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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

In the Goods of Francis Joseph' McCarthy, late of the Royal Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong. Chargeman of Smiths, Bache- lor, deceased.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

N°

THE CHINA MAIL.

RIVER PIRATES OF IS MODERN YOUTH A REGENT'S PARK

CHINA.

HAPPY?

Country's Economic Life Minister Says No: Jazz

Paralysed.

GUARDIAN GUNBOATS.

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River steamers carrying passen- are con- that the Court has by virtue gera and merchandise

down tho of the provisions of Section 58 offstantly plying up and Ordinance No. 2 of 1897 made an Yangtsze between Shanghai and 1.300 Order limiting the time for Credl-Ichang, a matter of some tors and others to send in their miles. As the great waterway of claims against the above estate to China, the Yangtsze carries the the Sixteenth day of May, 1931. burden of the trade, and even in in All Creditors and others are ac- the troublous times, when war WANTED.-Good Hanae Boy. Know ledge of Valeting essential. Apply Box rordingly hereby required to send the North and bandit oppression in in their claims to the undersigned the valley paralysed the economie No. 687, e/o "China Mall."

life of the country, the ships on or before that date.

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PROTEST.

Open-Air Dancing Disliked.

"WE WANT PEACE."

They are going to protest: Against the suggestion that intre- Winter Gardens should be

duced into the Park;

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The problem of Youth was dis cussed at the meeting of the Na- tional Free Church Council at Weston-super-Mare.

periance. People who live in Regent's Park The Rev. John A. Putten, of Dulare meeting to table a list of de wich, said that young people werennds to Mr. Lansbury, the First Commissioner of Works-demands not attracted to the Church,

The family pew," he went on, intended to ensure for the Park! heen smashed to smithereens. "Peace, Beauty and Safety," writes All father cares about is to see us a special correspondent in the

a modern Evening News, sitting in a row,' said girl, and there is some justico in the criticism. Conventional Chris tianity is not good enough to at tract and hold young people.

"Youth seems to have been over-

Beyond Ichang, up to Chungking

taken with a great misgiving." Where Szechwan · ទ the most "In spite of all the opportunities]

of China, the westerly province.

for enjoyment, the younger genera Boes of communication remain. There are not only river steamerstion does not appear to be so very on this route, but naval craft of happy. It is often restless and

dissatisfied." at lenst five Powers-British,

Decrying billiard-tables 28 Regent's Park is the most "res Japanese, American, French and Italian-and they act as guardians means of attracting young men to sidential" of all London parks. In LAMMERT BROS. to these steamers. With a Central the Church, and describing a jazz the stately houses which border it band as "a poor substitute for the there live many distinguished Government struggling to assert its authority, the reign of the bugles of Christ," Mr. Patten said: bandit Communist has been made. ensier,

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a Merchant Service captain in the Great War. There are no sub- marines to worry about, but al- though the bandits have quaint ideas of shooting and the ammuni

"A Risky Adventure,”

"There are many novelists," he

Against the exclusion of the public from an increasing number of enclosed portions of the Park; Against the "inadequate" speed limit notices;

Against the possibility of build- ings appearing where the Botanic

Gardens are now.

artists.

me that one

professional men. ard "If a minister-announced a hazar. dous enterprise, his vestry would

Some of them regard Mr. Lana- These bandits (writes the Shang-be crowded by cager-eyed youthbury as too impetuous; they say

demanding a share in it." hai correspondent of

that his "Brighter Parks" schemes London

The problem was to present will drive peace from the fow paper) in loosely formed and loose-

Christian life as a high and risky ly linked armies, descend on the

places where it should be found. THE Undersigned have receivedriver on one bank or the other and adventure.

Mr. J. Hutchinson, hon. treasurer of the Regent's Park Protection instructions to aell by Public armed with rifles or antiquated

artillery. amuse themselves by in-added, "whose delight is to pour Committee, which is organising terfering with passenger and cargo scorn upon mural behaviour. This the meeting, told ships. The life of a river ateamer equivocal school of fiction creates scheme which has not met with captain is very much like that of/" miasma that is noxious in the general approval is the cutting off Let the north wind of of a "beautiful glade" for the pur extreme. robust teaching on moral questions pose of children sun-bathing- blow away its poisonous vapours."

Public Kept Out. "Military and Monet Barons."

