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No. 22990. 號拾玖佰玖仟弍萬式第 日拾叁月叁拾年未辛 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1932.

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April 5.)

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ROMANCE OF ARAB KING'S WHITE

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MOSLEM CONVERT OF TRINITY COLLEGE WHO HAS DISAPPEARED ONCE MORE:

Meeting of the Hong Kong Bennch of the English Association, Astonishing romanes and ad- "Give me Mecen-One," he said Helpna May Institute. Speaker: venture aro recalled by the news in Arabio. Prof. C. A. Middleton-Smith on that Mr. H St. John Philby, I know that he was telephoning great traveller and Finance Minis. the palace of Ibn Sa'ad in Mecca Dr. Herkious lecture on "Hong tor to Ibn Saud, the Arab poten-many miles away. In a fow Kong Blowers at Union Church, inte, has been missing since Janu- minutes he was sending a descrip- Kowloon,

tion of myself over the desert line to some official. Such is Arabin to- day. In ten minutes the orden! was at an end.

Whist Drive at St. Patrick's Club, 9 p.m.

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I thanked the officer, and left the office with its card indexes and stepped into the blazing sunshine"of Jeddah. Within an hour I had found the house I wanted, the house of the mystery Englishman, Mr. St. John Philby.

Eo loft Jeddi, his home on the Red Sea, on that date with is men. Red Triangle" "Concert. in

and some camols for a jaunt" Helana May, Institute, p p.m. which was to fast until mid-Febru-

GUARD OF BABOONS.. Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis ary. Now I Se'ud is planning to Tournament :-Open Singles Cham- and a search party into the desert.. You may go into the town," I pionship: T. Honda v. E. O Fin- Below, the story of this English was told, "hit not beyond the cher, Stand Court, 4.30 p.m.

Civil Sorvant who became a Mos-, tomb of Eve."

King Theatre:

"Sunshine lem and threw in his lot with the Susie,"

Arab King told by William J. Queen's Theatre: The Secret Makin, Novelist and Traveller who

not him in Jeddah.

Central Theatre: "Seed."

He will tell you that he makes World Theatre: The Heroine "ja living selling toy carts for (Chiness" film).

children on the edge of the Arabian Star Theatre.. "Men of the Desert. Fantastic But then North."

| everything that Mr. Henry St.. Tea Danera at King's Restaurant John Philby do seems fantastic. aad Hong Kong Hotel; Dinier Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong He occasionally abandons his bu Kong Hotel and King's Restaurantsiness of selling, soy

children and cheap motorcars for adults to disappear into the desert. » He is always disappearing. And now a message has come from Cairo Meetings Hong Kong

Phil- harmonie Society, Cathedral Hall announcing that anxiety is felt Office, 330 p.m.

regarding him. Once again he has Whist Drive at Beamen's. In-disappeared. stitute.

WEDNESDAY,

(April 6.)

Entertainment: Two Act. Comedy and Sketches, St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, 0.15-p.m.

Hong Kong Oricket Club Tennis

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When I was voyaging along the Red Sea coast recently, in tramp sicamers and Arab dhows, I heard much of this mystery Englishman.

Boldly I entered. E passed through a dim, dark passage in- to a sunlit courtyard. There. squatting on the ground wire. four gigantic Abyssinian baboons; Their hairy faces and fierce byos. were turned towards me.

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„sat perfectly still, and, I stopped- at once in some trepidation. Al though the baboons were chained they had plenty of steel rope with which to bound forward.)

I made a step forward. The four baboons shuffed forward They

broke out into a furious enckling. I was about to turn and flee when a voice in English spoke :

Don't be afraid of them. They're

Tournament:-Open Doubles Cham- "He's a man who knows more | good guardians, but they obey me." pionship (Somi-final) 8. A. and H. about Arabia than anybody liv. Then followed a sharp command in D. Rumjaha . M. W. and M. King," said a cable operator in Puzt Arabie, Lo or Y. V. Segalon and P. R. 8. Sudan. "He's the right-hand man

The baboong squatted, Walsham;" stand court, 4.30 p.m.

Hockey Hong Kong Hockey There isn't a dinlet is Arabia that drink," went on the voice.

of "Ibn Sa'ad, King of the Hodjaz sleepishly. "Come in and have a Club Jat Regiment, Marine, he doesn't speak like a true-born ground, 5.15 p.m.

Arab. And he's just hecome a Mo- hammedan."

Contra Theatre: "Seed" Queen's Theatre :. "The Secret Six"

Theatre:

Bunshine.

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HE KNOWS WHO COMES.

I crossed the courtyard. Stand- "GIVE ME MECCA-ONE."ing in the doorway was the King's Susie.'

Brief descriptions such as this of who disappears. Tall, thin and this mystery World Theatre: "The Heroine "

only with a little black pointed beard, Englishman (Chiness film).

whotted the appetite. And the day he gives the impression of a dark This was empha Star Theatre: "Way For Aaame when an Arab dhow nosed: Mephistopheles. Sailor,"

through the cruel reefs of Jeddah, aised by the white Arab garb which the port of pilgrims, and deposited he wore. He led the way into a m on the beach among a crowd, luge room...

Ten Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dancer at Hong Kong Hotel, Penin aula Hotel and King's Restaurant..

·European Maile:Inward Europe via Suez (Ranpura); Out ward: Europe via Siberia Tatauts Maru) 8.30 am.

of Beren Arabs. I was hauled behoufd you had landed," he fore a group of military Arabs, said, "You've come from Abys officers who solemnly examined all sinia, haven't you?" He clapped my papers. Then one of the off his hands and an Arsh servant ap- cers reached out a brown hand and peared. "A whisky and soda, ok?" "took up a telephone.

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