THOMAS ATKINS' NEW HOME.
(BY BIN PERCIVAL PHILLIPA. ]
SHANGHAI, March 12th. Thomas Alkins has concluded that, after all, Shanghai is got such a bad place.
Tho infantry battalions found Shanghai unprepared to house, let
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY
ENGLISH PEOPLE LIVING COMMUNISM IN SHIPPING.
LONGER.
OUTDOOR GIRL AND THE
VICTORIAN LADY.
HEALTHY LONDON BABIES.
The average expertation of life for men in England and Wales in
GILLIETTI'S COSTLY
FAILURE.
ROME.
The famous Communist Seamen's Federation, the Garibaldi, crganis ed and directed by its president, Captain Giulietti, of Genon, is nearing its doleful spilogue before the penal courts, where Captain under who has been Giulietti.
alone entertain, so many perman-treased by eight years between the arrest since January 9th this year,:
ent paying guests from over-seas. Even now, with the local park turn- ed into a city of hutments, tents
covering many open spaces on the edge of Suburbia, and public. buildings transformed into bar- racks, the Settlement is untomfort- ahly crowded.
period 1901-1910 and 1924, according to statistic compiled by the Regis
rar feneral's Somerset House.
BOW
Department at
is summoned to appear to answer. for the alleged disappearance or malversation of the greater part of the funds, amounting to 31,000,000 lire, collected in the name of the federation. For three years Italian seamen, organised into an alleged Communist co-operative union, had & fixed been asked to contribute amount from their wages, and ship- owners were compelled, by methods of forcible porauasion, to contribute an equal amount to the federation. Last January what remained of the federation's funds were found in the secret possession of the fiduciary fow million irc. of Captain Giulietti, and amouni- ed to only a Giulietti was unable to account for the remainder, and was arrest "The modern outdoored in Rome.
The can expectation of life is 38.58 years for meu, whereas for the period 1838 to 1551 it was only 30.91 years, Women live even longer than men, taking the average. The mean ex pectation for women now has gone up to 60.47 years.
un-
Then the question of expense The cost of living appalled our
Swoons And Smelling Salts. inen. Beer at is. Id. a bottle is n
"People of all classes are Juxury for the favoured few, and Thomas Atkins's face grew very doubtedly healthier to-day than they were in the past," said Dr. Charles long indeed when he first went forth Thomson, chairman of the Educa to inspect the resorts where mention Committee of the Institute of gather for a friendly drink. He Hygiene, found he was at dieadvantage.woman, for instance, with her golf and tennis and rowing and walking, American sailors and marines, might be a symbol of modern con- What a contrast to the whose pay is three times as much,ditions.
· appeared in the guise of plutocrats. Victorian young lady, with her Atking could not stand bis shares and her smelling eaits.
when the nations foregathered after the day's duty.
Moreover, he lacked the ordinary -comforts of a garrison town or a There was no foreign station. place where he could read the home papers-ar magazines in comfort, write his lettera, and buy odds and ends at a fair price.
answer
A judicial inquiry was instituted, with the result that the Procurator- General of the Appeal Court of Genoa has drawn up an indictment for the accomplices to against Giulietti and five alleged "What is making the Registrar- disappearance of the huge funds. General's statistice so much more In its halcyon days Giulietti's Bo much that federation not only collected mil- encouraging is not adults are living longer as that in lions, but also possessed a fleet of heing lowered.five merchant steamers, generously fant mortality is That is what gives the greater given by the Government at a nominal price. These were even- expectation of life.
tually reclaimed by the Govern- London is oue of the healment when they were practically Giulietti's Cam- thiest cities in the world for abandoned by babies. The infant mortality rate munist federation, which, owing to here in marvellous.
the excessive wages paid to its selv- trien, demanded excessive prices for cargoes, and was unable to establish a profitable trade. The only pro- fit made by the federation, it is alleged, was made by its president and the board of advisers.
One of the reasons is that we But the British colony soon have the best health visitors in the An country. Women doctors, toe, are busied itself with his needs.
helping enormously." energetic committee of women, headed by Lady Barten, wife of the Consul-General, secured recreation rooms which were furnished and
Insurance companies have for years based their premium charges upon the assumption of greater longevity amongst women," said the manager of a well-known insurance. The last report of opened to the troops in an amaz-institution. ingly short time. Major-General lie Institute of Actuaries upon which we work-shows that a man -Duncan at once took up the matter mortality and they are those upon of providing beer at a reasonable of 40, who is a first-class life' may expect to live until 70, while a figure.
woman of the same age can expect four years' longer life."
