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An entertainment for children and adults will be given in the Helena May on Thursday, March 26, at 0.30 p.m., wheh Professor Weldon Talawar will show some of his wonderful tricks and novelties. This is an excellent show; please book your tickets in advance.- Advt.

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In the Kowloon Police Court yesterday Chan Chi, a cook employ- ed by Ho Tung, master of the! Leung Hop fruit ators at No. 23. Woosung Street, was sent to jail for six months for stealing four bangles and $360 from his master February 15. besides 14 days for the He theft of a bottle of hair oil. had had a duplicate made of the kes of the safe from which the money was stolen, and, when arrested, had $100 for which he could give no reasonable explanation.

MISSING MEN FOUND BY R.A.F.

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London, Feb. 18. Cairo. The Royal Air Force have again come to the rescue of men lost in the desert.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931. PADDY.COMES INTO

HIS OWN

IRISH SOCIETY'S BALL

INITIAL CELEBRATIONS PROVE A GREAT SUCCESS.

KISSING THE BLARNEY STONE

For the first time in local history the members of the Irish colony in Hong Kong received official recognition last night, when His Excellency (Sir William Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G.), and Lady Feel were among the guests of honour.

The chieftains of St. George's and St. Andrew's Society appear- ed to enjoy the hospitality of "Pat" which, owing to the genius of Mr. F. P. R. James (the Chairman), was a trifle strenuous at times, especially during the ceremony of kissing the Blarney Stone, for which one had to lean perilously over a turret, and get one's silk lapels smeared with paint.

It cannot be said even at a long stretch or from a misguided sense of patriotism that the jigs and reels were a success, but that was generally because people would dance them who had never seen them before or attended the practices. But it was a great night, and the music, the banners, the flags, and the merry faces conspired to make mere Englishmen forget the battle of the Boyne.

PRESIDENT'S WITTY SPEECH

Mr. B. II. Collis-Hallowes-for his work ua Hon. Treasurer.

Mr. Andrew Harper-for his splendid donation to the funds of the Society and a gift of Irish Melodies, some of which you have heard to-night.

A British official attached to the

The decorations were admirably They are the pioneers and "The wireless section of the State Tele- graph's Administration and another done and it was surely a stroke of Three Musketeers" of St. Patrick's Briton, whose motor-car apparently native genius to hang the illuminat-; Society.

welcome, over the men whose methods are misrepre- missed the track and then broko ed words, "Cead Mile Fallte," of

down, had been lost in the desert hospitality and

The ball room pre- sentation, half truths, suppres-between Cairo and Dakhla for two main entrance.

Bented an animated appearance, the {sion"—and something worse that days.

with green borders on libel and which we do They had almost been given up columns being draped

Force and white bunting, and the walls the coats of arms of not repeat even though gratui- when searching Royal Air

In the far to the various provinces. tously cabled by Reuter's Tele-planes sighted them, dropped food hung with

and water and wirelessed

whose corner to the right of the dais was gram Agency.

Telegraph Administration,

which one entered in order to kiss Mr. Baldwin himself complains mobile wireless lorry was despatch a realistic replica of Blarney Castle, of an alleged libel in the Dailyod to pick up the wanderers.

The incident is regarded as em- the famous Stone and afterward Mail which "could only have been phasising the wisdom of the rule received a certificate of proficiency in other words, written by a cad." He asserts of the Frontier District'e Admin-in eloquence or,

The whole of the arrangements that he has been legally advised istration that not fewer than two

were efficient and the Committee is that he could sue for libel," which cars shall traverse the desert at a

to be thanked for the fact that proves that he has actually con-

every phase of the Ball went with- aulted his solicitors. But does he

out a hitch.

time.

act on that advice? Not he! He TRADE CONDITIONS. dismisses the matter in the tone of

a mártyr-an "apology would be

"blarney,"

His Excellency the Governor and the official party arrived about 9.45 and were met at the entrance by the

Colonel acting President,

C. D.

valueless" and "he would not INVESTIGATION MISSION FROM Myles, R.A.M.C., and Mr. L. N.

touch damages with a barge pole." Then why take advantage of a by- election to air his grievances on

CANTON.

Canton. Yesterday.

