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TWO

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DENTISTS.

Tel. 25869.

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

1st floor, No, 4. Queen's Road

Central. Tel. 21255.

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor 10

the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

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Tel. 56841.

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ON LOK

[Ah Hing)

10, Wyndham St.,

1st floor

Entrance On Lan St.j Telephone 22317.

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Government Attempt to

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So far as the main

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ailored

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Points of Appeal

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THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY, 'Phone 22232,

53. Queen's Road Central.

BUILDINGS LAST TOO for ever.

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It is not that they wear out; it is their design that grows out of date.

"The economie life of a build- ing to-day is about thirty years,

LITERATURE

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General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.

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T

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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1931.

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AT

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

ON GANDHI..

1

Lord Irwin a Man of

Large Heart.

INDIAN WASHINGTON.

Bombay, April 16. Mr.

the Fairbanks, Douglas famous American film star, arrived here yesterday from Delhl,

In the course of a conversation with journalists, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks said India Was MAT- vellously interesting to him from

He had every point of view.

& thrilling time of it in Cooch Behar, where he killed G panthers and four tigers. He enjoyed every minute of his stay in this country. Though he was not fully conversant with Indian politics, he could not 10 help comparing Mr. Gandhi George Washington.

The film star said that he was

much impressed with very

the trust and faith the majority of the Indian public had placed in Mr. Gandhi, the father of the great new |Satyagraha movement. In this respect, Mr. Gandhi had, he said, no parallel in history, except George Washington. Though he had not the pleasure of meeting Mr. Gandhi, from what he had heard and read during his travel in Indla,

THE LIANG YOU CO.. he understond Mr. Gandhi was a

70, Queen's Road C.

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY

by

A. H. CROOK, O.B.E.. M.A. W. EAY, M.A.

W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A., B.Sc.

PRICE $2.00.

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Mr. Fairbanks added that he had a lengthy talk with the Viceroy in Delhi just before his departure, and found Lord Irwin a man of large heart. He was easily the most sympathetic friend of India.

Indian Cinemas. Referring to cinemas in India, Mr. Fairbanks said he attended Indian few shows in Calcutta. pictures had good projections, and were interesting. Indian acting He was of a very high standard. met a few tragedians and comedians who had acted marvellously. There was no distinction between Indian and English acting. Rather, the West had to learn a good deal from some of the Indian actors.

Turning to the

future of

said he did not know how it would shape. In its present state, there Was too much of talking which spoiled the effect of many pictures. He was in favour of a judicious combination of "talkies" and silent pictures. Mr. Fairbanks is sailing

The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd."talkies," Mr. Douglas Fairbanks

China Mail Offices.

the site, and so the narrow roads ONE PENNY WORLD for Britain to-morrow to meet Mrs. remain.

"If high buildings are accused

of excluding light and air. what about the sunny freshness of our

The extensive excavation on A Steel "Chief” on Need and even if it is not out of date slum streets, with their rows and

aroused may serve as an induce- the Fifth Century, A.D. ment to students interested in i

tracing the origin of art, sculp- ture and archaeology of Bengal

to pay a visit to it.

Nature's Ravages.

More Land Required

The

for New Designs.

PROGRESS PREVENTED.

"It is high time we regarded a

has been unearthed near the east water tanks so that,

at the end of that time it is quite probable that the value of its site has entirely altered. Look how London's hotel And shopping centres have been moving west, for instance, and imagine the plight of a giant department store built to last a hundred years and Cheapside... put up fifty years ago in, say,

Designers Tied Down.

financiers, en-

rows of three-storey houses?

"Artistically, the regulations are maddening. I said to an architect the other day: "I suppose 50 per cent. of your work consists in worrying about regulations?" He replied that he only wished the percentage were so low!

"Now is our chance to tackle the whole question nationally.

A Clean Sweep.

'PHONE CALLS.

Inch-Long Aerial for Channel Talks.

A SUPER BEAM.

St. Margaret's Bay (Kent). World telephone calls for a penny! This is one of the possibilities of

Express special correspondent. proof? At present we are tled

for expert down to innumerable detalls. gate. The lowermost of these mental purposes, strains up to 27

"If I want to build a wall of suggests that it was the original tons can be applied to any points |

and such a place, however strong. the blocks may be, because the re-

It was expected last year that, level of the temple. The level at of the steel frame, which is with.hollow blocks I can't do it in such

The testa to be carried out

MR. CHAPLIN'S CROSS.'

The Legion of Honour is Not Pleased,

Fairbanks. After spending the Summer and Autumn on the Continent, Mr. Fairbanks, in the the company of his wife, will visit India during the next cold weather. It will be remembered Mr. Fair- banks arrived in India on March 16, and travelled all over -Bengal, Central India and Delhi.

May Return With Mary Pickford.

"The political situation in India is none of my business," said Mr. Douglas Fairbanks on his depar- ture for Britain.

