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MASON'S

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No. 21,289

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

Registered as a Nowspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdon.

THE DANGEROUS RAYS OF

SUNLIGHT.

the ultra-rioles and lathe red rape AN

קדי

berť protection in the Bin WuKIAN. Croozri (Betah) Lena, which absorba the dangerous PAYE We have the. meistaina (therm and many imitation) made by Umarca-Buos,. Themningham, England

11 on parier sa simont colourlong. Las, with high absorptive qazlicies, we recommend the Viraaz Britis Lane basted by Britika scientist.

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MABATATE¤¤#_BOTA HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TB, 1926 # ****+BR$¢ PRICE: $S PER MONTH

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

Tripo

Fanling

TIME-TABLE,

WEEK DAYS

AN, J.M. A.M. Noor

Dep. 6.40 9.15 10.30 11.40 12,00 Dep

Chumahan

Bhamakaa

Art. 7:43 10,18 119 1220 12,58

17.19

寸

Kowloon..

Yaumati...

8.50

9.24 10,99

19.09

Bhatin

...Dep. 1,02

9,36 10.51

1321

Tsipo

...Dep. 1.16

9.49 11,04

1234

Market

Dep, 741

9.53 11.08

12.38

...Dep. 7.39 10.08 $11.19

126

Shengshui

...Dep. 7,38

10,07 11.99

10.52

3.15 6.23 6.23 8.02 8.315,344,294,08

...Dep. 7,21

Sheangshui

...Dap. 7,23

Fanling

Dea 732

Taipo Market

...Dep. 7.43

Taipo

Shatin

Yanmati...

AK F.M.

1.36 8.05 10.88 11,40 8,12 10.45 11.47 8.16 10.49 11,51 8.26 10.59 1202 12.07 ..Dap. 7.48 8.30 11.04 ...Dep. 7.59 8,43 11,17 1921 8.55 11.99 12,53. ...Dep 8,12

Am $20 2,08 11.37 12,41

3,00

8,07

3.11

8.01

* 100

4.98

LAM, 4.37 3.13 "8.08 4.24 3.208.18 8.19 Bag *3.25.

8.33 5.38 3.99 4.56 8.51 6.46 3.50 5.08 6,03 6,55 2.37 $58 5.16 6.11 7.06

-5.241

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH,

2.2. AN

5.3.

STATIONS,

Kowloon

WEEK DAYS,

AM STATIONE Fanling

...Dap. 7.45 11.30 2.20 6.23 Bhatsulok...A, 8.40 12,95 8,15.7.20

BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

STAZIONA

LX. F.M. 2.K. P.M Fanling Dep. 7.45 11.30 3.20 6.25 Shataukok... Arr. 8.40 12.25 435 7.30

FX

KAME

WEEK DAYS.

Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10.16 1.05 5.00

Our London Letter.

BOOKMAKERS THREATEN TO

STRIKE.

BRITISH FILMS FOR AMERICA.

CONTROVERSY OVER MISSION

WORK IN CHINA. “-

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ].

Loxtoy, September 4th. In racing circles in London there is a strong disposition to ridicule the declar rd intention of bookmakers as a body to boycott racing as a protest against the bessing tax, which comes into operation on November 1st. To begin with, it is pointed out that there is no difficulty if the bockmakers are so minded, to shift

the burden the proposed tax on to the backers, for they have control of "prices"

HAREM SECRETS REVEALED.

SERAGLIO ROOMS ON VIEW AT

STAMBOUL

A SLAVE CHIEP'S QUARTERS.

CONSTANTINOPLE

For the first time the bijou apartments

of the Chief of the Black Slaves of the Imperial Harem, as well as the School- room of the Princes and the Barrack of the Black Slaves of the Harem, have been opened to public view in the Palace of

AND NOW** MISS INDIA " WANTS TO BOB.

FATHER LEAVES IT TO HER MOTHER.

O East is Bait and West in West And never the twain shall meet. But bobbed hair was not the rogue when that was written. Miss India.

wants to meet ber Western sisters in that matter, at any rate.

MACGREGOR'S

V. O. S.

WHISKY

AND

AQUARIUS.

And Eastern father meets Western father inasmuch as he, too, says: "Well, you and your mother must settle it. A Splendid Combination

can't."

Sir Diwan Tiruvalnegudi Vijiaraghava

the Old Seraglio at Stamboul. It will not be long before the embargo on entry through the bronze barred doors of the Harem itself is lifted, and profane visi-Acharya Avargal, official member of the tors will be able to see the quarters, of Legislative Assembly of India, who re- the Sultan's wives, Circassian favourities, presented India at Wembley and is now and their female slaves.

risiting Canada, has just been, telling Canadians about it. Reuter quotes him

This is all part of the gradual scientific transformation of the Palace into

a

Fanling, 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.53ll the time. No doubt betting is a very Museum-which the authorities have been i

BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

STATIONS.

