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curiosity in the unknown, which form an obstacle in the way of an innovating policy and an ex- Hong Kong Thursday, May 23, 1935. terision of the repertory.

Jubilee Year Opera

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An Ill-Judged Protest

Since he resigned the editorship of the American Mereury. Mr. H. his L. Mencken has returned to philological studies.

FASCIST ITALY OF TO-DAY

POPULAR SUPPORT FOR MUSSOLINI

COUNTRY WITH HIM TO A MAN

(By Sir Percival Phillips)

His latest pronouncement is that English, and not. Esperanto or any other manufactured language, will conquer the world, but that when Macaulay's New Zealander stands

find that the Italian equivalent; the Emperor) and served by slaves- on the ruins of London Bridge he

of the English man in the but little less savage than them will express his regrets in lusty street has but an imperfect com-selves. They occupy a region rich which thes American, not in embalmed Oxford ception of the situation beyond in natural resources,

share with civilised English

Your Daily Smile!

his own

frontier. Unless he is refuse to

no

In other words, the conquest will able to read the foreign news Powers, and are in fact, an un-. be achieved by American English, papers which are admitted into pleasant obstacle to civilisation it which will conquer not only the Italy, or makes close contact with self, since they eat raw meat and world but the English of England.people from other countries, his practise a "debased form of Chris-

This is a favourite theme of Mr. outlook is limited in scope by atianity

Beyond these elementary ideas, Mencken

discriminating dictatorship.

The local Press is re-tuned daily which interest him very little, the to the policy of his Government.man in the street has had News and comment from abroad knowledge of the mediaeval empire The ex-King of Siam says he is not are shaped by a censorship that in the African hinterland, and has “Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas, as his admits of no individual freedom cared less.

Reports of clashes between fron- former title suggested. He has some-

Consequently he looks at Earope fier posts failed to excite him. Not with eyes other than his own. His until two divisions were mobilised views on international questions for service in Africa, did he begin The young man who had been calling frequently ack the proper per-to show some concern in the my- frequently at last went to see label's spective, even allowing for extreme stery. No war was on the horizon.

thing better put aside for a rainy of expression.

day.

father.

Mother Speaks

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

the month of April

门

the

"It's a mere formality, I know." he nationalism, and at times they are ret professional men and artisans began, "but we thought it would be quite fantastic. The doellity with alike suddenly found themselves pleasing to you if it were observed in which he responds to official sug-orders for active service.

Wartime Trials In Peace the usual way."

gestion is frequently disconcert-}-

concentrated “And may I inquire. the father ask- ed "who suggested that asking mying to foreigners who are sincere Troops were

* hurriedly at Naples and Messirs consent Mabel's marriage was

afriends of Italy.

that sufficient accommodation could mere formality

Awaiting Official Lead "Mabel's mother.”

Severals days ago the news not be found for them, nor had all papers launched a vigorous attack of them the proper kit. The civi on Great Britain for her attempts lian-turned-soldier was thrust into

clothing suited to to arrive at an understanding with cotton Germany. The same night I sat tropics, but hopelessly inadequate One case of typhoid fever was in a cinema in Rome where a news against a winter wind. Many were and was shown illustrating in-at first without overcoats, reported in the Colony during the freel

+) cidents in the recent visits of Sir pneumonia was the result 21 hours ended Tuesday.

Hardships of this kind are cheer- John Simon and Mr. Eden to Ber

fully bone in wartime, but the man The New Territories Branch of lin and Moscow. A difference of opinion be

the St John Ambulance Brigade "shot" of the Union Jack evok in the street could see no apparent. The great theatre of Covent tween the Royal Academy and an

artist of distinction as to the treated a total of 12,317 cases dured titters of amusement, and when justification for them. His de the British representatives were pression was reflected to some ex- Garden has once again opened its suitability of his pictures for the

seen arriving at the Tempelhofftent in the men themselves · and door, and the London season has Academical Exhibition at Bur

As from yesterday the A.P.C. re aerodrome the audience burst into their relatives, although skilfully new thing.

camouflaged by farewell scenes of not lington House is no begun. Occasionally, but

