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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1929.

Phone C. 22

FOR.

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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS..

- Public Auctions - THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to enterobic

Auction

ON

FRIDAY, the 7th June, 1929. commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Room, Duddell Street,

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Comprising:- male Chinese

Teak Hatstands, Chesterfield stencgraphes for English correspon- dence in Tourane. Reply Secretary, Couch and Armchairs, Bookcase, Glass Cabinet, Ceiling and Table Pictures. Fans, Carpets, Rugs,

Desks, Gramophones. male Curios, Reply Bicycle and Tricycle, Cameras.

el., etc.

WANTED--Young

Chinese atenographer for Amoy, Secretary, P.O. Box 22.

WANTED-English couple would like use of Matshed at Repulse Bay. Saturdays only. Write Box No. 603, c/o "China Mail."

WANTED By Japanese, a position in an Hotel. An all round man will- ing to do anything. Apply Box No. 800, e/o "China Mail."

WANTED TO rent on lease first class family hotel in Heng Kong, centrally situated near banks and busi ness locality. Grand outlook towards Public Gardens. Apply Box No. 604. c/o "Ching Mail."

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

TO LET OR FOR SALE-On Broad- wood Road two semi-detached 6 room. ed houses with Tennis Court and Garage to each house...Reply Secre- tary P.O. Box No. 22.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-On Broadwood Road,3 roomed Bungalow. Reply Secretary P.O. Box No. 22.

FOR SALE. "Barkers," Sai Wan A fine 4-Roomed Bungalow. with large Garden.

For full particulars apply Box No. 536, c/o "China Mail."

FOR SALE-Wharfedale Printing Will Press, in excellent condition. take Sheet Double Demy. Useful for Small Printing Shop. Apply Box No. 594, c/o "China Mail."

MISCELLANEOUS.

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed."China' Mail" Office, No. 3A. Wyndham St. Telephons Cen- tral 22.

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER STEVEN AGE. Within an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal,

For Individual care and attention.

- Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local). Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate).

A. MING & CO.

號發明

Ship Chandlers, Hardware

and Metal Merchants.

105, Des Voeux Road Central

HONG KONG.

Tel. C. 6147,

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaka and Cameras.

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH --

FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate,

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel. No. C. 3459. 26A, Des Voeur Road C

Hong Kong.

SPORTING

GUNS AND ACCESSORIES.

GUNS:

Greener, Webley Scoils, BSA, J. W. Neodbam & Raick Freres-Air Rifes-Revol- vers & WRifle Accessories Aperture Sights Sporting quisites Cartridges to suit all bores

re-

THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION STORE 5-8, Beaconsfield Arends.

Teak Extension Dining Tables. Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests, Dinner Crockery, White Frost Refrigera- tor, Kitchen Utensils, Glass Ware, etc., etc.

NOTICES.

THE CHINA MAIL,

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nhat the ANNUAL ORDIN

ARY GENERAL MEETING of

Shareholders of the above Com- at the Hong paay will be of ch

Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on FRI

WAR-SCARRED CHINA

MEDIAEVAL CIVILISATION

Walled Cities Of A Land Ravaged By Bandits.

Anna Louise Strong, writes

cultures. As we passed them

YING WA COLLEGE

FORMER PUPIL'S SUCCESS

IN HONOLULU

WINS ESSAY CONTEST

Students prepared in Kong for higher education abroad appear to be doing well, and Yat Kai-lee, well-known all-around athlete and a former student of

Hong

DAY, June 7, 1929, at 11 a.m. for in the London "Daily Tele- and drew into the province of Ying Wa College, has given

the purpose of receiving the re- port of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended April 30, 1929.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, June 1. to FRIDAY, June 7, 1929. both days inclusive.

