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CHRISTIANITY IN
BRITAIN.
The Pope's Talk to
Three Mayors.
“A MULTIPLE WELCOME."
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POLITICS TO LOVE.
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FROM FRAMES.
A Daring London Art Robbery.
HAUL VALUED AT $27,000
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THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY í
GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Alessrs. Jardine, Mathieson & Co.,
The Mayors of Bath, Colchester,
'Bangkok, May 27 One of the greatent art robberies Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th June, and Dorchester, and the 150 visiting TheSirmese students_being_in_modern times... was carried out 1931, at Noon for the purpose of menihers of the Friends of Italy educated and trained in Britain in London recently, when old mas- receiving the Report of the Dires Society, were recently received in are as lively as any other body of ters and rare antiques were stolen tors, passing the Accounts, and peeint audience by the Pope.
students, run their own magazine, from an office in Stratford Place. Electing Directors and Auditors.. His Holiness, in a specially pre- and are not afraid of criticising Oxford Street, W.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the pared address, advanced the theory policies and officials in their own The value of the missing articles Company will be CLOSED from that it was St. Paul' himself and not country. The magazine is publish is stated to be £27,000. the 10th June to 1st July, 1931.Pope Gregory who first intro-ed quarterly, has editorial The property belonged to Mr. both days inclusive.
duced Christianity into Great Bri- board of four, two Oxford and two Herbert A. Hanse, a member of tain:
Cambridge men, is obtainable in the firm of Messrs. Toperell and His Holiness received the visitors, Siam, France, Germany and the Haase, architects and surveyors, who were presented by Mr. Ogilvie US.A., and is looked forward to by collector of paintinks and an Forbes, British Chargé d'Affairs to parents and relatives, and all old tiques. the Holy See, in the Consistory students.. Hall, and gave them a "multiple In an article dealing with tixa- welcome" as Britons and women | tion, etc. in Siam the editor says und citizens from the Roman towns "some kind of Government control of Britain, and as lovers of history over rice milling must be institut: an archaeology.
ed and legislation introduced mak To the Mayor of Bath he offered ing it a serious aflence for millers
[19 a féllow to mix the various grades of rice. į
Siam must take steps to ensure that her customers are not being defrauded by her merchants."
"Unproductive expenditure should of the, Popes. He told them that be severely cut down. Siam spends that there was evidence that the roughly twenty per cent of her Roman Catholic Church had contact revenue on national defence ser with Britain 200 years before the vices. The equivalent figure for
General Managers. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1931.
GENERAL NOTICES
NOTICE.
ILL OF LADING No. 51 issued particular welcome
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The Pope outlined the various polata of contact between Britain and Rome throughout the history.
make its introduction the moro.
The stolen paintings include:-
"Countess of Chesterfield" by Gainsborough (4 ft. square).
"Portrait of a Gentleman" by Gainsborough (2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft.)...
"Miss Grant" by Reynolds, and A portrait by Van Dyck. well-known painters, and of three Other portraits taken were by landscape paintings one was the work of Jan Steen. The canvases were cut from the frames in each
case.
The thieves also took a number
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
Song-
Water Boy (Robinson), Gwing Away (Rubinson),
Harold Williams, Baritone (4458).
'Cello Solo
Abenlcied (Schumann),
Air (arr. on “Air on 4th String"),
W. H. Squire (LX23).
10.30 p.m.-Close Down. Should any additional items be-
FOR SALE Victrola Cabinet Grame- Shipped from London per slime ot Pope Gregory the Great. Great Britain in thirteen, and in of rare Persian silk and woollen phone in excellent condition with 200 Kashima Maru destined for the
In fact, it was not impossible, China forty-five per cent. But rugs, a Flemish and a Renaissance No reasonable offer refused. For further particulars apply to Box Part of Hong Kong dated 21ST the Pope continued, that the mis- Siam is not China. Siam can make tapestry, both dating from the seventeenth century, a number of. NOVEMBER, 1930, (original copysionary work of St. Paul himself a substantial reduction in the un Chinese and Italian ivory figures No. 689, c/o "China Ma:1,"
jonly) has been LOST and same is had extended to Britain's shores.productive expenditure of the
of the same period, and twelve now considered null and void. Tertullian reported that the Roman national defence services without boxes containing 600 cigars.
legions found Christians among the jeopardising the safety of the
It is thought that the thieves inhabitants of the country, and}country."
ware well nequainted with the lay- that among the
"The time is now ripe for the out of the premises, and making "barbarians" brought as prisoners to Rome, there Government to introduce an income, their way through the front door, TESSES: CHAU CHIK-SUN, were the who knew and followed tax, and the recent census should forced open the office. ENGLISH LESSONS given to MS
CHAU SHING-WO & LAU the Christian faith.
