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HONG KONG, MAY 1, 1937.
ENGLISH IN JAPAN
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1937.
WOMAN MASQUERADES
AS MAN
Story Of Remarkable Career Told In Court
TOOK TITLE OF “SIR VICTOR BARKER"
A woman who had masqueraded as a man and married an- other woman appeared at Marlborough Street Police Court, Lon- don, recently. She was Valerie Arkell Smith (42), described as a domestic servant, living at Grafton Street, Euston Square, London, and she was fined 20s, and ordered to pay £5 costs on a charge of stealing from an address in George Street, Hanover Square, Lon- don. Ave £1 notes, the properly of Adrian Scott, by whom she was employed.
She W3L5 represented by Mr.' Samuel Coleman, and Mr. Laurence Vine appeared for Mrs. Scott. Arkell Smith's employer:
Arkell Smith, who was dressed in a man's blue overcoat, wore a wo- brown man's dark felt hat and a tweed skirt. Mr. Coleman told the magistrate. Mr. Sandbach, that he was instructed by Arkell Smith to plead guilty to the charge.
name was
"ŞIR VICTOR BARKER" Detective Sergeant Smith said that the defendant, whose correct Lillias Irma Valerie Arkell Smith, was born in Jersey'in 1895. In April. 1918. she married Lieutenant Harold Arkell Smith, of the Australian forces, but they only lived together about six months, Later she lived with an "Australian
named' soldier
Ernest Pearce Crouch, by whom she had two Illegitimate children. In October, Pearce 1923. she parted from Crouch and went to Brighton. where by arrangement she met a Miss Haward and stayed with her at an hotel in the name of Sir Vic- tor and Lady Barker.
IN AID OF
ORGAN FUNDS
Concert By Popular Entertainers
A very delightful concert, full of melodious songs accompanied by sparkling music and toe-twinkling dances, in aid of Organ Funds, was given by some popular enter. tainers at St John's Cathedral Hall last night to a large and ap preciative audience. „
The programme was as follows: Gladys Pollard, Jazz songs; Miss Mary Forster; Classical Dance; Mr. Wiggins Old Fashion Town and Passing by: Miss Lily Attridge, Step Dance;
Belen Lockhart, Songs; Miss June Attridge. The Little Colonel; Mr. Saunders.
In January. 1928, she became Songs: Miss Gladys Pollard. Bird at Eventide and Smiling "Colonel Barker" and ran a cafe Song for some time. The venture was Through: Mr. Vic Labram, Enter- G. D'Aquino. Songs; ́not a success, and was eventually tainer: Mr. the cause of bankruptcy proceed- The Misser J. Attridge, L. Attridge. ings. On September 16, 1923. as M Foster, Helen Lockhart, Songs: Miss Mary Forster, Sleeping Colonel Barker, she obtained em- ployment at the Recent Palace Dance: Miss Gladys Pollard, Tell Hotel as a reception clerk at £5 Me To-night: Miss Eileen Smythe. week, and remained there until she Planatorte Selection: Miss June was arrested by the tipstaff. From Astridge, But where are you; Miss
L Attridge, Step Dance. February to July, 1032, she was em- played by a firm of motor-car agents. She was discharged through reduction of staff, with a good character, and was looked. upon as a competent salesman.
During the early part of 1034 she nat at Regents Park occupied a with what was considered her wife and child. She left suddenly after incurring debts with local trades. men of about £70. The same year she went to Henfield in the name of John Hill, and was employed as kennelman, but was dismissed for excessive drinking. She then obtained a situation" as a poultry- man, but was again dismissed as unsatisfactory. The officer added
COLD AIR TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA
Children Cured At Open Window
The use of draughts" of cold air. blowing directly upon the face, in the treatment of children with
Journal."
MALAYAN REVIEW
Coronation year is to be marked by the biggest military tattoo. ever held in Malaya. Farrer, Park, Singapore's biggest playground. has been selected for an elaborate display by three battalions of the Garrison, the Royal Innis-killlar Fusiliers, the Middlesex Regiment and the Gordon Highlanders, at the end of August. The “Times of Malaya" correspondent understands that the four days chosen, for the spectacle are August 27, 25, and 31 and the programme wil) in- clude drill, gymnastics and physical culture as well as massed bands and pipes of the three regiments.
It is expected that people from all over Malaya and possibly Slam will travel to Singapore to see this military display.
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Can or cannot Malaya produce its share of rubber under the quota? That question is to be answered and a lot of theories are to be put to the test, for producers are presented with the opportunity of shipping some of their July-September rubber now-if they want to and if they can.