AM. A

2.2. X

Shataukok...Dep. 8.30 10.15 2.05 5,00 Fanlingar. 7.25. 11.10 3.00 5.55

Further information may be obtained at the RamLWAY OxpIczą Kowtoos, or from Masera. Tuca. Ooox & Son, Leo. Hainesowe, or from TEX Amaricax Exraza Co TANT, HONGKONG,

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H. P. WINSLOW, Manager,

important factor in racing, but a strike of bookmakers would not stop it. If the present practitioners gave up they would soon be succeded by a new set, since the business is attractive and profitable. Apart from that consideration, any serious trouble among bookmakers would inevitably lead to the establishment of the parimutuel, which, in fact, a good general use in this country. That would be a most effective reply on the part of backers. Unfortunately we are familiar with strikes in the industrial field, but the idea of a strike by bookmakers who are making a fat living at the game is really comic.

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in India, where the babbed hair fashions 15, QUEEN'S BOLD CISTRAL" TIL OSHtral 75. of the Western hemisphere are making,

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Recently my wife came to greatly agitated, and said that our daughter, who is 22 and a university graduate, wanted to "bob' her hair.

"I told her they must decide the matter between themselves. What more could a man way?

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"But the threatened scissors have Hoerore HOTZL RELAX Bar Hor not yet been called into action."

Certain of the Palace buildings which had not been kept up for a long time still remain closed, and will only be de- livered to the public view

2 they are successively restored. Among those to which popular anticipation especially looks forward is the Treasury, here all Sir Tiruvalangudi had something to the marvellous hejewelled robes and bead say of Prohibition, too. He declared dresses of the Sultans as well as Imperial she possesses, the coconut palm tree, which that India will never go dry so long as gems will shorty be exhibited Mean-is the basis of one of her most flourishing while one can already wander in and out industries. of five or six of the kiosks and audience. rooms, including the "Cupola of the Divan," or the Cabinet's room; the Sul- It is stated that an arrangement has tani' audience-room, with its mighty just been made which will have an incanopied sofa for the Grand Signor; the portant bearing on the future of British | «ey Kiosk," with its incomparable view ilms. Three British productions made in the Bosphorus ad, Marmors; and by the firm of British National Pictures those gems of Turkish art and architec- Limited, will be distributed throughout ture, the wooden rocopiosk of Mustafa The the world by the big American firm, Pasha and the Bagdad japak, whose walls Famous-Player-Lasky. By this means of blue faiencé arrivalled. Every. these three films will have all the advan- where are posted rock-coated officials,

British Films-A Naw Departure.

THE EMPIRE AT WAR.

FROM CHINA TO THE

MEDITERRANEAN.

Empire at War. Edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Luces Volume V. (Milford. 258. net).

tages of distribution now enjoyed by some of them still being former members series, accounts ste given of the assist-

leading. American productions, and at the same time"it will ensure their entry into America. The difficulty of selling our home-made filmis in America is gen erally agreed to be one of the chie? reasons for the present condition of the industry, and this announcement has therefore, some importance.

At a luncheon given a few days ago at the Carlton Hotel in London by the British National Pictures to their managing director, Mr. J. D. Williams, who has just made this contract in America, it was claimed that for the Grst time films made in England will obtain something like a world currency The three films referred to are to be made at two new studios which the company has built at Elstree. In two of the

Madame Pimpadour" and "London" the latter story of contrasted East End and West End life-the star is to be Dorothy Gish. In the third which is called Tip-Toes," the chief performer is the English comedian Mr. Nelson Keys, who is described as a rival of Charlie Chaplin in cinema art. The capital of the company is entirely British. It has already produced the one famous British film,." Nell Gwynne.'

Christianity in China.

of the Imperial establishment.

In this volume, the âfth and last of the

ance rendered during the war by the Mediterranean Possessions, by Egypt and Palestine, Aden, India, Ceylon, Malaya, and the British communities in China.

