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IS SUCH A HANDFUL!
They never know what the little monkey will be up to next, and he's only out of mischief when he's asleep. But mother is glad. She says she'd rather have a scamp to mind than a poorly child. For mother remembers how bothered she was once about her baby -how he seemed to stick and stay just where he was gained a little one week and nothing at all the next.
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SATURDAY, - DECEMBER 20, 1930.
NATIONAL HERO,
PRINCELY TRIBUTE TO BOLIVAR.
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ROMANTIC FIGURE.
Rugby, Yesterday.
SUFFERINGS OF A
SLAVE GIRL.
Chained and Forced to Kneel on Spiked Board.
At that moment the tukang ayer water coolle) came rushing into the room, his face distorted with fear, yelling "harimau" at the top of his voice. Our host evidently sized up the position at once and. told us to run into the next room. Whilst we waited in this room; enjoying the most unpleasant sensations imaginable, we heard position from attending the cen
Although prevented by his indis-WEALTHY WOMAN ARRESTED. Ja crash and a roar, followed by
the report of a gun. Presently night, of Simon
tenary celebration dianer last
Tlentals, Nov. 23. Bolivar the jour host opened the door with
A terrible story of the sufferings Venezuelan liberator, the Prince of of a little Chinese slave girl at the rueful grin. "I believe I got Wales sent a message, in the course hands of her owners-husband and him." he said, "but he's got our of which he referred to the amazing wife has come to light in Tientsin.' Christmas dinner, I'm afraid."
progress, in a comparatively short The result of the child's agony is "He," we then learned, was a full-perlod, made by the nations which told in the plain and pithy sentences grown, man-eating tiger. Some-
are now honouring Bolivar, and of the hospital doctor's report but how I lost my appetite for the ndded: rest of the evening.
is perhaps still more poignantly "Apart from the glamour which summed up in theso words of a eurrounds the Light snowflakes
name of this great foreign police official who saw the Christmas drifted
soldier-statesman, one of the most unhappy victim "She on to
was about the Dream
Peak as Mr. Octavius stories of his amazing
romantic figures in history, the ten years old but looked six," of 2030. MacNab,
career have
On November 24, information President of Hong Kong Muni- at the present moment additional was received by anonymous letter cipality, made his way to the hoping shortly to visit two of the ing at No. 12 Shou Kang Li, off
interest for me, in that I am that a wealthy Chinese family liv Victoria Aerodrome. Behind him ove countries which acclaim him as Tipperary Road, British Concession, rose the palatial, fourteen storey
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Kellet Hotel, its roof garden glit- their liberator. That I shall not be was ill-treating a Chinese child.
On investigation It was proved tering with hundreds of coloured able to visit the three other Re-
publica is not due to lights. For this was Christmas desire on my part, only to lack of the house in Shou Kang Li. She any lack of that a small girl, aged 10, was in Eve and the few European resi dents who had not flown Home
I cannot hope on this occa-was a slave girl. She was found for a week's vacation were spend-is my earacat hope that the future together. She
sion to enjoy their hospitality, It in a room with her handa chained ing it in traditional manner. Mr. holds in store all good fortune and condition being covered with sores Was in a terrible MacNab squeezed his ponderous
time.
body into the 'piane provided for Prosperity for these countries of and wounds. Two of the sores were his use by the Municipality and, Spanish America and their raw and had eaten into the flesh pressing the electric clutch, rose peoples."
and were about the size of a dollar silently into the air. Like a great Henderson, recalled during the her thigh looked as if it was caused The Foreign Secretary, Mr. plece. One wound on the inside of hawk, the President glided over
י.
the immense City, with its gleam-speech that Bolivar was assisted by by a stab by some sharp instru ing skyscrapers and, from his large numbers of British soldiers, ment. There was a large boli on aerial perch, superintended, the and that Bolivar himself ascribed the lower inside of her thigh, a bad Construction of the giant bridge measure of his success to the in-wound caused by burning with an connecting the Island with Kow-gonuity of his agent in London in electric iron (her own statement) loon. With a satisfied air he
collecting arme, recruits and and small sores all over her legs turned the 'plane towards land money. He added, "The relations and body which had not been cared and made a perfect landing on the between His Majesty's Covernment for.
