1930-08-05 — Page 7

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1930.

TRAGEDIES OF THE

WORKLESS.

HAIL STORM IN SUMMER.

Hope Sustained Only by Destroy Crops Near

the "Dole."

LIFE IN THE SLUMS.

London, fter the north, seems Incredibly vitalleed. The general industrial depression that lies so heavily on the people of the mining and the ratton districts is not here writes Mrs. C. Chesterton in the Daily Express.

Unemployment is speradle rather than settled, hape still turks round the canter, there is yet the chance of job' but within narrower limits thene 1a the same strupple. The "London woman, with mustand out of work like her sister of the Tyneside, has to keep the family fed and shod on a weekly sum that calls for unending ingenuity and patience.

and based

Peking.

Peking, July 12.

A delegation of gentry of the western suburb of Peking Submit- ted a petition to the Provincial! Government of Hopei yesterday reporting the disastrous con- dition of the hail and rain storm last week which wrought havoc to the crops and requesting relief and uxemption of taxes.

THE CHINA MAIL.

COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS.

A Harmonious Session Likely.

THE INNER CIRCLE.

NEW

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:

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 40 Cents per Share has been declared payable an WEDNES- DAY, 27th AUGUST next, on and Theatre, after which date. Dividend War

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Catertainments. To-day Queen's Theatre Nix as Dames."

To-day

Star "Side Show of Life."

To-day-World "Westward Ho."

To-day- Majestic Tillie's Punctured Romance"

rants may be obtained upon ap Theatre. pilention at the Registered Office of the Company, Cùnal Road East, Theatre: Bowrington, Hong Kong.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN To-day" -Central • Thantre that the REGISTER OF MEM-

DERS "Charming Sinners."

of the Company will be August 7-Wellington Barracks CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 13th AUGUST to TUESDAY, 26th AUGUST, 1930, both days inclu- sive.

Be Order of the Boari,

W., F. SIMMONS,

Secretary.

Home Mails. To-day—Invārd from Europe 'Vis"

Lammerts Auctions. August 7-At Sales Room, Dud-

dell Street, postage stamps. 5.15 p.m.

Moscow, June 17. The Commanist. Party is now on The eye of the biennial Party Congress, which will hear the re- Forts of Stalin and other leaders on important political and econo- mic questions, pass appropriate The farmers were rejoicing risolutions, choose- new, Central; over the excellent prospect of Committee and Cortral Commis-Concert, 8.30 p.m. plentiful brevest in the coming sion, and generally polish up the August 8-Volunteer Headquar- fall, as the result of the timely Party apparatus for another two ters Concert, 9.30 p.m. rain in the beginning of-the-sea-

years of functioning. son, the petition stated. But only because of its large big hail storm visited the district size the Party Congress seldom Siberia (Aeneas). on the 28th of last month, des-sumes an active initiative in in- troying almost every trace of the.

gurating new policies: 43792) young crop and fruit and veget- there seems little reason, to doub ables. The hailstones were as big that the general report, which is You find them everywhere, thepo as eggs. The tall harvest was habitually delivered by Stalin August 8-At Sales Room, Dud- heroines of unemployment, facing therefore a total loss, and the and the specialised reports on dell Street, household furniture, the daily grind, the never-ending people were left in distress. The subjects as industry, agriculture. etc., 2.30 p.rs. problem of how to make one shilling authorities of the provincial Gov-trade union werk, etc.. will bo It is for them ornment were requested to devise unanimously accepted by the Can- to keep their husbands' flagging means to relieve the 'suffering courage to sticking point to hold farmers, who were deprived of all Fress translated into correa- 8. against the heaped-an disappoint means of subsistence, as the dis-ponding resolutions.

To-day-Sanitary Board Meets ment of hope continually deferred trict had been visited by flood and a power in Leningrad, this tradi-ing. 4.15 p.m. an even keel of sympathy art cour-drought successively for many tion to the Fourteenth Party Con- To-morrow-Green Island Cement

years without interruption.

gress voted solidly for Zinoview Co., Ltd.. extraordinary meeting.. A similar petition was also sab- and Kamenev, who were then in Exchange Building, 11.30 am. Few know the story of their lives.

muted to the Municipal, Govern- opposition. Nothing of this kind their struggles and endfrance.

Miscellaneous. have learned something of what ment, who had already promised 14 kely to disturb the harmony August 8-Hong Kong C.C. "at

to appoint special officials to make of the impending Sixteenth Party Home 5,30 p.m. It means to manage on the dole.

Hunger for a Garden, a thorough investigation. The Congress, however.

