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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1931.

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cellence. If Mr. Pickwick could be sure one night of a "very good prens of Asia on September 25 ar- little dinner; pair of fowls and a rived in Now York (St. John's weal cutlet, French beans, taturs; Park) and Hoboken on October 16, tart and tidiness," the next he having been 21 days in traneit might be in a very "mouldy sort

A Chinese motor-car driver, who of establishment,"

But now,

as then, there is pleaded guilty to many an inn which realises ad-dangerous driving was

He drove along mirably that ancient Ideal of this morning. "the plain and perfect British Lockhart Road, and at the junction dinner down the road." We wish of Fleming Road suddenly cut Mr. Haight many of them to across the corner without giving a justify his confidence. The warning. modern danger is that the inn

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Social Functions. To-day-Peninsula Hotel "Ross" Room, entertainment by Dejehans and William Rimels.

To-night-Dinner Dances at .

at

kitchen should try to emulate A recent motor fatality in which Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

To-morrow-Repulse Bay, enter- the cosmopolitan meal of the big Mr. F. Burrell knocked down a hotel rather than be content with Chinese in Tin Lok Lane had &tainment by Les Dejchans and

Dances its own simple virtues. When it sequel before Mr. Schofield at the William Rimels.

a plain British style, Central Police Court, yesterday To-morrow-Tea keeps to and uses the local excellences of when an enquiry was oponed with King's Restaurant and Lane Craw- provender and cooking it in at its a jury. After some evidence, the ford's. best. The general level of com-enquiry was adjourned. fort is now adequate enough, and

Entertainments.

To-day-

King's Theatre:

Mr. Haight's contention that Mr. F. C. Clemo, of the China Light "The House of the Arrow.”. those who cannot bear to leave & Power Company, has reported the big hotela for the wayside to the Police that whilst driving his "One Romantic Night." inn will never know Britain is car along Chatham Road yesterday

Queen's- Theatre: To-day-

Today Central Theatre; sound enough. In one quality our evening, he knocked down a youth, "Men Without Women.” inns stand supreme. No other Ma Yu-ching, (16), who was country can welcome you to inns moved to the Kowloon Hospital which preserve so much of the where his condition is reported to grace of the old world and such be satisfactory.

a picturesque setting for historic memories. - Daily Telegraph.

Rewards for Squeakers.

In their detection of crime the German police work on rather different methods from Scotland' Yard.

Po-dat TC:

Personal Pars.

Miss Marie C. Braga, of the stair

In murder cases the Germans of the Dollar S.S. Line, returned rely (as we often used to do in to the Colony by the s.s. President Ireland in the case of political McKinley.

murders) on money rewards for!

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November 14-Theatre Royal; opening performance of Hong Kong

ef production

"Dear A.D.C.'B Brutus."

Home Malls. To-day-Inward from Europe via Siberia (Duisburg); Outward for Europe via Siberia (Pilana)

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Thursday-Outward for Europe Mr. C. W. Edmonds, of the Star- via Siberia (Empress of Russia), dard Oil Company of Manila, is re- 16 p.m. offered

turning there by the s.8. President McKinley, accompanied by wife and son.

from Europe

Friday-Inward his via Suez (Macedonia),

Miscellaneous.

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To-morrow-Navy League Cere-

I have just received a copy of the poster, which has been put nil over Germany in order to facilitate the capture of the The forthcoming wodding ia an- many at Cenotaph, 11 a.m.

nounced of Bernabe Antonio Friday Promenade dares to trace the virus to its criminal who tried to blow up Dr.Almeida, 382, Ma Tan Wei Road, (H.K.V.D.C.), Kowloon

Bruning's train in August.

Jair!

Concert Cricket

THE OPEN HARBOUR EVENT.

Hawaiian Swimmer Competing.

