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SHANGEAL Feb. 1, Vincent Dawson, third officer of the Bl.a. Takada" has been come mitted for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of attempting grievous bodily harm against a police coast- able. The evidence showing that the travelling in a ricaba.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1931.
FAMINE RELIEF.
HEROIG SELF-DENIAL.
PAGES FROM A DIARY.
PEKING, Jan. 25. the news columns of the China Mail,
Latest, reports of distress and death are charged for at the rate of $1 in the famine areas emphasize in de each, (as announced in May and June|tail the conditions that prompted in-
YAUMATI GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL
The annual prize distribution of the Yaumati Government School was held this morning. The Headmaster pre............... sided, and the prizes were given sway by Mrs. Pacros de Martin.
in the course of his report the. Headmaster mentioned that the aver
of last year) providing that they do fluential Chinese and foreign leaders se attendance in 1920 was the same as in the previous year; viz. 263. At not occupy more than four lines. Isto plan a united famine fund campaign the annual examination in July 202 future if this space is exceeded they for next month. will be placed in the advertising columns at the prevailing rates.
THEATRE ROYAL
DENNISTON PLAYERS.
THE CO-RESPONDENT.
dy
These repons written to the Pekings passed out of 267. The staff United Farmine Relief Committee now consisted of one English master, show that the meagre supplies of food, 10 local masters and three vernacular masters, and there were ten classes. consisting of husks, cobs, and a little In September Mr. Brawn was trans grain are being rapidly depleted, that ferred to Victoria Britsh School and more than thirty persons have SIP-
the school bed also to regret the cumbed to.cold and exposure in one
departure of Ms. Brawn The district, but that through is all, the Library, which now contained 571 people are showing a commendable heroism through retaining their pride bocks, continued to be extensively which keeps them from begging until mittee of two masters and seven boys."
It was managed by a com- life itself is endangered.
The discipline of the school was excellent. In this regard weful assistance was rendered by the pre-
In "The Corespondent, the Den aiston Players at the Theatre Royal last night maintained the record of successes with which their season here has been marked. The play is ravages.
used.
Even more starting are the reporta of further mids. From no to Eve
The health of the school was villages are captured and sacked every st night, the field agents report, and also excellent. is the autum the there seems to be rig way to stop the whole school was examined by Dr..
tory. A number, of bays whose eye-
Isnr. It is reported that work is ALLEGED UNLAWFUL SHOOTING- now in progress on half a dozen Quild contracts in various parts of the country, and that before long this number will be considerably nore than abled. Say trebled. That is not much of a reply to the shortage, which is due, we should remember, less to the machiavel luism of capital than to the extra wrdinary taxation of an extravagant Gaventurn, which discourages in Testment in such enterprise. Yet if it is seen to be a good thing it spread rapidly. It is feasible. The builders are working under foremen elected by the Guilds, and are assured regular pay even when bad weather. interipts the work, a drawback to which builders have hitherto been liable. This assur- 330e comes out of the money that would have gone as profit-to the Contractor, we are told. The ful maintenance of the worker, as a first charge on the cost of the
SHANGHAL, Feb. L derating is a Guild principle, and it is this which has become an
Mr. Hutchison, the British Assessor ksne between the Government and at the Mixed Court has delivered a the Building Trade Unions. We startling judgment in the case in which have lately heard a good deal about a Chinese dealer was charged with the wickiness of the builders smuggling rice to Hongkong. The Unions in refusing to allow the case was dismissed on the ground Government to offer building job that the recent municipal proclama
The Headmaster took the opportu- Ltd. is that ex-service cention for bidding rice profiteering is
executed. wha are out of work, and it is only not legal until ratified by a meeting hot that we hard from this article of ratepayers. The community is
schools in his section. Eight of thesey of impressing upon parents and guardians, that it was very important hat the 'nams are quite willing disagreeably surprised at the limita- lis preparing to ge through a mar- are in Jao Yang Hsien, the southed for the boys that they should 'attend
riage ceremony with a girl from a most sien of the seven in the Paci country town in New.. England, tingto Seld.
