WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928.
Phone C. 22
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WANTED.-Chinese with know- ledge of Typewriting, Bookkeeping and Salesmanship. Apply Box No. 652, c/o, "China Mall."
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Furnished Bathing Shed at Castle Peak in good order and condition. Immediate posses- Blon. Apply Box No. 553, c/o
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TO LET.
TO LET.-Rooms for officer with lift and modern conveniences in Rutton Buliding. No. 7 Duddell' Street. Apply to H. Ruttonjee & Son, 15, Queen's Road Central.
TO LET.No. 7, Middle Road, Kowloon, close by Peninsula Hotel. Large furnished and unfurnished rooms without board, large veran- dahs; private baths, each room with geyser.
TUITION GIVEN..
MME. BARONELLI, ARTISTE.—- School of dancing for children and adults in character. classical, ex- hibition, fox-trot and Charleston:
Special Attention to stout Ladier who are desirous of regalning their youthful figure. Address Ashley Rond. Ground Floor, Kow. loon. (Back of Star Theatre).
HOME TUITION.
FESTOVER
at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Ex- cellency the Governor of Ons {Lot of Crown Land at Shamshuipo In the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from
H. R. FORSYTII,
Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, June 18, 1928.
AN ALPINE BATTLE OF THRILLS.
STAMPEDE
RAILWAY ENGINES.
THE LM. §. “HOSPITAL"`AT CREWE.
CRANES AS "NURSES."
Once in every seven hours and afty minutes of their working time
railway works at Crewe have an interlude in the middle of all their hammering and riveting, It has
A Film That Cost £1,000,000
Greater Than "7th Heaven.”
Vavey, Switzerland.— The his- of the Sale by Public Auctioning subscribers to, above, will a resolution into the House of Re-torie little township of Martigny, to be held on MONDAY, the 18th CLOSE on Saturday, 16th June,' presentatives designed to put an in the canton of Valais, where the workmen at the great. L.M.9. day of June, 1928, at 8 pm.. 1928.
end to the custom of American Napoleon reviewed his troops be- women and their husbands "de- fore his perilous journey across the basing themselves" It Is-Alps, provided inst month a spec- termed-before the King and tacle which has no counterpart in Queen of England and other Europe. European Royalties.
It was the annual tournament of quite a sporting character, and in With this object, Mr. Sabath de- the famous fighting cows of the Val known as "moving up," the “Dally | mands that instructions be sent to d'Hérens breed, gathered to do News and Westminster Gazette" is] DELTA DIVISION. the American Diplomatie Corps to battle for the coveted title of informed by a special representa- refuse henceforth to aid American the queens" before returning for THE FORTY-SEVENTH ORDIN-in obtaining presentations at Court, the summer to their Alpine mea
"The United States," he says," down."""
1st July, 1898, with the option of
renewal at h Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty' the King, for one further term of 24) years less three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locally
New Kowloon faland
Street, Shamaulpa.
Inland Lot No. 364, KI
Hoglitry N
Boundary
Herman
As per inlə plan.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films. Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
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A Trial Order is Solicited.
.A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. C. 3459.
31.
26A, Des Vœux Road C.. Hong Kong.
STEVENAGE.
Within an hour from Lon- don. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received
in the House of the Principal. In dividual care and attention. For
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(Camb. Higher Local).
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INDO - CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
TARY GENERAL MEETING of
Diractors and Auditors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from the 13th June to 4th July, 1928, both days inclusive.
tive.
CANNIBALS OF THE SWAMPS.
This means the moving up of a the Company will be held at the "the being aubjected to ridicule by The first part of the programme long line of locomotives which are Offices of the General Managers, the scramble of American title was devoted to juniors, or reinettes, standing in the enormous repair [By Jack McLaren.] Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. worshippers and social climbers for many of whom exhibited comba- shop. Each engine is moved up a Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on the privilege of making wild tive qualities extremely rare in place, and the first one, of course, Guinea, where a number of na- The Delta Division of New WEDNESDAY, the 20th June, 1928, genuflexions before Their Britan- animals so young. But the real has to move out of the shops atives (given as 500 by two mis- at Noon for the purpose of receivnic Majesties and other crowned thrills were provided by the old together, and must therefore be sionaries and as 18 by the ing the Report of the Directors, heads, and it is high time to put stagers-heroines of many fights completed. passing the Accounts, and electing an end to these undignified perfor- which, with lowered heads and dis-
Papuari Government) have been I saw a move-up recently. The killed in tribal fights, followed by mances."-"Central News."
tended nostrils, fought among workmen on the first engine gave a cannibal feasts, is a remarkable Mr. Adolph Sabath was born in themselves for the honour of their final dab with a paint brush, and place for human beings to in- Bohemia 62 years ago, relates the particular Alps.
the locomotive was drawn out of habit. It is a land of mud and "Evening Standard."
