1928-06-21 — Page 8

·8.

HAD A HEAVY DINNER?

DO YOU SUFFER FROM

1.

"THAT CHOKED FEELING"I TAKE

MAGNESIUM PERHYDROL

SWIFT AND LASTING RESULTS

Obtainable from all drug stores in convenient packing of 20, 50, 100 tablets.

Merck's Sole Agents :

BORNEMANN & CO.

French Building,

Hong Kong.

P.O. Box 47,

Canton.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (Opposite G.P.O.),

Agente for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers. High Class English Jewellery.

THE TONIC FOR THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

GLYCO-NERVINE

The Regenerator of the Nerve Cells. Of special use for the following Complaints:- Neurasthenia, Various Nervous Disorders. Epilepsy, Rebellious Neuralgia, Insomnia Hysteria, Auxiety, Irritating Cough."

Obtainable at

THE QUEEN'S. DISPENSARY,

22, Des Voeux Road Central.

IMPORTANT to MEN

Send Your Felt Hats to Experts for Renovation. Yes We clean Ladies' Hats as well, Dresses and every kind of Fabric.

Also

THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEINA 60.

19. Wyndham Street, 143, Wong Nei Cheong Road,

Hong Kong.

Happy Valley.

36, Nathan Road,

Kowloon.

QUEEN'S THEATRE

ADDITIONAL ATTRACTION FOR ONE WEEK ONLY Commencing SUNDAY 9.20 p.m.

Miss CHERIE VALENTINE Miss TOMASITA BIRDWELL

în a series of

ECCENTRIC AND MODERN DANCES

Entire Change of Programme

TRADE MARK

PARROT

on Thursday,

Usual Prices.

NAM WAH

BRAND.

NEW SEASON GINGER.

Well Preserved.

Colour and Mellowness Guararbed,

ham Wih Preserved Ginger Manukuntans

THE CHINA MAIL,

BURNED AT STAKE,

SUICIDE PACT?

CONVICT'S ASTOUNDING STORY | EXTRAORDINARY REPORT AS

OF KU KLUX KLAN.

TERRORISM & WOMAN SPIES,

TO SEVEN GIRLS.

“SEVERELY WARNED."

OPERATIC JUBILEE.

WHEN LONDON RUSHED TO "H.M.S. PINAFORE.”.

[By: A. H. Godwin.]

Accusations more serious than An unusual raport was made, to So rarely does a play reach its strongest opponents ever the police at midnight on Tuesday, fifty years of vigorous life that brought against the Ku Klux by a Chinese that his mui ten! was there is something uncommon in Klan were recently made in making preparations, with six a jubilee which was celebrated court.. by nvowed members others to commit suicide by jump-recently. For it was on May 25, of the "hooded order," which, ing into the harbour that night. 1878, that "H.M.S. "Pinafore," under cloak of patriotism He said that he knew that the which is as familiar to the pre at that moment gent generation of playgoers as it and religion, has wreaked its en- seven girls were mity on Catholics; Jews, negroes completing arrangements at No. was to the past, was produced at and any decent citizen who dared to 60, Bridges-street. A Chinese de- the old Opera Comique, near that tective was immediately despatch-warren of slums long since dis- oppose it.

ed to the addreas and returned a placed by Aldwych. little later with the seven girls, They denied that there had been a suicide pact, and the charge room officer allowed them to go after ad- ministering a severe warning.

The law-suit between members of the Klan is being fought at Pitts burg by a band of more reputable citizens, including a clergyman, who declares that they were duped by the Klan leaders,

The most amazing evidence is. that supplied in an affidavit by D. C. Stephenson, former "Exalted Cyclops, Grand Dragon, and King Keagle" of the Klan:

Formerly # coal merchant, Stephenson became so powerful in the State of Indians that all the leading politicians and many judges became his crentures.

He boasted that he was above the law.

He was accused of living a wild life, and was Anally charged with so ill-treating a typist and re- fusing to let hor have medical at- tention that she died, the "Daily News and Westminster Gazette" i informed by a New York correspon- dent.

At the time this audacious naval satire created po unusual excitement. Gilbert and Sullivan, though individually they had some solid achievements behind them, had not yet established their remarkable reputation DE partners. Social London had not

FORTUNE TELLING. made an obsession of them, nor

POLICEWOMEN'S VISIT.

A fine of 6 gulness, with 5 guineas costs, Agnes Guthrie, known as Madame Claire, aged 69, described as of Westgate-terrace, Kensington, who

was inflicted on

was charagd on a warrant at West London Police-court with pretend

She pleaded ing to tell fortunes. gulity.

For this

did it make a "function" of the first night of their opera, as it did later on at the Savoy. The Opera Comique, a shabby, under- ground theatre, approached by unpleasant tummels, had been so notoriously unlucky that it seem- a real link with theatrical his- ed to be the last place to have

tory.

did make history, and not alone,

Yet "H.M.S. "Pinafore"

one would venture to claim, for the joyous group of comic operas to which it belongs. The stage generally as an artistic and a financial institution-has surely a definite interest in the coming anniversary.

