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號叁拾百仟堂萬式第日玖拾月叁辰戊 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 8th, 1928. 式拜禮
“CITY OF TRAGIC WIFE TOO OLD AT FORTY-
WIVES."
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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5,08 6.19 8.07
8.18 6.30 8.17
5.93 438 8.91
741 8.45 0.13.10.15.10.58 19.18 2,19 3.30 3.40
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SINGAPORE!
NOTHING TO DO..
MEN PROSPEROUS AND BUSY,
'DIVORCE FOR AN AGE LIE IN GERMANY.
FOUR YEARS DEDUCTED.
BERLIS, April 10th,
Is a women of forty-four too old to marry a man of thirty-fivet The German Supreme Court of Appeal at Leipzig declared that she is, and cousequently has pheld the de cision of a Tower court granting a divorce to a man because his wife, when marrying him, had stated her age to be forty, when she was really forty-four.
To-day.
\(May 8th.)
Registered a Newspaper at the Ceneral Post Office in the United Kingdom.
St.
Ping Pong Tournament Peter's Young Men's Club.
Queen's Theatre: "The Ace of Cada"
World Thestre: “The Sap.”. Star Theatre: Diplomacy." Tea Dances: HE Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Frincipal Mails Outward: Europe, vid Marseilles (Chenon- craut), 2.30 p.m.; Europe vid San- Francisco, 9.30 p.m.
The London Daily Express has the following article from Singa
with pore signed
the Intials W.S.L.B." Singapore is a city of tragic wives. There are thousands of us, pale and bored, dressed in mono- tonous whitewash dresses," fret ting away an exile's life in the
The wife maintained that the hottest city in the British Empire.
You may see a in the early difference between a woman of forty morning, before the spot-light of and one of forty-four was so slight the sun reveals the glaring build that it could not possible beGeorge V. ings in a shadowless darrle, list-ground for divorce. lessly poking through the shopa
Depressing Parties.
The wires of Singapore find so thrill in shopping. We gather at noon in restaurants, in hotels, to hold depressing "pahit parties A number of us try to drink away ennui with gin and bitters. Then comes a bat, fitful sleep beneath a suffocating mosquito net
who
their
At night we dance sometimes with young bachelors fresh from home
still retain northern vigour and insouciance. We play feverish bridge for heavy stakes or motor out through the unchanging and merciless rubber plantations with the sickly odour of latex and acid hanging in the still night sir.
One day rolls into another. Heat pahits, and gossip. The tragedy of the Singapore wife is that she has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do. Housework and bringing up children are unheard of where boys can be hired for £1 a week sad ayaks (nurses) for less.
Junction Of Commerce. And yet of all the cities in the "Far East Singapore is the most blessed. While civil war rages round Shanghai and Peking, while Hong Kong echoes with the mur derous atrocities of Canton, Singe pore, great junction of all Eastern commerce, and the mouth of the greatest river of rubber in the world, is thriving.
Stately buildings are rising along the water front. New hotels are projected. Harbour develop ment grows space. The "roads" are packed with the greatest maze of shipping in the Far East.
The men, is their crinkly white suits and topecs, are busy making and unmaking fortunes. No men in the East are as prosperous and busy as the Singapore men.
But the Singapore wives-they are forgotten.
It was affirmed by the edurt, how, ever, that it was a serious blow for a man of thirty-five to discover that his wife was nine years older than himself, when he married her in the belief that that she was only five years his senior.
ADMIRAL COLLARD
RETURNS.
ADMIRALTY RECEIVE COURT'S REPORT.
LONDON, April 12th. Rear-Admiral Collard, dressed in mufti, returned to Southampton from Gibraltar yesterday by the Orient liner Otranto. When asked whether he would make any state- ment regarding the Royal Oak in cidents which led to the recent courts-martial he replied: "No, not a word. I am sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot say anything."
"Aiked, whether he was going to London, be said: “I am afraid I cannet even tell yon thakot
The Rear-Admiral will immediate ly report himself to the Admiralty.
Capt. Dewar and Comdr. Daniel, were sentenced by courts- who martial to be dismissed their ship, are due in London from Gibraltar to-day.
Both officers have received many telegrams of sympathy including one from members of the British Legion thanking them for the efforts they have made on behalf of discipline in the Navy. Neither Capt Dewar nor Comdr. Daniel proposes to take any action until time as the Board of such Admiralty have had time to con- sider the full report of the court- martial proceedings.
