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TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1932,
We ́should like to read the For stealing 28 sacks from the £1,000,000 ALIMONY.
views of our contemporaries in Luen Shing matshed at. Kanali the Straits Settlements, Feder-Street, & Chinese named Au Sam was fined $10 or 14 days' imprison- ated Malay. States, and Ceylon ment at the Kowloon Magistracy
on this very fascinating subject this morning. to the Colonial Press. May be,
One month's hard labour was im- even the Crown Colonist, publish-posed on Ip Man at the Kowloon ed in London, may have some Police Court this morning, for hav- views of interest to impart. ing unlawful possession of a quantity of metal covered wire in Temple Street.
From Other lens.
Hitlerian Hygiene.
One member of the gang of caolles, who were buried as a result of a landslide while cutting a hill- side at Ku Ching Village, Kowloon' Although, he has been temporari-City, yesterday, was found ly silenced by Dr. Bruning, Herr dend when extricated some hours to be
Hitler has not been idle.
His later. Medical Council in session at Laip-
un
zig has been laying down rules to To-morrow night at 9 o'clock at govern the life of the new Hitlerian the Y.M.C.A. (European). Kowloon, Empire.
a debate will be held under the The programme was outlined by chairmanship of the Hon. Mr. W. Professor von Chemnitz, who pro- E. L. Shenton. The subject of the poses to divide the German people debate That public ownership of into three classes.
Jutility undertakings is Class II. would include the desirable." prostitutes, the physical defectives and the criminals. They would be! A week's formal remand was sterilised. Class II. would include granted in the case of Yip Tim, whe epileptics, alcoholics and Germans is alleged, together with another not of foreign extraction-a euphem-in custody, to have obtained two ism for Jews. The latter would be diamond rings valued at $900, from specially taxed in order to dis- a Chinese widow named Cheung courage large families and would Suk-tai, at Yaumati, on January 17. be forbidden to marry "pure" Ger- A second charge of fraudulent con-
version was also preferred.
mans.
Class I would be the 100 per cent, fit, and pure Germans, who are to he encouraged to propagate at will and who will build up the new Germany,
It is a fierce programme. It will lose Herr Hitler more votes than it will gain.-Londoner in the Evening Standard.
The Golfer's Clubs.
Coty the Parfumeur to Pay.
Paris.
M. Francois Coty, the French perfume and newspaper max. note, must pay 130,000,000 francs (about £1,040,000 par) of alimony to his former wife, Mnie. Lebaron, without delay. This was the decision of a Paris court. in rejecting. M. Coty's appeal for a delay of ten years in this payment. Costs were also given against him.
In announcing the decision the judge doelared that M. Coty had reserves in' not proved that his France were insufficient to meet his obligations, and that he had not established that he had tried to pay by realising his personal' ussets.
M. and,me. Coty were married in 1900 and divorced in 1929, when Mme. Coty resumed the name of Lebaron. The settle- mont provided that M. Coty should pay her alimony total- ling about £3,440,000, partly in cash and the rest in two instal- ments in August, 1930, and August, 1991.
When the final payment fell due M. Coty, who had already paid about £2,400,000, asked for de- lay on account of the economic crisis. Ame. Lebaron opposed this.
Found to have possession of a bamboo pole, knife, pair of pliers, of wire, and a gunny bag at Tung Choi Street, Mongkok, yesterday, a Chinese was, this morning, charged
M.. Coty's defence is that the at the Kowloon Magistracy with having possession of Implements for amount in question,
totalling an unlawful purpose. He was 130,000,000 franes (over £1,000,000 convicted and sent to jail for one at par), was invested in an Ameri- month with hard labour.
can company which is unable meet its obligations. M. Coty offers to pay the money in ten an- nuities of 13,000,000 franca each.
10,
GUARDING GANDHI.
to
been an expensive but necessary The task of guarding Gandhi has item of an expensive but unneces- sary conference.
