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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1937. ·
BIRTH
for the solution of International BRIGHAM-On Nov. 18, 1937, in a complications. Among these was nursing home, to Joyce, wife Japan, who brazenly, defended of Surgeon Leutenant-Com-her aggressive attacks on China mander (D) W. E. L. Brigham in 1981, 1982 and now 1937, on Royal Navy, of Golden, Acre, Rainham, Kent-a son.
DEATHS
North China.
MURDER CASE HEARING
Medical Evidence
tinued before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett
1
BATEMAN BY BATEMAN
Among the world's best known | Sporting funny sketches are "The Guards- series. man Who Dropped His Rifle," "The Man Who Bld Half a Guinen at Tattersalis" and "The Discovery of a Dandelion on the Centre Court at Wimbledon.”
But few know that to display the craftmanshin
these. Artist Henry Mayo Bateman studied three hard years under the famous Flemish painter Van Havermaet, and afterwards spent more years in art scchools.
the ground that the Briand-
Three doctors were called to Kellogg Pret did not prohibit a testify to medical reports, on the signatory Power from availing examinations of three persons who BENHAM-BROWN-On Nov. 19 itself of the right of self-defence. died as a result of alleged arsenic
1937, at Chelmsford Hospital,
Beatrice Ently
Such perniciona argument repoisoning on October 5, when hear- Benham- Brown, widow of the Rev. venls an attempt to destroy the ing of the case in which a man,
in Li Fuk-yue, charged with having Henry Benham-Brown, Dean validity of the anti-war Pact al-administered ths polson, was con-
together. MAYHEW.-On Nov. 25. 1937. Edith Lo plead self-defence under at the Kowloon Police Court yea-
Harman Mayhew. (Shanghat such circumstances "only aggra-Mr. E. H. Williams,
terday.
Assistant papers, please copy).
vates the wrong of the party Attorney General and Mr. John which makes such a plea. In the Whyatt, Assistant Crown Solicitor words of Colonel Stimsen, former conducted the case for the prose- cution, assisted by Detective Secretary of State of the United Inspector A. B. Carey and Detes- States of America, · *a uation tive Sergt. Hendridge. which sought to mask imperia- BOOTH-On Nov. 20, 1937. at Frin-listic policy, under the guise of ton. Paulina Booth (Nanny), defence of its nationals would soon be unmasked, and Japan has already unmasked herself.
SHAW-On Nov. 18, 1937. at the West Cornwall Hospital, Pen- zance. Dorothea Margaret daughter of the ate Archdea- con A. C. Shaw, of Tokyo, aged
51.
:
devoted friend since 1903 of Mr. and Mrs. Montague Bell and family in South Africa, China, England, aged 75..
ENGAGEMENT
RADIO-CASTING
The three victims were Tang
Kam and her husband. "Li Leung- wan, and another woman, a fel- low tenant of a house in Tung Chol Street.
L Yip-pul, brother of La Leung- kwan, decensed, stated yesterday that he was summoned to see his brother who was suffering from pains in the stomach
Dr. A. Fong told the Court that El's pulse was weak and he was suffering from food poisoning. tendent of the Kwong Wah Hospi- tal, said that after examination of Tang Kam he was of the opinion
Dr. T. Z. Bau, Medical Superin-
The engagement is announced, and the marriage will take place shortly in Singapore, between
A time when sound radio Forbes Guy, of the Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank, Muar, casting as it is known to-day will Johore. and Nancy Isabel be carried on entirely in the Niky), elder daughter of the higher frequencies beyond the late James Keene and Mrs. short wave band is forecast as
that it was a case' of arsenic poison Keene, of the Weir End, Ross,
and reported to the Police. Wit- result of the Federal Communi-ness had had previous experience Herefordshire, und g-and-
Tang daughter of the late Alderman cations Commission's recent allo- of arsenic poisoning case. homas Preece, J.P, of The Old cations for various services in Kam died some 38 hours later." Hall and The Grove, Ross-on-these ultra high frequencies. Wye.
