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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931.
BOY SCOUTS.
INCREASED INTEREST N COLONY.
sengers for pirates and pirates' arma. Yet, the most ideal sys- tem of precautions on steamers once they leave port will avail little once the pirates and their TWO DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS.
MUSICAL TREAT.
THE WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.
LOCAL SEASON.
arms are on baard and leave a port. Of course, shipping com-
The annual mecting of the Hong Arrangements have been com- panies and individual ship own-be held in the St. John's Cathedral mbster Glee Singers to commence Kong Boy Scouts' Association will peted for the season of the West- ers, must co-operate with port Hall this afternoon, when, it is an-in the Theatre Royal- on Monday authorities in any effort made to nounced, His Excellency the Gov-night, January 26. The booking improve the search system. It is ernor will be present."
will be in the hands of Moutrie's The report of the past year's and wil open next Monday, Janu- to be feared that such co-opera-work states, inter alia, that the ary 19. tion is not always forthcoming number of boys receiving training The Westminster Glee Singers even under the present unsafls- in the Movement has increased, and are directed by that veteran show- Salwan is beginning to justify its man, Mr. Elward Branscombe, who factory system. And, finally, see-
existence a training centre. had remarkable success in Hong ing that the bays of Kwangtung The Colony has now been divided Kong nearly twenty years ago with Jare the favourite-indeed, the into two District Associations with that famous organisation the Scar- only-rendezvous for the pirates, distinct advantage to the oversight let Troubadours, who must be fall it is the obvious duty of the Nan to be fuller and keener realisation Branscombe has devoted the inter- of the Groups, and there seemed remembered by many still, Mr. king Government and the Canton of the open-air essence of Scouting.vening years to the world tours of authorities to work together with The formation of the District As-the Westminster Gle. Singers, and the object of making these bayssociations also ban the effect of re-is keenly looking forward to his re- lieving the Headquarters Staff turn to Hong Kong. On its present in Kwangtung untenable for and the Council of much detail tour, the company left London near- pirate gangs.
Until these sug- work in connection with the actually three years ago and has played gestions are given full effect to, it running of the Groups, setting through Canada, Alaska U.S.A..
direct the general Newfoundland, Honolulu, New Zea will be a long time before the them free to China Sea is completely rid of Anances, and also to act as a con-1
polley of the Branch and its land, and Australia.
Last December was spent in piracy.
necting link between the Districts Malaya and the company is at pre- and Imperial Headquarters. The sent at the Opera House, Manila, Districts will, however, leave the demonstrating to the Americans raising of funds and the control that there is another type of music thereof to the Council in order to than jazz, with melody, meaning avoid overlapping. The Rev. E. A. and body, yet just as acceptable to Two case of diphtheria were Armstrong has been appointed the musically uneducated as to the notified yesterday-one being in District Commissioner for Kowloon,, musteal critic. Mr. Branscombe is Victoria of the other in Kowloon..
Finances:
of the opinion that America is be- Both were Chinese.
Dealing with finances the report ginning to tire of the jazz craze. It is his object to bring back into of $18,000, the people's remembrance the great
News in Brief.
The Hon. Foo Ping-sheurg. LL.D., is to distribute the prizes at St. Stephen's College at Stanley on Saturday afternoon.
Tha
The lowest open ai temperature been done since then is the sesterday was 43 degrees. doubling of restrictions against humidity at 10 a.m. was 66 degrees the Press until such time as the and at 10 p.m. 46 degrees. Police go aboard and dally over
states:
We require the sum
to clear off the mortgage on Sat-wealth of musical literature which wan, but we need yet more to enable Great Britain possesses. us thoroughly to put the property
The programmes will include folk
in good order, to instal a more songs of four nations and Albert satisfactory water supply and sani Greene, a well known comedian tary system, and to erect additional from the Alhambra and Palladium, rooms for storage, etc., at the foot has been specially engaged for the of the garden, We are very grate- group of rollicking sailors shan- ful to Mr. Tang Shiu-kin for his ties included in each programme.
