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News in Brief..
Mrs. Rogers, the wife of the Rev. W. W. Rogera, had to undergo a serious operation yesterday.
The case against the Chinese wo man Anancler who was said to be a partner in the Ying Fat Bank was yesterday afternoon adjourned until Tuesday by the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph H. Kemp, K.C. The dispute involved a sum of $2,200.
A Chinese named
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930.
renovate It would economical nor advisable.
be neither
New Bullding Desired. After very careful and earnest
EXTRALITY.
consideration, the Committee has BRITAIN PREPARING DRAFT OF decided to erect A new hospital
PROPOSALS. on its present site. Opportunity a large hos- will be taken to build pital on modern lines, and more sulted to the needs of the time.
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LEGATION. TO BE NOVED.
London, Yesterday.
Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood have submitted an estimate for the erection of two blocks which would i In reference to reports of Chin- conform with that of the Alice eso and British negotiations re- Cheng King-Memorial Hospital. The estimated rarding extraterritoriality, Reuter
ap- learns that the British Govern.... lung (28), living at 10 School cost of the new building is
ment is preparing the draft of the Street, was alleged to have attempt-proximately $200,000.
For the purpose of building proposals. Nothing is known in ed suicide yesterday by taking an overdose of opium. He is now in small extension to the Nethorsole, London about the Chinese draft
instituted in proposals, or the instructions to, the Government Civil Hospital in buliding fund was
1913, and the amount now standing Sir Miles Lampson to procecil to a serious condition..
ti its credit is about $50,000; which Nanking, although he will ob
if the negotiations
Hitherto ..
Faying a surprise visit to the the Committee has decided to em-viously go steamer Kitagats prior to her sail-ploy towards the cost of the pro-reach a definite stage.
posed reconstruction. A sum of no decision has been reached re-. ing for Bangkok, Dat-Sergeant W. G. Humphreys found three taels $150,000 is thus still required for garding the removal of the Bri- of raw opium in a tallyman's girdle. the building scheme, and we there-tish Legation from Peking to Nan- On appearance before Mr. Whyte fore appeal to you for a generous king-Reuter.
"Groundless." Smith this morning he was fined
It is with this object in view
Peking. Yesterday. $00 or three weeks" hard labour.
that we now come before you for The Kno in report regarding the removal of the British Legation
donation.
Further arguments were heard your help. yesterday in the Supreme Court be--
We know that you have many to Nanking is groundless.-Reuter.
fore the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph other calls to meet, but we feel that H. Kemp, K.G., in the case in which the imperative necessity for recon- the Lau family and the Un familystructing the Nethersole and the are at loggerheads over an alleged vital importance of the work which debt of $50,000. The case was ad- it is doing must appeal to you, and journed until Monday, when Mr. that you will make yet another effort H. G. Sheldon will address the to help us with a liberal gift to- wards the fund for rebuilding this Court on behalf of the plaintiffs.
| "Abode of Life, the Treasury to
Having served a term of two which the poor can come with their weeks jail last year, an unemployed need, and the rich with their Chinese was charged at the Kowloon sympathy."
this morning.
with
Magietracy being in the unlawful possession of a roll of blue and white cloth "reasonably suspected of having) been stolen." He could not give a satisfactory explanation and was sentenced to four months hard tabour.
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LYING PRINCE.
PASSENGER IN BOMBING MACHINE:
AERIAL."WARFARE."
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big bombing machine which, from the South and West zone, or "Blue land," left Andover and ralded Cranwell, the headquarters of the North and East zone, or "Red land."
This was the great news in yesterday's operations in the air 'A large crowd visited the first manoeuvres, in which it has been
Society a Chinese, appearing on re- Road, Central, this morning when over thirty machines and "Red have to be drained. At some
mand before Mr. Whyte-Smith at Mr. Cheung Kok-chor's pictorial | land" about a score. points, even, the road might have the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- exhibition opened.
