THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER
1927.
HOTELS
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telographic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL,
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL; SHANGHAI”
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel
Das Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms,. newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and
Cold Water, also Telephone.
All Trams pass in front of Hotel.
Most Moderate Rates in the Colony,
Hotel launch meets all steamers.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
($25 for thirty Tibin Tickets can be had at the Office
of the above Hotel).
TEA DANCES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS
5 to 7 p.m.
Tel. Add. Victoria..
J. H. WITCHELL,
Telephone C.873. -
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Comfort, Convenience and Distinction.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street,
Macao.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL WITH ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES.
"High Class Cuisine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Station.
Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room,
Very moderate rates
on application to-
Tel. Nos. K608 & K609..
H. J. WHITE,
Manager.
Cables, 'KOWLOTEL,'
Hongkong.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Kowloon No. 8
Tel Address "PALÁCE.” Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the pozɛonal supervision of the proprietress. Terma moderate. Special torms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress,
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WHAT U.S.A. THINKS
OF BETTY.
MISS WILLS'S TRIBUTE.
New York, August 31. "What will Betty Nuthall do when she is as old as Helen Wills?" is the question everyone is asking after the plucky fight put up by the English girl in yesterday's match with the American cham pion. It is pointed out that Miss Wills did not reach the inals for the first time till she was almost a year older than Betty Nuthall, and then did not make as good a show- ing, for she lost to Mrs. Mallory 6-3, 6-1, while Betty lost 6-1, 64. The year after Miss Willa came back and almost sent Mrs Mallory into oblivion.
It is thought highly improbable that Betty Nuthall will be able to treat Miss Wills in any such manner next year, but it is freely admitted that she will probably one day becoming the best woman player in the world.
is so "attractive too!"
INSECTS USED TO FIGHT PESTS.
EXPERIMENTS IN NEW
ZEALAND.
BROTHER AND SISTER
OUTLAWS.
GIRL'S ESCAPE FROM ZAGREB
PRISON.
their extermination has recently of considerable romantic intereat
Research in regard to pests and
Belgrade: A Yugo-Slav outlaw produced interesting results New Zealand. The work has the
in has escaped from Zagreb Prison. support of the Empire Marketing
This is Stoyana Markovitch, the Board, and is of the utmost im- sister of Voukashin Markovitch, a portance to this Dominion, since famous Montenegrin outlaw and imported enemies are making political refugee. Voukashin Mar- heavy inroads into the productivekovitch, who is a young doctor, ly many districts.
caused the Yugo-Slay authorities
volution could the province to
deavoured to cope with the pests the war by his activity on behalf At one time New Zealand en-considerable trouble shortly after by applying the control methods of Montenegrin independence. it practised in other countries, but it will be remembered that a large has long been evident that this part of the population of that does not go far enough. On new small mountain kingdom took to ground the weeds and insects inclusion in Yugo-Slavia very bad- which have been introduced into y, and a guerilla war for inde- the country discover new energy pendence was carried on for many and develop gronter rapacity and months by a few determined new powers of resistance to man spirits. and their natural enemies. As trout and deer have thriven to au kovitch and his sister, Stoyana, Among these were Dr. Mar- "She plays a remarkable game," extent far surpassing the records These two, in excess of national anid Miss Helen Wills, who is now.
of their native lands (so much both British and American cham- so that the door are now accounted feeling, fell back on Communistle plon, after the match. "She has foes), so rabbits, gorse, black- theory, and apparently considered unusual stroke power and read berry, some birds, and many in- that only through a Balkan re- confidence to go with it; and she sccts have become lusty and which they belonged obtain its predatory to a degree undreamed of when they were introduced.ally captured, but before the trial "liberty." The two were eventu-. To the Amercian public Miss Now attention must be concentra-. Wila "hit the nail on the head" ted on discovering new agents to the brother had disappeared-said with her last words. In the pie-fight these foes.
to have gone to China by way of tures published in the early The task is being pursued with Moscow, and to have taken up a editions of this morning's papers care, for experience has taught commissary's post there. The Betty Nuthall is shown.congrats the need for caution. It is stated, sister, a girl of eighteen at the lating her conqueror, and the for example, though the facts are time, also escaped, but was re- smile of the English girl reminds not beyond dispute, that stoats and captured twice. She was sen many of Ruskin's words: "The weasels, brought here, to destroy tenced to life imprisonment last English laugh is the purest and rabbits, have turned their atten-year, on counts of murdering a truest in the metal that can be tion instead to the native birds gendarme and another outlaw, and by waging war upon them who had wanted her to become his have made it possible for timber-mistress. Last autumn she was destroying insect life to get the transferred to the Zagreb women's To every one of the eight upper hand. As the agents now prison, and appeared to be resign- thousand people in the gallery sought are chiefly in the insected to her fate.. Betty Nuthall was a bonny girl.world, the greatest care is given Recently she was visited by her When she made a placement there to a study of their habits under second brother, Radoye, a privilege was thunderous cheering, and controlled conditions before re- allowed once in two months. The when she scored on Miss Will's leasing them to a freedom in which interview took place in the pre- errors the gallery could not re- they may develop new ways of
sence of the woman governor of frain from applauding. She was life. Some assurance is required the prison, but by a sudden dash for the day England's Ambassador that they will do the work that to the door and out of the prison of goodwill.
they are brought to do. Having to a motor-car awaiting them, the
minted."
