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News in Brief.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was
The 65 degrees. humidity was 85 at 10 a.m. and 83 at 1 p.m.
FLIER'S GRAVE.
Japanese Schoolboy's Touching Tribute.
Washington. Feb. 21.4. When Lieutenant William Cald-
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British Planes to Take.
A New Route.
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their ambition; and they have married well; they have improved the social position of their fami- ly; they are the pride of their parents. This is the sacrifice which the modern daughter has so often to pay for the sake of a parent who "aims high," and it is very sad and very tragic. There well was killed whilst flying by aeroplane across the continent with
Rugby, Yesterday. ought to be a revolution of daugh- Japan's ratification of the Lon agreement with Italy and Greece Aa a result of a permanent don Naval Treaty of 1930 last and the introduction of faster fly- Autumn Д Tokyo schoolboying boats in the Mediterranean, the Shigeyoshi Fukushima, sent a news Imperial Airways have arranged paper 70 yen as a contribution to a to speed up both, their Britain to memorial for the aviator.
India and the newly opened Con- Through the American Embassy tral African air mail services. in Tokyo the money eventually Beginning on May 16, it is hoped reached the State Department here. to discontinue the present route It was received with due formality across Central Europe and passen- and it was accepted as eloquent in sentiment In spite of zerland.
gift gera and mall will travel via Swit- the smallness of the amount.
Italy, and Greece to Egypt. Fellow aviators of the army, From Cairo, which is the june- touched by the Japanese schoolboy'ation of the Indian and African air action, increased the fund by per- routes, the India air mail will sonal contributions and purchased a travel by land-plane via Bagdad bronze wreath which will honour and the Persian Gulf to Karachi the memory of the aviator who died and Delhi. The speed-up will be while racing across the continent made on this section by the intro- In order that the Japanese docu-duction of partial night flying, Li Loung-kong, 42 years of age, ment might reach London in time and passengers and mail will ar- an unemployed scaman, whose for the formal deposit ceremonies. rive at Karachi in five days two The wreath will be installed, Ithours after leaving London-Br{-
Lieuten-
A Chinese chow dog was sent to Bla Tau Kok for observation, after it had bitten its master. B.S.M.
in the face, Monchjen, R.A., Stonecutter's Island yesterday,
at
The concert and dance arranged by the St. Joseph's College Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade to take place on Saturday has been postponed to Wednesday, April 15.
akull was fractured through fall.
A
ing down the stair of 346, Des was announced here to-day, prob-tish Wireless Service. Voeux Road, has died in the Gov.ably on the anniversary
ant Caldwell's death. The emblem ernment Civil Hospital,
will bear only the name of Fuku- shima as donor-United Press.
TOLL OF REVOLT.
The 8.8. Sinklang, which went aground in the Canton river Inst week and was refloated on Tuesday, sailed for the north yesterday after-
noon after undergoing minor re- TWO HUNDRED KILLED IN PERU pairs at the Talkoo Dock.
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ATTRIBUTED TO REDS.
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HEAVY INCREASES TO BE MADE IN CHILE.
EFFECTIVE THIS WEEK. ·
New York, Yesterday,
A message from Santiago de Chile reports that a heavy in- crease of Chilean import tariffa is Lima, Yesterday.
Being promulgated this week. The Two hundred were killed in increases become effective in a yesterday's battle between the fortnight and include a 250 per mutineers and loyalists.
cent. increase on tyres; 100 per casualties were mostly among the und rico; 70 per cent on sugar; cent, on benzine In tank steamers The outbreak is at-150 to 800 per cent, on industrial to Communists, but
The
Having been knocked down by a motor lorry in Morrison Hill Road, Nam Cheuk (58) of 31, Jurdine's deserves all the' sympathy that Bazaar, was taken to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital suffering from benighted paterfamilias can offer.n fractured rib, and injuries to Some prefer to complicate the his head. task by making of marriage an
In a report to the Police, Mrs. mutineers. art, instead of a racial, procrea-Costa, 23, Tong Ming Street, Wan-tributed tive routine. Socially ambitious chai, atates that her god-child, party politics and personal am-apparatus; 20 per cent. on small- Overland China Mail.for themselves as well as for their Olga Xavier, aged 18 years, and bition are also involved. Reuter's care; 250 on large cars and 100 to 500 per cent, on machinery.- children, they plan their daugh-and Chinese, has been missing
able to speak English, Portuguesa American Service.
