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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931.
become elementary teachers of RELIEVING TRAFFIC
their own children. Against the CONGESTION
shackles and the fettors, the
Chinese woman has exerted her-
North
NEW EUSTON STATION.-
self and has at length achieved a Plan to Remove Further place in the family, in society, and in aistery. She has managed homes and governed empires; ahe has contributed abundantly to literature and thy fine arts;!
A site of a new, Euston Station and above all she has taught and is being actively sought by the Lon moulded her sons to be what they don Midland and Scottish Railway
arc.
And if she has contributed Company. no more it is probably because China has not deserved more.
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RADIO
TODAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong, Broadcasting Station ZB 19 wavelength of 858 metres..
6-8 pm-European Programme of Victor & H.M.V. Records kind. by supplied, by Megsra, Moutie Co.
6-645 p.m.-European Children's Programme from the Studio. A number of schemes for the de-
6.45-7pm.-Hawaiian Music. molition and rebuilding of the My Bird of Paradies, existing station on a different site Lou'sian Lalinby,
Hilo Orchestra (21424). are being considered.
Hawaiian Nights. Of these, the Morning Post Alemo Orchestra (21110). understands, a site behind the pre- 7.03-7.25 p.m.-Professor R. K. sent station, in the direction of M. Simpson, M.C., M.A., will give Camden Town. is the most likely the 5th of a Series of Lectures on
News in Brief.
One case of cerebro-spinal fever to reach fruition. was notified yesterday.
This scheme would include the building of a broad highway from the present entrance to the station along the line of the permanent way
The forthcoming wedding is on nounced of Horace William Bonner, of 524, Nathan Road, Kowloon, and its the new terminus. Raquel Chong Castillo, of the same address.
For many reason the existing station is considered a handicap, It is old-fashioned: badly altuated A jumble sale will be held in from the point of view of London the Union Church, Kennedy Rond, road traffic; lies at the bottom of a on May 7. Contributions of cloth-steep incline, and provides, the usual ing, etc., will be received in the "bottle neck" which nearly every Church on Wednesday and Satur- London terminus has to contend day mornings.
with.
The funeral of Mr. K. C. Lau, who died in the French Hospital on place at Kennedy Tuesday, took Town yesterday. There was a large gathering of relatives. Together with friends, both Chinese and foreign.
For having unlawful possession of six taels of raw opium at Kow- loon Railway Station yesterday, a Chinese, Cheung Cheung, was fined $180, or in default
one
imprisonment, in the Kowloan. Police Court this morning.
Impetus to Building. Euston, like most other London! stations, has not been able to grow
Lines have a with the cumulated outside London, but at
traffic.
the entrance to the terminus there is little more room than there was when the lines were first laid.
Shakespeare.
7.25-9 p.m.-Concert Items. Pianoforte Soln-
L
La Campanella (Pagannini-Liszt), Staccato, Elude (Rubinsleln),
Mischa Levitzki (D1489). Vocal Duet
The Old Sweet Song.
Winnie Melvilla and Derek
"Oldham (82007), -
Violin Solo-
Frasquita Serenade
(Franz Lehar-P. Kreisler). Kreisler Serenade (Franz Lehar).
Fritz Kreisler (1158).
Song--
Little Lady of the Moon (Costes),
Sydney Coltham, Tenor (B2742).
Pianoforte Solo-
Concerto la E Minor (Medtner), Suggestion Diabolique (Prokofisf), Violin Solo-
Benno Molscivitch (E530).
Humoresque
(Tschaikowsky-Kreisler), Albumlat:-Marguerite (Album Leaf)
(Rachmaninoft-Kreisler),
Fritz Kreisler (1470),
Song-
The Village Blacksmith (Weiss),
*Peter Dawson, Baas-Baritone
(C1816).
8 p.m.-Weather Report, Local Time, etc.
8.05-10.30 p.m.-Chinese. Studio Concert.
10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
"BLOODING THE SPEAR."
Native Savagery in East Africa.
bar-
rites
aup-
For well over a year now, the London Midland and Scottish Rail- way Company have been exploring for improving this month'a every avenue He found that out of the 300
condition of affairs, and, owning aa they do a great deal of land from works listed 90 per cent. consist-
the Euston Road frontage nearly as ed of poetry. There were a few
Captain McArthy, master of the far as Chalk Farm, they have many works on mathematics, one
8.3. Kong Ning, has reported to the possible siles at their disposal. on
One of the first schemes was for Police that while the ship was on a medicine, half a dozen in the field voyage from Wuchow to Hong Kong the erection of a new station on the of history, and about a dozen on on April 5, a Chinese passenger, Euston Road. This, however, has It was consider- |cinssical and philological research. named Chan Hong-yuen (30) be- been abandoned.
lieved to be a military offleer, dis-ed that it would do little to relieve The preponderance of poetical appeared. It is feared that he the road traffic situation; that it would not obviate either the
Advocates of increased extended works suggests to Dr. Hu that jumped overboard,
gradient or the "bottle neck" pro- franchise and self-government for the education which Chinese
Wong Sing and Cheng Ma-sungblem; and that it would be very the natives of British East Africa women received during this
should read the annual report on were jointly charged at the Kow-costly, period was purely literary and loon Magistracy to-day with the lar- Thus, a scheme to the North Native Affairs in Kenya Colony the only alternative.and Protectorate, which was issued that the spirit of critical his- ceny of a quantity of iron rods would seem torical research which marked from a house under, construction at This would certainly involve either by the Stationery Office.
