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TIENDERS. dre invited up to the 25th June, 1981; for the pur- chase of the above named vessel as she lies in the basin at H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong,

THE CHINA MAIL.

CHILD-MOTHERS OF BALMY" BATHER AND 20 YEARS' FIGHT FOR DUNMOW FLITCH IN MODERN SCIENCE

INDIA.

"Extraordinary and Terrible."

MISS MAYO'S NEW BOOK.

THE PLUNGE,

Grey Sea and Blue. Limbs.

HORRIBLE 'OTTER.*

JUSTICE.

Officer's £52,000 Claim Against Portugal.

AFRICAN BUSH DRAMA,

HISTORY.

INDUSTRY.

Full Ceremonial to Be Complete Survey to Be

Restored.

FIRST AWARD IN 1445

Once again, on August Bank' Holiday, married couples who have lived together for a year and day in complete happiness, with no word of discord, will go to Dan- mow, Essex, in the hope of winning

Why 'n flitch of, bacon, and why

Carried Out.

PROPER APPLICATION.

long-drawn-out national economic Men of salence, in view of the

a crisis, have decided to make an attempt to show how the resources of the nation on scientific lines.

can be reorganised

Under the chairmanship of Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Selanco

In the Spring of 1927 Mias

"Would you like to open the An amazing drama of the African Katherine Mayo startled the world Summer bathing season at Brighton bush twenty years ago, in which a with her book, "Mother, India." to-day asked He Who Must captain of the Royal Artillery-a "American, by nationality, she Be Obeyed. "No, thank you,” Iman who played a conspicuous part Full particulare of the vessel had spent months in India 'study replied quickly. "That's a pity," behind the scenes in the South and conditions of sale, and por-ing Hinduism and its practices, said He Who Must Be Obeyed. African and European wars-was mits to view, may be obtained on and in particular child marriage, "The train goal in an hour. Good the leading figuro, was considered a flitch of bacon. application to the Naval Store The facts which she ascertain-morning."

in Brussels. Officer, H.M. Naval Yard, Hong od she set forth, with unflinching Which explained why I found my- The former Belgian Prime at Dunmow? These questions are Guild is attempting to bring to Kong. Tender forms will be issu- courage. She was savagely attack self on a bit of Brighton beach, a Minister, Count Carton de Wiart, difficult to answer. Sa old is the gether professional men of science, ed on payment of a deposit of ed in consequence. Hindu contro- towel in one hand, a bathing suit was to hear the British Govern custom that its origins are lost in directors of the Industrial Re $200, returnable when decision on verslalists professed that she had in the other, and in my wake three ment's claim on that officer's behalf the mists of antiquity. The earliest search Association and individual the tenders has been reached.

exaggerated the mischief and dis- little boys, who stood in a line ap. for £52,000 indemnity and interest written record of the reward is patrons of science for the prepara- The vessel will be on view at torted the facts, though even theyparently convinced that they were against the Portuguese Government dated 1445; this can be seen in the tion of a report that will review H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong, were compelled to admit that the about to witness one of the more for his arrest and captivity in a Cartulary of Dunmow Priory, now the potentialities of existing in- from the 18th June.

{facts were deplorable.

spectacular forms of suicido, writes Portuguese gunboat In the Zambesi in the British Museum. 'The vessel is Bold

dustries and the effect that the without Since she first wrote, a special Dally, Express Special Correspon-River.

Even then the ceremony

aclence guarantee and without restrictions committee; of nine prominent In- dent.

was proper application of The officer is Major (then Cap not in its infancy; a hundred years would have upon them. FOR SALE—No. 363 TABLOID" as to nationality of purchaser or dians and one British woman doc- Cholera Case, Burroughs Wellcome & subsequent resale.

