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TUESDAY, JULY §. Anniversaries and Holidays- Chinese National Holiday. (Anni- versary of the Launching of the Northern Punitive Expedition by the National Revolutionary Army, 1928). Customs Holiday.
For Chinese Bride
Shanghai, July 4,
The appeal for husbands for the eighteen young. attractive girls at the Chapel · Benevolent Institution, 167: Tatung Road.. Chapel has had an unusual re-
Auctions,—Lammert's, Household į ply. Furniture, Sales Rotm, 230 pm.; at No. 8B, Hankow Road, Kowloon. 10.30 a.m.
Cinemas
King's: "Romance "Manhattan.” Queen's: Mark Of The Vampire." Central: "All Quiet On The West-
ern Front." Oriental:-"The Count of Monte
Cristo."
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Rotary Tin,
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This came from a Briton, more than 40 years old, who had sent his photograph and a letter of application for the hands of one of them.
In view of the fact that the ap- plicant was a foreigner. the Insti- tution considered the possibility that the proposal was not serious. Had not the organization received enough applications, the intention of the Briton might have formed the subject of an inquiry.
World:-"The Sign Of The Cross." Alhambra:-"Sweet Musfc." Majestic: "Forsaking All Others."
All the eighteen girls, whose Star: "Just My Luck."
| ages range" from 17 to 23, were at Miscellaneous. —
various times rescued by the Hong Kong Hotel.
Chinese police from the hands of Social Dinner, Chinese Com-abductors or other miscreants. pany, HK. Police Reserve, Hong Interviews between the girls and Kong Hotel, 8 pm: Ladies' Whist the applicants have already been Drive. Police Recreation
held at the Institition and the Club, Happy Valley, 3.30 p.m.; Cheero wedding will follow as soon as the Club Whilst Drive, 8.30 pm.
approval of both parties is made known.
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London, June 22, › An airman left Gravesend, Kent," yesterday morning, breakfasted in Africa and was back in London in time for dinner.
He was Capt. E. W. Perceval. aircraft designer, who flew a "Gull," a low-wing cabin mono- plane with a Gipsy Major engine of 130 h.p. He is the first flyer to make the journey in one day. Altogether he travelled
2,300 miles in 14 hours. His average speed on the outward journey was 180 miles an hour and 156 miles an hour on the return
His time schedule was as fal- lowa:
130 a.m.-Left 'Gravesend. 8.40 a.m.-Arrived at Oran, on the North African coast.
"11: à,m-Left Oran,
6.20 p.m.-Returned to Croy- don
· The journey from London to Cran" by rail and boat takes 484 hours from 11 am on Saturday until 8.30 a.m. on Monday.....
Capt. Perceval's cost in petroli...
Bowls. Open - Singles (Third applications
(Kowloon C.C.); H. Overy v: C. J. received. The name of the he used 146 gallons-was £11. Tacchi (Club de Recrele); F, Cul foreigner, together with his ad-
len v. F. T. Jones (Craigengower C.C.); A. MacFarlane ::.. FA E Knight (Talkoo); Pairs Champion R. F. Luz and H. Beer. Silva and F. K. M. da aliya (Kow- loon, B.G.C.). VIN
Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Ladles Section G. US Monthly Medal Competitions:
Tennis-"A" Division, Indian R.C. v. Club de Recreio "A":" Qral- gengower C.C. v. Kowloon C.C.; Chinese R.C. "B" v. Hong Kong C.C.; Club de Récrelo "B" v. United Service R.C.
Moon First Quarter, 8.28 am. VI Moon, 9th. Day...
Sunrise.-5.44 a.m, Sunset.-7.11
b.m.
Ú
Tides. High at 3.06 and 13.45; Low at 9.18 and 20.47.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10%
dress and telephone, were regis tered among those of the fre serve candidates
The Chins Benevolent Society which houses more than 800 girls
the Kiangwan Railway Station is also planning to marry about 200 inmates some time in the autumn.
and women in fer pregnises near
W
LIVING TO 180
Soviet Scientist's
Offer
Who wants to live to the age of Cinemas
180? The prospect is held out by King's "One More River."
a Soviet scientist who been experi- Queen's: "Mark Of The Vampirementing for some years on the
S'hai
bellever
The first-class return fare from London to Oran is €30 14s 3d.
When Capt. Perceval, wearing a blue single-breasted suit and a soft brown hat, stepped out of his plane at Croydon he was loudly
cheered by aerodroma oficials-and assistants.