Famine Relief Committee has wife,

Internal Squabbles Quelled. five children, from two to eight years also been notified and requested But, if no great sensations or i oid, living in one room-a typient to give the matter its considera-surprises are to be anticipated as home-in Queensland Road, Hollo- tion. It is known that the dis-a result of the deliberations at way that district of wide thor-tricts, east of Peking have also the Congress, its preparation and oughfares, moan streets, and con- suffered tremendously from the convening nevertheless represent Smash Ends Attempt to

hail storm last month, though de-an

•

important politica! event, tailed reports are still lacking-which Asiatic.

do the work of twn.

nye.

I found husband,

and

geries of teeming slums.

"We pay 10s, a week rent," said the cheery little woman. "You see, it's what they call furnished. The

In 1925, when Zinoviev was still

landlord puts in a bed and a chair SHANGHAI DOCTORS. leaders.

01 1330. There's not an unfurnish-

ed raam to be had, though we've

still enough of our manage."

The floor was

linoleum ulat

own things to

covered with the landlord's. Mother, father and two children slept in one bed, and three children in another.

RAISE CHARGES FOR SERVICES.

STATEMENT ISSUED,

Sports

Sec Special Sports Diary on page

Meetings.

PRINCE IN PLANE CRASH.

Beat Records.

Soña, July 11,

A young Roumanian, Prince Gheka, who set out from Bicester, Leicestershire, in a single-seater Gipsy Moth aeroplane in an attempt to beat the record for a non-stop Beteven, Roumania.

He was badly injured, and now lies in hospital. '.

Hong Kong, 5th August,, 1930.

PUBLIC AUCTION

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction

ON THURSDAY, August 7, 1930,

commencing at 5.15 pm

at their 'Sales Room, Duddell Street.

A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS including a fine specimen of Hong Kong Jubilee Tall K., etc., etc. Оп View from. Wednesday, August 6.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, August 5, 1930.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.

From MIDDLESBRO', LONDON AND STRAITS.

"BEN LEDI "

Consignees of cargo are hereby in- formed that all goods are-being load- led at their risk into the hazardous

for several preliminary weeks absorbed much of the energy of the Communist Party

organised group To-day no fighting against the Farty leader hip with the vigour and inter sity, which Trotsky's adherents displayed in 1927. But the diff-flight in a straight line, crashed at The Steamship. culties of everyday life, especial ly in the field of food supply, re- Shanghai, July 12. The Shanghai Foreign Medical quire a constant campaign of ex The husband, a tall sturdy chap Practitioners' Association has de-planation and agitation on the

of the Communist teeders.ROUND THE CINEMAS draws 178. a week unemployment cided to raise its professional fees, part

no important poli pay with 9s. a week for his wife and as a result of which increases are even though

"CHARMING SINNERS" AT THE 2x for each child. To feed and going into effect all round. This tical figure is to-day openly chal- of private lenging the correctness of the

CENTRAL.. clothe and generally look after a applies, in the case family of seven on 30s. a week patients. to new contracts as Party policy. Nine-tenths of the needs husbandry and hard work. from July 1. The menu is largely tea and "bread and marge," with a suet pudding for the children, potatoes, and oc casional stews.

geraniums, and marigolds all "a-

In the case of existing Con- tracts, the rate for children is raised to Tis. 40 per annum. In so far as new contracts are con- cerned, entered into after July 1,

Statement by Medicos.

criticism that crops up in work-

' meetings and at Communist Party local branch meetings is of

"Right" character.

MARITAL ADVENTURES.

and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th instant will be subject to rent. All blaima against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or Seldom has any audience had before the 25th instant. OF they such a good time watching a will not be recognised.. motion picture as the Central All broken, chated, and damaged The two main causes of rank Theatre audience had last night Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on the.

and Goddard & Douglas.

Food Dimeuitles.

-

ed.

ed by,

No Fire Insurance has been effect-

Bills of Lading will be countersign-

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD, Agents. Hong Kong, 4th August, 1930.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD ROYAL BELGE S.Á.

From, ANTWERP.

Queensland Road, but though ter- the first adult member of a fami-and-file discontent with the pre-while watching the marital adven-9th instant, et 10 nim. by Messrs.

Few have more than one room in ribly overcrowded they are all cleanly has to pay Tls. 76, the second sent Party policy are the digicult tares of Ruth Chatterton Flowers bloom in the windows and adult Tls. 70 and each child Tis. Situation as regards supply with Clive Brook in Paramount's all- Tood and certain, manufactured talking comedy drama, written by in the pathetle little Iront yards 40.

Reads and the excesses which acW. Somerset Maugham, "Charm- runner bears flourish with We have received the following urred in foxcing the peasants ing Sinners."

into collectiva farms last winter.

A sparkling, intimate story of blowing and a-growing from a communication from the Shang" The apokesmen for the Central married life beautifully acted by pennorth of seeds": the symbol of hai Foreign Medical Practitioners' Committee answer the first critica group of outstanding cinema the Londoner's romantic hunger for Association:-

"In conformity with the in-m by representing the diff stars, made of "Charming Sin- a garden.

crease in the cost of living, and culties as transitory and as partners" a particularly lively and en-.

of the price which must be paid tertaining show. Clothes by Intlmenis.

