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BURIED IN PROTESTANT CEMETERY

A BRIEF ILLNESS

la with regret that has to An- China Mail the hounce the death of Mr. Samuel Buckley Platt, a member of the Chief Enginoers' Department at the Royal Naval Yard, which oc curred at the Royal Naval Hos- pital late on Monday night.

Mr. Platt was 45 years of age and had been in the Colony for only 18 months. A native of Oldham, from Lancashire, he came here Devonport, and during his short stay here, he had made himself very popular among his colleagues and all those who came in contact with him. He was a member of the Craigengower Cricket Club and also of the Dockyard Recreation Club.

Always in delicate health, he con- tracted diabetes about a fortnight ago, and was at once removed to the Naval Hospital for treatment, but, as stated above, passed away on Monday night.

at The funeral took place the Protestant Cemetery yes- terday afternoon. 'A large number of friends and colleagues were at the graveside to pay their last

respects. The Rev. C. H. Hewitt, Chaplain, Royal Naval Dockyard, conducted the service.

M. Platt felt a widow and two children at Home to mourn his loss, for whom the deepest aym: pathy is extended.

Floral tributes were received from the following amongst others: Commodore R, A. S. Hill Officers and staff, Chief Engineer's Ambulance Brigade in giving Department, No. 1 Fitters, Chief Engineer's Department, officers free vaccinations, it is to be fear-and staff, O.C.W's Department, ed that the disease shall never be the storekeeping staff, Naval Store properly stamped out until the Department, Chief Constructor'g Office staff, the Electrical Depart- Colony has a quarantine station ment, the storekeeping staff, Naval

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1934,

WIDOWS BURNT

ALIVE

THE ABOLITION OF

By Gerald Griffin]

“SUTTEE

IT was a bold step by the Governor appeal agahust it was dismissed by I said the | payout it.

abolish the custom of "Suttee" or, "Sati," Incidentally, this word, or virtuous pure moaning "a woman," was applied strictly to the person immolated, not to the rite. High-caste Hindu widows deemed it themselves sacred duty to burn alive on the funeral pyres of their this s husbands.

Lord William Long before Bentinck had definitely tackled the problem it had been approached cautiously by British rulers in India. Under Lord Cornwallis pub- lic officers were instructed to refup consent to the burning of a widow, were asked for, but debarred from officially preventing prac-it being carried out. In 1805 Lord Wellesley auxiously considered the problem, and threw out feelers with a view to legislative action, but nuthing practical ensned.

This hideous custom was tised particularly in Lower Bengal. where for centuries the number of wretched women annually burnt, some voluntarily and even eagerly, some dragged or beaten to the pyre,

led stupefled by drugs, fluctuated between 600 and 800. In 1823 there were 575 widows burnt in Bengal, area of 310 of them within the jurisdiction of the Calcutta court.

was no Savagery of this kind more an essential part of the Hindu religion than the burning of witches was an integral part of Christian ritual. How or when it came into India is not clear, but certainly it was practised at the time of the Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, and there are grounds for assuming that it was originally a Legacy of hordes of invaders. Long before the time of Lord William Bentinck efforts had been made by enlightened Orientals to suppress it. Laws were passed in the time of Akbar, the great Mogul emperor, unless permission were granted by the local governors at the request of the widows.

forbidding Hindus to born widows

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In 1813 it was ordered that the burning of widows should not take place without communleation with a magistrate or principal officer of police, who was to ascertain that the act was entirely voluntary, that the widow was not under the Influence of drugs, and that she was not under the age of 16. The police had to be present to see that no violence was employed, and that no thrust the made to attempt was victim back into the flames if she tried 5 escape.

After the passing of the 1829 Act a provision making the practice of or burying them burning widows

a native State. In alive illegal was embodied in every treaty with subsequent years there were occa- sional efforts to revive the cruelty, British jurisdiction. And as and then only in regions outside decades rolled on there was a tea- dency among all natives to regard

the

the barbarities with horror and disgust.

//ufficiently large to hold all the Store Department, members of the Justifying a custom which, long the late Sir Peter Freyer, tell how,

MRS. L. F. PEREIRA

founded. Only one tentative move to get the Act repealed was made, and that was in 1832, when an

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mall," February 4, 1920.)