British residents have shown their traditional hospitality by enter- taining officers and men and mak- ing them feel at home. They have been given special theatrical per- formances, and others are being organised. Unfortunately they can do little in providing what the troops miss most-the absence of adequate facilities for sport. The dearth of football grounds is bit terly commented on at every con- vivial gathering. It cannot be helped. You canunt suddenly trausform the streets of Bloomsbury or the outskirts of Pimlico into playing fields for soldiers.
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"WOMEN LIVE LONGER." Commenting on these figures the Daily Mirror says:-
"any.
Statistics, which prove thing." now prove, it seems, that women live longer than men; and the experts give us an explanation.
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG.
MAT 15TH, 1927, 4th Bunday kier
Faster-
Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Children's Service at 10 a.m.
at 11 6.10.2 Mating
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UNION CHURCH (KENNEDY ROAD). SUNDAY SERVICES, May 15th:- Sunday School at 9.36 .. Morning Service at 10.30 am,
Hymns: 66, 141, 642 and 473. Evening Service at 0 p.m.
Hymne: 52, 671, 182, 611 and 836. Preacher at both Services:
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DAY. May 19th, at 8.15 p.m.- and Sailors' Christian As
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They say that women are "natur- ally better able to resist disease- a reason like that of Molière's doc tore, who said that opium senda men to sleep because it has soporific virtue. And now we know that women live longer than men because they have longer lives.
For those not satisfied by this ex- planation, there may be another.
Worry, it is said, kills moet people Do women worry less than
en 1
The new "front line" reflects the tendency of Thomas Atkins to
They do not. They worry a great take England with him wherever he deal. But perhaps they do not re- press and conceal their troubles so goes. His sandbagged shelters and
In other words, they talk Jug-outs bear such familiar names much.
Park-line" and "Whitehall." You will find a "Marble Lodge more: they give freer expression to their troubles. So they help them- worry by Hampstead Villa" newly selves to get rid of arisen amid the mysterious man-spreading it about, till it diffuses The self, like smoke that grows thin sions of wealthy Chinese.
as it gradually melts into the air. memory of a famous salient has in- Besides spired less poetic titles. one bit of trench that commands an entirely peaceful countryside is planted a signboard with the fami- liur inscription,
Fire "Hell Corner,"
*
*
At one place in the British Cor- don is a post which furnishes a striking contrast between the mili- iarism of the West, which the Chi- nese so angrily denounce, and that of their own country.
TEA WITH LORD ROSEBERY.
LITTLE HOSTESSES TO THE
ROYAL VISITORS.
Seated in a shadowy room in his his old country mansion, a vener- able statesman watched his two little grand-daughters at play. Sud- denly a bell rang, the door opened, and a manservant announced:
It is the boundary road that faces Shanghai North railway station. On one side are British soldiers quietly on guard or walking about with a cheerfully casual air, die Their Majesties the King and ciplined yet free, if ever men wore Queen, my lord." This happened free. Beyond is the station fore one Saturday afternoon in April at court filled with the sullen, trucu- Durdane, the Epsom home of Lord lent men of Marshai Chang Tsung Rosebery who bad with him 11- Chang's Shantung-Chibli army.years-old Ruth Primrose, daughter The barricade between divides Bri- of the Hou. Neil Primrose who fell tain from the Middle Ages.
in the war, and 7-years-old Priscilla Stand bere and you will see the Bullock, her half-sister, whose father Execution Patrol" of 16 swords is Capt. Malcolm Bullock, M.P. men strolling about with the dread Lord Rosebery was alone except for "Arrow" symbol of life and death, the little girls, and so, the children ready as a moment's notice to lop found themselves in the position of off an unwanted head. You will joint hostesses to the royal visitors. Bee groups of wretched prisoners, The King and Queen, who had tied together like cattle, herded motored from Windsor, took tea and into railway carriages en route to stayed for an hour and a half. execution beyond the city, each vie- The King and Queen afterwards lim trussed upright with a rope trave to Epsom Downs to inspect knotted around his neck and drawn the new grandstand. They did not tout to the luggage rack above. So leave the car, however, it being they are left for hours, sometimes driven slowly past in order that they might note the improvements that have been made.
for days.
Horses Preferred.
You will see the necessary equip ment for Chinese troops in battle array trundled along in earts for shipment to the front. Could there
His two little grandchildren are be a stranger commentary on the Lord Rosebery's greatest joy and: difference between the old warfare comfort and Ruth is one of his most The aged and the new? We are in the age constant companions.
you 500
of tanks and tear shell, yet what statesman he will be 80 on May are clumsy spears in 7th--still takes his daily drive in his bundles, side by side with bales of old-fashioned carriage drawn by two paper umbrellas.
greatly-prized bays, and very tre quently Ruth sits beside him and reads to him during the rides into the country.
To Thomas Atkins, it is the strangent of the many strange sights in Shanghai-Daily Mail.
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