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are too many failures in life not UNITED STATES OF U.S. NAVAL POWER IN
to blame our educational system;
and the family system is equals
at fault. There is not sufficient
EUROPE.
co-operation between the teacher PLAN UNDER WHICH BRITAIN
WOULD HAVE TO KEEP OUT.
THE FAR EAST.
SHOULD HAVE A HARD TIME
IN WINNING A WAR." ADMIRAL'S OUTBURST.
and the parent, the more ignorant of whom still regard the compul sory element in State education as
M. POINCARE'S CRITICISM. something opposed to their inter-
Paris, Yesterday. csts and those of their children. Commenting on H.
Washington, Yesterday. Briand's! Until this mediaeval attitude is Europe, M. Raymond Poincare evidence in regard to the London
plan for a
The Senate Naval Committee United States of has concluded the hearing of changed little can be done to bet-thinks that the welcome accorded Treaty. The final witnesses in- ter the present system, in spite to it by the nations to which it cluded Admiral Robison, whe of the tears of patient teachers was addressed was polite but gen-testified that the United States and the occasional grants of bene-erally not encouraging." It has would get insufficient eight-inch
volent Governments.
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News in Brief
The Netherland Indian Govern- ment has rescinded the quarantine mensures against Amoy, declared plugie-infected port on May 17.
The China Mail has received a copy of the May issue of the Yellow Dragon from Queen's College. In addition to the usual school notes a long instalment is published of an article on a Glimpse of the West River."
Mr. D. Kinloch, of 376 The Peak, has reported to, the Police the loss of an Axminster carpet, which is stated to have been either stolen or lost while in transit from his reaiilence. to Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. Limit- ed, to be dry-cleaned.
A
Chinese constable, white on patrol in the Peak district, found some seditious papers and took them to the Central Police Station. In connection with this à Chinese, has been arrested and is being detained for further enquiries.
guns and too many six-inch. He urged that the concessions to Japan under the Treaty amounted to a partial surrender of Ameri- can sovereignty in the Philippines, "We are worse off in every com- batant vessel. We shall find our. selves in insurmountable difficul- ties in the Far East. I don't mean that we should lose a war, but we should have a hard time winning
lit.
Two Senators expressed the opinion that the reservations to the Treaty were necessary. The Senate passed a Bill providing: $80,000,000 for the Navy-Reu- ter's American Service,
NINETEEN WRITS ! Broad Shouldered Man Disputes Them All.
AN INVASION OF WOMEN,
It is not very usual for a defend- dant to find himself called on to M. Poincare.
answer to no fewer than nineteen cen made apparent that Europe enviable lot of Tse Yan-pak, who summonses, but such is the un- (if such entity exists) still has appeared this morning in the Sum- tion Bill, which passed its second
That Britain is declining, his- many stages to pass before attain-macy Court before Mr. Justice J, R. reading in the House of Commons other respects, was a motion which
torically, relatively, and in many jing the goal aimed at.
Wood. M. Poincare raises the question: yesterday, the school-leaving age was carried by II votes to 8 at a of whether the Soviet and Bri- are women of the coolie class, and The plaintiffs in all these writs -fourteen to debate by members of the St.tain will join, and challenges the when they paraded before the fifteen years. According to the Andrew's Club last night. The suggestion that Britain should Paisne Judge this morning, they Overland China Mail.official report, this change "ir.-E. A. Armstrong, while the opposi-Europe because of her position in
proposition was led by the Rev. keep out of the United States of formed a formidable array.
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is
raised from
was led the Rev W. Walton
volves over half a million chil-tion dren." Actually, it will be one of
Rogers. the greatest moral victories the A free licence and $2 capital present Government has won, if the Bill is enacted. Four-G. H. Grantham, to-day, to be paid ever money was ordered by Mr. A. W teen is the most impressionable out of the Court's poor box to a age in a human being's life, and fore him with
Chinese boy who was charged be the dentoralising influence upon a licence.
hawking without The boy's mother, who those children who are forced, said that she was 55 years of age through economic forces beyond and infirm, pleaded for leniency for our immediate control, to accept a because he had nothing to eat.
her son, who was driven to hawk! pauper's allowance from the
State cannot be exaggerated in
That Indian Policemen were noted for their messing up of cases and
a
Mr. R. A. Wadeson, who appear. world empire. France is in an ed for the defendant, gave them a even more embarrassing position, good "look-over" and quietly asked because her Parliament has colon-his Lordship to fix a date for the al representatives entitled to in hearing of the cases. gard to what is happening in the terpellate the Government in re- European Association-Reuter.
