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Oan pound of Bugar

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd, 1928.

50,000 MEN IDLE. THE MS. OF ALICE IN

RELIEF FOR MINERS' FAMILIES.

WONDERLAND.

BOUGHT FOR £15,400.

SCENES IN THE VALLEYS OF ATLANTIC PHONE CALLS TO

WALES."

The fund for the wives and families of the unemployed miners, which was opened on April 3rd by the Lord Mayors of London, Cardiff, And Newcastle-an-Tyne. amounted in one day to about orta!

PURCHASER.

OFFER TO ENGLAND.

Alice, the original Alice for whom "Lewis Carroll" wrote "the im- "Adventares in Wonder-

£15,000.

|land," sixty-six years ago, watched | the sale," at Messrs. Sotheby's auc- The King gave £500, and the tion rooms in Boad-street on April Queen £950,

|3rd, of the origiaal manuscript of FAMILY LIFE ON 19. A the book, and saw it bought by Dr.

WEEK.

Rosenbach, the famous American collector, for £15,400. The English record for a book, was until then 213,100, which was paid in 1010 far

The Pasilonate Pilgrim."

A message of hope came to the mining people of South Wales when they learned of the fund which the Lord Mayors of London, Cardiff,

It was announced on Dr. Rosen- and Newcastle-on-Tyne have opened bach's behalf directly the sale was for their assistance, wrote a corres completed that he was willing to pondent of the Daily Express from sell it to the British Museum for the Cardi on April 3rd.

price he paid for it.."The money How is the need for the needed will almost certainly bo

grent fund is proved by queting a few raised," he said to a Daily Bepreu figures.

representative. I shall probably Nearly 10,000 men of the South contribute a certain amount my-

work. This means that 150,000 "I had an agreement with the people, men, women, and children, British Muscum authorities not to bave no earned income whatever, bid more than £12,500, but when They live on the dole or on out they stopped at that figure" and relief from the guardians.

other American bidders went on bidding I continued also.

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An additional 25,000 men are on short time, earning an infinitely amall weekly wage.

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"I consider that manuscript of 'Alice' my most interesting literary acquisition, after perhaps my manu script of the Pickwick Papers.

FOUR BOOKS.

"The four most widely read books

manuscript was due about three The sale of the old leather-bound auction rom grow crowded, a small group of stylooking women walked slowly to a row of chairs at the left hand dide of the room.

Some one whispered, "There's Mrs. Hargreaves, and immediately all who heard turned to where the one and original Alice, the little girl for whom the book was written, sitting. now a woman in her seventies, was

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MAY 18T, 1928, ****.........31,Buze nom Londm...130 nom,

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How for

Langkats(combined. 13 nom.

Mining Ad........67/6 nom.

Bha. Explorations ....Th. 235 nom.

la 6+ nom.. Lc. (ingle) 64

Bhanghai Louna Rauben

Distress is at its worst' in the Rhondda. Falley (from Pontypridd upwards), Blaenau, Abertillery,

BERLIN. Aberdare, Merthyr, and Dowlais.

The aesthetic revolution in Ger- in the English language are the many has been halted. It began At each of these places hundreds of Bible, Shakespeare, Pilgrim's Pre-shortly after the war, a reaction Chartered Bank 21 buy. families are existing on the barest gress, and Alice,' and I consider perhaps, to the former militaristic Mercantile Bank, A. &£ nom. necessities of life. They cannot pay it a great priviloge to have secured undertone of the fatherland, and

the manuscript of one of these, and had. resched

0...£14 bay. rent: they cannot buy clothes; they greater still to leave it in the when a counter movement was be

considerable vogue ↑ P. & O. Bank

East Axis Bank............375 nom. can buy only food, and not much of land of its birth. that. Thousands of men with wives cables from Americaa since my pur- I have been inundated with

Canton insurance. $680 bay. Union Insurance ŝvėlį rėk, 1590/1 ya and children have not earned chase became known. People have

North China, Ins. „The. Lad you. single penny for two years. Some even been trying to get in tele-

Insurance Yangtzsa

M. $+7 buy. China Underwriters ......84) bay. have been unemployed for six years.phonie communication with me from

China Fire Insurance... nom. New York."

It became a common sight to acc This great army lives entirely on

Hong Fire Las.....$760

"Kang.

bas. the local guardians. Last year

and young women in diaphanous young men dressed in leopard skins,

ka. $401 mai. H.K. Stearabcata Cardiff City spent £211,837 on our

drapes, le pinshore of of the gar- Indo-Uhus (Prof.)....357 buy.

HK relief, compared with £150,000 in

on the or on den lawns: The gooze-step of old Shell Trasports

Do (Del.) 1923. Cardiff is able to pay a fairly

Germany was being lost in the Waterboats... generous scale, ranging from 235. a

classic dances, which swept the wack for a man and wife to a

nation. It got into the schools, Bengue and military drills were replaced

Kailan maximum of 40s. for a family,

by dancing classes, the trend being Several other boards of guardians,

entirely toward the classic and in- however, caz pay little, because of

terpretative. At once, from the their indebtedness and the heavy

throats of the reactionary groups,

14 nom. fasued growling complaint.

