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RAW SILK.

Messra Pentrinth & Co. have kindly forwarded us the following

FESTIVAL OF FOLK

DANCE AND SONG.-

letter, dated May 11, which they PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.

have received from Messra. Hornby Hemelryk & Co., Liverpool.

Quiet marketa. have ruled during the past week, and values are 2 to "3 points lower.

In writing to us about the success of the recent International Festival of Folk Dance and Seng, and tho plans for making the event an The New York and Chicago corti annual affair, the Rev. E, A. Arm- icated stacks on the 30th ult, total-strong, of St. Andrew's, Kowloon, **ed 3,270 bales (910 bales Grade A, who took a lending part in organis-

1,200 bales Grade C).

ing the Festival, says:

The differentials for. May show reductions in all grades with the

remain unchanged. They are ag follows:

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE

BOOKS and READERS

THE MAN WHO DIED,

D. H. LAWRENCE'S

LAST

THREE THRILLERS,

10, 1931.

ticas" As usual, she writes with a' cool 'detachment and" gracð þf... manner that at times disguise, but novor completely hide, her strong sympathy with

humanity. The Brat story, which gives "ita name to the collection, is a pathetic, ironie study of a middlo-ngod nurse, The next one, called "Sub- marino" desoribes the sensations of a diver with an almost uncanny power of atmosphere. All the THE MAN WHO DIED. By DH Mr. J. 8. Fletcher, whose for stories are full of subtle observa Lawrence. London: Martan tility of invention and construction, but in The Desort Islander Socker. Pp. 98. Ono guinea tive skill have placed him in the and "Hairy Carey's Son Miss "Look! We have come through "front rank of crime story writers, Benson is at her best. In the first line, in his latest book, "Murder of these she shows her ability in at Wrides Park" (Harrap, 78. ed.), gotting inside the queer, isolated Russian legionary. added another to the growing mind of number of amateur sleuths, in the "Hairy Carey's Son' is the tals!

of a quite uninteresting oldly person of Ronald Camberwel Inyoung fellow of good connection, doctor who went to look for buried who at the time the story, opens treasure and failed to find any; in companion-secretary to a Chris it would be prosaic were it not topher Nicholas, the wealth owner for the tragio and delicately told story of the ship's boy. In a vory brief description, incidental to the main plot, the author reaches high-water mark of understanding.

net.

It was encouraging to find so exception of Grades E and F which people asking after the wrote Lawrence in one of his "Can't you repeat it!"porms, but few renders of his lator Festival, and When will you have an works can have felt that this cry other?" The organisers would of liberation was in any ultimate have liked to repeat the perform sense justifled writes the, Mens ance in order to introduce still chester Guardian reviewer. more people to the joys and beau- this, the last story which he wrote ties of Folk Dances and Songs, but before his death, however, we feel & second performance would have that he had come through the final

"Grade A: Premium 45c

B

Basis,

E

25e. 11.

Discount 1c.

F:

100.

Wi: Xx:

76..

14c.

100

17c.

42

According to mail advices from New York, cables from Japan on April 28 reported the sale of 000 bales of 13/15 donier Silk out of the Syndicate holdings: 100 bales "n" grade at Yen 600 per bale and 450 bales "C" grade at Yen 583 per bale. These prices compare very favourably with current market values, and it is understood that the Silk was offered more in the nature of an experiment to test prices.

now

THE PRINCE'S LEGION BOOK.

£123,000 RAISED FOR WAR

VETERANS.”

PENSIONS "FUND SCHEME,

It was officially announced from St. James's Palace yesterday that, as a result of the Prince of Wales' Legion Book Fund, a sum of £123,000 has been received by his Royal Highness and is available

for "distribution."

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coived will be invested in the nnmos of trustees for the purpose of form ing a fund to be known ne The Prince of Wales British Legion Pondion Tund," and-to-be inqui

gurated on January 1, 1832.

