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SATURDAY
February 8th.
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THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL:
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Poking
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.
CRAG HOTEL,
Pentang Hills
(2,400 feet above sealsvel).
Refreshment Rooms (near summit station) Hill Railway.
"THE 18LAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE" RUNNYMEDE HOTEL
On Sea Front.
Private Care for Excursions Anywhere,
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.
Mach are Infchangeable, no extra cous whatever you have your breakfast, fanzhaon, sen, ze dinner.
Beoma of both hotels have petente bathrooms and modern sanitation. As the ||Runnymede_anch room has its own publie talepħana.
The Banymede Restaurant bas indenholy, pride of place among botals of tha {Dart_with_110_mlečna, and Jently slaben by ita mamoolation, to offer the trevečer zoek na
is not to be found elsewhere.
进
Teething troubles
Because SCOTT'S Emulsion
contains 44% of pure cod liver..
oll and lime salts
for bone formation,
It prevents teething troubles, rickets and soft bones. Ask for genuine
SCOTT'S). EMULSION...
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
FOUR AGES OF
MAN-IN RISKS
FALL IN RATE FOR BOYS OVER 10
PEOPLE LIVING LONGER: FEWER BABIES
The highest number of marriages since the war the lowest birth-rate on record divorce soaring to a new level. the population still increasing. Men and women snatching another two and a half years from life.
1936.
ROUND THE WORLD AIR PLANS
Just Received.
THREE DAYS INSTEAD OF A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS AND
·TWENTY-ONE
New York, Jan. 15.
With plans agreed upon for
CELLOS.
establishing the Transatlantic Also VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE-BASS, link between Imperial Airways GUITAR BANJO, TENOR BANJO, MANDOLINE
and Pan-American Airways, at-
tention has been turned to com- AND UKELELE STRINGS AND ACCESSORIES. pleting an air mail service gird- ling the globe.
The Pan-American company will extend its operations from Hono- Sufficient material for half a dozen H. G. Wells lulu, Hawall to Auckland, New sociological works lies in the Registrar-General's review Zealand, and connect there with a
PRICES TO SUIT EVERY PURSE AND PURPOSE.
of 1933, published recently, a "statistical review" revealing proposed extension of Imperial TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.
all the wonderful and tragic happenings in the lives of Airways from Australia. the forty millions of people in England and Wales.
Births, marriages and deaths, plucked, from the cold official columns of figures in the medical and civil tables, take on a new significance.
In 1933 our birth-rate fell to 14.4 per 1,000. Only Austria! and Sweden have a lower rate. Marringes totalled 318,191, or 11,000 more than in 1932-a record except for the years 1915 and 1919-21 when special conditions prevailed.
There were more divorces than ever-the 1928 record was eclipsed. But the number of those who gave marriage "another chance" also rose.
WIDOWERS LIKE
TO RE-MARRY
Hero are some other faci
about marriage:
At all ages widowers get
Already agreements for landing facilities have been signed with 1,000 miles from Honolulu, and the authorities at Kingman Reef,
|Pago Pago, 1,450 miles fürther on
from there.
The entire flight would be com- · pleted in three days, as compared with the best steamship time of between 18 und 21 days.
pond upon the volume of mali
Success of the project will de
from Now Zoatand and Australia.
A BABY BOY FOR
married in greater propor THE 'SON OF HEAVEN'
portion than
over
Bachelors.
Widows, on the other hand, do not enjoy any ascendancy spinster rivals until after the age of 35, when they go to the altar do greater numbers.
The first quarter of the year, January-March, Is the most unpopular. In the first quar ter of 1933 there were, pro- portionately, fewer weddings than in any year since 1837. The third quarter July to September-has, since the beginning of the century, been the favourite period for weddings. Four times да many were celebrated then. Despite child-bearing risks,
married
have women greater chance of survival than the unmarried. At
a
every age up to 60 the risk of
dying has been growing less
Emperor With A Jazz Band, Bond-st. Suits And Library Of
A
Detective Stories ·
Hue, Indo-China, Jan. 5.
SALUTE of seven guns at 5.15 a.m. to-day proclaim- ed the birth of a Crown Prince to the Emperor and Empress of Annam.
Capture Of Troy:
for wives than for spinsters New Version
for the past 20 years.
AVERAGE AGE
TWO YEARS HIGHER
1921
In the 12 years between and 1933 English men and women added 2.3 and 2.7 years to their average ages respectively. In the year under review the average uge for males was 32.3 and for females 33.0. It is still gradually in- erensing.
The Four Ages of Man might bơ the title for the chapter devoted to fatul motor acaldants. Sum- marised, they are:
Age, Five to Ten, the age
greatest risk "commencing pedestrian
of
activity uncon-
trolled by experience";
Cincinnati, Ohio Jan. 20.
RECENT excavations in Asia
This is the first child born to the royal parents, who were mar ried at Hue'in 1934.—Reuter, .
Annam is a tiny western Eastern State of Indo-Chino, with à French protectorate. The Emperor Boo-Dal, tho "Son of Heaven, is twenty- three.
He has a lurem of 200, but also a jazz band. It was formed under the advice of Jack Hylton, who was made honorary musical directur of the Court in 1932,
9 Ico House Street
HONG KONG
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
16
119
ACROSS
1 Aptly follows the violinist to his
last rest.
6. One sort of fountain
Fish that ends in want, and-- 11- this in the same, 12 A foreign soldier.. 13 End of play.
14 Hus art. at heart and the
beurt. makings of
17
20
Not necessarily a rogue-merely ' a "card." Grind.
