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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1938:
17 Days HONG KONG to VANCOUVER By
DIRECT EXPRESS ROUTE FROM YOKOHAMA 18 DAYS VIA HONOLULU, PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC
Air-conditioned, equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to European ports.
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Empress of Japan on Friday, May 20th.
AT 6 P.M.
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THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
Prices per metric ton delivered, as follows:—
Peak District
$31.00
Bowen Road & Lower Levels
29.00
Kowloon
28.00
Repulse Bay
32.00
Pokfulum
31.00
Shek-O & Stanley
32.00
Clients are hereby informed that deliveries of Household Coal can only be made if cheque or cash for the supply is sent with the order.
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G. FALCONER & CO (HONG KONG LTD.) WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS, DIAMOND MERCHANTS, UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)
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ROSS BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manufacturers,
High Class English Jewellery.
Phillip Reed, Brian Aherne and Constance Bennett in a scene from "Merrily We Live," at the King's Theatre. The film is one of the most amusing comedies seen in Hong Kong for a long time.
BELGIAN CABINET'S FIRST MEETING
Brussels, To-day.
COST OF STEEL COACHES (AND SAFETY):
£21,000,000
London, May 6.
It would cost British railways approximately $21,000,000 to give their wooden coaches
The new Belgian Government nearly all held its first meeting yesterday new steel bodies, which, experi- afternoon for the purpose of draw-ment has proved, will not telescope
in accidents. ing up a Government declaration to Parliament to-day.
From reliable sources it is learnt that the declaration will announce the continuation of the policy of independence on the lines of the Royal declaration of October, 1936, and also of national rearmament within the orbit of the country's financial resources.
As regards domestic àffairs, it is generally expected that the new Government will strive for realisa- tion
The experiments were conducted for the French National Railways last December. A report on them was commented on by the English Railway Gazette last week.
New one-piece shells of steel were made to fit over the chassis of old wooden coaches. The in- teriors were unaltered and the weight of the coaches was not increased.
28-M.P.H. CRASH
of a series of far-reaching Then, drawn by a powerful foco- administrative reforms with re-motive, a steel coach was sent spect to the promotion of the Bel- crashing at twenty-eight miles an gian_export_trade.
hour into a wooden coach__train.
An earnest attempt will likewise supported by strong buffers. be made to reach a settlement in The only damage to the test the Flemish question. It was be-coach was a broken window at the ing stated in political quarters end of the body. here yesterday evening that the
The wooden coach bodies they Catholic Party intends to insist
had steel underframes were de- upon the despatch of a Belgian trade agent to Burgos. Ocean.
Trans-
THIS NEW DANCE
IS A "RACKET
stroyed.
French railways have thus solved a difficult problem of cost in their drive to replace all wooden by steel coaches..
CONVERSION COSTS £630
It costs £6,800 in France to build a steel coach, but no more than £630 to convert a wooden coach to steel. France already has 58 per cent. rolling-stock made of steel.
A new dance, inspired by a strenuous game on a tennis court, is being popularised by two Amer- Britain has only 15 per cent. ican dancers, Ramon and Renita. About 35,000 more coaches could They got the idea for the steps
be converted to steel at a cost of from noticing each other's agile little more than £600 each. movements and unconsciously Britain then could step into line graceful positions during a swift with Germany, which has 98 per cent, steel coaches, and the United
set.
Singapore Raw Rubber
The new dance has three chief States, which has 85 per cent. movements, known as the stream- line spin, the cabriole, and the preparation leap, all the move- ments being based on those actual- ly made by people playing tennis.
Each of the partners in the dance carries a regulation tennis racket in one hand.
Miss Alice Kwok, of the Y.W.C.A has reported the loss of three foun- tain pens, valued at $25, from the premises:
Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co., have received the following quota- tions in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber:
July/Sept. 19-4 b. down %. Oct/Dec. 20 b. down %, Jan/March 20-% b. down i Market: Dull,