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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928.

“BOA IMPRENSA.”

CATHOLIC AT HOME AT

MISSION HOUSE.

CONCERT PROGRAMME.

"7TH HEAVEN,”

SPECIAL HIG FILM ITEMS.

MISS WOODS' SINGING.

PLESIOSAURUS.

HAD IT GOT A THIRD EYE.

THE CHINA MAIL,

- FOOCHOW'S TRADE.

Shadows Before

TEMPORARY POSITION OF

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”

“STALEMATE”

SIR W. B. DAWKINS' DOUBTS. AMERICAN CONSUL'S REVIEW.

To-day

Queen's Theatre; "Seventh Heaven," An enjoyable interlude during

In an article on

To-day World Theatre; "The Feochow, Yesterday was the "Dia da Bon

The discovery of the fogail Imprensa" (Catholle Press Duy), the screening of the big film, 7th remains of the plesiosaurus report- Digest," U. S. Consul Ernest B. To-day-Star Theatre; "The

appearing in the "Columbia Port Tumbling River." Queen's Theatre and an "At Home" was held in Heaven at the the afternoon in the

od to have enjoyed, during Price writes on present trade condi-Small Bachelor. Catholic last night Was the singing of

remote lifetime, the use of three- Mission House, Caine-road.

"Diano" by Miss Alleon, Woods, A large gathering attended, and Miss Woods, who sang three times eyes, the third eye being on the top

tions there.

after an address by the Rav. Fr. yesterday, provided the audience of the skull, was commented on by located about half way between

New York.

Y.M.C.A., at 7.30 p.m. "Hold That Lion."

March 28-Dance, at Cheer 'O

March 24-Music, at Cheer. 'O Y.M.C.A., at 7.30 p.m.

Theatre;

March 25-26-Queen's

"The Campus Flirt."

March 26-26-World Theatre; at 6.15 & 9.20 'The Little Irish Girl,” at 2.30 & 7.15, Chinese drama, "The Monkey Monk."

March 20-21-World Theatre; "A Foochow, the city, he writes, Is Society Scandal."

March 20-21-Star Theatre; "The Sir William Boyd Dawkins in an J. Ramalho, S.J., a very enjoyable with a pleasing surprise and her

interview with

the etios of Shanghai and Hong Midnight Girl” "Manchester concert programme Was puturperb, rendering, which gave the

Guardian" representative....

Kong: about the same distance up March 20-Special Concert, at through.

right atmosphere for this excellent

Sir William said that the so- Portland, and comprises a popula

a navigable river as the city of Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A., at 7.45 p.m. Mr. E. G. d'Aquino was very film, was loudly applauded. Miss

March 22-Dance, at Cheer 'O called "eyo was represented in he sang that old favourite Tosti's was specially written for the story, creatures by a slight hole on the top Foochow, the port, a broader term May Institute, 5.30 p.m. popular with the audience when Woods will sing this song, which discovered fossils of these bygone tion estimated at between seven Y.M.C.A., at 7.80 p.m.

and eight hundred thousand, March 22-Musicale at Helena "Se tu non tourni." Miss Auren at the 6.00 and 9.15 performances of the head. He did not think that Baptista gave a well-rendered during the remainder of the season, there was evidence that in any of

well understood in America, com- March 22-24-World Theatre; piano solo, choosing as her piece Another feature of the current

these extinct reptiles the "eye" was

prises a population of upwards of "You Never Know Women." Glinka Balakirew's "Skylark.” programme at the Queen's which is

a million and

March a half, and is the used,

22-24-Star Theatre; That opening had been under Rev. Fr. Riganti, which ap-special music of the orchestra under reptiles, but he could not say that prises, roughly, three-fourths of The St. Joseph's College Choir being much appreciated is the found in a good many other fossil distribution centre for Foochow the consular district, which com- peared in both halves of the pro- Mr. Grovini, who is making his he had ever seen one in the shape the province of Fukion, with an gramme were well received for first appearance since his illness, of an orbit, and he was unaware their excellently rendered -Cinema-goers are reminded that "Cradle Song" by J. Brahm and owing to the exceptional length of that a reptile with a properly func-area about equivalent to that of Berlendis's sole and chorus "Le the picture, only three performances tioning eye in a central part of the the state of Maine and a popula- skull had ever been found. The tion of approximately ten millions, Campane,"

can be given daily, and theso start Refreshments were served dur-promptly at 2.30, 6.00 and 9.15. only, recent reptile that had this which is about that of the state of ing the interval, after which Advance booking for the dress circle particular hole clearly defined was

