BRITISH WARSHIP RUNS AGROUND
Red Sea Accident To H.M.S. Hastings
CAT AS ORIGINATOR OF THE TROUBLE
"H.M.S. Hastings ran acround on Shabkuth Reef, of Suakin. while on passage to Fort Sudán.
The sloop was making for Port Sudan for medical aid for some sailors who had been bitten by a "cat suspected of being infected with rabies
HMS. Penzance-a sister ship and the tug Kebir made an - successful attempt to refloat the Hastings, but the former's cable parted. Four compartments from midship forward, were flooded in the Hastings.
""
The tug Shadeed and the har- bour staff at Port Sadan helped in the refloating operations. **
Medical aid had been summoned for the bitten sailors, and the -offending cat had been brought
ashore.
POLICE RESERVE
Orders For The Current Week
Orders by Mr. C. G. Perdue. Inspector General of Police
Chinese Company
Inspection Parade. All-ranks
of the Chinese Company will- parade at Central Police Station
MAINE
NEW BRUNSWICH
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935
Work starts on the Government's $30,000,000 Passamaquoddy tidal power project as Major Phillip E Fleming, Army engineer in charge, breaks ground at Eastport, Me. while. Rep. Ralph Brewster and the crowd looks on The lower picture shows the first blast set off by telegraph from Washington, and the map shows the location of the project, which will employ thousands for several years.
on Thursday, August 15th. 2: LITERARY NOTES
17.30 hours under Sub Inspector
PORTRAIT IN
PASTELS
STUDY OF IRISH HEROINE
SUBTLY EXPRESSED
Readers of "The Ladies' Mile”. will need no crying to read a new work by the same authori - In The Deeply Rooted." Miss Pamela Hinkson again. lays the scene partly in England partly in Ireland but the period is no long- Jer that of the war, bas of the
present day.
2. Once again we are forced to se- |knowledge the same feeling" for} beanty, the same poetic power of evoking atmosphere. combined with a sensitive appreciation of the music and meaning of words that have set Miss Hinkson high among contemporary writers.
Some Disappointment None the less. vue must con- fess to a certain sense of disap- pointment with her latest book Sincerely realised though it is, and subtly expressed, one cannot avoid an underfeeling of impati ence with her heroine's continual Harping on old unhappy-far-off- things; especially as in most re- spects her, lot is of a kind that most people would pronounces distinctly enviable.
It is all very well for Kathleen Lavenham -- who had been Kath- leen Burke, of Skreene-to live on memories of her childhood in Ireland, and the white house by the lake that had been burned down in the troublous years after the war but other people in plenty suffered quite as badly, if mož worse, and the subsequent security of her English marriage.
E. J. Hunt for a general inspec"No-Nonsense" Book Of The with every adjunct of ease, and,
tion of equipment etc. by
Company Commander. Dress-
Waite Uniform Cap with White Cover Belt with Brace, Trun-
Garden
cheen. "Pocket Policeman" and For Disease-Ridden nute-book to be carried. The Equipment Officer will make 2 point of being present
Indian Company
Growers
indeed luxury, that a wealthy and affectionate husband could sup-
He has drained morasses, made ply, might surely have been con- streams and ponds, constructed sidered fairly ample compensa- wells. built barns, employed tion.
grand craftsmen in iron and Exiled in England married to a wood and stone, spent thou-man whom she realises that she, Mr. John F. Leeming has sands of pounds, added acre un-not because she loved him, but
after another.
Indulgent Sentementality As the wife of a Conservative |
1st Aid Classes. All members written a gardening book with to acre as his temperature rose, because he had so much, material- taking this Course will report at no nonsense. or. at any rate, and in a final delirium boughtly speaking to offer, Kathleen the Police Headquarters Gymnas-with a minimum of nonsense.
elds which even his own ima-drifts, melancholy and beautiful. ium on Tuesday. and Thursday. It is impossible to find a garden-in the Eden that has flowered would seem-at one comitry house gination cannot yet incorporate through a life spent chiefly-it 12th and 15th. August, 1935 at ing-book wholly without non- 18.30 hours for instruction...
