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THE CHINA MAHL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936

The China Mail

Maety-first

Year of Publication.

Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022

London Office:

ST. ANDREW'S

SOCIETY

More Members Are Wanted

APPEAL TO LOCAL SCOTS

Here There c and I Everywhere

The Royal Institute of

Inter

7. Garrick Street, London, W.G2 Notice To Contributors.

The annual meeting of St. An-LEAGUE VIEWS VERBATIM All communications intended for publication should be addressed to drew's Society will be held in the the Editor, and be accompanied by Board Room of Messrs. Jardine national Affairs is shortly to pub-1

Fri-ish a brochure on the "Future of the Writer's Name and Address Matheson and Co. Ltd. on

the the League of Nations." This does not necessarily for insertion, but day next at 5.45 pm when

report and accounts for the year not, it is gathered, attempt to pre- as a guarantee of good faith

will be presented.

that the

Subscription Rates.

One Year

H.K.$96.00

ü Months ... HK$18.00 3 Months ...HK$ 9.00

Postage Abroad Extra

The report states

150-

POPULAR TRAINS IN

ITALY

SPECIAL FACILITIES

PROVIDED

DARING EXPERIMENT CROWNED WITH SUCCESS

Usually the popular trains are

scribe a future for the League. (THE revival of "popular trains,”]

T acharateristic initiative informed exclusively of very modern

but is the record of a series ol

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CULTURE-1936 MODEL:

railway-kilometres, run are in no way a loss.

In the

itself ever

took

excursions have been reserved on

not

third-class car- balance at credit of the General semi-informal discussions which transport of the Fascist regime. and comfortable Fund is $2.87876 to which falls to have taken place in the past few has again found the usual crowd riages; in cases of long distances be added $10,000 invested in months at Chatham House. who benefited from it during the which include night journeys some

The institution second-class carriages are açõed. Public Works four per cent. Re-

The disputants included Lord last six years.

As is obvious, the essential ele- demption Loan 1333. The $500

three and half per Lothian, Lord Howard of Penrith, of this periodical and economical

suitable season dates Fascist initiative, inasmuch as it Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 21, 1936, invested in

cent. War Loan is held for a Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. Robert Ber-way of making the people travel in ment of success in this typically

Angell, Mr.the most

the order of the count of the 1ste J. E. M. Smith days, Sir Norman

Harald Nicolson, Sir Arthur Salter, from the summer of 1931. It was fully answers Scholarship Fund. Music And Two Veg.

A sum of $953.10 was expended Prof. Arnold Toynbee and Lord an experiment which seemed, and Duce "to go towards the people. in fact was, daring, and the rail-is the low cost of the journey. The during the year in assisting dis-Ponsonby.

The procedure was for one of way management faced it with prices of the tickets are in fact lower than those obtained even The Queen Mary is a floating tressed Scotsmen.

with the greatest reductions which. museum of devices designed to

The annual ball in celebration of these to be appointed as chairman some perplexity.

ou the The results.

contrary are in force in the State rates. cheer the jáded traveller. St. Andrew's Day was held in the and to read a paper on some such

Friday, problem as "British Policy in Re-were more than encouraging. Apparently these low prices seem "lighting Peninsula Hotel Among them is

lation to the League." Then the cause in two months only. August anti-economical. but in reality it system whereby the orchestral November 29, 1935.

in other members would join in a dis-land September, during which the is not so because the occupied posts Following the precedent set

Lasted. tone will automatically control!

than more Texperiment of cussion.

being 100 per cent.. the popular the colour tones of illumina-previous rears, the allocation

A typist was present with one 460,000 travellers passed over the trains travel "full up." and thus tion."

How some giftede elec-Poppy Day contributions resulted trical engineer determined the $1.604,98 being remitted to the of the new shorthand typewriters.180,000

This ensured that the reports during that brief period.

For those classes of workers exact shade of colour of a British Legion. Scotland.

