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BODY OF A GREEK GOD HEART OF A LION

A Son of the Jungle Untouched by Civilization Until the Kisses of a Beau- tiful White Girl Awakened His Savage Heart....... Then He Loved Her with All the Forceness of His Pont-Up Emations,

OF JUNGLE

KING

FROM

FRIDAY

Garamount Picture

THE LION

(BUSTER CRABBE)

FRANCES DEE·

QUEEN'S

The China Mail

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

La Grande Chartreuse

Familiar to everybody is the tiny glass which holds the precious

nectar-green.'or yellow-of. La

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933.

HOW CUBA WON HER FREEDOM

STORY OF FINAL REVOLT

AGAINST SPAIN

Grande Chartreuse. As the poet TIMELY BOOK BY H. S. RUBENS,

"THE GREAT FRIEND OF CUBA"

sang:

Who could refuse

Green-eyed Chartreuse ? - Liqueur for heretics,

Turks, Christlans, or Jewa; For beggar or Queen,

For monk or for dean....

Gay little fellow,

Dressed, up in green.

all his letters in longhand, bei cause he believed the personal touch was indispensable."

"Liberty; The Story of Cuba" is the title of a true and authentic |history of the Cuban revolution of |1895-1898, which freed the island The money Marti carned by writ- from the dominion of Spain. ing he spent in travelling to cities The book, which has recently been where Cubans were living, to talk to The monks who made the world-reviewed by Henry E. Armstrong, them individually and at mass weet- famous liqueur are demanding the is the work of Horatio S. Rubens, ings about the, wrongs of Cuba and return of their monastery near than whom no one is better quali- the righteousness of revolt.. Grenoble, which was sequestrated fied to tell the story of this colour-| With funds raised by the clubs he by the French Government in 1904 ful period in Cuba's history.

sent confidential messengers into The manufacture brought the MA. Rubens, one of New York's Cuba to get the intest intelligence monks an annual income of £100,- lending, lawyers, for some time pre-of conditions and tó nesure veterans |000, a great deal of which was vious to the revolution acted as gen- of the Ten Years' War that there spent in charity.

Jeral counsel to the Cuban junta in would be funds to provide arms and

New York, He early interested ammunition for the next rising. himself in Latin-American affairs, Magnetic in personal contact, be In May this year people In the and from the first year of his prac-was exceedingly clever in winning United Kingdom drank 78,744 more tice was an active friend of the strangers to the cause of Cuba Libre bottles of champagne than during Cuban revolutionists. He enjoyed by letter.

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Vinous Statistics

May last year. Approximately 31, the confidence of Jose Marti, the "Marti," we are told, "was of 1000 gallons were consumed

His fine last master spirit of the movement for medium height."

brown (month, as against 18,000 a year be- independence.

eyes had the dreamy quality that fore.

joften reflects the true poetic tem-

First Blow for Cuba

This was the leader who fell in

Sherry, too, shows an enormous When Spanish strike-breakers in perament, though, under stress of increase of 306,000 bottles this 1898 were brought from Havana to emotion, they could dart flame." May as compared with last, and all Key West, the seat of a Cuban cigar wines are "up" with the exceptions industry, Rubens was engaged by the first skirmish in Oriente in of Fort, Sparkling Hock and Spar- Marti, then living in New York City, which he faced the enemy on the kling Moselle.

to deal with what was a menace to: (the revolutionary cause, rather than an honest attempt to settle a Labour dispute.

Your Daily Smile

POOR FELLOW:

field. The loss to Cuba was in- calculable.

A Portrait Gallery

In the gallery of portraits in this It was the suddenly assumed book are other captaina who did

to

A deaf man regained his hear-policy of the Spanish Government to not fear their fate too much and ing in a cinema. Wireless creon-control the local cigar industry and "dared to put it to the touch, and the usual readiness to asers will have to be broken to him disperse the Cubans engaged in it.gain or lose it all: the strategist sume that with fuller self- later. government present economic dif- Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1933. ficulties might have been lessen-

jed. On the other hand, it is well] A film has been produced show-

worth noting-especially in view Socialist party-that the wit- of the new Colonial policy of the ing the growth of a moustache.

Closer Union In The West Indies,

nesses who expressed the strong-

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"CAME HE DOWN.”

