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for April

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Dance records in a dozen different styles. Every one packed with tricky rhythms and startling new instru mental effects. Vocal refrains add to the fun. It's just the kind of music you want for that party at your house. Come in and sample them today?

Ol' Man River-Fax Trot

(from Show Boat) With Vocal Refrain Mako Believe--For Trot

(from Show Boat) With Vocal Refrain

PAUL WHITEMAN AND HII OBCUENTRA No. 21218, 10-4ch

Ramoua-Waltz With Vocal Refrain Lonely Melody-Fox Trot

PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ÖSCHESTRA No. 21214, 10-Inch

There Must Be a Silver Lining (That's Skining for Me)

WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANI For Trot With Vocal Refrain' My Stormy Weather Pal-Waltz With Vocal Befrain

JOHNNY JOHNSON AND HIS STATLAR PEANSILVANIAJES

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Together-Waltz With Vocal Refrain

WAILING'S PENNSYLVANIANS Dear, On a Night Like This-Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

THE TROIKADOURI No. 21213, 10-inch

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man-Fox Trot (from Skew Beat)

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Why Do I Love You-Fox Trot (from Show Boat)

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Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy Day)

Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

ROGER WOLFE Kahn and HIS ORCHESTRA The Man I Love-Fox Trot (from Strike Up the Band)

THE TEDUBADOUKS No. 21233, 10-inch

PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

THE VIRGINIAND

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After My Laughter Came Tears-Fox Trot

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In the Sing-Song Sycamore Treo-Fox Trot

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I Just Roll Along (Havin' My Ups and Downs)

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My Melancholy Baby-Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

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that the English people are something more than merely practical. With all their love of the practical; all their directness, their apparently phlegmatic manner, the English people at heart are really emotion-

much to admire in one who so

much appeals to sailormen, for

MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1928.

OBITUARIES.

HAYLEY MORRISS.

upon the seas of every corner of A HANGCHOW LADY MISSION-HIS DIVORCE AFFAIRS AGAIN

the world the English from time immemorial have been wont to wander..

ARY PASSES AWAY.

MRS. T. GAUNT,

:

Hangchow, April 15.

CONSIDERED.

JUDGE'S CONDEMNATION.

It is good, therefore, to cele

Attended by two wardars Hayley brate the anniversary of one held

A great gloom has been cast Eustace Morrisa, (formerly of in high reverence by all lovers of

over the foreign community and Shanghai) formerly of Pippingford valiant deeds on land and sca.

the Christian Church of Hang- Park, Uckfield, was present in the The name "Saint George of Eng-

chow. Mrs. T. Gaunt, of the Divorce Court on March 29, before the president, Lord Merrivale, who land," even in these prosaie days,

Church Missionary Society, pass-further considered his petition for tingles the blood and stirs the

ed away suddenly on Thuraday divorce against his wife, Eliza, imagination even of the most

Morriss had alleged misconduct phlegmatic, for we know that in evening last, after only a very Phyllis Thurston Ward, Morriss.

between his wife, and the Co- our Patron Saint we have en-short illness. Mrs. Gaunt, who

dedicated her life to missionary respondent, Mr. Dudley Wood, of shfined all that is best, all that is worthy in the glorious traditions work in China, for many years Park Lane, London, and claimed had ministered to the spiritual damages. A special jury found of our past, the aspirations of the needs of the people and miaconduct between the respondent and co-respondent, but said they'

a case for however,

future, the deep love that we have

Was

for England, our Motherland greatly beloved and deeply re-did not think it was

spected by all.

damages. The judge, When Shakespeare, England's At a short memorial service ordered that the decree nisi should greatest dramatic poet, set out to held at the Sin Ih Tang, some not be drawn up until the question stir his countrymen to their touching references were made by of the wife's maintenance had been

the Chinese clergy to the faith-disposed of. depths, he did so in language of ful work of this devoted lady mis- Morriss argued his case in per- thrilling and noble majesty and insionary. One of the Pastors, in-non and Mr. Rolfe appeared for the name of our Patron Saint.timately acquainted, over a long, Mrs. Morriss.

Magnificently he wrote:-

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more;

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period, with her labour of love, Mr. Rolfe submitted: that it was testified. that it had never been a case In which the petitioner. .known for a cross word to proceed should be called upon to make some lout of her mouth and that all her provision for his wife's future, in intercourse with the Chinese had order that she might have a chance been characterised by the spirit of of leading a respectable life. meekness und lowliness.

When it was ascertained that The floral tributes evidenced neither Mrs. Hayley Morriss nor how truly Mrs. Gaunt was held in the co-respondent was in court, the Whose blood is fet from futhers honour by foreigners and Chinese judge intimated that he would hear

Or close the wall up with

our English dead!

E

On, on you noblest English!

of war-proof;

Fathers that, like $0

Alexanders.

