GENERAL NEWS
KARLY JAPANESE ART.
Albert Rollit, LED, in pra- siding at the University of Landon the opening lecture of a course on ** The Pictorial Art of Japan, by Mr. Stewart Dick, cordially
Melamed among the audience |
representatives of Japan. The lecturer: pointed out that as European, art had as a character- istie the interpretation of Christ- ianity so the art of Japan was the interpreter of Buddhism. In European art, however, man wAS only part of nature. The import- anse of the message was greater than the obtrusiveness of the messenger. The lecture dealt with art from the Nars Period :(709-84) and the rise of priest- painters, to the Kamakura period sae civil wars (1200-1855), "when the battle pictures depicted were of great dramatic force and vivida esS: The Japanese Charge D'Affairs, in speaking -to a vote of thanks to the lecturer, apologised for the absence of the Ambassador, who was in Paris. It was a very welcome sign, and he was greatly pleased, that the University had undertaken this course of lectures, for it would help the people of this great uation to understand and ap- preciate the art of the East, that was alive over a thousand years ago. No more encouraging sign of the community of interests could be shown than that so early after the terrible four and and a half years of war, the in- ternational language of art was used as an interpreter of senti- ment and feelings of the Japanese.
This prospect does not make him any happier.
NO SEX EQUALITY.
THE HONGKONG TEL
VICTOR RECORDS
The RECORDS of QUALITY
LARGE SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED,
Give
Including all
the
latest
DANCE RECORDS.
US a call and make
your selection.
MOUTRIE'S
Exclusive Agents.
THE RAYS OF THE SUN
AKE NDERED HARMLESA BY USING
CROOKES' GLASSES
*SUPPLIED BT
N LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN.
28. Queen's Road Ct, HONGKONG Frescriptions, accurately filien.
ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK:
A PERSONAL STUDY OF
THE LEADER.
prominent position and asked for
AYN JULY 30
Prepaid Advertisements.
ONE CENT PER WORD FOR EACH INSERTION. Adeset vam satu nós Freqski shaft be charged at the rate of two seat a par, ward
FOR SALE
FOR SALE or TO LET
WANTED..
WANTED:
Competent
Typist, Steno-Typist pre-
ferred. Apply stating salary
long lease FURNISHED or required. W. S. Bailey & Co. UNFURNISHED from October Ltd. Kowloon.
TO BE LET.
Ist 1919 No. 96 The Peak (Bad) House of Stewart Tarrace) Hot Water throughout. 'Double Grass Tennis Court with Pavillion and TO RENT. No. Queens large Kitchen Garden Apply! Road top floor, nicely farn- E. A. M. Williams, Lowe, Ished bed rooms with large veran- Bingham & Matthews, Chartered dabs. Will lat as offices. Apply Bank Buildings.
office Carlton Hotel.
.
Pyrene
FIRE
EXTINGUISHER.
EASILY OPERATED
!
Home Protection. For The Factory.
For Motor Cars and Boats.
FOR PRICES AND PARTICULARS Apply to-
- MUSTARD & co.
4. DIE VOUI-BOAD CENTRAL.
TELEPHONE 1186
AGENTS ↳ FOOGBOW, ANOY, SWATOW 134 CANTON, BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.
MACARONI PASTE STARS, EGGNOODLES, VERMICELLL
AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS...
ALL our Fasten beat the Rooster" babel and are made from Flear of the Best Quality' containing a langs percentage of laten. Starch and Glues are the principal components of Flour à. Gluten is easier zà dignes and contains more nuzzimens that Starch, Hanufactured under the most mhítary conditions,
Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World,
Terms moderata, especially for Agacies. Orders-exconted permptly, THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. Head Office: No. 47 & 48. Canaught Road, Central, Hongkang, Telepaone No. 1339 & 9250 Principal Factory: No. 71, North Soochow Hood, Saraghai, chium: Telephone No.3385. Branch Factory: Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong Cable Adirene; **HINGWAR.”
the command of a destroyer in KEEP COOL AND COMFORTABLE IN HOT WEATHER
the Baltic Sea. He was then promoted to the rank of comman- der and placed under Admiral Essen. The latter, on the out- break of war in 1914, appointed him to his staff giving him the responsible task of working out the plans. of naval action against the enemy.
/!
command of a
A friend of mine, who was in cruisers and came into constant
a squadron of contact with Koltchak, formed highest appreciation of his former subordinate. Our free exchange
BY USING
TALCUM POWDER
AFTER THE BATH.
We have a fine selecion in stock.
COLGATE'S
Ylolet Cashmere, Bouquet, La France Rose,
Eclat-actylis
etc. etc.
FOUR TINS FOR THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY,
DOLLAR.
ueen's Road
Central.
of opinion," he declares, always SMALL-POX PERIL AT HOME activity on the part of the virus.
gave te best results, and I affirm that the successful work of the
D
IMPORTANCE OF VACCINATION.
guarantee that
YO FORS
TENNIS SHOES
BEST ENGLISH MAKES IN CANVAS AND BUCKSKIN,
WITH RED RUBBER SOLES.
