WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1932.
THESE ANTI - AIRCRAFT GUNS
MR. CHAMPKIN'S ROTARY CLUB ADDRESS.
At the Hong Kong Rotary Club luncheon yesterday Mr. Champkin delivered a highly entertaining address an Anti-Aircraft Guns.
He made splendid use of the opportunity afforded for recruiting members for the new unit of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps the Anti-Aircraft Light Auto- matle Company.
"The Anti-Aircraft Light Automatic Company anti- cipates a real and urgent need ----- the need to guard against a menace that twenty-five years ago would have seemed as fantastic as it seemed forty years before then, when Tennyson forevisioned the nations' aerial navies grappling in the central blue."
THE CHINA MAIL
fight new forces from the air.and I am here to tell you that we want yolunteers to man the guns.
on
Correspondence.
"TOUCH" TYPEWRITING.
PEAK TRAGEDY RECALLED.
Four Men Before the Magistrate.
· CAPITAL CHARGE,
In the Anti-Aircraft Light Automatic Company we work rather novel, though not entirely original lines. Those of you whoi have read Nicholas Nickleby will:
(To the Editor of "China Mail,”} remember that Mr.. Squeers had an educational method peculiarly Sir-May. I be enlightened, his own.
Quoting from the book through the medium of your valu-
Clues which the Crown claima |—"We go upon the practical modelable paper, on the above aubject?
of teaching, Nickleby; the regular Of late the business, market bas to be conclusive proof of the education system. C-l-e-a-n,been flooded with so-called "Train- movements of four mea charged} Clean, verb active, to make bright. ed" typists from a local Typewrit- Tsang Tai-kai, were unfolded be with the murder of a student, W-in, win, d-e-r, dor winder, ing School, who have been taught to fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Cen Casement. When a boy knows this master the standard typewriter key trai Police Court yesterday after- Nickleby he goes and cleans the board with their "Blind" system, noon. The fourth defendant, who winder.' (Laughter).
using' (A) (S) (D) (F) and (H) has already been committed on u Well, it seemed to me better than (J) (K) (L) as the "Home" keys charge of murder in connection most education systems I have for the left-hand and right-hand with the Tai Wan Fort tragedy. studied and I understand it has fingers respectively. Will any of proved highly successful in the Girl your readers interested in the subletters threatening death.
was also charged with delivering Guides. (Laughter). We have ject kindly point out to me the ad- therefore adopted it to a modified vantages of the above method which T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C. (Crown Soll- In his outline of the case, Mr. extent in the Anti-Aircraft Com-obviously deviates from the well-citor), gave a detailed account of pany. Our scheme is to allocate known "Touch" system adopted the disappearance of the youth, men as far as possible to the de-throughout the English-speaking followed by the subsequent dia fence of their own particular inter-world. esta. The Talkoo Dock men de- It occurs to me also that the local fend their Dock Works. The Education Authorities should make Hong Kong Electric men defend investigations in this connection, as their Electric Works. The Water besides acting as a great hamper to men defend their Waterworks. high efficiency from the operator's
by
Yours, etc.,
"FINCERS-CO-WRONG."
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
It was with some difficuity that I great tradition. They gave to Conforming to the same Idea, point of view, incorrect tuition of persuaded my friend, Mr. Mac- those who came after them a spirit gentlemen, what about the Gas- the subject certainly does an in-
(Loud laughter). pherson, to prevail upon me to ac- that, if it has wearled at times. works?
I am justice to advocates of "Touch" cept your kind invitation to has gathered strength again and seriously disturbed about the gas-typewriting in a British Colony. day. began Mr. Champkin. gone from strength to strength works! Can I hope to-day to get You have been very patient with when real and urgent need has forty-nine men to join me in the me here on other occasions when I called on this Colony for volun-defence of my particular interest?
It's for you to decide. have spoken on subjects of which teers.
The need is for men now. We The Anti-Aircraft Light Automs- I know nothing, but I confess I feared the danger of putting your tic Company anticipates a real and don't want to be reminded forbearance to a breaking strain urgent need-the need to guard letters in the newspapers that on the subject of these anti-against a menace that twenty-five there are hundreds of men in the aircraft guns.
years ago would have seemed as Colony that will roll up when the fantastic as it seemed forty years war starts, provided it doesn't before then, when Tennyson fore-start before they roll up. visioned the nations aerial navies habit of rolling-up, of which I am the Stock Exchange to-day states: grappling in the central blue. a warm and cathusiastic supporter, We know how real that menace has much to commend it, but it us of course, would be more commendable if is to-day-not to but to others. Nothing is likely air raids were subject to a month's to happen to us here. Nothing notice. It gives us a comfortable of security to know the ever does happen in Hong Kong sense
have
there wherever are Societies rollers-up many
whole
me
The
It is only fair to Mr. Macpherson for me to say that he endorsed my apprehension with heartedness that seemed to perhaps a little ready having re- gard to our long and friendly asso- ciation in imposing on the suffering public of this Colony.
