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SHANGHAI OPIUM
SEIZURE.
BOATSWAIN AND CUSTOMS OFFICERS ARRESTED.
ALLEGATION OF BRIBERY.
Shanghai. July 12-Foilowing a large seizure of opium on board the 1.C.S.N... Kungwe at Kiukiang and allegations of bribery, one crem
ber of the vessel's crew and five of
DANCING PARIS.
FLOOR AS A ROULETTE TABLE.
AND DANCERS AS PAWNS.
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Paris-Paris gambles 13 dances, and Paria is dancing more than it ever did even in the "days of the Revolution when wild-eyed Parisiana danced their rounds in the
streets while the guos were shelling
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929.
MOST DARING PICTURE.
LONDON ART SHOW SENSATION,
WHAT AN AMBASSADOR DID NOT SEE,
The most daring nude pictur
ever painted Salome "was re-
TRAPPED SAILORS.
NEW SUBMARINE RESCUE DEVICE.
VETERAN'S INVENTION,
[United Fress.]
Bridgeport, Connecticutt. --After neary tvo years of inventing, Simon Lake, famous submarine de
THE SUN CHAU.
CHEUNG CHAU ISLAND'S
: NEW FERRY.
SUCCESSFUL TRIALS.
On Tuesday a successful trial wa carried out of the Sun Chau, buil to the order of the Hong Kong & New Territories Ferry Co., Ltd., by, the Taikoo Dockyard & Engi
moved from the New Burlington signer, has built what he believes Deering Co of Hong Kong, Ltd.
cers of the Customs were arrested by the Bastille, writes Princess AG Galleries, when the Spanish Am is one of the most ingenious devices.Representatives from the owners,
dancers as human pawns,
Frazil. But to put a little novelty the Chinese authorities there and,
into its dancing, Paris conceived according to the lateat information, are being detained pending an in- the idea of turning the dance floor quiry by the local Commissioner oft roulette, table and using the, Foreign Affairs. Representations by the Commissioner of Customs and H.M. Consul at Kiukiang for the release of the arrested men have Shanghai office of the Indo-China S. S. Co have telegraphed their agent in Kiukiang to see that their employee receives full justice.
so far proved unavailing, and the
Considerable mystery surrounds the actual acizure. According to Kuo Wen mesange, Customs officers boarded the Kangwo when she ar rived in Kiukiang from Hankow on July 3. Searching the ship they came across 14 bags of the drug, weighing between 8,0), and 9,000 taels, The number one" of the erew, identified as the boatswain; is then reported to have offered a bribe of 81,000 to the search party, This was refused, the searchers, according to the message, deinand ing $3,000. Finally a compromise was come to between the boatswain and the searchers, but before this, news of the discovery had reached the military and the whole party were arrested.
Found in the Fore-peak. According to the captain of the Kangwo, the opium was found in
On the door are thirty-six num- bers, just like on the green cloths at Monte Carlo and Deauville. On
the wall beside the orchestra is a
huge wheel with thirty-six numbers. As the jazz leader taps his baton for the dance music to begin, he spins the wheel.
Spinning Wheel.
The wheel turns all during the dance, and the music stops when the wheel stops. The couple which stands on the lucky number when the music stops, wins. The prize may be anything from "a dol: to a dollar, or many dolls or dollars, so Paria is crazy to gamble and dance.
Some dancers try to make a bridge by touching two numbers, like roulette players around the green tables split their chances. Others bet, between themselves on odds and evens, reds and blacks, and often enough fair sums change hands between dances.
The trick the game is to have bunch," find the number on the foor and dance on it until the or
bassador opened the Arst exhibition in England of the work of the
Spanish artist.
famous
Senor
Federico Beltran-Hassés,
It was replaced the following day, the day the exhibition opened to the public.
Salome caused a sensation in
London, writes a Daily Express special correspondent. Beltran Massés has dared all convention in painting a naked woman in, a pose which no lesser artist could have attempted.
to his credit, it was learned here recently. It is called the Remors" Harbour Department, builders and and is an apparatus for rescuing machinery agents were present. trapped anilor from sunken sub- marines, dry and at atmospheric pressure. A small scale model has already been tested at Brooklyn, NY., Navy Yard and is understood to have been recommended to the Nary Department,
The Sun Chau is designed for the Cheung Chau Ferry service and was recently launched at the Taikoo Dockyard by Mr. Hole.
