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including
SCHUMANN'S
Quintette In E Flat Major (Op 44) Recorded by Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Piano) and Flonzaley Quartet.
(Complete on four double-faced records together with album and explanatory folder)
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40,000 Nationalist troops stationed near the commercial quarter, and, according to the Japanese General
THE HOY WHO HAS A SIITIDE IKK the very next- morning several
ITONE HIM; DOWN MAKES A BETTER Chincao soldiers suddenly broke MAN THAN THE ONE WHO HAS NONE
into a Japanese, shop, and began looting. A party of Japancas
Johar K. Corrie, i
·
The P. and O. a... Mongolia,"
LETTERS
FROM HONGKONG.
and the Like,
troops was rushed to the scene to from Hongkong, arrived at Mar-The morning walk is going on. away to learn it (presumably in They say one tour of our small pro- some kind of sound-proof cham restrain the looters, and eventually seilles on 11th May at 7 a.m.
monade deck is one sixteenth of aber) for a month or so. But ho fighting broke out. It is also as- M Medan dan pemile. The boat contains thirty cannot road at all.
I search in vain for a tasteful gorted that numbers, of ChineseYesterday's return of notifiable young mon just out from college,
disasses shows one Chinese case many of whom go round in a body. definition of his failing. He is a troops had smuggled themselves
i
In the middle of the body is gener-studious young man with a fond- of cerebro-spinal fever. into houses within the Japanese
ially to be seen the pretty daughter ness for mathematical philosophy, defence zone, and that these at The name of the Erosperity of a staff Colonel returning from yot what an arid waste of educa tacked the Japanese, troops from Trading Company, Limited, has leave. In the evening, eight or tion stretches behind him. There nine of them, Including the young arises a picture of faithful, tail, the rear. General Fukuda adda been struck off the Register.
lady, sit round a bridge table play-day afer day on some class-room that after an agreement had been
ing games of skill, some of which piano, a well-fed but badly paid involve the sudden shouting of the German master grumbling in the word "Miow!" at odd moments. back-ground. I have no doubt There is much happiness in the that he "studied but one classi- party;
cal movement throughout the form,
reached with the Chinese authori-It is proposed to leaag about. 6.4 acres of foreshore at. Sham-Wan, ties for the withdrawal of Nation Aberdeen. The upset premium is alist troops from the commercial $6,400.
From across the room come, only relieved by a couple of ap aren, many who remained in hiding.
Soveral pages of the Government continued to snipe at the Japanese, Gazette are devoted to rules and quite unheeded, the mildly dispalling exercises. The wonder is as a consequence of which it was regulations under the Railway Or. I tracked glances of four older folk that a love of music, or, for that
endeavouring to concentrate and
matter, of any art, can survivo still maintain a good-humoured de- such treatment, for there is no meanour, on a more serious pua-doubt that the dullest braits in the time. There is at any rate educational world have only, too danger of a repetition of the little often the strongest wille, and so im- pose their own terrible rigour on trial suffered by Colonel D. Inst night. Mrs, D. reported to Mr. The destinies of their unfortunate C. this morning that the Colonel's pils. The lives and passages of partner had gone to sleep while the great are as nothing to them.
dinance.
deemed necessary to clear them out.
Whilst there can be no question Forthcoming woddings announced ing the point that the Chinese did Include that of Mr. R. S. Pigott, resent the presence of the Japan-teacher, 18 Parkes Street, Kowloon, to Miss R. Lamb, Pak Ngau Chen, ese troops, there is little doubt that Wuchow. The Nationalist forces were under
no
| RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE. / very poor control, and we may Lake At the P. W. D. offices on May playing bridge...... Mrs. II. played How many teachers of music would
Types for Motor Cars and all Establishments
16/10 CONNAUGHTROAD,C..
