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HOWELLS-KING-On May 18,
1927.
at Shanghai, William Howells, of Pontnewydd, Mon, England, to Medeline King. Croydon, Surrey, England.
Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 24, 1927.
WHEN WE ALL FLY.
become as
Dana
year is a debt that We owe to the genius of the veteran Earl of Meath, who well earns his niche as the greatest Missioner of Empire of modern days. The celebration of Empire Day has survived the gruelling days of war; it has lingered dur- ing the comfortable days of peace; and so long as it invariably breathes the true measage of Empire, loyalty, and patriotism'it is an observance that we would |not omit from the calendar.
WILBUR PLAYERS.
ANOTHER STAR THEATRE SUCCESS.
"ABIE'S IRISH ROSE.”
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927.
SIR R. HORNE.
A Creature Called Borodin.
THE BOLSHEVIST, MENACE, -
MISS VIOLET CAPELL.
"Dancing Sick People to Health."
L
VÍSCT. KNUTSFORD'S THANKS.
The National Union of Manu- Miss Violet Capell, the well facturers, nt their monthly known local teacher of dancing, luncheon on April 7, entertained has received the following letter Sir Robert Horne, M.P., who, in from Viscount Knutsford in re- an address, referred to the dif-gard to the remittance she sent ficulties confronting British trade from the proceeds of her Dancing and dealt with the Chinese pro- displays which took place at the blem and the Trades Disputes and City Hall last February: - Trade Unions Bill,
Dear Miss Capell,
Sir Robert Horne said the chief You really are a very wonder- difficulty with which we were ful lady, and my gratitude to you confronted in China was an at-grows with every letter you send tack on our trade. If we were me. However am I to thank you? dealing only with the Chinese the The help you send me is really matter might be troublous but becoming a notable feature at certainly the difficulties would not "The London," and you and all be insurmountable, but it was not your pupils can feel most truly with the Chinese only we were that you are dancing sick people dealing; the real force behind all back to health. I feel, too, that
Another crowded house greeted the Wilbur Players at the Star Theatre last evening when they presented that most successful comedy of Jewish and Irish life, this trouble so far as it concerned this last gift is really more won- "Abie's Irish Rose." This play has us was in Bolshevist force from derful than any of the others be- | been running for few years in Moscow.
cause of the terribly disturbed New York and London with admis- The determination of those state in China, which I am sure sion prices mounting up to twelve people was to work for the dis- must be affecting. you all very dollars per seat. The Star Theatre ruption of the British Empire, much. is to be congratulated on the rea- because they recognised that we
Nero may have fiddled while sonable charge made for admission were the greatest obstacle that purely for his own pleasure, nad certainly the Wilbur Players stood in the way of what they yet
you all go dancing excelled themselves in the por were pleased to call the world re- to help thebetterment of
thousands
any
trayal. The story centres around a-
of miles volution. Accordingly, they made people young Jewish boy and an Irish Catholic girl with whom he is in their attack on us at any part of away. Really, it makes praise seem sadly thin, but love. In spite of parental opposi- the world where they thought from me tion the couple become linked, not they could do us injury. They please forgive that. My gratitude only in the Methodist Church but had done it now for several years is infinitely stronger than also in the Jewish and Catholic in the North of India; they had words I can say.
Thank you so much for the Faiths. Truly, no knot was more made similar attempts in Persia, securely tied. The arrival of twins but up to now with little auccess. Photo and other enclosures. They a year later reconciles both of the They had long recognised that make you all so much more alive grandparents and everything ends China afforded them an oppor- to us here.
very happily. The entire show le tunity of attacking Britain in the full of clean wit and honour and shape of her trade, and they had will appeal to everyone. The play chosen this occasion to make one will be repeated again, this evening of the most insidious assault on
and it can be recommended to
those who have not already had the opportunity of seeing it.
WOMAN'S DEATH INQUIRY.
us we had ever had to meet.
Yours very truly,
KNUTSFORD, London Hospital, April 20,
FOUR YEARS.
FORGERY SENTENCE ON INDIAN.
