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THURSDAY, JULY 21; 1941.
DAY BY DAY.
The Shipbuilding Returns. IT IS BY PRESENCE OF MIND TY ~ Considering the huge strides of UNTRIED CIRCUMSTANCES THAT U. S. tonnage, Britain has not done THE NATIVE METÁL OF A MAN 19 so badly in retaining 351 per TESTED-Lowell. cent of the world's ocean-going
** THE DEVIL'S
PASSKEY.
An Attractive Film.
The Devil's Panskey" is the story of an American husband and
CORRESPONDENCE
Te the Bitor of the "Hongkong Tolgrupa".]
BANDMAN OPERA COMPANY.
Civil Service Honours. Sir.—I saw in your issue of the Company 18th instant an editorial on
soms
Irene.
presented the well- Last night the Bandman Opera
known
and popolar musical
*
| steam tonnaze, as recorded in the
latest Lloyd's Registar returns Empress of Asia to-day wore Mr. lives in Paris.
Among those salling by the wife and a crowded hour in their honours given to the Police incomedy Ireno......, There Was On the other side the dispersion of D. Blanktron, Capt. B. R. Branch,
which you referred to man in the Warren Goodwright is a writer Sanitary and Bevenue Depart Sood house sad the audiance the German merchant marine has Mr. J. Bell-Irving Mr. C. F. of plays, not yet successful batments. You are quite right when were appreciative of the splendid to be taken into account and the Mason, Mr. H. W. Sassoon, and moving with Grace, his wife, in you say they equally deserve rendering of the place, which Old Country is 9 per cent down Mr. J. S. Gubbay.
the best Parisian society. as compared with_pre-war_times.
despite a sudden alteration in the Grace, for love of her husband's Government is aware
some such honour, and the That figure, considering the un-
of the Cast owing to illness, was played precedented losses through sub the City Hall, on Friday, 22nd infamous, modiste, In her at the Government from one of the pany. The scenery was affective, A jumble sale will be held at to Madame Malot, a famous, and ence on this subject was sent to always associated with this com- dream of her, gets badly in debt wishes of the men as correspond-with the usual vim and vigour marine warfare and the widened July, at 3 pm. The Benevolent tempts to extricate herself aha Departments mentioned competition since, to say nothing Society will be glad to receive is forced to weet clandestinely an three or four years ago, and the Costumer's art, the songs were the dresses were a credit to the af the shipping slump and in-contributions for the Sale at attractive young American army men were refused such decoration. wall-rendered, the music lively dustrial disputes, is probably Helena May Institute. larger thas British shipping men
officer. Captain Rax Strong. Out| looked for. On the whole the
As regards the risk to which and the show generally an ad- of their meeting, innocent enough, the Police are exposed as com-
mirably rendered production. signs go to show that Britain may' An incipient outbreak of fire springs A scandalous reckon upon retaining her long which took placa in Messrs A.S. which all Paris promptly learns ment, I fail to see how anyone have played the principal role of story pared with the Sanitary Depart Miss Dolly Prince, who was to Owing to the sudien illness of continued supremacy. The cable Watson and Co's Godown and which Goodwright just as knowing the nature of the work Irene, this character was, sakan from Washington in relation to Stanley Street at 1015 this morn-innocently takes for the plot of of each can see sur grounds of by Miss Joan Penrose. Irene the huge losses sustained lasting was put out by the firemen play in which he presently comparison between the two being on the stage practically the year by the U. S. Shipping Board, without ruuch difficulty. The makes a great success at the the one hand the Police patrol following be FapTmous sums origin of the outbreak is not Theatre Francais. Jeered at and the streets, occasionally risking whole of the time, Miss Pearose's sunk in construction, de-know.
