SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927.
SHANGHAI "WAR” PRECAUTIONS.
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Mr. Denis H Hazell Vigilance was maintained on the border of the French Concession at Shanghai the week before last when there were rumours of a possible massed attack from the direction of the Chinese city, Chinose refugees are shown applying for admission at the only barrier loft open for traffle from the "old" rity into the French Concession. A French soldier is, search- ing Chinese elvillan and an Annamite soldier ion the left) is standing by
ROUSE WHERE CHIANG KAI-SHEK STAYED.
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EVELESS EDEN
THE CHINA MAIL
SETTLEMENT FOR 21 MEN-
ONLY
A MISANTHROPIC COLONY
"No women; no trouble?
AN OXFORD RAG.
MUCH DAMAGE AT CHRIST "CHURCH
BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR...
Lord Stanley of Alderley said. that the coming generation in the industry was "not one whit behind the present generation, and it was berause they believed that English! brains were equal, if not superior, to German, Franch, United States: A "rag," which resulted in brains that they looked forward. considerable damage being done with confidence to the future of the to Christ Church College, occur-chemical industry. Such is the slogan of Captain red following the Bullingdon Christensen, leads of the Santa Club dinner. The University Maria Island settlement for mon authorities tried to keep the mat. ter secret, but it has now come to In a few days' time the inagnia-light that, after dinner at the cently-atted auxiliary schooner Bullingdon Club, members re "Floreana" will steam for a dream turned to Christ Church armed isis in the romantic Galapagos with hockey sticks, copper kettles, carrying with her ning passengers, pieces of coal, and other things all men, bound for an Eveless Eden which could be used as destruc
Besides, the Londen buyers of (says the "Sunday Chronicle.")" tive weapons, and proceeded to
numerous big trading concerns in When the glittering ship, with bombard the windows and electhe Far East helped to swell the her strange company, fades from tric globes in Peckwater Quad. vast total of the business done. aight the violet mists of the south where most of the damage was ern horizon will serve aa, a curtain for the Arst act of an astonishing done, Tom Quad, and Canterbury Quad, In a short space of time
only. "
real-life drama.
Seven Chinese were amongst the 1,600 foreign buyers who visited the British Industriea Fair at the White City in mall week, and placed orders, with British firms.
War as a science is still in its The nine men are sailing to join there was not one window in infancy-Rev. Dr. F. W. Noor- their twelve misanthropic com-Peckwater Quad left intact. Glasswood. rades who have been busy building was atrewn about everywhere, bungalows amid the tropie vegeta-and in many instances, the tion that mantles the tiny island of window frames were completely Santa Maria, in the Galapagosmashed and the wreckage allow Group, off the coast of Ecuador, ed to remain. Some part of the South America,
Shadows Before.
IN THE "MAIL."
Bakapatay ther April 9-Queen's Theatre: The Coast of Folly"
April World Theatre; "Hands Up K
wreckage was used to create fur-COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED Eternal Entanglements.
ther damage. Over 500 panes of Here, where auch giant tortoises glass were broken, yet there were as Louis de Rougemont describes
no casualties unless it is that some eraw lazily under burning equa- torial skies, and where the craters are now suffering with colds or of two hundred volcanoes now and influenza through sleeping in too then spume forth burning ashes and airy rooms. Before arriving at smoke, the twenty-one adventurers Christ Church the same under- will make their home. That home graduates had broken panes of
to be without a woman.
glass in a bus which was bring Why upon this erstwhile base ofing them back to Christ Church. the old-time buccaneers? Why on It will take at least a week for a this far-off isle uninhabited these dozen werkmen to repair the many years?
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Captain August Christensen, leader of the expedition, answers:-- "Because where there are women there is trouble: We are taking over Santa Maria to escape the eternal entanglements of a woman- Eridder civilisation."
jown.
Three are
damage.
«CHEMICAL INDUSTRY.
British Confidence in the Future.
Apri 9-Star Theatre; "The Story Without a Name."
Abril 9-First, performance of "Molly Kennedy at the Naval Can- teen Theatre
April 9 Theatre Royal H.M.S. "Pinafore," 9.30 p.m.
