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At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Mak Sam was sent to jail for three months, aftor pleading "guilty" to the larceny of a quantity of clothing from No. 2, Shantung. Street.

During lasting operations near So Uk Village yesterday, Li Yuen (82),, a villager, was injured in the He was right eye and left hand. taken to the Kowloon Hospital for

trentment.

MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1931.

LADY, FRANCES

لمهمة

BALFOURS

A Champion of Women,

AUTHOR AND SPEAKER.

tenth took pince in mail week, had Lady Frances Balfour, whose

many claimel to 'distinction,

She waa a woman of letters.

ful volumes of reminiscences. They include some piquant sketches of the simple life of tho dutal household in which her carly years were passed as con- trasted with the surroundings of the Young 'jisbple of to-day, and ard full af humorhus touches, such ds the dy remālks that a dough. |ter-in-law of hers was reported to | have nearly fainted when she saw

the appointments of Lady Francos

tollette table.

To the columns of the Morning Partaking of a meal, which they thought to be mushrooms, but which with a delightfully light touch and Poat (saya the paper), she had contributed striking articles or let- later turned out to be fungus, three an attractive style. She was a clever {ters'on such subjects as the "Lost

She had Chinese earth coolies at Tsun Wan and persuasive speaker.

Art of Conversation, the long been a champion of her sex Intoral methods of Sir Oswald and -Tang Kwan (31), Ng Wing (33) the demand for equal treatment, but Lady Cynthia Mosley, women's

and Tam Kum (46)-were removed

her charm.

elec-

wages

to the Kowloon Hospital, suffering champion who never encrificed skilled labour, servants'

She was undoubtedly one of the Parnell," the Scottish Church, and past and present. The Passing of most intellectual women of her garden cities.

from the effects of poisoning.

day; she inherited her strength of In 1919 the University of Dur- personality as well as her looks ham conferred on her the highly

TEMPLE 4,800 YEARS from her distinguished father, and prized honorary degree of D. Litt.

OLD.

First Civilisation

Flood.

yet she exercised a womanly charm while two years later she became to which none who had the privi-Hon. LL.D. of Edinburgh Univer

lege of knowing her could be in- sity. sensible. Long before the woman After suffrage agitation became formid.

NINE YEARS' DIGGING.

Definite proof that the temple discovered by the Weld-Oxford- Field Museum expedition in the buried city of Kish, in Iraq, is that of the Earth Goddess Aruru is now goming to hand.

able, Lady Frances was deeply im- mersed in politics for which she had an instinet shown by few of her sex. Many a time she might be seen sitting in the Ladies' Gal- lery of the House of Commons far into the night, and afterwards un- dauntedly limping home with her inseparable stick.

POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe, C..31.G. Inspector General of Police, are as under:-

Ail ranks are reminded that a Lady Frances Balfour was one general Inspection of the whole of the twelve children of the Police Reserves by the Hon. I.G.P. eighth Duke of Argyll. his accompanied the Hon. Commis- marriage with Lady Elizabeth,sioners of Police Reserve will take daughter of the second Duke of place at Central Police Station on Sutherland. She was a sister-in-Tuesday, April 28, at 5.30 p.m. All law of Princess Louise Duchess members must attend. Dress- of Argyll, and an aunt of the pre-White uniform, belts without frogs sent Duke of Argyll.

and cap with white cover.

Youthful Surroundings. Barn in 1858, she was brought up amid the "Whig" traditions of her family, at a time when, as she

The vast remains of the temple, so ancient as to be one of the first milestones in history after the Flood and yet 90 well preserved that its outline is beginning to be

Summer Uniform. traced on walls 16 feet high, have

Members of the Chinese, Indian," been discovered after nine years of

Flying Squad and Sharpshooters' China based on the spirit of excavations.

Companies are warned that Summer nationalism. If throughout the' The temple ная begun by the afterwards said,, politics were uniform will be taken into wear by negotiations which are now takearly Sumerian kings about 4,800 more collisions than coalitions," Police Reservists as from to-day. ing place difficult and delicate years ago. It aloud for 2,300 years An interesting light on her youth Those who are not in possession of as a monument to the first civilian-ful surroundings is thrown by an same will apply to their respective as they must be-we can preserve tion to arise in Iraq after the Deluge, account she gave of her presenta Equipment Officers immediately. the goodwill of China, we shall The recurrent floods of countless tion to Lord Beaconsfield,

Police Training School. It was at one of Queen Vic- Overland China Mail. have preserved something which centurica only partly buried it in

The weekly classes for Police toria's Drawing Rooms. silt, and when Nebuchadnezzar, the

She and Reservists at the Police Training may be of inestimable advantage great Babylonian king, came to one of her sisters were standing School, Kowloon, will be held 16 to us in the future:

build his famous Hursagkalaman an ante-room with their father usual to-morrow at 6.30 p.m. These views undoubtedly coin- temple in the sixth century before when the Conservative statesman All members of the Chinese Com cide with the views held by the Christ, he merely levelled the walls went up, and the Duke somewhat pany and of the Flying Squad who of the still standing temple of casually introduced them as "two have not yet passed Part 2 of Train- | great majority of Britons in the Aruru and super-imposed his struc-of my girls." Lord Beaconsfielding Course should attend.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The family of the late Mrs. Zelinda Gomes desire to thank all relatives and friends who attend. ed her funeral and sent floral

tributes,

DEATH.

