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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929,
DISARMAMENT
WHAT IS SAID AT THE WHITE
HOUSE
NO AGREEMENT YET
ATTACKS ON JEWS
(Continued from Page 1.)
Alexandria, Saturday. It is understood that a battalion of troops is being dispatched at once to Palestine.-Reuter.
Washington, Saturday. "Encouraging progress," it is
Official Statement
London, Saturday. saidi is being made in the MacDonald-Dawes discussion with The Admiralty states that the regard to naval disarmament but warships "Sussex" and "Barhan" it is stated
White House are proceeding to Palestine from at the that the reports of an agreement Malta to-day at the request of the having been already reached are High Commissioner-Reuter. premature. No agreement, so far, has been reached with regard to the holding of a general confer- ence by the Naval Powers.
ed here.
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Martial Law
Jerusalem, Saturday.
Nobody is allowed in the streets The MacDonald-Dawes conversa- tions dealt with the question of the after six o'clock in the evening.
All outward telegrams are sub- principles which should be a guide to the conference when held.ject to censorship.--Router.
Violent Clash Detailed naval questions have not been discussed.-Reuter's American; Service.
BEGGAR PROBLEM
CALCUTTA TO SOLVE THE
NUISANCE
SNOBISME
FRENCH FEAR OF BEING OUT-OF-DATE
RAGE FOR NEGRO ART
THE CHINA MAIL,
ROYAL MISHAP
MOTORIST TO THE QUEEN'S RESCUE
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ON
FRIDAY, August 30, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room,
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QUEEN'S CAR BREAKS DOWN
The adulation of Social rank and A crowd gathered recently inj the desire to appear to belong to Albemarle Street London, attracted a higher than one's own, writes a by the strange sight of the Queen Horae standing on the pavement watching Paris correspondent in a
no doubt meanings the efforts of her chauffeur to make paper, were which still attached to the world the royal motor-car start. It had A traffic block "snob" when the French borrowed broken down in it from the English; but as these owing to a cylinder seizing. things not only do not exist in The Queen was extricated from France, but can hardly be couceiv. her difficulty by Mr. Cyril A. Har- Martial law has been proclaimed, and as Paris is an intellectual rison, whose motor showrooms are and artistic community, the kind of jimmediately opposite the scene of
[Comprising:- pretentiousness to which the word the breakdown.
Teak Hatstands. "I suddenly realised," he said to was, soon. understood to apply be- came attached, to art and literature, a press representative afterwards, Couch and Chairs, Glass Cabinets, Desks, Carpets, Rugs, The snob is the ignorant who pre-"that the lady, who seemed rather Teak tends to appreciate and understand amused at the mishap, was the Gramophones, Piano, Ornaments, the new movements, when he has Queen herself. Luckily, I had my Motor Cycles, etc. A telegram from. Jerusalem on
Teak Dining Tables, Dining never even known anything about own car, a saloon, outside the show- Friday stated:
the old ones. His terror is to be room and I ran over to help. I did Chairs, Sideboard, Dinner Wag- Strained relations between the
Ice Chest, Dinner Arabs and Jews, arising from re out of date, not to be "a la page"; not like to address the Queen, so gang, Electric cent incidents at the so-called and he seeks critical safety in an I asked the chauffeur if I could Crockery, Glass Ware, Kitchen, Wailing Wall, where the Jews wor-excessive enthusiasm. over every offer her a car. The Queen over Utensils, etc.
a. determination heard, and said: 'I should be very new talent, with not to be left behind in art, which glad to accept." is something like the religious en- "I apologised for not having a thusiasm of those who, a few years uniformed chauffeur, and asked if ago, attached themselves to the I might have the honour of driving Clapton Messiah for fear they her myself. The Queen laughed, should be too late for the Second and said: Of course you Coming of the real one.
She and her lady-in-waiting got in For this kind of "snobisme" my car, and I drove straight to the The cruiser "Sussex" and the Paris has become an international Palace. battleship "Barham," flying the flag forcing-ground. New posts and
Policeman's Surprise
ship, resulted in two hours fight ing in the streets, in which
nine Jews and six Azubs were killed and 107 wounded.
All the shops have been closed. That the establishment of Poor Law institutions on the lines o3-The whole Police force have been taining in Western countries was called out, also armoured cars.
Malta, Saturday. the only way of mitigating the beg gar nuisance in Calcutta, was the opinion expressed by Rai Bahadur Dr. Chun Lal Bose, speaking at the weekly meeting of the Calcutta . Rotary Club.