scorned by all society for making, a fight or sudden attack task was a heavy one, but she monstrates the magnitude of the
his own wife's indiscretions a unarmed, but very rarely at
carried it through without a hitch task of building up a successful Having concluded a successful source of fame and income, be countering an armed opponent, and ber splendid acting brought mercantile marine of the first series of entertainments at the suddenly wakes to the terrible and they also sometimes run risks her a great deal of well-earned rank. America appears to bave Wo Ping theatre Chefalo is ap crath and goes sorrowfully, at a fire. On the other hand, the applause. Mr. Erio Masters was reconciled herself to the ex-pearing at the Kowloon Cinems grimly, home to the supposedly Sanitary Inspectors are wading Well-fitted to play the part of pedient of writing off a large this evening. From Hongkong guilty pair to have his settlement daily through infectious, BELL SMITH-Captain and Mrs. S. Bell Smith, a son, on proportion
Donald Marshall and the role the enormous this well-koown enter:atuer is While The Devil's Passkey Monday, July 18th.
tagious, and deadly diseases.
of Robert Harrison was splendid- capital cast awar losses." Of proceeding to Saigon, en route is splendidly clean and ends as theaddition, the "Lapsap Pongly acted by Mr. Jerry Verna, Mr. TAYLOR-AI French Convent Hospital. Causeway Bay, on proceed amid abnormal stress, a long tour has been arranged.
course, the Shipping Board had to for Singapore, and India, where happily, its powerful story is pao."Chinese insultingly call the McMahon made a typical the 21st July, to Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Taylor, a daughter.
stranger rather than weaker on Sanitary Inspectors, have in the
American successful business and as time goes on such an
this account. This remarkable course of their duties to go into man. Humour was supplied by astute operator as Uncle Sam will
picture will be shown to-morrow Public conveniences to examine
Miss Madeline Rossiter, whose no doubt "grow wise" to tba
at Wo Ping Theatre.
them, and can anyone imagine a real live acting has made her such more disease laden place than a favourite with the theatre-going one of these. In times of epidemic public of the East, and Mr. Jack they are the men who often Crichton, in the part of Madame have to handle people suffering Lucy, kept the house in a state of from highly infections diseases, time he was on the stage. All anconcealed merriment all the aad. knowing this, saperintend
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
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Births.
Deaths.
of
LEUNG.-On the 19th. inst... at his residence No. Al. Man-conditions, It would certainly chong-forg. Wong-nei-chung Leung Wing Kit, the Manager of be a mistake to think of the Messrs. Jack A. Tai & Co. The funeral will take place on Sunday. American merchant marine as a 2th. iost. at 11 am.
BUX-rs S. B. Bux (Jainab) died 20-7-21. at her residence 14. Muliory Street, and funeral took place this toorning at Sa.m. in the Mahommedan Cemetery. Singapore papers please cops.
Announcement.
The relatives of the late Albina Sanches tender theit sincerest thanks to a friends for the kind expressions of syrupathy in their recent bereavement and for the many beautiful floral tributes sent.
The Hongkong Telegraph
The
of a chair On
gained currenty that, owing to the
lation. Some ten years a report;
Rear-Admiral C. Maclachlan, C.B., who has been appointed to succeed Rear Admiral G. H. Bor- rets, C.B., is command of the, Yangtze Patrol, is due to feare He expects to arrive about the home on September 2 for Chioa.
piddle of October, about which time Rear-Admiral Borrett will proceed home. During the last years of the war Rear-Admiral Maclachlan was in command of H.M.S. Royal Oak.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
"yarn
con-
in
acted.
GEORGE.
so much of your valuable space. his sanction. Mr. Lloyd George
"SALUD."
Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
colossal failure. So long as efforts, however, we may expect Britain does not slacken in her
to see the Red Ensign still leading
the removal of them to the the other roles were excellently. Christianity in Japan.
The part of Laurence There seems to be some doubt Hospital. and then go back to Dr. Sakuzo Yoshino and some
as to the actual need for the their own homes in the clothing Hadley was taken by Mr. Tom colleagues of Tokyo University,
yarn spinner" who, according which has been in contact with Scott, Mr. Dan Mansfeld played Clarkson, Miss Beryl Lucina took with the support of over three
to report, is to be signed on as the disease, thereby exposing Miss Joan Penrose's place in the their families to such diseases rate of Helen Cheston, the part of hundred students, have started a
one of the crew of the new American Atlantic mail boats and risking not only their own Mrs. Marshall was taken by Miss movement "for. the creation i For the theft of a bottle of wine But the idea is at least an in-lives but the lives of their wives Disne de Brett, Mise Lucills Dale Christianity a Chinese was arrested on a sam-teresting reversion, since the and children because of the nature fed the role of Eleanor Worth, in the Imperia University." pan yesterday near the Yaumati yarn spinner of to-day is merely of their duties. The wording has 3 curious breakwater. From the story a revival of the "fools" and Granted, the Police tisk sudden Miss sound. implying that Christian-supplied by the man, the Police "jasters"
Grace B-rry took the HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1921.
