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As to Mr. Milne's plays precious stones or mother of A Chinese car driver was charg- Plays for the above-men- pearl. The art reached its cul- ed at the Central Magistracy this Proper tioned are either mination under Chien Lung (A.D. [morning with touting outside volumes of prose or 1786 to 1796) but it has always Lane, Crawford's Restaurant. A verse he has written besides been inferior to that of Japan, fine of $25 was imposed.

The Dover Road," which he which learnt it from China, wrote in 1922, "Wuzzle Flum-Bushell states!

mery," "Belinda," Make- Believe," "Mr. Pim Passes By,"

"The Romantic Age," "The Truth

About Blayde," "The Great Brosopp," "Success," ""To Have

Former Water Famine

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Suen Iu, pork dealer trading as the Tak Kee stall of No. 20, Sai- The frequenti yingpun market, and the Tai Commercialising outbreak of Cheong of No. 120, Western mar- Sport? rowdyism at ket, is to be publicly examined in football bankruptcy at the Supreme Court The Honour." "Ariadne," and matches in the Colony is a mat- at 10.30 a.m. on April 18. "The Ivory Door," These, beter to be deplored. It was only sides his innumerable articles for last Saturday that the soldiers The public examination in. "Punch," make a most creditable and the Chinese had a clash bankruptcy of Lucas Leonardo da output, and as Mr. Milne is still comparatively young only 47 again, and in the melee, we un Silva, clerk, who was adjudicated derstand, a Chinese spectator had bankrupt on July 28, 1921, is to he will yet, we hope, go on write his head broken. Soccer, a man- be held at the Supreme Court at ing more "Dover Roada" and ly game, should be played in a 10.30 am. on April 18. A fourth similar plays for the Hong Kong monty and sporting manner. This, and final dividend is also intended A.D.C. to produce for us here.

to be declared in this matter. however, will be impossible as long as it continues to be 4 Enough

An armed robbery was reported may money-making machine for the have been said various Clubs and Associations, to the Police by the master of the and written To say that football is not be Ying Chung grocery shop, at No. about the ing commercialised in Hong Kong 70, San Ah village. Shautaukok. water problem of the Island, but would probably raise a cynical Two men armed with knives en- it should not be out of place to smile from some. We have only tered his premises on Wednesday recall an incident of interest that to look at the exorbitant price we night, held up the inmates, and occurred during a water shortage have to pay before gaining ad- made off with clothing and money some thirty years ago. The pro-mittance into the stands; not to the value of $46; also a single blem that the administrators of only so, we have also to humble barrel shot gun and ammunition that particular period were faced ourselves and smile ingratiating-valued at $45. with was similar to the one ob-ly at the officials just as if they

taining at present, the only dif- had done us a great favour. ference being that to-day we have looking back, we find that foot- a supply for seventy days, while ball used to promote healthy and in the olden days the supply was friendly rivalry among the Clubs exhausted, with rather alarming here about ten years ago. In results. One thing only was posthose days there was no such The sible and only one thing remained thing as gate receipts. to be done. All the water that game was played for the game's had been stored up had disappear-sake. To-day the game is played So ed, partly through evaporation to please one's supporters.

London. Yesterday. but mainly, of course, in meeting many thousand people pay their Lord Cushendun, who left for the demand of the population, and dollar to see their favourite team Geneva to-day as the chief Bri- yet all had to have water. So win, and this eleven can do no- tish representative on the Pre- that necessary liquid was obtain-thing else but win, even, some paratury Disarmament Commis ed from the islands dotted about times. 'tis to be feared, at the sion, interviewed by Reuter, said Hong Kong. Water-boats were sacrifice of their good name as that he had no official informa- It chartered for the purpose, and sportsmen. Experience has tion of any United States sugges- run continually to such taught that wherever there are tions or proposals in the direction waterfalls and small rivers that ente receipts. there is bound to indicated in newspaper reports its members are full of his-had permanent sources. And he trouble. It is therefore time from America.

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placed in such a category. seems to be as full of vitality as were

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VIEWS OF CHIEF BRITISH

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pects of agreement very rosy, but he in no wise despaired of get- ting a move on. though nobody quite saw how it was to be done. It did not in the least follow, however, that because a number of proposals had not proved ac-

other method might not be follow- ceptable to everybody, that some

ed.

trionic talent, and judging by only by this unique method was that the various Clubs paid their He could only say he was quite what it has been doing, of late, that particular drought, which own way from the members willing to listen to all Mr. Hugh in rapid succession, it is evidentnckily did not last many weeks, subscriptions and bar charges Gibson (the United States repre- Overland China Mail. that it is both able and willing ed rain eventually fell, then, of receipts. If money is required to to explore the ground.

conquered. When the long delay without having to depend on gate sentative) might have to say, and to provide the public with clever course, the water-boats were no entertain visiting teams, this can As regards the preliminary longer required for the purpose easily be raised by charging a disarmament meeting, Lord plays cleverly played.

of bringing water to local resi-nominal entrance price at one or Cushendun did not think the pros dents, and they were taken off the two games. Whilst quite a

run. Since that time the proce The Author lot has been said dure has never had to be repeated, regarding "The the much needed rain seeming al-

If there is an age limit for Dover Road" as a play and as to ways to fall in time to avert that.