This was the first public manf-enthusiasm when they sailed away often. there have been years. Whether the Hanging Commit tail price for Shell motor spirit is laughter. when the Royal Opera has been tee and the Council of the as follow:-Per case (containing closed, and then the blank has Academy were wise in rejecting two new-tina) $3.30; per unit of festation of disapproval of Great Students went through Messizza

two of the five pictures sent in two new tins $7.90: per unit in Britain which I witnessed Until with bugles in the early mornin been very sensible in the cata-by Mr. Stanley Spencer, ARA returnable drums $7.10; and per the Press was given its cae and calling the population to the quay, no other interpretation can be put and the transports were bombard- logue of the season's festivities. is a question which cannot be imperial gallon in balk $85.

jon such a sudden concerted aut-led with cheers.

The elamour drowned the voices What displeases In this Jubilee Year the call is answered.

The Rev. G. E. S. Upsdell, head-burst of criticism-the public mind Deles- clear for a particularly brilliant academical taste is

of the Central British merely, showed bewilderment and of certain old women who remem

of Adowa 39 sarily ineritorious. series of performances, and there

What is certain is that Mr. School who was taken suddenly i curiosity in trying to understand bered the battle

years before, and were crying thất is every prospect of its being Stanley Spencer's action in pro- and admitted to Victoria Hospital our foreign policy-

But as regards internal ques-these sons of Italy would be "kill- answered. There are theatres test against the rejection of his on Sunday is stated to be progress.

tions, the man in the street knows ed by Menelik" Adowa has been ? what is happening and forms his generally regarded as an Italian more modern in design and more two pictures has been ill-judged.ing satisfactorily.

to own conclusions, although he is defeat, since the expeditionary gaudy in decoration than Covent an Associate of the Royal The wedding is announced

after losing ``three- Garden, but none more stately Academy not only undertakes to take place shortly of M Marcus averse to revealing them to stran-force of 14,000 men turned back It is not the largest. opera house observe its rules but implies Antonio de Carvalho, mercantile gers. He is only too well aware into Eritrea

resacre and mutilation. Italians of in the world, but it is as noble willingness to work within its assistant, of 589, Orient Buildings, that the present crisis in foreign fourths of its strength by mas-

has had a serious as any, and the scene it presents system If the refusal of his Kowloon, and Miss Edris Maria relations

pictures convinced Mr. Spencer Christina D'Aquino, residing at 3setion on commerce and finance the older generation incline to this when filled with a typical May that the Academy is not treating Salisbury Avenue,

Call To The Colous

The anniversary of the battle time audience can fairly be said him as he had a right to expect.

Business in Italy, which was al-

has certairily never been com to be unsurpassed in the world he is obviously entitled to resign. The Ber. N. N. Thelle, MA. B.D.ready suffering from

severe reg-

memorated as a victory. Possibly The sight of that ange area of Bat it is not less obvious that he of the Tao Fong Christian Institute, rictions on-the export and import the revival of the tragic memories

has experienced a further stalls and those tiers of boxes has no justification for demand-will be the speaker at to-night's trade,

of Adowa is responsible for the at- suggests to such as may have aling the return to him of the three lecture at the Lodge Room of the set-back. The call to the colours retrospective turn of mind the pictures which were accepted. Mannk Lodge of the Theosophical affects every class of the popula-tempt to show it in a different

jlight. long and brilliant history of The laws of the Academy, which Society, Hong Kong Club Annextion, and the mechanism of every- An educative pamphlet was opera as a social institution, and He agreed to obey, provide that Chater Road, at 6 pm His subject day life has been badly dislocated. issued by the Government recently the imposing proscenium and no picture submitted and accept will be "With Christ in the Silence. The wild fluctuations in foreign explaining it as a moral victory, great scarlet and gold curtains ed shall be taken away before the All members of the public are wel-exchange are being watched with and the troops under orders for speak of no ad captandum enter-lend of the exhibition. Mr. come.

anxious eyes. The cost of living Eritrea and Somaliland have been tainment, but rather of the digni-Spencer sent in his pictures.

has risen ominously.

not

An artist who accepts election as

master

view..

their views.

tr of a Court establishment, under conditions clearly laid Man So, 25, charged with return- With these. inexorable facts given the opportunity to revise which in fact is what opera was down and familiar in practice ing from banishment and also with troubling his mind, the man in the (Continued on Page 10) in the countries which original-That the result is not what he obtaining $7 from Fung Chan, a street, although still hopeful and ly gave this stateliest form of would have liked, or, it may be, carpenter, of 4 Dock Street, by resolute, cannot contemplate: the art its character. ·

To emphasise unduly the social aspect of the London Opera sea- son. however, would be to fall into the oft-repeated error. of those who speak of Covent Gar den as merely the resort of such las desire "to see and to be seen.

