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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936.
U.S. A. STUDENTS SIR ELLY KADOORIE'S
WANT TO ENJOY NEXT
WAR!
Bonuses Before It Takes Place
· FUTURE MOTHERS ASK FOR WORLD TOURS
(Special Air Mail Service)
* London, June 5. American stúdents want to en- joy the "benefits" of the next war -before it takes place!
HOSPITALITY ·
A corresponent of a leading London Newspaper writes:
people, and its undulating gardens are beautifully laid out,
Here Sir Elly dispenses open hoa-
I have known Sir Elly Kadoorie, who will be the Abyssinian Em-pitality. He runs a hospital at his peror's host in London, for some own expense. He is a kind of god- time and stayed with him at his father to the passengers and crew. Marble Hall in Shanghai five years of every British ship, ago.
He is a short, plump man with soft hands and a benevolent smile. Forty-six years ago he left his na- Live Bagdad to start the Eastern business which has given him a fortune.
He began in dry-goods in Hong Kong and Shanghai To-day, with his two sons, he controla "vast in- |ancial and Industrial interests in
China.
BUBBLING WELL-ROAD
Dr Pitman B. Potter, a United He will bę seventy next year. States delegate to the League of ] His family came to Bagdad from Nations Union International Con-Palestine. gress, which is being held in Glas- gow, amused the congress yester- day by telling of two student ar- ganisations-one for men and the other for women-which have been formed in the United States.
The first 15 known
His Shanghai home, Marble Halt, Is Ly Bubbling Well-road and is sur- 'rounded by red-brick houses.
. It impresses mainly by its size. There is Bttle marble in it, and Veterans of Future Wars" and the nothing Chinese except the ser-
But its ball-room holds 3000
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Olympia-Perspective" from Berlin. The entrance towers to the Olym-. pic Stadium with the Olympic rings which hundred of thousands of spectators are going to pass by before entering the Reich Sport Field
WARNING ON SOCIAL DANGERS
AVOIDING "MOTHERHOOD
[Special Air Mail Service)
Edinburgh, June 14.
STANDARD OIL'S MOUTH ORGANS
40,000,000 In Germany
(Special Air Mail Service)
New York, June 14. The Standard Oll Ca. of New Jersey has become the owner of 40,000,000 mouth-organs in Ger- many, and does not know what to do with them
and would be beneficial to health and women, Dame Louise Melroy sald at the annual congress in Edinburgh to-day of the Royal Institute of Public Health and the Institute of Social Hygiene that some warning should Be to Germany. given that many grave socioł gical and medical factors must be considered, and that the ultimate detrimental effects on maternal health and welfare would greater If any interference should
"We have
e
have enough
"The
as "Future Gold Star. Mo-
..he Veterans of Future "Wars." said Dr. Potter; "are de- manding war bonuses in advance, while they can enjoy them The 'Future Gold Star Mothers-they
are founded on the Gold Star Mothers, a United States organisa- tion of mothers of soldier wounded o killed in the Great War-Bre asking for trips to future battle- flelda. As they don't know where the next war is going to be, they suggest trips round the world!
* STAYING IN THE SADDLE
Dr. Potter's story of these two student. organisations was the only amusing interrude of gester- day's sitting of the congress, which for the most part was concentrat- ed on dealing with internal afairs and organisation.
competitors
"National dictators who are in the saddle are preoccupied, like at a rodeo, with the difficulty of remaining in the sad dle, was a comment of Dr. J. C. Maxwell Garnett, who urged the claims of education. They can not be relied upon to guide their nations' fret into the way of peace or justice."
vants.
R.A.F. DISPLAY CONTRASTS
From 60 To 300 M. P. H.
PRE-WAR, WAR-TIME,
AND
NEWEST AIRCRAFT
(Special Air Mall' Service)
London, June 14. The newest and fastest aero-
planes will be seen at this year's R.A.F. Display alongside a selec tion of aged specimens which mark some of the steps in the develop ment of flying. Two of the fastest
com-
fighters in the world, produced respectively by the Hawker and the Supermarine firms, may be pared with one of the early Wright machines, with the type of Blériot Dr. Maxwell Garnett moved a re-
which was the frs to cross the solution which suggested that, in Channel, and with several War- addition to refraining from broad-time
aeroplanes. The
mudern
cast programmes which migh: Oghters have a speed of more than hurt the feelings of other nations, 300 miles an hour; the perfor- countries should also hear broad-mance of the veterans may casts of what was true.
vary
troth 60 to 120 miles an hour. For example, he said, no ordin-
The majority of these obsolete ary citizen of Italy at this mo-
machines will be seen in the air as ment knew that Italy had used
well as on the ground, but two or mustard gas in the war with Abys- three of the muscum pieces will sinia. The Italians believed that the
not be allowed to become a menace whole story about gas was a hos- to themselves or to a pilot accus- tile piece of British propaganda.
