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The appointment, by King George, of Colonel John Buchan as governor general of Canada is the first royal recognition, of 'a writer for the motion picture. Colonel Buchan is the editor, author and war correspondent whose novel "Thirty-nine Steps," was recently
DISAPPEARING CAIRO OF THE CALIPHS
THE OLD GIVES PLACE
TO THE NEW
WESTERN STYLE FLATS - AND
APARTMENTS
(By Sir Percival Phillips)
N American tourist who camel New Hats, narrower pavements..
filmed by G. E. Robert Donat and A to Cairo recently for the Here the spirit of the Orient still
Madeleine Carroll play the leading first time, expecting to realise a manifests itself. I believe it was roles.
dream of picturesque bazaars: Lord Cromer who said that until
The novel in the best-seller graceful minarets, and dingy pa-the Cairenes learned to walk on. classification, is the story of spies laces with latticed windows, found the pavement and not aimlessly in plotting access to Air Ministry himself instead amid tall apart-the traffic they would not cease to secrets, with Scotland Yard involv-ment houses, built apparently the be.fools. ed in murder mystery- |Hitchcock directed.
Alfred day before, on new streets which "Jay-walking is as prevalent were much nearer · Chicago than to-day in the reconditioned areas. * Colonel Buchan, has had a varied the Orient.
[One cannot wonder at it since the career as a newspaper man, soldier,] He gazed with profound distaste space for pedestrians is so limit- intelligence officer and statesman upon these evidences of an alien jed. The cramped footways are In all he has written 50 books, and civilisation, and said, "Why, this filed with a jostling, andisciplin- has lived in -South Africa and city to-day is "guing modern" "jed throng, and what is easier than Canada. He visited the United! His protest is being echoed by to step instinctively into the street States some months ago. Prior to other visitors in all the idioms of and be run down by a reckless his appointment, he was a Member Europe. The Cairo of pre-war days. Arab driver? of-Parliament. It is said he may which was, very much the Cairo of Nothing is easier. Despite vi- be elevated to the peerage before a century ago, is fast disappearing gilant police, whose comand of in- The leaves England for Canada
under the relentless pressure of vective never fails to fill me with impatient architects and their ac-admiration, the native population, complices in the manipulation of whether afoot or careening about concrete: A veritable orgy of re-in uncertain vehicles, continues to It has been rare for a crowned construction has spread through plunge wildly on its indiscriminate Sovereign of England to honour a the labyrinth-of ancient lanes and courses with true Oriental, fatal- Lord Mayor of London with his their ramshackle shops.
iam Bicycles can be hired for 3d. presence at the 'inaugural banquet Major Surgical Operations
an-hour, and their profusion is be-
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KINGS AT GUILDĦALL
at the Guildhall. “
.COM-
Major surgical operations are wildering to an ordered mind King Charles II. did sa on more being performed on. constricted
Street Life than one occasion, and in more thoroughfares. some being
Taxicabs in every stage of de- The China Mail
gently desirable that the law on recent times Queen Victoria paid pletely obliterated; others have cay take the wrong side of the road". This point should be laid down this very great compliment to the been widened and straightened the moment they are beyond sur with such clearness that mis- Lord Mayor and to the citizens in beyond recognition and zedressed veilance Hong Kong, Monday, May 13, 1935 direction may be rendered
Lumbering: omnibuses: her accession, year. “ tually impossible.
with gaunt, uncompromising struc- and fretful tramcars. tied in twos The young Queen, who drove toures of no particular charm or and threes struggle for prece- the City in State on November 9 individuality."
dence.
