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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927.

THE SHANGHAI OUTLOOK.

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927.

'DAY BY DAY.

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HEIFETZ VIOLINS.

A quantity of unserviceable this is the cclebrated "David" cordite was burnt by the Naval auGuanarius, an/honoured instrument thorities at Stonecutters Rifle.

among the violins still extant made Range this morning.

by the old masters.

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The Very Idea!

MacLaren was rambling along the othor evening something in this style:

In the up-river ports. The labour" and "political situation in Shanghat looks heavily clouded at

WOMEN WHO SPEND THREE OR TWO FAMOUS INSTRUMENTS. the moment and there will "bo

FOUR HOURS A DAY DRESSING ARE much call for the exercise of NOT OF MUCH USE IN THE WORLD. To a Singapore newspaper re patienes, and fortitude until the Edward Maguire,

presentative last week, Holfatz, the storm, exelted by people who are

The P. and O. s.s. Gogra, which famous violinist, who appeurs atural born linguist. There is

The Scot, be observed, is a nỆ cnémfes of China no less than

left Singapore on Sunday, is due the Queen's Theatre for the second hardly a language that he cannot onomies of Britain, has died down.hore on the 27th Inatant at 7am. time to-night, spoke of the violins pick up almost by ear, you might

Regarding the military situation.

The Ben Line 8.8. Bencleuch, he has with him on his present say, and speak it as well as a native. For instanco, the Scot has been it is difficult to understand. The

from Home ports, the Straits and tour. He has a Stradivarious apeaking English for only a rela much-vaunted Northern forces

Philippines, is duc here on the dated 1780, but more valuable still tively short tinteBay five hun- have dissipated into unytterable 27th instant.

is his Guanarius dated 1742, forest English is spoken just as dred years or ao-and yet the pur weakness. There has scardely been the vestige of resistance any where, and the "fight" has been something of a "walk-over" for the army of Marshal Chiang Kai- shek. Of course, it may have all been a matter of "arrangement" between the rival leaders, дя Reuter indicates in his messages, but

until the position clarifies From Messra. Dodwell & Co., itself it is hard to refrain from Ltd., we have received a doubting whether Marshal Chang the manufacturers of the well-bought it three years ago from an useful indexed diary issued by said Mr. Heifetz, "and later it te-

longed to Sarasate. My father | Taung-chang really tried to "save" known Ronco office equipment. old professor in Strasbourg, Its Shanghal from the Nationalist..

price is put at $10,000," and, of course, it increases in value very It is said, by those who claim to

year." be quite well-informed, that since the split in the ranks of the Kuo- mintang. Marshal Chinng Kal-shek has been feeling around for an alliance. with Marshal Chang This morning's Harbour Office Tsung-chang and that he will re returns gave 19 arrivals and 16 de- partures, of which six and three main in possession of Shanghal respectively were British, leaving and the surrounding province,73 vessels in barbour, the British much na did Marshal Sun Chuan-total being 25. fang before him. In which event

It is notified that the annual meeting of the Hongkong Auto- mobile Association has been pest- poned to Friday, April 1st, at 6.30

p.m.

most

Burglars broke into the floor of No. 74, Praya East, last night, by effecting an entrance through the sky-light They stole jewellery, money and clothing to the value of $236.

A Chinese boy, who was knocked

A partner in the Fook Kee shop of Woosung Street. Yaumati, has made a serious report to the police concerning one of the other part ners. The allegation, is that the man has absconded, taking with him $12,500 belonging to the firm.

It belonged to Ferdinand David, famous musician and friond of Mendelssohn, who, it is interesting to recall, was the grand-father of a well-known Singapore resident, Mr. P. A. F. David, the District Judge.

"Wilhelmij owned it at one time,"

"Two years ago I was playing in un American city, and at the end of the concert an old fireman at

tached to the theatre asked me If he could look at my viclin. He happened to know about violins. He looked at it, and said, "I know this Instrument. Sarpente played on it in this theatre.”

