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APRIL 22, 1930.

TUESDAY,

'Phone C. 22

FOR.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-Are Words three inser- tions, prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertiona.

All replies under this heading must be called for..

TO LET

TO LET-Two six-roomed European

GENERAL NOTICES

HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL. | :

TH

THE

FAMILY TRAGEDIES OF CHINA.

THE LAYING of the Founda- THE FILIAL SON WHO FOLLOWED

tion Stone of the War

HIS MOTHER. Memorial Nursing Home by Mrs. W. T. Southorn will take place on THURSDAY, April 24, 1930, at 41

p.m.

CHINA MAIL.

with the unmarried daughter of the Заорал.

Communist Horrors.

A Chinese, who has got away from a communist-ridden district not far from Hankow tells a gruesome story of some

executions which the communista car- ried out. The men sentenced were not killed outright,, but a rope was loosely ROATMEN AND BRIGANDS.

knotted yound the neck of each. Two men took the lasse ends of a rope and Hankow, April 10. one would yell, "Come to my house," Cards of Invitation have been

Family affection of the most intense at the same time jerking the prisoner sent to all Subscribers, and the kind is still to be found in Chinese in his direction. The other would re- public are cordially invited to be homes. In a little house outside Han-ply, "No, come to me." and jerk the yang a family named Yu has lived for victim back. This would go on at inter. present.

many years. The matriarch had reach- vala till life was all but extinct and ed the age of 80 years, and was loving then the communists would pull simul. ly tended by her son of 60., The pataneously and finish the torture. It triarch died over 60 years ago and, ever the detailed story of these days is though he had married and had sons, written, the reader will have more the chief thought of this market-gar-horrors than he can stand." dener was for his mother. It is said that from his youth on he had never gone to sleep till his mother assured him that she was settled for the night,

By Order of the Committee. LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Secretaries Hong Kong, 17th April, 1930,

style Houses, electric fight, flush sys- LAMMERT BROS.At the recent festival he went with his

tem, gas, use of garage and tennis court. Real by arrangement, about $200 to $250 depending on whether furnished and which house is taken. Apply Dr. C. M. Heaney, Mount Davis Gap

TO LET.No. 5, Dragon Terrace. Causeway Bay, 1st, 2nd and 3rd foors. Each flat has three bed rooms, dining room, servants' quarters, kit- chen, bath room, and water closets, Saitable for Europeans. Apply Clark & Iu, 10, Des Voeux Road C

GODOWN TO LET.

A GODOWN at Whitfield Road con- sisting about 2,600 sq. ft. next to Kwong Sang Hong Glass Factory. Please apply to Kwong Sang Hong, Ltd.

WANTED.

WANTED-Immediately, an experi- enced and qualified. teacher of mathe- matics. Apply Headmistress, Di- cesan Girls' School

-WANTED-The United. Directory of Canton, Hong Kong & Macao for the yene 1930-1931 will be issued soon. Thone who wish to advertise in the said Directory are requested to apply Sze Hing & Co., China Building.

POSITION WANTED

TUITION

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

AND SURVEYORS.

– Public Auctions -

THE

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction

_ON... WEDNESDAY, April 23, 1930, commencing, at I am.

at No. 231, Nathan Road, 1st Floor (Kowloon). A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers

Hong Kong, April 18, 1930.

TH

HE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Publie Auction

ON

FRIDAY. April 25, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Room,

Duddell Street.

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Comprising:

wore

Ímother and others on the annual visit to the grave of his father some little way off in the country. the party were returning towards dusk they suddenly stopped by robbers. Some started to run, and the robbers fired, killing the old lady on the spot. flaving taken what little the party had the villains decamped, and then Yu car ried home the dead body of his mother. He told his wife that he would watch by it all night, and when she woke in the morning he was lying dead by his

mother's side.

