TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932.
Hong Kong Expands Slowly
But Veteran Traveller Admires Gloucester Building
STAY IN
"JAI'AN WILL
MANCHURIA"
THE CHINA MA
HONG KONG-LONDON Last Few Survivals Of
IN 14 DAYS.
Air Mail Service Success.
SAIGON MARSEILLES- ROUTE.
Ap experimental air mail of 15
| letters, despatched from Hong Kong Jon Jane 7 arrived in London on June 21, effecting a saving of ap proximately one week on the usual Siberian route.
Snobbery
Looking Down Upon Trade
DYING PREJUDICE
The mall was despatched from "The national mind is awakened Roderick Random tells a gruesome, here on the French Mail liner, s.s.to the subject of snobs." That tale, or if you would have later Athus 11. at 4 p.m. on June 7 and proud sentence was written near-evidence, consider the status of "I do not alter much." said of his tour, Mr. Robertson said arrived in Saigon on June 10. The ly 100 years ago. Recently the Mr. Pendennis, senior, surgeon Me. 11. F. Robertson, the veteran it was his 30th trip.
letters left Saigon the next day by Prince of Wales thought it neces-apothecary at Bath, "laboriously Fra eller and head of the Robert- "Each time I come here. I find air for Marsellles, and arrived there sary to urge upon parents that polite to the butler and profusely
commerce is a calling worthy of civil to the lady's maid.” - em Traid Bureau, as he, gazed the place, changed but little. In June 19 at 7 p.m.
From there they were forwarded the best of character and ability, According to Disraeli, the trans reminiserally af Hong Kong is growing, of course, but not so
fair share formation of English social pres- from his window on the fifth floor rapidly as one would expect," he to Paris, and taken on to London and it ought to have of the Peninsula Hotel, shortly said. "The Gloucester Buildingly the Imperial Airways service, ar- of the young men thus happily en- tige was due to the younger Pitt, dowed, writes H. C. Bailey in the who "created a plebian aristo- aftey his arrival here.
is certainly a very fine structure, riving there on June 21.
The Saigon-Marseilles service at Malay Mail,
eracy and blended it with the "Of course, Shanghai has and I am convinced that there is
If it does not get them, and patrician oligarchy." But when changed, the Japanese have seen no finer Hotel in the Orient than present existing is distinct from the
air mail service proposed recently to there seems to be agreement people say that Peel was the Arat to that," he added as he turned the Peninsula."
"It is common knowledge that operate between Saigon and Hong among the leaders of commerce son of a family in trade to rule, When interviewel by Avou possess the finest and most Kong.
of the experi- that it has not been getting then England, they have forgotten the *China Mail" reporter he said Semutiful harbour in the world, mental flights between Saigon and in sufficient numbers, I suppose pant; it was a reversion, not an
hes were amazed at the amount and the Island when lit up at Hong Kong is expected to take place there is no doubt that one of the innovation.
the venerable While the commercial families. damage that had been done in night is a sight which has but shortly. undertaken by the Cam-impediments le
pagnie Francalse Air Orient. tradition that trade is not genteel. the Peels and the Gladstones and Shanghai.
few equals," he added.
The machines ased on the Saigon- Mr. The amount of destroyed pro-
Robertson stated that
A little before Thackeray was fathers, were finding their placen perty there is terrible," he said, fewer tourists were leaving the Marseilles air service carry both relating in his careful treatise on again in the Government of the and it will take years of re-nited States each year, and that mail and passengers, and also cargo. the cause and effect of anobe the country, the professions were rais- building. Over in the States we this year particularly, the busi-They are tri-motored Breguet mono- extreme difficulty of getting aing themselves to a new Import- state of ness was hard hit by the depres-planes, and leave Saigon every merchant into the Sarcophagusance. They had, of course, set up
JOYHLY.
ver
Fewer Tourists.
The first
Saturday morning.
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Club, another man of letters had far higher standards of knowledge, things. One report put the num]sion.
Service Open.
written:-
of honour, and of service than ber of lead at over 100,000, and
Postal officials stated yesterday "The curse of England is the ever prevailed in the past and most of the other reports were
"Last year I brought 94 people that specially superscribed mall will obstinate determination of the were thereby more worthy of am- grossly exaggerated as to the
the Saigon-middle classes to make their sons bition. They offered far more ins of life. On the other hand a tour to the Orient," he said, now be sent via the slamage to property was and this time I have only 24 in Marsellies, air route, on prepayment what they call gentlemen. So we profitable catears than of old...
of the requisite air mail charges, are overrun by clergymen without
Dying Prejudice. ros:dy underrated."
the party."
