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"Bon Voyage”-

It is Assured

Noted the world around for their exceptional luxury and com- fort, the giant President Liners of the American Mail and Dollar Steamship Lines are preferred by experienced and dis- criminating travelers.

• The magnificent President Liners are broad of beam and exceptionally steady. All are oil burners, swift express liners.

The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and inviting.

All staterooms are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with Wes-noz berths. Each room has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos bottles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection with many rooms perfect the travel comfort of these giant passenger liners.

The Cuisine is world famous: The deliciously prepared menus will delight you. And how the orchestra adds zest to your dining.

The decks are spacious. The Glass-enclosed Promenade always popular. Deck spores, open air swimming pool, movies, evening duces,-everything has been done to make your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhere-is the courtcous and efficient service accorded you by the trained personnel aboard the President

Liners.

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The great frequency of sailings and the liberal stopover privileges of the Dollar Steamship and American Mail Lines have made these giant passenger liners out standingly popular among travelers,

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

TO SAN FRANCISCO and

LOS ANGELES

The Sunshine Belt vis Honolulu Fortnightly saings an Tucudaya

Pres. Mckinley...

TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA The Short, Straight Routs to America Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays

Tue., Aug., 30th Pres. Lincoln... Tuos., Sept. 13th Pres. Cleveland Tues., Sept. 27th Prcs. Pierce ...Tues., Oct. 11th

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Pres. Taft Wed., Pres..Jefferson Pres. Grant ... Pres. Madison

Aug 24th, 6 a.m.

Wed., Sept. 7th

Wed., Sept. 21ut Wed., Oct., 5th

Special Through Rates to Europe, via United States, £120, £112. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.

TO EUROPE and NEW YORK

ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnightly selling on Tuesdays via Manila, Straits; Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexaricia, Naples, Genos, Marseilles, Buston and New York.

Pres. Garfield Tue., Aug. 30, 8 a.m. Pres. Wilson Tue., Oct. 11, 6 alin. Pres. Harrison Tues., Sept. 13, bam. Pres. v. Buren Tue., Oct. 25, 8 n.m. Pres. Monroe, Tues., Sept. 27, 9am. Pres. Hayes Tues., Nov. 8, 6 a.m

TO MANILA

Pres. Mckinley. Aug. 23rd, 2 p.m. ' Pres. Lincoln, Sopt 5th, 6 p.m. Pres. Garfield ...Aug. 30th, Ba.m. Pres. Harrison Sept. 13th, 6 a.m. Pres. Jefferson ... Aug. 30th, 6 p.m. Pres. Grant Sept. 13th, 6 p.m.

..For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information Apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address "Dollar"

Dollar Steamship Line

and

American Mail Line

HONGKONG, CANTON

MACAO STEAMERS.

&

THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

CANTON

LINF.

Sailings from Hongkong-Daily at 1 am. Sailings from Hongkong-e.8.

"KINSHAN"-Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 a.m.

Sailings from Canton-Daily at 4 p.m.. Sailings from Canton-e.s. "KINSHAN"-Tuesday,

Thursday and Saturday at 8 a.in.

S.S. TAISHAN" berths on arrival in Hongkong on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf. All' Steamers will, as usual, leave for Canton from the Hongkong Wharf.

- MACAO LINE.

FROM HONGKONG:

8 A.M. and 2 P.M.

(Wookdays only).

FROM MACAO

8 A.M. and 2 P.M. (Weekdays only).

SUNDAY EXCURSION,

On Sunday, the 28th August, 8.s. "SUI AN" will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9.M. and from Macao at 3.30 P.M. Return Saloqu Page Fare:- $5.00.

SPECIAL TIFFIN-$1,50.

A vo Sailings are subjected to Weather Conditions and acending Passengers are requested to communicate with the Office, when vor any of the Typhon Signals are hoisted.

THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.

COPENHAGEN,

The M. S.

· ASIA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

will be loading for ROTTERDAM. HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN and other Scandinavian ports on or about

Further Sailings:

M.S."Java"

M.8. Asia"

M.B. "Afrika"

10th of October.

Expected on or

about.

..23rd August.

.... 9th September.

.20th October.

Will leave homeward

bound on or about. 10th October

Subject to change without notice. For further particulars please apply to:—

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LT

Agente.

WHERE IS HAPPINESS THEN?

AMBITION IS THE BREATH OF LIFE.

A DANCER'S VIEWS.

