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AYALA. Vintage. Extra Dry,
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SHERRY. Ruiz's Full Golden, Amoroso Extra.
Robertson's Choice Old.
PORTS.
Sandeman's Vintage 1911.
Clubland White.
Silva & Coseri's Very Fine Old Tawny.
BRANDIES. Finest Old Brown ("E").
Renaults Reserve Grande Champagne. 100 years old,
Courvoisier's Napoleon 80 years old.
COCKTAILS in Bottle.
LIQUEURS in Fancy Carafes in great variety.
SAUTERNS CLARITS, HOCKS,
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Glen Moray '93 Liqueur. Gilbeys Spey Royal.
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Established 1841.
Pamela
13, Queen's Rd. C.
next to St. Francis Hotel.
We wish to inform our clients that MADAME FLINT has joined the staff of the above firm. MADAME FLINT has just arrived from Paris with a large assortment of the latest models as well as materials and garnitures greatly in vogue Customers who in Paris at the present time.
study elegance will find every requisite in this well-known establishment,
DRESSMAKER & MILLINERY
This will be attended to as a special department at reasonable charges with smariest cut and style guaranteed.
SPECIAL LINE
Hats to be sold from $8.50.
The above which have arrived are in addition to the new goods which are arriving for Pamela by every mail.
PAMELA
13, Queen's Road, Central.
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD
- WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS
DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (Opposite G.P.0.).
'Agents for:- ADMIRALTY" CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS` and- TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers. High Class English Jewellery.
GREAT CLOSING-UP
SALE
All Stocks must be cleared, including ALL THE NEW SEASON'S GOODS.
To make
m for rebuilding our Premises.
MANY WONDERFUL BARGAINS ON VIEW. COME
EARLY
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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THE
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$7.50 Each.
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In Snap or Curl Brim. $12.50 to $19.50.
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The China Mail.
[Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription, excluding postago abroad, H.K. 696, payable in advance. Local delivery fren]
Overland China Mail.
The weakly edition of the "Chins Mall" Annual subscription, H.K. $13 including postage $15, payable. in advance.]
Published by
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Printers & Publishers,
No. 3A, WYNDHAM STREET,. HONG KONG.
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Burnett combined all three with an inherent purpose of elevating the standard of newspapers in the Colony by every means with in his power.
and employees, but as a "father" and friend, &
AMERICA SEES NEW YEAR IN
BIG BEN BROADCAST TO REVELLERS IN NEW YORK
EFFECTS OF MARKET SLUMP
New York, Yesterday. The celebration of the New Year
·THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1930,
GHASTLY
FIRE
TERRIBLE SCENES IN PAISLEY CINEMA-
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The disaster is now stated to ha due to the fact that the opera→ tor waz unable to open the side door as he was bravely rushing away with the burning film.
Many children were so disfigur- ad in the stampede that they were only identifiable by their clothes. Volunteer workers from various nursing establishments have offer-.
FATAL CRUSH to prepare dig bedles for burial
CHILDREN PERISH'IN WILD STAMPEDE
*
THE DEATH ROLL
London, To-day.
The death roll in the Paisley fire is 70. The Home Office Chief- Inspector of Explosives is going to Paisley to Investigate the disaster, and the Lord. Advocate is consider. ing a public enquiry.
really started when the tones of Big Ben from Weatminster were heard throughout North America, for the first time broadcast success-
London, Yesterday, fully. The Revelry, however, ranch- ed its height when the theatres Over 80, but probably nearer emptied, and 100,000 young people children were incinerated, or died paraded Upper Broadway using through injuries, In a terrible fire
Their Majesties have sent a mes- noise-maker, which broke out at the Glen sage to the Provost of Paisley ex- every conceivable There was alight falling off in the Cinema, Paisley, Scotland, during pressing great distress at the ap- hotel aupper attendances, attributa matinee yesterday.
palling loss of children, and con- The performance was proceed; veying heartfelt sympathy to the ed to the recent market slump.-
ing when fames shot out from the relatives in their overwhelming Reutor's American Service.
operator's box and filled the audi- sorrow. They desire to be kept torium. Thero
wild informed of the progress of the in- scramble for the exits, which were jured.-Reuter. By order of the Executive Yuan quickly jammed by struggling NO DANGER OF FIRE all Government offices, and the boys and girls. Police and
Rugby, Yesterday. various Provincial Municipal Gov- civiliana donned improvised gns
13 An immediate Investigation eranients will close for three days masks and pulled as many as pos- being made by an expert of the beginning January 1.
sible to safety from the tangled Home Office into the disastor at the
In
New Year in China
Nanking, Tuesday.
П Was
It is also announced that medals mass, while agonised mothers cinema at Paisley, whereby 69 honour and appreciation of watched. Firemen used ladders children lost their lives and 37 were meritorious services during 1929, against the uppermost windows injured, one of whom has since will be awarded on New Year's Day and handed dow the children. dled. A public inquiry will later be
to military commanders for defend All of the 150 rescued were rash- held.
the Soviet; to the presidents of the ary.
the chairman of Five Yuans, National Conferences held during 1929, and to various departmental
directors-Reuter.