"Owing to the cholera epide-which, in addition to the ordinary livings; lawyers without briefs: Can that altogether account.for The general opinion in the
physicians without patients; au- the determination of the middle North is that the Japanese willnic we have had to cut Manila rates of postage, are:
Rate per 1⁄2 oz. thors without readers, who might classes to make themselves gen- Bever vacale Manchuria, and of the itinerary. If the party
15 cts. have thriven and been above the tlemen" by not going into busi- even among the members of the ge there everyone will have to be
world-"
ness?
I have heard a man who Lytton Commission, this opinioninoculated, and some of the party object to that, especially the
if they had taken to trade, retail was left with his own way to And seems to predominale."
or wholesale. The favourite pro- in the world explaining his choice Mr. Robertson and his party Christian Science followers. We
fessions may have changed or in- of a profession. In which he had travelled on the same ship as the fare, however, going to Cantor,
creased sinee 1830, but the modern done well enough, rather than the Lytton Commission. from Japan but the stay will not be long,"
career provision of higher education for commercial
offered in to Tsingtao and it was the gen- Starting from Los Angeles on
everybody with examination brains youth, by saying, "I always had a eral opinion that Lord Lytton was June 27, the tour called at Hono-
has not exactly tended to counter-soul above that" It sums up the "a very sick man."
Tulu, Japan and Shanghai, and
act this particular curse of Eng-cherished convention of many. they are due to leave here to-day
Hanven forbid that any of us for Shanghai, where they will
Royal Traders.
should give up his right to des proceed to Peiping, before going through Manchuria and Korea to every Saturday, and postal officials code, that a great gulf is fixed be- all to think meanly of thoir. voca- The nineteenth-century snobspise his fellow-creatures and above
The trip finishes on September means to connect with the service. and inherited property has no an-lo a contented life. But it should available tween trade and the professions lions. This is probably necessary Letters will be despatched from tiquity. Hong Kong to Saigon by sterimer, stories of the good-Cellowship be
We need not go back to net be taken for a rationi prin-
éiple. and will be handed over there!
10 tween City merchants and Plan-In its uld, form of looking down tagenet royalty and nobility. The upon a career in trade it may be worthy man who entertained four dying fast. That gives no reason
"The worry and the work of the Commission is heginning to iente its mark on him was the minion expressed by Mr. Robert
Son.
Hong Kong Grows Slowly,
Japan.
Returning again to the topic 12.
Italy
France
Great Britain &
Irish Free State $1.35
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Air mail charges may be prepaid land. with Hong Kong stamps. The aerial mail service leaves Saigon
here will utilise
CHEUNG CHAU NOTES GIRL FOUND GUILTY the aerial service.
Typhoon Stopped Ferry.
OF THEFT.
Husband Discharged On Second Count.
A girl, Yik Mun-kuen, 17, „des-
every
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| PORTUGUESE ACTORS kings in the Vintry shall count no to suppose that "the national mind
TO PERFORM.
Native Music Brought To Expatriots.
more than the mereer who was the Is awakened on the subject of father of Thomas Becket.
snubs." If we are not snobbish in in another. But as soon as England comes one way we shall be jout of Middle Ages you find the It is our nature toa privilege: Royal House itself active in trade. which we share with all nice Cardinal Beaufort, who was, in-animals.
deed, of an illegitimate branch but
the actual ruler of country, dealt VON PAPEN UPHELD
Due to the unsettled weather largely in wool, when that product last week, the performance was the mainstay of our country. the Club de Recreio by the PSo did King Edward IV.
eften inf guese entertainers was post-wool-merchants
were
The
BY LAW COURTS.
tFrom Our Own Correspondent) July 25. Nothing very much has hap! pened here lately except that a little alarm was caused when the No. 7 Jyphoon signal was hoist- e. The ferry from Hong Kongcribed as a former mui-tsal in the was taken off for a few trips ow-loy of Mr. Yip Lan-chuen, 1, any to the heavy sea. The heavy Leung Fai Terrace, was fined $50 rainfall has kept the place cool by Mr. B. Wynne-Jones in the and the low temperature must Central Police Court yesterday ned until Thursday, July 28. partnership with nobles and coun
This group of actors, who are try gentleman. The Earl of Essex
Prussia's Injunction have nearly touched a record to afternoon, for the theft of a plati
Action Fails. date for the past two months.num watch, a silver finger ring called "Tournes Tentral," have and other great lords managed the
and a pair of shoes, the property rlayed before Hong Kong audi-export of their own_produce. We hear that Lan Tau is well pa or Yip Yeung-shi, the fifth concu-ences before and with great suc-! A little later a Queen of Eng-
Jeipzig, Yesterday. 'tronised at present.
cess. They have been making a Jand, Anne Boleyn, was the "great The Supreme Court has re- The Rev. A. H. Bray conduct-vine of Mr. Yip.
