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STATUTES OF THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE
UNIVERSITY.
Few Changes Regarding Benefactions.
SUBSCRIBERS' PRIVILEGES.
The Court of the University have amended the Statutes as follows:-
Benefactions.
MEETING.
Can Sitting Bull Win To-day.
GOOD RACING EXPECTED.
BLISHED
1845
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1931.
TREE HERMIT.
HOMELESS IN LONDON AFTER
FOREST LIFE.
AN EVICTION.
"Rocky Mountain Charlie," the man who slept in a tree in Epping Forest, is now a homeless outcast in London,
When. two years
of the tree and
ngo,
THOUSAND GUINEAS TOURNAMENT.
Third Round & Semi- Final Results.
of the
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The cloxing rate of the dollar on I demand, to-day was 11%.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
DARTMOOR PRISON.
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ITALY TO DISCARD
JURY SYSTEM.
Ássessors to Be Selected Instead.
Telephone 24154.
CHICAGO'S NEW MAYOR.
"He Won't Come Back While I am Mayor.”
I
NO PLACE OF TERROR.
The conception of Dartmoor as a'
AL CAPONE NOT IN TOWN. ALL BRITISH FINAL.
A NOTABLE REFORM. place of terror and heart-breaking tal is not shared by Mr. Clynes. [By Wombat."]
The promulgation of the decree "Al Capone is not in town. London, Yesterday. Apart from the big race, we!
Home Secretary, who visited the of March 23 setting up new Assizo don't think he will be back as lang doctore! By the defent of Manero, the last famous convict prison in order to Courts marks the end of the insti- as I am Mayor." shall have some very interesting | sport at the Sixth Extra Race despaired of his life he went back of the foreign contestants, in the become personally acquainted with tution of the popular jury in Italy. In these two brief, pointed sez
a semi-final
Thousand the conditions.
Of all the reforms of Fasciem, this tences Mr. Anton Cermak, the new (1) by the recission of statute Meeting at Happy Valley this to nature and built himself 22 and by the substitution thereafternoon. With so few meetings twigs in the fork of a giant beech. tsh final will be staged at Leals an interview, "is like the work of The reasons for it and the constituing to a Morning Post representa- "Work in Dartmoor," he said in is certainly one of the most notable,ly elected Mayor of Chicago, speak- "nest" of bracken, branches and Guineus Tournament, an all-Bri- for of the following statute- to go racegoers will be sure to
#n ordinary workman. 1-Subscribers who prior to take advantage of the few re- His arboreal home has now been to-day, the finalists being Ernest
The tion of the new Courts are explain-tive over 4,000 miles on the Atlan the opening of the University maining fixtures, especially pulled to pieces by forest keepers, Whitcombe, Bournemouth, and Tom prisoners enjoy concerts and leeed by Signor Rocco, Minister of tic telephone, conveyed his deter- tures, and hear football results and Justice, in three articles published mination to suppress organised have subscribed a sum of $500 many ponies which have been and his pats and pans scattered Borher, Derbyshire.
Manero reached the semi-final other news, and though the
crime in his city. and upwards may
have their racing in top classes have been among the undergrowth.
men in the Slamps, of Turin. The old hermit stood at the foot by defeating Allis by 4 and three. are not pampered, the conditions names inscribed on
Chicago's new Mayor intends to a tablet in placed in lower classes, which!
Signor Rocco says that the jury, the wall of the Hall of the Univer-should make their chances better, is tame robin, Bob, which had Cup player, Davies, by 4 and two. Jing accommodation and exercise is of English origin and must there, powerful organisation built up by watched sadly. Ernest Whitcombe beat the Ryder of prison comfort relating to sleep like all other liberal institutions, make a determined attack on the especially in cases where the
Barker beat Charles Whitcombe 1are as good as, if not better than, fore be abandoned made its home in the branches 2-A subscriber of $50,000 or weights have also been lowered. above Charlie's and used to come up, and Lacey beat Gadd by 3 and the conditions of many poor work The jury system, introduced into of which Al Capone is the head.
by Fasciam., the gangster-racketeers of Chicago, more to the funds of the Univer- [ The race for Australian ponies
ing-class people. I came away Italy in 1859 solely for criminal "There will be crime as long as sity Endowment Fund shall have is a much more open affair than to him every day for scrape of the right to nominate one scholar previous races for this class, food, looked on at the eviction.
