1935-05-14 — Page 3

Page

....

QUICK AS AN · ARROW

New Type Of Fire Engine

COLD EASTER IN

HARBIN

Unusual Weather

Harbin, April 29. There was every appearance on Russian Good Friday that the Easter holidays would prove. 盘 fallure" as the whole of 'that day

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935.

COLOURS

Keep One Fit And

Cheerful

Oriental colours are coming into Britain. There is a move to sweep way the drab shades of the past. Women are demanding more and better colours.

THE INVASIONS

Britain More. British

more

WEDDING

Heard-Page-Burke

ahanghai, May

The wedding of major . A. Britain is becoming.... British. In 1911, towards the end killing Fusiliers, and is Alleen Heard, 1, 0, of the Royal Innia of the epoch when we could talk Page Hurks took place yesterday, Advance particulars (writes an

of having a system of relatively morning at the Church of Christ English correspondent) are now

free intercourse between nations, the King, the Rev. A. Karr officiat- being published of a new type of

volume of the Census) 790 foreign-e a civil ceremony was held there were (according to the new ing immediately preceding the fire engine with a phenomenallt snowed and halled accomparted

by a gale of wind which, did damni tocently issued a remarkable die born non-British subjects in every fore Mr. A. D. Blackburn.

at H.B.M. Consulate General be-

performance.

While the weight of the machine, with personnel, hose, ladder and full equipment is quoted 8.5 less than Ave tons. the 6-cylinder engine.

The British Colour Council have

tionary with a card, making standard 920 shades of colour cyclamen pink battleship grey, bee-enter blue, to name a few,

age to many, roofs in the city. The wind was a bitterly cold one, fol- lowing the heat wave that had struck the northern parts of Man- chukne. Saturday was not much the colours. of commodities an Recent experiments prove that better but in the evening the diverse as silk, wool, tiles, leather, clouds dispersed, enabling the pub-pottery and enamel will all tone lie to attend the midnight Russian to a standard shade,

an overhead-camshaft unit, will develop 100 horse-power. Second gear is sufficient for a gradient of Church services in comfort, even 1 in 41. In top gear, speeds in though it was rather colder than excess of 85 mph. are attainable.usual at this time of the year.

A short wheel-base makes for easy manœuvring," and a" low centre of gravity. together with hydraulic 4-wheel brakes, ensures safety on the road,

The machine, which is appro- priately named the "Arrow," is made by Dernis Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, whose fire-engines are familiar all over the world-the London Brigade alone have taken 230 of their make into service. A delivery of 500 gallons per minute at a pressure of 170 lbs. per square inch is assured by the multistage turbine pump, which may be located amidships or at the rear.

It is noteworthy "that any pat- tern of body can be employed. The opep type, in which the men sit back-to-back, facing outwards. Is steadily decreasing in popu- larity (our correspondent con- tinues), its place being largely taken by models with two trans- verse seats, or with two longitu- dinal seats facing inwards, or by totally-enclosed body-work giving

full weather-protection,

Any one of these latter designs embodied in a Dennis Arrow fre- engine constitutes a really fast and efficient appliance, eminently suitable for first-call work.

FOLLOW-MY-LEADER RISKS

"Don't trust the man in front"

able to that

!!

is a good axiom. He may be a

better driver and negotiate situations beat the driver close behind. Or he may not be such a good driver and may give rise to some situation that will involve the car behind, as well as his own, "In an accident, serious or other- wise. Drive as though he were not there-up to the point of not running too close to him.

...

'A VETERAN'S PARTING SHOT

A 1914 Leyland Are engine, the property of the Dundee Fire Brigade, was recently sold, hav- ing been replaced by a modern Leyland appliance. During Its.. long period of service the engine. had attended hundreds of fres in the surrounding diatricis aud. as a final effort, attended a forest fire near Perth, where it pumped water continuously for 91 hours.

The veteran has not yet been retired, but has been purchased by a private concern for pump- ing water on fruit farms during dry seasons.

14!

