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Charged with the unlawful pos- acasion of two taela of raw opium, a Chineso pleaded guilty, and was Aned $36 with the alternative of one month's... hard labour, at the Kowloon Magistracy-to-day,

Major J., J. Carter, Royal Engineers, who arrived In the Colony only recently, Is retiring from the Service shortly, and will be one of the fortunate few to book a lato berth on the "Asama Maru," when she sails to-morrow.

Yesterday, Ave. men gained en trance to No. 307, Queen's.. Road West, second floor, and after bind- Ing and gagging the inmates, mostly women and girl, ransacked the place making off with booty con. sting of jewellery and money to the value of 870.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.

THRILLS OF THE

HUNTING FIELD

TWO FAMOUS MASTERS OF HOUNDS

[By The Old Singer]

In the hunting world the fing is down, a thousand hearts. beat. happily when the musicararises and the hunting prints, are on view In the windows of Bond- street.

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and interested himself in the Fife Ligt Horse. The laird was a tall, bont figure, and received in- crédible deference, for he was a legend oven. in Scotland. I're- member him very clearly rhling at the Turk's head and dealing shrewdly with it. He was then very old, but grew young in the saddle, and in a Yeomanry display at Charlton-tent-pegging lemon slicing-he came out very and

well In member him there, galloping and a moderate field. I re-

shouting in the fleld, and I recall

chair at breakfast in white stock picture of him sitting in his

and stiff whipcords, very terrify- ing to Cockney children like my self.

The queer 'reflection strikes mo that it is exactly a century since "the death-knell of hunting, was sounded by the advance of vulgar Industrialism.” And still the Mr. A. K. Bldmead, Police Pro-hunting season opens with much of bationer; Miss N. Chandler, Nurs- the old enthusiasm and confidence, Ing Sister; Mr. R. H. Griffiths. As- A hundred years ago they were sistant, Master, Education Depart saying in the Beaufort country ment; Miss F. Reas, Nursing Sia that the glorious sport of squire ter, and Mr. W. P. Thompson, and cottager, sanctifed by two Police, Probationer, are joining the centuries of constant practice, had Hong Kong Civil Service.

been done to death by the coming of the steam engine. And still in the Beaufort the old loved

Corbet of Adderley amenities can be enjoyed in the My other uncle was of a diff- county and by the county. Bromley erent clay. This was Reginald Davenport fifty years later made Corbet, who hunted for years the the same lament about fox- Cheshire Hounds. I belleve he hunting; and ten years ago Wil-knew all that could be known loughby de Broke, in his enchant about the science of hunting and ing reminiscences, tolled the bell the for the king of sports in Warhound. wickshire.

The St. Andrew's Branch of the Scripture Union met, in the Church Hall yesterday when the speaker was Mias Gibson, of Kuala Lumpur. Prior to the address, Miss. W. Robinson (Hon. Secretary) on be- half of the S.U., thanked, the Rev. C. B. Shann (Acting Chaplain) for his support, during the Vicar's absenco.

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I am not a fox-hunting man, but. thank Heaven, I keenly feel the thrill of a hunting morning, ap- preciate the smell of leather and the music of hounds-and bits. am able to savour the essential bitter-sweetness of Sassoon's little classic, and that is proof that I in, theory at least, "a fox- hunting man.”

At the Kowloon Magistracy yea- terday, Mr. W. Schofield committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions five of six Chinese charged with armed robbery at 869 Canton Road, Kowloon, on October 6. The sixth man was discharged on the ground of insufficient evidence,am, ed to turn a willing ear to the will be charged with conspiracy whilat one of the five committed men Chinese parrot cry, of "unequal only. treaties" and "foreign. aggres-

sion" when they see that the Governor of British Columbia, an- Mr. R. R. Bruce. Lieutenant- Chinese themselves have not the nounces the engagement of his

China Mail. slightest respect for human life nice, Miss. Helen: Mackensie to when the cold-blooded murder of Mr. Julian 1. Piggott, youngest son innocent Chinese women- and

of the late Sir Francis Piggott (a) former Chief Justice of. Hong children is ruthlessly perpetrated Kong) and Lady Piggott, of the in the course of a piracy. Well Isle of Wight. The marriage will may the bereaved relatives pray take place next Spring, probably in for the dawn of a new era in

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Jack Thomson It so happens that I am pri- vileged to be the nephew (rather famous Masters of Hounds, and I obliquely) of two of the most

tremble to think how they would

have despised me had they lived to take an interest in my, sporting But the relationship was career. too oblique for that, and they died before I came to man'a estats.

management of horse and

"

He had a reputation, never ex- celled, for violent language in the field, and I was privileged to "observe him picture I have in my memory has at work." The

as a background a country house (Adderley, I believe, and Reginald Corbet leading his hounds to the kennels. As he passed us be turned round in his saddle and let fly at a hunt servant.

