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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1920.

KING'S

BIRTHDAY.

FLYING

AT

REPULSE

ON

BAY

Thursday, June 3rd,

Commencing 2.30

SAFETY: NO STUNTS.

The Macao Aerial Transport Company will give a demonstration, weather permitting, of plain and safe seaplane flying with

FIVE MACHINES

at Repulse Bay on THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD, and on FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY following, commencing each day at 2.30 PM,

Passengers will be carried for short flights. Silver medallions and certificates of "My First Flight" will at a later date be given to all who participate.

Booking is at THE HONGKONG HOTEL, Main Office, and at REPULSE BAY HOTEL, where particulars can be obtained on application.

Hongkong, May 29th,"192.

C. E. W. RICOU,

Managing Director.

(98)

FRESH

CONSIGNMENT

OF

Melachrino

Cigarettes

JUST UNPACKED

These Cigarettes may be purchased Ex. Bond for shipment.

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

·10, DES VŒUX ROAD, CENTRAL

HONGKONG

WE BUILD AND ENGINE

MOTOR BOATS

OF ALL DESCRIPTION.

Express Launches;

Cabin Cruisers."-

Work Boats..

Shallow Draft River Launches.

ALEX ROSS &

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THE STREET OF ADVENTURE. AN AMAZING STORY OF JOURNALISM.

to the tongue, it sticks in the mind it couples little space so is the more saily advertised on hoardings,

HOW TO RUN A HALIPENNY DAILY. ---My-own-plan-of-how-a-halfpeiny- morning paper should be produced were cut and dry. They had been formulated

INDO

CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LÍMITED.

JAILINGS "SUBJECT TO ALTERATION

HAIPHONG TÙ HOLLOW KOBE SHANGHAI......

M. Kennedy Jones, M-P., has just published a book, called Fleet Street and Downing Street." In it be tells of his The Morning and improved in accord. adventures in Fleet Street and the story at with the experience then gained. The association with Alfred Harmsworth - of how he bought the Erening News unabled us to take advantage of his valuable the Times and was responsible, with Alfred Experience with popular journals, bis Harusworth, for starting the Daily Mail. Paper Aneers having been a great sue. When the now daily started, besides Here in his own words are the stories my methods of dealing with the news of of a triple scoop in Fleet Street - the day, it included a magazine page, which was rightly called an entirely new iden in daily journalism A little later this sub-title was changed into A Page CALOUTTA LANE for Leisure Mousents," A third of the magazine page was devoted to a serial.

THE FLEET STREET SAUSAGE SHO

"On the north side of Fleet Street, be tween Shoe Lane and Poppin's Alley, there is a fried sausage shop. It was there in 1882. One night in that year a Stan in the Street stood before the win- dow. He was hungry; he had nothing

*

DER INSTANTANEOUS "success, *Quë......_instantaneous sucress was B

HANDAKAN MANILA

STRAITS & CALCUTTA

***ESANGTM

„TAKSANG"......Wed., 2nd June, 8 am.. *NAMSANG”.......Wad, and June, § 4.DL Thara, 3rd June, D'light *FINSANG....Thurs, 3rd June, Noon "YUENSANG* Fri: 4th June. "3 p.m.. "LAISANG Wed, 9th June, 3 pm

This Line sorda reguar sellings 10 Calcutus, tenang and Ringapore; ramrning from Calcutta röemmers proceed via Stratin and Hongkong to Japan, nouasionally calling at Shanghel All procameren hare excellent passenger soogmmodation, are stbed with Electric Light sod Faza kad carry a fully-qualifed.

to eat since breakfast and he was twenty doubtedly largely due to the welding | SHANGHAI LEGA

seven and of a robust build. His luck

was out.

For

the new journalism, which Į represented with popular journalism, abiy represented The soil of the sausage was tantalia by Alfred Harmsworth

He hadn't a penny in his pocket.u an open field. ing. He hired for half-a-guines the week a had failed, single room-a-bed, and breakfast room -in Cursitor Street, off Chancery Lane Hi friends in London were few; he had only just arrived from the provinces, and on this particular day he had not been At the end of the first week in able to buy a meal. He swore he woulda r

counter.

