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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.

CONSERVATIVE,

POLICY OF THE

DOUGLAS COY.

Dividend Payment

Deferred.

CONCENTRATION ON INCREASED TONNAGE

Uncertain Outlook

SİTEISTELE22

CORRESPONDENCE.

Local Girl Desires Film Fame.

THE QUALITIES ESSENTIAL

[To the Editor. "China Mail.") Enclosed is a letter I received yesterday from an aspiring young Although the profit realised in

lady who signs ber name, the Company's earnings during Doria....." The tone and charac the past year was an improve- ment over recent years, it was ter of her letter is a facsimile of unanimously decided at the fifty a great many that I have received first ordinary general meeting of

in the past years. It reads 3. the Douglas Steamship Com-

endeavour to pany. Ltd., held at the Com-follows and I shall pany's offices at noon to-day, to answer "Doris" to the best of my defer payment of a dividend and ability:

THE CHINA MAIL.

COMPLETE ACCORD To-day's Short Story.

IN PRINCIPLE.

Draft Convention To FELIPE

Be Studied To-day.

Ka g

(Continued from page 1.).

hostilities.

By Peter Fleming.

HERE was no glass in the brutal to them, Tindows

or too friendly. London, To-day.

of the prison. Felipe knew that it was a compli- After the earnest appeal by the With an effort for a month's ment to have that stertorous lump had wasted his of oblivion. outside his door; it British delegate, Captain Anthony confinement

strength - Felipe hoisted him-showed his importance. Eden, all members of the League self up by the bars till his elbows His importance mattered à great Council have agreed In principle rested on the broad sill and his deal to Felipe. He had a keen to accept an embargo on the ex-feet dangled clear of the ground. sense of the dramatic, party innate, port of all arms to Bolivia and The sun was just up, but there and partly acquired from the films. was no one yet in the square ex-There was a picture-house in Carra- Paraguay, who are now, engaged in cept four Indians boiling coffee yata, named by its American man- A draft convention and eating their eternal leathery ager, more aptly then he knew, embodying his proposal will be tortillas under the florid portico after the all-conquering Cortes: of the Teatro Nacional, where no they changed the programme twice considered to-day,'".

one ever acted plays. Munching, a week, which was quite enough for Concluding his speech, Captain their flat, bony faces contemplat- Felipe, who knew a good thing Eden said it might be that in some ed without resentment, pleasure, when he saw one, and never mind- cases the Governments had not, at or any sort of curiosity the new ed seeing it again. Mr. S. T. Williamson, who pre- I am very anxious to become a this moment, the necessary powers and shining day. Felipe lowered sided, referred to the unfortunate screen actress, although my father to put the embarge into affect himself to the ground.

the and mother are very much against Where this is so, the British Govern- mishaps which occurred to Company's steamers, ss. Hai-my doing so. My parents think ment trusted that it might be found ning and m.v. Svale during the that theatrical people are rather possible to take necessary legislative year, and stated that the s.s, inclined to be indiscreet, although action as an emergency measure. Seistan had been chartered to have met a great many of them take the place of the m.v. Svale and they always seem to fascinate

to consider the acquisition Of further tonnage.

on the Hong Kong and Swatow me,

run,

Chairman's Speech,

In his report for the year the Chairman said:

My dear Mina London:

Please answer my latter.

"DORIS......”

BABE LONDON'S REPLY

My Dear Doris:

STRICTER CONTROL

two belil-

should the

SENSELESS LOSS OF LIFE

"The senseless loss of life, the ut-

"This thought.

time to-morrow." he

TO-MORROW'S · STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Passing Of Chantie The Curlew," by Alan

Sullivan.

B cross-

He was going to be shot to- morrow, for killing the President. He had also, but without malice, killed the President's wife's brother, a hasty little man, whom everyone Captain Eden also recalled that indisliked. His judges had almost I am eighteen years old and have the report of the League Commis commended him for that; in the old Those present at the meeting blonde hair and blue eyes. I weigh aion on the dispute the view was ex-days they might have let him off were, Mr. S. T. Williamson (Chair one hundred and eighteen pounds. pressed that neighbouring countries, altogether, especially as

It was this sense of the dramatic the new that had sustained Felipe since his man), the Hon. Sir William Shen- Amateur theatricals have always ton and the Hon. Mr.