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友之國中
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 8, 1937.
5768 JAPAN'S
CHINESE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
WRJ
and
The basis for this prediction is the fact that when television ar rives it will be conducted in the ultra high frequency bands. The voice channels will be along side the television channela, much as the sound track accom- panies the modern motion picture film of to-day.
While television is not ex- pected to all up the hours of the day the way radio does at pre sent, except after quite a period of time, it is certain that sound radio-casting will continue oper- ating throughout the day in the higher frequency channels. That as listeners will not be required to go inek to present day medium waves after television transmis sions have been concluded for the day.
There seems little doubt that STABILISING the set manufacturing industry INFLUENCE
will welcome the move to ultra high frequencies for its coming Prince Konoje," the Japanese will make obsolete nest of the Premer, in a recent address to sets in use to-day and create, his countrymen, repeated the tremendous replacement market. A monthly meeting of the Chisomewhat threadbare argument Since television and sound ness Chamber of Commerce held in their offices at No. 68 that Japan is the sole atabilising radio-casting in the high fre- Connaught Road Central. Mr. Li forse for maintaining peace in quencies allows a much greater Shing Kut (Chairman) presiding. the Orient and that without her "width" its advent is expected elevating into promote genuine high fidelity Mr. 3.M. Wong (Vice-Chairman) restraining and the majority of the members fluence the trend of events would A television sound channel will of the committee also attended...
be toward inevitable disaster. be able to paar roughly twice the After the report of the monthly outine was made, a general dis- The situation was more vividly width of musical frequencies that cussion took place, following which (and inaccurately) described by medium wave channels allow the meeting dispersed.
Mr. Matsuoku, and time Japan's nowadaya. Sets employing thes spokesman at Geneva, now presi-wide bands of frequencies will dent of the South Manchuriau no doubt open a brand new and Railways, and concurrently meu amazing sense of how faithful
Brain TrueL ber of the
true sound fidelity can be. specially appointed last October to assist the Japanese Govern- mert in drafting national policies especially in connection with: China. In the picturesque "As long as I am on the Bench I am determined to stop all these phrases of Mr. Matsuoka, there
larcentes tem the
persons of is " festering sore deep down one thing the ultra highs" have
MAGISTRATE ISSUES WARNING
Larcenies From Women Viewed. Seriously
select women victims,
Similar conclusions were reach- ed regarding the two other victims who were treated accordingly,
Dr. G. E. Henry, medical officer in charge of the Kowloon Public |Mortuary, who performed the past mortem examinations, sale: he found no signs of external violence. The organs in the chest region were sound but in the stomach portions he found signs of abnor- mality.
The hearing was adjourned.
STORY OF STRUGGLE
AT INQUEST
From then on Bateman's pro- gress to his present position among the
world's best-known comic artists was humourously described with illustrations in HM. Bate- man, by Himself (Collins, 10s. 6d.).
Born 50 years ago in Australia, Bateman was expected to join an old-established packing and ship- ping rm. For his first commis- sloned drawing he was offered two guineas and modestly suggested a guinez-and-a-half.
When the
Nation. It began
n
HIDDEN HUMOURIST For a while Bateman attended first nights, måde sketches of the players, then joined up on the out- break of war, and was invalided out in 1915 as C3. At his first exhibition at Leicester Galleries he bid in corners and enjoyed Ustening to people laughing at his sketches.
Bateman's ploneer efforts were not always appreciated. Once "Punch" refused a drawing entitled. "The Possibilités of a. Vacuum Cleaner," showing the machine could be made to swallow tables, chairs, motor-cars and a regiment of soldlers. It WES solemnly pointed out that in the machinery of a vacuum-cleaner there was no receptacle into which large ob- jects 'could go. "The Tatler" used It instead.
