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HONGKONG CIGAR STORE CO., LD. ALEXANDRA BUILDING, HONGKONG,

Egyptian No. 28

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No. 16

No. 11

Special No 1.

Turkish No. 11-

The China Mail.

HOKOKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933,

SUGGESTIONS.

$ 1,20

1.10

1.50

寫一

1.80

2.85

THE CHINA MAIL.

buat.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

· In The Mail,

ENTERTAINMENTS,

SATURDAY. AUGUST 11 19.3,

AS YOU LIKE IT...

WEEK-END SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Canton is anxious!

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ANOTHER WINNER.

PROGRAMME WORTHFIVE

DOLLARS.

The holder of the following FIFTY-FIFTY. that Hongkong theatre "programme is requested fifty" with it in "all things. 27 to forward it to the China Mali

should go 'fifty- things. Heaven forfend! The office when a coupon to the value of

the model Province's bandits us Colony is already housing half $5 will be issued which may be August 11-World Theatre: Kwangtung but we don't want half changed for goods to the same

well. Nor do we want to go fifty value with any of the fifty with Canton in its little scraps. in the China Mall. After all, you musn't poach on That would be unfair to our K.R.A.

other people's preserves, you know.

advertisers

spicuous garb in the apparel of our Where the chip is scraped and the Chinese Botective staff, and the toothsome delicacies of the terrible stopping of the pristics of holding pigs are displayed. A street with | looking internals of dead and gone in conversation of those Europeap the sights and sounds that are so officers on duty-by their colleagues alimotive to the Westernor who in mufti of in this weather, a men't got to live there. There is popular kind. An excellent and Chinese Selfridges are but making nothing to say about all this. Our commonsense suggestion, much in ends meet, with a little bit over Bryant Washburn in The Road to August 11-Coronet Theatre; advance of the verbal suggestion of for a rainy day. But shouldn't a London" and Sunshine Sammy in an equally sigacious and observant note of protest be made when placea Saturday Morning." resident, who advocates the placing motor repair yards, and even boat The New Leather Pushers, Round intended as shops are turned into of a cordon of palice round the building yards? For here is a shop 10, and Mary Miles Minter in Colony and

systematic and which has in it an almost completed "Tillic." thorough search toade of each house Olympic in its size. The making Grand Vaudeville Entertainment As boats go it in almost August 11-12.-Star Theatre; in the Colony. Gilbertian if of it has added to the noise and dia 9.15 p.m.. Utopian certainly. Impossible to of a more or less peaceful neigh- carry nut we imagine, and if it bourhood. We should like to be there when it is finally launched on not productive of lasting the reclaimed-looking bosom of the benefit. Another suggestion is that Enst Point muddy waters, to soothe the water front from Arsenal Street thing wheeled through the streets onwards to Causeway Bay should to the slips. We agree that the

house of a Chinese, like that of an! PUBLIC AUCTIONS. be ander greater supervision than Englishman, is his castle, but we

August 1-Lammert Bros., at styles." Presumably we may ex- that which opemtes at the moment. venture to suggest when the their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, pect, among large, well-favoured A number of boats anchor in this "Castle" is turned into a gurd or I am. a quantity of miscellaneous ladies, an epidemic of what jockeys part of the stream and if the goingthereby intensified to say nothing paste, 8 White Mountain freezers. it, the "straight, slender line" will a factory and lionsing conditions are goods including 12 kegs Indigo call wasting." If Paris decrees to and comings from them by num- of suburban areas being turned into 36 electric table-fans and 6 voltalite have to be attained somehow. It is anticipated that there now berless simpans and the things they industrial ones, a halt should be,

This is how "Reform," exist a vacancy in your office under - carry could be recorded the list of called to a practice that is bad an

August 13-At P.W.D. Offices, WHAT'S writing in the Pinang you and 'I most reluctantly beg to

YOURS! Gazette, sees "the apply for sanie. our Import and Export Returns the face of it. would be increased and our statisti

were.

eal figures be of greater value, and incidentally of greater interest. We Rival Camps.

SPORTS.. August 16-Royal Hongkong Golf Club Ladies' Medal Competi- tion.

