PAN-AMERICAN PARLEY TO OPEN ON DECEMBER 1
Buenos
Pan- Aires. The American Peace Conference call. ed, by President Roosevelt will open here Dec. 1, Foreign Min- ister Carlos Saavedra Lamas an- nounced yesterday.
Senor Saavedra Lamas declar ed all nations which had accept- ed invitations to the Mood neighbour" session had agreed on the date.
A special commission to work out preliminary details of organ- ization is to be formed soon, he said,
POLICE OFFICER RETIRES
Mr. Booth Remaining In England
FINE RECORD IN THE WAR
The Hong Kong Police Force has lost a popular and efficient officer in the person of Mr. Leon- jard Horace Vertue Booth, Super- intendent of Police, who has been invalided out of the service, "and effect whose retirement takes from November 11 this year.
Mr. Booth. is at present on! Home leave, and his retirement is
CROWN SOLICITOR due to ill-health, the result main-
TO RETIRE
ily of his war service.
For the past 10 or 11 years Mr. Booth has been in the Criminali
Department, and
Mr. Hazlerigg Leaving Investigation
Early Next Year
DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN
COLONY
has rendered valuable work, and taken a prominent part in many! big cases Before he proceeded on leave, he was Director of post Criminal Intelligence.a which he occupied for
several
The community in general, and years. members of the legal fraternity iz particular, will regret
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War Service
to learn Mr. Booth was an officer in the during the Great that Mr. Thomas Maynard Hazel-Royal Navy rigg, M.C. Crown Solicitor, will War, and had the distinction of proceed on leave, prior to retire-jhaving seen action in nearly all ment, some time in January next the chief naval battles. He lost
jan eye in one engagement. year.
According to present arrange Retiring from the Navy, he ments, M. Hazlerigg. is due to joined the Hong Kong Police retire next June, and it is under-Force in December 1919 as a Pro- stood that he will settle down in bationer, arriving in the Colony in February 1920. He was ap- the west of England.
Born on June 21, 1882, Mr. Haz-pointed Assistant Superintendent lerigg was admitted as a Solicitor of Police in February 1922, and in England in 1906. He joined the in April of the same year was ap- Royal Army Service Corps on the pointed Acting Assistant Har- outbreak of war in 1914, serving bour Master, reverting back to his as a Lieutenant until 1915, when previous position in February he was promoted Captain. For 1923. For another short spell his service he was awarded the from February 1 to February 11,
1926, he
Assistant was acting Military Cross.
Harbour Master, and since then Treasury Fraud Recalled Demobilised in 1920, he was ap-had been entirely in Police ser- On December 19, 1931, he pointed to the Hong Kong Gor-vice.
was appointed Superintendent of service,
Assistant ernment
Police. Crown Solicitor, in October that! year, and arrived here some two months later to take up his duties.
as
In April. 1922, he became Acting!
Assistant Land Officer, in addition NEW SHELTER FOR
to his duties as Assistant Crown
such Solicitor, and remained as
when he atil March. 1924. was appointed Acting Crown Soli- citor.
GIRL GUIDES
Opening Ceremony
At Sandilands Hut
LADY SOUTHORN'S WORK PERPETUATED
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936...
Miss C. Eleanor Fulmer of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is shown as she was crowned Queen Ocena XXVI by Mayor Doris Bradway, of Wildwood, New Jersey, at the Jersey resort's annual carnival.
MAN'S 100-FT. FALL FROM RAILWAY BRIDGE
Children Witness Crash
To Death
George Henry Parker, aged 70, a former soldier, who had been Todging in Campolane, Sheffield, fell 100ft from a railway bridge · in Herries-road, Sheffield, last month, and was killed. T. Walker, a member of the Sheffield Wed- Desday football team; who was passing, ran to where Parker lay in the road and placed his coat under the head of the dying mat. Children saw the tragedy #3 they were playing on the road- side.
MR. T. LAY LAID "RADIO PRIEST" SEEN
TO REST
Large Gathering At
Graveside
MANY FLORAL TRIBUTES
IN ACTION
(Continued from Page 4) ..
Figure it out.”