Students are enrolled She has the surrounding area, fourteen by name Anne Gray. no suspicion of his deception, villages often being represented in the Just as the false ceremony is about student body of 100 pupils. Every to be carried through, however, few days each student receives his
PRIZE LIST.- detectives arrive on the scene, and money allowance at the rate of seven she discovers that he is being pursued coppers a day and the schools make ik King Scholarships to Queen's Cass -Sun Shek Yung. Chan for evidence a divorce suit which admirable centres for dispensing re- his wife a contemplating. She fees. lief. It rightly handled these will be Class 5. Chung King and makes her way to New York, of lasting bereft to the districts. MScholarship to Class 4). Wong Sing.. where she secures a position as a Cross believes. Hair net classes: Li Chi Yong, reporter on one of the daily news have also been organised as relief Class 6A-Fung Siu. Ki, Wong
measures. Students who become pro-Fak Kwan. papers.
Ecient in this work return to the vil- lages and instruct others.
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"VALCHICH-On January 15, 1921. at Trieste, Inly, to Captain and Mrs. A. Valchich, a son. HEARNO January 26, 1921, at Shanghai, to Rev. and Mrs. Thos. A. Hearn, No. 18, Quin
san Rozd, a 509.
MARRIAGE.
this flotkin of us with notions of the municipal council, Lunion falours if the Government
THE FINAL MEETING.
BRITISH CONSUL'S TRIBUTZ.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
will admit that principle, that the WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. jah itself should ensure a regular The living to those engaged.
Government refuses so far. It will not promise that when the bartir! is past it will see that a first charge on the industry covers the risk of non- or shack employment for a | dilutoi lubour force. The principle seems fair, and if the situation is
SHANGEAL, Feb. 2. as" represented, it is the Gotern-
At the final meeting of the Chica ment which is provoking God by-
and Japan War Savings Association fore the brillers. This need not Sir Everard Fraser, Consul General surprise use The Coalition govern for Great Britain, who proposed the
gulless 2 If this Guild a survives winding up, which was carried paid departmental entity and becomes a high tribute to the work of the a sikens, we shall see it spreading organization during its brief existence. to other trades. Meanwhile, as a fitting tag to these thoughts abour
ment we now have is gang.
nülder, here you have a ample of simple little verses by Edwin Mark har:
We are alt blind until we see That in the bonsari plan Nothing is worth the making it It does not make the man.
Why build these cities gloriont
If rau unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the work unless
The builder also grows.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL...
Another clean bill of health, the third in succession, was returned for the Colony yesterday.
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A new note was struck in the town of Singapore, with the appear- ance of policemen on point duty wearing khaki helmets, instead of the usual round black capa.
Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, American reference to "jerry building, one Consul General at Tientsin, was to Tobiah. an Aranite, suggesting arrive in Shanghai on Friday, Janu that even the stealthy padded fox ary 28. He is on a week's leave and would knock down a stone, wall will visit Shanghai and Hongkong- erected by these feeble Jews,. Here in Hongkong we have a particular
The police have found one half
necessary spectacles were provided.
The School finished second in the
a comedy drama, having considerably Every line of the report sent by Woodman whose repon was satisfac- mare substance than the farces, how- Rowland Cress from Jao Yang Hsien ever enjoyable they have been, and by Misses Selma O. Moberg and sight was reported as defective were which they have presented for several Martha A. Brann from Weihsien, in-camined by Dr. Harston and where nights, and as shewing the versatility dicates that the united drive should be of the members of the company was intensive and national in scope. They Junic Schools Footbal, League
also show that the relief measures played S. lost 1. drawn 1, won 6- an excellent medium.
The story, as staged, has its begïs are efficiently and conscientiously sing in a small railway junction hotel, where the wealthy Langdon Van Kreel, under an assumed name,
A
the
The scene then shifts to New York chiefly to the office of the managing editor of the newspaper on which she romance has is employed. developed rapidly between ber of his staff. Information comes managing editor and the new men- to the managing editor that the Lang- don Van Kreel divorce auit has been filed, and be sends the girl reporter to NEW TRIBUNAL SUGGESTED. interview Mrs. Van Kreel. It is then,
SHANGHAI HIKED COURT.
PROPOSAL NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
{Chino Mail SPECIAL].
