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the whole there is no child attend- ant to equal a Chiness amak. How many of us have suffered years ago Yesterday's weather report, fare-
from the type of nursery, tyrant cast and remarks, issued by the that Rupeso KIPLING has portray. Royal Observatory at 8.40 p.med with the bitterness of personal sinted:-
expérience Most of us" recollcat ; either a succession of all sorts, or Easter Eggel
"trusted servant," on whom wei learned and practised the whole art of hating thoroughly, The nah is more kindly, and, to the child, more understandable. In any case, the majority of us out here rely, and will continue to rely, on amaha to look after our nurseries.
The anti-cyclone remains central over N.E. China. Depressions are shown to the N.E. of Japan and over Tongking..
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HONG KONG, APRIL 18, 1931,
HIGH SPIRITS IN HONG KONG.
A mia and burly chair coolie has been, very properly, fined for hit ting D little English girl and making her nose bleed. But there is less need for indignation about his
Easter eggs Bays the Evening Standerd grow more gogeous ench
year,
ated.
New comers are the mam- moth affairs with a complete cock tail or liquour set inside. Many of these sots are beautifully decor
One cooktail act, intended had a shaker painted for someone with sporting tastea,
on which was a huntsman.
The pack fo lowed on the ginases.
Hot on the "Scont."
A Brighton policeman when on the Parndo my attracted by smell of scent. Ha traced it to a sixty-year-old man-and arrested him. It was alleged, when the mna came before the Court, that the perfume was among articles atolen from a hoardinghouse.
Poiret.
few
SUMMAR OF NEWS
Local.
A
H.K.V.D.C. Orde
Page Interesting lecture the Uni- versity,
Page 7. daring but fat bid for liberty was made of Thursday night at Victoria Ghol■ long- teria conviet.
Page T Week-end wireless prommes.
Page 4.
Sport.
afternoon.
Hong Kong children hardly belong!
Home football fixtures for day. P.10. to the kind that "are seen and not Worth Thinking Over heard," and their little amenities: At a regimental reunion in Bern-
The Memoirs of M. Poiret Starting times at Fanlingto are not confined to their amaha, staplo Lieut.-col W. H. Brooke, for Inany
Pag10. yearA the arbi- Burrow. A headmistress, putting a young torini) Battalion of the Devonshire
M.C., commanding the 6th (Territer of Parisian elegance are i Selections for to-day's e aspirant for the kindergarten Regiment, said: "The Englishman monument of egoism; yet there is Meeting: By Morning Dew. Page through a little examination, was is anti-militarist from intense something vory disarming about M. Poiret's vanity and bounce. He. told in ley tones: You haven't stupidity. Anti-militarism runs
leave one with a tender feoling Cup and three League games are
The final of the Sunday Heral the risk of seeing England defent
for his extravagant ostentation. made that letter very well, but ed, our sons carried off into Rus- While still in bis een he hated on the football programme for this it might be 7," and a lop-sided sin labour camps, and our daugh-
Page 10. a designer, and within N war hastily mended. All these ters to be the concubines of the M. Doucet into taking him on as
foul and filthy Soviets,
monthus he had bounced M. Doucet things aro inevitable in the Far East, and parents look to the Gov-1 ernment to maintain schools where infant angularities can be correct- ed. A band of very devoted tench- ers does its best, but it cannot be said that fabrics and equipments are up to standard. We know that in these days there are many claims on Government consideration, but schools, for British children should
not be overlooked.
H.M.V. and Columbia.
into letting him go. He bounced Latest Cables. Lady Oxford into inviting him to Spanish refugees are flocking to Downing-strent, and he bounced Gibraltar.
Page 9: Baroness Henri de Rothschild out Details of the hugo merger be-
An eye-witness has told Reuters. of his shop. Thereafter he bounced rivals tween those former
the
nt Madrid how Gramophone Co. (H.M.V.) and the the Faubourg into attending his correspondent
And what parties Queen Ena spent her inst terrible has contemplated for soms.
night in Madrid: .. Page 9. time they past, were announced last month.
Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of In- dia, and Lady Willingdon received a civic welcome on their arrival at Bombay.
Pago 9.
Columbia Graphophone Co., which parties. wero! Rarely has
A holding company will be formed of the two concerns. The now to acquire the entire issued capital company will have a capital of over £0.265,000, with a market value of £18,000,000.
Both com- panies have world-wide ramifica tions, and the new combine will be linked up with the Radio Corporă,
ter company's 50 per cent, share- holding in the HM.V. Co. The Columbia Graphophone Co. already has a large interest in America (International).
regrettable lapse than one might M. BRIAND'S ANNIVERSARY. tion of America, through the lat. suppose. The little girl, and a littlo
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Invish imagination run such riots of hospitality, rarely have so many fountains sparkled among the orchids. M. Poiret now lives in retirement, and spends his days fishing sadly. But a man of his ebullient nature cannot remain, in retirement, very long.
A Nazi Leader.
Prineo Bibesco, who is engaged on a flight from Paris to Saigon, has Brashed between Gaya and Allaha bad.
Pago D.