The "defendant's husband, Hautour of all Portuguese settle-granddaughter of a London trades-jected the deposed Prussian Gov- and Dr. W. W. Cadbury, of Can-Chi-kuen, 26, dressed in European ments in China. This is to be man. There are old peerages ernment's application fur an in- which owe the foundation of the terim injunction to restrain Herr ton, preached an interesting and clothing, was charged with receiv- their farewell appearance.
The programme has been divid family estates to Tudor clothwork- von Papen from exercising his thoughtful sermon last Sunday, ing. He was discharged.
The two were staying at the ed into three parts. The first witers.
powers as Commissioner at which service it. was announc-
that the annual meeting of Liesi Hotel when they were arrest-contain folk songs, with explana. Then comes a period in which Prussia, on the ground that it His Worship im-tions in Portuguese preceding the great expansion of commerce might prejudice the court's even- Cheung Chau Residents' Associa-ed on July 17.
posed a fine_only_as_complainants their rendition. The second is to, and industry la queerly accom-tual decision as regards the Lion will be held on Monday did not wish to press the case. be a Julio Dantos melodrama panied by a severance between the legality of the constitutionality August. The organ which had
men who carried it on and those of the presidential decree- heen undergoing repair will be Mr. G. S. Ford was for the defence, which should delight everyone.
"Conde Freddie," a comedy who professed and called them-Reuter. with music, will form the last selves gentlemen..
ed the service two weeks ago.
available for our next service. Rev. J. Remkf continues his Bible Study classes, while Mrs.
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Rosy and others help at the Sun-THREE LAND BLOCKS
day school.
SOLD BY CROWN.
Yesterday's Auction ́At.
The P.W.D.
part of the performance. The Wo have a forecast of it from music in this is said to be beauti-the beginning of the seventeenth ful and should prove to be the century in the play written to highlight of the whole perform- burlesque the notion that a hero of romance could be a grocer. The fact that one of the most famous English fighting men' of the days of chivalry was bred a tailor had lapsed out of the mind of England.
ance
FREE STATE DUTIES FROM TO-MORROW.
(Continued: from: "Page 1.) "
By the end of that Stuart cen-"" tury we have the convention well
An invitation has been received from the Religious Committee of the Helena May Institute, Hong Kong to attend. a social afternoon in Hong Kong on August 24.. It is extended to all missionaries re-j sident here on that day, and it is hoped that as many as can will avail themselves of the oppor- tunity of meeting Hong Kong friends,
the Public Works Départment office. stalments, one of which referred|for your living deben Arrangements are also in hand
On behalf of the Arts and Crafts, to Imperial Preference products. In this, it will be observed, for the
Annual Conference Ltd. Messrs. Little, Adams, and created confusion es to what thore in no salvation for the pro- which is commencing on August Wood purchased a lot of about countries the duties were to, ap-fessions. Even military and hával 8, and among those who have 20,000 square feet of land situated plyta pelo de sal oncers have no sure patent zi promised to help are the Rev. Dr. near Quarry Bay, for the upset It was later explained that the scntlemen. The Services are, too Kunze, and the Rev. 7. McKenzie, price of $20,000 thous tariffs on Iron, steel, coal, ce- pften, a, bar for men who have
Three lots of Crown land were put The fact that the emergency established that gentility means up for sale at yesterday's auction at duties list was issued in two in- living on your means, not working
of the New Zealand Mission, who An ares of about 1,820 square feat ment, electrical apparatus, sugar, nothing but their pay, and as such will conduct the devotional hour situated at Wong «Nei Chung was sweetened fools and drinks, ap- are properly despised. At for the each day. Dr. II. Lechmere Clift bought by Mrs. Yam Yuk-king for ply only to the United Kingdom, Chu and the law, still a man will give Bible readings the upset price. of $3,960, A but that other duties, like those shou win air gree
The service to-day was taken. The third lot of "about"}, 560 off bacon and potato
by the Rev. Morrison square feet of land/ altunted on the
In aid of the Ebenezer Blind south-west side of the Shaukiwan-
School an exhibition and sale of Tet Tuk Road was boug
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works of the Institu
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But
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