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HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 12, 1938.
EDGAR WALLACE AND MODERN FICTION,
no claim to permanent literary significance. Mr. WALLACE never wrote a classic and never attempt ed such a thing; but he will none the loss figure za an intergating
ME. EDGAR WALLACE influenced the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEAR- English novel,
more profoundly LY MEETING of SHARE this any other writer who makes HOLDERS of HONG KONG REALTY and TRUST COMPANY. LIMITED. will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Exchange Building (2nd Floor), Das Voeux Road, Coutral, Hong Kong, Du WEDNESDAY, the 2ND MARCH. 1982, at 12 Noox, for the purpose of receiving a statement of Account and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st. December, 1981, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOBED from WEDNESDAY, the 17TH FEBRU.
ARY, 1982, 10 WEDNESDAY, the 2ND MARCH, 1982, both days in
clusive.
By order of the Board, F. C. BARRY,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 2nd February, 1932,
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and important personality in the history of letters. It was in the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.
Tale of the Day,
News and Views +
Didiny wife spoak at the "moeting yesterday ↑ "**
EDGAR WALLAOH was no genius, but y professional man earning his Tivolihood Other capable authors: of the same libre soon, saw that what WALLACK was doing lay within their powers, and that the public had an inchaustible appetite for murder and debeative tales. At the beginning of the century popular writers like Mien, Ex- DON, WILLIAM LE QURUN and Gur BOOTHBY wore turning out vast quantities of exciting fiction. There were plenty of murders in the books, but the love interest pre Tact, dominated. A novel and & love story became almost synonymous. In EDGAR WALLACE's books there ́la. generally a horoine, hus she is
merely there to enable a young
woman to project herself into the story, and to give the young man, who subconsciously identifies him self with the hero, an added interest in the unravelling of the mystory. CONAN Doviz started the fre cinating game of picking up clues and forecasting the denouement,
"I don't know your wife, but there was a tall, this lady who
words to express her feelings!!! rose and said she could not find
That wasn't iny wife!"
Dear Uncle,-I in wet to day, Father says it is a good chance to thank everybody for their pre
muts. Ar the posts are very bad
yours has not come yet, but I know I shall like it very much.
I hope you liked the card. I sent you.- Much love from John,
Space-saving spelling.
"Whal and reti, dress, dramkg, win eing, hdwr, ndiawk, petr frms,
Englishman
Saved a Nation,
An Englishman who helped to Lawg a nation, was praised-though his nano was not mentioned-by Mr. Henry Bell, a director of Lloyds Bank and a member of the Dawos Heparations Committed.
In the post-war days of mone tary inflation, said Mr. Bell, the Ambasador of a foreign nation begged him to obtain aid.
That nation," added Mr. Bell, "was helped, not, by statesmen or by the League of Nations in tho frat place, but by an Englishman whose services here and abroad will one day be made known."
World's Deepest Wall.
A geologist says that an oil well has just been drilled at Vera Crus to a depth of 10,585 foot--the world's record. The previous re oord was 10,070, feat, held by a well in Oklahoma, before the war. Very high temperatures were on- countered near the bottom, and tons of ion had to be used to keep the drill cool..
Ať Buch enormous depths of umbris, rmng her,dmand er, at an extra few fout man
far more in technical achievement. refites, com mchht, bus bars, hay than anyone who has no experi- mcht, kutd furs, lds tir, ir ets. enco of deep-well drilling can
imagine. spngs and chois"
but EDOAR WALLACE brought thathr uyits, colotna, onmid wres process down to earth. His detec- Awra and fihrs, rolling shtra, tives are not endowed with the super-human powers of SHERLOCK HOLMES and Father Brows, one can follow them, no work; a taas of capable mon, well equipped, "and" experienced, pitting themselves ngainst the criminal, and winning because the odds are in their
favour.
In recent years EDGAR WALLACE's pupils outstripped the master, who had so many other irons in the fire, and wrote far too much. Occa- sionally a first-rate pices of work is achieved at the initial effort, but that is the exception. WALLACE's latest books were confused; and
No writer, it seems, has ever This is not a cipher or & Dew properly exploited the romance of form of competition.
the doop wells, which is a pity, as drillers often have amazing tales to tell.