The steamer Gensan Maru, en, route to Kamchatka, has wireless: ed that she has been caught in an ice floc since the 14th inst. Page 9. "The Last Felony of a Great Felon" is how the newspaper
boy, in attendance, had evidently POLITIDuss used to be a long-lived been giving the man, a pretty thin race. They began, young, and as time playing about with his chair spruce youngsters would start, like through its subsidiary, Columbia being beaten with a truncheon. It Socialista describes King Alfonso's
were
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The scuffle between the Hitlerites and the police at Königsberg re- sulted in a son of the ex-Kaiser also produced a bloody head for a manifesto. much more interesting and dan gerous individual than Prineo
in
Pago J.
One demonstrator was killed and throo wounded and seven other- mess, Upper Egypt, in a clash be- wise injured in a rio at Deker-
tween the police and the riolera.
Mr. A. G. Lindholm, of the August Wilhelm, Dr. Goebbels, the Scandinavian Alliance Mission of first lieutenant of Herr Hitler and North America, has beco captured the leader of the Berlin Nazis. They bandits near Paotoueben.
'Doktor" is Ja extraordinary
Page 3. figure. He outvios his own collen- An unconfirmed report that the now Spanish Government has re- gues in ultra-patriotic fervour and in anti-Semitism. He took no part nounced the Catholic religion has the war-he has been. Jame from rocived prominence in the Preze. Pago 0. birth. He looks Jewish and in sus- pected of mixed blood, even by his He is not more than admirers. disappointed port. His play, "The five feat two, The "Doktor" is a
staged after hia political successes,
As the result of the rojection of He owns a plutocratic lightblue the Government's Fiduciary Notes was a failure. He likes luxury.
seven-seater car. Ho sita in the
Bill, the dissolution of both Houses same Juxurious chair in the same luxurious office from which Ra. of the Australian Parliament is
fallow within likely to
three thenau controlled the supply of
months.
Page D. German raw materials during the war-a caricature of a would-be Interviewed regarding the sup- He is a nud Spain, the Foreign Minister Napoleon with tightly-compressed pused secret treaty between Italy lip and a soft collar. transitory figure in politics thrown (Senor Lerrons) said that he had up by the time of stress in which informed France that in the event his country is living, and yet dan of a Franco-Italian conflict, France Spain's gerous because of his oratorical could always count on
Page 9. powers,
loyalty.
canopy until he was riled beyond DAVID of old, by slinging missiles of wit against an aged GOLIATH. human endurance. Obviously the Thus WINSTON CHURCHILL attacked Stamina of Women Athletes, sympathies of Police Inspector the late Lord BALFOUR and Mr. Anxiety about the strning to which women athletes subject them. Logan, who bailed the man out, and LLOYD GEORGE, and the great W. Esolves is no new thing, writes a in Court said everything he could GLADSTONE himself. But the war correspondent to a London paper took heavy toll of statesmen, and in and I have heard it expressed for hint, and of Mr. ScROFIELD, England there are bast few survivors many times since they began to
compete, in track, field and cross that most patient of magistrates, of the days prior to August, 1914. country events. But I have heard not entirely against the Over in France, however, M. of remarkably few cases in which It sounded na if both BRAND recently celebrated the remember several years ago, when serious damage has been done. I those public servants have good twenty-fifth anniversary of his women's athletics were just begin- Wanderer," rejected for years and reason to know all about Far entry into French Ministerial poli-ning, discussing the achievements Ho with Mr. H. M. Abrahams. Eastern children, and visualised tick. It was on March 14, 1906, that and stamina of the competitors perfectly well what (in all prob- M, BRIAND entered his first Cabinet, | was of the opinion that they were Ability) happened.
He has been three times Minister to be compared with boys of 18, and I should think that precau. On the other hand, there is some of Justice, four times Home Secretions on these lines would avert thing to be said on the children's try, twice Minister of Education, risk of harm. After all, women side. Which of us, if brought up eleven times Prime Minister, add athletes have consolations denied to in the country, has not called down sixteen times Foreign Secretary. their brothers, While I was talk ing to Mr. Abrahams we saw n on his head the just wrath of In twenty-five years of Cabinet ex defeated runner, exhausted and in Farmer Giura for stealing his perience he has served in twenty tears, being kissed hack into aeren apples and playing in his corn five different Governments and held ity by the captain of her team. Mr. Abrahams told me that he had Who has not driven the gardener thirty-six distinct portfolios. It is never used that method. to attempted violence and roused in itself a bewildering record, but it is all the more striking when one the rage of the gamekeeper by tros- passing, and by the use of that reculls the variety of the causes he historic weapon the catapult against has served. Like so many French corduroy trousers as well as in statesmen, M. BRAND started life the hunting of birds and rabbits! As a Socialist, and an advanced one, If we lived in towns a harmless 100. In 1804 he championed the
*Local Notes and Events
The forthcoming marriage is an- The London Vilice of the HONG green-grocer, a confectioner and the idea of the general strike, yet in!
