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The full meaning and value of his performance is given by subtle suggestion, by understatement rather than by exaggeration. There is no difficulty even.. for the foreigner in realising when he is occupying the stage. Apart from bis own pleasing personality, which is winning and not dominating, everything is done to greate the right atmosphere, and So con
Ir is rather remarkable that the tribute to a pleasing illusion. retor commanding the greatest
old ideals which are embodied in A NEW FRONT DOOR the performances" of this famous
actor.
Except therefore as an illusion, or 25 a polished example of im- personation, the acting of M LAN FANG will become less and leas acceptable, because, as art, it will soon reflect very imperfectly the ideals held by the dominant sec tion of the nation, assuming of
course, that a nation is capable of undergoing profound changes in its tastes and standards, and that Ching the most conservative of the nations, is under the dictation of those who know foreign modes, turning its attention from the feminine role in life to the ex: treme masenline. All the evidence points that way at the present moment, and the doctrine is being as the only assiduously preached path of salvation.
Three cases of small-pox (Chinese) and one of diphtheria (Indian) were reported during the week-end.
The Hong Kong boxing Associa tion is holding its second tourna ment of the season at the Theatre Hayal at .15 p.m. next Saturday.
Grant.
FOR HONG KONG.
THE JUMBLE AT THE ENTRANCE GATE.
A SUGGESTION.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
The opening of the Peninsula
LIKIN FARMER ARRESTED.
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EXTORTION ON THE WEST RIVER.
OFFENDERS FALL INTO A TRAP.
HINDRANCE TO TRADE.
Hotel is only another sign that OUR CRINESE CORRESPONDENT
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CANTON, November 28th.
CHINESE SEAPLANE
FLIGHT.
PRELIMINARY PLANS.
SURVEY OF CHINA'S SEA.. RIVER AND AIR ROUTES,
[BY R. VAUGHAN FOWLER.).
It will be remembered that General Cheung Wai Jung, Chief of the Canton Aviation Bureau, left Canton on the 11th inst. flying. e Ryan landplane, to carry out an aerial survey of the air routes of China...
Last week the sister machine to
with floats, but otherwise is
General Cheung is flying.
Hong Kong needs a new front door. Our entrance was once in Wanchai. at Jardine's old wharf, but the town grew westward and its door-
Reports have come to hand that the most extortionate likin tax way moved to Queen's Boad Cen- tral, at that time on the bench collector. in Hou Lit on the West River, a man named Ko Kwan Then reclamations came and we
Koon has been arrested bythe Ryan arrived in Canton. She is acquired, our present doorstep.
But meantime the big ships have the 4th Army and brought to Shiu exactly the same as the machine Brigadier-General Yu Han Mow of
fittedl habit of docking developed a
hing where he now is detained. straight away at Kowloon, so that most of our visitors came in through the back yard, littered as it is with rails and ropes, and painfully pick their way along the busy wharves to the Star Ferry. It is not a good entrance to a great city. That city will soon be far bigger on the Kow. loon side than on the island, and then the space between the Wharf Gates, the Ferry, and the Station, will indeed be the front door, front garden, and hallway of Hong Kong, and one of the world's crossroads.
The Master of Napier and the Hon. Mr. Napier returned to the
No one can pretend that the pre- Colony yesterday from their honey-sent jumble is the best we could moon in Manila by the ss. Presidento The Station is the most im- posing building there, though by no means worthy of one of the most remarkable sites in the World. Mean Chinese shops and tenements abut on the space, and the Wharf
"The T.S.S. Pangkor built to the order of the Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., will be launched at Taikoo Dockyard at 10.13 a.m. to-morrow.
There will be a popular lecture at the Helena May "Institute on December 3rd--at 5.30 p.m., when
Wireless,"—ADVY. -
and Godown Company has an en- trance which was fitting enough in the old days, but seems very poor
The arrest of the collector was the result of numerous complaints lodged with the Headquarters of the Brigadier-General at Shishing by the shipping merchants. These merchants have been harrassed for a long time by Government likin collectors. "Squeeze has been the order of the day and shipping firms have had to pay from ten to twenty times the amount legally fixed by the Government.
