SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928.
A LOOK AROUND.
[By The Mall Menl
It will be noticed that Effect, Not at present the buses in Camouflage, Kowloon and in Hong Kong do not go in strongly for revenue from publicity The lower level trama do.
THE CHINA MAIL
notice that local used at all. Perhaps the most noted SHADOWS BEFORE. Advertising commercial firms are case of vendetta ever recorded in D ou Lorries, making more use of
Ng Yuen who thrashed the mortal their motor lorries remains of the kings as a means of for advertising purposes. The Dairy revenge for his baving: Farm have an ice-cream announce-into exile.
Chinese history was that of General COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED Something Different
ment on the side of one of their vehicles which is remarkably neat Burla! and effective. Still, I think the Superstitions.
Could hongs can learn a useful lesson
en forced
Large quantities of Jewellery and prec!-
ous. taken
IN THE "MAIL":
To-day-Queen's Theatre;
anfc.'
To-day-Star Theatre; "Irish Hearts."
To-day World Theatre; Woman of Paris."
stones were To-day-St Francis Hotel Dinner
Dance. from the
September 9 Queen's Theatre, not the bus companies follow suit? from our American friends and Peking tombs by Northern troops, Hot Heels,""
here's a story in polat. When I was It took the pilferers fifteen days to September -World". Theatre; But the pensionor Fords, which in Honolulu, an acquaintance took unearth the collins. From this alone "The Light Of Asia."
Theatre; have been mentioned several times
me round in his private car. The it can be imagined that the tomba September 9-Star of late as still rendering excellent intention was to go to Pall, to see must have been well constructed, as "Little Annie Roonio. service in Kongmoon and along the the historic battle-ground where the they should have been, since they
September 21-Promenade Con- inland roads of Kwongtung and wind blows not less than 60 miles were Imperial tombs. The coffins 9.15 p.m.
cert at Volunteer parade ground, Kwangsi, cannot find room for ad-
an hour all the year round. On of ordinary Chinese are buried from Land Sales: vertisements. They are painted the road, we come up behind a Coca-six to eight feet deep. The Chinese September 10-At P.W.D. offices, with a multitude of colours which cela lorry, My "guide" Immediate- believe that should there be any- 3 lots of Crown land at Mong Kok do not please the eye singly or colly took another route. He could thing wrong with a burial cere Taui, and Shamshuipo, 3. p.m. lectively. One would think that a not bear the sight of the sign on the mony, or if a coffin is not placed in Lammerts Auction samouflage artist of war times had back of the truck, he said. I subsean "exact position, misfortunes been commissioned to render themquently found out that he was tho will ensue, such as the death of an Invisible from the eyes of Chinese local agent for a new soft drink-other person, or the loss of money highwaymen who infest their routes Delaware Punch!
in the deceased's family. Ten or That is not so. The up-country
fifteen years after the burial, the buses are painted super-rainbow
remains are then disinterred to be fashion for effect, in other words,
placed into another small 'coffin or to attract business from a public
an earthernware for and finally laid which places some reliance on loud
again in the ground. decoration.
Union Jack
Club.
Shanghai has a Union Jack Club, a private organisation, owned and managed by the Shanghai branch of the Navy League. Its upkeep is paid for chiefly by annual donations from
list.
"Important Notice. Surprising Please do not Instructions, disclose the exist
ence of insurance to any third party claimant or witness, or anyone acting on,be- half of a possible claimant. In no circumstances admit liability in any way whatever. Always take names and addresses of wit- nesses and forward at once to the...
September 10-At Woodside," Mt. Parker-road, Quarry Bay, valu- able household furniture, etc., etc., 2.30 p.m.
Meetings.
September 12-HK.D.V.C. (Scot tish Co.) meeting at Headquarters, 6.p.m.
September 18-Seaplane Club meeting dor local enthusiasts, in Mesars. Jardine, Matheson's board. room, 5.80 p.m. amate On Thursday, be. October 18-H.K.V.D.C. annual
Club ground, 2.80 p.m. Superstition tween Hollywood-athletic meeting on Kowloon Cricket
or the Law ? road and Aberdeen-
September 18-H.K.V.D.C. Ber street a precession geanta Mess Meeting, Volunteer of ricsha and chair coolies, natives Headquarters, 6 pa of Chiuchów, observed their "AN]"; Souls Day." The demonstratora paraded through the streets in the
Sports,
To-day Victoria Recreation Club's second night fete, 9 p.m.
September 22-American tourna ment, Ladles' Recreation Club, Peak-road, at 2.80 p.m.; "
sary Miscellaneous. September 10-Reopening of St. Stephen's College.
September 13-Presentation to Mr. W. J. Hill, M. 1. Mech. E. at Engineers & Shipbuilders Institu tlon, 6 p.m.
