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TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE RAPID CHANGE the civilising effects of the Chris-"PLEASURE CRAZED”

IN AFRICA

tian missions. Mistakes have made, but the magnitude of the real service is out of all comparison to those incidental mistakes.. Mis-:

AT QUEEN'S

GEN. SMUTS ON LIVINGSTONE:sionary enterprise, with its univer-VOICE PRODUCTION MINUTELY

SENSELESS SLAUGHTER

WILD FAUNA

at

CLEAR

CLASSIC DANCERS

Marguerite

Churchill deserves very high praise for her leading part in "Pleastire Crazed," the Fox talkie which was shown for the first time at the Queen's Theatre yester- day and will be repeated to-day and to-morrow.

sal Christian message and its vast educative and civilising effort, is jand remains the greatest and most powerful influence for good in General Smuts, delivering a lec-Africa. The missionary, the trader, ture on "Livingstone and After" to the traveller, the railway builder the Royal Scottish Geographical the labour recruiter, and the soldier Society Glasgow, recently, have wrought vast changes in anid:-

Africa since Livingstone's day. He When in the near future the great was the first, the greatest, and the monument arises near the Victoria most beneficent of the new forces Falls it will commemorate not only for change and progress.

Both technically and artistically, the supreme African explorer, but Africa is to-day on the move in it is a fine production. also the heroic liberator of Africa all directions, and its ancient parison some of the earlier dialogue By com from its oldest scourge the stave quietude is profoundly disturbed. films which met with approval now trade, the curse which has pro-Yet one hopes that whatever de-appear, in recollection, to be crude, bably caused more bloodshed and velopments may be in store for it, Hurdly any fault can be found with sullering on that continent than it will preserve some of the old "Pleasure Crazed." any other in all its history. It characteristics which have consti- to conceive tuled its perennial charm in the wȧukl bu Hilliqult higher double honours for any past. And beyond the human in- single man. 'To Livingstone there habitants there will remain, une did not come the happy conscious hopes for centuries to come, the ness of succcan, but too often the wild animals which make this con- of failure, of labouring tinent so attractive to the lover of against impossible odds. What was nature. I look forward to the time worse, he soon realized to his hor when the rage for destruction will

sense

Half a dozen or so in the cast-

names not previously made in the realm of the cinema-also give polished portrayal of not too easy parts. unusual mamer, the photography is The plot is treated in an good and the voice reproduction is minutely clear.

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January 17-Hong Kong Autoraco- HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE fic Assen. dinner-dance, Peninsula

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. January 17-Taikoo Club An-TTIS EXCELLENCY THE GOV- ERNOR, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., will preside at the CONSTITUENT MEETING to be held in the City Hall, on TUES. DAY, JANUARY 21, 5 pm.

Dinner, Hong Kong Hotel, 8 p.m.

January 18-Old Tonbridgian

January 18-Honourable Com- pany of Master Mariners' 'Dinner of s.s. Haiching, Hong Kong Hotel, to Capt. O. H. Farrar and officers 8 p.m.

Entertainments To-day Queen's "Pleasure Crazed."

To-day -Star Veiled Woman."

Today World

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interested are invited to attend.

Ladies and gentlemen who are

The Business of the Meeting will be to adopt a constitution for Theatre,

a Society for the Protection of Children and to elect officers and Theatre, General and Executive Committees. Theatre,

"Cabaret Nights."

To-day Majestic Theatre;

January 16-Star Theatre, "La Boheme" (Italian Opera), 9:15 p.m. January 17 Star Theatre, "Rigoletto" (Italian Opera); 9.15

ror that he was anwittingly ahave disappeared, when the senad-

Acrobatic Poses poteat means of facilitating the less slaughter of the wild fauna

Also in- the programme are slave trade. For he discovered will be as criminal and contrary Bakhmann and Olga Vorobieva: routes which the slave-drivers had to public opinion as cruelty to Their acrobatic poses (in the not ventured to open up them humans, and when those who love flesh) were deservedly applauded selves, but which they were only the wilds and their shy denizens as дв urt out of the "Don Q." too enger to follow up in the wako and intimate ways will come from ordinary-at least in the part of Livingstone. It was a tragedy all parts of the earth to find ee of

the world-and Bakhmann's that the slave trade extended its and refreshment in the wilds of physical exhibition, in which he terrible ravages on a large seale, Africa.

brought remarkably developed both on the Zambesi and in the in the stress and strain of muscles into play, lent useful con- ares of the Lakes, as a direct re-civilization the nervous tension of trast, sult of discoveries.