Gefioral Managere. Hong Kong, May 28, 1929.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

graph":--

There are still many provinces of China where a foreigner is not thought of as an ""Imperialist," but rather as a travelling circus, to be enjoyed and stared at. Such the north-west provinces, are Shensi and Kansu, which I re

Gorgeous Goddesses

2

the Territorial division sponsored by the society.

ASK FOR

MONKEY

BRAND GUINNESS STOUT

and

BASS L. G. ALE

(Stones)

Stocked by All Dealers.

Sole Agents:

WAI ON TSEUNG, LTD.,

Kansu we noted the striking dif

We began to see fine good account of himself at Hono ference.

lulu and reflected credit on his horses, handsome mules and saddle-blankets of white and blue old school, where he had his pri- Yat Kai-lee, now a senior at. patterns. They reminded us that "ary training in English.

the olan School, in Honolulu, we were approaching the Moham- medan civilisation of Central

At the town of Pinchow has been given a first prize award, by the American Chemical So- Asia. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Cently traversed by motor-car. It we were entertained at lunch byciety for winning the essay con-

was a region from which most a general, who cut great water- test in English and Americans had fled, melons for us with a gigantic obeying the warnings of Consuls. broadsword, which he told us had

The award includes a certificate, The turmoil of war had raged been used to cut off heads in

a twenty-dollar gold piece and twe across the region; great cities had battle.

congratulatory letters, one from been taken by sieges like those

the Chemical Society and the of the Middle Ages, leaving thou- Beyond Pinchow we came to a other from Mr. and Mrs. Francis sands dead of, pestilence and marvellous Great Buddha, set in Garven, donor of the prizes LIMITED.

hunger.

a cave in the hillside, and ap-Lee's topic was The Relation of It Yet these giant upheavals had proached by a tunnel through the Chemistry to Agriculture." THE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN-barely reached the coast with a hill. Light fell upon his face and was considered the best submit- ARY GENERAL MEETING whisper; even a terrible earth-upon the faces of the two gorge-ted by the contestants from the of the Company will be held at quake which had slain thousands, ous goddesses next to him from Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, a second opening bigher up in the two outside possessions of the Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Single the Offices of the General Mana poraps tens of thousands, was re- and Double Wardrobes with Bevel-gers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & ported only weeks after at Shang- cliff, to which pilgrims climbed United States of America.

The essay will be submitted to Mirrors, Dressing Tables. Co., Ltd.. Pedder Street, Hong hai, though the scientific instru- to look direct upon the face of Fed

the national contest which will Washstands, Chests of Drawers, Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th ments of distant observatories Buddha.

Throughout these provinces the be held sometime in July. June, 1929, at Noor for the par- had already recorded it. 'It was a etc., etc.

and

pose of receiving the Report of land out of the world, a law unto women had very tiny feet, so first prize award for this contest the Directors, passing the Ac-itself. Two months and a half small that they awayed notice is a four-year scholarship either counts, and electing Directors and we spent traversing it. I felt as ably in walking. The only touch at Yale, Vassar, or other institu- if I were travelling through the of protest against this custom wetion. Tuition fees and five hun The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Middle Ages.

found in a poster on the gates of dred dollars a year are included in The feudal nature of the troops | Pingliang, as we entered the pro- the scholarship. Company will be CLOSED from

It depicted a Lee is a native of Hong Kong the 12th June to 3rd July, 1929, in these regions made itself felt | vince of Kansu, both days inclusive.

before we left the railroad. At strong athletic lady with unbound and a former student at Ying Wa SHING one of the stations the command-feet who was easily overpower-Colege. He was a basketball star combat two of the Iolani outfit. It may be &ing officer offered us a guard of ing in physical

honour to supplement the cue we feriales on tottering "golden of interest to mention that the

