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Hongkong, Monday, March 1, 1926

THE BANK.

"We are all very proud of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation," said Mr. D. J Lewis at Saturday's annual meet-1 ing. It is a natural pride. If the bank is not one of the wonders of the world, it has to be remembered that it figures in the list of the frut ten of the largest banking institutions in the world; and that in itself it typifies all that stands for British integrity and sound- ness of principle. Annually, the chairman's speech is a matter for world-wide consideration. The views genrally expressed are based on solid foundations on figures and facts that are incón. trovertible. The Corporation's most important field of operations is China. It is not the only field of course. If it were, the chaos and fluctuations in the fortunes, mainly of militarists, which are so often the rule-which do so much to hinder the natural pro- gress of a great country-might well have an adverse effect on the bank and its operations. Banks

to the peaceful life of the indus- trious population." In an age of progress they cannot possibly last This may be small comfort to the many on both sides who have suffered and are suffering. But if we believe, as we must, that "the bulk of the Chinese people are cultured, industrious and peace loving" we must believe that ere long the qualities associated with these virtues, must assort them- selves, and China free itself from the shackles which bind it. Mr. G. M. Young's review of the Bank's operations throughout, a critical year is in keeping with the others uttered by his predeces sory; for it sums up the aims and

objects of a great institution and shows clearly and concisely the trend of trade. It may be said to be a review of the world"

MORNING BLAZE

UNFORTUNATE INMATES

POSTRAPPED;"

FOUR LIVES LOST.

Four lives were lost in a fire

MONDAY, MARCH 1,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

A Cale

which broke out at 3 o'clock yes terday morning at Kwal Wah Lane 8 between Queen's Road West and Tervola Street and running into 4,

Cleverly Street,

The buildings affected were Nos. 9 and 10 of three storeys, access 6, to the upper floors being by a narrow staircase serving both the 7, houses. The ground floors: " were used as shops and the upper floors as dwellings.

March 1926. 1 Mon James Rowlands died 1920

in his time the citizens of London celebrated St David's Day by hanging a Welshman in effigy

Ob very handsomely done." Tues, Professor Blackie died, viously the diarist thought it a

1895:

quite right and proper thing. St Wed, Lord Rosebery, Premier, David was born at the latter and

1894

cf the fifth century, and is said Thurs., Wilson, President. to Have lived to be 146 years old. USA. 1913.

As is well known, Fri Catholle Emancipation

Origin of St the Welsh saint is passed, 1829, Sat., Elizabeth Barrett Brown

• David.

St. David, who, ing born, 1809:

strange to say, was Sun., H. M. Hyndman born,

1842.

**Ilmmy"

one time a great Roman Catholic priest and first reported Bishop of

Nobody would have St. David's diocese. He was also called him anything the spiritual ruler of Wales in the Rowlands but "Immy." Holatter part of the fifth century. Scenes of extreme panic were held a unique position in the Despite our religious differences! witnessed when the inmates scram- Labour party, but, although he we have developed a noble institu- bled out of their beds and reached always had a large Labour follow-tion known as the Eisteddfod, wholesome literature, the safety of the street? Finding ing, he was in his heart a Radical, where escape cut off by the collapse of just as was Thomas Burt and poetry, art and music are carefully the staircase, one Chinese jumped other old-timers who could not cultivated by a healthy co-opera- from the verandah and was in change to Socialism.

tion of all units, and yet retains a stantly killed.. Three other Chin-

critical system of competition. ese including a woman, perished

Thus, in comparison with other In the flames, and the charred He first got into Parliament in national festivals, the Welsh ra bodies of the victims were found 1886 for Finsbury, and after sittain all that is best of Grecian and under the wreckage..

ting for ten years he had ten years Ropian culture, with immense Hampered in their movements by out, until he beat the Conservative modern improvements. Political the narrowness of the street, the Chief Whip at Dartford In the changes have been rapid even in Fire Brigade nevertheless worked' 1918 election he was returned as these times, from old Toryism unceasingly with all the appliances Liberal-Labour, supporting the which combined with landlordism at their disposal and in about. an Coalition.

flames:

hout the danger of the gaming hold of the adjoining houses was removed.