ity-the Christian faith is to be concluded that the wine had been and down to
of the Middle Ages death occasionally, but the San-character of Mrs. O'Dare and the acquired as one might acquire stolen from the steamer Ascot, century, says a London writer and fatal diseases daily. They by Miss B. Chillingworth.
the seventeenth itary Inspectors risk long, painful part of Mrs. Cheston was taken law or medicine. Western univer-which is now out of por: The They had a well-defined place are despised in all parts of the COLONEL HOUSE ON ME. LLOYD RENTS AND RATES.
sities have, of course, faculties in charge of-being in unlawful in society in the days when world as an unavoidable evil, bat | theology, which, as an investiga-possession of the wine which was men did not read and had few they are badly blamed should an During the recent controversy which raged aroundtion of doctrine, is a different brought against the thief at the means of relaxing their minds epidemic break out as though it from
The Pelit Parisien reproduces the Goverüment's proposal to increase the assessed taxes matter from religion. Perhaps the Magistracy this morning resulted Nor can it be said that the idea were their fault. They are those Ledger
the Philadelphia Public from 13 per cent. to 20 per cent. it was very frequently rendering: it may be that a chair
translator is responsible for the in a fine of $10 being imposed,
an article in which has ever quite disappeared. On who risk their lives for their Colouel House deals with the pointed out that the assessable value of the Colony was in Christian theology is intended.
long ocean journeys, for instance, enemies without doubt.
European situation. The follow- fast growing and the Government was sure to reap a bigger If it is the purpose of the Association Eas asked the Pek-purser to provide bimself with a to be given to the favoured few, that the British Premier was not The Kiangau Educational it used to be the function of the One can only expect honoursing is one passage="It is said revenue from house taxation this year than last, even if it ganisers to follow the literal ing Government to send moneysufficient stock of "jesta did not increase the percentage of the rate. In view of us raising the cuinvation of the tuition fees and expenses of the and
wording of the announcement, to Hongkong to pay
to as, for example, the Police re-sorry to see M. Clemenceau and that and a wide public protest the Government was induced Christian faith from the province Government supported
for the keep the passengers amused, serve medals which have not yet Mr. Wilson disappear from public the 'entertainer" bes been presented although the life. Since then, Mr. Lloyd to drop its proposal. Yesterday we were enabled to publish of the intellect to that of the soul, ents there, states stud-a well-established function in Police Reserve honours were George found himself alone in- the figures of the Colony's ratable value based on the new the Occident has the greater China Daily News. the North the runding of "bydros
presented in Government House vested with a power extending to assessment which came into force un July 1st. and from occasion for rejoicing, Protest to Peking the Association points To these might be added corn and a house full of invites.
In a letter and so on, in the these days with a grand blast of trumpets a very large part of the universe, these it was clearly shown that the Colony is going well Church of Rome, and the Eastern guaranteed to support 20 students themselves, it may be guessed.
and tow questions of international antism in its various forms, the out that the Government has mercial travellers who commend
Thanking you for granting me importance were decided without ahead in the value of ratable property it possesses.
Church all have their volaries into the amount of $850 each. but both to employers and to pros As compared with ten years ago the value of ratable the island empire. and the num for the past two years none of pective
Yours, etc.
holds this sway no longer, and he property has increased 51.55 per cent. and that in itself is bers are considerable. though in this money has been paid.
by customers
their
will now have to count with M. powers as jesters as well as in Hongkong July 20.
