1928-04-09 — Page 7

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928.

“G.B.S." ON WARPATH THE PRIME OF LIFE.

CONDEMNS BISHOP'S CHILD.

BEATING VIEWS.

"ONLY A BAD JOKE."

beating. Mr. Shaw writes:-

SIR B. CHADWICK'S RESIGNA- TION FROM POLITICAL LIFE,

CHARMING PICTURE.

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'GLOZEL SEARCH.”

STARTLING FUND: NEW CARVINGS:

CHARGE OF FRAUD.

THE CHINA MAIL,

CRIME WAVE.

THREE MURDERS BUT NO

CLUES..

WORST FOR 20 YEARS.

A coup de theatre has happened An astonishing wave of crime, at Glozel. A charge of "swindling the worst known for twenty against some unknown person" years, is sweeping over France, was lodged by the French Pre- The French newspapers are historic Society with the Examin-published with six pages, of The which three are devoted to news. ing Magistrate at Moulins. magistrate sent a section of the The "Petit Parisien," which has the largest circulation of any Mobile Brigade Ferrand to Glozel with orders to newspaper printed in France, publishes no fewer than fourteen make an investigation.

crime stories.:

of.. Clermont-

Crimes mentioned include:- The murder of a dressmaker at Neuilly, a suburb of Paris. No arrest has been made.

Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED "IN THE "MAIL.”

To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Whis- pering Wires."

To-day-World Theatre; "Bright Lights,

To-day-Star Theatre; Wilbar Players in Three Live Ghosts," 5.30 p.m.; and in "The Fatally Upstairs," D.15 p.m.

April 10-Hermes" dance. April 10-11—'Queen's Theatre; silk Stockings."

April 10-11- World Theatro; "The Street of Forgotten Men."

April 10:11 Star Theatre; "Tongues of Flame."

April 11-Queen's Theatre; Miss D. O'Keefe's Pupils' Dancing Dis play, 5 p.m.

It is to be gathered from Sir Mr. George Bernard Shaw, In a letter to the "Irish Times," strong- Burton Chadwick's letter to the ly criticises the Roman Catholic Prime Minister on resigning his Bishop of Meath for views on child-position as Farliamentary Secre tary to the Board of Trade that be "Your Meath correspondent is retiring largely in order to make quotes the Most Rev. Dr. Gaughran, room for the younger sort, of Bishop of Meath, as having ex-whom he remarks, "I suppose that pressed himself in his Lenten never before in the history of the Pastoral as follows: In childhood Conservative party has there been

The police searched the farm- the least sign of anger, untruth such a splendid force of young fulness, or disobedience must not men in the House of Commons." house and premises of the Fradins, The rod must be It is a charming picture of the Poll who own the "death field," the go unpunished. used whenever the child refuses to tical Happy Family-one does not scene of the supposed discoveries

Young know which to admire the more, of prehistoric articles, and they Man found shot near St. obey father or mother.

res the certified excellence of the found in the cattle shed half Nazaire. There are no clues.. children especially have no

the young men or the obvious genero- dozen newly engraved pebbles, A young man and young

April 11-St. Peter's Church pect for anything else. Let child feel the rod. It is the sity of their elders. Not that there In another corner they discovered woman tied themselves together Y.M.' Club dance, Hotel Savoy, 9 best food he could have the sur- is any lack of ability among the three stewpans filled with earth, with ropes and then threw them- p.m.

April 12-14- Queen's Theatre; means to alder sort, for Sir Burton Chad- and on searching the house the selves into the Seine. cat and most necessary bring up children in a Chirstianwick is careful to point out that he police came across three steel files: Lunatic jumped into a train at "The Eagle of the Sen."

April 12-14- World Theatre; manner was to show them a good counts himself rather in the The museum was next visited, and Samur and wounded two railway

"Robin Hood." example. Instruction was no use prime of life at 58." That, per a number of the exhibits were seiz- employees.

haps, is of even wider interest than ed. All the suspected articles were

Assistant stationmaster of Bel-April 12-14- Star Theatró; without example.*

fort was accused of disappearing "Shipwrecked," "Surely," Mr. Shaw continues, the tribute to the fine condition of taken away by the police.

The explanation given by Emile with nearly £8,500. He was ac-1 April 18-Star Theatre; Banvard "this cannot be an authentic piece the Conservative party in general.

