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GENERAL NOTICES
STEEL COULSON BILLIARD LEAGUE.
THE CHINA
MAIL.
the
COMMITTEE of STEEL COULSON BILLIARD LEAGUE request the pleasure of the Company of the Members, their wives and friends, to a dance and distribution of prizes, to be held at the R.E. Theatre, Welling ton Barracks, on FRIDAY, 17th October, 1930, commencing at 3.30
IRELAND SMILES
AGAIN..
the shopkeeper and small function- UNEMPLOYMENT IN
ary class.
But it is precisely this class who- are the political masters of the Free State to-day. The Cosgrave Ad-
The English Are Liked ministration is a
by Them.
MIDDLE CLASS RULE.
London, Aug. 26, The great mass of public opinion in the Free State to-day wants by
The British genes to be bygones. are immensely and, to me, surpri- C. G. PEACHY,singly popular.
On reading this statement of a President. Steel Coulsor Billiard plain' truth some irishman is sure to exclaim, "Thank you, we're run League. Hong Kong, 10th October, 1930. ning after nobody!" and an English man, Aha! So they can't do with out us after all
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SPORT NOTICES
NEW ZEALAND.
Cabinet of ex- 30s. Head Tax on Men schoolmasters, ex-postal cthelals, ex- bank clerks, and the like.
A certain snobbishness, a certain reactionary trend, in the Irish character resents it. The Impec- cable respectability of the Cosgrave Cabinet is dorided, its lack of social glitter aniffed at. There is a ten- dency in these quarters to "crab”. the Government and, all its acts, exactly as the monarchists of Prussia miss no chance of putting a stick in the wheels of the German Republic.
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To foster this tendency is, 1 think, a mistaken form of loyalty to After all, the the British Crown. To which I reply, to the one, that Free State la by law established as It is every sensible Free Stater recognises a self-governing Dominion. that membership of the community rendering no service to the cause of HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB of free nations forming the British Empire to make the already difficult Empire is a privilege and that for task of the only possible Govern- and two nations as closely associated by ment in Southern Ireland at present RAFT PROGRAMMES
The treaty was It gave more, far ENTRY FORMS for the speech, culture, and trade and instill more difficult. NINTH EXTRA RACE MEET.dustry to harbour ancient grudges a compromise.
mure, than the Moderates ever hope- ING to be held on SATURDAY is the height of folly.
To the other I say that the Freeed to achieve but less than the 25th October, 1930 (weather per- mitting) may be obtained at the Slate Irish, in wishing to see the Extremists demanded.
In England we may make Race Course, Hong Kong Club and old friendship restored, make the
reservation that this will be upon virtue of our willingness to let But in Causeway Bay Stables.
Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock the new footing with full recognition the dead bury the dead. Noon on THURSDAY, 16th Octo- of the youngest Dominion's right to Free State, Ireland it is the very
control her own destinies.
men who fought us who are carry- ber, 1930.
What impressed me most at thoing on, and they, too, have to make recent Dublin Horse Show was tho an effort to forget." Hong Kong, 11th October, 1930..
spontaneous and enthusiastic way in publicans constantly oppose them. which the vast crowd rose at the Bri- Hence the importance attached to tish Army officers competing. Their such things as National Anthems reception exceeded in warmth even and flags, things which in themselves that accorded to the Free State matter nothing, but only the spirit
behind them.
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MUSIC FOR BLOOD PRESSURE.
Novel Experiments Upon Patients.
team.
At the distribution of the prizes the band, following the usual dus- tom, played the National Anthem of each prize-winging country as the respective team rode up, the crowd The Swiss Recent experiments conducted standing bareheaded.
at the Westminster Hospital by and the Italian hymns were heard Professor Swalè Vincent and his in silence, but when England's turn assistant, Mr. J. H. Thompson, have came round, the crowd took up the established the fact that various words and sang "God Save the forms of music have different King." There was no protest, no effects on the blood pressure of lis-counter-demonstration
may mention teners.
Incidentally, one
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PREMIER'S PROMISE.
Unemployment in New Zealand has reached an unprecedented level, and there is much distress.
It is estimated that at least 10,000 people are out of work.
A big deputation from the trade unions and, the Labour Party has. asked that the New Zealand Govern-
'ment should:
Enact the Unemployment Bül before Mr. Scullin's departure to attend the Imperial Conference; and
Operate the sustenance clause immediately by payment from the Consolidated Fund.
This request was urged in the House by the leader of the Labour Party,
The Prime Minister, in reply, promised expedition In enactment of the Bill
Trade Unions' View.
