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THURSDAY." FEBRUARY 28. 1929.
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are at least very brave and to a Two accidents to workmen oc- certain extent they are animated curred at Taikoo Dockyard yes- by the scientific spirit of the true terday. One man was injured by pioneer and lover of human pro-a fall into the hold of the ... gress as they conceive it. But "Siberia Maru," which is under- there would seem to be little going overhaul at the dock, whilst doubt that this craving for speed the other was hurt through some records is little more than a mania scrap iron falling on him whilst and a mania in which there is at work in the iron foundry. Both more honour in the breach than were removed to the Government in the observance. For what Civil Hospital, practical purpose can anyone want
to rush in the air at, say,
À BELATED APOLOGY
300 miles an hour or travel at CORRESPONDENCE 200 miles per hour on the road. It is sheer lunacy; and that it is so was shown disastrously in the terribly sad fate of Kinkead last year. We are glad to see that there is considerable hesitation as
And
MR. R. H. SHORT
HIS SUDDEN DEATH IN KOWLOON
FEW DAYS ILLNESS
The many friends of Mr. R. H. Short of the Hong Kong office of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., will learn with much regret of his death at his residence, Ashley-road, Kowloon, last even ing.
The late Mr. Short, who was 46 years of age at the time of his death, had been ill for only a few [To the Editor of the "China Mall"days, and the news of his death
An
Sir, Mr. Adler's belated came as a shock to all who knew to risking another valuable life in apology to Mr. Dittemore has him.
He came to Hong Kong from such an exploit. Not that the at-been read with great interest. It tempt will not be made. It will. seems to have been dictated by Canada seven years ago, and was At any rate the Schneider Trophy that higher authority, which con- the Assistant Purchasing Agent
of the Canadian Pacific. will again call for an exhibition of trola the Mother Church. such sensational speeds.
It is a pity that in making his Englishman by birth, he origin- even as a test of the quality of a amends regarding this subject,ally came from Portsmouth, country's capacity for making Mr. Adler did not make the poal-where he has a daughter who is a He also leaves a widow, machinery, these speed per- tion still more "clear." Will you nurse.
daughter and son resident in the formances must be regarded as allow me to do so?
them the greatest by no means satisfactory: Sure- Some years ago the Supreme Colony, and ly much more adequate ways could Judicial Court of Massachusetts sympathy will be extended in and should be found, as the pre-declined to reinstate Mr. Ditte their bereavement.
The funeral will take place to- sent methods are far too risky and more as a Director, on the Master's
recommendation after hearing the day, passing the Monument at 5 sensational...
evidence, on the ground that there p.m. was no judicial precedent for a civil court to overrule the decision of an ecclesiastical body.
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all wine out of the
MR. BARRADAS FUNERAL
The Court, however, upheld The funeral of Mr. Artur country lest men should be drunk. the Master's report as to Oscar Barradas, of the Hong It will be found an unjust and un-matters of fact" and Mr. Ditte-Kong and Shanghai Bank, whose wise policy to deprive a man of more's moral victory was absolute death was reported yesterday, his natural liberty upon the sup and complete.
took place at the Roman Catholic position he may abuse it. When
It was shown that there was an cometery, Happy Valley, last he doth abuse it, judge-Oliver element of personal hostility to evening. Cromwell,
wards Mr. Dittemore, the plaintiff, There was a large attendance Harmston's Circus continues on the part of the other Directors, of friends to pay their last tri- butes. The chief mourner was to attract good houses with its Par. 56 of the Master's report re- troupe of excellent entertainers, garding findings of fact and rul- the deceased's brother, Mr. Joseph and last night another good audi-ings of law entirely clears Mr. Barradas, who was accompanied
Dittemore:- mal routine. Even so, the ques-ence enjoyed a change of pro- "56. From all the testi- tion is imperative-is the Govern. gramme.
mony relating to the occurrences considered in pars. 52-55 above, ment doing all possible to subdue For hawking cakes and sugar the epidemic? Is it not time that cane on board the s.3. ""Tjilboet" and from that relating to one or two other incidents of less signi much more drastic measures were without a licence, a Chinese wificance, in the same direction, introduced to lessen the number yesterday fined $10, or, in default,
Marine Magistrate.
by several other relatives.
The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Fr. Rossi and the Rev. Fr. Brooks. assisted by the Seminarists who chanted the responses.
Wreaths included those from
Overland Chint Sant of cases and reduce the number of ten days' hard labour, by the my conclusion must be, that the brother," Cissy, Chelly, Carlinho.
