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THURSDAY,

FOR HUMANITY.

TO EGYPT.

HINTED WITHDRAWAL

Ordinance fas introduced compell ling our wealthy ones to leave a portion of the things they have ROCKEFELLER REVISES OFFER acquired so readily in this place. the nucleus will be provided for al stately building to house books und specimens, and to pay for the services of a Librarian and Cura- tor. Then we shall have that. Aquarium occasionally mentioned, and an endowment big enough to cover the deficit on maintaining

Reuter's Americap Service),

New York, April 7,

The Press publishes a statement

APRIL 8, 1926.

OIL BLAZE

FOUR MILLION BARRELS ON FIRE

FIFTY TANKS MENACED.

(Router's American Service.)

San Luis Obispo (Call), April 7, -

The largest Bre in the history of by Mr. John D. Rockfaller, Jun. the oil industry here has involved that he has authorised his repre- four tanks belonging to the Unfom

a city band. And when holidays sentative in Egypt to withdraw Oil Company and containing nearly come along, these buildings will his offer of $10,000,000 for an four million barrels of oil.

Archeological Institute, if neces- A lightning explosion broke hun- not be closed, but will be open tosary, in order to and the anndreds of windows and shook tho those who may have "nowhere to ftroversy among the Egyptians as whole city

go" or what perhaps is more true not the wherewithal to go further afield:: The band wil discourse the "sweet sounds" which are capable of instilling a sense of brightness.. All these fare simple matters. The absence lof them would seem to denote an absence of the communal spirit. What should be everybody's busi“ ness is on no-one's; and we grope along, when a little leadership and more public-spirit would drag Hongkong from the spirit of the little village in which it has lain for so long.

WEDDING BELLS.

YESTERDAY'S CATHEDRAL

CEREMONY..

least possible delay. There must be a register of persons whose dogs have been duly licensed. Eet these be called upon to produce their dogs for inoculation--at the expense of the Government i need be, for parsimony in a matter of this kind ought not to cloud the issue-und, following a certificate St. John's Cathedral yesterday. A pretty wedding tock phee at.

LOWCOCK-KOTEWALL..

of inoculation, the dog ought to be when the contracting parties were free of further restrictions. Mr. Henry Loweock, son of Mr. G.. Failure to produce a dog for Path, and Miss Mabel Kotewall, Lowcock of". No. 16. Babington inoculation, or failure to produce daughter of Mr. S. Kotewall of the certificate of inoculation, No. 57, Conduit Road!' ought to render the owner hable

The Rev. G. R. Lindsay and the to surrrender both the Ecence the Rev. T. E. Powell officiated! the animal,

to whether it is acceptable.

Meanwhile a revised offer, based on the suggestions of Ziwar Pasha, is being forwarded to Egypt.

STORY OF THE OFFER.

A New York message of February 15 stated:-

John D. Rockefeller

the

sun

..

the

or

Mr Jolin D. Rockefeller, has offered to King Fuad and Egyptian Nation

maintenance in Caire of a great museum and Archeological insti

Hundreds of men are frantically constructing dykes to prevent tho flames spreading to fifty amaker" tanks In the near vicinity..

IN A STORM.

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TEN FISHING BOATS

:: CAPSIZE.

(Reuter's Servica).

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Tokyo, April 7,

Accordhig to despatches from Hokkaido, ten Ashing boats after

Eard fight against a

storm capsized off Murprani yesterday, resulting in more than 20 people being missing..

The local Reservists and polka are carrying out a search for bodies.

BELGIAN FLIGHT,

MEDITERRANEAN WIND, HAIË),

AND FOG.

(Reuter's Service,)

Erussels, Apr 7.

The Belgian airmen who have arrived at Athens from Cairo tak 9 hours to cross: the Mediterran ean. High wind, hail and fog con- ditions over Crete were so bad that they had to make a detour.

