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Spacious Dining Room and Restful Lounges.
Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea served in the airy lounge
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The Terraces command fine views of the Harbour and surrounding scenery. Un- doubtedly the ideal rendezvous in the cool of the evening.
Old English Bar where service and quality reign.
Express Lifts during rush hours.
Tel. 28128.
Cable Address:Gloucester,"
P. I. NEWMAN,
Manager.
GLOUCESTER BUILDING
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT CO, LTD 1
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION
$150.00 CASH PRIZES
First Prize
Second Prize
Third Prize.
$60.00
$40.00
$20.00
'Three Consolation Prizes $10.00 Each
In addition to the Cash Prizes The Eastman Kodak Company offer a Special Prize which will be known as the
EASTMAN KODAK ·
· PRIZE.
A 1932. Model Kodak 616 with.f.6.3 Anastigmat Lens, which will be awarded for the
BEST STORY TELLING PICTURE..
SECTION FOR school CHILDREN.
Messrs. Waibel & Co. {''DEFAG") offer six "AGFA" box cameras to be competed for by school children. These will be awarded to best six pictures in this class.
Bathing Scenes, Picnic Illustrations, Local Beauty Spots, Typical Chinese Studies, etc. All photographs. must be of subjects taken in the Colony. Photographs may be submitted forthwith. and it is intended to reproduce selected pictures in Telegraph Pictorial Supplement as from the first Saturday in July. The Competition will close on August 31st, 1932.
the
The following rules will govern the Competition:----
1. The Competition is confined exclusively to
amateur photographers.
2.----The prizes will be awarded to the competitars sending in what are adjudged to be the best photographs submitted up to August 31st, 1932. In the event of two or more photographs being considered of equal merít, any or all of the prizes will be divided accordingly. The decision of the Judges shall be final.
3. The right to publish any or all of the entries in the Telegraph Pictorial Supplement is reserved.
4. Photographs which have been already entered in
local competitions will be ineligible.
5.--No photographs will be returned. 6-Photographs, preferably in black and white, must. be addressed to the Editor and must bear on back. the name and address of competitor.
7. No correspondence will be entered into in
connexion, with the Competition.
8. The six "Agfa" cameras donated by Messrs. Walbel & Co. ("Defag") may only be competed for by local school-children. Each entry in this section must bear the name of the competitor together with that of his or her school. THAT “SNAP” MAY WIN $60.00 !
ASSEUR R. SHIMIDZU. ASSEUSE S. HONDA
Recommended for many years of -Government Civil Hospital, Peak Hospital, etc., and by all the local doctors, 24, Wyndham Stroot. Tol. 24945. |
MRS. MOTONO
Massage.
Hand and Electric 318, Wyndham Streat
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG NAMES
INTERESTING RADIO TALK BY MR. LINDSELL
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932.
THE ONCE OVER
GENERAL NOT IMPRESSED WITH MANCHUKUO
Tokyo, July 11. Au interesting lecture on General Mazaki, Vice Chief of "Chinese Placenames in Hong-the General Staff, who has just kong" was given by Mr. R. Ereturned from a three week tour Lindsell over the radio last night.of inspection in Manchurin, put a Mr. Lindell, to whom the sub-damper on those who are voci-- jeet is a favourite one, having de ferously demanding the In- livered it first six years ago and mediate recognition of the Man- published it in the press, gave a chukuo 'Government. very interesting aldelight into the
Asserting that the Japanese meanings of a number of local tack patience. General Mazuki, in placenames, some of which were a press interview, compared the connected with Chinese legomis. Manchukuo to a chicken just Originally, and Mr. Lindsell, hatched and declared the Japan- Hongkong was not called by its ese were making a mistake In present name. According to the wanting to treat it like A full- best Chinese opinion it was known fledged nation. long before 1840 as Kwan Tai Lo,
General Mazaki asserted it which meant literally "the rond would be sufficient at present ir like a petticoat girdle." Skirts the Government appolated a com- were commonly worn by Chinese mission to deliberate on the ques-` women in the old days, especially tion of recognition. Declaring on ceremonial occasions, and it the Mancherian question one of was to be supposed that the 'west- the most complicated problems ern part of the island was then with which Japan had ever been. meircled on the lower middle faced. General Mazaki warned levels by a single track, which them of the danger of uttering suggested the waist of a petticoat,Į thoughtless words, and admitted the Peak being regarded as the that personally he was not over jacket and the lowest alopes as, uptimistic regarding the outcome. the petlicont ilself.
