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CHRISTMAS IN
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THE CHINA MAIL.
SPIRIT OF GOODWILL AND GAIETY
JOYOUS CELEBRATIONS
"Pence on Earth, and Goodwill
SHORT-LIVED MUTINY
IN MACAO
A FEW SHOTS FIRED BY REBELS
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According to the latest report
BRITAIN'S MILD
CHRISTMAS
BIG FAMILY PARTY JOIN KING &| QUEEN AT SANDRINGHAM
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DISCORDANT NOTE
London, Yesterday.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1929.
SINGAPORE. TO LONDON
JOURNEY ON A RILEY “g” -
By Capt. W. T. C. Riley, F.R.G.S.
(Reprinted From "The Riley Record")
In these days of the enlightened The woeful tales of such in-
toward all men" was the spirit brought to the Colony, it appeared An extraordinarily mild, sunny which animated Hong Kong on that the trouble at Macao was only Christmas Eve in London ended in Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.ja short-lived one. At about 9 a.m. a steady downpour and Christmas 20th Century, one is rather liable cidents are seldom told by the to lose sight of adventure and modern ever busy scribe as indeed To-day, Boxing Day, the same spirit on Tuesday a few shots were fired was a good day for the fireside. prevalls.
by the rebels from Monte Fort at The Prince of Wales left London romance. To many of us the Great they should not be. With the at- Celebrations started on Tuesday the Government Forts below, but in his own private light-aeroplane War brought such romantic coun- tendant anxiety at the presence of evening, when several dinner dances no damage was done.
yesterday morning, and landed at tries na Perala, Arabla and Turkeya temporary repair to face hundreds were held in all the hotels and Later the rebels surrendered, and Bircham Newton, and thence motor-almost to our very doorsteps. The of gruelling miles, the gnawing clubs.
a large number of Governmented to Sandringham, where a big flashing of news by our everyday doubt of fuel and food supplies Yesterday there was a special tea troops went into Monte Fort and family party was held. in happy Press wireless has brought the ex-holding out owing to the delay in- contrast to last year, when the bul-traordinary incidents of life in the curred in a country devoid of as- dance at the Peninsula Hotel and disarmed the rebels, nt the Hong Kong Hotel, while at It was also stated that A dis-letins of the King's illness were out-of-the-way places of the World aistance, does not make good or the Repulse Bay Hotel, there was satisfed sergeant was responsible drawing anxious and sympathetle to our breakfast fable, and robbed cheerful reading. Under such con- a special tillin, which was
well for the trauble. He was arrested crowds outside Buckingham Palace. them entirely of their old-time ditions one's temper is not improv- ad and one's energy is sapped al- attended.
with 40 others and is understood To-day Their Majesties will be lustre.
The white man's peaceful (and most to breaking point by the piti There were
ls many private that they will be sent back to rejoined by the Prince of Wales,
the Duke and Duchess of York, otherwise) penetration to the fringe less glare of a tropical sup and parties in local residences, and a Portugal walk in the city side anw our men
The acting Consul for Portugal Princess Elizabeth, the Duke of of there places has made it possible shade temperatures of 120 degrees.
A Lion's Heart in uniform making merry and let-in Hong Kong received a cable from Gloucester, Prince George, Princess for the material hard headed man
With all this in mind, it is amaz- ting off fire crackers, right and left. the Governor of Macao stating that Mary, Viscount Lascelles, and their of commerce to enjoy a holiday in
The festivities will also perfect safety and comfort amonging to think what this little car To-night is the big night at the a small group of soldiers of the sons.
the nature of a farewell the bazaars of Algiers or on the with a lion's heart has achieved. Hong Kong Hotel. A earnival garrison stationed at Monte Fort, be in dance will be held on the Roof and led by a sorgeant suspected of party to the Prince of Wales, who fringes of the Sahara and to look From Singapore, that metropoils of upon tame the shimmering East, to London, Garden which will be gaily de-advanced ideas, rebelled on Sunday sails for Africa, and the Duke of: with languid eyes
and disregarded the orders of the York, who leaves for Rome on anregs and Berbers as his children the Western hub of the World, It
would at lions in the Zoo. Government. The mutinous troops January 4, for the wedding of the
So many of the historically were immediately surrounded and Crown Prince of Italy.
romantic savages of the earth en- they submitted on Tuesday morning
joy their whisky and soda to-day in
coraled.
