1937-04-06 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1937.

THE

WORLD

GOES BY

DURGLARY is one of the

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

Opening On Thursday

The Photographic Exhibition of the Sailors and Soldiers Home, which has attracted striking “open” entries, is to be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, each evening.

"Borest paid of the learned prints will be

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professions," says Warden Lawes

Mr. Lawes should know. He's had more crooks through his hands than almost any other man alive, 5 And I can bear · out his state ment. I myself was quite one of the cleverest Bill Sykes ever to crack a crib bút it never got me anywhere. So badly paid was it that I had to turn to journalism to make a living, which shows you what burglary is like.

On Thursday, the exhibition of open to inspection from 7 p.m. to 10:30 pm, and a de- monstration of home portraiture

from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

On Friday; the prints will be shown from 5.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. and the home portraiture demon- stration from 7 p.m. to 10 am.

On Saturday, the times will be the same except that the homme por- traiture demonstration will open at 6 p.m. instead of seven. There will be a demonstration of cinemato- And no pension, even after years graphy from 8.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. of faithful and devoted service. Admission is free to the exhibi- Burglars haven't even a trade [tion and the demonstrations.

union to protect themselves from police persecution, which is a bit thick, I mean to say, what?

And to crown it all, some bright lads have invented two devices to discourage burglars,

The criminal enters a room pro- tected by selesium cell apparatus. He crosses an infra-red ray, and then things begin to hùm.

A siren sounds.

DUKE WATCHES A COCKFIGHT

British visitors brought 100 cocks in special cages to a cock-fighting The meeting meeting at Calais. lasted from 4 pm to 9 p.m., and about 300 of the 900 spectators were British.

They included the Duke of North-

A warning signal lights in the umberland, Lord Hugh Percy, and police station,

The doors behind him are electri- fied with a high voltage current.

The lights are turned on.

A concealed camera takes his photograph, and tear gas is dis- charged:

Sir John Buchanan-Jardinė.

Both French and English cocks took part in the fight. The French cocks fought one another armed with steel spurs.

Combats

three were timed for minutes-each, and cocks which be- crow were considered to The only thing that doesn't hap gan to pen, apparently, is someone pop-have lost. Spectators betted freely ping out of a corner and asking on the fights, and it is estimated

that some $2,500 changed hands. him for his autograph.

Cock-fighting is.. technically But it is the new bank messenger |;;; bag that does the most startling illegal in France, but in practice it things. Assume that it has just goes on to a considerable extent, been grabbed from the messenger.

The bag automatically emits a meetings almost every Sunday in series of loud explosions and then Roubaix, Douai, Bethune and other finally sprays out a stream of dense towns. tracer smoke to show the path of the robber.

Imagine his- embarrassment!

Poise

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"It has long been recognised in the Courts of Europe and else- where that there is a quality call- ed poise, a degree of character building, a development of out standing personality that somehow can be acquired from none but Bri- tish tutors."--News item.

For further proof of this respect

of British character apply:-

(a) Rome.

(b) Berlin.

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An authority predicts that in an- other decade it will be hard to find a. debtor

To a shroff, it seems pretty tough

even now.

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Hollywood parties must be grand affairs for the men, what with all those extra girls.

especially in the north. There are

Meetings are often organised on a large scale for the benefit of charities.

QUEEN MARY AT WESTMINSTER

Inspects Coronation Arrangements

London, To-day. Queen Mary paid a visit to West- minster Abbey at noon yesterday to the Coronation arrange- inspect

ments.

She was accompanied by the Earl Marshal and was shown over the Abbey by the Dean of Westminster.

-Reuter.

Japanese Warships At Swatow

Canton, To-day. It is reported that there are seven Japanese warships at present in Swatow.

The Swatow Municipality has of announced that all passports foreigners are subject to examina- tion and the police have been in- structed to have this mandate car- ried out. Our Own Correspondent.

A manufacturer is developing a St. John's Review for - April, rear-engine motor car. If someone just published, contains among will shift the steering wheel, back other things, an appeal by the seat drivers will call it a complete chairman of the finance commit- victory.

tee, Mr. P. S. Cassidy for the Good Will Offering Scheme..

ULYSSES.

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