The bride who was given away by the Hom. Dr. R. H. Kotewall Muzzling, of course, may be was charmingly attired in a dress $10,000,000 for the erection and World's greatest fortunes was, that

of white crepella appliqued with a wide circular flounce of silver lace. The beautiful train was made of the same mataris!, and was. appliquéd with silver lace. Нет

mean

also

veil of tulle illusion, was Anished of with a diadem of pearls and

orange blossoms, and she carried a shower bouquet of white roses

expected to do something toward averting the spread of rabies. But it is by no means an ideal method. Dogs need not be treat ed (as so many are) as children and pampered and petted accord ingly but this does not either that they can be dealt with and Hites. 1926, at the General Hospital, in any of spirit of callousness or 'Miss. Majsie Kotewall the little" Singapore, to Leonora, wife of cruelty. That is why the indis-flower girl led the way strewing H. D. FitzGerald B. A.criminate shooting of dogs is to be flowers in the bride's path. Her (Dublin), A.M.ICE. of the deprecated. How can the shoot-shadow lace, finished off with dress Was made of very fine F.M.S. Railways Pahang, a daughter,

ers know whether the victim of dainty hand-made flowers. Her

FITZGERALD-On March

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| HOLLAND-On March 30, 1926, their bullet has or has not been hair why similarly trimmed.

at Batu Gajah, to Mr. and Mrs. inoculated against rabies? In Miss Bobby Kotewall, as page- P. H. Holland, Kuala Pilah, any case they ought to be able to boy in the style of Louis XIV.,

discriminate against the average THOMSEN-On March 30, 1926,

SCD.

wore

satin, Hined with silver tissue.

a costume..of white roman

For honour, was dressed. In white- Mies Phoebe. Kotewall, the maid

to Mr. and Ms. H. Thomsen,ype of house dog and the kind Ulu Sawah Estate, a daughter. that is nothing less than a pariah.

If the "owner of the former is georgette, trimmed with silver and guilty of sins of omission why bandeau and bouquet were made

pale blue embroidery. should the dog be made to sutter of forget-me-nots for them?

Hongkong, Thursday, April 8, 1928..

TO PREVENT RABIES,

Her

Misses Doris and Helen Kotewall, The system of lassooing logs the bridesmaids, were dressed in and placing them in a cage has "pale pink ninon, trimmed, with

tute.

This fact has become known through a premature announcement of the gift by Prof. James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago, who at present is in

Egyps and who will be chairman" or the trustees of the new rauseum

King Fund,

theory of giving from one of the

of producing the greatest direct benefit to mankind. He has now added to this theory the aim of widening the boundary of human knowledge. It was on this under- standing, it is said, that he made

his recent gfty of $20,000 to finance

fight to the North Pole. This was his first gift either to aviation or polar research:

is the opinion of archaeologists that, notwithstanding many museums are filled with Egyptian art, only, a small portion of that vountay's story has been told and that the Rockefeller gift will, if it la accepted, go a long way toward 'bringing to light further marvels.

Professor, Kreasted.

Professor Breasted is noted as n Egyptologist. He had an netive. part in the excavations at: Luxor and previously successfully ex- plored Egyptian tombs Recently he began the exploration of the square mile constituting: Armaged don. It is reported that Mr. Rockefeller is financing this work, on which active operations will beg gin shortly.

On Friday the muzzling order been followed elsewhere, in the bandeaus to match the dresses, of ditions for the gift which Mr.

bands of vilver. They also wore if King Fuad accepts certain con-nouncement in Cairo, Professor

man,"

of

In making his premature an

comes into force with a view to East on the occasion of an

Breasted said the offering of the preventing the spread of rabies break of rabies: and there has bouquets of pale pink roses and King is and to have been unable Rockefeller was

out-silver and pink tissue, and carried Rockefeller desires to impose. The great sum to King Fuad by Mr. because Mr and the risks of hydrophobia. been no public outery. In fact sweet peus.

to acquiesce in these because

Rockefeller Pealised that the whole Since the first cases of both there has been a universal desire hir. George Zimmern was "best the insistence on the part of ex-world, especially the New World of diseases became known there has to help the authorities in every

treme Egyptian Nationalists that the West, owes Egypt a cultural

debt. naturally been a little anxiety on way possible. That spirit could tion, attended by numerous friends,

control be vested in the Egyptian Following the ceremony a recep-Government. the part of owners of dogs for the just as easily be invoked here and was held at 57, Condult Road.

