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Legislative Council.

Evidently Unofficial

repre-

sentation on the Legislative

by the couple of public bodies entrusted with the precious right of nominating eligible gentle. men to His Excellency the Gov-

TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1931.

Faung Kau, a returned banishec. CHINA AND LEAGUE STRANGE RED INDIAN

who received a fé bantahment on September 2, 1920, Way dig- covered on board a junk in the harbour yesterday, and produced at Police Court this the Howloon moining, when a year's hard labour was imposed.

Mr. Peter H. Sin, a Chinese solicitor, of the firm of Sin and Burnett, Shaftesbury Avenue, Jeft London (or Hong Kong hy the Pazshimi 'Maru on April 24. He will his journey at Singapore friends in Malaya.

The

OF NATIONS.

Close and Fruitful Collaboration.

OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.

Nanking, April 27.

TRIBE

Belief That the Pelican.

Created World,

FORGOTTEN REMNANTS.

A strange tribe of Red Indians, The National Government has who believed that the pelican issued the following communi-created the world, who worship the sun and moon, who gamble bresk que:-

"With

the departure of Sir habitually, auction off their to vuit

A:Thur Salter and Monsieur marriageable · girls, and destroy Maurice Frere from Nanking on their weak and deformed offspring, girl, April 27, the work of the League has been found on Tiburon Island. of Nations Mission, sent at the re-200 miles south of Arizona, la the quest of the National Government, Gulf of California. terminates. The Directors from The Indians are almost forgot.

of the Seris tribe

that she intended to end, her life.

nro

disappearance of Leung a-tsing, aged 17 years, from 40A Bonham Road at 7 a'lock yesterday morning, was re- ported to the Police by her mother, three technical organisations ten remnants Yu Krai Hing, who stated that the of the League, namely, Dr. L. who numbered 30,000 at the time

Rajchman, Director of the Health of the 'conquest. Only 164 left behind two letters saying Section; Mr. Robert Haas, Diree-alive to-day. After the revolution tar of the Transit Section; and Sir in 1749, in which they were in- Arthur Salter. Director of the volved, the Spanish Viceroy cxll- The Chim Mail understands that Economic and Financial Section, ed them to Tiburon, three miles Mr. J. II. Taggart, Managing each accompanied by other mem- from the Sonora mainland, and Diretor of the Hong Kong and bers of the Secretariat, successive there they have remained since, Shanchal Hotels, Ltd., who is

ly arrived in China between De-keeping others off their island. present convalescing in a nursingcember and March.

Colonel Juan Masturzi, Italian ho, following an operation for

Regular Collaboration. explorer. and Mme. Titayna, o appendicitis, is still in a very weak!

"After joint conversations be French wiiter, arriving at Mexico condition and will not be able to re-tween these officers of the League City after a perilous sojourn

v visitors for several days.

and the Members of the Govern- the Island, declared that the Seris ment, the Government has made a£till live na savages, da uot have new Sub-Manager at the

proposal to the League of Nations houses, eat much raw meat, wear Pineta Hotel. Kowloon, Mr. A. Gfor ragular collaboration, based only skins and in some cases loin Piovanelli, is expecting the arrival on the principle that the technical cloths for envering.

the

at

on

of his wife from Europe in the near organisations of the League shall They live outdoors in ali fature Mr. Plovanelli, whose be continuously available to nd-weathers and are tunned to a father was formerly a Director ofvise the Government and the new deep brown, tonking much as do The Savoy and other famous Lon-National Economic Council, which the Patagonians of Argentina. dan hotels, has held managerial has just been created, in connec-The average height of the males and other posts in some of the prin- tion with the plans of national re-s six feet. They hate white cipal hotels in Europe.

construction.

people beyond all reason, Health,

Colonel Masturzi says that, nov- Three weeks' imprisonment woa "Dr. Rajchman had already eral years ago, an expedition sent impased on Mok Chuen at the Kow-made an earlier visit to China into the island captured two boys loon Police Court tais morning for the previous Winter, when he took who were taken to Mermociloo the larceny of a cotton quilt and a back to Geneva a plan of colla-und educated in the hope that as an Unofficial member "until blanket, the property of Sau Ki, of boration proposed by the Ministry when they returned to Tiburon the Autumn?"

Lo Lung Hang, Hunghom, Theo Health, including arrangements they would begin the process of We shall doubtless be told iluit stand Wis a subtenant at

the for technical advice by experts civilisation there, but when tho that does not matter as in any plainant's house, and while the from the League in regard to youths returned they were prompt-

latter was absent accused took the quarantine, a HOW case the Government has always things to Yaumati to pawn.