-to a Liberal revival in the late 'seventies. This revival produced national and world fumed politi- He was a watch-case maker, and

cfans, who knew not only Wales as The ground floor of the building all his life was interested in re-their home, but thought in the

He was a escaped with little damage, but ferrn movements, the upper floors, together with the member of the old School Board, language of the common peoples belongings of the occupants, fought the Vestry system and

The name William, accord- were completely destroyed. The helped to establish the L.C.C In "Willie" ing to a speaker ab m. re- rear portion of two bulldings in his later years he devoted himself Queen's Road West extending to to work for the taxation of land connected with "somewhat unfor the lane wore badly scorched. The values and he had a hankeringtunate occurrences." He quoted extent of the damage has not been after the single tax proposal of the following- assessed.

LOCAL IMPORTS.

H.K. CHAMBER'S FORTNIGHTLY

REPORT.

Henry George.

To-day is St. Day David's when all good! Welshmen are

The Wearing of The Leek.

supposed to sport the leek, this being their badge of battle in a great victory won by them over their Saxon foemen on this day in The chapter on imports, in the the first half of the sixth century. fortnightly report of the Hongkong As a curious instance of the sur- General Chamber of Commerce,vival of racial, animosity, it may reads:-

be noted that Pepys records that

Hongkong. Feb. 26.

CANTON PROCESSION, of previous years.

►

CUSTOMS COMMISSIONEN'S

ACTION.

HONGKONG A.D.C.

AND THE AUTHOR OF

זון 6

(By An Old Play-Goer:)

cent BA.T... dinner. 1s

.:

"Little Willie, left by Mater,..

Tumbled down the elevator; Was not found till six days later. All the neighbours cried, "Gee

Whiz, What a spoilt boy Willie la!" Again-

I

+

"Willo, in one of his best silk-

Bashes,

Fell in there and wae burnt

to ashes..

Ha Mother remarked, "The the

weather is chilly,

I haven't the heart to poke poor

Willle."

Coast of China. The title of the play is The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles."

Cotton Piece Goods and Funey Cotton Goods:-Miscellaneous sales covering most styles of ataples and fancies eventuated whee market re- roned after Chinu New Year,

Then followed Mr. Sinclair'e · But the aggregate is negligible in

great production of four plays by quantity when compared with that

LordDunsany which he called Lateat cutson

"The Four Doors" Is was a dar- quotations are those of Feb. 25.

ing effort to put on four short Eg. Sakel 17.50d. Mid: Am.. 10:384. Spot.

On Tuesday night the public of plays for an evening's perform-

ance, but it succeeded..

The Cotton Yarn:-During the inter- Hongkong will have an oppor- theatre was well filled on each val our market has ruled very tunity of judging for themselves

Hongkong appreciated quiet and prices show a lower the merits of Lord Dunsany's occasion:

Lord Dunsany's work. tendency. Quotations are:--No play. "I" on Wednesday they 108. "$170/135. No. 128. $175/190. |will be able to read in the news- There were many who admired $190/195. No. 206. papers all about the story of the the acting and the stage craft, Arrivals 900 bales. play; how the various well-known but who were also rather puzzled Canton, Feb. 25. Shipments nil." Sales mil. Unsold local amateurs who are taking the by Lord Dunsany's themes. Now- A great procession of Red sym-stock 5,800 balas. Bargains 8,800 various parts carried the play to adays we have become more used pathisers us a protest against the bales.

success for It will be a success to his style. He has written "a Customs Commissioner closing, the Woollens:Nothing to report.

and how this and that was good, number of plays and no doubt the re-bad or indifferent.. And anyone local A.D.C. will produce some of port of Canton passed off without

who has any liking for the theatre the others. incident.

will go to at least one of the per formances..

PUBLIC PLEASED.

(Reuter's Service:)

|

No.

168.

$105/200.

Raw Cottonat-No sales to port. Although members of the Can- Metals Spot business stagnant. tom Government, leaders, A, the with few enquiries: forward:

boycott, and› anti-Imperialist various Chineo oficial and mer cantile bodies denounced the. Come missioner's action, the public generally are pleased

"All fa quiet and trade is being resumed.