Directors whose properties can ship extra rubber are faced with the responsibility of deciding whether July-September prices are likely to be lower or higher than current levels. Super-quota ship- ments will to all intents and purposes resemble forward sales at cuf- rent levels.
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It has fallen to the Presbyterian Church and Its Ministerin Ipoh to produce the first really instructional films of Malaya. As al- nounced in the Times of Malaya" a film, a full length production. depicting numerous phases of the rubber plantation industry, from Jungle felling to packing rubber sheets, has been "shot" under the auspices of the Church. The picture was watched by planters and others at its premiere at the Ipoh Club.
We offer the suggestion that hiring of the film, possibly in shortened form, to rubber companies for exhibition to shareholders after annual meetings might prove highly popular. The rubber in=" dustry and those employed in it, as well as Malaya generally, have every reason to feel grateful to the Church, for this production. which will do something to dispel such. Illusions as may have been crented by pictures of the haunting music" type.
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The Singapore Municipality has been negotiating for the pur- chase of the Kallang and Geylang Basins, two mosquito-infested swamps near the Singapore Airport, with the object of ridding Singa- pore of malaria by sterilising and draining and ultimately reclaim- ing the areas concered.
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Viscount Tsuyo Mishima, President of the Japanese Boy Scouts. Federation; accompanied by officers of the Association and a party consisting of 12 Boy Scouts, 6 Rovers and 3 Girl guides, paid a good- will visit to Singapore where they were warmly received by the Ja-. panese Community.
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That the Siamese Government is concentrating to a great extent on building up a navy of importance is visualised by the recent an- nouncement that more than thirty per cent. of the total revenue of Slam is to be spent upon defence during the current year. During the last few years. a serious attempt has been made to build up a
navy has been bullt largely in England and the British have taken a large share in the training of her junior naval officers.
This, said the officer, was the that Arkell Smith afterwards ob- pneumonia is described in a recent navy which shall not be negligible as a fighting force. Hitherto Siam's
tained situations as a chef At issue of the "British Medical Camden Town she posed as Slr John Hill and walked with the aid of sticks which, she said, were necessary as the result of war
commencement of her masquerade as a man, which lasted from 1923 until she was sentenced to nine months in the second division at
Barker and his "wife" went to
Andover. The title was dropped and "Captain" substituted. They there conducted an antique fummi- ture business, and Captain Barker
joined the local cricket club and
During recent years this method has been adopted in one of the wards at the Royal Edinburgh Hos- wounds in the leg. She afterwards pital for Sick Children, and it is obtained a situation with the proclaimed that the effect upon all secutrix in this case, who was
types of pneumonia at all ages in astounded to And that she was a
childhood is about to halve the woman.
mortality rate.
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES The Magistrate: Is her mas-
:
Over 30 years ago a Scottish spe- claltat warmly advocated the use
with
сом-
certain
querade eccentricity, or what is be- of open-air treatment for children
broncho-pneumonia, hind it?
Mr. Vine: We have no informa-plicating measles and whooping tion as to that. She has done it cough, and although a
amount of lip-service is still paid this in the phrase. "a well venti- lated room." used to describe the best
for years.
The first steps towards reconditioning the Navy were taken in 1935. when an extensive programme of new construction was issued. This programme provided for the building of two powerful coast de- fence gunboats, eight submarines, four sloops, three minelayers. and
a number of other vessels.
The two coast defence gunboats, which were ordered last year from the Kuwasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe, are to be very powerful ships, and will resemble cruisers in every way, but speed.
They will have a displacement of between 2,000 and 2.500 tons. and will carry main armament of four 8-inch guns mounted on two turrets. It is understood that patrol vessels and submarines have also been ordered from Japan.
Japanese influence in the Stamese Navy has been growing con siderably during the past few years. A Japanese naval mission has been established in Siam, and it is believed that most of the training of Siamese naval ratings is carried out in accordance with Japanese methods
the Central Criminal Court on April 16, 1929, for making a false state- Educationists are apt to remarksment for a marriage register. In with apprehension the readiness November, 1923. in the name of with which the British child Victor Barker, she married Miss the talkies the Haward, and they lived together accepts from caciest expressions of American until 1926. From Brighton "Victor slang and incorporates them in his speech. And it is no consola- tion to then to be reminded by so eminent a lexicographer as Sir William Craigie that the sing rode to hounds without her sex be- J. N. WONG,
sounding Hollywood phrase thating detected. As "Ivor Gauntlet," Secretary. to affronts them has in all prob- an actor, the defendant obtained a 5932 ability a venerable past in the job in Mrs. Pat Campbell's com-
English language and may have pany, and played in several plays. been discarded in polite conversa "Sir Victor Barker, Bart." and in-
In December, 1925, she posed astreinely hard at her place until in cold air in the manner described undertaking, making one of the finest aerodromes in the world and tion here centuries/before it re-curred a debt of £40 for male
redoubled turned with
force clothing. and was sued. The de- Was that twelve months' across the Atlantic. But at least Tence
credit was to be given. Early in we take the invading words as
1926 she obtained a position 38 tliey are and do not seek to re-manager of a farm at Uckfield, but | fashion them.
