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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 29th, 1927.

TERAPINATION,

PODOS

TROUBLES.

OR DIRECT,

BAD

MARVEL

MARVELLOUS

FOUS

TANDER

ENGLINE PRICE

CH,

to 19.

FOR

BALK

AND

ANU SORI FEN

ALL

ALL

FOUT

PHARMACIE

Belver, 19, QUA! VAN DICK, ANTWERP

JUDGE'S OPINION OF BAD "WHITE COAL" EXAMPLE.

LANGUAGE.

AFFECTION RATHER THAN REPROACH,

At the instance of the Freema- sons' Hospital and Narsing Home, Fulham-road, S.W., an injunction was granted by Mr. Justice Eve restraining Mr. A. B. Hemmings, of 82, Fulham-read, from carrying on his bakery there so as to cause a nuisance by noise to the nurses in the nursing home.

HAMPSHIRE VILLAGES ELEC-

TRICITY FROM 3FT..

WATERFALL,

By the electric light supplied through the use of their tiny local waterfall the villagers of Avington, Bear Winchester, have read how Grenoble (France) has harnessed its water supply, for Avington con- siders it has gone one better.

Having converted its ancient water mill jate a power house, it is Giving judgment, Mr. Justice now providing for itsch and two Eve said it was alleged and denied neighbouring villages, Itchen Abbas that strong language was used in and Easton, current made without tha bakehouse, He hoped he did the use of pound of coal or a pint not move among persons who wore of fuel oil. A picture que 3ft. accustomed to use bad language to waterfall in the River Itchen maker excess, but he did not believe that a output sufficient to light' '400 any congregation of men-unless a lamps of 95 candle-power. Christian association-working at Sir John Shelley-Rolls, of Aving- night in a place the temperature of ton Park; first harnessed the water- which was over 80 degrees, in cir- fall in 1983, years after the water- cumstances when they were likely to wheel had fallen into disuse, to burn their fingers and experience supply his estate. Seeing the pos other inconveniences, would not oc-sibilities of providing light and casionally make use

of strong power for the neighbourhood with- language (Laughter.)

out having it disfigured by 800t, One had only to listen to any chiraney stacks, and coal trucks body of working men engaged in barges he installed a turbine which, any undertaking to learn that there by means of a 2ft. 11in fall of water were certain adjectives which were develops 23-h.p. A dynamo is applicable to almost every animate driven and the supply of electricity and inanimate need-not neces- is kept constant by means of stor sarily used as a term of reproach, age batteries. but often as a term af, affection. (Laughter.)

The injunction was suspended for three months to give Mr. Hemmings time to effect structural alterations.

or

Avington, Itchen Abbas, and Easton are perplexed at the out-of dateness of great English cities that allow the tides and waterfalls of. great rivera to run to waste,

THE BRITISH INDUSTRIES THE LATE SIR E. MARSHALL GETTING LIKED IN BERLIN.

FAIR.

FOUR MILES OF SHOPS

VISITORS FROM ALL COUNTRIES.

HALL

FELLOW BARRISTER'S

"

TRIBUTE

THE MASTER OF IMPASSIONED DEFENCE..

Few men were better known in England than the late Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C., the man who

DIFFICULTIES OUR OFFICERS MET THERE.

[BY G. WARD PRICE)

گرام

There were some lively little social in cidents in the earlier experiences of the officers of the Inter-Allied Commission of Control, whose work is disarming Germany, to the best

We published at the time brief, cabled reports at the opening of the British Industries Fair, at the White City, Shepherd's Bush, but the following more complete dominated many a desparate law of their ability, has now count should be of interest to our readers.

This astonishing exhibition, says the Daily Express, of Empire. goods and products, of interest to men, women, and children, is primarily for business purposes-buyers from thirty countries were present-but the public are admitted after 5 p.m. and on Saturday after 1 p..

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court, battle —— a form of contest | brought to an end. which exercises a peculiar fascina tion over the English mind.

Berlin always resented their sence, for they were visible remi

A fellow barrister, writing in the era of German defeat and, indec\ Daily Express, says of him.

the only representatives of thi Allied Armies to reach the capital whose once-overweening military pride had been brought so low.

I have a memory of Marshall Hall that carries with it the whole spirit of the man. It was at the end of the notorious trial of Mme. Fahmy. He had achieved one There was an international race of the greatest forensic triumphs of | between buyers, with pockets bulg. his life-an acquittal in the face of ing with notebooks and order what had appeared to be over forms, when the Fair opened. Ice whelming odds. His speech to the for sports goods.jury had been a masterpiece of Japanese inquired about foodstuffs. Hamboyant, subtle advocacy. Yet German buyers keenly inquired as I walked out of the Old Bailey about everything.

