TOURIST SHIP IN HONGKONG.
THE "RESOLUTE" HERE ON BIG WORLD CRUISE.
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The popular H.A.L, tourist liner Resolute arrived in Hongkong Festerday on a world cruise and is due to leave again tomorrow. Sho is commanded by Captain Fritz Kruse.
During ber stay in port, the Resolute will be thrown open to local residents who desire to in- spect her, but applications for
WHEN WE LIVE IN
GLASS HOUSES.
STEEL CITIES OF THE FUTURE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Life in labour-saving ginsa and steel houses, furnished with ar- tistic steel furniture, was pictured by Mr. Howard Robertson, the well- known architect, in a lecture before the Architectural "Association.
The house of the present, he said, was cold and uncomfortable that of the future would be a "machine to live in."
It would have windows on all sides and a garden on the roof. Smoke, by a central electricity aup- ply for heating as well as cooking, water-pipes, which he described as worse than bad architecture, would be unknown.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A GOVERNOR.
NOTED QUEBEC STATESMAN: PASSES AWAY.
SIR LOMER GOUIN.
ment-Reuter. ...
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1929.
EXECUTION AGAIN DENIED.
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The
The Very Idea!
wearing, aluminum shodą,
And that isn't all. All-metal
fected methods of turning sheet clothing for men and women is a possibility alice science has pery
metal into pliable, strong and cheap dress material.
Clanki. Here comes, milady, Mr. Ting Wel-fen, Mr. Tan Yen now. Italian ladies are wearing kal, Mr. Tal Chl-tao, Mr. Yu Ylu.aluminum brocades and London jon, Mr. Sun Fo, Mr. Yeh Tan-dancers are saving shoe leather by chang, and Mr. Chen Kuo-fu.“ Quebec, Mar. 29.
following appointmenta
to-day of the Lieutenant-Governor, Chung-lin as Acting Minister of The death took place suddenly were also announced:-General Lu Sir Lower Gouin, whilst he was proceeding to prorogue Parlin War in the absence of Marshal Feng Yu-hslang; Mr. Chang Chun Sir Lomer Gouin, the French-e Mayor of Greater Shanghai in Canadian lawyer and statesman, was born at Grondines, Quebec succession to Mr. Chang Ting-fan; Province, in March, 1861, his and General Ho Ying-ching as In- educated at Sorel, Levie and Laval University. In 1884 he was ad- mitted to the Quebec bar and in 1900 became a Q.C. He was one of the leaders of the provincial bar and practised in Montreal. The Quebec representative on the
A nows note of "all-metal" wour. says "fying and motoring kit made
ed, will be entirely, fireproof and of aluminum, specially impregnat
tickets for this purpose must be would be eliminated, while burst | father, being a doctor. He was spector-General of the Military the overcoat may be lined with
made to Mesara. Jebsen and Co., of Pedder Building. Incidentally, there are still a few bertha avail- able on this fine ship, and an op- portunity in thus provided for those who wish to take part in the remainder of its tour,
After leaving here, the Resolute will call at Keelung, Shanghai, Chinwangtao, (alda trips to Pek- Ing. Tientsin and "The Great Wall.") Chemulpo, Miyajima, In- land Sen of Japan, Kobe, Yoko- hara, (side trips to Tokyo, Nikko, Kamakura), Honolulu, lo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Balbon, Colon, Havana and New York.
Thirty Countries,
No Traffic Dangers. The city of the future, said Mr. Robertson, would be one of glass- encased buildings, higher than they were now, but of uniform height, and roof walks along which the pedestrian could stroll or shop im- mune from traffic dangers.
"The roofs of London," Mr. Ro- bertson added, "'ns we see them to- day form ons vast space. With our steep roofs we lose the opportunity for a magnificent thoroughfare-in the city of the future it may be The present cruise of the Re-practicable to walk upon the roofs solute covers an itinerary that in from one end of it to the other." both comprehensive and unique. Tho now Rogent-street represent- Visits to 30 countries and 63 porta ed to him a street of lost opportun- two-level and cities are included in the ity. "Picture It usa price of the cruise, and some of street, with pavements and shop these places are included in no windows at first floor level, and with Itinerary but that of the Resolute.a great sweep of garden terrace on Furthermore, in arranging this the roof. It would have been one Itinerary, care has been taken to of the architectural glories of
Europe." avoid countries which are less in- teresting and to concentrate upon those countries which are strange and fascinating.
