VILLAGE ROAD MURDER
HEARING DATES NOW FIXED.
Special precautions to prevent overcrowding had to be taken by the Court Oicials at the Central Magistracy this morning when Cheng Kwok-yau, arrested in con- nexion with the murder of George Fung nt Village Road, Happy Val- ley, mada another appearance be- fora Mr. Wynne Jones,
BISHOP BANS DANCING
'BUSES AS VEHICLES
FOR SIN.
Paris, Mar. 27. Controversy has been aroused locally by the denunciation as im-'; moral, by the Bishop of Quimper and Leon (Brittany), of not only dancing and danco halle but also the omnibuses which carry dan- cera to and from the halls.
The Bishop denounced dancing "because it is immodest"; daneg halla "because they are places of abominable disorder"; and the omnibuses "because they enable the dancers to go to the dancing halla", with the aggravating cir- cumstances that the poople "crowd in without the least regard to pro-
Long before the sliting of the Court large numbers of Chinese of both sexes fled, into the court room, but steps were taken by the officials to prevent admission of more people than could be comfor tably accommodated, with a result that after all available room was occupied, police officers were post-priety, which soon gives oppor- ed at the doorway to refuse fur- tunities for moral sin." ther admission.
Mr. T. Murphy (Assistant Direc. tor of Criminal Investigation) ap- peared for the prosecution toge- ther with Chief Detective Inspec- tor A. N. Reynolds and Mr. G. K, Hall Brutton represented the prt-
Moner.
His Worship. (to Mr. Murphy): -You are in a position to fix a date now?
Mr. Murphy-Yes, your Wor- ship. I have been instructed to ask your Worship to reserve Tues- day next, the 26th, this day week, forenoon and afternoon, if possible and the following Friday at the same times.
His Worship:1 can't give you the forenoon of Friday. I can give you the forenoon of Tuesday if that suits Mr. Brutton..
I
In an interview yesterday, Mon- signor Dupare said that he excep. ted the old-fashioned dances, es- pecially the Breton dances, which he described as "charming and chaste." but only on condition that they were danced in the open air and in daylight.
Tangos and negro and American dances the Bishop described an an "abomination which should not be tolerated, even in the open and in full daylight."
Asked why he was so severe on the omnibuses, Monsignor Duparc explained that village youths and giris used them to go dancing in neighbouring parishes, thus escap- ing the disapproving eye of their own cure. Worse still, he enld, they put the light out going home. Unemployment Welcomed.
The Blahop added that he wel- Mr. Brutton:-I am afraid 'not,comed the economie crisis and un- your Worship; I shall be en-employment, as they would force Kaged elsewhere.
people to "consecrate less to plen- Hure."
The hearing of the case was nc- cordingly fixed for the afternoon
Monsignor Dupare strongly cri
of Tuesday, April 26 at 230 p.m.,ticised contemporary writers, who, to be continued on Friday after- noon at 2.30 p.m.
£100,000,000 FOR EDUCATION
GENEROUS BRITISH
PROVISION.
London, Apr. 18.
under, the pretext of psychology, Introduced a sensual element into. their works. "By one page inser- ted for the sake of sales between sane reflections," he remarked, "such authors do more harm than the whole of Zola."
The Bishop concluded by do- the claring that in his diocese Church had placed a ban on all dance halls, and even private dances, unless they are held in the open and finished at eight o'clock. A young man who recently applied to his priest to be married was
there would be no marriage ball. As he refused, he is to be married at seven in the morning.
When the Minister for Educa-naked to sign an undertaking that tion, Sir Donald Maclean, present ed his department estimates in the House of Commons to-day, he said they provided for an Exchequer expenditure of £42,892,676, which shows an economy of £6,500,000 on last year. In 1906 the estimates were about £12,500,000,
COOLIE PREVENTS
SUICIDE
Great OLD WOMAN SAVED IN
With sums raised from the rates by local Education Authorities, there is about £100,000,000 for educational
in purposes Britain-more than half the total national expenditure for the year before the war.
NICK. OF TIME
The timely appearance of a He doubted whether there was
Public Works Department coolie, any country in Europe to-day Lo San, at a rather deserted spot whose Budget contained so gener-at Wongneichung. Gap yesterday oua a provision for education.
afternoon, was the means of pre- venting a tragedy in which an old Chinese woman figured.