Mr. Rockefeller, ib is asserted; safety of their pets? As there the menace of both rabies and The honeymoon is being spent in The, announcement that Professor desires an American directorate.. are, however, many more dogleus hydrophobia would speedily dis- Shanghai. The bride's going away Breasted a statement was prema- persona than there are owners of ppeur.

dress was of silver grey marocaine ture was made by a representative lined with pale pink charmeuse of Mr. Rockefeller in New York. dogs the discussion on the merits

She wore a grey hat to match the and demerits of the shooting of

dress. straying dogs has been rather one sided. A dog cannot exactly be classed as a necessity. Even the faithful watch dog can be doped by potential thieves.

HONGKONG BRIGHTER,

FATAL SEIZURE.

MR. T. F. CUTHBERTSON'S SUDDEN DEATH.

IN A RICSHA.

The negotiations have been in progress since last fall. The pro- posed museum would house the treasures...which have been found in Egypt, including those taken from the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen at Luxor and other places fathe land of the Pharaohs One of Mr. Rockefeller's. negotiators with King Fuad is now on his way in the United States with a message from the King which possibly may be an {acceptance of the gift,

"Here's a sad town, and God knows when it will be better," writes dear Samuel Pepys of In the anxiety of owners of dogs London in the days of long agó." to protect their animals from a

He might have written the same sudden end there has perhaps

of Hongkong. If we do not sub- been a tendency to ignore the scribe to the dictum that Hong-

Never Been in Egypt..... other side of the picture the kong is dull, it does not follow that Following a

sudden seizure Mr. Rockefeller has never been we are satisfied that conditions while riding over. Cavenaghin Egypt, but in recent years he grave risk to the inhabitants of being bitten by a rabies-infected like flogging dead horses to General Hospital Singapore, on have followed with avidity the cannot be improved. They can. Mr. T. F. Cuthbertson died in the ion in that country. He le said to Bridge in a riesha on March 26, has been interested in the excava animal and contracting hydro- refer once again to the spectacle the following day from the effects excavation of the tomb of Tut-ankh- phobia. The general community has a right to demand the fullest of the Colony's museum and of cerebral hemorrhage. Mr Amen and to have recognized, be form of protection possible, even library, and the absence, among Singapore in the employ of Sir subject, a new educational value in Cuthbertson, who first came to cause of the public interest on the if it were deemed necessary to other things of band perform- John Jackson, Ltd., the contrac-archaeology. During the past five shoot every dog in the Colony ces Here, at the gateway to tors, eighteen years ago, only. FE- or six years he has made large gifts Such a drastic step, of course,

China, it fe conceivable to imagine few weeks ago. He spent Greece, Egypt, Palestine and other turned to Singapore from England for archaeological research in need not be anticipated. But fe a library stocked with books that several years of his life out here places on the Mediterranean. would be a thousand tunes but matter, and a museum that con- planting in various parts of the Me, Rockefeller's rise to an en- He added that in offering, to than running the risk of an tains specimens of the wonderful country, but more recently had thusiast on Egyptian art objects epidemic of hydrophobia!

acted as clerk of works in con- and is said to be an expert on conjunction with the new and establish a research Institute in things to be found in the Far nection with several public con- styles and periods of Egrystian Imposing museum, Mr. Rockefeller If the inoculation of dogs East Unhappily we are forced tractors. The Coroner com workmanship, Some of her Egyp-felt that facilities would be afforded agafast rables can be claimed to to fall back upon imagination menced an Investigation into tian bronzes wore recently need by to scholars to obtain fuller know- be successful, then it is surely the And it these two things are evid bertion's death, the enquiry being here in demonstrating new pro-and to all Egyptians desiring to rg., the drcumstances of Mr. Cath the Metropolitan Museum of Art ledge of the history of civilisafien duty of the owners of dogs to ence of the Colony's imagine adjourned, "Singapore Free cess for restoring corroded bronzes, calve the beat training a his• ensure that this is done with the tion

Rockefeller's torians.

Some day

when an

Prof. J. Breaste