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FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929.

CORRESPONDENCE

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.

(To the Editor of the "China Mail.")

SAILORS' HOME

CONCERT TO-MORROW IN AID OF FUNDS

GREAT TREAT PROMISED A thoroughly enjoyable even-

There the matter rests, with the result that the deadlock that was sought to be avoided may possibly come about after all. There is an unconfirmed report

Sir, I presume your corres- that the British Government

pondent, S.W.P." is a Chinese 2 like myself. His letter in your! may be disposed to agree to compromise, but any "compro valued paper yesterday is anothering's entertainment is in store for mise" that does not effectually re- masterpiece-a prototype of the those who have been fortunate letter so ably written by Mr. enough to secure tickets for the move such a one-sided arrange- Chen to the Press last week, concert which is to be given in the ment, such as Mr. Young has had which your contributor, "C.LC Assembly Hall of the Sailors and Soldiers' Home by the principal the temerity to propose, will cer-so rightly commented upon.

"S.W.P." said that the subject artistes of the Colony to-morrow tainly be very unpopular at Home.

of "racial discrimination" is con- the Home.

at 9 p.m., in aid of the funds of it is no part of the Experts' troversial. It is, if tackled from Committee's work-and certainly another angle, but what "C.L.C."

to

The concert is under the dis-

Mr.

no part of the Chairman's duties wrote was educative. It is about tinguished patronage of the Hon. -to make or agree to such a time that we Chinese should begin Mr. W. T. Soathorn and Mrs. see things from a different Southorn, who have taken a keen

the Home, interest in drastic step $5 would be the re-light-time to cast off those per- Southorn having laid the prin- of the scinding of what was done at theverted views instilled into us by eipal foundation stone

the agents of Borodin and by a

1927. in November, building Spa Conference.

large majority of the young gen-General Sandilands and Com- A telegram to hand from Lon-eration with their highfalutin modore Hill have also promised to don refers to Mr. Churchill's ideas.

be present. views on the matter, and as he is As a Chinese resident of Hong

The cordiality with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer and, no racial discrimination if one artistes have tendered their ser- therefore, the spokesman of the knows how to conduct oneself. It vices reflects not only their per- Government on such a question, is, after all is said and done, the sonal generosity, which is much appreciated by the Committee, what he saye is conclusive so far figment of imagination of a man but the willingness of the Public as Great Britain is concerned. Mr. with perverted views in life. of Hong Kong to support any- Forget that there is such a dis- thing which is done for the wel Churchill states that "the kind of crimination and mingle with the fare of Service man..

soon

Popularity of Home

proposals foreshadowed in the Europeans as with one's country- newappers will be unacceptable men, and "S.W.P." will

The popularity of the Home and and His Majesty's Government change his feelings.

Your correspondent complains the fact that it is ministering to will in no circumstances enter- of the so-called "caustic" remarks the tastes and needs of a large tain them." The cheers that fol- of "C.L.C." Has be forgotten or and growing class of men who "dry" institution to lowed this statement in the House is he ignorant of what has hap-prefer a

are in part in- of Commons wit evoke a similar pened? Does he not know that a "wet"; one"

many of China's woes.could be dicated by the fact that nearly outburst throughout the British rightly laid at the door of the 7,000 men have slept in the Home

students. Yerb. Sap!

since its opening three months Empire.

I can only hope that all those ago, and 1,928 have enjoyed hot of my countrymen, particularly baths. the young men, who read Many other figures could be Everything vibrates; every-"C.L.C.'s" comment will see the given showing appreciation of the thing is eternally busy. Nothing lesson therein contained--don't- various amenities of the institu- ten and to see that the van-

is still nothing dead. Science make a fool of yourself. Act the ton, including those of the smart quished are given every reason-assures us that the whole world gentleman always and you will be up-to-date Restaurant, with its able. opportunity to rehabilitate is a mass of vibrating particles. treated as such.

The properties exhibited by waves themselves.

The depend upon their length. The Dawes plan, having appar longest waves are called Hertzian The next ently proved untenable, it was or wireless waves.

Overland China Mail. but reasonable that something shortest are heat waves; the next,

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FROM THE OLD SCHOOL. Hong Kong, May 10.

A WOMAN BITES

PECULIAR CASE IN KOW.

LOON COURT

...A SANE PERSON?