Musical Comedy Company, 9.15 p.m. the "Manchester Fradin, grandson of the farmer, of quitted. of news. We are asked to believe It brings,

cour-the discovery of the newly engray-

An Alsatian was arrested ] April 26–St. Poter's. Club con- that an eminent Church-man de- Guardian" points out, new

after a man hunt at Lille, and is cert in St. John's Cathedral. Hall. clares that his Church classes chil-age to all who are advancing in ed pebbles is that he knows

Sports. dren with their tops, which respond years even if their prime of life thing of their existence, and he accused of having stolen £350, only to whipping, and denies that cannot hope to be of quite the same suggests that they had been put they have any consciences, yet, in quality as the true blue Conserva- into the cattle-shed by the very same breath, enjolas that tive essence it is still, in its own who was netuated by a feeling of In a child does not attain a higher modest and relative way, a prime malevolence and desired to "show is claimed and not a declination. It supports up" Glozel. He states that he had level of conduct than from God Himself in the Bible it the view. behind that recent Ameri- to ask visitors to leave the stables. The search laated three hours and must be beaten. How could such can endowment of research for the monstrous propositions be put for ward officially by a responsible Irish ecclesiastic?

"What would be said of me if I urged that Dr. Gaughran should be soundly flogged whenever he Allows the least sign of anger or when his natural kindness of heart impels him to spare his friends the truth, the whole truth and nothing

but the truth?

AA

no-

someone

which he is alleged to have To-day-Triangular Portuguese taken from his employers in Interport Football: Shanghai v. small amounts during four years: Macho, Recreio Ground, King's

Young man is detained in Paris Park, Kowloon 4.30 p.m. for having killed his sweetheart April 10-Triangular Portuguesa in a most atrocious manner. Interport Football: Macao v. Hong An acrobat, sentenced to fifteen Kong, H.K.F.C. ground, Happy years' imprisonment twenty Valley, 4.45 p.m.

April 11-Fanling Hunt, Hún ter's Arms, 2.45 p.m.

best ways of prolonging the lives was made in the presence of M. years ago, but who was tried and elderly. Felix Regnault, the president of sentenced in his absence, gave of the middle-aged and with its assurancs that the State the French Prehistoric Society, himself up to the police, was tried April 11-Triangular Portuguese receives the best sort of brain The articles seized will be placed again and acquitted."

Interport Football: Portugal (com- There are no few clues in the bined teams) v. Chinese Athletic power from those who have topped before the examining magistrate at

case of the fatal taxicab of Assen., H.K.F.C., Happy Valley. the fifty mark. The theory is Mouline.

Buried Corkscrews.

Guen, in connection with which

April 12-Triangular Fortuguese antisfactory-and not really so

This discovery has not shaken the driver is missing, believed to Interport Football: Portugs (com- very surprising. After all, the cry of "Too old at forty" was a very the faith of the Glezelians. M. have been murdered, and his fare bined teams) v. Rest of Colony, recent interpolation in the scale of Salomon Reinach declared that is also missing. The bargee who H.K.F.C. ground, Happy Valley, 6 human values. It is scarcely forty his double conviction that the was twice detained has now been p.m.

April 14, 21 Fanling Hunt years old itself and already it discoveries of Glozel are authentic released.

Police have arrested an ex- Steeplechase, Sheung Shui, station, shows signs of tottering into a dis- and that the anti-Glozelians honoured grave. Perhaps youth of capable of anything is not in the station master of the Montpar- 2.45 p.m.

¡nasse Station in Paris, who is ac-1 April 15-Seventh extra race the more fiery sort would like to least disturbed.

cused of having stolen vast quan-meeting of the International Race resurrect it, but the present ten-

tities of articles from trains. & Recreation Club of Macao, Ltd. deney seems

A man who tried to blackmail

April 18-Steeplechase meeting, Souza's bungalow, 2.45 p.m.

April 21-St. Peter's Club first

to

arc

"The final proof that the report is only a bad joke is its last para- graph, in which the parents, who have just been exhorted to behave

Simultaneously with the pub- in this outrageous manner, are told

be distinctlylication of the result of the police| that it will be no use unless they get their children a good example. against such an effort. At any visit to Glozel comes a letter from him has also been arrested.

"I should not trouble you about rate, when the "prime of life," as Dr. Morlet, of Vichy, who first ex- a matter which appears to speak exemplified by Sir Burton Chad ploited the death field, to the effect for itself were it not that so many wick, pays such graceful tributes, that seven corkscrews which the pepic in Meath are incapable of to those who are still climbing the members of the International Com eriticising advice purporting to relentless path to perfection the mission had brought in their lun- come from their spiritual directors, demands of youth would seem to be cheon baskets were found buried that Ireland will be denfened by conceded almost before they are, in the ground. The deduction of

of the unfortunate expressed.

Acreams

the children of that county, none of whom are either Divinely truthful or heroically able to control their

impulses,

their unless parents are warned that the alleged Lenten pastoral cannot be accept- ed ns ex-cathedra."

angry

COMRADESHIP.

THE MAN AND HIS HORSE.

In a busy side street of the City

£1,600,000 AWARD,

DEAD MILLIONAIRE'S

ESTATE.

