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MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931.

LADIES RULE THEIR Mies Christine Ford, of the Borneo

GOLF IN SIAM.

Prince Damrong Presents Prize.

SIAMESE ENTHUSIASTS.

Co., Ltd., Bangkok. Miss Ford shortly going to. England on leavò.

Mr. E. J. Davis,, acting agent of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank has been succeeded by Mr. H. G.

SUPERNATURAL LIGHT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Hogarthy from the head office in Sir Ambrose Fleming's

Hong Kong.

Dr. W. K. Prentice, who repre sented Princeton University nt George Washington University when His Majesty received the | honorary degree of Doctor of Law

AL # special Convocation in April. Bangkok, July 1.

is now on a visit to Slam. Prince-

Theory.

THE "PILLAR OF FIRE."

Sir

Ambrose Fleming, the

AIR PARCEL POST.

From Great Britain

to India.

ASIA'S “METROPOLIS Replying. Sir Chandrasekhar

OF INTELLECT.”

Sir Chandrasekhar Roman's Tribute.

CALCUTTA

thanked the Aldermen and Coun cillors for the address which he regarded as a unique honour. He recalled the early days of his arrival in Calcutta as a Govern-

PICON FOR

“CHARMER.”

V.ment servant and how Sir 7-Year Sentence Follows

Ashutosh Mukherjee helped him in the prosecution of his scienti fic researches by offering him a Professorship in the University. To him his gratitude was parti- cularly due. Gratitude was also Sircar, the founder of the Indian due to the late Dr. Mahendra Lal

Hitherto golf for ladies over, the ton has on more than one occasion scientist, speaking on "Light" at /hitherto been for passengers, polis, not of Bengal alone, or of Association for the Cultivation |

Sports Club course has been man aged by the secretary of the golf section, but the time has now ar rived when the ladies feel that

and they are able

numerous enough to manage their own com- petitions and affairs and accord- ingly they hold a meeting. They have appointed à lady captain, a lady secretary, and three, ladies

his.

•

Mr. P. Schweisguth, who has re

"There are many mentions in cently returned from leave, has Scripture," he said, "of light, which taken over the duties of Secretary certainly did not proceed from the to L'Alliance Francaise.

combustion, incandescence or phos- The Chief Mechanical Engineer phorescence of ordinary matter.

Snake Bite Death.

NO IMMUNITY,

WILL BENEFIT TRADE. 'Although the Imperial Air- ways England-India air mail has been in successful operation for three years, the service has

"It is the intellectual matro helped the American Presbyterian the Victoria Institute, London,

letters, and freight only.

Sambalpur, June 29, nsion in Chiengmal, and the suggested that there might be cels air mall has been instituted

Now, however, a regular par India, but of all Asia.”

Dasarathi Kajuria, of Bhan- Dactor is now on a visit there, supernatural light from another

of Science in whose laboratory darimal, a snake charmer, has This compliment was paid to most of his researches had been been sentenced to seven years' staying with an old class mate of world about which science knew on this 5,000 miles route.

The Calcutta by Sir C. V. Raman, the carried out. new facility is available weekly eminent physicist when replying Chandrasekhar continued, "that Sambalpur-Manbhum, in connec rigorous imprisonment by the nothing.

in each direction and will, it is to an address presented to him it has been my privilege to give tion with the death, from snake- "You have mentioned," Sir district and sessions judge of honed be of considerable benefit by the city Corporation. to British business houses trad-

Sir Chandrasekhar also ac- an impetus to the study of science bite, of Uj Kand, aged 12," ing with India.

knowledged that the cultural at not only in Britain but in other As an example of the time mosphere of Calcutta had given foreign countries. It is very kind told the villagers that he was an (of whom two are Siamese) to bo of the Royal State Railways is on but which could under some con- saving effected by the England- him an added incentive to pursue of you to say so but I do not adept in anake charming and

Dasarathi is alleged to have." à committee to assist the two off a business visit to Kuala Lumpur,ditions affect many human eyes at India flying mail, it may be men- his scientific researches. claim any special gift or virtue. could cure snake-bite maladies.

The Golf Association,at its an-

and en route is on inspection duty.once and, therefore, was not mere- tioned that, by the accelerated.

Patients admitted to the Society

The function, which took place It is just the reward of one who The villagers, apparently, believed. service now 4 subjectivo phenomenon. nual meeting reported that in ad- for the Promotion of Animal Wel-Neither can

cels from London reach Karachi tanded. The address was read tent to pursue science for its own "art." In order to create con in operation, par at the Town Hall, was largely at- is content to labour, who is con-him and endeavoured to learn the dition to holding the Open and fare's clinie during 1930, included events wholly fictitious and non- with 19 by the fastest surface Dr. Aaman on a silver plate. It

we regard these na

in only five days, as compared by the Mayor and presented to Amateur Championships, they had one stork, two peacocks and a bear current.

sake."

fidence Dasarathi produced what, decided to inaugurate third

"One of them was the Pillar of transport, while, as an indication recalled the scientist's discoveries

Unfounded Rumour, among other animals.. Distinguish-

he called gada, or snake venom, Ladies' Championship. Prince garoo and one wallaby.

