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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929.

FOR A PET MONKEY

£2,000 LEGACY LEFT BY A LADY

"PEPPY SQUEAKS'S" LUCK

A pet monkey is the beneficiary of a £2,000 trust fand under the will of its owner, Mrs. Jule Bop- wood, mother of Avery Hopwood, playwright.

GEN. PERSHING

PROBABLE SUCCESSOR TO HERRICK?

OTHER CANDIDATES

Washington, May 12. The possibility that General John J. Pershing may become the next Ambassador to France has been injected into the unofficial Avery Hopwood 'ified on July 1. speculation which always thrives and in his will left the bulk of his, in Washington when an appoint. estate. estimated £200,000, to his ment of such importance is pend.

ing.

mother

THE CHINA MAIL,

SPAIN IS “ILL”

DICTATOR ASSERTS HE'S TRYING TO CURE NATION

HIMSELF THE HEALER

Paris, May 12.

A dispatch to "Le Figaro," from Madrid recently ascribed to the Spanish dictator, Primo de Rivera, the metaphor of Spain the sick man and himself the physician. The particular reference was to the re- cent internal strife in that country. "I have only driven out the bad His name has been added mya- microbes," the Premier was quoted. teriously to the list of distinguish-"I am now helping Spain on to con- d public men already mentioned valescence. for the post, which includes such covered full and complete health figures as Frank B. Kellogg, until and then I will disappear. But un- recently Secretary of State; and til then I shall continue to work" Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador at

Peppy Squeak, the simian trust beneficiary, enjoys a distinction in that respect, so far as monkeys are concerned. The oldest attaches of the Surrogates' Court say that no monkey has ever figured in a will in New York County, although provisions have been made for Rome, horses, dogs, cats and birds.

Mrs. Julia Jones, Mrs. Hopwood, and her Allan Jones, who receive life estates in trust funds of £10,000, are charged by the testatrix to care for the monkey out of the trust fund in come. The £2,000 trust fund in vested at 5 per cent. will produce about £2 a week income for Peppy Squeak.

Soon she will have re-

The dispatch, said the Dictator, although modest, was willing to dis- The point emphasised in the discuss every phase of his work and added that he said he was "Not is of cussion of General Pershing a friend

J. that, as a world war hero of both moved by the fears of certain per- son,

America and France, he occupies sons who see Madrid growing more a position in the affections of the and more like Chicago.” two peoples similar to that of the late Herrick.

MR. P. LANIGAN

DEATH IN GOVERNMENT

CIVIL HOSPITAL

This morning at 10.15 the death occurred in the Government Civil

Hospital of Mr. P. Lanigan, revenue officer, who had been admitted there only this morning at 7.30.

SPORTS CABLES

LADIES INTERNATIONAL.

GOLF

London. May 11. In the Ladies' International Golf Matchés. England were suc- cessful with three wins, Scotland- securing two, Ireland one, and Wales none.

Football Sensation /

Ambassador

Furthermore, it is

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rezsoned,

SHADOWS before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL "?·

ENTERTAINMENTS-

To-day ~~ Queen's Theatre; "The Port of Missing Girls."

To-day World Theatre; The Awful Truth."

Today Star Ramshackle House."

To-day Majestic Service For Ladies."

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

G.

NOTICE.

F

Theatre; THE UNDERSIGNED is prepar Ted to consider offers to pur

Theatre;

chase the following properties:-

To-day-Star Theatre; "Diver-Section C of Marine Lot 243 (Nos. sion, 9.15 pm,

5 and 6, Praya, Kennedy

May 24-Queen's Theatre: "Keep Watch." 5 p.m.

Home Mail To-day-Inward from Europe via Negapatam ("Medon"), -

Lammerts' Auction To-day--At Sales Room, Duddell St., postage stamps, 5.15 p.m.

May 22 At Sales Room, valuable household furniture, 2.30 p.m.

