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WHITEAWAYS

The China Mail

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with stark horror the idea of ap- pearing in public with our trou sors held up by braces?

"In America braces are collo- quially known as galluses. Could this refer to a time when male- factors were perhaps equipped with braces instead of a belt on

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1931.

WHOOPEE GIRLS.

Pleasing Change of Programme.

KING'S CROWDED.

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS,

On London- Bank, wire

·∙1/4 1/2

Bank, on demand... 1/4 9/16 Bunk, 4 months' sight 1/4 11/16.

[going to the gallows? And would Yesterday the King's Theatre' had Credits, 4 months'

that account for the low repute again very good houses for the sight of braces?"-Manchester Guar- double programme, Paramount's Documentary, dian.

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Blunders of the World.

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1/5 4

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660

730

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picture "Women Love Onco" and months' sight Nellle Farren's Whoopee Girls, who On Paris- gavò a complete change of pro-On demand To select the Seven Blunders gramme.

Credits, 4 months' of the World is the novel com-

The picture, "Women Love Dace," sight petition announced in an Ameri-is a very tense love drama featur- On Berlin- can magazine, which offers three ing Paul Lukas and Eleanor Board-On demand hundred dollars for the best man and keeps one in suspenso On New York- diagnosis.

right to a surprising climax. On, demand The specimen septet repro- Nellie Farren's Whoopée Girls in Credits, 60 days' sight 27%. duced below is given by way of their change of programme were af On Bombay. illustration and the blunders in vast improvement on their inst Wire

it are barred from the competi-week's performances. It was hard On demand.... tion,

to decido which was the better) On Calcutta--- · The first, which is likely to item, the "Apache" Dance or the Wire sct the ghost of John Wilkes "Wooden Soldiers." Both merited On demand Booth rattling its jaw bones, ia will earned applause.

On Singapore----. naturally an American one- "Allowing, through sheer care-successful with their two. items,]

The Olymple Trio were again very| On demand

On Manila- lessness, the murder of Abraham while Victor Derenevsky played a On demand Lincoln at the moment when he selection **Liebeslied" from On Shanghai- could least be spared." Lin-Kriesler on his violin, and was. On demand

death Was

coln's

disastrous

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On Yokohamg-

53

Sovereigns

buying rate) Silver (por oz.)

(Bank's

1/5 20

Bar Silver in Hong

Kong

Nom.

Nom.

3% prom

enough, but to call it a blunder applauded by all music lovers. Dollar

To-day is the last opportunity to is to underrate the ingenuity of see this fine porformance, which On demand John Wilkes Booth.

Then come --·

2. Refusal of the Allies to make peace with Germany before! Russia had gone over to Bolshe-{ vism.

should not be missed.

LESSON SERMON.

First Church of Christ, Copper Eash

Copper Conta

salem by Titus, A.D. 70, which Scientist, Hong Kong. Rate of Native In-

3. The Destruction of Jeru-

drove the Jews into exile all overį the world.

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terest

34% p.a. "Adam and fallen man" was the Chinese Sub. Coin... 25% dis.

LONDON EXCHANGES

Rugby, Yesterday.

Paris New York

16 9/16 3.79%

Montreal Brussels

4.21

27

Geneva

19.5

Amsterdam

9.4

Milan Berlin

73%

16

Stockholm

17.5

Copenhagen

17.5

Onlo

17.8

Vienna Prague

28

127/2

Helsingfors Madrid

190

43

Lisbon

1094

Athens

810

Bucharest

€35

Rio

4

Buenos Aires

364

Montevideo

28%

1/6%

Shanghai

1/9%

Hong Kong

1/4/2

the

Yokohama

2/7

Silver Spot

20

Silver Forward

Bombay

4. Refusal of the Jews to subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Hong Kong Sub. Coln Far. make common cause with Churches of Christ, Scientist, ON Mohammed, thereby throwing Sunday, November 8. away their last chance to make The Golden Text was.-"Awake Judaism a world-wide religion. thou that sleepest, and arise from 6. Indifference of Christian the dead, and Christ shall give "liberty" of the individual when nations to fate of Byzantium, thee light." (Ephesians 5; 14.)

thereby allowing the Turk to get Among the citations which com- they deem fit. Here is a matter a foothold in Europe, 1469 A.D. prised the Lesson-Sermon was the in which 'definite legislation 6. Unwillingness of the following from the Bible."And Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 9, 1931.

would earn for them the grati-Church to placate Luther or, God sald, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let tude of hundreds of Chinese compromise with him. Nocturnal Noises.

