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THE HONG KONG
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932.
* News and Views ⭑
Variation.-
According to a recent news item detin girl 'golfer playing in a competi- tion snapped off the head of her driver More often it's the caddies who have their heads snapped off
Not-So-New..
A one-time footbali referee has sailed for Africs to join his first expedition into the wilds.
But whone'er. he remembers the deep-throated sound.
Of spectators disgruntled and rited.
He admits that it was on a home football, ground. ·
That he first heard the call of the wild!
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from each other, and the postman to call the dog. He called, and the animul ran to him with manifest delight. Judgment for the postman,
Then the woman shed tears, and the dog, deserting the postman, dashed across the court to offer canine sympathy.
MOTOR CYCLE IN COLLISION,
TWO YOUNG MEN IN
-HOSPITAL.
CREWS CLAIM FOR WAGES.
UPHELD BY CHIEF JUSTICE.
Claims by the crow of the s.8 Two young Europeans, Messrs.
Gnr.-Gen. Maurice Long II, amount- A. M. Mitchell and H.W. Brown, had a narrow escape from seriousing to 8,548.51 in respect of injury on the Castle Peak Read on (wagca, due were uphold by the Chief Sunday, when the motor oycle on Justice (Sir Joseph Remp) sitting which they were riding came into Admiralty Jurisdiction at the head-on collision with a car,
Supreme Court yesterday!»" "Alto- gether claims totalling nearly $8,000 been successfully made have
It was too late; judgment had been entered on the frail Bnding of fact. Courts of Appeal do not share. The accident happened on one of the faith of Courts of First In the curves near the 10-mile post. stance in the judgment of Solomon. The pair, with Mitchell at the con-
trols were coming towards Kow loon, and the car was making for against the vessel which is being Castle Peak."
The Chiness Boldiers.
It is said that labourers 'such as the epal-miners are the worst used of all human beings. This romark if applied in Europe or America may be correct. But in China, are Ottawa's Cost to U.S.
there any people who are so ill The British Empire agreements used as the Chinese soldiers They reached at Ottawa will slash Unit suffer hunger, thirst and cold ed States, trade to the extent of alive, they have no food, no shel- between $100,000,000 and 8300,000,000 tep, ill, they have no modicine, no £20,000,000 to £80,000,000 at par nursing; dead, they have no coffins, according to a statement by no graves. They lead a beggar's, Senator Hull, of Tennessee, who nay, a dog's-life! They are not adds that the agreements were exactly robbers, for they have a prompted by self-preservation: commander in military uniform; they are not exactly soldiers, for Women's Foot. Growing Bigger.
they receive no pay or provision; Women's feet are growing larger. and they are not enactly beggars, That discovery is Announced by for they are armed with muskete, exports of the Association of Chiru- guns and cannues Army life in podists, who held a world Confer China is Hell on Earth because of enes in Chicago. If they speak the cruel selfishness on the part of truly, the small and dainty foot, the militarists who squeeze into once the pride of womanbood, is their own packeta every possible no more. The average woman's cent that is due to the soldiers, foot has increased in 25 years from These predatory militarists, to 43 inches to 6 inches. The blame maintain their luxurious way of is laid on athletics, The modern living, do not hesitate to bloed the craze for exercise, it is said, is soldiers to their last drop of blood. producing taller and bigger wo
-Mr, Wang Ching Woi, in The men, compared with those of 50 People's Tribune. years ago
Lord Irwin,
Lord Irwin, lately Viceroy of In. dia, and now Minister of Educa- tion, is to be joint Master of the Middleton. Hunt this forthcoming
season.
He is the first ex-Viceroy for many years to take an active in- terest in the chase. Very few men in our public life ride to hounds as a recreation, or, for that mat- Ater, ride at all. Almost the only one who occurs to mind is Mr. Winston Churchill, who has never The conlness with which the Ro- forgotten that love of horses in
T MEETING will be hold (Weather Ponres.--On September 7, sudden port has been received in Europe grained in him when he was
NHE ELEVENTH EXTRA RACE Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 81 DOTOBER, an an MONDAY, 10ra OCTOBER, 1932, commenting at 2.00 p.m. on both daya. The First Ball will be Rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE: Mombers are notised that they and their Lailine must wear their Badgos prominently displayed.
No Que without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members: Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 per day for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) per day are obtainable through the SECRET- ABY upon introduction by a ember, such Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, ete.
Hadges
to admitting
Members'
Bacio are will NOT be on sale' at the Race Conroe,
Ou no protest will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Morting,
Tilas are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day including Tax, for all Persone, including Ladies," and is payable at the Gate.