tomed to a higher degree of-power; control, and stability. The list of INFLUENCE OF FILMS
old types is: The Wright biplane, "Peace can only be built on hu- Blériot, Latham-Antoinette, Mau- man character, and human char-
rice Farman biplane. Sopwith tri- acter. whether we like it or not, plate. Sopwith Camel. S.E. 5, and is largely influenced by the films," Bristol Fighter. In design as well declared the Duchess of Hamilton, as performance these may serve to who moved a resolution in which Ulustrate the advances that have the congress instructed the Stand- been made, though the change ing Committee on Education to from the British Instaterice on bi- consider and report upon the ques-planes towards rellance on mono- tion of how best the machinery of planes is only just beginning to the League might be used to take effect. eliminate scenes of cruelty from public cinematograph displays which were calculated to create racial hatred, to deteriorate nu- man character, and to lower the standard of human conduct,
SET PIECE REINTRODUCED The Display will show many new. types of military aircraft and will show several of the established types doing some of the work for which they are intended, The
squadrons will be seen in exhibi
"We know," said her Grace, latest fighters to be issued to the "how wrong ideas are fostered,
With regard to a claim that
This strange acquisition was re-
even without direct teaching 1ntions of advanced firing and of reform of the law concerning vealed by the president of the schools, of the glories and heroics aerobatics to the accompaniment abortion would bring about im-company. Mr. Walter Teagle, at of war. We known that too often
of announcements by wireless from provement in social conditions the annual meeting of share- murders and violence are shown the pilot. These are the Gloster
holders yesterday. He explained as the
exciting things in life, Gauntlets, which disguise their that it was due to the German whereas peaceful things have to high speed with a strange absence Government's strict. regulations all a place,
of the heavy noise usually associat- controlling the export of currency. "It does not need any profounded with fast aeroplanes. The The mouth-organs were acquired study in psychology to understand
spectacle of the set plece, built to in payment for shipments of petrol the evil influence from seeing be demolished by bombs, will be re-
scenes such as artificially staged introduced this year. fights between wild animals and also bought some
Advance bookings for the display. ships in Germany, and we are in cruelty to human beings. Just which will be held at Hendon on
as the Alm the music business, too," Mr.
has enormous pos- June 27; may be made at any R.A.F. Teagle sald
"We
sibilities for arousing interest and station and at all theatre and tic- mouth-organs to give two to every ties of doing herm, and there is comfortably and give a view of the sympathy, it has infinite possibil-ket agencies. Boxes to seat aix boy in the country."
It is suggested that the mouth-has been done."
no doubt that very much harm whole aerodrome are available at organs might be given away as an
£4, £5, and £7, Tickets for the advertisement.
main enclosures cost 108, and 58.. and seats may be reserved in the special stands in these enclosures
from giving a pronouncement of which, he claimed, caused racial
and life of nations, and seat. The display can be wat- thed: from cars parked in these Dame Louise Mcllroy presented opinion. Abortion, & not one of prejudice and international mis- enclosures (tickets 10s and 58.) but
paper
оп the medico-legal the chief causes of the downfall
understandings-flims which 4.9. aspect of abortion in which she of "Ancient Greece and Ancient sald Utopian arguments had been Rome, was at least the baneful cribed to particular nations cer- to secure the best positions. Ad vance bookings for the 2s, enclo- expounded about the success of result of the attitude of their tain forms of cruelty and evil..
Sures can be made through the birth control, if adopted and the intellectual women, who desired It was on the ples of M. Kal display secretary, but not at the com- to shirk the responsibilities of that the phrase relating to the agencies. Reserved seats are again munity. These results had not motherhood. It was practised to creation of racial hatred was em- available in the Watford Way been convincing and it was signi- i day by "nations whose viridity was bodied in the resolution, which was enclosure at an additional charge icant that the medical profes on the decline.
passed unanimously.
́of 28, 5d. a seat;
take place with the present state of the law.
Although the discussion of the moral, aspect of the problem was 28.3
rule ignored, she said, it must be admitted that what was
RACIAL PREJUDICE
M. Liu Kal, one of the Chinese delegates, pointed to films which
morally wrong could not be sion as a whole had beld aloof misrepresented the habits, char- at an extra charge of 3s. or 25. 8d.
solentifically right.
น
beneficial effects an
the
ncter,
It is advisable to book in advance
To his friends he gives presents of the finest Chinese tea and jade. In addition to his British K.B.E. he holds the Chinese Order of the Brilliant Jade.
THE SHADOW OF TRAGEDY It may be asked why Sir Elly, a British Shanghai magnate, should entertain the Emperor.
The answer is that this gentle little man would open his doors to anyone in need of shelter. There is a great tragedy in his life.
Some ten years ago there was a five ir his Chinese servants' quarters. His wife, who had been his partner in the building of his fortune, tried to rescue a favourite Chinese ser- vant who was trapped. She her- self was burnt to death.”
Since then Sir Ell has a passion for giving." With his own sorrow has come an immense pity for the suffering of others.
QUEEN MARY'S GIFTS
Two Parasole For
. Museum
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(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 14. Queen Mary has added two par- asols to her numerous gifts to the Victoria and Albert Museum, One of them is Chinese and dates from about the middle of last century. It is covered with bright silk em- broidery (similar to that on Chinese shawls made for the Wes- tern market) upon a maroon sat- in ground, and the handle and
ferrule are of ivory. elaborately
carved. The other
parasol is
about 30 years old, but it is a fine example of Edwardian fashion. with a long wooden handle and a triangle of net embroidered with j silk and coloured beads let in at the point of every other spoke.
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