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THE CHINESE RESTAURANT
OPEN DAILY 11 A.M. TO 2 A.M.
The Chinese Restaurant was established in 1924 at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London.. Afler returning to Hong Kong, the Restaurant is now being carried on at No. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central.
Tho dishes of the following menus are prepared in an excellent method of Foreign and Chinese Cooking by our special Chef. We take pleasure in offering the following specimen menus for the consideration of our patrons :-
MENU
1. Stewed Sharkāns with Sliced Chickon.
2. Roasted Fowls Holia.
9.
Stoamed Pigeons and Ham."
4.
Milk and Almonds, Sweet Gruel.
5. Steamed Glutinous Rice Stuffed with Lotus and
Sweet Mixture.
Price: $1.50 por dinner per person (che portion each person)..
MENU
1. Stewed Sharkfins with Sliced Chicken.
2. Roasted Fowls Rolls.
3.
Fried Sea Snails and Chicken Livers.
4. Steamed Pigeons and Ham."
6.
Milk and Almonds, Sweet Gruel.
6. Steamed Glutinous Rice, Stuffed with Lotns and
.
Sweet Mixture.
Price: $2.00 per dinner per person (one portion each person). Note:Patrons can choose another dish of Steamed Rice Mixture
or Noodles in Rice Soup or Fancy Pastry instead of Steamed Glutinous Rice, Stuffed with Lotus and Sweat Mixture.
"A la Carte"
There is a special à la carte menu in English, from which patrons can order other dishes, the charges in all "caseн are very moderate and you can eboors according to your taste chicken, duck, awabi, aharkfins, pigeon, bird's nest soup, boiled and fried garoupa, as well an many other delicacies too numerous to enumerate.
Special arrangements can be made for wedding feats, dinners and toa parties at special prices, and discount will be allowed for charitable organizations and for School trouts.
Ma Jong sets are ready for patrons desiring to play this fascinating game, free of charge. Dancing and Chinese Music arranged at the request of patrons."
SPEND A FASCINATING EVENING IN ONE OF THE RESTAURANTS ARTISTICALLY FURNISHED ROOMS. EAT CHINESE CHOW, PLAY MA JONG, AND ENJOY YOURSELF.
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Y. C. LUM, Manager.
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"ELIZABETH'S " NEW
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FATER. By the Author of "Eliza. The relation between "Windy, the beth and Her German Garhead master of Stanton, and Rex den." Macmillan, 7, 6d. net, Gordon, his intractable pupil and This new novel by the author of alf-chosen supplanter, is the queer "Elizabeth and Her German Gar fascination of two strong fots for den" takes its tills from a character one another, Gordon is of the who is kept relatively in the back precocious, full of beans type," ground. Mr. Dodge, though in quick-witted, atubborn-willed, but fact a very distinguished man, is comparatively inconspicuous in the fiction. His daughter, Jennifer. and the circle at Cherry Lidgate into which she is introduced, now that he has taken to himself a new young wife, Netta-
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R.101 began to fly. And this is perhaps the most extraordinary part of the Simon Report. It shows that, while the public was being regated with stories of the excellence WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, of the vessel, of her good behaviour in all weather conditions, of her speed and stability, of her air- worthiness and, above all, of her safety, the officers in charge and the higher authorities at the Air Minis-
Of these faults, all information
a buttery without direction," astry were in fact in a state of almost his would-be menter puts it. He continuous perturbation over faults hus known, no mother, which pro which developed at various times. bubly accounts for much of his graceless cubbishness, and even his first house master, the one sensible master in the story, finds him "a Papa jв wed, and I am free, prickly little beast." "Windy," Oblessed state of liberty- admittedly a cliameleon, is an al- Jennifer, and the small new world most incredible figure. That a into which she is this enlarged, successful" head master · should bre
11 foreground group behind act and speak as idiotically as he which the celebrated Mr. Dodge is does an ecension deprives, the con- But his pre-fict of much of its interest. And somewhat hidden. senen is always felt. Though there what a staff! To the senior boys is little direct portraiture of him. they are "a body of blighters who we are made indirectly aware of have lost their humour;" to or Lim. We know a shrewd deal about don, when from poacher he has him before he dies off. And become gamekeeper and trics to this handling and manage- consult them, they are "an audi- ment of the Father illustrata vnce of flippant idiots, all anxions
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eminent gift of the auto escape for a anoke before their thor-a gift of jervasion, of orxt school duty," Few-to-day are penetrating and spreading through the galled jaden that will winse the mass of her creation with ver- at such a picture. But there is tain ideas and feelings and the plenty in the book to interest and cross reflections of its figures, con- stimulato all who are concerned
ributing to a rich effect.