"with him I saw in him a spent and

beaten man.

landers came

Four Miles Of Shops. - Never has Great Britain known A few hours before we had watch- such a business tair. Four miles of ed him riding, with consummate shops, crammed with specimens of ease and dashing self-command, the Empire's products and manu-such a storm of emotion as could inctures "Immense! Bewildering rarely have been known in New. No son of Empire can behoff it gato; swelling now in a sea of pride without a feeling of pride. One and arrogance, pleading now in a short street of this vast bazaar flood of subtlety and innuendo, so would well repay a day's inspection. that the whole court, judge and The designs of the shop fronts jury and advocates alike, sected are a charm to the eye. There is like pigmies through whom he an effective Empire frieze painted but now he was crushed, worn out. strode with deadly self-assurance; by Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen," R.A., over the Empire" Marketing Hal. In the entrance to the Fair itself stands an impelling statue of St. George, executed by Sir George Frampton, R.A. Sir George was there putting the finishing touches

to his work.

The chemical section represents a capital of £100,000,000. One frm stated that, whereas their output in 1914 consisted of five fine chemicals, now they are turning out 230 differ- ent kinds.

Canada is well represented. Mer- chants have come to show the world the latest ideas in building, in re frigerators, and to teach a hundred other useful lessons..

*

That was the secret of the man's success and of the suffering that fol- life. The emotion that he aroused lowed him, through all his mature in others was but a reflex of his own. Pre-eminently he was the one not stay a white beat of passion counsel of his generation who could springing up within him when he dwelt on his client's wrongs,

The perfect actor (they called him the Garrick of the Bar), he took upon him, for the time being the passions, and the hopes and suffer Beneath the muffled drums of his of the prisoner in the dock invective there beat always the tattoo of his own heart. And so had triumphed or not-there was at the end of his trial-whether he always that air of suffering and of exhausted passion.

*

It was in his faculty of dramatis Australia to the Fore. ing "everything and of getting into Australia is to the fore with her the mind of his audience, the jury, staple industries. The vastness of knew whole plays of Shakespeare, that his mighty triumphs lay. He ber wool flocks is realised, the and always could bring out an ap- methods of farming are expounded,manded it. Thus in his address to

posite passage when the moment de her canned goods rivalling the best the jury on behalf of Greenwood, nt in quality.

Carmarthen, he recited that passage Othello" with tremendous

New

Lenac,

Zealand, India, Sierra British Guiana British West Indies, Southern Rhodesia, East Africa, the Gold Coast, North- ern Ireland, and the Irish Free State have sent specimens of their productions that enthral in their

interest.

Every schoolboy should be taken to see the wonders of Empire trade) as revealed here.

The textile and clothing indus tries, among a host of others, offer proof that Great Britain leads the way. Silk is represented in impres sive fashion.. The wonder of arti ficial silk, made from the raw.. material of Canadian timbers, passes all comprehension.

I remember their arrival early in 1920 at the various, big hotels where they were quartered in Berlin. With their pleasant manners and their well-cut tweed clothes they stood out in unmistakable contrast among the scowling and sardonically curi- ous crowd of Germans in post-war. substitute suits who pressed upon them, sometimes even to the point of deliberate bustling.

But the British officer. knows bet. ter than to lose his temper. He was quite unperturbed by frowng and muttered gibes, and in bis of- cial relations showed "the inbred politeness which the German official class accretly adinires and envies but seldom succeeds in reproducing,"

So effective is the oad was their persistent good temper that long. before they left Berlin our officers were socially even popular.

cars,

The famous rat-hunt incident at a barracks in East Prussia was char- acteristic of their methods. Three English officers in uniform had been that it was not over strength. As inspecting a German garrison to see they went towards their tacorted by a German liaison of round to stone them when they cer, the troops, jeering, gathered drove off. Suddenly, from a pile wood on the barrack-square darte a rat and teak refuge in another pile near-by. taimed the British major to his two "Come on!" ex- captains, and, grasping his stick he soldiers gaped. Such behaviour at made after the rat. The German such a moment and by oficers in uniform was unheard of! But they viewed the cat and gave tangue. A were interested. Soon one of them moment inter they were all beating the wood piles, while the British when the next inspection by the officer killed the bolting rats. And Commission of Control took place the garrison welcomed them with broad and friendly grins.

Other incidents did not end so the hall of the Adlon Hotel one favourably. I remember being in night and seeing two French officers, bloodstained, bruised, and tattered,. come driven out of the restaurant by a pack of excited Junkers, led by Prince Joachim Albrecht, a cousin I know not where is that Proof the ex-Kaiser, who is now tour-

methean beat.

effect:

Put qut the light....

