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Hongkong Hallgresso.

MASON'S DELICIOUS

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Hongkong Daily Press

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Ofoe is the United Kingdom,

ESTABLISHED 1837.

No. 22,098

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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.

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WHAT PARIS IS DOING AND THINKING TO-DAY.

NEW TYPES OF CROOKS CROWDING FRENCH PRISONS.

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PREPARING FOR THE SUMMER INVASION BY TOURISTS.

OUR SPECIAL LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL.

(BRITISH UNITED PRESS.]

If the spate of law-breaking by of the prison becoming overcrowd. 1 professional men and women ined and there is even talk of plaze of extension of the penitentiary, France doctors and bankers and but this is hardly feasible since the other business men-continues at prison is situated in the heart of the present rate there will soon be Paris and occupies an entire block 00 room in the jails for the old around which numerous habitations type offenders.

The historic Sazte prison, once the abode of political offenders, like the Royalist Lean Daudes who made a sensational escape by means of a hoax a year ago, has now be come & lodgment for the scores of socially prominent Parisians who have been drawn into the post-war vortex of getting rich quick.

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A Famous Old Club. Among the lighter developments of the day is a reported schism in the ranks of the famous Club des Cent, that association of gourmets which guards the culinary tradition of France. The Club is composed of webto-do Frenchmen who are Although there might be danger acquainted with almost every town of overcrowding. inmates of the and city in France. They must Sante have not much to complain quality by years of good eating and about, since the authorities have drinking before they can become a introduced quite a number of} member of this Club. humans ideas, such as up-to-date: When the Club gives one of its libraries, and savings banks to a regular dinners, wherever that din able the prisoners to have something ner is held, fame descends on the in cash when they go out into the restaurant, and the chef is practic busy streets, of the Bay City once [ally & made man. The Club does again.

not care if its fete restaurant is in a Among the many personalities | back alley or a main boulevard, just at present behind the bars in the so the sauce is right and there is Sante is the Communist Marty, something especially marvellous leader of the notorious" Black Sea about some certala dish. mutiny when an attempt was made But, one of the members, Dr. to hand over a Freach man-o'-war Poiret, a dentist, las broken loose to the Bolshevika. He is now pay-and formed a Club des Furs Sangs, ing the penalty for inciting French which is a play on words in French troops to mutiny,

"only, and not only means Financial Diy Rot.

The most interesting prisoner in thoroughbreds, but the really pure France at the moment, however, is " hundreds ?" "Just what they will Following the Hanau crash, other a young Belgian student, Adolphe do, probably won't worry the origin. wobbling financial institutions top-Steffex, aged twenty, awaiting trial club of one hundred. One of the pled like ninepine and within three for the murder of a railroad guard. last things the Club des Cent did weeks something like fifteen well He read a blood-thirsty tale of a was to organise a automobile at known men in the French financial train hold up in America, bought tack on the City of Rouen, It. world found themselves under locka gun, took the express for Nancy seems that the city had the habit and key at the Sante. Other com- and while the train was travelling of charging motorists a slight tax rades from Bourse and back join at sixty miles. on hole crawled on entry. them every few days as the weed-along the footboard, and pumped ing out process instituted by the six shots into the body of the guard. diligent French Surete-Generale

Madame Manau, woman financier who ran her own newspaper Gazette du rane in order to get clients for her shady financial schemes, ret the ball rolling when her plot fell crashing about her ears, shook the Bourse, and even had repercussions in the Cabinet. She is now in the women's prison of St. Lazare where she has as companiona, half a dozen murderesses.

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Shifting. Trees.

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A Hoisy Protest.

