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September 10, 1929.. Instead figure. School of Dancing for Chil dren and Adults. 24, Ashley Road of the 26th as previously annoure- Back of Star Theatre (graand floor) {ed. Kowloon,
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AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions:
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
THE
Auction
ON
WEDNESDAY, October 2, 1929, commencing at 11 am.
at No. 4, Carnarvon, Building.
Kowloon,.
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
. FURNITURE
and
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On View from Tuesday, October 1, 1929.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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THE CHINA MAIL,
MOST PERILOUS JOURNEY AFLOAT FOREIGN STUDENTS
Sailors Still Talk Of “A Bontekoe Voyage”
| ENGLISH EDUCATION EXPERT'S CONDEMNATION
WRONG WAY WITH IMMATURE
"There should be only one stand- ard in a good school, and that is the individual standard," said Mr. P. B. Showan, formerly senior lecturer in
Astonishing, indeed, is the bravery of man. On all sides, from the beginning of time, he has been beset by the most malignant forces. The waters of the sea have engulfed him. The land has brought forth monsters to devour him. Torrid heat and gelid cold have tormented him, And yet he bas ventured education at King's College, Lon- into the ends of the earth, and crossed the trackless and incalculable
ocean.
that time!
don, when lecturing on the teaching of English at the City of London Vacation-Course,
The success of
a school," he said, "should be judg ed by the fewness of its failures
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to speak of their own educational activities. Dr. E. Rohns, head mis- treas of a large secondary school in Dresden, caused the English teach- ens present to gasp when she said that at her school they started les- sons at seven o'clock in the morning. "People always exclaim when I tell them this," she said, "but I some- times think it is easier for us. to commence lessons at seven o'clock in the morning that it is for you here to start at nine o'clock,"
The records of early travellers to bits you could not see"; read like a fairy tale, so full are where the pieces were of ene and not by its successen. Some of in disguise.man or another. And I. Willem the worst schools I know have their they of dragons
Willem Ysbrautsz Bontekoe; the Yabrantsz Bontekoe, at
actice boards covered with names East Indian Voyage, 1018-1625,"captain, was blown up with them from the examination honours lists, translated from the Dutch by into the air;khow no better but they are bad schools in spite Mrs. C. B. Bodle-Hodgkinson and than that I should die there with of this." Professor Pieter Gey] (Routledge, them. I raised my hands and Mr. Frank Roscoe, formerly lec- 7s. 6d.) is just such a story and arms to leaven and cried: "There turer on education at Birmingham told as if death were ap everyday go. Lord. I merciful to me. University, and senior tutor of the course, lecturing on "Education"
For Pawer For Lighting18 Cents per Unit.dventure, and shipwreck the lot ponr sinper!" of every sailor
But the excellent captain, in said that it was not possible to go to 7 Cents per Unit.
Spacious Days and Gallant. Men spite of being hurt in the back and any English public school without SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., On December 28, 1618. Captain having two holes in the head, learning something of the power of General Managers, Bontekoe set sail from Toxel, with came down into the water in full being "your own man." "You are Hong Kong. 25th Sept. 1929. a ship of about eleven hundred possession of his faculties, for he imbued," he said, "with the idea tons. two hundred men. and an was able to reflect as he clung to that your school is the best school east wind. It was just twenty-one the floating wreck: "O God, zee in England and that the house in CHINESE RECREATION CLUB. pears since the first Dutch voyage how this beautiful ship is des- which you stay is the best house in round the Cape of Good Hope;troyed, like Sodom and Gomorrah.", that school. That is not a bad and there was great profit to be He was picked up by such of feeling in a boy, provided he doesn't made in the East Indies, in Java the crew as had taken to the long, go on feeling it too long. This and the Moluccas, with trading in boat before the explosion and product of our English public pepper and spices. Adventurous there begm an appalling voyage, schools may be curiotgly, uninterest- days and gallant days; and gal without compass or chart, ined in things of the mind, but he lant men too.
search of land. Between seventy- is interested in something at any The. "New Hoorn," Bontekoe's two men they had only eight rate. I know public schoolboys East-Indiaman, was ill-fated from pounds of bread. Once some sea- who have taken up as private pur- the starts On January & she ship-|gulls arrived providentially and suits all kinds of peculiar studies. per three seas, and the men be once some flying, fisk, to save them One, for instance, Became an expert ran to cry out that she was sink from starvation. For water they on Roman roads. It is that kind ing. They bailed out the water were dependent on the rain which of independent spirit that is the the whole sea meanwhile "foam-fell. They took off their shirts mark of a product of an English ing as if it were aboil"; but the to make sails. As day followed public school." The team spirit storm lasted till January 20. It day, without sight of land the makes for tolerance and for seeing was five months after they had men began to look ugly and talk the other fellow's point of view" left Holland before they sailed of eating the boys among them. I
England's Mistake paat the Cape.
