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SATURDAY JULY 12 1924

the gentlemen who are, to under-precious possessions, "owe" their while giving evidence for the

COMPANY MEETING. take their duties here. You smile? first yearnings to enter into Crown in the Bevan case £17,169.

September 16.-Extraordinary. But surely the special action com-fuller knowledge of the meaning of drama to the revelation of some

Scottish stories are mittee will have the strongest master mind at theatres such as

general meeting of The China NATIONAL manufactured by Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the Influence in the Colony. There the Old Vic., South London.

Scotsmen for export. Registered Office of the Company will be nothing secret about its Shakespeare had been a remote

A man walked 24 Pedder Street, noon.

October 3.-Second meeting of members' movements, for if they sort of individual with several miles to see Rangers play Celtic intended to hide themselves in good plays to his credit until that When he arrived he was too tired the China Sugar Refining Co., some obscure cranny of the over- day but from then onwards he to climb the railings. As for the Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street,

·Irishman he was wrecked on what | noon. became a personal friend with a crowded city their coming would message for every mood.

looked to be a desolate coast. October 20-Third meeting of After finding a foothold, he was The China Sugar Refining Co., never have been shouted from the students in the schools and col- amazed to see quite a crowd run- Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, housetops--unless of course the leges of Hongkong have no Old ning down to the shore. Shaking noon. Communist Congress' holds our Vic-and are not likely to have the water out of his eyes, he police force in utter contempt; the visits of men such as Mr.

anything approaching one-but paused. thought we refuse, to entertain Wallace-Young are to be encour since it implies that they have aged. They are the next best never heard of our doughty thing. Captain Superintendent, Sinca these excellent gentlemen are to move about in our midst quite freely, then, are we to suppose that we shall escape their influence influence forceful enough to mould the destiny of Australia

imperceptibly we shall all fall under the powerful spell-that soon red ties will have become the

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OTHER MEETING..

"Have'ye a Government here ?"

July 14.-Estmordinary General "Of course." "Then I'm agin' the Governmeeting of the Peat Club, 6.80

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p.m.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next Criminal Sessions! take place on July 21.

Today is the universary of

Chim.

The expart of whent from the of Shanghai is to be prohibited reprduly 28 until further notice.

TO-DAY'S TEST MATCH.

ANOTHER ENGLAND TEAM SELECTION.

Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell, the well- known cricketer, who has shown such remarkable foresight in his forecasts of the England Tears

for the first two Test Matches, has kindly sent in his "prediction" for the Third Match which commences to-day at Leeds.

Because of England's good showing in the first two games, Mr. Mitchell does not think there will any material changes and his selection is as follows:

J. B. Hobbs (Surrey), ·

II. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire),

F. E. Woolley (Kent),

E. Hendren (Middlesex). J. W. Hearne (Middlesex), Mr. M. D. Lyon (Somerset)

wicket-keeper.

Mr. P. G. H. Fender (Surrey),

K. Kilner (Yorkshire), M. W. Tate (Sussex),

Mr. A. E, R. Gilligan (Sussex)

captain' and

R. Tyldesley (Lancashiro.)

Mr. Mitchell adds that he thinks

Tyldesley will be included in pre- ference to Parkin who may not have settled up his differences We have received the first with the England captain. At any issue of the Diamond," the rate Mr. Mitchell considers Magazine of Wah Yan College, a review of which will appear next week.

A

corres- Current Comment. SEVEN WONDERS pondent

(Is Dancing, a Sport!) rishly ask ed in the North China Daily News Is dancing a sport? asks the what are the seven wonders of the Pinang Gazette. Parislans have world. This is how one reader been discussing this buraing replied: Sir-If your correspon-question for some time past. Thoy Are we not to suppose rather that dont "Full of Wonder" will turn hold that if the Terpsichorean art the Restonfion of the Republic of to.page 394 para. 162 on this comes under the category of sport, year's edition of Rule Britannia there should be. Olympic con- the "following will be found to tests for dancers. Our view is that constitute the Seven Wonders: dancing is just what the individual (1) The June Settlement makes it. It is not necessary to go (2) The Small Investors.

beyond Penang . find people who regard it (if one may, judge-by (3) The Peking Government (4) The Elusive Ten Cent Piece appearances) as a solemn duty (5) The North-China Daily News rather than as a pleasure, or a sport. (6) The Tea Pot Dome Oil That, of course, is their own fault. W Scandal

Other people appear to be con stitutionally unable to refrain from (7) Mr. Cubby Dont's Hat.