Anti-aircraft guns happen to be an absorbing passion of mine, but! We I don't expect you to be anything for the Prevention of Things they are, but we should be happier but mildly Interested in them, any Happening that we sleep sound- to know that they were keeping more than you would expect me to, ly in our beds. We know their hands In. be particularly interested in golf, that the Nude Culturists
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You can't fight a gun as my only come when the lights are out friend Bowes-Smith plays the piano (Laughter)—and that
airby sheer force of characteri raid can never come at all.
(Laughter). You have to know We are as fortunate in our im-little about it beforehand. munities as we are blest above all like exchange broking (Loud peoples in our egregious optimism. laughter)-it takes at least ten We want to be realistic, but we hours to learn thoroughly and ten don't want to face realities. That's hours training a year is all that we the whole volunteering problem in ask you to do in this Anti-Aircraft a nutshell.
Company. There are no com-
by war.
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or the assassination of snipe, or the Nude Culturists. (Laughter). We all have our hobbies and didn't come here to taik mine. am here principally because I find it pleasant to be in the goodly com- pany of so many old volunteers, and I am more glad then I might be after tasting thin coffee to know that most of you don't think anti- aircraft guns are worth a damn! Let us take it out of a nutshell pulsory parades, no range praç- (Laughter). I should be much dis- and put it in a bombshell. Let us,tices, no Camp exercises. Instruc- couraged if you thought otherwise! when we feel disposed to thank tion is literally carried to When old volunteers develop the whatever gods there be that Hong door in six different centres habit of taking a cheerful view Kong is different somehow, con- Hong Kong and Kowloon on six of volunteering they ought to re-sider as clearly and as cogently as different days of the week. tire. We can always find them we can what would happen if Hong don't even trust you with a uni- a congenial job in the Boy, Scouts. Keng was raided from the air. Let form until the expense ia justified The Colony expects, and has us consider that the weapon of the is to fill in the form enclosed in All that we ask you to every right to demand a decorous first warplane was an automatic and decent despondency from its pistol and that to-day a bomber the brochure before you and to Defence Corps, (Laughter)-for takes off with about two tona of accept with cheerfulness the very there has never been a time in its stuff that with great good luck light obligation that it calls for. history when the Colony's best would blow Ice House Street to The engaging duty of convincing volunteers were not the world's blazes (Laughter)—and still, I everybody who is not already a worst pessimists.
hope, have enough left over to kill volunteer of the truth of our need the criminal that made this coffee!
has been entrusted to me, partly, (Laughter).
no doubt, because I am an old! We have to defend ourselves or
volanteer and know nothing, of to rely on Providence for our de- these things, but principally, I fence. We pray for peace in our think, because the truth is never time, but what good claim have we really convincing unless told by on Providence for protection an experienced liar! (Laughter).- against the desolating heathenry Mr. Chairman, you have been of high explosives? Enemy air good enough to give me an oppor- men also are godly folk, with an tunity of telling the truth to this equal claim on Providence and representative assembly of busi- Forty years before his time the with the inestimable advantage ofness and professional men of Hong whiskered warriors whose portraita being ten thousand feet nearer Kong. The need exists. are preserved in our Officers Mess, heaven than Bishop Lodge. Sar more ls there to say to all good wagged their beards with the same ly a gleam of simple intelligence citizens to all who hold in pro- dismal foreboding. They laid aside should indicate that it were better per honour the public spirit and their crossbows and battleaxes we should leave to Providence the patriotism of those who, in the (Laughter) or whatever amall holding of the scales, and in the early days of this Colony laid the arms they used in the sixties, and meanwhile man the guris that our foundations of Its greatness and{ they took up the latest thing in ungodly authorities tell us that we counted as the first of their obliga- gents' Snider rifles and they also need.
tion and the proudest of their knew the end had come. They If we admit the necessity for de-Its defences? (Applause),
privileges a place in the front of also knew that modern armament fence we must at least admit the had put a sock in the old spirit and possibility of attack. Not only Mr. Chairman, you have tried to
· Probably at some time or other. that volunteering would never have we to defend this Colony, but arouse public interest lif some we have to protect a peaceful and sinister scheme of your own. You industrious people whose Colopk, as if you have (Laughter)
It was so in our time, and it has always been ao. I daresay mest of you can go back twenty- five years, when the rifleman watched with dull amaze the first aeroplane that disturbed the pleas- ing amenities of his Easter Manoeuvres. He knew then that volunteering wis Anished. Ho knew the aeroplane had beaten him .and that the end had come.
the same again.
