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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930.
ANARCHISTS IN PARIS.
Man Escapes While Grave Is Dug.
The latest antl-Fascist crime in
Property to the value of $158, which was reported on December 29 as having been stolen from 4, Alveston Terrace, has been
re France, following the arrest of two covered by the Police in a pawn-anarchists for a suspected plot to shop. No arrests effected.
MR. JAMES H.
WOODIER.
Death of Well-known Av.
Resident,
THIRTY YEARS HERE.
Mr. James H. Woodler, custódian have been blow up the Italian Fascio in Paris, of the Happy Valley Recreation turns out to be of oven more im-Ground, died yesterday in the Mr. A. C. Braine-Hartnell, re- Political murder
portance than was at first supposed. Government Civil Hospital,
was its object. siding at May Hall, has reported to The intended victim escaped with He had been in the Colony thirty Mr. Woodier was 58 years of age. the Police that between '8 p.m. on his life, but he is in a critical con-years, originally coming out with December 28 and 9 a.m. on Decem altion. ber 29, some person stolu from his
the Welch Regiment. He had been The criminals, whose names are connected with the motor car, which
was parked in known to the police, are members Department, in his present posi
Public Works Lyttleton Road, a pump and three of a secret anti-Fascist organisation, for about two years, and was small spanners, of the total valuetion, and their arrest is expected to previously in the Army Ordnance of $8.
unveil a close relationship with the Department and the Naval Yard Communist revolutinary movement. Pulice. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announce
Death Was due The object of the attack was a pneumonia and tuberculosis. that Noma Shearer has signed a
young Italian, called Carti, who new long-term contract and is to went to Paris several months ago at Happy Valley, the Rev. G. T. The funeral was held yesterday star only In M-G-M pictures. Miss to join the Italian anti-Fascist. Waldegrave conducting the service. Shearer, who is extremely popular For some reason not yet revealed Amdug those who attended were with local cinema patrons, is star-Carti became suspect in the eyes of Messrs. C. Frith, G. Coyah, S. R. ring in "Let Us Be Gay" which is his companions, and they decided to Jones, T. Balt and other members to be shown in the Queen's Theatre murder him. Carti was invited of in the near future.
the P.W.D. staff and old to Д viliu nt Sartrouville, a friends. suburb of Paris, on the banks)
CHILD WELFARE.
WORK OF THE LOCAL SOCIETY.
JUVENILE COURTS WANTED.
Sir Shou-son Chow, President of the Society for the Protection of Children, took the chair at the first annual meeting held in the City Hall yesterday.
to
of the Soine, whore two of the anti-"WALL OF RULES." Fascist chiefs were living.
• Heated Discussion. There, after a heated discussion, he was driven into the corner of a
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PROBLEM OF MEN AND WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES,
"The
newcomer learns
•
between the men and women He naturally concludes that women have no influence upon undergraduate life and that social contact with them is rare.
"The official wall does stare the
to social
The
and shot. The state of the room showed that a violent struggle
Following the attack by the Ox- had taken place. There were also ford "Isis" on women students, a a number of empty bottles of wine, writer in the Cambridge "Gowns which might indicate that the people man" describes the restrictions on carrying out the "execution" tried men and women mixing at Cam- to make their victim talk.
bridge as "pernicious anachron- It is clear also that the murder isms," He writes: was arranged in cold blood, 03 A
with In moving the adoption of the small water pump motor in a shed amazement that the residents in report (published in the China attached to the villa had been start-Newnham and Girton are not mem- Mail on Saturday last) he outlined ed up to prevent the noise of thebers of the University. He la con- the progress made by the Society shooting fram being heard. The fronted with the wall of rules and of a really heartening nature. since its formation in January last, "execution" accomplished, the regulations bullt by the authorities There have been others from stating that over $15.000 was con-criminals, assuming their man to
tributed by the end of March. which we can as
In be dead, left him lying while they students. a community August the Society
engaged Miss went to the garage to dig a grave learn useful lessons for our wel- Seto Wai-Sheung as inspector for for the body. fare in the New Year that will the investigation of cases.
While they were away, however, The Society had had also urged Carti revived, and, in spite of the be ushered in to-morrow and for the foundation of a Juvenile Court, wound in his head, managed to timid, and the numerical inferiority the years after that again. There and the Governor had appointed a drag himself out of the house, of the members of Newnham and may have been general gloom, Committee to go into the question. across the garden, and by a super-Girton, as compared with the 18 too frequent overcast skies; but mitted a draft Bill to the Govern-e wall, from which he dropped on/meetings with the opposite sex
The Society. In addition, had sub-human effort to hoist himself on to men's colleges does lead there has also been much of an ment..
a neighbouring-property.
being an infrequent occurrence in uplifting and inspiriting nature
Finances Good.
the average undergraduate's life. Trail of Blood. encouraging and stimulating the
Finances were very satisfactory,
"But the women here seem to The would-be murders, finding exercise an influence out of all pro- community to press forward to balance of $20.000.
the tenth month commencing with that their victim had escaped, portion to their numbers.
