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supply the answer right away-Lift up by thy voice with strength MACDONA PLAYERS
-be not afraid.
MUCH DISCUSSED PLAY AT- THEATRE ROYAL
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MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION
The Macdona Players scored a big success last night when the much discussed "Mrs. Warren's Profession" was preented before a crowded house.
even a high Municipal official has} been known to hesitate ere reply. By utterance of Truth the worlds Ing: "I suppose they do. Dur are made. ing the week the body of a small-One tender note of joy, divinely pox victim was found outside the sweet, gateway of a block of residential Blending, makes a nobler chord
complete. flats in the Shamshulpo district. But one of the lady inmates And love expressed, identified, thereof was allayed in her fears of ⚫adored, the spread of the contagion when Brings again on earth the lost she was told by a Sanitary full chord.
Catherine Aller. Inspector that there was no dan.
The extremely difficult subject ger, as the germs had died with
was treated with marked claver Sixteen cases of small-pox, allness by the small but highly the patient. But the minil in quisitive would naturally ask: Chinese, were reported yesterday, talented caste, and Miss Joan "What about the patient's
Hopegood in the title role, and clothes"? (assuming, of course, Whiteaway's stocktaking sale Miss Daphne Carr as Vivie, were he was wearing a certain amount opens on Monday and 'extraordin- accorded a great reception. when his body was ruthlessly bargains are being advertised, dumped in the dead of night on the public highway.) Surely even
H.E. the Governor will open
a layman would know that there the new Sailors, and Soldiers' was a distinct danger in the Home, Praya East, at 5.30 p.m. clothes. It has been known on Wednesday, January 80. amongst the Chinese for small-
pox to spread through the simple Mr. A. Stevenson, with Mrs. act of taking clothes out of pawn Stovenison and Miss Stevenson; a year after they were put in. have returned to the Colony and
Miss Joan Hopegood's acting was of the highest order, and her portrayal of Mrs. Warren is so convincing as to leave a very last- ing impression.
As Vivie, the daughter, Miss Carr was at her best in the tensest situations, and this clever actress participated in the triumph of the evening.
The Sanitary Inspector quoted resumed residence at Pokfulam. The characters of Praed (Mr.
may be technically right in regard
Many school chums and other to & body, but perhaps he may be given "full marks" for omitting friends of Stanley McNider will any mention of the clothes insa-be sorry to hear that he is seri- much as he succeeded in allaying jously. ill at the Matilda Hospital. for the time being, at anyrate,
Mr. Clarke Irvine's beautiful the natural fears of a lady on finding that a body had been nature film will have a special
noon to-day. Ordinary
A. S. Homewood), Sir George Crofts (Mr. Terence O'Brien), and the Rev. Samuel Gardner (Mr. Stanley Drewitt) were ex- tremely well portrayed.
Mr. Arnold Walsh, as Frank, completed an extremely clever cast, but not always quite con-
dumped just outside her gate. screening in the World Theatre vincing. For, with smallpox, as with many at other diseases, fear may work matinee prices are being charged. final curtain was a fitting tribute
much havoc on nervous beings.
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The Next Show
The annual ordinary genera! No great attention meeting of the Hong Kong Land need be paid to the Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., will be held at the offices of suggestion for bringing the venue Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and of the next Agricultural Show Co., Ltd., on Tuesday, February much nearer Kowloon, so as to be at 12.30 p.m.
"The Wolf's Trail" is the title'
more accessible-to the residents of Victoria and Kowloon Point. Its very name Agricultural of the feature attraction to-day implies of itself that the site during the 2.80 p.m. matinee per- must remain within the bound-formance at the Star Theatre. he leaves, his deputy are styled aries of the New Territorica. To-morrow at 2.80 p.m. Sir James Barrie's famous. story alike The Governor." That And that site must be one to
"Peter Pan" will be screened. seems the happiest solution after appeal most not to Hong Kong, all, for be he Governor or Deputy office people but to the farmers Governor or Officer Administering and peasants who send exhibits the Government, he is still the and for whose ultimate benefit the "What, do King's personal representative Show is arranged.
entrusted by the British they know of Hong Kong who
What Cabinet with the task of govern- only Hong Kong know?" ing this Colony.
does the average office-wallah in Victoria know of the New Terri Whilst on the tories, and what does he care, to A Pressman subject, and now be quite frank, for the movement
Caught
and
The reception given at the
to a brilliant performance,
To-night "Mrs. Warren's Pro- fession" will again be produced.