(approxímsicly avory "fro dayı between. Canton 15€

sometimes calling at Bwatow. Through Maksis on ba obtained and through Bill of Lading are lavand so, all Northern and Yangiano Forks via Shanghai. LINK :—A „pakly servios in maintained with Minds by vessels with good acconzmoda kot, salings from both porta avery Friday) approximately a weekly for passengers and margt, olling si Holbow when indasement offers.

· HAIPHONG · LINES Jl

We had before The new Journalism

NASTRA Though the field was open we left nothing to chance, weeks before that glorious fourth of May we were producing dummy numbers, and subjecting then to the severest criticism.

The

SOHNTO

リ

go to bed bungry. Through the haze of Outlook section under the title of Our TITHIN the smoking sausage and frying onions Venture. Alfred Harmsworth was able to he watched the shopman busy behind the write: A week ng to-day the Daily Mail, as 3r. Gladstone remarked in his plens Now, if I go in and eat my fill anding communication, was a most interest- But in the brief space tell him I can't pay what will he doing experiment. What will be way?

that has elapsed since the busy man's daily journal has already become as familiar to the world and as widely read as its older compeers. It is no longer, a mure experi-

And the Man in the Street set him- self to think out every form of threat and abuse he might meet under such circum stances and how they might be conn-ment tered. By this time the shop was empty, He walked in, ordered of the best, and had a second helping. Were over sausages more delicious, fried onions atere-luscious And now there was only the bill to be settled,

The shopman sat behind the counter reading the Star, He wore spectacles. He might have been a bit deal, for twice the well-supped man had to ang out Hello!' before be attracted 'bis"atten- tion.

Well, wot is it?" -

It was no longer a mere experiment within twelve hours of the first issue of going to press Early that morning-a parfect May morning, the sun above the horizon-I walked home, leaving the office after twenty consecutive hours labour with the printing machines burring away happily. In the afternoon I returned.

"How goes i it? I

asked Alfred Harmsworth.

Orders are pouring in, he said. We have struck a gold mine."

He was right." We had struck a gold

to mine.

You know, I've got no money pay for we supper.? The Man in the The circulation of the first issue of Street was cunning, be implied that the the Daily Vait was 395,910 copies The shopman was an accessory to the net. And average daily circulation from May 11th. be got ready all the arguments he had to 30th, was 171,191: the daily average for June 188,835, and for July 203,578, prepared outside.

From that day forward we never looked back, and the million limit was reached within five years. The Daily Mail after- wards touched a million and a half.

Wot was that,' asked the shopman, eyeing the guilty man up and down over the tops of his spectacles.

***He repeated the remark,

Well 1 s'pose that will be al right.' The man in the Street was of a robust build, but he nearly collapsed. It was the one remark for which be bad no answer ready. He had never thought of it. He caught his breath and replied gaily:—

That will be all right. I will be here on Friday. Good night"

Good-night."

BUYING THE “ TIMES,”

Now for the story of the purchase of the Me In January, 1905, Mr. Kennedy ones beard of a possible sale; and that

£360,000 was refused,

"My first idea was to secure the paper for myself, and disposing of my other interests in Fleet Street to devote myself to rebuild- ing it. But another course

TWENTY YEARS, LATER. Before drawing a moral, let us follow the Man in the Street for 20 years. Two years later be acquired an interest in an evening paper; twenty years later, almost "to the "vūry night he End bluffed those

fried sausages and onions, he sold his Thattening we talked to a late hour, interests in Fleet Street for a handsonie and parted without coming to a decision. fortune 1 was the Man in the Street, He was to sleep on the question and give In all my career no night is so in- me his final answer in the morning.... I delibly impressed on my mind as that of pointed out that there would be no the shopman's unexpected answer. I wrangie, as the matter would be decided The learnt then what I have never forgotten, by a Chancery Judge in Chambers. that no matter how clever and cunning next morning Lord Northeiiße gave his you may think yourself, how carefully you consent. may prepare the ground beforehand, you cannot predict the effect a statement will have on the mind because there will be present factors unknown to you which may yield d result as often as not directly opposite to the one you anticipate, the

