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CHOY-On Friday June 11, 1926, at 10.47 p.m., at No. 2, Park Road, Mrs. Choy Chong Sui. beloved mother Messrs. Choy Hing, Choy Chong and 'Choy Wai Man, aged 76 years. The funeral will take place,, to-morrow, leaving the residence at 2.30 p.m., for the Chinese Chris tian Cemetery, Pokfulam.
Hongkong. Saturday, June 12, 1926.
EAST OF SUEZ.
so far from constituting a danger to the development of one's inher- ent gifts, such conditions may be considered as highly desirable and
a very strong argument in favour of life in the East. With regard to the lack of opportunities for entertainment and for getting away from one's environment ex- cept at the termination of one's the agreement; after all, as Chairman said in his remarks after the debate, life in any place
MAY RAINFALL.
·OFFICIAL FIGURES FROM THE
OBSERVATORY.
The meteorological observations made at the Royal Observatory, Hongkong, during May have the following in regard to rafbfall:--
ins,
May
1
G
10
12
0.520
:13
14
1
16
17
18:
19
20
21
0.675
22
23
0.420 1.110.
24
1.535
25.
0.230
28
1.196
27
28
29
30
31
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926.
DRAGON BOAT DAY.
NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY
ON MONDAY,
NO RACES. THIS YEAR?
[By "Li Chung-yin.”]
A reference to a well-known diary also tells us that it is the Brd day of Zulhijjah, a Bank, and Customs holiday.
OBITUARY.
DR. JOHN B. FEARN OF SHANGHAL"
The death of Dr. John B. Fear occurred at 30, Route Pichon, Shanghal, says the "North China" Daily, News."
Dr. Fearn came to China In Monday (June 14) is the 6th day 1895 under the Southern Methodi of the 5th moon according to theist Episcopal Mission Board and Chinese (lunar) calendar. ... was stationed at Soochow until in 1906 he was appointed business manager for the Methodist Mis sion and Treasurer of the Asso- ciated Missions" Board in Shang- The Chinese classical name isha, which position he retained Tien Chung Chính In the Can until January, 1917, when he re- tonese colloquial it is Tuen Yours signed to take up a commission Chiet. Essentially, the day is the in the Chinese Labour Corps, for Dragon Boat. Festival..
which his experience so eminently fitted him.
Until 1924, the festivities in Hongkong ware mainly confined to On his return from France he the dragon boat races. The festi-was appointed Resident Medical val, has not been bbserved as a Superintendent at the General general holiday until recent years Hospital,, Shanghai, which post he when the advent of labour unions retained up to the time of his brought about a day of rest for the death. toiler. With the strike intervening last year there were no calabra tions and none has been an- nounead for Monday.
Sir Henry May's Favour. When the Inte Sir Henry May was Governor, he seldom withheld his patronage from the racne at Aberdeen. The events at "this place gradually lost faveur for want of a generous person to donate prizes of roast pork, banners, fre- crackers &c. During the last few on more practical May at the Botanical Gardens was Bree-have been ataged at North
0:085
The rainfall for the month of
yeara, racea
6 Inc. .84 on 12 days, at the Matilda Point where they used to attract Hospital, Mount Kellett, it was large crowds.
The late Dr. Fearn's gift for organisation, which amounted to
sixth sense, was exemplified in the many undertakings in which he was interested, particularly in the General Hospital which he brought to its present high standard of efficiency. He was also, Resident Medical Superia- tendent of the Country Hospital and, though suffering from the disease from which he succumbed and though he realised that he had not long to live, he devoted himself untiringly to carrying on his work at both hospitals, hoping that he might be able to get the
before his end came.
is what we 'choose to make it. Te3 ins. 70 on 12 days, and at the Canton is having a big celebra- Country Hospital well organised
we for ever pine for that Home life and Home facilities which are absent from the East then it were far better that we recognise the inevitable and decide that the East is not for such as we. If, how
Police Station. Taipo, It was 9 instion this year. Latterly, the boat .02 on 8 days,
races have been practically non est as the authorities found difficulty in curbing the attendant disorderly outbreaks.
