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SEEING AFTER 30 FLAPPERS OF 5,430 BLIND MAN SEES
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"Only Flowers & Trees Look the Same."
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Ancients Who Used Eyelid Pigment.
"The Man Who Dug Through The Flood" chuckled.
THE CHINA
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AN OPERA.
Drama of Lifted Mask.
Paris, June 30.
MAIL.
BIRDS, BEASTS, FISHES HOW YOKOHAMA IS
AND SNAKES.
Malaya's Handsome
Gifts to Zoo.
GROWING.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930:
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
The Turning Point in Japan's History.
Yokohama Is the representative
Keeper Lanworn, who had been sent to Singapore for the purpose. part of Japan, and all Japanese has returned to London in charge culture and trade are shown to the of a large collection of mammals, world through this port and Kobe. birds, and reptiles for the Zoo. In the year 1853, Commodore Perry, Through the kindness of Messrs. of America, visited the small port. Alfred Holt and Co. the consign of Urage near Yokohama, and it ment, which included 99 crates and was a turning point in Japan's his- cagos, was conveyed freight-free in tory when her culture and trade the were to be introduced to the world. the steamer Eumeeus, and
the Later Yokohama came to be widely society is much indebted to oflcers of the ship for the trouble kapwa throughout the world by means of the treafy of the opening they took.
The collection is due to Mr. A. of the port concluded between St. Alban Smith, a corresponding Japan and America. At the time member of Zoological Society, when Yokohama was opened as a the managing director of the port, it was but a sleepy fishing Seletar Plantations, who Interested village with only 57 residents as many of his friends and. persuaded recorded in the books of that time. them to make gifts, superintended] After that, each year brought more the purchase of animals from de- Japanese and a small village of alers, and himself obtained and years before bacame a great city.
The city was practically, destroy- presented most of the reptiles.
From
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AT THE
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The largest animals are a pair of led by the 1923 earthquake and con. tigers and a bear, the former pre-flagration, but with the untiring Glenister and the latter by Mrs. tion of the city and with the ab Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes' $5.00 Glenister and Mrs. E. L. D. Evans,sorption of the two towns and Grepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 of Igoh, Perak. Two young orang-seven villages in its neighbour Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00 utans, four tree-kangaroos, four hood, the present Greater Yoko-Black or Brown Boots from 8.00 Children's Boots or Shoes, from $ 2.00 crowned pigeons, and two young hama has come into existence. The
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. cassowaries are additions which population of the city stood at
It will be 565,308 at the end of 1928.
WONG SIU WOON were much wished for.
People in the world' nowadays] 21, Pottinger St. Phone 21474.
DENTIST.
sented by Mr. and Mrs. A. G. efforts made towards reconstruc-Leather Sole Canvas Shoes...$ 4.50||
some days before the very fine as sortment of reptiles can be un-would call Yokohama the silk port, because this, commodity is the packed, examined, and named.
greatest of all the Japanese staple
Hopes That Bears Will Breed. Another account says:A large products and Yokohama is its re- exporting point. consignment of animals, consisting presentativo of twenty-five, mammals, 35 birds, Through many English and Ameri 440 reptiles, and thirty-six fishes, can firma in Yokohama, which are arrived at the Zoo from Singapore the oldest among the firms there, our Allk, with other typical during the week-end.
Some of these specimens are Japanese products, was introduced Asfatic. but others are from Africa to all parts of the world. Silk and Australia. Singapore is one made Yokohama. The wealth gain- of the great animal markats of the ed by this international commodity, East, and creatures captured in which amounts to 60 per cent. of many parts gravitate there to be the world's silk, brings profit to
the country through this port. sold. As the collection was до
The first gate to Japan for the Axtensive and varied it required special attention, and a Zoo keeper visitors from every direction of the Was sent out to Singapore to world is Yokohama. The capital of superintend the packing and to care Tokyo is only 18 miles away, and for the animals during the journey the foreigner has to go through this gate to seek knowledge of there.
Moreover, the The animals include Halayan sun-Japanese culture. bears, quirrels, tree kangaroos, port, as a modern city, is especially civet cats, tiger cata, monkeys, two attractive with all the advantages young tigers, and two orang-utans, of natural beauty for which Japan is so well known. The number of while among the birds there are hornbills, cassowaries, sunbirds, foreign residents in the port swell- king-fishers, crowned pigeons, and parrots. The reptiles have not-yet been classified, but many of them been classified, but many of them are venomous snakes.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
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Central. Tel. 21255.
