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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929,

Phone C. 22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three inner- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.

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NOTICES.

WATER EMERGENCY COMMITTEE

A Control Office has been opened, as from to-day,

at

WILL STEAMSHIP AGENTS PARTICULARLY NOTE, Tel. No. C. 2527 & Govt. No. 284. By Order,

THE

CHINA MAIL,

BRITAIN AIR-PROOF |an enemy machine, nat se equip-

NEW INVISIBLE RAY DISCOVERED

ped, at its mercy. It would direct Its invisible rays, on an

enemy machine floundering in the dark quite unaware that it was under observation and harried by a foe which it could not seď. '

poor

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST BY Z. B. W.

ON 350 METRES

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Gov ernment Broadcast Station Z.B.W. on 350 metres.

-6.30-6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chin- ese Music,

748 p.m.-Evening Weather Report. 8 p.m.-Evening Programme (Victor and H.M.V. Records supplied through the courtesy of Messrs. S. Montric and Co., Ltd.) "Martha" (lotow), Selection,

DRAMATIC PROGRESS

Britain will be practically im

Similarly a nevol battle between

Post Office Building, 1st floor.

pregnable from the air soon. The a fleet equipped with Nuctovision day is rapidly approaching when searchlights and one relying on or- All inquiries and communica-enemy machines bound for British dinary means of observation would tions regarding the importation of coasts will be reflected on tiny in the dark be a one-sided affair. water should be made there.

illuminated screens in a score fIn the sweep of an infra-red beam

of fog, outposts, and the "hornets" of the all difficulties R.A.F. will be in their midst long visibility, and smoke screens disap- before they are within striking dis- pear.

Distance is no drawback. tance.

The Quietly, and without ostentation.Televisor or the Noctovisor cannot dramatic progress has been made see further than the human eye can within the past few months to reach; but the images themselves wards solving this most critical can be converted into visible rays. problem of national defence.

and transmitted by wireless to a Stimulated by the warnings of far distant receiving station. The

Anons Winn with Harold French, the Earl of Halsbury, Lord Syden-stage has been reached when ex-

George Baker and Leonard Henry, jham, and others, and frightened by periments are about to be carried

"Spring Song" (Mendelssohn), the appalling weakness of air de-out in the transmission of night "Serenity" (Vieuxtemps), Violin Solo, fence as revealed by the sensa-

pictures from New York to Lon-

Renee Chemet. don. tional exercises over London and

"Forza Del Destino" (Verdi), Must not be Lost

Overture, the home counties in August last,

Victor Symphony Orchestra.

H. S. ROUSE,

Secretary. Hong Kong 1st July, 1929:

WANTED

WANTED. Young

Chinese Amoy.

male Reply

G.

atenographer for Secretary, P.O. Box 22.

WANTED. By Japanese, a position In an Hotel. An all round man will- ing to do anything. Apply Box No. 600, c/o "China Mail."

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards

"The Lay of The Lady's Vote:" "Before I Go To Sleep,"

:

the branches of the fight- The "Sunday Express" under-"Annabelle Lee" (Leslie), Por Sale by Public Auction ing services have been working stands that the Government hasta (Sanderson), Honor, WANTED.--For outport European job printing establishment in full to be held on MONDAY, the feverishly on schemes for the pro-decided that the fruits of this great

senior 8th running order, competent

July, 1929, day of

at tection of the country's vitals from discovery, must on no account be "Hungarian Rhapsody--No. 2 (Liest), works foreman of Portuguese 3 p.m., at the Offices of the the dangers of air attack.

lost to Britain or fall into the nationality. Excellent prospects right

Works Department, by MAR, Application stating age

hands of an alien Power. and Public complete list of positions held since Order of His Excellency the Gov- apprenticeship til time of application ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land together with copies of references to at Shamshuipo, be sent to Box No. 010. All applica tions kept strictly confidential."

The Invisible Ray. The experts are confident that in in the Colony the new twin sciences, Television of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 and Noctovision, a solution has yeare, commencing from 1st July, been found. At the moment the 1898, with the option of renewal position is that, though much of SITUATION WANTED at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the the plan has only now emerged Surveyor of His Majesty the King, from the experimental stage, a, now for one further term of 24 years phase of high efficiency in national less three days.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

ав

EURASIAN GIRL with experience position NURSEMAID. wants Will live in. Apply Box No. 607, alo "China Mai!,"

SITUATION VACANT

BRITISH FIRM has vacancy for ex- perienced European Stenographer for confidential work. Reply giving re- ferences and salary required to Box No. 609, c/o "China Mail."