To Breakfast
I went back to the gardens be- "I ask him: "Will Roosevelt be re- The funeral of Mr. Thomas LT-hind the sacristy. I heard the turned again?" whose death was reported in our
"Two weeks ago I would have columns yesterday, took place at sermon suddenly terminate, and
before I had time to turn saw the said yes," he answered: "Now he the Protestant
jast Cemetery evening, when the Rev. L. L. Nash priest striding out of the side door is losing power each day." with long, athletic steps. He look- Start In Broadcasting conducted the services both at
I asked him how it came about Chapel and at the graveside. The ed at me for a fraction of a mo-
ment, beckoned me to follow, and, that he had started talking on the chief mourners were the widow jumping into the driving seat of air. He said that back in 1926, and children, Bertram, Mary; and Francis, and Mr. W. J. Howard is automobile, cried cheerily, shortly after the opening of the “Come on, Let's go and have break-Shrine of the Little Flower, he was (brother-in-law) and Mrs. L
fast!"
short of money, in debt, and he Howard (sister-in-law). The pali-
We jerked over the turf mound wanted to build. There was а bearers were Messrs. W. E. Broad- bridge, W. Raples, Bolt, A.G.F.here his car had been parked, friend he could turn to on such oc swung round a couple of corners, casions — à man in the automo- Prew, P. Power and G. Abraham.
and three minutes later skidded to bile industry.
WIFE SUMMONS Broadbridge. Mrs. T. Bolt and the
HUSBAND
Three Counts Before Court
SUICIDE THREAT ADMITTED
E.
a standstill beside the white wood- "I want money," said Father en garage of his home.
Coughlin to him. His home is a low white wooden "No, sir," came the reply. “If I villa with a mass of fruit trees, ajgive you money to-day you will
160 Secretaries
Those Present Amongst the large gathering present were Mr. H. R. Butters, Postmaster-General, Mr. E. Abra-] ham, Mr. R. Ashton-Hill, Mrs. L.. green lawn and a border of bright-need some more to-morrow. I'l ly coloured flowers. The front offer you more than money. You N. Broad- Broadbridge. Messrs.
door is of stained pine, and above may have time each week on W. J. hridge, R. Broadbridge. 3. A.
it swings a lantern.
R (a small independent radio' The priest preceded me like a station).” Misses Bolt, Mrs. F. E. E. Booker, whirl-wind into the dining room. The arrangement was fixed up Mr. P. S. Cassidy (representing clapped his hands for his Chinese with Leo. J. Fitzpatrick, then
of the Chairman and Committee
servant, and ordered breakfast for manager of the station. The idea Diocesan Boys' School), Mr.
two. The next moment a Great was that Father Coughlin should Irene Chan.
Dane raced into the room James Chan, Miss
and get his time free, but pay for the Miss Nellie Chan, Mrs. Cheng.
Coysh and placed two paws on the priest's bare cost of the lines-about £10 Mr. and Mrs G. W.
shoulders. "That's the master of a week. Miss Eva Coysh, Mr. A. L. Cun-
the house," said Father Coughlin. With the idea. in the rough, zingham, Mr. E. C. Cunningham patting his dog. There now, in- Father Coughlin went off to see Mr. H. Das, Mrs. Drude, Mrs. F.
troduce yourselves.”
Bishop Gallagher. The Bishop lis- tered. There
in are people At the Kowloon Magistracy yes-Gill"Mr. A. E P. Guest, Mr. Ho terday, Mrs. Eva Giffening brought Kom-tong, Mr. D. Hynes, Mr. B
who say that Father the legendary America three summonses against her hus-Hynes, Mr. Khan, Mr. G. Ladd, Swiftly, with
Lai Rev. silence of his race, the Chinese Coughlin would never be where he band, Mr. J. T. L Giffening for Mr. G. Lai, Mrs.
Kan-yan, Mr.
A brought in our food; he brought is to-day were it not for the fact desertion (b). wilfully Lee (a)
Shi, Mr. J. us peaches with cream, eggs and that the Bishop is his champion neglecting to provide for his wife Lee, Mrs. Leung
and steaming The priest got his permission, and (c) habitual drunkenness from Mackenzie, Mrs. G. Millar. Mr. bacon and toast, March to July 1936. Mr. Peter A. Mills, Miss R. Mow-fung. Mr. black coffee and more rich creamwalked back to WJR, and plan-
I looked at the man eating his aed his debut. Sin was for the plaintiff, but de-F. E. Nash, Mr. and Mrs. F. R
It is said that, up to date, Father fendant was not legally represent-Osborne, Mr. Pång Say. Mr. A. Gpeaches opposite me....a rither {ed.
