SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1927.
CORRESPONDENCE.
ANOTHER HOUDINI
THE CHINA MAIL.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON INQUIRY'S SCOPE.
He is a soldier and signs him- BANKERS CONFER. self "British Boy," I as a soldier ask your readers, My Editor, to ignore him, and not to pass their opinion of the Tommy from him. Every family have their black sheep, and the Army is no except- the
(To the Editor of the "Chlas Mail."
Sir-In reply to "True Scot's" letter, who is a true son of the tlon. A sudier who criticises
New York, July 0. In an official statement in regard
nor the stabilisation of the French
A TAME AFFAIR.
FRAUD CHARGES.
JOSEPH CONRAD'S SON IN COURT.
FAILURE OF SHANGHAI GENERAL STRIKE.
Shanghai, July 4, Yesterday's "general strike" in
tion of the Chinese Ratepayers'
in the Settlement were carrying on
1
MONEYLENDERS' GRIP.
At the Marylebone Police Court
Thistle by all appearances, I doY.M.C.A., is biting the hand that to the eonference of bankers the the International Settlement, called | not wish to belittle the "Con-feeds him. We cannot find a way/ New York Federal Reserve Bank by the Chinese General Chamber of had written something about such a missive should have found cussion of any reparation question clal Federation, and the Amalga- the famous author, the late sumers of Haggis," No doubt if 1of expressing our regret that has declared that has been no dis- Commerce, the Shanghai Commer- Alfred Dorys Conrad, a son of frane. The time of the Conference mated Street Unions, at the instiga Joseph Conrad, was remanded on Palestine, Scotland would have re-its way into your paper.
What in the love of Mike is he has hitherto been devoted mainly to Association to oppose the enforce charges of fraudulent conversion mained in its natural state-
going to do with the other three the exchange of views in regard to asleep.
But as I wished to imply to your cents? If he had three thousand financial economic matters, the ment by the Municipal Council of of, or fraudulently obtaining, municipal rates was a very tame £300 from John Armitage, with readers how mean I thought cents he could not repay the policies of issuing banks and simi- an Increase of two per cent. in 1,100 from Mrs. Dorothy Bevan, "British Boy," I could do no bet-Y.C.A. for what they have done lar subjects, naturally in affair indeed. It was carried out which he was to buy a motor car,
[for him and his pals. Perhaps, the operation of the so-called "gold ter than accuse him of being a
renowned Mr. Editor, you can start a sub- exchange standard," the expensive in a most half-hearted manner and, and £200 from Mrs. Ruby Green Scutsmon, n world
Evidence was given that Con- fact, though Scotsmen try to scription list to enable the grum- shipment of gold, the purchasing more than 95 per cent. of the shops for investment. escape by saying "Och Mon, we're bler to have free smokes, pipes, or power of gold and various, pro-business yesterday as usual, the rad was bankrupted in 1926. His nosuls to promote closer co-opera- only exception being that they put abilities amounted to £6,727 and surplus tobacco.
up their window shuttera, The only thrifty."
If I was him I would stay in of tion.-Reuter's American Service. If the cap or Glengarry fits.
doors were open and everybody did assets to £9,000. This figure was wear it an evening and read a book call-
business on a normal basis, "True Scotsman" can
All reduced by £3,400, for copyrights Who paid for his stamp Dear Mr. ed "Principle and Disposition."
of the fruit shops and food ahops and film rights under for father's Even if Editor? Why should the blower He certainly needs it.
were fully open, the former "by will. Mrs. Bevan gave Conrad the Y.M.C.A. did charge him an
special permission" on account of £4,000, with an order to purchase of bagpipes and other torture
the fact that their goods were of some of Joseph Conrad's manu- kick against fate, (i.e.) being extra two cents, he should not
a perishable nature.
scripts, which were allegedly for We cannot grumble. Let us see what he gets born a Scotsman?
sale at £5,000. help it, why not resign himself to in return if the Y.M.C.A. did make an excess charge, which Destiny and Thrifty fame?
We all admit life is no bed of they did not. For his two cents thistles for the North of Tweed he gets the following:-free writ- men, but they can do it, having ing material, the loan of books, free concerts, good food at a sol- dier's price, music, free whist drives, and many other good things, too numerous to mention. By the way, did he offer to refund the cent he makes on buying his lemonade in the Y.M.C.A. in com- No- ¡parison to the N.A.A.F.I.
thing is said about that!
been here so many years.
