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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927.

DRAMATIC ESCAPE. CHEUNGCHAU NOTES INDIA'S VICEROY.

CHINESE WHO ATTACKED EUROPEAN,

ECHO OF STABBING CASE.

Singapore, Feb. 5.

The Chinese who stabbed Mfr.,

THE FOREIGN POPULATION EXPANDS,

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

[From Our Own Correspondent.J Cheung Chan, Feb. 14.

A CONTİNUOUS, POLICY. OF

CO-OPERATION.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

LATIN ALPHABET.

TURKISH MINISTER'S HARD TASK.

KEMAL PASHA'S REFORM.

EVE'S BITE.

PUNISHMENT INSTEAD OF

ASUREWARD..

Suzanne Schultz, the golden- haired chambermaid, aged 19, who bit an apple in a boarder's room and found the Conde diamond, which had been stolen from the Chateau de Chantilly, at Versalles, her situation.

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LORD READING'S PRAISE

London, Jan. 26. The London "Chronicle," which is now under Lord Reading's W. G. Stirling, Secrosis for We were glad to welcome back active lendership, is backing up "Chinese Affairs, and a Chinese Mrs. Clift after her long stay in Lord Irwin's declaration to the question of adopting "the Latin expected a big naward, but she lost |

girl at the Protectorate some hospital but Dr. Clift expects to Indian Assembly weeks ago, has eluded his police back again on Wednesday to guards and escaped from the Lungehow to superintend the mis-says: Lord Irwin was express In an editorial, the "Chronicle"

ing a continuous policy, indepen. dent of the personality of any particular Viceroy or Secretary of State, and implicit in the re- forms themselves:

General Hospital..

sion work there.

It will be recalled that this man went to the Protectorate with The Bible study classes will Chinese girl to settle some domes. then be conducted by the Rev. Mr. tic dispute. The matter came Benson. before Mr. Stirling,,, and during The service last Sunday was led the discussion the Chinese, ap by Rev. J. McKenzie who preach- parently angered at the attitudo ed a timely and helpful sermon on of the girl suddenly drown Isaiah 40:31. claspknife and stabbed her, Mr. Dr. Clift was the preacher this Stirling intervened, and received week.

Clerks A wound in the thigh

Holiday Visitors,

and attendants heard the dis- The Rev. and Mrs. A. H. Bray turbance and come to Mr. Stiv-have left for England on fur- ing's assistance, whereupon the longh and will be missed from our Chinese inflicted a serious wound circle. upon himself with the knife.

Inn Open Word

"He takes his stand loyally by the statesmanship of Lord Read ing, just as Lord Reading did by Viscount Chelmsford. He in- dicated not merely the futility of non-co-operation, but the almost unlimited advances which Indiana could evolve out of the existing reforms if they worked them for what they were worth.

London, Jan. 26. Rome. The Turkish Minister for Education, Mr. Nediati Boy, ie visiting Rome in contection with the alphabet for the Turkish Janguage i Turkish schools.

She says she was dismissed be- languages residing in Rome have to out the apple, but she explains Certain specialists in Orientat cause it had not been right for her been asked to collaborate in the that she only took a bite because rather difficult task of revolutionie-she was hungry.

Now she is washing, dishes, else- in the written characters of the Turkish language, and not only pre-where. paring text books, but transcribing the existing literature."

Kemal Pasha is anxious to saë the revolution carried through as. frapidly as possible..

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'FLU EPIDEMIC.

WELL-KNOWN MUSICAL ARTISTE DEAD.

London, Jan. 27. Dr. and Mrs. Todd, and Dr. and "English observers cannot, fail The death has occurred of Miss Mrs. Hayes paid a brief visit dur- to see how much the existing re- Victoria Monks, a well-known Mr. Stirling's injury was for. ng China New Year. The forms render possible, but if In-music hall artista, who has fallen tunasely not serious, but both the Hayes's house is practically indians prefer some, other scheme a victim to the influenza epidemic. man and woman were removed to fished and is greatly improved in of advance let them work out its Deaths from, influenza in the the General Hospital. The man appearance and comfort by the practical details and publish great towns of England and who was, of course, ander arrest, addition of a large verandah. It them.

Wales last week totalled 470, was placed in an open ward. the is now occupied by the Rev. and Lord Birkenhead, as far back which is considerably above the renson for not keeping him in the Mrs. Woodward of the Baptistas July 7, 1925, publicly invited previous week's figures, but small special lock-up at the hospital Mission who have had to come schemes and promised them the when compared with the occasion closest study. Eighteen months when there were 1,800 deaths in passed, but not one had been jone week.. forthcoming.

Of last week's deaths 831 occurred in and around London, indicating that the epidemic is principally affecting the capital.

being apparently that he was too down from Kweilin. 键

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He was not, however, too ill to make his escape from the ward in the early hours of Thursday morning. appears that he was watchel by a guard of six con- stables, buch of whem did four Fours duty, and which the guard was changed as about 2.4m. it was discovered that the man had got away. He must have walked! through the bulking in his sleeping attire and got other clothes outside, but nothink fur- ther has been heard of him.