Wo.pro- bably didn't take in the true ia- wardness of a tenth part of what he said, but the terror inspired by his voice lingers yet.

A Short Way With Walts In his youth he was hot-temper-

od, and once put into practice his patent "short way" with acme carol-singers, a precedure which in these democratic days would have landed him in heavy trouble. Colonel Anstruther-Thomson- It seemed that the local troupe of the Jack Thomson of a score of Christmas singers as enraged, him hunting memoirs-was, perhaps, by their persistent and discordant the most famous M.F.F. of all rendering of "Good King Wen- time. "Every schoolboy knows" ceslas" that he threatened them Waterloo run, and came through desist. after riding to a standstill his own and most of his friend's 'second horses. He hunted the Ather- stone, the Pytchley, the Bicester, or V.W.H., and I daresay other

shall no longer be of common oc- PRISIONAL COURT that he was the hers of the famous with a scatter-gun if they did not currence, when no longer is a voy.

nge by sen a' sûre risk of losing Conference Opened At one's life at the hands of Chinese

pirates. Well may the mania for

Nanking

Nanking, Yesterday,

hunting theories and practices, He was a great bellever in leaving them with asalstance." hounds alope and not, "bothering

civil war be deplored so long as it The Shanghai Provisional Court 1 packs, and he was famous for his provides an excuse for the Chin-Conference, opened. at Nanking this ese authorities to toy with the morning Britain, America, France question of piracy and to with Brazil, Netherlanda and Norway draw the forces of law and order being represented. from pirate-infested haunts. The speech, hoped for a happy and Dr. C. T. Wang, in his opening, "Yellow Peril in the Orient to-speedy conclusion of the conference Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 10-1919. day is represented by only one Mr, Aal replied on behalf of the

word-Piracy! And the greatest Powers delegates. Reuter. peril is to Chinese themselves.

OF WHAT PROFIT?

Would that the Chinese authorities had been able to wit-

> SOVIET BUDGET

TEN YEARS AGO

[From the "China Mail,". December 10, 1919.3

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To-day'a dollar is worth 5/-2 d. Tho determination on the part of the new Police recruits to resign if their pay is not increased, appears to have brought the Government to its senses.

He must have been the best man for he rodo unmanageable brutes week, the men were given up to Satur- ever on a horse, and with a horse, As stated in the "China Malast and made them sweet-for him- dny last to decide whether they would self! Anyone can ride on a 500- return Home or remain in the service guinea hunter. Jack Thomson at the original rate of pay, and we now turned his screws into gold. He learn that 26 men signified their in stood well over 6ft. rode heaven- tention of resigning. knowa-how-many stone, with an

There is now every reason to believe ugly seat, and jockey stirrups, besider, the matter. Official information the Government has decided to recon-4 ing heavily legged.

retired from his life's business, thing, the general public will regain a When I remember him he had that if the Government does the right is refused, but we are of the opinion was the Laird of Charlton, a small confidence which has undoubtedly been estate next to Balcarres In Fife, shaken.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

Foreign Ships in China: --Reading the "Ads":---The Merchant Service: Luxury in France.

Moscow, Yesterday. It may well be asked of the neas personally the harrowing and

The Central Executive Committee Chinese of what profit is it to distressing scenes at the morof 11,650 million roubles, which is has approved the Budget Estimates pirate or attempt to pirate vessels tuary here yesterday. If any 200 million more than the original at sea? Individually, at times, thing outside self-aggrandise Estimates. Heuter. there raay be certain profits acment could have moved them cruing from a successful coup, surely it would have been the but a longer view than that must pathetic sight of dead Chinesc be taken by the Chinese them-women, dead Chinese children, selves. Take only the casualties still bearing the awful traces of in the "Halching" piracy be their deaths agony aterribia yond a Briton and an Indian, all symbol of the worst forms of were Chinese. Take the long piracy and of murder. #Man's series of piracies within very re-inhumanity to man mates sount- cent years again the major less thousands mourn," Ineffec-Japanese Rights portion of the casualties have tive protection of Chinese travell- QUITE a serious view, is taken by the country than the columns which about the same time from a captain in tell more about the life and habits of grade. The same agent had a call been Chinese. Take the loss of ing on steamers in Chinesa waters the "Central China Post" of the the reader. Look at the half column is an old member to pay his subscrip are adapted to the supposed taste of one of the Brst-class companies who cargo and personal effects-again is not only something akin to in-demand that Japan's rights of of small advertisements, classified a tion: and who was, the Chinese have to mourn being humanity: it amounts to an in-navigation in Chinese Waters should "various," in a weekly paper largely mata with him when he was chief officer transported, third victimised to a vastly greater dictment of the Chinese for being ove; Navigation on the Yangtze the provinces.

