1932-07-26 — Page 9

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932..

Hong Kong Expands Slowly

But Veteran Traveller Admires Gloucester Building

JAPAN WILL STAY IN

`MANCHURIA"

"Th does mt alter much." said of his tour, Mr. Robertson said Mr. 11. P. Robertson, the veteran was his 30th trip. traveller and head of the Robert- "Each time I come here, I find Top Praved Puram, ns he gazerii place changed hut little. It consinisrently at Hong Kong is growing, of course, but not so from his window on the fifth floor rapidly as one would expect," he of the Ponimula Hotel, shortly said. The Gloucester Building after his arrival here.

is certainly a very fine structure, "Of course.

Shanghai has and I am convinced that there is larged, the Japanese have seen no finer Hotel in the Orient than o that," he added as he turned Peninsula."

THE CHIN

HONG KONG-LONDON Last Few Survivals Of

IN 14 DAYS.

Air Mail Service Success.

SAIGON MARSEILLES ROUTE:

An experimental air mail of 15 letters, despatched from Hong Kong on June 7 arrived in London on June] 21, efecting a saving of ap !proximately one week on the usual

Siberian route.

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Snobbery

Looking Down Upon. Trade

DYING PREJUDICE

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The mall was despatched from "The national, mind is awakened Roderick Random tolls a gruesamo here on the French Mail liner, s.5.to the subject of moba.". That tale, or if you would have later Athos II, at 4 p.m. on June 7 and proud sentence was written noar-evidence, consider the status of Recently the Mr. Pendennis, senior, surgeon arrived in Suigon on June 10. The ty 100 years ago. letters left Saigon the next day by Prince of Wales thought it neces-apothecary at Bath, laboriously air for Marsellles, and arrived there sary. to urge upon parents that polite to the butler and profusely

commerce is a calling worthy of civil to the lady's maid." on June 10 at 7 p.m.

From there they were forwarded the best of character and ability, According to Disraeli, the transa-' to Paris, and taken on to London and it ought to have a fair share formation of English social pres- by the Imperial Airways service, ar- of the young men thus happily en-tige was due to the younger Pitt, dowed, writes H. C. Bailey in the who created plebian aristo- riving there on June 21,

The Saigon-Marsailles service at Malay Mall.

cracy and blended it with the If it does not get them, and patrician oligarchy." But when present existing is distinct from the nir mull service proposed recently to there seems to be agreement people say that Pec! was the Arst) "It is common knowledge that operate between Saigon and Hong among the leaders of commerce son of a family in trade to rule WAY.

The first of the experi-that it has not been getting them England. they have forgotten the When interviewed hy avou possess the finest and most Kong

I suprose past; it was a reversion, not an Chin Mail" reporter he said sentiful harbour in the world, mental flights between Saigon and in suficient numbers. they were amazed at the amount the Island when lit up at Hong Kong is expected to take place there is no doubt that one of the innovation.

the venerable demage that had been done in night is a sight which has but shortly, undertaken by the Cam-impediments is

pagnie Francaise Air Orient.

tradition that trade is not genteel. Bleonghai,

few equals," he added.

The machines used on the Saigon- Mr. "The amount of destroyed pro-|

Robertson stated that

A little before Thackeray was there is terrible." he said, fewer tourists were leaving the Marseilles air service carry both relating in his careful treatise on and it will take years of re- United States each year, and that mail and passengers, and also cargo. the cause and effect of snobs the building. Over in the States we this year particularly, the busi-They are tri-motored Breguet mono-extreme difficulty of getting aing themselves to a new import- never heard the true state ofness was hard hit by the depres-planes, and leave Saigon things. One report put the num-sion. her of dead at over 100,000, and most of the other reports were grossly exaggerated as to the bist of life. On the other hand The damage to property was proxy underrated."

"The general opinion in the! North is that the Japanese will

never

vacate Manchuria, and

While the commercial families, the Peels and the Gladstones and others, were finding their places again in the Government of the country, the professions were rais-

every merchant into the Sarcophagus ance. They had, of course, set up Saturday morning.

Club,, another man of letters had far higher standards of knowledge, Service Open.

written

of honour, and of service than Fewer Tourists.

Postal officials stated yesterday "The curse of England is the ever prevailed in the past and

determination of the were thereby more worthy of am "Last year I brought 94 people that specially superscribed mail will obstinate

now be sent via the Saigon middle classes to make their sonsbition. They offered far more a tour to the Orient," he said, Marseilles air route, on prepayment what they call gentlemen. So we profitable careers than of old. and this time I have only 24 in

of the requisite sir mail charges, are overrun by clergymen without

Dying Prejudice. the party."