Mr. Cross reviews the work of the
Included in the letter are pages from the diary kept by Mr. Cross. Some of them follow
train had to wait while a train of On the way to Pratingle our empty cars passed at full speed but there are two traics of grain on the tracks at Photinglu and Me, Baker is on the job.
for the first time, that the girl learns
**On, my way to visit the chow she is named as co-respondent in the divorce suit, as a result of the incident changs outside the city I passed long in the junction hotel when Van Kreel, lines of women stamping along over bogus the road, carrying their buckets of just before the intended ceremony, had registered them al food. "One woman said she was dying Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon of cold while another, well dressed A tense situation - is created, and of good family, said she had been A Peking advice states that which is relieved by the ad- to the chow chang because there was recent meeting of the Judicial Remission of Van Kreel that the girl no other way. She said she was search Committee discussed proposals was entirely innocent, and by the ashamed that she had to beg. for the abolition of the Shanghai withdrawal of the divorce suit by mixed court." substituting a new Mrs. Van Kreel.
SHANGHAL, Feb. 1
points 13.
early and not be withdrawn for viz reasons, and in conclusion anked his colleagues for their valo- able work during the time he had been at the school."
College).
San
Class 6B.-Leang Ping Hia (Scholarship & Class 5). Chan Chang Chio. Leung Ka Chow
Class 7A.---Chan lu Hing (Scholar- ship to Class 61. Chan Pang Hing, Cái Cao H
Class 78.-1êung Kai Ho "Class 7C-Chan Tar Sang. Class
SA. - Chan Wing Ki Scholarship to Class 7), Li Pang Fong. Lo Tu Hing-
Class 8B.-Chan, Chak Is, Cran Wing In.
Class 80-Cheung Yerng Chau, Fung Chun Pow
Class 8D.-Chan Kam Wing-Targ ¡Po Lam
Vernacular Prizes.-Class 4. Lai King Chau; Class 5, Chung King San; Class 6a, Shi Man Chung; Class 6b, Leung Ka Chow; Class 71, Leung On Tuesday I rode the bicycle K Ki; Class 7b, Li Yew Kong: Class 90 li to Li Hsien where I spent two-
tribunal to deal with Chinese and The play is a good exposition of days travelling with Messrs. Woonc, Fung Chi Keung; Class 81, Chant foreign cases, foreign lawyers sitting the point of view of a big-city news, and Liu of Yen Ching and Mr. Wei, Wing Ki: Class 8b, Chan Wing In: in the capacity of magistrates. The paper, which fights for the principle the evangelist. At Liz Chia So we Class 8c. Cheung Yeung Chau: Class proposals which are based on a that the wealthy are entitled to no found a school and hair net class in 84. Sung Ching Wa.
Special Prizes-Chinese composi similar system in Siam are not taken mare privileges than the poor, and good condition. There are 700 fami- tion (presented by the Vernacular refuses to yield to bribery or lies here and alter our meal we went Staff), 1; Li Kwok Chun; 2, Chad
out with the village elder.
seriously.
KING OF DENMARK
VISITING FAR EAST.
CALL AT HONGKONG?
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
SINGAPORE, February 1 It is reliably stated that the King interest in any suggestion that of a $100 note of the Mercantile and Queen of Denmark are proceed before the builders (od may have Bank. The owner can recover same ing to the Far East, visiting Japan been ofended. At House they have by applying to the Central Police and arriving in Singapore early in started what are called Building Station. and producing the other May, then proceeding to Siam. Guilds, which appear already to be half or giving other conclusive proof doing good and useful work. de-of ownership. CARVALHO COSTA. On Janu-cording to a writer in the Labour ary 22, 1921 at Hongkew, Leader, they mobilize labour for Tito Antonio Carvalho, son of the most urgent work, stabilize ita School, Chefoo, which left yesterday Mr. Frederico Eugenio Caval-conditions. and hand over to the by the ss "Szechuen" to rejoin the ho. of Hongkong. to Palmyra local authority at cost the buildingschool for the spring term, comprised the following:--Mis. A Broadfoot, Angelina da Craz Costa, daugh- they have put up. They do not (Kongmoon); Miss Margaret Joffre, ter of Mr. Rodolfo Gomes da work for profit, but for the service Miss, Winnie Anderson, and Masters Costa, of No. 24 Haskell Road, of the public. We would like to Andrew Hazeland and Gordon Cas"The Right to Happiness," a
know more about these guilds, how Burneft (Hongkong). they raise the initial capital neces sary, on what terms they obtain
Shanghai.
