1929-01-23 — Page 1

N

MASON'S

DELICIOUS

O.K

SAUCE.

No. 22 004

Songhong Hail

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

Kyw Amm Kab WITH BY M

N. LAZARDS, „Hong Kong's Only Europeen Optichum

(Established Over Fory Tasa). Manager; - BALTE & COOPER, EdDeleg

V. Baratiest Opernetrim by Dizadian

Gova. Kim, T

·(Prevonal Athens ticta }+

MBTEĦAKAN BAĦJARED HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23rd, 1929. # B&#A€4λtrĦER PRICE: $3 PER MONTH

'KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE,

UP TRAINS

010

STATIONS 36. ↑ Na, *

| AM AM

No.10 v. na 16.4 86. 1220,34 Na, 16 Malt No.105

AM)} AM {AM.} AM, NOON P.M. 120) 136,2596| TL YAL| PAL.

Bhatia....Dep.17.01 Taipe... Dep. 7,15|

THE HOLBORN GAS EXPLOSION.”

INQUEST ON VICTIM.

RED AND BLUE HEAT.”

GAMES AND THE BOY,

MERITS. OF 1: PLOUGHED " PUPILS.

THE MODERN VIEW.

FRENCH CRUISER SUBMARINE.

LARGEST AND FASTEST IN THE WORLD.

New details are to hand respect.

The importance of a boy's record | ing the Surrouf, the mammoth sub- A weird scene when the gas Lawloon.Dep 8,401 8.65 8.30 9.08 9.1510.00 12.10 1.18 2.25 2.53 245 4,80 5,45 7.38 explosion wrecked the road in in school athletics and cial se mersible cruiser which will shortly 138 5.48 7.44 Holborn was described at the tivities as a set-off to a chance be launched at Cherbourg for the 450 8.00 7.58 inquest on Party George Thrower failure in the matriculation ex- French navy. This vessel is by a 5.04 6.18 8.09 aged forty-one, of Cheumertgrove,

Peckham, a Fost Office workman,amination was acknowledged by considerable margin the heaviest 5.09 $17.8.1 who died on Boxing Day in Char educationiste in discussing an and most powerful submarine in 5,184,97 8.83ing Cross Hospital.

opinion expressed by Captain J. the world... headmaster Mylam Gitins, Strode's School, Egham.

Taipa

arket. Dep. 2,20 -

3,10-

3.20

3.25 8.94 6.233.8 8.27 3,31|8,30) 5.99 6,38 8.53

9.23 10,08 12.18 1,23 - 9.9810,2012,301,3 96910.89 12,43] 1,48)

2.41,

Fanling Days 7,30 Bheung-

9.10.87 12.47;1,55) -- 10.1010.47 19.57 2,02

__shni”.....Dep. 7,35 — 19.07|9,45|10,15 10,62] 1,02 2,07 —

-obán ......ár. 741|| 8.45,9,13 9.57|10.9110.68 1,08 2,15| 3,05 Cantin Ar. — 12.05

5.48

6,20

DOWN TRAINS

A.X.

AMANG

10. E. BTATIONS Na, 1 No. 3 No.11 No.7 No. 4 [No.15 No.17|No.15 No. 31(No. 23|Mo, 18 No,ST

AM..| AM | AM, P.M.P.M. PK. | P.K, FL | PM.

Canton"...Dep.

8.10

8.95

8,57

Shamakan ...,,Dep. | 7.18| 8,06 (10.01| 10,38|1127,11,49 3.09 | 4,89 5.47 | 6.18||6:40 - 6,50 Sheanghai..Dep750 8.16 7.28 8.19

Fanling... Dep.

Talpo Market Dep. 40 8.38

Tripg

Bastin

$10.48 10.47 10,87

11.333,154,4°| 5.54 | 6.51 ---(12.00 8.20 | 4,50) 5.38

18.11) 3.31 | 5.00) 1,48

...Dep, 7.44 8.31 10.34 11.01 - ...Dep, 7.57 8.44

12.10 3.28 8.04 els

11.14).— 12.30′ 8.49) 537) 8.98

www 11.20 *. 12.43: 401 | 5,29) 6,38

·Yazmınd·· ...Dep, B.11 9.56 Rawlson...AT, |8.17 8.02 11.00) 11,32(2.07 12.49; 4.07 | 5,88 8.44 | 7.00! 7,28] 7.89

*==For FIRST Class Pascencras ONLY. WILL STOP at Any Station of Request.