ABYSSINIA
MAKES GOOD PROGRESS
ROAD "PROJECT
Paris, Mr. Addison E. Southward, U.S. Minister to the country that in English is called Abyssinia and calls itself "Em- pire of Ethiopia," stood at the side of the Emperor in October when he inaugurated the Imperial post office with all its modern serv vices. On the other side stood. the French Minister, and it is the French missionaries Capuchin Friars of St. Francis—who have been handling the postal service until now under a French techni- that Sir Cecil to improve the agricultural with petrol at Whitfield Barracks, cal director. Clementi is back methods of the peasant folk of Kowloon, on Wednesday, Signal-
Claims Descent From Sheba This new Emperor is the gorge amongst us, it may be permissible the New Territories? As matters
detachment, Royal Corps of ous Bas Taffari,, who amazed
DEATH BY FIRE
MEMBER OF ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS
MILITARY FUNERAL
While destroying white ants
to tell this little tale sven at the are at present, how many of them man H. White of the Hong Kong expense of an, innocent fellow take advantage of the fine work Signals, became enveloped. in Paris a few years ago with his. Pressman. On the day following being done by the Horticultural flames and was removed to the white mantle and gold. decora His Excellency a departure for Society, right at their own doors, Military Hospital where he suctions. He has now taken the Home a certain Pressman acciden, in the way of improving and encumbed to the very serious in-place of the aging Empress, who tally overheard two high Naval couraging the growth of veget juries.
is not altogether, up to date. He
officers and a high Army officer ables? How many of them have Deceased was due to go Home was indeed her heir and already speaking of the arrangements experimented even on a tiny by the next transport. He was a made for "The Governor to go patch of ground to prove what native of Reading, single and his aboard a certain warship at noon can be done in the matter of father is still in Reading. precisely. What on earth had growing vegetables? The exam-
The funeral was held yesterday happened to make Sir Cecil return ple of the Chinese, who are found at Happy Valley, the service being post-haste, wondered the scribe, growing vegetables almost ally conducted by the Rev. C. Scott who fondly imagined that here where, is lost upon them. More's Little, M.A.. Chaplain to the indeed was a "scoop" if only his the pity! And yet complaints are Forces. brother-pencillera would steer voiced of the paucity and dear-
The 1st Batt. the Queen's Royal clear of him for a brief quarterness of vegetables for the tables Regt. furnished the band, the of an hour. They were, however, of the city office wallahs. Rather firing party and the buglers who unusually barnacle-like that day, let the latter be coaxed and en-rounded the "Last Post. na if they intuitively suspectedcouraged to go out to the New
Among those present were that he and he alone had some Territories ("virgin soil" in the Major J. C. P. Tosh, M.C., R.E., With the re-thing up his sleeve." It was two double sense to most of them) and Lt. A. J. Macdonald R.E., An Able turn to the hours later before he succeeded in and see for themselves the splen- and a number of Servicemen. Administrator Colony of Sir "losing" them all, and then en- did work that is being done to
Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 12, 1929.
STILL WATERS
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governing. Like all Abyssinian monarchs, he descends straight from the Bible Queen of Sheba and King Solomon whom she visited to acquire wisdom. The Almanac of Gotha, which uses all German learning to sat rulers in their places, saya that this family tradition dates from the first men- tion history makes of this Ethiopian empire: 400 years B.C. The inhabitants became. Christian before Rome was converted, under the influence of Alexandra in Egypt and have remained so.
Rés Taffari had already been Wreaths were sent by decanny enough to have his country Cecil Clementi, sued a hurried vit to certain further the science of agriculture ceased's father; the Royal Engin- accepted as a member of the it may be timely to re-echo exalted officers of His Majesty's amongst those who have the land eers; junior N.C.O.'s and men, League of Nations. Henceforth, general appreciation of the Forces (which particular arm at their disposal for cultivation, 40th Fortress, Company, R.E.; its commection with the rest of With but still persist in following the H.M.S. "Bruce"; R.EO.C.A.: the the world by rail, telegraph, tele- eminent services rendered to the need not be disclosed): Colony during his absence by the bated breath, anxiety and excite-methods of the ancients. No R.A.0.C.; all ranks Hong Kong phone and radio being secured, its Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn in the ment barely suppressed, did he the Agricultural Show must not signal section, Royal Corps of post office enters into the Univer capacity of Officer Administering enquire the reason for Sir Cecil's be permitted to degenerate into a Signals; all ranks R.A.S.C; Capt. sal Postal League-as stamp col- the Government. If we except unexpected return-only to find mere Carnival Week to provide a D. L. Carnegie.
