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"AS OTHERS SEE US."
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. PEAK CHILDREN.
IMPRISONMENT AND "CAT FOR OFFENDERS.
"PIRATE" SENTENCED,
At the Criminal Sessions this)
DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL PRIZES..
SATISFACTORY EXAMINATIONS.
In the absence of Lady Clementi,
To the Editor of the "China Mail."). Sir, I write to add my humble measure of congratulation to the vast amount you must already have received in respect of the contribu-morning, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood tion which appeared in your Mon- passed sentence of five years hard who is Indisposed, Lady Stewart day's newspaper over "Ur Ana labour and 15 strokes of the "cat" Taylor distributed the Peak School Thur." I am glad to see that some- on the Chinese who was yesterday prizes at the Peak Club yesterday one has at last given public light convicted by the jury on a charge tant annual event the scholars
afternoon. Previous to this impor
to some of the silly things we do of having been concorned in an\treated the large number of parents
out here. I particularly detest armed robbery in a Chinese shop those absurd little boxes stuck on at No. 53, Koshing Street. gateposts on the Peak and in other residential-
areas.
"Ridiculous"
Gold Bar Piracy.
and friends gathered there to a aplendid entertainment, including a Christmas play, nursery rhymes and
Among the audience were Mr. A..
"ludicrous" and "bathos" most apt- The Chinese who was at the be-recitations. ly describes them. More power, ginning of the Sessions convicted Bay I, to your correspondent's pen. of the unlawful possession of one of E. Wood, Rev. E. Pearce, Rev. I hope what he says will make some the ingots of gold, worth $30,000, Hewett, Mr. and Mra. E. D. C. of those among us pause awhile and which was carried away by pirates Wolfe, Col. and Mrs. Hayley Bell, think. If they do that the article who seized the steam launch "Wo Rev. H. Copley Moyle, Mr. and Mrs. will have done a great amount of Fat Hing" as she was conveying the Hornell, and Rev. and Mrs. Feather-
gold to the s... "Prominent" bound stone. good.
The Year's Work. for Salgon, was also sentenced this morning. Mr. Justice Wood sent The Headmistress' report of the the accused to jail with hard labour year, read by Mr. Ralphs, stated: for three years.
Yours, etc.
"ANTI-HUMBUG."
- Kowloon, Dec. 20, 1927.
To the Editor of the "China Mail.") Sir,-Although it is not my habit
Armed Robbery.
Attendance. The school year be- gan on January 10 with 62 pupils and closed on December 22 with 88
Two Chinese were then charged pupils. In April there was a large to mix much in the company of before Mr. Justice Wood with have exodus of children to England and men I gather an article you publishing been concerned in
an armed America The numbers thus de- ed at the beginning of the week robbery in a Chinese shop in Jer-creased in the summer term' but by entitled "As Others See Us" has vols Street, when several men en-autumn the School was again well occasioned considerable comment tered on the pretext of placing an Alled. The average attendance for Around town, in Clubs and also in order for some cloth and suddenly the year is 51. various family circles. I have read held up the shop people.
Health.-The School has been
spring the School has been quíto free of lness. Owing to the measles cases we closed school three
it myself, and although in parts its Both accused pleaded "guilty" visited from time to time by Dr. portrayal of our foibles is more or and sentences of five and seven Minett and the pupils thoroughly less truthful, I cannot say that I years hard labour, respectively, examined. Very few reports of de endorse (or appreciate the spirit were passed. In addition both ac- fecta were made and with the ex- which has prompted the writer to cused were ordered to receive 12 ception of a few cases of measles in pass on to the public of Hong Kong strokes of the "cat." - the views of a friend of his who
Man and Woman. happened to take a quick look at
The Court then proceeded to hear to be one of those objectionable per- and a woman are charged with hay made up by closing school later for us and depart. This friend appears the case in which a Chinese man days earlier at Easter to have it printed. These three days were Bons who deal in "nothing but the ing been concerned in two highway the summer vacation. truth," and the writer must be robberies in Kowloon in both of plead their cause. Nor can there tasteful category. To me it looke Cheungchau was the victim.
an almost equally-dis-which a Chinese woman living in changes in the staff save in the be any "right" on the part of any like some shameful conspiracy to
The complainant was alleged to Miss Dyer went on leave and was visiting Gymnasium Mistress. one to seek to reinstate the pros-shake our faith in ourselves.
Why, I ask, should these two chau by the female accused on the the year. Thanks to Miss Jaques have been brought from Cheung replaced by Miss Jaques early in cribed Seamen's Union that was
people, whoever they are, come
classed in
Staff.-There have been
•
at the bottom of all of Hong along and broadcast to the world Fretext that there was employment the children now have organised Kong's troubles in 1922 and again what we do and say and think? for her in Hong Kong. The two games and net ball which they in 1925 and subsequently.