7. The error of our grand them have dominion over the fish and non-Chinese who are at pre-fathers, who taught the natives of the sea, and over the fowl of the sent denied the natural process in their colonies to read and air, and over the cattle, and over Following & sleepless night,

of slumber on account of the write and think for themselves, all the earth, and over every creep- due to mosquitoes and building nocturnal building operations the white man is being kicked earth.

with the immediate result that ing thing that creepeth upon the So God created man in his operations in the close vicinity of

Women and children

are pre-out of colonies he once exploited, own image, in the image of God our humble abode, we feel that

cluded from working in factories-Ceylon Observer.

created he him; male and female the state of our liver warrants

created he them.” (Genesis 1. at night time for reasons of taking a risk in grinding a per-

The Homeless Londoner.

26, 27. health--but what is gained if sonal axe.

The Lesson-Sermon also included It is by no means

My heart warms to the un-

the the first time that we have call-these same women and children named witness who testified re the following passage from

Science textbook. ed the attention of the authori- are unable to enjoy the benefits (cently in Tottenham Police Court. Christian

When a lawyer implied that he "Science and Health, with Key to ties to the nced that exists for a of peaceful sleep during the was a Londoner he was quick to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker ban on building work after sun-night on account of the nocturnal refute the suggestion. "No," he Eddy,-"Christian Science separ

ates error from truth, and breathes Bet. Owing to the activities of building operations of which we said, "I was born in Hoxton,

There is far too little senti-through the sacred pages have complained more than once building contractors in the Sham-

ment of place about us London-spiritual sense of life, substance, in this column? shuipo district night is being

On one occaers; too little, local patriotiam. and intelligence. In this Science, walk westward along we discover man in the image and turned into day. Right past the sion we suggested that the Chin-As I

likeness of God. Wo

that limits of the "wee sma' hours" ese Unofficial members of the Knightsbridge I always pause

with satisfaction to read the in- man has never lost his spiritual Legislative Council might the noise of knocking and ham-

scription on the milestone, estate and his eternal harmony," make representations to the which boldly states, "One mile to (n. 548,) mering continues to the annoy-

authorities. The Kowloon Resi- London." The men of Kensing- ance of those who are light

ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT? eleepers, of invalids, and of little dents' Association could Ukewise ton can still feel some pride of independence. There is the children, to all of whom sound add this to the myriads of sub- Borough after all."

(Continued from Page 1) With most of us, however, sleep is essential during recog-jects to which they have turned

Fundamental Principles. nised hours for slumber. Chin- their attention with gratifying involved in being born a London- trust that they have made it howma" (World Poet or "King of there is a species of homelessness

Calcutta, Sept. 20. The Japanese Government

The title of "Kavisarvab- esc residents are at the moment results. Matters in the Sham-

Perhaps the man of Hoxton clear that the five fundamental Poets") was conferred upon Dr. shulpo district have gone be can remember the place where principles mentioned in the Japan-Rabindranath Tagore by the affected even more than non-

yond a joke. With the almost he was born, and revisit it with ese declaration of October 26 Board of Sanskrit Studies at a Chinese. How they manage,

crowded recollection all about daily extension of building owing to the proximity of the

are no more than those that are special convocation held at the him. For most of us Londoners commonly observed in intercourse Sanskrit College operations, there is good ground it is otherwise. building

Sunday. operations to

We have no of ordered communities with one The diploma was formally given their

for fearing that the annoyance native place. C. B. M. in the another. Unless and until an ar-to Dr. Tugore in a silver casket homes, to snatch even the pro-

will become greater rather than Daily Telegraph. verbial forty winks of sleep is & mystery. Is it fair that Chin- ese, any more than non-Chinese, being accused of grinding a per- should be subjected to this sonal axe, we at least have the additional satisfaction of writing nuisance night after night to the

on behalf of hundreds of Chin- menace of their health? Were

less. If we have run the risk of

News in Brief.'

800

19% -British Wireless Service,

A "KING OF POETS.

