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INCURABLE SHOCK TO A CHILD
DEPRIVED OF AFFECTION AND
LAUGHTER
CONVERSION
Defendant Admits Charges
of of
Joseph Charles Gardner, ロカー employed, who was charged at the Central Magistracy on Wednesday with fraudulently converting to his town" aše $154.60, the money the Union Insurance Society Canton, again appeared on remand before Mr. E. Keen this morning.
Mr. W. A, MacKinlay of Messrs
firm, and the police were repre- sented by Chief Detective Lispec tor J. Murphy, who said that the
Condensed from "The New Culture in China," by Professor Deacons was for the complainant
Published Lancelot Forster, of the University of Hong Kong-
The witnesses at the Registryy Allen and Unwin (75. 6d.). ceremony, which was taken by Mr.f
officiating.
returning
OBITUARY
Sir Arthur Keysall Yapp
PROMINENT IN YMCA. MOVEMENT
The
to
-moo
The defendant admitted the
ed for a-week, for the decision
as to whether it should be dealt with summarily.
SHIP'S OFFICER INJURED
Fall From Deck Into Bunker
condition
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are certainly hard prosecution could prove the frandu- T. S. Whyte-Smith, were Mrs. LT is not that these slave girls are, whose lives Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 6, 1936 Stanton and Mr. B. Naes. There necessarily ill-nourished, ill-enough, enjoy greater happiness in lent conversion of over $2.000 on
will be a religious ceremony at the clad or physically below the level the course of their day's work about 40 different charges.
that ther than these slave giris can possibly charges and the case was adjourne Peak Church this afternoon at of their sisters, but
from have in the whole of their slave p. this to be followed by a re-stand apart, distinguished ception at the Hong Kong Hotel their fellows by their utterly cow-existence.
like expression, as though they The justification pot forward for Manila Couple Mr. Gordon Sarder of Manila, were strangers to the people among this system is that of economic
(whom they moved.
pressure: there being too many If it were not already gener-was married" to Miss Ramona
They are lifeless and hopeless mouths for the limited supply of ally recognised that the future Guevara this morning, Mr. W. LJ
because they are deprived of the rice, the obvious solution of the prosperity of Canton, no, less Lockhart-Smith than that of Hong Kong, is couple arrived at the Registry with most valuable ingredients of life-problem is to reduce the number and protection, (of months when the quantity of bound up in the need for close only one witness, Mrs. E. D. Bak family affection
friendship and laughter. Such rice cannot by any means be in- and cordial relations between maseda, and Mr. N. B. Whitley, the two places, the exchange of who is on the staff of the Supreme things are the vitamins that ani-creased.
Boys Are Not Sok!!- visits of important people in Court, acted as the second witness mate and give spark and meaning
This argument would be the two centres now in process It is understood that Mr. and to humanity. The girl sinks below
the human level who is deprived vincing and irresistible if it was of being completed would surely Mrs. Snyder are"
of these spiritual and social ele-ever invoked when a boy was con- An accident occurred on board be sufficient to bring the point Manila almost immediately.
ments which are the birthright of cerned, but it is never, or practic-the s.s. Cape St. Francis at one home to those afflicted with
every individual. Inevitably life ally never, the case that a boy has o'clock this morning, when Se myopic tendencies. Because
must wilt when family affection is to be sold or given away because cond Officer J. S. Kirkpatrick, there can be no shadow of doubti
withdrawn, just as surely as the there is insufficient food. In times while walking on deck, fell down jabout the official ideas on the
plant shrivels up if it is not nouri-jof famine a boy may be sold, be a bunker. subject. His Excellency, the
shed by sunlight and air.
come a beggar, or be handed over Governor has paid a quasi-
He was immediately conveyed The sale of the girl by the par- to the monks, but not in normal to the Kowloon Hospital in a ser- informal visit to Canton, being
ents is in itself such, a shock to circumstances. The plane of living ions condition received and entertained there
the child's self-respect that it utter-jwould be depressed still further with every semblance of cordia-
Enquiries made at the hospital ly destroys for ever all feeling at in order to keep the boys, for the just before our going to press re- lity. Whether his visit was
individual worthwhileness and self-integrity, permanence, and con- sulted in the information that Mr. {designed officially to cement the
confidence. The foundation ontinuity of the family depend cordial relations evident be-
London, To-day.
On Kirkpatrick's Sir Arthur (Keysall) Yapp, be reared is thus swept away. The
which the child's personality is to the male issue.
{"fair.” tween the Southern capital and
That is a matter of supreme im- the Colony or not-and there is K.B... former National Secre
Įstimulus to moral, and “spiritual portance, and it is this sacred unit no reason to suppose that it was tary of the Young Men's Chris
growth having been subtracted, the that must be preserved; but as the not-in point of fact the tian
Association and Deputy whole development of the child as girl is not essential to the family authorities at Canton did every President since 1929, collapsed
jin which she is born, but is de: thing they could to show him and died in his motor-car yes-
Loss Of A Home
stined in ordinary conditions to be; honour as the official represer-terday, after leaving the Wok- tative of this Colony. Thating YM.C.A. Reuter.