April 10-Concert by the Massed Bands of the 1st Bn. The Cameroniana and 1st Bn. The Middlesex Reyt., Queen's Theatre, 19.20 p.m.
April 31-The Hong Kong Dance Clubs grand opening Carnival Dance at Lane Crawfords, at 9 p.m... Sports.
April 8-Fanling Hunt Steeple-
The personal experience of these Adams who will have no more of Eve, has been bitter..
An interesting review of the chem divorced: the other eighteen are mical industry was given by Sir Max chase, 3.15 p.m.
April 30Third annual athletic Reparated from their wives. They Muspratt at a luncheon of the Royal have tried the orthodox Eden and Colonial Institute, held at the Can-ports of Sacred Heart College on Mr. Donis H. Hazell
found it a place of strife; they are non Street Hotel, under the chair- H.K.F.C. ground, Happy Valley, Muking doubly sure! The French suntries carrying out a very careful
going to have a new one of their manship of Lord Stanley of Alder-1 A Others are standing in
Aor 16-Seventh tournament of scaren op. Chinese fugitives fram their own homes..
ley.. the rour waiting their team to approach the Franch barrier. In the back
Dead Buccaneers!:
Sir Max Muspratt was giving in the Hong Kong Boxing Aasn. at ground on the left) is the house where Genern Chiang Kai-shek (cpm-
Emancipated! from: feminine address on "The Chemical Industry Theatre Royal, 9:15 pm.
April 16-18-Second. Extra Race mander-in-chief of the Nationalist Armies) stayed when he first arrived at
thraldom, they Zondly picture a life and the Empire," and mentioned Shanghai (native city). The house was formerly used by Northern officials.
of harmonious bliss, an existence that this industry was a barometer Meeting of Hong Kong Jockey Club,
Race Course, Happy Valley. without bills or bickerings.
of the prosperity of the country for For their purpose, they could not in a small or large way it entered Thave chosen a more perfect place.
into every other industry in the Santa Maria, Hike the other Isles!
IN A HURRY TO SEEK SHELTER.
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Mr. Denia H. Hazell
Here is another snapshot of the scene at the only French barrier that was left open. The Chinese city in the hackground is the "old walled city" to the south of Shanghal, not directly adjoining the International Settle.. ment, and not to be confused with Chapei (to the north of and adjoining the International Settlement), where the British troops were engaged. I will be seen that none of the Chinese refugees carry baggage, they being in a hurry to get into the foreign concessions.
RESULT OF INCENDIARISM, AT CHAPEL
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Mr. Donis H. Hasolle Rulnu of a block of houses set on fire just outside the Settlement, near Dixwell Roud.The Municipal Fire Brigade went from Hongkow lats Chapel where they fought the flames behind a screen of Japanese marines.i While snipers potted away at them the firemen saved several houses: The Chinese Brigade worked at another end to stop the blaze extending. Cap Lain 3, Gordon Dysen and Mr. Basil Hunting drove the Municipal are angine themselves, with a volunteer Chinoso "Marew
April 20-Seventh bi-annual race. for the "Trevessa" Trophy, com-
Meetings.
In the early days of the mencing 4 p.m. world, of this burning archipelago," has a war we were told that there was no perfect climate, tropical, but cooled chemical industry in Britain, but |
Ribbed Skeletons.
April 23-Telephone: Co.'s second meating, at Exchange Bldg., 11 am.
Lammert's Auctions. Aprik 9-Miscellaneous goods, Sales Room, Duddell St, 11 a.m.
April 11-Valuable household) furniture at No. 3. Highburh Ter- race. Hunghon, 10.30 a.m.
It April 14-At No. 88A. Nathan
April 9-Annual meeting of the! by the Peruvian current. The that was wrong, for we had always Chinese Club, in Club premisce, 8 scenery is opulently magnificent boon the greatest exporters
of p.m..