+

Some days ago a man lunded in Han- koy who had made the journey from South China to hunt for a brother of

whom the family had not heard for

some time. The brother was not to e found at the place where he was supposed to be, and the stranger wan dering on the streets was robbed of the 327 he had with him. He tried begging and failed to get enough to keep himself alive: So he hanged him self from a beam in a passageway the day before yesterday. Fortunately a policeman cut him down in time and he was handed to the Cantonese Guild, who will send him back his home. The strange thing is that he did not seek out the Guild sooner. for it is wonderful how these provincial Guilds maintain their old system of charity.

Great Knife and Big Knife. It is strange, to think that the Great Knife Society has its agency

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JAPAN OF TO-DAY.

Magic Recovery of Tokyo.

[By J. H. Penlington.]

Compared with the' Great Fire of London, the area destroyed was twenty times larger; compared with that of Chicago It was fou times larger; and compared with that of San Francisco it was threa times larger. So far Bs loss of:

Was concerned it Was property thirty-seven times bigger than Lon den, twelve bigger than Chicago, and five times bigger than Sar Francisco.

No fewer than 1,484,000 people were rendered homeless-that is, 59 per cent, of the population-for the dwellings destroyed numbered 366,000 and the other buildings 219,000, The total property loss was competently estimated at 3,700,000,000 yen. The earthquake and fre continued with varying violence for days,

At the first shock all means of communication were cut off: the trams stopped and were burned in the trucks; the streets honved like the sent, as if some great dragon were underneath; the peo- Tokyo, March 20.

ple ran about in panie, falling on The Emperor of Japan, on Mon- their knees and rising, again to day next, is to make a forinal tour fall; buildings that stood were like through what may be regarded as knock-kneed, or bow-legged mea, his new capital, so completely their fronts bulging out or bent in, changed is it, in its main aspects, a truly remarkable spectacle; the from the irregular, insanitary ill stagnant air of a hot summer's day paved and lighted city of pre-trekking outwards, were hundreds. was filled with dust and smoke; and earthquake days.

1923

In one respect the calamity of was a blessing in disguise. which would have taken many years It made possible improvements

to effect in the normal way.

Fire most laid waste the central and valuable areas of the city, al- most half of the total, but in- comparably the greater half.

The Imperial Government and city au- thorities acted with magic prompti- tude.

The city was still enveloped in a pall of black smoke, at night-time the sky a vivid red, when the greatest decisions in Japan's his tory

were taken. There was # strong opinion, soon overruled, in favour of restoring Kioto's ancient prestige as the Imperial capital in An area comparatively free of

of thousands of hapless people, could secure, carrying what they destined to live for days and weeks in the outer Darks and on the roadsides.

Vanished Fans and Lanterns. The celebration of reconstruction will ba a great national and muni-)

The sum expended in cipal event. seven years of unremitting labour exceeds 1,000,000,000 yen. for foundation work alone (street widening and paving). Part of

a Government grant"| this sum was falling upon the taxpayers, but the city has to face a heavy bill which fa an obligation of the citizens of to-morrow, for to-day the Muni- cipality of Tokyo is unable to meet its obligations to the Imperial Government for money borrowed.

there in Hankow, and yet such is the earthquake, for it is notorious that Early plans had put 3,500,000,000

Tokyo is in the very centre of the

volcanic zone and is never free from tremors.

Within few days the Reitera- tion Commission was appointed with great powers. Soldiers were put to work bombing the founda- tions of ruined buildings, erecting miles of shacks in parks and all open spaces, and preparing the ground for the new city.

case according to the vernacular Press. A large cargo beat on its way dawn river was held up a little below Teak and Glass Cabinets, Glass Shayang by pirates who demanded the YOUNG ENGLISHMAN. (employed) | Bookenses, Cottage Planos, Gramo-payment of $500 before was allowed seeks other employment. Willing to phones, Records, Desks, Chester to proceed on ita way to Hunkow. The accept any kind of Position. Excel- field Couches and Armchairs, aupan luat no money with hin with lent Refs. Salary no object. Please

"China Typewriters, Wardrobe Trunks, which to meet this demand, so he pro- Reply Box No. 543, c/o

