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RIOTS-AND MORE RIOTS
meaning and interpretation of it, that almost all our astronomical developments depend. Radiation is our sole means of communica- ting with the vast spheres which lie before us, said the Earl of Bel- four.
To us "messages radiate from limitless space" Lord Bal- four continued, to Be "Interpreted through earthly instruments.”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929.
CONCERT ITEMS
MUSIC AT HELENA MAY INSTITUTE
ORGANISER'S SUCCESS
A programme comprising songs
MRS." MIAO
BODY BURIED YESTERDAY AT
POKFULAM
END OF SAD TRAGEDY
The body having been brought to Are these not the symbols of the and piano solos was presented at Hong Kong from England by the radiation of spirit which are Institute, Garden-road, yesterday. funeral took place yesterday after a concert held at the Helena May Blue Funnel s.s. "Calchas," the The vocalists were Mrs. Sanger, noon at the Chinese Christian Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Dunbar,
radiating eternally throughout space?
The Roy, C. L. Cheung offelated at the graveside.
accompanied, respectively by Miss Cemetery. Pokfulam, of the late Yesterday evening two armes C Braga, Mr. F. Mason, and Mrs. Mr. Chung-yi Miao (nes Siu Wal- robbers made a raid on a flat at Hargreaves-Browne, whilst the sheung), the "Murdered Bride," No. 135, Queen's-road West, oc- pianist was Mrs. Cashman,
who was the daughter of a Macad cupied by a Chinese widow and her maid servant.
Mra. Sanger, the possessor of a Chinese millionaire. The two fine soprano voice, opened the women were surprised in the programme with Massenet's kitchen at about 6 p.m. The men Elegie" and "Vissi d'Arte" from drew daggers and quickly over- Tosca, in which she was heard to powered their victims, binding advantage. She further pleased and gagging them. About $300, the audience with "Psyche" and in cash was taken from the Saint Saen's "Mon Coeur S'ouvre widow's person, after which the a' ta Voix," in both of which she desperadoes ransacked the flat, was successful.
1
There was a large attendance at the funeral, the cortege leaving Queen's Pier at 4.30 for the Came- tery. The chief mourners, were Mesars. Slu Pul-lau, Slu Pui-ching, Stu Pui-chik, the brothers of the deceased and her three younger sisters and one elder sister. Others present were Lady Ho Tung, Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Lo, Mr. K. L. Chau, Dr. and Mrs. S. B. Tan, Mrs. Ching" Tin-tau, Mr. S. W. Liang, and many others.
and Students of the St. Stephen's Wreaths were sont by the Staff
Girls' College, General Yeung Hi-
Mrs. Miao, it will be recalled,' was
stealing jewellery worth $368 and Mrs, Carnegie had much scope two drafts on the Tai Yau Bank for her fine contralto voice with for $4,200 and $800, respectively. Catford's "Sea Moods," but she They escaped after being about an was not heard to such advantage hour in the flat.
in "Life and Death" by Coleridge Kipling has been contradicted half of the programme were in Taylor. Her songs in the second -East and West met in Wynd-lighter mood and quite successful ham-street this morning, ly rendered. These were Brewer's although the blending cannot be "Fairy Pipera" and "The Lilac said to be perfect. A Chinese Tree."
man (former Civil Governor of youth, dressed in European style,
Canton), Dr. Wan Yick-shing, Mrs. was the centre of attraction by
Charming Voice I
Mok Kon-song, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie sporting a black Chinese skull cap Mis Dunbar offered four Chea, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Leong, Mr. with a little red knob, in place American Negro "Spirituals" ar- J. M. Wong, Mr. Ho Sal-kit, Dr. of the conventional felt hat. It ranged by Rosamund Johnson. S. To Wong, the Chung Shan Hos- speaks much for his nerve that These quaint songs were delight-pital and others. he was unconcerned at the stares fully suited to her charming voice, directed at him. He strutted and were well received. In the strangled by her husband whilst on down the street with the air of second half Miss Dunbar sang De their honeymoon at Grange: In being monarch of all he sur-bussy's "Mandoline" and the Borrowdale, near Keswick, on June -veyed.".
"Lamente" by Duparc.