General Description.
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The vessel is 190ft. between per- The remota, Capt. Sloan Dansa- howet, salvage expert and Lake's pendiculars, 23ft. Gin. beam and partner, explained to the United 10ft, moulded depth, and has one Press, is a small fab that attaches complete deck with long bridge. itself to vessels or larger fishes by Built to scantlings approved by the meane of a vacuum protuberage on Hong Kong Government, the vessel. its head. This principle is utilized is designed to carry 300 passengers. She is seen flung back against in Lake's invention for the possible Electric light is fitted throughout. cushions, naked save for two jewel-saving of lives. The device is to and all the necessary life-saving led garters. One hand shades her be used to establish connection be appliances as required by "Covera eyes from the sight of the head tween a sunken submarine and the ment have been supplied and fitted. John the Baptist, which is held rescue submarine Defender, Lake's On trial the vessel proved herself towards her by dark slave, on a rebuilt, 25-year-old craft, A joint to be an efficient craft. vast platter, the rim of which resembling a large articulating pipe touches her body.
is to be attached to the under side Beltran-Massés is one of the most of the Defender's diving compart famous painters of women in the ment. world.
His desh tints are extra- ordinary. In this picture the Resh of Salome seems to shiver with
horror and remorse.
the forpeak and had been brought shoving may result unless they agree tarily for the opening day, Why
1 to split their bes Arc Paris is trying to make its danc-
What went on between the boat
swain and the searchers is obscure.
The New Montmartre.
The
In Montparnasse, which has be come the new Montmartre of Paris, the dancers at the Coupole now darce in a mirror box. The walls, ceilings and floors are mirrors and once the dancers get inside with the orchestra the doors are closed, and they" too are mirrors,
"Colour and Passion."
"A Spaniard," said Senor Bel- tran-Massés, paints not with his brain, but with his emotions. My pictures are colour, passion, emo- tion! I have been to the Royal Academy to look at your English women. They are different. I like them. Orpen and Augustus John! Splendid! But mine are Spanish, sensuous, warm!
80-Ton Pressure.
a
Machinery,
The propelling machinery, sup- plied by Dodwell & Co. Ltd. col. sists of a twin set of Gardner. Full Diesel, Crude Oil Engines, each developing 152 b.h.p. at normal rating. Each engine is complete with its own circulating pump, bilge pump and air compressor.
As the engines are of the direct reversing type, tracsmission revers-" ng gears are dispensed with, the shafting and propellers being driven direct through clutches,
Air compressor
The main engines impressed by their steady running under all con- The remora may be given Navy ditions of load and by the ense tests late this summer. First, how with which they reverse for man- ever, the Defender's deep sea diving xuvring, the whole operation from ability is echeduled to be tested full ahead to fuli astera, occupying before Naval experts. By means a matter of a few seconds. In ad of a compressor chamber in the dition they are capable of starting bow, divers can leave the Defender from dead cold without prebeating through a trip door while sub of any nature. They are the frat The tests Gardier Full Diesel Marine Engines merged acar a wreck. are tentatively-wet for June 2, near installed in Hong Kong and judging New London, Conn.
by the trial, when a mean speed of over 11 knots was easily attained, this type of engine should prove very populär, especially for harbour work, where constant stopping and starting is the rule.
By means of principles which can not be revealed at this time, the lower end of the pipe is capable of I was with him when he painted clamping itself by vacuum pressure "It over a hatch of a sunken submarine. this picture," said a friend. was a terrible effort. I do not Water is then pumped from the know any artist alive or dead who remora and the air pressure made has dared to attempt anything like to correspond with that of the it. The composition of it exhaust- atmosphere at the surface.. The
An auxiliary sat and electricaly chestra stops. If two dancing gamed him. But what an artistic hatch then mag ho opened and men
be passed from the disabled craft driven general service pump are in- "You are withdrawing it volun- to the rescue boat.
cluded amongst the engine room blers have the same hunch, some triumph!"
