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WEATHER REPORT.
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be some criticism raised! against this novel procedure, but when it is realised that the deten- tion is solely for the child's own good, and that of other similarly helpless juveniles, there should be no objection to the plan being put into operation. It is certainly the
TOO MUCH FOR TWO.
Shansi province has never before CORRESPONDENCE. shown such spontaneous hospitality to an honoured guest as it is ravonl- ing at present to Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang. But Marshal Feng, says a living yery humbly. He wants no Chinese news agency, insinta an luxury, and lives in a house 30 small that he has no room for guests is only luxury is a wire- less set, erected near his house, with
and the outside world.
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tinue along the China Coast and only effective means of countering which he keeps in touch with China would seem as if the two Inspectors |
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atricken by the unwelcome and un- expected appearance of an inspector in his factory.
car,
CLERK SENT TO PRISON.
COUNSEL'S PLEA FOR MERCY.
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Sin, Apropos Mr. Finnegan's re- marks concerning the S.P.C.A.. it H,K.V.D.F. FUNDS EMBEZZLĖD, engaged are employed in a direct
A man with 17 years' Governmené, instead of a supervisory capacity.
It was not by direct work that servicë, to his credit-So King Man, The new Assistant Chaplain of Henry Ford, the other day, turned St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon-out his 2,000,000th model "4"
a clerk in the employ of the Hong the Rev. Edward A. Armstrong,
Kong. Volunteer Defence Forc was sentenced to 18 months' im- prisonment with hard labour by Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal Sessions yesterday for converting money belonging to the V.D.F. to his own use and for making ure of a forged chop for receipt purposes.
P.A. (Cambridge)-is expected here Not so satisfactory are the Gov by the P. & D. &. Kashgar on ernment's plans to afford better Thursday afternoon, To welcome protection to mui tai. Severo Mr. Armstrong, a congregational social, to which, all are invited, penalties are proposed for those will be held on Friday at 9 p.m. found guilty of ill-treating these in the Church Hal. Mr. Armstrong too-frequently unhappy girls, in-is from a Mission Church at St. Mary Stokes, Ipswich, where he cluding imprisonment without the has been Curatein-Charge since option of fue. In the event of November, 1997. her employer's death, the Secretary. for Chinese Affairs may make any order he thinks fit regarding the future of à mui tmi, acting in the girl's own interest. He may, for example, refuse to allow her to go back to her parents or natural guardians on the death of her em- player, if he considers that it would be to her advantage not to return to her own people. Further tighten ingup of the law in various other
ment at the hands of callous em-'
nor is it by direct work that two Inspectors can supervise an area so large as that of Greater Hong Kong The work of these Inspectors can be efficient only to the extent that they control an efficient subordinate staff, sufficiently large for the nature of the work involved.
From the nature their work, knocking around at all times and in all places, and their number, there is no body of men better fitted for the task than the police, änd Mr Shichitaro Yada, former
some scheme of co-ordination where- Japanese Consul-General in Shang- by the S.P.C.A. Inspectors could be incorporated in the Police force, hai, and known as favouring a liberal policy in Sino-Japanese supervising its P.C.A. netivities, relations, will be appointed Minds would give results, it seems to me, ter to Switzerland, according to the infinitely greater than those obtain Oraka Mainichi. The newspapered by the unaided work of two lone also understands that Mr. Torikicti individuale.-Yours, etc.. Obata, former
'DO IT NOW." Ambassador to Turkey, soon will replace Mr.
Hong Kong. October 20. Doichi Matsuda as Ambassador to Italy. Mr. Obath now is attached to the Foreign Office in Tokyo. Mr. Isaburo Yoshida, the present Minis
ed Ambasador to Turkey.
Andent and Modern,
Accused Pleads Guilty On his behall, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. F. H, Leseby (o behalf of Messrs. Russ & Co.), made a strong appeal for leniency in view of accused's long term of ear- vice and previous good conduct
Mr. H. K. Holmes who conducted the prosecution said that accused entored the Government servico in February, 1912, and was appointed crderly room clerk to the "Hong" Kong Volunteer Defence Corps on June 23, 1916.
HELP FOR THE HELPLESS.
It is good news to learn that, the Government has realised the urgent necessity of further legislation for the protection of women and girls As already reported, revision is
The struggle between modernity contemplated of the Ordinances redirections is proposed, all with theter to Switzerland, will be appoint
and traditional" English conserva- In the course of his duties bo had lating to domestic service and in-earnest desire to protect the mui
tism is illustrated by Woburn
to attend to ordinary monthly no- dustrial employment, and reformas tai against cruelty and ill-treat-
Abbey, the home of the Duke and in both directions are long overdue.