"Quite a number of people are comoisseurs of violins," Mr. Hel- fetz added. "George Robey.makes them himself, and I autographed one or two for him."

But nevertheless, though it seems

the purest Scotch is drunk right on the banks of the Clyde. Chinese English have great difficulty in has no terrors for a Scotman. The

mastering it, but not so the Scot For instance, there were two mom bers of a Highland regiment taking part in the capture of Welhaiwei during the Boxer Rebellion. Al- most immediately they began to speak in Chinese, or at any rate the Chinese recognized it as such.. The conversation was as follows:

Sandy: Weell Wo hao Wei-Hai- Well

Jock: Hne we? Sandy: Ayi Wo hoo!

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I sing the tale of Oscar Prune, Who had, by chance, composed

one tune:

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He hummed it daily in his bath, He whistled it along his path: I'll say it was a pretty tune- This melody of Oscar Prune. One day he met a business man, Who said, "I have a sizzling plan! I'll take you to a bloke I know, And you shall hum to him!"

"Right oh!" ...

Said Oscar Prune; and, now, he's

rich

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Because the melody (one) which He had composed was syncopated In fifty different ways. I stated The bloke was a composer--n07 Of dancing music: well, that's so,

Mr. E. C. Jenkinson,

of Tun. bridge Wells, who "completed on Thursday his seventy-second year 25 4 working tailor," is in his eighty-third year. He seems to have made a good start with the second of his nine lives,

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an unprecedented honour for a young man of 25. He is also a

Drinking half a pint every day, Membre d'Honneur of the Societeit would take man about 70 years de Concert Conservatoire, enjoying to empty one of the new concrete wine tanke, containing 18,000 gal- this distinction in the course of 110

loons, which have just been com- Busoni, Sarasate and Plante.

years

with only

Paderewsky,

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Withal, he is a very human per-pleted at Kingston-on-Thames for

side of life. Irving Berlin- Bon who enjoys to the full the light wine firm!

Lambeth magistrate to an elderly, famous in another kind of music-- The Case in which three tells of Heifetz that he is bubbling woman accused of drunkenness; Chinese were indicted for robbery over with fun and likes to let him-Judge. I am remanding you for n at a nunnery on Lantau Island self go. As a child he did not have week. The woman.. You are not concluded at the Criminal Ses-time to play-as a child under-such a bad old stick. siona yesterday, when two of the stands that word-and he takes accused were sentenced to three every opportunity to make up for years, hard labour each, whilst it now.

The interviewer asked what he the third, a youth, was given a one-

thought of the syncopated music of the modern dance band... Three Communists, named "I like it very much," replied Mr. and Endit- Heifetz. "I play it on the piano Osin, Mardjoeki binsaaba, who were sentenced to and. I enjoy dancing to it." leath at Batavin in connection A world famous violinist, and with the murder of a policeman on handsome and only twenty-six years Heifetz is certainly the night of November 12, have of age! had their sentences commuted by supremely gifted by the gods. the Governor-General to life Like other young men who are be

fore the public, he has legions of imprisonment.

feminine admirers, and request

year sentence.

Man accused of assault, ut North London: When I feared that my life was in danger I had to use the weapons that nature, provided to defend myself. Magistrato: Nature did not provide you with an Army boot.

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Nottingham girl: Mother is a big woman, so we have never been afraid of father!

Midland woman;

it is said that he would be de-down by motor car No. 372, near the Wing Lok Street wharf yester- initely "anti-Red" and in opposi dny, has been admitted to the Gov- incredible, Mr. Heifetz declaros it tion to the party now in the ernment Civil Hospital, suffering to be a fuct that he was once asked, why he play on an old instrument. ascendancy at Canton and Han- from injuries to his leg.