The words quoted are taken from the new edition of the Manhattan Telephone Directory, and represent the latest American attempt at space-saving spelling. The system used in the genius of Mr. Brown, the editor of the Directory,
It used to be thought that the Bolshevists had exceeded the limita of hideousness in abbreviations. As usual, America has gone ope bettor.
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As their knowledge of how to
drill more than two miles down develops, deep wells may perhaps provide means of realising the inte Sir Charles Parson's dream of power from the depths of the earth.
Understanding.
"I annos understand people coming into Court, Mr. Justies Bwift is reported to have said, showed evidents of hasty and un-Everest Triumphant.
and saying: We did not sus revised writing. Careful and con- Mount Everest heat triumphed the driver of the car we wore in scientious craftsmen. like R. Aagain-this time over a couple of because he happened to be out nirmen who tried to fly over the brother.' If I were in a car with FREEMAN, G. D. and M COLE, J.
This suggests that nothing my brother and was injured be peak. S. FLETCHER, and· LEONARD HOL short of a stratosphere 'plane " cause of his negligence I should will be able to master Everest. But sue him. Whether the person is a ne stratosphero 'planes aro promis- brother or mother, or however neur ed a speed of 400 miles an hour, for dear the relative may be, what it does not seem likely that explor-objection can there be in suing out of taking a snap of the summit era will be able to get any thrill them? "
LINGWORTH, whose grimly titled
"Death Leaves ús Naked" is a
model of its kind, have brought the craft of the detective story to
Legally, one supposes, none. In high pitch. But many of us would or out of describing their experi- fact, one might say that it is not
AVAT ♫:"Die" point legally. say that the best of them all is a Fences afterwards. Indy, AGATHA CHRISTIE, who is a master of clear story telling, char- acterisation, and surprise, while at the same time displaying a very pretty wit.
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The Vanishing Amateur..
A prophecy that there will soon bo no amateurs in county cricket was made by Mr. A. E R. Gilligan, 1 the old England captain.
He said he spoke "with alarm " of the gradual disappearance of the amateur, and stated that it was becoming increasingly difficult for amateurs to spare time to play' during the whole season.
Unicas things changed for the 10 years time the better, in awatour would disappear from" | county arickat altogether.
Watch Smashed by Ballet:
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"A watch saved the life of My. Joseph Allen, a Cookstown (Iro land) auctioneer, when a gunman fired a revolver at him....
Mr. Allen was walking downr stairs aftor locking his office when
two armed men, with their caps. drawn down, over their eyou order. ed him to put up his hands,
Mr. Allen thought" they worn joking until he received a blow on the face from one of them. He struck out with his umbrella and the other man fred at him.
The bullet, however, shattered a little gold watch in one of Mr. Allon's pockets and glanced away without harming him.
The men dashed into the strest, pursued by Mr. Allen, but they escaped.
Ghostly Call of Bugle.
The midnight bugle call-like horns of Eland faintly blowing' ---continues to alarm a family in a house at Linoolu.
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Strange rappings are also süd to have been heard
Early one morning, one of the occupants who sat up with a friend to keep her company is stated to have heard three raps on the back door or window,«
The friend rushed out, but found nothing, and a moment later, it is said, the ghostly bugle was heard.
So terrified were the family that
a thorough examination of the they called a policeman. He made house but found nothing unusual.
The family sat up most of the. night in a state of alarm.
Local Notes and Events ★
The auction at 1, Felix Villas, has buen postponed to a later date
The forthcoming marriages ars announced of Samuel Alexander Gray, of 1, Queen's Road Central, and Ellen Christina MacKay Bin, en route to the Colony on the s.. Nanking and of Donald Forbes, of "Bergslien," Stubbs Road and im-Oweneth Charters Tait of Gnaroo, Clarendon Road Melbourne, route on the sa Taiping.
EDGAR WALLACE and his school have certainly knocked out the erotica who were showing their ugly beads twenty years ago. There is always a place for good
Two onges of small-pox were re- adventure stories, but variety is a ported on Wednesday. great need and the reading public has been lead away from dangerous and unwholesome places by the crime novelista.
