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Hong Kong, Friday, April 12, 1929.
GENERAL ELECTION
PROSPECTS
There are many indications that the General Election of next month will be one of the most re- markable in the history of Great Britain. For one thing, never have there been so many ways open to candidates to reach the ear of those whom they wish to impress by their political oratory. Besides their own persuasive eloquence, if they have any, they will have at their command such
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929.
At the Radio Exhibition to be CORRESPONDENCE
ABREVIATED DEGREE
(To the Editor of the "China, Mail
GRRAPS
P'RAPS NOT!
Gel Tébild CA
held at Olympia in September, the Baird televisor: will be on view, and from that time on- wards anybody will be able to pur chase a "seeing in" set for prob- ably as little as £25, and with it witness in his home moving images of events transmitted from a broadcasting station under the heading of "Dr. Hars- know that my feet were meant to ton" this misleading, statement:be walked on, but I consider the
According to the Hospital of privilege belongs to me. Doctor of Medicine and Surgery D.O.M.S. for short."
The day cannot be far distant when, without leaving our chairs at home, we shall be able to see Ascot in all its excitement and
Sir, I read on page 12 of to- day's "China Mail" (Wednesday)
Old Gentleman: "Look here; I
Amateur. Photographer: "Have
"The answer is in
glory, or a Test Match at Lord's D.O.M.S. stands for "Diploma (or at Sydney, for that matter)-in Ophthalmic Medicine' and my films developed all right?" see, that is, the actual events Surgery," and not as stated Chemist: themselves at the moment of your report. The public should the negative." their occurrence, not just moving know the correct interpretation photographs of them some time of these letters which signify "That's a curious name you've afterwards. "Daily Exchange" that the person holding such given your car. Do you call it (London).
qualification is an eye specialist.True Love' in honour of your best
The Hon. B. D. F. Beith and Mrs. Beith left by the "Empress of France."
Yesterday two cases of small- pox were notified, two cases of diphtheria (one British), and one case of enteric fever (Japanese).
The postmen's quarters on the fourth floor of the Fire Station. Building were entered by a thief yesterday, who helped himself to a quantity of clothing
As the result of being knocked down by a motor car in Con- naught-road West yesterday, a young Chinese is now in hospital suffering from injuries to his head.
Yours etc.,
"EYES."
Hong Kong, April 10.
COMEDY COMPANY
BANVARD'S ARTISTES AT THE STAR
OPENING TO-MORROW
To-morrow night the Banvärd English Comedy Company, which has broken records throughout India, will make a first appearance here at the Star Theatre for a limited season.
girl??
"Oh, no," replied the owner of the car. "I call it that because it won't run smooth."
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The millionaire was boasting to his friends about his success in life.
"All my success," he said, "all my tremendous financial prestige- I owe to one thing-pluck."
"Yes," said one of the party, "but how do you find the right people to pluck?"
Tommy had just returned from a football match in which he had been playing for his school.
"Well," said the father, "and how did you get on, Tommy? Did you win?
"A Cuckoo, in the Nest," the
"Yes, dad. We scored three opening play, broken records at goals and four casualties, the the Aldwych Theatre, London. others only got one goal and two This is, therefore, a rare oppor
casualties" tunity of seeing one of the best
Mrs. V. M. Bond is going Home to-morrow, and will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends, of recent farces played by a dis Housewife: "But, my good identified as she has born with tinguished company of well-man, your story has such a hollow numerous organisations for the known London artistes. good of the community.
curtain is the
ring"
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should certainly have a tendency
On Sunday they will present Tramp: "Yes, lady, that's what to create much, more interest
Edgar Wallace's super-thrill comes from speaking on an empty in the minds of the electorate and
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bagram "The Ringer." Not until the stomach." bring about heavy polling. It is were passengers by the "Empress final fall of the exceedingly interesting to note of France" on her voyage North, identity of the Ringer revealed the very large number of aspiras were Mr. and Mrs. L. Dunbar, Plans are at Moutrie's and the ants for political honours. It is the Hon. and Mrs. G. G. Mackie, Star and popular prices prevail
Mr. and Mrs. W. Paterson, and $8, $2, and $1. stated that no fewer than 1,840 Mr. B. L. Seton-Winton.
have already been adopted-580
Natalie Kingston wears some Conservative, 565 Labour, and 195
gowns and wraps in gorgeous Liberal candidates, of which 65Lost at the Front,"
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LECTURE TO EDUCATION SOCIETY
IMPORTANT ISSUES
JUDGE IN BORROWING NOTE LITIGATION
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SALVATION ARMY
LEGAL COSTS IN RECENT ACTION
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I have done it all my life. They do taste kind of funny,
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The Mistress:. "So you have de
cided not to get married, Nora. Have you been taking stock of married folk?"
