ABOLISHING ALL HOMEWORK
1,000 Schoolgirls Are Happy
NEW RULE INTRODUCED
IN LONDON SCHOOL
London More than 1,000 schoolgirls in four leading secondary schools in London and the provinces have had their homework reduced this terka.
This is the latest develop ment in the less homework": movement which is spreading in this country. Over 2000 boys and girls in 20 secondary schools have already had their homework abolished or reduced this year, excluding the latest batch to enjoy the "concession.**
Parents at one of the four! schools which have just decided to reduce homework-Torten-! ham High School London- "have been invited by the bead- mistress. Miss N. Jones, to co- operate with the teaching staff. in seeing that the children do not spend longer than the allotted time" on their home- work.
Vicious Chrels
THE CHINA HATE FRIBAY, DECEMBER
James Camey is a daring newspaper" photographer in the Warner Bros. production "Picture Snatcher,” which will be screened at the Queen's Theatre next Sunday.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Deputy Inspector-General-
of
DEAD RECKONING
By Ralph Stock
HAVE killed a man beesuse) but binding sunlight, a he disagreed with-me discoloured coral cleaving the hins
sof
a razor criminal
| Anything more futule it mirror of the sex like hard to imagine in cold blood, fedge, and myself—a for by killing him I have proved perched upon it as upon prema-
nothing. He still holds histure scaffold.
view. I know it, because 1 But I have overlooked the picklej have spoken to him since, and he bottle. It came to me floating, not still laughs at me, though quite empty, and corked against softly, compassionately, not as the flies, just as he and I had left he laughed on that night when it after the last meat. When the the absurdity happened.
Wreck sank, it zinat” have “risur Perhaps I am mad, but you shall from the fo'e'sle table and... upi judge. In any case, that is of no through the hatch it a curious great importance, for by the time that nothing else should rise--and you read this, my confession--if it occurred to me that by its aid, indeed, it is ever read---I shall have and that of the little notebook with cessed to encumber the earth. (pencil aftached which I always He was young and strong, and carry, it would be possible to set filled with that terrible self-assar-my case before the world. I must ance of youth that sets an older continue, or there may not be time man's teeth on edge. During his to say all: jahort term of tuition in the schools
of the South there was nothing that he had not learned to do bet-! ter (in theory) than a man of fifty years' experience and obstinate
.a
-TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be ***The Sweet Shop," by John Talland.
I am what they call an old man
30 the
Here on this Teef off the Queens- Little Hazel Millington, the 10-land coast there are unbelievable Police, D. Burlingham, and Mrs. year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. quantities of fish. Burlingham, are leaving for Home E. Millington of No. 3, Cox's Path, never seen so many, nor of such Even I have i "It sometimes happens," Miss Jones stated in a report by the P. and O. 8.3. Naldera to- broke her right arm while playing brilliant colourings it is possible on the new scheme, "that girls" Mr. Barlingham has re- with another child at the Civil to wade into the tepid water and Thursday Island, for none but give a misleading impression as tired from active service owing to Service Cricket Club yesterday- catch them with the hand. I have blacks live to any to what can be done in a given ill-health.
She was removed to the Kowloon caught hundreds to-day, for lack neighbourhood of this sambaked time by working overtime on
Hospital where she is reported to of something better to do--and settle on the roof of Australia. But their homework.
be making good progress.
them free; for I will have no more I came of Old Country stock, and (blood on my hands, even that of a
blood will tell J. Learquin, French Consul Azh General in Hankow, has been Besides, what is the use? There transferred to Hong Kong and he is no drinking water, here, nothing and Mme. Leurquin will be ar riving here early next month-
- to-morrow
by
the
Sergeant C. Mottram, of Police "Other girls then feel that Headquarters, is going on Home their own achievement was not leave good enough and they, too. Naldera sperd longer hours on their home lessons. And so a vicious circle is started.”