He had"" sent a telegram” from: Oran to friends in London that be would be at Croydon at 6.30; he arrived ten minutes earlier.
YLEW ABOVE CLOUDS
"after leaving Gravesend,” Capt. Perceval said, "I found layers of heavy cuas in frenc, or me. I ruse above them, and did not see land again until I "was over Biarritz.
I had had to make allowance for a-30 mi.p.h, beam wind. When. sighted the Pyrenees I was less than a mile away from where I aimed to be.
"I crossed the Pyrenees three and a-half hours after leaving
Gravesend. There was Ane wea- ther until I touched the coast at Cartagena. I was still on a com pass course. The distance across the Mediterranean was 130 miles.
I struck the African coast half a mile from where I expected to:
possibilty of extending the span Central: "Chinese Picture *- Oriental: "From Head Quarters."
of human life. Young people of World: "Four Frightened People a hundred or so are not uncom
mon in these Alhambra: "One Hour Late."
days, when the Star:Just My Luck."
Psalmist's span of 70 years is not Entertainments-Concert,
held to be the limit of age, and Choral Society, St. John's Cathe-
has, indeed been described as a drat, 9 p.m.
mistake of interpretation. Sir Meetings-Kloon Union Church James Crichton-Browne is a firm be Women's Guild, 10 am.
They were surprised to see me inman's right-and
cen- when I came down on the aero- Social, Tombola
ability — to. Eve for the on HMS.
drome at Oran, and even more Tamar, 7.15 p.m.; Whist Drive.tury. but there is vast difference
180. Seamen's Institute, 9 p.m.; Cheero
between that and
What surprised when I said that I in
tended to be back in London, in Club Social night.
are the "circumstances most fav- ourable to longevity? The ques-time for dinner. I telephoned to tion is not easily answered It Is some friends in Oran as soon as Bowls-Open Singles
(Third almost a proverb that statesmen | got there. I had breakfast with Round) A. M. Rumjahn v. A. Hyde- reach an advanced age-judged, by them and walked round the town Lay (Civil Service C.C.); A. M. Hal- the 70-year standard, and must before leaving land v. P. T. Farrell (Club de Re- clans, too, are conspicously long creto); Open Pairs (Fourth Round), lived Haydn died at 77 and M. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh v. Handel and Gluck at 75. If statis F. J. Jones and A. W. Grimmftities are to be accepted, poets are (Talkoo R.; R and L. K. R. among the shortest lived of men, Duncan v.. W. K. Way and "A 8. and next to them are authors, Gomes (Kowloon Docks).
Sports
Tennis, "B" Division, Civil Ser- Vice C.C. v. Hong Kong C.C... Club qe Recreio v. Central British. Asso- ciation; Chinese R.C. v. Indian RC South China AA y. Uni versity.
Moon.-VI Moon, 10th. Day Sunrise.-5.45 a.m. Sunset.-7.11
p.m.
Tides-High at 3.38 and 15.05; Low at 11.13 and 21.09.
THURSDAY, JULY 11 Anniversaries and Holidays: Blessed Oliver Plunkett,
Cinemas King's—“One More River."
Queen"Below The Sea."
Central:Chinese Picture?
Oriental:rom Head Quarters. World: Four Frightened People." Autambra."One Hour Late
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wine journey back was eventful until I got near to Tours, From there to Deauville I flew in heavy rain and was at times only 100ft above the tree-tops. Bea ford was my first sight of England dramatists, and novelists.one
again. When I got to Croydon. I The Soviet scientist claims to felt I could comfortably have done have discovered that condition of 300 or 400 more miles." the higher nervous centres bas a great deal to do with it. If these centres can be kept highly sen sitive, then he thinks that the duration of life could be immense ly prolonged. Are poets, then, the people who put biggest tax on their "nervous energy?"
ONE SANDWICH
val's only meal was a chicken During his fight Capt. Ferce
when returning he found the re- sandwich and a cup of coffee.
maining sandwiches were soaked in petrol. and he threw them.
"The fight was undertaken demonstrate the capabilitie Miscellaneous, Prize Distributhe high-speed cabinet tion, Diocesan Girls' School, 5 p.m. The machine. he new
Social Civil Service Cricket has a slightly larger peti Club Whist Drive, 8.45 p.m.; Whist than usual, but Drive on board the Tamar 8.45 pointed out that a pilot in
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