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FEBRUARY TUESDAY, 3, 1925,

GREAT AIR PORT.

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MYSTERY LETTER.

A DEAD MAN'S SECRET,

STRANDE INQUEST STORY.

There appears to be more be hind this case than Iran get at," said Mr. Oswald, the West London Cordher, aka Chelsea inquest after he had read a letter written by

MAMMOTH SKY LINER, Great Britain, after failures, half-hearted efforts, and long delay. has us last set to work in curnost to establish-the-world's greatest end mi. anship servicell

LOCAL AMUSEMENTS.

"A WOMAN OF PARIS."

THE CORONET'S BIG PICTURE,

THE CHINA MAIL,

MAIL VAN AND TRAMCAR.

COLLISION CAUSED BY COOLIE TRUCK.

A collision occurred at noon I the Glming of "A Woman of yesterday, between a Fost Office Paris, now being shown to bumper motor mail van and a tramcar at houses at the Coronet, his first the bend where the road turns serious picture, Charles Chaplin has into Praya East from Areenal -paid-particular attention to the per Street. The accident attri "A peculiar letter, so incoherent soane of the cast and his produc-buted to a coolte truck trying to cut in between the van and the Cardington, a village three miles that it would afford little due. He tion taff extreme.care in this from Bedford, is destined in the talked of the Hobbs case in conneo. direction & being more vital than]

tramcar. space of a few short years to be the ton with Mr. A, and ho talked, Chaplin does not personally appear van sustained damage to the roof "The front glass screen of the usual bequiise of the fact that Mr." largest air port in any continent.

tramcar was smashed, and the mail To will be the departure and arrival of money was the Coroner's in the pietre, thiaght it has been port of the Empire airship mail.

comment on the letter.

and paint work. Mammoth airships, each barry-'

written and divsed by him.

The accident fortunately was not attended with any injury to the ind it hundred pussengers and many

drivers of the tons of mails, will sail from Carding

vehicles. or the

on their separate services to the United States and Canada, and to South Africa.

The dead man was John Samuel ocking (49), a commission agent of Sydney Street, Chelsea, who was found with a head in a gas oven. The letter, "which was read by the Coroner could only be partly Work has already been begundohered, and ran as follows: on the conversion of Cardington air

To the English lady-This im station, on the preliminaries for possible to explan. Filthy, the construction of a skyliner so cruel, awful. so terrible.. farger thin anything that has ever The villain really bath.

Re" uken the air.

case of Mrs. I 1 do assure the Air Vice-Marsha Sir Sefton whole thing a frame-up. It in dimuncker, Directie of Civil Avia- impossible to surmise unless it wae ton, i to start to-morrow on an traine-up for blackeuil, which I aeroplane flight us India in order would not agree... I know do survey the possibilities of af nothing of this affair until I came prite, via: Cermany, Poland, back and repid Hobbs for loan, Hunagi, Turkey Syris, and also paid by the presents Mesopotiain, and to confer with the Indian Government regarding thestablishment of the airship

port in that country.

In selecting Edna Purviance for the featured role, Mr. Chaplin was not only rewarding that sterling

actress for her work with him

through eight years of making comedy pictures, but he is capitalis ing an innate drabuutic ability that : Miss Purviance had more than once demonstrated in the years of their pssociation.

As Pierre Revel, the French epicurein, gentleman, and pagan. Adolphie Menjou was decided upon after a thorough vauvass of the entire field of actors of this type. Mr. Mojou is not only perfectly suited to a part as to go, but is

Frenelamat by deseen, and; the Continental manner required in the part is a definite characteristic,

Mr. Menjou, who was born in Past, Pranes, wont to Anterien the age of Ban His a graduate

white affair. Ouly that of 1 cuunat "contaive the filth of the gile and filth. I assure you that I Falways pay my inbilities to every for. "This notin affair, the broken of Cornell University, Pliere he hearted villain. The whole affair started his dramatic career, During th war he retanod to France to

REMARKABLE FIGURES. Carlington, November 18. Ser Sanibel Hpale, the Air Minis- isgrotten: ter, and Sir Flip Sassoon, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary,

!!

Ms Hocking, the widow, reply-list, in the French army, and ing to the Coroner, said she did not flere with any honours, visited Cardington to-day to know whether her husband had America, and began his work in After the war fe returned 10 spera the air station aml its elfieering shops.

been losing money of late, but be

cure worried. She discovered. Pitures in California,

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It is a matter of grent satisfac Lon." said Si Samuel Hoare art we are attempting seri busty to develop airships. The mportance of the developments which we are indertaking coanot be overemphasised.

the gas oven. in lying in the scullery with his,)

The Coroner reinaked that he supposed the letter referred to the "Hobbs case. He asked the widow whether her husband knew Hobbs.