The man who controlled the situation so far as we were con- cerned was creature called Borodin. The menace was one which, if we wished our trade in China to survive, we were bound There was to conquer (Cheers.) Major C. Willson and a jury held nobody who could speak for an inquest yesterday afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the China to-day. Were we to nego-
THE PRISONER'S TEARS. death of a Chinese woman who was tiate at this moment with Mr. found dead in a hut at Aberdeen on Chen, who had shown himself in- April 18.
capable of carrying out the The medical testimony of Dr. pledges to which he affixed his found guilty by the jury yester J. M. Kailey, an Indian, was Canon was to the effect that de signature a few weeks ago with day of forging a cheque and ceased's face was ashy pale and the regard to Hankow? For this letter asking. for payment of expression peaceful. Decomposition part, he would absolutely refuse £99 108., in the name of Mr. E. R. and in a manner which only occurs to enter into negotiations with the Dovey in whose employment he in petrifaction in water and in Cantonese forces and Mr. Chen was at the time in the Govern
until the stipulations Mr. Chen ment Analyst's Department." "Death was due to drowning as a made with regard to Hankow Prisoner pleaded that he was in primary cause and asphyxia as a were implemented. (Cheers.) Idebt to the extent of over $800 With regard to safeguarding of and had no money for food or secondary cause.
.He appealed for Industries, he pointed out that edging. British factors were under a very leniency.
His Lordship commented on
their distance being 8,400 miles when they were compelled to descend into the Persian Gulf. Captain Lindbergh's arrival at Paris an hour after the British airmen had come to grief placed the record at the new figure of 3,000 miles. When 2 lone aviator can cover a distance like: that in the face of all the perils of the Atlantic--there were times when Captain Lindbergh was skimming the waves and times when he was soaring 10,000 feet high to dodge the clouds--the aeroplane has obviously arrived at a new stage of usefulness, a stage when the elaborate pre-which had kept him from home for great handicap in relation to their
i
had set in around the head and neck
hanging.
According to the deceased's hus-
band he was informed of his wife's death while at work at Castle Peak,
adventure..
very
parations necessary for the about two weeks. He found her competitors in other parts of the seriousness of the case American flight round the world, dead in bed with her clothes quite the world. The regulations with and said that forgery was
dry. Foul play was not suspected. regard to the process of obtain a crime which it was
The jury's verdict was that death ing a safeguarding Order were difficult for society to rid itself was due to drowning through mis- much too complicated and ought of. He was satisfied that pri- to be made very much easier s0soner knew what he was doing that industry might profit.
but why he went to the police One industry which required station after having got the consideration and which had been money, His Lordship did not refused the protection of safe know. If prisoner had successful- guarding legislation was the ly got away with the money a Summoned for falling to have woollen industry. It was a case heavier sentence would have been headlights on their motor cycles in almost poignant in its circum- passed. Nathan Road on May 10, Lleuts, stances. Our pre-eminence in Prisoner was sentenced to two ed to appear in Mr. W. Schofield's
and the British bid for the same: honour, are no longer needed. The aeroplane, in short, has come into its own, and the day has been brought appreciably nearer when the most distant spot can be reached within a few hours, when the ends of the earth will be no further away, in effect, than the next county was a hundred years ago, What this will mean to the British Empire alone needs no emphasising, least of all in a distant outpost like Hong Kong.
Empire Day.
OFFICERS. SUMMONED.
Beard and Munro of the R.A.F. fall- the woollen industry was com- years' hard labour on the charge.
Court at the Kowloon Magistracy pletely unchallenged a few years of larceny and four years on the yesterday.
ago, For the last few years charge of forgery, the sentences Sub-Inspector Smith said he had something like 35 per cent. of the to run concurrently. received information that the off- woollen plant was out of commis- Prisoner burst into tears and Tak reclamation were on duty and thing like the same percentage of ently as he cers who were stationed on the Kasion for lack of orders. Some-addressed His Lordship incoher- was led from the could not get away to attend Court, people who were in the trade dock,
A week's adjournment was given. were unemployed.
There had
wrongly, we produced trade unions in Britain by the very attitude we adopted in earlier
RECKLESS DRIVER FINED.
Beside
The world is still ringing with the praises of Captain Lind- bergh. Although not the first
been a most startling increase in the quantity of woollen goods to fly across the Atlantic in an
Queen Victoria's Birthday on
imported from France. It was aeroplane--that honour fell to May 24 may not be honoured in
FOUL PLAY ON A BOAT.
madness 'in a practical country Sir John Alcock and Sir David the way as was the case when she
that we should submit to such
For speeding on the Castle Peak Leaving her boat in charge of her conditions and allow the existence Brown in
1919-the gallant swayed her gracious sceptre over daughter alongside the Ping On of a great industry to be menaced Tainamchong on April 24 the driver Road between Tainglingtau and American airman is the first to the Empire upon which the sul wharf last night a boat-woman went by conditions which, if they were of a public motor car was yester achieve the feat single-handed. never sets. That in itself, how ashore. When she returned the practical men, they could easily day fined $26 by Mr. W. Schoñeld at
After inquiry
the Kowloon Magistracy. Consequently his name will go ever, is no good reason for not boat was missing.