Experience has shown, the state- mont adds, that as a result of war service mapy men are prematurely aged, and the object of thin fund wil bo to provido a certain num ber of pensions, not exceeding 101 a week, for ex-Servico men and ex- Service women of 30 years of age, and over who are permanently re aident in the British Isles..

Now Fund's Trustees. Full details of the scheme, toges ther with addresses from which

The money will be allocated application forms may be obtained, follows:

British Empire Service

League Ex-Services Welfare Society. Fainted Fabrics, Ltd. Enham Village Centre British Legion Village, Pros

ton Hall.............................. Douglas Haig Memoria) Homes (for Institute at Morden) Irish Ex-Service Men's In-

dustries" Women's Section of the Bri-

tish Legion Ashstead Potters

will be published later through the British Legion. 20,000 The Prince of Wales has appoint-

2,500ed the following as trustees: 2,000 Earl Jellicoe (President, British 3,000 Legion), Col. John Brown (chair. man), Major J. B. Brunel Cohen, 2,000 M.P. (vice-chairman), Lt. Col. G. R. Crosfield (Comptroller and Tronsurorte tho Prince of Wales), Mr. T. F. Lister (past chairman), Sir Frederick Maurics (hon, tronzuror, British Legion.)

All correspondence in connection with the Fund should be addressed 1,000 to the Secretary, Mr. A. G. Webb, Haig House, 28, Eccleston-square, London, 8.W. 1

2,000

2,000

1,000

A man who and Miss Bonson's high-water The balance of £88,000 and any. mark is a very tall order indeed. I additional sums which may be re-

was obviously a blackmailer has called on him in blustering fashion, the two had gone out together, and the blackmailer was not seen again till his dead body was found in a lonely spinney, and near by a swordstick which Nicholas was in the habit of carrying

been very difficult to arrange and convulsions of protest and indigneof Wrides Park. Hardly had be might have lacked the verve of tion and denant self-abandon-buttered his fagers in his new posi- the actual festival, for which all

ment to the great atonement."tion before his employer became the performers were keyed up to a high pitch: Apart from the labour In" it the creative artist was at suspect of murder. of re-erecting awnings and provid-Inst wholly liberated from the tor ing seating accommodation again, it is evident that a Festival in mented preacher. The cruelty and which twelve or more nationalities fanaticism which before had so were co-operating and more than often betrayed the inverted Paritan 200 performers taking part could not easily be repeated. But the had fallen from him. The interest manifested, and the good life, of which the sexual mystery done by bringing so many antion-had been always for him both the alities together under such happy auspices and introducing them to cradle and the grave, was no long the varied loveliness of traditional er menared by death in his en- Bongs and dances, shows, we be-sciousness. The protracted anguish lieve, that such a Festival would be welcomed as a regular event in of travail was over. The rebirth, With finished goods moving poor the Colony and that it could play was accomplished. For the man ly, and with the customary between an important part in the develop who died" is not Jesus of Nazareth, soon lull in the demand for Rawment of followshin between all but Lawrence himself. It was out Silk, manufacturers only buying nationalities and classes. The ra from hand to month, futures values xsponsibility and privilege of or of his own experience that he may sag somewhat lower.

gauising such an event again de- wrote: "I have outlived my "mis Close Now York Saturday:-July volver upon St. Andrew's Church 82.15e, September 82,100., October and the Diocesan Girls' School assion; and know no more of it. It 82.10c., and December 82.16c. those to whom the initiation of the is my trimph.... Now I can wait scheme was originally due, and we or life, and say nothing, and have should like to say that we hope to arrange a similar Fastival at a later no one betray mo. late. Experience has shown that have died, and now I know my own three months are required for limits. Now I can live without EXPORT AND IMPORT COS learning and rehearsing dances, striving to sway others any more. and as many of these are too strenuous to be practised during

... But Judgas, and the high the hot weather the natural time priests saved me from my solva- to hold auch a Festival would be tion, and soon I can turn to my during the months January-May.