Ernest Whit with a feeling that Dartmoor is a trials, has not given good results. you live and as long as I live," the Jurymen have Blown to study at the University as an and backers will have a very dif. Then, becoming frightened, the combe defeated Manero by 2 and very much better place for
incom said Mr. Cermak. "I cannot tell Barber beat Lacey 3 and purpose of correction and improve petence and irresponsibility and what individual criminals are plan- undergraduate without payment ficult time trying to discover the bird flew off, Charlie's loneliness 1 and
one.-Reuter.
ment of the individual criminal have often given absurd verdicts, ning, but I can tako strong as provided in paragraph 4 of this statute provided such scholar
than the public ever inngines" as in the case of a certain Olivio, measures against organised crime. is duly qualified as required by race, which is an "A" Class event seen the day coming when his
Mr. Clynes thought it true that who appeared about 20 years ago We have good policemen here if statute 21 of these statutes.
about fifty per cent, of the men in before the Assizes Court of Ber-they are allowed to do their duty over a distance of one mile and home in the tree would be broken For each additional sum of a quarter, although composed of "", He had been at loggerheada
Dartmoor had been there before, gamo, guilty on his own confession and it is my job to see they are $50,000 subscribed to the said good quality entries, will have with some of the forest keepers,
and teld of a striking incident in of having killed and afterwards cut not hindered." Fund another scholar
I reminded Mr. Cermak that in [his visit bearing on the problem of into pieces his wife, and whom the (I anticipate
recidivist. nominated by the subscriber on only three runners in this event).at his mode of life. Red tape won
jury absolved from the charge of the course of his election campaign On going to the chapel. he was homicide and condemned on the he had declared he would "give the same conditions provided that Sitting Bull, who has a Cham-its victory at last.
atruck by the beautiful playing of charge of having cut a corpse an organ voluntary. "I went up pieces.
sity.
ultimate winner of this fast and was complete. interesting event. The sixth
may be but few starters.
Charlie had for months past
but there were others who winked
the number of scholars nominat-pions and a Derby to his credit, I met the old man of the tree- ed as aforesaid by any one sub- besides many other good things, tops walking along the Strand, scriber shall not exceed four in will carry most of the betting guzing with wide-open eyes at the number at any one time.
and we should see a very good traffic streams, says a Daily Ex- press reporter. He had changed race rere.
3-Any city, town, or village in or out of China may exercise the like privileges of nominating free acholars, but scholars can only be nominated by the repre- sentatives of the subscribers properly accredited to the satis. fuction of the Council.
4-The right to nominate scho- lara without payment shall com- price the right for the scholars to attend the University without payment of tuition fees only.
Frovided always that the total number of scholars attending the University at any one time without payment of fees for:-
(a) Tuition,
(b) Board and Lodging. (c) Tuition and Board and
Lodging,
shall not exceed 50 in number un- less the Council shall from time to time determine otherwise.
5-The period during which subscribers shall have the right to nominate scholars without payment as aforesaid shall be limited as follows:-
•
(a) in the case of individual sub- scribers during the life-time of the subscribers. (b) In the case of firmis or cor- porations or cities, towna or villages in or out of China, who subscribe during such period as may be mutually agreed between the subscrib ers and the Council at the time when the subscription is, made.
6-An individual subscriber of sum of $50,000 or more shall
be entitled:
(a) To become a life member of the Court of the University. (b) To have a framed portrait or bust of himself erected in the Hall of the University! under such conditions as the' Council may determine. 7-Nothing in this statute shall affect or be deemed to affecti the rights of subscribers whether individuals or firms or corpora- tions who shall have subscribed to the University Endowment Fund prior to. May 22, 1931.
The Novice race will be another almost completely from his care- good race, especially as a few free happiness in the solitude of quality ponies have been let in-to the forest. It was like a tonic to decide which of our novices is talk to Charlie in those days, but the best rider.
now the, old hermit is end and pensive.
"I have lost my home. I am al stranger here in London," he said, with a melancholy far-off look in his eyes.
The other races should provide equally good sport as the handi-j capping is very good.
SELECTIONS.
1st Race:--
Wonderful Stag. Gold Key. Fortune Bay. 2nd Race:in
Sanction. Paul Pry. Wise Stag.
3rd Race:
Tunney. Misamis. Fi-Fa.
4th Race:--
Apollo
Gleneagles.
Bella Donna.
5th Race:
Cream Cracker. Happy Day. Bay of Bellingham. 6th Race:-
One-Third,
Orlando. Tango.