-Reuter,
This
Uchida Silent.
interpretation, however, WIZA not Recepted by certain materialists, who said that the
Tokyo, July 11. name came into use only after thei Count Uchida, former President building of Queen's Road, the of the S. M. R. and recently ap- word "Kwan" being the nearest one painted Minister for Foreign Af-| could get in Chinese to "Queen." | fairs, at an informal gathering of and *Tail" menning merely foreign correspondents to-day, re-i great rond. However, he did not quested that no questions be ask-j belleve in this interpretation.
d of his attitude on the recugni- The speaker went olt to m tion of the Manchukuo Govern Lion neveral other placenames ment. as he was unable Lo say which in some way or other were anything at present, although be connected with Chinese legends, hoped to clarify his position: and gave altogether very interestshortly. ing information on the subject.
AVIATION IN EAST.
He rotnarked jokingly “If some other enuntry would recognise the Manchukuo, so much the bot-1 ter."
He also remarked he had not yet had time to consider the So-) FLIGHT BY ATLANTIC FLIER viet's proposal in January of a
PROJECTED
11 has been learned that another light from Spain to Manila is pro- jeeted in the near future, by Cap- tain benario Jimenez, who, with Captain Francisco Iglesias, flew the South Atlantic in 1919 from Seville 14 Bahia, in Brazil.
non-aggression Part although hel hoped to study the question in due course.
II ik expected that Count Urhida will see the League Com- mission either to-morrow or next day. It is reported that the Cum- mission has requested that the inconversations be not communicat-)
Renter Hongkong last week by the N.Y.K.d to the press. liner Kashima Maru, and spent the
Captain Jimenez arrived
day and at Kai Tak aerodrome with
Se cer Fernanda Rein Loring. Atter Senor Rein had departed,
to
be raught the American Mail liner President Adams for Manila, awa: the arrival of his patriot.
It is understood that Captain
Jimenez is proceeding to Manila to
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REIN IN MANILA.
GIVEN GREAT RECEPTION ON ARRIVAL BY AIR
Manila, July 11.
Fernando Kein Loring kanded at
consider a proposal which will be Grace Park, Manila, this after- placed before him. by several in-noon, completing his flight from Buential Spanish residents upon Hadrid in 78 days, including a six his arrival. He will afterwards weeks delay at Hongkong. return to Spain, and commence his proposed flight to the Philippines.
Caplain Jimenez' flight of the Atlantic was made on March 24-26, 1929. With his companion; he took off in the nionoplane "Jesus.
Two thousand men and women braved the steady rain and carried the flier shoulder high from aerodrome.--Reuter.
de Gran Poder" early on the } HAMKARA MAKAN MEN morning of March 24, and lying in non-stop. landed at Bahia," Brazil, hears 48 minutes later. The distance covered was estimated at 4.100 miles. Jimenez was given a tumullous réception
> is return to Spain where he became a national hero. He later flew and early from Spain to India, this year, attended the World Conference on Aviation, convened at Rome by Signor Mussolini, as the official representative of Spain.
GOOD MUSIC.
THE "PENINSULA” AND ITS SYMPHONIC CONCERTS
The compte-rendu of the Seventh the Symphonic Concert given at Peninsula Hotel inst Sunday even- ing by Mr. Futera's orchestra, and the violin solos rendered by the new violinist, Prof. C. de la Cruz, with piano accompaniment by Prof. F. Conzalez, can undoubted- ly be classified as one of the best.
All the numbers on the
pro- gramme were extremely efficiently rendered and were received with hearty rounds of applause from the large and appreciative gathering of delighted listeners.
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It would be no easy task ta differentiate among the items, the arrangement of which having been carefully thought out to give good a variety as possible in the mited time, and the management of the Hotel has cause to be grati- fled with the success achieved by these Sunday entertainments. which, are equal to those heard in the big cities of other parts of the world.
If a suggestion may be mude, not in the nature of criticism, the Introduction into each of the three parts of the programme of some. thing exceptionally light and airy would add favourably to tho variety. However, this is just a small matter that may be worth while considering in the prepara- tion of future Concert
pro- grammes.A. 13.
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