In the Brooklyn tests, Danen-equipment. The auxiliary set com aboard by passengers, who
hower said, the small model deve-prises a 7 h.p. Gardner Semi-Diesel He shrugged his shoulders." described as "nothing more thauing as agreeable as possible since
"Salome is not the only sensa-loped a five-ton vacuum pressure, engine driving an
and a Lanenshire Dyname of 13 opin smugglers."
the order has gone out to dance..sations in an exhibition which will The full sized model is expected to All of the famous outdoor res become one of the sights. of the develope an 80-ton preaure, enough kw. for the general lighting of the
London неазол. Never have so to held the rescue submarine tight ship. taurants have snerifeed tables for The former is said to have offered dance Roors under the trees, with many sensuous, vibrating vampires to the sunken vessel despite the a reward of 82.000 for discoloured flood lights shining ou been gathered together on the walls buffeting of tides and currents. eovering the drug. They, however,
of a London gallery. held out for $3,000. The boatswain effect is fairy like.
trees, tables and dancers. theu, reported the discovery to the police and the Customs officers were arrested as they were leaving the bulk. An hour later police came back to the ship and demanded that the boatswain should go with them to the police station to give evi- dence. This the captain authoriz ed, and half an hour later the boatswain returned, with several, policemen, pointed out to them It takes a level head to dance where the opium, had been found, long in the mirror box, for couples and assisted the Customs, who were appear to be floating through space afraid to act without police protes-overhead, alongside and under foot. tion, in getting the drug off the The days of American jazz, ship. The boatswain, himself was acrobatic Cancers, Russian, soprano arrested as he stepped on the gang-dancers, Hungarian gypsy bands and way as the party were leaving and other novelties which amused Paris despite the protests of the Chief for many winters since the war, are Officer, was put into prison. over. Nothing is smart, these dava and nights, except Spanish dance The British Consul was then com·
The Argentine bands have taken municated with, and accompanied by the agent, called on the Com- the pinces of the Americno negrues, missioner of Foreiga Affairs to and tangoes are danced instead of "obtain the man's release. After two hours fruitless conversation they re-
The Spanish songs are sung by the turned to the ship without the dancers and it takes some mastery boatswain, but with permission for and a lot of breath to keep singing the ship, which had been held up
in your Indy's war and keeping off her toes at the same time. But then pending a settlement, to proceed on its way, provided the captain you enn make up your own words should sign a form stating the num just as long as you sing the tune, ber of bags taken. The ship clear and there is a certain advantage in ed about 7.43 p.m.
Who is Getting It?
music.
Charlestons.
teat.
The arrested men are Yu Pan Chin, the ship's boatswain, four | MEDICINE AS A CAREER Chinese and one Russian customs official. In the opinion of the com-
FOR GIRLS. pany the boatswain is being detain ed as a scapegoat.
Opium smuggling is becoming an increasing problem on the Yangtze, i appears impossible to stop it, and it has been freely hinted that, there was a certain amount of official connivance in more thin one purt.-Y.-C. Daily News.
FIRE HERO SAVES A VILLACE.
400 POWDER BARRELS IN
gunpowder.
*PERIL.
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GOOD PROSPECTS IN HEALTH
SERVICES.
Dr. Winifred Cullis, Professor of Physiology at the London Uni versity, speaking at the prize dis- tribution of the Putney High School recently, advoated careers for girls in medicine, nursing, and other health service, and said that as a rule women engaged in these services happy.
were
Before the S4 disaster, Lake, who once built war submarines for Among the ninety-four large can- several Navies, was in retirement. vases, all glowing with daring The loss of 40 lives convinced the colour, are a series of women which elderly inventor that it submarines have caused a sensation, not only in were to reach their fullest develop- America, but in France. They sym-ment, safety devices would have to bolise jewels. The canvas "Pearls," he developed. Lake believes the which shows a group of bathers utility of submarines has not been decked in ropes of pearls, lazily fully appreciated. Recently he told emerging from green water, inspir- the United Press, he foresaw the ed the great spectacles at the Folies Bergère in Paris. The Maharajah of Indore has offered a fabulous sum for the jewel pictures. He is will ing to build a special room for them in his great palaces at Benares. Dut Beltran-Massés has not decided to sell them.