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Not Medicinal

The Importation of Spanish work. Maximo Gomez, a native of Santo ers clearly violated the immigra Domingo, as tenacious as he Was tion laws.

wise, the grand old man of the re- Rubens went down to Key West to volution; Autonis Maces, of Negre ;fight the battle of the cigarmakers, blood, who outwitted and outfought several of whom had been arrested the Spaniards from the Trocha to Pinar del Rio, to fall at lost in on tramped-up charges. CUSTOMER: Have you anylking|

Threatened with est opposition to any form of besides Gluetick's corn syrup!

violence and making his way through the Trocha warned to take the next steamer between Majana and Mariel; his Some political theorists may self-government at this stage

Jose Maceo, who could be disappointed at the extreme were coloured or of direct Afri- the best brand that comes,

GROCER: Why, no, but that's back to "New York, he told a com- brother,

mitvee that waited on him in the never have enough fighting and caution of the recommendations can descent. The proposal is that

CUSTOMER: Well, it never done middle of the night that he did not died of wounds received in the bat of Sir Charles Fergusson and Sir each island in the Charles Orr in their Report on to be united should retain its and my corns are as bad as ever.

two groups me ony good-I took siz cans of it choose to go north and that he would the of Loma del Gato; Calixto Gar

not be intimidated.

jen, the indefatigable veteran of the closer political union in the West autonomy, enacting its own lawa

The trial judge was hostile, but Ten Years' War, who had made a Indies." Looking only at the map and regulating its own finance

Rubens knew the law and was un-i!

Handing with an expedition in the —especially if it be a small scale and local affairs, and that the

cities, More widows than widowers afraid. In the end it was the fudge last revolt, captured many map the theorist naturally as-only unification of services at

marry again. Dead men tell no who yielded. The prisoners were was contindously victor over sumes that the West Indies offer present should be for Police and tales.

dlacharged, and the Spaniards lost Spaniards, in five days fought a perfect field for a scheme of Agriculture. The new Governor

twenty-three engagements, and in their grip on the situation, federation. For what, he argues, would take no part in the admin-Facts You Did Not

the final insurrection forced Gen- Mr. Rubens has received many honours from the Cuban Congress.erals Luque and Linares to retreat To be known officially as "El Gran to Holguin early in 1898; and Jeaun Amigo de Cuba" and to be re- who was a descendant of the Sl Rabi, a rough-and-ready fighter,

wood flour,

are tawny; tigers andmánia

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Marti, Supreme Patriot

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boney Indiana. The campaigns of these lenders are described in detail. General Gomez, onca being asked how he expected to win the revolu ¡tion with his ragged, half-starved The author's sketch of Marti was and fever-stricken forces, replied:

No Cuban made "With these oxen we must plow."

He opposed his hundreds to the

The lat

LOCAL ESTÁTES,

London Lady's $14,000.

could be more administratively istration of any of the units, but wasteful than a multitude of his assent would be required to Governors, Presidents, and Ex-jall Bills and he would be armed ecutive and Legislative Coun- not only with full powers of re- For use in tropical climates a cognized as the adopted Bon of ells pursuing their independent fusal but also with authority to British inventor has designed an Havana and of other cities are courses without relation to one declare a Bill, even though re-uutomobile with body, running small distinctions. another. What is not realised, fected by a Legislature, to be hoards and fenders made of straw not a Cuban vice. of course, is the individual his- necessary in the public interest. to keep its passengers cool. tory of the "Sugar Islande," as The theoretical democratic objec they used to be called, their in-ition is obvious, but the real Tenta at the United States much needed. tense "nationalism," the different question is whether it would tend Bureau of Standards have indicat-greater sacrifices in the movement composition of their populations, to good government, and on that ead. that the strength of steel bull-for indepadence, and at last he thousands of the enemy. and, above all; the great sea dis-head the Commissioners speak ding frames is increased 75 per gave up his life on the field of Dos ter were armed with the smokeless tances dividing the islands and without hesitation. Doubtless, the cent, by incasing them in brick. Rios on May 19, 1895, after a land-Mauser rifle, while the Cubans car- the difficulty of inter-communica-weight of instructed West Indian

ing with Maximo Gomez near Bara-ried inferior Remingtons. The tion. There has, indeed, been opinion will largely determine Diesel type engines have been.com.

West vague talk of

Indian the Government's. attitude to run in Europe economically with Marti had been named as Major dance of ammunition; the patriots Spaniards usually had' an abun- Federation, or closer union; tor this Report.

explosions of coal dust, a meal General of the patriot forces. He often went into battle. with ten years, but only as a distant ideal.|

made from the realdue left from fell in a surprise attack by a Spanish rounds: which it will still remain even if The Leopard's Spots. the manufacture of olive oil and column. the main recommendation of

