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.HONG KONG, JUNE 24, 1931.

PUTTING THE WORLD

*RIGHT:

Irae Hext Irish Sweep.

"I wonder if I shall over live Subject to the approval of the to be an old woman."

Irish Hospitals Committed' and the "Not if you remain thirty much Minister of Justice, the next. Irish longer, dear."..

The Reason.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local and Far East.

Murder trial at the Sessions.

Pago ..

in the raw he would realiss that wo are hundreds of years off any

St. John Ambulance Brigade Aag such reduction of our race to such.

day Appeal for funds. P Page 8. | garden-rose sublimity," A study of

Sweep,, on the Manchester Novem- "Leoture at the Rotary Club tifin China, and of Chinese politics, is & Useful corrective to those who

ber Handicap, will contain a con-1 on the Trinity College of Music.

Page, T imagine that the World's troubles

dition that the prize-winners myst Why do Women Hike asks & spend 5 per cent of their prize a motorcycle mishap occurred near Shortly after 7.30 pm, yesterday will cease in ton or a hundred correspondent to a Home paper. money, in the purchase of Irish the Majestio Theatre as a result of years time, and that by then the Her answer is as follows:-Any-manufactured goods. The Govern which Miss Vera Ghecka was re- millenium will begin, ay mal thing that offers women relief from ment will made no objection if the suffering from injuries to the head. moved to the Kowloon Hospital, Enormous hopes have been roused petticoat bondage must be wel Hospitals Committee approves, 40

Page by President Hooven's move to come.

I myself know what it it is expected to do. The orBound.the local cinemas. Page wards a re-settlement of the prob-meant lems of Reparations and War brothers on the Derbyshire moors about £100,000 may be spent on to go walking with my ganisers believe that by this means Debts. It is imagined that what wearing an ankle-length dress over Irish goods,

he has startel will sen new con &idence between the nations, success

three or four heavy petticoats.. Fancy having that burden to drag

lings,

Goling Win at 77.

Excavations by Jesuit archeolo gists have revealed evidence, eon- firming the Biblical story of the des truction of Bodom, states Dr. John Oliver Lagorce, Vice-President of

at the Disarmament Conference, & around! And they called us weak-How Sodom Was Destroyed. loworing of tariff,walls and the arrival of a new era of prosperity. To build too much on the Presi- dent's offer is to court disaster. What he proposes will have to be threshed out in detail, at one of those Conferences where none of the participants shows at his best. While from now onwards there may bo a steady, improvement of trade, to expect that in a little while all will be well with the world is to court dimppointment and to cause

British pictures coming. Page 3pé China Coast ofcers' Gazetċa,

Page 12 To-day's radio programme.

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Sport.

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Home cricket results. Page 10.. Lawn bowls notes: By "Green.". Among the competitors in "the

Page 10.. Bar Golfing Society's annual

Home racing notes and news! tournament on the Royal Cinque the National Geographic Scciety

by our home, racing correspondent. Ports course at Deal was Mr. N. of Washington. Dr. Lagorce has An article by R. Abbit on the Page 10.. Micklem, K.O., who is 7 years returned after visiting the Rev. New Zealand Cricket Team now old. Handicapped at 17, he won Father Nailon, head of the Pontouring England appears on. his first round match against W.

tifical Archeological expedition Copping (18) by 5 and 3. Mr.

now working in TransJordania. " Justice Hawke, Sir John Simon, Dr. Lagorce said that the expedi and the Hon. E. E. 8. Montague

Latest Cables.

Page 10..

A reaction whose effects might be were among those beaten in the Lion sponsored by the Vatican had decided to accept the Hoover, pro-

dangerous in the extreme. Condi- first round. tions in the work-a-day world im- prove as men become more educated and reasonable. But this uplifting THE Dean of St. Paul's, the Very of humanity is a slow process, and Reverend W. R. INGE, D.D., is it is dangerous to fores the pace.

associated in usually

English In China and America we have people's minds with prophesies of clear examples of what may be dark foreboding, and with

expected when this is attempted. general attitude of despair at modern modes, and manners. It is all the more surprising to find that in a lecture on the Future of the Human Race," a summary of which

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unearthed the sito of Sodom. It is actually the site of three distinct cities, one built on top of another, he said. Father Nallen told him that there was every indication that the city had been erased by a con flagration of great intensity.

"Splinters."

The Japan's Cabinet yesterday posal.

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In the second round of the Wim- bledon Tennis Championship Austin beat Horo Satoh.. Page D'

Chiang Kai Shek has taken over command of 250,000 troops which are concentrated between Kiukiang

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and Kian,

Page 8. The French Government discuss ed the Hoover proposal yesterday but will not decide the text of its reply until to-day.