'TENANTS' EJECTED BY GAS,
The dragon carsman's sense of sport was that his crew must win
atrike..or open fire at a rival crew that dared lead by a length or two.
ever, in the light of the broaden PARIS POLICE ONSLAUGHT ON at all costs-even if he had to
ing of mind and greater realisa tion of the need of incorporating the manner of life and policies of other nations into our scheme of things which follow the breaking away from an insular life we recognise the desirability
AGED WOMEN.
gas
Recently the so-called brigade of the Paris police, arm- ed with shields, gasmasks, and vices to a landlord to expel two tear-gas projectors lent their ser
elderly women from a flat they had occupied over twenty years and
tress. On the affair being made regg » much public indignation, and the police have been asked by the municipal: council to explain their condoet.:
The Dragon Boat is a long affair (with a dragon's head and tall) just wide enough for two men to sit abreast. Each man carries
a paddle and in the Hongkong boats
Last year, while on Home leave, although suffering from the sick...... ness in its early stages, he gave up his whole time to studying hos- pital management, in order that. the improvements might be car- ried out in the hospitals, the wel- fare of which he had so much at heart.
Dr. Fearn was married in 1896 to Miss Anne Walter, M.D., then in Soochow acting as locum tenens at the Women's Hospital.
local dragon boat/
Somewhat comic relief is given. to the atory by the "aequel. The Tenants' Union, to which the there were about 25 pairs in exch AT THE QUEEN'S.
craft. At Canton, the boats were
*
of studying life" as we find it refused to leave in favour of the proprietor's son, barricading them- abroad and finding interests to re-elves in. A hole was made in the place those which may be no wall, lachrymatory gas injected, longer possible to us then life in and the two women taken out in the East may lead us to things tate of extreme physical dis higher than would have been pos- sible under the more cramped conditions of Home. We have only to refer to the lives of many whose sphere of activity has been the East and who have performed signal service to the Empire by women belonged, learned that a flat was vacant in a neighbouring. lives which have been charac building. They marched in pro- generally longer, having room for terised by foresight and the session to the flat, seized it, install about 50 pairs of paddlers. Each Life at Home or East of Sucz? initiative to give practical expres-ed the two women in it, and trans-boat includes in its complement a The conveners of debates at the 'sion to that foresight. One such ferred their furniture. It is un drummer and a man to beat the
likely that the tear gas will be used gongs-these-combining between- European YM.C.A. are to be con- we have had occasion to mourn again to eject them..".
them the duties of stroke and cox, gratulated "on introducing a topic the loss of in very recent times.
Progress of the World. Banners won in previous years will which concerns us individually and A too narrow view of the limita-{ Such is the progress of the also be put in the boat to urge the particularly young men who, in tions of life in the East in regard world, exclaims the well-known crew on to greater feats.
Practice And Theory. the course of their first or second to entertainment and other con-writer M Jean Pierrefeu, in a comical article In "Information." period of service, have to decide ditione, of Home Life, and failure. The whole civilised world was re- Although the strike, was on, läst whether or not they will, by a to recognise the many useful volted when the Germans first used year, the menfolk still had their continuation of such service, spheres of activity in which sue- gas in the war. Now gae appara- gorgeous banquets at West Point, commit themselves permanently cess may be attained and signal bus is part of the normal equipment and it la presumed that some will
of a municipal police force, and be there even this year. to a life of absence from their service to the Empire performed it is put at the service of a bailif. The true origin of the festival in native land. The glamour which, may have been responsible for, The police defence is that gag is obscure, It is strictly observed as to those unacquainted with it, at what in fact amounted at the less brutal method of ejectment one of the four settling days in taches to the East largely as the Y.M.C.A. gathering to a vote of than dragging old ladies out of South China business circles. In their home by physical force, their homes the women participate result of the efforts of novelists censure on life in the East. Given Thus what was a horror has be- in various rituals, mostly religious. and writers who concern thom-a few years' longer experience and come the weapon of masculine Here again, the abnormal situation selves only with its strangeness growth of vision of the many courtesy, an elegance of the police." Prevailing will have. ita effect
