Watson's
LIME JUICE CORDIAL
WATSONS
A product of the finest
West India Limes.
COLDWAL
$1.00
Per Bottle
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
SLEEPING SUITS
FOR:
STRIPED &
BOYS
and
GIRLS
FLOWERED PATTERNS
FAST COLOURS and
BRITISH MADE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication.
CURTAIN THAT
MOVED
SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Maid's Story Of An
Telephone 20022
London Oce:
7. Garrick Street, Londen, Wice
Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to
Intruder
GIRL AND TWO MEN ON BURGLARY CHARGES
A maid employed in South Ken-
Here There and
Everywhere.
|CANADIAN CROESI
Mr. Washington. Watson,
the
the Editor, and be accompanied by sington described at Sutton (Sur-president of the International the Writer's Name and Address rey) police court last month how Business Machine Company, now not necessarily for insertion, but a strange an appeared from be takes first place as the bighest
hind a curtain in her mistress's salaried business "executive" as a guarantee of good faith.
bedroom.
Subscription Rates.
One Year ...... $36.00 6 Months ..... H.S5.00 3 Mouths... HK$ 9.03
Postage Abroad Estra
the United States.
"CHASED OUT OF HEAVEN"
SOME AMUSING WELSH
FOLKLORE-
WAS AMERICA DISCOVERED BY A WELSHMAN?
ELSH
(By Bob Owen)
Rarebit" "W"Leek Soup"
and
A fresh charge of burglary and According to records revealed theft of jewellery was brought by the Securities Commission, he
and he never returned from there. against John James. aged 30, 2 was paid last year £51,000, which
very ap- The story goes that Madog's clerk, of Cambridge-terrace. W-works out at nearly £200 a day. petising dishes to be sure, but brothers were continually fighting John Shorter, aged $2 clerk, of The previous year be received one of them, "Leek Soup." al-over their father's, domain. Camden-square, X.W., and Hilds 3,000, but was then topped by ways occupys a prominent place Madog made up his mind to move Hong Kong. Monday, June 8, 1936. Collis, aged 22, of Cartwright Mr. Hearst, with £100,000. Jon the menu cards of banquets elsewhere. He gathered · round
gardens, W.C
Though large, these incomes do that are held by Welsh societies him a fearless crew and sailed The charge already made not compare with the yearly re-throughout the workd when the for many months, eventually find- against the three are:
venues of some of Canada's new Welsh gather to pay homage to ing land where the natives were. James.--Breaking into a suite gold mine millionaires. Since the their patron saint, St. David. friendly. at the Hotel Metropole. London, increase in price of gold these have Why the other dish gets no pro- Some say that Madog founded
of amassed enormous wealth. Before the delegates to the and stealing £1,500 worth
minence is because, perhaps, the the Spanish Royal House of Mon- Several of them, indeed, are so Welshman has a sentimental dis-tezuma and many Kymric words League of Nations can assem-jewellery, the property of Mrs. ble Signor Mussolini has done Montague Salmon.
appalled at the taxes they have to like to it. I will give you the may be found in the Mexican fall possible to present
pay in Canada that they have be stories as I heard them over and language of to-day. with a decided issue.
1 come officially residents in one or over again, whilst listening to the
Not All There
The League Failure
And Its Lesson
them James Shorter and Colls. "Ethio-Being concerned together
*
FLAG DAYS
The Geneva police had a busy
Mate
pia is Italian," was his claim breaking into the Countess of Another of the West Indies islands, old folks, "way back home in those It is very hard to write any- when Marshal Badoglio enterednesler's fat at Eccleston-square, were income-tax is unknown.
Welsh mountains.
thing about Wales without men Addis Ababa. Later the Ita S.W., and stealing jewellery valu-
The leek is worn by ali
2tioning David Lloyd George. Un- lian seal was set upon that deed at £2,500.