"Nevertheless I have the greatest which for the work

the southern side of the quadran- gle, which has been done this year, has brought many import- ant finds to public view. most interesting of them and perhaps of the whole lot hitherto unearthed in Paharpur, is the discovery of a plinth or a replica The small village of Paharpur, of the main temple. It looks ex- building as a commodity, not as a three miles from Jamalgang, actly like the main temple and permanent monument, and that stution on the Eastern Bengal has an equal number of angles. the law stopped compelling us ta Railway, so long unknown to the Close to it has

"If we are going to alter the new "micro-ray" discovery in con-

nection with wireless telephony-admiration outside public, has now become, five brick-built vedis (pedestals) to outlast their usefulness."

been exhumed

"Architects, put up buildings which are bound

London arrangements, it would be. a centre of pilgrimage as a re-

gineers, and everybody who is in- far the best thing to make a clean the triumph of eighteen months' Britons in India have so far accom- sult of the excavation of a huge the side of these has been un- the British Steel Work Association, how

of different sizes and styles. By Mr. C. J. Kavanagh, Director of terested in building, will tell you sweep, so that Glasgow and Edin above St. Margaret's Bay, on the with whom I had a long talk in secret tests in huts on the downs plished. Lord Irwin particularly, ruined temple and other relics of earthed a big brick-built well, made this statement to the Even-

they are hampered and burgh and all other cities work ancient civilisation of Bengal.

bothered at every turn by the law. under a single, sensible and, above | South Foreland, and at Cape Gris-Delhi, is a very fine man." which is in a perfect state of pre-ing News.

Fairbanks was more interested The Archaeological Depart-servation. The construction of

Before we rationalise the building all, flexible system of regulations. Nez on the Calals shore.

I sat in a molur-coach on the in shooting and said he had bagged ment of the Government of India all these finds suggests that they tion has just collaborated with the laws about it.

The British Steel Work Associa industry we must rationalise the "For the regulations must keep is in charge of operations. The

pace with engineering progress. high cliffs outside Dover and talked six panthers and had a few shots at are as old as the main temple, Department of Scientific and In-

of con- to a man in Calais for three minutes tigers in Cooch Behar. "Why can't we have some gen- Every year new systems interest which the discovery has which is ascribed to date from dustrial Research in putting up eral regulations that a building struction came into being and au- af a cost in electrical energy of less] Asked if he intended to produce the skeleton of a three-storey steel must be passed as satisfactory, tomatically put a whole group of than one farthing, writes a Daily films with an Indian background he said that while he was yet undecid- building.at-Watford.

I spoke across the Channel on theed, nevertheless, such a wealth of A portion of the stone steps. The whole frame is loaded with safe, hygienic, and reasonably fire regalations out of date by solving

purely technical problems."

world's shortest speaking wave-spectacular material was available length of eighteen centimetres, and that he had no doubt the Inspiration the aerial was less than an inch for such films would come, but long.

owing. to defective technical No more power than half a watt facilities he could not shoot any -just enough to light-an ordinary scenes in India, flash lamp-was necessary to make "I look forward," he added, "to Military members of the Legion this latest radio wonder possible. returning to this wonderful country for instance.

of Honour who earned their de The motor-coach in which I car-with my wife Does anybody Imagine that

coration on the battlefield are in- ried on a leisurely cross-Channel few months." man who is spending a million tensely annoyed because the Cross wireless telephone talk was close to a few more years will have to be, the Government for the purposes

Mr. Kavanagh maintains that pounds, on new building, for; of a Knight of the Legion has been a wooden hut, where a reflector KING'S HEALTH DRUNK IN TEA. of excavation, has proved to be present-day restrictions and re- which he has to find tenants, bestowed by the French Govern-directed a special ray on a screen. Insufficient by the excavation con- gulations hamper the British going to be such an idiot as to ment on Mr. Charles Chaplin. The voice of the man in a hut Opening of Co-operative Society's ducted during the present year. building trade from putting up build something

They have made a formal pro- on the cliffs outside Calais was Although the excavation is al-structures which are sound pro-healthy? The London County test, which has been sent by the carried across the Straits of Dover ready beyond the land acquired positions, not only architecturally, Council is showing a very reason. Association of Members of the on a beam to a micro-radion tube

London, April 22. as they were underneath the de- by the Government, the end is but economically.

able and go-a-head spirit, but stil!!

like an ordinary radio valve in

Seven-hundred tex-cups were brls they were kept in a fit state i still not in sight. The work done

"The earning life of a building we are tied down by out-of-date

According to the "Action Fran- appearance.

raised to drink in tes the health of of preservation by Nature, but beyond the main gate on the ls limited," he said, "and our Lon- laws.