Electric Table Lamps, Pictures, se payment in Hapkow and was Mall,"

allowed to procved. On arrival here he Carpets, Rugs, Curios, Ornaments, reported the treatment he had received etc.

to the local representative of the Big Teak and Iron Bedsteads with Knife Society, of which he was a mem Mattresses, Teak Double and her, and asked for protection on his AND MANDARIN Single Wardrobes with Mirrors, way back, for he had no intention of

of Drawers, LANGUAGE and characters TAUGHT Chests

Dressing paying the money, The day before by Mr. SHIU. Special nates and books. Tables, Toilet Crockery, Iron yesterday, while the boat was still 'moor. Twenty-three years' experience. Rapid Safes, Linen, Washstands, Hat- ed in the ins, three men in uniforms

Specia! explana- progress ensured.

came on to the boat to collect the pro- tions in English given to beginners. stands, etc.

Teak Dining Tables, Diningmised dollars. The laopan passed word Particular coaching in pronunciation.

First class refer Chairs, Ice Chests, Teak Side: the river police for help and the three to the Big Knives and they called on Terms, moderate.

at boards, Dinner Waggons, Dinner members of the pirate band were ar- and No. 16. Wyndham Crockery. Glass Ware, Electric rested. It is said that with the 'per Table Fans, Vases, Box Couch, mission of the river police two of them etc.

were killed and thrown into the river and

and only the third hel! in custody That the boating population is being driven to protect itself is shown from

CANTONESE

Numerous

ences,

examinations.

Street, Top Flour.

successes

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER-STEVENAGE.

Within

In healthy an hour from London. neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE. Including:-

Joss Tables, Chairs, Jardinieres,

received in the House of the Principal. Cabinets, Ten Poys, Optum Stools For etc. Individual care and attention.

Particulats apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local). Camb. Teachers: Diploma).. MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate.)

MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and -promptly printed. "China Mal

Office, No. 3A,, Wyndham St. Tele- phone Central 22.

Also

One Indian Motor Cycle. On View from Thursday, April 24, 1930.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, April 18, 1930.

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE

BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves, Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen.

Pedder Bldg. 1st Bour. Room $ Tel. C. 5169.

Opposita entrance H.K. Hatel.

KASHMIR SILK STORE

for.

EXCLUSIVE STOCKS

of

SILK

and

SILK GOODS

Opposite Queen's Theatre.

PHOTO - SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras.

Films, Plates and Papors, etc. Developing, Printing and

Enlarging. ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderater

A Trial Order is Solicited.

SEK & CO.

Tel. No. C. 3459. 264 Des Voeux Road C.

d. Hong Kon

JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE

Fine Assortment of ̈ LOOSE- LEAF STAMP ALBUMS with spring back and patent: atopa. from 32 to $22, each.

GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stamps, Post Cards Garden Seeds,

10. WYNDHAM STREET,

PO. Box No. 620, HONG KONG

the fact that last Monilay fair-sized

best coming down the Han" was at tacked, the laopan was Killed, the crew

were put ashore, and the pirates went off with the boat and its cargo and

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system,

The Earthquake's Toll The plan of reconstruction com- prised the widening and straighten ng of the main streets, the com- pletion of the sewerage the "oning" of the city, the set facture. commerce, ting apart of districts for manu and residence. buildings.

the insistence on fireproof

Reforms It would have been

futile to attempt in ordinary cir cumstances were easily possible in an áren of many square miles, with

little standing but stark masonry, walls, and thousands of iron sales, indicating where progerous basi ness houses had stood fox days carlier.

as the sen (about £350,000,000) cost of the re-construction, but it was soon realised that this lavish outlay was out of the question..

• Tokyo's most striking change is in the new alignment of streets, or, rather, the planning of streets, for they were nover planned foundation a little over four hun.: originally. The city from its

dred years ago grew anyhow in a in this being naphazard way, characteristically Japanese. How

the entertaining blography of Sir it struck the foreigner appears in Edmund Hornby, who paid a second visit to the city in the early seventies, when it was still called Yedo, and who described it as the

A Shower of Good Things for April

no

But there are 'clouds with this shower of snappy dance tunes 'that would make danc ing in the rain a pleasure. Captivating rhythm that makee it impossible to sit still. Smooth, 18- gratiating, melody that you have learned to as- sociate not only with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra but with all the others listed for this month. C'mon... if you like to dance, listen to this tuneful assort- ment. We'll be glad to 'play them for you.