Welsh on March 1-St David's doubtedly, the most popular, Welsh- claration by bringing "the ter-! James and Shorter. House-
Day. Prince Llewelyn mustered man in the world, he has the ritories and the peoples which breaking at Banstead, Surre5. day removing the Italian
which were flying from private his forces one day for an attack Celtic quickness of dual perception belonged to Abyssinia" under the "full and antire sovereign-
The new accusation was break- houses and flats to celebrate the on the English and on the march which is sess
his soldiers picked leeks and "wore one occasion he began a speech by ty of the Kingdom of Italy" ling into the house of Mrs. Sandra Italians' entry into Addis Ababa. with the King proclaimed as Leslie, at Egerton-terrace, South
Swiss regulations allow national them in their caps. That day the saying, "I am here and before he Wekh were victorious over their could speak farther, an interrup Emperor. Simultaneously the
New Accusation
to wit On
|Legations in Addis Ababa were Kensington, and stealing jewel-flags to be flown from private English foes and the leek became ter shouted, "and so am L"
mary"
An
houses on national anniversaries. Ella Jorce, a maid employed could fly the Union Jack on
Englishman, for instance, an emblem of the nation.
Many Welsh folks have wonder Sti by Mrs. Leslie, said that Collis.
Frenchman hised what was the origin of Welsh Rarebit, so bere is the story 38 tricolour on July 14
on Feb.
"Yes," was the
Earliest Race
ready reply, informed that they are accredit-lery valued at £405.
but you are not all there." ed to a Government that no
When talking on Home Rile he longer exists. This is the sum
said. be wanted to see it not only in international who was formerly employed at the George's Day, a way
for Ireland but for Scotland and affairs. So far as Abyssinia is house, visited her there
At other times special permis-far as I can remember.
{Wales. "And for Hell, boo”—ex- concerned it may find excuse in 15. During the evening she (Mission must be obtained. This was
Porter Of Heaven the fact that since the fall of Joyce) heard a rustling noise refused in the present instance.
claimed a would-be humorist. “Cer- God made St. Peter porter of tainly, my friend,” came Lloyd the capital there has been no from Mrs. Leslie's bedroom.
There are no such rules in Eng- "As I went in the curtain mov-land.
flags. Heaven.
retort, effective resistance anywhere,
Apart from certain
God suffered many, men|George's unexpected come to the Kingdom of always like
stand to hear a man and most of the known leaders ed." she added, "and a man came such as the Royal Standard and to of the people have fled to out from behind it. He said 'Oh' the White Ensign, anyone, whe-Heaven, among whom were a num-up for his country.”
of Welshmen. Now, the safety.
Yet Italy's occupation gave two leaps out of the room, ther or not a British subject, can ber
became trouble- has still to be made a reality ran down the stairs and out of the display at any time his own or Welshmen soon
The Cymry, of what is now over something like two-thirds bouse."
any other nation's flag from his some and God desired them out of
Wales, were Erythonic, the Bry- of the total area of the country The three accused persons were private house, or his business pre-Heaven.
Wherefore, St. Peter went out-thons belonging to a Celtic race she claims as her own. Nor can remanded in custody for a week. mites. the Langue be dismissed by a It was stated that the police were
side the gates of Heaven and and said to have been 'the earliest shouted "Cas Poeth" (Hot invaders of the British Isles, about gesture from Rome. Italian "only in the middle of the case,”
Cheese). The Welshmen rushed the 4th century B. C. The begin- sovereignty over Abyssinia re-and were still making enquiries. quires acknowledgment by
out of Heaven and St. Peter, when ning of the history of the Cymry other Powers. The future des-
them all out, locked the must be associated with the migra- Young Husband (in early morn-he saw tiny of Abyssinia can only be
ing): "It must be time to get up."
gates.
tion into North Wales of a Bry- regarded as finally determined
By the way, there is no other thonic tribe, whose chief was Can- Wife: "Why?" ·· "Baby's fallen asleep."
folklore in the history of the edda Wledig and his followers when any settlement has been ratified by the nations.
world in which cheese plays so im called Cymry (from. Cumbrex
Meanwhile the League has to Imake up its mind about the
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. future of sanctions. The ques
CHILDREN'S DEPT.
Look What A. Lovely Moth Proof
Bag I Get with Every $2.25 Dry Cleaning Order I Send to the Steam Laundry Company!
SANITEX
MOTH PROOF
• BAG
REALLY! WHY... |
I MUST SEND MY
THINGS TO THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. RIGHT AWAY!
Owing to rush of Drycleaning Orders at our Depots, customers are earnestly requested to collect at once in order to make sure of Moth Proof Bags.
DEPOTS
Peak Hotel Depot. Tel. 29071
22A Queen's R. C. Tel 21279
SIR C. MARSTON'S CLAIMS
Bible Truth Proved By Excavations
Your Daily Smile!
Came Morning
•
Humility
Head Waiter: "Did you order ham portant a role as in the Welsh which meant "compatriot").
|and eggs?"