SEIZED WITH PANIC
London, Later.
casualties occurred. The Paisley
The King and Queen have sent to
sympathy. He said that such a
ing the north-eastern border againated off in tram cars to the infirm Dr. Gray, of Paisley Infirmary, has dismissed the theory that vic- Sixty-nine bodies were recover- tims died from carbon monoxide ad at Paisley. The cinema's capa poisoning from the fumes of the city is 750, and it was crowded burning. Sim. It appears to be with children of working clase established 'that, had there been 'no King's New Year Hope
parents, between sixteen months panic, there would have been no In a telegram to the Lord-Mayor and fourteen years of age. One casualties, for the 'burning film, of London, acknowledging the father lost three children.
though it led the auditorium with jsmoke was thrown out of the cinema New Year greetings, the King
on to some wasto ground within a says, "I deeply value the affection-
There was never a ghosther low seconds. In the words of one ate allusion to my restoration to health and to the Queen and the Hogmanay in Scotland than the official: "The children were killed members of my family. I fervent- Paisley cinema disaster, which in trying to escape from danger But the cry that God's was the most terrible of its kind which did not exist." y join in the hope
of fire had already gone up and "I- blessing, peace and general well in the British Isles. being, may be vounchanted to the The youngsters had gathered was too late to avert pank. Most nations of the world. May the for a special Hogmanay show, and of the children died from suffoca- New Year Inspire the people of had just seen a film in which atlon in the crush. Some of them By the members of his staffs on our Empire with a solemn resolve child was run over in a street acci, leapt from the balcony on to heads
to secure an increasing measure dent. Then came sudden dark of those beneath.
THE PRIMIER'S MESSAGE both the "China Mail" and the of prosperity. There are difficul- ness, followed by splutterings and "Hong Kong Sunday Herald" his ties to be overcome, but these, I dense smoke from the operator's tragic demise is and will be most know, will be faced with courage box. The spool had fired, and the the Provost of Paisley a message out the expressing their great distress at deeply mourned. To one and all and enterprise traditional to the operator tried to carry
citizens of London-British Wire burning film but the children the appalling disaster and naking he was simply "the boss" not in
less Service.
wore panic struck and rushed the Provost to convey to the bereav-`. the sense usually implied in the
the rear entrance where there ed relatives their heartfelt sympathy In their overwhelming sorrow. The were ten steps. The forerunners Premier, telephoning to the Provost relationship between employer MR. A. H. CROOK
fell and were trampled on, by
and speaking for his countrymeh which means most- of the counsellor and Popular Queen's "Head"
and countrywomen, sent message of- Iguide in all the daily complexities - To Receive O.B.E.
involved in the work of a news- paper. Not one of his staff, for O.B.E,, succeeded Mr. B. Tanner, I.S.O.,
The news spread like wildfire in happening on New Year's Eve, when eign or Chinese, but could go to as Headmaster of Queen's College in the cotton mills, and demented everyone was happy with children and was planning fenata on.. him and not feel that "the boss" October, 1925, and at the annual din parents fought firemen and police raieties for them, deep indeed was ner of the Queen's Colege Old Boys' to enter the cinema. The remen the gloom which this devastation fully understood and sympathised Association, held on March 13. Mr. did not wait for smoke helmets but had cast upon them. with human nature. His unfail. George Grimble, President of the dashed in over a mound of prone Everyone blessed by having their ing humour alleviated many an to Mr. Crook:
ciation, made the following reference.
children, seized as many as they children around them understanda anxious moment, dispelled the "It is surely no flattery to say that could, and rushed out into the in the most latimate way the clouds, and restored the sunshine the Hong Kong Government had fresh air. They found some chil- torturing sorrow which is in the thought they would best honour Mr. drén unharmed, but absolutely hearts of so many of your citizens." Crook by appointing him to the Head-stil with terror.
The Town Council, at a special matership of this College. The Old The victims were conveyed to meeting today, dealded, to head o BURNETT.-At 110, The Peak day is rendered doubly sorrowful #ys Association think it extremoly the infirmary in tram cars, private relief fund with a grant of 1,000 Hong Kong. on January 1, by the death also of Mrs. Burnett, as Mr. Tanner's successor, such an ex- cars, lorries, and anything the Guineas and defray the funeral 1930, George William Cade who was
and popular Head police could commandeer. The expenses of the victims. A public one of the best help Master as Mr. Crook, who is beloved mites were lying in corridors, funeral service will be held on Burnett. Funeral will pass mates that a man could have alike by old boys, present boys, and the Every bod WAB occupied, but Friday-British Wireless Service. the Monument to-day at 5
She lived her life for her husband whole staft, and who will carry the urgent messages brought doctors p.m.