FLEET STREZT, E.C.4., is constants keeper of a small bicycle shop 1910 be crushed a threatened rail-Louneed of Mr. Antonio Natuling dos Merees Jorge, of Macao, to ly receiving Enquiries from Home were our probable vistims. A chair way strike by calling up all rail- Miss Rosa Leang, residing at 23, Manafastarara regarding Suitable Firms to act Agenta for their
coolie and his canopy must be in wayne reservists and arresting the Mosque Junction, Hong Kong
member of the strike committee. producte in Hong Kong and finite temptation to "small and He first made his name as a strong The Rani Australian Gold Mining word competition and eign South China.
agile," and no doubt the men who anti-clerical. It was to carry outing Co., Ltd, inform us that the ply for hire near the Pank station the Law for the Separation of March 28, 1931 amounted to 1,804.40,
clean-up for the 4 weeks ended rettes were offered as prizee. suffer many things. We make no Church and State that he first took crs, gold. imputation against the two children offer in 1908, but in 1921 ho ne
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The annual athletic sports of St. stated-in-evidenco it may be that with the Vatican in the teeth of Joseph's College will take place to-day at Carolins Hill commene they walked in upon a highly do strong Radical opposition. In 1913, ing at noon. Parents, Old Boys |licate situation, prepared by other he increased the period of military and friends of the College are
cordially invited. and more experienced young resi-, service to three years because of dents of the Far East.
the German danger; last year D Every parent in Hong Kong Government in which he was For comes up against this problem of 'eign Scoretary authorised the eva children and Chinese servants. We cuation of the Rhineland before havo heard a little girl pronounce the treaty period was over. It is on the future spiritual state of her indeed, in his last incarnation on
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At Contral Magistracy yesterday teer Rifle Clab for their meeting three Chinese were convicted on the at the Tai Hang Tange. Baie charge of keeping a common gani, in the various "events were small, ing houso at 145, Shaukiwan Road only 13 of the corps out of a men and were each fined 8300 or two bership of 274, competing for the months. It was stated that the championship. The shooting on the weather-was not good, the only game" took the form of a miss-hole-perhaps owing to the dul
possible throughout the meeting being made by Sergeant Terrill at 500 yeards. The prizes were prej Bunted by Mrs. Pritchard, And Five boarding-house runners were Major Pritchard read a letter from brought before the Hoa. Commdr. H.E. the Governor expressing bis G. F. Hole, R.N., at the Marine regret that he was unable to attend Court this morning on the charge distribute them. The Major- of boarding the Blue Funnel then expressed the thanks of the steamer Tyndareus on Thursday corps to the donors of the prizes. Northcota for the without the permission of the Ligut. M. S
officer on duty. All the defendants good work the had done in conneo pleaded guilty, two of them being tion with the meeting, and the "The per may be mightier than found to have a previous conviction officers of the corps. for their the sword, but it definitely isn't against them. They were fined 380 assistance.-Hong Kong
Daily mightier than the truncheon," re- or two weeks and the other three Press, April 18, 2006. marked Mr. Hamilton, at the Kow. 810 or one week. imposing a fine of $2 on a Chinese Joon Magistracy yesterday, when
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letter-writer. and fortune-teller, When two Chinese were charged
We are informed that a priveto amah with the precision of Jons director of French foreign policy who pleaded guilty to having before Mr. Williams yesterday with telegram has been received in this Leeping a common gaming house the death of the Empresa Dowager Colony from Shanghai announcing CALVIN on of the Grand Inquisitor continuously since 1925 that he is
wherein the game of ze mi was of Spain, we have heard a shrill most likely to be remembered. His
Pleading guilty to the charge of haing played, Mr. Loseby (for the or Empress of the East, which stream of pidgin abuse on suppleness has not pleased whole disobeying a traffic signal at the defence) asked for the case to be event occurred at Peking on the oth instante-decensed-Empress was rickiha puller who had bumped his hearted nationalists or single-mind-bottom of Garden Rand, Mr. C. E. dismissed as the warrant, which NEWS OF THE FAR EAST young charge. An Anglo-Indian ed progressives, but it is undeniable Holmes was fined 810 by Mr. Sebo was executed at 32, Sai Street, had the first wife of the Emperor Hien field at Central Magistracy yester.been applied for in respect of 178. Fung and mother of the Emperor of conventionalised humour could that his long period of service day. Mr. Holmes said that he Hollywood Road. He pointed out Tung Chi. She was nearly fifty- hardly have done better. We all has spen Franco-German relations thought the pointsman gave him that the Police had to keep strictly one years of age and was married know the Chinese reaction of good placed on a more satisfactory basis the sigan to go but evidently he to the warrant. Inspector Shannon to Hien Fung about thirty-one explained that though the house years ago. Her decenso appears to **A PAT, talk then seemed possible before Locarno,
The Em- tempered wonder.
was known as 32, Sai Street, the have been unexpect my all the same big taipan," is He has made himself so necessary
entrance was in Hollywood Road press of the West, the second wife
dition was at last reports from the while the second (his assistant) was past been seriously ill, and her con- North considered rather critical; int no report of the Empress of the East having even heen indisposed has been received. It is therefore not improbable that a mistake has was not all that could have been the announcement Hong Kong The weather during the holidays | been made in the transmission of
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