implication had brought with us from Han- lilies"—the

being headmaster of Ying Wa College kow. He explained that the stathat strength in combat was to was an old Honolulu boy before tions we were yet to pass were be desired in the household. Ex-going to America to study at the held by various kinds of troops.cept for this rather mild posterUniversity of Oregon. "some of whom have only recent the great upheaval which was Yat Kai-lee intends to take up ly deserted us and are not very taking place behind us in China, agriculture and chemistry at the reliable. They will not recog-with its propaganda of modern-University of Hawaii in the nise your uniforms or dialects.ism, seened never to have reach- Autumn. and might decide to take youred Kansu. It was a land of fresh, locomotive or comfortable car.clear streams, grazing flocks and Therefore I will send my own herds, white sheep, black goats, donkeys, mules. The THE UNDERSIGNED is prepar- bodyguard to explain your im- cows, Tad Date: Ders to pur-portance!"

women rode donkeys, the men horses. Both these animals were Scripps 6 Cylinder Motor, 65.75 chase the following properties:~

A Quantity of Blackwood"

Furniture.

On View from Thursday, the Auditors, 6th June, 1929.

Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 1st June, 1929.

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

T

Auction

ON FRIDAY, the 7th June, 1929. ́at 3 o'clock p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

One Motor Boat

(Suitable for business and for pleasure)

Length 34' 6".

Breadth 7 9".

Horse Power.

(On View at the Cosmopolitan Dock, Kowloon).

One Cleveland 6 Cylinder Motor

Саг

(recently overhauled).

On View at the Dure Garage, Kowloon.

One Cadillac Touring Car.

(On View at the Dragon Motor Car Co.'s Garage, Wong Nei Chong. One 5-Seater "Paige" Car

in Running Order. One 1927 Sports Model Indian. Motor Cycle Electrical Equipped.

in Perfect Running Order. (On View at the Duro Garage, Kowloon).

For further particulars and In- spection Orders, apply to the Un- dersigned.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 1st June, 1929.

Undersigned have received

Tinstructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON

FRIDAY, the 7th June, 1929. commencing at 5.15 pm. at their Sales Room,

Duddell Street.

A Valuable Collection of

POSTAGE STAMPS (Particulars from Catalogue). Terms: Cash on Delivery.

On View from Thursday, the 6th June, 1929.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 1st June, 1929.

BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE

KWONG HÀNG & CO.

Tel. C. 2736.

43, Des Voeux Road Central. Government and Admiralty Coal Contractors. HOUSE COAL

Peak

Upper Level

Middle Level Central Oßce Kowloon ...

at $23.00 per ton.

$22.00

" $21.00

$20.00 $17.00 "

The above prices include dell- very charges to destination.

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to

the late SIEN TING. 14 D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

THE EIW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION No. 2 THERAPION N3

BOLU SYLMADIK SCHEMESTA, 1

By Order of the Board.

JARDINE, MATHESON

CO., LTD..

General Managers. Hong Kong. 24th May, 1929.

Q.

NOTICE.

F.

Section C of Marine Lot 249 (Nos. 5 and 6, Praya, Kennedy

Town, Godowns),

CHINESE CIRCUS

The

HIGHLY ENTERTAINING AND UNIQUE DISPLAY

practically unknown in the parts An entertainment that is novel of Central China I had previously

and intriguing in many respects, visited, but here they were and one that gives immense satis plentiful.

China Building. Tol. C. 8313.

You, have more assurance by taking OUR GENUINE CHINESE MEDICINE & PILLS. on Sale nt:

CHAI TONG DRUG STORE.

Fatablished 1892.

180, Queen's Road C. Tel. C. 1853.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CITINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following unclaimed tale- grams are lying at the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:----

Asem, from Shanghai. Jagat Singh Mistry, Depot 2, from Armitsar.

Quistgaard, from Bangkok.