There may have been a time when the Opera was for many a mere excuse for reunions, con- versation, and display; but nowa- days, when the house is in dark-

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falsely pretending to be a Revenue immediate future with any degree Officer, was yesterday sentenced to of cheerfulness. Only the Amy FITTER FALLS FROM one year's imprisonment by Mappears to be a first-class going E.I Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon concern. Magistracy, with a recommendation Mussolini has talked of 1.000.000 Ibayonets for the defence of Italy. Approximately 600,000 men will be The China Motor Bus Company under arms within a very short has placed an order with Messrs. time. The mobilisation depots are John L Thornycroft and Co., Ltd. seething with activity as the re-

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LAUNCH

Body Found Off Mongkok

fitter- The body of Lau Ming, a

from the. for ten 30-passenger buses fitted mainder of the 1911 class arrive to who fell overboard

uniform, and the launch Tung Fu as she was pass- with Diesel engines. This particu-go back into ness throughout the perform. Beer Puzzle contest and model, a number of which are being opened

Great interest was taken in the lar type is known as the "Cygnet" armament factories have been reing the Mongkok Sea-wall yester day, was recovered at noon off

The deceased was waving to

duced to a minimum, and when large number of replies, were reoperated by the Kowloon Bus Com- Then there is the baffing ques-Bute. Street, Mongkok every work admitted to the received from all sections of the pany. It is expected that the new tion of Abyssinia. Until Germany [Lei Sai-lo, master of Boat No. 1,-

Personal Pars

pertory is of unquestionable Community, including a number of vehicles will arrive in the Colony came into the picture in March last artistic merit, it is impossible to Service men

within 10 or 12 weeks, when it is the man in the street was asking 567, when a lurch of the Tang Fu † The prize was won by Mr. Chan intemied to employ them ou the himself and others what the threw him into the water. consider the Opera audience as

move in that direction meant, and indifferent to music. It is in no Wai Ming of Wah Tai College, Island routes.

why. The new crisis at home has frivolous spirit of self-display whose solution was received at 3.20 that, amid all the diverse claims P.m. on May 1; 10 minutes later a

Mr. H. Hatch, residing at No. 10 overshadowed it, but the mystery of the London, season, a couple correct solution was received from Causeway Hill, reports that be of the expedition sent to North- of thousand persons assemble at Miss Dulcie Chan, a guest at the tween May 19 and 22, some un- Covent Garden at the inconvent Hotel Cecil

known person broke into his pre ent hour of half-past six, and re- Actually the first correct solution, mises and removed two pieces main there for a performance of opened at 5 p.m. on April 30, was jewellery valued at $43,

Tristan und Isolde" or "Gotter that sent by "Argus" of the South dammerung in a spirit of some China Morning Post, who will also thing like devotional until receive a prize. A puzzle was sent Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 April 30, but as the hours ending at 10 am to-day was not available for the 0.10 Inch. The total since Jan

1 has been 11.60 inches, as against Jan average of 18374 Inches

close trpon midnight. The fault to

of the Covent Garden audience is puzz

not frivolousness but her a public until May 1 the prize was certain narrowness and lack of awarded Mr. Chan, Wai Ming

East Africa still remains to be

Ms. G. G. N. Tänson, hónorary. solved No one knows very much secretary of the Cheero Club, re- of about it, and I find no enthusiasm, turned to the Colony yesterday, for the adventure which is said to by the RMS. Empress of Asia. be in contemplation by the Govern-

Among the passengers who re Abyssinis is to the man in the turned to the Colony yesterday by reet a vague entity dividing two the EMS Express of Asia

han colonies where barbarie Mr. HR Sturt, managing director are ruled by a Negs of Messrs - China Underwriters. never heard him called Limited

I have