calse" the ex-service men who have The "micro-rays," as they are the King at a luncheon given by the now they are showing distinct north has brought to light two don buildings are out of date long "Consider the limitations

steel build been decorated do not see why the called, are led by two short lines to English and Scottish Co-operative signs of decay, and if immediate brick-built plinths on either side before they are worn out; think height in London. the Hotel Cecil red ribbon of the Legion, tinged the "doublet" or aerial-a piece of Wholesale Society to celebrate the steps are not taken it is feared of the gate which are symmetri- of the Hotel Cecil. But we con- Ing as high as

opening In London of 4 new tea that not only their freshness but cal and are situated at equal dis- tinue to build under regulations would be thirty per cent. lighter, with the blood of heroes, should be bent wire less than an inch long.

a clown, who has

These micro-rays are much like warehouse, which will enable the also their durability will be tances from the gate.

which will make a building last at it could be built much higher bestowed on jeopardised. It may, therefore,

least twice as long as it is want without any more risk of sub-made millions by his clowning, and the light rays sent out by a search Society to cope with an output of be assumed that the expert ad-

Terra Cotta Plaques,

***is thus placed on a level with light, but, unlike light rays, they 1,700,000 lb. a week. ed.

those who shed their blood for are not affected by foge, mists, or The toast of the Society was pro- vice of the Archaeological The innumerable terra cotta "The building of modern hotels,

More Floors.

their country, Chemist of the Government of plaques, which once decorated office blocks, and stored, is now an India will be sought to check the the basement of the huge temple affair of engineering. One should "Look at the price you have to already damaged finds from fur- measuring about 860 feet in its no more think of building them pay for modern fists in the huge extreme length, 818 feet in for performance than one would new buliding. If these buildings breadth and about 75 feet in think of intending a ship to last had been a couple of floors high

er, the extra accommodation would height have been housed in &

pay for the rates, a huge Item ini temporary shed. The import-

the landlord's expenses.

"Even the traffic problem is affected. If you could put up a

so far as the excavation of the present maintained is, therefore, out floors or walls. place was concerned, it would false, and the original level, come to an end this year.

But which is about two feet down it, there will lead, it is hoped, toagulation says the wall must con- the prophecy appears to be has been abandoned owing to the wider appreciation of the uses and sist of solid brick 141⁄2 inches thick, somewhat premature in view of seepage of water. The original advantages of steel construction. the results of the excavation plan of the temple according to conducted so far. It is likely that which the land was acquired by

spent before the work of explora tion is complete.

In the meantime, the climate

of Bengal is having its vengeance

on the exposed rains. So long

ther decay

Conservation Work.

--

Made to Last Too Long.

sidence.

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unsafe and 130-

order.

of

A visit to the place first im- presses the eye with the conser- vation work that is going on ance of these plaques to the he had not to suffer in the least apace. The work was commenc student of plastic art appears to from any paucity of stone, and, ed with the various cells, about | bè great and requires a small as a matter of fact; he had abun 195 in number forming a qua museum for their permanent dantly used this most available big, high, bullefng in the centra drangle and the main mound. housing thers. The observing material for carving stories of a alte, you could surround 15 The present Superintendent in eye will find out that, stone be dealing with the exploits of Lord with very bread Fonds. But to! keen on maintaining the original ing somewhat difficult to get Krishna and the fables of the day people are condemned, by the style of the ruins which all from nearby, the ancient Bengall Sanskrit Aesop, In giving shape, regulations to build so low that help the Interested visitor to artist and seclntor had given ex- to his emotional feeling he had they are forced to use the whole make reasonable economic use. of. derfully on these plaques. Here dition most mercilessly.

J

Mr. Chaplin has become a mem→ ber of an order which includes, be sides heroes of the great war woman who gave birth to nineteen children; M. Escoffer, who invent ed peche Melba; several dress makers, and Dr. Voronoff, the "monkey-gland" expert.

COMING???

have a genuine idea of the original pression, to his fealing most won-broken asunder the people's tra- of the ground Area in order to IMAGINE

al structure of the building and

a

rálii.

its

in the course of a

New Warehouse.

posed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Picture this small valve throwing Ramsay MacDonald, who recalled Huseen super-beam across the ita humble beginning at Rochdale, Channel, carrying a human voice and said it now occupied a unique from a hut in Célafs clearly and place in the history of human de strongly-there you have the latest mocracy. wonder of wireless telephony.

The Premier pointed out that the The man who said "Hello" to me, Society's sales of tea had increased across the Channel, a Cardiff-born from 27,000,000 lb. in 1918 to research engineer, had to lower his 81,000,000 lb. in 1920, and it now voice almost to a whisper in order occupied a premier position in the.. hot to deafen me.

Empire as growers, dealers, Im Multiple,conversations can be porters, blenders, packers and dis carried on at the same time, I was tributors. A

told, over the same wave-length by Sir Herbert Samuel, MP, paint- a slight variations of the dimple ed out that the Society purveyed apparatus which was used for this one-fifth of the tea consumed in demonstration."

Great Britain.