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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928.
THE TATTOO.
passes but some more or less CORRESPONDENCE. irrelevant statement (generally emanating from some crack- brained Labour M.P.) is made as to something or other "that should or should not be dona with reference to this yery-much Sir-In spite of the diverse sug- discussed Base. The very latest geations put forth through the statement seems to have some medium of your paper, it appears connection with the forthcoming
[To the Editor of the “China Mail")
meeting in Paris on the occasion to me that there is yet another
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LIFE-SAVING.
SIX MORE LOCAL SUCCESSES.
THE S.C.A.A.
The South Chinn Athletic: Anno
of the signing of the Kellogg notion which has so far been over-ciation presented the remainder of their Life Saving class for ex- Pact. It is difficult to find what looked.
the rules of the logical connection there can pos- That ng Kong history ought to amination under sibly be between the Base and be represented at the Tattoo, in Royal Life Saving Society of Great the Pact. Happily, Mr. W. B. tableau form and under all sorts of Britain on Sunday evening. The..
six candidates were Bridgeman, the "First Lord" (who contrivances Imaginable by "Ex-following
"Pageanttoo" and recommended for the Proficiency long ago must have been quite Non-Com," hardened by the many queries numerous other local historians, Is Certificate: Ho Yun-kwong Li Shila- that have arisen) has been able without a doubt appropriate to the lun, Kwok Man-hi, Wong Kl-chau; easily to extinguish those who occasion, but in my mind this alone Li Kwong-kwan, and Yeung Yuen-
wah. have the temerity to question will not suffice.
Of these six, four were also re- the Government's policy. Brief- The chief alm of the Pageant ly and to the point he says:- after all, is to attract as many commended for the Bronze Medal. There has been no avoidable people as possible to the scene and lion, namely, Yeung Yuen-wah, delay and no change or modi- despite public censure, I venture to Wong Ki-chau, Li Kwong-kwan.. fication of policy. and suggest the innovation of a "Beauty and He Yun Kwong. Easily the last the coming Paris meeting has Contest." Such a novelty cannot pair were Yeung Yuen Wah and, not affected the matter at all. fall to draw the crowd. These Wong Ki-chau, who attained Some little-delay has arisen in beauty contesta" have claimed very high standard of excellence. the completion of contracts great success in the United States The examination was followed by owing to points of detail as be-and on the Continent and there is a most enjoyable informal dinner, tween the Admiralty and the no reason why it should not enjoy at which the 22, recommended Treasury, but these are now the same popularity in modern candidates entertained aa guests in process of settlement and Hong Kong, provided it is run on their instructor Sgt. F. J. Toma, the scheme will proceed
18 proper lines and in competent Mr. Stokes, and the examiner, Mr. frame.
F. K. M. Ewart. The Chairman of
hands.
So that's that: and for a time Ye Aphrodites and Venuses of the S.C.A.A., Mr. O. W. Luke, was this eminently sensible explana-this rugged Isle of Beauty, awake, present- and made a happy speech. tion should suffice to allay, the and hearken to the call of the crop of rumours that seems to be heralds! inseparable from Singapore's
new base. But wil it?
A. 13-year-old Chinese girl was knocked down by a motor car in Caine-rond yesterday evening, suf- fering considerable bruises,
Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., and Mrs. Kotewall were among the pas-
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“PROM” CONCERT.
PROGRAMME FOR FRIDAY
NEXT...
1. Marche Heroique, "Szabadi,”
2. Rhapsodie, "Slavonic,”
AS
Massenet.
Friedemann.
་
GETTING. TOGETHER.
INTERNATIONAL GAMES PARTY.
BRIDGE & MAH JONG.
were
A net profit of $252 was realised. Special thanks are due to Dr. Kote-- wall for assisting in many ways, Mrs. Creasy and the Ladies' Com- mittee, whose arrangements for the afternoon were excellent. In con- clusion, Mrs. Southorn kindly dia- tributed the prizes and said that it In. the was hoped to develop the idea of these partics and to arrange in the Sobek.
future International meetings on varied lines.
3. Song, "Softly Awakes My Saint-Saens. Heart
.
(Mrs. Carnegie). 4. A Dervish Chorus
Soudan
b. Selection, "Iolanthe,"
6. Aloha Septette,
(Interval).