When roof of the International Hotel. and the countries which have look
seen by the police the "Merry Christmas,"
ed to Bollvar as a national hero, girl was in dirty and ragged said the Oh, monstrous bird mechanic, accepting the £1 tip be of the most friendly nature."-a very dirty condition. The wo- have since his death continued to clothes and she herself was in Ode to a
of black and red from the President. Mr. MacNab Proud (So nice with onion replied with a nod and descended Turkey. sauce or bread) the elevator into the Hotel, After, Well I recall the-an excellent dinner he fell into) haughty leer.
deep slumber and awoke with a With which you did inspire fear start. Then he remembered Within the hearts of smalle He was still in the Bleak Hotel,
foule-
and it was, after all, only 19301
Oh, must I go To the Ball to night? My wife says so;
The duck, the chicken, and the
owl,
Who, in the precincts of the yard, Bowed meekly 'neath your meady,
hard
Malignant little eye.
You never thought that you
would die
(For vanity oft gives the lie)
A victim to the butcher's lust,
Christmas Ball.
I suppose she's right.. The foxtrot's a bore,
The waltz is worse;
So let's take the floor With many a curse,
And then be ignominiously truss-With many a mutter,
ed!
Who cares about your feathers
now,
The fine red crystal of your brow? The only notice you receive Is cook's lament on Christmas
Eve,
Or when "within" you lie When curses to you are addressed For being stubborn to digest. And, thus the moral is, my bird, "Be thankful that you are pre-
ferred
And many a groan; I'm certain I cut a Poor figure with Joan. But every one smiles And every one guesses How they suit the styles Of their fancy dresses. But I'm feeling bored And I'm feeling lonely. Buth! thank the Lord- Here's my first and my only. Well, perhaps just one moru; What? Give It a name?
Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 20, 1930. “To chickens, ducklings lesser This Ball's not such a boro;
ADVERSARIA.
"Without fear, favour or malice."
fry,
"That merely lay their eggs and
die.
"No glorious bier of fat have they, "Nor on stout sausages they lay
To please some greedy eye. "So should you grumble on the In a few days plate The
time, dear reader, "Remember 'tis an honoured fate Christmas you will be mas-"To roasted lle in avian state Spirit. ticating turkey and "Beside the Christmas pie."
sausage, asborbing
plum pudding with heavy-faced- courage and trying to- make seasonable jokes over the nuts and wine. No wonder the Christ- mas table
the
MRS
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Christ upon the holly trees; the atmos
I'm glad that I came!
News in Brief.
Britlah Wireless Service.
BOY ACQUITTED.
JUDGE AND POLICE EVIDENCE.
man of the house, the owner of the girl, asked that she be allowed to bathe the child. This was done and she was then dressed in new clothing.
The unhappy girl, who is very intelligent, stated that she had been continually beaten by both the man and his wife who owned her with an electric Iron. her, the man having also burned
NOT ADMISSIBLE!
The trial of the boy Tang To-fat, on a murder charge, ended rather abruptly yesterday afternoon, the quite young, attractive and exper- The woman of the house, who is jury, after
a very short absence, aively dressed, was returning a verdict of "Not Guilty." the B.M.C. Police on the morning of arrested by Prisoner was accordingly discharg-the 25th and taken to the police Evidence in the earlier part of husband (a young man of indepen- etation in her own automobile. Her the proceedings yesterday wa dent means) has disappeared and mainly that of Police officers, as to whether a statement. taken from active enquiries are being made to accused were voluntarily or no
ed.
