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No. 23416. 號陸拾佰肆仟叁萬弍第

EHAU HONG KONG SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1993.

It's the mellowness of BOOTH'S Dry Gin, that makes it so much to be desired in cocktails. Such mellowness comes only from treble distillation and maturing in sherry casks and BOOTH'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.

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Until farther notice Day boats to and from Canton. will sail on alternate days only.

HONG KONG-MAÇÃO LINE.

AMENDED SERVICE BAILINGS From HONG KONG at 8 am. and 2 p.m. (Week days only).

SAILINGS From MACAO al 8 am, and 3 p.m. (Week days only).

EXCURSION TO MACAO

SUNDAY, 20TH AUGUST, 1933 5.9. "SUI TAI"

will leave Hong Kong at 9 am and Macno at 4

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Death of Lady Chow

The sympathy of all communities will be extended to Sir Shou-son Chow in the great bereavement ho has sustained by the death of Lady Chow, Until her health broke down Lady Chow was invariably seen with her husband at every kind of public function. They were the ideal grand seigneur and grande dame, kind and courteous to every- one, tolerant and understanding of all they saw, unmoved by change, either among foreigners or among their own compatriots and con- tinuing imperturbably their task of perfect liaison officers" between East and West.

Wanted A Public

Library

With all this talk about a new City Hall, it-to be hoped that au“aurenity which is really needed will be provided whan the plans for

taining everyday requisites detain ed, because they have failed through ignorance to make the requisite de claration.

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THE ANTI-WAR

CONFERENCE

DELEGATES ARRIVE

SHANGHAI

IN

Shanghai, Ang

18.

Lord Marley and five other delegates to the World anti-War Conference arrived this morning on board the Andre Lebon.

They were welcomed by Madame Sun Yat Sen, in person, and by a group of Communists, who let off firecrackers and waved red flags as the party landed.

Interviewed by Reuter, Lord Marley declared it was necessary to hold the Conference in the Far East because of the serious. He ness of the situation here..

The speaker added the Con- fererce would hold a three-day session in Shanghai, beginning on September 3. The site of the meeting, however, had not yet been decided.

and throughout China, I under-present a united front against the The price of rice in Hong Kong advocated that the workers should stand from lending rice merchant Imperialists. is likely to experience a big drop in the near future. As far as the man in the street is concerned, this is all to the good but those who are in touch with the situation, view the drop with alarm There ap- pears to be no market in Japan for rice, from Sian and Indo-China and the results that, the mirpins is being, gut, sid, of at low figures The Japanese position is traced to the boarding of rice in Japan at the height of the outbreak of hoe- tilities in Shanghai and Manchuṛis. Now that the prospect of war has diminished, Japan finds herself with a huge surplus, too big for home consumption, and much of it is being" dumped in North

the new building come to be pre No Big T

Typhoon

pured We have now in Hong Kong, what is called a public library, and the few people who Are we in Hong Kong going to make use of it, testify to its worth.have a big typhoon this year! If Hong Kong is to be in line with practically every city in the civilised world it should have a properly equipped public library Books That Are Read

The library should have books that the public read and want to read. Since the war there have been sq many volumes dealing with history, biography, science, and politics have been published that a very useful library could be col- lected, consisting of post-war books only. Not that it is suggested for

moment that the older books should be excluded that would be retrograde step. In the realms of art and literature the works of the old masters are indispensable, while modern fiction writers should find their work side by side with the works of Dickens, Goldsmith, Scott, Stevenson and others. There is need for an up-to-date library. "It remains to be seen whether Hong Kong is to get it.

Mahomedans in China

The address by Dr. J. M. Henry, President of the Canton Rotary Club to local Rotarians, advocating a oloser understanding between Hong Kong and Canton, by study ing each other's history was most interesting and what chiefly in trigued me was his reference to the earlyTM Mahatredabs in China. At one period history about thousand years ago Canton was actually ruled by Mahomedans, though it is not certain whether the ruler was a Chinese convert adopting an Arabian name or whe ther the Arabs were masters at Canton. Those who study the ques tion, however, will be surprised to

Not if you believe in Chinese folk- lore. The sampan population do not anticipate a serious "gale this year and in this they are guided by an old Chinese saying which atatea

IN HONG KONG TO-DAY

FAIR.

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, 198VED BY THE ROYAL QESERVATORY, AT 5.30 .P.M., STATED:

PRESSURE 18 HIGHEST TO THE NORTHEAST OF HOKKAIDO, WHILE .......A, TROUGE OF "RELATIVELY · ́„LOW PRESSURE EXIZNES "FROM 8. CHINA ACROSS THE EASTERN. TO THE BONÌNH»„VAN

LOCAL FORECAST: S.W. WINDS, MODERATE; FINE,'

BEA

. After a month's stay in Shang- hai, the party will proceed to Japan.. Whether they will visit Manchuria is at present arcer- tain."

Lord Marley is sailing for Japan to-night and is returning to Shanghai in a few days.-Reuter

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

(August 19.)

(VI Moon 28th Day). Lammert's Sale of Two Through bred French Poodles, Sales Room,

Tenders for purchas of Stock-in- Trade, etc., of Cinese Restaurant, Ltd., due at noon.

Young People's Society Bathing Trip. 230 p.m.

Mr. L. Tata's Art Exhibition, St. George's Building

Theatres

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Tea Dance at King's Restaurant, Hong Kong and Repulse

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rest of the season. It remains to be seen whether they are right; In can sense the coming of a typhoon, Police many cases, the sampant population-- and yet they are guided by othing but folk-lore, Tegands and weather sense. For all that they kept an eye on Observatory signals!

discover the number of Chinese Plants that Cost

who are Mahomedans There is quite a big community in Hong Kung and South China, but the Central Provinces are where they thrive, Every year large numbers of Chinese make the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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One of the most valuable Chinese drugs-sold, in the Colony, is the Ginseng Boot imported from the United States. In palmy days, the ́ánnual volume of trade bigunted

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