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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1929.

HIGH LIFE IN HONG KONG.

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The police trade signal-box at Morrizon ill excites a little con- meat, and then the party whoop with joy when the guide points out the Sikh temple and the Hong Kong Hotel Garage, built hollow with the top storey just peeping over the parapet which walls the road.

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That is Happy Valley, and you ein see that the racecourse and several cemeteries are elose to gether," announces the guide.

Repulse Bay Blues, We wind our way to the top of Wong Nei. Chung Gap, where

"cop' drowsy Chinese traffic wearily extends his stick to signal

us to pass.

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Exclamations of wonder burst from our lips as the bluest of bluc bays, fringed with glistening. white

MOST POPULAR BERLINER.

DEATH OF HEINRICH ZILLE, A NOTABLE CARTOONIST.

HIS BROAD HUMANITY.

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BY MAIL, WIRE, AND

WIRELESS.

Aden.A heary fali ef rain in the Hadramaut has caused rejoicing among the inhabitants.

Paris. The new home of the American Legion in the Rue Pierre Charron his heen open.

Lausanne. Two Germans, who had concealed about 10 lbs. of cocaine, have been arrested at Lau- sanne.

year.

A funeral procession in honour of Heinrich Zille, the man who captured the spirit of the city ond

New York. The Immigration interpreted it to the satisfaction of rich and poor alike, was held in Commissioner announces that 12,008 persons were deported from the Berlin recently. The most United states during the past fiscal pulas Berliner" is too slight a description for the simple working man. printer and lithographer, who became a black-and-white artist when well on towards middle age.

His death at just over 70, full of years and honcurs, robs the people their best-loved delineator, and the children of the poor of their kindest friend.

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Richmand. The body of a man believed to be Henry John Pink, | 60, of Bromley Workhouse, wa

removed from the Thames at Rich mond.

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Rome. The Historical Section of the Italian Navy has published in a translation the first volume of Mr. Churchill's book, The World Crisis."..

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Heinrich Zille was that rare Gerpool has arrived at Queenstown Queenstown. The barque Garth- man contributor to the popular

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His sub-

grandiloquent kills and steep-sided He took for his themes the Berlin islands, comes into view.

no foreignér sver sees. On one side of the road luxuriant jects were the small boy who carries gardens containing palms, plan. out the bakers' rolls before school, tains, and fame-trees add to the the small girl who minds the babies tropien aspect of the scenery. We and has never known & handker- peep down through wondrous chiri, the toothless but agile erana tracary of green leaves and inter-sho wheels' out Berlin's evening for distribution in 1 twining branches, and see two or papers three fairy-like juuks, rendolent of dilapidated perambulator, ail the mystery and remance of the harassed housewife of one ronin, Crient, drift placidly upon the stii | and her-lord, ant of work but sus-

waters.

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"I'd pay a sure heap of bucks for a true picture of this, com- ments Van Bibber.

piciously cheerful.

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Typical of his humour is one of his bestknown cartoons of pre-war day's depicting a very stout lady with basket and shawt in the fore front of a crowd, being pressed back by a ferocious Prussian policy man: Shout at me as much as

"I'm just tickled to death sighs his consort dreamily. Don't it just remind you of Honolulu !"

The guide has just finished telling of the wonders of the Dairy Farm, from which the Colony obtains its fresh milk, butter, eggs, and creamym please. But don't touch mu ices, and scanips through a brief 11 description of the fohing village of Aberdeen which used to be the home of pirates in the days gone by.

This," he says, "is Deep Water Bay."

We whizz past it" as he "con- ciudes the announcement.

And here he continues, Repulse Bay."

is

ticklish!"

War Kindnesses.

His embarrassing attention to detail would have prohibited him the entry to the polite pages of

Punch

or any other English weekly, but Germans loved him for his trend humanity. His first con- mission was given him by a member of the Stinnes family, who re- cognized his genius; he enjoyed it and we crowd into the dance-hall when the servants who had insisted

watch number of Chinee young men and maidens, in the unn his using the back stairs latest approved style, dancing the would not let him leave the kitchen until prvots of his identity had been established.

We draw up in a flurry of dust quuside Repulse Bay Hotel. hand is playing a low fox-trot,

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Blues.

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In the Moonlight, After dinner, we complete our He related with pride that when tour of the Island by moonlight. As we leave Repulse Bay, the Bsh-the war and the blockade were at ing fleet is sweeping inshore, the their worst the kindest inquiries bright acetylene lights used by the were made at his door by the fishermen gleaming upon the purple shadiest individuals, implying that: star-mirrored surface of the waters if he lacked anything from coals to like a chain of Chinese moons.

potatoes, "These roads remind me of some clothing, butter to

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in Montana," says. Yan Bibber. could be supplied quickly.and with-

Built right on the edge of pre-out payment. eipices and canyons! Guess th English are some engineers ! .