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy strongly urged that it should be put in.
nzcertain this whereabouts
with a vlew to his arrest. The woman's now been removed In custody to the Rame la Tan, Chen-shih and bas
Chinese yamen.
whereas, Mr. Hin-shing Lo, for the defence, strongly objected.
His Lordship said that he did not London Mission Hospital where sho The girl has been sent to the desire to criticise the Police, butį having heard the evidence of Police tion.
Is receiving the best medical atten- witnesses, he thought that the ac cused had been influenced in some
way.
Before the accused made the statement he had been detained for two nights in the cell and had bean taken across the harbour handcuff- ed.
-His-Lordship held that under these circumstances the statement The salling hour for the Empress could not be.allowed to go to thei of Canada has now been advanced, Jury.
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DEMONSTRATION OF PHYSICAL CULTURE.
The hospital doctor's medical certificate states:-
"I have to report the condition of the little slava who was brought to ua add. has been "ad mitted to the hospital. The legs and arms and body are covered with-wounds and scars. There
are numerous wounds which she saya were inflicted with a knife.: There are scars, which she koya were caused by burns from an electric iron. The knees aro covered with scars from her be ing compelled to kneel on a board full of nails with the points up. On the wrists are the marks of the chain with which she was bound. There are gears on the back where she was beaten. One. arm was cut with a knife and salt applied to it.” Such are the bare, plain facts of aratory of mediaeval cruelty at it has been found practised in one of the two largest and most enlighten-
and she will leave Hong Kong at Mr. Lo did not call any evidence 6 am, on December 25, Instead of for the defence, and in his address to the jury, said the Crown case Roon, as previously advised. Christmas in the
was based on very flimsy evidence. * Sük forwarded from here by He pointed out that accused could Christmas Far East is apt to Out East. be very trying to Empress of Japan on November 27 have run away, but did not do so.
the imagination arrived in New York (St. John's was called in olden There is no snow, there are no Park) and Hoboken on December DIOCESAN® GIRLS. times the "groaning board," for waits, no scarlet berries shine 15, having been 19 days in transit.
Average modern
dinner is but
Appearing before Mr. Butters in a phere has to be derived entirely! light repast compared with from tradition. No wonder few the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday those mediaeval guzzlings in 'people observe the day in the afternoon Wong Loi was charged
Under the direction of Miss which the maltreated insides of, "good olde English style." They with child stealing. Another man men were gorged with boar's prefer a round of golf, with concerned in the affair has not been FJ. Lee, B.P.E., pupils of the heads, peacocks tongues, "smalle Bridge or dancing in the evening. arrested. After evidence fudg-Diocesan Girls School gave a ed cities of China! foule," carcases of oxen, flagons The sad fact is that, whether at ment was reserved to Monday, pleasing demonstration of phy- A number of Chinese people have sical culture yesterday to a large taken an active interest in the case of leathered wine and tankards of Home or abroad, Christmas is as │› Kentish alo, To-day the Christ dead as the turkey that has come It is notified that the restrictions gathering of parents and friends, and it is hoped that both the man mas dinner proper is reduced to to be associated with it. It be imposed on ships carrying rice or It will be repeated this afternoon and woman responsible, whatever two main courses, although cock longs to an age that was content peanuts from Hong Kong to the at 3 o'clock.