THE MASTER MIND.".

AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE,

There have been disasters to Mrs. Hocking-I do not know airships in the pist, and we incun ...Ebel Fountain Gilmour, former-!

Students of the drama, generally make the fullest use of the ex-ly the wife of a man of independent. eded to be one of the most perience mined from those unfore means, said that she lived at the fascinating of alkarts, sell he given tunate events. We mean to do same address. She did not notice, au nusim opportunity to indy everything humanly possible to anything unusual in Mr. Hocking's iw plass of the merely screen-odil eliminate danger in connection with manner, but, as he used to paco, Seguet arships.)

Science of

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Full details have been supplied te me of the new airship which is to be built at. Cardingtors by Air Ministry H.3LASR 101 She will be designed for a dual purpose as a

passenger carrier

Length 70 feet.

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visualiza-

about his room as night, she as tion of conveying the workings of sune) that he was a victim of a human mind without the aid of insomnia.

„wards, when Lionel Barrymone is of "shown in "The Master Mind his latest photoplay creation, which will be exhibited at the Queon's Theatre today Entire-advent of the silver sheet as a medium for

unsound mind" was returned.

A verdict of Suicide while

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passengers.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

February 3 Coronet Theatre; A Woman of Paris"

Turmoil" and Majurel Company. February 3 Star

Theatre

February 3-World Theatre, "Over the Hill."

February 3.-Queen's Theatre, The Master Mind" and, the Manila Vaudeville Co..

February 3Victoria Dioce- san

Association Concert, John's Cathedral Hall, 6.30 p.m. St.

Lauder, Theatre Royal.

February 10. Sir Harry

farcical comedy, "French Leave

February 25, 26, 27 and 28.- H.K. A.D.C. presents the great at Theatre Royal.

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February 5.- Musicale Helena May Institute, 6.80 p.m.

February 6 & 21.-Peak Club, fortnightly dances, 9.15 p.m.“

February 7-Carnival at Re- pulse Bay Hotel. Engineers and Shipbuilders, at February 10-Annual ball of

City Hall,

February 28-Annual dinner of members of St. David's Society, Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden.

SPORT.

February 16-17-18-21.-Hong kong Jockey Club Annual Race Meetings..

PUBLIC AUCTION. February 6-Lammert Bros., at Sales Room, household-furai- ture, 2.30 p.m.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB:

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RACE MEETING KÊS,

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NOTICE.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

AMERICAN AND MANCHURIAN LINE.

From NEW YORK

TE Steamship

FFECTIVE FEBRUARY 1, 1925,

have taken up the agency of the COLUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPP NG COMPANY of PORTLAND, OREGON..in the Port of Hongkong and all ports within its jurisdiction. Up to and including February 9th

at the Gate. Price-$3.00 per ORIENTAL LINE will be NO. 26 "Suisang" and is being landed at Hble Enclosure may be obtained offices of the COLUMBIA PACIFIC fied that their cargo has been

TICKETS of admission to the my address will be care ARNHOLD

& CO. LTD. THEREAFTER the "City of Chester" are hereby noti from, Messrs. Kelly and Walsh or SHIPPING CO. and the OREGON transhipped at Manila into 8.8

day.

$1.00 per day.

Soldiers And Saltors in uniform

BANK OF CANTON BUILDING.

E. W. LATIE. Agent.

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No one admitted without, a Ticket to be shown to the Ticket Hoogkong, 2nd February, 1925. Tnspector at the Gate.

Lasstein & DAVIS,

Treasis. Hongkong. February 2nd, 1025,

NOTICE.

"THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLÜB.

RACE MEETING 1925.

February 16th, 17th, 18th, and

21.

sin are now ready and may be MEMBERS Badges of Admnis-

obtained by those Members, who j have not pirendy received them Alexandra. Buildings. from Messrs. Linstead and Davis,

B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hongkong. February 2nap 1925.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

RACE MEETING 1925. „ February 16th.. 17th., 18th., and 21st:

The Stewards request the plensure Races. of the presence of the Ladies at the

Hongkong, Febriary 2nd, 1925.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

RACE MEETING 1925, February 16th 19th., 18th, and $214,

“ST. JOAN.”.

IN AID OF

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PATRON

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AT THE THEATRE ROYAL

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, at 9. p.m.

Advance Booking opens at Messrs. Anderson's on February 6th fast, continuing to February 7th. Public Booking opens on Monday, 9th fast, Advance Tickets are obtainable at Messrs. Anderson's at $4 each.

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"CITY OF CHESTER" Consignees of Cargo by ...

their risk into the hazardous

and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of the Holt's Wharf, whence de livery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after theấ Goods have left the Godowns, and 'älly Goode remaining undelivered after 9th February, 1985, will be subject to rent.

