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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 10, 1935

China's Day

PERFUMERY · DEPT.

Here There and Everywhere

A DISINFECTING ROMANCE

Mr. Gerard Lambert, the owner of the yacht Yankee, which was visited recently by the King. has

romantic story. ---

His father had a modest chemist's shop in St. Louis. He invented a disinfectant and sent

answer.

NATURAL FEATURES OF ETHIOPIA

ENORMOUS CANYONS TO HARASS MEN

ANCIENT CIVILISATION STILL.

EVIDENT IN CUSTOMS

(By Adrian Buxton)

HAVE just returned from monkeys, baboons, snakes, and the formula to Lord Lister for Abyssinia. where I have countless numbers of beautifuk whom he had a great admiration. spent the greater part of a year birds. It would be difficult to find another country with such Lord Lister sent an approving intravel in the interior.

Further correspondence. We could not have arrived in a great variety of birds as One ornithologist secured for Mr. Lambert senior the country at a better time.Abyssinia. the right to nse Lord Lister's It was early November, and the has collected no fewer than 530 Enormous rain had ceased to make Addis different spécies. name for his preparation. -

duck are It was the birth of Listerine Ababa a place of mud and des-numbers of wild

always to be seen flying orer

research.

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Your Daily Smile!

ment

CTI the

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gasped Wille

with a big business concern.

2

At the

-ready.

Canyon Sighted

pondency.

Addis Ababa at first sight the plains. SOLD OUT FOR £5,000,000

seems to be a town mainly of

King Baboons The company that formed to conical shaped wattle huts, from The king baboons of Abys commercialise the new disinfect which the smoke rises through sinis are interesting creatures, ant prospered Mr. Lambert the roofs as though they were and great enemies of agricul senior made a fortune and devot on fire. The men one sees there ture. On the cultivated areas ed the rest of his life to scientific are clothed in white jodhpur of the plateau men have con- breeches. with a long shawl stantly to guard against raids Eventually Mr. Gerard Lambert thrown over their shoulders like on crops by the big baboons his son. came into his

father's the toga of the ancient Romans from the depths of the canyons. After several weeks spent in Every few hundred yards a fortune He was such a goodį business man that he was able the capital busily making presentinel stands guard, and one to sell his share in the business parations for a long trek, all was of the most amusing sights is The necessities for a that of watching a baboon slip for: $5,000,000.

To-day he has other important safari are not small Ample past a sentry to grab at the business interests. including the food must be taken, as the only crops. These creatures have the Gillette edibles that can be bought on heavy manes, and in size are chairmanship of Safety Razor Company. He can the journey are corn, hay, and slightly larger than a mandrill. occasionally eggs and veget Another denizen of the can- afford to yacht.

Many ables. Our men were unusually yous is the leopard. well trained, and numbered in smaller cats abound in caves all about 35.

about the steep sides. Hunters usually light fires at the cave. What is best for the Chinese

It was Willie's first ride on a traîn, that is what they hope for and the succession of wonders Then good pack and riding mouth and wait for the occu- most themselves-Britons feastonished him.

mules must be acquired, and pant to be smoked out.

Nowhere in the world is there vently desire they should have Suddenly the train rounded a bend food for three months, tents and

Horses are a civilisation so ancient as that With the rise of brotherly and dashed into a long tunnel. After affection will die international a few moments the dense darkness baggage carried distrust and suspicion in this was succeeded by broad daylight, and not popular on so long a jour-which prevails in Abyssinia ja small voice was lifted in amazeney as we had planned, as they to-day. The nation is made up part of the world. With that

cannot stand up to the strain of several tribes led by the sentiment uppermost we

which "It's to-morrow

the country imposes, predominant Amharas, and no even though food is plentiful for nation possesses finer warriors. With the rapid pssing of time to-day heartily join with

No Imagination ** in the Orient it hardly seems 24 Chinese in this Colony in wish-The clerk had just completed them

of faithful service! We set out from the Abys

Abyssinians, in fact, have no years since the hated Manchu ing the Republic of China many quarter-century happy returns.