At the top is the announce-Kowloon City, to Celestina Alberta Club, 9.15 p.m. In innumerable little labora-ment in large letters of "£5,000 Souza, 5, Granville Road, Kowloon. tories of Europe and America, Reward." There is a picture of

The Hon. Manuel Quezon, Presi-i carnest, short-sighted men ure the criminal with his iron tubes

dent of the Philippine Senate, ar- of explosives.

by the 8.8. President' A Common Nuisance. peering into test tubes, looking

There is a complete time-table 'rived here anything but picturesque and of his movements up to the time McKinley, returning home from

He is necompanted! As ever, at the beginning of adventurous, yet undertaking a of the crime and full information Washington.

the reward can be claimed. the cool season in the Colony, form of hunting more vital than regarding the manner in which by Mrs. Quezon and family.

The Open Harbour Race will with anything that was done in the There are also photographs of common colds are usual, here and there symptoms of history of mankind. It is dan-the parcel of wire which he car- B.A Assistant Chaplain at St commence from the Kowloon Pist

at 5.15 p.m. this afternoon. Who would ried and of the cigarette boxes he Andrew's Church, Kowloon, since influenza. The common cold has gerous sport, too.

left behind. Finally, there is a October, 1929, will preach his fare-entry has been received from S. R. fascimile reproduction of his well sermon on Sunday morning. Zane, a Hawallan swimmor, who is been described as the bane of envy them their risks?

The Vicar will preach at Evensong heralded by a big reputation. If it is necessary that the handwriting. not so much humanity

The full list of entries for the It is a remarkably complete after which there will be a Social scourge as a nuisance. But the virus should be tested, they will

document. I recommend it to Hour in the Church Hall, when all Open race is-Samuel R. Zane, L. great medical profession cannot find heroin souls who will step abute it. This reproach to the into that Valley of the Sneeze our own authorities for perusal. friends will have an opportunity of Roza Pereira, C. J. Cooke, Kwok

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-Manchester Guardian.

"Squeeze.”

more

2

in

The Rev. Edward A. Armatrong.

Baying good-bye.

FLOOD RELIEF FUND.

An

Chan-hang, Shek Kam-pul, Young Man-kit, E. U. S. Alves, Ed. de Roza, A. B. Pearson, A. B. Bell, M. M. de V. Soares, L. A. da Roza, A. J. McNulty, Chan Ki-cheung, Yeung Yuen-wah, E, W. Railton and J. Summers.

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To-day's Thought.

Often the half truth is worse than

Ten Years Ago.

[Trom the "China Mail" of October 20, 1921.]

profession, however, may actual which is the terror of millions. For All honour to the bacteriologists! ly before long be removed.

A good story told by the Professor A. R. Dochez, of Perhaps we shall only be said to

Rev. G. E. Arrowsmith (formerly CORRESPONDENCE. Columbia University, New York, have achieved a true realisation of Kowloon) reintes to the "old claims, with his collaborators, to of what civilisation means when Chinese custom" of "squeeze," have isolated the cold virus. He the popular mind sees the white which is still accepted as the

business conducting has discovered that the cold 18 uniform of the laboratory work-most national concomitant of

that To the Editor of "Chiray-Mail") caused by a virus small enougher as being as picturesque as the country and is demonstrated in

Sir, May I avail myself of the to pass through any filter and to appurtenances of the African ex- Malaya every time "cookie" goes correspondence column in, your

to market. In this case the story valuable paper to announce to the the whole truth. elude the power of any micro-plorer.

Apocryphal and the scope. The ordinary bacteria We must not suppose that the writer does not vouch for its ac-public the result of the "Campaign" which have been blamed for day of a speedy cure for the cold jcuracy in every detail but it is organised by the University Chris ad the Flood Relief in North China? colds up to now are indeed the is at hand. According to the almost good enough to be true an Association to raise funds for

in spite of the reductio lesser factors in the trouble. Professor's description of itsbsurdum.' The story goes that This Campaign was held from Sep-

equivalent for tember 27 to October 11. During To-day'a dollar is worth 2/0 % Having cultivated the cold cause, the virus is likely to prove the

For a long £20,000 was allocated from public this limited time the committee and

Bad liquor was blamed for the de- virus, the Professor, has suc- an elusive quarry.

funds for the lighting of Peking. other members of the Association, ceeded in infecting unfortunate time yet, it may be that preven- The important official who had who understand that this cause is linquency of an N.C.O. who appear- chimpanzees with it, and set tion will be the aim of humanity, the matter in hand appropriated a right and worthy one, had been ed for a District Court Martial at them sneezing with all the fami- but at least the discovery will half of this sum as his own per-going round everywhere to ask for Murray Barracks this morning to answer a charge alleging absence liar symptoms. And, further, emphasise the infectious nature sonal "squeeze," the secretary of subscriptions, and finally at the

his department, who regarded close of the Campaign they have without leave.

