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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928.

A LOOK AROUND.

By The Mall Hen.]

Why the frouse?

Whispers have reached me that all is not well in the Police Reserve, at least, in the Chinese Company. Discontent is alleged to have arisen out of recent promo- tlons or non-promotions, conflict of views us to whether there should be turn-outs or whether there should be even more of them, and the number of parades to be at- tended during the summer. One

THE CHINA MAIL,

tide, one can walk on fine sand; hat and Singapore last year, but this month. As a means of con- but at the majority of bathing his bowling improved at the ex-soling the dead and enriching the beaches, the mud at the bottom is pense of his batting. Capt. Dobble devils, the women formed a club, both gozy and aloshy when a foot is an all-round sportsman and has the members of which contributed treads upon it feeling which is won honours at many games. He limited eum every month until the altogether unpleasant. If, some is due back in Hong Kong before present month when sacrifices are offered to the ghosts. Junks and body would only start the fashion, the Borderers leave the station,

steam launches 'ware"öngaged tor I think, men of the so-called sterner sex ought be grateful.

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Satisfied with the sum Queer of $1 given him, an After the closure Methods. old man picked him self up from the gut Mokanshun. of the fifth plenary

session of the Na-ter and proceeded on his way, tionalist Party executive, Marshal This incident occurred a few days of the ago, when, a Chinese ancient was L Chal-sum, the head Canton Government, has been visit. knocked down

reasons

youthful

man ex-

cruising up and down the harbour, burning paper money, paper cloth- ing, jos paper and incense sticks as they went along Small paper boats fitted with small oil lampa are These launched into the sea. paper boats, it is said, are provided

TO-DAY'S. FILMS.

"STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.” AT

THE QUEEN'S.

er, belag cast as a beautiful young girl who outwita a gang of sharp- ers in her endeavour to save the honour of the man she loves, Others In the large cast include Warner Baxter, Lawrence Gray, May Allison and Holbrook Blinn.

Four people were killed when a" salt near Beauvais, France, re- motor-car turned a complete somer-

cently,

NOTICE.

Have This Day Moved Our

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HAZELAND & GONELLA. Hong Kong, 1st Sept., 1928.

for the ghosts. It is quite an in-W offices to KAYAMALLY cause of grousing is said to be ing Mokanshun, a place seldom cycllat. The cycle hit the pedes-teresting spectacle to see these BUILDING, No. 82, Queen's Road |

boats tossing Central. based on a promise (which I think heard of down here in South China, trian from behind, sending him miniature paper

It was reported with some force into the gutter. about in the blue expanse of the was never made officially, if it was More than once made at all) that trained men will that Marsha! Li was returning to Cut on his hand, the old man at soa at eventiãs.

Political

oncé blew his whistle and general- be issued with revolvers which they Hong Kong. will carry and keep at Home, apart, Marshal Li has been unable ly caused a "big noise." A crowd Judging by results and the smart to leave. Were the charms of soon collected, the old

GRAND TATTOO turn-out of the men, I do not think Mokanuhun too strong for him? It postulating, while the cyclist stood

SCENARIO NEHEARSALS. anything serious is afoot. My ex- is a picturesque mountain resort, by frightened. One of the crowd

At The City Hall, perience of all such bodies is that full of breeze, and only ten hours suggested that the cyclist should

Tuesday, 4th Sept. at 5:30. p.m. somebody must have "an axe to from Shanghai, being therefore give the pedestrian some money easily accessible. Hundreds of and others supported the suggen-

Thursday, 6th Sept. at 5,30° p.m. COMEDY'S BIG CLIMAX. grind."

foreigners visit the place every tlon. The cyclist, poor fellow, at

There Are few vacancies, Buster Keaton's big comedy,Ladies and Gentlemen willing to summer, I have made a note of it once agreed and produced from his

ia to be

assist are requested to attend at and intend going there at the next shoe a few dollars wrapped in a "Steamboat Bill, Jr.," opportunity a short holiday occurs. piece of paper. From this he ex-screened for the last time to-day the City Hall at the above Ro- The China Travel Service, of Hong tracted $1, and handed it over to at the Queen's Theatre. The frozen hearsals. Kong, I note, recommends Mokan- the Injured one. The latter ac-faced comedian is at his best in cepted it, but not without again college boy's training aboard a

this amusing story of a "softy" shun very strongly.

expostulating. Rising to his feet,

river boat: The production is Last week I had apparently forgetting the wound on essentially a comedy, but there are occasion to refer his head, he proceeded on his way,moments when the thrills displace to Hong Kong's satisfied.

the laughs. Especially is this true In the final scene, a roaring climax, water rats, men

when Buster effects Beveral re- amashing markable rescues in a tornado.

The Police Reserve is Carrying not subject to punish- Firearms, ment (except

misaal) unless it is during an emer- see, therefore, how

called out, 83, 'gency. I fall to anybody can be

Hong Kong's Water Rats.

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Fire Omens.