Have in these parts from

till even fought And sheathed their swords

lack of argument. Dishonour not your

alike. The mourners walked in evidence which the petitioner de- many procession to the foreign aired to call.

cemetery, situated in a quiet spot Evidence was then given. morn on the outskirts of the West Lake. Mr. Rolfe submitted that there

The Rev. C. Bird, of the C.M.S. at was nothing in the

evidence to

for Shaohsingfu, conducted the burial affect his contention that the peti- service and a large group of tioner was responsible to a large mothers; friends assembled at the grave-extent for the degradation of his side to pay their last token of wife, having regard to the grave That those whom you called affection to a true and valued moral injury he had done to her

friend. Much sympathy goes out character..

now attest

fathers did beget you.

Be copy now to men of grosser to the Rev. T. Gaunt in this hour

Lord Merrivale, giving his deci- of trial, and to the only son, who sion, said the question was whether blood,

is at present in England.-N. C. there was anything in the relations Daily News."

And teach them how to war. And

you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in Eng-

land, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let

US SWEAT

That you are worth your breed-

ing; which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean

and base

That hath not noble lustre in

your eyes.

I see you stand like greyhounds

in the slip,

Straining upon the start,

Kame's afoot: Follow your spirit; and,

this charge,

the

upon

Cry "God for Harry! England

and Saint George."

CORRESPONDENCE.

MISS O'KEEFE'S DISPLAY.

of the parties and Morriss' treat- mant of his wife which would in- Admiral Sir Charles Vaughan- duce the court to regard her as an

Lee.

injured woman for whom provision ought to be made. He said he did was the L.not think that Morriss

died ut

was at

Admiral Sir Charles Vaughan-Lea, K.B.E., C.B...who author of the mischief, but he did in the Great War saw varied ser- involve his wife in a course of vice in the North Sea, at the Ad- criminal conduct of a very aggra- miralty, and at Portsmouth Dock-vated form.

This was a suit which his residence, yard, Septon, Midhurst, on March 16, in present pending. He proposed to his 62nd year. In his youth he direct that the payment of alimony- served a long commiasion on the "pendente lite" (pending the hear- China Station, and exerted him- ing of the case) from the time of self so well in learning the duties the beginning of the suit to the of his profession that when, in time of the dissolution of the mar 1886, he came to pass for lieuten- riage should be lodged in court;" ant, he took first-class certificates that it should be at the rate of the in every subject, and was pro-payments which the petitioner noted at the early age of 19. In voluntarily made (£30 6s. Sd. per. 1907-9 he was captain of the month) pending the sult; that the cruiser

China suma which he had paid on account waters.

"Astroea" in

should be credited, and that the balance should be the amount to be lodged.

"That being done," said Lord

(To the Editor of the "China Mall.") KIDNAPPING WORRY. Merrivale, "I see no reason why the

But their emotions do not express weak sentimentality; for it is almost exclusively confiried to one subject, namely to a deep and abiding love of country. Patriotism is surely one of the moblest characteristics and must continue to be so while the world continues to be as it is. In the wonderful utapia of the far-off future promised by the Socialists there will be such a jolly family feeling pervading the whole

Dear Sir,I am writing to in- universe that patriotism will be form you that the gross receipts mere parochialism, a thing to be of my Dancing Display given at despised and lamented as a miser- the Queen's Theatre on the 11th instant amounted to $1,763 and I at able weakness of our ancestors. am in the meantime forwarding HARRIS-On, March

"Beaulieu," Kingsway, Hove, That time, however, is not yet, to Earl Haig's Fund a draft for to the wife of Richard Vittorio and while the world is what it is, £20 and a cheque for $50 to the

Nethersole Hospital. Harris, of Hong Kong, a has been for a very long time and

Yours, etc., daughter.

Daisy O'Keefe. RICKEAND. On March 18, to is likely to remain much the same

Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Rickeard, for even u longer time to come, Station Hotel,

Kowloon, April 21. of 10, Queen's-gate, Plymouth, Englishmen will be right in think- and Kedah, Malaya, a son.

ing that patriotism is a virtue and an emotion well worth cherishing. Therefore, if the sound common-

BIRTHS.

GOLDEN WEDDING.

13,

BISHOP LOWE.At Forwellbank, sense of Englishmen causes them

Auchterarder, on

March 21, 1878, by Rev. A. Robertson,

to believe both in patriotism and

F. C. Woodside, Burrelton, in

a Patron Saint, doubtless

Book of India, right lines.

Fred. Clark Bishop, Chartered Englishmen are acting on the Mercantile

London and China, to Isabella!

Angus.

CHEER O'.

WILLING WORKERS FOR THE SERVICEMEN.

SHANGHAI STILL PLAGUED WITH DESPERADOES.

RECENT ATTEMPT.

purely artificial relationship be- tween the parties, which, I think, was brought into being as part of the scheme of criminal conduct and was equally to the discredit of each of them, should be allowed to inter- vene in the cause of the dissolution of the marriage."