7th Race:-
Wisdom Stag. Sitting Bull. Boxing Eve.
8th Race:-
Mike. City Hall. Lobster Bay.
9th Race:
Fritz. Moon Star. Thunderclap.
10th Race:-
Marquis Hall. Fair Spori. Rooalan.
NURSING BOARD.
REGULATIONS PUBLISHED IN
GAZETTE.
I asked him where he was going. He shrugged his shoulders dia- mally,
"Where can I go, except to an- other tree?" he said.
He glanced down the slopes of Savoy Hill to the tall trees in the Savoy Chapel churchyard where the London starlings congregate.
"I love trees," he said. "I may make for Devan or Cornwall, Per haps I shall find some friendly tree there where
I can build a home away from keepers and red Lajie.
new
2.
In the semi-final
HOLIDAY WEATHER!
The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day states:-
The Northern depression has deepened.
The Tongking depression has deepened and is slightly farther North this morn-
Ing.
Forecast:-S. W. or vari- able winds; moderate to light; fair to showery,
MR. D. G. CARSTAIRS.
FUNERAL IN THE PROTESTANT
CEMETERY.
N.A.A.F.L. TRIBUTES.
to the organist," he said. "He was
ja gentle-looking soul, and prison
Various Alternatives.
to Chicago a new deal," and asked him how he proposed to implement that pledge, apart from making Chicage safe for Chicago's citizens. "I have already started re- the
tho
corps
frst sentence. Weakness for de-tribunals. Neither solution, how. going to stop up the leake."
city
we are
:
Mixed Bench.
KILLED BY BUS.
The decree of March 23 has, therefore retained in existence tho
pivotal city of America, and when Americans know that Chicago has got a real Mayor here who means business, it will bring prosperity.
***Naturally there are some
clothing is such that you do not Having decided, then, on easily detect the garb of a convict abolition of the jury, Signor Rocco habilitating the finances of His manner and courtesy charmed had various alternatives to choose city," he told me. We are going to me. I could see he was wrapped from. He could have eliminated take a
of engineers and up in his playing. There was no entirely the popular element from auditors and begin a survey of
the indication at all that this man was the composition of the Courts, or every department of at Dartmoor as a punishment for else
We want to know have left
in government. judgment wrong-doing, but it was not his criminal trials to the penal where the leaks are, and
ception and duplicity when he got ever, appeared altogether satisfac-
Restoring Confidence. back into social life brought him tory to him. With criminal By police measures, by business back. You came away feeling you offences, which particularly move measures, and by all other avail
able means Mayor Cermak and his would like to liberate all If 't were public opinion, it is десеввагу, not for the certainty that many Signor Rocco says,
that the sens executive will restore confidence in would slide back into some serious tence should reflect the sentiments the good order and good govern- offence from which the community aroused by the crime in the public ment of Chickgod The funeral of Mr. Douglas G. should be protected."
"We expect that when others mind. Hence it is desirable to in- Carstairs, head of the N.A.A.F.I.,
Mr. Clynes added that he felt troduce on the Bench non-technical outside know that they can place the victim of the Luna Building the British method of managing elements who normally live out confidence in the second greatest murder sensation, took place at a prison tended mostly in the direc-side judicial circles,
city of America it will be to the and are, the Protestant Cemetery, Happy tion of the reform of the criminal therefore, in more direct contact benefit of the cities and communi- Valley, last evening.
and was not designed as an act with the sentiments of the mass of ties around us. Chicago is the The service at the graveside, af social revenge against the offen- the people. which was conductd by the Rev. der. E. G. Powell, of the Union Church, was attended by a large number of mourners who included Mr. H. E. Beale (Chief Accountant,
Mr. E. W. Hamilton, altting with Assize Courts, but has modified phases of the depression that can- Far East Area. N.A.A.F.I.), Mesars. P. Mackellar, G. J. Grover, loon Magistracy yesterday into the a mixed Bench, composed of Judges within our
a Jury, held an inquiry at the Kow- their composition. There will be not be remedied simply by one man or one city. But what we can do H.-W. Hawkins, G. Young, V. death of a six-year-old Chinese girl and lay judges, to which all judg-shuil do."
prescribed limits we Sandiford, members of the
(Chan Mui-tsal), who was run over ments will be entrusted on N.A.A.F.I. office staff, military and killed by
ques-
1 Of his own victory Mr. Cermak a Kowloon Motortions of fact as well as on ques- officers and friends.
naturally and justifiably Bus in Shanghai Street, at the junctions of law. The lay element will was Wreaths included those from tion of Shek Lung Street, on May 5. preponderate the N.A.A.F.I. Staff, Hong Kong.