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almost certainly biown to pieces as Eloven workers are missing and the result of a terrific explosion which occurred at a Naval cordite factory in Bolton Health, neor Wareham, Dorset. Page 9. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, who plan a round the world flight seven days in the aeroplane Minniemae. took off yesterday for Harbour Grace from where they will`attempt to fy to Berlin.

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Mary of "Little Lamb" Fame.

Mrs. Mary Hughes, who claims to be the original "Mary" of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb," attained her 90th birthday last month, having been born at Tyissa Farm, Llangollen, in 1841. Mrs. Hughes says some of hor schoolfellows are still living who "Splinters," a British' war film, remember her favourite lamb is to be screened at the King's "Billy" following her two miles Theatre on Sunday. There was a to school. It RO frolicked over forms that the teacher turned it Press view yesterday and the film out, and she had to take it to can be very sincerely recommend lords Tollhouse on the London-ed. It shows the fortunes of a Holyhead road, where tethered until she returned from pierrot troups raised at the instiga- tion of a clever Army Commander more optimistic writings of Mr. during the first quarter of this

to keep up the spirits of the men. H. G. WELLA Dean INGE portrays year. The return of the Registrar-

A private, much dismayed, and General, which gives figures, shows a return to life something after the

The London Daily Telegraph manner of that lived in the ancient also that such decreases, though diariat says of Texas Guinan: anxiously reviewing his past, is Grock states, only with war and still isolated exceptions to the Her ideas for brightening the lives summoned before the General, and, of Londoners, if conducted on the as he was a music hall star before certain personal frailties climin general trend, are recurring. The same lines as her shows in New ated. In this ideal world every

cause of decline in this particular York, would not make a particular tho war he is given the task of ly strong appeal. We have man- putting on a show. How he tries- country is more or less self-support-quarter wak an unusually heavy need to get along pretty well up out awkward squad aspirants, and Prince of Wales proposal that ing, and there are no armaments, mortality. There were rather more to now, without the assistanc; of no diseases, no tariffs, no litigation, births than recent statistica gave the "Texan Blonde," and I doubt finally puts on a regular beauty British trade should have a per- and politics are reduced to the reason to expect. But it is to behether the experiment would have chorus makes very fresh and amus-manent home, architecturally worthy been worth trying. Because they ing entertainment. The incident of this country, in Buenos Aires. harmless amusement of a few elder-remembered that the birth-rate has are not accustomed to such things

is printed elsewhere in this issue, THE population of England and he sees the possibility of a Utopia Wales decreased by some thousands after the pattern suggested in the

daure and sing, do physical and since 1926.. Before the war jerks," and think enobling it was half as high again, in the thoughts, everyone being good,

'nineties it was over 30 per thou- CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-beatiful and happy. All instabi and, in the 'seventice it was 35.

CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS lity would be removed and the SETTLEMENTS, MALAY

whole of the human race would STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNHO, THE PHILIPPINES, Etc. ・・

live in a series of well developed

The growth of the nation is now only about 150,000 a year. The Prediction. that within twenty years, perhaps in little more than ten, the population will become stationary is upon this evidence

school.

Texas Guinas and London,

domincored and dragooned by

Britain and the Argentine,

The city is very interested in the

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE ty persons. The whole world would not been as much as 17 per thou-London's suppers-out might have has an historic basis and, in fact, Indeed, in, one quarter the idea was Rot a new "kick" out of being Hel Jones, the comedian, and Reg being developed and the suggestion madame la putrenne, no longer Stone, the leading lady," play made that the building might be quite young, seated on the back of the parts that they actually under the British business world's own chair in a commanding position. took in France. In the final scenes tribute to his Royal Highness for They might have liked to be bawl the beauty chorus," with tunics his sterling work in the Argentine. ed out" by her if they did not behave themselves as the thought buttoned over their frocks, is sum. Meanwhile, it is something of n addressed moned to help to repel an attack, coincidence that negotiations are that they should, and by their Christian names in peno trating tones down the full length and soms ferce street fighting is already well ahead for the catab of the room. On the other hand, shown. Nelson Keys and Sydney lishment of a South America House they might not. Desides; there are Howard furnish amusing, by-play in London. The scheme has very other features in, the Texan highly probable.

and the war atmosphere, in its strong financial backing on the part Blonde's" New York programme"

of those interested in the develop- most Western nations today, the down

Similar tendencies are marked in which would not, I fancy, go lighter side, is admirably suggest ment of Britain's Latin American

in London.

markets, outstanding exceptions being Italy and the Slave.

"The decline of births is the decline of nations," a principle vehemently advocated by

This Large Volume of approximate. ly 2,200 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical Lists of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of nearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS. Arranged, with the initials as well as Surnames in strict alphabo

tical order.

CED LIST

OF

MERCHANTS,

MANUFACTURERS

for the whole of the Far East arranged, with addresses, in alphabetical order.