Sailing Eastward from New York in early January. It has been possible to meet the best seasons in each country-for instance, the height of the social season in Cairo, India in coel weather like our May, Peking in apringtline and the desire of all travellers Japan in Cherry Blossom Time. En route to the Mediterranean, the Resolute has called at Madeira
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Training School and concurrently Chief of Staff to the National Army in succession to Marshal Li Chai-sum-Reuter,
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leather, fur or rubber for special warmth."
An Englishman was entertain, ing an Italian friend, whose know. Canton Trouble.
ledge of the English languago was limited to dinner. Rice pudding Considerable excitement
appeared on the menu, and the caused in Canton on Thursday even Englishman was surprised to see ing when 700 soldiers, belonging to the Training Corps of the 11th, his guest regard it with disgust. Nationalist Army, stationed in sub- "What's wrong?” he asked. “It's urbs of Hornm island were dis-wholesome if uninteresting." armed by Marshal Li Chnl-sum's troops.
These 700 soldiers were quartered At the Shiu Kong district in Honam and since the unnuuncenient of war between Wuhan and Nanking the Canton military authorities have | kept a vigdans watchi on the corps, whose loyalty to the Canton Govern- ment was subject to doubt,
"No doubt," was the reply, "But in Italy we do not eat ver min.".
"Rice-vermin ?”!
"Si, sl, I know enough English for zat. Mouse, plural mice: ratos, plural rice.”
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On Thursday evening over 1,000 Curton troups were sent to Honara ("We don't wish to be uncharit-
to attack the Training Corp Headable towards the artists, but we quatters. Despite the fact that the can only allow them a very small 700 soldiers were fully armed, they place in matters scientific."-Pro- were completely surprised and no fessor A. S. Eddington.) resistance was offered. As a result,
[ they were disarmed without a single
shot being fred.
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Feng Decides.
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Nanking. Mar. 28. The Kuomin News Agency states that Feng Yu-halang wiring from Loyang "reiterates his obedience to the wishce of the Central Govern- ment, stating that his troops are prepared to do their share in sup- pressing the Wuhan faction and is awaiting.orders from the Central authorities."Reuter,
It is reliably reported that Fong Yu-halang is at present at Loyang, where he will probably make his headquarters.
His troops are massing at Chengchow.-Reuter.
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H.E. the Governor investing most inevitably also will he
Mr. A. Morris with the in- some description, and often most of the essay will be the presents-
signia of a Serving Brother of the Order of St. John at the annual Inspection of the tion of visual pictures. His
Ambulance Brigade on Tues- lection will take the form of ex- position, however brief and con- and at Gibraltar, including Alge-verantional; he may as often be-
day last. (Photo: A Fong). ciraa, Spain. In the Mediter come genially argumentative and beards of several large Canadian ranean, calls were made at Algiers, even eratorical-for a phrase or financial institutions, he was also the African Riviera; Monaco, two, here and there; he knows that director of some industrial under- Monte Carlo, Mentone and Nice, he has the resources of dialogue takings. the French Riviera; Naples, always at hand to make his scuti- Athena, the Holy Land, with an in- ments more intimate and personal. Provincial Parliament from 1897, He was a member of the Quebec cluded excursion to Jerusalem Together with all freedom to in- to 1920, first for Montreal and then to Egypt, with an included troduce appropriate
Shanghai, Mar, 28. quotation, then for Portneuf. He was elect
pr excursion to fascinating Caire, either in prose or
Wu Tze-hui, who was one verge, oured to the Public Instruction Coun-the guarantors of Li Chai-sum's the Sphinx, the Pyramids and the essayist thus commands the range cil in 1898 and appointed Minis-safety, when the latter went to Nile, and an optional excursion to of all types and what is still more ter of Colonisation and Luxor, Thebes and the Telab uf astonishing he can use them all Works in 1900. From
Public Nanking, is reported to have com- 1906 to mitted suicide feeling that LI Djibouti, also within a single unit. Tut-ankh-Amen. called at, is in French Somaliland,
1920 he was Premier and Attor-Chal-sum's reported execution was never visited by any cruise but
ney-General of Quebec. He was a disgrace which he could
made face-Reuter. knighted in 1908 and K.C.M.G. in 1913.
the Resolute.
