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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1930.

'Phone C. 22

FOR

CLASSIFIED

ADVERTISING

ENG

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All replies under this heading must be called for.

POSITION WANTED -

ENGLISH GIRL mailing with her family in Macedonia In March would like to get in touch with lady who needs help an voyage with chil- dren.Apply Telephone Kowloon 1309.

TO LET

TO LET 1 Large Room or Small with Full Board and washing. For Particulars apply 1, King's Terrace,

at floor, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Banjo. "Clifford Es- sex" G. Genuine Autographed Model Unused. Original Nicholls palating en Vollum. Cost $125. Sell $80 or offer, with Case and Tutor. Apply Box No. 637, c/o "China Mail."

HOME TUITION.

Within

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

MISS RUTH CULLEY

For

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

(National Frode! Higher Certificate.)

MISCELLANEOUS

TOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed. "China Mail" Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Tele. phone Central 22.

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE

BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Wares Hair, Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5 Tel. C. 5169. Opposite entrance I.K. Hotel,

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 Bolicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel. No. C. 8459. 26A, Des Vœur Road C, Hong Kong.

FOR SALE 1930 POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES FROM

Bright and Son, British Empire $2.50 Stanley Gibbous, Ltd., British

Empire

Stanley, Gibbons, Ltd., Foreign

Countries

$8.50

....15.30 Stanley Gibbons, Ltd., The World $8.50 Bcott Stamp & Coin Co., do. $4.50 Yvert and Tellier..... 'do. $4.25 Whitfeld King Co.

do. $4.00

GRÁCA & CO.,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Ra. ligious Goods, Garden Boeds, Pictorial Post Cards, Toys &c. &c.

No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620 HÙNG KONG

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

- Public Auctions-

THE Underaigned have received Instructions to sell by Publie

T

Auction

ON FRIDAY, February 7, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

Comprising:-

Tenk Desks, Glass Cabinets, Typewriters, Iron. Safe, Glass Cabinet, Tapestry Covered Arm- chairs, Couches, Pianos, Gramo. phones and Records, Carpets. Rugs. Electric Heaters (220 and 10 Volta), Porcelain Ware, Brass Ornaments, Pictures, etc.

Teak Extension Dining Tables, Teak and Cane Seat Chairs, Side- boards, Dianer Waggone, Glass Ware, Cooking Utensils, Teak Round Tablea, Ice Chests, etc.

Teak and Iron Bedsteads with Mattresses, Single and Double Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw ers, Linen, Washstands, Toilet Crockery, Chamber Stands, etc.

and

A Quantity of NICE BLACKWOOD FURNITURE Including:-

Cabinets, Chairs, Flower Stands, Joss Table, Tea Poys, etc.

and

One Herring Hall Marvin Safe. On View from Thursday, Febru- | ary G, 1930.

Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneera Hong Kong February 4, 1930.

NEW SILK STORE JUST OPENED.

"MAKE YOUR PURCHASES

THROUGH

TAJMAHAL

SILK

STORE

No. 5, Flower Street Opposite China Mail

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OUR SPECIAL PRICES

FOR

NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED

ست

All colours Fuji silk ..@ 75 cts. All colours Spun Crepe

@ $1.60 a yd. All colours Georgette crepe

NOTICES.

THE

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.

W

CHINA MAIL.

NOTICES.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

FRIN that the ORDINARY YEAR-

A limited number of reserved scats are being provided at $1 cach. Tickets may be obtained at the Pavilion.

THE UNPOPULAR MENNONITES

WEATHER and GROUND per-: BANKING CORPORATION WESTERN CANADA OPPOSED TO

mitting, Matches have been TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

BEING SANCTUARY arranged to take place DAY. February 7, commencing at LY MEETING of the SHARE- REFEREES FROM EUROPE 3 p.m. between Messrs. HARADA HOLDERS in this Corporation and 'SATO (Davis Cup Players) will be held at City Hall, Hong Western Canada will no longer and Messrs. M. W. LO, S. A. and Kong, on SATURDAY, the 22nd be a sanctuary for European re- H. D. RUMJAHN.

