1929-08-29 — Page 6

AT ALL HOTELS

CALL FOR

“U”

AND CLUBS.

BEER

PILSNER URQUELL

THE ORIGINAL PILSNER BEER.

Agents:

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Wine and Spirit Merchants.

Phone C. 16.

Kowloon K. 19.

"WELL PRESSED"

Your summer suits, gabardine, palm beach, silk, flannel or mohair Send for

DRYCLEANING

No shrinkage or loss of colour. Our Steam Presses cannot scorch, shine or spot.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

HEAD OFFICN & WORKS: MONOKOX, Tel. K. 32. BONG KONG DEPOT: 14, Struley Stroot, Tol. U. 1979. BUNGKONG HD5995-(Visitors only.)

KOWLOON HOTEL DEFOT: PRAK POPEL DEPOT: PENINSULA HOTEL (Visitors only)

Write or Phone for cumpléte Price L

CHY

LOONG.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER.

Best quality--Prompt attention to Exporters.

Office: 281, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530. Factory:-500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati.

Tel. K. 869.

THE GREATEST BIRD ACT OF THE CENTURY!

TORCAT'S ROOSTERS

A “TROUPE" OF 60 GAME FOWLS IN A RIOT OF COMEDY, ACROBATICS

AND ECCENTRICITIES!

66

WITH

"Coco"

THE ONLY ROOSTER COMEDIAN IN

THE HISTORY OF THE STAGE!

COMMENCING

SUNDAY

AT THE

QUEEN'S THEATRE

SPECIAL MATINEE SUNDAY AT 2.30 P.M.

SLIGHT INCREASE IN PRICES,

THE CHINA MAIL,

WHITEAWAYS

GREAT SALE

LAST WEEK BARGAINS

IN

ALL DEPARTMENTS HUNDREDS OF MEN'S T

SMART DESIGNS

IN

NECKWEAR

Hundreds of Men's Ties in new, smart, up-to-date designs and

75

colourings

TO BE CLEARED

AT

Cts. $1.00

and

each.

Call early for best selections WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

HONG KONG.

The China Mail.

[Every evening except Sanday. Annual subscription, excluding postage abroad, B.K. $86, payable in advance. Local delivery free.]

what he desires to bay in the simplest words to be found in the English language--words under- stood by peer and commoner, words that are indeed winged and golden because of their

very

Overland China Mail. simplicity. Only lately there has

The weekly edition of the "China Mail." Annual subscription, H.K. $13 including postage $16, payable in advance.]

Published by

The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.

Printers & Publishers,

No. 3A, WYNDHAM STREET,

BONG KONG.

TELEPHONES- Office: Central 23, Editorial: Central 4641. Cuble Address:-Mail, Hong Kong,

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

London Offees:-The Far East- ern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd, 30-39, Southampton Street, Strand. W.C.2.

MARRIAGE

been a protest against the grow-

of the English Association to do]

in our midst here: if so, we can- not but wish the founders every success. The movement has so much in its favour and nothing at all against it.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929.

HULLOA CANTON!

TELEPHONE. CONNECTION WITH HONG KONG PROSPECTS HOPEFUL

PRAPS-

P'RAPS NOT !

Canton, Yesterday. Donald: Did you hear that Sundy Our correspondent learns from MacTavish has official circles that the chances of stealin' a bottle o' whisky.

got ten days for Mrs. North will on Saturday, establishing a telephone connection open the new Chinese dispensary between Canton and Hong Kong are should haa bocht it and then ho Dugald: "The silly fule! he in Main-street, Shaukiwan West. very encouraging.

peyd for it."

ber to receive final reports.

