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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927.

SINCERE "CO. SUED.

PLAINTIFF FAILS TO PUT IN APPEARANCE.

$11,000 CLAIM STRUCK OUT.

THE CHINA MAÏL,

PARK OF SCEAUX. THE “LIVING PAPER." GERMAN DEFENCE.

PARIS'S NEW PLEASURE

GROUND.

LQUIS XIV. MEMORIES. ·

Six miles almost due south of

HOW RUSSIA SPREADS THE NEWS:

CHIEF MAY RESIGN SHORTLY.

MINISTERIAL LONGEVITY.

Berlin, Nov. 18.

Germany's

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"

Entertainmenta.

To-day--Queen's Theatre; "The Flaming Forest."

To-day-World Theatre; "The Rainmaker.”

To-day-Star Theatre;

"Wet

the Sincere Company, Ltd., of 173 most unknown to the Parisians of lying provinces of a change in longevity is, according to well- To-day-Royal Engineers' dançe,

day and $20 interest at the rute on the sum of

day.

.out.

SONG AND COSTUME.

At the Supreme Court this morn-

Berlin, October 18. ing, the case was down for hearing Paris, nearer the metropolis |

Soviet Russia's "Living Newe- Dr. Otte Gessler, in which Mew Konn-wah, of 14 than Versailles or St. Germain, paper," whose latest message it is Minister of Defence and holder of Chung Ching Street, merchant, sued the park of Sceaux is as yet al to inform the dwellers in the out-the German record for ministerial Paint." Des Voeux Road, Central for to-day. It is destined soon, how the system of weights and mea- informed sources, contemplating an R.E. Theatre. 8.30 prn. $11,068 alleged to be made up of

December 6-Opening dance of $11,000 principal deposited with ever, to become one of the great sures, appeared for the first time early resignation.

at pleasure grounds, in which the this week in Berlin. It was a Minister of Defence since 1921, St. Peter's Church Young Men's defendants plus 348 interest the rate of 20 cents per diem per neighbourhood of Paris is so rich; small edition only, consisting of Dr. Gessler has survived fully a Club, nf Messrs. Lane, Crawford's mille in the sum of $6,000 from for the Department of the Seine eight men and four women, dozen chancellors of varying poli-Restaurant, 8.30 p.m. September 6, 1926, to the present acquired its 560 acres in 1923 grouped under the title of "Bluetical creeds and affiliations. He has Alias the Deacon."

December 6-7-Queen's Theatre. same from the heirs of the Duc de Blouses." In a West End theatre harmonised with them all, chiefly $5,000

from Trevise, and the Conseil General at midnight performances because he remained aloof from the "The Black Firate."

December 6-7-World Theatre; October 22, 1926, to the present is now engaged in discussing the (owing to no stage being vacant) political arena and its strife.

December 6-7- Star Theatre; Only at rare intervals did the "Manhandled." Mr. F. C. leakin (instructed by question of how it shall be laid it received frantic applause.

In Russia every appearance of limelight beat fiercely

upon the December 8-10-Queen's Then- | Ar.. T. G. Bennet, of Johnson, This discussion is perhaps the "paper" implies a troupe of "eternal" Minister. Thus when, tre: "Don Juan." Stokes and Master), appeared for defendant, plaintiff being unrepre- astonishing in that the park is twenty actors and actresses, who after the Ruhr episode, the illegal December 8-10-World Theatre;

laid out already, and that by no must be at the same time first- Black Reichswehr was exposed and "For Heaven's Sake." sented.

Plaintiff's name was called and, less distinguished a master of class acrobats, singers, dancers, denounced by the Left, or when... 8:10-St

December 8-10-Star Theatre;| There are six with the knowledge of the then no answer being forthcoming, Mr. landscape gardening than Le and parodists. Jenkin applied that the cause be Notre. But it has suffered from thousand of such troupes, incor-Commander-in-Chief, General

December 9-At Theatre Royal von opening performance of "Merrie struck out of the trial paper, also years of neglect. Many of the porating one hundred thousand Seeckt, the eldest son of the ex-England," 9 p.m. that costs of appearance should be finest trees have been cut down; players. If the small selected Crown Prince participated in the

at December 10-Dance His Lordship (Sir H. C. Gollan and before it can be opened to the company that chose Germany as Reichswehr manoeuvres.