Mr. George D. Haskell, the head of the Bausch Machine Tool Company, of Springfield, Massa- chusetts was awarded £1,600,000 by

the jury at the end

of his lawsuit against the estate of the late Mr. James B. Duke, the multi-millionaire tobacco king and financier,

of London a carman, having de Mr. Haskell alleged that he

YOUTH AND MUSIC.

"COLOUR, EMOTION, AND A

STORY."

anual marathon race, 8 p.m. at Mr. Pott's bungalow 7 a.m.

April 22-Steeplechase Meeting

.1

Raco

Lammerte Auction.

Land Sale.

April 28- Steeplechase Mesting at Kwanti... Nearly 900,000 boys and girls April 29--Fanling Hunt meet Dr. Morlet amounts to an allega- tion that the corkscrews were are learning to appreciate the at Mai. Po village, 7 n.m. buried so that when they were dis-great masters of music, according to Mr. G. Kirkham Jones, head- covered later on it could be said master, Tennyson-street School, 3, Kimberley Villas, Kowloon, 2.45 April 18-Household furniture at that iron was found at Glozel, and Battersea. Thousands are play- p.m. thus the prehistoric character of ing the piano, the violin, and the finds could be denied.

The other

'orchestral instruments;: finding of the corkscrews is re- choirs and orchestras have been

April' 10-At P.W.D. Offices, one garded as a joke by some people. started in many schools, and in- lot of Crown Land at Kowloon, 3

fants of three years old and up-jpm. wards have bands with drums, cymbals, triangles, and bells to

April 11—Third annual meeting teach them rhythm.

of Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., Mr. Jones has been trying to at Exchange-bldg., Des Voeux-rd., find out what children really think Ct., (2nd floor) noon.

STUPID CRIMINALS.

NEARLY ALWAYS WORK IN

A GROOVE.

[By Hugh Brady.]

Meetings.

of good music. "Music with a April 12-Annual meeting of the A criminal seldom changes his atory, such as Wagner," he said, Hong Kong & Shanghai Eotels, Ltd.

"is popular. Sad music is also livered his lond, atole a few mo-spent years in developing a pro- methods, and for this reason de-||

trained to classify sometimes liked, and big orches-at Exchange-bldg., Des Voeux-rd.,

Ctl., noon. ments to fondle his horse. After ject to compete with the Alumin-tectives are

Apr 18 Yearly meeting of patting and stroking his headium Company of America in each type of offence. It would be tras with plenty of colour and several times he kissed him gently, manufacturing.. aluminium, and waste of time to look for a bur-emotion are popular.. But the pershareholders of the Hong Kong!

formance must be absolutely "Look," said my companion, as the after a long search found as a glar among the ranks of the pick- man rested the animal's soft muz-necessary source of raw material pockets, cardsharpers, confidence first-class. Otherwise the child-Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., Exchange-

ren, although polite, will be bored. bldg, at noon. zle against his cheek., "Look, see deposits which were unknown to tricksters, or counterfeiters.

Criminals begin and end their the Aluminium Company.

"In the best girls," he con- April 14-General meeting of members of The Prince's Bldg. & tinued. "you find more insight, how he loves his horse."

He stated that he reached an careers by working in the same and a better appreciation of music Land & Co., Ltd. (in. Iquidation), He is not the only one. In the agreement with Mr. Duke in 1924 groove, and time after time, when than in boys. Attentive silence Des Voeux-rond Cil,, noon. dock and warehouse quarters, in to supply capital and water power released from prison, they resort

April 14 Sixth annual meeting those streets of merchandise where to work the deposits, but that Mr. to the same old methods that leady children does not always horse-vans line the kerbs, so that Duke, through conspiracy with back to gaol,

mean that they are appreciating a of the Hong Kong Engineering & concert. It may be due to the Construction Co., Ltd., St. George's- the traffic of the motor threads the Aluminium Company, refused A “good man” is the description through deviously and with harsh to carry out the agreement, thus given by the police to a criminal presence of teachers, to gratitude bldg., 11 am.

jand politeness, relief from the April 20- Annual meeting of worda, still you shall see many depriving him of £3,000,000 pro who uses his brains to hoodwink tedium of lessons, the antics of members of the Victoria Becreation such manifestations of the spirit fit.

the law. But it is only rarely that the performers, or the pictures Club at V.R.C., 6 p.m. of an ancient comradeship. In a Mr. Duke died in 1925 and be the detective has the luck to catch.

round the hall...

