidy was announced," said dances, take their ballroom pastime Harriet Sterling. Rita Rossi, Effle way to Shlukwan and over the bor-through to see what was happen- Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P., Parliam resigned and went graceful Shannan. Lee Baker. Gus Weinberg der into the south of Hunan pro-ing. Before a shop window was mentary Secretary to the Minis- dances as well as stacente ones. and George Pauncefort. vince. is slowing up after having.
The ob- dancing a poor old woman. Now try of Health, at a luncheon in They have the waltz, but it is not expended its first energy. ject, it will be recalled, was to har- and again she thumped upon the London recently of the Metropoli-played often enough: and, besides, rass the Hankow Party from the glass, while the crowd laughed tan Building Societies' Associa-it does not satisfy the dance desire. South and march on Changsha, an uproariously. inland port, as a jumping off point Lowards Hankow.
YANG SEN'S DEFEAT.
Foreign Oil Stocks Safely Removed.
Compassion seized me and I tried to ease the situation. Ad- vancing to the window I spoke to the old woman, and was just be- ginning to understand her in- coherent answers when, to my
tion.
OBITUARY.
AWAY.
horror and chagrin, up from a MR. C. W. ALEXANDER PASSES grating on which I was standing came a grating on which I was standing came a shower of water. and I was wet from head to foot.
Meant for his Mother.
entirely, They want a leisurely foxtrot. And there is a third ele- ment, which regards the Charles- ton, and the new Black Bottom dance, as haliroom bolshevism, and demands the restoration of the old, graceful foxtrot.
The Question of Space.
Shadows Before.
on
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL."
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Mr. C. W. Alexander, of the en-demand which several of the fash- Dixie Handicap.", gineering department of the Hong fonable dance-restaurants have June 15-Ten Dance, Cafe Res- The return of Yang Sen to Shasi appears to have had little
Keng and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. heen experiencing for the re-taurant Parisien. 4.30 p.m. passed away at Home yesterday ac introduction of the slow foxtrot. June 16-Isako's Circus, New. Re- significance. Apparently, his de-
Now, the point of this reminiscarding to a cable received to-day feat is such that he has been obliged to retire from the cam-cence is not its humour, although by Mr. A. M. Simpson, another They intend to ask the bands, at clamation Ground. Praya East.
foxtrols rome
at the orthodox June 16-First Appearance in paign against Hankow and he and it really was surprisingly funny member of the Dock Company's every place they dance in, to play Wanchai, 9.15 p.m.; Matinee, 4 p.m.
The staff. his troops are now arriving in (when looked back upon).
The point is this. That old woman
Inte. Mr. Alexander was forty-eight bars to the minute. Hong Kong of "The Kocky Olly this neighbourhood.
The foreign Companies' supplies was the mother of the shopkeep-about 68 years of age at the time And probably they will succeed in Birds" at the Cinema, Mt. Austir
He was a Scots-getting it generally included in the Barracks, 8.30 p.m.
dance programmes everywhere. It June 18-Grand entertainment of oil here were successfully reer, and the water was meant for of his decease. moved without interference and her. How often had the old, worn man, being born near Dundee, was will not, however, replace the fast for servicemen, at Theatre Royal, married twice, and leaves two
foxtrot or the Charleston. The 6.30 p.m. the boats taking it off have arriv- hands, in happier days, fetched a children by the second marriage. fatter is too firmly established now
Sport. the younger being 15 years of age. ed at Hankow safely.British cup of cold water for the child!
Most of us have had this experi- Naval Wireless.
By profession a marine engineer, to be eliminated by a dance which ence of neglect, if not from our the late Mr. Alexander served some is. whatever its advantages,, de-ing of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. To Attack Again?
Happy Valley. own children from those whom we years at sea before taking up em-finitely of the past.
Lammerts' Auctions. Shanghai, June 14.
I remember, once ployment in Hong Kong and was in loved as such.
And besides, ballrooms are too
June 16-A quantity of house- General Yang Sen has cabled making friends with a boy, car-Singapore for a number of years. crowded to day to permit of too! upriver (to his sphere in Sze-ing for him, clothing him, taking He joined the Dock Company about many slow foxtrots. Slow foxtrota bold furniture will be sold at 58A. much space Nathan Road, Kowloon, by Messrs. chuan province) for reinforce him away for holidays, in fact, 1899, and after his first five years require almost as ments. One of his supporters treating him as an adopted son. went to sea again for a spell, re- for comfortable performance as Lammert Bros., 10.30 a.m.
