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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930.
"SITUATION GRAVE IN
'INDIA.
CRUEL "MOTHER.'
GIRL SEVERELY BEATEN WITH FIREWOOD.
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CONSIDERATE MAGISTRATE, afforded by the high crops, they were generally able to elude the military, whose cfforts were
MR. P. JACKS.
QUARTER OF CENTURY HERE.
USEFUL CAREER.
Ar Philip Jacks, barrister-at-
Consideration for the future wel-directed to their expulsion. For fare of a small Chinese girl caused the reason decisive, military e- Mr. T. S. Whyto-Smith co-day toon against them is dificult at low, Land Officer and Registrar of adjourn an assault cuss for 48 hour they usuleubtedly sereived shelter. completes 25' yeare in the service the present season Moreover, Marriages, Supreme Court, to-day for further consideration by the food and some active assistance of the Government of Hong Kong, prosecuting officer.
The defendant was a Chinese wp- from villages in the neighbour-
beating an
man, who was charged by inspector hood of Peshawar. They nt one during which long period he has J. Murphy, of the Secretariat for time succeeded in cutting all com-filled several responsible positiona Chinese Affairs, with
munications with Peshawar, and with ability and dignity. 11-year-old girl. In admitting the one party forced its way into a
He received his appointment as charge, the defendant emphasized supply depot, where it did some Assistant Land Officer on August that the girl was her daughter, and damage before being driven out. 19, 1905, and from that time until
she had chustised her for dis
Heavy Casualties.
lay 17, 1916, he acted as Land obedience.
The Orakari situation, has re-Officer on no fewer than four oc- The medical certificate as to themained uncertain. A number ofcasions, once, in November, 1908, irl's injuries, as read out to the Drokzal undoubtedly accompanied as Officer Receiver in Bankruptcy defendant by the interpreter, show-the main Afridi Lashkar, and in addition to his other duties. ed that she had nine weals across some took part in the activities His appointment to Land the shoulders, three on the right iride Peshawar District. On Officer came on May 17, 1916, and elbow, two on the left elbow, five the Kurram border, overt action since then he twice acted as on the right thigh, four on the left was taken against the Govern-Crown Solicitor (1919-1920), and thigh; and four on the right calf. [ment by a section of Orakzal with from January 1, 1927, assumed All these could have been caused not their neighbours, Para Chomknn-the post of Registrar of Marriages more than five days before the nis, who made an attack onis addition to his duties as Land medical examination.
militia posts and villages in the Officer. In addition, the girl had some Kurram Valley. The militia and
From March 16 to October 12 bumps on the head, which were a village levies engaged them with the little older, and could have been wood spirit.
same year, he was acting Prompt and very isne Judge, which post he caused about ten days before the successful air action was taken in filled for a period from against the hostile formations April 28, 1928. He resumed his Magistrate: She is entitled to latter due warning against the vil-duty as Land Officer and Regis beat her daughter, but apparently lages from which they came. tear of Marriages on February 1,
had used an unreasonable Heavy casualties are believed to 1929. amount of force. What was the have been inflicted and consider- girl beaten with?
examination.
she
firewood.
able-damage was done to the vil. We understand that Mr. Jacks Inspector Murphy: Usually with ages of more prominent hostile will receive his third appoint-
lenders,
ment as acting Puisne Judge from Heavy Penalty, His Worship said that if he acment undoubtedly had a sobering parture on furlough of the Chief This prompt and heary punish-September 1. This is brought about by the coming de- on the tribes concerned. Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C.,
on May 5, a man who has served could only conviet her of common By the end of the week the num-during whose absence Mr. Justice
cepted the defendant's plen he effect
the
They had
'IN MEMORY.”
SCOTTISH COMPANY'S
There
TRIBUTE.
was
24
representative
acquaintance with outside affairs-Inspector Murphy:-I asked for violence towards and looting at included Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin,
on the railways of Tanganyika assault. If the S.CA., wished to her of Afridis remaining in J. R. Wood will act as Chief and Jamaica need not be inferior press the case for a heavy penalty Peshawar District had greatly de- Justice." in usefulness for work in Malaya give evidence against the mother.body of Lashkar in the vicinity of then the daughter would have to creased and so also had the main than a man who has been there Inspector Murphy replied that the Khajuri Plain. The situation. since he left the University or that would hardly be to the girl's however, continues to be one of technical college. A man who interest, because the S.C.A., had no considerable gravity and danger. has studied the problems of mother after the case.
power to take the girl from her
Moslem-Hindu Clashes. malaria in St. Lucia or
doubt that the woman was in fact Sind have spread over a large The communal disturbances in strange legal problems of the the girl's mother, but at the same Seychelles need have no fear of claim.
time they could not disprove her area on both sides of the Indus The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. being behind his colleagues either
and a serious situation has de The Magistrate Suggested that veloped.