No instructions, expressed or im-

the Vedas Many years ago I heard my uncle, plied, can be found in before its suppression, was abhorred when he was a young surgeon in patients and contacts. It is cer- Commander of Dockyards' staff, by most civilised Hindus. Yet cer- India, he heard expressions of ab- tainly all wrong to permit patients staff of the R.N. Armament Depot, tain sections of the Brahman priest-horrence on all sides from all castes deter Lord William with regard to the self-immolation the chargemen, Chief Engineer's hood tried to to be treated in their own homes. Department, the Civil Secretary Bentinck from his task by declaring of several of the wives of Sir Jung Bahadur, the Prime Minister of The pasting of an intimation on and Cashier, the European office that self-immolation was a rite en-

all high-caste Hindu Nepal, on his death in 1877. Only the door notifying those concerned staf. Naval Store Department, joined on that there is a case of smallpox members of the Royal Naval Yard women by a divine ordinance, and one dissentient voice did he hear. that the intention of the Governor- A proud, high-caste Hindu not only inside is as often as not a mere Police, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A.

Lopes, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Basto, General to suppress it was a direct approved of the holocaust of widows waste of time and labour for all Mr. L. E. Basto, Mr. Fun Ping attack on the Hindu religion. To in Nepal, but boasted that his the notice that the Chinese take nam; members of the Dockyard support their contention they quoted grandmother had been burnt alive on the funeral pyre of his grand- Club, Professional a garbled extract from the Vedas.

father. of it.

That may perhaps stop Recreation

Officers' Society, the Agreement. But, in spite of their protests, the by ingress neighbours and

Employees' Association, the Com- Act was passed, and the forebodings strangers, but it certainly cannot missioned and D.O.'s Club, the that riots would follow proved un- stop the egress and ingress of R.D. & A.T.O.A. those belonging to the same house. Only yesterday It was re- ported that 22 fresh cases of The funeral of Mrs. Ludivina smallpox had been notified, which Francisca Pereira whose

at her residence, 2, Mrs. H. Alves, and Mrs. S. A. goes to prove that the disease, occurred

Granville, Road, Kowloon, at 4 a.m., Lopes. She is also survived by her instead of diminishing, is rapidly on Tuesday, took place at the three sons-in-law and a number of Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1938. spreading in spite of all the good Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, grand-children.

work done in the direction of free last evening, being attended by a large gathering of members of the vaccination.

local Portuguese community in Before the epidemic assumes which her family was well known much greater proportions much and highly respected. Many mourn- The close connection between more drastic measures must be era of other nationalities were also

of floral tributes, Hong Kong and Canton naturally enforced by the health authori-present, and there was a profusion Much sympathy is felt for her impels an interest in the health tles. They cannot be permitted problems of the two great centres to allow so-called susceptibilities five children, Mr. Tom M. Pereira, of the south-west. It has been-(another word for resent- Miss B. Pereira, Mrs. G. M. Soares, invariably found that when an ment epidemic rages in Canton there is an exodus of Chinese to this

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Yesterday H. E. the Governor re- ceived a deputation of the Commit tee of the Constitutional Reform Association. It is understood His Excellency expressed himself sym- pathetically upon the question of the principle of election, instead of A warrant has been issued for nomination, in the case of the non- the arrest of a Chinese named K. C. Chinese unofficial members of the lawful possession of property question of there being a larger Hok, altas He Ko-cheuk for the "un. Legislative Council, also upon the valued at $12,000, knowing same to electoral body than at present for

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MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

"Loss of Face"

make ference, will

A special effort to uphold China's prestige and protect her sovereignty.

Indeed, her flying certificate, which she lost temporarily during her in capacity, has been restored to her, and she thus becomes one of the few. pilota holding a licence in spe of the loss of, limb

at official action)-- of the Chinese masses to influence their course of action. The lives of the entire community, Chinese non-Chinese, are -being The Chinese masses dread con- and tagion, whilst they are usually jeopardised under the present the last to co-operate with the grossly unsatisfactory system.

We do not desire to pose as COMMENTING on the Sino-Rus authorities either in Hong Kong

sian dispute over the CE.R., alarmista. The official figures of or Canton in an effort to stamp

the China Times says that China notified cases tell their own sad made a series of four mistakes out contagious diseases. Thus, in this Colony the dumping of tale. But no one can tell how which are responsible for the less and sovereign many bodies or live juvenile pa- of China's "face"" bodies of children -presumably!

of the Manchurian Government, the virtims of smallpox--has tients are being dumped through-rights. The pro-Japanese faction out the Colony. Let it never be in the first place, thought that again commenced, a couple being said, therefore, to our discredit Japan would aid China in taking found on the public road in the that the lessons of the great back the C.E.R. by force, thus in Shamshuipo district last week plague epidemic have been entire creasing the annual revenues of

ly forgotten.

the Three Eastern Provinces by And there was one case where a

$70,000,000, and was greatly dis child was found alive in a pail

appointed by Japan's non4ntor- and left for some hours in full

ference. Secondly, China' should have bean antisfied with the 'die- gaze of passers-by before being