One of the picturesque features Duchess of Bedford: The Duchess, counts of expenditure sad the three The muita problem is again to ployers, but still there is no in-ot Peping life-the parade of con- despite her 6 years, is one of the counts against him related to dis
demned criminals through the city most enterprising English br dealt with, and steps are to be dication of the Government's inten-streets-has been abolished "by London to Karachi, India, and Corps owed to different firme. In- She recently few from bursements of money which the taken to prevent the exploitation ion to enforce Part III. of the General Li Fu Yin, military com of child and female labour in Ordinance of 1923 which provides in General Li issued orders that plane herself part of the way. Thepropriated it to his own use.
mander of the city. At the same back within a week, piloting the stead of paying the money he ap factories It is only three months for the registration of these girls public executions must crase, and Duke, however, is typically Eng- The ago that a case was heard in the The first two parts of this Ordin-criminals condemned to die must lish in his conservatism. Kowloon Court relating to the ill-anse have been, enforced, the third hereafter be shot at dawn without Duchess's plane may stand outside for such payment wich had to be publicity. The order follows a re- the abbey, but nothing has been rendered in order to supply ac- cent incident, when a condemned changed inside since the early nine-knowledgments and a die or chop lamps and was made which was the subject of highway robber addressed large teenth century, even the streets, telling them he had en- crowds be was carried through candies being retained in prefer the eccond count.
ence to electricity. jeyed every minute of his life, and did not mind dying after the fun
remains inoperative.
The Government has had certain strong objections to enforcing the law pertaining to registration of all mini tani, hut strangely enough
Bathing Pool for Brighton,
air-
The Ministry of Health has sane tioned Brighton Town Council's
There were vouchers or receipts
Forged Dina.
Replying to bis Lordship, Mr. Holmes said that other forged dies might have been used hut the counte were selected by the Attorney General. Additional charges could have been added.
treatment and over-working of a muż trai, during which proceedings the fact was revealed that a girl received the generous sum of thirty- five cents for 10 hours of night work in a knitting factory. In it now proposes to register some of he had had. commenting upon this scandalous these girls. An employer who takes state of affairs wo expressed the
amui laai out of the Colony will Chinese" lobbyists are as much scheme for building a vast open Lope that the Government would not be permitted to bring her back in the United States, according to £175,000. The pool, which will be of a nuisance as their counterpart air bathing-pool at a cost of lost no time in revising what passes unless she has been registered here General Hsu Yung Chang, Chair-designed to for the Factory Coda in this before leaving. Moreover, no per
son may bring a nuci daai into the Colony. It is with particular glati Colony who has not been here be fication, therefore, we learn of the fore, and been duly registered as Government's proposals to amend such. These new regulations doubt the Industrial Employment of less will restrict, farther entry of these girls into Hong Kong, which Children Ordinance. The enforce is one step forward along the road relves. Hereafter, says the Gover- scheme. They say in view of the session from May until the time of
AT of the
Government.
accommodate 500 Hopei Provincial bathers and 1,000 spectators, will be that he and his assistants have been the reconstructed. Aquarium. Al- General Hau saye built near the Palace Pier opposite bothered constantly by self-styled though it is claimed that the pool
representativas ""
of
His Lordship: He is charged with possession of the die on or about May 4. Was that die still arrest 1-Yes. The dis in his possession at the time of his
duced. Certain chops were found various will be one of the finest in the 'and accused admitted them.
So that the chop Was in his pos
groups in the province, who turn world many Brighton ratepayers out to, represent"nobody but them- are not favourably disposed to the
of reform, even if it be a small one. nor, persons who claim to repre- Gradually, and by slow degrees, eent any society or district must the problem is being solved-but present clear credentials bofore how gradually and how slowly! In they will be given interviews with 1923 it was declared that no more him of his assistants. His time is girls should be engaged in the too much occupied, he said, to be Colony na mui tani. In 1920 it is wasted on "lobbyista,"
WAJ pro-
His Lordship: The receipts were uttered to the Hong Kong Govern- ment-Yes.