May 22-At Godown No. 18, H.K. & Kowloon Wharf Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, miscellaneous goods 10.30

Meetings

He was asked where modern trends of industrialism might lead peasant Spain and he answered: a.m. "We are a great agricultural coun- May 23-At 3, Tregunter Man- forni- that since formar Vice-President try. Yes, I know that and luckysions, (May-d.) household

we are to be. So we shall contime-ture. Dawes has accepted the Ambassa- An agricultural country never dies dorship to Great Britain.

salee of hunger and it always has the tion of another important W21

means to buy the produce of its figure to go to France would pro-neighbours. In that probably lies vide the kind of balance for the the formula for happiness." two appointments which the ad- ministration is supposed to desire. General Pershing has frequent- ly revisited France since he was there as Commander of America's war fores, and he was one of the

speakers at the

Funeral services

in Paris for Mr. Herrick-Asso-

ciated Press,

MISSIONS QUERIED

---

MEXICAN CHURCH-STATE POBLEM PROBED

Washington, May 14. Messages soliciting the attitude

of each of thirty Catholic missiona in Mexico on suggested parleys

A sensation has been caused in looking toward an agreement be- Welsh football circles by the an-tween the Catholic Church and the nouncement that twenty-three Mexican Government have been former officials and members of prepared and will be dispatched in- the committer of the Connah's mediately from Washington by Quay F.C., winners of the Welsh Archbishop Raiz. Senior and other Cups, have been

suspended sine die for alleged

payments to amateur players.

Schools Football

The soccer match between the London Schools Scottish

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Schools resulted in draw, no goals being scored.

Helen Wills. Welcomed There were amazing scenes in Pall Mall yesterday when Helen Wills who has arrived to take part in the Wimbledon tourna ment, was "mobbed" by an admir. ing crowd. A police cordon had to be drawn round her car.

Tennis Tournament

The archbishop consliters that it

is necessary to learn the attitude of the bishops, 2 of whom are in the United States, before the Vati. can can be informed of the situa- tion of the Catholic Church in

Mexico and before instructions on procedure are asked of the Holy Sex-Associated Press.

AMERICAN HURT

IN A SHANGHAI MOTOR CAR

+

CRASH

Recreation To-day Victoria Club meeting, 6 p.m.

To-day-Meeting of members of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 5.45 pm.

"The great overpopulated cities do not promote the tranquillity of the masses; their inhabitants would

May 23-Forty-eighth ordinary be happier on the land.

You see I general meeting of shareholders of am perfectly aware of where we are the Canton Insurance Office Ltd., going and where we ought to go." Messrs. Jardine's offices, noon.

The dictator, according to the May 24-Meetings of Union dispatch, has little sympathy for Insurance Society of Canton. Ltd... buil fights or prize fights. He re-China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., and called he had denied children under British fourteen the right to attend them.

"As much football as they like,"

Co.,

Trader's Insurance Ltd., at Union Bldg., 11 a.m,, 11.15 am, and 11.20 a.m., respectively.

Miscellaneous

May 30 Dinner at Hong Kong

he said. "But children must not be given a taste for bloodshed: You sce it is a soldier who is fighting Hotel to serving and ex-officers of against an immoderate taste for the the Royal Engineers. spectacle of bloodshed."--A330- ciated Press.

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN

TO JAVA

The slogans of the local Kun mintang which were painted on the walls of the Chinese territory have not found favour in the sight of the Gendarmerie Commissioner who has issued orders that they should be erased and that new slogans should so put up in their stead which are more complimentary to the central Kuomintang and to the present

Government,

PASSENGER LISTS.

ARRIVALS

Fer s.s. "Taiyo Maru" from Los Angeles via Ports on "May 20, 1929: Mr. A. E. Lilius, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bostock, Mr. and Mrs. M. Okumura and family, C. Okamoto, Mrs. O. L. Wong and

Town, Godowns) Kowloon Marine Lot 55 (ship-

yard).

Sections A & B and the Remain-

ing Portion of Shaukiwan In- Jand Lot 490 (Ten Chinese shops and dwellings). Section C and the Remaining Por-

tion of Section B of Inland Lot No. 1342 (No. 1 Sharp Street West). Sub-section 1 of Section A of

Shaukiwan Inland Lot 482 (Nos. 219-227, odd Nos., Main Street, Shaukfwan West). Particulars may be obtained on application at the Treasury, or to the Crown Solicitor at the Courts of Justice.

C. McI. MESSER,

Colonial Treasurer. Hong Kong, 21st May, 1929.

"KEEP WATCH"

HE NAVY LEAGUE (Hong

Konk Branch) have

much pleasure in announcing that with the kind permission of the HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS, LTD. and under the auspices of the St. George's and St. Andrew's Societies they will be showing the

Alim:-

on

KEEP WATCH" EMPIRE DAY (May 24) at the afternoon performance which will take place, at 5 pm. sharp in the Queen's Theatre.

L. M. WHYTE,

Hon. Sec., Navy League (Hong Kong Branch).

