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LITTLE GIRL EXONERATES MISTRESS..
A Chinese woman, living at No. 132 Belchers Street, appeared yos terday before Mr. R. E. Lindsoll charged with assaulting with ex- treme severity a small girl who lived with her. Defondant was ro- presented by Mr. G. K. Hall Brut- ton.
The little girl was brought into court to give evidence, but wept and "could not answer the ques tions put to hor. The magistrate told the interpreter to tell her that she had nothing to fear, but must tell the truth, whereupon the little girl wept more bitterly than before and was taken out to be pacified, the magistrato proceed- Ing with the evidence of the other witacescs.
A foki working in the ground floor of No. 132 Belchers Street said that when he opened the door of the kitchen leading into the yard on the morning of the 8th March, he found a little girly whom ho had never soon before, squatting in the yard. She might have been there all night, but he could not say for certain. She could not have entered by any, of the doors on the ground floor.
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THE AFTERMATH OF MATERNITY.
Nature decreed that mother hood should entail no serious con- sequences. Artificial modes of
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Nervous tension is only one of numerous factors that sap vital ity. For the wife, and hence the prospective mother, to provide
viliation against energy, is but to ensure to the life she brings into the world the muximum chance for health and happiness.
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Waterbirds. on both buttocks. These bruises could also be caused by a fall. A 30 Be in debt to...
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The girl had a peculiar condi- tion of both her bands and feet. The skin on the palms and soles were hard and red, and the buck of the hands and feet appeared as
fish.
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if the girl was nectstomed to have strings drawn through her fingers. The skin was cracked "between the fingers and toes. The doctor men- tioned that he had never seen such hands and feet before.
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The little girl was again brought to the witness-box, but ahe would not stand up. She sat
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and a detective she said: This is the truth. I fell down from the window into the yard.
Asked by the magistrate if her mistress had ill-treated her, she said: I was well treated. My mistress did not know that I fell over.
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Mr. Lindsell remarked that he could not go on with the case,
Mr. Brutton said that although his client was discharged, she would like to explain how the girl came to be on the ground floor, bruised and blending, early in the morning. She said that the little girl had been with the defendant for six years and was in fact relation of her child must have fallen down while the rest of the house was asleep. In the morning they missed her, and although two persons went out in search they did not find her.
husband. The
was not till the police arrived that they knew the girl had fallen into the yard.
As regards the strange condi Lion of her hands and feet, M.. Brutton explained that was due to the fact that the little girl was very mischievous, and always played with water, hence the cracks and the hard skin.
For building up blood and nerves, for fortifying the system
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The French delegation to the A Socialist attempt to raise a dobate on the Italo-Jugo-Slav 'af-disarmament committee has dis tributed a draft treaty containing fair was frustrated by M. Briand, thirty articles, limiting who said it would only inflame ments, No figures are laid down. It provides that in case of an dying passions at present. The
Justified aggression, the attacked House agreed.
party should inform the League Mr. Briand said that events and its mobilisation will be freed were evolving towards a peaceful ipso facto from the obligations of solution, and eclogised the diplo- the proposed treaty, subject to the of the League matic attitude of everybody, con- obligations cerned. He declared if the inde- Covenant if the attacked country. pendence of Albania were at is a member of the League. stake, the League would intervene It provides that no warship shall
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The annual dinner of the Asso ciation was held on February 20 in the Great Hall of the Unive Eity, with the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kota- wali presiding,
Finanacially the year was, not
a prosperous one and the annual dinner showed a loss of $50, but it was with great pleasure that
able was
to
The Association of Past and the Secretary Present Commercial Students held hand over a balance of $78.50 to their third Annual Meeting at the the incoming committee.
The election of officers was then University Union last evening, there being a fair attendance of proceeded with, resulting as fol members with Mr. Wong Ping lows, after an amendment of the in the chair.
rules.
of the
President, Professor W. J. Hin- After the adoption minutes of the previous meeting ton; Vice President (Grad.) Mr the secretary rendered his report, Wei Tat B.A. (Com.). Hon. Vice Presidents Hon. Dr. Kotowall," which, was in part as follows.
C.M.G., Mr. Li Yau Tsun, Mr. G. The membership which had w. Keeton B.A., LL.B. and the stood at 60 during the previous Chairman of the General Cha:7- year, had dwindled down to 31, of ber of Commerce. Chairman, Mr. which 26 were undergraduates, the Theng Khai Hua, Hon. Sec., deplorable depression in trade Mr. Lee Ho Tong; Grad. Sec. Editor of Journal, Mr. having had an adverse effect on and
B. M. Talat B.A. (Com.); Busi enrolment.
Activities during the year had ness Manager, Mr. Wong Ping In, been confined to a visit to Sir Ro- B. A.; Editorial Board, Messra. bert Ho Tung's Experimental Farm Khan, B.A., Nyamen B.A. (Com) At Sheung Shul, which had bean and Lim Pang Tiong,
The meeting closed with votes well attended, and a farewell party
to Professor W. J. Hinton on his of thanks to the officers of the AB-
sociation for the past year. departure for Home leave.
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