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THE CHINA MAHL. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1536

The China Mail

Ninety-frst Year of Publication.

13A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022. London Office:

EXPLANATION OF Here

TO-DAYS CARTOON

The American Inventor

7, Garrick Street, London, WC2

Notice To Contributors,

DR.

Of The Wireless

There and Everywhere

RMAHLON Loomis (1526-TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

1886), dentist and pioneer

Al communications intended for in wireless photography, inventen Table tennis is now so seriously

WHAT OF THE FUTURE

IN ABYSSINIA?

POSSIBLE RESULTS OF · ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

publication should be addressed to and discovered the system of taken that to. call it ping-pons EFFECTS ON AFRICAN PEOPLES. IN

the Editor, and be accompanied by sending electric signals to a dis- would be like calling baseball the Writer's Name and Address tance, without wires. He carried rounders. Crowds were attracted

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not necessarily for insertion, but his first two-way "wireless" com- by the annual championship which as a guarantee of good faith.

munication between two mountain was played in London last month. peaks in Virginia 18 miles apart The game was invented by Eri- in 1868, six years before Marconi tish officers in South Africa at the was even born. The utilisation ofjend of the last century, and exist-| his invention met with a series ed for a time as a mild indoor

powerful financial backing in 1869, to the English Table Tennis As- but lost it in the financial, panic sociation have a membership of Hong Kong Friday, Feb. 28, 1936. of the Black Friday of that year. well over 30,000.

two years later, was

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of severe hard luck. He enlisted amusement. Now clubs affiliated MANY races live within and cision discarded by European

With are subject to the Abys-armies as out-of-date... sinian Empire; but the three these aids to their superior in- most important are the compara-telligence the menace from the neighbouring enemies Chicago financial backing, enlisted Victor, Barna, a young Hun- tively civilised Shoan, Amhara old.

cancelled garian, who holds the world cham- and Tigre. These are the aris- ceased to exist; the latter, and through the great Chicago Fire pionship, succeeded Perry, the tocrats, the rulers, collectively others, too, were incorporated known to the subject races as in" the Abyssinian Empire of 1871 Two years later. Con-present lawa tennis champion, and the "Abash," or the Abyssin which Menelik turned from the gress and the Senate both passed makes his living out of the game.

an battlefield to create by just ians. They still cling to bills (1873) in his favour, but The International Table Tennis

ancient form of civilisation andjsuch methods as one might ex- strike the average Westerner failed to make any material ap-Association does not worry about have a written language and alpect would be employed in

propriations. Ee finally died amateur and professional status. crude form of culture all their the circumstances. as reactionary, or even absurd, introduced by the New Life heartbroken by a renewed failure!

Menelik died-up to 1925 unsettled Movement in China, is the mass in 1885. Nine years after his A BODY-LINE" CONTROVERSY

The Abyssinians are Chris-there followed an death. Marconi picked up where marriage. Starting in the

The table tennis equivalent to tians. Their first ecclesiastical period during which the great capital, it spread to Shanghai Loomis had left off through

body-line bowling is knuckle-spin leader, the. Bishop of Ethiopia, Governors of provinces kept rifles and and then to South China, even- series of misadventures.

service, about which a controversy was appointed by the Coptic their out-of-date has arisen. The ball is squeezed Patriarch of Alexandria more scimitars in serviceable condi- through the fingers of the left than 1,600 years ago: except- tion, and their soldiers in fight- since then the hand before it hits the bat. This ing for a period during the six-ing, trim:

early seventeenth majority have devoted them- makes its movements unexpected teenth and

tually reaching Hong Kong,¦

where, about a fortnight ago.

11 couples were united at once

at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., 3

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The best tal com record that]. Member of the Legislative has yet come to my attention is! Council officiating. Few will the crop grown by S. D. Cornell There is a strong body of opinion centuries, when the Ethiopian selves to amassing fortunes and maintain in favour of barring knuckle-spin. Church came under the influ.allowed the armies they were be disposed to cavil at this in-of Grandview. Washington.

In the absence of such tricks ence of Rome, the appointment under obligation to stitution of "mass marriage" 1924. An acre of his crop was!

wartime to become inefficient. when the intention behind it is carefully measured off, and found allies sometimes go on for a pro-has-ever since been filled from for the Emperor's service in

digious time. in last year's Egypt. considered.

to contain 98 rows, 18 inches apart

Once upon a time the Abys

Science Of Destruction Amongst all Eastern races, and each one 275 feet long. On championship one lasted for 20

To-day, these brave undisci- and formerly even to

some this acre he grew 62,700 pounds of minutes, the ball crossing the net psinians were recognised as a

great people who possessed 2 plined armies, the Emperor's extent to-day-amongst Wes- corn-actual weight after harvest. 1.600 times,

degree of civilisation quite up own corps excepted, possess tern peoples, two events in Nearly all the stalks were over 20

to the highest standards of neither the knowledge, disci- human existence, marriage and feet tall and some of them measur-

that period. Then something pline, nor machinery to with. death, have been made dcca-jed 22 feet-so tall that a six foot

happened; drought, famine and stand the twentieth century sions

invasion, we can justly surmise, science of destruction. for special display.man couldn't reach the first ear

curiously Birth.

enough. on the stalk. especially amongst the Chinese, with -whom ancestor-worship still retains a strong hold on the mass of the people, has a much less important place. is a common thing, amongst the peasantry of India, for a father to mortgage his future crops. aften thus enslaving himself for the rest of his life, that he may give his daughter a magnificent marriage and thereby "acquire merit" in the eyes of his village neighbours. Death, however,

The reception given at the acted to cover the whole of South Sense or way superior to their about as loyal to the Emperor

their existence, their indepen- the Britons. Scots, Welsh, and ́ is not a matter of equal impor- French consular residence last China. Have you had any previous adversaries, ther had preserved Haile Selassie, naturally, as

night *0 Vice-Admiral Esteva, "Well, sir, the biggest job I have dence, their religion, and what Irish were to William Rufus.