lectors are aware.. the controversial Stamp Ordin that he had misled himself, and Roman Holiday only for those ance affecting share brokers, not that by The Governor" was who carn their salary with the ene measure introduced during meant the Hon. Mr. W. T. sole aid of an ofâce pen. his "acting" regime has given Southorn, the newly appointed other than most unqualified satis Officer Administering the Gov- faction. The hand of a diplomat ernment of the Colony of Hong and statesman has been writ Kong." large over every one of his actions and movements. In a sense, he. has the same happy knack as the Prince of Wales in unconsciously "popularising" himself the whilst
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It is passing strange Malle via the number of re- Siberia sidents who still stolidly decline to
REMAINS CREMATED
FUNERAL OF MR. G. A. LLOYD KAY
Highway Being Completed - It is some time since the rail- way has been working from the port of Jibuti at the mouth of the Red Sea in French Somaliland to the Abyssinian capital at Addis Ababa. An auto line y is being hurried through by Italy with the help of England, from a port in Its own Red Sea colony.
This is another advance of
It may or may take advantage of the Siberian The remains of Mr. G. A The "Dead not --
have been route for the transmission of Lloyd Kay, chief wharfinger March" the same irrepres- their malls. They are afraid to or the Kowloon Godowns were
alble stribe who entrust their business documents cremated yesterday after a ser-divillsation. Five years ago, it was he maintains the highest tradi- found a mare's nest in the same and amatory epistles to the tender vice at the Protestant Chapel, thought, something of a feat that tions attached to the exalted office vicinity. One morning he was mercies of Soviet railway officials. Happy Valley At the Bervice Lieutenant Gustin Nelson, return- of Governor and representative of amazed to bear outside a certain The certain fact of much speedier were Mrs. Kay (widow), Mr. D. Fing from the Philippines, should His Majesty the King. His many Barracks at eleven o'clock the transit, compared with the Suez Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 4 turn aside for a foot tour through valued traits have tended in some strains of The Dead March," Canal route, appeals not to them. Cooper, chief mourners; Mr. F. this country, which was still measure to mitigate the doldrums intermingled with the tolling of But the truth remains that the Crapnell, Mr. C. M. Manners, Mr. consequent on the trade of the the bell, and then the solemn Siberian route is as safe for maila A. L. Burton, Mr. G. Castle, Mr. Isolated. Now it steps out bestde. Colony not rising to the heights notes of "The Last Post He to-day as the Bank of England, W. Carstairs, Mr. W. M. Groves, ourselves in full Bible canonicals. during 1928 that so many anti- waited and waited and still even for registered packets. Any Mr. A. L. G. Eastman, Capt. cipated just a year ago. On there was no sign of the delay in the latter is almost im. R. D. Thomas, Mr. J. Mackintosh, many occasions calling for the cortege. But he must find out all mediately known to the Post Mr. Wong Kam-fuk, compradore, M.P. & MR. BRITTEN exercise of acumen and tact it the details of the high Naval Office in the town of despatch, and and his son, and other members was felt that there was at the officer who had flown his ensign to-day complaints are very rare of the Chinese staff of the godown head of the Colony a man as well for the last time With one eye indeed, although it is known that company M 我想 an official-a man with an on the barracks he ascended the such was not always the case a The following former col understanding heart, who could be hill, arriving at the office of a year or two ago. Moreover, when leagues of the late Capt. Lloyd
trusted to do the right thing at
the-right time Long may he be "on the fack" during his career here!
INFORMAL MEETING.
PROPOSED
Washington. Considerable, In-
certain official and pantingly the Canton-Hanków Railway is Kay acted as pallbearers-Mr. terest was aroused in the House enquired who had passed away, completed, it will be possible for AE. Greenway, Mr. D. Mac
In the superb language of the the Home mails via Siberia to kenzie. Mr. T. Ferguson, Mr poets, he turned round and forci- reach their destination in Hong A W. Heron, Mr. H. H. Fantham bly kicked himself on being in Kong even quicker than at pre- and Mr. FT. Harris Incidentally, it formed that a certain Band of a sent, for then the ses fourney The service was conducted by A Mouthful! Is to be hoped certain Regiment had been from the Northern ports will be the Rev. J. Horace that when next only practising within the Bar obviated. And maybe a HongWreaths were ser
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the announcement that Mr. Britten had received a cablegram from a member of the British House of Commons.
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