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Hear These Interesting H. M. V.
Records.
B-3017 (a) The Lay of the Lady's vote (6) Before I go to Sleep Anoma Winn with George Baker-H. French-& L. Henry. Grucin Fields. (b) Crown of the Year (Martin)
B-3008 (a) Hot Pot (b) Sonny Boy B-3006a) Hatfield Bells (Martin)
(Sung by Percy Heming
B-3005 (a) Until (Sanderson)
4Sung by Walter Glynne)
(b) Annabelle Lee : Leslie)
B-2999 (z) She's Funny that way (b) I lift my finger and say "Tweet [Tweet**
· (Gracie Fields)
B-2997 (a) One Kiss (from!" New Moon'') (b. Soft'y 'as in a morning (Played by de Groot and His Orchestral, [Sunrise B-2966A Run with the Darklown Hunt, Pts 1 & Scott & Whaley B-2961 (a) Ave Maria i Bach, Gounod) 'b) The Rosary (Nevín) Organ
Played by Charles O'Connell
C-1660 (a) "New Moon" Selection to "Wake up and Dream" Selection.
Played by The New Mayfair Orchestra, C-1658 (a) "Love Lies" Selection (b) "Five O'Clack Girl" Selection.
Played by. The New Mayfair Orcheaua, C-1590 Finale in B Flat, Op 21 (Pranck) Parts 1 & 2 (Organ)
Played by Gay Weite
C-1569 (a D Coma, All Ye Faithful (a) The Message al Christmas fc/ Christians Awake (Westminster Contral Hall Chair) 0-1581 (a) Kato in the Call Box (Herbert) (b) Reducing (¡ferbert),
Angela, Buddeley
E-518 (a) The Swan (Snist-Saena) (Saint-Saens)
E-492. (a) Rococo' (Pulmgren)
Orgun
Piano-Plaped by Moiseivitch E-487) Armourer's Song (de Koven)
Vulcan's Song.
the Prelude In E Flat, Op 99
Played by Marcel Dupr
by Le Pétit ano blanc (Įbert)
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(b) Philemon at Baucis-- Sung by Robert Radford.
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.
Chater Road,
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including 2 collars,
Fancy or plain coloured Poplin Shirts
made to measure.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Men's Wear Stylists.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NOW IS THE TIME
TO GET YOUR:
FRIGIDAIRE
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIO FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929,
DAY BY DAY,
but the truth is that the child of to-day is asked to work harder and at a greater variety of subjects
IT WOULD BE WELL FOR US ALL TO than the average adult. The re- REMEMBER THAT OUR WORDS AND sult is that ho does not do It, ACTIONS, ATE, AND. OUR THOUGHTS He does what he can and leaves 30, ARE BET UPON NEVER-STOPPING
WHEELS--M, M. Brewster. the rest.
or
Another Chinese caso of typhoid was notified yesterday.
Coming to the point of practi- cality, the professor quoted says
The P.. and O. a.s. Kidderpore, an employer has a right to ex- poct that boy girl from Singapore, is due bors at of sixteen shall be able to write noon on the 10th instant. concise and accurate English, Paymur. Mid. W. J. Farroll has command an adequate vocabulary, been appointed to H.M.S. Suffolk and spoil correctly the words and J. A. Angus to H.M.S. Corn-
wall. they use. Yet few who employ people of this age, he says, are satisfied in those requirements. What is the remedy? The iden is
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME, EXTRACTS FROM THE
· TELEGRAPIT" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the weak ended July 11th, 1908:
The Very Idea!
One of the New York nows- papers has printed a glossary of 1929 American slang which makes amusing and interest- ing reading if you take it on the The rate of the dollar on "up-and-up"which means in good faith. Certainly the American demand was 18, 9.15/16d,
language is more expressive than our own. We may talk of flirting, but wo have never thought of calling it "Garbo Gilborting," and while we do speak of loungo- lizards we have never before hoard gentlemen who linger in
referred
tb entrances hotel as "allygaggers" or "bell poll- shers."
Hongkong collections for relief of distress due to floods in the West River district totalled $190,- 000.
The proposed transfer to the Government of the Widows' and Orphans' Fund aroused consider Stoker Patty Officer Georgeable discussion, and a meeting of Smith, of H.M.S. Suffolk, has contributors was suggested. been selected to undergo tho course for mechanician.