August 19. Royal Hongkong Golf Club Competition, Happy Valley Course

sets.

one lot of Crown land at Shauki- wan, 3 p.m..

WE ARE HOOK

OR CROOK.

Star Theatre Programme No. 42, issued Thursday

and · Friday, August 9, and 10. According to a woman: Patrons of the three Cinema writer the latest Theatres, the Coronet, Star and models from Paris World are advised to retain their seem to prove that the

straight, slender line programmes and study the nume has won against the more bouffantber to be found on the front page.

Most respected Sir:

absurd treating customA and B are having a

Qualifications have 1 many drink. C comes along (a friend of which is to be my old sister's B) and is invited to sit at the table. husband who was for five years A says to B, 'Drink yours up and systematic accounts for Mr.--who have another; this is my round.

out of

August 14-Lammert Bros. at theft Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, at Noon, one liver and white poin- ter dog and one liver pointer dog. need official landing places in that A serious warning that the

MEETINGS. United States is drifting into war August 20.-General meeting of So another drink, A+B+C, is you undoubtedly know very well. direction and day and night super- because of the prohibition law has the Hongkong Philharmonic So- swallowed. Then C vision of no unwavering kind. Sly been issued by Admiral Bradley ciety at St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 courtesy to A (to whom five I express to you that I can count,

You must want account man, and brothels need to be rooted out as Fiske, United States Navy (rafired), p.m.

minutes before he was a perfect December 12-Meeting of Un- stranger), insists on his round. So I will acquit myself very well. You give me this esteemed jobs possible if not probable gun-run- who urges that the situation is ning Agencies. An eye also kept serious enough to warrant the call-secured Creditors of the Hong-round C+A+B goes; shortly to Moreover, it will relieve me of ing of a conference of a hundred kong Branchi of the Banque be followed by B+A+C. Then a leading citizens to settle the vexing Industrielle de Chine, at the City question in the anime manner as the Hall, 3 p.m. limitation of armaments una decided

(As

a

a year ago at the Washington Con-; that Great Britain, France, and ference. Admiral. Tiske points out

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Italy are lined up against the The August Criminal Sessions United States over the question of are to be held on Monday week, seizing sealed liquor supplies, and August 20, at ro a.m. that nations have gone to war for a

friend of A+B, D, blows in and many anxieties as I am now the seats himself, insisting that it's his soul supporter of my two wives, round, so round D+A+B+C is

+

on the men who somehow or other get in touch with visiting seamen and who act as “guides.”. This is a not uncommon sight in our midst,

served. Neither D nor A have together with my brother's wives It used to be said that most of the

ever seen C before, nor C them. and his seven issues, two of which Yet, owing to this rotten habit, Care adults and five adultresses, plots leading to revolutions which

stands them a drink and has three have plagued China were first of all

for himself: the probability being reply and offer me this esteemed Of course you will give a carly hatched in Hongkong, our "safe

that had he not passed A+B's jobs. asylumn" offering advantages of a

table, he would not have swallow- lesser cause, War is unlikely, but If you want to see all the fami- ed one at all. "Reform" then Hoping you are the same. distinctly advantageous kind. the drift is unmistakable, and the liar sights of far off "Smoke" points out that "if you are buying a Jam, Most respected Sir, resort for refugee generals Hong country may have to change its again, pay a visit to the Coronet handkerchief, or a tin of cigarettes,

Yours obediently, kong is as popular as is Blackpool course ta dodge it. On the other and see "The Road to London." you don't buy one for all and

-After that the hand which holds sundry who blow along at the pay the pen might well kick the bucket.. with trippers) Secret places of hand, Mr. Wayne Wheeler, counsel

for the Anti-Saloon League, recently Hongkong Jockey Club mem-chological moment." Nor do you, assignment are perhaps difficult to told an audience that the 1924 probers are referred to an advertise-when you are ordering a coffin for

A Macao City root out. Make a beginning by gamme would be to prevent the

ment relating to subscription the grandmother whose nine lives

ATTRACTIONS. „guide has seeing that the numerous Clubs and repeal or weakening of the prohibi-griffins for the next annual race allowed you to see as many foot-

published a card meeting.