to surface craft.
day when huge, cargo carrying sub- mersibiles would plow the ocean, skimming beneath the polar ice to open up new territories now iaac- The cessable ability of a submarine to navigate under the ice may be tested next year it Sir Hubert Wilkin's project The public will spend hours ed submarine dust to the pole in Fuzzling out the subtle sybolism of the Defender materializes. many of these vivid canvasses. Taking into partnership Danen- Many of them have a meaning far bower, who was test officer for the more difficult and delicate than any early Lake war boate, the inventor problem pictures seen in England. set out to develope the safety factor There is, perhaps, the most remark-in the undersea craft to the perfec able picture in the exhibition, tion of which he has devoted most "Night of Eve." It shows a naked of his life. The rebuilt Defender girl against a dark background ac- was his first accomplishment. The cepting the kiss of a great green remors is his second. He is still serpent, which has coiled itself working. round her body. Her fesh, like that of Salome, throbs and burns with life.
"This picture," said the artist'e friend, depicts the awakening of young girl. Did you ever see such eyes in any picture of a woman ?"
Another picture will cause endless discussion. It is called "The Tired Pierrot." It shows a thin aristocrat dressed as a pierrot lying sunk in a chair. Behind him on a couch sits extraordinarily naked woman, vivid, red-haired, Medicine as a career for girls was and swift with vitality. a very successful one, she said. The suggestion that the profession was saturated with women doctors was far from the truth, for there was
LONDON'S STREET ACCIDENTS.
TERRIBLE TRAFFIC TOLL.
London, July 5.-The number of pereces killed and injured on the streets of London in 1997 was moze than five times greater than the total English and German casual ties in the Battle of Jutland. There is an interesting story to this picture. Its original title was
In figures just revealed in the Statistical Abstract of the Lon The First Born," and in it the don County Council, it is shown artist meant to indicate that a man that 49,105 persons were killed or racial anæmia might jet, with all 1997. Of this number. 1,056 ware of great breeding suffering from injured on street accidents during his tradition and his advantages of killed. wealth and position, be unequal to
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London, July 3.--A new means of I watched the retreat of the imbibing alcohol which produces victims-the retreat of a great anaesthesia instead of drunkenness. army, Drays, waggons, and motor has been brought forward by two care loaded with people came atrag- Mexican doctors at present in Lon- gling through the Launceston don as the best method of reducing | streets. There were men with wo pain in performing surgical opera men on their backs, mothers" with|tions. four and five children carrying Doctors M. Garcia Marin, and bundles the only goods they were Raoul Ortiz told the delegates of able to salvage. The Tamar fowed the recent International Medical to the sea carrying with it the
Congress held here that they hadONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- wooden houses, beds, and furniture tested alcohol as an anaesthetic on mamed Vessel are hereby informed The floods had come by night fol- 300 human beings and found it bat that their Goods are being landed and lowing torrential rains; the lightster than other drugs now in use. placed AT THEIR RIK in the Hong Kong In brief the method of administer. and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Cons pitch-black darkness rescue parties ing consists in injecting ordinary Bears Godown Bowls. The ack of the city went out, and in the worked by incandescent fares. It
Mark and Delivery can be Consignment will be sorted out Mark the Goods are landed, he stained an
The inhabitants of the entire plenty of room for women with gifts village of Bonawe, Scotland, pro and character. It was work to bably owe their lives today to the that would bring a good material
was a night of stark terror. The alcohol (ethyl alcohol) into the courage of Major Struthers, a return, and she did not know of. But the Spanish Government. The estimated population of Greater suburbs had been overwhelmed blood stream by means of the veins,
This Vessel brings on Cargo from One woman who had not done well quarry manager.
requested the artist not to pillery| 7,940,000 which is nearly equal to in a few hours, Bella tolled, and thereby producing anaesthesia.
