1929-07-26 — Page 6

AT ALL HOTELS

AND CLUBS.

CALL FOR

“U”

BEER

PILSNER URQUELL

THE ORIGINAL PILSNER BEER.

Agenta:---

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Phone C. 16.

ARMB

TRADE

Wine and Spirit Merchants.

Kowloon K. 19.

MERCKOZONE

MERCK'S HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

in 20 az, and 10 oz bottles

THE BEST Antiseptic

THE SAFEST Disinfectant

THE MOST RELIABLE Germicide

Acid-free, Non-poisonous, Deodorising, Bleaching, Healing.

Specify and Insist on

MERCKOZONE

and accept no substitute.

K. M. A.

CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS

CLINKER,

PAVING,

BUILDING

& FIRE

BRICKS.

STONE-

WARE

PIPES &

GLAZED

TILES.

Ask for our Illustrated Catalogue-Compare our Prices and Inspect our wide Range of Samples

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents, Hong Kong.

"King GeorgelV

OLD SCOTCH

WHISKY

OPENING AND CLOSING FACILITATED BY

NEW SCREW CAP

Simple Safe & Secure

No corkscrew necessary

Possibility of leakage or contamination through faulty corks eliminated

THE DISTILLERS AGENCE, LTD.,

Sole Age

BDINBURGH!

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

St. George & Building, Ice Houss Street.

THE CHINA MAIL,

WHITEAWAYS

WILL COMMENCE··

THEIR

GREAT SUMMER SALE

ON.

MONDAY, JULY 29th

AND WILL CONTINUE TO

SATURDAY, AUG. 31st

ENTIRE STOCK INCLUDED

GENEROUS REDUCTIONS. LOOK OUT

FOR

THE RED TICKET BARGAINS.

COME EARLY.

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

HONG KONG.

The China Mail.

[Every evening except Sunday. Annual subscription, excluding postage cbroad, H.K. 236, payable in advanec. Local delivery froe.]

Overland China Mail.

[The weekly edition of the "China Mail? Annual subccription, H;K. $13 including postage $15, payable in advance.]

Published by

The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.

Printers & Publishers,

| No. 3A, WYNDHAM STREET, TONG TONG

TELEPHONES

Office: Central 22. Editorial: Central 4641.

Cable Address!--Mail, Hong Kong.

All communications should be addressed to the Newspaper En- terprise, Ltd., to whom all remit- tences should be made payable.

London Offices--The Far East- ern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 36-38, Southampton Street, Strand. W.0.2.

DEATH

Hong Kong, Friday, July 26, 1929.

BRITAIN'S NAVAL POLICY

Two cases of enteric fever were notified yesterday. One was Bri tich and the other Chinese.

Mrs. W. V. M. Koch, of No. 166. The Peak, reported to the Police last night the loss of a day's black satin cloak lined with genu-

EUROPEAN Y.M

PRESENTATION Th

SECRETARY

MR. P. SANDS

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1929

BRAPS

P'RAPS NOT!

The members of the European Husband (who has been asked to ine ermine valued at $250. It was YM.C.A, met last night for the purtry cake baking in oven): "Darling stolen from a box in her bedroom. pose of saying good-bye to Mr. Pis it done when the knife breaks The last time she wore the cloak Sands, M.A., assistant secretary, who'

was in November last.

is leaving to-morrow on the Suw inside it?". Maru for England.

In the absence of the President, the

A Chinese woman named Hui Kiu, Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., pre-ities were discussing the size of pre- Three men of different national- living at No. 8, Gillies-avenue, sentation to Mr. Sands was made by

Hunghom, yesterday turned over to Mr. W. L. Pastendes, Vice-President of sent day lifiers.

&

Third Man: "In our boats the chef needs a submarine to go through the soup to potatoes."

test the

the Police a packet containing half the Association which took the form Fira Man: "Our ships are so a pound of illicit raw opium. She of a silver junk, a travelling clock, and large that the captain requires a seld that the drug was concealed a despatch case. Mr. Pattenden said motor carto go round issuing under a counter, and she suspects Mr. Sands had taken a prominent part orders."

