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News and Views ★
Queen things happen in London. A man walked into the Law Courts, stole money from a drawer, and nearly escaped, The shepherd who looks after the sheep in Hyde Park has complained that several have disappeared.
Flattery.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
V.D.M.A. "At Home" at the Page 6. Helena May Instituto.
Two Chinesa counterfaoters were sentenced yesterday at the Criminal
Session. generally overcast
Local Forecast: S.E. wind, moderate; occasional rain.
BIRTHS.
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Page 4. Market:
Tage 5.
Hong Kong Stock Croucher & Co.'s daily report,
before us a booklet, from the Canadian Pacific. 5.8. Company, with a picture of the Renaissance salon by Sir CHARLES ALLOY. Rich walnut panelling," we ary The anti-cyclone is central to the teld, "is picked out in silver. east of Tokyo. The depression Marble pilasters are ornamented over Tongking has deepened alight-in bronza" It is vast and magni. ly.
ficent enough for a Medici duke, a Venetian doge, and modern lounge suits seem out of the pic ture. If only the Company could! persunde their passengers to dress The according to their setting! GREENERO.-On April 14, at Shang. ballroom, by Sir JOHN LAVERY, In Defence of Horstál,
hai, to Mr. and Mrs. GREEN-RA, is in delicato corals, blue and JUNO, a son.
silver; the room only needs a ture of beautiful Lady LAVERY to make it complete, and perhaps this Popular painter might is asked to supply one. The Cathay lounge is in gold, silver and black Chinese nequer, a fantasy by EnMUND" Brith of Aa Empire." DULAC, "enrefully designed to keep modern"tails" and dinner jackets in harmony with their surround
FRANK BRANGWYN'A riotous WILLIR.—O9 April 14, at Shanghai, imagination, of nymphs and satyra,
to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. WILLIS, grapes and fig leaves, aprende af "Birth of an Empire." The lent result is largely due to the fined to the northern const, Page 7.
HERTS-On April 23, at New York, U.S.A., to Mr. and Mra HARRY
H. HERTS, &. Bon.
MORTON.-On April 13, at Shang hai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. T. MORTON, a son.
NYHC-On April 11, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. PAUL O NYHUR, & daughter.
VAN SOMEREN-On April 12,
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. CA. VAN SOMEREN, A NOI..
A Bon,
'ENGAGEMENT,
ingk
When Miss Enid Rowser, dafend. pic-ing a man at the Old Bailey do clared that ho had never had a chance, the Common Serjeant (Sir Honry Dickens) anid: "Anyone who has been sent to Borstal has had the best chance in the world."
round the dining saloon, and HEATH ROBINSON'S solemn absurdities adorn the cocktail bar and the KNIGHT AINSLIK-The engagement children's nursery. What a ship
in announced between
travel in! An epitoms of RONALD WILLIAM HENRY Knight,
of Dr. and Mrs.
Mr. to
WILLIAM
B.A. (Cantab), R.A.F.O., only modern art as well as a model of son of Mr. and Mrs. CHURCHILL material comfort. KXIGHT, of Shanghai, and On the front cover of the book JUANITA LOUNA, only daughter let the artist exprrases the power AINSLIE of Wargrave House, and the mass of this mighty vessel, and on the back he paints the ghosts of those old sailing ships, so lovely to the eye, but without fans or refrigerators, lounges and swimming pools.
Hereford.
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CHAN-On April 17, at 29, Shelly Street, Chian Crow, late Manag- ing Director of Himly, Ltd. Funeral will pass the Yat Pit Ting Pavilion, Kennedy Town; at I p.m. to-day (Tuesday),
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ART AND THE LINER.
In the good old days, so it is said, ocrtain Oxford wine and cigar merchants had a habit of praising the taste of undergradu. ates in their first year in order to sell them expensive vintages and brands. A youth of ninetown knows nothing, or next, to nothing, about such matters, yet an quent salesman would come out with some such rigmarole as "O course, sir, we have a port at 48 shillings, but it would not suita connoissour like yourself. Now this at 130 shillinge we should like The case of a silly young man who your opinion on." And so forth.
was flattered (as most young men would be) is recorded. The settle ment of the bill was not pressed for another two years, and then. when it was one of three Sgures, father paid.
Britian Legion Book,
Over £100,000 has been secured
Tho 8. Limehow, which went aground in the Hainan Straite last week, has been looted and set 'on Page 5. fire by pirates.
The Curroney Mission was dia- cussed yesterday at the Chinese
Chamber of Commerce.