Largely Agricultural. Master Abraham, a quite young in open in the lobby of the Queen's an animal called the batteria, a curious reptile found nowhere but musician, treated the audience to for the entire season.

In New Zealand.

Taking China as a whole, Foo- chow, the consular district, port The existence of this hole in the and city-may be considered as skull, considered in conjunction with the pineal gland lying beneath fairly representative and normal,

in that from the economic point)

March 27-28-World Theatre; at it, gave a sort of support to the of view it is largely agricultural, 5.15 & 9.20, "Dancing, Mothers," at "If nothing is done in the im-Idea of a third eye, but from his Lobato de Faria provoked much placements in our merchant mar- he would say that the evidence was to other parts of Chins.

Mias Hercia Silva and Mr. F. X. mediate future to bring about re-point of view, as a special student, producing mainly foodataffs for 2.30 & 7.15, Chinese drams, "The

its own consumption, and for export Monkey, Monk." merriment with a Portuguese inc it will disappear from the seas most unsatisfactory that it was so. normally peaceful, largely self-Drusilla with a Million." dialogue entitled "Christao de in a very short time and we will There had to be taken into con- sufficient, and, with

March 27-28 Star Theatre; Arroz."

ho where we were fifteen years sideration the small size of the

a people both The function concluded with ago, as far as foreign shipping is

March 29-31-Queen's Theatre; Intelligent and contrasted with the

commercially"The Unknown," also at all per- the singing of the Portuguese concerned," Mr. James Mac-aperture as

abrewd. Insofar as the port and formances, Miss Chee Toy in popu hymn "Nos Queremos Deus," by Lafferty, representative in Wash-orbits of the eyes proper. Sir city of Foochow is the distribution arenebbers. the entire gathering,

ington of the Pacific American William spoke of the pineal eye centre for a large agricultural and Steamship Association and the theory being the result of modern timber ares, it has points of con- | Shipowners Association of the investigation, but added that he did not know that anyone had gone Pacific Coast, declared in an ad- further than to suggest more than Like Portland, its industrial de- dress delivered at the Propeller Club.

a very fine violin solo in which he

showed great capability. Mr.

‚G. F. U'Aquino was well applaud- ed for his song, Leoncavallo's "Prologo di Pagliacci."

CALCUTTA CUP.

ENGLAND BEAT SCOTLAND AT TWICKENHAM,

thus

convert.

THE ONLY SOLUTION.

"There is only one thing that can save us, and that will imme- dlately stimulate the building of U. S. ships for foreign trade," he

the existence of a rudimentary eye.

the

years, Sir

wern idle guesses. "We

the

Be-

It is

siderable similarity to Portland.

means

Insofar as the move-

Was £1

The

March 26-26-Star Theatre; "The Understanding Heart."

March 27-28-Queen's Theatre;

"On Your Toes."

March 29-81-Star Theatre; "The Runaway."

Sports.

March 20-R. H. K. Golf Club

of their lions set aside for pensions, the marginal part of the great contin- viously enjoyed, From the point March 31-Fanling Hant Steeple

Meetings.

March 20-Sanitary Board Meet-

March 20-Yearly meeting of the

To-day-Interport Billiard Match velopment is only just beginning,

During the past year, Taochow at Club Lusitano, 6.m. "Some" Age.

March 20-Exhibition Billiard the district, port and city, has been the centre of considerable political Match, Club Lusitano, 9.15 p.m. Speaking of the estimated age of and economic disturbance. London, Saturday.