In all the Association's activities. He that it had been planted" there by ad great personal influence and capa-chief engineer has an aeroplane for Second Man: "In our liners the man who lived in the front

city for friendship and the members taking his inspection of the cubicle.

were losing a real friend. He had also engines." largely interested himself in the reli- In the Summary Court yesterday,gious life of the Colony, more especial before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Lauty at St. Andrew's, but he had always Kwok-ching, fireman's. boy and been ready to help elsewhere. He assistant to the No. 1 stoker on sincerely hoped that in years to come board the R.M.S.

work in "Empress of Mr. Sands would return to Australia" sought to recover a sum

Hong Kong.

Mr. Sands' Reply of $881.60 on a promissory

Expressing thanks Mr. Sands said signed by Lau Sing, No. 1 fitter on his three years at the Y.M.C.A. had the same vessel.. Defendant claim-been very happy ovey. He hoped the ed that the money cwing was a spirit which prevailed in the Y.M.C.A. gambling debt. Judgment was would continue to grow and that the given for plaintiff with costs. Association would prosper spiritually,

in sport and in social service.

note

CORRESPONDENCE.

FILM CRITICISM

(To the Editor of the "China" Mail"] Sir,It was really cheering to read that account of the protest made by Mr. Mancini, regarding the quality of the pictures shown at the "Queen's

SMART WORK

WANCHAL MURDER AND A SEQUEL

SUSPECT IN CUSTODY

As a result of a smart piece of de- tective work, a Chinese is now in

Mike and Pat were arguing about their ability to carry loads. Pat claimed he could carry 200 pounds.

"But I did it yesterday," per- siated Pat.

"Did yez carry a barrel of flour, then ?" asked Mike.

"I did not. But I carried an automobile tyre over each shoulder sivin blocks for the boss. "And 1 heard the man say there was 100 pounds of air in each wan av thim.”

*

Dr. Lewis, an old-time Welsh divine, composed a aixpenny pam- phlet oa "How Sin Came Into the World."

A friend of his, who was known to be somewhat heterodox in his

Theatre," etc., during the past few police custody on a cburge of murder, theology, advised Lewis to add &

months.

Working

chapter telling how to get sin out of the world; he could thus make it a shilling pamphlet and it would

pence. coolie be well worth the additional six-

on this clae, C.ID. men

What is needed now is the whole The murder occurred at 685 m, hearted support of the public, to follow yesterday, and the alleged culprit was risk; and the risk is very great up the protest, then we can hope that arrested within an hour. if we are to be content with what the Management of the Hong Kong named Teng Lek-tong (33), Eiving at

The murdered man waS, B the peace-loving Labour Party about it.

Amusements, Ltd., will do something No. 12, Stone Nullah-lane. He was regard as a "minimum". Their At one time, I could boast to my street with a stab wound in the chest. found dead outside No. 2, Taiyuen- "minimum," however, is based people at Hom that we saw films quite Near the body was a rattan maker's six months before they did: now my blood-stained needle, which was un- upon data supplied by the experts sister writes from Constantinople and doubtedly the weapon used by the mur- at the Admiralty, But though has the laugh on me!! I ask you! Jerer. Mr. MacDonald's statement was the motion picture magazines to realise One has only to read thringh some of convincing enough in its sincerity, that we are getting positively ancient made investigations which resulted in named still he did not appear to be too pictures, to say the least, and most of the arrest of another coolic

them are regarded

"second" and Yeung Kwai-tin (40), who lives at No. willing to give precise details and, even "third" choice (with very few 2. Bullock-lane, second floor. indeed, did not give them. This exceptions).

The motive of the crime is as yet. (1) When are we going to see even

unknown, but has been ascertained question of a "minimum" may one of the following first class filma?; by his finger-print that the dead coolie yet prove to be "the fly in the "The Trial of Mary Duggan,” had been banished for life from Singa- "The Divine Lady, "The Canary pore and Hong Kong, and it is elsc ointment," for unless it has been

Murder Case," "Alias Jimmy Valen- suspected that the arrested man may made with a view fully to safe- tine," "Interference," and "The also be a life banisher. guarding the Empire, it is unlike-

Fleet's In" to

It is possible that the men had quar. cite only a small- ly that the Liberals will support (2) Are we ever

relled in Singapore and a grudge had npmber.

going to see

heen nursed by one, resulting in the the Government, and without Colleen Moore, Baclanova, Maurice taking of revenge when they met in

Hong Kong. such support the united weight Chevalier, and many other first class

The Police removed the body to the of the Conservative vote to which

Public mortuary. there would probably be a good many Liberal votes to be added, it will collapse and with it the Labour Government.

atata?

