1935-04-29 — Page 2

IF CHILD IS CROSS WON'T EAT

Take Doctor's Advice Results Will Surprise You

If your precious child won't ent without coaxing, la nervous and un- derweight...dowhat doctore the work över advise: Give him a little Castoria and you will see a marked improvement the first day.

Authorities have found intestinal absorption of poisons to be the cause of mont child nilments. Even when the child's habits may secra regular, poisons seep through the system and do damage, Thøstomach isupset, Foodsdonotdigest properly. The nervealosetheir delicatebalance.

Nothing can correct this insidlou condition quite as easily and natu- rally Castorin. It instes so good children beg for it. And it swiftly. purgeathe fitilosystem of polsons. It Bettles the stomach, improves diges. ~ tion and restoreancevo-polo-Tian- Nature does the rest asonly Nature can. Appetita for food quickly re- turns, Health is restored to normal. And awarexalt the child gain weight fast and becomessturdy and strong. Now take care of your child this safe, drugless way. Get bottle of Castoria and try it. Results will de light you.

CASTORIA

.MEDICINAL SYRUP.

FROM BABYHOOD TO 11 YEARS

MARKED FOR MURDER!.

The Very Rooin

WIra't

could kill.

and.

JEN

Eight people, from the ends of the earth, will enter this 'room! Only seven... will. come out.... alive!.

*The Very Time!

Paramount Picture-with

GERTRUDE MICHAEL PAUL CAVANAGH

HENRIETTA CROSMAN JOHN LODGE and MONTAGU LOVE

ALSO BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS

Opens TO-MORROW at the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TRADE IN ARMS

VICKERS

REFERENCE

TO COMMISSION

AN INQUIRY WELCOMED

A reference to the Royal Com- mission which has been appointed

arm-

to Inquire into the private man- ufacture of, and trade In aments, was made by General. Sir Herbert Lawrence, chairman of Vickern (Lid.)," at

Annual general meeting of the company,, held in London recently.

the

He began by pointing out that, as representatives of the company might be called upon to give

| evidence, It was not desirable

that he should anticipate the in- formation which they would afford.

"I would, however, state," he went on, "that your directors wel- come the Inquiry, arit Ahould provide an opportunity to dispel

exist misconceptions which garding the conduct of armament firms.

-To-

"AL the American inquiry," General Lawrence continued, "ex-

parte statements have been allow

ed,

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1935

EVENING GOWN

Pearl Grey Watered

Silk Dress

BOW AT WAIST

When the corsage of an even- ing gown is low, it in neually very low, as illustrated in this model of peart grey watered silk which has a large hare of the same material tied at the waist.

LOOSE COVERS

unsupported by evidence, which are totally untrue, and ex-of tracts from personal letters have been construed as implying an interpretation for which there is no substance in fact.

"The urnament firms in this country carry on a legitimate! business under strict control by

UNJUST LAW ATTACKED

BID TO AMEND THE VÁGRANCY ACT

!

SLEEP OUT

F3750.

RECORDS

FOR CHILDREN

NURSERY RHYMES. Vocal

..George Baker

THE MEN WHO F5309/10/11. MOTHER COOSE RHYMES. Vocal. Frank Luther.

F2697. THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR.

THE THREE TREES.

Alber Whelan, Comedian, THE HUMS OF POOH, Vocal.

Dale Smith and Lestic Howard, NURSERY RHYMES MEDLEY, New Century Quartet.

Jail will no longer be the penalty | F1656/57, to be paid by those who "sleep out"; because they cannot afford a DB327/28. night's lodging, it a Bill intro-| duced into the House of Commons recently is passed.

4104/05

06/07.

The Bill, introduced by Bri-DB452. gadier-General Spears (U. Car- |lisle), neeks to amoud section four

of the Vagrancy Act, 1924, so far DB706. 18 it relates to persons wandering

abrend and lodging in barns or F2688. other places. It was road for a first time without a division.

