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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929.

Phone C. 22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

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

All replies under this heading must be called for.

WANTED.

WANTED. A nurse OF reliable Woman to come. to Peninsula Hotel every day about 9 am, until 11 p.m.

LAMMERT BROS.

* AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions -

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

THE

Auction

:

ON

FRIDAY, August 30, 1929, commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Strcoś. A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

THE CHINA MAIL,

WHAT OF WAR?

Who Says That It Is Inevitable?

1

A NOTABLE ARTICLE

[By General Higgins Of The Salvation Army, in the

London Daily News"]

PLEA FOR CLASSICS

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RAILWAY HEAD AND MODERN" EDUCATION

"WORLD PROBLEMS GREATER

Nashville, Tenn., June 29.

plea for classics in modern education because they provide solace for a man's declining years, was made by Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways,

the Constitution."

The

I do not gree that a "next war”, spiritual convictions of the peoples is inevitable, any more than any of the world, passions will be as speaking at the commencement exer." other evil that plagues the life of readily aroused to-morrow as in dises of Vanderbilt University. Sir man. All such evils are parasitic; 1914, and we shall find ourselves Henry Thornton, a graduate of the they do not properly belong to launched upon a "next war" that University of Pennsylvania, was, at coach of the Vanderbilt human existence: they have no part will be absolutely catastrophic-one time,

foothall team. in God's ideal order for human indeed, the grave of our civiliza-

fe. Who that had any first-hand tion.

American youth of to-day, said Sir Henry, must be prepared to assume u experience of the foul obscenities. The Fighting Instinct

world affairs. The large part in Until very recent times the prac problems of the world now are greater of the last Great War, who saw Comprising:--

the endless stream of broken, bleed-tice of duelling was widespread, than were those which confronted the Teak Hatstands. Chesterfielding bodies of the flower of our As late as the middle of the Nine-"Fathers of Would consider highly reliable Couch and Chairs, Glass Cabinets, nation's manhood brought down to teenth Century, an English moralist special mission of the United States amah also. Apply c/o Canadian Paci- Teak Desks, Carpets, Rugs, the base hospitals, who visited the insisted that, duelling "tended to was "to cxercise the responsibilities Se Railway Co.

Gramophones, Piano, Ornaments, homes of the widows and orphans preserve politeness and peace!" In of leadership to the rest of the stricken Motor Cycles, etc.

and witnessed the tears and an-fact, all the arguments that are world leadership not selfish, not DRAUGHTSMAN WANTED.—A first

Teak Dining Tables,

Dining guish of bereaved fathers and now advanced in support of war prejudiced, but directed to bringing class Portuguese draughtsman cap.

the world along the path which best tirely single storey buildings to be gons, Electric Ice Chest, Dinner the dictum that such a ghastly port of duelling. As long as gentle.

The great financial investments of constructed of reinforced concrete, Crockery, Glass Ware. Kitchen, orgy of blood, such a blasphemous men wore swords. (on the popular the United wout or steel frame with corrugated Utensils, etc.

States abroad, he con- debasement of human life, is inevit-principle that "the way to preserve tinued, brought with them tremendous iron sheeting Must be willing to work for considerable periods at ports

peace is to be prepared for war," obligations. They were tending to other thar Hong Kong. Apply in the

Hoppity that idea is now far as long as men were mentally, and give the American people a universal first instance by letter addressed

from being universally accepted, physically prepared for duels, duels view-point and to associate them with "Secretary Post Office Box No. 22.

Indeed, nothing is more encourag-were fought. But te-day, in many developments on all parts of the Hong Kong."

ing to students of the times than countries, if one man should kill earth.

able of designing and detailing en-Chairs, Sideboard, Dinner. Wag: mothers, could accept for a moment were.at one time advanced in sup tienda to the progress of humanity."

TO LET

TO LET Furnished, one room; use of bathroom and kitchen. Apply: Mrs. Chan, 557, Nathan Road, Kow- loon.

TO LET OR FOR SALE.

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

FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Op Broadwood Road 8 roomed Bungalow, Reply Secretary P.O. Box No. 22.

SITUATION WANTED

EURASIAN GIRL with experience wants position A9 NURSEMAID. Will live in. Apply Box No. 607, c/o "China Mail."

MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed.-"China Mail Ofice, No. 8A, Wyndham St. Telephone Cen-

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER-STEVENAGE,

Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

Withins

Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teakable? Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw- ers, Washstands, etc.

and

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE. One-Valve Wireless Sel One 2-Valve Amplifier

and

Three Loud Speakers. Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Thursday, August 29, 1929.

