1930-09-25 — Page 6

The Finest Stout

at Beer Prices!!

Whitbread's.

Bottled by the Brewer!

Price per case 6 doz. $33.00 Duty paid.

dozen

**

"

Sole Agents:-

$ 5,60

do,

CO.,

LTD.

A. S. WATSON &

:

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

Established 1841.

NEW

VICTOR

RECORDS

TO-DAY!

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

CHATER ROAD.

DRESSING

GOWNS.

IN

THE NEWEST MATERIALS. FOULARD, MACCLESFIELD

SILK.

MARROCAIN

and

English Spun Silk Prices from'

$25.00 to $65.00

We have just received a delivery of these

gowns.

Call and inspect them while our stocks are

complete.

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1930.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW

WHAT STUDEBAKER HAS BUILT FOR G$895.00?

WE CAN SHOW YOU

TO-DAY!

DISTRIBUTORS OF STUDEBAKER CARS AND TRUCKS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA,

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE.

25, Queen's Road, C.

ard at STUBBS ROAD.....

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPT, 25 · 1930,

A PAGE FROM THE PAST.

venture was a tremendous gamble, with death as a side stake. Yet there is another, a greater, aspect of the question.

One imagines that even had Andree and bia men known of the almost certain disaster that faced their attempt, with almost primi- tive flying equipment, to drift across the top of the world, they would all the same have set forth;

DAY BY DAY

FAME IS A BUBBLE THAT BREAKS IN OUR HANDS WHEN WE GRASP IT.

J. Melvor Tyndall.

Mass-Production in

Entertainment.

ין

A. Chinese case of typhoid was has become a commonplace to has its own restriction, and one gird at the advance of “machine which does militate against "a notified yesterday.

made" art-to suggest that the minority progranime-the restric- further, we get from the physical tion of time. Whatever enfran- A Chinese boy was sentenced to presence of the artist the lower the chisment the air provides, there on the venture. It is that spirit, four months' imprisonment by intellectual level must be, and the cannot well be much more than springing afresh in individuals be-H. R. Butters at. Kowloon this more limited and less precise the welve hours to the radio's working longing to various races, and exem- morning for having stolen from aj expression. But is. this entirely day.

On the whole, it has to be udmit- plified in each successive genera an near the Ming Sing Theatre, true? Is it not possible that the

Lai Chi Kok Road, a purse contain-fact of a machine being a machine ted that Sir John Reith or his, con- tion, that makes men pause awhile ing 85 cents.

whether it be organ, plano, trolling board, or whoever may be in the hurry of commerce and the

microphone, radio-set, film-camera, responsible, do look after the sup- televisor or gramophone-disc has plying of a certain amount of "the pursuit of pleasure to admire in

Charged before. the Hon. really nothing whatever to da with best for the best" a good deal bet tacit acknowledgment of a greater, Commdr. G. F. Hole, at the Marine vital deficiencies?

ter than the dictators of the na- So far hs concerns the presenta- tion's screen. nobler type. There is thus nothing Court this morning, the master of

a trading junk was fined $10, with tion of ideas, machines can prob- One would probably meet with much for us to say when a man the alternative of 10 days hard ably be relied upon, thanks to ht some pretty forcible language if like Andree comes to his appointed labour, for failing to carry the re-man invention, to find a means of one wore to suggest to some of our end. It is idle to wish that it gulation lights whilst under way correcting and improving them-alm-magnates the presenting of a selves exactly to the extent of the "talkie" on Thucydidies or Milton, could have been otherwise the

demand logically made upon them or hint that an hour of the un- Andrees, the Amundsens and the

Any forfeiture of the value of art avoidable jazz-band should be pre A Chinese female, named Wong for which they are to blame is only faced by fifteen minutes of a selec- Scotts died us they would have Ng-heung, attempted to commi wished. We can, indeed, only re-suicide by jumping into the har-temporary. The true appeal con- tion from the Poet Laureate's bour from the Ferry Man Sang atinues to exist in-and only in works. Moreover, one must allow peat that other epitaph for another 10.30 a.m. yesterday whilst the boat self, declares S. R. Littlewood in the programmes between the Na

what emanates from the artist him- that in the main the "splicing" of explorer who went to the Polar lone-was on its way from Hongkong to Home paper.

ional, London Regional, Midland, liness to meet his fate.-"Here died Mongkok. A seaman, Tam Shing,