If the amount
General Chan Hing Wan, Com- mander of the Forts, who is ad- ministering tho Aviation Bureau in the absence of General Cheung, is drawing up plans to fly the Ryan' seaplane on un aerial survey of the sen and river air routes, of China.
The preliminary plaas include a fight from Canton to the follow ing places-Foochow Shangbai, Chefoo, Newchwang, Tientsin, Naz- king, Anking, Nanchang, Hangchow,
Changsha and Canton."
asked was not, produced, the cargo would not be allowed to proceed. Finally the merchants filed vigorous complaints with Brigadier-General General Chan will have one pilot..... Yu and an official was sent to the and one mechanic with him, and port of Hou Lit. The official dishe hopes to complete the flight in guised himself as a shipping mer- ten to fourteen days, but of course, chant and chartered a ship to take
cargo to Canton. While the ship he says, if the pressure of work in- was passing through Hou Lit, it vestigating local conditions at each" had to pay the extortions complained landing place is too heavy, he may of. The man first argued and then have to extend his stopping times.
-14 Years A Pilot. Early in 1914 General Chan went
Mujer Miles, R.E., will speak on to-day. There are waste lots near paid. With this evidence in hand
A Chinese Lime Kiln master was accidentally shot in the right foot as he was deaning a double bac reled shot-gun at Ping Chow yes- terday. He was brought to Hong Kong by P.S. Stewart on board the No. 2 Police launch and taken to the Government Civil Hospital."
A Japanese sailor on the 8.3 Trugard Mark was taken to the
Government Civil Hospital in a serious condition yesterday evening, He fell down a batchway whe placing beams over it and was picked up unconscious. His skull was found to be" fractured.
Kowloun inland lot, No. 2136. adjoining Sai Yeung Choi Street and inland lot 1784, an area of 1.054 feet and of an annual' rental uf 812 was yesterday sold at the Crown Land Office to Mr.J. Schlotke, of 28, Argyle Street (and floor). Mongkok, for $2,200. The upset price wna 81,550.
by, criss-crossed with ragged foot- paths, and there is an eyesore for the accommodation of the semi- obsolete rickshaw.
.
he went back to report the caso)
to his superior who at cace order to England to learn to fly, he ed the arrest of the likin farmer joined the Beatty Flying School at Ko Kwan Koon and had him
brought back to Shiubing.
situation, if the Government has It is net top late to save the
In a circular notification to all not yet done so. The Tsim Sha the likin collectors in the West Tsui hill is Crown Land, and covers space enough to make a splendid River districts Brigadier-General open space when the development Yu states, that these extortions are of the city makes it necessary. All that is needed at present is a Town
4 serious matter, as they affect not Plan which treats this centre as only trade and the livelihood of the the focus which it must needs be people in general. but the income of come, and takes a wider view of the Government as well." He fur- the future than that which in the
past has given us the congestion of ther states that the Government has
Caine Road, and some others of long been contemplating the aboli- our chronic and expensive traffiction of the likin. It is because problems.
Hendos, and was' there when the war broke out. At that time his training was all but complete, and Colonel Beatty said that he could'
only complete the course if he would agree to go to France with the Flying Corps.
This is was obviously impossible for General Chan to do, as hè bad learnt to fly with the express object of making an early return to China, and assisting in the development
Town planning is not work for of certain unavoidable conditions of flying in, his own country. anateurs, nor even for architeats that this has not been done." he Reluctantly he had to stop flying and surveyors who have not made concludes. a special study of what has been done elsewhere. Would it not be good business to hold a world-wide competiton for the best plan and general scheme for a town centre at Tsim Sha Tsuit Perhaps there' An autopsy performed on Miss might at the same time be same Frances Newman, the novelist regulation made as to the style,
sensation.
,,-,
4
Per-
The
at Hendon, and so as not to delay The circular notification then he went to, America where he quick goes on to relate the offences of the ly finished his training, Government" likin collectors all along the West River
At present it is not decided who "There is will be the other pilot on this absolutely no standard to their flight, but it is possible, if work assessment," the notification con permits," that Colonel Chow Pr Hang, who commands the Training School at Tai Shn Tau will be selected.