This is n truth that every publicist and public man, let him, haunt Fleet Street or Downing Street, does weil never to forget, it nccounts for much perplexity and disappointment and it-restricts within painfully narrow limits even the influence of the Prese

regraphed-to-bord-Northcliffe, who was in Paris, saying 1 had an important proposition to place before him. On the evening of the day of my arrival we went fally to the possible purchase of the "Timeken

BUYING THE "EVENING NEWS." “In 1904. I was the news editor of the Su, a halfpenny paper then edited by its founder, that brilliant Irish politician and literateur, Mr. T. P. O'Connor. The offices of the Sun were in Tudor Street, a smail street running parallel with Flect -Street, which had fronted-she-river at high tide before the Embankment was built and ground reclaimed; it was origually called King Tudor Street.

Early information, received through a friendly publisher, that the Evening Now was in the market enabled me to obtain an option on it. The sale price was £25,000. How was the money to be obtained i

I returned to London, resumed com- munication with Mr. Moberly Bell, and in Mr. Harry Preston's Royal York Hotel at Brighton we drew up a scheme for the Court's-approval, under which if accepted, the control of the Times passed fathe house of Walter, with whom it has reated since it was founded in 1875. In March our scheme was "approved by the Court, and in July we entered into possession."

FUTURE OF PALESTINE.

4

A committee has been formed at the House of Commons with Lord Robert Cecil na chairman and Mr. Ormsby Gore as hon. Meretary, to watch events in Palestine. The chief object will be to support any effort of the Government to give effect to Mr. Balfour's declaration of November 2nd, 1917, on the establishment of n national home for the Jewish race.

"Alfred Harmaworth" I only, knew by sight. He was a man of my own age, in he thirtieth year, with a reputation

on for enterprise Here was opportunity and a ↑ meeting was arranged. We came to terms, The Evening Neus was bought and a business partnership formed which before it was limolved through my ill-bealth eighteen years later, had called into boing. the modern newspaper, with sale un dreamt of in diurnal offices in those days, and yet more romantic, bad carried the Editor of Answers and the News Editor of the Sun triumphantly into the Capital | of British Journalism, the Times office, in Printing House Square."

HOW THE DAILY MAIL WAS BOEN. "K..." goes on to tell how the Daily Mail was born i-sav

*** On Monday, May 4th., 1800, the Daily Mail was born. It is my hope that when in 1996 its centenary in celebrated, then that K. J be freshly remembered, and it will be recalled that had he lived to loc

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OF

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FOR

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BRONCHITIS

WEAK LUNGS

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that day, bo would bave been 121 yenda CONSUMPTION

The year had

propitiously.

The first year's working of the Evening Newe had given a profit of 214,000; and the second year was well advanced and showed even better results the findi pro- its being £25,000. Out of these profita we deterrined to found a halfpenny morn ing daily, our scheue for a provincial ring of newspapera having fallen through. We decided to call it the Daily Mail „Mail in a monosyllable, it is easily, if ind accurately pronounced. It comes Tendity

THE NEW PRENOM REMEDY."

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LINE-A lar service is ran from March to November betwee Hong rong and Tientsip, saling at Walhalwel and Obel

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LINE.

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Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWETTENHAM and MADRAS.

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KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA

(KAWASAKI STEAMSHIP CO)

CAPITAL PAID-UP

for T20,000,000

President: Mr. Y. KAWÁBAKL Vice-Predde: Mr. K. MATYUKATA.

Managing Director: Mr. Masaya Ain,

The Domgaany has on band a Large Namber of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

ALWAYS KRÁDY · FOR-

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all descriptions.

The following ses comprised in the Company's Floes :-/

Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each de dweight.

And, ander the Company's management –

Twenty steamers of about 9,100 tons deadweight each Two steamers of about 6,400 tons deadweight each, Belonging to the Kawamki Dockyard Co, Ltd.)

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