"A Bonny Girl."
as
A feature of the play itself was given them free passage as la- two actually managed to escape the spectacular rally in the second bourers, New Zealanders do not before help could be summoned. set. Miss Wills had taken five wish to see them setting down as The escape appears to have been games in a row from the opening landed proprietors.. of the set with the loss of only six]
In this investigation excellent carefully planned, and the police points. Instead of "folding up" in work is being done under the dire can find no trace of the runaway. the face of this Betty proceeded to tion of the new Government De break through Miss Will's power-partment of Scientific Research, ful service twice and by frequent which serves a co-operating changes of pace and length ex-centre for public and private For example, 2,000 adults of Apion' tended her nearer to breaking study. The Cawthron Institute, ulicis, imported to attack gorse, point than any other player has founded by private benefactions arrived when there was no gorse
has been specializing particularly in flower, and most of them died, in entomological research, and al- An interesting fight is being The doubles final of the women's ready Professor Tillyard, who waged against the earwig, now a championship, won by Mrs. God-directs this branch of the Institute, pest to Southern fruit-growers. frey and Miss Harvey against has been able to report encourag-Two natural enemies have been. Miss Nuthall and Miss Fry is re-ing progress. To fight the woolly imported-Racodindure antiqua garded here as one of the best and apbis the Aphelinus mali has been and Dignochaepa sclipennis. most exciting of the week. The imported and has fully justified its These are parasitle fles which team work of the English players
trial. was exceptional, and they battled. for victory as though they really enjoyed it.
this season.
The "Noxious" Blackberry.
have proved of value in Europe. The former works by laying a diminutive egg upon the earwig's Attention is being given to in-feeding ground. All unsuspecting sects which will check the ravages the earwig eats the egg, which of blackberry. Many years ago hatches out a ravenous larva. A door-knocker known as "Anne same settler brought a blackberry The larva, with curious inversion Boleyn's Knocker' has disappeared plant to New Zealand, probably of the laws of hospitality, promps- from the door of a house in the to remind him of his old homely proceeds to eat the inside out Dean's Cloister at Windsor Castle. Now in some districts there is of its host. The second parasite It is thought some souvenir hunter more blackberry than old home. produces a larva which bores into has stolen it. The knocker consist-All ordinary means of eradication the shell of the earwig and then ed. of an officer's spur of the Tudor have failed to rid infested districts begins to eat and make merry, period. The Dean's Cloister is one of the noxious weed, or even to According to all the rules of the of the most interesting, relica of mediaeval architecture within the check its growth on land too steep game, this is what should haren; for cultivation. Therefore selence but under observation the New castle, and it is said that Henry has called to its Coroebus rubi, an Zealand earwigs appeared to deve VIIL's ghost haunts It. Anne Boleyn is believed to have occupied insect which has up to the pre- lop a new and wonderful instinct sent a clean record for discriminat for self-preservation. They left ing between blackberry and rasp the death-laden eggs severely alone borry. The young larve of this and avoided with the greatest cir- Insect work down the root-stocks cumspection the embraces of the of blackberry plants and then up devouring larve. It is possible again. One will destroy a young that the parasite may have more. plant. The first, consignment of insects is now under observation success if its entry into the world. Is timed to coincide with the period at the Institute. None has yet when the earwig's shell is softer
the house,
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
4
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The following are the replies to to-day'a questions:--
1. Bir H. Irving: Henry Brodribb. 2. Chr. been released for field work
nars, G. Bernard Shaw, W. Bomarwet Mangham.
Willam, century
topher Marlower “Dr. Faustus." 8. Bir & Other experiments are being and lesa Impervious to attack. The net result of the experiments. Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, J. Hartley Man-made with foes of ragwort, gora, so far is that the earwig has won 4. Technically the arched front of the stage, and foxglove, and these export-
Chu, Chis Chow, 2,288 performances. &ments have illustrated some of the the first bout, and Professor Tillyard has increased respect for Painter: Joseph Harker, 1883. 1927. - Sybl problems to be solved. It is a the intelligence of the enemy Thorndiker Room in theatre set apart ways a simple matter, for instance, However, he is proceeding with his nosed to be decorated in green. 9. Pablo and to acclimatize the insecta and to investigations. As he saya, him- Francesca. 16. Mr. G. 8. Street, M.V.C. ensure continuity of broods under self: If the earwig has more in-
12. Fina full conditions which are different
telligence than the Department from those of the home country of Research will win.
for social use of players; traditionally 'sup-
11. The Little, Ministar." drei rehearsal.
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