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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930..
HEALTH SERVICE IN A GREAT SUFFRAGIST Ex-Premier's Tribute to
CHINA
RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME FAVOURED BY JAPAN
Genova, Yesterday,
24
Mrs. Pankhurst
Rugby, Yesterday.
SEQUEL TO FIRE Insinuations at an Inquiry
WHAT CONSTABLE SAW
At the Céntral Magistracy yesterday. afternoon, Mr. R. E. Lindsell hold an Inquiry Into an outbreak of fire early on Frtlay morning at 191, Queen's Road East. The are originated a pre- mises occupied by a Chinese herbalist, on the ground floor, and prompt action
In the shadow of the Houses of} THE QUARANTINE QUESTION Parliament, close to the spot where she was arrested nearly 20 years The Health Committee of the League ago, when leading a demonstration of Nations to-day, continued the ex-for the enfranchisement of women amination of the Chinese Government's a statue of the fufe sirs. Pankhurst proposals. The latter usks the was to-day unveiled. League's help and technical advice in The ceremony was performed by by the Fire Brigade saved the upper regard to certain sanitary works which Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Conserva- floors, and the ground floor was partly ara comprised in the reconstruction tive leader, who paid a tribute to zdved.
and modernisation of China, especially the zeal and achievements of Mrs. PC. Leng Chuen-sang wald at in the reorganisation of the quaran Pankhurst. He said, "I was'op-l'about 3.804a.n. on February 28, his at- tine service by the ministry, and the
many years, but tention was drawn, by the sound of Immediate establishment of a national posed to her for hospital in Teheklang, which will serve it fell to my lot to put a coping whletics, to a fire on the ground floor of No. 131, Queen's Road East, A as a model for other provinces, reorgan-stone on her labours."
crowd had gathered outside the shop, isation of medical training: the col
This was a reference to the from which smole and fire were already Iaboration of the epidemiological office legislation of his late Government isquior at Singapore with the Ministry of Healt for fighting smallpox and cholera.
The Chinese Government have al ready entered into obligations for 20,000 Mexican dollars in respect of the fulfilment of a plan estimated to
cost $1,000,000,
Dr. Miyajima emphasized Japan's grent interest in the League Cem- mittee activities in the Far East and dwelt with the importance of the
in extending the vote to all women Looking through the iron bara fitled
of 21 years.
A great gathering of women in- cluded many who were prominent in the militant-suffragette cam paign. British Wireless Service.
MEDALS FOR ALL
Chinese proposals, which he consider- Miner and Seamen at
Jed to be most important.
King's Investiture
to the top section of the door, which remained bolted, witness could see two men standing inside the shop gazing at the fire. As he rapped at the door, ons of the men came and unbolted it, to ad-
mit witness. This was Poon Chu-san, identified as the proprietor of the shop. "Without asking any questions," wit- ness continued, "I rushed through the No hop, and Into the cook-house.
water came from the tap and the water tank was empty. As I got to the rear of the premises, the man who was with the master of the shop had dis- The King held the second investiture appeared through a back door.
"When I returned to the shop, the gladly colla- at Buckingham Palace to-day. This in-fire was increasing in strength. There
The question from the international viewpoint was the organisation of the [quarantine service in China. He could give the assurance that the Japanese medical world would
Rugby, Yesterday.
borate through the intermediary of the vestiture, in contrast to the official one League.
on Tuesday was private and morning was nothing to be done, so I got out
me" Dr. Yen, the Director of the Medical dress was worn. Ninety reeipients of in the street, taking the master with Administrative Department of the honours and decorations were drawn “Mr. Lindsell: Didn't you find it Chinese Ministry of Health, thanked, from all ranks of life and included a
Dr. Miyajires and expressed the desire minor and seamen, being presented with curious, fire starting in a shop and of the Chinese health services to co-medals for, gallonity in saving life at two men in the shop looking at it at. operate with the Japanese and other sca. Some of these were in connection 'clock in the morning? countries in the scheme outlined. with rescues from ships in distress dur- Sir George Buchanan, fater alia, paring the tempestuous gales of last year. ticipated in the ensuing discussion.British Wireless Service.
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reigns supreme. Many, of course, are unmoved by blooms and are
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Hong Kong, Friday, March 7, 1933.
PLEASURES OF THE GARDEN
A poet named Brown wrote:-
"A garden is 'n lovesome
God wot;
"The veriest school
Of Peace:
"Rose plot, "Fringed pool,
once
thing,
·Grain Corporation
Suspicious? Witness:-It struck me as being suspicious. I was suspicious of the mdatér and took him to the Station.