Happiness to un artist-where is it? It is here in London, it is away there in Vienna, or St. Petersburg, or Paris, or 'Berlin, says Anna Pavlova, the famous classical dan- cer. It is in the sudden triumph, the swelling roar of acclamation with which one is greeted, the thun- derous applause which drowns all the music of the orchestra, the new step or pose which succeeds, the knowledge that in certain move ments one is unrivalled, the perfect ing of a ballet. It is in the satisfy ing of ambition.

What is ambition, but the desire to do something-how then can one be happy till that something is achieved? Happiness is a stormy possession, and very hard to hold. It is a will-o'-the-wisp, ever retreat ing before advancing captors, whose hands stretch out towards it in dunb longing, and, when found, it is sometimes as deceptive as the wandering light.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23,

1927.

YEARS OF HIS LIFE GONE.

A MAN'S TWICE LOST MEMORY.

FRIGHT AT MOTOR-CAR.

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In a little workhouse infirmary. only 20 miles from London is n well-dressed, well-educatod man who states that he believes that Queen Victoria is on the throne and who says he is puzzled by all the talk about the "Great War."

Yesterday to him is a day 40 years ago when he was playing duck on the rock" near his school, when his schoolmate Ro- hert Blake, who lived near him in the neighbourhood of Minneapolis, United States, threw the rock to- wards him and struck his head. He was 14 then, and everything that has happened since then is n blank.

At some time since he was 14 he has forgotten everything that happened before he was hit by the that time, when stone. At memory filled him, he became Mr. Mayfield.

A few weeks ago, when Mr. May- a steamer Often the chase of it leads over field was travelling in marshes of despair and sloughs of from Siam to London, his nose. despond, batred, and discontent.bled, then' his ears. He fell to the But a fleeting moment of complete floor. He was Mr. Mayfield no huppinces is worth putting forth a longer. Events since he was 14 great effect to secure. Although were forgotten. The forgotten most of us find our joy in pursuing happenings of his boyhood surged the elusive. quality of content-it is hack. divine discontent which is the ins- piration of all things worth while..

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Restlessness.

to

He knew only that he was Mas- ter, Albert Gurney, of Hose, near Minneapolis, that "yesterday" he' had gone, along the railway school, that he had begun to play and Robert Blake bad thrown a stone. In one second he had for- gotten the name that had served him since boyhood his wife, his children, even the languages he had learned in the forgotten

I'may perhaps be more restless than most people, but I am never happy for long in one place. Ilong to dance about the world; it is es- sential for the satisfaction of my son that I should constantly see new faces, fresh countries, other audiences. I could not stagnate-travels of the last few years, I should run away.

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When Daily Mail reporter

Yet, when I travel for long, there are dreadful discomforts and an- noyances. I am constantly being worried about lost, properties and visited him and walked with him in the gardens of the workhouse members of my company who do

a well-read man, not wish to tour further, and I he found him suffer from a sort of aching home-speaking faultless English with a sickness. One cannot go to Russia, full American accent. His face, but 1 long for my spiritual home in calm and smiling, is that of a your beautiful England, and for my good-humoured professional man.

His mind now, apart from the swans and the peaceful surrondings of my Hampstead home. Yet, question of memory, seems quité to be at all happy, I must be con- normal, and he has, of stantly moving on, like some dane- been convinced that many years ing incarnation of the terrible Wan- have elapsed since his boyhood., dering Jew.

Two Americans who met him a fortnight ago calmed him when he saw an aeroplane.

course,

Yesterday he said he did not had know what ragtime is and

his never heard of jazz Of family he said:

I must find ever new stories to weave into the ballets which I love. Something fresh is the eternal cry of my beloved public; 1 must satisfy them ere I can win triumphs for myself. Therefore I am always on the lookout for suitable plots. It may be that I am just home. from a tour, hoping to get a little rest and a little quiet, when some. one who has heard of a story, un earthed by a be-spectacled archaco logist in Egypt, and telling the events that shook the kingdoms of the Upper and the Lower Land thousands of years ago, senis on the outlines to it to me. It sug-with Frank Richards, and when he gests to me a wonderful operatic came back we moved to Chicago. spectacle. What could I not make He was in Kimball's Music House of it with my artists, my orchestra, there. and my dancers!

