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THE CHINA

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The resolution with regard to."

MAIL.

GENERAL.

Whilst out with his dogs near,

Willesden Woman: "Pvé led:

the payment of rates for tene- the Ipoh Golf Club, Mr. J. Ra terrible He, and haven't had my mants on certain lots at Kowloon Crawford sume across a large clothes off for five years." Bay Reclamation was postponed sie die at yesterday's Legislative Council meeting on the propovi- tion of the Colonial Secretary in whose name it stood.

H.E, the Governor (Sir Edward' Stubbs. K.C.M.G.) has consented 'to Jay the Foundation Store of the New Building of St. Paul's. Girls' College between Kennedy Road and Macdonnell Road to-morrow afternoon at four o'clock. En- trance to the site can be obtained from the West end of Kennedy [Road, ́ ́ near the Peak Tram

cobra. He called to some of the Indian coolies at work near the Grand Stand to help him kill the snake but they said that it was a "nalla pambu" (meaning cobra) and would not come near. Mr. Crawford then tackled the cobra alone and managed to kill it.

Mon refusing to serve, two women, one the vicar's wife, the other a doctor's wife, have been sp pointed churchwardens of Christ Church Uppar Armley, Leeds.

Thus

In accordance with the well- known shipping rule, that the - The return of notifiable freight on articles bears a certain diseases for the week ended on relation to its value, the freight May 20 shows 2 fatal Chinese on rubber to Atlantic ports from casex of small-pox, 1. fatal Singapore has been raised from Chinese case of diphtheria, 2Gold $15 per ton to Gold $17 per cases (1 Chinese and 1 Indian) of ton, as from August 1. interic fever, from which I death does every commercial enterprise resulted, and 1 fatal Chinese caseshare in the increased price of a of cerebro-spinal fever. The re- commodity. »: curn for the 48 hours ended on Malaya is, we are told. to June 3 shows case each of have a new industry, ie, the pro-enteric and cerebro-spinal fever.was approved yesterday afternoon duction of acetic acid. A conces both Chinese sion has been obtained in Pahang, not far from Kuala Lipis, and the work of erecting the plant is to

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An additional vote of $10,000:

at the meeting of the Finance Committee which followed the Legislative Council meeting, This was for, work in connection with the extension of the market at Mong Kok Tsui. The Chair- man (the Colonial Secretary) ex- plained that $3,000 was required for extra tiling in the founda-

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1925.

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There was another splendid house at the Star Theatre last be proceeded with very shortly. night to welcome "Our Cabaret." The winning of acetic acid from The artistes established them wood will not make the jungle af selves as warm favourites on the "wasting asset," a term general-Kowloon side. if the splendid ly applied in this country to tin-reception they received last night bearing ground. On the contrary is anything to go by. "All the tions. Only $15,500 had been it is intended to replant so that items went with a swing through-spent out of a special vote of before the trees in the original out, and there was an infectious $22,000, made in 1924, and this concession have been utilized, a liveliness about the whole enter-accounted for the rest. young. forest will be waiting to tainment. The members of the come in its turn under the axe. Company are versatile and clever The advantages of such an enter without exception and there "was' The ruins of an ancient city have been found by divers sub. prise are obvious, since not only not a single dull turn. is acetic acid a necessity in the Madge Carter was, as usual, a big merged thirty feet below the present process of rubber manu- success. as was, also the comedian, surface of the Mediterranean Sea, facture, but the by-products are Frank Milne, who is really funny, off the coast of Tunis. The divers { almost equaily valuable.

whilst Jan Caryll and Delyse were report that many large stone bulld-

Birmingham's public analyst.. responsible for some exceptional-ings were visible, outlined in dim The Overseas Chinese Dailyy fine and original dances. The shadows on the sandy bottom, and Mr. J. F. Llverseege, has discover News," Ltd, have taken over the Company appear this evening, to that fish swarm in and out of ed a new food dope." He has "Chinese Commercial News" the morrow and Sunday.

crumbled doorways.' Arch found that a solution of chrysoidine journal published by the Hong-

ologists are preparing to make is now being used on oranges to further explorations. Additional give them a ripe appearance kong Chinese General Chamber of