Sir Chandrasekhar then refer This, he said, would make them and asked the men to swallow it. guided and guarded the hosts of for a 1 lb. parcel is 68. Damrong is giving the prize.

This England-India air parcel Nobel Prize, the Royal Society's a high scientific post "I wish to

recent awards to him of the soon leaving Calcutta to take up tile. The Opium Commission Meeting. Israel during their wanderings in

The consultative Oplum Commis-

the wilderness. Also at the gis post is, it may be mentioned, Medal and the Metucci Medal. The Open Championship.

sion of the League of Nations of the Law on Sinal the maun- proving already of value in the

"Your single-minded devotion said, "I have had the great good some rice and performed a puja..

reassure-you-on-that point," he came with

On the third day the villagers a cloth, a cook and as small, urgently-required spare dress--stated, "and your bold greatest city of Asia for nearly ed, the man offered to give a _was_played_over the weekend her and all the signatories-to the seen by the hosts of Israel.

over three courses, 13 holan on Opium. Convention will be repre-

Then again the angel of the parts or — just to take another idealism will ever remain a source a quarter of a century. final 18 on Monday, afternoon. It, the United States have been ask:like lightning,' atruck terror into signments of seeds which, if they men: The highest academic de- searches cannot be carried on ex- his disciples who had taken gada.. Saturday, 36 on Sunday and the sented; and in addition China and Resurrection, whose face wax example in respect of con- of inspiration to your country- "Many have said that re effect of his "charm" on one of practical demonstration of the

Hin professional Nai Tim, the be the most important gathering which there were perhaps four totions, may run a risk of prema-won at the early age of 18, would present moment I do not wish to by the others present, he brought

sit under semi-tropical condi.grees and the lucrative positioncept in the cool climates of Ban-

cers.

I

championship this year, viz, the led outpatients Included one kan Fire' over the tabernacle which of the rates charged, the cost. in the domain of physics, and the red to the rumour that he was immune from the bite of any rep

The Open Golf Championship meets in Bangkok early in Novemtain 'burned with fire and was rapid transport of such articles to the cause of Science," the ad- fortune-to-be-a-citizen of the When confidence was establish-

resulted in a fine win for, the Hua jed to send delegates.

This will

the hearts of the sentry guard, in

holder. His score for the seventy of the kind that has ever met in six or more mon. There must two holes, was" 71, 71, 71 and 73, Siam,

The Secretariat of the this light, so to alarm these harden- have been something unearthly in total 286. He won last year with League will have their own staff 297, and, but for a bit of bad luck here to cover the work of the led Roman soldiers, on the final eighteenth green.

commission, and the bigger Press

"It is clear that there have been would have easily repeated his agencies will also send representa-manifestations of light which were atring of 71's. The other profastives. Siam will be represented supernatural Inquiry into these sional entering came second with by the Under Secretary of State mysteries, however, lies far beyond a total of 312. St. Amery, the pro- for Foreign Affairs, the Director our present powers." sent Amateur champion was third General of the Departments of Re- Sir Ambrose Fleming is one of

course, and the result was wire

are any considerable time in tran-

ture germination.

SHOPLIFTING.

in Government service which you galore.or Dehra Dun.

He selected Ujal Kanda for the At the have satisfied most ambitions. enter into a discussion on merits out a cobra from his cane basket purpose and, although forbidden but the passion for research which had manifested itself, even Calcutta. But let me say that unconscious.

or demerits of the climate of and made it bite Ujal who fell at that age, impelled you to seek there is something far more im- The victim was taken to the One London Firm's

opportunities for its further ex-portant than the physical clim- house of Dasarathi who vainly pression and led you to give up a ate of a city and that is its intel-chanted mantras to cure him. £10,000 a Year Loss.

lucrative career for the sake of lectual atmosphere." Science. Your noble ideal and with 313. The players were film venue and Excise, with the Direc- the greatest authorities in the End stores through' shoplifting of your pupils, and the Indian tua metropolis not of Bengal for, trial and sentenced as stated

The great losses suffered by West example have inspired the work Calcutta has been the intellec spite of the medicines and the.

"For over

Ujal died within a few hours, in a hundred years ed and photoed en route, the hold-tor-General of the Opium Depart. world on light and radiation, and were revealed

at Marlborough Journal of Physics of which you alone; or of India, but of all Asia. above.

mantras. Dasarathi was sent er had his gallery over eachment as their adviser.

vited the Commission to meet in valve which made wireless tele- Maria Pooley, aged 45, of Little organ for recording and stimulat-living stream of knowledge in all Siam in- was the inventor of the thermionic Street Police Court when Mrs. are the founder is the recognised From Calcutta has gone forth a lessed to the King. The lower Bangkok, and is paying the cost of phony possible. He is B1 years of charged with stealing a dressing research in physical science branches of knowledge. It must acores throughout of the twenty the whole effort, no inconsiderable age.