Hongkong Telegraph.
it as extremely likely that looting 29th, there will be offered for sale for us on the piano; small, quiet think of intruding into a music les Kowloon Inland Lot 2116, having things that could annoy nobody. It son such a fragnient as I found the would have taken place in any event. an area of 6,890 square feet. The certainly in no way disturbed the other day in a footnote to Mr. snap party. She played the P-Asthon's fascinating book, "As I We all know what happened at upset price is $11.780.
from Tannhauser, passed on my way.” grim's song Nanking, and we are also well-
Berlioz, walking one day with It is hereby notified that His some Chopin preludes, small pieces acquainted with the terrible out-Honour the Chief Justice has by Grieg and Glazeauney, also two Mendelssohn near Rome, troubled | KELLER KERN &Co., Ltd. | rages which occurred in the native ordered that the next Criminal songs of her own. She is frighten M. by some rather heterodox inn- city at Shanghai, where, of course,Sessione shall be held on Monday, ed, ill and tired, but with her gunge. Soon afterwards, the good there was no question of the pre-21st May, at 10 o'clock in the fore-black, untamed hair and half. M. ran down the hillside below the laughing, half-anxious Irish eyes, roud to pick some flowers, and, trip- she is strangely attractive. She ping over a stone, fell with a sprafu sence of foreign troops. The Japanese occupation, naturally had.
A salesman of the Sincere Com-regards her large husband with ed ankle;, to whom Berlioz from the
dence. C'est moi-qui-blaspheme-et- its reactions, but these were in the pany was sentenced to one-month's adoring terror and Mary has found road above; "Voyez done in provi
c'est vous qui tombez."!
I venture to think that the cont nature of actual exchange of fire hard labour by Major C, Willson [in her a sympathetic-soul-
this morning for the theft of some
We have another. pianist on the with the military. The mere pre-singlets from the Department in ship. Yesterday we spent the templation of this little yarn, would sence of the troops would not be which he was employed,
forenoon in Valetta harbour, and have done our young student more in the lounge when nearly every-good than two hours, search for sufficient to explain the looting and
An unemployed Chinese was re- the indescribable horrors committed
E. one was gone, M. quietly approach-perfection on the keyboard,
I found the above book, by the NOT THE REAL CAUSE. on the civilian population. An-manded by Mr. R. E, Lindsell thined the piano. One might say that he approached it furtively, but that deed, it is conceivable that, had a travelling clock and a fountain the red face under his shock of way, in a Hongkong library. I the Japanese troops not been on pen, from the residence of Mr red hair is not subject to any ex- shall have some more to say about
P. W. Clark, of 454, The Penk.
pression, except when it wrinkles Hongkong libraries at a later date, smile. He but I can here and now relieve the scene, happenings of
labouriously into a IIls Excellency the Ofeer greater dimensions might have oc-
Administering the Government has curred.
appointed, the Rev. Frank Short to be a Member of the Board of Education, vice the Rev. Thomas William Pearce; O.B.E, LL.D.
SATURDAY, MAY 12,.1928.
have
Maintaining a Principle..
should
fur
while
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years.
started on Chopin's most hackney- your mind of any anxioly in the ed nocturne (Opus 9 No. 2) stopp matter of literary starvation ed in the middle, began Beet Before we left London we were full hoven's Pathetique sonata, stopped of schemes for having a regular after the exposition, completed the supply of books sent out to us, hav slow movement and about half of ing heard of the troubles of varie friends previously posted to the rondo, went an to part of the ous Appassionata, and so on with a the ends of the earth. Here it is number of things, while his young quite unnecessary. Provided you wife, a charming and respectable can do without your "midday Wal- her legs over one of the arms and both entertaining and instructive. explained that was the way with to satisfy even Mary, who absorbs her good husband. When he hears a book in a couple of nights (and a good piece of muste he says "Yes forgets it again in a couple of that's awfully nice," and takes it days),
BIG FILM COMING NEXT WEEK.
TO-DAY'S FILMS.
"THE GARDEN OF EDEN" AT QUEEN'S.
As we expected would be the case, one of the Labour members of the House of Commons has been moralising on the tragic happen- ings at Tainan. We refer to Com- mander Kenworthy,, who suggest- ed in Parliament on Wednesday As we predicted on Monday, It is notified that, ut the expira- tion of three months, The Cafe that as Britishers in the Shantung Britain has stressed that
sincerely welcoming the American Regent Company, Limited, will un- capital had been anmolested, the proposal of a multipartite Treaty less cause is shown to the con- thing to do was not to send troops or outhwing war, and desiring titrary, be struck of the register le woman, sat in a chair with lace," there is sufficient literature, to disturbed parts of China. co-operate in its negotiation, it is and the Company will be dissolved necessary, first and foremost, for Whilst not saying so much, the in- the six Powers concerned to reach His Excellency. the Officer ference to be drawn from his re-a conimon understanding of the Administering the Government has mark is that it was the presence obligation into which they have
heen invited to enter. Sir Austen reappointed the Rev. A, D. Stewart, of the Japanese troops which Chamberlain advocates the princi- Mr. Tao Seen-wan, LL.D., and Mr. caused the troubles to break out. inple of making haste slowly, cherish- H. B. L. Dowbiggin as Members Tsinan, and that, had they not beening, no doubt, memories of promis- of the Board of Education for a "SORRELL AND SON.”
ing movements ruined because further period of two there,
everything would
someone has been trying to recon-Effect from the 9th April, 1928.