Hong Kong, May 21, 1929.

PHOTOMATON

(Pho-Tomma-Ton--Please!)

Very

now

For the small sum of 50 cents you will be able to obtain six DIFFERENT Portraits, taken and delivered to you ist EIGHT MINUTES!

aons, F.. Drakefort, Matias Navarro Ping, Mrs. Rose Zeun. Thos. H. Gubbins, Hong Ching- shen, Lau Ren-lin, R. Inokuma, shortly have an opportunity of see- The public of Hong Kong will J. P. Bell, Mrs. May N. Lee, Mr. iog the

latest invention in and Mrs. Jang Kong, Mr. and AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY. Two Mrs. Mew Lum, Joseph Choy, PHOTOMATON machines are Miss Grace Carolina Agar, Leong being installed in a studio at No. 38 Queen's Road Central (opposite the Bing-chen, Yap See-young, Jose Queen's Theatre). The opening date A. Del Prado, Mr. and Mrs. X. will be announced, later through the Fishermen in the Woosung and Sunahori, Miss A. M. Rumsey, Mr. Press. Tsungming districts have com- and Mrs. E. William Spenden, Mr. plained to the authorities against and Mrs. Antonio Farias, Arthur the constant activities of the W. Allan, H. John Woolley, Percy Shanghai, May 15. pirates, who, they say, have been S. Page, Miss Sarah Lee, Edward

The procedure is quite simple. Ia In the Regent's Park Tennis John J. Mantell, of Elmira, New committing depredations both day Waitnerk, Miss Bernice S. Lee exchange for 50 cents you will re- Tournament Collins defeated York, railway expert who has been and night. They say that these wan, Peter J. Rolegon, Changceive a token, and, having taken your Latchford by two sets to love, and engaged by the Nationalist Govern activities are due partly to the fact Kews-sei, Mr. and Mrs. Ko Ling-seat in the PHOTOMATON cabinet, Miss Chamberlain beat Miss ment to make survey of the Gov- that the cruiser "Fu-hsi," which was pyo and family, Mr. and Mrs. you drop the token in the slot. Eileen Bennoit (who was present-ernment railways, was hurt in the placed on

The lights are thereby switched un the station, has been Mark-ming, Shu Su-chun, Lau and in sixteen seconds six different ed at Court last night) by two foot to-day when the hand car in zaken hack by the Government.

Hun, Ng Tai-min, Lee Kong, Lee portraits are taken.

During this sets 10 one Singapore Free which he was riding collided with

Shao -tai, C. M. Wong, Tong Din-time you are not, as usual, constrain- 1'ress."

another car. Mr. Mantell was The National Products Associa

yee, Ton Yin-yip, Ko Fung-san, ed to a mechanical stiffness of pose, making an inspection of the Shang- tion have requested the Minister of Chee-son, Yim Sai-chin, Mun Wa- talk and gesticulate.

Mr. and Mrs. Y. T. Yang, Yimut may move about, try this pose and that, laugh er look sad. ON THE "McKINLEY” hai - Nanking Hangchow Railway

That is why Foreign Affairs when the accident took place.

to approach the

man, So Tak-tin, B. G. David, and PHOTOMATON photographs are not ITEMS ABOUT SOME OF THE president of the Eric Railway. He

only works of art hut character studies. Mr. Mantell was previously vice. Japanese Government for equality

They reveal not only your looks but S.S. "President Arrived in Shanghai last week-As-panese and Chinese silks, namely

They give Jefferson" our personality.

YOURSELF. sociated Press.

that the import duties imposed on from America and North-

The fuss and bother usually asso- Chinese silks by the Japanese Govern China, on May 20:E, Axon,ciated with a visit to the photograph- not exceed those C. J. Barwick, E. R. Broderick, er is entirely eliminated, and there imposed by the Chinese Government Chan Fock, Chan Wing, Chan Yee, no tedious waiting for results. an Japanese goods.

S. S. Chellaram, Chien Chong-sent in the cabinet the PHOTOMATON Eight minutes after you have left the chu. Lawrence M. F. Chu, Wm. ican Consul at Canton, returning being introduced to Hong Kong by

machine will deliver tu you The Admiralty has announced a Cookson, T. Y. Deane, Mrs. Fong six completed portraits -cach home to the United States on fur- the advent of the Photomaton Au- number of flag appointments, in Choy, A. E. Goodrich, E. George, different and each one a natural like- lough.

tomatic pholograph machines, cluding those of Captain Alexander Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Greaves, H. J.55.