The following witticisms interest is attached to the discovery Commerce and formerly known as appear in the current issue of the by the fact that the city lies to the "Chung Ngo Sun Po-and Hongkong University Union waters described by Virgil and will continue publication of the

near the Isle of the Lotus Eaters," magazine: daily paper under the new style

of which Homer sang. und name of the "Overseas Chinese Daily News" as from June 5, 1925. The "Overseas

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Is it true that the lady under- graduates have recently been "rehearsing" the Taming of the Shrew in the Girls' Common ducted. under entirely

Room? We hear the Chairman management, on the most modern of the A.D.C. trembles to produce and most progressive lines. The it with such a cast. principal aims of the paper will.be the servies of true news with- Who said that some of our girl out fear or favour for the common athletes were disabled in the weal, the promotion of mutual an- Great War? derstanding and good fellowship between foreigners and Chinese, Wouldn't it be a splendid idea and the advancement and en- to give the Varsity a complete couragement of trade and indus-overhauling if it intends to re- No. 8. Des Voeux Road Central,

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Leading Articles

Child Labour.me

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CONTENTS.

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¡Sub-Tenant's Rights

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After Twenty Years

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Local and General..

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Social and Personal

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Race Meetings on a mi a Farewell

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Court Martini

Italian Convent

Correspondence

Threats to Amah

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Spring Fantasy

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Motor Touts to me on my son a eporta

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Cheung Chan Notes

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False Namand 310 one was

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Boads of Sport..

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Op.am Bandal me no mo

Colony'n Money

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Murder Charge.

Unusual Accident

Thronoply

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Good Work

Bolshevik".

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"Dirty Linen":

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Pirates Again

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Drunk on Duty.......

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Patty Theft...

Trespass By Mistake

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Arms in Cabia -

Angry Bou plora

Haze Colour...

Prince "A Rea) Sport” .... ... ... 18—14]

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Famine. Relief

Unmulol Hongkong!

How They Live an

Grant's Recaps

Fakbol Notes

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"ROMANCE” AND CRIME..

MORBID INTEREST IN MURDERER.

The lure which a reputation for skilful and large criminality has for the public imagination is exemplified again in the trial for murder of Gerald Chapman just. ended at Hartford, Connecticut, and resulting in a death sentence for the highwayman. Because Chapman would not reveal his antecedents speculative newg- paper writers wove about him an added to the fact that atmosphere of high birth. This, the criminal uses correct diction, is slight of stature and pale of com

(Chrysoidine is described as "a colouring base intermediate in composition between aniline yellow and phenylene brown. The chrysoldine of commerce is the hydrochloride, a salt of a splendid orange-yellow colour" Perhaps it is safe to assume, Mr. Liverseege told a repres so far as Shanghai is concerned, sentative that his discovery was that, like "old soldiers." Manna made more or less accidentally. stories never will die. but will It was noticed that oranges on plexion, and in the conduct of his "simply fade away?" says the hawkers barrows, when it was own case proved his intelligence- "N. C. D. News." One of them impossible to procure ripe fruit in to be equal to that of prosecuting comes from the sedate recesses of the marker, had a very rich and counsel made him a sort of

national hero. the Union Church, Mr. Donald attractive look. Macdonald, the organist, cannot He analysed some of there The hard-headed Yankee jury, be held responsible, because for oranges and found that the peel however, resisted these appeals to.. one thing he says that all he was dyed very superficially, with imagination and sympathy, and because of a flaw in the alibi and knows about horseflesh is that out affecting the orange itself. there are Clydesdales, Shetlands, "The amount of dye was small," because of his general reputation: and others, and for another, he he said. "One of the hawkers convicted Chapman. Instantly always fixes the hymns for each was making a little trade of it by public opinion seemed to change. Sunday at least one month before-dyeing for the other hawkers. As Since the criminal was obviously hand. So evidently it was a pure far as I can see, there is no way of subject to ordinary human fates. coincidence that last Sunday a stopping this practice under the the public decided that Chapman. large congregation sang with no Foods and Drugs Act. The dye was not a superman. little enthusiasm:-To-day on and is not injurious to health.

