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SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929.
In India was laid Kong some men are members of
story Broken
MARSHAL FOCH
A "Broken the scene of this several Unions with nothing in
Road"
"The common, this being due to a fool- Road," ish belief in possible protection in. some years ago--a broken road case of trouble. And it was the CATHE
that was continually menaced by head of the Pork Butchers Union floods and had broken the hearts who became one of the anti-Hong of all the road engineers who Kong strike leaders and who be worked on it. We have not a few came notorious for his terrorist
méthođa.
What does the
average
for-
"Give Li Chai-sum eigner (that is, What For!" the one who does not know Chin-
SPECIAL REQUIEN MASS IN PRC. CATHEDRAL
OVERSHADOWED HEARTS
Glenealy, was the scene of an im
The Roman Catholic Cathedral,
pressive memorial service this morning when a Requiem Mass was sung for the repose of the Foch, Commander of the Allied soul of Field Marshal Ferdinand Forces in 1918.
5
broken roads in this Colony, but- of broken hearts in consequence there seems ne'er a trace. Only the other day in the columns of the “China Mail" was attention directed to the broken road be- tween the Kowloon apology for a Post Office and the European ese) think the raucous newsboy Bishop H. Valtorta, D.D., officiat His Lordship the Rt. Rev. Y.M.C.A. At present the incom- shouts when he runs through the ed at the main altar, assisted by pleted road is good space wasted. town frantically waving small the Rev. Fr. F. Noval of the Why cannot it be finished and sheets printed in Chinese?. It lifted from the category of an would be interesting to know betative priest of the French Mis- Spanish Mission, and a represen eyesore to a respectable looking cause we feel that the majority sion. public thoroughfare? It may be, give little thought to what is go- of course, that the authorities ing on around us and many do not Spanish, and American Missions, Priests of the Italian, French, have their eye on part of it for an even know the local counterpart and the Jesuits occupied pews on extension of the Post Office or (when they see or hear one) of two sides of the main altar and, even for an extension (about 15 the London lad who yells with the Seminary Choir, sang years hente?) of the Fire Station. "Hextry" "Hextry" as he dashes the responses to the mournfal It may
be that they are only out of Fleet street. Truth is not awaiting a lead from the Kowloon always a good selling medium and Residents Association raze the the Hong Kong vernacular news Post Office and rebuild a much boys seem to think that exaggera more commodious one elsewhere; tion is the best recommendation. extend the Fire Station and equip The most common form of verna- it with sufficient fire-fighting ap-cular "extra" comprises two or rails were the flags of all the pliances to cope with the three cables. Such appear fairly Allied nations in the Great War.
during a crisis.
We need hardly say that the
chants,
black vestments, whilst the altar The officiating clergy were in and pulpit were also draped in black. Hanging around the main altar and draped over the altar
Governor Present
greatest conflagration possible frequently on the mainland; or simply to Among the choice epithets flung tar at the foot of the steps from Immediately in front of the al allow the road to lie uncompleted out by one newsboy on Friday the altar rails was erected a tall until the P.W.D. are graciously was one which ought to be trans- tomb covered with black drapings allotted a big enough Vote to get lated, broadly, "Chiang Kai-shek and topped by a huge silk French on with the good work. Both the gives Li Chai-sum What For.” ” broken road and the Post Office
flag. are things that strike the casual "news" imparted verbally bears visitor to the Colony and make no resemblance to that printed in Those occupying the front pews him imagine that he has struck the "extras." An unpopular near the tomb were HE the a hamlet in the back blocks-politician who has been assassin-Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, until, of course, he comes to the ated has been referred to dis-K.C.M.G.) with his Aides-de- modern Y.M.C.A. building and the respectfully, we remember, in one Camp, members of the Executive more palatial and magnificent of these "yells" as "paying a visit and Legislative Councils and Peninsula Hotel. And then he to Satan," Incidentally, these heads of Government Depart- with the Order of the Garter on can form his own conclusion on a extras are sold for one cent, the ments, H.E. Major-General J. W. behalf of the King, he will stay part of the 15th century being price of the ordinary morning Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., for some time with Prince seen in Kowloon alongside a part paper being five cents. In most acompanied by his A.D.C., Lieut. Chichibu, the brother of the of the 20th century!