Where will this progress cease? Firms will seek dispensation from and picturesqueċess signifies paths in which they can still be asks M. Pierrefeu. For myself, I the rigid rule of paying up all at little to those with whom such "pioneers" in the cause of human-can well foresee a future in which counts and the ladies may have to conditions have lost their novelty, ity and progress and that same all we thought horrible in the war forego a part of their summer
finery. What then is left on which to base gathering might return a very will seem quite a matter of course. When schoolboys make an uproar a decisión us to whether life East different verdict on this subject. in the classroom the professor will festival is the practice making An 'ole custom attached to the
of Suez is still preferable to that However, it was a very narrow pull a hand grenade out of his packets of prepared rice, this be- at Home? Conditions of com- majority which the upholders of drawer, and drop it lightly among ing traced to some event in Chin- parative ease and greater finan Home life obtained and the law of the scapegraces to restore silence ese mythology when a certain con- To keep the crowd moving in front scientious but disappointed states- cial inducements were stressed at the survival of the fittest will of the Elysee on the day of the man is said to have, drowned him the debate in question.. These probably function in such a man-Presidential reception, a tank will self in a river over grief at his are strong inducements but in ner as to eliminate from the East be called" out to eliminate a score sire's refusal of well-meant advice. themselves it is doubtful whether those who are carrying on "under or two of curious sightseere, And who can say whether ten yours "of they can be said to constitute protest" in favour those
hence the President of the Cham- desirable argument for those on
who,
recognising its dif-ber, when he wants to suspend s the threshold of life. To allow ful
prepared to sitting, will no longer bother about the capacities with which we have accept them and to create condi- putting on his hat and all the rest been endowed to decay by reason may be pleasurable and a credit certain of being followed peil-mell tions under which their lives here of the ceremony, but will turn on
tear gas and rush out of the House, FOREIGN SEAMEN FINED FOR of an existence in which one's to themselves and their Empire and without the slightest resis Es.d. is assured for a few years
a
are.
tance by the whole mass of depu- fles!
CAUSE FOR SPREE
CONDUCT.
es AFTER 6 MONTHS AT SEAT
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"FINE RACING STOŘÝ NEXT WEEK
"The Dixie Handicap" will have the Queen's Theatre next week. a big place in the programme at It is a screen version of a story called "Dixie" by Gerald Beau- mont that appeared in the Red Book Magazine.
It tells how the lost glory of an aristocratic Southern family was brought back by a horse and the young man who trained her. Full of the thrilling incident, and also possessing an unusually beautiful ... love angle, the story makes per- fect screen material. Waldemar Young, who wrote the continuity for The Great Divide," was the adapter of "The Dixie Handicap." The cast includes such notable players as Frank Keenan as Judge Roberts; Claire Windsor as his daughter, Virginia: Lloyd Hughes as The Dancin' Kid," - who, in spite of his slangy title, is the hero: John Sainpolls in the villain darky: Joseph Morrison, Otto role: Otis Harian as a faithful
Hoffman Edward Martinel, and Ruth King.
DAMAGES FOR DEATH OF MR. SADLER
The owner of the motor carti which killed Mr. C, R. Sadler, ou April, 19 con" "Route Stanislas Chevalier, Shanghat must pay Tia. 7,000 to Mrs. Sadlar, according to the verdict of the French Mixed Court The chauffeur, who drove the cat at the time, was sent to jail for one month and fined $200. Mr. du Pac de. Morsoulies appare ed for Mr Badier, while Mr. It is suficient in this age of
d'Aution de Raffe defended the. machinery for the practical charac
When the Magistrate inquired chauffeur. As may be recalled tor of a device denounced at its the reason for a celebration yes from the account of the proceed- Two lots of property at Mong- inception as an abomination, to be terday, two forelim seamen said insa in the 13.5. Coroner's Court koktsul were sold by public auc-recognised for it to be put into the that they had been a sea for deceased met his death when he that by reason of the greater con- tion yesterday, as follow common service. For progress in about six months, knocking about was thrown from his motor cycle ditions of leisure in the East one No. 677, Shanghat Street: 1,441 high-sounding phrases that will occasion on which they had been going" "in' a wasterly no mere empty word, and it is not the Jalande and it was the first whilst driving toward the Bund on
Route: Brawilas Chevaller, they sq ft 76 years lease from 1910 arrest. it. Crown Rent 38.50 upset price
is surely not conducive to the production of the type of men who will be a credit to the Empire they represent in such an outpost as this The
argument, however,
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