In the absence of our President,

of the

The Colleens also did their shure, and risking the fate of

Miss Peyton-for her excellent Paris, 1 pass the "Murphy" to: designs. To hor we owe our erest. Mrs. Eldon Potter-for sheer hard work and her design of the Committee badge.

Mr. Creasy-n master mind on reception work.

Mrs. Pascoe-our first life member, for her work in connec- tion with the Decorations and Supper Room.

Mrs. Scott-Little-our accom- for excellent plished musician, work in connection with our music programme.

The Basic Alms. The basic aims of St. Patrick's Society, Hong Kong are:-

"Charity" and "Goodwill amongst Irishmen in the East" A good slogan and worth a special effort.

Murphy, by whom they were con- ducted to the ball room, where Lady Peel received a bouquet of shamrock from the Colleens and Sir William the public platform? If he is so The Canton Chamber of Com-ja blackthorn stick.

Colonel C. D. Myles, O.B.E., in convinced that the alleged libel of merce is the recipient of a wire

of proposing the loyal toast, address which he complains was written from the Chinese Chamber

An Annual Ball is a very fine Commerce in the South Sens to the ed the gathering as follows:- by a "cad," why does he not take effect that an Overseas Chinese Your Excellencies, Ladies and way to bring people, into touch and promote sympathy, but a liveller Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 13, 1931. the one course open to a gentic-Commercial Investigation Mission Gentlemen:

and more lasting liaison is to be man of honour-treat him with will start on a trip on March 25 BRITISH JOURNALISM. silent contempt or seek out the for Hong Kong, going thence to Sir Joseph Kemp, it falls to me to found in pursuing subsidiary lines Canton, Swntow, Amoy, Tientsin, propose the Toast of the Patron such as Sports and Art. Suchlike are required to follow the spurt of Daily Mail man who "passed" the Tsinan and Tsingtao, with the ob-Saint.

Before I am after giving you the the Annual Ball, and thus keep the Mr. Stanley Baldwin is evident article for publication and give ject of studying the commercia!

Toast, may I say n few words in interest in the Society alive.

I therefore urge those members ly an angry man. Ile has broken him the thrashing he feels he de-conditions in China.

The wire adds that it is now the regard to the formation

of the Society who have ideas on the unwritten convention that serves. Why descend to scurril-proper time for the development Society.

Sir Joseph Kemp being on leave, this subject to communicate with Party leaders should not speak ous language and hold up the of trade between China and the

to wear the our energetic Secretaries, Mr. G. at by-election meetings, his flimsy Press to the scorn of all who have South Seas, due to the present rise was called upon

of gold, hence the organization of "Mantle," and though being a P. Murphy or Lieut. P. T. Mahony, excuse being that "the circum- higher opinions of the British the Commercial Investigation Mis-"Griffin" and unworthy, I felt at P.O. Box 417. You will easily stances of this case are exeep- Press of to-day?

sion. Canton News Agency. The Rothermere and the tional." They arc! The official Conservative candidate is being Beaverbrook newspapers may opposed not by a Liberal or a publish scathingly critical articles) Labourite but by an independent about this, that, and the other Conservative who has revolted, politician or policy, but we have like many others of the same yet to learn that there is one mem- Party, against Mr. Baldwin's her of their staffe to whom the leadership. Exceptional circum- ugly epithet of "end" can be ap- stances? Very!

plied. Journalists are not built

It must jar on the nerves of that day nowadays in Fleet

RECEIVED AT BUCKINGHAM

should do everything possible to remember the number, as it is the help Irishmen in Hong Kong to year in which Saint Patrick was form a Saint Patrick's Society. ordained.

Pour retourner a nos moutons- Early in the year, Irlah inhabi-

SIR W. M. HEWLETT. tants were approached on the sub- The Toast of our Patron Saint.

ject. All were anxious that a

The Patron Saint. Society should be formed-ways

Historians differ widely in re- and means remained. A General gard to the life of St. Patrick. Meeting was held, and a Commit Some maintain he was born on the tes elected. It was decided to Clyde, others at Daventry. Nons celebrate the Patron Saint's day will allow that he might have been with a Ball. Sub-Committees were born in Ireland. "Another ID- [co-opted, and "That's how we beat | justice." London, Yesterday.