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Yokohama since the 1923 catas- trophe has taken the aspect of a great commercial city of the Orient
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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by- an expert dut our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
ment are not intended for Regent's the arranging and rebuilding of its Park, but for the Zoo's country streets. It is situated on the inner THE ONE PRICE STORE branch at Whipsnade. There a shore of Tokyo Bay, and a long large bear pit some 100 yards aquare line of hills and mountains at its has been built, and it is hoped that back made it a splendid harbour. A sudden hush fell on a fashion-in these spacious surroundings The city is 40 ri in circumference (a ri is 21⁄2 miles), 9 square 'ri in In the Spring of 1899 Mr. J. F.
It was a triumphant chuckle, the able audience at a performance of litters of bear cubs will be reared.
As yet no official date has been area, and its coast line extends 8 Fish, on honeymoon in Ohio, was sort of chuckle one would expect William Tell at the Paris Opera given for the opening of this coun-ri. Main roade in all directions struck by a falling branch from a man who has brought back House to-night, when a man in one try Zoo, but rumour, has it that the cross the city, and intersecting
optic ancient history, and proved quite of the boxes, whom many recognis-
He definitely that our modern civilian-ed as James Joyce, the Irish novelist public will be able to visit Whip rivers and canals afford advantage
snade Park next Summer. and poet, dramatically leaned for tion is as old as the Ark!
Mr. C. Leonard Woolley is "The ward, raised a pair of heavy dark place appears to be developing, for Man Who Dug Through The Flood." glasses from his eyes, and exclaims during the last few weeks a number He was the director of-the-joint ex-ed: "Thank God for this miracle of deer and bison have been sent
there from Regent's Park
In addition to the Singapore collection, the Zoo has received two leopard cubs from Africa. are the smallest baby leopards the Zoo has had, but there seems to be Hittle chance of them becoming pats, sines they are extraordinarily a gresatve.
and an paralysed. spent £10,000 in vain attempts to regain his sight through surgical treatment, and finally resigned him-
self to a life of blindness. He pedition of the British Museum and After twenty years I can really see established a business school, made the University of Pennsylvania again." it a great success, and remained which excavated the ancient city of cheerful in spite of his handicap. Ur in Mesopotamia.
On Monday night last his wife was reading the evening paper when suddenly Mr. Fish began to see his surroundings. He gasped. "Some thing has happened. I think I can
Bee,"
it proved true, and he began dia- covering a new world which has left him amazed, He said, "When they took me
the corner of the street and I saw the automobiles rushing by I was terrified.
"I always thought of women as wearing bustles and trailing skirts. The man I visioned had moustaches and side whiskers. I recognise my wife now, but she is not the same girl whose picture I have carried in my mind for thirty years.
"All the associates I have only heard and never seen are now un- real, and I must shut my eyes to know with whom I am speaking Now only flowers and trees of all things in the world still look just as I remembered them."
FATAL PLANTATION FIGHT.
Seven Years for Two Chinese.
Before Mr. Justice Cobbett
|
Mr. Woolley chuckled as he dis played the past in glass cases at the British Museum. A great deal of
his discoveries were conveyed back in cigarette packets; in fact, Mr. Woolley put the truth about the Bible in a paper box!
Down to Civilisation.
For a small group of anxious frienda accompanying Joyce It was a more latensive drama than "William Tell" itself.
Leeches on Eyeballs. The celebrated Irishman, who has been going blind for the greater part of his life, has undergone eight cataract operations by leading eys specialists of Europe without any benefit,
HOTEL GUESTS
AT THE HONG KONG HOTEL.
The for shipping. There are ateam- boats, street cars, and trains which connected with the suburban dis
of bus lines, with safe and quick tricts. There is also the advantage transportation. The means of com- munication will surely satisfy visitors to the city.
