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BOAT FESTIVAL
Most Colourful Feast Day Of The Chinese People
THIS AFTERNOON'S RACES
The Dragon Boat Festival, ons of the most interesting of the Chinese Festivals, which fails on the fifth day of the fifth moon (Lunar Calendar), will be again celebrated "enthusiastically in tradi- tional style.
In Hong Kong today, the Chinese community will celebrate the time-honoured occasion by having boat races and other festivities.
Old customs die hard, and despite various decreas of the Nan- king Government and other efforts to stamp out what the reforma- ers in China term old superstition, the Dragon Boat Festival remains among China's most colourful; feast, days.
Despite the diminution of inter-Yuen, whose influence with the est in recent years by the Chinese King "began gradually to decline. sports clubs in organizing boat KING WAI WARNED
After. some time, some traitorous
races, contests have been arranged
by the Chung Sing Benevolent ministers of the Chor State con- Society's Bathing Club and the spied with certain ambitious and Chinese Civil Servants Bathing scheming officials of Club in Kennedy Town and North State to conquer and absorb the the Taun Poitit, respectively. for this after-Chor State. but their treacherous plans were easily seen through 'by Apart from the big prizes, which the Minister. Wat Yuen, who are offered for the winners of thrice warned King Wai not. to f these races, great interest is taken declare war against the Tsun
noon.
.
in them on account' of the "Side State. owing to the weakness and bets"A crew from Shaukiwan unpreparedness of the armies of would meet one from Wanchal or the Chor State. Aberdeen as the case may be and But King Wai, who always much money passes hand as the planned to take revenge against resu1t.
the King of the Tsun State, re-
FIFTY ROADS TO few superstitious practices. The
TOWN
The old situation of water, wa- ter everywhere, and not a drop to drink, was brought home forcibly to Don Ameche and Ann Sothern.
So far as the Dragon B-fused to listen to Wat Yuan's Festival celebration is concerned. advice. and was determined to It has attached to its observance declare war against his enemy.
On seeing that King Wai was an festival goes more to the root of stubborn, Minister Wat Yuen be- the country's history, being based.
lieved that. It Was useless to jon a political theme of the actual
further rernonstrate with hig occurence.
King. Be thereupon. resigned his office and being 'disheartened and disappointed, he clasped big jumped into the Pak River near piece of stone to his bosom, and Changshatu
of Hunan Province
ORIGIN OF THE FESTIVAL » According to Chinese history,
stars of the Twentieth Century-recorded that during the Reign Fox production, "Fifty Roads tof King Wat of the Chor State in on the fifth day of the fifth moon, Town," now at the
Alhambra the Chow Dynasty. 85 A.D.. King and drowned himself, Theatre, when they faced near Wat had a minister named Wat starvation in the fim although it Yueh, who was the ablest and i was literally showing cornflakes. most loyal amongst all his min
isters!
After the death of the patriotic and loyal Minister. Wat Yuen, King Wal declared war against state, and his enemy the King of the Tsun Over 80,000 soldiers of the Chor State were slain and a jarige plece was badly defeated.
of territory a Han Chung was of the Tsun State. and occupied by the victorious treeps
In the picture, # romantic Owing to his great ability. he comedy of mistaken identities, was much favoured and trusted by young man and woman who do the King, who afterwards pro not know each other and them-moted him to high rank which selves marooned in a mountain cabin where their only source of animosity of the other selfish and
the resentment subsistence is a supply of caviar. deceitful ministers, crackers and hearts of artichoke schemed and planned to under- who secretly
and bring
caused
inemory of Wat Yuen, the people When the war was over, and in In the course of several weeks' mine his influence
the Chor State assembled every filming, Ameche arid Miss Sothern about his downfall. consumed fourteen large jars of
fear in boats on the fifth day of In time, King Wai so ill-advised the fifth moon at the Pok River. caviar and twelve bottles of hearts and misled by the false reports of and cast into the waters fruits of artichoke, a diet attributable to the selfish and deceitful ministers, and rice cakes, being tendered to director Norman Taurog's craving that he began to lose confidence
or realism and his insistence that in his favourite minister they could not do the scene pro- perly if they merely nibbled.
Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell, Jann Qualen, Douglas Fowley. Al- Ian Lane. Alan Dinehart and stepin Fetchit are featured in the him for which. Raymond Griffith was associate producer. The plc- ture was based on the novel by Louis Frederick Nebel.
WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
the demons of the river. so that Wat they might spare the bonest and devoted Minister, Wat Yuen.
Judge: "What were you thinking about when you stole the sheep?"
Thus was the festival of the Afth day of the fifth moon handed down to the future generations of China.
Prisoner: "I don't know, DIARY
mest have been wool gather- Ing."
"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE"
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Physicians of the Mayo clinic ment had been cured surgically
in Minneapolis (USA), after a Australia since the family's de- week's treatment of Alec Watkins, parture.
of Melbourne, declare that
his
heart is completely encased in SIR H. MONTGOMERY lime, one of the rarest cases in medical history.
The disease is called constrictive pericarditis and is caused by an obstruction in one of the veins returning blood to the heart.
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stated recently that he will retire Watkins's father said the best from the diplomatic service in a they could hope for 'was a 1000 to few months time. He is 62. one chance, but his son was willing Sir Hubert, who is a brother of to take it.
Sir Archibald Montgomery-Mas- Australian physicians who diagningberd, formerly Chief of the nosed the case admitted the pos Imperial General Staff, entered. sibility of surgical cure, but ex- the Foreign Office in 1000. He. pressed their unwillingness to take was made K.C.MG. In 1927 and the chance,
|K.C.V.O. in 1930.
The father has received a cable- Blr Hubert and Lady Montgo- gram, stating that a similar all-imer intend to live in England.
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SOLUTION TOMORROW-
OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY
'Anniversariés” and
Dragun
Holidaya----- Boat Festival '('T'len- chung-chieh): Sir Edward Elgar born, 1857...
Cinemas (See Column 3 of this Page)
Lectures-Theosophical Society.
6 p.m.
Malis (Bee Page 16). Meetings Victoria Chess Club. at Gloucester Hotel, 5 p.m.; An- nual, of the Society of Yorkshire- men in Hong Kong. in the Jai cobean Room of the Hong Kong Hotel, 8 p.m. (Tea. 6.30 p.m.)
Miscellaneous.-Claims
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Moon V. Moon, 5th Day.
Social-Cheerc Club Bridge and Mahjong Drive, 8 p.m.; St Andrew's Club "Open" Night. 9 p.m.
Sports-(Bee Page 107
Sunrise 5.39 am Sunset→→→7.04
p.m.
Tides-High at 00.50 and 11.25. Low at 04.12 and 18.50.
TOMORROW
Meon V Moon, 6th, Day. Sunrise-5.38 a.m. Sunset-7.03
15.m.
Tides High at 10.36. Low at 04.00 and 18.01.
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