be abolished. The Hankow paper tisers give rather distant addresses

read by women. Nearly all the adver- of the barque Swanmore." The extent than non-Chinese.

in agent, accessories to the crime of piracy bannot be abolished so easily as small sum, lo sétid à les digiblets had just passed for mala

matter One in ready, for a On the Chinese lies the respon-the various Kuomintang committees young man, sincerely desiring matri- nautical school (Captain Moore being

"¡fromé : Gaptain

G.Moore's that Chinese should be the chief sibility for these piracies. Their who are agitating for it suppose. scription, for people who are too fat, Galid); when he joined the Swanmore mony Another has an infallible pre- the founder and first secretary of the sufferers in life and property duty it is to eliminate piracy- the major. Powers, have interests in another again--perhaps it in the same, has recently met a member who was Practically all Powers, certainly all and the next advertisement is from in 1891. Another oficial of, the Gulid through piracy? Is it nothing to duty to their own nationals no which navigation le concerned, and though the address is different who mate of a sailing ship he served in them to take the lives of innocent less than to non-Chinese. Not the withdrawal of this priviless for people who are too thin. Expectant. the. 34 years which had elapsed recog- has an equally; infallible: prescription on his first voyage to sea, and despite women and children--all Chinese? all the pleas of civil war or in were made to put into practice, in Toulouse how to determine the ser

from one Power if the attempt mothers can learn from a postal box nised him immediately!

Is it nothing to the Chinese

to happy Chinese homes have been of derelection of that duty. If bereaved of bread winners and the Chinese themselves cannot of their wives and mothers and ensure that duty being perf children? Is piracy worth while, no one else can.

after all, to the Chinese Where is the civilisation of which they proudly prate?-when it suits them! Where is their humanity to their own nationals? Where is their ability to protect even

NEWS IN BRIEF

The gross recalpia Vincent de Paul bits to over $8,5003 for the guessing.

TAR

of

in

fur coat or makes her husband'

wearing the

of

Is it nothing to them that hither-ternal disorders can acquit them might be beneficial, fnasmuch as it of their offspring Lovers who have Rabbit For

would be a further lesson to the been too sanguine can be given at WHEN woman buys herself a new of breaking that Indispensable reared to be sanguine can acquire an buyono-ahe may ganimals wise Powers of the results of the folly marks, while gamblers who have not price the means of removing tattoo.

unit of action where China is con- infallible system fer roulette. By far censed The lessong of the past the greater part of the advertisements, come from the distant coasts of the three years have all been the same. Would you have thought that sensible. Siberia, but they probably come from however, are those of fortune-teliers, Hudson Bay, or from the steppes of They have taught that unity on the and logical woman would be so easily rance. I do not mean that they are part of the Powers is the first taken intaken from the colonies of silver foxes essential in dealing with China.

NASA whose breeding has now become a pro- Without It foreign prestige has Coincidences in Sea Careers tablo Industry in the neighbourhood ceased to exist, and, if China OFFICIALS of a society such as the bogus company promotion in connection Mont Blanc, in spite of a notorious persiste hrabolition, by unilateral Imperial Merchant Service Guld with it. I mean that the fur la most goose, 12 lb, 15 oz, ham, 10 lb, the level of an uncivilized people me at sea, occasionally have interdit the world. Every peasant's wife tion was action, China herself will sink to who, prior to taking up shore employ probably rabbit, and France is by far

ment have spent many years of their Is it not time that the Chinese

the largest producer of rabbit skins.. 40 where international relations are in ing experiences in meeting and hearing keeps rabbits in hutches in a corner of half themselves to th Mr. E. C. Thomas, of the Bloce question. Such a condition of of old shipmates of, lit some

then Boys School, gavelen

cases, the yard, and may be found any eren- ghastllest of crimes on the highing lantern lecture at the

erest affairs would have been impossible many years ago. One of the agent ring plaiding greenstaff from the side had unity among the Powers been well-known member of the professian sapifial They are eaten, but they are pently in noticing the appointment of of the road into her apron pour men ended by loss of Peter's Church -Young

maintained.

to an Important position aphore recog-bred especially for their skins, 120 nived in mythlyf onzer who faced millon of which ware supplied to the exper

with him when he was in command at fur trade, last year, and have no doubt sailing ship owned by a well-known by this time been worked into some London company. He promoted him to thing, Bazlika Fenvés or mink or chin the position or third mate when he was flin, that only an expert can tell the actually serving. In his ship in a lower differet

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