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DEATH
WHITE-A his residence
од
February 28; Henry Percy While, agi 66 years.
fatalities? Is it sufficient to be
"His two sisters." "His Loving
Banking Corporation, Fanling The Hong Kong and Shanghai Sporting Club, Wayfoong Mess.
told that the St. John Ambulance A fine of $10 or ten days' jail was dard of propriety in language or Brigade. is undertaking house-to yesterday imposed by the Marine ed by his associates, materially Wo Kee, Miss Mary Lam Mr.
Mr. J. C. dos Remedios, Mr. Lai
plaintiff's [Dittemore's] repeated insistence, as above, upon a stan- conduct stricter than that accept- Magistrate on the master of a
augmened the hostility and dislike house vaccinations without the passenger boat for committing a which his persistent and strenu-R. P. Moodie, Mr. E. D. Black, medical and sanitary authorities breach of his licence by having on ous opposition to their wishes Mr. G.. B. Dunnett, Mr..
Jose M. Fonseca. The Hon. ensuring that even the large num- board the craft 28 empty wine upon so many matters cannot fail se
jars,
A. C. to have provoked in their minds Maria Fonseca Ozorio, Mr. S, M,
Hynes. toward him. I am obliged to re-do Rozario, Mr. R. M. Xavier, Mr., At the Kowloon Magistracy gard them as incapable, on March G. C. Murray, Mr. R. H. Chappell, within a reasonably short time? yesterday, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith 17, 1919, of impartial judicial.con- Mrs. E. G. B. Vieira, Mr. A. F. B. Queries anth as these must oc- fimposed a fine of $50, on a Chin-sideration of accusations against Silva-Netto, Mr. A. C. Rozario,
ese sub-contractor engaged on him, especially
ber of voluntary vaccinators is ample for such a gigantic task
of accusations
Mr. D.-A. Barradas..
Miss
cur to the mind of most people. work on the Hong Kong Tele- framed by themselves; had they They are not asked in any idle or phone Co.'s Nathan-road site, for ever undertaken any such con- Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Sequeira, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. da Rocha, cavllling spirit. If there is any-having falled to report a case of
aideration." thing that the Press can do to workmen's matshed on the site.
small-pox which occurred in the
and Mrs. F. P. Sequeira, Mr. A. There is a great deal more, Mr. dos Remedios and family, Mr. and Editor, in the Master's report Mrs. J. V. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. assist the authorities, the latter
which makes most interesting v. M. Xavier, Mr. and Mrs. reading, but the above is sufficient E. O. P. Hyndman, and Mr. and know full well that such will be
Mrs. O. C. Womack has organ
forthcoming most readily. Toised a Musical Medley at the for the moment, except to say Mrs. L. A. Osmund.
The hostess begged the famous
Helena May on Thursday, March that three of the five defendants criticise for the mere sake of criti-7, at 5.30 p.m. Dances, songs and in the above litigation are believ- cising is not to be thought of for two short scenes from Bizet'ted still to constitute the control tenor to sing another song. one single moment. But, it does Opera "Carmen" (The two front ling majority of the Boston Board seem as if the authorities could rows will be reserved for chil- of Directors."
dren). Teas must be booked in
take the public, through the advance-Advt. medium of the Press, more into
JUSTICE,
"I'm afraid it's too late," he replied. "I should disturb the people next door."
"And a good thing, too," re plied the hostess. ""They poisoni- ed our dog last week."
Husband: "We shall have to be
Yours, etc.,
Hong Kong, Feb. 28. Sentence of six months' hard! Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 28, 1929. their confidence., Failure to do labour and 15 strokes of the birch that may easily disturb the seren-was passed by Mr. E. W. Hamil
ARMED ROBBERY
"Ah, madam," said the pious ity of the relations between the ton at the Central Magistracy, MORE DRASTIC ACTIONT
Government and the Press in re- this morning, on a Chinese who
(Continued from Page 1.)
visitor, "I am going about giving advice and consolation to unhappy returned to the Colony after he Now that the number of small-gard to this most vital matter. had been banished for ten years After Police investigations, sus-wives. Do you know where your pox cases in the Colony is well And no one can view the last for on October 4, 1927. His Worship picion rested on the absent amah, husband is every night?"