And then when the. w3.3 covering Commander-in-Chief of the French tackled

bungalow they could of their civilisation. Amongst Western peoples,

against a sea of Mohammedans Emperor's grand armies are public display at marriages has Squadron in Eastern waters, was foers."

and pagans bent on the annihi-scattered?, If the matter of almost ceased and. with the brilliant and memorable occasion.

settlement is left entirely to the lation of all. growth of saner ideas, private the beautiful dresses of the ladies ithe uniforms of the officers and

After Adowa their country belligerents there will never be

flooded with arms of pre- (Continued on Page 12) expenditure has been greatly combining to form a colourful hare perfectly good husbands are the

tance.

It

FRENCH CONSULAR RECEPTION

Admiral Esteva Honoured

BRILLIANT FUNCTION

picture.

-A buffet supper was served 01

card tables.

Lamotte-

curtailed. parents who can afford to do so preferring to present the young couple with a cheque on which to start the ground floor, where dancing housekeeping rather than ex-was also enjoyed to the strains of pend the money on a huge and the band of the French flagship Lamotte-Picquet On the first | costly reception. Among the less-educated classes death floor guests were provided with holds a more important place! than marriage and it is a com-

Among those present were Cap- mon thing, especially in the tain Leloup, Captain Bastard,

Commander of the East End of London, for men and women to skinip and stint Picquet; Commander de la Ferte, and save for the greater part Air Attache of the French Lega- of their lives in order that they tion: Commander dé Bavens, Com- may have a

grand funeral mander of the French gunboat which will be talked of in the Argus: Mr. J. E. B. Lee, Private neighbourhood long after they Secretary, representing His Ex- icellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Amongst the Chinese mar-Caldecott; Commodore and Mrs. riage and death appear to be G. Sedgwick, RN, Brigadier held in about equal estimation H G. Seth-Smith: Sir Elly and both are made the occa- Kadoorie; and many of the lead- sion of ostentatious displaying French residents of the Co- Scarcely a week passes without lony, including M. Montargis, M. the appearance, in the streets de Roux and M. Jusserand of Hong Kong, of a marriage

Among others invited were all or funeral procession that must members of the Executive and have cost many thousands of Legislative Councils, all members dollars, which in many cases the Consular Body, and all must come as an almost crip- Captains, or British warships in pling charge upon the relatives part.

are gone.

of the happy couple of the de-

ceased, as the case may be

There is still far too much

of

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ostentation, too much public Three jurymen at the Caernar- display merely pour epater les vonshire, North Wales, bourgeois. Only a short time Sessions could neither read ago we had the spectacle of the understand English. entire furnishings of a house,

complete even down to supplies a young man contemplating of comestibles, a wedding gift marriage will hesitate before! to a newly-married pair, carried he definitely commits himself insolemn procession through or his parents to the expense the streets of the city.

involved in the preliminary dis-1 It is to save the, not-so-play which "face" demands; but] wealthy from such extrava- he will welcome the chance gances that the sponsors of the given him by this "mass mar- New Life Movement have intro-riage institution, where he is duced the mass marriage; and kept in countenance by others they have taken advantage of of like mind with himself. a facet of human psychology in Old customs die hard in the doing so.

It is a matter of Fast but in mass marriage common knowledge that a man there is the beginning of a will shrink from doing by him saner and sounder view of the self what he will readily do in things that are necessary and company with" others." ́ Many unneceRAATY.

toothache.

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Sympathy An elephant's tooth weighs about cut them off completely from inexperience, twelve pounds. Only a giraffe with the outside world; excepting armament, their grossly inade- a sore throat can appreciate the suf- for a few isolated incidents, quate supplies of ammunition, tering of elephant with

the they did not reappear therein only betray them to stake in any important role" until their liberty in a game that was Menelik, at their head. threw literally lost before they began back the Italian invaders at the to play-the odds are ten to one battle of Adowa.

against thema.

The Sultan of Aussa has Only Recently

the to the enemy; That was only 39 years ago; turned for. centuries before. with Somalis. the Shankallas, the. Director of linoleum firm to pros- weapons in their hands in no Gallas, the people of Kaffa are pective traveller: "You will be ex-

A new novel is entitled, "The Per- Fect Husband.” The publishers, of course,-point out that no reference wo any living person is intended.

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The only women nowadays who

widows.

CORNE

"BELIEVE IT OR NOT

From by 5-0.6

DR. MAHLEN

LOOMIS

by Robert L. Ripley

of Washington DISCOVERED

AND INVENTED

WIRELESS 27 YEARS BEFORE MARCOM

Drawn by -CURLEY Mchomes Post Hospital

Oglethorpe, Ga