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THE CHINA MAIL.
to-day has no time for a past to the four winds of heaven. of reform. If the learned Judge's which can show nothing better Nowadays it is different, Smug- view is correct, it seems a good than an illiterate population of glers who take a chance and are argument to use to keep women caught are often, Reutered" to off juries which have to try mur ninety per cent. The figured the ends of the earth. In this way derers. What about the suggestion sit!" on quoted is striking and almost we know that Bill Adams has of women juries to unbelievable, but the annual jeopardised the ship in which he cases where the prisoners are report of the Shanghai Ameri- has been sailing, and the fair women?
TICKLING. written
MONDAY APRIL 7 1924.
April 12.-Public Dinner ta Sir! William Rees Davies at Hongkong Hotel, 8 p.m.
Bay Hotel.
April 23, Carnival at Repulse April 26.-Dance ai Penk Club,
SPORT. 0.16 p.m.
April 7-Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Captain's Cup."
BANK THIEF.
EXCITING SHANGHAI
CHASE.
SHANGHAI, April 5. An exciting chase. through the promises of the Hongkong and
April 8-Tennis Tournament of Shanghal Bank early yesterday the Hongkong Cricket Club on the morning resulted in the capture of a Chinese burglar who had obtain- Stand Court, 4.10 p.m.
April 19 and 21.-H.K. Jockeyed entry by cutting out a pane of glass, Watchmenimmediately dis- covered the Intruder. The lattor Club and extra race meetings.
at fled, and by jumping desks and
door,eventually plunged through a counters and diving through a glass window and escaped into the street where, after a short chase, he was captured by the police.
11.30 a.m.
name of his country, by attempt-
A gehtioman has of Commerce Can Chamber
ing to smuggle some of the fiery
book a is our authority. We imagine the spirit into America. We are not
called "The Nature Chamber would not have given quite certain if we sympathise of Laughter (Kegan Paul 10/6 net,) utterance to such a startling with these ardent disciples of in which he suggests that the statement without first verifying John Barleycorn, or the American answer of modern science to the
PUBLIC AUCTIONS. Government which is so much question: Why do We laugh
April 8-Lammert Егов. the figures. The, report of the concerned in seeing that the strict when tickled? is that we langh not American Chamber contains addi- letter of its Prohibition laws are because we like it, but because a Sules Room 100 pieces Chefoo silk, April 9-Lammert Bros. nt tional facts which doubtless will carried out. But as supporters of remote hereditary strain warns us
Sales Rooms, the a.s. 'Kwai Wa, receive the attention they merit, law and order we have to regret that tickling is a prelude to
that British subjects are infring-attack.
The answer does not seem con- now lying at Shamshuipo, B p.m." and again bring the present post-ing this law and making the ques-
April 11-Tammort Bros. at tion of China to the notice of those tion of British and American vincing. Sneezing (again äccord- who wish her well and to those friendship of no account. No one ing to modern science) protects their Sales Rooms, Duddell Stroct. April 16.-Lammer Bros... at throat and the tickled body
6 Catelek St.; Kennedy Town, who by their machinations are therefore can cavil at Judge the nose, coughing protects the Ladies Suit Lengths, 11 ..
Garvin's statement. that "Foreign
struggles against an enemy doing so much to retard her pro- ships owe a special obligation to
two complete sets rattan and cáno embrace.
splitting machinery, oto., 8 p.m. American gress and to make her the world American lawa in
COMPANY MEETING. in married life
April 10-Second yearly mect menace that the report suggests. waters." We, in Hongkong, con.
is now so muching of shareholders of the Hong Those who are engaged in trading sider the smuggling of arms into pursuits are probably in the best the Colony as a very dangerous
offence, and we jail American novels and plays, that it suggests kong Engineering & Construction
Chater Road, noon. position to judge of the present sailors found so doing America, we have reached a peculiar period Co., Ltd., at St. George's Building, It seems, April 11-Seventeenth annual condition of China, ta 'see wherein or the American Government, in human progress.
work
Beauty.