Last Days Spent In Penury
Los Angeles-A man who found a gold mine which netted him $3,000 a day has died here in poverty.
is leaving for Home by the 3.3. Carthage on January 11-
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I have mixed little with others, preferring the society of my only child, a daughter, to the prattlers and drinkers of a small equatorial community. Perhaps I have been too circumscribed, too : isolated,
know that until he came I was" con- tent
"SAY IT WITH SONG from my fellow-creatures I only
TITLES"
Thursday Island. My dánghter,
Captain J. W. A. Waller, the Besults of a Board of Educa- Captain on the Staff, commander- tion investigation into the in-chief's offices, is leaving the
Two Hong Kong Moslems will question of homework in day Colony to-morrow by the sa embark the pilgrimage to schools will be published short- Naldera for Singapore, in order to Mecca by the Blue Fannel steamer ly-Reuter.
meet the new Commander-in-Chief, Tantalus to-morrow. They are
My small weather-board house Vice-Admiral Sir Charles J. C. Messrs. Abdul Rahman Abbas and
ashore, the 'ketch in which I Little, KCB., who is travelling out Moosa Azim Mr. Abbas retired Prizes Dispatched To brought sandalwood from the GOLD MAGNATE'S by the ss. Chitral Captain Wal- from the British-American Tobacco
Winners ler, will join the Chitral at Singa-Co. (China), Ltd.
mainland coast, were my twin three months
worlds. In each all things were SAD DEATH
pore, and will return by that ship, ago, while Mr. Azim left the Gov- arriving here on January 9. The ernment service on pension some awarded in the Say it with song I had evolved from long experience, Only four prizes have been conducted according to my wishes —according, rather, to the methods press Commander-in-Chief, His years back. Excellency Sir Frederic Dreye",
titles" competition organised in connection with the screening of and that their merits were harne The Restaurant of the GlowBroadway Gondolfer the fout by results none could dery cester Hotel presented a colourful other entries were not considered The house, with its small, well- spectacle last night when a highly up to standard. The lucky win-tended garder, was the best on The RMS. Empress of Asia successful Carnival Dance wasiners are the following left Yokohama yesterday and is held. The room was effectively due here next Thursday at 8 am decorated with greenery and "Fall He was John Swanson, aged She will sail at 8 pm, the sameling snow." Paper hats, streamers, and other novelties were provided 65, known as "Old Itchfoot" in day for Manila.
for the guests, and it was not the glamorous days in the Klondyke in the nineties. The
long ere the Restaurant took an a The ss. Nankin is due here next truly festive appearance. A ape great fortune which he made Monday afternoon, and will sail al hand was in attendance, and in Alaska was mostly poured for Manila and Australian porte dancing continued until 2 am away over the gaming tables in Nome, Fairbanks
ļat 4 p.m. next Tuesday. and Dawson City
Messrs Lane, Crawford, Ltd, Swanson was a friend of Jatk The local Maglia community have again issued a very neat London and Rex Beach. the will to-morrow celebrate their calendar for 1936, while the P. writers, during their adven Hestival, Fitr which marks and 0. Steamship Company and turous days on the gold trail the close of Ramadan, or the fast the Advertising and Towards the end of his life being month. A special service wil Bartan (advertising Ovaltine) appeared in a Hollywood film as be held at The Mosque, Shelly have sent out very attractive wall a gold prospector, but his last Street, at 9.15 am when the calendars, the latter in a pleasing days were spent in penury-man will take the service. - Gainese" design. An extremely useful pocket diary from the P. Among the passengers, who will and G. Steamship Company is also board the ss President Hoover at being issued.. art
Reuter.
CHINA SOCIETY IN LONDON
New Officers Selected At Annual Meeting
..
Frederick Weg. No. 51, Argri, dutiful and intelligent, managed it Street, ground "dour:"
according to my wishes, so that it) J. W. Thirwell, Taikoo Docks; ran like a well-alled mechanism. Tung Wan Hong, No. 133, Des And the ketch-that was my in- Voeux Road
vidiable domain. "Above and below Bill Liba, No. 23 Jordan Road.
have been sent to
Sets of two dress circle tickets decks, although only a twenty-ton of the cargo-carrier, she would have put
{many a yacht to shame. above-mimed winners.
