1930-12-30 — Page 7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1930.

THE CHINA MAIL.

DIRTIEST PLACE IN EX-POLICE RESERVIST "WETS" FIRE THEIR

ENGLAND.

Newcastle Keeps Up Its

Reputation.

AS WITNESS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Answering another question, witness said that no statement was taken from him on Septem- the latest report on the Investiga ber 19, because he was busy. He tion of Atmosphere Pollution, published by the Stationery Office, Save a statement later.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, according to

gauges in

1

Witness said that he went to the station again some days later to help the Police arrest No. 1's third son at Yaumati.

FIRST GUN.

Resolution Introduced for a Referendum.

NEW

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Washington, Dec. 1. With the opening of the final

Social Functions.

session of the 71st congress herc

To-day- Tea Dance at Hong to-day the "wets" fired the fret Kong Hotel.

To-night-Dinner Dances at gun in the battle over prohibition,

Representative Clarence J, Me-Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels.

a

Ex-

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,

NOTICE.

THURSDAY, the 1st Janu- ary, 1931, All Departments will bo CLOSED.

On This Day,

COPENHAGEN.

The Motor Vessel,

"PERU"

"Thanks of the Colony!" Is living up to its reputation, and is

that Mr. Jenkin I suppose

The Hong Kong Dispensary, Dia-! still England's dirtual city or town, after you had spoken about the

Records from nearly a hundred promissory note, on September 19, Leod, Republican of Michigan, To-morrow New Year's Eve pensing Department, will be open

thirty-two different

Inspector Reynold tendered you with the session still at the stage Carnivals at Peninsula and Repulse for diapensing prescriptions from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. towns have been analysed, with the thanks of the Colony, and you of formalitice, introduced are Bay Hotels (Fancy Dress Ball). view to discovering the cause of

Year's

Evo to 7.30 p.m. To-morrow-New left!

solution providing for a national various forms of impurities in the

His Lordship objected to the re-referendam on the "wet" versus Dance at Craigangower Cricket A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. air. Liverpool comey next after ference to the "thanks of the "dry" isauo. Representative Mc-Club.

Hong Kong, 30th Dec., 1930. Newcastle, while London is equal Colony," and Mr. Jenkin withdrew Leod's resolution also provides To-morrow---Carnival and seventh with Birmingham out of

iit.

for the summoning of n national hibition dances at Hotel Cecil. the total of thirty-two.

convention to amend the Ameri- Thursday Special Tea Dances at THE EAST ASIATIC CO. LTD., Some of the records present

can constitution.

Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels. strange contrasts, the most striking

According to the resolution in-

Entertainments. of which is to be found at Leicester,

No statementtroduced by Representative Mc To-day

Theatre Queen's where the atmosphere is five times was taken from him on this occa- Lead there should be enacted

"Girl Said No." mare polluted in one district than in sion also. He went up a third new amendment to the constitu- To-day Central The whole of the Lon-time three or four days later, attion to replace the 18th amend "Captain of the Guard." don area on the other hand appears the request of the Police, and thenment. It would permit the salo To-day World to suffer from a fairly equitable dis-

of liquor and govern the condi- "Love on the Lake" (Chinese Kave his statement, tribution of impurity. The grounds Mr. Jenkin: As a trained Pulice tions under which alcoholic bever-turo).

To-day of Lambeth Palace enjoy the least teservist the conversation you had ages could be sold and consumed.