April 14-Twenty-seventh annuat with luxuriant vegetation.
chemicals in the history of the The Eucadorian Government has world, True, there were certain meeting of Kowloon Howling Green granted the land to the Eveless branches in which we were a little Club, Club-House. 5.45 m
April 21-Second Meeting of colonisers who are anticipating, not deficient. but it was interesting to only tranquil domestic lives, but the recall that in chemicals, a feld in China Light & Power Co., Ltd., piling up of vant fortunes from the which our late enemies thought 11.30 am. eultivation of the amazingly prolific they were surest, the balance turn- soil. and the whale fishing.
Centuries ago, this glowing faleed in our favour. The great need annual
in the industry was still for re- echoed to the drunken shouts of buccaneers who used it as their search, and in this respect we had headquarters, and whose bones have splendid resources in intellectuall power. We had, too, the advantage grown white under the sun.
of having the prime necessities in Old barrels, mere ribbed skele. raw material such as coal, salt tona, leathern bottles, ancient fre-limestone, and, of course, tar.
was necessary that each:
of Rd. Kowloon valuable household locks and awe-inspiring sabres, these advantages should be pressed furniture, 245 pm. alone, remain to tell the tale of for to the full so that not a single gotten acts of high seas pracy, chance of Imperial development |
April 9 Lenten Mission bloodshed, and debauch.
"should be lost. In many ways Catholic Cathedral, Glenealy, 6 p.m. In those days it was known as electric power could replace coal Freacher: Rev. Fr. G. Byrne, S..
April Charlie's Island, ao named after a
9-Annual dinner notorious cut-throat follower of the Canada had some of the finest Black Flag.
Later, for a short water power in the world, and Tax Queen's College Old Boys' Associa- time, it became a penal settlement. mania was well supplied in this tion, College Hall. 8 p.
Processes hy which it! then it returned to its eternal respect.
could be utilised were being worked dreams.
"Santa Maria abounds in wild out on a vast scale la Britain and game which will yield the Eveless would, in due course, be available Colony meat in plenty. On a clear to the Empire as a whole. For the day, a dim shadow on the horizon, industry the Empire afforded the where most valuable market, the chemical Juan Fernandez Island, Robinson Crusoe was marooned, is exports to Australia, with her sparse population, being only 25 per cent. less than those to China.
vialble.
B
First Revolution. What will be the second chapter In this romantic adventure?. It is foreshadowed by an incident that happened a few weeks ago.
One evening a member of the "Florenna's" crow went shore. When he came back to the ship, hol announced his intention of with- drawing from the enterprise. He had been regarded as one of the most bitter of woman haters.
Alus his escape was prevented at the eleventh hour by the wiles of a woman. He found that Eve, after all, is not so bad, not so destitute of charms, that one need flee from her so far as the Equator
In the days to come there may be a rebel who will take courage from the ghosts of the dand buc caneers, and lift sloft the jazz lag of modern Eve and declara for the admission of women
And when that day arrives, per
haps a few among the little com- pany of misanthropes will slip over to his side and bring about the first fevolution in the Eveless Faradise,
WOMAN BURGLAR.had been tried on, as paper and pins Time will show meanwhile the
GOWNS TRIED ON BEFORE REMOVAL.
Included amung burglars who
had been taken from the sleeves and the fastenings had been undone
ceful lines of the "Floreana" ES lies in the harbour of San The goods stolen include 8 ever-Francisco are an object of deep in- ing gowns, 15:day Trocks, a number terest to every bobbed-haired of fur-lined coats and other mis- maiden. callaneous goods, 2
ralded the premisen of Madame Zoe a costumier, In Harewood place, Hanover square W trance had bee belleved to have been, a woman who through a ama tried on some, gowns before they which the door an were removed, peny
One of the burglars must have
arently an been very small,
The value of the goods stolen devi
atatod to be between 2500 Kad 700
Madame Zoe told. Ekspo
the burglars took the best French models. Some aft
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April 26-Mr. Harry Ore gives a Beethovan Centenary Recital at the Theatre Royal, 9:16 p.m.
and April 21-Vice-chairman Committee of Victoria Diocesan Assen. "at home" to members and friends at Helena May Institute, 4.30 p.in.
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