Great March 20 Interport Billiard H. M. the King was present at

disinterred plesiosaurus, which armies have been raised, have come Match, Club Lusitano, 6 p.m. the international rugger match at said, "and that is subsidy, which has been given as between 100,000.-and gone acrosa its territory,

000 and 20,000,000 Twickenham to-day when England is financial aid administered by

{disturbing transportation, and (Ladles Section) bogey competi- beat Scotland by six points to nil, the Government. Government William sald that these estimates bringing about serious economiction, New Course, Fanling.

winning the international ownership cannot solve the pro- of time

blem. Government operation can- don't know," he said; it is 59ment of the past year

confusion.

March 21-Whist Drive at Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A., at 7 p.m. Championship and the Calcutta Cup: not successfully compete with the vastly far behind us. There is no Sixty thousand spectators saw the efforts of ship-minded nations."

March 21-Billiards match at possibility of making a date intangible exhibition of a growing Palace Hotel, 6 p.m. game which was played in glorious

and genuine Subsidy is a bogey to many terms of years beyond the range of

popular self-con- weather.

sciousness, a groping after, and a March 21 Interport Billiard The game was a great one, being Mr. MacLafferty declared, and he which

otherwise' well-informed persons, the earliest literary documents

some Match, Club Lusitano, 6 p.m. and belong

reaching upward toward to Egypt, played at a tremendous pace, with

thing better for the body politic 9 p.m. very keen tackling up to the final pointed out that payment of sub- Chaldeans, and the Assyriana.

March 21-Annual Billiard tour- and economic, it should be regard- whistle. Scotland won the toss and sidies of various kinds has been and that is the infinity of pasted as only inevitable, but also nament of the Craigengawor Cricket attacked immediately but England Part of the Government policy for time."

At the time in which this

commendable. Conditions are by Club. broke away twelve minutes from many years.

Past Subsidies.

normal, yet.

March 22 Interport Billiard the start a passing movement cul-

plesiosaurus lived, explained Sir. minating in Laird acoring a bril- ing the Panama Canal was cited mass of land was on the west of

The £90,000,000 spent in build-William Boyd Dawkins, the great region of Foochow has not yet Match, Club Lusitano, 6 p.m. ·

recovered its economic stability, March 28 Interport Billiard llant try. Richardson failed to as an instance, as were the huge what are now the British Isles, and nor have the people themselves Match, Club Lusitano, 6 pm.

March 24---Annual recovered the purchasing power

University Bad Handling.

sums spent on reclamation of Wales, the Lake Country, and the

in the measure England had many

which they pre- Athletic sports, 4 p.m. waste lands, e hundreds of mil- Highlands of Scotland formed a chances spoilt by faulty handling outlays for flood control in the ent that had

of view of trade, especially chase (Easter Meeting). and passing. The forwards on both Mississippi Valley, the plans for beneath the waters of the Atlantic frankly that the region is in a

now disappeared foreign trade, it should be stated Lammerts' Auctions. aides were magnificent, Scotland guaranteeing the U. S. farmer Marginal portions of this great

Márch 21-22-At 13, Queen's-rd. were. unable to drive promising against loss on account of surplus mass of land occurred as far to the stalemate. Commerce has actual-Central, goods and chattels of Mrs. movements home And at the crops, and finally the aid given to west as Sherwood Forest, and the

iy retrogressed.