end of the day the boss handed him sinian capital over grassy plains imagination, and therefore are- Dynasty was swept away and

a big envelope inscribed, "In token with long. rolling hills and occa almost strangers to fear. They of this memorable date.”

valleys believe that their civilisation is replaced by a Republic. But the

opened the envelope and inside it he stretched before us. ploughed superior to that of the Western calendar, like dead men, tells no

found a photograph of his employer.

up ready for

cultivation world, and their arrogance tom “Well, what do you think of my Les To-day the Chinese are

of the gift to you in recognition of your Wherever the eye could reach ward opposing nations is an celebrating the

length and United States Asiatic Fleet at devoted service the proprietor ask there were round, conical-topped bounded. The careful observer, houses made of mud plastered however, will find that the ed throughout the

"It's just like you," was the courte over a framework of wood, the cause of this, arrogance is in breadth of the land and wher-present visiting Hong Kong will

be "At Home" to the Officers of ous reply.

habitations of Amhara and reality an inferiority complex ever the Chinese are to be found the Royal Navy and their wives

brought about by the steady, American friends 31 the

"So the evening wore on," said the Galla peasants.

After few days of travel advancement of the white races. all over the globe, as if the full and

Hotel Rose Room romanticist, telling a story.

Their outlook and sense of fruits of the establishment of Peninsula

"Excuse me," interrupted the wit, over rich, fertile plains, the head the Republic had really been tomorrow from 6 pm till 8 pm but can you tell me what the even-Negaddy (chief mule driver) justice is altogether different

ing wore on that occasion ?”

informed us that we were near-from that of the white man- garnered.

The China Emporium, Ltd., "It doesn't matter." replied the They do not take their plea-announce that in commemoration romanticist, "but I believe that it was ing the first of the canyons Where the white races value Knowing so little about Abys-and protect life, the Abyssinian sinia, we failed to appreciate holds it of relatively little sures sadly. The hovering of of the Double Tenth Day, their the close of day.”

the real significance of his in-acccunt. A murderer in Abys war clouds or the fear of in-premises will be closed to-day.

format.

sinia is regarded" with tolerance, vasion by foreign powers does for one day only The Cafe De Luxe Mezz. Fr.) will remain

and even respect

The practice of “spear-blood- open as usual

A canyon in Abyssinia is one

a youth pro of the most remarkable geo-ing" by which graphical features in the world claims his manhood in slaying They are of incredible depth, somebody, is still looked upon sometimes 5.000ft deep and as a custom by Abyssinian old school. from 10 to 15 miles wide from officials of the lip to lip much bigger in every Nowadays it is rare, and is dis- TO SERVE FOR LIFE

way than the Colorado canyons couraged because white men do of America. One big canyon not approve of it. London.

(Continued on Page 10.) we crossed still retains the name Following a petition to the mentioned in the report of a Home Office, George Alfred Brown, Portuguese survey party more 20. laundry vanman, Sparkbrook than 300 years ago. They call Birmingham, who was sentenced ed the canyon "Ha-Fitch

anniversary

not affect their rejoicing nor diminish by one iota their fes- tive feeling.. When there is al time to be joyful, the occasion matters little to the masses they are simply joyful

The

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Naval Officers

At St. Andrews Church Hall on Tuesday evening Madame Gordon's unique programmé of Australian and Hong Kong songs and piano pieces found great favour with It would ill befit foreigners to the large audience present. do aught else on this auspicious day than rejoice with those

Miss H. Bancock, who accom- that rejoice. Many a time in panied her sister to Shanghai, was the past have foreigners wept also an arrival yesterday by the with those Chinese who wept Empress of Russia. over China's dark misfortunes.

