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DARING
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1931.
ROBBERY POLISH WOMEN AND
FROM A SAMPAN.
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HOME STANDARD. - 7
Study Circles to Link Rural & City Members.
Police women are dissatisfed
tho
tions was rendered impossible. eaid that on the night of the rob- Lawless elements caused disturb-jbery he was ashore, on the ground ances in most provinces and the cor of 13, Pitt Street, Yaumati, Postal staff guffered severely. No about 100 feet from the foreshore with the present state of their of the refuge. He was playing mah domestic affairs, and are deter- less than 15 Couriers met their jongg with other mon. He did not mined to change it. death at the hands of brigands know the names of the other play- At
conference recently and four more, believed to be killers. The house was a social club they developed the outline of a
for baat people.
practical scheme whereby ed, disappeared.
Witness first heard of the rob- Household Study-Circles which Forty-seven were wounded and bery when the two men who had already exist in Warsaw, Poz- 411 attacked by bandits. The been taken out of the water were man, Cracow, Lodz and other staff of the Tsinan (Kansu) Office,brought past the house on the way Polish towns, should be welded to the Police Station. He know the into a great "Union of Circles" Postmaster, Postman, and Cour-two arrested men, but was not which, gathering together the ier, were hacked to pieces by friendly with them. He knew their mistresses of homes both in Moslem rebels in retreat, while anames because, like himself, they urban and rural districts, would Postmaster, two Rural Postmen. He did not hear why the men were the demands of which could not worked on steam launches, make of them an organisation and three Couriers in Hupeh and arrested.
¡casily be set aside. one Postman in Kiangsi were
Family teachings, they said,
masters.
His Lordship: Is that all you
murdered by Communists. Six know about the robbery?—Yes. are obviously the basis of na members of the staff were kid-the nantes of these two
When you were charged you told tional character. In the family men and are learned those first lessons napped, including three Post- other people. How did you learn which afterward determine the Twenty-one Postal es- those names?-When the detective strength or weakness of the na- tablishments are reported as hav-arrested me he said that the Polles tion. Therefore the family must ing been burnt, and 557 looted.ple that five men
had information from the boat peo- be run on organised and specialis- were concerned ed lines, by mistresses who Nearly every district experienced and he told me the names of the themselves are organised and, critical periods when law and men.
most important, who are in touch order were set at naught. During accused that after the robby with similar methods.
Answering another question the with other mistresses who work such-times-services-were-main-he stayed in Hong Kong until
Amateurism. tained by the best available September 17, 1929 when he went' Nobody, in these days, can means. The most serious inter-to Canten to take A job as chief afford to be an amateur, they ruption
engineer on a steam launch there, said; but nobody can help being, was caused by a four The Attraction was days' strike of the middle and than $30, compared with only $15 who is working along solitary pay of more at least in a degree, amateurish lower ranks of the Shanghai which he was getting here in Hong waya unaided by any
general Ofice. The senior staff, with the
Kong. He returned to the Colony
desire for better conditions. at the beginning of May 1930.
Therefore Polish women desire to villing help of Chinese and for-
The case continued after tiffin.
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FULCHER-On January 19, 1931. at the Government Hospital,, Kowloon, Charles Augustin, Aged 62,
Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 19, 1931.
บ
News in Brief.
Chiu Fat, an earth coolie, who
a Chinese woman,
HISTORY OF SUGAR.
ASIATIC ORIGIN OF THE INDUSTRY.
in the procuring of well- planned houses in which labour may be rendered as easy, instead of as difficult, as possible; in the Washington, Nov. 30. procuring of household utensils With the world suffering an over-adapted to the demands of the production of sugar in spite of rational organisation of work; in price of less than two cents a pound, the arrangement of defined work' ougar authorities here turned back Ing hours in which meal-times the pages of history, for reminders shall have their allotted places; of a brighter era.