If any passed off very peacefully. Un-cile the irreconciliable,
The local office of the Chartered doubt
exist in the
"The Garden of Eden," which is fortunately, the facts as so far dis-
minus of the signatories to Mr. Bank hus received the following
With beautiful exterior scenes closed do not support that argu- Kellogg's Treaty, should it be con- telegram from its Head. Office in
Transport and specially filmed In England, the big showing at the Queen's Theatre ment. It is true that no British cluded, should there be any varia- London:"Shell property was damaged nor any in-tion of the interpretation not only Trading Co., Ltd., declared dividend screen version of Warwick Deep for the last time to-day, is an ex- of the wording, but of the spirit at the rate of 3/- per share free ofing's story of England after the cellent comedy drama of a little dignities suffered by British re of the agreement, it would be worth. Income Tax payable 5th July. war, "Sorrell and Son," comes to Continental cabaret singer who next for four days, according to a nens and enters the smart society sidents of Tsinan, but it must be less. Paradoxically enough, It is Bearer compon to bo presented No. the Queen's Theatre on Wednesday poses as the daughter of a baro- special advertisement in this issue. of Monte Carlo where she meets recalled that about a fortnight be- partly because the draft under con- sideration is the very reverse of
Captain Robert Dollar, the The picture follows closely the and falls in love with a handsome fore serious trouble broke out, ambiguous, that the principal dif-
ficulties live arisen. The position veteran shipowner and lumber mer-original story, and the opening young man. The settings of the Britishers were' warned to remove of France is the Best illustratinn. chant, arrived in Hongkong yester-scenes find Captain Stephen Sorrell, picture have been well carried out, to safety at Tsingtao or Chefog, Franco could not pledge her-day by s.8. President Grant, HeM.C., returning from the war to while the photography introduces resort to arms was accompanied by his wife and discover his pleasure loving wife some new camera effects which which, being accessible to H.M. self
two nieces, the Misses Dickson. in the act of running away. With have been done in full natural circumstances Numerous friends gathered to wel- his young son to bring up, Captain colour. The large cast is hended ship, werd in n less dangerous her policy in late . years position,
has been to conclude a network of come the party, who leave for Sorrell sets about getting work, but by Corinne Griffith, Lowell Sher- Captain in the end he is compelled to accept mán, Louise Dresser and Charles military alliances in Europe, Like Manila this afternoon. What is more to the point, how Britain, she has far-reaching obli-Dollar looks as hale and hearty as the position of hotel bar porter. Ray. "The Garden of Eden" was How he "curries on" for the sake directed by Lewis Milestone, who ever, is that if British intérestagations under the Locarno Pact ever.
of luis son, whose future is his chief produced "Two Arablan Knights. regard, makes a wonderful story.
World Theatre, have not suffered, other foreign and the Covenant of the League of Nations. As Mr. Kellogg has
Produced by Herbert Brenon, fa- property has, for it is now
mous as the director of "Peter Pan," painted out, these problems are not nounced that two German houses, insurmountable, but, at first glance,
"A Kiss for Cinderella" and "Beau Raymond Keane and Barbara Kent, including Stein's Hotel, were loot-it is difficult to see how a satisfac-
Geste," the picture has a big cast is a thrilling story of war in tha FIVE MORE ADDED TO LIST.
led by such capable players as H. B. clouds, and deals with ed. That could not have possibly tory formula can be reached, unless the Treaty is extended to embrace
Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson, Carme) flying officer whose fear prevents been due to resentment at the pre-the, minor Powers, who so often
The following names have been Myers, Lionel Belmore, Nils Aather him from taking part in air con- sence of Japanese troops rather provide occasion. for heated con-
Is a long film and performances of his little French sweetheart, does it support the view that the troversy. Critical altuations may added to the list of medical prae- and Alice Joyce. "Sorrell and Son" flicts, but who, through the efforts
easily arise should one of the signa- titioners:
Mr. Ma Wai-man, Kwong Wah start promptly each day at 2.30, finally overcomes his, drend, and Nationalist troops, flushed with tories be involved in a dispute with
6.00, 7.15 and 9.30. victory, got out of hand and in-a Power outside the Pact, and the Hospital.