February, 1930, at 11.30 a.m. for fugees, This conclusion may be the purpose of receiving_the_Re-drawn from the reluctance of the port of the Board of Directors Prairie Provinces to accept 6,000 together with a Statement of Ac-Mennonites, now in difficulties in counts for the year ending 91st Russia, as settlers. The Mennonites, December, 1929.

a religious sect, are people of Ger- The Register of Shares of the man and Dutch descent whose ape TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC, Corporation will be CLOSED from cestors migrated to Russia 'in the MONDAY, the 10th February, to eighteenth century. There are al- Saturday, the 22nd February, 1930 ready about 30,000 of them in (both days inclusive), during Canada. Industrious and peaceable which period no transfer of shares but clannish, they live apart in col can be registered.

onies and seldom intermarry with other groups.

LONDON.

LOCAL EXAMINATIONS, MAY, 1930.

THEORY AND PRACTICAL.

ENTRY

пож

NTRY FORMS are

ready and may be had from the Focal Secretary, Wm. ANDERSON, c/o Ander-

son Music Co., Ltd., St. George's Building, Ice House Street.

HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY

ANNUAL SHOW

at

CITY HALL

6TH MARCH.

Keep the date free and

come to the Show

THE SOMERSET LIGHT| INFANTRY GYMKHANA at STEEPLECHASE COURSE, KWANTI.

SUNDAY, 9th February, 1930.

FIRST RACE 2.30 p.m. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ADMISSION FREE.

Special Train leaves Kowloon, 1 p.m. Return 6.27 p.m.

PRICES:

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. C. HYNES,

Chief Managor. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1930.

Without Precedent

Early in November the German Government informed Canada that 1,000 Mennonite familles, about 6,000 souls all told, were encamped outside Moscow and threatened with deportation to Siberia. Robert THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY,Forke, Minister of Immigration In the Federal Cabinet, at once sought LIMITED.

the views of Western governments, This in itslef was an action with- out precedent. Fifteen or oven five

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN years ago there would have been Nthat the THIRTY-SECOND would have been let in as a matter no such consultation. The refugees ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of course on the principle that im- of this Company will be held at migration is always and Inevitably the Office of Messrs. Jardine, blessing. Mr. Forke took account Matheson & Co., Ltd., on FRIDAY, of the fact that the prevalling mood the 14th February, 1990, at 11.00 in Western Canada about the bene- a.m., for the purpose of receiving fits of immigration is scepticism. the Report of the Directors to-

The replies he got were adverse. gether with a Statement of Ac-Mr. Forke addressed particularly counts for the year ended 31st Premier Anderson of Saskatchewan, December, 1929,

in which Province nearly half of the The Register of Shares of the Canadian Mennonites live. Mr. An- Company will be CLOSED from derson showed no enthusiasm and Friday, the 7th February, 1930, to his cold response expresses accur Friday, the 14th February, 1930, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1930.

ately the feeling of the majority.

BRITISH

Their shadows never grow less

There is no "fading away" of either shape or shade with shirts and pyjamas of 'Viyella 'fine twill flannel. They can be worn out-comfort. ably and economically worn out-by the most particular man. The luxury of the smooth- surfaced, protective,non-irritant material endures even under crude native washings. And because Viyella radiates as well as absorbs excess moisture from the skin--it is just as comfortable in hot as in cold weather.

'Fizelta' la evailable da distimasion strías, and slain colours for De Shirts and Pajamas.......... in plain cream for tenis, and khaki fee ** country” Ad in oerima wright.

"Viyella

From First-class Stores throughout China and the East

BE SURE 10 SEE NAME "Viyalov Vivela

DETACHABLE SELVEDGE LABELS EVERY YARD OR SO 1 difficulty'