The paintings were chosen with. The following programme wilt Students with particular attention to
This was adduced by his Holiness casy, ឆs the Government now an expert eye, for ten of the most be broadcast to-day from the pronunciation, by English Barrister YAU-KEE are no longer connect-
Tairly accurately (Middle Temple). Apply Box No.ed with my firm, and have no nuas. evidence of St. Paul's personal knows
every valuable were cut away,
Hong Kong. Broadcasting Station 880, c/ "China Mail."
man's station in life. The Intro- thority to act on my behalf in any teaching in Britain.
Because of the bulk of the Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 After referring to further asso-duction of death or estate duties stolen property It is considered metres, capacity whatsoever, and I am not
and other should also be considered. Opposi that the thieves must have escap responsible for any of their debts. ciations of Gregory
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme, A. W. MILLAR,
earlier Popes, with Britain, his tion by rich princes and noblemen ed in a motor-car, which at a 7-10.30 p.m.-European Pro-broadcast programme.
declared himeelf much will undoubtedly be strong here, Holiness touched with the visit of this group but the interest and welfare of the signal was stopped outside the pre- gramme of Columbia Records kind-
mises by Д confederate. country as a whole should prevail sounds were heard during the Co.
No ly supplied by the Anderson Music over those of a minority section." night, however, by residents. 7.02-7.25 p.m.-Operatic.
Not all the contributors write Steps are being taken to prevent Orchestral- highbrow or deal in polities. An the valuables being smuggled out Cavallerin Rusticana (Mascagini), article devoted to "lovers of all of the country. In many cases re
The British National Opera races and creeds" discusses the cently thieves have hidden tho
Company's Orchestra (5127). question of why the Slamese in property for a few weeks while Britain is such a success in mat waiting a favourable opportunity Aida-0 Patria Min (Verdi), ters pertaining to love making. The to dispose of it.
Il Trovatore-D'Amour "Sull' Ali
Roste (Verdi), author enquiries whether these qualities of fascination are de.
LAMMERT BROS.
"AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
- Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received)
instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, June 17 and 18, 1931,
commencing each day at 10.30 a.m.
at No. 22, lee House Street (Former premises of the Metropole Hotel).
A Large; Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:
Tenk Hatstand, Morocco Leather Covered Couch and Armchairs, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Tenk Bookenses, Side Tables, Brass Ware. Fenders, Ornaments, Pictures, Screen, Teak Flower Stands, Filter, Wall Clocks, Car- pets, Rugs, Curtains, Blankets and Linen, etc.
Tenk
Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Teak Sideboard, Teak .Ice Chest, Dinner Waggon. Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. 'Cut- lery, Ceiling and Table Fans, Elec- tric Lights, Electric Heaters and Fittings, etc.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled, Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw- ers, Marble Top Wash
Stands, Desks, Toilet Seta. Gas Stoves, Kit chen Utensils, etc.
also
Several Enamelled Baths and Porcelain Wash Basins ⚫ and.
One Piano Player with Rolls of Music.
//Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Monday, June 15, 1931.
Terma-Cash on Delivery, t LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers,
Hong Kong, June 8, 1981.
THE Undersigned have received Instructions from Messrs. 'Sennet Freres to sell be Public Auction,
ON. TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, June 23 and 24.
commencing each day at 1030 a.m., (with interval from 12.30 p.m.
to 2.80 p.m.) ··
at their Store, York Building." The Whole of their SURPLUS STOCKS.
comprising:
Gold & Silver Watches (pocket & wrlat), Jewellery, Silver and Plat ed Ware, Cups, Cigarette Cases, Clocks, Fancy and Leather Baga, Forcelain Ware, Cut Glass, Lasique. Glass, Fancy Goods, etc.
We Also
A Quantity of Shop Fittings. On View from Monday? Juzte: 22, Terms: Cash on Delivery, a LAMMERT BROS;
Auctioneers. Hong Kong June 18,
Building & General Contractor, No. 134, Lockhart Road, Wanchai. Hong Kong, June 11, 1931.
of British people, and concluded by giving them and their families his Apostolic Benediction. He also. conveyed his blessing to the Roman
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PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodaks and 'Cameras.
· Flims, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
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MARRYING ONE'S 'WIDOW."
Problem For Roumanian 'Officials.
Finger Prints Search.. The robbery was discovered The Roumanian
veloped during the stay of students/ officials are
the charwoman went to puzzled over the procedure to be in Britain, or are they the result when
marries his adopted when a man own widow.
rezult
Song--
Eva Turner, Soprano (12166). Cello Solo-
The Meistersingers-Prize Song
(Wagner arr. Squire), W. of long practice in Siam? And if clean Mr. Haare's office in the
H. Squire (L2186), She found the empty vocal Quartet the latter, then how does this tally morning.
Rigoletto Quartette (Fairest Alexander Szabo; of Koloszvar with the segregation of the sexes picture-frames scattered over the
Daughter of the Graces) (Verdi), (then in Hungary),. left his wife practised in Stam until recent room...
