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DECEMBER 31,

DAY BY DAY.

'THE` JEALOUSY OF "A" LOVER 18 A HOMAGE; THAT OF A HUSBAND 18 AN INSULT.-Carmen Sylva.

Health campaigns are now quita a common feature oven In China Proper. At Canton, we notico, a large-scale movement along these lines has just boon started, in The next issue of the Hongkong which the authorities are co-Telegraph will be on Wednesday. operating with various public or-

We take this opportunity of wish. ing our renders a Happy and Prog ganisations. This has been pre-porous Now Year. ceded by a general clean-up of the city, whilst several procesalona

have been held for the purpose of of Commerce is opening a library.

The Chinese General Chamber

stressing by slogans the necessity to-morrow at 2 p.m. Later, len wili of modern sanitation and hygiene. be served. Cinema pictares and publle lee tures in the Central Park havo H.M.S. Cumberland arrived at been amongst the moans also Tourang on Sunday from Hong-

her southern cruise.

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1928.

ST. GEORGE'S BALL.

DANCE PROGRAMME FOR

lows!

FRIDAY.

The dance" programme for St. George's Ball on Friday is as fol- Extra-Every little while Extra-Chopinata

1. Lancers--Operatica 2. Waltz-For Evermore 3. Fox Trot-I thank the Moon

4. Fox Trot-Pangics

Fox Trot-Why should you 6. Waltz Song is ended

Cry

6.

7.

One Step-Savoy Medley of

Medleys

8. Fox Trot-My blue Heaven 9. Fox Trot-Stay out of the

South

The Very Idea!

"My God It's my brother." These wore the words with which

young waitress, Miss Betty Po- well, greated a soldier customer at Cardiff restaurant. The man was James Powell, who, as a private in the Royal Army Service Corps,. left homo for foreign service in 1914. Two years lator he was' further efforts to trace him were officially reported missing, and all " in vain. His parents and his sis- ters, who live in Elm-street, Cár diff, gave him up as dead. Con- fronted by his astonished sistor Powell said: "Is it you, Bet!"

adopted in the campaign, whilst kong, completing the first stage of 10. Fox Trot-Rather cry over An afirmative reply and brother:

You

11. Waltz-Diann

bandbils have been scattered broadcast by adroplanes. It is! hoped that this movement wifi spread to other towns in the pro- vince, and the polat emphasised by the organisers is that the health

measuras urged should be permanently borne in mind and not, merely observed for the time,

Mra, Ilichards, Mre. Womack, Mr. Hannibal and Mr. Burnst& con- being. The people are being im-tributed towards a very enjoyable pressed with the fact that not concort at the Military Hospital on alone for the individual, but for Friday, Thy, entertainment the community generally and the arranged by the Rev. Mr. Upsdoll.. whole nation, is it necessary that wise rules for the safeguarding of health should be kept in mind. Here In Hongkong, thero may not be the same need for campaigns of this character as in some cities

Amongst passengers arriving here to-day from Manila by the as. President Jackson vero Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Patterson, Mr. and About Hong Kong Mrs. G. B. S. Thompson, and Mr. P. M. Hodgson,

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, DEC. 31. 1928.

PUBLIC HEALTH.

should much like to see far more

.WEB

It is announced that to-night, New Year's Eve, the 9 pm, time signals on the radio mast at the Observatory will be repeated from 11.85 p.m. to midnight; the Inst gnal indicating the close of the

year 1928.

Do you know that---

and sister were embracing. At

12. Fox Trot What do we care the same restaurant was employed another sister, Gladys. She was called up, and recognised her bro-. ther by the photographs sho lind of him. When he left sho was only three. The girls then took their brother home. The door was opened by Mra. Powell. "My. boy" she cried, "where have you been?" The son sald simply that ho had been round the world as a companion to a man interested in greyhounds. His father was in formed, and the family of 15 had one of the most remarkable unions of post-war days.

1

It was once planned to transport convicted prisoners from Hongkong to Australia?

In 1844 a proclamation was fasued by the Governor stal- ing that offenders under sen- tence for transportation would be sent to Van Diemen's Land

(West Australis) and Norfolk. Island.

This order was, however, rescinded, in the following year, on instructions from the Home Government to the effect that no provision had been made in Australia for the reception of convicts.

The above item concludes the series of historical facts concerning Hongkong. Ed. H.K.T.]

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The housewife had repeatedly been called to the door by travel- lers, beggars, and other canvass ing conversationalists. On this occasion she found herself staring

at

a sharp-nosed, be-spectacled woman who immediately said, in a brisk, business-like fashion, "Be- fore I go any further, have you electric light?"

The housewife, in an equally business-liko manner-"Before

health propaganda carried out A Chinese, 23 years of age, wan rentoved to, the Government Civil than is the case. This should be Hospital yesterday following an inadé continuous, and especially accident at the Ching Sugar at a time like the present, with Refinery, when the man was crush-you go any further, I have an elec- smallpox so provalent, would it be wise to embark on a big publicity scheme aiming at the snieguarding of public health.

