THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925.
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CORRESPONDENCE, ON ROOF OF A PRISON.
SNIPE
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
CONVICT COMES BACK TO EARTH,
Sir-Snipe are now commencing to come in the New Territories. These solpe are pilots or scouts sent ponal servitudo.
BRITISH FILMS.
Appeal to be Made to Government.
The British film industry is now almost extinct."
Aftor a 40 hours' adventure on the roof of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, a young convict named
It is generally recognised, that Searle has returned to earth-and to. bis interrupted sentence of a flourishing British film industry is an essential assot of Empire. Searle, who has a passion for This necessity is dramatically In advance to look for feeding climbing "stucts," leapt into the emphasised by the statement grounds. The main body of snipe pulpit during service in the prison issued last month by the Fedora- do not arrive till about a fortnight on Monday afternoon, sprang tion of British Industries, which to a month later and on their arrival from there to the rafters, and anys
"The deplorable position of the are met by these scouts and con- climbed through a abylight on
British film industry has boen ducted to the feeding grounds they the roof. have found.
He may or may not have been engaging the earnest considera- It is, however, to be regretted surprised to find that the prison tion of various important nation- that quito a few sportsmen make it officials made no attempt to pural organisations, and a series of ropresenta- a practice to go out after these ear-sue or dislodge him. Their plan meetings between
tives of those bodies has been ly snipe. I believe that this is only was to "atarve him out."
So he basked in th sunshing hold at the offices of the Federa- due to their ignorance of the habity
of the next day, Monday, endured tion of British Industries. The of the snipe.
May 1, "through your columns, the rainfall of Tuesday morning, bodies concerned are deeply im appeal to these early shooters to and, after exchanging banter with pressed with the serious injury defer their activities until the be-crowds that gathered on the adja- which is being inflicted on British ginning of September, or, better centhigh road on Tuesday evening, prestige by the practical elimina- still until the middle of September. settled down to his socond night tion of British pictures from the screen throughout the Empire
The and abroad.
social and I can assure them they will not in his roof garden." regret it. Yours, etc.
political effect of this state of Perhaps his somewhat easy affairs is regarded as gravoly recapture on the following morn-injurious to our Imperial interest, ing was a direct sequel to his and it is probable that when the
has
proceaded showing off when the crowds investigation gathered. He had shouted to further, combined representations them until his voice became first will be made to the Government raucous and then weak. His spirit on behalf of the bodies con-
cerned," no doubt wilted, too.
PEEWIT.
Hongkong, August, 14th 1925.
AT NANKING.
NOT EGGING ON THE STRIKERS.
LET DOWN BY ROPE...
In the first grey of dawn yester- day three officere ascended to the roof add found their tired quarry "Thou opg" quoted the murder "easy game. He made no attempt or in "Macbeth" as he stabbed to resist the combined attack, and Macduff's young son, but that is nothing to what Nanking resid- the officers lowered him to the
ground by means of rope.
ents are now thinking about eggs He volunteered the information in general. comments the Shangthat he had managed to collect a hai Times. In fact, the subject is so little rainwater to drink, and that revolting that there is not one of he had rats for company. the people in the walled city who
wouldn't go to murder at the very
thought of them.
It arose this way. Early dur FIND OF OLD STAMPS. ing the strike a cargo of eggs on Chinese ship reached Nanking destined for a local export com."
C
pany, but the Chinese, inspired £10,000 Treasure in Mayfair.
by patriotic motives, refused to handle the eggs, being goods con-
Stamp-collecting has had its
In 1923, Brita i made 139 Allme. Last year that figuro fell to 76, This year it will fall to about 50. There-are-approximately 800 films released in this country in one year, so that, of the 1925 output, only one film in 16 will be British.
The most fashionable excuse
for these facts is to blame the war. Another is to plead the physical domination of America.
THE REASON,
1/
The
truth is that in this country film production has not! been technically or fitancially or ganised on a national scale, says
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LEGEND OF
BARNACLE.
THE
EARLY NATURALISTS
PUZZLED.
It is questionable which are the more interesting-the Féientific facts concerning the ran arkable life-bistory of the barnacles, or the curious legends which have associated them with geese, writes Zoologist "in T.P's and Cossell's Weekly.