Considerable progress has been A meeting, of the Water Emer-made in the negotiations. between gency Committee will be held to- Canton and Hong Kong. One thing day at 5 p.m. in the Council Cham- has been settled, and that is, the *Where have you been all this -

time?" demanded lines will be laid underground. Have you got the mare shod ?"

the farmer. Canton prefers, however, the A Chinese was fined $10 or in overhead lines for the reason that head, "Shod! Lor, no, master," he Old George scratched his grey default 14, daya' jail by the Kow-they are cheaper to instal and locn Police Magistrate, for stealing quicker to complete, but Hong Kong thought you said shot!"

cried, "I been burying she. I

a plank of wood, valued at $1, insists on the underground lines fm 216 Portland Street.

for safety and less chances of interruption of communications, Two Chinese dog-owners were

The only impediment to the final fined $5 each for allowing their dogs settlement of the present negotia to be abroad with muzzlea. Antions lies in the difficulty of fixing other, whe allowed her bitch out of the rates of charges and the division doors without a muzzle, was fined of profits. It is believed that this 6, by the Kowloon Magistrate, this question will be studied very care- morning.

fully by both sides, and as far as the Chinese views are concerned. A cable in yesterday's issue the prospects of an understanding should have read that the "Graf being reached in the near future are Zeppelin" was sighted over Lower

good. California. à distance of 300 miles

Canton expects that the preposed from

Los Angeles, 217 minutes telephone line will become very! after leaving. There is no news of

popular and that the profts will in the air liner to-day.

a few years pay for the cost of the

For the theft of a pair of installation-Canton News Agency.

trousers valued at 40 cents, from Stall No. 16 in Battery-street, a Chinese W&3 sentenced to two months hard labour. Previous convictions showed that he had served 14 days a year ago for lar- seny.

DHOBIES RESCUED

DARING STUNTS BY CIRCUS PERFORMERS

Bombay, July 29. Reports of heavy rains have been 6****************88e received from Karachi and other

#s parts of Sind, as well from Degrees Gujarat.

In Khairpur State, boats had to Temperature, 10 am, to-

be used in some areas. The rain day

79

continued for 48 hours and several Temperature, 4 p.m.,

yesterday

85 Humidity, 10 am, to-

day

89 * Humidity, 4 p.m., yes-

75.... terday

scenes were witnessed.

Thrilling rescues were made by a

Snooks: "Hullo! Have you heard about Poppleton ?"

Boy: "The house agent ?" Snooks: "Yes, he has got his daughter engaged, and he has made the poor fellow sign a three years' Hense!".

*

Bron: "They say Jones is crazy on the subject of golf, and his wife is equally crazy over auction sales.”

Smith: "Yes, and the funny part of it is that they both talk in their sleep. The other night a man in the next flat heard Jones

shout Fore!" and immediately. Mrs. Jones yelled Four-ton!"

*

"I really believe Jack has a soft spot in his heart for me," declared one young lady, proudly.

"What makes you think that?" snappily asked her rival.

"Why, the dear boy says he is al ways thinking of me."

"That's nothing to go by," sneered the other. A man doesn't think with his heart. the soft spot you mention is in his In all probability

head."

The financier: "How much for my little girl ?**

Conductor: "She is free if under four."

"But she will occupy a seat all the

houses collapsed, burying alive two persona. The total damage is estimated at nearly two lakins of rupees.

In Ahmedabad, Mr. Gandhi'a headquarters, the Sabarmati river, ing use of slang in everyday seICE@GOC**@NEMS88✪✪ which skirts his ashram, tragic language, and an effort has been made to place some of the blame

Li Pak, who is charged with as-troupe attached at Karlekar's Cir-game." for this on the cinemas, the fearsaulting a married couple at 70, cus, which is at present at Ahmede- "Makes no difference." being expressed that the evil may Wai Ching Street with a chopper, bad. Acrobats suspended from the

"In that case, how much discount become worse with the spread of was unable to attend Kowloon Court bridge hung out over the swirling will you give me on my ticket if I the "talkies."

this morning, owing to sickness. waters, and, performing daring losve her at home?" He is in the Victoria Prison Ho-acrobatic stunts, rescued six per- Meanwhile, there is proof on pital. Det.-Inspector C. P. Fallon sons who were being carried away every hand in Hong Kong of the who said that it was not a very by the flood. wish to learn English, pure and secious case, applied for a week's formal remand, which was granted. undefiled, and to talk and write the simple words by which our

Before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith orators of old climbed to the top at the Kowloon

Magistracy this

L

He

• Six Persons Saved The rescuers are best described in the manager's own words. wired on Saturday as follows:----

"Our circus elephants were taken to the Sabarmati river by our

of the ladder of fame. Apart morning, five Chinese were fined mahouts this morning at 10 am,

arnmont Crown land at To Kwa low as usual. Suddenly, at 10.30,

"I don't like a friend to domineer over me," said the young man with the patient disposition.