22 its buts are of iron, but ther's
Minor at the site of the historical city of Troy gave strong indication that the seventh rather than the sixth of the nine successive settle street sults. On atale occasions he ments of Troy was wrested by surrounds his palace with elephants Agamemnon from Priam, Dr.and sacrifices a bullock, a geot, and Carl W. Blegen, field director pig in the presence of the man- of the University of Cincinnati darins. Archaeological expedition, re 'vealed.
Architectural and ceramic evidence led to the belief that the
The band plays "A Bungalow, a Piccolo and You," "Songs of the tin in it. Bell," and "Auf Wiedersehen."-23 Stouffast pledge....
24. After this month it evidences no Bao-Dai has a library of detective
Armness stories and wardrobe of Bond-
Age Ten to Fifteen, in which sixth Troy was probably destroy-
the boys have grown
mored by an earthquake not long after
STRONG WORDS
FOR SERGEANT
26 Character in "Ivanhọc.” 27 One spelling of an old horse. 28 Remains.
3 It has aromatic scede.
34 A portion of it contains misch more liquid than the whole.
36 You would not like oven Keeler
to play you this.
36. Take her back as a bit of assist.
ance, in
in mythology.
37 Serving as an introduction.
38 Colours.
RULED LAWFUL | 39 The old-time sailor was
cautious and reduced the 1300 B.C., Dr. Blegen said. death risk from 132 to 106 per
"We concluded that the early million; Age Twenty to Twenty-five succeeded and was constructed lo seventh Troy, which immediately
Vienna, Jan. 26. "the age of great motor-driv-a great extent of fallen material memorial prerogative of sergeant- An attempt to curtall the im- ing activity not fully restrain-from the buildings of the sixth majorn in the matter of strong ed by a sense of responshulli- settlement, maintained its exiat language has come to an end with ty." Here the risk has in ence for approximately a century the acquittal of a warrant officer creased from 365 to 393 per until it was destroyed, doubtless of the Austrian Dragoons. million;
in a great fire, in the early, years Old Age With its physical of the 12th century, B., C., and that
Inability to escape traffic it in turn was followed at once with casting reflections on the The sergeant-major was charged dangers." Curiously enough; the risk of
by a inter seventh settlement. honour of his men by calling"them He said this theory was pro "a gang of thieves and a pack of death for women from motor ac visional pending further excava- rogues." He was provoked by the cidents remained unchanged be tion and study. tween. 1931-33, compared with the
disappearance of a now pair of The new theory is said to con-riding breeches, which he suspect previous three years.
form closely with the traditional There are still nearly a million date of the capture of Troy, 1789 d. had been taken by one of his and three-quarters "surplus" wo B.C., and with the Homer version,
troopers. men. An estimated total popula- eines one of his characters pro- The finding of the court was tion of 40,350,000 comprises 19,- phesied the return of Aenens that he had used the words, only 357,000 males and 20,993,000 fe- following this flight from Troy, in a "Pickwickian" or parado. males. Since 1931 (the last cen- and a subsequent period of rule ground sense in a moment of sus), the population increased by by Aeneas and his descendents.- Justifiable Indignation.— United 398,000, or 1 per cent.
United Press.
SALESMAN SAM
IS THE RAJAH OF HOKAH )JES' CALL HIM"BENNY”
POKAH, ER WHATEVER TH' / YEAH, HE'S OKAY! I HECK IT IS, ALL SET,
SAM
THE
HOTBE
HADDA CARRY UP NO LESS'N 15 BAGS AN' BUNDLES AN' & TRUNKS! BOY WOTTA JOB THAT
WASI
Preas.
Sam's Only Half There
AND HOW DOES. HIS ROYAL NIBLETS LIKE TH ROOM I' ASSIGNED TO HIM — NO. 12005
YEGUW-NODAMI
ac-
customed to do this to the canvas, but there was nothing he loathed more.
DOWN
2 Suitable qualifying epithet for
n forger.
. Some time out of a Frenchman's
pocket.
4 Flagrant.
5 Bodily discomfort.
0 Fur.
7 A feminine name no longer in
the fashion.
8 This English river is surely no
HONGKONG-S'PORE
AIR SERVICE EARLY IN MARCH
London, Feb, 8. Imperial Airways Ltd, expects to open a regular air service between Singapore and Hongkong early in March.
WHAT, ROOM:
1200? YA TOLD ME NO, GOO!
torrent.
10 Out of conceit,
10
16 Shows how you can manage a
crab to like a tumbler.
10 Entirely a little child friend; 18 One of nine.
10 Single ladies of Rome.
20 Summer pesta,"
irs
21 It seems a bit hard to
through most of this tree. |26 No gardener appears able to
grow it.
20 Eat nuts, and if you thorough- ly masticate them, you'll get tongue-tied. 28s the note, and and the lay, That mourns the lovely Ros- abelle" (Scott).
20 Nothing after all is the main
component of this mixture.
30 You pick them in the dark. 31 A crawling thing.
32 In more Then one connection,
ratty.
13 A Genesis character,
Yesterday's Solation.
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Experimental fights indicate that conditions are extremely favourable and negotiations are progressing in a very amlable manner with regard to t question of crossing Indo-China..
The difficulty is that the Chinese Government's embargo on foreign. aeroplanes persiste
It is understood that American air- ways recently obtained permission to fly to Macao but na further.---Router.
By Small
I MUSTA, PULLED A BONER SAMI MEANT NO. 1200 WELL, YOU'LL HAFTA TAKE HIS
LUGGAGE UP AGAIN!