What moral or legal right have they theatre and on the way back they accused took the complainant to a
greatly enjoy. 'The power to inflict the "cat" to upset our peace of mind? A were held up by highway men and work has been done in all classes, Work-During the year good ready anxious faces are to be seen the woman robbed of the major por- and the examination results have on the scoundrels to come
on the Peak tram every morning tion of her jewellery. Later the ac- proved satisfactory. Fifteen chil here to stir
trouble the up
owners despairingly asking cused were alleged to have volun- dren were presented for the Royal is 掉
and themselves: "Am I the fine fellow Iteered to take the complainant to Drawing Society Examination in wise very
the police station to make a report. June, with the following results: really highbrow outlook on life and
one,
"Do I take
it is to be hoped that others thought I was?" convi ted will be sentenced to reis my carefully nurtured grand man-Instead, they took her to the rail- Honoura 4, Passes 3. ceive the same dose. Mere inner and way of looking at people had relieved the complainant of the like to say that all the tiny children way at Hunghom, where after they Regarding the prize Hst, I would prisonment is really no punish-mere pomposity?" "Am I-standing remainder of her property, they get a prize, which makes the re ment to the hardened Chinese in the view of my fellow-mortala
where I thought I did?" And they were alleged to have pushed her wards scem large in proportion to criminal, and less to the seditious all seem to end up with the des-down the embankment and then run the number of pupils. Reds who rather glory in their perate query: "Is Hong Kong where The case is proceeding. "martyrdom" for the "cause." It was?" Combine a few strokes of the
I, for one, sincerely hope it is.
Discharged. I hope that my friends who have
In the case in which the former shall miss him and we wish him "cat" with imprisonment, and suffered personal twinges as the re- Dairy Farm coolie was charged with every happiness at Home. they have a different tale to tell suit of the publication of that ar the manslaughter, with others not Thanks are due to each member of their misfortunes of being ticle will be able to shake off those in custody, of another Chinese who of the staff and to Mrs. Griffin who
aeditious pamphlets in Colony.
ажду.
I would like to thank the Rev. Mr. Copley Moyle for eo kindly helping us every Wednesday. We
Prize Winners...
Class 10-Sia Hofstede, Ann Marcel, Geoffrey Brearley, David Cook, Paul Hofstede, Beverleigh Bultitude, Erica de Rome, Dorità
Tod, Mary Frances Wallace,, Dick
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1927. caught in the act of distributing twinges, that their skina will prove it was alleged they had thrown into very kindly played the piano for us to thick for those darts to pene the harbour after having assaulted last week when one member of the this trate, and that they will go back him near the Shek-ki Junk Wharf, staff was ill.
to their old ways of doing things the Chief Justice this morning de- There is still another form of Not only do I hope all these things cided that there was no case to go Lady Stewart Taylor then pre- punishment that might well be re-
I plead for them.
to the jury; and the accused was sented the prizes, as follows:- Let us, I beg, continue in our discharged. A Chinese Red agent who was vived not only for Red agents but unoriginality; let us remain in our caught in the act of distributing for the type of criminal called niche; let us retain our social or- seditious literature was yester- "gunmen." That is the stocks, ganisation which is redolent of the
Brahminism of snobbery; let. us" BURIAL" IN ASSAM. Breakspear, John Wood, Patricia day sentenced at the Magistracy which have in the past been keep the retailer in his place! to six months' imprisonment with known to be a real deterrent to Let me, please Mr. Editor, retain. [hard labour and to receive eight crime and a humiliation to the my faith in judging a man by the TEMPORARY HABITATION OF Bell, George Syme Thomson,
THE SOUL. strokes with the "cat." In pass- convicted occupants.
Job he holds; let clerks blossom into With the accountants and plumbers into en- ing sentence the Magistrate stated wave of crime of a very serious gineers; let my wife have her call- Mr. J. H. Hunton contributes to that, although the pamphlet, on nature in Shanghai in the North ing box. To attempt a parody on "Man" details of a remarkable naby, 1st prize; Anne Cookes, 2nd the face of it, was not violently and Singapore in the South, no the work of a poet whom we have method of disposing of the dead prize. Division 2: Allison King- seditious, it was the first step precautions and no measures can he commenced to write for the Lon- Konyak tribe in the Naga Hills, 2nd prize.
read and mildly appreciated since at Wakching, a village of the horn, 1st prize; Wendy Remington of a scheme of intimidation be drastic enough to preserve for don "Morning Post"--
After death, the body is wrapped following the so-called Red occu- pation of Canton. His Worship continued:
this Colony the comparative im. munity it has so far enjoyed from crimes of violence and of sedition.
"Don't do this thing! Let's have
our fling!