high culture, and the nervous fric- But there are four. other items in But in spite of appearances theftion of our Industrial system, the programme. The overture is -end was near, and within a littlo Africa will be a place of refuge, ajup to the high standard maintained more than a decade of Livingstone's temple set apart where the human by the Queen's; the news reel covers death the slave trade had been spirit can

more practise a diversity once

of subjects from practically exterminated by Powers on the African continent. and quietude. Afrien, in spite of monks in Mongolia; The Capitolians the nature worship and enjoy pence "Tommy Atkins" in training to It is sad to think that its last reail changes, will still remain Africa, furnish expert band musle; and a fuge is with the only independent and its most distinctive features darkie singer appears in a high-cless native State in Eastern Africa, and among the continents will continue song number. one can only hope that the League to be its untamed wildness, its

of Nations, of which that State is a member, will not tolerate this situation much longer.

The Old Order Has Gone The result of the war so far as Africa was concerned was a re- partition under the mandate system. which I had suggested as both a

aloofness and solitude, and its mysterious, eerie, brooding spirit.

POLICE RESERVE

check and an advance on the old Orders For The Current

policy of colonial annexation. But

Week

to Africa the war meant something far more serious than a fresh par- Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. tition. Africa has at last been Wolfe. C.M.G.. Inspector-General of roused from her historic slumbers. Palice, state- We are confronted with a new situation all over Africa, partly as

Chinese Company Chinese New Year Holidays. All

a result of the experiences through parades and instructional classes for which the natives passed in the members of the Chinese Company are Great War, and partly as the result suspended from 13th inst., until after of the rapidity with which almost the Chinese New Year Holidays. revolutionary changes have super-

Indian Company vened on the old order in Africa. Company are reminded of the parado Parade.-All, ranks of the Indian After speaking of the compara to be held at Police Headquarters under tive ease of travel in Africa to-day P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt to-day at and of mining in Southern Africa 5.30 p.m. skerp.

as another potent factor for changoj

in progress, General Smuts pró-

Flying Squad

The weekly instructional patrol of the

in at the Taim-tas-tsui

"CABARET NIGHTS"

"Cabaret Nights," a beautiful Ger- man production, began its three- days run at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, yesterday.

The entire film is enacted by an

all-German cast, typically selected.

The story unfolds-the-foolishness of a well-cultured girl in joining

p.m.

Home Mail To-morrow-Outward for: America via Vancouver and ports, Europe and Europe via Siberia (Empress

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of Canada), 10a.m.

To-morrow-Fanling Hunt and Race Club Hounds Meet, Sheung Shut Cross Roads, 3.45 p.m.

To-morrow. Entries close for Open Chess Championship.

January 18-Entries Close for Hong Kong C.C. Tennis ments.

Tourna-

Meetings To-day Council meeting of Football Assen, French Bank Bldg., 5.30 pm.

To-morrow-Sandakan Light and a cheap way-side cabaret, and how Power Co. (1922) she repented it, when her father ordinary meeting), St. George's Ltd. (extra-

appeared in the room where the Building, 12.30 p.m. Aimsily clad dancer was making To-morrow-Rife League Meet-

and the acting is of a high standard. the best of it.

ing Volunteer Headquarters, 5.30 The scenes throughout are pretty p.m. John Liedtke; Betty Bird and for the Protection of Children, etc., La Janc are in the featured roles. City Hall, 5 p.m.

FRENCH PIANIST

Coming To Orient This Year

January, 21 Meating for Society

February 11-Forty-accond Gen- eral meeting of Shareholders of Hong Kong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd.. at Messrs. Jardine's 12.30 p.m.

January

Miscellaneous

16- Stephen's School Speech Day, 3 p.m.

Girls'

"ceeded:-Now in the heart of Kowloon Section will take place to-day. Southern Africa immense copper Fall

Mr. E. Robert Schmitz, the fields have been discovered and are Fire Brigade Station at 5.15 p.m. renowned French pianist, who will Hong Kong Jockey Club annual January 18-Entries close for being opened up in the Katanga sharp, Dress-Winter uniform and tour the Orient this year, was race meeting, 8 p.m. and Northern Rhadesin. In the cap with white cover.

The weekly instructional patrol of

born in Paris in 1889. His study January 21-Public. lecture at countries where the lonely Living the Hong Kong Section will take place of violin and piano began at the Helena May Institute on "Gothic| stone wandered, not far from the on Friday. Fall in at lake where he died, a vast network Police Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. playing both instruments in public

age of ten. At fourteen, he was Art" by Father Finn. the Contral of mines is arising, the effect of Dress-Winter uniform and cap with concerts. which on the future of African de-White cover.