of the papers-at least that was Cameron, Staff Officers, and Com- Emperor, who will show his Royal
the custom when we last in-manders of the various Army and Highness something of the indus-
quired the "extras" are run by Air Force Units, the Commodore trial progress of Japan, as well as
the staff, as a concession from and Naval Officers of all British the proprietors, for their own warships in harbour, members of cumshaw, the proceeds being the Consular Body, many in their divided amongst them..
official uniforms: the Comman- der of the French warship H.M.S. "Carys "Algol," together with all the Off- Naval News fort" is one of cers of the shin and a detachment the cruisers on of men from "Algol." Sir Robert
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beauty spots of that wonderful country, including such notable features as the famous volcano of Fujiyama.
Rogue Who Got Off
..
If there was a rogue who has to thank his proverbial lucky stars it is one whose face gives him away at the first glance. We refer to a Cantonese who was found not
It is also hoped to show the guilty by a jury recently. The Duke some forms of sport native law forbids us from being more
who
Chinese
Mr.
...捧
*
a few
to the country. It is expected explicit, although there is abso- the way out to Hong Kong with Ho Tung. Mr. Kwok Siu-lau, that the Duke, and those accom-lutely no risk of being sued reliefs for the China Station, Police Officers, and many mem- panying him, will pass about & for libel. The man in question, of having sailed from Devonport.bers of the public. month in Japan, though the de- about 40 years of age, created a Captain A. Maitland-Dougall, The Sisters of the French Con-- tailed programme has not been very unfavourable impression in R.N., is in command. It is recall vent were also present together. completed at the moment of writ the dock. With a hang-dog look, ed that he was here a few years with the girls of the Convent ing. The Duke is looking forward he hung his head down, listening 280 when the number of cruisers School; and batches from the to his trip with immense inter-attentively to what the inter-on the Station was considerably Italian Convent (girls) and est, since it will be the first oppreter had to say. At the end increased owing to the unrest in St Joseph's College. (boys). portunity he has had to see some, his only statement, obviously in China. He was then Commander The huge Cathedral build- thing of the beauties of the East answer to a claim that he had of H.M.S. "Emerald" which, we ing Was crowded and the been identified by the victim of think, came here from the East scene was the most impressiva Harold an armed robbery, was that Indies. Captain Maitland-Dougall and inspiring seen in the Cathe- William Lee, "There is similarity In-human was promoted to his present rank dral since the services held at the Law Students who is 17 beings as there is in (inanimate) on December 81, 1927. We won-time of the death of Bishop years of age, objects"an expression which, der if there is any old resident Pozzoni, predecessor of Bishop the third son of the late Mr. Lee by the way, caused the inter- who remembers Engineer Rear-Valtorta. Hysan, the Chinese millionaire prater to hesitate for a minute Admiral Thomas Thorne who died Fr. G. Byrne, S. J. speaking from was murdered in his Club before he could think of the Eng in Plymouth a few weeks ago? the text "But man when he sball last year, has been admitted as a lish equivalent to what has now He retired in 1912 but was called be dead, and stripped and consumed, student of Lincoln's Inn. Mr. become a fairly common Canton-up for-War service. From I pray you where is he?" Job. XIV, PEOPLES.-On March 12, at Han- H. W. Lee, we know, is an under-ese colloquialism. The Judge November, 1886 to February, 10 said
kow, to Mr. and Mrs. L. Jgraduate at Pembroke College, acquiesced in the verdict and add 1890, he was in the Royal Naval Ferdinand Foth, Marshal of: Peoples, a daughter.