TO LET

TO LET

OFFICE in Asiatic Build-

ing. Apply Secretary.

Begistry N

Locality.

G.

TO LET. Furnished, one room; use of bathroom and kitchen. Apply: Mrs. Chan, 587, Nathan Road, Kow- Joon.

Boundary Мелецтещени

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Admiral Sir Mark Kerr, after a recent demonstration, summed up

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THE HONG KONG TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.

St. George's Building, 2nd Floor

LIGHTERING.--Cargo ex ships delivered to all parts of Hong Kong and South China. Cargo shipped on through Bills of Lading to any part of the world. UP-COUNTRY SHIPMENTS-Quotations given on ship-

ments of cargo to all treaty ports in South China. BAGGAGE.—Our representative meets all ships and super- intends the handling of passengers' luggage. Baggage from any part of Hong Kong, called for and placed on. board outgoing ships.

FURNITURE.—Removed to any part of the Colony at

reasonable rates. -

Phone Central 3639 - Kowloon 1422. WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE.

Walter Glynne, CALL OF THE SOIL

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. "Reducing (Trials of Topsy"}," "Kate in the Call Box," Talking by,

Angela Baddeley, "Grown of the Year".

Percy Hemsing.

the position thus:"He who can not see the importance of television Flatfield Bells," Baritone, cannot have any vision."

"Introduction And Allegro For Harp With Strings And Woodwing Accompaniment" (Ravel),

Within the past few weeks high- confidential demonstrations of television and noctovision have

been given to statesmen, soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and among those who have expressed surprise and wonder at its possibilities for

"Novelette No. 3" (Bridge),

Virtuoso -String Quartet with 3. Cookerill, R. Murchy and

Draper.

defence has definitely begun.

Noctovision is vision in darkness by means of the invisible infra-red ray which is transformed by means of a modified television apparatus defensive purposes in a future war "Wake Up and Dream into a visible ray. The infra-redare Lord Allenby, Lord, Arnold, Ad-What Is this Thing Called Love", ray picks up the object. The Tele-miral Sir Mark Kerr, Sir Thomas visor transforms it into an image Inskip, Sir Herbert Samuel and Mr: "Among My Souvenirs",

Ramsay MacDonald.

Other names which cannot be

which can be seen as clearly as a cinematograph picture.

Observation points can be estab-given reveal the importance which lished equipped with can be stab the authorities attach, to the latest sweeping the night sky, with beams development in the new science of of infra-red rays. The Noctovisor vision. Every facility is to be will pick up the objects revealed given for the fullest exploration of by its electric eye and transmit the latest discoveries.

them back to the screen at defence headquarters.

Infra-red rays have sixteen times the fog penetrating power of the ordinary rays of the spectrum, and their value for discovering the ap- ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS proach of hostile aircraft under

PUBLIC AUCTION,

MONDAY, thely inestimable. July, 1929, at

FLATS TO LET,-First, Second and A Third Floors, No. 20, Ice House to be held on Street (formerly occupied by Carlton

Cool and Central Locality. 8th day of Hotel).

Distance no Drawback. Grand outlook towards Public Gar- 3 p.m., at the Offices of the It will be possible to equip air- dens. Modern Sanitation. For fur-Public Works Department, by planes with Noctovision apparatus, ther particulars apply to II. Ruttonjee Order of his Excellency the Gov and in darkness or fog a fighting & Son, 15, Queen's Road Central,

ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land machine so equipped would have at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong,

for term of 75 years, with the option of TO LET OR FOR SALE-On Broad-renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed wood Road two semi-detached 5 room-by the Surveyor of His Majesty the ed houses with Tennis Court and King, for one further term of 75 Garage to each house...Reply Secre tary P.O. Box No. 22.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.

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

FOR SALE."Barkers," Sai Wan. A Ane 4-Roomed Bungalow with large Garden. Excellent Bathing facilities. Ideal place for Summer Hotel. For full particulars apply Box No. 595, e/o China Mail."

WATER TANK FOR SALE

100-gallon Steel Drum for sale, 'these are good strong tanks for re- serving water for household use, and are galvanised inside and outside, no

years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Kowloon Inland Lot

Inland Lut Yu. Ropa,

Laor unity.

ni Kowloon No. 2301,

BOURLATY

Bear he inte

N. S. 3.

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|About

An per saloj plan, 2,908 48

Fast 'will occur. Price $15.00 LAMMERT BROS.

each, Kwong Sang Houg Limited, or 184/5, Praya East, Wanchai

MISCELLANEOUS.