Star Theatre: contaminated air. followed closely with No. 1 about insurance and Representative McLeod's pro-"The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary." No claims will be admitted after the by Victoria Park and Wandsworthraon left a lasting impression on posals differ from those which To-day Majestic Theatre; goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the Common.

you?-No. 1 regarded it as casual would repeal. the 18th amendment "Interference."

| 8th January, 1931, at 4 p.m., will be Home Malls and the Volstead Act. They differ, talk.

subject to rent. Thursday-Inward from Europe were not struck by the also, from the proposals which You

All breken, chafed and damaged sinister connection between insure would modify the existing prohibi-vla Suez (Comorin): Outward for goods are to be left in the Godown, Francisco and where they will be examined by sion laws ance and arson?-No.

to permit of general Europe via San

Siberia

on the via consumption of light wines and Europe

(Tatsuta Maurre. Anderson & Ashe

6th January, 1631, at 10 am.. Maru), 8.30 a.m. beer-United Press.

nather,

Residents in Kensington and in the neighbourhood of Ravenscourt Park will be surprised to learn that the air which they breathe is almost the impurest to be found in the whole of London; and that it con- tains large quantities of sulphur and ammonis.

▸

1

Casual Talk.

I put it to you that if on the first occasion you went to the Police Station, instead of talking A New Impurity.

about the promissory note, you Experimental work carried on had talked about this conversation during the past year has revealed with No. 1, it would have been fresh enemy to public health in the more useful to the Police?—I re- form of sulphur trioxide. This garded it as casual taik and so appears to have caused the authori-id not attach much importance to ties considerable

Cit.

My idea was to collect the count of its irregular habits.

money due on the promissory note "Sulphur trioxide," the report of which I was a witness. states, "is not a normal constituent

Pressed about the insurance and of the atmosphere; it appears only arson conversation, witness said during fog." The investigators.that on the first occasion that he

trouble on

'Erb: "Efer get chilblains?" *Orace: "No, too much trouble to scratch them."-

Smith's Weekly, Sydney.

went up to the Police Station it was out of his mind. Neither did he recollect it on the second occasion. Mr. Jenkin: When did it come hack to you?-While I was giving my stalement to the Inspector.

The case is proceeding.

RUM RUNNER.

BRITISH SHIP CAPTURED

COASTGUARDS.

CLARA BUTT.

TREAT FOR LOCAL LOVERS OF MUSIC.

It has been said and not without reason, that more than any artiste within living memory, the famous British contralto, Clara Butt, has that subtle gift of establishing be- tween herself and her audience a bond of sympathy so complete as to hold them in thrall from the moment she appears till her last song ja over-and' long afterward.

Meetings.

Theatre having arrived, Consignees of cargo

are hereby Informed" that all goods i are. belag, landed and placed at their i Theatre, risk into the hazardous and/or extra- pic-hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., where delivery can be obtained as BOOD *s the goods are landed.

To-day Annual meeting

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Undersigned before

of the 10th January, 1931, of they will

the Society for Protection of Chil-not be recognised. dren, City Hall, 5.15 p.m.

January 14-Meating of Gradu ates in the Great Hall of the University, 5.15 p.m.

Sports.

See Diary on page 9.

Lammert's Auction. Saturday-At 7, Prat" Buildings, (Middle floor), Kowloon' household furniture, 10.30 a.m.

OUT OF WORK.

THE WORLD,

alx

In this sense she is something more than a singer, something more TWENTY MILLION-THROUGHOUT than the golden-voiced contralto, whose range extends fram, some- where in the soprano region down

(By Oliver Bell). to baritonal depths. In her, over In-Europe there are some and above these rare gifts of voice, and a half million people unam- are united the highest art of the ployed. The Prime Miniater in the dramatist and the actor combined, House of Commons the other day BY creating the spiritual force that her said that if the statistics of the voice and her dominating per- United States of America were sonality serve but to provide with compiled on-the-same basis as outward and visible form.

those of Great Britain, they would

New London, Con..

Yesterday,

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be counter-

signed by

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents. Hong Kong, 30th December, 1930.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Auction

Tinstructions to sell by Public

ON

SATURDAY, January 3, 1931, commencing at 10.30 am. at No. 7. Prat Buildings (Middle Floor), Kowloon,

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

On View from Friday, January 2, 1931.