When the final bout waa an the shops on to the rails outside slush, and the people are swamp- American women in London who|nounced eight cows remained in ready to have steam up and be teat-dwellers like the early inhabitants By Order of the Board,
are to be presented at Court this | the ring and Germaine, the favour- ed.
of the earth. In the Delta Divi- JARDINE, MATHESON & year were amused by the Congress-ite, was charging down upon
her
All those engines behind, which 'alon one might travel for days CO., LTD.,
man's outburst. One sald to an fifth victim when an Irish terrier had been doctored enough to move and never see a scrap of dry land. General Managers. "Evening Standard" representa- escaped from its master and seized
The villages are built on tall Hong Kong, 29th May, 1928, tive:-
her by the tall.
place up. Those which were un-house to another.
stilts, with gangways from one "There is nothing whatever de- Forgetting all about their per able to move, being without "legs" are remarkably adept in getting The natives grading in the curtsy,
sonal differences the cows stamped- or helplessly lying on crutch sup about through the mud. Where "One pays a compliment to one's ed round the arena, causing alarm ports, were solicitously and gently a white man would sink waist- host in different ways in every part among the spectators. After order attended by the nurses.
deep, the native seem to skim of the world. One raises one's arm, had been restored the fight recom-
over it--so much so that an early according to the national fashion, menced with renewed energy, and
must when greeting the Italian Prime having quickly disposd of all her Minister. One kisses the Pope's adversaries Germaine was solemn hand, after the Papal tradition. ly proclaimed the queen. One bows to the Lord Mayor of
Tel K. 824.
Tel. C. 5787.
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TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
The Yuen Wo Seamen's lastitute always har men available to ship a watch- men, teamen, &c.
Our men are employed by the leading passenger lines. We guarantee satis- faction.
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full drsetións;
on their own wheels, moved one
nurses.
The Nurses.
You had to look up in the roof of explorer believed they the great hospital to find the have had webbed feet! The chief You could see mighty reason is, however, that the na- cranes fitting about on their aerial tives know where, just under the rails. From the cranes hung giant slush, are mangrove or other These were fastened roots. Even so, it is uncanny to
watch them skimming along. around the helpless engines, and; the cranes went careering along They are the strangest mixture of I know these tribes very well. "patients,"
weighing kindliness and utter savagery I
London, as the representative of WORLD WAR WORK. shackles. an ancient and honourable city.
"If one calls on the King and Queen of England, one salutes them in the way' everyone has al- ways saluted them.
200 VOLUMES.
If we Americans went through the world Insisting on saying How do to everyone we should really deserve to be laughed at. been compiled.
"There is a handful of social climbers in every community. Few of them, I believe, ever reach Buckingham Palace."
OPENED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES.
with the
It is announced that more than scores of tons, dangling below have ever come across. It was half of the gigantic economic and them. social history of the world war
In this region that I made my first published by the Carnegie Endow- engines, in the hospital had made Seas, having been
And so it went on until all the acquaintance with the South ment for International Peace has one more definite step towards com-unconscious from a sailing-cut- cast ashore plete recovery. In that short ter wrecked on a river-bar. tons of iron and steel were slung they placed great value on a white. space of time many hundreds of was utterly at their mercy, and about the shop as if they were all man's head; yet they treated me
toys.
I
with every consideration and
The preparation work began in 1919, says Reuter's New York cor- respondent, when, at the close of the world war, it was decided to make an historical survey in some
It was a bold mind which first nursed me back to health as if 1 twenty countries of the effect of BERWICK'S BRIDGE. the war upon their economic iffe proposed sending hundred-ton lo- were one of their own. The first and social and political structure. comotives slowly moving through thing I knew, for instance, as I When complete the history will a shop. The engine to be disman. came out of my unconsciousness consist of about 200 volumes. tled comes in at one end. By the was that a wrinkled and hideous- Ninety-five volumes have been pub- time it reaches the middle it looks ly painted old man was breathing When the Prince of Wales opens lished to date, and some thirty less like a railway engine than a into his cupped hands and holding the new bridge over the Tweed at more are in the press or in the mass of scrap-iron. Then as you them to my mouth. I learnt later Berwick to-day (says the London process of editing.
walk along you see it gradually take that he was striving to transfer "Daily Telegraph" to hand) weA striking picture is presented ing shape again, and it moves out the breath from his lungs to mine. must note another significant sign of the extent to which the wartime in all the pride of perfectly renew- of the modern development of en- social and economic life of the ed health through the far door of gineering and the reorganisation neutral States resembles that of their great hospital, of the country. There has been a the belligerents, bridge at Berwick these afx hun-
1,500 "Patients" a Year,
Yet some years later I was compelled to fight. for my very life against those same people! There was no particular reason for the attack; it was merely an An engine passes out of "bos-outburst of their impulsive sava Eliza Baisden, at the age of 80, pital" well and healthy again in 12 gery. its old oak piles in the river this found herself faced with eviction days, and 1,500 "patients" a year spring. By this King James I. from her home Circus-street, crossed when he took the high Marylebone. She has an income road to England, and he Ilked of only 138 64 a week, and fell into
dred years. They found some of
other.