We are very grateful to the for- destiny, like a bather in the son eign communities, schools and other at dawn, who has just come down bodies who co-operated with us and We last reported on April 30 and are glad of the assurance of their to the shore alone. And I, in during the first part of the period participation on a future occasion. may mission, I too ran to excess. under review this market remained: Several nationalities which by rea-I gave more than I took, and that featureless but towards the close a son of practical difficulties were good demand set in from France able to take part, will, we hope also is woe and vanity.... and North China, which resulted in, a fairly large number of orders being booked for May/June ship

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

REPORT,

The Export & Import Co., Ltd. af Cochinchina states in their bi-monthly circular on the rica market:-

mente.

Our prices have hardened in con- sequence of this demand, coupled with the very moagre supplies of paddy coming down from the in

terior.

Our total exports to date, amount to about 586,000 tons or about 217,000 tons less than, during the corresponding poriod in 1930.

We quote as follows for shipment during May/June-

Rice.

No. 1 Pychow Long

و"

cent, brokens

per

1 Saigon Long 23 per

cont, brokens

1 Saigon Round 25 per

cent, brokens

1 Ordinary European

Qual. per cent.

$4.00

4.00

·

The experienced reader will at once gather that, though Nicholas had a shady past, he was innocent of murder, and the elucidation of the mystory is very cleverly done- not by Campetent C.1.D. man, who admitted the young secretary to a good deal of his conûdence, enough, to inspire a desire for other ad- ventures of the kind. Anyway, Ronald has started a "casobcok," For Ifrom which we may expect further good stories for Mr. Fletcher has not only inventive skill, but a hap Py gift of making his characters real and interesting.

be able to do so in the future, Nothing is so marvellous as to be In organising these festivals we alone in the phenomenal world, aim at something more than provid ing enjoyable entertainments. They which is raging, and yet apart, are primarily gestures of good And I have not seen it, I was too fellowshin among the nationalities much blinded by my confusion which live side by side in this Colony and efforts to preserve what within it.... I understand that in lovely, individual and traditional they executed me for frenching to in an age often dominated by them. Yet they could not finally standardisation and vulgarity.

To all those who helped in any execute me, for now I am risen we expressed our sincere in my own aloneness, and inherit thanks.

the earth, since I lay no claim The statement of accounts is en-

that this is closed,

it." We say Lawrence speaking and not Jesus, that the story is a myth cf his own'

way.

THE BALANCE SHEET. No, less than $900 was cleared on

on

a turnover of $1,200, the following feverish mission, of his crucifixion statement of accounts shows the at the hands of the world, 4.00very, efficient and businesslike way of the tomb of deadly aloof

in which the festival was managed: Ticome.

sales of

4.00

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2 Japan quality 40 per

cont. brokens.....

3,60

2 Java quality 50 per

From total

tickets

.....$ $30.00 From cash taken at en-

trance

...' 3,00 2,50

From sales of refresh

ments

From programme adver-

tisernents

Total..

cent, brokens 3:30

1 And 2 Saigon Broken

mixed

3 Saigon Broken rice Saigon cy, F.O.B. per picul of 131, lbs. gross including export duty.

Baclieu best Long

Long ordinary

Paddy.

300.20

140.00

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An Alibi that Falled. In the "Top Story Murder," by Anthony Berkeley (Hodder and Stoughton, 78, 68.), an elderly and- lone spinster was done to death in abiny flat at the top of a Euston apartment house. with every up- pearance of robbery as the motive of the crime, The C,L.D. were quickly the spot, and though there were no finger-prints or other obvious clues they made up their, minds, from their knowledge of the professional criminals of their c quaintance, that the perpetrator

of the crime was coe Jim Watkins, alias the Camberwell Kid.