I shall call the little boys Knight,tain) Archibald Nell Campbell; at earlier Chaucer writes of it, and The report will contain pro- tor has carried out an elaborate Frank, and Rutley, because I have the time of his arrest he was not as if it were a novelty. Co. for "Treatment of Cholera by

Tenders will be received in the inquiry into her charges. It has to call them something.

posals for their, reorganisation and Transfusion." Can be seen at the

engaged in goldmining exploration Some historians believe that the reconstruction, and an indication Army Medical Store, Whitfield Bar-office of the Naval Store Officer, toured India and taken evidence. "He's doing it for a bet," said in the Tete district of Portuguese Alitch-like racks, Kowloon,

H.M. Naval Yard, Hong Kong, up which fills 4,524 printed pages in Knight. "He's one of them or East Africa, about 600 miles up the established customs and families could be established in the coun- 80 many other old of possible new industries which to Noon on THURSDAY, 25th the nine volumes of ita proceed-th'year-round bathers," said Frank, Zambesi. June, 1931.

came over with the Conqueror. try. inga. This evidence Miss Mayo "He's balmy," said Rutley,

The arrest took place at day- This belief, as is explained in J. W.

The survey will also deal with has analysed and made accessible The beach was practically empty. break. The armed force. Europeana Robertson-Scott'e exhaustive little the neglect of science in Industry to the world in the extraordinary The breeze had in it an impleasant and natives, auddenly concentrated book, "The Strange Story of the and with the difficulties of apply. and terrible book which is publish- nip, and the watery sun did not on the house where Captain Camp Dunmow Flitch," is based on the ing science whether they be due. ed now Volume Two," Cape, 58.). render the slate-grey. sea at all bell was living, and, in spite of his fact that "at the Abbey of St to Trade Union opposition, short. Exact references are given for appetising.

protests, he was taken prisoner to Melaine, near Rennes, the

all age of capital for new plant and every statement.

effect of the system of taxation- and will include, wherever practic- required for particular industrial able, an estimate of the capital developments.

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All Reservoirs Below Overflow.

WESTOVER-STEVENAGE Within Wong Nei Chung. 27 n hour from London. In healthy Pokfulum .. neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:

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I began to feel somewhat con- Tete and brought before the judge. capital of Brittany, there had been research and experiment, or the Much of the matter in the book spicuous. "He's funking it," said Various charges were preferred hanging, for more than six cannot be reproduced. In the Kaight. "He can't swim," said against Captain Campbell.

These turies, a side of Bacon, which had The level and storage of water in columns even of a newspaper. Frank. "He's balmy," said Ratley. included allegations of Ill-treating been set apart for the first pair the reservoirs, on June 1, 1931, were Many of the facts are too painful Now Brighton possesses many the natives, disobedience to autho- who for a year and a day had lived as under:--

and too revolting. The marriage all-the-year-round swimming, clubs, rity, and generally disturbing the without dispute and grumbling" City and Hill District.

of young girls is, she shows, es- They are 1036

composed of mighty, district. He was treated with

This survey, it is being pointed TyLam

sentially 11 23′ 7B

Hindu institution. bronzed and fit men who charge into callous indifference, and even his re

Account Rendered.

out, is the first of the kind ever Tytam Byewash ... 21' 9"E

Where it exists among Moslems, it the sea at any season and awim quest for a chair was refused by the However that may be, it is cer carried out and will represent the Tytam Intermediate 43' 9"B 8' 8" is a Hindu concept, borrowed from vigorously in all directions. They judge, although he was in a fainting tain that the pilgrimage to Dun considered opinion of scientific Tytam Tuk 61 2′′E 33" 8" Hindus, as orthodox Islam regards call themselves Ottera and Walruses and half-famished condition after a mow has a steady record through workers dealing with every aspect

27' 5"B 17 6"B

as both shameful and foolish. 21'11" 8'11"B

long night' journey over the strong many centuries."

Robert of the application of science to Wives Aged 12. flow"; A. denotes "Above Overfloty": [Note: B. denotes "Below Over

While I was standing there think armed guard to the Portuguese gun Fitzwalter, who in the reign of national and imperial problems. L. denotes "Level with Overflow."

With great effort in 1891, as the ing, one of these came striding boat Sena, grounded on a sandbank King Henry III, re-built. the

Handicaps to Trade, result of British initiative, the age down the breach swinging a costume of the Zambeel river, . Storage in millions and decimals

already decayed Priory of Dun It will consider the difficulties of consent for a wife was raised about the size of a pocket handker- of gallons.

