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The after-dinner dances are held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.. Telephones in every room.
The Europe Orchestra plays nightly during Dinner, and for Tiffin on Saturdays. ROOM
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FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES
presents
STRONGHEART
The Wonder Dog who thrilled the world in The Silent Call" now in a greater sensation.
"BRAWN WORTH"
OF THE
A story of a great dog and a child he guarded in the snows; of famine-mad wolf-packs circli g them; of a demented mother who refused to accept
miracle.
NEXT CHANCE The Seasons Rip-Roaringest COMEDY
DOUGLAS MACLEAN
in
"BELL BOY 13"
A Thos. H. Ince Production.
WEATHER REPORT.
over
♫
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District.
Forecast.
May 20d, 11h. 03m.-Pressure has increased considerably, overi Japan, moderately Bonine, and slightly at Chefoo, Capo St. James and Labuan; it Thas decreased considerably at South coast of
China Shanghai, and slightly oloswhore.]
betweon E. to S. A depression is situated over
H.K. & Lamooks or variable Korea; gradients are everywhere 3. H'kong to Gap winds, shallow.
moderate;
the Formosa Channel S. winds,
moderato.
Hongkong rainfall for the 244 South coast of fair.
'hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day,
40.08 inch. Total since January
1st, 22.92 inchos, against
an
varage of 18,22 inches,
Rook......
China between
H.K. & Hainan.
'o. W. JEFFRIES, Direator. Hongkong, May 20,
A PEKING SHOP
Gods and Dragons.
The stuffy little ouriosity shop, known as the Palaos of Benevolent Nogotiations, is mercifully hidden from the eyes of the curious in a blind alloy bobind the Ca'ion Men Street in Peking, writes F. S. Stuart in tro It does not change Daily News.
one whit. No doubt the samo shop was kept by Ling's honour- able ancestors in the days of our Hongist and Horsa.
Nor has the lame philosopher, inscrutable as Buddha, whom the world knows as Ling, obanged during twenty years, in which he bas unemotionally absorbed the excess of opulence of the tourists, Until you have seen this placid god of Benevolent. Negotiatione you can have no true concaption of the value of that descriptive phrase-a Celestial.
T/T.
Domand
35.
3 dis.
.4 m/a.
T/T. Shanghalie T/T. Singapore.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1925.
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T/T Japan
1204
377. Calcutta
1493
T/T. India
1402
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On Yokohama
...12
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Demand, Mania:
..1082
541
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Demand, Singaporo
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On
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DUYING.
Sovereign
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Hongkong 50 couls picces
10
Canton wab. coin
Gold leaf
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Hongkong May 20 1975:
POST OFFICE NOTICES.
From Shangbai Canada, U.S. A., Japan, Shanghai & London via Canada (London 13th “Aprila) --r. Manila... Shanghai Shanghai... Manila Japan...".... Гараа
THI
2% dis. 1% dis
3 1/2 din. 310,50% dis.
$47.40
Per
Due.
Liangchow
...20th May
Empress of Ruusia Pre, Grant Ninghai...
.20th
Sunning Pres, Tuts Fushimi M. Bokaro M..
Tengo M. Pres. Madison
In the "Palace" itself-a tiny hoval, if accounted by size-ia to be found such a variety of goods as would turn & Woolworth green with anvy; and all about there is old cloying Eastern odour, and
Mails for Europe, vin Siberis, are dispatched from Shanghai every Tuesday at an atmosphore of warmth and p.m. to connect with the weekly Siberian Express leaving Ifthin on Monday of the quiet. Here are exquisite porce- following week. The weekly mail from Hongkong for the diferian route is forward. lains jades, bronzes, pearls,ed by the latest steamer to leave here which will enable the connection at Shanghai to be rande, Tetters perscribed via Siberia". & marked for transmission to. weirdly-foreshortened images of Shanghai by other ateamers will, however, be forwarded by such steamers, gods and goddesses, embroideries,
Wireless communication has been re-established with Swator. and marvellous old vases. Fragile!
INWARD, MAILS, eggshell" teacups stand besido pictures whose jantastic stories are got more quaint than the Willow dainty legend on the Pattern, It is shaor torture to have to choose some of these things and leave the others...
COLLECTOR'S EAGERNESS. A variety of articles are pelect- ed at last. They look like real S.A.. Hozoli, fapan & Shanghai... antiques, and the purchaser's eyes gleam with a collector's fire.S.A., Canada, Japan & Shanghai... Europe via Negapatan (Letters & as he fancies that he has chanced Papers London 23rd April)... on a real bargain-even while bis Saigon
USA. House, Japan & Shanghai conscience pricks him for using Suez & Straits .. his education to deceive the simple tanila Chinaman. But he need have no qualms, for behind the caim Oriental eyes is a brain well- practised in the cheating of the novice. The vase the tourist has doubtless an old bottom, but the rest of it is modern enough: And while the lame dealer assures his victim that he is his father and that his filthy hovel is as dirt baneath the feet of the' Beneficence, the latter is buying enamelled porcelain which has journeyed hither from Sampson's of Paris. Yet it is always a most happy and benevolent negotiation. And who would say that he pays too dearly for the unique experience of this old curiosity shop in unchangeable China The vision of it never fados from
the picture gallary of the memory and the antiques, even if they are not so very old, will, at least. serve to drive the neighbours (who know no better) almost crazy with envy,
SINS OF THE CHURCH,
Canon Donaldson ou “Christian
Hypocrites,"
U.S.A.. Ionolulu, Japan & Shanghai
Straita...