A slight improvement is reported great generosity in promising to their examination of officers, pas-this morning in the condition of pay for the equipment required for
training purposes. sengers, and crew. Not a word Mr. J. J. Hirst, who is lying ser- fously ill in the Koivloon Hospital. has been forthcoming to assure the public that the Police system
For the theft of a gunny bag, the
fined $5 or in default a week's im
The death of Mr. William Robert
OTTAWA
TORONTO
sons the publication of the Silver
We regret that for various rea-}
ed during the year. This is due to Wolf magazine has apparently fail-VAST POWER CARRIED OVER
230 MILES OF LINES.
two causes, Anancial and editorial. It
work of Editor is more than can be
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of searches has been so improved property of Tak Lee building con- and perfected as to make it abtractor, Tang Lin, a Chinese was has been proved that the style and
More electric power is being solutely impossible for any pir-prisonment at the Kowloon Magis-get-up is too ambitious and that the carried
over transmission lines ates and pirates' arms to tracy this morning.
expected of already hard worked Gatineau River, near Ottawa, to
from Paugan Falls
the get aboard a steamer outward
Commissioners. Even a quarter Toronto, a distance of 230 miles, bound from Hong Kong! But Barr, occurred in the Government production is enough work for than over any other power lines in there is one other thing the Civil Hospital on Monday, the cause Scout responsibilities, so that if
one man without any additional Canada. authorities have done since the of death being tuberculosis. He
Two 220,000 volt steel-tower anyone is willing to help by be transmission lines was for many years with the Hong which in future will be produced in Electric Power Commission's dis now carry elec kon in July last-they published Kong and China Gas Co., Ltd.
the Ontario, Hydro- a simpler style, he will be received tributing plant at Leaside, Toronto. with open arms.
A new line has been completed and put in operation at a cost of why this about £1,000,000.
Last year a similar line was
pirates boarded the steamer Hali.ras the son of Mr. John Barr, who coming Editor of our Magazine tric power to
Tsang Hing (83) a woman, was
a new anti-piracy regulation at the end of November, laying down yesterday sent to the Government that "the master or other person Civil Hospital suffering from the
Our Future. There is no reaso
in charge of a ship shall take effects of Immersion, after she had should not be exceptionally bright,
"Disregard Of All Moral 'Considerations."
effective measures to cause attempted, it is alleged, to commit but there is one great obstacle in opened. About 150,000 horse- the movements
suicide by jumping into the har-the way of the attainment of aba-power of electrical energy is now of his ship bour from the Talkoo Sugar Re-lute brilliancy, and that is the lack being transmitted from the Paugan to be in accordance with Ginery wharf.
of Scouters. There are a great Falls plant. these regulations, and he shall
number of men in the Colony who It is proposed to increase the take effective measures to prevent The forthcoming marriage is an-were Scouts in their boyhood, or load before October 1931, to the coming on board or embarka- Remedios, of the staff of the Hong Cub Packs before coming East.
nounced of Luiz Augusto Ribeiro who helped to run Scout Troops or 260,000 horsepower. BARR-At the Government Civiltion of any person and the bring-Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- Many of them, we know, have their
Hospital, on Monday, January 12, 1931, William Robert Barr, fing on board of anything contrary poration, residing at 37, Granville time already filled up with bust- BISHOP'S 'HORROR' OVER REDS. age 28, late of Shanghal, only to or not in accordance with these Augusta Viera Ribeiro, of 5, Car- and so on, but we often hear it said Road, Kowloon, to Mercedes ness, Chinese studies, H.K.V.D.C. son of John Barr formerly of regulations." Commenting on narvon Villas, Kowloon,
that there is nothing to do in Hong the Hong Kong & China Gas that regulation at the time we re-
Kong. Here quite definitely is Gompany, Ltd. Funeral passes the Monument to-day at marked that the Police authori-the murder of Cheung Man," at the done.
Yesterday Ng Kin, charged with something that is waiting to be Scouting requires just com-
The Bishop of Guildford (Dr. ties are now determined not to Fruit-Market.in Wing Lok Street, mon sense, and a study of the H. Greig), at the Guildford risk their reputation a second at which they were fokis employed Handbooks. The rest required Diocesan Conference said he still Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1931, time. They are seeking to wash by different stalls, was again comes with experience, though the felt as deeply the horror he ax- remanded by Mr. Williams, system of Officers' Training makes pressed in the January issue of their hands entirely of any re- until to-morrow afternoon, when things much easier and prevents the Diocesan Gazette at the coun- SEARCH OF SHIPS.sponsibility for failure to search the question of his committal to grievous mistakes. To auch old try receiving a Soviet Ambassador
ships before they leave this har- the Assizes will be considered. Scouts we make a special appeal for with his suite and agents,
help.
"I am not concerned with the bour. They exclaim, in effect,
There are others who have Another piracy has been coni-
The General Officer Commanding not been Scouts but while realising political or commercial sides of mitted, evidently by the Bias "What are the masters and off the British Troops in China (Major the value of the Movement, hesitate this matter," he said, "I should Bay gang, who, however, have cers in ships for if not to ensure General J. W. Sandilands C.B., to take the plunge. To then we make my protest just as strongly
that no potential pirate comes Captain U R. M. Cameron, A.D.C., en in.