No more completely machine and other stations is cleverly ar- rescued the woman who was taken made product from a material ranged. a very gallant gentleman."

to the Kwong Wah Hospital.

point of view-and no convention more remote from the man res- ponsible and the thing expressed "I'm the Devil," proudly pro-

be imagined claimed a Chinese to Inspector could, for instance, After very many weeks of an-Shaftain at the Central Police Sta-than the printed book. The arrival of radio time is wasted xiety, it is refreshing and reassur.tion last night when he was taken of Sir John Simon's voice in three things that can be, and indeed are

The Extremists Confounded.

trust and faith

►

in the harbour.

....

centuries.

1

at the time of

Radio News.

On the other hand one cannot help suggesting that an enormous

on

this

A very different matter, however,"

to the charge room after having million parlours ing to read, in the latest official re-chased and assaulted a man in the utterance is not anything like 30-supplied more efficiently from some ways sother sources. The reproduction view of the situation in India, that street. The police took him at his complicated or in the masses are beginning to lose word and promptly transferred marvellous a business as the con-of Covent Garden opera may be at is only one Covent Garden, and to hundreds of millions across three only a few thousand people can be in the Congress him to the Mental Hospital where vegance of Shakespeare's thoughts once welcome and delightful. There agitators. One cannot read through he is now an inmate.

here. The conveying ek The First Folio, so largely reseautiful thing for the delectation the summary of the outlook with- out realising that the extremists "You are an old offender and a ponsible for this phenomenon, was, have badly overstepped themselves. banishce. It seems you have reas we all know, a wretchedly bad of millions who would not conceiv sumed your activities." said Mr. mechanical achievement. We have ably have any other chance of hear- They seemingly imagined that by Lindsell at the Central Police Court since reformed that indifferently, ing it is obviously true economy. adopting a stubborn attitude in the this morning when shown the pre-but it is Shakespeare "off the ma is the spending of precious minutes peace negotiations they would still vious record of a man who pleaded chine" that we get still, and we are over so-called "news," most of further fan the fames of revolt, guilty to a charge of "fishing" a duly thankful.

With the much-abused talk-film the evening papers, and a great which has been long obtainable in Nowadays it is the spectacular but, so far from that happening, jacket from the ground floor of 146,

the policy has had an opposite ef- First Street, during the early hours the trouble is not the machine,deal of which might be quite safely of this morning. The defendant which improves daily, but the postponed till the next morning. | and sensational that attracts. The feet. There are, as a consequence, was given six weeks' hard labour. gecessity for mass-production, and When it is an affair of first-class

the consequent restriction of the present generation, reared in an unmistakeable signs that popular

quality of what is produced to the interest, whether of work or play, such as the Naval Conference, the atmosphere of scientific attain-resentment against the civil dis

Carrying 9,761 tons of molasses tastes of the majority.

Derby, or a Test Match, for which ment, accustomed to the records of jobedience movement is increasing.

The Gramophone.

a dramatic value is given by a Atlantic lights, wireless communi. It is also placed on record that the for Hongkong, the Athelsultan ar-

spenker on the spot, one does not, ing from Sourahaya and Sama- How little mechanism itself mat-of course, feel anything but cation with explorers in Polar re-people are now convinced, by hardived in Hongkong yesterday morn gions, and the like, and able to facts, that the hopes held in cer-rang. She is under the command ters is shown in the history of the gratitude. But is there any reason Cain quarters of a collapse of Bri- of Capt, H. Jones with a crew of gramophone. Here is no, restric-why the listener-in should have. learn from books written in sim-tish power are mythical. Whilst 42 British officers and men. She tion at all, for there is room for forced upon him long lists of minor pie language all there is to know all this is true. however, it would is owned by the United Molasses a gramophone in every household, sporting results, Stock Exchange Co., for. whom the Pare Cane and a record can be kept as long quotations, shipping forecasts, and about the uttermost corners of the be the height of folly to imagine Molasses Co. are the local agents, as one wishes, and put on at any fat-stock prices? earth, has perhaps dismissed with that the trouble in India is now

Of 5.259 tons nett, the Athelsul-time. The result is that we do I have on more than one occasion scant interest the news items re-

over for good and all. Obviously, tan is now discharging her cargo. get a gramophone-market for thel tried to escape from these only to more-exacting minority well and find that the other English stations garding the ill-fated Andree ex-the chagrin of the Congress leaders

profitably served.