President was in amiable, well-arrest, and was indeed partly respon- C. G. S. appealed to me and I have played more especially if the Mackie (Members of the Consult-in several. I swim, ride, and playable and just settlement,

gerents refuse to accept a honour spoken man, and had promised to sible for making him an assassin. ing Committee), Mr. C. L. Farmer golf tennis. They say that I am exercise stricter control over

bulld a public racecourse in his He had had a hard time. His own) (Secretary) and Messrs. T. Ram-pretty. Are these accomplish-

park, though the horses of Carra trial had been comparatively short, transit of traffic as a complement to yala were notoriously neither feet and he had been too joyously pre- Bay, Wong Ping-sum, Chau Wing-ments enough to help me In a

the control that other nations should nor emulous. But nowadays it was occupied with cutting a good figure keu and N. V. A. Croucher (Share- career?

exercise over certain exports. holders).

[different; nowadays people minded to be greatly bothered by the reality "To these countries," said Captain terribly about the look of things, of its implications. Eden." I would address a special This was because of the Americans Lovingly,

But for days afterwards, before appeal to forbid the transit of war who came to Carrayala and talked a lamentably reduced audience, they supplies across their territories to very seriously about civic ideals and had put him through "While the Consulting Com-

Bolivia and Paraguay.

law and order, perhaps because they examination about Flores. Flores, mittee and General Managers are

could not talk very seriously about Felipe's accomplice, was a danger. very pleased that the Accounts

them at home.

jous man, with a habít of doặng dan- now laid before you show an im-

Felipe yawned. He noticed with gerous things: They wanted hie provement in the Company's

I have your letter before

meterly unjustifiable imposition of pride that it was a sleepy yawn, and blood much more than they wanted earnings for recent years, they here as I write you, and, although human suffering and the meaning not a nervous yawn.

Felipe's. The new President looked consider it would not be prudent it is rather vague, and aside from less destruction of the best resources

Carroyala City is 6000 feet above like a good investment, but with to recommend the declaration of that, having never seen you, it is in men and material of these coun-sea-level, and you sleep badly with Flores about any President was a dividend for the year under re- rather difficult for me to answer tries have already endured far too

no glaas in the window, because of more of a speculation than an in-i .....nevertheless, the advice that long. consideration

"I do most heartily urge upon the the cell. Toma

the cold. He looked Hstlessly round vestment. must be given to the acquisition I have to offer you is sincere, and

the sentry

However, Flores had been frst of further tonnage in the near earnestly hope that it will be of Council to seize this opportunity of asleep on the floor outside; you over the wall at the end of the future, If the Company is to main-some help to you and your cherish-bringing them to an end. It is at could hear his snores, and a little Palace gardens; and he was not the tain its position on the China ed desire.

once our privilege and our responsi-scratching noise as some buckle on man to lose a lead. So they cross- Coast, against the increasing com- I consider that

Let us therefore his heaving stomach robbed against questioned Felipe with spasmodic which fable assets any young girl can pos./determine to take this first step and the door.

the most valubility, to do so. petition and difficulties

if she is determined take it to-day he concluded.-Bri- all the time and was far the most

Tomas slept practically brutality, having learnt something have to be contended with.

sibly have

of third-degree methods from "Notwithstanding the trouble-upon

reliable of the guards; he would lie Rivers, now second-in-command of some times existing last year, en-follows:

down in a strategic position and the Carrayaian army, but once an pecially in the Fukien Province, Natural beauty, refinement, pe.- more beautiful than a great many sleep for hours on end, instead of East-side politician in New York, improve-sonality and character. When of the stars and dress just as drinking, or losing money to the and many other things besides: as earnings any natural beauty, I don't mean smartly.

prisoners at pachuca, or being too dirty a worker as you could wish to the year, the kind that comes in a jar. The And as I said before, if you are

And. but since then a decided falling off girl that gets out of bed looking a good gambler and willing to take a

Felipe, who had secretly disliked in passengers and cargo business like nothing on earth, and then in chance.... .....then,Goll!!]