"It is questionable," said A vision of a world ruled by Hutchinson, "whether any part of "military and money barons" was

a public park should be railed off varied than effective, the idiosyn described by the Rev. Arthur Hird and labelled 'private. Then there "If either the military or the are other parts from which the crasies of the Yangtaze prevent the

control

public are excluded-one let for steamers from keeping to the mid-money barons maintain dle of the channel and necessitate man cannot rise higher than the the purpose of a golf school, an- fodder level," he declared, "cannon other to be used, I believe, 28 a fodder for the machines on the

playing fleld-not a public one. A Commonplace.

battlefield or the factory." Thus ample opportunities

"We do not like the tendency. "The idea that we are subduing There is a pond which was put provided for the merest tyro find a target. It has become al nature is the product of the city down about a year ago for children most a commonplace for these wall habit and training of mind.

to play in.

ing distinct signa of having run/Kinship with the world he lives in who used to find at ahips to return to Shanghai show. When a man does not realize his

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Little is heard of the activities of the gunboats. There is, how ever, between Yochow and Shasi

this the

gunboats

Mr.

"It is not a success and peonie that spot a are haven of rest complain about it.

"It should be filled up and turf- ed over again.

for

Resolutions were passed Condemning sweepstakes charitable purpose.

Regretting the Roman Catholic claims in the debate on the Educa- tion Bill.

r

Approving a new temperance crusade.

The Rev. James Reid, of East-

LESSON SERMON,

a specially lively stretch, and on bourne Presbyterian Church, was

concentrate nominated president for 1932. their attention. The British Flotilla, which is the largest of all, consists only of 13 boats dis- tributed at various points from Chungking downwards and the problem of the controlling authority is that of obtaining the

"The new running track-thoro! are no complaints about that, it is a public amenity.

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"But the suggestion of a Winter Garden conjures up unpleasant possibilities. It might mean pleasure place of the 'hurdy-gurdy' tyne, which would be likely to at tract rowdies.

Open Air Dances. "There have been other schemes of that kind in London which have ended in the places coming into

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,disrepute.

SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

"Probation After Death" was

"I believe Mr. Lansbury favour: open-air dancing In Regent's Park. Is that necessary or desirable?

best results from the use of his the subject of the Lesson-Sermon "The meeting will no doubt ex-

tiny furce. Often a gunboat has in all Churches of Christ, Seient-press an opinion."

to be detached for five or six days ist, on Sunday, April 26. from its normal occupation of

The Golden Text was: "The patrolling to carry out an "ad hoc" Lord knoweth the days of the up- expedition for the rescue of an in- right, and their inheritance shall

Mr. Hutchinson referred to ap old bone of contention-the speed of cars and motor-cycles in the Park...

dividual foreigner, say, a merchant be for ever." (Psalm 37; 18.) "We do not blame the motorists

or a missionary.

I

-but there should

be more and

Among the citations which com- On other occasions the gunboats prised the Lesson-Sermon was the larger warnings of the speed limit, have definitely to carry out the following from the Bible: illuminated at night." evacuation of foreign residents of Israel, thou hast destroyed thy-

"How can motorists be expected up-river towns where the bandite self; but in me is thine help.

to keep inside the limit with the have obtained temporary control. will ransom them from the power:

notices as they are now? This work demands the trans of the grave; I will redeem them

"Recently we took a census and formation of the gunboat into from death.

O death, I will be found that more than 11,000 care liner, a feat which the Navy thy plagues; 0 grave, I will be and motor-cycles entered the Park with ita traditional thy destruction: repentance shall in six hours. The number exceeda

achieves

adaptability.

On Both Sides.

be hid from mine eyes." (Hosca half a million a month.

"At night those who cannot 809 13; 9. 14.)

Ask me! I'll tell you!

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WHO DIED FIRST?

PROBLEM OF "J.W.H.T." AND

HIS FATHER.

IRON HAND IDEA.

SOLDIERS INSTEAD OF "FAT,

PUFFY POLICE.”

Who died first in the wreck of "Single men in barracks should the Finnish steamer Oberon in the replace fat, puffy policemen who Kattegat last December-Mr, J. H. { are just able to get from one Douglas or his son, Mr. J. W. H. T. corner to another If the racketeer Douglas, the England and Essex and criminal are to be banished cricketer?

from America,” Bays General Smedley-Butler, who was recently in the limelight because of certain references to uncomplimentary Signor Mussolini in which he in- dulged.

Dlabanding pre-

Upon the answer to this question

the depends

financial circum stances in which Mrs. J. W: H. T. Douglas will be left.

Mr. Douglas, sen., left £73,883, between £5,000 and £6,000 of which would have gone to his son if he had survived his father.

Mr. Douglas, jun., whose will was proved recently, left £25,383. Two-fifths of his estate was be queathed to his wife.

over

When Last Seen. If he had survived to beneft by his father's will, his estate would

to have been increased £30,000,

The question which now.arises fs: la any evidence available to show that father and son did not but that the perish together, father died first?