It.

glanced admiringly at their young faces, and remarked, in his court-

ES

Chinese Company.

-White

his examination in Part 2 of Train-

For East. For the time being ture thereon. the Nationalist Government in

Silt and rubble had buried Nebuly manner, that he wished he had the Chinese Company are reminded Practice Parade. All ranks of Nanking is the only central ad- chadnezzar's work in ita turn, but "two such beautiful daughters to of the practice parade for Hon

now that the excavations have laid ministration that can be recogit bare it is to be demolished to Duke, who persisted in regarding the Central Police Station on Thurs escort before her Majesty," The LG.P's inspection to take place at nised." It is endeavouring slowly, permit access to the much more Lord Beaconsfield a political day at 5.30 p.m., All members yet earnestly, to set China's valuable temple it hides.

adventurer, laughed heartily as

must attendi. Dress No Intermediate Work. house in order, and if it can only

they moved on, causing Lady uniform, belts Professor Stephen Langdon, the Frances

without frogs and to wonder why tho ad- avert another civil war and give Oxford Professor of Assyriology; miration she and her sister had cap with white cover. the country ten years of peace, points out that there is no trace of excited should be regarded as in-stable R8 Lai Iu-kwong has passed Training Course-Part 2.-Con- it will deserve every possible en-tween 2900 B.C. when the Sumerian

any restoration or other work be sincere.

At the age of twenty-one Lady couragement from Great Britain, temple was built, and the sixth Frances married Colonel Eustaceing Course (Knowledge of Police her oldest and staunchest friend century B.C., when Nebuchadnez-Balfour, younger brother of the Duties and Regulations).

Indian Company, amongst the foreign Fowerstar superimposed his temple upon tate (and present) Earl of Bal-

Strength-Constable R262 Sher Tact in our relations with the What will be revealed eventually chitect, and for many years the under the conditions of Section 19 four. Colonel Balfour was an ar-Alf has been permitted to reaign Nanking Government is most es will be the remains, 16 feet high, of popular commanding officer of the of the Police Reserve Ordinance, sential, just as tact on the part a temple with two massive stage London Scottish. There were five 1927, with effect from March 21.

towars, such as have hitherto only children of the marriage-Lieuten- of the Nanking Government in

been imagined by artists. These ant-Colonel Francis Balfour; Cap-

Flying Squad. dealing with Great Britain ia a stage towers were huge structure tain Oswald Balfour; Blanche, of the Kowloon Section will take The weekly instructional patrol sine qua non of each and every round the outside of which wound wife of Captain Edgar Dugdale;

place to-morrow. Fall in at the negotiation undertaken in the spiral platforms.

Joan, who is married to Major the This year's excavations have Hon. Edward C. Lascelles, D.S.O at 5.30 p.m. sharp.

Taim-tsa-tsui Fire Brigade Station direction of the uplift of China brought the workmen right up to son of the late Earl of Harewood uniform and cap with khaki cover. Dress-Khak! a nation. Goodwill and re- the walls of the larger of the two and brother of the present Earl; as spect must, indeed, be the com-stage towers, and it was there that and Alison, the wife of Lieuten- the month of the Hong Kong Sec- Funeral will pass mon basis of both countries. In last December were found brick ant-Colonel Arthur Dawson Milne: tion will take place on Friday and The Yot Pit Ting Pavilion, Mr. Looker's words, we have to the plain level. In theas were

torabs of nobles and princes below M.D.

Kennedy Town, at 1 p.m. On

Work for Women, Tuesday, April 21.

swim with the stream and not found chariots, with the animals Lady Frances had been a widow against it. By so doing we will that drew them, the copper reinsince 1911. She was a leading Hong Kong, Monday, April 20, 1931. be the better enabled to study guides and other metal parts of the member of the National Council harness all lying beside the skole-For Women of Great Britain and China's problems to-day from tons of the dead.

Ireland, over whose meetings sho China's own angle and not from Another gang of labourers has tactfully and skilfully presided. Goodwill and Respect. perhaps the narrower vision of a pierced the great north-western While she was one of those who no practice on the miniature Range

gate of the temple of the Earth looked forward to the time when this week. Goddess and entered the wide in-the old differentiation between the

Riot Drill-Riot Drill will be As in previous years the annual meeting of the China'

It is as well that the leaders ner court at a depth of 16 feet be sexes would be entirely swept carried out on Wednesday, at 5.15