After emphasising at the cutset that the problem of mendicancy was rendered more difficult of solu- tion in India owing to the religious and social customs of the people, Dr. Bose proceeded to classify the different types of beggar to be met. with in Calcutta.
Proceeding to consider the means there were in Calcutta for relief
may.”
Teak and Iran. Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw- ers, Washstands, etc.
and
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE. Catalogues will be issued. On View from Thursday, August 29, 1029,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, August 28, 1929.
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
of Rear-Admiral Plunkett-Ernle-new painters are constantly being "I could not help smiling at the Erle-Drax, are about to leave for discovered, arising suddenly, fully face of the policeman on duty at Jaffa.
armed at nineteen, like Athene the gates. His surprise at seeing from the head of Zeus, and pushed a strange car rolling unashamed- forward by their admirers in a ly inside was only equailed by his manner which can only be describ- astounded look when he noticed the ed as artistic inflation.
Queen. But he pulled himself to-Auction gether and saluted smartly.
The aircraft carrier Courageous' is ready to sail if a battalion which is standing by should be sent to Palestine from Malta.
Troops by Air.
London, Saturday.
Plane Crashes
"When the Queen alighted she for driving me back in time for shook hands and said: "Thank you
Juncheon.'
"And then," said The Man Who
T
ON
MONDAY, September 2, 1929, commencing at 11 am.
at No. 196. The Peak, Flat 1 (Mount Kellet)
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Pictures and Finance The expression - can be taken The War Office announces that at directly in ita financial as well as the request of the High Commis-in its figuratively artistic sense, for sioner in Falestine a detachment of speculation has entered
very de- 59 British troops ате being finitely into the matter. All sorts despatched to Palestine by air from of people have discovered that Rypt whence a composite battalion money can be made by buying pic. tures; and as, in order to pretend is entraining to-night.
to admire them, is not even necessary to learn to read-which is almost indispensable to any kind
his showrooms, while outside in cases, etc. of literary appreciation-picture Albemarle Street a horde of people
whom three were killed and foar the cunning and the ignorant. injured.
Under the title of "La France de l'Art vivant," Camille Mauclair, a eritic who has done his share in the discovery and defence of real
of distress generally and for the mitigation of the beggar-nuisance particularly, Dr. Rave referred to the District Charitable Society, the Tollygunge Home, the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Salvation Army. the Refuge, the several orphanages and a few hospitals and infirmaries where the poor sick were treated, aerodrome with a crew of seven, of booming opens a splendid feld for with cameras waited patiently.
Drove The Queen, mapping his brow, "I came back to this."
All his telephones were ringing madly, scores of visitors swarmed Comprising:n through his premises, noses were Couch and Chairs, Teak Book- Teak Hall Tables, Chesterfield flattened against the windows of
-Relieving Distress
These agencies, said Dr. Bose, were helpful to some extent in re- lieving distress among the poor but
For
Cairo, Saturday. The Victoria, a troop-carrying aeroplane crashed at the Heliopolis
have
More Riots Jerusalem, Yesterday. Riots arc reported to were inadequate to cope with the occurred at Telaviv near Jaffa, with beggar nuisance in the city.
one killed and 13 injured. the suppression of the evil other measures which had been describ ed in the report of the Mendicancy Committee which sat in 1920 were
necessary,
Dr. Bose declared his belief that the measures recommended by the Mendicancy Committee, if proper ly carried out, would effectively put a check to the beggar-nuisance in Calcutta.
The Arab attack has also spread to the valley of Jesreel and the Jewish colony at Beisan has been completely destroyed, with one Jew killed and 21 injured.
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London, Yesterday.
Two Oxford undergraduates visit- ing Palestine have been seriously hurt.
Three wounded Jews have died in hospital.
once
Teak Extension Dining Tables, Dining Chairs. Sideboards, Dioner "Half an hour ago I was nobody Waggons, Teak Ice Chest, Crock- at peace," he said. "Nowery, Glass Ware. Standard Lamp, look," and he pointed to the chaos. Electroliers, Curtains, etc.
The royal car was eventually re-
and
started and driven to the Palace to have its engine dismantled.
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SHADOWS BEFORE,
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN "CHINA MAIL”
Social Functions To-day-Dinner Dances at. Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Aug. 29-At European Y.M.C.A.
