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thing in the method of the Ameri can millionaire who has been in the }habit of driving Pugularly to, a rail- way aiding and throwing a brick through a carriage window.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23,
REVOLVERS ON OFFICE DESKS.
in Bengal.
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED
IN CHINA MAIL.
Wherever thero are railways How Europeans Work there are stories of people who pulli communication cérds and offer the alarmed guard whatever is the
In an office in the very centre of local equivalent of £5. Our mil- Calcutta's business quarter callers
Social Functions. Honaire sought a cheaper satisfac- will find Mr. E. Villlers, the Presi tion.. Yet he is a sympathetic dent of the European Association, Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant; To-day Tea Dances at Hong from the Dinner Dances at King's Restaur
now almost recovered
figure.
Many a worthy citizen has stood wounds ho received during the re-ant, and Hong Kong and Peninsula before the Crystal Palace with itch-cent attempt to assassinate him. A Hotels.
ing hands. The instinct goes loaded and cocked automatic lies
To-morrow-Ten Danees at Re-
deep. We talk of a "smaushing sucnear his right hand and facing him To-day Burns Dinner, Lane, cess," but of "a complete failure." is a target bearing witness to the Crawford's Restaurant, 8.80 p.m. If it were not that most mon take results of recent pactice. care to provide themselves with a
The door, says the Calcutta cor- pulse Bay Hotel and King's Res private Aunt Sally it would be in-respondent of "The Pioneer," has taurant. deed a dangerous world.-M. S. in been specially constructed, no that! the Daily Telegraph.
News in Brief.
restrictions
have
In his office at least he cannot agein be caught unawares and in the vicinity are well-armed guards in mufti, though the passer-by will not be able to detect them.
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Entertainments.
Today King's Theatre; Hush Money."
To-day Queen's "Five and Ten."
Theatreg
Today Central Theatre;
Quarantine
He is guarded wherever he goes "Lasca. of Rio Grande." { been imposed against arrivals and the automatic is always near) To-day Majestic Theatre: from Pakhot on account of small-his right hand.
"An American Tragedy." Such precautions seem almost in- Today - Star Theatro: pox.
credible, but they are very neces-"Dynamite."
Home Malle
The lowest open air temperature sary, for-apart from whatever in- yesterday was 60 degrees. The formation the police may have-Mr. humidity fell from 71 at 10 a.m. to Villiers this week has received To-day Inward from Amori- several more letters to warm him ca (Empress of Canada and Pre- that his life is in danger, and a sident Monroe).
61 at 4 p.m..
An inquiry into the cause of a member of his staff has been accost- disastrous fre at 134, Bonhamed by young men seeking to learn Strand on January 12 was com-precise details of his movements. menced by Mr. Schofield at the And it is not only the President Central Police Court yesterday and of the European Association who is adjourned for the Magistrate to in danger. Certain clubs and offices visit the scene of the fire.
.
There are not panic measures but precautions based upon definite in- formation of danger.
CROC-PROOF BATH
Clever Innovation at Livingstone.
Lammerts Auction.
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'UNNECESSARY LUXURY”
Lord Parmoor Gives Up Athenaeum.
Lord Parmoor has ceased to be- member of the Athenaeum Club, "on the ground that at this ` time a club subscription is an ummecessary luxury expenditure, and that he finds claims for as- sistance exceptionally heavy."
The entrance fee for mumber- ship of the Athenaeum is thirty guineas, and the annual subscrip- tion fifteen guinaas.
are under constant armed guard and special armed police are patrolling It is notified that at the expira- everywhere; certain prominent Bri tion of three months from date the tons are never allowed to go un- Kwong Hing Company, Limited and guarded and they are personally the Liang Kwong Motor Bus Com-armed. Dacca is very litle different) pany Limited, will, unless cause is and until recently at Chittagong au- shown to the contrary, be struck off tomatics on tables at meals were far the result of the vastness of her the Registar of Companies and from uncommon. population, but this is surely non-be dissolved. Hong Kong. Saturday, Jan. 23, 1932. sense, for the bunch which
The First Speech Day of Hwa counts is not really large. That Nan College will be held in Ko London is the seat of govern-Shing Theatre, on Saturday, Jan- ment and finance seems as un-ary 30, at 3 p.m., and that Mr.
How humiliat R. K. M. Simpson, Professor of i A phenomenon of the present likely a reason.
English at the University of Hong
Lord Parmoor, who is 79, is day which can hardly be over ing if we must be driven to the Kong has kindly consented to dis-
now in Egypt. He expecte to looked by anybody who studies conclusion that London's posi- tribute the prizes.
Since the disastrous occurrence in stay until the beginning of Feb- tion as a cosmopolitan social Home news- a variety
ruary, his doctors having advis- Tribute to the bravery of a the old (so-called) "croc-proof" papers representing opinion centre gives her the power of Scoutmaster was paid at the inquiry awimming pool at the Zambezi poate in to avoid this Winter in Britain. Last November he re- different
the life and death over intellectual into the tragic fire at No. 188 club a year or so ago when a boy signed, on medical advice,
Shanghal Street, Yaumati, on the of tender years was country is the
taken by a the position of leader of the attempt to and artistic productions.
