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MONDAY, MAY

FLOOD PERILS.

CONDITION OF REFUGEES PITIFUL.

16, 1927.

NATIVE CREDULITY.' 'ENTENTE CORDIALE.

THE INDIAN STORY ABOUT CELEBRATING THE “SILVER

A WOLF-CHILD.

WEDDING."

CHURCH SPIRES LIKE ROCKS. LONDON SPECIALIST'S VIEW. FRENCH PRESIDENT'S VISIT.

New Orleans, May 13,

London, April 25.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LIVING LONGER.

WOMEN OUTLASTING THE MEN.

INTERESTING STATISTICS.

"RAFFLES,”

LATEST WONDERS AT THE QUEENS.

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THE LADY IN THE SAFE.

Locking a woman in a large Men in Britain are living longer steel safe and then, with his band- than they used to do-and women aged, releasing her by opening the longer than men.

The latest statistics compiled for combination behind his back is only the Registrar-General indiente that one of the several remarkable fents the average expectation of life for undertaken by Raffles in his new males in England and Wales in-programme at the Queen's Theatre. creased even in the period between There is no fake about this trick- it is done by sheer skill. The au- 1910 and 1924 by 8 years.

London, May 15. After a week's full, the floods Contributing to the correspon- The "Silver wedding of the in Louisiana are again assuming dence in "The Times" on the sub- Entente Cordiale" Is the phrase serious proportions, hundreds ofject of the recently-discovered jused by "Le Journal" in reference thousands of acres of land and Indian "wolf-child," Sir Robert to the state visit of M. Doumergue thousands of homes being Armstrong-Jones discredits auch to London on the 16th when the threatened by the bursting of stories, which, he declares, ure French President will be escorted the levee on the Bayou des due to native credulity.

from Calais by six French des-

At Somerset House, Strand, W.C.,dience expressed its surprise and Glaises.

The survival of defenceless troyers to Dover where he will be

a reporter learned that it has been delight yesterday in cordial ap- The condition of the refugees children among wolves, tigers and welcomed by the Prince of Wales

computed that the mean length of plause which was the more spon- is of the most pitiful description. jackets is incredible, as also is the and Lord Crewe. He will be re-

life to be expected at birth la now taneous for the tle comical Women and children, many of apse of a child to be brute level. ceived by the King and other 56.68 years for men and. 80.47 years touches that enlivened the proceed- whom are poorly clad and almost [A Bombay message of April 5 royalties at Victoria Station and fen women.

Ings of Rames, his two prelty as- There has been a steady length-sistants, and their willing helpers. starving, are to be seen every-stated:A jungle child, discover- entertained at a State banquet at

Completing where on the roofs of houses and ed by some herdsmen in a wolves' Buckingham Palace in the even-ening of life since the first Fublic from the audience.

Health Act was passed in 1848. the programme at the Queen's is a other buildings. In some cases cave far from human habitation ing.

stirring picture of circus life call- Here are some figures:-

Expectation of life at birth in- |ed "Spangles," an amusing pen and Years (for mules). ink cartoon, and the latest topical The music, as always 39.91 gazette,

under the baton of Mr. Grovini, is excellent.

More Levees Crumbling.

New Orleans, May 15. The Mississippi flood relief fund has now reached G$11,500.- 000.

SNOW AT HOME IN APRIL.

1838-1854

1871-1830

1881-1890

1891-1900

41.35

43.66

44.13

"It has always been found that women, as a whole, live longer than men," and an official.

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"The figures show that, on average, they live four or five years longer."

INDIA HOUSE.

WORK TO BE STARTED AT EARLY DATE.

human beings and animals are at Maiwani, 75 miles from Allaha- M. Doumergue is accompanied finding a common refuge on ralts, bad, now is in the work-house in by M. Briand, who, it is under- The Church spires stand out like Allahabad, under medical observa-stood, will confer with Sir Austen rocks from the waste of waters, tion, preparatory to being taken Chamberlain particularly on the and hungry birds of prey perch to the Bareilly Mental Home. question of the evacuation of the on the trees waiting for the floods The child is a boy, judged to be Rhinoland which is embarrassing i to subside.-Reuter's American between seven and twelve years the position of M. Stresemann, Service.

old, and is under-nourished and who, it is reported, is contem- shows distinct signs of mental de-plating resignation if his Locarno ficiency. In appearance he is little hopes are not fulfilled.-Reuter. different from an ordinary child, but in his actions he betrays signs!