Bum altogether a

The accused was No. 5562269, he has found self-sacrificing of the disease. Those who carry himself as of equal importance, collected

This shall be 2nd Wilts Regiment. Major W. C. human beings to accept the the infection to their unfortun- deducted half the remainder, and 3537.10, which is rather an unex Sergt. A. Monaghan, M.M., of the martyrdom of the sneeze also, ate neighbours will be urged all the balance of £5,000 was handed pectedly big one.

more emphatically to keep on to lesser underlings, who each sent through the Chinese Central Downing, R.G.A., was president of "squeeze" Y.M.C.A. to the flooded areas in the Court and the other members willing victims of the virus,

subtracted his own Could service to science go fur- themselves to themselves, and from the amount. so that it the nearest future. The collection were Capt. E. L. Botts, 2nd Wilts, ther? Let the reader ask him- sneeze and cough in private dwindled and dwindled. When it from each hostel or Individual por- and Capt. H. K. Morton, 2/22 Pun-

! the

self whether he would be ready misery 1.

From Other Pens.

English Inns.

Chinese

of

Jabis.

+

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#

Lieut. J. M. Dodington, 2/Wilts, prosecuted and Mr. C. F. Mason ap- peared for the accused, who pleaded

Eliot Hall Morrison Hall May Hall

$119.10

114,00 04.00

St. Stephen's Hall Ricci Hall

55.00

guilty.

45.00

81.00

55.00

24.00

Mr. E. K. Foo

Miss B. Chen...

Miss: A. Ho....

finally reached the contractor it son is as follows:- had all been appropriated except Ito be infected with even one cold,

7d., and so he told one of his coolies to go and buy a wick and of the really virulent variety, at

a dish of oil. The coolle, with! a period in the development of

admirable conscientiousness, do- medical science when the cause

ducted only 2d., for his own pocket, and with the balance but not the cure was understood.

bought the wick and oil. A pass- For it may be possible to cap-

On behalf of those homeless and A wise American has just ing beggar, seeing the unwonted ture the virus without finding out landed in Britain to make illumination, traced it to its starving sufferers of the flood, I for long how to execute the little journey of study of our cld source and, being thiraty, drank beg to thank firstly those who have He has come to the oil, and so ended the public kindly and benevolently subscribed ruffian! The bacteriologists will wayside inns.. now be occupied all over the the conclusion that these are the lighting of Peking! It is an ex-to the cause and secondly those finest of our national institutions, aggerated story, no doubt, the who have volunteered to go round world in isolating it and studying Such a compliment is startling. writer adde, but it does give an and beg for subscriptions. It lea Indeed, to вее the its manners and habits, its The British habit of depreciating idea of the wretched "squeeze" pleasure, simple'joys, and, particularly, its British things has been vigorous system that throttles trade and sufferers relieveá; It is a pleasure ly engaged upon the quality of is a continual source of annoy-to seo the floods obbed; but nothing antipathies.

our inns. Without any rance to the "stranger within the is comparable to the pleasure to It is the ancient sport of hunt-spect for the vulgar superstition gate."--Straits Times. ing removed to the opposite ex-that the cook of the foreign inn treme from that of big game must bal good and ours bad, we feel that Mr. Haight, has been What an anachronism is the uncommonly fortunate in his ex? fellow who goes out after the perience that at our inne n man

The lowest opan air temperature harmless rhinoceros, the meek always fares well. Even in the

golden age of the high-road inn, yesterday was 78 degrees. The and inoffensive hippopotamus, the last years of coaching, there humidity was 67 at 10 am, and 62 compared with the scientist who was not that uniformity of ex at 4 pm.

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CHEUNG SHIU TONG.

Hon. Secretary.

Hong Kong, October. 19.

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