P.I Kowloon, Flannel Dance, Entertainmenta To-day Queen's Theatre; "Powder My Back"
To-day World Theatre;
Theatre; -Star
talent, has just published a book, in which, with judgment instead of innocence, he acts the part of the veracious child in "The Emperor's New Clothes." One may not agree with all his denunciations.
Que. may think that Derain has painted The Committce recommended
accomplished and powerful things, that Calcutta should be provided
Vlaminck beautiful things, and Jewish Telegraph Agency's Marie Laurencin charming things;
Vienna, July 10. with the following Poor Law
telegram, delayed by the censor,
Some time age the news came institutions which should be group- ed together in an out-lying side in reports that Mr. Best, a British but one can only admire the healthy the northern part of the city: immigration officer of the Palestine courage with which he pricks from South Tyrol that land was to (1) a receiving centre with a casual Government, was killed yesterday in great many empty bubbles and ex-be expropriated in favour of war poses the manoeuvres of a picture invalids sent there from Italy. ward, (2) a hospital for incurables repelling an assault, in the Jewish market, in which the dealers are German owners, it was said, did not with a curable ward, (3) an alms suburb of Givatshoul
not only commercial but often corde enough to improve their pro- perty. The news was followed by house, (4) an industrial home and
rupt. (5) an industrial school. The alms
It is time that some
of this a general outcry, and feeling ran
high against "the
climax of house was intended for those only
"anobisme" should be shown up in who were too old to work. The in-
other departments of the artistic Italianisation," as the new plan was dustrial Home should provide work
life of Paris than the buying and called.
Signor The riots have spread to Hebron, selling and praising of pictures. Fortunately, however, for able-bodied persons until they
Mussolini received the peasants' were able to find employment out where several have been killed and The careless Bohemianism of side. The industrial school was injured.
artists, who could amuse them-representative, Deputy Radio de The Arabs at night burned the selves, but could also work,
Radios, and told him that he meant for child beggars only. All children under 16 years of age, labour settlement at Cdudavadah, created a real world of imagina- had personally given an order leave the German pea- found begging in the streets of Cal-near Jerusalem, and looted the tive activity in certain cafes of to
in possession of eutta, should be placed in this cuburb of Baitregan. The suburb Montmartre, and even in the begin-sants school and trained in some useful of Mekorchayim was also assaulted. nings of Montparnasse. Now it is vineyards and fruit farme, only a work or industry.
Rev. Kock, the Chief Rabbi sufficient to go to the Rotonde or small part of their ground being of Palestine, has telegraphed Rev. the Dome on a Saturday night to seized for technical reasons. This Herz, the Chief Rabbi of the British see how false the whole thing has act of wisdom has greatly improv Empire, "Palestine Jewry is in very become. These two cafes overflowed the atmosphere in a district great danger; rush help."
with a crowd of broad-brimmed where the people still feel sore and
excitable. hats and flowing ties, worn by
Jerusalem. Yesterday.
painters who never touch a brush,
First Boarder (after waiting] "Detectives." Fo-day The death roll of Jews killed or and a crowd of tourists looking on,
of wild several minutes): "How much who have died of wounds is now as if the show was one
beasts. The famous annual Ballonger is that chap going to be?""Maxim'e Bar Boy," a family of
Second Boarder (listening to To-day Majestic Theatre;' One of the oldest and wealthiest twenty-one, including
des Quat'z' Arts has. become & foreign residents of Peking in the six slaughtered at Motza.
It has singing): "I think there are four "Hot Heels."
Home Mails Seven more Arabs have been festivity even more false. person of M. Charles Jeanrenaud
To-day--Inward from America died on August 8 a few days after killed. A German Christian named just been given, and the nudity of more verses."
male and female participants alike He is survived Neumann has been seriously in-was as nearly complete as eyer-
and ports ("Empress of Asia," his 85th birthday.
jured.
and "Korea by a wife who is about seven years
the period of ancient Cretan art, did not fail to reveal the duplicity "President Pierce" The Government in Palestine is chosen for the costumes, indeed his junior and to whom he had been
women, but it was always with Maru").
To-day-Outward for America married 40 year. M. Jeanrenaud, supplying arms to all British sub-tent itself to such developments. a certain indulgence towards there. who was born in the Swiss town of jects. All shops remain closed.