Watkins, however, was able to show that at the time the crime was presumably committed he was far away at a party at Lewes, and the case might have been added to number of. unexplained the mysteries but for the pertinacity

of our old friend Ruger Shering- ness in which he lay, a disinte ten, who was calling on Inspector grated Osiris, and of his healing Moroaby when the news of the mur- and rebirth into "the other life, | der reachód, Scotland Yard. How, the greater day of the human con playing a lone hand, he made a 247.00.sciousness** through the love of the searching inquiry into all the cir- Priestera of Isis in search." Butcumstances of the case, and how, it is also by implication at once by a mere chance, he was able to a criticism of the "Chrisitian discover a hole in the alibi afore myth" and a ronowal of it. Lawsaid, is teld at rather great length, 31,217.20rences instinctive recoil from the but with complete conviction, while Expenditure. Christian consciousness was due in the story is lightened by some

02.00 reality to his affinity to it. He,,

clever

comedy scenes between 7.50 too, was torturned by his need of Sheringham and a very modern 150.30 redemption

and atonement, and

young girl who acts, pro tom., as his whole life was a stepping to his secretary."" wards the kingdom" of inner freedom. But his path was exact.

82.00

2.80.

Gorong best Round

2.00

Round ordinary

2:80

To printing

Cochinchina low grade

2,80

To advertising jan

Cambodgian White (long)

2.70

To refreshments

Cambodgian

Red (lowest

To coolie hiro, etc......

37.25

grade) inter

2.40

To D.G.5. repairs to ar

ticles damaged

30,15

Saigon oy, F.O.B. per picul of 160 lbs. gross including export duty,

packed in second-hand bag.

EXCHANGE RATES.

FORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Rugby, June 8:

124.231 4.86 17/32.

Paris New York

Brussels

Geneva

Amsterdam

Milan

34.02)

25.09

12.001

..92.03

Berlin

20.5

Stockholm

18.143.

Copenhagen

18.161

Oslo

18.161

Vienna

34,891

1841

* 1081-**

276

817-

30/16

34 11/16

201

.1/51 1/2

11

2/1

Prague

Helsingfors

Athens WASAZ

Bucharest

Rio

Buenos Airċa

Bombay

Hong Kong

Montevideo, re

Shanghai.....

Yokohama

Silver, spot & forward 12)

To half balance to St.

John Ambulance Brig. nde ** To half balance to St. Andrew's Organ Fund

Tot

450.00

81,217.20

ཙྪཱ ཙ

An Adventurous Peer.... "The Man with the Black Patch," ly opposite to that of the tradi-by F. E. Verney (Hutchinson, 78. tional Christian, He reversed, inod.), hardly needs, any bush from 450.00short, the current of consciousness the reviewer, for it has already which bad bpen streaming upwards won success as a serial and has the too long and growing thin and recommendation of the Crime Book vapourish, and turned it back Society. The titular hero is Robin upen its source. And because Alastair Hood EvoD, Visccunt in every final realisation of truth Lochleven who, like "The Scarlet apparent opposites meet and gre. Pimpernel," conscegli under resolved into a unity which in sillynas manner a capacity for effoce cludes them both, the atonement tive action, and whose zest for ad which Lawrence sought by way of venture brings him into many tight the body was feconciled in its con places. The story of these experi summation with that other redemp ences makes capital reading, fcr tion of the wiful mind in the dis Mr. Verney wields a light pen, and intorested and so divino imagina there are no dull pages in his book. tion, which has lain at the heart of the Christian mystery. In this

BODIES IN ACID BATH.

TWO BEAUTIFUL SISTERS ARRESTED.

murder with Marseilles.A subsequent disposal of the bodies by dissolution in an acid bath-alleg

ed blackmail to the extent of £800, story that reccncilement seems to and two faked deaths to defraud | ue' imaginatively complete. The insurance companies of £21,600,spiritual reality which Lawrence form the elemente of a scusational sought so convulsively, through and plot, alleged hore.

beyond the sexual mystery 18 boll In' connection with the crime two richly and serenely realised. He beautiful sisters and a man have is at last truly in touch with

VERA SONOMA it, and neither the falesness in bean arrested,

Evidence has been found suggest nor the fever in himself can again ing that human bodies had been "profane, the touch in me." It is dissolved in sulphuric acid and the teatament which admirers of his buried in the garden of a Marsell work must have wished that he les villa

should leave behind.

Tifo

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