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For stealing articles and clothing from No. 866, Canton Road, the property of three fokis, Pun Choi, a Chinese, was at the Kowloon Magis- tracy-this morning sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment,
earth
MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931.
NEW AIR GOODS
SERVICE.
Co-operation with the Railways.
RAPID TRANSIT.
Yuen san-yuen, a female coollo, was yesterday removed to Rapid progress is being made Civil Hospital with plans for making fuller use of
She
The Commander-in-Chief, China, (Admiral Sir A. K. Walstell, K.C.B.), will return to the Colony on board H.M.S. Kent, on Wednes day, from Manila, on the completion of the ship's Southern cruise H.M.S. Petersfield, the Admiral's yacht, will accompany the flag ship.
A PROCESSION OF NOUGHTS.
Figures That Lose Meaning.
"
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SUN'S PULL ON THE EARTH.
London, Dec. 16.
the Government
The sun gives out a light equal suffering from fractures to both the main air lines, especially in the to that of -3,000,000,000,000,000,- Yes, the legs above the ankles.
was carriage of light freight, and soon | 000,000,000,000 candles. accidentally knocked down by a twit will be possible, by using com nine sets of three noughts are wheeled truck, laden with earth, at bined alt, sea, and land oxpress ger-correct),.
The weight of the earth is 0,000,- Wanchai.
vices, to save much time in the transport of goods over long dis000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (six. We record with deep regret the tances.
billion trillion) fons."" (i
These are some of the facta death, which took place at the The first step will be co-opera- Royal Naval Hospital on Thurs-t.on between Imperial Airways, given about the universe by Sir day, of Capt. A. K. Schoop, com-Ltd., and the four big railway com-James Jenns, the astronomer and during - a mander of the United States
pantes in Great Britain in, for- Cambridge professor, Naval Patrol
China, of South
warding parcels over all the routes, radio lecture. The body is being taken back to where aircraft are operating.-
If it were not for the pull of the America for interment.
Goods sent on this service will be sun on the carth, according to Prof. carried by express train to the Jenns, the earth's speed of about nearest aerodrome and thence by 10 miles a second would soon carry, air as far as possible, and will comit far away from the the sun into plete their journey if necessary by the cold depths of space, and we should meet an icy death within express train.
The saving of time for all places a few weeks. served, directly or indirectly, by Sir James aald the suns' weight air can be calculated from its pull on the India and South Africa
The sun has 332,000 routes will be very great, often re- the earth. sulting in a reduction by more than times the weight of the earth and half of the time normally taken. for every ounce of the earth's sub- The annual general meeting of
The new scheme differs from the stance the sun has very nearly a members of St. Andrew's Club will
air mail services now in operationton. Because the sun has this huge pull ia be held in the St. Andrew's Church in that goods weighing more than weight its gravitational Hall at 9 o'clock to-night, when it 11 lb. are affected. It is an exten- tremendous,
and Speaking of the weight is proposed to adopt two new resion of the scheme proposed Inst solutions, with regard to Sub-
year by a Canadian Company for gravitation, he said, "A strong would All scriptions and Entrance Fec.
co-operation between shipping, rail man who ilved on the sun
bail for members are earnestly requested to and air companies In the rapid, only be able to throw a
or three yards," and would despatch of goods. This scheme, two The body of a Chinese man about which embraces French air trans hardly be able to lift a seven pound 40 years of age, dressed in coolie port companies, enables Canadian weight.
exporters to save much time in the "To perform either of these feats. clothing, was found in a nullah is delivery of goods on the Continent. he would have to be made of steel: Soy Street, off Canton Road, at
Misapprehension.
a man of ordinary flesh and blood about B a.m. to-day. A piece of There seems to be some mis.would be crushed flat under his own and Australia should have the cloth, thought to be part of a rag, apprehension as to the negotiations weight."
between Imperial Sun Growing Smaller. pound sterling, whilst Canada was in the mouth, but up to time of now in progress
Some astronomers contend that Tho and the Eastern Colonies should going to press no definite suspicion Air ways and Pan-American air
lines. It is understood that coa the sun is now contracting. have the dollar and India and of murder had been alleged,
sideration is being given to the present diameter is nearly a mill-
Because of its size and "I must put a stop to this," re-establishment of an Anglo Ameri-lion miles. Ceylon the rupee. If the pound sterling is suited to conditions in marked the Hon. Comdr. Hole in an air line between Bermuda and distance, the earth receives less There is д great than two-thousand-millionth part of Australia why, it has been ask-the Marine Court this morning New York.
when he imposed a fine of $75 or ed, should Canada be committed ten weeks' hard labour on a boat amount of holiday traffic between the whole radiation of the sun.
the two places, and it is probable Long study of the sun has con- scientists that the to dollars and cents? Why the woman for taking six undeatrable that a passenger air service plying vinced some rupee in India and Ceylon and the women to the 8.a. Kalyan in the over the 700 miles between them energy which the sun pours Into would be popular. But no such space is so colossal that only one- dollar in the Straits Settlements similar fine was imposed on a boat service is possible except by Anglo-hundred-twenty-millionth is in. and Hong Kong? And, again, if man for a similar offence the dollar can be stabilised in mitted last night. the Straits and the rupee in India
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CURRENCY CRISIS.