Mr. A. C. Olive, of Hong Kong, missal of the Russian Managing. removed. By whom it was re-

has succeeded. Mr. Buchan, at the Director of the C.E.R. and not At a House Warming, moved, or where it was taken to, boh agency of the Hong Kong and have dismissed the Russlon, em CAPTAIN Cunningham-Reid. is a Mixture," was admittedly kept for

Shangha! Bank.

no one appears to know: All the information forthcoming from

News in Brief

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Anomalies in Court

pen even in a military court Search for Buff IT appears that anomalies can, hay Two of the counsel who took part five artillery: officers have now been in the Madrid court-martial of thirtyTHE stuff taking habit is far more arrested themselves.

The late Sir Edward Marshall Hall O'Connor was not the only celebrity

atory of an even used to tell a greater paradox within his expert- When ertain defendant's ence. name was called he stood up in the jury box.

You can't sit on the jury in your own case!! said the Judge.

Jury "No," replled the would-be noon. “I="thought" it ́ was A bit of luck being empanoiled!"

ployees of the railway in a whole- man, as Kipling, would say, sale manner, thus making the "Infinita

of

resource and sagacity."

prevalent than is generally sup posed, and the late Mr. T. P. to be addicted to it in the twentieth century. Many

well-known club have a silver box of snuff at the members consola- cashier's deak, from which a pinch as some can take tion for having had to pay the bill But to buy snuff in the West End

difficult. Nearly is most the tobacconists' shops in Plecadilly, Bond Street, and Jermyn Street were tried without success. In large antiquo far, labelled "Prince's ornament only. In several à negative response to inquiries was given with some degree of haughtiness.

Eventually some excellent "Kendal

shop in Shepherd's Market.

one

The forthcoming wedding is situation, more serious. Thirdly, Proof of this was given to those the Chinese of the area (concernounced of 'Wiliam Robert Oswald, while the Nanking Government who attended the house-warming" Brown" was: run to earth in a tiny

party which he and his wife, a ed is that the pail containing the Sal Wan Terrace, Quarry Bay, live child was seen one day and Hong Kong, to Margaret Hutchison, appealed to the various. Powers sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten,

for support on the basis of the gave recently. then removed some hours later. travelling to Hong Kong on board Kellog Anti-War Fact, the Man- la their Brook Street house for

churian authorities were unable to be the Cunningham-Reids have Political Stability This kind of thing naturally the s.s. Rawalpindi.

Lome time this was their first party, ABANDONMENT, of make-believe, Is the advice given by the. Po Fourthly, Mt. Taal Yang- for Captain Cunningham-Reid has

king & Tientam Times to China handicaps the health authorities A presentation is to be madewalt, at the preliminary: Sino-Rus- been kept busy "marsing" a constitu

Japah, won out when the West ald in coping with the outbreak of this evoling at the Warleyen sian Conference held at Harency in Southampton

As to the resource and sagacity its irresistible and upon her by smallpox, and will continue to Spiders and Salore Home, a barovalé exceeded his Instructions it was found that there was to bold, practical polley. She ought the

East, to M. and Mrs. Chas, Make ldap them so long as the ham on the occasion of their Silver by discussing questions beyond place is the house capable of being substance always, and religiously his competence, and signed the converted into squash court, Auplded the shadow Neither Nanking ***Never mind," wald Captain nor any other Government, In the

North or elsewhere, will micceed ¿prastico.of dumping,bodies is re- Wedding and forthcoming departure

Harbarovsk Protocol which Candingham Rold, we hold milks believe had even Borted to by those who are from the Colony,

And there it p responsible for the loss of China's on the

minor part in It system. In tale "face", and sovereignty, without most precarious-looking thing with

of Nanking failure to achieve a the permission of the Central no visible meant of support thevillea one of the fundamental causes single, Itent, of Lavowed programme Government. In conclusion, the

prosses the hope that Flying Woman's Licence

of political tibility and comomie re Journal "expresZEN: Mr. Moh Teh-hul, the new Chin MISS Bicole O'Brien, who last a construction programme that den leg In A. Bring, Beeldent at Mill 1sted the Servent support and arme ese Director of the CER who in zaporedo ayer 126 Dathy var Arviotalligant, foraigners, to a Fepresent handelently recovered to be and aroused the most lively hope of

the people China at the formal, Moscow Con- able to resume aviation.

to notify the disease lest o Rev. G.. TWäldegrave, M. Až be removed to an Chaplain of tad Missions to Searren; Isolation hospital and the contacts Hong

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