Religious Services The Christmas Service at St.
John's Cathedral was attended by a large congregation. Special music was rendered in conjunction with
the choir.
The collections nl the service were in aid of the schools and orphanages.
Serviers were also held at the
Tribunal.
Discordant Note
las struggled gamely overcoming trials seldom put in the path of any car regardless of size, weight or power.
Through Malayan tropical foresta, over Indian sweltering.
Union Churches, the Chinese DRAMATIC EFFECTS the history of Russia as an ordinary for the subjection of other peoples, less word or action in anger spelt
Churches and the Seamen's Insti- tute. All were well attended.
Midnight Masses were said at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, St. Joseph's Church, St. Margaret Mary's Church, Happy Valley, and the Rosary Church, Kowloon and St. Francis Chapel in Wanchai.
The service at the Cathedral was
Pontifical Mass said by Lordship, the Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta. D.D., assisted by the Clergy and Seminarists. The Bishop also preached a short ser-
व
mon.
Christmas Carols
to military force. No casualties oc- A discordant note in the Christ-the Westernised cafes on the Curred, and all parties responsible mas festivities was struck by the frontiers of their hative land that have been handed over to a military report of the Tasa official agency [the tourist is liable to assume the plains and Persian hills and crags, from Moscow, claiming the purau-World has no frontiers left. Lotato Mesopotamia and Syria, those ance of the Soviet anti-religious him, however, in his ignorance or turbulent lands of racial hatred and campaign. Christmas Day in Mos-farrogance overstep these limits of constant · unrest. Through But. cow was spent for the first time in civilisation, as we term our excusegaria's rocky deßles where a'tact-
weekday.
and he will find that if tact is not disaster to man and machine. "Four-fifths of the workers are his foremost ally and weapon be Through Yugo-Slavia, . a republic working in accordance with the is crushed by the humanity he is to like Phoenix rising from the flames five-day production week, and one-despise. fifth resting as usual. By the Beyond these fringes where the Initiative of the workers and the white man has not taken his greed The possibility of colour ranking masses December 25 has been for money and wealth, where man's with action and dialogue as a proclaimed as the second Industrial- most treasured possessions are his
Colour To Be Used in Films
medium of dramatic expression is re-isation Day. Workers in the freedom and his rifle and his His eiving serious consideration in film majority of the big factories con- camels, where the lives of his circles in Hollywood. With the in-tributed a day's wages to the slaves, so aptly termed his wives, creasing use of colour pictures, this Industrialisation. Fund." Renter. and his money are but secondary is looked upon by producens as the
considerations, life generally is the full dramatic powers of the
held very cheap. next logical development in utilizing |
screen.
YEN HSI-SHAN
of the Great War, and into the land of the tragic Hapsburgs. From here one might say as a metaphor that for Mr. Gideon the sun at last began to shine. Through an order. ly reconstructed Germany, over a tragic strip of land, into the swell- ing verdant pastures of La Belle France, be, a stranger in a strange but friendly land and his gallant little mount must have aped happi-
As a Tuareg once told me "Whyly. worry, the sun will rise to-morrow,
Their goal in sight, with a huge
and if I have my rifle and my camel task splendidly completed lying be- Allah will provide?" and I could|hind them, with its troubles and
The St. Andrew's Kowloon Carol colour has been used as a novelty In the past, it is pointed out, party had a very successful tour (two and as a means of increasing the Backing His Words With not help thinking that we also say hardships conquered, we must all sum of $275 was collected in aid of beauty of pictures, with little
nights) of the Parish, and the record
St. Dunstan's Home.
