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THURSDAY, MARCH .12 1931.
As yet, of course, there are no in- dications of the rates which are kely to apply in the case of a Hongkong-Europe service. At the start, they would naturally be high, but as the facilities became appreciated and the traille grew, we should doubtless witncas a down- ward revlaton of the charges, That has been the case wherover long-distance radio telephony ser- vices have been established, and Hongkong would be no exception to the rule.
Looking at the matter on brond lines, not only will the inaugura- tion of the projected service bring us closer to the Homeland, but it will also bridge the gaps between this Colony and other far-distant Hongkong parts of the globe. will cease to be a small isolated Colony largely out of touch with the West, and the new and better contacts established will be of inestimable value. In the more local sphere also the Telephone Company la demonstrating its alertness and its appreciation of the needs of the Colony, in which connexion the early inauguratfor: of the Canton link and the propos- ed extension of service to the New Territories are pointers reflecting thoroughly go-ahead spirit. In vlow of the present high standard E. Anderson and Miss of effelency and of the promise Mr. J
Anderson sincerely thank all of greater things to come, the Com- friends for their kind mus-pany should have every reason to
of sympathy in their sages sudden and and bereavement: hope that its way will be rendered as smooth as possible, and that also for their presence at the funeral and floral tributes,
the authorities will do all in their pawer towards that end
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
The Hongkong à Thunghat Hotel, tad, Incorporated in Hongkong. JF, Queen's Bend C. and Brubby Rood,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY MARCH 12, 1931.
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DAY BY DAY
ASK Á FAVOUR OF AN ENEMY AND YOU MAY POSSIBLY MAKE A FRIEND; ASK A FAVOUR OF A FRIEND AND YOU WILL PROBABLY MAKE AN ENEMY.-— Marmaduke.
Mr. G. P. de Martin has kindly consented to distribute the prizes at St. Joseph's College at 6 pm. on Monday, March 23 next.
Yesterday's return
of notifiable
whilst on Tuesday a case of diphtheria baby was notified. Both were Chinese,
Having returned from leave, Mr.
Mr. F. Thorougood.
THE BASKET TRICK
1
AND A LOT OF OTHERS.
By Sir PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.
African Ballet.
толк HAGGED Arab youth performing one of the world'e
Even Darkest Afrlen realises the oldest tricks for some passenger value of impromptu entertainment from our ship. He palmed a dia for travellers. If you motor from chicken into the marble new highway called the Great North diseases shows one case of typhoid, hevelled, and disreputable looking Uganda to the White Nile by the cafe table and reload, a surprising form of ballet top of covered it suddenly from the right will be soon at the villages along car of a Colonial judge.
the route. The Acholi tribe per- The Judge, who had never been form it unadorned and unashamed.
When Д tourist car is sighted, C. L. Sander has taken over the man-seen to smile during four days of agement of the local branch of the sunshine at sea, chuckled sheepishly they troop joyously to the rondelde Micrcantile Bank of India, Ltd., from and looked as pleased as a boy at youths, maidens, married women
his first pantomime.
with babies and their husbands- He botrayed the weakness of us and as the car draws up they begi It is advertised that the annual all for the simple pleasures of a tribal dance. It is a spectacle Hongkong tive "side-shows." Every port sufficiently unnerving to Western general meeting of Automobile Association will be held the highway of the world has its "frat-nighters," yet the performers in the board room of Mesars. Jarline, C. B. Cochran. Sophisticated tra-would be puzzled and amused at
The local C. Matheson and Co., on Friday, March vellers who abhor music-ball enter the suggestion that it savours of
tainments surrender easily to the impropriety.
is proud of his young 20, at 5.30 p.m.
magicians, jugglers, and strange Cochran Wong Chun, a cobbler, of Temple comedians who know that human ladies. He is still untainted by con- Street, has been admitted to Kowicon nature is always young and easily tact with money, and the only box- form of cigarettes. One apiece to Hospital in a serious condition. He entertained if approached in the office recoints he desires are in this
by ventilator while right way.-
The wall of a pipe which an- the members of the ballet and a on the steamer Scala Shell at Kowloon
nounces an Indian sutike "charmer" handful for himself is ample profit. Docks yesterday.
will draw seasoned cynics as well as
But farther north the business side of tourist entertainment is verdant globe-trottern.
based on hard cash-in advance. The long-legged Shilluks who lie in
Whs hit
the
the
Cheung Tai Tau, coxswain of the Shamshulpo ferry, reported to police this morning that while the launch was on its way to Hongkong woman jumped over- yesterday, n board and was drowned.