DEATHS.
HELL-On January 13, 1921, at Bedford, England, D. W. Bell, Jate of No. 8. Jinkee Road, Shanghai, at his home, South Lodge, Sidney Road, Bedford, Deeply regrested.
CURTIS. On Thursday, January 27,
1921, a: Shanghai, C. J. Curtis, S.M.C. Electricity Department, aged 27.
"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC
SERVICE
The Southern party of the CLM.
KINEMA NOTES.
CORONET PICTURES.
A WONDERFUL FICTURE,
Such splendid screen productions
picture which dan's with one of the greatest problems, of the day, gives
Mrs.
Van Langdon
influence.
The parts were well played, Miss
"Here I saw more depressing sights Chung Chiu; 3. Wong Chan Wa Warda Howard being a very capable than I had ever seen before. Rich English composition, Class 4, Li Chin Anne Gray, and Mr. Leo Kennedy and poor are all alike this year, one Ko Tao Kam; Class 6, Yuen Tuen
Yung and Li Chung Long: Class 5, a forceful a vigorous editor. owner of 60 mow of land told Shing. Geography (presented by Mr. Miss Valentine Sidney, as The blind. lane, sick, starving Ho Yan Tak). Tong Kam Ching- Kreel, women with new-born, combined to English subjects (presented by Mr. and Miss, Shirley Huxley as Mrs. make us shudder. The doorways Ho Yan Tak). Wong Sing- Spatswell, the society tell-tale who often told the story of suffering gathers information where she may within. The village father at one and sells it where she is best paid, place said between 30 and 40 of his were exceedingly good in their parts neighbours had frozen to death. Miss Florence Chapman introduced a Trees are coming down in the court- bright touch in the character of Miss yards and even being cut from the ancestral graves. In the smaller Georgie Welshingham, the indignant actress who had declared war on the places some fuel can be obtained but harassed' dramatic editor, Others in the larger centres the fuel problem who added much to the success of is vital. We passed through villages the piece were Mr. Ray D. Clifton a where mer are eating leaves with a Fred Calvin, the City Editor, and Mr. little keoliang mixed in but I tell you W. Vaughan-Morgan za Sweeney," the office boy.
Tonight the company presents She Walked in her Sleep."
CHINESE PROFESSOR.
BOLSHEVIST PROPAGANDIST.
A FANTASTIC CHINESE STORY.
A fire broke out in a matshed at firm support to the claim that moving | sites, and so on. They appear Quarry Bay last night. The flames, pictures are destined to be one of to be democratic, self-governing fanned by a strong wind, spread the world's great educational forces. bodies. The writer says that be- rapidly and soon several other They convey ideas more vividy than cause the usual employer will pot matsheds in the vicinity were any other method. They arouse do the work, nor afford reasonable ignited An early alarm gave emotion and enthusiasm. They form conditions for the doing of it, the the inmates of the matsheds suffi- deep impressions that profoundly certain professor (who shall be name workers are taking matters into cient time to collect their effects and influence people. It is difficult to less), formerly of Peking University. their own bands and organising escap The brigade turned out single out any particular set in praia-
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According to the Chinese Press,
"THE POLAR BEAR."
PROPOSED EXPEDITION.
TO NORTH POLE BY A13.
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who there is cleanness of teeth in these as master of the Roosevelt "→→ the ship in which Admiral Peary's villages.
expedition embarked when they dis- covered the North Pole has declared determination to cruise the North Pole in an aeroplane.
"One bright spot in Jao Yang Hsien is the home of a former stud ent of the Union Women's College. his Peking. She is a widow caring for her, aged father and her daughter and will cost, about $300,000, and he is To finance the expedition, he says, is, making a brave struggle, at the same time helping and encouraging scientific bodies. and wealthy men for. seeking to make arrangements with
others,
the advance of this su
"Self denial and heroism" is on
Captain Bartlett is known among every hard. A carter who showed effects of starvation asked me for The Polar Bear," and is a veteran {Army,- Navy and scientifle men as something to eat but when I offered
him part of the bread I was eating he of five Polar expeditions. He arrived asked, 'Do you think I would eat Port Captain in the Arany Transport at Philadelphia recently to, become your family food?
