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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1928.
was staged in the Com The St. Joseph's College Old pound of the Roman Catho Boys Association are holding a lic Cathedral. About this noble concert in the College Hall, Ken- institution much has already been nedy-road, on Friday, December" written, and its good work in the 14, starting at 5.45 pm. services of the poor is known
QUEEN'S ROAD CLOCK TOWER
[To the Editor of the “China Mail.").
Sir, The need for an Electric-
What is badly needed is, the electric clock in erection of an a post in the middle of the street, { somewhere near or above the stand of the Traffic Officer, visible from all four crossings.
throughout the Colony and for On account of the continued in- Normal Time Clock Tower at the nfield. Yesterday's tete, we are disposition of Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Junction of Queen's-road and given to understand, compared M. E. I. Wynne-Jones occupied Fedder-street is greatly felt. most favourably from a financial the bench in the First Court at We used to have there former- ly two clocks, but both were viewpoint with those of former, the Central Magistracy to-day.
caken down by their owners when years, which is indeed good news, Apart from this most important Sister Davis, of the Govern-removing. consideration, the affair was a ment Civil Hospital, reported to definite success in that it afford-the police yesterday that a thief ed a large proportion of the chil-entered her room in the sisters' dren of the Colony in afternoon's quarters and stole $90 in notes. sterling, fun among, toys galore.
As the result of falling from a For the grown-ups, too, there was entertainment of various kinds ladder whilst engaged in lime- and those who did not participate washing work outside No. 38 Con- in the "sweeps" no doubt enjoy-naughtsroad Central, yesterday, a ed either the music of the Bor- contractor's foki was-removed to derers' band, the "Titanin" con- the Government Civil Hospital cert party or the spectacular dis suffering from a fractured leg. play given by the Manila Shows.
Lul Tat-hoi, Chinese mer In this little note concerning a happy and successful charitable chant living at the Wan Kau valued columns effort a word of praise on behalf boarding house, reported to the place the above suggestion be- of the activities of the large police yesterday that a foki, with party of willing helpers is not out out authority, went to the Wen of place; it is, in fact, most amply Tak Cheung. Loong firm, collected deserved; all who participated the sum of $268.18 in Lui's name, combined 'most ably in assuring and absconded with the money. the success of the fete.
Queen's-road and Pedder-stroet corner is perhaps, or soon will be, the most frequented corner in Hong Kong's business centre, and the erection of a suitable clock there would be of inestim- Lable benefit to the public.
May I use the space of your to herewith
fore the public and the Govern-- ment Authorities concerned, Ins well as "before the Taipan's of our big firms, amongst them the leading firms dealing in Electric Clocks, with the hope that either
A Chinese woman, living on the the one or the other party will second floor of No. 1, South-lane, Lake this opportunity of doing an committed suicide yesterday by excellent and lasting service to hanging herself in her cubicle. the public of Hong Kong, and An old man may be anyone The police were informed immedj-earn their sincère thanks for it. from twenty-five years up. A ately the tragedy was discovered, man is as old as his mind. Open- and the body was removed to the mindedness to ideas is not a public mortuary. quality of age. It has nothing
A Chinese farmer, aged 21
to do with the time one has spent ¦ in this world."San Francisco years, and a native of Mui Yuen Chronicle
was yesterday arrested by the police for the unlawful possession of a Mauser piatol and 100 rounds of ammunition, which were found amongst his luggage on board the s.s. "Liangehow." -
A further 12 cases of email pox were reported among Chinese yesterday.
Mrs. W. T. Southorn will pre- sent the prizes at the Peak School on Friday, December 21 at 5.15 p.m.
Lee Po (60) a contractor's workmau fractured his left leg yesterday as the result of fall- ing off a scaffold on which he was The forthcoming marriage is working outside a building in Central, near announced of Mr. C. N. Dragon, Connaught-road of St. Joseph's College, to Miss Watson's factory. He was taken L. M. Santos, of No. 12, Prince to the Government Civil Hospital
by the police.
Terrace.
Sir Reginald Stubba, Captain
General and Governor of Jamaica, returned to the island from' Eng- lund on November 9 and resumed' duties.
CORRESPONDENCE
THEY WALKED
To the Editor of the "China Mail.”].
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Would the erection of such a Clock Tower; say, by one of the leading Firms dealing in Electric Clocks, not serve them as an ex- cellent advertisement for their Clocks and thus more than re- compense them for the initial- outlay and the small cost of up- keep?
Yours, etc.. Theosophical, Order of Service, Sub-Dept. City, Improvement,
HERBERT E. LANEPARE, Chief Brother for China. Hong Kong, Dec, 10, 1928.
THE WATER SHORTAGE
(To the Editor of the "China Mail."?