.m. in Kennedy Road.. All mem of the China Association in Lon-low the pavement of Nebuchadnezaway, she was by no means an Association held in London last month produced no firework of such a policy. Their recogni-s-number of inscribed tables have women campaign she steadily set No. 1. Squad will also bring riftés, don should recognise the wisdom car's reconstruction. In a clear extreniist in regard to methods.bers will assemble outside Queen's ing on the north side of the temple During the militant votes-for-Pier at 5.10 p.m. sharp, with belts, holsters, revolvers, and truncheons, nothing to set the heather on

tremendous been found dated in the period her face against the policy of fire; nothing beyond the stereo- tion must exert a

not without sympathy for womer delicate negotiations in the direc-1

In this area also large numbers who, having broken windows In such" were the usual references to the tion of the gradual abolition of of cylindrical meals of all periods the supposed interests of their Boxer Fund Indemnity from the extrality proceeding apace be from 3000 B.C. to 700 B.C. are con- cause, did not attempt to evade

CHAN CHEW-On April 17 at 29. Shelly Street, Chan Chew, late Managing Director of Him

Limited.

foreigner within her gates.

.

typed phraseology common to moral influence in regard to the of the famous Sargonic dynasty of "frightfulness," though she was

Agade (2732 to 2549- B.C.).

"annual gatherings. There

chair, the extrality negotiatiorial tween, the British Minister instantly being found, together with arrest and cheerfully went to

and the progress made by the Nationalist Government th Nan king

Peking and the Chinese Foreign Minister in Nanking.

News in Brief.

sculptures mostly of the age of Ham-gool. murabi. Some of the seals are made of lapis lazuli.,'**

་

Lady

The final instructional patrol' of

all members should take part in Folice Station at 6.15 p.m., sharp. this patrol. Fall in at Central

Dress-Khaki uniform and cap with khaki cover.

Sharpshooter's Company. Miniature Range. There will be

Uniform optional.

*

*

(Sgd.) D. L. KING, D.S.F. (R).

Ten Years Ago!

[From the "China Mail" of April 20, 1921.3

གསས- ;བ། She was President of the Travel- lers' Aid Society, and was an ac.

To-day's dollar 13 worth 2/6%. ** Exciting Gamble,”

tiva supporter' of the London Scot The history of how these ́excava-'tish Church, which owed its re

There was a big gathering of Most local interest will centre

tions came to be undertaken nine building largely to her efforts, and interested spectators at the Murray on the address made by Mr.

years ago is in Itself remarkable she supported the Council for the Parade Ground last night to wit- It was due to the enthusiasm of Preservation of Westminster Abness, the annual Inspection of the Defence H. W. Looker, formerly a resi

Dr. Herbert Weld, who saw his bey..

Hong Kong Volunteer

dent of Hong Kong, but he seem-

The lowest open air temperature chance for excavating in Mesopo- Within recent years

Corps by Major-General Sir George The tamin after the war, when the ob- Frances had taken up the cudgels Kirkpatrick, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., Gene ed unable to go beyond the usual yesterday was 71 degrees.

humidity was 88 at 10 am and 94 structive Turk had at last been on behalf of women poilce, when eral Officer Commanding. platitudes as to the progress of at 4 pm.

About 220 members of the Corps cleared out of the area.

they were criticiged before, the China, referring to similar move-

He told a "Daily Mall" reporter: Police Commission, and also in mustered on parade under the com- ments in Ireland, Japan, India, Accidentally falling into a nullah "As an example of what an excit support of women students when mand of Lisut. Col. Bird, Major and Egypt. He was on tolerably in Cheung Sha Wan, Tang Fating gamble such research some they were banned from certain Rapson acting as adjutant; and 1phets' were several Yeatures which hung (19), was taken to the Kowtimes means; I recall my first visit London hospital schools! safe ground in arguing that the loom Hospital suffering from in- to Bagdad. I encountered a speedy Lady Frances tad inherited the made the occasiona notable one in safest policy is to endeavour as juries to his left eye and legs. looking Arab, who had been dig literary skill of her father, as wit the history of the unit. ! ging somewhere on his own, and mess her memoirs of Lady Victoria Mounted Infantry appeared on far as possible to swim with the

The Indian Recreation Club are had a basket of various tablets and Campbell, Dr. MacGregor. of St Parade for the first streem and" not against it. In holding an "At Home on Sator things for sale. I bought the lot Cuthbert's Edinburgh, Dr. Elate sinto the formation of the Corps his view the policy which Great day April 25, when the formal for a small sum. Among them inglit, and Lord Balfour of Bur fourteen months ago, and it also Britain should adopt under pre-opening of the new pavilion will be when I presented them to the Aleigh also her Life of George, marked the initial appearance in sent circumstances' is to endea- performed at 8 pm, by Mr. A. el molean Museum for the scrutiny of Fourth Earl of Aberdeen. kilts of the Scottish Company and Arculli. The opening ceremony Professor Langdon, was found the A little over a year ago, under the Pipe Band, consisting of eight vour as far sa she can to secure will be followed by spoils and ten now Idmous Chronological Prism of the title of "Ne Obliviscaris" the pipers, four-side drummers and one good will, and respect by meeting will be served prior to tie die the pre-Deluge kings--the pat"Dinna. Forget" of her family's base drummar in charge of Plph as far as possible those desires Intribution of Prizes..

ftarcha of Genesis."

motto-she published two delight, Sergt. Ross.

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