are engaged upon similar incor The local office of the Nippon So far from the mechanical pro-sions into a domain' already pedition to the Arctic: Yet these is liable to increase the activity of

the malcontents, with the result Yusen Kaisha has received advice duction of gramophone-records presumably fully covered, and one gallant Swedish adventurers set a that constituted authority has to from Seattle through its Head having any bad effects upon the which does not happen to be my standard of daring in their own be on the que vive all the time. It Office in Tokyo that the new motor art purveyed, it is astonishing what own as a fairly representative period which was unexampled. and may not be too much to hope, ship Hiye Maru, which left Yoko-perfect recording of the very finest licensee. A faint pursuit of Con- in a perusal of their misfortunes, though, that the worst period has hama on the 26th August, made vocal and instrumental work-nottinental wave-lengths has all too

very good time in crossing the to mention Nature's own sym- often been the only refuge. as set out in the leader's diary, we been passed. The task of British Pacific Ocean on her maiden yoy phonics-has been achieved and In the same way, whilst no one learn how brave men faced the authority, in this restless country age from Yokohama to Race Rock, made available.

will challenge the indebtedness of There remains the hazards which in their case were

has been one of extreme difficulty, | doing it in 10 days, 13 hours, and

greatest millions to the B.B.C. for good calling for the utmost tact and pa-39 minutes. She arrived at Seattle mechanical adventure of all-that music, the extent to which hotel far more perilous than modern re-tience and a judicious combination via Victoria B.C. on 5th Septem of the wireless"-soon, perhaps, dancing is made to bulk in the na search has rendered exploration to- of power and restraint. In parti-ber, being just one full day ahead to be reinforced even for general tional life might well give some day. It is a strange coincidence cular, the Viceroy has been placed that, soon after the discoveries in in a most unenviable position as the Franz Josef Land, relics of the link between the Indian people and Franklin expedition northward of the British Government. But he the Canadian ice wastes should have has shown high qualities of states- manship throughout, despite the also been brought to light. May campaign of villification in which these serve as reminders to us, who some of our politicians at Home read without a thrill of recent have indulged. If the present lim- | flights over the Poles, that men have faced almost certain death, again and again, with no other incentive

proved outlook is maintained, then both the Indian authorities and the Imperial Government will come out of the troubles with increased pre-

than the desire to learn something stige for their handling of a situa that might be of benefit to the whole tion of almost unparalleled gravity. of mankind.

CORRESPONDENCÉ.

A Denial.

To The Editor of Hongkong

Telegraph.].

When the sealers a few weeks ago stumbled across three frozen corpses in the Arctic wastes they brought to a conclusion one of the great mysteries of thirty-three years ago. Nothing had been heard of Andree's expedition since he vanished with two companions to wards the close of last century. Sir, With reference to the re- They had become a trio of those port appearing in your issue of bizarre, appealing figures that take last evening under the heading "Footballer Sent to Prison" where- on an added glamour of romance bein It was stated that Tse Kiu-shun, cause they simply vanish. They the accused, was a South China had drifted north into the Arctic footballer, and played for this. silence, and the silence had swallow-Association during the past sea- son, I am directed to state that the ed them. Every new Polar at said Tae Kiu-shun was not a mem- tempt, every new Polar tragedy, ber of this Association and has served to recall their disappearance. never represented this Association

in any of ite, athletic activities. The expedition became something Yours, etc. of a legend, with the primitive balloon in which they dared 2,300 miles of utter desolation. Now the mystery is over, and in the simple words of the diary we learn of that

A report made to the police last epic contest with ice and unendur-night by Yau Sik aged 10, of 154 able hardship. There are those who Sal Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok, was to the effect that the lad was

WONG KA-TSUN, Hon. Gen. Secretary.. Hongkong, Sept. 25th, 1930.

---—མ-- #

may say that Andree, and his com-bitten by a dog in Whitfield Bar- panions Fraenkel and Strindberg, racks where he is employed as a were mere daredevils, who accom- mess washer. His condition is not plished nothing. Certainly the ad-regarded as being serious.

of her schedule.

purposes by television. This alsol

(Continued on Page 7.)

Se Salehelor

"How do you like my new perfume, Cyrano?”