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or POWER (BOPE
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¡BAWSERS
WELL
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1928.
A BOOM?
BRITISH TRADE IN NOVEMBER.
VERY
SATISFACTORY INCREASE.
the
British exports went up with a bound in November, and highest total for any month during the past three years is recorded in the Board of Trade returns issued The totals for the past three Novenbers were:
to-day,
1823 1920
·
£00,077,337 53,063, 6-17 70,609,631
1927........... Last month's total was an in- crease over October "this year of £9,442,537; over November, 1028, of $17,340,001 and over November,
·1025, of £8,632,201,
POLICE BAN AT SOCIETY
BALL.
PROGRAMME PRIZES FORBIDDEN.
GAME OF SKILL" SUB- STITUTED.
MURDER OF MRS. FORRESTIER.
DEATH SENTENCE PRONOUNCED.
LENIENCY TO SECOND
PRISONER CRITICISED.
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Because the police, hold that is
At the Shanghai Provisional www "a locters." a scheme by Court, Shanghai on Saturday. which Society women hoped to raise anoney at a ball for the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies at Woolwich had to be abandoned.
The at, says
the
Jude Li Ching Foo, with whoni sat Mr. Burdett, British Consular Official, passed sentence of death on Nyeh Kying-ie and ordered Chien Su Ling to serve Seary imprisonment in connection with. the marder of Mia E. T. Förres Evening News, ia The Guinea Ball, November 2nd at her home,
329 Avenue Haig, which is being held in the May
In his remarks upon the judg Fair, Hotel.
ment, 3r. "Burdott snid that the policy effieers concerned in the case were to be commended for their good work. The mercy shown to the second accused, a dangerous man as he had proved himself to be, Wis not wise. The evidence showed that the hawker, the wond
The chairman is Lady Towle, and the vice-chairman the Countess of Carlisle The Marchioness of Carisbrooke, under whose patron age the ball is taking place, in- tends to be present
The Ultimatum. The scheme which the authorities have banned involved the sale of programmes to guests at 3s each. Each programme was to bear a different number, and certain num- pazes of considerable Value.
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accused, aided and abetted Nyoch ying-ie, the first accused, en ro ing Mrs. Forrestier, and that he weat to the house to obtain, th money. While there, he contrived at the murder and afterwards shär
Exports Of Manufactures. The character of the increases ASYM more plensing than the amount, for when compared with Suveinber of lust yes, articles wholly or
mainly manufactured rose by £13,066,776.
The principal increases were:- Irun and steel and manufactures thereof, £52,756,922; machinery,ere were to enable the bolders toed the spoils with the murderer sad £1.441.988; cotton yarns and fanu Inetures £3,468,975; and vehicles, including locomotives, ships and aircraft, £1,790,867.
In his evidence, he gave renson or satisfactory explanation of his part in what took place, and it would be difficult to see what con atraction could be placed upon his. actions other than that he went to Mr Forrester's House for the purpose of assisting in a robbery and, if need be, prepared to com- init violent assault in order to ariain his ends.
M. Devogney, the manager of the another accomplice. hotel, received an intimation from! the police that the scheme must be In raw materials and articles dropped, and that if it was not mainly unmanufactured the in-proceedings would to instituted under the Lotteries Act against ereuse of £3901,437 was dergely ne- counted for by an advance in enal
those responsible for the ball. of £3,408,000, though she total for "Legal advise on the matter was last month was £379,005 below that sought by our directorate." recorded for November, 1925. official of the hotel company said
plan is to be washed out, and guests at the ball will compete for the prizes in
Figures For Imports, Imports for November, though they showed an increase on the preceding month of £2,387,029-the total being £107,417,832—were down by £5,978,012, when compared with the previous November
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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY January 10th & 11th.
THE
GLOBE TROTTERS
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Owing to unvoidable circumstances, the opening date of the Globe Trotters' season at the Star Theatre has been changed from Sunday, January 8th to
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10th,
The big creams were all in food, drink, and tobacco, there heading of E3,720,422, The other Grain and Bour, incronses were i 59,729,857; non-dutiable food and drink, £1,421,913; and, dutiable food and drink. £2,558,12.
There
decrease WILS
- of 21.411.350 in imports of meat.
Coal to the value of only £2,252 was imported last month, which was a decrease of 20,038,009 on the total for the previous - November, when the country was still suffers ing from the effets of the coal stoppure
Decrease's in imports included Raw cotton and cotton wanie, £2.989,437; coke and manufactur- ed fuel, £1,045,080; cils, fats and
manufactured, £1,339,846: resins iron and steel and manufactures thereof, £932,952
For the bleven months - ended November the imports totalled £1,113,962,580, A decrease £15,585:403 on the similar period of 1520, while British exports were valued at £630,271,478, an advance of £48,086,368 on the first deven months of last year.
STRANGE ANIMAL OF EAST AFRICA.
NANDI
BEAR" THAT MAY BE A GIANT HYENA.