The Prince of Wales wore the one month's
The artist is a well-known Can usual service flying kit. to be built upon piles or an em-ing was fined $50 or
He Detective-Sergeant tonese of he pure Chinese School, inspected the headquarters at pankment. But the railway was jail in default
M. Naughton said that an unlawful and most of the exhibits were Andover before participating in built, and what is there to pre-book was found in a purse which paintings which were done during his exciting fight, In the course of vent a road being built, running, the man had strapped to his girdle. residence at Lo Shan, Klukiang, which the bomber was attacked by as far as is practicable, alongside He was searched at the Yaumat! the wonderful Summer resort for "Red" fighters, repeatedly diving both Chinese and Europeans. His at his machine. The attackers the rail track? The advantages Ferry wharf and arrested.
landscapes are masterly represen were unaware of the Prince's to trade of such a road would bej
tations of attractive views of Lo presence. Shan. enormous. Fleets of lorries would
His Royal Highness later visited In addition to Mr. Cheung Kok the "enemy's" headquarters at chor's pictures there were also Cranwell-Reuter. some chozen pieces selected from local Chinese artists.
HOSPITAL NEEDS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
be able to run to and from Canton at low cost and more speedily than the trains and business would be transacted in much quicker time. Chara-a-banc pital is to continue its good work would be enabled to have fre- After all, the sum required- quent daily services to Kowloon, $160,000-is not so large as to be heyond the means of this wealthy and Chinese business men would and generous community. To my be able to live in their own coun-mind, we cannot give for al try and run back to the British worthier cause than for this.
Speaking as a member of the com Colony every day to conduct their unity and not as one serving on affairs. The advantages of such
a road are too numerous and too
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The exhibition will be, open till 10,80 p.m. and also from 11. p.m. to 10.30 p.m. on Sunday.
STAR THEATRE.
FROLICS OF APACHE DANCER.
the Committee of the Hospital, 1. A programme, comprising
CANE AGAIN:
CHINESE BOY'S FOURTEENTH CONVICTION.
A Chinese boy with no fewer than 15 previous convictions to- day pleaded "guilty" before Mr. H. R. Butters to a charge of hawk ing without a licence. His record showed that on the first conviction he was fined 16 cents and the
membership whilst spending most
of his time with his relative.
The Magistrate registered the boy's 14th conviction and ordered
him to receive eight strokes of the
cane,
say that it is our bounden duty cartoon, a technicolour and & second time 16 cents, was caution- obvious to describe in detail here, to help this institution. That the Warner Brothers' special produced six times, and whipped five but the vital effect which it work of the Nethersole and its tion, "The Redeeming Sin," star- times!
Affliated hospitals has been appre-ring Dolores Costello and Conrad would have on the commercial and elated by the public can be judg Nagel, was pres ted at the Star the Hawkers Licensing Depart Sergeant Thorpe, In charge of and will be rement, said that previously it had. A ROAD TO CANTON? tourist life of the Colony is striked from the fact that apart from Theatre yesterda
ingly apparent.
the financial support which it has peated to-day and to-morrow. been suggested to the accused that Adapted from a story by P. V. he should join the Street Boys' We are quite aware that the always received from all sections
and classes of the community. Jefferson, the film is interestingly Club, but he refused. The roads in the Colony speak suggestion is by no means a new many leading realdents have serv-brought to the silver screen by J. Questioned by the Magistrate as of themselves of the skill, and
one, and that it has been discussed on its General Committee, and Bretherton, the director. It deals to his objection, the lad declared efficiency, of our engineers, and
ed again and again by the Govern- very busy men such as Sir James with the wild froiles of an apache that he was now willing to join. there is very little reason over to ment as well as by prominent. w. Brewin, the Hon. Mr. E. B. the love of a young doctor.
Stewart Lockhart, the Hon. Mr. | dancer of the Paris underworld, and In the course' of further inter- grumble about
their upkeep. business men of Great Britain Halifax, the late Hon. Mr. P. H. Nagel and Miss Costello enact their ed that the accused had a relative Mr.rogation, however, it was discover- They are every whit as good and and China. Yet, for reasons Holyoak and the Hon. Sir Henry roles with much credit. ·
in Hong Kong, whereupon Sergeant serviceable as the roads of Bri- which do not here concern us, Pollock have acted as its chair ionel Belmore, George E. Stone. Thorpe said that the accused could tish Malaya, which are univer these discussions have never gone man.