RANGOON RIOTS. Military Police. Open Fire.
Rangoon, Yesterday.
A gang of Burmane last night attacked some
said, was the owner of a piece of
The defendant, Mr. Wadeson,
land.
He contracted with a firm of building contractors to build houses thereon. The firm sub-let the con- tract to another party, and these won n were engaged by the sub- contractor, who had since absconded. The women had no right to sue the owner for the recovery of any wages due to them,
that
www
.
When this its gravity. The principles of de-appearance as bad witnesses, was hospital, and the military police ed
interpret- Andhras near theed to the women, they shout- cency and self-respect which they comment made by Sergeant Barnicle pened fire and restored order.
out in one voice that have acquired at school are chat- at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day morning showed a further slight engagad by the sub-contractor, but
The situation in
Was not the real nosi the city this tion. It was true that they were tered by this humiliation, which Chinese, charged with hawking improvement, but shipping, is still when they threatened to cease work
when Mr. Whyte-Smith discharged must in many cases alter the so- bean curd without a licence, on the
at a standstill. cal outlook an weaken the ground that the evidence given by 81 dead, und
The hospital casualty list gives had no money to buy food, the owner because they had not been paid and moral fibre of the recipient. The an Indian P.C. was a little doubtful. Muslims, 68 Burmans, 13 Chinese, continue, saying that if they could 657 Hindas, 29 came forward and asked them to Education Bill promises to alter stable had
His Worship remarked that this con-
and 5 Europeans and MAY.-On May 27, in England, effect is that it will enable a hun-
given unsatisfactory Indians wounded-Reuter. all this. Its other advantageous evidence in one or two cases before. following an operation, Esmee, beloved wife of George Thomas dred thousand or more deserving May. A. P. Co., Hong Kong.adult cases to receive unemploy- Deeply regretted.
DEATH
Hong Kong, Friday, May 30, 1930.
EDUCATION.
ment benefit,
LEPER BEGGAR.
A Nuisance in Queen's Road.
It would be going too far even to suggest that the Bill is a step AUTHORITIES' QUANDARY. forward toward the solution of the unemployment problem, but it charged before Mr. A. W. G. H. A Chinese leper was to-day is a happy compromise with a Grantham with begging in Queen's two-fold beneficial effect. It wili Road.
Anglo-not get payment from the sub-
DRUG FACTORY, Successful Raid în
Peking.
contractor, he would pay them him-- self. "A promise is a promise and
he must pay," they said!
His Lordship Axed June 4 at 2 p.m. for the hearing of the case. The claims nicont in all to
about $500.
Peking, Yesterday." Mr. Henry Twitchin, of Portland The Chinese police, assisted by the Place, W., formerly a sheep farmer yesterday, and seized quantities of eugenics. Legation police, raided drug factory in the Legation Quarter of £100,000 to further the cause of an alleged in Australia, has bequeathed a sum heroin and morphía, and appliances
Chinese. for the manufacture of drugs.
An inquest on the 14-year-old son They took into custody. twelve of the vicar of St. Thomas's, Barrowford, who was found hanged The premises were formerly used at the vicarage, was adjourned. The remarked that there was mystery concerning the tragedy.
The vernacular
papers assert
hence removes one who was better
tho
Mrs. Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, the first woman to argue an appeal before a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, had a judgment given in her favour.
host on a number of civic engage- who is a guest of the Lord Mayor
The Burgomaster of Amsterdam, - and Lady Mayoress, accompanied his
ments.
Ten Years Ago
(From the "Chinn Mall,” May 30, 1920.)
