8
Foamite Firefoam
THE MOST EFFECTIVE FIRE
EXTINGUISHER.
SOLE AGENTS FOR HONG KONG & SOUTH CHINA:
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tel, Central 236,
2. Queen's Buildings.
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD WATCHMAKERS- & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS Union Building (Opposite G.P.O.)
Agents for:- ADMIRALTY. CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufaturers, High Class English Jewellery.
DINNER DANSANT Saturdays: 8 to 12 TEA DANSANT Tuesday's & Fridays: 5 to 7 Professor C. THERESES *and
Miss MARGUERITE SENOUR
will give exhibition Daaces each of these evenings. Private Dancing lessons can be arranged with them.
TOTAL
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
J. H. WITCHELL, Manager.
FIRE PROTECTION
tipe
“ TOTAL '
WILL NOT EVAPORATE OR DETERIORATE. APPARATUS and CONTENTS
WILL LAST for YEARS
NO UPKEEP COST.
NO REFILLING. THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER THAT NEVER FAILS.
KELLER, KERN & CO., LTD..
17, Connaught Road, C.
SAND-LIME BRICKS.
Best machine made bricka Highest tests and uniform qualities.
For Economy. Quality, Beauty, Durability and
Satisfaction unsurpased.
YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,
CHING I NAM
Manager.
Factory:-Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. `C.3882.
A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.
At long last it seems that a definite move is to be made against the out-and-out Communists who have been over- running Hankow and other Yangtse ports for the best part of six months. Together with foreigners, the main military factions are beginning to realise that the first step towards the salvation of China must necessarily be the extermination of the Borodin-Eugene Chen clique.
With this end in view, political experts see the imminence of a north and south truce, with the Communists as the common enemy. How the hotch-potch Chinese situation has material- ised into something definite is fully told in this week's "Overland Mail."
This issue also contains the cream of the local news of the week. It will keep those at Home in touch with what is happening in Hong Kong, in China and throughout the Far East generally. Let us mail it for you.
READY TO-DAY.
Home Mail via Suez closes at 5 p.m. on Friday. Mall vla Siberiu closes at 8.30 am., on Sunday.
SINGLE COPY
.......SA Centa
(Sold on the streets and at the bookatalis or you can send your subscription to the office.-H.K. $13 per annum, er $15 including postage abroad.]
"THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL."
THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Five Russians have buen $130 in banknotes is reportedl arrested by the Tientsin police in to have been stolen from the pocket connection with the theft of valu-|-of a Chinese travelling between able furs from the premises of Hong Kong and Yaumati on the Messra. Jeas and Co., Council Yaumat ferry yesterday. Road.
It is understood that there ha been a "cut" in the price of patrol, the bezelit of which will be ex- perlenced by local residents and will apply to all brands, The re tail prices for Shell Motor Spirit are now as follows; per cane (con- taining two tins), $785; per two tina (without case), $7.20; per im perial gallon in hulk 80 cents.
Scotland requires a new die- tionary-her worthy "Jamieson" being now past patching-up again. яду J. L. Garvin In the "Observer." The new work, on- which co-operative selolarship is embarking, will take the languagė Į from 1,700 onwards, It will dovetail with the dictionary that Dr. Craigie is preparing of the older tongue, and will itself be or- ganised on the historical principle It is important that all the leading dialects of Scotland should be fully recorded before their popular use; has ton far shrunk. The Aber- deenshire Scotch af Charles Murray differs visibly from "the Angus Scotch of Violet Jacob, and both from the Ayrshire Sentch of Burns. The differences, moreover, are strongly suggestive of type, and their proper study would prob- ably bear, racial inferences. It might even tell us at last who the Pict was and where he went to.
of
A Chinese woman was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital yes- terday suffering from injuries to the head cause dthrough falling through a window at 633 Canton Road. Kowloon
At the annual meeting of the St. Giles' Christian Mission at the Manston House, the Recorder of London, Sir Ernest Wild, K., who presided, said: "Crime must be pro- perly dealt with, and in certain That, cases severely punished. however, was no reason why the element of mercy should not enter in; there was good reason why the young offender, should be anved from his folly and the old offender given a chance after serving his sentence."
Mail week saw the tenth. annivesary of battle of Messines, the battle in which we exploded nineteen great mines, the simul- taneous explosion of which was, heard by Mr. Lloyd George at Walton Heath. One who has seen the Messines battlefield re- cently, says that the great mine craters remain despite efforts on the part of the Belgians to fill one in. They have been transformed into lakes and young trees are appearing on the banks of them. Here are perhaps, the only con- siderable signs of the war which are likely to endure to show that modern warfare can actually The re-introduction of half-alter the geography of the coun- penny tram-fares in Glasgow gives tryside. a leg-up to a coin that has fallen on evil times, remarks a London
Maj. Gen. Lutz Wall, of M waukee, Wis., the now adjutant general of the Unlled States Armų.