The Prayer Book,

ed between a motor boat and the refinery's pler.

13. Fox Trot-Tall dark and

14. . During, the week-end, 22 fur- ther cases of small-pox have been 15. notified. Of these, 12 were from 10. Kowloon districts and the remain- der from Victoria registration dis-17.

Chinese.

10.

liandsomo

Fox Trot-Suasles Sister

remember

Fox Trot-Why do I always Waltz Just a little fond

affection

Fox Trot-Westward bound Fox Trot Always a way to

remember

Fox Trot-In a little dream

nest

20, Waltz-Ramona. At 11.15 last night a report was 21. Fox Trot-Toy Town Artil- made at the Gough Hi Police

lery Station, to the effect that private 22, Fox Trot-Rain.. motor car No. 1867, was found

The first supper, at 11.15 p.m., lying in a damaged condition on will be after the 8th dance, the the side of the rond near the Penk second after the 18th and the Church. show that the car has been slightly third after the 17th. damaged in a collision, the detalls of which were not reported.

Enquiries this morning

It is evident from Home paperstrict. Another British case figures 18. to hand that the quarrel in then the 1st, the other 21 being Some two months ago,

when Church regarding the Revised small-pox first began to make its Prayer Book has not ended with appearance, the view was express-its rejection by the House of Comi- ed at a meeting of the Sanitary mons. So far from the case is Board that the outbreak did not this, indeed, that the situation is It was show signs of becoming serious, rather disquieting. and thore Was & hope that the thought to be sufficiently prove number of cases would diminish cative when the Bishops decided to permit certain 'illegal' practices rather than Increase, Unfor

in churches where the incumbent tunately, this forecast has not and his parishioners agreed in the been fulfilled, for the disease in matter. The evangelists have re-: epidemic form is still with us.cently had another rude shock in Since the latter part of October, the announcement that the Church | over four hundred cases have been | Assembly's Central Board of Fin- not!fied, with more than a hundredance have authorised the publica- deaths, and at the moment it tion of the rejected Prayer Book. would appear that the outbreak Strong protests have been made all has by no means run its course. over the country, fooling running As is usual, Chinese figure most very high regarding the bureau- in the returns, although we have lind at least two British cases notified, one unhappily proving fatal. It is to be presumed that the authorities are fully alive to

CORRESPONDENCE.

A.D.C. THANKED,

To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir-Would you please allow

BOLSHEVISM IN MUSICAL AFFAIRS?

tric vacum cleaner." Slam!

"How many times am I to be sworn at before I retallato?"

woman at Bow County Court.

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Magistrato at Tottenham-What. have you to say? Man-Guilty. Magistracy-Well, brovity is the soul of wit.

Judge Crawford at Southend- What colour were your stockings? Woman-Beige. Judge-I have never heard of that colour before.

Willesden woman, summoned for. keeping a ferocious dog-He evi- dently thought the postman was going to bite me, so he bit first.

"I remember everything quite

well. You do not liave the plen-

sure of being in a motor car acci dant every day." A witness at Bow County Court,

To-day's Dog Story.-"Before the advent of motors a cousin of mino chiefly living in town," writes a correspondent, had a fino THE ORCHESTRA WITHOUT A fox terrlor 'Spot, whom he was in

CONDUCTOR,

the habit of taking out for a walk In the morning. Ono day he had taken him out as usual, but lost him. On his return home Rome hours after he was told that "Spot

It is characteristic that Moscow, the capital of Soviet Rusala, should be the birthplace of the first or chestra without a conductor, tho (First Symphonic Ensemble)., so called Persimfans Orchestra had arrived in a handsom

It "The driver got down and ask- cratie outlook of the Assembly; me, on behalf of Mr. Charles Mac-is obvious that Bolshevint Ideas ed for his fare. He said that ho The printing of the Book, which dona, to express through the medi has no legal standing, under um of your paper my great ap official auspices can only be re-preciation for the kind netion of garded with the gravest concert, the Hongkong Amateur Dramatic and, as pointed out at Liverpool, Club in postponing their dates in

the danger of the situation and It seems a direct encouragement that they are taking every possible to the Bishops to proceed with a step to prevent a' spread of the policy about which very serious disease. The great majority of doubts have been expressed. The the cases come from Kowloon, dia- excuse, If it may so be called, that tricts, and we trust that the areas has been given, is wondrous. It is suid that the Book is in great mostly affected are being concen-

demand, the consequence being trated on with a view to securing that if the Bishops withheld an early stamping out of the official permission, all sorts of

presses would print the Book, or portions of it, without any guar-

our favour?—Yours, etc.

T. A. RANDALL. Advance Manager: The Mac-

dona Players, Hongkong, Dec. 31st, 1928.