It is with the deepest regret should be completely verbatim. The following years the success of the who are not free on Sunday special whack on the big drum is not

the result is that the views of the experiments showed divulged. Perhaps it is a trade that the Committee records secret. But evidently the pro-deaths of the following members. debaters-with only a few of the more, so much so that during the the days immediately following the as summer of last year, after the clos holidays. Nor must we forget

excursions which cession of colours has fired theMr. J. J. Bell-Irving, Mr. J. W.interruptions modified-are

that several excursions are C. Bonnar. Dr. R. M. Gibson and they expressed them at the time. ing

place on September 29. the recti-imited to the duration of one day musical imagination of Mr. Henry Hall who has thrown Mr. W. Johnstone.

fed balance of the season number- loff. in a moment of careless

Appeal For Members

and in the August bank holiday and

Here are the titles of some ed 1,064.262 travellers on 481322 only, but sometimes even to two; genius, a song-words

During the year 48 ordinary

Lincola railway-kilometres.

the programme includes excursions music-to celebrate the occa-

Sea" members joined the Society or books presented to the

which permit a stay of four whole sion: "Somewhere at

No Detailed Programme

days, mostly in localities at the From the state of affairs of the seaside or in the mountains.

Holiday Tickets Srst popular trains of the present recival effected until now, it is) Always with the intention of easy to foresee that those figures jencouraging people to travel the will be considerably surpassed this Italian railways have also institut- ed holiday tickets which give the The programme of the excur right to a reduction of 50 per cent. Under-sions is not established in advance for isolated travellers and of TO season. per cent. for groups of £ve per- at the beginning of the That is to say, there is no detailed guns, valid 48 hours, that is to say the principal from Saturday at midday to Mon- programme, but lines profiting by previous preced-day at midday, for distances with- ex-in a radius of 250 kilometres from ing experience plan various cursions, usually every two weeks the starting station. These programmes are immediate This initiative has also obtained ly published abroad by means of a great success, so much so that wireless stations, the Press, tourist last summer, from June to Septem- publications, showbits in the rail-ber, the travellers who enjoyed this way stations, etc., in such a way great facility numbered 1,576,104. that the public should have time This figure, added to that men- Stanley Lloyd Jopling, 4, of Gil-to decide on the choice of an ex-tioned above of 1,064,262 travellers. lett-road, Thornton Heath, was cursion, and that the sale of the on the popular trains, form a total found dead on the Southern Bail-tickets-organised so that not one of 3,640,366 travellers who in the line near Pennison-road, single ticket should be sold more period of less than four months way

He than the places available in each have enjoyed these, special mea South Norwood, last month.

train should proceed regularly.sures Thad been electrocuted.

Excuses for Every Occasior. How to Cure the Smoking Habit. Chess for Beginners.

The music, we understand, is of were reinstated, and the member-School Sixth Form Library. the same high excellence as the ship now stands at 43 life mem- bers and 454 ordinary members. words:

Somewhere at sea, a liner is some-ia total of 497.

where at sea,

Bringing to me a traveller whe Will build my life anew.

He's out on the sea.

Sailing to me

When shall I sec

My lover come home from the sea Hurry to me, great liner, for you Can make my dream come true Whenever [sic].you be

Answer my plea

Somewhere at sea

The winner of the J. R M Sunita Scholarship is Miss Muriel McCaw, to whom the Society's congratulations are due.

The Committee again stress the duty of all Scots in the Colony to Any changes join the Society.

in address of present members should be intimated to the Honor-1

Frolics in Guinea-pig Land. Lure on a Higher Plane. Man in the Cosmos. Uaintelligible Intelligence. Equilibrium on Cycle. The 17th Dimension. How to Wax Tough. Rainbow Effects in Modern

wear.

Belles of the Bas.. "Excuses for Every Occasion" for reading ary Secretaries in order to keep should provide one

to some of these books, notably nua- In the words of the Scots' (the records complete and up admirer of Burns: "Whaur's date, and to ensure that all com-ber eleven. your Wullie Shakespeare nu?"munications are received by mem- Certainly Shakespeare

not have written that.

couldbers.

"

The thanks of the Society are Seriously, this question of due to Mr. D. Black for kindly

the accounts for the affinity of music and colour auditing has been studied by a number year.

them Scriabine,

of musicians, among Rimsky-Korsakov, Koussevitzki. Bliss and Hol-1. Some inventive! brooke. genius, too, has built a colour organ where by depressing dif- the performer ferent keys controls the lighting both in in-

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Consider these facts and have your clothes frequently ZORIC CLEANED.