Terins:-Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

THE Undersigned have received Tin undersigned have received

Auction

ON

MONDAY, September 2, 1929, commencing at 11 am.

at No. 396, The Peak, Flat 1 (Mount Kellet)

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Absolute Futility

the deep-seated and widespread another in a duel he would be tried Sir Henry, returning to the scenes repugnance to war as an instrument for murder. Combativeness is, of his young days, Was received of national policy which is felt by grant you, part and parcel of enthusiastically by the faculty and earnestly-minded people in all human nature, and a most valuable students of the university. civilized lands.

quality when exercised for humane and morally sound purposes. And It is not merely the horrors of what is to prevent the fighting in. war. but its absolute futility which stinct, instead of applying itself to has so impressed many minds. We the destruction of human wealth have come to see the truth of and life, being directed to the ler with whom the arrested man, Napoleon's well-known conclusion: destruction of everything that now Alexander Itchen, had pawned it

The more I study the world, the jeopardizes the happiness and for £15 88. 6d. more I am convinced of the in- peace of mankind? The best man-

hood, the best brains, the best science, the best inventive genius have been too long enlisted in the service of war.

ability of brute force to create any thing durable." Modern soldiers are equally emphatic on this point. f am not suggesting that the use of force, in the present condition Imagine the young men of all of the world, is entirely avoidable, mations enlisted to fight the moral or that it is not in certain con evils threatening our social life. tingencies, and for certain par- Imagine the best scientists of the poses, morally defensible. No world mobilised, not to invent new group of individuals, large or chemical and mechanical instru- small, can live together in peacements for the destruction of and amity as a community without human life, but to fight disease. Comprising —

respect for the common rights of Imagine the womanhood of the Teak Hall Table, Chesterfield all. This is equally true whether nations enlisted to get everything Couch and Chairs, Teak Book- the community he a family, a city, inimical to family life-malnutri- cases, etc.

a nation, or a group of nations. tion of children, bad housing, slum Jacobean dark ouk stained There must be an agreed order. conditions, imagine the statesmen of Teak Extension Dining Table, Order necessitates law: law in all nations mobilized to Aght war penalty for What fields for the utilization of Dining Chairs, Sideboard, Dinner evitably implies a Waggon and writing desk, Teak breaches of law; and a penalty in the fighting instinct are these? Ice Chest, Crockery, Glass Ware. volves, in the last resort, power to Cannot educational and religious Blackwood Standard Lamp, Elec-inflict it in a word, the use of propaganda divert that instinct troliers, Curtains, etc., etc.

force.. White enamelled Brass Mount

Even the acceptance

from inhumMAD and destructive

by all channels into channels which shall make for the improvement and peace of human life? I am con- vinced they can.

an hour from London. In healthy Iron Beds, White enamelled Dress-nations of the League Covenant or neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS ing Table, Wardrobe with Glass the Rellogg act would still require and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders Door,

Teak bed and

-human nature being what it is received in the House of the Principal table, etc., etc.

dressing

a reserve of force capable of being • Salvation Army's Example bidividual care and attention. For

used by the majority against any also

Dedicated to a high ideal, the Several Pieces of Blackwood

who were traitors to their obliga- fighting instinet can become most Furniture

tions, who broke their pact, or made powerfully beneficent. As witness

and

aggression upon their neighbours. the Salvation Army, which, in fifty Just as in the present condition of years, has succeeded in uniting society we must expect law-break- men and women of almost every ers among individuals, so, I fear, race and colour and tongue in a it is necessary to be prepared to passionate and sustained crusade deal with nations who fail to re- against every form of social and

(Camb. Higher Local).

Cumb. Teachers' Diploma).

MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate).

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 lines. We guarantee satis- faction.

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

C.2560- No. 36. Tung Man Street.

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks 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 Voeux Road C, Hong Kong.

SPORTING

GUNS AND

ACCESSORIES.

&

GUNS Greener, Webley Scotts, B.B.A., J. W. Needham & Falck Freres Air Riftes-Pavol. vers. 5. & W-Rifle Accesories Aperture Sights Sporting – re- qukites Cartridges to mult all bores,

THE HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS & AMMUNITION: STORE

6-6, Beaconsfield. Arcade.

One

Blue Axminster Caspet (Tientsin design). One Baby's Cot

One Baby's Treasure Cot, Basket

and Bath,

One His Master's Voice Gramo-pect treaties. Yet, surely, it is moral evil. The Salvation Army

phone.

not beyond the combined skill of was a League of Nations in active Rattan verandah furniture. Pot cover some means of coercion other Covenant had been heard of.

the more enlightened nations to dis-operation long before the Geneva plants.

than military by which to deal with

there he such.