F. K. Cameron, 10 am, interval England led by three points U. S. manufacturers and workers reptile would have lived in the

Effect of Foreign Influènce, March 28-At 12 Chatham-rd., to nil,

After the interval the Scottish tective tariff.

through the medium of the pro- marginal shallow waters of this. That the economic and trade Kowloon, valuable household furni- pack made some great rushes but

land.

situation of the district is no worse ture, 2.30 p.m. Failure to apply similar prac England's young deputy full back, tices in the case of shipping, he reason the head. is usually missing both to the fact of the fundamental Dealing with the theory that the than it is may be credited largely Tom Brown of Bristol, was very addled, has cost the taxpayers of from fossil specimens of the stability of the Chinese people, ing, 4.15 p.m. steady and gave a display of splen- the country billions of dollars picalesaurus is owing to the action and to the actual knowledge and did kicking.

without developing an efficient of predatory dinosaurs, Sir William appreciation of our civilization and Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co.. Scotland, nevertheless, wasted merchant marine. Referring to said there was no necessity for the attitude toward, and our several chances. The English pack the Government operation of theory. If a body were floating in poses in dealing with, the Chinese,

pur Ltd., 2, Queen's Bldgs., noon. further increased their lead five railroads and of the

March 20-Annual meeting of minutes from time when Young, chant marine as a monument and drop from the neck would be people

a river the first thing to rot away demonstrated by those of

our members of the Victoria Recreation with a characteristic effort from a of inefficiency and a great fallacy, the head. There was

who have gone to Club at V.R.C., 6 p.m. scrum, passed ten yards from the the speaker said: "The hundreds introduce a dinosaur to eat it. In or

no need to China, either as missionaries,

March 21-Thirty-ninth annual line to Hanley who scored a bril- of millions lost in Government collecting bones from rivers he had tacts

as business men. With con- meeting of Green Island Cement! liant try. Prentice's kick at goal operation and the hundred mil-found as many as 1,000 bones for knowledge, understanding;

Co., Ltd., at St. George's Bldg., ́ failed. Reuter.

lion dollars per annum we are one skul

and Chater Rd., neon. because of that paying for interest on Liberty simple fact.

March 22-H.K. Rope Manufac- Bonds sold in order that these England, by her victory, has con- ships might be built is nothing in

In accepting the fact of the George's Bldg., 11.30 azn.

turing Co., Ltd., meeting, St. cluded a remarkably successful the world but subsidy."

present, and, we hope, only tem-

March 22-Meeting of Simplex | season. Her team beat the formid-ships now owned by the Govern-

porary, economic stalemate in Plaster Co., Ltd., Powell's Bldg., 9: able New South Wales team known ment, he declared, are no more

Foochow; which as previously p.m. as the Waratahs and won all inter-attractive to purchasers than a

stated, may be considered as

March 28- Victoria Diocesan national engagements. She secures 1918 used car would be as com-

largely representative of other Aash. Meeting, St. John's Cathedral the international rugby champion-pared with a 1928 model auto-Queen's Buildings,, Hong Kong, to recognize and evaluate certain ship and also the famous Calcutta mobile.

the following events will take facts the fact of a large un-meeting of Shareholders of the H.K. March 26-Fifty-ninth general Cup, which had been in Scotland's keeping for some years. British During the British "oal Strike, place: On Tuesday, March 20, a developed country: the fact of a Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., at Messrs.

Referring to the action of the a special concert commencing at large population; the fact of Jardine, Matheson's offices, noon. Wireless Service.

Shipping Board in diverting ships 7.46 p.m., in which Mrs. Marcelle increasing desires and broadening to the Gulf during the British (soprano), Mrs. J. Hurst (con- tastes on the part of the people; meeting of A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., March 28-Forty-third annual coal strike to relieve the farms of traito) and Messrs. Patterson, R. and finally the fact, of the

(humorist) the South and Middle West by Sutherland

and cognized good fellowship and good April 14 General meeting of

re: Hong Kong Hotel, 11.80 a.m. H.K.C.C. FIXTURES DOWN FOR moving grain and cotton overseas, Hannibal (entertainer) and feeling existing between the members of The Prince's Bldg. & ho said the Government spent others will contribute; on Wed-Chinese people and those Ameri-Land & Co., Ltd. (In liquidation), about two million dollars recon-nesday, March 21, a whist drive cans with whom they have actually This afternoon's fixtures at the ditioning these vessels. He recommencing at 7.00 p.m.; on denit. Just as the more recent Hong Kong Cricket Club annual minded his listeners that the Thursday, March 22, a dance com- progress of the American people lawn tennis tournament are as fol- freight rates had to be paid by mencing at 7.30 p.m.; on Satur-has been caused and maintained March 18-Inaugural ceremony low:-