The value of the widening of the
Incredible present roads
superstitions, Nam Cheong Street. the age left no influence upon the rods was put at 310. Both de or
the building of a new road, barous customs, and pagan them. They read and wrote fendants pleaded "guilty" and were. The new road suggested would fol- still hold sway among the tribes, poetry because it was considered sent to jail for three weeks.
low the line of the railway, and and resistance against any from the rentals of buildings which pression of these abominations is respectable for ladies to be able
Fourteen days' imprisonment was could frank it, might quite well pay more often encouraged by the to do so. Of the 2,310 women imposed on Kang Yuet, who was for itself.
elders and chiefs than, otherwise. mentioned as haing written and, charged at
The medicine men still yield an the Kowloon Police Apart from the undoubted benefit in most cases, published literary Court this morning with the unlaw-which such an arrangement would enormous power in many districts, works it was discovered that ful possession of a broas bar valued confer on the raliway company, it and are ready to go to any lengths at $5 at Reclamation Street yester- would make notable contribution to encourage the superstitions on more than two-thirds were born'
When arrested he said that to the London traffic problem. At which they thrive. day.
Stock thieving and tribal raids in the provinces of Kiangsu, Che- he stole the rod from a ship about a present the network of little streets kiang, and Anhui, all of which year ago, and that he had had it surrounding Euston are continually are the order of the day in many are situated in the Yangtsze buried at King's Park since that congested with taxicabs and motor-districts.
the cara entering and leaving
The ancient custom of “blooding Hong Kong, Thursday, April 9, 1931. delta. Undoubtedly Chinese
station. A new broad highway the spear" accounted for 14. mur- women had far better educational The new premises, in Bonham along the present line of the rail- ders, of which three were chidren, Road, of the Chinese Young way would give London another in one district between May and facilities in these well-settled and
Women's Christian Association exodus, to the North, and relieve, December, wealthy regions then elsewhere. were formally opened by Lady Peel considerably present congestion in
"Blooding the spear" means that In Hong Kong the signs of the There seems to have been ayesterday afternoon, in the presence the neighbourhood of St. Pancras when a young warrior obtains his
Lady Peel, Church.
first apear he must blood it by full emancipation of Chinese gradual spread of the practice of of a large gathering.
raiding an enemy territory and who was accompanied by Captain Euston, which was built in 1846, women are not very
evident; educating women, beginning prob-Coltman, His Excellency'a A.D... by Phillip Hardwick, derives its killing the first person, he meets
From, Spears To Rifles. true, the modern girl shares with ably with the invention of the was met upon arrival by Mrs. Ma name from Euston Hall, near Thet In the spears this the modern youth an equal oppor-printed book and becoming more Wing-chan and members of the ford, in Norfolk, the former seat danger days of exciting is vas
of the Dukes of Grafton. The pre-ture; but: tunity of receiving a liberal edu- widely spread during the last
scnt Euston neighbourhood forms natives on the frontier can obtain |cation, and the doors of occiden-four centuries, when the literary The second R.A.O.B. Regalia part of the Grafton Ducal estates. rifles that kill at a distance with tal modernity, whether of the talented woman, or "tsai nu" of dance in the Garrison Lecture Hall, The entrance to the station is one comparative safety to the young toilet or the morals, are thrown the popular novel, gradually won evening. promises to be even aand is reputed to have cost £80,000. The Government_Administration
Wellington Barracks, to-morrow of the largest porticos in the world, open to her. She bobs her hair, acceptance as a feminine ideal. greater success than the first one. The waiting-room has earned the endeavour
high-heeled shoes, and It might be asked what good Tickets are selling well, whilst a title of the "largest waiting-room in customs by education, but often to put down these reads translations of Mr. Edgar had all this literary education good response has been made to in the British Isles," and is decorated the young native, having finished Wallace; but there is still a large done to the Chinese women. Had to the public as well as to membera Lutyens,.
vitations. These dances are open after the design of Sir Edwin his period of schooling, returns to body of opinion (male, of course) it ever led them to revolt against of the RIA.O.B..
|high traiitional habits with renew- In view of the
ed vigour. which continues to regard hers as foot-binding? Had it really ele dance to-morrow the weekly meet-
being held this evening.