ball matches during office time giving a list of 24 places worth Guilds with which we are boney-tion law, to hold the forts,

when you were young, also order seeing in that quiet place. No. 2 is combed are strictly within the strengthen the lines, and never

Messrs Holyoak, Massey & Co., coffins for any friends who the General Post Office No. 4 the surrender. He declared that the Ltd., have been appointed sole dis- may happen along meaning of the terms on which they liquor interests of the country,tributors in Hongkong and South psychological moment. It's an Hotel, No. 20 the Fantan places, at the Fire Brigade Station, No. 15 the are allowed to axist. We are afraid encouraged by Europe and the China for the products of the engaging problem. Perhaps our and No. 22 "the way back to the "wet" victories in Canada. Were Westinghouse Electric Internation- only reader has something to say steamer". Why hasn't this idea on the state of our Police activities, making their best fight to discredit al Co.

prohibition, and he urged the "dry": but they serve to show in which forces to rise and meet the attacks.

Not far from this Two cases of small-pox, tilree direction the mind of the populace Americans must obey the law if enteric and one paratyphold are

THE LATEST.. office is displayed is moving. Whether the thinking democracy is to survive," he reported in the returns of the the latest effort in drawing public No. 3 The museum, No. 4. The

to the public gaze declared, and foreign Powers must Medical Officer of Health for the attention to what the shopman is ineffective or weak the, great learn that they cannot do things in 24 hours ending July 29. All the can do: thing is that ecme thinking is being America in the name of inter-patients are Chinese, except one done with a desire to help. We national courtesy which are pro- British case of enteric (imported). have heard it said that greaterhibited by the Constitution." So thero you are. Which view is to encouragement should be given to

prevail it is impossible to tell until the European section of the Folice the election has been held.

all these but lead to a preachment

been a profitable pursuit adown the Force to acquire a more competent ages and will be whilst the ape and hold on the Cantonese dialect nod

walks

(Iris.)

the tiger are such component parts of Chinese Customs and ways of To-day's Poem. in man's make-up. We can only thought, especially in the "things hope to lessen the evil somewhat, that are dark. Whilst it is pointed An Iris army Banks my garden realising that increase of panish-out that the present Captain Super In gay platoons of purple, gold and

is only going to lead to intendent of Police, initiated him- 'increase of daring and the sharpen-self into a profound knowledge of As down the wind they march on

ing of wits on the part of those his duties and his difficulties by a

ment

blue.

The Government Gareste publishes an order of His Majesty in Council directing that the provisions of the Merchant Ship-| . ping (Convention) Act, 1914, shall be postponed from coming into operation until January 1, 1924.

about it.

Shoe Maker. S. Nakao. Fat Man.

been adopted for Hongkong which is rich in the number of places worth seeing. Here are but a Sundae Parlour, No. 2 Bessie's Bar, few: No. 1. The snackeries and

place where the traffic sign used

to be at the foot of Garden Road. There are countless others but these will-do-to-be-going-on-with... I am before worked at N. and

Preaching in St. Co, but now a day I do opening

Patrick's Church, of a shop my self. S. N. and Co.

Belfast (Ireland); Rev. F. Chesnutt-- Schoolboy howlers Chesnay, a curate, said gambling, are appreciated the smoking, drinking, and dancing world over. Here

HOWLERS.

SINS OR VICES?

wrong in his statement,

ing, and dancing were sins.

and

are a few which have swum into were vices, not sins. The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall our ken.

At the conclusion of the sermon addressed the Chinese Wines "Things which are equal to the ing in the sanctuary, informed the

the vicar, Rev. J. Redmond, standé - Trade Union at their inaugura! same thing are equal to anything congregation that the preacher was ceremony at the Yae Woo re- else." staurant last night. About £ "A grass widow is the wife of a declared gambling, smoking drink- thousand persons were present. dead vegetarian."