S. LACK,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 30th May, 1929.

Unprotected Peasants. The real problem of our trip began after leaving the railroad. We travelled over 3,000 kilo metres by motor-car to reach the

it Kowloon Marine Lot 55 (ship-Trans-Siberian; the trip took At the summit of the pass from faction to those who see

yard).

over two months because of the which beings the long descent to such, in short, is the opinion. visit to the difficult road conditions. Day the Yellow River we visited Gerformed after a after day we travelled through eral Sung, and knew from his fox-Great Chinese Circus which has the Middle Ages. The towns lined cloak and camel's wool met with great success since its were guarded by heavy walls, blanket that we were indeed en-opening a few nights ago. Here towering ten métres in the air tering the colder regions of the is no mean display of balancing above a ditch or moat. The north-west. A romantic touch and juggling, but a good all- round demonstration of many the Crown Solicitor at the Courts gates were closed "at sun-down, was added to the general's quarstunts that take the audience by Great Northern Telegraph Com-

Sub-section 1 of Section A of Shaukiwan loland Lot 482 (Nos. 215-227, odd Nos., Main Street, Shaukiwan West).

Particulars may be obtained on application at the Treasury, or to

of Justice.

These walls pro- silver the only acceptable coin-storm.

The members, of the troupe,

after which no belated traveller ters by a dozen boxes filled with might enter. C. Mel. MESSER,

Colonial Treasurer. tected the townsmen, but they re-age of this region, and difficult to

minded us that the peasants were transport in quantities. General are unique in their line of enter Hong Kong, 21st May, 1929.

unprotected.

Sung told us that there is much tainment-they amuse as well as addition, On one occasion we passed a free land in Kansu and many thrill them and in

there is comedy prevailing group of ten or twelve bandits, mines not yet developed. We our-

a distance selves saw but they saw from

peasants carrying throughout the entire offering. that we had revolvers, and they coal of such a quality that great came no nearer- Such bands are lumps of it could be hung from a poorly armed, often with only rope like blocks of marble. peasant implements; they are a threat only to the weak. They

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Cheaper than cooking with

Coal or Gas

Burns 33 hours

on

ONE Gallon

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NOTICE

TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.

men

The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always available to ship as watch- men, seamen, &c.

Our men are employed by the leading passenger Fines. We guarantee satis- faction.

Please phone or call : ---- K.661-No. 2, Saigon Street, Taumati or

C.2560 No. 36, Tung Man Street.

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more

Women's Bound Feet

HISTORY IN ROCK

STUDY OF QUEBEC MINING FIELDS

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., OF DENMARK.

The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the

pany (Limited) of Denmark:-

Cochran, steamship "President Van Buren," from Peking. Akun, from Omeri.**

Sai Company, from Shanghai, Kashiwabara, from Tokyo. Ozorio, 11 Glenealy, from Shang-

E. V. JESSEN.

Superintendent.

Hong Kong, 30th May, 1929.

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the bighest points on the Teland and Mainland is published :----

Island, Victoria Peak

Mt. Parker

Owing to engagements in Sai-hai gon the season of the Circus is limited. As a show it meets with the approval of every class of patrons who have seen it and, I had an amusing discussion therefore, no one should miss range all the way from starving with a boatman on the Yellow the opportunity of seeing it whilst HONG KONG HEIGHTS peasants turned bandit for food River while waiting for our autos it is here. to the more professional bandits. to gather. He owned a raft of goat whose ambition is to become pro skins, of the incredibly ancient fessional soldiers under some pattern which has been used in famous chieftain, and thus gain these regions for thousands of safer and

respectable years. The animals are skinned changes for loot. Only during the expertly in а manner which past few years, under the Nation- draws all the bones and flesh'