Allowing for railway fares, the cost is computed at £300 or £400.
experienced Heads of Depart- It is pleasant to find that there! ments, he may mistakingly de- is coming to the surface a certain. Personal Pars. eide that, as a factor assisting in feeling of compunction among Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1932. good governance, the local Press clubs and weight of ironmongery announced of Denys
golfers in regard to the number ofj The forthcoming marriages are can be ruled out entirely. And, imposed by other golfers on their Morley,
Warwicki subconsciously it may be, an in- caddies. The view of golfers in Frances
Felix Villas, and Winifred Meadows, of! visible barrier is raised between such matters is that imputed by Kingsclere, Kowloon; and of Ber- the governing head and the Charles Bowen to his fellow-judges tram Sidney Rogers, 244, Nathan Coming so
they are generally fully con- Road, Kowloon, and Violet Irene after
our Fress an invisible harrier that scious of "one another's deficien-Spradbury, 1, United Terrace, recent suggestion for the inevitably reacts detrimentally to cies," but the leaven may work Homuntin. creation of a Press Bureau in the good of the Colony as
now. There are various considera-i Hong Kong in charge of an ex- whole.
tions which would have to be faced A meeting of the new Directors It can be justifled on the ground by committees acting in defence of of the Tung Wah Hospital, number- that, if any accident had befallen perienced journalist, qualified
By the creation of a position the unfortunate caddies. Obvious-ing 24 prominent Chinese merchants Gandhi the British Government, also to control the Government's as Press Attache to the govern-ly there ought to be some differen- who were advertising and printing activi-ing head, a bond of cordiality (us tiation between caddies who are local Chinese business associations, held responsible in India.
recently appointed by who invited him, would, have been ties,
in- opposed to frigidity), would be who are small and weakly boys, for 1932, and their choice fell on had an easy task. During the Irish men in their prime and caddies, met yesterday to elect a Chairman In one repoet the detectives have forested in reading in United forged immediately between the But this is not all.. Would it be Mr. Chan Lim-pak, who was former-troubles, when, our own Ministers Empire a report of a Colonial administrator and the local Press possible to put some limitation on ly Chairman of the Canton Chinese were guarded, some of them resent- Press Conference in Paris, — and, thus, between the admin-varying with handicap? A "plus" managing director of the Nanyang vate liberty and played a merry numbers of clubs carried on a scale; Chamber of Commerce, and is ed this interference with their pri stating, inter aliu:--
istrator and the community man would be allowed "The value of Press men us through its sole means of articu-armoury, and the allowance would the Finance Committee of the St. panting, protectors.
R full Brothers Tobacco Co.; member of game of hide-and-seek with their assistants to Governors was lation: the newspapers. A Press be decreased till the 24 handicap John Ambulance stressed in an able speech by Attache should be able, by a
limit was reached.
Brigade; Pre- Gandhi, It is understood, has been aldent of the Chinese Athletic As- an amenable guardee. From the M. Raul Monmarson. It was tactful word in season, to avert this would give complete satisfac- of the Society for the Protection of additional
But it cannot be pretended that sociation; member of the Committee detectives' point of view, he has the his opinion, one based on the streams of misunderstanding tion, for it is often the bad golfer Children; and member of the Chin- visible from afar.
advantage of being success of newspaper men in between the authorities and the who requires the largest number of ese General Chamber of Commerce, many cases in roles of import- Press under existing conditions. clubs, since he nurses a childish ance both at Home and in the There is another phase of the dependent of that of its wielder. faith in the power of the club in- Colonies, that the creation of subject that strengthens the case it was a player of that sort who a position as Press Attache to for the appointment of a Press bought the fashionable complete ciation had one of its dinners re- The English Folk Cookery Asso- each governing head would be Attache. That is the possibility set of irons and imposed them on cently at Simpsons
of the Press Attache acting as plained to his opponent how each served. The menu included "Coven- He ex-fashioned English dishes were That is taking our suggestion an acceptable Hasion officer be club had its own limit and how one try pigeon pie," "Hedgehog pud- of a Press Bureau in charge of a tween the authorities, and the club would place the ball fifty ding," "Syllabub journalist must further, indeed, local newspapers. He would be yards farther than another "As potted Stilton and Yorkshire oat- Beau Nash," than we thought of when writing worth
for instance," he said, taking a cakes. Coventry pigeon ple is a more than any num-
club. As it happened the shot was dish for which the town of that on the subject some days ago. ber
of empty Press tables a success-but the round was spoilt name is justly celebrated, the But it is an admirable improve. .in Government Departments. by the discovery that the
To-day's dollar is worth 2/7%. wrong paste being made, it is stated, in ment on our idea. It is one that He would be the
iron had been taken and that the a certain way. But Syllabub Beau
# # could be adapted very readily to nised fountain head for
one used ought not to have done Nash" is a mixture of whipped chased from Mr. H. M. H. Nemazee, The China Specie Bank has pur con- what it did. conditions in Buch Colonies as firmation or refutation of news smiled
And the caddie cream, fruit juice and sherry, which the block of building In Duddell and lost half hle tip. those addicted to the use of the last Street, at present Hong Kong, the Straits Settle- gleaned by the newspapers as a Moral. .?-Manchester Guar-named in the usual manner, willMessrs. Lammert Brothers' quction occupied by ments, and Ceylon, to mention matter of daily routine.
