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His Idea Gave Hongkong Its University.
and had
If you are going home on leave, A FORMER assistant, master Colony in many activities. Com- ful husband in "The Pilgrim." several books on cookery in in the service of the Hong- ing to the Far East in 1906 to Giving up this work to become yachts, Ho lectured at Burling- kong Government, in the person join the Shanghai staff of Jar- exclusively an actor, he played-ton House on Egyptology about of Mr. Herbert Leonard Offley dine, Matheson's; he was trans- the British sergeant in "The two years ago, and for this pur- pose the Museumns lent several good models of mediacval ships for Garrett, was one of three re- ferred ten years later to Hong- Rendezvous" We assist you in this connection cipients of the C.I.E. (Companion kong as Secretary of the China comedy parts in "The Galloping demonstration during the lecture.
Relining Company. Fish" and "The Perfect Flap-
During the War Mr. Jarrett- without any trouble or complica of the Most Eminent Order of Sugar
Bell constructed at Hongkong a tion to yourself. delivered the Indian Empire) in the New Whilst here he was one of the per."
promoters and organisers of the
In 1925 he was recommended device to catch submarino mines. to you at home and subsequently Year Honours List. in Hongkong.
Mr. Garrett came to Hongkong Peak Residents' Association, by his brother for the title-role Commodore Sandeman was much interested in him. During many a part in 1004 as an assistant mister which was founded in 1923 and in "Charley's Aunt,"
years of service, both in the East he assiduously followed the in- which he had played on the and in England, he also received at Queen's College under the late Dr. Bateson Wright in the terests of members as Secretary stage in England. The tremend- several letters of appreciation
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He was also Secretary of the is even funnier than the play, While at Pembroke Dockyard he, with Lord Waterpark, construct- parate from the Education De- Peak Club for five years from established his reputation as a partment. He will be well re- 1923, and was keenly interested comedian. Other pictures in ed a special whistle device for
lesser battleships. membered by many "Old Boys" in the Hongkong Angling Club, which he has been starred in-
His interests in sport led to him clude "The Better 'Ole," "The When he was at Radford Hall, and working at donating the Hornell Cup for Man on the Box" and "Oh, What Plymstock, Phone 27778/9.] of Queen's. On the staff
Queen's College he preceded Mr. Hong Fours for rowing, he him a Nurse."
Devonport Dockyard, just be-
Cox. Ag Hon. retired as Inspector of English firm's crew as
Betty Balfour in the British In- retirement, there was talk of re- Schools, Mr. Garrett, whe was Secretary of the Hongkong ternational film "A Little Bit of commending him to open up the
new Dockyard at Penang. educated at Charterhouse and Horticultural Society, he took on
many onerous duties for which Fluff," produced at Elstree. St. John's. Cambridge, came to his success as a competitor in Syd Chaplin depends much Mr. Jarrett-Bell was keen while owning the Colony in the days when the Annual Shows was some less for his effects on freakish yachtsman, and there was A local Amateur reward.
ness than Charlie and his work, one of the smaller yachts him. self, was often invited to sail in Athletic Association in active
Mrs. Hornell also did ad. is legitimate comedy acting.
the larger craft. At one time being and himself had consider- ministrative work for the Peak
he officiated as judge at the races of the Hongkong Yacht Club.
Mr. Jarrett-Bell gave a series of talks on "Byways of Ship
A. R. Sutherland who recently self having represented his He appeared in 1927 with fore his illness and subsequent
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1937.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?able success as a sprinter win- Club and the Royal Hongkong, Inventor's Ancestor
ning the 220 yards of the Colony Golf Club, being an accomplish- Championships then organised cd player herself. by the V.R.C. He also played
football for the Hongkong Club Syd Makes Them and hockey for the then Hongkong Hockey Club. He
Laugh, Too
and Pauline.
When the Empress of Britain
King Robert Bruce WHEN, some weeks ago, I re- Building," from the Plymouth
ferred to the death of Mr. B.B.C. studio, and he broadcast Charles Jarrett-Bell, M.B.E., a commentary on the launch of R.C.N.C.. I did not know either H.M.S. Devonshire, at Devon-
descended from a branch of
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In, the development which are foreshadowed in connection with the impending resignation of Mr. Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, none is more interest- ing than the suggestion that this will be the beginning of the disappearance of the Conserva- tive Party under its old title and its later re-emergence under the label of the National Party The change will, however, be one
that what the Conservative [tioned that Mr. Garrett was a before. leaders have in view is the keen advocate of the creation, Syd is the elder brother of eventual discarding of the Na-of a University for Hongkong, Charlie. His parents were Eng- married King Bruce's sister and It has been left to a London tional Government title, so that and that institution owes its in. lish vaudeville artists, but he he was also descended from journalist, who is acting as ception-to-him and a few others was born at Johannesburg in Archbishop Sumner. He was a special correspondent of the the Administration may become who realleed what an immense South Africa. After some stage Lady Dunbar, Lady Rookwood, now, to discover that interesting 1885, while they were on tour in cousin of Lady Edmonstone, Daży Express in Singapore just avowedly Conservative, but that advantage it would be for Chi- experience as a child and a short Major Lawrell of the 14th Hus- fact, and to secure Mr. Kao's they desire at the same time to nese students to be able to term in a training ship, during ears, Lady Anne Blunt of Crab views on the critical situation in secure for themselves such ad-secure a university education at which he visited various quarters bet, and Sir Arthur Walace. China which Was so closely watched in every country in the vantages as the term "National" their very door, instead of pro. of the globe, he returned to the
His great grandfather was world. ceeding abroad and becoming stage and soon became a leading -as distinct from "Coalition"
artist with Fred Karne's sketch senior member of Council for largely de-nationalised in the
company on the music halls. Bombay and for some time act- Mr. Kao describes the Young may give them. In reality, of
Marshal's leadership of the Slan When his younger brother ing Governor.. course, the present Government
Charlie became a successful film Mr. Jarrett-Bell was a member est ingratitude in Chinese his- mutiny as "a crime of the black- has long since ceased to be Na-Silver Wedding
comedian with the Keystone Co., of the Royal Western Yacht
tory," tional in the sense in which it
Syd left England to act for the Club, Plymouth, and the Island. originally adopted the designa- tion. It will be recalled that the Government was formed in 1931, succeeding the Labourites in order to grapple with a national crisis of some magnitude. The Cabinet, which was then smaller than it now is, contained fewer than ten non-Conserva- tives: it was, in fact, fairly representative of the three main
was transferred to the Indian AST year Hongkong had the his famous connections or his port, in October, 1927.
