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Four Men Charged
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With Possession Of Choppers
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When he charged four men before Mr. Wynne-Junes at Kowloon
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933.
DEMOLITION OF A WELL-KNOWN OF A WELL-KNOWN
THE BANK
Special Safety Precautions
CHINESE
Ordered To Pay Maintenance To
"Kit Fat"
BROADCASTING IN HONG KONG
Standard Of Program- mes to be Maintained
Mr. W. J. Carrie, the Postmaster- General, told our representative yesterday, that as far as the public was concerned there would be no notable change in programmes.
Gloucester Lounge, situsted on Magistracy. yesterday with posses Banking Corporation' need no long“ | independant means, was named as Things would go on as defore..
sion of vegetable choppers, fit for the ground floor of Gloucester
an illegal purpose, conspiracy, and Building, promises to be one of the possessions of weapons without a most up-to-date of the lounges and permit, Insp. Elston made the an bars in Hougsong, if not in the Farnouncement that the men had con- East,
Post Office! templated robbing the Shamshuipo
Work has been in progress Or. the ground floor of Gloucester Building for the past six months and it is hoped that by Armistice Day, the new lounge and bar will be opened to the public.
That no effort has been spared to make the place as comfortable as possible is evidenced by the fact that the best workmanship that could be procured has been obtain
d. The place is air-conditioned and the temperature in summer will be reduced, while in winter the room will be made very cosy with
ut the aid of electric stoves or fre-
and
Defendants, were Leung Yuk, Lo Woon, Leung Yau Korg Cheung. The first three admitted having the choppers but the fourth
denied the charge.
The fear of injury from falling masonry; caused by the demolition of the old premises of the Shanghai
er worry passersby. Special pre- santions are being taken, and any breaking down of structures su situated as to be likely to fall on the road, is being done during the night or early morning when the amount of passing traffic is minimized.
...
Watchmen with "red lanterns, warning the public of work of this kind, form another precaution,
Lo Shun-wan, described as of
defendant in a case before Mr, Schofield yesterday, lo which
Tong wai-yin, his kit fat wife, claimed
and
maintenance, The de- fendant was not in Court when the summons was called, and the Magistrate accordingly made an order for Lo to pay 8150 a month, to reckon from. May last, costs to the amount of 8100. The stoppage of the Trams which Mr. H. L. Dennys, who appear Inspector Elston in his opening, gave rise to some comment was ed for complainant, said that de said he received information a few caused, not by carelessness on the fendant was the third son of the days ago that defendants intended part of the workers, but by the late Mr. Lo Koon-ting, who was to rob the Shamshuipo Post Office.general perversity of bamboo soaf- very well-known in Hong Kong. The acheme, however, fell through folding. which at the best is very Defendant was married to com- as the Post Office closed earlier than flimsy. To cope with this difficulty, plainant, but had dissipated his usual on the day in question for it the buildera are bringing special assets, and taxen a concubine. happened to be a Chinese festival, tubular steel scaffolding out from The house in which his wife was Later on, information was received England and this material will be iving. No. 3. Saigon Street, ground to the effect that the defendants had used throughout in the re-construc-Boor, was made over to the con- "intentions", on No. 443 Reclamation, It is a great step forward in cubine, who told complainant to Three local firms have been en- tion Street. The Police had the local engineering as it will be the leave. gaged in the construction of the house surrounded and a close watch first time this material has been lounge. Messrs. Arts and Crafts kept, At about 9 m. on Tuesday, used in the Colony. are in charge of the whole of the the four defendanta was seen in the decorations and furnishings. and vicinity of No. 415 Reclamation they have carried
most Street and were arrested, effective scheme in ultra-modern The first defendant had a chop style: The Hooring, the panelling per fastened to his girdle, while the and the metal work is being under-second had two such instruments faken by the Hongkong Whampon and the third another. The fourth Dock Company Limited, while the defendant had no chopper, but all
oling plant has been installed by the Jarding Engineering Corpora and these, the Polite allege, can be four had lamp wicks and strings, used as gaga. A coil of wire was al
place.
tion..
out
a
Situated right in the heart of the shopping centre, the new lounge promises to be extremely popular. A huge refrigerator in the basement will serve the numerous ice boxes and keep the food fresh and cool. Tee cream, coffee, tea,sandwiches, cakes, cocktails and other refresh- ments will be available. The lounge will be provided with musig from the mezzanine floor which has heen reserved for the hand, and for the servants.