England for Ever! Down with Haggis, Bagpipes and Thistles.
Yours, etc., "British Houdini."
Hong Kong, July 8.
A RIDICULOUS COMPLAINT.
A CANDID FRIEND.
ENGINEERS AND THEIR MATERIALS.
"Black List.”
Conrad later admitted that the
money had gone to moneylend- He made similar admissions
Only three or four score of shops, Mr. Horace J. Young has estab-including the big department stores lished something of a reputation as in Nanking Road, were actually ers, the candid friend who tells enclosed but this was nothing unusual regarding Armitage's £300. about the materials they use, and they ordinarily do not do business. gineers how little they really know because, yesterday, being Sanday. his paper before the Institute Schools and some mills auspended Marine Engineers, London, per-operations for the day but they, formed that salutary office once too, usually have Sunday of. again, and in the usual stimulating Nominally, thousande" were sup manner. Though brief, the paper posed not to work but, as a matter was a valuable one as a corrective of fact, only a few privileged ones of that state of mind which tends enjoyed a holiday.
The reason why most of the shopa to assume that marine engineering
MISSING EXPLORER.
.
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London, June 22.
James C. New York.-Mr.
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL.”
Entertainments.
..
July 9-Isako's Circus, New Re- clamation ground, Wanchai, 9:15 p.m. Matinee: 4 p.m.
сол-
July 9-Second promenade zert,, Lee Gardens, 0.30 p.m.
July 10-After dinner dance, Lee Gardens,
Lammert's Auction,
July 12Household and Office
furniture, Duddell St., 2.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous,
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If he is still worying over his
constructional practice, because of had their shutters up and joined two cents, let him call at the its economic tendency towards the "general strike" was that they Peninsula Hotel, where we are standardisation of methods and
July 9-Queen's Theatre; "But- Sir-While reading the "Sun- ever so concerned over his terrible materials, is approaching finality. were afraid of being put on the
July 9-World Theatre; "Night day Herald," I came upon a letter losses, that we have raised a sub- The reliability of the marine en- "black list" and were afraid of terfies in the Rain" in the editorial columns entitled scription to aid him.
and especially of the steam rough treatment on the part of Kine,
Chinese July 9-Wilbur Players at Star word; but that is not tof the Street "Tommy's Smokes" and signed I expect he wrote his letter in reciprocating the, has become a agitators and unprincipled members Life of New York." "British Boy."
the Y.M.C.A. writing room, with, "British Boy" forwards a com- their writing material, and per- say that the possibilities of im- newspapers were closed for the day Theatre, Kowloon present ""The
proving it still further are non- and no papers, therefore, will ap- Whole Town Talking", 9.15 p.m.
July Tea Dance Cafe Res-i plaint which in my opinion is en-haps you, Mr. Editor, received his existent, or that the scope of the pear to-day.-"North China Daily
taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m. tirely unworthy of his "nom-de- letter without a stamp.
designer is even seriously curtail- News." plunie" and I may say also, of He signs himself "British ed. The plain fact is that this ex- Bay." I think "Jew Boy" would traordinary reliability. has been publication.
If he achieved, at least, as much by the more fitting. In the first place, "B.B." surely have been forgets the many first-class enter- really did come from Britain, it provision of exceptionally large tainments, which have been pro-was north of the Tees, and Tyre. factors of safety as by the know- iedgeable proportioning of parts: Just before concluding my poor or the scientific selection and super-Smith, explorer and ethnologist, vided for us, since our arrival, by the Y.M.C.A., also perhaps he effort to put this wrong right, Ivision of the materials, employed. might be able to inform us, where know I can speak for the real sol- It should be regarded as a reproach who recently returned from the rending and writing materials, diers and say, "We fully appre- by the engine-building branch of jungles of Brazil, has cabled to etc.,
obtained free of ciate what the Y.M.C.A. do for our the profession that, in the eyes of the Royal Geographical Society can be charge, other than the Y.M.C.A.? comfort and entertainment and we the average Board of Trade exam- volunteering to conduct an ex- This. I think will overrule his apologise for the so-called sol- iner, the most proficient engineer pedition to the interior of Brazil is not so much the man who knows in search of Lieut.-Colonel Faw- In his statement about overcharging at dier's deliberate insult.
how to maintain the highest overall cett. statement regarding the price of thermo-propulsive efficiency with the Y.M.C.A.