Nearly 400 Passengers. This is the sixth world cruise of the Resolute, and she has on board 379 passengers, these con- prising many eminent citizens of the United States, Germany, Spain, France, Switzerland, Cuba and
South America.
many
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Guarantor's Suicide,
My dear Professor, do not deem
Art needs your charity, or
dole,
Seeking permission for its soul Within your ever-changing
scheme,
Good-will would, artists soon
enrol
And waken Science to nobler
dream;
But le it strange that they blae-
pheme
Before an arrogance so droll?
Bath Art and Sefence men.de.
mand,
Since both belong to daily
bread;
And what you scorn shall ever
stand
For vital truth where love is
fed.
Not Art apowed polson-gas and
bombs That sont the millions' to their
tombs.
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To-day's Ghost Story. "I had CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
Outlined in this brief glimpse,
gone down to a friend's country not house to shoot, and about eleven such fiberties would appear to lead
on the night of my arrival he took the writer into an irresponsible
a candie' to show.me to my room, veln and fragmentary results. How
Simultaneous Advance, Attempts were made by Sir Ro
with a big mastiff following us. can he possibly func 80
Nanking, Mar. 28, We turned into a long corridor kinds of literary forms into a bert Borden to get him to join his
Following swiftly the lasse of a about ten feet wide, and shut the unified whole? Perhaps you will Coalition Ministry, but these fail- say that his salvation is, like the ed and subsequently Gouin declar-manifesto stating that "tho die is door behind us. When about half- lyric poet's, to achieve consistency ed his, allegiance to the Liberal cast and the Nationalist Govern-way down we heard the door we of tone or mood, and indeed this Opposition. lie entered the Fede-ment cannot turn back until the had shut being opened, and felt a is the secret of his successful ral Parliament in Dec. 1921, when Kwangsi-ites are defeated and the coldish draught blowing in. There blending of many diverse cle- the Liberals came into power, as country again united under the was ho sound, but a feeling, that was approaching, ments. Which does not mean that member for Laurier-Outremont same banner," the Nationalist mill- he cannot run the gamut of moods and was appointed Minister of tary within his unit; he may pass Justice In the Cabinet of Mac- Chu Pei-teh, communding the First and this was strengthened by the without warning from the gay to kenzie King, & post which he held Route Army, Liu Chih, command-behaviour of the dog, whose hair most lightly until Jan., 1924. In May, 1926, he ing the Second Route Army, and bristled as he growled and slunk grave, from the whimsical to the most solemn started a fund at Montreal to aid Han Fu-chu, commanding the Third up against his master, Somebody
Route Army, to "advance simultane carncat (though he must not strain the French franc,
Gouln, who was President of ously into Hunan and Hupeh." the latter for long). Yet under-
Meanwhile precautions are being lying these fluctuations of mood Montreal University, married, in Hollywood) of Hal Roach Comedy which can be divined rather than cier, ex-Premier of Quebec.