best of Queen's College traditions. There from all over the Town, and the BURNETT-At 110, The Peak, and her son as befits a true wife is no need for me to dwell upon Mr. basement of the Jufirmary was
Hong Kong Qu January 1, and a doting mother. She, like Crook's virtues. He is so well-known converted into a mortuary. Many SOVIET AND CHINA 1930, Caroline Elizabeth wise, was cheeriness personified thing I might say could by any pos-
women collapsed whilst identify- Burnett. Funeral will pass the
And her thoughts were ever for siblity add to his popularity, or to the ing the bodies, Monument at 5 p.m. to-day the comfort and solicitude of high position he occupies in
POISONED BY GAS others. She, foo, alus! is gone Just prior to his departure from. No children were incinerated. Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 2, 1930. from our midst, but her sweet Hong Kong on the sa, "Pushima Maru" The dead were either trampled on
memory will remain for ever on October 24, 1926, Mr. B. Tanner, or suffocated. green. A TRAGIC LOSS
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DEATHS
As a ship without a rudder, so is the China Mail" to-day. Its head has passed away-a re foundly tragic ending to a Now Year's Day. In the midst of the first awful shock words naturally
fail us. It is too inexpressibly sad. It is almost unthinkable that the newspaper on which Mr. G. W. C. Burnett devoted so many years of his life should still be published whilst his last mortal remains await interment,
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to the heart, ..
The bereavement mourned to
Mr. A. H. Crook who receives tho
fortunate Queen's College is to have,
cellent, crudito
and, so 'universally respected that no-
minds."
car
fre master stated that not single child perished by fire.
GALLANT FIREMEN
Later.
the retiring Headmaster of Queen's Thirty-nino children were de College referred to his successor, Mrtained in hospital at Paisley. Crook, in the following terms:
a
A
tragedy at any time would have moved the country to sorrow, but
NOW AT PEACE
RUSSIAN RAILWAY OFFICIALS TO RESUME OFFICE
PRISONERS RELEASED
"
Mukden, Yesterday. Eight hundred Soviet prisoners
The deepest and sincerest sym- pathy in this tragic hour will go Head
"Mr. Crook is everything that pathetic coincidence was that the Queen's College aught to be." film exhibited at the time of the His successor, he added, would not be disaster was entitled "The Crowd." out to the young son on the eve of sailing from Home to rejoin as he as was well known to them as mounted at the hospital to keep bin were released yesterday, while coming to the boys of Q.C., as a strang- A police guard had to be in an internment camp near Har- his parents here. The shock of the (Mr. Tanner) himself, was.
He back the distracted parents. 57 Communists arrested in a rald
the news of his double loss cannot was sure that all would agree with himThe suggestion was made that on the Soviet Consulate at Harbin be softened by the thought that hands of Mr. Crook. be imagined-may his dark hour Queen's College could be left in the ed by gan. One fireman was em- Mote Huul, the newly appointed
when he said that the interests of some of the victims were poison last May, were liberated "to-day,
..
the whole Colony wafts to him in
How true, those words have been phatic that gas was escaping proved to be was amply demonstrated Possibly the gas brackets were spirit their sincerest condolences during four years that he had charge broken by the stampede,
*CANADA'S SYMPATHY.. More cannot be said at this of Queen's College. writing!
Ottawa, Yesterday. The Prime Minister, Mr AIRMEN'S FUNERAL Mackenzie King, has telegraphed to the Provost of Palsley, express-
cinema disaster-Reutor.
Victims of Fatal Crashing Canada's sympathy at the
Over Tunis
Director-General of the C.E.B., has bean appointed chief Chinese de......... legate to the Moscow Conference. Chang. Shih-yi, Director of Muk- den Arsenal, has been appointed Civil Governor of Fongtien.
Harbin, Yesterday. Rudyl, the new Manager of the C.E.R., and Denisoff; Assistant WEEPING PARENTS
Manager, arrived this morning. TM London, Later omafiot and Danilevsky, members. Under the relentless rain, piti of the Administration, and The funeral of Squadron-Leader ful groups of weeping mothers Bimanofsky, the Soviet Consul
Rugby, Yesterday.
Jones Williams, who, with Flight-
NEWS IN BRIEF Too early is it to attempt to Lady Clementi has kindly con write an eulogy of one who was corticates at the annual speech sented to present, the cups and here but yesterday and is gone day of St. Stephen's Girls' College today. The newspaper history on Thursday, January 16. of the past three decades is a corollary of the career of Mr. possession of two trees was fined od at Tanis walle attempting a fight and Infirmary to identify the dead
Another man charged with the Lieutenant Jenkins, lost his life when and fathers wafted all night long General are all taking up their
the Royal Air Fores monopolane crash in the vicinity of the mortuary duties to day. Router. Burnett. "The Inbourer's task is $25 or ane month's hard labour. Chistown, took place this afternoon and obtain newe of their injured o'er" but the record of all that For the unlawful possession of a in the family burial ground at Bar children. Out of 87 Injured at he did to maintain the highest Dink of wood a Chinese woman socks, in Sussex. The coffri, covered the Infirmary 12 are in a very was, given eight days jail with the Union Jack, was borne by critical condition. It is feared traditions of the Press shall for
afreraftsmen and a Guard of Honour that some will not survive ever be sacrosant. He has given Two, Chinese men and ian was furnished by the 23rd Fighter unto those entrusted with the were at the Cen Future of the "China Mail and possession of ove Its sister contemporary, "The pills The two men Hong Kong Bunday Herald,
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(From the “Chful Mall” BJawar:22. 1920.] *
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