Oxford. It is the hope of his ed that there was an element of Dockyard, Hong Kong, his rank France, is dead. Within ROBERTSON. On March 15, at many friends that he will return reasonable doubt, The prisoner then being Engineer. In the year hours of his death, the world knew the Country Hospital, Shang to No. 74, Kennedy-road, Hong will now be able to sing the in which he left Hong Kong het. For an hour or two in Paris, hai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. D. M. Kong, as soon as he is called to praises of British justice in in- was promoted to Chief Engineer the wheels of commerce will pause, Robertson, a daughter. the Bar. There is another Chin-variably giving the benefit of such We have before us at the moment the streets will be crowded: the
ese youth reading for the Bar in doubt to the accused.
a "chit" he gave to a former sub- crowds will have thoughts other London and that is Mr. Lo Tsz-
ordinate in testimony of the fat than the thoughts of pleasure or of shau's son who, we think, was ad-
This man had ter's good work and the recipient, gain. The cities of Europe will mitted a student of one of the
only been here now over 70 years of age, is still have sent of their best to walk in PHILLIPS SAUNDERS.
Inns a little over a year ago. That Sydney-street a few weeks proud of it
funeral procession behind military March 14, at 710 Route de will make at least two Chinese
when he was The central standpoint of in-music of muffled drums.
bands, which play solemin music: Zikawai, Shanghai, by the Rev. barristers-at-law to come back to B. W. Laccock, Edward Somer Hong Kong in the next few years. sumably he came down from the spirational, living leadership must
it is full daylight, yet the vast ville Jaffray Phillips to Recetta,
interior because the authorities be maintained if mankind is to throng of people are moving in daughter of Mr and Mrs.
The Queen's Regi- of Kwangtung province have been find a way out of the dificulties twilight, the twilight of oversandow Norman T. Saundera.
Exit the ment have one making things very uncomfort constantly besetting human ex- BUTTRIDGE-WOODS On March Queen's from our midst and able for criminals. He had an un-perience. This central spiritual dearts: "A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again... 16, at HBM. Consulate and
they will be truly enviable reputation up-country as focusing point, so vital to human but man when he be dead; and strip afterwards at the Holy Trinity missed. That, too, was said Sam Kor" (ie., "Third Elder ugress, is the channel, meäns, Cathedral, Shanghai, by the about the East Surreys when Brother) in the Samshur district or "way through which comes ped and consumed I pray you where Very Rev. A. U. 5. Trivett, they took their departure for the In Canton a few years ago when the bread of God, the Word, which is he?" Oh, friends, who liave wept George Peter Buttridge to sunnier shores of India. Both labour unions were rampant is as necessary for the preserva-over your departed friend-strew, if Lucy Macfarlane, only daughter earned this distinction of gain- under the malevolent influence of tion and sustenance of that body you will, fresh flowers upon his of the late Mr. G. A. Woods ing and sustaining a wonderful Borodin, he was the central figure which constitutes the Church, Tave, but you well know that fra- and Mrs. A. Woods of Shang- reputation for their Band music. in an affair reminiscent of ani through it of the collective grance of odour and beauty of hai.
It is perhaps a pity that the idea Sydney-street, London, and body of mankind, as is the daily colour and delicacy of touch are for of the Queen's Band making a Gresson-street, Wanchai, Hong intake of our food for the proper the living sense not for the soulless tour of China before they left Kong, more than 11 years ago. bodies. Mary L. De Lano.
