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HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1931.
AWTAR SINGH GUEST NAVAL
OF HONOUR.
Farewell Party Given by Radio S.C...
CAPTAIN'S DEPARTURE.
!
MUTINY
CHILEAN RATINGS OUT OF HAND.
GANDHI ON THE HIGH
SEAS.
Life Aboard the S.S. Rajputana.
"LIKE A SCHOOL BOY.”
London, Yesterday. Reuter's representative aboard
BOMBED the Rajputana cables to-day that
1,000 KILLED IN FIERCE BATTL
After 28 days of freedom, Mak The members of the Radio Sports Kwal, pristiner No. 36 who, to- Club Hockey Section gave a party. gether with Lo Luk-cheung, an- at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant yes- SHIPS other prisoner, made a most dar- terday in honour of last year's cap- ing escape from Victoria Jail on lain, Awtar Singh, who is leaving! the morning of August 13 in the Colony on long leave in India broad daylight, was arrested in to-morrow. There. "were fourteen Wanchai district on Saturday members present including the Pre- night it about half past, seven sident, F. A. Kemp and the Hon. Sec. o'clock. When Mak Kwai gained of the Club, O. E. White. After his freedom he was stout, but tea the President proposed the toast now he is stated to be undernour of Mr. Awtar Singh and wished him ished and looking very thin, He good luck on his leave and said that was found at 12. Amoy Street, he would be greatly missed by the Lo Luk-cheung, rumour has it, hockey section. He had, given his is in Chinese, territory.
It will able support and had kept the team Le recalled that he and Mak together and as a result they had Kwai escaped over the newly-con- hnd a very successful year. Ho structed wall in Chancery Lane, hoped that the team would endea near its intersection with Old vour to carry on during the absence Bailey. Both men ran in of Mr. Awtar Singh. westerly direction. one along Staunton Street and the other along Hollywood Road,
Since
then the Folice have been keeping
a keen watch for the men. It
Various speeches were made by the members.
tournament.
New York, Yesterday, A message from Santiago de Chile, says it is believed that a thousand were killed in a san- guinary battle between naval re- bels and Government forces at Talechuana,
Earlier Cable.
Mahatma Gandhi continues to en- joy the voyage to England im- mensely. He is behaving like a schoolboy on his first excursion, romps with the children, caresses babies and jokes with their par- ents.
He somewhat startled worship- pers this morning by attending the Christian Service aboard'clad in his customary scanty loin cloth. As the vessel steamed through the silence of the Red Sea the Mahatma, joined the con- gregation in singing "Lead Kind y Light" which is his favourite Christian hymn.
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MISS AMY BRITON SENT HOME POSITION OF MR.
JOHNSON
WELL OFF HER COURSE?
PETROL SHORT
FROM CANADA.
"Go Back And Get The Dole."
ARRIVES PENNILESS.
J. H. THOMAS.
Decision of Derby Labour Council
NO PERSONAL ACRIMONY.
London, Yesterday. Personal bitterness and acri
Fleetwood, Lancs, Aug. 14. After travelling from Toronto, Canada, hoping to find a brother mony was avoided at a private who, they believed, lived in Kent meeting of the General Council Street, Fleetwood. Samuel Worth- of the Derby Labour Party FORCED LANDING.ington, his wife, their 12-year-old which, by 103 to 48 votes, re-
EXPLAINED.
Riga, Yesterday, Miss Amy Johnson is reported to have been sighted flying over Lihan in Latvia to-day. If iden- tification of the 'plane is correct her course. she is aparently very much off
son; five-year-old daughter, and a solved on withdrawing the en baby five weeks old were taken to dorsement of Mr. J. H. Thomas's the Poor Law institution at Kirk- Parliamentary candidate, but ham, near Blackpool. They had not demanding the resignation only 3d. in coppers when they ar- of Mr. Thomas at present. rived at Fleetwood, and had had Mr. Thomas praised the tone no food for 24 hours..
of the debate and announced-
Į
The county police and others that he intended to re-stand for undertook a long search for Mr. Derby, "but as far as I am con- Worthington's brother, but failed cerned there will be no General to discover any trace of him. Election until the crisis is past." The family then appealed to Mr.Reuter. Johnson Cardwell, the Fleetwood! relieving officer, who found them food and saw them off to Kirk ham.