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

So to-day women can match their spring suita with the enamel of their sports cars by merely order-

women

"It cannot be said that the churching to the standard shade. services this year were particularly crowded as in former years, this the dyeing industry with increased Great progress has been made in probably being accounted for by range of design and shade, and the fact that many Russians have

can express their indi- left the country owing to not be-viduality in the interior decora ing able to find any work.

tions of their homes. Ysterday, Bunday however, operi-

All the big stores to-day have ed fine and as the day advanced their colour experts,

and the the sun came out with the promise gayest equipment for

nursery, of the usual Easter-weather. max-bathroom and kitchen is obtain- ing it possible to thoroughly to eu- able. The pot has no occasion to joy the fresh air in the parks and call the kettle black-it will be un the river, the latter however, shining cellulose OF brilliantly being this season marred by the striped enamel. tack of water

Vodka and Zäkuska Contrary to former years. the restaurants did very good business on Easter Eve as the new Japanese population were making holiday as much as the Russians, going out enjoying themselves while Lite latter went to church. As all the foreign banks were closed, the for- eign staffs also made holiday, add- ing to the gay crowd at the prin- cipal restaurants.

To add to the amusements pro-

Mr. R. F. Wilson, of the British L'olour Council, is approached from all quarters for advice on

2.

colour questions from the choice of shade for the inside of a baby's in selecting the colour tone for cot to assisting local corporations lamp posts.

He said that a definite meaning can be attributed to colours.

various The characteristic of a colour is not accidental but is supported by natural evidence," he said. "For example, red being the colour. of fire and blood it is not surpris- ing that it is sasociated with heat and anger; while green, the predominant colour in Nature, is suggestive of rebirth and hope and is serene and tranquil."

Modern psychology has establish

vided for Easter, there was racing at the Hippodrome yesterday, at- tended more by Japanese than any other section of the population, the Russian custom being to visit all friends, celebrating the occasioned that colour plays a most im with vodka and zakuska of every portant part in health and has kind, rather than going to public curative value in disease. People entertainments. No untoward in- in ill-health are particularly sus cident occurred yesterday to mar ceptible to colour vibrations, the day's pleasure.

Mr. Robert King, the well-known To-day is also the Japanese Em- psychologist, tells me that the peror's birthday. A huge review therapeutic value of colour in took place at 9 a.m., the whole treating disease is being widely re main road from the St. Nicholascognised by the medical profession. Cathedral to the Aerodrome being "Application of colour in disease lined on one side with Japanese

has proved дл infalliblö

cura troops, five deep. At 10 a.m. a particularly in nervous Com- reception was held at the Railway plaints," he said. Club and at 11 a.m. the Japanese Consul-General gave a reception at the Japan-Manchukuo, Club, all' foreigners being invited. In the afternoon and evening meetings were held at Japanese Clubs and other institutions.

MOTHERS' DAY IN SHANGHAI

U. S. Marines and Navy Men to Celebrate on Sunday

سنه

2

THE OLYMPIC

To Be Broken Up?

hundred thousand of the popula- tion of England and Wales. In late Dr. and Mrs. R. L Heard of The bridegroom is the son of the 1031 there were only 449. At the Monkstown, Ireland. The bride, same time the proportion of Irish- who was formerly a nursing sister born has also fallen. the family were still ring nearly the late Dr. and Mrs. J. Page Seventy at the British Military Hospital years ago, when the survivors of in Shanghai, is the daughter of 3 per cent of the population of Burke, of Lillaloe County, Ireland. England and Wales wag" Irish. born; the proportion has fallen by Captain S. A. McConnell, wore The bride, who was given away steadily since, until in 1931 it was only .95 per cent. Scottish migration was never of the same order of magnitude. The proper- tion of Scottish-born living south of the Border rose slowly between 1851 and 1901; it fell back in 1911 and 1921, but rose sharply in the decade before 1931, when The channels of overseas. migration and were blocked

W

4

Aetual Numbers in actual numbers, however, the Scottish-born in England and Wales have shown an increase at every census since 1851. The thing or the relative mobility of birthplace tables also tell us some-

Greater London only 60 per cent of the British-born male popula- tion was born in the county of enumeration. In Lancashire 84 per cent of the population was Lancashire-born, Manchester drew 16 per cent of its population from English counties other than Lan- cashire: Liverpool drew only 9: and Wigan, St. Helens, Blackburn, and Bolton only 5 or 8 per cent

our own English population. In-

This is, in many of the Lan- cashire towns, the other side to a contracting population is now towards the centres of the The pull

newer industries like Manchester

Hertford, for example, "nearly half and, in far greater degree, to- wards the South In a county ke the population of 1931 same from other counties-something like the

condition that Lancashire knew in her period of rapid indus- trialisation.".