When the revolution came it 'left'

I feel grateful to the mystic him unchanged in his attitude to- shadows of the night which teud wards life as he saw it and drew to increase the feeling that the by-11 The cheerfulness of poverty had Do means insignificent "drops" on either side of the "winding, twist always been his theme, and he ing rond, with ite steep gradients, abated nothing of his mellow kind- are indeed precipices."

finess, though he found occasion to give more and more help to his humble friends.

Our tour terminates in the lounge of the Hong Kong Hotel, where we sip cooling drinks and concede the opinion that Hong Kong is indeed

Berlin, as he saw it, was harsh

a beauty spot and a fair jewel. ..but goodtempered, ungracious but Nor we do feel in the least bit generous, hardworking but plea surprised that the idea does not occur to any of us to voice the sure-loving, even when the pleasure consists only in a barrel organ in opinion that America has come.

a courtyard. thing to beat it!

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Quebec, Que. That the British consumer will have an ample op: portunity of acquainting himself with the delectable quality of the St. Lawrence River salmon is glean- ed from the statement that are cord breaking shipment of 150,000 pounds of processed salmon, dea- tined for markets in Great Bri tain, has been loaded aboard the Canadian Pacifie freighter Beaver- ford.

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It is pointed but that this large shipment follows succemive ship- ments of 50,000, 75,000 and a trial shipment of 25,000 pounds, which have met with such success that it is now thought that weekly ship- ments of at least 100,000 pounds will be rinde. The fish when.. de- processed cannot be told from the fresh article, The salmon are brought to the Harbour Commis Bion's cold storage plant here, and are frozen by a new process invent- ed by A. H. Derome, manager of the plant.

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The city is spending a great deal upon propaganda. A volume of Zille reproductions would be one of the finest things it could give away to foreigners.

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Rochford. Mr. F. W. Payne, modern language master at West. cliff High School, has been ap pointed headmaster of Rochford- Secondary School.

Miereuren.-Eight motor-ears were stopped in succession by brigands on the forest read from Miercurea to Gheorgheni, in Rumania, and 30 passengers were robbed..

Kussuvo. Two more generals have been appointed Grand Zupans of the Kossovo province of Yugo- slavia, and another general to bu Grand Zupan in the Srem.

London. Three passengers were slightly injured whes as electric train from Effingham ran into five stationary coaches at No. 21 plat- form, London Bridge Station.

London. Mr. S. Nonaka has been' appointed resident representative in London of the Japanese Minister of Mr. Railways, in succession to Suzumura, who is returning to Japan.

Paddington.-Paddington Borough Council have decided to establish a new public library in connection with the new Porchester Hall, in Porchester Road, at an estimated cost of £11,203.

London. The text of the Conven- tion of January 12, 1929, between Palestine and Egypt, providing for the reciprocal enforcement of judg ments, has been published by H. M. Stationery Office,

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Montreal.-Sir John Sandeman Allen, M.P., President of the Royal Empire Society, is in the Royal Victoria Hospital at Montreal, sul- fering from gastric trouble, but his condition is not serious,

Cardiff.-A male patient who es- caped from Whitchurch Mental ccaptured Asylum, Cardiff, was

a Whitchuren bank regarding inoney while interviewing the manager of which he had on deposit.

Leicester-During excavations at Leicester Abbey two stone coffins have been discovered, apparently of former monastic dignitaries. In one coffin are remains of rich vest. ments of green and gold,

Jullundur. The Sessions Judge at Jullunder, Panjab, has sentenced to death a young Sikh married woman for the murder of a four- year-old girl, who was strangled to propitiate the goddess Chandi,

Portland. The Admiralty have informed Portland Urban Council that no negotiations are proceeding for the leasing of any portion of Portland Harbour for commercial purposes, but consideration would

be given to any proposals..

manslaughter, Nellie Atkinson, A. Leeds. Acquitted on a charge of

a married woman, was found guilty at the Leeds Assizes of performing upon Alice na illegal operation Bradley, 37, a married woman, whose death from sentieœmin fol- lowed. Mr. Justice Finlay passed sentence of 12 months' imprison- ment in the second division.

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Toulon. A fire in Toulon Arsenal caused 11 explosions. Only two men were injured, but much material damage was done,"

Stoke-on-Trent. The upperstorey of the North Stalls Workshops for the Blind, in Victoria Road, Shel; ton, Stoke-on-Trent, was destroyed by fire. No one was on the pre- mised at the time." The Hanley police have detained a man in cou nection with the fire.

Wolverhampton.-Troop-Sergeant Majer John Stratford, of Wolver hampton, formerly of the 14th Light Dragoons, known as "The Ram- nuggar Boys," who is now 100 years old, has received a congratu latory letter from the King He served in the Indian Mutiny.

Merthyr.William Knight, 69, a¦ fruiterer, was found drowned in the Morlais Brook, a shallow streart which runs near the back of his shop and house in Pont Moriais, West Merthyr. It is believed that, while throwing a backet of rubbish into the water, he slipped on a piece of orange peel and fell into the stream,

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