"""Indeed, I do." over the 1,000 mark, with over 600 midable array of statistics (as directed that if the prisoner was and instructions were given that
"Alas, madam. You think you deaths, it appears timely to en-Dr. Severni once called the annual unfit to be birched, he should if she came back to the house she
serve an additional term of, six should be arrested.. Two days do, but he may be hero, there- quire whether the authorities do report on malaria)—of small-pox months' hard labour..
after she returned., She was de anywhere!" tained, and handed over to the "Well," said the woman, "if he not consider that much more cases and deaths without asking
The master of a sampan and a Police. She raade a statement to gets out of the place where he is drastic action than hitherto is whether the most drastic mea-fokf were yesterday charged be- the latter with regard to a man now he has to raise a granite slab required to cope with the epide-sures possible are being enforced fore the Marine Magistrate with who had called on her at the flat, that weighs at least a ton, and he mic? So far as was pointed out both on the Island and on the (1) dumping rubbish into the har-and from this the Police were couldn't even lift a scuttle of coal in this column a few weeks ago-mainland to minimise and ultim-bour; and (2) with failing to stop satisfied that she had not been when he was alive."
when called upon to do so by the connected with the Tobbery, the Government has had a very ately entirely suppress the epide police. The master was fined $10 However, it was assumed that she good Press; there has not been the mic? Suggestions toward this for ten days' jall on the first count, had innocently divulged informa- very economical this year."
Wife (enthusiastically): "Yes, slightest tendency to exaggerate desirable end could be multiplied and $20 or 20 days' imprisonment tion concerning the flat which ul the position, nor has one word ad Infinitum-suggestions. that on the other. The foki was con-timately got into the possession I intend to make my own clothes."
"You are a treasure" victed on the first count only and of the robbers. been published that could possibly doubtless have long since occurred fined $10 or ten days hard la Arrest in Mongkok
“And your shirts and socks,” Accor
"Oh-er-I wasn't in earnest. Accordingly she was asked to be construed as inciting the com- to the authorities themselves bour.
take the Police to find the man There's no need to be so economi munity to panic Periodical offi- but surely the public is fully en
cal as all that." Suspected of being a "cat bur-who used to call on her.
They cial statements have already been titled at this stage of the outbreak
glar" who had been responsible went to the third floor of No. 575, suggested in the "China Mail" by to know all that has been done for a number of thefts in EuroShanghal-street, Mongkok, where which were a pair of diamond way of a needful assurance that and all that is contemplated to be pean flats in Kowloon, a Chinese this man was pointed out and ar- earrings and an "S" shaped the authorities are fully appre done. An official assurance in this is now being detained at the rested. This man was the first brooch.
Water Police Station, Tsimsha accused in the dock. He made a Then the searchers went to an- ciative of the advisability of respect ought not to be delayed teu He was employed as a pri- statement to the Police on the other cockloft under the staircase alloying public uneasiness; but all even though the Departments vate watchman by the owner of a spot, in consequence of which the leading to the floor above, and that has been done is to issue most concerned may consider that block of buildings in Ashley-road, Police raided the first floor of No. bere they found a locked rattan dally and weekly statistics that they have already too much to do. Kowloon. The Police arrested 12 Gough street at 6 pm the basket. The key was not pro-
him in his "shanty at No. 81 same day
duced by any of the accused, and are ever swelling a most formid-
Ashley-road and a number of When the Police entered the flat consequently the lock was forced. able total of cases and deaths. In
pawn tickets was found in his the second and sixth accused were In the basket were four fully possession.
in the front cubicle. In their pre- loaed and serviceable revolvers, themselves these statistics are of Speed Mania
sence first accused made another One of these had recently been an alarmist nature, apart alto. There have been and there still
statement and pointed out the two fired, but not in connection with gether from whatever comments are many manifestations of the for Home by the s... Macedonia men the robbery in question. An ex- mania for speedthe most sensa on Saturday, include Mr. and Mrs. The Police stayed in the flat pert calculated that it was fired the Press cares to publish as a re- tional of them all being the air G. Prdo Martin and Mr. A. B. from 6 to 8 pm, during which three or four days prior to the flection of public opinion. Th
The races for the Schneider Trophy Wood Educational Dept. Mr. all the other accused came in, so seizure, An empty cartridge Government, it is well known, is and the land races for the motor and Mrs. RA. D. Forrest that they were all picked up there cylinder was also found in the being most admirably assisted in car speed record Both are once (SCA), Miss J. A: Davis (Med- The female accused was the wife basket, and this fitted the revol
more being discussed. Its task of coping with the epide latter is indeed,
cal Department) Mr. and Mrs, of the sixth man in the dock. mic by the voluntary labours of to be contested by the members of St. John Ambu Seagraveat Day
by Cap lance Brigade. – The of the
Sanitary Dep
and
Government passengers leaving
C.Wolfe, Mr Thomas or Mr WE Readridge,
MEN CESAME
What a Search Revealed ***Dealing with the Police' of the Hat Mr Murphy in a drawer in a table in
ubicle was und and
ver
There were also in the basket two five-round charges for the re
Ammunition, and