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of which was so well kept from the TERMS-Cabi on DeliveRY, public, the most serious, as subso- quent events have shown, was the leakage of gas from the gas bags. After the gas bags had been let out to increase lift and the new bay had been added the baga chafed against the surrounding structure and developed leaks. Song of the officers and inspectors were serious.. by concerned about these leaks and perhaps delay; n halt would have been called to the trials to recon- struct the vessel with the aim of eliminating the trouble.
But the nirship programme had by now achieved a fatal momentum. The public was beginning to gain confidence. There were political ends the airships could serve. An- other check would have been suri- ous, so the fight to India was un-
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dianer and cigars-designed to in- ereas the growing public confidence in airships, the R.101 met n strong wind and a gusty wind with what | the airman walls bad "bumps." TERMS:-CASH ON DELIVERY, She was already heavy with rain and is now supposed, she had been' losing gas from the forward bags. She was flung to the ground and caught fire.
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The anfest airship ever produced by the Gurst engineerẹ and flown by the finest airship pilot the world has seen for Major Scott was that'
hnd crashed. That crash alone would have been insignificant: 'Bul it was but one in a line of almost equally disastrous accidents to air- shipa
It was a perfect example of his tory repeating itself and it had been predicted almost exactly as it happened by many writers inclad- ing myself " Acolns, or the Future of the Flying Machine"].
with life nt modern boarding Over Beauvais, not long after a But for this. "Father' would be schools, and there is hardly a pro-Inst wireless message had beer sent too slight a story to justify sotlem relating to them about which
included which harge and leisurely a canvas. After Mr. Coke has not something wise years of alavish attendance, as xe- and penetrating to sny; why cretary and typist, on her widow- "Sitzer" is preferable to "Rugge"," rd parent, writing his exquisite though not a better gange, for descriptions in grim Gower-street, stance. Gordon's, and' proaumably Jennifer, having packed him and Mr. Coke's, iden schoul is to be young Netts off on a honeymoon Imited to a hundred boys, kel in in Norway, glimpses for herself beautiful surroundings-there ref freedom, personal freedom, the 1+: trees,--without. compulsory right to be alone, to relax and be games, supplying a diversity of natural. For a brief moment, she interests for all, and ruled by a enliers her vision in Ruse Cottage, enevolent and wise autocrat, Will in Cherry Lidgate, rented from the there ever be suitable surroundings youthful vicar, James Ollier, and and autocrats enough to go round 7 his sister Alier. Across her dream flickers the new figure of love in James Ollier's guise-and he, too,
We had has his crabarrassing struggles for
Wilson's "Fourteen freedom from Alice's tyranny, It Points" now we have Sir Leo lasts for less than the space of the Chiezen Money's, which are intend honeymoon. Vickling to a whim ofed to create the peace the Wilsonian Netta, Mr. Dodge has taken herenes failed to du. In "Can War be ne further than Brighton, and Averted" (Thornton Butterworth, there she leaves him. May disillu- p. 293, 30s. Od. net) there is
It has been said, and it will be sioned about November. Angry, good dral of piatitude in the des
said again to-day, with the fine resentful, ill, but filled with a new eliption of possible sources of war heroism of the locker-on, that Eng- sense of values in his work, Mr.
