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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1931.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE HAY HOTEL

PEAK HOTEL

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL.

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.

THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL.

9-12, Chatham Road, Kowloon. Finest Situation on the Peninsula. Large Airy Rooms with Fall Benet of the Cool Sea Breezes. Unequaled Cuisine.

Phone

Tel. 56734.

Proprietress:-Mr. Gardiner.

Cable Add "Harview."

SAVARIN HOUSE

Telephone

56780

HOUSE

PRIVATE HOTEL.

81-34. Wing Lok Buliding. 1st floor. ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES. UNPARALLELED CUISINE

The finest of foods and wines

served in the brightest and most

attractive surroundings.

class orchestra, luxurious loungea.

First-

Specious and

Tiffin $1.10.

Hotel Cecil

Tel. Add

Ifigh-Class Renowned for ita Cuisine and Service combined Near wika Moderate Tarif. shops and theatres. Yet in a pleasing neighbourhood.

Dinner $1.30.

ENCLOSED IN ORIENTAL FERNERY AND EASTERN CHARM.

Furnished with an Cyu to THE comfort of its tenants. Luxuri-

Our

double

single

and rooms

airy.

large and

SELECT PRIVATE HOTEL.

THE MARBLE HALL

21. Nathan Rd., Kowloon,

Telephone 57089.

DAILY CROSS-WORD

Modern

roome

bata- attached to each

room, and private gar- age. benefita motorists,

PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but

our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic apellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

22 123

HORIZONTAL

.1-Plural of that

15 16

17 18

| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.)

40-Vulgar

23-Dear meat [24-Close-fitting bodices 26-80-called "Destroy- Ing Angels" of western plonour dayn

10-Made perpendioular 13-Neckpiece

6-Bear heavily

81-Crafty

-Aftomoon party

#2-Be-unwoll

12-Assistance

14-Recompensed

166-Type of lamp

68-Shouting (69-Contradicting.

-16-Stering tover

18-8at in competition 160-Plaything 10-City thoroughfares 61-Tested

(abbr.)

21-Talaphone (abbr.)

22-Endad

24-Hesled

26-Coarea' weed

128-Enclosure

25-Exciting mietli 31-Free Befarü 92-Wander from tha

truth +32-Hard ́abull frult 36-8Jght. J}Iran $6-D10042 37-Half score. 18-Kitohen stängt

40-Waale made by m

AS-Unosakad

45-Man's' name

^47-Cauterizas

62-Dragged

VERTICAL

1-Golf mound- 2-Occur 3-impato... 4-010 times (Pool) 8-Molst 6-Prepare mani-

doriper, 7-Speedy and

ceraless action +8–Haston |

*S-Collect in srowdą.

11-Portining to.

13-Malo duck

||15-Ventilate

17-Conducted

19-Total

43-Proofreader's mark 20-Second (abbr.)

|27 Pertaining to the

skuti

29 Calle aloud 30-Musical Instrument

(pl.)

|32-Hoads of nawa-

paporn (abbr.)

34-A mets!

35-A fish

|36-One who rings a bell slowly |41-Rosiderios (abbr.)

¡42-inspact closely

49-Describe |44-Long-legged thin

and, fank

|46-The sun`

PRODUCTION OF LIFE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Link Between Lifeless

and Living.

ARTIFICIAL CELLS.

into

550,000 ACRES FROM THE SEA.

Reclamation of the Zuider Zee.

VAST DYKE BUILT.

close her Hostand expects to Cleveland, O., Jan. 3. Artlicial

hands on the largest plece she has cella, brought existence in the laboratory of Dr. ever taken out of the North Sea in George W. Crile at the Cleveland the Autumn of next year, when the which will connect Clinic, may form a link between vast dyke,

wae Wieringen with Friesland, should the lifeless and the living, it revealed in an exclusive interview be completed. and the Zuider Zee with Dr. Crile by the United Press. consequently enclosed,

The cells procreated by division Amsterdam correspondent just as do many living unicellular Daily Express. animals such as the amoeba, and have exhibited reactions to oxygen and to poisons similar to that of living cells.