Nora: "No, mum; only you and the master."
An optician, travelling in a col liery village up North, recently inquired of a miner's wife if she wanted glasses..
observed, "should have their eyes "Everybody round here," he tested. "
pay!".
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Geordie's
were putting up a terrible exhibi- Two heavily advertised boxers tion of extreme caution. They had danced around the ring for two rounds without landing a punch.
At the moment they were alanding six feet apart, in atti tudes suggesting anything but
combat.
Suddenly there came a hoarse cry from the seats: "Separate 'em!"
the First are women-30, 28, and 7, respec- National picture now showing at tively, of the Labour, Liberal, and the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon. Conservative folds. It is astound. She also wears a natty uniform of
the Russian army.
JUDGMENT RESERVED. ing that there should be so many women candidates when less than Taking mean advantage of the The issues are very important, fact that a cigarette stall in much more important than the a decade ago there was not a single one and when in the present under the charge of a girl dur- the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Second-street, West Point, was amount claimed, said his Honour Parliament, now all but defunct, ing the stall-holder's temporary Gollan, C.B.E.) in the Supreme there is but a mere handful. absence, three Chinese rowdies Court, Original Jurisdiction, yes- "Tested?" echoed the woman. Shades of Canning, Melbourne, 32. They escaped.
stole a box of cigarettes worth terday, at the close of the speech "Ah'll get them tested this week-
for the plaintiff in the Chinese end when as see oor Beaconsfield, Gladstone, and
borrowing note case. His Lord- Salisbury! What would these dis- Among passengers leaving the ship said he thought it was only Colony on the s.s. "Saarbruecken" fair that he should go through the tinguished statesmen of a very
Owing to "dud" cheques com- were Dr. J. W. H. Ferguson, Com-evidence and he will give a written ing in, an hotel manager found it different time-though little more missioner of Customs at Canton judgment later.
necessary to be on the alert. than a century away from us and Mrs. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. The case has occupied a num- Therefore, when he found his. have
such thought of
Lam Ting-on, new A. Brearley, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. S. her of hearings. an
cashier handing over real Jensen, Mr. Hugo Ammann, the as head of the King On Tong, sues notes to comparative stranger; he invasion of the feminine?
President of the German Tennis the Ma Pak Leung firm of drug-ventured a mild inquiry. "What Not in the wildest flights Club, and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. gists, Hong Kong, for $4,698 are you doing? he asked. of his oratorical fancies could Eldridge.
under a note. The defence was, "Cashing a cheque for inter alia, that the note was made Mr. even the "Grand Old Man," who
she smiled. died little more than thirty years the Modern Literary Association, in Fatshen.
Mr. Ng Tai-ping, Chairman of by another firm of the same name "That's right, that's right," he ago, have conceived of such an yesterday delivered an address on
Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed persevering until you get a good said approvingly. "Just keep on encroachment of women into the "What is Evolution?" to a large by Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and one!" inner sanctum of the House of gathering of members and Bowley) was for plaintiff Mr. Commons, so long sacred to men sor J. Kirke. Mr. Ng Tal-ping is Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C. (instruct friends, presided over by Profes- C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C., and alone. Both the Labour and the the Provincial Ping Pong Chamed by Messrs. d'Almada & Mason) Liberal Parties seem to be much pion of Kwangtung and the Pre for the defendants. more confident of success than the Pong League. He is a fifth year sident of the Hong Kong, Ping Conservative Party, whose Gov-student of the University. erament has just completed five years of office, and which modern devices. as radio, the unprejudiced opinion must con- cinema, and speedy motor cars, all cede has been eminently success- of which are to-day in such a state ful. It does not, of course, pre-
· AN ANNOUNCEMENT of perfection that they can be so cisely follow that the success that utilised that any of the political the Labourites, and the revived
Salvation Army headquarters,
I met him in the subway, ac- An interesting lecture was de- in an official statement issued in companied by his wife and two candidates may appeal to a much Liberals appear to feel will mater-livered by Mr. C W. Reeve, mail week, made the following an children. He was perspiring as vaster audience than the one they
master of Queen's College, yes-nouncement
he struggled along under the are actually addressing. Thus
terday, to members of the Educa- "AI expenditure connected weight of a large portmanteau. It is not at all improbable that tion Society of the Hong Kong with the recent legal action or of "Hello, George!" I called out to will it be quite possible for a can- the Conservatives, whose record University at the University any future proceedings into him. Where are you going?" didate to speak directly and simul- for safe, sober, and sound legisla- Union, the subject being "The which the Army may be forced To Brighton," he replied, “and taneously to the whole of histion is to-day-even higher than it Moral Aim of a School."
