THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1936.
The search for the body of the unfortunate Chinese who lost his life in the fire aboard the steamer Recorder at Taikoo Dockyard this week.
Getting letture to América's tables is a complicated matter due to the strike of lettuce workers in Salinas and Watsonville. Call.. where a large percentage of the country's lettuce is grown. This photo shows a truckload of lettuce moving to market with armed guards riding atop the load.
CHINESE FASHIONS AT A MANNEQUIN PARADE. Indy Caldecott Was (in interested spectator at the Mannequin Parade at the Gloucester Ilotet this week. Left are Miss Jeanie Wong. Miss Pearl Chow, daughter of Sie Shou-son Chow: and Miss Evelyn Chan. Right i Miss Tu Wad-ying, who is wearing a peach clouted cut velvet gown,
YAU LIT DEAD
CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY WORKER SINCE 1887
Nonking, Nov. 13.
The death occurred here last night after a brief illness of the 72-year- alti revolutionist. Mr. Yau Ilt. 4. former colleague of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen
It is so long ago os 1887 that Mr. Sau Idt first met Dr. Sun. This was in Hongkong and he was then 17 years old. Later he formed what was known as the Bling Chung Wal for the purpose of ridding China of the Manchus and some years later the Chunp Wo Tong was brought into being by him.
A dramatte manhunt that had been relentlessly pursued in the Siskiyou Mountains of Northern California and Southern Oregon came to an end when the hunted men-Johns and Coke Brite- arrived at Folsom Prison in custody of James Davis, district attorney of Skskiyou County, Accused of killing two peace officers and a citizen, the men escaped posses but finally gave up on advice of their aged mother, Airs, Martha Brite, who was promised a "square deal" by the district attorney. Left to right: John Brite, Coke Brite, Dist. Atty. Davis.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOCAL
FUNDS
The Hongkong response to the
fa the early days of the revolution- ay movement, the late Mr. Yau Lit assisted Dr. Sun Yat-sen considerably Poppy Day appeal has now passed
in enlisting Kintang members in the $10,000-mark;--- the Straits Settlements
When
the Previously acknowledged $5.747.94 revolution broke out in Canton and G. P. de Martin Wuchang
ng in 1912, Mr. Yau Lit was L. E. N. Ryan in Yannan directing the revolutionary Union Church, Kowloon 12th Heavy Battery R.A. forces.
that followed he Union Church, Victoria establishment of the Republican G.S.
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ILM.S. Grimsby When, after the death of Dr. Sun Street Sales:. Yat-sen, the problem of a new leader its South China was discussed, the name of Yau Lit was frequently mentioned as a possible successor to the ex-President. However, he drop-! ped out of the limelight.
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de Martin (in memory of the late T. K. Lo) 10 ST. JOHN AMBULANCE The Director of Ambulance ac- knowledges the receipt of the fol- The late Mr. Yau Lit was strongly lowing donations:
$100 Inguinst the spread of Communism in Mr. Tang Shiu-kin
China. In 1920 when
Mrs. A. Whittaker (Per S. C. M. Communists were in power in Canton and Han-
Post) kow, the late Mr. Yau Lit rallied the Mrs. Wong Weng-chum (Cheung famous Chung Wo Tong in order to Chau) cust the Reds from Canton and
Dr. Davey-150 Hand books "Gas Kuomintang. At that time he dis-Defence." patched, circular
THE TRAVEL ASSOCIATION telegrams to all members of the tong in the Straits The Hongkong Travel Association and F. M. S. urging them to pro-acknowledges the receipt secute a strong campaign against the following subscriptions: Reds. of South China and to raise Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd. money for that purpose. The mem-Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. bers of the tong were 200,000 strong.
Messrs. H. Ruttopjes & Son From 1920 the late Mr. Yau Lit
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was again out of the limelight living HELENA MAY CONCERT
quietly in Kowloon, Last year he celebrated his 71st. birthday by a
banquet in which many old Kuomin- EXCELLENT PROGRAMME BY tang members attended. He was a
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telling of the sad departure from 40 The third vocalist, Helen Lock-home of the fisherman who, after hart, contralto, sang with her usual spending weary months on the sea in skill Gluk's Arlo-"O del mio dolce their tiny craft, return home to find ardor " from "Faride ed Elena," and their homes have been destroyed, "Morning Hymn," by Henschel.
Doris Blair secured quile an ova- What could be termed the most tion for her final three songs, "The finished performance of the evening Willow Song," by Coleridge Taylor, followed when Nura Kanis rendered "Sükworms" by Alec Rowly, tell- a planoforte "Concert Study, bying in very simple, language the life Liszt. The uger. work was excel of Eleanor and John, two pet slik- lent, when one realizes the rent worms, and "The Poll Song," from A fairly large crowd was present technical dimculties one has to over Offenbach's "Taics of Hoffman." She last night for a splendid evening of ou The W. Os, and Sergeants of the music given by six local artists at in a plece such is this. A snug "A New Umbrella" by Maurice Royal Army Ordnance Corps are the Helena May Institute.
more appropriate name would seem Balsley as her encore. holding their annual invitation dance
Helen Lockhart concluded A typical Bach vocal, "Mighty to be "Whirlwind, the apprecia nt the Peninsula Hotel Roof Garden Lord and King All Glorious," was tion was so great that Nura Kants three songs and
an encore, "The Dreary: (Hankow Road
by Gretchaninov, November 18, comtrance) on Monday, admirably sung by Dr. L. T. Ride, was forced to give the first encore.
commencing_8.30 p.m. | baritone, and was followed by two
In the second half of the pro- "Minnelfed." and "The Vain Sufst The band of the 2nd.
sang two by Brahms, and The Heights Lancashire Regiment, will be in at Doris Blair, "Morgen," a slow chant excerpts from "Songs of the Sea, Tatra".4. Kypsy folk-sang
Bn East soprano solos by Strauss, sung by gramme Dr. L. T. Ride tendance, by kind permission of for a very high voice, and "Stand-by Stanford, entitled "Outward Genevieve Evello and O'Neil Colonel A. C. Marsh and officers. chen," a more jovial, light-hearted Bound," and "Homeward
Bound,"
Shaw acted as accompanista,
with