Marin Gentile, Ebe Stignani, Alessandro Granda and for the front In 1914, after two ly? At any rate however achieved. The police were immediately in-
Carlo Galeff (LZ310). weeks of wedded life and was re-the
one eminently formed, and finger-print experts
7.25-7.52 p.m.--Pianoforte Solo. ported dead in 1916: His wife-mar-pleasurable, exciting, and-er from Scotland Yard made a detail-
'ed examination of the premises. Sonata in B Flat Minor (Chopin), educative to British lasses. The ried again after a year.
Leopold, Godowsky (LX124-6) Meanwhile, Szabo was not dead difference between a Siamese and Superintendent Cornish, who, in
vestigated the theft of valuable 8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather at all, but F prisoner in Siberia, a Briton is that one makes love) where he reriained till 1923, On because he likes it, the other as a pictures from the home of Lord Report.
Clarendon last year, took charge of
7.52.8.20 p.m.-Talkie Tunes and but uncongenial pre- returning he heard that his wife necessary
Musical Comedy. the inquiries. to propagating the. was happily married to a second liminary
The figure of £27,000 given as Show of Shows-Selection, husband, and decided not to tell her species. And since, as has aptly
Regal Cinema Orchestra (DX15): he was still alive. Last year, how been said 'love should be for re-the value of the stolen property ia ever, his successor died, and Szabo creation as well as procreation, provisional one. The stolen eb Bitter Sweet-I'll See You Again, in whose affection sixteen years had who shall say that the Siamese is jects may be worth considerably Bitter Sweet-Kiss Me,
Layton & Johnstone (5585). more. wrought no change, wrote to seknot in the right?
Gainsborough, it may be recall, Lucky Girl- his wife to marry him again. The In athletics young Siam also
Where Have You Been All My Life, news that he would be stepfather gains successes. Soveral members ed, painted two or three portraits)
of the Earl and Countess of Ches: Crazy Rhythm,
Ray Starita and His to three children did not daunt him. of the Royal family have met with
One was a half-length
Ambasandors Band Szabo was, however, troubled rewards, in rowing and rugby for terfield.
(5137). painting of the Countess, and a when the officials pointed out to him their University, and one
8.20-9.05 p.m.-Orchestral. reached the junior portrait of the Earl was the only that to marry his own widow was princeling
The Gypsy Baron-Overture
(Strauss), an unusual and probably a highly Anals of quarter mile, 100 yards; one ever signed by the artist,
Other big art: robberies in re- irregular proceeding. A man long jump and fencing at Eton last
cent years include: officially dead, and recorded as such March..
In the archives of a War Office,
Rugby Interests.
young
+
Bruno Walter & the Symphony, Orchestra (L2862-3). Oberen-Overture (Weber),
Willem Mengelberg and Hla Concertgebouw Orchestra (L2312-3). Dance in C Minor (Dvorak), Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's Hall Orchestra (L2813).
Summer Day Suite-
A Reynolds portrait and jewel- ' lery, of an. estimated total value could not presume to come alive Rugby is to start in earnest of £32,000, stolen from the house fourteen years later without proper again next month, and the players of the Earl of Minto, In Charles Slavonic certificates of existence.
have the right to use the playing Street, Mayfair. Szabo has had to postpone his re-pitch at the Sports Club until the A £3,000 Van Dyck stolen from marriage until the Government is end of October, which is long Pitt House, Hampstead, the home formally satisfied of his non-enough for most players in this of the Earl of Clarendon. 'decense.
country. In the off season the A 230,000 Van Dyck stolen be-' pitch has been redug and returfed. tween Oatond and London.
Pictures Penang are due to visit Bangkok
of Rembrandt this year to play in interport Gainsborough, valued at between Wood Nymphs (Eric Coates), games, and a definite Invitation £30,000 and £40,000, stolen from from the Military Club at Saigon Carlton House, Art Galleries. to send a team there, has been re-
PUPILS PUT IN EYES. -
Remarkable Operation On Young Man.
By a delicate transplanting opera-ceived. tion, the first of its kind, pupils
Personal
a. In a Country Garden,
b. On the Edge of the Lake,
1
and
c. At the Dance (Eric Coates),
Now Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (9369-70).
come available for broadcasting they will, when possible, be includ- ed between 7.30 and 8 p.m. on the
STANDARD TIMES.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY.
Sunrise and Sunset in Kong Kong for June, 1931, Stan- Įdard time of the 129th Meridian
East of Greenwich) bre SR 10 łowe:-
Sunrise Sumeet
June
п.т.