BSUNDATE AND PUBLIC HOZIBÁN EXCEPTED. O-SUNDATE AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ONLY,

Further information may be obtained at the Ramwax Offices, Kowloon, or from Messn. Tros.. Coox & Son, Læd., Hone Kova, or from THE AMERICAN EXPRESS OCKFANY, HONG Kose.

50'

By Order,

R BAFFE, Manager,

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND "MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION Co.,LTD.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE · · Bailings from Hong Kong: Daily, st8AM. & 10.00P.M. (Bunday

Bailings from Canton: Daily, at 8 A.M. & 4.30 P.M

HONG KONG-MACAO LINE.

Face Hose Kono:

8.00 . "SUI AN" from Wing Lok Wharf.

(Sundays Excepted)

2.00 PM. WING UN."

(Sundays Excepted) -

do.

ຕາ

||10.001.Mónly)

(Sunday (4.30.P.x, only).

FROM MACAO: $.00 .WING ON" (Sunday, Excepted) 2.00 .. "SUI AN" (Sundays Excepted)

MACAO RACE MEETING SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO MACAO. PROVISIONAL SAILINGS.

On SUNDAY, THE 27TH JANUARY, 1929.

HONG KOND TO MACAO:

8.00 A.M. STI AN”·

9.00 "SUI TAI"

MACAO To Hoxe KONG! 4.00 .x. "SUI AN" 6.30 . "S01 TAI"

Steamers will sail from and return to Wing Lok Wharf.

"RETURN SALOON PASSAGE FARE: $5,00.

Comfortable Smoking

ARDATH 222

Oval Cigarettes

Parfumerie Poigand

ETABLISSEMENTS RIGAUD, PARIS.

"UN AIR EMBAUME

Flacon de Luxe Grand Modele. A Hygienic and Refreshing Perfume in great favour on all Overses Marketa.. QETAINABLE YEOM-

AS. WATSON & CO., LTD. THE PHARMACY.

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY WING ON & CO.

THE SUN CO.. SLICEAE DO.

AGENTS.

A Classes of Perfamen for All Markets of the World."

VICENTE ATIENZA & CO., -No. 54, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

TYL E. 155.

The inquest was adjourned until. February 1st.

Mr. William Tapling, of Percy House, Holcombe-road, Tottenham, a french polisher, said that he was working inside a furniture shop in High Holborn when he say the men remove the lid from the manhole at the side of the road, on the top of which they had put a blowered to gain it by He saw only two men there..

The men at first stood away from the manhole, and then Thrower, taking a piece of electric lead or piping in his hand, weat down the

hole A machine of some kind was standing in the road.

-

Roaring Noise. "The man had been down the hole not more than a few seconds, it seemed," said Mr. Tapling,

when. I heard a terrible roaring noise. Thrower appeared at the opening, his clothes alight, trying to-climb back into the road. He

4.

got half way up, his arms over, the top, when the terrible roaring finished with a terrific explosion.

"I rushed from the window through which I had been looking, round to the side by the door When I reached there I Thrower in the roadway. He had struggled to his feet and his trousers were alight."

baw

of

Captain Gitins had said regard- ing one of his boya: "I recognise the tremendous debt of gratitude the school owes to the boy who entered for matriculation and fail a hair's breadth. His services to the school as games secretary, football captain, cricket captain, and as house captain a most certainly caused his failure, hut he is certainly a better man in consequence of his wpaderful work on the athletic side than he would have been with a mere examination auccess...

Discussing the question further with a Press Tepresentative Captain Gitins said:"

"My point is that the boy who just fails to pass an examination is no worse than the boy who only just succeeds-and there is no rea son why he should be in the slightest prejudiced in after-life by that

failure."

"In my opinion, the ideal com- bination in a boy is ability at both work and games, but, failing that, I certainly do not think it a good thing to concentrate on success at examinations at the expense of sports and other school activities

the character'

Her surface displacement is no less than 3,950 tons, and her length nearly 400ft. Her dimensions, there- fore, are those of a light cruiser, and she is, indeed, a fast and well- armed cruising ship endowed with the power of submerging for the purpose of attack or concealment. When below the surface she will displace more than 4,000 tons.

Hitherto the largest submarines were the American "V" boats and the British X.1. The new French craft exceeds the American type by 360 tons, and the X.1. by 795 tons. She will also be superior in speed, her Diesel engines being designed to drive her at 92 to 3 koots on the surface. A unique feature of the Surcouf is her complete armour protection. A few submarines pow

feat have

armoured conning- towers, but this is the first sub- all the vital parts which are ex- marine to be armour-plated over. posed when the vessel is on the sur- face. It is claimed that she will be proof against the shells of light quick-firing guns.