The Tung Wah Nurses,
Reporting the larceny of clothing By embarking upon an ambitious and a clock valued at $15.50 to the programme of nurse training, the Hung Hom Police Station yesterday, Directors of the Tung Wah Hos-in Mui, of No, 29, Pak Ta Street, found that the articles had already They were stolen pital have made yet another big been recovered.
of fream Ip's house between 1.30 and 8.15, advance the application
in
and shortly after that hour, a Can
was REAL PUBLIC SERVICE. modern scientific methods of treat-tonese lance sergeant arrested Leang
ment to this anelent institution. Kun-fuk, aged 14 years, who It is not, indeed, an exaggeration carrying the clock. to regard Tuesday, when the first Further evidence of the enter prise and far-sightedness of those batch of pupils trained by who direct the destinies of the Tung Wah received their gradua was tion certificates, as a red-letter day. Colony's telephone service
the
the
arrangement.
Cobra-Mongoose Act.
for a victim.
B.
troubadour who im-
Deep-sea Derby.
Deep-sea divers flourish every- where cast of Suez. The most ex- pert are the Malays, who awarm though they have able competitora around the liners off Singapore, al- тесер- in the Somalis at Djibouti and
I think the cobra-mongoose act wait for the White Nile steamers which thrives east of Suez is the wear clothes and many trappings. best value of all. Harmless though They are ready to dance when the While walking along the weat wall the cobra may be he causes an un-boat stops for two hours, hut they It s In Abyssinia you will meet an day, Muk Hoi (46), of No. 4, Kul Yan wicked hooded head and looks in-of it as possible.
stinctively
occasional of the naval yard at Kowloon yester-cary thrill every time he lifts his want Sudan currency and as much Lane, fell into the harbour, Haworth 6d. to see his furtive advance rescued by Cunstable Bhulam Khan of the Naval Yard Police and taken to on the nearest spectator, ready to provises song to order and accom- trike, only to be yanked back panies his ainging on a primitive hospital suffering from Immersion.
ignominiously by the tall before he stringed instrument. A distant re- * able to make even a gesture of lative can be found in Omdurman
aying up and down the lines of hate.
It is worth twice that to watch hovels that constitute the low-class he mongouse at work. A low-caste bazaar. By the time you reach this Assonan the music is rendered by unke, the star victim of oman holiday, is unleashed from reed pipes. Cairo offers a variety ta basket and permitted to start of musical street entertainment as
indoors. thankfully for the nearest jungle. prelude to livelier programmes flash of lightning, which in the mon Before it has gone three feet, a zoosc, hits it in the neck and that s the end of the low-caste anake. There is fascination, and much Mail has been received at the following persons: C. Barrios, G. C. small boy is trussed with rope and Amerienn Consulate Generul for the mystery in the basket trick. Bradford, L. Bruce, P. Dry, MTR. L. packed into a wickerwork Haskell, E. Hastings, A. W. Hogan, ed. A sword is passed through and forthcoming at yesterday's meeting It is little more, historically speak- Garland, E. P. M. von Gehren, T. F.incle which is then securely faston: Aden. They can aec a silver coin.
one into the depths and half a of the Hongkong Telephone Co..ing, than a hop, a skip and a jump Mrs. S. E. Johnson, G. H. Koster, H. through and the small boy howls farther than any Scotsman. Toss backward to the day when patients. Lane, F. Ci aivarius, convincingly. But when the basket dozen brown bodies wriggle after Ltd. The Colony, indeed, owes a
at the institution expected and re- Martin, I. C. Moller, C. B.
ing race. The passengers bet on the magician, It is empty, and be Wardley and S. A. Zweibel.
fore the spectators can recover from their favourite and a deep-sea great debt to thin ably-managed ceived treatment in the form of the A. R. Preston, 0. Sika, H. D. Talbot, is reopened after much patter by fathoms below, in a most excit-
their surprise the small boy appears concern, which must be counted as quaint and sometimes extremely
For having stolen $0, of which he smiling from the back of the crowd. Derby is often a star turn.
European ports have their "side one of the most efficient and pro- drastic medicines associated with
On the eve of this I gressive public utility companies in Chinese herbal doctoring, but after was the bailee, a Chinese named Kools ability to climb a rope suspend-
saw a restaurant in Mar- Hongkong, if not of the Far East the introduction of Western prae-Kwan-sang, was ordered to payed from nothing and then disappear shows" as well.
days' imprisonment, and pay back the
hawker of mechanical toys. He in general. The indebtedness will titioners some 60 years ago, the fine of $5, ar, in default, undergo re in mid-air is widely known, but I voyago be even further increased as time reluctance to sacrifice the ancient so to the complainant, Chiu Kang have yet to meet anyone who has sellies completely demoralised by
was a queer figure, clad entirely in The Chinese showmen prefer leather, with three leather bags on methods gradually disappeared sang, a tailor, of 20, Nathan Road, seen him do it.
by Mr. Hamilton, at Kowloon this goes on, witness the plans for ex-until to-day the Hospital commands warning. The accused sald they had crickets to cobras. They are trains back from which he produced pansion of the service which were the confidence and respect of every agreed la split the money, between ed to fight each other-like demons most enticing lot of clockwork. The them, but he had not paid the $4.50 and their backers bet heavily on objects. There were a boxer that felated and ducked, a bear that outlined in the Chairman's annual section of the community.
will enthrall a street crowd tense danced, a butterfly that flew, a dog speech.