Regarding recent economies, Sir Donald Maclean said there had been reductions under every head except teachers' pensions and scho- larships to students. British Wireless,
It would appear from a report issued from Police Headquarters this morning that the woman, whose age was given as 70 years,
EMPIRE PRODUCTS herself from a tree when the coolie
FAIR
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL FIRMS
The plan for an Empire Pro- ducts Fair in connexion with the local observance of Empire Day is, we hear, being taken up with marked enthusiasm. The event is being held at the Peninsula Hotel on May 23rd and 24th, and already the menure of support promised assure a very fine display of pro- ducts from various parts of the Colony, from the Mother Country and from the Dominiona.
had gone to the spot yesterday afternoon and there decided to end her life. She had just suspended
happened to pass and, taking in the situation at a glance, instantly went to the woman's rescue, cutting her down.
The woman was unable to speak, and the case has since been referred to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs,
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at the second dinner held by the Despite roparts of increasing
Newspaper Press Fund, which is signs of tension between Japan about to make its annual appeal and the Soviet, the 'Soviet's action
for subscriptions. Dickens was, in requesting the Manchurian Gov-
in, fact, speaking in 1865, long ernment to replace the Chinese consul at Blagoveschensk for de-after he had given up his editor- spatching coded messages
on be ship of the Daily News, half of Gen. Ma Chan-shan, has the quotation will no doubt remind created
Im- many readers of the many changes favourable pression in Japanese official cir-that were then taking place in cles where, it is stated, it helps to fournalam. The old Pall Mall dispel the reports that Gen. Ma Gazette was founded in 1865, and fled to Soviet territory and at the it was in the same year that the Press Association and the Sports- same time prevents the further 2014 Brat made their appearance. broadcasting of anti-Japanese pro- paganda to the League of Nations A good many other changes took place in this period. The Central Commission.
News was founded in 1870 and the Central Press in 1863. The famous Globe for so long the Whig organ, turned Tory in 1866, four years after the Morning Chronicle had disappeared
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In the meantime, following the Manchukuo Foreign Minister's in- timation to Japan that Dr. Wel- lington Koo will be promptly ar- rested if he leaves the S.M.R. rail- way Zone, a press despatch from
a. long. curcer. The Morning Mukden reports that Manchukuo Chronicle had had for its con- has decided to debar Chinese
Hazlitt, the pressmen from entering Man-tributors men like
poct Campbell, Sheridan, Thomas Dr. Welling- churla, the same as
Moore, Lord Brougham, Byron, ton Koo, on the grounds that their Lamb, Thackeray, and John Stuart presence would tend to disturb peace and order.-Reuter.
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It is further declared that the in the sixties. The old Morning Herald, in the eighty-eight years Soviet is reinforcing the garrison of ita existence (from 1781 to and preparing elaborate defences in 1869) never got over 6,000-a very Saghalien, where there
big drop from the 50,000 circula- Japanese
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The Canadian Pacific Company ad trouble, though this is not at the great expansion of circulations be- gan. Northcliffe, whoso bust now present time expected.-Reuter.
looks out upon the Fleet-streat he visa that they have greatly reduced did so much to create, said that the fares on their trans-Atlantic ships be
following movement was made possible partly tween Montreal, Quebec and European
ports. The because of the great cheapening in apply: the price of news print that occur- red between 1875 and 1885, and partly because of the great mechani-Emp. of Britain cal fimprovements. But there was a third factor of much greater im- portance, and this was the increase in popular education. Throughout the nineteenth century a popular The passing of one of the quain- test and most picturesque of shop demand was growing for cheap la newspapers, and it was Northcliffe Britain ping agencies, in
who took advantage of it. of the Indicated by the anle
via the inrent when travelling Larger Atlantio liners, such ateamer Gleaner, the last of the "floating shona" which have served From 1864 the Newspaper Press as the Empress of Britain, but now the people of the Orkney and Shet- Fund has been guarding the in-under the now fares, passengers may land Islands for many generations terests of journalists, and doing travel via this Atlandle liner at the what was possible to mitigate the through rate without supplement, un- Beginning in the days of sail distress of unemployment and il-less special accommodation is required. ing vessels, these boats, laden withness, It was founded for this a great variety of goods and pro- visions, have made regular calls at the smaller harbours and remote bays in the islands, providing the scattered inhabitants with a direct ously supported by the public. It and New York, Apr. 18.
supply service in the same way as the grocer's and butcher's vans serve the rural population in all parts of the British countryside.
