A graphic description of the "at- tempted rescue of the Italian cargo vessel Col di Lana of 8.000 tona by the NYK nar S.J. Kamo Mary, was related by the com. Mrs. T. C. Fairburn, of 18. Mac-mander of the latter vessel to 2 Donnell Road, who saw the incid-" representative of the Daily Press ent, told our representative that yesterday. ¦
Page 11 the she was walking down past Peak Tram Station, when she Papal Day will be celebrated by
On local Roman heard somebody screaming.
Catholics to-mor~ turning round she saw a Chinese, row.
• Page 11 wearing a light coloured shirt and a Chinese sailor straw hat, pick The West Point gas explosion. up a European boy and throw him enquiry was continued yesterday,. mto the nullah. Without any
Page 7 hesitation. said Mrs, Fairburn, the man picked up the small girl and Four European children had an The man alarming threw her down also.
expérience. yesterday jumped into the nullah, but she when they were thrown into the did not pay any more attention | nullah near the Peak Tramway to him as she was anxious to see Station by a demented Chinese. what had happened to the child-One of the children, Michael Paine subsequently passed away, Page K
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Mr. A. Andrews, of the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., then came on the scene and altogether they
of children who leave school in an average year. It would be a sanguine estimate to suppose that work could be found for as many children as are now appetite for, action, which in him i pened to be bathing at the VAG picked up the two children..
HAYNES COLLINS-On June 16. 1934, at St. Alban's Chapel, Columbus, Ohio. Helen, daugh- somewhat more ter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. number Collins, to John D. Haynes, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Haynes, of Columbus, Ohio.
BIRTHS.
FOSTER-On June 11) 1934, at Tsingtao, to Mr. and Mrs. H. E Foster, a daughter. BRIGGS. On June 18, 1934, at the Country Hospital Shanghai, to Mrs. Jullan R. Briggs, & son.
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MANLANGIT-On Sunday, June 17, 1934, at 31 Haskell Road. Shanghai, Geminiano, R. Man- langit, dearly beloved son of
· Mr. and Mrs, G. Ruivivar Man- langit, aged 10 years. HAYLEY-Suddenly at Taipeh,
Formosa, on
1934, June 18, Charles Steiger Hayley. aged 29 years. Agent, Messrs. Jar- dine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.
WESTGAARD-Or Tuesday, June 19. 1934, at the Shanghat Gen- eral Hospital, Edvin Westgaärd. Norwegian subject, aged 23 years, from result of accident on board the Norwegian ma Dagrun of Osolo.
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Mr. R. H. Tawney, contributing to a series of pamphlets issued by the Archbishop of York under the title of "A Challenge to Chris- tians" joins him in the plea to “Keep the children a year longer af the elementary schools." It is
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ed so severe injuries to the head. But for the above, it must not as the result of being battered by be gathered that the Prince spends the underground rush of the nul- all. his time on sport. On the con-lah, that he succumbed two hours trary, he is perhaps one of the later after having been" removed busiest men in the Empire, filling one engagement after another, always for the good of the people, while it is an acknowledged fact that he is the greatest ambassa- dor of the Empire, of all time.
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reform whose desirability has long been recognized. Some time ago the Hadow Committee, ap- pointed by the strongly recommended that all children should be compelled to remain at school at least up to the age of fifteen. But till noW- partly on the ground of expense- the reform has been withheld, To-day it has become impossible to consider the matter solely from the educational point of view, still less solely in regard to the ex- pense. The prospect of having hundreds of thousands more chil- dren thrown into the scramble for From Our Special Correspondent) employment, and many of them early demoralized by failure, com- pels both the Government and the local education authorities to face the question anew. The cost of retaming children a year longer at school was estimated in 1930
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Tentative arrangements were made yesterday for the YM.C.A. swimming gala and dance to be held on July 14