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed. "China Mail Office,

tral 22,

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

-Public Auctions·

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No. 3A, Wyndham St. Telephone Cen-HE Undersigned have received

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER STEVENAGE,

Within

Tinstructions to sell by public

Auction

an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. A Individual care and attention. Particulars apply to:

For

MISS RUTH CULLEY

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

(National Frode! Higher Certificate).

FOR

TIRES

LAND SERVICE LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Automobile Dept. C.2193.

WHITE ZINC PAINT BOILED LINSEED OIL

DRY RED LEAD

Stocks carried by

A. MING & CO.

105, Doa Yoeux Road Central (opposite Central Market).

Tel C. 618767-

ON

WEDNESDAY, July 10, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

VALUABLE COLLECTION OF

CURIOS.

Comprising: N

Ornaments, Bronze Incense Burners, 5-colour and 3-colour. Vases, Bowls. Plates, Pots, Crystal Agate. Coral and Jade Ornaments, Embroideries, Lac-. quer Cupboards, Chairs, Screens, Blackwood Joss Tables, Tea Poys, Opium Stools, Jardinieres, Brass Incense Burners, Chinese Hand Paintings, etc.

On View from Tuesday, July 9, 1929.

Catalognes will be issuedA Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, July 4, 1929

SCIATICA

CONSPIRACY CASE

LABOUR M.P. APPROACHED FOR DEFENCE

London, June 13. Mr. Holford Knight, the La- bourite victor of Nottingham South in the General Election, has been approached to accept a special re- tainer to defend the accused in the Meerut alleged conspiracy 'case.

Stage, Screen and Country Club Set All Go Mad Over New 'Sun-Tan'

Fad

Synthetic Tan, Beach Burn, Backless Frocks in

· Tenor,

"Nela,"

ERINGS FARMER BACK TO CANADA

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Montreal, May 14.

Cyrus G. Shaver, born and raised on a farm in the Pembina Valley of Manitoba, left Canada to secure employment in Detroit in 1922 He did well, bought a title to a home and settled down in. happy exile.

But the call of the soil was too

Gatrong. Recently he appeared in

George Metaxa.

the land settlement offices of the Canadian National Railways in Winnipeg. Forty-eight hours after his arrival he had secured a splen- did 320 acre farm near the town of Dugal, close to Winnipeg, with The Revellers.first class buildings and much of its land under cultivation, which he purchased for $7,000. He has made arrangements to bring his family back to Canada with him to take up life in the province ha knows so intimately.

"Les Preludes--Symphonie Poers"

(Lisat),

London Symphony Orchestra. "Aloha Ce," "Nightingale Song,"

Hulda Lashanaka. "Hot Pot," "Sonny Boy," Comedienne,

Gracie Fields. "Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 14" (Liszt),

Pianoforte Solo,

Mark Hambourg. "Mrs. Cohen At The Beach," Humorous

Monologue by,

Fanny Brice. "Drink To Me Only With Thine.

Eyes," "Believe Me If All Those Endearing

Young Charms,"

Lawrence Tibbette. "Marche Slave" (Tschaikowsky),

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

day's routine the sun would follow him from room to room.: Right, George Bernard Skaw, Gane Tumay's new boy friend, in the slightly abbreviated costume he is wont to wear while sun bathing at Lake Mag- glore, Italy, A

Above, the lithe and aristocratic Mrs. Word Leigh, a pioneer of the back-to-sunshine movement, "Whoso residence at. Nyack, N. Y., was all glass. Loft, John D. Rockefeller standing ̈fri. front of his house în...tha Prcantica: Hills, built so that during him fron-clad

such Not only have

assorted pearls over which fashionable ladies gentuses as Bernard Shaw, Gene are ruving. The newspapers bristle Tunney, Albert Coatea, the musician; with advertisements of sun-tan, kotiona Eddie Cantor and Hans Heinrich and dyes, and aristocratic and stage Schlusnuss, famous German baritone, beauties who haven't time to rask out succumbed to the lure of Old Sol, but to the beach and sit placidly beneath wealth in the person of John D. glowing quartz lamps, getting art Rockefeller, and socioty, in the differ ficially toasted. ent person of Mrs. Word Leigh, kin of the Vanderbilts, have embraced the creed,

Wake of Craze

Sum-struck used to be a term, sometimes contemptuously applied to people who went around with few clothes on, letting their bodies drink in the golden rays, getting muddy with tan, luxuriating in the vigorous heat given by that planet.