No nation may be called great be well worth the annual burden he had himself taken compassion Sub-Inspector Dick stated that. which neglects its children. Had of £5,000,000, which the British on the accused and given him $1 not Great Britain, a century or taxpayer is promised as the cost cn two occasions, to get out of the by the late Mr. George Frodsham coroner so ago, repealed those Acts under of the new Act when in operation. Colony, being 60 cents for fare as a warehouse." which children were allowed to for, if as a result of this higher for food during the trip. How-that the factory represents a capital
on a native junk, and 40 cents work in mines and factories education the standards of moral. ever, he persisted in returning. investment of $300,000-Router. under the age of twelve, sheity, character, and Intelligence of
Because of his disease, the ac- might now bow her head in the young people of Britain are jail, and the Police were at a loss cused could not be sent to the shame. It is the boast of our correspondingly raised, we shall to know what to do with him.
ECCLESIASTICAL LAWYERS, politicians, however, that we do have every reason to bless the far. There is a leper settlement in ISSUE OF 23,636 FULLY PAID UP SHARES years many of the much-needed The youth to-day in Great Bri- there is so taxed that no more can see it the best they are a amall The death of Mr. Aubrey Law look after our children. In recent sighted policy that fathered it. Canton to which lepers were sent formerly, but now accommodation
known to OF $10.00 EACH.
the public than reforms in regard to minors tain among the lower classes has be admitted unless a special paper band, for with the withdrawal last generality of ecclesiastical law- have owed their birth to the in- developed under an atmosphere of is obtained from a Missionary century of probate and marriage spired energies of women, such stagnant irresponsibility-the
Society. as Miss Margaret Bondfield, Lady heritage of the War. The after-
Gruesome Exhibition.
causes from the jurisdiction of the Astor, Mrs. Phillipson, others.
The accused made himself af Church Courts the field of practice and math of any great social upheaval regular nuisance in Queen's Road was greatly restricted. Lady Astor's Bill, pro- often deteriorates a section of a his hands. When arrested he vicar-general, and official principal Central exhibiting the stumps of Mr. Lawrence was chancellor, hibiting the sale of liquor to per- nation's manhood, and that, in had a hat in which were about 70 In other words, he was the judge sons under the age of seventeen turn, is bound to have a repercus- ceata in coppers. on licensed premises, was a toursion upon the youth. There is not know what other money the case to preside in his name over de force for the feminist cause everything in the environment of accused had on his person,
The Inspector added that he did appointed by the bishop in each 114d. as well as a notable addition to the our cities and in our modern so marking: "Personally, I would doubt, successors, in these offices rany, struck and grounded on the
the Consistory Court. re- moral achievements of post-war cial life to encourage apathy, lack not care to search him."
The choice of a successor of, no China Steam Navigation Com- The s.s. Fausang of the Indo- Legislation. There have been of independence, and the accept Bay as the most inexpensive mentioned are those of Mr. Max route from Hongny to Hong Kong, could send the accused to Deep necessarily narrow. Two names rocks near Hoihow, while en other enactments of which our ance of the law of the line of least means of getting rid of him, but shall Freeman, Recorder of Stam with 2,000 tons of coal. century has every reason to be resistance. In education we lag from experience it was practically ford, and Mr. J. A. Price, both of proud, but that a great deal of sadly behind the United States that beggare who were sent there clesiastical matters.
useless, because it was found whom are much consulted in ec-patched the H.M.S. Fame to the The Naval authorities have des- ground has still to be covered is where paychology as applied to usually managed to conceal them shown by the fact that only after juvenile education has enabled relves on a ferry launch or other
scene having on board as passen- fervid
get Captain Wheeler, the Marine pleas and persuasions has the teacher to treat and prescribe craft and return to Hong Kong, Police could lock him up in an Company.
Superintendent of the Indo-China the Government at last deigned for the individual. Splendid work launch which had taken, them out ments for sending him away on board, but the Chinese crew
sometimes even before the Police isolated cell pending arrange to consider the substitution of a has been done for education by had come back! longer period of education for scholastic bodies, and by the un A Stern Warning. children instead of leaving them tiring, Individual work of teachers could be done with the accused that, if he was found in the her holds and engine rooms are Me has been brought to Hong Kong. He suggested that the best that course and warned the accused tons Latest reports indicate that The Magistrate took this The Fausang is n vessel of 3,000 to receive the dole..
themselves, yet the
must was for the Magistrate to admin Colony again, all his money would flooded, and that the ship le quite There ister a stern warning, then the be taken away from him.
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