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So it has been throughout, three quarters of a century of volunteer Ing history.
What
operation in our plans we do not and I know that you appreciate my We have all been invite, but whose confidence in our difficulties in raising this Com :gloomy prophets, but,' like. 7 old power of protection we have every
treat right to expect and every duty to pany. I know that you will under- stand how grateful I am to the giving me to-day. (Applause), Rotary Club for the help you are,
we are not
encourage,
Ezekiel, we have seen bones, stirring, and without hope that the spirit of the We can't afford to take any risks, sixties that never falled us yet will still serve the hour and need long All that we have is at stake In the Colony--or owned by the after we are gone. (Applause). ~.
We know that if the Colony All our overdrafts are here, and Hong Kong Bank. (Laughter). volunteers to-day are small vin numbers they have never been more some of our wives! The people who make. nur coffee don't matter,
before...
We must do
keen, and that they are Immensus but the Armenians and the Land ably more efficient than at any time Investment Company expect us to We know that those old warriors defend our hearths, and homes, in plcturesque poses, throwing the (Laughter) otherwise they will weight of their bodies on their aise our rents chinstraps (Laughter) were splendid fellows. (Applause). They handed down something moro Re lasting than a peculiar fashion sidewhiskers. They started a great shf Toyament.
They passed
China Flest and the
Caments (old), $12. Cements (new), 45 Dairy Farms, $28%. Watsons, $15.50.
Lane, Crawfords (old), 35%. Lane, Crawfords (new), $5. Amusemente, 20.60.
Constructions "(old); B6, Constructions (new), 51.90. Govt. Loans, A per cent Prm
The official summary issued by
The market displayed greater. firmness at this morning's session," resulting in some of the rates being marked up substantially,
Sales.
Hong Kong Bank, $1,450/1,460. Providents (new), $2.35. Hotels, $13.65/134 Cum. Rights, Hong Kong Lande, $75. Hong Kong Realties $1034/11. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 14.90. Hong Kong Trams, $21.40/21. China Lights (old), $21. Hong Kong Electrics, $74. Cements (combined), $19.15, Hong Kong Ropes, $16. Dairy Farms, $29. Constructions (new), $1.80.
Buyers. Hong Kong Bank, $1,440, Union Insurance $445, China Underwriters, $4. Providents (old),.$4.90. Providents (new), $2.80. Hotels, $134 Com. Rights. Hotels, Rights, $234 Hong Kong Lands, $75, Hong Kong Realties, $10%. Chinese Estates, $95. Ewo Cottone, Tis. 15.80. Hong Kong Trams,- $21.85, Star Ferries, $91, China Lights (old), $214. China Lights (new), $20. Hong Kong Electrics, $743⁄4%. Canton Ices, $52. Hong Kong Electrics, $74. Telephones (P.P.), $24, Cements (combined), $194. (Continued at foot of preceding column)
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covery of his dead body off Vic- toria Gap Road, on the Peak. The Crown elaborated on a veritable mine of incriminating matter" said to have been found in the posses slon of the defendants.
It was alleged the gang had no Intentions of holding the youth to ransom but they had intended to murder him whether the money was paid or not, and had, în fact, done so, before presenting their demand for $10,000 for the boy's release.
After evidence had been taken the hearing was adjourned.
INDIAN GUARD CHARGED.
Alleged Serious Offence
on Woman,
Before Mr. W.. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy.... yesterday, Anayat Hussain Shah, an Indian guard attached to the Wanchai Gap Police Station, was charged [with committing a criminal assault on a Chinese married woman nam- jed Ng Tung at Wongnelchong Gap
on the morning of March 3.
Mr. Hin-shing Lo-appeared for the defence' and entered a plea of not guilty. Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Assist- ant Attorney-General, conducted! the case for the prosecution. A
The complainant was walking up the gap in company with an old- er woman, when they were accost- ed by the accused, who was on duty there. They ran away, and the accused was alleged to have chased them for half a mile. Then he pushed the older womaḥ over the bank and dragged the complainant up the hill to Isolated magazine.. Afterwards the complainant "returned to her home in Wanchai in great distress and did not report the matter to the Police until the following. morning.
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An identification parade subsequently held at which the ac cused was with six other guarda, all in uniform, and "both the com plainant and her companion had no dificulty in picking him out.
The case was adjourned after] Dr. G. H. Thomas had given medi-] cal evidence.
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