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cret of his success, at Thursday's dinner, when he said he had tried to introduce "the Locarno spirit” into the problems that had faced him vis-a-vis the Chinese, to whom he paid a warm, compliment when he said they had responded with courtesy, friendliness, and consi- deration. He was also able to point to the closest co-operation with the Forces of other nations, saying that there had not only "Booking for the Banvard Musicnt been no friction, but no differ- Comedy Company's Season, start- ing at the Theatre Royal on ences. That is a truly remark-February 6th, opens at Moutrie's able record Sir John is not the on Monday, type of man to wish to take all credit for himself and his men, dental Register the name of Dr. There has been added to the
and thus he expressed, in all can-Wong Minsam-bit of 115, Des didness, the value of the services Voeux Road Central, Doctor of of other nations Forces during Dental Surgery of the University the danger period. As he said, the situation in Shanghai has now
A bankruptcy notification states much improved, due largely to the that a first and final dividend of moving of the seat of warfare fur-$2.80 per cent. has been declared in the case of Kaley and Co., piece ther away from the Settlement. goods deniers, formerly of 56, All the same, it is still necessary Queen's Road Central. that every precaution should be taken to safeguard and protect foreign life and property. The British Government appreciates that fact, and no doubt when Sir John reaches England he will be able to quote, from his personal knowledge, facts and circum- stances which will strengthen the authorities in their determination
to do the right thing.
of Minnesota.
AT THE BURNS MEMORIAL.
Interpreted by Hodden Grey."
Clear over the misty morning, their eyes and voices, "so tender dank with that moisture which and fu o moaning." Every canty anlyn Scotsman can really fully youth, every carefu man-all appreciate, in mellow tones from their problems and their pleasures voices full of tenderness as they had been his, and he find made seemed to linger upon each note, them feel this. came those lines:
Through thoir interpretations,
To
Ye banks and braes o bormio We saw his world in a now light; we felt their simple rural Joys. Doon, Oft has I royed by bonnie Doon, and beneath that "hodden-grey" See the rose and woodbine we know, beat hearts with which twine;
ours were now more in tune, and we understood more surely the meaning of the poet'e Hinès:
That man to man, the watld o'er,,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
And ka bird sang o' its luve, And fondly ane diù l'o' mino,
We had been dreaming that morning beside the wee hearth of that little cot
Where lived the gentle peasant
prince.
As we turned away, their voices following us a-down the quiet road toward the kirk, the lines of John Anderson, my joc, John" We had joined, in fancy, that came to us borne over the fields bonnie lad stretched full length he loved so well. We could hear. before the hearth, and by the light him apostrophize the mountain of the peat fire conned that old daisy as he turned it up with his volume of Shakespeare over plow, perhaps la those vory fields, which he had so often porod, all too:
catching tho
Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow't, Thou lifts thy unassuming hond
In humble guise. perchance the
It is reported to the police that unconsciously while Miss Mary Wong, a schopi- manner of It. It had set his poetic girl, living at Kowloon City, was heart a-jingling, till the hearts of walking along Queen's Road Cen-a whole world began to lisp th tral, near Lee Yuen Street, yester- song his message of freedom-Or day afternoon, a thief snatched $9that freedom belonging to each, Wee, sleekit, cow'ria, tim'rous from the upper pocket of her whether his home be a hovel or beastie, jacket and escaped.
d palace.
Buster
Keaton's delightful
comedy, "College," which has been drawing crowded houses it the Queen's Theatre since Thurs day, will be screened for the last time this evening. Other pictures showing for the last time to-day are Charlie Chaplin's famous pro- The story which we published duction, "The Gold Rush, at the SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928 from our Swatow correspondent World Theatre, and Leatrice Joy's a yesterday shows once again the tropical isle,
melodrama of the city and
"The Wedding terrible plight in which Chinese Song," at the Star Theatro. villagers in the Hai-Luk. Fung
"Red" Terrorism.
SHANGHAI'S TRIBUTE. district find themselves by reason
of the Communist reign of terror.is. drawn to the fact that, owing The attention of cinema-goers To such a state have mattore de- to the exceptional length of the
We had joined with Bobble at the door of whose. nest his. Burns on that simple colter's plougshare had rudely demanded Saturday night around that hearth entrance, and from that pout- and listened to the reading of the philosopher we hear the dolorous schoolmaster from the "Sweet lament Swan
of Avon:" Uncouth, dreamy, impractical though he was, yet in that youthful breast, beneath that "hodden-grey," beat the heart which Inter voiced for thousands the world over thone songs from the depths of human experience, whose hand swept the harp of a thousand strings and set the hearts of simple folk like him- self a-singing.
And how those hearts of just
"
I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken natura's social union. We left his
Bonnie Doon, where early roaming, First I weaved the rustic song,
as he tells us, and at eve we came to the Alloway kirk, the poet's lines popping into our thoughts,
At even when beans their fragrance
shed I' th' rustling gale.