Title for Rabindranath Tagore.

"

on

rangement is reached between by Dr. Surendra Nath Das Japan and China on a basis of Gupta, Principal of the College. those principles, no measure of Replying, Dr. Tagore depre- scurity for lives and property cated the attempts made by a of Japanese subjects sufficient to certain section of educationista enable the withdrawal of Japan-in Calcutta to exclude Sankskrit Yesterday's lowest open-air tem- ese troops to the railway zone; from the curriculum of compul- perature was 62 degrees, The can possibly be assured. The sory subjects at the matricula-. these nocturnal noises to go on in ese and non-Chinese residents to humidity was 39 at 10a.m. and 481 Japanese Government bellevetion examination of the Calcutta

that the course of procedure now University. indicated is in entire agreement

the neighbourhood of European flats or houses, assuredly sum- monses would be taken out forth- with against the building con- tractors and the Court asked to make an order for their cessation

whom sleep is as necessary as to at 4 p.m. ourselves.

From Other Pens.

To-day's Thought.

At the meeting of the Sanitary with the resolution of the Coun- Board to-morrow a minute will be eil of September 30. submitted by the President rela- It is far from their thoughts to tive to the boundaries of health insist on a final adjustment of districts in Hong Kong and Kow-the whole series of pending ques- loon.

tions between Japan and China:

If no news is good news, to some at a reasonable hour in the even- | Belt. v. Braces.

as a condition precedent to the people good news is no news, Whilst dynamiting fish at a point withdrawal of the troops. ing.

correspondent.

All This procedure has been followed in the very recent past conventional respectability

curiosity as to the reason for the half a mile from Chee Woo Village, that they urge upon China for of Shau Tau Kok, a fisherman, Chang the present is a frank recognition

A

expresses

in respect of similar nuisances in belt-and-shirtsleeves and the con- Ping Fat, (54), received injuries to by direct negotiations between Nathan Road, Peking Road and ventional

disrespectability

braces-and-shirtsleeves.

Kimberley Road. But, why "Does anyone know," he asks, at 6 p.m. yesterday.

Mak Ping Hing. master of A

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chian Hall" of

November 9, 1921.1

Today's dollar is worth 2/8.

Kowloon Inland Lot L432 contain-

of his face and hands. He was taken the two parties, of the fundamen- to the Kowloon, Hospital, but died tal principles that should govern the normal relations between 'any should it be necessary at all for "when The Fierce Struggle For

two nations, disturbed residents

Such an accord will be a long to waste Respectability between belt and valuable time in a Police Court brace set in and what finally led fishing junk, has reported to the step towards replacing the exist

Police that at 2 am. yesterday|ing tension by a sense of stabi- to the rout of braces? in an effort to abate a nuisance

"The problem la especially in whilst he was fishing off Aberdeen lity between the peoples of two lng 30,600 sq. ft., was sold on Mon- of this description? Why can-teresting just now, as over in the steam ship, name unknown, collid- nations whose interest it is to be day for $71,000, or $2.82 per sq. ft.

The upset price was $15,900 ($1.50; not the Building Authority of United States, the world's chief ed with his craft which became on the best of terms.

per a. ft.). A piece of land bung

belt stronghold for the past water logged, and sank. The junk the PW.D. bring into operation a half-century, a sudden swing of was later rafsed and towed Into In the Bankruptcy Court this (65,000 sq. ft.) at Pipers Hill, Talpo by-law rigidly prohibiting build- the pendulum has recently occur. Aberdeen. All members of the morning, the Chief Justice announc- Road, for which $8,000 was asked ing operations in any vicinity red and belts are being discard-crew were rescued by a passenger ed that an application for the wind-fetched $8,2000, Mr. C. H. Wong after dark? The authorities ed for braces by the scores of junk. The master asserts that ing up to the Hong Kong Excava- being the purchaser. Mr. E. M.

thousands among

the upper damages done to his Junk is estimat- tion, Pile Driving and Construction Hazeland secured 82,750 sq. ft. at can take unta

themselves won-middle class. Is it possible thated at $500, and, he further alleges, Co., Ltd, would stand over until Taitam Bay for $8,000 the upset in respect of the we, too, may cease to regard the ship' failed, to stop,

derful powers

November 28, at 10 am.

price being $475.