YELLOW DRAGON
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Monday & Tuesday, Feb. 12th & 13th
Frank Harwood
and his
ALL BRITISH ORCHESTRA
from the
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With
LESLIE HENSON ALBERT BURDON
WENDY BARRIE & EDWARD EVERETT HORTON.
A GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE.
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THE 4 MARX BROTHERS
IN "DUCK SOUP"
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.
The
China Mail.
EIGHTY NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1934.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. J. JOHNSTONE.
Union Waterboat Co.'s Superintendent.
PEACEFUL PASSING AWAY DURING SLEEP
NEW “SHORT BIBLE PUBLISHED"
Intended As Guide To Present Volume.
PAGES REDUCED TO 546.
Chicago.
A "short Bible." in which the
HYDROPHOBIA IN
HONG KONG
Coolie's Death Last Night.
Yuen Suen, a coolie of 21 years of age, died last night at the Gov- érament Civil Hospital, shortly after admission, from hydrophobis.
It is stated that doceased was bit-
Market some three months ago.
Mr. James Johnstone, Superinten dent of the Union Waterboat Com- pany, passed away in his sleep last books are recorded according to ten by a stray dog at the Central night. Though he had been ailing their chronological order and the for some time, his death was quite 2,000 pages in the standard unexpected, as is shown by the fact Bible are reduced to 546 has been made at the time.
the issued by the University of Chi- Union Waterboat Office all day yes-cago Press. terday.
that he was at his desk in
The late Mr. Johnstone, after
The book is intended as a guide] to the present Bible, which, ac- cording to Prof. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, one of the editors, is so big. bewildering and obscure that it intimidates most readers."
No report of the occurrence was
LOCAL DOLLAR UNCHANGED.
Silver Prices Decline.
Ga
several years in India, came to the Colony 34 years ago, first joining the China Light and Power Co. as
The dollar shows no change over an engineer, remaining with them
The "short Bible" begins with the week-end, opening to-day at until the inception of the Union the book of Amos, Genesis is 1/5%. Waterboat Co.
and placed seventeenth,
the Silver prices declined % Deceased who was a native of following are entirely omitted: Saturday, spot closing at 19 11/16- Sterling, Scotland, was married in Chronicles, the Song of Songs, and forward at 19. India and leaves a widow and two Lamentations, Obadiah, Malachi. The cross rate, London on New daughters who are at present in Second Peter and Second and York, is £-G$5.02 and New York England, and two sons, Mr. Allar Third John.
un London is £-G$5.0241⁄2. Johnstone, Manager of the Kowloon
The rendering is based upon the Service Station of Mesars. Dodwell"American translation" publish- are employed. and Company, and Mr James John-led by the university two years. Each book is prefaced by an etone, the well known Interport Modern punctuation, with dia essay explaining its background. swimmer, who is at
inlogue in quotation marks, narra- history and significance.-Reu- Shanghai.
tive paragraphs and blank verse ter.
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STANLEY LUPINO
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