GANG OF TEN ROBBERS.
Virgin," who died in New York ings in the neighbourhood. author of "The Hard-boiled height and elevations of new build- tinues. The Government regula last month in an hotel, revealed haps when the new City Hall comes tions are flung, to the winds and traces of veronal. The "New York to be built, as someday it must, greedy officials exact as much as World" states that Miss Newmän it can be built there and set the announced her intention of com pattern for other buildings.
they cati. Very often wood fucl
The Ryan seaplane should be mitting suicide by taking veronal Wharf and Godown. Company may which is supposed to be free from ready in a few days for test, and on the Tuesday before ber death improve its entrance, and the re: any sort of duty is classed as s soon as these have been satis Friends dissuaded Her from the at quisite property be resumed before material for building and heavily factorily completed the fight w tempt at the time, but she continued it becomes too dear. Even if no
"commence, it not being proposed to to discuss her intentions with them road is cut and no stone laid for taxed. All arguments and per- await the return of General Cheung Yet one cannot help feeling that with the same frankness that made
years we can secure respect in China should be one who 31x LAN FANG, belongs to a period her Hard-boiled Virgin such against costly obstructions to future ed merchant are disregarded. He is
ourselves suasion on the part of the oppress from the north.
development. impersonates, a woman. The fact of Chinese history which is now is symbolical and significant. In dead.
And in the meantime why not give not allowed to proceed with his He represents a tradition Thirteen: hundred bottles of the Botanical and Forestry Depart journey until he has complied with Europe we have had. cases of which is passing, if it has not brandy, presumably intended for
ment a free hand to plant quick the demands of the likia cficers festive New Yorkers on Election growing flowers and flowering women such as Vesta Tilley achiev-afready passed. It was an age of Night and Thanksgiving Day, were shrubs, on.
Such uctions Rre worse thap all those ugly waste ing a certain measure of distine much submission, courtesy, and discovered secreted in
various spaces? The owners would co-banditry and are directly contrary places in the liver Fraure when she operate no doubt, and much could to the established rules and regula tion by assuming male parts. gentleness in ordinary intercourse, docked at New York. The dis- be done along the railway. In This, however, was on the variety but China has suffered the evils of covery was made by a special two or three years we could have ations of the Government. Any one stage and not in legitimate drama. civil war, and the South has tastarching squad of twenty-five Pro-front gardes" giving pleasure caught hereafter will be severely
hibition agents. The bottles were every day to the thousands who found in all parts of the ahip, but pass and repass this point. never in lots of more than half-a-expense need not be great. There Cuzen. They were hidden in the
is no need to plant those iron rails in unoccupied
and granite curbs which are so strik crew's quarters, cabins and among the cargo. The ing a feature of all public gardens. bottles were packed in crates and
A handful of sunflower seeds is less the Government warehouse in Brooklyn" to be des expensive and more effective.
Let our rulers think it over, troyed." recording to the Prohibi- tion agents, though some knowing persons affect incredulity.
.nature.
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dealt with."
HONG KONG $50 NOTES.
ACCEPTED AGAIN IN CANTON.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]
CANTON, NOV. 28th. Now that directions have been
.. RAID NEW TERRITORY
MATSHED...
A matshed belonging to a farmer of Sheung Kwai Ching in the New Territories, named Lai Kui, was very early raided yesterday moru. ing by a gang of ten robbers armed with bamboo poles and n one case with a scissor blade used is a dagger. The man was aroused by his dog parking and when his younger brother went to the door the
gang rushed in and seizing the occupants of the shed bound them with pieces of wire and hit them with the bamboo, poles. The gang ansacked the place and departed with loot valued at $27.
WEATHER REPORT.
Members are advised that they
their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosure.