The party,
under R. Baldwin, A.T.C.L., numbered nearly 50 lusty singers.
On Christmas Eve (the second night) a most enjoyable time spent in the Peninsula Hotel.
to the carollers.
WAX
thought having bean devoted to its dramatic possibilities. Colour has been particularly popular in produc- tions presenting revues and dazzling | stage settings.
were now.
Id
Actions
Peking, Tuesday.
that "The Lord helps them who help appreciate his feelings as his Riley. themselves."
"9" was lowered once more to its Those of us who have not ex-native soil at Dover.. perienced life in such districts find I have no doubt that all Riley General Yen Hsi-shan appears to it difficult to appreciate the man owners will join with me in con- be following up his recent words who has, or his points of view. We gratulating Mr. Gideon and his
The new development will see with actions. During the past find him sometimes in the mael- companion on a splendid achieve- the psychological values of colour three days Shans! troops have strom of our big London hotelsment which must have been carried The management showed great hos- receive the most areful study. been pouring South from the gazing vacantly at the passing out in the teeth of difficulties be- pitality, and refreshments were served Where colour is used it will become province. Large numbers are now throng, apparently unconcerned at yond description in lands where Later a visit was made to the "rose an inherent part of the story-telling massed on the north bank of the ia aloofness from his fellow men, creeds, temperament, and nationall- moon" grille, where a carnival was in just as action end dialogue are Yollow River, from where they will the attractions of theatres or the ties varied over wide limits. full swing. Here the party
In conclusion, we must not forget cross over and occupy Chengchow, great city around him leaving him heartily received.
This movement has already been to take part in the campaign cold. In our ignorance we find him the men who, knowing little of the Afterwards in the Church Hali started in a picture now in produc- against Tang Seng-chi, who is not appreciate the entire self re-to face, prepared it for its ordeal quiet and uninteresting, but we can conditions and trials the car was where the singers were regaled with tion at Paramount's west coast being penned between Hauchangiance that his life has taught him, before it was despatched from the refreshments, the Vicar (the Rev.studios, according to Jesse Land Yencheng on the Kinhan Rail- We cannot appreciate his life, often factory on its long and trying W. W. Rogers) announced that this Lasky, vice-president of the year's collection exceeded last year'sganization.
Tang Seng-chi is striving one lone white man surrounded by journey. Care and attention to by nearly $100.
romance, to draw out his men, and retreat countless hundreds of people of a minute detail must have gone far "The Vagabond King is being to Shansi. collection
different colour, or creed, nursing to help Mr. Gideon through many a filmed entirely in Technicolour and Taiyuanfa messages declare that their own superstitious and secretly stupendous trial, and well have colour has been placed upon an Shanal troops are entering Honan hating the unbeliever in their they justified the confidence that he equal basis with action and "for the suppression of the Re-midst. Accommodation for between four and dialogue in establishing the mood organisationists."--Reuter.
To such & man, often has put in them throughout. five hundred people was taxed at Re- of the story and bringing out its
separated from his nearest - white pulse Bay Hotel an Tuesday night on
neighbour by days of laborious travel over rough winding and nar row bush tracks, tact, scrupulous fairness and self reliance forma second nature.
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The song
the occasion of a Christmas dinner car. dramatic values.
nival which drew a very large num-
or-way,
Each of the several hundred
ber to take part in the season's frivoli-costumes and fifty-five settings re- ANTI-FASCIST PLOTS quired were planned and designed
ties.
The ballroom presented a pretty ap-with this alm.. The colour schemes
with numeroua pearance lights and festoons of colcared paper. which the director, Ludwig Berger, A special Christmas menu for dinner Travia Banton, the wardrobe
coloured were worked out at conferences in Italo-Belgian Union Not
was provided to which the pleasure creator, Hans Dreier, unit art scekors did full justice and music for director, and Mrs. Natalie Kalmus, dancing was provided by the Hotel
orchestra. Fall use was made of the colour expert with the Technicolour verandahs to make more accommoda- corporation, participated.