Boldiers and Sailora in uniform aro admitted Half Price,
ly, of heart failure," MARGARET (MADGE) PORTER, of 1, Carlion Mansions, Holland. Park Gar- deps, W., widow of Alfred Porter, Acting Commissioner at Shanghai, Chinese Maritime Customs,
ENGAGEMENT. The engagement is announced between Sub-Lieutenant (E.) 'ROCER FRANCIE DEAN HARRIS,
Royal Navy, only rout of the late F. Harris, L.M.C., China, and Mrs. Burgis, The Vicarage, Riccarton, N.Z., and MARGARET BRODIE HOPE, elder daughter of Lieut.-Colonel A.
fordshire.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, OCTOBER 4, 1832.
suggests that no neutral is likely to fight to enforce it. There is a shrewd suspicion that to contend for abstract justice and the good of the Manchurian people" would be to draw the wrath of both belligerents. Such a crusado is an- thinkable in these days. Will the manhood of Europe and America march into battle with "The LTTON Report"
emblazoned "their
on
banners, and a bound copy of that work next their hearts instead of the Scriptures favoured by earlier
young cavalry officer.
cedonia. The number of people killed in Northern Greece is satu to exceed 150.
The centre of the seismic distur bance seems to have been the Chalcidica Peninsula, Northern Greece, where the villages of Yeris sos, New Rhodos, Stavrinki, Stra- tonikion and many others were completely destroyed. The damage suffered is said to be very great
Troops are now being dispatch. ed with the utmost speed to these to render first aid and to aquell any unrest that might threa- ten to break out. Foodstuffs, cloth ing, and medical preparations are also rushed to the destroyed village.
One of the car's mudguards hit sold to meet liabilities...
Mr. H. O. Macnamara, instruct- the handle of the motor cycle and sent it toppling over the embanked by Deacons, who appeared for ment. The machine fell with the the plaintiffs, said that in respect" driver but Brown, who was thrown
He was of crows' wiges it was to be 3- clear fared slightly worse. just able to reach the read before pected that they would be included he collapsed.
in the ship's articles. reason or other, the articles merely contained the names of the crew who were French nationals, but not the Chinese members. There was no mention of wages...
Mr. B. S. Rogers arrived about this time and fortunately for the injured men a trained nurse also Sowing blood came on the scene. streaming from several wounds, she ripped articles of her clothing to strips and bound the injuries.
Mr. Rogers brought the young men to the Kowloon Hospital where. they were detained for treatment
For some
Laing Pop Luik, chief bo'sun, stated that she amount awing te Mitchell's right finger may be, broken and there is a voce gash the deck crew was $724.63 for the on his right leg. Brown's right months of July and August. This knee is badly cut and he is also section of the crew had received suffering. from
nothing since the end of June. abrasions.
Low
minor
KAYE DON DENIES FOUL PLAY
are
MISS ENGLAND" NOT
TAMPERED WITH
London, Sept. 10.-There rumours current that the failure of Lord Wakefield's speedboat Miss England 1II., in the Harmsworth Trophy, because of some mechani- cal trouble was due to foul play: It is suggested that the engine was tampered with before the race on which there had been some spectacú lar betting.
Moo Koni Sang, second engineer, gave evidence to the effect that there was the sum of $1,182.88: owing to the engine room crew for the two months, sad Lee Fu, chief steward, testified that the claims from the stewards' ́ ́ department. totalled $300,
Ip Fok, second mato, said hie wages were fixed at the rate of He, had received $130 a month. $20 on account, so that the balance due for the months of July and August was $190.
Tam Shui Wai compra lore. claimed for the months of June, July and August and said the amount due to was 8105 to the end of August.
One rumour has it, afates Reuter, that the agents of a syndicate who had wagered heavily on Garwood
It was stated that the crew wan winning the trophy had crept into the boathouse during the night and still on the vowel and Mr. Mac- damaged Miss England's throttle namara asked for the wages claim control.
ed and wages or substance up to the date of judgment.
The claims of Ng Ba Phich, captain's hoy, and Le Van Thuyet, Lofficer's hoy, were for 848 each,
Kaye Don, who is at Teronto for the Canadian National Exhibition, scoffs at the idea that there was foul play and ridicules the iden that any chance had been given, to anyone to tamper with. Miss Eng land's ongines. The boat, he says,
The late, Earl of Birkenhead was also a keen horseman, and used to hunt in the Midlands. While he was Lord Chancellor, riding was Scenes of heart-rending misery almost the only outdoor puranit he and sorrow, of heroism and bra very are reported. A woman, who permitted himself.
had carried her two babies into the street when the first shock W#5 felt, went into the house again to rescue her war-crippled husband.
Though the roof showed a deep was under quard day and night. crack and the walls were already It was ridiculons to suggest, he partly down and though her rela naid, that his defeat was due to foul tives and friends tried to keep her play. back, she went in, when under another shock the house cruninted down, burying hot's parents of the Faved, babies.
