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日捌拾式月叁年申壬 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1932. 式拜雞

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

OUR FUTURE ON THE ATLANTIC.

Single Copy, 10 ets.

Per Month. $3.

If all be true that I do think

There

are five reasons why men drink,

Good wine, a friend or being dry

Or lest we should be by-and-by,

Or any other reason why."

Henry Aldrich (1647),

WHATEVER THE REASON-

THE CONNOISSEUR COMES TO

CALDBECK'S"

WHOLESALE & RETAIL WINE-MERCHANTS. PRINCE'S BUILDING (GROUND FLOOR), Ich House STREET.

Telephone 20075x

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HONG KONG, CANTON AND

MACAO STEAMERS.

Jony Snavión OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MAGAD STEAMBOAT Co., LTD., AN CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

HONG KONG CANTON LINE. SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at.8 a.m. and 10 p.m.. (Sundays 10 pm only). SAILINGS From CANTON-Dally at 8 am, and "430 pm.

(Bandays 4.80 p.m. only),

HONG KONG KACAQ LINE.

SPECIAL SERVICE.

SAILINGS From HONG KONG--Daily at 8 am, & 5,30 p.m.

(Sundays excepted); SAILINGS From MACAO Daily at Jam & 2p.m.

(Bundays excepted).

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SPECIAL MACAO EXCURSIONS ON SUNDAY,. 8TH MAY, 1932

S.S. "TAISHAN"

will leave Hong Kong at 9.30 am..and. Macao at 4.30 p.m. S.S. SUI TAI"

will leave Hong Kong at 8 s...and Macao ut ipan,

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.,

WEEK DAYS Single: $2.00, Beturn i 15:00. EXOURSIONS-Single: $9.00; Beturn 14.00;

Not-All Beamboat Company's Steamers are Atted with Wirele

MACLEANS PEROXIDE

TOOTH PASTE

BRITISH TO THE TEETH Stocked by all Pharmacies, Dispensaries.

and Department Stores."

LOXLEY : 60.

-TO-DAY.

May 3)

Rogation Day...

Rotary Club Tin at Lane, Graw- ford's Restaurant. (Closed meeting). Lecture on First Aid and Home Nursing by Dr. F. Ruttonjos at King's College, 4.45 p.1.

SHIPMENT OF

JUST

ARRIVED

ARE WE TRADING ON OUR PRE-WAR REPUTATION?

WE MUST BUILD

BIGGER, BETTER Y AND FASTER SHIPS.

Incredible as it may seem, not the ships of the same company only are foreigners, savelling more throughout their lives' Chess, Eplony Open Champion and more on foreign, ships, but

They are a,asntimental people the ships: A. C. Ridlington ..P. T.many English people also.

Americans, and it may be they Rosario D. E. Carvalho v. G. W.

This is one of the dangerous made their first voyage “acrosa" by Greone; H. W. Randall v. S. Lots of our post-war policy of such and such a line, or it many bo trading on oun pre-was reputation, the recollection of honeymoon Hussain; I: A. Boulania v. C. MW took away from the Germans trip to Europe or the memory of Sequeira,

all their best ships. We forced some, sarly gallantry. Whatever them to build bigger and better the reason, and it is generally a and even more luxurious vos sentimental reason, a large glam of sola. These are new skimming the Americana do stick to the same cream of the North Atlantic traffic, line. "West of We have to compete against them with vessels which are slower, more rostly to run and less comfortable-- at the same price

King's Theatre: "Delicious." Control Theatre: "Honeymoon

Queen's Theatre": Broadway."

Star Theatro: "Show of Showa.” World Theatre: Half Shot at Sunrise."

Tea Danica at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Fenin sula Hotel and King's Restaurant Tides-High at 8.35 and 20.35; Low at 140 and 110.

WEDNESDAY.

(May 4.)

Kogation Day.

Our own ocean greyhounds, the Aquitania, Mauretania, and the Olympic and the exGerman Be- ongaria were all built before the

WES..

CATCH THEM YOUNG.

It is, therefore, essential to catch this class young. Now there is one startling fact about present-day Transatlantio travel. The passen gera on the German and French line vessels are much more youth ful than those travelling by British

TUBORG BEER

The

Purveyors to

Royal Danish Court

The most popular Danish Beer

6 doz.

4 doz. qts.

on the Market.

$36.00 duty paid,

$37.50 duty paid.

SOLE AGENTS:

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD..

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

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St. George's Buildings, No. 2, Ice House Street.

DIAL 20135.

HONG KONG

THAT MAKE INN

lipos. Britain is not only using THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL

With the exception of the Em pre-warships running on their pre- press of Britain, which is Cann dian-owned, Britain has not add-largely, on the pro-war loyalty of wag, reputation, but she is living,

ed to her Transatlantic fleet one' really frst-class ship: since the

a large number of passengers.

