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Hoxe Kosa, APRIL 21, 1900.

THE “CINDERELLA” OF

THE BRITISH EMPIRE..

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23, 1930.

In spite of its apparent neglect In consequence of the fall in the by the British Government, Wei- Hai-wei has prospered exceedingly

cost of living since the present during the last thirty years.

Portrcale of pensions for naval ratings Edward has developed from a`small and Royal Marins "other ranka" Sshing village into a elean and was fixed in 1919, it has been decid- busy town, and the Chinese living

Actors in Talking Tilms.

"All the actors in the world are in Hollywood trying to get into talking pictures!" This was the reason Bayard Veiller gave for

in the adjoining villages-mostly rd that the present rules for com- deserting Broadway and hunting ap Sabermen or farmers are indus-puting long service and disability the east for "The Trial of Mary trious, peaceful, and law-abiding folk. Although there has been con-

rensions should be modified, for | Dugan," bis all-talking' picture stant trouble in Shantung, where

new entries and re-antries only." which will open at the Queen's thousands of desperate and lawless

Theatre on Thursday., The, noted characters have been roaming the country, there has been very little crime in Wei-hai-wei. It is worth noting that in many places along the barder the villagers have erect ed tablets bearing testimony to their keen appreciation of the pence and security enjoyed under British Every possible administration. consideration has been show by the Commissioner "for Chinese custom Civil Hospital suffering from the. and prejudice; Ordinances

effects of the immersion. issued by hìm for the administra, tion of the territory, but the village communities are adminis- tered through their beadmen in accordance with Chinese laws and Customs. There has been 2106 cordial atmosphere at Wei-hai-wei moder British rule, and no com-

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Wah On, a Chinese living at 7, auther-producer retained only four Stone Nullah Lane, was alleged to members of his stage cast in the have attempted suicide early yes-picturization, Raymond Hackett,“. terday morning. by jumping into Myra Hampton, Mary Dorne and the harbour. He was rescued by Adrienne D'Ambricourt. From the Leung Kai, a fakt in a passenger film ranks Veiller obtained Norma boat, and tarned over to the police, Shearer to play the title rôle, Lewis. who sent him to the Government Stone for the defending Attorney, and H. B. "Warner for the prose- cutor. He rounded up what is practically an all-star supporting east, including Olive Toll, Dewitt Jennings, Mary, Doran, Landers Stevens, Wilfrid North, Wescott Clark, Lilyan Tashman and others.. screening of his famous murder Veiller, who personally directed tha

drama, originally planned to select his cast in New York, but after Beveral months of fruitless search returned to Hollywood.

Mr. Arthur Henderson, the For eign Secretary, recently told the House of Commons that the cost of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's visit to the United States and Canada last autumn was estimated at £1,000. plaint has been made: against thepleted he thought it might even be When all the accounts were com- less. The Secretary's announcement. was greeted with Labour cheers and cries of "Good value."

Administration as such.

And now the time has come for the Cinderella of the British Empire" to be handed over to China Dr. C. T. WANO, tho, Foreign Minister, has paid tribute Seeing a child dragging a violin to Britain's friendliness in agree-long a street in Nice, a connoisseur examined it and found it to be a ing to the rendition at the same time urging the Chinese nation to

Cremona instrument bearing the persevere until all sovereign rights date 1830. The child's parents had are retured. Meanwhile it will be been given the violin by a former interesting to see how Wei-hai-wei music-master, and, thinking it was fares under Chinese administration. of no value, had stored it in an This little plot of less than three attic, where the child had found it. bundred square miles has prospered The parents refused the connois- for thirty years for two reasons, scur's offer of £400 for the instru- By the rendition of Wei-kai-wel to

British administration has given China without compensatića thei jahabitants amured peace" and DA efficient and British Government kas once again security under

The old Prussian thoroughness gisen definite proof of its good given the territory the advantages Paul Falck, a sergeant of the bonest government, and it has also and sense of duty still lived in faith It is nine years since naj of a free port, for there are neither Reichswehr.. Before committing offer was made by Great Britain import ner export duties at Wei-suicide at Potsdam by shooting It does not follow that himself with his revolver, he re during the Washington Conference these great advantages will be ported the tragedy in the company

bai-wei.

ment

The Artist in the Liner,

with

In the great liners-some of which have second gardestes-it is natural, that the original artist. should be finding his place. In pre-war days the liver, faithful slave of the hotel, usually had. large, well-varnished copies Old Masters to go

the eighteenth-century fireplaces and Tudor inglenooks and cory corners. owadays the liners are becoming tions than the hotels. One of the more up to date in their decora

coration is the saloons and smok most modern pieces of public de

the designer had a free hand. The ing rooms of a Swedish ship, where

Mr. Edmund Dulac the opportun- Canadian Pacific Line are giving

ity to decorate the smoking-room in their new liner Empress of Bri tain, which will be launched on

Navy's largest submarine

the Clyde at the end of May. Mr. The V-8, the United States Dulac is introducing new effects launched at

*a* by the use of translucent glass Mare Island, Cali-irradiated with light from within. fornia, recently with fitting cere mony. She is 731 feet long and has a displacement of 2,760 Lins.

minutes after midnight Sergeant Falck committed suicide. Corporal Junker has been charged with the réveillé.'

