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COMMERCIAL-AVIATION.

IMPORTANCE OF INTER-EMPIRE COMMUNICATION.

LONDON, June 10. Strong points in favner of inter-Empire air communications were made by Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation, in a speech at a city banquet. He said that the Government, was trying to pat aviation on a commercial footing because it would give a tremendous: advance to inter communication; especially within the Empire. Akt supremacy could not be obtained by building up caproductive military fleets but by expanding trade and facilitating travel. He hoped that comercial aviation would fulfil a similar part in the country's prosperity as the mercantile marine had. They looked for assistance from the 'Dominions who were not trammelled by the spirit of conservatism which was apt to retard progress in Britain.` The strength of the British Empire depended on good communications, and air transport unhampered by foreign frontiers would give the Empire essential powers for direct, supple, and speedy inter- communication which the ship and rail had bitherto shown to be vital

NAVAL AFPOINTMENTS.

WELL KNOWN CHINA ADMIRAL'S NEW POST,

LONDON, June 9. The following naval appointments are announced :—Rear-Admiral- Edward Kiddle Superintendent of Chatham, 'Rear-Admiral Maclachlan Commander of the Yangte, and Rear-Admiral Lace Superintendent of Malta.

A VISION OF "EMPIRE.

THE CHINA MAIL

"Periodic meetings for consult atios between the Prime Ministers of the Empire will still be indispers sble, however freely they may be able to talk to each other by telephone. The difficulty about these meetings is the time that it takes to come toį and go from them

Quick transport is what is needed; and quick transpoft must be air transport. Far too little has been made of this potentiality of civil aviation. No thing but air transport save the periodic meetings of British Prime Ministers front entailing s prodigal waste of time. If Captain Guest, the new Secretary of State for Air, will make this fact the guiding principle of his policy he will confer untold benefits upon the British peoples-The Times.]

There is trouble, so they say, In the air-

There's a strike in Mandalay

They declare

And at once the sky is hidden By the aeroplanes bestridden By the bigwigs who are bidden To be there.

There's an envoy from Samoa

(And the Jews).

There's Himalayan Noah

can

Who has views Called from Tynemouth to Tahiti, Flyer Statesmen sit in treaty With the rich and ever meaty

Billy Hughes.

Air that has to come by cable

Lan't hot, And it loses round a table.

Quite & lot;

Out of date the code of Morse is We must mobilise our forces And assemble our resources

On the spot.

Are the Bolshies in Esthonia, Now astir ?

Is it strikes in Caledonis

That occur? Commandeer all Handley-Pages, Pay the pilots doable wages, And bring in the Empire's sages

To confer.

Luelo, in the

Manchester

SUPERSTITIONS.

A LOVE CHARM.

-----Rear-Admiral-Kiddle-served-in-the-"-Sapphire during the Franco Guardian Chinese War. He was Lieut. Commander in the "Barfleur" in China during the Boxer Revolution, commander in the "Albion.” in China from 1901 to 1904, captain of the "Astrœa" in China from 1911 to 1912. He took Prince Alexander of Teck and, Mission to Bangkok to attend the coronation of the King of Spam. In 1913 he was Flag Captain in China, HALS. "Misotaur." Joining the Grand Fleet in 1915 he was captain of the "Revenge" patil 1917. He was present at the Battle of Jutland. From a girl puts a piece of southernwood February of 1917 until November of 1913 he was captain of the "Mark otherwise wormwood, down her back borough." Rear-Admiral Maclachlan has been with the Reserve Fleet she will marry the first boy she meets. “Rosyth,” since 1920. Rear-Admiral Luce was in command of HMS In some localities it is thought she "Glasgow" in the action off the Falkland Islands, Coronel, and Juan must put the southernwood in her. Fernadez.]

shoe. Another variation of the superstition is that any marriageable woman who putsa piece of southern- wood under her pillow at night will marry the first man she meets in the morning. But as a male the magic is supposed to work for young people only and for that reason in many localities southernwood is known as "bor's love."

FRENCH NAVAL PROGRAMME.

NO MORE BATTLESHIPS TO BE BUILT..

PARIS, June 10.

"In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Denise in reply to a question said that the naval committee had outlined the programme for 1921-23 consisting of six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, twelve torpedo boals 36 submarines and

This superstition is particularly the conversion of the battleship Bearn" into an aeroplane carrier at a common in New England, though approximate cost of 1,416,000,000 francs. Parliament would presently be met with all through the country, asked for credits for the 1921 instalment of the above specified on June 6.) and its pedigree reached back to the He pointed out France's inability to emulate Japanese, British and American days when the marble pillars of the naval development, and advocated abandonment of the construction of temples of Artemia gleamed from the battleships in consequence of a great foreign expert's opinion that they were ilex woods upon the Grecian bills. For too vulnerable to submarine attack.