Finally limit of three days was Mr. Roscoe turned to the question Sick Crew's Tears
set; if within that time land was of foreign students at our English That was just the beginning of not sighted, the
boys should be universities. "We have made a mis- their troubles. Forty of the crew eaten. And then at last, on the take," he declared emphatically, "in fell sick and lay in their beds thirteenth day since the disaster, encouraging young and somewhat begging to be taken to land. The the dim line on the horizon-land. immature students from India and "New-Hoorn" held a steady
Attacked by Natives
Expyt and other non-English parts Course to Madagascar; but land- -Hostile natives attacked the to come and live in our university ing was easier talked of than voyagers as they lay in camp. cities for three years or more, and done. The sick men implored and Bontekoe himself was nearly mur- then to let them go back to their. wept-and some of them died; buldered, by two swarthy ruifans, own countries under the impression POWER
it was long before a landing place. There was a great fight in which! that as they have lived in England could be found, When it was many men were killed. But in for three years they know some- PRESENT, Past and Future won- found the poor creatures "crept the end, bappily, they came safe thing about England. and that as derfully revealed through the together in the grass. saging we to Batavia. It is a story fall of they have passed examinations per system of Meditation (Yagasadhana) feel better already" and so they heroic endurance. rich with of the Great Yogi, Swami Premanan-
haps in
a better style than some dujee, the world famous Vedantist. did, after a meal or two of wild humanity and simple courage
English students, they are there, Our House has remarkable references doves and geese. It was round No wonder they still talk in Hol-fore better than many Englishmen.
quarters throughout about in these parts that the na-land of "a Bontekoe voyage."- India. Burma
"It would be better if we were to been known to the public for the last tives, anxious to show what live T. P.'s Weekly.
provide for these immature people years. Our charges are 5 ques-
The stock they possessed, "shouted
the finest possible courses of higher The Shanghai District. Kuomin- study in their own country, entang has appointed a committee to couraging them to come to England arrange for a local hospital for afterwards when they would have labourers and it has been decided to more time to study our English life, convert the Labourers' Summer You cannot see English life by just Diseases Hospital into the new hos- studying and living with English pital. A portion of the "national students in an English university."salvation foundation funds collect
Starting Lessons'at 7 a.in. ed by the former Anti-Japanese Foreign students attending the course were given
Boycott Committee will be used for the hospital's maintenance, an opportunity
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"We gave them wine to drink RESEARCHER'S DISCOVERIES Life Reading 10 shillings; Ex- tensive Whole Life Reading (from from a silver bowl, yet they had birth to death) 20 shillings. Payable not the sense to know how to
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FOR CAREER
cancer
in British Past Orders only. Parti-drink theref m, but struck their DISPOSITION INHERITED culars required (Birth date, and date head er, face in the
basin and when writing). Prof. S. N. BOSE, drank as B.A. Swami Premananda
does a beast from a Ashram,
"If your blood is very alkaline; Beadon Street (P.O. Box 11418), bucket, and when the wine was in you are able to get cancer. If Calcutta.
them they did baw! like as if they your blood is chiefly acid, you are were mad."
immune against cancer." This is The worst was to come. On the conclusion Dr. & Reding draws November 19, eleven months after from blood tests on 800 leaving Holland, the steward's patients at a Brussels hospital and mats went into the hold to draw from the experiments of an Ameri- | the crew's ration of brandy. He can woman scientist operating on took a candle with him; and by 80,000 cancerous mice. some accident the brandy was set. Is cancer hereditary? Dr. Red- on are. Burning, it ran down tong refuses to answer this question, where the smith's coal lay; and but points out that certain types of so the mischief started. The ship blood.seen to serve as
a fertile was alone, with her cargo of liv. ground for cancer. "Cancer itself ing creatures, in the middle of a may not be hereditary," explains pitiless sea and fire, that worst Dr. Reding who read a paper on! fear of the sailor, had her in its his findings at the recent Brussels clutches.