Baya the

HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.

APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.

Butcher. Meat.

Bear Sirloin

Prime Cut

Corned Roast

Breast

Soup

Steak

Steak Siriola Sausagea

Bullock's Brains

** of the

I have just returned from two days spent on and about what was once the island of Wieringen, and I bave had the most curiously thrilling experience of my life.

that beenuse these un- 1 any paralleled engineering works ary-

Tongue, freak.. Tongue, corned

Feb. 27, Juno, June,

1981. 118. 1914.

to use the phrase of an old woman Calves' Head & Fost.. Het $1.20 11.00 $1.00

used to know"against Provid-Mutton Chop

Poultry.

Feb. 27, June, June,

Ib.

1981. 1918. 1914.

Cta. Cis. Cla

63 28

DE # 100

思想

each 40

Capons, Large

Doves

Eggs, Hen (cooking). ...

新鮮期蛋

por dez. 36 18

Fowls, Hainan Geess...

Pigeons, Canton

Turkeys, Hon

Quail Partridges

Fruits.

88 OKKAR CEKEGGAE

ega kaasa.⠀ŃHE-OP88

8888718888] [19] {|}

本地看

lb.

# 190

15.

each 32

pair 2.60

each 60

1.00

¤#3

Ct. Ct. Gta.

牛尾乾

1b.

Chicken Capons, Small

80 28 11

28 19

•

Duck

80 24 22

28 20 18

26 20 18

Eggs, Hen (fresh).

20 735

Fowls, Canton

80 20

per sot 16

10 12

oach 45

Holhow

Food

.. $1.00

$1.20

Turkeys, Cock

Heart

24 18 14

Sulpe

Hump, Sali Foot

20 19

Phenakat

euch 10

Kidneys

Tall

25 20

Liver

Tripe

牛肝 Ib. 24 13 14

匙

10 6

羊排骨

Jb. 36 20

Leg

16.

Shoulder

84 24

Apples (California)

金山輝藥

311

Saddle

羊肉

Pig's Chitlingə

葉山香蕉

Carambola

will

Brains

Per net 3

Fast

lb. 16

Coconuts

Fry

86 15

Lamona, China

Band

... 26

Heart

cách 10 10 10

Kidneys

བ་

Lichees, Dried

Liver

Ib. 48 80 24

新膚品控

$6 25 23

.70

沙

241

Peanuts

花生

per set 20

Persimmons, Large

紅

Fib

Plantain

10 12 10

45 26

Pumelo, Biem

1b, 26 25

Walnuts

80 20 18

86 28 26

enec.**

She would have held that as the Zuider Zee was there, it was meant to be there,

Primitive Cells. Further research may reveal that they are primitive cells resembling more nearly the cells of cancer and hence throwing important light upon the study of that disease.

These facts were revealed when Dr. Crile, for the first time dia-

The Dutch, on the other hand cussed the work which has been going on in his laboratory and are rapidly putting the Zuider

its

and place. made known detalla of the experi- Zee in ment, news of which leaked out af eventually increase the arable land few weeks ago and was published of their country by a tenth of its throughout the country as "The present area. artificial creation of life."

"For the present," said Dr. Crile, "let us regard the cell as some where in the vague ground between the lifeless and the living."

Beneath the Microscope. Two of Dr. Crile's assistants re- the peated the experiment for writer, enabling him to ace under the microscope the way in which the "autosyntactic cells," as Dr. Crile calls them, are formed.

They are accustomed to putting, and keeping, the sea in its place, for the greater part of Holland is ac- tually below sea-level. Its one na- tural protection is the line of dunes | which runs along the west coast of North Holland.

Joined to Mainland,

For the rest, man has raised his. own walls against the sea, and, by enclosing and pumping out succes-

Pork Chop

Log

Lola

Fat or Lard

Shoep's Head & Fost..