Expenses had the goal of even befter days and heen less than $1,400 in the period. Carti was discovered by a postman is altogether sensible, and unde evidently took flight in haste: relation of the sexes at Cambridge better years for the Colony in Mr. Hazlerigg had been asked to some hours after in a desperate serving of the complex rules and which we live. All the fond hopes
Join Mr. T. N. Chau'as Honorary state, and was only able to goap regulations by which it is (in Secretary, of one short year ago may not
out: "I have been shot by two theory) circumscribed." Mr. Hazlerigg later addressed the Italians" before collapsing again. have been fulfilled the inevitable meeting on the work of the Society, Since being in hospital ha has re and inexorable process of change after which the report and accounts fused to say anything more. and decay may have brushed
were adopted.
When the police entered the villa Officers Elected. away some of our innate optim-
a trail of blood enabled them to Proposals that H.E. Sir William reconstruct the shooting and the iam. But, it must be counted an and Lady Peel be re-elected patrons fight of the unfortunate Carti asset to reflect that as a Colony elected an hou. vice president met and several sacks of lime prepared aspect of Piccadilly will be changed and that Sir Cecil Clementi be The grave had already been dug
The day is not far away when the there are no outward and visible with the unanimous approval of the to place over the body, which show. as completely as Regent Street has signs of actual retrogression or of meeting.
been changed during the last quar- ed that it was only on going to etanding still as an outpost of the Presidents, general and executive discovered the escape
The Patrons, Presidents, Vice fetch it for burial that the menter of a century. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1930. Empire. Too rapid progress has committees and treasurer named in victim.
of their The latest improvement to be ef- fected on the south side-and al- as ill effects on a community as this year's annual report were elect-
A number of documents and pro-ready many new buildings have too rapid degeneration. We may ed to their respective offices for the paganda literature were found in made their appearance between
ensuing year, with the exception of the villa, as well Thang the old year on a tree, re- Mr. A. C. Hynes and Mr. B. D. Fports and a time machine of the Circus-is the group of buildings og neveral pass Arlington Street and Piccadilly menting ito passing; but the by Mr. V. M. Grayburn and the gretting not our act, neither la- Beith, whose places. are to be filled type used for setting off bombs.
which used to be known as Princes This last discovery raises the Hotel and Restaurant..
The work of transforming this gesture is unworthy of us, look Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.
possibility of some connection be- ing to all the good that the year Ping-shun were elected members of Anarchist plot revealed recently. been carried on under the direction Messrs. Lee Yau-tsun and Fung tween the present outrage and the well-known London landmark has has meant to us as a Colony. the Executive Committee.
What may prove even more import-of Mr. Clement D. Rich, the chair- However we may view the
A vote of thanks for the useful ant is the discovery at the villa of man of the Piccadilly Development. work contributed by the Chairman wireless sets both for receiving and [Company. year 1980 in retrospect-probably terminated the business.
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́RING OUT THE OLD!
The last of 1930! Will many in the Colony regret it? Aze there any who like to prolong. it? These questions cannot be an- swered in the affirmative or nega. tive on behalf of the Colony as a whole. The tendency may be to
from dwell on the darker side of the
an angle similar to that 'picture of 1930-to recall trage in many previous years let us which we regarded. December 31 dies, effects of the slump in the dollar, unwanted legislation, bitter as a community take the blessed memories of the best.it has had public controversies, and all else of a sombre hue. And with the to offer with us over the thres-
hold into the New Year. recollections there is heaved a
optimism over prevail over pessi-for
Let
THREAT TO MEN.
PROFESSIONS INVADED BY WOMEN.
for transmitting.
MRS. HOOK MARRIED
ROMANCE FOLLOWS TRAGIC
CHANGING PICCADILLY.
Well-Known Landmark Disappears.
"The old hotel and restaurant have completely disappeared," Mr. Birch aald. "Behind the hoardings workmen have built a miniature town, with its own shops and offices,
An arcade is to connect Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, thus providing another means of access from the north to St. James's Square.
"In the new Princes House there
BURMA AIR CRASH.