Counsel's Pla
Accused rendered signal service during the strike of 1926. and was mentioned specially by Government in that connection and Government rewarded him for that good ar-
viga
ment of the revised law will bring
present bathing facilities it is his arrest 1-Yes." Hong Kong more in line with
superfluous and will result in a further burden on the rates. The modern ideas concerning child and
future of Volks railway, the first female labour in factories, though
electric railway in the world, is also still far short of what should be.
jeopardised by the scheme. At pro- sent the railway runs from the air. Jenkin pointed out, that, sc- In the first place, night-work for
Palace Pier to Black Rock and is cused had 17 years' service with the to be enacted that girls already sc women and young persons is to be engaged may not be brought into
patronised by thousands of visitors Government to his credit which Absolutely prohibited, and for the the Colony-unless they have been Tibetan Lamas, Mongolian Budd-every day. The lease expires this meant that he had become pension- previously resident here, and the hists, and Chinese Taoist and year, and it is doubtful whether the ablo. If a conviction was registered purposes of the Ordinance night net duly registered during their Buddhist priests in Peping have Council will renew it is view of its he would lose that pension Accus- work is clearly defined as inbour residence. By these two restrictions got together to defend their temples approval of the bathing pool, which ed had been with the Headquarters between the hours of 10 p.m. and it will be possible to prevent any from proposed confiscation by Kuo- will interfere with the running of Office of the Corps and Lieut. Col.
increase in the number of mini taai | wintang“ reformers who want to
the railway and the only alterna G. Bird, the Commandant of the am. Further, persons under in Hong Kong-which is something turn them into schools. After a
tive to scrapping it would be a new Corps, had attended Court and was eighteen years of age must not be gained, though very far short of series of smaller parades, 3,000 starting station balf-way along Me prepared to say that accused had deria Drive. Work on the pool will bren held in highest regaid by the employed in what are designated what is demanded by opponents of priests, representing the prin
dangerous trades," and to the list the system, namely, its complete cipal religions except Christianity, begin during the autumn and will military staff and by the Colonel
abolition. We fear those in Eng- marched to the City Hall and provide employment for hundreds himself.
of men. of these already existing, lead and who are interesting themselves begged the Mayor to protect the THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE of Horgay Coal, na she now lies, with Processes and the manufacture of in the max tant question will not be rights of the religious orders. Ap THE
satisfied with what the Hong Kong prehension was aroused among the MEETING will be held (Weather
vermilion are added. Nor may Government proposes to do-nor, priests when street-car employees, Looking Back 25 Years, Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on
womeŋ be engaged in "dangerous we suspect, is the Government itself led by a Kuomintang reformer, 26ru OCTOBER, 1929, SATURDAY,
The police officer in charge of the Commencing at P.X.
trades" without the special per-altogether satisfied. It is pursuing seized a large Buddhist temple,
At all material times accused was The First Boll will be Rung at 3.30 r..
mission of the Protector of Labour. the line of least resistance rather broke up all the idols, and started station at Shatzukok, "on the fron- The Charge for Admission to the Pabile
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& month. He was a. married manD Enclosure will be $1.00 for all Parsons
These are progressive steps which which it is feared would evoke out the priests who had lived their surprised by the appearance of four living on a wage of roughly 8140
foot-sore travellers. They told him including Ladies.
will be generally welcomed by all strong protest. This may be good lives there.
they were starving, and asked for with five children. He suffered who have any regard for the well tactics, but it seems to beg the ques
food. They had been in the Hongill. That east upon his pocket a from illness and his wife was also being of the poorer classes, though tion rather than attempt to solve
A Chinese newspaper in Peping least ten weeks, and were
Kong house of detention for at
greater strain than it would bear. no doubt there will be opposition
which has distinguished itself dur thoroughly sick of it that they were In addition he was called upon to expressed by those who have been in the babit of employing lábour
move because be could not pay his ing the six months of ita career by going to try their luck at Shang- a violent attack upon foreigner's in hai. They were walking to Shang further burden, upon his pocket. rent and the cost of moving put a under such conditions as are to be
the former capital has been closed hai. Could the police-officer kindly Those were the circumstances of his prohibited. Even in England em.
by the police. The paper, the tell them if they were near that ployers strongly protested against the enforcement of regulations
Chingtien Hain Pao, began in its place then "Not by a long way," fall which resulted in his appear. very first issue an attack upon the controlling the employment of
Legation Quarter status, in which replied the constable, and when ance before the Court. juveniles and women" in factories, During the week-end the Colony the residence of foreign' diplomats couple of days' walk, you will very the date on which his criminality His Lordship: Can you indicate you get into Kwangsi, after a but the mass of public opinion was had a clear bill of health as re-
was described as "the bottom of the likely be attacked by rabe." "We started-No, I cannot, except by unanimous in favour of such indus-gards crees of notifiable disease. On
of devils." The police did not don't care," was the reply. trial reforms, and gradually the Friday, two cases of enteric, one
The taking these dates here. The ear- çite is anti-foreign policy in clos abuses of the early Victorian era British and one Chinese were reing it, however, but stated it had Chaplain has been getting joba anliest date is May, 1929. disappeared.