The clerksional

CONDEMNED MAN REPRIEVED

New Judge's First Death Sentence

trees. Rich

Remarkable Feature

And how often have foreigners Mr. C. G. Windie, a member of to death for the murder by stab-which being interpreted mears likewise shared the hopes of the the staff of Messrs. Paterson bing of Linda Hill, 24, also of "The Death of Mules.** Chinese that out of the long Simons Ltd. big importers and Birmingham. has been reprieved. Our first view of an Abyssin- welter of internal strife there exporters of Singapore, and also Messrs. Philip Baker, of Bir-ian canyon, stretching away I would come a day when civil on the Committee of the Singapore mingham, his solicitors received a some two miles toward the Blue wars would be no more and the Swimming Club, arrived here by letter from the Home Office in-Nile, was of a seemingly bot- dove of peace would fly over the Empress of Russis yesterday-forming them that the Secretary tomless abyss. Yet we had to levery corner of the vast nation.

of State, after reviewing all the travel for two days to reach it,

BOY MAKES LEAP FOR LIFE

Bus Crashes Into Shop Windows

London

Four persons were slightly in-

sudden standstill owing to the

In Hong Kong foreigners are Captain C. Pennack, of the Lin-circumstances of the case, had and then our transport diffien jared in Edinburgh recently in ax

ja. motorbus. commingling to-day with the colnshire Regiment, and Mrs recommended the King to respite ties really began. Most people accident involving a teamcar and

Rice the capital sentence with a view are agreed that these canyons The tramcar was brought to Chinese in their celebration Pennack and Lieut. 7. M. The Government of the Colony Evans, of the Royal Welch Fusi- to its commutation to penal ser- are great earth cracks. They

present a barrier which may electric trolley jolting off the over has declared a general holiday liers. and Mrs. Rice Evans, were vitude for life."

for life Meres take the traveller days to nego-head cable and bus following and the entire community is also arrivals in the Colony yester-

fiate day by the Empress of Russia.. clad in its holiday attire.

Brown was tried at Manchester

Is The Depths Assizes. The jury added a recom No fear of internal disturb

Among the passengers woomendation to mercy, and Mr. Jus- In descent from the top to ance exists in our minds to-day Far from any idea of observing booked in Europe to conect with tice Greaves Lord, the recently the bottom of a the alleged "eat, drink and be the RMS. Empress of Japan appointed judge, showed deep passes through variations of thrown from his, seat and the merry-for to-morrow we die," from Vancouver on October 5 were emotion as he passed, sentence of climate On the plateaur one bus mounted the pavement and there is beneath the surface a 3r. E N. Ensor, the Ham Dr. A death. This was the first time he might be enjoying perfect Eng-smashed the windows and damage quiet hope that the turning of Wellington and Mrs. Welling had worn the black cap. lish summer weather, but at the and frontages of three shops and

In the witness-box Brown said bottom of a canyon the condi another milestone in the his-ton, Mrs. M. Tapp, Mr. and Mrs.

behind swerved to avoid a colli- sion.

Pavenfent Mounted canyon one; The driver of the bus was

a bank

Auto Strop tory of the Chinese Bepublic A M. Kirts, Mr. and Mrs that he and Miss Hill were in a tions are tropical. Moreover. A boy cleaning the outside of a

Safety Razor

British Made

may bring in its wake more Boland and Mr. D. Fard Williams promenade, shelter at Blackpool the fauna of the depths differs butcher's shop window leaped to when she put a kaife into his from that of the platen to the safety just as the bus amasbed blessings for the Chinese and the strangers within their gates! The RMS Empress of Japan hand and asked him to kill her same extent as the climate the window. than has been possible in any left Vancouver for Hong Kong via He said he could not, but she pull- Jacicals and hyenas roam the previous years during the last Honolulu, Japan ports and Shany-ed his arm. He denied that he plains, and there are vast flocks demoiselle decade. Not only are the re-hal, on October 5 and is due in the was responsible for her death of the beautiful

crane, and bine and gyptian grets at China's past misfor-Colony on Friday, October 25 at

geese Blue geese are rarely tunes sincere and gennine, but 6 am

tice R. ELindsell, President of found in Europe. more than ever before is there evening for Me

the Hong Kong Lawn Tennis As At the bottom pf between the British and the

bersi the there is usually?) Chinese a spirit of amity and Among the passengers who resociation. and

port Colour resterday | Colony

Tennis concord a willingness to be of turned to the

team river, with crocodiles comprising: MW. Hung Miss potami wallowing in the help to each other that in-aftern

Hancock and Miza M. Griffiths water and amidst fuences their entire relations. of Russia were the Hom

She will

the arme)

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