sense unless you go
to such upon the Cheshire plain. Training Course Part III-sturdy old-time common-sensers gardening disease will love the Anyone with a touch of the Members of the Indian Comp-as Miss Jekyll. pany will attend at the King's But Mr. Leeming is not reek-book; and if it be asked. "What MP, no less than as a woman on Park Revolver Range on Wednes-ing like a dog who has rolled in good is all this to us who must whose sympathy and kind-heart- day, August 14th at 17.00 bours fordure; bis nonsense consists be content with a small backedness the author lays stress, one to fire the Part III Revolver solely in inventing Mr. Holtz-yard?" One replies that the might have expected her to take Course under Sub Inspector Pit-peffler, a sprite. "the spirit of questioner is not of the true an active interest, one way or 12- chie. Only those detailed will the garden.” Fortunately, wel faith. Any gardener who other, in alleviating the lot of
don't see too much of this whim-cannot imagine himself head those less fortunately situated: Training Course-Part II, All sical Teuton. The offence is ardener to the Hanging Gar but except in one instance there recruits of the Indian Company venal Let it pass.
dens of Babylon has a flaw in is no hint of her doing so. Even will-attend 3, Cliff Road, Kowloon We let it pass the more will-
his composition on Thursday. August 15th at ingly because this is so good a 17.30 hours for instruction. book It is called "The Garden Emergency Unit Reserve Grows" (Harrap. 7s. 6d.). We Defendu. Defendu Instructions see it grow from nothing. Mr. will take place at the basement Leeming bought a feld in Che- of the Sailory Home and Sea-ishire, twelve miles from Man- men's Institute on Friday, Au-chester, and this book is the re- gust 16th.” All members are record of its conversion into quested to be present at the garden that is now not with above mentioned place at 17:20jout fame.
True Breed
'attend."
hours.
Hong Kong.
1935.
D. L. KING,
:
AN AMERICAN MONSTER
love, when it comes only inspis sates rather than lightens to Cel tic twilight of her self-indulgent j sentimentality.
It is, of course, possible, that others will take a different view of Miss Hinkson's heroine-as in- deed Miss Hinkson herself doubt- less does--but · from the most
a Miss Diana Maugham's favourable standpoint it is diffi
New Book
cult to see how Kathleen can be regarded as other than charming- The author is of the true Miss Maugham, the daughterly ineffectual at most Indeed. D.S.P.(R) breed!
He developed the dis-of Mr. Justice Laugham and apart from the distinction and Monday, August ease and, as every good gar-mece of Mr. Somerset Maug even beauty of its writing, the dener should. he got swiftly ham, has taken for the central book as a whole strikes one rather worse. He is now beyond hope. character in her book, "Rhap in the same way.
sody in Gold.” a person who dwarfs all about him
KOWLOON BOY PASSES
ARTHUR CULLEN
LAD TO REST YESTERDAY AT HAPPY VALLEY
The funeral took place yesterday
OLD PORTUGUESE RESIDENT PASSES
Mr. J. Viera Ribeiro
FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON AT HAPPY VALLEY
Like the old-fashioned actor- manager. he gives little chance to the rest of the cast, and that is a pity because Miss Mang- ham writes about a number of people whom we should like, to observe in richer detail
Monster Of Novel
"THE UNCERTAIN GLORY"
Life In Provincial Centre.
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THE
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Hard upon the heels of the announcement of ROYAL'S” CONSECUTIVE WINS in the London, News Chronicle "Amateur Typewriting Contest For Great Britain." comes the news of Albert Tangora's Triumph in the "WORLD CHAM- PIONSHIP CONTEST” held at Chicago on the 29th June 1935, winring the championship, in competition with expert opera tors of other makes of typewriters, with a STOCK (NON- PRIMED) MODEL ROYAL TYPEWRITER:
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EINSTEIN'S WORLD
Famous Scientist's Philosophy
under five headings or "parts, entitled "The World As I See It "Politics and Pacifism," "Ger- many, 1933, ""The Jews,” and just "Scientific
The last section deals largely with the theory of relativity," and
afternoon at the Roman Catholic/evening, at his residence, 14 Car/can Weslyn Rolf, a man who cial, religions, and political, in &ing herself alone in St. Peters-great scientist and a profound will sometimes be beyond the
The
"MARIELLA, SPY"
Readable Contribution To Its Class
"Mariella, Spy," by Colin In "The Uncertain Glory" Mr. Davy, is a very good story of The monster of the novel is Bruce Marshall has given us a lits sort. It tells how the daugh
INTERESTING OUTLINE the fabulously wealthy Ameri- capably written satire on life. 80-ter of a British diplomat, find- The death occurred yesterday
Albert Einstein is not only rose from nothing to be a pow-large provincial town. of Mr. J. A C. Cemetery, Happy Valley, of Arthur narvon Road,
burg after her father had been thinker, but a world figure and Vieira Ribeiro, a well known er in the world. Then, misan characters are deverly drawn Cullen, the 11-year-old son of Mr.
