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REQUIEM MASS.
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ly." The chief danger, however, is hinted at by the Japanese Lega- tion in Peking when it explains
The lowest open air temperature The yesterday was 77 degrees. humidity was 72 at 10 am, and 67 at 4 p.m.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931:
BOY: SCOUTS.
Display for Guests in
Kowloon,
•
POLICE AQUATIC SPORTS.
Prisons Win the New Challenge Cup.
WDR. FRANKS PROMINENT.
at thu
UNIQUE OCCASION.
As the result of an accidental falf
Brilliant sunshine attended an from the first floor of 22 Temple "At Home" and display of Scout Street to the street, `a spinster jeraft, given by, the 1st Kowloon named Chau Kwan (22), is now a (St. Andrew's) Troop of Boy Scouts putlent in the Kwong Wah Hos- in the St. Andrew's Church grounds
His Excellency the Governor was pital.
on Saturday afternoon: Numerous parents and friends were present, an interested spectator at the 10th In an alleged attempt to commit including the Rev. E. A. Armstrong annual aquatic sports of the Police suicide, a woman named Hui Yuk-(District Commissioner for Kow- and Prisons Departments which tong (46) jumped into the harbaroon) the Rev. N. V. Halward, M.C., were successfully hed off the Kennedy Town praya yester- (Assistant Commissioner for Victoria Recreation Club on Satur-
was rescued and taken Training Camp) and Lieut. C. G. day afternoon. There was to the Government Civil Hospital. II. Christian, R.A. (Asalstant Com
keen and sporting rivalry between the two depart Her place of abode is unknown.
The Scouts turned out in full ments and an excellent afternoon's The European A married woman named Leung strength, under Scoutmaster R. port resulted. Chui (27), of 48 Ship Street, was Dormer and Assistant Scoutmaster 100 yards Championship of taken to the Government Civil Hoa- R. H. Wong. They commenced the Police and Prisons went pital last night, suffering from scaip programme at 3 o'clock by falling Youe. who was given a close race by The same cham- injuries and a suspected fracture into horseshoe formation, and Wdr. Franks.
Indians and of the spine as the result of being after breaking the flag, carried on pionship. event for knocked down by a moving tram with a miniature troop meeting.
Chinese attracted only entries.from the Police and was won by Indian car in Des Vreux Road Central near
Bicycles as Stretchers.
P.C. R478, with two Chinese filling the Ceneral Market
This was followed by a demon- the other placed positions.
day. She
missioher)...
the
to L/S.
A new event included in the pro-
Captain D. Williams, of the etration of first aid, which showed China Navigation Company's s..the uses of bicycles as stretcher gramme for the first time was the Kueichow, from Tongku (Septem-conveyances. The scene presented 100 yards breast stroke Champion-
ship for Europeans, for a chal-. ber 14), and Wei-hai-wel (Septem- was a typical camping orie.
Next came bridging, in which alllenge cup' presented by the Hon. ber 19), has reported. at the Har- bour Office that when nearing the boys took part in building four Dr. R. H. Kotewall. "The Prisons Hong Kong he met with strong trestles. The bridge, the type used took revenge on the Police in this N.E. winds, a rough sea and swell, in shallow streams, was put up event and secured the right to first walked inscription on the new trophy, in which a Chinese sailor fell over- In good time, and many
thanks to Warder Franks. board and was drowned. The body over it successfully. was not recovered.
The lighter side of Scouting was enthusiastically displayed with a
Lance-Sergeant MacKay, of the "hare and hound" game and ball Both proved popular Water Police, this morning charged throwing. the steersman of a cargo boat, be-with the guests." fore the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole,
the R.N. (retired), ut Marine Court, with leaving port yesterday without a written permit from the Harbour Master. The junk was found at Ching I Island at 11.16 The accused was fined $20, or 20 days' hard labour.
a.m.
tion.
. RESULTS.
Plate Diving:-1, L/S Williamson, (23); 2, Wdr. Winterton (20).
the 100 yards Championship of Special Parade Service.
Police and Prisons (Indian and Chin- On the occasion of the eleventh eac)-1. Indian P.C. B-478; 2, Chin- anniversary of the 1st Kowloon (St. ese P.C. C-210; 3, Chinese P.C. C-511. 100 yards Championship of tho Andrew's) Troop of Boy Scouts, a Police and Prisons (Europeana):1, special parade service, which was L/S Youe (Time: 15 secs.); 2, Wdr.
Two attended by Boy Scouts, Girl Guides Franks. and Wolf Cubs, was held in St. Chinese)-1, Indian P.C. B-605); 2, Lengths Handicap (Indlane and Andrew's Church yesterday morn-Indian P.C. B-478): 3, Indian P.C. ing. There was a large congrega- B-320).
Plunge:-1, L/S. Williamson The service was conducted by the Distance: 60 ft. 5 ins.): 2, L/S
Whishaw (Distance: 40 ft. 2 ins.).