They
"Yes," he laughed, "we dug deep As a last extremity, he had Pro- down right through the strata of fessor Vogt of Zurich to perform a sand left by the Flood, and we ninth operation in March, after found civilisation below that! which leeches ware put on the eye- The King of the Belgians visited us balls to draw off the superfluous and we advised him not to try, the blood. No perceptible improve-
August 12, 1980, steep descent; but he said, "I am
ment was noticed at the time, but Messrs. EW. Broadwith; not going to miss the opportunity since then the mists of blindness Eyrún, E. B. Brown, of becoming The Man Who Walked have been lifting rapidly.
• Mesars. D. McCosh Clark, J. Through The Flood!".
W.
In order not to strain his eyes, he Cass, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Chans The discoveries are superb. Mr. has kept than more or less hand-Dr. F. Cheng,KARA Churchill had a prototype in 1990 aged. To-day, however, kis Paris Mr. H. 8, Frankenberger.
B.C. His name Wo Rin Sin, and he was a king with
bricklaying. His effigy shows him carrying a load of mortar on his head, and beside him is an inscrib- ed 'brick!
doctors heard he was anxious to go Mr. J. Gabriel. B 3 passion for to the opera to see his friend John Menara J. L. Hunter, H. J
Sullivan, the Irish tenor, and hear Higgins, H. L. Houghton. him sing in the role of Arnold, and Mr. JR Ireland. so they decided to celebrate the
Messrs. Leo Kraemer, G. Keller. event by letting him see with his Miss Lille, Lt. Col. ET Mr. Woolley h made discoveries naked eyes.
Loring, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Lo with Abraham The experiment was a complete Count du Luart, Mrs. Lourenco States, rings, and table ware success, and Joyce's cry of Joy, was Mr. I. P. Messeiler which would do credit to Bond as intense that it startled the house. Mr. S. G. Parrett, Miss Ferolra, Street Jewellers are there just as James Joyce and his wife are leave Messrs. C. A. Stlabel, J. they were in the time of the Jewish ing Paris in a couple of days time Smith prophet.Writings have been dis for Wales, where he is to rest be covered which fix the period before returning to Zurich for a tenth yond any doubt," sa
contemporry
operation on his left eye and another one on his right eye on› September 15. After this his sight will be assured for the rest of his life,
Mrs
Tour
A £25,000,000 FORTUNE.
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The "Biblical Baby" The wonder of the exhibition, at the Anaires the two Chinese concerned in the pineapple plants however, is undoubtedly the Flapper salaqat patung pagbago The late tion fight at Woodlands, near the of 8,500 BC. Mr. Woolley built R
Ryan Naval Base, on April 28, during the wax over the skull until, as air and green pigment for the eyelids chiefly course of which a plantation coolle Arthur Keith remarked, "it was not They use blue today. electric was killed who were charged with possible to get any nearer to the Her combs and her headdress may ander gang robbery with murder were origins' facer fredd fra be seed nightly, at any fashionable of $125,000,000.00 (more found guilty of grievous hirt while The iblical baby is a dainty dance club in the Wast End £26,720,000), which is bellav committing rang robbery and were little lady. She has shaved her "There were statues at the time ed to be the second largest es- each sentenced to © seven
head, but wears the nattisat wig-a of the Flood, sald Mr. Woolley, tate ever appraised for taxation in Ardressing which are practically identical with the United States. The late Mr. rigorous Imprisonment
Collfer and Mr. K. Seth appeared in The in
Ittle the very latest modern sculpture Payne Whitney left more than Ath rouge, now on view, at the Tate Gallery,” $194,000,000. |
As all the methods of transporta-
tion are complete In the broad area along the coast line north of Yokohama, and because the area is good for factories, many of the machine and chemical Industries. are gathering to Yokohama. Thile fact should attract not only Japanese but people throughout the world. Besides, famous over seas companies recently establish- ed their factories in, or are coming to, the port. ·
Yokohama harbour is one of the nest in the Far East. Ita recon- struction work was completed in 1927. The following equipment and facilities showed many Im-
and provements
enlargements: Breakwater 4,880. feet, Pler 1,632 feet, Wharves 6,000 feet, Ware houses covering 498,098 square feet ground space.
In addition to this work carried out for landing operations, 113,112 square feet of the harbour had been reclaimed, and the depth of the harbour increased two to four feet. A new plan recently adopted provides for great extensions and improvements in the harbour aquipment, which, when completed, will restore Yokohama to its prond position, as the finest port in the Orlent Japan Tradorzovka
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