For
www
Saigon, Swatow. Amoy & Formosa,
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"God is goodness, truth and
tolerate beauty, yet wa hideous modern cities we have built, and the travesty of Christ's Kingdom which we call civilian tion," said Canon Donaldson at Westminster Abbey, recently, when delivering the last of his sorios of London lectures on social problems, the title of the Swatow address being "The Sins of the Church."
We accepted things civio and: industrial as they were, he con- tinued, and frowned upon those: who proposed to transform them. We regarded our unemployed tragedy as a tiresome economic difficulty, rather than as an out- rage on the Kingdom of God and as practical atheism.
Our creede wore magnificent
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Lellors 9.30a.m.
(Du, San Francisco 16th June
& Europe vin Siberia.)
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James Y. Lee, Mr. D. P. J. Lopes, Mr. I V. Antonia, Mr. & Mrs.
and our religious profession great| Per 8.s. Pres. Grant.-Mrs. H. R. F. Luz, Mr. A. J. Osmund, Mr. yet we were wrapped up in form- w. Dalton, Mr Max Deroust, E. D. Rosa, Mr. H.. Da Luz, Mr. allems, in church-going pieties, Mrs. G. C. Hitchcok, Mr. F. Hol-P. A. Rosario, Mr. O. Nakatsuji, devotions and services. Modern in, Mr. G. Icasiung, Mr. H. Icas- Mr. W. H. Perry, Capt. J. Patrick, Christians were hypocrites, be-jano, Mr. R. M. Johnson, Mrs. E. Mrs. J. Patrick, Mr. L. A. Roza, Cause they did not express all H. Kruger, Mrs. R. J. Leutsker, Mr. & Mrs. P. Rozo, Mr. T. Stig- those good things in terms of life. Mrs. E. W. Murphy, Mrs. A. Nellson, Mr. F. M. Titus, Mise A. We believed in the Church as Simmons, Mrs. Fay Smith, Miss Saleason, Mr. J. F. Brown, Mr. a highly organised institution, L. M. Smith, Mrs. M. M. Speight, G. J. Cluckoy, Mr. R. L. Hughes, yet we accepted a higglody-pig- Dr. J. Tayag, Mrs. M L Wool- Mr. C. M. McGowan. Miss K glody social system of competi-dridge, Mra. Helen Morrissey, McGowan, Mr. A. Webb, Mr. F. tive chaos, and when men pro- Master B. Morrissey, Misa Anne B. Lopez, Mra. H. Baske, Mrs. O. posed to alter it, we dubbed them Morrissey, Miss Amy Morrissey, H. Briggs, Mr. F. P. Dueting, Mr. in terms of reproach foolish
Mr. Sita Luiga, Mrs. D. A. N. Nelson, Mr. J. M. Pereira, Socialista,' The modern church Weaver, Mr. & Mrs. G. 9. Gar- Miss M. Poynton, Mr. T. B. Law- suffered from blindness of vision ret, Mrs. J. Archer, Mr. & Mrs. ton, Mr. F. G. Bazley, Mr. W. F. because it did not envisage. Barnebaw, Mrs. J. E. Espinas, Avery, Mr. C. E. Budge, Mr. J.-J. for society its own ideals and Miss D. 8. Espinae, Mrs. J. Hanief, Barron, Mr. C. F. Brott, Mr. J. V. accepted the current "values" of Miss L. Kennedy, Mrs. M. Kern, Stephens, Mr. W. G. Reynold, thinks as if they were the Mr. & Mrs. F A, MoCad, Master Mr. G. P. May, Mr. P. G. Brown, standard of the Kingdom of God. A. McCarl, Mr. & Mrs. A. Mr. W. Stokes, Mr. W. V. Gaton- As a Church, they were noro McLaughlin, Miss E. McLaugh- by, Mr. W. S. Loker, Mr. W. H. concerned with puroly acolosisstlin, Mr. L. Moose, Lt. Comdr. G. Pitt, Mr. J. H. Wright, Mr. J. ical questions of controversial
E. Murray, Mr. A. H. Tait, Mr. Gartinge, Mr. A. Fiddiok, Mr. theology than with the welfare. Whittier, Miss Holon Whittier. F. J Painter, M. JA of mankind. Thoy forgot that
Por s... Empress of Russia-Favoraker, Mr. W. Boyd, Mr. W. the Church did not exist for pur-Capt. W. E Clarke, Mr. W. E. J. Crooker, Mr. GY. Minors, posos of its own, but for the good Clarke, Mr. A. Dos Santos Pato, Mr. W. Gore, Mr J. W. Hunter, of mankind. They did the lessor Mr. F. Gatos, Mr. J. S. Gubbay, Mr. L. Crack, Mr. J. Harvey, Mr. thing and omitted the "woightler Mr. & Mrs: Ho Kom Tong, Mrs. F. Cross, Mr. R. Scobio, Mr. C. matters of the law"-judgment Ho Mui, Mr. G. W. Harvey, Mr. Hughes, Mr. L. Gearing, Mr. J. and justice, moroy and faith. G. H. Heatley, Mr. J. Jebsen, Mr. | G. Smith,,
(The 5th of the FIGHT AND WIN" Series)..
STARTING TOMORROW, 5.15 and 9.15 p.m. VICTOR HUGO HALPERIN'S LATEST 1024's Screen Masterpiece
"WHEN A GIRL LOVES"
Breathless story thrills of love, fires of passion, romance and
bate, burn redhot in this mighty film.
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LILIAN & DOROTHY GISH
in
"ORPHANS of the STORM"
A Wonderful Story of the French Revolution
TO-MORROW
"MOON of ISRAEL "
From the story by
SIR H. RIDER HAGGARD
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