I write as a layman, or the com-city and proceeded to Pokfulam to The quotation offer sacrifice and homage to their the Shanghai Race Club. It is for mon pedestrian. the use of petty officers and men of given above is from a policy issued ancestors. In the procession, each the Royal Navy, warrant officers, by an insurance company to the guild was headed by a man who care non-commissioned officers, and men owner of a motor-car. I use the ried large silk banners of different "surprising" intentionally. colours. On the return journey, he of the Royal Marines, Army and word Royal Air Force on the active Not being an owner, or a second who got back first with his banner Civilians are admitted as party, I cannot say what the feel-in hand, so It is believed, is ensure visitors if introduced by a member.ings are on reading same. But ifed good luck till next year. So Now Hong Kong has a branch off were run over-preferably by a when the banner carriers, about the Navy League but no Union Rolls or Fackard straight eight and sixty of seventy strong, reached the Hong Kong also has a not a Ford-I would expect the junction of the two streets, they Jockey Club but I have not heard owner, if he were a gentleman, to started to race. About ten police of magnificent donations by it, like admit his liability, if such existed, officers, fearing that the obser- those of the S.R.C. That is by the without my even having to ask him vances might end in a brawl, tried way. CircumAtances here are alto do.so. And if he were not a to stop them, but in vain. together different from those ob man of substance, I should expect superstitions of these people urged. A dramatic critic, Herr Erik taining in Shanghai.
it as a matter of course for him them to outwit the law. They fear- Reger, who had adversely críti eised the dramatic arrangements
Jack Club.
JA
My advice Was
The.
What Do Tramp sought the other What Charity bad trade, when
Cars Earn 7 day by a Chinese
Misses,
of
September 14—H.K.V.D.C. (BEN) chine Gun Co.) dinner at Head- quarters, 7.45 p.m.
September 20-Presentation medals and labels to members of St. John Ambulance Brigade by H, E. the Officer Administering the Gov- ernment at Govt. House, 6 p.m.,
pelled by the authorities to leave the Bochum theatre during a per- formance for, which he had a fully-paid ticket. The legality of the action of the municipal offi cials ia to be tested.
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to tell me whether I had any prosed having bad luck far more than made for the Bochum and Duis- The task - and pect of obtaining compensation they feared the Done by other honour of eater from the insurance company. Why moment, the noise of firecrackers
should.net
he disclose if he feels was heard, as a sign of the arrival Institutions. ing to the rank and
morally bound to do so and his con- of the champion. To those who sew file of the United science pricks him, in spite of a this strange procession, it was as
comfc as it was thrilling. Services is undertaken in Hong special injunction in red ink? Kong by a number of Institutiona:
During times of But, I wonder, if' Hong Kong can "compete" with Shanghai in this
philanthropic insti- respect. In the Union Jack Club;
tutions of this Shanghai, beds in dormitories are
filend as to whe-Colony have experienced not a little provided for the very small sum of 20 cents per night. If a cubicle is ther, in view of the increasing num- difficulty in raising Funds, it is desired this can be obtained on pay-ber of taxis and the advent of pala-hard to believe that just for the ment of 30 conta per night. Itial buses through the city's main sake of offering sacrifices to the understand it is a buon that is high-ronds, it was too late to invest in dead, each of the Chiuchow ricaha ly appreciated. Moreover, 20 or 30 a motor-car to be let out on hire to and chair coolies pays $5 toward But this is true. cents in Shanghai is less than the public drivers. I was told that the the expenses. same amount in Hong Kong, owing rate for one car-not necessarily a The average "expenditure of each to a difference in currency.
sound average was $0 a day, the family during the "Offertory to De- licensee providing the upkeep and parted Spirits Festival in the One thing has come to the owner paying for repairs and seventh moon is about 50 cents. If renewals. As a business proposi- there are 200,000 Chinese families Military light of late and that is
tion, the figures sounded tempting. In the Colony and they each spend- Policy. the local military author
A motoring expert told me, however, 50 cents,, the total will be $100,000. itles are very keen that about depreciation and the abnor If this sum be contributed to the nothing should be done by any manmal cost of tyres, etc. on tramp Tung Wah Hospital or other charit in the garrison which will have con-cars, the higher licence, fee, insur-able institutions, the result nection with the civilian element. ance rates, etc. and then I thought would undoubtedly be a blessing.to When there was the so-called epide- that there might be a catch some- the poor,
mie of window-smashing the War where. But I was told that some
Óffice made inquiries. If it did of the owner-drivers of public cars
not, in the Tommies vocabulary, get takings of over $800 a month!
"put the wind up" it made the
Army powers take quick action.
The act of descrating
The last three offenders each got, 1 Man With a tomb as a means of learn, six months' imprisonment.
The culprits are now further than 72 Graves! revenge is held in ever from leaving the Army as they
horror by the Chinese.
will have the extra six months to The act recently committed at the serve when their term expirea,
Abhorrence of Civil Powers.
Manchurian Tombs. 90 miles from Peking,
kin is undoubtedly, not con- That is not the sidered as a reprisal but robbery, ewellery point. What I wish for valuables and to emphasise is the worth more than a king's ran- fact that lectures som, dazzled the eyes of the pilfer-1 nearly all, if era. Such an outrage, it appears, not all units in the Command by was predicted by some of the form- The lectures had er rulers who, according to Chinese And, as the Minister
bullt what were known
high offic
their effect
for War was able
announce in
the
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