in the contemporary world, from lishmen do not run away and that Dodge returns to claim the devotion sadly-frontiered Europe to undeve this accident must be regarded anly as a spur to further efforts... of Jennifer, whose aspirations after red lands in the tropics, and very The remark about progress and eedom he has regarded as the little space left in which to develop people not dying in vain will
When it made in many quarters. stupid whim of woman, and Jen positive programme.
comes it is sweeping in its conclu- kifer, caught up in the old obsessions. Peace by contentment" is on of duty to her father, is back Fir Leo's formula, and he seeks to again' in the servitude of Gower Fel it by a reform of the League
of Nations, universal compulsory | arbitration, with the League an Final release, inderd, awaits her, arbitral body in political disputes, With the proved and practien) but not before the author has made cancellation of war debts, equality acroplane and flying boat starved of economic opportunity, rectifica of money, the Government must not. her point, in that skilfully reveal Lipn of frontiers, restoration of the again be permitted to spend public ed figure of the Father in the back. German colonies, reduction of all funds on any further airship es ground. His lines are bitter deep freedom of the seas, internations-
armamente to police strength,"periments. in the scene, from which he himselflisation of "strategic pointa" pro- is absent, when the young wife motion of migration by the Lea-
gue, employment of condominion by the Shanghai strike of 1925, and discusses him frankly with his em the League in disputed territories, the Vienna strike of 1027. It is a barrassed daughter. More even freedom of commerce with no mono- rainstaking compilation, valuable in the man for its assemblage of a than in her women's portraits the polisation of raw products, and
colonisation of lands under-po- great deal of information otherwise author shows penetration in her pulated-a programme full, of hope Lard to come by. The author, how- nen's. And throughout the whole which will take a century to realise
ever, displays a tendency, not un- common in overambitious Ameri- story is a pervasive charm. All its and which needs in its explanation incidents are lapped by a porcep
a volume twice as big as that in can studies, to treat all printed which he expounds the conditions sources as of equal worth. News- tivo humour, and those at the which make its adoption necessary. papers are, of course, invaluable Cottage with an idyllic grace.
Sir Leo has written a challenging sources for contemporary history. There is about it a singular mellow-books but the spirit of it is much but they need to be used with great
finer than the performance,
discrimination. English and Ameri- tan papera may be very well in formed, but it would not occur to taost of us, least of all of journa Ists, to treat them as first-hand
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there is nothing to be said against the construction of more airshipa und, if necessary, larger airships, provided only the public is not re- quired to share in the expens, of building them.
authorities for events in Sweden, Russia, Holland, and. Austria. The: ook gives a very long account of the British general strike and the events which led up to it. In spite 278 net
of the detail, the British reader Professor Crook has written a volume of nearly seven hundred has the feeling that the last word Mr. Coke's new school story. Hum- pages on the general strike-a is far from having been anid. A study of Labour's tragic weapon surves, however thorough, of the bug and boredom have always been in theory and practice, as his sub-published documents and the pole.. deadly poisons to the spirit of title puts it. He starts with the mical literature that followed the and the present generation Chartist goneral strike of 1849, explained and obscure Historical Atrike still loaves a great deal un- in particularly aware of and restive Chart in nepal scal discussion of under their malign infection, the idea in France, and then des truth, even in the trade union though a motto for this book might tribes various examples of the world, is not always to be found at well have been taken from the re- calcitrant Wordsworth in his Cam- Belgium in 1913, in Sweden in 1909 of the events of 1920 has been more political or large-scale strike-in the mouth of the well. The spirit laidgo days, where he speaks of
und 1000, the Russian strikes, the successfully caught by a recent. French writer. --Professor Törin. Deconey and
British strike of 1020, the strike- Custom starving against the Happ Putsch, the Win Guerre et le Confit Houiller" Delattre, in "L'Anglotorre d'Apres Truth, And blind Authority beating with ripeg and Sentile strikes of 1919, (Paris: Armand Calin, pp. xiv.
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