UNHAPPINESS
the theme of
a million
136,259
Married pairs compar
atively happy.................... Married pairs entirely
happy...
1,102
noon.
OTHER MEETING.
April 11-AI interested in proposal to form a Hongkong Farfarshire Asson, to mest at No. 2 (en's Buildings, Ground Floor,
Posite Star Ferry at 6 p.m.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Wet weather made necess. 103 the abandonment of Saturday's
cricket fixtures.
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EXPERT CHESS.
New York, April 5. The scores at the end of the fourteenth round of the chess tournament were:-Capablanca,8% points; Reti, 8; Dr. Lasker and Alekhin each 7. Dr. Lasker had. win, Reuter's two games adjourned which he is expected
to
American Service.
1
Recently Mrs. Judith Rowarth was tried for attempted murder at Shanghai and released. Subse quently, W. H. Goulborg, an accountant, was accused of having committed parjury at the trial and conspiring with Cecilla Sequelta. and others to keep a,material wit- ness from appearing at the trial.
Yesterday, Mrs. Rowarth and Mrs. Davis, mother and daughter. arrived here on the "Sul An" from Macao. They are stated to have expressed their willingness to return to Shanghai and they will probably leave Hongkong They were accom- to-morrow. panied back by a European police
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. -
The death occurred on March
she fails, and what seem to be the considers the smuggling of liquor however, that we are not so foolishcoting of Gande, Price & Co.,
into the country as an offence, than we were, for a statistician atd. at 8 Queen's Road Central, MURDER TRIAL SEQUEL. best methods to be adopted to and has the same right of sen- century ago, tabulated the follow. raise her from the mire of tence as she thinks fit against ing particulars of
Married patrs separated inefficiency and chaos. A ninety those whose taking a chance has married couples;
Married pairs at open per cent. population which is proved a failure.
war in the same house 191,023 illiterate is a staggering figure.
Married pairs inwardly Whatever may be said in criticism
hating each other...... 162,320 Married pairs cool and of missionary effort, it has to be
The Government, through its
Indifferent..
$10,182 admitted that in its work in pro-
Public Works Department concerns Married pairs reputed
happy... viding schools and colleges, it is itself with the amount that is to providing the means whereby the be spent on the buildings to be Chinese may be freed from their placed on the land purchased from! illiteracy. In this way it is it, but beyond seeing that its bye- laws are observed, takes no
At the conclusion of the the
which doing
an further interest in the matter, and
London is enjoying Lantao poison trial on Friday, it enlightened Government should cares not whether such buildings
ITALIANO, the revival again of was announced that the jury would Gilbert and Sullivan be excused service for two years, do. The Report states that the to the outward eye are beautiful or not. It is perhaps asking too solution of the problems facing much of it to express views on the Opera and an fold story is going This period has now been extended officer."
the rounds. It is of the lady who to five years.
of the the Chinese people rests in the outlines of the proposed buildings had been playing one
The A Reuter cable from Tsingtao hands of the educated and busi-as shown in architects plans; and operas to her daughter. ness classes and a lasting improve- after all where opinions on such daughter thought it so good that states that the ex-Director of a delicate matter are likely to be she asked her if she could procure General Affairs was stopped at the ment is not to be expected until diverse, matters are better left as for her a book of the words. The station while attempting to leave, 22, at Teluk Anson of Mr. W. E. At the same time the following day the mother went He has failed to deliver. financial Smith, J.P., the oldest European these classes take a firm hand in they are. the adminstration of the country. question should not be overlooked. into a music shop to purchase records, and is being held respon-resident of Lower Perak, at the
several millions of Taels during The remedies for Chinese ills are / We read that there were few com- them when the following dialoguesible for the disappearance of good old age of 78.
petitors for the various prizes ensued:-
Mother: (who has rather an his tenure of office. casier stated than applied. If the offered by the Royal Institute of intense, curt manner) 'Mikado air of suspicion which seems to Architects, and that such work aslibretto?"