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U.S. IZMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS.

ONUS THROWN. ON SHIPPING COMPANIES.

WASHINGTON, Juze 9.

The Commissioner of Immigration has announced that responsibility for bringing immigrants to the United States in excess of the quotas allowed each rationality must be placed on the steamship companies.

GREEK KING TO VISIT SMYRNA.

ATHENS, June 9.

It is cfficially announced that the King goes to Smyrna on June 11, accompanied by the Crown Prince, the Premier, and the Minister of War.

Mr. Albert Shipping Board.

NEW SHIPPING BJARD CHALEMAN.

WASHINGTON, June 9. of Chicago, has accepted the chairmanship of the

7,000 YEARS, OLD.

HOUSES FOUND AT VEVEY.

PREHISTORIC LAKE DWELLINGS,

were built was made of piles driven into the bottom of the lake.

the genus of plants to which southern- wood belongs was known to the ancients as Artemesia, being dedicated

TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

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K.

SALE by tender of W.D. Vessel "HEROULES"

TE

TENDERS are

invited for the par- chase of the above named vessel with Engines and Boilers and various pare stores.

Tender forms will be issued on appli- cation to the undersigned.

Tendar forms to reach the Ordnance Office, not later than 12 noon 12th Jely, 1921.

Fier and can be viewed on production The vessel is now lying at R..A S.C of form of tender to the Beer in charge Transport, RASC

Particulars of the vessel are : Starim Tassel.

| Displacement tonnage

Length... Beras Depth ...

+++

Horse Pawer .. Koots

170.

...85 feet.

17 fest 2 inches 10 feet 3 inches. ...350.

... 10.

Working pressure per

square inch...150 The. | Engines by Car & Co, Falmouth!'

Tessel built at Falmouth.. Constraction of vessel.

Wood up to water line, iron plated above. Approximate crying capacity :——

25 Tons or 100 Passengera, E. G. SPINKS CAPTAIN,

Ordnance Officer.

RA. O. C. Depot,

Queen's Road East. Hongkong: June 10, 1921.

HONGKONO JOCKEY CLUB

Larsen, Subscription Grisima.

M

[EMBERS wishing to subscribe for -one or more Larsen Subs for the Oficial Meeting 1922, (if obtainable at about the same price as last year - Le $300-) will please apply in writing to the Undersigned, or sign the List posted in the Hongkong Club, Jockey Clab Stables and the Coffe Room at

the Race Course.

IMPORTS, AND EXPORTS OFFICE. NOTICE

THIS OFFICE will in future be entirely.

CLOSED 10 SATURDAYS at In

X. L SMITH, Süperintendent, Imports and Exports, Hoagkrap. Jime 8, 1921.

VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPVAART - MAATSCHAPPIJ, (United Netherlands Navigation Ca)

HOLLAND-GOST AZIE LIJN. (Holland East "Axis Linet)

NOTTES TO CONSIGNEES

From: HAMBURG,

"ROTTERDAM, LA ROCHELLE PALICE, LISBON, *GENDA. & SINGAPORE. V

HE Steamship

"BRIELLE"

having arrived from the above Farts, Consignees of Cargo by fer are notified that all goods are being landed at their riak into the hazardous) and/or extra bazardon Godowns, of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd. whence ander from the wharves dali- very may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 17th June, 1921, will be subject to rent.

All broker, chafed and damaged, packages are to be lelt in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 18th June 1921, at 19:30 by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

Glaims against the steamer must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival of steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in any case whatever.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

General Agents. Hongkons, June 10, 1821.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

Tucsons Sue sell by Pabit Auc Undersigned bays received in-

~ds outor to Political troubles inition, Mongolis there may be difficulty in obtaining pocies, an early application is considered advisable, and it is pro-h posed to close, the Lists on Jane the 23rd.

HL. BIRKETT. Clerk of the Course.

Hongkong, June 10, 1921.

St. John's Cathedral

THURSDAY,

June 16th,

at 9.15 p.m.

ORGAN RECITAL

Vocalist:

Miss Jean Lowson,

OTHER DISTITUTIONS. „

to the goddess Artemis, with whom | TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND the Latins afterwards identified their Diana-and is known by that name to botanists to-day.

ALL preliminary notices of forth.