Press Speculations.
Rugby, Saturday. Until Parliament meets on
Over Latvia, Miss Amy Johnson ran short Santiago de Chile, Saturday. Mahatma Gandhi answered at of petrol over Latvian Territory Government acoplanes bombed length questions as to what he yesterday and successfully made
Tuesday and the Prime Minister, the mutinous warships at Co-would wear in England. He de-a forced landing at Aizpute at 4
The baby was born on July 2 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, makes & The Hon. Secretary discussed the quimbo, and are reported to clared that if the weather was p.m. She was able to obtain and was christened. Sherlock statement in the House of Com- coming season's hockey prospects have sunk the cruiser Riveros, cold he would don a heavy wool- there only ten gallons of petrol Lawrence by the captain of the mons on the formation of the was learned recently that Mak and the hopea of arranging a hockey and a battleship and part of the len cloth reaching down to his with which she flew on to Liepaja steamer in which they came National Government and on the Ife wished to thank fleet have surrendered. Reuter's ankles and a white homespun where she spent the night and home. The second name was scheme it has prepared for re- Messrs. Gilman and Co., Ltd., and American Service.
jacket-Reuter.
continued her flight to-day given owing to the christening storing the equilibrium of nation- taking place when the steamer al finances, the nature of the Mamak and Co. for their generous offer of a cup and a shield for the
was
the sailing down'
St. proposals cannot be known in de- benefit of hockey, He hoped that
Lawrence River.
tail and, although there is much A short time ago Mr. Worth. speculation in the Press on the ington became ill in Canada and changes in taxation which the when he went to hospital he was Chancellor of the Exchequer will told he would have to leave introduce later in the week, 110
Kwai was in Wanchai, and on September 2 he had just left an eating-house in Yee Wah Street when the Police arrived.
On Saturday night, however,
all efforts would be made to make, to abstruse theories, and It is for when Detective-Sergeant Mac-' Donald and Inspector Wong Lau hockey one of the most interesting this reason that the Scots are gen- entered 12. Amoy Street, the recreations. Awtar Singh in reply-erally acknowledged the finest en- ing to the honour that had been paid gineers in the world. And whilst prisoner gave himself up.
Mak Kwal was brought back to him said that he hoped that the they are by no means devoid of the Central Police Station, where, hockey section would keep to asthetic sense-for they have pro- after identification, he was hand-kether and carry on in true sports-duced their Scott, their Burns, and ed over to the Prison authorities manship.
He thanked the party
their Murray-the, arts, generally speaking, attract them but little.
to be dealt with accordingly by for their wishes. them.
A PUBLIC PEST.
Scribblers in Library Books.
[By W. A. Darlington.]
Now, with the Summer holidays, To my mind, one of the greatest fallings of the Scot is that he is too comes the buy season of the ser- Which tence of eight years' hard labour A-MALIGNED' RACE. often given to throwing aside his side circulating librariep.
man to
Prisoner was serving a son-
for armed robbery at the time of
his escape.
سینسی
RHODES TRAVELLING
FELLOWSHIPS.
Appointments for 1932.
uny
Truth About the Scot.
tidiness of thinking to outbursts of is why I ask you, as one quite irrational recklessness. Scots-another-is there any form of men, too, are conceited, and whe-
Reuter,
THE
BARCELONA STRIKE.
Expected to Terminate To-day.
-SABBATH CALM...
Barcelona, Yesterday.
Canada as he was suffering from a war disability. It is alleged that he was told to "get back to England, where you can get the dole."
A RECORD TEST.
A world's record was set up when
The Sabbath exerted a calming
a new electrical generator so infuriating effect on the situation here and most moderation replaces the recent hostilities. The strike is
was
reliance can be placed on printed forecasts.
but I am well aware that. millions fellow who 'must correct misprints expected to terminate to-morrow. It was tested with a load of 96,000. majority of about sixty is expect-
any
Scots are the least understood of civilised race in the world. They are at once the most idealised and the most maligned of men, and The Committee of Award of the Rhodes Trust announces the of the two I must confess i prefer appointment of Rhodes Travel to be maligned because it entaile no ling Fellowships for 1932 as disillusionment. But for all that,
I think it a pity that so few peo- see them spread over Europe, Asia, follow:-
Mr. Philip Aislabie Landon, Fellow of Trinity College.