the foreign purchasers of the day, March 23, a dance commenc-by the fact that individual desires of the opening of the first section Open Singles: A. D. Humphreys commoditica mentioned, and ing at 7.30 p.m.; on Sunday, tend to outstrip the individual of the Macao-Shekki-read.. v. Rev. F. P. W. Alexander. pointed out that if there had been March 24, a musical entertain-pocket-book, so we can maintain, March 18-Catholic Press Day: Open Doubles: G. C. Grove and an adequate privately-owned ment commencing at 7.30 p.m. after all is said and done, that morning service 8.80 a.m.. evening A. H. Crook v. H. D. Rumjahn and merchant marine the situation All service men are heartily in the Chinese have, In the district of service 4 p.m. followed by an "At S. A. Rumjahn (holders); S. E. would have been handled differ-vited. Green and D. S. Green V. S. ently.

Remarkable Season.

London, Yesterday.

LAWN TENNIS.

TO-DAY.

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The

AT THE CHEER '0.

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very with understanding, tolerance and

sympathy.

At the Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A., parts of China, we are able still Hall, 6.30 p.m.

6, Des Voeux-road Ctl., noon.

Miscellaneous.

| Poochow, 'acquired tastes for. Home" at the Mission House.

foreign gooda, knowledge of March 21-Dinner by Committee foreign business methods, and the and Members of HK Chinose

| understanding-and ́ ́ sympathy for Chamber of Commerce, to Hon. Mr.

Fujishimi and T.. Fujimori; Ho "A competent private owner, Wal-hing and Chan So v. G. F. H. he said, "would have charged Bichard and Lt. Watera.

rates that would have earned a rates that would have overcome our people, which in the Indefinite D. G. M. Bernard, at Chinese Mor- Club Championship Singles: G. profit in the carrying of these, this loss of £400,000, and would future will mean for us greater chants Club, China-bldg. Miskin v. G. W. Sowell; H. R. commodities. He would have have added sufficient to their trade with that region. Remington v. R. M. Henderson. made back his two million, and operating returns to have recover- Handicap Doubles: Lt. Col. F. J.millions more besides. And if a ed the loss of the £400,000 and Wyatt and Lt. A. J. G. Tate (ser.) private owner had had at his dis-to have made millions in addition.

March 80-Annual dinner of the Institution of Engineers and Ship- builders, 8. p.m.

v. A. Reid and J. M., Norrie (rec. posal excess tonnage, as our Gov-This would have been paid by for-1 Russia exported 421,000 stan- 3/6); G. Rankin and Dr. C. H. ernment had, he would not only eign buyers, of the merchants in dards of timber in 1927, against The proposed conference in Burton (rec. 15/1) v. M. D. Scott have carried the cotton and the question and the loss would not 811,000 standards in the previous Peking of representatives of and R. P. Moodie (rec. 5/6); H. grain from the Gulf, but he would have been sustained, as it was, by year. A new scheme for the Russian publie : and political R. Phelips and C. C. Stark (rec. have put his ships into the coal the taxpayers of the United exploitation of Russian forests groups in the Far East,

on the 1/6) v. Capt. E. H. J. Larkcom trade and made from that trade States. Because this was not this year has been adopted, but subject of urdfication under Gen. and Capt. B. R. Forster (acr.). millions of dollars of profit in ad-done it was, in effect, a subsidy of until supplementary capital has Horvath, has been postponed in-

Mixed Doubles; Mr. and Mrs. G.dition.

£400,000, and this subsidy went to been obtained for the wood-work-definitely, In view of Gen R. Sayer (rec, 8/6) v. Mr. and Mrs. "The Government-owned fleet the foreigner who received the ing industry exports are not ex- Horvath's decision' that the time R. K. Valentine (rec, 2/6), was in a position to charge proper goods."

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