We wonder if this year we will work, Henry Ford has not found the excellent manner in which it have

as was it, he recently said. He says he has been played-(the final per-done three decades ago. Perhaps expects to "do more in the next formance takes place in the the Water Authority is quite ve years than he has in the last pleased with the fractional down-twenty." Asked how much money Theatre Royal to hight)

we fall on Thursday and is already he had lost in making the change from the model T to the model A

Hope in America have not observed that much has slumbering peacefully!

car, Mr. Ford replied: "We can't

London, Yesterday. been said of the author. He is

lose what doesn't belong to us. Enquiry in well-informed quar- A poser well worthy of a more detailed

The profits we made on fifteen ters in London shows that the at- Poser About heen set the

million model T cars was not our mosphère conveyed by reports statement, as he (Mr. A. A.

Lacquer "China Mail" by Milne)is undoubtedly one of

a reader who has money. The public paid it to us. from the United States with re- the most humorous writers in been commissioned by a friend The money protits came from the gard to naval disarmament is dis-

some lacquer simply as

people and at Home to buy

we look upon themtinetly hopeful, and if the result Disarma- a public trust which of the Preparatory ware. The reader wants to must be put back into the manu- ment Commission is that some- -week in and week out his con know what is a fair price to pay facture of something that will thing more definite should be tributions to "Panch," that most and how to be able to tell 500 help men and women to better and evolved with regard to naval or

stuff from the bad. Without the! excellent of all humorous periodi-object and information as to the more productive lives." "Wash-other disarmament, the British Government will certainly receive cals, delighted thousands, who buyer's wishes, it is not possible ington (D.C.) Post."

it in the most friendly and hope- But the Colonel D. McHaskard and Mr.ful spirit.-Reuter. never failed to read his scintillat-to give satisfaction.

information, from ing articles signed A.A.M." Mr. following

and Mrs. Bowes Smith arrived Bushell's "Chinese Art" (vol. 1) Milne wrote on all sorts of sub-will always prove handy should jects and always wrote brilliantly, one ever be interested in the sub- Major-General Wardrop arriv- From 1906 till 1914 he was ject. There are no exact records ed in the Colony, en route to Bri- though the art can be traced to

London Offices:-The Far East- ern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 36-38, Svuthampton Street, Strand, W.C.2.

FIRTH

SELLARS.-On April 12, at the Peak Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. George W. Sellars, a daughter,

Hong Kong, Saturday, April 12, 1929.

STILL WATERS

them.

Britain to-day. For many years'

has

yesterday from Shanghai.

NAVAL DISASTER

Assistant Editor of "Punch" and of the origin in China of lacquer (tain by the s.s. "Naldera" to-day....OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE

And

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CASUALTIES a very valiant right-hand man the Sung Dynasty. The medium A Church Parade will be held at In producing and he was to his Edito the genial used is lac, obtained mainly the St. Andrew's Church, Kow-

SEARCH FOR MISSING Our A.D.C. performing "The Sir Owen Seaman. Mr. Mine, who from the lac tree (Rhus vernici- loon, to-morrow, when the 2nd fera), chi shu (tset thu in Can-Hong Kong Troop of Boy Scouts Dover Road" so is, we believe, a London-Scot, after tonese), cultivated in the centre

Tokyo, Yesterday. will parade.

It is officially stated that the admirably our Amateur Dramatic being educated at Westminster and south of China. The white re-

casualties in yesterday's mine. Club has again put local play-School and Trinity College, Cam-sinous sap which becomes black The list of members and asso-laying disaster are 52, of whom on exposure to air is drawn from ciates of the Royal Sanitary Insti- seven were instantaneously killed, goers under a great obligation to bridge, started in journalism in the tree during summer nights, tute appointed this month in- three have since died, three are This admirable play of London. He was not without ex-collected and brought to market cludes the name of Mr. James missing, five are seriously injur A. A. Milne's follows hard upon perience as he had edited the re-in a semi-fluid state or in cakes. Ivor Barnes, Hong Kong, as an ed, seven are not so seriously two plays by Frederic Lonsdale-markable publication known as it is then ground and pressed Associate.

hurt, and 27 are slightly jured. through hempen cloth and made i the "The Last of Mrs. Cheney" and "Granta"

organ of

The cause of the disaster is into a viscous fluid.