after a short time left, and she and Miss Haward parted
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
The Fourth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur "day, ist May, 1937, commenc
ing at 2.00 p.m.
The Japanese, it seems, have
a different method. According to it message from Tokio,
the
UNIFORM AND MEDALS About the beginning of 1927, as "Captain Victor Barker, D.S.O.." Japanese language is SO ill-she became associated with the The First Bell will be rung at equipped to describe modern life National Fascist movement of Ken- 1.30 p.m.
sington. She wore uniform and
By. Order,
C. B. BROWN;
Secretary. Hong Kong, 26th April, 1937.
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Mr. Coleman said the defendant had only one previous conviction, which was for a totally different
thing. "She has admitted that she
took the money. She worked ex- December she was taken ill and in- curred a number of doctor's bills. This placed her in serious financial
culties. There were 'consider- able sums of money to which she had access, and it was through her anancial embarrassment that she yielded to this temptation. The defendant instructs me that she has a reason, which she does not at the moment propose to divulge, or wearing man's attire. If I could tell you the reason I am sure you would feel some sympathy with her. The Magistrate. (Mr. Sandbach):
place for a child with pneumonia, few physicians have
insisted upon the undiluted use of
above.
FOG THE ONLY BARRIER
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One needs to be on the ground itself of the Singapore Civil air port to realise the magnitude of the work.. It is trully a magnificent
with the most up-to-date accommodation in hangars, and offices. The central office, with its restaurant, ita accommodation for air com- panies and customs officers, and its flat roof, which forms an ex- It is emphasised that half-mea-cellent observation post, is a most imposing building. sures are useless. All the children so treated (approximately 300 con- secutive cases) were exposed to a moving current of air immediately give almost as much, illumination as daylight.
on admission..
The aviation field is a thousand yards across in either direction, thus affording more than ample room for the largest machines to take off. It is surrounded by huge lights which at night time will
Then, of course, there is the accommodation for seaplanes. which has been planned on the most comprehensive.scale. The aero- This is carried out irrespective drome completed will cost some $10,000,000, and the Straits Settle- of the season of the year or of weather conditions, with the ex- ception of for.
Each child is placed on the wind- ward side of the ward, beside a
that it has borrowed words by military medals, and was for some The fact that she has masqueraded widely opened window, so that the
the thousand from the West
mostly from English, and shaped them 60 thoroughly to the Japanese model that their origins are sometimes hard to discover.
time secretary to one of the prin- in male attire has no weight with cipala. After a rald on their head-me:
cold air from without plays directly
on the child's face. An essential
quarters at Hogarth Road she was Addressing Arkell Smith, Mr. precaution is that the child shall summoned for an offence under sandbach said: "You have plead-be warmly clad, so as to prevent the Firearms Act, and in con- ed guilty to the charge of stealing chilling, the face being the only sequence, on July 11, 1927, she was 5, and that is all I am dealing part of the body exposed to the When a 'bus-conductor shouts at the Central Criminal Court, as with: From the fair and exhaus. draught of cold air. "Orai to the driver as signal "Captain Victor Barker" charged on to proceed, one may perhaps two indictments (1) for uttering a false document with intent to de- guess that "All right! is in- THE CANTON INSURANCE tended; a lodging-house is. fairly fraud.
ceive, and (2) with intent to de
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recognisable as an "aparto" and
SUFFERED "WAR BLINDNESS”.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLders.
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those in the "acute
ments Government has spent the money to good purpose. Not only has it provided Singapore's own air port, but it has cleaned up what was formerly a pestilential area of mud and swamp, thus forming a much needed town improvement,
All will be in readiness for the official opening on June 12.