The one and only permanent

On View from Sunday, Septem-international law-breakers, should safeguard against war, I am con- ber 1, 1929.

Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Degrees of Development

vinced, lies in the universal accept- ance of the Gospel of Christ-a One of the difficulties in the way gospel of peace with God and peacG of universal peace and the chief with mankind. This alone will give Auctioneers.hindrance to the progress of the the world security personal,

League of Nations lies in the economic, national, and different degrees of moral and national,

Hong Kong, August 26, 1929.

FOR

AUTOMOBILE

WELDING

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Automobile Dept. C.3193...

Ships' Stores, Shipbuilding Materiala, Railways, Minings and Engineering Supplies.

A. MING & COMPANY

用工鐵帶造

輪

明發號

品程路礦船船號

105, Des Voeux Rd., C.

Hong Kong.

FOR SALE.

Men's Pyjama Suits

at $6.00.

5. NARAIN, China Building, 4th Floor.

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to

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

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

LAZARUS

the RECOGNISED HOUSE for

ZEISS BINOCULARS.

LORD BYNG

inter-

"ENTIRE CONFIDENCE' OF

THE GOVERNMENT

spiritual development still existing among the nations. The more ad- vanced peoples are held back by the more backward. All are not equally ready to accept authority of moral principles, nor to take the risks involved in securing peace. This creation of the peace mind in place of the war is, I recognize, The attention of the Home a matter of time and of moral and spiritual education. Such a will to

following announcement:----

The Home Office has issued the

Secretary has been called to certain statements in the Press with re- peace, in my view, must, however, ference to Lord Byng's offer to re rest upon a surer foundation than that of the mere instinct of self-isioner of Police of the Metropolis. sign his appointment as Commis preservation. Unless it is possible

to create a will to peace which is As these statements may convey a rooted in a profound conviction of

misleading impression that some the twin truths of the Fatherhood thing has occurred recently which prompted Lord Byng to render bis

of God and the universal brother-resignation, the Home Secretary hood of man, I see little hope of thinks it desirable to state what in escaping that next war..

fact occurred. Apart from the widespread diffusion

Immediately, on the formation of of this large world the present Government, Lord patriotism in place of a narrow nationalism, I have no doubt Mr. Byng, at an interview with the Colin Clive's prediction would Home Secretary, referred to the criticisms that had been made at prove true:-"If there were a war the time of his appointment. He emergency to-morrow and the said that while he was quite pre- Government began calling for. volunteers, thousands of young task he had undertaken at the ro pared to carry to completion the men would come forward as readi- quest of the late Home Secretary, ly as they did in 1914, without he thought it right to seek an as- stopping to consider the causes of the emergeney or weighing the confidence and support of the pre- surance that he possessed the full consequences of the war, simply be sent Government in his task if Cause their country was up on the other hand, they preferred against it. The horrors of the to be free to make other arrange Great War are receding from the ments, he would readily place him mind of the present generation, and self in their hands, unless it is possible to create a will Without hesitation Mr. Clynes ex- to peace based upon the moral and pressed, to Lord Byng his earnest

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION NI.1 THERAPION NO2 MERAPION N3

desire that he should continue his services, and later confirmed the request in a letter. Mr. Clynes as sured Lord Byng that he possessed the entire confidence of the Home Secretary and the Government, and would receive their full support In the arduous duties which he had undertaken and was performing to their complete satisfaction.

The gold watch stolen from the King of the Belgians while he was bathing near Ostend was recovered on the following day from a jewel

Stop Itching

Skin Troubles

A Real Antiseptic Cats Results Issing stufed skin, makes and eller aldo Lobios quickly rigid to LAVOIA This pen cost- kates the skin, coding and heal ing the briistad BFYCHING STOPU IN- STANTLY, LAYOL is clau sedi alainiem, TY ene bolile se zake a Melahed skin clean. Made in U. & A. and sold 29 di good drapes. (D tributor Muller & Phipps Maniachangk Big Kong).

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THE HONG KONG TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.

St. George's Building, 2nd Floor

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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-

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FURNITURE-Removed to any part of the Colony at

reasonable rates.

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

SPECIAL NURSERY MILK

Put up in bottles, sealed with Dacro Crown Cork. Recom- mended by the Local Medical Profession. In Pint Bottles at 32 cents per bottle.

PASTEURIZED MILK

Put up in similar bottles at 32 ets. per bottle.

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

THREE

DAYS

FINAL NOTICE

We wish to inform the buy- ing public that our prices have been reduced to the lowest levels of the year. Everything in our store is included in this Drastic and Final Clearance.

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

kr

to save anywhere from one third to one half. It is the last chance of the season to share in this store-wide Clean Up Event.

WHITEAWAYS.