^

We have a long way to go if we fare-to-make up the teaway we have Consider these teeb available already lost. More clamour of the figures. The North German Lloydriveters of the Clydeside and loss Whist Drive at Seamen's In-line Europa, which bolds the Ata shanties from the studios of stitute.

lantic record, carried on an averBloomsbury is the need of the Rowing: Command Sports, North age 1463 passengers on her out Point, 0.1% a.m. ̧

bound trips and 1,470 on the wost- bound passages throughout 1937. Central Theatre: Haneymoon This was an average of 500 passen- Tane.","

gera per trip more than was carried by any other vessel of the North"

King's Theatre: "Delicious.". Queen's Theatre: "West of Broad-Atlantic run. way."

Star Theatre: "Show of Shows."'* World Theatre: "Half Shot at Sunrise, **

ALARMING. DECREASE,

リ

number of passengers carried by The alarming decrease in the

British ships in the first eloven months of last year

moment.

Germany has two great ships: the Europa and the Bremen-18. anteed a loan of £3,850,000 to her cordbreakers both-and has guar-

shipping companies.

France is rushing on with the work on the subsidised 70,000 tons super liner Ile-de-France.

with New York.

Even Italy is preparing to slip the yokes from two fast, large, Ten Dances at King's Restaurant

is shown in the luxury liners, also subsidised, to and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner following table. The figures aromake a bid for the lucrative trade Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen-for the westbound passage only: insula Hotel and King's Restaurant. Tides:-High at 8.55 and 21.17; Low at 1.06 and 14,50.

European Mail-Inward: Europe via Sue (Ranchi); Outward": Europe viu Siberia: (Asama Maru) .9.30 a.m.

THURSDAY,

(May 5.)

Ascension Day: Holy Thursday.

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1030: 1031 Doc. British 271,000 132,000 139,000 Continental 288,200 168,000 100,000 These figures show that British ships are losing much more than their proportionate share of the general reduction in the number of people travelling.

WOTKO

But the position is even than these figures indicata... Though. it is true that the bulk of the North Atlantic traffic goes to the Chinese National Holiday (Anfastest and most luxurious vessels niversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's many American remain faithful to Inauguration as, President of the Republic of China in Canton, 1921),

Customs Holiday.

Meetings Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, 4.10 p.m. };

THE LUXURIOUS SPEAK-EASY:

OF OLD REMAIN.

Society for the Prevention of WHERE SWANK AND GLORY Cruelty to Animals, Jardino's Boardroom, 5.15 p.m.; Theosophical Society, 6 p.m.

bands.

King's Theatre: *Angel."

The Night

Central Thentra: Lane!

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Honeymoon

The Loviathan Alone already receives annually from the US. Government... more for carrying mails than the Cunard receives for its weekly servies involving three ships.

:

And what, you ask, is Britain, who started all this business, do ing The answer is nothing." Except talk.

The question remaine, is Britain going to be the orphan of the storm that has hit the world's ship- ping industry harder than any previous crisis?

swivel stools, covered in beige jes ther, "to match the colour of the walls; ara set all around it. In the centre, the oval back-bar, also, dons in black and beige, is a sparkling pyramid of varicolored bottles.

If the speakeasy has at last height, bartenders in the white

Star Theatre: "General Crack" the. World Theatre Bhow of Magazine, Shows."

jackets of tradition are already

minutes

number of

Queen's Theatre: Kopt Hus come an American Institution, the busy shaking and mixing. We're the speakeasy of elegance, has a lucky to get soath. In a fow quired the swank and the glory that used to cling to the Waldorf in its clustered herb three deep,

pro the customers will be

palmy days. Hore it is described | by John Chapman Hilder in his woman. And girls? Whole pla

Do you notice, the

artialo, "Now York Sposkoosy," in

toons of women and girls, among April number of Harper's the latter debutantes of this your, last year, and year after next. "If you have never before seen Camera fedder for the rotogravure Tes Dances at King's Restaurant luxurious modern bar, this one of sections, all of them. When I was and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Tony's will interest "you," says Mr. Dances

aboy, girls of their upbringing at Hong Kong Hotel, Hilder. It is a huge oval, occupy weren't allowed to mov

a step Peninsula Hotel and King's Res-ing almost the entire front portion without disperons or personal taurant.

maids, and spoonful of eggnog of the second floor space. Its polion New Year's Day was the extent Tides:High at 9.15 and 22.00; steel, rests on a bass of con- up at the bar and order whiskey shed black top, rimmed with stain of their drinking Now they stand Low as 2.30 and 16,30,

trasting natural woods. Little sours like seasoned cannonecra

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