The Red strike committee is Canton has already organised the Kung Yea Chinese Hospital on Soviet Hines, and is now insisting that foreign hospitals should adopt similar methods, as a result of which the French hospital is already closed.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS,

the

and Mr. J. A. fraser to to 1

Dr. W. V. M. Koch to be a Member

of the Sanitary Board

are not insular institutions. They The following appointments Are represent in themselves how notified in peoples and nations are inter- Gazette depent, and how causes may have Officer, Northern Distric effect on peoples who have never⠀⠀ Territories). met, and press hardly where, in Mr. JA Fraser authorised normal circumstances, they would email Debts Court in in

Territories not. It is natural that a large measure of the Chairman's speech should be devoted to affairs in B. Nihil to act

Assistant to the Secretary for China; that it should express the Chinese Affaire. continued friendliness of the Bri-

Same tish in

China and the Chinese which it is the peculiar province of commerce to promote and keep alive Optimists patient

the class-regard the present disturb ing period as but a period leading to something brighter and in finitely betterStrikes and boy cotts after all reflectas te of mind i needing

and

1 to traffe and the welt

Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton to act as an Assistant Superintendent of Imports and Exports. Sergeant H. Owen-Hughes to be Second Lieut. In the H.K.V.D.CA Mr. R. A. D. Forrest to be Secropsy. * to the Sanitary Board, Agg

Rav, A. D. Stewart to be one of the

German-Missions

Rev. J. H Johnson to be one

the German

Flour Market Report:-Stock: About 500,000 sacks. Market: Easier on account large arrivals and small demand from outporta" on account of near approach of Chinese New Year holidays. Quotations; Amer- lean Patent, $4.30 per sack; Amer. can Straight, $3.56 per sack; American Cut off, $3.55 per sack; Shanghai Flour, 88.45 par sack Australian No. 1; $8.55 per sack; Canadian Cut-off, $3.15 per sack.

Sundries: Local stocks plenti fuf..

Sugar:-Market quiet. Market dull at increased prices,

Saltpetre-Stocks 12,000 bags. Dull market with nothing note worthy to report.

LOCAL EXPORTS.

The play "If" was first printed in December 1921 and almost im- mediately reprinted It then ap The object of this note is not to peared in a volume of Lord desuribe "If but to mention the Dunsany's plays entitled "Plays personal interest of Lord Dunsany of Near and Far." (February, in this Colony, and our local 1993). That volume also contains dramatic club.

The Gods of the Mountain."

✓

a remarkable play called "The Flight of the Queen" which is a sort of a stage story of Maeter It is now more than six years linck's famous book, The Life of ago that. Mr. Sinclair produced the Bee" Dunsany himself says "The Gods of the Mountain" and that he is too fond of this play "The Tents of the Arabs in the to leave it any longer in obscur→ He tells us that "this Theatre Royal, Hongkong. Both ity" plays are by Lord Dunsany. All beautiful story has been lying Df the performers were under-about the world for countless graduates of the local University. centuries, without ever having He almost Anyone who saw them must have been dramatised." been convinced of the natural challenges an ambitious producer aptitude of these young, men for to try his hick with it. Perhaps stage work. Perhaps the out we may yet see it in Hongkong. atanding figure was a medical student named Mustapha bin

"I" is just the sort of thing, Osman. A Mr. Lo, who is of a well-known Hongkong family, was that the public is used to and liked wonderful as a woman, which re- John Beal is an ordinary person H.K. CHAMBER'S FORTNIGHTLY minds us that the most famous who gets into extraordinary situa Chinese actor of the day nearlytions: Viziers and black Nubians always takes the part of a girl or There are great spectacles with and sudden death give the thrills. young wife shared many people in dazzling oriental Supplied by the Association of The plays were presented in Mr. costumes. It is more like mxporters and Dealers, and pub Sinclair's usual style and were, as "Kismet than any other local lished in the fortnightly report of local productions, a great success. A.D.C. productions. There have the Hongkour General Chamber of They were not well-advertised and been some clever braing at work commerce, the following remarks the general public, a little suspon the stage and although we shall are taken from the chapter on cious of a play writer then un- not see the producer he has been exporta

known in Hongkong and with the Indefatigable. It is not fair to title of Lord before his name, and anticipate, too much. We may in many cases ignorant of the however, remind ourselves of opportunity offered, did not fill the those other plays by Lord house. Those who acted how Dunsany that have been produced evar, obviously enjoyed the experi- by Amateurs in Hongkong. And we can assure the public that they will be very much amused by the

REPORT.

Hongkong, Feb 25 Camphor Small stock. Cantharides. Quiet,? Ossals (Canton and Kwangsi)

ing closing,

Lord Dunsany's Gift

producer Play called

In a message? ployees;Messrs.

Hunters state the ver

started with no Koal

em:

and

Been

their

two Wallsend yards and little

work in other branches