(3) Is there never going to be an end to these dreadful circus pictures?

(4) Are Greta Garbo, Dolores Del Ric, and Victor McLaglen, the mariage mont's idea of "first class entertain- ment??

Well, I think that that is enough to It is all very well to talk of be going on with, though I could say and desire peace and retrench-

a good deal more..

Yours, etc.,

"FLICKER."*

Hong Kong, July 26.

THE VOLUNTEERS

ORDERS FOR ENSUING WEEK

Sports Sub-Committee Meeting Sports Sub-Committee on Monday at There will be a meeting of the

pm, at Corps Headquarters.

Corps Band

5.45

on

USE YOUR HAND!

FIGHTERS WENT "OUTSIDE.

THE RULES".

MAGISTERIAL HOMILY

"You went outside the rules of the game when you need weapons like this," Mr. E. W. Hamilton this morn- ing told two of three Chinese who appeared before him on a charge of dis- orderly conduct by fighting on the Shaukiwan-road, boots

#

A very small, boy was trying to lead a big St. Bernard up the road.

that dog, my little man ?" inquired "Where are you going to take

a passer-by,

"I-I'm going to see where where he wants to go first," was the breathless reply.

"I'm a $10,000-a-year man." "Then that makes your wife a $9900-a-year woman, doesn't it?”

Secretary: "You have an ap- pointment with the photographer at two."

Executive: "I'm too busy to go. You'll have to attend to it"..

"Mrs. Loude is quite frank, isn't she?"

...

"Frank? Why, she calls a spade a steam shovel!"

Lady: "You have a picture there by Rubens priced at one and six- pence. Can you tell me if it is original or a copy 1"

*

Little Girl':

*.

"I'm glad I wasn't born in France, daddie."

Dad: "Why my child ?” Little Girl: "'Cos I don't know. any French."

*

WONG TIN TSEUNG of Field Cot-

tage, Kowloon City. Funeralment, and doubtless a start must will take place at Yat Pit Ting, be made in that direction towards Kennedy Town, at 3.30 p.m.

attaining a more rational state of Saturday, the 27th instant.

affairs, but evidently the time has not yet arrived for revolu-

"We've got a brand new mahog- tionary changes in connection

any plano," said Mr. Cumrox. with our Navy. Both the French

"But nobody in your family can. and the Italian Navies are to-day-

Sergeant Hynes, the prosecuting play it 7" ofleer, told the Magistrate that there "Yes, that's the best thing about larger than they were before the

Orders by Lt. Col. L. G. Bird. appeared to have been a dispute bet" D.S.O., O.B.E., Commandant, comprisetween the Chinese workers at the Hong There will, of course, be a very war, and this is a factor that must the following

Kong Electric Company's power sta varied reception given to Mr. be taken into consideration no

tion, and

Jinks: "Did you give an open- the upshot was that they matter how peaceable the outlook

divided into two clans and there was air show in spite of the rain ?? Ramsay MacDonald's suggested

4 battle royal in which irons, spanners Binks: Yes: the stage was naval policy, and it is certain may be at present. On the other

and poles were used.

sheltered by trees." that before it is finally agreed to hand, there is no we entering There will be a full Band Practise One of the accused had his hend Jinks: "What about the au- by the House of Commons it will into Kellogg or any other kind of Tuesday, at 5.30 pm at Corps cracked, and appeared in Court with dience

Headquarters, dress mufti.

bandages.

Binks: "Oh, he was quite all have to be very thoroughly dis- peace pacts unless we are to dol. Motor Cycle Section

Mr. Hamilton: These are not our cussed. It is so drastic that it something to make such more or Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. for Road they? No

Monday. All ranks parade at Corps friends the "Fierce Tigers" again, are right; we lent him a mackintosh." is little short of being revolution- less idealistic arrangements prac-Exercises. Dress: Mufil,

Addressing the three accused his Mounted Infantry Company

The Victorian grandparent disap- ary. The Prime Minister istical. If along with this mutual

Thursday, Parade at Riding School that you cannot do this sort of thing daughter..

Worship said: "You have get to know provingly gazed on his young grand- transparently sincere in his bedesire for curtailment in naval at 5.30 p.m.