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the inferior sex and has nothing|vated their position in the family ing of Sir James Oxberry Lodge la
AUSTRALIAN ROBBED,
warrior,
now, unfortunately,
Occasionally the Christian mis- sionarles take a higher hand; ther the authorities find themselves in- Poison Ende 12,000-Mile Search volved in a first-class local politi
T *For Work.
cal issue.
but contempt for the American
or in society? It is true that it ideal of a matriachate which
had not led them to revolt against Aa enjoyable.concert was given in places woman's star in the ascen-foot-binding, just as 700 years of the Wesleyan Soldiers' and Sailors?
Tamines caused by locusts are dant. In northern China; the
rational philosophy had not open well attended. The Collegian Glee Home last night, which was very
another evil that the authorities A twenty-one-year-old Australian' position is slightly different, and ed the eyes of Chinese thinkers Singers. gave the show a good start, arrived in London after a 12,000-Football and other sports are
frequently have to combat. one finds there that the education to the horrors of so perverse and whilst Mesars. Dick Barty. W. G. mile trip in search of work. With encouraged in the hope of improv- of Chinese women is not merely a
and Edey were in in twenty-four hours he had been ing the character of the natives cruel a form of "beautifying" Gentl veneer, but something which has
great humorous vein. Mrs. robbed of all hig, money by a con- their womenfolk Nor had this FC. Rendall was effected a radical change of
in very fidence man." He died in Middlesex generally-Morning Post. superficial éducation enabled good voice, and was ably sup Hospital from the effects of poison. thought and outlook. In the
the women to become economical-ported in the more serious part of This la the tragic story of Harold, north one finds women lawyers,
the programme! by Miss Peggy Baskin.. of Sydney, who went to Neverthe- ly more independent. women doctors, women philogo-less it had the good effect of ele her pupils.
Stringer and Miss. Violet Capell and London in the hope that he "raight, ind prosperity in the Old World. ・・・ phers, and women writers. Some vating the position of women, and
Within a few minutes he had mot interesting facts in regard to the the results are being reaped to The Cauton Laboratory for the a youth who told a story of hunger contributions made to Chinese
day throughout the Republic. In Study and Practice of Dynamic and destitution. Baskia had only literature by women writers dur-
Education will hold a meeting in £38 with which to keep himself in a country where educated raen
memory of Dr. George Amos Dorsey, London until work came, but ho
*
*
Ten Years Ago, [From the "Chian Malik of: April 9, 1921.1 -
To-day's dollar is worth 2/ 5%.
Yesterday morning the Harbour ing the past three centuries were were rare, educated women were the most dynamic of modern Amerl-bought the stranger, a meal and Master, Lieut Hake, R.N., "received lately revealed by Dr. Hu Shih, even more scarce and were can men of science, who died re-allowed him to share his bedroom wireless message from the master of the C.P.O.S... Monteagle, China's leading philosopher and therefore more respected. More cently in New York. The meeting at an hotel. literary critic, and they throw an
will take place in the lecture."room. He woke to find the confidence (which sailed from this port on over, this literary education gave of the Laboratory, in Tungshan, on man gone and with him every Thursday for Vancouver) stating important light on this question them a key at least to book know Sunday, at 3 pm, and will consist penny of his money; his references, that he was standing by a Chinese teamer named the Hointien which Two years ago. the wife of the tedge which, while it might not of a lecture, preceded by a perform and some of his clothes, Late Mr. Chieh Lion-chu, a for lead to emancipation or fevoluance of the Funeral March from Australia House, bicials, did their was in distress off the Lammocks.
Beethoven's "Erolen" and followed best for him. They cabled to his later information received by the mer Chinese Minister to Italy; tion, probably made there better by Chopin's Funeral March. The friends in Sydney and the Y.M.C.A. Harbour Mester states that the ves published A "Bibliography of wives and better mothers. It is fecture will be given in, Chipese and undertook to look after him until he sel, had sunk and that all the crew had been saved with exception of Works by Women Writers During not true that a little knowledge is will be based upon Dorsey's-most found work.
who werd drowned The Last Three Hundred Years" a dangerous this. The fact is famous work enfllled "Why We Be But the shock of his first adven-four men The results of a statistical that a little is better than no have Like Human Beings, Chinese ture in London kept him In a de through a boat capsizing. The speaking foreign sympathisers are pressed state. He was found. Monteagle is taking the survivork THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION. Analysis of the contents of this knowledge at all. This literary requested, kindly to communicate dying by YMCA oficials. A to Woosung.
DODWILL & CO, LTD., Agents, Hong Kongbook recently made by Dr. Hu education-has had a tremendous with the office of the Laboratory at bottle which had contained polson The lost steamer is not known at Hong Kong and had no agent here, have proved highly instructive, value in enabling the women to 10 Bak Chec Road, Tungshan, was at his elde.
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