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MONDAY,
SEPT,
10. 1928.
THE RHINELAND.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1928.
DAY BY DAY,
Thursday.
The Rev. and Mrs. G. E. S. Ups dell returned from Manila by the 8.8. Empress of Asia,
FORMER KOWLOON
PUPIL.
MATRICULATION SUCCESS AT
HOME.
and
The Very Idea!
on History Goography,
mensem with compound interest Arithmetic, Mathematles Chemistry. As a result, ahe every half year. In January 1928. The return of notifiable diseases gains an Intermediate County the interest duo was Rs. 26,00,048. for the week-end. shows one case Scholarship and is to stay at her The plaintiff agreed to relinquish each of small-pox and typhoid, presoat school for another year, his claim for the interest to the extent of Re. 26,09, 947 and asked. Both were Chinese.
for a decreo for Rs, 600 only.
function of the League is to estab lish permanent peace, even at the cost of amending the Treatles and
AN EVIL AT ITS BIRTH 18 EASTLY altering the status quo, should such CRUSHED, BUT IT GROWB AND
The mansiff of Chandpur has just BY ENDURANCE. *** measures prove necessary.. Po- STRENGTHENS
Cicero.
decided a mortgagé suit brought by land, too, has her own ideas on this
Letters received from Home by, a money lender against a debtor, Rhineland question. Her Foreign The P. and O. s.8. Moron, from Mr. G. F. Nightingale, headmaster claiming Rs. 20,00, 700 as princi Minister recently asserted that no Singapore, le duo here at 9 am. onof the Central British School, pal and Interest dus on a sum of record the success gained by Rs. 22 advanced as a loan 18 years evacuation could take place with- out Polish consent, adding that
for student at Kowloon, in the g Margaret Peggy") Weston, a Poland, like France, would do
London Martriculation Examina- The plaintif in the suit is Adhar Lion. She was one of fourteen Chandra Saha, of villago. "Barkol mand consideration for her con-
pupils in her class who sat for (Hajigun) within Chanpur, and. sent in the form of some guaran- The s. Daviken arriving from the full Matriculation Examina- lees of "security." The Franco-Bangkok and Hoihow reports the ton (with Mathematics, Chemie tho defondant is a man named lass of an anchor at the latter try and Latin). Eleven of these Nazaruddin. It was alleged in the Polish standpoint is that Britain, port.
passed, and Margaret Weston was plaint that the detendant obtained. Franco and Belgium occupy the
English, Drawing and Oral cuting a mortgage bond repayable Rhineland no the mandatories of Mr. W H. Floyd of the Prison second, gaining distinctions in a loan of Rs. 22 in May, 1915, exe- Department is proceeding on leavs Franch, with Matriculation stand-with interest at 10 per cont. wer the Allied and Associated Powers, to England by s.s. Kalyan sailing ard without whose consent they can-on Saturday next. not withdraw their troops either jointly or soverally, That is a submission which, however, does not find general agreement; it cor- tainly does not represent the Bri- It is advertised that the Contral
British School will re-open on About Hong Kong. tish viewpoint.
Monday, September 17. Entrance To the average man, the argu-examinations for new pupils will ment which is most likely to make be held on Friday, September 14, an appeal at the moment is that at 9.80 a.m. the continued occupation of the
The 8.8. Damplo has been taken Rhineland is to be regretted be-in hand for repair at the Kowloon cause it serves to keep alive old Dock, damage having been done to
the vessel when a derrick crashe war-time relationships, which are whilst loading a 15 ton log at San- far better forgotten. Germany, dakan on the Inst voyage. moreover, is fuldling her Treaty obligations to the letter, and it cannot but he humillating to her |that foreign troops should-still re- main on her territory. We do not want to see a perpetuation of the ¡dea of one group of States arrayed
A fine of $10, or, in default, four- against another. That is the preteen days' hard labour was to-day war concept. It is in conflict with imposed by Mr. I. E. Lindsell on the new and better outlook repre- Chinese who was caught in Lyemoon Barracks yesterday. The sented by Locarno and the Peace man was seen with his head through Part. So long as it continues, dis-the window of the O. C's quarters, rast is enthroned. The better and was promptly arrested. way is that of trust and concord.