There was nothing superfinous, nothing lacking. Everything aboard had its place and uses; that is how I contrived to work her single-handed | for nearly ten years
each
FASTEST FIGHTER AEROPLANE
Now Being Built In Holland
They called me a curmudgeon | and 2 Akhading, but I could afford to smile... My cargoes were not NO large as theirs, and took longer to gather, but while they were exting into their profits by paying wages Rotterdam-Mr. Anthony Fok-nd shares to lay crews, mine
well-known ker, the
aircraft came solely to myself, and never in designer, is building a low-winged all those years did I have a mishap. aeroplane of the fighter type which on tomorrow for Shanghai is
Then, as I have said, he came. Mrs J. Miller, wie of Mr. Jack The folowing Hong Kong re he believes will reach speeds How he gained entrance. I have Miller, professional book-maker sidents who went on the Christ higher than any yet attained. never known, but he had a way who left a week ago for the north as round trip to Manila by the At au zititude of 12,000 feet it with him, that boy, and when one ern port to establish another Club Empress of Japan re urned to-day will be capable of a maxinen evening I retumed from a trip, he there
by that vessel: Mz. B. Swales, speed of 280 zip.h It has one was sitting on the verandah. with Mr. and Mrs. Edirarás Jones, engine of over 600 horse-power, Doris She was evidently em Over 100 persons, including a Brigadier General and Mrs F. S. and will be able to climb to a height barrassed number of children, of the poor-Thackeray, Mr. and Mrs: Geo. E of 16,000 feet in six minutes, b
“This is Mr. Thorpe, father," she The new machine will be equip-geid, and went in to prepare sup est classes in Kowloon, were en- Costello, Mr. R. Hancock, Mt. A elected for the China Society in tertained to a delightful Christ Sanerbeck, Captain DB Michell, ped with a five-inch automatic gun per, which was late for the first London at its annual meeting mas treat by St. Andrew's Church Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Evans, Lt Cwhich will be synchronised to shoot time that I could remember. held at the China Institute. New vice-presidents are:
A. Southey, Mrs. G. S. Gamble, through the propeller.
"Indeed?"" *xid 1, and remained Dr. and Mrs. W. B. A. Mööre, Mr. There will also be two machine-standing, a fact that Thorpe ap Lord Peel, Lord Winterton, It is announced from London and Mrs. R. Challinor, Mr. E.guns built into the wings one on peared to overlook, for he reseated Mr. HL G. Wells, M. Laurence that Mr. A. Jackson, who has been "Lewis, Miss E. Gibbon, Mr. G. each side. Reuter Binyon, Sir Percival David, Sir Assistant Government Analyst in Madgwick, Mrs. A. Kidd, Miss L
ies, he said in a maziner that James Stewart-Lockhart, the Hong Kong for the past six years, A. Lock, Miss H. C. Grasby, Mr. BOGUS POLICEMAN I believe is called "breezy," Eev. Dr. J. Scott Lidgett, and has Major-General Sir Neill Mal-Straits Settlements, in a similar hung. Mr. Chin Ki-fan, Mr. Fons
been transferred to the Fung Kwok-wa, Mr. Yip Kwong HOAXES VILLAGE is my name. Captain Brent, and colm.
I'm pleased to make your acquain- capacity.
Chung-lim and Mr. Chan. Koon-
tance Have you had a good trip Free Food And Drinks iving.
Passabic, Consumed
London New officers were
yesterday afternoon
The new council for the year! includes Mr. W. W. Astor, Cap- tain Victor Cochran-Baillie,
Lieut. Vivien Desmond Gask, Mrs. Ellert, and Miss Irene Hoof HMS. Comwall, stationed at Fung Mrs. Davis, No. 74) Singapore, died from malaria and Grosvenor Street, London, heart failure last week while the SW1, was appointed secretary warship was on a cruise to Ma- for the society.
lacca, Port Swettenham and other
The Chinese Ambassador, is "pcountry porta. president of the Societ Reuter
ST. FRANCIS HOME
UNITED HUNTS BALL
Hunting people – from-all the world will forgather don on February 6, whe
irth annual: United Hunts
be held at Grosvenor
Feodor Chalapine, the famo Eussian basso singer, left Ma szilles on Friday, in the NYE Park Lane, under the patr La Eskone Maru for the Far of HRH the Duke of York East and is expected to vis
Shanghai for a brief engagem
Munich-Posing as a
aster, a bold young Es obtained all the food he required for
himself
and change.
chair and
ing him
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