F. Prew (representing the Dioce-flushed face, untidly hair, thick Coughlin has received upwards of In answer to these charges, de-san School Old Boys' Association), eye-brows, penerating deep eyes, 12,000,000 letters from radio lis fendant said his wife had made Mr. H. W. Randall, Mr. S. Randle, a mouth that makes you want to teneri.
Timed To The Minute lhim so uncomfortable that he had Mr. E. V. Reed, Mr. W. Saenger, smile with its owner.
His conversation is a lesson in The telephone bell rang. The [been forced to leave. He had no Mr. F. A. Santos, Mr. George She.
employment so he could not pro-rs. Shek Tai-kee. Mrs. Smith, Dr. mental agility. My brain, rusty priest rose from the table, wiped vide for her, although he was will-E L. de Souza, Mr. F. W. Staple at first, becomes lubricated under his lips, and took up the receiver. ing to give her a third of his earn-ton, Mr. W. Sue, Mrs. van Bergen, his guidance. His knowledge is "Yes," he said, "Father Cough- lin will be preaching at eleven ings when he did find work. De Mr. Wai Po-cheung. Mr. W. H profound.
He tells me that he has a staff o'clock Maas ****** At to-day's meeting of the fendant emphatically denied the Whittaker, Mrs. Wo Chan-shi, MT.
secretaries work in a He looked at his wrist-watch Urban Council, a
Jetter
Jo 160 from third charge.
and Mrs. M. Williams, Mr. the Government, signifying the ap-
Wong, Mr. Sin said that Mr. and Mrs. Woodier, Mrs.
Chut-koo, special department inside the new and then at me: “Just three min proval of the Legislative Council Giffening were married in January Wong Soo, Mrs. Wong Luk-mui marble tower. They act as his an-jutes to do it in." he exclaimed..
They capture the news- He delved into his cassock for to the amendment of the Markets 23 of this year. Mrs. Giffening Mrs. J. C. L Wong. Mr. J. Mtennae. by-laws set forth in the Schedule had previously been married, and Wong. ir. W. H. Young. Mr. A paper comments of each continent a cigarette case, offered me a to the Public Health (Food) Or-obtained her divorce in Harbin in Zimmern. Mr. W. A. Zimmern and upon world events, they study the smoke, lit up himself and together dinance, 1935, will be considered. 1928. She had two daughters and many members of the Post Office intricate as will also correspondence rela-
a son from that mion. Defen- staff.
previous marriage.
URBAN COUNCIL
Amendments To
By-Laws
correspon..
A few months later. Mr. 'Haz- lerigg went on long leave, and shortly after his return, in
financial problems of we dived through the kitchen-be- November 1926, he was assigned
each nation, they watch closely cause one of his secretaries whis- to the special post of Treasury
the political moves of three-score pered that visitors were trying to Solicitor, in addition to his other!
dant had one grown-up son from a Sandi-tive to the appointment of the
In addition to the family The new extension at
Governments and report their find-call no him at his front door. wreaths, a large number of floral duties. It was in this capacity lands Hat, Girl Guide Headquar-officers to act under Ordinance 8
ings to the priest once or twice The car drove off with a flying that he went to Shanghai and!
tributes were sent ters in the Colony, specially built of 1935 (section 2);
spart over a mound of old rubble. Threatened Suicide
a week brought back Carvalho Yeo for histo commemorate the association dence relative to the renewal of
He says: "I am a priest in the "Just been away deep sea fishing,” trial in connection with the Trea-
After their marriage, the couple i
Mr. Ma Chee-lung
true sense of the word-I am at said the priest." "That's the best Some- sury fraud. Yes, it will be recall of Lady Southern with the Girl Food Factory licences; correspon- Guide movement in Hong Kong, dence relative to the latrine at
the ground floor of No. 10, Po lived at Kimberly Road.
the service of my flock for every holiday of all,” problem. Religion is no water- Father Coughlin stopped the car was opened yesterday by Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, who defrayed the Hing Fong: correspondence rela-time in July they moved to Hart
a large attendance tight compartment to be opened on the grass at the side door of expenses in connection with the tive to the cubicles at Nos. 357 and Avenue, where plaintiff is still liv- There was
jing.
of relatives and friends at the on a Sunday, but a state of mind his church, threw this cigarette 359, Nathan Road. In 1929 Mr. Hazlerigg was 3p-extension of the hut.
held yesterday Various applications and re- From about March, to the time funeral service,
so far-reaching that it embraces aside, stamped on the stub and pointed Acting Land Officer, and
turns will also be considered. of the alleged desertion at the end afternoon at Wing Pit Ting, Pok every sidelight of human life and went through the sacristy.
to fulum, of the late Mr. Ma Chee endeavour." of July, defendant is alleged have been drank on several occa-lung, the Chinese compradore of
Scathing Criticism sions and used abusive language. the local branch of the P. and 0. He left the house two or three Banking Corporation for the past His scathing criticism descends bass voice thundering to his flock. times with his son and baggage, eight years, who passed away sud-on President Roosevelt, the very jman be jockeyed into office. He said Mr. Sin. in a temper. vowing denly on Saturday morning.
