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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925.

LAMMERT BROS.

HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES

AVOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVETORS.

Public Auctions

HE Undersigned have received Tardeons to sell by Public

'Auction

GI

SATURDAY. the 15th Aug., 1925, commencing at 11 a.m.

int their Sales Room. Duddell St. A Fine Assortment of BELGIAN CÚT GLASS,

And a Quantity of

'SILVER AND OLD BRONZE WARE,

Comprising:-

Cut Glass Spirit Battles, Bowls, Scent Bottles, Trays, Powder

·Boxes, Vases Candle Sticks, Liqueur Sets. Celery Vases, Half Crystal Table Set (114 Pieces), atc.. etc.

Silver Trays, Toilet Sets. Scent Bottles, Tea Pots, Photo Frames, Cake Basket, Liqueur Set. Vases, Dishes, etc., etc.

Bronze Figures. Bowls, Vases, etc.,

also

!!

Wardrobe and Cabin Trunks.

and

One Telescope.

On View from Friday, the 14th

August, 1925.

Terms:

Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT EROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, 11th August, 1925.

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TO LET.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LIFE'S MONOTONY. TOO MUCH CODDLING OPENING HOURS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

TO LET-No. 83, Ortent Batlon THE DESIRE TO BE SOME-

ing (Top Floor), Corunation Road, Kowloon, suitable for Euro- pean family. Apply to:-M. C. Chow, c/c Clark & Iu, 10, Dea Veux Road Central

LOST.

LOST-White wire-haired terrier Puppy, last seen near entrance Kennedy Road, Tuesday evening Reward. Walker, Hongkong Bank,

PUBLIC MEETING.

1)

DOCTOR'S TRENOHANT

BEMARKS

Sir Patrick Hastings has turned Speaking recently at the Nu-} playwright and his hosts of tions Food Exhibition, Olympiu, friends wish him well, writes Max Loudon, Dr. Leonard Williams, Pemberton in the "Weekly Dia dealing with "Diet and Efficiency, patch." We have, however, yet to vinted that the majority of people hear that playwrights are, by way staffed too much, slept too much, of reprisal, to become Attorneys.sucked too much, breathed too General. A stupid convention, little, drunk too little water, and indeed, bolts and bars the door to thought too little. By stuffing he them unless they happen to have meant the taking of large quantities eaten dinners at an expensive inn of wholly unsuitable lood. If the and to have satisfied curious food people took were wholly suit- people that they know where the able. then they would not stuff: money goes when their great-aunt they stuffed because they ate cook- dles.

ed and devitulised foods in. vain This exclusiveness of the pro-out of dead things. The most gint- find stupid endeavour to get vitality A Public Meeting open to all fessions has always seemed to me to creatine could never overent will be held on MONDAY, the one of the misfortunes of our himself if he confined his diet to 17th inst., in the Theatre Royal, modern life. Civilisation stands the things which Nature intend- City Hall, at 5.15 p.m. punctually, in the main for a paralysingad him to eat diary praxe, when Mr. C. J. B. Hellstrom will monotony. Millions of men arise uncooked fruits, salads, and other give an address from personal every day to do what they did ftuds, which had not been deprived experience on "Bolshevism" in yesterday and will do to-morrow of their vitality. Russia and Canton and its future if they live.

A perfectly menace to the Chinese and!

healthy person ought not to T- From countless houses each ne more than six hours' steep. Civilisation.

morning, between seven and ten To migh skep was even worse for o'clock, the victims of modernity the figure in too much food, bes set forth, unwilling slaves, to the cause if one spt tee much one got: hives wherein bread of much more ent of food than one ought to. variety is to be won.

People lived oft instead of hard. Day by day the unhappy doctor Overclothing, het moms, hot baths, orders the mixture as before; the fear of chills, coding, were things, Inwyer strives to steal for Jones which did a great deal of harm in the land that is Smith's; the the long run. Cold was our best barrister calls the powers to wit-friend, and it was a draught which ness that the criminal in the dock|kept thỏ vital fires burning. did not. murder his mother-in-law; prop way to keep warm was to the architect destroys that he may subject the body to cold influences;]

bath not beautify, the chorus lady belrooms could be cold, prances on her toes that her should be cold, food for the most weekly salary may be made part should be cold. strong; the man of commerce De: Williams said he had no shouts "Buy! buy?" to the multi-objection to jisople drinking beer us tudes before his doors,

hxury, in the same way as he

15/17, Queen's Road Central. Peak Store (Ey courtesy of

Mr. Hellstrom was on the staff Messrs. Lane, Crawford & [at the Swedish Legation in Moscow from 1916 to 1918; was in charge of British interests there for three months during the revolution; and can testify to its destructive and terrible effects.