a subtle undercurrent 1888, a daughter of Honore Mer-taken to safeguard the Tlentain
Pukow Ballway-Router. fame; Oran McCormick, publisher analyzed. And this is the only of "Modern Shoemaking Interna- tional," of Boston; Henry Lee Nor-law of the essay. It is the law (may we not say?) of the friend-
Among the mora prominent aboard are Mrs, William Hamilton Bayly, honorary president of the Young Women's Christian Asso cintion, of Washington; Judge Ab. ram I. Elkus, of New York City, United States Ambassador to Tur key from 1916 to 1920; Laura Rossing (Mrs. John F. Finnall of
must run
ris, Director of Works of Colum-ly lotter, in which amid all the bia University, New York City:
miscellaneous narrative, descrip
Jefferson Penn of Reidsville, N.C..tion, and divers sentiments the manufacturer of "Lucky Strike" cigarettes; T. F. Thieme af Fort unifying bond is woven by the Wayne, Ind., retired president of Personality of the writer, What the Wayne Knitting Mills and the unique liberties then does the friendly essayist enjoy! Even Thiemo Hosiery Company of Les the one law which he must obey
privilege of being his truest and moat interesting self.-P. K. in the Christian Science Monitor.
Angeles; Rev. John A. Wade of is itself his highest privilege, the New York City, rector of St. John's Cathedral and chaplain of the New York police department, and Mrs. Simon Wolf of Washington, D.G., widow of the Inte Hon. Simon Wolf, former United States Minis-
solute about midnight. Those not ter to Egypt.
Among an independent party of making the Canton optional are nineteen who left the Resolute at visiting Macao to-day, leaving the Bangkok to visit the ruins of Az Resolute at 8 a.m. and returning
thereto in time for dinner. kor-Wat in Cambodia, and who are
On Easter Sunday, after a sun- rejoining the ship in Hongkong, having arrived from Salgon by rise service aboard the Resolute, local steamer on 'Wednesday, is the full complement of visitors will the make the excursion to the Peak Mr, Max Epstein, president General American Tank Car Cor and to Repulse Bay, half of them poration, his wife and daughter, going to the Peak in the morning Lucile, of Chicago. Miss Katha-and to Repulse Bay in the after- rine Elkus, daughter of Judge and noon and the other half reversing Mrs. Elkus, is also with the Ep. the programme. The "Resolute" will mil at 6 p.m. on Sunday. for stein party.
Keelung. Formosa, where she le due to arrive at 6 a.m. on Tues- day.
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Local Trips. During their three days in
The Resolute is 618 feet long, Hongkong the Resolute passengers 72 feet wide, la 50 feet above the will visit the Peak, Repulse Bay water and has a draft of 82 feet. and either Macao or Canton. Yea-Her gross tonnage is 19,692, with terday afternoon and evening,
a capacity for 3,229 tons of fuel.
after dinner at the Hongkong Built exclusively for de luxe cruia- Hotel, they were free to visit the shops and cinemae. Forty-five left ong, with no cargo facilities what- the nightboat last evening for ever, she le not only one of the most beautiful and Juxurious steamships afloat but is known
Canton, 150 more going by day
boat this morning. They will all around the world to-day as the return from Canton to the Re-
"Queen of Cruising Ships."
QUAMA, MY HEA HERVICE, ING-
We
authorities. have ordered
mitn't forget, Mother, to get Daddy his heavy
underwear."
some presence
cr something appeared to pass us in a cold gust, and then the door at the other end of the passage opened and shut
"My friend told me then that n! former occupant had been killed in the room at the end of the passage, and was supposed often to visit ls old quarters. I should not have been much impressed had it not been for the conduct of the dog, which certainly 'was aware of something we did not see."
Husband at Willesden-I am out of work, but my wife is living in luxury on a pound a week.
Question at Shoreditch County Court-Did you hear her awear? Man-She looked as if she was going to, so I walked away.
Clerk at Highgate, to a woman with a grievance against a Govern- ment department-You ought to consult the officials. Woman- Insult, did you say? I have done that already. Clerk-No, consult. Woman-I have done so, but they Say I have insulted them.
"Children, cooking, and church" are the three "Ca" for women in the home, it was decided at a group meeting of American Y.M.C.A. men. I la to be expected that. some fair one will retallate with three practical "D's for husband dollars, devotion, and more dol. lars,
Five dollars is cheap for a life, but that amount le what cost the life of Charles De Persia recently in Brooklyn, U.S.A. De Perala hired a man named Marinoto paint his cat for $15. When the job was finished, De Persia didn't like it and he paid Marino only $10. Later they met and Marino shot De Persia through both lungs.
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