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Brussels, Tuesday,
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Natural Difficultles Thus we find the necessity of a particular character to overcome the natural difficulties which lie in the path of a transcontinental ate members of the Belgian Royal an ingenious mechanical mind to An anti-Fascist plot to assassin-motorist, added to which must be
tion available than is necessary on non- Red, a "warm colour which nearthed by the Italian police.
Family is reported to have been overcome troubles which cannot be repaired. Drawing from my own through the ages bas symbolized
According to the "Independence very limited experience, I remember Quite large number of members being used as the dominant hue In two of his colleagues recently re- tank in the desert, near Timbuck-
battle, strife and revolution, is Belge," the Belgian Premier and three of us repairing a burst petrol from Shanghal of the Chief and Pet'y Officer's Re-the costumes of the lawless vaga ceived letters threatening them too, with paper and gum from the creation Room H.M. Dockyard, and bonds. Red, it has been proved by with death if the King of their lady friends assembled at scientific experiments, has an Belgians consented to Princess into a disused transport yard with office of a French political officer. On another occasion, after limping on Tuesday night at' a dance given by citing influence upon the human Maris Jose marrying the Italian in split steering gearbox, I spent
festive occasions.
Naval Dance
Messra. Lane, Crawford's Restaurant
the
the chief and petty officers of the Fleet feelings. Full advantage has been
Crown Prince. * Naval Dinner
taken of this fact in the use of
many weary days casting a new one The paper also says that an at-in aluminium from a scrap dump, The Electric Light Party and the colour throughout the picture. Two Forecastlemen's sports clubs of H.M.S men who lead a sombre procession tempt on the lives of the Belgian my pattern being made, from empty "Cornwall" gave their annosi Chelat to the royal execution grounds, are Royalties when visiting Italy for petrol tins and my machining mas dinners at the Alexandra Cafe on garbed in blood-hued scarlet. Con- the Royal wedding has been plan- operations being performed with a Tuesday night. Lt. Com. Abbott, tor Sicting shades of red are used in ned to be made in Milan-Reuter. drill brace and a few files. Another pedo afficer, attended the Electric a duel scene for the, costumes of Light Party's dinner. They also cole Dennis King, the star, and Warner brated their winning the ship'e mara Oland. When the two clash, the then race earlier in the month.
Toasts in both cases were made to colours heighten the dramatic effect Che "King" the "Ship," and the hope of conflict by their own, violent "that they would have another antagonism,;" Christmas together."
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which, through its association with sunlight, symbolizes vivacity and romance, is being used freelyin
Because he lost a day in attend- costuming the hero and leading ing the House of Lords dinner to woman. It is also a predominant V.C.s, half-a-crown was deducted
Many Natives Cremated in the garb of the royal from the stoppage pay which
In Red Hot Lava
Northern Guatemal
courtiers. Rose, another "roman Mr Alfred Wilkinson the tie" colour, de waach in evidence. Leigh (Lancashire) V.C. receives in the costumes the principals from the Leigh Operative Epinners' famous for who carry the oveduterest. Association, the officials stating
its coffee production, is slowly The sombrere of black is that this is in accordance with the recoveri from the staggering blow being. ed with highly, flramatic rules, de
of Mount Santa effect. The most abriking instance Wilkinson, a single man, has been though the flow of lava is where thre
natives
have from
rases the thron
in France, and begh
800 to 700, and
ead black
Igantic heralda unemployed since February, and his Burgundy enter stoppage) pay amounts to fifteen
the King of shillings weekly
the monarch's
They are várbed from
deep; (menacing
| are ? ans colour, Into, its own Ba
with only farce. With the trail being brožen
~ in this fashion, it is predicted that show how colour will soon reach a new plane
bring in the dims
owner of a Riley Twelve, after breaking a steering arm near Lake Chad, adapted one taken from a derelict Fordson.tractór, which he was lucky enough to find, and to really appreciate this effort one should examine them side by side.
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