All Claim against the steamer mun be pressated in the Undersigned on or bafora 16th February, 1925, or they will not be recognised.

"All broken, "ohafed and damaged. Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 am. and Noon, within the free storage period of ons week.

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Billa of Lading will be countersigned

THE BANK LINE LÍMITED, General: 2 gents,

Hongkong, 3rd: February, 1925.

LLOYD TRIESTINO S. ̈N. Co.'

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. HE Steamship

TO BE LET.

FOR 7 months from April 1st!" No. 30 Lugard Road, The Peak. Furnished Bungalow,CON Modern sanitation, Apply T E. Pearce, Joha D. Hutchison & Co.

FIUME "

From TRIESTE VENICE BRINDISI, MASSAUA, PORT SAID, ADEN, COLOMBO," PENANG and SINGAPORE,

YONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby laformed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into

the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kov loon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained."

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 2nd inat, ".

goods are to be left in the Godowns, All broken, chafed, and damaged

th inst. at 10a.m. by our surveyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insuranèo has been efected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned

The City of Paris has just opened a competition, with 50,000 francs in prizes, in order to find the best Goods have left the Godowne, and all No claims will be admitted after the means of preventing all the Goods remaining andelivered alter... and also for war service if emer

saucepans-in-the-kitchen-ingling the 9th inst. will be subject to rent, gency calls. She will be the first airship by way of a covered gang-imparting entertaining knowledge

omnibus passes in the street. It be presented to the Undersigned on whenever a heavy lorry or an steel siship-her mom u being way.

COMPANY MEETINGS.

All claims against the steamer met formed of stainless steel and her When R 101 fa used

of life, the study of the histrionic

February 14,-Sixth meeting of

i hoped to discover some kind of seven grant propellers being also of commercial purposes she will have houpassed only the things which Des Voeux Road, 3 p.m.

for art was considerably limited, for the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., at 10

shock absorber, whose use would not be recognized.

or before the 19th inst, or they will stoel to resist tropical conditions.

PASSES for Servants will be presumably be made obligatory, The following figures give some passengers, sleeping in cosy, two partively small dimensions, Now and fifth meeting of shareholders instead and Davis, Alexandra the road, on the adjoining houses where they will be examined on the

accommodation for one hundred could be dhe on a stage of com

February 19-One hundred issued application to Messers, in order to reduce the vibration on of the Hongkong. Canton and Buildings, No Servants will be and on the passengers and goods Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., at allowed inside the Enclosure of the carried by the vehicles themselves. 4A Des Voeux Road, noon. " Baen Course during Race Days One is tempted to think that if

February 10.-Thirty-seventh

WITHOUT TICKETS.

such device could have been meeting of shareholders of the. These Tickets are only available Invented. it would not have re- Agency Co., Ltd., at the Offices of their employers or when on duty City of Paris to bring it to light; Hongkong Land Investment and for Servants while in attendance on quited the bait now offered by the Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.T

at the various stains, iLtd., noon.

Any line found loitering of shareholders of the H.K. anders thereof. will be removedUNÄIDUS

February 21-Yearly meeting possession will forfeit them and, about with Servants Passes in their

Shanghai Banking Corporation, from the closure. at City Hall, 11.30 a.m.

OTHER MELTING'S. February 4Nirvana," "is the subject of the lecture at the H.K. Lodge The Theosophical Society, 16 Queen's Road, 5.45 p.m.

Height 10 fest.

DiameterB0" feet.

Number of engines---seven. -

il of the tremendous Size of R.herth enlins, and with diningre, thanks to the motion 101-

picture. creation, and smoking quarters on a camera, the locate of a dramatic or separate deck. Her crew wil rum, comedy situation is almost - her four oficers and fifty men. limited and simultaneously is thus Normally the ship will operate provided, possibilities of expanded in augmenting the importance of In all her journeys from the moor action such as goes a long distan

the shed, when any repair is neces make-beliede sary. A mooring must similar to The Manila Vaudeville C Capacity 50.000 cubic feet on ground already selected in Egypt and during the run of the picture that at Cardington is to be put up, the added attraction at this theatre und, another in India. There will The Master Mind" it will give emirely new programme of soles and comedy:

Horse-power for each engine-ig mast, only going into dosk in-

GOB. ~ ..

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Total-horse-power-109. Sped-seventy miles an hourg

of gas.

R 101 w censune no fewer be a terminal repair she also in than 1.750 s. of fuet an hour india, her beacy pas oil engines, and she will be able to lift a weight of 155 tons of R 101 on her Empire

tons of which seventy-five tons will 1:21 available for fel,' water ballast. goals, and passen- gers. On a commercial run

500 miles to Edypf twenty. Cons! will be available for passengers and! mails,

"The following will be the journey

Nights:-

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Egypt Thi AL-tralia Cape Town Cinde

e days.