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Here
Mr. Cross spoke of the unselfish Service, and is in charge of the trans the construction of houses for their promptly, but on arrival found its ing this wonderful film, but the has returned from extensive travels labours of all the workers and told parts being completed at Hog Island. own class. It is alleged that in services were not required, the mat storm, and the burning of the Russian and is now engaged in Bolshevist pro how Mr. Hsieh of Yen Ching and Mr. doing this they are met by the sheds having already been burned village by revolutionaries are scenes Fagande among his Countrymen. As Lin of Shanning Christian University massed forces of capitalista, which to the ground. The origin of the intensely thrilling in their realism, the agent of a Russian organization, drove a whole day without food or south suburb of Wei Hsies. sees that the adoption of the prin cutbreak is not known.
"The Right to Happiness will be he is engaged in superintending the water. On one day the three visited they captured one man, passed ropes ciple of production for service is
places, finding confortless about him and lifted him over the shown again today and tomorrow circulation of pamphlets and circulars 167
In Shang-homes, of suffering men, women and city wall. Farmers who own land The China Mail.stead of production for profit je s
In the course of an article, the at the Coronet, and those who have advocating Communism. menace to the whole structure of Free Fyens notes certain complications not already witsesed this masterpiece hai, his particular pitch is said. to be children, and everywhere empty food and who have enough food to see them through are being held for ran- capitalist society: These are words, which will affect business in Malia will be well advised to avail them in the neighbourhood-of-Ferry Road, vessels.
where it is hoped to enroli a number Industry is at a standstill, Mr. som and in many cases are forced to What precisely is meant by the this year. "They will be reinforced solves of the present opportunity.
of members from among the factory Cross said, and will be until the sell the land to gain their release. BOWORONG, WARNERDAY, FER. 2, 1911, assed forces of capitalism," and by others which we cannot as yet what is the nature of the opposi foresce. The result will be that as
workers. Operations are also being population is brought through the The wealthier families have been moving into the cities for protection. tion ofered? We are not told any far as the next few years are con- A Chinese merchant of Ghepei, conducted among the employees of winter to the filling season.
"Everywhere the call for help Conditions are already bad because thing more definite than that a cerned there will be a real opport alleged to have engaged in rice the Shanghai-Narking, the Tientsin-
prejudice of local authorities" i unity for business talent to show up. smuggling, recently received an Pukow, and the Feking-Hankow Rail- must be sounded and everywhere of crowding and there are frequent The noise of the We presume that Previously our trade has been con anonymous letter threatening that ways, and the reporter learns that there must be an immediate and scenes of terror.. In the book of Nehemiah there builders and contractors who are ducted along well-known and rather "action" would be taken if he did 300,000 men have been induced to generous response in money, and ser-shooting and the cries of the terrified
vice," Mr. Cross said.
people have kept residents of alany is mention made of people who had members of the urban and rum conservative lines requiring little not subscribe $5,000 to a charitable join the movement. provoked God to anger before or district councils, have been voting more than a knowledge of ordinary institution. As the letter did not Meanwhile, the professor is said Robber bands have grown until the villages in a nervous condition
The carrying off of farm animals is in the presence of the builders. against the acceptance of cheap business conditions, now however have the desired effect, a second to have journeyed to Canton for the total now runs into the thousands and The story is a dramatic one, well houses. That, however, should not the chance will occur for those who epistle arrived a day or two 120, purpose of enlisting the sympathy of conditions are indescribable according sure to have serious economic results, worth reading, and China Mail last long. Public opinion should have special commercial instinct and with the result that the merchant Sun Yat-sen Incidentally, he will to the report of Misses Moberg and the young women say, for if the raids continue there will be no animals to taders who may have ourboned once the mover Feapacity to prove Ther worth, and and tris family left home secretly in endeavour to obtain a large sum" Braon,
The bands have captured hingefaid ir tiding the coal it are recommended to repair their being so transparent. In that way the year may produce some remark the night and have not been heard omission. It contains a humorous God would be provoked before the able trading chanZER,”
of since.
during the bolidays.-N.C.D. News, after village and have come into the passes.
BUILDERS.
observable.
for circulation among the workers