London's Buddhist Tempis.
London Buddhists, probably the smallest set in London in numbers, are planning ortly to build a £10,000 temple in London. For four years an appeal for funds has been going, on in Colombo.
The £10,000 figure has now almost been reached. The temple will be Indian in architecture, but most of the materials will bo British.
Buddhist artists will be imported to do the painting and Buddha statues will be brought from the
East.
Judgment of Solomon.
An amusing, story is told by a well-known barrister.
A Scottish magistrate had to decide who was the rightful owner
of a terriera postman or a woman
Bearing in mind's famous Biblical precedent, he directed the two claimants to stand at some distance
In the little village of YerissoB an old man, suffering from paraly sis, dragged himself about the streets calling for his wife, who lay dead beneath a wall of stones.
The toll of human life and the value of houses destroyed have not heen ascertained yet but it is how ever believed that the number of victims, which so far has been given with 150, will be much high- er. At present relief expeditions are working full speed to render whatever aid can be given.
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EARTHQUAKE IN
BALKANS.
HEAVY LOSS IN LIVES AND
· PROPERTY,
Belgrade, Sept. 27-Details are slowly becoming known regarding which was felt the earthquake throughout the greater part of he Balkan Peninsula last night,
An order whs made for the ship to be condemned and that the wages claimed together with costs and subsistence up to the date of judgment be upheld.
DRINK HOURS THREAT,
SOUTH COAST AND SUMMER
"CONCESSION.
The Evening Standard learns that application may be made to a Divisional Court for a rule act- ting aside the decisions of the magistrates in towns all along the Sussex coast granting special licensing summer time extensions.
Extentions of half an hour have been granted in nearly every big, town in Sussex. Eastbourne has granted an hour.
Leaders of temperance societies Scenes of panic were witness are taking legal advice about. ap- in Bulgaria, Yogoslavia and Maplying for a rule on the ground (Continued on Previous Colwma.}} that a period of several weeks can.
not constitute." a special cocasion such as empowers the magistrates
to grant these extensions:
G. Coullie, M.D., FR.C.Eheets? Only China and Japan can 1.M.S., retd., and Mrs. Coullie, Butler's Hill, Cheadle, Staf- accept the suggestion of a joint conference contained in the Report. No onn can coered the respective combattants to appoint delegates and draw up terms of reference, If China and Japan prefer to Aght it out no one will stop them. Many foreign newspapers are of opinion that the Report will go the way of such documenta Japan will continue in her refusal to accept mediation and China will, not con- seat to the sacrifices implied in the Report. Should the Chinese Gov- erament be astute enough to accept THE LYTTON Report has had the the Report and request Japan, to cool reception that was generally negotiate on the basis suggested, it expected: China wanted such a is still most doubtful whether the denunciation of Japan that the Japanese Government would con- Powers might take action; Japan zent, and while China would gain wished to have her version upheld diplomatic and moral victory it and permission given to go ahead remains to be seen what action the Powers would take. Find talk as she pleased, while the rest of the about the high principles is all very. KONG DALLY PRESS, 31, World wanted something that would well but those most eloquent, in
elving Enquiries from Home point the way clearly to a settle such expression are usually the last ties-garden party at Buckingham; ed man was charged with being con- Cunard Company and the North boen received from the local Naval
Bookmakers, Tia The Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate with- in the Precincts of Tun Hone KONG JOCENT CLUB during the Race Meeting. By Order,
B. A. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, Srd Oct., 1937.
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DIAGNOSIS AND PRESCIPTION
Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar remaired unchanged yesterday.
The police have made an arrest in the case of the armed robbery' on August 13 last at 174, Wanchai Only one case of meningitis was Road, when a number of men enter- reported over the week-end. ed the first floor, and, after terroriz
ing the inmates, made away with Mr. and Mrs. G. Franklin Night-money, watabes, and gold ringa to ingale pro present at their Majes; the total value of $800. The arre Palace on July 81,1)
cerned, with others not in custody, The rainfall figures for last in the outrage, before Mr. Schofield There at the Central Magistracy yester month were 4.42 inches. were eighteen days in the month on day. The prisoner was formally re- which no rain flat on the 17th 2.20manded for a week for further police inches were registered
investigations.
From the files.
Looking Back 28 Years.