More-dian.
undoubtedly dub a sickly sounding sale rooms and the China Proyldent, mixture. But, those whose stomachs Loan and Mortage Company's go are at all "queasy" will be glad to down. The price was $200,000. know that a hedgehog pudding isThe deal was closed last Saturday not made of hedgehog at all; it is and it is understood that the tenanta really a most delectable form of have already been given three trifle, and the secretary of the Asso- months' notice to quit ciation in an interview given to the When asked by a China Mail re Press dilated at some length on the porter this morning what he la excellence of English cooking. tended to do with the block, the
very valuable."
recog-
an
unfortunate caddie.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
*
To-day's Thought.
Some people mistake gratification
when
old
for happiness,
Ten Years Ago.
(From the "China Mall” of
January 13, 1822.)
*
no others further afield. With over, unlike Press tables or even cach succeeding change in the Press Bureau, his services
News in Brief. governing head in our Crown could be enlisted by the news H.M. Berwick returned from Colonies there arises a need to papers after the official hour of the North today. be guided not only by Heads of closing Government offices, thus Departments but by the local depriving the newspapers at one The lowest open air temperature Press. The sympathetic chord, stroke of the excuse that time yesterday was 60 degrees. The however, between a
new Gov. does not permit of confirmationmidity was 78 at 10 am. and 70Those who decry it," she said, "are manager of the China Specie Bank
at 4 p.m. ernor and the Press may at times, or refutation of a story for pub
foolish. They can have no idea of said his bank would move there as by a chance remark even, belication. As an intermediary, a
The new wing of the Y.M.C.A. real English food, Amere soon as it was vacated. There would liable to be unwittingly strain Press Attache would likewise (European) Kowloon, will be open they are never likely to, if such a on the site, he said, as the bank was amateur in such mattore suggests be no time to erect a new building. ed during the very early stages save much precious, time for the ed by HE the Governor on thing as a trifle is to appear on the in pressing need of accommodation, of a new governing head's higher authorities, certain of opening ceremony, and after its menu as a hedgehog pudding The their present premises being want. career — during the period he is whom'in busy moments, resent Inspection, a display will be given idea! Someone, one of these days, ed by Messrs. Shewan Tomes and.. endeavouring to find his feet and the intrusion of Press men seek in the Swimining Bath and exhibi-will be serving up an old-fashioned Company to give to Wiseman's Cafe
February 2, at 5.20 p.m. After the
fit himself into the niche of ing enlightenment on some im Courts.
tion games in the Squash Racket Colonial administration in which portant local topic. Again, in t he finds himself Whilst he is the important matter of censor- Lal Kam and Ho Yin, two Chin- Pese Coolles were, this morning, con- 18conceivable that a
victed for the theft of four baskets Attache would be an in-of coal from the M.B.K
pare caught in the
busily engaged in forming first impressions of the Colony and
its people, a biased opinion may estimable boon to the S.C.41
easily lead him off the right the track Instead of looking to the a sto local Press as useful guides and that counsellors, r's complementary to mense
mince pie, and calling it a porcupine under the agreement already an pasty-North China Daily News, nounced.
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