The furniture in the lounge will be the last word in madernity.
found in their possession. Defendants denied the charge of conspiracy and this was accepted Inspector Elston also accepted the statement of the fourth defendant, as no weapon was found on and he was therefore discharged
him,
Mr. Wynne-Jones. What are these men, do you know -They have not been in Hongkong long. We understand that they attempted to get work at Shingmus.
Inspector Elston submitted that
The coolies who were brought from Shanghai have proveden- tirely satisfactory and have become such a familiar sight that hardly anyone pays them the least, heed, as they lift their voices in song while going about their tasks.
The tearing down and the future the Shanghai Bank appear to be reconstraction of the premises of making the beginning of a new era definitely prove thath Hongkong is of engineering in the Colony and keeping step with the drums of
progress.
THE SCOTS CRITICISED
it was clear that defendants "The Ancient Virtue
tended to rob No. 145 Reclamation
inflict the maximum pennity.
The chairs are upholstered in pow-Street, and asked his Worship to der blue leather and the tables are also similarly colored. The will Sentence of a year's imprisonment panelling is of teak, with quarter each was passed on the three re- ed walnut plywood of Australian maining defendants. manufacture, which has been left in natural colour. It may be men tioned that the furnishings have been specially imported hy Messra, Arts and Crafts.
A NEW BRITISH METAL, With regard to the metal work on the premises, a new and light metal of British manufacture which will not tarnish or lose its colour, has been employed and this is the first occasion in Hongkong in which this "metal known as Ardol, has been
used.
ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE
An Expensive
Pastime!
Appearing before Mr. Schofield yesterday on the charge of assault ing Chan Sum, a Chinese constable, two men, Lam Mak-wong "and Lo Fo were bound over in $30 each to keep the peace for six months, and
Bordering the arcade are solid coloured plate glass windows of black and cream. At one corner of the lounge is a show window where cakes and pastries will be exhibit- ed. An attractive and novel fea-second defendant was also fined 50 ture will be six illuminated mirrors, or six weeks burd labour, sot into the panelling, and an even Detective Sergeant Fitches told illumination of amber light comes the Court that the complainant was through a six foot, square mirror in
a Hokle, and so were the defen- most attractive manner, The cen- dants. The brother had been as- tres of these mirrors are also illu-saulted by two men in the Central minated.
district on October 28, and on find- There are no electric fans in the ing out that the two men lived in lounge, these being rendered ana boarding house in Wanchai run necessary by the installing of cool- by his friend; he thought he would ing plant. The windows in the nok his friend to reprimand the two lounge are immense, and to give as
fokis.
He accordingly went to much, fresh air as possible they have Wanchai, and there by chance met been constructed to open in the
Continental manner.
Yet another novel feature will be an electric clock with no figures on the dial. The hands of this dock will be illuminated and the twelve hours will be represented by dots on "the glass surface.
It is gratifying to add that prae- tically the whole of the material used, with the exception of one special kind of glass, is British.
Well Known Cricketer and 4 Peers Cited
Is Leaving Us"
LAMENT OF A GLASGOW PROFESSOR
We
"Is the Scottish character run- ning to seed? Granting that have been in the past a rugged and achieving people, is it not the case that the ancient virtue is leaving us," naked Professor J. D. Mackie in the course of a broadcast talk from Glasgow.
The complainant had had no means of support for the past six months, having been only given 840 by the defendant in
April. The defendant refused to make any settlement. that she should get at least 8150 She estimated
a month:
1.
Defendant ot about $700 a
Z.B.W.'s library consisted "of some 350 records, and a number of samples were expected shortly from Shanghai and Manila. Mr. was also arriving Bowes Smith back in a few days, with a £25 consignment of records."
Mr. Carrie said that in many. places an annual payment met the requirements of the record pro- ducing companies in Colombo the payment was £50 and he hoped that a similar kind of agreement The demands of the Performing would be come to in Hong Kong. Rights Society would also have to be met, provided, of course, that
those demands were reasonable.
Mr. Carrie said that dance or-
As to the use of local talent,. chestras would certainly be broad-
cast, and other avenues would be explored, provided the public wish- ed for such forms of broadcasting.