THE ROSE
Standing on the hot white quay, With her hands upon her hips, Gaily she glanced down at me, A red rose between her lips. As I looked up from the stern, Suddenly that rose's red.. In my blood began to burn Till a fire was in my head, And that hair as black an night Up against the blazing blue, And those jet eyes sparkling
bright
And that red rose slowly drew All my very heart's blood out; And I followed in a spell When she smiled and turned
about-
It is not true that America ro- joices at the plight of British film- signed to a British firm. That sbare of sensations, and many making, Americans want to see was some weeks ago and as Chi- famous specimens might be de-films made in England and want quare inches of to come to England to make nese eggs are no stronger than scribed as
A Brattleboro was them. other eggs when it come to age romurca.
Colleen Moore is now" making a strange ndour, overpowering inj discovered by a ragpicker, and a its intensity, has doncanded like a more boy first set eyes upon the scanes in London for a film of miasma over the city of walls and world's rarest stamp, the unique the Israel Zang-will play "The tombs. As the days pass the 1 cent magenta of British Guiana. Mcderns. " odours increase in intensity and Other great rarities owe their
Mr. Ralph J. Pugh, managing reached the stage of a public nui preservation to the white-haired director of First National, is co- sance. But still no move was old lady with a ribbon-hound operating with Herbert Wilcox made by the coolies to remove packet of letters that stirred the in making "The Only Way,
tenderest amotions of her spring-with Sir John Martin-Harvey B it.
Barnacles are crustaceans, Another ship put into port and time. The blue "Alexandria" Sidney Carton. anchored nearby the eggs. The was thus handed down to posterity There is a very great future in that is to say, they belong to the result was that the ship cleared on a love letter, which its re- the ideal of Anglo-American film one group of the animal kingdom in record time. "Palm trees and cipient. kept from profane eyes co-operation.
(improbable as that may seem at the smell, and the tinkly omple for sixty years.
The moribund British film in- firet) which includes the shrimps, But I caught the rose's smoll
As my lips to hora drew near; A new and sensational find of dustry, while broadcasting its prawns, crabs and lobsters, bolle. "remarked the Third Mato just out from England. "Us for rare stamps has just been made troubles, has seldom practised
There are two types of barna- And I paused... and stood again Batterada." The city groaned in London, news of which will self-help, and has soldem in fused clesstalked and sessile. The With my arms round my owni under this imposition. It was too set philatelists of the old and new into its pictures that element of
former are the true barnacles of much. Some residents could stand worlds agog with excitement. It Empire through which it seeks legend and story, they consist of By a rosebush in the rain. mustard gas, tour gas, evan Chin presents some features entirely sympathy.
A compact little body surrounded Vanished was the bot white quay ese perfume ut a doliar a quart how to the annals of stamp hunt-
Happily, there are now on foot by a series usually five, of stout In a garden's rainy gloam, but this never. Take it away. ing. A youth spent £30 on stamps three vory big schemes whereby calcareous plates, and a stalk a Aa.my heart same back to me take it away," they moaned, they in 1864, and the stamps had lain the British industry will become few inches long and of a some- On the rose's breath of home.
forgotten or lost until recently living reality and really what leathery nature by means
WILFRID GIBSON, in Observer. begged, they implored.
But it was the export com- A titled lady having occasion to British.
of which they attach themselves pany's time to play tho dicator, turn out an attic of her town Although only nine British They are usually found fastened "No," thay said to the Chinese mansion in Mayfair discovered companies are at work this sum- "Why should we? You wouldn't the cache of treasures, and anmer, a revival is due very soon, move them when we wanted: approximate estimate of their It will bring new blood into the we'll let them stay thore" or prosent value is £10,000: words to the effect. And like the An extraordinary. feature is judgment of the gods that ship has that the find consists of searce remained there while the striking old stampe in original, and com coolies are losrning that causos pleto shoots,
Twenty, of 61 women who re-animals are to the shrimps and Paris society still is refusing have effects, sometimes overlook-grandfather of the present holder ceptly applied for jobs as trolley other crustaceans to which they to recognize Ambassador and ed by people who take into their of a distinguished title, sent re- conductors in Tokyo successfully are related. For a long time they Mme. Krassin of Soviet Russia. hand the task of moulding the mittances of from £1 to £10 passed the examination. destinies of a nation..
The schoolboy.
Colonial and foreign postmasters in 1863 and 1864
business, and it will Imperial dimensions.
be
of
asking Signor Latigi Pirendalló, a noted to be supplied with stampe Italian dramatist, has arranged to
The
postmaster
Ceylon of
the
rare
play the leading part in a scenario A British railway company is sent two sbeats of
he is writing for a German firm. ox-6d. lilac stamp, 240 stamp3 He is now past 60, now running excursions olusively for anglers. Fares are in all; from Queensland came a cut in half.