Opposed on Economic Grounds The day is past in Western Cana- da when homesteads, 160-acre grants of free land, can be had within easy reach of town and rail- way. The only homesteads loft are either poor land or out of the way. New settlers must therefore be pre- pared to buy farms, or to work ds INCREASED SAFETY feared, would not be financially able quarters. Every effort was made

farm hands. The Mennonites, It is

IN FLYING

STRIKING FIGURES: FEWEST DEATHS SINCE 1921

SLOTTED WINGS

to buy, and the short crops of 1920 have brought the demand for farm labour down to a minimum. On economic grounds, therefore the proposed migration is opposed, Other factors were just as potent in shaping the public reaction. It is Asked whether the Mennonites are A striking decrease in the num- in trouble in Russia because of ber of accidents to Reyal Air Force refusal to do military service, to aircraft has resulted from the end their children to school, or for standardization on all British ser some other resistance to law. In vice machines of the Handley Page that event, it is said, they would be alotted wing safety device. The unacceptable as settlers. figures for 1929 are the lowest for In the face of this unfavourable eight years. The number of malic there was only one line open to response by the Saskatchewan pub-

tion of a few of the better resi dences, hygienle and sanitary conditions in Manila were very, very crude. American troops were scattered throughout the city, most of them in fairly good

to improve, as far as possible, the sanitary conditions then ob taining.

of the

Water Supply One of the most important items In the subsistence Army is water supply and as quickly as possible arrangements were made

to sterilise all the water necessary for the troops for their subsistence, drinking purposes, cooking, &c. · During the months of December and January, with the exception of an epidemic of small-pox through- there was no perceptible increase out the city among the natives, of tropical discases among the troops.

A

central vaccination

chines in the R.A.F. in 1922 was 870, and there were 34 fatal ma-Premier Anderson. He replied that chine accidents and 51 deaths. In Saskatchewan could not take the 1929 with more than 800 machines, 5,000 Mennonites, although it might | station was provided, the vaccine or more than double the number, accept a lesser number in parties, being propagated from healthy there were only 31 fatal machine Provided they would give a strict young carabao, and vaccination accidents and 42 deaths. This is pledge to obey Canadian laws and against small-pox became univer- convincing proof that the slotted would be looked after by their com- sal throughout the entire com-

patriots already in the Dominion. |wing gives safety in the air.

mand. Strict regulations were Compared with some of the worst

enforced throughout all the gar- years, such as 1926, the 1929 figures

rison to provide the troops with proper food, keeping their quar- In 1926 the R.A.F. consisted of 61

tere perfectly clean, with special attention to bathing and the dis- position of garbage and other re- fuse.

double width..@ $1.30 a yd. $1.40, 1st class Return.thow an even more striking decline.

All colours crepe de chine

double width..@ $2.25 a yd. 90 Cts., 2nd class Return. squadrons, or about 700 machines.

All colours Brocade Silk

@from $1.50 a yd. All colours Brocade silk @

from $1.50 a yd.

Crepe de chine emb'd Under-

wear (3 pcs.) @...$15.00 Crepe de chine emb'd ladies*

Pyjamas Washing silk shirts

@ $7.50 @ $3.00

Washing silk Pyjamas .@ $6,00

Fancy coloured crepe de

+

@ $11.00

chine Pyjamas Colton Pyjamas

..@ $2.00 Crepe de chine necktie with

handkerchief to match

@ $2.50

AND ALL SHADES Kayser stocking Interwoven Plain and Fancy Suk

Socks

Plain and fancy cotton crepe in all colours Plain and fancy cotton kimonos in all colours SHAWLS, KIMONOS, HOURI COATS, AND MANY OTHER FANCY GOODS ALWAYS IN STOCK.

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor, to

the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street, TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

REALISTIC

The = realistic Method

together 'newinn, kéw

"winding" the haft, *From

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more natural

Arrange TO-DAY to Kavá

TROJAN

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Automobile Dist

litar

FOOL PROOF

There were 54 fatal machine accid- ents and 85 deaths, that is 43 deatha more than in 1929.

EARLY DAYS

Experiences of Chief Surgeon

[By Henry F. Hoyt, M.D.) If must be remembered that every At the beginning of the Spanish year the speeds of R.A.F. machines War, I was commissioned Major have increased, and; therefore, and Chief Surgeon of Volunteers other things being equal, the risks and in the fall of '98 was order of flying them.

ed to the Philippines for duty A subsidiary cause of the reduced special orders from the Secretary death-rate is the fitting of:

of War. I arrived on December parachutes to all Service aeroplanes 13, 1898, and was at once assign (though not to seaplanes and flying ed as Chief Surgeon on the Staff boats).