If counsel's opinion favours this view, steps will be taken to test the. question in the High Court,
STRANDING OF S.S. CHUSAN
BRITISH WARSHIPS RESCUE PASSENGERS,
"OUT
Passengers Bate.... According to naval wireless in-
France is not content to leave the The following report in conne rivalry of the Atlantia to the tion with the Uhussa mishap, has German Lloyd. Though not quite authorities, in amplification of companies in the turning out of a columna yesterday able to cope with either of those Renter's cable published rival Leviathan, the French Com- pagnie Generale Transatlantigue" has decided upon making as near an approach as possible. A new formation the Chusen met with the vessel has been designed which is mishap at 9.50 p.m. on Saturday. to be larger than anything yet at All the passengers were removed en t
tempted by French lines, and in Remanded from last week, seven deed larger than any Atlantic liner naval launches from HMS. Kent South Wales Borderers, belonging afloat except the Lusitania and the and Medway, and the British naval
stand by, if required, Mount Austin Barracks, made in Press, October 4, 1907. to "B" Company, quartered at Mauretaniaong Kong Daily tug St. Breock was at once sent to other appearance before Mr. Scho
The vessel remains fast with the forepeak and No: 1 hold flooded:
Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, Com mander-in-Chief aboard the Kent,
to mar the guns when the enemy; ment, satisfactory to all parties in resolute and truculent Ourious" The Western nations do not want enough the crusader's tongue
often goes with the pacifist's heart. war, but they fully realise the The usual abuse, ill-informed and dangerous potentialities of this platitudious has been already If Local Companies desirens of taking struggle, and cannot afford to take a burled at the League. The League undertook no more than the exarai- up farther Agencies will let a mow the Lines in which they are detached and impersonal view," But nation of the problem. The next: mterested the information will be the problem is too; complex for any steps aro with the nations who con-
At the Supreme Court yesterday, forwarded to London sad passed
Mr. William Andrew Mackinley, on to interested parties as op chay solutions as Manchuria hasstitute the League. The bitter struggle. in Manchuria is not to be portabity offers.
become a dissate in the system of stilled by a word. The bacio prob. who has recently arrived from Eng the Far East, a disease so deep-lem for the World is, whether it is land, was admitted as a solicitor rooted that only long and difficult worth fighting Japan to secure He has joined the firm of Deacons. what China wants, or to fight both
who treatment can effect & care. The nations to effect what the Wrat con-
Capte An Il Jackson, LYTTON Commission was a small siders an equable settlement. This formerly commanded the surveying The Required Information should to group of specialists in war and massive document when at least an vessel Froquois on, the China Sta
has sont divers and shipwrights to struct the world about the Mantion is to take up the duties of administration, whose task was to churin problem, as the Box Bo- assistant Hydrographer at the ad pectively of Mise D. Bewley and at the Peak. On Tuesday morning 488ist in affecting temporary re diagnose the disease and prescribo port, instructed British people seat miralty in accession to Capt. J. A. Mr. FM Ellis, and at the War Mrs. Adams found that a box con- pairs pending the arrival of a Memorial Hospital. Reporting on taining a gold watch and jewellery, vage tug from Dairen, which a cure. This was the limit of their India. It will be a guide to public Edgell on October 1.
the police activity during the week altogether to the value of about was expected to arrive on Sunday, opinion, and to the neutral states
end in connection, with the cases, 8700, had been removed from her afternoon if ane weather prevailed. powers. They were not an army to men striving to effect a settlement,
New Kowloon Inland Lot No. Sub-Inspector Chester Woods told room. Notice of the robbery was (The Chuan is a 2,217-tops steel part the belligerents, or were they Mors it cannot be, for it is but permitted to take any active parti-words, and as the ovuical proverb1941, situated at Aplin Street was his Worship that all the property sent down to Dreams, who.com crew steamer fitted with wireless. tells us," fine words butter po sold by public auction at the Crown had been recovered with the excep municated this matter to the polica She was built in 1914 by Bootte Editorial and Business Offees: 11, cipation in events. It is up to the paris-But for all that Torts Land Offen yesterday to Mr. Wong tion of two articles, valued at $25. The osuta W belfeved to be Steamship Building and Engineer Ice Honas Stress Tal., 2006). principals to decide whether they have mighty power, and if in Lum of 70 Lookhart Road for The police officer nanounced that the guilty parties and the baying Co. Ltd, of Greenock for the Night Editor (Wanghai Office): accept both diagnosis and cure, or justion is dabe to China and Man- $13,000. The tipset price was he was ready to proceed with the house coolie, and two chair coolies China Navigation Company5hb
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churia the words of the Report will #18,000. The land has a area of bearing of all three cases to-day and are now in custody, on suspicion, is 285 feet long, 44 feet in breadth
registry, is London. 16824 London Office: 69, Fleek Brest, only the former, or, if they reject slowly rouse the world to hostility about 5,000 square feet, and its the defendants were remanded in Hong Kong Daily Press, October and 18. feet in depth. The port of
annual rental-in 302,-
military custody until then, against the perpetrators
mat.in.the.
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field at the Central Magistracy+Looking Back 50 Years, yesterday, in connection with the recent burglaries at No. 302 and A serious rubbery has been com No. 453, The Peak, the homes remitted at the house of Dr. Adams
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