C.M.O., D.S.0.), accompanied by appeal no less urgently to Come if our relations with the Soviet chosen Honghai Bay, to the
It's jolly fine."
Government had proved a success; north of Bias Bay, as their ren-board in the guise of a passen-alled for Japan In the 9.6. Pre
but with almost a year's further knowledge of what the methods dezvous. Again it has to be re-ger or fireman or steward?" On aldent Madison yesterday. His
of a Soviet Government are. I corded that the pirates boarded the eve of departure from har-Excellency expects to be back in Hong Kong by the end of the
ROYAL BEREAVEMENT. still find myself of the same mlad, the Hsin Ming in Shanghai in the bour masters and officers of ships month.
that a more cynical and degrad- The following cablegram has ing disregard of all moral can- guise of passengers and, also once have their hande more than full again, whited for a favourable op attending to the inherent duties
been received by His Excellency siderations can hardly be imagin- A Piano and Song Recital will be the Governor from the Secretary of ed given by Mr. and Mrs. A. M. portunity to take control of their of their profession; why should Bowes-Smith in the Helena May of State or the Colonies:
*If the court and government- victim. It has been demon- they be called upon to fulfil the Thursday, January 22, at 5.30 p.nt. "I have it in command from or a Christian country had re- strated over and over again that, role of policemen-preventers of Accompanist, Mr. C. Dudley Bart His Majesty to convey to you and ceived the ambassador of the Ein- until the various port authorities crime-whilst they are under the lett. Tess must be booked from
His subjects In the Colony ofperor. Nero they would have stood in China, Hong Kong, and Singa-Jurisdiction of the local shipping bera, 40 centa; non-members 50
Hong Kong His grateful appre- for all time as the classic symboly clation of their message of aym- of Infamy and cant. pore institute more effective sys- and Police authorities. The cents; Service men and children,
pathy to Their Majesties and the "I may stand alone, but I should tems of searches of passengers, system of searches in ports 30 cents. Advt.
Royal Family In their bereave feel even more debased and ment"
humiliated than I do if I were piracies on the China Sea will go should be made much more rigid.
The case against Kwan Choun, This should and ought to be pos-who appeared before Mr. Betters A warrant for the arrest of Chau
not publicly to repeat my in- on ad infinitum; Where pirátes
dignan: prótest." (Applause.)" are enabled to beard vessels atsible in Hong Kong and Singa the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Kam, a woman, was lasued by Mr. any port as passengers and to pore; but its attainment will be afternoon charged with possession E. Linded at the Central smuggle their arma aboard, the entirely out of the question if the of 604 lb. of dutiable tobacco at Magistracy this morning. She was 138 Portland Street on December to appear in connection with a port authoritica, whether British one of search is to be he trans and possession of 84 lb. at 396. summons, which accused her of or Chinese, must be adjudged ferred from the Police to the mer Shanghai Street, on the same date. having had in her control, between guilty of contributory negligence. cantile marina. The Police are was adjourned till Monday, after a June 1, 1980 and January 1981.
they are
lengthy-hearing. In the case of Hong Kong there here to do Police work; they
an, unregistored, mui taal, “at 255 has only been one case in which is utterly fantastical for them to ese man, stated to be about 50 years paid for doing Police work; and it
Queen's Road Central:: the pirates embarked in this port;
To-day's dollars worth Work has been commenced it a
#11/16. but, în spite of a demand for the endeavour to quit themselves of of age, was yesterday, conveyed to large piece of ground, where part rost rigid inquiry, the usual off all responsibility by saddling the the Kowloon Mortuary, after it bad of Morrison Hill soce stood, to pre- cine veil of secrecy has been mercantile marine with their been found in a water hole near pate a car park to cope with the TheWe are requested by the Captain Sheung Kee Hak village, fit Choung cresse o trafic at Happy Valley Superintendent of Police to remind work. igrewn over it and the public has
Sha Wan The hole is situated during the annual and extra race Peak résidents who haya not, rat hot been told a single word—it It is no consolation to know near the path which leads to Sheke meetings of the Jocker Club. The done, 80, that they should apply to "does not even know if such an that the authorities in ports in Tong Village, and it is nine feet in park, which is being laid out on the the Colonial Secretary for formal depth. It is assumed that the men, south-east corner of Morrison Hill, parlaston to reside there in, ge- inquiry was held or, if so, what China have not yet created a fool offentally fall into the hole, dur- opposite the C.B.C.Cll have cordadce with the provisions of was the outcome. All that has proof system of searches of pas-ing the night of January 12-18.space for approximately 200 cara.
Ordinanca 8 of 19191
Matron 22160.. Tickets-Memd-
The body of an unknown Chin
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Ten Years Ago.
From the "China Mail"
January 14, 1921.1
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