The adventurous carcer paper. Almost the only thing that Franz Ferdinand Bertram, aged can be done with a halfpenny to-` fifty-five, a man who had gone day is to keep it till you get an- through no fewer than twenty pro- other. That it will frank a receipt fessions, has been disclosed in for larger sums through the post, Vienna Court. He claimed to be the son of a deceased member of only emphasises its outcast condi- the German Reichstag. In his youth he appeared successfully in various German theatres, and act-
tion.
The resignation of 'Mr. Frank Hodges of his post as secretary of the International Federation of Miners is not quite the victory for Mr. Cook that it may appear to be. It seems that Mr. Cook anticipated a refusal of his demand for Mr. Hatges' An appeal by the warden of removal, and would have preferr- ed as stage-manager. He then a Women's Settlement in Canning ed to put into action his alterna- turned to the film, and, as the Town, a dreary region near the tive course of taking the British "grent film industrialist. Dr. Franz; London Docks, for help to provide miners out of the Federation and Ferdinand," started some dubious window-boxes (writes "Looker-allying them exclusively to the transactions. After that, he dealt On' in the "Daily Chronicle") Russian miners. By resigning, in horses, bred piga and dogs, pro has surprised a friend of mine Mr. Hodges has removed Mr. duced sausages, reared poultry, and and may have puzzled others. Cuok's grievance, and thus he attempted to open a sanatorium. One difficulty is to get soil. In cannot very well proceed with Then he tried his hand at a few few parts of London is it possi- his fondly cherished plan of closer more professions. His whole ble to find earth in which any union with Russia. Thus, far capital consisted of his title "doctor," which he and acquired
from having achieved a victory, at an Italian University. Finally
Mr. Cook has suffered defeat, he got into trouble as a forward-
except for the personal satisfac- ing agent and was sentenced to
tion he may gain from depriving◄ Mr. Hodges of his office.
three months.
thing will grow. Then seeds and plants have to be bought. People might buy these for themselves; the soil is really the main part of the problem.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Mr. Richard Cumming, a well- known merchant in Sydney, Aus tralia, has arrived Shanghai,
Mr. G. C. G. Muller has been ap pointed to act as First Assistant Secretary (A), Straits Settlements.
P
Mr. H. V. Towner has been ap- pointed Colonial Engineer and Mr. G. Sturrock Deputy Colonial En- gineer, Singapore.
Dr., Mr. and Miss Mac- Gillivrary have left Shanghai for Wei-hal-wei, where they will stay with Mrs. J. Niven.
By the "Porthos" last Wednesday morning the Consul General for Portugal and Senhora Ferreira returned to Singapore from their trip to China and Japan.
The death occurred at Amoy on July 14, of Mr. John Shipway Shields, a very old resident. Seventy-eight years of age, the Into Mr. Shields first arrived in China in 1875, joining the Customa Revenue' cruiser "Cheng- tu" as a gunner.
The Chinese papers in Hankow have published a report stated to have come from Peking to the ofFect that Marshal Chang Tso-lin has issued a mandate for the re- lease of all prisoners undergoing penalties for major crimes with the exception of Mme. Borodin and her three compatriots.
Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Jr., of Hong Kong, who graduated at Oxford last year after having obtained Honours at the Honour School of Jurisprudence there was, on June 29 last, called to the Bar by the Benchers of the Middle Temple in London. He passed his Bar Final Examination in Mey last, also with Honours. He is just
23 years of age.
Since his arrival in Singapore in December last from Batavia, Mr. Owang Kee, the new Consul-General
Mr. John M. Hykes left Shang- hai last Saturday for a short ludi- ness trip to America.
Mr. T. H. U. Aldridge, engineer- in-chief of the Electricity De- partment, Shanghai, has left for Home.
Mr. W. T. Thorne, manager of the Shanghai branch of Messrs. Allen and Hanbury, has sailed for Home.
"RUZKY,MALIK VAN STU
Senator Cinude A. Swanson, of Virginia, who is a recent speech came out for a navy "second to dono." a real wary" instead of a bise-print organluation,
Mr. A. C. Townsend, of Shang- hai, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute,
Among recent appointments by the Secretary of State for the Colonics is Dr. T. W. Ware as Medical Omeer, Hong Kong.
The engagement is announced of Miss Valerie B. O. Roth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Valentin Roth to Mr. Percival Goffe, of Shanghai.