nourishment of our physical body in the tomb. The effects of death are irrevocable. You may these waters could not be carried Fighting desperately for liberty,
rebuild a shattered fortune, but you out; but, even so, they have left he kept at bay a posse of 20
A Chinese constablé was can never fill, with the old love, that HILDEBRAND-On March 15, at their mark here in no less a de-policemen and bolted on to a roof
the General Hospital, Shang-gree than the gallant men of the in a hail of bullets. One of his brought before Mr. T. S. Whyte- empty chair. Everything must be hal, Loise Hildebrand, dearly East Surreys. Our best wishes "big toes was badly cut in the Smith, at the Kowloon Magis-left at death; hume, friends, coun beloved, sister of Dr. and Mrs. 80 with them in their future flight but he escaped. He went money by menaces from a hawker dictate various epitaphs for our tracy on charges of obtaining try, plans, aspirations. Love may J. Loevy, NY
sphere gone they are into the pork butchers' union, and with misconducting himself tombstones, but there is only one in- thanks in great part to the won-wound, and then coolly took Calthrop, Assistant Superinten or enemy, rich or poor may write it but certainly not forgotten sent out for medicine, bound his as a constable. Mr. L. H. C. scription common to all men. Friend derful enthusiasm of their Band walk past the police station. The dent of Police, Kowloon, prosc-for every tombstone: "It is finish- master. What a pity the whole scar on his foot can be seen to cuted After evidence had been ed. The story of this life is closed Regiment could not have been day. His belief in fight is un
DEATHS
On
DHAYEE On March 16, at Shang-
hai, Laurie. Maria Baatien Thayer, aged 19:
STILL WATERS
Canton
Affair
arrested. Pre-
Hong Kong. Saturday, Mar. 29, 1929, given a great send-off by the shaken. According to the evid given for the prosecution, the case it may not be attractive, or it may entire community and that they ence in the robbery case down was adjourned until Wednesday be a record to be cherished and pandered over in all events, it is were not made the recipient of a here, he ran into the Police when Defendant was refused bail.
faished. Friends you will no longer tangible souvenir from the people running from a fiat which was be of the Colony whom they so ade-ingewatched by two women who RN, Máster Attendant, Singa- grip: Enemy, now at least, you may Capt. G. Freyberg, O.BE experience the warmth of the band- quately protected during their suspected him.
pore, who arrived here on HM cease to war with a handful of dust. Evidently HRH stay amongst us. Probably no- The Duke of the Duke of body thought of a great public
Transport Somersetshire" for a King, Statesmen, Philosopher, Poet, An explanation, we short visit, expects to remain Conqueror, Young on the very Gloucester's Gloucester is to farewell in times of peace We The think, is necessary about a fortnight. During his threshold of life, Old in life's even
Visit spend a consider are indeed "absent-minded beg
Pork
about the Pork absence Commander W. G. Oldering-all, all have pased. May they able time in gars when we are no longer Batchers Butchers' Union, Inshaw is acting for him in Singa- rest in peace. "It is finished."" Japan Hong Kong cannot grum under an obligation to the gallant
those days anybody pore. ble at having only two days or 80 Tommies. Let us hope that could become a member, each
Pale Horse Death" in which to make most of the the St. Andrew's Society will take union competing with others for
Soldiers of France, advance! For The offices of the Supreme two days your leader, who never honour of a Royal visit, but the this bint and, in conjunction with membership and
Much Court will be open daily from 10 knew defeat, had fain in state. A following sent by a friend at the Scottish Company of the trouble was caused Home, makes interesting read Volunteers, arrange a truly Scat characters who expl
e bad am to 1 p.m. during the Daster
or they have ted to the vacation, except on publie and
fittingly ing
tish farewell to the K.Q&B full the special encouragement general holidays, when the offices
him to the Arch of when, in the natural course of given by the Nationalist Govern will be entirely closed. The
But conquered by the events, it comes their return to ment. Similar, if milder, condi- Easter vacation begins on March stingly, too, they have placed him pale horse, Death,” to the Emperor of Japan in May, say "Good Bye" to this little tions prevail to day, that is, as 29 and terminates on April 4 when he is to invest his Majesty Island
regards admission. Even in Hong (both days inclusive)
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So soon as the Duke of Glouces ter has completed his State visit
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