Here he remained a captive—In mow, and in his days the custom which are being encountered in to 12 years. - .1080

chlef.

a stifling hot cabin with his day was in force. The Priory existed applying science to industry, whe- This was accomplished in the 214.60

The Otter, or Sunfish, or what-temperature never less than 110 del 1535, and the household ac ther these are due to indifference 200-74 face of desperate resistance from ever he was, hurled himself behind grees Farenheit for two months, counts of the last Prior show ex- 1.99

on the part of industrialists or of 350.34 leaders of Hindu erthodoxy, who a grayne and took off his trousers, watched day and night by armed penditure for fltches. After the financial interests, or to lack of 727.68 denounced the new enactment as with a hoarse cry I shot down be-blacks."

dissolution of the Monasteries, the encouragement, or enterprise on 5.96 11.84 a breach of that religious freedom side him and took off my trousers. £0.85

Eventually he was released on lords of the manor of Little Dun- the part of the State. It will dia- 16.58 pledged by Queen Victoria to her

We are in our costumes, half of bail at the instance of the Foreignmow kept the ceremony alive. cuss the hampering effect which Total

506.84 1,138.16

Indian subjects.

us looking splendid specimens of Office in London pending the arrival Applicants for the flitch legislation has had upon the Consumption of water in the City

It was subsequently raised to young British manhood. "Go on," of reports in London from the Eri- nowadays stand their trial in a YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and and Hill District in milions and de 13. But since then there has been roared the Otter, and hurled himself tish Coneul and of a Portuguese ad- marquee erected in the fields of this country-for example, the re growth of particular industries in promptly printed."China"

Mail" cimale of gallons during the month no advance, though a well-known into the sea. Once, No. 3A, Wyndham St.

Tele-of May,

vocate who had been sent to Tete Dunmow. There is a judge; and, tardation of the motor indistry phone 20022.

Hindu politician, Kumar Sinha,

The beach had suddenly become for the purpose, a ten days' journey. counsel, one for the applicants and owing to the "red flag" law and Consumption 288.265 341.62 has said: Estimated population $42,880

Fight for Redress. strangely crowded. With a wild Every Hindu knows to-day that yell of despair, I followed. 410,850

one for the flitch; there is a jury the prohibition of the storage of Consumption

Then began a long fight to obtain or six spinsters and six bachelors, petroleum with low flash point in taken as a whole his race is on

Then something leaped on the downward path of physical de back, pushed me down-down. Iernment.

redress from the Portuguese Gov-whose theoretical knowledge of the the large cities. Includes 95.07 million gallons from generation attended by intellectual yelled and fought for breath. I

married state, of course, is un

"It will consider the hostility, of Captain Campbell's arrest had the biased.

managers and foremen in indus Includes 95.03 million gallons from degeneration and is threatened thought of my home, my loved ones, effect of closing down work at the

with virtual extinction..

Long and interesting is the liat try the organised opposition by May 1930. From May 1 to 81, (Child-marriage) is sapping the green mist appeared before my mine, and prospecting and mining of the fortunate winners; in Trade Unions to the Introduction was given to all Rider Main Districts

12 hours supply (6.0 p.m.) vitals of our race and to let this eyes and then air, generous, beauti-practically ceased throughout the modern times the happy recipients of scientific methods, and the ham

ful air. "Got you that time," whole territory. He was regarded of the fine bacon of (Principal Mining closed 6p.m. continue is to commit race sui-howled the horrible Otter. I loat as the leading pioneer in the ter married life:include two clergymen which depend for their success ablameless pering effects of the system of

taxation on certain industries. a.m.) with the exception of the area cide.

any temper and splashed him very ritory. of life

and a sergeant-major and their In the consular inquiry some of wives.

constant upon severely.

réplacement. of is 23 years

as against

plant. Then, with blue limbs, I crawled the strongest evidence in his favour The Great. War. interrupted the the American's 50, largely because.

from Portuguese

The Council of Management of mines Dunmow custom; last year it was the British Science Guild, by 1991. Constant supply of this practice of child marriage. Painfully up the beach to safety and came

officials and others. throughout the City, Hill and High

revived by some of the residents of which this scheme is being launch- Cases are mentioned where girls my trousers.