(Continued on Page 11)." Born in Havana in 1858, of Epanish] this Report is adopted. It is Lions

parents, he was a rebel at heart aï--- proposed to make a modest begin zebras are striped; leopards are black surfaces; his mane retracta a boy. For publishing seditious ning by uniting into one colony spotted; many birds, worms and in- behind the tawny fringe; his tail articles at the age of 16 he was de- -the British Caribbean Islands-sects are

green; everything that swishings cease.” Or consider the ported to Spain, where with ball and under a Governor with head-crawls, swims or files has a colouring Lasiocampid caterpillar. The two chain he worked in quarries. di quarters at St. Lucia, the islands peculiar to its species. Mimicry tufts of brightly-coloured hair that On his release be entered the at present forming the Colonies was Darwin's explanation. Animals it shoots forth when touched are to University of Madrid, was graduat- of the Leewards and the Wind- attempt to elude their enemies by Hingston devices for intimidating ed and prepared for the bar at the wards. These all belong to the assuming the appearance of their hungry, Hizards and birds. When University of Salamanca BARY Lesser Antilles, and geographi-surroundings. There are exceptions alarmed a certain African. mantid Always a brilliant student, he Emma Amella Hill, widow, fate cally Barbados is one of the to the rule. The peacock struts standa up, faces the enemy, opens seemed to have been tamed and of 130; Green Dragon Lane, Winch- same group. But Barbados is with a tall outspread in glory but its forelegs like outstretched arms chastened by his bitter experience more, Middlesex, who died on April very much "on its own," and the peshen is drab. Some harm and reveals a mass of alarming as a political felon and was permitt-5, 1983. luft local estate sworn at resolved to remain so, and the less butterflies are terrifyingly con- colour ordinarily concealed One ed to return to Cuba. His stay was $14,400,- same is true of Trinidad, with its spicuous. To explain these anoma-naturaliat saw a monkey back away brief. Unreconstructed, he was An application by Daniel John small sister, Tobago, which the tea evolutionists have Invoked sex in fright at the spectacle. The soon at odds with the authorities Lewis, solicitor, the lawful at Commission found to be entirely appeal and the soquired ability to peacock's parading before the pea and had to flee the island. **** torney, to reseal the certifed copy opposed to any scheme of closer appear dangerous. But Major ben is not courtship but an expres For several years he lived in of the probate of the will, wan political union with the smaller n W. G. Hingston, a British nasion of emotion and a threat to Mexico and Central and South granted. islands to the north. Every-turalist of note, has his own views, rivals. The enormous curved America, aubsequently finding his Fong Lun, or (Laen), alina where, in fact, it was discovered which he sets forth in his new work horns of some wild animals way to New York, where he lived by Kwong Lun, lafe of 828. Grant that for closer union to be ac-jon "The Meaning of Animal Colors are of no great practical use in writing as a newssper free lance Avenue, San Francisco, USA., who ceptable it must promise economy tion. Every creature, is a com- battle, but they have their value as and doing consular work for Urudled at the Mount Zion Hospital on in administration and other ad-pound of fear and anger. Behaviour, psychological weapons of Intimida-guay, Paraguay and Argentina. October 16, 1982, left local estate vantages, and in no case entail colour-pattern: and structure pre-tion Hingston is not the first to The author says of him a valued at $6,300. the absorption of their own Island claim it. If a venomous enako is depart from the Darwinian explanat was stamp of Maril's by some larger unit or the turidiy coloured, it is for the par- tion of protective colouration. If destruction of its own indivi-pose of striking terror; if it is dun- he stands apart, it is because few duality. It is the old story of ploured, it is because of fear. The are able to match him in the wealth the extreme attachment to local conflict with nature is also a con- of evidence that he can muster in "State right which has had to fict within the living organim 15 support of his Ingenuity. The great be overcome in the case of all self, Hingston, bida tus look at the Darwing himself could federations the world over. A lion-so good an. Imitation of its done belter, Yet the loose sort of federation already surroundings that he can steal upon tical biologists will demos exists in the Leeward Islands, a deer. buss him and he bar of in different, kir

but In the Windwards, though comes

far more politically conscious

than the Leewards, except Dom-ba lahes (3)

inica, little enthusiasm

played for any scheme of clos

|union, <*Yet there:

criticism of the existing

nda unga

genius for amalgamating men's minds and hearts that he could weld 'liberation clubs through out the United States, Central and Bouth America, Mexic Hald, Santo Domingo, Jamaic and aven France, not only a smooth and harmo

pus who › but could continue

direction of.

the difcul

Hard

sustained in his

SAN FRANCISCO CHINESE LEAVES $6,300

Probate of the will of the 45- ceased has been granted to. Kwong Man-yat, gentleman

||~ Letters of administration in the estate of Seehoo Sza-yung, mer- |chant ... late of “ No. 20. Poftinger. Streat, who left local "estate valued. |at ($5,000,- have, been granted to

Seehoo Lo-shi; widow. [Taang: Ng, stonemason, late of |022 MaTau Wej Road To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, left local estate sworn at $4,200

the petitions of Trang: Li-abi, Widow, Taang Lâu Bh1 and Taang? Punal, concabinen, for letbora of administration, have been granted;