[An earlier message stated:- who Secondly, I would like to find cigarettes during the war, he says set of machinery as the man
an excess displays the greatest ingenuity in London, June 21--The President Queen's Pier. 3.30 pm. out where he can obtain Capstan the Y.M.C.A. made cigarettes under the minimum charge. That statement is a lie, cobbling it when it breaks down. of the Royal Geographical So price of 17 cents. I, as one who The price of cigarettes were fixed That may be a relic of the days ciety has announced that the ture by Mr. M. Manuk. 7. Duddeli smokes Capstan's only, think it by the Government during the when marine machinery did break Society is ready to help any com- St., 11 a.m.
down with disconcerting frequency, petent well-accredited volunteer July 10-Social gathering in St. will be very difficult for him to war, and it applied to all catering put on the face of things it looks party proceeding to the interior John's Cathedral Hall, 6 p.m.
for the services. Also does he realise two cents Before he signs himself 'Bri- more like an implied vote of no of Brazil in search of the explor- confidence in materiala or work- er, Lieut.-Col, P. H. Fawcett, who is equivalent to a half-penny in tish Boy" let him do something manship or both, unless scanting left civilisation on an expedition English money.
to show he at least has the right are more than ample and stressus I have written this to show that to use it. The least he can do is proportionately low. In some cases into the interior in 1925, since this ridiculous complaint is not withdraw his statement and a large factor of safety is essen- when there has been no news of universal amongst the troops, and apologise through your valuable I can assure you, "B.B." and his paper. Perhaps then a "British pal's letter is the subject of much Boy." not before. discussion in our barracks, but Hoping you will grant me a one and all, are treating it with little space in your valuable paper the scorn and contempt it rightly to set this great injustice right. deserves, and are indignant that
tell us.
a comrade (?) in our midst could be so Un-British and Unsports-| manlike,
Yours, etc., Lance Corporal. Hong Kong, July 8.
PASSENGER LIST.
ARRIVAL.
I conclude this humble epistle, Sir, hoping you will publish it, thereby showing the parties con- cerned, that at least we are not all ungrateful for the many kind- nesses shown to us, since our ar- rival, by the Y.M.C.A. and its helpers.
Enclosed you will find my Passengers arrived in Hong Kong name but I hope it will not be pub- by the F. & O. "Khiva" from Japan lished, mainly for disciplinary and ports on July 8, were:-Mr. F. R. Armitage, Sqdrn. Leader A. E. reasons and secondly, as I am only Barr-Sim, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Bar- the mouthpiece for many. yours, etc.,
"Guardsman."
Hong Kong, July 8.
APOLOGY DEMANDED.
A
tial because the maximum working the explorer.] stress is not accurately known; but
HOW TO CHLOROFORM A CARROT.
in far more instances It is merely confession of ignorance of the strength and suitability of
the materials. That the engineer and the metallurgist working in concert
London, June 23. ean perform seeming miracles in
How carrots can be chloroform- the elimination of needless weighted and how celery is very prone is obvious to anyone who has ever studied an aeroplane engine; and to fatigue. were among the illus- aero engine reliability to-day com-trations of the human-like emo- pares not unfavourably with that of tions of plants demonstrated by the average marine steam engine, Sir Jagadia Chandra Bose in a especially when the relative piston lecture in the Kingsway Hall, speeds are taken into account. In Mr. G. Bernard Shaw was an age of standardisation it is good for the engineer to have a candid friend.