The full Board of Admiralty sat late yesterday evening at the Ad- miralty. It is understood that the Almost every day a liner slips official report of the Royal Oak into port and disgorges several courts-martial had been despatched hundred perspiring travellers from the as Ranpura by train They flock to the hotels-most of from Plymouth yesterday morning them thrilled with mythical and was being given preliminary Eastern glamour-pad fill the halla consideration. Mr. C. M. Pitman, with the buzz of their talk. the Judge Advocate of the Fleet,
In the background, in wicker was in attendance.. chairs just looking on, are the Singapore wives. Here at Rafles,
in the Europe or the Adelphi, they find an atmosphere,' real or unreal, that they breathe into their suffocated souls.
It is easy to distinguish them. Just a trace of shadow beneath the eyes, a mouth a "trifle hardened, those tiny tired wrinkles that the sun soon brings, and a dull tan pallor.
Return To The Old Life. Young first contract" mea, griffins
"they are called, are their prey. A synthetic return to the "old life," funny stories, in terested conversation, attention- the Singapore wives find thess in the companionship of young un- castornised men.
Perhaps, this too, is another tragedy-for the young gien. Annually a regular quota." are sent home for living beyond their means to make eleme
Singapore is a Chinese puzzle of marital tangles famed throughout other cities in the East.
peace.
OLD COMRADES OF ST.
DUNSTAN'S.
BLIND EX-SERVICEMEN JOIN
IN DANCING,
I
"In spite of the financial depres sion of the last few years, St. Dunstan's is keeping its end ap. want every sightless ex-Service mau in this country to be able to realise that he need have no fear for the future."
Captain Ian Fraser, the blind Conservative M.P., and Chairman of St. Dunstan's, spoke these reas suring words at the thirteenth so- und dance in commemoration of the foundation of 6t, Dustan's, which was held at St. Marylebone Hall on April 10th.
The festival was a jolly, rollick. ing gathering of old comrades, who had perhaps not met for many months, and were glad to discuss On the other hand, it is a city memories of the first days of stum- of beautiful homes, great, broad bling darkness which they had spent boulevards, exquisite gardens an together, we architectural model of domesticThey are now, most of them, use ful and occupied citizens, living full and contented lives, working hard at basket-making or massage, and supplementing their pensions in no uncertain manner. Most of them had wives or sweethearts with them; and no one but a close obt Banks, shipping, buildings, hotels server would have noticed the skilf and the magnificent new post office with which these devoted women tower along the seashore. Inside steered their men through a fox- the breakwater that stretches aking-trot or a walte..!"
First And Last Scene. The town is scattered along the low sandy shores of the island, and from the sea can be seen the smoke clouds of rubber mills at work night and day.
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Wednesday, (May 9th.) Proclamation of HM King
Queen's Theatre: The Ace of Cade
› World Theatre: “ The Sap.”.
Star Theatre: "Diplomacy." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel sed Hotel Savoy, 4.30
p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Principal Mail:- Outward: Europe +id Vancouver and Europe vid Siberia (Empren of Russia), 10
6. H,
Thursday.
(May 10th.)
Jumble Sale: Lecture Hall of
Union Church, 9.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Garden of Eden."
World. Theatre: **The Lone Eagle"
Star Theatre: Three Weeks in Paris'
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel_and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p..
Principal Mail:-Inward: Out- Europe vid Sues (Delta). ward: Europe via fiberia (Della), 3.30 pm.
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Queen's Theatre: The Garden of Eden.".
World Theatre: "The Lone Eagle.”
Star Theatre: "Three Works in Paris,
Tea Dances H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.20 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
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Sunday. (May 13th) Rogation Sunday.
Macao Baces. Queen's Theatre: **The Missing Link."
World Theatre: You'd Be Burprised."
'Star Theatre: "Iz Zat Sot" Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Monday. (May 14th) British and Foreign Bible Society, Annual Meeting of the Auxiliary Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Missing Link
You'd Be
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Star Theatre: "Iz Zat So!!!.. Tes Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4:30 p. King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Tuesday. (May 15th) Sanitary Board meeting 4.15 p.m.
St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club Ping Pong Tournament, 6,30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Missing
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Widows"
the front are hundreds of small In the cloak-room a partly blind World Theatre: shipa
attendant handed out coats and hats; and a band which could not see the music, which it played so professionally, kept the feet of the dancera bury until eleven o'clock.
The first thing you will notics on arrival at Bingapore, and the last you will forget, are the haunt ing eyes of Bingapore wives.
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