evening of January 9 which Will the desperate effort to held at
was erocodile-Livingstone has awaken bour party in the House resist-the. tendency to centralisa-
the Kowloon Magistracy ed to the fact that a real swimming Lords. tion. Optimists appear to think disseminate the limelight and the yesterday with Mr. Fraser,
as bath is necessary. it may succeed --or presumably glittering prizes, financial and Coroner. After evidence the jury At last a very fine bath, which is they would not spend their of other kinds, ever have much returned a verdict of accidental really eroc-proof, has been bullt. death, a woman having admitted The Mayor, Mr. C. Knight, is res energies upon it! but to the on-effect. It is difficult to believe that in lighting a cigarette she set ponsible for the idea. The bath lies
To-day's Thought. looker the contest is reminiscent that they will unless as a re-fire to some cotton.
floating on the Zambezi, held in of that between Mrs. Partington, sult
The best way to keep happiness of some unimaginable
place by two enormous chains andis to share it. Judgment for plaintiff for pulleys from staves of iron driven rising tide. Britain is an island, heaval. If London were razed to given by the Puisne Judge (Mr. ly constructed of 6 in. lathes, of na- and its centre of gravity, decided the ground to-morrow, some in- Justice R. E. Lindsell), in the tive timber cut by the Zambezi Saw stinct (perhaps superior to any Summary Court, in case in which Mills in local forest. It is the re- chiefly by geography, is in the
reason) would set us rebuilding the Yuen Yuen firm, of 44, Tung gulation size and has a shallow and South.
Chau Street, Shamshufpo, brought deep end, diving boards, steps and it on the same, site, and as it an action against Hang Sang water polo goal posts like any ordin- The poet who addressed the grew again its magnetism would Leong Kee firm, Chan Hok-kam, ary bath, says Reuter." ocean as "thou mighty monster" be renewed.
and: Chu Shuk-choi, all of 128. Con- The bath has taken two to three might well have kept the epithet What a good thing it is that naught Road West. The plaintiffs' months to construct. It was made Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Mr. C. G. for the Empire's capital. It is a happiness is not dependent on delivered to the defendants.
claim was for bean cakes sold and on land in 10 sections-each section Alabaster, applied to the Chief monster as fascinating as it is success! Philosophy alone can insatiable and eupeptic, as ruth defy the tyranny of the world's less as it is greedy. Outside its swollen boundaries lie the dis- regarded provinces; their acti vities, like their protests and defiancea, mean nothing to it.
armed with her mop, and the natural as well as social Lip $420.62. with costs, was yesterday deeply into the ground. It is entire
biggest city.
From Other Pens.
SHEPHERD MARKET
A Noted Mayfair Spot to Disappear?
All roads to celebrity lead Nine of Diamonds. thither; it is the fount of that aware that the nine of diamonds is Most, if not all, card players are
Shepherd Market, that famous lit notoriety which passes for fame known as the "curse of Scotland." the backwater in the heart of May- and which crowds the newspaper But how many are acquainted with fair, is in danger of destruction.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mell" of January 23, 1922.]
To-day's dollar is worth 2/7.1/8.
On behalf of the Hong Kong Rope
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having to be rivetted together, Justice on Saturday morning for which was done by two white men, confirmation of a special resolution: who had to go under in the most altering the Memorandum of Asso antediluvian divers' suits.
ciation of the Company, Counsel explained that the company had vacant land in Belchers Street, and LAWYER BOXES HIS CLIENT'S having a reserve of $50,000 thought
it desirable to build upon it,
The Chief Justice thought the
EARS.
A client who was defended by one name of the Company should be al- of the best-known lawyers Intered to indicate this widening of Czecho-Slovakia. lost the case which the scope of its activities and | an- he had brought and when the ver-nounced that he would reserve his diet was given he spoke to his decision and read through cases on lawyer.
the point. Mr. Alabaster was given
stating what effect it would have un the Company If its name had to be changed.
pantheons with "Immortals" the origin of the title? The story It lies a few yards from Piccadil- The lawyer replied by boxing his permission to file another affidavit
to which most credence has hither-ly, in the angle formed by Half client's ears vigorously. renewed every year or two.
to been attached le that the Duke Moon Street and Curzon Street. A minute later lawyer and client Literature, music, painting, of Cumberland, the notorious That part bounded by Shepherd were having a free fight in court. sculpture must please London "Butcher Duke” wrote his order for Street and Hertford Street already before they are "successful," be the massacre after Culloden on the has been cleared of its old shops and back of the nine of diamonds. This houses, and when during the next fore they are talked about where version has now been challanged. few years the other leases fall in talk. hae echoes. It is easy to The card apparently received Its the market may disappear, sneer at this kind of success, but name from the far more terrible It was founded in 1708, and to- a study of the old, little-known massacre of Glencoe. A descend-day is one of the most interesting ant of one of the Campbells con-corners of Mayfair. No actual mar- works of art in any branch sugcerned at Glencoe, avers, that the ket is now beld; but there remains gests the thought that only for officer in command at Edinburgh 8, miniature village, with an old- lack of a "claque" have some of delegated the fendish work to a world atmosphere, and charm that is them failed to hold their own junior officer, who not unnaturally, how rarely to be found
Insisted on a written order. There To Build Tudor Village? with luckier productions counted upon, his senior, who chanced to The shops are of the old-f as.classics."
be playing cards at the time, took type, and cater for almo every Does anybody suppose that all one from the pack and wrote the need, from dress shirts for
por fateful order upon it. It chanced servants, to superb frult and flow the books remembered ara better than all those for ten Perhaps something in the meth
the schoo
English
" "י :
to be the nine of diamonds, -
7 interesting thing about this vers
is that the challenger. only the
loned
The cleared site mentioned, abo
has been sold, and it is believed the rket that fats are shortly
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