Father's name is Henry Eben zer Gurney. He was born at married Briantville, Mass. He Nellie Faraham, of Desplaines, Illinois. We moved to Wakegan, then taught Illinois. Father music at the Forest Hill Girl's Seminary, Lake Forest. Then we went to Stuttgart to study music

Then we went on to Minneapolis, where father got a partner, Mr. Wells Hindsdale, and opened music shop called Gurney

Immediately, without even wait- ing for a meal sometimes, I start the whole machinery again. Rest? Why, I should be miserable were inactive, with a plot new-Hinsdale's Music Shop. I went born within my brain.

and

to the Old Washington. School I must get better and better, if there. Mr. Moore was principal. am to remain contented, and this That was 1880. That brings me means devoting myself assiduously to the time when my memory gets to Rose, aix to my profession. Never-ending dim. We moved practice may seem dull-but miles out from Minneapolis. It could not be happy without it. was there that I was hit by the Hard work, this life of a ballerina, stone. I remember no more. but there is still a wonderful feel- ing of elation when some fresh graceful step or a new delightful pose is discovered and prefcéted.

Change.

sees

On the subject of how he lost one part of his memory to regain another, he said:

Now 1

Before I collapsed on board the Tionia had, according to officers and friends on board, talked as a Something new all the time mining engineer. 1 had booked that is where I find happiness. Fin Siam. I had said I had a wife New audiences I play to, say to and two grown-up boys. Passen- themselves "This is the great Pavlova; will she be as wonderful Kers told me afterwards that I

spoke several languages. as reports say?, So often these cannot recall wife or boys, know rumours of famous people are dis- nothing of any profession, canno appointing when one the remember anything of the East. reality."

And I swear to myself and cannot speak any languages that I will not disappoint them, that but my own. As to what has I will surpass their most ardent happened between boyhood and a expectations and desires, that I will few weeks ago, my mind is overpower their whole sense of the blank. My passport is that of a artistic and the aesthetic for two

name of Albert' hours with my personality and the Briton, in the grace of my ballet's dancing. Then Mayfield, and I handed this and my letters to the captain, and I they clamour out their applause.

I live for that applause. It is understand they are held in con- the breath of life to me, it suffuses nexion with, Foreign Offee in- through my being like strong rich quiries,

The man walked with the re wine. I could not be for long with- out it, or, like a flower without air porter to a car, where he said, simply: "Wonderful things, I and rain, I should wilt and fade..

Happiness-ah, my friends, I was astonished when I saw them know it most of all when you lean for the first time on landing." forward after the spell of the danc-

ing has been broken and thank me in your own way for what I and In that my company have donc. moment I am not merely happy I am but little below the gods.

Fishermen a mile off Sunderland- were engaged in a fierce fight for more than half an hour with a 12ft. long shark which became entangled. In the nets. The shark was haul- ed abroad and finally killed with a mallet.

POLAR CAKE

IT'S QUALITY", THAT COUNTS

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AGENTS FOR

ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD

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BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE. UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT

S.S. "KAGINGA"

AUSTRALIA

Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg...

ELLERMAN LINE

8th September.

AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE

1:

Sallings from SINGAPORE on 7th of every month by “OITY OF PALERMO” or “0ITY OF SPARTA"

to Java, Fromkatle, Adelaide, Melbourgs and Sydney and vice vaRSA, Through Freight and Patenger bookings from Hongkong in conjunction with. "Ellerman!" Line, or

other serviona.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE...

S.S. "CITY OF NORWICH". 'S.S. "CITY OF BOMBAY

AMERICAN & MANGKURIAN-EINT

via Suez Canal

-11th September, 9th October.

vis Suez Canal

ALSO AGENTS FOR

ANDREW WEIR & CO.

S.S. "OLIVEBANK"

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SERVICES TO

BOSTON & NEW YORK

Via Suez Canın!

MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

S.S. "TINHOW"

From Hongkong

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AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE 1st October.

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE 25th October,

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Loading for Manritsus, Delagoa Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth), Mossel Bay and

Capetown. Through Bill of Lading issued to Beira, Quilimsine, Ito, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhajobane;

Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and Madagascar.

For freight or passage on any of the above lines apply. Telephone Central 4791.

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OF

HONGKONG, LIMITED,

ENGINEERS.

LENGTH 787, FIAT,

LENGTH ON BLOCKS 780 PEIT

'DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

SILL (H W.O.S.T.) 34 FT. 6 INS.

-THREE SLIPWAYS-

CAPABLE OF HÄNDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT. ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS.

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T. S. S. “SIANG WO"

Passenger & Cargo River Steamer, built and engined at Kowloon Dook, by the Hongkong land Whampoa Dook Co., Ltd, to the order of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.

for service on the Middle Yangtazo, Hankow-Ichang.

Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager :---

R. M. DYER, B. Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Dock, Hongkong.