Patient Customer: "No, I humbly requested them."
Deduction
folklore.
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
The national significance of the Discovered America
word Cymry may date from the All the recent discoveries in
prove Believe it or not, but a Welsh-6th century and seems to tion does not arise immediately,
man discovered America. It is a the amalgamation of Goidelic and for sanctions have been treated Palestine provide evidence that the Bible is true, said Sir Charles throughout as a matter for the landton, who returned to England Committee of Eighteen, andst month after a tour of exenva-pened to my shaving brash?"
Dad: "Do you know what has hap-matter of time-honoured faith in Brythouic people nader the attacks Wales that Madog, son of Owain from without by Angles and that body has not yet
in Saxons. been tions there.
Mother: "Well, I think sonny's! Gwynedd, discovered America summoned to meet. The inter-
the 12th century and more, that (Continued on Page 8) Sir Charles, who has been inan-wooden horse has a new tail" val will provide an opportunityeing excavation work in the East for more cool thought than has or to years, added: "I regard the hitherto been given to the sub-cent discoveries as important be ject. The British attitude cause of the proof they provide that must be in alignment with that the Israelites were a very literate of the other nations within the people." League; the collective principle upon which Great Britain has acted throughout is not to be abandoned at this stage. In their main purpose of stopping the war the applied sanctions have failed, but they have certainly not beer without effect. Figures collected in Geneva show that in March im- ports from Italy to the nations imposing sanctions had fallen to
EXPLANATION
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
HOOD OF SHAME
TT sketch of the faldetta, the
M "Hood of Shame" of
a quarter of their normal value, Malta, was made a few years ago while sales to Italy were little when I visited there. My subjecz more than half of what they was a laceworker in the shopping were in March of last year. district. The curious headdress- The reduction in trade was cum-cape is, according to history, draining Italy of her gold to the garb all women were ordered the extent of 16,600,000 gold to wear for 100 years as a penance dollars in February and of
for their lack of chastity at the
12,700,000 gold dollars in time Napoleon's troops were
March, and the total reduction]
of gold stocks is much greater stationed there in 1798. Although than these figures indicate. If the century of expiation is now the war had been prolonged the long past, this picturesque fashion cumulative effect of this pres has not entirely lapsed.
To-morrow: Edward VIII is the sure might have had the intend-
to Rule England ed effect. But the speed of the 11th Edward
(3/7). Italian campaign has exposed the weakness of such limited)
economic. sanctions 23 the these may require the recon- Powers could agree upon. struction of the League on new
After the Abyssinian experi-lines while retaining it as the
27 Nathan Road Tel: 58545 336 Nathan Ed Tel. 58906ence--of swift movement the world's instrument for securing
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
Mongkok
Tel. 57032
MAN LOONG Preserved Ginger and Fruit Manufacturers,
NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER. Best Quality-Prompt attention to Exporters. Offee and factory-Bedford Rd., Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon
Tel. No. 57088
of
time factor forbids us to rec-peace. The continuance or the kon on
a future war being cessation of sanctions against halted by measures that only Italy has become a minor issue exert their influence after a beside the greater matter considerable period. The sanc- the future of the League. The tions that would stay an ag-question would practically re- gressor immediately are of such solve itself if Italy, which re a kind that general agreement mains a member, came to that upon them is beyond hope.jbody to seek from it the rati- That is the main lesson that fication of any plan for Abys the Abyssinian war has stress-sinia's future. Even after jed A fatal weakness in the what has happened, the future League machinery has been re-designed for a vast country, as vealed. The problem of dis-the French attitude implies, is covering ways that will make not a matter in which the it stronger remains To find world's interest can be denied.
EPP
A GATE POST- SPROUTED AND GREW -
INTO A TREE-
Owned by
AMBALDER
Represa Cali
HAS USED THE
SAME RAZOR -
EVERY DAY
FOR 32 YEARS
STEPHEN CLARK,Crowdey, La.
SIOUX SPELLS SU
AND EYE SPELLS "{" AND SIGHED SPELLS "CIDE" WHY DOESN'T
SIOUXEYESIGHED SPELL SUICIDE?
HOOD
SHAME
Faldella COSTUME WORM
BY THE WOMEN OF MALTA SO ORDERED BY NAPOLEON IN 179BAS A „ŽENANCE. FOR LACK OF CHASTITY,