The Onus. Of Proof Of Intent To Murder
vir-
A Unique Season"
1837, wore a pink satin dress shot The housebrakers are eating Through this miscellaneous- mob with silver, a diamond circle being their way steadily into the very on wheels press wooden carte: In this rear of Jubilee the her chief ornament. Her progress heart of the capital. They have without sides, on which are seated London season gains a new into the City was greeted with surrounded it with warish suburbs veiled women of the lower class Successful appeals against con meaning. The customary round deafening cheers and bell ringing that march with grim intent to perhaps half a dozen haddled to victions for murder, are
very of events which mark the aum-from the churches. rare in Britain. Indeed, since
wards the Pyramids, Neon lights gether. with a low-geared but pa-- mer months of the year will be the Court of Criminal Appeal swelled by a great number of decorated with a great display of ergence of Cairo from the myster Limousines with. Pashas under Streets and house-fronts were in many colours proclaim the em-tient donkey as the motive power, have been only three cases in celebrations in which the people fags and bunting
lions shadows of the "Arabian glass," "supercilious sports cars. to whom the season" ordinarily Christ's Hospital of the Bluecoat Knights
driven by impatient young Egypt means little will have a real part boys then occupied its historic site
The new Cairo-now risiig -inians, quieter cars from the Army- In the programme that will all in Newgate street. Before it the such haste insists too emphatical-barracks, and occasionally the "Fra-
was established in 1908 there
which the results have been in favour of the appellants. Recent ly an instance of a different kind
บ
foccurred, when the judges of the the months to the beginning of Royal carriage halted while the on its disregard of the past brigade contribute to the general?
Court of Appeal were themselves August the outstanding feature senior scholar read an address of Something of the spirit of modern confusion.
is the number of opportunities congratulation overridden by the House of
America seems to have imbued its Certain additions to the new- Lords, sitting as the Supreme given to see Their Majesties the Court of Criminal Appeal Only of the Royal Family in circum-
pioneers. Old buildings aré mere-Cairo, fit must be confessed, are King and Queen and the members Your Daily Smile! fly old-buildings, and not souvenirs beyond criticism. The rebuilt on a "legal point of exceptional stances in which the poorest citi-
worth preserving for their intrin-Kaisz-el-Nil Bridge, with its fm- urgency is such appeal. permit-zen can have a full share Forshey met try the lighthouse-keeper tions. The craze for uniformity is bronze lions, is a far mors ser Housewives dislike corners. How sic beauty or historical associa posing entrance flanked by great ted and since it concerns so weeks together there is a pro-wife? vital a question as to where lies gravime of public processions:
expressed in blocks of flats dis-viceable link with Ghezireh, across the onus of proof, in order to es drives and reviews, in the course
tressingly alike, with streamlined the river. The old barracks hard“ tablish intent of malice or its ab of which the affection of his
window by are no adornment to the mo "My husband has taken all the cast balconies and fragal sence, the forthcoming statement people for the King may find its out of baby's money-box"
space.
dern city. of reasons for allowing the full expression.
“My dear
Lost Landmarks
That unlovely, sad-coloured appeal will be awaited with the It is not the least happy cir nearly enough for the
"Yes, and just-wher there
Where the new mode has taken building, like, a group of packing The Lord deepest interest.
cumstance that returning na-wanted."
root no deviation from it is per cases with slits in the sides, is a Chancellor simply announced
mited Later reinforcements to survival from the Turkish occups- tional prosperity should promise that the appeal would be allow that 1935 will be unique not ed and the conviction quashed only in the number of the attrac
the city in concrete must keep to tion, when the health of the pri
• Two Negro women were discussing prescribed lines and angles, and vate soldier was of no consequence As a result a Somersetshire tions it affords but in the success present conditions. One of therm ze not venture to compete in altitude. The British troops now living labourer, who was convicted at jattending them
(marked: "It shanh is too had, - zim's
Bristol in February for the ONG- [der of his wife, and whose cone viction was upheld by the Court of Criminal Appeal, is now a free
mah
....
The fact that the first jury which heard his case disagreed. and that the second took a long, time to reach an agreed conclu- sion, is sufficient indication that there was room for reasonable doubt as to the man's intentions. His own story was that he took. ja: gun-from which he had sawn Joff both barrels -- in his pocket
THREE INDIANS
IN BRAWL
Bail Of $500 Granted Two Defendants
COMPLAINANT RECEIVES SERIOUS HEAD WOUND
Tak Taki
Coincidence.
new bat
it, dat dis heal depression had to come less the skyline be-spoiled jes! when times is so hard?")