$8.00 to $13.50 per pair, ALL SOLES STUCK AND SEWN
WHITE CANVAS
"KEDS"
LIGHT YET STRONG $3.75 per pair.
TENNIS SHIRTS
AERTEX CUTELLA & TAFFETA.
BELTS, SOCKS, ETC.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
SPARKLING MINERAL WATER.
Pyeris
AN EXACT REPRODUCTION A WELL-KNOWN SPA AT HALF THE PRICE BLENDS PERFECTLY WITH SPIRITS, ESPECIALLY WHISKY.
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.
TELEPHONE 436.
STAR GARAGE.[
Tel No. 3017.
49, Des Vœux Road Central HONGKONG.
New Cars on Hire & For Sale.
E. HING & CO.
SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND
HARDWARE MERCHANTS.
'PHONE NO. 116.
25, WING WOO ST.
CENTRAL.
UNHAPPY CROWN PRINCE. The German ex-Crown Prince is in a state of great depression Lowing to the threat of the ex- tradition of the Hohenzollernis, *4ays an Amsterdam" correspor- .dent. Recently I paid a visit to the island of Wieringen in order to procure precise information about his recent doings. He ap pears very depressed, especially since he heard that the peace conditions contain a claim for the extradition of his father. He has retired from the world and refuses to see
any -one. The days when he con-
stantly visited the inhabitants, Koltchak (writes Count A. are over. He is seldom seen Tcherep-Spiridovitch in the Pell now, and when he does appear in Mall Guzette) whom I first met public he is nervous and uneasy. at the Imperial Naval School at Formerly he used to play with the St. Petersburg, to which only children-one mother told me members of the nobility were proudly that once the ex-Crown admitted, finished his course of Prince had plaited the hair of her study about 1892-1893. Betond little daughter-but latterly he exhibiting a high sense of dis- does not care for such pastimes.cipline, coupled with efficiency From his secretary, Herr von in his work, there was nothing Berg. I learned that the ex-Crown really remarkable in the present Prince had read Mr. Bonar Law's Supreme Regent to attract the statement made in the House of notice of his colleagues. Commons that he would also be extradited and action would be he held rank as an assistant.com- Baltic Fleet in the operations
A few years later, 1900-1903,
But infectious disease has an Taken against him. Of course.mander on the yacht Zaria in against the Germans was largely
uncomfortable way of flaring up the Polar expedition of Baron due to the young" officer in
suddenly and spreading in all directions when its visitation is Thol. He had served on board question."
There is something very dis- least expected; we have seen more the ironclad Sebastopol in the The advocates of equal pay for Mediterranean prior to joining Essen, Koltchak declined to re-small-pox in this country at the baviour in the matter of influ- After the death of Admiral quieting about the occurrence of than enough of this kind of be- men and women were defeated Thol, to whom, in his eagerness, main on the staff. He thereupon Telegraph, of June 7. We have ised too soon that the public has present tima, says the Daily eaza. Hence it cannot be real- by a big majority at the con- he offered bis ference of head teachers in telegram.
services by took over a flotilla of destroyers, Birmingham recently. Urging `a
which he operated so successfully so long been accustomed to regard absolutely no In addition to performing the that it quickly became obvious the disease as practically stamp small-pox may not be about to movement to raise the salaries of duties of hydrologist to the ex-that he was as well equipped, to ed put in the British Isles that make just such a spring. On the headmistresses of the level of pedition, Koltchak wrote a mono-execute dashing exploits as he very few people have taken much other hand, it is all to the good thore headmasters, Miss Ball. of graph on "Polar Ices." supplied was to plan them.
interest in the numerous minor that of late years small-pox, when Cardiff, said that if equal pay for the mateial for a new chart of ranked as a naval captain.
outbreaks that have lately occurrit has appeared in this country, women would keep the clever boy the northern coast of Siberia, When the first revolution broke ed; nevertheless, the incidence of has tended to be of a mild type: out of the profession, unequal pay For the monograph he received,s out in 1917 he had already small-pox really calls for serious but here again one cannot rely was just as likely to keep out the prize from the Academy of Science reached admiral's rank, and com thought now. The record for this with certainty on any infectious clever girl. Mr. Greaves, of Leeds, at St. Petersburg.
year shows some thirty cases re-fever maintaining its comparative declared amid laughter that the most masculine women in penetrating brown eyes, Admiral
Not very tall, dark, with AT WAR WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS ported up to the beginning of innocence
indefinitely.