June 22-A quantity of valuable General Liu Siang, is responding. And I know that he loved me turning to the Company some 12 waltzes. The step is longish glid- The garrison at Wanhsien (where then, and not for what he got years ago. He left the Colony 18 ing, gracefully rhythmic; the ten-household furniture will be auc- the incident" occurred last Sep-out of me..
months ago, and the general im-dency is for the progression to be tioned by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at pression here was that he was re-swift. The fast foxtrot, on the Westbourne Villa (West) 86, Bon-E tember) is moving down-river as
For five years there hardly turning after a long holiday in ather hand, with its more compact ham Road, opposite King's College,
2.80 p.m. the vanguard of the reinforce.
hold. arm brought closer
Meetings. ments. "Hong Kong Evening passed a day when I did not see Scotland.
more staccato step, Mr. Alexander was a bowls en- smaller, him. If he went out to the pic-
June 15-Hong Kong Football Post."
tures, or I went out myself, he thusinat, and one of the founders quicker beat, is perfectly suited would come to say good night be- of the Kowloon Bowling Green to crush conditions; and you can League, Volunteer Headquarters,
pause to "mark time," and chat 5.30 p.m. fore he went home. That was Club.
And laugh, in the latterday way, while doing it.
Mystery General,
Shanghai, June 15. General Hsia Tao-yin (the years ago. Now he is "grown- mystery general and "ally" of un," and would not take the trou Yang Sen), who has been attack-ble to cross a road even to speak | ing the neighbourhood of Han to me. kow and Wuchang from the east,
"Good I know the idea. issued a circular telegram on June enough," they say, "when we are
ICECREAM ARISTOCRAT.
JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE.
in.
The gus lamp of an icecream stall 13 pledging support for the late little, but not good enough when exploded near the hotel occupied by Dr. Sun Yat-sen's three prin we are older, and life is more ex- the Soviet delegation to the Econo- ciples, loyalty to Nanking and citing. But this is verily the re-mie Conference, causing u panic! The Finance Department an- General Chiang Kai-shek and op-finement of cruelty. We nurture and wounding two persons, nounces that Japan's foreign position to Communism.-"Hong childrea because we love them, The police are inclined to believe trade for the month of May and look forward to the time when that the explosion was not acciden- amounted to Yen 177,206,000 in we ourselves may lean on them. tal, the icecream stall proprietor be-exports and Yen 208,024,000 in and enjoy their freshness of ing a Russian aristocratic refuges imports, the unfavourable balance vision when oura has grown a who has now disappeared.
being Yen 80,218,000.
Kong Evening Post.".
IMPROPER BOOKS.
little dim. But the staff on which
we lean breaks under us, and down
we go to the depths.
Roman Catholic Prelate's
Warning.
The red flag is a symbol of all But it is not always the prime that is good in humanity. fault of the children. As often Councillor Lowder, (Stepney). ins not the parents are to blame.
Rome, May 11. The other day a girl was sought Cardinal Merry Del Val, as secretor who had just got a daily
of tory to the Sacred Congregation the Holy Office, hus addressed the situation. She was found in bed
if virtue
and
Episcopacy on the world-wide sub-at 10 a.m. When faced with the after life, they are forgotten and jeet of improper literature especi- employer she was sulky. "I was put in the limbo of things that do
not matter. she said, "and my ally books combining love affairs tired,"
Parents should see that their with a kind of religious mysticism, mother lete me have my sleep out
religion could join always." Probably the mother children do the share of the house- with the corruption of manners." had got up at 5 and gone to work, work. Train up a child in the The Cardinal added that the num-after giving her daughter a cup way he should go, and when he is ber of these books now being pub-of ten in bed!
old he will not depart from it." fished in the world was so great There is something more brew.. Good training cannot eradicate that it was impossible to examine them and put them on the Indexed in that cup than teal And it selfishness, but it can control it. Parents who ac-and insistence on filial duty would Expurgatorius, and Bishops must is trouble. therefore undertake the duty of quiesce in their children's selfish-preserve the gold of love keeping them from their flocks. nees must not grumble when, in 'dimmed as the years go by.
- Miscellaneous. June 15-St. Peter'a Young Men's Club hold moonlight picnic, launch leaving Queen's Pier for Repulse Bay at 8.30 p.m.
June 24-Whist Drive at St. John's Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.m.
June 29-Lantern lecture by Dr. Osma at St. Peter's Club, 8.30 p.m.
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Waterlevels in English Feet,
Highest W L
Lowest W.L.
W.L.
W.L.
on
record
12/0
13/6
+10.8
rising
North River at Thingyuor
+15.5
rising
un
North River at Samshui East River at Sheklung
... +2778".
+10,0
Tel. C. 135. +-11.3
+15.2*
+11,3
+11.7.
Place of Observation West River at Shishing
оп record.
+28′7′′
St. George's Buildings, Ice House Street.