Brigadier-General Spears said

FOURTEEN SONGS FROM 'WHEN WE WERE

VERY YOUNG, Vocal TRADITIONAL NURSERY RHYMES. Vocal,

.......). Dale Smith..

Annette Blackwell.

TRADITIONAL NURSERY RHYMES. Vocal.

Annette Blackwell. Vocal. Albert Wholan & Ca

CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY.

the Inw, as it stood, was flagrantly TSANG FOOK PIANO CO

anjual. There Was 10 worse example of one law for the rich and another for the poor,

Sleeping out was a health-giving pursuit which the well-to-do might indulge in under the benevolent eye of the Inw.

A poor man who had not the price of a night's lodging was Jable to be sent to jail under the Vagraney Act for doing the same thing.

a crime,

you are making loose covers, do not forget to allow plenty material for "tacking in" between the sent and back, and I sleeping out were between the arms and back, other surely the criminal was he who wise the material will not hold step out when he had the money its position, and the covers will in his pocket to buy himself a appear to be falling off the chairs shelter and not the poor devil who

could not afford tu do otherwise. after very little wear.

When choostug loose covers or

Government Departments. As the |curtain falries, make quite sure shareholders know, the profits that not only the colour but the during the past 15 years have design will harmonise with the been meagre, yilding but a xinall) Test of the room. return on the heavy capital outlay} on the shops med plant which it is necessity to maintain in case of a national emergency"..

QUESTIONS FOR GOVERNMENT

|

--

SHAREHOLDERS' COMMENTS

on

com-

The law as it stood to-day was a artarie survival of a time when- hand and there was no property ther was much disorder in the

jconsiitutal freedom.

In the period from 1925 to 1929 fthe convictions for sleeping out averaged 2,18 a year. They had tended to decrease, but in 1931 there were 1,612. persona charged with the offence of sleeping out.

of feeling aroused, had set up an The Home Secretary, as a result

inquiry among chief constables, and was convinced that the law required amending. The present Bill had been prepared in close consultation with the Home OMico, was formally read a

Mr. Harvey, of Liverpool, said he came there representing a large number of shareholders who, like himself, wished to protest against "Whether the armaments in-

the unfair way their company was dustry sheuld be Government-

or carried on by private to beat the Government with

used by certain people as a stick owned enterprise; whether the export of every possible occasion. The idea armament to countries lacking was widespread that their manufacturing facilities of their

pany conducted their business on own should be permitted; whethe same lines as the American ther investment to foreign arm- ament firms by British nationals record showed that it was cutirely first time.

company. The Vickers Company'a should be allowed-are questions atriotic at the testing time for the determination of the Govthe Great War. He arpment, but until some different directors not to take the grossly insignificant number of tanks and -policy-is-adopted-it-le-unfair for misleading attacks on their com-aeroplanes to that country.

attacks on armament firms to be made by irresponsible persons,

“To suggest, because your com- pany is engaged on the production

row

of

pany lying down.

of

asked the

The Bill

"Our foreign business," he Mr. Marston, shareholder, added, "Is a very

a

small propar- asked for Information regarding tion of our activities, and I assure the company's connection with shareholders that we sell nothing certain foreiga armament firms. without close scrutiny by the

Government,”

EVERYTHING OPEN'

9 Ice House Street

HONG KONG

USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP

23

21

30

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

race

120

1 The sort of

frequently broadcast. 4 You give it to someone you dix-

like, but it seems rather in- appropriate for a lighterman (two words).

8 Not particular,

Teening with anything among ather things.

10 In a prologue Garrick said the dovil was sooner raised than thin.

IG

and his

1 Tho big, bad one

possible victim provide tung- xten's sourec.

G Dress up and bonst.

6 The sort of music fur the "Beg

xar's opera?" (hyphen).

7 He finishes at the Kent seaside placo: finally they are upset. It's a sln if you look at the end wrongfully; novel-readers_ beware!

13 The nun who weighs his letters must surely be a man of few.

14 One of nature's weapons. IL

17 A rough Indication (hyphen). 19 A saving grace.

11 You may puck its interior:

quadruped uses it for that pur- pose.