in better means of education to Earliest sugar price quotations ward a better regime in every
vice would have had an ad. Again, we say, hate off to the verse effect generally. In order Postal authorities of China! to facilitate supervision of postal affairs in those places already reached by the Nationalist troops, and to maintain the discipline and officiency of the staff, a Director- Han. Mr. S. W. Tso will present
was established at Nanking the prizes at the Yaumati School on on record were found for England, way. ate by the Nationalist Ministry of Friday at 11 a.m. Communications on November 1, 1927, to take charge of postal fell off a moving motor lorry in interests in the areas under the Kowloon Tong on January 17, died in the Kowloon Hospital at 10.15 jurisdiction of the Nationalist
a.m. yesterday. Government. With view to maintaining its integrity as á
Li See-mul, National service, negotiations was fined $60 or five weeks at the Kowloon Magistracy to day, for were conducted with the Peking keeping a house of Ill-fame at No. Directorate' which resulted in the 30. Nanking Street, first floor. signing of an agreement of
The Hon. Treasurer of the Hong seventéen articles on February 6,
Kong Boy Scouts Association ac 1928, in Shanghai, by representa- knowledges with grateful thanks tives of both sides, for the joint the receipt of $100 from His Ex-the sugar trade was a factor in the control of the whole Service cellency the Governor towards the under a system of mutual refer-
Saiwan Camp Fund.
ence and collaboration.
One month's imprisonment was The Director General, who had imposed on Tang Shing who, hitherto taken no part in the a cotton cardigan from 110 and January 18, stole a serge jacket and work of the Post Office, assumed 112 Shanghai Street, property of full responsibility for all its deal-Pun Ngan, shop coolie.
f: the year 1264, at which They believe too and here time sales were made at they join issue with the opinion two shillings a pound. The pur- of the women
of almost every chasing power of a shilling at that country-that domestic work will time was approximately 20 times never be raised from its present the present day value.
dangerously low level until Sugar items were found in the domestic workers are given a de household accounts of the Dauphin finite status, and until the whole du Valumols Humber II of France profession is purged of those for the year 1333, but the valume workers who, utterly unqualified, of purchases was small, and bis- have entered into a department torians report that the use of sugar or skilled service which they do nt that time was either for not understand. pharmaceutical purposes, or 19 a super-luxury.
ол
The Surplus. of Recent Date. Long before the 13th century,
wealth or poverly of great cities; and kingdoms, and only in the last few decades has the surplus, rather than the shortage of sugar, been the chief source of worry.
Although historians have claim-
CHINA BOUND.
MISS AMY JOHNSON HAS A FORCED LANDING,
ENGINE TROUBLE.
ed that China produced sugar 3,000
Berlin, Yesterday. Miss Amy Johnson had a forced years ago, modern authorities in- cline to the view that Bengal was landing at Klodawa, owing to en- ings. More Chinese Commission- A watch reported to have been the original centre of suger manu-gine trouble. She was unhurt,
tribute to
to-morrow. Reuter.
Earlier News.
ers were selected to work jointly stolen from the H.M.S. Tamar en facture. As early as the year 286 however, and resumes her flight with foreign Commissioners. The January 6, has been found to be the A.D., the Kingdom of Funan, in Postal Work in China. grades and ranks of all employees, property of Surg-Lieut. Dowling. India, sent sugaras
His servant found the watch in the some 30,000 in number, were re-owner's own coat pocket! vised from October 1 with the re-
China.
cano is
HONG KONG LANDS.
FINAL DIVIDEND OF $2 PER SHARE,
A Chinese botanical work of the
Warsaw, Yesterday. fourth century A.D. referred to
Miss Amy Johnson took off to- in spite of the internicine war-sult that the privileges of the up-
Sentence of two months' impri-sugar as "kan-che," or aweet bam-day for Berlin.
A Warsaw message of January T fare existing throughout the per ranks were reduced and the sonment was imposed on Ng Choi, boo, and said that it grow in Cochin
stated': an unemployed Chinese, at the China, Further proof of the country, the Chinese Postal conditions and prospects of the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, for Asiatic origin of sugar
After consultations with various authorities, in meeting these ad-middle and lower categories great-stealing a rattan basket containing found in the name "sugar," All experts to-day Miss Amy Johnson verse circumstances, succeeded ly improved. Certain ranks were Woo Pun, of 469, Reclamation is said, are
sundry articles, the property of modern names of the substance, it decided to postpone her flight to
derived from the
Moscow en route to Peking until in maintaining the efficiency of amalgamated in order to avoid Street, yesterday.