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put forward that there should be The local office of the Neder- Melchett Turner discussions belandsch Indische Handelsbank tween teachers and employers for have received news from the Am- the discovery of common needs sterdam head office to the effect that a dividend of 10% for the and common programmes. The year 1828 has been declarod. faults which have developed in
It has been approved for H.M.S. the educational system have, in
Medway, tho now submarine the main, been the fruit of tench-depot-ship completing at Barrow, an entirely ars' enthusiasm attempts to turn to commission with
now crow when ready, The ori- learning from a long grind into a ginal intention that the crew of pleasant entertainment. It is H.M.S. Titania, depot-ship for
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. here, says the authority quoted, submarines on the China Station,
Bole Distributora HONG KONG & 3. OKINA
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY JULY 12, 1929.
EDUCATION.
We suppose there will always be considerable divergence of opinion concerning what stitutes true education. But if
con.
should turn over to the Modway has been abandoned.
"THE FOREIGN LEGION,"
that they have gone too far, Nothing that is worth learning can be learnt without effort, In all apheres, there are periods when progress can only be gained, by close and difficult application. To sum up this professor's con- clusions, it will little profit a lad going out into life if he can dance the "Shepherds' Hey," but cannot
All the essentials of a first- write and understand straightfor-class film are to be found in "The ward English. He adds that the Foreign Legion," now showing at the Queen's Theatre. This is a 'mass of the world's useful work picture which we can thoroughly is done by people who have no recommend to our readers. fancy accomplishments, but have at least mastered the "three R's."
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Water Proposala.
effect
we come
SPLENDID FILM SHOWING AT THE QUEEN'S.
The Rev. Bro. Stephen left St. Joseph's College after: twelve COLOMANISTÁNAMIEN
THE "TELEGRAPH”' ART SUPPLEMENT.
DIG VARIETY OF PICTURES TO-MORROW.
Varioty will once again be the keynoto of to-morrow's. Issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement.
There will be several excol- lent Illustrations dealing with the water crisis, including pictures of the burst Praya wator-tank, and scenes at street fountains,
In the realm of sport there will be numerous pictures of
and Jawn bowls
tennis matches, as well as King's College boys giving a jiu-jitsu display, and members of the Girls'
Department of the Y.W.C.A, in a striking triangu- lar formation on the Ying Wah athletle field.
The official landing of Mr. Dwight Davie, new Governor- General of the Philippines will be Illustrated, as also will be the King's Thanksgiving Ser- vice at St. John's Cathedral,
Other photographs will in- clude a portrait of Mr. A... Lucey, the wolf-known A.D.C. antor who this week left Hongkong for good, and a group Laken nfter the wedding of Mr. Waller Cahalne and Mias Eva Curtis.
Local gossip in 1929 slang be- comes "clothes-line," and "canned hent" is one name for Prohibition liquor, while "giggle water" is another. Officers entrusted with the enforcement of the Volstead Act are known as "coliar smel. lera, and those rollicking cowboy films of the Wild West are alluded Lo
as "horse-operas." Some of 80 over- these expressions are powering that one feels inclined "to go into the gauze," which is the U. SA. way of saying that one becomes unconscious. Just one morn. The head of a firma is known as the "big yea-and-no man." How much more expressive than the governor or the bossl
"I'm going to call my garage. "The Half Way lan'!"
"Why?"
"Because that's the way wife parks the car."
my
[It is proposed to have a Detec tive Course at Chicago University.] There are lectures and debates for the students in the Staten,
And he leaves the university
.ondowned
With the culture he requires, and the knowledge he destros To enable him to rise above the
crowd,
But it surely would be wise for
a youth to specialise And of crima solution And the
master key
By tattoo books on items for
tion, clues and crooks, And, when graduating, take a
Third Degree..
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Counsel: "What happened after the prisoner gave you a blow?"
Witness: "He gave me a third one."