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an expensive education in the tired merchant, who died intestate Local estate of Mul Yiu-pik, ro-
well-known-matrimonial achieve- in the Yeung Wo Nursing Home.
ment of "getting your man." Happy Valley, on October 31, 1928, Girls who in normal conditions has been estimated for probate at $18,600, Lelters of administration would develop into charming and have been granted to Wong Shi, attractive creatures are sent to otherwise known as Wong Kwal- dubious "finishing schools" at chung, his concubine, together
with Mui Noi-woot, his son, Home or on the Continent, where
NOVELIST ILL.
OPERATION ON MR. ARNOLD BENNETT,
BLOOD-TRANSFUSION.
Rugby, Yesterday..
RED MOTION LOST.
Barlin, Yesterday. The Reichstag by 277 votes to 64, adopted the Budget to-day operation was carried out to-day Communiat motions to strike out on Mr. Arnold Bennett, the cele- the fourth instalment for the con- brated novelist, who is suffering
A successful blood-transfusion
they meet other girls far above A charge of trafficking in opium struction of a pocket battleship from typhoid. He showed a slight their own social level, and the against two men, namely Chu "A" and a first instalment for improvement this afternoon.-Bri- principles of the matrimonial art Yum, a caterer on the s.s. Kwang-pocket battleship "B" were re-tish Wireless Service,
tung,
and Chan Yan, whose ad-Jected.-Reuter. are inculcated by a depressing dress was given as No. 2, Tung female who is related to a Bishop Street, was concluded before Mr. or the insipid aide-de-camp of Schofield, in the Central Police
Court yesterday afternoon. some long-departed and nebulous Yum was discharged. The other provincial Governor. Here they mar was fined $96,000, or one
Hong Kong, Thursday, March 26, 1931. are taught the social graces and year's hard labour.
“GET YOUR MAN.”
Chu
develop a hard and unyielding am- AFRICAN SLAVES.
bition which swiftly shatters the
romance and sentiment natural to WORK OF SOUDANESE SLAVERY young girls. They become
PATROL
650 NEGROES FREED,
Rugby, Yesterday.
TAPESTRY BEING RESTORED.
Eamous Raphael Production in
- Vatican City.
MR. J. WESTWOOD.
APPOINTED UNDER-SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND,
Rugby, Teaterday. Mr. Joseph Westwood, M.P., has appointed Parliamentary
Vatican City, Feb. 2. Work is proceeding on a restora- been tion of the famous tapestry by Under-Secretary for Scotland in "The Blinding of the Magicianston, M.P., who has been appoint- Raphael in the Vatican representing succession to Mr. Thomas Job-
Elimas,"
The original carton of od Lord. Privy Seal,-British Wire- the tapestry, which is in the Southless Service.. Kensington Museum in London, has been compared with the work in the Vatican, and it has been seen
child still persists, and most that they have lost something-od that the effective action of the
The Foreign Secretary consider. Well Preserved,
TWIN COLOURS.
If the Oriental valuation of women with a purpose-the set womankind was low, it was be-purpose of entering the marriage cause girls, before the revolu- market with a hundred-to-one tionary change of thought which chance of making a good match.
Dr. Hugh Dalton, replying to that portion of the missing tapestry heralded their emancipation, Frequently we see them out East, the questions in the House of Comstolen by the soldiery of the
Nowadaye, in the house, as in were believed solely to exist for pitiful old-young persons, per-mons, said 35 States had not yet Emperor Charles V in May 1627,
ratifled nor acceded to the slavery appears in the South Kensington dress, there are 20 unrelated the delectation of man and the fectly "made up," always smiling, convention of 1926. In reference design.
colours. Every tint fan a twin; bearing of sous Woman is no even at one's banal inanities, and to the work of the Soudanese The rough, soldiers of Charles Vthere are no orphans. If you in- longer to be considered as mere using the whole of their arti Slavery Patrol, he said that the entered the Sixtine Chapel, and, troduce a new spot of colour in any goods and chattel, dressing to ficially-developed Feminine arts arrest and imprisonment of a num- and silks on the arrass, cut off the colour somewhere in the same room.