Why did he not got a nice new one! kow. All of which makes very

Born in Russia, Heifetz is, in A dog, which bit a house coolie interesting spegulation, although and is supposed to bo rabid, has every sense of the word, & Cosmo our own tendency is to doubt such been sent from No. 11 Castle Ter-politan and belongs to every nation. suggested grientation in favour ruce, to the Kennedy Town depot, In May last year the President of the French Republic made him a for observation. The coolie is re- The march of events during the of the other opinion that Marshal ceiving treatment at the Govern- chevalier of the legion d'honneur; past 48 hours has brought affairs Chiang Kai-shek will remain faith-ment Civil Hospital.

ful to his original equse, although, in and around Shanghai to a critical pass and it seems certain his political opinions may not be that residents there are going to wholly in line with those of the experience one of those tense present Nationalist leaders. In periods which have become all too any case, the Immediate future of frequent of late in China. There, Shanghai, militarily and political is a combination of forces calcu-ly, is of supreme importance and lated to produce not only disloca-tremendous interest, and we here tion of the ordinary everyday, run in Hongkong-happily free from of life but also that mental con- serious trouble-can only watch fusion and uncertainty which events, full of sympathy for the leads to worry and stress. Now residents of the northern port that the Nationalist forces, have who are living under nerve-trying conditions. It is sincerely to be eliminated all opposition around Shanghai, the "red" political hot-trusted that the present "peak" heads and agitators pro giving of tension will be safely crested without any unduly serious inci- full vent to their schemes to harass Britishers in particular dent. For which, of course, we shall have to put much trust in and foreigners in general. Shang-

good temper. hai is at the beginning of what is undoubtedly going to be a big general strike-not a strike to

Clerk at Tottenham: What' is further legitimate demands of workers, but a distinctly political It is gratifying to note that Mr. Institute. The fee for a

That conveys nothing. R. E. Lindsel yesterday meted out months course is $10. "Ellleient" mapped out for him. After leay-le Complainant: An engineer. move directed by agitators and

a severe sentence to the Chinese members of the St. John Aming the East, he is due in Australia Clerk: intimidators against the wishes of spretator who at Saturday's interbulance Brigade pay half-fees, in May and will give fifty concerts Every one with a screwdriver calls

national football match threw a returnable on passing the Techni there and in New Zealand. He will himself an engineer.

Marylebone magistrate: I sup- the workers themselves.. During missile which struck a police officer/cal Institute examination at the afterwards play in Honolulu, and the past three weeks there has in the eye, causing him rather scri- end of a complete course of eight in October he will be back again in

the United States, the country pose you gave him as good as you months. been a reign of terrorism inous injury. It was stated in Court

which saw his development into a got: Man: No, unfortunately... that there has recently been con-

He world figure ten years ago, Shanghai-a reign which was aiderable hooliganism on the part

"Dr. Souters' Pills," a guaran-.

Ils. have only partial in its success of Chinese crowds at football riving from Seattle and Shanghat, will play that month in San Fran

in Mexico. After touring the been successfully introduced in Rio, cause of the fact that northern matches--a fact regarding which reports one unspecified casualty en cisco, and in November he will be teed cure for common

there is, unfortunately, plenty of route. The Van Heutz. from the eastern states he is booked for a Souters, who was leaving Rio for military forces were in control of evidence. We are informed by a Straits, reports one female birth on tour of South America beginning England, checked out of his hotel

The Raymond. Folncare, the surrounding country. But local resident that Saturday's game route.

Eugenia Costa, the maid now that the Nationalist Army is was fought out in excellent spirit from Haiphong, reports the death in May of next year. He does not room and left a pill box on the who cleaned. the room, threw the so far as the players were concern of a passenger, Mr. Toy Pak-cheung expect to be in London again for table. in the ascendancy, the extremistsed, and that the Chinese team took at 5 am. on March 31, outside years.

box away. On board his ship and ready to Ball; Souters missed the coming out more into the their defeat in a thoroughly sport- Hongkong, the cause not being

The trouble manner.

box. at stated.