Was

excellent and varied menu. It is interesting to find that 27,000 fresh eggs have been consumed, an average of about 300 a day, served up in a variety of appetis- ing forms and accompanied by an equal variety of attractively pre- sented eatables of other kinds, the cooking of the Home being of ex- ceptional quality and carried on

conditions. under almost perfect sanitary

should be attempted to place the infra-red waves, and from this point they develop into visible rer reparations demanded of Ger- light with a frequency of vibra many upon a basis that would at tion in the neighbourhood of two least prove

more satisfactory billion per second. As the waves from their point of view with become shorter and shorter the

Apart from their patronage of orange, yellow, sensations of

the Home, Service men havé fre- cut interfering with the just de green, blue, etc., are produced

quently expressed their gratitude mands of the Allies. To Impartial until the zone of the invisible is rinds the Experts' Committee approached. Beyond this point

A Chinese woman who had been to its promoters and backed such expressions by voluntary contri- our senses fail us. But a small

source of annoyance to the butions in money and gifts to- had embarked upon an almost im- part of the invisible spectrum has possible task, and this view was been discovered. What the future officials of the Kowloon Magis-wards the further equipment of soon sten to be sound when the holds for those working in this tracy and who had been sent to the Home

Building Fund suggestions made to the German promising field of investigation the Lunatic Asylum once,

yesterday charged before Mr. knows. Everybody T. S. Whyte-Smith with biting one no

The Building Fund is still in- delegation met with as little ac

Engineering.

and assaulting the Court usher, complete, but, apart from that, it ceptance as did the Dawes plan.

Mr. Yeung Wai-tong-

must be evident to anyone visiting Accused, a garrulous woman, the Home that an institution run said that she acted only in self-on such first class lines, and defence. The complainant owed working without the profits which her $60 and when she asked for are made by a "wet" bar, cannot payment, he struck her.

possibly be a commercially paying The Magistrate, interposed, concern with the low scale of saying that he was an eye-wit-prices which are charged. It Orie case. of small pox was ness to the affair, although he did not intended to be. It exists to notified yesterday.

not know how it started; and serve Service men, not to make from what he had seen, he money out of them, and it is thought the woman was the ag-hoped that many-annual subscrip

tions will be forthcoming in order gressor.

Inspector Fallon said that he that the high state of efficiency the allegation may be maintained for the benefit had investigated. made by the accused and found of the men to whom we owe so that there was no truth in it. much and for the honour of the

Accused told his Worship that Colony.

The Programme during the strike in 1925, she did not "strike."

DON'T WASTE

WATER!

A deadlock seemed inevitable and, in fact, had been reached when something in the nature of “a bolt from the blue" was announc- ed by the American Chairman of the Committee - Mr. Owen Young. He calmly announces DE ZILVA - DE ZILVA. At that he suggests, as a possible

Wesleyan Chapel, Kingsway

on April 10, solution and to avoid a deadlock, Hall, London,

British percentage Money and jewellery to the 1929, by the Rev. Ira Gold- that the hawk, Daniel Oswald Oliver decided

at upon

Spa value of about $544 have been the Dawee stolen from No. 427, Shanghai-

street, Yaumati.

the

de Zilva, of 42, St. Petersburgh Place, London, late of Borden Conference, when View, London Road, Milton plan was finally agreed to, Regis, to Rose Evelyn de Zilva, should be considerably reduc of 18, Pervin Road, Cosham,

ed. Had he suggested that Hanto.

Hong Kong, Friday, May 10, 1929.

The theft of a Corona type- the percentages of all the Allies writer from the offices of the N.Y.K. in King's Building, has be reduced, there might have been reported to the police. been some sense in his proposal and, not unlikely, it might have Lady Shou-son Chow will per- been agreed to. But to single out form the inauguration ceremony

."

the British for such treatment of the new pavilion at King's Park of the South China Athletic and without giving any reasons Association on Sunday afternoon. for his action is, to put the roat- ter as mildly as possible, simply staggering.

Suffering from scald injuries on the body a Chinese named Mak Hoi, (32), of 852 Des Voeux-road, West was yesterday the Government admitted Civil Hospital in a serious con-

dition.

to

The Magistrate said that if she did not strike at that time, it did not mean that she was entitled to strike somebody now.

He fined the woman $10; and ordered her to sign a bond of $50 to be of good behaviour for six months.

BOY KIDNAPPED

ENTICED FROM HIS HOME IN KOWLOON

The following is the programme for to-morrow night—

1. Selections from The Gondoliers" (a) "For the merriest fellows

are we" da

Mr. Parker and Chorus. (b) "When a merry maiden

marries"

Mr. Tinson and Cherus, (c) "A regular Royal Queen"

The Chorus Mrs. Tinson, Mrs. Davenport Browne, Mrs. Bellamy, Miss..

Hancock, Mr.

Anniss, Mr. Brock, Mr. Green, Mr. Griggs, Mr. Parker.