Central Fieldly killed. Health Station in Nanking, medi-

Daughters for Auction. its official majority to fall back!

cal education, and cholera control When a girl reaches maturity upon in the case of a difference Lang Yuk, a Chinese, was at in Shanghai, and the training of there is a grand celebration te arising between the administra

Kowloon Magistracy this Chinese health officers by means advertise her readiness for marri morning sent to jail for 14 days, of travelling fellowships in age. tion and the Unofficial members with the option of a $10 fine, for Europe and Amerien provided by bids, which range from 100 to 150 Her father then accepts We shall also be told that the stealing a cotton singlet from the the League.

pesos (between $50 and $75) de- arrangement arrived at by the Kin Shan Knitting Factory in "This plan was duly approved pending upon the girl's beauty. Poland Street. It was alleged by the Health Committee and the The youthful males, who for the General Chamber of Commerce that his wife stole the singlet, and Council of the League, and was most part are pearl divers, have yesterday is one simply of co- that when the husband tried to put into effect in May of last year, to work long and hard to collect venience for all the interests con- pawn it, he was arrested and there-so that practical collaboration be- that much money to pay for their

hletween the National Government brides. cerned. "The dog days of Sum- fare had to take the onus of

wife's misdeed.

and the League in health matters mer" are upon us and nobody is

There is no portable water on was already an accomplished fact the laland, and the tribesmen have expected to have any energy to A fatal scuffle which caused the when Dr. Rajehman came again to tap a water-giving cactus in strike up a new tune in the arena death of a Chinese boy on April 27, last December. During this visit,order to drink. They have an of local controversial topics.

was described to the Coroner (Mr. it has been arranged, after con-amazing love of gambling, games E. H. Willams), at ап inqueat versations between him and new on the seashore sometimes Con- Evasive arguments of that yesterday on Foo Siu-wing (19), National Health Administration, tinuing for days, during which kind do not appeal to us. We employed as a foki at a stall on the that the plan will be extended to time a lover often gambles away' expect business to be conducted recreation ground opposite the Man cover additional activities.

even his wife's shoes, Transit, in u more businesslike fashion Fo-ang (19), was held on a man- Mo Temple at Hollywood Road. Li

The favourite game is called "As a result of the converan- "Yaceougaasha" and is nothing from a public body of business slaughter charge. The jury re-tions with Mr. Hans, the Govern-more than a form of the old shell men. They represent, we do not turned a verdict of death due to ment has requested the assistance game. Four hollow ataiks aro forget, only those who are mem-

natural causes, and Ld Fo-sang was of the Transit Organisation of the used, a bean being placed in one released.

League in connection with the the idea being to pick up the three bers of the General Chamber of

final establishment of the scheme empty stalks. Commerce, but virtually they are For snatching a packet of tea for the improvement of the Hwai in a position to speak for the from a compradore delivery boy's River, and has also asked that ex- basket In Kowloon On Sunday,perts of this organisation should united commercial and mercan-Heung Fat, a Chinese youth. was make a preliminary enquiry into a tribe doctor who determines tile interests of the Colony, ordered to receive

Unfit Persons Eliminated.

According to the Italian there

Both

12 strokes at the problems under consideration which of the offspring should live, Their position in this respect is the Kowloon Police Court this by the North China River Commis paly the hale and hearty babies

to survive. It was stated that while sion, and, in addition, be available being allowed recognised and unassailable, and morning. Council is not too greatly prized for that reason it is not fitting of goods to a flat in Humphrey's aspects of the proposal relating to and the people revere the pelican ·

the delivery boy was taking a parcel for consultation on the technical the sun and moon ure worshipped that they should ask a gentleman Buildings, he left his basket near harbour development in the area and tortoise. who already is an Unofficial mem- the door and accused snatched the of Greater Shanghai.

The pelican's skin is dried and ber of the Council-no matter caught, several pawrtickets

tea and bolted. When he was "The Transit Organisation has used for gats attire at periodical At each new moon were iso been invited to help in the celebrations. how admirably qualified he may found in his possession, one

of creation of a technical civil en-sea shells are filled with a native be-to act in a dual capacity even which

was for a pair of shoes gineering field station, to be e-liquor and left on the beach, the for that short period vaguely de- which belonged to the complainant. tablished at the National Capital, fermented drink being used in an

of which the main objects are to orgine celebration.

One white man has gained their facilitate the training of civil en-friendship, a Mr. Thompson who gineers, to help In the prepara- Uves at Bahia Kina, on the Guli tion and supervision of future en-

ernor.

IMPERIAL TRADE.

COUNTRY.

scribed as "until the Autumn." Unfortunately those outside the charmed circles of the General GESTURE FROM THE MOTHERquiries and surveys, concerning in Chamber of Commerce and the Justices of the Peace can do no- thing beyond merely voicing their opinion; and that, again, in doomed to fall on deaf ears.

ECONOMIC FACTS.