Mr. W. L. Sanders, prosecuting A Life Sentence.

for the police, said that observation His creatures then turned against was kept on Guthrie's flat, and

Sir William Gilbert and Sir him. He was sent to gaol for life. eventually two policewomen called.. The former Governor of the State Producing a pack of cards and a Arthur Sullivan had had at least has escaped sentence only by plead-crystal, Guthrie told each of them two earlier collaborative efforts. ing the Statute of Limitations; their "fortunes. To one she said There had been "Trial by Jury" other prominent members of the that her mother had died of cancer and "The Sorcerer," and if one legislature are in gaol,

and that she would lose another re- defies the convention that enum- Stephenson tells how Colonel lative, that her father would be-erates as theirs only the produc- Simmons, of Georgia, was austed come bankrupt, and that she would tions in which Mr. Richard: a managerial from his position as "Imperial lose her employment. She added: D'Oyly Carte had Wizard." The man who secured his "I don't want to alarm you, but that finger, there had also been "Thespis." By themselves these place was a "Doctor" Evans who is what the cards say."

slight pieces could have given no had been practising dentistry illeg information she charged 5%.

sound basis for what we now licence amongst

To the other ally without a

policewoman.

They know as Savoy Opera. sald that her husband negroes. Evans offered him free

were not strong enough, that is and dom to do as he liked in bis own

no good,

that to say, to wean the popular public State on condition that Evans could she would get a divorce. These away from the old musical extra- have the sante freedom in his area, predictions did not alarm the vaganzas and vulgar burlesques, and announced that he intended to two policewomen, said Mr. Sanders, or yet to shake the scruples of "hang a woman", on Colonel Sim- but it was not difficult to imagine that larger public that looked Finally, half frightened the effect they might have on weak- upon theatre-going as a highly by the threat of scandal and con-minded, women. When told that dubious pastime. noled with the promise of $12,000 a she would be prosecuted Guthric year for life Colonel Simmons said: "I don't tell fortunes; 1,am agreed to withdraw from actual a spiritualist." control of the order he had found-

mons.

od.

she WAS

A New Play-Going Public. Not even their brilliant auc- cessor "H.M.S. Pinafore" had any Mr. Pierron, who defended, urged better success at the outset, part- that this sort of thing was donely because its production coincid- openly by numbers of people, but ed with a heat-wave that would that it was only against a few that have meant empty. benches in proceedings, were taken. Guthrie any case, and partly because the had only been practising this bus big public was still unconverted ness for a short time. Formerly to playgoing. Gilbert, Sullivan, the only persons who went to her and Garte might have were those who, like herself, were faced failure philosophically, not tiad interested in spiritualism. She was but they had a widow, and since the death of her co husband, a doctor, she had had a hard struggle, which was made worse by the fact that she suffered from poor health.

Women Splex. The method proved so successful that it became a common practice. Evans had in his pay a number of women with police records all over the United States. They would travel in the same train, or stay at the same hotels, as their victims and then make affidavits which either led to their expulsion from the Klan, or if they forced a trial, to conviction in the courts, where, if necessary, pressure was brought to bear on the judge, sometimes in the name of the high moral position for which the Klan catcesibly stood,

All the eight Queen's Scholar- In one case a half-witted girl was sent into the home of a Judge with ships awarded since 1923 have been Instruction to run away screaming won by Penang boys, and of these in the night and repeat certain al- legations. The girl was so kindly treated by the Judge and his wife that the scheme broke down and Evans and his men beat her to such an extent that she fled to the police and asked to be locked up for pro-

tection.

A man named Tom Austin, à former friend of Stephenson's, was ordered to bring one of Evans'

much encouragement that they would necessarily have tempted fortune together again. came suddenly when Succesa Sullivan introduced an orchestral selection from his new work at So the Promenade Concerts. amazingly popular was it that the audience demanded Ave, or six Soon the opera itself encores. became the talk of the town, six have been taken by the Penang there were fights in the queues, Free School. Three Penang puptis, and the creaky benches groaned two from the St. Xavier's Institu-under a human load they had tion and one from the Free School, never known hitherto. won the scholarships awarded by Government to the three candidates from schools in the Colony who are highest in the School Certificate

Examination.

troupe of women to compromise TO THE MAN WHO WANTS TO

him.