Page 8. chun,, was derailed yesterday after- Tho 4.30 local train, from Shum-
noon near Taipo, many people being killed and "many injured, some of them very seriously. There were no Europeans travelling by the train.
Page 5.
To-day's wirelosa programme.
Page 10,
The revolt in Honduras is con.
The Press of Latin America
praises the reversion by the United Stutes to ox-President Coolidge's policy in Nicaragua. Page 7
There is reason to believe, that Mr. D.W. Griffith, the famous approached with a view to his com American film producer, has been ing to Britain and making a super- already out of the Baler of the Latest Cables. talkie with the provisional title British Legion Book. This excel- matters has been discussed on two personal interest taken by the occasions with Mr. Griffith, who is Prince of Wales. A special edition understood to be favourably dispos of the book was prepared, some ed towards the anggeation. This time ago. This was signed by all affair is surrounded with the utmost the contributors to the book, which
A representative of the Govern- secrecy, but the proposal was put also contained a number of origin-
ment of Portugal, who is on board before Mr. Griffith by a group of al signed etchings and other works British Government officinis, who of art. The Prince of Wales agreed the cruiser Vasco da Gama, has believe that they could secure off.
sign every copy that was sold. sent an ultimatam to the rebel cial support for the idea, and the The price asked for this unique lenders in Madeira stating that fail- necessary finance from patriotic volume was £1,000. Already ating submission Madeira will be at pat a proposal before Mr. Charles, soms in America and others in this sources. The same group has also least 100 copies have been sold, tacked by sea, land and air. Page 7. A telegram from Peiping slater Chaplin that he should star in a country. Up to the present copies that Miss Esther Nordlund, an flm to be made in England or of the volume have not come on American citizen, and Mr. Oscar alternatively produce a film here to the market, but it is thought Anderson and Miss Augusta Nelson, with someone else as star. Either that in the years to come such an both Swedish subjects, all belong or both of these proposals would exceptional collection of the paring to the Swedish Mission, have give a great fillip to British filmsonal signatures of the leading heen captured by Red bandits at production.
Pngo 7. British artists and authors, toge Kingchow, in Hupeh. ther with the personal autograph #ening Post in yesterday's issue The Editor of the Shanghai of the Prince, will prove to be an investment.
It is all very well being senti- mental about the past. The wind-Plazes and Science. jammer was a thing of beauty, but sho was by no means a joy to her
Those Women Motorists!
of his paper prints an open letter to Mr. H. L. Stimson, U.S. Secre- tary of State, in which he declares that after six months' ineffectual effort to obtain the release of
passengers. And who will say that aeroplane which is now under con- faults, emerges with flying colours Messrs. Nelson and Tvedt, com
the modern ship, lacks beauty 1 No one in Hong Kong, where the white grace of the "Empress" ships, the wonderful lines of the Blue Funnel freighters, the bluff strength of P. & O. and President vessels, are every-day features of the harbour.
Now
SEARCH FOR THE FANTASTIC.
that the strange film "Ingagi," telling of unknown Africa, is now being shown at a local cinema, it is interesting to learn from a Home paper that an expedition to discover survival of the prehistoric past is being sent into South America by scientific institutions of the United States. From age to age the imagination has played with the idea that some where on the earth could be found Chinese junk were also carved and a tract inhabited by strange eren- painted, for no other reasons than tures. ANDNEW LANG's humour est
SINCE time immemorial artistry has Leen freely lavished upon the de sign and the decoration of ships. CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. The wonders of Cleopatra's barge
CHINA, SIAM,
STRAITS have been immortalised by poets SETTLEMENTS, MALAY through the ages, but the Phoeni- STATES, NETHERLANDS | eina galley, the Norse dragon INDIA, BORNEO, THE boat, the Spanish galleon and the PHILIPPINES, Etc.
in the Far East containing the Names of nearly
20,000 FOREIGNERS,
The Prince of the Welsh,
Page 7.