There is romance, suspense, a plot, exceptionally well-devised good neting, and splendid photo graphy. The story has to do with a young Englishman who shoulders the blame for the action of the husband of her fiancee, enlist the Foreign Legion, and whilst on service in Algiers again encounters his former sweet- heart and her sister. Events move towards a stirring climax when the young Legionnaire is court-years' service and was entertain-one?" martialled and sentenced to death ed at several functions. by his own father, the identity of the two being unknown until the conclusion of the trial. All comes out right in the end, with the hero finding happiness with his very last flicker of the reel.
we consider education solely from The Government has wasted no the standpoint of its practical time, since dropping a hint use in life-a vory restricted out- Monday's meeting of the Water look, admittedly-there will pro-Emergency Committee, in develop bably be found a fairly widing its proposals for charging water from the spread agreement int present-every user of
metera for every gallon of water day tendencies in the scholastle
used. The legislation necessary world are not assisting that end for this purpose is already in In anying this, we do not suggest hand and we have it officially that that it is in the best interests of Bill giving
to the will
introduced the rising generation that they decision should be deprived of what might very shortly. Very little room is be described as the "frills" of left for uncertainty up to this
point., When, however, education, but we think a case can
to examine the reasons for the im- be made out along the lines that out, and its possible effects, the diffusion of interest is liable, in story runs rather differently. the early stages of school life, to The Colonial Secretary has stat eause a loss of broad essentials. ed that there is no question of Much would be gained if there increasing the Colony's revenues, were greater concentration on the and we are left to the presump
tion that the author or.authors of groundwork. Specialisation could the scheme have been actuated very well he left until later years. solely by the thought that the The question which is now con- metered-users enjoy an advantage
over others in the tank-and-tin dis-. cerning British educationists stricts, and should not be excluded whether there is not at present a from the additional household ex- danger of too many academic pense entailed in many homes by the water shortage. It is also sug- cooks spoiling the educational gested that the meter-users are broth. Fifty years ago. the more wasteful than other
sumers, but it is hardly necessary schools at Home concentrated on for us to point out that not a tittle A robbery committed on board
the "three R's"-reading, writ ing, and arithmetic. It WAR
con-
Lewis Stone takes the role of the Colonel who sentences his own son, and he has seldom, if ever, been seen in finer work. His acting all that could, bo desired. Nor- man Kerry as the son In also splendid, whilst Mary Nolan plays the heartless blonde just as it should be played, and June Marlowe is good as the heroine.
A News Reel and a Krazy Kat comedy go to complete a most entertaining programme,
BOAT ROBBERY SEQUEL.
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QUESTION OF JURISDICTION ARISES.
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MACHER/DRY CASANAGIRIMANTANETIZACENTA MEN
Mr. C. Mc. I. Messer was 3- pointed to act as Head of the Sanitary Department,
The Brazilian cruiser Benjamin Constant paid a visit to the port.
BRIDGE MADE EASY Joy WW.Wentworth
The Rule Of Eleven-3'
Counsel: "You mean a second "Witness: "No, I gave the second
one,"
A. Hampstead reader sends to a Home paper the following answer given by a schoolgirl in an examina tion paper: "Christianity who in- troduced into England by the Ro- mans in: 64 B.C."
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Surprise was expressed by Mr. Ronald Powell, the West London Magistrate, when Detective Pick, producing a cardboard box 12 inches square, stated that. It contained forty-three women's dresses,
Mr. Powell: What? Forty- three dresses in that box?"
Detective Pick: Yes,
The box wha an exhibit in a charge of shop-breaking.
The "amellies" will follow the "talkies," we are told, with the news of an invention which will permit the movie set flower ‘gar- den to throw off fragrance, or per- An example showing the applica-mit us to sniff the voluptuous in tion of the rule of cleven from cerise burned in the vamp's bou- the declarer's point of view: Dummy-pades A-K J 3.
East-
Declarer-spades 9 4. West---
West loads the 7 of spades, Sub
doir.
Verily, verlly, there is no end to what the gods send us, whether we want their gifts or not!
A
"I want the grey-striped trou..
stand. It must be perfectly easy before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith with held in the dummy, east's hand 'em, Blr."
and his own hand. The dummy "Dear me i hope the buttons.
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EXCHANGE RATES.
WATER LEVELS.
FOR WEST, NONTH AND EAST RIVERS,
The following table, compiled; The foregoing examples of the by the Board of Conservancy applicability of the rule of eleven Works of Kwangtung, shows the wore at no trump play, The as-water fevols in English feat on. sumption made in each instance is the West, North, and East Rivers. that west leads the fourth card on the dates named: from the top in his longest and strongest suit, unless east has bid the auit. If an honor is led, the rule in not binding.
of evidence has been produced in a boat off Sau Chau Island or support of this suggestion. The July 2 was recalled at the Kow-tracting seven from eleven, theers," said the magnate to his Government attitude in this mat-loon Magistracy this morning declarer learna that four cards valet. narrow discipline, and no-one ter alone la difficult to under. when Chinese was charged higher than the 7 of spades are "I'm afraid the moths have eaten. could justly complain when his
the natural tory, geography,
to give figures of water consump being concerned in the affair.