Peak Club with Lyric Band in at- granted the application, and in-, public much must be done to get its jumping-off place for the rest

Always on these occasions the tendance, 9.16 p.m. dicated that he would hear a fur-it once more into order. There of the Western world is known Minister

of Defence appeared on December 10-Concert For ther application to be made by Mr. is a party in the Council which a "Blue Blouses," this is only by the Reichstag rostrum, replying Wesleyan Edifice at Old Sailors' suggests that the whole place chance reminiscent of the "Blue blandly, sometimes flippantly, to the and Soldiers' Home, Arsenal Street, shall be treated as what is called Bird" cabaret. There are Red angry charges from the Opposition

"parc a l'anglaise no doubt Blouses and Green Blouses, and benches, and

promising redress because nothing of the sort is Blouses of all colours, the uni- when denial was no longer advia- ever seen in England. This form being the plain working- able. But as quickly as possible he would mean abandoning what is man's garment, fitting as closely disappeared again into the precincts left of its formal character, and as a mannequin's working robe. of the huge Ministry, devoting him- making it into something half-Marvellously contrived. costumes self to his task the perfecting of wild and half-deliberately rustic, are slipped over it. These can be Germany's two fighting services. like the Bois do Boulogne, utilised both back and front, and And it is chiefly for his accom- Others protest that this would be apparently upside down as well.plishments in this domain for which vandalism, and that there are Much use is made of the crudely Dr. Gessler will be still enough of the clements of painted, vividly coloured card when he retires into private life. On the grounds that one partner the original park to enable its board picture frame for heads to When Dr. Gessler took over the could not sue another partner in general effect to be recreated ache stuck through, as in the elder Reichswehr from his one and only tre; "The Four Horsemen of Apo- December 14-17-Queen's Thea- the same firm, His Honour Mr cording to the plaris, which are Russian cabaret shows. Other- predecessor, the socialist Noake, in calypse." Summary Court action this morn-Sull in existence, made by Lewise it can be plainly seen that May, 1921, it was a mere rabble. Notre for the great Colbert, expenses are kept down to a mini-To-day it presents one of the moet

allowed defendants,

Jenkin in Chambers.

PARTNERS SUED.

SUMMARY COURT PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED,

A PARTNER'S HANDICAP.

Justice. R. Wood non-suited a

ing.

Lam Li-song, alias Lam Sung, of 16! Tung Choi Street, Mongkoktsui, sued the Sun Hop firm, matshedj builders, for $87. made

Colbert's Plans. That tradition goes back to

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December 11-13-Queen's Then- tre; "We're In The Navy Now."

December 11-12-World Theatre;

December 13-14-World Theatre; "Sen Horses.

"Red Dice."

December 11-12-Star Theatre; "A Ilero On Horseback."

"Hogan's Alley.

December 13-14-Star Theatre;

December 13-Organ Recital by remembered Mr. F. Mason in St. John's Cathe

efficient and highly trained armies The New Journalist.. on the continent, handicapped only In every Russian factory there by the absence of the most modern 1670, when Colbert, the famous is a hall which can be utilised for war machinery, as ordained by the $101,10 balance of salary, $83 plus/Finance Minister of Louis XIV such performances, and there are treaty of Versailles.

Mr. M. J d'Almada Remediós.

In the eourse of his evidence.

ness,

dral, 6.45 p.m.

December 15-17-World Theatre; "Beware of Widows." "It's The Old Army Game."

December 15-17-Star Theatre;

Sport. December 11-Fifth Extra Race

Meeting of the International Race & Recreation Club of Macao. Ltd.

Lammterts' Auctions. ladies knitted costumes,

December --A Selection of dress

December 8-Household furni

one new sextant, pianes,

interest at the rate of 6 per cent.. bought the property, employed for thirty-three "moons" and $130 Perrault, the architect of the eas- children who do not avail them-plishments is not only due to Dr. few working-men, women, and Perhaps, credit for these accom cash paid by plaintif on behalf of tern facade of the Louvre, to selves of this unique method of Gessler; the old imperial officers and at the request öf defendants. build a new chateau, Le Brun to

The defendants were not repre-decorate it. Le Notre to design its watching the singing and dancing who were taken over into the Re materials, ladies' shoes and bead sented and plaintiff was represent-gardens, the best sculptors to and demonstrating of news, The publican fighting services have had bags, etc., at Sales Room, Duddell ed and plaintiff was represented by make statues for those gardens, and is provided by a central up-to-date organisations. But if ture,

programme changes fortnightly, their share in fashioning them intoį St., 11 am.. and the best engineers to bring bureau in Moscow. Each group of this be so, Dr. Gessler has chosen gramophones and a elinometer, at plaintiff stated that the money dewater from miles away for its posited constituted money paid into fountains and its pools. Some of twenty performers is attended by them well and protected them from Sales Room, Duddell Pt. 2:30 pm. the firm as his share in the bust these paintings and these statues a composer, a stage manager, and Parliamentary attacks, and if he December 9-A valuable collec a scene painter. At headquarters now decides to sign his office. it tion of stamps, at Sales Room, and these fountains survive, as Plaintif was thereupon non-docs the Orangery, where Louis there are twenty dramatists must be assumed that he considera Duddeli St., 5.16 p.m.

scenario-writers might be a better that he has accomplished what he XIV. saw # performance of term-constantly occupied in ar-set out to do-to give Germany the of the Industrial & Commercial

Meeting. Racine's "Phedre."