The Prince of Wales whila · ja
Berlin. To reach altitudes of over 50,000 feet is the aim of an
The woman motorist, with all her struction at Messrs. Junkers' works
from the latest challenge to tho at Dessau, and of which details compotence of drivers. The Countinued friendly negotiations be were made known by the builders cil of British Ophthalmologiste tween America and China are a last month. The ultimate purpose affirm that danger lies in the ex- national disgrace. “ of the machine is, of course, & tension of the coloured light system scientific one, namely, to explore of traffic signalling, on account of the upper strata of the atmosphere. the prevalence of colour, blindness. strumente to be carried by it will tione retorted that the condemna. The aeroplane and the scientific in: One of the big motoring organisa- be controlled from a double-walled Ition is "rather sweeping." Actual airtight chamber in which they there are many forms of mild atmospheric pressure will be main- Glindness, to particular colours. The tained at a point tolerable to the troublogomo disability a human organism. The machine which makes red and green look will be driven by a single motor, alike. The handicap may be inter and its flying weight will be four
or acquired. Statistics show that tans. Before the final upward one man in every 25 is unable to plunge made
experimental distinguish between red and green, flights are to be carried out at ele One well-known British general in vations of between 33,000 and 40,000 France was stated recently by an foot. On the basis of the experi-oculist to have been unable to tell ence thus obtained the apparatus the Union Jack from the Red will be adjusted to accomodate it. Crossflag at a distance. But wo- self to the conditions of the still men are ten times freer than men her level which it is hoped ulti from this disability. Only one wo mately to reach.
is
1
man in 250 is colourblind.
thust
South America received an address from the Woleh colony in Pata gonin. It was in the eighties of the last century that Welsh settlers arrived in the Chuput valley of Patagonia. In apito of so lang an exile, the colony still speaks Welsh. The region abouryls in curious recial groupe, South Africana who refused to forget the Baer Win founded another colony. At the other end of the American contin- offer a striking instance of volunt- ent, in Canada, the Doukhobora
ary exile. They are Russians pro- fessing a little-known roligion, and their aude excroiaca have got them into trouble with the authorities.
* Local Notes and Events ⋆
Ono Chinese case of typhoid was reported for the 48 hours ended April 19.
H.E. the Governor will lay the Foundation Stong of the new wing! of the European YMCA. at Kow. loon on Thursday, May 7, at 5.30
p.m.
this
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to phase the eyes of men and of scientific men rediscovering the This Large Volume of approximate the gods of sea and river. There gorgons, hydras and chimaeras dire ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition was a sternly utilitarian age, when of folk-lore. CONAN DOYLE invent to the Tanal Lists of Firms, an steal and steam first conquered the ed an isolated lost world of Alphabetical Lists of Residents, and then a period when the dragons of the prime still in being more luxurious vessels, had plenty The area which the United States of gilt moulding, red carpets,
has marked down as a happy hunt- plush, and some mahogany paneling ground for the like surviving Arranged, with the initials as wellling to set them off nicely. The ancients is in the mountains in the
as Surnames in strict alphaha! ultimate models. for this scheme Routh of Venezuela. That country (Nos. 2458 and 2459) at the upset: graphic advice from the North that O. Gray, J. Witchell and F. C.
wero, perhaps, the royal palaces in is larger than France and Gerprice of $18,693 each. the days of Queen VICTORIA. Most many, and it has great tracts of land which are still unexplored. of us preferred either the more
Bevero
manner of a naval ward. The stories which have ascribed to room, with its white paint and this interior-strange creatures are
plausible cycugh steel printa of naval kerces and battles, or the modest style of the What did exist in South America salcons and smoke-rooms of ships in the past we are not very sure on the Fur Eastern run. Now, It was the home of huge snouted however, artists have been called creatures such as the paleotherium, in to make the decoration of the of the giant sloth And of the modern passenger ship beautiful, glyptodon, a big creature of the
tical order.
Hongkong Musical Society CLASSIFIED LIST
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Plending guilty to the charge of but this did not daunt the specta- theft of linen from the R.M.B. Em tore, the number present being press of Canada, a Chinese, who larger than at any match this sea- was described as 24 thin class son. HE. the Governors watched steward on the vessel, was senten- the game from the matshed, which ced to three months' imprisonment was filled, From a spectator's by Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday,point of view, the game was not an exciting one, being too much With regard to certain rumours onesidod; but the Club made a in Hong Kong that truffie vir good stand against their more akil- At the Crown Lands Office, yes. Siberia has been suspended Messrs, ful opponents. terday, Mr. F. C. Parker Rees dis-homas Cook & Son, Ltd., informs Teams:-H.K.F.C.: Hickling: L. posed of two lots of Crown land us that they have received tele Humphroys and G. E. Morrell, H. rumour is entirely without Hall; W. H. Williams, R.. Miller, foundation. No interruption has W E. Leckie, R. Whitamore and taken place and none is expected.; J. Mead. The m.v. Burgenland · (H.A.L.) The service is operated thrice week- H.M.S. Diadem: Scott; Me left Shanghai on Sunday the 19th, ly as heretofore.