elephantine tramplings on the With the recent arrival dance floor. Many of them con- Readers are reminded of the HOOTS! in Canada of some 270 sider it sport. The more contain-concert to be given in Kowloon immigrants from the ed dancer regards it as a nuisance, tonight in aid of the Ministering Hebrides, all of them of the Pres. especially when he receives Children's League. byterian faith, that Dominion is Brobdinagian heel on a silk clad being enriched with a sturdy stock shin: Doubtless most people will which will doubtless do it credit. agree that dancing is a sport The direct cause of the emigration The man who appears on a floor is, of course, the great distress and proceeds to behave like a bull which was experienced in the in a china shop, has no other islands this last winter, due to the definition to offer. The sport in Crop failure and the fact that the his case of course, consists of a dissolved. islands are becoming so impoveri- whole-hearted endeavour to put asi shed physically that they can no many couples "hors-de-combat as. McDonald Bouck has en-1

can. The longer support their inhabitants. he possibly

less dorsed the candidacy of Williama Z. The Ontario Government is, there aggressive dancer, somewhat di- Foster and Benjamin Titlar taro

shares the .former fore, performing a meritorious ffidently,

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the popular cocktail that black, bushy beards will have become.

under compulsory penalty of spending A day in our museum; that taipans -but stay! Have we not over looked one small fact, The news that Hongkong is to have a special action committee comes from Riga. Then are we saved! Riga has sent out more false alarms than any city in the world than any ten cities together, Canton

included.

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Three months henge, unleas use is shown to the contrary, the Engineering and Industrial Com pany, Ltd., will be struck off the

Tyldesley, to be at the top of his form at present. As the match is to be played at Leads, he is of the opinion that Roy Kilner the York- hire trundler, will play. M. D. Lyon, has played in one of the

rin matches and Mr. Mitchell. thinks he will be "stumper" on account of his batting abilities.

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service in advancing money for opinion, the only difference being communists, who are the Presiden in the grounds of the Club de their steamship fares to those need that the sport in his case, resolves tial and Vice-Presidential

Incidentally, but rather itself into a game of catch-me-ff didates of the Workers Party attended by the greater part of ing it.

you-can.

Picturesquely, it is recorded that no fewer than 175 of these emigrants hore surnames beginn ing with "Mac."

Á Reuter message

frozi

The Portuguese aviators receiv- ed further honours and presenta- Tions yesterday at a garden party

Recreio. Kowloon. which WAS

the Portuguese community.

Following the reading of a special poem in their honour by,

aviators received gifts; subscribed for by the Portuguese ladies of the Colony, from the hands of Madame Cerveira d'Albuquer que e Castro, wife of the Portuguese Consul-General.

An inscribed gold match bos and a pair of jade und gold cuff-links were for the airmen themselves and a silver hand-bag and an ivory necklace wore for their wives.

The aggressive one America, counts bis success on the number of hits he scores on pet corns and sensitive tibias. The inoffensive Chicago, received here yesterday,ittle Miss Maria Pureza d'Een, the dancer measures his success by reads: The National Farmer- the number of times he is able to Labour Party will not support I avoid his pachydermatous confrere. Follette, the progressive candidate No. less a personage than M. for the Presidency. The Execu Georges Carpentier says that tiva Committee is therefore con- dancing is a sport which combines fronted with the withdrawal of its the useful with the agreeable. If any of our readers have any doubts about this, they should ask Billy Wells or Joe Beckett.

Death-Knell of "Stone Ships."'.

The concrete ship is one of the many war-time makeshifts that have failed to survive the sterner tests of peace. Even after the armistice, there was a time when this method of construction enjoyed quite a boom. It will be

A wonderful cancer CANCER. cure is reported there was talk of the concrete ship

from New York, A. challenging the supremacy of woman entered Monte Flore Hos steel, so far at any rate, a certain pital two years ago dying from types of ships were concerned. cancer. She weighed at the time They were to be built both quickly 551b, or just under 4 stone, she has and cheaply, with labour for the now been discharged at normal most part unskilled. All that is weight and completely cured. over, we learn from the "Navy," Radium and X-ray treatment were and it is recognised on all hands the remedies, alternate applications that the obvious advantages of being adopted, and by this means To-day's Poem. concrete are heavily out-weighed dissolved. Dr. Ernest Boast, the the cancerous growths gradually by its inherent defects. The directing physician of the hospital heaviness of the hulls reduces warns the world that "at the best carrying capacity and, conse it is only a brilliant experiment" quently, earning power. Contact and though giving great promise with hard objects is much more does not prove that other cases can serious than in the case of steel be cured. If it does not prove it ships; so while it may be true that indicates. a concrete ship is readily repair- able, she may not survive to turn that advantage to account after a collision. How far #stone ships" have fullen out of Lavour is shown