19 fast. Her body was found in Mrs. Cashman's piano solos Cumma Catta Wood. Subsequently ing. If the Indian political agita- A Chinese married woman added much to the variety of the her husband, Dr. Chung-y! Miao tors would turn their attention to named So Luk-chan (25) living programme. She played Paderew- (28) was convicted of murder and settling this distressing riot they at No. 251, Laichikok-road, re skis Variations from Op. 16, ex-executed
at Strangeways, Man- would by doing much better work ported to the police that at 4.15 hibiting astonishing command of chester. The couple were married
a.m., yesterday, whilst she was the keyboard. Her playing of in New York. than they usually do and would asleep, two robbers broke into Chopin's Berceuse was also de- really be benefiting at least a the house. They gagged and lightful, and then followed 'Men-cheered by something amusing be
bound her and an amah, the only delssohn's C-minor Scherzo, which fore being sent home. section of their fellow-country-people on the premises, at the was also charming rendered.
time, and then ransacked the
that our reactions are very similar As an encore she played De- to those of the old Greeks, he The rioting in Colombo, though place, getting away with money busay's "Cathedrale Engloutie" quotes a playbill from the Theatre evidently in no way tainted with and jewellery worth $215.
which rounded off her contribu. Royal, Marylebone, to show that tions well. racial, political, or religious feel- An accident, at the Hunghom
almost within Hving memory the Mrs. Bellamy is to be, congra- same close connection persisted be ing-being wholly industrial-Cement Works, was reported to tulated for arranging an altoge- tween grave and gay serious and seems to be quite as acrimonious the police yesterday. by a coolle ther successful concert."
He stated that so far as the Folice is concerned. at about 2 p.m., he with another Plainly, in Ceylon as elsewhere coolie named Shui Cho were "the policeman's lot is not a carrying a bucket of boiling oil in the Cement Works when the happy one," as in that muggy city bottom of the bucket fell out and
Ballet followed “Richard IIL.” labour rioters appear to be Shul Choi was badly scalded
Launched on At the Protestant Cemetery, theme for what form of enter- his entrancing chiefly concentrating upon police about the hands and legs. He Happy Valley, yesterday after- tainment
much men and police quarters in easing was removed to hospital,
has given funeral of Cap- pleasure to so many generations of their excited minds. How they A correspondent writes that a
tain T. H. Ball was attended by a hope-if they have any such grey bearded Cantonese is bowed large gathering of the deceased's cleaves gally through the sparkling men ?-Mr. Sterling Mackinlay hope of reaching a happy ending down with grief in Shanghai relatives and brother seafarers.
The Rev. Knight Anstey, of the shades it has may be seen from waters of Light opera. How many He lost seven sons and five grand- of their industrial troubles by sons in the ill-fated 8.8. "Hsin-service at the graveside, and the the chapter hen
Wesleyan Church, performed the
men,
or Whoover
named Chan Siu.
Year. The old man sits on the
CAPT. T. H. BALL. FUNERAL AT THE PRO- TESTANT CEMETERY
noon, the
Campbell.
i
As proof
light. For after Mr. Macready had played Macbeth to Mrs. Warner's Lady Macbeth "The Spoiled Child" was given. So, too, at the Royal Surrey Theatre in 1848 a "Grand
Comique - Opera-Or-
it was exclusively of the racial, who are in no way antagonist Wai Lee tailor's shop, No. 17, being buried with the coffin, that he could only win the immortal
S.S.
smashing the heads of the Police wah." They were on their way chief mourners were the de-
A Wide Field with stones, is of course rather a to Canton to spend China New ceased's widow, daughter and son. Italian Opera Buffa-Comedie conundrum; but that they have a wharf steps for hours during the Muir, Brewer, and Laurenson Operetta-Romantic The pall bearers were Captains Vaudeville - Opera violent detestation of the Police-day gazing into the water and and Messrs. Magill, Latham and chestral Comedy-Swedish Saguepe! (commonly shared by law-break- grieving. ers and criminals generally)-is |
Others present were Comic. Opera these are a few. Fourteen cases There must be one might be very apparent. It is likewise to were reported to the Medical Off Connolly and Sweeney, Revd. a separate entity, and the English of small-pox Captains Baylis, Parker, Elford; But each chapter is more or less excused for thinking-"some be hoped that, as with the mis-cer of Health yesterday, four R.A.0.C., Messrs. A. W. Louis, and Sullivan with the author's full G. T. Waldegrave, Maior Whits, reader can turn straight to Gilbert thing in the air" that is causing guided ones in Bombay, the being from the city registration 80 much simultaneous rioting Singalese,
district and the other ten from A. B. Langenberg. W. Jett, T. approval. There we find a sanely may Kowloon. During be
There were also one at the present moment.
Whitehead and J. West represent-critical appreciation of their 'con- responsible for the case of diphtheria from Kowloon ing the various organisations to tribution to the art, although the the past few days the cable ser- Colombo rioting, will soon come and one of puerperal fever from which the deceased officer was at-cause of the rupture between the vice has had news of this sort of to their senses and regard the Chinese,
the city. All the patients are
tached both professionally and collaborators la lald too emphatically socially.
on Gilbert. Mr. Flower's Life of a most alarming character. First, Police as their true well wishers
Numerous wreaths were sent, Sullivan made it plain that the com- Lau Tat-sam, master of the that from the wife and children poser. taking the conventional view religious or industrial troubles towards them. (it is not precisely clear yet what
Stanley-street reported to the
Others. were from Pat and bay" through "serious" muate, it really is all about)-existing barbarous conduct
The third body of rioters, whose police yesterday that two of his Scholey. Doll, Sam and Family, was unaware both of the musical has been shroffs, named Lin Kai-san and China Coast Officers' Guild, Chul value of the Savoy operettas and of between the Hindus and Pathans blazoned to the world, comes Sul Wan-wah, had absconded with On S.S. Company, Officers and the limitations of his own talents. in Bombay. Large numbers of nearer to ourselves--even though from the Sun Company on behalf Officers of Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, cover so wide a field, it is curious
$185.60, which they had collected Engineers
"Hydrangea," Since the author has chosen to those well-known races neither both Bombay and Colombo are of the complainant's Arm.