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A Chinese was removed to the Government Civil Hospital on Saturday following an accident on the . Hillas at 3 p.m. that day. The man was engaged in loading work on board the ship when his hand was caught in a block from the
boat's falls.
Able Scuman H. Bounden, of H. M. S. Berwick, has made a report to the police to the effect that on Saturday he engaged a room in the Victoria Hotel, Hankow Road, and when he returned to the Hotel yesterday ho missed bla suitcase containing two 21 notes, three $10 notes, a camera and a bathing sult,
Do you know that------
Public flogging of criminals was formerly In vogue in Hongkong"
In 1842, the punishment for serlous offences, mostly. rob. berles, was from sixty to a hundred strokes of the bam- boo, besides imprisonment..
On April 25th, 1846, a large number of bad characters were publicly flogged and had their queues cut off..
wero
European offenders also subjected to the same February punishmobt. In
1866, an Englishman named Austin Melville was tried at Sension for stabbing a mem- ber of the crew of the steam- er Fusiyamın, to which he be- longed, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and ordered to be twice pub. Hely flogged with twenty-five lashes.
In April of the same year, John Thompson was found guilty of larceny at a dwelling- house and of administering n drug. He was stupefying nentenced to three years' im- prisonment and ordered to bo three limos publicly dogged, fifty strokes cach time.
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The partics compromised the caBO and a decree for Re. 431 was passed. in favour of the plaintiff.
An actress who possessed a costly pearl necklace thought to circum- vent thieves by leaving the neck- lace carelessly on her dressing.. table with the following note at tnched:-
"These are cheap limitations and. are worthless. My real pearls are In a vault at the bank."
One night when she arrived homa from the theatre she found that her necklace lind disappeared, and be. side her note lay another, which read
"These are good enough for me. I'm only a substitute. The bur glar who regularly attends to this district is on holiday."
North London maglstrates clerk: What time, did this oceur? Witness: Between 4.80 and half- past four, str.
"I want to give him up, as he is very drunk," a woman was stated, at Lambeth, to have said when sho took her husband to the polico station.
A defendant in an assault sum- mons heard at Greenylch sent a letter to the magistrate, and ad- dressed it "le Majesty, c.o. Green- wich Follco Court."
"Right do, you jolly old thing," was stated, at Croydon, to have been a motorist's reply to a police- man who told him he would be
arrested.
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Despite the hopes that a new in ternational spirit of peace and concord would be engendered by
Empire Air Progres, the signing of the Kellogg Treniy, news from Genera indicates that
The rapidity with which Britain there is small likelihood of France has become air-minded is little and Germany coming to an agree-short of remarkable. Travellers |ment of viewpoint on the question to the Continent are making the
Defended by Mr. Leo d'Almada, of the Rhineland evacuation. journey via Croydon in steadily in France apparently remains ada-creasing numbers, the present a Chinese accountant, of Laichikok,
"My husband limped into court, mant on the issue, contesting the daily totals representing a splendid was charged before Mr. W. S. and then hopes to go on to the
achievement in a period of four Schofield, at the Kowloon Ma- Royal College of Art.
gistracy this morning, with being Mrs. Weston, in writing of her contention that Germany can, un-
confidence of years. The
the in possession of the carcase of a daughter's success, says that the but he goes all right disido; and, der the terms of the Versailles public is a tribute to the efficiency nik in a tainted or unwholesome net that a girl can go Home from besides, he is a plumber."-Woman
and compete
with at Willesden, Treaty, demand immediate evacua- of the Imperial Always Limited, state. Mr. d'Almada said he hud Hongkong
"I'm a Hitlo elit from bowling," tion. There is thus some prospect which has enjoyed a remarkable only just been instructed and ap- pupils who have had the advantage
adjourned until_to-morrow.