The population of the in mental equipment or practica! they might get over the point by Muhammadan, with a small sectors. Happy Valley, yesterday, when villages is almost entirely gathering at the Protestant Ceme- acquaintance with local problems requiring the woman to prove thattion of: Hindu moneylenders and wreath was laid on the grave of than the
the girl was her daughter. man who has spent
The Inspector said that he would traders, to whom many of the Captain D. C. Logan, M.C., on be most of his years in Hong Kong. rather not press the case.
Muhammedans are Communal feeling is, therefore, the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence indebted half of the Scottish Company of It is true that laws may be dif-. Magistrate: You are asking for
what might be called the usual and when, as in the present case, 1927, at the early age of 31. ferent and purely local considera-fine?-Yes, not a heavy penalty,
aggravated by economic causes, Corpa. Cupt. Logan died in August. tions not the same, but the wider
I propose to impose a fine of $50. areas, it takes the form of Duncan M.B.E., and those present
the trouble extends into the rural
The wreath was lald by Lieut. G. bail of $50 and the defendant was the smal! Hindu population. It is Col. T. A. Robertson, and Mr. C. cannot but have the effect of unable to raise the amount. moulding the mind on a larger You mean you would like her to property has been considerable. feared that the loss of life and horizon. It must inevitably lead be given a fine which she can pay? Outside the North-West Frontier Scottish Company, H.V.D.C., pre- Champkin. Members of the to a bigger vision.
Would you like time to consult the Province and Sind there has been sent were Mr. B. Wylle, Mr. J. W. Daily problems are arising in with regard to what will happen to dents during the week-British Mr. G. H. Cuthill, Mr. S. Saunder S.C.A... on the case, particularly a comparative absence of inci G. Hayes, Mr. R. O. Sutherland, Blackley, Mr. S. Greenwood, Mr. all parts of the Empire which the girl after the case? Hong Kong, Tusaday. Aug. 19, 1930. need not only average efficiency is an assurance that she would re-
If there Wireless Service. but men and women who are of have no objection to giving a lighter telve botter treatment in future I outstanding capacity in all depart sne. You might also ask the: ments to meet them. With a S.C.A. 1 suggest a penalty with a larger area of selection and a view to the girl's future welfare. larger area of services, and, would do as his Worship suggested. The Inspector anid that he therefore, more chances of pro- but he would require at least 48 motion, it is patent that there hours in which to consider the must be a greater number of viewed them from
Mr. M. P. King was discharged different
people who will leave Home to ed the defendant until Thursday sell at the Central Magistracy this Miss F. Bostwicke, Mr. and Mrs. His Worship accordingly remand-with a caution by Mr. R. E, Lind- angles. Further light on the subject is now forthcoming in vice of the Colonies.
give their best years in the ser- morning, extending the Police tail morning, when charged with park Chamberlain, J. A. Conley, R. C.
of $50. the shape of a memorandum
ing his car in an unauthorised area Cooper, issued by the Colonial Office, in be upheld in the Colonial Service, There are great traditions to
In Connaught Road, east of the Donnelly, H. C. Evans, Fish, F. B. Domingo, V. H. General Post Office. which it is declared that the re-and there seems little doubt that
Mr. F. X. d'Almada, jutt., ap-Madrinan,
Hamilton, Mrs. G. H. Kosten, S. cognition of the principle of a under the
peared for defendant, but before C. F. Mentz, J. Murphy, W. C..
Miss M. S. Maynard, single Colonial Service does not in scheme we shall gradually wit-
suggested revised:
proceeding with the case his Wor-Ockland, Miss A. Riggin, C. B. itself depend on any drastic pracness. a reduction of red tape and
ship asked Inspector Alexander if Rogers, Miss M. Root, Sadiq, Mrs. there were ample notice as to where K Smith. tical change of present conditiona. an increase in individual keen-
Mr. W. J. Hanan, federal land private cars could be parked in the Townsend.
A. E. Taylor, · CL The Committee on the system of ness. That in itself should make that he had discovered an ancient inspector, announced on June 12 appointments in the Colonial for a more efficient administra city in southwestern Arizona, te Office and Colonial Services evis- tion and for a more contented leved by the Indians to be one of the different areas, and also notices age a condition of affairs in which Civil Service.. officers appointed to a single Colonial Service will accept on
COLONIAL SERVICE.
