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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1936
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Chan Yuk-ching, aged 3, was sent to the Government Civil Hospital to-day suffering from scalds caused when a kettle of boiling water fell over him.
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A GATEWAY TO THE PACIFIC
VANCOUVER'S PLACE IN THE EMPIRE
JUBILEE BEING CELEBRATED NEXT MONTH
publication should be addressed to A fitted Wong Chui, was seri- M. Herbert Hoover, it is said, the Editor, and be accompanied bously injured when he fell from has become the most popular Re- the Writer's Name and Address the roof of No. 14. Apliu Street publican speaker on the wireless. not necessarily for insertion, but and was admitted to the Eworx He has pruned his former rotund as a guarantee of good faith.
Wah Hospital this morning.
oratorical style. This is snappy and enlivened with wise-THE City of Vancouver this But Vancouver is far from cracks."
Trear celebrates its jubilee, being cpendent of borrowed- Here are some recent July 1 (Dominion Day) has merits. The civic designers been chosen for the official have used the free land which Slogans do not pinch hit for facts. observance.
Nature and circumstances gave *New Deal subordinates have.loos- The occasion is one which the them in exploiting the peculiar ed a smokescreen of personalities, and have began to fire the squirt-city can regard with legitimate amenities of the site to the full.
self-congratulation, writes a Their success guns of propaganda.
is seen in the Your freside talks in the fature correspondent in The Times. In absence of incongruity between will be with the tax collectors our the Old World the pride of this superb natural background national morning prayer is now many towns is in their unchang and the modern face of the city, directed to the Federal Treasury. A school girl, Wu Chui-fa, aged "Pinch hit" is a metaphor taken ing character through cen- its waterfront, parks, and clus Another gap in the dwindling 15, residing at No. 90, Kennedy from baseball. It means a player turies. In the new the stan-tering business block ranks of British leaders of the Road, received
dards are rather those of! Father Of The Cay injuries who bats as a substitute for material progress, and, even in Captain George Vancouver, War was made by the death of when she jumped off bus No. 623 other. Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, in Leighton Hill Road near Fer-
Hong Kong, Thursday, June 11, 1936
Allenby's Place In History
Tai Cho-kin, aged 61, a female was knocked down by car No. 1891 in Sai Kung Road yesterday and admitted to the Kowloon Hospital.
severe
which occurred last month.
cival Street yesterday-morning. His record in the many fields in According to the driver, Chan On. which he saw service stands
the girl did not appear to receive alone in never having been the external injuries though she was subject of controversy or chal-picked up in au unconscious co lenge. The conquest of Pales-dition. She was taken to the tine, delivering that country Government Civil Hospital from from centuries of Turkish mis- the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. rule, was a brilliant feat of
where she had first been taken for arms and a triumph of organ-treatment. isation that had immediate re- sults over the whole field of war. By that achievement he
ed modern resources for war across the desert, and in some
The as Ranpars is here from Shanghai
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some
the continent where they have RN, was the first Englishman been most exactingly applied to penetrate into Burrard Inlet, the story of the rise of Van-jon June 13, 1792. As a young couver from tree-stumps to officer Vancouver. had accom❤ skyscrapers is remarkable. panied Captain Cook on his -What is your age?" asked the Fifty years ago there was on second and third voyages in the maristate.
the shores of Burrard Inlet a Pacific. Later he was himself "Twenty-one years and
small community of 2,000 appointed to command an ex- months," replied the woman with people. To-day Vancouver is a pedition to the north-west coast city of 300,000 inhabitants, the of America, with the object third largest in Canada. It is partly of searching for an east- one of the great ports of the ward passage which it was "It's the six of a healthy mental Empire and of the Pacific, a thought might exist to the expected attitude to doubt anything which
focal Great Lakes... to-morrow hasn't been proved," says a psycho-centre of industry, and
point of world communications. logist. We doubt this.
On his passage he touched And in its record of half a cen-South-Western Australia,
"Just how many months? You know you are on your auth?" "A hundred and twenty."