Mr. Ernest Martin, of Becken- ham, one of the survivors, in an interview at Copenhagen, said: "The very last I saw of Mr. Douglas, senior, was when he went down to get a lifabelt. J.W.H.T." ran down after him to tell him it was no earthly use. Then suddenly the end came. I never saw the two the ship's final Douglases after

lurch."

Mra, J. W." H. T. Douglas estimates that she will benefit to

Along the Hvely stretch where The Lesson-Sermon also includ- the notices may speed at 50 miles patrolling is intense the bandited the following passage from an hour, so that they are a menace Communists have managed to re the Christian Science Textbook, to safety and make a terrible noise. "We claim to have got the speed move most of the beacons which "Science and Health, with Key to guide the mariner and to establish the Scriptures," by Mary Baker limit in the parks reintroduced themselves on both sides of the Eddy: Jesus unchanged phy. through our pressure-and now we river. The gunboats come along, xical condition after what seemed want it made more effective. and when they detect a nest off to be death was followed by his bandits they endeavour to smoke it exaltation above all material con- Gardens that is very much in the the extent of £400 a year from her

air. out. They have left their markditions; and this exaltation ex- with some

"But I think many of us would decision on several plained his ascension, and reveal- places. There is a well-known cd unmistakably a probationary regret the appearance..of any fur bandit haunt by name

of and progressive state beyond the ther buildings such as it has been Temple Hill. Owing to the atten- grave. Jesus was 'the way that suggested might form a 'Folk-lore tions of the gunboat there is very is, he marked the way for all Village on the site."

little left of the buildings which men."

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stood there in more peaceful days.

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Women Doctors To Keep Their Posts

Were it not for these foreign ties for which the down-country Navies, not only would merchant merchants are clamouring. Owing ships be unable to get up or down to the bandits, however, Shasi Kas the river, but the peacefully in- to endure long periods of inne- clined Chinese would find life more tivity, and its commerce has beep difficult than it is, Now that the seriously damaged, nam war in the North is over, General The gradual domination of the Chiang Kai-shek's troops.

The governors are once, prosperous valley by the

of Birmingham moving up, in the hope of reator- bandit-Communist hordes has so General Hospital have rejected a ing this bandit-ridden territory to reduced the resources and vitality of resolution, previously passed but its lawful rulers. Progress Is the people that even if the much requiring confirmation, that woman should not be eligible for posts on slow, but Government troops are promised trade revival were only too glad of the presence of the reappear in Shanghal it is doubt the medical staff if married, and gunboats The difficulties lying ful whether the people would be that those already on the staff | ahead coaslat mainly in the ad-able to respond to that change by should be required to resign on vantage possessed by any guerrilla increased activity on their own a marriage. force over. Regular troops

to

count. But so long as communicaThe Bishop of Birmingham (Dr.

A Menace To Trade.tions can be kept open so long Barnes), opposing the resolution, The seriousness of this bandit will there be hope among the said that women had, shown their menace can be seen in the condi- traders and agriculturists. This is capacity as physicians and sur tion of the once prosperous towns where the gunboats come in and geons of the first class, and that's up-river. Shaai, for instance, is a where they are usostentatiously, modern community could not per town from which radiates a good but pertinaciously, contributing manently accept the principle of system of roads, It could draw nobly to the war against economic dismissing a woman because he

** had children following marriagą. into its net many of the commodi-failure.

husband's estate.

House Sold.

"I have had to sell Colonsay, our house, at Theydon Bols, which my husband left to me, and I am tak Ing a small flat near Olympia," she told The Evening News. ‚'

"Except for some private means of my own I should have been left In difficulties.".

A legal authority, discussing the point of law involved, said: "A court will never presume that a young man lived longer than an old one in a catastrophe,

"They will usually act on very Blender evidence but, in the "ab- sunce of any evidence at all, the court will not draw any distinc- tion, and the two men will be pre- sumed to have died simultaneous- ly.".......

"There was a case a long time ago where two persons-husband and wife-made wille in favour of each other, in the event of one. surviving the other.

"On the death of the second, the estate was to go to a third party, They were both thrown overboard together, and, because neither survived the other, the third party got nothing??

or-

semi-

He proposes: sent police and constabulary ganisations, recruiting a military police force,. none of the rank and file of which would be allowed to marry; life in barracks, éomplete mobility of the. force throughout the State, permitting. concentration and deploying; drill and school, after the army man- ner; use of radio, toletype, motorisation and whatever science can contribute towards crime de- tection; complete separation of police control from politics, and "an American Scotland Yard."

His soldier-policemen would bo paid £20 a month and would have "few contacts with the outside world.".

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