The chair will be taken at 5.15 sharp by Mr. D. G.. M. Bernard, supported by Unofficial Members of Council. Гр

Hongkong, 13th August, 1925.

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

HOTELS LIMITED'

With reference to the offer of new shares dated the 15th May 1925 (made to the existing share- holders of the Company) by the terms of which the sum of $7.50 per share was to be paid on the 30th June 1925 and the sum of $6.00 on the 30th September 1925 the directorS have decided (in view of the present condition of afairs) to extend these dates.

The date for payment of the. Arst instalment is accordingly ex- tended until the 30th September 1925 and the date for payment of the second instalment until the 31st December 1925.

As regards shareholders who take advantage of these extended, times the new sbares allotted, to them will rank for dividend as from the 1st October 1925 in re- spect of half the nominal value thereof and as from the 1st Jan- uary 1926 in respect of the full nominal value thereof.

Any shareholder who makes payment prior to the due date will be allowed interest at 7 per cent. per annum on the amount paid by him from the date of pay- ment until the due date.

This notice will not affect those Subscribers of the China Mall not receiving their paper every shareholders who make payment evening o ring to the uncertain on the original dates, i, e. as re- delivery as the result of the strike gards the first instalment on the are invited to notify this office 30th June and as regards the se- if they would prefer to purchase cond instalment on the 30th Sep- their paper from the street news-tember. The shares to be allotted boys direct and have the amount credited to their account.

FOR SALE.

STANLEY GIBBONS' MONTHLY JOURNAL

for %

June and July 1925 with

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GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Philstol.c Goods, Garden

Seeds, Post Cards, Toys, & No. 10, Wyndham Street, P.O. Box 620

NOTICE.

Hongkong.

The undersigned bega ta an- nounce to their customers that they are now able to handle regirà ito boots and shoes.

CHERRY & CO®

A PAGULAR. STI

Hongkong July 17, 1925;

to them will in accordance with the original terms of the offer rank for dividend on one half the nomínal value as from the 1st July 1925 and on the full nominal value as from the 1st October 1925.

..

By order of the Board.

J. H. TAGGART,

Managing Director. Hongkong, July 17, 1925.

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And she knows this is

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'The

emmons

to 10 per cent, of fluid. People cur, but the function of the were confelst to get ill and demand

All know that the weary years and no objection to their ecting all may cry out with the admir-smoking tobacco as a luxury, shall cast no fetters from them; coke fols us a huxury, or sto A able Mantalini upon this "demd friend of his said that we should horrid grind," from which none day, but that might be regarded "drink seven glasses of water during sees a way of escape.

And this, I say, is the gift of excessive in the case of those who at the right amount of fruit, so-called civilisation. Man was as fruit stained an not born to these chains, nor did amount of water: an apple or he adopt them willingly. Thou- sands of years ago there was no

strawberry contained something like profession denied to him. He awoke in the morning and crawled from his cave, or did not crawl, astor was not to enable society to the mood took him. If he desired meat he became his own butcher and slaughtered a Cow with avoid the suffering, but those dexterous hands. If aquatics fessens people obstinately refused moved him he sailed his own ear, There were. for in- cande. If he desired to travel be stance, this tight corsets and high set off through the forest seeking heuls which women wore. Recently no help from Cook.

women were tight high colkurs, but Equally he was his own priest; fortunately fashion new diefated worshipped any star that dazzled (that their necks should be bare. him, and performed his own md since flat fashion had been matrimonial rites, having pre-in vogue women had been much vously knocked out the brains of better stempered and much better the rival who troubled him. looking then they used to be."

Why We Rebel

without suffering; his business was, as far as possible, to teach how

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7 am, to 9 a.m.

10:30 am to 12.30 p.m.

2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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7 am to 9 a.m...

Dairy Department:

7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. SATURDAYS.