STONED BY CHINESE.
which warmly applauded Sir among the interested audience,
Jagadis Bose's statement that experiments with plants eventual- ly would supersede vivisection for the purpose of alleviating the sufferings of mankind.
bery, Mr. A. Buhre, Mrs. Brisher, An Indian guard has been admit- Paymaster-Comdr. J. M. Bell, Mr.ted to the Government Civil Hos- HISTORY TOLD BY ARTISTS. James Bowman, Mr. L. C. Chow, pital suffering from a severe cut Mr. and Mrs. H. Curtis, Mr. and on the left eye, the result of being Mrs. X. W. Cheeseman, Matr. stoned by a gang of Chinese from Cheeseman, Mr. and Mrs. Cheng whom he attempted to rescue an- Chenk-hin, Lt. N. C. H. Downe, Mr. other Indian who was being nobbed and Mrs. F. Engils and infant, Mr. at Causeway Bay.
F. L. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hannevik and children, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jason Loo, Miss Jarmin, Mrs. D. K.
Sir,-To-day, while reading the Kovach, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Kench. contents of the "Sunday Herald", Mr. S. K. Loh, Mr. A. Lee, Miss
MURDER AND ROBBERY.
London, June 20. The Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, will unveil, on June 28,
July 9-Launch plenle of the Society, Launch Theosophical leaves Queen's Pier, 4 p.m.
July 10-Wah Yan Old Boy's Union piente, launch leaving
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July 11-Meeting of Sports Com-
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CHURCH NOTICES.
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG.
July 10, 1927.
4th Sunday After Trinity. Holy Communion (8 a.m.) Choral Matina (11 am.)
Preacher: Rev. H. Copley Moyle. Evensong (6 p.m.)
4.m.
Preacher: Rev. W. R. Cannell. A Social Gathering will be held in the Cathedral Hall After Even- BODg,
Music and Light Refreshments. Thursday Holy Communion, 7.45
Corporate Communion of the a series of eight panels at St. women's Guild, 10.30 a.m. Stephen's Hall, Westminster, re-i presenting British history for: over a thousand years, from Alfred the Great to the Anglo- Scottish Union,
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I came to a column, which seem- Leopold, Mr. H. W. McAthome, Mr. Four men armed with daggers of overseas history in the serica, ed to me, and I think all fair C. Gordon Mackie, Captain committed robbery at 4, Seymour with W. Rothenstein's painting minded people, to cast a blight on Monkman, Mr. L. W. Millington, Terrace yesterday, killing one of of Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to your esteemed paper. The piece Mr. and Mrs. B. Morris and chil- the occupants of the house and get the Court at Agra of the Great to which I refer was headed dren, Miss Payne, Flying Offr. S. C. ting away with a quantity of money Mogul, Jehangir, in 1618. "Tommy's Smokes."
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A Chinese woman has been ad- Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, reply- mitted to the Alice Memorial Hes-ing to a parliamentary question pital suffering from injuries in to-day, said that there are ap- to attend the servic. and visit the Aicted by a cow which she was proximately 400 British subjects Reading Room. milking.
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QUARREL BETWEEN WOMEN.
MAHARAJA'S TIGRESS.
is a lie. His complaint is two cents.
Madras, June 22. I have known of hundreds of cases Ootacamund, June 22-The where the "Tommy's Friend" Maharaja of Jodhpur motored have given his two cents away down to Theppakadu on a shoot- thousands of times over. He does ing excursion, with a party of not think of the trouble the four, and bagged a tigress. Y.M.C.A. go through to please
In the course of a quarrel be-M. Litvinov that British subjects POSITION WANTED.--Marine En- The party was returning from tween two Chinese women in First remaining in Russia would not him and his pals, but we will come the excursion, and when between Street, one pushed the other into a he interfered with.
Theppakadu and Gudalur, at vat of boiling water. The sufferer
to that later.
He says: "We can get them about 8 p.m., the car was stopped is now in the Government Civil for Afteen cents."
CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
Can he? by a tigress jumping across in Hospital. Where? I have always paid front of the radiator from the seventeen cents for Capstans; and hillside. there is a shop near the Queen's Theatre where they charge you his rifle to his shoulder, asking The Maharaja at once brought twenty, and when I purchased a packet I had good cause to grum- his younger brother to turn the ble for I lost the vast amount of electric epotlight on the tigress, three cents. Alas, I am ruined! Bring simultaneously,
I call him a liar when he says he The tigress dropped dead in can get Capstans for fifteen front of the car and was taken from any soldier's' institute. home by the party.
d'Affaires, before leaving Mos- POSITION WANTED. cow, received an assurance from:
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