Mr. Nevill Henry Kendal Ayl. mer College, Fellow of Exeter College.
"WANTED."
An Undesirable Chinese.
who barely
-Reuter;
rent.
that
Mr. Baldwin and Sir Herbert Samuel will also speak in Tues- day's debate, and the case for the Labour Party, which has consti- tuted itself an official opposition, will be stated by Mr. Arthur Henderson and other ex-Labour Ministers.. A division will be taken probably before midnight. ther their conceit is justified must human excrescence
tested in July at the Metropolitan- remain a question for individual as the margin-scribbler?
Vickers works at Trafford Park. on Tuesday, when a Government opinion. Personally, I think it is, I do not mean the tidy-minded
horse-power, a figure which has cd.
Over the week-end the Prime will disagree with me... At
never been approached before. In Minister, who is at Chequers, fact the company claim that the and his colleagues are seeking rate, let it be remembered that in every book he reads. I mean the
load passed through this One Scotland's finest advertisement lies one who gets a book from the library
then to gratify some odd-to point out that his dogmatic machine equalled, if not exceeded, some rest, so far as the accumu
lation of urgent business allows, not in the talk of her children, but and in their prowess, and achievement vanity, some obscure craving for statement was incapable of proof the total load passed through the before the beginning of what is in every country and on every notoriety, inscribes his opinion of and therefore probably a lie. three original generatora at Barton likely to prove a most strenuous
the book or íta author on the
For it stands to reason that no Power Station when they were week. The Cabinet meets again occean of the globe.
For Scotsmen are greater wan-margins, and so spoils the pleasure
of all future readers of that parti. amount of time spent in watching supplying Manchester's shops, and on Monday at five o'clock-Bri You will
cows not eating buttercups will tram-care with their necessary curtise Wireless Service, derers than the Jews.
cular copy.
Here is an example. I was read-prove that the next cow is not a
This enormous supply of energy Alfred Maurice Binnie, ple beyond the Scots themselves can Australia, and the two Americasing a light novel some days ago the most seeming virtuous cow does was
confirmed buttercup addfct, or that
continued for aix hours. University Demonstrator in En-appreciate Scotsmen in their true and is Thick as the over thig thu kind of book which is written not indulge, a secret passion for Normally this would cost over Intensified many times, so
light. I believe there is no worse seas. Theirs is pioneer work, and gineering Science.
of a Scot than his judge
near theirs the efficiency behind the with no higher purpose than to neighbours,
writes world's machinery. There is not make reviwers say that it will buttercups in the middle of the £1,000, but by means of two "react- within a few yarda of the machine the English,
ances," each weighing forty-five one could not hear oneself speak for night.
But the most irritating point of tons, which had been specially con-noise quite unlike any other noise. Lord Struthspey in the Daily Tele-a civilised country in the whole serve to while away an idle hour." It was all about one of those world which has not benefited In
with all about the margin-scribbler is his structed for this kind of test, the It was caused by the rotating of a graph.
Ho interferes, full load conditions were obtained part weighing sixty tons and turn- Take, for instance, the question some direction or other from Scot-high-spirited young women
beauty than more
serise and purposelessness. of traditional Scottish meanness, tish' in uence.
more
manners, obviously, for the mere joy of inter- with energy costing only £50. The ing at a speed of 1,500 revolutions sense than
per minute. An impressive factor Aberdeen has superseded. Wigan. It is little use arguing with
If the margin-scribbler noise created by the generator was to fering. condescend
it approximated to was the almost complete absence of and Whitechapel as the batt of Scot. I have claimed for him
get married to the hero were to write to the author-"Dear remarkable. every English music-hall comedian, preciseness of thought, but that is in the last chapter out of deference sir-In re your "Antics of Agnes," the ordinary hum of a generator vibration.