2. The Fairies from the Moon

Mrs, Womack and Misses P. Gittins, R. Wong, H. Ho, M. Glendinning.

Mrs. Balizmy. Mr. Brock. Mr. Bürnett.

3. Songs 4 Songs

5. Humorist

Misa P. Gittins, R. Wong,

H Ho, M. Glendinning.

Interval

1. "On a January Morning in Somersetshire" from "Tom Jones" Mr. Brock and Chorus, The Vecmen of England" from "Merrie England"

REPARATIONS PROBLEM

The Experts' Committee in Paris, though they have now been discussing the reparations pro blem for quite a while, seem to be as far off as ever they were from

Mr. Young probably knew the reaching a settlement-not an "amicable settlement" for such is kind of reception such a sugges-

JAIL AND THE BIRCH plainly impossible in a matter of tion would receive had it heen the kind. The necessity for the made in the case of, say, France.

A coolie was admitted into the

On charges of kidnapping and Committee meeting at all was, it And it is pertinent to inquire if will be recalled, simply because the United States would be will-Government Civil Hospital from

6. The Jockey Dance on Wednesday suffering from the age, two men and a woman ap- the German Government con- ing to make a similar concession his home at No. 76, Third Street, harbouring a child twelve years of tinued to harp on their favourite with regard to the British war effects of an over-dose of opium peared before Mr. T. S. Whyte- debt? The Americans then drove which he took in an attempt to Smith at the Kowloon Magis-

tracy yesterday, theme that they found it impos.

a hard bargain with the British, commit suicide.

The child was enticed away sible, in their present financial

from its home in Reclamation- and, so far in spite of their

Following an accident on the street in August last. Sergeant position, to pay under the Dawes

much vaunted wealth they have

Pokfulum-road near the Dairy McKay, attached to the Secre plan, as they had promised to pay shown no sign of acting generous Farm yesterday, four Chinese tariat for Chinese Affairs, said

and as indeed they had been

coolies were admitted to the Gov-that the boy had been taken by ly by way of readjustment. paying and still continue to pay.

ernment Civil Hospital suffering first accused on the pretence of 3 Songs * Mr. Young, however, did not from injuries received when a finding him a job In Kowloon 4. Two scenes from "Carmen" Though the settlement the ex- perts may reach-if they are able find the British delegation (of hand cart collided with a public City. He was taken to second

accused's house. From there he astonct. to reach any, and which now which Sir Charles Addis, Landon motor vehicle.

went to the country where he was seems doubtful, is unlikely to lead Chairman of the Hong Kong and Warning her against a re-sold by third accused (the to increased friendliness on the Shanghai Banking Corporation, is currence of the offence the woman) for $120. The mother part of the Germans, it can be a member) quite so easy-going Acting First Magistrate, Mr. went to the country and recovered truly said, we believe, that so far regarding his suggestion as he EW Hamilton at the Central her child..

Magistracy this morning dis-

Sentences of a year's imprison- as the British Government was probably honed they would be charged a Chinese girl who apment each were imposed on all and is concerned their motive in He was promptly told that the peared before him on a charge of the accused, and, in addition, the participating in this Paris at suggestion would be unacceptable larceny of a quantity of cane men were ordered to receive 12 tempt at readjustment was to the British Government 11 used in the manufacture of cane strokes of the birch.

chairs. She had been employed actuated entirely by friendliness would mean that the British por by a female relative who made The British are by no means a tion of the reparations would cane chairs, and according to the

Hoggs "I hear your wife was vindictive people, and among amount to 1,000 million Marks Police, she had apparently

been in league with another in driving the car and had an acci- all the Allies they are probably instead of 3,850 million to which the same shop (in West Point) dent. Much damage done?" the most keenly eager to have Great Britain and the Dominions and had attempted to get away Higgs: "No, just a little paint

off both. with some caŢIA, the War and all its horors forgot are justly entitled.

Mr. Green and Chorpe. 2. Songs from her repertoire

Miss Woods.

Mr. Green.

"The Canzonet Bohemian"

(Act II.) Frasquits. Mrs. Davenport Browne. Mercedea

Mrs. Bellamy, Carmen

Mrs. Womack. Zuriga

Mr. Parker.

Morales

Mr. Dormer. Gipsy Dancing Girl

Miss Rachel Wong. Gipsy Roy Miss Phyllis Gitsins, (b) Terzetto". (Act IIL) Frasquite, Mercedes and Carmen Accompanists: Mrs. Griggs, Mrs.

Woods and Mr. Mason.

God Save the: King.

"Terry's buying a car on the instalment system.

"Yes, and if he doesn't drive more carefully they'll take him to hospital on the same plan "