Russell Street, Bloomsbury, was in Britain.' odd players compared with 1930

valued at £5 199, and a spray of

be a proud privilege for a man seems to indicate an improvement

flowers valued at 1a. 68. from

A. Great Teacher,

to live and work in this atmos- in the standard of play in Siam,

worth's, Oxford Street, W. Mesara Bourne But the amateurs have got to go

and Hollings- "As a great teacher of the important national interest will phere and nothing but the most a long way to find some one who

had about 250 similar cases in a

youth of our country, you have ever make me leave this city." can wrest the championship from

year. Messrs. Bourne and Holling.terest and a gift of exposition.

Mr. Coleman, prosecuting, said he exhibited in a remarkable degree Tim. Short of stature, a pupil of

worth prosecuted in nearly every

a wide range of intellectual in- that well-known golfer, the late Mr. J. L. Humphreys, British Ad viser at Trengganu and afterwards Governor of British North Borneo, Tim is remarkably consistent, but now and again demonstrates that he too can mias the simplest of putts.

Personal..

Mr. C. D. Gee, the Adviser to the Royal Irrigation Department, has left on Home leav

The former Italian Minister to the Court of Slam, Comm. G. de Rossi, who is not returning to Sism, has received by the King's commands the Knight Grand Cross (first class) of the Crown of Slam. Mr. G. Lavazarri, after seven- teen years successful work as a contractor has left for home for good. The Italian colony bade him farewell and presented him with a beautiful silver cigar box of Siam ese manufacture.

The engagement is announced between Mr. R. R. Mabsen, of the

•Anglo-Siam Corporation, Ltd, and

sum these hard times..

Beneficial Co-operation.

case,

An example of what can be dore 'Sixteen hundred letters are being when everyone likes to help fa sent out by Secretary Stanley Kirk- forthcoming in the repair of a very ham of the Lethbridge District De- beautiful hall in the palace of last velopment Association to farmers Second King. It was built of teak, of Southern Alberta, containing, a of course, and the five European questionnaire on the dairying indus- teak firms with offices in Bangkok try in an effort to get a comprehen- provided the timber required; the jove cenaus of dairy cows and the think that in another court they Mr. Mead, the magistrate: I local cement company gave the outlook for the future of the indus-might well be told what a wholesale cement, and Chinese merchants try in Southern Alberta. A large thing thle shoplifting is. provided the lime required, and milk company has been making in- members of the Royal Family pro-quiries with regard to the possibl-that Messra. Bourne and Hollings Mr. Coleman. It has been stated vided the funds for the labour. to lity of establishing a milk process-worth lose £10,000 a year through turn these gifts to use. The reing plant in Alberta, and Southern shoplifting. sult is the complete restoration of Aberta irrigated and adjacent dis- a beautiful design, and everyone tricts are being given serious cont shop, so the pillage must be some has made merit.

Mr. Mend: This is only one large The round-the-world tourists whogociation is anxious to secure

sideration. For this reason the asthing colossal, nearly always by visit Bangkok in the cool weather, early return of the completed ques-

an respectable people." last season subscribed about forty pounds sterling for the

Pooloy was remanded in custody for a medical report. ordinary upkeep of the temples they visited. Singapore Free Press.

a sum of

Wheat-exports from the port of Vancouver for the current crop year to date have increased 38 per cent. compared with the aimilar period) last year, according to figures issued by the Merchant's Exchange. Exports this year total 68,016,280 bushels against 41,952,819 at this time last year.

tionnaires.

GLACIER TOLL.

London Man Killed in Alps.

TANGO AT COURT BALL,

Keenness Of The Prince Of Wales:

London, July 6. Will the tango again become a craze is a question suggested by the announcement that the Argentine 'tango will be one of the chief features of the Court. Ball at Buckingham Palace on July 16,

of

"We recall with pride and

that the creative genius of the pleasure that it was through one of our eminent fellow citizens East received the homage of the

According to precedent the King

Asia by the immortal works of West when the Nobel Prize was

and Queen have selected the music attracted for the first time to

but the Prince of Wales' keenness Mr. Arthur Clifford Fountaine, lean tour

on the tango since his South Amer our great national poet. We re- of London, has been killed while introduction

le responsible for the

most distinguished savant of while trying to help his son, who frozen snow by the side of joice to think that by unravelling mountain climbing in Switzerland

several such the deep mysteries of Nature,. a with his son.

dances. He fell to death city has now brought to the East had slipped on a glacier. for the first time

glacier. the highest award of the West in te field of in the Vallee do Bagnes with his The son returned to their hotel:

Killed Where he Fell Science,

Young Mr. Fountaine slipped father's body.

Mr. Fountains, who was 56, had father attempted to clamber across and fell but escaped injury. His been staying at Floanay in the the treacherous slope towards him, Vallee de Bagnes, in company with but slipped and fell a considerable. his son, aged 23, a student.

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They set out to climb, the Grand Pave Peak, which is more than 10,000 feet high. Usually this can be reached without. difculty from ahut which is about 8,700 feet up.

Mr. Fountaine and his son made a short halt at the hut, and then pushed on; following a route over

distance

Mr. Arthur Fountaine landed on a boulder and was killed on the spot. His son managed to reach the spot where he lay, tied a rope round his body, and brought him alowly down the mountain side.

Eventually the son found assist ance and had his father's body carried back to Fionnay.

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