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AMUSEMENT
NEWS
QUEEN'S present Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in "Sunny Side Up," a gorgeous musical comedy. The singing of the two stars is delightful and the danc ing of Janet Gaynor splendid. A really high class musical comedy to put it briefly A talkie film.
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CENTRAL features all the stars in "Paramount on Parade," a magnificent technicolour spectacle with scores of beautiful chorus and show girls and a platoon of Nearly Jancing Publix ushers. everyone who counts is in this pic- ture. A talkie film.
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MAJESTIC presents Alice White in "Broadway Bables," a most auc- It is a cessful musical comedy! singing, talking and dancing pic
all the romance ture with glamour of backstage life Breadway, and offers Miss White He also promised that, to make a splendid vehicle, for her first the Bill's provisions operable direct-singing, dancing and talking ple- ly it was passed, a sum would be tare. advanced in anticipation of the revenue to be raised under the Bill.
The Bill provides for annual In his the Re-flat-rate levy of 30s. a year on all
male workers over 20.
It also provides for the establish- ment of a board to administer the fund for the provision of employ- ment, or, falling this, of sustenance payment on the lines of the British Act.
For those who have known Ire land during the past ten years, the fact that British Officers can be cheered and "God Save the King" sung in public in Dublin without open protest is sufficient evidence that reconciliation is on the way. But the road is long and slow.
Rank and outward show have al ways counted far much in Ireland. Even the most resolute partisans of the new order would like to see a little more pomp and circumstance Mr. Thompson showed a reporter that the Prince of Wales is just as about the high offices of State, the of a London paper the newly much of a favourite in the Free social glories of Dublin in Viceregal invented apparatus which was State as he is in the rest of the days revived.
used cess
with
in
conspicuous
new blue
Incidentally, the change in the Buc-Empire. His appearance pa the
Dublin is the experiments. news films at the motion picture-external appearance of "Previously it has only been houses is invariably applauded. amazing. The streets are apot- LAMMERT BROS. possible to calculate a man's blood At the Olympia Theatre Jimmy less, the Liffey, it still dear, is no pressure at a certain given mo- O'Dea, the idol of Dublin, who may longer dirty, and the road surfaces ment," he said "but by means of be described as the Irish Don Leno. are immensely improved.
house so Irish In its
The police, in their this apparatus we are able to fol- brought down low on graph the variations of blood composition that they were shout uniforms, are as smart and efficient as ever and control the growing pressure over an indefinite period.ing "Areesh" (the Irish for encore) Researches have been made into in the gallery by a verse in a topical volume of motor traffic most com- the fluctuations in the blood pres-song pleading for the union of North petently. sure of a man under an anaesthe- and South. It went to the strains tic; but recently our attentions of the Frothblowers' Anthem, and have been directed to the effect of from roof to floor the crowded music on the listener."
theatre sang with the comedian- "The more we, arc together, The happier we'll be!" The other side of the Ireland always has one.
HE Undersigned,have received Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON FRIDAY, October 17, 1930, commencing. at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.
A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:-
Records of Reactions.
The visitor gees a lot of the Irish.
language, but rarely hears it spoken.
As a witty Irlahman put it, the trouble is that those who speak Irish (the peasants) cannot read it and The latest experiments, which
those who can read it (the profes were carried out with co-operation
picture-sors) cannot make themselves under-
Certain stood. of the Columbia Company, showed
Still, Irish is being com. that the pressure of the blood is of my Free State friends could pulsorily taught in the schools and
an over-dose of A lowered by
not stomach the action of the Horae many newspapers publish articles single tune, while it is raised by a Show crowd in singing "God Save written in Irish.
rhythm. the King." change of melody or "Experiments
:
The country is quiet. The Shan- were made," Br. As I left my house this morn-non Scheme is in successful opera-, Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinet, Thompson explained, "on three ing," said one, "I met an old lady of tion, and Dublin is one of the many I places drawing light and power Chesterfield Couches and Arm-types of listeners-musical, mildly my acquaintance all dressed up.
A care asking her where she was going, from Ardnacrusha. With no for chairs, Desks, Gramophones and musical, and unmusical. Records, Pictures, Carpets, Rugs, ful record was kept of their reac-To the Horse Show, of course, Plano, Wardrobe Trunks, Electrictions." Heaters, Curios, Ornaments, Wall- clock, etc.