Heart

■1

Kidneys Liver

sive areas, has added to his posses- Sucking Pigs, to order A glass elide with a little de-

Bions. Such areas are called Suet, Boef pression ground into its centre was polders; and the Zuider Zee scheme placed under the microscope. In provides for four mighty polders, of the depression was placed a drop which one the north west is of solution containing various salts. finished. To those was added a liquid, a fat, which had been extracted from brain tissue of a freshly-elaugh- tered animal.

At once, a reaction between the two took place resulting in the for- mation of tiny bres.

The artificial or "autosynthetic" cell is completed by adding protein from brain tissue.

$ * 9

Mutton

Veal

SAUBAROS

No. 1.

Fish.

Fish鲢餓

If you look at a map of Holland you will see the Zuider Zee shaped rather like a cottage loaf, and with Barbel Bream Wieringen at the top-left.

The top-left portion of that loaf Canton Fresh Water EZK)

Wieringen has has already gone. been joined to the mainland, and Carp the coast-line-advance! Into the Catfish Zuider Zee by an average of eight Codfish miles-runs now from the north-Crabs cast tip of Wieringen to the town Cuttle Fish of Medemblik.

Dab

Fresh Water

Yellow

Regular in Form. When this is added. structures like tiny cella of living creatures.

That coast line la a dyke. Stand Dace, only simpler and more regular in

on it, facing Europe, and you will Dog Fiab form, come into existence. Dr.

have the Zuider Zee on your left. Sels, Conger Crile calls them "autosynthetic" Turn to your right and you wil seo because they put themselves to the bottom of the Zuider Zee, now a gather automatically as the various part of the country, dry except for Frogs ingredients are mixed.

a few patches, and stretching for Garoups "I do not want to any at this

the mist over North Gudgeon time what the autosynthetic cells miles into are," Dr. Crile said. "Our experi- ments are not finished. If news hadi not leaked out prematurely, I would net have discussed this mut ter for month; yet."-Urited Press.

Holland,

Herrings

It is twelve feet below the level!

Hallbut of the water lapping at your left.

Labrus Much remains to be done before Loach the new land is ready for settling Lobsters and cultivation. The salt must

Mackerel disappear from the soil. Houses, Monk Fah "HOW DID HE GET IN" ronda and canals, both for naviga-Mallet

UPROAR AT PRESENCE OF REPORTER.

A heated argument over the pre-

sence

of a Daily Mail reporter }

tion and drainage, must be bafit.

Dyntera Incidentally, there will be 750

Parrot Fish miles of feeding drains, and 25,000 Perch miles of ditches.

650,000 Acres.

Pike Plaice

I can best describe the sites of Pomfret, White

broke out in mail week at an in-the three fature polders by saying Pomfret, Black formal meeting of shareholders of that two, the south-west and south Prawns.... the British Rubber and General cast, will the gulf, at the head Bay Trust one of the group of which of which is Amsterdam, and that Rock Fish Mr. M. C. Harman is the head. In the third will bulge from the op-Ronch response to a written request by posite coast behind a dyke curving Salmon reader of the Daily Mail, who from the neighbourhood of Mirns to Shark thought that shareholders, would Vollenhoven.

Skate

uppreciate any news that right The four polders will have a total Shrimps throw more light on this company's area of 550,000 acres. The north Snapper outlook, a representative duly at-west (ne is the smallest with 50 000 Soles tended.

south-east one, to Tench The meeting had not proceeded adjoin the province of Gelderland, Turbot

acrea, and the

far when another shareholder an- will be the largest with 230,000 |Turtles, small, fr. water- nounced his discovery that the acres.

meeting harboured in its midst a You approach Wieringen by the

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牛羊仔仔

B肚水高雄—— 魚魚魚魚沙魚材料魚白甲花魚魚魚魚魚號芒魚鈎館經黑公魚魚 ***ESKE KIRIKKENUEBREPRISEDPERAETHERN 公班 DE

中羊羊羊羊猪猪猪猪猪羊羊羊牛乳牛牛

口

ench 12 8 ศ

Ib.

reporter. Loud cries of "How did arst dyke, which was made as parting path-every ether person In

Compensated Fishermen..