A doctor's opinion given to a re-

Work will be started at an early of his upbringing. The child can

porter was:

date on the new India House, which Levees along Bayou des Glaises walk, but in moments of what are

During the last few decades there is to be built on the vacant site are crumbling before the assault considered to be abnormality, he

has been a great reduction of in-in Aldwych, W.C., and for which of the pent up inland ses and evidently prefers to crawl, sitting:

London, April 26, fant mortality. Women live longer the Indian Government has au- already four major and at least on his haunches with his legs curl

After the recent summerlike than men because of several fucts.thorised a first grant.

The building will be commer- a dozen minor breaks have oceur-ed up, and propelling himself for

ter able to resist disease, and an-surate with the importance of red within 175 miles of New ward with the palms of his hands weather, winter returned to Great One is that they are naturally bet- Orleans.

on the ground. Indeed, the knees Britain recently.

Snow fell heavily in many dis-other that they are subject to fewer india in the British Empire and

occupational risks.

will be as imposing as the offices Hundreds of workers, who have and paims bear evidence of fre-

Further, child-bearing is a much! in London of Australia and Canada. been fighting in this section quent dragging on hard ground. tricts, especially in Scotland and

Plans have been drawn up by Sir against the irresistible gise of the He is now being fed on meat and Northern England, while a 50-less dangerous matter than it used Mississippi have given up in des-other foods, which he appre-mile-an-hour gale prevailed in the to be and the risk of death at child Herbert Baker, one of the archi

birth is being lessened every day.tects of the new Delhi, who has pair and abandoned their homes ciates, but it is noticeable that he Channel.

conceive a distinctive building: which, while conforming in its gen- eral outlines to the rest of Aldwych, will incorporate suggestions of Indian architecture. The cost of the building will be at least £300,000, and it will consist of a basement and six floors above the ground level.

for the refugee concentration shows little preference towards camps-Reuter's American Ser this type of food. Frequently he

vice.

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cats grass and the earth of the Relief for Farmers.

compound into which he is taken The Washington, May 15. in the cool of the evening. The Federal Farm Loan Board boy shows a prodigious appetite has approved the organisation off at all times and apparently there a Binance Corporation by the is no limit to the extent to which Mississippi bankers to relieve he can eat. The facts given by farmers in that State who are the herdsmen who discovered the suffering from the floods, The boy are substantiated by the Corporation will be able to borrow police who visited the wolves' enve G.$4,000,000 on the basis of after the event and found evid- million dollars paid up capital-ence of the boy's foot marks in Reuter's American Service.

TRADE UNION PLAN. "ABSTAIN FROM LIQUOR AND

SMOKING."

the cave. While in Allahabad he frequently has gone into fits. when evidence of his animal up- bringing are still more marked. He has become ferocious on several occasions, and attacked two burley policemen who are his guardians in the dormitory of the work-house, and he also has bitten himself, and shows signs of sores on his shoulders and legs. Then the most remarkable signs of his animal existence were seen, for It says: "Let the entire working he employed as the only means of class resolve that if the Trade vocal expression a species of Unions Kill la passed they will bark, continuously and vigorously. abstain from the consumption of He also betrays certain instincts all excisable liquor, and the smok-even lower than the animals. No ing of all forms of tobacco, unless claim has been made for the boy.]

London, April 28. The "Social Democrat" tells its readers how to beat Mr. Stanley Baldwin.

the Government withdraw the ob- noxious measure."

It adds that the resultant loss of revenue would compel the Govern ment to leave the Trade Unions alotic.

MISSING ATLANTIC AIRMEN.