Love, trust, and hope, and the attached to another family, her hospitality the Governor and The late Sir Arthur, who was 67 general home atmosphere are essen-hold and her claims on her own people of the Colony are now rears of age in March this year, tial to a normal child, who strives family are much weaker than those ideal of her brothers, and therefore she returning.
Orleton, The reception of was born in
Hertford always to respond to the our Chinese visitors has been shire, on March 12, 1869, and was which affectionate parents hold be-is the first to be sacrificed when
A Shanghai Chinese enthusiastic and dignified; all the only son of the late Richard fore her. Adequate food and suf-the family structure is endanger-
rested in Garden Road near circles. official and non-official, Keysall Yapp. He married Alice ficient clothing, even if they
But if the special needs of the Lower Peak Tram Station at 7:15 from His Excellency down-Maud, second daughter of the late forthcoming, are not compensation wards, have collaborated in T. Hesketh Higson, in 1901, and enough for the loss of these spiri- poor family mean the sacrifice of a to-day with a masonic apron
taal forces. It is only because we the girl, the peculiar nature of the and sash in his possession. making the welcome as repre-had issue one son
her As the man could not give sentative AS possible. The Sir Arthur received his early are prone to think, in terms of the same family system makes
mo-welcome in the capacity of a slave satisfactory explanation British and Chinese business education privately and later en-material that we can, for a communities have played their tered the Hereford County College, ment, be deceived into believing in the wealthier household, for the where and how he obtained these respective parts in the welcome He first came into prominence in that life on such terms as even the problem of domestic service can articles, the police believe that he. and everything possible has social work when he became Hon best treated slave girls holds it, is only be solved, or rather has only must have stolen them.
been solved, by creating a Class The owner of the articles may been done to show that the Secretary of the Leominster worth while.
The ricksha coolies, the boat that has only duties and no rights apply for them exchange of visits is considered Y.M.C.A. in 1890, and General Se
(Continued on Page 3) Police Headquarters. 1 supremely important by all sec-cretary of the Derby Institution people, and such folk in tions of both communities. two years later. He jumped into It can hardly be denied that the limelight in 1897 when he was this is as it should be.. There elected Secretary for the National is no need to go over again all Council for YMCA's for Lan- the arguments about it and cashire and took up Y.M.C.A. work about. They have been in the Volunteer works in 1901. reiterated by far more worthy in 1907 he was General Secretary pens than ours. Suffice is it to of the Manchester YMCA and WAS Honorary Director of Food: say that the need for co-opera- tion is generally recognised. Economy from September, 1917, His Honour the Mayor of Can-till February, 1918.
MANY HONOLES ton crossed the t's and dotted! the 's of the point with his. He was Knighted in 1917 and timely references to the possi-invested with the KB.E
while
bilities of the future when he that of an Officier de l'ordre de la. among his foreign decorations was
said at the Government House
*The jmovement:
Youth"
dinner: "For the restoration of Couronne (Belgium), and he was the prosperity of our city we also honoured by China with the Wen Hu decoration. He was a are embarking upon a gigan-fellow of the Royal Colonial In- tie programme of economic re-
stitute, a Member of the Royal construction, and in this con- Horticultural Society and of the nection we require foreign assistance given in a spirit ofd three books on
Institute of Hygiene. He publish- the TMC.A. absolute friendliness. We shall
Romance of welcome. foreign investments
the Red Triangle.” “In the Service and co-operation, particularly from Hong Kong, our close of Youth." and "The Adventure of neighbour." The implications of that invitation are unmis- takable. It is an invitation to business interests in this Colony to do themselves and our Chinese neighbours an equal amount of good by extending that assistance in a spirit of absolute friendliness, and there lis absolutely no reason bo suppose that it will be ignored. Big: business will probably bel attracted by the possibilities of profit, and the Chinese, who
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Northbound Butterflies
LOUDLESS Sulpher (Catop- filia Eubale) whose favourite
form 97 per cent, of the popu-haunts are the orange groves of lation of this Colony will with the South, congregate in large num- equal enthusiasm, we feel sure,bers upon moist places at the side welcome the closer cultural re-(of stresma. In the Spring of each lations with the capital of year, they rise in tens of thousands Kwangtung which a closer and fly away Their direction is comingling of business in-Invariably northward. terests between the two places will represent. In short, the exchange of visits has further
widened the way for closer
affinities between the two
CHEF JUSTICE LEAVES
FOR SHANGHAI
places, and by their friendliness) His Honour the Chief Justice,
and cordiality, has given them Sir Atboll
|a fying start" 3 The communi
ties concerned in both places in order to attend the Fall Court mast now do the rest.
Ja human being is arrested.
are ed
China,
MASONIC APRON AND SASH
Found In Possession Of Chinese
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L Ripley
THE BUTTERFLIES OF FLORIDA
THAT ONLY FLY NORTH
(Cloodless Suphor)
Benny
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MORE THAN
MRS.
JANET SHELBY OF HOLLYWOOD-
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