鬥

22 20 20

2 ឥ ឥ ឧ ន ន ន ន ឌ ។ គឺ ៩ ៖ ៩ ៖ ន ន 2 3 ≡ 4 × Ù 3 3 3 3 គឺ 3 2 ឌ ន ឌី ឥ គឺន≠ ឌឌធំដុំ

Almenda..........

Bananas (bride's)

Lemons (American)

Feach 14 10

Subik

lb.

12 25 - 30

cách 13

## 16.

Oranges (Canton)

Oranges

Pears (Canton)

ཤྰ བྷཱུ ནྟུ ཨྠབྷཱུཤྩ ཚ⌘ | | ། ཞཱ ཁྱ ཋ འ ། |

} : " ྋ ུ ལྲ ཎྞཱ ཤྩ ཝཱ | ཋ ཋ ླ #

Grapes

邐籐铂 each 16 合

# 16.

***

Vegetables, &c.

Artichokes

Beans, Sprout .......

Brinjala, Green

Red

Cabbage, Chinese ....

(Shanghai).

Cane Shoots, banch

Cauliflower (Large) ··★MIE (Medium) (Small)

Celery, Chinese Chillies, Dried

Red Green

Curry Stuff, English..

Cucumbers

Garlic...

Ginger, Young

ÞUSICIE

Old

each 12

F* - * - - - - - F

ཋ །⌘ | ༄ | སྱཱ | | ཆ ཋ |

10 12

cách 20

10 10 10

B 8 12

飆轉榮花

lb.

***

#**

粒辣椒

海花椒

AAHUBEUKROYEDGERHERBS+R #ERUS' ESTKAŠASZKERT 30 #4-18 28

竹榮華躓瓜瓜瓜菜菜等花花花笋來平椒椒料瓜畫安米東區遊菰頭習班來喜仔仔本好來來茹带菜

14 24

Long

Best Root

Bilter Squash

34. 23

.10

Carrots

23 30

82 20

40 30

帽

Lettuce

Onlans, Bombay

Green

生

80 20

Shangbal

上海意四

BO 30

Parsley

芹菜

86 40

Potato, Sweet.

Japanese

日本薯仔

American

金山驀仟

22 10

Pumpkin Radish

80 30

8 10

10 -10

32 80

Shallots Spinach Tomatoes

28 28

28 12

1.10 40

TERPERGA |* | * 888-*--*K******88*======A8RRBA |

Horseradish, Shangha

Indian Corn

Water Chestnuts

Mandar

Kushrooms, Fresh Okroes

Rhubarb (Fresh)

干蒜

Taros

Turnips, Panti (Long)

Vegotablo MarrOW

Water Cress

Water Lily Boot ...

Woman's Enthusfest. The young mother's eyes were dreamy. She wore a white head- dress with square pieces of gold at her temples, not to please tourists, as is done in Marken, but in the natural way that some women still have in remote places.

ལྤ ཋ ། སྲ ཙ ཤཱ ལ མ སྨྲ ཤྩ བྷུ པ ཿ ཐཱ ཤཱ ཀྵ གྲཱ སྠ བྱཱ ཧྨ ཐ ཧྨ = ཋ ཋ ཌ | | སྱཱ ཆ ཡཿ ཀྐཱ ཋ ཝཿ | ཕ apཤྲུསྐྱུབཋ

and twenty persons-guests and employees are believed to have been burned to death.

Until all the bodies are recovered

he get in?" from one shareholder of the scheme. It carries a railway Holland rides a bicycle. drowned everything else for some and a road. The erstwhile Island la moments. Upon a show of hands, ftself the barrier for the next however, 12 shareholders voted for section, and when you have travers-

I came to a collection of work

the exact number of victims cannot the Daily Mail reporter to stay and ed its length you arrive at Den men's huts, haunted by dogs and

be stated, as the hotel register was 9 expressed their strong exception Oever

red-cheeked children clumping about

destroyed in the fire. to the company's affairs being Here starts in earnest the dyke in wooden shoes. Wieringen and

The damage is estimated at brought into the light of day. which will span the Zuider Zee the other end of the dyke were lost

We seemed so isolated that I 415,000. Mr. Harman, in his commentary entrance for eighteen and a halt in mist.

spoke to them, using one of the four, Unemployed to the number of 140 on the company's affairs, said that miles to Friesland.