"Oceanica i that continent harmonious co-operation of capital which contains ao land.” and labour was enthusiastically. In India a man out of a cask. received as the Union comprises may not marry a woman out of 30 firms of distillers, 400 wine shops and 3,000 employees...

there is anything in the big "rings" we maintain, who are great deal of night vigil, with I see green sabres flushing into A speech by Mr. Kote wall on the

4

slender stalks

popular superstition that our ears

view. bara and take on a lid hue whened in a profitless, for we hold an increase in the number of Heads And sometimes drenched with sun- we are the topic of other people's '

the killing of people to be so, if in the Force, 4 p.. probably light they will stand conversation, then the ears of our reptitiously in arms. The question day: The whole position bristles Majestically waiting a command

profitful pursuit of dealing ser- now sees the end of their working (And then of loveliness I drink my

611) Hon. Captain Superintendent ol is a formidable one for like mont with difficulties and our protectors With ranks at rest and picturesque . Police since Tuesday last must{questions

have been a very dangerous pair of

stand need our sympathies and where it ly still. alone. incinerating agencies, and out-imed mixed up with

It is almost inextricably can be given our intelligent co- But, I dread the night a cer- the hucs of the setting sun.

a number of operation. They may not agree Is bugled though my garden to the For domestic and social questions. If that "In the multitude of Coun the Queen's Road fatal shooting the lawless state of the adjoining sellors there is safety." incident and the publicity of the country and that further afield,

Of flower footsteps, vanishing too Government's intention to strenghas something to do with the

it does not

tain tune.

tramp

-3001,

It tells that Irises aro, breaking

'camp.

-L. Litovo.

A BAMBOO GROVE:

another cask

·SMALL MERCIES.

Two old Irish

Women were dis- cussing the death of

a mutual friend, "Parallel lines are the same dis- Said the one, "what did he die of?" tance all the way and do not meet said the other" Gangrene." "Well, unless you bend them."

thank Hivin for the 'colour," said». "Gravitation is that which if the first. there were none we should ali fly away.

."Louis XVI was gelatined dưỡ

day, H.E. the Governor thanked At Government House yester

the members of the Tung Wah Hospital committees for 1922 and 1923 for their public services. The members were introduced by the ing the French Revolution." Secretary for Chinese Affairs and Horse power is the distance the Colonial Secretary was also one horse can carry a pound of present. His Excellency mention- water in an hour." ed the removal of the water re- strictions and the new measures | dance." dealing witli arms.

"Palsy is a kind of new writer's.

"Letters in sloping print are hysterics."

PANCAKES.

They have their ser vant troubles down in Australia just as elsewhere. One had just been initiated into the gentle art of pan- cake making. Half an hour later the mistress. peeped into the kitchen, to find Maggie with an electric Iron going and a row of thick cakes spread over the table. [Aw, mum, th' cakes is a bit thick, T'in a. Ironin' them thinner," she said.

Why is it, someone: ICONOCLAST wants to know, that

there are soʻmany"

then the hands of our Ianniter, so has the overcrowding A Housing Matter. ouforcers, has set tongues wagging, which we allow to continue in our and stirred the surface, in some Colony, the unregistration of our seem and a bouse in Ilongkong a Things are seldom what they

The following revised order

The Cherub has receiv instances lightly, in others deeply house servants, the poor pay of not necessarily a place where people

has been issued by the Commodore

THE

ed letter from of popular imagination, to the usual

live. Likewise a shop is not neces-{

H. M. Dockyard, Hongkong ---" A extraordinary degree, o much sa

GOLDEN Australia enclosed in native police (suggested by 08 sarily a place where things are sold

square red flag will be holsted at

RULE. the masthead of H.M.S. "Tamar"

an envelope bearing that we have been engaged in kill. recently when we commented on across the counter. We are prompt-A leafing canopy with arched pro- when a ship' Is entering the rule with the words "Do unto the device of a foot the Ahnial Polics Report and that ed to these more than obvions state- tection- ing Kruger with our mouths in u

Naval Camber, and. & black part of it which referred to the ments as the result of a counter For tender shoots, the esed of ball very Kiplingesque manner apu

over the red flagwhen others, as you would that they learned men who delight in going through some of our streets, parti- number of times our Inkongs were cularly in a district, where pro- From passion of the tropic sun's Camber A blue flag will be hoist the idea. If Ice House Street will for instance, Babylonian wicked about the world destroying people's Eastern ort-W producing a crop of suggestions that on the mat") and the apparent porty has changed bands with profit

ship is leaving. the Naval should do unto you.