Sanskrit word "“aarkaro” or “sak later in the year, owing to the the Service throughout the year. any class feeling between them.
kara."
bad weather conditions. Miss Amy Johnson Intends to leave for Moa- Sugar cane was introduced into The funeral of Mr. James John This is an achievement as Employees, whether Chinese or "Jumbo") Hirst took place in the the Tigris Valley in the. fifth cen-/cow by train for the purpose of an pazzling as it is admirable, and foreigners, who, through old age Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, tury A.D., near Jandisapur, and interview with the Soviet aviation we take off our hats to the Nan or other cause, were judged un-on Saturday, in the presence of a was an important article of com- authorities to collect data regard- king Government for so ably suitable to meet the strenuous large gathering which paid its last merce in Ancient Persia. The ing the flight.] steering a way through the conditions now facing the Service, service was conducted by the Rev. and the industry was encouraged by respects at the graveside.. The Persians learned to refine sugar chaos for the operations of its were paid off under favourable w. Walton Rogers, MA.
the Sarsanides kings... postmen without untoward in conditions, thus making way for
Venice and Antwerp." cident or undue loss. There was the advancement of capable men. concluded the hearing of the case its painting and sculpture, in fact On Saturday Mr. E. H. Williams Venice, known to the world for actually an improvement in the The regulations, governing entry in which two Chinese were charged had no more valuable art than that Service during the latter part of into the Service, the granting of in connection with, uttering two of refining sugar. The process was the year, which accounts for an leave, and the issue of compas-forged deposit certificates to the perfected, and during the Middle The Directors of The Hong Kong increase of over ten per cent. of sionate allowances were revised. value of $22,000 purported to have 42 15. Verder was the major centre Land Investment & Agency Co. mail matter posted over the total The retiring allowance. system or Banking Corporation. The supremacy in later centuries was of $2 per share.
been issued by the Equitable East of the world sugar trade. This Ltd, have declared a Final Dividend for 1927. and, at the same time, was replaced by one of annual first accused was sentenced to six lost to Antwerp by dint of the strictest economy, gratuities. The status of each of months and the other to
Ave King Henry of Portugal is credit-paid, makes 84 in all for the year Interim Dividend of 82 already ed with having Introduced sugar 1930. the financial deficit was reduced the 2,800 Sub-crdinate Offices mentha hard labour.
culture in Madeira and the Canary to $35,000, as compared with
was the subject of careful study, A large number of members of Islands, which were the most in- $811,000 for the previous year. and a
general reclassification the Buffalo Order and other portant sources of European supply According to the official report under new divisions effected by friends boarded the P. & O. s.s. for nearly three centuries. of the Post Office of China for the which the anomalous standing of well to Mr. John Butland, Imine-wab transplanted to Brazil in the From the Canaries, sugar-cane, Kashmir on Saturday to give a fire- seventeenth year of Chung-hun certain Ofices was remedied and clate Fast Grand Primo, Grand early, 16th century. The Spaniards Min-Kuo (1928) which is
now fully qualified employees of rank Council, and Treasuror for two introduced came into San Domingo. published, the success of the appropriate to their incumbencies years of the R.A.O.B. Club. early in the same century and the Nationalist troops along the appointed to take charge. Im-tim bon voyage were Messrs. C. W there in 1618. From there cano
Amongst those present to wish industry, was already well-started 3/16. Yangtze, culminating in the capproved conditions made it possi-Wilson (Immediate Past Grand was sent to Mexico in 1520. During ture of Shanghai early in 1927, ble to relax certain measures, Primo, Grand Lodge of England), the 17th century the Industry be The first prosecution under the made it impossible for the taken the pevious year with W. Matthews, K.O.M., and Fame, well, cala Gulanas, and äomorjes, hoarding and proateering was F. established in Guade- municipal notification probibiting. Southern Postal districts to review to economy, which entailed P. Mr Butland earlier in other parts of South America. brought in the Mixed Court to-day. main under the control of the closing or reducing in status some the week was the seelplant of a Cane plantings were sent from when a Chinese shopkeeper, Tzung Directorate. At that time, when establishments, and the curtain farewell souvenir from the San Domingo to outstand In Men-chi, was charged with at- the minds of the people were in ment or complete suspension 91 Lodges individually gave him
CAMERA NAOB Clubs, whilst the various 1761, where production was com- tempting to amuggle rice to Hong
merced by the Jesults-United Kong and was remanded a week ont state of uncertainty and sporadic certain overland mail connectione: cordial and affectionate song-aff. Press
bail of $1,000,
This with the
Ten Years Ago..
(From the "China Mall" of January 19, 1921:3
To-day's dollar de worth 2/11
Shangha, Jan. 18.