Plans, now FUTURE WORLD being de- FLIGHTS. veloped by Imperial Air-

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by the action of a firm in the ways, the new £1,000,000 organisa- North of England which owns a tion, enable experts to sketch time. number of them. For months past schedules for complete round-the- the vessels have been laid up in world journeys by aeroplane the Tyne. occupying moorings express and airship liner. Leaving badly needed for more serviceable London by the morning Napier craft. Now; to get rid of them. D. H. 34, and rushing at 105 miles they are, one by one, being towed an hour to Paris, world-travellers may expect to reach Constantinople the following morning and Cairo by midday, "Then, in a long-dis- tance air-liner, they will speed to Australia, arriving on the 0th day after leaving London. The Pacific, to San Francisco, will be crossed in another "clipper of the clouds." The next link, already established,

out to sea and scuttled.

Our Welcome Visitor.

The excerpts from Shakespeare and other immortal playwrighta and authors which are being given

(The Red Tulip.) (After the Chinese of Chang- Wou-kien.)

It was my gift, the tulip red,

which you

Upon the road indifferently threw; I picked it up 'twas white with

dust-and, lo!

Upon our love, that moment, fall

the snow.

---I. C..

WEATHER CALENDAR.

1889.

JULY 12,

candidate,

It is reported that officers and engineers of ships coming within the local piracy regulations are in

future to attend once a month at "After tea had been served on the Scandal Point range for pistol the lawn, there was dancing in the shooting practice, firing ten rands hall of the Club and later outside, a time: The Indian guards are the music being provided by the required to attend similar practices Lyric Dance. Orchestra (with twice a month.

Mr. V. J. dos Remedios as direc- tor) and the combined orchestra Just at present, some of the of the Boys' Own Club and their couturier are effecting a compromise friends, (conducted

Mr. between the semi-rigid stenth Macdougal). gowns and the Auid drapery of the Mr. J. M. Britto was responsible. traditional race gown, The for the decorations. result is the 'peasant frock which sliows bodice, a relatively full shirt, and bare arms, carried out in repps,

semi-fitted

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CHINA'S TURN.

JAPAN.

alpaca, or one of the armure silks.ALLEGED EXCLUSION FROM

Monday heing the French National Bete, the Consul for (From Our Special Correspondent.), France will receive at his residence,

Last night it rained for 13 Peak Road, between 11.30 At a representative meeting in

leaves.

-M. S. Holland.

some hours. The morning a.m. and 1 p.m. the French Com Canton, July 10, a committee of is all glorious again.munity. British officials, officers eleven members was appointed to The hops are in ecstasy at and his foreign colleagues and deal with the question of Chinese the weather, and the little

friends. This year there will be exclusion from Japan. It was rich hollow of our high valley is overflowing with no reception in the evening alleged at the meeting that Chinese merchants as well as the dark stream of trellised Adtt

laliqurers had been asked to leave The two French seumens of the certain Japanese cities contrary to M.M.S. Angers,, arrested in treaty relations between the two Shanghai on June 17. while in countries. The meeting urged possession of 19 automatic pistols that a boycott of Japanese goods and 973 rounds of ammunition, in China should follow if the were tried by court-martici o Japanese were not willing to their policy towards board the French mau-of-war modify

Jules Ferry" on July 3 and sen- Chinese, immigrants. tonced to three months' imprison- ment each. They were also fined Fra. 16.

AN EXAMPLE.

"The last war was an example of the failure of the diplomacy of half-educated men. Only a wiser generation can abolish war. If we want a new world, it can only grow out of an educated world."

"Mr. C. P. Travelynn.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail,

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A Peking hows item says:

WILL THEY STAY?

THREATENED.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, July. 10.

in the schools of our Colony by is by aeroplane express, New York Mr. and Mrs Leo Wallace-Young The Atlantic crossing to Europe being reached on the 15th day. but the little blaze of glory they are bound to leave a deep impres will be made by the great airship created was steadily waning.sion in the minds of students iner about to be delivered to the Spon it seemed that Hongkong whose knowledge of these works Zeppelin company, and world would drop out of the news has hitherto been confined to their travellers will accomplish in 17 altogether, or at the best have to classroom studies. However keen days the feat which took Jules and well acquainted with his sub- Verne's imaginary hero 60 days to remain content with the sporadic ject the teacher may be, and what-performa. alarums over our dreadful "social ever his elocutionary ability, the

· HARMON --- OAKESHOTT,~~By

Mr. Charles Francis "H.B.M. Minister, Peking, on evil." But the worst has been atmosphere of the classroom is June 30 and by Rev. F. averted-thanks to the Com-not conducive to true literary LATEST Mallett of Tower WILLS. House, Walberswick,

Following the bud prevedent of BOLSHEVIK INVASION NOW appreciation and if the student's Harmon at Peitaiho on July muniet Congress. This angust knowledge of these great works is

Suffolk, boslur, of

Fengtien, which repudiates all legal 1. Juanita Rose Oakeshott, body, a Rige cable states, has confined to that which he receives Messrs. Sands Richards and Co.,

and political mandates front eldest daughter of Mr. and decided to open in the Colony "a there it is seldom that he is

1874, 189a, Sloane-street, S. W.