~ April 28-Extraordinary meeting police court a few days ago a quenthed £2,000,000 to be added a "good man." It is the stereotyp

"Applause, too, may be due to of the China Light & Power Co., carman burst into tears as ho des- to the trust fund of £8,000,000 he ed criminal who daily travels in physical relief, the desire to make (1918) Ltd., St. George's Bldg., 11 cribed the motor crash that killed had created for the endowing of the "Black Maria.”

la noise, or at broadcast concerts, a.m. the Duke University, North Confidence tricksters are the to be heard on the wireless. Many

Miscellaneous, For other than economic reasons Carolina, in addition to leaving kings of the criminal world. Men boys have been found who have April 14-Diocesan, Boys' School and of knowledge and resource, they said to their mothers: You "at Home" from 8:30 to 6.30 p.m. I am sure it is good that this com- vast fortunes to his wife radeship should survive.. But daughter.

travel the world in their search listen-in at the broadcast concert, April 14-Elgath annual dinner. for victims, and it la seldom they and I'll clap last and you'll hear of the Q.C.O,B. Assen. at Queen's are caught.

me," and anxiety to do this hab College Hall, 8 p.m.

'his dumb friend."

thoughts of more material concern

arise from this subject. Rarely CAVELL SENSATION. Nowadays' is a carmas sent out

boat.

HER O.B.E.

The

It is rare for an arrest to follow led to more than one artist having April 16-St. Peter's Club's last really big jewel robbery.

a flatteringly long ovation.". debate of the season. Subject: few really "good men" are satisfied

"That a Home Life is preferable to

a Roving Life."

April 17-Annual Inspection of the Hong Kong Police, Murray parade ground,

April 27-Laying of foundation stone of new SL Stephen's-bldg. by H.E. the Governor, 3.30 p.m.

with a horse that he is ashamed to MME, BODART SENDS BACK drive. It is a fact that the draught

with a small number of big hauls Lady Victoria Feliding, daughter horses of Britain were never of finer quality than to-day, for the Mme. Bodart, formerly Miss in a year. Nothing is left to

of the Earl of Denbigh, arrived at plain reason that the motor's rival Ada Doherty, who was condemn chance. Mouths may be spent in ry has left no place for any but the ed to death with Nurse Cavell, but careful preparation for the actual Singapore recently, by the P. & 0. whose sentence was commuted to raid, and once the jewels are ob-Morea" from Hong Kong, and is Economic severity also has de, penal servitude for life, is send-tained a smart receiver does his staying with Sir Hugh and Lady creed that the modern draughting back her medal of the Order work of safely disposing of the Clifford.

of the British Empire to Str Aus- haul. Detectives "can tell in A horse shall be most care-

flash if the job is the work of a fully maintained and used, that ten Chamberlain,

She declares that she is indig- bungler or a "good man," kat above moat things he shall be shodant to find that her country can Fur thieves are nearly all expert whose work is completed by the with all science, and skill. It is forget war, sufferings. furriers. They will select say, clever forgen These men also significant that a movement to in-

The British Government decor- three fur coats from among hum-seek messengers, to visit banks and crease the number of expert shoe-ated Mme. Bodart with the Order dreds, but invariably they steal the cash cheques, while they wait ing-smiths should coincide with of the British Empire, and her very best,

[naar by. · The forger is only known the acutest rivalry of other means adopted country, Belgium, award- There is a ready sale in Britain to the head of the gang, invariably President of the Board of Trade Sir Robert Thomas asked the

of transport,

ed her the Belgian Cross of Gold. for stolen cloth, and after each a "good man, who throws his whether in view of the fact that There were feare expressed at Sir Austen Chamberlain warehouse robbery the thieves are dapes into the "firing line" while derelicts continue to be a mannes one time that the draught horse had refused an invitation searched for among the classified he in safety gratis most of the pro- to shipping, and having regard to was doomed to virtual extinction. from Mr. Herbert Wilcox to ace clothrobbers. A group wore with gfs fatpe A very large decrease of numbers "Dawn," the new British fim in synchronised watches, and at a Pickpockets are also specialists fire has been found to be unsatis

the fact that their destruction by did in fact ensue, but anyone who which Mme. Bodart has played: given signal's car draws up a face who never change. They are cung factory, he will consider the issue takes note of the traffic upon Bri- for the screen the part in which tory gate, the padlock of which has ning and-nimblefingered but not of explosive charges to cargo shiba tish roads must have seen that in she risked her life during 1914 been picked and the goods are clever enough to avald prison bar

hastily removed. A minute before The sneak thiefs the hand the last year or two there have been 15.

pasting policeman would have snatcher, the bogus clergyz been deceived, borause, a, wa

|doctor, the utterer ✅ of fülme coin

not only finer horses but also more

of them.Merchants are finding

that a good, strong, properly ahod distances. And so the breeders of draught horse gives cheaper run the draught horse are rejoicing in ning: costa than a motor-lorry in a definite rise of price for useful Ihaulage of heavy loads over short animals-Ex.

had replaced the old fock, for new one and then wanted the signal

to

confederal Letter-bost thieven "kra mí

false messey other

tabulated Enthe

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for this purpose Sir Philip Cun- e-Listers So far as my inform tion goes, the danger from dereli is "decreasing, in any afrald: 19 cannot regar bar

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