Particulars of her armament have

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL"; HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL.

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

Is ASOCIATION WITH THE

GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS, LITS, PEKING.

KING EDWARD

HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central. Hotel in the Colany, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beda, ** Hot

and Cold Water, also Telephone. A Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.

Hotel Launch meets all Steamers. TEA DANCESTM

SPORTING.

GUNS by W. W. GREENEH WERLEY and SCOTT, and Other Marer British, Franch American

ano

B.8.A. Air Rifles, and Miniature Rifes. $2 Calibre, Bepeating and

Automatis,

SPORTING CARTRIDGES of al descriptions.

พ

Agents for W. W GREENER

· LTD., BraminG HAM.

HONG KONG SPORTING ARMS

AND AMMUNITION STORE.

"ACONFIELD ARCANE

FOR SALE.

OHANG TSO LIN'S Commemorative Postage Stamps Used for Few Months Only in Prize, Harsin, Krxin and SINKING, Without Surcharge...@$3.00 net. With surcharge........ @ $3.50 net. Per Complete Set of 4 Stampe..

GRACA & CO. Dealers in Postage Stampe, Post Cards; Gordan Sends, Toys, Picturs Books, etc. No. 10, WYNDHAM STEKET, P.A. Box No. 627. HONG KONG.

[8

CEYLON GEM STORE,

MANUFACTURING JEWELLERS WATCHMAKERS, &c.

We invite you to visit our

not been disclosed, but she is ex: MONDAY, WEDNESDAY& FRIDAY New Store for everything

Polio through the manhole. which do so inuchter building up sign. The hul is immensely strong i

Mr Ingleby Oddie, the coroner: Did you see any flames They did not appear to be flames, but more like a mixture of red and blue heat coming up

Leger said that he

was near the Winter Garden Theatre shortly before eight o'clock when he heard shouts from the direction of Broad-street. He rush- ed to Broad-street and saw that the manhole by the West Central Dis. trict Post Office in High Holborn had blown up. Thrower was there, in pain, being pulled away from the manhold by six mer.

"I Saw The Road Rise." At the same time there was terrible rumble in the roadway," added Leger. "I locked towards the Princes Theatre and saw the road rise, fall in again, and then burst into famez."

Leger said that he took Thrower to Charing Cross Hospital, and there asked him what had happen ed. Thrower replied: "I went down the hole to connect a pipe to the air pump, and before I knew what was the matter I was blowa out of the hole again.

Qualities of Leadership. Mr. E. T. England, Headmaster Owens School, EC., expressed the opinion that employers attach 200 much importance to matri- culation distinct from the school certificate. Matriculation." he said, is an examination which ought to be kept primarily for those going up to a University.

85

of leadership are as important-if "There is no doubt that qualities not more so-as the ability to pass examinations, and an examinatica in itself gives no scope for testing such qualities. After all, the qual ed at games and other school ac ties of leadership, such as are form- tivities, ought to be of more value to employers than just examination qualifications."

The Secretary of the National Union of Teachers said: "The trouble is that employers and locul authorities in certain areng attach more importance to the passing of examinations than to the opinions of headmasters and their staffs about the boys and girls who leave school.

Mr. Ingleby Oddie said that the Government had appointed a com- mission to inquire into the cause of the explosion, and the only wise course for him to adopt in the in- terests of economy of public time and money was to adjourn his in- ! "Undue weight ought not be at quiry until the commission had tached to an examination confined made theirs If the commissioners to one day when, perhaps, the would let him have a copy of their youngster may not be up to concert findings and conclusions be would pitch. The boy's school record decide on the course he would adopt ought to be taken into account far in future.

more than is usually the case."

pected to mount several 5.5in. guns together with a heavy battery of in turreth or armoured shielda,

torpedo tubes. All the latest safety devices are incorporated in the de-

and divided up into as mary water tight compartments us possible Escape hatches are fitted in suit- able positions. The living quarters for officers and men are the most commodious ever provided in a submarine,

Cost Of £1,500,000. (-:- Thanks to her large fuel capa city, the Surcout will have a very

wide radius of action." She has of the French colonies, but she wil been built primarily for the defence also be capable of operating with the battle fleet. Her cost is un- officially stated to be £1,600,000. A second vessel of this class has been authorised, but the formidable ther submarine craisers of cost may delay the building of fur- great size.

such

MQU

The majority of the numerous French “aubmarines under construction are boats of 1,635 tons, and therefore of practic ally the same tonnage as the latest British boats.