NEW STAMPS

For The Jubilee

Singapore, May 4.

Claret and black-green and blue-blue and brown-blue and green combinations of delicate tints printed on exquisite engrav ings. This is the contribution of the Another famous British liner-Postal authorities in the Straita the Olympic-may follow the Mau. Settlements to the commemoration retania to the shipbreakers' yard "B001.

It is understood that the Olym pic is to lie up in dry dock at Southampton for the next three months, and plans which provided for a trip to New York on June 29, preparatory to a series of cruises, bave been cancelled..

of His Majesty's Silver Jubileer

The Jubilee stampe, several mil- Colony, will be on sale on the lion of which will be sold in the morning of May 6. They will con tinue on sale until December 31...

Their denominations will be Ave cente, eight centa, twelve cepts, and 25 'cente.

All are of the same design-a bow-familiar view of Windsor Castle overlooked by the head of the King -and the stamps are almost twice the usual size.

Shanghai, May 9. Mothers' Day this year will be on May 19 and is the most import- Cunard-White Star, Ltd.. ant service in the church calendar ever, declined to deny that the of the United States sailor or liner had made her last voyage. Marine. The Secretary of the Navy has issued a proclamation Atlantic service it will mean, the If the ship drops out of the asking its observance and every passing of one of the most fam- commanding officer in the Navy and Marine Corps will read that us liners afloat. örder to his men aboard ships,-at She is among the fastest mer- Navy Yarda, or at far flungchant vessels in the world with Marine outposts.

a speed of 22-23 knots and the In Shanghai the U.S. Fourth largest British-bunt ship in

Ler- Marines will "hold a special vice. Mothers' Day service in the Grand. Theatre at 10 10 on Sunday. Mrs. A. 5. Benjamin, the wife of

Many Adventures

To Be Withdrawa

The ordinary five. 12, and 25- cent stamps will be withdrawn until the Jubilee issue has run its course, that is at the end of the present year.

In all Colonies four special stamps are being issued and (with the exception of Newfoundland) all are bi-coloured.

The Dominions, on the other hand, are issuing fairly large series. For instance, Canada will have six stamps all pictorially appropriate and all diferent.

When she was launched in 1911 1st Sgt. Benjamin, representing she was the largest ship Berlin journalists made heavy the Service Mother, will receive her tonnage being 46,439. She was afloat, weather with the names of the flowers presented by Pfc. John. A sister ship of the ill-fated British team in the talks at the Hamilton, of the Marine Corps, 715anic, which sank on her maiden Chancellery. They produced "Brand G. E. Shepler, Hale, of the voyage to New York in 1912, with Princess Elizabth; the two cent The one cent stamp portrays John Phipps." "Sir Eric Simon, Navy, in the name of all the aba loss of 1.500, lives, after striking stamp, the Duke of York; the three and “Lord Eden.”

sent mothers. Every Marine and an leeberg. This is in the old tradition. When sailor will be given a carnation. During the Great War the Olym four cent stamp, the Prince of cent stamp, Their Majesties; the the unmilitary-looking Mr. W. Hin honour of his mother by a pic Smith, afterwards the first Lord committee of service wives headed escaped unscathed despite Wales; the ten cent stamp, Windsor Castle; and the 15 bent stamp, Hambledon, went to Germany as by Mrs Fendleton, the wife of many dangers.

M.C., and by Mrs. Chaney the ment was in 1918, when she ram- Captain Robert Pendleton, U.S.- Probably her most thrilling mo- the yacht, Britannia

India will have seven denomin Berce at a review was recorded wife of Sgt. W. Chaney, U.S.M.0: med and sank the German sudations, and New Zealand three de

ning will be mostly a musical Last May the Olympic met with which, appropriately enough, the The programme on Sunday mor- marine U.103 in the Atlantic, denominations in South Africa on nominations. There will be four.

one in which Mrs, R. E. Selfridge her most serious mishap, which led King's head and a springbok will will sing, "Still as the Night and to the owners depositing a 500,000 appear. "Bongs My Mother Taught Me." The Shanghai American Girls, bility of the ship's arrest on dock-

dollar bond to prevent the possi Glee Club will sing, "Little Mothering at New York.