Sir, The Colony, as all know, a period of acute water shortage, yet enor- mous amounts of valuable water are daily quite unnecessary wast- ed away.
is passing through
I refer to the hundreds of thou- sands of water taps, a large per- centage of which, possibly one third, have became soiled by rust
Sir,We, beg leave to point The forthcoming marriage is. out an error in your account of or sand and thus do not shut en- When we in-tirely, unless force is used. Ás But, as stated, the situation in announced of Air, Leonard MeRae, our experiences.
master mariner, of the British s.s. formed you that the fare across a result, in the total aggregate, the land of the Soviet and even "Kumsang," to Mrs. Minnie Pearl the desert of Iraq, by motor-bus, an enormous amount of water is with regard to their political Hurley (nee Goldenberg) of No. cost £30 per seat, we did not for day and night left runzing into
a moment think you would con- the gutters, prisoners in Siberia. would hardly 12, Observatory Villas, Kowloon..
It should be possible to prevent vey to your readers that we had be worth while noticing were it The Rev. G. T. Waldegráve, enjoyed the luxury of that ride. this huge wastage by introducing London Offices: The Far East-
not for the particularly interest-M.A., will deliver a lecture on We could not afford to pay and, and enforcing bye-law of some. ern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd 36-38, Southampton Street,ing statement that among the life in an Internment Camp therefore, took the only alterna-new type of water tap, which would net automatically and be absolute- Strand, W.C...
latest batch of Trotskyites, sent January to July, 1915) at the tive-we walked it.
St. Peter's Church Young Men's
That is, why, as you will see, ly fool sand- and rust into exile, it is authoritatively Club this evening at 8.15 p.m. we were able to establish the proof, and shut off the water fact that we met no other white completely the moment the hand Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 10, 1928/ mentioned that there is a group
Seven robbers, including · a man during the 18 days walk, is withdrawn... m of Chinese youths, among whom RUSSIA'S "RED" TYRANNY is a son of Marshal Chiang Kai-woman, armed with pistols and with an occasional lift on
shek.. These misguided; youths Lok Ma Chau, New Territories,; Trusting you will insert the Following close upon the news were sent from China as students last week-end-and robbed the in-above in case any erroneous im- saved, and I believe that herein. sent by Radek, the colleague and to acquire western culture but, mutes to the extent of goods with' pression has been caused,
daggers, entered a farmhouse at camel's back.
$47.
Yours, etc.,
TULKA KAREL
FORMANEK JAROSLAY,
of "Press Service", Prague. Hong Kong, Dec. 10, 1928..
THAT $1,000 OFFER
a
By this simple device some 15
to 20 per cent, of our total water consumption could probably be lies, to a good extent, the way out of our immediate. difficulties. would be glad if our Water Authorities would give the above. their practical consideration.
Yours, etc., Theosophical Order of Service, Sub-Dept.. City Improvement,
HERBERT E. LANEPART,
unhappily they were (at a time fellow-sufferer in exile of Trotsky, when Borodin and other Soviet Shun Cheng-tsung, the account- comes further details of the hard- ships of political prisoners in agents were busy and successful ant of the Lee Yu Kee hardware in China) sent to Russia instead shop, No. 40. Queen's-road Cen- tral, reported to the police yea. Siberia. Those in opposition to
of to some really, enlightened terday, that some time between Stalin were compelled to leave
country. Evidently. they have Noyember 24, 1927, and Saturday Moscow for some outlandish part;
been busier with politics than last, someone stole from shelves in the shop 328 dozen files worth of Siberia, where as a political with other subjects, of which $999.27. The loss was discovered (To the Editor of the "China Mail.")
Sir, Some time ago there was probably stood more in during stocktaking. they I
a letter in your journal which, Signor Carpi,, the well known as I recall, gave the impression need, and the consequence is that, having fallen foul of the Soviet organiser and manager of Far- of a lie direct to the insinuation Executive in their advocacy of Eastern Opera Companies passed that Mrs. Eddy used drpgs.
At a London school, lately the solidarity with Radek they through: Hong Kong on Saturday. Later, as I recall, an officer was
His latest venture in the theatri- made to donate $1,000 to "any teacher asked if any of the boys have been sent to share that uncal world is The Parisian Hong Kong Charity" if the direc- could bring her a nice big burch
prisoner neither Trotsky nor any of his followers would be likely to hamper the activities of the Soviet Executive. The news' to which we allude is to the effect that Trotsky and other political prisoners have been-seriously ill
• Chief Brother in,China. Hong Kong, Dec. 10, 1928.
in consequence of their experi-happy-individual's exile. Young Revue," a company of ten variety tors in Boston of the so-called of mixed garden flowers for next
Chiang, like the son of Marshal artists, which will visit the "Mother" church made such a day's lesson. Feng Yu-hsiang, became so pro-Queen's Theatre during Xmas denial. week nounced a revolutionary that he
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were
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Is there any hope of this? F am one who would like to see the Ministering Children's League benefitted by this sum.