On Tuesday, the Hon. Sir H. Estill under investigation, and de- under- "On Approval"-and Ian Beith's Cambridge University

Pollock will address a meeting in tails are withheld from publica delightful comedy, "The Sport of graduates. It was a good train-

The lac is first the Cathedral Hall, on "The tion, though it is reported the Preparation prepared and Essentials of Christianity as vessel's stern is wrecked beyond Kings." In all of these plays the ing ground for many merry and

coloured. Then taught by Christ." The lecture recognition. A.D.C.-players, producers, and bright contributions have appear-

Colouring it is applied with will commence at 5.15 p.m.

It is believed the explosion was all who directly and indirectly cd and still appear in the columns

spatula and brush

due, to the inadvertent turning of of "Granta. From 1915-1919

in successive layers to the sur have taken part—have given of

Mr. George Mollison, the oldest an electric switch, resulting in a three to member. of the staff of the premature explosion of a mine. their best and that best has Mr. Milne was an officer in the face, varying from

Royal Warwickshire Regiment, eighteen, each layer being dried Shanghai Waterworks Co., and Aeroplanes and launches are. been very good indeed. In every and saw much service in the before the next is added; finally formerly of Hong Kong, has re-still searching at the scene of the

orna tired after 30 years service disaster for the missing sailors. respect, and without the slightest

the lacquered surface is European War, wish to be flattering, Hong Kong's

r at the close of

mented with painted designs, or While stationed here he joined Reuter

the [It was officially announced at A.D.C. appears to us to rank with which he wrote at least one play carved before it has cooled the waterworks section of the best in the Far East. That touching upon several phases of Wood is the usual groundwork. | Public Works Department but Tokyo on April 11 that seven. the great struggle That play Yellow transparent lacquer con-eight years later he left for naval students were killed and could be even more readily daid of

tains gamboge; an amber lacquer Shanghai.

thirty injured as the result of a was "Belinda, which had a good contains gigs gall and vegetable it years

mine exploding aboard a mine- ago in the time

run in London and is still oçça-oil, the best red lacquer is made The appointment of Mr. T. N. of Mr. Siegler-au amateur stonally played by amateurs..

by grinding cinnabar with the Chau (Chau Tsim-nin), MA layer. The disaster occurred at the Tokosuka Naval Base whilst enthusiast of a dramatic pro-

raw lac; black lacquer contains barrister-at-law, the son of the practice operations were being moter, if ever there

In 1910 he wrote fron sulphate or charcoal; golden late Mr. Chau Sit-ki (some time carried out.] one, and who has now been Prose And "The Day's yellow is prepared by adding Unofficial member of the Legisin- powdered gold; silvery white, by tive Council) to be a member of for several years engaged profes-

the Sanitary Beard for three Holi adding silver dust, etc. sionally in the theatrical world day Round, in 1914 "Once a

years in place of Hon. Dr. S. W.

but it can also very veraciously Week" and "Once on a Time" a

Chinese lacquer Tso, O.B.E., LL.D., which was an- Painted And is divided into nounced this week, has been be said of it now. Few cities, little later. Since the War and

Carved two kinds-gazetted. if any, East of Suez, we ven- since he relinquished the more

painted, hua chi strenuous work of journalism for

The famous Dutch-Irish com ture to say, could have surpassed that of literature (if one may (far taat in Cantonese) and cary- the A.D.C.'s admirable production say so without offending Pressed, tias chi (tiu trat in Canton-bination of the stage has entered of The Sport of Kings" and "On folk) Mr. Mine's literary output ese). Canton and Focchow pro- motion pictures in First Na has been quite prolific. "Not That duce painted lacquer. Carved tional's War comedy, "Lost at the Approval; and we think the It Matters," "If I May, "Mr. lacquer, chiefly a vermilion red, Front, with George Sidney up- as to "The Dover Road." There The Sunny Side" "When We but nothing of importance has in one featured role, and Charlie tend to claim $250,000 as compen-

Were Very Young (which is a been produced at either place Murray the Irish in another. This sation from the United States. are, perhaps, one or two languish-great favourite with both old and since the Chien Luog period (in flm will be shown at all sessions The report states that the ing institutions in our midst, but young and "A Gallery of the Tsing Dynasty) Both at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, liquor aboard the "Tm Alone"

kinds are sometimes inlaid with to-day.

Was

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Ottawa, Yesterday. According to a local newspaper

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