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Slave Chief's Quarters. The recently-opened Schoolroom of the Princes, on the upper story of the apart. ment of the Chief of the Black Slaves of the Harem-this important official used to

The story of the Emden fills, naturally, superintend the Princes' primary educa- tion-is one of the best preserved and most of the pages devoted to the Cocos most richly decorated rooms of the lands, where that adventurous vessel KING EDWARD Palace. Its walls are covered with de came gallantly to her end. Barawak, licately painted, gilded, and sculptured with its memories of Rajab Brooke and wood-panelling, and in the upper parts a long, tradition of loyalty sent sixty- with superb Sixteenth Century tiles of are of its European population of 450 to fine design. The apartment of the Chief fight oversea

...

of the Black Slaves is also artisticallyThe tale of the British in China ends interesting, and its richness indicates how the book. It begins with an account of pampered a person this negro was His the siege and capture of Tsingtad; in coffee-room has one of the best tiled fire which the Japanese demonstrated the places of the Palace, and both the walls soundness of the training which they had and the ceiling of his bed-room are com- acquired from the Germans Hongkong, pletely tiled with valuable faience. The cosmopolitan in population, sent many strangest of all the previously unopened to the war and contributed nearly buildings is the three-storied Barracks of £2,000,000 to the general funds Of the Black Slaves, with separate cells British residents in China it is said that where the slaves lived, resembling narrow three were awarded the Victoria Cross prison cells with spy-holes for their chiefs and other honours were numerous. to look through. On the walls still bang the formidable instrument of chained wood which was twisted round their feet when their mistresses ordered them to be bastinadoed

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Officials of the missionary societies in this country who are interested in mis- sionary work in China deny the state missionary societies here. The Rev. C. ments in a special dispatch in the Daily G. Sparbam, secretary of the China

The sunburn silhouette is the latest Mail from the Peking correspondent of Advisory Council of the London Mission-craze of Deauville. A woman may ap the paper. He declared that there is aary Society, who has just returned to pear in startling frocks, and her beauty" strong anti-Christian movement in the England, says during the past few may have made her a conspicuous figure country which it is impossible to stem,” month he visited Christian universities among the promenaders, or the crowds and that "the hopes of Christianising in Peking, Shanghai, Nanking and inside the Casino, but "unless she has China are but a shattered dream." Con- Canton. In each case," he declares, achieved for herself a sunburn silhouette sequently he points out the millions that there is an actual increase in the roll the cannot be included in the ranks of have been forwarded from England and of students, and Canton is the only one the most fashionable. other countries either for missionary, where there are still any difficulties." The attainment of the sunburn sil- medical or educational work in China, The Rev: J. C. Mann, China secretary houette has made sun-bathing the most; have been wasted. In proof of his aser- of the Church Missionary Society, con- popular, recreation at the famous resort. tions be referred in particular to what siders that the strong anti-Christian. This is how the sunburn silhouette is he described · sa "an anti-Christian movement in China during the past year obtained. Before you attire yourself in drive" in Shanghai at the end of July, or two brought out the staunchness of the your bathing costume you cut a design when a meeting was held at which it was Chinese Christians, and weeded out such out of it. You may choose what design resolved to abolish the use of the Bible Rice Christiana' 25 as there might be. you like and cut it where you will; some and all religious instruction, the resolu- The Rev. T. W. Goodall, one of the like tions being headed "Anti-Christian secretaries of the Chins Inland Mission, shoulders, while others prefer roses sten- motor-cars running towards the Movement.

the largest single society working incilled on the back. China, bolds the view that the opposition

As to real converts, the Peking corre spondent refused to commit himself. It of a year ago is largely passing. Con- When the design is cut and the bathing is impossible," he stated, to take any ferences in Shanai, Henan and Chihli costume donned, you go to a sunny patch notice of the figures published by the Provinces, reports of which bave just and burns the skin that is exposed by the of sand. The sun immediately catches missionary boards at home. There are so arrived, he states, shew the biggest num- many Rice Christian,' students whoher of Chinese Christiane attending for make protestation of conversion for the many yeras. There are difficulties at the sake of the education they receive, and moment, but talk of Rice Christians boueite has been marked. After the next the opportunity given them to learn are greatly exaggerated. English and other languages....

What the Bocleties Bay,

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I need scarcely point out that these are hard sayings for the thousands of pious people in this country who are de voted supporters of missions in China. But the picture is not accepted as a faithful representation of the case by the (Continued on next Column.)

tut in the costume.

The first tracs of the sunburn sil-

bathe it becomes more definite, and when Mr Archibald Rose, formerly Commer, you have had a succession of bathes the cial Attache at Peking and Shanghai, picture is clearly marked on your skin. As regards waste of money" on mis aimed at by the silhouette taakers. gives a layman's opis ion of the subject. Originality and picturesqueness are sions, he said, "if we in the West be Pierrote, Chinese monkeys and cats have lieve we have a message of value to us, been baked into the skin... is cannot be waste of money to help en In the evenings, when the sun bathers and women to present it to China also." Mr. Rose has nothing but admiration for are conspicuous on the necks and shoul- flock to the casino, the sun silhouettes missionaries In China.-E.B.

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