ROYAL ACADEMY,

STUDY OF MR. G. B. SHAW REJECTED.

London, April 27. Ottawa, May 14. The Hanging Committee of the The Marine Department an-Royal Academy have rejected Mr. nounces that fog is impeding the John Collier's portrait of Mr. G. Canadian Government patrol Bernard Shaw.

boats' search for Captain Nun- Mr. Collier's other portrait, that

•gesser between Cape Breton of Mr. Aldous Huxley, was accept- Island and Newfoundland.

ed,

Mr. Collier is popularly known as the inventor of the "problem

Not the slightest trace of the airmen has yet been fourid by the picture," his best known being "The patrols or any coastal or trans-Fallen Idol," "The Sentence of Atlantic steamer.-Reuter,

Death," and "The Cheat."

He recently made the statement that modern art was ugly and

50,000 Francs Reward.

Paris, May 18.

[The Hon, John Collier is a well Educated at Eton

Mr. N. Anthony Baker, better known to American Theatre goers us "Nick" Baker, is to-day one of the most noted actors on the American Don't miss any of the offerings of etage, without the slightest doubt. the Wilbur Players who open at the Star Theatre to-morrow, with Nick Baker in the cast.

TONS OF GOLD.

DUKE AND DUCHESS SEE BENDIGO.

London, April 28. Melbourne.-The Duke

and

Advances in medical science and the increased care taken to secure purity in food are other notable rea- sone for longer living.

FOUND IN RUINS OF OLD PANAMA:

One of the objects of India House is to provide { "shop window" for Indian goods in Lon- don. and it is proposed to have large windows on the street level for displays of India's wide range i of products,

The most important feature of the new building for Indians will be an attempt to provide a Accom- real home from home." modation will be provided for social functions and there will be rooms and numerous writing libraries where Indiana may meet their fellow-countrymen.

FILM CAUSES A PANIC.

At the first film shown in a small Tartar community, a woman fainted;

in terro and the audience thrown into alarm, say

Туде

Press

message from Moscow.

I The

The men, thinking the show was the work of a devil, sent their daughters away, but bravely mained to see the full reel. operator had to stop the show five times to explain his apparatus to -suspicious newcomers to the audi-

ence.

Before the Inst flickker, however, Mary Pickford had won her way to all the male Tartar hearts, and films have since become an impor- tant feature of the village life.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL."

Entertainments.

May

16 Queen's Theatre;

May 16-Star Theatre; "Paris." May 16 World Theatre; "Thy Name is Woman.".

Duchess of York spent six hours MORGAN'S TREASURE "Spangles." in-travelling in order to let the people

of Bendigo see them for one hour. The crowds were most enthusias tle, and presented the Duchess with that Bendigo had produced 600 tons of gold, valued at £30,000,000, though the district is now famous for its tomatoes, which its inhabi tants call "Red diamonds."

It is understood that M. human. Bompart, Director of the news- paper "Paris Sport," has sent Mr. known artist. Roy, the Canadian Commissioner be studied art at the Slade School gold nugget, recalling the fact at Paris, 50,000 francs as a re-and also in Paris and Munich. He ward anyone discovering has published several booke on art Nungesser in Canada.

including "A Primer of Art and "The Art of Portrait Painting."].

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French Opinion.

Paris, May. 14. The papers are closely following the search of Capt. Nungesser off the Canadian and American coasis. They are of opinion that it is likely that Capt. Nungesser descended near the coast or on one of the lakes in Labrador.-Reuter.

PHILIPPINES TROUBLE;

Manila, May 14.

A revolt broke out among the

CINEMA. ROLE.

£10,000 FEE FOR SIR HARRY LAUDER.

London, April 27.

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Sir Harry Lauder will receive over £10,000 for taking the part of a retired Glasgow grocer in the film "Hunting-tower." a British screen

An excited woman, in trying to shake hands with the Duchess as che passed, missed the hand, but grabhed the bouquet, leaving only the stringa in the hands of the amazed Duchess.