Flores a great deal and feared him has been experienced, and I regret a few minutes becomes a drug With best wishes for your suc-

more, endured all this in a way thatị to slate that these subnormal con-store Garbo is not so alluring after cess,

surprised them. He did not look ditions still continue,

to be-and was not-made of very stern stuff; and they did not realise

view,

AS

Berious

there was a gratifying

ment in the Steamers during the first half of

Local Securities,

A screen, career, are

she has done a few desert scenes

Jout in the blistering sun. It is

tish Wireless Service.

BABE LONDON.

[Babe London bas just returned

"It will be seen from the Ae then that her beauty goes the way to Hong Kong after a successful sum of $256,360 of all flesh, but a girl that has na season in Shanghai where she ap- counts that the has been written off for deprecia-tural beauty will always look peared at the "Little Club," sing- tion, which is considered advisable pretty and charming under the ing songs written exclusively for under existing conditions. It will most trying conditions. That her by her husband, Mr. Patrick H. be noted from the Balance Sheet the type of girl that the casting Burnette Jr.]

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GIRL BOUGHT WHEN 7 DAYS OLD.

$1,500 Bail Granted To Accused.

directors want

In the old days refinement 10

"A Minute A Day With Burns."

Was

EVIDENCE DASHED

ON DECK.

Swim After Breaking that they were dealing, not with a

Jar Of Wine.

wesk man,

but with a fat part. Felipe, who could not, even in his law-abiding days, walk down the

A fine of $30, In default three street, or order a drink, or enter a weeks' hard labour, was imposed room unhistrionically, now found Jon Chan Ping, by Mr. Q. A. A himself intoxicatingly translated to MacFadyen at Central Police Court a leading role. Calling for no very this morning, for destroying evi-subtle interpretation, the part was show business was inclined to be

dence by breaking a jar of wine built up of those broad theatrical encored upon and the hard-boiled!

yesterday morning.

effects which were the common cur- "Iam" was the reigning king or

Revenue-Officer Grimmitt stated rency of Felipe's imagination. His queen, but to-day it is entirely dif

that accused was seen carrying a situation struck him as an oppor- Cerent. A girl that has a certain

jar of wine on board the ..tunity rather than a predicament. amount of refinement and pole lished "Brithers A', A Minute Yuen On Wharf. Sensing his arance.

ago I pub Kwangtung, lying alongside the He gave a workmanlike perform- cun always put it to good use.

A

To the Editor, "China Mail.")

Sir, Some months

Lo Yue-hin, a shop foki, of No College girl has every casential, to Day with Burns, Poet, Prophet rest, the defendant threw the jar

unillustrated book, 2nd as an

But there had come

moments,

3 Mau Hing Lane, and a Chinese my way of thinking, and I advise and Lover of Brotherhood,” Ist, asion deck and jumped overboard. He lately, when he had been near the fore. Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the schooling frat and gather as much illustrated book with 120 illustra-/Bwam, across to the Hoi On Wharf breaking-point. The hard, familiar

woman, Mau Lam, were charged be-

you

to continue on with your

knowledge as you possibly can.

Central Magistracy this morning, with the transaction of a minor, the

Elinor Glyn best describes per- object of which was to transfer the sonality as "IT" If you have possession of a 4-year-old girl.

that, half your battle is won.

Maintain character above every Sub-Inspector Fraser stated that

tions. A third edition will be pub

ished within the next week or two.

A feature of the book was ap prociations of Burns by great men. May I ask your readers for

re-

the child is the adopted daughter of thing else. Of course there are ferences to Burns by such Lo's kept women, and that the girl come girls who cheapen themselves Spurgeon, John Bright, Moody,

Was

where be was caught.