A study of the new miring fields alist banners, have there begun to through a small hole in the neck, be in China any soldiers who without otherwise cutting the at Rouyn, Quebec, and of the forma- differ from bandits; and even in skin. The skips are then blown tion of the Rocky Mountains at Nationalist ranks there are many full of air and the neck is tied. Buch spots as Jasper Park, Alberta, quite undisciplined elements. One such skin will support a man with apecial attention to the pre- Cambrian deposits throughout the while swimming; twelve or twenty fastened together make country from east to west, will en- a raft capable of carrying much gage the 23 students constituting Summer merchandise. I should, perhaps, have referred to my informant as School of Geology which, commerc a raftman rather than a boatman. Ing its tour on June 22 in Canada's We asked him why the women eastern maritime provinces, will bound their feet so small in this proceed westward through Mon- is relatively expensive, being region. "It is the fashion," hetreal, Winnipeg, and the Rockles as brought from, a distance under answered calmly, and added: "Iffar as Vancouver, returning to the primitive conditions of transport. a girl has small feet you can cast, after six weeks, by way of The place of rice is taken by a get more for her in marriage." Toronto and Buffalo. heavy noodle cooked in thick This led to a discussion of mar-

Rice Famine

The people of Shensi province were incredibly poor. Even rice was difficult to obtain. I had ex- pected to live on a diet of rice in China, but in the north-west provinces one finds little of it ex- cept in the larger towns, where it

this

year's Princeton

The programme for this year is riage prices, and he said he had under the direction of Professor bought his wife for $5 some Richard M. Field, of Princeton Uni- fifteen years before, but "now versity.

mer..

It is the most extensive:

Feet.

1823

Signal Station

1774

1734

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Eyrie

1725

Peak Hotel

1305

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Road (filterbeds) 297

Mainland

Feet.

Taimoshan

3124

Kowloon Peak

1971

pasty soup a most tasteless and indigestible mess. Into this we dumped whatever flavouring the gods provided. One day for in- that everything is so much more yet undertaken by the summer atauce, it was scrambled eggs, expensive a wife costs $50 to $100 school, covering in all over 7,000 small slices of excumber, small if she marries in the same village, miles of whleh about 5,800 will be green onions, and another variety while she may bring & much over the lines of the Canadian

National Railways. of greens. Only after I had greater price if she is to be

Last year students from Man- finished was I informed that all taken far away. This greater chester University, Oxford, Cam- three types of greens were unprice indemnifies. the parents for bridge, Cornell, Pennsylvania State cooked, hence potent carriers of the sorrow of her absence." The College, Williams and Columbia, dysentery or cholera. We be qualities most highly prized in a besides Princeton, made the trip. came, however, hardened to such wife were, he said, beauty and It is expected that a similar group risks, and survived them all. We domestic abilities, but first of all will be gathered together this sam found plums, the best I have ever small feet. tasted and peaches, which improv Such was the land through

A special car, "Princeton," will ed as we went northward. But which we made our way—a curi-be the home of the travelling these delicacies could never be ons mingling of ancient and scholars. It is equipped with sleep- counted on, they occurred in one modern. We saw irrigation works ing quarters, kitchen, radio and ap- village and not in the next. as admirable as those of Holland; Transport is too poor for food sup-we saw near them wandering ball-aparatus for motion pictures. plies to travel- even to adjoining dite. Our Yellow River raftman townis.

Shensi is divided by a high quired curiously what our tyres thest corner o. China's north-

Davis S. Ingalls, new, Assistant range of mountains, inhabited by were made of; we met other pea-west we drew into Ningsia, and

Mr. Ingalls is perhaps fierce-looking mountaineers dwell- sants who had never seen glass, here we found, side by side with Secretary of the U.S. Navy in charge ing sometimes in houses but and who stared at the windows of primitive forges hammering iron one of the youngest secretaries, being often in cliffs. Up the slopes our sedan in wonder. But we for caravans, the shops full of only 80 years old. He served in the toil waggons drawn by as many as met also generals who could talk cosmetics, perfumes, soaps, cut-War as an aviator and is the holder twelve mules. The hills have glibly about world-revolution, lery, and other cheap wares of of the Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Cross for War bravery. Ho been for thousands of years the and who used telegraph and our modern civilisation, brought so holds the Distinguished Flying barrier between the two different motor-cars freely. At the far-by boat and cart from Peking Grow awarded him by Great Britain.

had never seen rubber, and in-

aviation.