AMBASSADORS OF GOODWILL
Japan To Send School Children To China
RICE QUESTION TO BE INVESTIGATED"
Wuhu, Apr. 30, Following the formation of the Rice Investigation Society by the merchants of Wubu, the "rice merchants of the two provinces of Hunan and Klangst have joined them.
tive report that the officer has
The children' thus treated remain given me I have come to the con- exposed in this way day and night
Shanghal, Apr. 30, clusion that you are a hard-work- until the temperature has fallen to ing woman and that you have been normal All those concerned with
Nagasak telegraphs that in or the supervision of these children der to cement friendly relations in financial dificulties. Many per- are impressed with the peaceful between China and Japan, the axed May 1 for a co-operative It is reported that they have a great store as a "departo." She was found not guilty and feetly innocent people suffer the sleep of even But the temptation to truncate discharged. On this occasion she same fate. Bo far as your criminal stage of pneumonia: closing the children of, both countries should meeting of representatives in An- as well as to orientalise leads to had her eyes bandaged, and was led record is concerned there is one window makes them restlesst Ap-be taught to meet each other and hing City. at which the following four questions will be discussed: one offence only petite is also much better under "shake hands" sincerely. some Surprising results. "Dema into the dock by a friend who said offence and
With this laudible object (a) The total rice crop of the pro- virices of "Anhui, Klangsi and Hu- The Flity-Sixth
Ordinary does not readily suggest a dema that Captain Barker had previous against you, and making a false en- this treatment, and oxygen is never
view, it has been decided to select pan, and the amount of surplus; General Meeting of Shareholders gogue to the Western mind;
The 292 cases treated in this will be held at the Offices of the "moga" for a modern girl is a
manner had a mortality rate of 11.8 from the children's schools of the (b) The quantity of rice consum-" undersigned on Tuesday, the bit of telescoping that results in
per cent, while 275 cases also with city ten boy and girl students to ed by the inhabitants of Kwang- pneumonia in other wards and not be sent to China on a mission of tung Province; (c) Matters con- 18th May, 1937, at Noon, for a new word; and the habit of
nected with the importation and submitted to routine
open-air friendship and goodwill,
consumption of foreign rice; and the purpose of receiving the alluding to the section of a re
It is said that this party of (d) How to reduce the cost of Report of the General Agents, ference book dealing with per- West,
students will leave for Bhanghal homegrown rice, so as to compete together with a statement of sonalities Accounts for the year ended the
scientiae justification for this some- by the Nagaank! Maru on May 23. with foreign rice, and to send re- what heroic method of treatment, and will visit the schools of presentatives to Canton, Annam 31st December, 1936.
since experiments have shown that Shanghai, Ningpo, Boochow. Hang-and Slam to study and investigate
present conditions — a current of cold air on the face chow and other places.
Chinese Bhering Press.
FISHING HOLIDAY
He added, "If you try to get some more honest work and do it as a woman and not masquerade us
ly suffered from temporary blind-try in a register is very different required. ness owing to war wounds, and had from stealing." been warned that any strain on his nerves would again bring on the trouble. Soon after this her bro- ther died, leaving her about £1,000 she took a flat in Hertford Street a man as you are doing now and actress see the probation officer, I have no and lived with an the ***Fuzfu
It is pointed out that there is a there as man and wife for some doubt she will do her best to help "Who's Who") may well be! time. completely baffling.
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Only the ubiquitous "okay," which is part of the everyday vocabulary of the Japanese taxi- man, seems to circle the world unaltered. And since the mystery of its origin is still unsolved by the experis, the credit or dis- credit for it cannot fairly be laid
BUSTS OF PRINCESS ELIZABETH
The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed from the 4th to the 18th May, 1937, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Agents,
By special permisson of the Queen, 100 busts of Princess Hong Kong, 27th April, 1937,
at Hollywood's door. Certainly Elizabeth are to be reproduced in 5222 China carinot be blamed either. time for the Coronation
100 To Be Made
you."
The original, which is just under life size, has been made by Pro fessor Sigmond Kesfaludi-Strobl of Budapest, and each of the 100 coples will autographed by him.
Professor Kestatudl-Strobl, who is Professor of the Budapest School of Fine Arts, is also at work in his studio at Kensington on busts of
the King and Queer.
treatment gave a mortality rate of
21.5 per cent,
causes the bronchial tubes to dilate, After returning from China, a
Sino-Japan students
and thus distressed breathing is re- duced to a minimum.
exhibition
One obvious objection to open-will be held in the "Bing San" air treatment is that the general Lower School of Nagasaki, in temperature of the ward is lowered, which will be displayed specimens and therefore it is suggested that of the educational attainments" every children's hospital should of the children of the schools of have a special ward constructed both countries--i and reserved for pneumonia cases. Chinese Evening Pres.
New Orleans, April 29. President Roosevelt left this evening aboard a U., destroyer for a nahing holiday in the Gulf of Orleans Chinese Brening Press,