When the Home Government's
Committee's recommendations re- garding the Colonial Service. were published in May different critics
appointment liability to transfer ITALIAN DISASTER. from one Department to another, Emphasising the advantages of unification, the memorandum says that it will give the Secretary
TOTAL DEATH ROLL REDUCED.
Rome, Yesterday.
matter.
i
BURIED CITY. · DISCOVERY OF ONE OF THE FABLED SEVEN CITIES.
J
WHITE LINES!
THE FINE ART OF CAR PARKING.
immediate area..
there were five lines marking out Inspector Alexander replied that
the fabled "Seven Cities of Cibola," B8 to G. P. O. vehicles and private Mr. Hanna stumbled upon the ruins cars, which were on the sidewalk. while roaming through a desert There was also a notice with arrowa near the Mohawk Mountains 50 pointing out the different areas. miles south of Palomas,
His Worship remarked that he The ruins,, nearly levelled, are was in the area yesterday, and came covered by shifting sand dunes over out from a call to find that his car
son. Mr. W. Tillery, Mr. A. Reid- and Mr. A. MacArthur.
IS YOUR NAME HERE?
Mail has been received at the American Consulate General for the following persons:-
Geo. A. Allan, Wm. B. Ataway,
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China Mail,"
August 19, 1920.)
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To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 44d.
For about ten minutes the busi- all area six miles aquare, he said, had been removed. Apparently he reas of the Appeal Court was held Traces of masonry and hard-beaten himself had unwittingly parked in up this morning by the explosion thoroughfares appear. Grinding wrong area! He was not satisi of a long string of crackers. For of State the fullest scope and will that the return of a number of of pottery are scattered about. A "You are lucky, Mr. King, in that Chief Justice matched his vocal An official communique states atones and pestles and broken plecened that the notices were adequate, two or three minutes the Acting secure the right men for the fugitives from the recent earthprehistoric water course is evident I happened to be on the spot myself organs against the noise. He loat. right posts, and place to the beat quake zone, previously believed to and the remains of an elaborate yesterday," he added. advantage the experience of be dead, reduces the total death irrigation system crisscross it.
As the minutes passed, the smiles faded from the facca of Judges and officers of proved capacity. roll to 1,475.
Legend says the "Seven Cities of It is pointed
The Government promises to Cibola" were built of gold. A
Counsel, an extremely bored look out, how-publish the full list of names to Spanish priest, Father Nizi, told of
becoming general. ever, that the scheme does not confute "the enemies of Italy, who camping on a cliff and watching the involve a rigid, continuous move, grossly exaggerated the extent of inhabitants dine from plates of gold: ment of the personnel round the the disaster." Reuter.
world. It concludes by stating that the proposal for unification holds out the prospect of con- siderable advantages to Colonial Governments.
Clearly, it is in the interests of
NORTHERN WAR.
SHANSI TROOPS" ON NORTH BANKA Peking. Yesterday,
It is announced that the head
Others sought the cities, among them Coronado, the explorer, bút in vain.
BITER BIT.
MARAUDER'S FATAL ADVENTURE.
Ten Years. Hence.
From the "China Mail" of
August, 19, 1940.]
An unknown Chinese man was A man who was missing things from his premises every morning, admitted to the Government Civil The Hong Kong Centenary Com gave his servant, Pat, a sovereign, Hospital early this morning, suffer mittee is preparing plans for a and told him to go to town and buying from Injuries apparently, the Grand Tattos showing the main a good yard dog
result of a fall from the second events in the history of the Colony. all the Colonies that the best men quarters of the "Shantung Pro Pat, came home that night drag: floor verandah of 162, Queen's from its earliest days.ta should be chosen for the higher vincial Government have been ging a mangy-looking cur after him. posts, men not only invested withdrawn to Tehchow. What kind of a dog is that?" with technical experience but also
The vernacular newspapers state roared his master that Shanat troops are, occupying with practical knowledge, Thus
Begorra, replied Pat he's the strong poa on the north bank nearest to a yard dog I could get Strafte contemporary stated
Reuter
He's two feet eleven inches...
Road, Central,
It appeared as if he had tried to The agents of a well known type- enter the premises from the next writer are arranging a competition door house, The fall resulted in to decide as to who is the fastest severe injuries to his head, and he typist In the Colony, the contest to died about 4.40 am:
be open to all makes of machines.