5 15 6 days.

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I wind

As 3

February 5.-General meeting uf members of the Hongkong Horticultural Society, in the Matheson & Co. Ltd., 5.15 p.m. lourdroom of Messrs. Jardine,

February 9-Annual meeting tion in St. Andrew's Church Hall, of Kowloon Residents' Associa Kowloon 6 p.m.

meeting of Hongkong Jockey February 10-Extraordinary

5.30 p.m. Club, Hongkong Club Annexe,

FLOWER SHOW.

March Annual Flower

C. B. BROWS

Secretary. Hongkong, Febronry Bad, 1925.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY. CLUB.

RACE MEETING 1985.

February 16th, 17th., 18th, and 21st.

MEMBERS have the privilege

Member Enclosure, of introducing two not-mtimbers to

viable and may be obtained from Messrs. itter! Davis, Alexanden. Buildings on or before.

A limited number of tickets are

1925 Price $10 per day or

for the Meeting. Saturday the 14th of February,

TASSTRAD & Davis,

Treasurera, Hongkong, February 2nd. 1925.

Sir John Jordan writes in a Home paper: The death of Mr. 14 days

H. F. Brady makes the first breach days,

in a batch of four, student inter- # days,

preters who went out to China in Kefore, the building of the new return journey from New York "te of active service in that country possible to rover the the year 1876, and whose periods Ang can love bough or will be needing in Porte-eight hours; amounted in the aggregate to 150 sary, to enlarge the existing airship: When I for any purpose, years shal as Cardington from 700 feets on day with the British fed lovable Irishman, Brady was the A thoroughly genial and long to SE2 Tee, gud to raise it in Welfare alter to rims at Sea life and soul of our party during ight from a four to 157 feet for three words if necessary. It will then be the largest building

our student days in Peking, and upils. Brinch Emmure,

The plan for the landing of air won for himself a place in the A contract for His work is, bo sugerfert that. I am assured, a leagues which lasted throughout ship passengers at Cardington will affectionate regard of bis col been given by the Air Ministry,

The assembling of the new airs and the passengers disen-us to make so many and such' ship will be brought alongside the life. It has been given to few of "ship will be smeted in the early barked within ten minutes after the staunch friendships in China and Show. under the auspices of the sence of next year, and she will shares above the croirou to retain them fresh during years Hongkong Horticultural Society probably be finished and ready and drops her sled mooring cable of retirement at home. for tur preliminary trials by the van a height of 1,000 feet. end of Be. She will make her

Consul Mr. Brady did much qütet first trip to India in the early part being carried out to ensure find improvements at the various ports Careful experimental work island useful work in promoting of 1927, calling at Egypt of the 101 and her sister ship: R. 10 at which he was stationed, and corespondent, the the hydrű, exists. It is generally conceded, writes a

-which is to be built gigante mooring mast. 1 Messrs. Vickers at Howden, ning nature will serve to perpetuate ter, but the recent flood brought by least one monument of an endur-only in Greek mythology as a mona- feet high--that is, taller than the Yorkshire will be completely safe his memory-the acquisition of the light stake with two heads Nelson column in Trafalgar square for prisoners and crew; as safe, site of Kuling in which, as which was found in a house ou is one of the first essentials to indeed, as the ordinary express H.B.M. Consut at Kiukiang, he wen Bend ceipted by Mr. H. the air port which will be built at i Cardington curly next year, tyarn.

took an active and decisive parte Eber, of the Hongkong and, Shang- will be a giant structure of lattice furdigion and R 36 hours this London suburb of water rose to such a height in this Two existing British airships-He and I have been near neigh Rank. It appears that the steel, encrying lifts for the loading at Pulham, Norfolk, are now Putney for the past four years, and locality that warely a house wus of passengers and cargo aboard the king reconditioned and refitted for our relations have been as intimate immune from a visitation by nuts STOPS STUBBORN BRONCHIAL air liners, winding gear for hauling fights next year to carry out a ship to her rigid anchorage at aerodynamic tests.

as they were in our far-off student and snakes of all kinda. It is a days. To his widow, a sister of the masthead, and pipe lines for

Whon changeable weather or exposure refuelling and watering a ship.

RB to Ay to Ekype in the Sir Walter Hilller, and to his son, pity though that the double-headed Passengers will go aboard R 101 Summer of next year in order that a solicitor in London, all who snake was not kent for examination to cold and wet results in bronchitis, start at once taking Chamberlain's continuous records may be obtained remember them in China will, I after it had been filled, for this Cough Remedy. Been and for aver of metal stressos in long-distance feel sure, extend their sincere perhaps the first and only instance flights in tronical countries.sympathy in their sudden bereave of such a reptile having been seed in Daily Express Special Corr..

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