proud-he described it as indeed a numerically, the
triumph." "The electors," he said, Dr. K. H. Uttley stated that death Bench being composed of Beven Shanghai, Whitfield Barracks, and
"had shown they were tired of 'Big of whom will be magistrates, and five "assessors," Bill Thompson and the buffoonery
of the last four years.” After hearing the evidence, the' as the new law calls the lay that Mr. Donald Dixon Edgar hae Commanding and Staff officers, all cidental Death," exonerating the Bench will be
In reply to a suggestion that a verdiet of "Ac-Judges. The President of the Chicago's new Mayer might wish Jury returned been appointed a Vice-Consul for ranks of Argyll & Sutherland driver from all blame.
a Judge to be the United States of America
to send a message to the citizens exact, a sectional President of a Officere,
of London, he said: "I am not in Court of Appeal. The new Assize terested in any particular city, but Hong Kong.
Courts are really sections of the Courts of Appeal. Their number!I have a message I would like to On a charge of the theft of and territorial distribution remain send to the world, and that le that some clothing and an oplum pipe (as in the past. from 19, Aberdeen Street, two Chinese men, pleaded guilty before Mr. Williams in the Central Police Court this morning.
"I was sorry to leave Epping Forest. I was happy there."
APPOINTMENTS.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Thomas George Stokes to be an Official Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hong Kong.
His Excellency the Governor has shamshuipo, all ranks of Royal was due to laceration of the brain Judges, two received information from the Artillery, all ranks of South Wales and fracture of the skull. Secretary of State for the Colonles)
Borderers, the General Officer
in
Highlanders, Warrant
His Excellency the Governor has, Sergeants and Staff Sergeants of under Instructions from the SecreArgyll & Sutherland Highlanders, tary of State for the Colonies, been Royal Army Chaplain Department,
and many personal tributes. pleased to recognise Senor Wal- domar de Araujo, provisionally andį pending the lesue of His Majesty's Exequatur, ze Consul for Brazil In Hong Kong.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Edwin Taylor to be a. Director of the Widows and Orphans' Pensions, vice Mr. Charles McIlvaine Messer, O.B.E.
AXE IN JAPAN.
REDUCTION IN OFFICIAL SALARIES.
Tokyo, Yesterday. The Cabinet has decided to cut official salaries, a sliding scale being brought into operation on June 1. The maximum reduction will be 20 per cent.
NO PERMIT FOR DOG.
Before Mr. Williams, in the The Frémier estimated that the King Edward VII Scholarships. Regulations under Section 4 of Central Police Court this morn-reductions would result in a sav
the Nurses Regulation Ordining, a Chinese was charged with- ing of seven million yen in the ance, 1981, are published in the having imported a dog without a present fiscal year Reyter. Government Gazette.
permit from the Colonial Secre- The Board shall consist of tary Surgeon. He pleaded guilty.
An Indian seven members, viz.-
policeman said
(2) by the Insertion, next be fore statute 28, of the following statute--
The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services,
The Principal Matron of the Government Hospitals.
Three members appointed 'by the Governor.
·
MILL EXPLOSION.
FLAMES.
that he was en post duty outside EIGHT-STOREYED BUILDING IN the Tung On Wharf, when he saw defendant coming out with the dog. He asked him whether he had a permit or not, and defen- dant replied in the negative.
Defendant pleaded that he did
ONLY ONE FATALITY.
Tokyo, Yesterday.
stored in the machine room of the
All British subjects of what- ever race shall be eligible for the King Edward VII Scholarships.
The Court of the University also amended the Statutes by adding to the proviso in para- graph 1 of statuto 7, next after the word "years," the following...--
"or for such otherless
Two members appointed by period as the Governor shall in
the University of Hong Kong. not know the Colony's regula- An explosion of gunpowder the case of each particular ap
Members shall be appointed for tions. pointment see fit to direct." a period of three years. Should The Magistrate imposed a fine Nisshin Flour Mill at Yokohama "There amendment.: having been any members of the Board die or of $10 or fourteen days' jail in started a conflagration which quickly reduced the eight-storeyed allowed by the Governor in leave the Colony during his period default.
building to ashes. Council, become vald mul oper:
The flames spread to adjoining ative on the publication of this filled for the remainder of his ACCIDENT ON DOLLAR LINER, term of office by a member. ap-
buildings, and are still raging. cleation an May 22
pointed by the same authority 24 In a report to the Police, Mr.