Donald and Newman; Youons, Wall and Looker; Lawrence, Connelly, instant at 10.30 am, and is dus here on Tuesday afternoon the 21st Central Magistracy yester Bell, Matthews and Fowler-Hong instant.
day, three Chinese workmen were Kong Daily Press, April 23, 1908 charged with behaving in a die- orderly manner near the Peak Tram Looking Back 50 Years, Station. They all pleaded guilty, whereupon the Magistrate ordered His Majesty King David Kala- the first two to pay the third de- kaun and suite took their departure fendant 3 compensation while all for Bangkok yesterday afternoon three were made to sign bonds of in the stommer Killarney, Captain
The embarkation $50 to keep the peace for a period O'Neill.
made the ocession of a considerable amount of outdoor ceremony in
The Hon. Mr. J. Owen-Hughes, who will be accompanied by Hra. Owen Hughes, and Miss Owen Hughes, is leaving on Saturday by the as Rajputana for England, on long leave.
At
comfortable, and worthy of the tortoise kind. Descendants of the the Rev. Noel and Mrs. Evans, of
Little Miss Evans, daughter of of one year,
Wes
skill lavished upon her by designers giant sloth have been sought in the the Ellis Kadoorie Bchool, had the In the course of a fire-fighting which all the honours of royalty and engineers. Of the new 42,000 for south, but in vain. It may be bad luck to break her arm while operations, when a fire was broke, were accorded to the departing ton liner Empress of Britain, that animals more primitive, more on the way Home. She was playing out at the factory of the Kwong guest. At half past three o'clock
on deck at the time.
Shing Loong Confectionery Co., on the King and his party luft Govern- Alphabetical lists of Cable which is now raring, completion, horrific than these are still extant
Sunday morning, the European ment House, accompanied by His -Addresses-
~tho PRINCE or Wales said at her somewhere in the unknown world Mrs. Ezra, of 7. Humphreys Assistant Station Master in charge Excellency the Governor, Lieut. R.
launching: "This vessel can be of land or water, though men of Avenue, Kowloon, reports that she of the Mongkok Division, Mr. C. C. Cox, ADC Diy Bitch- considered in construction the Inst science do not in general take dropped a black onyx brooch while Albert Cash, suffered a fall from Private Secretary, His Excellency on her way to the Peak Tram the roof of the building. He had Major-General Donovan, and Cap- List of Agencies held by word in shipbuilding, and as rekindly to the suggestion of the Station. The ornament is valued at a remarkable escapo from serious tain H. Barton, A.D.C. A guard
Far Eastern firms.
gard's her appointments she will continued existence of pterodactyls 8250. The loss of a white platinum injuries, being only bruised and of honour consisting of 100 Tauk and file, the band," and Queen'r have no rivals." Beveral of Eng or dainotaurs of other monsters of gement ring valued at $400 is shaken.
also reported to the police by Miss
Colours, of the 27th Inniskillinge, land's leading artists have had an earlier alage in animal evalu-A. Barnes of, 37, Granville Road,
under the command of Captain J.. |C. Bayly, was, drawn up on the hand in the interior decoration of tion. The peculiar noses of the
wharf and presented arine na Bis this ship. Perhaps it might have monkeys of the Now WorldTM suggest
The two Chincae, who, with three The expected happened in the Majesty prarad. On entering the been better to have chosen one man that they doveloped in the South others not in custody, are charged final for the Challenge Shield which Government steam launch a royal and--left him to harmonise..the American forests on distinct lines with having taken part in a high was played at the Hong Kong Foot saluto was fired from the man-of- way robbery in Clementi's Ride on ball Club's ground at Happy Valloy war anchorago, salutes were also whule, but several "great"painters of their own, and probably from a March 20, 1931, were again before on Saturday. H.M.S. Diadem beat fred by the Victor Emmanuel and have been allowed to express them-stock quite unlike that which pro Mr. Schofield yesterday afternoon. Hong Kong Football Club by two the Duracon. His Excellency the solves in various parts of the first-duced the Old World's monkeys. Considerable evidence was taken goals Unfortunately, a hoary Governor accompanied by his after which they were committed shower of rain fell before the A.D.C., accompanied His Majesty dus...... ̈accommodation... no... that all Light on the early history of the to-stand their trial at the next match began, making the soft on board the Killarney-long tastos might be satisfied. We have family would be precious,
Criminal:Sessions:-
ground softer-and-more slippery, Kong Dealy Pics, April 22, 1881.
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