"Who has been doing that?" "My friend Biggs. He borro ved my dress suit."

"That's a liberty."

"I don't mind that, but when he

from the fine work being done at $3 each for trespassing on Gov-when the level of the water was asked for my umbrella, I told him I the University and the many wa Insp, Stimson said that the the flood came down the river, and might want to use it myself. But Colleges and public schools, the defendants had a permit to cut it was only with the greatest diff- he got it just the same." number of private schools te turf at Po Kung, Ngaushiwan, but culty that the mahouts were able: steadily increasing all aiming at they had gone on to the Aero-to bring the elephants back to the "He simply said: Have your own teaching English. Without a de- |

mand there could not possibly be

drome.

chopper on a man.

"How?"

bank.

way; they're your clothes I'm trying "Many dhobies (men and women) to keep from getting spot, not and others, including several chil-mine.'"

trucks.

so many "educational factories" Ho Tai was fined $10 or 14 days' dren, who were on the river bed DUNCAN

– HINCH — At Hong in our midst. That demand, how-trate for assaulting another Chin- the flood.

hard labour by the Kowloon Magis-were engulfed and swept away by Kong, Jahn Fraser Duncan, son

Two powerful stevedores, who had of Mr. John Duncan of Renfrew, ever, has to be met. It should be ese with a chopper, though not "When the news reached me, had some sort of falling out, were Scotland, to Elspeth May Hinch, met, too, by teachers who them-seriously. Both were employees in our circus tent is close to the river, engaged in unloading a vessel at a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. selves have more than a surface Road, sweeping up, as the business and a dozen ring-boys equipped remarks and waraings of intended "Mah Jongg" shop at 647 Canton I sent our ring master, Chawan, St. Louis dock. Uncomplimentary Hinch of Bonner Hall, Essex.

knowledge of the language that was transferred to Kansu Street, with ropes to Ellis bridge to save violence were exchanged whenever they seek to impart to others. It yesterday. His Worship, remarked those who were being carried away the two passed each other with their Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 29, 1929. is not enough that pupils should that it was very serious to use a by the food. They succeeded, at

the risk of their own lives, in any be able to write a fair or middling

ing six persons who were being

"You jest keep on pesticatin' hand. It is not enough that a

around with me," declared one of The following forthcoming wed-carried away by the waters. pupil should be regarded as "get-dings are announced. Mr. Marens "Suspending themselves from the the men," "an' you is gwine te able Antonio de Carvalho, No. 14. bridge, head down, over the swirl to settle a mighty big question for ting on" when he ca string a Orient Buildings, Kowloon, to Missing waters and doing daring acro-de seiumflfie folks!" few words together, with a few Ellaline Maria Conceicao Osmund, baties, they hauled out persons who "What question dat?" asked the punctuation marks dotted here "The Hut," Castle Road, Hong were being swept away.” and there, and imagine that he is Kong; Mr. Sebastiao Estevao The tragedy happened because entitled to honours in English Carvalho, No. 27, Ashley Road, first there

floor, Kowloon, to Miss

"PURE AND UNDEFILED"

In the "China Mail" yesterday

there was published an inspired

appeal for support for a branch

other.

"Kin de dead speak?"