So far there has been one fatal- appointed the deceased or absent G. T. Bird, watchman at Taikoo Ity and fifty people have been East Saint John ta a busy spot member. The Director of Medi- Dockyard, states that a fitter, seriously injured Beatar. these daya se considerable develop-cal and Sanitary Services shall named: Chan Hang-sing, of 21) ment Is taking place there. One be the Chairman of the Board new fertilizer plant la in full Qualifications of nurses to be skull when he accidentally fell
Tai Ming Street, fractured his SOLLY. JOEL DEAD; operation, a second is in the course entered on the register are de a height of 16 feet from a stag: of construction and the erection of tailed, also syllabus of subjects ing erected on the Dollar liver s.. The death has occurred of the two oil tanks, at cost of some for examination for the certificate President Cleveland, which is at South African diamond magnate, '$100,000; is under way.
of general nursing.
present in dry dock at Talkoo, Mr. Solly Joel-Reuter..
of appointment his place shall be
a
A
London, Yesterday.
BLAMED THE WOMEN!
Restricted Choice.
when the sun rose on Chicago, this morning it was the brightest sun that we have had in many months. It heralded a new era for our city, ́ Many restrictions surround thei
jan era of fair dealing, meaning a choice of the assessors, and they fair deal with business men, the Accused aaid that they stole the will be selected in that exclusive police department, the taxpayers, articles from, women who had way which is in the true Fascist and others.
been unfair to them.
spirit and practice. To be an as-
"We have had one of the most His Worship and that that was sessor, besides possessing certain beautiful days here to-day, and the no excuse, and passed sentence of qualifications in respect of educa-¦ glory of the sunshine seems to me two months' hard labour on each. tion and property, one must be of
,a token of better times and better good moral and political behaviour things." NEW ORDINANCES.
which means that one must be à
In a last moment reference to the Fascist or a pro-Fascist. A citizen World's Fair, which is to be held His Majesty the King has not who has all the other qualifications in Chicago in 1938, Mayor Cermak been advised to exercise his power except that of good political be-sald the construction of the build- of disallowance with respect to the haviour may not be an assessor, ings was proceeding as speedily as following Ordinances;
just as he may not be a journalist possible, and "we intend to give to Ordinance No. 22 of 1930-An or a teacher. The number of the world one of the greatest ex- Ordinance to amend the Sum-assessora appointed to each Assize}
positions that has ever been held." mary. Offences Ordinance, 1845. Court will be strictly limited.
Ordinance No: 2 of 1931-An From those inscribed in the re
N.U.J. AND J.U.C. Ordinance to amend further the glater as eligible,- nine will be Widows", and Orphans'. Pension, drawn by lot for every trial of
London, Yosterday. Ordinance, 1908,-
jwhom the first five will actually
By 1,663 votes to 1,224, the serve, while the others will rank National Union of Journalists has as deputies. Socially, the position rejected a proposal to affiliate of the assessors is high, because with the Trade Union Congress. throughout the duration of the
The figures represent 50° per A British aeroplane fitted with session in which they serve they
NEW PLANE'S 'TEST.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Reuter.
being morally honourable and
a British 800 horsepower angine, are to rank with the Councillors cent of the Union's membership. burning crude of costing four of Appeal in the order of pra pence a gallon retail, will shortly cadence at Court and at other fly over the south of England on public functions. Their remunera-! a prolonged reliability test. Bri- tion too, will be higher than that economically compensated in a fair of the old Jurymen, for they will measure. One can foresee, too, 'that the psychology of the ansOSHOT tish Wireless Service.
receive 50 lire (about 10s.) a day,
The staff of Mesars, Andersen, and 100 lire when they are called, will be entirely different from that Moyer & Co: entertained the upon to serve outelds their area. Manager, Mr. D. G. Hogg, at dinner last night in the Kam
Honourable Office.
of the Juryman and, that his col- laboration in the administration of Justice will be just as willing, con- scientious-and-useful as that of
Ling Restaurant. Mr. Hogg "It is certain, therefore," con- the Juryman proved unwillings leaves by the P.&O. 8.6cludes Signor Rocco, "that the careless, and nat infrequently Comorin' this afternoon.
"office of assessor will be desired as harmful”