does not adulterate the orange His personal characteristics: Is it not a "terminological in- weary nations the

were not all that distinguished: Heavenly exactitude" to say that the next Manna falls,”

After all, there is colouring in Chapman. He participated. four Nobel Prize for Science will fall significant smiles on the faces of butter, margarine, and cheese, and robbery of a post office truck, and were other articles of diet, such as years ago in a two million dollar to a member of this- University? I not a few.

until recently, milk was coloured, effected two daring escapes from but that has been stopped nation ally. About three weeks ago a; man was fined £10 in Birmingham for colouring milk, but there has not been much of that done in this city.

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That Lady-undergrads should of the Hongkong Chinese. General take up rugby instead of hockey. Chamber of Commerce will, by special arrangement already entered into, be exclusively pub lished in the columns of the "Overseas Chinese Daily News."

SOCIAL AND

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PERSONAL.

Mr. J. P. Braga returned from a holiday in the North this morning by the 8. Empress of Australia,"

Professor E. Danenberg and Mr. The Resident of Selangor, the G. rimble returned to the honourable Mr. Stonor, sustained Colony to-day by the s.s. Empresa leg injury while playing tennis. of Australia.

The Pharies are to give two Mr. N. 1. Brower, Barrister-entertainments for Naval chari-

Mr. and Mrs. William Chase atiw Koturned

to the Colony ties. The first will be given this sailed for the United States on to-day by the Empress of evening at 9:30 and the second May 28 on board the Australia. With him is Mrs. to inorrow evening, at the Royal Taiyo Maru. Mr. Chase has been Brewer. Mr. Brower was recent Naval Theatre. Apart from the manager in Japan for the Ford ly married in Càunda. *

object of the concerts, the Pharica the formation of a company which Motor Company, and supervised give a fine all-round performance. Yokohama. are well worth seeing. They recently opened a factory at

toldanica.

Gardiner, K.B.E...

of Samuel and

steamer

Mr. N. Chamberlain, Minister of Health, recently stated that he had not yet settled the final form of the new regulations to be issued by the Ministry concerning the use of preservatives in food.

· FILM FRAUÐ ?

A STRANGE CASE IN INDIA.

bogus film agents which has come For sheer audacity the case of

Federal authority. Нія last

escape was in April, 1928, and for year following the police officials. were unable to locate him. The result was that every large crime- in that period was attributed to Chapman, until the public inter- est became unbounded.

He was finally captured by the local police at Muncie, Indiana, several months ago, and since then has either been in the Federal prison or undergoing his trial in Connecticut.

Since his conviction responsible newspapers are busily contending that nothing in Chapman's career putation. He has been free only has justified his glamorous re-

to light in Calcutta compels more five years in the last eighteen, and than passing attention. It ap- the super-criminala of romance pears that a few months ago a never go-to prison. All his con-sc",

The "China Mail" understands that Mr. John A. Aksman of Macs Cafeteria is, shortly to open Sir William Currie and Sir: Д restaurant and refresh-Frederick ment room in the centre of LL.D. J.L., were gusts of hon- Mr. R. J. H. Sidney, headmaster since been arrested, got in touch the result of careless or stupid In honour of Empire Day, party of men, nine of whom have víctions and captures have been the town, specially for business or at a luncheon given by Mr. W. of the Victoria Institution, enter with some leading citizens of traces left by the robber, and the people.

Kirkpatrick, managing director in tained a large number of old boys Calcutta, representing themselves post office theft was notable only Mrs. Kendal, the actress, who lid. at the Kyogo Club, Tokyo, low. Prior to the tea, there was pany, who were commissioned to full of valuable securities, of Co. of the school to tea at his bunga- as agents of the Gaumont Com because the truck happened to be was 75 Inst mouth, and has been Sir William Currie is the senior re-a cricket match between the old take films of topical news and of which Chapman and his con.. connected with the stage from child-sident partner in hood was the guest of the Gallery Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Com an easy win for the old boys. tion at Wembley. With cameras product. However, bandits who Calcutta of and present boys, which ended in business interest for the Exhibi- federates received only a small? Firat Nighters Club at dinner, in any, who are the managers of the Several sets of tennis were also and operators borrowed from a reco London recently.

