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EMPIRE DAY,

MUSTER OF THE GIRL GUIDES.

MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931.

A SHELL-SHOCKED MAN.

Nightly Threats to Wife's Life.

STORY OF DEVOTION.

GENERAL'S ADDRESS.

Empire Day was celebrated at Headquarters House yesterday afternoon, when the G.O.C. (liis Excellency Major-General 3. W. Sandilands, C.M.G.. C.B., D.S.O.) entertained the Girl Guides of Hong Kong, who were under the comi-

The story of a wife's devotion mand of Mra. W. T. Southorn to a shell-shocked husband who

Commissioner).

NAVAL DOCKYARD.

SERIES OF INTERESTING PRESENTATION.

MORE “GOOD-BYES." -

Messrs. C. E. Westcott, draughts- man, Royal Naval Dockyard, and Mr. J. F. G. Richards, clerk, left on Saturday by the P. & 0. steamer Comorin for the Devonport and Portsmouth yards, respectively. Mr. Westcott is accompanied by his wife and two children,, night after night, it was stated, On the eve of their departure threatened to take her life was an interesting ceremony was en- related at an inquest on, Williams acted in the Dockyard Recreation Elmore Farm, Whitbourne, near chair. Henry Willcox, a farmer, of Club, Mr. W. Bickford being in the

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After the G.0.C.. hud inspected the parade, an adjournment WILS male to the hall, where is Excel leney addressed the gathering. He

Worcester.

Mr. S. R. Tickner, R.E.N.C., said, in part:---

The widow, Mrs. Ellen Jane Chief Constructor, presented Mr. "Mrs. Southorn: I am sure that Willcox, said her husband served Westcott, on behalf of the staff, you realize what a very great in the Royal Garrison Artillery with a silver rose bowl on leaving pleasure it is for me to be able to and was pensioned because of after three years' service. Mr. entertain the Hong Kong Girl shell-shock. He had prayed night'. J. S. Scull, Civil Secretary to Guides at tea

on Empire Day, and day for death for ten years, the Commodore, presented more especially it falls upon she said and had suffered from Richards with a gold watch

as me to do do In one of the most brainstorms. Night after night leaving after four years' service. listunt Colonica in the British he had threatened to take her life.|

Seven Years' Work. Empire.

While she was upstairs, Mrs. On behalf of the staff side of Willcox continued, she heard the District Whitley Council Mr. The chief point of celebrating thud, followed by a peculiar noise. Bickford was presented by Mr. H. Empire Day is to provide a means She called out, "Are you right, white, Foreman of the Electrical for making the inhabitants of the Will?" and got no reply. She Department, with a clock and two British Empire, more especially found her husband lying uncon-valuable books of reference in young people and children, realize scious on a settee. There was a recognition of seven years' ser- that We are all part of one big

vice as Chairman of the local Com gun near him. family, rather than a collection of

Dr. Roger Clark, of Knight-miltee; and, Mr. Westcott was pre- separate countries and colonies.

wick, said Willcox's wife was the sented with a standard lamp Tor May 24 is a peculiarly appropiate only person who could manage his services in connection with the date for its celebration as it was him during his severe attacks. visit of the Government Commis- the birthday of Queen Victoria. He was devoted to her. She had sion (Admiralty) in connection who, as you all know, reigned for been ill and that had worried with the cost of living in Hong

Kong.

no fewer than 67 years.

him.

As far as the Boy Scouts and The coroner said that normally Messrs. Westentt. Bickford, and Girl Guides are concerned, it is Willcox was perfectly sound. | Richards suitably responded.

not an exaggeration to state that They were a devoted couple and During the course of the even- the movement is one of the most the wife

made every possiblejing a musical programme was ren- remarkable developments in mo- sacrifice in looking after him.dered. Mr. Longyear, who presid- Cern times. It is 13 movement which undermined her health.ed at the piano, gave selections which knows of no

He recorded a verdict that Will-and Messrs. Bailey, Crabb and creed, religion, or race.

fullness of years at Happy Valley, Here we have no local politics because we are here to-day and gone to-morrow, with no permán- ent stake in the Colony. Whilst citizens. here we are self-centred, caring

distinction of

It exists

mind.

The proceedings closed with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" and the National Anthem.

for one purpesz and for one pur-Cox shot himself while of unsound Turner sang songs. pose only, which is to turn out boys! and girls as

useful good and

The Boy Scout and Girl Guide is a wonderful means movement

of bringing all classes together ami affording them an opportunity of getting to know each other, no

matter in what grade of society they may have been brought up.

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CHINESE SENT TO JAIL FOR FOUR MONTHS,

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not one jot or tittle for Imperial į progress and development.