Mr. Lindzell:
CONSTABLE HURT ditten Wade In what sort of con- Struggle With Trio
excited?
Witness: He was trembling. Ha kept trembling for some time after we got out of the shop.
Mr. Lindaell: Can you form an opin-
was trembling?
of. Coolies Shantung constable Liu Yuen-min, ion from his demeanour as to why he Washington, Teaterday. stationed at Gough Hill Police Station,
Witness suggested that the herbalist Mr. Legge, Chairman of tho was yesterday'admitted to the Governmast, have known he was committing Another poct has seized up the Federal Farm Board stated that ment Civil Hospital suffering from in- arson and this, coupled with the sight of him as a policeman, had caused him representative uninterested, un-the Grain Stabilisation Corporation juries to his back.
The Injury was alleged to have been to tremble in the way he did. would continue to buy wheat at moved individual. A primrose by market prices and remove from three men for the possession of stolen ness said that although he was suspi
received when he attempted to arrest
Replying to another question, wit- the river's brink, a primrose was the market whatever additional wood on the Peak.
cious, he did not ask the herbalist any to him and it was nothing more, quantity might be necessary to re- In the struggle with the three men, And, of course, those who dwell leve pressure and prevent a de- who set upon bim, the constable lest questions, not even after they had got
loutside. The Corporation his truncheon, which was snatched from in flats know not the delight of line of prices.
Story Denied "turning over" either a garden or all grain futures purchased, and stated to be scavenging coolica.
la prepared to take up delivery of him by one of his assailants.
The three men, who escaped, are when he rapped at the door, and it was The herbalfat: I was lying asleep
an allotment.
dispose of it as market conditions
not true that another man was with |me. I was alone on the floor. Encouragement and education permit. The Farm Board is pre- may be needed. The Horticul-pared to advance to the Corpora- ROUND THE CINEMAS tion whatever funds are necessary. tural Society and some of itsRouter's American Service.
Lois Moran "Made" for members have given both. There'
Revue Lead
are these annual displays and ARMED ROBBERY
there is Mr. Nicholson's little
booklet and those fruits of his Victims Gagged With
-
News in Brief
The Portuguese Cruiser Adamas- tor is expected to arrive here ́on March 16.
"Ferned grot That is the ideal garden; the kind where Francis Bacon would
H. E. the Officer Administering have planted sweet-smelling herba
the Government will distribute the on the paths, so that a perfume prizes at the Central British School Jingered on the skirts of the on Thursday, March 20, at 5.30 walker; a place in which it is a pe
Towels
CAUGHT IN TIME Thief in a Firewood Shop
M
"WORDS AND MUSIC"
was a
Witness stated that the fire had
spread to between one-and-a-half fect. to 'two feet across the length of the
shelves by the time he got into the shop-
Mr. Lindsell: What I want to know .is, could anybody have' gone on sleep-
jing in that smoke?
Witness: There was not much smoke at the time.
Nocturnal Trip Yum Siu-wai, the accountant of the
"walking"fast as he did, he tookc
Lois Moran, famous screen play- labours which are often seen at
er, will win thousands of new certain social functions. It is dif-
Three men, two armed with revolvers, friends daily at the Queen's shop, told the Court that the business ficult to see how the Society can raided the second floor of 170 Main Theatre next week, where "Words showed a profit of about $150 during do more than it is doing. We Street, Shaukiwan West, last night. and Music, Fox Movietone musi- the past year, and there was usually trust that the appeal by a former The occupants, a mon, his wife, and cal revue, in which she la featur. between $1,100 to $1200 of stock in the shop. On the night preceding the fre two other women were awakened by theed, will be heard and seen. President to "all those interested intraders at about 9 p.m. They were
bis employer told him to go over to Long training in Paris fitted Shamshuipo: to seo about taking pre- in horticulture" will not fall upon and feet tied with wire. Then the rob comedy debut, as
all-gagged with Lowels and their hands Miss Moran for her musical mises there with the view of moving deaf ears.
the musical [over. That was the first time that the If it succeeds this hers ransacked the place and collected week-end should be a busy one money aid jewellery worth $227, with comedy stage was her first ambi master had spoken of moving, and he
which they cicibed. It was not until tion. Ske
member of told him that his reason for wanting for numbers of us, for we shall be ]10.10 p.m., that the victime were abla L'Opera Ballet in Paris at the time to do so was because Shamshuipo was busy adopting his delightful to release themselves and report tho she was cast for a featured role he got back he found that the shop was |more, populous than Wanchal. When
business phrase
"shroffing up" matter to the Police. By that time the in "Stella Dalias" and began her sa fire. He was accompanied acros our gardens; or, failing this, de robbers had, of course, succeeded in sensational rise to fame in pic- the barbout by two
making good their escape. ciding soon to have a garden even
tures.