Assistant, smiling: "What is, was submitted had not even themscles could be dissipated, and sufficient merit to justify awards. madam they could meet for frank and As in Hongkong, so at Home, we are living in a period of recoti- open discussion without fear of struction when there ought to be blackmail, and physical danger, an almost limitless demand for
What is architectural capacity. much could be done. wanted is a few more of the Sir generations compelled to endure in the environment which is Robert Ho Tung type working created now, will judge of our with one sole object in view-the taste by the character of the 'Tis a very good world to live in,
Mr. To spend, and to lend, and to give restoration and pacification of buildings which we erect.
Bernard Shaw has suggested that in; their own country. Sir Robert the life of any building should not But to beg, or to borrow, or ask has not admitted failure. He is exceed ten years, and it may come Galahad but deserving of more to that through the sheer impossi- CALL AND INSPECT
followers than seem to be in his bility of enduring the sight of buildings which are ugly. A local camp at the moment. There is architect of some standing, whose HONGKONG Cigar
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BIRTHS.
COVELL-Or-March 29, 1924, at Nanking, to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Lovell, a daughter.
MARTIN. On March 29, 1924, at
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Martin, a daughter. LIDDELL. On March 31, 1924, at Shanghai, the wife of P.W.O. Liddell, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
years.
DEATHS.
Future
be illiterate: China a world great amount of truth about it. menace: these are statements of fact which every patriotic Chinese. should seek to have altered.
Mother: "Mikado libretto." Assistant, shaking his head:- 'Sorry madam me no speakee Italiano."
TC
To-day's Poem.
for our own
'Tis the very worst world that
ever was known.
-J. Bromfield.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
1711,
APRIL 7.
Among the passengers who left Shanghai by the str. "Khyber” According to a Reuter cable was Mrs. W. Trevallyn Jones, who from Shanghai, Constable Bennett for the past 13 years had been a was shot and seriously wounded in local resident and is now going to the head, a Chinese shopkeeper Rangoon to reside with her son, was killed and two other people M. R. Llewellyn Jones and family. seriously injured by a. gang of armed robbers in the Western district on Saturday night. Three suspects have been arrested and more arrests are expected.
The Rev. Father Schmitt, S. J. of the Philippines Jesuit congrega tion, has arrived from Manila to give a Special Mission in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con- ception from Wednesday next to Wednesday the 16th Inst. He is an eloquent speaker, and the Mission should be attended by a large audience.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith left Shanghai for Home by the P. &O.S. "Khyber." Mr.Bowes-Smith has resigned his position with Messrs. David Sassoon & Co., and is establishing himself as an ex- change broker in Hongkong where he will succend Mr. J. E. Joseph He returns from Home at the end of the present year to take up his
new duties.
When H.M.S."Bee" left Shanghai for a cruise up the Yangtze at the beginning of the week she carried: with her a new officer in the per- A decomposed rock Iweighing son of Surgeon-Lieutenant Kerno- about a ton fell on a young carth han, who arrived last week from coolie yesterday. He was working!
at a cutting on that part of the Hongkong where he had been new (100 feet) road near Ahwee's previously stationed. Surgeon Lieutenant Kernohan succeeds dairy at. Kowloon City when the Surgeon - Lieutenant-Commander I will write you word exact-accident occurred. His body was Struknell who has been the ly the first day I see young subsequently removed to the gooseberries,
· and pray Kowloon mortuary. observe how much later you are. We have not had five
Swift.
"Bee" for the past two years. The latter is leaving for Home by the steamer "China" on April 15.