Puttin' On the Ritz-Fox Trot (from United Artists

picture, "Puttin” On the Rier"} Staging a Vagabond Song Fox Trot (from United

Artists picture, "Puttin' On the Ria")

NAT SHILEBIT AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA

No. 12706, 10-inch

LRMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

•

There's Danger in Your Eyes, Chério!-Fox Trot

(from United Artists picture. "Puttin' On the Rize") With Yon-Fox Trot (from United Artists picture,

"Putin' On the Ria")

WARINGS PENNSYLVANIANS - No. 22293, 10-inch "Tain't No Sin-For Trot (Te Danco Around in Your

Bones)

GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUNC "Can't You Understand?--Fox Tros THE HIGH HATTENS *

No. 22279, 10-inch St. James Infirmary When You're Smiling-Fox Trot (The Whole World'

Smiles with You)

KING OLIVER AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 11298, 10-inch ..

THE HIGH HATIKUS

Keepin' Myself for You-Fox Trot (from RADIO

picture," Hit the Deck"") Blue Is the Night-Fox Trot (from Metro-Goldwyn-

Mayer picture, "Their Own Desire")

NAT SHILKET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA,

No. 22290, 10-Lock

Love Mado a Gypsy Out of Me-Fox Trot Beside an Open Fireplace-Fax Trot

RUDY. VALLSE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YankYes

No. 21283, 10-inch

Tea for Two-Fox Trot (from First National picture,

"No, No, Nanette")

I Want to Be Happy-Fox Trot (from First National

picture, "No, No, Nanette")

WARINGS FINNSYLVANIANS No. 12292, 10-inch

Huguette-Walts (from "The Vagabond King") The Desert Song-Walts (from the "Desert Song")

NAT SHILKEET AND THE VICTOLL ORCHESTRA

“No. 20512, 19-Inchi

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

Chater Road.

Orthophonic

Victor Records

"most perplexing place to find one's BRITAIN AND EMPIRE

way about in of any town I was

ever in."

TRADE.

(Continued from Page 2.)

ner delighted in, with its turns and Such was the Tokyo the Wester-

twists and pleasant surprisės, its evening lanterns, and rushing! kurumaya yelling to people to get sation should be set up in Great It is suggested that an organi- out of the way, the visitor from afar sitting behind waving a fan Britain, financed out of the funda and ogling the maidens passing by of the Empire Marketing Board,

with the following objects:

(Continued at foot of next column.)

At the New York Aviation Show, sponsored by the American Legion, every type of 'plane is in- cluded in the exhibit. Aeroplanes for passenger service, amphibians, seaplanes and war planes, na shown in the general view above. (Lower right) William A. Harbold, demonstrates how the new army, aircraft machine gun will be able to fire 1,000 to 1,200 rounds of ammunition per minute in the future bat

battle

(1) To record complete in formation as to the quantities and qualities of Empire goods avall able and the channels through which they can be supplied.

(f) That steps should be taken by His Majesty's Government to provide further Anancial facilities for the furtherances of air trans- port within the Empire.

Immediate and adequate step3 should be taken to stimulate to

the next few years, both between the utmost air transport during

constituent parts of the Empire

and within them..

Free Flow of Capital.