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DINNER AT THE KAM LING

Chinese Official Honoured

the

General Li Yeung King, former actually prescribed the use of this instrument in his "Pro-ly Commanding Officer of the Imetheus." Bliss has named Third Army and now Bandit Sup- the four movements of his pression Officer in Fukien, Che "Coloured Symphony": Purple. Kiang and Kiangsu, was the guest Red, Blue and Green. It is not of honour at a dinner party given clear why. For while com-at the Kam Ling Restaurant last posers may agree that music Saturday night by the Tung Yee suggests colour, they do not Tong Association and the General agree on which colour is sug-Chamber of Commerce and Indus- gested by which key.. For

try of the Tung Koon District. example, F sharp major to Kor-

Mr. Lau King Tsing, chairman sakov suggests greyish-green of both the institutions, presided to Scriabine bright-blue, and to Land in a short speech thanked Koussevitzki strawberry-red! Nor are they agreed on the heir guest for all he had done on

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their behalf in securing a reduc- medium which best "expresses tion of the land tax in their na- colour. Bliss used undiluted!ve Tung Koon, and also for hav- orchestra: Scriabine added ("colour

Holbrooke organ," wrote "Serenade" of diluted saxophones!

A more recent suggestion is that music might be expressed, flowers. not in colour, but in

"Mozart is a Wild Flower, and

jing secured a permanent grant of

$600 in aid of their schools.

Your Daily Smile!

Boarding House Chat

Delius is Bluebells." That I can't understand how some sardonic critic, "Diogenes the things get their names," declared the Younger," seeing this announce-critical boarder. ment, tracked it down to the

"Just what do you mean? Oxford-street showroom of the bite," said the star boarder.

comedian went "Well," the take this strawberry shortcake, for!

TH

on,

Gramophone Company:

I proceeded within, and made my instance. If they had called it short- self known to the Young Woman, who berry, straweke I could have seen the received me most politely.

any composer,”

Name point

in said she, "and

two days' time I will do a floral inter- Said a father at Tottenham police- pretation of him, specially for you, court "Bight-bo" said I, "do me Elger."

My daughter was simply doing her

So back I went in a couple of days homework. She is studying addition, wondering very much which of the and attraction.

many possible aspects of Elgar she

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would elect to portray, or whether! Pat wanted to barrow some money she would try to combine them all; and lo and behold, a charming bowl from Michael, who happened to heve a small boy with him at the moment."

of English flowers, including antir "Tis a fire kid ye have there Things, Blac, forget-me-not, del Mike," said Pat "A magnificent phinium, roseníary, sweet peas, roses, head and noble features. Could you

narcissus, rhododen-end me a couple of pounds? double white

(for Elgar the massive), "I could not replied Mike, Solomon's seal for Elgar the Impid

1 dron

"Tis

and lyrical) and geranium (the wife's child by her first husband" #Cockaigne" tooch). The Elgar of

"Gerontius" was not represented: bat

you can't expect everything, especial- |ly at two days' notice.

flowers." Thus a large potato

"Diogenes the Younger sug-haked in its jacket would im-1 gests that the idea might be mediately suggest Sir. -- extended to conductors, "sub No prizes are offered for the stituting vegetables for correct solution.

BOY OF 6 ELECTROCUTED ON RAILWAY

|year.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

TVAN PODDUBNY

-famous Russian

WRESTLED

30 YEARS WITHOUT DEFEAT!

PETER GUNN - Sheriff

of Edmonton-Conails RECEIVED

NOTICE OF A

RAISE

30 YEARS LATE

THE BIG CHEESE,

BIBLE Chwned by MRS.HKERŃ Waukegan, ILL ONE-HALF THE SIZE OF A POSTAGE STAMP

125 YEARS OLD-FOUND IN VIENNA ~WAS STILL GOOD!

CP DONALD

Kansas University PLAYED EVERY MINUTE, OF EVERY GAME FOR 4YRS

41 GAMES. WITHOUT TIME OUT.

(1901-2-3-4)