15
11
p.m. 5.38 7.08
16
17
5.98 7.08 6.38. 7.09
E
18
5,38
7.09
19
5.39 7.09
20
17
6.39 7.10
21
5:99 7.10
22
6.89 7.10
23
5.40 7.10
24
5.40
7.10
25
6.40
7.10.
26
5.40 7.11
27
5.40 7.11
28
5,41 7.11
5.41 -7.11
5.41 7.11
DUEL WITH KNIVES,
Schoolboys Who Boasted Of Their Prowess.
Two Swedish schoolboys at Orby
Council School, after relating to each other stories from penny dreadfuls, boasted of their mutual prowess in the art of duelling and without further ado picked up two. knives, and started fighting,
After a few passes the thirteen- year-old boy struck his knife near the heart of his fourteen-year-old comrade, and the latter collapsed.. He was conveyed to the local hos- New Queen's Hall Light|pital, where a nurse consented to a Orchestra (9870), blood transfusion, and the boy is
·9.05-9.50 p.m. Variety.
now mending and out of danger. Song-
The doctors consider the operation Way Down Upon the Swanee River, I Got Shoes,
was wonderfully successful... have been placed in the eyes of a Mr. Vilh. Gede, accountant and ing members of the Indian com
Edna Thomas, Soprano (3245). young man, Earl Musselman, who auditor, and a resident of Bangkok munity, and a very big landowner through the absence of pupils had for over thirty years died on and merchant, has been entertain Hawallan Music- been blind from birth,
Friday. He was very well known,ed by his countrymen prior to his Pua Roselant,
Hilo March. After weeks in a dark room fol- and the attendance at the Pro departure for India on Holiday. lowing the operation, the bandages testant cemetery for the interment Members of the Indian Association were removed from his eyes and was the largest for several years. had his portrait painted to hang Song- Musselman, who is now 22, and· aji The British Minister, who with in their club, and this was unveiled student at the Pennsylvania In Lady Mary Dormer, has been to last week. At the last moment. Mr. | alitate for the Blind, saw the the Dutch Indies, returned by Nana has been laid low with fever An Old-Time Sing-Song. friends who crowded round to con- Saturday's mall train,
and now his departure is Inde- gratulate him."
Mr. T. A. Slack, manager of the finitely held up
The Honolulu Players (DB800).
The Skipper of the Mary Jane,
Harold Williams, Baritone (4386)
Dr. G. H. More, who performed B.A.T. In Siam has returned from In spite of the heat, the maximum Steel Guitar the operation, stated. "It was the home leave. first of its kind I attempted: and 1 | felt likè a pilgrim going on a long
journey."
AH KWAL
SHIP and HOUSE. PAINTER
GENERAL CONTRACTOR. Formerly at
38, Pottinger Street - HAS NOW REMOVED
62, LOCKHART ROAD, SHAW WANCHAL AGE 55 Téléphone: 220491;
Descriptive Skotch With Charles Coborn in the
Chair (DX21)...
Bophia Tucker (5030).
Norah Blaney & the Ramblers. (4862). 9.50-10.28 p.m.-A Concert. The Zephyr (Hubbay), Valse Bhiette (Drigo),
temperature in Bangkok on two Lady of Waikiki, Air Mail Schedules.
out of three days this week has Always.Frank Ferera (8098). The outward Dutch air mall been over 102 F., the country keeps, Humorous Song
Is He the Boy Friend, called after all at Don Muang, and very healthy. Since the beginning Away Down South in Heaven, found the aviation field and the of April the number of cholera | landing ground in excellent trim. deaths throughout the kingdom has Song Whether she will call on the home been remarkably amall, and indeed Just Like Darby and Joan, ward journey is not known at the the worst sickness is Influenza time of writing, but the probabili-with the highest moriality, and ties are that she will. The French pneumonia ranks apcond. The Violin Solo air mail Saigon-Marseilles is now weather experta" who predicted; a doing the journey regularly ba- short rainy season, have been cor tween these points, to a ten day rect up to now. But they do not la ndoa schedule, of which airtit are oc- receive praise for the success of Sonummer Night (Guring Thomas), oupled in flying, and two are allow their prophesica; Zor... everyone My Dearest Heart (Sullivan), ---) ed, for emergencies, such as dying wants it to rain, and rain hard, Doris Vane, Soprano (DX71), over the Burma mountains in the and make the countryside Cooler Piano. Bolo south-west monsoon for man and beast Singapore
MA. E. Nana, one of the lead-Free Press
Efrem Zimbalist (5814),
Hark, Hark, the Lark (Schubert), Romance in E Flat (Rubinstein),
Ignaz Friedman (Dies6).
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