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The Club fights all such silly taxes as this and they assembled At the same time that this finan Workmen are now busy replacing all their automobiles outside the cial dry rot caused the temporary the granite curbs around the safety gates, and set up such a dio with removal of bankers and their asso-islands in the middle of the streets, their horns and exhausts, that the eintes, the medical profession-the and new paving is going on here gatekeeper wanted to know what shadier section of it, that is to say and there, and along the Champs was the matter. They told him was also experiencing a crise, Elysees there is a general activity there were all coming to dine in which likewise continues, bringing consequent upon the arrival of Rouen, but that they would not pay more than thirty doctors behind the Spring. The horse chestnut trees the tax, because they considered it bars in the space of a few months. are in bloom, and it no unusual absurd. With that they all turned some other. These “medecins marrons, sight to see an entire plane tree around and went to the French call them, had been am being slowly transported down the town, bestowing their patronage an bulance chasing. Setting up "prac--

a specially constructed a rival chef. The tax was immedi Jately removed by the town council. tise in dingy rooms in the suburbs

The chestnut trees have fallen One of the main preoccupations or provincial towns, they soon let into disrepute because their leaves of such organisations of the Chub it Se known they were ready to fall about the end of July, and des Cent is to maintain a high help any work-shy fellow draw his horticulturalists are at a loss to standard among the wines of salary without the trouble of hate explain the reason. The Municipal France and to scourage any adul ful Jabour. An illuminating case

They take regular pil- was that revealed at the Parisian Council, having the beauty of Faris teration.

constantly in mind, decided to grimages to the wine regions and suburb of Levalleis, where an agile change the trees, and instead of taste and inspect and snoop around detective ended the crooked career planting saplings and waiting for in general, do that the ingenious of a shady medical.

long years for the Avenue to be middlemen find it difficult to fake The detective Srstly phoned the shaded, they now plant fully grown labels or vintages. doctor, calling him away on what trees, the roots all'ondled up ́in And it is notable that while in was supposed to be an urgent case a great ball of soil.

America President Hoover is pre- Then the sleuth west to the doc- These plane trees are hardier, paring to spend great sums on a tor's clinic and found all manner and in the upper reaches of the commission to investigate and re. of apparatus for faking wounds. Avenue, where they were planted port on Prohibition, French initia He then put on a white smock an. last year, not one has failed to tive it, spending sums in prizes to sat down to wait. Within an hour grow and remain in full foliage all encourage the noble art of wine

culture. he had three patients, all come

summer loog. Paris and its Parka drinking and back to have their wounds re-open and boulevards are all groomed for

Summer, and the Capital will cele brate its fairs, its fetes and join in its traditional galety the thou sands of tourists and foreigners who certainly do not come here to be saddened.a ́

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Humane Ideas.

With the usual number of crooks of other genders drifting into the Sante at the same time 13 these professional men, there is danger

The

Prix des Vignes of ten thousand franca will be given this rear as usual to the writer who produces the best work intended to stimu hate and glorify that human toil which produces good wine and that human genius which appreciates it.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (May 18.) Property Auction: (31-39, Austin Road, Kowloon) Mears. Lammert Broc., Auction Rooms, 3 p.m.

Opening of New Billiard Room, Chinese Sports Club, King's Build- ing, 6.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacks.” World Theatre: "Let Women Alone." At 230 and 1,15, Chinese Picture "Yang Kwei Foo."

Star Theatre: "Becky"

Star Theatre: A Kiss "for Cinderella."

Tea Dancea: HK Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.20 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Bafunday. (May 17)

Race Meeting, Fifth Extra Happy Valley.

Golf: Whitsuntide Meeting, Fan liag

Lawn Bowls:-Division I.; Kow

Tea Danoes: H.K. Hotel and loom Docks . Civil Service, Crai Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

gengower . Recreio, Police v. Kow- Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, loon O.C., Taikoo s. Kowloon How!-

8.30 p.m.

European Mail:- Outward:ng Green. Division II: Recreio # Craigengower, Civil Service v Europe vid Siberia (Chenan), 3 H.K. Electric, Kowloon. Bowling!.

Green v. Taikoo.

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Triday.

(May 10.)

Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.

HL Jockey Club: Half yearly general meeting, H.E, Club nonex, 6.10 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacks.” World Theatre: The Street Anga."

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Queen's Theatre: "The Cossacku." Street World Theatre: The

Angel,"

Star Theatre: "A Kiss for Cinderella.

Baarard English Comedy Co.: "Rookery Nook," Star Theatre,. 9.15 p.m.

Tes Dances: HK Hotel and Peninsula Hotel 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails:-Inward: Europe via Siberia (Kamo Maru).

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Sunday. (May 19.)

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