Two Lengths Street Boys' Club Vicar (the Rev. W. Walton Rogers, M.A.) and the Rev. E. A. Arm-Race:-1, Yeung Chung; 2, Leung Two Lengths Handicap (Europeans): strong, B.A. (Assistant Chaplain Waa; 3, Tam Yul-nam. and District Commissioner for
-1. Wdr. Cornwall; 2, L/S. Coleman;
Pillow Fight:-1, L/S. Williamson; Kowloon). The First Leason was 3, L/S. Bowers" read by Scoutmaster R. Dormer and
was read. by 2. Wdr. Wheeler. the Second Lesson
Two Lengths Handicap (suns of Assistant Scoutmaster R. H. Wong. Police artd
once
Prisons Offcera):--1. The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, M.A. Norman Reynolds; 2, Norman Clarke; (Commissioner and Deputy Camp 3, Noel Booker.
Two. Lengths Handicap (daughters Chief for Hong Kong) delivered an interesting sermon on the romance of Police and Prisons Officers)-1, Joy Booker; 2, June Booker; 3, of Scouting, remarking that it Maureen Booker. would never diminish but go on to 100 yards Breast Stroke Champion. eternity.
ship of Police and Prisons (Euro- After the service, the 1st Kow.peans)-1, Wdr. Franks (Time: 91 SLCB-): 2, L/S. Bowers (Time: 95 secs.). Troop assembled In the
High Dive (Three Plain Dives):-1 grounds, where they were the re- L/S. Youe (82 points); 2, L/S. elplents of good wishes from the Williamson (81 points). Deputy Camp Chief.
BRUNA D'ALMADA E CASTRO (Honey) will be laid to rest
that the despatch of troops to to-morrow morning it 10 o'clock, at the Roman CatholicTsingtao and destroyers to Che Cemetery, after the Requiem foo and elsewhere is entirely In the Marine Court on Saturday with the object of protecting Sub-Inspector Langley charged the master of a pussenger sampan, be Japanese nationals against pos-fore the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hele, sible hostile actions by Chinese RN. (retired), with carrying three crowds who "may misunderstand women to the s.s. Kaying for a the Manchurian situation." That certain purpose: The accused-ad- mitted the offence, and having sa. there is ample ground for such certained that he had a clear re- fears is shown by a report that cord, the Magistrate imposed & Chinese students in Peking are fine of $50 or six weeks' imprison restive and are desirous of hold- ing a mammoth demonstration to protest regarding Manchuria. It would not be the first time during crises in China that stud- ents have rushed in where diplo- Mrs. J. H. Taggart left by the loan Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 21, 1931. mats feared to tread and were responsible for inciting mobs to Clash in Manchuria.
violence. It is at least hopeful, therefore, that on the present oc-
A REQUIEM MASS will be cele- brated on Tuesday, September 22 at 8 o'clock a.m. sharp for the re- pose of the Soul of Bruna Celeste D'Almada e Castro (Honey) at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con- ception, Glenealy.
The China Mail
ment.
Personal. Pars.
s.s. President Taft on Saturday.
The forthcoming wedding is announced of Jose Maria d'Almada e Castro, No. 4, Granville Road, to Elizabeth Catherine Pearson, of
Will the clash between Japancasion the Chinese authorities in No. 21, Jordan Road.
civil engineer, and
and China in Manchuria be Peking are likely to ban any Mr. R. M. Henderson, M. Inst. strictly localised? Or, will the proposed demonstration by stud- C.E. M.I. Mech. E., M. Inst. W.E., prophets be proved correct by ents in view of likely disturb chartered the clash being the prelude to ances. Once the Chinese crowds declaration of war by one of the get out of hand in Peking or any parties to the strife?
other of the large cities in China, Japan and China have been allies irreparable mischief would be of Britain.
Both
Assistant Director of Public Works, completes to-day 19 years' service in the Government of Hong Kong having been appointed to his first post here on September 21, 1912. Since January 1, 1930, his title has
MR. D. JENKINS.
Life Saving with Dummy (In Uni- form)-1, L/S.. Youe (21 secs.); " Wdr. Brimblecombe (22 secs.).
Two Lengths Handicap (Police Re- serves):-1, P.C. (R.) Hanild (Indian Co.); P.C. (R.) Stradmore (Sharp.
2,
Departure for Europe honte Contion:-1. Mrs. Pratt
and America.
Ladies Piles
and War.
2, Mrs. Brimblecombe
and War. Franks.
Two Lengths Handicap (Chinese The American Consul General Clerical Staffs of Police, Fire Brigade and Mrs. Dougins Jenkins left Hangand
Shiu Bul-wah: 2 Prisons):1 Kong yesterday morning by se. Yeung Ping-kwal, President Fillmore for Europe en Team Race-Polleo, Prisons and
(six men a side):- Police Reserves route to the United States on home Won by the Police. leave. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins plan Water Polo. Police v. Prisons- Half-time score: 11. The winning
whistle. An evon game.