He suggests that Hongkong might well adopt most cherished illusions? Take, if they were carried into effect, 50 inxity of oversight which in sach and tenants bave come and gona Affectionately shades each pliant leaving the Naval Dry Dock." This the rest of the business commun- brutally shattered this dear old

reflection,

ed when a vessel is entering or take the lead--and carry it out-ness: Mr. McCabe the lecturer has wo assert, the evil of arms an extensive harbour as we posses then to mention but one instance with typhoon-like frequency. Hero gling and trading would effectually

arder will be in force from August ity will follow. But perhaps they illusion when he bluntly state that 115, 1923. disappear as if by umagic. The must be, unless we are prepared to which could be multiplied is a house An atmosphere of ago and mystery,

follow Bernard Shaw's famous die Babylon, far from being a sink of Government can be heartily con-load ourselves with a great increase where the room known at home of An old cathedral, Nature a very

tum-"Never do unto others as you inquity, was a well-ordered towi

many would that they should do unto you. Possessing

just and- in Revenue officials. We are not a front parlour has been turned into gratulated on its intention even if

Their tastes may not be the same. salutary laws. Possibly this is all- prepared at the moment to justify a knitting factory machines instal. Where whispers andulato each rest-

right: no doubt; it would do its 'no- it cannot be congratulated on what we have said regarding these women engaged who crowd into a In verdant cloisters resonating tone.

atole France: All fact? Tardy justice is not likely led and about a dozen girls and

This week's noble hann to copy some of Babylon's tardiness in doing a thing that statements, preferring to throw room originally intended to house

thought from An institutions; but why publish the ebould have beau done years ago tliose "appies of discord" into the about's third of the number quoted No one for a moment is going to suggest that the proposed increase large arena which is already foll In the ground floor storage rooms of u block of Bats close by a real live

heart.

DWD:

less free,

----JOHN KYOTO,

1928.

SOCIAL, AND PEBÈONAL.

For the purpose of the Companies ECONOMIC

Mr. George Alston Buyers, C.A. has been appointed an auditor THE

Ordinances, 1911-1921....

WHOLE

wars are now civil to be of much use in patching up wara." Ponder that the reputations of the Babylonians, Boiled down, it is the and we have our own self-respect world's tragedy."

to consider. Letter writing is an Amelia, whose bellef in the THEast which has pro- wickedness – of Babylon ?16, GENTLEST voked many booké, fortunately, unshakable, thas ART. some bad and others another illusion that Hongkong Is -worser--Bilke-mpetteren worse-than-Babylon, 11-Mr-

Major A. E. B. Jones R.A.M.C. long. has taken over from Major J. R Lloyd R.A.M.C., who went Home D. C. Military Hospital, Kowloom. on leave recently, the duties of

of punishment will eradicate the to overflowing with the opinions of saw machine was installed and the evil in its entirety. Short of the the many. Thinking people will live long day, noisily made its own

"Are You Going on a Journey ↑ threat and carrying out of capital perhaps recognise the truthfulness pression on a ceaseless procession Chamberlain's Colle and Liaribus punishment no punishment in the of our statements and urge for roto fresh woods so to speak and is luggage when going on fonines. af wood-planks. This has departed Homedy should be packed in your hand world, be it imprisonment for life, formu. Let us merely at this stage known and more in the peaceful dance of watery dies and temperature The death is announced of Prof is going to put a stop to o game in examine a few of the multitudinous region of Happy Valley where it all tond i poduro bowel temble and W. P. Ker, Fellow of All Souls, other arts letter writing cannot be McCabe wants to shutter an this medicine, cannabbé nevured "on which there is maximum of suggestions which have been put snag daily. Close by is a street of board the trade as stership, if gas and Professor of Poetry at Oxford taught. It is a gift from the gods, filusion, bera in one that is surely excitement and gain to those who forward, Obfervor in our last hopa where the liches lies cheek ve much suffering and Innvenience He was Professor of English Witness the following screed, res more worthy of his eloquence tha

by jowl with the foreign mode if you have it handy. For sale by Literature, University College; ceived by a Hongkong firm this the other. dake part in gun-running. It has night's loquo advocated a leas con article so early-loved by Chinosc Chemists and Storskerpers

London, from 1889 to 1932,

week

CERBERUS.