Viewing Empire Day from this latter angle there ought to be

RECEIVER CENsured, much good reason for the annual | It is in this spirit that we are Mail Line, the China observance on a much wider assembled here to-day. 'It is not enabled to announce that a thirty- Appearing before Mr. E. W. to two hour tri-motored passenger Hamilton at the Kowloon Police scale than obtains at present. of the slightest consequence

any of us, whether a Girl Guide transport "plane service between Court on Saturday, Yeung Yat British children as a rule stay is the daughter of a leading Tai-Seattle and New York and a twenty and Chiu Yuen, two coolies em- here very few years. Whilst pan or Compradore in Hong Kong, eight hour service from San played by the Hong Kong Tele- they are here it is a duty to in-or the daughter of a subordinate Francisco to New York has been in- phone Co., were charged with stil into their minds all that is in a business firm; nor is it of augurated by Boeing System and stealing four telephones, on vari- ous dates, March 22, May 13, 15 any consequence whether her father National Air Transport. best and all that is noblest in Em- is an officer or a private soldier. Planes leaving Seattle in

the and 21. pire history and Empire tradi- The following Companies as-morning or San Francisco at noon Both men admitted the offence,

and New and tions, and thus give them

sembled under their Captains and reach Chicago at noon! a

were sent to jail for four Lieutenants: - ist. Hong Kong, York in the evening of the follow-months on each account, the terms chance to hold their own wher-

Captain Mise Steele; 2nd. Honging day. West-bound passeng to run concurrently. ever they may go when they do Kong, Captain Miss Pau; 3rd.jera leaving New York in the morn His Woslip said that in view leave this Colony either for the Hong Kong, Captain Miss Lopes;ing and Chicago in the afternoon of the fact that the men Homeland or some other portion 4th, Hong Kong, Captain Miss reach San Francisco and Seattle the given the Police every assistance

Medina ond Lieut. Miss Perry; following afternoon.

in recovering the goods, he had of the Empire. They should be 5th. Hong Kong. Captain. Mias This new service materially re- taken it into consideration when nurtured in the atmosphere of Swift and Lieut. Mias Tse; leduces the time required for a trip imposing the sentence.

The man true Imperialism. They should Kowloon. Captain Mrs. Lawson from New York and other castern

who bought the tele- and Lieut. Miss Taylor; 2nd. cities to the Orient, through con- phones from the defendants. be made to feel proud of being Kowloon, Captain Miss Churn and nections

being made with the severely censured. Britons. No opportunity should Lieut. Mrs. EMPIRE DAY.

Rose: 3rd. Kowloon, American Mail liners at Seattle he neglected to make them ap- Lieut. Miss Stockdale; The Ran- and San Francisco. It is the only Moses also through passenger airplane service There is springing up in the preciate the glorious heritage gers, Captain Miss

Mra. Reinshagen, Miss Choa, Miss between the Atlantic and Pacific that has been handed down to Lack. Ms. Bruce Shepherd, Miss seaboards. Colony a generation the majority them. Thus, we consider, Em Cousens and Miss Howard Smith,

The fare from Seattlo to Chicago of whom are neglected in regard pire Day should indeed be for of the Brown and Towny Owls. to Empire Day and its meaning to all British subjects, In the course of another decade it may! be that the observance of Empire Day here will be quite unknown. Yesterday all that reminded the

Hong Kong. Monday, May 25, 1931.

them a red-letter day in the calendar in this Colony, `.

News in Brief.

young people of Empire Day was! Mr. D. C. Walmsley, of the Tai- a Girl Guides' parade at General koo Dock, left for Home on holi- Headquarters' House.

day on Saturday. His Ex- cellency the General Command- The lowest open air temperature ing is to be commended for the yesterday was 83 degrees. The spirit of his address.

splendid material on which to work, for there is no public body

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at 4 p.m.

Mr. George Duncan, M.B.E., of young people more impression- the Kowloon Dock and a Lieutenant.

in the Volunteer Corps, left

for

mothers of the next one or two p. & G. 8.a. Camorin, accompanied generations. Without minimis-by Mrs. Duncan.

BIG CELEBRATION IN

LONDON.

** LORD MEATH'S MEMORY.

Rugby, Saturday.

Park, in which the massed banda

is $184, and to New York $243.50.} From San Francisco the fare is $168 to Chicago, and $227.50 New York

NEGLECT OF ENGLISH.

Sir Philip Hartog on School Examinations.

was in

one

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LETTERS AND RADIO

ADDRESSES WHICH CANNNOT BE TRACED.

