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GEORGE HSU CHIEN'S BROTHER ARRESTED?

A SHANGHAI REPORT.

MASSED BANDS.

MAY 23rd, 1927.

HONG KONG IMPORTS.

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BY HONG KONG CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE. ·

POPULAR PROGRAMME AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.

ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE.

That the happy thought and action of the management of the securing the

The fortnightly price current Qaren's Theatre in Presence of the massed bands of market report, published by the the 2nd Bn.. The King's Own Hong Kong. Vieneral Chamber of! Scottish Borderers and the 1st B., Commerce, dealing with imports, The Cameronians, was appreciated | states:---- was proved by the large attendance

Carton pirer godds and fancy

at the Theatre last night and beention goods: A fair amount at the enthusiasm with which every enquiry for all classes of Spring Fancies has læven in evidence side contribution was received.

A tr

According to

THE from Shanghai, Z Pah Chien, said to he the brother of George su Chien, the notorious Commmast jeader, has been arrested on iard the M.S. Empress of Austratin on the last visit of that vessel to Shanghai from Hong Kong. The Special Administrative Bureau of the Citizen's Revolutionary Army reveived a confidential report a low late to the excellence of the pro-jutir last report, but very little has days ago to the effect that Zoe was gramme was that despite its length hewn brought to book. The advans of raw material still and many cams no-one left the the most # passenger on board the Empress

Theatre and the conclusion of the continues and with exchange kerj of Australia and upon the arriva

It is only of recent dateng more or less stationary, the of the vessel at Woosung. arned concert. with the necessary permits, several that Hong Kong has had an op- margin between loval and replacius- hearing first-class prices is gradually widening. D....! of #117

Bureau purtunity boarded the vessel, carried out a military hand concerts and it is liveries of Seasonable cargo have certain that the novelty is one that been very good, approximately su search and arrested Zee.

is much appreciated.

per cent. having been cleared to date. The latest quotations are those of the 17th inst.-E. Sakri 16.1d. and Mid. Amer. Sput " 8.05.

representatives

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Ze las been in Canton, the same

The opening number was Goa report states, where he has been eminged induring farmers and god's March "La Reine de Saba." It was followed by Mendelssohn's labourers to start certain "aelRay Blas," one of the best known vities.” He was en his way to

Cotton yarn-The market overtures, and portrayed, as pias ed to Hankow i Shanghai when ur- vested, and is now being detained last night, the contrast of brass and mains lifeless and there is nothing fresh to report. Quotations are at the local Chinese military headed, and the two in perfect com-

purely nominal:-No. 108. 8145/105. No. 125. 8150/100. No. 10s. $160/165. No. 208. $170/175. Unsold stocks 14,000 bales. Bargains 10,000 bales. quiel and practically no business bring tran sorted.

quarters.

Sanation. This item was most en- thusiastically received and encored.

The Carmen selections were,

as usual, a big success, while the antical fantasia, "À voyage on a Troopship" with various effects, proved an excellent ending to the first half of the programme.

Woollens:-Market

Raw cations:-No business to re-

The Political Department of the Revolutionary Army, East Route, Shanghai, elsa received a report to the effect that members of the Communist Party were distribui ing handbills and pamphlets of an inflammontory ature, inciting the of a somewhat different charac-pork workers against the local military ter, lighter in theme altogether, Metals-Market quiet, very little authorities. Hundreds of such

was the second part of the concert. going. handbills were found in the native Rose Marie," the Buccessful quarters. The Chief of the Woo-musieni comedy, was a captivating

to his subordinates to arrest any persons found distributing or possession of such handbills.

THE PERFECT LAUNDRY. MAID.

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Flour market report: Ameri- 300,000 sacks: Canadian,

30,000 |

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ung and Shanghai constabulary opening number, with its lively 100,000 sacks; Australian. has accordingly issued instructions melodies. This was followed by the sacks. Market: Strong and firm

American Quotations:

patent. Frothblowers Anthem

$4.40-4.45

American per sack; stenight, 3.354.60 per sack: Ameri- Anmher popular melody Laigiai's "Suite Ballet Egyption," can cut off, $3.16-3.70 per sack ; | a typical Eastern piece. "Finland Shanghai flour, 3.35 (ordinal); in" was a most effective tone and Australian No. 1, 3.45-3.70 colour poem, while there need be sack: Canadian eut of, 3.5-3.2. no comment as to how Sullivan's per sack; Canadian straight, 3.9 "Mikado" selections were received per sack: Canadian mixture, 3.15- 3.35 per sack; Canadian Sad clear, as a concluding contribution.

The bands were ably conducted 3.05 per sack. alternately by Mr. Dowdell, L.R.A.M., (Bandmaster, 1st Cameroninus) and Mr. W. H. Fearle, A.R.C.M. (Bandunster, 2nd K.Q,S. B. 's).

BUT NOT IN ENGLAND.

Those whose lives have been spent in regions where there ain't no Ten Commandments and a man can agree in giving the vaise a thirst palm to John Chinamian as the perinet "Jaundrymaid," writes

A. U T in the Daily Mail.

In every foreign or Colonial city there are shops hearing the sign of Ab Sing or. Li Hang. Here anong neighbours of every race and colour dwells in mystic silence the Chinese laundryman and collar dresser pår excellence.

What does the European know of him? Absolutely nothing. True tha at intervals his house, suspect- ed of being an opium or guilling den, is raided by the police. If envicted, the Chinaman disappears for a time, to reappear in another district. Here your servant dis

vers him and deposits with him the laundry sandle, which when called for, comes home with a bill in weird Chinese characters..