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10 am to 12.30 pm

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Domestic Occurrences Leading Articles Left His Ship Arms Case

Canton-Beware! Valley Flood Local Baseball- China's Task Capt. Neville... Law and Justice. Disloyal Students

Paddy's Market" Street Lectures Flood Sequel Serious Charge

CONTENTS.

Page,

Page.

1 Indian in Gutter

.12.

1-4 Fatal Braze

.12

5

Reclamation Work

.12

5.

New Police Station

.12.

Another Rumour

6

Stabbing Affray.

.13

Foochow's Support

5:

Coming Here

13

Bled To Death

6.

After 25 Days

.13

Dull Week End

.18

Student's Offence

18

6

Flotsam

7

Our Volunteers

Fuse in Tram

Hongkong Police

Indlan's Death,

14

B

Company Meeting"

Armed Burglar

14

9

Water Supply

14

Welcome Back

.15.

Stole A Sheet

"Bargin In"

If

Food Shipments

Sever. Years.

.15

Gone Home

9.

Correspondence:

1617

"Thirteen Gune"

9

Coal and Petroleum

.17

Naval Yard Workers

Where They Are.

17

Local Wedding

Death Inquiry

.17

Strike News'

.10

Hongkong's Next Govern

Canton Rulers

.10.

Street Scenes

.19

Au Revoir

.10

Shameen Affair

.20

River Pirates

.10

Sentence of Death

21

H.M.S. Hermes

.10

$5,200 Fine

Po Hing Fong

.11.

Fell Overboard,

21

Far East Meet

11

Colony's Health

More Idlers

:11

Stolen Firewood

11

Tientsin Trouble

11

Hankow's Safety

11. 12

"How high is that tower?" "Well, it used to be 250ft., but everything's gone up so since the war?

"So you desire to become my son-in-law?"

"No, sir, I don't. But if I marry your daughter I don't see how I can get out of it."

| women brought the same amount of sense to bear upon corsets and. Such a fellow could carve and high heels we might be favoured chop, light a fire and shape with a new generation of beauty. cance; distil his own drink and fashion his own cont from the bear which had snarled at him, Brief life was his portion....but he lived and montony was not a word with which he was familiar.

Thus was the Admirable Crichton born, and for many generations he flourished.. Even in our own medieval age men were priests, lawyers, soldiers, and politicians, and they saw in caves much of this ironical game of living which we must now play. Those who lived upon the land their time." hunted and tilled and were at once obviously, but I confess that the the judges and lawyers for the joy of life would be greater and common people. Even the monks its monotony less if we could farmed and as builders and architects were matchless.

It needed the coming of huge populations, the segregations of citles, the iron hand of a world trade to invent that die which as surely stamps men into one mould As the greatest hammers at Shetheld stamp the steel they

atrike.

Here is pessimism

shuffle about, sometimes and try our hands at jobs at present for- bidden to us. What a stimulus- mentally, at any rate-it would be, if when, our old and dearest friend was "before the beak" at Bow Street, charged, say, with having sung in the presence of a policeman, we could rise in court and exclaim: "For the defendant, your worship,”

Merely Dreams.

We realise that it must be so; yet who cant wonder if upon Occa- slon we rebel? Who among us

Or, equally, if, when some ques- that is a worker has not some time desired a profession other than tion ue.ore the House was one the one he follows? Who writing with which we were conversant, books has not frangined himself we could have the permission of/| DOLLAR, SCOTLAND. leading armies or sailing ships, or Mr. Speaker to any, a few words, snatching a felon from the very what a solid contribution might PREPARATION for Universities, jaws of the gallows? What a we not make to the national

Army, Public Services Com recreation it would be, say, for a welfare, merce. On list of Schools busy doctor if he could ride just Unhappily these things are mot nominating for Sandhurst Con once in the Derby or reply to Mr. for our time, and perhaps for no tingent of Junior Division OTC Jack Jones.

time. Until England again be "Mild climate and healthín)|

comes a pastoral country with but a handful of farming people the As the small boy tells you that other mana gates will be shut to he would like to be a guard or an us, and we naal remain unhonour. engine driver or even in charge of ed, and unsung unless the music. water-cart, so may we in the and the wreaths attend us in that secrecy of our hearts reflect that state of life to which it has pleased we could do other things-tháp

Civilisation to call doing and cut no the

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