It was hoped in the future to obtain records specially produced for radio transmission and with
these he hoped that excellent re- sults would be obtained.
month from a boarding house, and ther forward, which the Doctor said held shares in the Sun Company, was impossible as there was not the Tung On Life Insurance Com-room. Thereupon the Chinese sud- denly drew a revolver from his pany and the Queen's Theatre.
The complainant, and a Chinese pocket and fired two shots point. constable. who had served the blank at the Doctor who feil to the summons then gave evidence. In floor of the bus. The other passeng the absence of the defendanters became panic stricken and the whom Mr. Dennys said had pro- bus being pulled up they all hastily bably gone to Canton as he told got out, a motor car being called to convey the doctor to the nearest his wife he was going there.
Mr. Schofield made the order hospital, while the Police arrested
maintenance, the the Chinese. requested for money to be paid into Court.
On an investigation being "made it was found that the Chincee was actually detective, the excuse be gave for "the shots being that he
pick bis revolver
BUS TRAVELLING thought the over from his pecket,
IN HARBIN
Doctor Shot By
Policeman
Harbin.
The case of N.. I. Tschurilin who was seriously wounded by a detec- tive in a motor bus two weeks ago isattrading very much attention The talk, "The Character of the in the town, as since then another Scot, was one of the series "Scat-case has occurred in which a town land To-day and Tomorrow."
policeman beat à chauffeur, serious- ly injuring him.
We were ceasing to be Scottish, Prefessor Mackie said. We shared with the whole world an inability to blame to do and a tendency everyone but ourselves for our own misfortunes.
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Dr. Tschurilin, his wife and daughter were going home one evening in a motor and as the bus was crowded the doctor was stand- ing near the driver's seat. The bus that had brought Sentland in im-senger who pushed forward through After referring to those inventions stopped to pick up a Chinese pas- mediate touch with
great world the standing passengers next to Dr. impulses. Professor Mackie said Tschurilin asking him to move fur- that there was an even greater change. In these days of the gen- erous Carnegie and the all-compe-
which statement was, however, flutly contradicted by the passengers in the bus. For days the Doctor has been lying in the hospital at the point of death and only during the last couple of days has it be-f come known that there is now a chance of his recovery,
The day before yesterday he was visited by the Japanese Adviser to the Police Headquarters Mr. Yagi and the Russian Secretary, Mr. Brockmiller who expressed their deep regrets that a member of a Police force should have been res- ponsible for such netion and who stated that the policeman would be severely punished, however, yester- day the news spread throughout the town that the policeman had made his escape from the Chinese guards who were set to watch him.
Naturally this has made a fur- ther great sensation in the town as the escape of the policeman was there seems to be little doubt that carried out with the connivance of his guards who have been arrested.
tent State, the individual bad not PRIMITIVE MAN OF SUPER-BRAIN
to do for himself as he had a short time ago. The family, so long the core of Scottish society, was loeing its significance,
POWER
the complainant, to whom he un-tally, but spiritually 1 Hendy in all Prof.. Shellshear's Theory Of A Lost Race
folded his story.
Were they not, in a word, becom-. ing pauperised, not only economi-
things to take, ready to criticise, They both proceeded to the board-unable to give?
CHURCH LOSING CONTROL ing house, but the friend was hot in. The elder brother, however,
Spiritually, too, for the Kirk has An Interesting lecture was de- to very primitive bumans, who saw one of his assailants there, and lost much, of its old machinery; and livered yesterday evening by Pro- attained a high state of artistry. pointed him out to complainant, if it was to keep control it must be fessor J. L. Shellshear to the Uni- and some of our modern artists who took the law into his own hands by other means than those it had versity Medical Society on the could do worse than study the and gave the man a blow.
used in the past. The Shorter subject of "Early Man."
work of these" primitive men. In They then went away, the elder Catechism and all it stood for were The Professor illustrated his other more simple arts they also taking a tram back to the Central losing their power, and with them remarks by the use of models and attained a very high standard. District and the constable going on went that which gave much of its
casts of skulls of prehistoric and The audience were shown pieces. his beat. He had not gone more grit and much of its individuality to primitive men found and recon-
of flint which these early men had than eight shop lengths away from the Scottish character.