It is reported that native police. pasz In at one door and out at the in uniform were leading the war- riors in the recent conflict. But You might be pardoned for be- it is most unlikely that they are Its timbers so little that he bade arrears of rent owing to lines. lieving that you had wandered into the regular police-the armed na- the burgesses build a bridge of Her case was brought to public the workshops of some race of tive constabulary, the fineat body stone. They were twenty-four notice, and the magistrate at giants. Steel plates that tower of police in the South Pacific. The
Police-court fifteen Marylebone years at work, but those stone arches still stand, and until quently said that he desired to above you like cliffs. are bent by police mentioned are no doubt
the hydraulic power into any shape de-village constables.. to-day have carried all the traffic express his appreciation to
These men have a blue loin- of the highway between England/public for their great generosity to tired and they are sliced as easily cloth for a uniform and wear sus- as if they were made of cheese.pended on their chests a metal age of railways that another bridge/Between 440 and £50 had been re-lighty-white-hot ingots of steel disc inscribed "V.C." - village
subse-
and Scotland. It was not till the this decent and deserving woman.
ceived. This would be quite are put through a rolling machine constable. The V.C.8 are usually was needed at Berwick. Robert sufficient to meet her needs, and it and come out the other end ten very proud of their position, but Stephenson built 4 viaduct,
was not necessary for any more times their length. It is like a when it comes to a tribal fight twenty-eight arches on a curve, on to be sent.
grotesque sausage machine.
they often forget it. which the Edinburgh Hine runs high above the river, and in 1850 Queen Victoria.christened it the Royal Border Bridge. The new structure is to carry the high road. The seventeen feet in width King James's bridge are something road traffic. The time has come Jess than adequate to the modern when the communicationa of the two kingdoms are being reorganis- ed for the new era of mechanical [transport.
of
The Royal Tweed Bridge-such Its full title is to be--will be the longest which carries a road in Great Britain. It crosses the
of
Tweed valley In four spans between the twenty-eight Stephenson's viaduct and the Afteen arches of King James. But It is of a material which Stephen- son, ingenious Innovator in bridges as he was, never imagined. Until the last years, of the eighteenth century men had not thought of making bridges of anything but the materials which had been in use for thousands of years--wood, stone, and brick. Then the Mid- land foundries began to make east- Iron arches. In the mid-nineteenth century the demand of bridges of long span led Robert Stephenson to devise the tubes of wrought iron which cross the Menai Straits and the St. Lawrence at Montreal. The age of steel soon succeeded, to give us the great cantilevers apan- ning the Forth. Now the bridge bullders turn to concrete, and in the Tweed bridge is the longest concrete arclf known to British en- gineering. What will Be the deve lopments of the gert hundred. Years
FOLIES BERGERE SONG AND DANCE HITS.
Eleanore Ninon and Leo "Manlin, the famiona revue artists, who are to give a number - of their Folles Bergere song and dance kits at the 9.20 performance. In the Queen's Theatre from Thursday to Saturday,
Most of the fighting is done at night, the natives being warriors of the kind that rely more on strategy and surprise than on frontal attack. Those shadowy shapes flitting over the mud in the dark, holding their spears, bows and arrows, and clubs so that they will not rattle, are one of the most unnerving sights I know.
PIGEON PATIENT,
CURED OF WING AFFECTION IN LONDON HOSPITAL.
St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park- corner, S.W, has just treated suc- cessfully one of the most extra- ordinary patients that ever walked Into, a large London general hos- pital for, attention..
It was a pigeon, suffering from an affection of the wing, which ap÷ peared in the hospital recently after being Injured through fying under the wheel of an omni bus, “An astonished porter saw the bird and caught it. It moved in a way to suggest that it was suffer ing in some way, and it was taken to a doctor for examination.S
The doctor discovered that the condition of the wing prevented the bird from flying and gave it treat ment to cure its complaint. It was Ben Landed over to the care of a porter, who looked after the patient while it was recaporating.
When an examination of the bird showed that it had recovered It was discharged from the hospital and flow happily away.