The Lisbon authorities finally the little Essex town, but this yeared, includes Sir Samuel Hoare month.

evidence does not show that these

agreed to pay Captain Campbell an it will be repeated for the first time (President), Lady Lockyer (Hon. indemnity, but various difficulties since 1913 with all the pomp and Treasurer), Captain C. W. Hume 1930. 1031

child marriages are declining in Kowloon Reservoir

number. Mrs. Sinha affirme that!

cropped up including a Portu- solemnity that so great an event de (Hon. Secretary), Dr. P. Phillips and Byewash 16' 6" 11' "Bin one section of Berar "all castes,

guese revolution-and the arrangemands. How many claimants will Bedson, Commander L. C. Bernac Shek La Pui

from the highest downward, marry Reservoir

ments fell through.

there be? It takes great courage, chi, Mr. C. Carus-Willson, Major 8'11"B L.

When the European war broke to face, in public, a searching in A. G. Church, M.P., Lieutenant- Reception Reservoir 10' 1"E

their girls at the age of 5 or 6, Storage in millions and decimals with the sole exception of some

Field-Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, out-Major Campbell returned to the quiry into a year and a day's life Colonel W. H. D. Clark, Dr. W. H. of gallons..

few families

who presided at a lecture in Lon-Army-his claim for compensation of unsullied married bliss, to listen Eccles, F.R.S., Mr. H. A. Gill, Sir who have ac- 1930 1981 cepted Western education."

'don, by Lieutenant-General Sir remained in abeyance!

to the Judge's summing-up, and to E. Graham-Little, M.P., Sir Richard watch the young jurors, male and Gregory, Professor Sir James B. The girl, when onco married. George F. MacMunn on "The North 202.96 241.10

becomes the property of her hus-West Frontier of India," stated that

female, whispering their opinions Henderson, Mr. A. L. Howard,. Mr. 82.30

116.10 band.

He may marry as many the safety of the Indian Empire

together. But to be awarded the C. T. Mills, the Hon. H. Fletcher 28.97 wives he likes, and can put away and also that of the British Empire

Dunmow Flitch is a Batisfaction

Moulton, Mr. A. E. Munby, Sir any of his wives Gold & Silver Watches (pockèt &

as be pleases.depended on whether or not we

that must far outweigh the terrors Arthur Newsholme, Mr. 7. J. -295,10 386.17 Consumption of water in Kowloon By the Brahmanic law of marri-held the North-West Frontier of

of the ordeal. wrist), Jewellery, Silver and Platin millions and decimala of gallona age the younger their daughters Indla.

Robinson, Mrs. Carrington Wilde, ed Ware, Cups, Cigarette Cases; during the month of May.

and Colonel Sir John Young, are married the higher the place "If the Frontier goes," Sir Claud Clocks, Fancy and Leather Bags,

1930 1931. in Heaven of the parents. High continued, "India goes, and, if Porcelain Ware, Cut Glass, Lalique stimated population 175,880 285,160 married before her sixth year. damage to the British Empire as Consumption. 134.68 159.49 Fest of all is where the child is India goes, It means serious loss and

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

- Public Auctions

On account of removal to New Premises at Gloucester Bldg.

Mainland:

North of Queen's Rond between Mur- The Indian expectation ray Rond and Eastern Street where a at birth constant supply was maintained dur

the whole month, ing

May,

THE Undersigned have received Level Districts during the whole of 3 and 4 are married; and the

instructions from Messrs. Sennet Freres to sell by Public Auction,

"ON

TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, June 23 and 24,

commencing each day, at 10.30 a.m., (with interval from 12.30 p.m. to 2.80 p.m.)

at their Store, York Building.

The Whole of their

SURPLUS STOCKS

comprising:-

Glass, Fancy Goods, etc.

· Also

A Quantity of Shop Fittings.

On View from Monday, June 22. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, June 18, 1931.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) of Des

nark:-

P. G. Masuda, Post Office, from Kanoya.

Honabcotco, from Shangkat.

H. EFFERSOE,< Actg. Superintendent. Hong Kong, June 17, 1981.

Kowloon.

Kowloon Reservoir

and Byewash ... Skok La P

Reservoir Reception Reservoir 9.45

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FRONTIER PERIL.

A Warning by Sir Claud Jacob.

"We should always bear that in

It was not until last August that the agreement between Britain and Portugal to arbitrate over this extraordinary case was signed.

NEW POLISH CABINET.

