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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928.

NEW DANCE STEPS.

Appearing in London

· Clubs. ·

FOLLOWING THE YALE. "Sogar Step," "Stop Trot" and "Kinkajon" Among Them.

London, May 0. New dance steps are appearing in the London : restaurants -and night-clubs with bewildering rapidity.

here.

WORLD PEACE.

U.S. Memorial Day Theme.

MR. KELLOGG'S PROPOSALS. President Coolidge Refers to It at Gettysburg.

con-

MARRIAGE MAKERS.

New Laws Framed in Philippines.

AUTHORITIES ON GUARD. Official Campaign Started Against Those Unauthorised.

Manila, May 20.

7. Gettysburg, Yesterday. The desirability of a tinuance of peace was the world-Protestant ministers throughout A campaign againat priests and

wide theme of memorial day yes the Islands who have not been au- terday.

thorised by the authorities of the In his speech Pres. Coolidge re- Philippine Library and Museum to There are now over 20 different ferred to the favourable recep- solemnise marriages in accordance dances current in dancing circles tion accorded to Mr. Kellogg's with the new marriage law, will be

draft treaty to renounce war started. The Sugar Step, the Stop Trot, which has been endorsed by the Of about 4,000 ministers and and the Varsity Drag were de public opinion of America and priests in the Islands, only 260 have monstrated recently. The Kinka- abroad and had been approached been registered with the Philippine jou, the Baltimore, the Heebie Jce with by the encouragement, in- Library and Museum and approved bies, and the Dixie Stemp, while terest and sympathy by other by that institution, to solemnise not longer classed as new, are still Governments. — Reuter's Ameri- marriages. commanding attention.

Teachers of dancing are experi- menting with still newer voria- tlons, according to a prominent authority.

can Service.

MEMORIAL DAY.

"It was the immediate success of US. AMBASSADOR AND THE for no less than six months, and

the Yale that led to this rush of new steps," declared one of the [foremost dance teachers in a in- terview recently. "Every one 1s trying to equal the record of Major Taylor who first showed us that step."

- “NEW OPTIMISM.”

Any of these priests or ministers who have not been registered and allowed by the Philippine Library and Museum to solemnize mar- riage, may ba imprisoned

fined P200 for violation of the new marriage law, it was pointed out.. Several religious sects establish- ed In Manila and elsewhere who have applied for authority to solem- Paris, Yesterday.' nise marriages, have been denied Speaking at the ceremonies on permission for failure to possess Memorial Day, the American Am the necessary requisites called for bassador stated that the general by the law. situation, as far

HAPPY FRANCE.

concerns

He emphasized that if the publle would allow the experts, to carryi out experiments before adopting each new dance, there would be peoples and sentiments, had great. ly Improved. He added that in no far less confusión.

country outside the United States "People, no longer dare go to & was this new optimism more notice- dance unless they know all the latable than in France.

It is believed that many of these unlicensed ministers have been solemnising marriages in open violation of law.

eat steps," he concluded, "and, the Only a few weeks ago the French TSINAN TRAGEDY. result is they miss the enjoyment people had set the stamp of over-

of a healthful form of exercise."-whelming disapproval upon strife? United Press,

and disorder and had definitely set jout upon the march toward the

MOTOR CAR TOUTS. Bane and prosperous future to which their virtues in peace as well es in war so prominently entitled

ONE MORE BATCH BEFORE them.

THE MAGISTRATE.

جنبيه

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OBSERVANCES IN CANTON ON JUNE 8.

INSTRUCTIONS FROM NANKING.

elapsed without any solution to China's grievance, it has been thought necessary for the Chinese to keep such an incident in their memory and to be ready to Beek adequate redress for the massacre of innocent, people at the hands of the Japanese.".

In accordance with a resolution The great leader of this move passed by the Central Executive ment is watched in Amerien with Committee of the Nationalist Party The Bay View police, busy yes- the same confidence and respect in Nanking, the Canton City Kuo- a circular terday, arrested three motor car which he excites at home, and we mintang has issued touts for pestering pedestrians at now see clearly that the American notice to all' public bodies that the Ming Yuen Gardens. One soldiers, who fall in the war, national flage shall be at half-mast man, who admitted the offence bravely serving their own country, on June 8 in commemoration of and had been similarly previously had also helped to lay the founda- the tragedy of May 8 in Tsinan. convicted, was fined $5. The tion not only of France's national It is stated that "as a month has other two were fined $2 each as safety, but of her imminent pros first offenders, One gave the perity and the ever growing bappi- excuse that his car had been ness of her much tried people.

phoned for, but as he did not Havas, know the identity of his prospec- tive fare, he spoke to a party, which was leaving the garden. The West Point police charged a man with touting outside the Taiping Theatre. He was also a first offender and was fined $2.

At the Kowloon Magistracy, Views of Magistrate & Police..

before Mr. Schofield, Mrs. R. In connection with cases against motor car touts, at the Pass, residing at No. 2 Saifee Ter-

CONVICT. Central Magistracy this morning, race, Nathan-road, was formally Lieut. Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O., said charged with allowing her dog out

Major C. Willson, yesterday that he did not see any sense in of the house without a muzzle.

case at the arresting them

Mr. D. Davidson, for the defen- afternoon, heard a unless they actually accosted people. He did dant, pleaded guilty," and in- Central Magistracy in which a not think it was an offence for a formed His Worship that the dog boarding house runner summoned was out owing to the carelessness another for alleged assault.. The driver to signal to passers by.

With these remarks, his Wor- of an amah, and that it was the trouble occurred in a room at the ship decided to give the benefit first time such a thing had oc- of the doubt to a tout, who claim-curred. St

KOWLOON LADY FINED $5.

ed that he spoke to a pedestrian In consideration of this, the whilst seated in his car outside Magistrate imposed a fine of $6. the Ming, Yuen Gardens.

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Yuet Wah boarding house, and was |stated to be over money matters, the defendant alleging that the complainant had owed him some money for a long time. Another accusation brought against com- plainant by the defendant was that

the latter had given information to

the police which led to the defen dant's deportation from Singapore where the two had previously Hved.

The police agreed that signal- ling to passers-by from a car was not an offence, but stated that public motor cars gathered in large numbers outside the gar- dens, making it difficult to handle Hong Kong business firms Complainant gave a complete denial traffic, whilst the majority of the might do worse than take a leaf of defendant's allegations, and said touts stood about at the gates of out of the American book, if only that, for no reason whatever, the the gardens and spoke to people because it is a volume which is defendant burst into the room in as they came out, often causing being published also in other which he was sitting with his aunt, annoyance by their persistence. lands

and after threatening to brain "In the Federal bankruptcy him" with an from rod, snatched courts in Los Angeles, California, $25 from him. The Magistrate 92 per cent of business failures decided there was not sufficient for the past financial year were evidence to lead to a conviction non-advertisers. From a survey and discharged, the defendant, of records over 82 cities of the United States it is found that 89

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