TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930.
'Phone 20022
FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ·
Twenty are Words three Inser tlons prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three Insertions.
... All replies under this heading
must be called for.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE-Very attractive dinner Ret. Complete and in perfect condi tion. Price most reasonable. phone 21820.
TO LET.
Tele-
TO LET.-No. 13, 16, 20, 23, Shou- son Hill Road, Deep Water Bay, Apply Mr. Ng Kam-chung, c/o Nan Yang Bros. Tab. Co., Ltd., 165, Des Voeux Road, Central,
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS nantly and promptly printed. "China" Mail" Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Tele phone 20022.
TUITION GIVEN
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVEK STEVENAGE, Withle
from London. an hour
In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders reecived in the House of the Principal Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
For
(Camb. Higher Local), Comb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher Certificate).
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicars for Ladies & Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st floor, Room 5.
Tel. 25169.
Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras,
Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging,
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD. GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road C Hong Kong.
Special offer of 50%
discount on: EMBROIDERED SILK SHAWLS,
KIMONOS & HOURI
COATS AT,
KASHMIR
<
SILK STORE. Opposite Queen's Theatre.
This genuine offer will last till 4th October 1930.
Just Received Fresh Supply of
Reliable and Tested
Flower and Vegetable Seeds
Hotel Strathcona
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
SPORT NOTICES
NOTICE
THE CHINA,
YARRISON SCHOOL'S SWIM-
Make this Hotel your headquarMING SPORTS, V.R.C. Baths, ters while visiting Victoria, B.C. Ideally situated and within easy access to all the famous Beauty, Spots in and around Canada's Inland Resort.
The Hotel where personal service makes your stay 'enjoyable,
RATES MODERĄTE,
October 2nd, commencing at 2.30 p.m.' Entries for Old Scholars* Handicap (3, lengths) should be sent to the Headmaster, Garden Road. Post entries will be、 ac- cepted. This race is timed for 4.30 p.m.
MAIL.
SOME GREAT BRITISH EXPLORERS.
What the Pioneers Suffered.
CHARTING THE POLES.
It is rather pleasing to observe, as one looks over the development the solid progress has been made of Polar exploration, that much of
AMUSEMENT
NEWS
QUEEN'S present Mary Nolan in "Young Desire," a polgrant roman- tic drama of an extremely colourful aspect. Much of its action is laid in the bizarre atmosphere of a carnival, It has a tremendously powerful conclusion, always.in- ereasing in interest and suspense as it proceeds. A talkje film.
*
*
||33|44|||||||||||||||||| HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
by our own British explorers, said RAFT PROGRAMMES and DENTRY
CENTRAL features George Ban- Sir Hubert Wilkins in a talk on FORMS for the July 19. In the Arctic and the Croft and Esther Ralston in "The EIGHTH EXTRA RACE MEET- Antarctic, we find that advances Mighty," a story of a gunman in a ING to be held on FRIDAY, 10th made and areas discovered by such notorious underworld, gang who October-and-on-SATURDAY, men as Franklin Captain Cook, gained-promotion to a major in the
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL.
Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry
by bus.)
Suites of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system. all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.
11th October, 1980 (weather per Sir James Clark Rosa, Scott, war. mitting) may be obtained at the
Shackleton, Stefansson, Mawson Race Course, Hong Kong Club and and others are 庭 substan- tial part of the whole work
Causeway Bay Stables.
He returns to find that his past has been forgotten and he is offered the position of a police chief. The events that follow this
uchievements talkie film.
Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock done. And as we trace the step are swift and thrilling. A Noon on THURSDAY, 2nd Geto-history of, these ber, 1930,
Hong Kong, 19th Sept., 1930.
GENERAL NOTICES
we notice a continuous development In the methods employed. From the early days when explorers used small sailing ships without steam. skirting the edre of the -ice during the mer months, through the period. when auxiliary steam engines were used, to the time when iron and
sum-
A
*
*
MAJESTIC presents Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender," the story of a Mexican youth who turns to banditry to fight the wrongs done to him and his people by American desperadoes drawn to California in search of gold. Laid in the colour- ful period of 1850 and photograph. steel vessels carrying dog teama ed in its actual California locale, and aleds for use in travelling over the picture is said to be Dix's most the ice, each leader has made use of romantic and picturesque vehicle.
A silent film. THAREHOLDERS are remindedrew and improved methods, until the
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918), LIMITED.
REMINDER.
EXCLUSIVE TABLES Call of $4.00 per share highest degree of efficiency was ex-
entirely under European management,
Hotel has a splendid aspect In ane of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.
Terms very moderate Reser- vations by letter or cable.
CLAREMONT
Tels.: 57389 & 57385 (Private), Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE."
LAMMERT BROS.
- AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions -
HE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to Ball by Fablie
Auction
ON
THURSDAY, October 2, 1930, commencing at 11 a.m
at ..