The last rays of the aun were
the fields to-
.
The farewell dinner given to fveloped that thousands of innofilm, there will be only three per such as he had known and sung suffusing the grey mists, clinging
cent, peace-loving folk are being formances of "Ben-Hur" dally, Major-General Sir John Duncan forced to leave their homes as and these will begin promptly at for were singing as we stood on to the walls and far-off hille and by representatives of no fewer best they can, though many ap- 2.30, 6.00 and-9.15. The picture that "Brig of Doon!" We could see than twenty nationalities, inpear to be bottled up with little begins a run of eight days at the no one as we wandered toward the creeping out over
hope of being able flee Shanghai on Thursday, provided terrorista. E one to me, from the Queen's Theatre on Monday next, singers, in the effort to catch more ward us. Was it real, or was it January 30. A special booking surely, mayhap, the meaning of born of those strange fantasies the occasion for tributes not only munists blood lust has so arous-counter has been opened in the the words sung by those whose which spring into thought from te the guest of honour, but alased the inhabitants that they have lobby of the Queen's Theatre, lusty yet tender voices wore waft-synthetic association, started perchance the morning at Ellis- turned on the executionors and to the British and other defence torn them to pieces. On top of all and back stalls may now be re-
where seats for the dress circle ed to us.
There in that old tower aroundland, when we sat, our little book forces, as well. It was a remark- this, comes a rumour that the
the memorial of Robert Burns they in hand on the very banks where . stood, packed in dun groups, theirit was written, and read "Tam O' able gathering in many respects, "Reds" have issued a prociama-served for the entire season. but its chief feature was the time-limit in which
tion giving all Christians a brief The famillar Hongkong Directory seamed, aunburned faces relaxed, Shantor"; was it, we asked, fancy to renounce and Blotter issued by the South their eyes reflecting the light that in the auld kirk windows strong note of gratitude that was their faith, on pain of death. China Morning Post, Ltd., has again that never was on land or sea," there shone a strange, fantastic sounded for the protection, which Here in Hongkong we can have made its appearance. It has been their heads thrown back, pouring light?
Tears glistened little conception of what this revised and brought thoroughly unout their song, had been afforded the whole cont campaign of terror means for the to date, and will be found invalu-in many of their eyes, though whimsical poem and the music of munity during many troublous Chinese people. Certainly noable in the home or the office. same sparkled with not-too-fre- those voices, we wondered into the aad dangerous months last year. more grim reminder could be There is a directory of business quent mirth, but they seemed un-silence of the sunset, letting thoso
given of what Chinese Sovietism firms and employees, a list of conscious of
our presence of long shadows creep about us, We here in Hongkong can, per-means when put into practice. Government Departments and everything save the tunes which standing there between the world of today and that of Bobby, look- haps, hardly appreciate to the The trouble is that the Commu- stats, a directory, of foreign re- were so near to their hearts. full exactly what Shanghal peoplenists appear to be well organised sidents, with a separate section for Then in the same tender yet ing with tender wistfulness back feel in this regard. We have had and to have their headquarters in the Peak, and a useful diary with canty tone came
Our
own
'troubles, admittedly, but never can it be said that the foreign community has been in real danger. In Shanghui; on the other hand, there have been times when, but for
the presence
of
CHINA PROVIDENT · REPORT.
LAST YEAR.
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EXCHANGE RATES,
London, Jan. 27.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among
thy green braes,
Still under the Influence of the
at tho licht, shimmering now here, now there, in the kirk windows, while the dark shadows crept up from the partially mist-velled
and following that in more feel-fields and the kirk, slumbering in ing-ful tones came that wondrous ite long awaying gransca.
They An we lingered there in the on- song, "Highland Mary," cared not that we saw the tears, rushing darkness, we said those theac men of hard toll. Our faces lines written, by James Whitcomb lighted and sobered with theirs. Riley as he stood beneath the low understood raftered ceiling in that little white we had never 25.31 before, we now knew why they ao plastered cottage so loved by all 20.45 loved their Bobbie, nor were we the world:
In fancy as w?' dewy cen,
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193 caps high in the air and gave .867 three cheers for him, as they con- 47.29/32 cluded their song.
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covered with the Burns' plaidy but now we read their meaning in
"BEN-HUR.”
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26
British Wiralces.
2/7
FILM.
We part the clouds abooh the
scene,
O'thy hair toll an' peer afween,
We see ne' spot in a' the High-
lands half sae green,
E.H.H.