investigations In 1929 led to the attracted by the sight of the gold article, you must
repeat that, please mankind, and a certain and wiles to the base end of fas-ber of persons implicated In the lower half and burnt it to recover An example of this ensemble craže type of girl is able to fill sub- cination. Beneath the mask trade of Abyssinian Negroes to the gold worked Into the allk. For is the powder bowl and bath-salts. ordinate positions in business as which they perpetually wear lie Arab tribes and to the discovery tunately, the result was so poor jar to match. The bowl is the con- and liberation of 650 slaves im that the troops gave up their ventional dded shape made in well as my man. But the ancient discontent and boredom; they are ported into the Soudan from Abys- attempt, and left the rest of the traced amber glass, but the jar, racial rajudico against the female aware deep within themselves ainia, pak M precious tapestry untouched. although in the same glass and design, stands nine inches high, and fathers remember the feeling of and vaguely realise that it is Soudanese authorities in the sup; particularly well preserved, for It
The part of it that remains is a very elegant. apprehension with which they their youth. Their bodies seem pression of the plave traffic reflect has been kept in custody In the awaited the news of the sex of lithe' and healthy, but they are ed great credit on all concerned. Vatican and not shown like the Tourist (to Irishmen): "Good- their first-born. The fact re-ageingas our mothers and the Pentast made at the time other eight fragses on groat of morning! Your face seems familiar. to the League of Nations. British casions. It is therefore less dia- I have soon you before, or else mains that woman, though she grandmothers
ra never aged, and Wireless Service.
coloured.
someone very much like you. smoke pipes and taps a type under those pencilled and coquet-
No attempt will be made by the Pat: I have never seen you bom. writer for eight hours-every day, tish eyes wrinkles and lines ap-
missing part of the tapestry, but a very much like you I have never Vatican authorities to remake the fore, or else, bedad, it's someono is still woman and her natural, if pear ten years too soon. Little not deliberate, aim in life is to wonder that life holds few ples get married. Thus, with the pos.sures, in store for them; their session of a daughter, the obliga-finer feelings are coarsened in the tions and duties of a parent be-social garbage of insiduous' gin. come increasingly complicated. He cocktails, lip-stick, excessive has not only to clothu,feed, cigarettes, and a succession of house, and educate her; he has to late nights which the strongest get her off his hands as soon as bodies cannot support for ever. she reaches the marringeable age. When at last they capture a desif. by finding, or encouraging, a likeable male whose family is good MOTOKING REPRINT . ly suitor.
and whose chances of promotion "My friends Laid the preacher,
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FLYING TO PARIS BURTIN AND MOENCH LEAVE TOKYO.
Tokyo, To-day. The French flera, Burtin and Moench, hopped off for Paris at 7.8 this morning-Reuter
Arrival At Osaka of Osaka, To-day, Burtin and Moenche arrived here at 10.15 8.m. from Tokyo, Reuters Anal (9)
water-colour of the missing. part seen before.
Will be copied from the South Kensington carton and inserted into the tapestry so that the entire part may be seen-United Press.
Ten Years Ago.
From the “Chlam·Mail"
March 20, 1921.3,
To-day's dollar is worth 2/4%
LOTTERY TICKETS.
Heavy fines were imposed by Mr. Williams in the Second Police Court, this morning, on four Chin- ese, who pleaded guilty to printing the Ming Yuen Gardens on Thura
A boxing tournament was held at 1.774 po níu lottery tickets, at 4 ay hight under the auspices of the New Street, and keeping a common Hong Kong Boxing Association, gaming house at the same address. The main event was a ifteen round
If his daughters are blessed by in the solne branch of the Ser you will remember that I promis- First accused was fined $75 or nature, with assable good looks vices are at least speculative, ed to speak to you to-night on The five weeks jail on the first count contest for the welter-weight- World's Greatest Liars, and, that 1 and 3300 or three months fail on Championship of the Colony bor and Agreeable manners, his re they are no longer sweet and in-naked you to prepare your minds by the second count, the terms to run tween Sky Kerrison and Leading sponsibility becomes easier, for a nocent brides, but women old be reading the seventeenth chapter, of consecutively. Second accused was Seaman Codlings, H.M.9. Titania, girl who is not wholly inane and fore their time, who have little to St. Mark. Kindly raise your handa penalised with similar fine Third runner-up in the Flest welter incredibly stupid usually has offer their husbands but tired
accused was fined $100 or alzweight Championship in 1920, The Every hand went upa
weelta jail on the varst count, and get turned out to be a disappoin little difficulty in securing a hus tips and faces which haver worn "Thank you, continued the fourth accused was ined $75 of five ing affair Codling being compelled theinselves out in continual amil-prescher "As there are only six weeks' fail on the same charge, by the medical officer to retire in the ering at the opposite re They are fect will not be entirelyfuappro find $400 or three montka Jall; there, caused by the accidental, teen chapters in St. Márk my sub. On the second charge, each was third round, owing to a cut over tils, tired and cold, yes, and as hard prla
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