The chief mourners were the calls him a champion of a mighty
ed, was sentenced to 10 years' hard- labour but has since been leased.
in January 1932 was again attach-
year.
three Chinese for the murder of
never to return, which however.!
On another occasion he left a note
"I think a great many of us has gained the Diploma in Child was goirs to take his life.
in a time when our Health (London). Victoria Gap were born
a youth, Tsang Tai-kai. in the road leading from
Exactly half a minute later. from the lawn I heard his great
He Had timed the sermon to the very minute.
Before asking Mr. Tang to open ed to the Crown Solicitor's Office, the extension, Mrs. T. H. King. said. in subsequently
Acting Colony Coramissioner, becoming Crown Solicitor, a post which sub- Part:
"When I was first asked to be H.K. UNIVERSITY stantiated upon the retirement of Mr. H. K Holmes in June last come Guide Commissioner, I hesi
tated a great deal. I had re- Farther Successes For membered that I would have to Victoria Gap Case
Graduates
he did in a day or two. On one four sons, Messra. Ma Sum cham, poor brand of Russian Communism NEW SOVIET CONSUL GENERAL
IN BARCELONA During the time when he was make speeches I would have re It is difficult
occasior be produced a kitchen knife Ma Sum-ka, Ma Sam-oi and Mas and says that the swing is away attached to the Crown Solicitor's fused altogether.
taken to succeed anybody like Lady The following further successes Office. Mr. Hazlerigg has
Between two mouthfuls of eggs registered by Hong and threatened to commit suicide, ter Ma Kwok-wah, the widow, from the President.
Moscow, To-day. The Soviet part in a number of big cases, the Southorn; for she had a great per- have been
graduates in sleeping with it under his pillow. daughters and grand-children. Isonality. exceptional brain Kong University
zn
Among the large gathering pre-and bacon, the priest thumps the Government has appointed M. Ar- per-1 most notable of which was
table cloth and says: "We cannot tonov Ovsenko Consul-General in England-
at his wife's matshed saying he sent were noticed Mr. W. J. Wad continue to pile up debts that our Barcelona. M. Ovsenko, who is en haps the trial, in April, 1932, of and a silver tongue.
Fairy Tales
Mr. Lee Hah Liong, M.B., B.S.
dington, manager of the local of-
route to Barcelona with several fice of the P. and O. Banking Cor-children may be forced to Judgment Deferred
his co-operators, played a prominent poration, Mr. D. H. Blake, Mr. pudiate. Mr. Tugwell and
role in the Bolshevist revolution, Plaintiff then corroborated Mr. A. Howard, Mr. Edgar Lewis, Mr. Brain-Trusters' must go!
"We must return to constitu- and was later Director of the Po- Sin's statement by reading ex-Ho Kom-tong. Mr. Li Yau-tsun
litical Department of the Eed cerpts from a diary she kept. Mr. Tang Shin-kin, Mr. Ng Wah, tional government.
"By 1936 the National Debt will Army. Minister to Lithuania and giving the details of a good many Mr. Li Pokwai, Mr. Yu Tsao- alleged incidents in which her hus-sang, Mr. Chau Ngan-ting; Mr. be forty billion dollars. Debts of Poland in 1922, and State Attor- local governments and corpora-iney of the Soviet Union in 1934. of Wai Po-cheung," Mr. Tam Woon-j Mr. Hin-shing had several fairy god-fathers and Guide movement in Hong Kong. I band was under the influence
tions will total another 280 billion. Trans-Ocean Service. Lo, instructed by Mr. Peter I think one of the first was Gen-have much pleasure in declaring drink. She declared that after a tong. Mr. Mok Tat-huen, Mr. Kwok Chen, Mr. Lai Chap-sun, Sia, defended the firs: prisoner,eral Sandilands who made it pos- the extension open and I wish the few drinks he "got wild."