Parachutes have in all

✓

These conditions obtained until the outbreak of the Insurrection which occurred on the night of February 4, 1899. February 5 the battle was continued.

Most

of the Army, with the exception of the Provost Guard, advanced In the direction of the enemy

around the entire city..

Insanitary Conditions the advent

Before

3

of the

were away were vary

anved about 30 lives in the RAF of the late Lt. General Arthur. During 1929 alone they saved 16 MacArthur whose headquarters Americans, the general sanitary

were 145 General Solano, Manila, ¦ conditions of · Manila par. Streets the palatial home of Admiral (-below. Montojo.

dirty, the systems of collecting At that period, with the excep- and disposing of

lives.

A Psychological Factor

It is thought that there may also be a psychological explanation for the improvement Pilots are now trained more slowly and carefully and are led to regard flying as part of a definite profession rather than as an amusing sport. They are less

TROUBLE inclined to take unnecessary risks

PROOF

SHEAFFER'S

PENS AND PENCILS

Sole Distributors:

and they have ceased to admire the recklessness of some of the war- time pilots.

The statistice for 1929 which have been quoted above include the accident to the R'A.F. long distance monoplane which' resulted in the | deaths of Squadron Leader Jones- Williams and Flight Lieutenant Jenkins,

Before the RA.F. had settled down to a peace-time establishment the accidents figures were higher | than at any subsequent date. In

THE SUN CO., LTD. 1019 there were 188 fatal machine

Drive a Trusty "TRIUMPH"

accidents and 180 deaths. But there were many more machines in service at that date, so that, ne direct comparison can be mande.

Complaints that low-flying aero-- plande caused unnecessary Injury and suffering to sheep hy frighten-

ing them were made by the pre Lident of the National Farmers" Union be the Royal Commission on

BUT.

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Wash Away

That Itch

With a Penetrating Antiseptic NOW JUG CEN sap burning. Nehing stio torture, Apstr the pu

LAVUL, ETCHING .TD

TOP INTO HEHES siments per

tale the skin and soothe the visated i Lisand, piantes, sicura, Jhaben, all forms of silin Trouble quickly Field to the famous antiapelo

LAVONO akto and sealy bath,

De Mallor

and sold by all good druzziata.

FL, Maxi-henghas

KASHMIR SILK STORE

for

EXCLUSIVE STOCKS

of

SILK

and

SILK GOODS

ם

Opposite Queen's Theatre.

The ORIENTAL BOOKS of LOVE

The KAMA SUTRA, of Valsysyan. Price: 3 Dollars ANANGA RANGA, The Hinda

Art of Love.

Price: Dallara

The PERFUMED GARDEN.

Price Dollars

Adzīress orders to:

LERAIRIE "ASTRA”

12, Rue de Chalesi · PARIS (10)

other refuss matter were of the

garbage and crudest. Malaria, one of the

"I wish I hadn't ate that salad, It's really made me look quite pallid. My whole interior's

all aquake...

What a difference

PINKETTES make!”.

Jaxal

PINKETTES

KEEP YOU WELL.

OBTAINABLE FROM: CHEMISTS EVERYWHERE

most common of tropical diseases, was very prevalent and in the. course of time all sick reports showed quite an increase of this." disease among the troops. At that time the real спиво of malarla had not been discovered and our men were treated for this trouble by what would now be considered old-fashioned methods. I accompanied General Mac- Arthur, after his division left the city, throughout the entire cam- paign against the insurgents to San Fernando, Pampanga, and from that time had nothing at all to do with the health and sanita- tion conditions in the city.

I returned to the States “În 1902.

I returned to the Philippines after an absence of 29 years and am simply astounded at the ad- vance and progress that I find in 'your now beautiful city, in every direction and in every way, As I drive around your beautiful avenues in every direction I can ́scarcely realise that this in-the same city-Manila Bulletiò:

[Dr. Hoyt was a'recent visitor to Hong Kong, when he acclaimed the Colony's roads to a China Mali Ten presentative. “His book, A Fronting Doctor is expected to be one ́locally at an early date.]