·

Terras-Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, December 30, 1930,

AMERICAN

Of such powers as these it is show that in America there were Indeed difficult to write adequately, hetween ten and twelve millions The motor-ship Eleanor Joan, when the late Sir Herbert Tree has with no work to do. Japan as long| of. Nova Scotia, a sister ship of said: "She stands beyond our ago as last June estimated that the Audrey B (captured on Christ-powera of criticism or definition. there were nearly half a million Chemical Diamonds are equal to real nas Day) has been captured by There Is Nature, there is Art, and workless there. No figures are diamonds in brillaney, lustre and coastguards.

these is Clara Butt." And from available for other countries in the hardness. Cut glasses like real dia- The vessel is alleged to have the moment of her first appearance Far East like China and India, monds. Proof against fire, stee! Alo and natric acid. Price per carat had 0$170,000 worth of liquor one senses the realisation of this both whom support large indus-M.K. $5 nott. Terms Cash or C.O.D. aboard.

power in the changed atmosphere trial populations. Nor are any The American Chomical Diamond of the whole audience. There is figures available for South Co., PO. Box 300. PENANG, an air of tarse expectation, which America

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. where unemployment: gives place to a joy that cannot be must be on the increase.because of satiated as the amazing range and the political upheavals that have power of her voice finds ex- taken place within the last few pression in the first notes of her months. opening song.

A very conservative estimate of Dame Clara Butt and Mr. Ken-world unemployment is · twenty nerley Rumford will arrive here millions. The average worker has about a fortnight hence and will two dependents. So there are give two concerts, possibly on Janu-sixty millions of people on short ary 17 and 19..

The crew of eleven have been taken to New York for trial- Reuter's American Service.

however, nothing daunted, concludo on an optimistic note: "Tis hoped... to produce a method which will be suitable for the rout inc determination of the amount of sulphur in the atmosphere."

The following is a list of the NEED OF SACRIFICE.poetle

thirteen cities and towns where the largest solid deposits from the air

ORDEAL.

have been recorded. The figures EMPIRE FACING A SERIOUS represent the mean monthly de- posits in metric tons por hundred square kilmoeires:

Newcastle-on-Tyna (City

Road)

་་ཟླ་

Liverpool

St. Helena

9,188 2,119 1,881

Rochdale (Electricity

Works)

1,526 Huddersfield (Deighton) 1,458 Rotherham

1,292

London (Golden Lade. 1,290

Birmingham (Central). 1,200

Leicester (Mon

Street)

1,277

Kingston-upon-Hull

Loughborough College

1,148 1,095

-Leeds (Park' Square) ·.. 1,085

Glasgow (Alexandra

Park)

1,007

Rugby, Yesterday.

The need for sacrifice In the face of one of the most serious ordeals with which the Empire has ever been faced, was empha- sised in a sormen last night by the Archbishop of Canterbury,----- British Wireless Service.

FAMOUS TOWN - PLANNER.

·Death at Age of 67 of M. Forestier.

ARTIST ROBBED.

MAN WHO PAINTED SIAM'S ROYAL FAMILY.

BATTALION'S PENITENCE.

Marder of a French Captain.

Britain's Queen of

Song

Trinidad, Oct. 23. With the arrival here of the commons owing to the impós-] French liner Biskra comes the news aibility of obtaining work. X of the assassination of the captain The International Labour Office of a Senegalese battalion stationed of the League of Nations Is the at Devil's Island by a fanatic of source from which these figures the battalion on October 18. are drawn. There is no need to The dead officer's widow is a pas- doubt their accuracy for the Office senger by the French liner, which has always noted as a reliable is also conveying the body to From her Mr. Oswald Birley, the artist, world clearing house of informa-Europe for Interment.. who only recently returned to tion, a function that it possesses it is learnt that on the eve of the England from Siam, where, he went which is frequently overlooked. In captain's departure on furlough the to paint the Royal Family, and who the "Note of the Week" in a recent assassin said to her "The captain! has just done the latest portrait of number of its weekly periodical is so loved by the regiment that It King George in yachting clothes, Industrial and Labour Informa- is impossible he should leave us." has recently had an experience of tion, it is said that unemployment There were touching scenes wher burglars and a lucky recovery of is steadily becoming more acute in the captain summoned his company stolen jewellery.