The automatic system,new departure, the employment of owing to the complainant under this the result. Two sporting crickets
antil one or the other has been that begged, rolled over and died, and other incredible specimens now in full operation, must be re-trained nurses to undertake
A former Hongkong resident, Mr. knocked out.
Walk through a street in ong of drawn from his portable 200, garded as even far more success-running of the hospital in the of
icient way that doctors, however Arthur Akehurst, who has lived in ful than was hoped when it was
willing. cannot manage without Shanghai for the past eighteen years, the smaller towns where Western! Arst installed, so much so that the such assistance, more or less com- hus now returned to the Colony to civilisation has not spoiled the set
live, having been transferred from
Chief a troupe of strolling players in fan- publie would contemplate with dis-pletes the break with the past, and the Head Office of Messrs. Billington ting, and you will undoubtedly meet muy a reversion to the old manual should mark the commencement of Lindted, where he has been
Copy Writer. He will be Assistant tastic masks, or diaguised as queer system. Happily, no such prospect a now era of successful endeavour. Manager of the Hongkong Branch and beasts. They dance and sing and ever need be feared. We pay this surpassing the achievements al-Superintendent of the Copy Depart-he children love them. More con- ready on record. It is interesting ment which the firm is now establish-ventional entertainers cling to the Mrs. Akehurst, M.B.E., has nmisan (native guitar) and are ing here. tribute to the excellence of
to note that since the inaugura change the
more readily seeing tion of the Nurses Training School that when the automatice were in 1928, nearly fifty students have first introduced there were not taken up the course, while a lea wanting those who appeared to take ture of these satisfactory fixtures a peculiar pleasure in predicting los in the eagerness with which many well-educated Chinese girls that the innovation would be n failure. In every way it is an im-seek to enter the nursing profes Bion, It is difficult, not always mense improvement on former con-pleasant work, and the persever- ance shown by all but eight of the Outstanding amongst the anontrants warrante a tribute. Ser- nouncements made at yesterday's vice to humanity frequently exacts meeting was the promise, if heavy sacrifices from those who negotiations now proceeding reach undertake it, not least from those a successful conclusion, that within who devote their lives to carrying two years this Colony will be linked on the noble work honoured pre- eminently in the name of Francis up by radio telephony with the Nightingale. The example shown great outside world. Not much by the nurses, pupils and graduates, imagination is required to envisage of the Tung Wah Hospital is from every what it will mean to Hongkong highly encouraging when we can speak by word of point of view. mouth to people in the Old Country and in all the main capitals of the world. From the commercial standpoint, the gain will be tremen- dous, for it will be readily realised that a few minutes' actual, conver- moro be decidedly sation
The local Branch of the Charter- effective in clearing up points beed Bank of India, Australasia and
ditions.
сал
the
CHARTERED BANK REPORT.
FINAL DIVIDED AND BONUS.
China has received the following any telegram from Its head difice Then, London:
twoon business houses than amount of cross-cabling. too, in the domestle sphere, at times of emergency, it will be in valuable for those separated by thousands of miles to be able to converse just as freely as though they were living in adjacent towns.
"At annual meeting of share- holders, Board of Directors will recommend dual dividend at rate of 14% per annum together with Bonus of Gr. 3d. per share both subject to Income Tax. ZiN,000. set aside to meet contingencfos. 8187,507, 9. Od. carried forward."
Why I Prefer Silent Films.
also come to Hongkong and will be sometimes supported by agile By CHARLES CHAPLIŃ. assisting her husband in the office. youths an well-manipulated stilts.
Make out to him like I'm awfully popular and I'm just accepting this date because you talked me into it."
Pecause the allent or non-dialogue
picture has been temporarily pushed aside în the hysterla nt- tending the introduction of speech indicates that the by no means motion picture screen has seen the last of it.
"City Lights," which has just been presented in New York, is evidence of this. It is a non-dirị - loque but synchronised film,
Why did I continue to make nod- dialogue films? The allont picture,
of all, is a universal means of
Arat
arion, Talking pictures neces--
have a limited field; they are held down to the particular tongues of particular races.
confident that the future soo a return of interest in non- productions because there is
talking
a constant demand for a medium that is universal in its utility. It is axiomatic that true drama must be universal in its appeal the word elemental might be better and I believe the medium of presentation should
also be a universal rather a restricted one. Understand. I consider the talk
a valuable addition to picture the dramatic art regardless of its Ilmaltations, but I rogard it only as substituth an addition, fot us a
than
ing
Certainly it could not be a sui stitute for the motion pleture that has advanced as
form
its: brief zo notably durintomimie art twenty years of story telling
After all, pantomime has always teen the universal means of com- munciation. It existed as the uni versal tool long before language was born.
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