Both have been done even to the Chinese cause, heen Assistant Director of Public to make a tour of Italy, France, Won by the Police by 2 goals to I..
making it perhaps impossible to work in charge of Water Con confine the clash to Manchuria.struction Office.
friends of Great Britain for gen erations. In the present clash, or in any subsequent sequel on a wider scale, Great Britain must remain neutral, 18 must her nationals at Home and in the Far East,
In the fortunate event of the Manchurian imbroglio going no further, China would be well ad- vised to make her peace not alone with Japan but with those other Powers whose nation1s have however, been killed or brutally assaulted on the by soldiers, bandits, or Com-
The need for observing strict neutrality need not, rule out any comment situation, so long as it is actuat-munists. The Chinese authori-
sense
RED MENACE.
Annamites Over Kwangsi Border
INHABITANTS ALARMED.
The
Germany, and the United Kingdom,
arriving in the United States the 50s was scored just mefore the final carly part of December.
Mr.
To-day's Thought.
Ten Years Ago,
and Mrs. Jenkins arrived
Hydrogen is the lightest gas, Its. here in April of this year when Mr. Jenkins assumed charge of the Con- atomic weight being 1.008. Its sulate General and in the short density at a temperature of zero time. they have been here and a pressure of 30 inches 19 have made 2 host of friends 0692-one-fourteenth that of air. who. will miss them for the six months they will be on leave,
Mr. John R. Putnam formerly the American Consul at Amay, China, Con- Canton, Yesterday. has been assigned to the
Competition, however fierce, in vernacular Press, to-day sulate General here and will be in
the long run favours the gentleman ed by fairness and a desire to do ties in Nanking have shown a de-published a dispatch from Lung-charge during Mr. Jenkins' absence.
This man justice to both sides. There is, plorable vacillating polley, for chow, Kwangsi, saying that a large Mr. Putnam was with the Chinese who in business and elsewhere, con- for instance, a great deal of instance, in regard to the Thor number of Annamite revolutionists Imperial Maritime Customs Service ducts himself as such.
have lately been
He joined the can view without alarm the "suc crossing the from 1896 to 1908. in
view one
ex-burn and
cases. Nakamura
Ameican Consular Service in 1015 cesses" of the unscrupulous, Kwangal-French border. Great Britain por pressed in London that the Neither
The inhabitants of some of the and since that time has served at and Valencia, Spain; Japanese action is justified by Japan is satisfied with Nanking's Chinese villages along the frontier Barcelona the long overdue joint steps by treatment of these shocking in-are alarmed owing to the possibility Habana, Cub; Shanghai, Nanking, of outrages again occurring like Foochow, Chefoo and Amoy, Chins. Great Britain, America, and cidents. The Powers have those of December 23, 1930, and With his yaried experience in dif- Japan to safeguard treaty rights. shown exemplary patience; in March 22 and April 17 of this year, ferent parts of the world and parti- and the protection of their re-fact, far too much patience, and when Annamite soldiers and ban-cularly in China, Mr. Putram is dits, alleged to be carrying French- well equipped to direct the activities spective nationals. In this Nanking has simply been asking made rifles, crossed the frontier and of the American Consular Service quarter the hope is expressed for trouble. If it has got more committed acts of plunder, arson, Mrs. Putnam arrived from Amoy An attempt to rob the morning that the Japanese move will-im- than it anticipated; so far, as and murder.
The Chinese authorities are in- on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam train of the Kowloon Canton Rall- on Tuesday WAS press the Chinese authorities! Japan is concerned, it cannot
vestigating the matter Central will reside temporarily in the re-way by bandits This hope finds an echo in a well turn round now and appeal Press.
sidence of the Honourable Mr. J. frustrated by the alertness of the Owen Hughes at 402, The Peak, railway police. A section of the Japanese newspaper, Nichi Nichi, to the League of Nations, Nan-
which has been occupied by Mr. and line hear the. Hoeun Ping Station which says that “Japan, though king" cannot possibly have mat
Mrs. Jenkins for the past few was destroyed by bandits the pre- months.
vious night, but fortunately the strong, should refrain fromters all its own way all the time.
damage was, discovered by the rail- using unnecessary force, but Even the role of a naughty and
The yearly meeting of the Hong
King George was 28 years old way police, who notified, the station she should act like a parent who spoiled child getting a spanking Kong and Canton Ice Manufactur when he married, King Edward was master and had the destroyed sex- spanks a naughty and spoiled will not win it child sternly yet sympathetical-pathisers in the
NEWS IN ADVTS.
here:
[From the "China Mail" of
September 21,'; 1921,3
To-day's dollar is worth 2/9%.
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October 9. Particulars on pagé 8. IV was 88.
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