12 Does such knowledge suggest the scholar's ready to be plucked? 10 "Where glowing embers through:

the room teach light to counter- felt a (Millon's. I Pon-. Aeroso},

axtato!

tion.

of the means of defence and the equipment required by the

"I am an ex-Regular soldier, like Navy, Army, and Air Force, that

our chairman, who served in Gal- Its directors desire to foster war

fipoli," he anid. "You must know is as untrue as it is unjust.

He said he had written to the 10 For example, in scola: you'll get that men were being killed by guns chairman of the Royal Commission

yours before you're long cruising (hyphen). "Roth the directors and share and shelle manufactured by the to say that the company would put 18 Late. holdera know to their cost the ser company over which he now everything at

the Commission's 21 Child's aliment. and suffering which war presiden. I should like a definite disposal when the Inquiry 23 Dandy about fifty to fall in n

w28 heap entails, the waste of human life assurance that armaments made held. "They can see any papers 24 O had I returned, I should be in and of material, the financial loss in this country are not sold

to they like," he said. "I think there 25 A businesslike sort of founda- which posterity has to bear, and possible future enemies of this is a great deal of misrepresenta- the damage which is done to the country. We do not want a re-tion as to what was said in 29 What a throne may become, if it economic structure of the world.

petition of tho tragedy of America."

doesn't become uno king. 29 A foreign diab, Gallipoli." "Although armaments, for the

The Earl of Dudley appealed to 30 Castles in the air-who knows?

(hyphen). purpose of the national defence of Sir Herbert Lawrence, replying the shareholders to protect their a1 Found in the pond's edge. your country, constitute a great to this and other questions which chairman and his colleagues part of your company's produc- followed, sald that they were cer-against them. "The sooner the tion, the maintenance of

peace tuinly not selling anything to Ger- Government realise that this is a Hand

#td Electric Harenge Holder of is in the best interests both of many. He denied that the com- business and not a philanthropic Diploma and Certificate of Tokyo Denkl Hyoho Kenkyusha (Tokyo, Electrical Care your company and the community pany had a factory In Turkey, institution the better," he ex- tnatitute) and the Hongkong

Sceuse.

though they had supplied anclaimed. 31B, Wyndham Street.

CENTRAL

AT THE MOST POPULAR PRICES TO ALL SHOWS !

COMES OVER TO THE ALHAMBRA ON THURSDAY,

COUNT THE **

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

MRS. MOTONO

I Hand and Eletric Me

Government generally,”

Down

1 Opera. 2 Public school for budding Bur-

geons?

3 "Made glorious summer by this

Hun 01 མ----

(King Richard III., !, 1.).

20 This is where you get down.

21 Sticksberg in the lettuce. 22 Emphasised.

23 A German lady wants hundred for dishonesty.

20 Fish to clean up:

27 tiver goddess? •

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It's Sam's Hobby!

FER TH' LOVA LOUIE! ONE MIN- UTE You're in REGULAR CLOTHES,

AN' TH NEXT YOU'RE IN A RIDIN OUTFIT! WHAT'S THE IORA?

| OH, I BROUGHT THESE)

CLOTHES IN WITH ME- GONNA USE MY LUNCH HOUR TO GET SOME EXERCISE.

BIGOLLY, I COULD. STAND SOME, MYSELF! AND HORSEBACK

RIDIN' IS MY MEAT! I'LL „JOIN YA!

HEY, "THIS IS SWELLO) A GYM! YA LETS GET CAN'T RIDE

GOIN!

•IN HERE!

DUZŻEM

OFFICE

WHO'S GONNA

STOP ME? COME ON IN!

GY

UPSTAIRS

By. Small

NUTHIN' TO IT, Duzz! HURRY UP AN' GIT

IN. SOME RIDING TOGs!

RECIPE, UL. FAT, OFF.

Ø 1936BYNIA TERVITIL, ING.