a said the commercial traveller, as he equal but outstrip them, saya that Germany may, under protasi, freedom from serious accident.plied for a remand. The case was of a continous scheme and not only
Sir Eric Goddes now feels justified
very great deal for the education, eased himself in a chair. have to put up with the occupa-
The death took place on Aug. 5, given by the Central British "I don't care where you como In handing over his charge to sub- tion for a further term of seven ordinate hands, at the same time at Bexhill-on-Sea, of Mr. Frederick School, She adds:"Titis is from, snapped the busy shopkeep-
Gordon Penney, late of the Straits point that I think is too ofton years. If that he the case, the announcing the recommendation Civil Service, aged 12. Mr. Pen- rather, ungratefully overlook. er. What have you got to sell?" European outlook is likely to re- of the first dividend paid by the ney was appointed a Cadet, S.Sed In Hongkong, and needs oeca- [An educational authority de- main far from composed, because Company since its establishment. In 1876 and was the first Cadet to sional emphasising. It is only clares that to-day instead of boys become Colonial Secretary, in when you get back Home that hectoring over girls it is the girls a perpetuation of the occupation The Company is now set on which office he succeeded Sir Wil you realise how good the educa- who bully the boys.] will necessarily rankle in the straight course with fair weather liam Taylor in 1905, after having tion in the British schools in German mind, implying, as it must, head, though to some extent it been Colonial Treasurer since Hongkong is. I consider that the tenching of English, Art and a spirit of distrust which is must still depend on Government 1898. He retired in 1906.
French in the Central British When a Chinese was arrested School would be hard to beat" strangely at variance with the subsidies. This is largely due to the fact that big schemes of
yesterday by a district watchman
Mrs. Weston, who was the first basic idea of the Kellogg Fact. devolopment are contemplated. A for unlawful possession of fourteen Germany would no doubt argue, new agreement signed between the pounds of charcoal, the man prompt-Head Mistress of the Quarry Bay with considerable force of reason, Imperial Airways and the Govern-ly offered the watchman a silver School, Is now head of one of the that the No-War. Puct bespbaka ment la important as the practical watch to release him. The defen-L CC. Women's Evening In-
dant was brought before Mr. R. E. stitutos. the abandonment, by all signa-step towards the chain of Empire Lindsell this morning and was fined daries, of aggreasive policies, and, air routes, organised commercial-$5 for unlawful possession of the
ly, which has been constantly be charcoal and $20 for offering the NO that being the case, insistence on fore the mind of Sir Samuel Hoare, watch. The alternatives were one measures of security becomes leas the Secretary of State for Air. In and three weeks respectively. necessary.. France, however, ten years it is possible for the Im- would still appear to be weddederlal Airways to earn subsides
amounting to £2,500,000, the exact
Д
Pleading guilty when charged
TRACE. OF ARGUS
PLANE.
-FEARED LOSS OF THE CREW.
Tho tables are turned at last, they
BAY, And our maidens bully the boys
to-day,
And carry on in, a hectoring way, As the boys once did before them.
But I wonder whether it's really
truc.
Aro the days of male supremacy
through,
So that nothing that we can say
or do
Can ever hope to restore them?
For I know in the days that I recall, I lorded it finely when I was smali Over my sisters, one and, ail,
Who fought the oppressor vainly. I didn't regard them as priceless
pearls,
And pretty pink cheeks and cluster-
ing curls
Were nothing to me--they were
"only girls,"
As I always informed them
plainly,
But with other maids I was strangé.
lyrahy,
Bally them? Nevert I didn't
try They always seemed, though' I
couldn't fail why,
to the policy of erring, if at all, figure to bo commensurate with the with motor-car touting in H
amount of progress made. One of Road, two Chinese were coch fined
A British wireless message in on the aide of safety.