Mr. L. E. Aveling, who is to take up the position of First Secretary of the British Logation in Peking, has arrived at the capital.
Misses Kathleen and Gertrude Simmons, of Hong Kong, are in Shanghai visiting their sister, Mrs. B. A. Proulx. They arrived on
the "Président Grant."
Mr. J. A. Feeney, Chief Inspector
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
BEST PORTLAND CEMENT
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers
HONGKONG.
REFRESH
YOURSELF
NEW SUPPLIES
46
OF
ON LOK YUEN'S Delicious Ice Cream. Frozen from Pure
Rich Cream."
ESKIMO
PIE
CHOCOLATE COATED BARS PURE CREAM
Price: 15 cents each.
COME & TRY TO-DAY
Sole Manufacturers:-
ON LOK
YUEN
27-35, Des Vœux Road C.
LAST FEW DAYS HERE.
ISAKO'S CIRCUS
of Police, Kedah, is retiring from NEW RECLAMATION GROUND
the service on pension next month,
He
will be succeeded by Chief
| Inspector E. P. Colgan, from Perak.
His Majesty's approval of the appointments of the Hon. Mr. J. B. C. Henderson and the Hon. Sir David Galloway as Unofficial Mem- bers of the Singapore Legislative Council has been received.
Mr. Harry O. White, prominent Shanghai broker and head of the lirm of White and Company, und Mrs. White sailed on the "Empress of Canada" on a vacation to be spent in the United Statca, Eng- land and other parts of Europe.
PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI
We will be leaving on the 29th instant, so come and see our show now, before we go. 9.15 p.m.-TO-NIGHT--9.15 p.m.
GRAND GALA
PERFORMANCE COME AND SEE
The marriage arranged between THE CIRCUS POST CARRIER PIGEONS
Mr. Arthur Ernest Jagò, son of the late Mr. F. E. Jago and of Mra. Jage, formerly of Singapore, and Mr. A: Kelly Davies has left Olwen, only daughter of Mr. and Shanghai for Unzen on sick leave, Mrs. Timothy Davies, of 20, Col- after being under treatment at lingham-Gardens, S.W., was to take Shanghal General Hospital. He is place on June 29, at St. Margaret's accompanied by his wife.
Mr. Harry Maxwell, who has i
Westminster.
for China, has not been in good been the Danish Consul in Kobe to H.E. the Governor, leaves for Capt. C. H. Steelo, M., A.D.C. health, and he is forced to return and Osaka for the past nine years, Home by the "Macedonia" to-day to China next month His succes-
tendered his resignation of the
sor has been named in the person post upon joining the staff of Gen- en account of ill-health, Capt. of Mr. Li Tchian, the Second eral Motors Japan, Ltd., Osko, Stoole has had a distinguished Secretary of the Chinese Legation and Mr. Paul Jorgensen now is in Army career. He served during in Paris, and he is expected to charge of the Consulate in the the war with the Royal Irish arrive on July 24 by the "Chenon capacity of acting Consul. ceaux" from Morsellies,
Fusiliers, winning the Military Cross at Puschnendale and adding Edinburgh Town Council have de-
a bar to it at Ypres. After the Mrs. W. R. Johnson, daughter cided to confer the freedom of the Armistice he served in North-west of Judge Milton D. Purdy, of the city upon the Hon. Alanson Bigelow Persia against the Bolsheviks and United States Court for China, Houghton, the United States Am rejoined his battalion later in the left Shanghai on the "Empress of bassador to Great Britain, in appre-outbreak of hostilities in Mesopo- Asla" for America. She plans to ciation of his visit for the pur- tamia, He also took part in the join her mother in Minneapolis, pose of handing over the war operations against the rebels. their former home, where she will memorial presented by men and wo the Nile Delta before he returned visit for a time before joining men of Scottish blood in the USA. to his Depot in Ireland. Nearly her husband, who will leave Lord Provost Stevenson said a very, two years afterwards he was ap Shanghal on a later boat. They large number of Americans were pointed A.D.C. to H.E. Sir Cool! will spend Bome time in New coming over by special steamer to | Clement shortly after the latter's York and eastern states..
take part in the celebration. arrival in Hong Kong.
In commemoration of the visit, of ISAKO'S CIRCUS to Hong Kong, free prizes will be given away. At every performance, our carrier pigeons will be let off in the centre of the ring and the persons on whom they alight will be the recipients of the following gifts:-
..
GOLD WATCHES, RINGS, BRACELETS
AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ARTICLES.
Cat and bring this.alip to the circus ticket office and you will obtain your ticket at a special rate from 30 cts. up.
MATINEE
ΟΙ
Wednesday,
EVERY
Saturday & Sunday
at 4 p.m.
Children Half Price.