However, Jike. many other H.M. the King has received, at the Favourite," and all who

the foreigners who came. to Ireland

PALACE.

at-

any leader who has served his Street, and when Mr. Baldwin in Buckingham Palace, Sir W.M. Hew-tended the Inet meeting of

Club will and learned to know the Irishman

EXPRESS DERAILED.

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more

Party so faithfully and well as fit of spleen Ibels one he libels lett, former Consul General at Nan-Hong Kong Jockey

at home, he decided to live amongst Time was limited, enthusiasm them. He was an exception to the has Mr. Baldwin, whose political them all. His tirade must leave king, on whom his Majesty recent-realise what we were up against.

ly conferred a Knighthood, and in- opponents are ever ready to give all journalists cold. They can vested him with the insignia of a great, and the precepts of the rule of those who become credit where credit is due, whe-forget his outburst of bad temper Knight Commander of the Order couplet "The beat way to lengthen Irish than the Irish themselves, in

Night" were strained to breaking

His return to Ireland with a ther or not he is at the head of in the calm consciousness that of St. Michael and St. George.the day, la to borrow a bit from the that he brought good.

point.

beatific mission is fully appreciat- the Cabinet or at the head of the misrepresentation, half truths, Router.

and worse

The Hat Trick,

ed by all Irishmen, and they alone Opposition in the House of Com- and suppression -

understand the difficultles One became an exponent in the can mons: Unkind things were said are not and never shall be their If Mr. Baldwin of Mr. Balfour when he was Con-tools of trade. servative leader, but he had more gained, "kudos", by his historic dignity than to fly into a passion, speech the other day on India, he intervene at a by-election, and use has certainly forfeited the respect all the powers of invective at his of every right-thinking journalist his descent into command against a section of the in the country by Press that did not see eye to eye the rhetorical wells of invective with his policies. Mr. Baldwin and slander against one of the apparently cannot brook criticism most conscientious professions in from his own Party or from any the realm

section of the Press. He does well to state that the British-

News in Brief.

Press is the admiration of the Lammert Brothers advertish sn world for fairness, ability, and auction of furnitureát 5 high principles, but he does it a Carnarvon-Building, Kowloon, en

Tuesday at 10.30 a.m. distinct disservice when he singles ay euth section of it and alleges that Knocked down by a public motor certain newspapers are engines car outside 17, Queen's Road Weit, of propaganda for constantly Chan. Wa-pul (16), was removed to the Covernment Civil Hospital, But

вріде, changing policies, desires, personal fering from an injury to bla wishes, likes and dislikes of two from which he died later..

same

· (Continued où Bage 7.)

Ten Years Ago.

art of the "Chairman's Hat Trick." which faced him, That is to say, to listen to a roport by the Musical Expert, write 2 New York, Yesterday.

noto to the Reception Committee, Only four persons were seriously and criticise our Artists' work injured in the express derailment. simultaneously and at the There were no fatalities. Heuter's time becante easy. Sir Boyle American Service,

Roche's bird was beaten. One

[From the "Chlis Mu?" of (The Philadelphian-New York could be in two places and on one's

. March 18, 1921-1 express was derailed at Bristol, way to a third at the same time.

There has been a great deal of To-day's dollar is worth 2/3-4. Pennsylvania, three luggage cara falling down an embankment. work done by the Committed and Several persons were seriously in-Sub-Committees in the short time Work in all the Chinese print- jured.

at their disposal, and I feel sure ing shops in Hong Kong came to I am volclng the wishes of the a standstill this morning when the Soatety when Foffer thèm our employces-went-on-atrike-to- en- heartiest congratulations and best force their demand for an eight- thanks...

hour day instead of the 11-hour Distinctions are invidious, but day hitherto worked. After the one must commend the work done men had been cut two hours 20 by the following: s shops agreed to give an pight-hour Mr. F P. Reyenette James-day, a whole day off on Sunday, Chairman of the Committees

and overtface at double rates. Mr. G. P. Murphy and Lout. P. Over 40 shops, however, refused to

Mahony-Joint Hon. Secre meat the demonide of their ent

ployete

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