Novel reading is still the greatest of pastimca, es- pecially for those who are
not
athletes, and we owe a real debt to the genial, energetic and supremely
The quarantine restrictions posed against arrivals from Soura baya an account of plague have been removed.
Miss Ho Ju, a punil of the Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong, prize in has been awarded a
Society.
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Looking Back 50-Years,
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Lady Hennessey leaves here for Singapore by the steuner Japan to-morrow, on a visit to her father, For the purpose of gaining directhe Hon, Hugh Low, at Perak, tion from the Court as to what
The troopship Tyne loft-Singa. should be done with certain money in the voluntary liquidation the pore for this port, with naval and Fook On Assurance and Godown military reliefs, on the 7th instant,
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the Supreme Court yesterday, ber morrow. fore the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. instructed by Mr. E. S. C. Brooks,
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Preparations for striking golď coins of 100 francs (about ei sa at procent rate of exchange) each have been made by the French Mint.
The design has already been
chosea. The new coins will be very similar to the old pre-war louie of 20 frames. It has not yet been decided when the minting is to begin.
At the moment the French Mint is busy striking 10-franc (28, 3d.) silver pieces at the rate of 1 tons, or 150,000 coins, a day.
of Messrs. Hastings, Definys and, ed seaman and a previous offender, Bowley. His Lordship decided that was fucd 2 cents for having been the money should be paid out to dunk in Queen's Road and refus- the liquidator, and gave liberty tong to pay for jinricksha fare. apply.
The Egyptian Government has de clared that the Powers have no The case in which six Chinese right to interfere with the internal
There is now in stock of nearly 1,000,000,000 ́ ́ francs · (£9,000,000 zat were charged in connection with a development of Egypt. "long firm fraud” was' again ve- j fore Mr. W. Schofield at Central
Persons who send musters of tea par) of these silver coins, but it is Magistracy yesterday. After evi- R.M.S. Empress of Britain (round dence, of arrest had been given by through the post in tins are re- hoarded in the vaults of the Bank the world cruise) will leave here Detective Sergeant
quested to have them made flat or Old Crannog Found In Coatbridge for New York via Chinwangtao, in war denne Meadows, bear square instead of round, as it is of France, pendlag a decree which
pack round tins will release it for circulation. As impossible to Japan porta. Honolulu, San Fran-inst at 2.30 p.m. It will be remem securely in the mail, bag It is ad when it was likely that these cisco and Panama at noon onbered that at the previous, hearing, believed that the tea wih travel the case against one of the six men Monday, February 16.
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Passengers arriving in the Colony on the P and O. liner Carthage on Wednesday included Mr. and for the monthly adventure of
A man of no lean culture and Mrs. T H. King, Mr. and Mrs. LOCK HOLMES, which was nominienos than President WILSON C. W. Jeffries and Mrs. H. Balean, the detective writing of any quality testified to his delight in forgetting which they got. High brows and
During the absence on leave of eares of state, handshaking and Mr. Cerveira de Albuquerque, the low brows alike succumbed to the
for Portugal magician of Baker Strent, and signing documents, by following a Consulate General though the police deny it, they good detective story through to the will be in charge of Mr. C. A. da probably profited by the COMAN Doyus principles of careful search for minute clues, scientific analysis of " exhibita,'' and the necessity of placing fact before supposition in' the investigating of crime. Mr.