Married Officers Quarters Flat No. 2,
Mount Austin Barracks A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
00
on the 1930-Issue Shares is pay-emplified by Stefansson, on the able to the Bankers of the Com Canadian Arctic Expedition, Then pany, the Hong Kong & Shanghai came the time when we could use Banking Corporation,, Hong Kong. airplanes instead of dog teams,
WEDNESDAY, 1st October, 1930, and that Interest at the rate of 12% per annum will be charg- ed on all Calls unpaid at that įdate.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hong Kong, 27th Sept., 1930.
*
*
**
*
STAR features Lewla Stone in "Freedom of the Press," one of the greatest stories of newspaper life ever shown on the film. The battle While all these developments have between the forces of the under- naturally added to the success of the world and the truth-telling columns enterprise, they have not always of a daily is the theme of the story. added to the comfort and conveni-A silent film. ence of the leader of expeditions. It was interesting to see at the recent Polar exhibition the wonder- ful sketches made of those areas. They showed the artist's impression of the situation in which "The Three Musketeers". A great the ships in polar regions silent film. found themselves. hua depicted they had appeared to him. To-day
The
artist
the scenes A3
COASTWISE the explorer is expected to bring
by
"ALGIE" BENNETT.
An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast
PRICE $1.00.
Now on adle at
BREWERS
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW
EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE.
and at the Publishers
WORLD presents Douglas Fair- banks in the thrilling drama by Alexander Dumas "The Iron Mask,” : a continuation of the adventures of
· SABOTAGE AT LEMBERG.
An act of sabotage of unusual back realistic photographs of the magnitude was committed in actual event, but naturally, as in Lemberg recently when unknown earlier days, when things are at person's cut all telegraph and tele- their worst there is seldom if ever phone wires including those con- an opportunity to use the camera. necting with the railway signals In the early days there were nothus completely isolating the city other means except words and draw-for hours.
ings to describe the conditions, and A collision between two express these descriptions could be com- trains was avoided by the barest piléd at leisure after the event. chance.
wwwc.com.cn
But 'camera cannot be faithfully The papers say that already 21 used in retrospect, In the artists' Ukrainians have been arrested in drawings we see icebergs towering | connection with the affair, though it Thundreds of feet above the is by no means certain that, they
masta of a vessel. The Ice- were actual perpetrators or even! bergs appear to Us to be connected with the affair, just as high, but now we have scientiñe instruments for measuring The building of a bridge over the accurately the heights, and bergs Danube, which was prevented by the that appear to us to be two and outbreak of the Great War, is now three hundred feet high when we being discussed again between the meet them in difficult conditions, are Roumanian and the Jugo-Slavian; found upon measurement to be less Governments. than a hundred. Then in the mat-
On View from Wednesday, Gc The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.ter of food, we know that the early
tober 1, 1930.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, September. 25, 1930.
THE
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON FRIDAY, October 3, 1930, commending at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell, Street.
A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinet, Chesterfield Couches and Arm-
chairs, Deake, Gramophones and Records, Pictures, Carpets, Rugs, Plano, Wardrobe Trunks, Electric Table Fan, Cloisonne Vases, Curios, Ornamente, Wall Clock, etc.
China Mall Building. |93||$||26|26133|||||||||||||||||||33|||321
QUICK AND
EFFICIENT
REPAIRS
{"
FIAT GARAGE 67A, 67B, Des Voeux Rd. C.
Tel. 24821.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION
AUSTRALASIA & CHINA.
TELEGRAPH CO, LTD.
}
explorers suffered much hardship their forerunners struggled pain- and even death as a result of acurvy fully over a few miles on the better and other derangements of the of their two feet and with the help organs particularly affected by the of the other frostbitten one, there food available, but one wonders ir not so much chance for us to whether the explorer of to-day who observe the sterling qualities of is able, between successive enter manhood that appeal to all men. tainments 'following extended Where the Old Explorers Scored. In the matter of communication, lecture tours, to dash rapidly back
and forth to the end of too, the marvellous developments the "beyond, 18 not equally that have taken place are not all, subject to disorder 48 the think to the advantage of the result of endless chicken dinners modern explorer.
We can well which must be hurriedly swallowed understand the hardship imposed between numerous questions, the upon men isolated and without answer to which he considers quite means of communicating with their obvious even to the uninitiated. friends and their loved ones, but they at least could hope that no nawa rather is good news and rest content. But
New Difficulties.
It must have been
fine
to have been ablo
A
to in these days when we pick up wire-
do things sufficiently import less communication at will, we can ant to keep you away from be led into all sorts of difficulties. civilisation for several years On one of my expeditions we had at a stretch and to come home with a man who, hoping to preserve some out the dread of facing a battery of little privacy and to avoid giving cinema cameras and a bevy of trouble to the wireless operator by harassed news-reporters, who, in taking a number of words, arranged spite of the fact that the daily disa system of codes with his wife. coveries, the aches and pains One day a message came through of the explorer and his pet and when the man had duly decoded
Teak Dining Tables,. Dining Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled The following unclaimed tele Mirrors, Dinner Waggon. Ice grame are lying at the E.E. Telehouse dog, have been detailed every it he came broken-hearted to me and Chest, Dinner Crockery, Glass graph Co. Office, Hong Kong: Ware, Tea Sets, Flower Pots, Baain, Gas Cooking Ranger, Screen Stove, Underwood, and 'Office Remington Typewriters, Chair, Baby Pram., Enamelled Bath, etc.GNE
Teak, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chest of Draw ers, Book Case, Aviary, Wash Messrs. Button & Sons, Reading, Stand with: Bevelled Mirror, etc.