EUROPEAN MURDERED

FAPAL SEQUEL TO MALACCA SHOOTING.

MR. W. A. LAVENDER DIES.

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Singapore, Feb. 8.

Rev. and Mrs. Lowe are also back again, from the same city,

Lady Missionaries. House No. 19. is occupied by three ladies of the New Zealand Mission. Other members of this Mission occupy houses No. 4, 5, 9 and 10.

The "Strails Times" states that Mr. W. A. Lavender, an aesistant P.W.D. engineer who was shot by some unknown assail- ant at Kesang, Malacca, on Janu- ary 31, died in the General Hos- pital this morning of his injuries. The shooting occurred when Mr. Lavender

driving was

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Miss. R. Hitchcock is expected sɔjejo teismololt ches

"It seems reasonable to infer that those who criticise most have not toiled most to construct and that while hostile, from a variety of motives, to the British offer, they have, on the merits, no alter- native to it."

Tia Juana, Mexico-The sign announcing that Mexican beer may be Rad for Biteen cents a glass, American money, proves an uddet incentive to those who yearn for the convivial liquid. Thou- sands visitors and nativon pass under this sign to the bars, and gluning tables.

through the district on duty. He at her house during the week be- was alone in the car and nothing fore she leaves on furicugh. is known beyond the fact that he

Other houses are expected to be was picked up by some coolies occupied (by Missionaries who with two ballet wounds in his have been ordered to the coast) head and taken to the hospital at during this week, so that the for- ein population will be quite con- Mr K. Black, surgeon at the siderable for this time of the General Hospital, went up to examine him and he was subse. quently

The gardens and trees are ir removed under Mr. need of ruin and there has been Black's care to the hospital at Singapore, where all efforts to piague of caterpillars among

plantations.

save his life anfortunately proved of no avail.

Vigorous inquiries are being

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February 14 World Theatre; 'Siegfried,"

野 February 14-Star„ ' Theatre; The Social Code."

February 18-Concert at the Cannossian Institute: Calme Rd. 6.30 p.m.

February 18-K.C.C. Dance At Savoy Hotel

February 10-H.M.S.. "Hermes" dance at Hotel Savoy.

February 23 & 28-Theatre Royal, Dance display by Mies Violet Capelle pupils, 5.15 p.m.

February 20-Dancing per- formance at Theatre Royal, by Miss V. Capells pupils, 9.15 p.m.

concert February 26-Stoking for members of the Kowloon Cric-

Schools Closed;

London, Jan, 25. The influenza, epidemic con-ket Club, 9: p.m.. tinues to be widespread.

Counsel at the London Sessions applied for the postponement of the trial of a woman on the ground that her three children were suffering from influenza and needed her attention. The ap- plication was granted.

A notice reading. "All Down With Flu" was seen pinned to the closed shutters of a jeweller's shop at Peekham.

Sports.

February 28-Annual Race Meet- ing of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

March Next Tournament of the Hong Kong Boxing Association.

Meetings.

February 18-Annual meeting of Members the Victoria Recreation Club. 6 p.m.. at the Club.

February 23-Benevolent Society Meeting, City Hal noon..

February 24-Fortieth meeting.! of shareholders of the Hong Kong Ltd. Mesers. Jardine Matheson's & Kowloon Wharf,& Godown: Co.. board room, noon.

A Judge of the Westminster County Court refused to grant a money-lender's judgment sum- February 26--Annual meeting of mons against a Walthamstow shareholders of Hong Kong & butcher whose effects they had Shanghai Banking Corporation,. sold. They now wished him to City Hall, noon. be sent to prison.

The butcher said he was suffer. ing from influenza and had got out of bed to appear at the Court. The Judge told him to go back to bed.

Some

In Northamptonshire villages every household is affect- ed. In thirty cases, the North- amptonshire Education Commit tee has closed the schools; as, owing to the ravages of the in- fluenza, the attendance is below 50 per cent.

AVIATOR'S NARROW ESCAPE. able judgment in defence of public morals has been given by the court

Washington, Jan. 26. Lieutenant W. G. Tomlinson, a at Dijon in an action against three students, whom music-hall man-naval aviator, narrowly escaped angers sued for defacing perform death when his aeropiane plunged He was thence posters. claiming 1.000 france into the Potomac River.

damages.

thrown clear of the machine and The student contended that the was rescued from the water by the posters were indecent.

captain of a dug anchored near-by.

prosecuted by the Malacca police, ANDROCLES & LION, but non-suited the plaintiffs on the

and, while the affair remains a mystery, it was suggested at the time of the attack that the motive a might be robbery, in view of the approach of Chinese New Year,

THRILLING INCIDENT AT LEICESTER.

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He suffered only minor injuries.

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February 26-Eighth meeting of The Bank of East Asia. Ltd., 10 Des Voeux Rd., Ct, 3.30 p.m.

Hong Kong Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. March 4-Annual meeting of Exchange Bidg., 11 am.

March 5-Thirty-eighth meeting of Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., P. &. O. Building, 11 a.m

March 7-Annual Meeting Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's offices, noon.