POST OFFICE LIST

A General Post Office notifica- tion gives the following unclaim- ed correspondence, etc., waiting at the Post Office and also un- claimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph Office, Govern-" ment Building:-

Poste Restante Correspondence. At a meeting of the Parents' As-

D. W. Anmie, Asiatic Motors Co., sociation at the Royal United Ser-Otto Buhring, G. E. Barnard, E. vice Institution Sir Rennell Rodd Belton, Mrs. Lillid Bunje, Mrs. A. In spite of indications of wea-

the chair and Sir Philip Chapman (c/o C. Z. & S. Office),

an address on the Miss He had humidity was 73 at 10 am, and 77/ ther forecasts that it will be Harlog gave

rainy week-end Empire Day, neglect

Dadigena, I. Fujida. T. of English in British which falls on Whit-Sunday this

Griffiths, J. S. Gibson, W. Glass. schools, Ostration this afternoon in Hyde 25 years since he had begun point-lack, R. Harworth & Co., Im Pan- R. Heinemann, B. Hayes, T. E. year, will include a big demon-

Sir Philip Hartog said that it was Husein, A. F. Haines. Mrs. G. K.

ing out that the average British hai, Jack Krafoik, Kwong Tung, able than the Girl Guides Home on holiday on Saturday by the of the Brigade of Guards and of}

boy could not express himself in Muste singing, including Sir Edward but still not only university teachers McPhison, Miss D. V. Marchbanks. special choir will lead community

Co., J. Kingstone, Lien English. Things had improved, Goan-lian, P. U. Libao, A. S.

ing that parade in any way what-

Elgar's "Land of Hope and soever, it is perhaps a pity that A Chinese farmer named Li Hong Glory" which the composer will but milltary authorities and busi- Jay W. Myers, H. Mayell, Masuda, neas men were complaining of the MI. Do Simone, J. H. Stevens, himself conduct. arrangements could not have mullah in Waterloo Road, Kowloon who was drawing water from the

failure of the schools to teach boys Shozuman, W. W. Stark, G. T. The movement will be headed to write English clearly and ad-Swisshelm, E. M. Wood. been made for mammoth parade yesterday, accidentally fell in. when by the Duke of Connaught. and equately. The failure of thej

Registered Articles. of all the British children in the he lost his footing, and, suffered in-has been set on foot to erect a schools was apparent in other ways.

Miss M, Austero, L: L. Lawler, Colony at, say, the Racecourse, juries to his right leg. He was memorial window in St. Paul'a Where English was taught, Sir G. R. Sladek, T. Stecker.

a Memorial in Philip Hartog said, the tradition with very brief addresses by lead-removed to Kowloon Hospital. His Cathedral, and

Unpaid Correspondence. Hyde Park as a tribute to the was largely condition la considered serious,

of imitation,

Miss Helen Santee.· era of the various young people's

founder of Empire Day. Lord not of creation. To write for our-

Unclaimed Radio Telegrams. Societies.

Meath.--British Wireless Ser-selves was a "record;" to write for,

Address

From Owing to an oversight a dozen It has been suggested that as coples of the Hong Kong Natural-

vice.

others a "message" in many schools 1129 2689 6794 1648 0702 there was great confusion between there can be no Colonial develop-lat, Vol. 2, No. 2, lacking in one.

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.Canton the two. The school caзay was pre- Miss Antoniva Penhot..Shanghai ment on the lines of far-reaching two, or three of the coloured

SACCHARINE EXPLOSION. sumably written for the world at Chow Nal-man, Messrs. Tung' Tai,` projects elsewhere under the plates, were circulated on Saturday.

large, but was really aimless-it had Wing Kut Street Subscribers who received incom- Union Jack, any celebration of plete numbers may obtain complete

Berlin, April 28. no prescribed object. One might 5012 6068 Empire Day is merely a pretence ones in exchange ofther at the Ten were killed and scores in as well try to coach a boy in bowling 9659

jured in an explosion in a sac without setting

a wicket. Woone und a make-believe that our University, or at the publishers.

charire factory at Magdeburg. Examinations gave training in ex-5502 8293 British community is nothing Mr. F. H. Holdman, of the Far-The factory was completely gut. pression of a remarkable kind,

In 1626 6179 6670 6007 2639 1472, more or less than a community cela Department of the General ted by the subsequent conflagra- that boys were set down to tell the of Little Englanders unable to Post Office, left for Home on Satur- tion, causing heavy material examiner what he knew already-Hok Lien-jan, Kong Lok To,

This factory was the Could there be anything more topsy. see beyond their own native, vill-day, accompanied by Mrs. Hold-damage.

man, who has just recovered from first of its kind, having been turvy in the art of exposition? He 9448 age. That, of course, does not a serious illeen..

Mr. Holdman established by the chemist Fahl-would ausgeat that every boy from 1129 2689 0794 1643 6394 3347 tally with the oft-repeated asser- has been a staunch supporter of berg, who discovered saccharine: the age of 18 onwards should be

obliged to devate at least four hours 600T 3602 4149 0207 2490, tien that ours is a floating popu- the cricket and lawn bowls sec-

tions of the Civil Service Cricket Mr. D. W. Marley, M.A...lecturer, every 10 days or fortnight 'to the lation; that few come here with club all the members of whom Mechanical Engineering, Univer waiting of an English composition, 1129 0681-0022 1331 6567 6012, the intention of settling down for will wish him a pleasant holiday elty, left for Home on Saturday by of which the exact purpose should life and being laid to rest in the did a safe return to the Colony, the P. & O. 5 Comorin,

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