Pilsudski's Brother as Finance Minister.

Wamaw, May 26

1.

with President Moselcki, accepted STANDARD TIMES. onsumption

the "commission-to-form the new. head per day... 24.7 18.0 And for the husband it is much well.

Cabinet, and at once began con-

Sunrise and Sunset Constant supply in all districts dur-the same.

eultations with his former "col- ing May, 1980 and 1921.

The man who leaves an eleven. I mind. I think that the military The Cabinet handed in its releagues. Colonel Prystor is con-

in Colony. The Government Analyst's reports) show that the quality of the water year-old wife, as the West reckons centre of gravity has shifted East-signation to the President late to sidered Marshal Pilsudskie right- is satisfactory.

age, unconsummated, risks both his wards and I think that our trouble night. According to the semi- hand man,

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Total rainfall: May 31, 1930, 18.17; Immortal soul and the peace of his in the future will be somewhere in official newspaper Gazeta Polaka the

Warsaw, May 28, Kong for June, 1931, Stan May 31, 1981, 24.28.

ancestors,

the direction of Afghanistan.” Premier, M. Slavek, intends again The Minister of Commerce, dard time of the 120th Meridian": The Indian Committee. gave as Sir Claud added that if ever again to assume the leadership of the Gov- Colonel Prystor, who was commie- East of Greenwich): are and fol ite final opening that

we had reason to make an expedition ernment, bloc in order to carry stoned by the President to form the lows:- Nearly 80,000,000 Indian girls over the frontier, we should go into through the preparatory work for new Cabinet, aucceeded in his task. are married before they reach the tribesmen's country and remain the reform of the constitution as Mr. Jan Pilsudski, the Marshal's June. their fourteenth birthday as we of there. The Afghans at present had soon as possible. It is generally brother, takes the Ministry of the West reckon age. Of these a back door which was always open believed that the Minister of Com Finance; and General - Zarzycki, 80,000,000 children, over 2,850,000 to intriguo,jesus merce, M. Prystor, will be entrusted that of Commerce. Mr. by the same manner of reckoning, "Another great danger," he said, with the formation of the new Zaleski retains the Ministry of The people of Rottingdean, who are married under nine years of "le Russia. Eusala is a greater Cabinet.

Foreign Affairs, while another Gen- are desirous of retaining as much age.

danger now than in the past, be

Warsaw, May 27.eral, Neugebauer, gets the Ministry as they can of the old-time. The consequences to the child. cause she is more insidious. quietude of their famous cliff-side dren wives are horrible. Mr. Jua Sir George MacMunn said that, village, have struck another blow tice Nanvutty deposed to the comwhatever we gave India, it could | In self-defence.

mittees et Tesla not be Dominion status." Brighton Watch Committee had Early consummation of marriage

BRIGHTON BOWS.

Rottingdean's Protest

Succeeds.

granted a permit to a photographer and early maternity make every help have committed suicide. to trade on the beach at Rotting for the early death of the mother Tuberculosis, nervous debility, dean, in the same way that photo and child with the silence and and hysteria are other concomit Telegraphers ply their trade on the depth of a strong tide at night, ants of child-marriage, especially

beach at Brighton,

Terror, in such cases as, where a man of

The following unclaimed tale grams are lying at the E.E. graph Co. Office, Hong Kong

Porta, from Rangoon, Mrs. White, Steamer Katori Maru, from Taiping Perak.

8, LACK,~~~

Manager,

Hong Kong. June, 18, 1981

PLASINAGHI

PRICES

Rottingdean people, Including Thus in each generation 8,200, 50 espouses a child of. 10. some of the most distinguished re-,000 Indian mothers die in the The evidence is strong that no Bidents, rose up in arms at the agonies of child-birth" and "out faith can be placed in the affec Idea, and the Rottingdean Rate of the mouths of many witnesses" tiveness of any and all Hindu. payers Association also lodged an comes the mention of wounds, in social reform emphatic protest, and before the juries, and congestions in the Child Marriage storm the Brighton Town, Council child victin

edIn$1920,

witness

made dignified retreat. They testides that girl wives are phy of Mother. withdrew the permite alcal wrecks.

Aldermen Henry Cane, who was speak of terror

one of those to persuade Rottingt

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