Secretary for War in 1886, ils p

with the title of "Ged. Bir Smith." Another British Secretary for War who attended a German re- view, in 1903, and completely my stilled the German Press was Lord Midleton, then Mr. St. John Brod-

rick!

riguen

home and abroad post offices have

Momentous Event The issue throughout the Empire is a mo- mentous event for philateliste. At been inundated with requests for complete sets of the Jubilee issue, ho United States Government and Bingapore has had many call. led a claim against the company. Applications have come from diy. and the bond was deposited inerve parts of the world, such as Tiew of a demand that the liner Trinidad, Berlin, Now York, should be condemned to be sold to Glasgow, London, Jamaica, Paris, meet the damages sought:

and Hong Kong

The German papers got his name at Homs," the Buys Glee Club She had rammed the Nantucket right, but were defeated in their will give "Little Mother of Mine Lightship in a fog outside New attempts to identify his uniform, The Marine Quartette and the York Harbour. The lightship sank which he had been told was de forty-piece Marine Band will also with a loss of seven lives

It was that of a corporal in the on the subject of

Chaplain Witherspoon will speak "Mothers and Cambridge University Volunteers, Sona The Marines are..anding the Secretary of War's only first nut a general Invitation to Bhang hand acquaintance with the art of hailanders: to join them in the

celebration.

gown of ice-blue rippla crepe. Her crinoline hat was in a match. ing shade of blue and was trimmed with small yellow flowers. Her accessories were grey and she car- ried

a shower bouquet of yellow roses.

the only bridesmaid, wore a beige. Miss Chris Williams, who was ensemble with a brown straw hat brown accessories Lient. P.H.G. Nugent was best man.

As the bride and bridegroom left the church, pipers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who were stationed outside the porch, played "Haste to the Wedding" and "Killaloe."

after the ceremony at Captain S. An informal reception was held

B. McConnell's home

on Rue

Lafayette. Major and Mrs. Haard Japan are spending their honeymoon in

The Reason.

cler's shop and asked for a parrot, An old lady entered à bird-fan- but she stipulated that its language should not be strong.

the bird-

fancier, "I've got one ere that

"Well, lady,” sald

swears in a mild sort of way,"

"A mild sort of way?” "Yes: 'e belonged to a minister

wot ad is salary reduced."

VOORWARDĖS CELZIKATIO *URIPE MATIT

K»WW &#«lä

From tears

to sunshine!

Sore and throbbing gums often make baby cry dur ing teething, but he is soon soothed with Woodward's Gripe Water.

For seventy-five years Woodward's. has kept babies smiling; correcting indigestion, flatulence, colic, teething troubles. Contains no opiates, and is safe for babies of a.l ages.

WOODWARD'S

GRIPE WATER

keeps baby well

WOWAHU LIMITED, LONDON, SUBLAR

Sale Agentas W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LTD..

HUNG CHEONG

GROCERIES

AND PROVISJONR

"WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS

Tel. 57108.

66, NATHAN ROAD.

Irritability · Sleeplessness — General Weakness - Fatigue --- Lack of Appetite and many troubles HOW these strenuous times take it out of you!- Is of the Stomach and Intestines it my wonder your nerves suffer.

Do not allow this condition to continue too long, or you may do yourself irreparable harm-some serious disease may be the result. Your body is crying out for assistance - and Sanatogen contains exactly those helpful elements. your body needs. Start your course of Sanatogen today, and drink in new health and vítality. Just as the parched" earth takes in rain, your overstrained nerves will drink in Sanatogen. Energy will return and soon you will enjoy again that priceless feeling of youthful £tness. Sanamgen has made you thoroughly. healthy again!

NERVES?

Stomach Terble

-WEISSE 1

+

A Landen physiolan, One of the many forms in which -"nerves" manifest themselves is die “A noteworthy "effner of orders of the stomach. Digestion ---- Batogen" is a better age like every other function of the body petim, which is ganemily—is governed by the nervous system. „noticed within three or "Heavy digestion ", "weak stomach ” four days after beginning All those troubles are in 9 out of 10 this nerve food."

cases due to overstrained nerves. That is why Sanatogen often works wonders in all troubles of the stomach and the intestines. And even in the most serious cases of stomach disease

Sapatogen is prescribed by the leading physicians, because it not only regulates the functions of the stomach.

but also because it is so easily digestible. and gives the stomach a rest. Enjoy your meals again, enjoy life again, by taking Sanatogen · Sanatogen is absolutely trustworthy, Over 25,000 physicians have expressed their admiration in writing

Health!

INATOGEN

And that famous medica

heze dence

SANATOGEN