At eighteen he entered the Conservatoire in both classes velopment must be immense.

This will mean

hut was forced to give up the violin a large white Addresses and Telephone Numbers. a little later. On his graduation in mining population in the heart of All members are reminded that any 1910, he won the first prize and Africa, and this again will bring change in their business or private ad- thereupon toured Europe as a con- about agricultural settlement on a dress or telephone number should be re-cert planist for a few years. large scale on the fertile highlandsported at once to the O. e. Company.

of Eastern Africa. A great labour) force will have to be recruited from

Congo,

the

Northorn Rhodesia, Angola, and Nyassaland to do the rough mining work. What the Wit- watersrand has meant fartheri

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FROM THE JUNGLE

Short-wave

SHANGHAI COURT

Foreign Proposals Brought Up

'Nanking, Yesterday. His friendship and collaboration with men of calibre of Debussy, Court Re-organisation Conference Four meetings of the Shanghai Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Dukas, Ravel, have been held this week, on Tues- Milhaud and many others through day, Thursday,

and out Europe bespeak his thorough Saturday.

Friday At the Friday! apprectiation of that which is valu-meeting, the Chinese delega- able in the works of the moderns tion brought up a counter- to mean for the development of transmitted by Mr. Hinds for Major his appearance as conductor, sollat

wireless messages His versatility was emphasised by proposal and expiained the points South and Central Africa. It is C. Court-Treatt, the British ex- and lecturer on

therein. At the Saturday meeting, therefore not difficult to appreciate plorer, from a portable Marconi gramme. that great changes are coming and equipment in the wilds of Sudan, that the old order in Southern have been received as far afield as Africa is definitely going.

south this copper field may come

The new situation will present difficult social

the United States of America.

Pitching their camps in the least and political known parts of the Western Sudan, problems of the contact between Major and Mrs.

Court-Treatt and

the same prothe Chinese and foreign proposals were carefully compared And examined. The conference wil meet again on the afternoon of January 16.

JUBILEE SINGERS

American Group to Visit the Orient

The release of Chinese nationals detained in Russia during late Sino- Russian dispute was ordered by the Soviet Authorities on January 1. The Foreign Ministry is making The most outstanding group of arrangements with the German

the old and the new which will tax Mr. Hinds were able to maintain the statesmanship of this and the communication with Sudan Govern coming generations to the full. Iment wireless stations throughout black and white in Africa, while their twelve months travels in the coloured singers of the present day Government to have German Diplo faithful to themselves, can manage to evolve a plan according to which jungle, where they were making the is the verdict of the public and matic Consular Agents in Russia they can jointly develop the repede."

British Instructional FUm "Stam music critics who have heard the to look after Chinese nationals' ins sources of this continent a great

Utica Jubilee Singers in their pro- terest, prior to the return of Chi- service will be rendered for the with London through the Govern- plantation melodies and folk songs. News Agency.

Thus they were in regular touch gramme of Negro apirituale, old nese officials to Russia Canton ment stations and on a number of In July, 1927, they aalled ", to

future of the human race.

I have stressed the mine develop occasions their transmissions, on Europe. Beginning with London ment in Southern Africa; an even more important agricultural ad-wave-length of approximately 30 they gave 25 concerts, including vance is being made farther north matres, were heard at a distance of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Copenhagen, throughout Central Africa in lands more than 5,000 miles in Detroit, Budapest, Brealau, and Vichy.

Bachusetts.at

RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' BONUS

Canton, Yesterday. Following an order from the and returned for two return engage cognising the past merits of the

which in Livingstone's day were Michigan, and Boston, Mas They gave seven concerts in London Ministry of Communications, re- which was practically negligible. The wireless transmitter used ments In Paris and Berlin. They personnet of the Tuet Han Bail

mostly terra Incognita, with a trade

apart from slavery,

...

was a specially designed Marcop! were broadcast from London, Berway, the rallway employees were It is probable that. In another set of extremely small power and lin, Frankfort and Paris. So well given a bonus of one month's generation British Africa may weight, the power being supplied by were they received that they are to salary Canton News Agency. with wire handling, and proper turning the handle of a small return for another series of

stimulus, become as important à electrical generator.

factor for British trade as India Itself. There will be immense tropical production, and there will

corresponding ma

GUNBOAT ARRIVES

Canton, Testerday.

A report received by the Naval stater that the gunboat Fook at Hainan on January unboater - On

nation

reached.

New

engesgements afterward going to fulfil the engagements in Egypt and the Orient, including Hong Kong.

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