The foregoing suggestions are put forward as additional advant- ages which Great Britain might extend to the Dominions, but it should be pointed out that, quite apart from the preferences at pre- (2) To get into direct touch sent granted by this country to the with dealers and retailers Dominions, certain other advant- throughout the country with a ages are already derived by them. view to placing this information from the United Kingdom. For at their disposal in order to faci- instance, Great Britain has been in litate their purchase of Empire the past, and will be in the future, products.

overwhelmingly the most favourable If the demand for Empire goods. source from which the Dominions can thus ba stimulated, the possi can obtain the finance necessary for bility of obtaining cheaper freight their development. facilities and lower averhead charges by concentrating pur chases would be worthy of ex By the operation of the Colonial ploration. It is therefore suggest Stock Act the Dominions are in a ed that an investigation should' be position to obtain money in the made into the possibility of the London market on the most favour- better organisation of the purable terms, and under that.Act.no chasing and distribution of Em- less than £715,000,000 have been pire products.

provided by Great Britain. The (e) That an Empire College importance of this free. flow of should be established in London, capital cannot be overestimated 1. The college should be of from the Dominion point of view, a residential character for the re- neither should this country lose ception of students from the sight of the fact that investment in the Dominions Increases the pros- 2. Such students would be perity of Great Britain's best cus nominated by competent author-tomers. Lities in the Dominions.

While the provision of financing 3. Residence would be for an facilities to foreign countries in a agreed period, say not less than sound position cannot be discour aged, British credit la better em- 4. Nomination to the college ployed in sound schemes in the would include free transportation Dominions than in countries whose and free living at the college. general condition is net so stable

5. The objects of the college

Dominions and Colonies.

12 months.

her

would be to secure for the stu- and whose economic future is not dents that general knowledge with so obviously linked up with the New York, Feb. 10. operation and a wonderful display of transportation concerns. Burnelli is regard to Great Britain, her in- United Kingdom as is the case with

the Dominiona... All the miracles of aviation, the airmail also the designer of the twin engined stitutions, her industries, magic carpet of to-day, is, incorporated The history of aviation is spanned monoplane designed for the Safe Air- secial life, her history and her in the great show of the second annual by a comprehensive display that runs craft competition, sponsored by the general conditions, which cán New York Aviation Show, sponsored by the gamut from the modelimade after Guggenheim Foundation only be secured when both time Aviators Fost No.43, American; the drawings" of: Leonardo da Vinei, The United States Army shows

Finally, it may be well to refer to the fact that, quite apart from. commercial and financial advantages offered by the United Kingdom,

Legion, which la being held at Grand the great Italian painter, who centuries fighting Curtia"plane with part of the and, a certain amount of money Great Britain is called upon to pro-

are available, togethe Central Palace. ago: designed a model that conforms coverings cut away to expose the four-

"After such a course students Vide for the bulk of the cost of the 'Every type of 'plane is included in strikingly to the efficient plane. of to- some fighting cauipment. The would return to their own coun-imperial services, which are neces the exhibit War-carred planes that day, down to the giant air transport chine guns mounted on the cowling are have earned honourable retirement as built by the Upperca Burnell Com-synchronised volving blades will be out tries with a wider appreciation of sary for the conduct and defence of the Empire as a whole. To take war veterans rapeak mutely of the pany, Vincent Burnell is the design of danger from bullets while the guns Empire problems, and with World War. Sporis planes, gliders, er of the 18-passenger, all metal air are in action. A wonderful show is also hanced value to their own com- only one example, the United King amphibians and seaplanes, enormous transport, which has a 92-feet wing staged by the Navy Department of New munista.

en-

dom pays £68,000,000 per annum for the upkeep of the Navy, which

kir transports, tiny models powered by spread, beneath which, for amusing York. It is a Show of Shows teplote rubber bands, all these are attracting contrast, are sheltered naveral, tiny with Instruction, entertainment and or their musical, wooden clogs. is necessary to safeguard the com throngs of visitors. The aperations planes. The transport, which is thrills for all children from six to sixty. To-day there are no surprises inmunications of every part of the and ramifications of the air mail are driven by two, 625-horsepower water Many aviatrixes are present to interest Tokyo. One may as well be in Empire with the outside world and graphically demonstrated by an exhibit cooled Wright engines, le attracting the their sex in the joys of flying, their own. Balham, or anywhere else where to ensure free access to and from that includes a real post offico in active attention of prominent officials of sir own "plane..

bricks and mortar rule.

their markets.