Austin refused, Ho.was be-

SUCCEED.

fore long ordered to report at a cer tain spot in New York. When he You may be the greatest genius got there he was shot dead." the world has yet seen; your busi- Witnesses in the Pittsburg court ness acumen may, exceed that of have outdone Stephenson in the any other living man; but this will horrors described in their evidence.avail you little or nothing if you

"H.M.S. Pinafore," in fact, be came, not a success, but a mania. Its "What! never?" "Well, hardly ever!" was a pleasantry on everyone's lips. The Ruler of the Queen's Navee" or some such variation became a popular. catch-phrase. Up-to-date trades- men hastened to label their novelties "Pinafore hats" or "Planfore gloves." Quiet-manner

clubmen foined with street-boys in whistling "For he might have been a Roosinn, a French, or Turk, or Proosian." Even the milkman would go his rounda humming "Little Buttercup." Such was

A plumber, formerly a member of are sickly and cannot attend to Sullivan's happy stroke, and the the Klan in Texas, calmly con your daily work, y a blaze of publicity that was the fessed that he had seen seven or elght men, including at least one white man, burnt at the stake while Klansmen stood by in their hoods.

Without good health success is sequel to it, that brought a new impossible. To attain success, play-going public into being, and then, moans first of all conserving incidentally launched the merry your health. To do this, you have little ship on a long and prosper- Blood Money,A but to fortify the system to ward | ous voyage. The reason for this shameless off disease, to re-inforce those criminality is to be found in the natural processes which, because wealth available for unscrupulous of the stress and strain of modern men. Each new member on recely-existence, do not always function Ing his gown and hood paid $10.A to best advantage. large proportion of this went to The rational use of a tonic when beadquarters.A

MR. ADOLPHE MENJOU.

feeling "below par or when you When Mr. Adolphe Menjou Its stated that much of it was begin to lose interest in your work, and his wife left Victoria sta- retained by Doctor" Evans, and commends itself to the intelligent, tión, London, for Paris, Mr. one of the charges in the present The tone you want is one that will Menjou said to a reporter: Inwault is that the officers sup benefit you permanently, and not. We have had the most strenuous, hectic, but happy pressed the true numbers of mem- merely stimulate you for the time

time of our lives during the six berahip and kept the subscriptions being Dr. Williams Pink Pils for tonic. They

days we have been in London: for their own use. In the state of Pale People are such Indiana alone the income at one restore natural

by re

We are coming back to London about February next. I should period amounted to $500,000 a Info)

tions of

Just love to make a picture in month

England. One of Bernard Shaw's adaptations is possible, ends on, Mr. Shaw, but

the

the hu

The outcome of the present trial pre will have no great effect on the qualifie strength of the Klan, for it has been | have steadily falling in influence in most parts of the United States

the suspicion

hat the ord

COVER

·Blasin

decent

nervo

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928.

SALE

OF

Jewellery, Watches, Fancy Goods, etc.

at a

SACRIFICE

We are removing from our present premises (opposite main entrance of the Hong Kong Hotel) and have to sell the entire stock.

No reasonable offer refused

Sale commences on 1st. June, 1928.

SENNET FRERES,

China Building,

Pedder Street.

CHY LOONG.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER.

Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters. Office: 231, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2534. Factory:-500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati. Tel. H. 869.

A WEEK'S PAPERS

IN ONE

"OVERLAND CHINA MAIL " ILLUSTRATED.

CHINA NEWS, LOCAL NEWS

AND

THE NEWS ALL

SEND IT HOME!

Home papers have commented at length on the passing of Peking under the Nationalist rule and the claim by the Nanking authorities to be the de facto government for the whole of China. The Nationalist declaration to "friendly nations of the world" has caused a stir in more than one capital.

As it has always endeavoured to do, the "Overland China Mail" this week fills the gaps in the information supplied to people in other parts of the world.

A copy will be very much appreciated. All the China cables, the despatches of importance, articles which explain matters to non-Chinese, and copious explanations will be found in the "Overland."

The complicated state of affairs is described in, such a way as will be understood by all,

The "Overland" is the only illustrated weekly summary of local events. Among this week's features are the reports of two Courts Martial, a number of public functions, and the concluding articles by Mr. Lo Tung-fan, B.A., on Confucianism. Readers who have read the complete paper by Mr. Lo should obtain the whole bound together in the "Overland."

• WHEN YOU GO ON LEAVE.

Hong Kong's spring exodus has begun. Are you going Home on leave this year? If you are, you will be surprised by the number of persons who will ask you about China and Hong Kong. You will be astonished at the number and type of silly questions put to you in all good faith. And you will have to admit reluctantly (if only to yourself) that you are not quite certain. Will you be believed, though? Keep in touch with Hong Kong and China by having the "Overland China Mail sent to you for a stipulated period.

By spending a little time while you are on holiday, you can keep yourself well informed if you have the "Overland.” The articles which you will seek are written to help hon- Chinese to understand. In any case, you will not regret, from your own point of view, being posted with the main develop ments (reported in brief) while you are away.

READY TO-MORROW. Mail via Suez closes at 10.30 am, on Saturday.

25 Cents,

SINGLE COPY MULT

(Sold on the streeta and at the bookslalis or you can send your subscripton to the officer.K. $18 per RUDER, OF $15-fncluding postage abroad, half-yearly, quarterly, or specific periods, pro rata.3

No. SAWYNDHAM STREET PHONE 0.22

THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL

HOY HEON CTURER OF