An' unforget
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ENJOYABLE FUNCTION HELD
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country which is difficult of ample space for entering engage- access. All the same, it is the ments. At $3, it is sure to com- duty of the Chinese authorities, mand a ready sale. if they have any regard for the lives of their own people, to clean up the whole district with- out delay. It is useless to send. small detachments of troops for this purpose; what is needed is a the Defence Force, matters hig
operation.. Well punitive would have gone hard with the may the harassed Christians ex- big foreign populations. We have
claim:
"How long. O Lord?"
only to recall the terrible scenes that were enacted in the native city-the massacres, the looting and the incendiarism-to realise what might have occurred in the International Settlement had Chin- GOOD PROFIT SHOWN FOR Vicana ese troops or mobs been let loose": therein. That is a point which so
The annual report of the China many misguided and ignorant Provident Loan and Mortgage Co. Labourites at Homo manage to Ltd., for the year ended 31st De Milan overlook when they deliver them-cember, 1927, states:
Copenhagen sum of Prague After, omitting the selves of their views on the pre-$102,448.71, representing Interest Lisbon sance of British troops in China, on Loans, the recovery of which is Rio
"Ben-Hur" cost over £600,000; However, Shanghal people know considered doubtful, the year's Shanghai
A merry and stangely-garbed Sliver (spot) profit £
and was filmed in Italy, and Call-i of
crowd, estimated to number over full well the horrors they were working shows
Silver (forward)
fornia. Never previously have two hundred, gathered at the Peak $21,247.34, which sum it is pro- spared, and that accounts for the posed to carry forward to the
euch resources been lavished on, Hotel last night on the occasion glowing tributes that were paid credit of 1928 Account.
a picture. The construction of of a Fancy Dress Carnival. The costumes were extraordinarily on Thursday to Sir John Duncan The sum of $141,761.24 has been
the Roman fleet and Golthar's good, and the spirit of Carnival and the troops under his com-transferred from General Reserve
pirate gallaya required a year and reigned supreme throughout the mand. As the American chair to the specific Reserves for Bad and Doubtful Loans, to cover the
a half in a great shipyard a pvening. Special decorations and lighting effects were artistically man of the Municipality aptly put depreciation in values of secur-
BARGAINS AT MACKINTOSH'S Leghorn. The launching of thesaranged, while palms and green.. It, the British Forces have won ities as at 31st December, 1927,
The capital of the Company is the praise, the gratitude and the shown at the reduced figure, in
ships was a wonderful ceremony, ery added a delightful touch. with high Italian officials and An electrically-operated fountain threw sprays of coloured water admiration of all nationalities. accordance with the special reso- As on many previous occasions,
The task with which Sir Johnlution passed at the extraordinary an opportunity is again being pres diplomatic representatives par amid one such group of palms and fighting. se- ferns, creating a fairylike atmos-
phere, Duncan has been faced during the general meeting of shareholderssented to the menfolk of the Colony tlclputing. The
held on 3rd August, 1927, confirm-to replenish their wardrobes at a quences show a titanic struggle
Art Smith and his orchestra rose holding of the Command of the cd on 24th August, 1927, and ap-minimum of cost, for, as will be with thousands and thousands of Defence Force has not been an. proved by the Court on 24th Octo-seen by an advertisement on Page sallora boarding, ramming and to the occasion, the music being 2 of this issue, Messrs. Mackintosh firing this fleet of one hundred all that could be desired, the in- easy one. His relations with the ber, 1927.
Directors-Messrs. P. M. Hodg- and Company, the well-known men's giant-size vessels. The Charlot sistent demands for encores being Chinese authorities And the Forces of other nations called for son, N. V. Croucher and S. M. wear specialista, are announcing Race is the outstanding sensation generously met. There was, how-
Churn have been invited to join their annual winter sale.
The extent of the "representative of the cinema world. Ramon ever, one keen disappointment, tho display of 'much tact and the Board of Directors, and their reductions" advertised shows that Novarro as the galley slave and and, that was when the National courtesy, qualities which have appointments require your con- there is no doubt about this being charioteer, May McAvoy as the Anthem signalled an end to the firmation. In accordance with the a real "Sale," and there is sure to sweet Esther, and Francis X. rovelry promptly at midnight.. been pre-eminently manifested, Articles of Association Messra. C. be a ready demand for the goods Bushman as the cruel conturion, The opinion was generally express- It is small wonder, therefore, that A. da Roza and A. L. Alves rotire, offered. Mackintosh's sales have exert a potent magnetism on every ed that on such occasions an extra
spectator.
hour or so might well be allowed.. Sir John abould have become ap but being eligible, offer themselves, always been noteworthy for the
This magnificent attraction will for re-election.
splendid bargains obtainable, and immensely popular in Shanghai, Auditors. The accounts have we are assured that the present one be seen at the Queen's Theatre which now says good-bye to him been audited by Mesars. Linstead will be no exception to the rule. on Monday next. Owing to the
It is understood that the Po with feelings of very real regret.& Davis and Messrs. Percy Smith, An carly call at this popular store length of the film only three per Hing Theatre, in Yaumati will Sir John himself revealed the ser Seth & Fleming, who offer them is advised, ne first-comors will formances can be given daily, and
solves for re-election.
naturally procure the best bargains, these start promptly at 2.30, 6.00 shortly be demolished and a new
and 9.15,p.m.
t
OPPORTUNITY FOR 'MEN.
SALE.
structure, erected.