Briand." indicative of very rapid growth. At the making of the significant in relation to the popu last assessment a year ago the value of ratable property was
other ways: and there have To keep rubbers uff her vege-always been people on the out- given as $17.959, which was an increase ou the previous need of a revealed faith, the adoptable patch in Australia, she was skirts of society who bave main year of $1.104.158. This year it is returned as $18.696,760, tion of Christianity as the nation-obliged to arm herself with a tained a place there by their an increase of $187501, or 7.4 per cent. There again religion of Japan was being revolver, explained a returned fe- aptitude for jesting. None the the Government has ample cause for satisfaction.
considered: but the idea proved male Chinese emigrant with a less, it should be interesting to ephemeral.
ODO The present move baby in her arms to Mr. R. E see how long any revenue of the Government during 1920 from assessed meat has progressed to the exten: Lindsell at the Magistracy this spinner" will hold his place. taxes was $2,122,300 and in its Budget for 1921, presented of a special class for the ring. She arrived in the Lamb is our best authority in to the Council last autumn, it was estimated that the University's students
Colony by the Hwab Ping and this respect, and be has recorded revenue from the same source this year would be $2.250,000. Christian Association Hall.
was on her way to Shekki. The the immensity of the strain of I see the General Officer Com- down the credit of the regiment* In view of the increased ratable value that will be earning Diwake. as a preliminary to the Magistrate imposed a Ene of 840. providing daily jokes for a news: manding. Chins Command, (to and wasn't this intimation usual- money for the Government during the last six mouths of
and ordered the arms, which com-paper over a long period. And give him part of his fall title) ly given publicity to in the press? ammunition, to be confiscated,
watching his public assimilating a brain wave and as a result the Hongkong papers but whether or will begin to bear revenue it is difficult to see how this A remark concerning the Band-
-or failing to assimilate bie Military Authorities are spend no, I do think now that the time figure of two-and-a-quarter millions will not be exceeded.in our yesterday's issue illustrates a thief before Mr. G. N. Orme at fetes," so that the same jokes will advertisement. No being of a msa Opera company's programme Sub-Inspector Appleton charged)
jokes. The same people traveling a few dollars wi' the news- to do this sort of thing is when a It should be much nearer two-and-a-half millions, which is the pitfalls that lurk in the sub the Magistracy this morning, hardly do service every voyage.
over and over again by the "ocean papers in the way of a nice little fresh lot of lads come among u surely a fair return. Ouchus to bear in mind that the growth conscious mind. Momentary con- and explained that the men was
Then the inbabitants will know miserly turn of wind, I'm sure of Hongkong's ratable value does not solely represent growth fusion of names, things or words caught in a brothel in the act of
what to expect and act accord- the Editor of the Telegraph ingly. in building-one wishes that it did. It represents in part is prone to cast a weird illusion stealing a woman's jacket. Nine
wouldna' object to me giving One at least of the ex-Kaiser's them a little more value for their question, just what
Then again, there's also the the additional rental cal of property on account of land-over the faculties until the reflec-pawn-tickets were discovered in castles has been put to good use money by letting me just say does
exactly lords increases. And that is just why the Government to operate. The passage in ques-to
rive process has had a litte time his possession and relating for the time being (writes that the sum and substance of mean. Does it officially include
the word soldier was so recently taken to task for not putting a stop to ion, alluding to the performance ed
women's clothing, indicat-correspondent.) This is the this is test forth of Army publicity officers bolding a commission. landlords' pronteering. Under the system worked in Hong-of "Irene" to-night, ran:
that the stealing of Schloss Bruhl in a "Dr.women's
fair-sized is to the effect that as nu soldier warrant officers and N. C. 0? trousers was kong the Government gets more revenue when rentals are
his town of that name near Cologne. can be placed under stoppages At one time, and I suppose it Johnson, of course, wrote aspeciality. The owners of this The castle has been converted of pay for a private debt in exists yet, there used to put up, because instead of making a separate valuation on tragedy under this title, in- the wearing apparel bad not been into a club for the use of the habitants therefors musto't suffer a phrase in Orders referring its own for the purpose of levying the rates it has been expenses of his mother's funeral." Magistrate dealt with the charge for officers, in which the original debts or if they do it will be at sergeants and their wives and the
evenings of a week,' to defray the traced, it was explained, and the Army of Occupation, one wing aforesaid content to take the landlords' valuation as reflected in the While the Great Lexicographer, before bim by sentencing the forniture had been retained, and their own risk.