Can that altogether account for "Owing to the cholera epide-which, in addition to the ordinary livings; lawyere without brisis;!

physicians without patients; authe determination of the middle. we have had to cut Manila rates of postage, are:

Destination Rate per 1⁄2 oz.thors without readers, who might classes to "make themselves gen- of the itinerary. If the party

have thriven and been above the tlenien" by not going into busi- there everyone will have to be

world-"

ness? I have heard a man who inculated, and some of the party bject to that, especially the

on among the members of there Lytton Commission, this opinion seems to predominate."

Starting, from Los Angeles on June 27, the tour called at Hono- Ilu, Japan and Shanghai, and they are due to leave here to-day

15 cts. 25 cts.

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Fersia

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Iraq

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Palestine

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Grécce

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$1.35

$1.85 1

Italy

France

Great Britain & 1 Irish Free State $1.35

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Mr. Robertson and his party Christian Science followers. Wel travelled on the same ship as there, however, going to. Canton, Lytton Commission, from Japan but the stay will not be long." to Tsingtao and it was the gen- eral opinion that Lord Lytton was "a very sick man."

"The worry and the work of the Commission is beginning to for Shanghai, where they will with Hong Kong stamps. The leave its mark on him was the proceed to Peping, before going aerial mail service leaves Saigon minion expressed by Mr. Robert-through Manchuria and Koren to

Japan. Hong Kong Grows Slowly, The trip finishes on September Returning again to the topic) 12.

son.

CHEUNG CHAU NOTES GIRL FOUND GUILTY

Typhoon Stopped

OF THEFT.

Ferry.

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Husband Discharged On Second Count.

A girl, Yik Mun-kuen, 17, des-

ribed as a former mui-teai in the

Air mail charges may be prepaid land.

if they had taken to trade retail was left with his own way to find or wholesale. The favourite pro-in, the world explaining his choice fessions may have changed or in-of a profession in which he had treased, since 1830, but the modern done well enough, rather than the offered in provision of higher education for commercial career everybody with examination brains Youth, by saying, "I always had a has not exactly tended to counter-soul above that." It sums up the act this particular curse of Eng-cherished convention of many.

Heaven forbid that any of us Royal Traders,

should give up his right to des- every Saturday, and postal officials code, that a great gulf is fixed be all to think mearly of their voca- The nineteenth-century suoba pise his fellow-creatures and above here will utilise every available tween trade

and the professions tions. This is probably necessary means to connect with the survice and Inherited property has no an- to contented life. But it should Letters will be despatched from tiquity. Hong Kong to Saigon by steuner, stories of Lite good-fellowship beciple.

We need not go back to not be taken for a rational prin-

and will be handed over there to tween City merchant and Plan-

In its old form of looking down the aerial service.

tagenet royalty and nobility. The upon a career in trade it may be worthy man who entertained four dying fast. That gives no reason PORTUGUESE ACTORS kings in the Vintty shall count no to suppose that the national mind on the subject of more than the mercor who was the is awakened Father of Thomas Becket.

snobs. If we are not snobbish In But as soon as England contes one way we shall be in another. out of Middle Ages you find the It is our nature to a privilege

TO PERFORM.

Native Music Brought To Expatriots.

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Royal House itself active in trade. which we share with all nice

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Cardinal Beaufort who was, in-animals.

deed, of an illegitimate branch but

the actual ruler of country, dealt VON PAPEN UPHELD

From Our Own Correspondent-1 July 25. Nothing very much has hap pened lière lafely except that a littic aburm was caused when the No. 7 yphour signal was hoist-

Due to the unsettled weather largely in wool, when that product d. The ferry from Hong Kong was taken off for a few trips ow-employ of Mr. Yip Lan-chuca, 1.of last week, the performance as was the mainstay of our country. ing to the heavy sea. The heavy Leung Fai Terrace, was fined $50 the Club de Recreio by the Por. So did King Edward IV. The rainfall has kept the place cooly Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones in the guese entertainers was post-wool-merchants were

Central Police Court yesterday oned until Thursday, July 28. partnership with nobles' and coun- and the low temperature must

This group of actors, who are try gentlemen. The Earl of Essex lave nearly touched a record to afternoon, for the theft of a plati- date for the past two months. watch, a silver inger ring called "Tournee Teatral," have and other great lords managed the

and a pair of shoes, the property rlayed before Hong Kong audi-export of their own preduce. We hear that Lan Tau is well pa-of Tip Yeung-ahi, the fifth concuences before and with great suc A little later Queen of Eng- "tronised at present.