Think of our standing-
And God. Save the King!".
Yours, etc.
PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA.
Daphne: Griffin, Marthe Cuvillier, Jacqueline Hargreaves Browne, Jimmie MacKenzie and Tony Evers. Class 9.-Division 1: Peter Cor-
Class
8.-Malloch Stark, 1st
and placed in one of a number of Richard Cassidy, 2nd prize. in leaves of the thatching palm prize; John Mitchell, 1st prize; trees, usually six, associated with
and usually near the "morunge"
Class 7 (Preparatory).—Audrey
of the clan using them. Outside Jackson, 1st prize; Kathleen Wolfe, the village a rail is put up, with
2nd prize.
Class 8: Senior Division:
Junior Division:
It is the dregs of the popu- If the re-introduction of the lace who embark on such pro- stocks will assist in any way in paganda, and as such you will dealing with such scoundrels as
a screen, in front of which is a be treated. For an offence like that sentenced yesterday there is
P.S.-It would probably be a good wooden figure of a man serving Marion Lane, 1st prize; Muriel Gub- this, committed in times of
as the temporary habitation of bay, 2nd prize; Betty Mitchell emergency, the Magistrates have no reason why the matter should thing for the community if these the soul This figure, which ends special prize.
two chaps were muzzled. power to flog. That power they not receive the consideration of
just below the waist, can be and Nancy Hornell, 1st prize: Shiona will not hesitate to use on the Police authorities.
is used for other dead afterwards. MacKichan, 2nd prize. Their
After nine days the head is de- Royal Drawing Society Certi- acoundrels like you. You will hands must be strengthened in
tached from the body and clean Rcates:-Division I-Honours Car- have six months' hard labour and every possible way. And this is
ed by the children or relatives and tificate: Marion Lane, Joan Frank, The literature distributed by stands only brute force.
one of them. A brute under-
placed in the village cemetery in Shiana Mackichan. Pass Certi a special stone receptacle. This is ficate: Betty Mitchell, Nancy this man contained an exhortation thing less does not appeal to him The Chief Justice and a
a solid conical standstone block Hornell, Cecily Clementi, Dione Cle from two to three feet in height, i mentl. to the labourers, agriculturists, and does not instil in him a fear heard the case this morning in skull. The recess is closed with Certificate: Audrey Jackson, Pass jury with an arched recess to take the Preparatory Division:--Honours NEW SEASON GINGER soldiers and "poor citizens" of of the law. In China Itself he which Sandi Khan, Mr. C. Bernard a flat stone, and the whole cover Certificate: Doreen Hynes, Kath- Hong Kong to take example from knows that he will get short showed with the manslaughter of ed with a conical sheath of leen Wright, Oskar Bitzer, Helen Brown's Indian chauffeur, 越 the armed riot in Canton. One of shrift when caught,Let him a Chinese woman name Ip Ching, thatching palm leaf. the pamphlets urged labourers to realise that a conviction in this who died from severe injuries re- The skulls of males and The proceedings ended with
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obnoxious presence felt here,
The case for the Crown was children perform ceremonies over conducted by Mr. S. Fitzroy, whilst the stones confirms the view that With the strong denunciation
A PREMATURE PLEAS
Mr. Leo d'Almada, Jun appeared they have a phallic significance. by the Magistrate there will be
for the defence and produced in Many of the stones are ornament SENTENCE OF COURT-MARTIAL general agreement... It is bad Sergeant Fitches this morning Connaught Road where the ac Persons who die a violent death Court a model of the section of ed with various carved patterna enough for this Colony to be the charged a cashier of the Ho Hong cident occurred. dumping ground of the dregs of the Central Magistracy with the
Bank before Major C. Willson at The case is proceeding. the populace of Canton and other embezzlement of $8,080, the pro- places in Kwangtung without the perty of the bank. The embezzle
ment was alleged to have extended Bet peace and order of the Colony from: December 1929. AM RETA being menaced by their underhand
seditious propaganda, The "poor citizens" of Hong Kong need not
nediation of the
rom Canton or elsewhere
MANY ALIASES,
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or from an epidemic, and child- ren, are not treated in this way,
New Delhi, Dec. 1. The custom of disposing of the Lahore, Dec., 1 The General skulls of the head in phalli of Officer," Commax the Lahore carved stone is apparently limited Dist
rmed the sentence to Wakching and the ne bouryfof
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The accused, Bul Yong-sang, M pleaded guilty In spite of the 15 is understood that Richard ng hostile village of fact that Mr. M. Ko had been Charles Williams, the man of many It forms a demite link between of instructed to defend himpia aliases will be charged, with fraud the menhir and the carved men
owever, Major Willson gave a to-morrow morning, be casa ha wooden soul figures and with re
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