1926-05-22 — Page 22

16.

J. ULLMANN & Co.

Alexandra Building

Chater Road, Hongkong.

WATCH MANUFACTURERS

DIAMOND MERCHANTS

& JEWELLERS.

"Silver & Electro-Plated

Wares.

Baccarat Cut Glasses.

Fancy Goods, etc.

Houses in Tientsin, Paris Shanghai, Hankow and Peking.

Factory in La Chaux-de- Fonds Switzerland.

Mrs. J CRAWFORD.

Massage Hall

No. 14. Zotland Street,

MRS. SEKAI®

MASSAGE

Tel. No. C.4433 2nd. £oor 2. Duddell Street Hongkong,

HATS

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH,

NEW NEWSPAPER BUILDING.

RENEWED

Our establishment" is speci- ally equipped with the latest plant for re-blocking and Cleaning folt hats.

For yery Description of Dry-Cleaning.

Send to:-

The International Dry-Cleaning and Dyeing Company.

19, Wyndham St. Hongkong. 36, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

MASSAGE

Mrs. HANA INOKUCHI bēgš to notify her clients that she has returned to the colony, 6, Ashley Road, Kowloon. Tel. K. 754.

Boforo You Advertise COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS'

On The Kowloon Färry

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."-

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

* KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI”

HOTELS.

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Ilotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON."

First Class Billiard Room and Saloon Bar."

Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor. Tels, K 608 & K.609 Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkong, Under the Personal Supervision and Management of

FRANK L. COOKE. Proprietor.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telegraphic Address VICTORIA

Tel. Central 372.

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

SINGAPORE,

Terms--A la carte or Inclusive.

Telephone in every room. After-dinner dancing overy Tuesday,.

Thursday and Saturday.

GRILL ROOM

Folograme "Europe Singapore **Telephone 2750.

ARTHUR E ODELL, Managing Director.

Tel. Address: GLENEALY HOTEL,' Telephone. "Glenealy," Hongkong. 3 & 4, Glonenly,

C. ÜRO,

A fizet class' Residential and Tourist Hotel Splendidly situated with-

in easy walking distance to all business contres. Largo airy rooms: Tot

and Cold water. Excellent Culrine under the personal supervision of the !roprietress. Monthly and family raton at moderate torms.

For further particulars apply to:

MES. FREDERICKS, Propriotress.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victora, Hongkong.

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926.

Entertainments.

UBEN

SUPER

The new Building of the South China Morning Post Co. Ltd., in Wyndham Street, which has just been completed, and which houses the Company's, two, newspapers, The South China, Morning Post and Hongkong Telegraph. Some particulars of the building are given elsewhere in this issue. (Photo: A Fong),

MODERN NEWSPAPERS. lished in the newspaper, some

PRESS IS WHAT PUBLIC MAKES IT.

The pros and cons of the news paper were discussed recently before the Contemporary Club in Philadelphia. Addresses were made by Bruce Bliven, formerly, a newspaperman of New York and now a member of the, editorial stall of the New Republic; by Dr. George W. Douglas, of the staff of the Evening Public Ledger Edward 'P. Cheyney professor of European history at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, and Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

people would say, such things should not be printed."

"On the afternoon that the ver- dict was brought in at a recent murder trial the paper with which I am connected sold 100,000 more copies than it ordinarily, sells. Some persons again would say, People should not be interested in such things, but we cannot change the nature of man

"The newspaper tells the story, but the moral makes itself heard in trumpet tones, for every one who reads the story said, I shall not let myself entanglement that might lead to erime,'

get into

"The standard of honesty a newspaper work is as high or higher than in any other profes ision. The paper is your eyes and From the discussion emerged ears, it gives you information of the opinions that "the newspaper what your legislators are doing; is being produced for the public" when you lie down on the job, as and that the public can make it evidenced by the way the great good or bad by deciding on which number of persons who do not sort of a paper to buy; that good.vote, it figures your battles." papers are better than ever before All the defects alluded to during and that the bail ones are as bad the evening as applying to the 01 worse; that newspapers in printing crime news not only give the public what it wants, but also are a great moral force; and that the newspaper is the "one great instrument for bringing people closer together,”

Mr. Bliven said that while copies of a newspaper sold for few cents, huge sums were spent in "getting the news with extra- ordinary quickness and complete- news to give an accurate portrait of the whole world." He said that reporters are better men than they were fifty years ago..