Ferry Time Table of it falls far short of the poetic
Miss Moran reveals a mezzo Divisional Inspektor Macdonald idealand becoming exhibitors.
soprano válce of unusual sweet-pointed out to the Magistrate that the ness-a voice that records per-last ferry left Shamshuipe at 2.45 p.m., fectly on the zudible screen, and and arrived at Hong Kong at 8 am, so her dancing Is on a par
¡that there was ample time for the wit- [ness to arrive at Wanchal before the Tom Patricola, starred for four fire. years la. George White's "Scan- "When the Magistrata pointed out to An unemployed Chinese was "at
dala" and long vaudeville the witness that the fire call was sent the Kowloon Magistracy: this mort favourite, is featured in a dance throgh to the Fire Brigade at 8.45, ho charged with the possession of "Stoppin Along, which takes three-quarters of an hour to resch ing before Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith ing net and creates a new dance, said that he was unable to explain peaknife and four keys in a fire-rank with the "Black Bottom," Wanthat from the ferry landing. wood shop at 606, Canfon Road.
Detective-Sergeant Fitches said which he origilated reveral years "A coolle of the shop corroborated the accountant's evidence about going over that the master of the shop and a go in "Scatidals.” foki" "were, having their meal in the A beauty chorus of one hundred to Shamshuipo with him, but told the delight to walk "when the eve faThe Police yesterday removed to front part of the shop, with the door add to the colour and pageantry Magistrate that on their return to Hong Kong they were very tired and "There may be gardens the public mortuary the body of a closed. The servant girl had or of the picture.
walked slowly back to Wanchal, like that in Hong Kong if not Chinese named La Man-chongcasion to go to the kitchen to fetch
"HEART OF FOLLIES GIRL" The Inquiry was adjourned. In actuality, then in the thoughts (40), who was found dead in room something. To her surprise, as she of those who delight to do "No. 17 at the Tal Ming Boarding was stoking the fire, she saw the
"The Heart of a Follies Girl," One speaker declared that he Houso, 146 Connaught Road accused standing near her. Ter little bit of gardening."
Central. He is believed to have rified; she screamed, and the man which is Biffle Dave's latest star-could not concentrate on his work committed suicide, by taking polson immediately made his escape by the ing plcture for First National, for the smell of powder and paint
back door, which he broke open. In now playing at the Majestic Theatre, that drifted from the
keeping even the students in front of him. the scavenging lane there were four Kowloon, is bther men, which it showed that sleepiest "fired' 'business men” of committing a robbery. they had all gone for the purpose awake. Moreover, their wives and sweethearts seem to be as ardent Fortunately the District Watch followers of beautiful. Miss Doves; men's quarters are just opposite and as much intrigued by the and the cries aroused them.mance, drama, and suspense "of
the plot Mrs. Feari Demaret, aged 20, a The accused was thus arrested.
The Heart of Folles Gril" not be too highly praised, and au typist attached to the American Places of the defendant's cloth-
· To-day's dollar 'is worth 5/- 5%d.: Incentive to an occupation or a Naval Delegation, fell from a ing were found on the back wall, was adapted for the screen from a
window of the Mayfair Hotel, and over which he had climbed, and agazine story of the same title.
To-day a special congregation of the hobby than which there can be has died...
plecer of steel wire was also dia. Larry Kent, a new and gifted Hong Kong University was held for young leading man, plays opposite the purpose of conferring the degase few better or more wholesome She was Mr. Stimson's stend covered deres
Miss Dove in the picture, which of LL.D. thonoris causs) on Sir John ----There may be adequate reasons grapher, sharing a bedroom with To Clean His Nails!
John Francis Dillon directed, Jordan, who arrived in the Colony on to-account for the fact that the another woma
Both were about Accused pleaded guilty to po Lowell Sherman, Mildred Harria, Sunday en route Home. Sir Alexander to retire, when
Companion left session. He said that he had the and Clarisa Selwyne hend the and pady Hasle were amongst these Horticultur
Society langulshes the room
hen knife to clean chig nails and the and for general in she rető
had dias)
Cool."
The enthusiasts of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society de serve well of the community. Year after year they know the blooms that have come to life as the result of patient and loving care. On this they encourage a love of the beautiful which can-
FALL FROM WINDOW
Fate of American Lady Typist
London, Yesterday,
Ten Years Ago
[From the "Chins Mall” March 7, 1920.1
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