no London, revue is.con- true only of his own hereditary to the novelist'e "happy" ending. page 97, please note that no cows sidered complete unless it con- channels of thought. In wider These young women are supposed, eat buttercups Yours faithfully, tains some very pointed reference matters he is a bigot, intolerant, in books, to be highly desirable and J. Spinks, Dairy Farmer"-the
Sometimes he much sought after; and the reader author would The old, old chastnuts of Scottish will twist a divergent viewpoint as comfortably takes the author's word opinion, and either flag days, of purses and mothballs a personal affront, to himself. North for larceny by trick of a camera
were to meet any or avoid the subject of cows alto- worth $220 the property of Mr. are trotted out with unfailing re- of the Tweed, the one thing that for it, though he knows perfectly cows cat milkwort (if that's right) Hirose, a Japanese, and for similar gularity, and never fail to raise a matters is Scotland and the Scots body like them in real life he would gether.
nation. There is no room or
In either case Mr. Spinks would Jarcenies during the past aine laugh amongst Englishmen.
go miles to avoid her, There are some who assert that breadth for anything further. months.
Well, there was I, reading "The have been useful. But as a margin- The man is aged about 34 years, the Scot has only himself to blame Visitors may come and be gener- Antics of Agnes" (or whatever it scribbler he is what I called him
To ously welcome, but they should be and of medlum height and belld for this state of affairs..
wus) with great enjoyment the above an excrescence. He is said to wear European styled limited extent they may be right, enthusiastically pro-Scottish.
chapter in which Agnes Causes The worst case of 'margin-scrib- clothing and horn-rimmed glasses. for Scotsmen hava a profound sense
It is on the question of patriotism rears of laughter by introducing a bling I ever knew was a concerted He speaks Punti with a Heung of humour and are ever ready to that the average Scot sadly be cow at the vicar's garden party. effort: The usual thing happen. Shan accent, being a native of that laugh against themselves. But in lies himself. In his thought and The garden party had broken up in ed. Some busybody caught district. He is also able to speak Scotland, all good Jokes come to an his speech he is the most intensely confusion, and the caw, according to author tripping, and set him right. Japanese, and has often been seen end; In England, apparently, they patriotle person in the world. Yet the author, "was now on the lawn, Along came another render, who he cannot see that a foreigner (and eating buttercups." Everybody was was properly incensed against the in company with Japanese... It is endure for ever. stated that he can be mistaken for
Most Scots are whole-heartedly ever an Englishman is to him a happy. Anyhow, Agnes and the first, and commented, "I don't like Japanese,
generous, and are only thrifty in foreigner) who lauds, the Scots to cow and I were happy. And then people who write in margins." asmuch as they look ahead. Scots the detriment of his own nation is some irrelevant 4s must needs This proved an irresistible tempta- mén can give do test than English violating the very principle of come blundering in upon us, with tion to a third gentleman, who add men, but they will save a shilling patriotism which he himself so the marginal note, "Rot!. No cowed the words,... Then why do It? against the English penny. Indeed, staunchly upholds.
eats buttercups."
GOTT After that, everybody, who read Found in Tai On Street, appar- they have to, for, Scotland, alas, has Fingly, at me say that I have It is perhaps a pity that the par the book seemed to have taken a ently deserted, a girl Tip never enjoyed the gigantic wealth yet to meet the Scot who kicked at son who cannot resist setting other hand in the game. Hing, aged 12 years, was resources of other countries, lame doz, or refused to lend a people right, should rouse such dis Against all my better Instincta, brought to the Police Station, Scofamen and artisans rather helping hand In another's mis-like, but such a human nature. I wrote beneath the latest contribu where the stated
that she than artists. They are by natura fortunes. These seem small If I could have laid hands on this tion my first and (I hope) my only had been left in the street by tidy thinkers, but not profound things, perhaps, but they are in- buttercup expert it would have margin-scribble--"This correspon
Chinese, who, hae alleged, had thinkers. Theirs is the precise delle characteristics which have given me the greatest possible plea dence must, now, cease.—El... I kidnapped her from
mind, the careful mind, the mind played no small part in the building auro to have smitten him on the am glad to say it ceased. I had September 4. The gir was later that probes for fundamentals. They up of an outstanding national nose. And having done that, the hook out six months later to taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital, prefer hard material facts character.
should have liked to argue with him make sure.
and
The Police are on the look-out for to the "canniness"
a Chinese man, who is "wanted"
GIRL KIDNAPPED.
of the Scot. and often selfish.
well that if he
.
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