their social position; if found Poetry of motion, in its most guilty, will be met with condign tails and hors d'oeuvres and pate ed with simple things; to which a Philippine Islands, notice of which de foie gras are inserted to re- glass of port was a luxury; a kiss appeared as Government Notifica-graceful form was expressed by punishment. trieve it from dullness. For under the mistletoe a romantic tion No. 3.857 of October 4, 1929, the participants Swedish gym- The Tientsin Branch of The Chi- what is this mysterious "excel adventure: the pulling of crack in the Government Gazette of nastico, by the senior girls, was nese Society for the Rellef of WG- lence" which haloes turkey and ers an excitemeat that sent the October 4, 1929, have been removed. one of the outstanding perform-en and Children have taken action 1. ances, whilst Form V. scored with with the Police in the case and plum pudding on Christmas Day? girls into hysterics. The present On any other occasion turkey is generation is too sophisticated, What an exceptional opportunity their wand exercises. The dances rendered a good deal of help. Mr.. merely a species of bird, and plum too critical to accept these things for the ladies of Hong Kong, who including a Danish folk dance, Cheng Ching-ch'ni is the President pudding a variant of Bust or They seem silly and affected are so anxious to know just what the Skater's Waltz and the Yankee of this Society. Mr. Shen, a Chi-
spotted Dick, coloured and Yes, the War killed Christmas all to wear for the approaching festive Doodle, Clog were very well pro- nese gentleman living in the Franch. flavoured to taste. But on this right. Christmas is a back num-season, is afforded by Mme. Keea's sented.
Concession has also intereated him- Christian day
The finale was flag placing, and self in the poor girl's condition. of gladness ber. Santa Clatis is dead. Good flying visit Father Christimas, In plum pudding is ennobled with bye to all that!
the form of Maison Lucile of this was, executed with accuracy, P. & T. Times. all the virtues of a million-
Shanghal and Paris, decided that the entire class taking part in the aire's kitchen, a pyre of ignited
My first Christinas all the sweethearts, wives, and item brandy is raised in its honour, and A Dinner out East was my mothers in Hong Kong should at Party In most exciting. A least have the chance of seeing the the Jungle. planter living in a Latest Parts Models at Room 802
red bungalow on the Hong Kong Hotel.
Its greasy brown pate must fly a banner of red berries at all costs. Then your turkey; this stringy necked, webb footed bi-ped that fringe of the jungle, forty miles
Senor Don Claudio Lago "da Lanzas commander of the Spanish training ship, Juan Sebastian de
Ten Years Ago.
(From the "Chins Mail"
December 20, 1920,】
„To-day's dollar is worth 8/13/16.
Nineteen women and giriskand
ao happily waddled and gobbled from Kuala Lumpur, the capital| The offices of the Supreme Court Elcano, yesterday afternoon gave. A around the farmyard before his of the FMS Invited me to will be open daily from 10a.m. to pleasant tea party to local Spanish neck was wrung-has he any spend the occasion with him. The 1 p.m. during the Christmas Vach- realdents on the quarter deck of the livine qualities that he should be party arrived soon after twilight tion, except on public and general fine vessel. A pleasant dance was roasted to a luscious brown, his and lamps were lit in the dining Holidays, when the offices will be enjoyed by the gucata, who ware thirty-three men and boys-s re-, feet clawing the air, in belated room, which was decorated with entirely closed, and on Saturdays, taken on a tour of Inspection of the cord number for one occasion for protest, and his singed anatomy festoons of paper chains, sprigs when they will be open from 10 craft by the officers and the cadets, some years past now were con encircled with a gårlend of sau of Imitation, Holly, sand a large am to noon, Aubject, however, to CAR frmed by the Bishop of Victoria in sages ? No; this is a custom that pine tree covered with cotton the provision of section 6 of the Apparently, of a nervous diaposl. the presence of a large congrega. defles the deepest researches of wool Our hos meant to leave Supreme Court Vacations) Ordin- tion, Chinese wordan, etaladdition, at an impressive service in the our Enthropologists, and the only nothing" one who can really benefit by it the doctor, with his famillár pre the obup
Dinner
khoe, 1898, so far as it relates to be 24 Tears of age, jumped from Cathederal last night. In a brief the Criminal Session The the window of 68, High Street address to the candidates, tho
tmas Vacation will commence, ascend floor. She Injured her Hichop laid stress, on the import on the 24th Justint wnd terminates ead badly and was confered to ance of the stopa and its signific
the hospital
To after
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