Yours, etc.
HOPEFUL.
Hong Kong, Dec. 10, 1928.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Up shot Isaac Hiram's little hand.
"But. Isaac, you haven't got a garden."
"No, please, Miss, but I go round with milk every morning, said fne engaging child.
An English Government of cial was making an inspection of Jan Indian native prison. To
governor he said later:
ences. Radek, therefore, begged the Executive to grant Trotsky and several others, permission to
did not hesitate to denounce his Mr. R. C. Tredwell Consul return to Russia proper. Judgs own father when that distin- General for the United States of ing by what has since happened guished man's actions in China America, his mother and Mrs. Buxton, returned to the Colony the appeal not only fell upon deaf ears, but since then a more rigor- were not to the liking of the son this morning by the s.s. "Pre in Russia. Chiang, jun, insident Cleveland" from Manila ous and ruthless handling of
Siberia, and the youthful Feng,Mr. Tredwell and Mrs. Buxton those believed to be sympathetic who is presumably still in R General Stimson during their the guests of Governor with Trotsky has been-enforced.
sia, will doubtless cool down in stay in the Philippines. The latest news to hand reveal time and see the folly of their a deplorable state of affairs, and
youthful impetuosity. Quite one whick laminates for us the plainly there is no hope for Soviet life lived in Russia to-day under Russia while dominated by ruth the tyranny of Stalin, as head
less "Reds" of the Stalin (so for the unlawful possession of I think previous corresponernor, "that was Lall: Din He of the Executive and of his col called "Man of Steel") type.
a kettle suspected to have been dence has made. It sufficiently is to be hanged to-morrow morn- stolen at Yaumati. Defendant clear that neither the Parenting, and he is innocent. I think leagues. Neither the, state of
Since the above was written a said that he picked it up, and had Church nor its proposals have it rather upsets "him."- afsirs in Russia, at present nor
contradiction has come from Mos- not stolen it. That it was case of any connection with Christian
theft by keeping was submitted Science, as founded by Mary "Yes," remarked the conceited·· at any other time would interest
cow regarding the Chinese pri- by Mr. E. W. Hamilton the magis- Baker Eddy A
young visitor, this is not a bad us particularly-at least not to
Boners; but the Russians, as is trate.
The Christian Science organi place. It's a fine big town, there the extent of commenting upon well known do not scruple to re- A Chinese, who was charged is fulfilling its mission of heal and all that, but there's no arls- sation as founded by Mrs. Eddy are plenty of jolly girls about, it-for long ago we gave up port what suits only themselves with assaulting the master of a Ing the alck and reforming the tocracy down here, you know.” all hope of expecting anything Time will tell whether Beuter's shop in Kowloon City was again sinner in strict accordance with No what?" asked the native approaching rational conduct to original telegram is accurate or remanded at the Kowloon Magis- the teachings of Jesus Christ. of the place. emanate from the actions of the
"Well, everything seems per- To the Editor of the "China Mall."]fectly satisfactory here. All the Only out of prison á month ago, Sir-Kindly permit me to re-prisoners seem, contented with a Chinese was this morning at the fer to the letter from Mr. Henry the exception of that man whom'. Kowloon Magistracy sentenced to. Japp, which appeared in your is. I spoke to last."
"Ah, yes," said the Indian gov. undergo a further month's jall sue of Saturday.
Soviet,
otherwise.
Nothing could be more fallaci The Fete
tracy on Saturday. The affair, It is not interested in the acti "Aristocracy, People who it will be recalled, occurred four vities of certain former members have never done anything, and months ago. Complainant was who are now engaged in carrying whose parents and grandparents wounded so seriously on the leg on, an aggressive and clamorous nover did anything, you know-IT ous than the animosity and bit Local Catholica and their that ultimately if had to be am- opposition. The Min whose families have always been
Yours, etc
people of leisure," explained the. terness caused by those holding friends of other denomina-putated. In reply to the de- tfona again gave material fendant, the Magistrate stated
| W. H. ADLER, A young man. Te the fundamental belief of the proof of their generosity that there would be a serious Christian Science Committee Bolshevists towards those in yesterday • when the annual charge against him should the
on Publication. other classes of society, especial fete of St. Vincent de Paul man die...
Hong Kong, Dec. 10, 1928
"Ah," Bald the other, "you're wrong We've got them down here, but we call 'em tramps."