The ordinary newspaper, he said, "wants the largest circula- tion, not the best circulation, and. is not concerned with getting into the best homca."

"It lies with the public," he concluded, with the votes It casts with the pennies it pays for the paper it reads whether the news- paper is to be a menace to the Nation or a great, aid to democra tic institutions."

Dr. Douglas, assuming the hypothetical premise that the audience and he were to get out a newspaper, said they would first decide that an ideal paper was im possible of realization, that they would then seek an audience, realizing that people will not buy A paper "if it contains only what

we think they should read."

newspapers applied also to the Bible, Mr. Woodruff said, and that, compared with the papers of the past, the present good paper was infinitely better.

He said he was no more in favour of censoring the newspaper than in censoring Holy Writ, and that the papers since they appeal

THE FRANC.

ANGLO-AMERICAN HELP

PROMISED.'

Paris, May 21. The Government's action to support the franc, which resulted in a rise in the frame on New York was the decision to create a cen- tral clearing office to take charge of forward foreign exchange deal. ings. The clearing office is to take the form of a joint stock cor- pany, wherein shareholders will b.: banks recognised by bankers and officin!' brokers and certain in- dustrial groups.

The Eolo de Paris says that prominent American and British financiers appear to be willing to co-operate cordially with Frane if the latter can restore confidence at home and among the possesso of French capital abroad in such way that the latter may be in- to bring back wealth to France.-Reuter.

duced

DRASTIC MEASURES.

Paris, May 21. Drastic measures are contem- plated by the Government for the improvement of the franc, chielly the creation of a clearing hous for all fransactions involving, foreign exchanges.

FAVOURABLE REACTION.

London, May 21. M. Peret's promised measures to all classes must print some- have reacted favourably, on the thing for every one.

..

"The newspaper," be said, makes for brotherhood, it makes the whole world kin, and the world a better plate in which to live."

"The fundamental interests.of.

"Yes. She married a lawyer--||| every one lies in sex, life and pro- perty. The great novols are often good honest fellow, too!" etories of crime. If the story of "Gracious! That's bigarpy, Paola and Franeosea were pul- isn't it!ussie, Sydney.

franc in London, the French clos- ny at 149-76 whilst the Belgia. franc sympathetically improved **. 149-25-Redter.

AN IMPORTANT DATE WEATHERED. Paris, May 21 '

TO-DAY ONLY

at 2 30,5 sharp, 7.15 € 9.30

STUPENDOUS IN CONCEPTION PERFECT IN EXECUTION

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

•

PART I

A COLOSSAL SPECTACLE, VIVID AND ERAL

The magnificence of the Pharoahs-

The crossing of the Red Sea -

The receiving of The Ten Commandments. PART II

A POWERFUL MODERN DRAMA Society with and without The Ten Commandments

SPECIAL MUSIC

TO-MORROW

MAE MURRAY

in

“JAZZMANIA"

AND

at 9,15

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

of

H.M.S. HAWKINS

THE STAR

TO-DAY ONLY

AN AL. CHRISTIE FARCE

"RECKLESS ROMANCE"

WITH

WANDA HAWLEY T. ROY BARNES TULLY MARSHALL SYLVIA BREAMER

AND

JACK DUFFY.

THE WORLD

TO-DAY at 5:15 9.15

HAL ROACH

presents

"THE BATTLING ORIOLES"

The financial situation was dis- cuaked at a council of Ministers. M. Perst announced that the Treasury had satisfactorily wea thered May 20, a date whereon several milliards of Treasury Bonds were due for re-payment. M. Briand and M. Peret after- wards conferred with the Govern- or of the Banque de France after which M. Peret announced tliot' the agreement between the Gov- ernment and the Banque de France had never been broken despite in- sinuations. On the contrary they were considering new methods of restoring the franc" and pourpar- lers were progressing satisfact- orily. The Banque de France had resolved to support the Governor of the Banque de France to improve the value of the franc ment until the Franc was victori- night, remarkce that the recovery was directed by Mosers Lazar}

us-Reuter.

of the frane is to be made without Brothers, who were offering dol- IMPROVEMENT OFFENSIVE LAUNCED, appealing for foreign aid. They lars and sterling in unlimited®

M. Peret, in the course of hoped the improvement would be amounts. The selling chiefly statement after a conference become more markad... Offensive took place in Paris and New York, t tween M, Briand and the Govern-launched by the Government to -Routers

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