Smart dialogue A widow and four daughters exist in the greater cost of overhead for the rapid industrialisation of and clever repartee keep au- on the unemployment pay of 128 charges, the local practitioners, the country.

diences on the qui vive through- The new Political Bureau, or out the play. It is a new revelation weekly of the eldest daughter aged through their recently formed eighteen, 28. per child from the Foreign Medical Practitioners' Inner, steering council of nine, in talking screen entertainment. Public Assistance Committee Association, have decided to raise which guides the deliberations of Ruth Chatterton, as the wise The Steamship. which has taken the place of the their professional fees. This ap- the Central Committee and which wife, tired of her husband's

“PATAGONIER “ Poor Law guardians and what the plies, in the case of private pa will be re-elected after the Con- philandering, decides to punish having arrived, Consignees of cargo woman can earn by daily charing.tients, to new contracts as from

gress, will quite probably reveal him, once and for all. She by her are informed that all Goods July 1. They live in ore room at 59; a week,

Thirty years ago the annual mer members-Premier Rykov, the repaying him in his own coln by us godowns of the Hong Kong. & some changes. Three of its for chooses the dignified method of are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-ħazard- with their own furniture and gas

contract charge for an adult was former head of the trade unions; pretending to give her affections Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Tis. 60, and for a child Tis. 30, Tomely and the former editor of to an old admirer, William Powell. whence delivery may be obtained which fee remains at the present "Pravda," Bukharin, have been She fools her husband in clever No Claims will be admitted, after rate of exchange to £4 10s. Od. tainted with "right deviationism"; fashion, reawakens some of the the Goods have left the Godowns, and and £2 5s. Od. respectively. The and Bukharin has already been romance which appeared dead to 11th August, 1930, will be subject B Goods remaining undelivered after

cooker, The groceries are bought

at a general shop which allows a shilling discount in the £. The in stalment clothing plan keeps them

dressed.

Ordz-

"It's very difficult sometimes," ordinary fee for a major opera-expelled. from membership. her for over, and brings about a to rent. said the mother, "but it's bad for tion at the present rate of ex-Among the likely candidates for readjustment in her home which All Claims against the vessel must. the girl to go shabbier than her change is equivalent to £18 to promotion to this Communist inner ne amount of scandal or ranting be presented to the Undersigned on friends. It put wrong ideas into her £25 and represents little more council

are Stalin's fellow could accomplish.

Clive Brook, or before 18th August, 1930, or they

will not be recognised. She must look smart on a than the fee given to the anaes- Georgians, Mikoyan and head,

#x the husband, reveals new Sunday, but week-days don't mat-thetist in. Britain.

For a lesser honikidze who both occupy respon talents in a splendid characterisa- Goods are to be left in the Godowns All broken, chafed and damaged ter. So I pawn her best dress and operation, as for example, the resible posts, the former as Comtion. Mary Nolan, as the "other" where they will be examined on

coat moval of tonsils and adenoids, missar for Trade, and the latter woman, is delightful. when we're hard up, and get them the fee charged locally is equivalas head of the Workers and

ent to £3 or 4, for which any re- Peasants' Inspection. out again at week-ends."

The family wardrobe is the house-putable surgeon in Britain or hold capital, drawn out and paid in America would charge not less

the kiddies' shoes and

my

as necessity demands through the than £25 to £50. In the case of poor man's bank."

IS YOUR NAME HERE ?

the 11th August, 1930, at 10 am.

ed.

A group of auxillary players, No Fire Insurance has been effect- recruited from the stage, includ- Bille of Lading will be countersign": ing Laura Hope, Crews, Florence ed by |Eldridge and Juliette Crosby, are

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is the

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confinements, which entail a-con- Mail has been received at the go long as there is something, siderable attendance and respon-American Consulate General for the however little coming in regularsibility, the local fees run from following persons. like, it gives you hope," said an 4 to 8---ridiculously low figures.-Geo: A. Allan, Mias F. Bostwicke, ing "The Letter with Jeanne elderly woman. "It was different "The much greater distances R. Caldwell. Mrs. T. Chamberlain, Eagels, and never has this-famous before the war. My husband fell doctors have to cover nowadays, J. A. Conley, R. G. Cooper, V. H. dramatist shone out of work for three years and our which means loss of time and in Donnelly, H. C. Evans, Fish, Mrs. tage as he does home and his savings had to go to creased cost of location, the in- M. C. Foster, F. Hamilton, Mra screen. find the children food. It broke crease in office and private house W. Hoffecker, W. R. Kendall. Ing's entertainment, see "Charm-" his heart. He's never been the rents, telephone charges,. cost of Mrs. G. H. Kosten, S. Madrinan, ing Sinners!"

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