-
attend.
harbour
A on Saturday night.
com-
American agreement.
why not also the dollar in Hong ROUND THE CINEMAS Kong? But again
why GRETA GARBO IN HER SECOND have the
and the rupec dollar at all in British Possessions? Why overseas
not a uniform currency all over
TALKIE.
"ROMANCE."
little doubt that such a line would some 2.000 degress C. above the
the Empire without even (as is all-talking picture appearance the co-operative air, sea and land appearance
on the case of the Australian pound) Sunday at the Queen's Theatre in scheme.
celebrated Edward Sheldon being subjected to discount as the
compared with the British pound? drama "Romance," adapted to the American Airways
Includes
picture.
It
Press.
discs of the tercepted by the Aa present the idea of extending planets,
The body of the sun probably such a line, and making it a Trans- Atlantic service has only been put consists of uncombined gases and forward tentatively, but there is at the surface the temperature is Pictures an air con belling point of carbon. form the first link of nection between England and taken of the sun by Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, and now America.
In the despatch of parcels any on display at the Science Museum, Greta Garbo will make her second new air line would be brought Inte; South Kensington, show a mottled on which small bril liant patches are scattered. 'Black It will be recalled that the Bri-spots and brilliant streaks are also tish Government granted Pan-evident in great numbers. Pictures temporary of Mercury, the nearest planet to screen by Bess Meredyth and Experts
those blessed experts Edwin Justus Mayer and directed facilities for the operation of air the sun, are also on display.
The aim is The sun's nearest neighbour, Centauri which is of course may tell us that the by Clarence Brown, .Gavin Gordon, services in Trinidad. Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 26, 1931. Straits and Hong Kong have been a newcomer to motion pictures, will that the agreement with the Ameri-however, in
wedded to the dollar and Ceylon play opposite the star and the cast can Company should last only until separated from it by 27,000 times Elliott a British Company is ready to the earth's distance, a space which Lewis Stone,
Pan-American Air it would take light nearly four z
It is fairly cer- and India to the rupee from their Nugent, Florence Lake, Clara Blan- start a line.
Mathilde ways is subsidised by the American years to traverse.
than six stars lie infaney as British Possessions dick, Henry Armeffa,
Government through the medium oftain not mora
within twice this distance. It is obvious that the Chinese and that a change to the pound Commont and Countess de Liguoro.
"Romance" will be recalled as the air mail contracts,
Sir James mentioned that there sterling would now be impossible outstanding hit on the New York For the Bermuda-New York ser- leaders are not unanimous in re-
tish, for this is one of the condi- to have a total weight equal to gard to the proposed silver loan an idle dream! It would, how-atage in 1913, where it played to vice half the equipment will be Bri is a celony of four stars believed
with Doris
by Imperial Air-nearly 1,000 sung. from the United States. The case ever, be at least interesting to see capacity audiences
The most unwelcome star as far the effect of a serious suggestion Keane in the starring role. Follow-tions laid down against it has been put very
as this earth is concerned would be ing a tour of the United Statos, ways.
S. Doradus, which is reputed to forcibly by Mr. Z. U. Zau, Direc- to transform the currency of the play was presented in Londen
TALK-FILM FOR NAVY.
have over 800,000 times the candle tor of the Bureau of Commercial Hong Kong into pounds, shillings, where it ran for three years.
subsequently was
produced in
power of our gun. "If our sun,” and pence.
An Enquiry By The
said Jeans "suddenly became an France, South Africa, Australia, Intelligence in Shanghai, who
Whilst on the subject of cur- Italy, the Scandinavian countries,
Admiralty.
energetic as this star its extreme atates that "we do not want any-
The Admiralty is considering heat would rapidly turn the whole one to lend us silver, but what we rency and the effect of the low Holland, Roumania, Greece, Spain,
dollar in this Colony it is most Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Far every aspect of talk-film apparatus earth and all objects on it, includ- do want is someone who will help: us to bring back to silver the amazing to find our morning con- East, Russia and Hungry, and in with a view to its use in ships of Ing ourselves, into vapour-United value it has lost the last few temporary of Ice House Street 1920 was made into a silent motion the Navy.