The opportunity of serving you will be a pleasure and your commands will have our beat attention;
GRACA & CO., No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, JE P.O, Bux No. 820, HONG KONG,
ob Printing
VLASONABLE
PRICES
and
AAA Quantity of
Dru, from Bangkok Sub.. Rév. Samson Ding, from Foo- chow.
THE GREAT NORTHERN S
TELEGRAPH CO., LTD,"
OF DENMARK. S
“ANY PORT IN A STORM”
is a good motto for sailors
BUT
AROSO PORT
IS THE
CHOICE OF
CONNOISSEURS OF A GOOD WINE.
Obtainable Everywhere.
Sole Distributors :-
H. RUTI ONJEE & SON,
TYPHOON
MAP
OF THE
15, Queen's Rold £.
CHINA SEA
The Landsman's Handy Guide to Locating the Centre of a ΤΥΡΗΟΟΝ
Price 40 Cents.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD.
China Mall Office, 3A, Wyndham Street...
AT PRESENT OUTDOOR WORK ONLY
K. FUJIYAMA
PHOTOGRAPHER.
NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY & EN- LARGEMENTS A SPECIALITY, ENLARGEMENTS CAN BE MADE FROM ANY PHOTOGRAPH. NEW, OLD OR FADED.
WEDDINGS, GROUPS AND INTERIORS A FEATURE..
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO DEVELOPING, PRINTING AND ENLARGING AMATEURS* -PHOTOGRAPHS AT A VERY: MODERATE CHARGE.
PROMPT DELIVERY GUARANTEED.
can give you as good results as any Photographer
in the City and better than 95% of them
TEMPORARY OFFICE:^«
214.. Johnston Road, Hong Kong,
day in the Press for days on end, begged the use of one of my 'planes. expect an entirely new and fresh set He wanted me to sacrifice the ob of news items the moment one ject of the expedition and fly the six reaches every port of call. Althousand miles home to his wife. though we modern men have The message, he said, was that his S. LACK,
many advantages over the bell-wife was desperately 11, dying, in Superintendent liant sellor exporers of years fact, and she wanted him with her.
ago, I sometimes wish that The matter was given, serious con Hong Kong, September 25, 1980, bould resort to the liberal sideration but before he could Use of the kind of language start out, an answer tờ
ut, an attributed to the seagoing men of hla mesange of condolence that time
came through from his wife Then take the matter of men and in clear language. Between them power. What friendly rivalry, they had mixed up the code; what there must have been on an expedi- his wife had meant him to under Lion lasting for years. What plea- stand from her first message was The following unclaimed tele sure in observing as time went by that she was going away for a day WORLD POPULATION of Nations inquiry into world popu- grams are lying at the office of the coming to the front of the men in the country and was dying to the Great Northern Telegraph of extraordinary worth, even though bave him with her! W mag Company (Limited) of Den- the whole complement were of un- Then there are times when one is usual ability. It was in the early busy, or things go wrong with the Yamaguchi, from Osaka.
days question of getting apparatus and communication le with Larkin Oilman, from Shanghai work within their power was worried and the rumour is spread the men together, and the interrupted. Then everyone gets Evans, Hong Kong Hotel, from done. To-day, if hair sticks that the expedition is in dimeulties Octo Tokyo.:
Intracarburettor fotora, and restis expeditions are needed. Morgenster, from Shanghal
BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
including
Joss Tables. Curio Cabinet Tea Poya, Jardinieres, Oplum Stoola, Chest, Desk, otell
Also
One 5-Valve Gecophone (old mark:
One #4-Valve“ „Radio “
Loudspeaker, ka
ber 2, 1980,
Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERTEERCE
ctlonisers.
Hong Kong, Ber
TO DOUBLE" IN 75 YEARS
Geneva, July 28. The present population of the Lopark plug fouls it might easily lead This is likely to cause a great deal world will be doubled in about 20 to disaster To-day when, three or of unnecessary anxiety to one's wear if the fate of increase of the Kour trained men climb: Into a mid-frien Bp after all our modern bandera
chine and daah - crapidly over" methods of, comm cation are not past few years is maintained.
hundreds of miles in a way, where an unmized blek
Ac
cording to the results of the League
lation, production and trade, the growth of world population betwe 1926 and 1928 may be estimated approximately 35,000,000 souls, or, an average of about one per cent. par apnum.NAME
The rate of increase is higher in Soviet Russia than in most of the other countries of Europe, and is highest of all in South Atorica. Compared with 1818, there has been an increase of about 19 per cent. In world population up to the end of 1928.