Detective Sub-Inspector Dorling holds A K J of spades and the de-won't give them indigestion." tion through the meters, covering sciences, and language or two normal times and this period of remand and, in reply to his Wor- knows, therefore, that the 9 of applied for week's formal clarer holds 9 ef spades. Declarer were added. But the process of shortage. It might conceivably ship, who asked whether the case spades can take the trick and diffusion did
not stop there, be that their quotation would offer would be committal, said that the there is no necessity of sacrificing a strong case for the new charge police were not yet in a position a higher card in the dummy. He Botany, geology and other selen proposed, but until they are forth-to say whether they were able to knows that west holds the Queen ces, with economies, civics, danc-coming, we cannot honestly sup: carry on with the case. It was of spades and by leading the 4 of Ing, music, gymnastics, dramatic port the Government in hurrying pointed out that it was not known spades and finessing the Jack of works, and what not else have all to give the force of law to a whether the scene, of the crime spades, he can win four tricks in
theory. There are many other was in British or Chinese waters. the spade sult! crept into the school' syllabusospects which we cannot go into The defendant was accordingly Unfortunately, however, the in thoroughly, and we need deal with remanded for one wock for creaning of the syllabur does not we only. In the first place, there further enquiries,
15 the difficulty of appor: increase the child's capacity to tionment. A large number of receive This point, we notice, méters are. installed on premises used as flats, one moter register- has been taken up by a well-ing the consumption for the whole known English professor, who is building. The landlord will na
turally insist that his tenants pay at pains to show that tho
for the water they use, but the Paris more subjects which you make question of. dividing the gross
Genova -Berlin the average child study, the less amount, will offer a pretty pro
Oslo Helsingfors he knows of each of them. As he blem, and possibly a cause of dis-
pute. The position has also to Athens puts it, the wider you spread the be faced that the new charges Buenos Aires educational butter, the thinner It will throw an increasing burden Hongkong gets. Nor is it merely that the are of opinion, is accepting un-Stockholm
an industry. The Government, we Amsterdam. number of subjects has increased, necessary responsibility in taking Vionna***
Bucharest but the outside, semi-educational such a decision at this time, par Bombay
ticularly as the new charges may activities of the schools have Im operate for a few months only. Brussels
Yokohama monsoly multiplied. The pre The time will come when the Milan, ... fessional educator, says the au- whole problem of water rates and Copenhagen, thority under notice, has in the distribution will have to be thor- Prague oughly explored, and until then, Lisbon past been too squeamish of all we would suggost, it is advisable Rio
Shangha comment on education, as if hle to hesitate before taking such a con- Silver Spot and Forward ....24 8/16 own province were holy ground, troversial step.
The player who leads may hold .129,925 four or five cards In that suit and
London, July 11.
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26.226
18.205
376.
July 10 July 11
Shlubing Tsingyuen
16.2 5,4
Sambhui Sheklung
17.7
8.9 -9.6
2.3
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there are times when the exact .20.265 number may be determined. If result is four. There should be- 1924 the 2 in led, you know that he helda four cards higher than the 7 of only four cards. If the 8, is le diamonds in the dummy, east's 4714 and the 2 is in the dummy or in hand and the declarer's hand. 1/11% your hand you know that west holds Dummy and the declarer hold four .1207only four cards,
cards higher than the 7 of dia At trump play, the rule of monds--they hold among others, 84.495 eleven may also be of assistance to A K 0 8 of diamonds. The four 819 you. The expert recognizes its apmissing cards are QJ10 7.0f 1/6 25/82 plication and it gives him an add-diar..onds. But the 7 of diamonds
1/10% ed ødvantage over the novics. The 34.91 following example is most interest
-18.095
Coding:
.82.745
18.215 .104
108
5th
2/4
Dummy diamonds A K 9 5. East
is not the fourth from the top be- ስበር no player would lend it when holding a series of threo touching honors. Therefore the 77 of, d'amonds must he a singleton or a lead from a short suit. Dum Sub-my should take with the King of British Wireless Service tract seven from eleven and the diamonds to prevent ruffing,
Declarer diamonds 9 8,
West-leads: diamonds 7.
West lends 7 of diamonds.
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