While cleaning out the loch in G. K. CHESTERTON was the first Drumpellier Public Park, Cont.] English writer to realise that the bridge, workmen recently discover At Central Magistracy yesterday, detective story could be made a ed an ancient arannog, or arti- a Chinese police recruit was charg- od before Mr W. Schofield with rious work of art. Father Bnown icial island, 70 yards out in the taking a dollar and a wrist watch
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inversion of SHERLOCK loch. The orannog in built of off a Chinese youth whom he caught NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN HOLMES, but he is a very live char-
stones and is elliptical in shape, in the act of committing a patry thi THIEO INTERI
actor, and several of this famous datending about 50 fost cast and offence. He was fined $100 or
months' hard" Inbour. DIVIDEND of TWO SHILLINGS per share on account of the financial series rank among the boat short west, and some 40 feet north and
News was received by the local year ending 81at. MARCH, 1982, ha sorics in the language. But both south... been declared by the Directorn of the OESTERTON and Conan Doyle are
Mr. Dudovic Mann, Scottish offices of the Asistio Petroleum Company in Brisbare, payable to romanticists, A real-life detective archeological expert, has confirmed Company Ltd., yesterday, of the Shareholders and Singapoegiate will laugh at the supposed actions the authenticity of the discovery by death, nt Home, of Mr. A. 8. De benham, one of the Company's at Brisbane and Singapore on TUESDAY, 15¤ MAROH, 1932. both of the criminals and of the identifying the stones Ho ex- Managing Directors. As a mark
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY police. EDGAR WALLACE, however, plained that every lock onen had of respect the: "Hong" flag was his ward was situated, and landed cause not only is the piece wellnook of a wine bottle, and poople
a crannog or crannoga, but many down at half-mast yesterday, of them have been destroyed.
Liturgical Problam.
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(INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND), NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF
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originally charged was dismissed more safely in flat tins, which are bulged in.-Hong Kong Doely when the Assistant Crown Solicitor poobable a round ones to be applied for permission to withdraw Preas, February 19, 1885, the charge. This was allowed and he (the man) later went into the Looking Back 25 Years. witness-box where he gave evidence.
new silver coins would become: car-
until after the elections." rency, en official replied, "Nat
Bottles as Money-boxes.""
To-night the Hong Kong Amateur What chiefly causes hesitation Dramatic Club presents the first of Mystery surrounds the actions of three productions of the farcical about the issue of new coins is the Mr. Edward Hackell, an American comedy entitled Facing the fear that sold and silver will be broker, from Philadelphia, who on Music in the Theatre Royal. The hoarded instead of being circulated Tuesday Inst jumped from a Star club has gained a reputation for Even the new 60 centime pieces in Forry in mid-harbour and was later making a success of everything it conveyed to the Government Civil undertakes and under the guidance aluminium bronze, and worth about bong admitted believed that after of Mesars. R. Sutherland and John 14d, each, are being hoarded. It being to the hospital Mr. Robertson its credit is not likely to Hackell jumped or fell from a suffer. Indeed, another tumph has been discovered that these window on the third floor, where may confidently be expected, be coins can be passed through the on a large Chinese porcelain jar chosen but the cast is composed of all over the country are filling. standing on the ground beneath the the cream of local thespians. The A report has been made, to the window. The jar tan smashed to rehearsals have shown to what de bottles with them. police by Mr. G. P. Murphy, an pieces, but the extent of the in-gree of excellence Messrs. Suther
The Mint is turning them out at overseer of the Public Works Di juries sustained by Mr. Haskell island and Robertson can attain with sake of dramatic effect he pay
A committee of laymen had mot partment to the effect that some unknown. The hospital authorities ladies and gentlemen who are the rate of 200,000 a day owing to often have taken liberties with
to consider, the elfaims of sundry time between the middle of Decem yesterday refused to make a state- above the average of mosteur per the hoarding habit, but there is fact, but ho did so with a meta-
ministers to the pastoregs of abor last and the end of January ment of any kind: they would not formera, and the public my rely phorical wink at the real police Wesleyan Church, The qualifica some parson stole a blank cheque confirmed the story nor would they on enjoying a good night's enter still a shortage of them. It is fally As usual, the arrange realised that gold and silver coine to show them that he realised quite tions of one ware being boomed from his cheque book which was officially deny it, and referred all tainment. Chartered Accountants,
well that ho know the ropes, and is eloquent in prayer, when a kept in a locked drawer in his inquiries to the American Con- ments are adequate, thanks to the will have a similar fate, and disc shrowd old Trustes inquired: office. The cheque was forged formulate. So far as can be ascertain work and attention of Mr. A. Chap Does be Pray, or dogs he tell the the sum of $320, which was sub ed. Mr. Haskell has no relatives in man-Hong Kong Daily Press,
February 12, 1907. Hong Kong Lord a lot 1
sequently paid, over by the bank..
GIVEN that the SINGAPORE knew a first-hand a great deal TRANSFER REGISTERS will be about criminals, detectives, and CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 9TH
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