•
An official announcement of fine days this five weeks, the Prince of Wales' tour in South
The following are due to arrive but rain or wind. 'Tis a Africa states that His Royai High in the Colony on the "Plassy" on late spring they any here.-ness will leave Southampton on the 17th, inst. Mr. W. McClelland, May 2, aboard the Arundel Castle" C.B., O.B.E., M.IE.E., Director of arriving a Cape Town on May 16th. Electrical Engineering and Mr. He will spend three weeks in the
J. S. Pringle, O.BE, M.LE.E., Cape Province, states a Reuter Director of Dockyards, who cable from London, and will then are on a visit from the Admiralty. visit the Orange Free State, Basuto-
ALL ROUND.
land, Natal, Swaziland, Rht testa Also Mr. G. D. Leys.. M.LE.E., and Bechuanaland, sailing for home from Cape Town on August I.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL..
1
Superintending Electrical En- gineer. H.M. Naval Yard who has been transferred from a similar post at Rosyth and relieves Mr. H. A. Nott. M.B.E., MIE.E, who has been appointed Superintend- Ing Electrical Engineer, H. E. Dockyard, Sheerness.
Mr. John McEwan, news of
as a topic is always WOMEN an attractive and fresh subject. Theirways are Taking a Chance,
always incomprehensible-more or Where prizes are high, the less. A London Doctor assures us inclination to "take a chance" that a thousand middle-aged wo- must always be there. There is men are starving and drugging themselves into early graves in the fascination of course, but the order to recapture the youthful
"There is a widespread feeling fascination lies in the possibility beauty and slitness which fashion at the present moment, both with of the risk taken turning out as demands. A thousand seems a profitable as it was hoped it would very conservative number, whilst regard to individuals and nations, CLOUGH-On March 29, 1924, at be. It is this fascination which it might be added that the spectacle that if we are to have any success the China Inland Mission, makes speculators of most of us of women endeavouring to re in repairing and re-making a
Emma Yangchow,
Sarah and to take risks which, if we sat capture a lost youth is very sad, broken society and a devastated
Messrs. W. McClelland, Director Clough, from heart failure down quietly, and reasoned them Smoking amongst women is on and disgruntled world, there must following o npleurisy. out, we would not venture. It is the increase. It is more danger be an extensive giving and receiv
of Electrical Engineering, and Mr. JOSEPH. On March 30, 1924, at this fascination again which pus to women than to men as their ing of 'a clean slate.
"There can be no greater moral J. S. Pringle, Director of Dock- Shanghai, Isaac Joseph.. colours the outlook and makes frail and delicate issues are less D'ALMEIDA. On March 29, many become a law unto them- able to withstand the poisonous crime than that of trying to damn yards are due to arrive on the whose death has been received in
of inspection.
was for many years senior partner 1924, at Shanghai, Milly, selves. The consequences of the action of tobacco. Thus the afore--for ever a soul that clearly is seek. Plassy on the 17th inst on a visit Ceylon by cable from Landon,
said doctor, who adds that over-
in M'Meekin and Co., and was at daughter of Mr. and Mrs. risk taken are whittled down to eating is as dangerous as over-ing for salvation or to darken
noble aspirations-and-sincere Mr. HANott, of the Naval one time director of the Mahawale -L M. d'Almeida, aged 4% the individual; the effect of it drinking, because a full stomach endeavours after moderation and Yard has been appointed superin-Rubber and Tea Company and of upon others is scarcely ever con craves alcohol and tobacco. So fairness by punctuating the tending electrical engineer of Hthe Pelmadulla Rubber Co., Ltd. LAVINGTON.On: March 30,sidered. If it were, we should not ladies, now you know!
shadows of past extravagances or M. Dockyard, Sheerness. Mr. C. Mr. McEwan was a well-known 1924, at Shanghai, John have smugglers of such things as
D. Leys, of Rosyth arrives on the personality in the tea and rubber more merciless indiscretions," Henry Skiart, only son of Mr. opium, arms, and in the case of
Rev. Archibald Fleming, D.D. Plassy on the 17 to relieve Mr. trade and was one of the foremost Given high ARE WOMEN than men? AD
Nott..
workers in the Rubber Growers' and Mrs. A. T. Lavington, America, liquor.
eminent Judge
Association. Everywhere Mr. aged 9 months.