Sullivan.
7. Selection, "The Desert Song," Romberg.
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9. Two Hindoo Pictures,
Recit. and Air, "Ombra Mal
Fu".
(Mrs. Carnegie).
Handel
FOR CATHEDRAL,
London.-A. gift of £10,000 to help in the completion of Liverpool Cathedral has been made by Mr. of
The second of the series of Promenade concerts, arranged by the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence as a political correspondent in
Mr. Lal Man-yam, personal pri-Corps, takes place at Volunteer
At the Helena May Institute on Nanking pointed out in the vate secretary to Marshal. Li Ohai-Headquarters on Friday next, when "China Mail: last week, is not. sum of Canton, arrived in Hong the band of the 2nd Batt. King's Friday, Augus 10, an international And in spite of pious protests to Kong yesterday by the "President Own Scottish Borderers will, by bridge and mah jong party was the contrary reiterated at every Pierce" from Shanghai and left by kind permission of Lieut. Col. L. J. held in aid of the Victoria Branch Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.O., and Officers, M.C.L. funds. There were 19 tables the night boat for Canten.
sustain the main part of the proof bridge and nine of mahjong. opportunity, we must assume that the sole objective of bota Mrs. W. T. Costen, whose work gramme. The soloist on this occa Apart from the aim of benefiting Rightists and Leftists is power in on behalf of the service men in sion will be Mrs. V. Carnegie the M.C.L. funds, the object of the party was to bring together' women A meeting of the Band Concert of all nationalities in the Colony. the faction or strength in the Hong Kong last year was greatly (contralto).
appreciated, has given birth to a
was accomplished is clique. We do not accuse the Na-son, Thontas Alon, at St. Paul's Committee was held last evening That this tionalists whilesale. We are Clinique, Hanol, on August 9. The when the final arrangements were proved by the fact that among those
made, and it now only needs fine playing
British, French, merely performing our duty. în baby weighed 94 lbs.
weather for the concert to be as big American, German, Belgian, Japan- making reasonable deductions Government passengers salling a success as was the first venture asc, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch
and Danish ladles... from current events. Our minds for Home by the s.8. "Rajputana" this season.
The programme will be go back to the last Presidential on Saturday include Mrs. M. M.
J. follows:- election when the late-President Newton (Medical) and Mr.
Hurley (Police). Mr. and Mrs. L. G. travelling on Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1928. Tsao Kun was commonly alleged Sousa (G.P.O.) are
to have paid $300 each to several the vessel as far as Bombay. hundreds of alleged members of
Chan Chi-king (50); a married the Chinese parliament.
woman living at. No. 122, Hainan- All that corruption, of course, strect, attempted to commit suicide Were it not for the perfectly was "Northern," in Peking, and yesterday by jumping into the obvious motive behind the sordid did not concern the Nationalists harbour from the seawall at Sham- business, childish is the only fit-who were then confined to the shuipo. She was rescued by a cook named Po Cheung, employed on ting description of the antics of South.
But there have been board the Shamshulpo ferry launch the Nationalist politicians who other Presidential elections at "Man Leung," which was nearing left Nanking in a huff, taking which votes were openly bought. her wharf at the time. three car-loads of documents, and The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the
Mr. Yang Yueh-bsin, who has then, after a few days, hinted father of the Nationalist Party, been acting at Shanghai as General they would return. In that inter-when he launched his rival gov Chang Hauch-liang's representative val, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek ernment in Canton, induced a in peace negotiations between Man- followed them to Shanghai, we large number of the Peking M.P's churia and the Nationalists, arrived
in Hong Kong yesterday on the 10. are told. There can be no record, to go south with him on his "Presidence Flerce to visit old however, of what transpired be- undertaking to give them the pay friends, including Mr. Liang Shih- tween him and Mr. Chang Ching which they were not getting in yi (the "God of Wealth"), a former 11.
Finance Minister in Peking. Mr. klang and Mr. Li Shih-tseng, the Peking. All this paying and buy-Yang intends to visit Singapore 12. two Moderate leaders who adopt Ing led nowhere, not even tem-
Land. Manila. ed the time-honoured but puerile porarily. Which all goes to show tacties of passive obstruction by how futile the game in.