congress of European physicians. "But a disposition for cancer may They poured water on the flames, and were nearly suffocat certainly be inherited; and this is ed by the sulphurous imes that due to the strain of blood in
family." Larose. They threw water down
of a normal the hatches. They went over- board and tried to bore holes to must be neither too acid nor too let water in, but
alkaline. Persons with symptoms of could not for the ironwork. Next
cancer always have very alkaline the oil caught fire, and "there arose. such
blood, while persons with highly acid blood may get any other crying, groaning, and shrieking
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person
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to rise on his head." They had,
Radium remains as yet the beat meanwhile, been throwing the
means to stop cancof, according to powder overboard, but in vain. Sixty half casks had gene; three particularly prevent an increase of
The "gamma rays" Dr. Reding. hundred remained; enough to alkalines in the human blood. An- blow the ship into "hundredther way to treat cancer, Dr. Red- thousand pieces."
Captain's Prayer.
ing believes, is to raise the tem- perature of the human blood, "I stood then, when it came to Whenever the bleed reaches a pass, near the main gangway up rather high temperature, the degree on deck and about sixty persons of alkalinity of the blood goes Who were handing the water down, and the blood even grows buckets stood right in front of acid at times. A third the main mast; these were all method in the Belgian physician's carried off together and shivered practice consists of administering perothyroid glands, which, like the Alver, are known to regulate the
state of algolinity of the blood
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published;
Leland.
Victoria Peak
FLING TO GOLF
cancer
An enthusiastic golfer, and his wife arrived at the Princes Golf Course, Sandwich, In Kent, the Feet.
other day, in a Gipsy Moth zero- 1829 plane
Signal Station
177774
Mt. Parker
1794
-- Mountain Lodge
1726
The Eyris
1725
Peak Hotel
1805
Talkoo Sanatorium
Mt. Davis
ww
Bowen Road (fiter
297
Mamiand
Feet:
1971
Taimochan Kowloon Peak
1000
The landing was made in a feld adjoining me of the greens,
This was the first occasion on which an seroplane had been used to bring players to any of the three championship conrees between Deal and Sandwich,
The demonstration was primarily Bade to test the site for landing. purposes..
Mr. V. Kadramatamby, an ele- mentary school teacher from Ceylon, pointed out that English education. in Ceylon was causing certain com- plications. For instance," he said. the boy who has had an English education thinks it is beneath him to follow any other occupation other than law or medicine."
Miss Julie Valentiner, a teacher of languages. In a secondary school
MOTORS FOR MAILS
ÉO. UNION AND SOLO-CYCLE DANGERS
The Post Office at Home is carry. ing out a great scheme for the de- velopment of its motor services in connection with the conveyance and delivery of mails. Various forms of mator-vehicles are being used and experimented on, but it would, seem that the solo motor-cycle does not find favour with the postmen. drivers. It is considered more liable to accident than other pat terns of motor-vehicles.
The Union of Post Office Workers has taken the matter up with the Post Office, and has asked branches for their views on the merits of this type of machine. The union, it says, is in no way committed to the use of solo motor-cycles.
The department says that statis ties do not support the suggestion cident than other types, but instruc that the sole is more liable to ac- tions have been issued that, in order to allow an ample margin for tion should as a rufe be recommend- safety, a light motor-cycle combina-
ed in preference to solo machine whenever the aver age lead exceeds $5 lb-a within the capacity of the solo. weight which it pays is well
2
in Copenhagen. said that in Der-Development is now proceeding at
mark every secondary school child had to learn enough, English, Ger- man, and French to be able to read a book in either of these three languages before leaving school.
us.
the rate of five combinations for each solo. But there are a number of services in rural districts where the solo is the only practicable motor-vehicle.
The engagement is announced between Thomas Perceval Croys- dale, only son of Mr. Thomas Croys- dale, J.P., and the late MTA. 1 Croyadale, of Hawke House, Sun bary-on-Thames, and Lady Whin-. ney, of 2, Maids of Honour-row, Richmond, widow of Sir Arthur Whinney, K.B,E, and only daugh- ter of Captan H. E. Hillman, R.N., of Shanghai.
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