The following letter recently ap peared in the columns of the "North-China Daily News" :—

GENERAL YANG SEN. Sir, While riding along Great Western-road in a motor car at

Hankow, Saturday. about 8 a.m. to-day accompanying Three of General Yang Sen's a boy back to Kuang Hwa Univer-personal staff have arrived here sity and on reaching a deserted from further up the Yangtze River field about 400 yards close to the (presumably to discuss matters railway crossing, a gang of three with the local, Wu-Han, National- men presumably kidnappers who ists)---British Naval Wireless. were walking along the sideway suddenly made a dash to the front.

are located. The

years

DO YOU KNOW?

To-day's List of

Little Posers.

of the car with their arms extend-

Mrs. Webb, of Hanger Hill The Cheer O' Y.M.C.A. is fasting vertically as a signal to force losing its ploneer workers. Mrs. the car to stop. It was only due Nurseries, Ealing, W., la lying Cecilia, second daughter of In celebrating their Patron Templeton, who left by the "Em-to the alertness of the chauffeur,' seriously ill in Baling Hospitals as press" last week, has been one of who en noticing the danger drove, the result of injuries, including the Dr. Robert Lowe, Coupar Saint Englishmen are well aware the most energetic canteen help the car at top speed, that averted loss of her left ear, received when that they are celebrating their ers and has never spared herself another kidnapping incident. The she was attacked by an Alastian country, and for what their coun-where work was to be done for gang realising their unsuccessful dog which she had kept for 212 DEATHS.

try stands. Saint George is little the good of the Servicemen. At attempt immediately decamped to- the City Hall dances the refresh-ward the west where several small CARRITT-On March 17, sudden- more than a mero figment in the ments were in her charge, and pastage ways

ly, from pneumonia, Hugh minds of Englishmen, and we are with her rendy Taikoo workers it three men wore black short jackets Blasson Carritt, of Lloyd, inclined to believe that very few was a treat to see how well the and trousers with felt hats and are Matheson, and Carritt, and 18, Sloane-gardens, Landon, eldest Englishmen have ever known boys were catered for one and tied with white silk bands around all receiving from Mrs. Templeton their waist underneath the coats. son of the late Mr. Thomas anything really accurate about a cheery word. Her fortnightly These mea no doubt prefer to Carritt and Mrs, Carritt. the Saint-for the very good rea-Fridays were always looked for-operate in this lonely area so that EDE. On March 14, at her reside son that practically nothing is ward to her concerts and dances their doings may get out of the

were always well attended, her vigilance of the police. ence, Oakhurst, Netley. Abbey,

known of him. It suffices that he band of helpers were always to the In view of the Incident describ Ede, Hants, Laura Annia

a little During the summer ed above, may I crave widow of N. J. Ede (formerly is "Saint George of England" and fore. of Hong Kong).

that he personifies the great and months many of them came from space in your valuable paper, first- Mt. Parker, returning late" atly, to warn these making use of MALET.—On March 14, Margaret glorious traditions of the race.

this road ispecially when escorting night. Louisa Waller, wife of Arnold No pusillanimous individual was Mrs. Templeton has been out of children to and from school to pro- Mall" appeor half a dozen questions H: Malet, Straits Settlements. KESSLER. On Monday, April 16, Saint George, for evidently he health for some time. May the ceed with the utmost care, and, of a general nature, for which a few plain "Daily Sketch," Answers will be 1928, at her residence, 61 was a doer of doughty deeds, a voyage home do the good she secondly, to appeal to the police acknowledgment is due to the

needs after her last summer's authorities to detail Avenuo Dubail, Shanghal, man of courage and resource, for energies.

clothes men, if possible, to duty found on page 9 of this issue.

1. What flower. Is capable of Christa, Kessler, aged 33, be

Another keen worker, Mrs. around this area as I feel sure that Dr. Adolf had he not been so how could he loved wife of

Cornaby, left by the "Sarpedon." their present good work in round-producing more varieties than any Kessler.

have slain so wily and terrible Her playing and singing will be ing up criminals will be further re- other?

2. Which two - languages are warded by the arrest of these des- beast as a dragon? His heroism greatly missed at the Cheer O'.

peradoes within a short time. spoken by the most people? Hong Kong, Monday, April 23, 1028 appears to have been known far Contributed.

I trust that the parents of those beyond the confines of England

children who are at present edu- cated at the Kuang Hwa University SAINT GEORGE'S DAY. for he is to-day not only England's

Patron Saint; he is or was also the Very likely I have told quite a will join me in this public appeal For a people so practical as the Patron Saint of the vallant sailors lot of lies to my constituents. for police assistance. English, it may seem somewhat who sall the Adriatic. Surely They were not deliberate lles. Enclosing my card,

however, and they were not told incongruous that they should still nothing could be more appropriate knowingly. Mr. Austin Hopkin-

sary to than that Burlishmen should find son, M.P..

I am, etc.,

Shanghai, April 9, 1928.

M.

From day to day in the "Chian

..

8. From whom does Palestine tako its name?

4. Who was President of France during the Great War?,

5. What is meant by "the Law and the Propheta 7

6 When Parliament first divided futo a House of Lords and a Houss of Commons?