Bedford College girls, training
Mra. Dorothy Victor Hook, widow widely-varying careers listened of Flight-Lieutenant Eric Hook, mighty sigh that to-day will seemism, inspiring in the whole recently to the first Fawcett Lec-who lost his life in the jungle in in the basement la a restaurant to the last of 1930.. The Sakeis of colony the will to make of 1931 are, delivered by Miss L. Grier, Burma last July while flying from seat 300 people. At the same time · ·
Malaya have, or had a quarter of century ago, a way of their own
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
News in Brief.
The Government Administrative Reports for 1929 have been issued In one volume, a copy of which has
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are modern suites of offices, while
Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, England to Australia with Mr. the old Princes Galleries, the scene Oxford. These lectures have been James Matthews, was married in of,so many art exhibitions, have endowed in memory of Dame Mil-mail week at Llandudno tó. R. been remodelled." leent Fawcett.
F. Hopper, of St. Albana Appropriately, I dealt with the| "I know I am doing the right) changes in occupation and leisure thing, and that my late husband
NOVEL CELEBRATION.
of women during the last hundred would approve," Mrs. Hook sald Reynolds Packard and years and the effect of the educa- when the news of her engagement Eleanor Cryan have just completed tional revolution.
Tas, announced in September.
A novel in Vienna protesting As regards women In employ- "I was faced with the necessity
conventions."
So now they are man and wife.
Ten Years Ago.
of dealing with all things old: when a man or woman was con sidered to have lived long enough he or she was hung on a tree and left to die. These wild tribes, with their obsession for the blow. pipe, had no use for the old--and been received by the China Mail. ment, the most noticeable increase, of acnding my two little girls into against marriage and "similar the old had to be forcibly ejected
stated Miss Grier, was in the case & home, and I could not bear the "How shall we celebrate the The General Chamber of Com- of women clerks. In 1841 there iden. They will now have a home completion of the book?" they ask from their midst. And so with merca is in recaipt of information were only 165 women clerks, where of their own. I shall also be ed. "Let's get married," they the old year: we of this genera that the British Economic Mission as in 1921 there were some 430,000. mother to Mr. Hopper's three boys,
replied. tion have as 'n rule little use for to the Far East will arrive here on A hundred year ago there were one of whom is young enough to be that which is oH. The advance of until March 5.
January 30 or 81 and will stay nearly 800 men clerks to overy, we playmate for my little girls."
man 'clock; now there are about Mr. Hopper, who is a retired the scientific machine has created
three women to every four men. dentist, lost his wife about, the time In us a desire to discard the old. Messrs. A, S. Watson & Co., Ltd.. Miss Grier recalled that Florence Mr. Hook was killed. He wrote a and reach out for the new. This advertise that to-morrow, all de- Nightingale bewalled the fact that letter of condolence to Mrs. Hook, partments will be closed. The she was unable to get a woman and later was introduced to her by Hong Kong Dispensary, Dispensing secretary, although she would have a friend. It was not long before To-day's dollar la worth 3/2 5/16. Department will be open for dis- given £600 a year for one they decided to marry, u pensing prescription from 10 am. There are no longer women While they were house hunting in connection with the Yaumati pan, and, from 9 pm to 7.30 miners, or bricklayers, and few ut Llandudno, Mr. Hopper's motor shooting affray in which Lance-
chimney sweeps,
plasterers, or car was overturned and Mrs. Hook Sergeant Gardiner lost his life, and her two children were thrown Inspector Cayall this morning marong But all that is old need not be Wong Wal, a fakerman at Referring to the professions, out Fortunately they escaped la formally charged two Chinese (be- despised.--There has been much that whilar out
Stanley, has reported to the Police Miss Grier stated that there were jury, to
fore Magistrate Orme) with having heting sea weed no surgeons, physicians, architecte, After, Mr. Hook's body was found, been concerned with others not In of Wagian barrtaters, accountants, or land a fund raised by the Rev. C. custody. In an attempted armed the party, agents a hundred yests age, La Barty, of West Wickham, Kent, robbery at No. 815, Reclamation lipped or are the, 1921 census the only section where Mra. Hook was living, re- Street, Yeamati, on the night of the water and weft blank under the heading of pro- alleed nearly £1,100. The whole December 27 The Inspector: ask-. in A search for feastowerment of the has been invested for the benoit Gred for a week's jemand, which was
is an age of rush, compared with which our forbears of only a few generations ago lived their lives in an atmosphere of quiet and leisure
In the year now rapidly drawing near the northern to a close for which to be thank with six others ful as a community. There have Wong On, d cidentally. Cell been events during the historien twelve months of public interest the
Church of England.
the childrens
[From the "China Mall" of December 31, 1920.J
granted.