Alphabetical Jists of Cable,

Addresses.

garden cities, in a manner that ought to go on unchanged possibly for millions of years. It is ad- mitted that there are dangers in the path leading towards this cari- ouis Utopia, but Dean INGE socis quite sure that even with our pre- Bent resourees we can get there by the exercise of a little common sense and mutual forbearance,

It all sounds rather like a pros parous English or American suburb, and bears a remarkable resemblance,

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some German thinkers, has been approved by Signor MOSSOLINI. But a comprehensive survey of the

ed.

* Local Notes and Events

evidence hardly bears this out. A Children asks us to say that the discussed at the fortnightly meet-Governor giving general support The Society for the Protection of No matters of public interest were rails, and His Excellency the

to the little coteric of poets, high standard of living appears to novelists and professors who live be always associated with a declin list of donations published on Page ing of the Sanitary Board held to the scheme. Commercially, at on a wooded hill overlooking the ing birth-rate, but also with great 11 of our issue of yesterday was yesterday, all business being of a first sight, this project may appear

efficiency, physical and mental. to that Society, and not to the routine nature, The 100vitable infereast that S.P.C.A. as our heading announced.

city of Oxford. The fallacy of the Dent's vision is that such planes tend to a dull priggishness, and

stationary populations should be

rather unimportant to the general

reader Nearly all cities, and

| towns of any size in the United ! Kingdom now possess tramways,

there are always young and ener- able to hold their own in the world, Government Civil Hospital on A rule which has existed but and in almost every instance they

A Chinese was admitted to the Looking Back 25 Years.

getic people to kick over the traces What would "vital persons do in such a world? How would Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL, Lord BEAVER- |BROOK and Mrs, TEXAS GUINAN 001-

and, that as others obtain more comfortable conditions they also Monday after being knocked down will diminish their rate of in-by truck which, it is alleged, drove off without stopping. Efforts are being made to trace the driver of the vehicle..

Crease.

"Salome" Staged in London.

Oscar Wilde's "Salome" has

tain themselves. They would scon like Mr. SHAW's, Mrs. WALLEN be in danger of going “inclancholy

A steersman of a Chinese junk mad." True, the Dean of St. never been performed publicly in was fined $10 by Comdr. Newill Paul's baggests a lethal chamber England, writes the New Chronicle at the Marine Court, having pleaded List of Agencies held by for obdurate criminals, and there, bodies & ghastly ides, and it ro obstruction by anchoring in the Theatre Correspondent.It em guilty tổ a charge of causing an Far Eastern firms. we supposo, a committee of futurequires of its leading actress a con- Central Fairway at 5 a.m. yester

Deans would be busily selecting dition of undress to which the candidates for painless elimination. London stage has only become ae day, The NELSONS and NAPOLEONE, the customed in recent years. But it is truly dramatic, and its grim en- SHELLEYS, and BERNARD SHAWS, the folding there are moments of

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been ignored for many years at have proved & financial success, Macao, has recently been rigorously Why then should there by any been put into force. I mean the doubt or surprise at their adoption rule governing vehicular traffic. in the city of Victoria, Hong Orders are issued that all rickshas Kong It contains one hundred and bicycles are to keep to the right and thirty thousand inhabitants, a of the road. This is just the op- constant stream of visitors, and is

from east to west-n eity of magni- posite of the rule in Hong Kong ficent distances, running as it does and most other places, so that ex-for fully four miles along the

careful not to run into trouble I be urged, the Chincec, who forth cursionists from Hong Kong, who shore, with an inclination to bring their cycles will have to be stretch yet further. But, it may do not know why Macao wants to the bulk of the population, are not be peculiar in its rule of the road a riding people; and, if they were, Hong Kong Daily Prese, June 23, would not be able to expend much on such a convenience. This is & mistake The fiorickshas lately in- Afrodwood-havo boy a catenurely long Hong Kong will possess a seven hundred of them licensed for It appears probable that befors; patronised that there are now ovar system of tramways. At all events hire in the streets on the lower

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| EINAILINE," "GALILI All revenue and or route beuty. The was Bred by 35 Schule ak Back 50 Years

gious hicretics would be queued up, production last matt hell that the Central Polios Court yesterday

audience enthralled "Mar for excoution, after a little while garet Rawlings gave a fine por a charge of failing to provide the pondemned would be turning formance as the siren Salome adequate precautions while blast the initiators has been taken levels The Chinese not only have the tables on their judges, and up. Flora Robson played Herodias with ing the proceedings were taken sombre power. Robert Spenight was setting the world just as they do the degenerate king and John on the complaint of Mr. N. B,

Clements the prophet

White, of "Homeville, Wanchai,

ut present.

by the subject being introduced at no prejudices against rapid-means- the Legislative Council, an Ordi- of locomotion, but a decided pen nance having been prepared to chant for it. "Hong Kong: Daily authorise the laying down of the Press, June 23, 1991.