Both doctors claim alcohol has London, &c., and from Persian Gulf ex Preparations had been made to if she chose to go on.
the aristocracy, so the canvas was the population of Belgium. This ships' sirena shrieked, and the peo- fire a great blast by sinking a shaft
none of the disadvantages of chloro- BLS.N. and B. & F.B.N. Co.'s Steamers. The pathetic stories of young
represents an increase of about ple rushed from their beds into the
Optional Goods will be landed here 210ft deep in the mountain face medical women unable to find work called "The Tired Pierrot."
Bonnat, the French painter, after 44,000 persons over
buge dam burst, and the waters in its favour. The injection of al-zalez instructions have been given to the 6 hours before arrival of the contrary years' tuition could be had for
awept over a mine and its little.cohol, they say, removes the danger
Goods not cleared within 8 days settlement. Death came swiftly to of other preparations, the major Stearner.
points being that it does not in-
including date of arrival will be anbject to Tasmania is a little bit of Eng. terfere with the circulation. fifteen people in their beds.
Fire Insurance will Ethyl alcohol, according to their
effected by land set in the Australian seas.
Wild be The climate is English; there are statement, is 157 times less poison us in any case whatever. villages like those nestled among ous than chloroform, while surgical" Damaged Packages minst be left in the the Cotswold Hills and in the della anaesthesia can be produced with a Godowns for examination by the Con of Devon, and the people are Eng dose three or four times less than signoos, and the Company's Surreyors, 'lish The cottages are English cot- tages, and the gardens ham with the vocal wings of bees, and there are hollyhocks and clumps of lavender. The island is the tourist's paradise, and English folk will tell you that whenever they long for England they go to Tasmanis,
and filling it. with 400 barrels of were untrue. As to the cost, five looking at this picture for a long population in 1920 he estimated black night. Away in the hills a form, and has several other points:
The explosion was expected to £280. The figurs of £1,500 given in time, said that the astonishing one place was misleading. The hands of the aristocrat which lie on move 500,000 tons of granite. Bud-
chief cost was in providing main-is knee, long-fingered and pale as denly dense clouds of smoke were seen coming from the powder cham- tenance when a girl was away from alabaster, should be cut out and her,
home. If a girl was able to live hung in the Louvre. The alarm was immediately raia- ed, and employeei fled, panic atricken, to places of safety, with their wives and children, leaving their homes deserted. Three men wero injured when scrambling down the steep gradient from the top of the powder shaft.
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at home, then training for medicine The impression which one takes away from the Beltran-Massés ex- was not expensive.
The prospects in dentistry were hibition is that of naked bodies and extremely good, and the gifts of the naked souls. Eastman dental hospital would offer careers for a number of wo- men. Nursing was one of the pro- fessions where good physique and No explosion occurred, however, devotion to the cause were essential. and afterwards Major Struthers Girls of the right type were desper climbed down the shit and found ately needed in nursing as almoners a number of bags amouldering dang for infant hurting tetiere
schools. House-property- Landlady at Bow County Court. rously near the explosives. He ex nursery tinguished them, and was warmly management was also going to pro- when a possession order was made: congratulated by the
the whole comvide a good field for women a more Is that final Judge Thompson,
K.C. Nothing is final munity for his brave action." estates were laid-out-
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Judge Thompson, E.C., at Bow County Court Has he a wife and family? Plaintiff: Yes, he has the usual: troubles. “
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The County of London for last year records the lowest birth rate figures and the second lowest death rate figures in the history of the county annale. The birth rate for the country was 15.9 per thousand of the population compared with 16,1 in 1927. The death rate was 116 as compared with 12.1 in 1927 The excess of births over. deaths in 1928 was. 19,583.
While the number of deaths from tuberculosis and influenza show a marked decrease the abstract shows a steady increase in the number of deaths from cancer and heart dise
At the same time the Ministry of Transport issued figures that last year 450. persons were killed and 25.910 injured on 64 railways"
a lethal one...
"Is the case of chloroform," said Dr. Marin, the margin between the anaesthetic state and death is much narrower."
The technique, scientists any, is reasonable because alcohol taken 18 the skies that merely short girenite ind in- manis is the little sister," and tensiles what occurs when
taken through the mouth United Press. they have hastened to her aid. Nearly £100,000 has been subscribed.
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