I am going to bind you all over in the

"Art, my dear," he observed six months." sum of $50 each to keep the peace for lief of his proposals that in itself armament an alliance between the

sententiously, and pointing almost compels admiration for United States and Great Britain

"A Gentleman-More or Less" acensing finger to her lipstick, In order to bring the Band up to them. But on our first line of were announced the disarmament

To the man with the bandaged head, "art cannot improve on nature." defence we rely so very much that proposals of Mr. MacDonald made for holding classes in Piping used your hands and to have been more cheerily "Think how perfectly strength, arrangements have bean Mr. Hamliton said: “You seem to have "Oh, rot, old bean," she cried we cannot, even for a moment, would be much more acceptable to under Pipe Major Mackie or less a gentleman abant it. I will comic you'd look without your false

Will members of the Corps who discharge you with a caution, permit of pleasing ideals usurping a majority of Britons. But to wish to take advantage of these

The remarks quoted at the top of their names. the place of hard facta. Mr. enter upon them precipitately in classes please send in MacDonald is a Celt and all bis the hope that the example, excel-or the Adjutant os soon as possible who were ordered to pay mes of $5 late for work one Monday morning.

either to Captain Alistair Mackenzie the Magistrate to the other two men certain workman got up too. this report were then addressed by life, though he has probably call-lent as it is, will be followed by ed himself a rationalist, he has other Powers, seems much too dangerous an experiment and one been I is an ideallat.

that should not be entered upon

and is

He accepts the principle of

Pipe

..

Band. The Pipe and Drums will parade at Corps Headquarters at

6 pm. on Wednesday for practice,

Portuguese Company

teeth!!!!

an

N.0.0.5 Class M.COM are year 10 days hard labour. He was in a big dilemma what ex- minded that an extra class has been Speaking to all three accused Jointly, cuse to make, as the firm was busy. The next class after will be held allowed to be disorderly in any case. Tuesday, a brilliant idea struck arranged to-day at 6.30 p.m. *-*) his Worship said: “You cannot be However, going to the works on on Friday, August 2. N.C.0/6 pre If you have got to fight use your him remainded that there are only a few hands, and remember that people who The foreman came to him later,

parity, as suggested by the except for reasons much more more classes to be held before the use their hands get of much better and said gurlily: "And where were

Americans, as though it were a matter of not the slightest mo- ment, whereas it was to the Con-

cogent and convincing than those so far given.

training season commences and are than those who use weapons" advised to

to attend as many as pos sibla of these classes.

Transfer!

A tent marked "Woodbury, U.S.A. No. 1408 Ple. H. O, Davies is trans

ferred from No 2 Platoon to The from July 22,42352

servative Government a matter Army found in the possession of a Butter Leste MESIAC

of supreme importance. The Chinese resulted in his being fact is that Mr. MacDonald thinks charged at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. 3. Whyte Smith with

of the Navy as in time of peace unlawful possession. --- whereas the Conservatives

thought of it and still think of it A fine of $50 was imposed by

As a war machine, which, of course, as its primary purp

The chief object of the Labour like the Hoover

seems noI

Economy - hns

fected no matter at

No. 1970 L/SerJ Murray, Re- Company, from July 20, 1929 medical to February 180

zzounds.

Struck of the Strength Having left the Colony, as from July 20, 1929 No. 1250 Eta FR F. Swayne, Armoured Car Section.

The

stand at the

Asking the

Back to the

Iter the last match

SHANGHAI WHEEL

MEXICAN DEFENDANTS

SENTENCED

Shanghal, Yesterday. Senora Carlos Garcia and Del Valle, the Mexican defendants in

you yesterday ??

"It's like this, boss," replied the workman, seriously, "I'm sorry, but I've got a rip-off calendar by my bad, an' when I went to bed on Sunday night I forgot to rip one off. Tappened to look at it Monday mornin' an it said Sunday on it, an I went off to sleep agen.”

Fond Mother: "My son has many

the wheel (rouletta) gambling original ideas, hasn't he?"

case in the International Settlement Teacher: "Yes, especially Is

each sentenced to one year's spelling.

mprisonment and a fine of $2,000.

the Provisional Court this Here is an equestrian statue of

Jeanne d'Arc

appeal has been 18g. And is the horse maile of the

Same matter in y