Defendant left her for good on Mr. Pun Hin-cho, Mr. Ho Ngok Cheung Man, while Mr. H. Somer-sible for us to have a Guide But the Guides every success."
fairy god- Mr. Tang then cut a length of jJuly 30, she said, and from that lan, Mr. Chan Chenk-fan, Mr. set: Fitzroy, instructed by Mr. J. here. Many other M D'Almada Remedios, represent-fathers came after him.
yellow and blue ribbon which day had only given her $20. Fung Heung-un, Mr. An Shao- ed the other two accused, Cheung
been connected with hung across the entrance to the Giving evidence, defendant "said sum, Mr. Au Lim-chuen, Mr. Ng Tsz-san and Cheung San-fun. Guiding out here since 1922. extension, and the guides present he strongly objected to being des-In-wan, Mr. Tsoi Po-ia. Mr. Lo After several lengthy hearings, When Lady Southorn arrived Igave three cheers for him. all three accused were convicted was first her secretary and then and sentenced to death.
Mr. Lim Gim Kheang, M.B., B.S. to Pokfulam. He appeared for the parents told us fairy tales, and {
the DTM & H prosecution with Mr. R. E. Lind-am glad of this. Our guiding has gained sell, now Paisae Judge, and in the movement has been rather like a (Lond.). preliminary hearing spoke for fairy tale. -
nearly five hours, outlining facts of the case.
the
-
"The guides in Hong Kong have
"I have
Divisional Commissioner.
cribed as a habitual drunkard, Tuk-tong, Mr. Wai Shin-pal Mr. Those Present
and could bring a witness to prove Li Sing-i, Mr. Lui Yam-thuen. Among those present at the that he was not. He absolutely Mr. Shum Pak-ming, Mr. Lo! Another man named Cheung Ia- "Then Sir Thomas Southorn (opening were:--
denied all the allegations made by Chung-wan, Mr. Ng Trak-wah. Lady MacGregor, the Hon. Mr. his wife, except the suicide threat Mr. Lau Sing-chong, and many wah was also tried with the accus-was ordered to Gambia and our
others. ed, but he was found not guilty other fairy god-father Mr. Tang T. H. King and Mrs. King. Mrs accusations
defendant said he Alarge number of wreaths and discharged. He was, however, Shiu-kin came along and said, "I Bartholomew, Mrs. C. G. Sedg- subsequently sentenced to life im- wish to put up something that wick, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabas- drank only when nagged or worri-were sent to the bereaved family,
of Lady ter and Mrg" Alsbaster, Lady Holed. He had been annoyed by the prisonment for having taken part will always remind us
Continuing,
in the kidnapping of the victim. Soutborn. Lady Southorn at once Tung, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and extravagances of his wife, and the eldest step-daughter Apart from his official duties, said, I would like something like Mrs. Lo, the Hon. Dr., Tso and stories his Mr. Hazlerigg takes a great in-a temple where we can play in the 3rs. Te'o, Mesdames C. Hoover, told about him: All the trouble July, and was now being support terest in public affairs, particular-open air and yet be sheltered E. Cock, A. R. H. Phillips, T. Hwas the fault of a third membered by his son, who was running a ly the Society for the Protection And so it was built and we are Lunson, M. E. Burslem, J. W. An of the family. of Children, the successful func here to-day to witness the open-derson, Gabbay, J. W. Riddoch, R. tioning of which is due in no small ing ceremony.” ~ measure to his efforts.
Mr. Tang's Reply ·
D. Gillespie, Chant. Mok Kon- (sang, Y. K.. Mok, Mr. and Mr. J.
Cross-Examination
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The san, Mr LF Giffening, gave evidence, in which he stated Cross-examined by Mr. Sin, der that in Hong Kong his father had A man of genial disposition and In reply, Mr. Tang said: "I feel D. Danby, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. R. fendant declared that he had fully only been badly drunk once, and an efficient and zealous official, Mr. honoured at having been asked to Hare, Mr. and Mrs. Y. X. Chow, meant to do what he had written on that occasion plaintiff had been THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION Hazlerigg's retirement will be open the extension building to Rev. and Mrs. J. R Higgs, Mr. of at the matshed. His wife's in a worse state.
The Magistrate deferred judg-] great loss not only to the Govern commemorate the association of and Mrs. J. Fleming, and the ragging drove him into that state
the Girl Misses Indah and 3, W. Buckwell. for mind. He had left his job in ment until 2.15 p.m. on October 5: ment but to the Colony in general Lady Southern with