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HE IS! SHE IS! THEY ARE!
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OFFICIAL HANDBOOK IS POOR PUBLICITY
"RIVIERA OF THE ORIENT"
-SARCASM?
There was a time-many years ago when it was the general concensus of opin- ion that guide-books were particularly dull. That was so before the advent of artistic printing, greater variety of types, improvement in picture reproduction and the pro- secuting of purposeful publicity. Most world-famned places now have their official Travel Associations from whence are issued glamourous varieties of brochures, · hand- books and pictorial publications calculated by the expert publicist 10 function as mag- nets attracting the personal attentions and wealth of hundreds of thousands of pro- spective travellers.
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Hong Kong has a Travel Asso- lation, and whether this organisa- | OUT-OF-DATENESS,
BEING MAINLY BASED ON ITS Colony, is simply yawn provoking: and when it seeks to impart statis- tion can be regarded as a luxury This publicity anachronism is
tical information it is incomplete. or an extravagance may well be glibly priced at $1.. Well, how many left to the good sense and taste of people
Most people in other parts of will pay that price is the world think those responsible for providing the nobody's business, except, of course. Kong in terms of picturesqueness. of Hong means whereby it functions the directors of the Hong Kong brightness, social gaiety, scenic money. Judging by the Handbook Travel Association: but it is con- which this organisation published soling in this connection to remem- splendor. sporting charm and yesterday under the captivating ber the dictum of a famous show- generally happy living. title, "Riviera of the Orient," one man who declared that "there-wa is forced to the unhappy conclusion one bom every minate." either that Hong Kong is a parti- IF THIS PUBLICATION SHOULD cularly dull and uninteresting FROVE A PAYING-BROPOSITION. place, or that the producers of this THEN IT IS FAIR TO STATE unimaginative volume are only reTHAT THE ESTIMATE OF THE motely threatened with publicity GREAT SHOWMAN WAS DE
CIDEDLY CONSERVATIVE.. WITHOUT DOUBT, THIS LATEST Pictorially this Handbook. Before the Hong Kong Travel MANIFESTATION OF LINGERING quaint put not interesting. Con- Association ANTIQUITY
perpetrates - another. .BY. THE HONG vincing is apparently, the last Handbook it should budget for KONG TRAVEL -ASSOCIATION, thing is producers hoped it to be something much less conspicuous MUST RANK AS DULLNESS IN The letterpress, when it seeks to than a 150 page production, EXCELSIS DIGNIFIED BY PRINT, portray the myriad-hued beauties. THE DIGNITY OF THE PRINT and charming amenities of the
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"I KILL MYSELF!"
DOCTOR'S DEATH
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1.I AM TIRED OF LIFE-I KILL MYSELF,” WAS GRAPHIC MESSAGE IN BROKEN ENGLISH READ TO THE KOWLOON COURT YESTERDAY BY ACTING SUB-INSPECTOR A.E. KINNEAR, OF THE WATER POLICE, C.L.D., AT AN IN- QUEST INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE DEATH OF DR. ADALBERT BARDOS, WHO DIED ON JULY 24 AT THE KOWLOON HOTEL, A VERDICT OF SUICIDE WAS RE. TURNED BY A JURY COMPRISING: MESSRS. CHAO. HING KI (FOREMAN), WONG WING CHUN AND G. M. GUTIERREZ, JR. THEY FOUND THAT DEATH WAS DUE TO AMYTAL, ADMINISTERED BY HIS OWN, HANDS. MB. E. HIMSWORTH SAT. AS CORONER.
Dr. A. Bardos registered at the Kowloon Hotel on the night of July 23,
During, the night, Li Kong, room toy, brought some iced water to Room 415, and the next day, wit- ness deposed to hearing some snoring emanating from room.
that
Knocking at the door at 4 p.m., Li Kin received no reply, and en- tered. What met his gaze prompt- ed him to summon the manager of the hotel, Mr. H. J. H. White. The latter immediately called the Water Police, and Acting Sub.- Insp. Kinnear arrived
shortly afterwards.
Sub-Insp. Kinnear stated that
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The remains were removed to the Kowloon Mortuary for a post- mortem, which was conducted by Dr. G. H. Henry, Medical Officer at the Kowloon Mortuary at 9 am. the next day.
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Are all those mere illusions? Perhaps but only perhaps.
Anyway, why waste time and talents on disillusioning prospec tive adventurers to the Orient with Hong Kong as the pivot of Faction?
A HAND-BILL IS INDICATED AS A START.
'Queen Mary's' Triumph
Great
The world rejoices with Britain in the supreme triumph of the Cunard-Whife Star liner Queen Mary in winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic, The liner's success is a tribute to her engineers and a testimony to the builders and workmen who assern- bled her in the yard at Clydebank from where she was launched by Her Majesty the Queen last year.
The glant queen of the ocean. captured the trophy on her sixth Trans-Atlantic Crossing, having broken the record for both direc- tions in consecutive voyages,
It was in 1929 that the German liner Bremen won the honour pre- vlously held by the famous Cynard Iner Mauretania for twenty-one years. Thereafter the Blue Riband was held. successively by the Europa, Breme for the second time, the Italian liner Rex, and then the French Liner Normandie.
Britons may well feel proud of the Queen Mary's conquest of the Atlantic. August 30, 1936 will re-
Dr. Henry found that the cause main a red letter day in the his- of death was due to polaoning by tory of British shipping. Congra- ; barbitaric acid derivative. There tulations to Sir Edgar Britten, of the Queen Mary, were about 8 grains on the table commander beelde the deceased, and 1 grains and may her sister ship. when she goes to sea, enjoy even greater were usually used. for insomniacs.
Success
Witness said there were no signs of violence, and there was a lack of disease or injury.
In his instructions to the jury, Mr. Himsworth said; Medical evi- dence points to smytal poisoning.
I think you will probably And, få
on entering the room, he found your verdict that was self- Cables
a man lying with his face down-administered, but I would warn
wards on the bed, clad only in his underclothing. On the table was
R. note which read.
BT
you, however, against the verdict
Aviation
of suicide while of unsound mind. Motoring
I suggest that it would be much Radio Programmes better if you gave your verdict as JULY 23-36.
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"death by his own hand.”
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