Replying to Peninsular and Oriental Line and played between old and present local firm, the party travelled in a diction abounding with wit, and Nietzsche, use faultless the tonat of ber health, other well known steamship com ahe said she had been

He was president of the boys. The day was altogether a saloon carriage on photographic refuse to reveal their parentage. that some of the "leading Bongal Chamber of Commerce last happy one for all concerned. Mr. expeditions on the Bengal-Nagpur are rare enough in America to lights" to-day got £600 and £700 year, is a former sheriff of Calcutta Sidney was recently in Hongkong Railway, for which they received account for the public interest in week. She did not believe it. At and also was a member of the and evinced a great interest in the £750 on account. Their other Chapman. He has accepted the least, she never had anything like Bengal Legislative Council. Sir work of the Hongkong Amateur activities included the filming of a verdict calmly that. In fact she never took a Freerick Gardiner is a noted ship. Dramatic Club.

and cynically, garden-party given by the Earl of believing that even murderers salary in her life. Her father took ping man of Glasgow. He is chair-

Lytton at Governmert House, and seldom hang. Refusing a cruci- it before she married, and her husman of the Board of Trade advisory

various firms and hospitals were fix sent him after the sentence by |band kindly did it afterwards. enuncil on new lighthouse works,

was vice-president of the Chamber England on May 14, was host at to show their credentials when thief."

"I'm not the repentant "Everything has gone dark!" of Shipping in 1914 and 1918 and dinner to about 200 friends includ- applying for facilities for filming was the frightened cry of Eric for many years a member of ing Mr. Matsanura, the principal of the new King George's Dock, Baret Weldiger, as he clutched Lloyd's in London and chairman of the Peers School who supervised they produced an "authority"

Floyd's local committee, Sir Fre- the education of the Prince. In from the Gaumont Company. bold of his partner at the Finsbury derick also was chairman of the the evening the Prince was host The first auspicion of the Park Palais de Danse one night in Glasgow Chamber of Commerce to Sir Charles Eliot, the British alleged conspiracy was aroused in said he the middle of a fox-trot. He had from 1919 to 1921. Among those Ambasudor Premier Kato, a result of a quarrel among the Twopence halfpenny suddenly gone blind. Weisiger Who conveyed at once to the Lon present at the luncheon were Baron General Ugaki, minister of war members of the gang, and do Hospital and detained there, Harada, Mesra, K. Asido Baron, Shidehars, totalster oficions were also entertained by cracked ones."

sus answered the boy " There is some hope that his blind. Inouye: Comminder ness will be uply temporary, but Messrs. Y. Yamamoto E. Fuka, minister of the cavy, and officielt School of Tropical Medicine In Scotsman,

Sonodu foreign affairs, Admiral Takarabo, the authorities of the Calcutta

Crack me a nothing can be said definitely until AN Ikeda; M, Kushida. E: Ono, of the Imperial Household De: regard to a film in connection various texts have been made. Mori, M. Ouni, R. Takeda, Ipartmest A content of count Sudden blindness of this kind is tumi, T. Kawamur, K. Kagumi music was given if the Imperial with the anti-leprosy campaign not a very exceptional, happening. Taki Dr. Takoma Dan N Palace, for the entertainment of the local C.I.D. communicated Quite recently, London doctor Ariga, Admiral H, Takeda. Mes Prince Chichibet, The Bhare with Scotland Yard, and the out was stricken bilad when motoring Hamada B. Ito, S. Yamans

was the dramatic arrest with his wife, who was fortunately, chi T. Takano, Bir Harold Pe

Ters Dudley at the wheel. In this cue, sight MR.

ston and six others, Teturaud after two-hours of lour Symonds, Mostu |

dians, who Erd alleged bifidness.

Colonel G; F. Blandage.

Imperial son, who left Japan for payments on account Requested ed

Prince Chichibu, the second approached and induced to make sympathiser; Chapman remark-

the gang.

A Scotsman went to the grocer's for some eggs.

"How much are these eggs