structed by scientists. He pointed shaped which revealed the skill the house when he was assaulted by
There was still a Scottish charac-out the distinctive features of each with the work had been done. HOME DIVORCE COURTS several men, and given a severe ter, Professor Mackie maintained, of the skulls and traced the brain GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
beating. One of the assailants was but he did not think it was im development of the various types After going over a number of the second defendant, but the man proving We had not yet adjusted whom the constable had beaten was ourselves to new conditions. The ments which the lecturer made
One of the interesting state-skulls, Frofessor Shellshear show- ed the students a cast of the. not in the party who assaulted him. old sanctions have lost their value
skull of Dean Swift, the author of Bergeant Fitches' said that the for the time, and the standards we
was the possibility that a certain type of early man had been Gulliver's Travels, and pointed out Among the defended divorce suite.G.P. wished a serious view to be had adopted in their stead were not "snuffed ont. He was a man of the disappearance of several at down for hearing in the Michael-taken of the case, because the com providing satisfactory,
big brain development-his skull the features commonly associated mas law sittings commencing next plainant was so severely beaten that
Belief in the all-competence of the was much bigger than that of with prehistoric akulla. He also Monday are the following brought he was bruised all over the body, State was breeding a lack of fihre; modern man, but there is to-day showed the skull of an Australian
kicked and punched, and was in the home was losing its old control, no trace of him
aborigine to show the advance of Lady Hindlip v. Lord Hindlip hospital for two days. The com-and the school, where teachers are (Windeler, intervening). Lord plainant would be dealt with de- hampered. An exaggeration of the parts of the world for early man
The search by scientist in all that skull-upon several examples
of prehistoric man, Hindlip, who is 97 years of age, is partmentally for having assaulted a economic aspect of life is sapping was described, and Professor Bhell- head of the Allsopp family. His member of the public.
the old morality; in business sharp shear said that it was Charles marriage to a daughter of the late
practice and even wangling wem to Darwin who directed attention to be ousting the old Scots ideas of the African Continent, in the Lady Allerton v. Lord Allerton.honesty and hard work,
search for the earliest traces of Lady Allerton is the only child of "I believe that, for the present, man They found there the the late Mr. J. B. Hatfield, of we have borrowed enough from Tuangs man and the Old Rhodes Thorp Arch Hall, Yorkshire, Lord without," said Professor Mackie, lan man. The latter had the face Allerton is 30/
The world ideas we have already of a gorilla, but his cranium was taken are in many ways good, but distinctly human. The Rhodesian they have to be realised in practice man was found in one of the st before they, cần do good." "And" to ver mines of Bouth Africa, and realise them we need not less but although his period was, nor more of the old Scottish virtue.!' :-known it was interesting to note:
that he suffered from many of With the possible, exception of tributed to, modern civilisation.
the dental troubles generally at Gray v. Gray is a defended pet- tion for restitution of conjugal morals, there is probably no aubergesel para d
THE CAVE MEN rights by the wife of Mr. Frank Ject on which so many diverse Gray, the "Amateur Casual," Li- opinions and shades of opinion Professor Shellsleär, said beral M.P. for Oxford City from are held as on milk-Professor some of the line drawings found 1922 to 1934 and a former Liberal | 0. 8. Wilson,
in caves which have been traced
by wives:
Mr. Harold Nickols took place last year.
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Lady Brougham and Vaux v. Lord Brougham and Vaux (Seton intervening)Lady Brougham and Vaux, was Miss Valorie French, a granddaughter of the first Earl of Ypres. Lord Brougham and Vaux is 24.
Wives are also the petitioners in the following undefended suita
Lady Doria Childe v. F. B. Childe-Endy: Deris is the elder daughter of the Duke of Newcastle Lady Doverdate v. Lord Dover- dale, Lady Doverdale, a daughter
of the first Viscount Elibkak, mar ried Lord Doverdale in 1902 Lord Doverdale is 61.
Mrs, C. M. Gilligan v. Mr. A. E. R. Gilligan - Respondent is the former England and Sussex cricket- er -- Champion de Crespigny v. Cham- pion de Crespiguy and, Boyd is an undefended husband's petition
that
GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS? At the conclusion of the lecture, on questions being invited. Dr. G H. Thomas asked whether physi cal anthropology supported the theory that there had been glants in the old days?"
Professor Shelisheer said that the answer depended on what was meant by the term “glant." He said that even to-day in dint- rent places people were much big- ger, us for instance in North inhabitants were China, the much taller and bigger than the people in the South. In Sweden the average man reached six fest. In answer to another question, the Professor "said that there was no scientific evidence that- man used to live 700 or 800 years in the old days.
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