In Spain Bateman was twice poisoned and once a drunken manager repeated, he was prepar- muleteer tried to knife him. Els ed to pay two guineas, youthful one life ambition that remains un- artist Bateman insisted "almost fulfilled is to paint "a quite serious fiercely" that A guinea-and-a-picture, I don't mean a subject plcture would make you cry, for, unlike the majority of comedians, I have no desire at all to try to play Hamlet. The picture I have in mind is quite a simple one. A landscape perhaps, with just the way light falls on a house or
half would do, and got it.
Later he Was tap-dancer at concerts and musical parties, adopted boxing as a hobby and was among the Arst to develop the style of drawing in which the joke was in the illustration. For the "Sketch" he drew a Russian tree, almost anything would do and a Japanese fighting each other for a subject so long as it expresses in a wrestling match, showed a the beauty of earth and sky and diminutive British spectator and water, so that it would charm captioned it "The English Are you"
WHEN CHINA GOES TO WAR
Ancient And Modern Ideas Combined
He marches in an olive-drab or grey uniform of which the tunic is of Western design. The trousers conform to the Eastern idea of roominess and comfort. Els car-
The ghting kit of Chinese soldiers combines modern with an- clent ideas, and a nice blending of comfort and practicability is shown in the turnout of, not only the crack regiments, but of the | tridge belts are reminiscent of sorely tried provincial troops as Wild Bill Hickey and the days of well.
the Far West, while his sandals
Further evidence was given at "Four quarters equals one' cwt, remind one of a rickshaw coolle. the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday 20 cwt equals 1 ton, 2 tons equals These sandais are significant when the inquest into the cit-weight of infantry equipment." though. They are extremely com- cumstances surrounding the death This is still true of most armies fortable and extremely frail. Their of Ho Ban, aged 38, who met his but, of the Chinese army, it may comfort is of supreme importance death on November 13 when he be said that weight reduction is and their frailty is offset by their resisted arrest and attempted to brought to a fine art. This reduc-cheapness. It 13 doubtful whe- overpower a police constable in tion is, of course, of inestimable ther a better form of footgear Canton Road. Mr. K. Keen sat as
assistance in fighting over the could be devised for the purpose of" Coroner assisted by a jury.
kind of country met with in the scuttling along stony roads and for Yangtzse basin. A land such as paddling in rice fields. Western this, criss-crossed with irrigation troops would demand heavy, nail- ditches and planned in paddles.ed boots for the roads, and gum- makes the organising of troop boots for the fields. In conse- very difficult. The querce. they cover the ground movements Japanese in their heavy fighting much more slowly than does their equipment, find this so, but the Chinese confrere. Chinese seem to be able to move
the deceased resisted arrest and
masses of troops vast distances in a very short time.
In place of galters, leggings or puttees. a Chinese binds his legs with lerigths of cotton bandage. worn over stockings of sorts. The only difference here is that the cotton is cheap and very eastly re- placeable,
Chung K, street coolie, in the witness stand yesterday stated that while he attempted to separate the parties he was assaulted by one of three men. Witness said he caught hold of the assailant while the stop keeper went to call the police. F.C. C78 arrived on the scene and the two struggled on the ground. Witness added that he a
PROVEN USEFULNESS ceased run away and heard two shots fired.
Bome of the details of Chinese The wife of the deceased stated outfits would, no doubt, cause the that the constable used a trun-service Corps of almost any other chean on her husband and the nation to be taken aback, but they allegation of her husband having are of proven usefulness to the Lurge coolle hats and umbrellas used a chopper was faixe.
warriors of China. After all, are
are also part of the normal equip The hearing was adjourned till the odds and
more ends any
ment. China is a land of extremes next Wednesday,
strange than the kilts worn by of climate. In summer the heat is Highland regiments?
fierce indeed and coolle hats are cool. Sometimes, for shady and weeks on end, there is törrential rain and. during these periods,
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
before
Advent of high frequencies
Appearing on... remand while it will also bring many Mr. R. Edwards at the Central problems to communications en- Magistracy yesterday, Chu Tak, gineers, unquestionably will in- 43. unemployed, was fined $2,000 with the alternative of six months' troduce natural reforms.
hard labour, for possession of dangerous drugs, Including . '10
** nuisance ** nrea.
For
This
To the commercial sponsor,
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at least 600 pills, sapirin, vanillin,
grains of heroin, sufficient to make
caffeine and quinine.
