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Hongkong Daily Press.

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

ESTABLISHED 1857

No. 23380. 號拾捌佰叁仟叁萬弍第 日陸拾月伍閏年酉癸 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933

DOTH

OLD

It's the mellowness of BOOTIT'S Dry Gin that makes it so much to bị desired in cocktails. Such mellowness comes only from treble distillation and maturing in shërry casks and BOUTHT'S DRY is the only GIN which receives such care in its mak- ing. It is not to be wondered at that the 1st prize Cocktail in the Inter- national Cocktail Competition was made with Booth's Dry.

THEY MIX REAL COCKTAILS WITH

BOOTH'S DRY GIN

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HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.

JOLET SERVION OF THE Hong Kong, Casron and MaACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION Co., LTD.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE. SAILINUS From HONG KONG-Dally at 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Ɛundays at 10 p.m. only). SAILINGS From CANTON -Daily at 8 am, and 4.80 p.m. (Sundays at 4,30 p.m. only), CURTAILED SERVICE

.

Until further notics Day boats to und from Canton will sail on alternate days only.

HONG KONG—MAQAO LINE.

AMENDED SERVICE

SAILINGS Froiz, HONG KONG—at 10 am and 5.30 p.m.

(Week days only).

,

BAILINGS From MACAO at 3 am and 6 pm (Week days only),

EXCURSION TO MACAO

SUNDAY, 9TH JULY, 1938

BS. "SUI TAI"

will leave Hong Kong at 10 ani, and Masso at 6. p.m.

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS, ----Single: $3.00; Betar: $5.00. ·

• EXCURSIONS.-8ingle; $1.50; “Esturn: $4.00. Nors.—All Steamboat Company's Stanizers are fitted with Wirel, ux.

Now's the time

To install that new O.A/C.

"Fire'

Resisting Safe new stocks just received fitted with either Lever Key, or Combination Locks.

Price range from under $100 upwards.

MAY WE HAVE YOUR ENQUIRIES ?

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LIMITED.

"INCORPORATED UNDER THE HONGKONG ORDINA WORS

Specialists in Office Equipment

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YOUR VIEWS AND MINE I

A Weekly Column

Local Gossip

By "The Scout'

Sir Robert Ho Tung

Indisposed

has just reached the

News Colony to the effect that Sir Robert Ho Tung, the Grand Old Man of Hongkong, has, during the past week, undergone a serious operation in London. Sir Robert has not been in the best of health recently and it must be gratifying to those who know him to learn that he is making very good pro gress, following the operation. However, it will be some time be fore he will be out and about again. I understand that his son, Robert Ho Tung, junior, is on his way to London from the United States and hopes to be with his father very soon: Three of Sir Robert's daughters are ́at the me- ment in London, two of whom arẻ, pursuing their studies there and one, Florence, who is now Mrs. Yeo, is on her honeymoon.

Sir Robert Ho Tung's many friends will join me in wishing him a speedy recovery and it is the hope of every one who has come in contact with Sir Robert that be will soon be well enough to make the journey back to Hong Kong where he has lived for so many years enjoying the esteem and respect of the whole community.

Liberation of Slaves

General Manager

Follow the Manufacturers

lead

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AN IMPERIAL CURRENCY

Money That Will Be Stable

London, July 7.

An Imperial currency, valid throughout the British Empire wne advocated at the Congress of the Federated Chambers of Com- merce of the Empire, at London, to-day.

Sir Basil Blackett stated that we need a money which will be stable from year to year so that contracts entered into now would be much the same in terms of money years hence.

Chinese tunes that he evoked most Favourable comment from his Euro. pean audience and from several periodicals including "Courrier de Geneve," "La Auisse" and "La Tribune de Geneve. Compared with the European standard. Chi nese music might be regarded as an art whose progress has been. Sir James Martin of London arrested, but nevertheless local said that it was high time Eng- musicians like. Proessor Harry Orelishmen turned their minds from and others have recognised its merit and have spoken of it with Internationalism to the Empire facts, we should hereafter keep an appreciation, In view of these which could manage for itself.

open mind and cease to regard Chinese music as Felix serenading on the roof.