There was simply this strip-this Dutch words I know, and pointing had been given free sleeping accom- conditions had become worse, and

When that is done work will be rib-of earth floating on the sea. that securities had depreciated fur-gin on the three other polders, and

Four tafles out I came to the end to the great dyke. "Naar Fries-modation in the basement. All of

land!" I said to Friesland." them escaped. ther. He said that the company the Zuider Zee will cease to be the of it, and thence I could see faintly The father rodded unemotionally. was now doing practically nothing Zaider Zoe. It will degenerate into the central section, beyond which is but "nurse" its securities, and the wedge-shaped lake, to be called another gap, and beyond that the directors were not drawing fees. the Yaselmeer, and its water will Friesland sectiad. He strongly advised shareholders

As 1 walked back across the sen becomo rapidly fresh. not to press for a valuation of as-

She was strong enough and lovely The lock at, Den Oever has been to Den Oever I thought of the time sets, but said that it would be built between the sluices and the when the dyke will be bumming enough to be the personification of given if a majority desired-it.

land.. It is forty-six feet wide and with motor cara and, of course, Holland conquering the ser: and in 465 feet long. I crossed It by a millions of bicycles-ail onjoying a the sunset I fancied for a moment bridge which is to be replaced by perfectly straight run of eighteen that she was.

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION,

BOIL

46-8tudy hard

|50-Ford

{62-Lærgu, constellation

İse-Abroad

LGE

355-A color

ARIE

[84-insect

157-Ta be dryway

The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrowʻz Ldetto along sóten' a' How Erbestbord" JURAT,)

PAST FAST

The mother, however, smiled. She nodded quickly. "Ja! Ja!" she affirmed with enthusiasm, "Naar Friesland!"

I thought of the Zuider Zee 20 PERISH IN HOTEL

awing bridges for the raliway and and a half miles on a brick-surfaced road along the dyke, ard slithered road. down into the "excavation," whose surrounding wall will, in the end. be fishermen who will be compensated removed. When I climbed out on for the substitution of land for the further side the dyke was before water at their front doors. I me.

thought of the year 1980, when the It is a marvellous view. The whole scheme may be completed.

No longer will young farmers. dyke lunged itraight on as far as I could des towards Friesland. Outweary of waiting for their own of the corner of my eye I glimpsed holdings, desert the land. No long-

■ blue ribbon on the water, which er will the Government fear the was the older dyke connecting encroachment of town on country. Wierlagen with Medemblik :7 be passed in the ennset a small gan to walk aboad.

family who fad been wandering about the sluices. The young father and the little son were stolid.

The dyke is wide enough for double rallway, a road, and a cycl-

FIRE

But their benefactor, the pro- prietor of the hotel, James Palangio, lost his wife and four children and his brother, The cause of the fire is at present unknown.

Gucate on the upper floors of the hotel, were suffocated, the whole hotel being a mass of flames in a few minutes, says a Central News message from Montreal Scores of people were injured in Jumping from the windows.

The sufferings of the injured ware; futansified by the bitterly cold weather which was below zero.

prietor of the hotel, after helping Proprietor Loses Wife It was stated that the pro-

and Four Children.

to rescue other guests, plynred into the Are-swept building in an effort to rescue his wife and children, breaking away from the bystanders who attempted to restrain him

Toronto, Das. 29. The Christmas-New Year celebra- tions in Canada have been over shadowed by a terrible fire tragedy in the small town of Cochrane, Ontario, to-day,

The Queen's Hotel caught fire,

it was during the Christmas New Year weer last year that deventy children lost their lives in' Palaley cinema" fine,

1931-03-02 — Page 11

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