...
at
►
dear
to wooden ships (often in such To enable firemen to fight fres numbers as to diminish very at close quarters, a shower bath seriously the speed at which the suit has been invented in Berlin. ship can sail) and floating timber, The water comes out of a helmet but they may also occur on rocks, and completely envelops the firs- turtles, and even whales.
It will be seen how unlike these
(menj
wore a great mystery to natural-Mme. Krassin recently tried to: ista, even the great French scien: give a tea, but none of the invited fist, Baron Cuvier, considering guests attended. them to be molluscs or shell-fish.
THEIR REAL NATURE,
Finally; however, an English firmly to whatever it may have zoologist, named Thompson, by become fastened with the aid of sheet of the 1d, grango, vermilion. Flogging as a punishment for carefully following the various kind of cement which it pours out. and large parts of sheets of the
The little shall is replaced by When fire destroyed a tailor 2d. 3d. and 6d. stamps of the early blackmail is provided in a Bill stages in their development from
introduced in Parliament as the egg, discovered the real the calcareous platos, the eyes shop in New Jersey $20,000 and beautiful Queen's head types result of the Sir Hari Singh case. nature of these strange creatures. have disappeared, and, after a worth af clothes belonging to Similarly sheets were received
The barnaclos discharge in to the period of rapid growth and fre wealthy poople werd burned. from British Columbia, the Indian
A man in Dublin who Bang Hea vast numbers of eggs, out of queat moults, the adult condition The only suit saved belonged to Islands. Wostorn Australia and
old German postal regularly at a Catholic church which batch minute animals, is attained. What stranger de« the chief of the fire department. from the
made phonograph records of his each possessing a pear-shaped velopment could any animal paga monopoly of Thurn and Taxis.
solos. At his funeral these reo- body with a little shell on its through? A newly invented thermomoter The lucky findor of the
back, a single eyo, and three pairs For centuries it was believed registors both indoor and outdoor stamps took counsel with Mr. ords were played.
of jointed legs-just like any that a certain type of goose-the temperature. For the outdoorj H. R. Harmer, the export and
The Japanese Government's other crustacean at this early Barnacle, or Bornicle, goose, a temperature the bulb is placed auctioneor of 8 Old Bond Street,
handsome, bird which breeds in outside the window and a tubo and was surprised to learn of consorship of filme has aroused period of their development.
Later the single eye disappears, Iceland, Greenland, other places Tune into the room.
their great value. It has been storm of protest. The Govaro- decided to sell them by auction mont's charge for consoring is 5 and two new ones develop in its about the Artic circle and only for every three metres of place, while the single sholl bo- visits these islands in the winter Frank J. Barnjum has bought early in the coming autumn,
comes jointed and almost entirely was the offspring of barnacles the salo will attract film. a stand of timber near Vancouver when
encloses the body. At the samelor, in another variation of the and has provided an ondowmont world-wide attention. The sur-
A small jewel casket, bequeath-time, the first pair of legs become story of certain trees. Priosta fund so that it will be left stand-vival of ench rare old stamps ing forever as an exemple of the in shoots affords como unhopod od to Almina Countess of Car foclors which are capable of hold-even allowed those greso to be British Columbian forests before for opportunities of cattling many narvon by Alfred de Rothschild ing on to anything with which osten during Lent in the belief they were levalled to the lumber-scientific points and problems recently sold at auction for £100 they may come in contact, while that they ware fish and not fowl. A number of early writers philatelists an inch. It brought more than the other two pairs aro concerning which
£600.
placed by six pairs of lega by stated that certain trees ro- have long been in doubt.
means of which the animal sembling, willowa in one of the Orkney Islands bore small For the first time in bistory a swims through the wator. movio film has been exhibited in Finally it abandone for ever its rounded buds at the end of their Schools, theatres and churches an airplane. It was displayed on free life, and attaches itself by branches, each of which contained in Frankfort were closed recently a recent flight of the passenger means of its foelers. The front the ombryo of a bird suspended
man's axe.
..
Gray's famous churchyard is to
be preserved for pastarity as the result of the raising of an endow.
mont Building operations have come to the very edge of the yard and an attempt was made to buy it for such purposes.
BOD
..
r3-
by a wide spread hiccough opide-plane making daily trips between end of the body becomas changed by the bill, which fell off when
into the stalk, which glues itself they were rips and flow away.
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