The Circus Comes to

Town

An all-Chinese circus will com

mence its season in Hongkong to day, and it is interesting to reflect that comparatively few years ago Chinese efforts in this direction were confined to street shows where the performers were practi cally mendicants who had learned

Sir Geoffrey Clark, Chairman of the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce asserted that the entire monetary report was a condemnation of the gold standard which had broken down hopelessly.

The report suggested that if an international, agreement toward a reformed. gold standard was not reached, Empire countries should develop currencies to form a sterling union.-Reuter,

IN HONG KONG TO-DAY

FAIR

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND BEMARKS, 18SUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY. AT 5.25 P.M., STATED :---

an acrobatic art or two and were glad to get a few coppers by per forming them. Recently, however, the Chinese have count tremendous paco amir have serious. ly taken on the work of training animals, in which they have become as proficient as their rivals, while their trapeze artistes and rope- walkers, though perhaps not com- The celebration of the centenaryparable with the best talente in of the legal abolition of slavery Europe and America, are still of a within the British Empire, it will very high standard. A visit to the be remembered, came up as a ques- Chinese circus will therefore afford tion in Parliament some time ago. an interesting study in comparison The British Government was asked with other circuses that have pass- what preparations would be madeed through Hongkong. Incidentaloven to mark this great event in humanly this cireus is located in the history. Whatever form the cele. bration is taking elsewhere, Hong kong humanitarians are not letting the opportunity slip by without showing that they are very much alive to the movement to free those who are enslaved. To mark the centenary the local Anti-Mui-Tsai Society and a several Christian bodies are working together with view to holding a dinner on July 31 to celebrate the occasion. The din ner, I underetand will be given on the roof-garden of Sincere Com.

pany,

Honolulu in Hongkong

Those of us who are thrilled by the pictures of Honolulu that we sometimes are on the screen will be

lung

of Wanchai and the people living in that crowded district will be partly deprived of that amenity.

Changing Des Voeux

Road

During the week the Bank of East Asia have moved into the pre- mises formerly occupied ns a show. room by the Hongkong Electric Company and," as reported in this paper, the building just. vacated will be demolished and is to be re- placed by a modern structure of eleven storeys to be completed in eighteen months. Thus the whole block between Pedder Street and Ice House Street, on the North side of Des Voeux Road, will have

CHINA.

PRESSURE IS HIGHEST OVER 8. JAPAN, AKD RELATIVELY LOW S. CHINA AND INDO

LOCAL FORECAST:-S WINDS, LIGHT TO MODERATE; FAIK GEN- EBALLY WITH LOCAL SHOWERS,

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(July 8).

COOL SUMMER SUITS

JUST RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT

OF SUMMER SUITINGS IN THE ---LATEST DESIGNS.

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THE BRITISH FILM DISTRIBUTION

CO., LTD.

has pleasure in announcing the following forthcoming releases :----

W. W. Jacobs Story on a Filmi

t

THE THIRD STRING

THE OLD MAN"

PUSS IN BOOTS".

(Ent'e V Moon, 16th Day) Auction of Miscellaneous Goods China Auction Rooms, 11 s.m.

Young People's Society Bathing Party, 2.15 p.m...

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Theatres.

Queen's 70,000 Witnesses." King's "The Painted Woman.; Central: Lady with a Past." Star: "Chances," Oriental: Pasaport to Hell." World:"Fireman Save My

Child." Majestic Nagana."

Dances...