-to return this territory, and inarily lost when the territory record book as follows: At ten the following year an Anglo Chinese is handed over to China and with- out compensation The Chinese Commission met to discuss details Government may decide to retain of the readition. In 1924 the re- the commercial advantages of Port presentatives of the two Govers Edward as a free port. It may meats arrived at a complete agres territory who will be as willing alse appoint men to administer the ment regarding terms of the surand as able to discharge the duties render and the convention was of government as efficiently as the British Commissioner. Time will show, whether the surrender of Wei- hai-wel to Chinese control means a continuance of the progressive peace and prosperity enjoyed under British administration, or whether reversion will prove a synonym for retrogression

practically ready for signature when General Faxe's cop d'etat in Teping upees everything, and nothing more could be done until

the political situation settled and a responsible Central Government again established with which nrge- tiations could be resumed. Chisere feeling has been rather resentful against Britain ne ma carrying out her precise made at Washing- ton in 1921, but the fault has be with China. not Great Britain,

NOW IN PREPARATION The sudden political changes in

OF THE

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News and Views.

A bureau is being formed by the Canton Government to promote the welfare of overseas Chinese.

Sir Robert Ho Tung has returned Peping had the effect of undoing to the Colony from Canton, where all that had been done toward he had stayed for several days. arranging the terms of rendition, and it was obvious that ne farther progress could, te nde al the political situation in China becsine

CHRONICLEtted again

The 68th Annual Issue

OF THE

The annual general meeting of the Navy League (Hong Kong Branch) will be held at 5.15 p.m. on Monday, April 28.

A gigantic centipede said to be.

The fireplace is of glass, muking a messic of colour like the feathers. of a humming bird. The walls She is the sixth of the nine post and ceiling will be of wood in soft Wahington treaty submarines to be greys in the form of fretted panels built, will carry eight officers and

of geometrical design on a gold EG men, and is equipped with two background, alternating with nar- guns, on deck. Being strictly an row mirror and black lacquer oil-burner, she has A cruising pillars. The room is lit by a sys radius of 90,000 nautical miles, In tem of diffused lighting,. amplified ·· addition. she is said to be equipped in alabaster bowls set on dwarf, with radio outfit and enfety de- vices of latest model.

pillars at the angles of the roon Sir John Lavery is designing the great ballroom and Mr. Frank Mr. George J.. Hatfield, United Brangwyn the main dining-room, Slates Attorney, has filed suit and Mr. Heath Robinson the

19 California oil com- cocktail bar. The Empress of Bri panies to enjoin them from "contain is of 40,000 tonnage and will spiracy to maintain En

unfair be the largest steamship to run he price for gasoline." The suit was tween England and Canada.

against

fled in a Federal District Court on orders from the Attorney-Gen- era of the United States. The suit, aimed at the seven major and 12 smaller companies, also seeks to enjoin the companies from "en- gaging in violation of the anti- truat lawa. Mr. Hatfield also ask-

It is easy to understand the Chi-r a loot lang is reported to haved that agents for the defendants nese viewpoint regarding Britain's Street, Kowloon, on Monday even-

stret a tailor's shop in Woosung be "restrained from posting prices

at gasoline stations." possession of Wei-hai-we The ing, according to the Chinese territory was handed over at a time

Directory and Chronicle her the Great Pozers were

OF

HONG KONG,

THE TREATY PORTS OF

Press.

Looking Back 25 Years,

Three white womer and their children, who were assisted by Cus tom House officers to supe from their Chinese homes up the West River, arrived here on Saturday by the Chunter. Two of them are Aus-

tralians, and third is from Chile. Two of the women and their child- ren were taken in by the Italiaa More than 15,000,000 automobiles,Convent. In their Chinese homes During the Gve days ending mid-representing a total original cost of they were beaten and generally taking advantage of China's help-night, April 1, the following cases |#12,155,000,000, or an average of treated badly by the respective first. lessness. The murder of twa of notifiable diseases were reported about 8800 each, have been scrapped wives, who made them work in the the Medical Officer of Health; in America since 1919, according to fields and do other servile, work. German misciucaries in Shantoux Typhoid, 1 (imported); small-pox, a survey made by the Niagara Fire They were kept in close custody, led to the concession to Germaur 1; diphtheria, 2; meningitis, 1. Insurance Company. In announcing one Australian woman having thus the findings of the survey, Mr.Buffered for six years. A "Daily ninety-nine year lease of CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO of

According to a report, made to the Ernest Sturm, chairman of the Press representative yesterday in- CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS Kochow, and rights to conduct police, a full on a fishing junk fell board of the insurance, company, terviewed the Reverend Mother of SETTLEMENTS, MALAY mining and milway, steprises, overboard about i a.m. yesterday, said that during the past ten years the Italian Convent. She said it was not an unusual thing for re- STATES, NETHERLANDS} Other nations took the car Frand was not seen again since. The automobile manufacturers have as-

junk at the time was sailing near

Rembled crcnted wealth in the form fugees of this description to come INDIA, BORNEO, THE Germany-Bussia demanded and Aplichau, which is just off Aber of motorcars to the amount of from the interior. They generally PHILIPPINES, Etc.

received, a tease of Port Arthur: † doen.