What is the date of the dis So here in Hong ported.
ships for men not desperately in printed subversive criticism of the need of them and letting us be covery -That was in August, 1929. Kong we shall see the gradual
Nanking Government. Chinese overlooked. We are going to walk betterment of hours and conditions While working on the old Hong editors in all parts of the country right on to Shanghai. We thought,
The Sentence. of labour, and an effective check Kong Hotel sito at about 2.20 p.m. have petitioned the authorities to though, that we were pretty near imposed upon those who would exyesterday, a Chince coolie let withdraw the order suspending the Shanghai now, for we have had a criminal
His Lordship: Bo. he followed a ploit children and women driven by piece of rock fall or his right leaching Pan, which was closed early long tramp, having left the Kow- August 11 don't know that that from May to poverty to accept any conditions cutting himself badly. He was in October because it printed 4 luon Institute after a bun fight."" would be so. I am not aware that A long as they are able to earti a later removed to hospital in the manifesto of the Left Wing of the The kind-hearted officer took com- any criminal aots were committed few cents for food,
ambulance.
passion on the poor fellows and by him in the intervening period. gave them a little money and some The depositions do not disclose any food. He said that they ate be such acts during the period and the A Court action has just been filed twee them at least 7lbs. of bread counts do not disclose any. in New York to test the right of and half a ham, skin and all."-- pioducers to use material copy Hong Kong Deily Prest, October, righted for silent motion pictures 22, 1001.
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A unique feature of the proposed new regulations is that providing Kowloon Inlarid Lot No. · #272 for the removal and detention' by situated at Tai Nan Street was the authorities of any child or sold at the Crown Land Office yee young person found in a factory or terday afternoon to Mr., Kwok workshop where it is suspected the Taing of 1, Wong Chuk Street for law is being defied. It is pointed 83,565. The upset price was 83,465 out that if such a juvenile were the The land has an area of about 1,090 chief or only witness of the offence, sq. feet and its annual rental is there would be great temptation 822.
in the mind of the employer to cause the disappearance of the We are informed that the Hon. witness. This would be a compara- Dr. R. H. Kotowall. C.M.G., tively easy matter in the case of LL.D., Mr. Chau Yue Teng, J.P., a child or young person, therefore Mr. J. M. Wong, J.P., and Mr. it is proposed to give the author Wong Kam Fuk, J.P., have kindly ities power to remove such a witness consented to join the Committee of for detention." in a suitable place," the Diocesan Boys' School and where inquiries could be made free Orphanage. The first three gentle- from any interference sa to whether men are Old Boys, and Mr. Wong official suspicions as to infractions Kam Fuk has had three sons at the of the law were justified.. There' School:
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said he was indicted for very Addreising accused, his Lordship
serious offences, while additional counts could have been added. If Court, where the complaint was Looking Back 50 YearE. filed, it was eaid that this is the Last night in Canton was a red he were to pass a light sentence ho first time sound pictures devices letter occasion, for at eleve o'clock would be encouraging other people have figured in litigation. Defen- would be published the pang or list to act in the same way. The ern- dants in the case are Warner of successful Kn-Jin graduates. fence he was about to paze he did
not consider to be a heavy one. Brothers Pictures, Inc.
and The interest of the populace con- Douglas Fairbanks Pictures, Inc. siste not in the success of the He had takers fall account" According to the complainants, graduates for themselves, but for what Mr. Jenkin had anid. He had Johnston McCulley, author, and the the result of the Wei Sing lottery, also taken account of prisoner's Frank A. Munsey Company, the On occasions like the one alluded length of service and his services alleged violation of copyright oc to it is customary for the gates of during the difficult period of 1925. curred when "The Mark of Zorro," the city to be left open to the pec- Accused would have to go to prison the silent picturs rights for which plc, whose excitement, owing to the for 18 months with hard labour an were obtained by Mr. Fairbanks, lottery, is usually intense-Hong each count, the sentences to run was turned into a sound picture. Kong Daily Press, October 22, 1876. concurrently.