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made for himself an enduring morning at 6 o'clock. place in history as the last, and the only completely successful. St. Andrew's Women's Fellow- If you promise to meet a girl at tury there is promise of tributing some useful additions of the Crusaders:
The camship will hold a launch picnic to 3:20, always be there at 4. Then future of still more distinction to the knowledge of that coast, paign showed genius in the
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and also New Zealand. He utilisation of rapidly-improvis-day, leaving the Police Pier ata
The traveller, coming from discovered the Strait of 12.30 p.m.
the sea or across the coast Georgia, circumnavigated. Van- The Chinese Catholic Young A blushing young woman handed ranges, will reflect only later on couver Island, and, sailing into of its phases illustrated, on auren's Society will be holding an (the telegraph operator a telegram to the reasons for Vancouver's the placid waters of Burrard scale that will never again be "at home" in the Society premises single word, "Tes." Desiring to be and deepest impression cannot narrow border of
be sent which contained only the present importance. His first Inlet, saw before him a very low land" attempted, the possibilities of cavalry when handled by a mas-Jon Sunday next at 3 p.m. during of help, the operator, said: "You ter of that arm. Did that suc-which, the Rev. Fr. T. F. Ryan. know, you can send nine more words fail to be that here is the set- There were Indians here, but ting at least for a splendid city. for the rest nothing but prime- cess stand alone it would assure S.J. will give a talk on Catholic for the same price."
I know, I can." replied the cus- Vancouver is bounded on val forest, walls, of cedar and Lord Allenby's fame so long as Action. Members and their friends
tomer. "but don't you think it would three sides by water. To the fir rising from the water's edge. the story of the world war is are cordially invited.
look like I am too amdous if I said north are the harbour and the home of the bear, deer, and studied, but Jerusalem and
it 10 times 7*
mountains, to the west and wolf. south the Strait of Georgia, and Vancouver died, still a young on the western boundary Stanley man, not long after this voyage, Park, with its tall fir trees. The land is buried at Petersham. A thanksgiving service for the combination is a perfect one of Surrey. But it was to be near- establishment of two new rayon mountain, water, and forest. ly a century before his name factories by Messrs. Courtanids at In plan and architectural was commemorated in Burrard In the retreat from Mons it: "The Four Noble Truths" is the Greenfield, Flintshire, and for the appearance the city itself is not Inlet. The first while settle- was only the handling of the title of the lecture to be given at return of prosperity to the Green-unworthy of this environment, ment on the peninsula he saw cavalry screen under Allenby's the Manuk Lodge of the Theoso-field valley and Flintshire was held for the broad thoroughfares was made from the land, an in- leadership that made possible phical Society, Hong Kong Club recently at the Holywell parish and high buildings characteris- cidental result of the discovery the successful extrication of the Annex, 1b Chater Road, at 6 pm. church. The Bishop of St. Asaph,tic of North America are dis-of gold in the Cariboo, up the Expeditionary Force, from the to-day by Mr. R. K. Laing. Dr. W. T. Havard, preached the played on the Vancouver penin-Fraser Valley.. [encirclement attempted by the
(Continued On Page 10) Germans. After a brief inter- Mrs. Branson, wife of ML. V. C. Analyst to the Medical trating, as only a great master Department, arrived frum Home of his particular arm could, the yesterday morning on the P. and aggressive power of cavalry, in o. liner Corfu, accompanied by harassing the retreat of the her young daughter. Germans after the battle of the
Aleppo were only the culmina- The H. Q. R. A. Sergeants' Mess tion of services on the Western fortnightly whist drive and tom- Front that had established for bola will be held in the above mess hirn a reputation as an out-to-morrow. Friday, commencing st standing cavalry leader and (8.30 p.m. army commander-
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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Marne. The change of the war One case of diphtheria was re- to more static conditions gave ported to the local Health authori- him the opportunity of showing ties in the 24 hours ended on Tues- that he was much more than a day. dashing leader of horsemen The battle of Arras in the early months of 1917, with the cap- ture of Vimy Ridge, was suc- cessful almost beyond expecta- tion, and might well have been the prelude to an earlier ending of the war in the West had the attack been instantly support- led by General Nivelle's armies. In France General Allenby, bad proved himself a great soldier in the fullest meaning of that. term; in Palestine he was to JOHN P. Harding, proprietor of enhance his reputation when, as the well-known Harding chain commander of the Egyptian of restaurants in Chicago, finds Expeditionary Force, he re-the breakfasts he cooks himself trieved the situation created by are the best. He employs no less previous failures to break the than 82 expert chefs, yet be cooke lines at Gaza and swept forward his own breakfast every day." It to the complete destruction of consists of two eggs "just sa” the Turkish armies and the and no one in 40 years has ever shattering of German hopes of been able to duplicate his own an Eastern Empire.
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