"prizes, we shall always be able to
Prince Naruhiko Hagashi Kun!, McEwan
respected for count upon high adventurers, who, has put it on record that it is thumbs down every time with
geniality after placing a wreath on the tomb his kindliness and possessed of the get-rich-quick women jurors if the facts are
of the Unkrown Soldier on Friday, and admired for his business spirit, are willing, and very often proved." They are merciless, ho
spoke ealogising the bravery. of capabilities. He had a bent for eager, to take a chance. Smug-adds, especially in murder trials,
the Rumanian army, states a Reuter social work and did an enormous "In The ME. glers in the old days were bold and take the view that the guilty
cable from. Bucharest. A great amount of good in Enfold. Midd- fellows. It was not impossible to ought to be hanged. On the other
military parade was held on Saturlesex, of which county he was” a ENTERTAINMENTS. have a warm feeling for them, hand, men, he maintains are
day in his honour, and was at Justice of the Peace. and for the manner and matter of inclined to be sentimental, It is
tended by the royal family. Theatre their exploits. Their sin was an interesting point. We should
April 7-Coronet punishable; they knew it, but they be inclined to argue that a single "Trifling Women,
Six members of the Royal Naval April 7. Star Theatre, Kowloon; Yard Police who have at least Stops Neuralgio Pains and took a chance, and, if caught, woman is likely to be more marci-
...: Hondaobe Chinesa may well rub their expiated their erime against the leas than a married woman, or a Thomas Meighan in "The Easy 6fteen years' service to their credit |
married woman who has children. Road."
one has nearly 25 years--were Tormenting neuralgia is essef and laws of their own, or another's Probably men, who presumably April 7-World
presented with long service and stopped by Ohamberlain's Pain Balm.. our's, Westgate-on-Sea, on eyes. They have hitherto boasted country in the manner of the know more about the actualities Pola Negri in "Mad Love."
good conduct medals by Com Being penetrating. It rochas the con March 1, Thomas Graham, of a civilisation that has extended time. Our literature, so far as we of life, and is difficulties, and April 7 Grand
modore Grace on Saturday. The gested spots.' starts the cironiation, re- moving the pressure and inflammation son of the late Mr. John over the centuries and made the know it, does not abound with the are thereby more accustomed Recital in St. Andrew's Hall, 5.30 recipients of the medals were that causes the pain. He pa headaches,
smugglers, to_hurian failings, including p.m. 1956 at the Weall, of Watford, to Mary
Sub-Inspector Matthews," Ser-¦ hackardes, stuff, swollen jólats, bruincu Ida, only child of Mr.. and irrepressible foreigner to them names of famous
SOCIAL They were probably a scurvy lot their own, view things more
geants George, Marriott, A. B. spralos. and ade minsoles, Bold and the lines Mrs. J. F. Reece, of Westgate, nothing less than despised and not worth the rope that, more reasonably,
Apl 11. Dance at Peale Club, Allan, W. Allen and J. Townsend, recommended everywhere, and formerly of Hongkong, barbarian. Bat truth will out and often than (k)not, strung them of whilst there's life there's hope 9.15 p.m.
MACKINNON SWEET. - On March 29, 1924, at Shanghai, Norah, daughter of Mrs. F.! Rayden, 25, Yu Yuen Road, Shanghai, to John MacDou- gall, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Mackinnon, Inhellan, Argyll- shire, Scotland. POCK-ARNOVICK-On Marsh 29, 1924, at, Shanghai, Mary Fock, Recons Magdalena daughter of Mrs. Maria Posk, of Riga, to Georgò Arnovick, of London.
WEALL-REECE-At St. Savi-
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