the main features of the agree-$10 by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this mor- That Britain does not quite seement provides for the establish- ning. A third man brought before regard to the disappearance of a eye to eye with France on this fu- ment of a weekly service to India, the Court for the same offence was naval aeroplane from the aircraft- Station) states that sue has been made evident by.n which will be extended to a bi-dismissed by the Magistrate, as it carrier Argus (formerly on the
alender weekly aarvice Immediately the was learned that he had been in China
the hope.. that number of declarations recently change is justified by increased police custody since Saturday morn-a
has been .rescued made, chief amongst which may be traffic, Regular services to the ing, having been unable to find crow
failed to dant
in appear
with wireless is still maintained, noted a statement in the House of Capo and to Australia are also in bail. In another case, the defen- by some vessel not equipped project, the anccess of which must Court, preferring to catreat his but a search by naval craft has Commons in July by Sir Austen entirely depend upon the support bail of $16,
falled to discover any trace of tho Chamberlain, who expressed sym-accorded in the beginning. It is
plane or. the crew,, The full week-end figures of pathy with the German view that obvious that without the backing of
the public all such schemes must shipping arrivals and departures the Rhineland should be evacuat fall. It is, however, the intention were respectively 26 and 27, of sance fight over the North Sea on ed before the time-limits fixed by of the Imperial Airways to open which nine in each class were Bri-Thursday and has not since been The crew comprised the Treaty of Versailles. He add-up the routes for traffic in the hope tish. This morning's reports gave located. od, however, that he did not think that sufficient support will be 15 arrivals and 18 departures. Bri. Pilot Officer Samuel Hatton, Naval
Hongkong might tigh seven and four respectively. Lieutenant Charles Sheldon Booth While the old tradition Uingers. he could usefully take the initia- well take a lesson from this at- At 9 am, there were 68 vessels in and a telegraphist.NE
The Argus is at present station- tive in the matter at present. The titude. It is next to impossible port, British 20, Chinese 14, Nor
to rouse entiruetnam over promises. wegian 7, Dutch 6, Japanese and ed at Cromarty Firth, Rosshire, British Foreign Secretary would Much has been said about the American 3 cach, Portuguese and and Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Tren- chard has hurried there in a sea- no doubt like this question satis-Hongkong aerodrome and its fu- French 2 cach, Danish 1.
plane. factorily adjusted by the League ture, but so-far nothing has been
forthcoming.
נו"
The plano left for a reconnais-
To bo, twisting mo round thefe
fingera
And may it not be, for all this talk, That the boy at home is the cock
of the walk;
(But outaldo-01 not by a long,
long chalk)
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"This vase Is 5000 years old. This one is quite modors."" "May. I handle them?"
Yes, but don't mix them, or cannot distinguish between them."
done. The answer may be that Mr. Dorabjee Edalji Dharwar, of Nations, but, as a political of the local Government has been who died at No. 11, Kensington
Remarking that he was not earn- server recently remarked, the Bri- waiting for Canton's indication Hill Gardens, Kensington, Mid-
On Thursday last a trader of tish and the French viewpoints that she will co-operate, but the dicsex, on December 26, 1927, left ing enough, a Chinese sought to
circumstances in Kwangtung's Hongkong estate to the value of justify a theft of two pieces of Ping Shan was fined $100 by Mr. on the League's functions do not capital are such that little can be $2,700, while
not personalty brass from the Naval Yard. The altogether tally., The French Iden expected from this quarter for a amounts to £2,448 168. 8d. Re-seal-police informed the Magistrate try-J. A. Fraser, the District Officer, 18. that the chief business of the long time to come. We anticipate ing of letters of administration, Ing the case this morning that the dor stowing 370 gallons gasolene League is to preserve the Pence that the scheme, if any headway is with the will annexed, has been defendant earned 60 cents a day more than allowed by bis licenco. to be made in the near future, will granted to Mr. D. V. Steavenson, and had regular employment. In Bergeant Tyler prosecuted. Such Treaties and the European status have to be initiated entirely by, of Messrs, Deacons, who is the at-Imposing a fine of $10, or fourteen heavy fines are not very common que, whereas the British concep-Hongkong, and it wouki be wise for torney of the widow, Mrs. Edita days, Mr. R. E. Lindsell commented in district courts, while it was
fscribed. tion, expressed negatively rather the Government and the promoters Urdeshir Dharwar, living at the on the defendant's foolishness in only through a technicality that to review the position from this Kensington address, to whom risking his job for such a petty the surplus gasolene was not con-
larceny. than positively, is that the main angle, and to act accordingly. everything is bequeathed.
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