December 21-General meeting The old chateau itself was unfortunately ranging the world's news in

abest possible army and navy and to Bank, Ltd., York Bldg. 2 p.m. pulled down by the speculator to vivid and assimilable form, suit make it immune from all outside

Miscellaneous. whom it was sold at the period of able for the simplest reader.

interference.-United Press.

To-day Demonstration 01 the Revolution; for by that time These ideal journalists are the

"Japanese Flower Placing." successors of a group of young

by Mr. Sohjun Wadu, Helena May -

December 6-Sale of work in Helena Mny Institute, from 10 am. to 6 p.m.

The

saited.

PUZZLE OF BABY.

WAS IT A SON OR A DAUGHTER?

REPORTED TO BE IN THE UKRAINE.

Nauen, Nov. 18.

December 7-Lecture on Historicity of Jesus" by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, at Messrs. Lane, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 5.30 p.m.

December 6-Free lecture Christian Science, City Hall, 5.45 p.m.

it had become the property of a students of the technical univer- prince of the blood royal, and so was sequestered by the Govern- sity who, in despair at the short- WHERE IS TROTSKY ?titute: 5.30 pane A modern judgment of Salomon ment.

age of paper in the year 1920, rendered in mail week at Cleveland. It was in 1700 that the place started the practice of reading Ohio, by Judge Weygandt, settled had been purchased by the Duce newspaper out, to a group of

at least legally-the question of du Maine,, the son of Louis XIV. hearers from a platform or stage. whether Mrs. Sam Smith has her and Madame de Montespan, who One or two inventive minds added own baby. A doubt so grave as to was legitimised by the King. It an improvised cabaret show Reports from Warsaw state that Cause the parents to seek the uid was the Duchesse, his wife, who parodying these current events. Trotsky and Radek together with a the best war engendered by gave the house and its princely When some young artists joined number of opposition Communists,

breakdown of system identification used in the general entertainments the renown which the band, the first programme of arrived in Kharkow, the capital of hospital of that city.

they enjoyed in the eighteenth monologues, songs, sketches, and the Ukraine, to-day.

Trotsky is reported to have ex- When her baby was born. Mrs. century. Here she held one of song-scenas was complete. Smith, who is the mother of three the grandest of the literary and organisation was taken in hand by branding him as a counter-revolu- It was not till 1923 that the pressed indignation at M. Stalin's daughters and was desirous of aristocratic salons, Voltaire son, was told that her wish had lived in the chateau for years and the State Institute of Journalists tionary and appealed to all "true been gratified. Nine days later wrote three of his tragedies and became the feature of public Leninists to rally to his standard she learned that the baby she was there; and it was in the private life it is' to-day. These various and oppose Stalin. mothering was a girl and that the theatre which the Duchesse du "Blouses," whose performances From Warsaw it is also learned neck, reading "No. 70, male," Prude," was first performed. identification tag around the baby's Maine built that his play, La are free, are not subventioned by that M. Zinovieffy is still in Moscow. should have read "No. 70, female."

Mrs. Smith refused to be con- vinced that the nurse had made a

the State. The trades unions which run, the working-men's After the Revolution.

clubs receive two per cent. of From the Duc du Maine the their wages for the entertain- mistake, and felt that her own baby property passed to the Duc de ments they provide, and for the hoy had been given to some other Penthievre, who gave it, at the evening's performance they pay a girl baby born about the same Revolution, to his daughter, the sixty-seven roubles, or about £6 Duchesse d'Orleans; and it was 10s. The players, salaries are five

mother and that she had received

time.

M.C.C. TOUR.

DRAWS REPORTED WITH NATAL.

Maritzburg, Dec. 2.

In court the nurse admitted that from her that it was confiscated roubles, or, roughly, ten shillings Natal scored 171 against the ahe had made a mistake in telling by the Convention.

a day. All of them to-day are English tourists,, Astill taking 5 Mrs. Smith that her baby was a The man who bought the cha- actors and actresses by profes- for 38. boy, but said that the method of teau, whose name was Lecomte,sion, though some only discovered The M.C.C. replied with 333, checking the babies by numbers eventually married his daughter their talents when the local Ernest Tyldesley knocking up 161. had not failed, and that, despite her to the son of Edouard Mortier, "Blue Blouse" was first formed.. Overnight rain prevented play to-day, and the match was drawn, -Reuter.

heartbreaking doubts, the baby first Duc de Trevise, one of girl was Mrs. Smith's own.

girl belonged to Mrs. Smith.