5 To. 7 PAL

Thirty Tin Ticka for $25 "can be obtained at the Offen if the

above Hotel),

Tal. Add: * VICTORIA," Telephone : No. C. 873,

J. EL WETCHELL,

Manager.

The Only Hotel in CANTON Directly under European Karazement.

THE VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMBEN

Grodes

and Trips ** armaged for

and special Care

Taken of TOURISTS. Osbin Addr: "VICTORIA ***

SERVICE TO READERS.

Robert Sureoul, after whom the first of the giant French submarints has been named, was one of the most daring and successful of the TPRESS, LTD.. and the HONG "HONG KONG DAILY French privateers who British shipping in the Napoleonic their London Office, at 21, BRIDE LANE harried KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through wars. His greatest exploit was the FLEET STREET, EC. 4, are prepared to capture in 1800 of the Kent, an giye Sabecribers and Visitors advies East Indiaman carrying thirty-eight regarding guns and 400 men, Surcouf's own

accommodation available, ship being much inferior in every centres, etc.

actoring facilities, suitable topping.

respect.

I

Than at home, they will call telephone to the bow address, they will receive the utmost sesistance and the Intest available information on all sub- fects of enquiry wu be pisced at their

incal

Diary of Coming Events,

To-day

(January 23rd.)

St. Joseph's College Old Boys Association Dinner, 7.30 p.m.

Football-1st Division K.0.8.B. v. Royal Artillery.

Queen's Theatre: "The Battle of the Sexes."

World Theatre: "A Regular Fellow"

Biar Theatre: At 5.15 p.m. "The Circle."

Fred Coyne Musical Comedy Company: Blue Birds," Star. Theatre. 9.15 p.m.

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p.m.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,

S p.m.

European Mails:-Inward: Europe vía Siberia (Aeneas). Outward: Europe vid Vancouver and Europe Pia Siberia (Empress of Asia), 10.30 2.1. Europe. vid Marseilles (Aeneas), 2.30 p.m.

Thursday.

(January 24th.) Annual Sports Ellis Kadoorie Indian School, I.RO ground, (3)

Helena May Institute Musicale: French Moderna Music, 5.30 p.m.

H.K.V.D.C. Mounted Infantry Company Reunion Dinner, H.K. Hotel, 8 p.m

Ster Theatre: At 5.15 p.m, "Law of the Range"

Fred Coyne Musical Comedy Company: "On the Road," Ster Theatre, 9.15 p.m....

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p.m.

Dinner Dance: St. Francia Hotel,

Queen's Theatre:The Battle of the Sexes."

World Theatre: "A Regular Fellow."

Star Theatres. At 5.15 p.m. The 8 p.m. Circle. Fred. Coyne Musical Comedy Company: Blue Birds;** Star Theatre; 8.15 p.m.

Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m

Baturday. (January 28th.} Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club Menageria Race.

"

Dinner Dance St. Francis Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Cricket-Division E: Univer- sity Chinese R.C., Kowloon . European Mails: Outward: Royal Artillery (F), Hong Kong Europe via Canada (Talthybius), | C.Ċ. v. Civil Service (F). Division

10.30 .In.

Friday.

II: Royal Navy e, Kowloon, Crai- gongower . Royal Engineers, Civil Service Hong Kong (T), HK. Electric ». University (F), Police Football:Second Division: Small Units v. Bouth China "B," South China “A” v. Kowloon, Recreio e: KOS.B., Queen's v. Roys Artillery, St. Joseph's « Eastern, RAF 7. Chinese, Navy

(January 25th.) Christian Fellowship Meeting. Recreio (F), Helena May Institute, 10.33 a.m

Burne Dinner: Volunteer Head quarters, B p.m

Queen's Theatre:The Battle of the Bexes"

World. Theatre:

High School

E

or

you

need in Jewellery, Precious Stones, etc..

Goods made to Customers" own designs.

Ceylon Gems a speciality."

6, Kowloon Hotel Building (Behind PExIssula Hotal).

G.P.O. Box $16.

INSURE

YOUR

BAGGAGE

WITH

GILMAN'S

"OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE POLICY.

[180

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

£1.000 姐 attaining the age of Fifty-five:

Premiums moderato.

Partenarsfrom

Conditions liberal,

"DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Делите

2. QUEEN'S BUILDING

Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction

THE HOTEL RIVIERA MACAU

Cable, Address,

iviera, Macan."