Mr. Tae Tsan-taf, the well-known
They paid avialt to the city dur....... local collector, has written a
ing the week-end, and said that, staying away from the fifth Leftists want to abolish branch
treatise on Chinese painting, en
after studying cathedrals all over plenary session; when their sole political councils so as to reduce titled "Ancient Chinese Art," to
Europe, they consider the site of the intricacies and desire was not only to be present the scope of the Generals who elucidate
Liverpool Cathedral the finest in but also to dominate proceedings, support the Rightists. The technique of Chinese painting. The
the world, at en del ka book is printed on art paper and
Mrs. Nelleon, who was the if possible. There can be no re-Rightists want to abolish the acis illustrated by one of the wonder-
widow of Edward Morris, the meat cord, we repeat, because neither tivities of the Party among the ful masterpieces of Li 9su-haun of
Xenia Maklétyova, the well-packer, at the time of her marri Marshal Chiang nor the cham students, so As to curb the in the Tang, dynasty (A.D. 745), the plons of anti-Extremism had any-fuence of the Leftists. A brief famous founder of the Northern known Russian dancer, who has ap-age to Mr. Nelison in 1917, znie: is undertaking a tour of America pool Cathedral is the fact that here. thing creditable to reveal to the explanation will show that we School of Chinese Landscape paint-peared in Shanghal and Tientsin, "What hus attracted us to Liver
ing. The book is sold at $1.
together with her partner, D. Binos there certainly seems to be a move. public. We have not even been have grounds for saying that the t informed that there was an in-common motive is unworthy. Passing through the Colony to- and Doris Craven (an English dan-mont back to the old spirit of the terview or conference although it The Generals referred to sup- day,, on the as. "Porthos" for cer). Diane Hubert, Ethel Sager, abbeys when they were the meet- Shanghat, was Di. Wang Chung-Osai Occana, Charlotte Letteaux, Ing place of all the people in their is abundantly plain that they port the Rightists not because huf, the Nationalist Minister of and Lydra Nelidovs, expert In foys and sorrows. must have arrived at some they share political views, but Justice, who lo returning from character dancing. Alexis Koslot, "It is not regarded as a cold'
the affectionate familiarity: for" understanding. One thing we do because the Leftists have incited Europe, en route to Nanking, to of the Metropolitan Opera Commuseum by the people, but with: something that really abolonga; to- know. This is, that Mr. T. Vtrouble in their territory. The attend the fifth plenary session. Dr. pany, is presenting the tour.
Wang has sat on the Permanent Soong (who, incidentally students, on the other hand, sup-Court of International Justice at Two burglars disturbed in Sud-thom Marshal Chiang's brother-in-port the Leftists because the lat-The Hague. He recently interview-hury Court Lodge, Wembley, at law), and who, as Minister of ter, to enhance their influence, ed Six Auston Chamberlain, In Lon-tacked Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, the Finadée, controls the purse encourage
encourage the self-seeking amongdon on behalf of the Nationalist owners, injuring and bruising both
Government. He is a brother of of them. strings, also went from Nanking the youths to perpetuate politi professor G. Y. Wang and Dr C. C to Shanghat, in the wake of cal rashness, 88, a. sure means of Wang of Hong Kong A tombola organised by the das written several plays, includ- Chiang Kai-shek, and was "in at gaining highly-vrized notoriety. Worthing (Sussex) Rotary Club Ings (in collaboration with Mrs. Manufacturers of electrical porce-ald of the Mayor of Worthing's Go Hemmerde) "A Batterfly on
the Wheel the kill.
lalu in England have protested to hostel extension has been stopped Reuter sald that he and his re
the Central Electricity Board following a communication from lative by marriage were to have, Singapore Base.
against the placing of contracte accompanied the truant Rightlats With regard to a matter that abroad for electrical accessories. Major Walter Waring, formerly The mayors of South-east Eng- Liberal M.P. for Banff and Conli- land coastal towns are now vlaiting" back to Nanking Unless the is so prosaicas, the Singapore P
Lindany and W.
seriously, elon of Kelsey, has been adopted Leftists become, in turn, peeved Base it is amazing.how much Nino men were hurt, two, C. tion Liberal MP for Blaydon divi Frances
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