The Rev. A. H. Bray conduct-line of Mr. Vip.

often in

cess. They have been making a Jand, Anne Boleyn, was the great

BY LAW COURTS.

Prussia's Injunction Action Fails.

Leipzi, Yesterday. The Supreme Court has re- The defendant's husband, Hsu tour of all Portuguese settle-granddaughter of a London trades-jected the deposed. Prussian Gov. ed the service two weeks ago,

nd Dr. W. W. Cadbury, of Can-Chi-kuen, 26, dressed in European ments in China. This is to be man. There are old peerages ernment's application for an in- which owe the foundation of the terim injunction to restrain Herr io, preached an interesting and clothing, was charged with receiv- their farewell appearance.

The programme has been divide family estates to Tudor clothwork-von Papen from exercising his Thoughtful sermon last Sunday,g. He was discharged.

The two were staying at the ed into three parts. The first wit cra.

as Commissioner of at which service it was announc-

Then comes a period in which Prussia, on the ground that it and that the annual meeting of the Asia Hotel when they were arrest contain folk songs, with explana

ed on July 17. His Worship itions in Portuguese preceding the great expansion of commerce might prejudice the court's even- Cheung Chau Residents' Associa- tion will be held on Monday. posed a fine only, as complainants their rendition. The second is to and industry is queerly accom-tual decision as regards the imponist hv a severance between the legality of the constitutionality August 1. The organ which had did not wish to press the case. be a Julio. Dantos

men who carried it on and those of the icen undergoing repair will be Mr. G. S. Ford was for the defence. which should delight everyone.

"Conde Freddie," a comedy who professed and called them- Reuter.. with music, will form the last selves gentlemen..

available for our next service,

Rev. J. Remkf continues his Bible Study classes, while Mrs.

Rosy and others help at the Sun THREE LAND BLOCKS

day school.

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An invitation has been received- from the Religious Committee of the Helena May Institute; Hong Kong to attend a social afternoon

SOLD BY CROWN.

in Hong Kong on August 24. It Yesterday's Auction At

is extended to all missionarleg ré-

sident here on that day, and it is hopod that as many as can will avail themselves of the oppor- tunity of meeting Hong Kong friends.

Arrangements are also in hand

The P.W.D.

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part of the performance. The We have a forecast of it from music in this is said to be beauti-the beginning of the seventeenth ful and should prove to be the century in the play written to highlight of the whole perform-burlesque the notion that a hero of romance could be a grocer. The fact that one of the most famous English fighting min of the days of chivalry was bred a tailor had lapsed out of the mind of England..

FREE STATE DUTIES FROM TO-MORROW

(Continued, from Page 1)

By the end of that Stuart cen- tury we have the convention well

Three lots of Crown land were put The fact that the emergency established that gentility means up for sale at yesterday's auction at duties list was issued in two in-living on your means, not working the Public Works Department office. stalments, one of which referred for your living

On behalf of the Arts and Crafts, to Imperial Preference products. In this, it will be observed, for the Annual Conference Ltd., Messri. Little, Adams and created confusion is to what there is no salvation for the pro which is commencing on August Wood purchased a lot of about countries the duties were to ap. Lessions. Even military and aval 8, and among those who have 20,000 square feat of land situated ply

Dahl officers have no sure patent as; promised to help are the Rev. Dr. near Quarry Bay, for the upset. It was later explained that the gentlemen. The Services are, too Kunze, and the Rev. J. McKenzie, price of $20,000, A

tariffs on Iron, steel, coal, ce- often a career for men who have

of the New Zealand Mission, who An area of about 1,820 square feet ment, electrical apparatus, angar,nothing but their pay, and as such will conduct the devotional hour situated at Wong Nei Chung was sweetened foods and inks, spare properly, despised. As for the cach day. Dr. H. Lechmere Clift bought by Mrs Yam Yuk-king for ply only to the United lom, Church, and the law, tin will give Bible readings.

those should. their grea

The service to-day was taken by the Rev. Morrison,

the upset price of $3,960, but that other duties,

The third lot of about 22,560 on bacon and potato square feet of land, situated on the general, application. 1 south-west side of the Shaukiwan- If is taken that all of vlam Tuk Road, was

the Empire

In aid of the Ebenezer Blind School an exhibition and sale

knitted garments works of the insti held during the ne

Mesars. Hazeland and Gomulls en be- ed. But Grei kalf of the Salesfar Society, for! upset price of $1,128

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