Referring to the Trades Dis travelling at a high speed, the ac- down in history as one of the still remembering all that the sho recovered but the daughter had control. (Cheers.)
reign of "Victoria the Good" disappeared together with jewellery
and other property worth $187. putes Bill, he said he looked at cused was on the wrong side of the great pioneers of his age. Even meant both to the Mother Country Some blend stains and matted hair the whole of the question of trade read, and but for the speedy action when, crossing the Atlantic has and the ever-increasing Posses were found about the boat which union legislation from the point of Mr. A. Ahwee in palling his car to the extreme side of the road to common as crossing sions across the seas. Critics and lead to the suspicion of foul play of view of a man who agreed allow the speedster to pass, a nasty the English Channel, his lone historians are at one in regard to The Police are investigating with trade unions. Rightly or accident would have resulted."
the benevolent influence of her matter but no arrests have yet been flight will be remembered as a rule both at Home and abroad made, personal exploit made all the an influence that could but exer- more dazzling by the sombre cine a great effect on the subse
times. He looked at the new with them? On the question of mystery surrounding the fate of King George. For all this the quent reign of King Edward and
"WITCH DOCTOR" JAILED. Bill not only with no prejudice the political levy, was it not & against trade unions, but with a fundamental principle that a man' Captain Nungesser and his com- Empire to-day is the better, the panion, evidence in itself of the stronger, and the more united-a The Chinese "witch doctor" who strong bias in favour of their should give his moral support to risks of flying the great family with but few jars was charged with larceny by a trick existence, so long as they per- that party in which he believed. of $290 worth of jewellery the pro- formed their legitimate functions. Why should anyone object to and these insignificant to dis- perty of a Chinese widow who had Referring to the fact that Liberal legislation which said that no Atlantic at the present stage in turb that screnity that makes for consulted him about her eyes and legislation had enabled trade man should be compelled to con- the progress of aviation. Besides genuine brotherlineas. The rip-was induced by the accused to part unions to indulge in political tribute to a political levy of a stirring the imagination of the ples of that sentiment that helps with her valuables on the premise activities, he said he thought that particular party unless he sub- to bind the Empire ever closer that they would be increased four-was the wrong turning in legis scribed in writing a statement world, however, Captain Lind-are felt as much in Hong Kong as fold, was convicted at the Kowloon lation and the Liberal Party owed that he desired to do so? Whose bergh's fight has a further claim in the most isolated outpost of Schofield passed sentence of three the fact that they passed such of that kind? If a man did not Magistracy yesterday. Mr. its miserable condition to-day to rights were invaded by legislation to praise, for it has set a new Empire. It is in no more vain
legislation for t
have that right, surely he would standard in the practical value glorious spirit that we are proud months' jail..
to be Britons proud of helping
The Trades Disputes Bill con- be living in a country of tyranny of the aeroplane. Until Captain in our own small way to uphold
|tained nothing to which any rather than a free country. Lindbergh landed at Paris, the the traditions handed down to us
recognised. man could object. (Cheers.) record for a long distance non-born on this day. Of use in many by the gracious Queen who was stop fight was the 3,845 miles ways, too, are the lessons of covered by two French aviators Empire Day the change in
extreme
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
- UNWELL
Washington, May 16. President Coolidge was forced
Everyone recognised that the|| Sir Robert Horne concluded on general strike was a menace to a note of optimism. He believed, the conmunity, and ought not to if some of the difficulties to which be allowed. A man ought not he had referred were out of the to be intimidated if as wanted to way, Britain, was in a position.
in a flight from Paris to Jack nomenclature that followed on to go to bed to-day with a cold This record was broken by the the death of Queen Victoria in his chest. His physician sald work. Why should the people to make an advance to a new. and that these, lessons, are the cold was slight but that he who proclaimed the right to work prosperity, such as this country. two British airmen attempting to brought home to each and all of had suggested the President also proclaim denial of the right possibly never enjoyed; in the fly from London to Calcutta, us on this one day of the spend a day in bed,
to work to people who disagreed past.” (Cheers)
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