PASSENGERS

are

The following

aboard the liner "President McKinky" which) left for San Francisco via ports on May 21:-

Mr. W. M. Hewhall, jun.-Amer-}

AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY

A new style of photography is

R. Rivera. in the import duties on both Ja-

ernment should

you

one

Capt. G. A. Quayle-Attached to These machines will take your R. Palmer, A.D.C., to be Rear-Ad- Gutierres, K. L. Ho, Y. M. Kam, PHOTO MATON method

That is the reason was the the British Army in India, travel photograph in sixteen seconds and miral in H. M. Fleet, March 35. Mrs. A. A. Kendall, Mr. and Mrs.graphy has met with such a world- of photo- ling Home via the United States. deliver eight finished portraits in Rear-Admiral Palmer has been T. S. Lee and daughter, Harry wide success.

Dr. Chan Hin-fan-Travelling to New York; where he will further his studies in medicine.

business trip to. Shanghai.

the short space of eight minutes. placed on the Retired List to Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Liang, Two of these machines are being date March 26, and Captain Li Yuk-tong, H. R. Middleton, O. installed in a studio opposite the Geoffrey Hopwood, A.D.C., Ad- Moyenstein, Pechenix, I. Sasson,

Mr. R. Vaughan Fowler-On a Queen's Theatre and should prove miral Palmer was in command of JN. Sipser, G. Szabo, Tong Lung

an interesting attraction.

the aircraft-carrier "Argus" in E. J. Watson, W, H. Wilson, B. K. China, and Rear-Admiral Hopwood Wong, T. Wong,

Mr. Kermit Roosevelt-Returning

to the United States from an ex- pedition in Indo-China.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Thornton--- Connected with the Standard Oil Co. in Indo-China, returning to the United States on furlough.

Mr. H. M. Hutchinson-Confected with Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son, travelling to Shanghai.

Mr. H. C. Page Attached to the Standard Oil Co., making

a trip through, to Europe via the United States.

Mr. S. J. Johnston-Auditor of the Standard Oil Co., returning to headquarters in New York.

ON THE “JEFFERSON" The s.. "President Jefferson" from Shanghai brought the follow- ing, among other passengers, on May 20:--

Mr. Y. M. Man, a prominent Shanghai merchant; Mr. T. Wong, an electrical engineer of Shang- hai; Mr. S. S: Chellaram, a pro- minent slik merchant of Hong Kong, returning from Japan, where he has bean for the past several weeks on business; Mr. J. B. Delgado, a member of the Philippines Legislature, en route to Manila, accompanied by his wife; Mr AC. Greaves, of the Shanghai Mercury,

was until recently in command of

the aircraft-carrier "Hermes" in:

China and formerly had command

of the "Diomede" in China.

It may be remembered that re- cently arrangements were made to begin work on the scheme for the conservancy of the Haibo, and a loan of $4,000,000 was to be floated for the purpose, says the "N. C. Daily News," The regulations governing the issuance of the bonds were passed by the Executive. Yuan about a month ago, but when they passed through the bands of the Legislative Yuan, the latter amend- ed one of the regulations to read to the effect that only six of the leading Chinese banks should un- derwrite the bonds.. This resulted in a joint letter from the foreign- banks concerned, saying that they would not assist in the issuance of the loan. The Chinese banks, on the other hand, are displeased be cause of a reduction in the interest rate agreed upon. It was the ori- ginal intention of the board to start conservancy work on April 1, but

budget officer of the US Navy, who be further delayed in view of the Rear Adm. Charles B. McVay, Jr., says a report from Peking, this will has been made Commander of the Asia-

tie fleet. He was formerly Commander test developments in connection

with the loan.

of the Asiatic.fleet.

the Secretary of the Interior in Mr. Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur, wife of

Hoover's cabinet.

LLOYD TRIESTINO N. Co.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Steamship,

"FIUME-L**

From Trieste, Venice, Spalato, Suez, Fort Said, Bombay, Karachi, Aden, Colon:ho, Penang & Singapore,

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd, at Kow loon, whence and/or from the wharves

delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 20th instant.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 26th inst. will be subject to rent.

be

All claims against the vessel must e presented to the Undersigned on or before the 5th prox. or they will not be recognized..

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 25th inst. at 10 a.m. by our sur veyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effect ed.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1929.

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