That can thy light relume.

ing as a violincellist in America. And the following night, going to dine at the Adlon, I found the room gically seated in close formation, packed with British officers, strate- ready for the return fight which

never occurred.

the Stella Maris tial he thrilled He was always dramatising. At the jury by wrestling in the well was examining the fatal weapon. of the court with the gunsmith who He could not help acting, but it

Then a naval officer, now the was acting always with a purpose member for West Stirlingshire, was and with a singular absence of set upon one dark night in the detachment, The Garrick of the lonely Tiergarten by a ruffanly Bar-yea, but a noble and self- taxicab driver, whose neck he nearly sacrificing advocate as well. broke in a jiujitsu grip, afterwards insisting that his attacker should drive him back to his hotel. With a praiseworthy sense of justice, the Commander began to get out the acared taxicab driver bolted without money to pay for the drive, but the

waiting for the fare.-Daily Mail.

PROHIBITION.

FATALITIES IN U.S.A.

Women buyers were immensely MORE DRINK THAN MOTOR interested in the textile section. There were fifty women buyers from one great London store alone. They looked for fashion goods and found them in novelties and improved designs of all kinds.

Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical officer of New York, in a report to Mr. Walker, the mayor, on the For instance, there was the rain-there were 741 deaths in New York effect of prohibition, declares that proof artificial silk stocking, direct challenge to the Russian This is more than the

in 1926 from alcoholic poisoning

boot. You could pour bucketsful

trickled off.

Wonder and Delight,

Fr

DORCHESTER HOUSE.

MAY BECOME AN EMBASSY <AGAIN.

It

TO-DAY ONLY

QUEEN'S

2.80, 5.10, 1.15 & 9.20

2,800,000 copies of the novel have been: sold ;

20,000,000 people will see the picture!

...

THE WINNING OF

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BORLA

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&

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2.30 .to 11.15 p.m.

STAR

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Starting Friday, April 1st when THE QUEEN'S, WORLD & STAR will all Show this famous brand of pietures.

FURTHER PARTICULARS, TO-MORROW

THEATRE

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April 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, at 9.30 p.m. Matinee: Children Half Price: Wednesday, April 6th, at 4.30 p.m.

Don't delay your booking Book now at ANDERSON'S,

"H.M.S. PINAFORE".

of water on the now stocking. It totals of deaths in motor-car accid ents and from household gas leaks.

If negotiations now taking place The maximum number of deaths end successfully, Dorchester House, No child could ever be dragged before the introduction of prohibi- was the United States Embassy from alcholic poisoning in any year Parklane, W., will become the em

basay of a European country. willingly through the toy fair. tion was 667 in 1916, Every shop here is store of theer Dr. Norris asserts that this figure from 1905 to 1913, and for the wonder and delight. Toy making is based on official records, but that greater part of that time the late in Great Britain is now a wide and the actual number is undoubtedly Mr. Whitelaw Reid was the Am- highly specialised business. Ex-much higher, since private physi bassador. This beautiful building. hibits were almost human. Americians are loath to certify the deaths the finest example of Vulliamy a can and other foreign visitors were of patients from poisoned liquor.

work, with its 40 bedrooms, match. intensely keen on the toy depart Dr. Norris adds that it is practi- less decorations, and stately stair- ment, especially the high-priced cally impossible to obtain pure case of white marble with alabaster mechanical toys.

whisky in New York, even by balustrading, is to be sold with the

for medicinal doctors Jewellery, silver; electro-plate, Sixteen samples tested by him were that the forecourt must be kept aa grounds, the only condition being purposes watches, and clocks exhibit all man all denatured alcohol. His report an open space. her of right up-to-date design änd workmanship. There is a lacquered states! "Until all citizens take the If the country which is now hall clock from which comes in clear pledge there is only one remedy, negotiating for it as an Embassy tones the programme of 2 LO. which is the strict enforcement of does not buy it, Dorchester House, Within the clock is a five-valve set and municipal authorities. The re be taken over by a business firm

prohibition by the Federal, Stata like Stanhope House near by, may and a loud speaker.

verse of the medallion is that the British cutlery and fancy goods, customs, habits, morals, and re- completed for Mr. R. 8. Helford Dorchester House, since it was musical instruments, scientific in- ligious observances of millions of in 1857-it took nine years to build struments, furniture, and basket people are to be altered by some has been recognised, not only 8 DR. LECLERC'SLIVER KIDNEYT ware, village industries in wrought miraculous psychological transform the finest dwelling house in Lon-D FOR DISENFOT S inroazars chair-making and leather ation of which I've seen, heard, or don, but as the greatest example of CGRATH, BACON, GOT, SOMATION printing, goods, sports requisites, paper, know nothi

Italian architecture in this country Pasa. Zedtag Charmezann, der Fors Fros, stationery, beverages,

figures show ninety- cigar and cigarette-making, all have eight deaths from alcoholic poison- family since it was built until re D. LE CLERC'S

It has remained in the Holford due representation in this great ing in 1920, the first year in which cently, when Bir George Halford city of industries.

prohibition became effective. They died and left it to the Earl of

OR LE CLERC'S. Ideas are there by the thousand. have increased yearly.

Morley.

iron

Dr.

"My gallant crew, good morning."

good morning!"

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