soldiers to contract to the officers and their ladies, rent they demand. We very directly accused the Govern- of course, wrote a tragedy enti thief to one month's hard labour. another for men. The fine suite
men and their women." That ment of knowing that it stood to gain by high rentals and died "Irene," it is equally true
Between you and me, Mr. Gen- might not just be the exact way. of rooms apstairs we used for eral Commanding. I'm beginning of putting it but I do know that failed to intertere in consequence of that knowledge. In that this was not, of course, Ten fathoms of rope, which daoces, but in the day-time bad to think that this information is in so far as the womenfolk of a the light of what has happened recently-the reversal of work famed as having been formed the object of an attempted to don felt overshoes before somewhat abint the band. If regiment were its decision to increase the taxes and the Bill restricting week, for the pious reason on Saturday morning, was men-contained some beautifully inlaid is true I understand that the
larceny from & P. & 0. lighter looking through them. They all I read in the newspapers here some such distinction was made. aye concerned rents which it pat through on Monday-we are happy to mentioned, "Rasselas" being the tioned at the Police Court this wooden cabinets and dull con Wilte Regiment is shortly due for Is there any difference between Now, what I want to ask is this, learn otherwise.
production to serve that purpose. morning in connection with the ventions! portraits of margraves India's coral strand and, mind ye, officer and a soldier in so far as But we must plead for the necessity of a separate of the filial duty was not depend- Chinese, one of whom is still in as most was that in such considerable time now when cerned? There's more than one It was as well that the fulfilment charge brought against two and cardinals. What astonished they've been here for some this little advertisement in con- valuation, for until we get that we shall never get a fairent upon "Irene," because the Hospital in consequence of levying of house taxation. The adoption of some such tragic end of the heroine was so severe thrashing handed out to German had been content with don't want it to be thought for a trader during six days of the a magnificent building the cultored ye come to think of it. I inhabitant here, who is also a procedure as is followed by municipalities at Home is what anpopular that the first night's him by the crew who caught them the crudest of poor imitation moment that the inhabitants of week, who is to-day asking him we urge.
The rental value and ratable value there differs performance was also the last, in red-banded, it is alleged." often considerably as most of our readers are aware.
contrast to the success of the Leo d'Almada, who is retained old gardener told me that the it in mind that the Wilts lads As a rule and for very obvious Mr. marble pillars and taps. The this place at any time ever had self that very same question. In musical-comedy namesake, some cases the ratable value is higher than the rental value,
for the defence, sent word up to Kaiser had not visited this palace were a lot of crooks but 1, for reasons Tommy but in the majority of instances it is distinctly lower. At
the Magistracy this morning that since his childhood, but that the one, do think that the time for se dom makes nae of the chit Atkins very DORA'S PARTING KICH, any rate it is an independent valuation made by municipal
be wanted a remand for the pur-Kaiserin had been in residence advertisements o' this kind to system, but A butcher who passed unscath-pose of receiving instructions for several times during the war. In
cases have been officials for municipal purposes and the adoption or a ed through the ration period was the bringing of a counter-charge front of the castle was a slona appear in our papers is when a known when officers have proved similar scheme bere would remove cause for much doubt as fined £10 at Willesden for an against the men on the lighter for pillar which, curiously enough,{ new regiment comes bere.
to be officers caly and to to the Government's impartiality. It might cost a little offence committed on the last unprovoked assault. The case was commemorates the death of some pany or a battalion came fresh healthy little of lot. L. O. Us
In days gone by when s com- have left behind them quite s more, but justice demands that it should be done.
day of the Maximum Prices accordingly adjourned
until soldiers from Bruhl who had fal- to a place wasn't there a little I think this is a point that
len at Bapaume in the 1870 war. ceremony known as 'crying· ́ought to be made clear,
H
formal institution of a chair.
the
this year and the fact that a great deal of new property/Dr. Johnson as Dramatist Prised a revolver and 20 rounds of Lamb bad never the agony of has been having a wee bit of I never mind of seeing it in the
written in the evenings of
Order.
Tuesday next.
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