Teak Dining Tables, Dining, Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggon, Dinner Crockery, Class Wares, Tea Sets.) Flower Pots, Rattan Chairs and Tables, Underwood and Reming- ton Typewriters, Trunks, Knives and Forks, etc.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., OF DENMARK.
eign debt, income tax at three shil-
said she. Isn't it the one chance tings, and a good prospect of the I get in the year to sing "God Save super-tax coming off, the Free State the King"?"
is looking forward to the day when There you have it!" cried an Ireland, with her many sporting at- other Irishman of the party.tractions, will once more offer a per- "These people lose no opportunmanent domicile to the Englishman. ity, for. demonstrating against In the meantime, Southern fre- the Free State. They'll sing 'God land smiles again. For the Briton, Save the King,' but do you suppose fresh from the doleful dumps of The following unclaimed tele they'd sing "The Soldier Song, the home, It is a pleasant surprise to find at the office of Free State Anthem? Don't they himself in a part of these islands grama are lying Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Ward-the Great Northern Telegraph only take off their hats to It under where people have not forgotten how
with robes
bevelled Mirrors, Company (Limited) of Dea protest?"
"What are the words of 'The Dressing Tables, "Chest of Draw-mark:- ers, Wash Stands, Book, Case,
Evans, Hong Kong Hotel; from Soldier Song?" I inquired.
"Faith, and I don't know," was the Curtains, Mosquito Nets, etc.
Takyo.
Tong Yung-lee, China Commer-reply, and that. discussion went up cial Co., China, Building, from In laughter, Shanghai,
and
A Quantity of
BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
including;-
Joss Tables, Curio Cabinet, Tea Poys, Jardinieres, Opium Stools, Chest, etc.
Also
One 1 Melnines-Dobble Patent Engine Indicator.
On View from Thursday, Octo- ber 16, 1980.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, October 18, 1930.
Just Received
Fresh Supply of Reliable and Tested Flower and Vegetable Seeds of
Messrs. Sutton & Bons, Reading
The opportunity of serving you will be a pleasure and your commands will have our best attention
GRACA & CO.
No 10, WYNDHAM STREET, P.O. Box No. 620, HONG KONG.
Tokuwa, from Hakodate. Sanwako, from Hakodate. Silver, from Kobe, Kirsch Braun, care of Cooks. from Shorewood,
F. V. JENSEN,
Superintendent
Hong Kong, 8th October, 1930.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION CAUSTRALASIA" & CHINA - TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
We'll acknowledge the British Anthem, we'll acknowledge the flag, is the argument of these cirtics, so long as our Anthem, our flag, take precedence,
Let me remark here that anyone who has ever tried to gauge correct- ly the peculiar atmosphere of Angio- Irish relations has always had to be slow to take offence and quick to understand.
These critics fulminate against what they call "the old gang." This term by no means comprises exclu-! sively the English or even the Anglo- Irish of the Free State, but a wider class, which has never regarded the Free State with any particular
The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the E.E.. Tele graph Co. Office, Hong Kong?--
Man Tin Fang, 5, Seymour Rd...friendliness. In some cases the from London
Tayabally, from Bombay
T. H. WILLIAMS,
Asat. Superintendent Hong Kong, October 9, 1980.
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by
AH. CROOK, OBE., MA. W KAY, MAR
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motive is genuine loyalty to the British Crown and the inability to forget the past; in others, where, the purely frish are con cerned, it is largely a matter of class feeling.
The Sinn Féin rebellion was a 哦 .social middle-clase movement,
as well as a political revolt, ¡In-! cubated at the National Unversity. It was education which animated the small bourgeoisle to rebel against a system which, among other. things, placed the distribution, of offices and social prestige in the hands of an allon, or an alienaway- ed, minority
From time immemorial the owner- The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. ship of land has been the patent of
Ching: Mad Offices.
gentility in Ireland. The gentry had a very definte Idea of the place in the social scale to be alloted to
to laugh.
Female Industrial workers are not included in the scheme.
A big trade union conference has accepted the principle of the Bill, but has rejected the flat-rate levy In favour of a penny 'in the pound on incomes up to £200 a year, and graduated tax on incomes above that.
Feverish !
Three original song sits will be Baby Dolls" heard, "Broadway
and "lg Jig Jigaloo" and "Wishing and being the theme song Waiting for Love" are the other catchy numbers which also sings. Kowloon's first talkie
L
the star
STAR features Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel in "Quality Street." The famous stage play by Sir James Barrie has lost none of ita delicacy in its transfer to the
*.* screen. A silent film.
WORLD presents "The Fighting Ape." a Chinese drama. A silent film.
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AUTHENTIC NAVAL FILM
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ON OCTOBER 21, at 9 P.M.
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Other Attractions: The Full Band of the 2nd Balt., Argyl
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