Was not much rain at Leanor Ahmedabad, but heavy showers fell

rushed down like a tidal wave.

of the English Association here literature. Wide is the gate that Trenis Collaco, No. 12, Tung Hing up the river and the Hood waters inspired, but nevertheless well leads to a real knowledge of Eng-Road, Mongkok, Kowloon. reasoned and very ably submitted. fish, pure and undefiled, but few The writing of English, pure and indeed have an honest claim te undefiled, is the aim of all writers enter it. and readers, whether they be

All this has a bearing on what Pro- University students or fessors, whether they be school may be called the "aims and

objects of the English Associa teachers or pupils, whether they tion and on the formation of a

readers. No

be authors.or less important is the talkingbranch in Hong Kong. Its title

PENANG BISLEY POINTS IN WARREN SHIELD

COMPETITION

Penang, August 19 At the Penang Bisley yesterday

PILOT VERY DRUNK'

EXPLANATION OF AIRMAN'S DEATH

Fuasy guest: "That's a moat striking photograph of your charm- ing wife, don't you think?"

"Er-er-yes."

""And er-er the frame="

"Yes, that's struck me, too.”

A sensation has been caused by "He L ន generous," said a an official announcement by the modern flapper, praising a young New York City Toxicologist (Dr. man of her acquaintance. "He takes Alexander Goettler) that Wilmer mother and me out to dinner nearly

of English, pure and undefiled, is plain enough to be understand the European Company gained the Stultz, the famous flyer, who pilot-every week. We dote on him. In Many aim to be stylists in writ. by all. And its goal is exactly highest points in the Warren Shielded Miss Earhart across the At-fact," she added with a smile, "we"

ing.

competition.

lantic last year, and who was kill-table d'hote on him." ed in a spectacular crash with two companions was "very drunk at the time of his death."

"Bobby, if you're a good boy this of the deceased at the request of company, I'll give you a penny."

Dr. Goettler examined the organs afternoon while I'm entertaining

the authorities, and seported: "The

"A penny! Gea whiz, mother, you

Altogether six teams competed, Few aim to be stylists, in what its title conveys. One need talking. The art of letter writing not be numbered amongst the ineluding a police team..

The European Co. was first with nowadays may have fallen below ablcat Professors and learned 319 points, the Chinese Co. second. All that is with 280 and the Eurasian Co. third the standard of past decades, but literators to join. with the growth of slang and still needed is a love of the English with 210. more slang in our own and other language, a pride in writing and petition included a five-mille march stomach contained a large amount are always looking for bargains." Janguages the art of conversation speaking it as it should be covered in one hour and has fallen on very evil days. And written and spoken and a wish to minutes.--"Straits Times",

further its spread amongst the nations of the world:

Apart from shooting, the com-

fifteen

SIR R. HO TUNG

TO BROADCAST MANCHURIA

IMPRESSIONS

of alcohol, and the kidneys, liver,

and brain were largely affected by

Above them

the

waterfall

alcohol."The dead airman already had been officially declared respon sible for the crash in not having thundered down in a mightly rush- taken the usual precautions, and in ing torrent. "A pity to see all "stunting" with two young men that going to waste," remarked who were completely ignorant of one of the little party of tourists "planda,

to another who stood watching:

yet how much pleasanter to read a book written in the homely Eng lish language, free of alien words In the Orient the English and sentences, free of high-falut- language has had a very great in terms understood only by the effect in moulding public opinion, so-called “dictionary fiend" or the in helping the movement for "walking encyclopedia."

greater concord between the West Equally delightfui is it to listen and the East and in removing to a lecture or even an ordinary barriers between statesmen and cast his impressions of Manchuria drames, while officers in charge of The first speaker smiled. It rs at 7.80 on Thursday evening, the latter have declared that they was rather an artful smile. “Oh, conversation in which the speaker diplomats of every race. There - The atation call is COMK. on will discharge all pilots found no," he replied blandly; “I am a has the happy knack of conveying may be good work for a branch 420 metres. Reuter.

drinking.

demyman in rather a big way!"

Dr. Goettler's report has caused The other cordially agreed, and the authorities to start a drive added, as an afterthought: "I against all the so-called "Speak- suppose you're a civil engineer, like Sir Robert Ho Tung is to broad-easies" in the vicinity of aero-mal”

Mukden, Yesterday.