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
there, who look down from their
One drastic alteration confronts quarters on the busy street and the visitor when he arrives at bridge, seem remarkably cheerfut Shepheard's Hotel, the hub, as it despite such drah surroundings, al- were, of tourist trafic in the win-though one recalls that a reference ter season:: For generations the was made in the Bouse of Com facade opposite was a familar me-mons some time ago to the unplea It is notified that 12-p. xu lange of discoloured mid-Victorian sant state of the interior, not un- practice with live ammunition will buildings, peopled by vivacious Le connected with a plague of lice. be carried out from Lyemun in the yantines who spent much of their European City Replica direction of Junk Bay next Thurs-time hanging from the windows, Ghezireh, once a thinly-builtTM day. Firing will take place between idly watching the other idlers on suburb of private mansions flank- 9 am until 4 p.m. approximately the hotel terrace Then came the ing the racecourse, is now a coni-
wreckers, who sheared off: some pact, addition to Flatland. Apart
Lady Peel will open the Violet 2011 from their homes, leaving the ment houses in the inevitable 'con-
A sequel to the fight between Feel Health Centre at Johnston buildings a collection of naked crete lie thick on both sides of the
to convince his wife that if she three Indians in Lockhart Road, Road, Wanchai, at 5 pm refused to return to him he gen- Wanchai, on Saturday afternoon, afternoon Juinely meant to shoot himself
[rooms, without c-walls, exposed ✨ to shaded avenues. They are creep-
the throng below."-"The street thus
(Continued on Page 11)" widened became the frontier of a
Tsang Chan was this morning new waren of flats. Old habitues}
But the weapon, he said, went was provided at the Central Police): off while he was drawing it from Court this morning when Mohamed his pocket, and he was so horri-Din, licenced motor car driver, and fined $50, in default one month's of the quarter returned next win- fied when his wife fell that he Nawab Din, police guard No. 163, hard labour, by Mr. A. W. G. E. ter to find a transformation which were charged with assaulting Gratham at the Central Police to them was equivalent to the re lost his head and left the scene..
Court for the theft of a roll of building of all Cairo. This, as they The ground of his successful Akhmad Gall appeal lay in certain passages of
cloth valued at $10 from a shop soon discovered, was a sign of the Detective Sergeant Fitches, of
new times that enveloped them Mr. Justice Swift's direction to the Wanchai Police Station, ap-at No. 142 Queen's Road Central the jury. The learned judge peared for the prosecution, while
when they began to look – zound
said that it had been the law Mr. MA da Silva appeared on bo For the theft of a camp bed from them for other familiaz landmarks of this country for all time" to half of both the defendants outside a shop in Queen's Boada presume that an attack upon a In outlining the case, Sergean: Lin Yin was this morning fined 1st FLOOR person which results in killing Fitches stated that on Saturday at $10. in default 14 days hard la fis "founded in malice." unless about 230 pm. complainant was bour, by Mr. A. W. G. E. Gran- the contrary is shownThe law picked up unconscious in Lockhart tham at the Central Police Court presumes it to be murder, he de Road At the police station come clared, "unless the prisoner can plainant recovered and made a HUGE OPIUM HAUL alleviate or excuse what was statement which led to the arrest done" That suggests that the of both defendants.
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Defendants Are Not Allowed Bail
export 3300 taels of prepared opium on the ss. Persident Hayes, which was lying at the Kowloon Wharfs on Saturday, and Kaen Ki- and Chan-Kan, coolies, were charg-1 ed with having possession of the opium V
*** Bevenne Officer AW. Grimmitt.
appeared for the pros ution, and suggested bail of
onus of disproof of malice lies Complainant is still in hospital with the accused person, where- and is suffering from head injuries, as the case for the appeal was which are alleged to have been that the Crown must establish caused by a stick. It is not yet The sequal to a huge opium han what the intent was and satisfy known whether complainant's skull occurred at the Kowloon Magis allowed for each the Court that there was malice-is-fractured or not. iprepense,
titude
tent is sonabl
Considering the mul- Defendants
re the in- police custody least as open to rea of $500 was
here, it ur fendant
tracy this morning when Chan Ho-Mr. Wynne Joi remanded in fuk a 40-year-old roo
hours Ballployed on the 2x Preside red for each de was char
Tourist. How
em-fendants any bail Hayes, amoTES
longer
1
Wynne Jones, with att
The case was formally remanded to for one
all the