Dr. Li Kuang-yu, Tung Wah dulged in indiscriminate robbery, great thing seems to be to leave.
America, we fcel Hospital. no-one outside.
Dr. Yeoh Cheang-hoe, Govern- as they have so often done during sure, will echo the British senti-
Dr. Tu Teng-pang, Government the past two years. It will be in- ments of anxiety that all who ad-ment Civil Hospital.
here to the proposed Treaty, should teresting here to give Generale determined to maintain it. Civil Hospital.
Dr. Tang Yee-yuen, Kwong Wah Fukuda's official version of the Hitherto, Japan is the only invited
All are Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery of the Hongkong University.
an-
under
never
any
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as
NEW DOCTORS.
start of the trouble between his Power which has neither ventured Hospital, Ynumnti.
a reply, nor indicated the nature of forces and the Chinese troops. Ho her comments. Embarrassed with asserts that on arriving with his a political crisis at home, and seri- headquarters stuff in Teinan on ously involved in Shantung, the de- lay is not difficult to understand.- May 2nd, Marshal Chiang Kai-sh
The recent upheavals, it "need demanded the Immediate with scaretly be said, bring the relations drawal of the Japanese troops, pro-af U. S. A. and Japan well into the or wrongly, limelight. Rightly
FINE WEEK-END PROMISED.
:
POEMS THAT LIVE.
THE BANKS O'DOON..
Ye flowery banks o' Lonnie Ddon, How can ye blume sao fair! How can ye chant, ya little birds, And I sae fu' o' carol
"The Lone Eagle," featuring
a young
becomes a real hero. The story was written by Lt. Ralph Blan- chard who saw active air service with the British Forces during the war. The climax is sensational.
Star Theatre.
Three Weeks in Paris" Is an amusing story of how a newly wedded husband becomes separat- ed from his young wife and, in company with a jovial man-about- Thou break my heart, then boanlo town, "goes off the deep end" in
.
bird,
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fauso luve was truo,
mising that the Nationalist troops Japan's intentions in Shantung are
The Royal Observatory's wea-Thou, break my heart, thou bonnie
bird, would undertake full charge of eatining a good deal of speculation. ther forecast up to noon to-morThat sings beside thy mate;
from row is:-Light westerly or vari-For ane I eat, and sac 1 sarg, Are heard maintaining peace sind order and Rumblings
And wistna of my fate, of the protection of the lives and Washington, whispering of diplo-able winds; fine."
matic pressure and of the "Hands
Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon, property of foreign residents. As Off China" polley. There may be the military discipline of the nothing in it at all; indeed, judging of Japanese nationale must be pro-To see the wogdbine twine;
Nevertheless, the remoteAnd flka bird sang o' its lave, Chinese forces was comparatively by their comments on the situation, tected
the well-informed circles in
possibility of war between China And sau did I o' mine. well maintained, at that time, the Washington could have been sup-and Japan renders the position very wr lightsome heart I pu'd a rose Japanese, in compliance. with plied with a little more reliable fascinating. It would be tragle if
Upon a morn in June; Nationalist requests, immediately information. However that may America were the first country to And sao I flourish'd on the morn
be, should America write to Japan discover circumstances in which And soo was pu'd or' noon.
Robert Burna, removed, the defensive works. about it, Baron Tanaka will merely resort to arms la practically un- There were at that time some reply that the lives and property avoidable.
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Paris. During his stay he lands himself in jail after a duel, and on bis release finds himself in further difficulties by virtue of the fact wife has actually, drawn the in- that he is officially dead and his Burance money. Matt Moore, Dor- othy Devore and Willard Louls are. included in the excellent cast, which was directed by Roy del Ruth,
The establishment of a theatre for the production of Charles Dickens's works. In the United States is one of the alms of tho American Dickens League, which has just been incorporated.