220,340,001,730. "After deducting Britain got. Wei-hoi-wei for as long

the cost of those relegated to the scrap heap, it appears that in the Course of the decade a net addition to the Nation's wealth of more than $14,000,000,000 should be credited to the automobile," he said.

This Large Volume of approximata-

Names of Nonrty

CLASSIFIED LIST

OF

IMPORT AND "EXPORT] MERCHANTS, „MANUFACTURERS

Part of the verandah of No. 178,

rushed to the Government Civil Hospitals

The marriage is announced to take place shortly between Mr. Andrew Duncan, engineer, residing at 2, Highburgh Terrace, Kowloon Dock, to Miss Agnes Robin, who is on her way to the Colony on board the x.s. Mantua.

ly 2,000 Pages gives, in addition as Russiz remained an the opposite ? West Point, suddenly collapsed at to the Ural Lists of Finos, an side of the Gulf of Chili; Frame midnight on Sunday. A pedestrian Alphabetical List of Residents got the 'concussion of Kwang Chow named Ho Nam living in the same in the Far East containing the Wan This was the period when ret sustained injuries. and was

the Great Powers were marking out. 20,000 FOREIGNERS.

on the map of Chìon their ** spheres Arranged, with the initials as well of influence," in which each could as Surnames in strict alphabe-carry on its commercial and indus- tical order.

trial activities without interferes from rivals The Chinese dergily reseated this polies, fearing that military occupation would span

The Canton Government has up fallow commetefal exploitation by pointed a committee to examine foreigners, but China-though ex-the staffs of the various Govern asperated-was helpless. Then came mental organisations with a view to fading out whether they are the "open door” policy, first 25 opiura-smokers. Those found to be gested by the United States, warmly addicted to the habit will be dis- supported by Great Britain, with missed from their posta. other Powers giving grudging ap proval to a policy which brought Some of our readers will be an end to the ** saberes of in-

interested to hear that practically fluence" scheme. Britain gave af all thhe costumes used in the pledge to Germany that Wei-izi-wei |A.D.C.'s recent production of "And would never be allowed to compete | So To Bed" will be sold by auction with Tsingtao by the esastraction at Messrs." Lammert's' rooms on of a railway to penetrate Shan- Friday next at 2.30 am. Many tung, and since the British flag ladies, and no doubt aleo members was Ecisted on May 31, 1868, Wei- of the sterner sex, may be glad to hai wei has been nothing more than avail themselves of this opportunity quiet, well-governed catpost of obtaining striking fancy dresses. whose main value to the ExpireThe question of wigs need cause no was that is provided the China misgiving, as these can be hired Squadron with a very pleasant kase from the Institut de Beauté, Pedder daring the Vezi of sommer.

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longed to the unfortunate class of women, because it was seldom that one found them married. In Australia the Chinese deceived these low-class women with promises ho never intended to fulfil When she arrived in the interior the found. herself one of several wives," position most repugnant to any right feeling white woman The in Hollywood is not the only com- evitable consequences follow. As munity that is worried by an over- the Rev. Mother expressed: In- supply of girls. Country girls being deed, these poor women receive country girls the world over, the their punishment in this world." Tokyo Metropolitan Police are con- Hong Kong Daily Press, April 23, fronted with the problem of an 1905. influx of rural maidens who, drawi

Too Many Girls in Tokyo.

For the last few months there has

by stories of fame and fortune to Looking Back 50 Yaart, be gained in the capital, are flock- ing to Tokyo in ever-increasing been regularly attending the Sup numbers. As all but a few are un- reme Court an bld Chinaman of trained for any sort of skilled work deranged intellect who has in his they rapidly become a problem posscision a number of scraps of in a city which has its own unem- paper with much words as the fol- ployment problem to deal with. lowing on them --" Pay bearer Many of the girls are drawn to the 850,000." These, of course are un- numerous cafés which line nearly signed, and would appear to have every street in the city. There are been given to him by various per come abic to secure work assons to gratify his peculiar whims waitresses, but the pay in so low He keeps thera in match-. that they are soon forced into lives box and shows them with great of sin. In an effort to meet the pleasure to anyone who will problem the municipal authorities listen to him. Yesterday he wish- have been placing the country girls ed to speak to the Judge, but in free lodging-houses, but few of sat down with his accustomed good the girls will remain in these nature when requested to do so.. havens long, and many absolutely He has on his body the scars left refuse to retam to their homes in by severe wounds, which be says he the provinces. Police investigation | received in Siam. These he will revealed that the girls in these show with as much satisfaction as lodging houses range in age from his valuable documents-Hong 17 to 22 years.

Kong Daily Press, April 23, 1880,

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