He called a policeman and open and have once again called a matches in which Chinese teams

hurried back to the hotel. Eugenia general strike, of which Router participate appears to arise from

was questioned, and told how ahe che attitude which has of late beon

had thrown the box away. A hur- reported the beginning yesterday. taken up by their supporters, and

ried search. of the trash can re- Wherever the Nationalist forces is not at all due to the actual

vealed the pill box. Soutera open- ed it and showed the surprised maid have gained control there has players, who can be relied upon to

Professor Adolf Maximillar

Sho twenty-five rough diamonds. "play the game" in the right spirit. been" an outbreak of anti-British It. has been noted with regret that Paris

104.03 Langaner, the Vienna psychologist, now recommends "Dr. Souters' was fined 50 Pesos last week in Pills" as a sure cure for any ail- and anti-foreign agitations, and when Chinese teams are in arrears Brussels

.12.134 Manila by Judge Harvey on the ment. it is only necessary to recall re- the crowd begins to "cut up nasty" Amsterdam

Berlin and almost invariably large num Copenhagen feent happenings at Kiukiang,bers of spectators begin to e

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Unsportsmanlike.

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A Surveying Class is being for autographs and signed photo- formed at the Hongkong Technical graphs are endless,

The next three years are fully four

The sa. President Madison, ar-

EXCHANGE RATES.

Wuhu, ele, to prove this conten- the ground long before the matches tion. It is safe to say, that bite over if it is realised that there Lisbon... is no prospect of a win. That is Bucharest for the presence in Shanghai, of bad enough, showing as it does that Bombay

Oslo

Л stron international armed the true sporting spirit has not Yokohama force, the military success of the yet spread to the majority of New York

Chinese spectators, but it is a thou- Geneva Nationalist troops there would be and times worse when, as appeara Milan

Stockholm accompanied by political excesses to have happened on Saturday, on- Stock

lookers deliberately take missiles on the part of the extremists, and with them to matches and throw

Madrid it "Is a matter for gratification them at players on the fleld. We Athe

Athens that the British Government took are sure that this sort of thing is Rio

resented as much by the Chinese Shinghal Indequate precautions in time. As players and the officials of Chinese Buenos Aires

Reuter's correspondent has wired, football clubs as by anybody, but Hongtong

the ovil has become so pronounced Silver (apot) are many women and that the time for drastic action Silver (forward)

there children

In Shanghaito-day has come. Spectators who behave

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thanking God for the presence of as some of them did on Saturday

are doing a fine, manly game great troops without whom they would injury in Hongkong, and it would have been exposed to the risk of perhaps be as well if the various Buffering the Indignities and Chinese football clubs here caused a warning to be issued to some of hardships suffered by their, alstors' their more belliegowo supporters, ·

London. Mar. 21...

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LANGSNER CASES.

MANILA DECISIONS.

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816 including 58 cartridges and 216 man at the bar. .3/6.15/16 blank cartridges. It was shown

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Professor, will be favourably act- The forthcoming weddings are 47 16/32ed on by Judge Concepcion only announced of Mr. Lionel Victor 1/1 for the professor has deposited Fairley, (widower), merchant, of 26 in court the 50 Pesos collected as Shanghai to Miss Mabel Fember- .25% feca from his patient, Jose Roxan. ton nurse, of Sydney, Austra -British Wirelona, La the motion for dismissal, the Mr. Thomson Patrick Hugh Biko, fiscal told the court that the 50 merchant, of the A. P. C. Shang- Pesos had already been donated to hai, to Miss Jessle And Serene the Anti-Tuberculoals Society. Hamilton, of the Helena May However, the court required the Institute; Mr. Robert Henry professor to turn the money either Morton Ody, merchant, of Canton, to the offended purty or to the to Mas Anne Waln, of Philadel court.

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