Napoleon's marshals. It was

Song and Instruction.

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All the news items of the pro-

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December 7-8-Official opening of New Territories Agricultural Show

College begins nuw school yer.. at Sheungshui, at 2.30 p.m.

December 12--St. Stephen's

MODERNISING ROME,

DISAPPEARANCE OF TRAMS RAISES A PROBLEM.

Rome, Oct. 13. The aesthetic traveller rejoices at the removal of tram lines which have disfigured the Via Condotti and obstructed the view towards the Piazza di Spagna for over thirteen years. The Via Condotti is the Bond-street of Rome, full of anti- quity dealers, and good shops in general, and can also. boast of the Cafe Greco, now yellow with age and reminiscent of nearly two cen- turies of memorable social history, and still the haunt of cosmopolitan artists and men of letters. A physician likewise testified this second Due who, in 1856,

But in a sense the Vita Con- dotti is regarded that he was certain that the baby built the present quite undistin-gramme being lost on a member MEDICAL CONGRESS.cul interests of tourists of as one of the

The judge said he must dismiss guished chateau, and it was from of the audience with no know.

one of the main arteries the case and hope that time would his heirs that the whole place ledge of Russian, there remained

traffic for Romane, and the re- eradicate the disappointment and has now been acquired by the from these Berlin performances

moval of trams has caused much doubts of Mrs. Smith, and that she Department of the Seine.

discomfort. The Civic authorities only the impression that when would accept the baby girl as her

are now faced with the problem of Before that time, however, a the apple-checked, flaxen-tailed

Saigon, Nov. 18. conveying people from the eastern) small portion of the original pro- maiden of the Russian cabaret Dr. Jourdain, formerly principal to the western part of Rome. DiM- perty had been detached, and had proper is singing, she is telling, medical officer of the colonial troops culties so far have not been solved become the public garden of the not of love, but of the new regula in Indo-China, accompanied by Dr. by the introduction of elecric omni- little town of Sceaux. It was in tions in girls' institutes. this garden, known as the Parc she toys with a aunflower it is of Association of Tonking, have been all popular.

When Harman, the head of the Medical buses which run through main city centres, as they have not proved at Mr. W. Reavell, of Reavell and de Sceaux, that were given many the excellent utilitarian proper- chosen to represent Indo-China at Co., Ltd., Ipswich, commenting on popular balls and fetes cham- ties of sunflower seeds that she the seventh congress of the Asso the calculation made by the Master petres at the time of Louis wishes to Inform those in front. clation of Tropical Medicine, which Cutler of Sheffield of the loss in Phifippe; but it is only a tiny The acrobatic limitation of an will open at Calcutta on December British wages owing to the importa- part of what will soon be open to automobile is accompanied by tion of foreign steel, writes: "I the people of Paris.-"The Obser- bitter remarks on Mr. Ford and They will enquire during the TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN.

own.

WAGES AND IMPORTS.

suggest to you that the labour em- ver.'

MEMORIAL BELLS.

PRESENTED TO INDIAN REGIMENT.

INDO-CHINA SENDS TWO DELEGATES.

capitalism. The old peasant course of their journey into the tumes are fitted to parodies: ac-sanitary method which have been cording to these the Russian pea adopted in India under the auspices sant is not dreaming and drink-and organisation of the National ing, but up and doing, and think Society of Hygiene. ing about the latest agricultural machines.

ployed to make finished articles may cost a great deal more per ton! than the labour the Master Cutler has in mind which would be em- ployed if this steel were made in Britain instead of being imported. Is it not to our advantage, there fore, that the total amount paid in

There are apparently no home working up this imported steel fe

Allahabad, Oct. 28. pages nor heart-to-heart talks! considerably greater than the On the 18th October, the Cam-provided in the austere central tive and instructive purposes they labour, Britain has lost through not mander-in-Chief presented Memorial news bureau, which relies more expect from it. being able to make that steel?. It bells and roll of honour to the let on the antics of its comedians The outstanding merit of the is well known that in the secondary and 2nd Battalions, Prince of than upon the lightness of the performance is its break-neck trades the labour cost per ton in Wales Own Gurkha Rifles at Bakloh. subjects. working up the steel into finished

Associated Press. articles must be considerable, We get this trade now, or some of it.

If the manufacturers were prepared · "Minds are like parachutes: They to use British steel would we not function only when they are spen. lose It?"

-Louisville Times.

It is the old regime speed, swift changes of costume which is the theme for humour, and scene, and the certainty that Every performance begins with a whatever the Russian peasant military parade, a march-past of and working, man thinks of the the performers explaining their news he will never be bored with programme, and what construc- his newspaper---"The Observer"]

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