glad to learn that here in Hong- an entirely new skyline, in confor- kong we are going to have a slicemity, with the march of modernity: Twelfth Terms Graduation Func- of the entertainment that is avail- The only building that will remain tion, Chung Shing Type-writing able in that picturesque island in will of course, be Powell's Building Academy, Gloucester Restaurant, the South Seas, Thanks to the which will have to house the Bank 2.30 pm. effort of a noted American- resident of East Asia until their new home *** (no names, by request), there is a is completed. For the prescut, I distinctly good prospect of the understand, nothing has been de Colony being treated to an exhibi- cided with regard to Powell's tion of surf board racing. Exten- Building, but no doubt its fate will sive and elaborate preparations are soon be known and it would occa in hand I understand, and already aian no surprise to learn, that the the most suitable type of surf-owners will put up a modern office boards for our beaches have been building there in due course. considered. We have all from time to time indulged in surf-board rid ing behind a launch or motor boat, but surf-board racing is something entirely new for us and I am ...How many European ladies who voicing the opinion of many people go buying cloths and silks in Hong- when I say that the enterprise is kong realise that they are using sure to receive the support of many words of Asiatic origin when they members of the community. If the refer to chintz, tafetta, and muslin first exhibition is success, surf-Trade names such as Chiatz and boards might become a regular fea Calico survived in the English Lan ture at our bathing beaches,"

Chinese Music

Some Eastern Words

Tea Dances at King's Restaur ant; Repulse Bay and Hongkong Hotels Gloucester Building: and Majestic Dancing Academy.

Dinner Dances at King's Res taurant: Peninsular, Hongkong and Repulse Bay Hotels and Gloucester Building.

Principal Mails. Outward for Europe via Snex by Suwa Maru, 9,30 am,

gunge from the great manufactur- ing centres in India where these fine fabrics were made. Taffeta is

Sport. a pure Persian word. Muslin is to Most non-Chinese residents in be associated with the city of Aquatics. Chinese Athletic As- Hongkong, feel certain regard Mohil in Mesopotamis, the site of sociation's Night Fete, 7.30 p.m.; Chinese music as just so much noise ancient Nineveh. The cloth made V.R.C. Night Fete, & p.m. and it is a pity that this should be there was introduced to Europe by. Lawn Bowls First Division, Tai their attitude, for there is much the Venetians as Museolipa, .., koo R.C.. Kowloon Docks R.C.; that is swect and melodious in Chi- Mossul cloth, whence of course, the Civil Service 0.0, Craigongower nese music which is only known to French Mosseline, etc. It does not C.C. Police R.O. v. Kowloon those who have taken the trouble seem far-fetched to conclude, tha? BG.C., Club de Recreio v. Kow to study it and to listen patiently mast probably the ancestors of the Joon C.C. Second Division, Crai Recently Geneva was afforded an present Dictator of Italy were con- gengower C. Civil Service opportunity of listening through nected with this particular trade.00 Kowloon B.G.C.v. Indian the broadcasting station to a selec. Some day, clever entertainer like HC Kowloon C.C. Polica tion of Chinese songs and melodies, the Rev. Lewis Bryan, might aplis RO HK: Electric RC Club Mr. Chin Kui Pak, who has spent the aides of a Hongkong audience de Recreio, mahakam many years in Europe, and who is by telling stories of the origin of Baarise, 3,14 am Sunset 7.71 Cnremarkable exponent of both | auch English “words, 86, Nankeen,

Eastern and Western music, sue bamboo, mandarin, pge,cote -ceeded so well in bii ndering,

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" DOUBLE DEALING

Edgar Wallace Thriller-

A Novelty Operetta

Richard Cooper & Sydney Fairbrother THE GREAT GAY ROAD“

**BAROUD".

Stewart Rome & Kate Cutler

Rex Ingram & Rosita Garcia

Jessie Mathews

"THE MAN FROM TORONTO "

"BORN LUCKY'

Rene Ray & John Longden

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"LOVE ON WHEELS

Jack Hulbert, Edmund Gwenu & Gordon Harker KING OF THE RITZ”

Stanley Lupino & Betty Stockfeld THE LOST CHORD

"

John Stuart & Elizabeth Allan SOLDIERS. OF THE KING".

"THE MIDSHIPMAID

·Cicely Courtneidge

Jessie Mathews & Claude Allester

THE SHADOW".

Henry Kendall & Elizabeth Allan THE LUCKY NUMBER"

Clifford Mollison & Gordon Harker.

"THE SLEEPING CAR”

LOYALTIES

Ivor Novello & Madeleine Carroll

* Basil Rathbone & Heather Thateher

THE GOOD COMPANIONS"

Tessie Mathews, Edmund Gwent

Baskóomb & Jeh