Now one of the functious of Artemis

coming meetings, lectures and was to care for adolescent boys and entertainments, sent for insertion in giris. To her they sacrificed their hair the news columns of the China Mail, upon attaining maturity and to her are charged for at the rate of $1 each, did the girls offer up their garments, (as announced in May and June of and the playthings of their childhood last year) providing that they do not when they were about to be married, occupy more than four lines. In wearing wreaths of southernwood-or future if this space is exceeded they its Grecian cousin. Thus the maiden will be placed in the advertising who were the southernwood was about columns at the prevailing rates. to marry a youth and though no temples of Artemis shine upon New England hills the favourite plant of the goddess still works its charm in is known as "boy's love." the minds of the superstitious and

The directors of the Canton

The platforms were fastened by Chamber of Commerce have, beer. wooden pins and the hats made of invited by the Head of the Public wood and clay, with hearths of flat Utilities Department to a conference

"OVERLAND

on

FRIDAF, Jute 17; 1921, commending at 5.30 p.m.

at Ah King's Slipway, Praya East, The Auxiliary Sailing Boat,

"BONAMI,”

Length -

BeamTM-

Depth-

#1

*5* 510

Fitted with one 8, H. P. Eagle Kerosene lotor

and

One Dinghy with small Motor. (Together with all gear etc, to be sold in one lot se she lies at the above Slipway)

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

THE Underigued have received in- strections to tell by Public Auction

GB

MOYDAY, June 13, 1921,

commencing at li am.

at their Sales Room, Daddell Street

Il cases Compound White Fine

Cough Syrup,

46 cases Eucalyptus Oil,

100 gross Black Mets Fasterer

→ Euttons,

200 gross Grey Metal Fasterer

Battons,

3 cases Straight Razors, 2 cases Rubber Boots,

15 rolls Triangular Wire Mesh,

2 Osefflating Fans, 16" Temi-Cush on delivery-

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctionsare.

Hoogkong, June 10 1921.

CHINA MAIL"

Contains all the News of the Week.

25 cts.

PRICE

slabs of stone. Bark, straw, reeds, discuss the introduction of a Domestic Occurrences" or rushes formed the thatched roof. upform system of weights and Leading Articles.......

measures for business transactions Local and General: ......

cts PER COPY.

CONTENTS,

PAGE

Opium Cases

Z Police Court Incident

“A Good Hiding ". Marine Misdoings Forest Guard Assaulted... Property Rumours.... 10-11 An Exchange Problem

A Wer Month...

The three months' drought on the The hats, which were partitioned in Canton, Swiss glaciers has caused the water into rooms, varied in size from 20

Correspondence sumen of the lakes to sink so low that pre- ft. long by 12 feet wide to feet long

Motor Cycle Rurs Amok Historic lake dwelling are visible at by 92 feet wide.

Just to keep pace with the Dispute Over Piano 9 several places..

The Morges village, one of the progress of Time," says a Canton Thief Killed

vernacular paper, more than 2,000 Saturday's Gymkhana

clearly visible.

•

At Greng, near the Lake of Morat, largest in the Lake of Geneva, wailors are threatening to strike on Children's Corner the semains of a large settlement can 1,200 ft. long and 150 feet wide. July 1 if their demand for an increase King's Birthday be seez while, by Lake Neuchatel, Numerous relies have been found in wages is not granted by the A New Kinema and near Morges, on the Lake of in the peaty accumulations below employers. Owing to the rapid Birthday Honours Geneva, ather interesting relics are the villages, showing that the in changes in fashion, especially in femi-A Great Joke "

habitants used stone, bronze, bone wine wear, says the Coston Times, the Police Concert. These Swiss lake dwellings, which wood, and occasionally iron for their tailors in Canton are enjoying very The Cenotaph were revealed to the world in 1854 cooking and hunting implementatively business, but the charge the Things Overlooked... "by a drought similar to the present Burnt wheat, farley, frantay and ask for making a dress is sellom Company Meeting one, are believed to have been built bones of oxen, swine, sheep dog for the different kinds of dresses and Royal Air Force

more than $1. Now a definite scale China Merchant S. H. as long as 7,000 years ago. From horse, hate, bear, bison, and other then, articles bas been drawn up by Sanitary Board about 5,000 ac people lived in them animals were also found. down almost to, historic times: THE

the tailors and presented to their The Mosquito Pest t Similar lake decllinga, haze been emptores with a dugat the ambees Typhoon Warningw structure which supported the wooden excavated at Glastonbury, in Somerheir demands are granted a general Pretty Bat Primitive platforms on winch the dwellings | zet.

strike will be declared.

Whose Opium ? VOR-APERS

-14 A Little Mistake...

Trouble at Sex

Passengers New Steamer Ee Sport

Hospital Fre Special Cables Homeless Mat Tsai Motor Drivers Fined Palaful Accident

Unquestionably Oute Obituary in Constitutional Ref Exchange

Hongkong Stock Pr

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