Each Member has the right to in- troduce 2 Non-members to the Members' Enclosure, "Tickets for whom can be obtained from Moears. LTEAD & Davis, No actor in Europe has risen toed the joy of battle and the fruits
Each to FRIDAY, 30rx
UP 1928.
the highest rank in his profession of victory. There is not the same to the Members Enclosure will be $2.60. by playing such parts as ME LAN spirit abroad, and probably for Each Member can obtain, upon Applica FANG takes, and therein lies & that reason MEI LAN FASG is not tion to the SECRETARY Badges for world of "difference between the so universally popular as he was,taken away to Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge,
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, etc., Occident and the Orient, for the especially in the South. Kwang- will not be permitted to operate with in the Precincts of the HONG KONG stage, as Shakespeare or some one tung now claims to be the senior else saya, holds up the mirror to province of China, for she pro- JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting.
N.H-Attention is drawn to a Change
The Duke of York told a gather- in Routine at above" Meeting. He
duced SUN YAT SEN, the revolution, Terms of a new contract made by ing at Croydon that he considered entered for Racer will not bear Dis-
a camp boy's remark that he (the It portrays that which the people nationalism and the army which the Soviet Government with the tinctive Numbers in the Race Book as
International General Electric Duke) was "a human being "to beretofore, but Starters as they are
want portrayed and that which swept up and over China. The Company for the purchase by be the greatest compliment he had issued by the Hong Kong" and weighed out will be Numbered Canse.
they desire should exist in real glory has departed from Peking mens include recognition by Russin The Duke was speaking at the Shanghai Bank as to how to remarks issued by the Royal Obser Russia of £5,000,000 worth of equip ever had paid to him in his life entirely, and such Numbers exhibited on the Board All Horsea starting in
The Chinese would seem, and has come, to Cauton, which for a settlement of all the claims National Conference on the Welfare differentiate good notes from bad, vatory, Hong Kong, at 5.15 pm.... Race will display & Saddle Cloth bearing therefore, to exalt the feminine does not encourage the grand cere- of the International General Elec. of Youth at Park-lane Bchool Hall, the 860 notes of the Bank are yesterday state: a Number corresponding to the
The anti-cyclone has increased tric Company for confiscation of Croydon He said he overheard Board Number and sath Number will role in life, and to reject the more monial, the regal splendour, and the company's property during the one boy at the Duke of York's Camp again being accepted by the mer slightly in intensity. The typhoon also apply to PAR! Moṛuzl and
robust and virile side with which the politeness of the north. That is Bolshevist revolution. This is beat New Romney say to another, thants of Canton. It will be reappears to be atationary about 100 SWEEP TICKETS.
Why's he's a human being," 1 membered that about two weeks miles east of the Macclesfield Bank. we are familiar. In this respect the reason why we hear murmurs in lieved to be the first recognition by
Moscow of the validity of such mention this, not because I want ago there were in the city a large the second typhoon is situated ME: LAN FANG's performance if a Hong Kong about the plays being claims, and is said to mark a new
to blow my own trumpet," said the number of counterfeit banknotes. about 350 miles N.N.E. of Yap, model of perfection. There is in the northern dialect, as though precedent by which Moscow hopes Duke, "but because it just shows. The bankers here refused to accept moving West. Cyclonic gaics will
to regain the confidence of inter- how easy it is to get young people any more, owing to the extrcine continue over the China Sea, grace and charm about his move- | that "were now something which national financiera Mr. C. H. to respond." The Duke-referred to dificulty of differentiating the Local forecast: N. winds, fresh, ment, a real delicacy and rehne had better, be forgotten as repre national General Electric Company oldatory leaders, and said he did directions from the Bank in Hong
Minor, president of the fater the recruiting and preparations of good from the bad. But with full cloudy: rain later. ment in his postures, exquisite senting the effete culture of the issued a statement that the cam- not, suppose there was ever a time Kong, the notes are circulating as more before. However, the local bankers blending of colour and texture in Manchus The South is assortise nauy's claims egregate £350,000, when real leaders were
adding: Provision is made on the urgently needed in every departare still very curious and will not This costumes and Ebove all and clamorous for its rights and options farcontest for the tomat kule Will you be what accept a 850 note until they have in about Long. 116 E. and Lat. "general—restraint in his acting privileges, and has discarded the settlement of all claims."
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