Peking the Chen Chiung maing: Mrs. H., C. Oakeshott to

£112,23+

party has established its own Pro- Walter Gordon Harmon, third special action committee for the encouraged to continue his study

Mr. Albert Heymann, of Burton

vincial Court of Justice in Swatow purpose of guiding the Communist of them when his time is his own. House, The Park, Nottingham

It is reperiod from Rigs that the son of Rev. F. Harmon.

There are thousands of people in £74.454.

for the trial of cases independently. Colonial Commission of the Con movement in Indo-China and middle life to-day who say that Alderman Mark Mordey, of

of Canton, Chinese litigants are

gress of the Communist Inter- Australia. Hongkong cannot but they cannot get any benefit from Newport Mon., shipbuilder and

experiencing great inconvenienco national has decided to open at feel flattered at this signal honour, reading serious literature and that ship repairer, a former Mayor of

as all sentences and verdicta passed Hongkong a special Action Com The

China Mail. Barely it is a unique privilege for they find it difficult to concentrate Newport £35,017.

July 12, Coronet Theatre by the provincial court in Canton mittee for the purpose of guiding May McAvoy in "Her Reputation." Mr. sufficiently to "wade through." Leopold Weil, of 15. a small island to become the guid-even a few pages of such works. Compayne-gardens, Hampstead. May Allison in "The Walk Offs

are not recognised by the Swatow the Communistio movement in July 12-The_Star Theatre.

court and vice veras.

Indo-China and Australia. It will ing centre for a rich colony like The reason, in the majority of NW and of Messrs. Trofousse Momokoko, Saturday, July 12, 1924. Indo-China and a vast continent cases, is not that they lack the and Co., glove manufacturers Daddles.".

July 12.- World, Theatre ;

The rainfall for the month of keep in touch with the Eastern

Action Committee at. Vladivostok. Like Australia. Gratifying is it capacity to appreciate good litera- £27 246,

July 12-Queen's Theatre: June at the Botanical Gardens was FAINTING HONGKONG RED. too, that we are to come into ture, but that it has been allowed Mr. Robert Dolphin Pall, of William

Wood End, Barnet Green, Worcs. Adventuror."

in The 30ing, .05 on 22 days, at the Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, closer contact with that outpost to lie dormant because of wrong Churlish indeed would it be for of culture, Vladivostock, our days. In all schoola at home and Corporation Limited, Birmingham Intano, 9 p.m.

Impression-received tushairman of the Local Board of The Ocean Accident and Guarantee

-16-was-38/ng-43-on-20-days, and NEW CONSULS. July 12-Dancing at Club at the Police Station, Taipo, it Hongkong to ignore the implied special action committes to keep in most in the Colony the pupils £18,925-19

H. E. the Governor has been was 24ins. .66 on 22 days. The pliment that has just been in touch with the Eastern action act certain portions of plays they Mr. Frederick Gerard Van De

lowest barometer at bea level was pleased, under instructions from maid it by the Communist Con- committee, there OUR special are studying in class-time and Linde, of Mortlake, Surrey, and of July 12-Lammert Bros. at 29ing, 596 at 17h.c on the 4th the Secretary of State for the World aviators, colonial action committee--the possessive often preparation for some Fanchurch avenne, EC, charter Bales Rooms, & quantity of mis- The misximum squall velocity as Colonies, to recogale Monsieur Y. L. N. du Courthiai, ka Consul school art but even these in ed accountant, special manager in ↑ vellázsons goods, 11 a.m.

regored by the Dines-Baxende for France in Hongkong katany vernors and other distinguished slipped out unconsciously; and themselt are not enough. How the liquidation of the ty July 28 Lammert Bros at anemograph, was at the rate of 61 The King's Exequatur, empower dators for a space kept the unconsciously we suppose the many, to whom their volume of Equitable Fire Insurance Company 180, The Pepic, valuable lessebolj miles per hour at 6h. 26m, on the ing Dr. Erwin Remy to act at Gor

F's name before the world, whole Colony will be influenced by Shakespeare is one of their most and abled offices who was taken propert 8 am

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