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In a press
"The origin
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nurder against the second accused, With regard to the charge of he was found to have been a pria- way which our lawyers pro-cipal in the second degree:" that nounce to be legal
In
How Many Beads ? a big glass bowl-like a gold-fish bowl-which will be plae- ed in the ballroom, there will be hundreds of beads. Exactly how many will be known, to only one
person.
is, he aided and abetted the main offender in the perpetration of the crime. If, for some reason, it was considered proper to deal leniently with him, it would, therefore, have ecomed that the degree of his guilt was somewhat less than that of the first accused. When one consider- "There will be slips in the pro-ed the present conditions prevail-' gramme bearing the words: Iing in Shanghai, together with the guess there are beads in the extraordinarily savage nature of bowl, with a space for the name the murder, and had taken into consideration also the fact that and addives of the holder.
The prizes will be distributed there were an extenuating circuZI- sinong a certain number of per-stances whatever concerning the sons whose figures are nearest to case of the second accused, Mr. the actual number of beads.
"That scheme is a game of skill, and pruts-ne within the law. -
And, Another Another police arve against a similar charity scheme was made repently aguinat a titled woman who organised a ball at the same hotel.
She received a warning only a few hours before the function was to be held, and was threatened, with court proceedings if she carried through her project.
On that occasion the guests, in order to win the prizes, had to guess as nearly as possible the number of people present.
THE ONLY SON.
[BY WALTER M. GALLICHAN. ]
The Bishop of Hereford, address
TERROR OF KENYA COLONY,ing the Cambridge Unim Society said: One engaged in training air pilots during the war said that he had never known can only son pass the flying test."
Who will solve the mystery of the Nandi bear, that strange bens of the East African veld, which has terrorised the natives and taken heavy toll of their stock and wtrien devcurs. its prey in a manuer unlike that of any other animali asks the Morning Pust. The Nadi "bear" has also taker human life, killing a child of the Karasai ribe and since the tragedy, a number of people claim to have seen the animal.
The animal appears to bear a charmed life, for on every ocension when it has been sighted some un- usual circumstance saved it from identification and a Latin name A rifle jamned, or the ammunition was finished, or as elephant was When he noted big
Captain Ritchie, game hunter and the Game Warden of Kenya
a Colony, believes in the Nandi
and thinks it may be a giant hyena, though he admits
nerve
امه اداری مالی
Is this a proof that only sons are incapable of passing the test of confronting the difficult realities of life 7" The kind of quisite for adventuroux aviation is born with physical courage, and an innate endowment. Some are
others are not. Fewer still are endowed with intellectual and moral courage.
Many naturally timid military heroes have compensated for their. fear by an extraordinary display of Some of the world's bravery. greatest men and women have won fame through an austere conflict with a sense of inferiority.
There is no doubt that the only
child is frequently handicapped in the battle of life. The only boy. especially if he is the only child. it frequently coddled by an ever-fond mother to such an extent that he
it may be different from anything is never able to escape the depend-
Burdett concluded that be doubted the wisdam of extending mercy to a-criminak so ruthless and danger- ons to the public
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STAR THEATRE
DICK NORTON'S
GLOBE TROTTERS
En Casserole Revues
ence of childhood. Anatole France, TUESDAY, January 10th recalling his childhood with a doting mother, exclaimed.
There is no
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we know,"
But why a giant bycus should have six digits, as the spoor of the Nandi bear" sug- gests, he is at a loss to explain. tyranny more heavy than that of It is now clear that the pero a darling", is often intensely conceit
maternal love." The mother's And Wednesday, Jan. 11th tor of a third series of hitherto un- explained crimes is a hyena of huge ed and incapable of self-criticism. size. This beast, which recently He provides a problem for his killed twelve cattle near Tuss; does schoolmaster and his employer.
HAPPY MOMENTS"
his work in a most unprofessional More than all, he is intolerable to Thurs. & Fri, Jan. 12 & 13 INLANEN, In every case the earcase his wife.
is found almost unscratched except
"
The chief aim in parental eduen
for one shoulder, the nearby ribs tion should be to equip the child "SCENES AND SCREAMS" and the heart. The Kikuya say with independence and self-reliance that one of these redoubtable in adult life. The fond mother animals was killed at. Tuso four finds it hard to relax her authority years ago, that it was as big as a when the youth is approaching man- lion, and had ten epears through hood, and the relation between it before it died.
parent and child becomes a severo conflict in many cases.
An expert who investigated the matter has no doubt that the animal The result of the conflict is often. is similar to the Strandwo unfortunate. The boy develops a (Hyaena Brunnen) of South Africa, batred of all forms of authority, or a specimen of which he obtained he becomes insatiable in manhood sympathy of his wife, many years ago in the Kalahari, for the and which he describes as being his family, and his friends. The very large, of a dark brown colour tragedy is that the over-fond mother with darker spots and hair five is so well intentioned, so solicitous inches long, hanging down the for her son's happiness!-Daily, flaska
Prest.
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Fresh, fast fạn involving a comic tallor's assistant, his heroic idol, a “vamp,” a pair of shady lawyers, numerous bathing nymphs and a host of others-
CLARA BOW BILLIE DOVE
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LIFE! GUAR
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La
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