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keen to carry a "gun" about in this hot weather. What I hear is that one or two of the men consider it amart to have a bulge at the hip, just to show

People of different who got away with hundreds of that he has the privilege of carry fathoms of rope and slabs of tin

countries have their ing firearms which he would not

weighing a hundredweight. I have

respective superstitions, get under erdhary circumstances. since learned that even, anchors

but the Chinese, I may There may be a certain amount of and chains are not immune from say, are among the foremost of

these raiders, but the

men who them all. Many years ago, after steal such heavy articles must have the big fire at the Race Course, д good diver in their gang. rumour was afoot that before the

"Ince" attached.to it, but such a privilege at most allows one only

to "xhow off." And there is always

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WORLD THEATRE,

Based on the famous opera "La Bohome." the picture of that name will have its final showings to-day

some danger attached, although not Wharves and buoys being avail- outbreak some people who lived in at the. World Theatre. As Mimi, the danger of a Reservist being able, steamers hardly ever need to the vicinity had seen, some nights | Lillian Gish gives one of the most

attacked just because he dons the uniform now and again. It is a fact that many Chinese who apply

for arms licences are turned down

bat the granting of a licence does

not confer any special status on an Individual. Membership in the Police Reserve does.

Supporters of the On Getting "get together".iden Together. of H.E. the Gov

ernor, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., will be interest- ed to learn that a Chinese youth desires to live in the European Y.M.C.A. ut Kowloon. When it was pointed out that he could stay at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. in Bridges street he replied that it was not mere accommodation that he

Bought, but the "atmosphere" of living among Europeans so that he might benefit by intercourse, by learning the English language and customs. It is a commendable iden, but the fundamental principles of the Y.M.C.A. in Kowloon debar him from its achievement. There are other ways of seeking the company of foreigners. At moment, I am not prepared to express an opinion

one way or the other.

Soldiers Heat-Stroke

Under the bara an- nouncement of the death recently of a man in the garri son lies a story of a strenuous effort by the military medical au thorities to combat the ill effects of the oppressive heat of this summer In all, sixteen men were struck 'down by heat-stroke. Everything

The

use their anchors in Hong Kong harbour now. But big junka do. And occasionally, when they haul up, they find that their chain has been substituted by a rope attached to a lump of granite, to which their craft was sccured before the chain was released and towed away with the anchor to be sold to some

receiver on shore.

178 Years in the Army!

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The holding of District Courts Martial is bound

prior to the outbreak of the con- flagration large fire balls falling down from the sky white ghosts dressed in red were seen walking in and out of the 'matahed stands which were erected for the races. of the S.. Again; after the fire "Sui Tal," the same rumour is now the Chinese circulating among community. It is alleged that on nights previous to the fire, boatmen who moored their bonts near the doomed wharf saw fire balls and, sparks fall from the sky on-to that to bring Pressmen particular spot. They had expected into contact with Army men and I a fire, which unfortunately did unblushingly admit that the break out on the next day. The formation contained in the startling Chinese believe that an ill omen caption above this paragraph came always predicts some thing extra- from the Tommies. With age ordinary that is going to happen, limits and other restrictions, it is but, unfortunately, those omen impossible for any man to serve never leak out before, but always. half that time; but Regimental faster, the cutbreak--- Sergeant Major Parkinson, of the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish

Some time last week, a Borderers, can boast of a unique

steam launch loaded record. Members of his family

with large quantities of have 178 years of Army service be-

paper clothing, etc., tween them and that is good going. steamed leisurely around the My Informant could not say, de- harbour, with a number of female finitely whether it was continuous passengers on board. This service but he thought so. Long because of a superstition among may the R.S.M. function.

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For the Ghosts,

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Was

the Chinese In connection with the "Yu Lan Festival," or "All Souls Here's another Day." The Chinese belleve that General'a A.D.C. bit of Army people who lost their lives in the Coming Back. newa. Lieut. merciless sea will become "wander- R. Q. F. John- ing ghosts," and these and äll ston, of the Durham Light Infantry, other ghosts are supposed to enjoy who has been Alde-de-Camp to freedom of thirty days during H. E. the General Officer Com- manding the Troops in South Ching (Major-General C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G.), is due back in about ten Johnston has made many friends days after a holiday at Home. Lt.

was done for them and fifteen re-here and he will be remembered as covered and are now back at duty, man who died was the sixteenth. Ilis condition improved at first, but he relapsed and died. In barracks, the heat is no worse than it is for the majority of real dents; but out at the Shamshuipo huts, for instance, rays of the sun can be torturing, especially to white men who have not been out here before,

one swimmer. He won the Army cross-harbour race one year and keen disappointment was expressed at hie non-participation in the open event promoted by the Victoria Recreation Club. He will be back in time this year to get in some training and, if he is in the mood, make a shot for the blue riband of Hong Kong aquatics.

Captain A. G. ~Another Soldier. Dobble of the Sportsman Due, King's Own Scottish Bor-

Ladies, a correspon- Why Not? dent writes, wear bathing shoes when they go swimming.........Do they do so dorers, who has been enjoying a merely for the effect of matching holiday in Canada, is, I learn, ales the colours of their costumes, he coming back to Hong Kong, but the aske, or is there real need for date is not known -yat. Capt. them? Being a mere man, I cannot Dobble was selected for Hong hope to give the correct answer. Kong'a interport cricket - team in But it has struck mo that on some November 1926) ortly after his bathing benches men will do well

to don protective footwear, “ One or

two auch places-are notorious for the sharp-edged ariston

barnacleswwhichevcut

and badly;

Others « have į very day uneven? ay, proaches to the

remarkable portrayals of her varied career, John Gilbert, Renee Adores and. Karl Dane, all of "The Big Parade" fame, all give convincing performances in their respective roles,

· STAR THEATRE,

"The Telepheie Girl," another excellent picture, will also close. ita reason to-day at the Star Theatre. The picture is a tense mystery- drama played against the back ground of a political campaign. Madge Bellamy ie the leading play- -

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