However, I wonder how many Even Maupassant always had and ports and Europe via San Remote Jewish quarters attacked people at the ball had that certain sympathy for the eternal Francisco ("President Madison"), 6 Matiers-Travers, near the border of
To-day the young p.m. France, came to China 53 years last night include the famous Difkin familiarity with nudity in the feminine."
Te-morrow-Outward for Europe He lived first in Shanghai, Orphanage. This assault was re-studio which makes it inoffensive writer, for the printed page or for ago. where
and how many had come with a the theatre, adopts an attitude to- via Marseilles ("Athos II"), 1.80 connected with a he was
It is learned that Arabs from vague desire to be shocked, with wards women which is either one p.m. Swiss watch-making firm and later
Lammert's Auction came north to Tientsin, and finally, Hebron and Nablus are coming to out ever having been into a studio of cynical contemp, as in recent
-To-morrow-At Kowloon Godown; in 1890, to Peking. During his life Jerusalem to help the local Moslems. at all. I am sure that the latter plays of Jacques Natanson and
-including, of course, those that Marcel Pagnol, or fierce attack or miscellaneous goods, 10.30 a.m. in Peking M. Jeanrenaud went through many vicissitudes, much of
were no longer capable of being is it defence as in that of Andre
Aug. 30-At Sales Room, Duddell The Jewish Telegraph Agency shocked were the large majority. Paul Antoine or the novels of Street, household furniture, 2.80 his property being burned and loot.
is another form cables from Jerusalem that 40 Jews There
of Julien Green. ed during the Boxer uprising.
p.m. One of the dangers of artistic
Sept. 2-At 196, The Peak, Flat 1 later years he was extremely suc- have been killed at Hebron, includ- "anobisme" which has now reached cessful in many of his investments. ing two rabbis, and afty Jews were such a pitch in Paris that one can snobismo" is the natural fear of Mount Kellet) household furniture,
wounded.
not but think that it is on the verge the spectator who does not really The enterprises in which he was in-
Sports Arabs last night attacked the of collapse. That is the enthusiasm see anything in what he is told to terested included the Grand Hotel
Jewish orthodox suburb of Baitve, for negroes, negro music, and what admire that he may find himself
Sept. 7 H.K.V.D.C. annual de Pekin, of which he was a mom and a Jewish police sergeant was is called negro art. The "hai in the ranks of the "pompiers" or
acgre" in the rue Bolmet was a the "passeisten." Clement Vautel, aquatic sports meeting at V.R.C., 9 "dancing the colour of whog who wrote a book called "Je suis P
Miscellaneous patrons was sufficiently unusual to un sffreux bourgeois," and is the
To-morrow Hong Kong Stock
ber of the board of directors.
In
pelled.
The Death Roll
More Casualties
London, Yesterday.
killed Reuter
America Enquiring
Washington, Yesterday.
A
11 a.m
She had only been married a
It was time the young man de- clared his love and the girl led him The State Department, which has attract the whole of fashionable author of novels and plays which to a dim part of the ballroom be been flooded with protests from Paris into its little back street a frankly appeal to a popular Exchange Settlement Day. hind a clump of palms. They sat American Jews against the reported couple of seasons ago. Now there audience, does not hesitate boldly is another "bal negre" in the to rally the anti-snobs" to his down and she sat close to him. outrages in Jerusalem, has instruct Boulevard Blanqui, which may banner and in doing so he doubt-month when her friend called to She was very beautiful in her filmy ed the American Consul at have the same social success, as less drives to the banner of the see how she was getting on. evening gown, and she knew it. Jerusalem to report fully with re-the enthusiasm for everything negro "nobs" many who in any case do We're getting on splendidly,
But the young man sat there in gard to the disturbances--Reuters has been revived by the appearance not want to confess themselves so exclaimed the young wife, with of the revue "Blackbirds" at the retrograde, and would like to be in enthusiani. "We have a joint an minutes passed. Then he conghed
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The Cynical Young Man there are few people with the in-What do you mean by joint ac- Agitated wife: I'm positive that The prevailing snobisme of the cerity of a George III, who admit-count?" asked the visitor. ..... “Do you "Not a bit." replied the girl, and was a laman being we ran over novelists and dramatists appears to ted that he could see nothing in put in equal sums?****
Motorist (in thick fog) Good; be misogyny the misogyny of Shakespeare, or even with the "Oh, I don't put in anything." than Ice No I don't mind. If then we're still on the road all young men. A generation age courage merely to say "I do not was the explanation. Percy
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