There appears to be some affinity between a black or yellow skin and The art of the laundry. Is it be- cause laundry-work is so essential in tropical climates?

Marvellous as is the Malay washerwoman who "borrows"! one's smartest petticoat at the sea- son of Ramadan, she is outclassed by the Celestial. And though nware of his method of filling his mouth with cold water and so sprinkling the garment which be irons, no one attired in a boiled shirt and porce- lain-like collar allows this idosyn erasy to detract from an evening's enjoyment.

We were once caught in a tro- ical storm at Zanzibar, I in the thinnest of summer clothing, tay. companion in spotless ducks,

Hurriedly regaining the ship, I dripping garments, handed my every one of which was streaked with black dye from a hat-tritamning to a steward, who transferred them to a pig-tailed personage I had Been stealthily descending the com- panion. All

returned exquisitely Inundered and, marvellous as it seemed, every trace of dye had dis- appeared.

were

Horace E.

CHILD HEART DISEASE.

M.A. PLAN FOR STAMPING

IT OUT.

A national campaign for the pre- ration and contrat of rheumatic art disease in children, from which 30.000 deaths vecar every year in England and Walra, is recom- urtled by a sub-committee of the British Medical Association, which was set up in 1924 under the chair

ship of Sir II. D. Rolleston, The feat report of the committeo was dealt with in The Daily Mail of Jummary 15th, 1997. The second report, which outlines practical mea- sures, is published in the British Medical duurnal,

Window glass-Market dull. Sugar-Market dull. Saltpoti:-Stocks 18,000 Jags: Slight improvement since last re

port.

PRINCE MAX'S MEMOIRS.

LUDENDORFF DENOUNCED.

FATEFUL DAYS OF 1918.

Prince Max of Baden, the last German Chancellor under the old regime, is publishing his reminis gives a full account of the happen- cruces, in the course of which he ings during the fateful days in the autumn of 1918. The Prince writes thus of the decisive sitting War Cabinet in October, 1918, at which the question was discussed whether it was possible to wage a war of desperation :

the

A number of investigators have -found dampness in houses to be al One thing was clear to me, name- tent predisposing cause. Although ly, that such a war must not be neute rheumatism prevails mostly conducted by Ludendorff. At that among poorer children, a spot map sitting I had lost confidence in He ought to of Birmingham constructed by Dr. Ludendorf as a man. A. Thomson showed that the have looked the situation in the rheumatic areas do not correspond face regardless of any but its own accurately with areas of poverty; aspect, and also without consider- the bulk of juvenile rhematism oc- ing his personal prestige. The only furred in only two of the poverty hope was in heroic honesty. I have areas, and through both areas run reason for the belief that there strenins subject to periodic over would have been no offer of an aristice, if Gallwitz, Lossberg, or Bowing.

In Chelmsford Dr. R. H. Vercoe! Schulenberg had been summoned to found the proportion of damp Spa at the end of September. To- houses was twice as great in a series day Ludendorff did not refer with of rheumatic children as in non-n single syllable to the offer of an rheumatic children, and an inquiry armistice and its vatnstrophical in London by Mr. F. C. Shrubeall effect throughout the world, but he revealed the harmful influence of made the discussions uf an armis- tice in Berlin responsible for en- the Tliamca and its tributaries.

As to measures of treatment and couraging the enemy and for in- prevention, the report saya!

tensifying bad feeling among the men at the front.

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SPORTING.

French and

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Rest Homes for patients with daninged hearts are an immediate necessity in all large towns. These should be conducted in association At the previous Crown Council of his departure on the grounds

GUNS by W. W. GREENER with the hospitals, and as many in the Chancellor's palace Prince that the worst possible impression of the children will have to be Max had declared himself to be would be made, if he left Berlin kept there for several months edu opposed to an armistice offer, but now, and Tunthermore, that ques- WEBLEY and SCOTT, and Other cution should be provided for the Kaiser interrupted him, saytions of the gravest importance Makers-British,

ing: "The supreme military com- must be settled during the next American.

The Kai- mand considers it necessary, and few days which could not be dealt

with over the telephone. The co-ordination of existing

You have removed agencies-namely, the family prac you surely have not come here to tioner, the school medical officer, create difficulties for the supreme ser replied:

command.'

In rogard to the. Now I must inducti

I remarked that the SPORTING CARTRIDGES of and the voluntary hospitala-is Kaiser's decision to return to Spa, Marshal could do that him all descriptions preferable to special clinics.

self and to my request to be re- Agents for W. W. GREENER, To ensure stricter supervision Prince Max writes:

I had his Majesty called to the ceived the Kaiser said the doctors LTD., BIRMINGHAM. of apparently quiescent cases, the

for its telephone and told him how amazed

feared he might be infected with hospital should send patients for periodic examination I was, and especially over the fact influenza that was then prevalent. The Kaiser left nevertheless, and even though to the parent tho that he had come so suddenly to a

decision and without the Prince Friedrich Karl, of, Hesse, HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS To this end now child appears well.

was to follow him and propose

AND AMMUNITION STORE, hospitais should have a "rheu-Chancellor's knowledge. The Kai-

4. BrounsFIELD ÄRCADE, mation register" of all their ser replied that in war decisions what should be done, but the Prince rheumatic paticots.

(Vontinued on next column), refused to do this.