Y.M.C.A. (Kowloon), Captain and that he has omitted to make any of whom are native to the Bom- parts of the Empire-for the
Officers s.s. Tai On, Captain and mention of Manuel de Falla, whose bay Presidency, the Hindus being latest riot has happened in Liang Huan-chin (No. D154) Douglas Line, Officers of s.s. "Tal Show" should surely not have been
A Shantung policeman named Officers 8.a. "Haining," Officers of opera "Master
Pedro's Puppet Bengalis and the Pathans Wales in one of the many colleries stationed at Mongkok, has been white. F. Nightingale, D. Phillips, any reference to “A Cousin From
Lee." Mr. and Mrs. West, F. excluded. Afghans-seem to have conceived there. It also appears to be ex-placed under arrest on a charge Neil, D. F. Warren, T. J. Magill, Nowhere," which was given at Neither can one find a very serious grudge against clusively industrial and in this of misconduct, by stealing the each other. And evidently they profoundly regrettable affair the named Lo Wong in Shanghai-Latham, Captain Brewer, Captain an attempt on the part of the Ger sum of $11.50 from a Chinese A. W. Ingram, J. J. Edmondson, Princes Theatre in 1923, and marked intend to "fight it out and Police have again come in for a street on Wednesday.
Baylis, Mr. T. Campbell, R.N., man composer, Eduard Kunneke, to though both are at bitter enmity decidedly severe time. But that
Miss Russell and Revd. G. Teliminate the chorus from musical with each other, judging by what they have not taken the attack the Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.), The "China Mail" is indebted to
Waldegrave, has happened, they seem united in lying down" is very evident. Ltd. for artistic Chinese calen- their antipathy towards the police we are told that they twice dars. when they are interfered with. A tatron-charged" 500 men and European inspector of police, in women who had been intimidat- Attempting to rescue sorely pressing four workers. Somewhat
Indeed, as one comes to the end ed Pathans, was stoned by them, unpleasant detalls are added, all
What is light opere one won of Mr Sterling Mackinlay's book one stone inflicting such damage going to show that the incident
dera, aa
one opens Mr. Sterling the query with which one began It Mackinley's book, and one is re- remalna. What is light opera 7, that the unlucky officer died war of a very exciting character.
warded with an answer in the frst And in the impossibility of finding shortly afterwards in hospital Mob psychology is very much the
line. In "The Origin and Develop any definition to Include "Die Evidently the present trouble be same in every count, for when
Colton (California), Jan. 6.
ment of Light Opera (published Meistersinger" and "San Toy" one tween the rioters is more indus- the passions are in the wits a Justice of the Peace, accomments: merriment, poetry, music the daughter of Opera Comique, by Hutchison at 10s. Bd) he tells us may repeat Saint-Saens's dictum, On New Year's Day. Mr. Healy, it is a unity comprising four ele quoted by Mr. Mackinlay: "Operetia trial rather than racial or religi are out and people who normal-panied by two other officers raided and drama, and without more ados daughter who has turned out ous; but if the deeply regrettable ly act rationally and humanely an establishment and arrested Mr. he takes us to the valleys of ancient badly, but daughters who have affair does not quickly subside it then behave more like wild Venigas, the proprietor, on a Greece, whence he asserts that it turned out badly are not without will probably develop. Inte a comanimals. The police baton and, Mr. Healy to-day sat as judge show that the true Scots spirit, at
charge of possessing liquor. - **** had its origin. A beginning to charm. bination of all three with, of when things take more serious to try the case,
which Dr. Gaster pokas his pleasant course, disastrous results. All turn the soldier
Mr. Venigas asserted that the way in the pag lovers of decency in
officers planted the liquor in his still very much alive.
Peacock house.
no matter devoutly hop
decorum, of would seem to be the most
will tive correction for
Hindus ffons
WHAT JUDGE SAID FINES HIMSELF FOR CON- TEMPT OF COURT
are a liar,” shouted Mr.
LIGHT OPERA
MR. STERLING MACKINLAY'S "
HISTORY
comedy. Nor does he refer to Mr. "Armstrong Gibbs, one of our con- temporary English composers of standing, who has tried to carry on the English traditions of Hght
opera.
man Robert Pattinson of colushire (M.Pfor will contest
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