May 16 Tea Dance, Cafe Res- taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Dance, 8 p.m.; exhibition dancing,| 8.30 p.m.

Two Englishmen, George

May 16. Ianko's European Williams and Fred Kelley, with an

May 17-Star Theatre; The WiI- American named Wallace Bain, are Circus, Hunghom, Kowloon. reported to have discovered in Old Panama a portion of the treasure bur Players in their latest come- of the notorious pirate Morgan, dies and dramas. hidden by him there in 1671, when be sacked the city.

Sports.

May 18-Postponed Exhibition! Tennis Match in aid of M.C.L., 4 p.m.

May 24-Kowloon Cricket Club hold function in aid of Hospital

The treasure-hunters have found, according to messages reaching New York, says the British United Press, gold ornaments, chains and precious stones, including rubles,

May 28-29-Second extra Race: emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. Meeting at Macno, 2.16 p.m. Most of the treasure.was hidden in

Auction

Comforts Fund.

MACHINE GUNS DECISION.

London, April 26. a tunnel beneath the ruins of the May 18-Auction of household| The "Morning Post" saya that church of San Jose, destroyed by furniture by Messrs. Lammert adaptation of Mr. John Buchan's the War Office has decided to im- fire during the sacking of the city. Bros., at 23, Humphreys Bldg.,

By arrangement with the Govern Kowloon, 2.46 pm. mediately increase the number of machine-guns attached to eachment, It was turned over to a tank, Infantry Battalion from eight to where it will be held for final twelve.

novel..

It is estimated that the Alming Occidental Negroa yesterday will cost over £50,000.

morning with a preconcerted at- tack upon four towns by several thousand followers of Flor Intren- cherado, the self-styled "Em- peror" of Iloilo.

OVERSEAS TRADE.

London, April 27. Reassuring news regarding the

division.

Five other hiding places are now being investigated. The treasure- hunters are using a ground wire- less apparatus.

LONDON STREET, PERILS.

Meetings.

May 16--Meeting of Members of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, City Hall, 4 p.m. ⠀⠀ ́- May 17-Forty-sixth annual meeting of the Canton Insurance Co., Messrs. Jardine Matheson's offices, noon,

of

May 17-Adjourned meeting Marine Engineers' Guild of China (H.K. Branch), 67 Des Voeux Rd., 15 pm

WAGNER MANUSCRIPT SOLD.

London, April 27. The rebela disarmed the Police,

New York. The original pencil- killing three and wounding one. Government decision to wind up Several rebels were killed. the Overseas Trade Department manuscript of Wagner's "Rhein- The Constabulary dislodged the was given by Sir Philip Cunliffe-gold" was sold by the American rebels from the Town Hall in Vic- Lister in an address to the Com-Art Association to Herr Rosen- torias, after a three-hour fight. mercial Committee of the House bach for 15,400 dollars.

Reinforcements are rushing of Commons this evening, in from Manila

which he indicated that there'

London in 1926, the L.0.0 Special May 20-Fifty-eighth meeting of It is feared that the revolt may would be no dimunition of the

A Dublin firm of rosary Committee on Traffic state that it the China Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.,

Miscellaneous. become general throughout the functions at present carried out manufacturers is applying for a is the first time the number has Union Bldg., 11.20 am.

by the Departments-

protective tariff of 88 per cent." exceeded a thousand kil

In the same period 47,218 people May 16-Moonlight, please of St.

1 May 20-Fifty-fourth meeting of Reporting, that 1,020 persons were Union Insurance Society of Canton, killed in street accidents in Greater Union Bldg., 11 am.

provinces.ANG? THE CSR Any re-arrangement made on imported beads, of which were fojured. Peter's Young Men's Club, 8 pm.

Four thousand labourers at the Bals Sugar Mill are already strik would not affect the services ren- they complain that 220,000 worth The agures, in both cases, showMay 17 Last debs of St ing The Constabulary are dis, dered to manufacturers all over are imported into the Free State an increase during the last six Feters Young Men's Club, at Club

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