almost every country in the world. to say farewell. While he was Among the jewellery was a pen- Practically everywhere it is now chatting with the troops, many of The death. is reported from San dant with a woman's face painted the dominant, industrial and social whom were in tears,, the fanatic SANSKRIT SCHOLAR, Remo of M. Forestier, formerly on it. A West End pawnbroker problem and is demanding the an-struck him in the neck with a conservator of the Bois de Bou- gave £2 on deposit on it. Soon xlous attention of Governments stiletto. The captain fell dead,

afterwards a police officer came to and peoples:

and immediately two gendarmes DEATH OF FAMOUS OXFORD logne

PROFESSOR...

M. Forestier, who was 67 years the pawnshop with a sketch of the A fact which the researches of arrested the assassin, who was of age, was an ardent bicyclist in pendant, **

the International Labour Office has promptly court-martialled and shot Rugby, Yesterday. the early days of the wheel and The sketch had been done by Mr. brought out, is that a fall in whole As a token of their grief the en- The death occurred yesterday gave permission for an annual Birley, to whom the jewellery be-sale prices always increases unem tire battalion voluntarily arranged of Professor Macdonell, the great cycle race by actors and actresses. longed, and he had painted a pic-ployment. It would seem that the a three days" ponitential fast, and Sanskrit scholar and Emeritus This, for years, drew all Paris, and ture of his wife in the pendant. monetary factor is of particular resolved that one of their number Professor of Sanskrit at the Uni-auch famous stage artistea as Once the pendant was so certainly importance among the causes of should commit suicide as the Blakra versity of Oxford. He was Coquelin and Sarah Bernhardt identifed all the remaining Jewel the crisis. The article closes on left with the captain's body. The slightly less depressed note then chosen volunteer threw himself into seventy-six years old. British presided over it, Felix Faure,lery was recovered.

that on which It started While the Cayenne River, but was taken Wireless Service. maggage during his Presidency of the Re-

It would be unwise to attempt any out in a state of collapse. The [Professor Arthur Anthony Mac public, used to ride out regularly

forecast, it may be added that cer- conduct of the troops is attribute tain signs, such for instance as to their fear that the captain's the fact that the United States successor might not be so well be price level is no longer falling or loved

donell, M.A., Ph.D., was born in 1854, for ibig event." GIRL IN TRANCE.” in Scotland, and was educated in Ger

M. Forestier was a great student

many and at Oxford, He rapidly be of the science of town planning. DEATH AFTER 20 MONTHS IN came. Ед Internationally known scholar, with honours from the pria The streets and gardens of the

STATE OF COMA

cipal German, British and Indian Champs de Mars were laid out ac-

en Sanskrit studies have been many,

is falling only very slightly, aug-

beats of learning His publications cording to his Ideas, and he had The death has occurred of Mids gest that the depression is nearing a grand project for two huge Doris Hinton, of Chilwell, Notts, Its lowest point; but unhappily avenues, bisecting Parla, west to who was known as the "Girl In a there are hardly any signs yet of east, from the Bois de Boulogne to Trance,tel

a recovery"

[all of them standard · textbooks.);

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the Bois de Vincennes, and north While listening to a wireless to south, from Montmartra tó

programme at her home one night

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Montrogue. In these days of traffic in October, 1935, che lapsed into congestion Forestier's Avenues state of come, and remained in would have inchicúlable value. * that condition for 20 months, dur-mittee of the World's Grain Exhibi- It was not the cost bus the short ing which she was devoid of all tion and Conference has decided to The Aldine, Trust Company with sightedness of the city auth ties feeling and could not speak, al hold a boys and girls competition sourdea of 41,600,000, closed this that prevented the

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