Defendant was arrested as the result of a raid on No. 8 Bowrington
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λ), late of No. 3, Rua wonen. R. Edwards, sitting at within the bosom of East Asia: far as is known, no appreciably very marked local areas, and so Almirante Costa Cabral, the Central Magistracy yesterday,
large Масаи, Married Woman, thus again warned snatchers, who threatening Japan's very life and of the that of all Asiatic races, with deceased.
serlousness with which he viewed sure and inescapable death" means that ultra stations may be
spotted more closely to cities and Road top floor on November 10. crimes of that description. The short, all this means just plain' NOTICE
* HEREBY IS
case was one in which Lau Chi, 38,"stabilisation. That, and noth-provide a purely local service. ́.... GIVEN that the Court has, by unemployed, was charged with virtue of Section 58 of the larceny from the person of Missing else, is what Japan seeks to
the Premies especially if he is a, local ndver- WOMEN SPY SCARE Probates Ordinance 1897, made Wong Sul-chun of a handbag con- establish, from an Order limiting the time fortaining money, a pair of gold ear-downward. It appears a most tiser, ultra short waves will give créditors and others to send in rings, and various tollet articles to praiseworthy ambition until one the sort of local coverage that he the value of about $15, at Queen looks at the fact concerning desires: Under conditions obtain- their claims against the above estate to, the 27th day of DecemVictoria Street on Monday,
Defendant, who had a previous Japan's own contribution to the ing to-day, a local advertiser's conviction in 1935, was remanded unsettled conditions of which she message often reaches far beyond ber, 1937,
for 24 hours for medical examina-
complains. tion to see if he fit for a caning.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 30th day of Novem ber, 1937,
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrator,
The Hong Kong and Shanghai' Bank Building, Hong Kong.
5790
Y.M.C.A. RESIDENTS.
Amoy, Dec. 7.,
The presence of female spies, in
towns in south Fukien háve Tungan. Yungan and Changchow prompted the authorities to pay especially attractive and apparent-
the area intended and crentes special attention to new arrivals
bution..
Baron Shidohara, representing embarrassing problems of distri- Japan at the Washington Con- ference in 1922 declared, "no This would seem to indicate one denies to China her sacred that the medium waves used to- rights to govern herself. No one day may in time he employed by Two reports of losses of money stands in the way of China. to the major networks to serve great from the European Y.M.C.A., Kow-work out her own great national areas
ROBBED
ly wealthy women from the North. Several pretty sing-song girls are found to have registered in the lleenced quarters in these towns and are found to be favourites among the tired business men and gay youths. They appear anxious
rather than particular to enquire about troop movements
loon, were made to the Follce on destiny." Six years later, under cities. Their location would be etc.
Boldiers are warned not to fre- Monday. Mr. F. Norrls states he the terms of the Pact of Paris, planned to reach the listeners in lost a Tote book containing $150 the signatories to the Nine-Power remote areas who often cannot quent these resorts or to associate und Mr. F. Goodall, who shares the Treaty and fifty, other nations receive the present transmitters room, lost a wallet containing $27. undertook never to resort to war huddled near the cities.
and private papers from his room
with young women, who may be
spies...
International News Agency.
Here is a picture of what the Chinese gallant looks like when equipped for war.
INDISPENSABLE İTEMS
Lone Chinese flag flying over the Joint Savings Society. Godown, on the northern bank of Soochow Creek, where 500 Chinese soldiers were surrounded but refused to withdraw,
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