DR. K. MACKENZIE LEAVES.

University Loses Popular Staff Member.

faces of his judges, the sofled and tiresome splendour of the room they sat in-here was no gallery worth playing to; and Felipe was gradual-| ly reduced, as in the old days, to applauding, unaided, his own per- formance. Never, be it said, did he

come to doubt the discernment of I will admit that| was bought when she was seven days for a career.

John McNell, John Morley, they do have a little flare of suc- Cardinal Newman. Disraeli, Lord

that faithful' claque which had al- old for the sum of $10.

A Low friends gathered at the ways so enjoyed his progress down remanded until cess, but what you do and how you Salisbury, and as great a variety Vice-Chancellor's Lodge The case

Annexe,

the street, his ordering of a drink, Tuesday afternoon. Ball of $1,000 have conducted yourself in the was allowed to the man, and $500 to fast, will in time tail. A good of of men in different rauka of life as Hong Kong University, yesterday for his entrance into a room." But possible and representative great evening to bid farewell to Professor his self-esteem felt the need of men from all British Colonies and K. Mackenzie, M.Sc., Ph.D., acting reinforcement from outside; he chooses to, and she can get the other countries. Burns must have professor of Physiology, who left yearned for the limelight, and] COURT PRAISE FOR Norma Shearer, is one girl whose been spoken of and referred to by for America by the s.s. Empress of thought wistfully of his trial, re-

the woman.

MR. SALTIER.

Summons Against Car Driver.

can always remain such if she

too. It depends upon the

girl.

an extraordinary number of men Russia this morning. character is above reproach.

membering the thrilled femininity. Sha who had large influence in public' has made a success of her mar affairs. These references are for year in Hong Kong, relleving Dr. L

Professor Mackenzie has spent a of the back benches. riage, and as an artist she is as the most part scattered in their T. Ride, M.A., M.B., B.Ch., M.R.C.S., that he began to look forward to And so it came curiously about finished as any of the others. She various writings and to have them L.R.C.P., who has been on leave, and his execution. That, he knew, would is a credit to the picture industry concentrated in one yoluma would is returning to duty in September. be a public event; it had consider-

Now I will not say to stay away be appreciated by many Burna ad- Tam Io, driver of private car No. from Hollywood, because I know

ately been fixed for a Sunday. mirers. 2568, was also fined $10, for over-that to-day there are thousands of

Everyone would be there. Felipe taking a moving vehicle within a Garbo's and Pickford's who. If trouble, I would be pleased to for As a mark of appréciation for

BAG SNATCHER BIRCHED was delighted when he heard they controlled area in Caine Hoad, given a chance, would in all proward a copy of "Brither to

were going to clean out the market Mr. Saltler, at whose fustance the bability reach stardom. But it is

Appearing on remand, Les Tak, square; this had never, to his know«|-- summons against Tam was drawn, a gamble, and, if you go, remem-pig suitable references to Burns months hard labour in addition to Indians, who came there to chaffer any of your readers who could sup- unemployed, was sentenced to six ledge, been done before, though the stated that he was driving in the ber to have your pockets well that would be of interest other aiz strokes of the birch, by Mr. Q. once week, sometimes carried opposite direction when Tam over-lined for two or three years and then those I have already received. A MacFadyon at the Central loads of litter away, with them when took another car, and be had to your trunka wall' Alled with street apply, his brake..

and evening frocks. The campet Queen Street, Aberdeen. Beotland. theft of handbags belonging to to viaalise the scene, and in time Address to Peter Esalament. Police Court this morning, for the conditions got too bad. He began Mr. Hamilton expressed his aption in Hollywood in very keen and preciation to Mr. Saltler for calling beauty is a nickle a quart: In

PETEL ESSLEMONT," - Mrs. Gonzales, of Hankow Road, built up a picture of it, in minute "attention" to the incident;

fact, many of the axira girls are. Aberdeen, April 16, 1984. on Wednesdayzz

El (Continued on Page 10%

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