The the profession could no more do Koltchak at this period is remem Provisional Government,
He promptly recognised the April, since when there has been germs causing infectious diseases an average of seven or eight seem to have a habit of diminish- the work of the men that the bered for his unusual persever-later carried through the political weekly. Were all these from the ing in virulence for long periods most effeminate men could exert ance, courage and good judgment. reforms among the crews of his same district there would be less and then suddenly reappearing i the sweet influence of the women. His scientific knowledge was ship without bloodshed." He stic. cause for anxiety that is the case with terrible powers of destruc- He moved an amendment that considerably higher than the ceeded in maintaining discipline now that the disease has appear- tion the conference, while urging the average attained by his contem- and good behaviour among all ed in a number of places widely. There are many cases of small- council to take steps to secure poraries. better scales for head teachers of
afoat, as well as showing the apart. Islington and St. Pancras por on the Continent just now, When, during his second year enemy that the Baltic Fleet was the same may be said of Chorley age of military contingents from both sexes, was of opinion that of Polar exploration. Baron Thol ready to fight.
are close enough, it is true, whilst and in view of the frequent pass- no scheme of salaries would was lost Koltchak led a whaleboat
Wood and Amersham; but Hartle- foreign porta to home towns there In spite of Bolshevik pro- successfully attract men and party sent to find him. Bennet paganda, Kolfehak's seamen te pool and Liverpool are far from are exceptional opportunities for women of equal social standing Island. 300 miles north of the Newmained for some time a threat to month is a long way from either. the incubation period of which is and ability which did not offer Siberian Islands, was searched in the Turks and Germans. How In each small-pox has lately ap about ten days." It is possible for these home localities, and Ply-introduction of this pestilence, higher salaries to men than to vain for the missing explorer.. ever, through the evil example of women. The amendment was IN THE BUSSO-JAPANESE WAR the Baltic Fleet, there was a do peared. Near London, Hama man to become infected before carried by 70 votes to 40.
In 1905, at the time the Russo-cline in their moral. They even Poplar Penge, and Finchley have pass through close scrutiny with
mersmith, Ilford, East Ham, reaching a demobilisation camp,
** THE RAINMAKER. Japanese war was at its height, tually became so unruly, indeed, ned cases whilst quite out the disease being detected,WING The London Evening News Lieutenant Koltchak was given that Koltchak presented them recently contained the follow-command of a destroyer, in with an ultimatum, the sense of recently at least nine patients although it may be incubating in #WING ON CO., LTD. ingThere was once an earl which he served until peace was which was that if they did not Croydon. The Port of London and then to develop the illness who was called the King-maker.declared. He carried out several recognise him as their chief he itself has contributed some six after reaching tome. The Duke of Rutland will go daring exploite, and received the would at once resign. No agree cases. Further afield, Deroy, small-pox is a disease for # down to history as the Rain-St. George Sword from the meat was reached. maker. For who does not re emperor. This sword, ornament- member that the great two ed by a brilliant gilt handle with the disarming of all officers, and and Cardiff are amongst places in protects us both from catching The Bolsheviks had voted for Pontefract, Bury St Edmunds, which we have a sure means of Darlington, Bishop's Stortford, prevention. Vaccination strongly months drought which burned up the Cross of St. George, was des- before the admiral left his ship a which the infection has already the infection and from its worst the country last summer ended tined to figure in an incident deputation requested him to give claimed victims. effects should the defensive miraculously, when the Times connected with the Bolsheviks. up his arms. The St. George published a letter from him Following the Japanese war, Sword he had received from the
Let it be remembered that with chanism provided by the pro appealing to the bishops to Koltchak took a degree in naval Tsar he refused to hand over many separate centres of con- have become weak instruct their clergy to pray for science at the Naval Academy; There was a scene, in which hetagion so active disease as lapse of years; rece Tam? So later the Evening News and entered the service of the defied the sailors and threw the smallpox has an excellent opport. tion may be. sent this telegram to him: "Is Naval General Staff. Although sword into the sea. Other officers form, although,- spparantly,
unity of Weaking olat in epidemie cer it not time you asked for prayers he still only ranked B.S a were arrested, but his prestige
-
He now
manded the Black Sea Fleet."
..
and
have been stricken down, at his blood
for rain. Country looks to you." lieutenant, he carried out some was so great that he was all are not yet in the
true
The Duke's reply, from the Pea complicated technical work with to leave Sebastopol for Petcognofort cock Hotel, Bowsley, is amusing; exceptional ability, and also pre- without further mole
but it may provide a serious sub-pared a ten years shipbuilding He was later son
fect for the agends of the next programme for the Duma
Your When he had completed his
the
all the time,
However,
FRENCH LESSONS.
G. MOUSSION,
15, Morrison Fill Road..
THE
MOTORUNION
INSURANCE COMPANY,"
LIMITED.
FIRE MARINE LIFE & MOTOE ACCIDENT.
· Particnlaw from. UNION TRADING CO., General Ageing
THE
HONGKONG,
UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS,
Most up-to-date and
POPULAR MUSIC
500
tasks in this direction, he retired
from the Hardc