Such devotees were regarded as cranks and faddists and the No-More-Nudity

Pain immediately relieved by the Longues were dead set against them

safe form of aspirin

GENASPRIN

for sale at Chemists and Dispensaries Sole vents CSR

The rapidly increasing sun-struck movement threatens to invade. every branch of modern life. Just at present | ita inflactice is being felt in the world of fashion, and the American language has been enriched by such criap des criptive terms as "sun-back frocks

Deeply annoyed at an alarming growth of the bare legs craze, the bosiery trade is fighting it subtly by putting on the market sheer silk sock- stockings that counterfeit akin and a special blemish hiding brand with low heel reinforcement all in the choicest tan and russet.

on moral grounds. It was a reversal sån-tan" stockings, and ́ "aun-hot" | toothed, brown-skinned girls ready to of the old Lath verdict that moon chate.

SIR W. A. JÓWITT

ASKED TO RESIGN FROM PRESTON. REFORM CLUB

London, June 14. Certain members of the Preston Liberal Party who strongly resent |Sir W. A. Jowitt's action in accept- ing the Attorney-Generalship in the new Government are pressing the local Liberal Council to reverse its decision not to ask him to ́resign bis seat.

In the meantime, the Preston Re- form Club has followed up ita re- solution calling on him to resign his membership of the club by re- turning an autographed portrait which he presented six months ago.

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| QUEEN'S GRATITUDE

GIFTS FOR STAFF OF BOMBAY HOSPITAL

Bombay, June 18. Queen Souriya has sprung a pleasant surprise on the staff of St. George's Hospital, several of whom have received beautiful pre- sents, including a silver brooch set with 17 diamonds, rings studded with rubies, pearls and sapphires, besides gifts of money. The re- cipients included a sweeper attach- ed to the special ward allocated to the Queen.

WOMEN'S CONGRESS

UNIVERSAL EXTENSION OF FRANCHISE URGED

Berlin, June 24. The Women's International Con- gress has ended. A resolution was passed urging the extension of the

franchise to women in all coun tries. Trans-Ocean.

MS

· UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION - AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD..

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

Fact, from Singapore: Haino, from Singapore. Kee Chong, from London.

S. LACK,

Superintendent. Hong Kong 27th June, 1929.

THE GREAT NORTHERN ¿TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.,

OF DENMARK.

The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the office of the You will probably encounter more Grea Northern Telegraph Com- than one sun-tan shop with white pary (Limited) of Denmark: sell you tan cold cream, powder, rouge, gazers went crazy-Lovers, lunatics, Smart cosmetic sbobs proadly an- lipstick of mascara. Then there is a But now that socfety leaders, paint-nounce the hiring of "copper tan ex- reflection of the sun craze, too, in the ers, writers and the anbearably rich perts," to show you how to administer new women's beach pyjamas, daunting have joined hands, turned solar-con-athetic sunshine to your figure and every shade of solar bronza from sepla scions, the Ecepties are forced to con- what kind of rouge and powder are to walnut fess that there may be something in appropriate. Even jewellery has gone.

Arc you

sun-struck #this racket,” after all.

Bolar, as witness the popular sen-tan chic unless you are

You're not

fujiben, from Osaka, George Lynott, from Shanghai H. Kong Kwok, from Osaka. Milladvert from Dairen

EV JESSEN,

Superintendent. Hong Kong, 27th Jane, 1929

NOTICE

TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.

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

Our mea are employed by the leading passenger fines. We guarantee satis- faction..

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

C.2560- Man Street.

No. 36, Tang

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Camerás. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderata.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel. No. C. 3459.

26A, Des Vœux Road C.. Hang Koyo

SPORTING

GÚNS AND ACCESSORIES.

&

GUNS:- Greener, Webley Scotts, B.S.A., J. W. Needham & Raick Freres Air Rifles Revol- vers. 8. & W.-Rife Accessories Aperture Sights Sporting ré quisites Cartridges to suit all bories, THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION STORE 5-6, Beaconsfield Arcade.

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to

the late SIEN TING, 14. D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE

KWONG HẠNG 2 00.

Tel, C. 2736. 43, Des Voeux Road Central. Government and Admiralty Coal Contractors.

Peak

HOUSE COAL

at $28.00 per ton. Upper Level ... 322.00 Middle Level Central Office$20.00 $21.00 Kowlook

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$17.00 The above prices include delf- very charges to destination.

HONG KONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:

Island.

Victoria Peak

Signal Station Mt. Parker Mountain Lodge

The Eyrie. Peak Hotel

Taikoo Sanatorium

Mt. Davis.

Feet.

1823 ∙1774

Bower Road (filterbeds) 297

Talmoshan

Mainland

Kowloga Peak