London, Yesterday,

The Secretary for Dominion | Affairs, Mr. J. H. Thomas, in a

of California. He escorted Mas. particular road building and river turzi and Mme. Titayna to the conservancy work, and to form the island and persuaded the Indians nucleus of a national service of to allow them to remain eight civil engineers.

days, during which time they trad ed tobacco and water in return

Economics.

•

"Sir Arthur Salter has been ask-ever, they were constantly in fear for information. They said, how:

natives turning against

The members of the General Chamber of Commerce met yesterday to fill the vacancy created by the resignation, be- fore going Home, of Mr. Owen Hughes. That vacancy has been filled-subject to the Governor's confirmation and acceptance-of a gentleman who is already an | Unofficial member of the Legis-

The precedent, however, is speech at Derby, referring to the ed by the Government to discuss of the lative Council. So that, theore-

not a very happy one. On the approaching Imperial Economic questions relating to the effect on them and doing them harm. tically and indeed actually-

single score of convenience it Conference at Ottawa, said the China's economic activities of the there is still a vacancy.. There

British Government may suit the General Chamber of tives would go to Ottawa

representa- present world depression; and a is, one short of the usual compleCommerce, but there is not an-make any bargain, but with a de- conversations have taken place on British Columbia Department of not to series of informal and personal The market news letter of the ment of Unofficial members, and other thing to be said in its sire to co-operate with the that shortage will exist until the favour. The community is being Dominions, to recognize, economic which now present themselves in heavy shipment of canned pine a number of practical problems Agriculture notes the arrival of a return to the Colony in the robbed of one Unofficial vote in ture to help them in their difi- mic polley. A procedure has also in boxes which came from Victoria facts, and to make a genuine ges- the sphere of financial and econo-apples from the Fijl Islands, packed Autumn of Sir Henry Pollock, the Legislative Council, "until culties; to which he believed they been arranged which is designed and In tin cans and tin plate from for whom the Hon. Mr. C. G. the Autumn," before which any-would respond. Mackie has been acting as the thing may happen!

to secure that the League's Econo- Vancouver. There could be no better con-mic and Financial Organisation tribution to a solution of the un-shall be continuously available to employment problem, than increas advise the, Government and the ing the volume of inter-Imperia! National Economic Council, who trade. Reuter.

nominee of the Justices of the

Peace.

Mr. Mackie is doubtless well!

-qualified to act as steward of the

•

News in Brief.

..

Ten Years Aga.

[From the "China Mail" of May 5, 1121.7

.

To-day's dollar is worth 276%.

*

wI ask the assistance of the ser- eral committees associated with interests both of the Justices of

The lowest open air temperature i yesterday

the Organisation, In advising, or was 71 the Peace and the General Cham-humidity at 10 am, was 89 and at ganisation of the League, advice schemes, on particular problems.

degrees. The the Economic and Financial Or

collaborating in the framing of ber of Commerce. The rare hon-4 p.m. 85.

and asalstande might best be ob our paid him yesterday is ample

tained; and on its side, the Gov-as they arise within the sphere of

Arancial and economic policy.

The Ellis Kadourle School for: proof of that. But what if a

A notice to mariners posted at the ernment is appointing an officia

Indians held its first athletic sports Harbour Omee', states that the to act as correspondent to the

Adviser. serious crisis arises in the Colony Cheung Chiu-light is reported to be Economic and Financial Section

meeting yesterday afternoon. The "The Government hopes that mesting was well conducted and demanding the fullest possible not burning.

of the League in order to secure during the first stages of its re- proved to be a great success. Unofficial representation at meet

a regular exchange of all requisite construction work it may be 'pos-Members of the Indian community ings of the Legislative Council? under the left arm pit and a lacerat

Suffering from a stab wound Information.

sible for the League to arrange and other friends of the school were "The Government trusts that for an adviser to come to China. present in large numbers. As the These things cannot be foretold. led nose, Wong Hing (25), a tailor, these arrangements and proposals who will susist the Government to Victoria British School is not large but there must ever be prepared- of No. 1. Elgin Street, was removed will result in a close, constant decide the exact method by which. enough to have a sporto meeting of ness for them. Is there not one to the Government Civil Hospital and fruitful collaboration Betweet regard to each problem within its own, the Indian School kindly other member on the roll of the yesterday. The wounds are alleged the National Government and its the sphere of any of the technical extended to it an invitation to join to have been inflicted by an ap- National Economic Council on the organisatious, and among them the meeting. Great enthusiasm. General' Chamber of Commerce prentice tallor, but are not con-one hand, and the League of (Continued at foot of preceding prevailed throughout, and kesh' com- "it and proper" to be nominated sidered to be serious.

Nations on the other."--Kuo Mín. |

Column.)

potition was witnessed.

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