At present big ships are equipped with silent projecting apparatus, years, and especially, during the going out of its way to advocate
"IT CAN BE DONE."
maintained by the canteen funds.) lest twelve months." He suggests the buying of goods made in
All questions as to apparatus and
The new scarves are a feature a Universal "It Can Be Done" that Great Britain should take China. The sponsors of the native.
the types of film used, therefore, i the lead in promoting a "get to goods campaign in Canton and production, fa the feature_attrac- have hitherto been a domestic mat- of these Idare creations, some
the at
Star Theatre ter for the individual ship.
being shaped to the neck and arme The gether "movement to see what elsewhere in China have found a tion
leading players un-to-day.
The Admiralty, however, has and thrown across the front of the can be done not only to prevent warm supporter, in a most the further decline of silver, but pacted quarter. We are told the are Glen Tyron and Sue Carol, realised that talk-film apparatus dress, the ends falling at the back. supported by Richard Carlyle, may be much more costly both to Some of the scarves are short; in to restore general confidence in fairy story that we can purchase Richard Carle, Jack Egan and Tom buy and to maintain as compared one long scarf the ends touch the The Alm centres round with the present apparatus, so a ground, where large cut-out the metal as a basis for inter-here, "at amazingly low prices," O'Brien.
Canton made cloth and that local- the attempts of a salesman (Tryon) complete Investigation is being flowers are appliqued. national credit and commerce.
to put a story, entitled "It Can Be made. The suggestion naturally hasly-made shoes of Chinese leather Done" to a convention of publish A Committee of the Admiralty problem for the chorus.
this cost a quarter or a sixth of the ers. How he succeeds is left to be has obtained information aa to cost taking part in the singing, which an appealing interest for Colony which, no less than China, price of the imported variety, and seen. The programme also in of machinery from the different is, particularly fine, will wear the is suffering from the phenomen- that women's silk stockings, "no cludes a Krazy Katz cartoon, and a firms engaged in its manufacture in fashionable trains, but the dancers Britain and America. Tests are have had to have the new line of whit inferior to the much more Unfor-
being made ally low level of silver.
to ascertain which the long frocks abbreviated for equipment gives the best results in them, a very difficult matter, tunately the position cannot be expensive imported article" (ad-
the particular conditions ruling on restored by the more waving of a vertised in the morning paper in
board ship, Questions of "hire fairy wand or by the expression question), are being turned out
purchase," maintenance, film pur- |chase and hire, and every other as- of pious wishes. It is recognised, in Hong Kong and many of the
pect of the use of talk-films are however, that any movement in cities of China. It is to be the direction of the uplift of the hoped that the local representa A beautiful Chinese Princess, being considered.
The Committee, when it has`ar- valug of silver must be interna-tive of the Federation of British who at the age of three was
betrothed to the then child Emrived at its conclusions, will make: tional in character, and, not un-Industries will take suitable peror of China, har just become recommendations which will be
sent to Commanders-in-Chief for 8/10. naturally, one's eyes turn toward action to counteract this very un-flm actress in Paris the League of Nations which is in British appeal on the part of a She is Princess Hoang Thi The, their comment. An ideal position, to take the British newspaper to buy Chinese and she says that her ambition is initiative in any "get together" goods and to reject the British or to fined a husband and, found a The Princess's film debut is in Minister to Peking, has donated other foreign goods The journal-family at her home In Indo-China. Mr. Somerset Maugham's play "The $100,000 to the new project which alma-at the erection of three, platic appealer appears to have "No women can hope for greater Letter F In any study of the currency fallen into a dream and imagined happiness than that which comes Referring to her engagement to YM.CA. Clubs in Shanghai. Mr. broblem it'
t must
strike, some ob that he was on the staff of a ver- from being the mother of worthy the Emperor, Princess Hoang Thi George A. Finch, the general secre nacular paper somewhere in the children," she said, In an inter-caid they only met once and the tary of the YM.G.A. in China, has servers as a trifle curious that in heart of China instead of in views was a royal battle In which he beat just returned from a visit to Peking various parts of the British Em British Colony on which he de- think, too, that s women must her in the most plébian fashion. In connection with the proposed pire there should be varying pends for his own bread" and obey her husband who gives her his He was only five years old at the schems, and it is understod that ar
rangements are now under way. name and places his confidence in time. currencies that Great Britain butter.
movement.
2
comedy.
A CHINESE PRINCESS.
How She Was Beaten By Child
**Emperor.
not to become a famous netreas but hor
THE NEW SCARVES.
Long frocks have created a new Those
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mal? of January 26, 1921.]
To-day's dollar is worth 2/10 ·
The N.C.D. Mall anderstands: that Mr. Charles R. Crane, the U.S.