From a whole fleet of vessels, however, the "floating shops" ser vice has dwindled In latter years to one sleamer, chiefly owing to the advent of motor-vans and also to the extension of country bran chos from shops in the towns of the islands. The last of these ves sels has now been disposed of.
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Chicago assumed leadership of whereby individuals and firma muy
the National Learne and Washing- secure space in the Fair for the
ton of the American League as a exhibiting of British goods. No charge in being made for reserva- result of to-day's baseball games, tions, but any donations towards which resulted as follow:
National League. the fair funda will be welcome. Already there has been a good rea- New York
Brooklyn ponse in this direction.
Intending exhibitors are invited : Cincinnati to apply for reservations to Mr. J.; St. Louis P. Braen, Chairman of the Fair Sub-Committee, la. Chater Road, Philadelphia from whom all particulars in con- nexion with the project may be ob tained.
Marseland Mas, of the Sincero Co., was fined $10 by Mr. Schoflold at the Central Magistracy to day for die-
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obeying a traffic signal on April 8 FOR MOTHER OF U.S. AVATOR
when he drove his motor-cycle against the red light on the Praya outside the Star Ferry Wharf at a moment when
the ferry.
KILLED.
Shanghai, Apr, 18.
A royal welcome has been pre- pared for Mra. Elizabeth Short, Thought to have fallen from a tram whose san Robert, lost his life in attempting to alight whilst it was in motion, a Chinese who was found when engaged against Japanese by Sergeant Williams lying uncon- aeroplanos in a battle over Soo- Short, acious outside Messrs. Lane, Craw chow in February. Mrs. ford Ltd., at 8.30 p.m. this morning, who is coming to China on the was removed to the Government Civil, invitation of Gen. Taal Ting-kal la Hospital.
due to arrive to-morrow on board
past.
Mr. C. Funck, of Messrs. Jabson & Co. was fined $6 by Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning for causing an obstruction at Blubbs Road on April 7 by leaving his car outside the Peak coolles' shelter,"
the President Taft with her son, Edmund.
Representatives of schools and various public bodies are sending delegations to welcome hor, and the Mayor, Mr. Wu Teh-chen will ropresent the Chinese Government,
It is believed to be the first time.
career.
A Critical Year.
is
purpose, and throughout the un- donation income renched in 1930, certain and somewhat stormy his- which was £89,000, could be main- tory of Journalism in the last tained in 1931, partly because the had · less- to givo seventy years it has been gener-public
in partly because
1930 incomo Was Bwelled by is now faced with a critical year. tho The depression has touched most a magnificent gift of £10,000 from industries, and none more heavily Lord Rothermore. But the £10,000 than the 'newspaper industry. The Income received in 1931 was con- Newspaper Press Fund has at the siderably below the average for moment more pressing claims to the past few years, and it meet than at any other time in Its natural that the organisers of the Newspaper Press Fund should face For the time being the extraord- the present year with some anxiety. inary expansion that has been Last year the payments made to sketched in this article has been members were $13,500 (as com checked, and proprietors have been pared with 12,700 in 1980) forced to delay developments and and to non-members £1,800. The to roduce stalls. For two years total of grants was $16,400, com. every effort has been made by pared with £15,000 in 1930, and proprietors to alleviate the distress £13,300 in 1929. Paymenta on the that they saw must inevitably be various pensions accounts amount- the result of a policy forced on them ed to £7,500 (£7,600 in 1980). by events outside their control. This, the total disbursements for Nevertheless, the pressure of fall relief of distress amounted to ing trade has continued, the neces- £22,000, an increase of £77 alty for retrenchment has had to 1930, and of £3,400 over 1929. The bo faced, and in consequence more net result of the year was that and more appeals have been made, expenditure exceeded income from to the Newspaper Press Fund by all sources by £5,800. distressed journalists and their dependants.
over
A special effort is to be made this year to increase the income while Fall in Income.
maintaining the grants that are Unfortunately its fncome has vital to the lives of so many people, that a woman will receive anfallen alarmingly just at the time and the organisers fool sure that official welcome to China. She will when an actual Increase is most when the position is fully realised be the guest of the Chinese Gov-necessary. It was not, perhape, to the pubile will be no less generous ernment-Router Special.
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