pleasure of entertaining the equally famous inventions but a Education Service in 1912 and eventually became Principal of famous Charlie Chaplin when he cutting from a Homeside paper Chang Hsuch-liang
his achievements in the Government College at passed through the Colony in sets out Lahore which position ha vacat the company of Mrs. Goddard Hongkong and adds that he was
A King Robert Bruce of Scotland. TT is not generally known that ed when he retired recently.
the Chinese Consul-General It is in recognition of his ser- arrives here on March 21, she Mr. Jarrett-Bell died in à
in Singapore, Mr. Kao Ling-pai, vices in India that he has been will bring among her distin- London nursing home recently who was until recently private honoured by His Majesty the guished passengers Charlie's but was
well-known in Ports- secretary to Gen. Chiang Kai- brother, "Syd," who has also mouth. He was deacended from shek, has for many years also King.
had a carcer on the music halls the Bell's of Kirkconnell and been a close friend of Gen. Chang in name only. It seems clear Incidentally, it may be men- and films and has been here Brockethouse, and the barone of Hauch-liang, the "Young Mar- Carlisle. He was a connexion shal" and leader of the Sian of King Robert Bruce of. Scot- revolt. land; William of Carlisle, having
no
process.
Felicitations
same firm and later' made a Sailing Club, Cowes, and just be- "Of all the Chinese generals, great hit in the leading role of fore his death was invited to I think that Gen. Hsueh-liang HONGKONG people who re- the "Submarine Pirate.” After address the Hamworthy and owes a very great debt of grati
member the twenty-two this for several years he man- Bournemouth Salling Club, on tude to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek.
aged his brother's business yacht construction. He was the years' residence here of Mr. affairs and played such part in author of two books, on Egypto- Manchuria, Chiang nureed the "After his expulsion/from B. C. Hornell, will join in con- his pictures as the Kaiser in logy and the History of Ship- Young Marshal and his army,
"Shoulder Arma" and the bash- ping, and has left in manuscript and after his return from
gratulating on the celebration early this month of his silver wedding anniversary. He was married on March 5, 1912 at! Shanghai to a daughter of Mr. C. P. Dawson, also of that port.
Mr. Hornell, brother of Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chancellor of the University, left Hong- kong in 1928 when he was trang- ferred to the Shanghai branch
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world tour, Chiang appointed his friend commander of the anti- Communist forces.
"I was sent by Chiang Kai- shek to meet Hsueh-liang at Hongkong on his return to the East, and I was the first to sec him.
"The Young Marshal told me: . I have learned much during my world trip which will be of value- to China,
"I could not call Chiang Kai-
political factions. By degrees, however, the Conservatives re- gained the ascendancy, with the result that there are to-day only
The claims of the forward In view of the world shortage five non-Conservatives holding of Jardine, Matheson's, his de- Cabinet rank-three National parture ending two decades of seat have recently been extolled of steel, a local Aberdonian is
active association with the locally. What some Hongkong offering his stocks of used .shek my father, but I wish Liberals (Mr. Hore-Belisha, Sir
people want a little instruction razor blades for sale to the always to obey him and I dwear- John Simon and Mr. Walter
in, however, is how to take a highest bidder. Runciman) and two Labourites Ministers will have to come de- back seat. (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his finitely under the Conservative son, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald). banner, or they will be dropped For the time being, the political altogether. Disentangling the! nomenclature of the Govern-whole skein, what is actually ment may remain unchanged; happening is that the Conserva- indeed, it is difficult to see how tives are planning to take com-
With all this rail in Aus- it can be altered except by a plete control of the Administra-
tralia, the M.C.C. players seem fresh appeal to the nation. But tion.. This may be no bad thing, to be experiencing Duckworthy it seems inevitable that are long but the thought cannot be re- weather. the Ministry will be confined sisted that it would be more
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Mr. Kao described Chang Then there was the 'Peak Hauch-liang as a personal friend. Aden, we notice, is to become lady who, when asked how many and added: "But after this crime Crown Colony. Hongkong servants she kept, replied: of blackest ingratitude in Chin- extends her sympathy.
"Oh; about one in twenty, I ese history, I think he is finish-
ed. whatever the outcome." should think.".
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The Chinese Consul-General does not think that there is any "MP.'s In Arms," says head- real danger of civil war in China. which he believes is solidly be- ine. Some of 'em do behave hind Chiang Kai-shek. like kids.
Incidentally, I hear the Malay- an Chinese are very closely fol Don Bradman was “paged" at
lowing every development in the The acid the Rotary luncheon on Thurs- persuasion. This will mean one to their old name and resist the
test of Japan's Sian crisis and English and of two things either that the temptation to make capital from day. But instead of being not polky won't reat on the use of Chinese newspapers are in big
lout, he was not in.
sweet words or honeyed phrases.demand. present Liberal and Labour a "National" label. -