Warner Richmond and Philipps do not be admitted to the Club, as the The Nethersole has behind it a Lacey support, the players. It is accused would reap the benefit of sally recognised for their excel-beyond the stage of speculation proud record of thirty-seven a film with a human- appeal.” lence, and better than many and no attempt has been made to years' splendid service, and there country by-roads in Britain put them into operation. What is before it an opportunity for There can be little doubt that in is needed is a conference on the yet greater good, If it were given CASES TO ANSWER? the matter of roads the Colonies subject between the Governor its needs. It is in your power to MEMBERS OF ALLEGED TRIAD
building adequate and suited to of Great Britain stand out far Hong Kong and Canton respec-
and leading businessmen of translate that potentiality into above those of the colonies of any tively, at which the matters reality, and I am confident that other Power. Yet, with every might once and for all be the you will do ft. (Applause.) ·
Yesterday afternoon Mr. H. R. Nethersole Hospital. thing at our command-labour, roughly threshed out. All that is
hing af our
Butters gave his decision in the required for the initial success of The text of the appeal fasued on case in which twenty-four Chinese material, equipment-we have the scheme is that conditions in behalf of the Nethersole Hospital is were charged with being members failed to take advantage of the China shall be more or less stable, as follows: . '.
of a Triad Society at 5 and 7, Star wonderful opportunities that offer and there is no reason to think Forty-three years ago the Alice Street, Wanchai. themselves for the construction that in two or three years' time Memorial Hospital came into being
Referring to certain documents the trouble in that country-shall as a hospital for the treatment of put in by the prosecution, the of roads joining the New Terri- not have reached a form of settle- poor Chinese by Western medical Magistrate decided that they were much of the import of P.D.Q, but tories with China. Why, for in- ment satisfactory to Internation methode. Six years after, the admissible as evidence, and con- they stand, in Hong Kong, for, a stance, is there no road of any al, or at least to British, trade. Nethersole Hospital, which eldered that those defendants great deal of very solid. work, as By building roads you are making affliated to the Alice Memorial Hos who were mentioned in these we are reminded by the annual description to Canton? Probably the appeal direct to the encour pital, was erected by the generosity documents had cases to answer report of the Department. They it would seem, for exactly the sagement of better relations and of the late Mr. W. H. Davis for the This affected eleven of the spent nearly three and a half mil- same reason that there is no road better trade. Too often in the twofold purpose of treating, by the twenty-four men, the other lions last year, or 6782,868 more from Canton to Shanghai. But past have we been cut out of the same methods, Chinese women and thirteen, who were merely found than in the previous year. ..... that is a poor answer. It may be foreign markets within our sphere children, and of training Chinese on the premises, being discharged. The whole report covers
Mr. M. K. Lo submitted for the much ground and displays such an true that China has neither the were too smart for us. Had it not. In 1929 the Alice Memorial Hos-defence that the documents on enormous amount of work done, disposition nor the imagination been for the quick perception and pital was re-erected on a new site which the names were found were that we suppose it would be u to construct highways, that she enterprise of the French, who on Bonham Road, adjacent to the consistent with a Society which reasonable to ask that it be a little bullt a road, and a railway from Nethersole, at a cost of about 3100, was defunct, further, they did not more informative and illumipat- la full content with the junk and Djubiti to Ads Ababa, the Capis 000. Appeal for financial help was necessarily prove its existence at ing the camel, with the ancient ways tal of Abyssinia, we should now made to the public for equipment any time.re
*870
by European neighbours who women-nurses and midwives
SOCIETY.
CHOLERA IN KABUL
of transport Yet in the past she being enjoying the fruits of the only as the new site was the gift of Further argument was poste
*** rich trade which that country is the London Missionary Society and poned until next Wednesday, has not been ung
to co-able to afford foreign markets, the cost of the building was de myst operate with the foreign business But it is to be feared that we are frayed out of the proceeds of the
etion of very often aaleer in these mat sale of the old site,
ters, and allow the grass to grow A stage has now been reached under our feet. Probably the when the Nethersole Hospital also sen Frenc
"Can-needs reconstruction. The bull- gun to think) ding has been • carefi examined rom us by Mesara Little; Adar AWood,
rchitects, and by a special com mittee of the Executi
Ten Years Ago.
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August 15, 1920.1 13
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