murdered by the Bolshevists, be man of strong convictions, which ordinary reader. The section who died on Saturday at 3.20 pdent, of Hong Kong.
community, and a life-long resi-gan to indulge in extraordinary atmosphere and setting are
"Reds in the Kowloon Hospital. The boy Mr. Ribeiro, who was 58 years ed existence...
antics in the hope of getting Scotch, they might, one and all
fearlessly. General interest Specific in subject, but it is in- some "kick" back into his jad be found in any large modern cape from Bussia, but once she World As I See I
This she did in order to estherefore, attaches itself to teresting for Einstein's own senti- was admitted to Bospital on August old, was for 25 years, before the It cannot have been easy
community. The petty intrigues had succeeded in that by Alan Harris of his book “Mein
ments and ideas, s 1. suffering from a compound War, employed by the firm of make Rolf a credible character; effectual ramblings of intellec-was in her blood and moved on addresses, and pronouncements to of social climbers, the bland, intention, she found that spying Weltbild," a selection of articles,
"Thank My StarsTM fracture of his left arm, which, be Melchars and Co. During the War but. Miss Maugham has per tuals. the corruption in high to further adventures on the which aim at giving a picture or love of justice, and the desire for The pursuit of knowledge for received while playing on a swing he served with the Imports and mitted us at first to glimpse, places-all are drawn with keen shores of the Bosphorus. ~
its own sake, an almost fanatical and it is understood that complica- tions followed:
Exports Department of the and then more completely to insight, and enlivened by a very The author knows well the And they do reveal those qualition which make me thank my personal independence, these are Government, The Rev. Father Rossi officiated. Messrs Jebsen and Co. up to
and was with understand the human being real sense of humour.
country he writes about, and hefties which have made the genius that I belong to it." Among those present besides the
whom we first meet merely as bereaved father were Mr. Jailing health..
year ago, when he left owing to a creature feared and almost le-
Satiric Touch
has the advantage of a wide mi-admired, loved, and even The plot actually centres litary experience. His basis of Linsey, Mr. L. Lapsley, Mr. T.
He is a strong supporter gendary. So thoroughly, in-around the McRobbie family. The facts, combined with
of the Colman, Mr. K. R. Macaskill, Mr daughter.
He is survived by a widow and deed, is he rocked down from father, a successful dealer in imagination and a robust,
Monist movement as the embodi
of the re-awakening cor- spirit of the whole Jewish and whilst he does not
a a distinctive:
believes tha
and Mrs. Cullen, of Kowloon Dock member of the local Portuguese (thropic, emotionally dead, he be "types," and, although the whole came herself a spy for the he has not hesitated to express / CODcerning the Jews is also rather
W. Mackenzie, Brother Hubert, The funeral takes place this
his pedestal that he ends as the eager lover who gets his re
Brother Xavier, Mr. A. Marshall afternoon, passing the Monument ward He is not permitte Mr. W. Forsyth, Mr. J. Mayer, Mr. at 5.30 p.m.
F Mayer, Mr. S. Greig, Mr.
Gray and Mr. J. HL Howell
Wreaths were
Mrs. Marriott
White, ME
son, Mr. and Mrs
Mr. and family, Hong Kong
Dock Co., Kowloon
rovinci GAME
even the mystery of continue unhappiness.
Maugham has made
She
hand furniture, attains the right narrative style,
ht of social ambition by be his book a most reada
Lord Provost of Kirkme tribution to
"weald
the
ther
Einstein the man.
a pure
Scra
book
lation
the features of the Jewish tradi-
bitte Mr G WH
RADE
some