Mines Tronoh

17/6 non. drop in their rate yield.. Ponty- The auctioneer's clerk 'came for

"Can we dance ourselves to HK, & K Wharfs......$157 sol. pridd, for example, gives nothing ward with the little green volume greatness" they demanded. "If ELK. & W. Dook. 143 bay. to a married man, and can spare by

and showed the first page written this continues we will be a nation China Providents

$5.50 bay. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson of dancers, and the world will con- Hongkow .....................Th. 169 x.

div.bay. only 10%. for his wife and 3s. for known to every one as Lewisquer us with ease.'

New Engineering....Tis. 4.50 xom. cach child.

Carroll "-in fine clear band To combat. the aesthetes, rival Shanghal Docksila. 109 bay. writing that was almost print. dancing schools were started. Ewo Cations Think what it means for a family

Tis, 8 bay., 8.40 sel.

+ Some one in the background said lieu of the graceful leapings about Oriental Cottons.

*****...*. 2 buy. of five in the Pontypridd area to £5,000." Within a few minutes on the greensward, the

S'hai. Collons (old), 56 sol, keep house on 198, a week. I learn-"Alice" was rising higher and pedagogues introduced dances

10. (new)......Tix. 29 sel. H.K&Hotel ed how hopeless it is by going before in all her adventures. The short, the new German dances are higher-higher than she had been which are largely "gymnastic.. In

K Landa •**********

Lands to-day to a number of squat, flat representative of Messrs. Quaritch, more physical traiging than Shangha

Humphreys

Ratates......$141 nom faced cottages which run in endless who was trying to buy on behalf of aesthetic training. This spread to Helios 84 1st and desolate rows for mile after Then his voice stopped.

the nation, weat up to £12,500.

the

theatre, and the leading- athletic dancer of Germany to-day K. Tunway 895.HU nom. mile of the Rhondda Valley. There

Peak Trams (old) On went the voice of one of Dr.is Miss Laurie De Vine, of the

***** bay. (209)šoj boni. Rosenbach's rivals; and firmly but Scala Theatre, in Berlin. in Star Ferries......04. quietly each time Dr. Rogenbach of the numerous dances devised by Unins Lights (uld).......), #13.65 z. Qutbid him.

Fraulein Laurie is the equivalent of a course in physical training.

As propaganda for the new

Do, (1928 Lsue)..( paid) 79 xom. school the actress was made head H.K. Electrics $701 seks, 701 s DUCHESS OF YORK'S KEY. of a new school of dancing, which Macao Electrica $764 bay.

in a short time, had hundreds of Telephonse ......

1,70 buy. pupils. Her open-air classes were | China Buses

Tia, 7 buy,

are whole streets with only one worker to about ten houses.

HOUSEHOLD'S MEALS.

A miner's wife gave me her daily bill of fare for her household.

Breakinst-Bread,

and tea without milk,

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In

new

Da

Do

(rights buy. (now)...$11) x. right sil.

margarins, LOST BEFORE OPENING OF attended by hundreds of spectators, Singapon Tractions....11/9 nom.

Dinner-Bread, potatoes, and

water.

Supper-Bread, rice pudding, and sugar.

NURSES' HOME,

and in the smaller cities and towns Chin Sugars

35.95 Dom

of Germany similar classes have Malabon Bugarskom. been organized, training daily in Canton Lees

(old)....Si nom (new)......$2 sch

When the Duchess of York, ae the robust and athletic dances exem- | Dements (combined)......310.40 axl, companied by the Duke, visited | plified by Laurie De Vine.

租 Once a week she gets a little meat Kingston and District Hospital, The aesthetes sneer at the De Vine for stewing, but that is the best Surrey to open the nurses' home, technique. she can manage. She tried to be a crowd waiting in the pouriaj "It's nothing but calisthenics,"

They protest. all."

brave.

did this careworn little rain welcomed her. mother, but it was only & pretende, Miss Margaret Davies, a golden; and the blackness of her eyes and haired girl of five, shyly presented the expressionless mask of her face the Duches with a' bouquet of pink showed the feelings, in her heart. and whitecarnations. Oh, thank Yet she pretended it was better for you, darling," said the Duchess, in her than for her max.

4 way that changed all the child's shyness into smiles.

"I have work to do in the house, but he has nothing," she said. "He can only sit and think. Wo don't talk; we have got past talking. His outing is to go to a neighbour and borrow an evening paper. We can't buy a paper. A penny would. help towards food. Ous of the things we want most of all to do is to go to the pictures. I have not been to the pictures for three. whole years, but I go to chapel on Sunday.

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"We have only one lot of clothes, and they are all in rags underneath, though I do my best to get the

PILLS children's mended. When there is

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Proprietor: HAKTIR, Chandal," Končhasaplní, England,

The Duke, in replying to the ad dress of welcome, said:

our

During our recent tour al the further portions of Dominions, my wife and I noticed the modern way the hospitals are run there. What it would please me to me would be more co-opera- tion between the Dominions and the Mother-country in matters of health and the treatment of disease, just as there is,co-opera- tion in trade and commerce.

I make the suggestion that you encourage visitors from over-seas to see your new home as well as the hospital...

washing to be done they have to

Great amusement, in which the stay in bed until I have finished

Duke and Duchess joined, was and the things are dry again.

caused at the conclusion of the "They want boots, they want speeches by the los of the everything. My man is walking key with which the Duchess was to boots."

It isn't dancing at

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about without any socka in bis open the new building. It was "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE

"That is what one woman said, and her tale can be multiplied a thos. sandfold up the length of every Welsh valley.

eventually found by the architect, Mr. F. Danh Smith, and the Duchess declared the home formally She then inspected the open. building from top to bottom.

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