will be met out of a special fund, I haven't time to stop. See you constituents over even the widest ever was, will be returned to might be approached from the re- Self-Denial Appeal, or from dona-
Morality, the lecturer said, and not from the proceeds of the again."
"But what train are you going political districts, for there power. Mr. Baldwin may not be ligious, secular or purely academic tions given for any other specific by?" I asked. are few homes in Great Bri- the most "brilliant" of political point of view
"The 1,15 train; it's an ex- tain nowadays, we believe, in leaders; be may be what most applied to beings possessing statement that General Higgins "Well, by jove; you'll have to
The term moral could only be An official denial was made of a press," he answered. which wireless is not a daily ex-men are to-day who reflect upon choice, even if the choice was only was unable to obtain his salary burry up. I've just missed it! perience, and in any event, halls the kaleidoscopic phases of poli- in the sense that if they had as General because it must be prid They brought him round, after may be requisitioned in many ties, a good deal of a cynic; but thought at the time they could out of a Trust Fund which was about half an hour. parts of a constituency so that that he is a man in whom the which they did du. It implied a Booth. "The Fund in question, The Mistress: So you have de
have refrained from doing that under the control of General the candidate may be heard by country and the Empire may judgment, a standard, and that it was pointed out, is held by the cided not to get the country, and those who perhaps are more con-place implicit trust there can be which ought to be and not that Charity Commissioners, and is not the domestic read it with awe. cerned to hear rather than see no two questions. The present which was. It was essential to therefore in any way under the This way, your nobleness," she him and with the additional ad- Government's policy with regard was a voluntary action, right be. General Higgins stated in an of Dilkington into the cold and explain this keen moral sense. It control of General Booth." murmured, and showed the Duke vantage of travelling as short a to unemployment may not be as cause it was right or right be interview that no serious schism cheerless drawing room, where, of distance as possible.
sound as it might be, but that it cause it aimed at some good. was anticipated in the Army course, she had omitted to make a It sounds like "politics made is probably as efficacious and They had to start with the in- ranks, either in Great Britain or fire. Then, breathless and fluster- dividual, look for the good in him in America American delegates ed, she dashed up to her mis- easy" and is eloquent of the fact much more likely to be less costly and assume that he was born with to the High Council, he added, tress. The Dook o' Dilkington to that we live in an age very differ than the wonderful panacea good moral instincts. MUS were strongest in their expres- see you, marm,” she gasped. “At ent from that of our grandfathers which Mr. Lloyd George proposes Mr. Reeve stated in conclusion sions of allegiance.”
least that's what 'e ses e' is. Shall I go down and fight the who went to the hustings and to there need be little doubt From that the school should look upon a do so frequently made long and now onward the General Election terms of goodness; its scale off
child as good or possessing the
Her mistress stared. arduous journeys, while the can will loom very large in the daily values would include as primary “Do you believe, sir, that on
she said, sternly, didates themselves travelled life of the ome land, and its
the development of a good char- Election Day the women should "what do you mean? The Duke acter. A good will was the same be at the polls?" A4 verwold friend of mine." about laboriously, often having to ous phases will be watched
as a good character, and a good Yes, air", the crusty bachelor or "Beg, perdon, marm,” said the be content with the most meagre Ideen interest by, Britans, boad at character was good citizen of unexpectedly replied at both of excited servant. I mean aball 1- of audiences. The new methods Home and throughout the world, the world.
'em North and South
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ialise.
EDUCATIONAL PHASE
purpose."
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go down and light the fire."