Auctions.

of

(Ground door) Kowloor,, auction of February 17-At 86, Nathan Rd..

household furniture by Mesara. Lammert Bros., 2.45 p.m.

February 18-At Sales Room, Duddell St, Chinese Curios, 2.30 j.m...

Miscellaneous..

February 16-Local Chinego Ama- tour Athletic Federation dinner to Eastern Chinese team from Shang- hai, S. China Restaurant, (China Bldg.), 3 p.m.

February 16-Dedication of re- St. John's constructed organ, Cathedral, 5.46 pm:

February 18 & 25-Organ Re citals, St. John's Cathedral, 5.45 p.m.

February 21-Public lecture ati Helena May Institute; 5.80 p.m.*

of March 1-Annual dinner members of St. David's Society,

The judge censured them for saking the lawdinto their own hands,

ground that the display of the pos-

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ATHLETES. The court ruled that the costs THE. golfer, the football playar and the all-round athletic know the The deceased leaves a widow London, January 21-An up-to-

The managers appealed to a high-value of Chamberlain's Pain Baim. It

St. and child, with whom warm sym-date version of Androcles and the

er court, which upheld the finding. Just the thing for a rab down after Hotel Savoy 7,45 pm....

March 4 Organ Recital, a hard game. All soreness disappears John's Cathedral, 5.40 p.m. pathy will be felt.

Lion occurred at Leicester when The plaintiffs had no case, sald like magic and sprains and swellings the court. They had advertei "aaro cured in one-third less time than

March 10-Annual Captain Wombwell, the. lion-tamer

show. of

of a circus, entered the cage of a

licentious spectacle, apealing to be any other treatment.

For sale flowers and vegetables, Volunteer lioness in order to attend her sick the lowest instincts."

Headquarters. overywhere. cuba,

They were ordered to pay the An untamed African lion broke. The Federation of Music Hall

whole of the couts, The first application by a halves of the cage and pinned Cap Causation.

down a partition separating the two Lessees is apealing to the Court of woman lawyer for admission to tain Wombwell in a corner, severely the Singapore Bar has already mauling him. been made, the Attorney-General

Captain Wombwell struggled with toki the members of the Legisla-the enraged beast and the lioness tive Council yesterday.

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SINGAPORE'S LADY LAWYER.

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Singapore, Feb. 8.

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Battle Royal.

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A Bill was introduced which biting his shoulders and tearing his had as its object the removal of flanks. doubts as to whether a woman who was otherwise qualified to be

The Heronec turned to "de admitted and enrolled as an ad- fend himself. vocate and solicitor of the Cap'nin Wombwell had sufficient Supreme Court of the Colony was cage and close and fasten the door. stray left to crawl out of the disqualified by reason of her sex He then collapsed, from such admission and enrol- A battle royal between the lion and the 's followed, the Honess The Hon. Mr. M. H. Whitley wereting the lion before the two said that a petition by a lady who were serrated by circus hands who had been called to the Bar at the rushed to the" spot. Inner Temple would come up for| hearing in the Supreme Court at Singapore next June, and the object of the bill was to remove doubts by specifically enacting that sex should not disqualify a person from admission and enrol- ment.

The Bill was read a first time.

KING, GEORGE'S GIFT.

DIVORCE AND THE PRESS.

London, Jan. 14. Describing the procedure in the Divorce, Courts sincekletailed news- paper reports have been forbidden

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POLISH GANG'S RECORD.

Paris, Jan. 18. cupied in collating details relating

Twenty months have been

to the arrest of a gang of Polish bandits who terrorised France and Belgium for two years. Their chläf, Vladimir Zingsuk; appointed gangstera, provided funds, and sold assistance for those arrested. Ha the products of thefts, and financed

had four lieutenants. The arresta began in 1925, as a result of spies betraying Zingaukrand one of his fleutenants, Bruzda. The latter took refuge in Germany. The gang committed six" murders, and at-, tempted five more, also perpetrated 50 armed, burglaries. Twenty-two of the 64 bandits charged with offences will stand their trial in April.

• WOMAN SUES SURGEON.

London, Jan 27

A Liverpool woman, Mrs. Hilda

by law, the "Daily Exprese" says Maddocks, has sued Dr. John Wil that the parties to a suit now give evidence in rapid succession and son of the Samaritan Hospital for

operating on her without her con

auft follows suit with almost equal sent when she went for an examine rapidity. Barristers have lost much New York, Feb. 14,of their former emotional appeal. on. The doctor said the examina In the presence of a crowded A dry recital of the circumstances ion showed risks of death, and he congregation, the British Ambas is followed by the corroboration of thought It better to perform an in sador presented a aliver alma dish, a few witnesses and then a formal mediate operation. The judge told the gift of King George, to the appeal for a decree. The news the Jury that no surgeon had the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, papers now rarely publish oven such right to operate without person's which has been constructed with skeleton reports as the law permits, consent. The jury the help of subscriptions from all fit is considered that this is likely, diet for the doctor with the over the United States.Reuters in the course of time, to encourage that no doctor might American Service,

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