"MOCKERY,'

"

LON CHANEY'S LATEST THRILLER.

"Mockery," Lon Chaney's new

played # purt, in this. It was sitting on his cab in the cab was intended that the collecti- rank In Piccadilly when the dog vist conception that no ona suddenly jumped in. He got down- personality should dominate the and put him out; but he soon reat but the will of the community jumped in again. He then thought

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be carried out, should also be he would look at the dog's collar, realized in art.

and finding a name and address ha On the occasion of a recent tour forthwith drove him to his houso, concert in Berlin of the "Leipzig in Seymour-strect, Periman-squaro. Unconducted Symphony Orchest", "Of course the fare was gladly I was forced to the conclusion that paid. My cousin was in the habit this attempt to apply collective of occasionally taking a handsom methods of thought to the orchestra though not as a rule. Surely this and orchestral performances han

was reason, not instinct, on the proved a failure. The visitors from Leipzig played a Beethoven part of 'Bpot.' symphony and Beethoven's violin concerto. It must be admitted that [The Lord Mayor of Nottingham, disease. So far as the public

they played the symphony correct having done a beat" for hun- generally is concerned, the ad-

ly and with expression but there dreds of applicants, confesses his was a certain lack of freedom in failure as a matrimonial opent.] vianbility of inoculation cannot be antee of its accuracy. A curious picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer execution, for the very reason that The bold Lord Mayor of Notting- too strongly stressed. In this contention of this kind takes us which opens at the Queen's the musicians in doing without a

ham connexion, n ́tribute must be paid back to the argument concerning Theatre on Thursday, is a drama- conductor have to devote too much to the energies of members of the the action of the Bishops in flouttle mystery play of the Russian attention to time-keeping and cor- rectness and thus cannot be free in St. John Ambulance Brigade, who ing the authority of Parliament. revolution.

their execution. This was particu- Chaney plays the role of a aró doing a splendid work amongst It is difficult to see how any part

larly pronounced in the accompanf- of the Book can be accurate until strange, hermit-like peasant who ment of the violin concerto, in Chineso population. Some

worships it has received the consent of the classes and is content to bo her It was evident that he missed the a girl of the upper which even the soloist was cramped. Iden of the extent of their activi- Commone. There

little slave if he can only norve her. conductor, who detects the Intention ties may be gained from the fact room for doubt that the Bishops Then by a strange turn of fate, of the soloist with the greatest de that within less than a month they | are pursuing a steady policy of she is placed absolutely in his licacy of feeling and compels the

respect it. have given free vaccination to ignoring the twice-made decision power. The bloodshed and hor- musicians

Public Concerts. close' on 200,000 people. In this of Westminster, and a widening of ror of the revolution rages about

them. The peasant becomes a The preparations for a public

The Queen of Swaziland way, the Brigade / ↑ proving a real the breath will be the inevitable leader, and, drunk with his power, concert, the orchestral rehearsals, asset to the Colony, by supple- result, We do not profess to un- be all but destroys the thing he, are quite inconceivable unless ono mother of the King) is to be menting and facilitating the work derstand the underlying object of had loved. His love changes to will seizes the authority and im baptised into the Wesleyan church "the King is friendly to the mis of the health authorities. A pica- recent moves; but if the Bishops brutality and then the unexpected poses Itself on the rehearsal work and it is explained that

happens in a most dramatic of the community. We are there slug feature is the freedom with are bent on Discstablishment it climax and the peasant pays with fore confronted by s merely childish alonaries, but as ho has eighty would be good for them to come his life for a disaster he could affair when the possessor of this wives, it is not easy for him to be

the

which the Chinese masses are com~ ing forward for inoculation. Not many years ago, vaccination was anathema to the majority of the

Chinese populace, but the benefits have now come to be so much ap- preciated that vaccinators are kept extremely busy in the campaign which has been started. This growing recognition of the value of proventive treatment is one of

out into the open.

Made matches by the score. When would-be bridges and

groome applied,

Ho tled 'em up galore. Alas! The knots were not secure for- The pairs their vows

awore.

So the Lord Mayor of Notting-

Jam

Is knotting 'em no more.

come."

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strong will, whether he be a pro come a Christian." not avert

fessional conductor or an able ment No man can better plead Scrip- As the strange mujik of darken-ber of the orcheats, is compelled tura¡ excuso: “I have married a ed Russia, Chaney has a role rich to withdraw on the occasion of pub wife, and therefore I cannot Mr. Van Epps, residing at No. 41 in unsusal and startling oppor-lic performances. Morrison Hill Road, has made a tunity, Illa supporting cast is onc Famous international conductors, that whilst driving his car, No. Bedford as leading lady and strong individuality and the charm report to the polico to the effect of ability, headed by Barbara who delight the audience with their 114, in Queen's Road, near Queen's Ricardo Cortez as the young of their personal interpretations, Street yesterday, he knocked down officer, she loves.

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